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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'the Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-10-20 w. Kevin Bacon' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-10. Transcript available.

the Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-10-20 w. Kevin Bacon

Okay. What's up everybody? And welcome to another wonderful
edition of the Thursday afternoon, just before Friday, Monday
morning podcast. I'm just checking in on you with a very
special guest that I promised that I teased on Monday. Ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome the incredibly talented Mr. Kevin
Bacon. You, uh, are you on the road? I heard you were going to
Texas. I think that's what, what I am. Yes, I am. This is the,
this is the final night, eight nights, 16 shows. I realized
how old I am now. Uh, just doing 16 shows indoors would have
been hard enough, but like outside, uh, I feel like I've
been yelling at the tailgate for a week. How's it been going? I
mean, first off, uh, you know, listen, uh, uh, tailgate
comedy. It doesn't, doesn't Texas just say tailgate comedy.
That's, that's the place to do it. Right. Yeah. But you don't
want to be, you don't want to be the only guy talking at the
tailgate. I don't mind chiming in and then having a couple of
beers. I used to, when I used to drink, but it's just sort of,
uh, the, the first one we did was in Dallas, which was a great
venue, but, um, it was more of a music venue and there was a
highway nearby and it was like final approach for like love
field. There was a lot of stuff going on. Um, but the people have
been like, just ridiculous. Like the fact that they're going to
sit there in the cold under blankets, listening to me do my, uh, dumb
jokes, you know, you know, kind of like, I couldn't get too upset
with, like, I got frustrated cause I want to give them a show. Uh, so I
got frustrated with a little bit of the distractions on some of them, but like
the
fact that they were sitting there the way they were on cold grass
under blankets, I'm like, all right, well, I can't bitch about this too
much. So Dallas was cool. Uh, I went to Austin. Austin was crazy. Uh,
those people got after it. I thought that they were going to be like super
mellow, you know, the liberal town. And it was sort of the opposite. Yeah.
They were partying. And then I did one night last night here in, uh,
Houston and they, they were great. They were great. So.
Well, good for you, man. I mean, I, I, first off, I think your jokes
are anything but dumb. And, uh, I, I think it's, uh, I think that's
really cool that you were able to, uh, get out there and do your thing.
Oh, well, yeah. I mean, I got a mortgage, so I gotta get, it isn't
just for, uh, for love of comedy. Have you gone out and done anything? I
know you do the, uh, bacon brothers stuff. Yeah, no, we did. We have not,
we've not played, um, the bacon brothers are actually when the, when the
pandemic hit, we were actually in the studio. I mean, it's so weird to think
back on the day that we went into lockdown, whatever it was, March,
something. Um, we were finishing up the last record. We were doing a bunch
of songs in the, in the studio. And, and, uh, it was at that moment
before, you know, it was kind of like pre mask, but you were kind of
not quite shaking hands and, and, uh, doing a lot of like hand sanitizer,
but we hadn't gone to the mask thing.
Yeah, there was, there was a glove period. People were going to the
grocery store with gloves on. I, I did that.
Right. We didn't have a mask on or nothing.
We were at that, we were at that glove period because we had to take
the gloves, gloves off to play. But, um, uh, you know, it was, um,
we, I haven't really done anything. The only thing I've done is I have
gone back to, uh, work on this series that I'm, I'm doing on Showtime.
And, uh, and that's been really interesting because,
you know, it's really, really weird to start with because you get to work,
your temperature's checked, you go through it, you'll answer a bunch of
questions. Everybody is in PPE. You're completely, you know, masked up and, and
shields. You do the quick nose test every time too.
Yeah. We get tested probably, I mean, four or five times a week. Uh, they, for
some reason, the testing has shifted a little bit where they're not jamming it
all the way up to your, your, you know, uh, brain. It's just kind of like a
spin,
a spin around the lower nostril. And my wife said to me the other day, she said,
the testers must love you because given the size of your nostrils, you're like
a
super easy target. I said, thank you so much, honey. That's, um, really sweet
of you to
point out. Um, and, and we, uh, then at some point after we've rehearsed, we
have
we have to take our masks off cause it's 1992 and we don't have masks on. And,
um, at that
moment, that's when it feels just like it used to feel because now I'm acting,
I'm doing the
thing that I'd know how to do. I'm talking to actors, the masks are gone and
the, you know, the
cameraman is shooting it and the boom operators there and everything is kind of
like, at least for
that moment feels like right. And the way it's supposed to be, but.
Hey, is it weird to do like to go, to be doing a show now going back in time
during a time where
you were already working in TV and film. Do you do anything like it wasn't
quite like that?
Do they, do they go to you to ask them, you know, Hey, when you did these
things, I guess
that's not, it's not about shooting a show, but one of my pet peeves is when I
watched something
in a period is greetings. Like if I see one more high five in something before
the high
five existed or more than this, you know, that greeting that came somewhere in
the nineties.
I'm with you.
Yeah. It drives me up the wall. It's just like, and plus I love the low five. I
miss that.
Yeah. Right.
I was watching something on that. I was like the high five didn't exist then.
No, that's, that's really, that's true. I do the same thing. I, you know, I, I'm,
I'm,
I'm old enough that I don't really remember. And sometimes I'll go, I'll see a,
I'll, I'll
see a high five or, or, or, you know, like a, you know, like a hug or something.
And I'll
go, I don't think that was, but maybe, I don't know. I don't know. I really
remember, you know,
the other thing that's kind of about that. And, you know, when I was listening
to the other
day, you were talking about drumming and, you know, learning the Zeppelin tune
and stuff,
which I thought was really fun to listen to. And there's a really great movie
now called
the sound of metal. I don't know if you have a chance to see it yet, but it's a,
it's, I really
would recommend it. And it's about a, um, it's about a drummer in a, in a, in a,
in a metal band
and he loses his hearing. And it's, um, it's an incredibly well done and moving
kind of moving.
The sound design is, is, is just, I've really recommend it. I have no
connection to it.
Um, and my son looked at it. My son plays in, in, he's a guitar player in, in a,
in a metal band.
And when you look at something, a movie that is like specifically from your
world,
like if I would look at a movie, like you were mentioning before of somebody
making a movie,
I'd go, well, that's not right. I'm like, you know, why isn't, you know, it
doesn't happen that
way. And I sort of feel the same way about music. And I'm sure you feel the
same way when you look
at things that involve drumming and, and drummers. And I was talking to my son
about the movie. He was
like, yeah, you know, um, I, I, I really, I really liked it, but why did he
have that specific t-shirt?
You know, and it was like, it was like something that only a metal head of
would, would, would, would
notice. You know, it's like, it was a band that he didn't think that this guy
would necessarily
like that band on his t-shirt. But that's what happens when we watch movies
about things that we
know intimately. But that's what makes also something great is if somebody can
pay attention
to that level of detail, like a long time ago, one of the first like major
acting things I got
is I got to do a couple episodes of Breaking Bad. And they prided themselves on
like, uh,
you know, the, the trolls that would be like, um, it wouldn't happen that way.
Like they literally,
when we had a scene, it was a pallet of money and that we laid down on, um, one
of those
seasons and they actually broke down the denominations of cash that Mr. White
would have
and how big it would be. We did a train robbery thing and they did the math on
the chemicals.
They would take it out, whatever the chemical was to make the meth and then
putting water in
how much the density of it. And there was some guy whose job was to sit there
and shut down these
trolls and be like, no, that's exactly how, how much it would have been just
for the fun of it.
That's great.
So yeah, I, I, I find that fascinating about movies and movies can also create
something
that never happened or TV or, or they'll, they'll get like, say like with Goodwill
hunting,
like the amount of people, where are you from? I go, I grew up, uh, just south
of Boston.
And there'll be like, Oh yeah. How do you like them apples? And I'm just like,
nobody ever said
that when I was growing up, that's the Matt Damon joke from Goodwill hunting.
Um, or that movie, uh,
Donnie Bosco, which ruined the expression, forget about it. It was so universal.
And they just so overly described it. Like to this day, if I, if I'd slips,
because people tease me out of saying it, I'd be like, Oh yeah, one of that
steakhouse. Oh man,
forget about it. It was unbelievable. And then they go, forget about it. And
then everybody just,
you feel like an asshole.
Yeah. It ruins it forever. I know. I know. Listen, I know, I know exactly how
you feel. And I,
I have to say that, you know, just speaking of, of Boston, I, you know, for
some reason,
for whatever reason, I have done a lot of movies in Boston.
Yeah. Black Mask, uh, uh, Mystic River.
Patriots Day, Mystic River, Patriots Day, Mystic River, uh, RIPD. And now this
show that I'm doing
on Showtime, my wife and I met in Boston during, doing a thing for WBG, GBH.
And, um, the one thing
I know for sure is that I've, I've come to, I have a sense of peace about the
fact that nobody from Boston
is ever going to like my Boston accent. And that, and I'm completely fine with
that. I like, I get it.
I get it. And what's really weird about it is that I'm from Philly and Philly
has a, has a really specific accent, but nobody does it. It's hard. Well, it's
not that it's hard,
but Boston's hard to, I mean, it's not, it's that no, but for some reason,
nobody in the movie,
everybody goes to Philly and they talk like this. They're like, Hey, what are
you doing? Everyone from
Philly is from Brooklyn somehow miraculously. Right. And I don't really
understand why,
why that is, but, but I've gotten a chance to do, you know, my own hometown
accent, like, like maybe,
maybe twice out of every single movie I've, uh, I've done. And people don't
even really know that
that's what I'm, I'm doing. It's like a very, it's a very specific thing that
just for some reason,
we don't get respect. I remember I met this, this woman one time, she was from
Philly.
She was a beautiful woman and was just hearing that Philly accent, like added
to her beauty.
And I remember she was talking about it to her beauty. Oh, I'm glad to hear
that added to it.
I thought you were going to say the opposite. I thought it was a buzzkill.
But she was trashing somebody and she just said something like, yeah, he's an
asshole.
He kind of had that weird way. I'm probably doing it wrong. He's an asshole.
And just was like,
what the hell was that? And then that it was just, just added like another
layer to it. I think
Nick Kroll though, he actually got props. I think he does a good Philly and
Pittsburgh, um, um, accent.
But like, what does he do it in? Cause I want to check it out.
Or does he do his part? He used to do, just go on like YouTube. I'm sure the
clip is on there. It's a
K-R-O-L-L. It was a sketch show, brilliant sketch show that he did on like, uh,
for like three seasons
on Comedy Central. And they did a, they would do a sketch where it was him and
one other character.
It was a Pittsburgh guy yelling at 