Name: Bill Burr - WBCN Radio / Working In A Warehouse
Uploaded: 2016-08-26T14:38:51.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - WBCN Radio / Working In A Warehouse' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-08-26. Transcript available.

um so i came back to the good old us of a had a little contraband if you know
what i mean i
ain't talking drugs man i'm talking about uh you know what that cigar habit got
me again when i was
over there those motherfuckers next thing you know you know uh you know you
know you go through
fucking duty free next thing you know you're down the street behind a humidor
and there it sits
there it sits laughing at me all shiny oh god damn you bill you're such a weak
son of a
a bitch but when i got home aside from a month of mail what i had i ordered two
books when i was
over there and i was excited one of them it's gonna kill me because this guy is
such an underrated
drummer like i've never even heard the proper pronunciation of his name so i
forgive me if i
this i'm gonna it up because i'm saying two different ways modal modal modal
you see the the billy squire
drummer is it bobby is it chewing art or chewing art i don't know what but uh
he had a book the story
of the bobby uh bobby mm-hmm chewing art chewing art story drummer extraordinaire
and i'm reading through
that and uh it's just a great story and uh killer drummer and uh it's just you
know he's got his modern
drummer article in there it's got all this killer ludwig drum kits it's got all
these interviews with all
these guys steve smith and all these these guys from the whole boston music
scene and all these clubs that
they played i remember back in the day when i'd be listening to wbcn the rock
of boston they'd be like
oh go check out so and so down at the channel or at the tam or the middle
eastern tavern the paradise and
all that and i remember thinking someday i'm gonna go down there and i'm gonna
play drums and you know
what it never happened but you know dreams die and uh you get older and uh you
learn to accept things
that you know the the the simple things in life you know a little bit apple
cider as you watch the sun
going down on your nine-year-old prius you know those things you learn to
appreciate those things
you know you're like you know what there's a lot of people out there that that
they they would kill
to have that dream you know not in this country it's kind of hard when the
people you're surrounded
with that's not their dream it's kind of hard when they're laughing at that
dream sure that gets
difficult but if you could somehow transport that nine-year-old prius to some
of the poorest parts
on earth why they would look at you like a king and that's what you have to
hold on to
um yeah i'm just energying my way through this thing so then i went on this
this this this whole
thing on wbcn like i'm looking up every article i could find i ended up
watching the last broadcast
of of wbcn i didn't know it came out 1968 i was born in 68 and for the first 41
years of my life
that radio station was on the air you know they helped out aerosmith they
helped up all these
fucking bands david bowie all these guys all these pictures frank zappa all
these guys come to the
station and i was like i need to know more about this next thing you know i'm
buying a book on it
see i used to be in uh i used to be in trucking i didn't drive a truck i unloaded
the truck that's
what i did i used to work in warehousing i liked warehousing why because i didn't
have a desk and there
was a giant square footage area that if long as long as i was within it i was
considered doing my job
there wasn't somebody breathing down my throat you know my neck i should say my
throat that was weird
down my neck is i i'm supposed to be doing the spreadsheets or whatever it is
those poor people who sit in cubicles you ever just you ever just see you ever
just
you just walk by that maze of cubicles you know if i was if i worked in there
every halloween you'd have
to dress dress up like jack nicholson in the shining and just limp your way
through all of them with an axe
going wendy
like fake icicles on your nose
you couldn't do that some somebody would blow a rape whistle or they they would
they would somehow
feel it was sexist because how come a woman couldn't dress up why was he
chasing a woman you know all the fun of it
would be immediately taken away by human reach one one little one little little
call the human resources
you know it would just all go away the whole thing would go away and then what
you'd go right back
to the soul-crushing silence of 148 adults sitting in a maze of cubicles
wondering praying hoping for
someday their dream to come walking through that door and get them the out of
that office but until then
continue on with your spreadsheets so i used to work out in the uh used to work
out in the warehouse unloading
their trucks you know ups driver the fedex driver you know half those guys
would show up they gave
themselves their own tattoos for whatever reason all of them every one of them
had something
in common was that they didn't want to work for somebody else but they were too
dumb to start their own business so what do you do you get into trucking
i'll work for you buddy but you ain't gonna see me for days you understand you
don't know
am i at this crackle bearer am i over there to dennis am i on the side of a
highway porn shop you got no
fucking idea and as long as i bring that truckload of q-tips in by thursday 9 a.m
i'm getting paid
don't be don't matter what the i did for the last three days and i always
related to those guys
i saw it there was there was a freedom yet you had stability okay i'm getting a
check every
week but i don't got some breathing down my neck unless you work for ups ups
was a
motherfucker they always had that ride-along douche the ice cube of ups right
and then you were the
kevin hart character driving the thing as he was reading you the riot act well
i guess in those
movies ice cube always drives but you know what i mean the hard ass and then
you were like the uh
the the chicken police academy don't move right you were the scared person
when they would come along and they'd write you up every time you didn't put on
your blinker
you're right if you took the turn too sharp and all of that so anyway so i went
down this rabbit hole and i ended up buying this book on uh wbcn that's just
coming out
from someone oh i know what i was gonna say so when i used to work brain is all
over the place
when i used to work in the warehouse i um i used to listen to that every day
charles lacquadera the big mattress and then the lunchtime song
you know would come on and it'd be like whatever the hits were that day where
they would just put
lunch in it and then mark parento would come on at 3 p.m and then you knew it
was almost the end of
the day and he was like the coolest guy he was like the rock star the whole
thing and i know
he had some extracurricular activities
i'm talking about the man on the air man on the air was a rock star for three
to six it was
the greatest because he was the coolest guy and then you knew that the day was
almost over
right and you knew those guys were all doing blow and they would drink it made
you filthy all i do is
drink these guys are doing blow at work why can't i get drunk on the forklift
they had that sort of
influence on people in boston no i'm kidding they actually when i was watching
um i think bradley jay
was the guy who did the last i watched so many of them and i was jet-lagged i
think he did the last
shift on wbcn and they were talking about all the all the bands that they broke
all the stuff that
they did and they would say all the fun all the fun um stuff they did for
charity and they started
talking about how wbcn had their own softball team called the bcn ball busters
and i was immediately
like no way i went to one of those events and they go yeah one time we played
this one band
but blah blah blah blah blah blah and then then because there was another time
we played this band
and i was and they said huey lewis in the news and i was like i was at that
thing screaming at my
computer in italy going i went to that right and they were like yeah where did
we did that in like
marblehead and i was like and i was screaming at the computer like they could
hear me i was like no
it was at nickerson field in boston university i believe when they still had a
football program
and i went to that i remember huey lewis pitched i remember their bass player
he showed up dressed
like he was going on stage he had a long leather coat and he had like the
number four and then like
tape on the back of his coat he had a cigarette going he was hilarious and
everybody was rooting for
huey lewis in the news except for me and my buddy and we were heckling him you
know everybody you know
was rooting for them because they were the rock stars they weren't rooting for
the home town
right a bunch of dick riders and we were sitting there we had a couple two
three huey you're gonna lose
you got nothing right everybody's staring at us um so anyway so i bought a book
on that and um
and that's it and i think i don't think i have anything else to say and i still
got 14 minutes
left so this is this is where it becomes a quagmire