Julian Casablancas | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 7-23-26
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Who is Julian Casablancas and why is he on the podcast?
All right, hey, what's going on, everybody? It's Phil Burr, and it's time for another edition of the Thursday Afternoon, just before Friday, Monday Morning Podcast. And obviously, if I'm on video and you watch my podcast, listen to it or whatever, you know if I do video, that means I have a very special guest today. which today is no different. We have the lead singer of the band, The Strokes, Julian Casablanca is here and to promote their brand new album that comes out in two days, Reality Awaits. Look at that Marlboro Man cover. Julian, what's going on, man?
Bill, so nice to meet you. An honor, really, to meet you.
It's an honor to meet you, too. When I was in New York, right when you guys hit out of Brooklyn and all of that, I always wondered if your band was playing some dump around the corner from where I was telling my jokes back when New York was starting to get a little polished up then. It's been a little Bed Bath & Beyond for a while, which I found they've left now. They got squeezed up.
Yeah, no, I remember your kind of ascent kind of coming up around, like, seeing you on, like, Conan O'Brien and stuff back in the day.
Oh, you actually, that's amazing. Yeah, I used to do Conan when he was on after, what was it, The Tonight Show, when he had the blue couch and all of that, the original one.
The glory, the heyday.
Yeah, and those shows are all going away now. They're trying to make it political, but I think they're not making any money because everybody's watching people, I don't know, they do a little snap, and then they change their clothes, and then they go out for the night, you know?
Yeah.
That's the new art.
Yeah, I mean, the Internet, obviously, they have such access to everyone. It's not as exclusive to see a movie star, I guess, talking.
Well, that's interesting because I wanted to ask you, I'm like a total music nerd, like guitar center dad thinking if I buy the same guitar you play, I'll somehow magically be as good as you and the songs will just come out.
What are you talking about? You're an amazing drummer. You're super legit.
I don't know about that. I'll take it. I think I'm good for a comedian.
And you're good for a drummer, dude. You're good. I was really impressed. Oh, thank you. Whenever I saw it years ago, I was like, damn, what the? Wow. Yeah. Were you in a band?
Oh, yeah. I totally failed. I never got out of my parents' basement. It was basically back in the day, whoever had the drums failed. Their parents were obviously cool with you making all that noise, so everyone would just leave their gear. So everybody came over and jammed at my place. And I don't think, only one time, when I finally took them out of the house, and actually jammed with somebody else. It was another comedian. I'd already started doing comedy, and I think I went over Dane Cook's mother's house and dad's house, and I set him up in his basement, and we, for half a second, thought about maybe putting together some sort of musical act to do colleges.
Wait, you were a musician with Dane Cook before?
No, no, no. I had gotten into comedy at that point, so I'd already, like, realized. I knew early on, like, one of the... one of my talents is I can realize quickly what I suck at that I'm not going to get good at. So like when I would go to, well, when I, when I would go to like a music store, um, You know, this is before they had like the guitar centers at Norfolk County Music. I would go there and I would see some eight year old kid play drums. Now, I could play better than him because I was 20. But he was already his approach to it. He was coming up with his own stuff. He was already expressing himself. He had his own ideas. And if I took the same approach to stand up that I did the drumming, I would have been a joke thief.
Because all I did was just listen to the album and play exactly what they played. And if I missed a cymbal hit in the song, I thought I played it wrong. So, yeah, I was never going to get past, you know, wedding cover band, sort of.
Okay. I mean, I don't believe that, but okay, that's cool.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Julian Casablancas and why is he on the podcast?
0:00–26:26
2
How did The Strokes write and record Reality Awaits in Costa Rica with Rick Rubin?
26:26–37:15
3
What themes inspired ‘Going Shopping’ and the album’s commentary on consumerism?
37:15–56:44
4
How did Bill describe his helicopter training and surprise landing?
56:44–58:09
5
Why is Bill watching baseball and what are his Red Sox vs Yankees concerns?
58:09–1:05:03
6
What arguments does Bill read about ‘news is bad for you’ and how does he react?
1:05:03–1:09:15
7
Which listener letters about Europe, Nazi symbolism, and show stories does Bill respond to?
1:09:15–1:52:10
Speakers
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