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Chapter 1: What is the intriguing story of Billy Corgan and Bill Burr's alleged brotherhood?
When it gets into the family and people I haven't talked to for 20 years... Then you have to break character and tell the truth? No, you know, the thing is... This is what's crazy. Okay. You want the whole setup story? Sure, sure, sure, sure. So where I take my podcast... He's in one of Howie Mandel's buildings and he has another building in this area.
So I was working on something and I was supposed to go on Howie's show that day. And they said, Howie will meet you out in the street or something for whatever reason. So I go out in the street and the first thing Howie says to me when he sees me, he goes, here comes Bill Burr. And I go, you too? Like, do you know this story? And he said, no, I don't know about it. And I said, you know what?
heck with it. I'm just going to tell it on your show, so don't ask me anymore. And I went on the show, and I told this story about how 10 years ago my stepmother came to me and said, do you know who Bill Burr is? I'd never heard of Bill, didn't know who he was, because I don't really consume much popular culture. I had no idea he was a famous comedian. He could have been the lawnmower guy.
Looked up Bill. First thing I saw was like, oh my God, he looks just like Daddy. When I was 18 years old, at an IHOP on my 18th birthday, my father told me, you have a half-brother that I sired at the same time as you whose name is Bill. So suddenly these facts come together, my mother telling me these stories. I talked to my dad subsequently about it, and he was very cagey about it.
And when I said, why won't you tell me where this person is or who this person is, he said, I'm trying to protect you. So when my stepmother had told me, it kind of made sense, like, well, if my half-brother is this super famous comedian... My dad, in a way, wouldn't want me to know because he wouldn't want me to feel like I was number two because Bill's so famous. I know it sounds crazy, right?
You think that's why he's trying to protect you? Well, I don't know. So fast forward to Howie saying something on the street. So I was like, you know what? I'm just going to say something. And I swear to God, hand on my heart, last time I was with you in California, I almost pulled you aside after we were on. And I was going to tell you the story because I knew you knew Bill.
And I was going to back channel see if there was anything to the story. From Bill's side.
Wow.
So imagine seven, I think six or seven years since we talked on your show. Yeah, I don't even know. 2018, somebody said to me today. But so anyway, sorry to talk over you. But the point is, so here I am fast forward. I'm just sick of seeing memes of my face with Bill's. And so I just decide on a spur of the moment, you know. So Howie, of course, loves it.
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Chapter 2: How did Billy Corgan's family background influence his life?
Because you ever get that, like somebody wants you to do their bar mitzvah or anything, you ever get those requests? No. I get those requests. Will you come do my bar mitzvah?
Who won this one?
Is that the rematch? Had to be Lewis, right?
I would imagine. Oh, similar Letterman card. Similar card. Let's see if they robbed him twice. They gave it to him. All right.
Yeah. Well, they got their rematch. No, you get this thing like, hey, will you come do my... Right, right, right. I wonder what Michael Buffer gets to show up somewhere. You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's probably like Saudi Arabia. They have him come over there and introduce someone's birthday.
Is it half a million?
Probably more. Depends. You know? I mean, like...
You know, in my business, we could become privates.
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Chapter 3: What are Billy Corgan's thoughts on comedy and his experiences with comedians?
I think it was bag of nails or something it was called.
He was like, what am I doing?
And this is when people were spray painting on the walls in London, Clapton as God. And here shows up this guy who was on the Chitlin circuit, is what they used to call playing for Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. I mean, he was just in the backup band. And he shows up in England. Chaz Chandler, the bassist from the Animals, goes, this guy could be a star. Gets him a record deal.
He shows up in England. And next thing you know, he's like, Hey Joe is the number one hit. And he's on TV. And it's like, I mean, imagine that.
Wow.
So, yeah, there are those people that's like, it's so shocking. Van Halen was the same way. I got to interview him once and sit in his studio for four hours. He would just play the guitar and you'd just be like, I don't understand how this is possible. You're doing inhuman things. And I know how to do what you do. And I can't even come close to doing what you're doing.
Shocking. It's always interesting too that people have a specific sound. Like you can hear them and you know who's playing the guitar. Like Stevie Ray Vaughan had a sound. Like you can hear him, like when he was doing Voodoo Child, you're like, oh, that's the Stevie version. Like he played music.
Do you play guitar at all? No. So the one thing I'll tell you, guitar player to non-guitar players, the thing you learned about the great guitar players, it's all in their hands. Everybody focuses on what amp, what guitar, the gear. Somehow it's the way they hit the strings. I couldn't even explain it to you.
They just have a different feel?
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