Monday Morning Podcast - Monday Morning Podcast 8-25-14
Episode Date: August 25, 2014Bill rambles about the Bob Seger breakdown, skull tattoos and cutting out a frog's liver....
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I'm going to apologize to the members of the band Chicago
because last week I actually credited the doobie brothers with that wonderful hit
Say in the Park.
Right?
So my apologies.
I've always confused those two bands.
There was always something about Chicago.
They were amazing musicians, but there was just something fucking, I don't know what it was,
depressing about their sound to me.
And then after those Terry Catt years, then it was the Peter Cetera years,
and then it just kind of went all like, you know, really high-pitchy.
I'm trying to think this song.
I just remember Stay the Night.
I like that video on MTV.
Stay the night, I want to spend it with you.
And then there was some, oh wait, how the fuck did that one go?
Something hard as skin getting used to.
Ah shit, I don't fucking remember.
I don't know why, you know, I bought that stupid, easy listening rock shit,
so all that crap is in my fucking head now.
I woke up this morning, boo-doo-boo-doo-boo,
and all I hear in my head is just fucking like,
yee-ba-da-ba-ba-da-doo-ba-da-bee,
and something about this boat that sunk.
They went out on the lake and they were delivering Oreos,
and then there was a big fucking wave.
Mark Wahlberg went into the water.
George Clooney stayed in the fucking boat.
Why does every fucking song about the sea have to be in three-four time?
Yah-da-da-dee-dee-dee, one-doo-dee-wee-da-da-wee-ba-ba-bee,
is that one three-four?
I don't know what the fuck it is, that shit,
they just make you feel like you're rocking.
You know, sometimes the sea is nice and smooth,
okay, Billy Joel, and all you motherfucking cunts out there,
you ever, you never been out on a boat
and the water looked like glass, that's four-four time.
You got to sit there rocking, back and forth getting seasick in the crowd,
and you're talking about a goddamn seagull?
As you finish off another jack and coke.
Yah-da-da-dee-dee-da-wee-da-wee-da-wee-da-wee-da-wee,
a shark's got a black fucking dolly.
Even just one of the reasons my jaws were so amazing was,
you know, you had the actor playing Quint,
his old salty dog, right?
And even then, what are they saying?
They're doing a drinking song.
Show me the way to go home, boom, boom,
I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
Yeah, regular calming time.
Now, shouldn't you been out there going,
show me the way to go home?
I ain't fucking, shut up.
With your fucking peg leg,
you go get a prosthetic.
Why don't you come ashore?
Who is she, captain?
Who are you running from?
Are you gonna stay out at sea for the rest of your life,
jerking off the mermaids?
Are you gonna come ashore and try and catch another bus?
It's okay.
Come here, you can cry it out.
You can put your one patch on my shoulder.
Um, I was just gonna ask a fucked up question.
You know, if you lose an eye,
when you cry to tears still come out of both eyes?
The tear duct isn't exactly the eyeball, is it?
Hi, do you know me?
I never took a science class in my life,
or an anatomy class.
They didn't have that shit when I was,
well they had some of the science classes
and I fucking steered clear of them.
Okay, once you were past junior high
and you didn't get to turn on a Bunsen burner,
you know, that was the only fun thing.
I remember taking one class and it's like,
you know, I'm fucking doing like open heart surgery
with a dead frog and it's just like, I don't want to do this.
This frog had to die so I could hack it up.
This fucking dog, dog, this frog
was having a great god damn time.
Right?
Hopping around the Christmas tree,
yeah, but open heart out, boo, right?
Jumping around the fucking swamp,
eating flies, you know, that's what it likes to do.
That's like Fritos for a fucking amphibian.
Having a great fucking time
and then some douche comes along.
I don't even know how they killed the thing.
You know, they can't like fracture its little frog skull
because I got a, you know,
what do you call that when you cut open something that's dead?
Grave rubber, necrophilia?
Nah, that's not it, that's not it.
Autopsy?
Like I'm on law and order?
I don't know.
Probably shot it with like a poisonous dart.
You ever really look into the eyes of a frog?
You ever look at the fucking,
the way it holds its mouth?
You know, it's just like that fucking dude just,
he's trying to blend in.
He's not hurting anybody.
He's not the quarterback, he's not the burnout.
He's just filler in the class photo.
Can't you let him be?
So next thing you know, they fucking whack him
and then here I am trying to cut this thing open.
I got the whole thing up and I got a D minus on it.
You know, I should have honored that frog
and at least got an A
taking out its fucking liver.
Um...
Anyways, what have I been doing?
I had a wonderful week.
I want to thank everybody who came out to the oddball tour.
15,000 strong
coming out to the...
to Jones Beach, whatever the fuck they call the...
that's the...
amazing arena out there.
I'm not going to call it by the stupid
Best Buy, whatever fucking name they give it.
But...
I don't know, man.
You know what's funny is I haven't done one of those shows
in a long time.
In a long time.
And I always go back to the virus tour in my head.
I always think, I don't like doing shows at night
outside
with tens of thousands of fucking people here
because they act like, you know,
they act like animals.
And which really wasn't the case
on the virus tour.
They just acted like animals on the last two dates that I did.
And the second show was imitating the first show.
So it was really just the one show.
But what it was on the virus tour was you knew that show was coming.
You just didn't know when.
It feels like when you're creeping through a fucking house
and there's an axe murderer.
You don't know what room he's in, but you know he's in the house.
And at some point, somebody's going to try to fucking swing an axe at your head.
That was basically the virus tour.
And so I think whenever I go to do those,
I kind of have like my fucking comedy Vietnam flashback.
And...
I don't know.
And I went out there and I was pleasantly surprised.
The crowd was unbelievable.
Like 15,000 people.
And you could take them wherever you wanted to go.
I actually brought them down at one point.
I brought them down.
You know, like a song.
For the little breakdown, the Bob Seager part,
where he fucking sings about how many years went by.
All right, 20 years, where'd they go?
20 years, I don't know.
Where'd they go?
Yeah, you do, Bob. They went up your nose.
You're out there having a fucking orgy.
Yeah, the decades kind of fly by
when you live in the rock style lifestyle.
Can you stop bringing us down?
You're supposed to be up there
acting like you're having the time of your life,
remembering everything.
Don't fucking come down to my level in the crowd
and tell me that you're also wondering
what the fuck you're doing with your life.
You know what that says to me, Bob?
There's no hope.
Anyways,
so I was on,
arguably one of the best fucking lineups I've ever been on.
At least since I did the virus tours
back in the day.
You guys want to compare?
You want to compare stand-up lineups?
Let's start a fucking internet lineup.
I mean, argument here, with the lineups of both shows.
This is like arguing Super Bowl teams.
Who would you rather have doing?
Would you rather have the 85 beers?
The fucking 79 Steelers?
Or any team with Tom Brady on it.
I just fucking threw that out there
because so many people fucking hate him.
His cleft chin.
Tom Brady has an ass on his chin
and he fucks this giddy chick
from Brazil.
Um...
I'm sorry.
You know what's great about three, four time?
I want to stay where you write it
because anything sounds important.
I scratched my bowls
and I brushed my damn teeth.
I'm sorry.
I brush my damn teeth.
All right, so back in the day.
That virus tour.
The Philly Show.
As much as I can remember of it.
Which was a long time ago.
Which by the way, there's been more goddamn
horseshit written about that show.
Some fucking guy wrote all this
all this fucking bullshit
about what happened that night
when I got booed.
And I actually tweeted back to him
the correct story
and then he just retweets it.
Nothing means anything to anybody.
No, oh hey, sorry, I got it wrong.
This dude tried to say
that Bobby Kelly got booed before me.
Dom got booed before me.
And then I was standing backstage
standing backstage
with Opie and Anthony and I said
they ain't doing that to me.
Like I'm fucking Popeye.
I ain't had my needle spinach here.
Everything comes back to the seat.
Popeye the sailor man.
The fucking sailor.
There's another dude fucking a skinny bitch.
All right.
What's with these heroes?
They don't like hips.
You don't like some thighs there?
Little thoroughbred prancing down the fucking road.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
Bobby had a great set that night.
Dom, they booed for like 30 seconds
and he just told him to shut up
and he goes, why would you think I would ever leave?
And I was sitting backstage
going, I don't want to fucking do this.
Nervous as hell.
And then I went out there
and I opened with a bad cell phone joke.
And then they started booing me
and then what happened?
And then Jim Norton went out after me
and never addressed it and fucking killed.
That is what happened.
The first guy got booed
at seven o'clock
and then everybody else had good sets
and then I got booed
like three hours later.
All right.
That's what happened.
That is what happened, okay?
For the final fucking time. That is what happened.
I can't stand you anymore.
I hurt me, T.
No, it was realized backstage.
I don't want to do this, man.
I didn't need to be here.
I was like that dude in platoon.
I got a bad feeling about this one, man.
So there you go.
So the lineup that night,
I will not name the other person who got booed
because I'm a fucking class act over here
who knows.
It was...
Let me see if I can remember.
Tracy Morgan.
Bob Saget.
Ralphie May.
Bobby Kelly.
Don Myrera.
Patrice O'Neill.
Myself.
Jim Norton.
That's who I remember
was on that show.
What a fucking lineup that is, huh?
Patrice, the greatest comic of,
you know, my generation
as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, that's just,
that's fucking murderers' row right there.
And I came out like Neil O'Donnell.
Oh, shit.
All right, and then last week,
last weekend,
I went on a show
and we had...
Sarah Silverman.
Hannibal Burris.
Louis C.K.
David Tell.
Myself.
Jeff Ross.
Uh...
Chris Hardwick.
And, uh,
who else was on that show?
Oh, some younger comic and I fucked up.
What the fuck's his name?
The young, the youngster there.
And the youngster there,
the rookie, the young fella there.
Right?
Who do you like?
Who do you like better?
That was a fucking both shows.
You know what I mean? Come on.
Those are two of the sickest shows I've ever been on.
So anyways, I went out there,
um, and it was unreal.
And of course, like a fucking asshole,
I didn't get a picture with anybody backstage.
What an asshole.
At one point, I'm talking
to Louis and Dave,
like, two of my biggest stand-up heroes.
And I got a fucking
iPhone on me.
And I never thought to be like,
hey, let's get a picture.
I never thought to do that.
Now, I don't know all these next weekend,
I'm doing more of them
to pay for the
fucking money pit.
I don't want to get into that.
I'm not even going to get into that,
because there's no comedy left in this fucking project.
Oh, Jesus.
I'm going to go downstairs,
and I'm not going to have any money to re-furnish it.
And I'm just going to stand down there.
And in the echo, I'm just going to start weeping.
Um, never again.
Never again.
I understand why nobody did shit to this fucking house,
because to try to fix it is ridiculously expensive.
And I am, I am,
I am fucking down with it.
So anyways, I, uh, I went out there,
I had a great time.
I was trying out new material and, uh,
it was such a cool, I didn't even realize
how cool the venue was until somebody
took a picture from the upper deck,
the upper deck, a fucking comedy show.
How that, that venue,
I'll actually, uh, I'll tweet it out,
um,
on the Monday morning podcast, Twitter,
uh, handle there, whatever the fuck
you could say at the MM podcast.
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following. We're already up to 10,000 followers.
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We can start a church.
You guys will start calling me father.
Um, right.
I'll grow a long white beard and I'll start
banging everybody who fucking, you know,
everybody who's there.
That's what you do when you can't,
when you can't play an instrument,
when you can't tell jokes
and you still want to fuck everything
that's moved. So your only other option
is, other than hookers,
is you, you have to start a religion.
That's basically what you do.
And you tell people what they want to hear
and you bring them in
and you tell them that there's this higher
thing and it cares about them. It's going to help
them and, but I'm the direct root
to it. You talk to me and I'll talk to
it and I know it.
It loves me and it, whatever
I say, it's going to listen to and I'm
kind of it. You know what I mean? I'm kind of it,
but it's it, but I'm kind of that thing and
you know, I'm it. I'm the guy. I'm Jesus.
I'm the father, the son.
I'm the fucking Alpha and the Omega.
I'm the fucking
Foxtrot and the fucking X-ray, right?
Next thing you know,
you're blowing Jesus.
All right.
So,
so we went ahead and we did the,
we do the gig
and I
flew into New York Friday for the gig
six a.m. flight and then
I flew back
eight a.m. Saturday.
I like,
I landed at like three
o'clock,
jumped in a cab,
traffic all the way in
to lower Manhattan. Soho
dropped my bags, jumped in the shower,
got ready,
ran downstairs, got in
the van, went out, did the gig,
came back, smoked a cigar
with Verzi, stayed out till
four in the morning, went right to the fucking
airport and that was, that was it.
I got to tell you, I had two of the greatest
fucking transcontinental flights I
ever had. I go to the
airport, right? Six a.m.
and I'm sitting there
like a fucking zombie, right?
And there's a guy sitting
like two seats over.
He's sitting there like
you know those people, they don't
sit on their ass. They kind of sit
on their lower back and then the back
of their neck is at the top of the chair.
He was sitting there and his shirt was
up and he was showing his middrift for whatever
fucking reason. So I want to take
a picture of this guy subtly, you know
not show his head, just so his awful belly
sitting there. This fucking
legs at a 45 degree angle and
I want to, you know, it's going to text one of my
hashtag animal photos, right?
And of course, right as they get the phone
out, he drops his shirt down. I'm like, God damn
it. You know?
And I'm hating life. I'm tired of shit.
And all of a sudden the lady
at the desk just goes
Mr. William Barrett, could you please
approach the fucking desk here please?
So I got
shit. What are they going to say?
They gave my fucking seat away and now I'm sitting
on the toilet in the back and I walked up
and they bumped me up
to first class, first
folk and clay-ish. So I get on
the plane and it's
those first class seats that are
diagonal that fold all the way down
into a bed.
So the second way airborne
I fold this thing down into the bed
or unfold it, I should say.
Put on my little sleep mask
and just fucking pass out.
I wake up three and a half
hours later
put the thing back up. I ask
if there's any breakfast left. They say yes
there is. I got some yogurt
granola and a fucking egg and
spinach, quiche
whatever the fuck it is. It was delicious
and then I watched Mike Tyson's
One Man Show and the second it
ended we fucking landed.
It was perfect.
By the way
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Okay, anyways, let's get back to the Mike
Tyson One Man Show. If you haven't seen it,
I highly recommend it.
It's...
I don't know, it's Mike Tyson
telling his story. And what
I loved about it
was...
there was times you love the guy,
times you were like, I don't know
about this guy, times you felt
he was being sincere, and then other
times you're like, this guy's, you know,
as he says, he was a hustler
and I'm just sitting there going, is he doing
that right now to me? And in the
end...
you know, you don't know.
It was...
I don't know, it was just a really...
First of all, what killed me
I think Mitch Green or whatever the fuck
the name that... Remember that guy
he punched in the eye and closed his eye.
He tells the whole fucking story
and acts out the other guy
wearing a Jerry Curl wig
and
just sit down and watch it
and tell me you don't see Charlie Murphy
on the Chappelle show.
You know, and Dave Chappelle doing the
Charlie Murphy talking about fighting
Rick James. I'm telling you, his story
could literally be the sequel.
All I kept picturing was Dave
Chappelle reenacting this fight
this epic fucking
street fight that started
in a store, ends up
out in the street
fucking
with the other dude on top of Tyson's car
and Tyson just
giving up boxing and I was just
kicking the guy as they're both on the ground.
I mean, it was an unbelievable story
and fucking hilarious and I was
sitting there going, why is this guy
so there was a style with which
that he tells that story that was very reminiscent
of the way Charlie Murphy tells
the story and then I'm like, well these guys are like
within five years of each other
and they both grew up in Brooklyn
around the same time and
I don't know, it's one of my favorite things
that I've seen in a while. Granted, I was laying
in a bed in first class
eating a spinach and egg quiche.
You know, you know
Judah Freelander
said to me one time, I watched some movie
and I was like, you know
I was on the plane, you know what I watched?
I watched whatever movie and it was a movie that got bad reviews
and I thought it was good.
I thought it was a good movie
and he just starts laughing and I was like, what?
He goes, Bill, every movie is a good
movie when you're on an airplane.
He's like, you're on an airplane. You fucking hate life.
You put this thing on and it eats up an hour
and a half of your life. I'm like, all right
fair enough, fair enough, but I got to
say this, the Tyson One Man
show which was done on HBO
shot by Spike Lee
you know what's funny about Spike Lee is
how he always trashes Tarantino
about, you know, the characters dropping the
N words and that type of stuff. If you want to see
something funny is how
Spike Lee views Italians
like
if Italians could be in black
face, like they should be
in his movies. They always like, oh what
are you fucking doing?
Hey, you got some
they're always wearing track suits
it's ridiculous. I just watched
Summer of Sam which I really like that movie
but I had to hit mute
when they were fucking showing
the Italians when they were sitting down at that
dead end street
it looked like a fucking
bad musical from like
1953
so you know, I think he's got some work
to do himself
let me get some fucking spaghetti
all right, sorry
that's my little criticism
there's nothing better than somebody who's never
made a fucking movie himself, never written one
or anything, now I'm going to sit there criticizing
one of the top directors out there, right?
but anyways, he directed that
and I really enjoyed it
so check it out if you get a chance
hey, you know a movie I wanted to see and I didn't get a chance
to see anything
I was going to fucking
go see Planet of the Apes and root against the apes
as I was in the first one
I fucking hated
hated James Franco's character
in that first one
I couldn't stand like
I saw it with Nia and we're sitting there
and once he gave that fucking
he gave that fucking ape
like pants and sneakers and shit
you know, it was just like
dude, what are you doing?
what the fuck, what are you doing?
you're talking to an ape
don't give it pants
alright
you can't have to
think fucking dressing as good as you are
Jesus Christ
didn't you learn anything
from the British
how they built their empire
that little shit ass fucking little island
out there ran the fucking world
how did they do it?
divide and conquer
alright, you don't get to wear shoes
anybody at this level
gets shoes but no pants
then the very best of all of you
who get to this level
get shoes and pants
that's what they did
and then the people with no shoes
hated the people with shoes
that's what you do
you don't go into your fucking closet
hey chimpanzee
go ahead, pick yourself out of suit
we're going out of the track
like fucking Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke
and
King of Prince Street
whatever the fucking name that movie was
the fuck was the name of that movie
the Pope of Greenwich Village
sometimes I watch a movie
and I go for the ride
and there's other times like people just do shit
that's just so fucking dumb
it's just like I don't have any sympathy for it
you should get your face ripped off
fucking sitting there
you don't give a laptop to a monkey
what's wrong with you
okay
think of all the shit we've done to him
you can teach him how to drive a car
like how does that end well
so I didn't see the second one
I'll go to the one where we fucking defeat him
I'm a fair weather fan when it comes to those eight movies
when the humans win
I'll come back and I'll watch that one
you know I'll come by for the playoffs
playoffs
anyway so after we do the
after we do the gig
right out there at Jones Beach
you know I'm trying to get back
to
to New York as quickly as I can
so I can fucking go
smoke this cigar with Verzi
before I jump on a plane in like fucking three hours
so
hardwick had a car
so he goes
hey man he goes I'm going to hang and watch the set
we can ride back to the city together
I'm like perfect so I go out
do my set fucking unbelievable crowd
had a great time
it was like oddly like intimate
it felt like a small crowd that crowd was so fucking amazing
and
you know thank Christ
I didn't bomb I had a great set
I got out of there
said goodbye didn't take any pictures like an asshole
so I jump in the car
with hardwick and they gave us
a police escort swear to God
out of the venue
and up to the highway but this is what's funny
this show is still going on
so there's
completely no need for this
and we are basically driving through
a full parking lot with nobody in our way
with a police car
with its lights flashing
and we sat there laughing going
are we wasting taxpayer money right now
and we're like
well I mean they were hired here anyway
so they were already hired for the event
it's like what about the gas and the cruiser
so there you go I got my first
police escort
you know and there was nobody there to witness it
other than me and hardwick
and our driver I swear to God
it happened it happened
it took me 22 years in this business
and it finally happened
just imagine
Beatlemania
if nobody gave a fuck
that's basically what we were experiencing
we had the nice car
we had the police escort
and other than the screaming
fans
there was just sort of
there was a guardrail
that's all I saw looking out the window
nobody saw it anyways
let's plow ahead here so then I get back to the city
and
I meet up with Verzi
another one of my buddies
Doug Sinyee
let me name names all over the place
two buddies of mine from the stand-up world
and we go to this cigar bar
and have the time of our life
and both of them were golfers
and they heard what the fuck I said on my podcast
or whatever so we just start
we just start going back and forth
and back and forth and back and forth
arguing this golf point
and I think I can actually make my point
beatle
I guess
clearer
and it's basically
why I consider golf an activity
a difficult activity
absolutely mentally taxing activity
without a fucking doubt
I just feel like
you know when
you don't have to be any sort of cardio shape
like you can be in whatever shape you want to be
and still win
like a championship
you could be a fat fuck
and I know what you're going to say
oh what about those offensive linemen
they're fat fucks
fuck you they can run a 440
or a 5 flat 40
those are fucking athletes
and they are that size
like the way sumu wrestlers are
because they have to be that size
okay
they're told to get that fucking big
alright
Warren Sapp
at his biggest weight
could still fucking win dancing with the stars
okay you're talking an athlete here
still light on his toes there
alright I'm talking how
you can just be a complete non-athlete
you can not even throw a
fucking baseball
but you can be good at golf
or pool or bowling
I lump all of those together
they are
they are
they are activities
with elements of sport
it's like sport that you hit pause on
because there's no defender
you know what I mean
and then somebody just says
you know
Voss was saying
he goes dude the other day
I was out playing golf and I shot
I was shooting in the mid 80s
and he got excited about shooting
in the mid 80s and he goes next thing
he goes there's no other game where that happens
it's like yeah it does
not only does that happen in every other fucking game
he goes well you completely forget out of the play of the game
yes it does that happens in every other
sport and it happens in life
it happens in stand up
there's been stand up comics that have gone out
to do a late night talk show
got so fucking in their head
they forgot their act
it's called choking in the moment
you know
I don't know
I'm a great golfer because I don't give a shit
I don't respect the fucking game
so I would never get
in my head
oh my god I shot a 14
who gives a fuck I'm not even keeping score
I think that that's the dumb thing
if you start keeping score
it's like
you're playing cribbage out there
I just don't understand the whole fucking thing
I don't understand why people won't come to my way
of thinking of it why don't you think my way
we're arguing this fucking thing
and
just having a great time
and the night ends
Verzi drives me down back down to the hotel
we get out
I get a bacon egg and cheese
at like 4 in the morning
and then I walk into a Dunkin Donuts
and get a chocolate glazed donuts
by the way people I'm off the rails here
with the diet thing
and I'm starting to go back up again
so I decided this morning
I'm like I just have to step outside
because right now
I got the crack in me I got the sugar salt thing
look at that bacon egg and cheese
salt through the fucking roof
oh I want to donut I don't want to donut
nobody ever wants a fucking donut
unless there's salt through the fucking roof
and I shove that down my fucking pie hole
like Homer Simpson and then I go directly to bed
horrific
so that was the end of the night
just had a great time
and saw Verzi
he bought this you know
Verzi's a sedan guy right
because I was trying to convince him
I was saying one of the coolest cars out there right now
was the Mercedes Benz E63
AMG
Formatic station wagon
they made a station wagon
that goes 0 to 60
in like 3 and a half fucking seconds
to me you know
I got this like I love a fast car
but I love a car that doesn't look fast
that is fast a fucking sleeper
right did I talk about this last week
I can't remember
so I was trying to tell him why that car is the shit
and how funny it is
if he owned that fucking car
you know
if you're married with kids you know
and you pull up next to some punk and they see you there
with your fucking station wagon
and then you blow them off the line
you know groceries flying out the back end
and I'm German right
and that's the great thing about Germans
you know
is their fucking their ability
with science
is incredible you know
they're not the best at getting along with people
absolutely ok but
who the fuck makes a station wagon
that goes 0 to 60
in like 3.8 seconds
huh the fucking Germans
you gotta love
you know
you get that you get yourself some strudel
or a fucking Rubin there I mean what else do you need
sorry
sorry so anyways
he's got this four door sedan
man and I'm telling you it's a fucking badass car
but I kept
he's gotta get some rims on it
you know
so I said to him I was gonna bring it up
alright I'm gonna get
I'm gonna try to use the power
what little power I have on this podcast
to get Paul Verzi to get rid of his
his fucking
I'm a 55 year old
awful
old man awful rims on his car
so if you have a rim shot
a rim shot
a rim shot
it's a drumming thing
if you own a store
and you sell rims
can you hook my boy Verzi up
if you hook him up
if you give him a sweet heart of a fucking deal
ok
for some rims on his car you can advertise
for free for 2 weeks on the Monday morning
podcast how about that
I'm throwing it out there
you gotta hook up
Paul dude I called it
don't say I'm from Jersey Verzi
ok
hook him up because I like his cars
but his rims annoy me and they're gonna
affect their fucking friendship there I said it
alright
alright let's plow ahead here
where are we in the podcast 39 minutes
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alright
girl smokes a lot of weed
hey Cincinnati
bow tie Billy
I don't even know what that means I gotta look that up
um
I've been with my girlfriend for two years
and lived with her for about a year and a half
she has smoked weed since the day we met
which doesn't bother me because I used to smoke myself
what bothers me is how many times
she smokes it in a given day
we will sometimes be hanging out watching tv
and she will out of nowhere
get up to grab her bowl
to take a hit
I've even caught her getting out of bed
in the middle of the night to take a hit
after all I used to smoke myself
uh she just looks like a
drug feed
always trying to get her fix
I don't get why she has to be high 24-7
I have a beer
one beer after work
maybe one to two days a week
and sometimes she will throw that in my face
if I comment about her constant weed smoking
which isn't even close to the same thing
I've always said this about weed smokers
I've always said that about them
the level that they get
they get fucking high at work
not all of them I'm just saying
they'll fucking go out
they'll be like if I went out in the parking lot
and shot gunned a beer and came in with booze on my breath
and it is addictive
not to everybody but you can become addicted
it sounds like she is addicted to this shit
like she needs it to help her sleep
she needs it so she can fucking deal
man
anyway
sometimes she will throw that in my face
if I comment about her constant weed smoking
which isn't even close to the same thing
she also complains that she is broke
it has no problem spending $100
on a bag of weed
what kills me
is she will sometimes ask me to help
help her out with a bill
or whatever and I'm just like what the fuck
how about you don't buy weed
our relationship is great
this isn't a deal breaker or anything
it's just an annoyance
should I just deal with it or should I try to get her to chill out with weed
I have a lovely Nia smoked weed all day
thanks go fuck yourself
I would address it
I would definitely address it
okay
yeah she has a problem with that shit
if you are waking up in the middle of the night
and taking another hit
I mean
I always just equate it to drinking
because for some reason people can see
alcoholism
but they can't see addiction
with weed
I remember somebody and in the middle of the night
they got up
and poured themselves a belt or two
a couple fingers of scotch and slammed it
and then went back to sleep
or right in the middle of a movie
they went over and just fucking shotgun to beer
and I
because that's basically what they are doing
it's not like they go out and make a drink and they are sipping it
they are not there
they are getting high
they are not gradually getting drunk
it's like you do it boom you are high
she is doing it all the time
and she doesn't have
she is not making any money and then she is asking you to help her out
I mean what if you didn't have a job
and you were drinking at the level that she was smoking
and
you were spending 100 bucks on beer
every week
and sometimes you would ask her for help
um
what would she do
she would be upset
now this is what I would do
I would bring it up with her
you cannot get mad
and
this is the thing
you cannot get mad too
if she yells and calls you names
and everything just do not get mad
just sit there and know that she is
you know
you are going to lose the fight
if you bring up her weed smoking
and then she is like
what the fuck you fucking blah blah blah
and if you go to where the fuck she is there
you are going to lose
because then it has become a name calling thing
and
she has successfully gotten it
out of the arena of what she is doing
is fucked up
you just need to stay in the
pocket and be like listen
I don't mind that you smoke weed
I drink beer
okay
but you are smoking weed 24-7
you are getting up in the middle of the night
and you are smoking weed
and I am worried about you
and you are asking me
you are blowing $100 a week on weed
and you are asking me to help you out sometime
okay now in all fairness
if I was blowing 100 bucks
on beer every week and I was
waking up in the middle of the night
drinking a beer
and they are going to pull at you
that is not the same thing, yes it is
you are altering your mental state
with alcohol
except you are using marijuana
alright
so I care about you
and you are kind of going down
basically it is your job
to keep your woman in line
and it is her job to keep you in line
and that is not some sexist shit
when I say keep you in line
which means when they see you going out of bounds
they see you going up river a little bit
like Colonel Kurtz shaving your head going the horror
as you sit there in the corner
fucking shotgun and a beer
it is her job to be like I think you are starting to
your drinking is getting a little out of control
what you do when you love somebody
so just know that she might not be ready
to hear that shit but
she has to hear it from you
you are just trying to help her out
and if she flips out and calls you a bunch of names
just say listen
I have said what I had to say
I am more than willing to discuss this with you later
when you have calmed down
but I am not going to get into a name calling
argument with you
and you leave it at that
and then they have no fucking choice
they have no choice
other than to just fucking
chill at that point
or they continue calling your names
but after that
they are going to owe you an apology
and if they don't apologize
and they can't admit that they are wrong
that is a whole other fucking red flag
you know
because I couldn't be in a fucking relationship
with somebody who
if they fuck up can't be like
you know what
you gotta have that
so good luck with that sir
next one
what the fuck to do
sir burr
love the show and listen weekly thanks for making my money
entertaining well you are welcome
I am 39 and separated with the child
and I started seeing a woman who was
43 divorced with her own child
here is the story
about 2 months into the relationship
we were getting serious
and we started discussing a future together
however our relationship started to erode
about as quickly as it started
and we ended up breaking up after dating
a total of 6 months
one of the reasons we ended things was that
we didn't agree on wanting more kids
she wanted more but I didn't
we ended on such a bad note
that we agreed to not talk anymore
um
at this point I am like good
that was a very mature relationship
early on
you said what you both wanted
was that you didn't
you wanted 2 different things and you walked
got a little ugly there for a second
but who gives a fuck
anyways
he goes as luck would have it
about 2-3 weeks after we broke up
she called me
to tell me she is pregnant
oh my god
wait a minute
she wanted more and I didn't
she pulled the goalie
ah dude you didn't want more kids
did you use a condom
oh my god
she goes I did not know how it was possible
ok because we took precautions
but I guess I slipped up
I slipped one past the goalie
I was devastated and worried because not only
do I not want more kids
my current financial situation would limit me
greatly in my ability to take care
of my child and another child
my question to you is
what the fuck do I do
I would get a paternity test
definitely
get a paternity test to make sure it's yours
I mean that's a prayer
I'm not saying anything bad about this woman
but you gotta throw the Hail Mary here
and hope maybe you get lucky
because my question to you is
what the fuck do I do
she doesn't want to have an abortion
and told me that we should get back together
and have the baby
is she lying
she said
if not she would try to
legally prevent me from
having a part
being part of the child's life
as I was writing this
she was about six weeks pregnant
so a lot of time
a lot of time to stress about it
um yeah dude
fuck all of that
she's gonna
I mean
let me just read the last paragraph
because I'm not stupid enough
to go to a comedian for advice
however I do think you have an interesting perspective
on life and I'd love to hear your point of view
this situation has since been resolved
see below
to see how it turned out
but answer the question before you see the result
thanks and go fuck yourself
well I don't see the result here
below I'd love to know what happened
Jesus now you're leaving me hanging
and now all my listeners
alright here's my thing
if any woman said you know
you got me pregnant
and I didn't want to be with her
and she said
if you don't live with me
and we have a relationship
you'll never see
the kid
I would just be like
that's no way to go into a relationship
okay you want to find love
okay and the way to find true love
is not to hold somebody hostage
okay we made a mistake
now we're going to be adults
and we are going to raise this child
in an unconventional way
because we do not love each other
so it's not going to be fair to the kid
if we're both together
it also will not be fair to the kid
if you prevent the kid from seeing
his mother or his father
okay so we need to be
adults and put this kid first
and set aside our differences
and be as mature
about this as we possibly can
the next 18 years
are critical in this kid's life
and we need to suck it up
alright so let's get on the same
damn page here
alright
I mean somewhere along the lines
I would say that
but I would definitely get a fucking paternity test
because you never know what somebody is doing
and
you kind of seem like dumbfounded
about a pregnant who knows what happens
she seems like she wants more kids
she could be this desperate person that was
you know
I don't know what but
stranger things have happened
so I would definitely get a paternity test
and if she gets mad fuck her
who gives a shit
if she gets mad and be like listen
you know you shouldn't say this
but in your head you gotta be thinking
this is somebody who's fucking crazy enough
to basically threaten me into her life
you don't have to do that
you're crazy enough to say a kid that isn't mine is mine
okay
she's not acting stable right now
so
I don't know
and that is healthy paranoia
that is not
you know
if I ever said some shit like that on the view
you know what kills me is
they would toe the company line
but I swear to god backstage
you know bitches it's crazy
Phil Collins and Genesis
oh by the way
we're talking drummers here I didn't realize this
I just got tickets
to go see Primus
band that I've always been meaning to see
and Tim Herb Alexander
is back in the band
and I love the way that that guy
I always love the way that guy has played
and I got some tickets
me and Roses, Joey Roses
are going Joey Roses by the way
who has a new comedy CD coming out
I believe September 2nd
he's going to give me all the details
but
go to JoeDarosaComedy.com
I believe is his website
I don't know what his fucking website is
why don't I do a better job promoting an old pal's
fucking website
by actually having the decency of looking it up here
sorry for the poor audio quality
right now
alright
JoeDarosa has a website
I don't know what
it's fucking cold
you call yourself
JoeDarosaComedy.com
alright let's see what he's got here
he has some shoulders
but he lacks the
meat between his neck and
bullsuckets
alright where do we go here
why is my fucking internet so goddamn
slow whatever it's JoeDarosaComedy.com
he's got a new fucking comedy CD coming out
and
damn and I stand behind it as does everybody else
here in this podcast which should basically be me
but anyways
I didn't realize that
Tim Alexander had a heart attack
but he's doing great
and he's recovering
well judging by the stuff that I've seen
him post on his twitter account
and that type of thing
I'm really happy for him because he truly is
one of the great drummers of the last
24 years Jesus Christ
has it been that long since I've been listening
to him but
so whatever if this somehow gets to him happy
to hear that you're doing well
and continued healthy
lifestyle
alrighty okay
Phil Collins and Genesis may have been done
oh by the way thank you to everybody
that also donated to
Benny Grebb's
DVD
he's raised 99%
of the money so that really means a lot to me
and
to help other drummers which will help music
which will come back around
even if you don't play drums you get to listen to better drummers
making better music so
I really appreciate everybody
who donated that was pretty awesome
alrighty okay last time
starting this, Phil Collins and Genesis
may have been done before
but hey Billy Bruford
you're a drummer stupid you must know him
I am
you'd have to insult me because you felt insecure
about your obscure reference
alrighty
on last week's podcast
you brought up Mr. Phil Collins
and Genesis
you absolutely nailed how incredible Phil is
as a drummer
I am an early Genesis fanatic
from Trespass, Nursery Crime, Foxtrot
selling England
by the pound
and the lamb lies down on Broadway
and he has in parenthesis
dude you know what's funny is I don't know anything about
early Genesis I just know Phil Collins
he's a fucking amazing drummer
I know that they were a prog rock band
and that Peter Gabriel
who later sung Sledgehammer
gave himself a reverse mohawk
at some point when he was in that band
anyways he says that dude
as you may guess
should be Bostonian
because it's the best album
oh the lamb lies down on Broadway
dude
that's how that was supposed to be read
alright well I'll check that one out
anyways he said when Peter Gabriel
left the band in 1975
these guys auditioned
singers for months
no one could get it right
so what did old Phil Collins do
he stepped out from behind the drum kit
like a badass and took over the role
as frontman and drummer
from there they remained true to their roots
for a while I'd say at least
three to four albums and until of course
as you pointed out the cash cow came along
and they climbed aboard the proverbial money train
but that should
not discredit these guys
they have my ultimate respect
in the end you finally wanted to get paid
and go out and get yourself a fucking
station wagon that went 0-60
in 3.5 seconds I totally get that
Phil Collins kept it real
he never got hair plugs or a toupee
he just held on to that landing strip
forever
however that's not to mention
brand X
which was Phil's jazz fusion
side project
that's where his drumming really flourished
the album product is a must
dude this is like some hardcore
music geek shit
and I'm loving every second of this
Phil always surrounded himself
with brilliant drummers
hey there Cleo, Bill Bruford there
and Chester Thompson
of Zappa fame not to mention
that bitchin Tarzan theme right
no Tarzan theme
Tarzan
sorry I've been out here too long
sticking Tarzan up
Thursday, August 21st
Genesis posted to their official facebook page
a new logo and a promise for exciting news
some have speculated
a possible reunion with the 71-75 lineup
including Peter Gabriel
and Steve Hackett
which I would come buckets for
Jesus Christ dude
I don't need that visual
he said I am a musician, Bill
you bring your drumming up
and music in general keep it up
and the Mike and the Mechanics name
Mike and the Mechanics dude's name
is Mike Rutherford
how British can you get cozy smug cunt
I am
yeah I love all that type of shit
do you know
I'm gonna do another one of those god damn comedy jams
I can't figure out what song I'm gonna do
but some of the songs I've been messing with
have double bass in them
and that's something that
when it comes to double bass drumming
I am a snob
when it comes to it
I'm actually a cunt when it comes to double bass drumming
because I can't do it on any level
but I have some hardcore
opinions about it
I don't like when somebody
uses it
to enhance all their fucking fills
around the kit
just running underneath
or just doing the quad thing
that always annoyed me
because it makes you sound
you're doing these bottom quads
but you're kind of cheating
however
if you get somebody who actually
utilizes it
to enhance a groove
or even a fill
like I would say Tim Alexander
some of the drumming that that guy
recorded
it's astounding
I kind of got into this thing
where I felt guys who played single bass drum
could play a better groove
than somebody that played
double bass because
you just had this extra
it's like you had this howitzer underneath you
and they just couldn't resist
jumping on those fucking things
every chance they had
to do some insane
sounding fill
and I always felt like the guys
I just felt like the guys that had
the least amount of shit played the best
like a Steve Jordan
you know played a little four piece kit
I mean that guy could literally
just give my hi-hat a ride cymbal
bass drum and snare like a quest love
same thing and that guy could get
more goddamn music out of it than some guy
that has like a 50 piece set
I kind of went into that and then
which was there was an element of truth to it
but it was it was an arrogant
like mindset
it would be the same thing as it would be like
a clean comic is better than a dirty comic
and you're not listening to what they're saying
so I've actually come around
now and there's a bunch of players that
that I like but it's
but like if there's no groove
I can't get into it if you just fucking playing
like a zillion miles an hour
like I gotta admit like those
those blast beats and that type of thing
that's fucking insane that somebody can do
that but after a while
it's just played
so fucking fast it all
sounds the same maybe I need to listen to more
of it to be able to
hear it but my favorite part
in death metal is when the
singer for like half a second
you actually hear what his singing voice really
sounds like before he goes back to
that type of shit
so
anyways
so I've been I'm
going around with some
some of that double bass shit I'm not
gonna say what it is because
you know the reveal
I guess I wasn't supposed to say that I was
gonna dress up like Tommy Lee last
week did I talk about that by the way
we fucking
we smashed it man we got off
to a
a little rough start I fucked I always
fuck up the beginning
but I was psyched cause I fucked it
up in that I didn't stop when I was supposed
to restart but I just kind of kept going
and if you didn't know the song you wouldn't notice
that we fucked up so I felt good about that
and
and you know once again it took
us a second then we got on track it's just kind of hard
to come walking out
and be doing stand up
and then finish that and then walk behind the
kit and then count off a band enough fucking up
it might at my drumming level
it's a very difficult thing to do
uh
hang on a second I've been
given a note here need to get my stuff
okay all right I'll see
um anyways
so let's
let's let's plow ahead here all right girl
stalker
hi mr. Bill I'm from the Czech Republic
well how are you
how's it going do you ever go up to Hungary
and get some of that fucking art deco furniture
that they send over here
what is it from Budapest
you know
charge us a fucking zillion dollars for it
anyways he goes I listen to the Monday morning
podcast like every single week and I love what you're
doing well thank you he goes I know you don't owe me
anything but I really need some advice right now
yes I do owe you because you're walking
around the Czech Republic going have you fucking
heard about this red-edged cunt
over there in the states and someday
I'll do a gig in Prague
you guys got a funny bone over there
because I'll do it
um he said there's a chick
living in my neighborhood and she's really
into me I mean
a lot and much more
I would like to
I was gonna say your English was fucking unreal
and I wasn't believing that you were from the Czech Republic
by going this is there was a chick
living in my neighborhood
you're using the slang properly
and he then the next sentence
he goes I mean a lot and much more
I would like to
all right
she calls me in the middle of the night keeps knocking
my door calling my name throws rocks
at my window and once climbed
on a tree next to my house
came inside my room and wait
waited under my bed until I arrived
yeah dude you can't have this
that's fucking creepy
I didn't even know
she wasn't barefoot was she
she's barefoot I think she's a vampire
you know they always barefoot and they have
like their breath is cold
I don't know how Jesus
I didn't even know there is something
like girl stalking but now
I'm starting to be worried the only thing
I did was helping her back
on her feet when she fade out
on my friend's party
couple of months ago I don't want to be
mean or hurt her feelings she's pretty nice
girl but this is way over the line
any advice yeah you gotta
tell her to screw
you have to totally cut her off and you can't
have any interaction with her because any sort
of interaction with this woman is going
to make her feel like
you guys that justifies
her relationship
you know what I mean
I feel bad that she's
in this mind state but you don't have to
deal with it first of
all lock your fucking window
and if
she ever comes in your house again
you need to call the cops
I would
stand outside and have the cops go in
and get her out and I would have legal record
that that's what she did
and then don't talk to her at all
don't answer the phone
don't nothing
nothing
you have to cut her out of your life because
she's out of her fucking mind
alright that's what I would do
and when she cries or does whatever
do not comfort her and go
I'm sorry but I'm just not into you
in this world the relationship just started
over again
you have to fucking you have to
you gotta cut the head off the snake
end it
alright there you go
alright when is too old to start a band
well listen I just started playing out with
I'm not in a band
I gotta tell you dude it's fucking
I gotta tell you something
going down and doing that god damn comedy jam
and sitting in with the band is the most fun shit
I've done in a long time
butterflies
this nervous excitement
you know how long it's been since I've had that
I'm getting outside my comfort zone
and I know obviously
I'm not gonna join a band or anything
but whatever that experience is
artistically is gonna help me
in my acting somewhere down the road
that experience is gonna fucking help me
and um
I don't know it's just the best
it's the fucking best anyways he goes
when is too old to start a band
hey Bill my boyfriend
oh she says sorry oh nice a female
wrote in god damn it
I love when this happens
says my boyfriend of two years has been
involved in a he's always
he's been very involved in theater and music
he was in bands throughout high school and college
as a drummer about a year ago he joined
a cover band which I'm totally supportive
of it's a really nice
hobby and I love going to his shows
now we are getting pretty close
to moving in together
um he talks at length about our future
that um
what we need to do to get there
etc basically we are
being grown ups and despite what you're probably thinking
he is actually the one that brings up
our future and more than me
I'm not judging you I know I'm a cunt
but I'm not judging you I'm reading this open mindedly
he goes well
she goes well I'm
reading this open mindedly as I keep calling you
he she says this
um well about a week ago
he says that he
and the chick in the cover band
want to start their own two person original
band and based on certain
things he has said he seems pretty serious
about trying to make something of it
i.e. comments about me
going on tour with him
or about becoming a rich music
musician etc my first
reaction you're 31
you don't really like your job much
parenthesis people that hate their careers
tend to want to try something else
you talk to me about our future
and what we have to do to get there
you want to start dedicating your time
to a two person band
I haven't said any of this to him
because I don't want to come off as unsupportive
but I mean at what age
do you face the reality and stop trying
to live out a 15 year
old's dream
granted it seemed very unlikely
that anything will come of it
sorry just being honest
but doesn't this seem
like a midlife crisis 10 years too early
I should mention
he also sent me this horrendous skull
tattoo today that he suddenly
wants on his arm
or am I being selfish
and an asshole be blunt
I can take it
alright
there's a lot of shit going on
in this one
is 31 too late
to start in a band technically
no I don't think it is
when you said
that he's having a midlife crisis
I hate that expression
and however
at first I didn't like that you used it
until he was talking about getting
the awful skull tattoo on his arm
that gave that loaned a lot of
credibility
to the
midlife crisis
comment I would say this
I think this is a person
that
wanted to be in a successful band
and is now 31 and is realizing
like fuck if I'm going to do this
I need to do this now
alright
but going out and getting the skull tattoo
is that really
I don't know
about that part
that's making me feel like your assessment
of the situation
without me seeing this guy play
I can't tell you
but like
at this point
he's in a cover band
and he has a job
and that is your relationship
this guy has a job
he has a steady income
and he has this cover band
now all of a sudden he's going to get a skull tattoo
he is creating an entirely
new dynamic
so you're in the right to be like
what the fuck are we doing here
and you're in a tough position
where you don't want to be like
listen this dream that you've had
but for some reason didn't go after it
the way you should have
I understand being in a cover band
to like pay the fucking bills
but if you're not making original music
there's only so far that you can
have
so
I actually don't think that you're being an asshole
the skull tattoo thing is really
like a major fucking red flag to me
that
does he have any other tattoos
if he doesn't have any other tattoos
and out of nowhere he's like alright
I'm going to stop being in this cover band
I'm going to finally take this fucking thing
seriously and I'm going to go out and get some fucking
awful goddamn tattoo
yeah I would be kind of concerned about the guy
and what he was doing
but as far as the whole midlife crisis
thing that gets thrown around a lot
when somebody goes after a dream
and there's nothing wrong with being
31 years old and then to
assessing your life being like wait a minute
I've been on this road I don't want to go on
I need to go on this other road
and I think a lot of times people who aren't
going after a dream
can relate to it I'm not saying this is you
but they can't relate to somebody going after
a dream and taking a big risk
and they attribute it to having
a midlife crisis
or they don't have a dream they're just going
to work and that's fine
working for somebody else
and you know
doing the nine to five grind
as long as you make enough money
and you have your benefits
and you like where you live like that's fine
like that's your dream
and they can't understand
somebody going after
something but
I would definitely not call it
a midlife I don't know
I guess it is technically a midlife crisis
I mean all the midlife crisis is like
fuck I better get on the stick or the things that I wanted
in life I'm not going to have
it's like you know me when I'm sitting here
talking about you know I'm finally going to get myself
a nice fucking car if I can ever get finished
with this goddamn downstairs
you know I'm talking about some of the cars I'm looking at
you know
and it just comes to it's like
if I don't ever do this I'm never going to do it
I think when you're young
you can be like oh I'll do this
someday I'll do this someday someday
I'm going to do this you can lie to yourself
and
in life
you have to understand that no if I don't
do this I'm never going to do this
does that make sense
if I don't go over to fucking Europe
I'm never going to go to Europe unless I get
my fucking ass over there
I'm never going to have this car that I always wanted
unless I go down to the dealership and fucking buy
the goddamn thing
um
and I don't know when people see you
step out of what they think that you are
which is I play in a cover
band and I have this job that I fucking don't
like it's very easy to
say are you having a midlife crisis
he could also be having an awakening
okay so this is
very delicate thing
oh man it just keeps coming back
to that awful skull tattoo
to me
that just seems like
first of all that's the hackiest fucking tattoo
out there
you know to get you know fucking I'm in music
till I die what's going to be a guy with a skull
fucking playing drums
I mean that's just bad
and I just look at that like you're dressing
up like a rockstar rather than legitimately
being one
and I don't think you're being a dick here
I think what you're an asshole
I think what you're doing is
he's going to
he's making this big decision
that's going to affect both of your lives
in a major way so
you're not being a
an asshole so right now
what you have to do is literally try to like
diffuse a bomb
okay you gotta make sure you cut
the right wire and what I mean
by that is you're able to
convey your concerns like listen
I support you and all of that
and I know you don't like your day job
but
you know I mean there's just no way
to say you're 31
you know you are
31 years of age
um
I would say
look
he's kind of making a move for himself here
so you gotta make a move for yourself
what I would do is
I would talk him out of the skull tattoo
just say listen
this is how you get rid of the skull tattoo
just say listen I will support you
okay
you get with this woman
you guys start making this fucking music
okay
but you're not getting the skull tattoo
alright
and then go down and watch them
and if they seem like they have something
a range of things have happened
I would never tell somebody not to go after a dream
I would tell them not to get the skull fucking tattoo
but
see if they have something
and if it seems like they have something
then
I don't know
I don't know
that is a
then I guess you have to assess do I want to take
this fucking ride
cause that is a motherfucker of a ride
um
yeah
that's what
I guess
I kind of was all over the map
there but I think I came to a point
no skull tattoo
you can start making this fucking original music
together and like
I mean I don't know how do you go out on the fucking
road unless you're actually doing well
what are they gonna do
you know
they have to make some great music
but I would just lay it on the line
it's like you're asking me you're making a major
change here where music was your hobby
and now you're gonna make it your full time thing
and you're talking about taking me out on the road
how are we gonna afford to do this and all of that type
of stuff
I will support you making the original music
but you are by no means getting a skull
tattoo on your fucking arm
because that is a
tramp stamp for a guy
okay unless you're in a motorcycle
gang and you murdered somebody
like there should not be any skulls on your body
alright
there I said it okay
and that's it that's the Monday morning podcast
for this week go fuck yourselves
football
is around the corner cannot wait for college football
and all of that type of shit
that's it I got nothing else to say
don't take any shit go fuck yourselves and please
don't get a tattoo of a skull on your body
alright see ya
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