Josh Brolin
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488 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Hi, my name is Josh Brolin, and I feel so Don Cheadle about being one of Brian's friends. I don't even know what that means. What does it mean? Who knows? Badass. Horny. You feel horny? Nice.
Yeah.
I am excited. I'm really excited. The first time I went on your show was for flirting with disaster. Yep. And I think, you know, which I'm much less nervous now. I still get nervous, but not really. I don't care as much now.
But back then I told a story about how my dad's so good looking that I told him I wanted to have sex with him or something like that. And nobody got it. I still think it's funny. It is funny. It is funny because it's your dad. And like, of course, you don't want to have sex with your dad. And somebody that's that good looking, even the son would want to have sex with him.
Every angle I look at it from, it's still funny. And literally you and I were like, you went, and I looked out and everybody was like, like nothing. You know, it was a different time. It was a different time.
Or they didn't give a fuck what I had to say.
I won't use this for anybody other than my own ego.
In what way? What did you mean?
I think I say it in one of the chapters, if you will, which we decided toward the tail end of this to put in chapters to make it followable or just stories that you could kind of note and go back to. But there's one that said I was – I can't remember exactly what it says, but it says something like I was – created in her kind of likeness to be a drinker. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it was like, it was kind of like a surrogate husband, so to speak. My dad was, you know, extremely, they got married in 12 days. After seven days, I think after five, no, it was seven days, they sat down, they had a scorpion drink, one of those massive cups between them. My dad was reeling from a recent breakup, and my mom with her voice, that Texan voice,
They were, you know, drinking it up and she looked up and she goes, well, and my dad's like, yeah. And he, she goes, are we, we going to do it or what? And he was like, do what? And she said, get married. Are we going to just, are we going to do it or what? And he got so kind of, you know, perplexed and confused and nervous that he just said, yeah, I guess. And she said, okay.
And she started planning it at that moment. Wow. And five days later they were married.
And you're like, where the fuck is the celebrity?
It's kind of the point.
Yeah, but that's the whole thing. And that's the thing that, you know, either people are really interested in or they're not interested in. To me, I know that I've fought the idea of celebrity my whole life, even though I didn't grow up in LA. Everybody thinks I grew up in Malibu. I didn't grow up in Malibu.
And then you imagine what happens on a set and you think it's this perpetual red carpet and you're just waving literally your entire life. Do you know what I mean? There is a perception of, I was just on the, on the phone with my lit agent, um, Kimberly Witherspoon this morning. And I was like, I'm spinning. I'm spinning.
Like you saw me, I felt it get uncomfortable when you said those nice things about the book. I got teary. This means the world to me because it's me being naked about the realities of reality. the life that I've lived and the life of a lot of other celebrities that I know. And it's not that it's looking for compassion, it's not. But there's no compassion in that.
There's no just like, oh, you guys have the same problems. No, you don't. You live in a bubble. You all live under the same apartment complex. And you just go, what are you thinking? Right, right. What are you thinking? What about the life of...
This kind of unconventional life of this guy who was germinated, unbeknownst to anybody that it was going to be this, into an artist who just found creativity as an outlet, got attached to it. The self-destructive part of him grew and grew and grew with it. And then somehow through having kids and all that found his way out of the self-destructive.
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