Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald - Comic Brad Williams on Threesome Rules and Sharing Your Gift

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Stand up comedian Brad Williams is here! Brad grew up in an affluent home in Orange County. He discovered his comedic talent fighting back bullies with his jokes. Brad is a dwarf and one of the top touring comedians today. He shares about his first time doing stand up comedy. Brad tells of his most emotional meet and greet and why laughter can save lives. Then we get into having threesomes and why rules are so important. Don’t miss his stand up special. Shop Juicy Scoop Merch https://juicyscoopshop.com Get EXTRA Juicy on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/juicyscoop   Follow Me on Social Media Instagram: https://www/instagram.com/heathermcdonald   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heathermcdonald Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeatherMcDonald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Woo, woo, and a McDonald. Juicy scoop. Hello and welcome to Juicy scoop. I have another fabulous comic. Brad Williams, you have done it all. You have a special coming out. You've been everywhere. You have a million shows.

Welcome to Juicy Scoops. Your first time on Juicy Scoops. I am popping my Juicy Scoop cherry, and I'm very excited about it. A bunch of my friends have done it, I've heard it's great. This is a lot like the first time I had sex. A lot of my friends have done it, and they told me how awesome it was, and how great it is, and now I get to experience it for myself, and it'll probably be over way too quickly.

I love it. Now, I mean, a lot of people, you're very recognized, a lot of people know you've had several specials. You have one coming out to December 21st that you can watch on Veebs. Veebs, I'm brand new. Explain what Veebs is. New service, and before you say like,

oh, I don't have the money to pay for another streaming service, it's okay. Veebs, you go on there, It's specifically for concerts and comedy specials. A lot of bands do it. It was started by the Madden Brothers from Good Charlotte. And so let's say you want to sit in your jam jams and be on the couch and watch a concert. Great.

They've got a lot of concerts, but they also have comedy specials. I've got one. It's called Starfish. Came out on December 21st. Why did I choose that date? Because that's the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. Get it?

Okay, marketing. Yes. Marketing, shortest day of the year. It's not a short special, though. But yes, really happy for it and go to Veebs and Veebs.com slash Brad Williams and watch the special. And when you get it, the money doesn't go to a very large corporation.

No, money goes to Moa and And that helps me raise the Asian dwarf baby. I say Asian dwarf baby because I'm a dwarf my wife is Asian We made a kid together Asian dwarf baby. So yeah, I don't know How does she she's gonna be four? And yeah, she's four on January 13th and I'm I'm digging it. I like this age. She can talk, she can laugh, she can respond,

she can tell me that she doesn't like something, which happens all too often. And it's fantastic. So I'm really enjoying being a dad right now. That's so awesome. Yay, I didn't know if I'd like it. I didn't know. I thought most comics were very, let's be honest, narcissistic.

And we're into ourselves and in our careers and everything like that. Don't have time to put someone else first. But I'm digging the hole when I come home. Like when I come home, yeah, let's watch Bluey. Great. We're're gonna do that We're gonna stay on the couch. I'm gonna have a tea party. It's it's great I love that part of it where I get to be this sort of pseudo celebrity on the road and then come home and I am nothing I'm just dad. It's great. Yeah, before we started you said that you have a nephew that now knows that you, his

uncle, might be a little bit known. Yes. How old is he? Uh, he's nine. Yeah. And, uh, apparently some parents at his school are letting him or letting their kids watch my stand up, which I don't advise. I'm not going to curse too much on this pod, but in my standup not something that a nine-year-old should consume

I'm doing I'm doing theaters now you can get all my dates at bribalimscomedy.com and Featers don't check IDs the way comedy clubs do so there's a lot of parents that bring their like 11 year old Be like yeah, this is my 11 year old. He loves your stuff. I'm like he shouldn't No, I'm talking about things that uh... probably probably morphing his brain but some of the kids in his school uh... uh... showed him a clip and said oh look at this funny comedian he goes that's uncle brad and everyone's like looking at my

uncle brad what and so now he faced time the last night and i got a whole bunch of autographs that i got to do and photos and i'm basically doing a cameo service for my nephew where i'm like all right hey Barry what's going on it's committee bread Williams uncle of the limb and you know just doing the whole thing so uh it's it's interesting he's finding out and he's seeing videos he's he has checked out my Instagram now. Where does he live?

I'm not gonna give away that information. Okay, but I mean not in this neighborhood or not. Not in LA, but LA adjacent. Okay, okay. So people are into the show business thing. Got it. And yeah, he is getting a little bit of popularity from it. And I'm fine with that.

I'll help the kid out. I'll do all the cameos. I'll wish little Aiden and Jaden and Kate and Happy Birthday. They're all these Aiden, Jaden, Kate and Sayden rhymes. It's madness. But I'm stoked for it. I like the fact that my nephew now, like, oh, that's what Uncle Brad does. Yeah, I go up in front of the hundreds, sometimes thousands of people in an act like an idiot. It's great. Well, I have a similar story, but it's like an opposite.

Oh, no. So my son is a junior at ASU. OK. And one thing I do for my, you know, so the other day, he is friend called him, that he met and called, you know, there's no. And he goes, dude, I came home to my mom's house and I'm like, why is Drake, that's why he's sent his name,

why is Drake in my house? And he had our Christmas card and he's like, wait, how is this? Well, my Patreon people get a Christmas card from my family and his mom is a fan of mine. But he had no idea that his friend that he went in college has a mom who's a stand-up that his mom follows. Oh wow.

So he's like, why the hell do you know this guy that I golf with at ASU, mom? Right. And she's like, oh, your friend with Drake, that's Heather Tuttle's son. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's a whole it's a whole other generation Yeah, yeah, it's pretty amazing because you'll I've heard interviews with like

Rock stars like huge rock stars that I love and they talk about their kids like Yeah, my dad's a Metallica You're dad's a Metallica that's Magnus. Yeah,! Why aren't you doing cartwheels every day? But it's just no matter who it is. It's just like once I'm not, you know, I'm Uncle Brad. It's no big deal. It's, and most of the time the family, you know, people come to my wife all the time, like,

oh, is he funny all the time? And then my wife will just roll her eyes like, to be like tries it yeah so it's just like it's just it's just the normal like it's just she's around it all the time so it's not really special or and I'm sure Metallica's kids are around it all the time so It's like, yeah, Dave Grohl comes over sometimes. Whatever. It's like, Dave Grohl comes over. Ah! I'm freaking out. And now I'm sure your son's just like, oh, wait, that thing that I thought mom just did in the basement. Now he knows. Now he knows. Well, he always, they've known for a while, but, um, yeah, they didn't really like, now they're like, they're adults. so they're like, you know,

my one says the senior in high school, the other one's a junior in college. Okay. So now they're like, they're part of it and they even read the the mean stuff too, which is kind of funny. Oh, no. Do they laugh at it or do they take it personal? No, we kind of laugh at it. Okay, good.

That's I'm like, God, some of these people are really funny. These people, some of these people that hate me are like, fucking hilarious. Sometimes they're good. Sometimes, I see a joke about me and I'm like, God, so many people are really funny. These people, some of these people that hate me are like fucking hilarious. Sometimes they're good. Sometimes I see a joke about me and I'm like, all right, that one was actually solid. That's the thing. People ask me all the time, like, oh, do you like dwarf jokes?

Do you hate dwarf jokes? And I go, well, I built a career on it, so I kind of like them. But I just don't like bad ones. Like, if I post one more tweet and someone puts in the comments, that joke came up short. You think you're the first guy to ever write that? Oh, I came up short.

I had method man tell me one time I came up short. Cool your jets, all right? That's not an original joke. But if you come up with an original one, that's like, holy crap. I've never heard that before All about it. I Okay, a fan said this the other day. It's not really joke about me, but I looked at it like this is genius comedy

I always refer to tall people in my act as a Reachers, I call you guys Reachers because if well, let's go to the supermarket you'll find out and You guys are Reachers, because if, well, let's go to the supermarket, you'll find out. And you guys are Reachers. And I had a fan, I had to be very careful when I say this word, you will understand in a second. He said, no, you should refer to tall people as Biggers, with a B, hard B, Biggers. And I was just like, that is so funny.

Oh my God, all these biggers out there. Like that's hilarious. So I'm actually gonna take that one from a fan, but very rarely does that actually happen. What is the proper name? For tall people? Advertise? I call them tall.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. No, like what do you, for me? Yeah, cause I mean, it's like, is it little people, what do you prefer? Yeah, yeah. What do you prefer?

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Yeah, yeah. What do you prefer? Yeah, yeah. What do you prefer? Yeah. I was in Odessa, Texas, and I did a show, and during the show, there was a guy that had to be kicked out of the club. For being an asshole, I'd be a kid drunk or both. Yeah, all, all we above. Because I'm sure you've gotten this. Sometimes you get people, they're yelling stuff out, and you slam them a couple of times. But then when they keep going, it's like, okay, we can't keep doing this. Yeah, you're taking the,'re taking that yeah for everybody else exactly so we had so we had to kick him out show goes great at the end at the end of the show I'm walking with the opening act uh... to our to our car and we see uh... uh... headlights turn on from the

parking lot and pick up truck and the pick up truck starts racing across the parking lot a guy leans out the window and yells out kill the dwarf yeah so at that point I didn't stop me like well thank you for using the correct terminology it wasn't the dwarf I had a problem with it was more the kill the that I had slight issues with so thankfully we hopped in the car and my buddy who was driving, who was the opening act, he knows the trick of like you go and do like a dirt kind of field and you do some donuts

and then it kicks up a bunch of dust and then you can't see, so then you just drive off then and then you make it. Oh my God. Yeah. Very, very, I've never noticed any of the fights. Very dukes of hazard.

I grew up in Orange County. I did not hazard i grew up in orange county i did not know he grew up in waco texas this is that this is a trick that apparently they learn there and that you have to learn apparently that's gotta scare you we and and my opening act that i was with that night is black so he was just like oh wow someone's chasing after someone not me this is great like like I can't like if the car had caught us the guy the guy would have been like hey we're not here for the black guy we're here for the dwarf which is like oh he would have been so relieved oh my gosh see you grew up in Orange County yeah

Orange County California tell me a little bit about your life siblings what's your story there first of all only dwarf in the family uh... so when people you like although your father and mother no you don't drive down a street in fullerton where we're from and say where did Brad grow up oh it's the mushroom with the door in it like that's that's that that's not the case uh... so so there was so

so did she know yes before she gave birth yes uh... yes they but fun fact uh... our doctor uh... did not tell my mom that i was going to be a little person they knew uh... but they didn't the doctors do yeah doctors knew but didn't tell her for a while because uh... doctor uh... strict practicing catholic thought that if he told her that your son's gonna be a dwarf that she would uh... and the pregnancy yeah and it uh... uh... uh... and uh... and so he didn't want it that to happen so he waited a little

a little be on since like third trimester but they but they knew before fun fact medicine um... um... and so and and how did they tell her oh yeah yeah how yeah. And how was it, what was the, where are you in the family? What family? I'm the baby, we're the cleavers. It's mom, dad, sister, brother, and dog. Like that was growing up, that's what it was. And I was the baby in the family. And so they told her, yeah, your son's gonna be a little person.

And my dad, awesome dude, that he was. he started going to these meetings that are LPA meetings little people of America and he would just sit in the back and he would listen and listen to all the little people gripe and Yes, and just like okay, and then one day he stood up in a meeting and he said, hey guys, I'm gonna come to a few of these meetings. You guys are just really angry. You guys are just very mad and I'm about to be a father of a little person. Is there anything good? Is there anything good?

Or is this just all suck? Is there anything good that's happening? And one dwarf came to my dad and said, yeah, everybody remembers you everybody remembers you everybody knows your name and uh... now it's kind of interesting that i'm in the in the state uh... stand-up comedian

because when people when people see me no one just goes oh yeah that guy the uh... white guy you know he has the to no everyone just goes i had a midget comic and everyone knows you're talking about and I'm fine with that I'm totally fine with that so it's it's

sort of came full circle that way and so how old we how old are your siblings were you when you were born pretty much Irish twins with my sister so yeah she she I remember they came home and they were like hey you know her name's Katie and they're like hey Katie This is your baby brother and then the story goes that she Burst in the tears and was like put them back It was like very angry, but now we must have to have a wonderful great relationship It's the it's her son the nephew that is now figured out that I'm popular. So it's great and And how was it growing up in Orange County?

Wonderful. I'm not this guy that comes on to go, oh, I grew up such a hard life. It's like, that was pretty good. Orange County was good. I will tell you, the thing that made it good is my dad realized that as a little person, when I go to school, I'm probably gonna get picked on a little person when I go to school I'm probably

gonna get picked on a little bit I'm I'm gonna get bullied so what my dad did is he would bully me first but in a very supportive way he would like make fun of me and then tell me okay hit me back with something hit me back and so I would like we would actually write jokes write comebacks as together. I think you were like an elementary school. That is awesome. Yeah, so then when I got to school and a kid made fun of me, I was like, oh, I've trained for this moment.

I'm good. So now I would have comebacks and I would say I'm to the kids and then a couple of times I got sent to the principal's office for having the better joke. Oh wow. Yeah. So it's kind of like now when a heckler yells something out, I'm like, I'm fine. You don't think I've heard lucky charms before.

Come on, dude. Like come with it. Come strong. The hoop. So I'm fine in the in those scenarios. It's sort of. So I mean, when did you realize like that? I have a knack for performing and writing and comedy very young

Very young because I was always doing plays and I was always doing like High School is an improv comedy like I don't know exactly the moment, but no thing my dad taught me is so my dad dad, what do your dad do for living? Lawyer and a successful one. And so I'm good. I didn't grow up like, we didn't grow up wanting.

We're fine. So my dad always told me that whenever he was giving his depositions and arguing and stuff, he would insert jokes, because it really lightened the tension, made him more memorable, and made him appear in a more favorable light. And so he kind of taught me, he's like, hey, when you meet someone, joke,

really fast, joke. So then they know that you're comfortable and you're fine. And I was like, oh, that's good. And man does that work. Like, if I meet someone, and they don't know who I am or I'm a comedian or whatever, I could tell. Sometimes people are nervous because you're like, how do I bring up the elephant in the room?

Is he cool with it? Are we allowed to? Like, so I will constantly, like, I'll break the ice with a joke just a quick thing. And then they'll understand, like, oh, he's fine. Like, when I started doing comedy, I would do dwarf jokes almost immediately, because when I would go on stage and not do dwarf jokes, the audience would sit there

kind of very uncomfortable, just kind of look around, like, does he know? And I'm like, yeah, I'm aware. So, now I come out, I make a joke real fast. They know I'm cool with it, they know it's okay to laugh. Now we can move on to other topics. And when was, how old were you the first time that you got up on stage or decided I wanna try

to do standout? 19. I was 19, I'm 39 now, I'm entering like 20th year in standout comedy, which was a sense of weird. And what was your first experience? Ooh, first experience was a good one. First experience, I was in the audience at the Brea Improv, there was a comedian on stage,

and he started making midget jokes, did not know I was there. And half the audience is laughing, and the audience that is sitting by me is like, huh, huh, like not laughing. Yes, yes. And as you know, if half the audience is laughing, you know, okay, what's happening over here?

Yeah. So the comedian looks over and goes, what's happening? Like, you guys are laughing. And he actually says, what is one of them here? And I just went, yep,

raised my creep little hand in the air. And he called me up on stage stage and he started asking me questions. He didn't make fun of me but he was just asking me questions. I answered the questions honestly. Was not trying to be funny at all. Just like... Do you remember some of the questions? Yeah, he said, what do you do for a living?

And at the time, Grip in Orange County, I worked at Disneyland. So I said, I worked at Disneyland. So I said, I work at Disneyland. And the audience laughed. And then I turn to the audience and went, shut up, I'm not one of the seven. Yeah, that made a laugh harder. And I was like, Oh, that felt good. That felt real good. Yeah. So then after that, after that experience, make the audience. Who are you with that night? I was on my debt. Oh my God. Yeah. And had you audience. Who were you with that night? I was with my dad. Oh my God.

And had you grown up watching a lot of comedy, you were going to comedy clubs? Yeah, not going to comedy clubs, but just watching a ton of comedy that my dad introduced me to Jonathan Winners and Robin Williams and the Smothers Brothers. And I was aware in Eddie Murphy Raw. I watched Eddie Murphy Raw and i was like fifteen

so that i i'm never but so i think i mean i went to the movie theater you want to move it here to see it i'm older than you so i have the movie theater to see it all right i remember just being like i mean i'd have to snuck in how was that theater was it just like rolling like yeah i remember seeing this is the funniest is the raw one the one where you got a nice cream

and then or is that one before it delirious delirious is that the delirious was the ice cream one which is its joke that he had about red suit yes the red and then that's delirious raw is the purple suit where he talks about the donalds in the end yes and and that one was more sexual. Yes. A little more dirty. Yes, some of those jokes won't fly today.

Yeah, yeah. Some of the jokes about the gay guy on top of the cop card. Not gonna fly. Yeah. He doesn't say the word gay. Yes, yeah. A hour of remembering. Okay, so you have that first amazing moment and you start to go, okay, this feels good.

Yeah, at 19 you're working at Disneyland. Are you a full-time employee? Are you going to school or are you doing I was going to school at USC? Oh, you were that's why I went yeah, find on and you're your trojan. I'm a Trojan. I didn't know that about you. All right, now we've got this kinship. Yes. Did you graduate? I did not. Yes, I did.

Okay, good for you. Congratulations. I was going to school. And then when that moment happened, I was like, I'm going to try stand up. And then. Did you really have to quit school? Yes.

I, so at that point, I did comedy and school for about a year and a half. And then I got an opportunity to go on tour as Carlos Mincee is opening act. Wow, after a year and a half. That is awesome. So how did that come about? Did he just see you? He was, he was the guy on stage where the full first first moment happened that is so cute. Yeah, that is so sweet I love that and then he saw me about a year and a half later and he's like holy shit

You actually have chops. Yeah, he saw me at the Ontario improv about a year and a half later and He goes hey, I remember you and I go yes,, I started doing comedy. And he goes, you started doing comedy and this, this is during the meet and greet of the early show. Uh-huh. And he goes, do you want to do a guest spot in the late show? Just from there. And I was like, you were just there to see him. Yeah, I was there to see him.

Oh, that's awesome. And I go, okay, I go on stage. I do like three, five minutes, whatever it is. And then, got off stage., five minutes, whatever it is, and then got off stage and he goes, Holy crap, I put you on stage because you're a midget, that's kind of funny, but you actually had jokes and he goes, what are you doing next week? And he was playing the Fox Theater in Bakersfield, which I'm playing in February, so I was all coming full circle. But yeah, and then after that, I just started going on the road with him.

So he just got in mind and see at that time and was doing a big. Which is TV show with that, yeah. Big national tour and he wanted me to be the opening act. So that's when I came to my parents and I was like, hey, you know that. Because you were going to be gone for a while. Yeah, I was going to be gone. And how was that being on tour so young with like and and and that playing these big mass progress yeah it was amazing it was uh... trial by fire for sure

and he's had awesome comics open for him like uh... uh... cologne zones each vignette jokoi like all these comat like jokoi's sell it someone out so he really knows he has a real eye before he can really help support his opening acts, which is really cool. So, yeah, so it was a trip I loved,

but I also got just introduced the road lifestyle and what it is. And I don't know if this happens to you. People always ask me like, oh, so when's this tour done? And I go, when I'm dead. Like, that's when I'm off tour. If people ever come to my house and see my suitcase, they're like, oh, are you just coming back?

Or you're just heading out and I go, yes, to both. Because I'm always doing stuff. Now, this next tour coming up. It's huge. You have sold 20 days. Yeah, literally 70 cities. and that's just until July and now we we just announced some more dates. We're gonna announce Some more dates. I know what's the deal when your agent calls it. Do you do turn anything down? It sounds like you don't it's like I come from a point where when you were the opening act or when you were starting off,

it was like, I didn't know, I was working one night, I didn't know when the next night was that I was going to work. So you just, you said yes, you say yes to everything. And then it's really hard for me now to turn down work because I still have that mentality. And especially, like, I remember driving from LA to San Jose to do the San Jose improv to do a middle spot for a different comic I made like four hundred dollars for two shows and then I drove back that night because the club didn't get me a hotel That's six hours up two shows pound a red bull six hours back 400 bucks a hundred bucks

on gas so like i remember that right so what i'm coming from that and then they say hey they want you to play the whatever theater uh... you know they they want to play tera hote indiana and i i say okay i've never heard of that but they tell me the amount of money i go cool we're doing it and then thankfully terra hoed showed up and they

sold out the first show so we got a second show there but like uh... seventy cities were an ounce uh... we're gonna ask you bring you bring up you're doing other countries we're going to go australia we're going to go to you yes i've done a comedy there but i'm going back now and we're gonna do England and we're gonna do a tour of the UK so yeah all gonna be next year so I Really love my wife and kid I would like to see them in the year 2025

So see me on this tour 2025. I'm not gonna be going out that much that's the plan. Yeah, so I'm gonna be home more Because I'm really I'm really a big fan of my wife and kid I'd like to see him more. Now in all in your growth of becoming a stand-up and being so recognizable. Thank you for saying growth as a dwarf. I never hear that. So nice. Getting the vapors. Okay. What are some like TV things that I thought you did Reno 9-1-1. Yeah. Have you been offered through the years when people like us were getting development deals?

And what's your sitcom and anything like that? Oh my god. Yeah. Most of the stuff that I'm doing, I always really just focused on comedy. I got to do some amazing stuff. Got to do, yeah. The Reno 911 It's a wonderful heist Christmas movie got to do my absolute dream job. I don't know if A gig will ever be better than this. I got to work with Christopher guest on a movie called mascots

Which is on Netflix and I did a scene with Fred Willard. Oh my god. How amazing and he's just did a scene with Fred Willard. Oh my god, how amazing. And he's just, now if you're familiar with how Christopher Guest movies work, they are improvised movies. And you have a basic outline of the scene. They say, all right, it starts here, it ends here. Same with three and nine one one. Yeah.

Same thing. Yeah, very similar. Same with Kirby or enthusiasm. And that's how Christopher Guest works. And I was like, cool, I'm going to improvise a scene with Fred Willard. At the time, Fred's may have been in his leader late 70s or early 80s. And I go, okay, so I got to carry this scene. I got to be like the energetic one because Fred's older.

Nope. Fred was so over the top that if you watch the scene, I'm, I tone it way down. And I'm playing the straight man because i'm like oh frets frets the crazy one and because he's a damn genius and uh... shame on me for thinking i was gonna steal the scene from fredd willard note not a chance in hell genius man even nicer human

i met some stand-up charity thing and he was so sweet. Yeah. What a sweet man. So, yeah, that was Dreamgig. There's a couple other acting gigs that have come and gone, but for the most part, and I especially learned this with the strike that just happened. I like being a comedian. I like being in charge of my own stuff. I feel like if you're funny, you'll always work. Will you work in the ways and this there that you want to? We never get what we think we deserve, but you'll work. If you're really good, you'll work. I don't want to be determined on a casting director somewhere

to be like, yeah, that's what we need. I just want to be able to control it. Now, I got a few things in development right now that are very exciting. If they go, great, wonderful. I'll be thrilled to work on them. If they don't, eh, I'll do stand up. And that's what I love because you go on stage and you crack a joke and you get that immediate

feedback and then you know, I do a meet and greet after the show. I'll even do the meet and greets for the theaters. It'll take a while, but I'll do it. And I mean, it's hard for me not to want to say hi to these people at the end of the show. They're paying my mortgage. So, so thank you everyone for coming out to the shows. And what's like the most heartwarming or type of thing that happens when someone comes up to you after? Thank you how you've touched their life for the children's life. This one, I might get emotional even telling the story, but I'll try not to.

There's a guy who came up to me and he handed me some military patches and some pins and a coin. He was a man. He was with two sons and he said, here. And I go, Oh, what are these? And he goes, Oh, these are my patches. These, this is my metal. This is my, and I'm like, Well, that's your stuff. Like you earn that. Take it. Take it back. Please. Thank you. But take it back. That's your stuff. I didn't serve that, that, that's really bad of all dwarf army. And I say, so please take it back. And he goes, no, you don't understand.

These are my sons. If I don't find your comedy, they don't have a dad right now. He goes, I was on the brink, I was about to end it all. I was literally sitting in my room and with a a loaded weapon and I was about to end it and Randomly your stuff came on Pandora and I laughed and that was the first time I laughed in forever And I put the gun down and I kept listening to you and I kept laughing and That's when I thought yeah, I can keep going. And he's telling me this in a line, and I'm just like,

I'm like chills all the other body. That is so amazing. Yeah, I've heard stuff like that. That's when someone comes up to you and says stuff like that. There was, I did the Montreal Comedy Festival and there was a little person there who came up to me in the hotel. And he's like, Brad Williams, and he comes up to me

and he says, dude, I just gotta say, thank you so much. Like I started doing comedy because I saw you do comedy and I heard it and I started doing comedy I was like that's awesome and he goes yeah and this year is my first year at the Montreal comedy festival and I was like oh damn like you got accepted in the festival and he started doing comedy from watching me do comedy it's like that's when you that that's when that's when things really, that's when it puts in perspective like, oh, I'm just doing this.

Because it's like anything else, seeing an image of yourself on TV or in a profession that you didn't normally see in image of yourself doing, it's a really important, and it makes you go, oh, well, that person looks like me and they're a doctor or that person.

Yeah, representation is very important. A comedian or an acting. Or so why should not be able to do it now. Exactly. And those are the things that really get me when I go, oh, it's not just me on stage every night telling jokes. Now, when I think back to my heroes growing up, you know, you're Rob Williams's, you're Williams is your Jonathan winners your John L. Wesson sports

reference like I the way I looked at them now someone can be looking at me that way and that's a that's a lot of pressure a lot of responsibility but then also a great motivator because you don't wanna let them down. So you just keep going. I remember being like 10 and watching Eddie Murphy on like a calling show. And he was already, you know, somewhat famous, but young. So it was like on SNL or whatever.

And somebody called in, it was a woman. And she's like, I just wanna say, I always said if I ever had a chance to talk to you, I would. And she goes, a couple of years it was the worst day of my life. My son had died that day and I said, I will never, ever laugh again. I turned on the TV and you were doing gumbee, his character of gumbee. That's an L.A. And I just remember being very young, being like, I don't know, it just really hit me like

I remember like yesterday, you mean like if you can have a gift or a career or something that can make someone laugh on the worst day of their life where they said I'm going to either end my life or never want to laugh again. That is when people say why do you do it? I like literally dyslexia. I knew I was like funny young. I didn't know how and people would say like my my teacher in high school is like I don't know why you're going to USC. You should be a stand-up and I was like

I know I am a tale of these teachers. It's up. I didn't understand how strangers would find me funny Right I didn't get that there's a process of setting up a joke and explaining a little bit of course not and then um and so I and then when I was in college like I was was like, oh my God, like everyone would come down and wanna hear like the recap of the night in the sorority house. They'd be like, do we miss, you know, breakfast with Heather? And I was like, how can I make this a career? Yeah.

I just wanna recap a night. Fuck. And then we'll get this. Figured it out. You didn't figure out how to make this a career. We didn't want to take a minute. That said, we did work out. Yeah. That's so great.

And now we're moving in such a wonderful time where if anyone listening to this going, well I have this weird skill, like that nobody really knows about. How do I make money on it? You can. I'm on chiropractic TikTok all the time, okay? I'm not, do you love chiropractic TikTok?

Love chiropractic TikTok. Wait, do you go to the TikTok? My favorite is the cot OC chiropractor. Love chiropractic. We do go to the do. What are my favorite is the cot OC chiropractor. I went to him. Have you been there? Yeah. I haven't been to him yet, but I've seen him. But cute too.

I know. Damn cheekbones. But you know what? I kind of, okay, I have a thing where I'm like, I literally watch it and I feel like it relaxes me. I think it could be psychological. Yes. I, same.

The exact same. I watch chiropractic TikTok videos. I've just people getting their backs cracked. And I exact same I watch chiropractic tick-tock videos I've just people getting their backs cracked and I've talked to my chiropractor. Yeah, I go to chiropractor Um about it and he goes you know they just they fake the cracking noises and I go I don't care I'm a fan of pro wrestling, okay? It's fine. It's so off on and also it's like my sons. Yeah, you know because some people just have a more crackle like like if my son is like And I'm like oh my god. Thank God you let me hear that and I even use you know We're like the bubble the bubble pops like that stuff. I used to just go like

Myself and I go I'd act like just it's such a weird thing a weird relief and I remember I asked Dr. Drew I go could I be addicted to like And I remember I asked Dr. Drew, I go, could I be addicted to like, back cracking and hearing back cracking? And he's like, would you leave your family for it? And I'm like, I guess no. No, it's not a detachment. Okay.

So I'm like, okay, it's not. It's something that makes you feel good. But it is a little weird. But I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's a little weird, but thankfully, the thing that makes you feel some relief, isn't anything that's damaging to other people. So it's fine.

It's not self-destructive, no one ever. But do you like cracking other people? I don't, but I like being cracked. I like watching guys. I like both. So you crack other people? I'm a personal. Okay.

I like to crack and be cracked. And used to like I'd crack my kids back too And then I just do the thing where like you pick them up. No, I lay them down and I just go like that I'm a breathing thing I lay them down okay, and then you know and then I was like is this like a little weird Because I'm over like what time I said it's like I don't want to do that weird thing. We do it anymore Oh, no, it's like I don't want to do that weird thing we do it anymore I'm like oh no Really creepy great you can be in therapy and 10 years being like my mom told me to lay down Like some like he's gonna need physical therapy or because I got a little kid crackable back is like Pretty great

No snapback. Oh fine. They're find. They're gonna be okay. It is amazing. Yeah. It's so funny the things that you find relief in. My wife watches a lot of those. I just grabbed it as like ASMR baking. Oh yeah, this is... Yeah, and you hear like every noise of the pain going in and the thing flying.

That's like for, yeah, she watches that and that cools her down. Meanwhile, I'm over here like, yeah, break his neck. I like, and once someone explained to me, because the first time I got my back cracked and someone, you know, they did the neck thing and I'm like, I died, right? Like I died, my head popped off. like no it's literally impossible to do the thing

that you see in the movies like it cannot happen like the amount of force that has to and they did the whole thing I'm like okay I'm good now like once someone explained to me that you know all the Chuck Norris movies I've watched where he just goes and like breaks a neck, you know that's not real. I go great, I'm comfortable now. Crack away. Crack away, go nuts. I'm good, I'm fine. And how did you meet your wife?

Oh, I met my wife. You know what? Here's a juicy scoop for you. I met my wife on an app. I had to move to San Francisco to do a radio show. That lasted about three months. I tried to do morning radio about three months. This is like, okay, as we've been together for like 10 years.

So yeah, like 2014, 15. Okay. So you got offered a radio show like I want this steady gig. Yes, I want to get off the road I don't want to be on flights every week What I would I would I realize the only thing I didn't like more than Flights is waking up at four o'clock in the morning To be on air by 5 30 and then after you've done four hours of trying to be funny with no sleep

Then a program director who's never been funny in their entire lives with no sleep than a program director who's never been funny in their entire lives. It sits you down and goes, okay, let's go through the entire show and every joke that you made and oh really? Did you think that was funny? I go, yeah, I did. And if there was an audience, they would have laughed too. It was not for me. Oh my god, I can't eat an imagine.

I love morning radio. Do you see? Now you don't have to do that. I kind of feel like that was one good thing I've talked about with this community. That kind of died with COVID. Was not having to do the morning radio really anymore like we used to have to do.

There's still a few guys and girls out there that even if I'm sold out, like, there's worth it. I still go in. I could go through them the DVE show in Pittsburgh, Lewis and Kathy, the guys from Philly. I don't know their names, but there's a bunch of radio shows that no matter what, I will still go in. They're a blast. Yeah.

But yeah, so I was doing morning radio. I didn't like it, but we had a bit on the air where we were talking about me meeting people and because I didn't know anyone in San Francisco. So we would, I would go on dating apps to meet people just as friends, just to be like, hey, I'm new in this city, I wanna make a friend. Now there's literally an option on Tinder where you'd be like, hey, I'm new in this city, I wanna make a friend. Now there's literally an option on Tinder

where you'd be like, no, this is not sexual, I just wanna meet a friend. Now there's like, yeah, a friend of mine goes on bumble all the time and just goes on friend dates. I think that's so important. I think it's so great. It's so great, yeah. But then I was doing it, you know, old school stuff.

Yeah. But then a listener called in and suggested an app called Field, F-E-E-E-L-D, and I looked it up and this is for, all right, get ready listeners. This is for people that are trying to have three sums and multiple partners. All right, that's the sound of some of your listeners signing off and going to download the app. But, yes, this is a real app. I went on there, I matched with two women, rolled and go out together. One of the women, last minute, didn't show up. I'm imagining because she looked at my profile and was like, oh, this whole body fits in the default photo. No, I'm good. And she didn't show up up But I messaged the other woman and said all right we lost one you want to still go out and she said yes and

two two years of the day of that date I proposed to that woman You guys do three sums we have oh back in the day with the kid It's very difficult and not you're not really in the mood after you've been you know Cleaning up shit all day. Yeah, yeah, so not really feeling sexy that you want to invite someone else in but we used to and uh... it was a lot of fun it was great it was all like you know both of us had to be really on board there were times when of course i was on board and she was like not tonight i'm like cool fine and obviously finding a partner that's all no nother deal but uh... how would you

find the partners uh... rarset sometimes there'd be a chose it barz cc talk about it on stage would people know that like would you hint kind of to like with the feelers out kind of cheesy to do that but uh... why i just killed you words with one stone at some point i feel bad saying that but i did

uh... but the thing is is like i'm i'm a firm believer in whatever your kink is your weird thing is it doesn't hurt anybody if everyone involved is a consenting adult great yeah let you freak flag fly there's some weird stuff on poor enough have their okay there's some weird stuff i would know I'm sure

really have it really I really have never never never I don't even know how to get on never you know I get on no I don't I what do you just google poor I don't know Google tips stuff comes up no Google wall I do like the only porn that I've ever really watched was like, really in the beginning of our marriage, we had cinematics, and I love that. Oh, cinematics, that's like soft core. I like that.

OK. We used to just be like, oh, I think this was filmed in your house, you know, because we like live in the back. And I'd be like, no, that's Northridge. I don't know where that is. Probably was. And I'd be like, I'd be like, no, that's Northridge. I don't know where that is in Northridge. And yeah, but no, not now. No, you don't have to expose it, but like, do you have a kink

or are you pretty just like the back crack kink? Oh, the back crack kink. Like, no, but like, I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,, but I think three sums, I would never do a three sum, but I think three sum is a pretty not freaky. Like, in this world, I don't think it's like that, like, oh, like I don't think it's that shocking. It seems like a lot of people myself know,

but a lot of people have partaked. And whether it's a one time, it seems like most people I know if it's happened it's Vegas balls a lot of Vegas. Yeah, that was that was that was that was that was that one of my friends are like any front I know that had a three-semit always was in Vegas. Yeah, it's always let's do it in Vegas. And if you're a couple out there and you're thinking about it I will give you this tip. What are the tips? Rules. Set the rules in advance. Set the rules of what you're comfortable with because there's-

So the rules could be what? Well, you can, like, some people are like, okay, you can't penetrate the girl, but you can penetrate me, and I, and you, but the girl can do something with you, and I can do something with the girl, but you can't. So that is that a common rule. That's a common rule. That's a common rule. So find out.

And then other people are like, I don't care you can screw the girl, it doesn't matter. But you have to know that up front because then it's like. Discuss that. Yeah. And also when you discuss that,

let's say your partner says, yeah, you do whatever you want with the other person. If you do, and then that partner doesn't feel comfortable, like they thought they were going to be comfortable, but then they're not comfortable, have a safe word or something that you can say that when it's like, whoa, thought I was going to be good, not good, stop. Like we have to have that. Okay. Because then it's not fun anymore. Stop like we have to have that okay, then

It's not fun anymore if one partner is just harboring these ill feelings while you're having fun. Yeah, not good Not good not not not gonna be fun So the advice I would always put out is just constant communication with your partner make sure everyone is on the same page also Be on the same page for what happens afterward is this a person that all right you are not allowed to talk to this person anymore can you talk to this person anymore are they a friend are they just a random do they stay a random like and what is your suggestion I would think it should always be randoms and it should always be a one and done for the for the most part, that's safe.

That's pretty safe. And yeah, because God forbid someone starts hitting and off with the person, whether it's the girls, start hitting and off, or you start hitting dead in the jealousy. Yes. And also as a man, I will say this to the men that might be involved in one of those, if it's

like a male and two female thing, it's not about you. Maybe it's your birthday and they make it about you, but it's not about you. It's not going to be like the pornos you watch where the girls are fighting over it. They just never see the penis. Yeah, it's not going be that the girls are there mostly to have fun with each other. Enjoy that. Now we're happy that you're in there.

Now would you ever do two guys at a curl? I have, not with my wife. I've never done that with her and I don't think I could beat, I don't think I could do that with her. But I've been in one of those situations. That was interesting. Not a huge fan of those. Right.

Not a fan. It's weird to have me having your fun when you look up. There's just a dude just staring at you. No, that was that a dude you knew? No, it was never a dude I knew. But then I feel like all of this was after yeah, Saturday night show. Yeah There's been a lot of after show you did a two Friday you did a two Saturday and then some stuff happened that Saturday, yeah, and then a

And one was a flight. Yeah, it was a flight later in the day on Sunday 6 a.m. So you guys got to get the hell out of here. That that that helps when you have the flight to be like, Hey, I know it's after word and it's three o'clock in the morning and you guys want to stay over, but I got to leave it an hour. So dooses. I love your energy because that's like the last thing I want to do

after five show weekend. Yeah. It's to have to be doing a choreographed routine. Like nothing. So I'm just like, please let me get in my room and take off these heels and just eyelashes and crawl into my bed and watch date lines. Yes. And okay, so I would say that for women, I absolutely get that because you just said two things that I never had to do.

I never had to take off the heels. I never had to take off the lashes. So get the face off. Like once you add that step in, like I just come in and I collapse on the bed and I'm good. Yeah. So once you add those steps, I could totally see why you're just like, no, I'm tired, I got more, like the show is done

and then there's a whole process to get ready for bed. So I totally get it, totally understand. Um, okay, so I love it. So you have this special. Now when you do a special, how do specials have you had? As a, all right, I have two that were on showtime, then we're bought by Amazon Prime prime you can still watch them there the called fun size and daddy issues on Amazon prime watch them

one on netflix uh... that's called the degenerates that's a bunch of comics and x-rated stuff and we all do about a half hour uh... so tech so technically three three specials this would be my fourth and once like you take your special, do you, one of those comments that are like this

is I will never say this joke again for the rest of my life. If someone calls it out during a show, I'll do it. I'll do it, you got it. Like a bit, yeah. There's a bit I do about how I hate it when guys pee at the short urinal because that's my urinal. Like you don't think it's you it's mine

Back away from it. Yeah, there's a bit. I do about that that some people call out Yeah, I did a military joke about an experience. I had on a black-hawk helicopter Where a guy to throw me in I don't do our stuff like being tossed don't do that But sometimes people call those jokes out. That's fine. I'll do the bit. Yeah. If it makes you happy, great. There's a bunch of people in the audience

that probably haven't heard the joke before. Yeah. Fine. But for the most part, so this special, it's all out the window. So when you watch the special and enjoy it and then go, we gotta see that guy live. You're gonna see all new material

when you go to Bradwilliamscommy.com and see all see all the tour dates and man let me tell you what you have going on please do in in January so exciting you're gonna be in Santa Barbara yeah little bear with theater that's where I shot a size and we sold up a first show and now we added a second show on and then you're in Sacramento I've've done the Cris Theater have done that. Yeah, sold out the first show added a second one. Love it. You're in San Diego. Balboa Theater is still a few tickets available for that one. And then you're off to Florida. Tempe in February. Yeah, so many. Yeah, I mean so many dates. So many dates. I wanted to make sure that I had it in February. February 9th is the Fox Theater in Bakersfield.

February 10th is the Ace Hotel here in Los Angeles, the Theater at the Ace Hotel. Oh yeah, awesome. Beautiful theater. It's not cold play there. And now I'm gonna be playing there, that's weird. What's that date? February 10th.

Awesome. February 10th, so get, take us to that one. I want that one to be packed. Yeah, there's the Instagram. There's the, it's Brad Williams comic. And as you can see, hanging out at 349,000 followers. So juicy scoops, let's get this up to 350. Let's get this up to 350.

Let's get a nice even number. I'm a little low CD that way. I hate that it's a 349. Let's get it up to 350. Or if like, or if like 9000 Yeah, I want to be 60. Yeah, and you want to go down. Yeah, we're gonna go down to 340. That's fine. Oh yeah, 353 60. Let's get it up Well, thank you. I'm so glad you came. This is really good to like get your whole juicy life story It was nice inspiring and hilarious

Thank you and I'm excited for your tour. It's gonna be amazing. I love it when fans come to my show and they tell me about all the other comedians that they support and that they love and your name comes up a bunch. You have a lot of juicy scoopers. Oh, I love it.

That are coming out to my shows. And it just, it makes me happy when people like other comedians because it's like, oh, this isn't like, I don't want comedy to be like, I like this guy or girls, now I can't like anybody else. No, it's comedy. No one likes one band. Right, like all the bands.

I love it. I love it. I like all the comedians, consume your show, consume my show, listen to podcasts, watch everyone's specials, find the comedians and speak to you, however they do, and enjoy their stuff. So yeah, I really dig your fans are always very kind. I have the best. I really do. They're so supportive, they're so sweet, they're smart.

They bring your family, they bring your friends, they introduce people, they share it, so I love it. Do they bring your gifts? Do you get gifts? I do get some gifts. Those are fun. I get wine, I get homemade food, and someone's like, you're not supposed to eat that food. I'm like, uh, this woman, I know she knows how to make a brownie. I'm eating this brownie. I'm eating this brownie. It's fine. It's fine. It's all good. What's the weirdest gift you've ever gotten? Because, all right, I'll be talking to you. Tell me yours, because I don't think I really get anything weird. I get good stuff. Yeah, I just got one that blew my mind. Sometimes people, one person on my keychain right now

is a keychain that someone made and they saw a photo of me, my daughter on my Instagram and like made it into a keychain. Oh, I love that, yeah, I've had that, that's so sweet. Oh, it's the best. One person did a painting of my daughter, which was like, oh my gosh. It's hanging in my house.

So that's cool. Weirdest one. Someone gave me a custom made chaletley. What's that? It's like a musical thing. No, it's an Irish death hammer. Oh. It's a weapon, but like they made it for me.

It looks like a walking stick, but it's got a huge knob and then they put spikes on the on the shaft of it this is so now that's under my bed so if you ever break into my house uh... that's that you you you you're gonna have a dwarf swing in a shell lately at you so yeah i think that's actually was a really good gift for you that irish death hammer which by the way

if if you're out there and you're starting a band, Irish death hammer. Great name. That is a great name for a band. Hope to see at Coachella. I love it. Thank you so much. Thanks Brad. Thanks, Heather. That's awesome. Let's do