Monday Morning Podcast - New York, L.A. Airspace, Shakespeare | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 3-13-25

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

Bill rambles about New York, L.A. Airspace, and Shakespeare. (00:00) - Thursday Afternoon Podcast (31:51) - Thursday Afternoon Podcast 3-13-25 - Bill rambles about do-wop, heaven, and half-...a-dude wrasslin. Thursday Afternoon Interlude:  Roy Ayers - Liquid Love

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr and it's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday Monday morning podcast and I'm just checking in on you. I'm just checking in on you. Seeing how at you, all grown up doing the town. I did Good Morning America today. They kept calling it GMA, which made me think of GMOs, which are genetically modified organisms. I don't know what it is. Something about what they put in the food, but they pay the politicians, so that's fine.
Starting point is 00:00:43 That's all right. But they pay the politicians, so that's fine. That's all right. Um. And I did the breakfast club. I had a great time and I did one other show. I'm spacing here. Had a great time this morning promoting all that stuff. Why?
Starting point is 00:01:01 Why you didn't ask? As I go to whore myself out and you know and what not? My stand up special, Drop Dead Years is coming out I think tomorrow on Hulu. I'm very excited and I hope you guys enjoy it or whatever but I had a fucking great morning. Had a good time on Good Morning America. That's a really fun show to do as far as the vibe that you have to have to do one of those morning shows. It's like the level of, I don't know, you have to be upbeat and positive. It's like people are starting their day. You know what I mean? You can't do the CNN Fox News thing that we don't do that here. There was I mean,
Starting point is 00:01:52 it was fucking fantastic. There was a chef there making food. There was puppies. I was playing with puppies. It's like impossible to be in a bad mood doing one of those fucking shows. So I got to do a quick little thing there with everyone on the show promoting Glenn Gary and and the special so I had a great time and then the Breakfast Club that's my second time doing it I love those guys I had a great time with them so that's it and the Patrice O'Neill comedy benefit keep buying the tickets you can get them at billbird.com I don't
Starting point is 00:02:29 have the information in front of me I know what the gig is gonna be in May I believe it's a Sunday night yeah it's a Sunday night so at the New York City Center you can also go to NYCityCenter.com I think is what it is. We can buy the tickets 75 bucks and after we're done paying for renting the theater all the money goes to Patrice's wonderful mother and we make sure we take care of her every year because Patrice was taking care of her. So it's a great, great, great thing that you can do if you can come out. All right. And with that, let's blow ahead here.
Starting point is 00:03:14 All right. So guess what? We are officially in previews. Previews. Now what I've learned is previews are not official shows yet. This is you just sort of working the show out now in front of a crowd and I gotta be, I'm a little confused by it because people are paying a lot of money to still come see it. So it's like I don't, it doesn't feel like it's okay to just be, you know, you can try out stuff, but you got to bring it.
Starting point is 00:03:47 And I cannot tell you like how awesome it is to, you know, get to do this and to watch all of these actors that I've been working with, you know, seeing them, they tried stuff when we were rehearsing it, and then watching them try it out and adjusting it and everything. Like, I get so fucking amped up. And then I'm also fascinated like watching like, oh, man, you know, so and so got a laugh on that. What did they figure out? Was it the crowd? Was it the way that other actors set up the line or whatever? It's sort of like infinite, like the options but We're three of those performances in I think last night was our best show and
Starting point is 00:04:35 Everybody keeps getting better and like people were getting applause breaks and It's really settling into this cool thing where it's like it's dark, but it's also like funny It's sad and then it's hilarious and it's just this this unbelievable Ride and Oh my god, Michael McKeon last night was fucking on fire. It was, it's gonna be such a good time. And I was already thinking backstage when I was waiting for the play to end and then come out and do the curtain call, I was already thinking of how sad I'm gonna
Starting point is 00:05:19 be on the last night because this is gonna be, it's gonna, this is just one of those things that totally lives up to the hype. So Thank you to everybody that's come out so far and I am looking forward To everything else also, you know, I definitely get the fucking butterflies before I go out there because I'll tell you know what's funny is you go out you have a good show and everything's awesome and The night ends and you feel like this amazing like feeling of accomplishment. And then you wake up the next day and you're like, oh fuck, I gotta do it again. Oh, this is what they're talking about.
Starting point is 00:06:01 When I was talking to other actors going, you know, you gotta like, you know, it's a grind a grind you know so you gotta like blah blah blah but I'm just gonna I don't know just go one show at a time and listen to whoever the hell I'm talking to and on stage and see if we can have another good one tonight that's it all right and with that with that, with that, with that, it's such an exciting time of year. Baseball's coming back. Hockey and basketball is getting close to the playoffs.
Starting point is 00:06:35 You got MotoGP, you got fucking the F1, and you got match madness coming up. You have all kinds of distractions to not freak you out. You know what I mean? To have some sort of normalcy. I'll tell you what's freaking me out on GMA. Good morning America. When I was watching the the meteorologist when she was doing the weather I was just like this is fucking This is frightening it was just flames Tornadoes and all of this shit and nobody's like talking about a
Starting point is 00:07:20 Who is You know is this what the scientists were warning us about? Is it starting to happen? Or is this normal? You never know, you know? Or is it like, or is it just like, are they looking at like the LA fires, everyone tuned in? We made a lot of money on the ratings, all right?
Starting point is 00:07:40 So every time there's a brush fire, they're gonna drop flames over like fucking Oklahoma and shit Are they doing it for money? Is it right? I have no idea. I have no idea but I will tell you you know, thank God for all those puppies and the chefs and everybody's amazing energy over there because the fucking forecast They had everything but drawings of sharks coming on land and eating people on the nationwide map. Nationwide is on your side. Anyway, so a buddy of mine sent me something pretty fucking interesting is the Robinson Helicopter Company, whatever you call it. They had the R22 first, then they made the R44, which was a four-seater with the six-cylinder engine rather than the four-cylinder and Then after that they went 22 44 then they have the r66
Starting point is 00:08:50 Which is a turbine which is a jet engine and They unveiled in Dallas that they have a new helicopter coming out you guessed it the 88 Which is a 10 passenger helicopter. Believe me, it ain't cheap. Turbine or whatever. They still have the semi-articulated main rotor system. I just, would be amazing.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Maybe to keep costs down, they keep, and also it's also a space saver in a hanger. If you only have two blades, you can just line it up and you can have a smaller hanger. But once you have the three and you kind of have like that triangle, you need something a little wider or whatever, maybe it's that. I have no idea, but it was pretty goddamn exciting.
Starting point is 00:09:40 And I will tell you as much fun as I'm having on doing this play I really miss flying and I miss riding a motorcycle Those things I do miss those but Boohoo, I have to be here and do a fucking play but it was pretty pretty goddamn exciting I will I'll be honest with you guys i kind of wish i learned how to fly a plane instead of a helicopter because helicopters are just so fucking expensive and once you've flown the la basin for 10 years you get kind of bored and you want to go fly somewhere else but like you know flying a helicopter it's
Starting point is 00:10:19 like you have to fly it the whole time it's not, and it's also can only go so fast just because of the aerodynamics, the way it's designed and everything. What we have in mobility, the ability to stop and hover and land anywhere. What we gain in that we give up and forward speed and like, you know, I know a lot of pilots now where I fly out of and I talk to them about their planes and what they cost. And like the planes that cost as much as a little two-seater helicopter, how fast they can fly, the autopilot, the altitude that they can fly at, and all of that really like uh fascinates me. And I go well well, you know, that's to hold
Starting point is 00:11:06 that other animal there. Like what's fascinating to me, what I would love to do one time is be in a private little plane with one of those pilots. And like, I'm trying like to fly, you know, if I had one a map in front of me I would know exactly what it is, but like, you know, if you if you come into LA At six thousand feet you can basically fly over every bit of airspace except for the Bravo shelves of airspace around LAX
Starting point is 00:11:42 But like and you don't have to talk to anybody like you can just if you were coming down the coast you know Santa Barbara or whatever you could fly over all of that airspace you could see so much more and um just the path that you could take and then not to mention cruising at like 200 knots, which is more than twice what I'm usually flying. Like I usually fly like 85, unless I wanna just get somewhere, I'll go up to 90. But like, I always think if I have an engine failure
Starting point is 00:12:19 with the blades turned the way they are, there's gonna be a lot of resistance moving forward and my RPMs are gonna drop even faster. So I try to like, you know, cause you auto-rotate at about 60. So if I'm only like, you know, 25 knots above that, it's, I think that's a little more forgiving. All right, I'm just talking about nerd shit here.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Speaking of nerd shit, I got, I got my little electronic drum kit set up over at the theater with like speakers and everything. I just have to figure out the Bluetooth. So that's kind of going to be my thing. Like I'll come over a little bit early before the show, maybe, I don't know, or maybe hang after and I can play and god damn it Gotta give a shout out to V drums. They are they sound so Unbelievable you put the headphones on you got listen if you ever wanted to play fucking drums
Starting point is 00:13:16 Okay, but they're too loud or whatever, you know, you don't want to drive you significant other crazy Get some V drums I'm telling you you're gonna put your headphones on and you're gonna sit down at a kit and you're gonna sound like you're in Madison Square Garden it's and and because they sound when you know they sound so good it makes you play better it gives you ideas and all of that. And I was just having a ball with them. You know what's funny is like, you know, when my character exits the play, there's still, you know, a decent amount of time left in the second act. so I was actually downstairs playing the drums waiting for the you know there's a there's a point where I with they're in the play that I
Starting point is 00:14:12 can walk upstairs and be there on time for the curtain call I don't know the whole thing is is it's pretty exciting so anyway plowing ahead here. Oh Billy fucking gym bod. Oh Fucking Billy gym bod is going to the going to the gym again today I've been crushing it and The little Apartment they got me staying in it through fucking New York is fun again It's fun again. There's it's definitely yeah, you know there was like a Period there where it got so fucking nice. It was like weird
Starting point is 00:14:55 you felt like you were in the Truman show or something but like the the free entertainment is back In a big way in a big way. In a big way. I'll tell you what, one thing is cool is there's like, there's like this fucking liquor store and I don't know what it is. It's like this gathering place for these guys that like, I don't know if the guys that It's like this gathering place for these guys that like I don't know the guys that ride bicycles
Starting point is 00:15:26 Or whatever delivery or something, but they just fucking hanging out And they're smoking cigarettes and they get into sports arguments and they're drinking and shit And they're kind of blocking the street when you go to walk down and like that's like The neighborhood shit that I that kind of went away for a while Like one of the worst things I think that happened probably for like neighborhoods is air conditioning. Like back in the day, like air conditioning at nighttime everybody came out and they, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:00 left their windows open and they sat out on the stoops. I mean, obviously this is way before my time, but I can't imagine like the conversations, you know, people, whatever, smoking cigars, cigarettes, playing cards, shooting the shit, debates and all of that stuff. So it's kind of as much as they're getting fucked up, you know, drinking and stuff. It is good to see people like, I don't know, not just like not staring at their phones. I think that that's what it is like these guys are hanging out Being their own entertainment
Starting point is 00:16:35 So anyway, I Decided that I was gonna do something. I Wanted to do a bunch of shit that I've never done before Or always wanted to do in New York, you know But I was always too busy trying to get somewhere being a comedian so one of the things I wanted to do was to go up to You know Columbia University because I'm like, you know That's a fucking Ivy League school like right here in Manhattan. It's right in Harlem. Like that's fascinating
Starting point is 00:17:03 I want to go see what that looks like. And my dumb ass, I didn't know it, you know, I don't watch the news, so I didn't know what was going on. I guess it was a bunch of protests up there and stuff. And evidently they got, whoever started the protest, they're trying to deport him, which is not a good sign of a democracy. Like why aren't you allowed,
Starting point is 00:17:21 you're, you should be allowed to protest, you know? It doesn't line up with our foreign policy. You need to get the fuck out of here. That's not a good sign for democracy. Good sign for democracy is somebody has a protest and you're like, well, I don't agree with that, but I agree with your right to do that. That's it.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Not like, you're saying what I don't like. Get this guy, arrest him and get him the fuck out of here. I didn't realize, I learned all of that afterwards. So, my dumb ass, I go up there, and I'm like, all right, you know, I'm obviously not a bookworm. I want to go up there and see where the gym is. They got a football field.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I know it's Ivy League, but whatever. They still play sports, right? And I walk up there and the first thing I see is there's like some law building or something. And I see all these kids, they got like their fucking ID cards and they gotta like scan them and all of that shit. And I was like, oh no, that's right. We live in a police state now.
Starting point is 00:18:22 I'm not gonna be able to just walk. Not gonna have some fucking old weirdo just walking on their campus. They don't know what I'm doing. So I showed up and the guy's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I just wanna come up, just walk to campus, you know, get my steps in.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Old guy just fucking walking around. And they're like, okay, well, you can get like a visitor pass or whatever. And I was just like, all right, well, I know what that entails. You know, back in the day, you just showed him a fucking ID and maybe they wrote you the name down on like a yellow Legal pad, but what I don't like now is you show them your ID They either scan the thing or they put it into the computer and it's like now you're just gonna go sell that information
Starting point is 00:18:58 The end of day, this is a college. It's a fucking business and this just Sharing people's private information because they interacted with you for less than fucking 20 minutes, walking across your campus, and now you're just gonna put all my fucking information out there so you can make money on it,
Starting point is 00:19:14 and I don't even get a cut? Oh, Billy's up on his fucking soapbox. Is this something I would like to see politicians change? How about we get a cut of our own personal information? Like if a corporation is going to turn around and sell it, it's my information shouldn't I get a cut? I mean I get it that you're making the deal, right? But I should give me to kick me 10% Colombia. Give me 10% of my information being sold. Why can't I do that?
Starting point is 00:19:47 I mean, is that asking too much? Is it? Anyway, so I wanted to get a dog, man, after playing with those puppies this morning. It was funny, and I was talking to all the rescue people, and I was like, oh yeah, I had a pit bull. They go, oh, I love the pit bull. I go, yeah, but mine was crazy or whatever, you know?
Starting point is 00:20:07 And they, of course, would go, oh, you know, it's the owner and blah, blah, blah. I go, no, this thing came out of the dog womb crazy. It just was a crazy dog. And unfortunately, it was a pit bull, because, you know, so they were kind of not receptive to the information until I kind of explained it. I go, put it this way.
Starting point is 00:20:25 I go my trainer that I spent a zillion dollars on trying to get this dog to not try to kill everybody that came through the door. He finally threw his fucking hands up and just basically said, you know, this is one of these dogs that nature said no to, but people said yes to. And I took that to mean the mother knew there was something wrong with my dog and rejected it but the dog was so adorable that somebody else you know you know these dog people they probably started fucking breastfeeding the thing and Oh. Did I ever tell you one of the saddest fucking nature videos I ever saw was this mother bird came back to her nest
Starting point is 00:21:12 and I think she had food or whatever. And she just, she looked down at all three of her birds and then just picked one of them up and threw them out of the nest. Just made a judgment call. Like I'm not gonna be able to keep all three, if I try to keep all three of these alive, you know, all three are gonna die. But if I throw away one, two can live.
Starting point is 00:21:33 And she just threw it out of the nest and it just lands on the ground of the woods, waiting for whatever to come along and eat it. And it's just sitting there chirping and the mothers ignoring it and it's just like that is the shit right there the harshness and the sadness of that is what makes me not be able to get my head a loving God that created this. It's like, I think God wanted, like, I don't know what, like tension and strife and competition.
Starting point is 00:22:16 I hope this isn't interpreted the wrong way by fucking more, yeah, yeah, you know those, you know those people who like read the art of war and imply it to their life Trying to make it as like a personal trainer and it's just like yeah, I think this it's about war No, this is applicable. This is applicable to what I do Anyway shit is fucking depressing so Anyway, I don't know where the fuck I'm going with any of this stuff.
Starting point is 00:22:48 So today I have a, uh... I have a later... Every day, like, the call time has been later and later. And, um... And at some point, we're gonna be done with previews, and then we're gonna to be in the official opening night and the real deal of the show and I guess all you have to do is show up a half hour before your show so then all of a sudden it just becomes, it's just like oh you just get to come down here and have fun once or twice during the day.
Starting point is 00:23:29 It's kind of like a fucking, maybe one of the greatest gigs in show business. I'll tell you what sucks is right down the block, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are doing a play and it's just like, I mean, it's fucking Denzel. I gotta go watch this guy act like live. Like how amazing would that be? But I am too fucking stupid to understand Shakespeare. I just don't understand what's happening I know it's English but it's like retired English so it's like I'm there's no fucking way I'm not gonna go to that
Starting point is 00:24:16 show so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get the book like the Cliff Notes like just like back in the day when I was in high school so I can read the fucking play and Try to understand what is happening first So when I go there I can enjoy Everybody's performances rather than You know when you're too dumb to get something and you just sort of sit there quietly and you look in the same direction as all the other humans but like you don't move your head but your eyes are kind of like looking out the side of your head like am I the only guy who is a little confused by all of
Starting point is 00:24:59 this so I don't know I think it's time I put my fucking big boy pants on and try to understand Shakespeare. So I don't know. Or maybe I should just understand my limitations because like, I think Denzel and Jake are so good that even if I don't quite understand what's going on just watching what they're doing alone is gonna be enough I don't know we shall see so anyway so getting back to that other shit so I went up to columbia did not walk the uh campus but something good came out of it I walked down the street and there was this Hungarian pastry place with a line down the block it's been there for I don't know how many years looks mom and pop run or whatever so I'm gonna take my lovely wife there because I don't eat sweets anymore try not to anyways because uh because that's how I got my fucking dad bod. Or whatever.
Starting point is 00:26:05 So today I'm going to the gym. Ego day baby. Ego day. Upper body. Upper body. Here's the thing, if you can somehow get into lower body the way you are, upper body, I've been trying to do that. Right?
Starting point is 00:26:20 Because I came up in the 80s. I'm institutionalized. All it is is about how much you fucking benching. Dude, he curls with fucking 180 pounds. Every time that time I was at a gym and I saw this guy curling 225 pounds, he had fucking 245s on both side, didn't have them locked either.
Starting point is 00:26:40 So they were sort of rattling when he did it. And everybody just out of the side. It was one of the most amazing feats of strength I've ever seen. He did like I think like four or five reps of it and he was curling it. And I remember every time when he would bring it up, he go, you go, huh? Huh? Huh? It was fucking... And my goal was to bench 225.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Old Skinny Billy. Skinny Billy back in the day was my goal was to bench what this guy was fucking curling with. And I did bench it. I did it one fucking time. But the problem is the one person who saw me do it has passed away the late great Wayne Previti. We used to go to this place, the Bulldog Gym on Hollywood Boulevard and I think it's like a nightclub now and we used to work out there and I remember we were there when that dude was curling 225.
Starting point is 00:27:48 I remember looking at Wayne and he looked at me like, dude, what the fuck? It was insane. It was just one of these guys that like, I mean, he was putting the work in and everything, but he was just like, he was just built like the Hulk and it was all natural. He just one of these guys. It was just a fucking walking refrigerator Yeah, never forgot him and then there was another time when I was still living in New York and I was on the Upper East Side and I was the member. I was a member at New York sports clubs. And I remember there was this fucking old school guy.
Starting point is 00:28:27 He'd come in there. He looked like Ken Patera. If you remember that wrestler, he had like a fucking blonde long perm. And he was an old guy, like probably younger than me, but then I considered him old. He was about 50. And he had the gray sweatshirt
Starting point is 00:28:42 and the gray sweatpants and Chuck Taylors. and he had the white towel tucked in around his neck tucked in to the sweatshirt right dressed like Rocky Balboa and and he had glasses or maybe like a headband I don't know what and he would go in and he would be lifting this crazy weight and when he would bring it down he'd go and and he would be lifting this crazy weight. And when he would bring it down, he'd go, ee. And when he would push it up, he'd go, yah. Right? So he would be doing sets, loud as shit, going, ee yah. Ee yah.
Starting point is 00:29:19 And my favorite one, he would do the last rep. He'd go, ee. Yah. favorite one he would do the last rep he'd go yeah so the dude was he was a little off right so like it would make you just fucking laugh but like he was putting up crazy weight it's like I don't want this fucking gorilla fucking thinking I'm laughing at him but I had and I just remember anytime he was there I would just put my head down and I would be like, you know, with like the towel,
Starting point is 00:29:48 acting like I was wiping sweat off my mouth and I was just fucking dying laughing. And then invariably, I would lock eyes with somebody else and they would be laughing and you'd just be fucking laughing. You couldn't even get, like if there was no way to do a set when this guy was doing a set, you had to like time your set in between him going yeah because you would be laughing too hard
Starting point is 00:30:11 to fucking get to get through your fucking reps um anyway so how much time have i done look at that bam right there 30 minutes 30 minutes of fucking bullshit. All right, I'm gonna go fucking, go do my ego day. Gonna go to my big gay gym with all the fellas. And fucking knock it out. And then I get the privilege of fucking working with these amazing actors again tonight.
Starting point is 00:30:44 I still can't believe I'm doing this gig. If you guys get a chance, you gotta come down here because this is a legendary play and I really feel like the cast is putting their own stamp on it. And I'm telling you, like I find myself just watching the monitor, even though I've seen all of these actors do this hundreds of times at this point and just watching what they're doing with it. I knew it was going to be fun. I had no idea it was going to be this fun. So come on. That's a great excuse to come to New York. It's getting warmer. Springtime's coming. You know, spring only lasts six days now, so make sure you get here before it's hot as balls come down check out the show alright that's the podcast enjoy the music picked out
Starting point is 00:31:29 by the amazingly talented Andrew Themelis and and then we'll have a bonus episode of a previous Thursday what the fuck is the name of this podcast the Thursday afternoon just before Friday, Monday morning podcast. All right, that's it. Have a great weekend, you cunts. And I'll talk to you on Monday. So Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr and it's time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday, March 13th, 2017. What's going on?
Starting point is 00:32:55 How are you? How are you? You know what? I ask you that every week. How are you? But this, you know, this Monday, I would really like to know, how are you? What's going, Mandy, what's going on with you? You're scaring me.
Starting point is 00:33:14 You know, that's the type of shit you can do when you're abroad, but if you're a guy, you can't do that, you can't be like Mike, what's going on with me? What's going on with me? What's going on with you? You're scaring me. You know, was you're taking by both his hands.
Starting point is 00:33:26 All right, I got an hour here to do, and I got to be honest with you, I don't have shit to say because my life has become very compartmentalized. Being a dad here, daddy-o-o. She's asleep downstairs, man. She's fucking awesome. Anybody who says that being a parent is hard is a fucking pussy. You know, I'm not saying that it's not tedious. I'm not saying it's not like walking around with a little fucking kettle bell all day
Starting point is 00:33:53 long, you know? Especially if you fucked up one of your rotator cuffs. I got to keep her in close on the right-hand side, you know? Keep her in tight. Tiki barber. Don't fumble. Um, but we just sit around we listen a lot of music with her I was listening to fucking
Starting point is 00:34:12 that was I listening to yesterday just like they called malt shop oldies it's basically like do-wop from the 1950s and I kind of settled on that channel and after a while I wanted to turn the channel, but I couldn't because she was sleeping and the remote was across the table. Once they fall asleep, dude, it's just like, you know, I don't care what position you're in, you're not moving because they're fucking sleeping, right? So I just sat there and listened on a loop to all this.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Da da da da, da da da da, ba da da da, yip ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Slowly going out of my fucking mind. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Like an hour. And like half of those songs have been in Scorsese movies. You know? It's always like some guy's name and then the name of a card. You know? So and so in the Fleetwoods, something something in the Belmonts. Dion and the Belmonts, you gotta love them.
Starting point is 00:35:18 They're still fucking great. You know, The Wanderer. That fucking song is so applicable to anybody who didn't get married and you're in your 40s. You know, well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down. It makes you feel great about the choice you made. Until you realize he sang it in his 20s. You're like, oh fuck. What was another one?
Starting point is 00:35:44 You Talk too much. You talk too much, you worry me to death. You talk too much. I think he says, you even worry my pet. It's just like, that can't be the fucking line, but they played it twice. Speaking of talking too much, just what the fuck I do on this podcast?
Starting point is 00:36:00 Oh, I know what I can, I know what. We actually had a date night. This is how much of a fucking dad I'm becoming. You know, still playing drums, you know, schedule a helicopter thing. So, you know, I'm still trying to keep the hobbies going, but they're starting to wobble on the sticks here. So, um, we were watching a commercial the other day. No, we were watching Wheel of Fortune the other day, and
Starting point is 00:36:34 they always get to the fucking, the last prize, and Wheel of Fortune is so fucked, they're notoriously cheap. First of all, you're basically spinning this giant roulette wheel. And even on the roulette wheel, they got, you know, green zero and the double green zero. And just that alone, that alone, will completely fuck you over. Now obviously, you guys hopefully have listened to this podcast long enough to know that I am not a mathematician.
Starting point is 00:37:00 So I cannot explain why, but just having those two will fuck you over. But what's that face? It's the Wheel of Fortune. They got like fucking, I swear to God, it's like two or three bankrupts lose a turn just constantly. Every two seconds you just hear that fucking reverse flute thing, and they go bankrupt. And then it comes to their big prize. When they try to act like they're going to throw down some goddamn cash. The last one is so fucking difficult. We're going to guess some letters for you.
Starting point is 00:37:34 We're going to guess some letters for you. Let me guess some letters for me. You know the fucking answer. And they act like it's weird when only like one letter, they only guess one letter right. And then people are like, okay, give me three fucking letters in a vowel. P, F, L, and A. And then it's always like, great guesses, but you're not going to like this.
Starting point is 00:37:57 We only got one letter. It's just like, you know, do the best you can. They always fuck them over. But this lady, this lady, she actually did okay and she won the prize. She didn't do okay, she fucking crushed it. I can't imagine, keep your hands to yourself or something like that was solving like, no, this is a phrase. It's like who would ever come up with that on a fucking game show? Keep your hands to yourself. It was something
Starting point is 00:38:23 on that level. It was like semi-aggressive slash date rapey, and it's on a fucking game show, and she somehow got it. There is a point at the end of this, right? And she ends up winning this fucking two-seater, some sort of Mazda, some shit, it's not a Miata, I don't know what the fuck it was. Suzuki, I have no fucking idea. It was a two seat sport car.
Starting point is 00:38:47 And immediately my first thought was I looked at Neil and I was just like, you can't get a kid in there. And then she laughed, she was like, ah, look, you're becoming a dad. And I'm like, no I'm not. I'm still young and cool. But she was right, you know. I'm not becoming a dad, I am a goddamn dad.
Starting point is 00:39:05 But I'm not gonna be one of those douchey dads that talks about how fucking difficult their life is. It's fucking awesome. But having a kid in your 20s and you're broke sucks. You know, but when you travel in the country and they're paying you money to talk about your dicks and do fucking shticks, talking about your dick and do shit jokes? It's not that bad.
Starting point is 00:39:29 I'm only on the road like six days a fucking month. You know, unless I fly in a night early to go watch the fucking Bruins or Celtics or some shit. If our schedules line up. And other than that, that I'm here. And she's cool as shit, man. She doesn't really cry. She only cries, you know, needs a diaper change,
Starting point is 00:39:50 wants to be held, you know, is hungry. Other than that, she totally chills. She's met a bunch of people. She doesn't freak out with strangers. One of the best compliments I got, she's like, oh, your kid's really, there's a really relaxed, healthy baby, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:40:06 Which I'm fucking psyched, because that's what I want. It, obviously healthy, but I want a fucking chill baby. I don't want, like, I basically don't want my kid to be like me. That's why I got to keep up with this meditating, because I didn't do it for a minute, and the old, the old gray mare, she ate.
Starting point is 00:40:28 I started fucking going back to what the fuck I was. You know? Like I fucking, I was trying to sneak out of the bedroom because I was going to go work out because I'm a fucking fat cupcake eating douche. And he just opens her eyes and just goes, could you change it really quick? I just stopped and I looked at her and I said, you really need to work on your good mornings. She's like, sorry, good morning.
Starting point is 00:41:03 And even though I was right, my tone was just, it was way too, you know, I was like that, I always say Liam Neeson, Liam, Liam Leeson, Leeson. I don't know, whatever. I took it too far, which kills me. That's why I love meditating, because I don't take it too far. And if I make a point, I'm still right. But when I don't take it too far, and if I make a point, I'm still right. But when I don't meditate, you know, I basically, I walk around at a six. You know, like saying 10 is completely losing your shit. I walk around.
Starting point is 00:41:34 I'm just walking down the street with a fucking balloon on my wrist at a six to a seven. So it's very easy for me to go right to 10, unless I meditate. Then that backs me down to about four or three, which still is pretty high, but it's very easy for me to go right to 10 unless I meditate then that backs me down to about four or three Which still is pretty high, but it's kind of cutting my number almost in half But what kills me is when I'm not meditating And I'm up around a six or a seven, you know, it gets that point. Even if I'm right my reaction Gives them this this wiggle room You know some Bill Clinton wiggle room to get
Starting point is 00:42:07 the fuck out of it, you know, some Trump executive order thing to go around some shit. So, you know, so I got to stay on that type of shit. Dude, speaking of fucking Neumleeson, Neumleeson, why can't it, you know, it's one of those fucking, it goes by so fucking quick, you never really even hear it. No Bill, we all hear it. You don't. I'm gonna get this guy's fucking name right. He's a great actor. Ne'am. Oh, no, it's Liam Neeson. His first name's not Liam. Yes it is. Liam, Lisa, ah, whatever. I'll never get that right. I'm never gonna get that fucking right.
Starting point is 00:42:51 Anyways, what the fucking head of hair on that son of a bitch? Anyways, I saw a fucking great movie this week. So Saturday night, Saturday, Saturday, we go out and we actually have a date night. So we'll go like, all right, we'll get maybe like dinner and a movie. We're basically turned into an appetizer and a drink. And I'm sitting there like, you know,
Starting point is 00:43:16 I'm on the wagon, I can't do it. And he was like, I'll just fucking have one. So I was like, all right, I'll have one. You know, still on the wagon. You know, I'm not like a fucking alcoholic, I'll have one. Still on the wagon. I'm not like a fucking alcoholic where I just got to shut the whole thing off. You know what I mean? So I had one, I had a cognac, a fucking cognac, and I just ordered the best one that they
Starting point is 00:43:34 had. So it tasted amazing, but it was also like drinking gasoline so I could only sip it. And we got like an appetizer and then we just sat there you know shooting the shit it felt weird because we hadn't been out together in a while and then we just started talking about our daughter and looking at pictures of her it's like two addicts going out. You know what I mean? At some point you're going to start talking about blow and how much fun it is.
Starting point is 00:44:11 So then after that we walked up the street, we went to the movie theater and we saw Get Out, the Jordan Peele film. Dude, it was fucking amazing. You gotta go see it. I know there's always that movie where he's like, dude, you gotta go fucking see it, and it doesn't live up to the hype. It lived up to the hype, man.
Starting point is 00:44:33 It was fucking great. What I loved about it, and what I love about all fucking movies like this, is there was a bunch of shit in there that he left you to figure out yourself. And I saw the movie like two, three days ago, Saturday night, was it Monday, two days ago, you know, and I keep, even though I'm driving,
Starting point is 00:44:55 I'm still thinking about the movie, I was like, oh fuck, that was this, and this meant that, and this is over here, and this person's that, like, you know, it was the perfect length. The whole thing and the acting in it was unbelievable. Dude, that fucking guy, I swear to God, man, that's like one of the most talented people
Starting point is 00:45:15 to come around in a long, long time. You know? To be that good at like, you know, the characters that he did on his sketch show and the writing, and then on top of that, you can direct, I mean, he's kind of fucking limitless as far as his talent goes, but if you haven't seen it yet, before somebody ruins it, you gotta go check it out, alright?
Starting point is 00:45:37 There's my, I never do a movie plug, so there you go. There's one for you. So we ended up going to that thing and I don't know what the fuck we did after that. I think we just came straight home. Oh, I know, walked up to my car and for some reason the fucking lights were on. Because cars are so goddamn confusing.
Starting point is 00:45:57 Like wherever the fuck my lights used to be was the automatic, you just turn the car on and they fucking come on at night. Like somehow the lights sense night. Fucking creepy as that. And I did the manual one. And now that it's on the manual one, I can't figure out where the fuck to put it.
Starting point is 00:46:14 So now I always have to do it and now I'm like, you know. But you know what kills me with today's technology is I left those things on, went and had a drink and an appetizer and then saw like a fucking, whatever that movie is, 90 minutes, I want 45 minute movie and I came back and my car still started up. Back in the day, you were fucked.
Starting point is 00:46:35 Everybody had jumper cables. Dude, can you give me a jump? Do you mind if you can't, hate to bother you, can you give me a jump? And it was always like the shittiest fucking car ever and you're like, ah man. Nah man, I can't, I can't. Now you can just say, no I can't.
Starting point is 00:46:51 They'll be like, why not? It's like, well with today's technology, it's pointless for me to ever look under my hood. I just take it down to the dealer and they deal with everything. I don't even know where the battery is. And I can guarantee you, when I fucking lift up the hood, I probably have to remove something to get to one of the terminals.
Starting point is 00:47:10 So, I don't know why you're not a member of AAA, but I don't want to tell you. And I get in my car and I drive away from a fellow American. You understand me? Dude, what's going on with the fucking Celtics? They've lost six of their last eleven games. They're five and six. And now the Wizards, the Wiz, ease on down, ease on down the road. I never really realized that until a buddy of mine has been giving me shit.
Starting point is 00:47:38 You know, because the Wizards have been playing well against the Celtics and just playing great this year. They slid into second place and I just keep trashing about the name. Like the Bullets is too violent, you know, which I understand because this city was so violent back in the day, you know. But to go from being the Bullets, which I used to think, you know, number one with the bullet, that's how I always looked at it, or faster than a speeding bullet Superman shit.
Starting point is 00:48:09 I didn't think the team was embracing gang violence out on the street, it was like pro crack. It's such stupid shit, I fucking hate when they, so then what do they do? What are the soccer moms fucking political correct police who for some fucking stupid reason think that they're these progressive people and think that they can just, oh, we'll change words.
Starting point is 00:48:31 If we change words, it changes to reception. No it doesn't. No it doesn't. If your parents were dopes, racist cunts, that's what the fuck your kid's going to be. That's it. Unless your kid is lucky enough to interact with somebody within the group that your parents used to fucking trash.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Then maybe you got some daylight. You don't just change a word and it's this fairy dust that sprinkles over somebody's heart and you change their thought. It's so fucking dumb. All it did was just become a way to lose your job because you said the wrong fucking word. And then what, the person who uses the word?
Starting point is 00:49:11 Then they realize it after they lose their job. Oh, now I'm not racist or homophobic. It's so fucking dumb. So they've gone right down to these stupid fucking team names. I love how they changed the bullets, but not the redskins. You know, you got like the fucking, if they haven't changed the redskins, they'd be like, yeah, I get that.
Starting point is 00:49:32 I get that. Like the Indians, you know, it's like, all right, you know, we weren't from fucking, we weren't, you know, Columbus didn't understand that there was a real world. This shit's even real. Who the fuck knows? There was no tape recorders. This guy didn't understand that there was a real world this shits even real Who the fuck knows there was no tape recorders this guy didn't have a fucking diary But how the story was told was that he was like no man the world is fucking round This guy had the balls This guy had the fucking balls to start going towards where they thought you'd go off the edge of the earth
Starting point is 00:50:07 in a fucking boat. You know? I don't know why the water makes it more scarier. But you know, if anybody just sat around and thought about, the world is fucking flat, how isn't the water just running off the edges here? Do they not have counters and sinks? I guess they didn't. Do they have plumbing counters and sinks? I guess they didn't. Did they have plumbing at that point?
Starting point is 00:50:27 Again, you know the Romans did. Fucking heathens banging each other in the goddamn bathrooms there, whatever they did. They ate until they had puke rooms. Just eat until you fucking puke. So I would actually think, well at the very least, even if it is flat, the fact that there's still water in the ocean, there's got to be land on the other side holding it in right but not all Christopher Columbus not all Chris he was like now fuck that I'm gonna get to the West Indies whatever the fuck I was I'm gonna get to
Starting point is 00:50:59 India going the other way he fucking sky the balls to sail out that way, he sails out that way and then he thinks, oh fuck, these people must be Indian. That's just sort of like, oh are you Arab? I thought you were Italian. I mean it's at that level of offensive. Would you really get that offended? Like, no, I'm fucking Arab. How dare you? You'd be like, well, what do you got against Italians, you cunt?
Starting point is 00:51:31 Sorry. Anyways. Um. Speaking of which, I don't understand all these people going on to Ancestry.com. Why you would go to a fucking website and let them take a swab of your saliva? I'm fucking dumb of people. Oh my god I didn't realize you know I'm also Swahili. Whatever the fuck. Why do I always pick Swahili? I was thinking Romania. I didn't understand I was so so Hungarian. Great. Now I know
Starting point is 00:52:06 why I like goulash one-eighth of the time. At this point you're so fucking far removed and I don't understand why people are sitting there acting like there's any sort of culture. There isn't. All right. It's just like what I saw in the greater Phoenix area. There's a new patch of land. You know, you fucking clear it out, you put a bunch of houses down, and then you slam down. Ah! A fucking strip mall.
Starting point is 00:52:36 Sorry, I gotta do this podcast before. My daughter wakes up here. Yeah, they slap down a fucking strip mall, and then just continue to progress. That's basically, you know, then there's a cheesecake factory, they get a frozen yogurt place and that's what it's become. Okay, there's no culture left, is there? I mean, that is the culture.
Starting point is 00:52:59 It sounds like one of the douchey talk show right now. There is no culture. And this is what needs to stop. We have to stop these strip malls. All right. Do you have a solution? No, I don't. I just don't like CVS anchored strip malls.
Starting point is 00:53:17 There was a bunch of people out the other day. You know, you know, when you just have like shit to do, like a Saturday, right? And it's rained a bunch when we were out here and some fucking idiot politician said the droughts over it's like no It isn't it's never over. It was just in a good place right now When is it gonna rain again? You don't know so now you can let people go back to taking long fucking showers I never do that out here. I Shut I turn on and shut off the water like fucking five times when I take a shower.
Starting point is 00:53:48 I turn it on, you know, get yourself wet, you know, and then you shut it off. Sudge yourself up, then you turn it back on, rinse yourself off, you shut it off and that's it. So instead of standing there under the cascading water, you know, like you're some sort of god. Um, and I like you're some sort of god. And I like to think a lot of people try to do that at least. My wife does it, she fucking turns the thing on,
Starting point is 00:54:12 she's fucking walking around, you know. She's one of those chill people. She doesn't think about shit like that, you know. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm a better person than my wife and I don't know how to bring that up If you guys know a good way to word it Like how can I basically say you know what it is, honey? I guess at the end of the day, I'm just
Starting point is 00:54:36 I'm just a better person than you are. I just already pictured her rolling her eyes Anyways The fuck was my point? All right, yeah, so Indians, OK, that's like fucking, that's almost kind of funny. Now you're fucking dope. You're like 6,000 miles away from where you think you are.
Starting point is 00:55:01 I guess it was probably funny at first, so he started chopping people's arms off because they couldn't fucking get some gold for the holes in his teeth. And who the fuck am I to say what's offensive? But you would think that red skin, that would be at the top of the fucking list over bullets. You know what's the worst one? The fact that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are now just the Rays.
Starting point is 00:55:21 You know, that's when you know you gotta move. That's when you just sit like, wait a minute, are there enough Jesus freaks in this area that the local team has to appease their, you know, hocus pocus bullshit? I mean, devil rays, isn't that an actual name of some sort of stingray? I have no idea, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
Starting point is 00:55:49 All I know is that that guy's first name is Liam. That sounds too close to Lyme, like Lyme disease. All right, Devil... Ray. There we go. Yeah. Let me see here. All I'm seeing is pictures of fucking stingrays, giant ones with the fucking, you know like
Starting point is 00:56:17 they're flying through the water. If somebody can explain to me how that makes you move forward, when they make you go up to the surface, dude, these things are fucking gigantic. They're badass. Look at the thing, it's getting air, it's jumping out of the water unless somebody Photoshopped it.
Starting point is 00:56:36 I gotta go video now. They just change it to the rays. We're just the ray, incredible flying rays so I guess devil ray was the nickname oh Jesus Christ I don't need a commercial I do the commercials not you on the West Coast there's always some fucking English accent in the show. Plus it's the BBC, sorry. It's a great feeding event. Oh Jesus. What are they showing there? Somehow I got a fucking pelican.
Starting point is 00:57:13 20 abnormally large animals that actually exist. This is how you fucking go down. You go down just like a... What are they called? They go down the fucking rabbit hole. Let's see. Come on, man. Oh, that was, that was a school of them. I'm an asshole right? Is it fucking got good? Jesus, those things are ugly as shit, huh?
Starting point is 00:57:41 All right. So they're in a helicopter. I imagine. They're flying over this whole school of them. It's like a fucking devil ray orgy. That's why I bet the other ones are more like, what do they call it if you're just monogamous? These things are out here fucking the shit out of each other. And the local Jesus freaks down in Clearwater, Florida. They couldn't have it. Ah, they fly out of the other and the local Jesus freaks down in Clearwater Florida they couldn't have it. They fly out of the fucking water. They're not too graceful with the landing there. Alright I'll repost that fucking video in case you want to watch that while you listen to me ramble about it. Yeah they changed it
Starting point is 00:58:18 to the rays, the Tampa Bay rays, the Tampa Bay devilays, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Two syllables, two syllables. Okay, they went from four-four time to three-four. They turned their fucking team into a waltz. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. All right, I don't know. I don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. Can I read, can I read? You guys want to listen to me read out loud?
Starting point is 00:58:42 Hey everybody, it's time to feel better about the brain you were blessed with. Is this it right here? Can somebody explain to me why it's not at the font I need? I like a nice fucking 18. Font, that's good for me. Now why the fuck would they say that I'm walking around wearing them I would
Starting point is 00:59:06 wear that if I was like 20 years younger ok let me tell you something if you're in your late fucking 40s and you can't afford a fucking you can't afford a decent watch because I don't I don't go for the flash you know what I mean I don't understand that that fuck I mean I get it I guess I get it that Rolex thing that hacky thing I got a Rolex as you can see I've made my dreams come true I'm a man of the world you know there's a lot of guys out there you know my dad always said a man should own a nice
Starting point is 00:59:42 watch what else did he say I get the fuck out of here I'm taking a nice watch. What else did he say? I get the fuck out of here, I'm taking a shit. What else did he say? That was so fucking deep. Maybe he had a nice, calm, relaxing person in your life. Maybe he did. I'm always jealous of that. When I see calm families, they gotta be bored shitless though.
Starting point is 01:00:05 You know what, I would actually be willing to guess that the child that is more likely to just go fucking nuts, you know what I mean, take out the family car, throw a hatchet over somebody's head, it's gonna come from a calm family after a while. That's stupid. No, it isn't. I'm just saying it's possible,
Starting point is 01:00:29 just the fucking monotony of it. Like, you ever go to Disneyland and you're fucking worn out and then you just start hearing it's a small world and it just keeps going over and over again and you slowly feel yourself like losing your sanity That right there is why I don't believe in heaven or hell You know I mean, I just don't believe in it. It doesn't make any fucking sense
Starting point is 01:00:58 You know Like if heaven was if it was just heaven the whole fucking time, heaven would eventually become hell. Because it would just be so fucking nice and everybody would just be walking around, isn't this great? Oh my god, it's great. Can you believe how great this is? This is just fucking great.
Starting point is 01:01:13 Every fucking day and at some point you're going to be like, I did it. It's fucking great. Like what do you do? For the rest of your fucking life? You're just sitting there and it's always the same. It's just awesome. It never rains. There's no disappointments.
Starting point is 01:01:35 There's no challenges. There's no funny stories to tell anymore. Hey, you remember that time when it was awesome? Yeah, it's always awesome. Right? Then if you're in hell, I'm on fire, I'm on fire, God, I'm on fire, I'm on fire after a while, you know, I'm, yeah, I'm on fire. I can't yell anymore.
Starting point is 01:02:01 This has just become normal. I don't even remember what my fucking life was like before I got here. I don't know. I guess hell you can actually see how that would suck. I just don't get heaven. I don't want to fucking be like, you know, at some point, something has to happen. As I'm riding around on my fucking all angel white bicycle, at some point you gotta get a flat, right? Then immediately somebody would be there to help you out. They'd be saying a bunch of nice shit to you. I would slowly just start crying.
Starting point is 01:02:37 And I would just whisper at some point, just be like, Jesus. I don't know if Jesus is like, I know this is weird, I understand, I'm not trying to be that guy who's not appreciative, but could you just, you know, could you just call me a cunt or something? Could you fucking just slap me with your sandal?
Starting point is 01:02:56 You know, can you just imagine the look on his face as he just sits there, you know, not saying anything, as you talk yourself into a corner, he's just sort of looking at you. You know, people look at you when they go from one eye to the other. Right eye, your left eye, your right eye, your left eye. And you're like, this motherfucker's trying
Starting point is 01:03:15 to get in my head right now. The son of God is trying to get in my fucking head. Then you got to explain to the boss's son why you don't like heaven Not that you don't like it, but it's just like can can you make it rain every once in a while? Can it be that dog that's just fucking barking right as I'm going to sleep? Can we just have that? Does every fucking dog have to behave itself Why can't I say that word Jesus why can't I say that word, Jesus? Why can't I say
Starting point is 01:03:45 that word? My disrupting it? What are you gonna do now? Send me down to hell. It's over. I already passed the test. All right. Can somebody be annoyed with fucking something up here? Look at everybody. Look at them. These fucking god damn smiles on their faces. It's creepy Jesus. I don't know. Would you want to fucking be like, it's like you joined a cult. All of these fuck, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:04:20 If I was running shit, I would make religion illegal. It would just be fucking, I would just take it all away from everybody. You know? That's what I would do. I would have a fucking crew of robots, you know, to infiltrate every fucking religion. And then when I made it illegal, they would join the radicalized people in every group, right, and then they would just wipe them all out.
Starting point is 01:04:49 You know, and then you'd have to listen to the whining and the crying of people that remembered fucking religion and all, you just take the whole fucking thing away. And the new religion is, hey, I don't know what the fuck happens after you die. You know? But you know, let's be nice to each other. Then that's it.
Starting point is 01:05:11 Okay, no walking on water, no never running out of fish, part in seas. I don't know about anybody else's religion. I don't know what the fuck, but I know there's always some fucking crazy thing that you know didn't happen, and everybody acts like it happened. It didn't happen.
Starting point is 01:05:28 It was painted on a fucking cave wall and somebody elaborated on it. I don't know. I'd get rid of it. Personally, I'm just talking for myself. Personally, I would get rid of it. By the way, guess what I'm doing on March 29th out here in Los Angeles. Alright? If you're in Los Angeles,
Starting point is 01:05:51 and you're a Guns N' Roses fan, and you like reading their books about the band, I've read every fucking one of them. I read Slash's, I read Steven Atlas, I read Steven Adler's, I read, uh, the kid from Cantors, do, you know, knew the band, took all the pictures. I have that fucking book. And recently, I don't know, I don't know when she put it out, but Deanna Adler, Steven Adler's mom wrote a book, sweet child of mine.
Starting point is 01:06:24 And um, especially if you, if you, you should read this, you should read Stevens first, you know? You get his version of the hell he went through as an addict, and then you get his mother's version, which is unbelievable. And you know what would be fucking amazing is if you could go down and meet her at a book signing at Barnes and Noble at the Grove on March 29th. I believe it starts at 7 p.m. and you go down there and you can fucking meet the mother of the best fucking one of the best drummers of the 80s my personal opinion you know would be even more fucking amazing is if all of them came on my podcast and I got to interview them, oh shit!
Starting point is 01:07:07 Is there a special Monday morning podcast coming up this week? Wouldn't that be incredible? What would it be like if Stephen Adler, and you guys all know how much I fucking love him, his mother Deanna Adler, and then their brother Jamie Adler all came on my fucking podcast. What would that be like?
Starting point is 01:07:26 What would it be like if they all came on at the same time and there was this big happy family that just sat there interrupting each other and you felt like you were at their fucking dinner table? How fucking cool would that be if I did a podcast like that? Well, it's going to happen. It already happened. I already recorded it. And I'll wait till you guys going to happen. It already happened. I already recorded it. I'll wait till you guys listen to it.
Starting point is 01:07:50 I had so much fun with them. Their mother is an absolute salt of the earth sweetheart. She has a book signing. She's all excited slash nervous that no one's going to show up. Same way when I put out a special, what if nobody watches it? So I'm going to be hyping this right up until March 29th. It'd be such a great thing if there was a bunch of people down there. I'm going to be down there standing in line with the rest of yous.
Starting point is 01:08:20 Probably get down there, I don't know, probably like around eight-ish. I think it starts at like seven, but I'll be down there around don't know probably like around eight ish think it starts at like seven but I'll be down there around eight just cuz I got I get some fucking thing I'm taping right before but yeah I did a special podcast I got to meet Steven Adler and I'm still fucking freaking out and and I'll wait till you guys listen to the interview and then I'll tell you all the fucking cool stories all right here we go let. Let's plow ahead here. Oh, my Bruins beat the fucking Flyers!
Starting point is 01:08:49 Oh, with that little fucking prayer of a shot at the end. Not a prayer, just put it on net and somehow found its way to the back of the net. Bruins pick up a huge two points. Bruins are playing great. And as are the Canadians. Which, I don't like the Canadians, but I'm happy for Chlo Julian, you know. And I'm actually, you know what, I think the Bruins might have been right to make a move at this point. I think it's just one of those things with coaching. After a while, even if the person is great, even if they won
Starting point is 01:09:19 your cup, it's just part of coaching. At some point they just show you the door. But we're playing great. We look a lot better than we did. So I think maybe both, it's worked out, and the fucking Canadians are playing better with Claude Julien. All my friends in this business who are Hab fans, they keep texting me saying that they're loving the guy.
Starting point is 01:09:38 So I guess it worked out for everybody. So there you go. And Claude went from original fucking six to an original six. There you go. All right go alright so anyways let's plow ahead here let's read some of the some of the fucking whatever you call them for this week the the questions alright DDP yoga hey Bill first of all thank you very much for your consistently amazing podcast well thank you all, thank you very much for your consistently amazing podcast. Well thank you for listening.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Thank you for doing what you do, sir or ma'am. I absolutely love it, to be honest with you, I feel like it's getting, I feel like getting it for free is too much. I'd gladly pay five to 10 bucks a month for all the content you're releasing. You don't need to do that. I'm fucking, I'm doing great with the advertising. You know? That's why I fuck around during the advertising, because that's how I fucking make money. But I know you guys are going to fast forward through it, unless I keep peppering it with fucks and cunts. That's it. It's a very simple formula. Anyhow, he said, I want to get in touch and address your self-proclaimed dad bod.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Have you ever heard of or looked into DDP Yoga? If not, maybe the name Diamond Dallas Page rings a bell. Former WCW wrestler and all around great guy. After leaving the wrestling business, he devoted himself to getting his body back in peak condition, even through rasslin'. Even though rasslin' is quote fake, it definitely takes a toll. Yeah, they beat the shit out of their bodies.
Starting point is 01:11:20 Long story short, he went from being a guy who wouldn't be caught dead in a yoga studio to trying it after all else failed to develop his own system and helping thousands of people completely revitalize their lives. And I can tell you from personal experience, it's fucking great. No bullshit, no fluff, no instructors,
Starting point is 01:11:39 instructors calmly whispering about chakra alignment. Is that how you say it? Chakra, chakra. It's about consistently performing the physical and mental exercises that will have you operating at your best. Is this a commercial? Healing, nagging, aches and pains, increasing your endurance, gaining mental clarity, et cetera.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Like I said, no fluff. Here's the video that got me to take a chance on it. It's not too late for you, Billy. I hope you'll check it out. Thanks again for the goddamn podcast. All the best to you and your family. That actually read like a commercial, but you know what? I don't give a shit.
Starting point is 01:12:15 It's a physical fitness thing, and so many people have taken yoga and done it in a different way, you know? Because there is that thing, if you're really like a wound up psycho, to go into a yoga class and the tone with which that they speak is a little jarring, you know? To be in your car going, go you fucking cunt, the light is free, you could have made it. To then being like, how is everyone feeling today?
Starting point is 01:12:51 I know the traffic was kind of bad, I hope. I hope you're not bringing that energy in here. As they're slowly walking around lighting these smelly fucking things. You know, and as they're talking, the person next to you just goes. And immediately you just goes... Pfft. Pfft. And immediately you just want to like... I don't know, just slowly roll up your mat.
Starting point is 01:13:12 And just walk out. Like I can't, like, I get that I need to chill out, but I can't feel like... You know where it just becomes like this asexual thing? Where everybody's just kind of like, hey man, we're just kind of, you know, everybody's just like, we're all like one, you know, we're like plants. That's a little fucking jarring.
Starting point is 01:13:35 I'll give it a shot. I've actually been meaning to do it because I keep having setbacks with my fucking shoulder, which is really frustrating, but most of it is diet. So whenever I get in shape, the first thing I do is I cut out the booze. And all I really need to do, I need to go like four to six days without any booze. Even just having that one cognac didn't really do anything. Like I had the one and then immediately my body's like, hey, why don't we have 15 more? But I had to go to the movie and then I was fine.
Starting point is 01:14:07 And then the second I'm in there and the buzz starts to wear off, I think, oh, thank God I didn't have 15 more. Not to mention I got a drive, right? I'm going to give it a shot. I just think if I did yoga, I'd have to do it in the morning before the little one wakes up.
Starting point is 01:14:23 She's so fucking awesome, dude. I'm telling you, you'll never regret it. I guess you know when you regret it if you have a kid with somebody that you're not in love with? I guess that that would suck, but at the end of the day, the kid's still awesome. It's a hell of a door price, I'll tell you that right now. I'll tell you. All right.
Starting point is 01:14:39 Trans wrestling. Hey there, I'm already going to watch this if this is what I think it is. Hey there, I'm already going to watch this, if this is what I think it is. Hey there, Billy Boo. Did you hear the story about the trans girl going through hormone treatment who is still wrestling girls in high school? His slash her defense is that it's a low dose
Starting point is 01:14:58 of testosterone and it does not allow for any competitive advantage. Wait a minute, isn't that what HGH is? That's human growth hormone? Well, I guess they don't do human growth hormone. I don't know what kind of hormones they take. Having said that, I'm not sure I'd let my daughter wrestle a girl who had any edge at all.
Starting point is 01:15:23 Even if it's a tiny bit of extra strength, it could be the difference in breaking a bone. Thoughts? Would you let your daughter wrestle in that situation? Yeah, yeah I would. Then they're gonna break a fucking bone. You know what I mean? How many times do people break a bone in wrestling?
Starting point is 01:15:41 Does that really happen? They're just fucking on each other the whole time. It's like, you know, like that official level shit, not the fun shit. The stone cold shit, the actual official college shit. It's like competitive spooning. You know what I mean? It's like one person is trying to spoon with the other person and the other person's like competitive spooning. You know what I mean? It's like one person is trying to spoon with the other person, and the other person's like, I want to be the spooner, not the spoonie. That's basically what's going on.
Starting point is 01:16:10 They don't like, you know? No, I wouldn't be concerned about that. Yeah, I'm one of those dads. Where the kid's crying, going, you know, she's already half a guy. I'd be driving her out. As far as I know, she's still a girl. So suck it up.
Starting point is 01:16:31 You want to be the best? Well, then you got to wrestle half a dude. That's it. I don't want to hear another word out of you. I'd be like that. Why don't you embrace the opportunity to be like, well here we go, if this is actually a fucking advantage, all this is going to do is make me better.
Starting point is 01:16:51 You know what I mean? And then you can go up there and give your record. 27 and 0 against 100% chicks. And one and two against someone who's half a dude, right? You got to embrace it. I mean, what is that person supposed to do? There's not enough fucking people that are going through what the fuck she's going through to fit on either side.
Starting point is 01:17:18 You know, I think it's a cool thing. Fuck it. Who gives a shit? Look, there's already going to be that fucking monster anyways. Some woman's going to walk in there and she's going to be blessed with frontier strength. You know what I mean? Chopping wood strength. There's going to be that person anyways.
Starting point is 01:17:42 I mean, I guess if she was actually, if she was trying to get a scholarship in a loss could potentially affect it. Maybe. But I got to be honest with you. I think, I don't know, I would, as a father, I'd be like, cycling, hey man, let's see how you do. If this is actually an advantage, this is a great fucking opportunity
Starting point is 01:18:08 for you to become a better wrestler. There's no money on the line, who gives a fuck? Let's go. Let me tell you something, brother. Come this Saturday when my daughter wrestles against that half a dude. What are you gonna do when these pythons run wild on you? All right, I'd get up for it.
Starting point is 01:18:26 I wouldn't give a shit. Fuck it. Yemeni guy in Europe. So the person's from Yemen. Yemeni. Yemen and ye. How the fuck do you say that guy in Europe? All right, hey Bill, I'm a Yemeni guy who has been
Starting point is 01:18:46 I hope I'm saying that right. No disrespect here who's been living in Europe for the past six fucking years Although everything is going all right. I want to ask your advice because I can relate to your personality Hang on a second, sir or ma'am. I want to fucking figure out whether, I'm assuming you're from Yemen. What is Yemeni? What is a Yemeni? Whom? To whom is a Yemenite? Oh, why did that all disappear?
Starting point is 01:19:24 What is a Yemeni? Come on. All right, relating to Yemen or its people. Holy shit, I was right. That's a nice flag. They got a nice flag. I like just the three bars. I'm a big three bar flag guy.
Starting point is 01:19:46 France, Italy, Ireland, Yemen. All right. What do you guys think of the new Russian flag? I kind of like the old one. The old one was this shit, all red with that sickle. I thought that that one was fucking dope. The new one's all right. What is it? Red, white and blue? Holy shit. They got the same colors as us. Is that what it is? It's something like that. I don't know. I was watching this whole thing
Starting point is 01:20:13 about Vladimir Putin poisoning these guys and shit. Allegedly, I have no idea. I was watching it on 60 minutes. So it's got to be true, right? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. All right, Yemeni guy in Europe. All right, I've been over there for the last six fucking years. I want to ask you a question because I can relate to your personality. My family has been living in a war zone in Yemen for the past two years. Our old house, our old house there was bombed and my father was inside, but the lucky bastard came out without a scratch.
Starting point is 01:20:46 I miss them and wish I could help them, but that's kind of not possible now. Alright, before, I already feel like this is going to be way over my head. Before that, I lost some good old friends that I knew for more than 10 years because of some stupid incidents. Was beaten by a gang of more than 15 men in Malaysia on a trip there for no reason. And my two-year ex-girlfriend at the time cheated on me with their current boyfriend. Isn't this fucking amazing? This guy's from the other side of the planet and it's the exact same shit. Gang violence, and your fucking girl got sick of you and fucking bang somebody else cheated on me with her current boyfriend while I was on that
Starting point is 01:21:32 trip I guess to Malaysia and didn't have the decency to break up with me before that she was my first you know what are you gonna do people are young they don't know how to break up so they wait till you go to Malaysia and they fuck somebody. I mean, this is a time-honored tradition of how to break up with somebody, all right? So if you're with your first love, what have we learned? Do not go by yourself to Malaysia. I don't know how many times I brought that up
Starting point is 01:22:00 on this podcast, you cannot go to fucking Malaysia. All right, I just graduated from college, have a beautiful girlfriend, which I love and feel blessed with what I have. I know that I was an asshole at certain moments in my life, but I have changed a long time ago and I'm still trying to be more honest, clear and focused. Well, welcome to the club, sir. I'm currently looking for a job in Germany and will try to apply after that for a German passport which will make my life much easier and allow me to start a company and sustain
Starting point is 01:22:31 myself without being dependent on others. Exactly, you want to work for yourself. I know that you have lived certain moments in your life where you were faced with challenges that might have taught a lesson but at the same time left a mark on your self-confidence. How did you empower yourself and what advice would you give a young man like me confronting life's challenges? That's it, fuck face.
Starting point is 01:22:57 Congratulations on your baby and fuck you. Now there's a guy, okay, who speaks at least three languages and still is able to break balls. Isn't that amazing? He probably speaks Yemeni, Yemenite, Yemen-Asian, whatever the fuck he speaks, right? He knows that one. He's in Germany, so he's got to speak that language. Why are you in this space, right?
Starting point is 01:23:20 And he can also speak English. How did I empower myself? I used to just say shit out loud to myself. You know, when I would feel the dark cloud of doubt coming in, I would just, you know, it took me a while, but I would, but I mean, I wasn't facing what you're facing, being an immigrant, so I mean, I wasn't facing what you're facing, being an immigrant, so I mean, you're facing way more than I did, but the fact that, I don't know, you're trying to become a better person,
Starting point is 01:23:55 you know how to reach out for help and all that, I think, my gut says you're going to be fine. What you have to do in general is when the doubt comes in, you got to beat the shit out of it. You know, you have to, the biggest thing is, is that you're conscious of the self doubt. So once you're conscious of it, you can then address it. It's when you're really young and you're not conscious of it.
Starting point is 01:24:23 And that thought comes in and then you start dwelling on it, and then it just washes over your whole body, and you can literally, you know, have a fucking panic attack. What you have to do, I did anyways, is, you know, you try to cancel it out with a positive thought. I know this sounds like hokey shit, but I used to just say shit out loud. I read some book one where, and it started off with like, I would just be walking down
Starting point is 01:24:53 the street, you know, walking by other people and I would just randomly be, just be like, yeah, fuck that, fuck that. People can have it like I was nuts, but I was like, fuck that negative thought. I mean, I wouldn't yell it, but I would, I would kind of just, but I was like fuck that negative thought. I mean I wouldn't yell it, but I would kind of just say fuck that, fuck that. No it isn't, no it hasn't, right? No it won't, or whatever the hell it was.
Starting point is 01:25:13 And then it just became like, when I moved to New York, and trying to get in at the clubs, I knew I was going to get in, but you know, the day to day just seemed like impossible. The club owners and everything, some of them were cool and others enjoyed the fact that you were desperate and just really enjoyed that position of power over you. And I would walk out of the club dejected. You know, I was afraid. You know, am I going to run out of money?
Starting point is 01:25:52 I don't have a job right now. I'm doing these driving back to Massachusetts to fucking feature in Dick Doherty's rooms. That was not barely covering, you know, living in New York, every time you stepped outside, you blew 20 bucks, 30 bucks, you know, living in New York, every time you stepped outside, you blew 20 bucks, 30 bucks, you know? And I just first, I'd started,
Starting point is 01:26:12 what I said was, I'm tougher than you, New York, is what I would say. As hokey as that sounds, that's what, you know, the city would kick me in the balls, and then I would just mumble that to myself. You know, sometimes like six times in a row, until I got that thought on my head, and I would just say, and then I would just be like,
Starting point is 01:26:34 I'm going to get in the clubs. I'm going to get in, and I'm going to make a living, I'm going to be fine, I'm going to be fine, everything's going to be fine. Fuck that, fuck that, fuck that. I mean, something like that, Everything's going to be fine. Fuck that, fuck that, fuck that. I mean, something like that. That's what I had to do.
Starting point is 01:26:50 And then it just, you know, and that continues throughout your fucking life. And then you get to my age, you know, and I'm doing great and everything. But there's also, there's always your mortality around the fucking corner. And how I've kind of mentally dealt with death, the inevitable death, is that I just think it's going to be a great experience. You know what I mean? That I don't think anything bad happens to you when you die. Either you just go into the ground and then that's it.
Starting point is 01:27:29 And, uh, then that's it. You know? You got to be a person on this planet. As opposed to like a fucking mosquito. You got the best fucking experience. Hopefully. You did. Um. And then that's it, it's fucking over,
Starting point is 01:27:47 or you become something else. And I just don't think that is bad. You know, I just don't think, it doesn't make any sense that it would then just be bad. I don't know, I hope that helps you. I got a little off the rails there. So what I would say is you just baby step your way. You know?
Starting point is 01:28:10 And, like for me, making it as a comedian was like a 20 year fucking, 15, 20 year process. I was obviously, I was not the overnight, I didn't have the hook, I didn't have any of that fucking shit, and I just basically, every day, you know, was didn't have the hook, I didn't have any of that fucking shit, and I just basically every day was fucking hacking at the tree until it came down and you just don't quit.
Starting point is 01:28:35 That's it, you just don't quit, you don't give it a negative thought, and every day you just fucking take a few steps towards it. And then one day you just wake up in your way you wanted to be, and you're like, how the fuck did that happen? And it's funny, you don't feel any different. You know? So, but you'll be all right. I think you're going to be all right.
Starting point is 01:28:55 You know, you speak three different fucking languages. You can break balls in English. I mean, you sound like you got a great sense of humor, and you're trying to get you're gonna be fine Just say that to yourself. I'm gonna be fine. This is gonna work out and Then that's it then you can try to fucking help somebody else out along the way. All right last one here documentary recommendations Hey, Oh Billy. Oh Billy beat down I was wondering if you hadn't heard of the this new documentary that just came out called ice guardians
Starting point is 01:29:27 It's about the history of enforcers and hockey and I would love to hear your take on it if you haven't seen it I watch all of these fucking things I haven't seen it, but I watched the trailer and it looked great I Don't know about the name, Ice Guardians. That sounds somewhere between a superhero movie and a musical on ice. Coming to Madison Square Garden, it's Ice Guardians. Fosse hands skating around the ice.
Starting point is 01:30:04 He said, thanks for all the laughs and for always making me feel better about the way I read things out loud. Thanks and go fuck yourself. Here's a link to the trailer. Okay, I'll send out this link here to the trailer. By the way, I'm going to be at the South by Southwest on Tuesday. I'm flying in Tuesday, I'm doing a podcast with Al Madrigal for All Things Comedy Network,
Starting point is 01:30:28 and then I'm flying right back out that night. That's it, boom, doing a landing, doing a podcast, jumping back on the plane and flying back. That's my dedication to the God damn network, and also my dedication to fucking coming back to see my daughter. That's it, and after that, I got three days, a Monday, a Tuesday, a Wednesday,
Starting point is 01:30:50 at the improv in San Jose Cruz! And I think that that's my, that'll be my fucking, that'll be my month. That's it, all right. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Go fuck yourselves. I'll check in on you. On Thursday. And uh... I think that's it. That is it. Alright. Go fuck yourselves. So So So Thanks for watching!

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