Why Fred Durst started Limp Bizkit

[@DevilMaskMedia]

Let's face it, he did it all for the nookie.

[@VerisimilitudeFilms1]

Took the exact words out of my mouth.

[@stephenfiore9960]

….Nookie, and self-nookie is the only reason i live for. Otherwise I would have been out of this boring world along time ago

[@OmahaGTP]

Come on

[@scotttheripper111]

I like tha5

[@RichieSpencer666]

So original 🥱

[@alexbelmontthecoronerrepor4975]

Fred durst is low key a genius

[@Niko26-t1y]

That's so true

[@gbmbg114]

I remember when them and Method Man collaborated.. musically united a whole middle school lol

[@Eyeyamgod]

😂 same. I was living in the hood in NJ. One day I get to school and all the ghetto dudes are like yo you seen that limp Bizkit sht? Nookie also spread through my school

[@robz551]

He did it all for the movies

[@x6mylo]

Come on..

[@TheAMW]

I see what both y’all did there 😂🙌🏾👌🏾

[@alanvargas4387]

Fred literally looks like a garden gnome

[@leanbacksfinest]

like a quiet legendary garden gnome!

[@danielkelley7548]

Limp Garden Gnome

[@Roadrunner0007]

Fred’s going to have one of those days and break stuff

[@nopeISdope96]

🤣🤣

[@TobinOsusky]

so interesting how life works out. i started a gym then after years of preaching organic, homegrown foods and self reliance, i closed the gym and moved to Costa Rica to become a farmer. if you asked me at age 25, 20, 15 if i thought id be a fruit farmer in the tropics one day i wouldn't have even had a response. my mind was in a 'build a billion dollar brand mode' and then i began listening to the universe and followed that path. now, like Fred, i have found success, honor and happiness in a career that i never thought would be, but had to become in order for me to become who i was meant to be. he stood up to his bullies by standing on stage and having them pay him to sing as they sung along to his lyrics, how ironic. powerfully magical as well

[@franktodarello538]

Dude! I love this story!!

[@OzyMandias13]

Fred was great in The Life Aquatic

[@MortonGoldthwait]

Holy shit, you're right! Where'd you come from? You look pregnant.

[@wuteva12345]

"Now I know y'all be lovin this shit right here L-I-M-P Bizkit is right here" Pure poetry

[@ict113090]

Fred was a better rapper than Drake.

[@LIMPBIZKITROCKS1999]

@@ict113090still is

[@Mr_Stickerbomb]

The fact that he likens Limp Bizkit to Spinal Tap and Andy Kaufman really confirms what I've felt for a while - that band and it's music has always been a joke. Not 'joke' in a derogatory tone, but an actual parody. Not only did the jocks become fans, the whole music industry and the culture of the time (especially MTV) became part of the parody because of how big they got. Yes, I would say their music is technically and aesthetically a little cheesy but I have to say that I love what they have done and hope they're laughing all the way to the bank off of those MTV hits. Genius!

[@vzlan999]

Yes and then it morphed into something beautiful

[@ffreplica515]

I think you’re giving them way too much credit.

[@reeyees50]

no, fred thinks it all seems like a joke to him now ,but reality was that was the era where music like that had a space, and young musicians like him had no idea why that was happening to him

[@californiacombativesclub202]

@@ffreplica515nah not enough

[@whitewalls4409]

"It's my way or the highway" -Fred Durst.

[@saunderscatala703]

Fred Durst looks like PAPA NOEL........

[@canadianracingleague]

Durst reminds me of Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 😂

[@WhateversonJeverson]

Love Fred. I'll always love Fred. Limp Bizkit fuckin rules and always will.

[@Rekkless]

Curt Cobain said the something. When he was on stage he looked out into the audience and saw the same type of people who used to beat him up in school singing along to his music.

[@richardhorrocks1460]

Fred Durst has a massive tattoo of Kurt's face on his chest.

[@TheBasedCanadian]

Kurt

[@heywoody813]

He looks like a Garden Gnome. . 😂 Papa Smurf Durst

[@bryinthe619]

He did it all for the nookie.

[@joshleague6102]

Been listening since 2 dollar bill in the 90s man LIMP BIZKIT RULES!!!!!!

[@burningblueskyband]

How have you been listening since $3? Bill and yet call it $2 bill?

[@marcialavine1272]

Ah, the old trope of getting even by getting rich and/or famous. I think every one of us who was bullied in school wished for the same thing at least a million times, and if Fred Durst did too, we know we weren't alone. But good on him for having done it. Wish i had- though I'm still not done trying, even at 57. Who knows? I might manage it yet, since I've got probably three more decades to accomplish that fete. Though it's safe to say I won't be doing it by becoming a rock star, as I once had also dreamed of, since I can't sing anymore, and never got beyond 4 years of piano lessons in grade school. But there's still plenty of ways to do it- they're just not as cool. By the way- to Bill or his "people"- I've been playing catch-up on episodes, since I only recently started watching this podcast, and it's been mostly awesome- even with a few episodes with people I was never a fan of, and still am not- I at least can see a more "real" side of entertainers or other "famous" folk than they normally allow the masses to see. It would be interesting though if Bill could find just an unknown, average, but intelligent and arguably interesting person to interview that he knew almost nothing about, to see how he could play against the unknown instead of people whom we all know something about- at least their bodies of work, if not their histories, personal lives, and careers as we do with all of his guests. Now THAT would be a lovely monkey wrench to throw into the machine, wouldn't it? Too bad famous people only want to talk with other famous people.

[@lntermilan]

Wtf are you saying

[@marcialavine1272]

​@@lntermilan Bless your heart! Clearly, you aren't a member of the target audience I had in mind when I composed this comment, so it should be easy for you to assume that if you don't understand it, you weren't meant to. If in the future you happen to run into something else I've written that you find confusing, feel free to just practice your scrolling technique instead of showing me that you have no manners as well as a potentially mild to moderate cognitive deficit. Happy New Year and have a good day.

[@theorangegoodness]

Fred’s a deep cat. Good to know. Respect. Never knew any of this.

[@BradAaronTaylor]

Best LB track? Gotta be _'My Way.'_ Always reminds me of WrestleMania 17. Ahhh, 2001 ❤

[@LRM5195]

Really is a great song

[@Eyeyamgod]

Boiler and show me what you got

[@chrisridenhour]

When I see guys my age start looking like Santa Claus - then I know the game of pretending I'm still somehow not old is officially over. 🤣

[@jasperdaniels9124]

Fred Durst out here looking like Steve Zissou.

[@rajwant04]

Wow Fred Durst! Never figured he would turn out to look to Dr Anrew Weil's younger brother! Awesome! Limp Bizkit truly felt like a cultural breakthrough when they appeared!

[@chadhendershot3519]

Fred durst look like Santa Claus but bad azz Santa Claus

[@deftones8717]

I know people like to clown on Limp Bizkit, and admittedly, a lot of their music is really corny… but if you were in high school or whatever around the time the Significant Other album dropped, you cannot deny that impact it had on music. Even to this day, that album had a few bangers that I like, such as: -Re-Arranged -No Sex -Don’t Go Off Wandering Those 3 songs are still great, in my opinion. Their music wouldn’t be clowned on and would be taken more seriously if they stuck more with the singing/harmonizing, and the screaming and heavy stuff, and cut out the rapping thing. I think the rapping is what made them a target. If only they stuck to singing and screaming, and went for a more mature sound, and more mature lyrics, I think they’d be sick. But yeah, people can laugh all they want, but they made millions upon millions of dollars.

[@Eyeyamgod]

That era is over of bashing on them. GenZ just discovered limp Bizkit and are showing up in their latest tour in numbers. I was one of them lol the shows in their new tour literally looks like 1999 hysteria

[@deftones8717]

@@Eyeyamgod good stuff… glad to hear that

[@billadkins5150]

Some people ask why. Most don’t care.

[@ponitalaussen6425]

about being bullied. that's why most of us love BREAK STUFF!

[@cls34]

Durst seems like a thoughtful guy. Maher was annoying him but he let it slide.

[@leanbacksfinest]

Fred thanks for all your nice music man! limp bizkit will always be one of the best rock bands ever!

[@bumsharvest5493]

Considering Limp Bizkit was a sort of spinal tap creation, ol Fred sure did sell it as a real thing.

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

Imagine if he had Wes Borland as his acting protege instead of lead guitarist. The Depp to his Burton.

[@davidwatkins8474]

Korn really helped limp bizkit out big time, started with family values, wes switching to 7 string guitars cause of head and monkey and Fred took it and ran with it!! Favorite time of music

[@joezachman8136]

bill needs to interview Bob...both bands were huge in the same summer 😮

[@MamboKing215]

Their Woodstock '99 performance was craZy insane, leading to total destruction of the whole festival

[@vedranvekson4341]

Lol no 😂 riot start because bad organisation.

[@MamboKing215]

@@vedranvekson4341 poorly organized definitely contributed. Having a song called 'Break Stuff' surely doesn't help either haha

[@vedranvekson4341]

@@MamboKing215 yeah,but main thing is organisation. Bottle of watter price too high,toilets destroyed,no shade from sun etc etc,watch documentary about it,its great. But yeah,break stuff is deff a cherry on cake 🤣

[@adamrivera2499]

Ur wrong they didn't start shit that festival was unorganized from the jump

[@MamboKing215]

@@adamrivera2499 it wasn't their fault nor intention, the riots just started after their performance & the night of the rave w/ Fatboy Slim

[@LordZafinob75]

WTF why Fred looks like a damn garden gnome? LMAO 😂😂😂

[@Mike-vu1rn]

Should have asked Fred if he knows what a cheese curd is. Saw him at a rock festival in Wisconsin in 2010 and all I remember is him asking the crowd “what the fuck is a cheese curd?”

[@blanefabin3492]

Love or hate limp bizkit.. they put on an incredible show every night they play. Always. Its fun as hell

[@trevorgordier3938]

Interviewing Fred Durst … then at the end “ Are you into anything ??” Or !! Just getting high all day ?!?!? LMFAO 😂

[@Ravenoflight2275]

This is why I like Fred Durst 🤘🏿

[@jajkub2001]

So glad they got Papa Smurf on the podcast. Where's Fred Durst tho

[@eklypised]

Freds the man...Limp Bizkit has some dope shit..Counterfiet is a classic

[@Niko26-t1y]

Fred is the greatest of all time. I love fred durst ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@BILLINGSGATES]

Maher it's in the group that sounded like Jackson Browne but I can't find it. It sounded like DAWs. Anybody know the real name of the group?

[@joeschlez7018]

Fred made an awsome movie called the fanatic. With some awsome actors

[@ryanroose6124]

He looks like Bill Murray’s brother, if he co-starred in the Perfect Storm.

[@paulbell7062]

Looking like Papa Smurf.

[@doctordentistesquire]

Great band. 🤘😎👍

[@86misstish]

Thought that was Bill Murray 😂 damn we are getting old. Leaving to go watch The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.

[@bskee001]

Kurt Cobain, Fred Durst, Benji & Joel Madden, etc., talk about how they all got beat up by jocks and yet, to this day, not once have I ever seen a “jock” beat up or bully the musical/artistic student. Makes me wonder just how much of it is actually embellished just to have the image of the “bullied art student”.

[@effdonahue6595]

He did it because he was tired of his limp bizkit not getting the job done, Doh!

[@morrisdennis]

Fred is a very interesting guy...

[@Chan_Chiba]

Should ask him about that scam in the early 2000s with the new guitarists search.

[@Leonardo-cw1hj]

Holy crap he turned into papa smurf😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@blakeellis7417]

Limp Bizkit = Legend

[@chrisrose2767]

Honestly, I enjoyed The Fanatic.

[@sandykrfc7]

Sad to see him turn into a gnome.

[@jeremyh9841]

Boiler is a great movie actually

[@mamapfredhase]

limp bizkit beatles 😂

[@PodcastClips23969]

Better question, why did Bill Maher interview Fred Durst? And not saying Fred is bad, this is just completely random and unexpected

[@guilhermefirmz]

Who likes LB still no words to explain … Yet we got all signals!

[@robsrave8156]

Birkenstock rock y’all!

[@erikdevoch7236]

Get Fred on wildride stevo!

[@Baldmelon]

I had depth...really! ooof🙄

[@oldirish6163]

Steve Zissou?

[@PandaMirror-xd5db]

Who would have thought that Fred Dursts Movies could be even worse than his music

[@redcherry6914]

shit lighting in the studio.... it's like looking through a hazy cloud....

[@Ou812-]

"'That level of bigness"' ???

[@patfanortiz8973]

Bill mahr never listened to limp bizkit a day in his life

[@mikasalo9031]

Steve Zissou

[@williampitzer5534]

Fred Costeau living the life aqua.. tictoc.

[@onelovemon1784]

Garden Gnome

[@Noizedas]

The goat

[@Godless-Being]

Can’t see why Eminem would hate this guy

[@KleinpeterHank]

“You worse than Fred Durst” -Dunkey

[@deadlyoneable]

Bill has no idea who this is. He just read some quick notes 10 min before.

[@ZMAN_420]

NOOKIE 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@Larry_Sycamore]

Limp Bizkit sucked then and it sucks now. Their Woodstock '99 performance was dope ... There's throwing my bone out to any dummies attempting some sort of hipster revisionist history when it comes to these guys.

[@Xeroforte]

Yeah sure, kid.

[@Larry_Sycamore]

@@Xeroforte Bruh. If you consider Limp Bizkit good music then I really don't know what to tell you. Also I was actually at Woodstock '99.

[@enzhao7532]

to destroy the music

[@tB-zq2db]

eskimo brothers

[@MusicAsMedicine88]

Epiphany.

[@Dsd-d7n]

Is he 100

[@readbooks6370]

Si high

[@shalombethefire]

He made an embarrassing band and is trying to rewrite history to give himself cred when he's really Scott Stap

[@someymix]

drsssing like you?? i mean skate and hip hop was purely there before u guys come on

[@negativeindustrial]

😂

[@tomscan64]

Truly was one of the worst bands of the last 30 years

[@kenbing8]

Massive tool

[@CARECHIMBA]

Is everyone in these comments suffering from a mass delusion?haha. Limp biscuits reign was one of the most embarrassing moments in pop culture history. He's trying to pull it off like his master plan was to become a director, bulshit. The amount of money and effort those guys put into it was not just some fluke he went along with. Fred Durst is trying to distance himself from an embarrassing past. Let's stop the revisionist bullshit about an amazing band. They were a novelty act like vanilla ice, like the Macarena, like Gangnam Style.

[@Xeroforte]

Sure, kid.

[@Mappy8899]

“Culturally phenomenal” … as the lowest point in music history

[@AscenderPrime]

The lowest point is clearly now.

[@misterdog7]

Have you heard any recent mainstream music? :D

[@kodemasterx]

You guys beat me to it 😂 the amount trash being put out nowadays is insane...

[@jeffgojail]

​@@AscenderPrime Royal Blood, Caroline Rose, wet leg, Queens of the Stone Age.... there's plenty of great music now. In fact there's more music available to the average person than ever before in human history. I know it's edgy to say modern music sucks but all it really indicates is that you haven't listened to to much.

[@cozyslor]

@@jeffgojail So true. Plenty of great music out there but you have to search for it.

[@jeffgojail]

This is starting to become Club Has-been.

[@galacticmind9060]

And what have done to be famous, Mr. Never-Was?

[@jeffgojail]

@@galacticmind9060 I mean, Fred Durst, Gene Simmons, Lars Ulrich, Dana Carvey, Rob Schneider, Kid Rock, Chevy Chase, Daryl Hall, Kevin Nealon... It's kind of hard to argue against my point.

[@jeffgojail]

@@galacticmind9060 The Rob Schneider one was art. Like anyone gave a crap what Rob Schneider had to say for the one year he was famous, much less now.

[@kyledodson2992]

@@jeffgojailso what… you wanna hear from the intellectual minds of people like Cardi B or Arianna Grande? Bunch of air heads

[@Eyeyamgod]

Hey at least they've been. You haven't even been yet lol. Also limp Bizkit shows are huge again. They're on tour right now and most of the crowd are gen Z. No lie.