KFC Radio - Quickie: Bill Burr, Rough N Rowdy and Why Gambling Is Being Legalized

Episode Date: August 3, 2018

Bill Burr calls in to make his prediction in the Pig vs Punk and Pride vs Prejudice matches in #RnR4, if he would trade in comedy to be a drummer and why gambling is being legalizedYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/kfcr

Hey, KFC Radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right, it's another edition of KFC Radio. We got Bill Burr on the line. He will be live in the flesh in Youngstown, Ohio for Rough and Rowdy this weekend. You said you're very gassed up for Youngstown, Ohio, Bill? Yeah, I've been telling everybody about it. And then I tell them about the fight matchups. I go, you see, I go, yeah,

there's literally, there's a gay guy that's fighting a convicted felon who doesn't like gay people. And it's called pride versus prejudice. And they all go through, that's the greatest thing ever. I have to see that. I go, it doesn't stop there. They got a cop fighting a skateboarder. And they're like, this is a real thing. I'm like, this is a real thing. They got Pittsburgh Steelers fans wanting to fight Cleveland Browns fans

for whatever reason. They got six titles. Cleveland has zero. I got an NFL title in 65, but for some reason they don't count it. It's like, these are some great matchups. I don't know who the promoter is, but I would even think like Don King would be like, oh man, that's a good idea.

Yeah, listen, when I heard Pride vs. Prejudice, I was like, this is just pure, brilliant marketing right here. That's the beauty of rough and rowdy. You just take, listen, people want to beat the hell out of each other. That's what we've learned about the world at this point. And we'll put them, we'll let it happen. We'll throw you in a ring. Let's do it. All of that on top of all of that, this is real. Yep. Yep.

So if it was a movie, the gay guy wins, that's what you want to see. But I am literally sick to my stomach thinking like, Oh my God, if the bigoted guy actually wins, then what happened? Right. Yeah. I don't think we're getting a rock. The sheer drama of that alone. Yeah, it's, yeah, you're right. I gotta tell you, that kid, is it Gay Pat? Yes, sir. I've watched

that promo he cut like nine times. Makes me laugh my ass off every time. I'm gonna eat his ass. It's not going three rounds. It's going one round. In 30 seconds, I'm putting you on your back and I'm gonna put a nice tissue right on your fucking inbred lips or something like that he does fully plan on giving him a kiss and if we if there's a moment where this guy's on his back and

and gay pack and somehow plant one on him i mean the place will go absolutely bananas if we finally switch switch the power of the Me Too, and Gay Pat is kissing an unconscious homophobe. I was just gonna say, then that guy could actually Me Too Gay Pat, so he would actually have to forfeit his purse. I mean, there's no end to the dramatic

angles to this fight. So you said you're sick to your stomach. I mean, we've kind of been chronicling this matchup. It sounds like Gay Pat has never been in as much of a playground scrap. He's never thrown a punch at all. He's got the reach advantage.

He does have the reach advantage, but do you think he's actually going to be able to put that into motion? Well, that's a big question. We're going to find out this Sunday in Youngstown. Sir, there you go. Don King would be this Sunday in Youngstown. Yes, sir. There you go. Don King would be proud of that one, pal. Yeah, so we got the rough and rowdy thing going,

the boxing initiative here at Barstool. The other thing that we got going is this pop punk band. Have you heard of them? Would that be Blink-182? Yes, so basically, exactly. A couple guys, four guys in our office kind of started to make some music as a joke, and then they realized they're all pretty good, and they actually ended up selling out Irving Plaza here in New York a few weeks ago.

They're going to go up to the House of Blues in Boston, and they play Blink-182 covers, but they also wrote some original stuff that's kind of like a emo pop punk angle um i heard you like to get behind the drums and uh rattle those sticks a little bit is that true i try i attempt to play the drums yes sir i do it is my hobby though just know it is my hobby when did you start doing that before you were born so do you do like in your in la you just got a room you rip at oh i actually sound pet somebody come in and soundproof my garage there you go i was gonna say how's the wife like

that you know what it is anything that gets me out of her hair she loves it yeah it's true my wife loves me and i love her too but we definitely need our own space yeah i mean i had a brother who was a drummer and i love him i didn we definitely need our own space yeah i mean i had a brother who was a drummer and i love him i didn't like when he fucking drummed though i'll tell you that no that's the thing like if you strum on a guitar it's fine you also you know even if you're electric guitar you don't have to plug in it's something that you can really practice but essentially playing drums is only fun for the person who's playing them and everybody else is just like oh my god like uh

when i used to play i started in 88 and i played till about 93 94 and then i moved to new york and i didn't play for like seven years and then i was seeing this woman she's like oh you used to play drums i always want to learn how to play and i got her some drumsticks i got myself some just showed her some stuff on the pad you know and that just got me back into it. So I remember back in the day when I used to play to come home from work and I used to I used to lift weights to Guns N' Roses appetite. Only only upper body because it was the 80s. I don't think a squat machine existed back then. Everybody was all big up top and then you were your puffy pants to hide your skinny legs and after i lifted for the whole i swear to god i would lift for the whole

guns and roses album then i would get behind the kit and then play to it and i had like a boom box turned it all the way up because i didn't have any headphones to plug into it and i would play unfortunately without earplugs i messed up my hearing and i would do that every single day and steven adler was uh that was my guy as far as the 80s go like that was that that guy you know because everybody else had the double bass kick kit even if they didn't even play it um they had like a they had like a a dave lombardo setup and they would be like in you know playing like you know four four whatever acdc style and uh he came along and just had the four piece and just got more music out of that than i thought these guys did with 10 piece kits still a huge fan of his i mean the our guy frankie who was port noise like right hand man is the drummer and uh i mean he he stepped off stage after it's all said and

done pouring with sweat uh just you, like the world at his fingertips. His girlfriend was passing out. People are chanting his name. I feel like, you know, everyone always knows the front man. And you see the guy ripping the guitar solo. But the drummer, the drummer to me is where it's at. That's the heart and soul. Well, I mean, look, it's just a hobby.

And I don't have a good musical ear. If you ever saw me playing drums, you'd figure that out quickly. I just like i look it's just a hobby and i don't have a good musical ear as if you ever saw me playing drums you'd figure that out quickly i just like playing because it's fun but uh any musician i ever talked to said if the drummer sucks the band yeah right drummer's good if the drummer's good you you like he can really he or she can elevate even a mediocre band to sound pretty damn good. So, uh, and I've proven that too, cause I, I've gotten a jam with some really good people and I dragged them right back

to earth. Let me, uh, well, let me ask you this then. So you obviously, uh, you've had a,

a pretty decent amount of success with this comedy thing. You got the TV show, uh, family, you're doing specials all over the place. Let me tell you something right now. I was able to buy a house, and I have all four sports packages, so I made it. I've done more than well.

Well, if you could, let's say, trade all that in for real success with the drums, let's say you were in a successful band selling records and selling out arenas nah no i wouldn't it's a it's a hobby and i've also seen how much harder that business is and i've also done some tours where you tour with other comedians and it just becomes a different thing do you think it's like you you have to like you have to deal with all these different personalities. And just from a couple of tours that I've done with other comics, you have to understand there's going to be the late guy. There's going to be the drug guy.

There's going to be the pussy hound. There's going to be the egomaniac. And all of those characteristics could be in everybody in the thing. And there's the alpha male. Who would you be Bill? The jealous guy. I would be the loner who would be looking to get out of the band. I swear to God.

I, I, I, what I would do was I would literally be like, I'm going to start playing some drum clinics on the side and try to make a name for myself doing this shit and this will be my side hustle because i know at some point the lead singer or the lead guitarist is going to get someone in his fucking ear and he's going to try to start his own band and then i'm going to be screwed like what's his face what dave what dave grohl did yeah like like he should when when he's in that that power trio kurt cobain dies commits suicide like he should, when, when he's in that, that power trio, Kurt Cobain dies, commits suicide.

Like he disappears after that, up until that moment, that guy disappears. If he's lucky, he somehow latches onto another band as a drummer for that guy to then become a front man guitarist. And, and I mean, those guys have been around for almost like 25 years. Unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. Like that. That and the fact that he did that pre like MySpace, Facebook, Instagram and all that, that he was able to do that on his own is incredible. But like, yeah, I think that I would be. The guy who quits.

I would definitely. Yeah. And I would be the guy who kept trying to get better and better and better drums like like a Steve Smith guy, where he was in Journey, had vital information on the side, and then he also started doing these drum clinics. And that guy put out instructional videos, and he became an entire entity on his own outside of the band. And what's funny about that is that can actually get you kicked out of the band. I know a guy, I'm not going to say who it is, but he started doing some stuff out of the band. I know a guy, I'm not going to say who it is, but he started doing some stuff outside of the band. And then, and the guy was just like, you can't, you can't be doing both of those. It's one or the other. So you're out. And he gets got kicked out of the band because he started this other thing. We know how that goes here at Barstool. There's a little bit of that going on. It's interesting you say that. Uh, I feel like one

of your other hobbies is, is maybe, is maybe keeping an eye on the gambling world, and I feel like that's about to shift seismically going with gambling being legalized. Is that going to affect how you bet? Is it something that you like? Are you happy about it going legal? First of all, we have ISIS to thank for that. Okay? going legal or? First of all, we have ISIS to thank for that. Okay. Because we have, that's a never ending war over there that you're not allowed to ask like, Hey man, like how, what's going on

over there? Because the second you do, that means you're in the Al Qaeda. So nobody questions it. And every year this country goes bankrupt and the government shuts down in August. And they're like, what do we do? What do we do? And they raise the amount that we can get. We can leave. All right. Yeah. Turn the lights back on and we party again. So all of these states are broke. OK. And it used to be they started doing the lottery and that was enough. Dude, I'm telling you, they're broke. I got all these states coming after me now going, oh, you you played Uncle Fucky's in 1998 and you didn't give us your thirty dollars taxes and shit. Right. So I think that that's why all of this stuff is going to be interesting, become legalized. And I'm telling you, dude, it's going to be like it's one of those crazy things where it's like like right now, how you pay taxes for public schools and you give money to fundraisers.

So you literally have to pay it twice now. Yeah, you're getting double-dipped. Yeah, so you're going to be paying all of these taxes and you're going to be gambling and playing the lottery. I mean, what's the portion of your check that's going to be going to the state is going to be off the chain. Are you, does it, I just know a few guys who, you know, they've been lifelong gamblers and they kind of like the fact that it's always, you know, done under the table with a, you know, a guy, it's a mom and pop operation. You know, you're a bookie. Do you think that it kind of ruins, you know, maybe the allure of.

Yeah. It's like, it's like getting a Cuban cigar. You know what I mean? You got to go, you go into the back, you got to get to know the guy that runs the shop. Hey, what do you got back there? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you show up with Cubans and then you're the man. You know what I mean? And yeah, I was always, look, meeting your bookie most of the times isn't a fun experience. You know, you always meet the guy at this local little,

little packy store and he'd sit there and he had like the Thunderbird turbo coupe way back in the eighties. And he'd show up back when the Patriots would always lose. And we played in that, you know, Texas high school football stadium basically at the NFL level. And yeah, it's, I don't know. Yeah. I went anytime anything goes mainstream.

If you were into it before it became mainstream, it's not going to feel as special. I would compare it to Metallica fans before the black album, you know, I was going to say you're an indie gambler, right? That's exactly your hipster gambler. Once,

once you're selling out arenas, nobody's interested. Not hipster. No, no. What happens is later late when, when it becomes mainstream hipsters dress like a degenerate gambler, ironically. You know what I mean?

Where you are actually a degenerate gambler. And those clothes you were wearing were not a fashion statement. It was what you could afford. They're appropriating your culture. They're appropriating gambling. They're appropriating brokenness is really what they're... All right, so you'll be on the call sunday night by the way yeah what's your big prediction

um my big prediction like you can choose anyone you can choose the the two the two top billings is is gay pride versus prejudice and the pig versus the punk so you got with the cop and that one is called the pig versus the punk. So what do you got with the cop and the punk? Is that what it's called, the pig versus the punk? Yeah, keep it going with the tagline. The pig's going to be eating well come Sunday. Yeah, those guys, they just know all those crazy chokeholds. I guess they are boxing, but, I mean, a lot of those cops nowadays, too, they have an MMA background, and it's just like –

and I figure the real- life experience that that guy's had probably battling people with weapons and stuff um do you know the story what happened with him have you have you kept up yeah he he did the uh the ride along or something like that and they fired him yeah so he's got 30 grand on the line this isn't some small purse he's got 30 grand on the line it's double that's two two years salary is $30,000? He was a part-time cop, so he was making $15,000 a year. And Dave's going to double that. Yeah, so it'll be $30,000.

That's a good name for a racehorse, isn't it? Part-time cop. And he's coming down the stretch. It's part-time cop by your nose. Part-time cop, part-time cop on the outside. It's going to be a photo. I would, yeah, I'm going to say part-time cop. Pig beats up the punk.

And give it to me. To be honest, Bill, I just, who's going to win? This guy's done four years hard time versus a guy. And this has nothing to do with homosexuality. It's just skinny as a twig. All right. Hard time, like, was it minimal security or maximum security? Was he in there with other killers? He told me it was just state penitentiary.

He was there for four years. He did it for a drive-by. Yeah, he was trying to kill someone. So, you know, that kind of prison. Did you ask him whether he did or didn't get raped in jail? He said he did not get raped. He said he did not get raped and he said he was used to, he said two or three times he had like a, a 12 on four brawl situation, not a one-on-one type of thing, but like a

12 on four melee. Okay. Uh, all right. Well, I figure he's exaggerating. So that was probably a six on four, maybe. Yep. But I would still just out of experience, not worldview, I'm picking this guy on experience. I mean, you have to go. I mean, the guy's been there. This is like, you know, Tom Brady and you had old Gusikowski behind him, whatever it's called.

Garoppolo. We would love the storybook finish here. Like you said, I'm rooting for that. But I also love the real element, the real life element of Rough and Rowdy is this isn't a Disney script and the guy who tried to murder someone might just beat the fucking shit out of this guy.

I would tell you this right now. Well, they got headgear and shit. They're also going to stop it. So you do have that going on. And then secondly, the fucking balls that Pat has to get in the ring. Most of the people in the crowd wouldn't have the guts to get in the ring with a convicted felon. No doubt.

No fucking shot. I'm not doing it. That's for sure. He might be telling the truth, but also I think that guy's got a little show business in his blood. He knows how to sell a fight. So he's just like six on four. Hey, why don't we make it 12 on four?

You know? All right. Well, you'll be on the call with Dan and Dave. It's sure to be an electric time. You are always, it's like you get almost like a standup routine from you. It's like watching a Bill Burr show while you watch these guys get the

piss beat out of them. So it's this Sunday night. Go to buyrnr.com and you can buy it for $16 now. It goes up to $20 on the day of. We're looking forward to it, Bill. Thanks as always and we'll catch you next time. Alright guys, thanks for having me.