Althouse: Bill Murray discovers what a podcast is.

March 3, 2025

Bill Murray discovers what a podcast is.

A TikTok montage of Murray on Joe Rogan.

22 comments:

Peachy said...: Did you see what he said about sacred cow Bob Woodward?
oooooooh.; 3/3/25, 7:00 PM
Jaq said...: So he's got that goin' for him, which is nice.; 3/3/25, 7:01 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I wish TikTok did a better job of being embeddable. This montage is funny, but I doubt if many of you will watch it. You're forced to go over into TikTok.; 3/3/25, 7:08 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Even using X as an intermediary, I couldn't get the embed to work in a way that is aesthetically pleasing for the blog.; 3/3/25, 7:08 PM
Aggie said...: He has a reputation of being a mercurial character, difficult on the set (irascible), and you can see this. He channels a lot of his character into his acting. I don't watch much Rogan; I'm glad Murray made the appearance, but Joe was working hard, politely, to keep it going. Bill would just run out of things to say, so I eventually just tuned out. But I admire Murray's way of keeping his career his own, being away from Hollywood, keeping his distance, being unplugged.; 3/3/25, 7:09 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Aggie said...
He has a reputation of being a mercurial character, difficult on the set (irascible), and you can see this.

Agreed. A friend of the family happened to be sitting near him at a Cubs' home game and quickly regretted initiating a chat with him.; 3/3/25, 7:38 PM
tcrosse said...: I was delighted to hear his kind words for John Belushi.; 3/3/25, 7:43 PM
Jamie said...: There's something about Bill Murray and surgeon requests, isn't there? He carries cards around saying, "I met Bill Murray" in lieu of autographs or something like that?

If I were, say, ten years younger, maybe even five, I would go directly to Google to confirm that. But I'm just old enough that I feel a desire to tax my onboard memory about such things. FWIW, that's precisely why, on this blog, I so often haven't looked up a particular thing - I use this blog as part of my real world, in which I try at least to confer with the humans around me before I resort to the external drive in my hand. I hope it's not too irritating to the denizens herein.; 3/3/25, 8:06 PM
Jamie said...: For heaven's sake. AUTOGRAPH requests.; 3/3/25, 8:06 PM
Jimmy said...: the entire thing is worth watching. and I loved what he said about woodward- he read 5 pages of woodwards book on his dear friend John Belushi, and then threw it away. He said, Now I think Nixon was set up, based on how poorly woodward portrayed belushi.
interesting guy; 3/3/25, 8:08 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Jamie, that's Steve Martin. And, the bread sounds yummy.; 3/3/25, 8:09 PM
Jamie said...: Oh right! It was Steve Martin. Thank you, human going by Disparity of Cult! (I love when I DON'T have to turn to the brain in my purse.); 3/3/25, 8:23 PM
Saint Croix said...: One story I heard about Bill Murray...

He doesn't have an agent.

He has a phone number.

You call it and pitch your movie to his machine. And he may or may not get back to you.

He's a pure artist. Love the guy.; 3/3/25, 8:25 PM
Jamie said...: Saint Croix, I think that was the story I meant - I knew there was something about Murray.; 3/3/25, 8:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I think his primary reason for going on Rogan was to defend his late friend SNL original John Belushi from a Bob Woodward hatchet job.; 3/3/25, 8:45 PM
Saint Croix said...: Murray has done a lot of movies with Wes Anderson. My favorite is still his first, Rushmore, which is brilliant stuff.

Also, if you haven't seen Murray in St. Vincent, you're missing the performance of his life.; 3/3/25, 8:46 PM
Saint Croix said...: Wrong link again, son of a dog.

Here's the Rushmore clip</a.; 3/3/25, 8:49 PM
Jamie said...: > Going to close that tag, just in case; 3/3/25, 8:56 PM
Another old lawyer said...: I saw the Woodward clip last night, and I was really looking forward to listening to the whole thing. I did today, but I can't recommend it. Bill sounded tired, or maybe just old.; 3/3/25, 9:43 PM
Kate said...: We watched almost all of this the other night, which is not something we'd normally do.

He kept asking Rogan what kind of coffee the show provided, then he'd open a take-out coffee and dump it in his mug. It was unremarked upon, just a bit happening while they talked. We laughed at how normally weird it was.; 3/4/25, 12:20 AM
Amexpat said...: I watched the whole thing a few days ago. It got better towards the end when Murray opened up and they had a gentle back and forth. Murray told some Hunter Thompson stories, which at one time I would have found interesting, but I don't think he deserves the hero worship, despite having written two great books.

Murrray trashed Woodward based on reading 5 pages of his book about Belushi. Could very well be justified, the very fact that Woodward would have written that type of book to begin with undermines his credibilty as a serious jounalist.

I like Rogan but he has a penchant for conspirancy theories, I remember in one of his first podcasts I saw he said that he had now come around to beleiving that the moon landing was not a hoax.; 3/4/25, 12:21 AM
Amexpat said...: I watched the whole thing a few days ago. It got better towards the end when Murray opened up and they had a gentle back and forth. Murray told some Hunter Thompson stories, which at one time I would have found interesting, but I don't think he deserves the hero worship, despite having written two great books.

Murrray trashed Woodward based on reading 5 pages of his book about Belushi. Could very well be justified, the very fact that Woodward would have written that type of book to begin with undermines his credibilty as a serious jounalist.

I like Rogan but he has a penchant for conspirancy theories, I remember in one of his first podcasts I saw he said that he had now come around to beleiving that the moon landing was not a hoax.; 3/4/25, 12:21 AM