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Dean Delray '5836', Turkish Hair, Dressing Cool | Monday Morning Podcast 4-10-25 | Bill Burr

All right. 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 on you.
All right. So look at this. I'm in New York City. What'd you think? I wasn't
going to find
microphones and a camera? Why am I coming at you in a hostile way? You didn't
think that.
You just sat down to watch it. So thank you. So whenever I have video, that
means I have a
special guest. My special guest this week has a new standup special that he
shot inside
of a mountain, man, called 5936. No, 5836. Fuck, 5836. Mr. Dean Del Rey. Oh,
God, I miss
you, dude. I have not seen you in two fucking months. It's got to be the
longest since I've
met you 15, 14 years ago. All right. We got to explain. Yeah. First of all, 5836
is not
a lost Van Hagar album. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you 856. 5150. Yeah. It's the amount of
times
I was on stage. You've done standup. So you're the only guy I know past like 17
sets who starts
counting. You're like Gene Simmons with pussy. So like, what is it? I'm
fascinated with this.
What is this? So this Rain Man thing that you do and how do you keep like,
especially if you're
here in New York and you do three spots, like, oh, fuck, Dean's here. And you
hang, you have
the hang, you chop it up. How are you in your head? Like in your head, like 5930,
5837,
5837. Like, how do you do that? Compute, compute. I, you know, I started
writing it down when I
started just in the notes on my phone because I was thinking, you know, one day
I'll write
a book and I'll be like, I did comedy for a couple months in 2009. Right. And
here's where I did it.
And that was the point, you know, and then it just, I just started going and
keep going. And I kept
putting them in. It became like a work ethic thing. Yeah. Then it became kind
of a thing of like,
okay, when was the last time I was at this venue? Like you got club soda. Kenny,
he'll be like last
year you opened with my kids joke, you know, but with me, I got to go in and go,
okay, I was here
two years ago or can't do any of this stuff. Let's do this stuff or whatever.
Or I also have notes in
there like bombed like crazy. Oh yeah. I put those in there, man. When I
fucking bomb, I put them in
there. Like went to bed sad. Yeah. I remember, I remember I did next morning. Cereal
did not taste
as good. I saw a Robin on a branch, picked up my spirits. I did the garden with
you at 38. I did
the garden with you, dude. And the next day, Esty's like, can you come do the
brunch show? And I was
like, oh yeah, I'm feeling good. Oh, after we did Madison Square Garden? Yeah.
Yeah. You murdered
that night. And then I go down there fucking noon. They're eating waffles and
she put me on first.
And you ate your dick. Oh, I could see the shadow of her roll through the glass
of orange juice.
Oh my God. They got the waffles, the OG, the fucking mimosas. And I'm like, can
I tell
you something? I fucking love those sets. Yeah. I love having the big thing and
then just
eating your balls. I've been going to the comedy village after, uh, after doing,
uh, the play.
Yeah. So you do the play and there's this big, like, you know, I mean, I'm, I'm,
the cast
is crazy good. Yeah. So even if I'm a little off, it's, it's still murders
because everybody
else is just like blitzkrieg. Yeah. So, um, you know, you get like the standing
ovation, you
do the fucking 28 Broadway bows, people like that. And it's like, ah, and then
you go out
and you sign the programs. Ah, and then I would just fucking go home to my
stupid, I got this
corporate apartment with like no fucking pictures on the wall, just sitting in
this little white
box. And I'm like, what do I do now? Like, why did, why am I doing this? This
is fucking
weird. So what I started to do to take the edge off is I go over to the comedy
village,
you know, and I try out bits and, uh, semi eat it.
Semi eat it. And then also, you know, I'm going over there and you know, I go
over there
during the week and there'll just be sort of like 20 people scattered amongst
like 50 chairs
and it's a really nice come down. Oh yeah.
Yeah. And I get to hang with PJ and talk about the old days and I meet some new
comics and
stuff. I've actually met this comic that, uh, when I was in Paris, you know, I
did a show
out there and he, you know, he's doing what I was, I was trying to do a little
bit of my
act in French. He's over here trying to do his stuff in, in English. So ended
up, you
know, getting to practice a little French with him, hanging out. And then I go
home.
Right.
Way better.
Yeah.
Way better. But I do like the, uh,
Quick come down.
I'm a big believer in the, in, in the big quick come down. You got to shake it
off.
Like if you do some fucking huge, ridiculous gig, uh, the worst thing to do is
to hang
onto it. Yeah. Uh, that is the worst. I actually, yeah, I think that going to
some hole in the
wall and kind of eating it a little bit, you're like, all right, okay. Tuxedos
off. I'm, I'm
fucking bill again. This is just regular. All right. This is a job. I got to, I
got to work
at this thing. So it just grounds you right back. Especially I I'm not the
fucking headliner.
You're the headliner. It's your drawing everything. I'm fucking, I'm the jerk
off who goes on last.
No, no, no. So anyway, it's even better to immediately get back into, uh, my
level,
which is a fucking brunch show at the cellar. I like going to the brunch show
and eating and not
performing. Keith saw, I called Keith, I go, man, I just bombed during the
brunch show. He goes,
ah, you dummy. You don't do the brunch show. Everyone knows that. What are you
new?
So that's what I love. That's what I love about that place is everybody knows
you're going to bomb
on that show. And they still mind fuck you when you do like, you're the only
guy that did it.
Well, let's talk about your special Dean. Yeah. Hit me up. And he goes, dude, I
want to shoot a
special. I'm like, that's fucking great. And he goes, there's this venue, you
know, typical Dean's
like, dude, check it out. This guy fucking found a cave in the middle of
Tennessee. And he hollowed it
out, man. And he built a fucking club in there. And I'm like, what? And he, and
you were like,
yeah, he said, but at that point only, they'd only done like music. Bluegrass,
never done comedy.
Okay. And they, and they, like, they shine, like the lights up on the rocks
above you. Uh,
it smells of sulfur when you're in there. It smelled, it smelled like the old
house I grew up in for a
period of time when I was growing up that had water damage in the basement
because the foundation was
made, uh, you know, one of those. Buddy moves to the basement. He's like, I got
my own room now. And you get in
there and you're like, stinks in here, but we can, you know, party. Yeah, no,
but it, and also, yeah,
you're like breathing in mold, but you know that, you know, that damp basement
smell, that's what it
was. So anyway, oh my God, I forgot that. We went there. We go to do the gift.
First of all, how did
you find out about the, is it cause you, you do music and you did, you were in
a band and all of that
stuff that you knew that this place existed? Cause no comic I knew, I know,
knew that that place
existed. No, I ended up, uh, we talked about it on the last podcast before we
launched it.
I'm sorry. Am I asking the same question? No, no, no. But I, I'm going to tell
the story. Uh,
you tell that story, Dean. I ended up interviewing the owner, Todd Mayo,
cause he wrote a book called the caveman chronicles about starting this venue.
And then
mid interview, I said, I got to do my special there. And he goes, let's do it,
man. We've never
done comedy. I'm looking forward to it. And then a month later, me, you and
Marcus price and Kenny
club soda. Kenny were there and nobody done comedy. So there was nobody to call
and go, Hey, what's it
sound like? Did the laugh suck in there? Whatever. We totally fucking rolled
the dice. And I was just
telling the guys outside of the studio, if I would have known where the fuck it
was, I would have been
really nervous. Cause it was way out. No man's land. Yeah. It was like fly to
Nashville and then
just drive an hour into the woods. I mean, it's a mountain or whatever, but
like, I just kept felt
feeling like I was in, in that movie, the dirty dozen. And you remember when
the officers were in
like the basement and they were pouring all the gas and dropping all the
grenades down. Jim Brown runs
and he throws them in. Yeah. I felt like I was in there and that did they close
the door or not?
They did close the door. Yeah. That was a little claustrophobic. Yeah. Cause
you're in there.
Yeah. It was like, I felt like also like one of those 1950s nuclear fallout
shelter and like,
you know, this one town, everybody makes it to the cave and they close the door
and the whole world
ends and it's just fucking them. Uh, there was definitely those vibes, which I
felt like added
to, uh, the show. Um, so I went up and I opened in front of you and you got to
see this thing. It's
like, it obviously doesn't look like anybody else's special and you, you killed.
So, um, you know,
I'm hoping, uh, that we can get out here and promote the hell out of it. Why am
I saying this?
We cut that part out. Uh, um, let me, let me redo, let me do that. I'll have
Andrew cut that part
out. I'm literally explaining what we're doing. I'm sorry, dude. Like I went to
the SNL after party
and I stayed up till four in the morning. I couldn't get to sleep till four in
the morning
last night. So I'm a little fucking out of it here. Um, anyway, so, um, that
venue just being up
there, like the second you got on the stage, I felt like, you know, those times
where you're doing
your act, but you're also like taking in the venue, like this is really, this
is really cool.
Yeah. So, um, and then I was, when you were doing your set, you were murdering
and I was
way, you know, towards where they, the door was like opening and stuff. And I
could just
tell the way like Marcus was shooting it, that it was going to be awesome. So I
think that
this thing is going to go viral because it doesn't look like anybody else's, uh,
anybody
else's special.
Well, the first thing everybody says, and I was a little naive when we shot
this thing.
Thank God I was, I was like, Oh yeah, we're going to shop this and they're
going to look
at it for one minute and go, what the fuck and buy it. But you know, they didn't
even look
at it. The days like Netflix and, uh, we couldn't get a call back from Netflix.
We sent them five
one minute clips. Cause we know how ADD people are just click on this and
fucking your bosses
will be happy. You found this fucking million dollar special that looks like
nobody's and
it's fucking funny. Right. And we couldn't even, so nothing, but I think that's
a blessing
dude. Oh yeah. You remember that documentary with that kid, that guy was in a
band. I think
it was that, that one about Anvil and how they were just right there and all
the bands coming
up that made it, we're looking at them like those guys are the guys and they
just never broke
through. And, uh, they were just talking about the music business. Excuse me.
They were just
talking about the music business. And the guy said, you know, at the end of the
day, he goes,
you're better to own something a hundred percent and sell 20,000 copies than to
not own it at
all and sell 20 million. So I think the fact that all of the, for whatever re I
don't understand
like what show business is doing right now. Like they're really not buying
anything. I don't know
if they got overextended, but I know like these streaming services are like
these insatiable
behemoths that just need content. So I don't understand why they're not
necessarily buying the way
that they were. Especially when you hand them something like we made. I think
it's the fucking
tariffs, man. Um, I'm so glad I'm not watching the news. Oh my God. Watching
that. So anyway,
but I think what th