Joe Rogan Experience #1575 - Bill Burr

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. BBBill Burr0:02

      (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      We gotta know about your fights. We're already rolling, so just keep rolling.

   4. BBBill Burr0:17

      Oh, sorry.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      Sorry.

   6. BBBill Burr0:18

      Oh, we are?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, he just- We're talking about, uh, Steve Byrne's new movie.

   8. BBBill Burr0:23

      Yeah, Opening Act.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:24

      Oh, Steve Byrne got in a lot of fights?

   10. BBBill Burr0:26

       Y- yeah. He had more than-

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       He's so nice.

   12. BBBill Burr0:29

       He is. He is, but I don't know what it was, but I remember, (laughs) he was, like, at the Comic Strip and s- he did the late night show and somehow somebody threw a chair at him. I remember it hit him in the head and h- he got cut.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       (laughs)

   14. BBBill Burr0:41

       And then, like, two days later I go to the Comic Strip and, uh, somebody had taken his headshot down and put, like, staples in his forehead where he got hit-

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       (laughs)

   16. BBBill Burr0:49

       ... by the chair and put it back up. I guess back, back when you could do stuff like that and could just tease somebody, you know?

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Yeah.

   18. BBBill Burr0:54

       So, uh, yeah, so he had that movie coming. I was just saying it got nominated f- for one of th- one- some film festival award, so I was very, very happy for him.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       That, he's a guy, like, if you, you had told me, like, "Do you think Steve Byrne has ever been in a fight?" I'd be like, "Pfft, no. He's so nice. Who's gonna fight Steve Byrne?"

   20. BBBill Burr1:10

       Uh, I'll let S-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       I've only seen him-

   22. BBBill Burr1:10

       ... I'll let Steve come on here one day and tell the stories.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:12

       I would love to hear it. W-

   24. BBBill Burr1:14

       I, I know a half a dozen.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       Well, Al Madrigal's another one.

   26. BBBill Burr1:17

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:17

       Like, when I heard about Al M- that Al Madrigal has a temper, I'm like, "What?"

   28. BBBill Burr1:21

       Al?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       Like, 'ca- I didn't... I've never seen it. That's weird. Like, m- the side to Al I know is always hugs. Like, I, I've, I've known Al since he was an opening act at the old Cob's-

   30. BBBill Burr1:30

       (laughs)
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. BBBill Burr15:00

      are already laughing.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      Yeah.

   3. BBBill Burr15:01

      The part where I say toxic white male thing is to get the person who wrote that article to come along for the ride.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      Yeah.

   5. BBBill Burr15:07

      And they, they th- uh, they, they yeah, yeah, you know why it worked.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Yeah.

   7. BBBill Burr15:10

      I don't know why it works. I'm the guy who fucking wrote it and I'm watching it-

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      (laughs)

   9. BBBill Burr15:14

      ... watching it work. But why don't you explain to me... The, the fucking arrogance of that is what... I mean, I, I listen to all this music. I would never sit there, "You know why that song works?"

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       But you, don't you think that it's also-

   11. BBBill Burr15:26

       "Because he, he uses this fucking chord to something." It's just...

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       But it's a popular culture moment and it's a timed... it's a, it's an opportunity to do commentary to make a, an article that you know is going to get a lot of clicks. Uh-

   13. BBBill Burr15:39

       It's a scam. Yeah, maybe I'm taking the bait. I don't know what it is, but it's just like, I don't mind, I like this, I don't like this.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Yeah.

   15. BBBill Burr15:46

       But, but don't fucking sit there and start, you know, I wouldn't tell a mechanic why the car he just fixed is fucking working, not knowing how to fix a car.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       A lot of what's going on today with commentary is disingenuous in that it's not necessarily what they really think, but it's what they think will get a reaction from the people that align with their ideology.

   17. BBBill Burr16:05

       I found the solution to it.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       What is it?

   19. BBBill Burr16:07

       The solution. I just, I, I don't pay attention, even though I did read that.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       (laughs)

   21. BBBill Burr16:11

       That's why, that's why I don't. I waited a month before I read anything, and the first thing I read... My wife just hears me upstairs, "Oh, what the fu- You don't write a fucking thing." She goes, "Stop reading that stuff." I'm like, "You're right. You're right." (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:23

       (laughs)

   23. NANarrator16:25

       (laughs)

   24. BBBill Burr16:25

       I, uh, I just, I exist now, but I live in a different time.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:30

       Yeah.

   26. BBBill Burr16:30

       Including like movies, cars, everything that I look at, like I'm just right now I'm on a, I'm on a, uh, uh, I'm watching just car movies from the 1970s.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       Ah.

   28. BBBill Burr16:40

       And I'm having... Oh, dude, I gotta get this clip for you, one of the great-

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       What's that fucking mo- Point Blank... What's that movie with the Challenger? Because of-

   30. BBBill Burr16:46

       Point, uh, oh...
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   There's a great Russian…

   1. BBBill Burr30:00

      uh, you know.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      There's a great Russian horror movie called Sputnik, and it's, uh, a film that's all... It's all in subtitles, but it's basically, like, their version of the movie Alien. It's fucking good.

   3. BBBill Burr30:12

      Oh, really?

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      Yeah, it's good.

   5. BBBill Burr30:13

      Oh, okay.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:14

      I tried to watch it with my kid, and she was like, "I'm not reading while I watch a movie." I'm like, "Damn, that is my kid." (laughs)

   7. BBBill Burr30:19

      I watch them... I watch them in French with French subtitles.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:22

      Yeah.

   9. BBBill Burr30:23

      I just watch the whole thing, try to figure out what they're talking about.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       Oh, really?

   11. BBBill Burr30:26

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Yeah, this is Sputnik. It's fucking good, man. It's a Russian film, which I... You know, I'm, I'm not really aware of too many Russian films, but it's very good. And, uh, the scenes... Like the, the horror scenes are fucking spectacular, man.

   13. BBBill Burr30:40

       Yeah, I think this is what I'm gonna be watching from, like, now. Like, uh, I, I signed up on a couple of different sites and shit. Like YouTube's really cool. You can rent, like, movies for, like, four or five bucks.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       Yeah.

   15. BBBill Burr30:50

       And they'll have, like, really obscure shit. If it's not on, like, Netflix, I'm like, "All right." Like White Lightning , I forget where I had to go. I signed up for something then I got a three... a free, like, 30-day month thing, so it's like I'm gonna burn through some of these older Burt Reynolds movies.... you know, see if I-

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:04

       Well, you know what you could do for foreign films? Get a ExpressVPN and, uh, any, any kind of VPN, virtual private net- um, network, will allow you to say you're in another country.

   17. BBBill Burr31:14

       Dude, they advertise my podcasts. I've been, we, we, we do like the podcast part of my stuff, like I should do that with my personal stuff.

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       Yeah. You should. It's great. So like-

   19. BBBill Burr31:23

       Oh, dude, I got one for you.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:24

       ... you sign up for, just say you're in France, it'll show you all these French movies that maybe you would have never have access to on, on Netflix.

   21. BBBill Burr31:30

       Right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:31

       And maybe you'll, you know, if you watch one, it'll recommend some other ones that are similar to it in the algorithm.

   23. BBBill Burr31:36

       Dude, I got one for you, I fucking forget the name of it though. It's on the Criterion Channel. And it's this black and white, uh, I took a picture of it. It's on my phone. I can not, I can't remember shit, so I just take pictures of shit. Um, it was, uh, it's, it's, basically it's a guy doing a standup set, and he's having a bad set. And it's in black and white and it's like animated, and it's fucking wild. It's like really, like I never took mushrooms, but it felt like, "Wow, this must be like when you're starting to trip, what it starts to feel like."

   24. JRJoe Rogan32:08

       Mm-hmm.

   25. BBBill Burr32:08

       And like they were doing this thing, like, uh, as he was starting to like lose some people in the crowd, like their faces would just go dark. So I was thinking like, "He's turned them off. Does that mean like he shut off, like they, they're not into him anymore?" There's a lot of fucking layers to it. It's really, it's oddly disturbing.

   26. JRJoe Rogan32:25

       What's it called?

   27. BBBill Burr32:26

       I don't know. (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan32:28

       Jamie'll find it.

   29. BBBill Burr32:28

       I keep doing this shit.

   30. JRJoe Rogan32:29

       Jamie'll find it.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Well, people look at…

   1. BBBill Burr45:00

      like they're just bums is, um...

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      Well, people look at people that are doing the wrong thing like you're, you're an outcast. And I felt this when I was a kid in the li- le- the smallest way, but I u- I kinda understand it in a way.

   3. BBBill Burr45:13

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      When I was 18, when I graduated high school, I didn't do anything for a year 'cause I was competing, and I was like, "I'm just gonna dedicate myself to competing and see if I can make the Olympic team by the time I was 21." That was my goal.

   5. BBBill Burr45:25

      Right.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:25

      And, uh, I also d- really had no idea what I wanted to study in school. And the only reason why I b- wound up going to school at all is 'cause I didn't want people to think I was a loser, so I went to college. But I remember I would tell people. Like, they're like, "Wait, where'd you go to sc- where you going to school after I graduate college?" I'm like, "Oh, I'm taking the year off." They look at me like, "Oh."

   7. BBBill Burr45:42

      Oh.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:42

      They didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. Like, literally, they wanted to not talk to me. Like, I could sense it. Like, I might as well s-

   9. BBBill Burr45:48

      Well, you should've hung out with me and my friends.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       (laughs)

   11. BBBill Burr45:50

       We would've, we would've welcomed you.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       Oh, my friends did.

   13. BBBill Burr45:52

       I went to, like, junior colleges and shit like that.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       The friends I had were the same way. They, none of them even bothered going to school. They all went into construction.

   15. BBBill Burr45:59

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:00

       Friends from high school, they all, like, my friend Jimmy, both my friends Jimmy Dattilio and Jimmy Lawless. One became an electrician, and one became a, a carpenter.

   17. BBBill Burr46:07

       All right.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       They, uh, they... Those were my good friends in high school outside of my fighting friends. But it was, uh, that feeling that you got of just being a, an outcast, and that was a minor outcast. Like, uh, like, I remember I was delivering newspapers for this lady, and, uh, she was, uh, a- asking me where I'm going to school. And I said, "Well, you know, I'm trying to figure it out. I'm in the middle."

   19. BBBill Burr46:28

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       And she's like... The feeling that she gave me of just like, "Ugh."

   21. BBBill Burr46:32

       Yeah, follow the herd. Follow the herd.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:33

       She s- she just, just shucked me off. Like, she was friendly, and then all of a sudden, she wasn't, just based on me saying that I didn't know what I was doing with myself.

   23. BBBill Burr46:44

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:44

       Yeah.

   25. BBBill Burr46:44

       That's, that's how it was.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:45

       Just p- just talking about college and... Yeah.

   27. BBBill Burr46:48

       That's definitely how it was back then.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:49

       Well, it's... You know, Massachusetts is a different spot, too, because it's so goddamn cold in the winter. You can't fuck about. You gotta get going.

   29. BBBill Burr46:58

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:58

       Like, you can't be that guy who lazes around all day. You'll freeze to death. Like, you have to eat. You have to survive. You have to struggle.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:27

   (laughs) …

   1. BBBill Burr1:00:00

      at a fucking cafeteria at a college, those people didn't want a show. They wanted to eat and talk to their friends. And all of a sudden, you're up there, "Hey, what's up with stuff?" You know?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      (laughs)

   3. BBBill Burr1:00:09

      They go, "What the fuck? I'm trying to study or hit on this chick or whatever." But those shows, as much as they look like hell gigs, it is the, like, the greatest crowd ever, 'cause they're so into comedy that they're willing to sit in their car and listen to it, and they act... It's the weirdest thing ever. They're like, "It's the worst..." Y- like, a year ago, it was like, "This is the worst fucking setup ever for comedy, but it's the greatest crowd ever," and it ends up being, like, this great show.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

      Do they do it through the radio? Is that what they're doing?

   5. BBBill Burr1:00:38

      I haven't done the drive-in ones. I've done, I've done parking lots. I did a patch of grass behind a motel-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

      (laughs)

   7. BBBill Burr1:00:44

      ... which was an incredible show. (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

      Where was that?

   9. BBBill Burr1:00:46

      I felt... I don't... Oh, no, it was somewhere in Connecticut. And this woman, like, uh, they kinda had, like, this white noise thing, and the thing was broken. And I was in the middle of doing my set, and people were sitting on the grass, and there was no stage.... so I felt like we were all gonna, like, take out tambourines. It felt like some hippie thing-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:05

       (laughs)

   11. BBBill Burr1:01:05

       ... and I was standing behind this motel doing this shit, and it was, like, you know, maybe, like, 35, 40 people there. And this lady comes walking over with her dog, and she starts talking to s- the guy running it, and then she just sort of walked... It was so not a show that she wasn't even self-conscious, and she just walked up, she said, "You know, you're talking way too loud," and just, like-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:25

       To you?

   13. BBBill Burr1:01:26

       Yeah, like I was her neighbor. It was fucking hilarious, and then I was trying to be like, "All right, sorry. I'll try to keep it down," and I felt bad, you know. I don't know.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:35

       (laughs)

   15. BBBill Burr1:01:35

       And then she walked away. I know, and she started wagging her finger at me and then that, of course, got me going. Like, "Don't fucking wag your finger at me. I've been polite, okay?" And then she walked away.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:45

       Did they have permits?

   17. BBBill Burr1:01:46

       Yeah, but then I watched her walk and I th- started making fun of her house, doing this whole bit on split entries, um, that I can't remember. They had a new roof with old shutters, and I was saying that's like wearing, buying a new suit with old shoes. You ruin the whole thing. I felt... I was just trashing it 'cause I thought it was her house, and I found out she lived across the street-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:02:05

       (laughs)

   19. BBBill Burr1:02:06

       ... and then the person (laughs) who owned the house was actually on the porch listening, enjoying the show, and I was shitting all over his house and I felt-

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:02:13

       (laughs)

   21. BBBill Burr1:02:13

       ... ended up feeling really bad about it.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:02:17

       (laughs)

   23. BBBill Burr1:02:17

       'Cause what's funny is, with all of this shit, is I don't do this shit to make you feel bad. I'm trying to make you feel good. That's the funny thing about it.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:02:25

       Yeah.

   25. BBBill Burr1:02:25

       So, like, when people take it a certain way, I'm not this heartless person that just goes, like... You know, I remember way back in the day I did a g- I did a bit and I made this woman cry, and I felt fucking horrible. I just didn't have the emotional ability to handle it 'cause she was right. She w- I mean, she... That's like, I wasn't doing it about... I, but it touched too much on her life and where she was.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:02:51

       Mm-hmm.

   27. BBBill Burr1:02:51

       It happened to me twice. I remember this woman came up to me and she's like, "Plane crashes aren't funny," and left, and I was like, "Oh, my God."

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:02:58

       Oh.

   29. BBBill Burr1:02:59

       Yeah, and I wish that I was mature enough to be like, "I am so sorry," you know? You know? But not like I shouldn't have done the bit, but it's just, like, I shoulda had, like, empathy there. I didn't know what to do, and of course back then, you know, I... all my comic friends, we were all like, you know, in our 20s. You know, broken toys at that point, crawling out of whatever the fuck happened that made you a comedian, so asking them for advice was not a, the right thing to do. I would've been like, "Fuck you, bitch," and blah, blah, blah, shit-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:03:30

       (laughs)

Episode duration: 1:41:52