Jul 10, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min · 13 segments
Neal Brennan interviews Earthquake (Chappelle's Home Team - Earthquake: Legendary plus more specials) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is…
Neal BrennanHost
Dave Chappelle met this guy in 1993 and then told me one of your jokes that I repeated to my girlfriend a week ago about selling cocaine and selling crack having different sentences, that you got 10 years for selling crack and five years for selling cocaine.
I forgot how it went, but the, the thesis of it more or less was that you get 25 years to life for cocai- for crack and then you get five years for cocaine and it's the same amount, the weight.
Um, uh, I try to find when I do write and I, I try to make that the standard for a joke.
Meaning like if I can write a joke that's that good, that's like that, uh, logically, structurally sound.
He's the guy who shot Martin Luther King and, and, uh, everyone has Martin Luther King's birthday off, including James Earl Ray.
So the joke was about James Earl Ray walking around prison being like, "You know, I'm the only reason we have off today."
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