Welcome to Fitzdog Radio, Merry Christmas to you, Happy Hanukkah, or as my friend Anthony Clark used to say, or if you're an atheist, Burr, sure is cold out there.

Welcome to the show. This is coming out, I guess, Christmas Eve, maybe.

Christmas Day, today's the 18th. Oh no, it's coming out on I think Christmas day. Anyway, so we're getting it down early so that mid-coast meeting can have a nice little vacation.

My guess today, Brad Williams,

is truly one of my favorite guests on the show.

He's just so fucking smart and funny

and comes to a podcast ready to play,

ready to give you something, that's all I ask.

Some people, it's like, did you want it,

did you not want to be here? Is your publicist got a gun to your head? What's going on?

So anyway, we're getting ready for the holiday. We got nine people in the house right now. My in-laws, John and Pat, who flew in from South Africa.

They are my sister's brother and his wife who I fucking adore.

The whole family I adore.

They're just the best people.

Super smart, very educated, but also like very outdoorsy, very tough, very capable. very law is from South Africa. So they basically moved the kids there when they were, they lived in New York

City until they were, the kids were probably, I don't know, six and or something that may be a little older

and her brother's a shooter he's a videographer you know a cameraman

DP on projects shoots in nature he like he's got one of these hummers that goes into the jungle he shot the first hippopotamus birth live in nature that had ever been recorded before like goes into the Amazon for three weeks

Fucking tough guy and and he shoots narrative films also, he's won some awards. And then his wife, Pat, is in development.

She develops TV and film in South Africa.

So we've been out to visit them a couple times going back out this

Christmas where just between us it's a secret but Liam who is our nephew is going to propose to his beautiful

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