Jon Bernthal
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first heard May 2025
last heard 8 Jun
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But also, it's funny when I talk about that, people are always sort of coming to me or coming to my wife because it's really my wife, but saying, wow, that's so great. And I just totally see it as it's a gift to us. It's a gift to our kids. Oh, I believe that. Both are true. Both are true.
There are Quaker values that are enormously beautiful. There are no real Quakers that go to that school. The way that sort of D.C. was in the 80s and 90s, D.C. is a city that's not part of a state, and the public schools were in pretty rough shape. Yeah. Yeah.
because it's really a lesson in hypocrisy, that city, because you have this sterling city on the hill in the middle of the city, which is all these monuments and all these government buildings, but that's protected by the park police and the secret service. There's no litter. Nobody from DC lives there. And then you go like two, blocks in any direction.
And there's a different kind of music, a different kind of vernacular, a different kind of folks. It's definitely not what it used to be, but it is that. And you see that growing up, no matter where you go, it's a loss of innocence. You sort of start to figure things out. For us, I think specifically that school just had a history.
I was really brought up with the idea of Quakerism, that there is that of God in everyone. The way that Quakers pray. I don't know if you guys have ever attended a Quaker meeting. I haven't, but I have a friend who's an atheist who attends a Quaker church. I mean, the way that Quaker meeting works is everybody sits around in silence.
So at that school, for instance, once a week, everybody, every coach, every security guard, every buildings and grounds member, every teacher, every student sits in silence. And there's no leaders, no followers.
There's no rabbis. And if that of God moves you, anyone, you get up and you address the congregation and you speak from the God that's within you. So it's really steeped in conflict resolution and equality and diversity. How cool, right?
The school that I sort of came up with was vast, vast majority scholarship students. It really put a real onus on all kinds of diversity. There's kids that weren't allowed to go to the public schools that were allowed to come to our school.
And what I saw was this really sort of utopian, beautiful thing where kids that were in some cases involved in things out of school that were genuinely dangerous. Kids were lost to gun violence. were on school grounds really a part of this community where they felt respected and safe and even when things would flare up.
there was a way of dealing with them where there was no principle saying you're suspended, you're kicked out. It was a group of your peers. And we would try to get to the bottom. Okay, well, why are you doing what you're doing? And let's see if we can bring you guys together. And maybe you need to go spend a night in his neighborhood. And maybe you need to go to her house and see what that's like.
For me, it really worked. And man, do I believe it. If you had asked me then, I would have been like, this is a bunch of bullshit. But now I'm like, those Quaker values are beautiful. I love the school and I'm so grateful to the school and the people who are my best friends who I played on my undefeated high school football team with are still my best friends. Oh, they play football.
That's a little bit of a shocker. Yeah, I guess.
And there is really that element there, this dichotomy, but support it. Anyway, truthfully, what I'm most grateful for is it really was a place and a city that was diverse. People throw that word around, but the kind of folks that I got to grow up with were from all walks of life and in that city. And at that time, I'm just so grateful for it. And I think where D.C.
is, it's such an interesting thing because you cross one river in your Virginia and then you go out this way, you're in Maryland and there's the Eastern Shore. It's such a wildly different place. Okay, so you go to Skidmore, but you're there for how long? I'd gotten in trouble in high school, so I had this sort of thing looming over me while I was in college. Trial coming your way?
I went to Skidmore to play baseball, and it was at Skidmore where I started acting.
Yeah, this woman, Alma Becker, I have her name tattooed right here. She was my first acting teacher. I told this story before. I've never heard it. Okay, sorry. I know, it's the worst though, man. Anyway, I boxed my whole life, and so my head's a little, and my biggest fear is that I'm telling the same story over and over again, and someone's sitting there being like, fuck this story again.
In every boxing gym, there's somebody who does that, and I'm so afraid.
Yeah, I'm scared for me about that too, to be honest with you. And you're going to be just fine. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I took this class to fulfill a requirement. I was a total shitbag. I was there just to play baseball. What position did you play? I played catcher. Oh, how are your knees? I'm okay now. I mean, but from boxing and catching, and I play a lot of outdoor basketball, they were bad.
I've had a bunch of surgeries, but hey, my little brother.
Yeah, it was bad for a while, but I played all through high school and college. I played some baseball in Russia. Oh, we got to get to that. Yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. There was an intro to theater class that all the athletes took and you would sit in the auditorium and I heard you could just sort of take acid and sit in the back and watch movies.
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