Name: Bill Burr On Old Style Cures!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr On Old Style Cures!' from BURR'S FANDOM on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-19. Transcript available.

What do we got here? Oh, new segment idea.
Old people remedies that work.
Oh, I like that.
Hey, Bill, my grandmother, an immigrant from Spain,
immediately has credibility.
Anybody whose grandparents are from the, quote, old country,
just meaning not this country,
you always feel like they got some information, you know?
She makes a rutabaga soup.
My grandmother, an immigrant from Spain,
has some crazy remedies, and a lot of them work.
Little things like eat this if your stomach hurts
or do this if you have a headache.
The one that's, can you tell me both of those?
That'd be amazing.
The one that sticks out that has worked for me a million times
is a midday face wash.
She would always say, tell us to wash our face
in the middle of the day because it gave us a second morning
and more pep in our step or something.
I thought it was stupid as a kid, but I do it all the time.
I get crushingly tired at 2 p.m.
It's not for lack of eating right or exercise.
It's more so my job and being at or near my desk.
I'll just go to the bathroom at work
and splash water on my face and on my neck.
Work still sucks, but I certainly feel better.
Do you have any?
I think your listeners would probably have some too.
Oh, wow.
Do I have any old school remedies?
Look, I'm German-Irish.
We just sit there and take it, whatever's happening to us.
I would love to hear your remedies.
I can't tell you, like, for some physical shit,
you know, having dealt with frozen shoulder
in my right and left arms,
I am now obsessed with keeping my shoulders free from,
you know, like, getting all bound up.
And I think everybody, to a certain extent,
has frozen shoulders.
Like, you just don't notice it
because you have, like, 85% mobility or whatever.
But, like, I can, on one side,
let's see if I can still do it.
On my left arm, I can put it behind my back.
And then, with my right arm, I can reach back,
grab the fingers, and pull my left arm up.
My right arm, I can't quite do that.
I can only touch the tips.
And I've been working on that.
And I just do, like, a set of 10
of trying to bring my arm
as high up between my shoulder blades,
my hand, basically, as I can.
I do a set of 10 of those.
And then on the 10th one,
I take my other hand behind my back,
and I just sort of push my arm up a little bit more.
And it's a weird pain,
that frozen shoulder kind of pain.
And it's just schmutz and, like, your tendons and stuff.
So I've kind of gotten into that.
And then Andrew Themelis,
the great Andrew Themelis, on this podcast,
showed me these, what the fuck they're called?
Himalayan squats, Hindu squats.
I don't know what the, Hindu squats.
That I'm actually going to start doing today.
That are supposed to be really good for you,
and actually good for longevity and life.
But as far as, like,
I think a lot of the remedies are more on my wife's side.
You know what?
I'll get you guys in the next podcast.
I'll give you, like, a,
if you're starting to get sick,
one of those fucking things you make on the stovetop
that has all these different spices and shit,
and you just drink it down,
and it's got the cayenne pepper in it and all that.
I think everybody has a version of that.
But I'll be honest with you,
I don't have a lot of those things,
but I bet a lot of people do,
which I would find.
The only thing that I know
that I've learned that helps settle your stomach
after a big meal was when I was in Italy.
They had, like, these,
I don't know what they were,
called aperitifs or liqueurs or whatever,
and it made no fucking sense
because you'd be so stuffed
and be like,
I don't want anything else,
and you would just do a little shot.
It was, like, really sweet liquor,
and it just fucking settled your stomach
like you couldn't believe.
I'll give you one.
Here's one a lot of people don't know.
If you rent cars all the time,
you're pulling into a gas station,
and you're, like,
oh, what side is the gas tank on?
These are, like, sort of life hacks.
What side is the gas tank on?
In every car,
if you look at the fuel gauge,
there'll be a little gas tank,
and then there's an arrow
that points to which side the tank is on.
I didn't know that
for the first 35 years of my life,
and Matt Frost
over at CAA,
give him a shout-out.
he's the guy
that fucking told me about that
in, like,
the early 2000s,
and at that point,
I was doing college gigs
almost every weekend,
and I, like,
had memorized where,
because I always got the Dodge Neon,
because back then,
I was with National Rental Car,
and they always had, like,
a purple Dodge Neon.
I would always end up
with one of those things,
and driving through, like,
Kansas or fucking South Dakota,
and I always forget
what side the fucking thing was on,
and I was telling,
I was saying that,
telling him that story one day,
and he said,
you know,
I just learned this the other day,
so there you go.
I give you a life hack.
I can't give you
any sort of fucking
remedy or whatever.
I'll tell you the one
that everybody wants to know
is when you get a fucking cold,
how the hell you get rid of it.
All right,
or how you make it,
you stop it from coming on.
All right,
that is the podcast, everybody.
I'm still in the edit room,
and this week,
I believe I'm up
in, like, Sacramento.