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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Brad Williams Accidentally Became a Comedian & The Importance Of Betting On Yourself

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Brad Williams (@bradwilliamscomic) is a stand-up comedian and actor. He joins Chris Van Vliet for an in-person conversation at his home in Los Angeles that originally aired on August 6, 2021. He talks about his dwarfism and how he learned at an early age to embrace who he is, how attending a Carlos Mencia comedy show as a fan accidentally started his stand-up career, where he gets his inspiration from, the chances he took on himself early in his career, his friendship with Chris Jericho and how he was invited to perform on Chris Jericho's Rock 'N' Wrestling Rager at Sea, how he met his wife, becoming a father and much more! For more info on Brad visit: http://bradwilliamscomedy.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bluie!

0:11.2

Thanks for coming by my house.

0:13.1

Yeah, normally when you're going to somewhere in the valley to shoot with an iPhone and some lights,

0:20.1

usually there's a lot of nudity involved. And so yeah,

0:25.4

this is where we film porn, folks. But now, now it's nice to come in and you have a lot of

0:32.6

awards promptly displayed in your apartment, obviously trying to get laid.

0:38.7

Yes.

0:39.5

That's what you do.

0:40.5

You go, oh, I have daytime Emmys.

0:42.7

The second you walk in the door, I want people to go, oh, my gosh, look at this.

0:47.3

Yes.

0:47.8

See, I have a wife, so my Emmys are non-existent.

0:52.6

No, no, I can't plan that on her. Your award is your child, right? Yes. But, like, I've had people make, like, fans have made, like, insane pictures of me, like, like, hand-painted, like, pictures of me. And I can't display that, like like right as you walk in like hello like I just feel

1:13.8

like it'd be very Alex Rodriguez of me uh he's kind of known for doing that yeah there's there's

1:19.9

there's a there's a there's a painting of himself as a centaur uh in his house this i want to see

1:26.3

this painting uh but yeah so it's nice. You come in,

1:30.0

we're just a couple of boys in the valley. You put your name on your microphone. No, no ego there.

1:35.1

No. No, I get it. It's branding. It's branding. How do you pronounce your last name? Van Vleet?

1:41.3

Yes, so when the ancestors came over many, many generations ago, they... It's a Dutch name, right? Yes, it is. There you go. They should have spelled it V-L-E-E-T. Or F-L-E-E-T, like Fred Van Vleet, the Plays for the Raptors. Oh, not the video thing that's going away from Twitter, the fleets. Oh, fleeting, yes.

2:01.5

Or Greta Van Fleet?

2:03.4

Yeah, I feel like...

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