Brad Upton (03-27-26)

little beach boys bring this back on the program on this Friday chasing big

Joe on up to five the game excited to talk to our next guest he's going to be

at the historic Franklin theater this Sunday with two shows at three o'clock

and seven o'clock and we bring in comedian Brad upton on who joins us on the

program now Brad how you doing good it's baseball season started so I'm

excited okay who's your team mariners battle mariners okay okay

they get four home runs last night and lost six to four so they're the mariners

well you got the big thumper which is a great nickname dumper dumper dumper

yeah yeah well that's and yeah no we got a shot this year and you know what I've

been a fan for 50 years and you know how it is in your sports fan your

heart's been broken so many times you just he can't give you all your

heart yet yeah I I hundred hundred percent agree with you we're

Titans people here so we've we've seen it for sure oh yeah absolutely you

understand are you a Seahawks fan too yes there and that took us by surprise and

Seattle this year yeah see that comment that very very cool so you're coming to

the historic Franklin theater in Franklin Tennessee this Sunday for two shows

at three o'clock and seven o'clock have you ever been to Franklin before I

have not but I've heard nothing but good things so I'm looking forward to it

yeah it's a great little small town and I have a feeling you're going to have a

really good crowd yeah I do too I'm looking forward to it you know I'm doing

that special and it's gonna be a little over hour long and Nate

Land Nate Bergatsu is the producer so I am in good hands how do you know

how'd you get to know Nate I've just gotten you know he's got

Nate Land and some of his formats have been on his shows

before and you know he's just done a lot of nice things for a lot of

comics he doesn't have to do that and he does and uh it's it's a big deal and

to get to get him to uh produce the show is a big deal

hey Brad big Joe here listen we got a backup for a second uh the big

dumper right so you know my college roommate

who's that the big dumper right and then we all have a friend the big dumper right

I mean it's thought we've got friends that we named that right there you

my dad right I'm sorry I've never heard that nickname before it has

caught me off guard there so so you understand I you're coming to town and we're

gonna talk about your special and I think you're very very very funny

but the heartbreak of being a mariners fan you've never been to the world

series you live and die with the team I mean that's why I love guys like you

who stick with your team through thick and thin I wait to the second game in

history I didn't go to the opening night in 1977 it was sold out I waited too

late so I went the next night when there were 5,800 people in there

you had your what you can pick your seat right oh yeah I spot a cheap one and head

it down to the expensive ones oh I got to ask you were you there in the kingdom

the night that bow jackson ran over your seahawks yes I was no get out of here

I had it I was sitting down in the end zone he ran right towards me holy cow

what a night that what 1987 two man yeah and I about two about two months

earlier I saw him hit a 500-foot home run in that same dome and then like six

weeks later I saw him just destroy the seahawks oh that's also Brad

out those with us he's at the Franklin Theater two shows on Sunday three and

seven now we had Brian Bates on our show Tuesday and we love Brian yeah great he's

taping the special this weekend as well now when you take these specials do you

stop for the camera are you just go full throttle through both shows and they

add in together yeah yeah there we'll go through both of them we don't stop stop

anything and and then usually at the end of the two of them you'll tell the

crew I like the second one better than the first one or vice versa and

sometimes they'll take something out I mean if you stumble over something

they can edit them together but for the most part there's not a lot of editing

going on well that's good because you're a professional Brad we like

professional that's what I'm hoping for I've got this thing dialed in

uh Brad what was your profession before you got in the comedy full-time

I taught fourth graders and I coached high school track oh that's awesome yep

fourth graders oh man well I've told people entertaining a room full of

drunks in a bunch of 10-year-olds it's not a big career

it's the same skill set now did you still teach why you were pursuing stand-up or

did you just quit altogether and then go full-time I had I had a two-year overlap

there when I first started and then I was doing both and then I thought you know

what I think I can make a living doing this uh and I and I tried to take a year

leave of absence in the school district and they wouldn't give it to me

and uh so I said well then I quit oh um I quit and uh that was 40 years ago

Brad Upton is with us so you you briefly toured with Joan Rivers

I did what was that like she was a blast man she was a pro too she was

fun she was sweet as can be she would take a shot of vodka right before she

walked out every night that's that's pretty good I mean that calms the

nerves right I guess yeah she had that in her writer she wanted a

pint of vodka in the dressing room and she'd pour a shot

and right before she walked out bang knocked that back and go out there and

put the foot on the floor uh what is Brad Upton drink before pineapple juice

what do you got when you go out there yeah I don't I'm not I'm not exciting at all

maybe a maybe a sugar free red bowl that's pretty good tell me about Johnny

Mathis I love Johnny Mathis I worked with Johnny for 18 years I toured with

Johnny for 18 years and the nicest again the nicest guy in the

world and man he retired last spring and he could still

sing at 91 years of age he could still hit the high notes it was

unbelievable how long and this is a very dumb question I'm famous for dumb

questions Brad how long did it take you to warm over a Johnny Mathis

audience with your comments you know what this is a good question it's not a

dumb question it's a good question um the way he would do the show with

Johnny would come out and sing for about 40 minutes and then he would

introduce me and he'd say I got my friend coming out here very

funny friend he's gonna come out here and he entertained you and I will be

back in a little while I would come out and do 25 minutes

and then we'd go to intermission and then he'd come back out and sing 45

minutes so I actually went up in the middle of the show

and all those people love Johnny and so when he says here's my friend that

you're gonna like I walk out they already like me oh it was great he

set the table up great that's okay that do other

acts musical acts do that I mean because that to me that's brilliant

no no nobody he told me years ago he said I always wanted to open the show

because I wanted the people but until I was there because he said I went to

a concert years ago and the headliner didn't show up and they tore the

place apart he goes so I wanted him to know I was in the building

nice yeah and then you know with my 25 minutes that

intermission he had a 45 minute break in the middle of his show

true right good point Brad Upton is with us again you can check

about the Franklin Theater this Sunday at three o'clock and seven o'clock

just go to Franklin Theater dot com or Brad Upton dot com to get tickets

if someone has never seen you before and they're coming on Sunday what should

they expect you'll see a lot of observational stuff it's

I'm known as a clean comic although I'll tip toe along the lines of

slightly naughty but you can bring the kids if you want you can bring your

parents and I'll make fun of some millennials and some

Gen Z that's low hanging fruit to me and but you'll have a great time you'll

have a great time is doing that we've talked to a lot of

comics about this but the clean comedy thing which is

which is great is it harder to do if if you're completely clean

yeah I think so and you know it's not you know there's some dirty acts that I

think are hysterical but uh I just don't that's just not what I do and I

told people nobody's ever walked out of a show because it was too clean

and uh um when you're watching a clean show you don't necessarily know you're

watching a clean show you know what I mean afterwards you're like you know

what that guy didn't say that guy didn't curse at all

not as a comedian till a year ago the first will the comedy be funny

yeah absolutely be funny that's the number one uh Brad Upton is with us he's the

Franklin Theater this weekend uh two shows on Sunday three and seven now we're

quick question please tell me Nate Bargaz he shows up like Tom Cruise and

Tropic Thunder he's just he's just a tyrant please tell me that he's the

nicest guy in the world but I need to know that he's a tyrant

he's the nicest guy in the world I'm sorry oh that's okay that's okay but it's

you're doing this for Nate Land Entertainment and you've done it before

and you've gotten tens of millions of views Brad on YouTube and all your

things are you still pinch yourself to see

when you got so many people know you and watch your specials oh absolutely I

I'm telling I didn't blow up on the internet till year 34 of my career so uh

I was like holy this is uh no one more surprised than me I'm like are you

hitting me by the way you're at the Gretel Opera on Tuesday March 31st

I am I'm at the Opera and and I got that from like some of the videos that

blew up online my contacted the entertainment director she goes well I've

wanted I'm one of the hundred million that have seen you I'd love to have you so

that is an honor it's just I mean it's the opera come on it's they don't use

very many comedians so uh to walk out there and stand in that circle is

always surreal very good very very cool Brad I appreciate the time today I

were excited to have you in Nashville and the Franklin Theater this Sunday

three o'clock seven o'clock appreciate it good luck and we'll talk soon

I appreciate it I thank you and the big dumper thank you absolutely

that is Brad upton joining us here on the program again uh you can go to

Bradupton.com or franklintheter.com to get tickets to either show at three o'clock

or seven o'clock on Sunday really good stuff with him we'll like get back to

our question real quick who is the big dumper uh they's talking about the uh

Cal Raleigh the catcher for the Mariners okay he hit like what do you end up hitting last 62

yeah like 62 homeruns that's the guy with the most effort for a catcher yes it was it didn't

beat uh Aaron Judges record because he beat Roger Maris's record where judge any catcher

right but for a catch yeah I see what he's saying yeah yeah but um but yeah very cool

appreciate that we'll uh get back to our question a much more coming up next Chris Sanders at one

o'clock chase him big Joe one of two five the game