Bill Burr - Talks About Being Sober
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Bill Burr & Andrew Santino talk about putting away the alcohol and cigars for a while, how he started, and how it became a habit and how he had to take control of it once he became a father.
Podcast Name - Whisky Ginger with Andrew Santino
Bill Burr's Website - billburr.com
#BillBurr #Soberiety #WhiskyGinger
Love Bill's honesty here. Bravery.
I really needed to hear this right now.
I’m an alcoholic but I don’t want to quit even though I know I should. It’s ruining my physical health and the relationships to my family and friends. But I love drinking and being drunk so much that I don’t think I can quit. I don’t know what to do.
Good for Bill. I quit about 2 years ago. I started feeling like total garbage the next day. Waking up exhausted, headache, depressed, and miserable. The misery outweighed the fun as I got older. I also used to think I was charming and funny when I was drunk, but I realized I was mostly obnoxious.
Nice job! Keep it up
Can fully relate. Been going sober
@@EP-nl6fd Waking up with your heart racing is the worst.
Congrats on quitting. You weren't an alcoholic.
You never got that bad if you never got the shakes or a withdrawal seizure at the hospital. That's where I was 6 months ago. I'm not trying to one-up you; I'm only saying that you're lucky that you didn't take the addiction that far.
Wonder how many people think Burr is actually playing cod mobile
He’s not?
@@NPow94 lmao no dude this is a fan account and someone just adds there gameplay
mighty mighty what? You can literally see bill playing on the screen!
@@NPow94 lmao shutup
I'm tryin to quit fuckin around before it's too late. Some people have to have something tragic happen to them before they "wake up". Sometimes I worry I'm gonna be one of those people
I was once a heavy vodka drinker that even the dude at the liquor store thought I had a problem buying 1 gallon a week and used to have a water bottle of vodka everywhere I went and it wasn't until I drank a pint of everclear wich is 95% alc/vlm and woke up the next day so sick I haven't drank since then and it been a few years now I'm not the person who counts the days and stuff
Punctuation bro
Get sober is easy hard part is staying sober
Hate to admit it but I’m sitting here drinking Wild Turkey listening to it. I have a humidor full of cigars and I keep forgetting to smoke. The drinking will get me though.
I drink Jameson and smoke cigarettes most nights
I’m 9 years without Alcohol! Better use of my time and better mental health
Alcohol is a slippery slope...glad Billy Boy realized it before he turned into Bert.
11 years sober now. What sobered me was a CAR HITTING ME GOING 50MPH WHILE CROSSING THE STREET! I've o.d. on alcohol b4 (0.525% I got the report) been to rehab(didnt work) been to jail hundreds of time, was homeless,AA NA didnt work have had seizures from trying to quit or running out, and hit my stepfather.(battery)
After I got hot by the car,I still was drinking , my fiance was about to leave me, the night b4 she left me, it was 3am in the morning, I was depressed bcs she was leaving, I went to take me meds and drink it down with a natural ice. Next thing you know I couldnt stop projectile vomiting. I had to make a choice, idk if it was my body saying "NO!" after 10 years, my fiance leaving me, taking my meds and drinking at the same but I just couldn't stop.
I woke up my fiance and told her to pour it all out. She did in minutes.
I made a choice, I took my meds so I wasn't in pain(my broken leg was throbbing) and chose my fiance over booze.
We've been together for 11 years. I started drinking at 13, stopped at 22.
I DON'T MISS IT! I'll stick with kratom, and weed once in awhile!
I only drink when its raining or not raining
I've never understood why people put video game footage on the background of videos that have nothing to do with video games 🤔
I know, it actually annoys the shit out of me.
Studies have shown that people focus on the audio more when they are watching video game footage as they listen
Alcohol inflates the ego that's why I don't drink that often. There is more good stuff out there.
Absolutely. It's funny cus I was a happy drunk all my life but soon as I decided to quit and would relapse I became an angry ass hole. Guess moderation doesn't work for me
Thanks man I appreciate that I needed some type of reference to being sober as well as being a neighborhood and that fit my joke or my set very well. I'm going to perform in Burbank here pretty soon. No it's not a comedy club but it's going to be a Alcoholics Anonymous meeting yes irony but at the end of the day I'm trying to do what they did for me back when I was young back when I was on drugs heavily laughter help and I hope it will help somebody else
I'm still drunk piece of s*** but at the end of the day I can understand the difference between the reality of being myself right now and being the person I was back then which is quite different. Save me so who's to say it would would not save somebody else
My strongest addiction is sugar and starch, but I can still relate so hard to all of what he's saying here.
I think a lot of people don’t get a lot of people have addictions it’s just what is it.
I know the starch addiction all too well. Been abusing raw potatoes for 7 years now and I just can't stop.
Just was able to start looking at the footage playing with the audio... what the hell is going on?
Bring Highrise, and a lot of the old maps not used, back to the franchise!
I just put the bottle down last week. I still like to drink, but i know its not worth it.
Thanks i quit drinking today.
This player got overconfident with the knife
I’m 29 and drink more than I should I have a. Daughter and it needs to stop I was watching bad Santa and laughing at the fact that the dude was a wreck but he’s not so different from me
"...Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. "-Acts 16:30-31 KJV
“Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
-Matthew 3:2 KJV
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”
-Romans 3:23
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“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
-Hebrews 9:27-28 KJV
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
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“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
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Good on him, but I think he's denying that he had an addiction, or is unaware
Alchohol is unacceptable. But weed. I can't man. I can't stop smoking weed
Gay feel gay fail
How do people get addicted to cigars? You don’t inhale it so what’s the obsession?
You can get addicted to anything. Inhaling has nothing to do with it.
@@EmilWestrum yeah true. Even food is an addiction.
I think its an oral fixation tbh. The act of doing it, nothing to do with the nicotine.
@@walterwhite3143 exactly , people kill themselves with food a lot more than heroin.
The obsession is the drug induced high that is caused by smoking the cigar. Nicotine is absorbed orally (snuff, gum, etc.)
And to everyone else commenting, if you think drinking alcohol is a “bad” addiction try quitting meth or heroin. #Alcohol is for children
I drink for boredom. I have kids, no social life, a job with long hours. The only thing I’ve got to look forward to is a day off work when I can sit down, play a few games and have too many beers. It’s literally boredom. But increasingly it’s not worth it the next day, the bloated stomach, the groggy head, lack of energy.
Go start jiu jitsu or join a gym. Go running. I was the same.
Take up à local sport...tennis classes...golf I dunno. That's what I did
That’s my problem. Just turned 30. No kids, wife or even serious gf. Whenever I’m not at work I’m drinking alone at home and tbh I actually like it. I know I could be better and do better but it’s hard to give up. Been doin it 4yrs now. I’m too deep down the rabbit hole and don’t know how to stop now lol
You need some hobbies bro. I don’t drink but have filled my life with other meaningful activities to better myself and keep myself happy when I’m not working.
Wish you the best love you brother
“Don’t invite the devil in to your home” I tell my friends I don’t drink alone or leave any alcohol in my home. They don’t understand and think I am overcompensating but this is how I stay in the driver seat and not the alcohol.
Word for word, I really needed to read this. Thanks 🙏🏻
I have 4 bottles of wine two types of German/Belgian beer and some Irish whiskey hanging out over in my bar right now, it definitely makes it harder lol but hey once it all finished I’ll stop ✋🏼
You can drink and still be in the driver seat it's called DUI lol no really you just turn into super dave if you remember him like a funny evil conevil
You will find many of your friends that don't understand have alcohol issues themselves
I never have alcohol in the house either. I know if it’s in the house, I’m gonna drink it. I don’t understand the concept of moderation either. I’m quitting completely.
I was a great, funny, loud guy when I drank and partied for so long until I realized the Mr. Hyde that came out whenever I “fell in love”. For some fucken reason It doesn’t mix well with relationships. So I’m quitting. 7 days sober so far.
How's the sober journey going?
Not a drink for 2 months so far and will keep going
were you addicted ?
Sober now for 11 days… and free now forever from a toxic circle of people / fake friends, just toxic people. What a relief.
I got sober from booze & oxy 5 years ago. But 3 times I tried to see if I could drink normally, 3 times I failed miserably. Now I'm 3 years sober & can't imagine drinking ever again, sobriety is the best decision I've ever made.
Always seems like a great idea and then a few months later, your outside somewhere puking, passing out or pissing and it's like "OK NOPE!"
Are u bored ? Serious question
It’s stops becoming fun, but you keep doing it( drinking) because you’ve literally brainwashed yourself that booze is your best outlet for a good time or to blow off steam
Na, I always get dopamine from it. It’s always fun. I love drugs and alcohol. That’s the problem.
I can understand how he says he "gets into shit" I have an addictive personality and I do the same thing...I get a new habit and that becomes who I am until I find the next addiction
I don't think that's at all what he was saying. I'm pretty certain he meant that he just does it, picks it up as a hobby but doesn't get addicted.
thats me! I thought I was the only one. I will go all in to a new thing for months until I find the next thing
Same hahaha. Key is, for me at least, trying to steer yourself toward healthy/productive things.
@@willbearheart7919 He isnt talking about bill...
@@willbearheart7919 he explained that it’s a catch 22 he gets into things which can help and be bad.
Aghhh the map Highrise on call of duty, that takes me back to the glory days
Celtic Glasgow The last good CoD
@@ShivaOO7 truly.
It's the exact same game I just started playing on my cell call of duty mobile
we need mw2 remastered. cod mobile is trash
@Seth Belfort shut up old man
The drinking when married part is very spot on but he has a great wife and kids so I’m pulling for him to stay sober. I was married and have a daughter and did the same crap but we had a horrible breakup. Then let me tell you I went off the rails for years after that. My health suffered to the point that I had to stop if I wanted to stay on this earth. Burr is a smart guy and he knows as you get older it effects you differently.
I don't know who Andrew is. This sounds like Bill Burr on stage talking to normal Bill Burr.
This is from Andrews podcast WHISKEY GINGER. He also have a podcast with Bobby Lee called BAD FRIENDS.
I thought the same thing!
@@larrybressler295 ha!
Andrew is also a ginger
Alcohol mo longer has the magic it once had
I haven't had a drop in almost 2 years. I had a big problem with drinking, and quit for 8.5 years, then was able to drink occasionally without issue. However in December of 2018, I just decided that drinking even seldomly was pointless. So I just decided not to do it. I have a lot of alcohol in my house sitting in a cabinet, and when I see it, I don't even get tempted to take a sip. The thought of drinking alcohol makes me nauseous. No thanks. I'll stick to 2 or 3 hits of weed occasionally.
Congrats bro. I cut way down, I'm still trying to get to that point though
That's the beauty of the legalization. You get to choose between lots of alternative weed products. In my country it's still illegal and I'm as drunk on my 12th year now. I would have stopped drinking if we had weed shops in my city.
Yeah hard A drinkers are fucking intense.
@@eltoro969 Just get in a program for drinking, get weened off, and stop blaming your continued drinking on the non-availability of cannabis. All available research shows that trading one drug for another(even though weed is considered to be "harmless" by its advocates), shows an an over 80% relapse rate in the case of alcohol. Weed and alcohol go particularly well together which is part of the problem. The only "drug" shown to be an effective short-term substitute in treating alcoholism is LSD and you don't want to alter your brain chemistry with that stuff. I hope you get the help you need, and best of luck.
I'll gladly take that booze off your hands!
My life story is really, really fuckin bad. I was a serious alcoholic starting in my teens when I taught myself how to make it in my closet. That was a dark, 15-year story and it's pretty surprising that I'm even alive. Now I'm off of it 18 months & today is my 34th birthday, stuff only started improving when I forced myself to quit. It's treated like a mystery why it's such a destructive problem with so many people, but the puzzle makes perfect sense when you watch explanations from experts how alcohol interacts with pleasure centers in our brains. And how your body actually tries to deal with it, wow. Your liver literally converts it into toxic poison in an attempt to flush it all out. You usually start out young & gullible, then you just start justifying it and then you're locked in.
I quit drinking the day I realized "that stuff" wasn't "gonna kill me someday". I was already dead. I just hadn't found the hole to fall into yet. That was thirty years ago and I still haven't found my final resting place. I've mostly been too busy to look for it.
Wtf are you talking about
@@bbuggediffy If you have to ask, you're not ready to hear the answer.
I'm a bartender in a fucking night club! Everyone is drunk here, menager, waiters, bouncers, D.J., it's a part of the lifestyle. How the fuck should I stay sober. It's not that I am an alcoholic or something, but when I get loose a bit I eat junk food, skip workout, look like shit, you know... I really have to get together somehow.
How's it going so far? Did you find your answer?
@@masterkc My colleague and I quit drinking two months ago. Actually, quit getting drunk. I still have one shot of plum brandy once in a while. Thanks for asking.
Change careers
*7:00** once you **_know_** is isnt going to make you happy.* i think that is the gift. but ive never drank, smoked, weed or gambled...so i cant be sure. but i know it is bc i have that awareness, & belief. & thr are things you miss in sobriety. _JC
Going out without booze has started to blow my mind with the new perspectives
Absolutely. Gave me a whole new perspective on lots of things like friends and people in general
Tabacoo for me is addicting. Alcohol? Hell, I can go a long while without booze. I used to drink every damn night in my early twenties. I just loved it. But I wasn't ever addicted. I went a couple of months without it some years back and I was thinking to myself one night, "damn, I haven't had a drink in months.". I just don't ever really get that itch bad enough to where I absolutely have to have it. I feel sorry for those that do though because it can ruin lives.
Bill Burr said it though once you start drinking on a regular basis at home there's a problem. Whether you want to admit it or not. Booze needs to be kept recreational when you go out with your friends or when family Reunion, any kind of reunion really haha. But when you're drinking hard liquor at home every night it's an issue. I mean you can be a functioning alcoholic and a non-functioning but alcoholic is an alcoholic
Nah I drink alone. You're not going to shame me into surrounding myself with drunk loudmouths and call it recreation. I'd prefer to hang out with my friends when we're all sober. It's more real that way in my opinion and there's less drama and people are more aware.
I also don't drink if I had a bad day or I'm under the weather, I know better than to use alcohol as an emotional crutch and regularly practice cold turkey for The Church and Sober September.
@Free Smoke Free Smoke Great point and well said
@@cfroi08 I hear you. But it's not a matter of "not knowing better" for many people. There are people who feel compelled to use it as an emotional crutch and do just that, due to different environmental/biological factors, but still know that what they are doing is killing them and that they should stop it. If every addict simply needed to "learn" and "know" better than to indulge in their addiction, addiction would not be a thing. We're talking about two distinct parts of the brain at odds with each other.
Drinking at home alone does not necessarily mean you have a problem, sure. What I think this person should have said is that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has an alcohol problem that doesn't regularly drink alone at home.
Some weed and no booze or drugs is what we are calling California Sober
the fuck is weed then?
Burr smoking dubbies? Eating edibles? THIS IS MY DREAM
I think he had a story going to see Black Panther high
If you "just get into shit" you have an addictive mindset period
Mad props to Billy Knee Head. The pandemic and my next big career move had.made an alcoholic out of me. Found career success and work hard every day and I felt exactly like Bill when justifying my alcohol usage. I have now cut off and dropped 7 lbs and feel great. 2 months on.
Sweet, did you keep it up?
@@Lien6887 I lost my job and sort of fell off the wagon just last night, I had 4 beers and I feel like crap. now I reset the clock . I barely lasted a year without alcohol.
@@nicandromartinezsotelo3300 sorry to hear about your job, but well done getting back on the horse right away. Good luck man
Thank you very much lad for asking. I didn't cut booze off completely, but in the last year and a half I have been buzzed like 5 times and have a bunch of sober days. A combination of sobriety and moderation is working for me. Eventually I'll become more and more sober @@Lien6887
If you don't mind me asking, how are you doing?
Over the years Bill has said done everything possible to convince himself he's not an alcoholic
Must be nice to just stop drinking lol
You have to want it. I’m 27 about to be 28 on October 9th and gave up alcohol April 27th of this year. It’s a constant battle, you have your days where you don’t even think about it and then you have your days where you could really go for 18 PBRs. It is very nice to just stop drinking, the challenge is committing to it. The only reason I stopped was because I crashed my car drinking and driving, maybe you’re a lot smarter than I am when on the sauce but it scared me and put me in a really really dark place. Luckily nobody was hurt, but I don’t wish anyone to experience what I experienced. I hope this rabble makes sense but if you want it, you can have it.
So true. It's never just one I always need 18
@@markl5998 if I'm having one I'm having a dozen. I can't even keep beer past what I want to drink because I'm like a dog I can't stop once I start. Getting too old for it
Using certain drugs is like taking out a payday loan on feeling great in the future. The interest rate is so high that you can never pay it back without giving up something else of value.
I quit nearly 3 years ago. Used to be the opposite, loved the nightclub, absolutely rammed with people and loud music and trouble and craziness. Then in my early 30s people just wanted to sit in bars talking, and the hangover wasn't worth it
The only thing that made me cut down on my drinking was acute liver inflammation, but when I'd binge drink, I'd go hard, and I'd go often. Like, half the week I was drunk, easily drinking 1+ liters of bourbon in a 24-hour window, then doing it again and again, usually three days straight, that couldn't have been Bill Burr. As nasty as it was, getting in trouble with police, regretting shit I said, waking up in my own piss, opening up my fridge to a pile of junk food I don't remember buying, and so on, I didn't get into fights BUT the _only_ thing that stopped that self-destructive drinking was my liver literally HURTING after one of my binges. I didn't go to the doctor, because I knew what it was. It just went away after a few weeks of remaining sober, and I took up an NAC supplement. I dunno, it's hard. I mean, I still drink, but I don't go wild like before. The crazy thing is, I never was a boozer as a young adult, just in my mid-20's I got into it when life began to suck, and you know, marijuana isn't legal where I live. It's a dangerous, horrible drug, but it's legal, so. 🙄
I related very heavily to parts of this. I never have really woken up to my liver hurting but like there'd be a day after where i could just "feel" my liver there if you know what I mean.
Yes you can drink yourself into dependency, alcoholism is not a scientific or evidence based condition. Alcoholism is a self diagnoses one makes depending on their personal qualifications. It's all about the brain chemicals. I can say for myself as one who gave up the extracurricular brain chemicals, my anxiety decreased by 80%, but it is hard work and there are times as Burr says you really miss it. BUT I don't miss the morning after horror show that my life was becoming in the last year of my 'partying'.
This is coming from a 54 year old somebody (who was once a Marine) and used up his last fun day on 02/14/17.
Happy for you! Wishing you peace friend ✌️
I'd rather look at a still image of Bill, or even bills dog than random fps game play
Good On you Bill, I am from a family that are addicts mostly smoking and big drinking ( bottles of liquor straight no ice every single day no breaks in between ) so I went opposites of my family, they drank cheap beers and rot gut, smoked cigarettes I drink high quality stuff and cigars and my families triggers are crisis and tragedy, so I make it a point I wont smoke or drink when im going through it.
Providing mobile games as gameplay for a video should be made illegal
Who the hell is playing the game?
When I learned how important sleep was, it was easier to skip a night of drinking.
This gameplay is painful to watch
I love the conversation. But, I hate the video.
People still play this game? This was my shit
🤣🤣 gameplay is killing me
knife addicted bafoon
Let’s go love these videos
Weed was always my vice, but good lord I relate to burr on the habit angle, it may be easy to put it down but that doesn’t stop me from thinking about it and missing it. But as soon as I get my fix it’s totally underwhelming, yet I still want to do it again
Billy Boozebag!
Horrible bot combat.
Is COD mobile name is OleFreckles
I'm glad I kinda hate being drunk. I get sick from it really easily and get so dizzy so I can't enjoy it. So I just will have a single drink. The worst I got was drinking one beer a day, but it was making my burps smell so bad like a nasty fart. My wife pointed it out, so I switched to 2-3 beers a week, and now I don't have the stinky burps. It also helps that I workout 3 days a week and I don't want to drink on those days.
call of duty mobile with gamepad
Funny that he said that once you start drinking at home it’s a problem.
In England yeah you’ll have your first ‘proper’ drink in a pub (usually around 16yrs old, even though the legal age is 18), but a lot of men drink at home, and often alone or just with the wife. It’s common to have several cans of beer at home after work, maybe 3-4 nights a week, then starting a little earlier at weekends (3pm maybe).
@Benjamin-xh5hj….saying your bored and that’s why you drink is an excuse… so you can drink. Derp
I fucking love bill burr man I relate to this guy so much 😂 glad he found his peace and his success LEGEND always give me a good laugh
I largely cut out carbs, I cut out sugar, I cut out smoking cigarettes, I cut out smoking weed. Drinking is the thing i'm not giving up, but it's also never been any kind of issue to me. I think the thing is I relate to here, I don't bring it home. Drinking is an "out" activity. It doesn't come home.
I was going through a tuff patch in my life and started drinking heavy at night watching bill burr drunk is more funny than watching sober trueth thanks numb nuts for the memories. Cheers
Wtf they both sound like bill
Abuse and addiction are different. When you choose alcohol over everything else in your life... Jail, driving drunk w your kids, blacking out, wife says quit, etc.
If you can stop when you want before it gets out of hand and when you notice red flags
That’s like saying I only smoke meth on Tuesday’s because I’m bored
wtf is this gameplay lmao
I have been sober for the past few years now and if I have a pint of beer by the time I have finished it I already have a hangover head ache., I do miss Coke
I can go days without beer, but when I drink just 1 beer, it's lights out for weeks
OMG!!! Bill Burr's comments are the most accurate mirror of my life. Stress...
One drink is too many and a hundred is not enough.
Bourbon. YES.
Show business is a gateway drug….
joe rogan' cigars? you meant blunts
A bad friend is asking questions if anyone is asking
"don't let the devil into your house"
Why is there video of a videogame?
This sounds like Bill Burr talking to Bill Burr
Flowers are plants 🪴 ❤
get into gummies
Good job man 😊
Stop being so soft
Tell me that is the OLD Modern Warfare ll.
Nah that's blackops 1 or 2 or mw3. They all suck after MW2 IMO