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Pete Davidson (1:37)
How are you?
Bill Burr (1:37)
What the fuckers. What the buddies? What the nicks? What's happening? I'm Mark Mayer and this is my podcast. Welcome to it. I am recording this on Sunday. I am in Denver, Colorado, so it's not Monday morning, but I know it is for most of you. And I know for at least 75,017,626 of you, this is going to be a horrible day. And it's going to be a horrible day for America. And it will go down in history as one of the worst days of this country. Because after today, we're not really going to know the nature of our country. I don't know what happens now, and I'm as scared as you are. And just know that they, they love it. They love our fear. They want us to be subjugated by all of their actions, policies, points of view to push back on the marginalized populations of our of our country with no social reprisal. Look, I'm all about free speech. But just know that it's now conditional to abide by their rules, which I think mostly will be. Shut the fuck up. Equal rights are going to be on the back burner if ever coming back. I don't know. The living wage also on the back burner. Will it ever happen? I don't know. Health care for all, Will that ever happen? I don't know. The idea of sustainability being an important project for the human species, I don't know where that is either. They finally won the war against tolerance and now we got to live with it. But again, I don't think that number is unsubstantial. I mean, when you think about the electoral map, which is oddly a lot like the Duty Watch app that I've been tracking to watch fires, you know, red is a problem, all shades of it. It's a problem because despite what anybody thinks, it was always sort of the loophole of democracy that it was possible that you could freely elect a fascist that will end it. And you know, I don't know, the nature of democracy as a government body seems to be very codependent. Suffers the same problem as any co dependent situation. You know, you've got this idea, this body, this entity that wants everyone to be treated equally, that wants, you know, everybody to be on the same level. That's a real people pleasing idea. And people pleasers are vulnerable to major assholes and profound gaslighting. So here we sit at the precipice of an authoritarian America where people will be nominated and put in positions of power where they have no capability of doing it correctly or don't know the job primarily. So the autocrat at the top of the pyramid has all the say and all the power. He's terrorized his stooges in the Senate and Congress and in business to fear for their own lives, if not their own careers in politics if they do not do what he does. And that fundamentally, I don't know, it doesn't sound like democracy. I'm not trying to bum you out, but this is where we are today. And I don't. Look, my fears are the same as many of yours, you know, I mean, I know some people in their denial or in their need to adapt or like, well, we'll see what happens. Yeah, we will. But I don't, I don't. It's not going to be good. And the dread and isolation and feelings of despair are real. And again, they love it. This is a, a trolling population of autodidactic meatheads with heads full of Garbage and bits and pieces that enable them to bully and just gloat and find a real joy in that somehow or another. Their disposition, which is basically built on the idea that empathy is for suckers and everyone's on their own and you just gotta make do. And a lot of people that I thought were once relatively decent people have locked into this political movement as a way to, to make their personal fortunes and continue their grift. And I don't know, I. It's not that I assumed that humans were all innately good, but it's sort of interesting to watch the ones that you thought were somewhat well balanced, you know, buckle for their own intentions. You know, I flew out of a fire zone into a blizzard and the dread of waiting for fire day to day, that, that feeling of a lack of control, a powerlessness in the face of natural disaster is, is a lot to live with. And then I came out here to Denver and did a couple of amazing shows. Great people out here in Boulder and in Fort Collins. We really had a good time. Me and Mykovsky did some great sets and, you know, did what we could to ease the stress, but there was a blizzard in that feeling of driving on ice. Driving on ice in a. Just a, you know, a car that isn't an all wheel drive and that weird tension where you just don't know when the car is just going to start sliding without you. That fear of powerlessness. I guess it was a primer. Is that the word I want? It was priming me for what's going to happen today and what it's going to feel like for God knows how long. But again, the desire to isolate and lose yourself in your phone and losing to yourself in and bask in, you know, frightening information or information that's, I'm not suggesting, you know, denial, but I am suggesting that, you know, somehow or another we try to keep our heads together. I mean, on, you know, on some level a little bit of denial is necessary just so you don't lose your mind, you know, maybe, you know, don't look at your phone right when you wake up in the morning, give it a few hours, take a breath, have a nice breakfast and then, you know, blow your brains out with the phone. Because it's going to be a shit show. It's going to be just like checking for fires. It's going to be every day of that, every day this week is going to be horrifying for tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of families who will be ripped out of their homes and thrown into transport vehicles and taken wherever, possibly to camps, possibly to countries that they haven't lived in as families for decades, maybe ever. And, you know, that'll probably be on tv. But this is what making America great looks like to, you know, about 77,301,917 people in this country taking the rights away from women. This is what makes America great. This is what does it. It's a small price to pay, right, for people who just want their eggs to be cheaper on the backs of this kind of bullshit. But look, again, don't want to be negative, just want to say, hey, try to hold on to yourselves. Try to hold on to who you are. Try to get involved on a, you know, community level, on a state level, see if we can, you know, regroup something or hold the line in terms of just treating people with some decency because the war on tolerance has been won. And, you know, tolerance was the necessary lubricant for democracy to function. And I don't really even know to do, you know, what to do with 110 million people that didn't vote at all. But, you know, who knows? They're the wild card, I guess. But I do know again that 75 million plus people do not want this. And that's almost half. It's a difference of a couple million people. So we're out there, they're out there to try to, you know, do the right thing in their day to day life and probably, you know, try to do the right thing and in the civic world of your community, of your state and yeah, I don't really know what happens. But look, you can still enjoy a nice, you know, a nice meal. You can still entertain yourself. You can still run your errands, you can still have your friends. Just try to hold on to your minds, will you? Could you try to take care of the people that are vulnerable in the way that you can? I'll be in Santa Barbara, California at the Librero Theater on Thursday, January 30. San Luis Obispo, California at the Fremont center on January 31. That's a Friday. Monterey, California at the Golden State Theater on February 1. Saturday, Iowa City at the Engler Theater on Thursday, February 13 Des Moines, Iowa at Hoyt Sherman Place on Friday, February 14. Kansas City, Missouri at the Midland Theater on Saturday, February 15. Asheville, North Carolina at the Orange Peel on Thursday, February 20. Nashville, Tennessee at the James K. Polk Theater on Friday, February 21. Louisville, Kentucky at the Bombhardt Theater on Saturday, February 21 in Lexington, Kentucky at the Lexington Opera House on Sunday, February 22. I'll be in Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, Illinois, Michigan in March and April. You can go to wtfpod.com tour for all my dates and links to tickets. The set is coming along pretty well. I'm trying to think that that has any relevance or importance to anybody. That's the other thing about this thing, is to think that whatever you're doing is futile. Can't think that way. And, you know, and also try not to let your mind swift and, you know, kind of drift into thinking that maybe this isn't so bad. I guess that, again, falls under the denial umbrella, which might be necessary, but it's going to be challenging. It's gonna be challenging just to. To maintain yourselves. Today I talked to Bill Burr. You know, he's been on several times over the years. I see him at the Comedy Store all the time. He's got a couple of things coming up. His new comedy special called Drop Dead Years comes out in March on Hulu. He's also going to be in the Broadway production of Glengery Glen Ross with Bob Odenkirk, Kieran culkin and Michael McKean. That's going to be. I think that's starting. Well, they're going to start rehearsals in March. Look, you know, I wanted to talk, and in some ways I had to talk to people who were around during the fire because everything stopped. And these fires are. Are being managed miraculously by amazing teams of firefighters. Thank God somebody, many people there is a type of person that wants to fight fire fires because, you know, with civil servant jobs and jobs that, you know, seem, I don't know, like, there's a lot of jobs that are sort of thankless, but this isn't one of them. And it is driven by people that want to fight fires. That is what they want to do. That is their purpose in life. And thank God they exist. Because if there were people that were like, well, I don't know, this firefighting racket, you know, there's not a lot into it.