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New York, L.A. Airspace, Shakespeare | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 3-13-25 | 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 on you.
I'm just checking in on you, seeing how it's going in your part of the world.
Oh, Billy Pressboy this morning. Look at you, all grown up doing the town.
I did Good Morning America today. They kept calling it GMA, which made me think
of GMOs, which are genetically modified organisms.
I don't know what it is. Something about what they put in the food, but they
pay the politicians, so that's fine.
That's all right. And I did The Breakfast Club. I had a great time, and I did
one other show. I'm spacing here.
I had a great time this morning promoting all that stuff. Why? Why you didn't
ask as I go to whore myself out and whatnot?
My stand-up special, Drop Dead Years, is coming out, I think, tomorrow on Hulu.
I'm very excited, and I hope you guys enjoy it or whatever.
But I had a fucking great morning. I had a good time on Good Morning America.
That's a really, like, fun show to do as far as, like, the vibe that you have
to have to do one of those morning shows.
It's like the level of, like, I don't know.
Like, you have to be, like, upbeat and positive.
It's like people are starting their day.
You know what I mean?
You can't do the CNN-Fox News thing.
We don't do that here.
I mean, it was fucking fantastic.
There was a chef there making food.
There was puppies.
I was playing with puppies.
It's, like, impossible to be in a bad mood doing one of those fucking shows.
So, I got to do a quick little thing there with everyone on the show promoting
Glenn Gary and the special.
So, I had a great time.
And then the Breakfast Club.
That's my second time doing it.
I love those guys.
I had a great time with them.
So, that's it.
And the Patrice O'Neill Comedy Benefit.
Keep buying the tickets.
You can get them at billbird.com.
I don't have the information in front of me.
I know the gig is going to be in May.
I believe it's a Sunday night.
Yeah, it's a Sunday night.
So, at the New York City Center.
You can also go to nycitycenter.com, I think is what it is, where you can buy
the tickets.
75 bucks.
And after we're done paying for renting the theater, all the money goes to Patrice's
wonderful mother.
And we make sure we take care of her every year because Patrice was taking care
of her.
So, it's a great, great, great thing that you can do if you can come out.
All right.
And with that, let's blow ahead here.
All right.
So, guess what?
We are officially in previews.
Previews.
Now, what I've learned is previews are not official shows yet.
This is you just sort of working the show out now in front of a crowd.
And I got to be, I'm a little confused by it because people are paying a lot of
money to still come see it.
So, it's like, I don't, it doesn't feel like it's okay to just be, you know,
you can try out stuff, but you got to bring it.
And I cannot tell you, like, how awesome it is to, you know, get to do this and
to watch all of these actors that I've been working with, you know, seeing them.
They tried stuff when we were rehearsing it and then watching them try it out
and adjusting it and everything.
Like, I get so fucking amped up.
And then I'm also fascinated, like, watching, like, oh, man, you know, so-and-so
got a laugh on that.
What did they figure out?
Was it the crowd?
Was it the way the other actors set up the line or whatever?
It's sort of, like, infinite, like, the options.
But we're three of those performances in, and I think last night was our best
show, and everybody keeps getting better.
And, like, people were getting applause breaks, and it's really settling into
this cool thing where it's, like, it's dark, but it's also, like, funny.
It's sad, and that it's hilarious, and it's just this unbelievable ride.
And, oh, my God, Michael McKeon last night was fucking on fire.
It's just, it was, it's going to be such a good time.
And I was already thinking backstage when I was waiting for the play to end and
then come out and do the curtain call.
I was already thinking of how sad I'm going to be on the last night because
this is going to be, it's going to, this is just one of those things that
totally lives up to the hype.
So, thank you to everybody that's come out so far, and I am looking forward to
everything else.
Also, you know, I definitely get the fucking butterflies before I go out there
because I'll tell you, you know, what's funny is you go out, you have a good
show, and everything's awesome.
And the night ends and you feel like this amazing, like, feeling of
accomplishment.
And then you wake up the next day and you're like, oh, fuck, I got to do it
again.
Oh, this is what they're talking about.
When I was talking to other actors going, you know, you got to like, you know,
it's a grind, you know, so you got to like blah, blah, blah.
But I'm just going to.
I don't know.
Just go one show at a time and listen to whoever the hell I'm talking to and on
stage and see if we can have another good one tonight.
That's it.
All right.
And with that, with that, with that, it's such an exciting time of year.
Baseball's coming back.
Hockey and basketball is getting close to the playoffs.
You got MotoGP.
You got fucking the F1 and you got March Madness coming up.
You have all kinds of distractions to not freak you out.
You know what I mean?
To have some sort of normalcy.
I'll tell you what's freaking me out on GMA.
Good morning, America.
When I was watching the meteorologist when she was doing the weather, I was
just like, this is fucking.
This is frightening.
It was just flames, tornadoes and all of this shit.
And nobody's like talking about, hey.
Is this, you know, is this what the scientists were warning us about?
Is it starting to happen?
Or is this normal?
You never know, you know?
Or is it like, or is it just like, are they looking at like the L.A. fires?
Everyone tuned in.
We made a lot of money on the ratings, all right?
So every time there's a brush fire, they're going to draw flames over like
fucking Oklahoma and shit.
Are they doing it for money?
Is it right?
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
But I will tell you, you know.
Thank God for all those puppies and the chefs and everybody's amazing energy
over there.
Because the fucking forecast.
They had everything but drawings of sharks coming on land and eating people on
the nationwide.
The nationwide map.
Nationwide is on your side.
Anyway, so a buddy of mine sent me something pretty fucking interesting.
It's the Robinson Helicopter Company, whatever you call it.
They had the R-22 first.
Then they made the R-44, which was a four-seater with a six-cylinder engine
rather than the four-cylinder.
And then after that, they went 22, 44.
And then they have the R-66, which is a turbine, which is a jet engine.
And they unveiled in Dallas that they have a new helicopter coming out.
You guessed it, the 88, which is a 10-passenger helicopter.
Believe me, it ain't cheap.
Turbine or whatever.
They still have the semi-articulated main rotor system.
I just would be amazing.
Maybe to keep costs down.
And also, it's also a space saver in a hanger.
If you only have two blades, you can just line it up and you can have a smaller
hanger.
But once you have the three and you kind of have like that triangle, you need
something a little wider or whatever.
Maybe it's that.
I have no idea.
But it was pretty goddamn exciting.
And I will tell you, as much fun as I'm having on doing this play, I really
miss flying and I miss riding a motorcycle.
Those things, I do miss those.
But boo-hoo.
I have to be here and do a fucking play.
But it was pretty goddamn exciting.
I'll be honest with you guys.
I kind of wish I learned how to fly a plane instead of a helicopter because
helicopters are just so fucking expensive.
And once you've flown the L.A. basin for 10 years, you get kind of bored and
you want to go fly somewhere else.
But like, you know, flying a helicopter, it's like you have to fly it the whole
time.
It's not like, and it's also can only go so fast just because of the aerodynamics,
the way it's designed and everything.
What we have in mobility, the ability to stop and hover and land anywhere, what
we gain in that, we give up in forward speed.
And like, you know, I know a lot of pilots now where I fly out of and I talk to
them about their planes and what they cost.
And like the planes that cost as much as a little two-seater helicopter, how
fast they can fly, the autopilot, the altitude that they can fly at, and all of
that really like fascinates me.
And I go, well, you know, that's a whole other animal there.
Like what's fascinating to me, what I would love to do one time is be in a
private little plane with one of those pilots.
And like, I'm trying to fly, you know, if I had one on a map in front of me, I
would know exactly what it is.
But like, you know, if you come into L.A. at 6,000 feet, you can basically fly
over every bit of airspace except for the Bravo shelves of airspace around L.A.X.
But like, and you don't have to talk to anybody.
Like you can just, if you were coming down the coast, you know, Santa Barbara
or whatever, you could fly over all of that airspace.
You could see so much more.
And just the path that you could take.
And then not to mention cruising at like 200 knots, which is more than twice
what I'm usually flying.
Like I usually fly at like 85.
Unless I want to just get somewhere, I'll go up to 90.
But like, I always think if I have an engine failure with the blades turned the
way they are, there's going to be a lot of resistance moving forward.
And my RPMs are going to drop even faster.
So I try to like, you know, because you auto-rotate at about 60.
So if I'm only like, you know, 25 knots above that, it's, it's, I think that's
a little more forgiving.
All right.
I'm just talking about nerd shit here.
Speaking of nerd shit, I got, um, I got my little electronic drum kit set up,
um, over at the theater with like speakers and everything.
I just have to figure out the Bluetooth.
So that's kind of going to be my thing.
Like I'll come over a little bit early before the show, maybe, I don't know, or
maybe hang after and I can play.
And God damn it.
Got to give a shout out to V drums.
They are, they sound so unbelievable.
You put the headphones on.
You got, listen, if you ever wanted to play fucking drums, okay, but they're
too loud or whatever, you know, you don't want to drive your significant other
crazy.
Get some V drums.
I'm telling you, you're going to put your headphones on and you're going to sit
down at a kit and you're going to sound like you're in Madison Square Garden.
It's, um, and, and because they sound so, you know, they sound so good, it
makes you play better.
It gives you ideas and all of that.
And, um, I was just having, I was having a ball with them.
You know, what's funny is like, you know, when my character exits the play,
there's still, you know,
a decent amount of time left in the second act.
So I was actually downstairs, um, playing the drums, waiting for the, you know,
there's a, there's a point where I, I, where they're in the play that I can
walk upstairs and, and, and be there on time for the curtain call.
Um, I don't know, the whole thing is, is, uh, it's pretty exciting.
So anyway, plowing ahead here.
Oh, Billy fucking gym bod.
Oh, fucking Billy gym bod is going to the, uh, going to the gym again today.
I've been crushing it.
And, um, the little, uh, apartment they got me staying in.
It's dude, fucking New York is fun again.
It's fun again.
There's, there's definitely, uh, you know, there was like a, a period there
where it got so fucking nice.
It was like weird.
You felt like you were in, uh, the Truman show or something, but like the, uh,
the free entertainment is back in a big way, in a big way.
Uh, the stuff, you know, I'll tell you what, one thing is cool is there's like,
there's like this fucking liquor store and I don't know what it is.
It's like this gat