Episode 249 - Earthquake

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week on Breaking Bread we shake things up, Earthquake joins Tom Papa for a sit down. Ever wonder Quake's take on unqualified white men? Drones? Diddy? Well, Tom gets him to tell all. Earthquake also shares how his "hands off" travel routine has led to a better life. He's currently a recurring character on three series - "The Neighborhood," "Johnson," and "Everybody Still Hates Chris." He's also preparing for his new Netflix special and a new untitled project coming to network television. Enjoy!

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0:00:00 Intro

0:03:59 Quake is at his prime

0:04:52 Insecurities and life purpose

0:07:40 Wild Grain Ad

0:08:40 Raising kids and letting them go

0:13:38 Touring is living

0:15:50 Stylists, meet me at the airport

0:21:29 Meal prepping and marriage

0:29:20 Non money making conversations

0:30:50 Diddy

0:32:20 Unqualified white men

0:37:24 Wild Grain Ad

0:39:02 TomPapa.com

0:40:26 Next 4 years

0:46:32 Nuclear weapons and military

0:52:06 Uncomfortable moment

0:55:12 Acting roles & opportunities

0:59:00 Social media & America

1:01:20 Siblings and start of career

1:07:53 Shooting special in Atlanta

1:13:00 QuakeHouse Sirius XM

1:14:30 Follow Earthquake

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Breaking Bread with Tom Papa. This is very exciting.
0:05.8	We've got a great comedian coming on the program today. Earthquake.
0:11.0	Earthquake has been in stand-up comedy for over 30 years, and he had a special just last year called Legendary on Netflix that really showed why he's great and it just exploded.
0:29.8	It really woke everybody up to rediscover or discover for the first time this great, great performer, great writer, great guy,
0:40.2	earthquake. So good. So good. His special, it was, you know, you know, someone puts out a
0:47.6	really good special when comedians are coming up and going, did you see earthquake? Man, was that good? He blew everybody away.
0:57.2	He's so good. He's been on the road doing stand-up comedy, like I said, for a long time,
1:03.4	and he is just at his best. And it's going to be a great conversation and a funny conversation.
1:10.2	I can't wait to just throw topics at him because he's he's one of those guys.
1:16.3	There's certain comics that have an opinion about a strong opinion about everything.
1:22.5	Like you could literally say, what do you think of the sun?
1:25.4	And he's going to do five minutes on it. He's that kind of a comic
1:29.2	mind. So great. I can't wait for you to listen to it. Go to tompapa.com. Everything is on tour.
1:37.3	We've got the Grateful Bread Tour. We just announced all of our dates. And we are starting off in
1:42.9	Seattle at the Moore Theater in the beginning of February
1:47.1	and then we're going to the Chicago Theater in Chicago. We're doing the beacon in New York.
1:54.1	Florida, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas. There's no place that we're not going and this is only
1:59.1	through June. We're going to do the second
2:01.2	leg of it uh well that'll probably be announced in a couple months but right now uh go to tompapa
2:06.3	com and i hope to see you out there live with our uh our new show very exciting it's a great name
2:14.5	the grateful bread tour it's a good name uh you know you Bread Tour. It's a good name.
2:19.0	You name things and then you don't realize what the reaction is going to be.
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