You make a joke out of it, but I'm sure it was a very serious dramatic situation when you're telling your, I guess, your commanding officer, and by the time you're a sergeant, you're pretty high up there, and you're telling your commanding officer, like, no, I'm not going. Was it hard? Was it dramatic to be like, no, I'm not going? No, because I knew what I said didn't matter until what I had to do because they paid, you know,

I'm not going.

But ultimately, they was trying to get me to go.

And it was a meeting of a mine who was going to win.

Of course, I won.

Because I broke my wrist.

You broke your wrist.

Yeah.

On purpose?

Hell yeah, because you can't go.

If you have a physical disability, they put you on a waiver.

Right.

And they was really trying to send me to make me examples.

So what I did, I got all my people to go.

I said, we're going to sit there.

I said, the only way I can get out of here is a physical element that keeps me from being deployed.

Earthquake is one of the funniest comedians around.

He's had an amazing career for 20 years.

And like so many comics, he's had a wildlife.

His mom gave him up to his sister when he was a kid to raise him.

And at 18, he went to the Air Force, which was cool for a while.

But when the Gulf War came, he was like, no, I'm not fighting for that.

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