Comedian Butch Bradley on The John DeBella Show

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00:00Good morning to you. This is the first time we're ever meeting and you're from the area.

00:16Yeah, that's how big I am. They gave me Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. You know what I mean?

00:20They're like, he's from home. Let's treat him like he's local and family. We'll give you Tuesday,

00:24Wednesday, Thursday in Atlantic City on the boardwalk. I hope you make it out of there

00:28and live. Now my family's going to know I've made it because I'm on your show.

00:32They won't even come see my comedy and be like, I heard you were on the radio show with

00:36DeBella. That's great. Yeah. Unbelievable. Now, so you grew up in Atlantic City? I did. Why do you

00:42not believe me? Well, no, because most people work in Atlantic City and live in Egg Harbor.

00:48Right, right, right. You grew up in Atlantic City. Yeah, yeah. I grew up there, but like you said,

00:53most of my family's from Arizona Avenue. Uh-huh. Okay, but I ended up growing up in Margate,

00:59so you're really local inside. All right, all right. Yeah, but I still played with my cousins

01:03and got beat up in Atlantic City. Okay. I still have some credit. You know, I still rode my bike

01:08down the boardwalk, going to arcades, and then getting mugged after we won some, you know. So,

01:13yeah. Some little tickets. Yeah, they took all my tickets and then they went back in. Yeah.

01:17Because now you couldn't get an eraser. Right. Yeah, right. I still miss that stuff. I was just

01:22saying to Steve coming in, being in the rain in traffic, and I was like, there's rain. I'm living

01:28in Las Vegas. What a nightmare. I call home. I'm like, oh my God, Mom, this is just 100 degrees

01:34every day. She's like, it's always raining here. I go, Mom, do me a favor. Hold the phone up. I want

01:39to hear it. I just want to hear it. I want to hear you complain while I hear the rain. That makes me miss home.

01:46So, let's skip Thanksgiving this year. I think we're covered. Is it rough growing up with a name

01:53like Butch? Yeah. I mean, what was it like in school? Because when your name's Butch, you got

01:58to be the bully. Yeah, you know, it's interesting because I don't hear it as much now, but when I

02:03was a kid, I'm Lawrence Bradley. I was Butch. All right. And I never, I kept asking my mom, I don't

02:08understand why are you doing this to me? Because I went to Catholic school. Right. The nuns, if you called

02:12me anything but Lawrence, you got hit. Oh, yeah. Well, because you had to have a saint's name. Yeah,

02:16you, Lawrence, I got hit and, you know, but it was interesting when I'd show up to a fight

02:21or kids getting ready to get in a skirmish and they heard Butch was coming. Right. And

02:26then freckles and red hair showed up. I think they all were very happy to see they were going

02:30to win that day. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that happened many times. Butch, we're just going

02:36to use your name. It's going to scare them off. This always works out bad. They see me and

02:41then we get our butts kicked. Yeah. But growing up in Atlantic City, being a kid named Butch,

02:47I mean, did you have fears? Because that's the kind of name you can't have any fear. Growing

02:52up in New Jersey with a single mom, you're born with fears. I leave my garage still in

02:56Vegas. I have to watch my garage clothes because in my mind, if I look away, someone might roll

03:00in. Uh-huh. Like, they might be there when I get home. And that happened because when I

03:05was a kid, my mom would be like, boys, we're home. Did you boys watch the garage clothes? No. Why?

03:10Huh? Well, then we don't know, do we? And that thought is basically everything you're saying. I

03:16check my house every night. And if you did break in my home, there'd be zero need for violence

03:20because if I ever open that closet and someone's in there, I'm going to drop dead. But yeah, like,

03:26I mean, I was always afraid. I don't know. Like, walking down the street, you ever walk down the

03:29street and you have that one guy walking at you? Yeah. Well, when you're from the East Coast,

03:32all you do is assume this guy's going to kill me. You never assume anything good. Oh,

03:37this guy's going to take me horseback. We're going for beers. I love this guy. Yeah. Yeah,

03:43I am paranoid. Yeah, growing up in AC, single mom. I just bought a Doberman, which what I

03:49didn't realize is you really don't need any dog to grow up past puppyhood because they

03:53bite so much. They nip, they bite. If someone broke into my house, I could throw this thing

03:58at them and they would leave a life of crime afterward just from annoying

04:02and they cry. This thing cries in the middle of the night. The neighbors think I'm beating

04:06or murdering someone. But yeah, and living in Vegas, no weather, no moisture. Like, you

04:12take green, the color green. They don't even know what green is. People are like, hey, come

04:17see my backyard. I'm like, I'm sorry. It's really not a backyard. That's a walled in area

04:21of rocks. And if you peek over your wall, you're going to see your neighbor has the

04:25same collection. And stop asking me to go on hikes. I'm from New Jersey. You mean you

04:30want to go for a walk? Going to hike is 110 degrees here. You know what? I'll watch that

04:35on. I survived. These people want to go hiking and they talk about shorts and a t-shirt like

04:41it's an outfit. Don't worry. This is my hiking outfit. No, that's shorts and a t-shirt. It's

04:47not really going to protect you against what's going on in the desert. Why are you going out

04:51there? We're going to climb rocks. You know, you should just grab your sandwich and step

04:55in your own backyard. I think you got that covered. I think you're good. What is with

05:00the walled yards all over Vegas? It's bizarre. No one ever heard of fences? And it's walled

05:06like you're in a castle. Yeah, exactly. What are we defending against? How big are rattlesnakes?

05:13You know what I mean? That's what I'm thinking. No one gets that concept. It's great to hear

05:18this. It's refreshing because I said that. The realtor, I just got a place and I'm like,

05:21why is my wall 10 feet high? How nuts is the guy next door? You know what I mean? Do I have

05:28to have a castle guard like, here, here, here, butchers arrived. Open the gates. No, sir,

05:34there's been no sign of moisture. Yeah. No, that's Ben Gillette's house. Exactly. And at least

05:44you don't have to worry because if they never get the wall up in Mexico, they're not getting

05:48past the bottom. Yo, this is hilarious because my girl who's on her way here is Texan-Mexican.

05:54She's Texican. Okay. So she's always sort of in an inner battle. She's like, we should build

05:58the wall. We should tear that down. I don't feel good about it, but yeah, the walls, you're

06:04right. Who could, listen, my girl, I could build a wall. If you tell her you're hungry,

06:08she will get over and under that wall and cook for you anywhere you are. I don't even

06:13know where she's getting food from. She goes in the other room and comes back with a meal

06:17and I'm like, wait, we didn't have that. She goes, I just grabbed a little this and that.

06:21I'm like, we didn't have this and that. Where's this tunnel you have hidden in our home? Are

06:26you going back to Mexico and bringing these things back? I think I have the, I think I have

06:31the tunnel. Really? I think Trump should visit me.

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