Josh Brolin
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488 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Josh Brolin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was a look of absolute, almost disgust. It was panic.
Only have seen it. Half. Oh, half seen it.
No, but I kind of liked the idea of I only have seen it, meaning I didn't react like everybody else. I just saw it.
I just have seen it. Plain and simple.
Which he's been doing for a very long time. It's just recently he went on a tour. He was opening for Fred Durst and Fred Durst brilliantly created this whole thing called like the worst tour in the world. Oh, I can't remember. It's not called that, but it's something like that. So it's intentional from Fred Durst point of view.
But I think he took, which was genius, Corey Feldman and said, you open for me and then we're going to come out and do our bullshit. And Fred has a huge white beard now and comes out with basically what he wore back in the day. And it's just fucking funny.
But when you see Corey doing his thing, which is what he's always done, there's no difference in what he was doing during the Goonies back in that day and what he's doing now. There's just a seriousness to it. So
I love when people are honest. Like I did Rogan and I go, so where's the book? And he goes, I don't know. Where is the book? And I was like, fuck you mean, where is the book? We sent you the book. He was like, yeah, where is it? I'm like, so you didn't read the book.
Well, wait, let me interrupt you for a second. First of all, the fears in writing a book, I didn't have a fear. I've told this story before, but there was only one moment where I kind of said, you need to be just a little bit more inspiring in order to be attractive to a wider audience. And I wrote probably 40,000 words with that in the back of my head, having told nobody.
And then my lit agent, she read the first chapter and she said, first chapter is really good. You've smoothed it out. It's great. What the fuck happened with chapter two? And that was the one you were going to protect yourself with? Not even protect myself, but just give it a little more positive oomph. Yeah.
First of all, I fell in love with her at that moment because I was like, you see me, which I think that's the biggest thing you see behind the tough and the thing and the guy. And she said, you need to go back and rewrite it. I said, the whole thing?
And she goes, what part go back and be you if you cheat or if there's an affectation or if you're trying to write for somebody else, it's never going to work. The other thing is the fear didn't come until I was two days into the audible. I speak well. I speak in front of an audience well. I can read other people's books well.
There was something about reading through my own book where I was tripping through every sentence. I started to shame spiral. And then within that shame spiral, I started to say, I wish that I could burn any evidence that this thing ever existed, even as an idea. I've done the dumbest thing I should have just wrote when I did the Goonies. Me and Corey Feldman used to go to lunch together and
it was so fun. He was so smart and he was playing music then too. And there's some people that have reacted to it. Like this is the fucking worst book I've ever read because wasn't he married for nine years? Where's that spoon fetus, the shit, which I understand. There's a certain amount of that when you call it a memoir that you want. This is really more about children and parents.
That's what it is. To me, it's like surviving nurture to get to nature, trying to get rid of the habits that you acquired during nurture and then confronting those and hopefully thriving within that nature, figuring out a way to thrive within that nature. So then children come in and all that kind of stuff.
And I've learned that through people's reaction, because people's reaction is either really negative because of the form, because of how it's laid out or super fucking personal and emotional.
There is an indictment. And Howard Stern brought this up. I think you two the most took it very personally. And he took it very personally because he had a parallel thing with his mom. And he was like, this is not fucking OK. I want to hear you admit that it's not OK. And you go, yes, of course, there's an indictment.
I can see it clearly, especially now and how I parent my kids, how I've always parent my kids, albeit messily. But how I feel about that time is it was a trauma or a tragedy or whatever it is because of this narcissistic vortex that I was living in. Are you unable to celebrate the child?
If your child does a drawing for you on a post-it, are you going to put it on your chest and wear it around so the child can go, oh my God, that guy loves my drawing. Or I don't understand what this is. Well, can you make it more like this and more like this? Or can you dress more like this?
So when a picture is taken with me and the child, it makes me look like, you know, that's all narcissistic bullshit. And it goes back to one image and that one image that my dad would say, my dad was very open about this. I don't know if he found it funny or if he just found it informational and just didn't care how it was perceived.
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