Victoria's Secret, Rainforest Runways, PreQualifications | Monday Morning Podcast 3-24-25

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr, and it's time for the Monday Morning Podcast for Monday,

March 24th, 2025. What's going on? How are ya? Oh, geez, how's it going there? This is really late today.
I apologize. This is not Monday morning.
This is fucking Monday afternoon.

I had a gig last night.

I had to go down to Washington, D.C. A friend of mine was accepting an award and I was asked to go up and say some nice things about him.
And I'm going to tell you, old Billy fucking getting out of his comfort zone. First, I drew Broadway like the half of so-and-so I am, right? Got past that, and now I had to go.
I am afraid of those gigs, or I was anyway, because my thing is, the way I'm talking right now, that's where I live. I lived in this nice, walled-off, emotional place.
And the way I tell people that I love them is that I fucking tease them. That's how I do it.
So with the award show, what you actually have to do is say that you love somebody without all of that stuff. And then what happens, because I hold back that all the time, I turn into, like, fucking Dick Vermeule.
You know? I'm going I'm gonna turn into like a puddle of emotion. You know, and you're always nice to me.
And not everybody was like that. And no one wants to see that.
No one wants to see a man breaking down emotionally, saying how much he loves his other male friend. They just, you know, women think they want to see that.
They say, no, no, you should let that out. That's why would you hold? It would be beautiful to show that side of yourself.
And then you do it. And what do they do? They're fucking, they're fucking, you know what dries up immediately and they just go, this is the guy that's going to protect me when somebody comes through the front door? Fuck this guy.
And then what do they do? They go down to Roadhouse and they start blowing Patrick Swayze. And that's what happens.
That's what happens. But, you know, and then you know what's funny? You know it's funny.
This is the best part. Then they blame you when they do it.

All because you listened to their bad advice. So I learned something last night where first of all, what I did was I did this speech a bunch of times.
so I got comfortable with it and

and then I

I threw in some

some jokes along the way

to kind of keep me a little bit in, you know, my safe space of,

ooh, I'm fucking, I'm a tough ginger who doesn't feel things, you know?

Nothing bothers me.

Nothing bothers me.

No, nothing.

So I kind of had to, like, I was able to do it and i got through it i held my composure and it went all right but i gotta tell you man like i don't want to ruin all of this stuff i don't know how much of it it's out there but it was just like one heavy hitter after another and i was psyched that i was on in the middle because i didn't want to have to go on after all the heat they had on that show. And, you know, I don't know.
Whatever I do shit like that, I always like whoever just finished. I think two things.
One, I can't follow that. And two, I think I'm so jealous of them that they're done and they can now sit down and enjoy the show.
But I kind of talked to a couple of the other presenters on it, and they were all like, dude, I feel the exact same way. I'm so glad you said that.
And I'm like, all right. So everybody's a little bit nervous about it, but it was an incredible night.
And I got to tell you, I hadn't realized, I've been in New York City. I have not left since I got here February 1st and this reminds me of when I used to live here and I would stay in the city and I didn't have road dates and every once in a while you'd get out of the city and you'd realize like it's just like you just kind of exhale like oh god like I don't feel the crush of the buildings and the concrete or whatever.
I used to always see these people just sitting in the parks in New York, feeding pigeons and shit. And I never understood what they were doing, but I get it now.
You kind of need to, like, get out of the grind any way you can. But, you know, I don't know.
When I moved here in the mid-90s, you know,

being stationary for too long a period of time in the city,

past a certain hour was, you kind of put in a,

you felt like you had a little bit of a bullseye on your bed. Like all of a sudden, like, you know, the zombies,

they could like see you, like they could see you through the matrix where if you just walk by, I always kind of had like that rule that if somebody crazy came on the train, you just, they can't see you until you see them. So they're talking and they're doing their crazy shit that they're doing.
So all you got to do is just stare at, you know, the advertising, look down at somebody's shoes sitting across from you. You do not look at them.
You do not acknowledge them. But if you make eye contact with them while they're talking.
OK, they're like, holy shit, I've been seen. Like if you put yourself in the in the world of a crazy person they're walking down the street talking out loud to like nobody like nobody looks at them nobody acknowledges them everybody ignores them so there has to be this lonely feeling for them and this bizarre feeling that they feel like you know everything around them maybe isn't even real.
So when they're talking and you actually look at them, acknowledging that I'm hearing the sound coming out of your mouth, they're like, oh my God. Like, what was that movie? Oh, Ghost.
When the one ghost was teaching Patrick Swayze again. Let's see if i go three times with that reference um like how to like you know get out of the ghost world and actually move something in the real world like they exist on that level and that was the new york city subway won't you look at that and it all comes full circle.
So anyway, I got out of the city, drove down there with Club Soda Kenny and had a great day. I was in Georgetown, which is like, it's just the weirdest place ever.
It's like Ben Franklin's gonna come walking down the street. I don't know what sort of like zoning laws they have, but that place, it's like, I remember Sturbridge Village.
When I was a kid, you'd go out to this thing and everyone would be dressed like the pilgrims and would be reenacting everything but slaughtering Indians. They'd show them making fucking butter and chewing horses and shit.
But anyway, you would go out there and it was like walking into like, you know, this country hundreds of years ago. And I felt like that when I was there.
So anyway,

I've been to Georgetown a number of times. And, you know, it's always made me uncomfortable because it's a kind of like Martha Stewart vibe that I just remember growing up sort of being pushed in that direction of like, you know, khakis with neon colored sweaters and horned rimmed glasses.
This is the 80s, like that whole like preppy look. And I just always was like, I don't like this.
I don't want to do this. I want to work in a warehouse.
I want to drive a truck. I want to hang out with those guys.
Those guys are funny. And they watch sports.
And they're funny. And they drink.
And they're funny. And they're hanging out.
Having a good time. And they're just, you know.
Why the fuck do I want to go into that world? Of like, have you seen the new Beamers? Which is funny. I actually love BMWs now.
And in the 80s, I wanted the 6 Series. I thought that that was the coolest fucking car ever.
And anyway, plowing ahead here. What the fuck was my point? Oh, so I went there and I was thinking like, you know what? Georgetown University is in Georgetown.
I remember Big East basketball and with like Patrick Ewing and oh, what was that kid's name? Oh, I just had it. Michael Graham.
This amazing, amazing Big East player and they won the title, I want to say, in 84 or something like that. And, or 83 or 84.
Wait, 83 was the Tar Heels. Like, 81 or 82 was NC State.
I don't know. I used to watch that shit.
I fucking loved it. That's what I'm kind of getting back into March Madness and college hoop and shit.
So anyway, I was like, I got to go down there and just, you know, you know, John Thompson,

Allen Iverson played there.

This is a great basketball program.

I'm gonna walk down and check out the campus.

So I'm walking down there and I'm thinking like,

ah, fuck, is this gonna be like

when I tried to go up to Columbia

and it's like a police state?

You can't go on the campus

unless you have some sort of visitor ID

and they take all your fucking information

and your cell phone number and all of this shit. And I showed up, it was the exact opposite.
You could actually just walk onto the campus, which was great. And the campus was fucking gorgeous.
And I actually learned something as a parent. I wanted to be like, I don't, I'm thinking of like with my kids at some point, you know, when they're getting close to high school age is take them to a really cool school like that with a beautiful campus and just be like, listen, if you study, you make the sacrifices, you don't hang out with knuckleheads.
You know, life rewards you. And if you work hard the next four years, you could go to a school like this.
and follow the basketball program for the rest of your life.

You could go here for four years, you could go to a school like this and, and follow like the basketball program, like for the rest of your life, you could go here for four years, go to all the hoop games with your friends. And then this becomes like the nucleus of your bond and you can hang out, you know, once a year, you guys could still stay in touch, going to games.
Like I'm always envious of people that went to really like you know division one everything with me comes back to sports division one colleges and they get to follow the football teams and they got to sit in the student section and all of that shit like you know if you work hard this is where you can go right and then if you screw around, you're driving to like a Subway sandwich place or you're fucking one of those, I remember like the junior colleges when I was growing up, they look like small high schools. They'd be like one building with like this fucking parking lot and everybody just drove there like a job and everybody went home.
There wasn't like the social life of like, I missed out on all of that shit. Um, so I don't know.
Anyway, so I ended up checking out the campus. It was great.
And then that night I went out and, uh, they had the event and, um, somehow pulled it off, got through it. And today I woke up and actually had a feeling like I'm fucking proud of myself.
That was something I was not comfortable doing. And I somehow figured out a way to get through it.
I didn't fuck up. It and one of the, one of the bits they had, uh, involved this, uh, cattle rancher guy.
And I was talking to him at the after party. He was like an auctioneer.
And, um, I was just talking to him about like, you know, how'd you learn how to do that? And he just started talking about that. He basically raised cattle and all that.
I had this fucking amazing like 10 minute conversation about buying cattle and like how to tell if it's healthy or not. Because like I always know you go buy fish.
It's like the fish eyes cloudy. It means it's not like, you It means it's not fresh fish or whatever.
So he just broke down all of this stuff that you look for with cattle. And I was like, dude, they should do a documentary on this stuff.
I don't know. I found it fascinating.
Anyway, so we drove up today and stopped off at a rest area and i ate the most unhealthy worst food think i've ever had first of all i went into nathan's and i was trying to get like a fucking hot dog or something and the poor woman working there was doing the register and making the steak and cheeses and everything and it's just like these fucking corporate cunts this poor woman is just running ragged and everybody's getting annoyed in the line. And she has literally no help.
She's doing the whole thing herself. And you know, some fucking asshole who fired all of her coworkers is now writing himself a nine figure fucking bonus for air quote, saving the company money.
So you didn't save them money. You just stole their salaries and you're making one person doing the job of fucking three people um anyway uh plowing ahead here so i ended up having to go to another like pretzel place i was just gonna get the pret but, but then they had like the pretzel wrapped in a

hot dog. And I was like, ah, fuck, am I going to do this? I said, fuck it.
I'll do it. I got two of them.
Oh my God. After the first one, my body was just going like, don't bill, don't do this.
And I was just like, it's too late. I already did it.
And there's another one coming. And I was raised not to waste food, even if it is complete fucking poison.

So,

so now I'm drinking a turmeric ginger thing.

It's kind of redundant as a ginger, right?

Why are redheads called gingers?

I have ginger in my fridge.

It's like yellow.

And on the outside, it's like this beige. I don't understand it.
I get carrot top. As far as the vegetables that we're compared to, I understand carrot top way more than ginger.
Anyway, plowing ahead. What else? Yes, we get back into New York and like driving in a car in New York is slower than walking backwards because Bloomberg started this thing they got rid of all the lanes they turned every fucking main avenue they used to be four lanes across and now they're down to like two lanes and then one of the lanes will turn into a turning lane and there's buses and trucks trying to deliver food it is a fucking mess it's an absolute fucking disaster and then they added like one of the whole lanes they just turned into like more traffic for walking and there's nobody in it.

There's nobody in it.

It's like bike lanes in Los Angeles.

Like no one uses the bike lane.

These fucking assholes on bikes,

they don't even ride in the bike lane.

And the few that do ride their bike

ride on streets that has no bike lane

and they ride in the middle of the fucking street.

It's insane.

With a sense of entitlement. I remember how this city used to be.
They had the lights. Not only was there four lanes, like late at night, you know, when I moved here, you know, I was fucking, you know, watching every penny.
So I was afraid to take a cab it was like this luxury so i was living with uh robert kelly bobby and um you know i'd be doing spots around the city and i was always envious of him because he used to do the boston comedy club the wah and the cellar and he didn't have to jump in a cab. He did three spots each, 50 bucks a whack, nine shows, 450 bucks cash, right? I owe Billy fucking ADD.
I should have just put in at those three places, and I could have had that. It never dawned on me to do that.
But I was where I would work the strip danger fields, go over to fucking Gotham or stand up New York, come down to the village, go back up.

And I'd be blowing a lot of money on cabs. Right.

So anyways, the end of the night, but I would still have, you know, I have a little fucking grip of cash. Right.

I probably blow like, you know, whatever, like say if I did eight, eight spots, 400 bucks, I'd probably, you know, come home with like low 300s, right? I'd blow like 80 bucks on cabs. So anyway, at the end of the night, we used to always split a cab.
That was our big thing. We'd split a cab and I remember it'd be the end of the night and it'd be like you know summer would be hot out and shit and having the windows down and the fucking cabs would just you'd catch like this wave of green lights and if you stayed in like the pocket almost like it's like a like a searchlight moving its way up the avenue you could go from like astor place down on like eighth street and you wouldn't catch a red light sometimes until like you were in the 70s and then the lights would turn green again and then the guy would drive the last 20 up to our apartment we would stop like one time and it was so fucking fast and so convenient um i actually remember one time we were driving up town we were doing doing like fucking 50 miles an hour.
It was insane. Flying up the street and there was like a cab right next to us.
And there was these two young like, you know, finance guys in there. You know, it was funny.
Like they were working their way up and finance the way we were making our way up and stand up. And they still had their white shirts and ties on and they had gone out drinking so we looked over we finally caught the red light we looked over and the kid who was sitting closest to us was slumped down so we couldn't see him and the windows was that were down and the the finance up-and-coming finance kid on you know the far left of the other one we were to the right of him he sat up and he puked out the side of of the car on the other side and we start laughing right and then the cars take off we start driving fast again and we were watching the kid puking as the fuck on the out the and we were fucking cracking up.
And then out of nowhere, the finance kid that was on our side, he popped up and leaned out the window like that was on our side and just puked and went all the way down the side of the cab. Just fucking, I don't know, just fucking great days back then.
And they got rid of all of that. Like they interrupted Broadway like three times.
And the other day, like, you know, they put like these fucking cheap metal, like tables and chairs. Did I tell you this yet? I was walking out of the theater and I see this fucking homeless guy or I don't know, nut house guy.
He has no shirt on and he's picking at this scab on his belly. And as he was picking the scab, he was wiping it off onto the fucking table.
It's just like, you know, this just isn't. Whatever, whatever European, you know, I would, you know what I would compare it to?

It's like Amsterdam.

I remember when I was in Amsterdam and this junkie came up to me

like late at night outside this fucking train station.

I was with this comedian, Dwayne Perkins,

and I was working Rotterdam.

He was working Amsterdam,

and somehow we got like these European numbers.

We were like, I'll take the train up, you know,

and I'll fucking hang out with you.

So we were hanging out, and it was like the end of the night, I'll take the train up, you know, and I'll fucking hang out with you. So we were hanging out and it was like the end of the night and this junkie came up like all fucking scabs and shit.
Oh, this is, sorry for these nasty stories, but he was trying to sell us this bike that he obviously stole. And he goes, yeah, can you give me like freaking, you know, whatever.
He came up speaking whatever they speak over there, Dutch or whatever, right?

And we're like, yeah, sorry, I don't know.

And then, you know, fucking European guy.

Oh, what language?

Boom, I can speak that too, right?

You know, even their junkies are bilingual.

So he fucking, he just switches to English, which was our out. I'm like, ah, fucking, dude, this is one of these people like, oh, my God, if this guy scratches me, I have AIDS.
I have SARS, COVID. I have everything.
I have COVID before COVID, right? So he asked us in English. I said, no, man, I'm good.
I'm good. And he just goes, and I remember he just, he like exhaled, likeed like this fucked up teeth and he just sort of looked down the street and then just started scratching his scabbed neck uh with that and a five o'clock shadow it was the grossest sound ever and i just ruined all your days describing that i'm sorry but um that was one that was immediately like yep it doesn't make a difference how long i live i will never forget that sound so anyway plowing ahead uh i believe the moto gp race was this weekend which awesome i didn't hear anything about it so i'm gonna watch that on the website i think it was uh austin right? Coda, Circuit of the Americas.
So what else? What else has been going on in my life? Oh, I know. We've got the 12th annual.
Tickets are still available for the 12th annual Patrice O'Neill Comedy Benefit Sunday, May 18th at New York City Center. You could go see Glengarry Glen Ross Saturday night or Monday night.
And on Sunday, you could come see a bunch of incredible comedians raising money for Patrice's mom. We've just been doing this forever, man.
It's been a great thing to keep his name alive and all of that and to take care of his mom like he was doing when he was alive. We've got a great lineup.
We've got Rosebud Baker, Greer Barnes, DC Benny, Tim Dillon, Nemesh Patel, Sean Patton. That's a show right there.
You've got the fucking great Rich Voss. Oh, my God god he had the funniest fucking clip the other day i reposted it where he was talking to some woman in the crowd and he said is that your husband ma'am and she goes i will kick your ass he goes what are you talking about she goes don't call me man he said he goes he goes, I said ma'am, not man.

And then he looks at her, he goes,

he goes, is that your husband, you deaf old hag?

And what I love about Rich

is when he trashes somebody on the left,

he then looks over at the right

and laughs with everybody laughing or vice versa.

He always looks away from the person

after he trashes them. It's a Vossism that I love.
And yours truly. I'll be mopping up at some point towards the end.
And we're going to try to get a special guest as we always do. All the tickets are 75 bucks.
Tickets can be purchased at www.nycitycenter.org slash Patrice 2025 or by going to my website, www.billburr.com. All right, so there you go.
What else? The play that was starting tonight is the last week of previews um and then a week from tonight is opening night which is very exciting and i've learned um previews is this is where you're just getting it going and everything you're still you know having great shows and you want the crowd to have a good time and everything but But like once there's opening night, then critics can come down and like officially like review the show. That's what they're supposed to do.
They're not supposed to do it in previews. But sometimes they do it just to be cunts.
Which is a required, you know, I can't say that about all critics, but like most of them, it's just sort of just being cunty all the time. Like my favorite critics are the one, like what I loved about Siskel and Ebert is there was actually movies that they liked And they would say why it was a good movie

and what they enjoyed about it.

So then if they didn't like a movie,

they had, like, credibility.

But, like, you know, some of these critics,

you know, just like, it's like,

no matter what you do, you're going to shit on it.

So, I don't know.

Like, do I take this seriously?

I didn't like it.

It's like, you know, you kind of don't like anything.

I don't understand that, right? You know, I know, I know a comedian like that. And then all of a sudden one night this comedian was talking about a commercial about a product that was, the joke was talking about, like, how unbelievable the product was, and all of a sudden he felt this need, I have to go out and get and buy it, and it was sort of making fun of, like, how advertising works.
Like, you didn't, like, 30 seconds ago, you didn't think, you had no need for this product, and then the commercial was so good that like 30 seconds later,

it's like you can't live without it. So it was sort of this funny thing.
And he came off stage. I go, dude, I've been watching you for like 20 years.
That's the first time I think you talked about something you liked on stage. And we were both laughing about that.
And I think, you know, so much of my shit early on is about, uh,

was about stuff that I didn't like. And then as I got older, I think some of my shit is starting to become on things that I want to be good at but suck at.
Like, you know, sometimes, you know, I don't have the best husband day or dad day or, you know, I don't know. I always like the self-deprecating shit.
You got to have enough of that in there, you know? And then that gives you license to, like, fucking rip on something else, hopefully. Turmeric and ginger.
Oh, there's this amazing, this amazing fucking Instagram page that I saw where they hire all of these former Victoria's Secret models. And it came up in my feed because I don't follow the account.
And this woman comes on and she's just like, hey, I'm so i used to uh it's so so weird how they sell it they go i i used to be a victoria's secret model and today i'm going to show you some of the beauty secrets that they forced me to do when i was a model they always say that they forced me to do and you're waiting to be like oh my god did they make you puke behind a dumpster or whatever? Like, this is the soap they forced me to use, turmeric soap. And like I had acne.
And within 18 seconds of using this, it went away. This is the toothpaste they forced me to use.
And my teeth were so bright. And I're just sitting there watching it.
And I'm going like, oh, this is just, this is just a commercial. But I liked, they used the words, they only said forced once.
These are the beauty things that they forced me to do. So I, you know, I saw the toothpaste.
I made my teeth like within three days, my teeth were like the whitest thing in the room or whatever. So I look up the toothpaste and all the reviews

are like pretty average, overpriced toothpaste. It's a lot of money for whatever reason.
Doesn't

really seem to do like you get like the actual stuff and then like turmeric soap. There's

studies that say maybe it clears up your skin. It's still on the app.
But the advertising is

Thank you. So there's studies that say maybe it clears up your skin.
It's still on the app. But the advertising is brilliant because they have these like just absolutely just these goddesses.
You know, it's Victoria's Secret models. I mean, come on.
Fucking goddesses. It's like they're not even from this planet.
They're so beautiful. And they just come.
This is this is what I did. And this is why why i looked so fucking radiant and then i looked up like the turmeric soap and the toothpaste and both of them are kind of like yeah you know i mean you know we can all agree it's expensive um my favorite advertising one oh no I had another one there was a

this My favorite advertising one.

Oh, no, I had another one.

There was this lady was talking about how liars tell on themselves that when they give the information, they say a sentence as a question.

I just did it as a question.

They say it as a question.

And that is their tell because they're asking you if you believe it. And my favorite, first of all, it's like every girl in the valley talked like, there was so many people going like, I went to the movies last night and I saw a movie.
It was like a way of talking for a while where you were like sort of noncommittal. It really had nothing to do with lying or not lying.
It was just, it was one of these things that like, this is complete bullshit. The person could be lying or they're not lying and that's just how they talk.
Right. But my favorite part was this woman said, we did a massive study in our lab and proved and just blew right through it.
Like, first of all, what kind of a scientist? No scientist. Yo, we did a massive study in our lab.
It was epic. We did a massive study in our lab.
I want you guys, if you're ever in a corner and you can't defend what you're saying, just say no. You know, where I work, we did a massive study in our lab and it proved that what I just said to you was true.
Anyway, we did a massive study in our lab. And then the last one I saw was there was a person was, he had a sport coat on.
He didn't have the decency to have a button down and a tie. He just threw his sport coat on.
And they always look like you're watching some sort of show. You have no idea what the fucking show is.
There's always the person across from him. And he was going, and he was just going like, you know, naming every fucking disease you can think of.
You know, lupus, the mumps, multiple sclerosis,

however you say it, Alzheimer's.

And you know what we found in our lab?

We did a massive study in our lab.

The thing that affected all of these positively and turned it around,

you know what it was?

Nicotine.

So there you go, guys. If you have some sort of disease, just start smoking.
Because there's nicotine in there and evidently it's going to cure everything. But everybody in the comments are like, this is obviously an ad to start smoking.
So you can get all of these ailments. I don't know if you don't get those ailments, but you know what I mean.
Cure your MS with lung cancer.

Um, all right.

I think I've babbled long enough.

Um, let me, uh, let me do my, uh, oh, I, I, I'm all done with my fucking media now.

I have no media this week.

Uh, I only have two more medias that I have to do. They're both in April.
And now I can just fucking, I can chill out. I've promoted my special.
Thank you guys so much for watching it and all the positive feedback that I've gotten. What else? What else? And everybody who's been coming out to glengarry glen ross um it's just been an incredible incredible couple of weeks here man so thank thank you to all of you guys and uh i got my i had my new hour ready to go now i feel like 20 minutes because i've only been doing 20 minute sets so i gotta uh i gotta pop in at a club close out a show and just do like an hour one of these nights i'm gonna do that um but anyway um is that all i wanted to say i felt like i had something else to say i don't know let me do the do the advertising.
I'll probably think of it as I'm reading, right? Maybe. I don't know.
All right. Here we go.
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Broadway. Hey, Billy Broadway.
My friend and I saw you Tuesday night. We were second row.
So when I say we saw you, we really saw all of you guys up close and we were blown away. Wow.
So funny and so impressive. I don't think I'm wrong in saying your lines got the loudest laugh.
Oh, that's not a contest, but I appreciate it. Those are some long monologues.
And being the early previews, we were wondering if any lines were flubbed. And if there were, would we even notice? Could you disguise it? You guys seem so polished as if the show has been running for a week, for weeks already.
What a treat. Bravo again.
That's so nice of you. All right.
First of all, the caliber of actors that I'm working with, that if I mess up, they're always there. They're always there to catch you.
And then you have to do that for them. And as far as mistakes, mistakes are made every night.
Every night. I have yet to do any, I have yet to even come close to perfection.
And it's you, and what I've learned is these mistakes that you made, and that's the big thing that you're afraid of. What if I forget? What if I flip a line? What if I skip ahead? What if I go back? What if I get lost? All of that's going to happen and someone's there to help you or you figure it out.
And when you are able to get past that moment and the whole thing doesn't turn into a train wreck, it gives you confidence and you're like, oh, well, okay. I don't have to go out here worrying about it because if it happens I can handle it like so there's no need to worry because obviously if you're going out going oh my god I hope I don't mess up you're gonna mess up um you don't need to think oh my god I hope I don't mess up you're going to mess up I mess up every time I go on stage and do a stand-up set.
You know, I tell jokes they don't work or I mess up the wording, stumble over it, blah, blah, blah. But I don't really notice that I'm making those mistakes because I know how to handle them in stand-up and I've done it so many times that I don't even notice I'm doing it.
So the play

becomes like that, where if you start to mess up or whatever, um, you're able to, uh, you're able to recover. So, um, I don't specifically remember the show on Tuesday, but I guarantee you, I made mistakes.

But, um, I made mistakes, but, um, it's, it's weird.

It's, it makes it fun. The fact that it isn't perfect and it comes out different is fun.
And

yeah, we laugh about the mistakes afterward. We're all, you know, like, oh my God, I was so

tongue tied. Like one night I got all tongue tied because I tried something different.
And. And just the different head movement and saying the line differently, it got me out of my muscle memory and I got lost and I knew what the next line was, but I forgot how to say it.
And I was just rumbling, bumbling, stumbling through it. And one of the other actors, I go, Jesus Christ, did you hear that? And he was like, oh yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I just sat back going, he's going to get there. So, um, it's, it, you know, it's, it's one of those, it's one of those deals, but it's unbelievably fun.
And, uh, but yes, I can guarantee you, we made mistakes that night, especially me. All right.
So I guess I'm saying, come on down and watch us seamlessly make mistakes. And it is a big compliment that you, you didn't, couldn't tell if we made mistakes or not.
You just keep, it's like, you know, you ever play in a band? If somebody, the rule is don't stop, just keep going. Don't stop believing.
All right. Shakespeare.
Hey, Billy bald boy. So two things.
First, I've been teaching Shakespeare to teenagers for years. I always tell them that reading it or hearing it is like talking, is like taking two years of Spanish and then going to Mexico.

You won't understand everything, but you'll get the general idea.

So just focus on that and don't let the words you don't know trip you up.

Look for the No Fear Shakespeare line of books.

So go enjoy the play.

Yeah, that's what I'm reading.

No Fear Shakespeare. I'm reading.
No fear, Shakespeare.

I'm fucking smart.

You know, it does sound good to say I'm reading Othello.

I'm mostly reading...

I was trying to read, like, the Shakespeare and that,

but I kind of, I glanced at the Shakespeare,

but now I'm, like, so into the fucking story,

I want to know what's happening. I can't keep listening to these guys going, you know.
Ho, Othello! I proclaim thee in the streets for making the beast with two backs. Thanks for the podcast.
I listened to it throughout the week on my commute back and forth to work. Fun fact, fuck was a word in the English language by Shakespeare's lifetime, and John Florio even includes it in his 1598 publications.
A World of Words, W-O-R-L-D-E of Words, O-W-O-R-D-E-S. So go fuck thyself and keep up the good shit you're doing with this podcast.
Oh, thank you. Thank you, sir.
I wish I could thank you in Shakespearean language, but I lack the ability. All right, plowing ahead here, And then I got to get ready to go do the show tonight.

Rainforest demolition for environmental summit.

Oh, God, this is going to fucking be frightening to read.

Hey, Billy Ferngully, did you see that the elites who control all our resources

knocked down a swath of rainforest so they could build a runway

to land their private jets for a climate summit. Are they just doing this for like.
I don't you know, I honestly think that sociopaths. You know, the whole spectrum of a sociopath.
I think it's, you know, when you're just like a from mouth breathing moron to head of a corporation psychopath. I literally think God created these people for his own amusement.
To just watch them frustrate everybody else. Like I had this fucking conversation with somebody.
I just said, yeah, I just can't. I'll go with it.
There's a God. I used to believe in God.
Then I said there was no God. Now I'm saying, okay, I believe that there's something out there.
I'll go with that. I believe that he, she, they, it made everything, but I can't get on board that this God loves us or he wouldn't create or make all of these fucking terrible people.
And I always say, why does God make sociopaths? Why does he make pedophiles and all of that? And then like this religious person said, well, why does he make empathetic and nice people? Why does he do that? You see what I'm saying? I'm like, no, I don't. Why doesn't he just make that? Why doesn't he just make nice people that look out for each other and we could all just be having a good fucking time? And then they always think, well we're never going to understand all that God...
just say you don't know! Just say you can't answer that. It's okay.
Science can't answer everything. These fucking religious people always have to have the fuck...
well that's the mystery, he gives us freedom of choice. Shut up.
Freedom of choice. I guess I will go fuck a child.
That's what a pedophile does? He gave him freedom to do that? Why the fuck, why would he do that? The kid can't defend himself. Why would he do that? I don't know.
Anyway, I'm sick of seeing all these climate groups run by rich assholes who gather to have conversation about how the average Joe has to cut back and not mention all these summits. Oh, always have panels with douchebags, all drinking water out of plastic bottles.
Well, here's the thing, too. They know they've known that it's coming since scientists have been warning them since the late 1950s about what

we're doing to the planet. There's a book out there by this female scientist that I never had

the courage to read. It was called The Silent Spring, which we're rapidly approaching.
Like

she didn't understand that eventually she was saying Silent Spring, that with all these pesticides,

how they protect the crops, but they seep into the entire food chain, the worms to the birds, to the things that eat the birds all the way up to the bears. And it'd be Silent Spring because there'll be no more fucking animals left.
She didn't realize that there's going to be no spring left. And what people in power do is they fight something first.
And then what they do

is eventually they join it. And by joining it, they take control of it.
So all of these corporations,

they know what the fuck's coming. So they're buying land that sits on aquifers because they

know fresh water is going to be the next oil. Like they don't look at the ills that they've created

and the disaster that we're headed to as a bad thing. They look at it as an opportunity.
So now they're going to be the people. And after they've created this world where we have to buy all of these disposable things that you can't repair and that they then throw into the ocean and that they've decided that they're going to make use our oceans as a fucking, you know, garbage dump.
They know that all of this shit is coming to a head. So now what they're going to do is they're going to blame you for playing the game that they created.
And they will, you know, keep writing themselves nine-figure bonuses

for punishing the working men.

That's basically it.

And what's funny is whenever you just say something like that,

that was totally apolitical.

I'm not talking about politics.

I'm not blaming either side.

I'm talking about these psychos that run these corporations.

Someone will listen to this.

They will retreat this shit, not this part,

and then they will politicize it.

Somehow, they will politicize it.

They will figure out shit, not this part, and then they will politicize it. Somehow, they will figure out a fucking way.
If you can politicize a virus, fires, and a fucking tornado, you don't have any problem politicizing all spoken word. Anyway, let's see here.
I'm sick of all these climate groups run by rich assholes drinking water out of plastic bottles instead of cutting back on manufacturing junk in flooding stores with useless items made of plastic and chemicals they expect us to live on ways they would never they never would P.S. for all the dumb fucks who respond by saying this was in the works for years and has nothing to do with the summit, keep reading, fuckers.
They're only building this for private planes. Locals don't have private planes.
All right. 2,000-year-old wisdom.
Hey, Billy boy, I'm a fellow aviator from the Sunshine State, and I think you would love this quote. It was written by Marcus, I'm going to mess this name up, Cicero, C-I-C-E-R-O, of the Roman Empire at 43 BC.
Cicero was a statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer. Jesus.
Accomplished man. Number one, the poor, and then it says, dash, work and work.
Two, the rich exploit the poor. The soldier protects both.
The taxpayer pays for all three. The banker robs all four.
The lawyer misleads all five. Oh, I'm supposed to be reading the numbers.
Let me start. One, the poor work and work.
Two, the rich exploit the poor. Three, the soldiers protect both.
Four, the taxpayers pay for all three. One, two, and three.
The poor, the rich, and the soldier. The banker robs all four.
The poor, the rich, the soldier, the taxpayer. The lawyer misleads all five.
Number seven, the doctor bills all six. Eight, the goons scare all seven.
Nine, the politician lives happily on the account of all eight. That's incredible.

Thank you for the entertainment.

Blue skies and tailwinds.

Sunshine State Aviator.

Hey, if you got, you know, any pilots that want to write in and tell stories about what you're flying, I would love to hear it

because the longer I fly, the more I'm with fixed wing um and the speed and the distance and you know going for my instrument rating again like you know i went for it in my helicopter but like i i'd still not rated to fly in it and um i'm just fascinated with the altitudes that you guys fly at and how quickly you can get somewhere and how much cheaper a plane is than a helicopter. Like the level of plane that I could have got for the price of a two-seater helicopter is kind of insane.
And for those of you not in aviation, there's just so many more working parts with the helicopter. So the price of a helicopter is expensive.

The maintenance, the upkeep and all of that,

very expensive.

Having said that, I mean,

the helicopter is just infinitely more cool

than a plane unless,

once you start getting into jets and shit,

like those Red Bull fucking doing loop-de-loops and shit,

that's obviously, and those war planes, those old school waranes, I love those too. Alright, pre-qualifiers.
Hey Bill, a couple of weeks ago you brought up how people pre-qualify their opinions with I'm a Democrat, but or I'm a, you know, no, they usually, sometimes they say it after. You know, Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and I'm a a Republican or the same thing with Joe Biden, right? This person says, I get your point.
But at this point, what the hell else is there to do? Everyone assumes they know everything about you based on any one opinion. If I say my longstanding opinion on something, people think I only think that way because one side has decided to take that stance.
So it's either keep my mouth shut and be forced to suppress my opinion to avoid being automatically judged by some asshole. Needs to by some asshole that needs to black and white everything.
No, you don't need to keep this is not a time to keep your mouth shut. It's a time to speak common sense and just know that people will try and manipulate what you're saying, politicize it, demonize it, and all of that type of stuff.
No, you should always just speak your mind. And if somebody is so simplistic that, you know, they can look at your shoes and they think they know what you feel about x y and z that's their issue like

the last thing you should do as um if you're an intelligent empathetic person you should not be keeping your mouth shut because mouth breathers you know the world is very simple to them it's not nuanced. It's this is this and that is that.
And mouth breathers exist. And every fucking business, every political party, every state, every corner of the earth, they just exist.
And yeah, they don't pause and think. They just fucking talking.
So why can't you? Free country. Last I checked.
So don't suppress don't suppress it just you know hang out with people that can listen to differing opinions and understand that you're a three-dimensional living thing that sometimes you'll side with be on this side of an argument or that side i don't know i don't want to get into the fucking obvious you either get that or you don't i'm not gonna fucking explain it so anyway plowing ahead uh i sold my f-250 so i'm just down to my old pickup truck uh i loved my f-250 i always wanted one this is a big step for me i like buy stuff and i hang on to it forever my truck after like over two years of owning it i I only had 3000 miles on it and 20 of it was moving it in and out of my driveway. So my wife could get out of the fucking driveway.
And it was just like something that I always wanted. I just clearly didn't need it.
I never towed anything. I maybe had five things in the back of it and two of them were Christmas trees.
I fucking loved it. It was gorgeous.
It was fun. I didn't need it.
So now what is great is by getting rid of those things and passing it on to someone else who can enjoy it, I have now opened the door to a new daily driver. What is my new daily driver going to be? And I don't like new cars, electric or gas combustion.
They just try to, they listen to you. They talk to your phone.
They try to figure out where you live. It's just like, it's, you know, they're all doing too much.
So I've been looking at everything from 2000 era, like stick shift BMWs

all the way back to old school Cadillacs.

And I think I'm going to get an old school Cadillac,

but I can't figure out which one.

I love them all.

I love the Coupe de Ville in like 65, 66.

I love it in 69, 70.

I never used to like that one.

And I also like the one after that up until like like 72, 73. I like that one.
And then, of course, I love the Eldorado 67 to 70. I love a 75 Eldorado as long as it doesn't have those big stupid bullhorns on the front of it.
But I'm kind of into the land yachts. You get a lot of bang for your buck.
Baby boomers don't fucking like them. No one gives a shit about them, and I love them.
I want a giant bench. I want to drive down the street in a fucking living room, see what that's like, so I think I'm gravitating towards that, but what's great is I'm here in New York, and I also got my old pickup truck I can drive around in.
So I'm not in any sort of urgent state to get another vehicle. And my driveway is like clear.
You know, my truck sits in the garage and then there's just my wife's car. So it's kind of a freeing feeling.
I'm not gonna lie to you. I was sad when I found out somebody bought it, but then I was just like, it was also more liberating.
A lot of times getting rid of stuff, you know, you feel a little sad if you had a passion for it, but then it's very, it's a very liberating feeling to fucking get rid of it. So, uh, um, that's it.
Someone else is going to fucking

enjoy it. It's a, it's a fantastic truck.
All right. That's it.
That's the podcast.

Go fuck yourselves. And I will check in on you on Thursday.
All right. Bye-bye.