Monday Morning Podcast - Milan, Hotel Light Controls, Puking | Monday Morning Podcast 7-21-25

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Bill rambles about scootering in Milan, hotel light controls, and puking stories. SquareSpace:  Check out www.squarespace.com/BURR for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use co...de BURR to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Policy Genius: Head to www.policygenius.com/BILLBURR to compare free life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr and it's time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday 2025. What's going on? How are you? How's it going? Oh, geez, what are you doing? Are you doing what everybody's doing right now? Is that what you're doing? Are you just listening to the information that you agree with rather than all of the information. So people do. It's what I do. It's what everybody does. I don't hear that.
Starting point is 00:00:31 I want to hear this. I like this. I don't like that. I listen to this. It makes me feel like I'm right. Then I feel like I have control. I don't like what you say. I don't like the that.
Starting point is 00:00:45 What if I was to tell you that the answer is this and that? How about it's everybody's right? And if you put it all together, then you get the fucking truth, rather than just fucking leaning. You know, I saw this woman the other, to one side or the other, I saw this woman the other day
Starting point is 00:01:03 and she was fucking showing the claws of lions while they were sort of snoozing. I don't know where she was. There was no context on how she became bros, you know, and besties with the male and female lions, but they were just sort of like, you know, chilling and she's going, look at this and this, the fucking claw and this gets a build up, we need to work on that. And she come up and pet him right on the head.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Oh, you're like a fucking dog. Unreal. Unreal. And at one point, one of them just stretched and scratched her fucking leg and she goes, oh, you got me. Yeah, it's a fucking lion. And at one point, one of them just stretched and scratched her fucking leg and she goes, oh, you got me. Yeah, it's a fucking lion. What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:01:52 The fuck are you doing petting a lion? That has to, you don't love animals. You have an ego issue. There's something going on that you would fucking do that and film it. You know what I mean? Because we all have to see how, you know, lions eat you, but not me.
Starting point is 00:02:15 They dig me, man. I'm fucking bros. You can't be friends with a lion. Jesus Christ. Can you see the red flags at the beginning of this relationship? It's a fucking lion. Oh, I raised it. I don't give a shit. Fucking thing weighs like 800 pounds. Just you're going to come home and it's going to jump on you like a fucking dog. It's going to crush your rib cage. Those things take down those fucking, sometimes they get killed. Whatever those giant bulls looking things,
Starting point is 00:02:55 they fucking tell you, oh Jesus, I ate too much fucking food here. I've been eating like a fucking animal, my stomach's fucking. I ate so much when I was in Italy, like two fucking nights I went out and I just said, fuck this, I'm eating like a chef and now I'm paying for it. And I got addicted to sugar again. Happened on my birthday. I fucking had a cupcake and I was, ah, just have one, you know, and I had it and then like I've been off. But now I'm back.
Starting point is 00:03:28 I'm not fucking with sugar anymore, but Jesus Christ, that stuff, dude, it's like, it's like you took a hit off the fucking crack pipe. You just, you know, that's why I didn't have a fucking cigar when I was in Italy. I just said, fuck it, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, cause I know it's gonna happen. I'm gonna have one and then I'm gonna wait four days
Starting point is 00:03:51 and be like, yeah, see, I'm not addicted. And then I'm gonna have another one on the fifth day. And then next thing you know, I'm gonna be smoking like I'm at the fucking track. I'm just not doing it. I don't know. Plus where I stayed in Italy, they didn't really have a bunch of places to buy cigars.
Starting point is 00:04:10 They had them in, you know, the worst place ever to buy a cigar is the place that also sells like lottery tickets and bubble gum. And they're like, you got cigars here? They got this little fucking sad humor door behind the register. It's just like, I'm not fucking, I'm not trying to make a blunt here.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Do you have a fucking cigar? Anyway, plowing ahead. So I had a great time when I was in Italy. I did the show in Milan. It went fantastic. The crowd was awesome. And I got to tell you guys this shit. I'm going to tell you something.
Starting point is 00:04:46 I've done that fucking Luigi joke. That fucking Louie, the kid who shot the CEO, I've done that in LA, New York city, London, Abu Dhabi, and now Milan, Italy, and it fucking murders. The second I bring that kid's name up, everybody goes nuts applauding. You know, it's one of the great things about travel is you learn that we're all looking at it the same fucking way.
Starting point is 00:05:16 There's just a whole bunch of people out there that are busting their asses and they're not getting paid their worth. And then there's these CEO cunts taking all the money for themselves. And just watching CNN and Fox News, both of them, not telling the truth of that is just fucking you just know who they're working for. You know who they're working for.
Starting point is 00:05:41 They're not working for you, although that's what they say. That's how they act. It will never cease to amaze me watching people listening to billionaires. I guess if you're a billionaire and people are happy and they get benefits and they're treated all right, I would listen to somebody like that. Like, all right, this person made a bunch of fucking money and they didn't forget where they get benefits and they're treated all right. I would listen to somebody like that, like, all right, this person made a bunch of fucking money and they didn't forget where they came from. And if you work for him, him or her, they treat you right.
Starting point is 00:06:11 But like most of them, they treat them like shit. Underpay all of them, fuck over all of them. But people sit there, every fucking election, there's some fucking billionaire now telling you, hey, it's those people over there. It's this country. Nobody. It's you. It's you. You cunt. It's you. But it's not going to happen. No one will ever wake up to that because of racism, sexism, homophobia, fucking shit about religion, racism, all of that shit, fucking red state, blue state, Hollywood, Texas, Florida, New York, California, they got it, they got
Starting point is 00:06:57 it so fucking, it's a masterpiece. Fucking masterpiece. Even when we all agree on something, very quickly we all start fucking arguing. They got bots in there, just stirring it up. If everybody's agreeing about Luigi, then a bot will come in and just be like, a murder is murder. And then everybody's like, and then we just start fucking arguing. Well, you can blame Joe Biden for that. Millionaires, they're like mean girls
Starting point is 00:07:31 just walking around, starting rumors about everybody. Anyway. When I was in Milan, Italy doing my shoe, I was with my lovely wife and she wanted to go to this sandwich place because Gwyneth Paltrow went there and was like, Oh my God, this is like my fucking favorite summer. I love this fucking sandwich. Right? It's not how she talks, but like, I don't know. Like the level of fucking people
Starting point is 00:08:06 taking pictures of their food now, nobody cares what you ate, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Everybody else is waiting to eat. Can we start? I shouldn't say nobody cares because those food things, everybody fucking loves them. I don't give a fuck about like, you know,
Starting point is 00:08:32 somebody like, that's like a big thing. Everybody's got to like fucking, oh my God, there's this fucking spot you have to go to. It's like, well, now you don't. You fucking ratted it out, and I'm going to go down there, and there's going to be 20 fucking people in line. This is what this is how you use Instagram. When somebody tells you to go to a fucking restaurant, what you do is you go across, you go to that restaurant and then go across the street, go to that restaurant.
Starting point is 00:09:01 And what they lack in good food, they make up in with lack of having to fucking wait. Sorry, I'm an impatient person. Anyway, so I was out here and I rented a Vespa, which I've always been nervous to like rent a fucking scooter and ride around a city I don't know anything about. But I was finally like, listen, I'm riding a fucking motorcycle. I can handle a goddamn Vespa. So I rent this thing, right? And I go, I take it around the block and then I go, all right, Nia, get on this thing. Let's go ride up the coast here.
Starting point is 00:09:37 So where were we staying? We were staying on this lake, right? So there's really only kind of like one main road. So I should have gone left, but I went right instead. And, uh, this little blue and white adorable Vespa. And Nia's having like a great time. So she's riding on the back and very quickly we go, you know, we wind through this little rural area, then we're into another town.
Starting point is 00:10:00 And then the town ends and there's like this mountain that fucking meets the lake. So all of a sudden I get on this on ramp. I'm like, wait a minute, is this like the fucking highway? And it was a two lane thing and I got on it and we went through the tunnel of the mountain. I was like, wow, that was like cool. And then I looked at my rear view mirror. There was a guy right on my ass and it was like 50 kilometers. So now I'm doing 55. He's on my ass. I'm doing 60. He's on my ass. I'm doing 65. He's on my ass. And I got this thing fucking, you know, wide open. I got no more with it's a fucking scooter. And it's got two adults on it. So I'm going as fast as I can. We get in this
Starting point is 00:10:41 fucking tunnel. The guy's right on my ass ass I got motorcycles passing me on the fucking left and I'm just like Like trying to get through this thing and this is what and then we would get to another town And then we would just sort of da da da da da da da da da da through the town and then we would be back like Going through like a fucking tunnel like one of the tunnels we went through was like two minutes long at 65 kilometers. Like I thought I was getting up in Switzerland. And I was it was dark in the tunnel. I didn't have my fucking glasses on and I was just like going, all right, I hope there's no potholes here because this is not going to end well.
Starting point is 00:11:21 But I didn't say nothing because my wife was on the back or whatever. So I finally just found a place and I pulled over and let all those lunatics drive past me. And then I kept going straight and he was like, why didn't you turn around? I thought you were going to turn around there. She didn't realize it was like a blind turn. You know, a little bit in front of me, and it's just like, that's how you end up on the news.
Starting point is 00:11:44 If you want to end up on the news, make a fucking U-turn on a two-lane highway with a blind fucking turn right there. That's that's how the way these people are driving. Fuck that. So we finally made it to a place where I could turn around. And and then I went back and, you know, on the way back, I just was like, I just rode over to the right so people could just like go past me. It was, I'm not gonna lie to you, it was not fun. That aspect of it was not fun. But once I got, I finally got off
Starting point is 00:12:18 and also I didn't really pay attention to where I got on. I knew like what it looked like. And there was a couple of things in the tunnel that I had noticed. So on the way, I mean, we must have gone through like 10, 10 of these little villages and 10 of these fucking tunnels. And every time we would get into the village, it was like, oh, this is what I wanted to do.
Starting point is 00:12:38 I just wanted to kind of putz around it like, you know, 15 miles an hour. As my wife is looking at ice cream and pizza parlors and shit. That's what I wanted to do. But in between, it was like I was in a fucking Tom Cruise movie, and that's literally what Nia ended up saying.
Starting point is 00:12:57 She goes, that was amazing. I felt like I was in a movie. And the dude in front of me like slammed on the brakes because this fucking police car went by. me like slammed on the brakes because this fucking police car went by. So I slammed on the brakes and you know, with all of that weight on there, it was like, I realized I'm falling a little too close. Like I was having to learn all of this shit in real time.
Starting point is 00:13:19 And then like yesterday, we were, you know, before we left, we was just sort of walking through town. And then I found, before we left, we was just sort of walking through town. And then I found the curvy zigzag up into the Hills Street. I was like, this is the fucking street I should have gone up. But it was funny when we got off the scooter, Nia was all just like, that was all, you know. One of my favorite parts of any memory ever with Nia
Starting point is 00:13:43 was we were going through the tunnel, guys on my ass, but she was having a great time. So she's right behind me and she hugged me. So I just sort of brought my arms down, hugged her arms that were around me. It was such a nice loving little moment while this fucking guy was like right on my ass. And then also it just, it's one of those things where it just reminded me of flying and riding a motorcycle where it's not,
Starting point is 00:14:16 you don't get to see anything. Like you're too busy trying not to die, you know? At least with a helicopter, I don't want like a plane, you can put it on autopilot, but like, you know, at least with a helicopter. I don't want like a plane, you can put it on autopilot. But like, you know, a helicopter like in the LA basin, there's a lot of traffic, there's a lot of shit, there's a lot of areas where would I put it. See, the person you're with is like, oh my God, look at that house. Oh wow, look at that.
Starting point is 00:14:44 And you're too busy going, okay, I don't too busy going, I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Glad they're enjoying themselves. So she had a great time, as did I. And I've always thought about buying one of those fucking things. One of those little Vespas. I'm not into the other ones because there's a lot of them. They're like basically motorcycles.
Starting point is 00:15:06 Except, you know, like with like an automatic transmission. I mean, you can easily fucking kill yourself without even getting hit on one of those other ones doing like I think they go like 70, 80 miles an hour because I was also getting passed by scooters. Like those ones that sort of look like a motorcycle until you come up to it and you're like, oh no, that isn't. But from the front, they kind of look like a motorcycle or whatever. Anyway, but our last night there, we ended up eating at this restaurant in town. And it was just like somebody's grandmother was coming out. And that was the night I was just like, wait a minute,
Starting point is 00:15:53 she's cooking, fuck this, I'm ordering everything. So I got an appetizer, I got a pasta, I got a main dish. And then I got tiramisu for dessert, which I, you know, the cupcake of my birthday. And that tiramisu was just like, I don't even know how to explain it, how good it was. It was like, it was annoying how good it was. It's like, there's nothing in the United States
Starting point is 00:16:26 that tastes as good as this because of what a small handful of fucking people did when they took control of the food supply and the seeds and all of that shit. Really kills me that people are so fucking mad at illegal immigrants. It's like, these fucking people ruined our food. Ruined our food, but they're white. so, you know, that's all right.
Starting point is 00:16:47 I guess that's all right. I mean, to me, that's fucking terrorism. I don't know. I think we're still fighting a war on terror, and then, meanwhile, you can just do that to our food and pesticides in the ground and fuck up our water supply, and that's all fucking fine that that's all fucking fine. That's all fucking fine.
Starting point is 00:17:09 I don't know. I don't know. That's weird. No, they're saying now like in the United States, like there's gonna be a thing in the future where, you know, you can be a citizen and still get deported. And my question is to where? I get if you came into the country illegally from,
Starting point is 00:17:30 whatever country, Portugal, they deport you back to Portugal. But if you're born here, where the fuck? Is it like some goodwill country that you can just drop people? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Just show up with a bag of fucking American citizens that you don't, I'm not gonna wear this.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I'm not gonna use this anymore. Let's get fucking get rid of this. It's a really, really fucking bizarre. I'll be honest with you, it has been fucking bizarre since the Clinton blow job, getting impeached, lying about that. And then going into George W. Bush, the tragedy of 9-11, and then somehow we end up in our,
Starting point is 00:18:13 ah, they got weapons of mass destruction, we never find anything, oops. And then somehow we're still there, and it's costing us all this money, but they're looking at illegal immigrants. I just, I don't fucking get it. We're fighting terrorism, right? I get that, but you can poison our food supply
Starting point is 00:18:33 and then that's okay. That's not terrorism. These fucking white supremacist hate groups, those guys aren't terrorists. It's kind of weird. I don't know. The message kind of seems to be like, well, you know, if you look this way, you can do what we say we're against. Am I nuts? Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I am crazy. I have no idea. Anyway, plowing ahead here.
Starting point is 00:19:03 I'm such an idiot. I have the MLB app on my phone and I didn't realize signing up for that that I could watch Red Sox games. So I was over in Italy and I watched my first Red Sox game of the year. I don't know anybody on the fucking team. We were playing the Cubs and this guy hit a two run homer and then another guy came up. We're up two to one and then another guy came up, hit a three run homer, five to one, and then the guy who initially
Starting point is 00:19:27 hit the two run homer hit another one. And I guess this year rather than getting put in the laundry basket and fucking push down the mail cart, now they put on the Wally hat. I don't know, that's what the kids do. Used to be you hit a home run, you ran the bases, and you didn't show up the pitcher, or the next guy got hit. Now, there's a lot of pointing and screaming on the way down
Starting point is 00:19:53 to the first base. It looks like a wrestling promo. You know, what are you going to do with these fucking 24 inch pythons running wild on you? A lot of pointing, a lot of gesticulation, doubles. Doubles is a big thing too. When you hit a double, you got to look and you got to do the binoculars and then fucking thump your chest and fucking grab your dick. I don't understand. I don't understand. This
Starting point is 00:20:17 whole fucking guys make great catches in the outfield and they stand up and they start screaming, yeah, let's fucking go. I don't understand any of this self-congratulatory fucking behavior. I find all of it cringe-worthy. You know, back in the day, there was like two or three fucking alpha, alphas of all alphas in each sport. There was just a couple, two or three fucking alpha alphas of all alphas in each sport There was just a couple two or three people everybody knew like that that guy's the guy That's the dude, you know, we're all fucking pretending but that guy right there. That guy's the guy now everybody acts like they're the guy
Starting point is 00:21:00 They want the ball three two one. Everybody is that guy? And you know buddy wants to smoke from anybody. I'm not the one and I'm the fucking da da da. It's like you hit a fucking home run. Fantastic. Barry Bonds hit like 760 of those. Yes. Sorry about that. Somebody dropping some shit off at the office here.
Starting point is 00:21:26 At the office, at the office. Anyway, yeah, it's, it's... I just don't like that shit where you make a play and then you scream in the other person's face. Like you should get the fucking shit kicked out of you. It's like, why are you acting like you do that every fucking time? You don't.
Starting point is 00:21:48 You know what I mean? Like when you strike out, does the catcher get in your face and go, ugh, you know, screaming your fucking face? It's so fucking dumb. It's so fucking dumb. I don't understand why everybody's, there's like fucking,
Starting point is 00:22:02 there's people fighting wars right now. Fucking killing another human beings before they can get killed themselves. They're not doing that. The fuck are you doing? You put a ball through hope. You hit a home run. I don't know, but I also think that this is just part of getting older, like shit changes and you're like, I don't fucking get this. I don't understand it.
Starting point is 00:22:26 And then I've just realized I'm at that age. Like we were staying in this fucking hotel. Here's something I used to know how to do. Turn lights on. I used to know how to do that. I used to know how to work a TV. There's a whole bunch of shit I used to know how to do. I just don't know how to fucking do it anymore.
Starting point is 00:22:42 I swear to God, I feel like, it's like starting right now until the end of your life, no matter how old you are, like 15% of your time when you're alive is clicking on settings. Go into your settings. That's interesting. What version of that do you have? Okay. Click on your settings. That's interesting. What version of that do you have? OK, click on your settings. Go into settings and see if that's been unchecked
Starting point is 00:23:09 or whatever the fuck it is. I don't know. Maybe that's just what it is. Maybe I'm just a f- I know I'm old, but I, you know. I don't know. And I don't fucking get it. We stay in this fucking hotel. It was so fucking difficult trying to figure out how to turn all of the fucking lights
Starting point is 00:23:29 off to go to bed. And it's this entire fucking system that's going to break down and be outdated. It's like, what was wrong with the fucking light switch? What does everything have to turn into the star ship enterprise? All right, this is going to make me sound really old. Aside from all of this complaining is when I was a kid, if you wanted to turn on the TV, you walked up to it and there was a knob and you pulled it out and the fucking TV was on.
Starting point is 00:24:02 And if you wanted channel two, you went bump bump. You were on two. You wanted five bump, bump, bump. You were on two. You wanted five. Bump, bump, bump. You went to five. And that was it. That was fucking it. Um, anyway... You want to turn the lights on in a room, you just walk and you just flip the switch. And then when you want it off, you flip the fucking switch.
Starting point is 00:24:23 That's all there was. It's like people older than me were like, you know, if we wanted a chicken, we just went out back and killed one. Didn't have to get in a goddamn car, drive all the way to the market, try to look at a fucking date on the goddamn thing. We just fucking we, man, we just, you just grabbed him by the head, you swung the body around and broke his fucking neck. That was it. That's all there was to it. It's goddamn returning the goddamn fucking cart.
Starting point is 00:24:57 I do love that guy that does the grocery cart police thing and just every time he busts somebody, they get mad because somebody who doesn't return the cart is just inherently an entitled, argumentative douchebag. It's one of the great accounts out there. Anyway, let's do the reads here. Squarespace, okay. This podcast is sponsored by Squarespace.
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Starting point is 00:29:19 I'm talking like, how do you just walk up to somebody and just say, maybe you should eat a steak. I think you osemped all the way. You osemped, you picked, you osempicked, you picked those, you did the whole fucking thing. There's nothing you left. All right?
Starting point is 00:29:38 I can see your scapula. It was very unsettling to look at. But I figured I'd bring it up on the podcast in a comedic way. Can we not shame people with saggy two-piece bikinis, please? I mean, they look like fucking POWs. I don't know. At what point do you say to somebody, Hey, why don't you have some bread? Would you like some Cheez-Its?
Starting point is 00:30:10 All right, blue collar plumber. Dear Billy Baldwin, I've been listening since 2016 and love anything you are associated with. Thank you. I recently listened to the Monday morning podcast for July 14th, 2025. All right, that would be the last one. And a listener wrote in about Plumber versus Hardware and would like to chime in.
Starting point is 00:30:36 I worked both. Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a big argument where the Plumber said he was blue collar and said a guy who worked in a hardware store was not blue collar. So my argument was like, all right, well, he doesn't have a trade. But he's not white collar. What is he? Dude, you're no collar. You work in a fucking store. I worked with. OK, so this person said, I worked in both.
Starting point is 00:31:06 I think plumbing is more blue collar and difficult. All right, well, I don't think that the argument was whether or not it was more or less blue collar. I thought the argument was, I'm a plumber, I'm blue collar. You work in a hardware store, you're not blue collar at all. I don't know, anyway, quick story. Knowing we will be replacing all the shit pipes
Starting point is 00:31:33 in the underground garage, we put posts all over the apartment complex, giving days and times not to flush. All right, let me read that. Now I know what I'm talking about here. Quick story, knowing we will be replacing all the shit pipes in the underground garage, literally the shit pipes.
Starting point is 00:31:53 I thought you just meant the bad plump, the old pipes. The shit pipes in the underground garage, we posted all over the apartment complex, giving times and days not to flush. And of course, the moment we took out the main shitpipe, we started hearing rumbling. We instantly started moving away from the pipe, and water comes flying out along with this super turd
Starting point is 00:32:19 that bounced off the toolbox and hit me in my calf. Oh, my God. I was so angry until this tiny old lady came down and apologized and she said she couldn't hold it and had to get to an appointment and felt bad. Oh my God, dude. Why did you tell me that story? Whatever the point of that story was, you won. Plumbing is more blue collar because you got hit in the leg by a fucking shit from somebody from the greatest generation. I mean, I think you can be a carpenter,
Starting point is 00:33:04 and that doesn't happen. But I wouldn't say that they're any more blue collar than you. Jesus Christ, can we just stop here for a second and just, you know, take a time to mentally thank plumbers and what they have to go through? Oh my God. I can tell you one thing plumbers aren't doing, going home and watching scat porn. Listen, I see that all day at work.
Starting point is 00:33:35 It does nothing for me. Ha ha ha! It's like being a bouncer at a titty bar. You go in there every night, and there's just naked women walking around. After a while, like, maybe it just doesn't do anything for you anymore. Um, all right.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Well, that was one of the more bizarre stories I've ever heard. I've been puked on twice. I've been puked on twice, I can tell you that. One time, my whole family, when I was growing up, we got food poisoning. And I was in the process of puking. And we were living in this split-entry house.
Starting point is 00:34:14 Not split-entry, a two-family house. So one of the side doors, you know, to the original house before they slammed the wall in the middle of the house was they just, you'd like open the side door to get, that was our back door to the front half of the house that we owned. You'd open it and there was like a bathroom right when you opened it, like a half a bath,
Starting point is 00:34:40 toilet and a sink. And then there was a kitchen and then the living room and then the stairs and you went up to the family room on the other side of that, right? So I was puking in that half a bathroom and my brother had to puke and he came running in and I was already puking and the fucking sink was right there. But he, you know, we were young, we were kids,
Starting point is 00:35:05 and he's just thinking, you puke in the toilet. So he just fucking puked. A guy, like my hands were holding the bowl as I was puking, and then he puked on my fucking head. T- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha So I was done puking and he was continuing to puke and I was just giving him upper cuts into his stomach, trying to beat the shit out of him. So then my mother and father were laughing and you know, as my mother was like washing my hair
Starting point is 00:35:35 and I was like crying going, it isn't funny. And like, they were just cracking up. Cause that's what you did with your kids back then. You just fucking laughed. It was funny. Then another time, They were just cracking up. Because that's what you did with your kids back then. You just fucking laughed. It was funny. Then another time, I was a struggling comedian, so I was taking a bus to LaGuardia Airport,
Starting point is 00:35:54 and we were right there, and this guy fucking stood up with no warning and started to walk back towards the back double doors, and he just projectile vomited, hit this poor old lady in the right shoulder. And then it ricocheted off and hit. I remember my sock, my shoe and the side of my luggage. And he didn't say anything, He just got off the bus.
Starting point is 00:36:25 I was like, what the fuck? And then we stopped. And I just went into the nearest airport. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I had to fucking throw everything out. All right. That's what that story just reminded me of. But you know what? I would rather have that happen than get hit in the ankle with the shit.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is gross. I don't do gross out humor. All right, Nathan Fielder, Airplane Safety. Hey, Billy Burrow, long time listener from Switzerland. Was wondering if you've heard of Nathan Fielder's new season, the rehearsal, season two. Nathan Fielder does, goes off on how pilots don't
Starting point is 00:37:12 communicate enough and now that he is, that that has led to multiple plane crashes. It's awkward and hilarious and the most Fielder way possible. Like he basically explains that some pilots are just too polite to say something before they die. It's dark, funny, and weirdly educational right in your wheelhouse. I swear it's just begging for a burr rant. Wait a minute, what are you saying?
Starting point is 00:37:41 They don't communicate enough that that has led to multiple plane crashes. Okay. And this guy, Nathan Fielder, all right, is called The Rehearsal. And that's about plane crashes. That's weird. Too bad I won't be able to make it to your Milan gig as I live just across the border in Switzerland, close to Como.
Starting point is 00:38:06 You should visit Lugano. I don't know what that is. Hope I'll get to see you live someday. All right, that's wild. All right, I'll have to check. You know what? God damn it. I will check that out.
Starting point is 00:38:22 All right, what am I doing here? Guy messaged my wife. Dear Mr. Burr, I am in need of your opinion. Couple days ago while at work one afternoon, my wife called me clearly upset. She said that an old male high school classmate had messaged her that morning. And while it had started as a polite reconnecting conversations with a few back and forths,
Starting point is 00:38:48 it had suddenly got weird. How did he still have her number? I guess she never changed her number. I don't know how old this person is either. Long story short, it went from them talking about their lives since high school to him suddenly asking if she was happy in her marriage. She emphatically stated yes, but he replied that if she wanted more he could provide it immediately followed
Starting point is 00:39:14 by cue the dick pic captured with suggestive emojis. What? What? Wow. What a fucking weirdo. I would guess that guy's still partying and he was in a different time zone and was high. Oh, he just has no finesse. He went from, are you happy in your marriage?
Starting point is 00:39:34 Yes, I am. Well, if you want more, you can go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. Oh, he just has no finesse. He went from, are you happy in your marriage? Yes I am. Well, if you want more, here's some fucking emojis for you. Wow, that's weird.
Starting point is 00:39:58 All right. She immediately blocked his number and that is when she called me. Later that evening, she had moved past being upset about it, but still asked me to look at the whole conversation to show that she had no part in the inappropriate side of it. Thankfully, she had deleted the dick pic, but my blood was still boiling reading through the text. I do trust her as she is a total sweetheart,
Starting point is 00:40:22 but I couldn't help but discreetly verify that the time stamps lined up with what she said happened. Oh, but I couldn't help but discreetly verify. Oh, well, what the fuck? You don't really know somebody. She could have been pretending to be a sweetheart. Who knows? Guess I was caught in a moment of insecurity.
Starting point is 00:40:45 Really, I was just pissed at the whole thing and I started contemplating what I should do. First of all, you looking at the timestamps is exactly what she would have done to you. So, I mean, you know, it's kind of weird this guy still has her fucking number and he goes, you know, and I don't know, is she telling a half truth or is she telling truth? Well good for you, looks like she was telling truth. All right, so the next day he tried adding and messaging her on several apps, but she didn't respond to any of it. Though this guy's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:41:18 This has just infuriated me further, I don't get it. Again, this is my own insecurity, but I can't figure out who this dude thinks he is. My wife and I are both in our late 20s. We have two beautiful children, good steady jobs and a house, and we have a great relationship, communication, sex life, et cetera. I feel extremely blessed. I just can't get over the whole situation. I'm generally a laid back guy, but I can't stop envisioning myself running into this guy on the street and kicking the shit out of him. Absolutely. I mean, I'm no bad, I'm by no means some badass, but I'm 6'2 and in shape, 180 pounds.
Starting point is 00:41:55 Yeah, and you're also fucking pissed. And you're right and he's wrong. So I mean, I think you got the, I think you got the momentum here. Well, this guy is at least a foot shorter, maybe 120 pounds. Is there anything redeemable about this other guy? He's probably one of those guys in the world I could absolutely, in your exact worlds, tie up like a pretzel, shove in the trunk of my car, and ass rape.
Starting point is 00:42:23 I've said that. I don't even remember that. But I'm not gay and also I'm not a rapist or a murderer. Okay, anyways, what should I do, Bill? I can't let this fucking high school band teacher disrespect my wife like that, but at the same time, I don't want to get myself in legal trouble. No, no, no, no. What you need to do is you need to shoot one across the bow. If you know
Starting point is 00:42:54 who this guy is, you can just very easily confront him and just be like, hey man, you've been talking to my wife. Is there something I can help you with? That'll scare him away. Alright? I would think. Or I think at this point, your wife has some sort of harassment thing. But I don't know. I don't know if I would go face to face confrontation with this guy
Starting point is 00:43:24 and act like you're in a Steven Seagal movie because shit can go sideways Really quickly this guy sounds like he has psychological problems And he's five foot nothing it weighs 120 pounds, I mean this guy's life sucks your life is great You don't want to fuck it up and get some sort of assault charge or whatever because for whatever fucking reason, the law protects people like this. The law also protects thieves, which I've learned. This time somebody stole some, you know, in this business deal stole from me. And, you know, I'm not going to get into the details, but it was quite a sizable sum of money
Starting point is 00:44:11 that this person took. And they were blaming everybody else, doing the Donald Trump thing, pointing at everybody else, right? And we're like, didn't really, the person didn't realize we had the smoking gun. And when we presented the smoking gun, they went, oh, you know, that's just, you know,
Starting point is 00:44:28 that was a slight oversight, you know? And then just produced this complete bullshit cost report that whittled this sizable amount of money down to like seven out of bucks or whatever. So I remember I told my lawyer going, tell him to keep the seven out of bucks. And I'm gonna go around town and tell everybody that this guy's a fucking thief and stay away from him.
Starting point is 00:44:48 And my lawyer said, be careful with that. And I said, why? And he said, because it's way easier to prove defamation of character than it is to prove that somebody stole from you. And that's because thieves make the fucking laws. And that's how most, I don't know, sizable wealth,
Starting point is 00:45:12 most of it is made in a dishonest fucking way. That level of wealth. So anyway, getting into this, like physical confrontations and this type of shit, you always hear this shit, you punch somebody in the face and they go down and they whack their head on the sidewalk and they fucking die and now you got a manslaughter
Starting point is 00:45:29 or a fucking secondary murder charge. I mean, this guy's a fucking loser. This is one of these things where, you know, you gotta be the bigger man, you can't go down there like John Wayne and just punch him in the fucking face because now this guy, not only did he text your wife in a fucked up way, he's now going to fucking sue you and get you some of your money or you're going to have, you know, God knows what sort of criminal charge.
Starting point is 00:45:58 But the rate that this guy is talking to your wife and everything, you might want to contact like authorities and do it the right way. I don't know, I've learned the stalkers for whatever reason really value their freedom. And if somebody comes over there and fucking shakes their tree a little bit, they usually back the fuck off, if you're lucky.
Starting point is 00:46:25 All right, now having said all that, in the fucking real world, in the fuck off, if you're lucky. All right, now having said all that, in the fucking real world, in the perfect world, you should be able to just walk up to that guy and beat the absolute living shit out of him. You know, while giving him a lecture. Okay, but that's not how the fucking world works. So it sounds to me like you have a great wife and you have a great life and this other guy doesn't,
Starting point is 00:46:48 but you definitely need to, I think you should contact the police or somebody and just say this guy's harassing my wife. And I think he will fuck off and go bother somebody else. But that guy, I don't know, that guy should be on a watch list. Sorry you're dealing with that. All right.
Starting point is 00:47:09 Lesser known wild 70s car chase. Oh, I love it. Dear Billy Thrills and Chills Burr, I am currently 25 minutes into watching a movie that has been 20 minutes of a guy driving a red Gran Torino like a maniac through Louisiana in one long car chase. I am in.
Starting point is 00:47:31 That movie already sounds vaguely familiar because I've watched a hundred movies like it. Person says, that's it. The other five minutes is the guy beating the crap out of everyone he meets. There's also jazz music, which is appropriate, giving the setting, I guess. I have no idea what the plot of the movie is, but I'm nicknaming it, Fuck You, the Car Chase movie. It's based on a book, apparently, it must be a very violent picture book.
Starting point is 00:47:57 The movie is called Fear is the Key. I think you'll love it. Are you fucking kidding me? I would own that on DVD if they still made those things. Thanks and drive like you're angry. Nah, I don't fucking drive like that. I like to try to drive like a respectful so-and-so. Anyway, so we stayed on this beautiful lake when we were in Italy and I'm a pool guy then a lake guy and I
Starting point is 00:48:28 don't mess with the ocean at all so I did hey go fucking jump in a lake I jumped in the lake and I had a great time my wife loves the ocean and she also loves the lake she just loves the waves so we were loves the lake. She just loves the waves. So we were in the lake and my kids came in the lake too, which really made me happy. My kids can like swim like nobody's business, which I'm so happy about because you know that was a huge fear of mine obviously. Like I wanted my kids to know how to swim before even riding a bike. Like I just wanted them to be in the water,
Starting point is 00:49:10 used to it, now they absolutely like love, love, love swimming. Like we fucking swim in the summertime when they're on summer break, we swim every day. Every day. And, oh man, I miss when my son was young. He used to call it a bathing soup. I'd come home and be like, Dada, put on your bathing soup.
Starting point is 00:49:34 It's just the best, cutest kids ever. So, yeah, we did that. I rented the Vespa. I had a bunch of good food and unbelievable food. And then I, you know, had all these great shows. You know, started off in London. I got to do that whole gig with the pretenders and everything. I still can't believe that's happened.
Starting point is 00:50:01 And I have full clips of all four songs. I don't have the first one, Ace of Spades. I only have a little bit of that. But I have the other three songs that I played, the full clip of it. And I've just been watching them critiquing my drumming and all of that, like every fucking day. I still can't believe that that happened. And then Abu Dhabi is always amazing to go there. People are really, really cool. And I got been there twice. The crowds have been like ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:50:34 So excited and so ready to laugh. And then Milan, Italy. Oh my God, I fucking murdered there. I already had this whole bit making fun of that fucking Amazon guys wedding in Venice and I wasn't even thinking that. I was like getting into the bit. I'm like, oh my God, this was in their country. They're going to love this. And they did. And then when I brought up Luigi, they went fucking crazy. Just a great time. And my wife and my mother-in-law came to that one
Starting point is 00:51:08 It was fun it was just the the perfect vacation and now I don't have Anything to do for the rest of the year other than just be here in Los Angeles and Hang out with my kids, you know, I got a couple of projects I'm working on and shit, but I was away for a while, obviously doing the play. And I still know the lines, by the way. I don't know why. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:51:32 Every once in a while, I just sort of test. Do I know them? Do I still know them? And I don't even know why. I think I was so fucking afraid of forgetting the lines on stage, which of that of course happened anyway. That the play's over and I'm still, for some reason there's like this muscle memory like
Starting point is 00:51:52 every once in a while I still have to do them because what if, what if what? There was one extra show that I forgot to do and I have to come back and do it and I don't want to embarrass myself? I don't know. I don't know, but I will tell you this. At 57 years of age, if I haven't figured myself out yet, I don't think I'm going to. I don't think I'm going to.
Starting point is 00:52:11 So I'm just going to let that go. Every once in a while, I'm just going to be the Rain Man and just do my lines from Glengarry until I feel like I don't need to do it anymore. I think that's how it's going to go down. All right. Well, that's the podcast. It's a little short that's how it's gonna go down. Alright, well that's the podcast. It's a little short this week, that's what she said. I don't know, I'm fucking
Starting point is 00:52:31 jet lagged. I'm getting back acclimated to the time out here, but I am very excited to be back in LA. I miss living out here. And that's it. I'll be at the local comedy clubs trying out some new shit, man. Other than that, I ain't doing anything. Alright, that's living out here.

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