Name: H3's Ethan Klein & Theo Von Reflect on Their Bill Burr Interviews
Uploaded: 2019-11-15T02:40:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'H3's Ethan Klein & Theo Von Reflect on Their Bill Burr Interviews' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-11-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'H3's Ethan Klein & Theo Von Reflect on Their Bill Burr Interviews' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-11-15. Transcript available.

well now that i know that that the show is going uh what what were we talking
about because i was
interested if we could go take a step back yeah what were we talking about oh
we were talking
about barrel bilber yeah we're talking about oh welcome to the bilber recovery
yeah i went into
therapy after that episode i'm not even really i'm not even being kidding i
mean i i was having
a depressive episode for a long time right and i had these antidepressants next
to my bed
for a long time and uh that taking them no i hadn't decided to take them yet i
was uh hesitant
yeah and after that episode with bilber i came home and i that's when i started
taking
antidepressant antidepressants and i went to therapy wow it was soul crushing
and was it so
crushing because you felt like as an interviewer it was soul crushing or just
like as a on a human
level like do you think do you know the levels where it felt that it hit you
right um everything
man my my fans were i don't know fans but audience were very harsh as an
interviewer i felt like a
failure it was just off it wasn't you know it wasn't it didn't feel that bad
but it was the reaction
the audience reaction to it afterwards i mean i knew i had goofed up and that
it was not the best
interview and i was such a big fan of bilber obviously who is he's he's a
legend and uh you just in
your mind have high hopes that that uh you'll be able to yeah to get something
good out of that yeah
there's expectations yeah i feel like but the that that there was people making
like video essays about
how what a terrible you know interviewer i am oh really that's that's youtube
style that's kind of
stuff i'm i'm somewhat used to but um that just felt i just it felt like a rock
bottom for me because
i was having a hard time with the podcast and interviews in general and that
for me was just
kind of like the culmination of a lot of a lot of stress oh that's interesting
so it was like
so in hindsight though does it almost feel like it was it was it was supposed
to happen like it was
like oh i needed something that kind of made me look at stuff or just gave me
like a moment to
reflect well i definitely needed something to push me because taking antidepressants
going to
therapy was like the best choice i ever made for me and my family and
professionally too i mean
it's made everything better really so i mean if it wasn't that it'd be
something else but um
but that was like a little bit of somehow it was part of a catalyst it was it
was a fuse
yeah yeah yeah it was it was that and i had him on a second time somewhat
recently
and uh it went great so i'm happy to hear that yeah and he reached out he said
he wanted to do it
huh i was like god bless dude let's go this is like fear factor for me round
two yeah ruined my
life the first time let's go and uh yeah that's interesting yeah it was a yeah
when he came in here
it was a strange experience man it was i don't know i just felt like he was a
different person
not on podcasts than he was on podcasts it's almost like but then also i didn't
really know him that
great and so maybe i just don't know how people are that's true i i i wonder if
he listens to these
probably not oh i mean i i doubt he doesn't mean everybody's busy yeah he's he
doesn't care what we
think about him i listen to some of those murder things you know where people
get murdered some guy
went walking into the woods in the joshua tree and fucking never came out and
how do you hear that
there's a podcast that's called like missing people or something do you feel
like that when you talk
about bill burr like a missing person oh dude i felt like oh i felt like it was
a couple minutes
afterwards i was just kind of wandering around you know but i i don't know i
just you know i didn't
know him that good let me ask you this when you guys ended i mean it was it was
clearly you knew it
wasn't going well during or was it when you started to read no i knew that
there was something
uncomfortable i didn't know if i didn't know i thought for a second like maybe
i was going crazy
or i was like getting you're getting in your head you're what's going on well
it was just an
uncomfortable i'm just like oh well he and i obviously there's only so much
time that we probably
one of the reasons maybe we don't talk that much is because we do you mind if i
take these off no
it's fine it's because we shouldn't talk that much you know but so i don't know
what i thought i
just thought here's a guy who is very he's exactly what i thought when i if i
really would have looked
at it oh here's a guy who maybe this is exactly the way he is on stage there's
not a way for him
there's no real difference you know it's just he's just rambling kind of like
if he's unhappy he's
unhappy and he you know eternally disgruntled right um he's kind of uh you know
guy who's kind of
fighting against his own probably ill wills and shit looks like all of us are
in some weird ways
but for him maybe it's like a just a different battle and also that he he likes
to that he's the
center of attention a lot i think and so it's uh he probably he might not be
able to really notice when
how other people are feeling or reacting that's kind of the vibe that i got at
the end in hindsight so
the thing is like i think i feel like most guests 99 of guests they they're
they're more gracious you
know they won't take the opportunity if they see you like are uncomfortable or
you goofed up or maybe
you said like when he sees an opening he will he like attacks yeah you know
what i mean and it's the
same way as comedy which is fine that's why he's so good at comedy but like he
he is unlike anyone
else i've ever interviewed because the second time when i interviewed him i
really just like talked as
little as i possibly could yeah and that and that was bet the best but you you
obviously have to handle
each interview differently but he was unlike anyone i had ever interviewed
because yeah and i don't even
really interview he was on like it one like why finish that sentence sorry i
said one because he is
because he's not willing to give you the benefit of the doubt you know what i
mean and he will
he will expose any chinks in your armor yeah because for him that's comedy
right right and he's gonna
make a funny moment out of it right for me i'm like oh shit dude my fragile ego
and yeah for me i think
i'm used to i think i'm i'm good to rip on people if that's what we're doing i
think i never knew what
we were doing yeah i think it's like i brought roller skates to a fucking sword
fight that's funny you
know yeah that's what i feel like that's a good analogy so i think um because
in previous conversations
i had with him it had been more of a communication about kind of real stuff
that was going on in my
career right questions i had you know i was and i was kind of looking up to him
i think also in some
way for me as a role model you know um and when you get a when you get a
certain response from
someone you have expectations on in your own mind they for me when i get a
response to them that they
don't they don't realize that i see him that way or it doesn't matter to them
or whatever and that's
fine it's his own world i built up in my head for some reason that hits harder
a little bit you know
where it like it's just a weirder dent but for me also it's just like i'm not
even a fucking
interviewer dog you know what i'm saying like i don't even know what i'm doing
we're doing our best
but i was just happy to sit down with him yeah it's fucking i think maybe we
sat down maybe on the
wrong day maybe we started you know i don't know but stuff we were talking
about off the podcast when i
brought it up on the podcast it was like we'd never spoken off the podcast and
that seemed very
weird to me i had the same reaction to him but like you made this joke about do
you have a do you
have a gun in your helicopter but he he just i don't know why he took that so
the wrong way
oh yeah i don't know that's just a funny i mean i mean it's just a funny
premise yeah i think at
that point i uh i had also at some point i kind of checked out i think yeah you
know i think i was
kind of but you you said to me that you don't want to do guests anymore i'm
doing no i'm doing less
guests is i had the same reaction too i was canceling episodes after that oh no
i was i needed to cancel
episodes way before that i was trying to can't pare down we were just trying to
why just too much
stress what do you mean what stress about what this year i just hit a level it
was just too much stress
for me good evening good afternoon and other times thanks for watching that
video you just saw i mean
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