Name: Bill Burr Discover's Daniel Caesar's 'Who Knows' | Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr Discover's Daniel Caesar's 'Who Knows' | Bill Burr' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-17. Transcript available.

I've been listening to a bunch of music here,
some stuff I gotta tell you guys about.
I discovered this amazing, amazing singer-songwriter,
Daniel Caesar, and I discovered him through this song,
who knows?
Of course, Nia had like this,
she puts this YouTube channel on
where DJs are just playing music and shit,
and like, this DJ was playing this song
and it caught my ear, I'm like, oh my God,
I'm getting like, Brian Wilson vibes in the chorus.
What is going on here?
And just that alone, I like downloaded the song
and then I read the lyrics and I was like, holy shit.
This guy is unbelievable.
Daniel Caesar, who knows?
Download that, and then I wanna hear your theories
of what you think that song's about,
'cause I have a hundred of 'em.
What I love about the song, it's about,
on the surface, why don't you guys just stop the podcast
and listen to the song for a second,
and then come back.
All right, I'll wait.
All right, you're back.
You hit pause, it's a miracle, you know?
And I'm still right here, didn't miss a step.
On the surface, it's a guy who's like,
feels like he's in over his head with a woman, right?
Like, she's beyond me, she's unattainable,
I don't know if I can sustain this.
I'm probably gonna fuck it up.
So on the surface level, I feel like it's a guy
who doesn't love himself, so he doesn't know how to love
this woman, who clearly loves him.
And he's gonna project all of his, how he feels about himself
onto her, and then he's gonna manifest what he's afraid of,
that she is gonna dump him.
But in the end, he loves her more than anything,
and he loves that he loves her, and he wants to marry her.
But in his head, he doesn't think that he's worth being,
you know, getting married to, and she's gonna get tired of that.
Once the honeymoon phase is of loving somebody,
if they're just constantly beating themselves up,
and then you gotta, you know, you only have so much
in your battery pack every day.
If you gotta keep picking somebody up,
that's gonna get old after a while.
So that's what it is on the surface.
But I'm looking at it, like how this guy feels,
what I love about it is, man or woman, or a they?
You can feel that way at any moment in a relationship.
When you first met somebody, when you get serious,
when you're married, when you're in a decade, two with them,
you can feel like you're not worthy of them, you know,
if your self-esteem is like on the precipice there, right?
But then there's another part of it
where you could also look at this song,
and this is a guy dealing with a woman
he's been with for a while,
and they're in some sort of postpartum,
perimenopause, many menopause,
one of those changes that women go through
in a hormone sense where you have no idea,
it seems, from one hour to the next,
from one day to the next,
what you're gonna, what you're gonna be getting.
So the song starts off where he's like,
I'll probably be a waste of your time,
but who knows?
Chances are I'll step out of line,
but who knows?
So on face value, you read that like,
you know, I'm probably gonna fuck this up,
but like when you look at it through a different lens
of the woman you're with
is going through some sort of hormonal change
is like, you know,
I don't know what I'm gonna do,
but I know I'm gonna do something wrong,
or maybe she'll be in a good mood
and I won't get yelled at.
Who knows?
I don't know, right?
And then there's this line in there
where he goes like,
tell me about the city you're from.
Is it hot?
Does it snow there?
To me, he's checking in on her mentally.
The city's like her mentality,
like her mental health.
Like, how's it going today?
Is it hot?
Does it snow?
The cover's on, cover's off.
What the fuck are we doing?
Me in the room?
Me out of the room?
You know, I don't know.
It's a fucking incredible song
and an incredible album
and an incredible artist.
There you go.
Firing on all cylinders.
And then I downloaded the new,
well, the last couple of years,
the new Billie Eilish,
something I would never think to listen to,
considering I'm still finding
obscure Whitesnake songs to listen to.
Listen, you are of your time.
I will never let 80s heavy metal go.
And I went on this massive cozy Powell
drum rabbit hole
that I could not have enjoyed any better.
But anyway, I also need to be understanding
what's going on during this time.
And I downloaded her album that came out
in 2024
because I just randomly heard
this song of hers.
Oh, Hit Me Hard and Soft
is the name of the album.
And there was a song,
Birds of a Feather,
that I saw somebody doing a drum cover of.
And I'm like,
that's Billie Eilish?
I should listen to her.
So I had her album on this morning,
making the kids breakfast,
and I loved it.
And I was like,
I'm like, I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm like, I'm going to be able to do it.
And I'm like, I'm going to be able to do it.
And I'm like, I'm going to be able to do it.
And I'm like, I'm going to be able to do it.
And I'm going to be able to do it.
And I'm going to be able to do it.