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Jet Lag, The Pretenders, Wimbelton | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 7-11-25 | Bill Burr

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr, and it's time for the Thursday afternoon,
just before Friday, Monday morning podcast, and I'm just checking in, checking
in on you.
What's going on? How you been? Oh, my God. I feel like I haven't talked to you
guys in forever.
And sorry, I've just been traveling like a maniac, and I am not, I don't know,
I haven't been sleeping well.
I haven't been sleeping well, and I'm drinking coffee because that's the only
thing I have left, and that's, like, not helping, obviously, with me sleeping.
But, like, you know, what am I supposed to do? I'm traveling, and I want to see
what people's coffee tastes like, you know?
You like how you guys didn't say, like, hey, Bill, how come you're not sleeping?
I'm actually kind of, like, giving you guys shit. Like, you said, Bill, what
the fuck? Why don't you sleep more?
Why are you drinking so much coffee?
Anyway, how do I get caught up here?
All right, so I went to, by the way, I just fucking woke up, and it's 5 in the
afternoon, 5.09 in the afternoon.
I finally just decided I'm not fighting fucking jet lag anymore at my age.
I'm not doing this shit where I stay up or try to make myself go to sleep.
I'm just going to fucking, if I get tired, I'm going to sleep, and eventually
this shit will work itself out.
Or it doesn't.
And if it doesn't, when I go back to the States, I don't have to fucking worry
about trying to get acclimated.
You know?
I learned that trick by, I worked with Dom Irera, like, 10 years ago or
something like that in Australia.
And I was like, oh, man, I'm so fucking jet lagged.
He goes, I'm not.
He goes, I just fucking, if I'm tired, I just go to sleep.
He's like, I don't give a shit.
If I'm up till 4 in the morning, I don't give a fuck.
And I'm like, yeah, that's right.
What am I, fucking trying to go to Disneyland out here?
I'm not.
I work nights anyway.
What am I doing?
I don't get along with day people.
I used to be a day person.
I used to be a morning person.
You know?
I had a fucking paper route.
I, you know?
And then once I got into doing stand, I always, when I was a kid, sleeping in
was 7 a.m.
If you can believe, oh, man, how old do I sound now?
Oh, let me tell you, kid, something.
Oh, when I was a kid.
Why is this thing redlining?
Oh, I guess I had the volume all the way up.
That'll do it.
Anyway.
Yeah, weekday, the paper had to be there before 7 a.m.
So I'd get up at a quarter to six.
And then on the weekends, it had to be there by eight in the morning.
So I could get up at seven.
Oh, my God.
That was incredible.
Seven a.m.
And no school.
Little Billy Burr and his fucking bicycle and his bag of papers.
Riding down the street.
All freckled and dumb.
Thinking he was going to go to Notre Dame and go to law school and become a
lawyer.
That's what I thought was going to happen.
That's not what happened.
It's not even remotely what happened.
Anyway.
And then once I got into, you know, fucking doing stand up and shit, it
completely flipped.
And then I had kids and then it went back.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm fucking jet lag, people.
I'm going to be babbling a lot on this.
So anyway, I went to London.
I can't believe I hadn't been there since I did Paper Tiger back in 2019.
I thought it had only been like three years.
It was six.
So I can't do that again.
So I went there and had an absolutely amazing, amazing time.
First of all, I don't know where to start.
I played the Odeon, the Hammersmith, the Apollo, whatever they call it, which I've
always loved because it's it's like there's like a fucking highway, like
elevated.
Like you could jump off the highway onto onto the onto the venue and that venue
I played a long time ago and you can probably find the podcast whenever it was.
It was like probably early last decade.
Yeah, Bill, that's what the fuck we want to do.
Sift through all of your fucking.
Well, maybe you can look up when I played there.
If they have that information, I have no idea.
And then you could sync it up with the podcast.
And I guarantee you, I was thinking what I was thinking this last time I did it
two nights ago was whenever I go into that venue.
I'm sorry, I'm fucking dehydrated here.
No, I have not been smoking.
Still have not smoked a cigar since January.
Still fucking going.
I'm not saying I've quit him forever, but I'm just taking this fucking extended
break.
My daughter said I could have a few when I'm in Italy.
Um, but then I'm thinking, like, do I want to start back up again and then have
to go through quitting?
That's my thing.
It's not the starting.
It's the quitting.
I just don't want to go through.
That's that's how I stopped drinking.
I didn't stop drinking because I was just like, you know what?
Like, this is it.
My fucking life is out of control.
Da da da da da da.
And all of that shit.
I mean, there was aspects of that that was true.
But it was more just like, I don't want to.
I just don't want to go through quitting again.
I don't want to be Billy Boo's face.
I don't want to wake up hungover.
I don't want to go through this shit again.
I'm fucking tired, man.
So.
Anyway.
So here was the deal.
It was for Glenn Tipton's foundation to help find a cure for Parkinson's.
And it was a gig that I was going to do a long time ago before COVID.
And then COVID happened.
And then I had a son.
And then we did old dads and all that shit I was saying on Monday on the Monday
morning podcast.
So it finally happened.
And then simultaneously over the years.
Chrissy Hine, who the first time I met her, she came to see me at that gig at
Hammersmith.
But she didn't come backstage because we didn't know each other.
And she thought it would be weird.
But when I did Royal Albert, that's the first time I met her.
So I was telling her, you know, I was a failed drummer and all of that.
And we were talking about first concerts, which is so amazing.
I told her about Judas Priest.
And my parents were there.
My mother was saying how her first concert, my mother saw Elvis Presley before
he was famous.
Sarasota, Florida, doing five show sets in this little theater in Sarasota.
She saw him in like three in the afternoon in a half-filled house.
And like three weeks later, he did like, no, not three weeks later.
Like three months later, he did the Ed Sullivan show.
And I looked the whole fucking thing up.
He had a gig in Sarasota in like February and I think July he did Ed Sullivan.
I haven't looked it up in a while.
And she was telling all the kids at school that she saw him.
And they're like, yeah, no, you didn't see him.
She goes, I'm telling you, I saw the guy.
So anyway, Chrissy was obviously enjoying that story.
And through talking to her about that, you know, we came up with an idea one
time.
Like we both like playing smaller places and shit.
She goes, just for the fun of it, she goes, we should just do like a comedy
music night one night, whatever it is.
And maybe do a couple of dates, go through England.
And maybe you could sit in on drums, you know, on a couple of songs.
And I was like, fucking twist my arm.
I would do that in a second.
And England's a really, really gorgeous country.
When you, you know, London's great and everything.
But once you get outside of London, you need to get more like in between their
major cities and everything.
There's, it's a really peaceful place.
At least visiting.
I know they get the shit taxed out of them, so that's not too peaceful.
But I do remember doing one of these runs leading up to Royal Albert that I was
with one of the promoters.
And on the way to a gig, we were going by his hometown and also his favorite
place to get fish and chips.
And I'm like, that's your favorite place to get that?
He goes, yeah.
I go, dude, we're fucking going there.
So we went, we got fish and chips, and then we sat by this little fucking
stream that had these locks in it.
You know what I mean?
Like you're going through the Panama Canal, but it was small and these little
boats and shit.
And we just fucking sat there on a bench eating fish and chips as he was
telling me stories about growing up there.
And it was like a perfect, you know, sunny day, but not hot.
And I remember while it was happening, I was like going like, I need to do shit
like this when I'm on the fucking road.
So my brain isn't going 90 million miles an hour.
So anyway, so that's what I was thinking when Chrissy was saying we should go
do a run of dates.
I was like, oh my God, you know, fucking talk to locals, find out where they
eat.
I'll do that, and I'll sit by little streams, and maybe I won't be such a
fucking angry lunatic.
I'll start playing the flute, sitting next to the streams, and then I'll
fucking meet Robert Plant, and he'll write some fucking lyrics about it.
There's a ginger I know, who's got no fucking flow, but he still plays the
drums with some people.
Anyway, so all of that shit led up to what happened two nights ago.
I finally get to do the benefit, and it was basically Bianca Cristobal, Adam Rowe,
myself, all doing stand-up.
And then in the end, the Pretenders came out, and we, and, you know, they did a
set.
So I go down there, right?
And I'm supposed to, we're supposed to do like fucking three songs.
Oh, no, forget, I'm fucking this up.
I land in England, drop my bags at the hotel, and immediately go to this
rehearsal space to run these songs.
And we were basically playing, and Chrissy picked out the songs based on, you
know, her listening to my act and concerts she'd been to.
So she picked Ace of Spades Motorhead, because she saw Motorhead at that venue
years and years and years ago.
Then she picked Honey, What Do You Do for Money by ACDC, because I always do
bits about gold-digging whores.
And then she picked Breaking the Law, because of Glen Tipton.
So we went in, and I got into the rehearsal space, fucking jet-lagged.
And met the two other guys I was going to be playing with, Dave Page on bass,
her bass player, and James Welburn on guitar.
And they could not have been cooler.
And they were fucking amazing musicians.
They were so fucking great.
And they were also just like so chill, so fucking cool, and so welcoming.
I was kind of worried I was going to be getting to look like,
all right, you know, Chrissy, is this the jerk-off we have to fucking be
playing with?
But it wasn't like that at all.
They were all, you know, just came in.
Just everybody was vibing, shooting the shit.
We sat down.
We played Ace of Spades.
It went well.
We all looked around.
I'm like, yeah, it was pretty good.
All right, let's do the ACDC one.
You know, I grew up playing to that, so that one went good.
And then we did Breaking the Law.
And, see, we turned around.
She was like, not bad, not bad.
You know, sat down, shot the shit a little bit.
She goes, you want to do them again?
I said, all right.
So we did them again.
And we kind of looked around like, yeah.
Yeah, you know, we're going to fuck up here or there,
but I think it's going to be fun.
So she's like, all right, cool.
Well, you know, we'll run them again tomorrow at Soundcheck.
So I say, fine.
So, then I fucking go home.
I'm up to like 4 or 5 in the morning.
I finally fall asleep.
I wake up at like 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
And I get a text message because they put the pretender's name
on the marquee.
First, we put Chrissy's name up there.
And she's like, I don't want my name on the marquee.
So we said, Bill Burr and the pretenders.
So then she saw it and she's like, well, fuck, now we got to do a pretender's
song.
You know, do you want to do it?
I know it's last second.
Why don't we do Don't Get Me Wrong?
And I was sleeping through all of that.
And she's like, hey, if you don't want to do it, it's no big deal.
Yeah.
And then just, hey, you know, fuck it.
Forget it.
We'll just do the three.
So then I woke up and I read all of that.
And I was just like, hey, you know, let's let's try it.
It's Soundcheck.
If it's a train wreck, we won't do it.
If it sounds all right, let's fucking do it.
So she goes, all right, that's the rock a