Name: "Where are you from?" - Bill Burr
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Where are you from?" - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Where are you from?" - Bill Burr' from Billy Twinkle Toes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-17. Transcript available.

Tell me where are you from? Billy boy, Billy boy, tell me where are you from?
Charming Billy.
What song is that? He's a young boy that wants to go with scouting like a scout.
All right, where are you from, Bill? Hey, Billy boy, OD. OD? That's O-D-E-E.
Not sure if you saw it floating around Twitter, but there was an article
written by a guy who said it's racist when people ask where he's from.
I ask people where they're from all the time if they have an accent, because
the rest of the world interests me.
Anyways, he says, I'm a Pakistani-born American, and I drive Uber slash Lyft,
and anything else, they'll let me.
I love it when people ask me where I'm from, because it makes me and my country
more human to them.
How many Pakistani people do you know?
One, and then there's a couple others that I might know, but I'm not going to
ask them what they are, because then, you know, if they're Indian or they're
not Pakistani, you know, you guys are like fucking, you know, Michigan and Ohio
State.
I don't want to start that shit up.
And you're in a fairly diverse city.
Exactly, Bill.
Probably only a few, if any.
So that's why I love it.
I don't like how you just fucking assume that shit, even though you were right.
Sometimes I just say one of those countries that gets bombed a lot.
Some laugh, some apologize on behalf of their army.
So I, well, we're not bombing you guys.
I thought that was India.
I don't want to start it up.
I know you guys are, the problem is, is people in Pakistan, in India, they're
just, they're Led Zeppelin fans.
All right?
And then Zeppelin wrote that song, Kashmir, and then that just started the
whole shit up again.
As far as I know, that's what's going on over there.
So I ask, so I say, ask me where I'm from, and don't worry about the occasional
insecure guy who doesn't like to hear it.
Thank you for all the laughter.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like, it's probably because they got treated
like shit.
I mean, there's a difference between like, hey, man, where are you from?
That's a cool accent.
As like, you know, as being like, dude, where the fuck are you from?
I mean, that's not a good one.
Underrated.
Working with people who know the next step.
You don't have to ask for the hammer or reach for the next piece of plywood.
It doesn't matter what you're doing.
If the person you're working with can handle doing what they're doing and also
seeing the project as a whole.
I'm writing this because I'm currently experiencing that.
Unlike the last Dumbo who slowed me down so much that I missed my own
anniversary dinner to meet a contractual deadline.
Now, wait a minute.
You're blaming the person who hands you the shit?
I don't know.
You should have been cracking the whip a little fucking hard.
Is that politically incorrect as a white person to use that fucking expression?
Let's see.
Let's look that up.
We'll end the podcast on that.
Is it passe?
I do know as a white person, you wouldn't want to say that to a black person.
I can pretty much guess that.
All right.
You guys don't start stepping it up.
You're going to make me have to start cracking the whip.
Excuse me.
All right.
Cracking the whip.
I mean, I don't even need to be origin.
Maybe it's a horse racing thing.
We'll see.
Origin.
Come on.
Oh, I have the slowest internet.
Crack the whip.
An expression for using one's authority to urge subordinates to work harder or
behave better.
Crack the whip traces its origins to the 17th century horse-drawn wagon drivers,
according
to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms.
Cracking the whip.
Racism claim fails.
Cracking the whip is not a racial term.
I love when white people do that shit.
Actually, it's not a racial term.
Even if it reminds you of slavery.
So I'm going to continue saying it while I do the tomahawk chop.
Just because that's what human beings do.
You can't tell me what to do.
I'm going to take it to that level.
Anyway, whatever.
You can't have everything.
All right.
That's it.
I almost said you can't have your cake and eat it.
And I was like, wait, was that a reference to slavery?
No, that was a cakewalk.
I mean, how do you even keep up to it?
It's so funny, like, how many fucking sayings came out of slavery that stuck
around.
You know?
There weren't any slaves up north.
We didn't come up with any sayings.
Oh, dude, this is going to be like a tea potty.
That's when you.
I came from throwing people's lawn furniture over the fucking the back railing
of a porch or something.
And it's a reference to it.
I don't fucking know what it is.
All right.
That's it.
Go fuck yourselves.
And I'll check in on you on Thursday.