Monday Morning Podcast - Monday Morning Podcast 10-28-13
Episode Date: October 28, 2013Bill rambles about dying in space, Halloween and being attack by a grandmother....
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Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrne. It's the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday, October 28th, 2013.
Three days before Halloween, everybody. Ah, the little bastards are coming. You know, they're all going to come walking up to the door.
Do you know the lovely Nia has canceled Halloween for this year? She was so fucking mad after last year.
We went all out and I got the full-sized candy bus, right? Because I wanted to be that house. The fucking good shit house.
Dude, you got to go up the hill. Yeah, they got the full-sized ones. You know, like people would actually say anything.
The good people would. The future banker kids, they wouldn't say shit, you know?
They'd sit there with their little fucking Fisher Price pocket watch and say, nothing to see here.
And they'd probably try to go back for seconds. But anyways, yeah, I'm behind. I got to go eat a pumpkin. I got to make my traditional pumpkin bread.
And you can laugh all you want. It's the shit. And if you ever had it, you'd fucking apologize to me both verbally and in writing.
That's how fucking good my pumpkin bread is. I'll put it up against any of you fucking ladies.
Any fucking women out there? Huh? You want to go head-to-head with my pumpkin bread? You know what I say? You know what I say?
Say fucking bring it!
No, I'm joking. It's pretty fucking good though. It should be.
It'd be fucking moist to February. But anyways, yeah, last year there was just like a bunch of high school kids walking up with barely a costume on.
They have that shit-eaten grin on their face. You know that fucking age when kids get into high school and they think they're smarter than adults?
And they think adults are morons because, you know, we're not listening to their fucking music or whatever the hell it is because they're starting to shave.
They get that fucking look on their face, which is hilarious. I don't get mad at it because I did the same thing.
It's really fucking funny when you think about it that you would think that, I guess because when you look at adults, we got wrinkles on our face.
We got the pot belly. They forget about the experience, the life experience that we have.
Like we're not fucking trying to do chin-ups here, sir. Young man.
Okay, we're talking about a little business transaction here with your dumb fucking fake mustache on.
I know what the fuck you're doing. You think I didn't do that at your age? You little fucking three-whiskered cunt. Get the fuck off my porch.
Now, see, that's what I think we should do. I think we should still hand out the candy because Nia's dumb at the whole fucking thing.
I don't know. If you guys listened to my podcast from last year, there was some fucking guy. I don't know where what his accent was.
But he wanted some candy with his kids and this guy was like three years younger than me and I just was like, really? Really?
And he was just like, yes. Like, really? And he's like, yes. And I didn't know what to do.
I fucking choked in the moment and I gave him candy. I should have been like, get the fuck out of here.
This is your costume going as a fucking immigrant. That's what you are. That's like me being a red-headed douche.
Why don't you give me some of your fucking baklava? What the fuck you make?
So anyways, but you know, I don't want to fuck over the kids. Kids are adorable.
And you know, if they're going to get cavities, I'd like it to come from this house.
They're going to be future little fat fucks. I'd like to start right here on my front porch.
I think she's coming around. I think she's coming around. We went to the movies last night and we saw gravity.
We got to find ourselves a new kind of gravity.
And that was fucking amazing. But you know what sucks? The last fucking, like the last five times I've gone to go see a movie in IMAX.
You know, Nia always sets it up and I always say, look, this is IMAX, right? This is IMAX.
Yes, yes, it's IMAX. It's IMAX. There's like IMAX and then there's IMAX Lite where it's the smaller screen.
The only fucking time I've ever gone to a movie and I really saw it in IMAX is when I saw the Heath Ledger Batman.
And that was one of those deals where I couldn't see the cunts head in front of me and I felt like I was going to fall off the edge of the earth.
All right, that's IMAX. What I saw last night was not IMAX. That was the that was the Bud Light of IMAX where it's it is a giant screen.
But like to me, IMAX is all you can see is the screen in front of you. So fucking annoying.
Those douchebags down there in Universal City Walk, they got like three IMAX ones. They got the real one.
You know, the Alec Baldwin one, and then they got the Billy Baldwin and the fucking Stephen Baldwin one.
And if you're not careful when you go down there, they fucking pass you off.
You know, not saying that it's not still a good experience, not saying that those aren't too fine actors, but it's not Alec patriotic.
It's not him. All right, so last saw I was a little disappointed with that, but other than that was fucking great.
Sandra Bullock killed it. And Jesus Christ.
And it's just just the thought of I think I could actually I could be at peace floating away from a station and dying that way and slowly just having the oxygen go out as lonely as that would seem.
Just the fucking, as long as I wasn't just twirling through the air doing somersaults and there's the earth and there's the sun and there's the space and there's the earth.
I couldn't fucking handle that. If I was just sitting there floating, looking back at Earth and just sort of drifting away, I think that that would be a pretty fucking cool way to die.
What do you just gradually go to sleep? I don't know if you're breathing in only carbon dioxide. Do you get like a headache?
I mean, that that way it's such a fucking peaceful way to go.
If you're going to die before your time.
Okay.
Okay, what do you have falling off a building? Fuck.
Right.
Fucking wind in your ears. You're going down making noise.
Fucking whatever noise you'd make on the way down. Fuck that.
Getting eaten like I think beyond what would you rather get burned to death, burned alive or get eaten by a shark.
I mean, eating alive is fucking brutal. Like if I had to get eaten alive, I'm going with a big cat, big cat in Africa.
It's fucking over after seeing the lion tamer there, which really, that's really just a title.
Nobody tames a fucking lion. You basically, you had a good day. You're on a good run, but you know what's going to happen eventually.
You know what I mean? That's like getting an honorary doctorate from a fucking school.
I have an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Great. Well, you're not smarter than anybody or you're not even as smart as anybody who went to this school.
You just wrote the Macarena or you fucking had your own sitcom.
You know, and they knew that all those eggheads were going to be boring as hell when they were given speeches on graduation day.
So they brought you when you're a fucking clown and they give you a piece of paper.
That's the same thing with lion tamers.
All right. You're not taming them.
Okay, you're trying to break their spirit, but at the end of the day, they're a fucking lion and they're the king of the beast.
Okay, although some would say that the Bengal tiger could kick the shit out of a lion.
I don't know about kick the shit out of him, but I don't know.
But anyways, just watching that lion tamer in Vegas, like when that thing grabbed him by the throat,
that dude went limp in like fucking two seconds.
It was like when you watch the UFC, you know, when someone gets choked out, you get choked out real fucking quick.
So I don't know. I wouldn't want to get mauled.
Like I wouldn't want to get attacked by a bear. They're very sloppy.
You know what I mean? They're very like rip your face off and, you know, eat a little buddy and then come back later after they took a nap kind of shit.
I like the lions tigers. They just get right to it. They grab you by your fucking throat and two seconds. That's it. You're out.
It's dead. It's over. And then they, you know, then they have a meal.
I wonder if any of us taste better than the others.
Like if you ate healthy, if you're like a, if you eat like a macro biotic diet, if you're like a grass, like grass-fed cattle,
as opposed to an asshole like me smoking cigars, drinking booze, occasionally going to McDonald's.
Do I, do I taste more like, you know, Drake's cakes, some dried out shit?
I don't know. But anyways, when you look at all those, and then the worst of all the getting eaten alive, other than a fucking Komodo dragon,
which would basically bite you and then slowly follow you around for the next three days as the poison takes over, you know, as you're laying there.
And the thing's like two feet away, you know, just staring at you. It's lizard tongue flicking at the side of your face, but not eating you.
You know, that's fucking horrific.
Plus, you know, reptiles, they just don't, they just don't have any, there's no emotion. They're heartless.
They don't give a fuck. Mammals, even like a lion or something, they have some sort of understanding what the fuck it is they're doing,
just like, you know, reptiles are like the Terminator.
Not even Terminator could talk. I don't know what the fuck they are, but they freak me out. I don't, I don't like them.
I really don't. I respect mammals. I have, I don't like reptiles.
There, I made that statement and I'm sure I'm going to get some backlash on that and I'm prepared to go and CNN and defend myself when I go and split screen with some fucking lizard lover.
But anyways, so if you're floating through space, like I could, I could die like that.
I definitely could, as long as I wasn't cold, as long as that suit held up and I was just sort of floating.
That would kind of be the most, that would be the ultimate premature death.
You're going to die in your 30s, 40s or whatever. I got it. Still at half my life ahead of me or whatever.
As long as I wasn't tumbling, if I was just sitting there floating looking back at the planet for the last 20 years of my life,
and that's pretty fucking awesome. You know, me and Lance Bass up there just hanging out.
I don't fucking know. I have no idea.
Anyways, I am seven days in. No, six days in. No booze. Shut it down.
I'm getting the glow back. All right. I've been juicing.
Although yesterday was a bad day exercise day for me. I just sat on the couch all fucking day and gave a fuck.
You know, just watch sports all day and gave a shit.
Who's the worst? I watched that Patriots Dolphins game with right out right out of right out of the gate.
My thanks to the officiating crew that that worked that game.
I am trying to remember the last time I've watched a game where my team got so many fucking huge calls to keep the drive going.
That pass interference call on grunt on that defensive back against Gronkowski was criminal criminal.
I believe that gave us kept the drive alive. We got three points on that one.
And then they had the phantom hands to the face flag thrown three, like three, four seconds after the play ended.
Travesty. And then there was the fumble.
And they said the Dolphins slapped it forward or whatever. I mean, that's one of those borderline was he reaching for it or whatever.
But after those other two fucking ones, we get the benefit of the doubt again. Brady got sacked.
He fumbled the ball and the ball went 10 yards back in the other direction.
We got the ball back and it was first down lost 15 yards and still somehow it was first down and we were able to come back and beat him.
And I got to say the Patriots are overachieving this year.
It's really an unreal. I can't believe the record that what are we six and two? Is that what it is?
We lost to the Jets and we lost to the Bengals.
But you know, I'm not like I'm a realist. I know what's going to happen.
We play the Broncos. I know what's going to happen if we played the Seahawks or if we played the Colts or even the 49ers.
Look, I know Belichick is a fucking genius and that we can somehow I don't know what.
But at this point, you know, that was what was driving me fucking nuts yesterday is they start the goddamn game.
And they talk about how the Patriots have injuries at all three levels on that defense.
We're missing our best guy, Vince Wilfork, our defensive line.
Best guy plus Kelly, our best linebacker, Mayo is out for the season.
Our best corner, a key to leave. They're all out. They're all fucking out.
Hernandez went to fucking jail. Gronk just got back.
Amandola is fucking in and we got we got nothing going on.
You know, so they address that. And then the end of the game, I'm watching Hall of Fame fucking players talking about Brady's numbers
and how his numbers are down and go, this is an atypical. I mean, Tom Brady with 125 yards passing.
It's like you just fucking said, how about Tom Brady?
Somehow we're fucking six and two with nobody fucking nobody.
We got nobody. We got Gronk back, but we got fucking nobody and we're somehow winning goddamn games and I don't know.
So I am a realist. So despite the fact that we're six and two, you know, I know, I know the hammers coming down.
I know it is even if we win the division and all that. I mean, I'm not delusional at all.
And then after I'm dealing with that shit, I actually call up Verzi to talk about these moron fucking analysts and
Verzi, I'm gonna start. He is just sprinkling his fairy dust on the New York Giants like every fucking week, right?
They all win one, all in two. And he's just going like, dude, you know, I think we're gonna win next week.
Oh, and three, dude, I think we're gonna win next week. Oh, and four, oh, and six, right?
And he starts going like, dude, you know, I think we can go on a fucking run here and blah, blah, blah, right?
So now they've won two weeks in a row.
Okay. And I know they're not, they're nowhere as near as bad as their fucking record, but Verzi fucking yesterday did the classic Paul Verzi.
Okay. I remember in when the Patriots played the Giants the first time in the Super Bowl, right before the Super Bowl starts, he goes, dude, I'm telling you, you know, I think the Giants could surprise some people today.
That's what he said. I think they could surprise some people day. He wasn't saying they are.
He wasn't putting any money on it. He just threw it out there, which is perfect because if they do, he gets to be like, dude, what'd I say?
And then if they didn't, he goes, well, I just said, you know, I just had a feeling fucking that non-committal shit.
So now he goes, the NFC fucking East is so fucking pathetic this year.
The Giants started 0-6. They're now 2-6 and they're only two games out of 1st. They could actually win their division.
All right. Which is, which is classic Giants the last like seven years. It's just like the planets aligned for these guys. It is their fucking time.
So what does Verzi say yesterday? He goes, dude, I'm telling you, I think they could go on a run. They're gonna play us and then they could, they could win the Super Bowl.
Perfect. Perfect fucking prediction. Didn't say they're gonna, didn't put any money down. He throws it out there.
So I'm guaranteeing you if, if, if the Giants win the fucking Super Bowl, he's going to go, dude, I called it because he threw it out there.
I swear to God, it's listening to that guy predicts shit. It's like watching a guy play roulette who just comes up with chips and just fucking dumps him on a bunch of different numbers.
Ah, fucking, it drives me insane. And please send this clip to him. You don't even need to because I'm going to give him shit about it today.
And I actually like the Giants and that type of thing. And I think that they could go on a fucking run. And who knows if they get healthy? I mean, who knows?
But I mean, I don't know. I don't see them. I don't know. The Saints, the fucking Seahawks, there's a lot of guys to get through.
You know what I mean? But I mean, the way the, the reason why the NFL is great is everybody does have a fucking shot, especially if you play in the fucking NFC East.
But I don't, I'm going to give them some shit. I'm going to tell him right now, I'm going to call that fucker today.
All right. And I'm going to say, listen, I want you to put money on it right now that the Giants are going to win the fucking Super Bowl.
All right. And if you don't put money down on it, then I don't want to hear a fucking word out of you.
You know, you know what's a classic Paul Versey pick?
Uh, Xander Bogarts.
I was watching that shit, you know, just watching the guy. I heard a little hype about him. I read a little bit about him.
And then I watched like two at bats and I'm watching this 21 year old kid working the count in the fucking World Series.
And I'm like, this is a Versey pick right here. He would jump on the bandwagon.
And I'm telling you, I think this kid could do something. Oh, is he going to be pissed at me?
I'm just fucking with you, Paul. But for the love of God, just say some shit's going to happen and put some fucking money on it.
Stop with your fucking. I'll tell you, you know, I think it could rain this week.
Um, all right. Plowing ahead here.
Uh, a lot of sports this fucking week, as always, I feel really bad cause I've been neglecting my Bruins.
I know we lost to the devils and I know we beat, I think we beat San Jose crazy in the last second shot.
I've just been wrapped up watching baseball and, uh, I gotta tell you, dude, I did not miss it.
Watching playoff baseball when your team is in it will take fucking 30 years off your life per game.
And, um, and I know that's not a unique experience.
I know Tigers fans have gone through it and I know Cardinals fans have gone through it, certainly with us being two, two games apiece.
And, um, I gotta tell you, it's been exciting, but I fucking hate baseball.
I can't handle watching the shit. I hate that there's no fucking clock.
It just, I hate that you just can't fucking win a game easily.
You can't just be up a bunch of fucking runs and everything's good.
You can't just be up four to one and it's all good.
You know, at some point between the six and the eighth inning, the other team is somehow they walks the first guy on base and then it's just going to be this fucking nightmare.
And then they're going to take the guy out and some other fucking stiff is going to come in and it's just, I have Tourette's when I watch it.
I have to walk away. I have to go in the other room.
I have to put the thing on mute because I'm convinced Tim McCarver not hates the Red Sox and the Yankees.
I learned that he hates the Yankees through Verzi and, uh, you know, he's a former Cardinal.
I just think he just fucking, and I'm really trying to listen objectively going,
is this guy criticizing the Cardinals the way he's criticizing it slash predicting possible bad shit for the Red Sox?
The fucking guy drives me up the goddamn wall.
Um, he says positive shit about Ortiz and positive shit about Xander Bogart.
So other than that, it's just gloom and doom with that guy drives me up the fucking wall.
But, um, I have no idea who's going to win this series and it's been a great series so far and two of the most bizarre endings to games,
games out three and four and that, uh, that obstruction thing.
I'm not going to be a bitch and complain about it.
Um, I don't know what the rule is like most baseball fans.
The first time I saw the definition of it was that night and I don't fucking know.
I mean, I think it's more positive way of looking at is probably we shouldn't have thrown the ball down to third base.
Slash, we probably should have caught the ball and, uh, I don't know.
I don't know how you call obstruction when you miss the first, the first half of the collision.
That would be my only part of it, but it seemed like everybody, including our own manager said they got it right.
So, uh, so they got it right.
The fuck are you going to do?
Um, whatever.
It's tied up to anybody's fucking game and I hope we're going to win.
I'm obviously I want the Red Sox to win, but I really want us to win because I can tell how much Verzi wants us not to win.
How much he fucking hates the Red Sox and their fucking beards and their anti anti Yankee dress code.
It's driving him like the level that he gives a fuck makes me laugh because it reminds me of the ridiculousness of why do I care?
It's like, especially with Verzi, it's like, why the fuck dude, you got 27 championships.
If we win this one, it's our eighth.
What is the problem?
But he for some reason fucking hates the Red Sox.
You know, for the most part, other than 04 in the last fucking nine years, we've done nothing but wonderful things for the Yankees.
And you know, you'd think if Chicago could find it into in their hearts to thank us, you know, you'd think that a Yankee fan like Verzi could say something nice.
You know, but I don't think he has it in him.
I'm just fucking with them.
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Anybody watch Fast and Loud this week?
I taped a bunch of episodes and I have a new favorite car.
I've always been a Ford guy
and the dude Casey on the show paints the cars,
which I think is so fucking badass.
I was never really into the body work.
At first, I was into watching them do the suspensions
and dropping motors in and that type of thing.
But over the years of watching the shit on YouTube
and watching people redoing cars and stuff,
I'm really starting to get into knowing how to paint the car.
It looks so fucking easy,
but I watched Richard do it one week and he sucked at it.
So I really see that there's an art to it.
But anyways, that dude Casey on the show
had this 55 Ford Custom Line.
And I think that's what Custom Line or Custom Line are.
I'd never heard of it.
I was always sweating the fucking bell airs
thinking that Chevy was doing it right.
And let me look this up here.
Yeah, Custom Line and they redid that one
and they painted it fucking all white.
They took the chrome off of it.
That car was the shit.
And then they ended up selling it to Mark Cuban
of the Dallas Mavericks.
And I swear to God, if you ever get sick of that car,
I'd buy it.
I'd buy it off him.
I don't know if I'd pay what the fuck he paid for it.
I don't know that kind of money.
But Jesus, such a badass fucking car.
So anyways, I'm in town.
After, you know, I've been on the road this whole,
basically this entire year
and I got a two week break here
and I've been really enjoying myself
just hanging around the house finally.
I've gotten back into playing drums a little bit.
I'm doing that Mike Johnston 10 days to faster hands work out.
I highly recommend it.
I'm six days in as of today.
I'm finally able to stick with it just because, you know,
when I travel, I kind of barnstorm around
where it's like a different city every night.
And it's really hard, you know,
you bring a practice pad and your drumsticks
and trying to find a table high enough
to big pain in the ass.
So making sure that I'm doing it this time.
I'm sticking with it.
And anyways, I'm getting back into all my hobbies.
Believe it or not this week,
I'm actually going to try to make homemade ravioli.
I don't know.
I'm all over the fucking map.
Nia said that to me the other day.
She goes, you're all over the map.
You have ADD.
You can't, you play drums.
You play guitar.
You make pumpkin bread.
You know, you can fix cars a little bit.
The outskirts basically.
I can't really fix cars.
I can do a little bullshit on it.
I could have fucked up my seatbelt.
I got to put that in.
That's a couple of bolts.
I can handle that shit.
Whatever.
You ride motorcycles a little bit.
You're all over the fucking map.
And I was like, wait a minute.
But I stuck with stand-up comedy.
I've been doing that almost 22 years straight.
She goes, yeah, well, you know.
Yeah, well, you know,
that's the fucking thing I do.
Everything else is the other shit I do.
Isn't that right, Cleo?
Look at her over there.
She got her two beds stacked up on each other,
like a fucking double cheeseburger.
I've never seen anything sleep more in its life than that dog.
Oh, by the way, I'm doing a benefit this Sunday.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
I'm doing a benefit for pit bulls,
and it's going to be down at Largo Theater this Sunday.
That would be November,
second or third, November 3rd.
I'm going to be down there with a bunch of other comedians,
a bunch of dog lovers.
Who the hell else is on it?
I can't remember.
Me, Whitney Cummings, a couple other people,
and I did this benefit last year.
And it's a great cause.
And what's even better is they bring a bunch of pit bulls down there.
And it really is my favorite fucking dog.
It's just the best.
They get the best heads.
They're fucking jacked, you know?
You should see my dog's legs.
It's ridiculous.
Her back legs, when she goes to stretch,
I'm telling you, I've said this before.
You remember that Road Runner episode
where Wiley Coyote took that shit to make him run really fast
and he'd run it and he had the flames.
Remember that?
He took it.
It was like roids for his thighs.
Fucking legs look like.
And every morning she wakes up and I squeeze.
I'm like, shaman.
All right.
Hey, last week I talked about the Greenpeace 30.
And now they got arrested for piracy
and just like, was there any sort of thought behind, you know,
you're boarding a goddamn Russian,
I don't know, drilling platform?
What the fuck did you think was going to happen?
So they got arrested for piracy.
So we're going to really follow this.
I'm really going to follow this story to see what happens.
It's just insane.
Like right now they are, first of all, it got dropped down.
Let's see here.
Greenpeace Arctic 30s plight highlights the inhumanity of Russian jails.
All right.
That's a different one.
It's now a month now since the 30 Greenpeace activists
arrested for attempting to board the,
I'm not even going to try to say it.
I'm not.
I'll give you a laugh.
Preya Zamo Lama Yamala fucking oil platform.
We're transferred from police lockups to remand prisons in mermans,
the mermans region in the Arctic Circle.
That really scared the shit out of me.
Like I literally thought that they were on just,
they built these jails on the ice,
but it's sort of the one of the most northwest,
I think it's the most northwest city in Russia.
Basically it butts up against like Finland,
Sweden, Norway, like the top of those countries.
So they're kind of all the way up there in these goddamn jails.
And where the hell is it here?
They actually were able to,
they reduced the charges.
So they're now,
Russian drops piracy charges, cuts maximum jail term in half,
activists face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Basically they,
I think they knocked it down to,
I don't know, almost like hooligan behavior.
It says Russia on Wednesday dropped the piracy charges
against 30 people involved in a Greenpeace.
Sorry about that.
The batteries cut out on me.
Speaking of Greenpeace,
I was trying to make sure I used up all my other batteries
before I fucking throw them out,
because I don't know where the fuck to recycle them.
Where the hell was I?
I'll just start it over again.
They dropped the piracy charges, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They face up to seven years down from 15 years.
The charges against the activists who protested the platform
last month have been changed from piracy to hooliganism,
the federal investigative committee said.
And there's a whole Greenpeace thing.
If you guys want to get involved and try to help
get these knuckleheads out of jail,
I don't know, like protesting.
This is a really sad truth.
Protesting is difficult enough in your own country,
even if you have a democracy,
because you know the cops are going to show up.
You know what the deal is.
And as much as you tell everybody just remain peaceful
and then they won't club us down,
somebody eventually ends up throwing a rock
or doing something or some conspiracy theorists
say that the government hires somebody
to go in with the protesters and throw something
so then the cops can then beat them down and tear gas them.
I don't know if that's fucking true,
but I'd love to think it is.
It's hard enough to fucking do it in your own country.
I got to give it up the fucking balls those people had
to try and do that.
And just the situation that they're in,
it reminds me of that documentary I saw
on the ganja queen, did you guys ever see that?
It was basically this lady that went to Bali
and according to her she loaded a boogie board
with a boogie, you know, she checked that
and that was her carry on and then when she got off
the plane, the Bali state fucking troopers
came over and said hey is that your boogie board
fucking satchel and she goes yeah it is
and then they opened it up and there was all this weed in there.
It was all this weed man and they don't,
in Indonesia they don't fuck around when it comes to drugs.
They have a zero tolerance for it
and if you get busted with the shit,
I think they put you to death is what they usually do
and they say that, I just did Tom Rhodes podcast
and we kind of started to talk about this
and they basically, he's been to Bali
and I was like dude don't you get scared
and you sort of laugh, he goes no I just don't bring
any drugs into the country and I'm just kind of like
well what if just something happens?
What if somebody next to you has them
and just shoves them in your pocket?
I know that's a ridiculous fear but like,
you know what, I mean look, I'll go to another country
and the country is that if you kill somebody
it's punishable by death and I can live within that
because I just can be like well you know
I'm not going to kill anybody.
I think it's because over here if you get busted with weed
and a lot of states now it's legal
and then if you get busted it's like no big deal
unless of course you have a bunch of it
and you get busted for trafficking
that's a whole other deal but I mean it's not like
somebody can just drop a bunch of kilos of weed on you
plant that on you stick them in your fucking backpack
you're going to know they're there
but just the fact that you have one goddamn joint on you
like dude I would walk into that country naked
I'd come in with a fucking speedo
I'd get a colonic the week before
I would juice for a fucking month
and I would have a cattle prod
and keep all other passengers away from me
and I would walk into there wearing a goddamn thong
and that's the only way
and even then I would be scared
punishable by fucking death, Jesus Christ
so anyways if you want to watch something really disturbing
watch this ganja queen
it was what she was called in the papers over there
they opened up her boogie board
a satchel or whatever the fuck you call it
carry on case and there was a bunch of weed in there
and they were like we're going to put you to death
in the Australian whatever the fucking syndicate
whatever you call it
the embassy tried to get this woman out of it
and just watch that documentary
I mean obviously the Greenpeace 30
they're not going to get put to death
but I'm sitting here scrolling across the maps here
looking at this shit where Bali is over there
and there's Murmansk
there it is right there
Jesus Christ
just fuck that
how the fuck is anybody going to help you
oh my god
that's why I always do that amnesty international
because that is a fucking fear of mine
just being thrown in a goddamn jail
do you remember that show Arrested Abroad
did you ever see that thing
I watched that with Nia one time
and Nia loves traveling
she goes that made me never want to fucking
go anywhere again in my life
but it was just one of those things
it was always like these fucking people
were trying to smuggle drugs out of the country
I mean I'm trying to think of something
that takes more balls than that
I'm sure that you guys can come up with something
but just being in a country where if you get caught
you're going to go into that goddamn gulag
and you're not going to be able to speak the language
I mean talk about a man without a fucking country
and you're going to have to go in there
I mean Jean-Claude Van Damme
the height of his powers is getting fucking ass raped
in that situation
it's just you're done
you're fucking finished
Jesus Christ
I mean I get not working in a cubicle
they wanted to make you fucking money
but there's got to be some other talent
that God gave you
where you can make money
that doesn't involve shoving a key of coke up
your fucking ass
trying to get out of Columbia
there's got to be another way to do it
riding your fucking moped to the airport
on unpaved roads
there has to be a better way
there's got to be a better way to do it
anyways let's fucking move on here
are we far enough into the podcast here
now that the thing cut out
I got to do the math here
I was like 35
ah Jesus I don't fucking know
let's read a
I think I went through everything that I wanted to talk about didn't I
oh yeah I'm a little out of it here
I haven't eaten yet today
because last night I ate late at night
I ate it like one in the morning
I think it was when I finally stopped eating
came home had one of those fucking anti-pasta plates
and like fucking one in the morning
and I adhere by that rule
that you go 12 hours after your last meal
like if you eat at eight o'clock at night
eat the next day eight in the morning
I stayed up till one in the morning
so I'm not eating till one in the afternoon
alright that's how you become a tub of shit
alright you go to bed at one
you wake up at seven thirty in the morning
you have to go to work
and then you eat a bacon egg and cheese
or a fucking donut
and it's over
it's fucking over
so that's it
I'll tell you
I got down to like fucking a buck seventy
I told you
I was going to get into
sitting down no shirt on shape
that's what I want to get back to
just one more fucking time
in my life
you know they're always making these movies
you know they're going to do it one more time
they got one coming out
that I'm going to go see
that one with De Niro
Michael Douglas
and fucking
Morgan Freeman
Alan Arkano
I think he's in there too
I don't know if they're all in there
but like I'm going to go see
you know they're doing it one more time
right
that's what the fuck I'm doing with my stomach
and I'm having a hell of a time
because if you just stop eating
you end up losing muscle
all of a sudden I looked down at my arm
I had the arms of a seventh grader
and I still had my little fucking beer belly
you know looking like a god damn turtle right now
so I got to do something
I got to fucking eat more meat
fucking do more
I don't know what I got to do
probably have to get a personal trainer
I don't want to do that
if somebody holding my ankles
and I'm doing sit ups
I can't fucking do that shit
I was speaking to Michael Douglas
you know I finally sat down
and I watched
behind the candelabra
you know
I am
I'm too homophobic
I was too homophobic to watch it
and you know
this is the thing about being homo
being homophobic
there's all different levels of it
like that word
oh he's homophobic
and then you get it like you think
gays are going to hell
and they shouldn't be married
and what they're doing is unnatural
I'm not homophobic like that
I think you know
being gay is just how you're naturally wired
so it's completely natural
and go out and fucking have at it
you know
fuck as many as you can
do your thing
I don't give a fuck
get married
have a hell of a fucking time
you know
God bless you
but I get like
I don't know what it is
in movies
when there's guys kissing each other
and caressing each other
it makes me fucking uncomfortable
and then there was something about
watching Michael Douglas
and Matt Damon
playing footsie with each other
like that fucking
I didn't want to see him in a hot tub together
I couldn't fucking watch it
I'm getting uncomfortable talking about it
but whatever
I'm being honest
so anyways
I was on the road or something
I don't know where the fuck I was at
I was back in Boston
and it came on
and I watched
the second half of it
and I got to tell you something
that was
it was absolutely fucking phenomenal
it was fucking hilarious
I'm going to have neon here at some point
and do her Michael Douglas impression
going Scott
Scott
I can't do it as well as she can
they were
what
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon
killed it in that fucking movie
and
and I was actually rooting
for Matt Damon's character
I felt bad for him
it's like dude
you got to get out of this relationship
you're fucking up your face
you got to get off the drugs
you know
he's bringing in some younger guys
the writing's on the wall
you got to get out of here
man go take some night classes
you know
do something else
what the fuck are you doing with this old man
with sparkly fucking coats
and his goddamn toupee
you know what I mean
he's using you
I got into it like that
that's how well it was done
I highly recommend that
two thumbs up
behind the candelabra
old fucking homophobe Billy
he liked it
not 100% homophobe
old 20%
homophobe
is that offensive
to say homophobe
am I supposed to say homophobic
there's something about abbreviating shit
that makes people annoyed
like you're not supposed to say
tranny anymore
and you know what's funny
I don't even know if that's short
for transvestite
or transsexual
I don't understand
why that's bad
that's like if he names
Mike and somebody
hey Mikey
is that bad
you know that's really offensive
my name is Michael
thank you very much
transvestite
what do you say to
dick in a dress
why are you doing there buddy
sweet out
you know you can't fucking say that
evidently
despite if in your heart
you don't think there's anything wrong
I don't give a fuck
if that's what you want to do
God bless you
you know God bless you
put on some fucking heels
walk down the street
and let people know what you're doing
I don't give a shit
I really don't
I really don't
just fucking
don't play your music too loud
don't trick or treat
past a certain age
and
I don't know what else
if you're drunk
I don't mind if you talk to me
when you're drunk
just you know keep your distance
is there anything worse
than with somebody
I had somebody over the weekend
I was down at the comedy store
and just somebody was fucking wasted
and they just
you know
somebody's wasted
and they just come up to you
you're in the middle of a conversation
and they just
fucking barge
they become like
you know like toddlers
don't give a fuck
they have no concept
of two people talking
they'll just barge in
on the conversation
and they'll just
I think they used to do a bit on this
I don't even know
if I ever put it on a special
I used to talk about
how they were like
they were like drunks
and they would just start
in the middle of the conversation
middle of a story
and let you try and figure it out
I don't even want to talk about it
let's let's
let's read
let's read some of this shit here
alright is 29 too old
hey there Billy Bandwagon
for those of you who don't follow me
on Twitter
I've been going by Bill Bandwagon
watching the Red Sox
and
I gotta tell you right now
I am not Bill Bandwagon anymore
after fucking aging 30 years
watching all of these goddamn games
I am back to die hard
I'm not die hard
maybe I am
maybe I'll come back to watching
baseball
we'll see the jury is out
but
Bill Bandwagon left
after we lost two games in a row
and there was the obstruction call
he took off
and die hard Bill
fucking hung around
alright anyways
first he says
I just want to say
love the podcast
and your comedy specials
well thank you very much
he goes my question
do you think 29 is too old
to start doing stand up
I have a decent full time job
as a paralegal
and consider myself
lucky to be gainfully employed
however life in an office
is miserable
and it gets worse
as the years pile on
I'm not quitting anytime soon
but I've thought about
starting to try
open mics
to see if I'm any good
and maybe
and maybe what
maybe help me be a little more outgoing
what do you think
is it still possible
when you're damn near 30
thanks and go fuck yourself
dude absolutely
absolutely
and this is the thing
yeah don't quit your day job
that's what I did
I had a day job
and I was like
let me try this stand up thing
and I started doing it
and I immediately loved it
and I just kept working on it
working on it
but I didn't leave my day job
until
I actually kept my day job
when I could have left it
I was making enough money
where I could live
but I kept my day job
because I knew I was moving down in New York
and I wanted to save up some money
so I could
because I knew that
I wasn't going to show up in New York
and they all great
this fucking guy we don't know is here
let's give him a bunch of stage time
I knew I was going to have to struggle
so I would absolutely 100%
if you're thinking about trying it
definitely try it
even if you just do it one time
you did it
you did it
I went skydiving one time
I have to tell you guys that story
I went skydiving one time
I did a static line jump
in Pepero, Massachusetts
back in the day
and
I almost had a problem
they said sit in the door
sit in the door
get out go
so you sit in the door
they open the door to the plane
you sit in the door
and then when they say get out
you put your feet
you put one foot
your left foot
on this
almost looks like an engine mount
that's above one of the wheels
of this fucking plane
and then you're hanging on
to the support for the wing
that is above the fucking plane
you're basically like a god damn wing walker
and then
it'd be basically
if you leaned up against a bar
if you put your body at a 45 degree angle
and you leaned up against a bar
in the upright push up position
and then you went down
like you were coming down to the floor
that's basically the position you're in
like you're down to the floor
except it's the support to the wing
and then you have one foot on the engine
what looks like an engine mount
and then you have another foot
pointed straight out behind you
because what you're going to do
it says get
you know sit in the door
get out and go
and he slaps your shoulder
you let go
of the fucking plane
which makes no fucking sense
and then you bring that other leg up
parallel to where your other one was sitting out
and then you arc
alright
and what I did was a static line jump
so I don't have to pull the shoot
but I don't have anybody with me
the static line jump
and as you let go
it pulls your shoot
and you go arc one thousand
two one thousand
three one thousand
look if nothing
look reach pull
I still remember that shit
like it was yesterday
two one thousand
three one thousand
it's look
you turn to see
your parachute
to see if it's opened
if it's open properly
look if nothing
look
you look down to where your reserve is
because if you don't
look where it is
for some reason you might not be able to grab it
so look if nothing
look reach
pull
and then you pull your reserve shoot
and hopefully that thing fucking opens
or you're gonna bounce
so
he was going sit in the door
and I was like what
he's going sit in the door
I thought he said close the door
he's going sit and I find
okay so sit in the door
so I sit in the door
and
then he goes get out
I got out
and then he said go
and when I let go
I didn't arc
I tried to grab for something
and I started doing front flips
as my shoot was coming out
and I felt
it going by the inside of my right leg
I felt this
something
touch my right thigh
and I was going oh my god
I'm gonna
I'm gonna get wound up in this fucking thing
and
I don't know who packed that shoot
but thank god it fucking came out
and then you had like a little transistor radio
or some shit on your shoulder
and then they just talked you down
you know right toggle, left toggle
you had to pull it all the way down to your knee
and I remember there was this fat chick in the class
and she couldn't get it around her ass
and she ended up landing
across the street in a pile of loom
and she dislocated her knee
fortunately that did not happen for me
and it was pretty awesome
but I did it that one time
never needed to do it again
and
I have the story
I have the experience
so maybe stand up will just be that for you
or
you could
have the experience that I had
where the first time I walked to the microphone
I felt like I was like an out of body experience
like I was watching myself do it
and
it was
I found my calling in life
which is probably
one of the most exciting things other than finding the person
you're supposed to be with in life
so
I gotta tell you this dude
if you're in your office every day
and it
and it is a miserable thing
that could mean that you're not
you don't have the right job
or you need some sort of outlet
maybe you're working too hard
and maybe just going out
and doing this one night
and kind of remembering to try
that going out and trying new things
is a fun thing to do
that you don't have to just be 100%
about your career
I think that's the thing a lot of fucking adults
forget to do
after a while
and you have like that thing
once you get your life down
you know
I get up at this hour
I drive down this street
I go to work
I do the same thing every day
I'm comfortable
I know everybody
there's no new challenges
and then no one's gonna make fun of me
like they did on the playground
and punch me in the face
for having freckles
right
you can really get caught in that
and then you get in a rut
so I don't know if you're just in a rut with work
or whatever
but I would definitely recommend
trying
going out and trying to stand up
believe me dude
that's
I'm having more fun with it
than I ever had
and I'm 22 years in
and I never feel like
well I've had some struggles
you know
but you do with anything
but
when I'm on stage doing it
I never feel like
I don't feel like
how you feel in the office
but I'm not gonna lie to you
before I started selling tickets
you would when you
it was just a fucking awful show
and there was no security
and everything
but you know anything worth having
you know
if it was fucking easy
everybody would do it
so anyways I'm getting too long winded here
go out and try it
alright
next one
dear Bill
you ruined the Hobbit
he said
I'm a big fan of the podcast
and your comedy
unfortunately I made the mistake
of looking up your comedy on YouTube
and came across the
clip where you took a shit
on Lord of the Rings
you know what's funny
I don't even remember doing
half of this shit
he said it was the scene
where the
Gandalf
Sumbles
summons
shadow facts
the lord of all horses
oh Jesus
and you pointed out
how ridiculous that was
oh I remember that
I am the lord of all horses
it's just so fucking over the top
he goes
I don't consider myself to be a big nerd
but I do love Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
and all that nerd stuff
I like all of that shit
I watched the Hobbit
for the first time yesterday
and every time they said something ridiculous
I pictured your ginger mug going
oh Jesus
I was literally laughing
every 30 seconds
well there you go then
I turned Lord of the Rings
into a comedy for you
you know I saw a clip
of one of those things
where the guy just looks like
he has elf ears
and he talks to the
I am assuming a wizard
why don't wizards
ever get a haircut
why don't they ever
take a shave
why can't you be
a clean cut wizard
are you so busy moving
fucking mountains
you know somebody get
you know
get him one of those little
toiletry bags
the straight razor
I was watching one of those things
and
I remember the fuck I was at
so I got on a plane
I was watching TV
it's all running together
at this point
my age days fly by so quick
you can't even remember
did I dream that
or did my neighbor say it
I can't even fucking remember
but I was watching
one of those elf movies
and
the fucking lead dude
with the Karl Malden nose
and the Spock ears
he found a ring
now for some reason
I thought the Lord of the Rings
like if you had the rings
I thought the rings were like
you know those magic rings
that hacky magicians pull apart
I thought that they were that big
it looked like you found
a wedding ring
I don't fucking know
anyways
so he said he was laughing
every 30 seconds
he said I hope you're happy
that my enjoyment of the Hobbit
was a casualty
on your war on nerds
I don't have a war on nerds
I just call them out on their shit
how arrogant is that
I just try to keep them honest
I do think that they should
teach nerds how to fight
rather than trying to stop bullying
because you're not going to end bullying
you know
it's like I started watching the
the ultimate fighter
where they have these
the women fighters now
and I'm telling
when I watch
when I watch those women fight
I get like
like psyched for
going like I hope some pervert
tries to grab her ass
like I hope a rapist
like I would never wish that
on any of them
but for the love of God
the next time a rapist
tries to rape a woman
a woman
a woman
like if she has
the fucking skills
that the women on the
the ultimate fighter
I mean it's just going to be
it's just going to be a great day
for humanity
you got to see that show
dude these women
like for the most part
they spar with men
because I don't think there's
enough women in the sport
or whatever
so these guys are kind of
half assing it
and the women are going like
it's you know
it's okay to hit me in the face
I'm just sitting there like
watching the guy fighter
still pulling his punches
it just goes against everything
that you were taught
and everything that is just
right in the world
to ball your fist up
and actually swing
and punch a woman
is just like
I just don't think Christmas
would ever be the same after that
like it would just be something
you just would lose something
but anyways
I mean they
I can tell you
without a doubt
every woman on that show
would beat the living shit
out of me
I wouldn't have a prayer
there's nothing you can do
once that makes martial arts
you know
if a woman boxer
you have a chance
you can out wear
and you can just fucking
just
shoot her legs
and fucking put her on her back
and just smother her
with a pillow from the couch
right
you got a shot
but that UFC shit
you take her to the ground
and then what
then they're going to fucking
put you in an arm bar
they're going to choke you out
it's going to be over
so of course me
being a guy
being a fucking pig
I of course got to look at them
in a sexual way
and I'm like going like
alright
how do you rock that girl's world
in the fucking bedroom
and I don't mean the girly ones
I mean the fucking ones that are like
the one who's a champion
the heavyweight champion or whatever
like I don't know what her name is
but that one
I was just sitting there going
alright
what would she like in bed
that's going to go
she is going to go one way or the other
she is either exactly
what
you think she is
you know
like the fucking Chicago Bears
they're exactly
we thought they were
we let him off the hook
she's either exactly
what you think she's going to be
well she's going to be dominant
in fucking holding you down
slash scaring the shit out of you
wondering if she's going to
rip your dick off
or
I would actually bet
I don't know
if you went the other way
that she would actually be submissive
she'd be so sick of beating the shit
out of guys
down in the octagon
that she would actually
almost like one of those fucking
Wall Street guys
that's calling all the shots
and then it just gets so fucking sick
of dominating the entire fucking planet
that late at night
goes to one of those S&M things
and gets on a swing
with one of those orange balls in his mouth
I don't fucking know
but that's the shit I think of
when I watch that show
you should definitely watch
The Ultimate Fighter
dude they had this woman
she looked like a fucking librarian
or you know
this nerd
she lost
but I just thought it was fucking awesome
just looking at her going like
look at that woman
you would have no clue
you'd have no clue
that you know
if you talk some shit to her
that she would just start
raining elbows down on you
I just think it's amazing
it's really fucking amazing
anyways let's get on with the
so I guess I ruined the podcast
for this guy
I gotta read the last paragraph here
he says
also it might be a good idea
to watch the movie
and record your reactions
oh dude I can't sit through that shit
it's too fucking long
he goes there's a scene
where a wizard called
Radigast
Radigast the brown
is being chased by wargs
big wolves
riding a sleigh
pulled by bunny rabbits
dude this movie like
I would think that
more like people who were into hallucinogens
would actually watch this movie
because that actually sounds
fucking pretty amazing
he says Gandalf goes
you can't outrun these wargs
they are vermillion wargs
the other wizard actually responds
there are
oh these are
and then he says in parenthesis
some corny fantasy place
rabbits
I'd like to see them try
oh so he goes
you can't outrun the war
these wargs
they are vermillion wargs
and he says
well these are littleapution rabbits
I'd like to see them try
that's actual fucking dialogue
he goes and then they actually zoom in
on his face with a look
of pseudo badass determination
you know what dude
I think I'm going to watch that movie
I think I'll eat up like a fucking pot cookie
maybe I'll watch it
I don't want to do that though
I don't want to put that on YouTube
me fucking high
giggling like a fucking schoolgirl
watching some wizard on a fucking rabbit
I don't want to do that
publicly
I don't want to do that publicly
alright Carrie Underwood
she's a singer right
he said I recently listened to your podcast
or is that one of those guys with a woman name
you know like that Shamar guy
whatever the fuck his name is
does the hair products
and also acts in movies
doesn't he
I can't fucking name this
he goes I recently listened to your podcast
concerning the song Before He Cheats
by Carrie Underwood
very funny by the way
you might be interested to know how she has a new song
she has a new song out that takes that theme
to a completely new level
in the song Two Black Cadillacs
a woman discovers her husband is cheating on her
apparently the mistress didn't realize he was married
because she and the wife collaborate on murdering the guy
not just destroying his truck and humiliating him
in front of a new girl
they end the guy's life
here are a few lines from the end of the song
alright it says yeah they took turns
laying a rose down
through a handful of dirt deep into the ground
he's not the only one who had a secret to hide
so I'm thinking about writing my own country song
the title might be something like
Cold Dinner Raw Knuckles
yeah well you know
that's one of those double standards that
you understand why it exists
you know it's not like women go around
killing guys all the fucking time
and it really comes to violence
guys do it more to women
than the other way around
and it's one of the things that makes it
being a guy funny
because if a woman actually
like right to the point of like cutting
getting your dick cut off by a woman
like it's just considered funny
like well dude she cut your dick off
like other guys just think it's hilarious
we're not gonna wear pink
you know for all the guys who got their dicks
fucking sliced off and thrown in a garbage disposal
well not we're just gonna laugh at you
whatever you know what I really hear
I really don't hear that as an anti-man thing
I hear somebody who's struggling to find a follow-up hit
and is going back to the well
possibly one too many times
but then again I listen to AC DC
and they had like three or four themes
that they have been doing for 40 years
and I think they sound better than ever
right they sing about their balls
the devil women in electricity
and it's work for them
so good for her
maybe next one will be like
the guy comes back like a zombie
and she has a relationship with a zombie
and then he cheats on her
and then I don't know what she does
however you kill a fucking zombie
and they have to watch Lord of the Rings
to figure that one out
advice on having a baby
she had a baby man she had a baby
advice on having a baby
hey Bill I need some advice
you're talking to me what the fuck
I'm nowhere near that
he said my wife and I are both 27 years old
she's a graduate from college and working
I'm getting a master's degree
and will not be done for another two and a half years
the issue is she is getting to the point
where she wants to have a baby
not now but some
but sometime right after I graduate
I on the other hand am not wanting
a baby anytime soon
but
no but by the time I graduate
I will have been in college for nearly eight years
after I graduate
my wife and I will have a dual
income of well over a hundred grand a year
I grew up in a family
in a fairly poor family I worked hard
to get my schooling so I want to enjoy the rewards
I want a nice apartment
nice things and to travel the world
if we just start having kids
we won't be able to travel
and if we just have kids right after
I graduate I'll go from a life of stress
from school to a life of stress from
parenthood but I understand my wife's concern
if we wait until
we are 33 or 34 to start having kids
we could have some trouble conceiving
and if it takes
us too long she could give birth
to mentally challenged child
which does run in my family
Jesus Christ dude this is one of the more serious ones
I love my wife
and plan on being with her
the rest of my life it's just a shame
that my goals are to travel and have nice things
and her goals are to start a family
so what do you think Bill any advice
that's some pretty heavy shit there
well I don't understand why when you're
you're
going to school right now that you guys
can't save up a little
bit of money and go to Aruba for a few days
you can do little mini ones
you know what I mean
I think there's a way to kind of do both
and
I think if you express all your concerns
to your wife
and just say look I don't want to be that
couple that just goes from school to having kids
and then once we have kids all we do
is just
do the kid thing
I don't know dude
I don't know what to tell you
here
fuck
I definitely understand
I mean you went from a life of poverty to
a life of school and then you're going to go
to a life of being a parent when do you
actually get to sit back
and enjoy a nice flat screen TV
watching some sports or maybe go
travel in Europe or something like that
look dude
you could do this you could have a kid
I don't know how close
you are with you know the parents on either
side
I think you can have your cake and eat it
why don't you just have a fucking kid
and then also save up
for a fucking
10 day trip somewhere
through
through Europe
and then just make a pact
with your wife and just say listen once every
two years
or once every whatever
I want to
go on a trip and we'll leave the kid
behind or the kids behind
my parents did that
they went to Vegas and my grandparents came
to time it was great we ended up
developing a relationship with our grandparents
it was a good thing and it was also good
socially
it was good for us as kids to have
a different sort of disciplinary
dynamic
Jesus Christ I remember I tested my grandmother too
and she broke a fucking wooden spoon would have been over
my head but I got my arm up and I blocked it
I kept messing I saw her
the way we were renting this
we lived in a duplex
when I was a kid for a certain
number of years and
the way we had it set up
was
it went kitchen, living room
and then dining room so you had to walk
through the living room we kind of altered the living room
and kitchen a couple of times
trying to figure out which was best
and this was just a period
where there was it went kitchen
and then we had the living room
and then we were using
the other room as a dining room so anyways
there was this old shitty rug
and there was a hole in it so my mother
had put a throw rug over the hole
on the floor so I saw my grandmother
walk by
through the living room and she was setting the table
and she saw
the throw rug was messed up
and I just heard her mumble to herself
she said now why does this keep getting messed up
so
she walked into the
kitchen that was literally my cue
she straightened out walked into the kitchen so I said alright
fuck so I got off the couch and I messed it up
and went over and I went back and I sat down
so then she comes walking out with
dishes or the food and she sees it again
she goes now what just happened
I just straightened this out
so she straightens it out
goes into the dining room walks back into the kitchen
and then I got up and I messed it up again
she came third time sees it again
and she doesn't fucking say anything
which should have been a warning to me
so she straightened it out and then she
walked into the kitchen
and turned the corner
and I got back up again to go mess it up
and right as I'm grabbing it to mess it up
I hear this
stomp and she took a quick
step back and look back out right in the middle
of it saw me messing it up
and she just had this wooden
spoon in her hand
and just came fucking flying at me
like
if it was an axe I wouldn't be here if it was a hatchet
I would have been dead she gave me like Billy Bob
when she fucking when he kills that country singer
right came flying at me
I just remember crouching down and putting my arm up
and it
it fucking snapped in half over my forearm
she had this
look of anger on her face slammed it down
snapped it over my arm and then she just
after it snapped she just went
wow that's the end of that spoon
and then she just walked back out into the kitchen
and that was it so I think that's a good thing
if they stay
with their grandparents I think you can do both
I think as a couple
if you really sit down and you say what's important to you
you know
and this is very easy for me to say
not having
a child
and having it completely consume your life
who knows your priorities might change
or whatever but there's also something to say too
that if you start early
I mean if you started now
your 27 your kid would be 18 when you're 45
my age right now and then you can
travel
you know 45
kids out of college by the time you're 49
then you have your golden years 50
60 70s 80s depending on how
you eat right and your juice
you can live right up to fucking 90
and you can go see the goddamn world but
there's no reason why you can't do that right now
even though that you're in school
there's no reason why you can't go to Puerto Rico
or go to Hawaii
there's some beautiful cities up in
Canada you know
Vancouver Toronto Montreal
is fucking tremendous
there's all beautiful
cities here in the States there's all kinds of things
that you can do and you can do them
really cheaply when you don't have any kids
dude literally
just backpack it just put a backpack on
stay in fucking hostels who gives
a fuck
you know
just go I would just say go and do it
I would just yeah do it now
do it now
but I think that you can do both and
I also say everybody I know who's ever had
a kid has never regretted it
never ever regretted it so
you know I but I think it's also
important that if you do something like that to
to not lose yourself and all of it
alright there I've said my piece
alright continuing on here
alcohol problem
hey Bill love the podcast watching you stand up
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I'm a 25 year old male
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alcohol problem
hey Bill
I love the podcast
anyways I am 25 year old male
and I'm starting to come to terms with the fact
I have an alcohol problem
I drink 6 days a week
and black out at least once a week
all right well
the only saving grace you have is your 25
so
you might just be a little immature
I don't know if you're an actual alcoholic
but I love this
it says I drink 6 days a week
the nights I get really drunk
I really regret doing it
and regret my actions
nothing serious just phone
or text conversations I have with people
I've considered going to AA
but never have gone through with it
I finally quit smoking 2 months ago
and I'm worried if I try to quit drinking now
I will start going crazy
I know you have always mentioned
you are stupid but I honestly agree
with all the advice you give out
well thank you
my question is do you think I should try
and quit cold turkey
or are there any other options I can take
one of my concerns with quitting completely
is that most of my friends drink
and go out on weekends
and I don't want to risk losing
all of my social life
and seeing
me friends
get all Irish there and seeing me friends
appreciate the advice
alright dude all I can do
is just tell you
what has worked for me when I'm not drinking
and
um
the first 2-3 days are brutal
because all you've gone
is 2-3 days and there's definitely that feeling
of well if I drink now I can start over again
I'm just trying to make up 3 days
but if you can get through the first 2-3 days
once you get to the fourth day
it's like alright I got a nice little streak going here
like I'm up to 6 days right now
and um
one of the hardest things to do
is when you go out socially
with people
but I found that
all you have to do
all I have to do because I don't know how to do it
if you're a full on alcoholic
and you have the disease it might be harder for you
and you really should probably
I would say talk to a recovered alcoholic
but if you're like me
all it takes
is going out to the bar that first time
and everybody's drinking
and you just order a
I try to stay away from soda
and club soda because then
that shit's not good for either
and I usually just order the cranberry juice
and deal with the departed
well what are you on your period
jokes that everybody does
I usually just go I don't even do cranberry and soda
I just do cranberry juice straight up with a lime
and I just sort of nurse that
and then um
I just kind of drink waters
you're actually
you just got to do that that one night
and then you've kind of set up
a new social experience
that you're comfortable with and you can still go out
and I got to tell you
you get a distinct advantage
when you're sober and everybody else is basically
getting fucked up because
they kind of
first of all it's really entertaining to watch people
just sort of roofy themselves
and you get
through watching their behavior
you get to see all the dumb things that you've done
um so you get to
um
without judging your friends you just sort of get to be like
wow I was doing that I was doing that
especially with alcohol I always say
judgments the first thing to go
and um
I don't know I think you also have a better chance
of meeting um
a really nice woman if you're the
sober one because you're going to come off
as responsible
and also if your friends are also hitting on her
and they're all sloppy drunk
you're going to look even better yourself so
I would
you know if you're not feeling AA
which I understand if you just
try uh
what it is
I don't know I have to replace the
activity
like this week I decided
you know that I was going to stop
drinking so then what I did was
I dove in to play in drums
and I'm doing that
that Mike Johnston 10 days
to faster hands work out
so I just sort of
replace
you know
like at night
I just sort of like okay I'll go downstairs
and I'll do the practice pad thing
and
you know I started working out
he just
you know what it is dude
you gotta replace
the time that you're drinking and doing
dumb shit with shit that's also
fun but you're sober doing it
because
for me it's like if I just don't drink
and I'm just sitting around doing nothing
that's going to make me want to drink
because it's just like well I usually go out and drink and have fun
right now but if I'm actually
doing something else
um like went out and I saw a movie
last night you just
you fill up the time dude learn how
to cook there's all kinds of
you learn a fucking second language
there's all kinds of things that like you know basically
you're in your 20s right now
and uh you know you're trying to appeal
to the opposite sex here
so you know if you can add some shit to your game
you're going to move up in the draft you're going to get a better woman here
if you're fucking bilingual what woman
doesn't like that you're sober
and responsible she's going to like that
who knows you learn to play a couple of songs on a flamenco
guitar take it around on a fucking
rowboat you're in there
bunch of grit nothing bad comes
from becoming sober other than
you are bored shitless
but your head gets smaller
because you drop all that booze away
I'm telling you you won't regret it
you definitely won't regret it um
but like I said if you got the disease in that thing
you might you're going to need more professional help
and I would actually seek out a fellow
alcoholic
um
and then I would use AA
and all of that shit you
you know
I don't know I'm just a control freak
so I would have to use it in a way
that worked for me
you know I'm not going to be standing
down there smoking cigarettes eating donuts
you know talking to those people
with their yellow fingers and shit
like I couldn't do it that way
I got buddies of mine they go every once
in a while they go to a meeting
you know like the way I go to church
every once in a fucking once a year
they'll do it whatever works for you but
nothing bad ever comes from
cleaning up your act so
uh
I hope that helps you
alright okay that's the podcast
for this week everybody
um
I'm off the road again this week
I'm definitely going to be around um
work I might have a surprise show out here
in LA where I'm actually going to be
you know working on my act
possibly next week I think
there's rumors that I might be doing a full hour
at a local comedy club
and um
I make sure I'm on my game when I do
DC, New York and Upper Dobby
um
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for this week once again I'll be down
Lago on La Cienega
just north of Beverly Boulevard
and uh
I'm going to be doing this great benefit
I love doing benefits because I'm a piece of
shit god knows I need to work on my karma
lord knows that
so I get to go down and help a wonderful cause
that helps out uh
you know come on helps out pit bulls
what's better than a dog isn't that right Cleo
Cleo come over here come here Cleo
she's sleeping
Cleo Dio
hey
she's out like a light
um I'm boring her with
my podcast alright that's it alright everybody
go fuck yourselves I'll talk to you next
week and uh if you haven't watched
the world series yet uh it's a dandy
two games a piece one more
game in St. Louis oh you know what I didn't talk about
I know that
the world series has always been
two three two I always
feel like
I always just feel like the three in the middle
what would you rather have if you were managing
the team
would you I just feel like the advantage
goes to the team with the lesser record with those
three in the middle even though overall
four out of seven games
you're gonna be
on the road
I just feel like the way it's broken up
you just sort of spend a weekend
in Boston and then you host
a homestand
right you got three straight
games you can sleep in your own bed
eat your own food fucking chill out
and then if need be you
go back and you deal with another weekend
they break it up nicely
um
and I feel like the two three
two it just gives the team with the lesser record
home field advantage through the first five games
it makes games one and two a must win
for the team with the better record
but uh
I don't know maybe that's just me
my anxiety as a fan
and maybe professional athletes could they don't give a shit
but I've always found that
weird like I
liked when the NBA used to do two two one one one
um
it seemed fairer but I think the athletes
didn't like to travel
they gotta lug all that TV equipment I don't know
they just just wanted to think about it
alright so that's the deal everybody
that's the podcast for this week
go fuck yourselves I'll talk to you next week
goodbye
thank you