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What's happening, man? Good to see you. Thank you for having me back. My pleasure. How many times a day do you get bombarded by the whole Bill Burr thing?

When it gets into the family and people I haven't talked to for 20 years... Then do 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 is 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, how will you 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 want a show,

and I told this story about how 10 years ago my stepmother came to me and said, do you know who Bill is? I never heard of Bill. Didn't know who he was because I don't really consume much, you know,

popular culture. I had no idea. It was a famous comedian. He could have been the lawnmower guy. looked up bill first thing i saw was like oh my god it looks just like daddy when i was 18

years old at an iha 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 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,

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