Monday Morning Podcast - Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-16-21
Episode Date: December 16, 2021Bill rambles about Indianapolis, songs about Jane, and cold remedies. Music Interlude: Vels Trio - Ochre Pt. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYN_b5mWbI Thursday Afternoon Podcast: start - 35:41 An...ything Better NFL Preview: 35:42 - 1:05:24 'Why Are You Going to Indianapolis Bill': 1:05:25 - 1:24:57 Throwback 12-16-21: 1:24:58 - end Go to LIQUID DEATH.com/SLASH BURR to get free shipping on all water and merch. Start building better habits for healthier, long-term results. Sign up for your trial at Noom.com/MMP.
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Hey, what's going on?
It's Bill Byrne.
It's time for the Thursday afternoon,
just before Friday, Monday morning podcast.
And I'm just checking in on ya.
Just checking in on ya.
Seeing how your life's going.
You know, something, I have such an amazing life.
I feel like it's time to give back to you guys.
You know, I'm just sitting here going, thinking to myself,
what could be better than flying to Indianapolis
in the middle of December?
You know, the Patriots are playing the Colts
at Lucas Oil Field Stadium there, right?
The game starts at seven.
My show starts at seven.
I can't go to the fucking game.
You know what's even better?
What is even better is I have a fucking Colt.
I mean, this is the life that I am living right now.
And I feel guilty and I want you guys to know that
at some point in the future, I am going to give back,
but I want credit now for just having had the thought
that I'm thinking about you guys on some level.
I really am.
My heart breaks for everyone out there.
You know, because, sorry.
I live out here in LA and the weather's great
and we never get Colts.
I just made me think, who am I to complain
that I'm going to Indianapolis with a Colt?
There are people that have to live there
year round with Colts.
Oh, fuck it with you.
Indianapolis is actually one of the ones.
I like it.
The highway system is extremely confusing.
I got a giant fucking freeway
that goes all the way around it.
You don't know which way you're going.
You're looking at the sun.
You're like Henry Hill looking for helicopters.
You're trying to figure out what,
which way you're fucking going.
But downtown area, little scary, you know?
Little less foot traffic than I would like.
One of those ghost town kind of things.
But when it's open, when it's open,
all them cord fed people are walking around.
Last time I went there with Verzi,
they got a, I know they have a really good cigar bar
somewhere out there.
I also know that they got this famous place
where you're going to get prime rib
and they have horse radish, extra horse radish
on that motherfucker.
I can never say horse radish without saying that
since I watched the wire.
When he was confessing to all those murders.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, I might do that.
It just sucks that I have a fucking cult
because I gotta tell you something here.
Like I have, my ancestors are from that part of the country
when my ancestors came over here, the joinments,
they all settled, I think in Indiana or whatever.
So, you know, there was a farm or something
we had out there for many, many years.
And I think like 20 years ago,
my mother asked me, said it was going up for sale
for the first time and I don't know,
like a hundred years it wouldn't be in our family name.
Did I want to buy it?
And I didn't have the fucking money.
Also, I was like Paul Sorvino
and the fucking good fellows say,
oh, what do I know about running a farm?
He bought the farm.
What did that always mean?
He bought the farm.
Did that mean you were always in debt your whole life?
And then when you died, your life insurance,
you finally were able to pay off your farm.
Is that what it meant?
Let's look it up, shall we?
But I like Indiana.
It's kind of like Wisconsin without the serial killers.
They don't have as many lakes,
but you know, you can take comfort in knowing
that your neighbor isn't going to make, you know,
turn you into a lamp after he's done fucking your corpse.
That's Wisconsin, but you know,
Wisconsin has great milkshakes.
You know what I mean?
They're not like Michigan driving cars
into fucking parades or was that Wisconsin?
I get them confused at this point.
You know, you wouldn't think there was anybody nice
in Wisconsin or Michigan or any place
the way the fucking news covers it.
All right, he bought the farm expression origin.
There we go, here we go.
What does it mean by the phrase bought the farm?
It comes from a 1950s era Air Force term
meaning to crash or to be killed in action.
And it refers to the desire of many wartime pilots
to stop flying, return home, buy a farm,
and live peaceably ever after.
Wow, I was 100% wrong.
What a surprise.
Air Force term meaning to crash or to be killed in action
and refers to the desire of many wartime pilots
to stop flying.
But who wants to fly when you're getting fucking shot at?
Are you dropping bombs on people going,
oh, I hope they landed on the right ones.
Return home, buy a farm and live peaceably
ever after.
Oh, so they would just say, oh, he bought the farm.
They get it.
Where is he?
Oh, he bought the farm,
acting as though he went home to live his dream
when he really died.
Wow, let's here's another one.
Let's see, the New York Times, March, 1954,
or later played in the glossary of jet pilots, slang,
bought a plot, had a fatal crash.
Oh, there's a bunch of different explanations here.
Simple past 10 and past particle to buy the farm died
often refers to death in battle or by plane crash.
It's definitely, it's definitely,
there's a number of theories.
He bought the farm.
So funny bastard said that on the Air Force base
and now nobody knows where it came from.
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
And this is what I mean by giving back
is I'll say things and I won't know what they mean.
And then I'll look them up for you.
Is that giving back?
I don't understand.
So anyway, I'm coming out there to Indy
and Indianapolis, I've always had such weird experiences
when I go there.
Obviously, if you listen to any podcast,
I sat next to that guy who fancied himself
to be part of the CIA kept asking me
why I was going to Indianapolis
and press the button while we were taxing
to try and stop us from going somewhere.
And then when I got to Indianapolis one time,
I remember I was playing this theater.
There was two theaters in the same building
and the one downstairs was the smaller one.
That was the one that I was playing
and the one upstairs was Sesame Street Live.
And but we shared the same stairwell.
Maybe it was next door.
And all I know is like the door opened to where they were.
And I saw Bert and Ernie and all these guys.
I was like, oh, shit.
And I filmed them and Bert starts walking towards me
and I thought he was waving like, hello.
They're like, oh, hey, Bert's coming over to say hello.
You know, doing his laugh and shit.
And he came walking up.
I thought he was waving.
He was doing the stop filming thing
and he slammed the door in my face.
This giant Bert, he was like fucking, you know,
the big fucking head and all that.
He shut the door in my face.
And I was just like, oh, shit.
I guess Ernie really is the cool one, right?
So I ended up posting the video
and then the Sesame Street people got back to me
and said, I didn't own the rights to the video
I had to take.
So I took it down.
I was like, what the fuck do you mean
I don't own the fucking rights to what you cunt?
It's my cell phone.
I had a right to be there
and you should have closed your green room door.
Get mad at Bert, you know?
Oh, Bert was the only one on it.
Ernie was over there fucking around,
but whatever, they were all in there.
And somewhere in one of my laptops,
I still have that video, but this is what kills me.
You know, everybody's taking video
and you take all these fucking pictures
of your kids and everything.
And then they update the fucking,
it looks clear and it looks great.
Then they update the phones
and then your picture isn't worth this shit anymore.
So like, I don't understand.
What are you supposed to be doing here?
Like I'm taking all these pictures to save them.
What?
So they'll be all like pixelated
and it's like back to the future
and people are fading away.
All of these videos that I'm taking of my kids.
I don't know, it's weird.
My daughter said something fucking hilarious today.
I was driving her to school and she goes,
hey dad, sometimes lepers want to be alone
and they climb trees.
And I'm like lepers?
She goes, yeah, lepers.
I go, I think you mean lepers.
She goes, no, it's lepers.
And I was thinking, all right,
well, you know, they got that fucking skin disease.
They're shunned by society.
I kind of like that.
That's a strong move by a leper.
Well, I don't fucking need you either.
I'm gonna go up here and sit in this fucking tree.
You know, this tree doesn't judge me.
Well, even if it did, it doesn't have the option not to.
It's just for to sort of stand there.
Jesus Christ, I always think that
whenever there's a Christmas tree.
The day that they come up with the technology
to hear trees screaming.
Oh my God, that's gonna be the end of Christmas.
Just the fucking.
You get your Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving
like I do in an entire month.
What'd you do to my legs?
Ah, water, water.
Fucking actually understand those things.
You know, God created trees too.
And he allows that shit.
He made us smart enough to fucking chop them down.
He just doesn't care.
I really firmly believe in that.
That whatever it is just sort of made us in the left.
Like, all right, we'll see how that works out.
Then he went on to another world, you know?
He went on to another world.
I really think God is a man, by the way.
I really do.
Just for the simple fact that we get shit done.
We don't stand around talking about doing stuff
and bitching about it and trying to manipulate other people
around you to get you to do the job for them.
You know, that's not what a man does.
That's what a woman does.
What have women accomplished ever in history?
And you can't talk about giving birth
because you can't help that.
If there was a way for you to make me pregnant
instead of you, you would have.
All right?
Now I'm not trying to be like sexist here.
I'm just trying to open a dialogue.
What are you talking about?
We've done plenty of things.
I'll tell you what my wife does.
She fucking puts up with me, which is not easy.
Not easy.
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You know what I've been listening to lately?
I've been listening to a lot lately
as I've been listening to a bunch of Death Leopard, man.
What a fucking band.
That high and dry album.
I never really listened to it
because you know I'm such like a fan boy.
If it wasn't on MTV,
I get nervous to go in deeper cuts.
That first fucking,
the first couple of songs there.
Let it go and hit and run.
Fucking killer.
Absolutely killer.
I just love the lyrics too.
You know, before all those goddamn miserable
fucking Seattle people came in.
Jesus Christ.
What a bunch of mopey cunts they were, huh?
No one ever talks about that.
They always just talk about how great the music is.
That is true, but those were not exactly
the most uplifting fucking people
you ever wanted to be around, right?
I know I've talked about this before,
but those people in those fucking metal bands
on the LA Sunset Strip,
they had a lot of fucked up shit happen to them too.
They didn't dump their fucking day on you.
They kept it light.
Don't need nothing, but a good time.
And they went back and they did their heroin in private.
I'm gonna tell you about the rock stars of the 80s.
They were gentlemen.
They were raised right.
You don't talk politics.
You don't talk religion.
You don't bring up your sad fucking childhood.
You know, of course they talk about some broad every rose
has its own.
They talk about some woman, right?
What was that, what was that?
Oh, what was that band?
They fucking finally broke through with it here.
Was it LA Guns?
That song was something about Jane.
It was always Jane.
Jane says.
And then what's his face saying about Mary Jane?
Everybody was singing about Jane.
That was a popular name for a troubled woman back then.
At least a fucking groupie.
Like if you named your daughter Jane in the 60s,
50s or 60s, there was a good chance
that she was gonna blow a rock star.
I think that that's why that name died out.
Right?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
You know what I was doing yesterday
as I'm fucking trying to get over this goddamn cold.
I put on the MLB network and I was watching Nolan Ryan
throw his last, no hitter.
I think it was his last.
He was 44.
I was just seeing all these old school names.
You know, Tom House.
Somebody told you their name was Tom House.
You'd be like, that's not a real name.
It's too simple and easy to remember.
You know?
Nothing about that name shines a light
back onto the parents.
That's why you give your kid an interesting name.
Right?
Soliloquy.
Soliloquy.
Oh my God.
Your daughter's name is Soliloquy.
What?
Yeah.
We call her Oquie for short.
Oquie.
Oquie.
Sorry, Oquie.
That's amazing.
Now, do you act?
Yes, I do.
I recently had a project.
Meanwhile, Soliloquy's getting fucking
this shit kicked out of her.
Does that even happen though?
There's too many cameras.
I wonder if old bullies talk to young bullies now
and they reminisce about how easy it was
to fucking violate somebody back in the day.
Ah, man, you bullies get rough today.
Back in the day, you punch whoever the fuck you wanted to.
The smaller, the better.
Nobody said nothing.
All they would do was yell at the victim
and say, you gotta learn how to fight back.
Those were the days.
I'll tell you on a good day,
I'd slug six fucking third graders before lunchtime.
I don't even know what I'm talking about right now, people.
I'm just thinking about I gotta get on a fucking airplane.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-boo-boo.
You know, I have everything that I've seen
in sci-fi movies.
The one thing that I wish they could come up with
was the ability to zap yourself
from one part of the world to another.
Jesus Christ, you think this COVID's out of control now?
But just for travel.
Could you imagine that?
But you could literally live in Los Angeles
and work every day in London.
You just have to get up earlier.
Right now, I could just walk through a fucking porthole
out onto the streets of beautiful downtown Indianapolis.
You know, we got the 500 out here, right?
That's another great thing,
Indianapolis 500 out there in Indiana.
You know, I was trying to see if they had any classic car shows,
but they don't have that this time of year.
They got a couple of dealerships out there.
Fucking love those things.
You know what I've been following lately?
You know, old trucks and all that shit.
Now I'm kind of into like those, you know,
those company cars
that a guy making a certain amount of income
used to drive.
Like the Lincoln Mark IV.
Mark IV?
Was it Mark or Mark?
Lincoln Mark IV.
Four times the speed of sound and that's sled.
I don't think so.
Let me say it was Mark IV.
The silver, something in addition.
That's when they had that buttoned leather seat,
whatever they call it.
When that button would push all the leather in,
it was absolutely stunning.
The guys would get that car in silver
and have like either silver interior
or they'd have it red leather interior.
They'd fucking drive down the street in a goddamn cloud.
And they'd eat steaks and they'd smoke cigars
and they'd drop off a heart attack at 58,
but they were living.
The Mercury Grand Marquis.
You know, like they don't make cars.
They don't really like make luxury cars anymore.
It seems like everything goes fast
or it looks badass,
but I'm trying to think of like a fat ass fucking,
you know, Boss Hog car.
I know Jaguar has one.
Jaguar has one.
BMW has like the seven series.
Let me see here.
Luxury sedans.
Let's see who's making one now.
They'll probably say like a Lexus.
Nothing like drives like a sports car.
Audi A8.
Lexus, IS, Mercedes-Benz.
Yeah, all of these cars like haul ass.
Those fucking luxury cars back in the day,
like they couldn't even get out of their own fucking way.
It was all about just cruising down the road.
You didn't want to drive fast.
You wanted everybody to see
how much money you were making.
Yeah, you had to drive slow enough
so you could meet the eye of some broad
walking down the fucking street and she knew.
She saw that fucking leather interior and she's like,
oh my God, those pockets are deep over there, baby.
Fucking pockets are deep over there, man.
I don't know, if you're wondering if I'm slowly
losing my mind during all of this shit, you're right.
I am.
I am.
I know I'm gonna have good shows though.
I do know that.
Now where the fuck is my Reads for this week?
Oh, Jesus.
I don't have any Reads.
I don't have any advertising.
Was there somebody that I upset?
Did something happen?
Oh, well, there you go.
I do have to tease this.
I did a Thursday afternoon just before Friday,
Monday morning podcast with Jim Gaffigan a month ago.
And it starts off with talk and comedy.
And by the end, I was only supposed to do a half hour.
I think we did like an hour and a half or hour and 45 minutes.
We were just trashing each other.
And it was the fucking most fun I've had
with another comic in a long, long time.
And Jim has a new special coming out on Netflix.
So next Monday, I will be,
I'm actually taking the day off
because I recorded that thing a month ago,
which is kind of an interesting idea for me.
I should start doing that more often,
pre-recording a guest.
And then, because what's now what's happening
is when I go to Indianapolis,
I don't have to bring my podcast shit.
It's the little victories, people.
You know, when I go through security, what is that?
Is that a weapon?
It's a microphone.
Why do you have a microphone?
Because I do a podcast.
Oh, really?
Why do you do a podcast?
Because I'm lonely.
Because I wasn't good at math.
I don't know.
Why do you rummage through people's bags?
Because I'm saving your fucking life!
All right, fair enough.
Fair enough I get it.
There's no reason to get hostile.
You know what's great about having a cold
and telling people about it on the podcast
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I need a remedy, remedy, remedy.
I remember one long time ago, somebody said,
the second you blow your nose, that's when you get the cold.
So if you just don't blow your nose, it's just like...
Are you really that fucking stupid?
You know, laying down right now is not working for me.
It really isn't.
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Umka, this shit doesn't work.
None of this shit.
If somebody cured the fucking cold, you know what I'm saying?
If somebody actually cured this shit, you'd never hear the end of it.
You know, if I was president right now.
Okay, and I was aware that I was actually president.
I like this guy that we have.
Which, by the way, Paul Verzi has the greatest thing.
There should be an age limit about when you can be president.
You know, I think like 55 is a great age.
You know, you can't be too young
because then you're like Bill Clinton just banging horns in the pool
and you're not getting anything done.
You gotta be like 55.
You're on the other side of it.
You know?
But you're not like, I don't know, like some fossil.
Like Trump and this fucking guy, Joe Biden, right?
You need like 55.
Maybe that's how they do it.
You can only be president if you're 55 to 63.
And you're a man.
That's it, right?
Hey, by the way, I don't want to get petty here,
but when was the last time there was a bald president?
Let me see this here.
Let's see, let's look this up.
This is how I use the Internet.
The last bald president.
Okay.
Let me see.
Oh, now they're getting so good with those goddamn hair systems.
All right, search.
Search for the fucking thing.
The president and board kind of...
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Did I have to say of the United States?
Do you remember that band, the presidency of the United States?
I fucking sucked it and I sucked it.
Then I fucking sucked it and I fucking sucked it.
She loved, she loved.
The last board president...
Oh, it said board.
Bald.
How are you bald and you don't know how to spell it?
The last bald president of the USA.
Let's see.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Great call.
It has been nothing but hair ever since.
The last bald president almost goes back as far as the last time
the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup.
I'm sorry to everyone in Toronto.
I'll be there next summer.
Dwight David Eisenhower.
Or David Dwight Eisenhower.
He went by Dwight, you know.
If he was president today, they'd call him Dwight Eisenhower.
How many bald presidents have there been?
Let's see.
I bet there was a lot more of them back in the day
when they didn't have hair systems, you know.
Back when Ben Franklin thought he looked good.
I know he wasn't a president, but you know,
it's kind of like with baseball, like how back in the day
when it was just white people
and they played without baseball gloves and shit,
like three guys a year would hit 400.
Then it became one guy every three years
and then it just became 10 Williams did it in 1946
and no one ever did it again.
That's like bald presidents.
All right.
Three, for a proper answer, we would have to define
what we mean by bald.
And specifically, you know what it is, the fucking horseshoe.
I define bald as having no hair at the highest point of the skull.
Okay.
Okay, John Quincy Adams, bald.
Martin Van Buren, bald.
Dwight Eisenhower, bald.
Honorable mentions.
John Tyler.
He was starting to lose it.
He was hanging in there.
James Polk.
Dude, that's a fucking, he looks like a poet.
James Garfield is bald.
He absolutely is bald.
Warren G. Harding.
Nah, he looks like the fucking head of Chrysler.
Calvin Coolidge.
Yeah, all these guys are just losing it.
Herbert Hoover.
James Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes.
I don't know.
Man, that's some names that all died out.
Is there one fucking normal name under that?
It fascinates me.
Martin Van Buren.
Dwight Howard.
John.
John 13, 316.
They're still quoting his work.
James, that's stuck around.
Another James, Warren.
Warren Potsey Webber is the last Warren that I knew.
Calvin.
That's a cartoon now.
Calvin Herbert.
You know, you can have that as a last name,
the big quarterback of the charges,
but nobody has that fucking name.
There's another James, Rutherford.
Jesus Christ.
Chester.
Chester, you need a fucking horse, Chester.
Rutherford B. Hayes.
That is a great, fake fucking name.
You know, if you ever slip into a party
that you're not supposed to be at,
you kind of get busted when they ask you
what your fucking name is, you should go by Rutherford.
Don't say B. Hayes.
They don't fucking, you'll get caught.
Rutherford H. Salisbury.
One of those blue blood names.
Even they went away from those fucking blue blood names, huh?
They were getting all fucking nervous.
You can tell by your name how much money you have.
Blue, this last thing, I'm going to look up
and then mercifully end this podcast.
Blue blood names.
Blue blood names.
We'll be right back with blue blood names.
That's hilarious.
It says Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg.
There's a show called Blue Bloods.
49 preppy baby names.
Oh, I love it.
Let's go nice and white here.
What do we got here?
Digby.
Digby, Jesus Christ.
That's just someone, you know,
even looking at him, his family's going to fucking sue you.
No matter what he does,
he hits you with his car
and he sues you for debt in his fucking car
and there's nothing you can do.
Connery.
Adam Yates.
That's a fucking name.
Aldrich.
Whitaker.
I don't know the Whitaker. I knew it was a little Whitaker.
Bronwyn.
Thompson.
Tilly.
Tilly, you fucking stuck up.
Tigue.
Niles.
I like Niles.
Wilson.
Merritt.
Margo with an AUX.
Bradford.
Palmer.
Darcy.
Tinsley.
Poppy.
Ellison.
Vance.
Thatcher.
Briggs.
Briggs is a good fucking name.
Briggs?
That's an old English name that translates to Bridges.
That's a fucking strong name.
Briggs.
It's a name and a nickname all at the same time.
Tiger State.
It used to be Briggs Stadium.
Kingsley.
Blaine Blair.
You take the good, you take the bad, you take the both of them.
There you have the facts of life.
Quincy.
Now they're going all old school shows here.
Rowland.
Great drums.
Electronic drums, best electronic drums in the business.
Okay, I'll read two more.
Lennox.
Enlighten.
Sterling. Davis. Keaton.
Sloan. Ainsley.
Reed.
Brooks.
Finley. Corbin. Sorry, I can't stop.
Graham. Emerson.
Tucker.
There's a lot of Tuckers.
Speaking of Tucker,
I am tuckered out from this podcast.
I don't know how I do it, people,
but I always land on my feet.
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Now,
this is what's going on here.
I was actually thinking about this.
I was actually thinking about this
and I'm pretty impressed.
Now, Bill
is a little more, I would say this.
I don't want to speak for him, but Bill's a little
slightly more humble than me.
Now, I would say
slightly.
You know, Bill, listen,
I don't do a crazy NFL touchdown dance.
Bill hands the ball right off
to the official.
I do a quick thing.
I have to do a quick thing.
No, I don't do a full break dance.
No, no.
Only because you can.
But if you could, you would.
But let's just talk.
Let's just talk about what's going on here.
Okay.
So after week 14.
After week 14
with us picking four games
a week against the spread
going into week 15.
Okay, Bill Burr
31
24 and one.
He went two and two last week.
He stayed even.
So he's where he stayed over 500.
Me, I did gain
going three and one and I am
29 and 27.
That means guys
with three weeks left and I got a message
from a fan saying you
and Burr are making
me money.
That is guys nice.
We somebody said I am riding
the anything better train
and you two are making
you're going to jinx it, Paul.
You money you're waking him up.
You got to keep it quiet.
So we want to thank everybody
for following us.
No, we want to thank everybody.
What did I say? What did I say?
Don't buy anything. Take it back.
Pulling up in the pink Cadillac
with the fucking fur coat on.
Bill, it's in my mother's name.
I love that car.
Can I read an email from a listener?
Yeah, yes.
Is a real good one. Good morning.
Big fan of the podcasts.
I listen while I'm walking out
each morning at 4 30 a.m.
I wish you were on every day.
I'm a 77 year old great grandmother.
I don't use the F word.
However, I'm excusing you because you're a
sweetheart of a guy and I understand more.
You understand more about what makes women tick
than any man I've known.
And I've known this went into the bills podcast.
Paul, I'm sure you know a lot about women.
I don't want you to feel left out here.
Listen to your picks and made a
three team parlay bet with this weekend.
My husband placed the bet for me.
Washington Colts and Cardinals
won them on your advice.
My husband was impressed.
She teased it up because Cardinals didn't win for me.
77 year old grandmother.
Thank you, Donna.
Wow.
She took your Cardinals bet
and my Washington bet and teased it
and ended up winning.
Oh my God.
Bill, this is why.
No one's going to take notice of what we're doing
for a first year.
They're going to say these are first year jerk-offs
not knowing.
So we need to come back next year and continue this
but make no mistake.
What we are doing is pretty damn good.
Bring them on, dude.
Bring them on.
They're going to say,
no, everybody said we couldn't do it, man.
So now here we go.
We're going into week 15.
We're going into week 15, Bill.
Like I said,
we're going to be in the 24-1.
I'm in a prevent defense
knowing you're coming.
I'm just trying to give up the middle of field
and only lose one game a week
and hopefully I'll be there at the end.
I don't like this week at all.
Who goes first this week?
This is an odd week, so this would be me.
All right.
Who do you like? I know who you like.
Oh boy.
Well, hold on a second.
Andrew, can we just get confirmation?
I don't know if that's the case now.
And if that's the case,
that's a big deal for Cleveland
because they're playing a not-so-good
Raiders team right now,
but if Baker's out, I'm done.
He's out, right?
Not confirmed. He's likely out.
Dude, COVID is getting players
in all the leagues wild.
All right.
See, throws a wrench in there.
Hey, you know,
it's funny they wear face masks on Sunday.
They can't throw it during the week, can they?
All right.
You know what?
Nothing on the COVID joke, all right.
I'm sorry.
I'm just trying to get this going on here.
You getting it going on, Paul?
Yeah, see, I'm not even speaking right.
You know what, guys?
I'm going to have to do it.
I'm going to ride the train and here's why.
The Green Bay Packers
are minus four against the Ravens,
but Lamar Jackson might be out.
And the thing is
Green Bay needs to keep winning to get that home field
because the Bucks keep winning.
Dude, this is fucking bullshit. What is this?
All these guys might be in. They might be out.
What the fuck am I betting on here?
I know. Well, Lamar Jackson, it wasn't called.
Look at some chick's Instagram picture.
You don't know what she looks like till she shows up.
She fucking held the camera up here.
She comes in. She's a fucking whale, Paul.
That reminds me of Bartnick's joke
when he says this.
They just show their eyes.
He goes, those are fat eyes.
All right. I'm going to take the Green Bay Packers.
I'm going to take the Green Bay Packers
minus four and a half
on the road against the Ravens
holding home field advantage.
All right.
It's beginning to look a lot
like 2001.
I'm taking the New England Patriots
getting two and a half at Lucas Oil Field
playing Indianapolis.
I will be there Saturday night when they're playing,
but I'll be doing two shows
because when you're in show business,
you miss everything.
Everybody's sitting around eating a fucking pot roast
and you're out there, mami.
How I love you. How I love you, mami.
That's the sacrifice you make.
Lucas Oil Field.
My fucking team is right down the street.
I am in that Godforsaken city with that fucking
highway that goes all the way around it.
You forget which way you're going.
You know, it's like you're in the Blair Wish.
You remember that? They run around the woods.
You remember that? Was that his name?
Doggie?
I don't remember that,
but I remember the Blair Wish.
That's why you forget her.
No, yeah.
I remember her nose running.
That movie scared the shit out of me.
I saw it by myself at a midnight show.
Remember all these dumb comics?
Man, that movie didn't scare me at all.
Gee, you're so fucking tough in a movie theater.
I was petrified.
I was scared because the way they labeled the movie,
the way they previewed it was that it really happened.
And I was like, oh, shit, man, these kids got...
You know, it's weird that the...
It's weird that the...
It's weird that the cults are two and a half
favorites against the Pats.
I'm not touching that.
Carson Wentz scores points.
They got that running back.
I mean, you know, we'll see what happens.
We had a couple of months off.
He's had two weeks to prepare for him, Paul.
I see what you're doing.
You're going to go head to head against me, Paul.
This is the Hail Mary week.
I could have gotten...
How mad would you have been if I picked up the Patriots first?
I don't like the game, man. I don't like the fact that the cults are minus.
I don't like the shit in all over the game that I just picked.
What fucking game did you pick?
I don't like that game either.
He's going into fucking Baltimore.
Somebody's going to go on and get some crab cakes
and get COVID and they're not going to be able to block
fucking Aaron Rodgers' blindside.
How do you like that? I just shit all over my bed.
You know what, Touche?
Touche, why am I talking about your bed?
I'm going to put it on my bed. You're absolutely right.
I'm stalling, Bill. I'm stalling.
Is that when you say Touche?
Touche, yeah.
Is that when you say it, though?
Touche means...
When you're supposed to say, like, fair enough,
I thought if you were, like, you know, arguing about history,
your country's better than mine.
Touche and fair enough is kind of one and the same.
I don't think it is.
Yeah, it is.
It's exactly what it is. Touche, you got a fucking sword in your hand.
Fair enough, but we're just fucking hanging out.
Touche means you're right.
Fair enough means I guess you're right.
It's kind of close. I mean, what do we do?
Touche means that you agree. Oh, Touche.
All right. You know, let's keep doing this
so I could stall.
You know, this is so weird.
Why are the Broncos favored against the Bengals
after the Bengals?
Because the Bengals have been shitting the bed, Paul.
They're laying in it
and rolling around their own waist.
I'm taking the Los Angeles Rams.
You have to see in that front four run Sunday.
I like that, Nick.
To beat the hapless Seattle Seahawks.
The Seahawks are done.
The Seahawks are done.
It's over.
You never done when Russell will. You said the Chiefs were done, Paul.
Chiefs are done.
Look at you.
She's not nearly as much confidence.
You were like, they are a bad football team.
I told you, I said, you know,
no, they could wake up.
They're starting to wake up, Paul.
There's minus four and a half at home
against the flailing
hapless Seattle Seahawks.
Sneaky Pete has half.
Make no mistake about this.
Sneaky Pete has already talked to a real estate agent.
His one leg is out the door
and he's looking for his new home.
You think it's that bad?
They're done, dude.
Russell.
They ship Russell Wilson out.
I think he goes to New York because he wants to people
to fucking go nuts when he scores a touchdown.
Everybody knows if you do something great
out in fucking Seattle,
half the country's asleep by the time you did it.
All right. I got
Rams minus four and a half at home.
What do you got?
Hey, first one I got to get.
I'm getting a fucking attitude from you.
All right, relax.
I got this. What do you got?
I'll fucking take my time just like you do.
I got at least I stole getting two
points
against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Yeah, I didn't like that game.
Titans are giving. Why are you shitting all over my bets?
No, no, because I always go for Tennessee.
You know that. I just I was afraid.
You took the ball. Good for you.
Good for you.
I didn't have the balls. I really didn't have the balls.
I don't try to act like you.
You're being cut. You know what it is, Paul?
This is a competitive side of you.
You could still win, Paul. You don't have to shit on all my bets.
I was trying to put the jinx
on all my bets. It's annoying.
No such thing. What are you going to say now?
You're enough because you already used to Shay.
Titans are given to, by the way.
They're giving to dude.
The only time you see an ugly side
of Paul Verzi is during competition.
No, that's not true.
He gets this look on his face and you go,
why he really is Sicilian?
He is like mentally whacking me right now.
It's beginning to look
a lot like Christmas.
I'm going to take Joe Burrow.
I'm going to take Joe Burrow
and the Cincinnati Bengals
getting two and a half.
They just lost a heartbreaker at home
and this is their season
against the Denver Broncos.
So give me the Bengals plus two and a half.
They have to be in this game.
They have to win this game.
Hey, Paul, guess what? I like that pick.
All right.
Here's the game that we're both ignoring, Paul.
The Houston, Texas versus the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Those are Bill's picks.
Those are those are two teams
Bill always bets with whoever's playing them
and now they're playing each other.
You've been on them.
You've been on it. Come on. Don't just make that all about me.
I don't know why I'm going to do this, Paul.
Why would I do?
I'm going to wait. I'm going to think about that one.
I'll go head to head with you.
I'll go head to head with you.
I'll go head to head with you.
I'll go head to head with you.
I got one for you.
I'm going to take the Kansas City Chiefs.
Oh, because I think you're wrong, Paul.
I think at the end of the day,
Patrick Mahomes is one of the greats.
Okay.
And this is what the greats do, Paul.
They step it up.
They step it up in December.
The end of the day, the San Diego, Los Angeles Chargers
are still the San Diego Chargers.
Just like Katelyn Jenner still Bruce Jenner.
That's all the same just because you fucking move
and become the Los Angeles Rams
does not mean you weren't in St. Louis.
And these fucking, they got that San Diego stink on them.
Qualcomm Stadium.
They're still hanging over them
until they exercise that demon.
I was going to go head to head with you.
I was going to, I was going to take the Chargers
because Justin Herbert, dude,
the kid's on another thing right now.
I was going to go head to head with you.
I was going to, I was going to take the Chargers
because Justin Herbert, dude,
the kid's on another thing right now.
But I just saw
the Buffalo Bills
minus 10 and a half at home
after losing two heartbreakers in a row.
They're playing the Panthers
who are completely done.
They took out Cam Newton again,
benched him, put another guy in.
He's out? Ah, Jesus. That would have helped.
I'm taking the Buffalo Bills
minus 10 and a half
at home to put
an absolute fucking
beating
on the Carolina Panthers.
They're going to win that game probably by 20.
There it is.
Oof, I almost took a head to head and almost lost.
But how do you know
you're almost lost?
Um,
all right, the Minnesota Vikings
going into Chicago, they're getting
three and a half points.
I don't know anything about either one
of those teams, but I know
I like their running back Minnesota.
But I also like the Dallas Cowboys
getting 10 and a half,
going into the Giants
and you want to talk about a fucking team
that's just playing for fucking,
I don't know, playing for a draft pick at this point?
Probably
unfortunately. I'm going to go with
but they always, but they always fucking
get up for the Cowboys though.
10 and a half is a lot of points,
Paul.
It's a lot of points. Giants are home.
Giants are home.
Oof.
I know, that's a tough one.
Are you going to take to New York?
Are you going to take my New York football Giants
for the first time since we've been doing this?
No, they were a fucking mess, dude.
No.
Um,
I'm going to go 0-1-4 this week. I can feel it.
This is the thing right here
that's going to make me go 0-1-4. Do I take Minnesota?
Or do I take Chicago? Dallas.
Dallas.
Dude, fuck the Cowboys. They're too erratic.
Minnesota Vikings.
Fuck it.
I don't like any of those picks except the Pats.
All right.
That's it, Andrew.
Paul, if you beat me this year, the level of how
not classy you're going to be, it's just
going to be disgusting. That's just so
not like, are you trying to prepare?
What are you, I'm the
most gracious. What are you talking about?
I'm a good sportsman, dude.
That's in your head, man.
That's in your head.
We ramped it up there.
I got you all the way back in the day
from the beginning.
Dude, I was 26 or 27
when I said that to you. I was probably drunk
and
it was a grudge.
No, no, no, I've
listened. I've noticed it.
Dude, that's like an old wife.
I hear it in your voice.
Some of it might be my own childhood shit,
but I hear it in your voice, Paul. Something happens
to you when you compete. It's funny.
The only time you're not like Santa Claus.
I think the childhood thing in your past
is a little more what it is.
I don't think so because I just said
that to you, but now you're just using
that as an excuse. If I was looking for
to come up with it. No, I was looking for
reason why you think that and that makes
more sense because if you beat me,
I've been saying the whole time you're on some other
channel. If I ever had you, if you beat me
this year, if I ever had you mic'd up secretly
in your fucking house.
Oh,
you told me a phone call.
You know you would. I wouldn't take
it personal. What do you think
I would say? I would just be like, oh,
dude, you know what I would say?
Fuck that orange motherfucker.
Yeah, it would, Paul.
It would. I would
never say fuck that orange motherfucker.
You know what I would say? To be honest, if I want.
Anyone that loved me in my life has
I would, you know.
All right, guys, there is
our week 15. Here's the
best part, though. Win or lose. How about
this? I think this is a common ground we could both agree
on. If me and you both
finish either 500
or above, that's what I want.
That is a win in
itself. And that means our listeners
whether you win or lose is whether you fucking beat the
book. If we beat the book
after a GM is going down.
If we beat the book after this whole
season and we made some people
some money, they can't say
those guys don't know what the fuck they're doing.
I think they also they should send. They should
issue a statement. Yeah.
We said it has been a long
time since two bald bastards
over 17 weeks have been
picked four games a week and be above
500. All right.
That's it, guys. This has been
it. Yes, this has been
the week 15 preview.
Oh, that's right.
That's right. Oh, by the way,
every week, right? Paul same.
You know, here's what happens. Here's what happens
when Andrew Thamless isn't here. We do
a great podcast and we don't hit the record
button. So he's here now
and we almost missed the Monday
night. I'm already thinking of switching over to Dallas, dude.
I was so
pissed off that we missed
another Monday night special by one
thing. Bill Bill's pick
of the two sacks by the Cardinals
happened. Stafford
my pick stafford happened
and then we were just waiting for
a Kyler Murray rush touchdown
and it never fucking happened. Guys
we're coming close. We didn't get it showed up
to play when they fucking pushed
that that guy over on that first
play and then the very next play. They call
the penalty, but he was all over that guy
again. I was like, Oh Jesus, Aaron
Donald was not going to be fucking
denied. That kid is an animal 99
on the you know, for
the people that don't host his will. He did
he did, but
listen, we did get you to two Monday
night specials and we've come within
one thing of happening on three or four
Monday night special. We don't need to apologize.
So Bill
I ask you now.
So now I ask you would you care what the son of a
bitch was wearing
was a casino
my cousin Vinny
I never saw that movie
when he was going to shoot a deer.
All right, Monday night
is the Vikings
and the Chicago Bears. Is that
right, Andrew?
What's the line
three and a half
Minnesota's
giving three and a half. That's the
game that Bill just picked. So you want to
give it. No, I'm getting
giving Minnesota's giving three and a half.
What
yeah, Minnesota minus three and a half.
Yeah.
You want to change that last
pick to the Cowboys. Listen, we're
still on the show. So you could change that
pick. Yeah, whatever you want to do, Bill.
Let's add drama and I'll change it so
that everybody can fucking be into it.
We should have kept it.
But Andrew, you got to make sure you write down the
so we don't get. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. I'm
going to take the Cowboys against your giants. I'm
sorry, Paul. I don't like.
I don't like doing that to you.
Oh, fuck, you know what? We got to back up
quarterback Andrew. What's his name is out?
Daniel Jones. They set us out again.
10 and a half points is a lot with Barclay
healthy, but our offensive line stinks.
Um, I
OK, so I think that Delvin Williams.
What the hell's his name? What's
Oh, Dalvin Cook.
Dalvin Cook.
Delvin Williams played running back for the
dolphins in the 80s. I would
he's gonna
he's gonna run one in
he will run one in
you run one in you will run one in for
sure. Who's their left tackle? I say they call
the fucking he's eligible.
They throw it to him. What does that pay?
Oh, God.
I don't like that.
I'm fucking with you. Oh, that
comes in. Dude, if that came
in, you win.
Um,
all right. So Dalvin Cook rushes for a touchdown.
You want to do Kurt
Cousins over 250 yards
passing or no.
Can you do that?
Oh, no, you know, they're going to be
it's every 25 yards. So it's got to be
2550. I think it's going to be a boring
game.
I don't know why those two fucking teams
hate each other. It's the monsters of the
midway versus the fucking concept there
and all of America. And I just think
that they always play like,
you know, those are never like, you know,
40 of 38 games.
Maybe they are, but I don't remember it.
I think I take the under, we take
the under. What's the under over on it?
44 and a half
right now.
It's 24 and a half by the time it comes out
it could, could, could move a point, but
you know, bears have a decent defense
if I do that, right?
I mean, the bears just gave up 45
points though.
Yeah. Do you have fucking dreamboat guy
there? Aaron Rogers, you got a
poster of them.
Um, your bedroom wall
I'll go, you know, I'll go under
if you want to go on.
I don't know if I like that. Paul, I don't
even watch a second of football last week. I'm
not going to lie to you.
I had shit to do.
How about
my team was off. They had a bye week. Why
can I have a bye week?
Justin Fields, let's do something with Justin Fields.
Oh, he's one of the best kickers in the NFL, right?
No, one of the, he's a quarterback of the
Bears. Like I said, nobody slings it like
that guy.
He's got legs. You want, can we do
Justin Fields Russian for 50 yards?
No, that's a lot.
40 yards.
Oh, he said it's every 25.
These fucking, these two teams are in
the witness protection program. I don't
know anybody on these fucking teams.
So how about this? Let's make it fun then.
Let's make it fun. Okay.
Let's bet you over. Vikings get an interception.
Justin Fields going to throw an interception.
So Vikings get an interception.
Dalvin Cook gets a touchdown and then
let's do a Bears one. What do you want to do
for the Bears?
Three people have a heart attack in the stands.
Sorry.
Shout out to the SNL sketch.
Oh.
I don't want to see here.
So the quarterback
of the Bears throws a pick.
Dalvin Cook rushes a touchdown.
I don't know anybody in the Bears. Is it Mitch
Trabitsky? Is he gone?
Mitch Trabitsky has been gone. Yeah.
Is he playing the flamingo now?
There's a reason I picture him opening
for the Auschwitz.
Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins
throws a touchdown.
Yeah, I also like the over. Fuck this.
Let's say it's going to be an exciting game.
Over? Yeah.
All right. There you go. We'll do over.
So here you go for the people that's done.
And the way people get up, you know,
people get confused. I'm going to reiterate.
Paul, just say it again.
Don't use big words.
The over.
We're going to go the over 44 and a half.
Is it 44 and a half or 44?
Andrew, 44 and a half or 44?
44 and a half.
Yeah.
Over 44 and a half.
Dalvin Cook rushes a touchdown.
Farron of Touche. Touche.
And Justin.
Justin Fields throws an interception.
Agree to disagree.
All right.
There you go.
I like getting a damn cold, man,
because she took the kiss.
Oh, boy.
Billy sniffles.
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That knows with Kleenex guys use toilet paper.
Oh, I like that.
It's all paper, right?
This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Back me up. I'm doing 80s comedy here.
Yeah.
And women go, use the tissue.
It's like, just give me whatever.
I don't got fucking, I use a towel.
Get me mad, Bill.
Even I had to back off the paper towel.
You've done rubbing your nose.
You look like you did a fucking.
Dude, you look like you just got out of a UFC fight.
Yeah.
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Hey, dude, that chick beat that other,
the Brazilian chick. I missed it.
I know.
We got to talk about that on the,
we got to talk about that on the other one.
All right, let's wrap it up here, Paul.
I'm trying to, I'm trying to fucking wrap it up.
And then you're blowing your nose.
Wait, you froze.
Bill froze. Did we lose Bill?
Okay.
All right, guys.
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That was funny.
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So I get on the fucking plane, right?
I use my miles, bump myself up like a fancy person, you know?
Maybe I invented the cheesecake factory people are thinking,
and then they see how I'm dressed and they go,
oh no, he didn't invent the cheesecake factory.
And I go to sit down on my seat,
and I go to set my bag down,
I was going to set it down right in front of me,
and the nice fella sitting next to me goes,
why don't you stick it in the middle of this room?
And he moved his bag out of the way,
and then all of a sudden the waitress comes by.
A stewardess, whatever.
She comes by, flight attendant,
whatever the fuck you're supposed to call him,
she comes up and she,
can I get you a drink?
And I was like, yeah, can I get a,
can I get a water, please?
Ice or no ice?
What, however you make it!
Stop acting like it's a fucking martini,
it's alright, just give me a water.
With ice, thank you.
And the guy next to me,
he orders a doers,
neat, no ice, no nothing,
just put it in there.
So they bring our drinks, alright?
And I'm really thirsty, so I start sucking mine down,
and he just throws his back
like it's nothing,
like fucking John Wayne,
before he's going to turn around
and beat up three guys,
three mustachioed guys in the 1930s, right?
So,
I'm just sitting there,
and everybody's getting on the flight,
passing just,
you know, fucking doing whatever I'm doing,
and all of a sudden the guy next to me,
Mr. Doers goes to me,
he goes, excuse me, he goes,
are you afraid to fly?
And I looked at him, I was like, what?
He goes, are you afraid to fly?
And I go, no, no I'm not.
And he goes,
he goes, alright, but you know,
he goes, it's okay,
it's okay to tell me if you're afraid to fly.
And it's immediately getting weird.
And I'm like, no, I'm not afraid to fly.
And then I'm thinking in my head,
wait, is he afraid to fly?
And that's why he's drinking
the way he just drank,
and now he's hoping that I'm going to be afraid to fly,
so he, you know, he just wants to open up,
that's what I'm thinking.
And I go, I'm like, yeah,
no, I'm not afraid to fly.
And he won't leave it alone,
he goes, alright, because you know,
you're fidgeting,
you're looking around at other passengers.
And I'm sitting there looking at the,
like, is this guy fucking serious?
And I go, no.
I go, I'm not afraid to fly.
So now I'm like, fuck this guy,
I'm not talking to this guy for the rest of the flight.
This guy's weird, man.
Just get paint to picture,
he's like 32 year old,
wiry, in shape,
but like wiry white dude.
He's got a scully cap on with fucking glasses.
You know,
and
he goes,
like, there's like a minute of silence
and people are still getting on the plane,
and then he goes, hey, sorry about that,
sorry, we just got off
on the wrong foot.
He's like, my name's so-and-so, he goes, what's your name?
And then I'm thinking in my head,
like, what's my name?
My name's Frank.
I wanted to give him like a, by just some reason,
I just wanted, it's Bill.
And he goes, nice to meet you, so we shake hands.
And I'm just looking,
I don't have any poker face,
I'm looking at the guy like, what the fuck is your problem?
I'm not even trying to not,
I'm not trying to be pleasant, I'm already done with this guy.
So then the guy goes,
oh, hey, Bill, he goes,
why are you going to Indianapolis, Bill?
Like, he's fucking interrogating me,
and I'm like, is this guy fucking serious?
And I start doing
the math in my head going, wait,
is this guy like an air marshal or something?
No, he's not, he's fucking slamming booze over here.
Fuck this guy.
So I just go,
I go, look,
I don't have to answer your questions.
That's it, and I just look straight forward.
He goes, okay, now I'm concerned.
Okay?
I am concerned, and I'm looking at him like,
concerned about what?
He goes, you're fidgeting,
you have issues with other passengers,
and blah, blah, blah, he starts painting like this,
like he's been, I don't know what the fuck,
like psychologically breaking me down.
All right, so now just by this point,
they've closed the fucking
the door
to the fuselage,
and we're starting to taxi.
And I just finally look at the guy,
and I go,
I go,
you know, I came up with the fight.
At one point, I literally stick my hand out,
I was nervous,
and I stick my hand right in front of his face,
and I hold it level.
Oh, that's what I did the first time, yeah.
I hold it level, I go, I'm not nervous,
and he goes, well, anybody can do that.
And that's when I was like, fuck this guy,
I'm not talking to the guy, sorry,
I fucked the story up.
Then he came back, got my name,
now he's going, why are you going to Indianapolis?
And I finally look at him, I say, listen pal,
I'm drinking waters,
you're drinking doers, okay?
And then he goes, it wasn't doers,
what she gave me wasn't doers.
Really, what was it, some sort of spy juice?
You fucking jerk off?
This point, I want to punch him right through
his fucking stupid, wiry glasses.
Right?
So,
he's going like, you're looking around hospitals,
and I said something that just ticked him off,
I was just, yeah dude, I don't have to answer your questions.
All right, leave me alone.
And then he goes, he starts going like,
okay, I am really concerned right now.
I'm going to Indianapolis, and I just look at him,
you know what I start doing? I start doing
like this Ryan Gosling.
You know that little smirk that fucking
Mona Lisa smile he has as he smirks his way
through all these fucking movies?
I go full on Ryan Gosling.
Now I'm not talking to this guy,
and I just keep looking at him.
And I give him that little half a smirk,
and I just shake my head.
That's my game now.
This is my game, it's like if you're going to be a dick
right now with your fucking delusional authority,
that you're going to be like wearing fucking Guantanamo
and you're going to waterboard me.
There's no water, there's no board,
go fuck yourself, here's my smirk,
and I'm just going to shake my head at you
like you're a fucking pathetic human being.
This is what I'm doing, right?
And this is the funny thing, I'm such a dick,
all I have to say to the guys, I'm a comedian,
I'm going to do a sold out show there,
and that would make him back off.
But I'm a dick, I'm like fuck this guy,
I want to see where this is going.
So now he's all fucking amped up,
he's dropping, you know,
he's saying the F word, he's sitting there going,
he goes, if you don't fucking answer my question,
right fucking now, I'm going to hit that call button,
we're sitting there taxiing down the fucking, getting in the line.
I'm going to fucking hit this fucking button
if you blah, blah, blah, blah,
and I'm just fucking Mona Lisa's smile,
smirking, just shaking my head,
like you are a fucking retard, right?
So now he's saying the F word so much,
the lady who's sitting in front of me,
diagonally in front, right in front of him,
turns around and looks at us,
and now my heart's racing,
I'm like, where's this going?
This is going to be great, I am 100% fucking innocent,
this guy's drunk,
and I think he's going to hit that button.
Oh, I got a feeling he's going to hit that button.
What's going to happen, right?
I want to see what the pilot looks like.
Let's see where the fuck this is going, right?
So he goes, if you don't fuck,
he starts bringing his hand up to the button going,
I'm going to hit that button, you don't think I'll fucking do it?
I'll hit that button, and I'm sitting there
smirking at him, thinking in my head, go ahead, hit the fucking button.
Let's see what happens, let's see what happens, right?
So finally, now he wants to hit the button,
and he can't fucking find it,
and in defense of him,
I couldn't find it either, I was looking up there,
I half wanted to hit it myself,
then he finally finds it,
and he hits it, right?
And now I'm just like, holy shit,
what's going to happen?
And he's sitting there going, yeah, huh?
You want to fucking play this game?
You want to fucking play this game?
I'm surprised, I mean it took like fucking like 30 seconds
for a flight attendant,
the one who gave him the booze,
which evidently wasn't booze, comes over,
and at this point, we're like doing that shit
where we're behind a plane, we're almost ready to take off,
like we're pulling up and then stopping,
pulling up and then stopping as planes are taken off.
So she goes, yeah, what's the problem over here?
And he goes, I'm not comfortable to fly with this guy.
This guy, he's fidgeting,
he's looking around at other fucking people,
blah, blah, blah, he's doing all this thing, right?
And then the stewardess looks at me,
and I'm just sitting there fucking,
smirked, just shaking my head,
and I'm just looking at this dude, just shaking my head,
like this guy's out of his fucking mind.
I don't say a word,
and this guy goes on and on and on about his fucking
psycho babble about how I'm in this security risk.
So she goes to,
so she goes, okay,
any other passengers
have you noticed anything?
She's talking to everybody first class at this point.
Is anybody noticed anything?
Odd about this guy,
and the lady who is sitting
right in front of the dude diagonally from me
turns around, she goes, yeah,
I've been listening to this guy
berating this other passenger.
She's on my side,
and I haven't said a fucking word.
This is great, and I'm just sitting there
smirking, then the stewardess looks at me,
and I shrugged my shoulders like,
I don't know what to tell you.
So finally she said, sir,
do you have anything to add to this?
And I just said,
look, I'm just a guy
trying to go to Indianapolis.
This guy over here,
he starts slamming his doors.
I kind of felt like a rat when I said that.
I go, he's slamming his doors, next thing you know,
he's dropping the F bomb to me.
Then I'm thinking, oh fuck, I just said bomb,
right?
Fortunately nothing happens.
So now another fucking, the male stewardess
comes over right now, he's going like,
and the captain of the fucking,
now at this point we've pulled over,
and the plane has stopped.
250 people trying to get to Indianapolis,
and Jerkoff over here
can't hold his fucking alcohol,
who just watched Person of Interest
every, I guess, evidently,
I have no fucking idea.
Now the plane has stopped.
This fucking Jerkoff has stopped
the plane,
interrogating a goddamn comedian
like I'm in the fucking Taliban,
and he works for the CIA, right?
So now we're just sitting there.
And the captain is up front
in the plane like,
saying to the stewardess,
just going, basically relaying,
do I really have to fucking come back there?
This is the last flight of the night.
Is there really a goddamn problem?
And that was the VOD.
And they finally said to the douche
sitting next to me, are you going to be okay
to fly with him?
And at that point, it appeased
the fucking ego
that he was somehow in control,
and he goes like, you know what, okay,
it's fine, it's fine.
It'll be fine.
So they go, okay.
So now the plane's going again,
and now we fucking come around
and he's sitting there fucking, he's in my ear.
And at this point, I am
like the fucking laugh you hear me doing
in the podcast, that's what I'm doing.
And he's sitting there going, oh, he goes,
you know what, I'm glad, I'm glad,
I hope you fucking try something.
I hope you fucking try something when we're up there.
I really hope you fucking try something.
And I'm just fucking like,
gut busting, laughing, shaking.
Like, what are you going to fucking do to me?
What are you going to do to me?
Are you going to punch me in the face?
You fucking wiry jackass?
With your fucking glasses on?
You know, that's a federal offence.
You're going to go to jail if you do that.
Or something, I don't know what, right?
So I'm just sitting there fucking laughing at the guy going,
I actually, at one point,
I put my fucking little eye-pill thing on.
You know, like I'm going to sleep.
Oh, I had that out too
when the stewardess was talking to me.
I was like putting it on as this total mind fuck.
Like, I don't know what this guy is.
I'm just trying to go to Minneapolis, I'm going to sleep.
And so I got,
I got my fucking eye thing on, right?
As he's sitting there threatening me.
Just, I was going with total passive aggressive.
It's like, dude, I'm so not concerned with you.
I'm literally putting a blindfold on.
All right.
So this fucking guy,
he starts going,
he goes, hey, he goes,
you think you fucking won this? You think you fucking won this?
He goes, you know, my dad is, my dad,
he started saying his dad's some major CEO
in Indianapolis. Doesn't sound like a fucking made-up story.
I swear to God, this is all true.
He goes, my dad is some, a major CEO
in Indianapolis.
And I will have you fucking arrested.
And the lady turns around again. I will have you fucking arrested
the second we get on the ground.
What? For what?
Sitting here?
You fucking loser. Learn how to hold your alcohol.
All right.
And he starts describing the view
that I'm going to have when I go to jail,
like some fucking law and order episode.
Oh, you're going to love it. You'll be able to see Lucas Oilfield
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm just sitting there cracking up, laughing.
And then there's this pause, right?
And I'm thinking, finally,
he finally shut the fuck up.
It's like a three, four minute pause.
And he gave up because I wasn't giving him anything.
I was just laughing and shaking my head.
I was being a dick to him. I was.
Because I was enjoying it.
And then there was like a three minute pause.
And then all of a sudden he just goes,
why are you going to Indianapolis, Bill?
So we're like 20 minutes into the flight.
And I gotta be honest with you,
my adrenaline was so going during all of that.
Because I knew I didn't do anything wrong
but I thought we were literally going to go back
and there was going to be fucking cops there.
And if the fucking stewardess or the pilot
asked me who I am and where I'm going,
I'm going to tell him I respect your authority.
You're just some jet.
You don't have any fucking authority.
I don't have to answer your questions.
It was one of the most fun experiences
I've ever had with another human being.
Like when somebody thinks that they have power
and you know they don't
and all they can do is try to just keep bluffing
and raising their voice and start cursing at you.
And if you just start laughing at them,
the look on their face is fucking priceless.
So the last thing he said, he said,
why are you going to Indianapolis, Bill?
And I fucking started howling.
Just fucking holding my stomach, shaking my head.
And with my fucking eye pillow thing on, right?
And I know I'm going to get a ton of shit
that I wear one of those.
They're fucking underrated.
Get the one at Brookstone where it's literally a pillow.
I'm telling you, you could fall asleep
12 noon facing the sun.
It's awesome.
So anyways, like after he asked me where you're going, Bill,
it was like a 10 minute,
like probably 10 minutes had gone by
and I can't fucking sleep.
Because it's so funny to me.
I can't wait to tell the story to every comic I know.
I can't wait to try it on stage to see if it's funny or whatever.
So finally, I just like, ah, fuck it.
Maybe I'll just get on my computer and I bring up my eye pillow.
And I like, I got to look at the guy
because I know he's fucking staring at me
waiting for me to do something, right?
So I lift it up.
I get my fucking Mona Lisa smile going
and I look over at the guy and dude,
he is fucking passed out.
He looked like he got shot.
He was sitting there like,
his head was just hanging straight down
and anytime the plane moved,
like his head was, I mean,
look at how he got knocked out.
And for the rest of the fucking flight,
old fucking, ah,
oh, what's Matt Damon's character?
Jack Ryan, old fucking Jack Ryan over here.
It's just, you know,
he was sitting there like,
old fucking Jack Ryan over here.
It's just, you know, the sky marshal,
the fucking booze bag
and God knows what else he was on.
He was just completely out,
passed out for the rest of the fucking flight.
And this is why I'm not a dick guy.
I was having so much fun with this guy.
I start, I can't sleep.
So I start slamming waters
because I want to have to get up
and take a piss just to see if this guy's going to freak out
because the security risk is getting up.
And this, the joke was on me.
He never regained consciousness
and then I really had to take a piss
but I'm such a stubborn fuck.
I was holding it because I wanted to make sure
he was awake when I got up
because I was going to give him a little smirk
and then I was going to get out,
see if he hit the call button again.
Um, but he didn't.
He didn't wake up till we hit the ground
and, um,
and then it's funny, then he woke up
hours later, so now he had kind of slept off
whatever the fuck this guy was on.
And I'm sitting there
smirking, waiting for the guy to start talking
and he won't look at me.
And I, and I think at that point
he kind of fucking realized that maybe he got a little, uh,
a little extra, a little too patriotic.
So we stop.
We stop at the gate and everything
and we're going to get up.
So I grab my shit, I get up
and I'm just kind of looking at him
looking at me and then the lady who
was sitting in front of me
had this big smile on her face.
She goes, how you, she goes, how you doing?
I went, good, I go, I go, that was an interesting one
and I said it really loud.
So the guy heard and he didn't say anything
and this is what he did
to try to save face.
His pillow was kind of stuck behind,
was kind of stuck behind his shoulder
and like a weird place.
So he was frustrated with it.
So he, he ripped it out from behind him
and he tried to do some caveman grunt
to try to still have some sort of, uh,
I don't know what.
So, so that was my flight
to Indianapolis people.
Um, you know what?
How far into the fucking podcast are we?
That was a long, that was a long fucking story.
Hey, what's going on?
It's Gilbert.
It's the Monday morning podcast
from Monday, December 16th,
2013.
And I am recording here
on, um,
it's actually December 17th.
Um,
five months ago,
I was on the plane
and I was on the plane
and I was on the plane
and I was on the plane
with, um,
finally back from Europe.
Uh,
apologize for the podcast being so late
but, um, I was in Iceland
and when the fuck
am I ever going to be there again?
So I had to do some shit Sunday
and then Monday I was flying all the way back
and, uh, I'm actually not that jet-lagged.
It worked out nice.
I tried, and I tried to, I tried to stay up
on the plane,
try to stay awake as long as I could
because I knew that I was landing,
um,
at 7 p.m.
L.A. time,
7.25 or something, so I figured if I could just
fucking stay up,
you know, Nia picks me up the airport,
I just get my ass home and then if I fall asleep,
it'll be like 9, 10 o'clock at night
and I'm back on the clock and it worked out good.
I woke up, right,
boo-doo-doo-doo-doo, and I looked at the clock,
wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah, and I wondered
what the fuck time it was. I thought it was like
2.30 in the morning because my clock
had fell off the bed there, the digital one there
that I've had since the fucking 70s there
and, uh,
I thought it said 2.30 in the morning and I was like,
you gotta be fucking kidding me.
I thought I, I thought I did it right
and, uh, then all of a sudden it was 6 o'clock
and I realized the clock was upside down
and that was 5.30. Is this even remotely exciting?
I don't know if it is or not.
I'm trying to keep my voice down because
the lovely Nia's still sleeping upstairs.
Beautiful angel that she is
and, uh, I got my dog down here.
I'm psyched.
Gonna go hiking today,
get back into it. I swear to God,
I don't have the nerve
to step on the goddamn scale, alright?
And if I sound
like some skinny bitch,
well, fuck you.
I'm in this business and I read your tweets
and I see when you see my face,
you start calling me a fat cunt, alright?
And I gotta tell you it hurts sometimes, alright?
No, seriously.
No, I'm fain. You gotta be
if you're in this business. So I think
I put on at least 10, 12 pounds.
I started eating like a fucking
goddamn Roman god
three weeks ago
in Italy and it never,
it never stopped.
I kept thinking to myself like, alright,
when the tour starts, when the tour starts,
I'm gonna be fucking good
and we discipline, but it just didn't work out that way.
It was, um,
you know, this past week,
I just, I think I mentioned it last week,
I did a seven
country, seven city run
in, uh,
what was it, six cities? London, Dublin,
Helsinki, Copenhagen,
also Sweden. Okay, six, but I did two nights
in London. So it was
seven nights in a row.
Um,
basically touring like a band,
how they do it and I
have a whole new respect
for anybody that's touring as a band.
Um, that was hard enough to do
by myself with no
equipment. I don't have to bring
anything, I just fucking show up
mic in a mic stand, go up to the
microphone. I love when they,
you want to do a sound check? It's like, well, did it sound
okay when you talked into it? Well, yeah,
well, there you go.
What am I gonna do? Go up there, fuck,
fuck, fuck, cunt, cunt,
cunt, you know?
So
anyways, I lost another mixer
on this fucking trip.
Fool me once, shame on you,
fool me twice.
Oh, red face is a dumb fuck.
There's something about these hundred-dollar mixers,
believe it or not, they don't have any sort of
uh,
I don't know, something to prevent
the surge. I don't know what it is
because I had the adapter
um, or the converter,
I should say. Convert?
No, the adapter.
I forget what, that fucking guy in Helsinki
dressed me down two years ago.
Once, it is not a converter,
it is an adapter, you are not converting
the electricity, you are
adapting it to your devices, yes.
Oh, fuck you, Hans.
Um,
what's, you know, it's a good Swedish name.
I don't, or a Finnish name, I have no
fucking idea. This podcast is going to
be all over the map.
I apologize one more time for the, the sound
quality here.
Um, you know, my mixers
shit the bed, I just discovered that, so
uh, but the good thing is
y'all things comedy, networks,
new studios
are up and running, and
uh, hopefully, uh, I have a nice
surprise guest
that I'm going to try to be interviewing.
He's got a big movie coming up.
Look at me teasing it, teasing it, tickling
you with it. Uh, but I don't want to
say that he's going to be on it because I know
he's fucking busy doing press for it, but uh,
I ran into him when I was
Dublin, which was the greatest fucking
thing ever. Him and his friends were fucking hyping
the movie, and I was in Dublin, and we just went out
and fucking drank and sang
Christmas songs. It was fucking awesome.
Such a great tour, and
uh,
yeah, at the risk
of being corny, I got to tell you at one
point, I was doing a second
show in Finland,
and I had
this feeling when I was on stage
that I was doing exactly what the fuck I'm
supposed to be doing in life.
I can't explain it. There's something about
making people laugh that far
away from where
uh, where you live
and where you speak a language,
and if you're still connecting,
that's pretty much
about as great an affirmation that
you know, I'm really, I'm supposed
to be doing it. This shit is still working
this far away.
Um, oh, what a fucking
week.
I got to tell you something right now. I did
a show
in Dublin, Ireland
and
all the crowds were great, but I got to tell you
those fucking people in Ireland
are the funniest
that I can't even explain.
I swear to, there's something about like
when I go through Great Britain and Ireland, it's
like Scotland and Ireland
they like the knuckleheads that I
grew up with, and when I go
to London, London is like
is kind of like all the people that
I met when I went to New York that were from
Boston, so they did move away
from where they were from, but they still brought
that thing with them, because people
in London are hilarious, but
I was doing a show, Dublin on Monday
night
at the Vickers Street Theater
or something, just this awesome
venue. By the way, Jim Gaffigan's going to
be there if any of you Irish kinds of listen to this,
you got to go see him. I was supposed to
tweet about that, I'm going to do that today.
The hilarious Jim Gaffigan's going to be there
and anyway, so it was on a Monday night
and it's a really hard
night to try and sell tickets
and these people showed up and
forced
and I can't even tell you how
they were
fucking hilarious, like I was on stage
and there was this thing I
was talking about
about people hugging their kids
and now that could
is a good thing, but if you do it too much
you could potentially make a weaker, so I mentioned
and I've been telling this story
for like six to eight
months and I've been saying
how, you know, my mother wasn't
a hugger and didn't hug us when
we were kids and people just listen
and it's just a small detail that leads
to this other part that I want to talk
about, so
I've said that line
uneventfully, that's even a fucking word
with no
issue whatsoever
for like six months
now I'm in fucking Ireland
and I just throw that line out there, like I'm not even
thinking about it and say, yeah, I said, you know, my mother didn't hug me
when I was a kid and I'm getting ready
to say the next sentence and like 15%
of the crowd goes, oh
I'm not even doing it the way
they did it, just collectively
broke my
it was just such the classic
fucking
it was like that Boston Irish thing that I grew up
with distilled to its purest form
with actually real Irish people
where
you almost have to be there to
fucking understand what was behind it
it was like
I opened the emotional door
just to crack
and automatically
they just bust your balls about it
like, yeah, you fucking, you know
you think we got hugs
you freckled cunt, shut the fuck up
and tell the joke, I can't even
I've been trying to
explain it to Nia, she laughed but it's still
you kind of had to be there
and then
you know, so I laughed
I'm not fucking trying to get your sympathy
I'm trying to get to this next part you assholes
and the whole crowd fucking laughs
and then like a half hour later
what I had done when I was over there was
like DVDs with me
like just the
basically the DVD
itself with this little paper
thing and I was just handing them out to people
because I'm trying to get them to show other people
you know, when I'm out there
so I can keep coming back
basically trying to get them to spread the word
in my comedy and then someone's just like
well why don't you just put it on Spotify you dumb fuck
and I'm like, yeah, because I'm old, alright
I feel like I have to bring the hard copy
so I tell these assholes
that I'm giving them free DVDs
at the end of the show
and I'm halfway through that
spiel telling them that they're getting a free
DVD
alright and I'm in the middle
of it and I hear this guy in the back
that guy goes, oh fuck off
I don't even think I didn't even
explain
what I was doing I don't know if I had gotten
to the part where they were free
I don't know what the fuck or it was the fact
that I was trying to once again
go to a nice place where hey you know
I really appreciate you guys coming out
this really means a lot to me and I want to keep
coming back here because I think you got a great
country or whatever and I just
just open in the door that much
oh fuck off
so I finally just looked
and I went Jesus Christ they were already laughing
I was like you know what I've played
in 20, almost 22 years as a comedian
I have played
in front of some miserable
motherfuckers but you guys
and they were already laughing are the most
miserable fucking cunts I've ever
been in and they loved it
absolutely loved it
and it
killed me that I couldn't go out drinking
with the crowd because I had a fucking go
had an early flight of course all the way over
to Helsinki but
and it was just kind of those
moments all the way
through the tour that were unreal like
Helsinki I hope I'm not born
you guys with this shit but and Helsinki
I did two shows
and the first show I went out
and I just
like
felt like I couldn't get on a roll
for like a lot of the show like I get
laughs and then it would stop I would get laughs
and it would stop
and it got to the point like
there was one point
in the first show there's something I said
bomb so
hard that I almost got a little depressed
and I definitely thought
because in my head some
I was thinking about
like wow I think I've reached the limits
to where my act works
once I get on the other side of the Baltic
Sea and you really feel that when you
get on the other side of the Baltic Sea you get
that feeling like
where I'm not in Europe anymore
you're starting
to feel like I am heading
towards the Soviet Union
even though you know
a good what 20% of that
country is in Europe you just get this
I can't explain it you definitely you're in eastern
Europe you're starting
to get like that Baltic Slavic
fucking vibe and
I had to use all these
tricks that I've learned as a comedian
over the years
to basically stop the
I don't know what
the proverbial comedy jet from going
into a spin and you know crashing
into the ground I just committed harder
I started
improv enough
trying to tag every joke with something new
something to get me present
and I was able to I still had a good
show and everything and I know they had a good time
but I was thinking in my head like man this guy wanted
me to go to Estonia
which is basically like a fucking
50 minute boat ride
from Finland
and
I was thinking like there's no fucking way I'm going there
and I think I've reached the end
and then something happened during the second show
where I was talking
about getting a gun
and how I like this one
gun because it was quieter and those bigger ones
are too fucking loud and if you pull the trigger
you're gonna fucking destroy your ears
and they're laughing and shit and then as I
come to the end of the joke
you know they laughed and then it was kind of quiet
and then some guy in the crowd
yelled out you know get a silencer
and I was like
well silencers are illegal
where I'm at
I know in Jacksonville Florida they're legal
because I use them but they're illegal
where I'm at they basically say that
you know I want to murder somebody and I don't want anybody
to know
in the next room
and then it just dawned on me
and I was like
I just
I've been in front of really smart
crowds before and they laugh and shut up
these fucking guys
the people were so smart they were sitting there
they were trying to solve the problem of the joke
they're laughing at the joke
while coming up with solutions
so I finally said to them
I said listen I was like is this what you guys are doing
alright I'm like this isn't
this isn't a fucking think tank
it's just a comedy show and I somehow
connected with them
in that moment and then I had them
for the rest of the way
and I just started
riffing on that anytime a joke would only do
okay I would just start riffing on
the solution to whatever the joke was
and that got them back in and I was able
to get on a
get on a roll with them
and it was
just kind of that all
all week dude and I was oh my god fucking Helsinki
I watched the sun go down at like 3
30 in the afternoon from my hotel
oh I think by the time I got there
that's right by the time I got to
Helsinki because I had to connect in London
with an AFROW
which by the way
is
if you ever have to
go to Heathrow airport I would suggest
doing 2 hours of yoga before you
get there it is an unbelievable
test of your patients
of your cardio
your sanity and it's
fucking
and I of course you know I failed
miserably I lose my shit
at LAX
put it this way
if you can
if you ever go to Europe here's a travel tip for you
and you could avoid connecting
if you're not going to London
I would highly recommend
not connecting
in London
because
it's not like connecting in other
I've never had to get off
you gotta run through a whole terminal
and then wait for a bus
that isn't coming for 7 minutes
and then by the time the bus
comes there's so many fucking people
or there's already too many people you gotta wait
for the next bus in another 7 minutes
you finally get on that fucking thing
I mean it is a shit show
oh and by the way if anybody lights up
a cigarette it's gonna be too foggy
for anything to land so you're gonna be delayed
wherever the hell you're at I went through that fucking thing
like 3 times
it's still an incredible airport
it's still just the sheer size of it
you have to respect but I have to tell you
give yourself plenty of time
if you can
to connect
yeah it's a fucking nightmare
I don't know what
so where the hell did I go from there
I think I went to Copenhagen
after that
Copenhagen yep I did a show there
that was fucking amazing
and I got you guys gotta
forgive me all the comedians that I work with
because I went night after night after night after night
and you guys had some pretty
crazy names
I think this guy's name was
Christian or something like that I can't remember
really really smart guy really cool guy
and gave me a bunch of tags
for jokes and they were actually really funny
a lot of times when somebody does that
they're fucking horrific
but and you gotta sit there smiling
like yeah you know we're gonna try that his were actually
great
so what else what else what else
fuck you know what I just
realized I left it upstairs when I was in Iceland
one of the two comedians
that opened up for me both of them were great
couldn't understand what the fuck they were saying
but one of them gave me a book
I'm gonna hit pause and I'm gonna go upstairs
and get it if you guys like
you know like those you know like those
cartoon strips like the far side
where it's just a picture and they write something funny
alright well if you like something
absolutely just completely
sick and twisted
I just set down the recorder hang on I'm gonna
look it up right now I gotta find this
because it's fucking hilarious and he was
killing like all the comics I was
with we would just after we
did the show we went to dinner and we were
uh passing the book around
laughing our asses off let's see I
hate dolphins
there it is
I hate dolphins
book
where the fuck is it
come on man it came
up I saw when it came up
hold on
I mean one of his
one of his cartoons
there it is
one of his cartoons
has a stick figure
they're like stick figures drawings
and he's running it's a
it's a father running after his kids with
this like acoustic guitar
over his head
and screaming
it's your fault
I'm not a rockstar and then one
of the little kids running away is going daddy
no
and it's just
another one is you got two guys
are standing over
another stick figure that's
laying on the ground and it looks like
it's just blown its brains out and one of
the stick figures looks at the other and goes
uh
something like you want to fuck them
laughing
it's just the darkest
sickest shit
he's got two books
his other one is called something like my pussies hungry
I don't know what it is this guy
I don't know how to say his fucking name
it's
just search I hate dolphins
in the comedians name
it's
hooglikur
hooglikur dogson
and it's spelt
h-u-g-l-e-i
k-u-r
and his last name is
d-a-g-s-s-o
and man this fucking book is hilarious
half the shit that's funny
as you look at it you laugh
and then you hand it to your friend
and he's looking at it his you know you read what
it says and you gotta kinda look at the picture
and put it together so watching
your friend taking in the joke
is
I think it's even more enjoyable but um
he was fucking funny man he broke my balls
when he brought me up like switched into English
and uh
fuck he was saying it was just great
and the guy who came on before him was also awesome
they're just really really funny people
dude Iceland is
insane
do you know they have an app over there
that basically
when you meet somebody and you wanna start dating them
you just search it and you see
how you're related
it'll show how you're related
I'm gonna say that again
they have an app over there
you meet a woman in a bar
a woman meets a guy or whatever
a couple of twinkle toes meet each other there
um
you're fucking
you just uh
there's an app that will say
not if you're related how you're related
because everybody there
is fucking related
um
and you know it's funny they're absolutely
the fucking great looking people
so I think they spread it out far
and wide
they actually the cab drivers over
they have a joke in Iceland
and people in Great Britain and Ireland
aren't gonna like this they basically
because people always talk about
how beautiful the women are and they said
well basically the Vikings
when they would conquer other people
they would just take all their good looking women
and they would take them away with them
um
talk about the ultimate defeat
um yeah take my farmland
I don't give a shit take all the beautiful women
fuck am I supposed to do
just kill me now
so they're saying that they took them all out of
Great Britain
took them out of England, Scotland, Wales
and Ireland
and they took them all to Iceland and that's why
their women are so much better looking
and that there's no good looking women in the other one
which isn't true but of course they say that but it's fucking hilarious
um
and also they fucking eat everything
because they live on an island
so when you go to the menu
um they had pigeon
on the menu but I think that that's
their word for dove
um
a buddy of mine he ordered it and I had a piece of it
tasted alright little fucking gamey
and then they also had whale
and that was the only thing that I didn't like about Iceland
was there's a number of restaurants
that you went into and you could actually eat whale
which
to me is like eating an elephant
you know what I mean
there's just certain animals
um
you know
like look if they had like a jackal sandwich
or a fucking hyena sandwich
you know there's certain animals where you're just like
you know what you're a cunt
or there's enough of you
like I'll eat venison I don't give a fuck
you know there's plenty of goddamn deer running around
with their disease ticks
okay
fucking up the front ends of a bunch of cars
I don't give a shit about that but whales
I mean they're like endangered
they're not being endangered because
or at least Iceland doesn't give a fuck
I don't really understand how that works
but um
you could actually eat whale
and I was just like
that was the only thing that upset me
when I was in Iceland
Iceland is fucking unbelievable
you walk around
and I recommend going in the wintertime
don't go in the summer when there's a bunch of people
walking in shorts walking around fuck that
you go in the summertime
and uh
they got this thing the blue lagoon spa
there that you go into
it's fucking
I can't even describe it dude it's fucking insane
you're in this fucking giant salt
water like pool
that's heated
there's steam coming off it you're surrounded by snow
and everything just looks blue
it's like you have on those
someone was saying
Mitch Hedberg rest his soul
those blue tinted sunglasses that he used to wear
it's like you're wearing
those fucking things
I don't know
it was an absolutely amazing amazing
fucking amazing
trip
I had a great time in Sweden
I just don't want to leave any city out here
Sweden I performed in this theater
it almost looked like
you were in like a circus tent
but it was a theater like when you looked out
you felt like you were standing in the middle
but it was like because it was like in the round
but not totally it was like a semi-circle kind
of thing
and also
also was the place I spent the least
amount of time but I just had a great time
smoked a fucking Cuban cigar
that's another great thing Cubans are legal
and
there are ways to get him back
in the country wink wink
um
hahahaha
let's just say that daddy is going to be
fucking drinking a lot of scotch over the next month
um
and it's also a great thing too if you got buddies who
smoke cigars
you sneak something for them
um or maybe you don't you allegedly do it
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what do we got near left
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alright we'll do some more podcasting
and then I'll get back to that
so um
is there anything else I can tell you guys
about
um
oh here's a good one for jet lag
I like to uh fly at night
leave wherever you're going
like if you're flying east to west
if you fly around three four in the afternoon
that's also the sweet spot
at the airport by the way because then
you're coming around two one two
o'clock in the afternoon and for the most part
people wherever they're staying
they either want to get the fuck out of
there or they want to try to stretch in another day
so they either get you know
fly between six in the morning
to ten
or they start leaving around you know five
or maybe seven
because they want to skip the rush hour traffic
so that's a good time to go
and you're basically
you're flying in tonight
so it's easy to go to sleep
you can get eight hours you're definitely going to be jet lag when you get to Europe
but coming back
um
when did I leave
oh yeah you know what sucked the only thing that sucked when I was coming back
was I was in Iceland so I'm halfway across
the Atlantic ocean
and
but it was like a zillion dollars
and way more miles than I had
to try to get a nice business class seat
um
straight to LA so I had to fly back
to fucking AFROW
connected in AFROW
and um
I was getting off Icelandic air
and switching to virgin air
so I had checked my bag
and I had to fucking
go to baggage claim I had to go through
customs go down and get the fucking
bag and then do the bus
thing to the this thing to the that thing with the
fucking bag and dude you want to hear about a whiny
cunt cursing up a fucking
storm and then I ended up having
plenty of time
I had plenty of time
I ended up drinking a couple of scotches
there and I talked to some woman who was from
Poland and I was saying you know I had some
people come out to my shows in Poland
in Copenhagen I'd love to go there
she's like where do you want to go and I was like
Warsaw and she just shook her head
she's like hey you know I go there
it's too uh
too commercial and she fucking broke down
all of Poland for me so I'm telling you guys
you gotta do it you gotta do it if you got the
time or whatever or make time fuck that even
if you got kids fuck it
alright fuck it in that second flat screen TV
fuck their college education
it's gonna be there
okay they're not gonna get a college education
because you spent fucking seven days
in Europe one fucking
time one time
you spent it there and you dropped them off
with the parents to watch them
that's great they're gonna get close to your grandparents
you know
your parents will get to spend time with your
kids and you'll get to go over there
get to see the world from a different perspective
you gotta fucking do it
highly recommend it and you can do it on the
fucking cheap you really can't
just get your fucking asses over there and have yourself
a damn sandwich alright
um
I really hope as many people as you know
fucking close you know what's great and I've been
reading when I was in Scotland so I told you
somebody gave me this book
David Lee Roth's book that came out in
the late 90s crazy from the heat and I gotta
tell you this is a fucking killer book man
what I love about it
is he's not dishing a bunch of dirt
about Van Halen and going Eddie's
a cunt and Michael Anthony
and Alex and all that he definitely takes
care of there but he went through a real
painful fucking thing
with the ending of that and God knows they
trashed him enough but a lot of it is
he's describing
what it's like to be on the road
and um
right now he's talking about the extensive
travel that he's done
talking about he ended a tour in
83 with Van Halen in Argentina
so he's with the security guy Big Ed
not to be confused with Eddie Van Halen
this is a different guy Big Ed
and he's like well you know
we kind of have to go past
the uh the Amazon
to get back to
LA why don't we go there
and Big Ed was like oh yeah
I've always wanted to go to Africa
and David Lee's just like alright close enough
whatever so he talks about
just like
dropping a boat
into the Amazon river and going fucking
down the river up the river
whatever he's doing getting dysentery
feeling like he's going to die having 12
second convulsions
this is a fucking rock star
who the hell does this shit man it's really
really amazing
and when I put down the book this morning
he was about ready to go up
he was in the Himalayas
going through the valley approaching
Mount Everest
he has this great theory of
like you know because he's a night guy
that he's seen all these great cities
he always brings his bicycle
on tour and he rides a bike through the city at night
and he said you really get to see
the city and feel the spirits of the city
and I was thinking fuck man maybe I told you this
last week I kind of had that moment when I was
sitting there outside the Vatican
you gotta fucking do it
you gotta fucking do it okay and if some shit had
like me who fucking
flunked didn't flunk
everything in high school but I swear to god
I got C's D's and E's they weren't called F's
where I was from it was a fucking
I told you this before
when I was a freshman in high school I was
gonna go to Notre Dame and become a lawyer
and by the time I was a sophomore
I was like well maybe I'll get into roofing
that's how bad I did
just completely shit the bed
the bed like fucking
fumbled the punt whatever the fuck
you want to call it
yeah it was awful so anyways
that's my travel talk
alright that gives all the people who hate sports
when I talk about
when I talk about sports too much
on the podcast I gave you a break
and I have no fucking idea
what is going on in any sport
other than hockey because I got the Bruins
app on my phone
and I know they had a great west coast trip
got their asses kicked to them
handed to them
or asses kicked or asses handed to them
or asses kicked to them
is that a new one? I got my
ass kicked to me it's like they removed your ass
and then they walked across the street
and then punted your ass back over to you
because they felt so bad about the beatdown
there you go there's a new one
by the Vancouver Canucks
so it's funny they're all giving me shit on twitter
doing that stupid
this this this
beating the Bruins 6-1 priceless
so I don't know why you would say that to me
I'm like well
losing the first two games in the finals
coming back to win five out of the next six
wait a minute
that doesn't make sense does it
four out of the next five
Jesus Christ Bill there's my high school math again
losing the first two and then coming back
to win four of the last five
and game seven in your fucking building
I think that's a little bit better
to win a Stanley Cup
so congratulations on your regular season win
and all you cunts out there who are giving me shit
because the Patriots lost to the Dolphins
all you fantasy football playing
fucking morons
okay who actually think that
Tom Brady's lost a step
and they're so fucking
dumb
when it comes to watching sports
and analyzing what the fuck's going on
because you get your nose half an inch away from the paper
looking at numbers
you better wake the fuck up because there's only like another week
I guess of regular season football
Tom Brady is in the middle of one of his greatest seasons
he's ever had
the fact that they have the record that they do
with the level
of injuries and the shit that
you see it's been fucking unreal
like somebody wrote me on Twitter
like really how the fuck do you lose to the Dolphins
it's like well first of all it's easy
you score less points than they do
and second of all whenever you play a division rival
they see it twice a year every year
they know who you are they know what the fuck you do
if you're a gambler
if you ever want to bet on an upset
I would definitely say
bet that the division rival
especially if they lost the first time
is at least going to cover if not
fucking beat them it happens all the time
I don't know what sport you're fucking watching
and we have catastrophic
fucking injuries on defense
actually I am making excuses
but like
what I'm really saying is that
if I was in the states and I was watching the Patriots vs the Dolphins
there's no fucking way that I would just be like
oh there's no way we're not going to win this game
so anyways
that's all I know about what's going on in football
I
completely missed the Cleveland Browns game
I guess with the Patriots
got all those
new age calls
where it doesn't seem like it's football anymore
you know what I mean
so anyways
let's get on to some
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oh oh and I got a new TV show
whenever I go overseas
and I'm jet lagged I always put on Netflix
and I get into something else
or I buy a box that I got into the killing
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but I am three episodes in
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if you don't want
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they take you they walk you right through it
where you feel like you're
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living it it's amazing
fucking amazing show
so far phenomenal witch
acting and all that type of shit
and I'm looking at it like fuck I'd love to be on a show like this
so who knows I'm going to bug my agent today
hey can I play a body
or something on that show I'd love to be on it
anyways
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Joe Bartnick
Jay Lawhead Jason Lawhead
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we're going to be boozing it up
I'd love to see you guys down there
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alright here we go on to the questions
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Finland
show hey bill love your show in Helsinki well thank you
I definitely pay to see
you again I don't know if it was just me
there were a few moments where I felt you worried
about offending the audience or something
that's extremely hard to do
yeah see you were probably there at the first show
I was feeling you guys out
man and I think I also had that long
flight from Dublin where I got
I got delayed at
Afro connected in Afro
and I literally landed went right to the
show so I might have been just a tad off
he said that's extremely hard to do
here so next time don't worry about
any of that
the less you pull punches the more you're going to
get out of the audience in Finland
oh that's awesome man thank you
thank you for reading from your playbook
well I think I figured you guys out as I just
mentioned the story
on the story on the podcast telling
that story
anyway he goes p.s. my ex-girlfriend was a
ginger she was a real cunt
I didn't even know she was a ginger
until I took her pants off
yeah no you know what it was was I came out
and it's just like you guys
are really fucking like
any comic is going to play
Finland over there
this is just my experience because
it was my fucking
jet lag my act that I was
doing and whatever the fuck was going on with
me chemically so I can't
say this is going to happen but they're a
fucking great crowd
and now this guy is saying that you
can't offend them you know what's great
when you go through all of those
I basically
did all of
the Nordic
countries
and I've told you guys this before
Scandinavia consists of Norway
Sweden
and Denmark
and
those three countries
that's Scandinavia but within them
Scandinavia is part of the Nordic countries
and that includes all of Scandinavia
the three I just mentioned
and then Finland
Iceland
and I think they're called the feral islands
that's the only place I didn't go the feral islands
which are like northwest
of Scotland
but what's great when you go through all of that
is for the most part
it's predominantly Lutheran
Lutheran or Lutheran I don't know
how to say it properly but they and they
basically believe that when you
die you're dead you just go into the ground
and
it's just like
and I say well don't you wonder
like can you wrap your head around
not existing they're like yeah it's just like
before you were born you don't remember
that it's the same thing
and
because of that
they're really fucking logical
if that makes
sense if there's any comedian listen to this
I would basically describe that give it to a college
gig and you think you're bombing
but then you realize oh wait this is
a really smart school
and they just laugh in a different way
that's basically what Helsinki
was like so thanks for the heads up
I did have a great time
and I hope those people on the first show
had a good time too I was
you know
I don't want to let people down you know
I'll make sure I give them the whole fucking thing
I made a rule that I wasn't going to bitch at all
on this tour because I knew it was going to be
brutal going from place to place to place to place
every day fucking waking up going to the airport
landing and then trying to figure out how fucking making
my jokes work
so because I made the rule that I wasn't going to bitch
I only bitched like 30 times
as opposed to like
3000 although
each individual bitch going through
AFRO
connecting in AFRO
that I probably bitched like 700 times
but it was compartmentalized that's a word
to
Heathrow airport
for the most part
alright hey Bill love from Morocco
Bill before I start I just want to let you know
that my sister
and I attended your show in London last week
you did a great
job blah blah blah blah blah
you had the whole crowd
but enough with the ass kicking
ok here's a little conspiracy theory for you
at the end of the show
we had a little argument about your ghost
segment
yeah I don't believe in ghosts
which was fucking hilarious to go through
a place that doesn't believe that you go anywhere
when you die
you know when I was going through Scandinavia
in the Nordic countries because I'd be like
usually when I say there's no ghosts
in the crowd that's like I believe in ghosts
yeah absolutely
and they were just sitting there in those other
countries just like yeah yeah why the fuck
would you believe in ghosts that's stupid
so
he goes you remember when your bottle fell
off the stool
and the water spilled on
stage yeah I did this whole segment
about how I don't believe in ghosts and
I remember when I went to set down
my water bottle
for some reason the cushion on the seat
was like the leaning tower of Pisa thing
so anyways
I finished the ghost bit
and I was into some other jokes
and all of a sudden it looks like the bottle
tipped over by itself one of those great stand
up moments where you can't plan it
it tipped over itself
and then
and I didn't realize that the crowd is reacting
and it was like a full bottle so it's just
pouring out
got all over the stage and everything and then
of course I rifted it was actually a ghost
trying to electrocute me and all that type of shit
and
and it worked great but anyways he said my sister
thinks
that was part of your act the ghost thing
and there was no way you could be that good
at improv I better
50 pounds that it wasn't planned
either way it was beautifully done
do you mind settling this for us
yeah no it was not planned
do you realize how cheesy that would be if you planned
that
and also not to kill the whole
improv thing it's really not
that difficult to come up with some funny shit
when water spills by itself
after you just did a ghost
thing
it isn't
you know and
you don't realize how many
times I mean you fucking improv
everybody's improving
when you walk and you're having a conversation
you're totally in the
moment with somebody and you're
without realizing it because you understand
language you're listening and translating
and you're also which is reminding
you some other shit that you're thinking about
that adds to where the conversation
goes
what it is so everybody can do
that it's just when you get on stage
it's
you're going on
stage starting your career and you're dealing with
stage fright and forcing
yourself to do this thing
that scares the shit out of you which
causes you to think which shuts down
all of your improv abilities
but over the years as you do it
you get more and more
comfortable and you become as comfortable
on stage as you are off stage
and then once again you tap
back into that power of improving
that everyone in the crowd is already doing
um
but it's just not defined as it
so that's basically
what it is so no that was not
that was a
that was not planned
um
actually had another great one
I was doing
another great moment I should say
I had another great moment of
improv when I took the mic stand
I pretended it was a skinny woman
um
and just yelled eat something for an hour
I was in Iceland when I walked on stage
they had a fucking giant Christmas
tree just to the right of the stage
all lit up looking beautifully
but I saw I went into this stupid
thing where I was acting like
it was
stealing focus
and I was being in diva and I refused to
tell any more jokes
until somebody fucking one of you
Reykjavik's sons of bitches
comes up here and takes this goddamn tree down
and I went on this whole long thing
and it just happened right at the beginning
of the show I just saw it and I just
I don't know
I just fucking
started talking about it
and it killed and they
loved it and then later on in the act
I apologized
to the tree
like it was you know like I was in some
abusive relationship with it like hey you know
listen I'm sorry about what I said earlier
you know I feel about you
blah blah and just kind of went on this thing
like that's the most fun thing
as a comedian was when you get comfortable
enough to do that shit because
I'm not gonna lie to you you get sick of telling
your jokes
but anyways he finishes off he says also
I've been introducing you to my Moroccan
friends over the years
and as soon as I can get 10,000 people
to like you I'll email you so that you
so that you can come visit
thanks
and go fuck yourself well you know what
send a fucking email
to billburrmerch
at gmail.com
and Andrew will hopefully get back to me maybe
I could figure out some fucking
I'll send you some promotional
a promotional package of some shit
I'll send some of my
ways over there
and the only thing you gotta do is hand them out
to your friends okay that's it
alright
where the fuck am I
oh there's the ending thanks
and go fuck yourself alright you go fuck yourself too
alright underage girl
equation
alright let's hope this doesn't get creepy again
bill longtime fan listener
I have a few shows glad you kicking ass
thank you here's the important part
here's the important part yeah fuck my career
exactly to calculate acceptable
age differences between partners
here's my rule of thumb
alright for those of you who are just new to the
podcast or haven't listened in the past couple of weeks
because you have a life
lately I don't know what's been going on
but people have been sending me these fucking
emails
and it's somehow
it's like yeah you know 27
friends 19 we've been dating for 6 years
and it's like wait a minute
wait what the fuck
you know it gets weird
so this is what he's referring to
he goes here's the important part
to calculate acceptable age differences
between partners
here is my rule of thumb
half your age
plus 7 that's it
works for everyone pretty much
if you're 22 half your age
is 11 plus 7
equals 18
dude I gotta say 22 to 18
that's still a huge
age difference but it is legal
it is legal
I don't know how you don't feel like
fucking
Matthew McConaughey and dazed and confused
with that one dude because you're literally talking
like
you know
you got a mustache by 22 come on man
she's 18
finishing up high school
and you've just wrapped college
that's a huge difference but you know
26 to 22 is not a big deal
anyways but I like
I like what you're saying he said 18 is your cutoff
so yeah that does make sense
it is legal he goes if you're 80
half your age is 40 plus 7
is 47 boom there it is
again reasonable differences
regardless of age
yeah depends on who you are in that one
I think I would rather be the 80 year old
like I'm stealing money at that point
but I like where you're coming from here
because I'm not saying there aren't
anomalies out there
for every situation but for a simple
guide to not being
a pervy fuckbag stick
with the half plus 7 rule
been meaning to share this
with you for a while but seeing as
every week we seem to have a new douchebag
trying to justify his perversion
well it's time yeah thank you
alright there you go people
half your age plus 7 if it doesn't
fucking work out well half your age
plus 7 and she's still 18 or older
right
because if you're 18
half your age
is 9 plus 7 is
16
I mean you're in trouble there that statutory rate
that still kind of
works out good I'm 16
half my age is 8
plus 7 is 15 that fucking works
you're 12
half your age is 6 plus 7
she's 13 you're fucking slaying it
I love this theory
I love this fucking theory god damn it
that works this son of a bitch
he's like Matt Damon in that fucking
where
he's got the mop and he's good at math
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
dazed and confused fucking
I gotta see about a girl
what the fuck is it called
goodwill hunting
there you go I shook it loose
oh you know what I watched I watched a couple of movies
I watched all Boston guy movies
Mark Wahlberg
I watched the one with him in the rock
I did fall asleep because I was trying
to stay awake that has nothing to do with the movie
I loved any movie about fucking weight lifting
he's got Mark Wahlberg in it
right that takes me back to the
80s when nobody did squats and everybody
just kept fucking you know
doing upper body
I got a friend of my
comedian in Boston
Wayne Previty used to always talk about that
how back in the day nobody used to fucking do squats
and then you just put on your puffy pants
your z-cavary cheese over there
to try to make it look like you had thighs
Vinny Age
so anyways I watched that one
whatever that movie was called I never remember the names
then I watched the Matt Damon movie
where he's in the future
and they put that thing in that bionic shit around him
fucking great movie
just fuck that's a great
fucking movie I stand by both of those
and
also I watched a movie called
called Drinking Buddies
that
Jesus Christ
I never watched a movie it was about dating
and that type of thing I never watched a movie
where I felt like
I was kind of
every guy in the movie
you know what I mean
like the guy sneaking around
fucking around the guy
the sap taking back
the girl that's fucked around
the guy who wants to commit but can't
the guy who's fucking not committing
the whole goddamn thing
it was a really
I really enjoyed that movie
who's the guy in it
Olivia Wilde
Jake Johnson who I fucking worked with
on
Jesus Christ New Girl
I swear to god man
can somebody send me some fish pills
whatever the fuck you're supposed to take
I can't remember anything
really enjoyable movie
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you said I saw in one of your tweets that you were upset about
accidentally ordering sparkling water
yeah that happened to me when I was in
I was in London
going to Afro connecting in Afro
um
you know they put it in a clear bottle
it looks just like water
and you know when you're in a different country
like shit gets hard
shit you just take for fucking great
like that I never accidentally
very rarely do I accidentally grab sparkling water
when I'm
in the States here because I know
pollen spraying
I know what the fuck bottled water
the still shit looks like
but that is the most amazing thing
when you travel abroad is
this part of your brain you have to use
you can never use
like I never realized how much shit I recognize
just out of color
um
and then all of a sudden you go overseas
and you're just like alright is that a taxi
or a police car
you know is that a pharmacy
or are they selling clothes and I'm not even joking
because the way some of the stores
look overseas
they
they style that they'll do the storing
that's their style for a fucking
pharmacy although pharmacies are pretty easy over there
because they have a neon green
like cross it's really easy to find
so that's probably a bad one but anyways
so anyways he goes I hope you come around
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um oh I think this guy
is just telling me that he likes sparkling water
well Jesus Christ Bill why don't you just read the fucking thing
so we can all find out alright
he said you know men of great character
and sophistication have long
been enjoying sparkling water
oh Jesus Christ
well let me go dress up for this fucking email
this guy's sitting there with his legs
cross wearing it was an ascot
is that what he said he says it's a satisfying
bevy
that you can drink endless quantities
endless quantities of
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various other addictions
like when you're off the bottle I highly recommend
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it has a punch
that plain water or fruity juice just
can't give you it's like hard alcohol
in the sense that it's
an acquired taste
on top of the hard alcohol
a nice I can't
I don't know why that is
Gerald Steiner mixes
wonderfully with alcohols
of all kinds my preference
being vodka and whiskey
it's a much better mix than
fruity juices and sodas and all that other
pussy shit just
cuts a bit it's like
water's badass big brother
I remember you saying
that you don't drink coffee you're saying
you've missed out on all that coffee
house pussy over the years
so this is one pairing that I
probably can sell you on
what so this is one
pairing that I probably can't sell you on
but espresso drink no sugar
with a perrier to hydrate you
fucking delightful
or I know you've been to Italy
an anti-pasto plate with a glass
of wine and a glass of sparkling
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he goes waiting for the Canadians
hockey cities dates here in Montreal
not a Habs fan a Senors fan
alright um
yeah dude I don't like drinking carbonated
shit I think it makes you bloated
it makes you fat for no fucking reason
and you should be drinking water
I'm not into this shit
and when I'm off the bottle I just get
off the bottle totally and I drink water
and then I look down and my stomach getting flatter
every day and I fucking enjoy it but
yeah I'm just not a
I'm not a sparkling water
guy I'm just not I don't like this shit
um if I'm going to drink something
carbonated I'll have it
a soda or
or a pop as they say in the Midwest
and what do I like I like
the Mexican Coca Cola
that has the real sugar
and I like um
I like orange soda
but only if that has the good sugar too
um
alright dude the jet lags hit me here
I'm just fucking talking about what kind of soda I
fucking like
um alright opposite of anorexia
yeah speaking of what I mentioned
earlier that I gained some weight here
opposite of anorexia
uh hey there Bill
I think I might have the opposite of anorexia
because when I look in the mirror I see a skinny guy
while I have trained
with push ups and weights
and gained like 10 pounds
right now I am 18 years old
6'2 and 187 pounds
which should be normal
also when I look at my classmates
I look here and
more muscular but when I'm home
and stare in the mirror I just seem skinny
anyways love your
podcast greetings from Holland
yeah dude um
opposite of anorexia
I don't know what that means yeah but you got some sort of body
issue dude if it's 6'2 and 187
yeah you look you look fine
and you're also 18 years old
you're gonna fill up
um my suggestion
is to look into the mirror and
think about those negative thoughts
and think something positive
and I gotta tell you dude
when you get older
okay and you gotta go to the gym for two fucking weeks
to get yourself looking halfway decent
and then you have one french fry
and it negates all two weeks that you did
you're gonna fucking look back and go god
remember when I was 6'2 and I was 187 pounds
for the love of god
enjoy this period in your life
as much as you can because there's no way
to enjoy it fully
um
because I know what it's like now to fucking
do all the work I did
and then go away for a couple of fucking weeks
and come back and look like oh my god dude
I fucking had on a pull over
sweater the last fucking night
and I took a picture with somebody
and I was sucking in my gut and I still look
like a fucking fuck
I knew it somebody took a picture
of me when I was at Iceland and I saw
I'm getting my fat head back again
it killed me so dude
you're killing it you're 6'2
you're 187 pounds
you're 18 years old you got your whole life ahead of you
you should just be focusing on finding
fucking
places to go have a good time
alright go out
chat up the most beautiful women you can find
you just have a great fucking time
alright put looking in the mirror
thinking you're some fucking skinny loser
you're not alright you're a goddamn
fucking rock you're the rock star
of your life right now
alright and then don't use this as some negative thing
like oh it's all downhill from here
stop being a fucking pussy
go out and enjoy your goddamn life
you look great you son of a bitch
go fuck yourself
alright accidentally racist
hey Bill I was waiting in line
for the water fountain
at my gym with a buddy and this african-american
guy was taking forever to fill up
his gallon sized water bottle
don't you fucking hate people who do that at the gym
cheap
motherfuckers I get that you're doing it
I get it but if you see somebody behind you
you got a gallon water bottle
maybe it was just a bigger one
you know it be a good shit
turn around and be like are you just getting a drink
let me step aside you know be a fucking asshole
you know what that's like
that's like people who stand in the middle
of sidewalks with four other friends
and have conversations and the whole world has to
walk around them or they do it in the airport
if you're stopping
and you're gonna make your flight
and you're trying to figure out where the fuck you're supposed to be
go grab the wall
get over to the fucking wall
let people you know if your car
fucking breaks down
if it's safe to do it
fucking push it to the side of the road
you dumb cunt
alright sorry anyways
he goes I was getting impatient as you should have
he goes I remembered that the gym recently
got rid of a separate fountain
with a big nozzle
so you could fill up a water bottle quicker
so I remarked to my buddy
didn't they used to have separate fountains for these people
oh shit
oh no he goes before my buddy
can respond the african-american guy
turns around
and says excuse me
cue foot and mouth
so what's the best
accidentally racist story you've got
wait a minute dude
I've seen that too
you know what I have to think accidentally right
I know I've done that
I know I've done that
wait how did I do that
oh I remember when I was in DC
I just made a joke and the guy didn't find it funny
and then I felt like a fucking asshole
it was right after Obama got elected
I was in DC and I was fucking hammered
and I was coming back to this hotel
with Jota Rosa
the security guy who was black
african-american said something to me
and as a joke
I go oh what the president is black now
and I'm hammered
and I thought he was going to laugh and he stared at me
like oh my like this is a white person
who actually thinks this shit
and I was like I was just fucking around
Joe's like dragging me away
like I went like it was a joke
that would have worked if I was sober
and I was in a comedy club and I'd set it up right
but I didn't
and I kind of fucking knew the guy
but I didn't know the guy
it was three in the morning I was drunk
and it like dude it was fucking horrific
and it kills me
that I wasn't able to explain myself because I guarantee
that that guy's still fucking
at least told that story for two weeks
so
I don't know that's actually a good top
if anybody else has accidentally racist
shit
oh my god that's dude that's like
I would submit that to fucking Larry David
doesn't that seem like an episode
of his show
you know
he'd have in the beginning like you know
just whining that he has to go to the gym
and all that shit bitch moaning and complaining
he sees the guy with the water bottle
and then the misdirection is
he talks about how cheap these people are
and he actually defends the gym
for all the water that they're using
and then when he shows up
it's gone and then he stands behind
I mean the whole fucking thing is right there
hey you put that music underneath it
you got yourself an episode
alright ski lodges
hey there Billy Bunny Hill
what's your take
what's your take
a good weekend
come on people you know I
can't read out loud can you at least help me
by at least trying
to put all the words from the sentence in the
fucking email what's your take
I'm gonna guess on a good weekend
of banging snow bunnies
and drinking hot chocolate
what's my take on it
what that sounds like one of those
fucking titty movies I watched when I first got cable
what take
what I have on it other than that's fucking awesome
he goes the occasional outdoor
hot tub scene
wood fires and turtlenecks
some marijuana and monopoly
washed down with a dark red
I don't even ski but if I ever start
it's to be able to live in that
dumb and dumber aspen type scene
absolutely somebody asked me recently
asked me if I skied and I said
I told him that story when I was in
I was in Utah
with Jay Lawhead and we stayed the next
today and went skiing
up in
what do they do that film festival
Sundance
we were up around there we went skiing up there
and it was great but I don't like skiing
I love the workout and I love
all that aspect that you're talking about
like coming down they got the fire going
drinking beers dude it's fucking awesome
but I have just never
participated
in a more
blow your knee out
fucking sport than skiing
but just your description
there like that right there is why I want to go
um
it's fucking
it's just it's the shit
who's that guy that guy there the guy in
Holland there you are the six foot two one
eighty seven pounds there you go
go skiing
go skiing this is what you should be doing
instead of fucking staring at yourself in the mirror
going ugly I'm too skinny
fuck that do this shit
you know what I want to buy all the skiing shit and not go skiing
and then just go on the treadmill
and get all sweaty and then put the skiing shit on
and just act like I fucking came off the mountain
wash it down with a dark red how good does that sound
it's seven thirty four a.m. to me
alright that's the podcast
what is my take on that like I think that
this is what I would do
take skiing lessons
something I never did
I was like whatever I play
walkie do they fucking skate
it's the same shit nobody's trying to hit you
right
you don't realize that there's trees you forget that
which is like the uh
I can't it's like a fucking defenseman
times like nine million
you never win in that contact
you never knock the fucking tree over
you basically die like sunny bono
or some shit
I just hate when you
fall and like one of your skis is going
one way and the other is going the other way
and it's never a convenient
fucking way
you always feel like you're gonna fucking blow out an ACL
but if you survive
and you get down that hill
a couple of times you know what's funny about skiing
I always love when you get to that point
where you know you're exhausted
and you try to do one more fucking run
and you get up there
and you're so tired by you get halfway down
you just fall down
every third time you try to make a turn
like whatever that fucking acid is
that builds up in your muscles in your legs
you just you're just completely gassed
and you're laughing and your friends laughing at you
and
you just get down to the
fucking mountain
you get to the ski lodge hopefully there's not a bunch of cunts
taking up the whole thing
um
you know that rich family that has five kids
and can afford to buy them all ski stuff
despite the fact that they're all growing and shit
you resent them
they look like the Kennedys
like look at those fucking blue blooded cunts
but if you can somehow get yourself a seat
ah fuck I want to go I'm going
I'm calling up Lawhead
I'm gonna go skiing over the Christmas break
fuck this
I'm going Jesus Christ
do that person paint a picture or what
alright
and that is the end of the podcast
and um I gotta
I gotta thank everybody
who came out to my shows in Europe
I have to thank all the promoters
who got me out there
I gotta thank everybody who took me out
you know to the bars
to that
Premier League game
to
all these sights all the
to the lagoon all this stuff I can't even
absolutely I'll never forget that tour
and I'm just gonna keep going over there
it was just an unbelievable experience
to end an unbelievable year
where I had some of the biggest shows in my career
I did the most shows
the most cities I've ever done
I did the red state tour
I did that bus tour through the south
with all my buddies
and um
Jason Lawhead and his legendary father
Jim Lawhead
um
just all the people I got to meet man
it was just the exact reason why I got in this business
was to have fun
and to travel and make people laugh
and I really
I did that this year like
I don't know it just went to a whole other level
I don't know I can top it next year
I'm fucking exhausted but I'm tired in a great way
so um
thank you to everybody and uh
that's it man I hope you guys enjoy your
Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
hope you guys have a nice Christmas break
and um
like I said man
fucking
if you can scrape together some quarters
get your ass on a plane
and go travel
I wish I did it when I was younger
and I'm an old fuck man 45
you're never too old to do it
so I want that for all of you guys
I hope you guys have a great successful 2014
that's the podcast
go fuck yourselves
and uh I'll talk to you next week
thanks for watching
see you next time
bye