The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Brad Williams - HoneyWilliams

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

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we like to actually highlight highlights for god's sake uh come see me on tour all tickets are available at ryan sickler.com now that's the biz you guys know what we're doing over here we highlight the low lights i always say these are the stories behind the storytellers and i am very excited to have this guest back on the honeydew ladies and gentlemen welcome back brad williams hey thank you for having me ryan there are there are there are a few people in this business that when I see their face and certainly hear their voice, I'm just happier. That's nice. And you are one of those people.

I was hoping you'd say you are not one of those people. You are not one of those people. That is Bert Kreischer. That is, I see him, I'm happy, I see you, I'm just like, ah. But it's still good to be here. Now the Ravens are good. He's going to be talking all this shit. Asshole.

Oh, I don't want to bring up the Mahi Miracle, so we won't. But that's what we call it. I don't know what you call it. Never. But in Baltimore, we call it the Mahi Miracle. We call it the Raheem F and more game. Yeah. Oh, no.

I can curse, right? Yeah. It's the Raheem fucking more game. And I know where I was when I was watching it. I was on stage at Tommy T's. You ever played Tommy T's? I know, but I know Tommy T's. Tommy T's in Pleasanton. I don't even know if it's still open, but if it is, go there.

It's a great club. Pleasanton between the bedroom community. Yeah, East Bay. I have done Tommy T's. East Bay. When they say the Bay Area, no, no, no. I was thinking Rooster T Feather. There's a couple T's up in that area. A couple T's up there. Tommy T's. I'm on stage.

This is during the game. I'm a massive Broncos fan. And then I got to go on stage and do it. So I wasn't selling tickets back then. So the back was empty. So they closed the curtain, but they kept it just open wide enough. So they had a TV on in the back. I'm on stage, Ryan Sickler.

I'm watching the game, and I can see it. I'm on stage, Ryan Sickler. I'm watching the game, and I can see it. I'm like, oh, we're good. And I got a little pep in my step on stage. Still doing my joke. Still doing all right. Fucking Raheem F and more. Doesn't get back. Flacco bombs it.

Who got that ball? Jacoby Jones. Jacoby Jones catches it. And on stage, no context context you just hear me go like 15 they were just looking at me like do we just for the first time in human history see someone get Tourette's like like see someone yeah your origin Tourette's acquired Tourette's I don't know how I forget what joke I was telling but I just remember just yelling the

f-word as loud as I could yelling the other way bro oh I can only imagine I couldn't even I can only imagine that joy the only the the the joy I have in comparison of that as a Broncos fan is the Tebow 316 game, which we can bond over because at least it hurt the Pittsburgh Steelers. It did. So you're a fan of that. And, yeah, that was Tebow to Demarius Thomas. First play of overtime, RIP Demarius Thomas, and he runs in.

Touchdown. We're going on to lose to Tom Brady. All right. A lot of people did though a lot of us it's okay um well it is so good to have you here i know what we're going to talk about so it's going to be emotionally charged for sure but before we do please promote everything and anything you would like so here's all the promotional stuff i'm going on a big tour in 2024 it's called tour 24 over 70 cities we're not even done announcing yet march 15th there's gonna be a big announcement with some international dates

and uh some more dates bradwilliamscomedy.com i am i i need this right now get it bro get it delightful so yeah uh going all over the country over 70 cities we're doing theaters now some big ones are uh the theater at the ace hotel in los angeles on february 10th uh we're doing the rhyman auditorium the home of country music yeah uh but that's gonna be in nashville i believe that's in october just some big dates so bravcomedy.com. And then if you want to watch my brand new comedy special, go to veeps.com. V-E-E-P-S. And then you're like, Brad, I don't want to subscribe to anything else. You don't have to subscribe.

It's fine. You can go on there. There's all these concerts. You can watch a. Is that right? Yeah. You can watch a concert by Alicia Keys, Billy Idol, Imagine Dragons, and watch a comedy special.

Billy Idol still doing his thing? Hell yeah billy idol still doing his thing hell yeah billy i don't still doing this billy idol i want you on this podcast billy idol i want you on this podcast i'm a huge fan still killing it i fucking love they gave me a veeps pass so i can watch all the concerts i watched the billy idol concert billy idol killing it let's do the dude baby so go to veeps.com the uh special is called starfish uh it's different hour than uh you'll hear if you go see me on tour so uh yeah go watch that special i'm really proud of it and uh it came out on december 21st why did we choose that date ryan sickler why because that's the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Marketing. Look at that marketing.

Coca-Cola wishes they had that kind of brand recognition. Shortest day of the year, that is Brad Williams' day. Good for you. Go watch Brad Williams' special, support. Yeah. See me on tour. Do the whole thing. Look, I say I love my job, and i do love my job i really enjoy

like sitting down with the people that make us laugh the hardest and and because we don't really get to talk about everything we see each other it's a very solo sport we see each other if there's a festival or yeah you know we see each other if we're on the same line up in town and you get you get a few minutes with everybody because they have lives. I just got here 20 minutes ago. I got kids, I got a sitter. I got to bounce right after this. Maybe I'm doing the improv and I'm out of here.

I got to go. So to sit here and get to really learn who people are is one of my favorite things. And I've known you for a long time. We've had some great private conversations. You've become a dad as, as I have uh through this wild game um but your dad is someone we're going to talk about right now because he passed

just not too long ago yeah less than two years ago uh may 9th uh 2022 and uh yeah can i stop you there just for a sec before we talk about that, let's talk about the man. Tell us about your dad. Who was he? Where is he from? Yep. Dad was born in Houston, Texas. Grew up the son of a Shell Oil executive. Really?

Yeah. You know how people talk about, oh, I struggled growing up. Nah. Nah. Not me. you know how like people talk about oh i struggled growing up nah not me that's the end of this i didn't struggle growing up shell when you said it first i was thinking to myself like shout out like oh the shell the yellow shell the shell i go to get my gas yeah that one so his grandfather's uh his dad uh his dad your grandfather my grandfather good old boppa uh uh was a shell oil exec or or a uh like oil in the oil family money uh exec so

not family money so okay just now you you would never know that we were really doing okay because my dad liked to hide it. How? We had a good house. Don't get me wrong. Great house, great neighborhood, all that. In Houston? Were you in Houston at first? No.

He moved around, but he and my mom met in LA, and we were in Orange County, California. Okay. Grew up in Orange County. One way that he would hide it is we had air conditioning, but we were not allowed to run that shit. And he made enough money to. That's it. Because it was expensive.

That's what he would always tell us. Like, you know how much. Now, my dad loved to play golf. To say that he played golf is a vast understatement. We knew as kids, is your game on Saturday? Dad's not going to be there because that's his golf game. So that's his day. Now, if your game's on Sunday, dad will be there.

He's going to be cheering the loudest. He'll bring snacks. He'll be cracking jokes. It's going to be cracking jokes it's gonna be gray's dad's day saturday is dad's day so uh yeah and so how many kids did your dad have me me and my sister okay so we're beaver cleaver house mom dad can i ask you because it's so um i think it's subjective what is uh you say you had a nice house. Tell us about the house. House. Two story.

How many bedroom? Like garage, backyard? What are we talking about? Technically three. Three bedrooms? Three story. Why do you say technically? Because they call it tri-level.

Okay. But it's like, yeah. But there's. But no basement out here, right? Yeah. You got the ground floor. No basement. You go up.

Ground floor, living room uh uh we call it the utility room it's basically laundry room kitchen dining room second floor you go up one flat of stairs dad's office family room which we call the christmas room because we never went in that fucker and unless it was christmas this is the shit i like to hear because i did not grow up like we had a house where we started it was nice and it all went to shit quick and i'm like we did not have a room that was not occupied in some fucking way you know what i mean every room was like it blew my mind and especially now that i'm older and i got a house and it's like i use every room in that motherfucker every room has a purpose i don't see it like it was a nice room was it like this i know some people would have

a sitting room so when the company come over they do tea or whatever is it sort of that kind of yeah but you guys just used it for christmas christmas that's where christmas happened tree went up that's where you knew that you were good to go. Just in there. I was in that room one day a year. Christmas day. For only a couple hours. Stockings were in a

different room, so you had to go to the other room. Where's Easter? Easter's down the hall. Don't go to the Valentine's room. There's some kinky shit in there. But yeah, and then you go up, fly the stairs. That is money, just to have a Christmas room. That's enough said right there.

Then you go upstairs, and you had the four bedrooms. Parents' room, my room, sister's room, guest room. So yeah, good, nice nice backyard we had a pool it was i'm not even gonna ask because i know everybody out here is in ground where i grew up everybody was above ground no we're in ground in ground do you have a fence you got a fence well you have a pool so you got a primer it off yeah you have a garage yeah i had a garage yeah they're all out there it's great great. All right. A wonderful, wonderful childhood. If you hear me complaining about my childhood one time, I'm drunk.

Slap me and say, Brad, shut the hell up. And so you had a good dad then? Great dad. Great, fantastic father. And your mom and dad were together and everything? Yep, stayed together. You had a great family upbringing. It was good.

I got no problem. Orange County, California. Mom and dad together. I got no problem Orange County California mom and dad together honestly I'm I'm the black sheep of the family because they're all white Anglo tall and then and then they got the midget kid and I'm the only weird one in the family yeah I'm the little sheep of the family yeah but uh and yeah my whole family's average size tall to give you an idea of who my dad was is when they found out that I was going to be a little person. Can I ask you real quick? Yeah.

Were you the oldest who was born first? I was the baby in the family. Okay. So they already had your daughter or their daughter or sister who was normal size. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then 15 months later, boom, here comes Brad, as I was told a few times uh conceived at a at a bed and breakfast in santa barbara california is that right yeah uh that's what shell execs do bro yeah not a motel no no and so we have a we have a piece of furniture uh that was in the house growing up

and one day my sister was like it's called like a hutch or something uh my sister was like hey when i move out i think i'm gonna take that hutch that's a really nice piece of furniture and my mom and dad looked each other went i think brad gets the hutch and we both kind of like saw it we're like what why do i get the hutch i've never mentioned it it's not like i've got fond memory what why do i get they're like well why do I get the hutch? I've never mentioned it. It's not like I've got fond memories. Why do I get it? They're like, well, Brad, you were conceived on that hutch. No.

On it. On it. Not up against it. It's so visual, dude. It's so visual. You know what, Sickler? On it, bro. It's a nice piece of furniture. I i'll be damned that hutch ain't in

my house right now it is it's there it's in the dining room it's the reason you exist that's the goddamn heirloom of heirloom yeah it's my origin story I stared that thing every night at dinner. So when they found out I was going to be a little person, my dad started going to these LPA meetings. LPA stands for Little People of America. And he would go to meetings because he knew that I was going to be a dwarf, so he wanted to get a little. And he would sit in the back, and he would just listen.

He wouldn't talk. He would just listen he wouldn't talk you just listen and the story goes that he went to three and the first two uh everyone was just bitching the whole time all the little people they were just like this part sucks this sucks this sucks finally the third meeting he's listening to him bitch some more this sucks this sucks and my dad stands up and goes all right all right he goes i've been here three times you guys have been bitching about everything like everything sucks my my son is about to be born we know he's a little person is anything good is there anything good and one little person goes, yeah, everybody remembers you. And my dad stops and goes, okay, that's something I got.

And everybody remembers you. And it's kind of poetic that now I'm a comedian and we're living in a time where eyeballs are the number one currency. But no one ever, when I get off stage no one no one ever goes who is the who is the guy uh he went on last the white guy uh no one says that everyone goes like yeah fucking midget that dude was funny as hell so i've got if you google dwarf comedian midget comedian i'm pretty sure my photo is gonna pop up so it is true everybody remembers remembers you. And yeah, I played sports growing up, my dad. And then I've told versions of this story on different podcasts. So I'll keep it brief. My dad, knowing that I was going to be a little person and that I am a little person, he knew

I would be bullied in school. He knew that, had that knowledge. So his philosophy was, I'm going to bully this kid first when he's like three or four or five years old but he would bully me but then he would do it in a way where like he'd make fun of me but then say okay now i just said something to you hit me back hit me back with something so i'd be like oh okay and it became a game and he and he and i would write comebacks together so when i got to school and some poor kids saw me as fresh meat was like ah i'm gonna make fun of that oh that kid was in trouble oh that kid got it because they would come up be like look at the little midget whatever and i would just

boom boom boom comebacks comebacks comebacks and i got sent to the principal's office my very first day of school did you really yeah because the kid said haha you're little and i respond with haha your mom doesn't live with your dad anymore my family's bigger than yours my family got love your family got child support payments fuck off like and can i ask you a quick question yeah yeah yeah was there ever a time brad williams was the big kid? Like, first grade, were you bigger than the kid? No. I mean, did you ever have your day?

I was never the big kid. Kindergarten, you were like, I'm stopping at this height, dude. I'm a motherfucker. I'm the big kid. No, no one was bigger than Eddie Gonzalez, man. Eddie Gonzalez was in kindergarten. You ever have the guy? man eddie gonzalez was in kindergarten that was you ever you ever have the guy like now that i'm older and i and i look back i think this one family i think the gonzalez family moved from

the dominican or something like that and eddie may have been 12 i don't know but he was in kindergarten he would drink a full glass gatorade every day like the glass i remember the pop pop yeah the pop top it was only one flavor. It was only lemon lime. Yeah. That was it? That's it. And he would drink one of those every day.

In kindergarten. In kindergarten. This dude. I don't know what ever became of Eddie. I imagine he's lifting something heavy. He's lifting something heavy. That's what he's doing. All right.

So you never, ever had your moment. No. One second as the big kid okay never the big i always wondered that i'm like well did you shoot up quick first and then level off like i don't know how any of it here here's how here's i never was the big kid and my and my and my mom held me back from starting school and i i was a year older than every kid because she's like, well, he'll get a little bit bigger, and then he'll be more. Mom, dwarfism. I'm not getting bigger. Not getting bigger. What age did you stop growing?

Oh, man. Tall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, we all put pounds on. Yeah. tall yeah unfortunately we all put pounds on yeah so it was like yeah i was in like you know like freshman sophomore year of high school because i i grew just very like not fast at all so yeah like freshman year high school i i got to four foot four and that is where i have stayed the cap yeah that's where i stayed i've seen some dwarves topping out at 4'6", and God bless them.

But yeah, I'm 4'4". Now, out of all the things my dad did right, and he did a lot right, he did a lot right, one thing that I make fun of him for is that when I was born, I was born left-handed, okay? And my dad saw that and was like, his life's going to be pretty hard as a lefty. Let's switch him to right. So he essentially forced me to become right-handed.

He and my mom would make me grab everything with my right hand. And I didn't know what that did until I watched the movie The King's Speech. And then I found out, oh, when you switch a kid, their dexterity, a lot of times the side effect is that they develop a stutter. No.

Is that right? Yep. I had a horrible stutter when I was a kid. All because my dad was like, kids are going to make fun of him for being a lefty. I'm like, dad, they got more yeah

i i don't know no no kid looking to bully me is gonna see me pick something up with my left hand be like ah that's that's what we got forget the stutter look how he uses that left hand yeah yeah forget the stutter forget his dwarfism we got you're gonna kill you lefty ah let's fuck him up no so yeah that was the only thing he really got wrong but everything else man uh we would you know we would take family vacations together uh dad was my mom was really proud. She got this new recipe for mashed potatoes. And she's like, I'm going to – because my mom, God bless her, she tried. Not the best cook.

Tried. She's like, I'm going to do it. Not good. But one day she's like, I got this new recipe for mashed potatoes. I'm going to knock this out of the park. Apparently some other woman used it, and it was great. She's like, this is going to be good. Tells us all.

I'm making the best dinner. I'm making fresh mashed potatoes. It's going to be awesome. You're making me hungry, man. I know, right? My dad comes home. It's been a long day for him. Now, his father was the oil guy.

My dad was a lawyer. Okay. He was a public defender for a while and then a defense attorney. So he comes home. He's had a long day. And we could tell. Sometimes you just knew dad had a long day. And he comes in and we got dinner right in front of us.

And my mom's looking at the mashed potatoes. Try the mashed potatoes. And my dad just goes,'m tired boom face plants are the mashed potatoes taters are flying everywhere kids are laughing her new recipe and mom and my mom is pete Pete. I'm just so mad. That just made me hurt. And you still remember it. Yeah. And that just made me laugh so hard. So I remember stuff like that.

I remember him showing me comedy. I remember him showing me the Smothers Brothers. R.I.P. Tommy. I think Tommy just left us. I don't know. Tommy Smothers. I thought they were both gone. Yeah.

I remember him showing me Jonathan Winters, master of improvisation. I still know the clip of he's on The Tonight Show before Carson. And someone hands him a stick and goes, hey, he can improvise. Here, hand him a stick. Some talking like that all the time, like, hey, hand him a stick. He can do anything with it. And then he just, Jonathan Winters takes a stick he starts he starts fishing he starts tap dancing like he's just just with a stick just improvising laughed my tail off my dad laughed we'd watch uh uh clips of

carson and stuff like they would like time life whatever 50 greatest johnny carson shit i love oh i still love it so good holding it Holding it up to his head. So good. The first one ever, the first Johnny Carson Tonight Show ever, he has an axe thrower on to show how he can throw axes. Have you seen this clip? I don't think I have. This is Johnny Carson's first episode. This is episode one.

Episode one, he has an axe thrower on. The guy's like, they they have a they have a cardboard like a a wood outline of a of a man they're like all right show us how you could throw the axe and hit him in the head or do whatever the guy goes all right so this is what you do you line it up and he throws and on live tv in the 50s i believe maybe 60 maybe whatever live tv axe hits the guy right in the dick. Nuh-uh. I'm going to look for this clip. It's great.

Everyone in the audience is laughing. Hysterically. And Carson, that's why he was a master, just milks it. Just like, well. And just milks it. And because he's milking it, the laugh goes down. It goes back up. It goes back down. It goes back up.

Then Carson finally looks at the axe, throws it over, and goes, Huh, I didn't know you were Jewish. Kills. Kills. So, yeah, we watch all that stuff. My dad taught me how to play golf, and I like playing golf because if I can play golf, I get to hang out with him. Now you got Saturday back. Now I got Saturday back, I'd get to hang out with him. Because, you know. Now you got Saturday back.

Now I got Saturday back because I can go play. Like, he would play with his regular round, but then he'd stay and play another round with me. That's interesting. So would you just be the one kid? Did your sister golf? She did, too. We knew.

We knew. If you wanted to really see dad and if you wanted time with him, you know, like, which is weird because it's like we knew that if we asked he's there you know you help us out with school projects and yeah but what you're saying is more i like this it's not like it wasn't like saturday's dad shit and no one's allowed to think saturday this is what i do but but he didn't say hey you guys can't join me yeah he never said no no this is my no. This is my private time. This is my alone time. You're allowed to be there and welcome to be there.

But if you want to be here, this is what we're doing. Yeah, and he taught us how to play. Taught us how to play fast, which was the most important thing. Taught us all the rules. He knew rules. The book didn't know. This guy would like – and he us play like by the rules every time uh so it and my dad's roommate when he was um i don't know if his roommate or he so do you

know cleveland golf cleveland classic golf have you ever heard of that okay large company cleveland golf they make the best wedges in the world ever my dad's roommate in college roger cleveland ends up starting cleveland classic golf oh so it wasn't already a family thing and he's he did it that dude no shit okay i'm not a big golfer so i don't know i still know i still know the cleveland family great family so because he's with a master golf golf smith i had custom golf clubs that were like four so like man and my dad nothing made him happier than taking me out to the golf course having everyone see a dwarf get out of a golf cart first of all he taught me two jokes to always use and uh it was great and i would all i use them to this day because guys would see him and i'd get out of the golf cart and be like

oh pete you're playing with your son today how's this game and then uh my dad would always look up and go well he can't drive the ball very far but hell of a short game kills kills every time and the other joke he taught me where uh uh uh someone come up and go ah pete playing with your son today uh you ain't good what's his handicap my dad would look at him go dwarfism you piece of shit killed every time still does still does i'll say i'll say that every time i play golf so and yeah he he loved because whenever i would t off the a small crowd would form and then would hit, and he knew I could hit, and I would, and the guys would go nuts. They'd be like, holy shit, kid can play.

So, yeah. So you just get out of that cart and you drive that motherfucker straight as an arrow. Yeah. You're driving better than you, Carl. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. It was great. I played golf with my dad until the the last time i played

golf with him this is when he was start you know he died at 77 it's not not not an old man not an old man but uh he he had he had als lugaricus disease we found that out later and so this is when like he's start to get weaker the last time i played golf with my dad we played from the same tees and i beat him straight up had you ever before never never in your whole life never the last and and and was almost like he's like my handicaps alf you piece of shit you piece of shit. You piece of shit. You're going to do this to me?

No mercy, motherfucker. You're out here. You're getting a beating. Oh, that's funny. But yeah, and so it was almost like we agreed, like, oh, that's not supposed to happen. Like, I'm not supposed to win. So once I won, it was like, all right, like, oh, that's not supposed to happen. Like, I'm not supposed to win. So once I won, it was like, all right, we're not doing that anymore. Which, to be fair, he.

Was that the last time you golfed? Or he golfed? Not he golfed. But he would go every now and then. But just to get out of the house. So, yeah. Let's talk about it. What happened?

When did you start to see a note? When did he start? see a note when did he start because i had a friend of mine's father was very active a runner and everything and then it just took him so fast it uh so he started about 74 just really 73 74 he he couldn't do it like what was happening like i'm just curious What starts happening to your body in the beginning? It's just physically. I mean, so he had a kind of ALS that it's real slow, real slow. So who knows where it started?

But you see someone physically start to decline, and part of you just goes, oh, well, they're getting older. It's no big deal. And that's what we did. We kind of were just like, oh, dad's getting older. But now we're watching 70-year-old fuckers do P90X or whatever the hell, or cut out carbohydrates, and they're jacked. So we didn't really think anything of it. And we just knew he was getting a little weaker, but we didn't really think of it.

And he had so much other shit. He had skin cancer. He beat skin cancer and came back. He had heart issues. He had two fake hips, a fake knee. The dude was like the dude was a damn tin man. OK, like he had shit. The fact we got him till 77 um but one of the things about all of those things is he didn't he never wanted us to know

that how much pain he was in or what or what he was going through very old school mentality that way so i never knew how bad he had it until the skin cancer stuff uh if you watch my special daddy issues which is streaming on amazon prime um i talk about it and there's a moment where uh and dude i'll never forget this so he had skin cancer and we knew it was bad i was in i was at the comedy work south club and I knew that day my dad had gone and gotten a test he'd been getting treatment and I knew that today we're finding out he's getting the results I'm watching my phone all day and the show starts opening acts are up literally the last guy before me is on stage closing up and i see my phone ringing it's

my mom and i know what this call is so i pick up the phone and i answer it i go mom first word she said was he's in remission and i was just i fell to my knees like That loud cry, that wail cry, I'm doing that. And literally as I'm doing that, you hear, please welcome Brad Williams. I'm like, brother. And if you've ever seen the movie For the Love of the Game with Kevin Costner, there's just that moment where you go, clear the mechanism. And then you go on stage and you have to fight through it. And that was a show that I brought it up for the first time.

I did not talk about my dad's cancer at all. I would start and would just, no, couldn't do it. That was the first time I did. And I did, and the ending of that is the end of the Daddy Issues special. So I'm on stage. I'm shooting my special. We got one shot at this because before I really sold tickets, we busted our ass. We sold out the Alex Theater, Glendale, California. And we got one shot to get this right. And I'm doing all the cancer stuff cancer stuff now my dad's in the audience i know he's in the audience i know where he's sitting and in my head i'm like don't look at him do not

look at him you're gonna lose your shit but i'm doing the bits and then of course just like when you say don't look down you look down i looked at him and i stopped and in the middle of the set, I start talking to him. And it's the first time I ever really talked to him because he can't respond. I'm on stage. He's that far. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, I can see him.

I can talk to him. But I got to say all the things that my dad wouldn't really let me say before because, you know, it's – Yeah, yeah, yeah. Move on. So like – and the fact that I have that moment on camera and then God bless this cameraman, gets a shot of my dad because I start building him up because I start saying thank you and thank you for doing everything and thank you for teaching me and thank doing it, and I'm going to be okay, and my dad starts fist pumping, and the cameraman got that, and all that was improvised. I had no idea that I was going to do that, but then once I had eye contact with him, I started tearing up, and I'm just like, I have to talk. I have to talk to him. I have to address this. I'm so glad I did. Like, does it suck that he passed away?

Of course. But I heard this quote from a podcast personality. Her name is Gina Grad. And she told me this quote. And I love it. It's grief is love with nowhere to go. I love that quote. Because that's uh grief is love with nowhere to go i love that quote because that's what it is the reason why you're so sad is because you love this person and you can't tell them can't tell

them can't nothing but i also looked at it that way is now when i'm feeling sad and the fact that i was sad obviously when he passed that's a reminder that i was very lucky very lucky that i had a great dad. Dude, sitting here listening to these, I can't even believe you got that. Yeah. Ever tried to break a bad habit and felt like you're climbing Mount Everston flip-flops? Well, here's a breath of fresh air. Fume.

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So here's the other thing. If you ever watch, remember that show Inside the Actor's Studio? Mike Myers is on it, and they're doing the five questions at the end. And one of the questions is, if heaven exists, what do you want God to say when you get to the pearly gates? And Mike Myers' answer was, he saw it. Because his dad died real young. And didn't get to see MSNL, didn't get to see Austin Powers, and didn't get to see it. So he wanted that. And I just remember that, and I think about it. My dad saw my sister make partner at her accounting firm.

Oh, good. Saw me do multiple comedy specials, three comedy specials. Met his grandkids, you know, saw them. His last, sorry, his last words before we couldn't, before he wasn't verbal. His last words were he looked at my daughter and said, I love her. So he got to see it. He got to see it. He got to see my success. He was proud. I would, I would go over there and my mom would pull me aside. This is when he was sick. And she would tell me, she goes, Brad, he sits there in this bed. And he says, Alexa, play Brad Williams.

And he hears the bits. It's not that I'm proud and I'm lucky that that's my experience. Because I can't imagine my dad passing away. And I have friends that this is true for them. Their dads pass away and they go, good riddance. Fuck that old man. I can't imagine that like we were we're both dads can you imagine you know that's the the whole the the goal my goal is for when i finally go for my daughter to feel the kind of pain that i felt i can't believe that's a statement but it is

i want her to be that sad that, wow, we lost a good one. You know what I mean? You strive for that pain. That's a mark, and that's how you remember the person, is that pain. So if you've lost someone and you feel pain, just try to hold onto that pain as a reminder of their existence. And it's a tribute. It truly is. The pain is a tribute to them and what they meant to you. Yeah.

I say all the time, for me personally, we did not come up affluent or anything like that. But, and I'm going to ask you this, you know, it wouldn't have mattered to me if we had a swim and pull out back. It wouldn't have mattered to me if we had a swim and pull out back and it wouldn't have made this loss any easier it wouldn't have made it feel and i mean honestly looking back on your life growing up the man you had versus the things that man gave you yeah what mattered the most oh the man him being who he was the man in the pool out back or the or the christmas fucking room none of that really right because your life any different if you don't have a fucking separate room for one holiday it would be no but if he's a piece of shit or absent

completely none of that fucking now it's different yeah now it's different yeah so you look at stuff like that and that's why as a dad who is uh thank god because like my dad would go on golf trips or business trips or whatever and it was just like well he's gonna get a we're gonna get a call at some point and it's gonna be like two minutes because you had to pay by the minute and long distance was expensive the fucker didn't run the air conditioning you best believe he wasn't having hour-long conversations long distance. MCI. We used to pay for that shit.

Yeah, we used to pay for that shit. We sure did a lot of money, too. We have an advantage to where I can FaceTime. There's been times I get a FaceTime call from my wife on the road, and I'll answer it. Or I'll get a text from my wife going, hey, Elway, that's my daughter's name. Broncos fan. For real? Yeah.

Her birth name, first name is Elway? Yeah. Raheem F and more. So she'll text me and she'll go uh elway just said i miss daddy and i'll be like cool i'll stop whatever i do facetime let's get that let's get let's get that time and uh we're we're very fortunate that we get to do that with our kids thank god i'd hate it like knowing that we have that now i don't know how my dad did it he would drive an hour to work one way and back there's no cell phones text they're working well you couldn't call him and

chat at the all he's out there working you know it was you got that time when you got that time yeah and and i like you know and as the partner or whatever it's just like all right your your your husband your wife whatever just left what are they doing you don't know when are they when are they coming home you don't know figure out you know because because maybe dad stops off and grabs dinner because he's hungry as shit maybe you know like you don't know so uh it's very we're we're living in a good time where we're very fortunate that we're able to do that. Now, I'm going to tell you this because you lost your dad when you were young. Now they're having these like AI shit.

I've read articles about this to where you can like submit voicemails, texts, photos, videos, and they can essentially create. Okay. I'm with you. It just, I don't know. Well, first of all, my dad died before all that shit existed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's done. Yeah.

But, I mean, I hear you. I'm sure you can submit videos, pictures, voices, and they craft a little digital image or you got a little Obi-Wan down here on the fucking table talking and shit. Like a Billy... I've been starting to watch Sopranos over again. They got that Billy Bass, that bass.

You know what I'm talking about? Like that thing on your... Like that thing on your wall. That's on your wall. Your fucking grandma looking at you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, eh. Man.

I don't know about that. I think, here's the thing, though. I've seen a few videos that, you know, I don't care. I'm an emotional man. I cry a lot. Sure. I'll see these videos of, like, some loved one had passed away, and they make him a teddy bear. And the teddy bear has a voicemail in it, like a Build-A-Bear, and it's their grandfather or whatever.

Yeah. I don't know why I'm okay with that. Yeah. But the fucking full-on replica of me for my daughter and her kids? No. No, no, no. Because think of all the content we've put out. Yeah. string together any sentence you want that ryan sickler said yep or brad williams actually said

yeah from all of the thousands of hours of content we've been putting out for yeah you know a decade or more yeah so you can yeah i'm not i've got i've got voicemails from my dad i haven't listened to him you do you haven't listened to one no i'm not ready to i'm not ready hey i'm gonna tell you this this is a full podcast episode where i just where i just interviewed my dad if you go to the about last night podcast that's that's i did that with adam ray uh he still does it on under the same name we're not not friends we just i decided that i i once i became a dad i want more time so and podcasts take up a lot of time yeah so i do them by myself yeah he keeps doing it so but if you go back you scroll back you'll find

one with pete williams that's me talking my dad i haven't listened to it uh back i don't know when i will i don't know if i'm gonna be ready for it but yeah i can't even listen to voicemails and i have them on my phone and i can almost guarantee you that it's just like, hey, son, call me. You know, I'm sure it's that. You know, there's nothing really. There's not going to be a profound word in there. Like, well, let me tell you about the meeting of life. Like, it's not going to be that.

It's four words and it's going to wreck you for the day. Yeah, it's going to wreck me. I'm glad I have it. Yeah. I like knowing I can. i'm glad i have it yeah i like knowing i can uh i heard a a great comic uh dan soter yeah talk on a podcast because he lost his dad young and he said something that kind of blew me away where he goes he goes i don't remember what my dad sounded like i i i don't remember i was about to tell you that yeah do you i don't i mean in my mind i think i do yeah but i thought the same thing this is why

i thought the same thing about my grandmother and just a few years ago a cousin of mine that's older than me was like my mom found this vhs and it's got uh your grandmom on it at this uh baby shower i'm like oh i'd love to see it yeah so i they gave it to me i got the um i got her yeah and i put it in and she definitely sounded different than i remembered for sure okay a little little pitch with pit or the pitch of her voice was slightly different yeah you know it was her obviously it's her yeah but yeah it had been so long so i'm wondering yeah because you have this episode of your father he's probably i mean it'll probably always sound the same maybe i don't know i don't know yeah but seeing that and hearing her talk on camera and stuff i was like look at my grandmom and she definitely

sounded different i was like i'll bet you my dad does on i probably will i'll i'll probably i'll probably listen that episode maybe with my daughter because my dad passed when she was two. So she's not really going to have memories. So that will be something that we probably do together and just telling stories. I heard this quote once and I try to remember it. They say you die twice. You die when you die. Then you die when people forget you.

you die when you die then you die when people forget you so i don't want everyone to ever forget or i want to you know keep that going on as long as possible obviously no one's telling me stories about my grand grand pop pop or whatever the heck bro so it's gonna happen it'll happen it's coming you know i don't care how much we leave behind on digital this yeah it's coming it's coming so that's so that know, that's so I just wonder. I mean, you think about this, right? George Washington, these men, Ben Franklin, A. Link, back then they were like, they're never going to be forgotten. And they're not because they're in history.

But every day people aren't sitting around going, you know your great-great-grandfather, A. Blinkins. Damn same, he's not here. Nobody gives a fuck. No one gives a fuck. That kid doesn't give a fuck. They're too busy into their own lives yes they they they got shit going on and that's what you want yeah i don't want you know my

daughter one day to just be sitting there you know years after i'm gone just in a room crying and not recovered because you know she she's still she's still grieving or whatever no i want her to hey every now and then just be like, ah, that was a cool thing. And then just, and then go. Do your shit. Live your life. So I want to ask you sort of like the last day's time you've spent with your father. So you said around 74 it was sort of diagnosed.

And over the course of three years it slowly took him like that. Yeah. What sort of time were you able to spend near the end was he at least home to being taken care of oh yeah in a facility he was home he he was the guy he's like no i paid for this house i'm dying in this house so put me in the christmas room let me drag me up to the Christmas room, Goddamn. It's February, Dad.

Don't give a shit. I don't give a fuck. Decorate a tree, Goddamn. Stockings go in the other room, brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. Christmas room. Christmas room.

I'm dying in that room, Goddamn. I'm going to have so many of your fans. I still have fans from the crab feast. Hell yeah. that come up to me and talk to me about the story about me losing my virginity. I still have that. I love it. I still have that. I love it. I love it.

You have a kid now. Yeah, I have a kid now. So I'm sure people will come up. At Christmas. Because I'm still doing meet and greets after the shows. So they'll probably come up and be like, we had a Christmas rumor. Fuck your Christmas rumor. I want to meet the affluent people out there that had a holiday room you know somebody's parents had an easter room or some bullshit yeah so okay so he's in the

house yeah he's in the house uh it would just be you know he'd be he became very light sensitive at the end so he'd have these big black glasses on. But he would come in. We'd sit down. We'd talk. He would take a lot of naps. So he was still moving around. He wasn't bedridden? Yeah. He was bedridden at the very end. At the very end.

But like, you know, because even when- Because I know you lose your muscle ability and everything. So he was still walking though for a while? Yeah. Yeah. So it didn't hit him. Like we've seen like the HBO Real Sports where the guy's in the bed and he has to talk with like moving his eyes around. It never got to him like that.

But like I said earlier, he just had so many things that were that it just kind of accelerated everything. But like during COVID, we would still go over there and visit. And then he would, you know, be over there outside and we would be over here. We would still talk. He'd watch my daughter play and stuff and uh yeah so we still that's the thing is we got that time man we got that time we got to say goodbye he got to see stuff and that's like here's how much death sucks ryan obviously it sucks but here's how much it sucks my dad died in his house with my mom by his side.

I was in the house as well. I had just gone up to – we knew it was coming. Oh, so that's what I wanted to ask. Yeah. We knew it was coming. So we're there. So we're there. And we see him.

And like I said, last words were I love her to his granddaughter. Yeah. He had his favorite music plan like it was you can't write a better storybook ending and it still sucks you got yeah the rolls royce of deaths and you're still just like this shit like it stinks you know and uh man oh and then if any of us are lucky enough to go like that and not at some gas station or some fuck you know what i mean or front of your kids or my fear is that i don't i don't fear death ryan what i fear is that right before i die i i know it's coming and i go you gotta be shitting me like that's how i don't fear death either i do fear where that shit's gonna go like you don't mean like not here yeah it's the it's the ironic deaths of like of like uh your wife or whatever says like we're not going up that hill

we're not going up that hill you're not going up that you're like we're going up the fucking hill and then you go what's the matter we're going up the hill and then you go up the hill and there's a mountain line you're like you got to be shitting me like like this is how it ends like yeah and by the way i'm throwing it out right now whatever fuck i go if twitter is still around or some version of twitter. Let the jokes fly, people. Let them fly. I know they're coming. Yeah, we're not avoiding it. It's fine.

There's people wishing it for us now while we're alive. It ain't going to be any nicer when we're gone. No, let them fly. It's fine. So, yeah, I definitely, that's what I fear about the ironic death. And here's what I would say. So, I don't know if you've learned this. When you have now friends that lose people that are close to them.

I know how to be there for them more now. Because I knew what helped me. So like for me personally. And obviously everyone's different so who knows but like when people would text and say is there anything i can do i hate that shit i hate it i know it's coming from a good place i've told this story before but we were kids when our dad died so everyone showed up from the school yeah like we had a jv soccer coach who came over and my brothers and i were just dicks and we have been tired of we've been tired of the kindness at

some point you get a little bit like annoyed with it because you're like yeah all right enough you know what i mean we're not a charity case you know you just feel like a loser so you have to take time and sort of give them what they want right which is the moment and the conversation and the thank you and the which is just all right so we had a jv coach come up to us because now my mom had left our family so we don't have parents now and it's well known in in this community that that's these kids are yeah so the coach comes up we're like look next person to ask us if we want something we should just tell them we want ten thousand dollars and we all get on the

same page our jv coach comes up to us and he's like if you know if there's anything my wife and i can do to help you out i'm like actually uh there is he's like what name it i was like we could really use about ten thousand dollars and his fucking face dude we started laughing so my dad's dead to call it up there me and my brothers are the back laughing sorry i thought you guys were serious i'm like well we're not not serious because it's like all right all right so uh i i i had i had a friend who was going to lost someone close. And here's what I did. And you can do whatever version of this works for whatever person.

I just texted and I said, hey, don't have to respond. That's the first thing. Don't have to respond. And if someone passes away, here's a tip for you all. Get a cut and paste message. In your phone ready? In your phone ready. Because you're going to get a lot of texts just like, hey, sorry.

And it takes a lot physically and emotionally to text to every single person an individualized, yes, we're doing okay, but cut and paste just to to to to make that happen but just i just text people hey you do not have to respond just know that we're thinking about my heart emoji yeah and just know that you know you have you have a lot of love that that is around you and and we're here uh i want to ask you this. One more thing. Send food. Yep. 100%. Listen to me. Send food. Food. They don't have to cook, take their time to order things,

stop and get it. Think about it. They just go home. It's in the fridge. You're not thinking about it. You're grieving. And you might not even be hungry, but when you are, it's there. It's there. Yes. 100%. That's my thing too. Always send food. that is what you'll need and money if you got yeah send food or send money send me christmas food and never go wrong yeah send them a bunch of food send food that is my tip when they're like is there anything i can

do fucking yes send food i'm sending you a bunch of food that's it okay now what was the question i want to know before we get you out of here, your daughter's four now. So what scares you as a dad most, knowing you don't have your dad as a sounding board and a resource? Just certain things that I know that he was smarter about than me. When it comes to money, he was very smart. he knew how to invest keep that ac off keep that ac off man it's like shipper he knew how to you know you know make sure that future generations could have christmas rooms yeah he he he was good with that i don't know how to do that when i go to buy a car i'm like what's the price or like this i'm like cool it's it's not because i'm i don't know how to do that. When I go to buy a car, I'm like, what's the price?

They're like, this. I'm like, cool. It's not because I'm, I don't know how to negotiate. I'm not a good negotiator. You also have to know what you're negotiating for, too. You can't just be throwing numbers around. Yeah. It don't work that way.

Yeah. Like, the last car I bought, the guy that I bought it from at the dealership said, yes, way too fast. And I'm like, fuck. I knew. And that's stuff where I go, man, he could have really helped out with that. Has that happened? Had you found yourself wanting to call him or text him or send him a picture or anything? All the time.

Yeah. All the time. I'm doing. You still not used to it yet? You know what i mean i i don't think i ever will be yeah there will always be those times where you're like oh man like dude like i'm playing in nashville i'm playing the rhyman auditorium that's the home of country music you don't think i want him to be there see the see the i mean he's not even a fan of country music but he gets it he gets what that is you don't think i

wanted to see you know me on stage and uh uh uh where johnny cash used to play like yeah of course i want that i'm playing the theater at the ace hotel it's a beautiful theater the ace hotel is closed and the theater is not just for that reference but like yeah i wanted to be there for that i just got a part in a really cool movie that i'll that i'll i'll tell you about off camera i'm not allowed to announce yet but uh it's a really cool movie and i'm doing and it's definitely a movie that he would have liked to have seen so it's like yeah there will always be those moments but i i just try to be thankful and look back and be like, but he saw so much. And, of course, there's always going to be moments.

And, you know, I'll be doing something at age 70 that will probably be really cool as shit. I'll be like, ah, I wish you had seen that. You know, some, you know, the comedy store will give me some award. Like, yeah, it's the the most prolific dwarf comic of all time a little tiny word but uh yeah i'll be doing something like that and i'll be like yeah i wish she was there i the thing is like the other thing that got me is uh my daughter doesn't have a grandfather now on both my side and my wife's side so she's got two grandmas that are wonderful but she doesn't have that because i've got stories of my granddad uh the one from oil

died when i was young i don't have too many stories of him other than the fact that i still have my tonsils because of him uh the doc the doc random story but the doctor said that boy needs his tonsils and his adenoids taken out and my grandfather went you're not taking his tonsils and all the parents went okay like all right all right granddad you you still have you still still got him i probably i probably got a little bit of apnea because of it uh i wonder man i never had my tonsils out, and I have apnea now, and I wonder if it in that damn tonsils back there. Do a sleep study, man. I'm serious, bro. I did.

I have it. They tell me my tongue is wide, and it relaxes down in my throat when I sleep, and it clogs my throat. I'm like, yeah, but if we cut tonsils out, does it open airways up back there, motherfucker? Yeah, can we cut the tongue, the width of the tongue? I'll save it down yeah something like that but so yeah they're they're they're i'm sad i'm sad that my daughter

won't get a grandfather in that way but um yeah and it's stuff like where now i don't know about you but i'm just trying to make sure everything is in place. Everything is good so that, God forbid, I'm on that Alaska Airlines flight and that door pops off and there goes Brad. There goes Brad. That would definitely be a, you got to be shitting me kind of dead. That would be. You got time to think about it. He's got time to know. I'm dying, motherfucker.

I'm dying. I'm not hitting that. There is no way I'm living through this shit. I'm not hitting that no way I'm living through this I'm not that iPhone I'm not gonna bounce and be like cool you're gonna be you're up there for so long you're gonna scream

your braids out you're gonna be so physically tired scream then you're gonna start thinking like I'm definitely gonna what am I gonna hit a tree a grass what am I gonna hit yeah can I at least like find a nazi that i can like run into missile myself in there at least you know take out somebody but yeah it's uh like if that god forbid that happens i just want to make sure my daughter's okay. Good. That's all you can do. I've done that, everything. Living will and trust, life insurance, it's all set.

So if I would have dropped last January, she would have been set. I'm glad she ain't set. I'm glad she ain't set. You know what I'm saying? You know what? It's funny. I was watching, if you watch the show, was house of dragon the game of thrones prequel whatever that is dragon house i'm not sure what it is it's a house of dragon but dragon house

dragon house sounds like a good reality show welcome back to dragon house this is your boy hello cool jay we got nine dragons anyway um but if you watch that, there's a scene. I'm going to spoil something minor, but there's the old king, and he's hanging on. He's just hanging on. Half his face is fucking gone, and he's hanging on. And then all of a sudden, he gets all of his kids back to the castle for like a meal, and they all kind of tell him like, yeah, we're all here, we're all together, and we're all good.

And that night he dies. And I look at that scene and I go, I totally get that now. Totally get it. I totally get why you'd be hanging on, hanging on, just be like, y'all are good? Cool. Great. Deuces. Yeah.

Like, that's what I. Here we go. Like, obviously you always want more time. But I just want, you know, my last thoughts to be like, I did it. Cool. They're good. Yeah. You know, that.

And my dad had that. My dad had that. He really did. Everyone was okay. One of the last things he did was put aside, you know, some money for my daughter. And not a crazy amount, but just an amount where you go, that will help. And it's good. So that was one of the last things he did.

And that's all I want. I want everyone to be good. Unless they're like, you know, snot-nosed piece of shit. Then it's like, ah, you're not kidding. All it takes, I say that all the time, too. All it takes is one fucking crackhead asshole to ruin generational wealth. That's all it takes to one. Dude, thank you for coming here and doing this.

I really appreciate it. And this is the first time I've really talked about this. Thank you. And I knew I was going to talk about it. This morning, I was like, am I ready to do this? I don't know. But I am. And this helped. So this is always good and the fact that i'm doing it with you makes it a lot easier because it's like i'm not doing it on some morning radio show

or some assholes playing a cowbell yeah brad does it cowbell cowbellbell. It's a dead dad morning here on the dead dad drive time. 98.5. Dead dad drive. Brad Booyah. He's going to be playing the comedy club this weekend. BradWilliamsComedy.com. Tell us more about your father. No, we did not get that.

So this is a wonderful place. This is a safe place. And I'm always happy to see you, my friend. Same, brother. Thank you very much. Please promote everything one more time bradwilliamscomedy.com those are all the tour dates over 70 dates i'm going it's almost i feel like tom segura i'm coming fucking everywhere all right and uh and if i'm not coming wait we got more shows that we're going to be announcing we're going to different countries we got a european and australian thing coming so i'm coming okay uh uh look at the website look because and now this is going to happen because i'm about to say it but as a comic the worst thing you just got you

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V-E-E-P-S. You can get it. And one cool function about Veeps is there's a chat. There's a chat as you stream it. Oh, is that right? Yeah. And it stays up there for like, so the past people. So you go back and see what other people thought. See if anyone says anything racist.

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Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you very much. And thank you man thank you very much uh and thank you guys as well as always ryan sickler on your social media ryan sickler.com come see me on tour we'll talk to y'all next week Thank you.