The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial w. Brad Williams

Episode Date: February 22, 2024

Brad Williams joins Bryan & Krissy for TCB Infomercial! Brad Williams joins TCB Cocaine Bear The Chris Jericho Rock and Wrestling Rager At Sea Wrestling culture & drama Growing up as a little person Comeback central Preparing for the world that is rather than the world that should be How Brad got his start Brad’s upcoming tour Watch Brad’s special here Brad’s instagram https://www.bradwilliamscomedy.com/ LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I got a pee there. It's like right behind him. Now other people that walk into the bathroom, they see a dwarf dancing right behind a guy. You see a dwarf dancing behind someone. You think I'm casting a spell on them or some shit. And I just had this moment where I couldn't take it anymore. So I just looked at the dude I was like excuse me sir. He turned around and this is exactly what he did. No exaggeration. He just turns around and goes no fucking way.

On this episode of the commercial break. Man, the kid that makes fun of her first, that's not going to go well. Because I'm writing, I'm literally already doing it. I'm already writing these like roast joke style comebacks. So if someone, you know, if some kid walks up and goes like, ah, you're a midget, you know, she could be like, yeah, I am and I'm here because my parents love each other. You're here because your mom doesn't know how to swallow. No!

So. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. The 30 of the morning! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break on Brian Green. And this is the dast Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break on Brian Green. And this is the Dastardly Duel partner over here.

Chris and Joy Hootley, best of you, Chris. Hi, I'm Steve Ryan. And best of you out there in the podcast universe. How are you this morning? How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. Yeah, you look good. I just thought I'd share that with you.

Thank you. You look good. You look fresh and ready and ready to go. The opposite of what I'm feeling. I heard. Yeah, it's been a, it's been a, You look fresh and ready and ready to go the opposite of what I'm feeling Yeah, it's been it we have the one kid who all of our children have been relatively good when it comes to going with strangers That's so funny doesn't it? Father-in-law your award over here. I'm fine with strangers. They literally run right up to them and say,

Mommy, Daddy, do you mind watching them for a few minutes while I head into the Tittay Club? I'll be right back as soon as I drop a grant. Making it rain! Now they've been good when it comes to like, you know, even though we don't, like, I don't know about any other parent here, but as a helicopter parent, I don't like to leave my children with actual strangers I won't hire a babysitter out of the fucking yellow pages. That's not how it works I don't care how many background checks you've done

You have to be connected in some way to my family and I have to understand a little bit about who you are and then even then Because we have small children You got to spend some time with us together before we leave any of our children with you alone. So we've only really had a good role of time. I think so. We've only really had three or four babysitters in the entirety of our, you know, we also had pandemic babies too. A lot of them. Many of them. Many more than science would suggest you could have during a three-year period. I don't know how that happened, but that's sort of double fertile, I think. So we have this babysitter, she comes in

and she's a friend of the family. We've known her, she's been with the children before, at least some of our children before, and we have this newest one. And that kid just does not want to have anything to do with her. As a matter of fact, the other day, Chrissy and I were recording

and I had to take a 40 minute break because the babysitter who was here to watch one of the children while we recorded could not get the kid to settle down I mean screaming bloody fucking murder But then so you know we do this like exposure therapy where now I have to go in the room a whole debate You know then send the baby over to bring the baby back and all this other stuff But she just will not send the baby back and all this other stuff. But she just will not send the baby back. It can send the baby back, hand her back. We're like tossing, we're like playing hot potato

with the baby, right? When she's, it looks like she's about to get upset. We pull her back and then we throw her in and then we pull her back. And she just will not calm the fuck down. And even after the baby sitter left, we, the baby, she would not calm down at all. She was screaming bloody fucking murder.

It's like, okay, the lady's gone now. It's all good. You're back here with mommy and daddy. Maybe that's why she was screaming in the first place. Like you two fucking morons. I actually wanted to go with that lady. I was screaming because she wasn't running out the front door. With me in her arms.

Da, da, da, da, da, da. So, and then on top of that, then we have Blue, the dog who is, so I asked this babysitter, I said, hey, listen, you want to take this dog? Because I asked everybody who walks into the house, would you like to take the dog? And she goes, oh no, no, no, no, never again. And I was like, never again what?

And she's like, never again will I have a Yorkie ever again. And she's like, and it gets worse as they get older. And I thought to myself, that is exactly correct correct because blue is getting worse as she gets older This is a dog who was on psychiatric medication For her behavior And she's getting worse and worse. I think I'm gonna double the dose. I'm not even sure the fucking medication works at all I think I'm just paying $80 a month for nothing It must be it's like a sugar pill to her.

She's like, she just wants the pill pocket that it comes in because it's a treat. But then I do have to say that one time early on, we were like maybe six months into giving the dog. By the way, this dog has been through many training programs, had many like dog therapists, dog psychologists, dog psychics. I know we've had everybody in it. You're always hopeful too.

Yes, every time. At every turn, yeah. Until that one guy just dragged her across the pavement and I was like, oh, okay, all right. I don't like her, but like, don't drag her across the pavement. Let's not do that. He thought he, yeah.

The old pavement therapy. Yeah, the old pavement therapy. Lift her up, throw her down, drag her across the pavement. That guy, he was like, he wanted, I told him. You didn't vet him like you vetted the baby centers. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, throw her down, drag her across the pavement. That guy, he was like, he wanted to, I told him. You didn't vet him like you vetted the baby's head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Okay, gotcha. But he was doing a television show and then he asked if he could bring these other two ladies with him that were going to be part of the television show. They were like, dog therapist in training or whatever. And he got so irritated by Blue's behavior, literally lifted her up and then put her back down and then Blue was like dragging across the thing. And I was like, that's exactly what I said. Cut, cut. Hold on, hold on. Bro, I don't know, but this ain't the way to do it. So let's just part ways amicably because I'm not going to have you torture a dog in front of me. That's just not

going to happen. I thought you were like, Mr. You know, fucking dog whisper or something. Yeah. You know how many times I've written into that Cesar, whatever his name is, to try and get him here to the front door to take care of him? It would be fantastic if anybody could do it. He could, but I think even he knows, because I sent videos. I submitted multiple times.

He's like, I'm not going there. And he's like, Yorkies, they can't be helped. And this one's out of her fucking mind. This dog can't be helped. So a year into taking, or six months of year into taking this medication that had been prescribed to her to hopefully calm her anxiety down a little bit, which is why they think she barks so much.

No shit, Sherlock, by the way, no shit. So we missed two days, two days of giving her the medication because we were just kind of getting into the routine. Whatever the deal was, new baby, I forgot what happened, but we forgot to give her the medication for two days in a row. And I'm telling you what, that dog started to twitch. It was like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, She is doing something. Yes, not making her twitch, but it's not the twitching that bothers me. It's everything else.

Oh. All right, it's a TCB Infomercials episode. That's what we've decided to name our new, when our guests come in, TCB Infomercials. I like that. Okay, I like that too. I like that, yeah, I thought about it last night. I'm telling Chrissy about the change right now. Well to be fair, you just walked in the door

and we started recording. CCB Infomercials with Mr. Brad Williams. He is a comic. He's got a new special on Veebs. He's doing a 780. Veebs is the ticket master platform and not the show that was on HBO because that's what I keep thinking.

Yeah, I know. Why would they name it Veebs? I don't understand. And it's spelled the exact same way too. It's V-E-E-P-S. I don't understand, whatever. Anyway, that's a decision by Ticketmaster. But still, that's very close.

Yeah, it's too close. It's like, you're on Veebs. Because I'm like, oh, yeah, oh, you're on that show. Congratulations. Yeah, I didn't even know that they had a new season. They don't. Good for you. But now this is like our third comic

who's been in here with a Veebs special. So Brad Williams' new special is on Vee. You could go you could order it download it. You can also go to one of his 787,000 shows and he's he's like the commercial break. He's doing Monday through Saturday every single week for the next number of months. He's going everywhere. Yeah, so you can get those tickets and he's going everywhere. Not just the big cities but the small cities too. I'm sure we'll talk more about that when we get him on in here. But let's do this. Why don't we take a short break and then we can visit with Brad and then, you know, we'll wrap it up

afterwards. We'll come back, we'll talk to you. We'll talk independently to you, the listeners. We'll whisper behind Brad's back after we get done with that. Sound like a good one? Sounds good. Okay, we'll be back after this. After these messages, we'll be right back. Well, thank the baby Jesus. Brian took a breath and now I will use this opportunity to let you know that we've got a brand new phone number. That's right, it's 212-433-3TCB

and you can text us anytime you want. Or you can call to leave us a voicemail and we might just use your message on the show. Once Brian gets through all the messages he missed last year, of course. Anyway, you can also find and DM us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at TCBpodcast. And of course, all of our audio and video

is easily found on tcbpodcast.com. Now I'm gonna thank G one more time that we have sponsors, so thank G and here they are. Hey Brad, how are you? Hello, good to be here. Thank you very much. Hello, Brad. Good to have you, thank you very much for joining us

here on the commercial break. You've certainly hit the top now, Brad. There's no place else to go. Conan invites you, you have to decline, that's hard Brad there's no place else to go right and invite you you have to decline that's our that's right I've always said I I I've always said when people have asked me like what are your career goals and I go do you know you just got podcasts the commercial break like I don't really care about a Netflix special HBO special sitcom I just want to do this podcast it's so great it's so wonderful and that. I just want to do this podcast. It's so great. It's so wonderful and

That's what I want to do. I I don't want to demean you guys you guys have you guys have established yourself and you guys Yeah, put out a good product and yes, and we have no idea how that happened I Often say it's for the best little mediocre podcast They could and I don't mind that because I think average is like You know when you're down the middle you're with the rest of the people so why not you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and like if because like some of these podcasts come out and they have these huge corporate entities behind them Yes, and then they're then they still stink

So when you have all of that and then you suck it just sort of When you have all of that and then you suck it just sort of exaggerates the suck But if you guys suck you're expected to suck we so our own So anything that you do anything that you which now sounds like a completely different But now like if you guys are any good at all It's just like hey look at them with their podcast Brad you're you're a you're a man after my own heart because I'll explain this as I've explained it to Chrissy at our audience a million times if If no one expects anything out of us then if they get a laugh or two fucking a right dude Then it's great

But if they don't get anything out of it and a lot of one person wrote a comment the other day and they said, I like my podcasts with purpose. This does not have it. And I was like, well, what did you expect? It's me and my friend talking about it. Yeah. Man, low expectations. Low expectations. That's right, set them low.

Set them low. That, I mean, that sounds like a name of one of my comedy specials, to be honest with you. But yeah, just like I can enjoy any movie as long as I go in with the right expectations. One of the most fun I've had at the movies recently is, uh, uh, do you guys see the film Cocaine Bear? Yes. Oh my God, I was dying laughing.

It was so good. I, I, I, I went and saw it with a bunch of friends, and of course there was that one friend that walked out of it like, oh, it was just dumb, like, okay, so a bear is on, it's like, yes, it's a cocaine bear. They told you in the title who watched the previews and was like looking at that

like you you expected Sir Lawrence of Olivier to come out there and deliver us soliloquy like that's not what we're doing here we're not making a curacao a film we're making cocaine fucking bear did the bear do cocaine yes did the bear was it a bear yes did the bear, wasn't a bear? Yes. Did the bear kill people that were not on cocaine trying to run away from the bear? Yes. Cameo from Ray Leota? Done. Done. Okay. Yes. People came in there expecting Daniel Day-Lewis.

It wasn't Daniel fucking Day-Lewis. No. They took a news story clipping from a South Carolina local article and then made an entire movie out of it called Cocaine Bear go in expecting so here's a fun fact about me I've actually seen the real cocaine bear no because the because the because the real cocaine bear is stuffed in a small tourist shop in just outside of Louisville, Kentucky. You're kidding me. Really? I was in Louisville, Louisville,

I don't know how you pronounce it. Either way. I don't even think they know how to pronounce it. Yeah, you kind of have to put a cue ball in your throat. Whoa. I was there, and this is about a month or so before, or a month after the movie came out and I had seen it and I found out the cocaine bear was there because I did a joke on stage and someone yelled out

You know, it's here, right like the hell it's here And it's a stuffed bear. It's a taxidermied bear and people have left offerings like Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's quite a few bags of flour. Flour. Flour. Yeah, it's one of the best. I bought so many chachkies from that damn gift shop.

Oh, I would have too. Oh, coffee mugs, stickers. The story, if I'm not mistaken, is Bear finds a load of cocaine that was obviously meant for someone else, like a drop off point or something, gets into the cocaine, then runs around for a few minutes and has a massive heart attack, right? Is that basically like the story? That's what actually happened.

But they're like, how can we make this into an hour and 20 minute feature? Let's have them kill people. So yeah, it, it, the, I love that they said based on a true story at the beginning. It's like, okay. Based on a true story, like Fargo was based on a true story. Remember when I got everybody? Yeah. Fargo got me for years.

Yeah. So now, and this will lead me into a different topic because now it's like you have people that tend to be coming after comedians like Hasan Minhaj saying like oh he made up stories. He told stories on stage that weren't exactly true. Yeah, no shit. That's what we do. We do the same thing. shit. That's what we do. We do the same thing. Yeah, you you exaggerate, you elaborate, you make a point. Did you did? Did you hear the story? Did you feel something? You felt something? Did you feel good afterward? Fantastic. Then we did our job. Who watches cocaine bear and goes in and when it says based on a

true story goes, Well, I did some fact-checking turns out The bear did not actually go on a murderous rampage well on the Colombian Bam Bam It's so true guys I know I'm talking about this with Chrisy the other day My dad was asking me how do you get all the content? You know we do four days a week which is way too many episodes of the commercial break, but that's another story. Way too many days. Way too many.

So, leave him wanting more, but we decide to give him the most. So the- Or people can't even keep up. So my dad says, yeah. So my dad says, hey, how do you come up with all the content for the show? Like, do you literally walk around your entire day,

like thinking this could be a good story for the podcast? I say, no, it doesn't work like that. I reflect at the end of the day, find out if there's a little nugget somewhere that then I can bloviate about for another 30 fucking minutes because if I told the story exactly as it happened, no one would laugh because generally people's lives aren't that funny.

I don't walk around. I'm not Larry David. I don't walk around making everything hilarious, right? Yeah, you know, I mean, yeah, because although you may punch Elmo as well. I would love to punch Elmo. I have small children and I would love to punch Elmo and a couple of the other ones too. The Peppa Pig while we're at it. Peppa Pig.

Peppa Pig. It's big in my household. Don't get me started on Peppa Pig. Brad, I have a question for you because Chrissy and I are talking about this last episode and I know that you have some loose connection here. You just got off the Jericho cruise. Is that right? Like a week and a half ago, something like that? That is completely incorrect

because it has to be called by its proper name. Go for it. This is the Chris Jericho Rock and Wrestling Rager at Sea. Whoa. That's a mouthful. I saw your videos. I saw pictures. I went on other people's Instagrams.

It looks like a hairy guitar. I mean, music, meet and greets, and lots of wrestling. I would expect it to be wild. Of course, it's a fucking wrestling cruise. Wrestling on a boat. And wrestling fans on a boat. And they do stand-up comedy, and they don't do it, I do it.

And thank God they don't do it. And I bring a bunch of comedians with me, and it's unbelievable, it's amazing. I got to check off definitely a few things on my bucket list. There's so many times that in my adult life, I just turned 40 that I wish I could go back, find 14 year old Brad Williams,

just be like, dude, it's gonna get sweet. Like it's gonna- Here's a preview. Shit's gonna get really cool. And I'm like, I would go back to my 14 year old pubescent self and if I can catch myself in between masturbation sessions I would say hey you know how you like to watch pro wrestling yeah do you like the Dudley boys yeah I love the Dudley boys well guess what you're gonna be in the ring with the Dudley boys and do one of their signature moves,

which now don't get me wrong, the signature move that I did on the Chris Jericho Rock and Wrestling Rage at sea is, uh, it's called the What's Up Headbutt, that involves me going to the second rope, diving, and then my head landing

on the genitals of another wrestler. So that was fun. So as I say, what is signature move? Yeah, so I'm going to go out and go out with nuts in your face. That's how we do it. And I'm pretty sure all those people, you know, they saw a dwarf give a head head butt to the nuts of a pro wrestler at that at that point do you need three wishes they've already been accomplished but it was awesome man it was truly amazing and wrestling fans I want to take these wrestling audiences with me everywhere they were so encouraging for those unfamiliar with wrestling culture, fans, fans liked chant. Fans do like chants. Like if they see a match that they are really liking, they'll go, this is awesome.

Like that's what they do. So they love chants and that's a real basic one. Some of them get really creative so yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah got it okay I did whenever I do the Chris Jericho Rock and Wrestling Rage would see this was my fourth time I always write roast jokes about the wrestlers sure this time, I wrote a joke and thankfully the news about, I mean not thankfully, but you'll understand. The news about Vince McMahon had just broken before the boat. So I did a roast joke about Vince. And to hear a theater of about 900 people chant, holy shit, holy shit.

That's, oh my God. I want all. Tell the joke, tell the joke. Okay. Tell the gross joke. Hold on, I actually have it here. Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask you about. You were heading in the direction I was.

Hold on. Take your time. Let me find this. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Great news about podcasting is you can edit if there's, there's lulls, but there's no lull with Brad Okay, yeah All joking aside AEW wrestling is amazing. They have accomplished wonderful things

They hold the record for the most attended wrestling show of all time this year. They said it 80,000 people in Wembley Stadium only way WDW could do that is if they filled an arena with Vince's accusers Yeah, there you go You ever met Vince McMahon. Have you ever been in the same circles as Vince McMahon? No, I mean, I've never met him. It's kind of like, so there's a few people in this business. I was actually a part of a documentary one time that the name of the documentary is Everyone Has an Andy Dick Story. Oh, I know this documentary.

Yes. And because if you meet Andy dick you don't you have a story You have a story you don't just say hey Andy and he says nice to meet you and then you go in your separate ways There will be Sticks his dick in your ear something a lot of those lights. Yeah, that's that's how I wild Yeah, I mean that's it's funny you say that that's how I got a couple of gigs not Not because I did that but because Andy did that so he got fired so then they brought me in That's true So it wasn't dick in the air. It was balls in a drink, but that's besides the point

Andy geez radio to balls in a drink. Yeah So what from what I've heard that is kind kinda how Vince is in that you never just have a interaction with a basic interaction with Vince McMahon. You will always have a story, whether it be it could be something as horrific as the allegations in the lawsuit and now the federal probe, or it can be something where you're afraid for your life like Bob Costas, although he handled that very well. Or it can be hilarious. Or it could be like, you know, like he's threatening. Yeah. Yeah. He swings one way or the other. So if you understand the wrestling world a little bit, so we were just talking about Vincent,

we were talking about all his drama. I don't know much about it, so fill me in. And I'm like a child of the 80s and 90s and WrestleMania was the event you had to watch, right? And we're talking about Jake the Snake and Iron Sheik and all those great wrestlers. So why, do you understand why everyone's so upset that the rock all of a sudden showed up in the ring? Do you understand this?

Do you get this? Do you see how people are threatening his dog, like the death threats against his daughter? For what reason? Because someone else earned it and he didn't or something along those lines? So all right, how can I? Oh, okay. So let's say that that. So, alright, how can I... Oh, okay. So, let's say that...

Okay, let me try to put this in terms that you would... Sure. That the casual person would understand. Let's say you're watching the Marvel movies, right? And you're watching it from day one. Okay. And all of a sudden, like you've built up these relationships

with these characters, you know Iron Man, you know Captain America, and they're gonna defeat Thanos. You have watched 10 years of Marvel movies, okay? Like you're just, you're in it, you're invested in these characters, you're invested in their stories,

you want to see Iron Man finally defeat Thanos. And right before Iron Man fights Thanos, Wolverine comes in and goes, don't worry, I got this. Now, would you have liked to have seen Wolverine fight Thanos? Yes. It sounds great, it sounds awesome, But I was invested in Iron Man. I wanted, I was dedicated and I wanted this and I was into Wolverine, you know, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, when those X-Men movies came out. I'm not necessarily into Wolverine right now. So that is the best way that I could tell you what's happening is that Cody Rhodes

is the baby face of baby faces. Everybody is into him. They all thought he was gonna win the title last year at WrestleMania. It's been another year and his thing he keeps saying is I'm gonna finish my story, finish my story and as fans we're all just like we want you to finish the story. He's the most, the term is over but he's the most popular babyface in modern era, the most

popular good guy. He literally comes out dressed kind of as Captain America and now we're gonna get you know Cody Rhodes versus Roman, Cody're gonna get, you know, Cody Rhodes versus Roman, Cody's gonna finally win the belt, everyone's gonna go absolutely nuts. This is what we wanna see. And then right before you hear the Rock's music and you're just like, ah, shit.

That's great, like Rock, Roman would be good. But didn't the Rock move on to movies? Can't we just leave it alone? Yeah, yeah. So that's why people are upset. That's why people, it's hashtag we want Cody. So that's what's happening in that world. Now there are, if you read wrestling Twitter,

which I do, because it's very entertaining, there are so. I bet it is's very entertaining. There are so. I bet it is in our daily, oh my gosh. There are so many. If you thought Alex Jones had conspiracy theories, this is. Oh my gosh. It's out there.

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff about why they're doing this, what they're going to do, what the plan is. Some sounds great, some sounds very nefarious. So it's really interesting. I see this as the plus and the minus of the WWE, or wrestling in general, is that I honestly, I was talking to Chrissy and I'm like, I think it's the most honest sport

because you already know that it's dishonest, right? You already know what it is on the surface, or at least you should know what it is on the surface, right? I don't think death threats is necessarily a great way to get out your anger about a storyline, but I get it, you know, people are upset, but then also that gives people license to then go and have their own storylines going on in their own head.

And I think some, obviously, people take it, it's a soap opera, that's what it is. It's a soap opera, it's a sport, but people really do fucking wrestle. I mean they get hurt. The same way the same way if one of the bachelorettes picks a bachelor

That's like not the one that they all thought that she was gonna pick. Yeah, totally. The fans go ape shit. Right? Like this is that. Yeah, exactly. This is that. So, or- So this is a crazy story that you're just bringing this up. And it's a great example because my wife is watching The Bachelor and I hate laugh watch it, right? I think it's hilarious.

I just love to watch the silliness of it all is interesting to me. My wife gets into it. So there's this year, The Bachelor, there's two girls, they're sisters. It's the first episode of The Bachelor, and the two sisters have met with The Bachelor, and one of them is a real ha-hoo,

and the other one's very sweet and very nice. And so my wife is like, oh, he's definitely kicking off that mean sister. Everyone hates her. She's a bitch. They didn't even connect, ba-ba. And I said, Esther, you have no idea how this works. The producers have predetermined

that these sisters will make it pretty fucking close to the end Because that is the kind of drama that drives ratings and when it came time for what at Rose ceremony or whatever It's the of course they've he picked the sisters because the producers said we can't miss this opportunity to make a great story So exactly maybe they're jobbing you maybe they're jobbing everybody by throwing the rock in the ring and saying me Yeah, you know Maybe they're jobbing you. Maybe they're jobbing everybody by throwing the rock in the ring and saying, meet me at Wrestlemania. You know, everyone's like, ah, fuck. I like the rock, but I don't like this. Yeah.

The thing about wrestling, it's kind of like comedy in that you never know what's real and what's not. You never know what's a bit, what's a work. You never know. You just never know what's what's a bit what's a work you never know you just never know so I just like to sit back and enjoy the fireworks that that's what I like to do and if if and and like kind of like you touched on earlier wrestling is a sport that because it's predetermined people feel like they have a little more control

over it and a little more ownership of it. But really it's guys, it's like guys just sit back, relax. Then watch the show. Watch the show. Watch the show. Yeah, that's what makes it, if it always turned out the way you would like it to, then you would never watch it.

Because you would never watch it. Yeah, it's like an episode of Breaking Bad that always ends with, you know, with Brian Cranston getting away. Well, when's he not gonna get away with it? The fact that you never know if he's gonna get away with it or not makes it interesting. So I totally agree.

It's something, and I'm glad you brought that up, because it's something that I like to tell people when it comes to joke writing, when they're like, I didn't like that joke. Why did you do that joke, or why did you expand on this thing? It's like, here's the thing, the intent is always to entertain.

But like you said, if you don't have conflict, there is no punchline. There's no risk. Yeah, you're not falling off the edge. Yeah. So you have to create those risks. You have to create those Circumstances you have to stretch the rubber band and get the tension as tight as possible because then if you could hit that joke It's it's a release. Yeah, such a big release where if you just tell the average story of like we said earlier of

Like if I just did jokes about what I did every day it's boring as hell. Today I have woken up, I have had a tea, I walked my daughter to school and now I'm talking into yahoo's in their basement. That is what that is my day so far. Now I can expand on that and I can make it like, yeah, I walk my daughter to school and we're both dwarves. And so people that are driving by see two dwarves walk to school and they're like, oh, don't let those two kids like, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, they say that they, they, they, they say, oh, do they go to a special school? That's just a mushroom with the door in it. Like, like, like, like what do they do? Like, And it's raining in Southern California.

So, oh my God, do they have their floaties? Cause those puddles look dangerous for them. Like, it's like you can, you expand and that's how jokes are written. That's how story is created. That's how conflict is done. Nothing is gonna be exactly as you want it to be because if it is, it's gonna suck.

That's right, and you have to walk that line sometimes. And we understand this doing a lot of content. There's some places you never wanna go, right? And if that's your brand of comedy, you never go there, right? And then there's some places where you just kind of, you walk the line because the risk in the joke telling is that you may offend some people, but that you're gonna make a lot of people laugh, but that's also how you walk the line because the risk in the joke telling is that you may offend some people

but that you're going to make a lot of people laugh but that's also how you push the envelope. There I think there's a real psychology to comedy and joke telling and I do believe that societally in sense the age of gestures. Comics have helped us expand what we think is okay not okay or right because they have been telling stories in a way that takes risks and allows you to think and laugh at stuff that otherwise is just too serious to wrap your head around. And so that's why I think comedy, you know,

not what we do, we just sit behind a microphone to nobody. You go up on stage and you actually have to take the risk of laugh or not laugh, right? We don't get to hear what happens in people's cars or their jog or whatever. But I think that the story telling in and of itself, the risk in and of itself, is that you fail, but then the reward is that you open people's minds in a way they don't see it. I think one of the things I appreciate about your comedy is that you don't shy away from the fact that you're a little person. You don't shy away from it at all.

You really talk about your life in kind of, sometimes brutal terms, right? I think you were telling a story about how your dad was your first bully. He was like, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen here where we can practice, right? Yeah, exactly. When you said, I wish I could go back

and talk to my 14 year old self. I actually do this sometimes. I actually sometimes tell my 15 year old self, it will fucking get better. My child was a little rough around the edges. It will fucking get better, Brian. Just hang tight. Hang tight. Don't jump off the cliff.

Don't do that. Don't do this. Yeah. Just hang tight, right? It will get better. It's going to take a very fucking long time, but it's going to get better it's going to take a very fucking long time but it's going to get better when you were a kid and your did you see what your dad do you now see what your dad was doing as noble or do you see it as tough or oh yeah thankfully thankfully he was explaining it to me like as it was happening so I got it kind of in real

time okay so he was telling me no I'm making fun of you as a kid. You got you because you understand my dad's not a dwarf. He was average size. So, um, so he would tell me like, no, I'm making fun of you. So when other kids make fun of you, you're ready. And it doesn't phase you and it would. So like, it worked. So like he would, he and I would literally sit down and write jokes together, write comebacks. So then when a kid came like he would he and I would literally sit down and write jokes together, write comebacks. So then when a kid came up to me and said something mean, boom, I had a response. It was quick. It was good. And and then the kid cried and I would go to the principal's office. It was a great, it was a great thing. So that's what, so I look back on and go, it was genius.

So now with my daughter, who is also a little person, man, the kid that makes fun of her first, that's not gonna go well with it. Because I'm writing, I'm literally already doing it. I'm already writing these like roast joke style of comebacks. So if someone, you know, if some kid walks up and goes like, ah, you're a midget, you know, she could be like, yeah, I am and I'm here

because my parents love each other. You're here because your mom doesn't know how to swallow. So. No. So. I'm gonna do stuff like that. I love it with each age that she gets at. You can kind of, you can accelerate it a little bit.

Oh no, I'm gonna go with that one, I'm gonna go with that one when she's five. I'm really, yeah, I'm gonna make sure that every kid that makes fun of her pays for it and knows that that's not a good idea. Yeah.

So I'm stoked about that and I think that that's a healthy way to look at the world. I said it in my special daddy issues, where my father prepared me for the world that is and not the world that should be. The world that should be is a wonderful, amazing place where no one gets made fun of, no one gets hurt,

and everyone looks out for each other. The world that is is fucking cutthroat as hell. And you have to be a good person, be considerate to others, but you gotta look out for number one, and there's scammers out there, and there's so much bad out there that you have to be aware of it so that when it does happen, you are prepared for it.

True or not true, you got your start because you were at a live Carlos Mancia show and he started making fun of little people and then he started directing that toward you. He was essentially roasting you there in the audience and you were like, well, if I'm gonna get roasted, I'm gonna banter back and forth. Is that true?

To some degree, what happened was he was on stage as at the Brea Improv in 2000 and 2003 I want to say yeah March 2003 and I was in the audience and he started making midget jokes not knowing I was there and half the audience was laughing and the audience that was sitting by me was like yeah and he noticed that and he's like why aren't you guys laughing at these jokes and he actually said the line he goes what is one of them here and I raised my creepy little hand in the air like and he called me up on stage and he started asking me questions and I didn't try to be funny I just answered the questions honestly but the but my answers got laughs I still remember the question that did it it was

he said what do you do for a living? And I grew up in Southern California. I was living in Orange County and I did what a lot of teenagers did when you grew up in Orange County is I looked at him and I was like, I work at Disneyland. And then I got laughs like that, like little Snickers. Yeah. I stopped, looked at the audience and went, fuck you. I'm not one of the seven. I stopped, looked at the audience and went, fuck you, I'm not one of the seven. And see, and I got that laugh and I was like, oh, that felt good. That felt, that felt really good. Oh, it's addictive.

So, then I started doing that. Then I started looking up open mics and doing that and here we are 20 years later talking to you guys, which was my plan the whole time. That's right, I'll come together. And then he like took you under his wing and you were on his show too, right? And then so that kind of furthered your career, I would imagine when you were on the Carlos Mancia show

was hot for a period of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was great, it was wonderful. I got to be his opening act. And then sort of, that was my version of of college and then I sort of spread my wings went out of my own and got to make a little money performing for no people and and but you do that for a long time and you cut your teeth oh we know yeah yeah yeah build the audience because say like, people have asked me before,

like, oh, what was your big break? And the answer is I don't have a big break. I have about eight little breaks, and each one led to the next one. So I can tell you like a few times where it's like, oh, cool, that happened. So now I got I raised up a level it's nothing it's like when someone loses a bunch of weight

they all they always get asked how'd you do it the and people ask because they want the answer to be I did nothing I took a zempik yeah I took a zempik I kept eating ice cream there There was no side effects Shit myself to Sunday, but I made it work. Yeah. Yeah, I lost 40 pounds and I got rock hard abs Like that's what yeah, that's what they want to hear, but that's not the truth Yeah, that's not the truth the truth more often than not especially with weight loss as well I had to diet I had to exercise I had to diet, I had to exercise, I had to really watch my caloric intake. I had to avoid fats and sugars or not fats,

but sugars and carbs, stuff like that. So that's the answer, but we don't want that. And so when people say, what was your big break? They want me to say like, oh, I was at a gas station. I told a joke and the vice president of show business was there. And he decided to make me a star. Like that, that's not what happened. All right, sweetie, you're going to be a star.

Come on with me. Yeah. Yeah. Heather McMahon was just saying the same thing the other day on her show. She was like, yeah, people just all of a sudden think that it just happened overnight, but it didn't. And it's, I've been working at this for years and years. And here's, well, I think we all want to believe in our heads that there, you know,

all the dreamers and all the people who are out there that want this, um, some kind of, and anything that they do, I suppose it could be guitar playing. It could be shoveling shit. I don't know. And you want to be the best shit shoveler that ever lived. You want to believe that you can walk into your first day at shit shoveling and that you're the best that ever lived. But that's not how it happens. It's not one big break.

It's many small breaks that break in your favor. And by the way, as we've learned on this show, oftentimes the big breaks are followed by huge disappointments that then you have to pick yourself up and get and do it again Right and okay now we got to go again I'm sure still to this day probably you walk some some nights are great and then some nights you're like fuck man I just didn't have it tonight right? Yeah, absolutely and in terms of the overnight sensation with Comedy I'll give you a perfect example is right now one of the hottest Comedians in the world and

I call him the Taylor Swift to comedy yes Matt Reif and and and he's selling out shows all over and people like oh my god this pretty boy with high cheekbones just started selling tickets but all the comics out here in Los Angeles no Matt has been at this since he was a teenager yeah like teenager he was the opening act for Dane Cook for years like he would be like he's been at he's been broke he's been at the laugh factory he's been like I saw Matt so in 2020 when the lockdown happened the laugh factory started doing these virtual shows where they would put So in 2020 when the lockdown happened, the Laugh Factory started doing these virtual shows

where they would put TVs in the Laugh Factory that would have the Zoom. So we kind of had an audience, but not really. And Matt was hosting those shows for nothing, just to get the stage time and keep the the reps going so that dude has worked so Hard so there it is not an overnight success with that guy and and you and you can look at almost any comedian And find very similar stories. I think those overnight sensation stories

They are so few and far between and there are a few of them there There's you know that you walk on to America's got talent You got a record contract the next day or whatever there are stories like that But that is not the norm that is the exception like with sometime, you know ridiculously sometimes oh, huh? The odd your podcast gets so popular. I don't fucking know Like 600 hours of content I guess which is blunt force trauma to the head people all the sudden started listening, right? And that's the way that it is.

Yeah, it's Malcolm Gladwell stuff, but 10,000 hours. But thankfully, now I've, you cut your teeth so when you get to the point where you're popular or you start being successful, you're prepared for that. So now when I'm, when I just put out my new special on Veebs, and then we have this whole tour that's like insane coming up. 200 nights or something crazy. And that's not all of them.

We haven't even announced the overseas dates yet. But you have a wife and a kid. I know. How does this work? How do you do that? At some point, I would like to meet them. That's a novel idea. I hear they're wonderful people. But yeah, so this next year is going to be crazy, but I'm prepared for that because of all the work I've put in previous. And now, so when I had to write essentially a whole new hour

in about seven months from when the recording of the new special to the current hour that I have on tour, I was ready because I've learned how to do that. So now I'm really happy with the hour. We've been, you know, it's been getting great response on the tour dates so far. And so yeah, I'm giving the people a good show. I don't want you to watch my special Starfish on Veebs and then come

see me on this crazy tour and then see the exact same material. I want it to be different. So thankfully it is. So let me ask you a question. So Veebs is the new it's the new ticketmaster live platform. Am I right about that? Okay. So we've had we've had a couple of other comedians who have Veeb specials, I think Blair Saki was on,

she has a Veeb special, yeah, Blair is great, Blair is wonderful. A Blair. And so when you go out and do these, like back to back to back to back to back, have you done this kind of like back to back to back traveling before? Are you excited about it?

Do you find it to be very stressful? I'm just... listen, it's all of those things. It's very stressful because you know you're... I'm used to going to a comedy club and then just being in that comedy club for three, four days where I'm in the same hotel room. I kind of, you know, my home because he comes, you know, the Hilton Garden Inn and Tulsa, Oklahoma that weekend, you know, so... which by the way, I'm coming to Tulsa by tickets. Uh, but so like, I'm used to that. This is more like, all right, this day you're in Charlotte, the next day you're in Atlanta, and the next day you're in Savannah.

And it's like, okay. Let's go. Let's fucking go. Yeah. It's a lot, but I always, when it, whenever it seems to be a lot, I always try to sit back and go, but this is what I wanted. This is what I work for. I'm being compensated very well.

And I'm not, you know, I can't be mad about that because I'm doing this all for my kid and her future. So yeah, like, and I get to see the country. It's amazing when I meet people and they go, yeah, I've been, like, my mother-in-law has been to, like, three states, total. And I've been to all 50. And I've been to 18 different countries to do stand-ups.

So it's like, wow, I've really gotten to experience things. And I love going out and seeing our our country because especially with I Won't get too political, but especially with the upcoming election. There's a lot of people that think that This one part of the country is so different from this other part of the country These people are good these people are just bad And there's a lot of that mentality right now. Unfortunately gonna get worse. But when you actually go to these places,

you find out, hey, everyone wants the same thing. They wanna earn a living, they want their kids to succeed, they pay their taxes hopefully, and they want safety and security for their loved ones. That's what everyone wants. They disagree slightly on how to achieve that safety and security, but the goal is the same. And I've realized that tour in the country is you go and the people go,

what's it like when you go to Alabama? And then it's like, that's fun. Yeah, there's humans there. There are humans there. They laugh at jokes. There's humans there. They laugh at jokes. Jokes are good. And then the people in Alabama are like,

What's it like up there in New York City? Are they just a bunch of cuckold libtards? And you're just like, no. They're a few of those, but they're mainly good people. Yeah, thankfully comedy kind for the most part There's always exceptions, but they thankfully comedy for the most part kind of weeds that out cuz yeah You you kind of know what you're getting into very few people Walk into because I'm doing a lot of theaters on this tour very very few people buy a ticket for a comedian at a theater

And then when they hear a joke go, what? Right. Because they've already seen that. Yeah, there's so much research out there. Yeah. And I know they want to come to your show. Absolutely.

And I find like my father, I'm married to a Venezuelan woman and her father who's still in Venezuela has said this from the day that I met him. He wants to talk about politics. Aye, but that's what he says to me. You're fucking moron. But he also says this. He says extremes on both sides end up in the same place. Right?

You end up in the same place, no matter which way you go. Left, right, it's a circle. You're gonna end up in the same place. But 99% of people are not there. They just want to live their lives to be happy and to feel like they're free and secure. That's it. We all want the same things.

It's, there's a lot of reasons why we're so politically divided, but when you do go and you travel, you realize that humans are just humans all over the place. They're not much different from each other. You know, regardless of your skin color, your size, your weight, your hair, your hair length, everybody just kind of wants the same things.

And then of course there are always outlying dipshits that just make trouble for everybody. But you know, I guess that's the risk you take just like when you get on stage and you make a joke. Brad, I feel like we covered exactly 1% of what I wanted to come with you in this 45 minute period of time. Unfortunately, that's what kind of happens with me.

I feel like I could have done an hour with you. I know. I want to know about Cirque du Soleil. All right. The Avian Awards. I wanted to know about all the other things. I'll do all of that. Cirque du Soleil was awesome. I was the first comedian ever, first stand-up comedian in a Cirque du Soleil show.

I did stand-up comedy. I didn't get fired out of a cannon and yell wee-wee. The show was the show was called Mad Apple it's still going on in New York Hotel and Casino. I'm not a part of it anymore I've moved on. Wait you did Mad Apple is that the like the sexy version of the Cirque du Soleil? It's the New York... Aren't they all kind of sexy? Yeah, they're all... It's all... I've seen New York, New York, right?

I've seen the backstage. Oh, yes. But, so the sexy one was the one before us. Okay, gotcha. That was a show called Zoom Manity. That's what I saw. Yeah, that's what I saw. Yeah, yeah.

There was nudity on stage. But yeah, so, but it was very challenging. Whereas the standup comic, I had to go on after the two guys that juggle each other with their feet. That's new. But it was a wonderful experience. I like doing things that challenge me, whether it be that, whether it be going on a 70, you know, a city 200 show date tour or launching a special on a new platform and helping them get off the ground. I like doing things like that. I like doing things that challenge me. Now you mentioned avian awards.

Now those are like the, now those are like the porn Oscars. Maybe I don't know my own bio. What what does it say about me and the avian horse that you were like a host? A part of it? It won't. Oh, oh, oh, they asked you to host one year. Yes. Okay. They just asked I was not able to do it because my wife. Yeah.

Not a not a huge fan of Me being around a lot of very attractive women that sexually liberal women Liberal women with very low self-esteem and try things like I'm not And I totally get that it's probably a great idea because I love my wife very much and I would like to keep half my shit She's a black belt writer of fourth-degree black. Yeah, if I if I turn the camera You'll see the awards Yeah, yeah, yeah fourth dawn black belt. I have to say

Black belt yeah dawn so I see in between a fourth dawn Black Belt and a 90 pound pit bull. I sleep like a baby. Yeah, you are protected. All right, Brad Williams is on a epic. Coming to Atlanta. Coming to Atlanta, oh that's where we are. So we're in Atlanta.

Yeah, we're in Atlanta. For two nights, two different theaters actually, I saw that, you were in two different places in Atlanta. I'm going nuts. Just wherever you can get them, Brad, was on tour. Does the check clear? I'll go there. People are like, oh, so you're going to all the major cities, like Atlanta, Denver, New York, LA, Seattle, Miami. Yes, I'm going to all those, but I'm also going to Terra Hote, Indiana.

Right. Terra Hote. I didn't know what that was. I didn't know what that was. I didn't know what that was either until you just said it. So. I'm excited though. Yeah, new place. I'm stoked to go there.

So yes, I'm excited for the big shows like in Nashville. We're doing like the Reiman Auditorium. I love the Reiman. The home of country music. Oh yeah. I might cry on that stage. I'm not going to lie. It's amazing.

We're also going to Grand Rapids and, like I said, Terre Haute, Indiana and Omaha, Nebraska. And all these other cities that maybe a lot of people kind of pass over, I don't care. I'm going there. You're going to feel it because they're going to find it extremely fun that someone's coming to their town that's going to make them laugh. And I think that's a smart move actually.

So he's going on an epic tour of the country. Check him out. Get tickets. I believe you can get them through Ticketmaster through your local Ticketbroker. Veebs, his new special is out. You can go watch it on Veebs. There's a bunch of comedians, but Brad is got a new special out and we hope that you go watch it. Brad, you must come back because I asked one of the questions and I had 30, so. I know.

But that's the sign of a good interview. We just wrapped. That's it. We'll do a rapid fire at some point, but yes, I would love to come back. I've got some exciting stuff that's coming up that I'm not really not allowed to mention. Why don't you check in when you're coming back to Atlanta? And that would be good.

Maybe you even come to our basement. That's not a basement. Buckhead Theater, I believe. That's right. I'm forming. Buckhead Theater. So, Theater, I believe. That's right. Okay. Yeah. I'm warming. That's right. Buckhead Theater. So, yes, I will. We'll talk about the world of Coca-Cola. We'll talk about Ted Turner.

It'll be great. Nice. Hahaha. Brad Williams. On Beeps, go check it out. Or live at a locale near you. Thanks, Brad. We appreciate it.

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That's all for now. Let's listen to our sponsors and get back to the show. Wow, cool. All right. Like Brad, Brad was cool. Yeah. Yeah, Brad's got to, so yeah, in case you didn't know. He's got a lot to say. He's got a lot to say, but in case you didn't pick up

on this, I'm sure you must have. But if you don't know Brad Williams, you didn't pick up on the interview because we didn't focus on it because there's no reason to focus on it. But Brad has dwarfism. He's a little person. And so that's why we were talking about when his dad was bullying him. And I found that to be really fascinating to me. I don't know that I would necessarily take that direction with my children, but I also

don't have children that were born as little people. Yeah, he was trying to prepare him for what other kids might say to him and then come up with comebacks. Comebacks, so that he was like a natural instinct, a response, and I see like diffusing with humor or a comeback, how that could be a really good trick to just make people think, wow, he's just like me,

he actually has better comebacks than I do, he has better insults than I do. And I did want to ask make people think, wow, he's just like me, you know, and he actually has better comebacks than I do. He has better results than I do. And I do, I did want to ask him one thing and we'll ask him this maybe if he ever comes back, but maybe if he ever comes back like any of our guests, they all agree to it. And then one of our producers pointed out, of course they do, you ask them on air, Brian,

like they're gonna say no, I'll see, I will see. He is coming to Atlanta. He is coming to Atlanta. So maybe we'll hook up with him then. One of the things that I wanted to ask him was whether or not he thinks that television shows, like the ones that I watch on TLC, fetishize little people or do they break barriers down?

And I bet he would say both, right? But I love those shows. He do. The reason is, is because the personalities are fascinating. And I do like to watch how they navigate the world. Yeah, they navigate the world like anybody else would. You have a problem, you know, you can't reach the top. You get a ladder, right?

That's like anybody would do. I can't change the light bulb. I get I grab a step stool. Well, I, you know, they have to grab a cup side of the, you know, the house that was made for normal people. Arrange things differently maybe. Oh man, I wish I could have asked him that, but I just didn't get a chance, but I didn't get a chance to ask him anything

that I wanted to ask. So there's one thing I do have to say about Brad, is that guy can fill the dead air. He knows how to do it. He does. And as a guy who fills. I was all very interesting. I didn't realize that it breezed through.

42, 48 minutes, something like that. We said, hey, can you give us 30 minutes? He said, yeah, 48 minutes later. And I feel like we just, he would just finish wrapping the first question. Exactly. But as people who have to fill dead air for a living, that feels really nice actually.

I'm like, okay, all right, somebody else do the talking for once. I like that. And also what you didn't see, or you might see if you watch it on youtube.com slash, the commercial break is that he had a painting of Robin Williams behind him, done by a fan. And his last name is Williams too.

And Robin and him have actually, I believe, met. I read that. Yeah, because he called, what did he call him? Like Robin Williams called him Prozac with a head. Yes. I don't even know what that means. But it's kind of funny, isn't it? All right, well, there you go.

Little Brad Williams for you. Thanks to Brad for coming in. We do appreciate it. Go check out his Beep special. Go see him live in concert. He is coming to Atlanta and he is playing two different theaters. Isn't that weird? Yeah, but maybe he couldn't get one theater, he got the other theater. Or maybe he sold

out one and then he decided let me book a second gig one day. I don't know how all that works. We're trying to get into that and we're thinking about doing live shows and it already feels like too much work for me. I'm like, eh, really? Can't we just show up? Yeah. Well, the promoter was like, well, he's, first of all, we asked the question, like, how much money do we have to spend to do this? And he's like, oh, nothing. And I was like, thumbs fucking up.

Tell me where to be. I'll be there. I mean, we're talking about $200 check, right? We're not talking about big money. But then, then he was like, yeah, all I need you to do is go ahead and tell me which cities that you think you could Fill a room and I'm like kind of room we talking about and he's like well Let's start small and I'm like a bar with three tables or we talking like 200 people And he said well that really depends on how much how many people are actually listening to you out there and then we realize

Yes, and then we realize this is probably never going to happen so it is a dollar show to a bar until some jokes i will do that no matter where it is even if i had to spend seven hundred dollars in airfare to get that because that was the other copy of the night in a paper your travel and i was like up so you want me to pay to show as this work as it so it's already a headache to me. It's like such a good idea. But, you know, let me be like so many other people who do

this for a living and never leave the studio for fear that something different might happen. Something wrong might happen. Anyway, tcbpodcast.com, that's where you go. You find out more information about Chrissy and I, all the show notes notes the video and the audio all there one location dcb podcast Dot-com we would appreciate it if you would go there and also get your free piggy-fronting sticker hit the contact us button drop down menu Says I want my free sticker give us your physical address will give you the sticker and everything will be right with the world 626 ask tcb the number three one six26, Ask TCB the number 3, questions, comments, concerns, content ideas, Ask Brian's mom, Ask TCB, you can send them all via text message

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we must say and we will say, goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Yeah. I'm not gonna let you go.