Name: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 4-25-19 w/ @TalWilkenfeld (video)
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 4-25-19 w/ @TalWilkenfeld (video)' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 4-25-19 w/ @TalWilkenfeld (video)' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-28. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 4-25-19 w/ @TalWilkenfeld  (video)

hey what's going on it's bill bird it's time for the thursday afternoon just
before friday
monday morning podcast what's going on how i uh i am uh once again this is like
all of a sudden i
never have guests and then all of a sudden they all come out of the woodwork
almost at the same
time on all musicians and once again we have a very special guest uh miss tal
wilkenfeld how are
you i'm good you got a new album coming out yep right it just came out on friday
i didn't even
want to start with that because i know you've been talking about all kinds of
music i had to ask you
because we're over your place right now how are you liking the vitamix i love
the vitamix because
i've gotten into like i'm an old man now i don't know if you can tell i use a
lot of lotion you might
think i'm still in my 20s but i'm about to turn 51 here in june and uh i i've
started to do like for
breakfast i like to just have like a smoothie yeah as phony as that sounds to
everybody doesn't live
in it's the greatest thing ever right you just drink it you're full yeah you
know rather than
doing the denny's grand slam breakfast you feel like a tub of which makes you
eat something else
bad so people been telling me about the vitamix this is where i am in my life
right now i'm like
like that was the thing you have all these amazing instruments and and the
thing that stuck out
was like oh a vitamix i wonder if that one mashes up the spinach and kale a
little bit better i have
the the best recipe too you do yeah i got i got two really good ones that i
stand by what are they
they trade uh i got one that uh i substitute the kale for spinach spinach
tastes better all it is
it's just that's uh i substitute for dandelion greens just fyi you with i use dandelion
greens
now what do you do to sweeten that up so it's not bitter as shit i use some
honey just a little
bit of honey just a little bit yeah i remember one time my wife took me to some
restaurant we
ended up eating like dandelions like a dandelion we both trying it out like hey
man let's be healthy
we both looked at each other it's like it was one of the worst things i ever
tasted so when you grind
that up what do you have almond milk in there too or something no no no it's it's
actually a juice really
it's not like a smoothie um but it's quite thick which is why i still call it a
smoothie but mine has
dandelion greens cilantro a little bit of black pepper oh my god turmeric um
ginger like fresh
ginger watch what you call me wait you stand by that it's this sounds it sounds
a little bit of honey
what else do i put in there water there's obviously water and and then i get
hungry an hour and a half
later where do you buy dandelions go in your backyard and yank them out of the
grass where do you get your dandelions like any health food store whole foods
or i've never i gotta
be honest with you know i've been to a few of those little health food places i've
never i've never seen
that but uh all right mine mine's just simple it's just a almond it's uh almond
milk with some almonds
just in case there's not enough almond in there then some spinach uh the fuck
is a banana a little bit of ice
um i know i'm forgetting something is there cinnamon blueberries do you ever
use blueberries
no i gotta get a couple goes because i i basically have two go-to smoothies and
i'm getting sick of
them and then i have like this greek yogurt parfait and i just sort of rotate
that on a three and i'm
just i've had it you know you know like when you've been jamming with people
too long you're like
we need some new blood or something that's where i am with that's me trying to
steer it back to
the music here so let's at least say the name of your incredible album that i
only heard three
tracks of because i couldn't figure out how to download it um for those of you
not familiar with
tal she's uh she's basically played with everybody and i promised her i wasn't
gonna bring up all the
past like hey man what was it like playing with this person but she's you know
imdb or she's played
with literally everybody and you've basically been known as this monster bass
player that can just
play with anybody and uh your hidden talent of an unbelievable singing voice is
finally displayed
like that's what killed me when i listened you just played those three tracks
for me aside from of
course how up front you know the bass is and all the mix which i'm loving um
yeah i had no idea you
could sing like that i kind of um i i've kept it quiet for a while like i
started as a singer songwriter
when i first picked up guitar and then um sort of started focusing just on
guitar when i moved to
america because i left home when i was 16. right and i moved to america and i
went to this music school
for a little while and uh i went from like only being i hope you went to a nice
place with all this crap
about the michael jackson documentary which i refuse to watch why would you do
that why would you put
all those that those horrible stories in your head it's like i get it all right
the guy was a creep and
now he's dead so what are we doing i guess you got a list somebody's going
someone was telling me
going you have well you have to watch it so then you you as a parent it's like
i'm not gonna let
some guy sleep with my kid behind nine doors anyway so you got this album
coming out so i went to um
i went to this this school and i i went from being allowed to play like half an
hour a day to wanting
to practice for like six hours a day was that torture for you considering the
way you took i remember you
here i watched that interview you said the first time you actually played a
chord you got emotional
you cried yeah so you love something that much and then all of a sudden you go
into you go into
school in australia yeah so they were teaching about columbus and all the great
stuff that happened
here in america of course right um whatever it was how you guys you got dropped
off by the english
is that what happened something like that were a bunch of convicts apparently
yeah exactly yeah exactly
so then all of a sudden was that torture for you in school it was just it was
hard because um
you know academia was the focus especially like um where i like with who i grew
up with you know
um my mom just like really wanted me to uh you know do all my yeah do all my
school work and stuff
i mean she's probably just being a responsible parent but like i just was not
into geography and
history i was into uh so did you ever just like to pick up the base and be like
mom listen to this
i mean listen to this and then look at my grades in math and you tell me which
direction i'm supposed
to go in i mean uh i was just i was a guitarist at that point like i only
switched to bass when i was
17 which and i already moved to america at that point but yeah i mean she heard
me play i just i think
that like you know uh the music business is a tough place and she probably just
thought like uh you maybe
maybe that's not the best thing for you to do to be in the music industry it's
so uncertain um so but
i wasn't going to listen to what anyone was going to say like that's all i knew
that i had to be a
musician and i didn't care if i was going to be homeless and right and be a
musician i just i knew that
that's what i had to do so i never wonder how many this how many musicians are
out there because that
story is like you had that inner drive and like i always wondered like how many
like jimmy hendrix
they're like working at home depot because their parents or or some something
you know they just
didn't have that thing to be like no no no fuck that i'm doing it right um when
really important people
that basically taught you how to walk and talk and all of that stuff start
telling you you know you
shouldn't go in that direction is that's just something that you is was that
something that
developed was it the love that you had when you started playing guitar that you
were like no i
literally have to do this or do you feel you always had sort of that that uh
that drive well i actually
think um as a kid especially as a teenager like if your parents tell you not to
do something you're
going to want to do it more like 99 of teenagers i dread those days okay yeah
so it probably worked uh
out in the the right way that she didn't really want me to focus on music
because that just made
me want to do it more oh okay yeah i mean i'm kind of i mean i wouldn't even
say i was necessarily
rebellious but if you want something that bad and someone's telling you no you're
like well i'll prove
to you that that i really deserve this and i'm gonna work my ass off and i did
like i was so focused
like my rebellion as a teenager was to succeed as a musician it wasn't like to
go off and do drugs or
whatever else like that was my rebellion was was success you know i went to i
was looking at schools
to see which one to take you know put my daughter in you know all the public
schools are shit out here
i guess so you gotta send them to private school and spend like a zillion
dollars by the time they're
like eight it's so fucking stupid so he went to this one and it was like a
french speaking one right
so all the kids was amazing the kids were super smart it was a great school and
and but the lady
given like the tour right she goes uh the hell did she say i asked her i said
hey you know uh
do the parents kind of learn french along the way she's like no we encourage
you to speak the
perfect english at home and blah blah i said well what if i want to learn it
too and she looked at
me she goes yes it's too late for you i was just like god damn i actually
respected it but you
know what i'm so happy she said that to me because now i got this thing like
all right i'll show you
yeah and i got flash cards i ordered flash cards and i'm like looking at them
trying to put together
phrases and stuff i you know listen the back of my head i know she's probably
right and i love the
school and i'm actually uh excited that the potential to go there but like i i
do relate to that
as far as um when somebody says that but there was a period in my life where i
wasn't that guy
oh yeah like if somebody said that to me i'd be like oh okay forget it oh
really so yeah i think
i've probably uh had that since i was really young like like just determination
to do whatever i want
to do because like i remember being super focused on um running before i was a
guitar player and i was
like obsessed with long distance running like and and in my head i'm like i
have to be the best i have
to be the best runner and there was this one girl that was better than me and
and it pissed me off so
much and i remember like there was this one race that was i don't know it's
like a 10 mile race it
was really long and and i just i just had to beat this girl and i did beat the
girl you did but i did
this like um like celebratory dance afterwards because i was so excited and i
threw my back out
oh no yeah so then i i i kind of was like hobbling around for a little while
and couldn't run
like a couple weeks and then that's actually when i walked past that guitar and
and started playing
guitar is that right yeah yeah wow did she get mad when you did that dance i
mean i don't think she
saw it she was that far behind me wow that's like a feel-good movie except they
they always run credits
before you blow out your back then you became like a musician so you know the
the few tracks that i
heard in that three the three that i listened to was definitely you know this
is really like a
very personal album as far as like you know talking about yourself that one you
just played what
was the name uh the haunted heart haunted love haunted love the one that's just
the bass and voice
with the orchestra yeah yeah that was uh some pretty uh heavy lyrics that made
me start thinking
about my parents i went on a little trip there when i was yeah yeah thinking
about my whole
life and um i for people listening here i can't recommend like the level of
qualit