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Drums & Donuts, 'Is This Thing On', Tablas | Monday Morning Podcast 12-29-25

December 29, 2025·59 min·3 clips

Bill calls internet radicalization a place where people stop seeing fellow countrymen.

1. Monday Morning Podcast 12-29-25 centers on Bill Burr’s year-end observations, internet habits, and a set of personal tangents tied to sports, movies, and drumming. 2. Bill Burr hosts solo, and names like Nia, Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, David Berkowitz, and Zakir Hussain matter because he uses them to pivot between stories, reviews, and cultural references. 3. The episode asks what happens when Bill Burr tries to end 2025 by taking stock, staying off social media, and avoiding the kind of online “fight or flight mode” he says comes from going too deep on the internet. 4. He argues that people get “radicalized” online and says one crowd member’s response to his “alligator Alcatraz” joke showed how some people only imagine political enemies, not fellow citizens. 5. Bill says he left social media at the end of August or early September and replaced it with YouTube, which he says keeps serving videos he has already seen. 6. He talks about buying 1977 Topps football complete sets on eBay at 2 a.m. after a New York comedy spot, then losing them later and deciding he only really cares about cards from when he was a kid. 7. He places his own internet habits on a spectrum that includes buying unnecessary stuff, chiming in when he should not, and getting politically “radicalized” at the bottom end. 8. Bill says he is trying to be “on the internet responsibly” in 2026 while also trying to keep his stomach flatter and use breathing exercises instead of a chest-level stress response. 9. He describes “Drums and Donuts,” a father-son outing built around a drum-store trip that originally ended with his son melting down unless Bill promised a donut. 10. At Pro Drum Shop on Vine, he sees a Gretsch Broadcaster kit with a purple finish and says he would have a hard time resisting it if it had a 24-inch kick. 11. Bill shifts into a morning rabbit hole about David Berkowitz, the 1970 yellow Ford Galaxy, the evidence found in it, and the .44 Magnum Bulldog revolver. 12. He follows that thread into the history of the Bulldog across roughly 100 years, from the 1860s to the 1960s, and then out across Europe, Japan, China, Indonesia, and South Africa. 13. Bill says he is a closet gun guy who loves revolvers, old west rifles, M1s, M16s, and Uzi-era action-movie hardware, but admits he has never had formal training. 14. He tells a teenage story about shooting a five-shot .38 with a buddy while doing landscaping work, then saying he probably started his tinnitus there before ACDC and drumming made it worse. 15. He also recalls shooting at a burned-out car in an industrial area and says the burned-out vehicles on the way into New York City in the 1980s made the city feel like a place with no rules. 16. Bill ties those memories to a 1983 Yankees-Red Sox game, Dave Righetti on the mound, and an earlier childhood visit that overlapped with the era of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, CBGB, the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same. 17. The review section turns into a clear, enthusiastic movie conversation, with Bill saying he and Nia absolutely loved Is This Thing On? and that Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Bradley Cooper, and Andra Day all worked. 18. He says the film is more about relationships than stand-up, praises the way Bradley Cooper shot it, and notes that the movie arrived quickly after filming and editing earlier in the year. 19. Listeners who like Bill Burr’s movie takes, drumming stories, and long, tangential rants about politics and the internet will get the most out of this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tight interview, a short answer, or a single-topic show may skip this one.

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