Monday Morning Podcast - Banana Ball, Sabbath, Corporate World | Monday Morning Podcast 7-7-25

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Bill rambles about banana ball, Sabbath's last show, and the corporate world. Zip Recruiter: Let ZipRecruiter find what you’re looking for free at this exclusive web address www.ZipRecruiter.com/BURR Lucyd:  If you’re ready to upgrade your eyewear, head to Lucyd.coand use code BURR for 20% off.  

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Bird. It's time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday, July 7th, 2025. What's going on? How are you? How's it going? Ah, geez. Oh, Billy Broadway turned back into a pumpkin. He's out here in LA and he's ready to go to London I got to do a benefit out there that I'm on my way to Abu Dhabi and then I got a show in Milan Italy and then then then then I have days off then I am done so this is the last look at the size of that fucking door sitting out here in my neighborhood I never noticed how big my fucking neighbor's door is. Jesus Christ, Shaquille O'Neal could walk through that door and not even duck. That is, why would you have such a big fucking door?

That's just weird. Anyway, plowing ahead here. Mr. Crowley went in, and you guys see that Jack Black video with those kiddos he did he did the whole what was it in Texas that little public access show that Ozzy did with Randy Rhodes, Rudy Sazo, and Tommy Aldridge, I believe, was the band back in the day. He did like a... they basically recreated the whole set, the whole costumes and everything. Anyway, plowing ahead. I'm glad I got to see Sabbath. I saw them in 2000 when they they had a reunion with all the original guys and I don't know that looked amazing and it was also like sad

you know just fucking everybody's just old now you know and then like these fucking nerds have taken over the mute people who can't even play instruments Through with computers are inventing bands that don't exist writing songs and Then they have bots listen to them. So then they get like 500,000 views and then people think oh, this is like a real band And it isn't Oh, this is like a real band. And it isn't. Like what fucking world are we living in here? It's unbelievable.

These fucking people, like they cannot make enough money. It wasn't enough to be screwing musicians the way that they have unapologetically, just fucking them over, the entire existence of the music business, they've done nothing but just absolutely bend over and fuck musicians, and that still isn't enough, it still isn't enough. Now they're just gonna fuck it. Now they're just gonna fucking...

Now they're the band, they're writing music. Or whatever they're doing. Like, how do you write music on a... This is like fucking Fleetwood Mac meets Funkadelic with just a dash of Brian Adams. And then they just put it in the thing and it spits it out and then they kind of like, you know, bite their bottom lip, make that face as they listen to it

and they put it out there and then fucking people, you know, the same people that are walking around 200 pounds overweight wearing Crocs and workout clothes, they're just gonna buy it. They're gonna download it, they're gonna listen to it, and they're gonna be like, what? You know, there's an art in this also. I don't know, which maybe there is,

I have no fucking idea. I don't know, it's just a strange, it's a strange world. But what does this all come back to? It comes back to illegal immigrants. This whole idea that Americans have, the working working man that when they get all the illegal immigrants out of this fucking country That these fucking cunts that you work for are actually gonna start paying you a fair wage. I don't know what What fucking world you've been watching?

What world you've been working for? These fucking cunts at the top have never wanted to pay anybody ever in any at any point since the Industrial Revolution they have not wanted to pay anybody anything. If they could have you come to work fucking you know I don't know what wearing nothing but fucking tighty-whities and just fucking look like a fucking homeless person. And they would be totally comfortable with you being filth. They don't give a shit. Not pay you anything, teeth falling out of your fucking head.

They could go to bed at night and be like, what, that's how business is done. If I didn't do it, somebody else would do it. They're complete fucking pieces of shit. And you know what I love about it is, you know, they've always been looking at like, you know, all these aggressive aggro guys, as they call them, type A, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know what I love is the world is being ruined by beta nerds who couldn't fight their way out of a fucking wet paper bag. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha The harmless nerd, you know, never picked in gym class

and all of that and they just were misunderstood and all and like, you know, just because, you know, they didn't get to be the prom king and date the fucking cheerleader and all and like you know just because you know they didn't get to be the prom king and date the fucking cheerleader and all that Hollywood built this whole fucking backstory about nerds that everybody believed that they were these nice people and it turns out they're just like fucking athletes some of them are nice some of them are not some of them are fucking heartless monsters. Just straight across the board.

And who made these people? God. And don't forget, God loves you. God, he makes the ocean so blue and the fucking prairies and the butterflies and you know what else he makes? Heartless fucking nerds. He makes them all. He didn't make that heartless nerd the nerd,

he chose the devil. Oh, is that what happened? Anyway, yeah, I'm getting ready to go out on the road here. I got all caught up with my Moto GP watching there. Scary crash, Alex Marquez. watching their scary crash Alex Marquez. He was just side by side with Pedro Acosta and they just got into it. Robin is racing.

They got into it and somehow leaning into Pedro Acosta, he fucking squeezed the dude's front brake with his fucking left kidney or some shit wasn't even on purpose and and and Mark's front tire was up off the ground so he slowed the front wheel down it was going slow it's slower than the back wheel I don't know I don't get the physics of that but the tire came down and blue smoke came up like he just landed an airplane and he immediately just slammed down on the ground. I'm surprised he didn't get knocked out.

A lot of times they wipe out in a turn so they're kind of leaning already, they're slowing down, they're not on more of like a straightaway, like he was coming into a turn. So he had a lot of speed and he just, right there Fred. He just went right the fuck down. I guess he He broke his hand. I think Kind of a scary crash, but here's something I don't understand if anybody could explain this to me is why Peco Benyai cannot keep up with Mark Marquez they're on the same team. They're on the same team.

They're riding the same fucking bike. He can't even keep up with Alex, who's not riding a factory Ducati. And this guy has won the championship multiple fucking times. What is that? I don't understand what's going on because he always seems to start the race off super aggressive, like I'm not fucking around.

Here we go. And then, uh, then that's it. Then he just, I don't know, after like fucking seven, eight turns, somebody passes him. Then he's in second, then he's in third, and then he's like fighting for fourth and fifth. I don't understand it. Um, do they only make one good bike a week? for fourth and fifth, I don't understand it. Do they only make one good bike a week? I'll tell you the person that I've been really enjoying the way he's been racing this year is Fabio DiGiontonio.

I want the fucking longest name ever. DG, whatever the hell they call him. Also riding a Ducati. And I don't know, wherever he starts, he always seems to get up to at least third place or something. I think he's riding great. And I don't know, I still don't understand

why they're all riding Ducatis, but the factory one is the best one. All right, well maybe because you don't understand the sport. Well, maybe that's what it is. Speaking of not understanding a sport, let's talk about fucking banana ball. I watched that for about two seconds. My daughter's totally into like Pokemon now, and we're going

to card stores and we're going to events. Speaking of nerds, good nerds, I went to an event yesterday and one of the people running it was teaching me how to play the Pokemon game which if someone told me that's just as difficult as learning how to play Bridge, I would not argue with them. I mean, it was just like, I like, all right, this is going to be a good dad thing. I'm going to learn how to play this game and then I can play with my daughter and, you know, be something else that we can do together. And he got about five minutes into this stuff and I was like I'm not gonna remember any of this like you know you fucking make like six piles of ten cards and then you shuffle them up and then you fucking set them aside you deal

out some other ones and then you flip it out and you get in the upper right hand corner if it says basic you can play, but you can't attack on the first time. It's like, you gotta look at the card and read what the fuck the card does, and I didn't bring my glasses. And yeah, it was a shit show. I was just like, that was back in the day where there was like classes that I knew from day one

that I wasn't gonna pass. And that was it. I was just like, I'm not putting effort in on this. This is like so foreign to me. There's just no fucking way I'm passing this class. And then I would just screw around and have a good time and just take the, I would just take the fucking F, the E, they used to give us E's, A, B, C, D and an E.

They wouldn't go to F for some reason. It's very linear at my school. So I just ended up going to summer school. Just felt like math though. Other things that I flunked, like for some reason, colleges didn't give a shit, but they were really big on math. Anyway, so we went to these Pokemon events

and one of them, they had that banana ball playing in the background. And it was packed. It was at Fenway Park. I don't know if they did it during the seventh inning stretch. If it's an actual game, there was like a clock counting it down. I have no idea what was going on. But it was like people like catching the ball behind their back, a lot of pelvic pumping, a lot of fucking of the baseball field itself,

simulated fucking. There was some sort of thing in the end where it was like they were in the thriller video and they all did like a synchronized dance. And it's like, I get this shit. This is baseball for people who don't like baseball. All the years I've been watching baseball, I never thought, you know, it'd be great as if fucking George Brett just started fucking the third base bag.

Just got on, you know, almost did like a yoga sort of cobra position and then just started fucking jumping up and down fucking the bag. I mean that, that to me would really add to the game because it's like I like the game, but there's not enough pelvic pumping in it. Um, like the game but there's not enough pelvic pumping in it. I don't know we'll see what anything that gets people to watch baseball I guess if that's the version of it. Banana ball. So a guy hit a routine fly ball to left field and the guy tried to catch it behind his back and then he dropped it and he didn't get Taken out of the game and I went like oh, I see what this is I get what this is

Yeah, this is for like There's always people that like you're in a sports bar and they're watching the game and then they just come up with someone Dude, you should just be able to fucking why don't they just Bob a Bob a bun? It's always this stupid as fucking idea. I Don't know. I have my ideas about how to improve games but Banana ball, it's like the Harlem Globetrotters the ABA or whatever. This is a thing though What's funny is is if banana ball gets popular enough? Like I said, it looked like they were playing at Fenway and it looked like it was sold out to me now if that gets popular enough, like I said, it looked like they were playing at Fenway

and it looked like it was sold out to me. Now, if that gets popular enough, then what happens is the MLB first dismisses the league, then they make fun of it, and then they eventually absorb it. And then that's gonna be the new baseball. They would never do that. Baseball's too stuck up to bring something like that along.

I don't know what it is. I don't know why at some point somebody always has to like simulate fucking to add like a new level of excitement to something. You know what I mean? It's like you go to see a band. What's the lead singer doing? What would he do back in the day? He'd start pelvic pumping and acting like, you know, he was fucking something that you

couldn't see. Right? You always add, you know, you catch a touchdown pass, you fucking, you know, you're slapping that ass and fucking, you know you're slapping that ass and fucking you know just that that's what that's the default we need to improve we need to add a level of excitement to this thing it's not the people that are watching don't need to level up and try to maybe learn about the game no what we need to do is bring somebody in here to start fucking the ground. What did you think about it?

I liked it. It was a lot more... it was exciting, it was fun, players were having... isn't it enough now? Anytime anybody hits a double and they get on second base they have to do like fucking 58 signals, you know, to the dugout, the pointing, the fucking binoculars up to the eyes, the, you know, the brushing off of the shoulder. We get it. You got to double. And the people in the dugout on your team are happy that you're in scoring position.

I understand it. Don't make the first or third out at third base. I get it. Anyway, I'll have to watch a little bit. Sorry, cut myself off there. Yeah, I was saying I'll have to watch a little bit more of it. You know, I like the baseball aspect of it. Like, there's people that are playing the game that actually played in MLB so it's like a quality level of baseball. I don't understand why everyone on the field has to start acting like the Philly Freak. It's like what if all the players started acting like a fucking mascot? I got a good idea. How about like instead

of walking up to the to the plate, that's boring right? Why don't you give him a four-wheeler and they fucking ride out of the fucking bullpen. The baseball players they fight out of the batter, rides out, does a couple of donuts around the pitcher talking shit, you know, wiggles his ass at him and then he fucking goes up there you go huh that would add some excitement to the game mr. Crowley anyway a lot of crying at the fucking Sabbath show a lot of fucking crying I don't want to be a dick but I want to say I saw their farewell tour like 20 years ago I always wondered about that when bands do that shit

I know this is a fucking old subject, but there's like there's like bands out there that are like no, dude This we're not fucking around. We have we are as serious as a fucking heart attack. This is it. We are not coming back and Then like two summers later, they're coming back. There's some bands out there that like, and some artists, I swear to God, like they have been doing, like they've been on a farewell tour for like four fucking years.

You know what that reminds me of a long time ago, there was a comedian that had a major fucking drug problem. And he got kicked out of all the clubs. So after a year of not working, he's fucking flat broke or whatever, he's on the street. So he started calling the comedy clubs up. And he told them that he had got diagnosed with some sort of terminal cancer.

So everybody felt bad for him. So they started giving him weekends and he would stay and he would do drugs in the comedy condo and he would sell the TV for fucking heroin and all of that shit. Right. But they put up with it because they knew that he was dying or whatever, for whatever reason or whatever. He had all these fucking weekends. So about a year and a half into this bullshit people start noticing that he doesn't look sick other than being a fucking drug addict

and they realized that he just made the whole fucking thing up made the whole thing up that he was going to get treatment and all of this shit he was acting glum and all of that, and he was just, just lying, lying his fucking ass off. It's kind of amazing, you know? Some of the people out there, when you see the shit that they come up with illegally, you just wanna be like, dude, what if you put that same amount of energy

towards something legal? There's no way you wouldn't be successful. Some people I just feel like, like to do illegal shit. I don't know what it is. Like some of the stuff that they do, it's like, why, there was no fucking reason to do that. You know you're gonna get caught. Well, my favorite thing, it's like,

they could have afforded whatever they stole, they just, there was no excitement in it, you know what I mean? It's like they needed to add a little banana ball to going in and buying a shirt. I could go in and buy this shirt, fucking not have to walk out of here sweating bullets, or I could fucking stuff it down the front of my pants,

bring two shirts in, see if nobody noticed, put the other one back and then try to fucking walk out with it. What do they call those people, thrill shoppers? Anyway, my wife was watching the murder shows last night before we went to bed. Jesus fucking Christ. So all I do is just make jokes the entire time.

Cause I don't wanna go to bed with that shit on my mind. It's really fucking bizarre. And she had like a friend of hers was over and they they were both watching. I came downstairs and they were both watching the show. It was like a fucking it was a quadruple murder. You know, it's funny, when people in pickup trucks that actually work for a living drive by me in my pickup truck, I see it in their eyes going like, you're not doing any work in that truck. You just got a pickup truck.

You're not fooling anybody. So anyways, they're watching these fucking murder shows. And it's like, I don't know she claims that the reason why she watches them because she wants to like think like what would I do if I was ever in that situation so what am I gonna do I guess she's strategizing I have no idea and then it's also like like what what part of the equation are you in? Are you the victim or are you the person plotting the murder?

Anyway, that's a dark subject. So, oh, Billy Boy's going to England first. And lo and behold, guess what's happening while I'm there? Wimbledon. I used to watch breakfast at Wimbledon every year with Dick Enberg. Wimbledon. I used to watch Breakfast at Wimbledon every year with Dick Enberg. And I watched it every single year

and they had Wimbledon written on the screen and it wasn't until I was about 45 years old that I didn't realize it was Wimbledon. I thought it was Wimbledton, T-O-N. Did you watch Wimbledon? So I used to say Wimbledon, it's Wimbledon, T-O-N. Did you watch Wimbledon? So I was just saying Wimbledon, it's Wimbledon. So I'm going there. I got hooked up with some tickets.

Hopefully Santa Cort. I mean, this is one of the most iconic sports arenas in the fucking world. This is the thing, when Madison Square Garden goes, the most famous arena in the world, it's like you gave yourselves that fucking nickname. All right? Way more legendary shit has happened

at Center Court, Wimbledon. I guess it's not an arena, so that's how Madison Square Garden gets around it. But I've never understood why. I guess because of the music, like Frank Sinatra had his comeback there. Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier there, but that was like 50 fucking years ago. You know, and 10 years before that, like that arena didn't even exist. And Frank Sinatra was in the original one at the end of the Manchurian candidate, right? And that one was up in the West forties. So I don't fucking

get it. I don't understand. There's been one Stanley Cup, two NBA titles, Frank Sinatra's comeback, Led Zeppelin, the song remains the same. I mean, this shit is all from the 70s and 1994 from the Rangers. So I don't know what the fuck they're talking about. I just think it's some typical New York shit where they're just saying that everything is amazing where they're at and

Then Alicia Keys starts going New York concrete jungle where dreams are made of right and they just all sit there fucking jerking each other off and it's like I really don't think it's uh I think it's like as far as like a comedian or a rock star playing Madison Square Garden yeah I would get in the United States yeah I would say that's the biggest one that would be the biggest one trying to think. Yeah, that's the big, I'll give you that. That's the biggest one. Biggest one in the world? Eh, you know. World's a big place there, New York. I bet there's some fucking arenas. Well, maybe that's what it is. What they mean

is everybody knows it. It's not the accomplishment, it's just everybody knows it. Maybe that's what it is. What they mean is everybody knows it. It's not the accomplishment, it's just everybody knows it. Maybe that's what it is. Once again, it's a fucking technicality. Okay, I'll give it to you. All right, couple of sad ones here. Michael Madsen, Rest In Peace. Arguably the coolest actor of his generation.

Just a man's man, fucking old school fucking actor. Back when actors were men, you know? And also the coolest fucking reservoir dog, Mr. Blonde, the Kill Bill movies, and I don't know, he was just so goddamn good and believable. And then also he picked great projects, and I always felt like if he was in it, I knew it was, at the felt like if he was in it, I knew it was at the very least

He was in it. So that aspect of it was gonna be good That's a fun list to make Actors that can that are great even in bad projects where it doesn't come together The story wasn't there the editing somebody took it over just fucked the whole thing up But they're still good like the stink of a bad move. They good. Like the stink of a bad movie, they're so good, the stink of a bad movie never even gets on them. But anyway, I was a huge, huge, huge fan of his. Sad to see him go.

Definitely gonna watch, might watch Reservoir Dogs on the plane. And then, Reservoir Dogs on the Plane. And then, former legend, Boston Bruin, Lyndon Byers, one of the great enforcers the Bruins ever had. And my favorite era of the Bruins, the 1980s when I was coming up,

him and Jay Miller, the two of them, we used to go up against Nyland and John Kordic on the Canadians. Like that's how tough the Adams division was. You didn't just have one enforcer, you had to have two guys to somehow make it through, you know, this season and get yourself to the playoffs. And I used to go into WAAF post Lyndon Bryant Byers career and he just was the nicest I

remember shaking his hand he had a fucking hand like a goddamn bear paw and I was just like oh my god I can't imagine getting punched in the face by this fucking guy and of course he was the nicest guy ever. And, you know, when we would be like in between, you know, they'd be playing a song or some shit and I wasn't hyping my stupid stand-up gig, I would just start asking them questions about like fucking some of the goddamn lunatics that played in the Adams Division. Dale Hunter, Chris Nylund, John Kordak, all of those fucking guys. All of that stuff.

And he was just like, oh, he told me this fucking... Was it him? Oh, I think it was him. He told me a story of some guy that he used to fight and he could never fucking beat him. He could never fucking beat him. And then he just got so frustrated. One time he just took the butt of his stick.

Or maybe it happened to him. I can't remember, it was so long ago. Right in the fucking mouth. Knocked out some teeth and then they fought and then they went down to the ice. and when the refs were pulling him off, yeah, he did it to the other guy. And the other guy, I want to say it was somebody on the Kings, he just looked at Lyndon with like busted teeth, just goes, now why would you do that? And he's like, I don't know, man, you always beat me and I just got frustrated.

This is the level of tough that those guys were. Could take a goddamn club to the mouth and two seconds later, actually have a casual conversation about it. And he had a million of those stories and he was only too happy to share the stories with you. And like the last time I saw him was at Comics Come Home and they just brought out all these legends of, you know, of the Boston Bruins history.

And I just saw all of these guys like Ray Borg, Rick Middleton, Lyndon Byers. It was like literally, I was watching TV 38, WSBK, way back in the day with Fred Cusick. And I remember he had just had back surgery, so he had a walker and everything. It was really difficult for him to get up on stage, but he still was just bringing the vibes, you know? He was totally upbeat and cool and making jokes and everything and yeah it's the last time I

saw him so you know I hope you feel better and blah blah blah and all of that but anyway rest in peace to not only one of the great Bruins of all time just a really really great person Lyndon Byers. All right, that sucks. Okay, let me do the, let me do the fork and reeds here for the week. All right, who do we got? Zip? Oh, it's old Zip.

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know when or where but I'm definitely going to try to do something to help, I don't know, rebuild or whatever. I have no idea how to help in this situation. I just hope somehow, you know, as many as those people that are missing, they find them down river or some shit, they were able to cling onto something, but that is just fucking terrifying. Anyway, anyway, ugh, god damn it. All right, sorry, Lot of tragedy this week.

Um, but anyway, um, I know comedians, we always step up. We always do benefits, and uh, and this will be no different, so just have to figure out, and then you gotta figure out the right people to get the money to, because there's fucking scumbags when shit like this happens. They start some thing, and they keep like 95% of the profits for Administration fees guess how I learned that one Alright, here we go Shirtless bill ward a bill did you watch any of the footage from Sabbath slash?

Show event the lineups are really good. All I heard was it was fucking incredible that's all I heard and it was a bunch of of like the most hardcore Sabbath fans ever losing their minds, crying and all of that stuff. Crying was totally acceptable because I just that's all I saw was people crying. Which is fucking great though that people got to say goodbye and like really how much people love Sabbath what they meant to so many musicians and And then also how much everybody fucking loves Ozzy, you know and watching him You know where he is right now in his life. It's you know It's sad, but God knows, you God knows nobody had more fun than that guy.

Alright, the lineups are really good and I think they did a great job of honoring the band. The highlight for me was seeing a 76 year old shirtless Bill Ward sludge his way through 50 year old songs. I don't hear you talk about Sabbath too much but assuming you're a fan were you into Ozzy's solo stuff during your hairband heyday yeah I gotta be honest with you I was afraid of that shit like I was more like it took me a minute like Ozzy was a fucking was he was in a crazy period like I don't know cuz that was back then where like you know I was young I was like 12 or 13 when that shit came out

and it was kinda like wait are these guys really into the devil am I gonna listen to this fucking album and something bad it was part of the the thrill of listening to it. It's all ridiculous now, but like there was a lot of, you know, parents were disturbed by it and that bark at the moon cover, it's kind of funny to look at now, but it was disturbing back in the day and I was when I finally got into Ozzy, it was actually the ultimate Sin album.

And then I went backward. And then I got into Bark at the Moon and all of that's the Randy Rode stuff. What did he play on that one? I know he made like, I always get confused with that. I was more like ACDC, but I did love Ozzy and I did love Sabbath. But for whatever reason, the bigger kids in my neighborhood were more into like ACDC and Van Halen. So I discovered a lot of Black Sabbath and Ozzy stuff through Jim Norton and Jim Florentine.

The two Jersey gyms. They, oh bro, Jim Florentine, Electric Funeral, I mean, you're kidding me, it's unbelievable. So I was like, all right. So they used to tell me about that, and then I got like a number of times, I've gotten really into Randy Rhoades, and then I go on YouTube and I try to like play along

to songs and it's just like the stretching I have to do between the index and pinky finger. I get really frustrated and I immediately go back to Malcolm Young, you know. Three chord riffs but I am a, I don't know, I am a huge fan of all of that, but as far as them being my go-to and always listening to them, for some reason I just never did.

But then when I go back and listen to it, I'm like, this is fucking unreal. It's unreal. Music, but I just to it, I'm like this is fucking unreal. It's unreal Music and I but I just don't I don't know why I always end up going back. I was like AC DC Aerosmith Stevie Ray Vaughn That was sort of like Music that I listened to and it never left me. And then I got into Zeppelin, and then I got into Bonham, and that was it.

I also was listening to like, Blues Brothers album got me into Steve Jordan, which got me into James, Eddie Murphy got me into James Brown. The Eddie Murphy Delirious special. I remember talking to Charlie, rest his soul, Charlie Murphy, and I told him, I was like, you know, I had no idea who James Brown was

until your brother did that special. And he could not believe that. He was like, he goes, man, fuck you, Bill. You knew who James Brown was. You knew who the fuck James Brown was. I go, dude, I didn't. I knew that song, I Feel Good, but I didn't know. I go dude I didn't. I knew that song I Feel Good but I didn't know and he just couldn't understand that I had no idea who James Brown was until then

and I was like dude no I grew up in a fucking like ridiculously white family like we used to watch my parents would watch the Lawrence Welk show every Sunday Which if you want to see? Like just disturbingly white Like it's so white it's like It gets to be like am I in a cult right now. Is there something am I being poisoned? I Feel like I've been here for six hours have I've been here for six years Am I in a cult right now? Is there something, am I being poisoned? I feel like I've been here for six hours.

Have I been here for six years? Like what is going on? That is the vibe of that show. And yeah, like I wanted to get some music. My mother brought me to sing along with Mitch Miller and the gang. I had that Lawrence Welk album, Winchester Cathedral. I mean, it was a long, long march

just to get to fucking Van Halen out of the way out. My dad had records of like barbershop quartets. Like if some hipster ever looked at my dad's record collection, they would pay fucking tens of thousands of dollars for it. So that's where I was coming from. So me just to make it to Van Halen and ACDC. And that was just the kids I was at school with. And I feel like Sabbath and Ozzy was for the really hardcore burnout kids with the fucking jean jackets and they were doing drugs by sixth or seventh grade. So I think that whole world Ozzy and Sabbath

got lumped into all of that. And I just knew that those kids were going down a road I didn't wanna go down. And I was more like into sports. So I think after getting into Van Halen and ACDC and all that, instead of making a left into Ozzy and Sabbath, I went right into like fucking, you know, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Cinderella, Tesla, I was doing that.

And I even missed out on Metallica and Slayer and all of that shit, which I now love, but like I missed out on a lot of shit. I was more a sports person growing up. So that's why I can talk in depth about anything 80s sports related. Because that was mainly what I was doing. So yeah, I didn't,

I'm not gonna sit here now that they just retired and act like I was, I mean, I know how important they are and I know how amazing they are, but like those formative years, so you always go back to that music, they were not on my playlist until, like I said, when I met Florentine and Jim Norton,

they're the ones that got me into it. Which, by the way, I was really excited that I saw some clips online that they made it over there. And they actually took a picture in front of some English farmhouse that was a cover of one of their albums. I think it was the album. There was one album that Norton told me to get,

and it actually fucking scared me when I listened to it. That one where Ozzy's going to hell, and he's going, oh no, God, please help me. It was just like, what is this something? Oh my God, it was just like, what the fuck? All the years ago in the church and the priest tried to scare me about living being on the straight and narrow.

What they should have done instead of giving a homily is play whatever that fucking song was because that song really freaked me out. But I will tell you, over the years, one of my favorite Sabbath performance, I believe that they are in Paris or something like that. Speaking of Bill Ward, and they're playing live and they sound unbelievable. And Bill Ward is absolutely beating the shit out of his drum kit. He's just beating the shit out of it. He's not even playing the drums. It was like he was trying to

break or destroy the kit. It's one of the hardest I've ever seen anybody go in, I don't know, live playing drums. Oh, and then also, I also, because of my dad's big band swing records, I actually got into like Miles Davis and Tony Williams. And I was taking drum lessons from this guy who was like in his seventies, who actually played in big bands.

Frank Shushan, the last of the great Armenian trap drummers. Shout out to him. Rest his soul. Assuming he's passed away. I haven't talked to him in a long time, but he would be well into his hundreds. You know, I used to go down to this place, the Regatta Bar in Boston,

and I saw Tony Williams, I saw Louis Belson, Roy Haynes. I saw all the, Max Roach. I saw him at Berkeley I was doing that so I kind of missed out so But anyway, I'm happy for all the Sabbath fans that got to watch that and send them off the right way Send them off the right way. All right insight from a tech, bro Hey Billy yet to be bilingual. Long time listener of the podcast. I heard about you shitting on the tech bros for a while now and it breaks my heart because I am one of them and a

huge fan of you. I think you are actually mad at is I think you've supposed to say what I think what you're actually mad at is the soulless corporate suits that ruin everything for everybody including tech bros like me. Your average tech bro is just another cog in the machine. Most software developers are. Oh, you doing the Nazi guard tower thing now where you're saying you're just following orders well, here's the thing you know what you're doing and you know how many people you're putting out of work and You also know that this fucking asshole is gonna keep all his money so he can have a fucking wedding and rent out the entire city of Venice Like what the like that of Venice. Like what the f- like that disgusting display of wealth while so many people in this country are struggling. Like how could you fucking do

that? Just to get married. The whole fucking city has to shut down. I swear to God these billionaire tech nerds that you know they didn't get to be prom king and it fucking bugs them and years later They rent out a fucking city Anyway, it says I didn't write this email to bitch and moan I wanted to actually say as someone from the inside that you're more spot-on with your assumptions about corporate greed than you think Please keep reading further. I'm not reading. I don't need to fucking read. Oh, you mean read this thing. I thought you meant I was like doing research on whether these greedy cunts were greedy or not. Listen, I get it. You need a job. You have to go towards your

skill, but like you got to put a value on your skill. There's not, there's nothing stopping you from starting an actual like company that pays its employees doesn't try to just like I Don't know like all of these fucking tech people they want to go into these industries that are employing Tens of thousands of people and reduce it to like four employees and just their business You know the business is shrinking. Yeah, into your pocket, you piece of shit. Here we go. I'm a software developer working in a company that provides customer loyalty solution software as a service. I have no idea what any of that means. You provide customer loyalty solutions software as a service? Customer loyalty, I know what that is.

I'm a Ford guy, I buy Ford. Solutions software, customer loyalty solutions software. Okay, because that's corporate speak for, we rent out our software for airlines and corporate retailers so they can provide loyalty points and rewards to their customers for their purchases. All right, so it has nothing to do with the customers. It has to do with the people

trying to make money off the customers. All right, I primarily handle airlines, so I got to know quite a bit about how airline miles work and the strategies these airlines use to cheat you out of your miles. Yeah absolutely. So yeah and then you call it customer loyalty solutions. What is the solution to not give them what they've earned? I get it man you're just a cog in a wheel. Many of our airline clients want new features from our software that allow I get it man, you're just a cog in a wheel. Many of our airline clients want new features

from our software that allow them to reduce the amount of miles they actually have to take the hit for when the customer uses them. I gotta read that again. Many of our airline clients want new features from our software that allow them to reduce the amount of miles they actually have to take the hit for when customers use them.

As such, when my team lead slash business manager came to me for ideas for new features, I was suggesting him features that helped out the customers like allowing the customers to extend their miles, Xperi, E-X-P-Ii-r-y by paying a small fee, but he told me the clients wouldn't go for it. In his own words, the clients wanted features that would make the customers spend their earned miles on trivial things that should cost them as minimal as possible. I was surprised to hear that.

Well, you must be a young person because this is how business is done for these fucking cunts. The entire point of the customer loyalty points is to maintain loyalty, but this seems to me like doing the complete opposite. Yes. The things that led actually the things that my lead actually told me

could have good client potential are gambling systems that allow the customers to gamble with their miles for a chance at a higher prize. Like bet X amount of miles and if you win, you get twice that, you get the point. He said, I asked him if the airlines wanted customer loyalty, doesn't them trying to actively steal the customers' miles actually push the customers away rather than keep them loyal?

He told me he understood my perspective, but they are that short-sighted. What can we do? We're just the guys that make the software. See, everybody's washing their hands of it. Anyway, much love from India. Next time when you come over here, please don't stop at Mumbai,

but also come to the south of India, especially... I'm gonna mess this up. Chennai?h-e-n-n-a-i I would love to see you live thanks and go fuck yourself yeah well you know it would be nice if you software people be like we're not gonna make that for you or if we do the software is gonna be called the fucking the loyal customer out of their miles software like I don't know there's a lot of dirty things that happen in my business I don't participate in them you know I like I don't understand that argument. I don't get it. Like, well chat GPT. Dear Billy B. Honest, cognitive rage therapist.

I am a therapist and a longtime listener. I'm emailing you regarding the individual using chat GPT for therapy. You nailed it spot-on when it comes to the ethics and a lack of confidentiality when using chat and GPT, not to mention the potential ramifications of using AI as a therapist. My first thought is that AI does not have any professional boundaries to uphold. Thus, the movie Her, H-E-R comes to mind. She's the only one who understands and talks to me with unconditional love." I guess that's a quote from the movie. How about River Phoenix always picking fucking great projects? There's another person that even if they're in something that you didn't like, they're always great. However, when

it comes to cost as a therapist, I 100% agree with this guy. It's expensive. And when you have insurance company dictating what they deem appropriate for a client's care, it becomes an even bigger issue. But removing the human aspect out of therapy is like trying to talk to girls online versus talking to them in person. It's two completely different experiences. Of course you're going to be more open and honest because there's no fear of rejection or being challenged in a human way. If I was willing to bet there may be some intrapersonal and interpersonal...what? Interpersonal and interpersonal...oh, intra-personal and inter-personal difficulties.

I don't know what intrap means. With this individual, and let's be honest, that's completely fucking normal. That's why you put yourself out there in therapy and learn how to handle your shit. And of course, you're gonna fucking fail. That's the whole point, to fail in a safe environment so you're able to learn and grow.

It's like playing Madden on your Xbox versus being in the NFL, except in this case, the game you're playing is life. Anyway, I'll shut my dumb ass up. I just thought I'd give you my two cents. Go Sigmund Freud yourself. Yeah, and also, I don't know, this is just another area

where they're just gonna use this AI to undercut human beings with jobs. They're also, they're creating this because your job doesn't wanna help you out with therapy. They don't want it to cost any fucking money. And then also they want you to do it online so they can listen in on it and take that information of whatever you're talking about and then sell that information as another fucking revenue stream.

It's beyond fucking, these people are fucking so evil. They're so beyond fucking evil and any level of a decent human being. And that's why they're always getting you to look at other people. And specifically other races of people, other nationalities, people from other countries. People with no power, no money, no way of voting, they just constantly going, you know why your life's fucked up? It's not because of me, the guy fucking you, it's because of those people over there that have no effect on your life whatsoever. Those people over there who are a lot more like you than I am,

they're the reason why you're fucked up, that's what they do. And because people are racist, because they don't have the information they need, because so many people go out into the world, they leave their home and they go out into the world looking for parental figures. They tend to gravitate towards people that look like them. The same race of people. So they sit there and go, well that's a white guy, I'm a white guy, he wouldn't lie to me, we're on the same air quote team. And it's fucking tragic.

It's fucking tragic and as far as I know there's nothing you can do about it because that fucking wheel is moving It's going downhill. I guess you as an individual can do something to try and stop it, but I will tell you You know if you're in college and you're not in the corporate world yet It'd be nice if young people started like, I don't want to go into that world. It's a dirty business. Look at it the same way as dealing drugs. I know I'm going to do this.

People are going to get addicted. They're going to lose their lives. They're going to lose their marriages. They're going to have bad relationships with their kids. Or I could sell something else. I wish people would start looking at the corporate world like that. We could somehow all come together and just be like, yeah we're just going to mom and pop stores. Fuck your big box stores. Fuck your lack of benefits.

Fuck your wedding in Venice. Fuck all you guys. Um, but they control the media so they would somehow spin it in a way that you're actually helping out the Al-Qaeda or whatever. Whoever's the enemy right now. Here's my prediction. If people keep buying electric cars, the next war we're going to have, big war, is going to be in Africa because evidently that's where all the materials are that you need to Make the batteries or something and I've heard that China controls most of it Which is a very American move to control the natural resources in a continent in a country that you're not even in

You're not even a part of. And then somehow, whatever African nation has the most of that raw material, somehow they're going to be this major threat against the United States. And we're going to be like, well, why don't they like us? Well, they're jealous of your blue jeans and your movies. They don't like you because you're free. These are things that they've said and justified fucking wars. It's unbelievable, and people, they buy into it.

These fucking people on the other side of the world I never met who don't like me. Because this guy here who's gonna profit off the fact we all go to fucking wars said they don't. This guy here who's gonna profit off the fact we all go to fucking wars said they don't. Anyway, alright, that's the podcast from my, I'm doing it from my old truck now so the alarm doesn't go off. This is my new podcast studio. Alright, that's it.

That's the podcast. Go fuck yourselves and I will check in on you on Thursday.