Joe Rogan Experience #1219 - Bill Burr

1. 0:00 – 2:14

   Helicopter tour over LA: Malibu landings, Disneyland fireworks, and why the city feels “smaller” from the air

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Doo, doo, doo, doo. In four, three, two... Yes, Bill Burr!

   2. BBBill Burr0:07

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:07

      How are you, fella?

   4. BBBill Burr0:08

      What's going on?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      Good to see you.

   6. BBBill Burr0:09

      Good to see you, too.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      Thank you very much for taking me up on that flight. I'm gonna tell you what, n- legitimately-

   8. BBBill Burr0:14

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      ... you changed the way I think about LA. I think-

   10. BBBill Burr0:17

       It's really small, isn't it?

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       It's way smaller than you think.

   12. BBBill Burr0:20

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:20

       It's a different thing. When you fly over it, you go, "Oh, this ain't that big."

   14. BBBill Burr0:25

       Yeah. That's here, this is there. 'Cause, what it is, I remember when, um, I was still getting my license and I was doing a night flight, right? Um, which is insane. Totally different ballgame.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Oh, I imagine.

   16. BBBill Burr0:35

       And, uh, yeah, 'cause when you're on the ground, you're like, "Wow, it'd be really easy to see everybody." 'Cause you're looking up and all you're seeing is the backdrop is, of the dark sky, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       Right.

   18. BBBill Burr0:43

       But when you get up there, if someone's below you, they disappear into the city.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       (sighs)

   20. BBBill Burr0:47

       So that's what... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, so we were flying back and I train down in Long Beach, so we were going along the 710 and I just see, like, all these, these lights. And it was, like, right there. I'm, like, going up, like it was... And I go, "What's that?" He goes... And the g- and the, uh, pilot looked over, he goes, "Oh, that's the, uh, that's the fireworks from Disneyland." And I was like, "Fucking Disneyland is right there?"

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       (laughs)

   22. BBBill Burr1:08

       'Cause in my head it took, like, two hours to get there, hour and a half-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:12

       Yeah.

   24. BBBill Burr1:12

       ... going down the 5, but it's just like... 'Cause you don't look at miles.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:17

       Right.

   26. BBBill Burr1:17

       All you do is look at time when you're out here because there's so much traffic, but it's literally like... Oh, that's, like-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       40 miles.

   28. BBBill Burr1:23

       It's not even. It's like from Hollywood, like, I would think it, it can't even be more than 15, 20 miles away.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:29

       Yeah.

   30. BBBill Burr1:29

       Like Anaheim-
2. 2:14 – 10:06

   Helicopter safety talk: autorotations, maintenance schedules, and avoiding “knucklehead” flying

   1. BBBill Burr2:14

      Those are fun. It's, it's a, uh, it's a lot of fun and, you know, I, I fly mostly with an instructor 'cause I got the kid and everything. But every once in a while you got to go up by yourself just so you know you can do it. But, um, I also, um... I'm actually overdue, overdue to do it, but I always go out and I do, like, the auto rotations and he'll just sorta chop... I'm flying along, he'll just chop throttle and like... It's just, it's just rolling the RPMs. I mean, rolling the engine down, not the RPMs. The engine down. And then you immediately have to pick a spot, you know. And sometimes, you know, the lower you are, you know, it becomes literally what you... The first place you look is where you're putting it. It's really crazy, but, um... Or where you would, where you would put it.

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:49

      So w- can you explain to people what you're talking about? You mean crash landing, that's what auto rotation means?

   3. BBBill Burr2:53

      Yeah, it'd be basically if you had some sort of, uh-

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:56

      Failure.

   5. BBBill Burr2:56

      ... problem, yeah, engine failure or whatever. So, like, when you're flying along and the engine's working, it's drawing air into the disc and that's what creates lift. But when, uh, when you go into an auto rotation, um, it's, it's the air rushing... You're using gravity, bringing the, uh, the helicopter down using that air, like, almost like a fan to keep it going.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:17

      Oh.

   7. BBBill Burr3:17

      So, and there's a critical point where if you let the main rotor go too slow, that's why the low RPM horn comes on, which is just a nauseating sound. Uh, if you let it go too low, the, w- if... It gets to a point where if it's spinning too slowly, no matter how fast you drop you can't get it going again-

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:35

      Oh.

   9. BBBill Burr3:35

      ... fast enough to create... And you're basically at that point, you're in something that's no longer able to fly. So...

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:39

       Your, uh, your instructor, Skyler, is that what his name?

   11. BBBill Burr3:42

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:42

       Skyler-

   13. BBBill Burr3:43

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:43

       ... uh, pointed out something that I didn't know, that they have to redo those things, like, every X amount of miles. They rebuild everything.

   15. BBBill Burr3:50

       Hours, yeah, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:50

       Yeah.

   17. BBBill Burr3:51

       It's, uh... Well, they have, like, there's all this maintenance along the way. They're incredibly maintained because I'm, I'm sure you noticed if you read the comments, all people talk about is dying in aviation. It's like-

   18. JRJoe Rogan4:01

       Yeah.

   19. BBBill Burr4:01

       ... they're like, "Oh, that's how entertainers die." It's like, no it isn't, they overdose.

   20. JRJoe Rogan4:05

       (laughs)

   21. BBBill Burr4:05

       If you really looked at the graph, they're on the ground completely safe-

   22. JRJoe Rogan4:10

       (laughs)

   23. BBBill Burr4:10

       ... overdose, car accidents, just-

   24. JRJoe Rogan4:12

       It's almost always overdose, right? Yeah.

   25. BBBill Burr4:13

       Drinking, yeah, and shit like that. And it's just like, that's mainly how you die.

   26. JRJoe Rogan4:18

       Yeah.

   27. BBBill Burr4:18

       Like, the amount of people that are up there every day and the- nothing happens, it's, it's, you know... But there is the, you know... The, the fly in the ointment is that there's, there are, uh, particularly at the private level, there are knuckleheads out there. Like, there's people, like... I think every time I get in I'm always thinking like, "Am I gonna... You know, I don't wanna die today." So I, I, I go over all a- uh, a whole bunch of shit and, you know, especially if I'm gonna fly solo, I'm, I'm, I have the whole flight, I have all my options on, you know, where I could land, you know, if I had a problem. Like, that's what you're supposed to do. I look at weather reports, I do all of that shit. And what happens is guys get more and more confident and their pre-flight is they kind of look, "Uh, it looks pretty clear." And then they go out there and, uh, you know... There's, you know, there's, there's, there's people who go up knowing that they can die and then there's other people up there who just like Magnum P.I. and they want to fly by waterfalls and shit. I mean, those guys have more fun but, uh... (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan5:19

       (laughs)

   29. BBBill Burr5:19

       It's, you know... There's definitely, um... Those are the people that, you know... You're supposed to fly... There's, like, two envelopes. You're supposed to fly within the envelope of what you're flying and then, you know, your skill set so you don't fly into shit. There's like... You know, like, if the, if it's too windy or whatever, I'm just like, "I'm j- I'm not going."

   30. JRJoe Rogan5:36

       Right.
3. 10:06 – 11:36

   Learning as a lifestyle: addictive personalities, hobbies vs priorities, and “keep evolving”

   1. JRJoe Rogan10:06

      Well, the, the fact that you're doing it and the fact that you're learning a new thing that's really difficult to learn, don't you think that that's good for your brain?

   2. BBBill Burr10:14

      No, I am a big believer in constantly learning. It's why I like you as a person, 'cause you're constantly... Like, you're not the Joe I knew three years ago in a good way. You're like, you, you learn all of this. You know, when I first met you, you weren't hunting, uh, you weren't a marsh-... That was the thing. You, you, you were two-dimensional, you were m-... Which was amazing 'cause everyone was just a comedian. You were this Taekwondo champion, uh, standup guy. And then, and then since then, you've added all... Like, the guests that you have on and the fact that you're able to, like, talk to them and stuff is... Because you've continued to, you know, um... You know, it's, it's the same thing with like, like a comic who writes his first hour and then just sits on it for like eight years.

   3. JRJoe Rogan10:55

      Yeah.

   4. BBBill Burr10:56

      And all of a sudden, two presidents goes by and it's like, "Why aren't they laughing anymore?" It's like, 'cause you're just stuck in time. So, um, I, I, I... Yeah, I believe in that and I also believe in, in playing cards. Card games and stuff is good for your mind.

   5. JRJoe Rogan11:08

      Oh, yeah. Any games. They say even-

   6. BBBill Burr11:09

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan11:09

      ... video games. You know, people like to shit on video games, but they say video games have a positive cognitive effect on kids.

   8. BBBill Burr11:16

      Yeah, they s-

   9. JRJoe Rogan11:16

      'Cause you're calculating and moving, you're thinking fast.

   10. BBBill Burr11:19

       Yeah, their hand-eye coordination is like insane-

   11. JRJoe Rogan11:20

       Yeah.

   12. BBBill Burr11:21

       ... I guess, if you, some of those games.

   13. JRJoe Rogan11:22

       Oh, yeah.

   14. BBBill Burr11:22

       If, if, if you play them, I guess. I don't know.

   15. JRJoe Rogan11:24

       Well, the... You think about the amount of hours they're putting into their thumbs.

   16. BBBill Burr11:28

       Mm-hmm.

   17. JRJoe Rogan11:28

       Just how often do you really use your thumb in like detailed ways? Very rarely.

   18. BBBill Burr11:32

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan11:32

       But kids today, they have ridiculous thumb dexterity.

4. 11:36 – 15:55

   Video game obsession stories: GTA, Medal of Honor, Quake, and realizing “there’s no future in this”

   1. BBBill Burr11:36

      I, I tapped out, uh, Grand Theft Auto III, is when I stopped, which was about 2003, 2002 or something. I just... They, they were just too amazing, and I was just like, "I am nowhere in my career right now and this is just..."

   2. JRJoe Rogan11:50

      (laughs)

   3. BBBill Burr11:50

      Dude, I was walking around. I was living in New York at the time and I would stop playing the game, and I would be walking down the street thinking about it. Like what I could... I'd walk into the subway, you know, like not thinking about jokes, thinking how I could beat this next level. And I remember I, I played this, um, Medal of Honor game. And, uh, they had this thing when you hit the sniper button, like the scope would go like that and X would go like that. And I, and I, I played it one day, uh, one week so much that when I walked out on the street, I was looking at people across the street doing like that, that X thing. (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan12:19

      (laughs)

   5. BBBill Burr12:19

      It was coming my face, I was just like... There's something about like... I already, uh... I'm not the brightest guy, you know, when it comes to like school and shit. So it's just like, I was like, "This is doing something to my brain." So I, I kinda, I... I remember I came home and I just unplugged everything.... but really quickly and took everything off, 'cause I knew I was never gonna figure it out and I didn't have any instructions anymore.

   6. JRJoe Rogan12:38

      (laughs)

   7. BBBill Burr12:38

      And I just stuck it in the back of the closet. Like, "Well, that's it."

   8. JRJoe Rogan12:43

      I did the same thing with, uh, video games, with Quake. I, I had a real problem when I was playing eight hours a day, 10 hours a day sometimes.

   9. BBBill Burr12:50

      Ugh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan12:50

       I had a T1 line installed in my house just so I could play with, uh, a fast internet connection. This is like 1998.

   11. BBBill Burr12:57

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan12:57

       It was crazy. I mean, there was slow internet where I was, so I said, "Well, what's the options?" And so one option is they chew up the street and put this fucking crazy fat business line, cost me a shitload of money. And I was like, "Let's do it." (laughs) So I had installed-

   13. BBBill Burr13:11

       Wow.

   14. JRJoe Rogan13:11

       ... a fucking business line that we'd use, at the time you'd use for a large building.

   15. BBBill Burr13:15

       Right.

   16. JRJoe Rogan13:15

       And I had it just for my, my house. And, uh, I would play video games online all the time. And I re-

   17. BBBill Burr13:21

       You could play online against people for the last 20 years?

   18. JRJoe Rogan13:24

       Oh, yeah.

   19. BBBill Burr13:25

       I didn't know that.

   20. JRJoe Rogan13:25

       We, we'd play online teams. We'd have teams of guys, like, like me and three of my friends would play against, uh, four other guys. And we'd like meet at a certain server, and you know, you, you could chat and talk to each other.

   21. BBBill Burr13:37

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan13:37

       "All right, you ready to go? All right, let's go in three, two, one, go." And then, you know, we'd, the game will start and, and then we'd, we'd fucking have these matches. And it was fun, man. It was really fun. It was really exciting too, because it's all happening in real time.

   23. BBBill Burr13:49

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan13:49

       But, uh, I reached a point, uh, somewhere around like the year 2000, where I, I know one day I played until it was sunlight, until the, the sun came up. And you know, I'm, I'm fucking 30 years old.

   25. BBBill Burr14:02

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan14:02

       And I'm sitting there, my hands are sweating. (breathes heavily) I'm all fucking caffeinated up, I've been drinking-

   27. BBBill Burr14:08

       Oh.

   28. JRJoe Rogan14:08

       ... Mountain Dew for the past eight hours. And I realized, I'm like, "What am I doing?" Like-

   29. BBBill Burr14:12

       Yes.

   30. JRJoe Rogan14:12

       ... this is, I, you know, I'm not where I want to be as a comic. I'm not where, where I want to be with my life. And, uh, I'm just sitting here playing video games all the time, and there's no future in this.
5. 15:55 – 22:18

   Old cars rabbit hole: fixing by hand, Bill’s ’68 Ford truck, and the drum-brake terror era

   1. BBBill Burr15:55

      ... uh, everything. I came out here, I got into old cars and then all of a sudden I was watching this guy, Eric the Car Guy. I found him most fascinating because he would work on like, cars of today, where you just open the hood, it's like, what is everything and where the f- how do you get it? And he's just taking off all this plastic shit and just digging all the way down. And he's just like, "You know, if you can't remember, just videotape it. Just remember how it all goes together." Dude, one time he... I forget what the hell he was changing, but he had to take the whole fucking front end of this car off to change something that I used to be able to change on like, my fucking '83 Ford Ranger.

   2. JRJoe Rogan16:28

      I know that guy. I know who you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah.

   3. BBBill Burr16:31

      Yeah. And it's, and it's am- like, he does every... Electrical?

   4. JRJoe Rogan16:33

      Yeah.

   5. BBBill Burr16:34

      He does fucking everything. And I would just sit there, I watched all of that. I watched all the way back to people rebuilding like Flathead V8s and what made it a Flathead. And, um, I never got into electrical, that always seemed like magic to me. Like I, I never-

   6. JRJoe Rogan16:47

      (laughs)

   7. BBBill Burr16:48

      ... got into that shit and I was scared like, "Oh, you touch it and you get fucking electrocuted." But, um, I got all into like, watching like, like somebody rebuild an engine. Like just from the bottom to the top it, there just wasn't a lot of stuff.

   8. JRJoe Rogan17:02

      Right.

   9. BBBill Burr17:02

      It was like the crankshaft, and then there was the shit that held on the pistons. You put the, drop the pistons in and the, the, the, and then there was the intake, uh, what was it? The, uh, intake manifold. And then th- that was the, um, uh, the big thing, the valves. See, gapping the valves, that seemed like, "Oh man, if you fuck that up, this thing isn't gonna run right." And, um, and just knowing the, the firing thing. And I got into like torque wrenches and I learned how to change brakes on like a, uh, like old school, like shoe breaks and stuff like that. I got all the right wrenches and all that. Um, I don't know how to adjust them. I know where you do, there's this little slit in the back of the wheel and I thought you just put them close to it. You're sup- it's right up against the drum you're supposed to put them on. And I got totally into fucking brakes for a while.

   10. JRJoe Rogan17:44

       (laughs)

   11. BBBill Burr17:45

       I tried to rebuild a carburetor, failed miserably 'cause it was really old and I took off too many parts and it was like warped and shit, so.

   12. JRJoe Rogan17:51

       Was that your Dodge, the truck?

   13. BBBill Burr17:52

       No, Ford.

   14. JRJoe Rogan17:53

       It's a Ford.

   15. BBBill Burr17:53

       I got a Ford. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan17:54

       That brown one's a Ford?

   17. BBBill Burr17:55

       Uh, black.

   18. JRJoe Rogan17:56

       It's black?

   19. BBBill Burr17:56

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan17:56

       Why'd I think it was brown?

   21. BBBill Burr17:58

       I don't know.

   22. JRJoe Rogan17:59

       What year is that? Like 60...

   23. BBBill Burr18:00

       '68.

   24. JRJoe Rogan18:01

       Ugh.

   25. BBBill Burr18:01

       It was, uh, made... I looked up the VIN number. It was actually made in, uh, Canada. Crazy.

   26. JRJoe Rogan18:07

       Really?

   27. BBBill Burr18:07

       In March of '68. I wanna say Toronto or something like that. Like they had, I guess they had a, uh, a factory up there or whatever. So in March of 1968 that thing rolled off and I think it spent most of its life down south, like in Georgia and stuff like that.

   28. JRJoe Rogan18:18

       Did you swap the brakes out for disc brakes?

   29. BBBill Burr18:21

       I did, uh, I, Chris Titus was the one who helped me with that.

   30. JRJoe Rogan18:26

       Ah.
6. 22:18 – 27:14

   Porsche nerding and Tesla acceleration: rear-engine dynamics, “widow makers,” and silent heavy EVs

   1. JRJoe Rogan22:18

      There's a guy who's got a great video that you would love. And, uh, it's on, uh, Petrolicious and it's, uh, the video is called, uh, I think it's called A C-... One Car for Everything. And there's this guy (clears throat) , he's a fiction writer.

   2. BBBill Burr22:33

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan22:34

      Writes, like, screenplays and shit. Never worked on a car in his life. Decided he wanted to buy an old Porsche. So he bought, like, a 1971 Porsche and didn't know jack shit about cars. So he starts learning. One car to do it all, that's it. (coughs) So this guy puts together this car and then starts working on it, and then takes his fucking garage and turns his garage into, like, a professional workspace. Digs a hole in the ground, puts a lift in, in the floor of his garage. Like, lays cement, does everything.

   4. BBBill Burr23:07

      Is this guy married?

   5. JRJoe Rogan23:08

      Uh, I don't know.

   6. BBBill Burr23:09

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan23:09

      It doesn't seem like it, right?

   8. BBBill Burr23:10

      Yeah, it doesn't seem like this is... (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan23:14

      (laughs) But he's got this-

   10. BBBill Burr23:14

       "What are you gonna do with that old car?"

   11. JRJoe Rogan23:16

       This is the car. It's a beautiful car. Look at that thing. I love those old... And that's... You know, my little car is-

   12. BBBill Burr23:21

       That's a '71?

   13. JRJoe Rogan23:22

       Yeah.

   14. BBBill Burr23:22

       That looks like a 19-... late '70s to me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan23:25

       No, it's a flat no-... uh, a flat hood, the, uh, the long hood, rather. The long hood models are like '68, '67, '68, to, like, '73. That's his name, Jack Olsen. It's a really fucking cool video because this is a guy that didn't have any background in it. That's his fucking garage. He built all this. He built the whole garage and he just decided, "Look, I'll just slowly get into it and understand it." And, uh, he has different aero, like, see that giant wing? That's aero that he puts on only when he's at the racetrack, so he can unbolt it and do it. He uses this car for everything. He uses this car to go get groceries, he drives around in it.

   16. BBBill Burr23:59

       Oh, yeah, look at the back end of it. Yeah, that's, that's... that looks like-

   17. JRJoe Rogan24:02

       Yeah.

   18. BBBill Burr24:02

       Okay. Sorry.

   19. JRJoe Rogan24:03

       It's a fucking beautiful old car. Those cars are so light too. That car is, like, 2,000, 2,400 pounds.

   20. BBBill Burr24:08

       Did, did he flare out the fenders though, right?

   21. JRJoe Rogan24:10

       (clears throat) No, no, the, um, uh, RSR, um, from that era had, uh, flared out fenders.

   22. BBBill Burr24:16

       Came like that?

   23. JRJoe Rogan24:18

       Yeah. Yeah, well, they had to have fat rear fenders and fat rear tires because the engine's in the back, and those things snap around when you're taking turns, because the balance is way off. Like, the engine is hanging out behind the rear wheels. It's not a mid-engine car, it's a rear-engine car, which is extremely rare.

   24. BBBill Burr24:35

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan24:35

       Like, only Porsche really does it. And so you get something called lift throttle oversteer. When you're in a turn-

   26. BBBill Burr24:41

       Mm-hmm.

   27. JRJoe Rogan24:41

       ... you have to keep the, the pedal on. You have to keep the gas going when you're in a turn. If you let off the turn-

   28. BBBill Burr24:47

       ... the rear end.

   29. JRJoe Rogan24:47

       The momentum-

   30. BBBill Burr24:48

       Yeah.
7. 27:14 – 31:13

   Quick plug + comedy community: Patrice O’Neal benefit and remembering lost greats

   1. BBBill Burr27:14

      Oh. Hey, can I promote the-

   2. JRJoe Rogan27:15

      Pull up that Roadster.

   3. BBBill Burr27:15

      Can I pro- promote the Patrice thing?

   4. JRJoe Rogan27:17

      Yeah. Fuck yeah.

   5. BBBill Burr27:18

      Uh, what, what do we got? It's, uh, February 19th, uh, the, uh, what would this be?

   6. JRJoe Rogan27:22

      Look at this.

   7. BBBill Burr27:22

      The eighth annual-

   8. JRJoe Rogan27:23

      Tesla's new emissions testing mode will produce loud, nasty farts on demand. It makes farts? They added a fart app this week. Oh, that's so ridiculous. It's got seven different farts, or six different fart sounds and then one automatic. You can, you can set it to like different buttons, like your turn signal and ... So it makes sounds? Oh shit. And then it makes smell too? No smell. It's not, it's, uh, just a sound emission. Oh, okay. Okay. That's just stupid.

   9. BBBill Burr27:47

      Anyways, the Patrice O'Neal (laughs) car that farts.

   10. JRJoe Rogan27:50

       When is, uh, the benefit?

   11. BBBill Burr27:51

       February 19th at the New York City Center and, uh ... What do we got here? I shut off my damn phone. We got, um-

   12. JRJoe Rogan27:57

       Michelle Wolf.

   13. BBBill Burr27:58

       Michelle Wolf, Jim Gaffigan, uh ...

   14. JRJoe Rogan28:02

       I'll take that. I got it here.

   15. BBBill Burr28:03

       Ah, no, I already forget.

   16. JRJoe Rogan28:04

       Um, you said-

   17. BBBill Burr28:05

       Ciphersounds, myself, Rich Vos. It's all coming back here. Big J.

   18. JRJoe Rogan28:10

       Big J. Big J Oakerson, Gary Gulman, Chris Redd, uh, that's a fucking hell of a line-up.

   19. BBBill Burr28:15

       From SNL. Yes, sir.

   20. JRJoe Rogan28:15

       Hell of a line-up.

   21. BBBill Burr28:16

       Yes, sir.

   22. JRJoe Rogan28:16

       Beautiful.

   23. BBBill Burr28:17

       We're gonna, we're gonna try to add a couple more people to it. It's at the New York City Center Tuesday, February 19th. Uh, all proceeds go to his family and, uh, it's been such a great thing. Like his, um, you know, his mom's been able to get a condo and everything. Just total- 'Cause he was take- we, we basically with that thing, we take care of everybody that he was taking care of 'cause, you know, we, you know ... The mission was basically all his family should have to deal with is the grief.

   24. JRJoe Rogan28:39

       Right.

   25. BBBill Burr28:40

       You know, I thi- I always think that that's enough and, and the reason why we continue to do it every year is because his family members are still, you know, alive. And I always hated that when somebody died and it's just like, "Hey, we do one time."

   26. JRJoe Rogan28:50

       Right, right, right.

   27. BBBill Burr28:50

       "Here's a sack of money, try to make this last for the next 30 to 60 years of your lives." You know? And, uh, and then also because, you know, he was the best standup that I ever saw live and, uh, just keeping his name, you know? Like th- I always think that when anytime somebody says, "Oh, you're one of the top bla- bla- bla- bla- bla- bla," and I always think, well, you know, if Patrice and Hedberg and all of these fucking guys ... Dude, Freddy Soto, what he would have done. Um, yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan29:14

       Yeah. I was just thinking about Freddy. I was just thinking about that when you said that, that maybe we should do one of those for Freddy's family.

   29. BBBill Burr29:19

       Yeah, Freddy was like, uh ...

   30. JRJoe Rogan29:21

       He was brilliant.
8. 31:13 – 42:10

   Standup specials aren’t “special” anymore: content overload, distribution strategy, and advertising realities

   1. JRJoe Rogan31:13

      It's hard coming up with a good name for a special. Are you d- somebody told me you were doing... Are we saying that you're gonna do your next one independent? Are you gonna do it independent?

   2. BBBill Burr31:20

      Um, no. I don't know how I'm gonna do it. I'm, I'm exploring all, like, the options and all of that. I'm t- I'm trying... I was trying to figure out a way to, uh... You know, 'cause there's just a ton of specials out there. Was just trying to figure out a way, but I mean, the, you know-

   3. JRJoe Rogan31:35

      When was the last time you filmed?

   4. BBBill Burr31:36

      Uh, October 2016.

   5. JRJoe Rogan31:40

      Hmm.

   6. BBBill Burr31:40

      So I'm, I'm due. I'm due. I'm... But it's like, am I due? I don't know. I don't know. Like, I don't, I don't, uh... It's, it's... What it is, is the special has changed since you and I started.

   7. JRJoe Rogan31:51

      Yeah.

   8. BBBill Burr31:52

      Where a special was special. Now what it is, is it's just kind of an, uh, an hour-long advertisement letting people know that you're still out there. And, and it's like this just-

   9. JRJoe Rogan32:01

      Doesn't it still... It documents your stuff, though.

   10. BBBill Burr32:03

       Yeah, it d- it does. It... But there's just such a sheer amount of stuff to see. To have, like, an impact the way... Like, I was trying to think, maybe the, the last one that really was just like, "Whoa," and I would say would be, like, maybe Dave Chappelle, Killing Them Softly, certainly Chris Rock, Bring the Pain, where it was just like... You know, I'm not saying there weren't ones that, like, like, people talked about, but like, just that thing where, like... Do you remember when we were kids it was just like, you know, Friday, "Hey man, see you on Monday," and then somehow on Monday everybody saw Delirious?

   11. JRJoe Rogan32:39

       Right.

   12. BBBill Burr32:39

       Or everybody saw Dice, or everybody saw Sam Kinison on, on, on the, um, the, uh, the Dangerfield thing. And it was just like, no one was talking about it, and then just like, there was only so many channels, and that thing just caught enough people's eye and you came to school Monday and everyone was just talking about it. Like, um... You know, I'm, I'm still getting fucking tweets from people saying, "Hey, I finally got around to watching Breaking Bad."

   13. JRJoe Rogan33:07

       (laughs)

   14. BBBill Burr33:09

       (laughs) And it's j-... You know what I mean?

   15. JRJoe Rogan33:09

       Yeah.

   16. BBBill Burr33:09

       Or like, I was talking about The Wire one time, and they're like, "Dude, you, you, you could have said spoiler alert." It's like, that fucking went off the air in like 2006. Like, h- how much time do I have to give you to watch it, you know? So, um-

   17. JRJoe Rogan33:23

       I still haven't seen The Wire.

   18. BBBill Burr33:24

       Dude, my buddy, his, uh, his son, the number one thing that he, he, he watches is h- on his phone, he's watching one of these guys that gets paid to play video games. He watches this guy on his phone play video games.

   19. JRJoe Rogan33:38

       Everybody does that.

   20. BBBill Burr33:39

       Okay, so-

   21. JRJoe Rogan33:39

       Super common.

   22. BBBill Burr33:40

       Yes. So now that's another thing to watch.

   23. JRJoe Rogan33:43

       Exactly.

   24. BBBill Burr33:44

       Forget about online porn and fucking me watching Eric the Car Guy and all that. Trying to, uh, trying to, like, find, like, where you can, like, uh, drop the pamphlets of your career-

   25. JRJoe Rogan33:56

       (laughs)

   26. BBBill Burr33:56

       ... basically. To be like, "Hey, man."

   27. JRJoe Rogan33:57

       (laughs)

   28. BBBill Burr33:58

       "I'm s- still around."

   29. JRJoe Rogan33:59

       I think i- i- there's definitely more content now than ever before, but for... In terms of like the amount of standup that's available, there's never been more great standup available to watch.

   30. BBBill Burr34:09

       Yeah.
9. 42:10 – 52:42

   Car culture shows, negotiating entertainment, and gendered viewing habits

   1. BBBill Burr42:10

      Oh, yeah. I loved it. No, I, I, I... Yeah, I got into all the Gas Monkey Garage, Jay's Garage, uh-

   2. JRJoe Rogan42:17

      I'm getting that Gas Monkey guy on the show.

   3. BBBill Burr42:19

      Oh, uh, Richard Rawlings?

   4. JRJoe Rogan42:20

      Yeah, I just got an email yesterday.

   5. BBBill Burr42:22

      Oh, dude, that guy's a f-

   6. JRJoe Rogan42:23

      He asked me out. I'm like, "Fuck yeah." I love that guy.

   7. BBBill Burr42:23

      That guy's a fucking riot.

   8. JRJoe Rogan42:25

      I love that guy.

   9. BBBill Burr42:26

      Ask him about my favorite episode.

   10. JRJoe Rogan42:28

       (laughs)

   11. BBBill Burr42:29

       My favorite fucking episode of that 'cause he always like... I watched that show so much, I knew the number he was gonna come at.

   12. JRJoe Rogan42:36

       Oh.

   13. BBBill Burr42:36

       Like, they'd be like, "Okay, what do you want for this car?" And, and he'd always get them to say it first.

   14. JRJoe Rogan42:40

       Right.

   15. BBBill Burr42:40

       And they'd be like, "Uh, I mean, I was, I was thinking like, uh, five grand." And then he'd be, "Oh, man, yeesh, five grand. Man, I can't... I mean, I mean, th- I, I, I could do, I could do like 2700," right? And then the fucking guy would then go down to four grand and he would come up like f- like 300 bucks and he'd end up getting the car for like three grand, like whatever the fuck you wanted, right? So one time he went out and he busted this guy down on like a f- uh, an old Trans Am or a Firebird or some shit. I forget what-... the guy sells it to him for, like, fucking, he wanted, like, 18 grand or something. He sold it to him for, like, 11. So he fucking gets the car over there, he's talking about what he's gonna do about, with it, and all of a sudden the guy's brother calls up and says, "Hey, that guy didn't have the fucking right to sell that car. That's also mine. You gotta br- you know, I'm gonna come down and go- I gotta buy it back from you." So the guy comes down and he's, you know, asking what he, he wants for it and Richard's just like, "I mean, I was thinking like 20."

   16. JRJoe Rogan43:38

       (laughs)

   17. BBBill Burr43:38

       And the guy goes, he goes, "Dude, you bought it from my brother. I know what you paid for it."

   18. JRJoe Rogan43:42

       (laughs)

   19. BBBill Burr43:42

       And he actually got embarrassed. He's like, "Aw man, I'm sorry." (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan43:46

       (laughs)

   21. BBBill Burr43:46

       It's the only time I ever saw him get, like, embarrassed. He wasn't, he just went into, like, his, his thing. And, like, I swear to God, like-

   22. JRJoe Rogan43:52

       Ugh!

   23. BBBill Burr43:52

       ... watching that show, like, you get better at, like, negotiating and, like, uh, and, like, o- occasionally he does, like, these sketches too where he, he'll do, like, a character imitating, like, an old school used car salesman. And you just, the, how good he does it-

   24. JRJoe Rogan44:07

       Yeah.

   25. BBBill Burr44:08

       ... 'cause, you know, it's not he's a performer or an actor or anything, how good he does this, like, this guy is, like, this is just in his blood. He's just been a car guy. He's been flipping cars. I, I'm trying to b- I haven't seen the show in a minute, but, like, he used to talk about how he, uh, uh, you know, by the time he was, like, 19 he was on, like, his 30th car or something.

   26. JRJoe Rogan44:25

       (laughs)

   27. BBBill Burr44:25

       Like, he was just like, "I like that car. I'm gonna buy this car. I like that one." And he would just, every month would just flip them. Um...

   28. JRJoe Rogan44:31

       Those cars are, there's something about those shows that y- y- uh, uh, those and auction shows or any time, like, uh, pawn shop shows, there's something about wanting to know how the deal plays out.

   29. BBBill Burr44:44

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan44:44

       You know? That is so compelling for people. There's something, uh, like, and, and I'm a moron. I'll just sit there staring, like, "How much are they gonna get?"
10. 52:42 – 1:07:36

    Gender, parenting, and culture-war escalation: “theybies,” aggression differences, and cancel-attempt tactics

    1. BBBill Burr52:42

       My other favorite thing that what they do is when they fucking, they, they put their political agenda on them. Like, the kid doesn't even have a fucking chance. Like, this whole thing, like, uh, gender roles.

    2. JRJoe Rogan52:53

       Babies.

    3. BBBill Burr52:53

       By the way, that, my little experience being a dad going to kid birthday parties, they, those kids are not old enough for that behavior to be learned. Dude, the kids come, the boys show up, it is fucking Braveheart.

    4. JRJoe Rogan53:08

       (laughs)

    5. BBBill Burr53:08

       They come over the fucking hill.

    6. JRJoe Rogan53:10

       Yeah.

    7. BBBill Burr53:10

       They're r- ... Like, the, the, the girls are social. They're sitting there, they're kind of, they're taking things in. You know, the kids, boys come and they fucking th- ... Dude, I, we were at one on Saturday and there was this li- this kid who's hilarious. He looked like a little Bobby Hurley as a point guard, right? And, um, he was playing this game. He had, like, this ball, and he was using his, his, his, like, forearms as a bat. And he was hitting it, then he would catch it, and then he would throw it between his legs, and he was doing all this. Th- th- this kid's hand-eye coordination was great for his age. So over in the corner where I was sitting with my daughter was these, uh, like, little, like, sort of, like, cushions that someone had put together, like, three-piece thing, and made it into, like, a little chair for s- so an old person like me could sit down. So I stood up because I was worried the ball was gonna hit, so I was kinda guarding that. So he went over and grabbed the ball at one point, and just seeing the chair there, you know, all built like that, he just saw it and just kicked it, just destroyed it, and then continued on. I was thinking like, "Why did he do that?"

    8. JRJoe Rogan54:04

       Because he's a boy.

    9. BBBill Burr54:04

       He's a boy. Yeah, we like ruin shit.

    10. JRJoe Rogan54:07

        Well, you got a lot of energy. Little kids, like, need something to do that's physical. Their, their little bodies have, their little, little batteries overflowing with energy. You gotta give them stuff to do.

    11. BBBill Burr54:17

        I'm just saying that their shit was all about, like, grabbing, throwing, breaking.

    12. JRJoe Rogan54:23

        Smashing. Yeah.

    13. BBBill Burr54:23

        Breaking.

    14. JRJoe Rogan54:24

        Yeah. Do you remember being a kid?

    15. BBBill Burr54:25

        Yeah.

    16. JRJoe Rogan54:25

        Everybody did that. It was-

    17. BBBill Burr54:26

        Yeah.

    18. JRJoe Rogan54:26

        ... it was normal.

    19. BBBill Burr54:27

        So this, this whole thing of, like, like, "Well, women aren't aggressive like that because, you know, of bl- bl-"

    20. NANarrator54:32

        Society standards.

    21. BBBill Burr54:33

        Yeah, I think it's m- they're aggressive in, like ... I think that they, uh, they literally from, like, just survival shit, they're looking and like, "All right, that's what I have to compete with." And there are m- ... You see them looking at the boys who appear to be dominating, and what they are is they're actually showing all of their cards. And the little girls are already taking it in, breaking them down, knowing, "Well, I can't get physical with this person. I can't, like, dominate this person physically. This is definitely ..." And, and they just immediately start going like, "That's why they're fucking smarter than we are," I think. No?

    22. JRJoe Rogan55:06

        (laughs)

    23. BBBill Burr55:09

        (bangs desk) Did I lose you somewhere in that?

    24. JRJoe Rogan55:11

        (laughs) No. I don't necessarily think they're smarter. (smacks lips) I think what's going on is that, uh, men have d- d- we have different DNA, and the, the, the genes are aggressive.... and men-

    25. BBBill Burr55:22

        Whatever. I'm-

    26. JRJoe Rogan55:22

        ... are supposed to be doing reckless shit-

    27. BBBill Burr55:24

        Right.

    28. JRJoe Rogan55:24

        ... that's-

    29. BBBill Burr55:25

        I'm just saying it's not-

    30. JRJoe Rogan55:26

        ... how we survive.

Episode duration: 2:13:48