Comedian Billy Burr joins Jemele to discuss his new Netflix special, F is for Family, and why he doesn t need to be on the road promoting his new comedy special. He also talks about why he thinks it's a good idea not to be overexposed and why you should just do what you're here to do, not what people want you to do. Plus, he talks about his new movie, F.I.R.E.F.A. and why it's better than all the other comedy specials he's ever done. And he gives us the inside scoop on what it's like being a stand-up comedian in Los Angeles and how he got into the comedy game. Plus, we talk about why you shouldn't be worried about being over overeposed and how you should be just here to be there to do the job you love to do and not worry about the other stuff you're trying to do as well. Enjoy the episode and tweet us if you liked it! with any thoughts or opinions! Timestamps: 4:00 - Who's the funniest person you know? 5:30 - What's your favorite comedian? 6:15 - Who do you think is the most overhyped person in LA? 7:20 - Who are you watching the best comedian right now? 8:00 9:00- What is your favorite actor you're watching right now and who are you looking forward to seeing next? 11: What do you want to see in a movie or TV show? 16: What are you most excited about? 17:40 - What movie you re watching? 18: What movie do you like to watch? 19:30- What movie are you're going to see the most? 21:00 -- who do you watch the most of? 22:30 -- what are you would you be watching the most in the most important thing? 27:00-- How do you feel about the most interesting movie you're not watching right away? 26:30-- What are your favorite movie you've watched the most lately? 28: Is he the most underrated? 29:40 -- what s your biggest takeaway from a movie you think you're getting the most talented guy? 31:30 32:15 -- what do you would like to see me do in the next episode of a movie? 35:40
00:00:30.000I did the rhyming there for the same reason.
00:00:32.000Yeah, so I went out there and everyone was like, I don't know, it's the first place they did the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis, Hank Williams, whatever.
00:00:44.000Went out, and I had this great set, and that's just, you know, you just stick it in the card catalog going, all right, next time I have, uh, I was like, I just burned all this material, so I gotta write a whole new hour and come back here, and so next time, um, you know, I go to shoot something, I think that was about a month before I did the Tabernacle,
00:01:00.000uh, for my one previous to that, so I already knew, which was cool, before I wrote my next hour where I was gonna shoot it, so.
00:01:06.000Are you on a two-year schedule, you think?
00:01:10.000Roughly two years, but I have like a vibe of when, like this one was overcooked, and just because I got real busy with F is for Family, I would have liked to have taped it like about six months earlier, but it made it, I think it made it better or whatever,
00:01:47.000It's really like whatever you're trying to do.
00:01:50.000So it's kind of different for different people.
00:01:51.000Like those YouTube stars, like their thing is all about just constantly putting out stuff.
00:01:57.000Where I think the road that I'm on is, you know, like right now I'm out there promoting this shit.
00:02:04.000And then once it comes out and everybody's seen it and they're liking it and I'm done promoting it, then I just sort of disappear until F is for Family comes out.
00:03:24.000I watched Jack and Jill with my kids, with my six-year-old and my eight-year-old.
00:03:29.000It is fucking hilarious when you watch a really silly movie with a six-year-old and an eight-year-old, and they're literally falling off the couch laughing.
00:05:49.000Yeah, but your last thing sucked, and there's too much unbelievable stuff being put out, so you gotta kinda try and keep up.
00:05:55.000Yeah, Ari Shafir had a real good point about that, too.
00:05:58.000He said that at one point in time, comedians used to have, they used to do a special, and it was like their best special, like an HBO special.
00:06:12.000Like, Kinnison, you watch Kinnison's first special, and then you watch, like, listen to Louder Than Hell, that cassette, and watch his first HBO special.
00:06:23.000And if you don't get it, I understand because it's not 1986 anymore, but if you were in 1986 and you saw that, you would have been blown away.
00:06:30.000You would have been, like, in the presence of greatness.
00:06:32.000Like, No, he's on my Mount Rushmore, that guy.
00:06:40.000He kind of, as far as I can just, I mean, I never met the guy, but just as far as watching him as a fan, he kind of seemed like he stepped in every single pitfall.
00:08:40.000You were explaining to me something before the podcast started.
00:08:46.000I wanted you to talk about it on the podcast because you were talking about drum technique and you had like a slow motion video of how you do it and you're kind of letting the stick do a lot of the work.
00:08:56.000Yeah, I got this great teacher, Dave Elitch, who played with everybody from Mars Volta to like Miley Cyrus.
00:09:02.000So whatever your gig is, like total progressive, crazy, I can't even, you know...
00:09:25.000You know, as I've, you know, gone and taken lessons for well over a year with them, now I can watch it on a different level as far as, like, his technique is sick, so he's not fucking his arms up and everything.
00:09:34.000He's moving his arms, giving people his show, but, like, it's hard to explain, like, first of all, I'm not a professional drummer, but it's also hard to explain, like, over a podcast, but, like, he's, yeah, it's letting the stick do the work and...
00:09:47.000He kind of equated it to if you're dribbling a ball or something like that, or maybe it was somebody else.
00:09:51.000If you dribble a basketball, it's like every time it comes up to your hand, once you get it going, you're not slamming it back down to the floor.
00:09:56.000You're just sort of controlling the rebound.
00:10:25.000I tried therapy, I tried talking to people and shit, and it's just like...
00:10:29.000I only get so far, but that stuff just totally clears my head, and I like it because it's like comedy where there's somewhere to go with it, and it's endless.
00:10:41.000End to how good you can come as a comic if you keep pushing yourself with these little skill sets that, you know, they're kind of weak and you can just keep making, you know, working on them.
00:11:37.000Those guys are like, those guys are just shredded.
00:11:39.000It's very rare that after you come out of that, you know, Keith Richards, all of those guys, they're just, Keith Richards is like, you could pick that guy up with two fucking fingers.
00:13:39.000I remember when I was in high school, I've told this story before, but when I was like 16, I was in love with her, and I found out she was 27, and I was like, that bitch is old.
00:14:24.000Now I'm 48, and I'm just, like, gonna be 49 this year, and I'm just, like, still figuring shit out.
00:14:29.000I had a whole bit about, remember when you were a kid and you thought they were real grown-ups?
00:14:33.000Like, you were confused, you get yelled at, you get sent to your room, you're like, one day I'm gonna be a grown-up and everything's gonna make sense.
00:14:40.000And then one day you're in line at the supermarket and someone goes, paper or plastic, sir?
00:14:53.000And they look like they're grown-up to you because you're on the outside, but once you become one of them, you realize there is no grown-ups.
00:15:03.000I've met a few as far as like in this business, as far as like people just like, I would say anybody like who was, they have like, they're super successful in this business, but, and they just go home.
00:15:22.000They go to work, they fucking crush it.
00:15:25.000If there is an after party, they make their appearance, they have a little seltzer water, and they're gone, and they get eight hours sleep.
00:15:32.000They're talking to their wife and their kids.
00:15:37.000To do what I do is, you know, to still go out and fucking have a couple of whiskeys and wake up a little hungover going, oh god, why did I do that?
00:15:45.000For the nine millionth time of my life.
00:16:19.000No, it's not bad, but every one of us is one shitty decision from a disaster.
00:16:23.000Every one of us, at any point in time.
00:16:25.000That's why when I watch people, I don't know, when I watch them fuck up their lives, like there's always, the first feeling I have is panic.
00:17:30.000Got in this ridiculous argument with Sam Harris, and I realized what he's all about.
00:17:33.000I was like, oh, you're one of those guys.
00:17:35.000He was like calling Sam Harris racist because he was talking about the problem with ideologies and religions and the tenets of Islam, and he started yelling at him, calling him a racist, and didn't really understand that Sam Harris is actually a scholar, knows a lot about religion, and just got way over his head and looked really stupid.
00:17:51.000So the only difference between me and him is he did that on TV and I do it over the phone with my friends.
00:18:17.000Because what it was was I was getting up against being here by 11 and I got to get home to take my wife out of the house because she's going nuts staying in the house with the kids.
00:18:28.000So I got that thing and I got to sign this other fucking life insurance.
00:20:03.000Some bone he can chop up and make marrow with.
00:20:07.000So I got a buddy of mine who's a lawyer who prosecutes identity theft, which a lot of lawyers don't want to do because it's unbelievably tedious.
00:20:14.000And when they call up, a lot of times they're calling up the credit card companies.
00:20:19.000To fight for their case, they still have to go through that maze.
00:20:22.000If you'd like to do this, press 1. If you'd like to do that, press 2. And they're trying to help them out.
00:20:27.000But that was one thing that I remembered out of all the things he told me not to do.
00:20:30.000He goes, don't ever use your debit card, because if they get that and they clean you out, that's your fucking money.
00:20:35.000And then all of a sudden you've got a mortgage coming up, and then you're late, and you're like, no, but somebody took my money, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:55.000Matt, I was clearing our throat, and I just cleared my throat again.
00:20:58.000I switched over to this Windows computer, because I get mad these Macs, they switched over all the ports, and now you have this USB-C, and you have to get an adapter if you want to use all your other shit to it.
00:21:09.000I know, I got Rosetta Stone French, right?
00:21:11.000There's no place to stick the fucking...
00:22:10.000But it's disconcerting that your shit's out there.
00:22:14.000You know, that someone's trying to find your social security number and attach it to your credit card and buy something.
00:22:20.000Yeah, I've had it happening at gas stations where they put that fake scanner on they put a fake scanner over the scanner So as you scan through and you're even allowed you even are using it like you're using your credit card You're buying gas, but you gave them your credit card information.
00:23:58.000That's what happened to me the other night when I was on stage and I was joking about men going to the moon and somebody yelled out, go see Hidden Figures!
00:24:05.000And I was like, yeah, because that's a history book.
00:24:09.000I'm not saying those, obviously those women existed, but like, now they're going to do the overcorrection where it was like, these three women!
00:25:14.000You know, I like, there's certain people that if they were to break it down, it's the same thing with like what you do.
00:25:20.000There's certain things, like the reason why I like your commentating was I learned about like the leg kicks and all, like you always hammer that home, how much that just chops the other guy down.
00:25:30.000Aside from the fact is, you know, I've been kicked in the shin, everybody has, and I've gotten a charley horse and I just don't understand like Like that one that Conor McGregor had against, what's his face there, Ortiz?
00:26:04.000Yeah, that you can just keep kicking somebody in their leg, hitting their bone with the top bone of your, whatever, your metatarsals, whatever the hell it is.
00:26:40.000Now when the adrenaline wears off and you realize you've broken your instep, kicking someone as hard as you can in their elbow, what is that pain like?
00:26:59.000You know, it's funny after watch my wife, you know going through labor and everything I said the only men they could actually relate would be people who do that for a fucking living like people fight they couldn't even relate It's worse than that.
00:27:11.000It's coming out of your vagina It's crazy.
00:27:14.000No, I got a whole new level of respect for my wife.
00:27:18.000I was just like oh She told me the funniest fucking thing when she went into like pre-labor You know, and I was just going, I was, you know, telling her to breathe and I was running to get the stuff, you know, I was pretty prepared.
00:27:31.000And there was some code or something like that.
00:27:32.000I was like, you know, Nia, where did you leave the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:27:35.000She goes, when you said that to me, she goes, I was almost ready to black out with the pain.
00:27:40.000And she goes, I had this thought, if he asked me one more time where that code is, I'm going to push this baby out and fucking throw it out of me.
00:28:39.000No, dude, she's hit me with some fucking classic lines.
00:28:41.000I remember one time, you know, I was calling her out on some shit she was doing, and I just took it, like, a little too far.
00:28:47.000I should have stopped, like, probably five minutes earlier, and I was still going.
00:28:50.000I go, and you fucking blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you do this and that, and I was in the car, and right as I stopped, she goes, yeah, well, you're no pony ride either, my friend.
00:29:00.000And we both just bursted out laughing, and that was just like the end of the fight.
00:29:05.000So she has that ability, where in the past, you know, I would date people, either they were like too nice, so they couldn't handle how fucked up I was, or the worst, they were just as fucked up as I was, and it was totally toxic.
00:30:31.000Dude, all of that shit, and then all of the stuff that people say that when you first see your kid, they fill your head up on what the fuck you're supposed to feel.
00:31:35.000Because when my daughter was born, my eight-year-old was born, there was a moment when I was thinking, how many babies are being born simultaneously right now all over the world?
00:31:46.000And if you could look at it on a screen, it would be a swarm of humanity.
00:31:54.000Just if you could see every baby coming out right now, and then I thought, at the same time, I thought about this baby becoming an old lady and dying.
00:32:03.000And I thought, like, how many old people are dying simultaneously at the same time right now?
00:32:07.000See, I think it's important to say that, because the hacky thing is you're supposed to say, the second I saw my kid, I bursted out crying, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:17.000So then it becomes like, if you don't do that...
00:32:42.000And I've learned to kind of already be like...
00:32:46.000They'll just sit down next to you, like you're Forrest Gump, and they'll just sit down and just start talking to you.
00:32:51.000So you just add your kid, alright, well this is what you gotta watch out for, you know, and I remember my kid and blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:55.000Dude, it's like airplane, you know what I mean, where the fucking person, he talks to him and you wanna kill yourself.
00:33:00.000Just wait until you start going to school, and you gotta hang out with these parents all the time, because your kids become friends with their kids, and then you become friends with these people that you would never be fucking friends with.
00:33:55.000He's self-involved and he's doing some weird thing with his hands where he's like talking with his hands and I'm going, Jesus Christ, it's literally like someone's crushing me.
00:34:03.000What do you fantasize about doing to him?
00:36:08.000And that's when I start thinking like those duct tape fantasies and then I start making myself laugh and I have to pretend like I'm drinking and then they get all weirded out because they see some weird look on my face and it's the whole thing, the whole thing just fucking, it just goes south.
00:37:34.000I'm naked, unfortunately, and he's digging this fucking thing into my back.
00:37:41.000I mean digging it in like all of his weight and he's like popping over the scar tissue and I have to go deep into my mind when he's doing it.
00:38:28.000I find my happy space while this guy's doing this, and I have to do that.
00:38:33.000I literally, I think I go just deeper and deeper in my mind to ignore the pain, because the pain is so intense.
00:38:40.000The only way I could get through that basketball guy is if I already told my wife that he did it, and it annoyed me, and then what I would do is I would just be egging him on, going like, so why doesn't he play him?
00:40:09.000You can't talk to the guy, and I'd want to tell him, like, you know, you have this thing, but it's got to be fun for the other person to hear.
00:40:17.000Like, there's got to be something there.
00:40:18.000And, you know, we've all done something like that.
00:40:20.000We've all said something that someone didn't want to listen to.
00:42:39.000I'll tell you, this guy on one of these YouTube videos, the guy who was climbing up the tree to chop it down or something, and he just fell, and he went straight down and shattered both of his legs, and dude...
00:44:05.000I would never have enough confidence in my ability to secure a tree stand correctly Past a certain height knowing that a bear was going to be coming to.
00:44:14.000That's just those two factors of falling that length and then also, yeah, and maybe right in front of a bear.
00:44:22.000What's more fucked up is how fast the bear can get up a tree.
00:45:17.000The bear went from being on the field to like two rows behind this guy and the guy's sitting there with his fucking, I don't know what he had, bow and arrow or something.
00:45:27.000But if a bear doesn't know what a bow and arrow is, you can kind of just slowly turn and look right at him, shoot him right in the nose, couldn't you?
00:45:34.000You might be able to, but it's not going to kill them instantly.
00:45:37.000The problem with that is they're going to get a hold of you.
00:45:40.000Like if a bear was right there in front of you and you shot it with a bow and arrow, there's two things that can happen.
00:46:28.000But if you actually made movies, how shit really happens, it'd be like, you'd have to watch that guy in the fucking restaurant with you, not looking at people.
00:49:17.000Like, with the internet, now they can organize these things quickly and get together.
00:49:23.000Yeah, I mean, I don't know what to believe.
00:49:26.000Like that whole picture of Trump's inauguration versus Obama's inauguration, they put the photos side by side, and I'm just supposed to automatically, without any checks or balances, be like, okay, that's what those photos are of.
00:49:37.000I'm supposed to believe that Bill Clinton was checking out Donald Trump's wife without seeing what he's looking at, and then Hillary vaguely looking back in his direction.
00:51:40.000And if Bill Clinton wants to vaguely look in the direction of a beautiful woman off camera that none of us want to know, and you want to convict him on...
00:51:48.000He might have said IV. He might have been, like, fucking lightheaded.
00:53:05.000He tried to get his shit back, his stolen memorabilia.
00:53:09.000I watched a thing on that, and they made, they fucked up They made some threat, then it made kidnapping, and they did all these little fucking things, and he killed two white people.
00:53:29.000Because the reality is, if he didn't kill those fucking two people, at least people didn't think that he killed those fucking two people, if he did that, I mean, he was OJ, and he was still on fucking NFL Today or whatever, he probably would have been in and out, and that would have been it.
00:54:58.000This is why I... That rubs me the wrong way that he's in jail.
00:55:01.000It's because of all those fucking white dudes that did all that shit, like, blowing up churches with black people in it, like, back in the 60s.
00:55:06.000They would literally be sitting there laughing during the trial, and they would get totally acquitted.
00:55:10.000And then black people weren't allowed to come along and take their fucking four-wheelers and their...
00:57:09.000Well, when you think about how many people have actually gotten arrested for murder versus how many murders get just never solved, it's a crazy number.
00:57:18.000Everybody looks at those fucking TV shows about cops and most crimes get solved, but the reality of murders, I think it's something like 70% go unsolved.
00:58:23.000I guess, you know, the audio does exist, so...
00:58:25.000He basically said, if you have no priors and nobody fucking knows, you know, you've never done anything, and if you...
00:58:34.000If you were to do it, somebody you're just completely not even connected to.
00:58:38.000Yeah, that's a buddy of mine who's a cop said the same thing.
00:58:40.000Yeah, and nobody saw it, like there's nothing, like there's no way, there's no, because there's no rational connection to it, there's no trail to follow.
00:58:48.000Have you heard of this stuff that they're developing that's essentially micro cameras with GPS units that are the size smaller than a grain of rice, like literally like sand?
00:58:59.000And the idea is that eventually they're gonna spread this shit everywhere, and there will be cameras that record everything everywhere you go, and it's just a matter of time.
00:59:10.000Like now, there's more cameras now today than they've ever been before, right?
00:59:13.000Phones and surveillance cameras and security cameras.
01:01:44.000Yeah, it is, because my technique will be fucked up because I don't have the time, Joe, to go to the dojo like you have for 30 fucking years and get it down.
01:01:51.000And I'm going to go in there and I'm going to fuck up my wrist.
01:02:47.000Like, you were only supposed to water your thing at night, and you could only water it a certain amount of times a day, like when it comes to your lawn.
01:02:53.000But they didn't have those rules with golf courses, did they?
01:02:56.000Golf courses, like, especially private ones, they spend millions of gallons of water every year, just in L.A. Yeah, I don't, uh...
01:05:12.000Like, if you're gonna do that, like, the entire time you're a pro, you should...
01:05:17.000The bat boy should never have to deal with your shit.
01:05:19.000You always go, it's okay, Sonny, I got it.
01:05:21.000And they're like, look, I'd be so down-to-earth so that when you finally get busted with your cork bat, when you go to pick it up, no one's gonna look at you weird.
01:05:26.000But the thing is, these, you know, these Major League Baseball guys, they just fucking drop the bat and some little eight-year-old scurries out and picks it up.
01:09:20.000Yeah, the right technique is you go under the chin, you wrap your head around the back of the neck, and that way you can just get maximum leverage and it's perfect technique.
01:09:29.000He just sort of drove his lower jaw into the back of his head.
01:09:31.000If someone's eye sockets are like right there, and I get their head, and I'm fresh early in the fight because you're not even tired, and you get fucking crushed their head, you could goon somebody.
01:09:41.000There's a lot of guys that have been gooned.
01:10:17.000He grabbed his head and he just smashed his head with his hands.
01:10:20.000The only one I saw was when that little shit king, you know, didn't like this song this guy sang and he fucking goes, all right, rip his tongue out.
01:11:23.000People who fucking, like, the fact that human beings understand pain and then they inflict it, like, slowly on other people is the most fucking, like, animalistic part.
01:11:32.000Like, every time I hear that shit, that people literally torture another human being.
01:11:37.000Like, how you go home at the end of the day thinking you did something good is just fucking out of mind.
01:11:42.000You gotta get information out of people, Bill Burr.
01:11:44.000There's some people out there that know things.
01:11:45.000You gotta find out what they know, and the best way to do it is to cut their fingers off.
01:11:49.000Well, haven't they proved that when you start to cut, just to tell someone to cut your finger off, they will tell you whatever the fuck you want?
01:12:26.000How about, you know, you're not allowed to do certain things, you're not allowed to gas people, but you're allowed to drop a nuclear bomb on them?
01:16:01.000And now you want to be that and now you're going to ram it down everybody's throats and it's just like, there needs to be...
01:16:08.000It's why I can't watch CNN or Fox because I can't just sit there and listen.
01:16:13.000I mean, as much as I rant and rave, which is fucking pretty ironic, I can't sit there and listen to people Screaming and yelling at each other because they don't want to...
01:17:01.000Like, if you want to talk about someone who's financially compromised, he wasn't compromised.
01:17:04.000He was, like, maybe the only guy ever running for president that wasn't completely tied into the financial system.
01:17:10.000They can always find shit on you and be like, well, you know, he was absent this, he didn't vote for that.
01:17:13.000I love when they try to get him on, like, they didn't vote for this or they didn't vote for that, and it's just like, well, what was fucking attached to it?
01:18:37.000Just literally watching a kid's movie, watching this thing going like, can you just get him to the end where he gets the fucking thing and you roll the credits and it's fine?
01:18:45.000Can you stop having like, you know, oh, and then the little robot almost falls into the trash bin.
01:18:50.000I know he's not gonna, but I just, I can't even handle that.
01:18:53.000There's no fucking way I'm gonna sit there watching news.
01:18:57.000Hope that people like you are the future.
01:19:00.000I hope that this we realize that this fucking left versus right thing is stupid But people love to be on a team.
01:19:06.000They love it They love to be on our side is winning and your side can go fuck themselves and they love to win We won.
01:19:13.000How many people did you see on Twitter?
01:20:18.000Say if you're at some level of celebrity where everybody's always taking a picture of you.
01:20:24.000If you could wear a suit that anticipated the camera flash and as their cameras flashed, you would flash back at them and then they couldn't get anything.
01:20:32.000And then you could just sit there eating your soup as everybody's taking pictures of you and they would all go back to the developing room or whatever the fuck they do, look into their cameras and not understand what was going on.
01:20:41.000It would just be like a UFO landing in front of them.
01:21:43.000I mean, they can capture incredible images in pretty low light with the iPhone 7. All those, like, TMZ guys aren't using iPhone photos for a reason.
01:23:17.000The last one's black and white, this one's color, rather.
01:23:19.000Yeah, each one I do, I have a look that I'm going for.
01:23:24.000The same way I try to improve as a comedian, each time is a little bit of a different thing, and I've always felt that we went through this horrible period of stand-up specials where they, It was just a complete lack of respect for the art form.
01:23:40.000It's just an amazing thing that one guy or woman can go out there and just talk into a microphone and people will fucking listen to it for like, you know, I don't know, an hour or so.
01:23:58.000Well, I'm not going to give you all my tricks, but what I was going for in this one, although that's a shitty image of it on this thing, but there was a few concert films that I liked the look of.
01:24:11.000I always try to fuck with the HD a little bit because it's clearer than real life, so I try to tone it down a little bit.
01:24:20.000So you gave yourself a little Instagram filter.
01:24:45.000If you look at like, I don't know, it's just something like, I would look at old concert films, I'd look at old stand-up and be like, why does this look like this really happened?
01:24:52.000And why does all this shit now look so fake?
01:24:56.000And a lot of it was, it was just too fucking clear, and it was also like, edit, edit, edit, edit, edit, as it was going through, and it makes your brain reset, and rather than drawing people in, you're giving them like an epileptic episode.
01:25:12.000I did my last special almost entirely from the waist up with no edits.
01:25:57.000Now, when you're doing stand-up and you're also doing F is for Family, we had this conversation the other day at the store where you're talking about how it just kind of swoops in and takes all your time.
01:26:06.000Yeah, during the heavy writing part of it.
01:26:09.000And how much time do you spend doing that show, F is for Fam?
01:26:12.000Which, by the way, is fucking awesome.
01:26:47.000Now, like, when you write that, how far in advance do you start before you, like, because it takes a while to put it together and to film it.
01:26:54.000Yeah, like, we're mapping out the third, if we get a third season, because it's, you know, it's kind of weird, like, you just kind of put it all out at once, so we have to see, hopefully, the people that watched it the first time.
01:27:06.000Come back again, and then more people come.
01:27:34.000And you really work out the big emotional moments and the storylines Before you get in there.
01:27:43.000Because as you start to write, and there's ten people in the room, and the ideas are flowing, you can kind of veer off, which can be a good thing.
01:27:52.000It's not like it's set in stone, like this is what we're writing.
01:27:55.000But you just sort of know, we're going from point A to point B, then B to C. And then how you get there is sort of the art of writing it.
01:28:04.000But you just want to make sure that...
01:28:07.000All of a sudden, you don't go A over to C, and then blah, blah, blah.
01:28:10.000If you've got B, we've got to go back to this.
01:28:14.000Depending on the type of show that you do.
01:28:17.000Like ours, I like to try to keep it grounded in a certain level of reality, but also take advantage that it is animation, so you can get a little absurd.
01:28:30.000Like, alright, there's too much salt here.
01:28:31.000We've got to do a little bit more of this.
01:28:34.000This is the first time I've gone this far With anything so now I learned a lot in this second season about that so we're really hammering out this this third season and You know, I don't know but I'm a total newbie at this shit.
01:28:49.000Had you ever written anything before like that?
01:28:54.000No, I think I actually could be a decent writer.
01:28:56.000I just don't want to do it because it's so much fucking work.
01:28:59.000I just don't want to just sit down, write this whole fucking thing, send it to a studio and then be like, change this, change that, do this, bloodline, go all the way back to the beginning.
01:29:07.000Like, you know, I think if I was more, if I didn't have, like, then, because I always have a thing in my head, I was like, or I could just go do a fucking stand-up gig and do it in real time and it's done.
01:29:17.000I have money for my fucking ham sandwiches for a month.
01:30:51.000Like, I got some road gigs coming up, and I am so fucking excited to get, because I, right after I did that special, I think I did Comics Come Home for Leary, and that's about the only road, I haven't been to LAX since like November, which is crazy for me.
01:32:51.000I love doing the road, and, like, you know, I go to games and shit.
01:32:54.000Like, I'm gonna go to Carolina-Duke game when I'm out there, which is fucking legendary shit.
01:32:58.000Like, that's just, like, one of the...
01:33:02.000That's, like, a bucket list sporting event, whatever sport you're into, is to go there and just experience, like, that level of passion and hysteria for college basketball.
01:33:19.000See, like, a day game, and then at night you do the gig.
01:33:22.000Yeah, and as far as, like, drumming, like, there's, like, rehearsal spaces that I know of that I just...
01:33:27.000And it's the shit because, you know, I'm not in town, so I don't have any responsibility, and I just go in with my iPhone and all my music...
01:33:35.000Put the fucking headphones on and just fucking go nuts for, like, two hours.
01:33:39.000It's, like, rather than, I guess, doing the treadmill, which I probably should do more of.
01:33:42.000But I just do that, and it's the greatest thing ever.
01:33:44.000So, like, I'll ask, you know, if I go to some place and I have enough time, you know, I'll ask people in my podcast, hey, if you have a good rehearsal space, because there's good ones and bad ones, you know.
01:33:53.000The fucking worst ones is you go there and the drum kits, they're not fucking tuned.
01:33:56.000They got old heads, and then everything's been over-torqued.
01:33:59.000And you gotta, like, fucking take the sticks to try to get them, you know, they get all frozen up.
01:34:03.000Don't you think that a lot of people that get bummed out about the road is because they have to do the road?
01:34:08.000Like, one of the beautiful things about you, you don't have to do the road.
01:34:11.000Like, I remember one of the things that used to really bum me out when I would do clubs, they would tell me that Richard Jenny Was just in town.
01:36:02.000Don't get me wrong, I got a lot of money from it, but it wasn't like Seinfeld money.
01:36:07.000But it goes down to like $7 checks really quickly, like however that fucking math works out.
01:36:12.000I had a thing with my buddies, like you just take pictures of residual checks and trying to beat each other, and two of my friends got the one cent.
01:36:24.000Because I didn't think that exists, because I got a lot of like $1.17, you know, I got a friend of mine, I'm not going to say the name of the fucking movie, but like, it's a big time fucking movie and everybody loves it, and they showed it one time on a network for 24 hours straight,
01:36:59.000Is this going to be worth it to you to go through that?
01:37:02.000Because it's only probably 20 bucks anyway.
01:37:05.000Well, what I learned, unfortunately...
01:37:07.000The number one commandment of the Ten Commandments, the number one that's broken, I think, is stealing.
01:37:14.000And as far as stealing, you basically have...
01:37:17.000You basically have the illegal side of stealing and the legal side of stealing.
01:37:20.000So any smart criminal is trying to make his business legit so he doesn't have to hide his fucking money anymore, but he can continue to just rob people fucking blind because that's basically what happens is everybody...
01:37:33.000Just like I mean some of the deals that I've signed like for shit like it okay if you audit us But we're only off by like three percent then you have to pay for the audit and it's like you literally just built into this deal a license to steal three percent Plus what I have to catch you with so you to steal nine percent to basically skim like whatever nine percent off of this fucking thing and They and they go to sleep at night,
01:37:56.000and they feel they're good people And they don't give a fuck that they're driving a car that, you know, a bunch of other people paid for and they took the money.
01:38:12.000Yeah, that's why as far as Trump, like, not reporting his taxes and all that type of shit, it's like, you can only get so mad where it's like, alright, so because he figured out the game, where he's kind of like, well, I'm just robbing...
01:42:34.000It's just like he's going to hurt a lot of people because a lot of innocent people are going to get caught up in the wash of a very simplistic solution to a huge problem.
01:42:45.000Let's get rid of all of them, you know?
01:42:49.000I don't know, but I'm just a comedian.
01:42:56.000It's about why the things that are brought up when filing early.
01:43:02.000A candidate for president is subject to different rules than a president is afforded different projections.
01:43:08.000This has critics on edge and already existing concerns about Trump's business entanglements are now heightened by fears that US nationals could funnel cash to Trump through his campaign committee.
01:43:23.000Trump's status as a candidate could also make it difficult for nonprofit organizations to take actions for or against Trump and his administration's policies.
01:43:31.000Tax exemption organizations have more leeway for political action than other nonprofits but are still prohibited from certain political actions, leading some to worry that Trump's filings could be a tactic to reduce opposition.
01:43:47.000Yeah, because that's legal, that's a great move.
01:43:50.000Considering what he's done so far, it doesn't make you feel comfortable.
01:44:48.000I just thought she was a big-time phony, and I just felt like she would just fucking do or say, I didn't like the fucking 2008 that she blew the bankers, don't worry, I got you guys, just completely doesn't give a fuck about all the people that are upside down in their houses, and then has the nerve to act like she's the people's candidate,
01:45:03.000which is really a sticking point with me with Democrats, is they fucking sit there and they act like they're men and women of the people, and it's like, you guys are all filthy fucking stinking rich, too.
01:45:13.000And you guys all end up being multi-millionaires.
01:45:15.000And the most highest paying fucking job you can get is the president, which pays 500 grand a fucking year.
01:45:47.000And the amount of them that are multi-millionaires.
01:45:50.000Yeah, the most disturbing thing is public speaking.
01:45:52.000When you find out that she's speaking for the bankers and she's doing these $250,000 hour-long speeches.
01:45:57.000And they're washing their bribe money.
01:45:59.000It's the people that paid you to get in there, you did what they wanted them to do, and then it's like a comedian, you get to do your college tour, and they grossly fucking over...
01:46:17.000It's almost like a serial killer that wants to get caught.
01:46:19.000So I just felt like she was just going to be more the same of that, preaching this fucking rhetoric as they just keep deregulating shit.
01:46:27.000And Trump, I feel like what he wants to do, aside from, you know...
01:46:31.000I just think he's at the level rich that he finds the government a nuisance, and he wants to deregulate everything so by the time he leaves, he can put a golf course on top of a pipeline on a fucking, you know, sacred...
01:47:17.000He got the, you know, and that people were so clearly...
01:47:20.000I mean, all those fucking late-night shows hated the guy.
01:47:23.000They were basically campaigning against him.
01:47:26.000I mean, you're old enough now that you saw, like...
01:47:28.000You've seen in our lifetime, like, people going from, like, you know, who you voted for was really like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, you're getting too personal, to now just people, like, totally, like, overtly...
01:48:05.000And the president does late night talk shows and the people running for it fucking do sketches now on SNL. Like the whole thing has just become like this orgy...
01:48:42.000So he's the first guy ever to do it like that.
01:48:45.000That was the thing they were saying about Arnold, that if Arnold, if there wasn't those rules that were in place to keep Arnold from running for president because he was born in Austria, that he could have done it.
01:49:02.000That was like the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show for politicians, going like, wait a minute, I don't have to fucking talk policy, I just have to do something cool.
01:49:12.000He had the sunglasses on and everybody was like, this guy's cool, man!
01:50:17.000Yeah, we really half-ass know what we're talking about.
01:50:19.000So I'm going to somehow try to go on the road and not talk about this shit because I think people are sick of it, which really fucking kills me trying to promote my specials.
01:50:27.000We just went down the rabbit hole for a fucking half hour.
01:50:29.000I'm going to try to get away from it because I think people are going to need a break.