#909 - Bill Burr

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Let's clear our throats to start.

Bill Burr (0:05)

This stuff is good. We're live? That's it, fuckers. That's it, I'm pushing the fucking computer away. I got Throat Coat Tea.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

That's right, you're ready to go.

Bill Burr (0:12)

Billy Burr.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Hey, how are you?

Bill Burr (0:14)

Netflix special, out today, out now.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

That's right, Walk Your Way Out, shot at the Ryman Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bill Burr (0:20)

That's where they used to do Grand Ole Opry. It's a beautiful place.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Yeah, and I had done it in 2014, Vince Vaughn Wild West, he has a comedy festival there. I don't know if you've done it yet.

Bill Burr (0:29)

That's where I did it. I did the Ryman there for the same reason.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Yeah, so I went out there and I was like, everyone was like, I don't know, it's the first place they did the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis, Hank Williams, whatever. And you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, another theater. And you walk in, you're like, oh, wait a minute, I just had like that magic in it. And I went out and I had this great set. And that's just, you just stick it in the card catalog, going, all right, next time I have, I was like, I just burned all this material, so I got to write a whole new hour and come back here. And so next time I go to shoot something, I think that was about a month before I did The Tabernacle for my one previous to that. So I already knew, which was cool, before I wrote my next hour where I was going to shoot it.

Bill Burr (1:06)

Are you on a two-year schedule, you think? Do you think that's the way to do it?

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Roughly two years, but I have like a vibe of when, like this one was overcooked, and just because I got real busy with F is for Family, I would have liked to have taped it like about six months earlier. But it made it, I think it made it better or whatever.

But I would have just as far as, you know what I mean? It's kind of like in this business, there's that thing you don't want to be overexposed, but then you don't want to wait too long. So you got to try to, and then that's also not like, oh, so and so successful, and he waits X amount of time, so I'm going to do the exact thing. It's really like whatever you're trying to do. So it's kind of different every different people. Like those YouTube stars, like their thing is all about just constantly putting out stuff, where I think the road that I'm on is, like right now I'm out there promoting this shit, and then once it comes out and everybody's seen it, they're liking it and I'm done promoting it, then I just sort of disappear until Efface for Family comes out.

I'm kind of a big believer in that, be out there when you got something that's going on. Don't just do shit to do shit. I call that like extra TV.

Hey, he's just here to be here. And now he's over there. There's that guy again. Because I find myself, people that I'm fans of, starting to hate people going like, I can't fucking get away from this fucking guy. And then I'm thinking like, do I actually hate this person? I don't know what it is. But there's definitely a tipping point.

Bill Burr (2:39)

You know who's real smart about that? Daniel Tosh. He doesn't do shit.

He doesn't do a fucking thing. He sells out everywhere he goes. He's got millions of dollars, so he's like, I don't need to do shit. I'm overexposed as it is. My show's on constantly. I'm not doing nothing. He won't do interviews, doesn't do podcasts.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

Yeah. Adam Sandler's another guy.

Bill Burr (2:56)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Adam Sandler doesn't do... I'm trying to think the last time I saw him promote a movie, and yet I see all of his movies.

Bill Burr (3:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

And then I just hear through the grapevine, oh, he signed some big thing with Netflix. All his movies are gonna be over there. I was like, all right, I guess I'm watching him over there.

And I've always just sort of like... And it wasn't until I talked to somebody, he doesn't do any press.

Good for him. He's smart. I might be wrong, but from what I heard, he does very little if he does any.