r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL in 2010 Bill Murray & members of the Wu-Tang Clan were hanging out at SXSW when they entered the packed Shangri-La bar together, whereupon Murray spontaneously decided to hop over the bar & become a surprise temporary bartender who served generous tequila shots regardless of what patrons ordered
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/04/10-best-bill-murray-moments-groundhog-day#:~:text=Murray%20and%20the,down%20them.%20Hic197
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u/hanhanbanan 1d ago
He also forcibly kissed Naomi Watts on Watch What Happens Live within the last week.
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u/ShemsuHor91 1d ago
It's not a coincidence that posts like this are popping up just a couple days after that happened. Google about the forced Naomi Watts kiss, and most of the results are unrelated articles about comical anecdotes involving him. They're running damage control and trying to bury it.
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u/hanhanbanan 1d ago
I’m not surprised — here’s a link for anyone who Googles and gets PR bullshit. :)
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u/EnergyTakerLad 1d ago
Ive believed for a long time that he sort of realized famous people can get away with ridiculous things very early on in his life and has just been pushing boundaries since. Like he's been relatively "nice" about it, acting as a bartender, but eventually it had to get out of control. Its almost like he let's his intrusive thoughts just take over occasionally and he's loosened the leash a lil more each year.
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u/Turakamu 15h ago
I don't think we are using the same search terms because it was all that popped up for me
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u/MyOpinionOverYours 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wu-Tang Clan is so weird in retrospective. The first song on one of their albums, Wu-Tang Forever, is just Popa-Wu espousing 5% Nation Doctrine. An entire opening track on an album dedicated to saying how good their racial supremacist cult is.
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u/The_Funky_Rocha 1d ago
RZA and GZA were barely better at that later on, but fuck is Liquid Swords a perfect album
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u/ThePfunkallstar 1d ago
I don’t want to hear shit about Cuban Linx either. A god damn masterpiece
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u/-Midnight_Marauder- 18h ago
Honestly I feel like it's underrated because it's a Wu Tang member solo album. I personally have it up there as one of the best albums ever alongside Illmatic and Midnight Marauders.
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u/-Midnight_Marauder- 18h ago
Honestly I feel like it's underrated because it's a Wu Tang member solo album. I personally have it up there as one of the best albums ever alongside Illmatic and Midnight Marauders.
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u/Terminator_Ecks 1d ago
That opening intro…”My father was famous…”
It’s a goddamn masterpiece from the get go and seeing him do it live is a fucking vibe. We’ve had two dogs since I was a kid called RZA then GZA. My mum says the next one is gonna be Raekwon. RZA the yorkie would respond to my dad calling him Bobby too.
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u/bukakkebiceps 23h ago
your parents is cool af
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u/Terminator_Ecks 17h ago
My mum’s old Facebook header was a sonogram picture where the baby was the Wu symbol. She added lyrics along the top in some meme generator in bright yellow graffiti script that said “I’ve been examined ever since I was semen, they took the sonogram and seen the image of a demon.”
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u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch 1d ago
There's five percenter callouts on a lot of their albums.
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u/howelltight 1d ago
Makes sense. U-god was a member
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u/-Midnight_Marauder- 18h ago
Most of them were at various points. In NY in the late 80s/early 90s it had a lot of influence, there was also Brand Nubian and Poor Righteous Teachers. Pretty sure Zev Love X was too (not sure about when he became Doom though).
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u/gmishaolem 1d ago
Wait, is that why so many rappers turned to Islam?
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u/TraditionalYear4928 1d ago
A lot of dudes in prison turn to Islam too it's a whole stereotype even
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u/anormalgeek 1d ago
Googled "5% nation" to learn more and found a good article specifically detailing Wu-tangs involvement.
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u/avantgardengnome 1d ago
They had a strange array of interests, that’s for sure. But fringe politics are inescapable in underground music scenes of all kinds, and when one bursts into the mainstream you often see stuff like that happen. I’m certainly no fan of 5% Nation, but it’s not inherently weirder than, say, Rage Against the Machine getting radio play with a song glorifying mass shootings. I just happen to think RATM makes much better points lol.
Regardless, Wu-Tang were innovators and could rap like nobody’s business—easily one of the greatest groups in the history of the genre.
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u/WesleyPCrusher 1d ago
What RATM song are you referring to?
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u/avantgardengnome 1d ago
Down Rodeo
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u/RogueUsername13 1d ago
How does Down Rodeo glorify mass shootings? The closest thing I think you could say about it is that it suggests class warfare. But that is not the same as glorying mass shootings
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u/avantgardengnome 23h ago
Well yes, it suggests literal class warfare, on Rodeo Drive (ie luxury outlets), “on a solo flight.”
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Can’t waste a day when the night brings a hearse
So make a move and plead the fifth ’cause ya can’t plead the first
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Bare witness to tha sickest shot while suckas get romantic
They ain’t gonna send us campin’ like they did my man Fred Hampton
Still we lampin’ still clockin’ dirt for our sweat
A ballots dead so a bullet’s what I get
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Our target straight wit a room full of armed pawns to
Off tha kings out tha west side at dawn
Admittedly, I thought the lyrics at the end were “just a quiet, peaceful death / one thing they’ll never have” until I looked them up just now. Still, the message is pretty clear.
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u/RogueUsername13 23h ago
I think the only line that could imply mass shooting and not targeted violence is the titular line and everything else implies violence against the “Kings”
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u/avantgardengnome 23h ago
The kings out the west side at dawn, ie early morning shoppers on Rodeo Drive in West LA.
My intention here was to defend Wu Tang Clan, not attack Rage, and I see what you’re getting at. Regardless, go ask any old person or anybody less than sympathetic to radical politics whether they see a meaningful distinction between random violence and targeted class warfare that’s worth splitting hairs over.
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u/permanentmarker1 1d ago
Bill is a douche. There will be more stories that come out about it
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u/TheRealRockNRolla 1d ago
Case in point right here. This is annoying as hell to do to a bunch of people who didn’t ask for it.
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u/gmishaolem 1d ago
Honestly, all the people in this post defending it is way more annoying, because they help normalize it. Let's normalize calling out jerks instead. But as long as heckling, vandalism, and rioting are seen as a-ok for sports fans, I have no hope for anything else.
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u/dude_is_melting 2 1d ago
He gets away with it but mark my words, when he dies we are going to hear some shit. He’s been a huge asshole for like 50 years and people celebrate it
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u/WalkingCloud 2 1d ago
Honestly Bill Murray sounds tedious to be around, all these stories about him taking food from people, turning up at weddings, inviting himself behind the bar, it's all very 'I'm the main character' behaviour..
You know he's a Reddit darling because in all those posts on Reddit about actors who play the same character in every movie, he rarely comes up despite having played the same character in way more movies than The Rock.
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u/NzRedditor762 1d ago
Is this the same Bill Murray that sexually assaults women under the guise of just being playful?
The same one that got an entire movie shut down (Being Mortal) because he was forcing himself onto a female staffer?
That Bill Murray?
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u/BobbyMcPrescott 1d ago
I was reading stories about this on IMDB in the early 2000s. Ever since the evidence of the 2010 incident came out, I have thus known that he either did this regularly and it was a real story or he did it solely based on a copypasta from the early days of the net.
The earliest one I remember was something about someone riding a bike and someone coming along on another bike and knocking them off or something. When the person confronts them it turns out to be Bill Murray and he says "No one will ever believe you". This shit was being discussed before Garfield even released, so there is more to this story, because that's another piece of the puzzle that has been retold in a million different ways in the past quarter century.
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u/One_Huckleberry_ 1d ago
I remember constantly reading a copy pasta about him taking someone’s chicken nugget at a Wendy’s, dunking it in their shake, eating it and saying “no one will ever believe you” like at least ten years ago
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u/natfutsock 1d ago
The funny thing is he's started pulling this shit so much that I would believe someone's Bill Murray encounter anecdote.
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u/DarthPatches_Returns 20h ago
Bill Murray is a creep that thinks he can do whatever he wants including assaulting women - fuck Bill Murray
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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago
I find it interesting that Bill Murray can act like he's still in Groundhog's Day and people are like "Shit, what if he is?"
Also, Bill Murray runs with Wu Tang. I'd say they should fold him in, but no group wants white boy clan.
Maybe it's time for Wu Tang to become a family.
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u/Sic39 1d ago edited 1d ago
Do you always talk like that or are you just cringe for Reddit's sake?
*looks at comment history*
"OK, so I've said a lot of mean words about wizards in the past here, but you done goofed."
lol nvm carry on.
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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is that your bit?
And since you edited, I will say in my defense that the comment you reference is from a sub that posits that wizards are real.
Further I will say my comment about the darkhold being on steam was far more amusing.
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u/No-Sympathy6035 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s a bold move to accuse someone of being cringe and then do the cringey thing where you narrate your actions between two asterisks.
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u/Sim0nsaysshh 1d ago
Alot of Murray hate going on in here
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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago
I do find the fact the dude locked onto my previous comments on wizards interesting.
The trepanning would have worked if you hadn't stopped me!
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u/thombo-1 13h ago
It's funny how many 'quirky and lovable Bill Murray' posts I'm seeing here, on Instagram, on Twitter, just days after he forced himself on Naomi Watts in a live interview.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bill-murray-movies-naomi-watts-film-kiss-b2727894.html
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u/pancada_ 12h ago
Asked for an Old Fashioned and received a huge dose of tequila! Worst bartender ever
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u/sanitarySteve 1d ago
no one will ever believe you
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u/clonetrooper250 1d ago
Imagine if you were the designated driver at this bar and you wanted a non-alcoholic drink, and some asshole who was pretending to be a bartender gave you tequila. Doesn't matter that he's a celebrity, I'd be pissed.
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u/The_Flurr 1d ago
Imagine you're the bartender, and now your boss is going to be pissed the your stock is fucked up.
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u/PatSajakMeOff 1d ago
You guys have clearly never been to sxsw. It used to be filled with stunts like this. Bar owners knew it and rolled with it.
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u/shackbleep 1d ago
Ghostbustin'-ass Bill Muwway!
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u/avantgardengnome 1d ago
Hell yeah, I was about to link this. I still think “Damn! That don’t sound too good, Bill Murray!” whenever someone coughs lmao.
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u/UnfairStrategy780 17h ago
Was also in town that year and he showed up at a random house party we were at because some cute girl invited him earlier in the day when he was walking around. He was there for like 2 hours talking to random people and having drinks, he didn’t just show up and dip out. One of those funny “oh yeah that happened” experiences you look back on.
I also flirted with Drew Barrymore while we were waiting in line to buy cigarettes out of the cigarette machine, but that’s a story for another time.
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u/Fine-Refrigerator-56 8h ago
That bar fucking sucks so anything needed to make it better I support.
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u/Shyface_Killah 1d ago
Gotta admit, "Bill Murray" and "Wu-Tang Clan" are names I never expected to see in the same sentence.
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u/Mac_and_dennis 1d ago
I was at the bar when it happened. It was a blast. SXSW used to be so much fun
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u/JesusIsCaesar33 1d ago
He did the same thing with tequila shots at a party I was at near App State. I think his nephew went there or something. He was v nice.
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u/g0ldingboy 1d ago
If you saw the Wu Tang Clan and Bill Murray walking into a bar, you would already assume you were drunk.
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u/dolt1234 1d ago
I was there. Fuzzy memories of it. Earlier that week, I was turning the corner next to the old venue "La Zona Rosa" and ran into Bill kinda hard - my first response was "Sorry Bill!" and kept walking... then I was like "wtf that was Bill Murray!"
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u/Allsgood2 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXTvNJLwtCs&ab_channel=GravitasDocumentaries
A fun watch for anyone interested.
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
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u/Crown_Writes 1d ago
I think a long time ago bill Murray realized he can just go behind any bar and start pouring drinks and people will let him. There's multiple stories of him doing this at different places.