Hello, welcome to a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday whenever you're listening to Laura Kane after dark. I'm Laura Kane.
Where are we? We aren't on the screen, Brian, I don't
know. Have we started the YouTube feed? Oh? Well, we're not
on our monitor. Okay, we're like super high teching. There we are
there, we are there, we are. I was going to say,
did mommy not hook something up? Right? Oh? She was glaring daggers
at it and were broke. My power did go out today, So there's
a good chance sunday did it? Yeah, So that means you're gonna need
to recharge your vibrator. Really sorry, really sorry. Well you said there
was a power outage, so god speak uses double A. Dude is Eric
Rimmer? What's up? That's producer Brian? Hi? Hi, Hi,
Brian. And I'm excited that you guys are watching and that you're listening,
and that you're here, and that you beared through the rain to get here.
It was like pouring earlier out it was the fifteen got shut down.
It was flooded. Well, there was an action on the fifteen and the
ninety four a really bad one. There was an action on the eight too.
It happened my girlfriend was driving from school to work from UCSD and she
called me. Apparently the car like two cars behind her hit the divider and
flipped into oncoming tracks. Oh yeah, oh see, I didn't work today.
So let mean, I know, you look on there and give us
a traffic report. I will, Well, there's my phone right there.
Right, it's not good. Basically where did it flood on the fifteen?
I don't know, I just saw them. Was it North County, South
County, mid county? You know? It was technically like Texas, like
Mission Valley, Mission Valley always beyond Mission was north of that. Oh okay,
Fashion Valley always flood and then there's like part of the eight that floods
to Yes, it's what's called the flood zone. That's right, because it's
an area where the San Diego River flows through it, and that's why it
like overflows. Yeah, makes me want to get a new car just for
the once every five years. What kind of car do you have? Terrible
for the rain? Is it? Why? Because it's it's not built for
the rain. But isn't it built to go through pretty much anything on mustag
built to go fast on dry asphole. That's why I love my jeep because
I could pretty much go over anything. I go over any curb, and
I always park like a jerk, like all the curbs. Oh great,
you know you always park like a jerk. I do what I don't mean
to. It's the jeep. It's a jeep parking thing like like or it
I'll be like, oh no, I park like Elvis. Elvis is trying
to hump our guest. See usually Okay, why don't you Elvis just humps
me? Why don't you talk about who's going to be coming up after our
host chat and your dirt your friend? Okay, yes, who's our guest
tonight? Yes, look at he's very wanting to please introduced who our guest
is going to be tonight. So tease who our guest is going to I
will, but wait a minute, I have a question. I have a
wait question for you. Brandon William is our guest. He's a musician and
he's a friend of Eric's and a little bit later in life he came to
come into his musician ship. Yeah, it's a cool story because he's always
wanted to do it since he was a little kid, but he was forced,
not forced, but went into a different field but then had an encounter
all this cool stuff. I read his bio and I was like, oh,
this is inspiring. So we're going to bring him up. So I
can't wait to hear it. That's guitar right there, and he's going to
come up after you do your little bit of dirt. But first, if
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jayw at capital growth a stencil. Laura came after dark on his butt.
Okay, before I'm going to stensele that on my speaking of which, but
it's going to be after dark, not l c ad. Before I get
to my host chat. Yes, I would like to say that I received
one of those pictures this weekend from a random I don't know from who,
from nobody I even know what a stranger. You think someone took a picture
of their I don't even know. Well, I know, I think they
DMed me with it. It was like some random person. I don't know
who it was, but it was one of those kind of pictures. And
what do I do when I get a dick pic. I send it to
this guy because he makes it into artwork. Let me just say this.
He was choking that thing like it owed him money he made it. I
was like, man, he's up on the grip. It makes me so
excited when I get him, not because I like to get them, not
because I like to get them, but because I love sending him to Eric,
because he makes them into like this time, Yeah, he had a
bird sitting on it like it was a bark. When you take a step
back from it, this is like the other one was cast for the ghost
Oh yeah, you have you've been and I did a lady with dark curly
hair and like a pink dress and then something else. You should remember what
the other one lamar fair for their art competition. We have a whole calendar
we do. We should do like a Dick Day's calendar and just have all
your dick artwork and your dick artwork. Actually that's what it should be.
Is like twelve pictures of Eric post are like, you know, erotically naked,
but all of like the privates are dolled up with artwork. Oh sure,
every month we're looking at Eric's face and would not nobody would buy that
calendar. That calendar would be It would literally be at the bottom of somebody's
bird. Are you kidding? I would post. I would hangers on every
telephone pole like wanted child picture. They'd be at the dollar tree in five
seconds. Nobody wants to see a fifty seven year old in that kind of
situation. It's like a really weird suggestion. You guys were talking about puting
the calendar first, No, we're not. Just Brian loves to pit me
out though, yet. Okay, are you king that's a hilarious product idea.
Maybe we could sell it on Oh it's gonna be wait, grand that
would be great. Wait, I bet that's a thing though, Grandpa porn,
I'm sure it is. Now, before we get to my host chat,
before we get to our guest, Brandon William, Yes, before I
want to tell you about Thursday. I have a gift from Tim for you,
and you're gonna love it. I have a new game that we're going
to play. It's a voting game and it's gonna be super fun. But
wait, I get to I get LCA D for life. Look at that.
Thank you, Dmitri. What what did you get me? I got
you something, but I'm not going to give it to you right now.
That's good. Okay. Well I got something for you too, and it
hasn't come yet, but oh dark it's great. Well good, then I'll
make it into something. It is. It is not not. Do you
get any like Randos ever every once in a while, No, I do
not. Anyway, people know better. They probably okay, they know it
will wind up on your wall. I'm really excited to tell you about something,
but I have to admit that I did something that may have just torpedoed
this new thing and it's because I lied. Oh, let me just say
it never pays to lie. What did you do? Okay? Let me
take a deep breath. Is this something I'm going to be mad at you
about? Okay, Well, then carry on. Now you're gonna be like,
why did you do that? Okay? I tried out for a game
show. I filled out, failed out an application that's desperate. No,
there's like this new website that has like all listings for like game shows and
like social media creation videos and Netflix shows and actors and voiceovers. It's backstage
do yeah. Yeah, I just was looking through it and it didn't specify
what it was. But I'm like, I can fill out seven thousand dollars
is the game prize money? Sure, I'll fill this out. What game
show? It's called Funny you should ask, And it's like five comedians sit
on the stage and there's two contestants, and like a trivia question will pop
up and one of the comedians will make a joke about it but then actually
say, well, I think the answer is honestly blah, and then the
contestant has to say that's either true or false, and then you get money.
So it's like it's all funny and everybody's laughing because the jokes, I
mean, the comedians are like John Lovetz was one of the guys Lui c
k. It sounds like one of the most boring. It really does.
It's just kind of I almost fell asleep listening. Was a game show,
you know, just a game show, game show. It seemed like fun.
Though it seemed like fun well, I mean, you would have thought
I was trying out for like an Oscar word. Do you remember when we
auditioned for that show and they it was insiy crazy. I had to do
everything but put a drop of blood on a slide. So I made it
through the application process like that. Next within twelve hours, boom, I
get an email can you do a Zoom call at like such a such an
hour today? And I'm like, WHOA, yes, I can't. It
was like in a few hours. So they say where for us, Like
you're going to a wedding, like get in full makeup, like full hair,
something nice, don't wear patterns, don't wear white, you know the
whole thing. Yep, because you're going to be on Zoom and the producers
are going to be watching this. So the lady comes on and of course
I'm using another computer and I cannot get the video to work for I'm like,
oh my gosh. So this goes on for like ten minutes, and
I'm like, they're just gonna dump me. They're just gonna dump me,
dummy, dummy. And I said, I'm so sorry. Let me change
computers real quick. Blah blah blah blah. We made it. They see
me. Everything's cool. The lady that's interviewing me goes, okay, well,
I'm not actually going to be in the video that is shown to the
producers. So when I ask you a question, you repeat it back and
then answer it because they're going to just splice you together. Okay. So
oh no, oh god. They said, okay, we want you to
start off by saying your name, where you were born, where you grew
up, where you live now, your occupation, and your age. I
said, oh boy, I know where this is. Said. My name
is Laura twenty five. I'm twenty one, live in Beverly Hills, Yep.
Hi. My name is Laura Kane. I was born in Hollywood.
I grew up in Glendale. I live in San Diego, California. I'm
a traffic reporter. I do a podcast, and I also work at iHeartRadio
at Start ninety four one. And I'm forty ninety old boy idiot? Oh
my god? And at what point did the anvil fall on your head?
Now? What? Now? I'll tell you why I did this. I
don't know. I did this because I already I feel like if I would
have said my real age, I would have been I wouldn't have had as
good of a chance. And I know that sounds terrible, Like I felt
like I was going to be age discriminated against, you know, until she
looked at the form and saw your actual birthday. Oh but then here's this,
so the lady loves me right, And two things I may have blown.
So the very last question, they said, Okay, what are you
going to do with the prize money if you win the seven thousand dollars?
And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, I know they probably want me to
say, like, oh, right, like that, or I'm going to
buy my mom. I'm going to help her pay off her car, or
I'm going to help my kids pay off their student loans or something like that.
Oh no, I'm going to buy No, no, I said,
you know those huts that are like on sticks in the clear blue water,
I'm gonna rent one of those, like in an island far away. The
lady thought that was hysterical, though for some reason she just she loved it.
She goes, I love you, You're great, da blah blah blah
blah. Next day I get an email, all right, you're in.
You just need to fill out a background check. Oh god, oh my
oh. Also you could get an extra six years in youth on their eyes.
I do that? What possessed me to do that? Why this forehead
does this not scream? Twenty eight second? Oh look, here's the thing.
But obviously, well not obviously. I mean it probably wouldn't be surprising
if my background check came back naked. Wait, so they haven't actually rejected
you yet, right, No, they have not rejected me yet. Well,
the background checks would be it should be a number of things that pop
up. Oh my god, forty nine is not worth They're gonna be staring
at the like fifty one fifty Oh my god. No. They didn't even
ask. No, it was only like, have you had a restraining order
against you? And I was like I had to think of it, like,
which one? Am I right about it? I'm like, god,
how many have I put against you? Okay? Have you ever done that
to me yet? She's like the lot with its assuming it is not within
five hundred feet of the school, right, I have one on my desk
just waiting to go to my ex do that to me? I don't remember
anyway, So that should pass. Now we get to the age part.
Right, if they question me, if they come back and they say like,
oh my god, you like you're too good of a contestant to pass
up. Why did you lie? Just be like, oh, I'm sorry,
Like I'm what I say, Well, I was just gonna say,
well that's how old I feel, and just kind of make a joke out
of it. It's a jokey show. Don't say that. That's worse.
What should I say? That's worse? Yeah? I feel like I was
twelve. Pretend like it was an honest mistake that you didn't even realize.
Really, yeah, that's better than or should I be completely and totally honest,
just say look, I really want to be on the show, fort
shouldn't. I like, I think you should play that off. I think
you should lie more then I'm not gonna know, like I'm gonna weave such
a web. I'm not going to know what end is up even be on
TV and not know what to say, Yeah, you know, what was
my name? What did I say my name was? Again? Even even
if they're like, wait, I thought you were I thought you were forty
nine, You're like, did I say that? Oh my god, I'm
so sorry. I'm no, I'm fifty five, yeah, like sixty or
however old you are. You're like, oh, I was thinking about my
online age. I'm sorry, So she should say it doesn't pay it a
lot? Now I filled out when did I fill out that the background check
I sent it in? I want to say Friday? So okay, so
it had the weekend. I'm going to give them a couple of days because
I haven't heard back from him yet. But it's been only it's not even
been a day. So if you'd be on the show and they gave you
an opportunity, you'd like be like, is anyone you want to say Hi?
Do you have to mention us my name? For sure? Yeah?
Okay? Is this something I'm doing just because I love you guys? Or
am I going to be like compensated somehow for it. Wow you Oh my
god, what do you want when I am on the prices right now?
You feel bad? Yeah? I thought, well, I mean just wait,
wait if I say hi to you Hi, Brian, Hi, Eric,
Hi, Charlie, Hi, Evan, Hi Mom, Hi Jenny,
Hi other Eric, the matter, say hi to so many people Hi,
Stacy, like I want you to say hi to my producer Brian and my
co host Eric Rimmer Comma thirty nine. Actually, don't get they may they
may actually get really mad at you if you do that. You just say,
Brian, I don't know, so wish me well, good luck again.
Just here, it's slapping on the hand for lying. No harder,
No, I'll do it. Do it hard, No hard, I want
to I need it. No, do it no, I'll smack your bottom
later. Wait wait, wait, we'll smack you if you're lying, loses
your position on the show. So far you're in the clear. Yeah,
so far, you're in the clear. Yeah, so far. And it
is Hollywood. People lie about everything there. Just play the way. It's
not the worst thing. Just play it off. Say you don't even think
about your age anymore. So you could have said you were a virgin's I'm
fifty five. I'm a virgin. I've never had a man look at me
before. I was honest about everything else, everything else. That's who cares.
Like forty nine and fifty five, you're still kind of old at forty
nine. Well, it's kind of well in the ballpark. Give me that.
Say it was like forty If they say, why did you lie about
your age, say I have dyslexia? How does that work? I said
it was forty nine. I'm actually ninety four. How does that excuse you?
I wrote it down and blowing, Oh god, you don't. I'm
just saying, play it off like it's no big deal. Play it off,
Like what did I say? Yeah, don't make a big deal out
of it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm all I think
you should. Yeah, you're the best part is you're someone I can google
right now and probably find out your age, Like I bet you have a
wait google, Like I haven't said it eight million times on the podcast,
everywhere else the whole like my whole life. I just I don't know what
came over me. It was so weird. You don't see the problems and
be like, yeah, we found out you were banned from the oscars,
so you're actually not eligible. Oh wow, I forgot about that, shute.
I forgot kind of about that. You're blacklisted in the industry. Wow,
I might be. Well, it's back to alcohol boulevard. They don't
care if you're forty nine or fifty five or whatever. They do not discriminate
age auditioning for Intel. As long as you've got a pulse, you're good
to go. Oh my god. You know one thing though, I will
not do, look I will do. I'm talking now about like acting and
stuff. I would do commercial for vaginal cream. I don't care all day
long. I would do like yeast fiction. I don't even care. Why
is it all? Well, No, I'm just saying I'm trying to think
like the worst possible spokesperson you could be, like, because on this backstage
actack. Seriously, on this backstage out there's like all sorts of different like
roles and things, And I was trying to think of you know where I
draw the line though, because I think it looks so incredibly tacky on social
media when like seedless celebrities are promoting vibrators. You know what I'm talking about,
listen. No, do you know what I'm talking about? Listen for
the right price. I would, No, it looks really bad. I
don't know. For like Tom Cruise is excited to endorse the new magnet I
said, Cruise and Vibrator. Yes, called the Magnum Cruiser. It's usually
like reality stars that are doing this like like after my like knocked up and
pregnant or whatever they are. Well the post pictures of like them with like
the little vibrator, like oh, girls need attention to I'm like, I
don't know. I think that's where I draw the line with about ten thousand
dollars. Though for ten thousand dollars, I would, I would do a
commercial for Badgicel, I would Forgatze Vibrate. I totally would. I don't
know about it. I don't know why I draw the line there. It's
like one of those monster dildos, like like super Owl. My god lord,
no, have mercy. I don't know why I got off on that
topic. I do not. If you guys updated, please do. I
am waiting with bated breath. Did you find those like the backstage is like
looking for a vibrator spokesperson? No, no, no, I've just seen
those, like like people from reality shows promoting that on like Instagram, and
I'm like, that is tacky. Yeah, it's kind of weird. Anyway,
that is awesome your turn. So Friday night was a I don't even
know what did you do on Friday n I was so tired that I,
oh no, it was Thursday, Thursday night. I was so tired,
and I take Silliam husk yes we know, yea to make you poop.
Yes, not that you have to do everything regular, It just things go
in and out with no stopping once an hour forty five minutes in on the
dot. So I was so tired Thursday night that I took it and brush
my teeth, forgot and took it again. Let me just tell you,
I was skywriting by like three o'clock in the morning. How long does it
take to take effect? Well? Would you do it twice? Double dose?
Oh? Man, barely? My good friend Margot told me, because
I was putting it in like the big jug and putting it like a did
you have to get a seatbelt on the toilet pretty much and like a pillow
on the ceiling. So I didn't like shoot off and like break my neck.
It was ungodly. You did that with your kolonoscopy too, didn't you,
like, didn't you take too much of it? Like the double dose?
Well that's what they told you to do. And then I started vomiting.
I know Hescy two. I probably could have filmed the atomic bomb from
Offenhimer in that bathroom you forgot to take He forgot that he had taken it
or something. I don't know. No, no, no, you're supposed
to take both. No, you take the second half the day of the
morning. Yes, that's what I did. Oh, I thought you took
them both that night. That's why you're No. I don't want to talk
about peking anyway. I'm sorry to interrupt. Continue. Yeah, so let
me just tell you. By by Friday, I was exhausted and I was
completely hollow. I didn't even feel like eating because I was so exhausted.
Because you were tired. I was your body. Your body was tired,
and everything was tired. Yeah, I was. I slept almost the whole
day. What if you don't take it, Oh, I'm probably fine.
Well, then why do you take it? Because it's fun? I don't
like I don't like things setting up shop for very he loves the risk of
taking too many and just seeing, you know, the projectile. Well,
the only thing I had to do Friday was I had to go grocery shopping,
and that wound up being like a two hour because every time I would
leave the house, I'd have to run back once I was actually in the
car, because he won't coached the bathroom in public. I will not.
Oh, well, are you talking about like you won't even pee? No,
you just won't talk anywhere. He pope. One time he had to
poop and TJ Max and I flooded the bathroom. Oh god, I won't
poop in public. Who's the first person I called? But that happened.
Yeah. As I running out of the store, he's like, you're gonna
believe this. I just I just clocked the accident is overflowing in the bathroom
right now. Oh my god, I gotta get out of here. He's
running. Was awful. The best part is Laura makes funy of you,
like as if she's someone that actively looks for public bathrooms to poop in.
She's like, oh, this one before, I'll have to try this one.
Mind, How do I have to? Like? What are you going?
Oh my god, so like I I would. I I don't prefer
going in public, but if I absolutely have to, I will. It's
not like I'm going to drive back home after I get to the grocery store.
If I'm already at the grocery. The Oh I started sweating like,
I was all, Oh my god. And I literally just turned around and
came home, bunkled that seatbelt. Actually I've done that before. Oh what
got gotten to something like left to go somewhere and turned around because I,
yes, I was going to work one time, you know, up in
Carl's. Bat's like like an hour drive and I get like fifteen minutes on
the road and I I think I went to Olive Garden night before, and
dairy's not great for me, but I can sometimes I can cheat it.
But I had cheese filled ravioli covered in cheese, and I was like,
why is my stomach Like, I was like, oh, oh, I
gotta go. I got turned round, so I called my boss. I
was like, I'm not coming into there. I'm working from home. I'll
see you next week. Oh my god. So you wouldn't poop it work?
Have you ever pooped at work? Oh? I don't. I wouldn't
mind. That problem is I couldn't hold it for an hour? Would you
prefer? This is like totally no on my pooping preferences. Please if you
had, if you had to make a choice, work or a restaurant,
where would you work? Work? Okay? Work? Yes, you can't
avoid using that bathroom, so I mean because they're private at work, I
don't want to do it with an audience. So they're one hols yes,
oh okay, you just don't like the one with the stalls, no where
somebody can come in and hear all my business. Now if I have to,
I just pray that no one comes in, or if they do,
they don't make a comment to me about the state of the bathroom. Has
that happened before? Okay? God? Oh god? Yes, like,
oh wow, you're having a good time in there. Huh oh my god.
Well, bring on the double D music, Brian, because Eric says
he has a little bit before we bring on Brandon William musician around good guy
singer. I can't wait to hear a story. It sounds very inspirational and
that's what we like here at Laura can a good dark So Prince Charles has
cancer them oh, no, really, Oh my god, I didn't hear
that. Yeah, what kind They didn't say. They just said that it
came out today. So I don't know if it's how serious it is or
if it's just minor or whatever. But they said that both sons have been
notified. And then the Grammys were last night. I watched the whole thing
you did, Okay, so I have I have questions. Okay, So
I love Dua Lipa, Yes, I love her, and that new song
is I Love Who? And then then once that she premiered last night was
really good. So did you did you see when Celine Dion came out?
Yes? I thought she looked great. I did too, But doesn't she
have like stiff person's disease? She see where you actually start turning into like
stone, a statue, bone over calcification or something something like that. Yeah,
iff person's disease. That's yeah, that's what I don't know, that's
what it was referred to, I think. But she came out, she
walked out, her hair looked great, her face looked great, she spoke
eloquently perfectly, and she was received so well. I just I was so
happy to see her. I thought everybody looked great. I did too.
There were a couple and I have to say this is a disclaimer of the
people that were nominated when no, I do they were. But Joni Mitchell
was amazing. She it was cool to see a legend like that. She
performed years old, and she's going out on tour with Brandy Carlyle. Oh,
Brandy Carlyle is great. Yeah, she's awesome. Did you Okay,
how did you feel about Miley Cyrus's hair? I actually liked it. I
didn't like Yeah, well, okay, I think it is better than how
she used to portray herself. Yes, she's getting much more lady like.
Yes, yes, I don't think she should have won, though, Oh
I do. I love that was really cool. I thought it was cool
that she won for Flowers. Yeah, I do too. And I love
that Taylor Swift one and she's like, has won the most best of albums
of ever. Yes, it's a great album. It's fine. I don't
have a problem with Taylor Swift winning. I just didn't like. Miley Cyrus
kind of bugged me. I only I didn't watch the Little Grammys. I
saw her speech and it was like really pretentious. I feel like Miley's.
Yeah, and she wouldn't stop talking about Mariah Carey too. Oh. I
think she was just so enamored. Great she does. She did look great.
I thought she was Beyonce for a second. Everybody, there's not one
person I thought that looked bad, not what I saw or like overly filled
up or overly you know, look great like Kylie? She looked great?
Doja Cat looked a little ridiculous? Now, okay, is she the one
that has the tattoos on her face? Now? I don't know. She
was wearing like the basically see through Yeah, weird, Oh, I thought,
speaking of I thought, what's her name? Looked great? Shoot,
I'll think no, he's weird. I can't wrap my head around her.
Her and her brother, Yeah, Phineas, I can't remember. Oh do
a look great? Beautiful? Yeah, she looked great. And how did
you feel about Trevor? Noah, I can't. I can't stand him.
I like him, well, why I don't think he's I don't think it's
not that he's not funny, because he's not funny. He's not like that
funny to me. But he's also like he doesn't have a very good like
hosts like personality, like he's just kind of like delivery mean, Like no,
I don't know, it's just he's more irritating to me, like he's
kind of like lame almost. I was like I thought it was I thought
he was good. He wasn't too funny, he wasn't he didn't talk too
much. I like him. He didn't offend anybody. I don't think.
I don't hate him. I just I don't know. He's just not that
he's kind of enemy. Yeah, well I thought it was good. Did
you did you enjoy the show? I did. I watched it online?
Yeah, okay, jay Z's whole You see where he tried who was he
upstaging someone about Beyonce not winning just like Kanye did? Oh god, dude
knows, you know. I was. I was actually at work when I
was watching it, So there was like times when I actually had to focus
on and on the south pa oh my god, flowers one. Anyways,
we got a four lane accent. Oh no way, look at what she's
no, no, no, what was I going to was Beyonce? There
she's a cut with the long hair and the hat on and and uh she
okay, so blue Ivy one up with him and what did they say?
And what? Yeah? Who was he dizzy? She was? I forget
who? Or sort of? He was saying it was unfair that god,
she hasn't one best album of the year. Oh god, so many Grammys?
Now was there? I was like, dude, crime a River,
come on, she's so so lame Beyonce? Was he talking about his wife?
Yeah? Oh okay, I see god, I see. How do
you like his hair? He's like, I know, I don't think.
I don't like it at all. Anyway, only Lenny Kravitz can really pull
the hot off. Yes, he looks better without him, though, he
like his like kind of afro thing, not afro Lenny or Len. Oh
see, I like him better with with the dreads. I think he looks
cool. Yeah, okay, you're done. I'm done. All right,
let's bring on our guest intro music. Yay, now you tell us about
Brandon William musician. I'm one down, Sit down, put on your headphone,
high see you, good to see you. There are your headphones.
Your mic should be on. Right, there's the camera here. Now we'll
turn our Instagram users. Okay, so anyway, hi, and then there's
YouTube right there. We're live on two streams. Yeah, so here,
let's see, let's see. I do want me to just it more towards
all right, I know these there you go. Hi. So I was
reading your bio and he's a musician. Here's his guitar and he's gonna sing
for us. Write a song that you wrote. Is it the one to
you death or is it? Is it a new one? I think we'll
do by the way, by the way, okay, speak a little bit
more into your mic. I think we'll do by the way. Okay,
okay. So I was reading that when you know when you're a kid,
I feel like when even when you're five or six years old, you I
think you know what you're supposed to do do in life, like your body
tells you, like I want to be like I always knew. I always
loved radio. I always knew I wanted to be in radio. And with
you, you always wanted to be a musician, but you were kind of
pushed in a different direction. Can you talk about that a little bit?
Oh yeah, absolutely. It's a little cliche. But I remember Green Day's
Time of your Life is right when it came out, Good riddance, And
I just remember being my mom picking up from school. I was sitting on
the front seat of this eighty four blue camera and I'm like, man,
I feel that, like I feel that. I'm like, I want to
make people feel the way I'm feeling right now while I'm listening to the song.
And you know, I love my parents. They were very supportive parents
in gold Driven, but they were like, my whole life is like,
yeah, music, it's nice that you like it, but you should should
go go into the medical field. You should go do something that supports yourself,
which I mean, it's helped me. It's I've never gotten hungry over
it, so it's been great. So what in the medical field did you
pursue. I went to school to be a nurse, actually okay, and
it's it's been life changing because I've worked in the er, both the adult
and pediatric. I've worked in the ICU, but being the pediatric was is
the real life changing. For two. I never knew why had kids until
I worked in the pediatric And then you see people pass in the ICU and
get close to the families and you get to really value that aspect of life
as well. Did you work in the in the nick? You then the
new Natal Intensive Care Union or just with the children, the pediatric pediatric r
But still, my god, that must have been. That must be I
mean, is that currently what you do too in your real life job?
I mean that pays the bills? Right, I try? Is this the
goal right here? But like right now? Is that what you currently do?
Yes? Okay? I think that nurses are just their angels, their
angels on our seriously, is somebody that is willing to take care of somebody
else in their like most vulnerable state, I think is very noble. So
thank you for that. Oh it's a privilege. So but you got to
tell me what led you to start creating music after wanting to since you were
six years old. And then I got my first guitar when I was thirteen,
and I would just kind of play around on it, and like I
said, it wasn't really encouraged, but I would always be writing, always
be writing, Like melodies would come in my head and I would just rhy
them down notebook after notebook after notebook. But I went to college. It
took me a little while because I'd worked two jobs to get through school and
everything like that, and I was just finishing nursing school around twenty eight,
and I was like, I have these songs, but they're not complete because
you can't hear them. I can only perform them a little bit. And
I wasn't the best guitar player at the time either, so I I was
like, man, I got to get it out there. And I took
a solo trip to Las Vegas actually for the New Year. It's something about
New Year's Eve. It's just really special. It's like it's the end of
something. You get to reflect. And I was sitting there waiting to uh,
I just saw the Chainsmokers the night before for a New Year's Eve.
They were aw I bet oh they have such energy. It's actually Andrew's birthday
actually, the December thirty first. Oh, yeah, so it was.
It was super cool. I have two shot glasses from the chain Smokers.
Yeah, I have my cabinet. But it was the night after and I
got a complimentary ticket to go see Marshmall. I'm like, I'm not going
to miss Marshmallow. So I'm waiting to get in and I'm sitting there and
I'm you know, having a drink, and I see a gentleman that's Caddy
corner me really well dressed, wear a nice cowboy hat, and we start
talking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and he
goes, would you like to join me? I'm like, yeah, let's
talk. And we're talking about ideas, wait does for you know, investments,
all these things like that, how I'm a nurse and I've been working
in the ICU during COVID and all this. And he tells me, ask
me about like music, like what do you like to do? And I'm
like I love to write music, I really do. It goes, what
do you got? And I go, I got anything? And it was
just Mike. My heart dropped. And it turns out he was actually friends
with the Chainsmokers and he was friends with Marshmallow. This gentleman comps my dinner,
insists, and walks me up to the front line and gets my ga
bumped up to a VIP just right then and there. And I thought,
never again, Well I'd be caught like that with my look. You know,
I'm like I got nothing to show him, and I was like,
up my pants down, yeah yeah, yeah. But that was like that
year. By October, I figured out a way to complete a track,
get it recorded, get it mixed and mastered and put up on Spotify.
Had you ever taken any music lessons of any kind? Not consistently, So
you're self taught, so pretty much on the guitar, Uh, pretty much.
Lots of YouTube, and I would get like, I would go clean
yards or you know, do whatever, do landscaping around the desert. I
grew up in Joshure, and I would take that money and I would go
get a scene lessener. I'd go get a guitar lesson and a little bit
piece there here and there. So this kind of life changing. I also
you said something about being a nurse and seeing people pass and life and death
and realizing that we have one life, one less and whatever we really want
to do, do it. So how did you make it come together?
Where you had the equipment, you had the mixer, you had the producer,
Like, how did this all? Did it just happen? So I'm
a big believer in you've spoken about manifestation. Yeah, yes, yes,
yeah, it's huge, huge. So I write everything down and I went
through spoiler, I went through a divorce actually at twenty six, right when
I got into nursing school, and I started going like I'm not a patient
person. I need to be patient. I need to do that. I
started writing it down, started watching all these Moti Visional videos, started reading
book after a book book, probably more self development books. Then I did
nursing school books. But it really forced me to, uh, just want
to be better, and so I would just work over time after a little
while, and I would write down what I wanted the next thing and only
started with it and amp and like a really simple guitar and you know,
to start. TikTok was the game changer though, because I connected with a
gentleman named Rikia Javarn is a credible guitarist. Actually he's touring guitarist for Taylor
Acorn. She's going to be at the House of Blues on May fourth.
Oh yeah, but this is before that. And it was really cool to
catch him early because he we connected on TikTok and like, yeah, like
let's do this, and like we what's the fee? And like he commissioned
him to mix these tracks that I recorded and he did a phenomenal job.
And getting from that and then I found somebody that was able to master as
well. You put it out there and it's like, wow, you have
something finished. To absolutely something finished and have it in your mind, something
that you wrote down and then you talk about it over and over again.
So if I went, hey, Siri, can you play Brandon Williams to
death? She would be able to Spotify could pick it up or or she
might it would be Spotify doesn't work that way. That's just Siri. But
like I can look it up on Spotify and there you are. That is
that? There you go. I work at skeptics as stages. I've gone
through like different drummers here and there and different people, like we haven't fully
found a solid lineup just yet to play live. But that's the goal.
Meanwhile, I keep writing. I hear something a phrase. I had to
hop out of the shower one time too, you know, I was like,
oh, I have to write this song right now. I heard I
heard something. I heard a melody. So I just keep writing and working
in the studio and practicing and meeting with people and jamming out to hopefully perform
live more around here. So your goal is to eventually come up with a
full on band, absolutely, and you'd be the front man, I believe.
So I write the songs, you write the songs. You had the
voice, Well, can you sing us something right now and play something i'd
love to? Okay, great, which are we going to hear? Because
I know to Death was the one that you wrote about or the one that
you first released? Is that right? That's the one I first released.
It was I'm a bit of romantic. I met a girl that got me
into traveling. Actually, that's part of why I travel every year's even now.
It's because I met that girl. That's yeah, that's uh, that's
the first one I wrote. Is that the one you're requesting you play whatever
you have come prepared with. I want to hear what you want to what
you want to play. I was like, oh, I should have practiced
them. Oh no, no worries. Okay, I'm gonna scoop back just
a little bit, all right. This one's called by the Way Finding the
ride. Words, though they seem a breath of way, don't always come
premadic. Say it all the way I hear. I'm learning to our sec
lan, though I may not say, though I may not express it well.
By the way hold, by the way I hate deal, by the
way I conduct my sapar reveale, by the way I hate it, by
the way I live by the way you see. May they had fine?
Don't mean election? I seek two communed kid, won't you come down?
No one's perfect s. If a good anted, I fail to success,
though I may not say, though I may not express it. Wow,
by the way I by the way I hate, deal, by the way
I conduct my self, our reveal, by the way I gave, by
the way I live, by the ways you see. May they're fine,
though I may not say, by the way, by the way I did,
by the way I conduct my self our real, by the way I
get, by the way I laugh, by the ways you see. May
they're fine? By the way ba, the way yimn bay, the way
I conduct myself orevial bay, the way I ain't give, by the way
I love, by the ways you see. May they to fine? May
they to fine me? How is awesome? Okay? I was totally getting
vibe. Okay, that was great. You wrote that your words, you
learn to play, that your voice is great. I was getting like I
could see you touring with like a one republic the fray the kind I mean,
it was kind of that vibe. I don't know what really good?
What is like? What kind of music is that? The kind of music
you want to put out, like like similar to that or or what do
you like? Because that's what I was getting. Those are the vibes I
was getting. I loved it. Oh. I definitely want to connect with
people. I think that's the whole purpose of music is to connect. Yeah,
it speaks when words fail music music speaks for sure. Yeah. And
I wrote that song in particular too Many to two people, my brother and
somebody else I was I was with at the time. But that's the kind
of music I do want to write because it's it's for my own mental health.
And when you connect with someone else, maybe you can help them get
through what they're going through. Yeah, for sure. And more of a
a weed out a me thing. So I've had people tell me I love
that song, it's my favorite song, and like, like, my song's
your favorite song, thank you? Like it almost brings you to tears when
someone connects with your music. What you bring up mental health? Is that
something that you've struggled with, or that that that music has helped you overcome,
because I I mean something I do, I struggle it and I know
a lot of people that do. And if music is what helps you and
therefore, in turn, you'd like to help somebody else who may be going
through the same thing. That's awesome. I mean, is that what's going
on? Oh? Absolutely, I there's things. That's why I work on
myself so hard. I'm always reading something like how can I apply this and
make my life a little better, treat the people in my life better.
When I wrote that song, I was pretty critical. I'm very critical of
myself. I think that's what pushes me to be a better musician. But
I wasn't very patient, wasn't very patient, and more than more than anyone,
most importantly my brother. And I'm like, you can if you can
be kind to you know, your friends, strangers, you meet, it
counts more with the people that are closest with you. And I really didn't
see any progress with that, and it would just beat myself up over it
over and over again, and I only saw it hit a milestone. It
was kind of interesting. I missed a flight with my mother. We missed
a flight and it was an eight hour laid over and four hours and I'm
like, I didn't get it mad, I didn't get upset, and it
wasn't it wasn't my fault. That we missed the fight, but to see
more internal control and how music has done that for me and be able to
sit and sit with my guitar and write something, put it out and channel
it something that I want, something that I desire, and then to see
it manifest later in my life and says something I written down. It's huge,
and I hope the same for everyone else that's struggling just to get up
out of bed in the morning. Sometimes I'm sure, Okay, manifesting is
something that I totally totally believe into. So in the next year, I
want you to put it out there in the universe. What do you want
to see happen with you and your music? Boom, throw it out there,
all throw it out there, million streams on Spotify, to connect with
a million people or at least some even if it was one person a million
times, that'd be amazing, awesome, love it. Thank you so much
for joining us, Brandon William. We'll have his music up on our website,
Laura Cane after Dark. We have his bio up there, we have
his picture up there, and we'll have his songs up there too, songs
or song just oh, they're six excellent excellent. Okay, we'll put a
link on our website and thank you so much for being on the show.
Thank you for having me. Of course we end by saying a little phrase.
I'll say it first, then you say it, and then Eric hopefully
says it last. Sometimes he drags it out. I always am quick when
we have a guest, not always, Okay, thank you so much for
watching, everybody and listening and love your podcast. Love your podcast. I
love you, love your podcast. I love you, my sweet babies,
by everybody. Thank you so much.