Remembering “Bald” Bryan Bishop

All right, everybody a sad episode today So just so you know Dawson's here say hi Dawson. Hey, Chris Laxamana is here. Hello. It's a sad day of ball brine past He passed I think about 615 on Friday a couple days ago We sort of tried to scramble because we had the episode ready to go Monday's episode already sort of ready to go So obviously we didn't want to do something like that and not address this very serious issue So everyone's gonna say their peace memories Gina is traveling she she was out of town, but in this caught everyone off guard Not by surprise, but off. No, you never think it's this weekend this day Now we were prepared that something could happen at any time For 18 years. Yeah, for 18 years. Yes, which I keep thinking this is 17 years But I got to work this one out you guys can help me I brought my phone in and I never bring my phone in studio, but I'd been Going back and forth having some texts with brine's wife Christy and also brine earlier in the week and I just thought I wanted to share some of that with you Christy is is a very stoic person. I think Brian was a very stoic person. Yeah, I didn't know if he was stoic or he's just positive all the time. He never seemed That set back by this thing that was a death sentence. Right. He had all the good parts of my call guest. Yes Personal momentum. Yeah, I was thinking about that because I was obviously want to hear the news I started going through our old tax and our old emails and About 70 to 75% of our exchanges were I'm not gonna make the show where I'm gonna be late because I have a treatment or Something with the doctor or the hospital. He would always come in with the hospital wristbands and then But then when I thought about it. I don't remember being that much of our exchanges But right because the way he he presented himself and composed himself and he came in you never thought about it Right, we never saw him as a victim now of this brain - no, it was always he didn't think of a stoic as a victim Exactly and I should say for those who have only been listening to this show for the last year or two or whatever it is brine Worked with all of us for many years I met him at Love line and I'm guessing. I've tried to think when I met him I'm the worst with that kind of dates and stuff like that But I met him you know early 2001 2002 or something like that 2000. Yeah, you did the forward of his audio book. Oh I said I email if you want to listen to we can listen to another time Oh, okay, where you you basically just laid out your your history with it and I thought oh, so I met him in 2000 Yeah, so known him for 26 years a Brought so let me just back. I got this from Christy that said he passed peacefully on Friday night at 618 Try to keep it together. Yeah It's yeah, it's good stuff and we don't have his drops to save you There's so many good drops that people I started drop thread. It just kept going I know I just said look I you know, we went back and forth. She realizes that he got so many more years than he was supposed to get When I first talked to Dr. Drew and Dr. Bruce after he'd diagnosed with his tumor and he detours in 09, right? Yeah, I think so I think so because Yeah, when the radio show was right the radio show ended we started doing this Yeah, I was gonna get him a job working on this TV show. I was working on and he gave me the news He couldn't come in and do the thing the TV show Drew and and Bruce said six months. He's got six months I believe the quote was death sentence. Yes, that sends and they both said six months I've verified with both of them and that was 17 18 years ago So we got all that. It's got a beautiful daughter. He lived a lot of a lot of life He also experienced a lot of stuff. He traveled. He ate out. He did stuff, you know, he liked doing stuff We shared a joy in just learning what he did on our days off. I know he had a much better life than than all of us and So I had an exchange with him which was Interesting as all, you know, Dr. Drew sends his condolences will play you something from Gina at some point in the show as well. Yes, good. I'm texting Damace check Sure, he'll be finally reading this, but I was just asking how he was doing and he said We're bald's concerned. I can see I can sincerely say I'm happy more than sad because of how much live in not just survive in He got to do that There's never If you could ever put a positive on a young man dying. This is it because he and everyone around him knows it I was talking to I think I think that's the one positive is everyone goes He did so much after he basically got a death sentence He lived so much life that it ends up being a net positive, right? I was I was talking to a friend of mine and listener of the show and I said look You don't want this to happen to anybody, but in the universe of People that it could happen to at least happen to the dude who had the support Okay, and had like so as horrible as it was Guess it it fell on the right people who could handle it. Yeah his family was great Chris is great Chris's family Yeah, Chris is great. I mean Yeah, you couldn't have a better system. Um, I mean I recommend if anybody hasn't read his book shrinkage it really just lays out Christie and it's it she's the hero's amazing of this story. Yes, yes, and I mean as far as Brian goes just a generational Hall of Fame run so A week ago he He he was having a setback or something like that trying to trying to think Anyway, I reached out to tell you doing anyway a week ago He wrote this to me Even though he was sick A week ago. He's still fun the time to go. I was watching Saturday night fever with my mom And it reminded me of the funniest thing you ever said I was like what I think I've ever said with go he goes the funny thing I ever said The line that reminded when he was watching Saturday night fever I said I Find John Travolta sexuality to be burdensome And always I just I I threw it out on a morning show. I was in I never remembered even saying it But he loved that. I don't know why he loved. I mean he loved it because it's funny But it stuck with him. I never I've never mentioned it again. I've never said it I know I was reading it. I was curious about it too when he said the funny thing you ever said I was like I hope it's a good one. I don't know what this is. I'm sure you remember this in the early days of the radio show in 2006 With brusco producing in year one Brian at the end of the show We'd always have like an hour-long post show meeting about what we're going to do tomorrow. What's coming up? Whatever and Brian spoke up at one meeting and I don't remember what he said, but He basically put the entire show in a nut show and this is what we have to do and here's the plan and brusco kind of looks at him His jaw drops and brusco goes Brian you have to talk at every meeting now We're going to check in with you and you're going to help guide this ship Brian so my I get my last exchange with Brian was him telling me about a joke That he liked I just wrote back. I love that you remember that and he said that still makes me laugh out loud beautiful. Well, I think the You never know who keeps track of what? Like in good and bad, you know, you can say something shitty to someone that you don't even remember saying or whatever and it like It boars into their skin, you know like it's with them You know 50 years later boom, you know like people go my stepdad looked back. I was 13. He told me I never you know That's stepdad doesn't remember any of that shit, but like things stick, but also Positive sticks the good stuff sticks the stuff that people do That'll stick to so you have to kind of go through life kind of figuring what what am I putting out there that's sticking To people is it good stick is it bad right you want the goods, you know and then in the end too I mean, that's a very selfless text from Brian. Here he is Know as he's probably at the end of his life. Yes, and he reaches out to you to tell you something great. Yeah All right How are you? You're trying to cry I, you know, okay, I'm kind of an atheist guy who's just kind of the world moves on and we're all just here for a period of time. And, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not real sentimental and I'm not real, whatever. I remember when I first heard about Brian, I was really devastated because I was like, this young guy is gonna be cut down in his prime and I was really upset because I looked at him as a waste of a young mind, a young life. Then we all had to live with this tumor and we all kind of knew it and I don't know, I felt like we're always playing with house money after that. I just felt like we're a woman. He made it 10 years past. I remember where I was. I remember exactly where I was standing in my house and I don't have that kind of memory but I was standing in the hall of a house I used to live in in Hollywood a million years ago and I just got the call from Brian saying, I'm not coming in, I can't come in tomorrow morning. I was gonna bring him in and introduce him to the show runner who ran, you know, we're gonna staff up and I was gonna get Brian a job working on the show and he said, I can't, you know, I can't, I just got diagnosed. Like, I don't know that day, you know, he was calling me saying, I was playing a coming in but I can't come in tomorrow. Here's what I found out today and I was, I was like, when he told me what it was, I was like, okay, all right, well, stay positive for something and then I hung up the one I immediately called Drew and then I immediately called Bruce and then I was just like, yeah, I was like, I was a heap and then, then I, from that point on, I was like, whatever we get past six months is gonna be on the plus column. So, you know, that's why I felt about it. I mean, I was sad. It's also, it's incremental, you know, I got a long text from Christie, I don't know, a week and a half ago saying he's had a setback and, you know, all that, you know, it's not like someone was on vacation, got hit by train or something. Like, it was all very slow and everyone was, everyone in his life was very aware that this was not a possibility but an inevitability. It was going to happen. The question was when, and then at a certain point, like once you get 15 years in, you kind of, there was a part of me, it was kind of like, well, I guess this is the new, whether you just beat it or something like this is, I mean, why do you get to 15 and not to 30 or 20, 25, you know? So, you know, it was happening, it was happening so often to where when he would give updates, as the time went by, each update, maybe just got a little more watered down because we saw him beat it so. Yes, yes, it's a sort of human condition. He gave us the best update ever a few years back when Christy was pregnant with Tessa. And he always had the show in mind. He had the show in mind. He probably wanted to come in screaming, you know, I'm gonna have a kid. Right. Instead, he messed with us so hard and we're all on the edge of bawling. Like, oh shit, it's happening and there's a growth and we expect a baby in nine months and we're like, what the, yeah, he, he, yeah. He was a real smart guy. He was an interesting combination of things. Like, when I first met him at Loveline, I walked in and I remember saying to him, after knowing him for about two weeks or something, I just went, you're fat, you're bald, and you make seven dollars an hour. Why are you so full of yourself? Why are you smiling? How are you cocky? I was like, you're cocky. You have no reason to be happy or cocky right now. What, where do you get this? I wish I had some of that. And, but I recognize he was, he was very sharp and he was smart. And my thing is like, I was kind of like smart. I was like, put your money on smart. When people are smart, you can point them in a million different directions, you know? So, when we left Loveline to go take over for Stern, I immediately took him with me because I was like, oh, I always want to take the smart guy. So, we took him and he was working on the morning show. I don't even remember exactly what his role was at the beginning, but then Mike Lynch was in studio doing sound effects. I believe he was the call screener again at the time. And he went off to Ireland for two weeks or whatever for honeymoon. And we slug Brian in to do sound effects. And the sound effect thing with Brian was like a Marlin in the open sea, like just seeing him just take off. Just took to it, just right through cutting through the water 30 miles an hour, like it was, it was supposed to happen. It was supposed to happen. When it's greatest. And his ability, I guess it's a combination between a comedic sensibility. I've told everyone all the time they go, you got to find a good comedy editor. I got, there are no good comedy editors. There are none of them are any good because they're not funny. You have to stay in the room with them and edit with them because how can somebody be funny that they're an editor, but they're not a comedian and they're not going to edit it right away. So he had a comedic sense which he needed to also go with the kind of dexterity and a memory and a computer like ability to pull up the right things all the time. But it's not just memorizing what everything was, what every button and every sound effect was. That's its own ability, but minus the sense of humor, it doesn't work. So he knew just when to pull up everything all the time, he was in a flow state. Yes, it would be communicate through sound effects and drops. Yes. I mentioned this on a post, it became a language. He could editorialize with a drop. Yes. Yes. So once he started that, I just, I was immediately like this guy has a gift. And not only grab drops and get drops from movies and things like that, but obviously make the ones here in real time. And I'm just looking through my phone right now because I started a thread where I'm like his best drops. What were they? And so many, you know, when you read them, then you hear them in your head, right? I hear them in my head all the time. I hear them at times when I'm watching TV, you know. Three times fool. Right. That drop was so iconic. Three times the protection. Three times fool. We did a sold out show at the more theater and everybody in the audience, it was like your hit song, yelled along with it. Yeah, he would play it. Yeah, I had, I love, I mean, there's so many. There's, you know, there's, I love, everyone loves the conversation I had with Drew when he was tuned out. It's a conversation that he would do. Because he would do conversations with Isaac Hayes. No, no, sometimes, and then Elliot Gould. Oh, yeah. Have conversations with Elliot Gould, Isaac Hayes and Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew tuned out and dialing it in. That's Dr. Drew in New York and he's looking, he's scrolling on his phone, pretending he's having a conversation with me. And then I was great. The morning zubits where he had to do the chopper effects and then he'd come in as the eye in the sky or something. Right. He had, he had a good, a really good improv sensibility as well. Yes, yes. And so, hey, I had, well, my mom saying, how would I possibly know that? It was, it was Timo Salani saying, wow, wow, that's amazing. That's amazing. That one, I don't know why that one cracked up. Brasca saying like, it's going to be a good show. Good show, good show, a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall, right. Yeah, you do not know how long you are. You cannot imagine how long you are. You want to know, now, not everyone knows the origin of a lot of this stuff, you know, Jane Goodall saying, you can't imagine how wrong you are. Well, you know, that's from, absolutely. She was on the show and you said to Jane Goodall, you ran away and hung out with apes. You must have hated your mother right now. She was, yeah, she was four, she said, she was like 14 or 13 and moved in with apes and I said, well, you must have hated your mom. She went, you can't imagine how, like, you are. Right out of the comments. That's a humor. Right. Yeah, that was good. - Mom's saying how would I possibly know that was her against Damacex mom in a trivia competition. - Yep. - Spoiler alert, my mom got crushed by Damacex mom who lived in a Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. - I think the way my mom lived in North Hollywood. - She didn't get the radio show in Beaver Falls. And she still crushed my mom. - Oh my God. - But the only thing funny about that is my mom's angles, how would I know that? - Really just like that. - That's the argument. - Well, no, the thing is, if somebody said, we're gonna do a trivia competition on the TV show, "Sign Feld," and you just kept going, how would I know that? - How could I possibly know that? - How would I possibly know that? It's like, well, you'd have to watch the show, and then you'd have the, then you'd be able to answer the question. My mom's angle was how could anyone know that? But then it was always spoiled by Damacex mom chiming in. Oh, Jerome has to name your black intern. Like, "Mom, aren't you?" She knows. That was one, I loved that one. I loved the one for some reason, where my dad said, "Oh, right." But it sounded like he said, "All right." Like it sounded like, "All right." - Hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - He went, "Oh yeah." - He went, "Oh yeah." - He went, "Oh yeah." - It was hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - That one was good. All the DAG stuff screaming was good. - He would open the show with the DAG scream. Every time we did a live show and they were always sold out, you would introduce Brian. He would never speak into the microphone. At the whole time, even on the show, he'd be started out with an opening drop. The opening drop and the closing drop were the highlights. - Well, yes, I agree. And he was at his best. We have Jane Goodall, by the way. - I'm guessing we played from the booth. I'll try it from the booth. - Maybe she just wanted to get you out of the house, though. - You know, this is all part of a ploy just to clear you out of this or boarding school. - You cannot imagine how wrong you are. - Well now so. - But a very, very close family. - All right, all right. - She is a serious drummer. Anyway, that was gold to Brian. You can't imagine how wrong you are. But let's not forget, look, the drops were great. And then the conversations with the drops were magical 'cause you had to give the right answer. But that was, but the next level that nobody even got to is when people were confused by his drops, thinking there, it was them. When Eric Stone's dream came in here and did, it's the wildest ride in the wilderness. And then he kept playing that and Eric was like, wait, is that from the, is that from Disneyland or was that me and he kept playing it and Eric, there was another one. I think I think he used to fool Bonaducci all the time too. And Bonaducci would have conversations with people who thought were in the room for so long. - Fuck you, bro. Like, when they got mad, it's been fun here. - Yeah, no, yeah. The Stone Street wildest ride in the wilderness was great 'cause he'd say, no, that was you. - Yes, yes, Stone Street was thoroughly confused. - You know what I mean? - And I, this is you. I may have been confused at a certain point after the fifth lap, I probably got confused as well. All right, I'm looking for a few of these drops. So Brian was this positive. I mean, he was always in a good mood. He was, he's kind of what you'd want. You'd kind of hope your kid had his demeanor, which is like friendly, easy, smart, positive and sort of looking forward to stuff. Like he, we're going to do this, we're going to go there, we're going to do that. He seemed satisfied, he seemed satiated. It wasn't a level of angst with Brian. - Right, right. I completely, I can, all right, let's see. I got my favorite dropped right here. Chris, when did you meet Brian? - I met Brian in 2010. I remember the first time I saw him, he sat in for the Corolla show and it was you, Brian and Teresa. And I remember my first thought was, this guy doesn't talk. Like he was just, you just brought him on, but he barely spoke. And then when we brought in the 360 and all the sound effects, as you said, Marlon and the Hylp and C. - Yeah, you guys got it. - I'll, I get it. I got to get a sticker off, a magnet off the refrigerator, something that's popped in my head. But let me throw a few, a few out. Story checks out, leave the jokes to Adam. - Sorry, that was, that was, - Anything Elliot, Gould. The, oh God, this is, this is, oh I got Dawson. They've reposted the JAP flap. - Right. - Your JAP flap. You're fat. Oh, Dr. Drew, doing the quiet, you're fat. - Remember that one, Alex Baldwin doing the quiet too. - Well, no, no, I mean, Drew did the, your fat in a kind of, quiet, Tony went, your fat. You know, that's a good one. Yeah, Alex Baldwin, quiet. Zoe. - Zoe was excited, this is Zoe. Zoe Bell from, from the Tarantino movies. I'm not that impressed in the, I'm not that impressed. - Yeah, and that was really an accent, right? Oh, you got the, did you just run out, Brad? - No, Chuck just brought it. - Oh, okay. - I was gonna run out and get it. - Yeah, I don't have my glasses, so. - Still, yeah, I mean, I remember all this. - All right, so on your fridge out here. - Brian would dominate Rotten Tomatoes. - Right. - 'Cause he had a great game show, Brain. He was on game shows. He was a trivia guy. He's the guy you'd want with the pub on trivia, right? - Right, right. And it was that same mind, and it's so, I don't know, bittersweet or something that that brain, that great brain got a tumor, you know? But it was so amazing. The same brain that made him great at trivia made him great at doing the drops. It's that kind of a, kind of a, detail processing power and real time. - Yeah, absolutely. - All right, we split game called Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, you got, whatever the Rotten Tomatoes, all right, I'll try to make this easy. If you said on the waterfront, what do you think the Rotten Tomato score is? And I said 80, and the actual score was 85, then I would get five points. And it's like golf, you wanted the lowest. The lowest score in Rotten Tomatoes is what you wanted. Now, you do five movies. So you can imagine that if you did five movies and you're off by three or four times five, then maybe you had a 15. Now, something like a 15 would be a very low score. - That would be very low. - I've done Rotten Tomatoes. I've been in the 80s and 90s and triple digits before just that far off. 'Cause it's easy because you take, I don't know, some film like Revenge of the Nerds or something and you liked it. You say 80%, it was 41%, the critics, and all right, you got 40 points. So, five point deduction, if you got a dead nuts on. - Yeah. - If on the waterfront was 85, and I said 85, I got a five point deduction. - Oh, that was rare, that's the critics score. It'd be rare, if someone just pulled out five random movies and said what the critics score is, you'd be hard pressed to get one of them right on. Brian got a score that'll never be equal again. - Correct, yeah. And we themed each Rotten Tomatoes game around a certain theme. So this one was some of Mike August's favorite and non-favorite movies, so it was August picks. - So number one, the Godfather, dead nuts on minus five point deduction. Number two is Diner, got it again, minus five. - And then it started getting weird. And then number three, Iron Man, minus five, got it right on. Number four, no country for old men, minus five again. And now this is just getting weird, right? - So he said 20, he said minus 20. - No, right. - Now, which again, was this, this was also back when Mike Lynch would write the games. And I would read them. And then you guys in the booth would get the pictures together. And there is zero, you hear this and you're like, he has to be cheating. There is zero chance in the world that he had any idea what these movies are. - We made sure nobody signing his movies were brought, I think we brought them in. - Yeah, I mean, to be fair to Brian, he really didn't want to know, I don't think, I mean, not to work, he wanted to know. He was like, I'll whoop you guys anyway, I don't need to know. You could know it, I'll still win. - So he said minus 20. And then the last one was Thor, the dark world. And he was only four points off to the iconic story. - So we got him lying to Thor on the dark run. - Minus 16. - Yeah, so the four comes off the 20. But, though, I don't know, the idea that you're playing a game that anyone could have a minus in front of their score, you could play, well, I did. I played the game a hundred times. I never had minus. I don't know the worst, my best all time would have been 20 or something, but not minus anything. - Wow. - Drops, you ready? Go. - Please. - Drunk, I'm drunk. - Yep, yep, yep. - Dude, are you gay? - Let's see, Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew and the Hizzie. Three times, we'll, yeah, I forgot about this one. You like Roller? Koster's mother fucker, that's the old name of gold. That's fuel house there, but later Hosen and she's big north of the border, the north of the border. Remember, don't be a one-upor. Like I said before, that was the one of the greatest conversations, social media people, a dawn of influencers. That was like, saddled with one of the rapes. She's like a big butt queen. She was going to give tips for dating or something and she didn't know where she were. How dare you try to get tips for dating out. Her whole thing was like, she was like, my dating tip, don't be a one-upor. And she kept to say, that's all she had in the tank, like don't be a one-upor. And then at some point, she said, no, she's going to get pressed. At some point, I went, all right, so final thoughts. And she's like, be a one-upor. And then I go, be a one-upor? And she goes, no, don't be a one-upor. Like I said before, that dumb people misspeak and then accuse you of mistaking when you mishear them. Oh, she was great. Situationally, the drops, they were always perfect and enlightened and alive into the conversation, but that one would always be played. And it was enough kind of an inside joke because it didn't always work with the guest. Yeah. But it always worked with us. They're great. Now they're great. Not Brian Bishap. That was a great one. Nor McDonnell, that guy sounds hot. Yeah. Yeah. There's so many. There's so many. There's so many. God. And just want to shout out to all the listeners sending these in and just who have been like sending nice, very nice tributes. Yeah. Well, yes. Daddy stopped talking. That's a nice one. And Sunny, too. Sunny, Sunny's became a ringtone, made him rich. Yeah. I got a colossal of that money back. Yeah, it's just a waste of my time. Yeah, this is Timo Salani. Wow. That sounds awesome. Wow. Sorry to everyone who doesn't know what we're talking about, but it makes me laugh every now. Oh, here's not way. We got Dawson in the jab flap. Oh, this is Brian just doing his own things. Sorry. You can turn it up. Yeah. So, all right. Everyone listening Dawson said jab flap a week earlier or whatever. Test Dr. Drew. This before party. This, uh, doing a little bar hop in with the bald rise. That sounds something that flips your cookie, Drew. Oh, this doctor drew. It sounds pretty exciting, right? Fans getting together. Sure. By the way, you're in Kentucky where we're better place to have a little bourbon, right, Drew? Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, yeah, I don't know. There's going to probably be a college, probably be a game on the TV. Good point. Maybe get some finger foods, some appetizers, a jalapeno popper or something like that. IPA. How about it, Drew? Right. The annual 40. Oh, wait, it goes into it. What's going on? Well, this, but I got a question-flesh story and it's going to be a little bit metaphor. Oh, fine chap. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's the one with Joe. Coise. The chap is the chap flat one. I'll tell you what, I'll buy you a second. Um, Andrew will play Gina grad who couldn't be in, like I said, she's traveling. I said, well, don't you just put some of your thoughts down and we'll, we'll slug them into the show and we'll listen to that right now. Hi, this is Gina grad. Um, I was a co-host along with Brian on the Adam Corolla show for eight years and then co-host of the show that we hosted together the Brian and Gina show for LA Magazine. Um, also friends with his beautiful wife and, um, you know, happy to call them real friends. I don't have anything eloquent to say in any profound order. I just, all of my memories with Brian are flooding together. Like the first time he came on my old podcast with Randy Wang, what feels like a million years ago to promote his brand new book shrinkage and letting me hold his arm when Mike August would drive like an asshole to quote Adam Corolla through the windy backroads of Napa when we were constantly touring doing shows back there. Yelling out, boy, am I gay in the middle of a show after me telling the team that women pretty much let any gay man see them topless. Being my official date on at least one of the Corolla cruises since our significant others weren't with us. He would dress in one of his signature suits and crazy socks and escort me to the dining room every night. I love that. We traveled all over the world together by land, sea, and air and he was just so easy, incredibly chivalrous, measured, always with a dose of humor that had just enough bite to it that you know he got away with something. Branching off after the Corolla show to do the Brian and Gina show was just such a lovely departure for us. Getting to have a long form conversation with each other and getting to know each other that much better after being supporting cast members on the animal Corolla show for so many years. And he was always someone whose lead I could follow, whether it was in studio or out in the world. He always looked like he belonged wherever he went and knew exactly where to go. I would happily follow behind him knowing that no matter what was about to happen, Brian had it taken care of and what a relief those moments are in a world like this. And I don't know what else to say. I don't know exactly what to do, but as his unbelievable wife, my dear friend Christy reminded me there are no perfect words and saying the wrong thing is better than saying nothing at all. I don't know anyone who could have endured what Brian went through, including myself, with the unbelievable resolve that he had. I remember when he got to tell Travis Tritt on the Corolla show what his song it's a great day to be alive meant to him, that he listened to it all the time when he got diagnosed and when he would go for treatment. I remember him telling us all in a strange turn of events that we should sweat the small stuff. That's how we know we're alive. I remember that awful prank he played on us when he announced that Christy was pregnant, basically making it sound like she had some sort of quote unquote growth inside of her and that she only had nine months. until they had a baby. I remember screaming at him and crying and wrapping my arms around the relief of that horrible joke. I also learned very valuable lessons from him like don't ever flush a public toilet with your shoe because to quote Brian those people aren't sociopaths. Those people are psychopaths. Brian gave us all so much and we should be so grateful for that because of his chosen career we have so much of him to celebrate and to listen back on. He was the ultimate point shitter, the king of the Rotten Tomatoes game and an absolute rock of a human being and I know it's cliche but it's unbelievably accurate to say that the world has lost a very special person and now it's our job to live the way Brian did with extreme dignity, humor and just a touch of smugness when we know we're right. I love you Brian and we will wrap our arms around your beautiful wife and daughter and we won't let go. Please rest easy. I love you. I miss you terribly. Thank you for everything. All right and look a great, I think a good message is that Gina and Bald and everyone here everyone has remained friends always, you know, over the years and happy to hear updates on everyone's family and everything else. All right, here's Dawson said jab flap into a microphone a week before this. So this is a recording of Dawson and this is the kind of stuff Brian would do. All these guys are equally scary. The guys I want to mess with least in order. I don't want to mess with Dawson. What's the guy wearing? Jam flaps. That's right. That guy is trained to do bad things. It is whatever they're called. That's right. Dawson said it's a celebrated. So that guy don't want to mess with Chuck Norris. Definitely want to mess with but a little less than and then whatever I got. That guy. I think I got my best chances with the bottle because there's a good chance he's stoned. He's clearly a distant third in terms of in shape, physical in shape. Like I can run the dude. Worst comes to worse. Not doing that with Chuck Norris. I'm not doing that with a jab flap. That guy. I got a question for Dawson. What do they call in Tokyo? What do they call labias? Jab flap. Yeah, Brian. That was interesting. Dawson, what do you call a Japanese man with extra skin on the side of his stomach? Jab flaps. Oh my God. All these guys are. Yeah. Well, that was Brian. I don't think anyone. Brian wouldn't want anyone feeling sorry for him. I don't think he didn't. He just didn't have that gear. He could have really played this one up. He could have got a lot of mileage over. "Hey man, you know, I got an issue." And so, like, cut me some slack. He didn't like that. I don't, he never played that card. I didn't seem interested in that. - When he would bring it up, it would be as a joke. Like if he got something wrong, like, "Oh, well, you know, I do have a brain too." - Yeah, yeah. He never wanted anything. He never got any mileage out of it. Any other human being would have used it to whatever. I mean, just if they were late, they wouldn't want, "Sorry, I had to go to the, whatever." Like, he never used it. He never used it. I don't think he'd want anyone feeling sorry for him. I, like, there'd be times when he'd come in, he didn't walk, right? He didn't, sometimes you would hear it in his speech, but he would never make excuses for it. He would never apologize for it. - Yeah, I make a joke or two, you know, I hesitated sometimes forwarding a joke or something, you know, 'cause it's a heavy time. But I was like, I don't know, Brian would have wanted jokes. - In memories and laughter, that's who he was. - I mean, that's what, that's kind of what his movies, upcoming movies about, it's just finding the laughter in all this, we did laughs for "Bulled Brian" twice. - Yeah, we did laughs for "Bulled Brian" and we did laughs with "Bulled Brian." - Yeah, by the way, I was thinking about the conversation I had with my baby doll with my agent at the time. It was the greatest conversation ever. I don't know how I, I don't know where these, I don't know how I track these people, but I was like, we're going to the whale seary, Bell. We're doing a big benefit. I don't know, 1,500 seats, 100 bucks a ticket. We're gonna raise a whole bunch of money for "Bulled Brian" and he's like, I'm not gonna let Jimmy do that. I go, why not? And he goes, he's gonna let him embarrass himself in front of an empty arena. Bad religion is playing and I don't know, Boston's or something, I'm like, why is it empty? Well, who's gonna go? Well, my fans will go to the show and then we'll raise the money, he's like, oh, come on. I'm not gonna let him embarrass, I'm not gonna put Jimmy out there and put him in that situation. - Maybe nobody's gonna buy tickets. - And it was a murderous row of comedians, Dana Gould, Jay Moore. - I just remember him just having, he was explaining to me that no one was gonna go to the event that I had that I was performing at. And he said, why would people go? - Right. - And I'm like, that's a weird conversation to have with a client, just give me one reason. Also, the guy's got a brain tumor. Let's just say it's only half full. Then he'll get 75 gram. And Jimmy only lives 20 minutes. Jimmy's happy to go is what I'm saying. That's the craziest conversation I've ever had. - I was always really grateful to Brian for doing that because as soon as he, you know, he had to do, he had to learn standup and he had to come up with that. - That's the second show. - Okay, yeah. - I think the first show was just, I mean, it was Joe McCale. And it was all the good people in the world coming out and we raised a lot of money and we're happy to give that to the family. And that's a good thing. The second show, he learned standup and did standup. - Yeah, and it, I saw him doing this and I'm like, I have to do this. He just lit a fire under me. Like if he can do this, what am I doing? - Yeah. - So, I don't know. I feel like this is, I, that we say, you know, a celebration, but I do feel like a sort of celebration of Brian. I'm not as, I'm melancholy about it as I thought. I'm really just, I'm celebrating the guy. I'm listening, I'm going back and reading. I spent two hours last night just going through every drop and laughing and like hearing it my head and all the vents and his colorful socks. I could never understand, but it was all socks. - All part of his pageantry. And so, listen, he beat the odds, he had a life. He lived more in the 18 years, honestly, than a lot of people do in their whole life. - Absolutely. - I mean, been there, done that, had a great supporting cast, that great friends. - He gave us a lot. - He gave us so much. - He gave us a lot. - And the second most Adam Crowell show, appearance is right under Adam. - Oh yeah. So, go out and get his book shrinkage. Go out to Amazon to just get that. Also, his movie, his docs coming soon. - Growth, which you're in, Dr. Drew is in. So, before any of this was even happening, they were doing a screening at the Grove this Saturday. - This Saturday. - For growth, and just, if you want more information on it, it's Brian's movie about cancer, but finding the funny within it, and how he, and how he should be laughing. - Oh, I mean, the notion that he passed a week before the screening is just, that's total insanity. So, it's gonna be the most laughin' about it. - I get, I could, I could, I could see that. - But yeah, it's all that timing. It's just go to growthmovie.com for tickets to Saturday screening. Let's fill out that theater. I'm goin' Dawson's goin' - Yeah. - Yeah, I'll try to go as well. I have no idea if I'm in town or not, but if I am, I'll be there. All right gentlemen, what can we say? Viacondeos, brother. - Yes. - Love you, Brian. - Love you.