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[man] You never heard
the bathroom story?

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I couldn't believe you never...
You 've heard it before?

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I have no idea what
you're talking about, dude.

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No idea what I'm talking about.

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Why do I hang out With you two?

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Ok, so this happened
to a friend of mine's buddy.

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Did you see that article that I posted
earlier? Look, it's right here.

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It's about that new coffee shop
they're building downtown.

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Alright, everyone.
Gather around.

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I've got a story for you. It's only
fitting that I tell it tonight.

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Because you see it happened
on a night just like tonight.

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[man] I forget where, but he was
at a bar somewhere in the city.

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- So he finishes his beer and told everyone...
- I gotta take a leak.

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[woman] It's crazy. All these
construction worker guys

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are just working on the coffee shop doing,
you know, construction-worker-things.

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And then they all start
to hear this noise.

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[man] There was a campus party,
like any other.

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The music is loud,
keg is flowing. It's packed.

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As the story goes, there
is this freshman kid.

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It's his first big party.
He's in line waiting for a beer.

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But, they're all
out of red cups.

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So he's gotta make his way into the kitchen
to find an appropriate drinking glass.

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So my man walks to the bathroom. He's
at the urinal minding his own business,

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when all of a sudden someone
puts their hands over his eyes.

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And he leans in and whisper in his
ear: "No one will ever believe you."

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As they all look up,
they see him

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standing there. He just walked
right into the place,

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everyone on the site froze.

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The whole party is full
of college kids like myself.

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But then there is this one older man,
as if he appeared out of nowhere.

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So the kid steps closer,
and his jaw drops.

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- Who was it?
- It was Bill Murray.

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- Bill Murray.
- Bill Murray.

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- Come on, bullshit!
- What was he even doing there?

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[woman] He wanted
to read everyone poetry.

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For some reason Bill Murray was at
some random college kids party,

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doing everyone's dishes.

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Wait! So, Bill Murray just shows up at this
almost coffee shop to read people poetry?

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[woman] On this
particular day, he did, yeah.

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How was this iconic movie star walking
into this dirty, shitty bathroom,

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covering random people's eyes
and whispering in their ear:

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"No one will ever believe you."
Then he walked away.

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- Seriously?
- Dude, I'm telling you. It happened to my friend's buddy.

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- He told me it happened.
- And you believed him?

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Stuff like this
happens all the time.

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Yeah, Bill Murray
visiting you in the bathroom

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happens all the time.

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You can joke all you want,
but I'm serious.

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It's not always the bathroom. Sometimes
he hops in your engagement photos.

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Or sing a song
at a base-ball game.

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Hell, he'll even jump in a random
kickball game if you let him.

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But the point is, it happens.

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[Man]
Why would he do that?

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That's just how the stories go.

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[intro music]

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[music fades out]

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[Tommy] This picture
is kind of important.

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But we can get to that later.

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See I'm the guy on the right.

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This movie is about
the guy on the left.

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Hello, I'm Bill Murray,
You can call me Billy.

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But around here everybody
just calls me The New Guy.

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[Tommy] The world was introduces to
Bill in 1976 on Saturday Night Live.

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From his roots in
improv and sketch comedy,

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Bill was quickly launched into
a blockbuster film career.

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Starring in iconic films that help
define generations of comedy to come.

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After decades of notable
comedic performances

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Bill transitioned into acquire
more dramatic roles.

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Bill's onscreen presence shifted towards
more mature parts as he got older.

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No matter what the character, funny or
serious, people love Bill Murray, the actor.

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But more importantly, they
love Bill Murray, the person.

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Ladies and gentlemen please welcome
the one, the only Bill Murray. Bill!

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♪ And I... ♪

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♪ Will always love you ♪

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[Tommy] Bill is fun. When people see
him in interviews just being himself

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the people around Bill
are having fun.

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Who wants a T-shirt?

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[Tommy] So what happens when Bill leaves the
set and goes back to being a normal guy?

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That's where things
get specially interesting.

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There is just something special about him.
Something that drives people to

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put his face on T-shirts, bumper stickers,
pillow cases, even prayer candles.

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But beyond all the novelty items,
there is something much bigger.

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There are a legion of seemingly
unbelievable tall tales

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about Bill that circulates
online throughout the years.

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These so called Bill Murray
stories, are random interactions

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with Bill
and regular everyday people.

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They range from him stealing a
strangers French Fries at an airport

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to randomly showing up at some college
kids' house party to wash the dishes.

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But where does this stories come from?
Is there any truth to these encounters?

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Why would such a big celebrity physically
insert himself into this random situations?

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♪ Lets get physical, physical ♪

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[Tommy] Eventually all these
questions came to a head for me.

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And I wanted to understand what deeper
meaning this Bill Murray stories might hold.

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Regardless of whether
they are true or not.

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If I was going to get to
the bottom of it all,

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- I wanted to talk to the man himself.
- Hello!

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Most celebrities have
managers or agents,

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Bill has neither.
All he has is a 1-800 number.

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It's just an answering machine that he'll eventually
check and hopefully he'll get back to you.

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And getting that 1-800 number
is extremely difficult.

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But from a friend of a friend of a
friend, I was able to get hold of it.

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This will be my first call.
Is it in focus?

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[answering machine] Please select
one of the following options

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followed by the pound key. To
send a numeric page, enter one.

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To leave
a voice message enter two.

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To send a text message,
enter three.

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Please begin speaking your
message at the tone.

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Hello, Mr. Bill Murray.
My name is Tommy Avallone.

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I'm a documentary film director.

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And I wanted to do a story with you.
Oh, dear.

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[answering machine]
To cancel press the star key.

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Message canceled. Please begin
speaking your message at the tone.

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I'm a documentary director.

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I direct documentary's.

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And I want to talk to you
about this new documentary.

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I figure I'd say documentary
a few more times.

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[answering machine] Message canceled.
Please select one of the following options

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followed by the pound key.

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Hello, Mr. Bill Murray.
My name is Tommy Avallone.

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And I want to talk to you about this project
I have that I think would be perfect.

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Jesus Christ!

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[Tommy] So, if getting a hold of
Bill is gonna take some time,

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my next best bet was to start tracking
down someone from one of these stories.

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[answering machine]
Message canceled.

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[phone tone]

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- [Raheel] Hello.
- [Tommy] Hello, is this Raheel?

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Yeah, this is Raheel.

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Cool, it's Tommy Avallone.
I was talking to you on email.

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[Tommy] You took the Bill Murray
engagement photo, right?

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[Raheel laughing] It still feels
like it wasn't me.

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Yeah, I mean anytime you look online
for any of these Bill Murray lists,

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I mean you're still always
one of the top five.

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Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
It's just... yeah...

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Hang out in Charleston then you might just see
him walking on the street crossing the road

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I guess, you know, you wanna be in Charleston,
your odds are way better when it goes with Bill.

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OK, cool.
I'll see you Thursday.

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South Carolina.

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[energetic music]

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[background song playing]

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I figure if I just stand here with a
camera crew, he'll find me, right?

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He's across the street.

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- Hello! I realize I didn't know what you looked like.
- Raheel.

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- [Tommy] How are you doing, man? Tommy.
- [Rachel] Very nice to meet you.

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[Tommy] This is Derrick,
John and Max.

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Awesome, how is your trip going
in Charleston so far?

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Great! It's the first time we have
ever been here. It's really nice.

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Really? It's awesome,
it's like, living here

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it's like being
on vacation all the time.

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So where
did you take the photos?

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- On those staircases there.
- Oh, Wow!

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[Raheel] I'm a wedding photographer.
I take pictures all the time.

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Usually we're just walking around
taking pictures of couples.

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I was doing this
with Ashley and Eric.

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We approached
this beautiful staircase.

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Beautiful historic house.

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And I ask Eric and Ashley
to have a seat.

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And I get ready to photograph.

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As I look through the lens,
I'm seeing Eric

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kind of making these weird gestures
with his eyes. Kind of like...

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I look at him, like:
"Eric, look at the camera."

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And he's kind of like this weird
look going past my head.

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So, times like this, what I usually think,
there is these carriages going past and

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sometimes people are really nice.
They say: "Congratulations."

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And sometimes people are like whistling
and saying: "Hey, you're hot!"

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And I look behind me, almost ready to say something
nasty to someone that is distracting him.

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And I see this guy.

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And as I looked closer,
it's actually Bill Murray

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slapping his belly really loud and just
rubbing it like there is no tomorrow.

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I look back at the couple and they're
mesmerized that it's actually Bill Murray.

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And I'm like: "Bill come on let's
do a photo with the couple."

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Now usually when you ask someone
to get in a picture with a couple,

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you would expect them to come
in and kind of be like this

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Not Bill. He has
a signature look on his face

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I think this
photo is mislabeled.

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It wasn't a photobomb

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where he just randomly
popped up in a photo.

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But at the end of the day, Bill showing
up in the most unexpected of places

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giving a piece of himself, giving
a little memory to someone,

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memory-bombing would be a more appropriate
turn. But that's kind of what it is.

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[Tommy] Raheel was on to something.
He claimed Charleston was home

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of a ton of Bill Murray stories.
And it seemed to make sense

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because Bill spends
a lot of time down here.

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Not only is he the owner
of a local restaurant,

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but he's also part owner
of the Charleston RiverDogs,

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a minor league baseball team.

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So I didn't have to
go far for my next story.

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Our favorite party crasher
Bill Murray is at it again.

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The actor busted a move or two while
at a birthday party in South Carolina.

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He goes about how he ended up at the bachelor
hazy, but it looks like he had a ton of fun.

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[Brett] Bill Murray and I had
been friends for a little while.

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We have some relationships
with his kids and my kids.

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[phone ringing]
Who is that?

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Ah, that's a fucking
reminder for me to be here.

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I'm here. Let's do that again.

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[party music]

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My Bill Murray story, so we where
at a friend of mine's house.

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It was his 50th birthday. He had
struck up a relationship with Bill.

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And they had discussed that it was their mutual
birthday. Now they know that I'm coming.

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And a couple of people had known
that they had made a phone call

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to Bill and see
if he would show up.

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And we're just about
to sit down for dinner.

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Knock at the door, through the
garage door comes Bill Murray.

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He sits down at the head of the table.
He's just a regular guest.

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And everybody... I mean, you got 20
people from Jedburgh, South Carolina.

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Just like: "Holy shit,
what the hell is he doing here?"

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And it wasn't until the people
needed the energy.

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And you know they were having
some chilled music on.

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And he just took over
and played the DJ.

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And then just got in there
and just cutting up dancing.

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And I'm like: "Hold on,
I've got to check this out.

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[party music]

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[Brett]
But it wasn't a five minute DJ.

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It was a 30 to 45 minute,

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and he's dancing
with everybody in the house.

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I don't know if he can understand it, or
if I can even understand on that night.

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Just the impact and the change
he had on that group of people

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for that night,
forever in their mind.

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[cheering]

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And took pictures
with everybody in there.

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Took his time, made sure that
everyone had special attention.

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Before you knew it,
Boom! Houdini, gone.

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[Tommy] So why do you think these news
outlets have picked up on the story?

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[Brett] It's not that one episode, is why
they picked up on it. A bit it's because

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it's a series of
this kind of urban legend.

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I don't think people can figure out
the purpose of why he would do that.

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You know, why would he show up to some one's
house? Who are these people? What are they?

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There's got to be
a larger purpose than him just

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doing something cool and
unique for some people that

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he felt whatever was in his brain
and his heart. "I need to do this."

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I'm gonna give you
all this advice.

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Why does he show up at
restaurants and give life advice

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to people
who are about to get married.

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Why does he show up
here there and everywhere?

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I's like, you know,
where is Waldo?

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[Tommy] It was starting to look like
some of these stories were true.

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But they couldn't all be true, could they?
As I left South Carolina,

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Bill is off
making a new Bill Murray story.

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[sport commentator]

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[woman reporter]
What a game!

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[sport commentator]
Grand slam!

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[women reporter] A Grand
Slam by the Chicago Cubs.

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It's history making stuff.
And this lucky Cubs fan

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got to witness every minute.
Thanks to actor Bill Murray.

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Murray actually gave
this complete stranger

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a priceless
ticket to the big game.

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She was wearing a Cubs' shirt.
She is a Cubs fan.

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Bill Murray sees her as he
is walking into the stadium.

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He says: "What are you doing?" She
goes: "I'm trying to get a ticket."

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He goes: "Come on!" And he
brings her into the stadium.

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[woman reporter]
Roker also show this goofy Video

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of Murray playing
hairdresser with another fan.

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[sports reporter]
Grand Slam!

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[Woman reporter]
What a memorable night!

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And thanks to Bill Murray

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a night this fan
will never forget.

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[Tommy] As much as I wanted to meet Bill,
this was more of a search for answers

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than a hunt to find him. And as I kept seeing
more and more of these stories pop up,

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I started to feel like
I might be getting somewhere.

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[indistinct singing]

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South By Southwest is a huge music
festival that happens here in Austin.

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Also now includes film, people
come from all over the world.

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It's generally a pretty crazy
party here in town.

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♪ Still look good, girl
My mama warned ♪

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So South By Southwest 2010.

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The bar had only been open
for about a year and a half.

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This particular day was pretty slow.
We were kind of hanging out. And...

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I walk in the door, and Bill
Murray is sitting at the bar

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talking with
one of my bartenders.

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I kind of just stare at the TV

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because I don't... He's standing
right next to me.

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And I don't know
how to like, just go: "Hey."

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Because I'm a little starstruck.

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And so he's like: "Who are you
rooting for in the game?"

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And I know
like zero about sports.

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And I was just like:
"I don't know."

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I don't even know,
I'm just staring at the TV.

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So we do a shot of tequila
and he puts out his hand

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and he goes "I'm Bill by
the way." And I go: "I know".

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More people are coming in and they're
starting to come up to Bill,

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and they're saying: "Oh, my gosh,
Bill my dog's name is Venkman."

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She's like: "Can I have a hug? And he goes
"Yeah, give Trevor a hug, he's a handsome guy."

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Joking around and, it's like:
"Can we take a picture of you?"

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And he's like: "Yeah, but we're
having a conversation."

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And I felt pretty special
that he was like:

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"We are trying to talk here,
me and Trevor."

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He goes: "Hey, I'm going
across the street

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to see The GZA.
Do you wanna come?"

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I'd been at work all morning and I said "I
actually have to go and let my dogs out."

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And he was like: "Oh, okay."

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So later in the day it gets busier.
I'm bartending outside on the patio.

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And I get a text message that says Bill
Murray is back looking for Trevor.

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I come back to the bar
with the dogs,

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and I go to the door
and the door guy is like:

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"Fuck you!" And I was like
"What? What's up?"

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And he goes "Bill Murray just walked in
the door and asked: "Is Trevor here?"

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And I like waved through the crowd with
my dogs. And I tap him on the shoulder.

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And he turns around
and he goes: "Trevor!"

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And then
I get another text message.

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Trevor is back
talking with Bill Murray.

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Tyler, the owner, calls me
and he's like:

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You think he wants to bartend?

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And I was like:
"No, I don't want to do that."

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He was like: "Just ask him the question.
Just do it, just do it."

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And I was like: "Alright."
So I go: "Hi, Bill,

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- the owner wants to know like, if you want
to bartend." -And he's like: "Really?"

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And a couple of minutes goes by and
I just get another text message

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that just says:
"Bill is bartending."

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[bar music]

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It's like three beeps at the bar, and
everyone, just like, is going apeshit,

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like holding up money
and waving it.

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And I run inside and Bill Murray
is behind the bar, and it's chaos.

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Bill just started, well, taking
orders from all the people around.

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[Jesse] You know people would order a
whiskey coke, shot of... what-ever.

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It didn't matter what they ordered. He would
literary just grab the closest bottle to him

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regardless of what...
If it's what ordered or not.

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And pour them straight Tequila
in a glass straight Gin in...

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whatever, he'd just... Whatever was
close, that's what they were getting.

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Nobody gave a damn.
It was awesome.

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How crazy would it be if you walked around
town and everyone loved you. Everyone.

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When you're pumping your gas,
everyone loved you.

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And when you were ordering
a coffee, everyone loved you.

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That would be exhausting. But he seems to
have just kind of turned that on its head.

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And just gone with it, and
realized that he has the power

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to make other people
have an amazing experience.

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You know eventually it gets really
crazy and he and his friends take off.

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So, I snuck out the back door with my dog to
like bee-line to meet him to the entrance.

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I go up and I say: "Hey, Bill are
you leaving?" He goes "Yeah."

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And he shakes my hand and he goes: "You're
a really interesting guy, Trevor,

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it was really nice to meet you." And
I was just like: "Oh, my gosh."

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This is like
the perfect end of the story.

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He just walked out
in the middle of the street

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and wanders down the road.

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And I don't know what happened
after that, but...

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[Tommy] So, who is Bill Murray?

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Oh, man.

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To me he's just like this unicorn
who I've always wanted to meet.

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And it's always that one person
who you want to meet.

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And in your head, you're just
like this is never gonna happen.

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And this guy shows up
at your fucking door.

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[party music]

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My Bill Murray story I share
with a couple of my friends.

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So, that night
we were having a house party.

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It's kind of a tradition that we
do with our friends

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at the end of South By
we'll have a couple of bands.

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Jordan ran into this band
called The Like.

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And he asked the girls
if they wanted to play.

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Sure enough they show up.

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And as I'm walking out, I see
Bill in the passenger seat.

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I basically just
have a heart attack

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and stop walking and I was just
[breaths in]

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Oh, my God!
Oh, my fucking God!

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Jordan goes... Opens the door,
and then comes running back in.

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He goes: "You're not gonna believe
it, Bill Murray is here."

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Like I run inside,
close the door

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and I'm like: "Shhh..."

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And I started jumping up and down
"Bill fucking Murray is here.

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Bill fucking Murray." My buddy Adam is
like: "Jordan how drunk are you right now?

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"I'm not drunk.
Not that drunk."

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- But he's here!
- And sure enough Bill Murray is walking in the front door

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carrying guitar amps.

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[unidentified]
Bill Murray, everybody!

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00:20:54,621 --> 00:20:56,787
And everyone
in the party just stopped.

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It was almost like the movie
where like that record stops.

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And he was just... Looked around
and just, you know, did this.

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He's like: "I don't know what you guys are
looking at. Like I'm the roadie tonight."

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00:21:05,565 --> 00:21:09,866
[Adam] Bill himself did a lot to put people
at ease by just being as normal as possible.

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Like he wasn't making
a big deal about himself.

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He was more concerned with
the lasagna in the oven.

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[background chatting]

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- [Bill] Did you do that?
- Yeah.

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Please send that to me because all my friends
like, fuck that shit, it's not true.

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They start playing.

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We ran out of beer.

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[Fieron] Bill comes up to Jordan
and goes: "Hey, let me put in."

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And I'm like: "Man you're good,
you're good. Like I appreciate that."

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He's said: "No, Jordan,
I'm really serious.

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And I said: "Bill, no, you're my
guest, come on."

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He reaches into his pocket and pulls
out a soft ball of wadded up cash.

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Then Bill Murray leans over
Jordan and whispers in his ear:

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"Jordan, listen, I've been
saving up for a little bit."

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And I said: "Alright, fuck it." And I was
like: "I'll let you buy me some beer."

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And so I ran through the grocery
store, freaking... I mean running.

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They're about to close, and I end up
bringing the cashier back to the house.

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And it's a knock at the door.
It's the cops.

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- Jordan!
- Jordan! Cops!

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00:22:17,936 --> 00:22:21,741
They... You know, we were too loud.
They wanted us to turn it down.

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And I walked out, said: "Hi,
gentlemen how are you tonight?"

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[band playing]

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00:22:34,653 --> 00:22:38,122
Oh, good. You know, we
just got six calls.

391
00:22:38,124 --> 00:22:40,924
We can hear you five blocks away.
You guys are really loud.

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00:22:40,926 --> 00:22:42,727
Can you guys turn it down?
And I was like:

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"Man, officers
with all due respect

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00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:48,932
I can't really do that right now
because Bill Murray is inside my house

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00:22:48,934 --> 00:22:52,836
and he's playing in the band
that you want me to stop

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from playing.
And I just can't do that.

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00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:57,941
So if you guys wanna come in
to my house and tell Bill Murray

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that he can't play the
tambourine anymore. Go for it."

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The two police officers,
me and Jordan...

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Bill Murray comes up with the
tambourine and plays it in their face.

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[Jordan] He is there at the door to
greet them as soon as they walk in.

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00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:23,901
He got a tambourine in his hand
shaking it vigorously in their face.

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00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:28,506
And all he said was: "You are Bill Murray."
And he has his tambourine in his hand

404
00:23:28,508 --> 00:23:31,909
and he's shaking it, and he said:
"Yes, I am, I am Bill Murray."

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00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:34,981
And puts his arm around him and
brings him into the party and...

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We keep playing.

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00:23:42,821 --> 00:23:46,090
[Adam] For Bill it's probably just
the spontaneity, is perhaps the fun.

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00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:49,192
If nobody expect that you're gonna
be there then you're gonna get

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an absolutely genuine
reaction to it all.

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00:23:51,865 --> 00:23:56,867
When you're in a room full of people and
everyone is smiling, like ear to ear,

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00:23:56,869 --> 00:23:59,737
that's an amazing vibe. And
like that's... He created that.

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00:23:59,739 --> 00:24:04,044
He's like a candle, when you light it in a room,
and all of a sudden the room smells great.

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00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:08,080
He has become a symbol of...

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00:24:09,582 --> 00:24:12,619
I think what
everyone wants to be.

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00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,054
[Adam] When you're living spontaneously,
you're gonna be able to have memories

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of events happened that
you can't create yourself.

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00:24:19,858 --> 00:24:23,928
You can try
to force a special moment,

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00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:27,198
but the things that matter most are
the things that just happened.

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00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,869
You know, to be able to open yourself,
to allow any of those things to happen.

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00:24:31,871 --> 00:24:34,205
I think that's where
the kind of magic comes through.

421
00:24:34,207 --> 00:24:37,007
Because like our Bill Murray story,
like it never would have happened

422
00:24:37,009 --> 00:24:39,776
had the band not said
yes to us.

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00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:44,215
Or Bill said yes to the band. All these things
that people just kind of going with it,

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00:24:44,217 --> 00:24:47,852
led to this awesome story
and a memory we'll have forever.

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00:24:47,854 --> 00:24:51,788
He walked out of there, you know, saying:
"Thank you so much, that was so much fun like,

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00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:56,259
thanks for having me." I mean just
kind of lets him get back to his roots

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00:24:56,261 --> 00:25:01,766
and just enjoy people for who
they are and enjoy just life

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00:25:01,768 --> 00:25:05,605
on a simpler...
On a simpler level.

429
00:25:07,707 --> 00:25:09,076
[cheering]

430
00:25:11,678 --> 00:25:14,844
[people chatting]

431
00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:15,845
Awesome!

432
00:25:15,847 --> 00:25:17,550
[inaudible]

433
00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:19,519
[crowd cheering]

434
00:25:21,653 --> 00:25:22,990
Good morning.

435
00:25:24,790 --> 00:25:28,225
A few years back I was contacted by the studio
releasing a film called Rock the Casbah

436
00:25:28,227 --> 00:25:32,330
that Bill was starring in. And it was written
by Mitch Glazer. He's a very close friend.

437
00:25:32,332 --> 00:25:36,366
And they had contacted me a few weeks before
Comic Con to ask me to moderate a panel.

438
00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:40,938
I was approached with a caveat
that: "We think he'll be there."

439
00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:44,040
He's Josh Horowitz.
He's OK. He's OK.

440
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:45,578
[crowd cheering]

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00:25:46,311 --> 00:25:48,112
[Joshua] All the way
up to the night before

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we did not know if Bill Murray
was gonna show up.

443
00:25:50,148 --> 00:25:52,783
They were getting
reports on the phone,

444
00:25:52,785 --> 00:25:55,385
like: "We think he's
on his way to the airport.

445
00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:59,890
Mitch says he's on the plane. Mitch thinks
he's on the plane. We think he's on the way."

446
00:25:59,892 --> 00:26:02,226
It's like
30 minutes before the panel,

447
00:26:02,228 --> 00:26:04,128
finally Bill arrives.

448
00:26:04,130 --> 00:26:06,930
[presenter] The very first
appearance at Comic Con

449
00:26:06,932 --> 00:26:09,834
for Mr. Bill Murray.
Give it up!

450
00:26:09,836 --> 00:26:10,871
[crowd cheering]

451
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,306
[Joshua] And we started to take
questions from the audience.

452
00:26:16,308 --> 00:26:17,741
And there are
a lot of cool questions.

453
00:26:17,743 --> 00:26:18,575
Questions about Ghost Busters

454
00:26:18,577 --> 00:26:19,643
and all that
kind of sort of thing.

455
00:26:19,645 --> 00:26:21,746
And there is one great question
that kind of like

456
00:26:21,748 --> 00:26:25,251
gets to the heart of what we
love about Bill Murray.

457
00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:27,183
[crowd laughing]

458
00:26:27,185 --> 00:26:29,219
Oh-oh.

459
00:26:29,221 --> 00:26:31,221
Hey, Bill Murray. I...

460
00:26:31,223 --> 00:26:33,923
[crowd laughing]

461
00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:38,362
I don't know if you ever heard, that there's
people that share around these stories

462
00:26:38,364 --> 00:26:45,236
of you doing crazy things and acting
weird, and then turning to the person

463
00:26:45,238 --> 00:26:48,939
that's is telling the story saying:
"No one will ever believe you."

464
00:26:48,941 --> 00:26:50,376
[crowd laughing]

465
00:26:51,943 --> 00:26:58,682
If... A: Curious if any
of those stories have

466
00:26:58,684 --> 00:27:04,188
any validity to them, and if not
like, if you have heard of them,

467
00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:09,062
is there one that really is like you heard
you're like: "Well, that's pretty crazy."

468
00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:12,932
[crowd laughing]

469
00:27:21,007 --> 00:27:23,440
I don't know what
he was talking about.

470
00:27:23,442 --> 00:27:25,412
[crowd laughing and cheering]

471
00:27:31,384 --> 00:27:35,085
It sounds like fun, though,
doesn't it?

472
00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:41,392
And he's kind of winking at the audience in a
way saying: "Yeah, but you will never know."

473
00:27:41,394 --> 00:27:43,760
And that's part of
the beauty of Bill Murray.

474
00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:46,463
Mitch his friend and
collaborator, chimes in.

475
00:27:46,465 --> 00:27:51,869
He says: "I've kind of got like a version of a
Bill Murray story that I can share with you guys."

476
00:27:51,871 --> 00:27:54,270
[Mitch] I can attest to one.
My wife is here

477
00:27:54,272 --> 00:27:57,274
who starred in Road House
with Patrick Swayze.

478
00:27:57,276 --> 00:28:03,514
Kelly Lynch is here, and I can attest
to one of those stories which is

479
00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:08,251
for about... It felt like 20 or 30
years, but for about five or six years

480
00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:13,324
any time Road House was on, and I mean,
it was on TNT every 15 minutes it seemed.

481
00:28:13,326 --> 00:28:17,761
So before in the morning, he actually once
called me from Russia at a wedding to say:

482
00:28:17,763 --> 00:28:19,529
"Your wife
is banging Patrick Swayze."

483
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:20,733
[crowd laughing]

484
00:28:22,401 --> 00:28:25,302
And then there was a moment
where all his brothers

485
00:28:25,304 --> 00:28:28,271
were calling me at weird hours
just to do the same voice.

486
00:28:28,273 --> 00:28:30,207
So I can... I mean, I'm about
the "You'll never believe it",

487
00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:32,509
but Kelly
and I were haunted by...

488
00:28:32,511 --> 00:28:34,277
[crowd laughing]

489
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:36,846
...by the Ghost Buster.

490
00:28:36,848 --> 00:28:38,484
[crowd applauding]

491
00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:46,055
Like everybody else I think I'd sort of like
just been enjoying the Bill Murray stories

492
00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:51,261
as entertainment. They can pop up on your computer,
in the news and like you know, sort of like

493
00:28:51,263 --> 00:28:56,801
Bill crashed a party, Bill stole a golf-car,
Bill wrestled somebody into a sand trap.

494
00:28:56,803 --> 00:29:00,304
But after a while
like he's not just being wacky.

495
00:29:00,306 --> 00:29:04,074
The more I looked at it, the more
I realized Bill is by action,

496
00:29:04,076 --> 00:29:06,413
not by word, teaching
us all how to live.

497
00:29:08,513 --> 00:29:10,847
- Did you get anything?
- I got a video of it.

498
00:29:10,849 --> 00:29:12,583
- [woman] NO.
- [man] Let me see.

499
00:29:12,585 --> 00:29:15,318
And I think this message is
particularly important now.

500
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:21,558
We're so stuck on our phones. We're do so
much just out of habit, right, and routine.

501
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,830
We really are not fully engaged
with our lives right now.

502
00:29:25,832 --> 00:29:28,899
I think Bill Murray teaches us
a few things.

503
00:29:28,901 --> 00:29:32,937
And one is just, sort of,
not live life on auto pilot.

504
00:29:32,939 --> 00:29:35,038
[David] Bill Murray is reminding
us to do that.

505
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,107
To get fully engaged, to wake up
to what's going on.

506
00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:42,078
It doesn't have to be that you have to do,
like silly things or pranks or anything.

507
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,914
It's about being mindful and
being aware of what's happening.

508
00:29:44,916 --> 00:29:49,319
It's been said before but it's true,
I think Bill embraces the moment.

509
00:29:49,321 --> 00:29:51,988
These chronical Bill Murray
stories work because

510
00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:55,593
it's somebody that we revere,
we put on a pedestal

511
00:29:55,595 --> 00:29:59,529
who... Seemingly all he wants
it's just like, kind of like:

512
00:29:59,531 --> 00:30:02,632
"Have a good time,
enjoy the moment."

513
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:06,269
There is always excitement for someone
when they see a celebrity in real life,

514
00:30:06,271 --> 00:30:11,174
but I think to see a celebrity
like not being sort of self-aware

515
00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:13,376
and not being stand-offish

516
00:30:13,378 --> 00:30:18,282
really participating and
like being a regular person,

517
00:30:18,284 --> 00:30:22,253
I think all of these things contributes
to that sort of singular awesomeness

518
00:30:22,255 --> 00:30:24,121
that is a Bill Murray sighting.

519
00:30:24,123 --> 00:30:27,290
[Joshua] He connects on a very
human, personal level.

520
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:31,495
Just enjoy that party,
karaoke, play kickball.

521
00:30:31,497 --> 00:30:34,364
Just do what makes you happy
and connect with a stranger.

522
00:30:34,366 --> 00:30:36,135
And I think there is something
really beautiful in that.

523
00:30:37,971 --> 00:30:41,104
[Tommy] A lot of people have their
theories on these Bill Murray stories.

524
00:30:41,106 --> 00:30:43,539
And I was learning a lot
from my own journey.

525
00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:46,543
But some part of me still wanted
to get answers from Bill himself.

526
00:30:46,545 --> 00:30:49,950
I am making my second attempt...

527
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:55,187
to call Bill Murray.

528
00:30:56,622 --> 00:30:57,554
[beep]

529
00:30:57,556 --> 00:30:59,189
Hello, Bill.

530
00:30:59,191 --> 00:31:02,959
[beep]
Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill!

531
00:31:02,961 --> 00:31:04,561
Hello, Bill.
How are you?

532
00:31:04,563 --> 00:31:06,296
I feel I can say that better.

533
00:31:06,298 --> 00:31:08,599
Hey, Bill.
That sounds better, right?

534
00:31:08,601 --> 00:31:10,433
Hey! Hey, Bill.

535
00:31:10,435 --> 00:31:13,504
How are you?
I'm not good at this.

536
00:31:13,506 --> 00:31:17,574
Hi, Bill, my name is Lynn.
I'm Tommy Avallone's mother.

537
00:31:17,576 --> 00:31:19,278
He's the best guy in the world.

538
00:31:20,946 --> 00:31:23,146
[answering machine] For message
press pound. For additional options

539
00:31:23,148 --> 00:31:27,887
enter 8002, message sent.
Thank you for calling.

540
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:38,295
- [Tommy] Hi, man.
- [John] What's up?

541
00:31:38,297 --> 00:31:40,497
How are you?

542
00:31:40,499 --> 00:31:42,732
Just tell me when the audio
is clear, man. I'll go...

543
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:44,735
[indistinct talking]
[laughing]

544
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:48,238
I almost got you. I think it was
right by my eye, dude.

545
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,343
My name is John Barnhardt and I did the walking
in slow motion video with Bill Murray.

546
00:31:52,345 --> 00:31:53,947
[music]

547
00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:03,219
So, my buddy and I, David Smith were
shooting a low budget horror movie

548
00:32:03,221 --> 00:32:07,591
and one of my commercial clients called
me and said: "Listen, Trident Academy

549
00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:12,563
this school want's a commercial. They can't pay
anything." I was like whatever, I don't know.

550
00:32:12,565 --> 00:32:16,100
And they were like: "Bill Murray is gonna
be in it." And I'm like: "Done deal."

551
00:32:16,102 --> 00:32:19,303
We had a script. He's like: "I'm not doing
this is... What do you think of me just

552
00:32:19,305 --> 00:32:22,006
telling a story of these
bears. These stuffed animals."

553
00:32:22,008 --> 00:32:23,710
Like dude, that's brilliant.

554
00:32:24,643 --> 00:32:27,745
Bill warms up to us and we're all
kind of done with the commercial.

555
00:32:27,747 --> 00:32:33,249
It was fun and then we're eating, and I'm
like: "Yo, Bill we've got a favor to ask.

556
00:32:33,251 --> 00:32:35,084
He goes:
"You want an autograph?"

557
00:32:35,086 --> 00:32:36,754
And I'm like: "No, no,
I don't want an autograph.

558
00:32:36,756 --> 00:32:40,324
But would it be cool if we all
walk down the hallway

559
00:32:40,326 --> 00:32:43,494
and my buddy photographed
it in slow motion?"

560
00:32:43,496 --> 00:32:46,396
We cut a bunch of Wes Anderson credits
around, and put some music behind kind of

561
00:32:46,398 --> 00:32:50,234
like Kinks Or David Bowie. And he was
like: "Absolutely, let's do this."

562
00:32:50,236 --> 00:32:52,469
[music]

563
00:32:52,471 --> 00:32:55,038
Then he's like:
"But only one thing,

564
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,307
the camera guy has to go around the corner
and we have to come out and reveal,

565
00:32:58,309 --> 00:32:59,742
and you can't look at me.

566
00:32:59,744 --> 00:33:02,412
You gotta look straight ahead."

567
00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:04,448
Right after we walked
out in slow motion,

568
00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:05,748
he shakes all of our hands

569
00:33:05,750 --> 00:33:07,484
and then he goes:
"Good session."

570
00:33:07,486 --> 00:33:10,453
To everybody.
"Good session, good session."

571
00:33:10,455 --> 00:33:13,058
And then he just left.
That was it.

572
00:33:14,292 --> 00:33:15,727
You know
he's such a big famous person,

573
00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:21,265
but he still kind of finds the time
to you know maybe think about people.

574
00:33:21,267 --> 00:33:24,567
I think he recognizes that he's
so big that

575
00:33:24,569 --> 00:33:29,440
that one little moment
makes your year, makes your day.

576
00:33:29,442 --> 00:33:31,607
And it's like
ten seconds to him.

577
00:33:31,609 --> 00:33:34,210
[Tommy] While we were in
South Carolina talking to John,

578
00:33:34,212 --> 00:33:38,148
Bills off yet again
making a new Bill Murray story,

579
00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:39,786
all the way in Slovenia.

580
00:33:43,288 --> 00:33:47,724
♪ Take me out to Slovenia ♪

581
00:33:47,726 --> 00:33:51,628
♪ Take me up with Triglav ♪

582
00:33:51,630 --> 00:33:55,665
♪ Buy me some
strudel and potica ♪

583
00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:59,335
♪ I don't care if
I never go back ♪

584
00:33:59,337 --> 00:34:05,542
I write this column for CNN about wisdom.
In writing about the wisdom of pop culture

585
00:34:05,544 --> 00:34:11,115
and the reason that I focused on Bill Murray is
because, if you look at Bill Murray's career,

586
00:34:11,117 --> 00:34:18,091
you see at a certain number of key films in which
there is a similar narrative, this message.

587
00:34:19,324 --> 00:34:21,224
It's in the hole!

588
00:34:21,226 --> 00:34:23,626
A lot of people are very
familiar with Caddyshack.

589
00:34:23,628 --> 00:34:27,396
It's one of his most famous films, and he
tells this great story, totally improv

590
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:30,737
a line about how he wants
to caddy for the Dalai Lama.

591
00:34:31,704 --> 00:34:34,704
Are you gonna stiff me?
And I said "Hey, Lama!

592
00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:39,342
Hey! How about a little something,
you know, for the effort, you know.

593
00:34:39,344 --> 00:34:42,146
And he says
"Oh, it won't be any money,

594
00:34:42,148 --> 00:34:46,282
but when you die,
on your death bed,

595
00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:50,186
you will receive
total consciousness."

596
00:34:50,188 --> 00:34:51,889
He didn't necessarily
put that into Caddyshack.

597
00:34:51,891 --> 00:34:53,523
He just...
He threw enlightenment

598
00:34:53,525 --> 00:34:55,659
in the middle of
a movie about golf.

599
00:34:55,661 --> 00:34:58,595
- I'm a God.
- You're God?

600
00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:01,331
I am a God.
I'm not the God.

601
00:35:01,333 --> 00:35:05,668
You can look at that story and it
clearly seems to be about this notion

602
00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:08,804
of make mistakes and
do things over and over again

603
00:35:08,806 --> 00:35:10,706
until you get it right
so that you can move on.

604
00:35:10,708 --> 00:35:13,776
And moving on, being nirvana.

605
00:35:13,778 --> 00:35:16,345
Today is tomorrow.

606
00:35:16,347 --> 00:35:18,282
It happened.

607
00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:21,351
Just this great lesson
on how to live.

608
00:35:21,353 --> 00:35:24,188
While also being super
entertaining and very funny.

609
00:35:24,190 --> 00:35:29,226
I believe in it now! I believe it's gonna
happen to me now! I'm ready for it!

610
00:35:29,228 --> 00:35:33,262
Scrooged, right, which you know even
in the original Dickens story's

611
00:35:33,264 --> 00:35:36,268
basically is about redemption,
you know, in a similar way.

612
00:35:36,635 --> 00:35:41,771
[voice over in film] Bill Murray in the
story of one man in the search for himself.

613
00:35:41,773 --> 00:35:47,510
[David] That is the story of a guy who goes
off to World War I and becomes a voluntary

614
00:35:47,512 --> 00:35:50,447
ambulance driver,
sees death and destruction,

615
00:35:50,449 --> 00:35:53,650
and then comes back, and he
has this pre-assigned life.

616
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:56,552
Like he has got a job waiting
for him. He's got a fiancé,

617
00:35:56,554 --> 00:36:00,389
and he rejects all that and says:
"That's not what I want to do.

618
00:36:00,391 --> 00:36:02,693
I have more questions
than I have answers."

619
00:36:02,695 --> 00:36:06,229
And so he goes on this search
for enlightenment.

620
00:36:06,231 --> 00:36:08,764
Am I ever gonna see you again?

621
00:36:08,766 --> 00:36:11,934
It doesn't matter.

622
00:36:11,936 --> 00:36:14,271
It doesn't matter.

623
00:36:14,273 --> 00:36:17,273
There is just this theme that
keeps reoccurring

624
00:36:17,275 --> 00:36:22,378
in Bill Murray films that seems to
be about something much deeper.

625
00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:25,816
Sure they're terrific athletes. They've got
the best equipment that money can buy.

626
00:36:25,818 --> 00:36:30,420
Hell, every team they're sending over
here has their own personal masseuse.

627
00:36:30,422 --> 00:36:35,391
Not masseur, masseuse.
But it doesn't matter!

628
00:36:35,393 --> 00:36:38,961
So you see "It just doesn't matter".
That's the big speech in Meatballs.

629
00:36:38,963 --> 00:36:42,432
The end of the Razor's Edge
Like it just doesn't matter.

630
00:36:42,434 --> 00:36:47,371
[all] Even and even if we win!

631
00:36:47,373 --> 00:36:50,673
Hah! Even if we win!

632
00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:56,880
Even if we play so far over our heads that
our noses bleed for a week to ten days.

633
00:36:56,882 --> 00:37:03,887
Even if God in heaven above comes down and
points his hand at our side of the field

634
00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:09,392
it just wouldn't matter because all
of the really good looking girls

635
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:13,963
would still go out with the guys from
Mohawk because they've got all the money!

636
00:37:13,965 --> 00:37:18,434
There is a really great all Daoist
story that sort of speaks to this.

637
00:37:18,436 --> 00:37:23,507
So, the story goes like this: There is
an old man who has this priced horse

638
00:37:23,509 --> 00:37:26,309
and one day
the horse runs away.

639
00:37:26,311 --> 00:37:29,012
And his neighbor comes over
to give his condolences.

640
00:37:29,014 --> 00:37:31,648
He says: "I'm so sorry.
I heard about your horse."

641
00:37:31,650 --> 00:37:34,483
And the old man says:
"Who knows what's good or bad?"

642
00:37:34,485 --> 00:37:37,720
And the neighbor is confused
because this is his priced horse.

643
00:37:37,722 --> 00:37:41,590
And so the neighbor leaves and then
the next day the horse returns

644
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:45,996
and he brings with him 12 feral horses.
Now the guy is rich in horses.

645
00:37:45,998 --> 00:37:49,398
And the neighbor comes over and says:
"Congratulations, you have all these horses."

646
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,802
And the old man says:
"Who knows what's good or bad?"

647
00:37:51,804 --> 00:37:55,371
And the neighbor is confused again. Because
clearly he's, you know, this is great.

648
00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:58,441
But then the next day the old man's
son is taming one of the horses

649
00:37:58,443 --> 00:38:02,612
and is thrown and he breaks his leg. The neighbor
comes over: "I'm so sorry about your son."

650
00:38:02,614 --> 00:38:05,581
The old man says again: "Who knows what's
good or bad?" And then the next day

651
00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:08,584
the army comes through and they're
conscripting able-bodied young men

652
00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:11,021
to go fight off in war.
And his son is spared.

653
00:38:11,023 --> 00:38:15,025
And that story can go on and on and on. But
what the point of that story is the...

654
00:38:15,027 --> 00:38:19,829
It just doesn't matter, right? Like
most of us go through life up and down.

655
00:38:19,831 --> 00:38:23,133
Things are great! Things are terrible,
things are great, things are terrible.

656
00:38:23,135 --> 00:38:27,903
But a deeper way of looking at it, is that
things are always kind of up and down.

657
00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:31,508
Good things can lead to bad things,
bad things can lead to good things.

658
00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:34,411
And if you have this
"It just doesn't matter"...

659
00:38:34,413 --> 00:38:38,115
If you just have this sort of more
Zen, if you will, outlook on it.

660
00:38:38,117 --> 00:38:40,117
You can sort of look
at the big picture of it.

661
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:41,985
You're gonna...
Your whole life is just gonna be

662
00:38:41,987 --> 00:38:44,554
more even keel, you know.

663
00:38:44,556 --> 00:38:49,726
It just doesn't matter
if we win or we lose!

664
00:38:49,728 --> 00:38:54,798
It just doesn't matter!
It just doesn't matter!

665
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,769
It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't
matter! It just doesn't matter!

666
00:38:59,771 --> 00:39:04,844
It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't
matter! It just doesn't matter!

667
00:39:06,177 --> 00:39:10,045
I was out with a bunch of friends
after work doing some karaoke,

668
00:39:10,047 --> 00:39:14,684
something that we regularly did. We were out in
a private room and just having a great time.

669
00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:18,521
My friend comes back to the room and
he goes: "Bill Murray just walked in."

670
00:39:18,523 --> 00:39:23,159
And we were just like:
"Whatever, dude. You're a liar."

671
00:39:23,161 --> 00:39:25,961
And this was around the time where
kind of like the legend had started

672
00:39:25,963 --> 00:39:29,166
where you hear these stories
where Bill Murray did my dishes

673
00:39:29,168 --> 00:39:30,934
or Bill Murray crashed my party.

674
00:39:30,936 --> 00:39:33,603
So my friend
didn't even hesitate.

675
00:39:33,605 --> 00:39:36,539
He went right up to him and said: "you
know what? We've got a room in the back

676
00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:38,874
if you want to come and hang out
with us, just come and check it out.

677
00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:43,546
And about 20 minutes later we got a
knock on the door. And it's Bill.

678
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:46,715
We just kind of welcomed him in. And then
we just like: "Come on in, take a seat,

679
00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,753
chill out." Do you want a drink? What
song do you want to sing, you know?

680
00:39:49,755 --> 00:39:52,688
But I just put on one of my favorite
Elvis songs and he got right in there.

681
00:39:52,690 --> 00:39:56,226
He grabbed the mike and him and I just
did a duet. And it was really just

682
00:39:56,228 --> 00:40:00,130
like hanging out with one of your buddies.
By the time we knew it, it was like 3 a.m.

683
00:40:00,132 --> 00:40:03,599
and it was time to go and
I'm like: "How do I leave this?"

684
00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:09,039
Eventually I left and I went home and I
put my pictures right on up on Facebook.

685
00:40:09,041 --> 00:40:11,974
Because I didn't
believe it myself, honestly.

686
00:40:11,976 --> 00:40:16,612
And then the next day I went to work and people
were like: "What the fuck, is that real?"

687
00:40:16,614 --> 00:40:19,548
Like "That's not real, right?
That didn't happen, right?"

688
00:40:19,550 --> 00:40:22,621
And the people who didn't come,
they were really upset.

689
00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:27,058
Yeah, I got invited
to karaoke that night.

690
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:29,629
Missed out on meeting Bill.

691
00:40:31,563 --> 00:40:32,465
It sucks.

692
00:40:33,998 --> 00:40:37,867
[Michael] I think meeting Bill has
kind of opened me up in a strange way.

693
00:40:37,869 --> 00:40:41,204
I could be kind of a quieter
guy, a little more reserved.

694
00:40:41,206 --> 00:40:44,206
But then I'll think what would Bill
Murray be doing in this situation?

695
00:40:44,208 --> 00:40:47,510
And he would just take it
by the balls and just go for it.

696
00:40:47,512 --> 00:40:49,912
Sometimes if I'm feeling
a little socially awkward...

697
00:40:49,914 --> 00:40:52,215
I just think just have fun and
everything will go with it.

698
00:40:52,217 --> 00:40:55,822
You know, and... He just showed up and
had a good time. And it was great.

699
00:40:58,155 --> 00:41:02,525
[Lee] Poet's House is a library,
a meeting place

700
00:41:02,527 --> 00:41:06,729
and it has become one of the great
places on the globe for poetry.

701
00:41:06,731 --> 00:41:11,735
The place is packed every day, but when
we were building it, it was really hard.

702
00:41:11,737 --> 00:41:14,637
We 're poets. We didn't
really know what we were doing,

703
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,840
and every once in a while I get
called up by a construction worker:

704
00:41:17,842 --> 00:41:21,244
"Oh, like we're missing an Air
Conditioner." Or you know it was just...

705
00:41:21,246 --> 00:41:23,847
It was a big job
for the poets to do this.

706
00:41:23,849 --> 00:41:28,318
And I thought it would really make
sense for the construction workers

707
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,188
to have a sense of what they were building.
So we asked him.

708
00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:33,192
[Bill sighs]

709
00:41:35,561 --> 00:41:41,298
I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -

710
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,900
[Scott] Nobody knew that he was coming.
As soon as he walked in

711
00:41:43,902 --> 00:41:46,235
everybody was like: "Holy shit,
that's Bill Murray.

712
00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:49,139
What's Bill Murray doing here?
It made no sense to us at all

713
00:41:49,141 --> 00:41:51,740
for Bill Murray to be
on the construction site.

714
00:41:51,742 --> 00:41:56,248
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

715
00:41:58,717 --> 00:42:03,320
Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of eye -

716
00:42:03,322 --> 00:42:08,023
Yeah, for the most part a lot of it is you
don't have a clue what they're talking about.

717
00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:11,595
And I wish I did,
but I never really got into it

718
00:42:11,597 --> 00:42:14,965
that much where
I could understand it fully.

719
00:42:14,967 --> 00:42:19,905
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

720
00:42:22,106 --> 00:42:28,612
Of Visitors - the fairest -
For Occupation -

721
00:42:28,614 --> 00:42:30,347
It was probably the first time
we had somebody,

722
00:42:30,349 --> 00:42:32,916
probably since high school
English class, read us poetry.

723
00:42:32,918 --> 00:42:34,950
And it just happened
to be Bill Murray.

724
00:42:34,952 --> 00:42:38,990
This -
The spreading wide

725
00:42:39,958 --> 00:42:44,159
my narrow Hands
To gather

726
00:42:44,161 --> 00:42:46,061
Paradise -

727
00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:49,833
He was showing up to read
poetry, but it was fun.

728
00:42:49,835 --> 00:42:53,670
There's a difference between fun
and funny I think in some ways.

729
00:42:53,672 --> 00:42:59,275
He creates a sense of fun. And that creates
a community in the present moment.

730
00:42:59,277 --> 00:43:01,778
Why don't you just come over
here and introduce yourself?

731
00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:06,416
And tell the camera what's your
name is and what's... [Laughter]

732
00:43:06,418 --> 00:43:09,853
Tell them what your name is and
what your occupation is. [laughter]

733
00:43:09,855 --> 00:43:14,023
You don't think it's... Michael,
I think it's a good thing to do.

734
00:43:14,025 --> 00:43:19,061
And he really helped them, I think,
understand what they were building.

735
00:43:19,063 --> 00:43:22,766
And that poetry is all around us.
Then he made a lot of jokes too.

736
00:43:22,768 --> 00:43:24,434
Now we have
an opportunity for one of you

737
00:43:24,436 --> 00:43:29,072
to step forward and do some of
your own original poetry.

738
00:43:29,074 --> 00:43:32,976
Come on, don't be shy.
Come on, don't be shy.

739
00:43:32,978 --> 00:43:39,282
He's just this big goofy guy that just
attracts people to him. For whatever reason.

740
00:43:39,284 --> 00:43:42,021
And it was
a pretty cool experience.

741
00:43:43,188 --> 00:43:46,389
[Robert] I think as time went on
people understood that

742
00:43:46,391 --> 00:43:49,425
he was there to relate to us
and to be with us

743
00:43:49,427 --> 00:43:52,195
and shed a little joy
in our lives.

744
00:43:52,197 --> 00:43:57,266
Poetry in a way is about the
radiant particulars.

745
00:43:57,268 --> 00:44:02,972
It's the little moments that are
charged with meaning and radiance.

746
00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:08,811
And he goes after those moments. So that
makes him a poetic spirit, I think.

747
00:44:08,813 --> 00:44:11,380
We've got about three more minutes
before this break is over.

748
00:44:11,382 --> 00:44:14,450
Smoke'em if you got'em.
Alright, thank you.

749
00:44:14,452 --> 00:44:15,987
[clapping]

750
00:44:19,224 --> 00:44:22,191
[woman] I heard somebody yell:
"Did your child just pick him up?"

751
00:44:22,193 --> 00:44:26,262
[woman] It's Bill Murray.
You are kidding me!

752
00:44:26,264 --> 00:44:30,432
- [woman 2] I'm starstruck.
- We were playing kickball. It was my turn to kick

753
00:44:30,434 --> 00:44:34,237
and the ref goes: "Do you
all mind if my friend plays?"

754
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,840
And I look over and I'm like: "It's
my turn," like I don't want this

755
00:44:36,842 --> 00:44:41,211
random, like homeless looking
man to play when it's my turn.

756
00:44:41,213 --> 00:44:45,782
And then I was like: "Hey, hey, hey. That's
Bill Murray!" I was like: "Sure, you can play."

757
00:44:45,784 --> 00:44:48,083
We all took photos
and then my mom is like:

758
00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:50,787
"Excuse me, do you mind
if you take a photo with me?"

759
00:44:50,789 --> 00:44:53,255
I think it was him,
he scooped her up.

760
00:44:53,257 --> 00:44:56,391
- She wasn't like: "Hold me."
- No, no it was definitely him.

761
00:44:56,393 --> 00:45:00,329
I honestly didn't get the grasp
of it until the day after.

762
00:45:00,331 --> 00:45:04,032
Because I didn't know, like... apparently
this was a thing I didn't know about.

763
00:45:04,034 --> 00:45:06,503
And then all of a sudden
I see all these clips...

764
00:45:06,505 --> 00:45:08,438
I had no idea
he popped-up places.

765
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,007
He does it all the time
apparently, and I didn't know.

766
00:45:11,009 --> 00:45:14,376
Yeah, it was like very bizarre. Like he
came in, we'd played for a little bit,

767
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,012
took a photo and
then he left.

768
00:45:17,014 --> 00:45:19,014
And then we kept on playing
the game like regular

769
00:45:19,016 --> 00:45:20,785
and then afterwards we're like:
"What just happened?"

770
00:45:22,454 --> 00:45:25,220
Anybody need more coffee?

771
00:45:25,222 --> 00:45:28,825
Coffee and Cigarettes the movie
by Jim Jarmusch came out in 2003.

772
00:45:28,827 --> 00:45:32,162
At the time people loved Bill Murray. But they
didn't have the sense that he was the guy

773
00:45:32,164 --> 00:45:36,465
who sort of like went out in the world and covered
peoples' eyes and stole their French Fries.

774
00:45:36,467 --> 00:45:38,434
- Are you Bill Murray?
- Yeah, I'm Bill Murray.

775
00:45:38,436 --> 00:45:41,838
But let's keep that
just between us, alright.

776
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,175
It's kind of like the first little
peephole into like the idea that

777
00:45:45,177 --> 00:45:48,945
"Oh, Bill Murray can just sort of like
arrive in your life for a few minutes."

778
00:45:48,947 --> 00:45:54,284
But here he is and he shows up as a waiter,
like with two members of the WU-Tang Clan.

779
00:45:54,286 --> 00:45:58,487
Bill Groundhog Day,
Ghost busting ass Murray.

780
00:45:58,489 --> 00:46:01,825
- Who do you gonna call?
- I know that, just don't tell anybody.

781
00:46:01,827 --> 00:46:04,561
And in the movie it's really
kind of the fictional version

782
00:46:04,563 --> 00:46:08,097
of what people later found out was
like the real life Bill Murray.

783
00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:10,032
What do you mean "not tell
nobody, Bill Murray?"

784
00:46:10,034 --> 00:46:12,168
I mean, people gonna come here
and they gonna see you.

785
00:46:12,170 --> 00:46:14,037
You're bill Murray,
it's obvious.

786
00:46:14,039 --> 00:46:18,007
Unless you're wearing
a disguise or something.

787
00:46:18,009 --> 00:46:21,043
Well, I am wearing
a kind of disguise.

788
00:46:21,045 --> 00:46:27,016
Yeah, and Zombieland is another wonderful
like cameo Bill Murray as himself.

789
00:46:27,018 --> 00:46:29,418
Bill Murray, you're a zombie?

790
00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:32,856
You know like you've got a world
that's like over-run by zombies.

791
00:46:32,858 --> 00:46:36,226
That you know, sort of, like very few,
you know, like uninfected humans beings.

792
00:46:36,228 --> 00:46:38,864
And Bill like somehow survived.

793
00:46:40,998 --> 00:46:43,099
And what he does is
that he dresses up as a zombie

794
00:46:43,101 --> 00:46:45,869
so he can like go
and play golf and walk around.

795
00:46:45,871 --> 00:46:49,606
And you know like even in the zombie apocalypse,
like sort of, like Bill Murray is trying

796
00:46:49,608 --> 00:46:53,476
to maintain his lifestyle and like
get out of the house and engage.

797
00:46:53,478 --> 00:46:57,179
Suits my life style, you know.
I like to get out and do stuff.

798
00:46:57,181 --> 00:47:00,550
Just play nine holes on the
Riviera. Just walked on.

799
00:47:00,552 --> 00:47:06,025
Goddamn it, Bill fucking Murray!
I had to get that out.

800
00:47:07,025 --> 00:47:12,262
I think Bill has always like had adventures,
inserted himself into other people's lives.

801
00:47:12,264 --> 00:47:18,133
I think the extent which he does it, is probably
more based on what he needs personally.

802
00:47:18,135 --> 00:47:21,938
But I think it resonates with everybody
more now because of who we are.

803
00:47:21,940 --> 00:47:25,240
- Bill motherfucking Murray.
- It's crazy, ya'll.

804
00:47:25,242 --> 00:47:27,276
- [Tommy] You've met Bill?
- I've met Bill.

805
00:47:27,278 --> 00:47:29,347
- Tell me how that went.
- Bill...

806
00:47:33,351 --> 00:47:36,052
[Gavin] Are there times, you know, like
periods of your life where you feel like you

807
00:47:36,054 --> 00:47:37,653
need to be woken up?
Or is it just...

808
00:47:37,655 --> 00:47:40,923
[Bill] Well, every day.
Really, I mean

809
00:47:40,925 --> 00:47:45,094
you know, I'm
always sort of connected for

810
00:47:45,096 --> 00:47:48,063
seconds and minutes
a day sometimes.

811
00:47:48,065 --> 00:47:51,534
Sometimes you go days without it,
which is... I'm always thinking:

812
00:47:51,536 --> 00:47:56,171
"Holy God, I've been asleep for two days.
I've been doing things, but [indistinct]

813
00:47:56,173 --> 00:47:59,075
So, one of the things Bill
tries to do is to really

814
00:47:59,077 --> 00:48:01,543
just like have a jolt
that wakes people up.

815
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:05,213
[Bill] He don't know always that...
aware that I'm thinking about what

816
00:48:05,215 --> 00:48:08,617
I want them to take away from
it. You know sometimes I think

817
00:48:08,619 --> 00:48:11,153
what am I gonna
take away from this?

818
00:48:11,155 --> 00:48:17,559
So, I'm almost self-destructive. My hope
is that it's gonna wake me up, you know.

819
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:21,296
And if I see someone that's out,
cold and on their feet sort of

820
00:48:21,298 --> 00:48:25,434
I go oh, OK. I'm gonna try
and wake that person up.

821
00:48:25,436 --> 00:48:27,470
Because it's like, you know,
It's the same thing.

822
00:48:27,472 --> 00:48:30,238
It's like this is what I want
someone to do for me, you know.

823
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:34,512
Is wake me up.
Just wake me the hell up.

824
00:48:46,257 --> 00:48:47,293
[guitar music]

825
00:48:48,393 --> 00:48:51,561
[Laura] I called him over,
and when my son saw him

826
00:48:51,563 --> 00:48:55,164
and his bright orange outfit
and just immediately

827
00:48:55,166 --> 00:48:59,267
after being silent for the entire
day started bawling his eyes out.

828
00:48:59,269 --> 00:49:01,637
And Bill Murray is like:
"Hey, if you can't beat them,

829
00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:04,209
join them."
And just started crying himself.

830
00:49:07,644 --> 00:49:10,079
[Samuel] This one Sunday
I went up the mountain

831
00:49:10,081 --> 00:49:13,318
and this guy was on the side of
the road, and he'd broke down.

832
00:49:15,420 --> 00:49:19,088
Are you OK?
Really?

833
00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:21,691
I'm walking up and it turns out
to be Bill Murray.

834
00:49:21,693 --> 00:49:24,394
- [Bill] I'm Bill, by the way.
- I'm Sam. Sam.

835
00:49:24,396 --> 00:49:27,130
[Noah] I'm going to pick up my grandmother.
She'd never been to a basket-ball game.

836
00:49:27,132 --> 00:49:30,633
And all of a sudden I hear a voice.
And I'm like "I know that voice."

837
00:49:30,635 --> 00:49:32,267
And I turned the corner and
sure enough it's Bill Murray.

838
00:49:32,269 --> 00:49:34,771
I stuck out my hand, I was like: "Hey, It's
my grandmothers birthday. Do you think

839
00:49:34,773 --> 00:49:36,304
we could just
get a quick picture with you?"

840
00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:38,141
He just, kind of,
just looked at me and he goes:

841
00:49:38,143 --> 00:49:41,144
"Well, don't you think we should
sing her Happy Birthday?"

842
00:49:41,146 --> 00:49:42,445
And I was just like: "What?"

843
00:49:42,447 --> 00:49:45,447
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

844
00:49:45,449 --> 00:49:47,550
In my head thinking like
it's Bill Murray over there

845
00:49:47,552 --> 00:49:50,820
about to sing Happy Birthday
to my 94 year old grandmother.

846
00:49:50,822 --> 00:49:55,224
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

847
00:49:55,226 --> 00:49:57,096
[instrumental music]

848
00:50:05,135 --> 00:50:08,137
I had just opened our business.
We're about three months old.

849
00:50:08,139 --> 00:50:11,273
And I'd heard that Bill is shooting
a movie in our neighborhood.

850
00:50:11,275 --> 00:50:14,110
Two - three hours later
Bill comes out of his car,

851
00:50:14,112 --> 00:50:15,711
sees the truck and he's like:
"So, what have you got?"

852
00:50:15,713 --> 00:50:17,579
And I showed him like...
Yeah, this is my truck.

853
00:50:17,581 --> 00:50:21,083
And he's like: "This is pretty
cool, it's really nice."

854
00:50:21,085 --> 00:50:25,356
And then the entire crew came over and then he
helped me, he helped serve the crew ice cream.

855
00:50:27,192 --> 00:50:28,657
Bill Murray was standing
next to me on the truck.

856
00:50:28,659 --> 00:50:29,791
I know he's just a person,

857
00:50:29,793 --> 00:50:31,295
but to me he was more than that.

858
00:50:33,630 --> 00:50:36,264
[Tommy] As more and more stories
proved to be true,

859
00:50:36,266 --> 00:50:38,834
it was hard to think that
any of them could be made up.

860
00:50:38,836 --> 00:50:43,106
But there was this one story that sounded
so random, I couldn't seem to buy it.

861
00:50:43,108 --> 00:50:44,840
And the only way to find out
if it was true,

862
00:50:44,842 --> 00:50:48,246
was to fly over 3000 miles
to the United Kingdom.

863
00:50:53,585 --> 00:50:55,617
[indistinct]

864
00:50:55,619 --> 00:50:57,755
- Max.
- Good to meet you.

865
00:50:59,590 --> 00:51:03,191
[Tommy]
Tell us your Bill Murray story.

866
00:51:03,193 --> 00:51:07,762
So, I went to university at a place called
St. Andrews. It's a small town in Scotland.

867
00:51:07,764 --> 00:51:11,601
There was one street that was famous for its
house parties. It's called Hope street.

868
00:51:11,603 --> 00:51:14,704
We just left the pub. The pubs
in England close quite early.

869
00:51:14,706 --> 00:51:18,206
So we wandered along, just walked in this
door. It was some people that we knew.

870
00:51:18,208 --> 00:51:20,842
So I thought, oh, we'll go there and
see if there's anything going on.

871
00:51:20,844 --> 00:51:24,146
There was a house party, and so,
you know, we just joined in.

872
00:51:24,148 --> 00:51:28,483
And all of a sudden there is a
bit of a noise in the next room.

873
00:51:28,485 --> 00:51:32,354
And so, I wandered through to
the kitchen and lo and behold

874
00:51:32,356 --> 00:51:35,291
I stood there with my beer in my
hand looking across the kitchen

875
00:51:35,293 --> 00:51:38,494
and Bill Murray is in the other
room talking to a few girls.

876
00:51:38,496 --> 00:51:44,467
I'm observing from the, sort of across the room
and all of a sudden Bill start admonishing

877
00:51:44,469 --> 00:51:48,737
the girls and saying what a disgrace their
kitchen was, how messy it was, and he says:

878
00:51:48,739 --> 00:51:52,742
"Don't worry about it, girls. You go back
to your party, I'll do the washing up."

879
00:51:52,744 --> 00:51:56,579
He starts doing the glasses, the dishes. I just
stood there on the other side of the kitchen

880
00:51:56,581 --> 00:52:00,816
thinking: "That's a bit strange. Bill
Murray's here doing the washing up."

881
00:52:00,818 --> 00:52:02,751
Yeah, he hung around for a
while, had a couple of drinks

882
00:52:02,753 --> 00:52:05,554
and then made his way
into the night.

883
00:52:05,556 --> 00:52:10,425
I mean, I think we revere
celebrity, and I think the stories

884
00:52:10,427 --> 00:52:15,664
that involve Bill Murray are Bill
interacting in an everyday manner.

885
00:52:15,666 --> 00:52:21,369
And it removes that barrier, that Chinese
Wall between the rest of us and celebrity.

886
00:52:21,371 --> 00:52:24,773
And I think that's the effect he has on people.
If that means you go away feeling good

887
00:52:24,775 --> 00:52:28,711
about yourself,
then that's a quite nice thing.

888
00:52:28,713 --> 00:52:32,414
[Tommy] So it turns out the story was true.
And the great thing about it,

889
00:52:32,416 --> 00:52:35,450
is that it shows that Bill can take
these small moments and transform them

890
00:52:35,452 --> 00:52:39,222
into something memorable. He seems to
just have this comedian type quality

891
00:52:39,224 --> 00:52:43,291
when it comes to social situations.
He comes into peoples' lives,

892
00:52:43,293 --> 00:52:46,762
gets a feel for the room and he
makes the moment something special.

893
00:52:46,764 --> 00:52:48,200
But where does he get that from?

894
00:52:48,932 --> 00:52:50,536
[guitar music]

895
00:53:01,945 --> 00:53:06,449
God evening, hello to you that are
not my relatives, I'm Bill Murray.

896
00:53:06,451 --> 00:53:08,284
Welcome to the
Second City Theatre.

897
00:53:08,286 --> 00:53:12,554
Where have you been?
You've been gone for six months!

898
00:53:12,556 --> 00:53:14,257
After school there was a party.

899
00:53:14,259 --> 00:53:16,862
[audience laughing]

900
00:53:18,596 --> 00:53:19,961
Then everybody went to Denver.

901
00:53:19,963 --> 00:53:21,930
[audience laughing]

902
00:53:21,932 --> 00:53:24,700
Almighty, I think it's great
the adults get together

903
00:53:24,702 --> 00:53:29,541
and talk about sex. They should! A certain amount
of oral sex is necessary in any community.

904
00:53:31,275 --> 00:53:36,878
Improv is... It's about being in the
moment. It's about a give and take.

905
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:41,950
It's about never denying. The whole
theory behind improv, is "Yes, and..."

906
00:53:41,952 --> 00:53:46,789
So, there's little rules like, you know, let's
say yes to each other's ideas instead of no.

907
00:53:46,791 --> 00:53:50,458
So, if I say you're my dad, let's just pretend
you are, so I don't look like an idiot.

908
00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:55,430
Somebody says: "You're a tree." You don't say:
"No, I'm not a tree. How could I be a tree?"

909
00:53:55,432 --> 00:53:58,570
You go with it. You are a tree.
And it continues on from there.

910
00:54:00,505 --> 00:54:02,905
[indistinct]

911
00:54:02,907 --> 00:54:07,809
Let's keep that sense of: This is a
real moment happening in real time.

912
00:54:07,811 --> 00:54:12,081
[Joel] Del Close Was the
teacher, the mentor and guru

913
00:54:12,083 --> 00:54:15,383
to some of the greatest
comedy minds of our generation.

914
00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:20,021
And he was a man who taught you
not to fear anything,

915
00:54:20,023 --> 00:54:22,657
to enjoy that fear,
and to follow that fear.

916
00:54:22,659 --> 00:54:26,595
Talking about birth control
devices and contraceptives,

917
00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:30,733
next thing you know is gonna be passing
out condominiums to the kids at school!

918
00:54:30,735 --> 00:54:33,702
Handing it out in playgrounds!
I've seen those hands!

919
00:54:33,704 --> 00:54:39,641
Well, I think Del had that effect on Bill
in the fact that Bill didn't fear much.

920
00:54:39,643 --> 00:54:41,943
Sometimes he'd like to see where
that fear is headed.

921
00:54:41,945 --> 00:54:45,581
And it takes him
a lot of interesting places.

922
00:54:45,583 --> 00:54:52,387
It ends up being other peoples' stories, but...
Yeah, no I'll go see what's behind that door.

923
00:54:52,389 --> 00:54:54,789
Like I remember Harold Ramis
told a story, you know,

924
00:54:54,791 --> 00:54:57,392
if he'd go somewhere
on location with Bill...

925
00:54:57,394 --> 00:55:01,731
Bill was just fine getting lost. He
could, like, go off on a bike or a moped.

926
00:55:01,733 --> 00:55:06,635
He just reveled in not knowing where
he was and getting to know the locals.

927
00:55:06,637 --> 00:55:10,572
Flying by the seat of his pants
and living by his wits.

928
00:55:10,574 --> 00:55:15,878
And I think a lot of it came out of improv
and he learned that at Second City.

929
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,079
[Charna] I think for
Bill Murray in particular,

930
00:55:18,081 --> 00:55:21,717
he went along with the
philosophy of "Improv is play".

931
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,954
When Bill does those scenes, like,
he'll sit down and take a French Fry

932
00:55:24,956 --> 00:55:27,789
or play with somebody
that he doesn't know.

933
00:55:27,791 --> 00:55:29,724
And I have seen him
do that personally.

934
00:55:29,726 --> 00:55:33,162
It's because he really has
just taken this and made it

935
00:55:33,164 --> 00:55:36,632
the joy of life. And I think
he realizes what is important.

936
00:55:36,634 --> 00:55:38,903
And that is to
have fun with people.

937
00:55:39,836 --> 00:55:42,470
[Susan] So when you talk about
something like Bill Murray,

938
00:55:42,472 --> 00:55:44,440
you know, how does he
enjoy the moment?

939
00:55:44,442 --> 00:55:46,541
How does he assume prominence
in life and bla, bla, bla?

940
00:55:46,543 --> 00:55:49,177
Well, you can just... when you
see any human being

941
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:51,847
simply reveling
in where they are,

942
00:55:51,849 --> 00:55:54,583
improv might be the
only time in my life

943
00:55:54,585 --> 00:56:00,025
that I truly get to slow down
and enjoy exactly where I am.

944
00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:17,773
From Queens, New York,
it's the Bill Murray show!

945
00:56:17,775 --> 00:56:20,008
Starring Mark Malkoff.

946
00:56:20,010 --> 00:56:23,045
It is the show that doesn't end
until Bill Murray agrees

947
00:56:23,047 --> 00:56:26,548
to have dinner with me here
in my apartment in Queens.

948
00:56:26,550 --> 00:56:32,121
The Bill Murray show was a comedy idea I had
which was at the time a weekly video series.

949
00:56:32,123 --> 00:56:35,490
You at home can help me. Have you seen Bill
Murray lately? Do you know Bill Murray?

950
00:56:35,492 --> 00:56:36,858
Is your name Bill Murray?

951
00:56:36,860 --> 00:56:38,827
My wife Christine
would cook a meal

952
00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:41,796
for Bill Murray that we
placed on the table.

953
00:56:41,798 --> 00:56:44,967
Christine, thank you so much. Tell us
about Bill Murray's dinner this week.

954
00:56:44,969 --> 00:56:47,036
[Christine] With black bean
tacos.

955
00:56:47,038 --> 00:56:50,873
And we would talk about Murray and
I think I called a 800-number

956
00:56:50,875 --> 00:56:53,141
and asked him
if he would have dinner.

957
00:56:53,143 --> 00:56:54,876
He never...
I never heard from him

958
00:56:54,878 --> 00:56:57,713
like most people that call
that 800-number.

959
00:56:57,715 --> 00:56:59,180
I never heard back.

960
00:56:59,182 --> 00:57:01,115
Tell us
how you know Bill Murray.

961
00:57:01,117 --> 00:57:03,985
I don't really know him,
but I used to park his car.

962
00:57:03,987 --> 00:57:07,856
I've learned a lot and thinking back
about the approach that I took,

963
00:57:07,858 --> 00:57:12,894
and it was not the right approach
to take to make it happen...

964
00:57:12,896 --> 00:57:17,833
Calling that 800-number was not... It goes
against everything that Murray stands for.

965
00:57:17,835 --> 00:57:24,106
It goes against what Murray is. What Murrays
life is essentially is an improv game

966
00:57:24,108 --> 00:57:26,976
which he yes,
adds things in the moment.

967
00:57:26,978 --> 00:57:32,113
And for me calling him
with a game and setting it up,

968
00:57:32,115 --> 00:57:34,950
was just not in the moment.
It was not organic.

969
00:57:34,952 --> 00:57:38,653
Because it seems like so much of his life is...
It's in the moment. "Yes, and..." and stuff.

970
00:57:38,655 --> 00:57:43,525
It seems like whenever there's
details and specifics and stuff...

971
00:57:43,527 --> 00:57:46,161
When people call that 800-number,
that's when it gets tricky.

972
00:57:46,163 --> 00:57:48,530
And Sofia Coppola,
didn't it take her months

973
00:57:48,532 --> 00:57:51,566
on the 800-number?
And that's Sofia Coppola!

974
00:57:51,568 --> 00:57:56,005
I got... I left messages for
probably a year and sent letters.

975
00:57:56,007 --> 00:58:00,075
And I would... Anybody I would meet
like: "Do you know Bill Murray?"

976
00:58:00,077 --> 00:58:04,112
And then finally I... A friend
of mine was, who is a writer,

977
00:58:04,114 --> 00:58:09,552
I was old friends with him. He helped
me and finally got in touch with him,

978
00:58:09,554 --> 00:58:14,590
and then finally I got to meet him. And
he said he might think about doing it.

979
00:58:14,592 --> 00:58:19,295
But he was never very committal and... But
I just went to Japan and started making it

980
00:58:19,297 --> 00:58:22,998
in the hopes that he would show
up. And luckily he showed up.

981
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,235
[crowd cheering]

982
00:58:26,269 --> 00:58:29,338
So, I was at the Toronto Film
Festival as a writer for Vanity Fair.

983
00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:32,273
And I had this article
that I was reporting on.

984
00:58:32,275 --> 00:58:34,776
My editor had emailed
me and she said:

985
00:58:34,778 --> 00:58:37,313
"I just found out that the Toronto
International Film Festival

986
00:58:37,315 --> 00:58:41,349
is devoting one day to Bill
Murray, called Bill Murray Day."

987
00:58:41,351 --> 00:58:47,222
And we would love it if you would fly up to
Toronto and just shadow him for the day.

988
00:58:47,224 --> 00:58:51,894
What I didn't know of course is that
he has no PR people, he has no people.

989
00:58:51,896 --> 00:58:56,331
So there was really no way to,
like, coordinate with him on this.

990
00:58:56,333 --> 00:59:00,202
It was very much like I... Just boots on the
ground, I had to search for him, thing.

991
00:59:00,204 --> 00:59:02,737
- First of all, happy Bill Murray day.
- Thank you very much.

992
00:59:02,739 --> 00:59:05,106
I knew that there were certain
things that I had to hit that day.

993
00:59:05,108 --> 00:59:07,742
There was gonna be a screening
of Ghostbusters.

994
00:59:07,744 --> 00:59:10,878
And, you know, I'm kind of
scribbling notes as it's happening.

995
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,349
He just, kind of, walked right off the stage,
so I didn't really get a chance to grab him.

996
00:59:14,351 --> 00:59:17,653
And then I had a screening of his
movie that night with an after party.

997
00:59:17,655 --> 00:59:20,923
Again a possibility
for me to talk with him.

998
00:59:20,925 --> 00:59:22,992
I'm still so emotional
from the film.

999
00:59:22,994 --> 00:59:24,760
[crowd laughing]

1000
00:59:24,762 --> 00:59:26,862
I had been assured many times
from my editors

1001
00:59:26,864 --> 00:59:28,863
and everybody else
that I was on this list.

1002
00:59:28,865 --> 00:59:30,932
And I apparently wasn't
on this list,

1003
00:59:30,934 --> 00:59:32,834
and nobody would let me in.

1004
00:59:32,836 --> 00:59:35,336
I'd heard all day long
these rumors of...

1005
00:59:35,338 --> 00:59:37,305
Like I'm at the coffee shop
and someone is like:

1006
00:59:37,307 --> 00:59:38,874
"Bill Murray rode by
in a bike earlier."

1007
00:59:38,876 --> 00:59:39,807
And I'm like:

1008
00:59:39,809 --> 00:59:41,175
"I missed him!"

1009
00:59:41,177 --> 00:59:42,711
It was
these constant near misses.

1010
00:59:42,713 --> 00:59:44,646
You know,
by the end of that day,

1011
00:59:44,648 --> 00:59:48,083
I'm sitting at this bar drinking
whiskey, and I'm just like:

1012
00:59:48,085 --> 00:59:50,151
"I think I've been
chasing a ghost, man!"

1013
00:59:50,153 --> 00:59:53,389
Like, I think I 've been focusing
too much on the wrong thing.

1014
00:59:53,391 --> 00:59:57,092
I haven't been focusing on the fact that
this day was just filled with people

1015
00:59:57,094 --> 01:00:00,996
celebrating the spirit of a person who,
kind of, like, marches to his own beat.

1016
01:00:00,998 --> 01:00:05,733
And makes everybody around him happy, and just
kind of, like, creates joy everywhere he goes.

1017
01:00:05,735 --> 01:00:08,202
I think I started realizing, like,
I was trying to put together

1018
01:00:08,204 --> 01:00:11,974
this very, like,
proper reported article.

1019
01:00:11,976 --> 01:00:15,844
But, like, reporting on Bill
Murray is like jazz, right?

1020
01:00:15,846 --> 01:00:17,880
Like it's just, sort
of improvisational.

1021
01:00:17,882 --> 01:00:20,081
I was just chasing
something that was not

1022
01:00:20,083 --> 01:00:22,284
at all authentic.
It's not Who Bill Murray is.

1023
01:00:22,286 --> 01:00:24,420
Once I realized that,
I kind of let go a little,

1024
01:00:24,422 --> 01:00:26,690
and it made more sense to me.

1025
01:00:28,525 --> 01:00:30,825
[Tommy] Just as I started to give up on
the idea of actually speaking with Bill,

1026
01:00:30,827 --> 01:00:32,364
an opportunity revealed itself.

1027
01:00:35,298 --> 01:00:37,965
It was the opening night
of the Charleston RiverDogs.

1028
01:00:37,967 --> 01:00:40,334
That's the baseball team that
Bill is part owner of.

1029
01:00:40,336 --> 01:00:42,403
And I got myself a ticket.

1030
01:00:42,405 --> 01:00:44,342
[country guitar music]

1031
01:00:52,349 --> 01:00:53,385
[Tommy]
That's Bill on the right.

1032
01:00:54,452 --> 01:00:57,485
And this time
I'm the guy on the left

1033
01:00:57,487 --> 01:00:58,789
about to talk to Bill.

1034
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,394
These Bill Murray stories
referred to in a way as:

1035
01:01:05,396 --> 01:01:08,296
"Did you hear about this crazy
thing that Bill Murray did?"

1036
01:01:08,298 --> 01:01:11,233
And maybe for a lot of people
that's really all it is.

1037
01:01:11,235 --> 01:01:15,403
It's like: "Bill Murray did another
crazy thing and you can watch it."

1038
01:01:15,405 --> 01:01:20,943
The real gift is for the people that he is
interacting with. And it becomes their story.

1039
01:01:20,945 --> 01:01:23,845
[Peter] Part of Bills charm when
he shows up, is not to take over.

1040
01:01:23,847 --> 01:01:26,414
Like when he shows up to somebody's house
and does his kind of thing, it's like

1041
01:01:26,416 --> 01:01:29,117
he wants to be in the house and be
part of the gang. That's the joke.

1042
01:01:29,119 --> 01:01:31,987
He's not there doing
a tap dance or juggling.

1043
01:01:31,989 --> 01:01:35,456
He's just sitting there watching TV
with them. And yet it's Bill Murray.

1044
01:01:35,458 --> 01:01:39,762
And that's part of it. It's like,
it's not showing up to entertain.

1045
01:01:39,764 --> 01:01:41,429
It's showing up to be present.

1046
01:01:41,431 --> 01:01:44,066
And I forget about it
because, like, life happens.

1047
01:01:44,068 --> 01:01:46,367
And every once in a while someone
brings up that Bill Murray story.

1048
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:48,537
And you just, like, smile.

1049
01:01:48,539 --> 01:01:50,171
Nine years later or
seven years later

1050
01:01:50,173 --> 01:01:52,874
I'm still
wrapping my head around it.

1051
01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:57,345
I think that's the gift that he's giving these
people that... in the Bill Murray story.

1052
01:01:57,347 --> 01:02:02,950
I think that's what he's giving them. He's
giving them agency to have a way to wake up.

1053
01:02:02,952 --> 01:02:06,121
Yeah, it was a really
great feeling, yeah.

1054
01:02:06,123 --> 01:02:09,157
Made me feel
like a bigger person than I am.

1055
01:02:09,159 --> 01:02:11,392
I don't feel like
I'm a part of that story.

1056
01:02:11,394 --> 01:02:14,829
I feel like he's a part
of my story at this point.

1057
01:02:14,831 --> 01:02:16,532
It's like such a great moment.
I'm really like...

1058
01:02:16,534 --> 01:02:19,037
It does. It makes me happy
thinking about it.

1059
01:02:20,271 --> 01:02:24,572
But I like to think that he's giving
them something that they will, you know,

1060
01:02:24,574 --> 01:02:26,842
use for the rest of their life.

1061
01:02:26,844 --> 01:02:29,414
That it's more than just, you
know: "I met Bill Murray once."

1062
01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:37,318
My absolute favorite Bill Murray story
is the saxophone and the taxi cab.

1063
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:41,590
Bill is in San Francisco. He's got
a long cab ride ahead of him.

1064
01:02:41,592 --> 01:02:45,394
And so he starts talking to the guy,
because he's like an engaging guy.

1065
01:02:45,396 --> 01:02:49,030
You know, when you come into a funny situation
like getting into a taxi with the guy

1066
01:02:49,032 --> 01:02:51,432
who is a saxophone player, I
said: "When do you practice it?"

1067
01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:54,235
"I don't know I drive like 14 hours
a day or something like that."

1068
01:02:54,237 --> 01:02:56,774
"Where is your sax?"
He says it's in the trunk.

1069
01:02:57,875 --> 01:03:02,878
I was like, you know, that's two and two makes
four. Pull over and get in the trunk and I...

1070
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:07,516
I know how to drive a car. You know, not
only did he play all the way to Sausalito,

1071
01:03:07,518 --> 01:03:13,956
which is a long ways. We stopped and got barbeque
and he was playing like at some kind of,

1072
01:03:13,958 --> 01:03:16,858
you know, what people would call
like a sketchy rib place

1073
01:03:16,860 --> 01:03:19,327
in Oakland like
2:15 in the morning.

1074
01:03:19,329 --> 01:03:24,499
And it's like: "Relax, man, you got
the horn. We're cool here." You know.

1075
01:03:24,501 --> 01:03:28,403
And it was great. It was made for a
beautiful night. And you know we...

1076
01:03:28,405 --> 01:03:31,305
We've done that. And I think we all do
that. You know I think that anyone...

1077
01:03:31,307 --> 01:03:37,144
If you saw that moment, you'd say like
there's... And you're, as they say, available.

1078
01:03:37,146 --> 01:03:39,981
You know. You'd see it. You'd make
the connection. You'd do it right.

1079
01:03:39,983 --> 01:03:44,485
It's not just "Bill Murray was in a cab and,
like sort of, did this quick thing for me."

1080
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:49,958
Like he would remember the guy who had him
play in the back seat so he could drive.

1081
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:54,095
Which I think is like... The best Bill Murray
stories are not about, you know sort of,

1082
01:03:54,097 --> 01:03:56,999
trading off like the value of
the celebrity. But like he did

1083
01:03:57,001 --> 01:04:01,536
something that just, sort of
like, he transforms the moment.

1084
01:04:01,538 --> 01:04:03,340
[spiritual music]

1085
01:04:17,987 --> 01:04:22,356
[Tommy] Here is the thing. I did walk up to
Bill. He was rushing to get to the field.

1086
01:04:22,358 --> 01:04:24,992
And there wasn't
any time to talk.

1087
01:04:24,994 --> 01:04:27,561
I met all these people who've had
these great experiences with Bill.

1088
01:04:27,563 --> 01:04:33,001
But as I sat so close to the man, I
felt something wasn't quite right. Why?

1089
01:04:33,003 --> 01:04:39,173
In 1977 Bill Murray snuck into Elvis Presley's
funeral. He was a fan and wanted to be there.

1090
01:04:39,175 --> 01:04:41,677
Bill went to the funeral
to be a part of the experience.

1091
01:04:41,679 --> 01:04:44,545
I was trying
to control the experience.

1092
01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:46,116
[excited crowd]

1093
01:04:49,119 --> 01:04:53,024
[Tommy] At the end of the game. I just
decided to jump in line and ask for a photo.

1094
01:04:55,025 --> 01:04:57,161
- Excuse me, may I take a picture with you?
- Sure.

1095
01:05:00,731 --> 01:05:03,001
This is why my picture with
Bill is so important.

1096
01:05:04,434 --> 01:05:06,969
Because this is when I realized'
I didn't need to talk to Bill

1097
01:05:06,971 --> 01:05:08,572
to understand why
he does what he does.

1098
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,608
After meeting all these people, I
learned that these Bill Murry stories

1099
01:05:13,610 --> 01:05:16,010
are not cherished because they
meet a celebrity.

1100
01:05:16,012 --> 01:05:19,514
It's because they had a real
interaction with a real person.

1101
01:05:19,516 --> 01:05:24,119
A man who lives freely and takes the
time to make each moment count.

1102
01:05:24,121 --> 01:05:28,393
It's not forced, it's not planned.
It's just living in the moment.

1103
01:05:32,496 --> 01:05:39,233
So maybe my interaction with Bill wasn't
perfect. But in the end, it just doesn't matter.

1104
01:05:39,235 --> 01:05:43,170
It just doesn't matter.

1105
01:05:43,172 --> 01:05:45,275
[music]

1106
01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:18,893
It was the middle of
May of 2011.

1107
01:08:18,895 --> 01:08:23,598
I was working on a movie called "Moonrise
Kingdom" in Newport, Rhode Island

1108
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,901
with some Hollywood movie stars:

1109
01:08:25,903 --> 01:08:31,906
Edward Norton, Bruce Willis,
Harvey Keitel, and Bill Murray.

1110
01:08:31,908 --> 01:08:34,910
Bill Murray was the one person

1111
01:08:34,912 --> 01:08:38,914
who could always get me to walk into a
movie theater no matter what it was.

1112
01:08:38,916 --> 01:08:46,620
For 4 days I worked on this film and for
4 days I did my work and he did his.

1113
01:08:46,622 --> 01:08:51,927
And we came back to the same hotel every
night and we never crossed paths.

1114
01:08:51,929 --> 01:08:56,298
I went home from work that last day and I'm
just about ready to throw in the towel.

1115
01:08:56,300 --> 01:08:58,299
I guess it was a near miss

1116
01:08:58,301 --> 01:09:02,469
Disappointing, but there are
greater tragedies in life

1117
01:09:02,471 --> 01:09:07,308
I walk into the bar in the hotel
lobby and I ordered a drink.

1118
01:09:07,310 --> 01:09:10,644
There's a bartender, and
there's a piano there.

1119
01:09:10,646 --> 01:09:14,950
So I asked her:"would you mind if I
played around on the piano a little bit?"

1120
01:09:14,952 --> 01:09:17,485
and she said: "Sure, there's
nobody here, why not?"

1121
01:09:17,487 --> 01:09:20,955
So I sit down at the piano and I
just start to play

1122
01:09:20,957 --> 01:09:26,327
about 10 seconds later into
the room walks Bill Murray.

1123
01:09:26,329 --> 01:09:27,830
I didn't stop playing.

1124
01:09:27,832 --> 01:09:30,965
It's the music that brought him in,
the music was gonna keep him there.

1125
01:09:30,967 --> 01:09:32,834
He didn't even say anything.

1126
01:09:32,836 --> 01:09:37,504
He just walked over, stood right
behind me, and said,

1127
01:09:37,506 --> 01:09:41,343
"Can you play this?"
"Can you play that?"

1128
01:09:41,345 --> 01:09:49,683
Myself and Bill Murray were playing music,
singing, drinking with 2 women, song after song.

1129
01:09:49,685 --> 01:09:53,988
I'm playin' 'em, the girls are
dancing, the bartender joined in,

1130
01:09:53,990 --> 01:09:56,691
the concierge joined in,

1131
01:09:56,693 --> 01:10:01,696
and we're havin' a party in this tiny
little Newport Rhode Island hotel bar.

1132
01:10:01,698 --> 01:10:05,866
And before we know it, 5 hours
had gone by and he had to leave.

1133
01:10:05,868 --> 01:10:07,701
And he gets up,

1134
01:10:07,703 --> 01:10:09,704
and I had mentioned to him that

1135
01:10:09,706 --> 01:10:14,009
I worked at a summer camp as a head
counselor just like he did in "Meatballs".

1136
01:10:14,011 --> 01:10:15,477
I still do to this day.

1137
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:20,714
And he reaches into his pocket and
he pulls out a sweaty wad of money

1138
01:10:20,716 --> 01:10:22,717
and he hands it to me
and he says:

1139
01:10:22,719 --> 01:10:26,724
"Listen. if the counselors have
a tough day, do me a favor.

1140
01:10:28,725 --> 01:10:33,894
Take 'em out for some pizza,
tell 'em that Bill loves 'em."

1141
01:10:33,896 --> 01:10:37,565
And then he said one more thing
before he left. He said:

1142
01:10:37,567 --> 01:10:40,735
"I don't remember names, but I'm
very good with faces.

1143
01:10:40,737 --> 01:10:44,571
If you ever see me, anywhere, whatever
I'm doing, no matter where it is,

1144
01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:45,909
please come say hello."

1145
01:10:47,743 --> 01:10:49,447
And he disappeared down
the hall.

1146
01:10:49,746 --> 01:10:50,914
And that was it.

1147
01:10:51,747 --> 01:10:54,749
When I hear stories of
party crashing,

1148
01:10:54,751 --> 01:10:57,419
stories of Bill going
to a wedding,

1149
01:10:57,421 --> 01:11:04,058
showing up somewhere, doing something
fun and making people's lives magical,

1150
01:11:04,060 --> 01:11:05,693
I always smile.

1151
01:11:05,695 --> 01:11:12,599
I'd like people to know that Bill Murray
is who you want him to be in real life.

1152
01:11:12,601 --> 01:11:16,071
You can't say that about many of
the people we admire.

1153
01:11:16,073 --> 01:11:19,610
But he is what makes people
love him.

1154
01:11:22,078 --> 01:11:24,782
[music stops]

1155
01:11:25,441 --> 01:11:30,441
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