Monday Morning Podcast - Super Bowl, Drones, Valentine's Day Grift | Monday Morning Podcast 2-10-25

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Bill rambles about not watching the Super Bowl, drones at the beach, and the Valentine's Day grift. Open Phone:  Right now, OpenPhone is offering 20% off of your first 6 months when you go to www.OpenPhone.com/BURR Magic Spoon:  Get 5 dollars off your next order at www.MagicSpoon.com/BURR  

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burris, time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday, February 10th, 2025. What's going on? How are ya? What's going on? How are ya? I'm still here in New York, obviously, doing this fucking, well not obviously, obviously a May, still doing this gig.

I can't get fucking acclimated to this time. Every fucking night I'm laying in bed till like 2, 3 in the morning. And I'm tired of shit. I don't know. I don't know what the deal is. Oh Billy fucking sports fan. Oh Billy sports fan. I went to a Bruins game.

It just worked out. It just worked out. I went to the Bruins game against the Rangers on like Monday or Tuesday last week and then say night I went to the Knicks game against the Celtics. Funny, it was a fucking 830 game, right? So I'm there with another buddy of mine, he's a Celtics fan, the other guy's a Knicks fan. It's an 830 game, East Coast, 830. And I'm like, why the fuck is it at 830? And they go, it's the national game.

830 and I'm like, what the fuck is it at 830 and they go it's the national game. Celtic start the game, Jason Tate him, what he did all night, little crossover move, nobody touches him and he just fucking two-handed dunk on some poor bastard on the Knicks. Took the garden out of the game quick. Nick's singing out, we're up like 17, 18 fucking points quick. This is the national game. So, you know, the refs start calling, you know, anything that we're doing or whatever. And we're all just laughing. Even the Knicks fan, because yeah, he's got to keep it close. It's the national game, right? I don't even know where the fuck we at like the level you know what was fun about corruption when I was young was it was they at least tried to hide it. You get these fucking refs just just wide open you can fucking bet on sports at the arena

you can see Kyle and hold some sort of fucking governmental position I wasn't see how I did it kick Saturday Saturday night after the game I was walking in the snow walking in the snow by the in the snow. By the way, this whole fucking new thing with fucking guys wearing shorts in the wintertime, it was fucking snowing out. It was that awful snow, not the fun snow that makes your girlfriend go like, yay, it's so beautiful.

It was that wet snow where it's almost rain, but it's not, and it's almost rain, but it's not and it's not snow and it's going sideways And this fucking jerk-off comes up to street You know, he's got this, you know those big winter coats You'll see a homeless person have you know, they just grab whatever coat they can find so it doesn't it's ill-fitting Maybe they beat up a homeless guy bigger than them. So they're fucking walking. He had a big fucking coat like that, you know. Snow boots on and then shorts. The fucking shorts thing.

It's like, I get it, you don't get cold. You know? That's the male version of a chick with like fake titties, like wearing them out, you know, that's the male version of a chick with like fake titties, like wearing them out, you know, barely covering them. And they'll be like, what? It's fucking, it's just comfortable. What are you looking at? Yeah, these fucking male attention whores.

Get a fucking personality and a pair of pants. Fucking walking around, I run hot. It's like fucking 31 degrees out. What the fuck are you talking about? Walking around in goddamn shorts. And here's the thing, I know some people run hot, but like this whole wearing shorts in the fucking winter time or all year round,

that is a new phenomenon in the last like 20 years. Last 20 years. So, I don't know. maybe maybe it isn't that maybe it isn't a fucking fashion I don't know I I just I always look at shit like that just being like alright that person like doesn't know how to tell a story doesn't know how to talk to women so they got to do something to steal focus you're wearing shorts but they don't kick no we got to fucking talk about your legs Anyways, let's just say it isn't a desperate attempt to get fucking attention. Like a hipster, picking somebody off a fucking, what is that, the worst app ever?

That picture one. Pimp, not Pimsleur, it's a language app. What's the fucking Pinterest? That is the worst, most confusing fucking whatever that is. They got the coolest fucking pictures. You can't share them with anybody. And then like it's the whole thing is just fucking erratic.

I can't figure it out, but they got great pictures. Oh, I'll tell you, they got great pictures, okay? What the hell was my goddamn point? Yeah, the hipsters, it's like they go on there and they just pick a guy from like 1974 to 1982 and they're like, I'm dressing like that guy. At least they do in Los Angeles. They just pick a guy from like 1974 to 1982. And they're like, I'm dressing like that guy. At least they do in Los Angeles. I don't know if they, maybe in Brooklyn too.

I don't know. Let's just, okay, Bill, let's not be a cunt. Let's just say maybe they run hot. I run hot. Well, then how come you're wearing a jacket? If you run hot wouldn't you just walk down the street like it was springtime? And if you do run hot like what is happening to your junk in in July? Wait a minute. You run so hot that like you and your woman you're trying to have a baby and you literally

cannot do it in the summertime because your balls and your junk are just so fucking just heated up. It cooks your sperm. Gross. So in the winter time in in order to have viable sperm, you've got to walk like, all right, honey, let's try it tonight. All right, wait a second.

I've got to put my shorts on and walk around the block in the snow. OK. Cool down my jizz. Here we go. down my jizz. Here we go. Anyway, so I went over to Gotham Comedy Club, had a fucking shitty set. I had a fucking shitty set. I just wasn't like, I mean the crowd was good and everything and the show went okay but like I just wasn't flowing. Anyway, dude, I saw a fucking amazing, amazing movie, one arguably. The greatest movie if you grew up in the 70s and you just want to go back to it and see.

the greatest documentation of how dirty this country was in the early 70s. How brown everything looked. And all of these fucking wannabe Cadillac, four door, fucking sleds that you just like, all of these cars that I like the cars that you room that you forgot you remembered if that makes any sense like oh my god I remember seeing those who makes that fucking car and I was missing on all of them it's that Buick not a Pontiac Pontiac what what the fuck is that? So anyway, they have this The same guy I should have got these names the same guy that choreographed the car chase in bullet stars Roy Scheider

I'm sorry. I didn't say the name the movie. It's called the seven ups and The full movie is on YouTube for free. Now. I don't like watching movies for free. I have no problem paying for them. I usually rent them for 3.99 on YouTube. YouTube low key has better fucking movies than most streaming services because they have like, you know, random obscure, like they don't give a fuck about an algorithm. It's like if you upload it, it's there, right? So anyway, Roy Scheider, but the guy who choreographed

the car chase in Bullet, Steve McQueen in that Shelby Mustang, and then the other, the bad guys were in like that, I don't know what the fuck it was. I'm so bad, someday I'm gonna sit down and learn The hammy shit some sort of Chrysler Dodge. I don't know what the fuck it was, but it's badass car right and So he does this one and this one I'll be honest with you I can't even name it was a I want to say that the car was like a four-door fucking Pontiac It was a sled. And then the other one was some ripoff of a Mustang or some Hemi shit. I don't even know who made it. Roy Scheider

is in that one. And they have this car chasin'. It's just like Bullet where Steve McQueen was driving by himself, Roy Scheider's driving by himself, and then there's the two bad guys. So the two bad guys, there's a guy in the passenger seat named Richard Lynch who was also in Scarecrow with Pacino and Gene Hackman and he's a fucking unbelievable actor. Un-fucking-believable actor. And he's the other bad guy. He's in the passenger seat. And what's amazing is he plays scared. Like that's his choice. Like he's fucking concerned. And it really makes the scene like come alive because the way the first one, both bad guys were like stoic, you know? Like that worked in a way,

but having somebody at least address what the fuck they're doing. And by the way, they're racing all along the Upper West Side. They go over the George Washington Bridge, and they sort of fudge it, because they go over the George Washington Bridge like they're going into New Jersey, and then they somehow end up on like the Merritt Parkway,

like you're going up to Westchester. It is a fucking amazing, amazing car chase and there's a nod to Jane Mansfield in the car chase. If you guys know that fucking story. Anyway, absolutely, out of five stars, for cars, I give it six stars. Absolutely incredible. And I've been trying to think, you know, now that I sold my Jaguar and I don't have a daily driver, I'm going to get one of those fucking cars, one of those big fucking living room cars. It's gotta figure out like which one. So funny, the interiors on those cars are

ridiculous. It's like you're driving around in a living room. It's unbelievable. So anyway, that movie is incredible. And then I also saw, I went out yesterday and I saw The Brutalist. Jesus Christ, they should have called that movie The Fucking Brutalist, because it is fucking brutal. Not in a bad way. Just what the characters go through is fucking brutal. Long ass movie too. It had an intermission, which I can't remember the last time I went to a movie. It had a 15 minute fucking intermission. And I went with a friend

of mine and we're looking at each other like, dude, how long is this fucking movie? Because we were gonna go to the movie and then get something eight down a giant town over there. And the acting in it is incredible. So I guess it's nominated, sorry, I'm not on time here. It was nominated for a whole bunch of awards and everything and I can see why.

Performances in there were fucking incredible. So anyway, that thing ends and it was a six o'clock movie. We got out at like 10 o'clock. And we would laugh and go and like, you know, if that was on TV, I don't know if I would have made it. Like I would have, with my ADD, I wouldn't have made it through it. So I was so glad I went and I saw it in the movie theater. But it doesn't drag.

It like somehow went by really fast. But I didn't have the distractions or anything like that. And also if you watch it at home, it's 3 hours and 35 minutes. But that's with the credits. Credits take 5 minutes. So it's 3 and a half hours. But anyway, so we're walking out of the movie theater and then we're walking over to like Chinatown and at this point it's late and it's Sunday night and I'm trying to figure out, you know, we're trying to find a place that's open or whatever and we're talking about the movie and shit and I walked by and it was so funny and I looked and the Super Bowl

was still going. That's what fucking I just it's so fucking awful why the Super Bowl has to be that goddamn fucking long. I went to the game last year and I swear to God, when they go to commercial and you're sitting in the stadium, how fucking long it is, it just kills all the fucking drama of it. It's the only sport that does that.

It's the only fucking sport where it gets to the most important game of that sport and then the game is so in the fucking background. Who's performing at halftime? How much do you think that commercial cost? We normally run three four commercials between you know on commercial breaks now we're gonna run eight. So anyway, my prediction on the game was that if they let them play, the Eagles could beat them and Saquon was going to run wild and eat up the clock and he would be the MVP. But if the refs were doing their usual bullshit, you know, the Eagles didn't have a fucking prayer. So I walked down the street and I see it's like 40 to 6 Eagles.

And I was like, all right, I guess they fucking, they fucking let them play. All of these people calling them out for their fucking bullshit. They didn't get the pre-retrial treatment? Is that what happened? I have no idea. I didn't watch the game, but Verzi told me that Saquon, you know, didn't have a dominating game or whatever and Jalen Hurts got the MVP. So congratulations to the Eagles. And congratulations to you guys because I swear to God, if the fucking Kansas City

Chiefs won, I don't know if I was going to be able to hold my fucking tongue. But they did a good job though. They got, you know, Taylor Swift all the way to the Super Bowl. So the casual fan was there, but not for long, but long enough maybe that they made their money? I don't know. I don't know. The only thing I saw, I did see something funny, was a bunch of Eagle fans singing something

like, you know, nobody likes us, we don't care. I know, singing that nobody likes them, we don't care. And it was so fucking hilarious to me Where it's like all these poor bastards, they don't realize that it's worse than that It's worse than nobody likes you. Nobody. We don't care. Nobody's talking about you Like no one's standing around the water cooler in a different fucking city going, I'll tell you, you know what city really burns my britches. The saddest thing about Philadelphia, when I started to love that city, aside from the fact was I always liked their teams.

Despite that stupid thing that happened when I was down there with Stan, I was just going after their teams because they were booing me, right? But I always liked their teams. I mean, the Celtics, Phillies, like I really, not Phillies, the Celtics fucking Sixers, right? I didn't like the Sixers during that time, but now I look back, I fucking love those guys. And I still think that 76ers way back in the day, that the pregame, their warmups, whatever that they had, when Dr. J was playing on them in the early 80s is still arguably one of the

best fucking logos and whatever whatever you want to call it fucking uniforms ever and always liked the Phillies and I loved the Flyers when I was growing up because I loved watching the fights and that was their whole fucking identity. I did hate the Eagles because I was a Cowboys fan during the Tom Landry Cowboys era. I was like devastated when they beat the Cowboys in 1980 and then went to the Super Bowl, whatever. But I've always liked that city. You know, Mitchell and Ness I liked. Um, and then I liked the way the city was like laid out with all those one way streets, it made no fucking sense or anything. There was a great comedy club down there.

So the first time I was driving down to Philly, um, you know, this is the day, this is way like fucking 30 years ago. So I'm driving, I got a Rand McNally map. So, you know, getting into New Jersey, it's confusing with the turnpike. I got to make sure I'm going the right way. So I get on 95 South and I just stopped paying attention because I'm like, all right, when I, when I get to like, you know, Philly, then I'll look down at the map and see where I'm going to go to get to the comedy condo, right?

And all of a sudden I start seeing signs that I'm Maryland. I'm like, where the fuck is, you know, and you start thinking like how states are put together. I'm like, what the fuck is, you know, and you start thinking like how states are put together, it's like, wait, is Philly like south of Jersey and it like a butts up against Maryland? I didn't, I didn't fucking know that. I got almost to Maryland before I realized 95 does not go through. It bypasses Philadelphia. not go through it bypasses Philadelphia and I was pissed because it made me late but then I remember just forget what comic I was just going dude how the

fuck are you guys a major city and the major fucking highway on the East Coast the major one 95 95 goes to goes through fucking Portland, Maine. It doesn't go through Philadelphia. He's like, yeah, no. So anyway, congratulations to the Eagles. What is that? That's their second one. And that's the first Super Bowl I hadn't watched What is that? That's their second one. Um... And, uh,

that's the first Super Bowl I hadn't watched since I missed the when the Titans played the Rams. But I ended up going back and watching it. So, um... I just, I literally cannot watch a Chiefs game. And listen to those fucking guys

just going like, oh my God, you see the way Patrick, my homes broke up. I said, I get it, dude. I get it. I get it. You're telling me he's the next one. He's the next one. I got it.

Um, I just couldn't fucking stomach watching the goddamn thing. Um, and I was just literally convinced. You know, I, I don't all of this shit. I just, I, I don't, I don't think like baseball necessarily has a baseball has a problem with cheating, um, and gambling a little bit. And they just sort of go like, Oh, you know, it's the interpreter or, okay. People, people have been dealt with in Houston and then that's it but then when they win their second one we're going to say it's their second World Series and act like that first thing never happened.

They kind of do that but like basketball and football like I don't I don't know anymore. I mean I'll tell you the one thing that like was the most, the biggest admission of guilt to me was when that Donahue guy got busted for having mob affiliations. And when they were telling that story, when the FBI went to David Stern and said out of a courtesy, just to let you know, we're investigating your league. Okay. And then the next day day David Stern went public and announced that that was what was happening

to fuck their whole investigation. What does that say to you? Is that not the biggest admission of guilt? Is that not the biggest admission of like, hey, these guys start turning over rocks. If they turn over the wrong rock, like we're all gonna go down. Because there was two levels of, I am, you cannot fucking convince me otherwise.

There was two levels that the thing was being fixed. It was the mobbed up guy, who was not doing it for the NBA, and then it was Stern and those guys, you know, with these storylines in these cities that were making them fucking money and they were involved in it and someone was going to get intimidated someone was going to get scared someone was going to talk like I don't think I have on my tin foil hat thinking that because like The number one thing that that like these guys were all afraid of Is having a cheating scandal and if

The fans know it isn't real or believe it's not real Their big panic is that we're gonna all walk away from the sport and we're not gonna watch anymore You know, so they defend that at fucking like all Costs So that's why they they allow like going oh, yeah, I I didn't bet 14 million on baseball it was my interpreter and cuz Like if Otani was not a star If he was just some fucking run-of-the-mill guy, that's then that they don't want that but they would punish him And then it makes them look like they're actually police in the fucking game. So

Anyway, like if you're if you're the commissioner of the fucking league and you know that there's some level of corruption there you don't want You don't want that in your league at all. You would work with the FBI the FBI shows up to your office and you have like fucking 90 lawyers sitting around you and then you immediately Sabotage the whole fucking thing to stop it. I Don't know that does not look good to me And don't even give me this shit of like, well, you know, he stopped it because the investigation doesn't look good. He said, but you still have, well, then you stop that. So you didn't figure out where the corruption was coming from.

So then it should continue. Why would you want to do that? Why would you want to do that unless you were part of it? So you can't fucking convince me otherwise. So here's the thing, I don't think that these games are like, I don't think that they're like everything that you're watching, like the running backs in on it, every fucking basketball player is in on it. I don't think that.

But I definitely think that like back in the day that, you know, storylines came together organically and you had to wait for greatness. Like when a great era came to an end, there was a little bit of a lull and then the league would have to go through a few years to try to find a new identity. Like when the Cowboys and Steelers thing ended in the 70s. It took a little while for the 49ers, you know, they it in 81 like that whole thing ended in like the 79 season right or you could say the NFC championship game when the Eagles beat the Cowboys okay so the 49ers win it in 81 but that's just like one championship and everybody's

like wow man didn't see that coming like all right it wasn't until like you know four or five years later that the greatness of Bill Walsh in Montana and all that I mean Jerry Rice wasn't even there I didn't think until the last two I think he missed 81 and 84 but the Raiders also won like in 80 and then won 83. So people like oh maybe are they going to be the team of the decade you know and then the Redskins won one and then the Redskins came right back and go fuck is it the Redskins was sort of like flipping around and then it just sort of naturally played out like oh 49ers. 49ers this was their decade and wow Joe Montana you you're never gonna see another guy

like that, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. You know, and you didn't for the longest time. Even with the Cowboys, one of the things, it was like Joe Montana's aggressive, now it just, they just, it just, it happens immediately. Like whatever just happened that, yeah, I'll tell you right now, you're not gonna see another guy like that for a long, long time.

And then now just, I mean, up, it's happening again. It's happening immediately. No waiting, TSA, just fucking cruise right on through. So I just feel like over the years, you know, when I was watching sports like 50 years ago, they were still, you know, they were still like kind of sports leagues or whatever. And sports wasn't as big. There was no fucking ESPN. It was the last five minutes of the newscast you know, there was money to be made and everything but like Shit that made these leagues bigger was like an accident like monday night football was a fucking idea. They had no idea that you know

That that was going to happen That putting howard cossell in with frank gifford and dandyandy Don Meredith, and that the mix of that was gonna be this cultural phenomenon, and that the National Football League would somehow become more popular than Major League Baseball. But what happens is when the shit happens, they go, oh fuck, that works. Let's keep doing that.

And I think it's been that thing that they've been doing over the years. Oh, that works's keep doing that. And I think it's been that thing that they've been doing over the years. Oh, that works. Keep doing that. That storyline works. We need this storyline. That's where it started to get manipulated. It's kind of like just where I am. I'm at with sports. And I got to be honest with you, I was always kind of like envious of people. When I would meet somebody that didn't watch sports, I gotta be honest with you I was always kind of like envious of people when I would meet somebody that didn't watch sports I go Jesus Christ what the fuck do you do with all of that free time? That must be amazing to not give a fuck.

And I feel like I'm slowly getting there. rather than getting upset just being like oh okay is that is that the greatest thing that ever okay no hey yeah yeah like that exactly anyway I am excited that they didn't win three in a row because if they won three in a row then I would then I literally thought that that was going to happen because that would have been perfect for them because they would get to be like, okay, now he's won three in a row. Nobody's ever won three in a row. So you have to now say that he is in your conversation and you can't argue it. Right.

Somebody wrote that you can't argue it right somebody wrote that you can't argue it Just trolling people to call in Anyway at some point I will I'll watch the game, but I honestly I think I'm done Oh by the way I saw I've been listening to a lot of Ozzy lately. I've been playing guitar here because I can't play, I haven't found a rehearsal space or anything yet to go play drums. So I've been listening to a lot of Ozzy and with like fucking Randy Rhoads.

Those fucking albums are fun, man. They're fucking great. Why is the second one? I can never keep track of the names either. Diver Madman, Bark at the Moon, and then one of those is the Jake Lee album. Bark at the Moon, Dary of a Madman. Oh, hang on a second. I got them in my phone, right? I can look these things up. I do have this ability.

Library. Alright. O-Z-Z-Y. Ozzy Osborne. Oh, Blizzard of Oz. Diary of a Madman okay that was yeah Blizzard Blizzard of Oz Diary of a Madman um that's just fucking that's the one Diary of a Madman is 28 minutes I've never understood why it's so short like the the first one he does with Randy, I can't tell how long it is because I hate how every time you download a fucking album now, they gotta have like 50 fucking outtakes or something. It's like can I just get, I never get just the original one. I think there was, oh you looking at me looking at you non LP B-side.

I can see why that was not on the album. That was a weak one. It was like the last two, Steal Away and You Looking at Me, You Look, Looking at Me, Looking at You were like fucking album fillers. But everything else on that album is fucking killer. I will tell you the fucking one that is unexpected, that almost doesn't sound like the band and just sounds like it was for, like they wrote it for a movie is that no bone movies. And I don't mean because it's about movies or whatever, but like just, it's a lot lighter

and poppier sounding than the rest of the fucking album. But, um... God damn, Randy Rhoads wrote some great fucking songs. And Jakey Lee. You gotta hand it to Ozzy. That guy could fucking pick a guitar player. I've been listening to a lot of that shit, but anyway, fucking babbling here where am I here the fuck are the goddamn we're all right where the fucking leads mate all right open phone everybody open phone if your business has a growing team handling calls whether it's sales or support you know how tricky it can be to stay on top of things. Like who responded to that customer?

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in. A millennial mom of two. Congratulations. You are blessed. I say that I'm a millennial because my relative age will be important in the rest of the email. The last MMP you read an email from a man who had to endure sitting through a woman's cricket match before a men's match that they wanted to see. This is just my perspective and I don't speak for all women. Mainstream women's sports weren't really a thing growing up in the 90s and aughts, the 2000s. So my formative years of developing personality and interest didn't include women's sports because they weren't mainstream on the professional level. I played volleyball and tennis in high school but would only see those sports played by women on

programs like the Olympics. Tennis? You didn't see women's tennis? Women's tennis was amazing when you were coming up. You had the Williams sisters. Arguably the fucking peak of Martina Hingis. My whole life women's tennis has been the shit. Billie Jean King when I was a kid, Chris Everett Lloyd, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, the Williams sisters, Lindsay Davenport, I forgot Monica Sellis, yeah and they were all you know, a lot of hearties in there too.

There was reason to watch there. And they were great. And the game was played at a high level. Like when I watched women's tennis, I actually prefer women's tennis because it's three sets to five. Watching a men's five set tennis match is fucking exhausting. I don't know how the hell they do it. But I feel like women's tennis has always been there. Anyway, not to mention blah blah blah, I had to watch the Olympics. Not to mention being surrounded by boys growing

up making fun of women's teams or women's abilities didn't help. I'm happy that these sports exist now for my daughter when she gets older and might have an interest. Yeah absolutely and they're just gonna think the level is gonna keep getting better. I remember when women came into the the fucking UFC I was like I don't want to see this this is gonna be awful and all of a sudden it's like holy shit this is amazing. So I would say women's tennis and women professional fighting, I don't see a drop off in like the performance level. You know, I know men are stronger and they hit the fucking ball faster or they punch

harder or whatever, but like when you're watching two women fighting, it's not like, you know, I don't know, know looks good to me anyway I'm also excited that these exists for my son to also see this representation spoil yes so we call us guys can stop being fucking meatheads about it well you know it also doesn't fucking help that you know you're asking for equal pay when you're not selling tickets or playing on the same fucking level. That was also a little fucking ridiculous. You know?

And the amount of guys that get taken to the cleaners and fucking divorce court, you know, it taps into all of that. So it isn't 100% us being meatheads, but it is a lot. Anyway, and to answer a follow up on why I don't follow any professional women's sports now, I'm broke and being a busy mother to two children and working full time in this economy. I was very excited and made a point to play a lot of Olympic coverage for my kids. I even bought a globe to help visualize where people are from, where they're from. This is so, the amount of people that are struggling out there because of these fucking billionaires and they got us all arguing liberal and conservative. We got to stop doing that. Like I am so tired of hearing about people going to bed worried about what's going to

happen next week. There is so much fucking money in this country and there's so much work being done. You know, then if you work a full fucking week at a job, you should be able to pay your fucking rent. You shouldn't have to go out and get another fucking job and still be struggling. It's bad for the country. Because then the kids don't see their parents and they're not getting the upbringing that they need.

It's so fucking these these fucking billionaires. They need to be put down, you know, like fucking rabid dogs. They're like rabid with fucking greed and just going out and just dividing everybody. You know, just the fucking epitome of this time right now, like how divisive we are that like, you know, the Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America, and people get excited like how the fuck does that help your wallet?

It's an empty gesture. And then it's also like a racist gesture. Like you get the white guy under that's him saying fuck Mexicans without saying it. You know, like who has a fucking problem with Mexicans? Like what is the real problem? This is just such an ugly fucking time. Yeah, that just sucks. That sucks. People fucking broke. Anyway, I really became fascinated with the pentathlon in particular. Again, just my perspective on why maybe there aren't great turnouts for more women supporting women in sports today. I love hearing your parenting adventures and I hope Nia and the kids are well. Kindness, regards, yeah, those are all fucking great points. points and you know a lot of a lot of men making fun of how bad the WNBA looks

or whatever never made a basketball team in their life so there's also that it's a nice fucking outlet the same way if somebody fucks up in sports you know used to be called the goat of the game used to mean you fucked up now that somehow that means greatest of all time But if you choked You know like a guy like skip Bayless seems to love going off on people that like choked during the game And you look at skip Bayless. I mean you're in gym class. Are you picking skip Bayless? I? Just think that there's you know I get being upset that someone on your team fucked it up but taking it to the point of trying to fucking you

know you know tweeting at the person and people getting death threats and shit like that that has nothing to do with the game that has to do with you and whatever the fuck is going on in your life. Alright plowing ahead here What's the next one here what happened girls in sports? Alright drones at the beach Hey, Billy big nuts Longtime listener first time writer. I'm running to to you to hear your opinion and vent on something that's pissing me off to you to hear your opinion and vent on something that's pissing me off. You know what's pissing me off? Every time I fucking go to scroll on the screen it goes

back up to the top here. But you know what? I don't get as mad as I used to. I don't give a fuck. It's kind of nice. I'm sitting on a beach in Malaysia. Sandy Skull Beach in Langawi. It's an incredible place, white sand and crystal blue water. Surrounded, oh my god, is Brooke Shields walking around out there? Surrounded by thick, lush rainforests full of palms and green vegetation. I can hear the birds chirping, there's monkeys swinging in the trees, and a mix of locals with their children playing in the sand and tourists. It's a beautiful scene, it sounds like it.

Then suddenly I hear a buzzing sound and I notice two drones flying above me, sweeping over the water on the beach. I notice these two middle-aged men with their Game Boy controllers in their hands, looking into a screen at footage the drone is capturing. Yeah, these things are still new when there's no legislation. Yeah, no one's gonna want that. Or what's gonna happen is regular people

are all gonna have to deal with it, but if you're in a billionaire gated community, it'll be a no fly zone. And if you fly in there, all like legal branches will be mobilized to find you and track you down But everybody else can just fucking deal with it kind of the way everybody else can deal with you know Potentially getting shot in the back in New York, but if a CEO happens, so we gotta fucking find this guy I feel rage bubbling inside of me. I know I should probably be able to move past this. No, no, you're at the fucking beach.

It's annoying. He says, but fuck me, it's annoying. Yes, the sound of the drone overtakes any of the natural serenity on the beach, and I see half naked children and women in bikinis being filmed by these creeps. I tried staring at them to inform them of my disgust. I've tried mouthing you cunts at them.

I know it's immature, but I'm in the mood to confront these nerds. You look what they're doing with your enjoyment. Am I wrong for feeling this? Is it an invasion of privacy? I'd have to say you're a young person if you're questioning if that's an invasion of your privacy. Because people are so used to just having their privacy invaded. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else. Thanks for all the laughs. I hope to see you live in Melbourne sometime in the future. Yeah, 100%. It's selfish fucking behavior. It's weird. It's voyeuristic. You know. Listen, back in the day they didn't have drones when I was growing up. They had

model airplanes. And those fucking weirdos would go to a parking lot and they would just do it there. And everybody who was there was into it you wouldn't like start flying a model plane buzzing over people's heads and you certainly wouldn't have a camera on it here's something I wonder if you made something you couldn't make it specifically for shooting down drones it would have to be you would have to make make it seem like it was for specifically for shooting down drones. It would have to be, you would have to make it seem like it was for something else, but like it was actually for shooting down drones. Because I gotta be honest with you.

How exciting do drones become when you suddenly have something to shoot it out of the air? And then fucking backtrace the frustration suddenly have something to shoot it out of the air. And then fucking backtrace the frustration, as that guy said famously. Well, we're gonna fucking backtrace this. I'm not a fan of drones, but if I had something in my hand that could shoot it out of the sky,

I would be very excited. Now obviously obviously I'm not talking about a gun, all right, relaxed gun owners. This is what you do, speaking of guns, you go skeet shooting, see, you get good at this shit, right, and then you go out and you buy this fucking thing, you do. Oh, yeah, it's sold as like a toy That's what it is. Oh my god Kids skeet shooting and Whatever the projectile is it can't hurt somebody

All right. This is this is where it's gonna get hard. It't hurt somebody to put their eye out of course you can't make it But if you somehow had it um Well, I know what it was it's like a spider-man web it actually shoots a web Because what that the web went on the fucking thing It would definitely take the thing down out of the sky and if it's high enough then it fucking breaks oh that would be fantastic that would be fucking fantastic I mean let's be honest in a perfect world you shoot the fucking

drone down and then you wait for the person to come up Who's all fucking pissed off and then you fucking shoot him? Tays him you don't want to kill him. That's somebody's loved one, but you know, whatever Tays him something You do something I don't know I haven't worked it all out but I don't think you're wrong for being frustrated Women ruined Valentine's Day. Dear Billy Burbank Airport, after a number of awful Valentine's Days with different women, I refuse to celebrate the holiday anymore. Last year's Valentine's Day was the straw that broke the camel's back. I have a solution for all of this and I'll read this here. I live paycheck to pay another guy paycheck to pay check and don't have

much disposable income yeah because of billionaires and corporate greed and capitalism that is no longer regular regulated. I got my girlfriend a heart shaped pizza and tied two heart-shaped balloons on the box. It's hokey but it's all I could afford. Yeah that's just something romantic. There's something Bon Jovi about that. Tommy used to work on the dock. He's living paycheck to paycheck. He's down on his luck. He's done. Gina works at a pizza hut. Um, whatever. We ate the pizza together while we watched our favorite show. After we were done, I noticed she looked unhappy.

Asked her what was wrong and she said, I was hoping you would do something special for me this year. Jesus fucking Christ. What the fuck are you doing for him? Nothing! Anyway, I asked her what she meant by that and she replied with, I don't know, the conversation that followed was basically me asking her in a different way, what was the expectation that I didn't meet? What was it that you wanted to do this year?

And she answered all my questions with the variation of I don't know. Yeah, because she knows if she answers it, she's being selfish. And then also she's just like, well, I don't want to tell you what I want. You should be able to figure it out. I want to see you use your imagination. Meanwhile, they're not. What is she doing for you? Anyway, after some God. God, all right, all right. Big inhale, big exhale, cover one eye,

look up in the air. For some reason, people say that this is supposed to, okay, after some prying, look at me, I'm all relaxed now. I finally figured out what the problem was. She showed me what her friends were up to on Instagram. One friend had her boyfriend take her to Catalina Island. Another went to an expensive restaurant at the top of the tallest building in Los Angeles. Another got a human sized teddy bear.

Oh, you're going to regret that purchase. The fuck are you going to do with that now? Now you got a bean bag nobody can sit on. And all my girlfriends got, all my girlfriend got was a fucking pizza. I get it, I'm poor, but isn't it the thought that counts? Um, did you notice in all those stories, none of those women are doing anything for the men. They don't have to make any gesture. All they have to do is dress up their puss and show up to whatever the fuck you got them.

After finding out the true reason why she was upset, I just told her again, I'm sorry, it won't happen again. She probably thought I meant that, oh my God, oh my God, dude. You said, I'm sorry, it won't happen again, and you meant I'm not celebrating Valentine's? And you deliberately worded it that way? Dude, that is fucking... That is cold-blooded, dude. See what these corporate, see what these corporate fucking cunts do to you? They created an argument. Because you didn't play the corporate game andunts do to you? They created an argument

because you didn't play the corporate game and spend money that you didn't have on shit that she didn't need. She probably thought I meant that next year I'm going to save up money and do something Instagram worthy for her. Really I meant it won't happen again because I'm refusing to celebrate the holiday anymore. Hey dude, hats off to you, but you really have to be careful here and understand, have a little bit of empathy that she's also, she's not looking through her third eye here. All right, she's on Instagram, she's looking at this,

she's looking at how this whole thing plays out and she's not stepping back from the matrix and realizing how fucking stupid this is. Anyway, this isn't the first woman I've been with that expects lavish gifts and to be pampered on Valentine's Day. A past girlfriend refused my suggestion of going to a movie and a dinner because we can do that on any other time of the year anyway. Another past girlfriend literally said, is that it?

All right, dude, you got to kind of look at the women you're fucking attracted here. After I played an original love song, I wrote about her on the guitar. I've only ever been, dude, if you did that in the fucking 1800s, she wrote word of wrote like a fucking nine page letter of thanks the next day with a feather. I've only ever been with one woman that expected nothing on Valentine's Day and found the concept of the holiday silly like I do. Unfortunately, fortunately, she broke up with me after realizing she's actually a lesbian. Maybe that's why she didn't that was probably the true reason she didn't like the holiday. It's like, oh God, he's going to come at me with that fucking meat hammer.

I had, I hate how too many women, Valentine's Day isn't about love, it's about competition. How it's always on the man to come up with the thing to do for that day and it better be good or else you're an asshole. Valentine's Day is coming up soon and I have zero plans for her. I know if I ask her what she wants she's going to say something out of my price range. I'm in a damned if I do damned if I don't situation and I hate this holiday has been ruined this way well you put yourself in that situation by delivering that fucking misdirection line

all right you're setting yourself up for this fucking huge argument and now there's no way out of it because now it's a few days before all right you should have clarified what the fuck you meant. And if you really love this woman, you know, you have to communicate if you wanna keep her. So what me and the lovely Nia did a long time ago was we agreed that it's a bullshit holiday,

but it's like I still love you and I love taking you out to dinner or like getting you some, I'm just not doing it on Valentine's day when everything is triple the fucking price and you got to get a reservation fucking three months earlier. Yeah, it's a stupid fucking holiday that was just invented to go out there and get guys, you know, to put pressure on guys, to propose to women, to buy him shit and all of that. And it's just yet another classic fucking thing where that Valentine's Day for women is a fucking holiday for men it's a fucking nightmare and what's funny is if you really if you really want to see the power dynamic of a relationship how much it's in the woman's hands is how much Valentine's Day is validated.

And then there's some day for guys in March, and I don't even know what the fucking name of it is. Um, or is there like some Sadie Hawkins is something that's like, there's a word out there. Like, that me is a woman that just hates men. And it begins with M. Everybody knows misogynist nobody knows the

other way around. Because the way women abuse their power is not acknowledged. Men abuse their power in the in the fucking working world and they abused it for a long time and now we're in a new world of fucking post me too and social media so it's toned down a little bit but not totally. Women abuse their power in the relationship. Maybe that's why men excel in business, because their home life is so fucking hopeless. I don't know dude, but that makes me sad that she thinks you're going to do something for her.

You know, there's a whole bunch of things, like women are a lot easier than men realize There's a whole bunch of little things that you can do Just over the course of a day To you know Make them feel loved and all of that stuff and you should have had a mature You're in a fucking you're in a pickle dude. You're in a you're in a fucking situation You're really gonna hurt her dude, You're really gonna hurt her this year. I almost think you have to fucking do something. You know what? If I was you, what I would do is I would actually do something this year and then after you did it,

just tell her the next day. Just be like, I have to work all these extra hours for that. Just tell her the next day. Just be like, I have to work all these extra hours for that. I was planning on not doing anything, but I knew that I was gonna hurt you and I love you. I don't wanna hurt you. So I went ahead and I bought this thing that I couldn't fucking afford. Okay, but until I find what it is that I do in the matrix

that makes me enough money, we have to have an adult conversation about Valentine's Day. Okay, I'm still paying for this shit over Christmas. I just got the bills for that. The first installments in January. And now here we go with this shit. That would have been the way to do it.

Good luck. All right. I gotta wrap this up here. Um, that would have been the way to do it. Um, good luck! Uh, alright. Alright, I gotta wrap this up here. Uh, newly moved in. Hey Billy... Hey Billy, boiler tits. You know, I'm really getting tired of these fucking comments that I'm out of shape, okay? I still got pecs, dude. I'm sliding into 60 and I still got a fucking nice chest.

My chesticles are fucking still saluting the flag. Is this fucking people in their goddamn 30s have mantits? Not this ginge. My girlfriend and I just moved in together. It's been two weeks and everything's great. Aside from the fuckload of boxes. Any advice or tips of for young people starting out living together? She's not my first girlfriend, but the first one I lived with and we love each other greatly.

I'm definitely feeling she's the one. Thanks for all the laughs. Come do a show in Middletown, California. Go fuck yourself. Um... What are you asking me? Can I help you with the fact that a woman has a bunch of shit? You know what? I can't. That's the fact that a woman has a bunch of shit? You know what I can't That's what they have they have a bunch of shit and guess what all that shit They have they're over 90% of it in the moment

It was gonna make them that made them feel good to buy it and now they don't even need it And you're gonna buy him shit for Valentine's Day, and they're gonna be so happy You know whatever you buy him shoes purse bag bag It's gonna be laying on the floor You know, I love when you buy him the shoes they wanted and then you go in then you see like once upright The other ones laying on its side Like one shoe knocked out the other one and they're just off like they just threw it in the fucking closet And you go look at you just fucking tonight it's for it all I was late for where you know, yeah They just do that shit.

All right, four chord songs. Hey Billy, String Fingers, a suggestion from a guitar teacher. I would consider going on a run of learning a lot of classic four chord songs. Not so much the ACDC power chord type songs, but songs that are more strummy. I like songs that are more picky. You know? Like you can't kill rock and roll that intro or seasons of weather. I like that shit. I

think that's a good exercise, going up and down, not looking at what, you know, I play lefty, so not looking at what my strummingming hand is doing it can be a great way to build more finesse with your playing all right heavier songs require a little less that some of the more articulated softer song classic rock and AM rock songs you grew up with are loaded with them that is great advice and I'm gonna take take that. I will take that great advice. Thank you, sir. All right. That is the podcast. Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles winning your second Super Bowl championship. You know, I know you guys think nobody cares about you, but I do care about you. I think you have a great city. And I hope you find love. I

hope all your dreams come true. Because you're fellow Americans and I don't give a fuck which way you voted. You know why? Because fuck CNN and fuck Fox News. God bless you and congratulations to all the Chiefs fans out there. You had a great fucking run and all of that. And you know, you still got your guy there, right? You got all the people there. I don't think Taylor Swift broke up with Travis Kelsey and, and whatnot. And that's it. All right. I got to go to work. Go fuck yourselves. Um, well, that's divisive. I can't tell you not to be divisive. Do I have to chant by them? That's the catchphrase. That's my money maker. People show up every week to hear it.

Alright, go fuck yourselves. I'll talk to you on Thursday.