Chantilly Brace—aka the Big Bopper—kicks off War Is Over with a surreal Vietnam skit where Tex mocks America’s losses while Liz rants about "Polish women" as scapegoats, then pivots to Buddy Holly’s crash, dismissing its fame over J.P. Richardson’s obscurity. The episode spirals into Brace’s Vegas meltdown, blaming a "shitty men in media list" for his romantic drought, framing it as cosmic retribution. By the end, chaos and self-deprecation collide, leaving listeners questioning whether the show’s absurdity is satire or sheer unfiltered madness. [Automatically generated summary]
Is that my you gotta keep doing it or the helicopters?
No, I'm just doing it.
Keep doing the sound!
Keep doing the sound!
We're going down!
My name is Tex.
What are you, Lieutenant Dan?
I'm Lieutenant Tex.
My name, they call me that because I'm from Texas.
Oh, I miss my hog.
Keep doing the fing sound, Liz.
Why do I have to be the helicopter?
You offered to hold up.
You offered to be the fing helicopter and we're mid-flight right now over the Ayodrang Valley while the battle is raging underneath us.
You're not even looking at me anymore.
This is why America lost Vietnam because Polish women were unable to carry their weight.
There we go.
Back.
I don't like being used as a prop plane and I certainly
don't like being used as a prop helicopter.
It uh.
It occurred to me that we, oh, yeah, to prop planes.
I want to talk about this.
People always talk about the tragedy of Buddy Holly dying.
Yeah.
Which first of all, no one's talking about that.
No, I get that a lot.
I get a lot.
I get probably because of your glasses because you got the Buddy Holly glasses.
Yeah, that's not why.
You know, my uncle went to, my uncle saw Buddy Holly.
Have I told you this?
He saw him play when he was in high school in Odessa.
Or not high school.
He was from grade school.
Yeah, my uncle, who had polio, he was in grade school in Odessa.
And he, Buddy Holly went to his school at the like local little gym or whatever where they're like.
Oh, it was Lubbock.
You're right.
Not Odessa, Lubbock.
They would have like fights and stuff, you know, every Friday night or whatever.
And Buddy Holly would sing before the fights and you would go watch him.
And when he died, the, I mean, the town was like fucking devastated, obviously.
And the school said, okay, if you guys go to the funeral, like you're going to be expelled because they didn't want all the kids, you know what I mean?
Literally no kid went to school the next day and everyone went to the funeral like the whole town.
It was like this whole thing.
Well, okay, now I'm going to sound like a real asshole if I complain about what I was about to complain about, but I'm going to do it.
People talk about Buddy Holly's death as if it was this big moment.
Oh, everybody missed Buddy Holly.
You know who else died?
The big bopper also died.
Chantilly Lace was a huge hit.
Hello, baby.
Beloved musician.
And he is faded into history.
Like, I mean, it's like he never existed.
Yeah, I got to say, I don't know what you're talking about.
The big bopper.
The big bopper.
You could just, you can keep saying it.
I just still don't know.
And I'm not saying it because.
If the big bopper was around today, he'd have to be fat.
And if I said, it would become a lizard.
Say bopper.
Say bopper.
I'm going to say bopper.
I'm going to say something really fucked up.
Well, you have done that already.
So what's the difference?
Fat.
Hello, everyone.
Unbeeped.
Okay.
Hi.
My name is Chantilly Brace, aka the Big Bopper.
The Big Bopper?
Yeah.
Well, hold on.
Before we introduce ourselves, there's no better time.
I want to talk about this.
What are we going to do?
We're doing this as a big hole.
I want to talk about something.
This is about Sin City, Las Vegas.
Brace.
Monsieur Brache.
Yeah.
You have.
You've learned some lessons this past weekend.
Some hard lessons.
Yeah.
You went to Las Vegas.
You stared Lady Luck straight in the tits.
Yeah.
And then she googled me and saw my name on the shitty men in media list, and she abandoned me.
Blue balls all weekend from Lady Luck.
I got to say, I, God, if you're listening to this, if you do listen to this podcast still, if you're not like, oh, that was like some like 20 years.
Oh, God still listens for sure.
And you're like, oh, Brace, but you've sinned, so I'm going to punish you.