Jon Bernthal

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633 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 8 Jun

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SmartLess · "Jon Bernthal" · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

sort of exclusive thing for the gentry.

It's for everybody, and it's a part of everyday life, and it's enormously important to folks, so it's really cool, I think, that this is just sort of expanding the theater audience, and it's been a thrill.

It's been a thrill to see how much people dig it.

So I lived in Russia from 99 to, I guess, 2001.

And honestly, I mean, it's something... You know, I went to school to play sports.

I played football and baseball.

I played baseball in college.

But I was getting in all kinds of trouble.

And really, if there was a dead end to walk down, I was walking down it and just running into every kind of wall.

And, you know, I really sort of found theater on...

you know, on an accident.

I was just an idiot and I signed up for a class and I thought I was taking the class with 600 kids in it and sitting in the back of a theater watching movies, but me being the kind of asshole that I was, I signed up for the, you know, the intro to theater class, which was just 10 people who took it very seriously.

I totally did.

And that's what I heard.

All the athletes were like, you have to take an art requirement.

And I had no idea.

And, you know, I've told this story before, but the first assignment was to bring in something that was deeply important to you and to share it with the class.

And I had never seen such weird, I'd never experienced something this sort of insane of these grown people talking about an object that was so important to them and emoting and breaking down and

I'd never really been around theater people before and slowly but surely it came to my turn and I didn't bring anything.

I didn't have anything because I was such a donkey.

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