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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 3-1-18' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-03-02. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 3-1-18

Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr and it's time for a very special edition
of the Monday morning podcast or the Thursday afternoon just before Friday
podcast, whatever the hell you want to call it. I have a very special guest
here. This is a guy I've been a fan of since, I don't know, like the first time
I saw him, 82 or 83. Please welcome drumming legend, Mr. Kenny Aronoff.
Yeah, man. What's going on, dude? It's so cool to see you because the first
time I saw you was a buddy of mine in Chicago said, you got to see this guy. I
went, can I swear on this show? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh my God, this fucker's from
Massachusetts or something. Yeah, I didn't know. I always thought you were a
New York guy. I didn't know you were Massachusetts.
So my mom came, grew up in the Bronx because I live, grew up in Exit 2, which
we were talking about in Stockbridge. For some reason, I adapted that New York
thing.
Yeah. It was not that pocket car and apple. It was like motherfucker, you know,
like the.
But that's a weird part of Massachusetts. He's talking Exit 2 on the Mass Pike
where I was telling you I had one of the worst gigs in Lee, Massachusetts
starting out, but, you know, leaving there, people throwing shit at me.
Yeah. They were just they were bored is what I thought. And they just weren't
looking for someone to beat the shit out of. And I look like Ron Howard. So
that was going to be an easy night for them.
You showed that you were. No, I didn't. I didn't. I just remember standing up
there and so bad wanted to say something. I knew all they wanted me to do was
just say that one thing. And they like because they had this look on their face
like, come on, come on, freckles, say it.
And I was just like, I am going to get like curb stomped. So I didn't say shit.
And I got paid and they were like following me around like this group.
And they like they threw this dinner roll at me. They missed. And it was weird.
It was like this weird. I've told the story before.
It was like it was like this function room. And next door to what was another
function room was part of this restaurant.
And in the other room was like a bachelor party. And there was no closed door.
And they just saw me standing there bombing in this restaurant.
And I just became this entertainment thing. And was it downtown Lee? Is there a
downtown?
Yeah. I don't even remember. It's a one stop. No, it was. It was. I remember it
was like I remember pulling out of there and it was just like this.
Remind me that that bar that they went to in Porky's. Remember that? There was
just in the middle of the fucking woods. It was like that.
I'm sure it's all developed now. But I remember when I finally pulled out my
little piece of shit, Ranger, I had my head out the window like Ace Ventura.
They were just laughing. Yeah, I probably took, you know, five years off my
life that night.
So anyways, but that's a weird part of Massachusetts where there's like there's
Patriots fans and Giants fans.
You start to get into that. 20 minutes from the border. From the border. Yeah.
So there's Yankee fans and Red Sox fans. It's kind of like Connecticut, like,
you know, sort of halfway through.
Yeah. You start getting out that way. Like, who do you root for? So I guess I
don't know.
But your parents, you said your mom was from the Bronx. She was from the Bronx.
And my dad was from Patterson, New Jersey.
And then they all kind of lived in New York for a while. And then they, my dad
got, he was studying paper and chemistry.
So in Lee, there was a mill there, all these little mills up there in New
England on the river.
And he worked for a division of Kimberly Clark.
I hope they pour shit in the drinking water out there after that gig. No, I'm
kidding.
Dude, we used to say, man, if you're in a boat and you fall into that river, it's
acid will burn you alive.
I know. They just stunk in the summer. It was so bad. They just dump chemicals
in there.
Yeah. Just wash it out. They don't do shit like that anymore, do they?
I know. No, not at all. Not at all. It's all good water. That's why we got the
water tap water.
But the earth and the air. I know. That's what's so fucked up about all this
shit that people always talking about on social media.
Like it's this big goddamn deal, like fat shaming and all of this shit.
It's like, dude, those are problems. Those problems are so down the fucking
line.
Yeah, I know. As far as like what is going on right now.
How about the air? Yeah. Or water. All of that. Yeah, all this shit you need.
There's some place in Africa in one month they're going to run out of water,
period.
I can't, I can't listen. I can't listen to anything because it just, because
there's no fucking solution.
No one pays attention. And then if you try to address it, conservatives blame
liberals and liberals blame conservatives.
And then they just keep plowing ahead.
And they don't want to hear what I'm going to say.
What are you going to say?
Well, I don't know.
No, no, no. Let's, let's, let's.
No, I'm pretty strong about like, you know, people, you know, people are
fucking still and they're like little kindergartners still.
I don't care how old you are. I don't think the world is evolving at all.
Maybe with technology, technology, but it's the same shit. Everyone's, I cannot
believe like, who gives a fuck about that?
And who gives a fuck about that? Oh, really? You really that uptight about that?
Holy shit.
Right. No, I know what you mean.
Or, or like, you know, some big issues, which I won't mention with a squabbling,
dude, just make a little adjustment.
No, but this is the thing. You know, you have to dance around because you have
some big issues that I'm not going to remember.
You're upset about this. And I know every issue that you're fucking talking
about, but you can't bring it up because then you have like, you know, you have
80 soccer moms.
And this is the 80 soccer moms will actually make the news because they're
going to talk about that.
Okay. You are whatever fucking reason. So you got it. You got to make the news.
You got to dance between the raindrops. I'm going to get my ass kicked.
We got to get some padding on this table. Any sort of shifting of weight.
That's right. So anyway, check. So, oh man, I'm going to get my ass kicked
right now.
But I call, look, I grew up in Western Mass, super liberal, super democratic,
you know, you know, just everybody, just when they vote democratic all the way
down, it doesn't matter if it was Hitler, if he's a Democrat, if he's a
Democrat side, I, I'm just blown away.
I call them vicious liberals.
Oh, yeah. I was living out here. I know. It's crazy.
No, but people are so, like, a real true liberal was my dad. A liberal, my dad,
you know, we grew up Jewish, but my dad.
He would listen to Hitler talk just to see what he had to say, wouldn't yell at
him.
He would talk. And then he'd tell Hitler that he was fucked in so many words,
but he would at least talk.
I mean, he like knew the guy or he's watching the tape?
No, but I'm just saying that. He's talking to the TV?
He's a true liberal.
I was just thinking, like, that was the ultimate, like, fucking odd couple
movie.
Were they, like, roommates in college or some shit?
No, actually, my dad was bombing Hitler in World War II.
Oh, he was. He was in the bombers that just leveled Hitler, you know.
But my point is, my dad was a true liberal.
He would listen to anybody, didn't matter what it is.
But nowadays, it's like, I call them vicious liberals.
They're, like, they're more conservative and radical.
They totally are.
A true liberal is somebody who listens and will at least accept somebody else's
opinion, no matter how radical it is.
Liberal is your open mind.
Accept the fact that you have that opinion. You'll listen to it and everything.
Right, but, you know, this viciousness is like, it's like.
No, there's destroying careers.
They will just, if you had, like, it's basically, we're liberal, think what we
think.
But if you don't, we're going to go after your career.
And it's like, it's no different than I remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks
when they just expressed their opinion about the current president.
And I remember, like, Fox News was saying, like, well, they have a right to
state their opinion and we have a right to have, you know, state our opinion.
It's like, you didn't state your opinion.
You state your opinion and then you systematically tried to destroy their
fucking ability to earn a living.
That's not tit for tat.
No.
You know what I mean?
So, whatever.
That's what I'm saying.
That's sandbox stuff.
It's everyone's still a bunch of little kids still.
How do we get on that?
I don't know.
What I want to talk, because I know everybody always talks to you about drumming
and all that type of shit.
I don't know.
What nobody doesn't talk to you about, dude, how, I don't want to say I hold
you up.
I'm old.
Okay, you're old.
How do you stay in the fucking shape you're in?
You're shredded.
Yeah.
Well, you know, this is me kind of out of shape because I'm so busy right now.
But, you know, what happened was at a certain point in my life, and it was
early, it was like when I was at Mellencamp, and I might have been 27, coming
out of a pretty wild time, party-wise, you know, and suddenly I went, this ain't
right.
A thing clicked in my head.
Now, I'm not saying I remember what party you were at and what you were looking
at.
Looking at to be like, I'm a part of this.
I can't judge this.
That's a five-year period, dude.
It ain't one party.
The party of 19-something to 19-something.
That party, you mean.
It was like I was open for business.
Was it something that it was a feeling that was gradually working at you or
just one night, just some boogie night shit happened?
You were just like, all right, I got to stop this.
Well, first of all, the environment I was in was just, it was just, we were
just a bunch of kids in rock bands just partying and shit was available, you
know.
And you're drinking, and I had abundance of energy.
So, you know, I just, if I drank too much, I'd wake up the next day, oh, that
sucks, and then just go about my day.
But what happened was suddenly I just started, my stomach started feeling like
I couldn't.
When I was eating, I was like, it was, I wasn't digesting food real good.
I just beat myself up.
I wasn't taking care of myself.
And during that time, I was always a jock.
I was a three-letter man jock in high school.
What did you play?
Lacrosse, ski team, and soccer, East Coast shit, you know.
And I ended up going to UMass for music, and my freshman year, I was on the lacrosse
team.
That was the number one lacrosse, number nine lacrosse team in the country.
Was that Amherst or Boston?
Yeah, Amherst.
Oh, God.
And I went there.
There's a party school.
Yeah.
They used to have, like, when I was growing up, once a year, somebody died at a
party.
Southwest.
They'd jump off the building or something?
No, they would ride the elevators.
Oh.
They would ride the elevator surfing, and somebody every year would fall down
the fucking shaft.
Did you go there?
I went to UMass.
I went everywhere.
Yeah.
I went everywhere, dude.
I fucking, I went everywhere.
I went to UMass, Boston.
Yeah.
NC State, Emerson.
I was accepted at Northeastern, I think.
I can't remember.
I just sort of bounced around, and I hated school.
Yeah.
I hated it.
I just wasn't, it just.
It wasn't your thing.
I just, yeah.
I just didn't give a, I just want to get the fuck out of there, and I wanted to
do, have
fun.
I wanted to play drums.
I wanted to joke around.
I wanted to drink.
I wanted to.
Like a normal kid, really.
Yeah.
That's what I wanted to do.
And there was a few subjects that I would, I would like.
Yeah.
Some history, but not that fucking old, old, old shit.
Yeah.
And I'm sick.
Yeah.
No, I dig it.
I had a purpose in college, so it worked out.
But my school.
Well, you went, like, I was.
Hardcore classical.
I know.
There was no school of rock.
Berklee was still, mostly a ja