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Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-15-24 | Bill Burr w. Dean Delray

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.
Seeing how your week's going. Obviously, this is video, man, which means I have
a special guest.
And this week, one of my great friends in life and in comedy and in the
universe is going to be taping a stand-up special just outside of Nashville,
Tennessee in September.
The 8th.
The 8th, September 8th at the Cavern. Please welcome the one and only Dean Del
Rey to the podcast.
Fuck that guy. He ain't funny. Fucking guy ain't funny. Fucking Bill brings him
out. This guy ain't funny.
Why do you always think that people think that? You've been fucking murdering
in front of me.
I'm imitating one comment in the thing on the YouTube.
There's always going to be there. Of course.
You know what? I was actually talking about critics the other day, and I was
saying, you know, if somebody takes the piss out of your act or whatever, you
know, as a critic.
But if you look at their reviews and they don't like anything, it doesn't
really hold.
It's like, well, you don't like anything.
Like, I really feel like critics every once in a while should just give it up
to something so you know that they actually do like something.
So that there's a way that somebody can perform that they actually, like,
approve of.
I don't know. The whole thing is weird, but I try to, you know, I stay away
from that.
And when friends of mine put out specials, I don't, I don't look, I don't read
the comments because I know that it's just going to be, it's going to be, who
gives a fuck about this?
Well, you know what I always said? If you think a comment is going to bother me,
I would have stopped fucking a hundred years ago.
Well, that's also the thing too. It's just like, oh my God, you got me, Leo in
Oklahoma.
One of my favorite comment, I don't know, analogies or whatever was Vince Neil.
If there's some bullshit happening, they go, oh my God, this happened, then
that happened.
These people saying that, and he just was just like, hey man, you know, it
comes with the gig.
Yeah.
You know, it's just like, I'm going to put myself out there as a musician.
I stand up on the stage, I get all this good shit, and then the balance is this
stuff happens, and right now this stuff's happening.
And it was like, there was no way to refute it.
Like, he wasn't fighting it, he wasn't saying that it was, it wasn't
embarrassing or whatever.
It was just, it just was.
Remember the David Lee Roth one?
He's like, all the critics like Elvis Costello because they look like him.
Oh my God.
That was a great one.
There's a guy we can relate to.
Yeah, that guy, that guy has had some amazing, amazing.
Yeah, it works.
One-liners and like analogies and stuff.
So, anyway, let's get into my world with Dean Del Rey.
So, I met Dean years ago at the comedy store.
I remember, this is when you were fat, Dean.
Yeah.
It was funny.
You used to look like an ex-cop.
You know, you had like, you just had a mustache, you were eating all the candy,
and you pulled up on the bike.
And you just came walking in, and you're like, hey, what's going on?
You just started like, talking to me.
I was like, who the fuck is this guy?
And I was like, is this another one of these weird, you know, those transient
people that, they don't, it's so much anymore.
Hollywood Jesus.
Who passed away.
Yeah, you'd get these guys that would come in.
That old gay guy, whatever, that fucking guy, he would come through.
And then, boom, shakalaka, yeah, him.
Yeah, I remember that he would sell stuff on the patio.
I was grouped in with one of them, huh?
Yeah.
I didn't know if you were like one of those guys.
But those guys, I always wondered, like, once that part of Sunset died, because
the foot traffic on Sunset is over.
I love that era of the star, because it was a fucking, it was.
This was like, what, 2009, 2010?
Yeah, I started in 2009.
I met you in 2010, because I remember exactly what happened.
I had been doing comedy for like six months, and Jay Davis was headlining a NASCAR
corporate gig in Arizona.
It was for all the NASCAR people.
Oh, wow.
And he goes, hey, man, you got 20, right?
And I go, oh, yeah, to feature for this NASCAR thing.
So we were sharing a hotel room, and-
Wait, NASCAR wasn't going to fucking shell out money for two rooms?
I don't know if Jay got money for two rooms and was like, who it is?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He's not like that, but I don't know what the situation was.
It's just like, I'm going to do 20 minutes.
I had eight minutes, you know?
I get it.
But we were in the hotel room, and he goes, who's your favorite comedian?
I was like, oh, man, I love, you know, Carlin, and I'm naming the, you know,
prior, the guys.
And I go, how about you?
And he said, Bill Burr.
And I was like, well, I've never heard of him.
This is 2010.
He goes, oh, you got to see this video.
And I guess it had just happened like a year before, the Philly rant.
Oh, yeah, it was a couple years before.
So, yeah.
So, anyway, he shows it to me.
And then the next day, I walk into the store hallway, and there you are.
And I was like, oh, hey, man.
So, I felt like I knew you.
Yeah, that's how you came up to me.
And then I was like, what the fuck?
And then we started talking music, and you showed me your Bon Scott tattoo on
your ribcage.
And I was like, all right, this guy's from the same neck of the woods as me.
So, anyway, and ever since then, you've been doing stand-up.
You've been opening for me for at least six, seven years on the road.
And now you're leaving the nest here.
You're doing your own special.
Tell me about this venue that, of course, you found it because you find all the
cool shit.
This is like, it's literally a club that this person in Tennessee carved into
the side of a mountain.
It's like inverted Mount Rushmore.
Is that what's going on here?
Red Rocks Underground, not as big, of course.
But it's basically this guy, you know, he was going through some bad times in
his life.
And like a three-day weekend came up.
And he's like, what am I going to do?
And he goes, I'm going to go check out these caverns in Tennessee outside of
Nashville an hour.
Just to release his head.
So, he's in one of these caverns.
And he goes, hey, man, this would be a cool music venue.
And they're like, what?
And he talks to the owner and goes, hey, you mind if I do a music show in here?
First one he does, Chris Stapleton, an unknown Chris Stapleton, does a show.
Wow.
Yeah, and there's footage of it.
You've got to see it on YouTube.
It's unreal.
Type in Chris Stapleton, the caverns.
Wait, so it was already a structure was already built in there.
It was a cave with kind of lights and stuff that you could tour these caves.
You go down these stairs.
But he looked at it and was like, fuck, I could maybe do a concert in here.
The stage would be there, some people.
And he talked the owner into it.
And then he starts doing shows.
He launches a show called The Cavern Sessions on PBS.
He's a big fan of Austin City Limits.
He kind of mimics the format and wins four Emmys.
So, the walls and the ceiling are the actual cavern.
And then he built like a floor.
Is there doors to walk in?
Or do you just sort of walk into the...
It's kind of a big...
It's called Big Mouth Cavern.
It looks like a Big Mouth Catfish.
And you walk in.
I'm sure there's some kind of security doors now.
And then you just go in.
And then they have seats.
And they built a bar and bathrooms and everything.
It's been going on 12 years.
And I first found it...
Somebody sent me...
I'm a huge Black Crowes fan.
They sent me Chris Robinson playing there about six years ago.
And I was like...
I thought it was a fake venue.
I go, what is this?
Because it looks like...
No, and I saw it.
It reminded me...
Do you remember when the $6 million man fought Bigfoot?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you remember when he's running down and there was like that thing...
The hallway's running and the thing was spinning.
They got it at Universal.
You go in and it feels like you're going upside down in the tram.
They got that still.
Oh, wow.
It's great.
So, I thought it was fake like that, you know.
Or something in like France or something.
No way in America with OSHA and all the rules.
Could you do that?
But it turned out I dove down the rabbit hole and it was in America.
And then I kind of forgot about it.
And then somebody, a publisher or publicist hit me up, said, hey, this guy's
putting a book out.
He's got a really cool venue called The Caverns.
You want to interview him?
I go, wait, that's that place outside of Tennessee.
I absolutely want to interview him.
So, I have him on.
And mid-interview, I go, look, dude, I got to do my comedy special there.
And he's like, oh, let's do it, man.
I'm Todd Mayo.
His name's Mayo.
Like an officer and a gentleman.
Mayo-nays.
Oh, all right.
So, that was it.
Because I was going to do it in a club and you're like, no, man, you're fucking
Dean Del Rey.
You like the cool shit.
Do it in the caverns.
I was like, all right, let's do it.
Yes.
Yes, definitely.
Because then it kind of opens up.
I mean, I don't know who's going to shoot it or whatever.
It's definitely going to be a, like, visually, you know, it's going to look, I
mean, half the fucking battle is like trying to dress up a venue where there's
already been like nine, you know, music, comedy, whatever things shot at those.
Because right now, like the amount of, just the sheer amount of content that is
coming out and the way that people like devour it and stuff.
There's only so many venues.
So, like, I'm trying to think the last time I did a, like, it seemed like every
time I did a special, someone had done one.
Like, not Royal Albert or Red Rocks, but like, I remember the one I did in
Atlanta.
I remember Rogan had done that, the Tabernacle, I just did one at the Moor.
Yeah.
And I know Patton had done one and somebody else had done one up there.
Was it Wanda?
I can't remember.
Somebody else did one.
This is the first in the caverns.
Yeah, that's the first one.
And that's very hard to find a venue, but it doesn't surprise me because Dean's
the kind of guy, like, whatever you're into, and I mean whatever,
from a bottle opener to the top-of-the-line fucking vintage guitar or car, he
knows the guy, he knows where to find it.
Like, when I tell the stories I have in that John Bonham Green Sparkle drum kit,
like, I've been looking for it for years.
I called you up and within, like, the week, you had it, and then it was, like,
in my fucking house.
I had two different ones.
I go, do you want a mint one or kind of a beat-up one?
And we went for the mint one, so I had actually found two.
Yeah, and it didn't end up being mint because the mount on the bass drum, it
was a little strip, so it couldn't hold the weight of, like, you know, I got
the Bonham cymbals.
It was a very embarrassing period in my drumming where I was just like, I'm
going to buy the exact same stuff John Bonham used.
It was really...
Well, that's what everybody does, right?
Like, you want the Randy Rhoads guitar?
It's funny because Randy Rhoads came out...
Or you could take a different approach and try to make the instrument you have
famous.
Yeah.
Like, Randy Rhoads wasn't going like, oh, I want the fucking, you know...
Yeah, yeah, he had the Eddie Van Halen, you know, striped guitar.
Oh, he did?
No, I'm saying he didn't do that.
Right.
He came up with his own shape.
But the interesting thing about that...
Did Eddie and him get along?
Well, I think the word on the street is, Eddie's fair warning playing is a
reaction to how, you know, Randy Rhoads was getting so much glory for the
Blizzard of Oz and the Diary of a Madman record.
Because here comes Eddie with this dark record and riffs and that's a
masterpiece record and it's playing is at the highest level.
So they were pushing each other.
Yeah, absolutely.
But Randy died so young that, like, he didn't have a time to, like...
I wouldn't even think