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Hairpieces, Thongs & Adult Treasure Boxes w/ Dr. Brady Smith · The Resting Stitch Face Podcast

• Sarah Harding: Hello and welcome back for another episode of the Resting Stitch Face Podcast. I'm your co-host, Dr. Sarah Harding, along with Erin Sheffield: Dr. Aaron Sheffield, welcome back. Sarah Harding: Welcome. Erin Sheffield: We are so excited today. We have an amazing guest, Dr. Brady Smith. You probably know Dr. Brady from his crazy antics on TikTok and Instagram. He's one of the funniest dentists in the world with hundreds of thousands of followers. So we can't wait to talk to you more and just get into it. brady: Thanks for having me guys. This is great. This Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: is that was a great intro, by the way. That was everything I wanted it to be. Yeah. It was. Sarah Harding: And more. And more. That's what we're here for on the resting Erin Sheffield: I'm I'm glad we we're just, you know, hitting hitting those levels already. So I Sarah Harding: stitch face podcast. We're here for you. Yeah. Yeah. brady: Even Erin Sheffield: wanted to talk to you first about this, okay? So we had Dr. Walpack brady: Okay. It didn't do it. Erin Sheffield: on our podcast. I hear you guys are friends. And we were brady: Okay. Erin Sheffield: like full into the episode, like 45 minutes in, and he just casually dropped that Walpack was not his real name. And my brain shut brady: Interesting, right? Erin Sheffield: off. And I And Sarah didn't say anything and they just kept talking. And I was trying to look up on my phone, like, Walpack, like, is that what he said? Is he did he say that wasn't his name? What? And I'm trying, I'm not finding Sarah Harding: You you said Erin Sheffield: a Dr. Walpack dental, you know? And so I'm like, finally, I was like, I am sorry, but we have to go back. That's not your real name. And he's like, no. So let's just establish this so that my brady: Yeah. Well Erin Sheffield: brain can continue to work and I'm not humiliated on my own show. Is your name actually doctor Brady Smith or brady: Bro, I got my driver's license right here, just approved. Sarah Harding: Ha ha. brady: My birth certificate is right next to me. listen, you're lucky that you only, it only took you 45 minutes to find out. I knew Bert for a year before I found it. For some reason, it was on my phone. He called me, and it said, like, maybe Seth Holland. You know how your phone says Erin Sheffield: Don't out him. brady: maybe it's somebody. So it said, maybe Seth Holland. I was like, dude, Bert, why does it say maybe Seth Holland when you call me? And he's like, 'cause that's my name. And I was like, shit. What? And Sarah Harding: Got it. Yeah. brady: then I was like, Well, I'm calling you Bert. So that's Erin Sheffield: I know. brady: already imprinted upon me. You're not, you're Bert. So he's Bert. So Erin Sheffield: He's he'll always be Bird. brady: Yeah. Did Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: I just get applause? Sarah Harding: You did. You did. Cause Erin Erin brady: That was nice. Sarah Harding: wanted to do that, but she didn't she missed the opportunity. Yeah. Yeah, thanks. brady: That was a good that was good. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: glad you're drinking the Diet Coke during this episode 'cause it's very on brand for you. brady: this is my second in the mor it's what time is it? Ten AM. This is number two. This number two. Yeah, I know. Sarah Harding: That is so gross. This is so gross to me. This is so gross. Erin Sheffield: There's there's something about dentists, right? It seems like half the dentists in the world are like total Diet Coke addicts and then the rest of us are like, Soda no. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember in dental brady: Yeah, I Sarah Harding: school somebody was popping a can in the library in the morning and it l made my stomach turn. Like I was like, that is so disgusting. I don't know why. It is. It is. brady: Sounds that sounds like a you problem, Sarah. Sounds something's Erin Sheffield: Sarah keeps she keeps offending our guests. brady: wrong with you, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe you should go to a doctor and look into that because, you know. Sarah Harding: Sorry, here I am. I mean I I grow coffee. I grow coffee. That is the perfect nature's caffeine for you. Why do you need to why do you need more? Erin Sheffield: 'Cause we're not allowed to drink that. Sarah Harding: But you're not allowed brady: No I Sarah Harding: to drink Diet Coke either. brady: What are you talking about not allowed? Sarah Harding: No, I thought that if you were LDS you could only drink Mountain Dew. brady: What Erin Sheffield: Right. Sarah Harding: Yeah yeah. brady: That's yes, that's in the fourth chapter of the Book of Mormon, is that Mountain Dew is allowed, but not. no, Sarah Harding: I th not very Erin Sheffield: Mm. Yeah, exactly. brady: it's common misconception. We're allowed to drink caffeine is not the problem. Coffee is explicitly forboden, forbidden problem. Sarah Harding: And tea too, right? brady: certain kinds of tea, yeah. it honestly doesn't Sarah Harding: Just I'm so confused. brady: have a reason, a specific reason attached to it. It doesn't it's more of a of an obedience type of dictation. Sarah Harding: I thought it was a mind altering substance thing. That's what somebody told me once. It was like brady: No, it I mean i i it got interpreted by a lot of like lay members as like caffeine is what is the r but like it was never officially like from like the pulpit, to my knowledge, ever like it was caffeine because people would drink Diet Coke, people could drink Red Bulls, you can drink energy drinks, you can get caffeine from chocolate. I mean, there's caffeine and all kinds of things. And so but some members would take it to a very extreme degree and be like no caffeine in our house, because Sarah Harding: okay. brady: we're devout. And so that was never really I was never brought up that way in my Mormon upbringing. So but coffee definitely is explicitly mentioned, but not but not Diet Coke and Mountain Dew is explicitly allowed. Sarah Harding: You know, like apparently God's creation isn't good enough for you for you guys. brady: correct, correct. God couldn't make it happen, so man had to take over and perfect the formula. Sarah Harding: See Erin Sheffield: God gave us food engineers to bring the gift of Diet Coke to Dr. Brady. So Sarah Harding: That's right. brady: Yeah. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: tell us about how you got on social media. What was the impetus for getting on there? What were your goals? brady: Right. Erin Sheffield: What was your evolution been with this process? brady: You know, it's just attention. That's all I that's my goal. It's it's not just attention. Just just starved. I'm one of eight kids, Aaron. And my mommy Sarah Harding: Of course you are. Yep. It does. Erin Sheffield: This makes so much sense, yes. brady: and daddy ignored me as as a young child, so I just have this thing in my brain where I just need attention from people. I'm not even really joking about that. it's just fix. Sarah Harding: Where where are you in the lineup? And I'm calling it a lineup because they overdid the basketball team. Right? Yeah. Yeah. you just made the cut. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: Yeah, six out of eight. I have three brothers, four sisters. and it's a big, it's a big group, you know? And so I had a lot of alone time growing up, a lot of just like parents not knowing where I was. So yeah, I I started on social media on TikTok specifically. I can't I think it probably was like early twenty twenty two. Ish. It was after COVID. And you know, I just started on there to kind of just build a brand for myself. I just wanted to kind of build, you know, just kind of talk into a microphone and say what's on my mind. And I think I was on there for a month and I had a video that got like six million views. And Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: then it was just that dopamine hit that just like I gotta do it again. I gotta keep Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: going. This is great. And I didn't really have Any other goal other than just to promote myself. I I I've never really been like, come to my dental office, come. I mean, I still work. I have th I own three practices in Vancouver, Washington. I work two days a week still. so but I've never really like gone out of my way to promote dentistry, clinical dentistry in any way. and so It's really just snowballed into comedy opportunities. So yeah, that that was the start. The start was just literally attention. I've always been like a theater kid, like a stage kid. So I've always loved the limelight. That's really what it is. Sarah Harding: Here we are. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: But something you said, I think is so powerful because I think that's an opportunity that dentists and doctors are missing a lot. I talk about that a lot. Social media is such an opportunity for building your personal brand and for finding opportunities outside of clinical dentistry. Cause I don't know about you. I love my job as an oral surgeon, but it's stressful and it like wears me down. And people are like, you should work. Five days a week, you'd make a lot more money. And I'm like, heck yeah, Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: I would. But to me it's not worth it. Like the lifestyle, it's like the stress. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: I find a lot more enjoyment and creativity out of doing like the social media side. And I think a lot of doctors kind of snub their nose at it, but they're turning down a lot of opportunities that you couldn't predict, like the comedy side for you. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Yeah. brady: Yeah, those same doctors pay consultants fifty thousand dollars a year to tell them to raise their prices and have better systems. I mean like they dentists all spend money on marketing and and you just have some Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. And most of it's crap, yeah. brady: Yeah, you have a lot of dinosaurs out there that are still just like sending out mail letters and using the using the the yellow pages and basically. I mean Sarah Harding: Mm. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: when you have like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, I mean like these are free. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: Free these are free platforms. They cost Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: nothing and eighty thousand people could know who you are tomorrow. Erin Sheffield: Exactly. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: Crazy. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Such a opportunity. So were you doing the comedy like stand up side before social media or has that been a result of the social media? brady: so I've always considered myself to be kind of stand-up comedy adjacent. So I've always gotten along well with stand-up comedians, and I've had a few that have been patients of mine going back maybe 10, 12 years now. and about that time I developed a reputation locally in Portland, Oregon, that I would do free dental work for stand-up comedians. So because I would, I would. So I started doing that. You know, some people like, you know, they some dentists will do like stuff for like veterans or like victims of domestic abuse. And my soft spot was always comedians. Just Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: just stand-up comedians, local people that you wouldn't recognize, trying to make it in an industry. They have crappy jobs, no dental insurance, they're road warriors, they're on the road all Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: the time. And I would just like see somebody like you have six thousand dollars of dental work to do, and you might as well say six million dollars of dental work. And so I was just like, dude, let me just do it. And they're like, Okay. And so I've been doing that for a very long Sarah Harding: Yeah. So I because Erin Sheffield: No arguments there. brady: time, but I've only been doing stand-up for like three years. Sarah Harding: wow. brady: And and that started back, I would get hit up by Dental conferences is how it started. Dental conferences would ask me to come do like performances of like I play guitar and sing and do like parodies of songs. Like dental like like like Weird Al Yankovic, but for dentists. Sarah Harding: I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's how I first saw you was with that stuff and I was like, This is gold. brady: Yeah. So that was really fun. And my first gig was at Thrive Live in twenty twenty-three. in front of like eighteen hundred people opening for Sebastian Manaskelko was their headliner. And man, I got nervous. I got I didn't think that would happen to me. And so I I think the performance went well. I think the performance did great. I did great. But I got really nerve, like legitimately nervous. And so that's when I hit up my local Portland friends who were endeared to me already. Because of all the dental work I would do for them. And I would hit those same people up to be like, Hey, can I get in on the show? Like they run shows locally. And so I could get in on shows and I I got to skip the whole like open mic grind. I never grinded open mics at comedy clubs. Because Sarah Harding: Wow. Yeah. brady: these friends of mine would put me on their shows. And so I would get ten minutes here in like eight minute spots in like local like local spots in front of like twenty five people at weird bars in Portland, Oregon. And so then that then that developing that skill, I just fell in love with stand up comedy. And then I was like I was always kind of close to it anyways. And so it was really easy nudge to just go full go all in on that. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Wow. Where did you grow up? Did you grow up up there in the Pacific Northwest? Okay. Okay. brady: Spokane, Washington. Yeah. Sarah Harding: And then dental school up at brady: University of Pacifics, San Francisco. Yeah. Yeah. Sarah Harding: down here. Okay. All right. Cool. And when did you finish? brady: Two thousand and nine. Sarah Harding: Okay. All right. brady: Yeah. Been a while. Sarah Harding: Well, yeah, we're there with you. It's cool. Erin Sheffield: nine. brady: Are you guys are you guys niners? Sarah Harding: I'm at 11. Erin Sheffield: I am brady: Okay. You know, good year. It's a good year. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's something. Erin Sheffield: One of the best. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Who knew? Yeah. So, you know, the Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Sarah Harding: nice thing that about what you do as a dentist is that you can offer things like that. And people are really excited to get, you know, even just a cleaning or free dental care. you know, I texted Bert the other night because I was out at dinner with my family and my kid was like, wait, did the the server is is and I have a four and a seven-year-old. They're eating their own food, you know, like from the restaurant. My dad's like, yeah, that's like a perk of working at a restaurant as you get a free meal. and like during your shift. And I was like, And of course, my brain instantly goes to, my job doesn't really allow for these sorts of things. And I said, Yeah, and do you know? And I couldn't even get it out, which is why I could never do your job. I couldn't even get it out because I was like laughing already at my own joke that if you work at a oral surgery office. each each shift that you have, you get to have a tooth taken out. Like nobody wants my services, right? Like that's that's not what people want. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: No one no one likes us. brady: Yeah. I got I like yeah, like I got a free six inch sub when I worked at Subway when I was a kid. Sarah Harding: See? Yeah. brady: Every shift I got a free six inch. So that's kind of like that, right? You don't get that Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: you you want a perk like that. Sarah Harding: Yeah, like there needs to be something, but nobody wants just a tooth taken out. See? Yeah. Yeah. You're right. See? brady: Maybe like maybe like a just a little bit of ketamine, like a little ketamine drip or something like that. Just something. Just yeah. A huff of nitrous before every patient. Something like that. Erin Sheffield: They're Our corporation is so strict about how we dispose of the extra medications used in the sedations, you know? And you have to like Sarah Harding: Mm. Erin Sheffield: squirt onto brady: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: a gauze and then put the syringe and the gauze into the sharps container. And I'm like, this is costing me a lot of money disposing of syringes and gauze in a sharps container. And Sarah Harding: That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: I'm like, I just want to throw it in the trash. And I'm like, anyone who wants to go through that biohazard covered trash to get like Sarah Harding: Yeah. Dumpster diving. Dumpster diving. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: a drop of ketamine, like Sarah Harding: Yeah. I know. Erin Sheffield: Hap you just it's yours. That's yours. brady: Cadimans all the rage now though. Everyone's doing everyone's Sarah Harding: We had an episode two episodes ago, I think, that where you know we ha interviewed a gal that owns a ketamine clinic in Tennessee and it's incredible. brady: Yeah, they're they're getting over tra people are getting over their trauma by just going on ketamine. So that's all I know. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. It's pretty cool. Sarah Harding: See? You should listen. You'll learn a lot. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: That's all I know. So you can come lap up brady: That's all I know. Erin Sheffield: syringes out of the trash if you need to. brady: I don't know the science behind it. I just know that's what they're doing. That's what the kids are doing these days. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. So you own three dental practices. How many dentists are working with you? Do you own it independently or is it like a group? brady: I have it's a it's a it's a private group practice. It's it's a private Sarah Harding: Okay, cool. brady: private. Yeah, it's it's me and I have two partners. And then I think we have two associates. Yeah, we have two associates. So I have two partners and two associates, so it's five dentists. I think we're about to hire a second associate for one of our locations. So we're about to get to a sixth a sixth dentist. But it's yeah, I didn't really want to do that. we've had a couple of situations that kind of fell on our lap. This last one that we opened two years ago was a DSO that went like belly up and they sold in 10 op practice for like a hundred thousand dollars. And then Erin Sheffield: wow. brady: my my Henry Shine rep gave us the jump on that. So they they were like, by the Sarah Harding: Dude. brady: way, this is gonna go to market soon. If you wanted to get in on this before it does that, you could buy this before anyone else has the chance. And me and Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: my partner were like, had two locations. We're like, we don't really want a third location. Like, we would have never looked into that. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: We I mean two is b it's busy. And so Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: but we're like, Yeah, we can't felt like free money and it wasn't. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Ha ha ha ha. brady: It was still it was still a ton of work. I it's still a ton of work to make that Erin Sheffield: You should have turned it to a comedy club, a dental themed comedy club Sarah Harding: yeah. brady: Good of some kind of cool Erin Sheffield: instead. brady: s like maybe like a dental office like slash speakeasy with like a like a cool Sarah Harding: Yes. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, exactly. brady: bar, like at ten o'clock we close and then in there's like a password and then it's a Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. brady: cool like like like a smooth jazz club. That'd be awesome. Sarah Harding: Yeah, Havana Nights, Erin Sheffield: And you got all these like Sarah Harding: cigars and everything. Erin Sheffield: sounds going in the background. brady: Yes. That's a good that's a great idea. Yeah. So we got a we got a good we got a good crew and yeah, they're the offices are going great. It's it's it's a lot of work, but it does offer me the ability to do, you know, free work and you know, take as much ketamine as I want. So it's good. Yeah. Sarah Harding: See? Yeah. See? Also, can we talk about your treasure box? Because this is this is I started Erin Sheffield: I was gonna say we've gotta talk about the treasure box. brady: Yes. Sarah Harding: working in a pediatric practice and of course there's a of co brady: Mm, not gonna work there. Not gonna work there. Sarah Harding: of course there's a treasure box there, but it's like, you know, skateboards and things like that. And one of the dads brady: Mm. That not the good guy. Sarah Harding: was like, Why do the kids get all the treasures? And I was like, behold, let me show you Dr. Brady Smith. He has an adult treasure box. And he was like, What? Where is he? And I was like, I know, I know. brady: I have two different I have two different adult treasure boxes. So I have the one that's open to my general patient pool. So if you gin pop, that's right. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Gen pop we call them. Gen pop. Mm-hmm. brady: And that has like that has like everyday adult like tape, scissors, fingernail clippers. Sarah Harding: scissors, yes. Erin Sheffield: The clippers, yeah. brady: I think we I put up we have pregnancy tests in there. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: and What else be like like measuring cups and batteries and just like adults Yeah, just something Erin Sheffield: Sounds very useful, yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. brady: like that you might like, I could use a I could use a pack of double A's, actually. So Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: you get you get those. And then I have a super secret adult treasure box. And this is a you must Sarah Harding: Yes, it's the best. brady: ask for it. The other one you're invited to partake, if you get any procedure done that involves an injection, you don't get it's not just cleanings. Erin Sheffield: Mm. You have Sarah Harding: See, that's all we do. Erin Sheffield: to earn it. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: Yeah, you gotta really you gotta really have done your done your time. Erin Sheffield: If they grab you or scream, they're not eligible for the treasure box or is this a goodwill thing that they Okay, good, okay, good, good. brady: yeah, there's there's there's rules. There's rules for sure. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Okay, good. They should ha you should have another one for those people. brady: The adult, the super secret one is the one that has the liquor bottles and the pre rolled joints, pre-rolled Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. brady: yeah. doobies, reef reefers, marijuana cigarettes. yeah, and then Sarah Harding: Doobies. D do we call doobies? I don't I'm not really up to date on the Yes. Erin Sheffield: Ha ha. brady: and then it it well because it sounds kind of a little salacious because it's the adult treasure chest. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: and so it wasn't ever designed to have like adult. toys in there, but then the gays found out online that I do that. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: And they were like, well it has to have well, it has Erin Sheffield: Made some donations or brady: to have adult toys. So they send me so now I have like penis keychains and penis candles and a Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: lot of penis paraphernalia in there. So it's pretty cool. Sarah Harding: Nice. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: And is that the most popular stuff? Everyone's like the candle. I want the candle. brady: You know, my my my steep my s my staff, my team, they were like they they kind of ransacked it and they like, Can we have those? And I was like, Yeah, go nuts. And they took a lot of the penis stuff. So Sarah Harding: Need to refresh. Erin Sheffield: Now you're wondering about them a little bit, but yeah. brady: I already know about them. Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: So yeah, they yeah, but no, the most popular is definitely the the pot. The the weed is the Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: most popular. So that's always gone. And it's the most expensive thing to stock it with too. Yeah. But it's fun and that's a that's it, you you have to ask for that. So the patients Sarah Harding: Of course. That's why it's a yeah. Yeah. 'Cause I guess you can't random. Yeah. brady: need to know. They usually only ask for that if they know me from the internet. Which is not a huge Erin Sheffield: Right. brady: portion of my patient base, believe it or not. I don't have a huge portion that like knows me Sarah Harding: It's funny. brady: from the internet. It's it's still kind of like not I don't get a ton of people from on like who know me from online. Erin Sheffield: It's so interesting. Sarah Harding: Doesn't that surprise you? Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: A little bit, a Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: little bit, because I also am fairly inexpensive for I mean like my crowns are a thousand bucks implant Erin Sheffield: wow. brady: and crown is like three thousand dollars. I give ten percent Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: off. I actually give twenty percent off of my prices. Sarah Harding: Are you fee for service? Or do you take some insurance? No, I take my Okay. brady: no, I take some insurance. I take some insurance. But those are my fee for service prices. But I Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: give twenty percent off for people who come out of state just to kind of help out with like if they want to come see me out of state, which that's the Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: weirdest thing, because I'm a pretty average dentist. I'm not like which is why I stay out of like clinical education and like that's not my vibe. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: But I have t these all I I have tons of brands who are like, We want you to do webinars for our implant company. I'm like, Get lost, dude. I'm not Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: I'm not doing that. Like no, because you have people who are like experts in the field. Erin Sheffield: It's not really the brand, yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: Like you they have people who are like excellent clinicians. And I'm like, I am not trying to get in Sarah Harding: Overtake that. brady: I I don't want like I'm an average dentist. but I do but I do get people who come from out of state because of the online stuff and I give a little deal when they when they do that. just cause make it seems nice to do that. Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: You know? Sarah Harding: Yeah. They can also search for your practice Erin Sheffield: Well that's so interesting. Sarah Harding: online because you use your actual name. Right? Yeah. Yeah. brady: That's true. Yeah. Unlike Erin Sheffield: You're getting all the Wallpack patients that are like, I can't find Wallpack, I guess I'll go a little further. brady: Unlike that phony Bert Walpack, what a phony. Wow, someone someone's trying to hide from their patients. Not me, not this guy. I'm not afraid of anybody. Sarah Harding: Mm. That's right. So speaking of that, Erin Sheffield: But I love Sarah Harding: did he say that there that you did have an issue with that? Like with did you have an issue with some some people trying to stalk you? brady: I've had some I've had some situations, all Sarah Harding: Ha ha. brady: right? I've had some people, yeah. I did not I didn't no, I've not really talked about that with Bert, I don't think. Are you talking about with Bert? Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: no, no, I don't think he's had a problem with that. I think he was just trying to like I think he did not want Sarah Harding: No, he hasn't. He said that you have. brady: his patients to know that he was a stand up comedian. Sarah Harding: Yeah. He didn't want his old boss to know. That's what it was 'cause he thought his old boss would not yeah. Yeah. brady: Yeah. And that makes sense. That makes sense. Like if you yeah. No, I never had I mean I had some people show up to shows who Sarah Harding: yeah. brady: like traveled far and like it it's mostly people asking me for free dental work, which is sad because I don't do it that way. That's not how I like I've had Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: people come up and if I start doing it that way, then people know, if you just show up to his show and ask him for free dental Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: work, then like I had someone drive I did a local Portland show. And they drove from San Francisco to Portland to see me. And they were Erin Sheffield: Well brady: in my DMs like crazy, like, we want to come see you. We know that you're the only one who can help us. It's like sad stuff. And I'm like, Sarah Harding: yeah. brady: I'm like, yeah, this isn't gonna this is because if I say yes to that, then it's then it opens the Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: door for a lot of people. It's Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yes. brady: like fifty percent of my DMs too, is like Sarah Harding: wow. brady: people asking me to do free stuff for them. And I just can't can't Erin Sheffield: wow. brady: do I can't do that. So Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: But I do free stuff for a lot of people and I I do, I mean, it's like part of my like how I stay sane in dentistry is like I I just do a lot of free stuff and it feels really fulfilling for me to do that. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: And so I'm really careful about talking about that because it just triggers people's asking for that. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. brady: Never in person, only in DMs. Hardly ever in person do people come Sarah Harding: huh. brady: in like, We heard you did free work for this person. We want you to do free work for me. It's it's people get bold in the DMs, but hardly ever in person, has anyone ever asked me? So yeah. Erin Sheffield: That's so interesting. But Sarah Harding: Hmm. Erin Sheffield: I think an important point of what you're making is again, like the power of social media. You get to take that authority for yourself. Like people are just deciding you're the best dentist in the world and you're worth traveling for because you're putting yourself out there. They're building that trust with you. They're building that parasocial relationship with you. And that's such opportunity when the patient shows up in your chair. I think it's so much easier to. pitch the treatment plan or to have them accept the care brady: yeah. Erin Sheffield: that they need because they're like, I know Dr. Brady. He's a good guy and he's gonna do the right he's gonna do right by me instead of like, I don't know, is this guy trying to just sell me something I don't need? Sarah Harding: Mm. Erin Sheffield: yeah. brady: Yeah. treatment plan acceptance is a hundred percent when they know me from the internet. Like Erin Sheffield: So interesting. brady: a hundred percent. They don't they don't well, Sarah Harding: Interesting. Yeah. brady: because they trust me. You you nailed it on the head. They trust they Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: don't even know me, but they trust me before I don't know them, but they know me. And they feel like they know me because of that parasocial relationship, which is a very Erin Sheffield: Right. brady: real thing. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: But what the reason they're there is because they have a mistrust of other exp from other experiences and they Erin Sheffield: Mm-hmm. brady: see me as a goofball. But you know, very like authentic. And they interpret that as he'll help me, I'll believe what he says. He's not out there trying to scam people. And then I tell them they need they need eighteen crowns, and that's what we do. And they say yes, and they're Erin Sheffield: And ozone and crystals and some other things too while you're at it. brady: Yeah, I see I see you, Aaron, getting on getting Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, I've been waiting into those brady: Taken's taking some holistic fellas to task. I like it. I like it. Erin Sheffield: I know I went hard. I said someone was a quack and I'm not usually that strong. brady: Did he did the the guy and then there is a capitation right here and you must do all zone to get a capitation taken care that guy? Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: He's not even the worst one. He's not even the worst one. Do you know Blog Sarah Harding: Yeah, I know. Erin Sheffield: Well one brady: do you know Blodgett? Didn't look there? They're here Portland. He has a big online presence. Erin Sheffield: No Sarah Harding: Mm-mm. Erin Sheffield: I see the guy with the big glasses. Who's that guy? brady: I don't think he has glasses. I don't think he has glasses. Blodgett, no, I know who you're talking about. No, Blodgett has been doing this for a long time. And he's in Portland. And I called Erin Sheffield: That tracks. brady: I called and asked him, I called as a patient, and I just was like, and they're very forthcoming on just a phone call of all they do. Do you know how much an extraction costs? Sarah Harding: I wanna know. brady: Th this is gonna blow this Erin Sheffield: We wanna know, yeah. brady: is gonna blow your mind right now. And you can call them and ask them because they they quoted me this over the phone. Four thousand dollars. Sarah Harding: No. Erin Sheffield: Just a routine extraction or like a non brady: And I had to like not laugh. And I had to pretend to like maintain my composure. And I was like, Erin Sheffield: yes, thank you. Yeah. brady: so that just seems like a little bit more than what I've been quoted other places. what goes, what's all entailing that? And it's like this vitamin C drip. They put like inject you with vitamin C. And then they're like, what else was there? The ozone like stuff, like oxygenation of stuff, and then the cleaning of the site and making sure there's no cavitation and like. You know, a lot of dentists leave that and then they just throw dentists under the bus at every opportunity. Other than yeah, they're gonna they're gonna leave you with this problem that's gonna affect you for years, and you don't know how toxic these things can be if it's not properly taken care of, and most dentists don't properly do this. And then I was like, Okay, well then I'll need an implant. How much is that gonna be? And a ceramic implant Sarah Harding: Ceramic implants. brady: in the anterior was eleven thousand dollars and in the posterior was nine Sarah Harding: Okay. brady: thousand dollars. So I I was Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: Telling I needed a molar taken out and removed and replaced. And well, so that's $13,000 for an extraction and an implant and a crown. $13,000. And then I was like, there's people who do this. There's people who pay for this. And that's it's it's it's like Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's it's it's it's like brady: all of a sudden it was like my like whole brain like was like, no, this is predatory. This is like, this is preying on people who are. Fearful of like how they treat their body and they're mindful of that. And now they have professionals who are like, yeah, I know. And these and they're by the way, they're pulling asomatic root canal teeth to do this. Erin Sheffield: yeah. brady: Taking an asympto asymptomatic root canal tooth and telling you you need to have this removed because it's and then it's gonna be $4,000 to remove this and then another $9,000 to place an implant there. So This it's what Sarah Harding: Do you know where this started? I feel like this all started with the well, you need to have all of your amalgams removed and replaced with composite restorations. Cause I remember, you know, brady: That seems Sarah Harding: 10, 15 years ago, that was like starting to really pick up steam. And I feel like they were like, watch this snowball. I bet we can roll this into even bigger procedures and more money. brady: Yeah. I mean, just wellness and nutrition is such a huge industry. Billions and billions of dollars are being poured into this with the next like here's this peptide and here's this thing and here's this shake and here's this new diet. So it it hit dentistry, but that seems like, yeah, the whole amalgam thing is like definitely a gateway drug to what else can what else can we do? Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Wait till they hear about the micro plastics that are in composite. brady: But I don't know how I don't know how dental boards aren't crucifying these people who are pulling out asymptomatic root canality. I don't I don't understand it. It it seems so obviously predatory and no one gets in trouble for it. And they're open. They're on the they're Erin Sheffield: Well, I was thinking yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: on line. They're online doing this, so I don't feel bad talking about them. Erin Sheffield: We have hundreds of thousands of followers. Yeah, I was thinking about this because the cavitation thing is obviously coming into our world in oral surgery, and it's all you can't find it on a regular x-ray. You have to get this very special x-ray that only we do. They make it sound like comb Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: BMCT is proprietary to them or something. And then there's no symptoms. And I'm trying to imagine I have patients, yes, I brady: It's a silent killer. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: have patients with symptomatic. like painful things and I can't get them to pay two hundred dollars to get their infected tooth out. But these people are charging eleven thousand dollars for their cavitation treatment on asymptomatic can't be found unless I ask you to take this x-ray that we didn't need to have. And I thought, how do they do it? And the only way I can think is fear. This just preying on the fear. Sarah sent me another video from this same guy just yesterday, like this woman Two weeks later, after having her cavitation removed, she was finally pregnant and she credits him, you know, and like preying on the infertile crowd, that's just extra devious. Sarah Harding: Yeah. I was like, Aaron, did you not think of this before you had to go through all your brady: Yeah. Sarah Harding: IVF? It was probably just cavitations. Like, what were you thinking? You you did all of this stuff with IVF. You could have just had your cavitations removed. Erin Sheffield: And he is clearly showing cavitations and mold. You can see the mold right on the film. And I'm looking at like that's just normal bone. But patients don't brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: know that. brady: But what it taps into, it's like it's more than fear. It is fear, but it taps into something else. It's like the same reason why like get rich quick schemes work. Like cause people are geared to like, I I want to make money. That's a big drive for someone. I want to make money. And here's an opportunity to make money so fast. I got this email from this Nigerian prince, and it just sounds like it's it sounds too good to be true. And it but people still do the people fall for those. And you're like, how can people fall for that? And it's like because it's innate in them that they want money. So you're tapping into a drive that they already have. With people Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: in dentistry, you're tapping into a mistrust for dentists. People already hate dentists. So if you're like, if you're a dentist and you're like, yeah, these dentists are killing you and don't do what they say. There's another guy out there that it tells people Sarah Harding: There's another guy out there that tells folks Erin Sheffield: Right. brady: Don't ever say yes to a crown. Never say yes to a crown. You need you need to do onlays and then crowds are they're killing. Like you can never and so when you say, never say yes to a crown, this is someone who's gonna get hundreds of thousands of views because you're Sarah Harding: don't ever say yes to the crown. Never say yes to a crown. We give you online and credit for killing say yes to the crown, this is someone who's gonna get money to thousand you because you brady: gonna have so many people who are like, yeah, crowns are scants. Erin Sheffield: I was told to get Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. And they know that they're doing that and Erin Sheffield: one. Yeah, exactly. Sarah Harding: they're and then they go brady: And they know that they're doing that. And they're and then they go go viral doing that. And it's like that's that's what you're tapping into. And yeah. Erin Sheffield: Well, one of the tell me what you think about this. One of the worst ones with this holistic dental stuff that they're spewing. My brother in law happens to work for her. He like got hired onto this dental company as their CFO. And now I'm like, no. And he's married to my identical twin sister. So I'm like, I was gonna make a video, but that might not be the best idea. She's like, Why is your wife making these videos against me? So she'll have to brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: go unchecked. brady: Yeah, Sometimes you just gotta bite your tongue. Like no, just not gonna do anything. Not gonna do content about this. For sure. Erin Sheffield: He'll keep his job Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: a little longer until he can maybe find something a little more in line. Yeah, it's wild. brady: Yeah. Sarah Harding: Well brady: Well world. Erin Sheffield: Well, we we really appreciated your video on how wisdom tooth business is in a four billion dollar scam industry. So sometimes brady: No. Erin Sheffield: you go into you said you don't really go into the clinical content that much, but you know, most it was pretty funny, but you're Definitely dropping the truth bombs at times. How do you decide what you're gonna talk about? Is this like something that you're thinking like me? I'm like ruminating at ideas at night. Do you have like a bank or is it just comes when it hits you and you're on or you're scripting things? How do you prepare your content? brady: yeah, usually I mean I have like a note section of my phone. If I have an idea, I'll jot it down. Like I definitely have a couple ideas all always. Especially now because content creation is such a big part of my life that I feel like I'm constantly not just content creation, but I'm also constantly curating and creating jokes and like writing everything is material, like literally. Everything is material to me. but with the dental stuff, usually I'm having an interaction with a patient that sparks, I should talk about this. And then like I remove them from any kind of identifying Sarah Harding: And then like I remove them from kind of identified. brady: anything. but yeah, that's usually where it comes from. that video you're referencing where I talk about, I don't know why people think. Sarah Harding: But yeah, that's usually where it comes from. I that video you're referencing where I talk about I don't know why people think brady: Wisdom tooth is some bajillion-dollar industry. A patient told me that. And I told the patient, there is no like Sarah Harding: this is some trillion dollar pen. A patient told me that. And I told the patient there is no brady: mothership of oral surgery. It's thousands Sarah Harding: Okay. brady: of individual businesses. So if all these oral surgeons are telling you to remove, because they're like, I've been told by every dentist and every oral surgeon for 30 years to remove my wisdom tooth. I was like, Erin Sheffield: Maybe for good reason. Sarah Harding: That's brady: That's Sarah Harding: original thing that they all have the different conditions they don't. brady: really interesting that they all have the same recommendation. They don't work for the same boss. You know that. They they have different they're all independently owned and operated, telling you the same thing independently over and over again. and they're you think they're all in cahoots with you. That's insane. You're insane. Sarah Harding: you must not know about our database where we share patient names and say, Hey, if this patient comes into your office, make sure to tell them that yeah, there's a secret database. That's why we can't talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. brady: Yeah. We got this one's being stubborn. We gotta really pull out all the stops on this one. And Erin Sheffield: Everyone gets a two percent referral fee whether when they finally go for it. brady: And you know, so these people are unfazed. They're like, nah, it's a scam. I'm like, yeah, okay, Erin Sheffield: for sure. brady: well, I'm not gonna add to it. If you have any problems, call me. But this is the the reason why they're telling you this is because this is the potential problem. We have the ability to be predictive and preventative in our treatment. But if you want to wait till it hurts, that's I don't have a problem with that. You know my number. This is where I work. You come you wait till it hurts if that's what you want to do. I don't recommend that. But if that's what you want to do, and another thing they always say is like, well, it's been 30 years. I'm like, okay, yeah. If I told you that I haven't worn a seatbelt for thirty years, does that mean that seat belts are scams? Sarah Harding: Right. Good point. brady: Because I haven't needed one. I haven't gotten a car wreck for 30 years, right? But in the moment that you need a seatbelt, boy, you're gonna wish that you had that. And that that you and that you had that strapped before the problem occurs, right? Once the once the problem occurs, it's already you're already in it, you know? So I think they're just trying to help you, you know, and that's all. It's just trying to help you like a seatbelt would be. But that's their mentality, Erin Sheffield: That's a great brady: is that like sometimes it's just like it doesn't hurt. So I don't even try to fight that anymore. I'm just like, okay, well, when it does hurt, just know I'm here for you. Actually, I what I do want from a monetary standpoint, like from a capitalistic standpoint, I'm like, yeah, wait till it hurts. I'm I'll be ecstatic for you. Like that's great for me. Wait till it hurts and it you have decay that chews through your second molars too. Now Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. brady: and now and now we got bigger. Yeah. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Cha ching cha ching, two teeth now. Yeah, exactly. Sarah Harding: A two for one deal there. Yeah. brady: You don't like. I'm not buying my boat from your wisdom teeth. I'm buying my boat from the people who don't get their wisdom teeth taken out. I mean I I'm buying my boat from the people who wait till it hurts. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: Those are the people that I really cash in on. Sarah Harding: Yeah, yeah. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, 'cause a two hundred dollar filling becomes a two thousand dollar root canal becomes a three thousand dollar root canal and crown and an implant and brady: Yeah. You know, a long time ago, I thought it's like Americans always talk about how we want to be preventative in medicine. And actually my experience in dentistry is like, I don't think people want to be preventative. I think there's a I think people Erin Sheffield: No, that's so true. brady: want to wait till it hurts. They want Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: to wait until they have to deal with it. Nobody really wants to be preventative because dentists are the poster children of like probably the most preventative health care providers. That Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: like the whole like, don't eat sugar, don't smoke cigarettes. Come in every six months, check, even if it doesn't hurt, we gotta check it, we gotta clean you up. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Here, have a toothbrush, have some floss. Here yeah. brady: I mean, there is there isn't a doctor more preventative than us, I don't think. And and still people are like, nah. Yeah, Sarah Harding: Yeah, scam. Scam. brady: it's scary. They're trying to get me, you know? So, you know. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. But speaking of scams and truths, I really appreciated your video on Medicare, the whole cutting of c of reimbursement for that. And this was a little bit of a while ago. Here in California, I think recently they passed something where they're no longer Medi-Cal is no longer covering amalgam restorations. only composite for med for the medical dentical population. and that's interesting. and so brady: Okay. I didn't know that. Sarah Harding: yeah that was just last week I think. And so then of course of course everybody jumps in and says, okay, well then are we not downgrading any of my restorations anymore? Like you're saying it could have been an alloy restoration instead of a composite restoration. So then I think it's really interesting because the whole point of your video was there are people that take Medicare that and you get paid pennies to do treatment, and people are getting upset because dentists are stopping taking those government plans because you don't get paid anything. You get you actually are paying the patient to do their restorations for them. And brady: Sometimes. Sarah Harding: but then there's these big conglomerates that are Medicare mills or whatever, and they are getting a set amount of money from the government to have a set number of patient population, whether they s yes. And whether they're seeing the patient brady: Per encounter per encounter payments. Biggest scam in dentistry. Sarah Harding: or not seeing the patient, whether treating the patient or not treating the patient, if they see them, they're gonna do one filling today and then they'll have you come back. And then you get to do another filling and then they'll have you come back, even though that's ridiculous. brady: Well, you it's it's literally supervised neglect. Cause Sarah Harding: Yes. brady: these these places then it's three months to get a new appointment at these places. These places are backed up like crazy. They have the worst reviews online and they have the h the longest wait times to get in. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Yeah. brady: And you get one thing done because they're paid by encounter. And and they suck up in most states, fifty percent of what the government allocates towards Medicaid dental is sucked up by federally qualified health centers that don't do any dental work. I do more dentistry in one day on the Medicaid population than a federally qualified health center does in a month. I don't think I even I'm even being facetious. It's Sarah Harding: Right. brady: it's it's it to me, that's the biggest scam in all of dentistry is how federally qualified health centers are paid because it's hundreds of millions of dollars. That could be if you paid me by encounter, I would I would cover root canals, crowns, implants, the gamut of everything for the Medicaid Erin Sheffield: ozone. brady: population who needs Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: it the most. I could cover all that if you paid me $300 per encounter. But they're getting paid. So yeah, they do exam and x-rays, they paid $300. I get paid $27. And they get paid $300. So all that stuff offsets, which would allow you to like the grand scheme of things, yeah, I could do implants. There's like four visits to do an implant. Yeah, I could do that. I could manage that. so it's it's yeah, that's terrible. That's a terrible situation that's never gonna get fixed. Sarah Harding: No. brady: Yeah. Sarah Harding: No. Or the the patients that I've I've seen a couple of this type of patient where they come in, they are covered under Medical, Dental, and they can't schedule in the next month because they're taking their family v vacation to Maui for the month. I'm like huh. That's interesting. Erin Sheffield: That's nice for them. brady: Well that's just a value that's just a value issue. They don't value, you know. I'll be honest. I Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: sometimes I'm on I'm on the team, I'm on team patient for that. Because if I had to choose between a trip to Maui with my family or a three unit bridge Sarah Harding: I know. brady: on my own mouth, I would probably choose the trip to Maui with my family. If that if I had to choose, and some people are kind of in that in that boat, you know, it's so sometimes I'm on team patient. Sarah Harding: Right. I get it. But I'm also like, I'm gonna do your same yeah, I'm gonna do your same exact treatment that I would do on somebody with good insurance and I'm gonna get paid a third of the amount. It's the same exact thing. But you still get a trip brady: Yeah. Sarah Harding: to Maui and I don't brady: Yeah. Yeah. There's there's a high cancellation. I mean th that that is the I mean I'm Sarah Harding: So Yeah. brady: so I've been a Medicaid provider for a long time and there's a lot and it's a it's a love hate relationship for sure. But I I accept it just because I just have a affinity towards this population of people. I enjoy the interactions, I enjoy being helpful, I enjoy providing them a space where no No, not very many people are. And Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: I like it. I don't recommend it though to other people. I mean, like it's it's there's some rough there's some rough things. you you get involved in some Medicaid audits and you'll change Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: your mind pretty quick. Because the other thing with Medicaid is that mistakes Erin Sheffield: Mm-hmm. brady: are fraud. If you make a mistake, there's no Sarah Harding: Right. Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: such thing as a mistake with Medicaid. You are committing fraud if you miss bill. Anything. And I've gotten in some trouble with that and had to pay some large amounts of money back to them Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: because of mistakes Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: that they called fraud. And that's a scary thing to go through for sure. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, it's really easy to miscode. Sarah Harding: Did they first ask you for your eighteen cent check back? brady: Yeah, they want they want their eighteen cents back. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: That happened to me. I was trying to do my part and take Medicaid when I moved to the state of Illinois. And then I was like, I wonder if I'm the only oral surgeon in the state of Illinois taking Medicaid, because I've got people taking like a five hour Amtrak train down from Chicago to see me and thinking they're having brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: their sedation and going back on the train, you know, just kind of wild stuff. And then they sent me a how much was it? One cent check? for eighteen cent check Sarah Harding: But yeah. Erin Sheffield: for a hundred and something dollar exam and that's when I was done. I was like, this is not even pennies on the dollar, it's pennies on the hundred dollar. I just can't afford to do this. brady: Yeah. So just a side note, also with Medicaid, one of the ways it's financially viable is because they cover so little. So when you get into benefits that are not covered, that the people want, root Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: canals, crowns, implants, these are not covered benefits. They can't get the they can't Medicaid won't cover that for them. Then you enter into a fee for service relationship. And my what I have found doing this for sixteen, seventeen years is Erin Sheffield: Sure. Sarah Harding: My what I have found to be a few. brady: Is that not everybody, but a good amount of people will pay for that. They will pay for an im they will pay for an implant. And so that's one of the reasons my prices are reasonable because I Sarah Harding: Good amount of people will pay for that. They will pay for an they will pay for an income. Or they'll or they'll Erin Sheffield: Sure. Sarah Harding: bone graft every wisdom tooth site. brady: Who the patients will? Sarah Harding: Well, they'll accept that treatment plan. brady: Yeah. I don't know about that. I don't Erin Sheffield: So brady: I don't do that. I don't do that. So I don't I don't know about that. But they Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yes, which is bizarre. brady: but they do, but they are a patient population of people who need dental work a lot. And so Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: when they need something and they realize they've already pulled out six teeth and now they can't chew and they're gonna lose more, all of a sudden now they'll be like, Let's talk about implants. And so it it Erin Sheffield: that's interesting. That's a good point. brady: it works it works out for me. Anyways, I found that it works out well. But I I I make most my money, not from the reimbursements, from the non covered benefits that are a fee for Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: service relationship from this population of people. Erin Sheffield: That makes sense. And you've already built Sarah Harding: Interesting. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: that relationship of trust and all of that. brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: No, that's great. That's a good point. Definitely. Sarah Harding: Yet another benefit of being a general dentist and not an oral surgeon, right there, folks. brady: There you go. There it would probably be a whole different story if I was an oral surgeon. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, I'm like, I'm not sure that strategy, although I do get Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: a lot of fee for service Medicaid patients coming in as well. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: something I have been really interested in talking to you about is your hair piece. Can we talk about that? brady: sure. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: I yeah, like you were dancing with it like yesterday on my Instagram or whatever in the bathroom. And I just brady: Yeah, it was the I was feeling myself. Erin Sheffield: I'm like I'm so impressed by the authenticity and the vulnerability there because I can't imagine too many men like your hair is fabulous. Like never would guess, at least brady: Thank you. Erin Sheffield: on camera, that it is not real. So to like be outing yourself and to be outing yourself to like millions of people is shocking, really. So how did that have you just always been really open about it? Was it a accident? Did was it a purposeful thing? Was it a hard thing for you to share? I'm just so curious about this this confession. brady: No, it wasn't a hard it wasn't a hard thing for me to share. I always think it's I think my hair is funny. I I I think it's funny. but I also think it looks so good. Like it's it's thicker than my hair. Like when I was 18, I started losing Erin Sheffield: It does. Sarah Harding: It does. brady: my hair when I was like 30. And by thirty-four, thirty-five, I was thin enough on top that I was like, no, I'm going bald. Like I had to accept, like I didn't My dad has a pole head of hair. I three brothers that have good hair. And so I was like, what's happening to me? Like, I don't, I don't identify as a man who's bald. I don't identify like that. Sarah Harding: Ha ha ha. brady: So I had some identity. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: We don't identify that for you either, yeah. brady: So I had these identity issues. like legitimately, I went to like different hair transplant surgery consultations, and I was really thinking about it, and then I stumbled upon this guy's Instagram. He still has his name. His name is Phil Does Hair. He's awesome. And Sarah Harding: Hmm. There you go, Phil. brady: yeah. And he did hair systems, hair pieces for Baldwin. And I was and he and I was like showing my staff and they're like, Dr. Smith, you gotta do this. You gotta do this. This is amazing. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: And I was like, Erin Sheffield: Wow. brady: okay. So I messaged Phil Does Hair. And this is before I ever had like major social media. And he was a big, he's a big account. And he like was super nice and responded to me. And got me in touch with someone locally who does what I'm looking for. And so I did a hair piece and I loved it. And but it was like really weird going from bald, like thinning. Like even things like going to church on Sunday, Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: my wife wouldn't go with me the first Sunday. She wouldn't go. She just stayed home and she's like, I can't, I can't, I can't. Because I'd like. Thinning and then all sudden people are like texting her. How did your husband have a full head of hair? Like all like and last week he did not. So you know, things like that were kind of awkward, but my staff knew I was doing it ahead of time. They're super supportive. My patients, some of them were like, Did you grow your beard out? Like, what's good? There's something different about you. And then before long, it was just more like the online stuff. trying to think. I think had my hair piece when I started. I I I think there was some on my if you go on, I have a YouTube channel that goes into like some archives of like old, old stuff I do. Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: and like the first, the very first prototype episodes of laughing my gas off, I didn't, I was I was I had my natural hair and I I wasn't wearing a hair piece yet. So you can go I think you can find some stuff Yeah, I was always open with it. And then it's also very very helpful for men and women. Like I get a lot of messages from men and women about like how this works and like just feeling comfortable with themselves. So it's and the thing is like I just don't I'm not really trying to impress if I was a single man, I don't think I would feel the same way. If I was a s if if if I was like Sarah Harding: Mmm, interesting. brady: dating, I don't know that I would I when do I tell a woman that I'm interested in? Like, this is fake. Erin Sheffield: This isn't who I really am. That's like the push up bra, you know, you're like, I hope that's okay. brady: at at some point intimacy is gonna happen and you're like, but like I'm lucky, I don't think Sarah Harding: At some point efficacy is gonna happen, right? But like I'm not brady: about I don't to think about that, right? So it's just not a just not an issue. But if I had to think about like at some point a woman's gonna put her hands like through my hair and I have to be like, nope, don't do that. Sarah Harding: One of my friends here had this exact situation, but it was a woman with hair extensions. And brady: Hey yeah. Sarah Harding: the first like date or two, like that she hung out with her now husband, she was having this like horrible feeling of, my God, he's gonna find out that this isn't my real hair. How how am I gonna approach this topic? And she was like, at one point, I think they were out and stayed the night over. And then the next morning, he was like going through her hair and like big. A hair extension came out and he was like she was like mortified. Yes, yes. brady: Horrifying. Terrifying, right? Yeah. I I'm just I'm I'm I'm lucky I don't have to deal with that. I don't worry about that. So for me, it's just just putting it out there. Also, you know, I am an attention whore of the highest degree, and I do anything with my hair, and it goes viral. Erin Sheffield: Whatever it takes, huh? Yeah. brady: It goes viral. And and that, you know, and it just it just helps me set. I mean, from my perspective, it It's one of those things that sets you apart from other people. And it's the dentist who do the dentist who wears a hairpiece as the guy that it helps me sell comedy tickets. And so it it does things. Sarah Harding: Wait, it helps you sell it? Like like it talks to people to sell sell tickets? You take it off and it talks like you're brady: I mean it just drives it just drives people through. Yeah. It just yeah, it just Erin Sheffield: Mm-hmm. Puppet. brady: yeah. So Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: I don't do a lot of stuff with it, but I do some stuff. And when I want when I really want something to pop off, I mean I got a like a piece of content I'm gonna make today for a brand and I'm gonna take my hair off for this brand that I'm like because it'll it'll help promote the post that I'm doing for this Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: brand that's paying me to promote their product. Erin Sheffield: I love that. brady: So Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: just it you know, it's it I I don't there's nothing about me that's like I I felt like I needed to hide it. It's just there's no part of me that's like, this is embarrassing. I love it. and then people ask me why don't do hair transplants. And the reason I don't do hair transplants is because it's never gonna look as thick as my hair piece does. It's it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be an okay result. Erin Sheffield: Mm-hmm. brady: But I'm not gonna look like I'm 30. You know, like is it that that that hair piece turns back time 10 Sarah Harding: Right. Yeah. Yeah. brady: years for me and and I and I like the way it looks. And so, you know, even now my wife is always like, What's your end game here, Brady? What what are you gonna like you just gonna Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: do this forever? I'm like, Yeah. They can sprinkle Erin Sheffield: Gonna be gray. brady: in they can sprinkle in gray, like you can get you can get it like like silvered up if you want. Erin Sheffield: So how often Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: do you have to replace what's the maintenance on something like this? brady: I get a new one about every nine months. About every nine to twelve Sarah Harding: Wow. brady: months, I get a new one. And it costs about twelve hundred bucks every time I do it. And I've gone through I've done it like five times. and granted, I have Erin Sheffield: Why do you have to get a new one? It's getting like stinky Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: and old or like the hair's falling out or brady: So so the h the the the hairline, what happens at the hairline is it become the lace at the front of the hairline Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: becomes visible and and the hairline doesn't look as good because I tape it in the front, and so every time I take it off, I this like alcohol rinse that I put on my forehead that like makes it pretty seamless. But every time I do it, I lose two or three hairs, pull out, Erin Sheffield: Sure. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: and they're gone. So it's a finite amount of hairs. If I do that ten times a week. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: You know, or like if I'm taking my hair on and off every single day, which I do, I lose hair from the front. And then the hairline doesn't look as good. And then it also dies. The hair the hair, the color of the hair changes in you know, in the sun or in the winter. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: and then my natural hair changes color. And so there's color issues that happen. And so when I get a new one, the color matches like dead on. My hairline's friggin' smoking hot. And then it just it works. Erin Sheffield: So do you have like the winter hair and the summer hair? You have to switch it out. brady: I Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: no, I I don't know why. I keep like all my hair. I have like five hair pieces in my closet. It's actually kinda terrifying looking. And it's but it's yeah, I I I put on my kids Erin Sheffield: That's a video. That's a video coming. You need to Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: sometimes. I have like children I put Sarah Harding: Yeah, I hope so. brady: my children and and we like have the same hair. It's cool. Sarah Harding: So do you get to pick like where the hair comes f the thickness of the hair, like the each individual hair? Do you get to is it like mink brady: I have a Sarah Harding: or is it like human or is it how do you brady: it's human hair. I have a stylist that customizes it. So she orders it from a company called Hair Skeen. And they make the hair pieces, but there's a lot of different kinds based on like your baldness pattern, based on the size of your head, based on your hair Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: color. So she matches the hair, she buys the hair piece, she designs it, and then it has she installs the clips onto it. It's like hair extension. I have two clips on the side and one in the back, just like hair extension clips, and then it's taped in the front. A lot of people glue theirs in, and there's another kind. You can get it glued on, and supposed to stay on for like four weeks at a time, three weeks, three weeks at a time, something like that. I've tried that, I didn't like it. So, so my Erin Sheffield: That sounds uncomfortable. Sarah Harding: Mm. Yeah, it sounds itchy. brady: stylist, and then when you get it, it comes down to your like chin. Like it, like it's like looks like a like long, like Kurt Cobain type hair. Sarah Harding: Yeah, like Erin Sheffield: Ha Sarah Harding: like Portland hair. Erin Sheffield: ha ha ha. brady: And then they trim it up to where you want. So if I wanted to, I could start like with like really long I kinda like the look of it when I did Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: it 'cause it's kinda cool looking to have like really long, like Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: You need to make a video brady: eight inches. Like Erin Sheffield: of this pro I mean, I feel like I Sarah Harding: I know. Erin Sheffield: saw you showing a little bit of it, but you should make a some more content. brady: I definitely have made videos of it. cause my girl Stephanie, I think Stephanie Design I forget her Instagram name, Stephanie Designs, I think is her name. But we made a video together and I I promote her like whenever she wants because she's Erin Sheffield: That's great. brady: awesome. but I did make a video like a start to finish, like a time lapse Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: thing. That it's out there for sure. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: I feel like I saw that. That was cool to see. Well, I love I love that. I think brady: Yeah, it's a process. Erin Sheffield: there's so many things that like we don't talk about. And when we don't talk about things, I think it inherently breeds shame. And there's like nothing shameful about losing your hair. That's like a natural thing for s so many people, not just men, even women. And so I think you being open about that really is helping people. And, you know, it sounds kind of silly maybe, but I think that's really brady: Thank you. Erin Sheffield: cool. brady: As women, what do you two think the right if you were dating, I don't know if you guys are married or what your situations are, but like if you were dating someone and it was going well, would you want to know before or after intimacy? That it would be here. Where how would you guys how would you guys Sarah Harding: was just thinking, I think it's sort of endearing. yeah. brady: want to be told like when is the at some point you'd have to feel like you kept this like it's not cool that you kept this secret for so long. But Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. brady: so there's a gotta be a time I think when like I always wonder about that, but like from your guys' perspective, I'm curious, like what when you if you were dating a guy, when would you wanna know? Sarah Harding: I think at the first compliment on the hair it has to come out. Like, you have such nice hair and like, thanks. It's not real, you know. Because I think otherwise brady: Okay. Erin Sheffield: that's a good that's a good point. actually it's not real. Yeah, sure. I dated Sarah Harding: it's like, you had the opportunity to tell me, but you didn't, you know. Erin Sheffield: I dated someone seriously for two brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: years, and it wasn't about the hair. He had lots of curly hair, but I could never figure out how tall he was because he was pretty short. He's like the only short guy I've ever dated. And he would be like almost my height, but then we'd go to church and I'd wear heels and he'd always still be about my height. And so I was so confused. And it wasn't until after we broke up and we dated for like two years brady: What were left? Erin Sheffield: that he told me he wore lifts in his shoes. And I was like, Whoa. Thanks for telling me now. brady: Did you feel betrayed, Aaron? Were you were you feel betrayed? Erin Sheffield: No, I d maybe we were so far past that point I didn't. But there's always those romance movies where there's like something they didn't tell them. It wasn't even really a lie, but they didn't tell them and by the time they do it's like You horrible, awful person and that never really resonates that much. Like, yeah, I should have told you, but you kinda made it hard for them. So I can see both sides. brady: This I had this guy DM me and he was like, I'm wearing a hairpiece and he was a gay man because he's like, I'm dating a man and he doesn't know that I wear a hair piece and it's getting serious. And he's like, What's your experience? I guess he didn't know I was married. He's What's your experience with like Erin Sheffield: The big reveal. brady: telling telling people and like when you should? And we started voice noting, because I was like, I want to help this guy. Cause I'm like, dude, just tell him. And if he like has a problem with it, like he's not. Dude for you, like, not Erin Sheffield: That's not your guy. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: your guy, man. Like, just don't don't even mess with that. Like, I I told him personally, I told him like I'm married, so I don't have to worry about that. But if I was dating, I would go on a date with the hairpiece, obviously. And I wouldn't tell a woman unless things were going well. And I believed we both wanted to progress the relationship. So definitely before intimacy, but not until I knew. This is somebody that I want to go that direction with. If Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: I want to first Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: like so like first date, first compliment with the hair, I would push back a little on that and be like, I don't even know if I like you to tell Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: you like this kind of a secret. Cause then if you don't like me, you're gonna go off be yeah, this freaking idiot has a hair piece. He's like Erin Sheffield: Yeah, for sure. brady: told these dumb jokes and like, you know, whatever. So I don't even I don't I would wait until like I would want and I feel like a little bit bad, but I would want to hook you a little bit to like. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: You're into me enough to like you want to go on more dates with me. You like we Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. brady: like we have good conversation. Cause then I feel like you can handle the cause then it's like, I don't care about that. You know? I want to, I want, I would want to give someone to that point. So, Sarah Harding: 'Cause then your personality is enough. Yeah. Yeah. I have a s yeah. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, sure. No, I think that's smart. brady: but he was like freaking out. And then he messaged me afterwards and he was like, dude, you're right. He didn't care at all. It's going well. And like, and they it it was, it was a good, happy ending. So Erin Sheffield: yay. Sarah Harding: That's so sweet. Yeah. brady: I was like, good about helping him with that. Erin Sheffield: Honestly, if you can look as good as you do with the hair piece, I probably would like I don't Yeah, so brady: You showed me pictures. You look good. I was like, dude, you look great, man. Erin Sheffield: like the reveal probably wouldn't be as big a deal to me. Like, well at least you're doing the best you can with what you got. That's something. Sarah Harding: Yeah, I also think that if it gets to the point where you're like, it's probably the to the point that I need to talk about this, but I don't know how to bring it up. You can say, you know, I'm about to start designing my next hair piece and I'd like some input from you. What do you think about changing the color a little bit? And then they're like, What do you mean? Like, yeah, this is not my actual hair, but you it looks good, right? And then they're like, Yeah, it looks great. And then you're like, Well, do you want to help me design the next one? I'd love your input. And then that's like brady: Listen, that's that's Sarah Harding: See? Erin Sheffield: Put it back on brady: an intimate Erin Sheffield: them. Like you're so dumb you didn't you didn't know. Like I thought it was obvious. brady: Yeah, gaslight Just tell them like, you're Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: What do you mean you didn't know? brady: you're dumb. Erin Sheffield: You didn't know this was fake? What's your problem? I love it Sarah Harding: I wasn't saying gaslight them, I was saying, you know, brady: No, I'm just kidding. I'm just giving you a hard time. Sarah Harding: come on. I was like, compliment them and their design capabilities and that you are value their opinion. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Erin Sheffield: Yeah. Go for the ego push. That's a smart move. That's a smart move. brady: You value their opinion. Exactly right. Yeah. So those are those are questions. I mean, listen, and there's lots of that those aspects I don't deal with with having the hair piece. Sarah Harding: See? brady: So all I deal with is people online and they just think it's funny and cool that I'm open with it. So Erin Sheffield: It is. It is funny and cool. I love it. Yeah, I don't wanna keep you longer. go Sarah Harding: Yeah. What has been your biggest? you said that in twenty twenty two you went viral with one video, but what has been your kind of biggest video that you've really felt hit? brady: there's been a few. one so I mean the the one is where I have a I have a black a black patient who called me the n-word in my chair. I Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: I remember that one. brady: don't know, he called me his n-word, like Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: in a in a in a in an endearing sense. He says, you you my and then in word. And Erin Sheffield: Yeah, my yeah. Right. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Yeah. That's quite a compliment. brady: that guy, I mean I I think My biggest videos, I don't think I've ever got more than like about 12 million views on a single video, which is great. But I mean, like, I've never really gotten into like any views like you see, people get like into 40, 50, 60, 100 million views on certain things, Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: and it's kind of crazy to see that. I've never had anything do that. I've had a lot of five millions in that rent, five to ten million Sarah Harding: Mm. brady: views on single videos, and I never know what's gonna hit. I I just do what I think is funny and interesting. And the things I think is are gonna hit, I have had so many videos. I'm like, this is gonna go mega viral and it does nothing. Which is crazy. Sarah Harding: Yes. Erin Sheffield: That's how it is for me. I Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: finally had my first. I've always been close to a million. I get like the 978 or the 957 type of thing. I had my first million this month. And it was the dumbest. brady: Yeah. that's very close. that's amazing. Erin Sheffield: And it's I've got it's got like 1.8 million probably at this point. It was kind of stalled slowly, but it's the dumbest. Did you see it? It was about the tongue. Like the creepiest thing you can do to your dentist is to like lick them. brady: I didn't see that. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: It was like the dumbest. It was the dumbest, Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: See then you start then Erin Sheffield: but brady: you then then you're like, okay I got I gotta do c tongue content, I guess, because it's but the algorithm Erin Sheffield: Right, I'm just the tongue. But then it started it Sarah Harding: Right. Erin Sheffield: started pulling I'm so naive it started pulling a little like nasty and it was like my kids are like, Mom, we want to make a video. So I'm like, here, lick your sister's brady: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: finger and so then people are like, Ooh, and I'm like, This is a kid. Stop. brady: This is not that kind of content. the other one, see, I think I did one where I like a POV, someone asks someone asked me to turn on the autoclave. And then I start twerking with my thong on in front of the autoclave to like turn on, like sexually turn on the autoclave. And that one went mega viral also. Erin Sheffield: I w I was gonna say that was gonna be my last question was like the thong. What does your wife think of the thong? How did the thong come to be? brady: was a gift at first. It was a gift from a Yeah. And then and Erin Sheffield: Someone gave it to you, they like really gifted you the thong. brady: that was like something like I forget yeah, it was years ago. And so now it just became a cornerstone of my content. no, Erin Sheffield: I know, right? brady: someone gifted me the the thong because I was doing floss bitch content where I would like do like drawings and like pretend like I was doing drawings of like art like artists who like art posts that teach you how to like draw like a rose. And I would pretend like I'm drawing the rows. And then when they show up the rows, I would show up my piece of paper and just says floss bitch. And I would do a lot of content like that. And then someone gifted me thongs that say you should get like it became like a catchphrase. I guess I just tried it kinda like adopted for myself. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: And then and then I got the thongs and now I now it's my merch. I go to my comedy shows and I sell thongs that say floss bitch on them. Erin Sheffield: my gosh. We'll have to we'll have to get some. I wanna say my Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: probably my favorite video of yours ever is the like Maury Povich spoof one that you were doing of the assistant. Have you seen that one, Sarah? brady: that one went viral too. That that Sarah Harding: I don't think so, no. Erin Sheffield: That one was so spot on. Like it was exactly, I mean, after growing up on those daytime TV Sarah Harding: I thought that it was not weird to not know who was the father of your child. Like for the longest time of my life. Who knew? Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Ha ha ha ha. brady: Yeah, well it just you know, some people don't know. Some people don't know. Thank you. I that I had Erin Sheffield: Some people don't know. But that one was good. I I appreciated that one. brady: a lot of fun making that one. and yeah, I loved I loved that. I've I I always thought bringing that brandy, the hygienist character back, it it's a little polarizing. It's it ruffled some feathers of some hygienists. Erin Sheffield: I bet it did. But I do what I want, when I want. Like I was like, my gosh, that's like exactly that dentist can't tell me when to show up. Sarah Harding: Hold on. brady: It was very fitting. Yeah, it's very fitting to some types of hygienists. And I don't think but like 99% of the hygienists loved it. It was like one per it was like it was like eight hygienists who had problems with it. Erin Sheffield: The ones named Brandy were like, I'm feeling too called out. Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: Or the ones actually starting OnlyFans on the side were like, Erin Sheffield: Yeah. brady: Is this about me? Is this about how do you know the how do you know this Erin Sheffield: It's brady: about me? Erin Sheffield: it's very masterful. Well, can you tell us where people can find you online? Tell us a little bit more about your comedy brady: Yeah, all platforms. Erin Sheffield: show, etc. brady: All platforms, Dr. Brady Smith, on Instagram and Facebook and TikTok and please like and share my stuff. And then you can find me online. I have a website, dr Brady Smith dot com, and that has all my comedy tour dates. You can find out if I'm going to a city near you and you should come out to a show. And then I also have a show that I do called Laughing My Gas Off, where I get kind of celebrity guests on in my dental chair and I give them laughing gas and I interview them while I clean their teeth. So you should watch that. That's on YouTube. You can watch that. And so you can go Sarah Harding: I love that. Yeah. Well let me know brady: laughing my gas up on all platforms as well. Sarah Harding: Cool. Let me know if you can talk to Whitney Cummings and get her to come on our show. We'd love that. brady: that would be great. She's awesome. She's awesome. She's one of my favorites. Sarah Harding: Yeah, because she's a badass boss babe. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Or get her in your chair, because I'd love to watch that. That would be real funny. brady: Yeah, you know, we just we just opened up a studio in Los Angeles. So we're gonna start recording in Los Erin Sheffield: Whoa. brady: Angeles in addition to we're gonna Are you in LA? Sarah Harding: can I come? I'm just down this I'm in San Diego, just down or just like north San Diego San Diego, just down the street. brady: heck yeah. We just we were there last weekend and recorded do you know Angela Johnson is? Yeah, we Sarah Harding: Yes, I do know that name. brady: just we just recorded with an episode with Angela Johnson. She's fantastic. She's great. Erin Sheffield: Uh-huh. brady: Our Sarah Harding: All right, sign me up. I'm ready. brady: maiden voyage. I'll let you know next time I'm in town. We only go I only go there like once a month now. I go there once a Sarah Harding: Okay. brady: month and I try to try to record as many episodes as I can. I am actually trying to get Whitney Cummings on the podcast. So we'll see how that works out. Maybe we just Sarah Harding: Yay. brady: manifested something. Sarah Harding: See? See that? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Because Erin Sheffield: Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen. brady: Maybe, maybe. Yes. Sarah Harding: you know what I love about her? I've listened to her on Joe Rogan and she was just talking about being a mom and how that is hard and what she does. And she was just so forthcoming with it and just very well respected by Rogan and all of the guys. And I was like, that's exactly what we need. Because it's so hard to just show up as yourself, as a woman around all men, and just like be be who you are, but also be accepted as that. Because like as women oral surgeons that's how you know, it's like, do I am I one of the dudes or am I like the girl, you know? brady: Yeah, I imagine that's something that's that's very interesting dynamic within oral surgery because it can feel like a boys club. So hopefully there's good ones out there. But I imagine there's Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: gonna be good ones and bad ones, but hopefully there's good ones that are just as accepting, you Sarah Harding: Yeah. brady: know. It's just Yeah. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Yeah, but I loved it. She could do that. brady: That's that but comedians, it's a comedians is a boys' club too. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: Yeah, sure. brady: and I I talk to a lot of female comedians who feel yeah, work a little harder to get The same recognition, which is terrible. So to Sarah Harding: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. brady: me, it's just about being funny. I don't care who you are if you're funny. And I don't care if I think you're funny. If you are funny, that to me is you fill a room full of people who are paying money to see you. That means you're funny. Even if I don't find you funny, if I Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Erin Sheffield: Sure. brady: don't think you're not your comedy's not my butt like I would never say you're not funny. You are fun. Maybe I don't find you funny, but there's men and women in comedy that to me, I don't understand. Sarah Harding: Right. Mm-hmm. All kinds of kinds. Yeah. brady: The draw. But they have it. They're there. I mean, the people are paying. So it's like, You're funny. Yeah, the recogni as far as the recognition, you get it because those numbers don't lie, you know? Sarah Harding: Love that. Yeah. Erin Sheffield: Another truth bomb by Doctor Brady. Thanks for sinking another one in. Well, thank you so much brady: Bombs. Yeah. Sarah Harding: Sure. Erin Sheffield: for joining us. This was so fun. It was so great to get to talk to brady: Yes, thanks for having me. Sarah Harding: Yeah. Erin Sheffield: you. I think we had a fun, funny time, but also definitely hit on some serious high yield topics. So thanks again. And brady: We dare. We dare. Sarah Harding: Mm-hmm. Erin Sheffield: as always, like and follow. And we'll catch you next time. Sarah Harding: All right, bye. brady: Thank you.