#1219 - Bill Burr

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Do, do, and four, three, two.

SPEAKER_2 (0:08)

Yes, Bill Burr, how are you, fella?

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Good to see you.

Bill Burr (0:11)

Good to see you too.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Thank you very much for taking me up on that flight. I'm gonna tell you what, legitimately, you changed the way I think about LA.

Bill Burr (0:19)

It's really small, isn't it?

SPEAKER_2 (0:20)

It's way smaller than you think.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

It's a different thing. When you fly over it, you go, oh, this ain't that big.

Bill Burr (0:27)

Yeah, that's there, this is there, because what it is, I remember when I was still getting my license and I was doing a night flight, right? Which is insane, totally different ball game.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Oh, I imagine.

Bill Burr (0:37)

And yeah, because when you're on the ground, you're like, wow, it'd be really easy to see everybody, because you're looking up and all you're seeing is the backdrop of the dark sky, right? But when you get up there, if someone's below you, they disappear into the city. So that's what, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, so we were flying back, and I trained down in Long Beach, so we were going along the 710, and I just see like all these lights and it was like right there. I'm like going up like this, and I go, what's that? He goes, and the pilot looked over and goes, oh, that's the fireworks from Disneyland.

And I was like, fucking Disneyland is right there, because in my head, it took like two hours to get there, hour and a half, going down the five.

But it's just like, because you don't look at miles. All you do is look at time when you're out here because there's so much traffic, but it's literally like, oh, that's like.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

40 miles.

SPEAKER_4 (1:25)

It's not even.

Bill Burr (1:26)

It's like from Hollywood, like I would think it can't even be more than 15, 20 miles away. Like Anaheim is so fucking close, but I just, it's just Irvine Comedy Club. That's all I think of.

SPEAKER_4 (1:36)

It's just fucking way the fuck down there.

Bill Burr (1:39)

And then you get up in a helicopter and you're like there in like 11 minutes going like, this is ridiculous. So yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

It was awesome. Dude, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_4 (1:51)

Yeah, it was.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Flying over Malibu when you landed on the top of that little hill there with the picnic table.

SPEAKER_4 (1:55)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Dude.

Bill Burr (1:57)

I set it down nice. I was a little nervous. I'm like, all right, don't, don't fuck this up with Joe here. Cause he's gotta be like, bro, you know, he was all right when he was flying. When he went, when the big part, when he went to land, he wasn't that good, but.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

It was smooth. And then the apocalypse now shit we're going through the canyons.

That was awesome, man.

Bill Burr (2:14)

Yeah. Those are.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

I get it.

Bill Burr (2:16)

Those are fun. That's it's a, it's a lot of fun. And you know, I fly mostly with an instructor cause I got the kid and everything. But every once in a while, you got to go out by yourself just so you know, you can do it.

But I also, I'm actually over, overdue to do it, but I always go out and I do like the auto rotations and he'll just sort of chop, I'm flying along, he'll just chop throttle. And like, it's just, it's just rolling the RPMs. I mean, rolling the engine down, not the RPMs, the engine down.

And then you immediately have to pick a spot, you know? And sometimes, you know, the lower you are, you know, it becomes literally what you, the first place you look is where you're putting it. It's really crazy.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

What you're talking about, you mean crash landing. That's what auto-rotation means.

Bill Burr (2:55)

Yeah, it'd be basically if you had some sort of problem, yeah, engine failure, whatever. So like when you're flying along and the engine's working, it's drawing air into the disc, and that's what creates lift. But when you go into an auto-rotation, it's the air rushing, you're using gravity, bringing the helicopter down, using that air, like almost like a fan to keep it going. So and there's a critical point where if you let the main rotor go too slow, that's why the low RPM horn comes on, which is just a nauseating sound.