Name: Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Why You Should Quit Playing Video Games
Uploaded: 2023-08-24T16:37:38.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Why You Should Quit Playing Video Games' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Why You Should Quit Playing Video Games' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-24. Transcript available.

well the fact that you're doing it and the fact that you're learning a new
thing that's really
difficult to learn don't you think that that's good for your brain no i am a
big believer in
constantly learning it's why i like you as a person because you're constantly
like you're not the joe i knew three years ago in a good way you're like you
you learn all of
this you know when i first met you you weren't hunting uh you were into marsh
that was thing
you you were two-dimensional you were which was amazing because everyone was
just a comedian you
were this taekwondo champion uh stand-up guy and then and then since then you've
added all like
the guests that you have on and the fact that you're able to like talk to him
and stuff is
because you've continued to you know um you know it's it's the same thing with
like a comic who
writes his first hour and then just sits on it for like eight years yeah and
all of a sudden two
presidents goes by and it's like why aren't they laughing anymore it's like
because you're just
stuck in time so um i i yeah i believe in that and i also believe in playing
cards card games and
stuff is good for you any games they say even video games you know people like
the shit on video
games but they say video games have a positive cognitive effect on kids yeah
that's calculating
and moving you're thinking fast yeah their hand-eye coordination is like insane
i guess if
some of those games if if you play them i guess i don't know well you think
about the amount of hours
they're putting into their thumbs just how often do you really use your thumb
in like detailed ways
very rarely but kids today they have ridiculous thumb dexterity i i tapped out
uh grand theft auto 3
is when i stopped which is about 2003 2002 or something i just they they were
just
too amazing and i was just like i am nowhere in my career right now and this is
just dude i was
walking around i was living in new york at the time and i would stop playing
the game
and i would be walking down the street thinking about it like what i could walk
into the subway
you know like not thinking about jokes thinking how i could beat this next
level and i remember
i played this um medal of honor game and uh they had this thing when you hit
the sniper button
like the scope would go like that and x would go like that and i like i played
it one day
one week so much that when i walked out on the street i was looking at people
across the street
doing like that that x that was going on my face i was just like there's
something about
like i already uh i'm not the brightest guy you know when it comes to like
school so it's just like
i was like this is doing something in my brain so i i kind of i i remember came
home and i just
unplugged everything but really quickly took everything off because i knew i
was never going to figure it
out and i didn't have the instructions anymore i just stuck it in the back of
the closet like well
that's it i did the same thing with uh video games with quake i i had a real
problem when i was
playing eight hours a day 10 hours a day sometimes i had a t1 line installed in
my
house just so i could play with a fast internet connection this is like 1998
yeah it was crazy
i mean there was slow internet where i was so i said well what's the options
and so one option
is they chew up the street and put this crazy fat business line cost me a shitload
of money and i was
like let's do it so i installed a business line that would use at the time you'd
use for a large
building right and i had it just for my my house and i would play video games
online all the time and
you could play online against people for the last 20 years oh yeah i didn't
know that we'd play
online teams we'd have teams of guys like like me and three of my friends would
play against uh four
other guys and we'd like meet at a certain server and you know you could chat
and talk to each other
all right you ready to go all right let's go three two one go and then you know
the game will start
and then we we'd have these matches and it was fun man it was really fun it was
really exciting too
because it's all happening in real time yeah but uh i reached a point uh
somewhere around like the
year 2000 where i i know one day i played until it was sunlight until the the
sun came up and you
know i'm 30 years old yeah and i'm sitting there my hands are sweating i'm all
caffeinated up i've
been drinking mountain dew for the past eight hours and i realized i'm like
what am i doing like this
is i you know i'm not where i want to be as a comic i'm not where i want to be
with my life and uh i'm
just sitting here playing video games all the time and there's no future in
this no i've been stuck in
things where there's no future before i know what that is i felt like that with
fighting i was real
when i was 21 there was a point in time where i was like there's no future in
this like i'm just
going to keep getting hit in the head and i'm going to get dumber and more
brain damage and more crazy
right i'm like this is dangerous and i i realized i'm i gotta stop i gotta stop
there's no future in
this there was no money in fighting back then either and then i got there with
pool same thing with
pool like my manager called me up and he said i think you play pool too much he's
like i think
he's like he's like i think that you seriously think about pool more than you
do your career
and uh i respect him and he's a very good friend of mine so i had a really
really pause i didn't you
know i didn't take it lightly i had to take a deep breath and i was like he's
right that's right i
play pool all the time was playing every day i have a i have a real addictive
personality too
i do too so i get like uh like how many hours i want to get flying and then
like uh things i want
to learn playing drums and stuff and then it becomes i i've had to learn to be
like bill these
are hobbies yes yes okay you're a dad first then you're a comedian let's sort
of prioritize
like the world isn't waiting for you to know how to play good times bad times
yeah that can
sit back a little bit but the fact that you're doing that kind of stuff i think
is great i'd love
i really identify with you in a lot of ways the way you do that when you get
crazy about drums
or you get crazy about cooking yeah everything i just i just i go down like i
gotta learn all about
like yeah oh my god
oh my god
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.