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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Monday Morning Podcast 2-18-19' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-18. Transcript available.

Monday Morning Podcast 2-18-19

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr, and it's time for another Monday Morning
Podcast for Monday, what would that be, 16th, Monday the 18th, February 18th,
and we don't have guests on here too often, lately more, as I've gotten older
here, starting to lose my mind, and I get self-conscious about you guys
listening to me going on and on and on, I do have a special guest, someone I
got to know last year, or maybe a little bit more than a year ago, we did a
movie called The Front Runner,
please welcome director extraordinaire, Jason Reitman.
Now, I have to admit, this is Jason, as a fan of your podcast, that I am
disappointed by myself even being here, because I hate when you have a guest on
the podcast, my favorite episodes are the ones that are just you, and you're
talking to yourself, and you're your best guest, and you go, oh, really, Bill?
Yeah, and you go back and forth, so I'm frustrated with myself being here on
your podcast.
Enjoy movies, music, and that type of thing, so when I do have people on, I try
not to have just some sort of random person, and I'm having you on, not only
because I love the movie you made, I'm also in it for a minute, so this is also
self-serving here.
You're great in the movie, like, you're genuinely great in the movie, and I've
gotten a lot of feedback on that, and you're not only in it for a minute, like,
you play, you have, you have a great role in the film.
I run down an alley a couple times.
You have one of the best scenes in the film, you have one of the best scenes in
the film, and one of the first things that people ever talk about is the beat
where you drop the notepad, and they start talking about your scene and your
character, and I thought you were fantastic.
Oh, I know, and everybody, yeah, that was the one thing that people said, like,
well, let's just let them know what it's about in case, you know, because God
knows there's a million things to watch.
Jason directed a movie last year called The Front Runner, which was the Gary
Hart story, which I didn't know that up until when he ran for president, that
mainstream media, meaning, like, the New York Times, the LA Times, Chicago Tribune,
whatever, like, the newspapers that your paperboy delivered never delved into a
political candidate's personal life as far as their affairs or whatever was
going on.
Even if they knew, even if they knew, even if they knew it, it was considered
beneath them scumbag journalism, like, National Enquirer level stuff.
I had no idea, I guess it was something I never really thought about, like,
whether they, because growing up, I felt like the only person who ever did it
was JFK, because that's what you always heard about him.
You always heard about him, Marilyn Monroe.
Yeah, but you never heard about anybody else, so I just sort of assumed that,
oh, he screwed around, there was a couple of legendary guys that screwed around,
that screwed around so much that everybody kind of knew, so I thought that, I
guess I kind of thought that screwing around was sort of a new thing or
whatever.
Well, isn't that how we feel about sex in general?
I mean, you know, as we get older, we realize that, oh, that's right, more
people are probably pervs than we thought, and more people cheat than we
thought, and you go back in history, you go, oh, yeah, people have probably
been doing these things since the dawn of man.
I remember when I was really young, I was taking drum lessons from this guy,
and he was 70 then, and I was like 18 or 19, and I was taking drums, he's an
old big band drummer, and he started telling me stories one time, he was like,
oh, yeah, he goes, I used to have, he goes, I knew this woman, she had green
eyes, man, she was crazy, I used to bang her in the park up against a tree, and
I was like, listen to this shit.
To have a drum lesson.
I know, well, we got to know each other after a while, we'd hang out and stuff,
so he didn't give a shit, he told me, because I was fascinated with his life,
because I wanted to, on some level, I was like, wait, is this what, I knew I
wanted a fun job, and I knew I loved drums, but I didn't have it, I was like,
more like, dad, rock band, sort of talent level, but I didn't know that at that
point, and I was fascinated, because he had lived that life, he went through
the whole big band era, and all of that, and watched that go away,
and how he dealt with it, and all that stuff, but he used to tell me these
stories, and I remember, I looked, I'm like, you did that?
Like, what was that, like the 1930s, yeah, 1930s, 1940s, I'm like, you did that?
And he goes, let me tell you something, kid, he goes, every generation thinks
they're the first generation that ever fucked, and I was, and I never forgot
that.
Well said, oh, I love the wording on that, too, that's perfect.
Yeah, but then, of course, you go back, and you know, if you, the Romans,
Greeks, and all that stuff, you realize, it seems like it was like, like
nothing happened, like nobody had sex between the Romans and the Greeks.
Right.
Up until Woodstock, right, is kind of how it goes, so anyway, so what's his
face, Gary Hart, has an affair with Donna Rice, and the Miami Herald decides to
cross that line, and ever since then, we now have what we have now, where they
just, they just delve into everybody's life, and it's forced, now with like
social media.
I just thought it was just such a, the way you did it, it was just such a great
story, considering everything that's happening now, you know, like almost like
everything's out there now, to go back and kind of be like, this was sort of
like the first, like, I can't even say leak in the dike, this was just the
thing that kind of blew it open.
Yeah, no, and by the way, I didn't know this stuff either, I'm not exactly a
student of history, I'm a student of movies, I like movies, and I didn't know
the story, and I frankly didn't really know who Gary Hart was, you know,
I was probably 10 when this happened, and there was a Radio Lab, not to plug a
different podcast, sorry, but
That's all right, I don't care.
Radio Lab.
Listen to Radio Lab, everybody.
Did a piece on this story, Matt By had written a book about Gary Hart, and that
really was my introduction to the story, and considering everything that we're
going through right now, and considering the way that we've kind of thinned the
line between what is a private life and what is a public life, I thought the
story was fascinating,
that there was a moment where, as you just said, his private life was out of
bounds, it was considered not only uncouth, but it just wasn't our business,
and he was a guy who was actually a great candidate in every other respect,
you know, two-term senator, and was kind of just not only the presumed nominee,
but presumed to win, you know, he was like 10 points ahead of George Bush going
into the campaign.
Plus, we had just had eight years of a Republican, so then that's what happens,
and everybody's like, oh, it's the red tie's fault, and then you go eight years
this way, and then eight years that way, so...
Yeah, and this story kind of broke, so basically, yeah, you're right, other,
you know, people kind of knew about Gary Hart, I think there was kind of presumptions
that perhaps he was a womanizer, that perhaps he dated around, you know, he'd
been separated from his wife a couple times,
and so he had kind of just dated traditionally in D.C., and the Miami Herald...
What does dated traditionally mean? He's separated and would go on dates?
I mean, he was just like, there was moments where he wasn't married, and he was
just kind of going on dates, and so people got a feel for what this guy is like
as a bachelor.
This guy crushes it at work, he crushes it outside of work.
He was a handsome guy, I mean, his best friend was Warren Beatty, I mean, you
know...
Oh, wow, yeah, there you go.
And so, the Miami Herald gets wind of this, and they followed it up, and when a
lot of other newspapers said, you know, we're not going to cover this, the
Miami Herald did, and the American public said, yes, give me more of that.
And it coincides with just a lot of things happening simultaneously, you know,
it was just a few years before that CNN even, like, went on the air, they
started Crossfire, the satellite van was invented,
A Current Affair, the first gossip television show, you know, goes on, goes on
the air, so the, you know, what we think of as, you know, National Enquirer
being a print medium, like, made it to television.
Right.
And now we're filling a 24-hour news cycle, and the American public said, yeah,
that, that matters to us, we want to, we want to hear that story.
There's also, too, back then, before the 24-hour news channel, you had time.
Right.
If some shit was coming out, you at least, you know, if it was 8 in the morning,
like, this fucking story's breaking in 11 hours, we got to, we got to, oh,
whatever, 10 hours, we got to do something here.
And now, you have, like, forget about the 24-hour site, you have social media,
and now, also, the way people post news, there's no alleged, it's like somebody
gets accused of something,
and then regular people, because they're not in journalism, and then, I guess,
there's, there's no libel or anything on the internet,
it's just be, you know, so-and-so accused of this, and then it's like, the next,
you know, generation of that, piece of shit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, did
this, and, oh, sorry, that's me.
Oh, shit, this is literally, this is the part of the podcast that you enjoy,
when I fucking go onto my phone here.
Yeah.
And completely abandoned.
One, 175 pounds, we'll say.
There we go.
Is this your weigh-in?
No, I'm doing Santa Barbara tonight, and I'm flying the helicopter up with my
instructor, and I thought we were only going to get the two-seater, now the
four-seater became available, so I'm asking if my, my buddy can go along.
So, he just needs to know how many is there going to be, and how much he weighs,
because it's all weight and balance and all that.
Wait a second, any time you rent a helicopter or take a helicopter, you have to
admit your weight?
Does that fuck with people?
Yeah, you know what, it's funny, because especially in this business with
entertainers, because I had a buddy of mine, and he goes, and he was sort of
fat at the time, fatter than he wanted to be, and he goes, dude, I'll be like
190 by the time we fly.
I think he was over two bills, and he didn't want to admit it, and I just said,
dude, this is not a time to lie.
So, he came back, he's like, 206, but I'm going to be in the 190s by the time
we fly.
It's like, great, just don't gain any more weight or whatever, and what they do
is they'll just adjust like five pounds up or something like that, I would
think.
They're moving weight around the helicopter to balance it, left, right, top,
bottom?
And then how much fuel you can have, like there was some kid who was inexperienced
or whatever, and he filled up the thing that I was, I'm going to fly, the R44,
so it's a four passenger.
When you have a four passenger, I mean, unless you have kids, you know, I haven't
flown this thing much, I'm just repeating what people told me.
You never fill both tanks up full, because you just have too much weight, and
you won't be able to get lift, and I don't even know how this guy even got into
a hover,
but somehow he did, and he took off, and then it just becomes this thing where
you're just pulling too much power, and you start descending, and then your
brain tells you, pull more.
What you actually want to do is try to level out, which he probably should have
done was something called a running landing, which is sort of sliding into
second base, which he did not do, and unfortunately, it didn't end well that
day.
Right, so that's why we're asking, he's asking how many more, it's only one,
only one is not a big deal, and also he's in, he's like a buck 75, so it won't
be a problem, but it will definitely, you know, I would think he wouldn't top