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Monday Morning Podcast

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-11-23

Monday Morning Podcast

All Things Comedy

Comedy

4.734.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Bill rambles with comic legend Steven Wright about the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, making people laugh as a kid, and his new book 'HAROLD', available May 16th everywhere books are sold.

From the outside, Harold is an average seven-year-old third grader growing up in the 1960s. Bored by school. Crushing on a girl. Likes movies and baseball—especially the hometown Boston Red Sox. Enjoys spending time with his grandfather. But inside Harold’s mind, things are a lot more complex and unusual. His thoughts come to him as birds flying through a small rectangle in the middle of his brain. He visits an outdoor cafe on the moon and is invited aboard a spaceship by famed astronomer Carl Sagan. He envisions his own funeral procession and wonders if the driver of the hearse has even been born yet.

Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of the title character during a single day in class. Saturated with the witticisms and profundities for which Wright’s groundbreaking stand-up has long been venerated, this novel will change the way you perceive your daily existence. To quote one of its many memorable lines: “Everything doesn’t have to make sense. Just look at the world and your life.”

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Rolling.

0:01.0

All right.

0:02.0

Hey, what's going on everybody?

0:05.1

It's Bill Burr and it's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday, money morning

0:08.4

podcast and I'm just checking in on you.

0:11.9

And as you can see, it's video, which means I have a definitely a special guest.

0:17.6

This is the only time I do these is if the guest is special.

0:21.0

I don't mean mentally challenged the way that used to me right back in the day that meant

0:25.4

special.

0:26.4

I don't mean special like that.

0:28.0

I'm in a special mind who wrote an incredible new book that is going to be out on May 16th

0:33.6

called Harold.

0:34.6

I actually read the whole thing.

0:36.2

I feel like I should have a sticker on my forehead.

0:38.9

The legendary Stephen Wright everybody.

0:41.7

Thank you.

0:42.7

How are you?

0:43.7

Let me get you in towards the microphone.

0:44.7

Yeah, there we go.

0:45.7

I'm good.

0:46.7

How are you?

0:47.7

I'm good.

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