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MotoGP, NBA, Aviation 'Experts' | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 6-26-25 | 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, yeah.
Hey, sorry, this podcast is going to be a little quiet. I got the kiddos in the
other room up a little early today.
You know, I'm going to try to enjoy my last three days on Glengarry Glen Ross.
I can't believe it's coming to an end. Unreal, unreal.
I'm going to miss everybody I work with, but it is time. It's time for all Freckles
to get back to doing this stand-up stuff, which I will be doing.
I have a gig in London, and then I have a gig in Abu Dhabi, and then when I say
Abu, you say Dhabi, Abu, and then I have a gig in Milan, Italy, and then I don't
have Jack's Squad after that.
I will be doing a getting ready to go back out on tour show in L.A. that will
be announced soon, if it hasn't already. I'm just not sure. I don't know how
these things work.
For some reason, you can't say what it is that you're doing. Everybody gets all
fucking weirded out because everybody has to announce it at the same time, so
we get in the zeitgeist, however it works, whatever. It's promotion.
So anyway, all right, this is that time of year where if you're not into motorsports,
like MotoGP, which I don't know, everybody's freaking out.
MotoGP just got signed or just got purchased by Liberty something or other
group. I don't know what it was. It's an American corporation.
So all these MotoGP fans were all fucking upset.
Oh, there goes the fucking sport. There's going to be like five races in the
United States of America.
Well, what the fuck is wrong with that?
I live here. I like this sport.
I don't think that that's good. I mean, listen.
Whatever. They own Formula One, right? Does Formula One suck now? I have no
idea.
I don't know. I think there's just a general dislike of Americans right now.
And God knows we've earned it.
It's not us.
It's not, you know, I like to think it's not me.
I don't dictate the foreign policy.
And I also don't fucking, I don't know.
Who knows? It's probably is me.
Anyway.
So, yeah.
So I guess there'll be more races in America.
But here's the thing.
Every American sport is trying on some level to go global.
You know, NFL, Europe.
Like, they all want to be like the World Cup.
That type of money.
They want that kind of money.
And the only American sport, or at least organization, that's been able to do
it is the UFC.
Or maybe boxing.
You know, back in the day, Muhammad Ali would fight all around the world and
everything would sell out.
So I guess the fight game has always been able to do that.
And I remember Rogan saying one time that even if you're not into fighting, if
you were driving down the street, and if you saw two people fighting, you would
stop to watch it.
You'd slow down to watch it.
You know what I mean?
Where I don't think if you saw some people playing like Pick Up Hoop, you
either went to it or if you're not into it, you're not going to watch.
But there's something compelling about two people beating the fuck out of each
other.
So it translates.
Around the fucking world.
So as does, I guess, motorsports.
I don't know.
They've always made fun of our tracks in America.
No matter what track we have, it's always not as good as theirs.
It's always so, oh, our shit is so fucking vulgar and American and blah, blah,
blah.
They're such cunts.
You know what I mean?
It's like we're a different country.
We have a different landscape.
We have a lot of land.
There's going to be a lot more straightaways.
And I remember they said that fucking, that Las Vegas F1 was going to suck.
And I went there and had the most lead changes of any race that year.
So I don't know what they're whining about.
This all goes back to like Top Gear in England when those fucking old cunts,
anytime there's any sort of American car on it.
English people, English people, if you can believe it, shit on the design of a
fucking car.
England has never been able to make a fucking car that can get over 40,000
fucking miles without overheating.
Everything that they have made when it comes to vehicles has sucked, has been
unreliable.
Every single brand.
What do they got?
What do they got over there?
They got Jaguar.
They got fucking Rolls Royce.
Is Bentley their thing?
All of them.
All of them.
Super high priced.
Super high fucking maintenance.
And then they go around and fucking shit on our cars.
You know what I mean?
Not saying our cars are fucking great.
But like, they got a lot of nerve.
You know?
What are you going to do next?
Say we're ugly?
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Anyway.
So, I'm a couple races behind with MotoGP.
I plan on getting caught up this week.
I've just been doing a lot of shit here.
Well, now that my wife and kids are in town.
And just having like the best time with them.
My kids are so goddamn funny.
And yeah, we've just been trying to enjoy New York.
It's been hot as hell here.
Once again, another major political issue for some reason they don't talk about.
And they just create debates like, are we contributing to it?
I don't.
The scientists I paid for.
It's just like, what is their fucking endgame?
I don't understand these people.
But I'm telling you, that shit I was talking about the other day.
Where if you look up that personality, the dark triad, I'm telling you, that is
the personality trait that thrives in corporate America, in the industrial
military complex, in politics.
Like, at some point, you know, we sit there and go, where are all the decent
whatever?
Where's a CEO with empathy?
Where's a decent, you know, honest politician?
They get weeded out.
By the time you get past a certain level in business, politics, military,
anything.
I just feel like it just gets to the point where you're like, if you're a
decent person, you're like, wait a minute.
What, like, what are we doing here?
We're going to do what?
I don't want to be involved in that.
That's not right.
And all the decent people fall off to the side.
And then all the reptile people who don't give a fuck, and the only way they
feel feelings is to amass more money and power, carry on.
That's just my theory.
I don't know.
So, anyway, plowing ahead here, I saw this thing on the NBA draft, which really
interests me.
So, of course, we all know the NBA is fucking fixed.
We all know that that Luka Doncic, whatever his fucking name is, was not making
the NBA enough money in Dallas.
So, Dallas agrees to trade him to where their media capital, their fucking
sweet 16 fucking princess, who, God forbid, they suck for a couple of years.
Just ship all your free agents to fucking the Los Angeles Lakers, right?
So, they ship him out there.
He looked terrible in the uniform.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It's just the whole thing.
I don't know if it's working or whatever, but they do that.
And they traded him for nothing.
For nothing.
And then what happens?
The NBA lottery comes along, and who wins it?
Can you believe it?
It's the Dallas Mavericks.
Wow.
What a fucking chain of events.
I'll tell you, a lot of coincidence there.
Nothing to see, though.
So, anyway, they're going to get the number one draft pick in the NBA draft,
right?
Unless they trade it away.
So, the projected number one player is a white dude named Cooper Flagg out of
Duke, right?
Extra white.
If you're white, you're white.
But you go to Duke, you become extra white, right?
So, he's projected to be the number one first player picked in the 2025 NBA
draft,
which made me think, what was the last time a white guy went number one overall
in the NBA draft?
Now, I did a quick search, so I might be wrong on this, but as far as my search,
it was a man named Kent Benson in 1977, 48 years ago.
It's been 48 years since Whitey.
That white guy went number one.
We're coming back, man.
It's going to be like the 60s again.
Dude, 1977.
Like, 1977, the Knicks hadn't won in only four years.
Like, they could still walk around talking shit, like, legitimately.
That's how long ago it was.
So, Kent Benson was drafted number one by the Milwaukee Bucks.
And, ironically enough, two minutes into his first game as a professional,
Benson elbowed former Milwaukee Buck, Los Angeles Lakers center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
in the abdomen.
And, you know, Kareem, he didn't fuck around.
Kareem gave Benson a concussion with a retaliatory punch.
Kareem was out for, like, a month, so they didn't bother suspending him.
It was a different time.
And Benson was out for, like, a game with a concussion.
Shake it off.
And he came back.
It says,
Benson never lived up to the potential of a number one NBA draft pick.
Twice in his career, he was traded for a future Hall of Fame player.
So, with that, 48 years goes by, and here comes Cooper Flagg.
My buddy, Paul Verzi, told me that he did some sort of something, an Olympic
thing, against the pros.
And he was, you know, I guess destroying everybody, or was very impressive.
And what I said, my response to Paul, let me get to the text.
I said, the Olympics is not the NBA.
Until he goes up against Draymond Green, Dylan Brooks, and leg breakers like
that, and survives.
I said, I think they're going to beat him up like that white girl in the WNBA.
No, I'm kidding.
I'm rooting for him.
So, anyway.
Like, the big story is not that a white guy is going number one.
The big story is that the Dallas Mavericks get the number one pick.
Does the NBA even try to hide how manipulated that fucking league is?
It's really, it's really ridiculous.
I mean, it was always ridiculous, and pretty obvious what the hell they were
doing with their business plan.
And them just fucking blowing the fucking Los Angeles Lakers.
Blowing them.
Like, the level of free agents.
I remember that guy, that fucking, the fuck's his name there?
David Stern, when they asked him, what's your dream NBA finals?
And he got, like, wistful.
He was like, oh, the Lakers versus the Lakers.
You know, everybody talks about that Donahue series.
The Sacramento one and the Lakers.
No one talks about the, when the Celtics beat the Lakers in 2008,
and then we came back in 2009, and they had him beat again.
And they just called, like, 9,000 fouls on us and let the Lakers win it from
the foul line.
And I remember Kobe Bryant, rest his soul, at the end of the game goes,
I don't know how we won that game.
Yeah, you do.
Yeah, you do.
There should be an official's jersey with 2009 written on it,
hanging at the fucking Staples Center.
They were setting up the rubber game.
They rebooted, the whole thing was bullshit.
We were in last place, and then they gave us Ray Allen and fucking,
what's his face, from the Timberwolves, Kevin Garnett, for nothing.
Just to get us, you know, juices back up again.
And then they got, they rebooted the Lakers.
I think this was all a business plan.
They rebooted the Celtics-Lakers.
We had back-to-back.
And then, you know, we were going to win two in a row.
They're like, well, we can't have that.
They got to go, like, fucking one-and-one,
and then we'll let them play the next year.
But then what happened?
LeBron goes to fucking Miami with Chris Bosh,
and then that whole fucking thing gets going,
and that story was bigger, and then they just abandoned it.
And then that was the end of us and the Lakers, you know,
until LeBron goes to L.A.
It's like everybody has to end up in L.A.
Like, I remember a long time ago, like, a big thing as a comedian
was, like, hosting the MTV Music Awards or, like, you know, I don't know, the
Oscars.
I'm trying to think.
There was something you had to, like, do the Tonight Show.
Like, you have to do it.
I feel like as, like, a fucking NBA player,
at some point you have to go to the Lakers and pile on
and try to win a championship like most superstars end up doing that.
Anyways, it's a strange league.
So, yeah, anyway, getting back to the motorcycle shit,
I'm, like, I'm two races behind, but I plan on getting caught up.
And, yeah, and I also plan on enjoying these last four shows.
We had two yesterday, and I'm really 