Name: Bill Burr's Take on Phone Addiction
Uploaded: 2020-12-08T00:51:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr's Take on Phone Addiction' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr's Take on Phone Addiction' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- 'Cause as a comedian, you have to be on social media,
I guess, I mean, I don't know a way not to be.
And it's just like impossible, like,
I am so fucking ridiculously addicted to my phone.
Like, the amount of times that I set it down,
going like, "Enough with that shit."
And then I'll just sit there,
and then five seconds later, I'm just picking it up.
And like, you know what it is?
Is it's also like, I watch, even when I'm watching TV,
I'll be like, "Oh, look at this old movie.
I wonder if that guy's still alive."
- Right, and then you start Googling it.
I'm like, "Oh, he died, what did he die of?"
You know, 82, you know, it's not bad, you know, and just...
- Let's see if someone's talking shit about me.
- Yeah, well, let's, no, let's, I don't do that.
I go, "Let's see what these, I don't know."
- Hmm, social media is bad.
I mean, it's good and it's bad, right?
But the bad part is, you can get lost
in other people's opinions and want to defend yourself.
And then, you know, people misrepresent what you said,
or distort what you said, or take it out of context,
and then you're like, "Hey!"
And then you think, "Well, how many people are reading that
and thinking the wrong thing about me?"
And, "Ugh!"
- No, I never respond to it.
- I don't either.
- I just flip out.
- I do what I call post and ghost.
When I make a post, I make a post,
and then I put my phone away, and I walk out of the room.
I leave my phone in other rooms.
- I thought you were gonna say, you write what you want to say,
and then you delete it.
And I'd be like, I'd be too nervous,
you accidentally hit send.
I make a post, and then I go away.
- Right.
- Like, I don't look at what people are saying about the post.
I just get the fuck out of there.
It's just, it never is a good use of time.
There's so many things that I like to do,
and that's one thing that saves me,
is that I have so many obsessions.
- Right.
- That I, there's so many things I like to do,
but the phone will get me if I'm not,
if, you know what will get me?
Fucking YouTube, watching nothing.
It'll be an hour, I'll watch a video on how they make watches,
and then I'll watch three or four pool matches,
and then I'll watch, oh, 1970 Chevelle.
Oh, how'd they make that?
- You know what I hate, though, about all of those,
is once you click on one thing,
then they just give you 40 of the same thing.
- Yeah.
- It's like they don't, it's almost like they don't want you
to progress, is like, like I had like some of,
like when I watched, I think I told this story
last time I was on here, like on Netflix,
I watched all of Narcos, and then everything became
like behind the scenes of San Quentin,
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So, I've been trying to watch these French movies, right?
But for some reason, it won't, because I think I'm here,
they keep giving me like the English speaking ones.
It's like, that's not what I'm trying to do here.
I'm trying to watch their shit.
Like, how do I get out of this?
How do you kind of keep dragging you back down to...
- Well, they find what you're interested,
I mean, the algorithm's pretty simple.
I mean, it's not simple, it's complicated,
but it's a simple formula in terms of like how it applies.
Whatever you're interested in, it's gonna show you.
Whatever you're gonna spend the most time looking at,
it's gonna show you.
Whether it's things you hate, like YouTube or Facebook,
that accentuates things that give you the,
it turns out it's really just what you're responding to,
and spending time on.
Like, Ari did an experiment.
Ari's experiment was he only looked up puppies on YouTube.
That's it, just puppies.
And then all YouTube was showing him was puppies.
- Right.
- And he was trying to tell people,
"Look, this isn't insidious.
It's not like the man's trying to keep you angry."
- Right.
- It's like, you're keeping yourself angry.
If you just go and look at puppies all day,
that's all it's gonna show you.
- I don't know.
I feel like if I look at one puppy video,
then they give me a bunch more.
And it's just like, okay,
maybe I've moved past puppies at this point.
- Yeah, but that's up to you, you yourself.
You have to search for things that aren't puppy related.
- I know.
But it's just easier just to click on what they're giving me.
- Of course, of course.
- Oh, more puppy videos.
This is my safe space.
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