That thing Bill is talking about "Im tired of being sober" is the biggest struggle for me... sitting around on a Friday night in the basement playing video games alone is pathetic without a bottle of Winking Owl

4:11 "i just want to do it" - When you're sober, you have hard moments (like this one you had in your car), but when you're drinking, you have hard months, years, and decades. This thought usually helps that impulse pass for me. Hope it helps someone else.

Bill Burr is very helpful to listen to for people who want to quit drinking. Because his effort is all self motivated without some unrelatable religious experience, or some tragic event like a divorce etc… and he’s still cool as hell… even cooler…. He just wisely and thoughtfully looked at his situation and changed it.

I'm glad peer pressure was never much of an issue for me. And whenever I wanted to cave in and drink or smoke I told myslef that I was encouraging a weakness. I don't drink heavy often and I smoke cigarettes rarely. Cigars like once a month. If you're gonna get addicted, get addicted to cultivating a craft.

I'm an alcoholic and addict. I used drugs and drank for 25+ years. I am 40, I'll be 41 in a month. Today, one day at a time, I am now 1 year and 5 months sober! Bars were never my thing. Too expensive, shitty music, and amateur drinkers that couldn't hold their booze. Needless to say, I'm much better off sober for countless reasons! One day at a time...

I watch this, as I drink my 5th beer of the day

The main thing I noticed after getting sober was how bad the smell is in the average bar. I never noticed it during my days of drinking. I have several clean years in a row now and a pretty hefty piggy bank. I still use alcohol when cooking a handful of times in a year. I do enjoy watching my friends say and do stupid things when they are drunk. I just hope they don't go where I have been because of drinking.

I drank Henny once and beer once and got high once also. I decided all these three and just not my thing, I just don’t roll like that. I’m a sober 24/7 kinda guy and I love it, it’s great for me. Call me boring whatever I don’t even care 🤷🏽‍♂️

I tried the one day every month thing. Didn't work. By that point you have really low tolerance but you're like, 'Yay, I can drink!', so you overdo it, quickly get sick from it and the hangovers are as bad as I've ever had.

That rant at the end about Tampa Bay is peak Bill Burr

I just love how the segment on drinking lasts about 3 minutes, and the rest is just shitting on Tampa Bay

The great obsession of every alcoholic is that we will somehow someway control and enjoy our drinking like we see others do. The power of this illusion is astonishing and we often follow it into the gates of insanity and death.

I drank heavily almost every day many years ago. Now I don't do anything that impacts my brain other than coffee sometimes. I might drink again if the mood ever takes me, but it never does. I like thinking clearly.

Bill’s aggression towards Tampa is fucking hilarious

Drinking is fun, just keep it under control. If you can’t, don’t.

Bill started jonesing for a cold beer lol

Hold on a minute Bill, your telling me that there is a whole store with nothing in it but comedy.....? There is a god

5 years and 7 months sober. Best thing I ever did on a dare. Good luck to all !

great Burr as always! I'll drink to that!

Once we've crossed the line where one drink needs more-and more is not enough-then the chances are we just can't have that first one without setting off the dominoes and wake up hating ourselves AGAIN, wondering why we couldn't remember that we didn't want to be waking that way again because it ALWAYS gets worse, never better. It takes a while for the synapses to rewire in sobriety. Try to get to a place where you don't NEED to drink. Then you'll eventually get to a place where you don't WANT to. Yes, you too. If I could, anyone can.

Underrated: Supertramp!!

I've never had a problem with alcohol. Truth be told. I don't enjoy it. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

Hi mate late to the show but I wanted to tell you. I've been doing bascially what you describe for about 3 years now. I have one weekend a month (normally the weekend of my pay landing) where i drink and smoke. I also drink on special occasions, like bank holiday or when I take time off work or weddings and that. Its sort of working, but its got to say I get so itchy for a drink some days its painful. I once drove to the Co Op (its a shop) for beer cursing myself, did a 180 in the car park screaming and sped off just about steering with my teeth. Worth it though. So much more money, I'm not constantly missing the gym because I'm hanging, but I do love my monthly blow out.

"i'm actually sick of thinking clearly" i know this feel very well unfortunately

Was 6 months for me on Monday!

tampa bay loves the lightning bill, relax

I'm with him on the hockey. Tampa Bay, Las Vegas, and Dallas are cities where hockey is just not necessary, and a Canadian team has not won since 1993. Now, I used to live next to Canada. I put up with Canadians all the time, and when it comes to hockey, they are ten times more obnoxious and arrogant then they already are, but still! With the exception of the Vancouver Canucks, I would like to see one of those teams win a cup someday. That said, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, New Jersey, and yes, even Boston, all should win instead of teams from Florida, Texas, and Arizona. Blecch

The Kinks! Yes!

You really got me is my shit

As someone who is not a fan of Bill (Wilson)..THE IRISH NEVER QUIT!!!😉

God, self, fellowship. We cannot do it alone

I did 10 weeks sober and I think it was probably the best time in my life. Unfortunately i had a massive relapse and fell off my bike cycling home. I have fucked up my shoulder and have a black eye. Seriously wtf

Yep same here. life can become very boring and routine when you don't ever go out and have a few drinks, enjoy nightlife and have a dew drinks just don't do it every week. especially if your a single male.

I just love the nerve of adults who complain about inflation and having no money spending a significant amount of their paycheck on drinks. I grew up thinking alcohol was an adult beverage when it's quite the opposite. Every drop of alcohol I've ever consumed was before I turned 21. Never understood the appeal. It makes me feel like shit and turns me into an asshole who causes chaos. Ten years later and nothing's changed. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones? 🤷‍♂️

I imagine the bottom level contains the dr. Strangelove type meeting rooms.

I do want a Canadian team to win the cup!!! 100% Bill you’re right - we need a HOCKEY town!!

My godfather had a get fucked up schedule but was more extreme. Instead of the drunk a week it was more of an opium ride through thailand twice a year type thing. He kept his cool with professional life and stuff but never swung being a drug addict. It seemed to work out and he died natural and old. You can throw a drink in somewhere but takes more control than quitting outright if can get outa hand usually.

Bill does some great analogies.

I just like to drink man …

I don't drink but if I did I wouldn't stop 🤣 maybe life will get easier after the next bottle 😌

Kiinks are great but, check out Squeeze

Quitting drinking is easy . Not drinking out of boredom is hard .

quitting any drug is hard. but Billy Boy doesn't consider alcohol a drug, lol.

Does anyone realize when Bill says "Ladies" in a weird yelling tone, it's (in my opinion) an homage to Jerry Lewis.

Whooooaaaaaa Tampa the best

I have been looking at your drinking/stopping videos for a little while now. It has finally come to the conclusion that you are an entertainer. Frankly, I don't see stopping drinking the same way as you. But, who gives a shit? You go on, making your videos, about stopping, and starting, and all the rest, and have these people blow their smoke up you ass, cuz, frankly, that's what you do, because, lets be real, you have no intention of honestly quitting. I really and truly do wish you nothing but the best, whaever level of the Pentagon you are on.....

Is this from 2010?

before he got hip to cannabis.

If I could, I'd tell this guy to never start. Sure drinking is fun but getting hammered too often, you'll eventually end up a loser. So dont start because you'll regret it if you do.

Curious to see if legalizing marijuana helps reduce alcoholism in the long term. It seems most people need a "crutch", relief, time to let go and take a little break from the regular world and it's problems, etc, and like the dumb monkeys our parents and grandparents are, they left us with nothing but alcohol, cigarettes, and caffeine on the store shelves. 🤦‍♂️

My friend was like this. He'd drink to blackout. Not even to enjoy it. One time he went to Vegas and next morning he woke up in the middle of the desert because the broad he was with threw him out the car. One time he tried to get me to cosign for a new mustang. It's down a rabbit hole with these people and they take everyone down with them. Stay away.

I've been told people who are not alcoholics don't schedule their drinking or reson with themselves, whatever so sick of hearing ,Oh your NATIVE AMERICAN your allergic, do u know how fast u were going , why are u nekked is that a goat in ur backseat? Wait what were we talking about? Roflmao

Why get drunk even once? You'll only feel like shit in the morning and annoy everyone while you're drunk

Personally speaking, Quitting drinking was the easiest thing i have ever done. That was 10+ years ago. It is possible 🤘

Why do y’all shit on people who decide to drink? Let people enjoy shit, if you don’t like it, don’t drink it. You cannot deny the extremely beneficial benefits of moderate alcohol consumption.

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people who are drinking are boring

Not hard at all. Unless you're an alcoholic, just don't drink. If you are an alcoholic, you should have stopped yourself a long time ago. It just like junk food. It's all in your head and you need literally none of it. Chemical dependency is no joke but the only things truly hard to quit are nicotine and hard drugs.

Its not fucking hard at all. Just don't fucking drink alcohol. 😑

Led Zeppelin is great!