5/2/25 - Chad Prather

Chad Prather joins The Anchormen

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now it's time for the Anchormen Podcast with Matt Yates
and Dan Ball.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, welcome back into another edition of the Anchormen Podcast.
I'm Dan Ball alongside Riley Lewis, another one of our
anchor men here at the One America News Network, along
with Matt Gates. Do we have any more men that
do shows here or the rest ladies? By the way,
because you've got Chanel Rhon after Matt at ten pm,
he's nine nine to eight your six news at seven. Oh,

(00:38):
Chris Boyle has that late one. But that's more of
like this. This is more like late night comedy style
talkie show thing, not like a political talk show cast
like you and I and Matt and Chanell do. That's
it though, then, right, that's all the the anchor men
that we have here, That's right? Yeah, yeah, hi.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You man, brother, good busy, lots of workerund the house
and we just just installed the ring actually, which is
a double edged sword. I'm learning now because I get
paid the ring.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh the ring cameras? Yes, how many did you get?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just one?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Just wait, that's not that's not installing the ring? Well
well okay, and by the way, I went with the
blink only because I saw an article when we were
getting cameras two years ago through our home. My wife
was like, you saw the article that that ring can
be hacked, right, and that somebody Yeah, no, ready for this.
Somebody has hacked into ring cams and was watching people

(01:31):
like you know, go potty do the hibbity dibbity whatever. Yeah,
Blink has not been hacked yet, because if they're watching
the seven cameras I have, you're gonna get a hell
of a show at my house. AnyWho. So you installed
a ring.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Can singular singular, but it's very sensitive and we get
notified anytime someone's walking their dog or someone drops a
package off. It's it's too much, So all day long,
I'm just getting noted of the cations. It's it's frustrating.
So I don't know. But Blink hasn't been hacked, so
maybe I should switch, is what it sounds like. Before
there's a mishapro.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Get used to it? Do you want to see my
phone when we go on vacate. We just took a
couple days off over the weekend to go do a
speech in Indiana. That's right, just leaving Thursday night and
coming home Sunday night, we had somewhere near twenty one
hundred videos on the seven cameras, pardon, in three days
between your are dog okay, between the inside dog running

(02:32):
around room to room inside cams, then the outside cameras,
and again we have about three acres picking up the
outside dogs, outside critters, people pulling up to my gate, Amazon,
whatever it may be. Yeah, almost twenty two hundred videos
in seventy two hours. So you're you're complaining to me
about one camera and a couple of videos you got
today alert on your phone, Riley, shut.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Up, just kidding, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
So we were talking about Boyle and how his show
is different than and Matt's and Chanel's and that ours
is more politically angled and his is more of that
late night style. And I'm excited about our guest tonight
when we get to him here in just a few minutes,
because he kind of like me over the years. He
is a man that wears many hats. He has been

(03:17):
and is comedian, a talk show host, and podcaster, along
with a country music artist. I mean, you're trying to
get there right, because I know you play the guitar,
your lifelong dream. You told us several episodes ago was
to become the next Rush Limbaugh. You want to host
your own talk show, politically conservative, motivate you do that.

(03:38):
So the last thing you got is stand up? Yeah?
Any good at that?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ray No? And that's a tough feel to break into.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It is.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
So I have a lot of respect for people who
go far with that.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
And I do it well.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's a grind, it is. It is about for club
night after night.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a lot I have. I am friends with a
lot of stand up comedians and actors, and I have
gone to a many stand up routines over the years.
I have never tried it myself. Would would you try it?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I would on an amateur night?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Would bro?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know you're saying this and it's on the record
now forever because the internet never forgets. So now that
you said that, you know what I'm going to do
to you. Right, there's like one, there's at least five
five comedy there's at least five comedy I shouldn't call
them stores because there's actually one called the Comedy Store.
But there's five comedy venues in and around the San

(04:34):
Diego area that I know of. Okay, Laugh Factory Comedy Store,
the American Comedy Club, there's one over in the rural
part over here by Tia Santa and Claremont another one.
There's at least five. A lot of them have amateur Night.
You can get up and do a five minute set
or something. You know where I'm going with this. I
do if I call you out, if I do it.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
That means you got to do it. You got a deal.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Man. He's very sadden on this.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, you got to deal.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
You're not You're not like, I'm not feeling this. Riley,
Am I feeling it? You said, yeah, I would give
it a try, and give it a try, Well, I
will you, and then we can put it on the podcast.
Maybe not on the talk shows. Okay, okay, yeah, not
on the talk shows. We don't want to lose viewers.
That's one of the main reasons that the Herring family

(05:20):
and the owners of our network Here to En wanted
to through these podcasts is to try and drive more
viewership to the talk shows, which I agree, because people
get to hear us and our guests and get to
know us in a different way. Along with the guests.
There's a lot of these guests coming on the podcast.
Our guests we've already had on our political talk shows,
and so I feel like, and you see what happened
in the twenty four election, people say that Trump doing

(05:42):
those podcasts and other politicians that won doing podcasts. Getting
to the one two three hour chit chat with a
person just sitting across from them way different completely than
doing a five or ten minute even an hour long
interview on our talk shows, where it's very the formal
styles sitting across you know, I've done President Trump six
seven times and it's very formal. But when he sat

(06:04):
down for over three hours with Joe Rogan, yep, I mean,
people got to really see a side of Trump that
they didn't before they did.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
And it was a huge mistake for Kamala to not
do that. Joe extended money offers to her and she
just would not do it. That was a huge tactical
error on her part.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh a lot of people do becided Rogan too. Yeah,
THEOVONN a bunch of those guys that Trump did, said
we'll give you a fair airtime, come on, let's go.
She would because could you see her trying to handle
three hours? Bro? Are you she can't handle three minutes
without sixty Minutes editing it to make her look better
because she's so damn dumb. Yeah, and then we saw
in the news what last week or so, the executive

(06:41):
producer of sixty Minutes resigns and Scott Pelley, their main anchor,
comes on sixty Minutes this past Sunday and is all like, oh,
we loved him. He was the captain of this ship
for forty years. And you know, because our parent company,
Paramount is trying to do a merger deal worth billions,
they're kissing Trump's ass and sucking up the administration. That's

(07:02):
why he was pushed out. No, I'll tell you why
he was pushed out because you deceptively edited that interview
with Kamalo right before the election. Trump's so and your
ass for a billion dollars. The American public don't believe
you anymore. At CBS, in sixty minutes, your ratings went
way down, and so we probably got pressured to resign.
Those are the facts, over your feelings, mister Pelly. But

(07:22):
they don't want to talk about facts at CBS.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Do they own No, they don't. They also don't want
to accept the fact that they've killed their own credibility,
and podcasting is also the future. Legacy media is dying,
it's headed for extinction, and they don't know what to
do about it. But Joe Rogan, Theovon, Tim Dillon, all
those podcasters, they are the future. That is where this
world is going.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Younger people don't like boring talk shows. I mean, I
know that there are folks out there that watch our
show that are under fifty, under forty, under thirty. I
might stop there, but the majority of teens and twenty
year olds want to watch podcasts. Yeah, they don't want
to watch their parents or their grandparents traditional media and
turn on on a Sunday night at eight or nine

(08:02):
o'clock whenever it comes on sixty minutes and have that
guy sitting there on the stool with the sixty minutes
logo and the hi, I'm Scott Pelley, Hi, I'm a
lying piece of anyway. You know how that every person, Yeah,
I'm Leslie Stall, I'm Doda Do, I'm don Dad and
fifty minutes and this week we're gonna lie to you more.

(08:25):
Nobody wants to see that crap anymore. Guys, you're dead.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, I know it's time to move on. Well, the
podcast is way more authentic. It doesn't feel as programmatic
or produced or just forced.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, we don't have a teleprompter right here.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
You have to see what Trump is like just behind
the scenes, day to day Trump. What's he like on
a Sunday afternoon, what's he like when he's just reading
the paper or on the golf course. That's what people
really voted for that Trump.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, and I think that that viewers are a lot
smarter these days. They understand technology, yes, and so they
know that the talk show has producers, writers and teleprompters,
and so they're out there going, how do I know
what that dude just said or that person they had on?
Is being authentic? That's the word use the beginning. They
want people to be authentic. Yes, and a podcast, there's no.

(09:05):
We can't sing the cameras around because these cameras are fixed,
so there's no one out here. There's not a human
running the cameras like the old days. But if you
spin it around, we don't have teleprompters. Okay, there's yes,
this is in our ear so we can hear our
guests speak and if the director tells us to shut up,
out of time. But other than that, nobody's in our
ear producing this and telling us say this, don't say that,

(09:26):
ask them this. And when we bring our guests on
for almost an hour, which we're about to do with
our guest tonight, I don't prep them and go here's
what I'm going to ask you, here's what I like
you to say. Like, this is not choreographed. This is
an hour and I hope you like it of me
and Riley hanging out having some whiskey, talking with some
really cool interesting people musicians, artists, actors, comedians, politicians. We've

(09:54):
already had all those on and we're only a couple
months in.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yes, absolutely, and look, this is whiskey. There's a power
to just long form the whole format. You don't you
don't just get talking points from people. There's something to that.
There's a real power to that. And Trump Trump that
works for him very well.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, he loves it. Let me tell you, I want
to get a word in edgeways with that man. Just
sit there for an hour and just try to bs
with him and don't have anything planned out. It's hard,
but I love it, and I love the guy, and
I love our guest tonight. So let's segue into that, right,
And the only thing I ever have, and I think
you and I once a while, is will write and
you can't read my writing. It's horrific, But I will

(10:28):
just write a couple notes of things I want to
ask the guest. So in my brain and as my
wife tells me, with my ADHD or add or whatever
the hell I have, I sometimes lose my train of
thought and things I'm trying. You know, you get wrapped
up and you're talking to these these awesome guests, whether
it's been Dean Kine or John rich or Ted NuGen

(10:50):
or whatever, and just like you, you know, you get engross
when you're asking them about music, because you like to play,
you like to write, you like to sing. Right. I
don't do any of those things, trust me, you don't.
But I want to get certain things in and I
forget him. So I do do a few notes. But
that's it. I just I wanted to be authentic and
real with the viewers of this podcast, so they know

(11:11):
what we're doing with this thing, and why we're doing
it and where do we come from.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yes, it's all organic. Nothing's forced, nothing's prepped, nothing's pre planned.
It's not staged. And that's that's the thing. That's why
people don't trust in legacy media, but they inherently trust
in podcasters.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
There you go, There you go.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Which I'd like to get our next guest thoughts actually
about that.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh, we're gonna hear a lot from him. We've still
got another fifty minutes to go. Let's get to it.
Talk about a guy that wears a lot of hats.
And everybody was joking this week during Trump's cabinet meeting
because Elon showed up with two hats on his infamous
dark Maga he loves to wear. But then he had
a Gulf of America hat on over that, and Trump

(11:47):
teased him about it and said he's the only got
get away with wearing two hats. I allow it, blah
blah blah, and Elan's like, well, yeah, I wear so
many damn hats. I might as well physically wear the hats,
so our guest tonight he does. So here's his hats.
He's a stand up comic, he's a country music artist,
and he's a talk show host and podcaster. So he's
got three hats. He's doing more than you and I
let's bring him on our good friend By the ways,

(12:09):
you've been on your show yet?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, see, now this is something that's gonna help. Then
every podcast we bring somebody on it brings a new
guest to Riley's Talk Show. The real story of Riley Lewis.
So we're gonna fix that by the end of this show,
and we're gonna get my good friend comedian, country star, podcaster,
talk show host Chad Prayther on the program. Pray there,
What are you doing? Boy?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I just want to show up on Riley's ring cam. Maybe.
I mean it's California, so optional.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
It is the land. Hey, bro, We're the land of
fruits and nuts? Oh my god? Is that all You're
gonna show up wearing?

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Just many hats?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Man?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
I'm telling you, I got my little Uh you guys
in California know what those are?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
The pink vagina hat.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Why do you have one of those? Did you take that.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Off someone or no? I bought it.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
I actually bought a few of them. You know, I
want to fit in. I like to fit in the crowd.
And so you know, first time I ever went to
a first time I ever went to a Me Too rally,
I was in Grand Junction, Colorado. Geez and uh we
we had a show and we came out for we
went to breakfast. The next morning, me and the crew,
and we came out on the street and we were
in a parade. And I didn't know what they were doing,
but uh I liked their hats, so I walked with them,

(13:27):
and uh I found out pretty quick they didn't like
me at all. I mean, I was like this, I
was the essence of toxic masculinity.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
And I thought it was weird because you know.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
They don't only they don't just wear the hats, they
wear the full body costume, which is weird to me. Like,
I don't know where you get one of those costumes,
and like dudes are dressed up like that. I don't
think you go to spirit Halloween stores, like hey, I
want to be a rope, you know, like a vagina commercial.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
There were dudes dressed up like a full vagina.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, which we that's why we bring back bullying guys,
because we should have beat that off of you in
seventh grade at recess. You know, I mean, do you
go to the Halloween store like I want to dress
It's like an RB sandwich or you know, like and
the irony of people with their pets with the hats on,
the irony of walking a wiener dog.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
In one of these parades. I was not lost on me.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
You see where he goes. We're talking about roast beef
sandwiches and wiener dogs. This is what you get when
you have Chad Brather on your show. Two minutes. He'll
keep it PG for the talk show. This is a podcast.
I told him you can push him PG thirteen to.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
R down there.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
I'll show you the cliff. I won't push you. I'll
show you the cliff. I'm not going to push anybody over.
But I will say this about the ring cameras. So
my longtime tour manager, my road manager, Party Foul, Steve Uh.
He's been with me on the road for a decade,
and Party Foul he just he just installed the ring cameras.
It became like a week end project for him when
I don't know's he can see everything. And so he's

(14:51):
got a whole TV dedicated to it. Every now and
the you know, just send me a thing. And because what
happens with everybody getting swatted, I'm like, bro, nobody's gonna
swat you like, you know he's coming for you. Somebody
a couple of weeks ago knocked on his door at
like eight o'clock at night and they just left a
long stem rose on his doorstep. When he got paranoid,
and he was like, don't touch it. It's probably got

(15:12):
fentanyl or something. And I'm like, bro, you're so paranoid.
So anyway, a few days later it became the Ring project.
I have the blink cameras, Dan, and so what I
do is I have them so that when I come
in the house, I turn them around because I set
them off for my dogs set them off.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, sure, all the time.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
And but I but when I go to bed at night,
in case I get swatted, I make sure.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's pointed right at the front door.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yep. So I've got him front door, property, front gate
inside the house. We actually got them Chad a couple
of years ago because my wife when we were going
to I think it was Maui for vacation right before
the fires, like the week before you were there, Yeah,
the week before while he ate the Tommy Bahamas in
Lahina the week before. Anyway, she said, my dog's getting older.

(15:56):
She has a weiener dog. Yes, she's had him or
fourteen years. This month, She's like, I want to be
able to keep an eye on Mo, that's her dog,
while we're on vacation for two weeks. We have somebody
come every day and spend time with him and feed
him and whatever. But she's like, I just want the
cameras there for peace of mind because he's old. So
we got the inside ones there and then I'm like, well,

(16:17):
for security, we need more. So then we added more
and more more, and then we moved two three months
ago to this ranch outside of a condo. Now we
have space between us and the bad guys. And Chad,
you're right with all the swatting that's going on with conservatives, Yeah,
I think we're up like seven or eight now.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Caps.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, I have a few.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Well, between the swatting the crime, people just being crazy,
you never know what someone's gonna try.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
And I said, jerk off neighbors. I've already had two
neighbors come to my gate and go, why are you shooting?
And wow, because it is California, Ched, I don't live
in Texas like you. Nobody comes to your gate. I'm
sure if they come to your gate, Chaed, they're probably going, hey,
y'all want you shoot? And can I shoot with you?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
In California, Chad yea for the opportunity right.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Where we live. They come to my gate and go, hey,
what's your shooting at? And I'm like, what's it? Any
of your business? Well, my wife's getting worried. This is
a true conversation. I went about what about all the shooting?
I go tell her not to and he's like, what
you want me to tell my wife? Not? Yeah, I'm
fifty years old. I've been shooting since i was five.

(17:19):
I'm shooting at ground squirrels and gophers nowhere near your
house an acre away. So tell your wife to stop
effing worrying about it unless you got something else. I'm
going to go back and shoot some more squirrels. And
I'm standing there in my robe and slippers at the
gate with a rifle on my shoulder. True story. Nice.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
You don't have to deal with that in Texas, do you? No?

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I don't deal with that.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I mean, you know, I've got a little small arsenal,
but I try to respect the neighbors. They're a little
distance offt but I do you know, I add the
suppressors like I have this beautiful gun because I have
some we have skunks, like big skunks, like the size
of a of a border collie out here. And so
I have a suppressed twenty two that's just whispered quiet.
I love shooting that thing. It's like a little staple
gun that goes off.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Just let me guess, are you are you? What's the
shirts again? Are you stacking up the shells? Hells, you're
stacking up shells. I love my buddies at grunts.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Press is even legal in California. Hell no, I was
gonna say, I.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Can't have you. No, you can't. They don't want us
to have any guns. Did we not see this week, gentlemen,
to get on guns. Did we not see the Comifournia
Senator Adam Schiff, which I cannot believe he's even a senator. Now,
seriously bring up the whole twenty twenty five assault weapons ban.
We need to rectify. It's been gone for how many years?

(18:34):
Twenty one years? Four? Yeah, well they put it in effect. No,
they put it in effect ninety four. It expired in four,
twenty one years ago. And now you've got pencil Neck
trying to bring back a ban and I'm not using
that word. I said it once because that we're calling it.
Ban your AR fifteen, to ban your rifles, folks, they're

(18:54):
not assault rifles unless a human assaults someone with it. Yes, anyway,
your thoughts on that for you a piece of trash
trying to take AR fifteen's chad.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I don't know how you guys do it. First of all,
living in California.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
You know, I almost moved to California in two thousand
and then the folks in Hollywood when I was doing
the sitcom stuff and doing stuff with Lionsgate and various
producers and I was represented and managed out of there,
they wanted me to move to California back in twenty
nineteen because to be closer to the networks or to
the studios. And I thought, there's no way I'm moving
out there. And thank god I didn't entertain that because

(19:28):
then COVID hitting the world shut down. But I can
remember going out back then where you know, you couldn't
have anything that had a pistol grip on it. You
couldn't have anything like a shotgun. Maybe you could have,
but it couldn't be a shotgun at a pistol grip
here in Texas. Like I've got a Keltech twelve gage,
you know, one of those, like you call it the
I call it like the jeep Wrangler of firearms because
you can just outfit it with gear. I have a

(19:50):
suppressor on the end of that. Why what anybody put
a suppressor on the end of a sawt off shotgun?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Because in Texas you can.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, you don't ask w you would have because you can.
I love that. I you know what, I wish I
could have put that on my twelve gauge because when
I first moved in, I didn't have a good varmint gun.
But I just got one last week and I was
shooting the squirrels with a twelve gage And so because
all my guns and all my rifles and shotguns are
large caliber and my pistol, so I'm like, what am
I going to shoot damn little squirrel with? Or gophers? Right?

(20:20):
I got traps out there and it's working. We've trapped
about thirty gophers. Only got like one or two scrolls
with the shotgun because you can get close enough to them,
they're quick. So this past week, Chad, I got a
Savage Bold Action seventeen and my buddy gave me a
bunch of these ballistic tips for a seventeen, which I
we don't know what a seventeen is. It's like shooting

(20:41):
at twenty two, except they're moving at about three thousand
foot per second, I think because it's got more powder
behind it. And if you get the ballistic tips, which
are a little more expensive, less than a buck of shot,
and you shoot ground squirrels and gophers with those. Let
me tell you what, Chad, you want to have some fun,
get a seventeen ballistic tips and go at it. It's

(21:02):
a lot of fun. I've already got five in the
last four days.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
And it just de bones the animal, which is just
just it goes ahead and filase it, which is beautiful.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, my, my, my labs are getting upset because there's
less to chaw on after I drop one, and then
I go sickond boys and they go out and get
it and it's in their mouth. They come back. You're like,
where's your squirrel left?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, it tastes like powder burn.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I want to know, and this will lead into a
lot of questions from my my buddy Rilly over here
about your music. But I want to know how Chad
Pray there started all this, So I want you to
back up, okay and give us some childhood information. Where
did Yeah, I know everybody hates this crap. Where'd you
grow up? And then what hat did you wear? First?

(21:50):
Because how do you get into your singing country music?
Pray there? I see you post about all the time
you're touring and doing stand up comedy in different states,
which I can't believe they allow you to do that
since you're one of those mega crazy cultas and you
do a talk show a podcast too. So what came first?
Because I have a feeling that you like myself and
I'm about you rilly. When I was a little kid,

(22:12):
the neighborhood kids' parents would call me Dan the entertainer
because I was always running around trying to do something.
At five or six years old, I would take the
paper towel tube and put aluminum foil on the top
make it look like a microphone, and I was doing comedy.
I would sing, or I would do skits from TV
shows and movies like SNL and repeat them. So I
was kind of doing all three as a kid, being

(22:33):
an entertainer, and Chad, that's what you are, so back
us up. Where'd you grow up, Where'd you get this inspiration?
And which came first? And then Riley's got a lot
of music questions for you, because.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
He as an artist.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
I do so I first of all, I never said
thanks for having me on, guys, I've been looking forward
to it.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
This is fun. I grew up in Augusta, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I was on television for the first time when I
was three years old, reciting a Bible story that I'd
listened to on a record over and over again.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
And I was on a local.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Ministries television station and reciting that thing. I even did
the sound effects with the trumpets and David Slay and
Goliath and the you know, all the stuff and the
crowds cheering.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
And so all of this stuff. And then I grew up.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
I I was a baseball player, so you ask which
hat I wore. I was a baseball player, went to
the University of Georgia. I was going to do broadcast journalism.
One thing led to another, and I ended up. I
ended up. I always tell people, I said, I grew
up in a family of cowboys, but I was the
least cowboy of all of them. And I grew up
in a family of musicians, and I was the least
musician of all of them. But I was the only

(23:29):
person in my life that was ever able to take
those two things and make any damn money out of it.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
So, you know what, they can kiss it, you know.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
But when I was in college, I started going to
Third world countries. So I'd go to places like Nigeria
and all these places.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
And I just wanted to go. I just wanted to go.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
So when I got a break from school or whatever,
I would I would take off and I would go
to I met the mother of my children. I have
four children. I met the mother of my children in Nigeria.
So I went all the way to West Africa to
meet a white girl from Olly Obama and.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
So we, uh, we got married.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
We were married for fourteen years and had four incredible children.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
They're, you know, ages eighteen up to twenty seven. Now.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
It's so I bounced around a little bit, did a
number of things. I was always sort of a sales guy.
And I'm like you, Dan, like you talk about we
were just born entertainers, right.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
I can remember going to my grandmother's Christmas parties and
she always wanted me to do imitations of Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, just I would do these imitations.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Similarity, how old are you pray there fifteen.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I'm fifty two. I'm mty two, So I just barely
got you a little old.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
So much keep going starting we uh.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know, I I always sort of knew that I
was born to be in front of a microphone or
behind a microphone rather and on a camera. It's so,
you know, people used to tell me that, so you
have I create these things, and people say you have
too much time on your hands. Well, thank god I did,
because the creative juices, you know, they were flowing. And
now I tell people, I said, yeah, now I use
all that time to stand in line at the bank
and make deposits from all this cash we bring and

(25:00):
baby and god bless free market capitalist. Yeah that cash
flo I wound up doing.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I wound up doing a radio program.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
I was doing radio, and then when social media came along,
I saw social media as an outlet for humor, and
so I'd post jokes and things like that. Then I
had a television network reach out and they said, hey,
we've got a new show concept for cable that we
want you to come in and do a screen test
for it's a travel show that you'd be hosting this
humor based and so I wound up doing this television

(25:30):
show for three years and then for three seasons. And
then in the first season of that, I thought to myself,
you know, social media is sort of like owning your
own television network. At the time, Facebook was wanting to
be like YouTube, and so they were promoting videos, and
so I went viral.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
My mother called me on the phone and she said,
I heard you're sick. And I said no, Mom. She said,
well you went viral, you know. And that's what they
told me at church and Mom and I said, Mom,
they're talking about my Facebook and my Twitter. She said,
I was forty two at the time. She said, you're
too old to be touching your Twitter.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Stop.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
And so I didn't have the nerve to tell her
about my you know, snapchat. But we went viral, right
And then I had some comedian friends that said, why
don't you do comedy And I said, well, I'm not
a comic and they said, screw it, man, people are
selling ticket. If you're selling tickets putting butts in the seats,
do it. And so back in twenty fifteen, I started

(26:21):
doing that, and sure enough people showed up. And I
wanted to honor the craft of comedy. So I really
worked hard to build, you know, comedy and been doing
that touring full time for a decade now.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
And I always said, you know, what is my shtick?

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Like if you see that clip you're playing there, you'll
notice there's a guitar on stage that was in front
of about forty five hundred people.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
And I said, you know, I said, what's the stick?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
You know?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
And I said, what can I do?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
I said, well, I'm a storyteller, But I said, what
if I could take the guitar and use the guitar
to tell jokes? Like why just tell a joke when
you can sing one? And so I started writing little
songs that had a punchline and had funny courses to them.
And so I started doing that, and you know, I
I it evolved into this thing which was kind of crazy,

(27:05):
and it went backwards once COVID hit. The first thing
that opened back up for venues was comedy clubs, because
technically a comedy club is a restaurant. You know, you
could you could survive in a restaurant, you'd have to
walk in with a mask on. But if you lowered
your ass seven inches in a chair, which you were
invincible down there, and you could take the mask off.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, chat out here. You know what they did. I
don't know if you heard of this. A bunch of
comedians out here during COVID you actually got pretty smart.
In Californialy San Diego, they started doing the backyard Comedy
Tour and they would find people big houses and put
chairs up in backyards and have them do it. Then
they eventually got permission from the cities to do it
in parks. My wife and I would take blankets and
chairs and go to a city park here in San

(27:45):
Diego in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. Wow, there'd be
three four, five hundred people wouldhow up on a hillside
in a park and a dinky little stage and a
bunch of comedians and some decent names would come down
from La that you've seen on Comedy Central really and
the Tonight Show with Jimmy Oh Yeah, and they would
come to San Diego and do these back yard or
park comedy tours. Twenty just like there'd be hundreds, it

(28:05):
would come out and like I said, decent names. My
buddy pe d Lee, Pete Yea. You know Pete Lee
Chad probably he's been on Tonight Show like twenty times.
Pete was doing the backyard comedy tours.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was a great idea if they ever and I
won't happen again if Trump stays in power or JD.
But if the Liberals ever get in charge again and
they try another damn pandemic, there's an idea for you.
Pray you can keep the comedy going. Just do backyard
comedy tour.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
We had people who were going out into pastures and
they were doing music and comedy shows where people would
stay in their vehicle and they would honk instead of laughing.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh like a like a driving I love it.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Wow, could get a little weird like that. That's that's
a different form of heckling right there.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Well, that's true. The joke sucked or if I mean,
I know what I was doing at the drive in
when I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
So anyway, keep going in the store. Ched that horn
ain't honking, but he sure is rocking. No, So I
did my career backwards.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
You know, most most go out and do comedy clubs
and they end up maybe doing theaters, get a big
social media following, and then they don't get on TV.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I started with TV. Okay, so the Three Hats You
Wear began officially let's call it ten years ago, about
more a little further back, but we'll call it ten.
And it was a TV show. What was the TV
show called You Did? It was a travel show.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
It was a travel show.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
It was they had created a network that was called
ride TV, and it was about horses.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
It was basically Bravo but for horses.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
It was very stylish, journalistic type equestrian network, and they
had they wanted a comedy show on there, and they
called it It's My Backyard. So I toured all over
the country and basically would do man on the street interviews.
We would enjoy the cuisine of the city we were
in and maybe some of a lot of the cocktails,
and then visit with people. But then we would go
out to wherever they were having some kind of equestrian

(29:50):
event out there, and so basically we would interview people
or showcase these places where people trying to use a
horse to kill themselves. So, whether it was the Denver
Polo club or you know the stunt men out in Hollywood,
or we were at the stagecoach races or mounted shooting
whatever people were doing that was dangerous on a horse.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
We went out there and did it with them.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
And and I can ride, and I would do this stuff.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I'd get I'd get shot off of a lot of
people's horses, you know out that the stunt ranches and
things and uh. And I've just always been whatever, commit
to the scene and do some crazy stuff and uh.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
But it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
We had a fun it's called It's My Backyard and
then and then back then doing the comedy.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
I guess this was around twenty sixteen Norm Pattis that
had Westwood One and then it became Podcast one. They
reached out and said, we're interested in giving you a podcast.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
And I didn't really know what a podcast was. This
is back when those were audio only. Like, yes, Adam Carolla.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Was big then you know he's still big, but he
was the biggest.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
He was the biggest podcast were doing this if you
were listening to Serious when when they were just serious
and ExM when it was two different companies. Remember that
before they merged. You would have podcast, and then iHeart
came out. Radio again, it was all radio. They didn't
start putting the cameras in the studio because you're still
in a radio studio until Yeah, he's right about fifteen sixteen.

(31:08):
The last like eight nine years, it really prinked off. Wow,
and the last four it was very important for the
demeander of this nation, right, And that segues me into
asking my boy Chad about his support for a guy
named DJT. Because a TV show host like yourself, where

(31:28):
you were on mainstream TV, not what I consider our network,
opposition media, where you're doing comedy, where you're singing, in
the music industry, those three industries, yeah, they're not run
by people that are fans of DJT.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
So I definitely took the hard route. I took the
hard route.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Why why does Chad Prather support the forty seventh president
of the United States? There's my question.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
So I've always been, you know, a pro life guy.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Like when I was at the University of Georgia, I
wrote for the newspaper there, the campus Red and Black Newspaper,
And I was always writing these pro life arguments and
debates and doing all of these things and I've always
been a pro life guy and outspoken for life, and
and so you know, I'm a conservative guy. Come from
a Christian background and church home church background, faith based,
you know guy. And so you know, I've always been

(32:17):
I've always considered myself small, limited government, you know, leave
me alone conservative and so okay, So twenty fifteen, you know,
twenty fifteen rolled around, and I'm looking at all these candidates.
I didn't understand Donald Trump. Like, let me be fair,
I did not understand him.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
People.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I was a Ted Cruz guy. I was like, yeah,
Ted's the smartest guy in the room.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Ted's the guy, right, and you're from Trumps, So I
get it your standing with that.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
And you know, my mother was like, don't you say
anything bad about Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Don't you ever. And I'm like, Mom, are you serious?

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I love Mom, You're now.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
You're defending a billionaire playboy. I mean, you're really this
is the guy that you're thinking is like the second Coming.
And so she's like, don't you say anything bad about
Donald Trump? And so I made a video when I
was looking at during the primaries, looking at all these candidates,
both on the Republican and the Democrat side, and I
was really worried because I said, you know, as a comedian,
I'm not going to delve too much into the politics's
career suicide. But then I said, I've got this huge platform,

(33:09):
millions of people are following me on social media.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
We can't have Hillary Clinton as president?

Speaker 4 (33:14):
No, yes, yeah, And so I I made a post
one day and I said, you know, trying to figure
out which which candidate to choose is like trying to
figure out which venereal disease you're most okay living with
for the next four to eight years. And I'll never forget.
Like Tommy Lauren, she was still at the Blaze at
the time. She invited me on the show and she's like,
are you a Trump guy? And I said, honestly, I've

(33:34):
been converted. And I had my reasons why I had
been converted.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Uh. And then of course later on I was on
that I had my show on the that how you
got on the Blazes? Did Glenning the the BC on
Tommy Show and say, I like that guy Hudge.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Not at all.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I got on Blaze because CRTV bought the Blaze. I
was I had just started with CRTV because again I
had been on Norm Pattis's podcast one doing audio only
and I'm thinking, I'm not making any money.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Run in my mouth every.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Week and remindtv is in case they forget.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
So that was Levin TV, which became The Conservative Review
TV and then and so Glenn at the time, Glenn
Beck was really catching it because he was he had
been never Trumper and he put his face in the
bowl of cheetos and done all this stuff, and so
he was.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Trying to catch Look what he did this week.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
He was in the Oval with forty seven, sucking up
big time. And tell him what he loved.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
The crowd a lot of crow a lot of crudministration
did a lot of sucking up.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Think about how many people did not like Donald J.
Trump in fifteen and sixteen and now they're all at
the White House.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yes, true, And I like Glenn.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
GLENNZ a nice guy, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
So Glenn, I mean, Glenn was catching a hard time,
Like you know, Glenn, Glenn was getting it. And I
was like, oh man, So I delayed like six eight
months signing with CRTV, and finally, uh it was one
of the Duck was the Duck Dynasty guys, The Robertson
family that come talked me into it. WHOA and I said, okay,
So I signed the contract and uh, two days later,

(35:07):
I'm walking through a Walmart and I remember that because
I'm never in Walmart.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I don't go to Walmart. Can't stand it. And so
I'm walking through a Walmart.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
The president of a CRTV calls me on the phone
and he says, Hey, just here's the news.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
We're now Blaze TV.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
And I was like, Bro, that's information you could have
given me like two days ago, because I'm thinking we're
gonna catch hell for being with Glenn right was one
of the best decisions I ever made.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
It was just a great experience. It was good. The
Blaze was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
How many years are there, Jed?

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I was there five. I was, Uh, I'm technically I
think still a contributor. I think I think I can
still get in the door. You know, I still do
a lot of stuff with him. But you know, they
were always gracious. A lot of people said, oh, Glenn's
your boss, and technically he Wasn't they tell you this, Dad.
They never they never called me on the carpet like,
they never said, don't talk about that. They never said

(35:55):
avoid that. There was never any of that. I was
pretty boisterous on that show up a lot since then.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
And I remember Glenn, you know, I ask him for
advice one day, said, man, you got to make them cry.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
You got to make them believe that. You got to
make them cry. You got to tell that story. You
got to make them cry.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
And anybody that listens to Glenn knows exactly how he
is well.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
And to his credit, I mean, Glenn's been around for
a long time, and I truly believe I'll give him this.
I respect him for coming around, for admitting that he
was wrong about Trump and about other things, because a
lot of people don't. They feel it and they think it,
but they just they can't get over their pride, their ego,
whatever it is. So you got to give it to
Glenn back. Yeah, a lot of others out there. He
came around, he made that very public, and I believe
it's genuine.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
I do. I'm proud to say I've been with Trump
since he came out. I was taking so much crap
on Facebook back in twenty sixteen and fifteen when I
was posting Trump stuff and people were like, are you
ef a nuts dandball. What are you beckon the apprentice
guy for?

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I'm like, because I'm tired of all these damn politicians
that are lying to us, and both sides do it
and this guy doesn't. And he's got so much money
they can't buy him. Yes, and so I was I
was all in, baby, he's.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Not allowed to control. He's just out of their control.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
And yeah about him, and I like that he is
a little bit out of control because I don't want
this perfectly polished where's the suit? And speaks all perfect
and he's got his thumb movement down like Clinton used
to or Obama moved it a bit. Obama put the
finger in front of the thumb. Bill was the thumb
like this right, newsom is the all over hand stuff.

(37:21):
Trump plays the according a little bit. But you get
my point. He's not up there. He's not some robot,
he's not an entry and candidate, he's not a programmed Yes,
he's not going to do his talking points. Yes, he
just speaks to you, and Chad you know that. I'm
sure have you spent any private time with him where
he's not a camera, not a microphone?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
I have, and you know.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
The funny thing about it is back before twenty sixteen,
he won me over. And let me tell you why
he won me over. Quite honestly, Dan as a father,
I watched how his children and grandchildren responded to him,
and I said, this isn't a bad guy. I said,
this is not what they're saying about this guy is
not true. I said, because his children in it. You
can't fool kids. You can't fool kids. And you you know,

(38:03):
we saw with Joe Biden Hunter Biden couldn't even play
the role like Ashley Biden couldn't even.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Play the role.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
You can't fake it for that long. Somebody's gonna slip up.
It's so uh you know, I've been with him. We've
been to a number of rallies and and then COVID
hit and I went Last May. May was a year ago. Yeah,
last May is made last year. This this is May.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
I'll shut up. This last May.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
I was there for the for the campaign fundraiser for
Carrie Lake. Carrie had invited uh Me and Roseanne and
Jim Brewer to come out and just do our thing
for about ten minutes in front of the parts.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Roseanne is a comedy freakings, Roseanne big mouth, goat boy?
How did I miss that? Where the hell was my invite?
Go ahead, we go.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
You were somewhere.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I'm trying to remember, because you were somewhere, and because
I remember thinking about that, and there were a number
of people. It was, you know, one of those veritable
who's who's at mar A Lago. And I think she
raised like one point three or four million. Was the
most senatorial campaign is ever like raised in one night
in history. And of course, you know DJ T loves
Carrie Lake, and so we assumed maybe he would be there. Uh,

(39:09):
and he was there. He came out and spoke, did
did what Trump does. And then we went up on
the veranda. You've been there and had dinner, and so
we're going up there. We're gonna we're gonna sit and
and we're gonna sit at dinner. And my girlfriend c
J and I were walking over there and the president
gets up around the you know, he's got the velvet
rope around the table, and he gets up and he's
walking because we're going in the main hall there where

(39:30):
all the tapestries and the gaudy, the gold filigree and everyone.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
He loves showing off the gold beautiful.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
And they've got in there.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
I don't know if you know this is not that's
from the Vatican.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
And so we've got we go in there and there's
the buffet and there's Donald Trump fixing his own plate.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Well yeah, say yeah, he yay, he does. Dude, you
get billionaire still be a regular guy. He is. I
tried to tell that to people. I was giving a
speech last Friday and in Indiana, and I was telling
this room, I'm like, and there was two people there
in the room that know him, the Attorney General of Indiana,
Todd Rakeita and Congressman Marlin Stutsman, also from northeast Indiana,

(40:11):
and both of them have spent time with him privately.
They know him. And I looked at them in the
front and I said, guys, tell these people. Tell this
room full of conservatives, because I guarantee you in the
Hoosier State and in that crowd there were plenty of
old school conservatives that are not on Team Trump even
to this day because they don't like the background or
what happened with the previous wives, or his language or whatever.

(40:32):
And I can relate. I've been through a divorce I
use foul language. Screw you if you don't like it.
And so I relate to Trump big time, except for
the part of being a freaking billionaire. And so I'm
trying to tell these people, Chad, exactly what you just said.
I'm like, Todd Marlin, tell these people. I'm like, when
you get him alone and the cameras and the microphones
are not there and you're just standing at And I'll

(40:53):
use an example because Glenn said this the other day
that he couldn't discuss some of the private conversation with
the press in the Lincoln bedroom or whatever because Trump
was being Trump, and the staff was like, well, he
was just talking off the cuff and maybe we shouldn't
have that out there. And so I won't divulge too much.
But standing in the doorway at Bedminster, when the cameras
were all cleaned up, my staff was in the other

(41:14):
room and we were done with the interview, and it
was like secret Service was a doorway away and him.
I were just standing in the doorway looking around, bullshitting
two guys bsing, and he just leans over and goes
And this would have been three years ago, so we
were a year in. It was August, a year into
the not even seven months into the Biden regime, and
he looks over and he elbows me like a dude

(41:35):
would do, and be like, how about this f and
Biden guy? He is screwing up the country? What the
eff are we going to do? And I'm just like, yes,
mister president, he is, you know. And when he texts you,
he texts DJT, not the president. He'd be like, Dan,
it was great seeing you last night at the event.
You and your beautiful wife love DJT. It's just look

(41:57):
what billionaire does that.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Americans are so tired of a leader. We're so tired
of being looked down upon by this bubble in Washington, DC.
These people who actually think they're better than the rest
of us.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
They do.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
There are a lot of people in this country who
are struggling, who love this place, who have deep roots
in this country, people who've been here for generations, people
who actually built this physical place, and they want someone
who has that same kind of work ethic, the same
kind of yes, and that same kind of sincerity and
patriotic duty. I mean, this guy took a bullet to
the face, yes, shot him in.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
The ear, and I would say There's millions of legal
immigrants who have come here or just got here legally
that love America. They came here for the American dream,
and that's why a lot of them support Donald Trump
because they came from true dictators and tyranny, and they
came here for the freedom and the capitalism so they
can live the American dream and they feel inspired by

(42:45):
Donald Trump. How many how many interviews do you see
with Chinese nationals that came here for a better life
and are telling you, listen, Donald Trump is the cat's
me out. You don't want these democrats that will bring
in tyranny. Trust me. I come from a dictator, I'm China,
I'm from Pakistan, I'm from Iran. You don't want that crap.
You want Trump. These are folks that live it, and

(43:06):
yet Democrats are out there trying to import people, preaching
will take over and vote their way. Yes, and that's
why the replacement theory is true. And that's what they
just tried for four years. They tried to import eighteen
million voters so they could strategically place them in certain
counties so they would win every damn election for the
next hundred years.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
You bust them into swing states, and that's all it
takes to sway the outcome of an entire election. It
comes down to five or six states at the end
of the day.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
And all we did, Jed, is temporarily halt this. We
didn't stop this from happening.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Guys, this these radical rogue you know, progressive judges. No,
that's why they're fighting tooth and nail to stop it.
And I'll say that as an antidote to what you
just said, Dan to that point. That night in mar
A Lago, Donald Trump walks past me and I stuck
out my hand. I said, mister President, He said, Jad,
how you doing. And I's like, you were seeing the
guy in three years.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Hell yeah, he probably watches your rally. He probably laughs
at your stuff and you don't even realize it.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I've had guys.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
I've had guys who worked in the oval officer like
we used to show him your videos that you would
do on social media and he's like, well, how.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Are you, Jed, And so, you know, beautiful guy experience.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
I can't believe he remembers your name like that. And
I go, well, it makes me worried that maybe he's
pissed off at me.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
You know, and so it's weird. I like Joe Biden
couldn't do that.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
But that right there is why the people working under
the cars, the people that are you know, busting their
ass for this country.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
That's why they love this guy. That's why they love
this guy because that translates.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yep, Hey, you were just there this week. By the way,
very jealous. Haven't gotten my invite yet from Carolina Lovett
and the rest of the press corps that work for Trump,
even though I know all those beautiful ladies who used
to come on my show for years and talk Team Trump.
But now I can't get an invite to the White House.
But Chad Pray, they're the funny guy, gets an invite.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Tell us about it that I've been trying to think
of this because this is twice now I've been there
in the last eight weeks.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Right, so I listen, Wait a minute, Crather, I've been
doing You've been doing TV for about two three years.
He's been doing TV for less than ten, and he's
only been doing political for a few I've been doing
this shit for thirty three years and I can't get invited.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Why Dan, I think that's the issue because they.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Know I'm not legacy media, Chad. They know I'm not legacy.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
You're of course, they know you're not.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
And there's some there's some valid people that need to
be in there, that's for sure, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
I didn't know. So, so I was up there eight
weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
We were there under the auspices of meeting with Jade Vance,
and we did, and then Trump brings us in the
Oval office and he pontificates and does the Trump thing
for about twenty minutes, which was fantastic, A whole other story.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
But then the other day we were asked to come
up there. I didn't know why I was going. I
did not know why I was going.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
I just remember Tuesday this week, right, it was Monday. Oh.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
So I get there at noon and I go into
the press entrance at the gate. There I walk past
all the signs of the deportees and people that you know,
all their crimes, most by the way, brilliant right there
at the sticks at the press pool.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
The press pool have them in the back shot their
background shot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
So they take us down underground under the Eisenhower Building,
which is right across from the West Wing, and and
they take us into Joe Biden's million dollar Oval office
studio set where he would.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Get the one building.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Yes, And so you know the guys there, they're like,
what do you think about this place? As it makes
me want to get vaccinated?

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Like Joe.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
You know, it's so I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Over there, they were like, Carolyn wants to come in
and meet with the you know, the New Press, if
you will. And I'm like, y'all know I'm a comedian,
right like, I like, I don't like, what are you
talking about? You know, there's no there's some people that
maybe should be in that room, but by and large,
I understand we have a large following. And I'm like,
I don't know what I like, I don't know what
to do with my hands. I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Car run, car ran real good car. You know.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
The next day, like Laura Lumer, you know, she made
a post about not being invited the diff different people
when I was like, listen, you deserve to be there.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
I don't not on my merit, no, you know what
jet look, hey, you have common sense there? Yeah, you
have common sense. Yes, you have millions of followers. You're
a funny guy. You can communicate naturally and authentic, like
Riley was mentioning earlier. And so yeah, I would say,
next to some of those independent journalists and social media

(47:24):
influencers in our movement, and there are plenty of these days,
some are grifters, some are true patriots, I would put
you in the true patriot category, not grifter. And so
while you think that because you're a humble guy even
though you're not, but you are you. I mean, come on,
you can't be a freaking comedian of me on TV.
But I'm also not not right, you know, exactly like
nobody's gonna say Dan Ball is humble, Jad Pray there's humble.

(47:47):
We are, but we aren't. You understand or think it's that,
But you did deserve to be there. You're a patriot,
you have common sense, and you can articulate naturally and
easily with regular folks, like you were saying, the people
that are under the cars, the people that are plumbers,
the people that are building skyscrapers, the people that are
a military, the folks that are out there keeping this
country moving every day. Yes, don't want to hear from

(48:09):
the lion piece of elite trash in the three piece
suit giving them a bunch of talking points. They want
to hear a guy throw a few more gal throw
a few colorful metaphors in say it ain't or two
and be a natural, normal, common sense, patriotic frickin' Americans.
It's all they want any more.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Yes, that's true. Yes, we've been true that.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
They're sick to death of the nonsense, the stuff that's
being paraded out there.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
That's why I wanted to take it seriously. And you know,
we asked.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
I asked, I say we like I'm schizophrenic and had
multiple voices in my head, but you know, I shared
some questions that I thought were valid that the American
people would want to know the answers to. But there
are people, you know, Dan, you deserve to be there.
Sean Spicer was in the room that day, Oh the
Spicy Spicy Wow as a podcast host, so you know,
and I've known Sean for a number of years and
he's a lot of fun. And then you know, but

(48:56):
the Brionna Morellos and the Seracmzaleses and the Dan Bazy
and there's.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
A lot of all them there. Yeah, I think they will.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I'll send this podcast.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
To him and I will light them up and say so.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Well, look, but it's an honor, you know, it really is.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I love Brionna. She does some great, great reporting us.
The reporting. Nick Sorder is doing a good job out there.
Anthony Aguero, the kid that's always on at the Border
that we've had on this network a bunch. There's so
many people that have popped up in the MAGA movement there.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Can you imagine what would have happened in November had
Elon not bought X and restored freedom of speech?

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Oh? My god?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Can you that was a world changing event.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Between doing that, the podcasters putting Trump on, yes, his
people telling him actually not his people, his son. Because
I spoke with Don Junior and others in the family before,
and it was Baron and the boys, Don and Eric,
but a lot Baron that really pushed him get out
there and do those podcasts. Talk to these younger people.

(49:52):
This way, Dad, it's gonna work. And he did it.
And so I would say, to your point, X allowing
free speech, what a novel idea? Try it? Mark Suckerberg
free speech. Yeah, for reels right, free speech and podcasts
had to be two of the major facts. I mean,
big picture Trump's common sense approach to the border of

(50:12):
the economything else is the main reasons he won. But
let's be real, the messaging wouldn't have gotten out there,
correct if we didn't have the podcasters and the freedom
of speech on X and truth probably helped a little bit.
I mean there's millions of people on Trump's truth, and
I think places like an and folks like Chad Pray,
they're being independent completely all that, the Blaze everything helped. Yes,

(50:35):
you know it pushed him and our America first mega
movement over.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Look, that's how it should be. Leaders actually communicating directly
with their own constituents, with the people that want to serve,
instead of just relying on these corrupt lap dogs and
the legacy media to convey the message for them. Just
cut through the middleman. They're completely unnecessary. Just go right
to the voters themselves. That's what people are looking. Can
we cut politics.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
For the last five minutes for a round of time
and go back something fun with him? We know about
the comedy, we know about the TV. We never went
down the music row. Yes, and you're always here with
your we the people guitar, so I know you have
music questions and they're going to rap us soon. See,
you better get with it.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
I do chat, all right. So let's do a just
do a you know, fire round up kind of here.
So I have to ask. I've loved music my whole life.
I can tell that you do too, and you come
from a musical family. But when did you decide you
wanted to pursue it in terms of a real career
a job, because that's a whole other undertaking. It's one
thing to do with just in your free time, but
to really pursue it full time.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
And I'll follow that up. Ever, who inspires you? Like?
Where did you did you know you want to do country?
Did you like rocket roll better? Like? What genre did
you like? And where's your inspiration?

Speaker 1 (51:41):
You know, I grew up my mother was a professional pianist.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
She was a gospel pianist and she's she's an incredible
pianist and wow, And then I grew up, you know,
listening to Willie Nelson and Waylon Jenning. Yeah, and you know,
I would say, I've got a funny bit that I
do where I talk about how my true influences were
George Jones and then Queen because I had an eight
tracks of Queen. I don't know where they came from. It,
I'm another kid, and so and so I do. Yeah, right,

(52:03):
So I do a mixture of what it would sound
like for George Jones to sing Fat Bottom Girls and
the possum rolls over in his grave. So I was
always I say, I was the least musician in a
family of good musicians. And I just said, you know,
I was good enough that I could use it to entertain.
You could pick up girls with it. All you need
is a couple of.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Tours rally all the time. Yeah, because he's single. Use
the guitar for the girls.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, the guitar.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
They might fall in love with you for the wrong reasons,
but that's okay. You'll enjoy it for six weeks. And
and so I just again I started saying I can.
I can write jokes and sing them. And then it
kind of took off. I had during COVID we were,
you know, kind of shut down. I had a lot
of great musicians that were friends of mine in Texas
who they were basically losing their livelihood, and I said, hey,

(52:47):
come over to my house. We started doing this thing
called Songs from the Sofa, where we would put Facebook
and YouTube deals out smart and I had these twenty
foot seilings and we would we had great harmonies, and
so that turned into some guys that are still with
me called chat Pray through in the Ragamuffins, and so
we just kind of named it off the cuff, and
so these great musicians. I've got the best musicians in
the world built around me. And so we started doing

(53:09):
those roads because I told her, are those shows because
I said, you know, guys, the venues might be closed
down because of COVID, but we can go to places
like Casper, Wyoming where they've never even heard of COVID
because I have audiences all over the country.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
And so we would do it, and we really.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Understood and understand social media. Think about what he just said,
from his TV career to comedy to music, he's used
social media to become more famous in those genres. And so, folks,
as we wrap up, if you've learned anything tonight from
this podcast with Chad Brather, it's use social media for

(53:44):
your business, whatever that business may be. Seriously, if you're
a comedian, look at worked. If you're a plumber, it
can work like this is this one this is where
you have rise now. Yes, yes, you're not buying in
the local paper. I'm buying your local ABC affiliate in Houston, Texas.
You get on social media, okay, and understand how to
use it, and you too could be like Chad.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Chad.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
I had someone that commented today and said, you take
too many selfies for a man. I said, well, you
don't understand social media as a business, and you have
to humiliate yourself.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
You really do in some ways. You have to go.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Can I get to have time for one more question?

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Fitted in? They haven't yelled at us yet. I'm sure
they're going to any minute.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
So chat your songwriting process?

Speaker 1 (54:25):
What is that like? So I'm a storyteller.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
I'm a storyteller, you know whether it's and I get
around storytellers. I like being around storytellers, and so I
want to sit down and I try to think of, Okay,
what's the journey I want to take people on. Because
I'm not necessarily a natural musician, but I am a
natural word guy. And so if I can put the
words out there, then we can figure out the melody
that's going to go with it.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
So tell you first, usually.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Yeah, always, always, I'm a poet if you will. So
we've got a song out there right now. Well, we
did a song with John Rich. You guys have had
John on.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Two weeks ago. Yep.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
We wrote a.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Song called watered Down about how culture has become watered
down and our values.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Has been watered down.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Yeah, And I called John on the phone and I said, hey, Buddy,
I said, will you will you sing a verse of
this song for the recording or when you jump on
the harmony? And he goes, dude, I love the song.
He said, let me sing harmonies with you. And he
was gracious enough to do.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
It, you know. So we told that like, these are
what I feel like.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
There's a song out right now that we've gotten it's
my favorite one called what Happened to That? And it's about,
you know, we had this life that we lived in
this country and it says, you know, it says, you know,
what happened to love thy neighbor?

Speaker 1 (55:29):
And in God we trust. There's a big old fly
in the apple pie in America.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
You know, where's the fire and where's the fight, the
standing up for what is right?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
It used to be against the law to burn our flag?
What happened to that?

Speaker 4 (55:40):
And it's a beautiful It's a rendition of just saying, hey,
you know, we all remember drinking out of the water
hose and coming home with the light came on, you know,
on the street lamp, and you know, mom ringing the
dinner bell, and so I try to grab that and say,
what can we do?

Speaker 1 (55:53):
You know what happened to that? So it's a process.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
And but again, I surround myself with guys like David
Lee and Chris Wallen and all these guys that are
multiplatform songwriters and incredible folks that it just kind of
rubs off on you at some point.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
That's interesting. So you're painting a picture for people just
right from the jump.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
And what did Ted Nugent and John Rich and the
rest of the artists have been on this podcast that
have told you, Riley in the last few months, surround
yourself with the best. Yeah, right, And then most of
them said they started with the words or a notion
or an idea and started writing and then the tune
comes next. But I've been listening, even though I'm not
musically inclined, what so frickin? Ever, I paid attention to

(56:29):
our guests. And so as we wrap up, Riley. You're
getting a musical lesson almost every time we have a
musical guest on. So within a few months you better
pick that up and start writing some new originals and
they better.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Be good album done by this time next year.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Yeah, you should be selling it on social media like
Chad just taught you and picking up babes. Okay, get
on it, Chad pray there, everybody, Chad. Before we say goodbye,
How do folks find out the touring schedule for the
music for the stand up? Where do they watch the podcast?
Fill us in?

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Brother, So I took over for Graham Allen Co. I'm
hosting for his Dear America show every morning on Rumble.
He's at the Pentagon for now, and then I'm doing
my show, the Chad Praither Show in the afternoon. If
you go to watch Chad dot com, the most vain
web address on the planet, Watchchad dot com. It's got
my tour schedule. You can go to chadprayther dot com,

(57:20):
but that's not as fun. Next week, I'm in Raleigh,
North Carolina. I'm in Mary in Virginia, and I'm in Gatlinburg,
Tennessee for some comedy shows. We're doing the Right Side
of Comedy, the Gulf of America Comedy Tour now with
Jesse Peyton and me, and it's bringing out the protesters
and that's what we love.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
It's one of these shows. I'd love to walk past
some of those little pansy ass protesters and say the
poster down. Oh, I'd love him to try and rip
something out of my hand. Brother, that ship won't end
well with me.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
We're gonna get the squirrel treatment.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I may be a little guy, but I'm wiry. Okay,
I'm wiry Chad Praith. Everybody, thank you, thank you brother
for coming on. Appreciate you so much. Boys, yep, appreciate you.
All right, as we wrap things up. Great guy by
the way, right, Yes, amazing, isn't he cool? I mean
I forget how we met and how we got him
on the talk show the first time, but it's been

(58:14):
four or five years of the friendship and I love
this guy. He's a good man, he's a patriot, he
makes me laugh, his songs are great storytellers and just
a good guy.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Yeah. Just seems very authentic, very genuine.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Now get him on your show. See, yes, all right,
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(59:29):
bringing on next week to you have we booked anybody.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Yet No, but if people have suggestions, it'll be a
surprise on the YouTube.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Yeah yeah, just oh that's a good idea.

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Speaker 2 (59:45):
Yes, yeah, love it. Any final parting words.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Just thankful for chat's time. Honestly, you're gonna internalize all
that advice and get to work with this guitar.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Should I tell you to play us out or you're
not prepared, No, let's do it. Let's do it. Play
something out then. All right, folks, thanks again for watching.
In this latest episode of the Anchor Men podcast, We'll
be back next Friday night, and I give you Riley
Lewis playing something. He's single, ladies, He's single.