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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If that's meaningful to you. But it should be meaningful. But it should be meaningful to everybody. But it's not necessarily. Even that I don't believe. Even the people that we demonize. And you go, they don't give a fuck. Like there are evil people out there for sure. But I've experienced, you know, I mean, what's a good example? It's something that I do. I did with my dad.
My dad is more of an introverted, kind of tightly wound guy. And he smiles and he goes, hey, how are you? How are you doing? Are you happy today? And you go, I'm not necessarily happy and I don't really care as much. Whatever is going on today is going on today. Something about me when I was younger used to love to grab him and kiss him on the cheek. Just to jar him.
But I don't know if it was to jar him or me saying, this is the direction that I want to go.
I'm not going to follow the status quo idea of what you guys deem appropriate. I want to go a little bit further. I don't know. I think I got that from my mother. Why not challenge? Just because it's presented this way isn't necessarily the way it needs to be. It doesn't need to settle into this.
Ja, und das ist der Grund, warum du jetzt Kinder errichtest, weil ich einen 36-Jährigen, einen 31-Jährigen, einen 6-Jährigen und einen 3-Jährigen habe. Du hattest zwei mit dem ersten? Ich habe.
I look back on my childhood. There's a story that's not even in there. My mother came from Texas. She ran away from Texas when she was, I think, 17 years old or 19 years old. She had a couple hundred bucks in her pocket. She was a pretty staunch Baptist. And then she started fucking all these married men. She got to Hollywood and kind of got in that whole thing. And she was never an actress.
She was actor adjacent. They're kind of essential. That's exactly right. Seriously, which is even worse. And then you go... So, where do I put this now? I put it back in my Zen pack? No, you can throw it in that garbage right there. Oh, I can't? Oh, perfect. So anyway, she went a little nuts one day and then she took a bunch of pills and she got in the car and she hit a bunch of parked cars.
So the guys in the white coats, you know, came to get her and they put her in the paddy wagon, literally. And they took her to Camarillo State Hospital and she spent three and a half weeks in Camarillo State Hospital. And when she was there and she, there was a girl there who had hacked up her entire family and she hadn't spoken a word. In 12 Jahren. Und meine Mutter saß neben mir.
Und ich bin sicher, ich weiß nicht, wie es ging, aber meine Mutter war so laut und hat nicht gesagt, dass sie wahrscheinlich neben mir saß und sagte, ich verstehe nicht, warum du nicht sprichst. Sprichst du nie? Sprichst du nie? Sprichst du in deinem Schlaf? Do you talk when nobody's around? And probably fucking annoyed the shit out of her so much that the girl finally said candy.
And it was a huge thing in the hospital. Like, wow, this woman hasn't spoken. You've gotten her to speak. And then the people, she was put in there, she was assessed, and then her friends came to get her, and she's like, no, I'm fine. Because she liked it. She liked it in there. And when you grow up around that kind of... Alchemy. You're like, yes, it's traumatizing.
You know, you said it earlier, you go, I don't know if I've gotten everything out of my heart. I don't know if you're supposed to, first of all. I don't know if there's a therapy that like once you've kind of exercised all the bad shit that you just live in the good shit. Or if you just learn to kind of be malleable within the chaos of the circus. Sure.
Ja. Und dann hast du deinen massiven Trauma. Du hast deinen Trauma von, weißt du, echter PTSD und militärischer Trauma und all dieser Art von Sachen. Ja. Aber wie du darauf reagierst, und ich bringe etwas hin, und das ist nicht gemeint, ein politisches Ding zu sein, aber ich habe tatsächlich etwas auf den Weg hierher gedreht und du hast mit dieser Mädchen gesprochen. Ja.
Diese letzte, was war ihr Name? Ich war? Ja. Du warst. Oh, Robbie Hoffman? Robbie. Und bevor das war, ging man ab und es war, sagen wir mal, am Morgen nach.
Also am Morgen nach und du sprachst über Annihilation und all diese Sachen. Also es ist so etwas passiert und es geht zurück zu dem, was wir gesprochen haben. In the beginning where I said I was doing the Audible for this book and I started spiraling. And I'm not a spiraling kind of guy. I don't victimize myself. I don't see myself as a victim. But I just undeniably fucking spiraled.
And I went down this whirlpool of shame and what did I do and who do I think I am and all this stuff. And nobody cares about this shit anyway. And why did I write this? Which I hear is very common for writers. I do that two, three times a week.
It's true actually. There's something that happened the morning after for me. And I think it's how I've dealt... I think it's in the nucleus of this book. I think it's how I've dealt with my life for better or worse through and through. And I go, we have a Republican Senate, we have a Republican House, we have controlled Supreme Court judges, and we have a Republican President now. And I felt...
Das ist richtig. Das ist richtig. Es gibt etwas Exzellentes darüber. Nein, ich fühle es auch, weil es alles auf der Tafel ist. Es ist alles auf der Tafel, man. Es ist nichts versteckt. Und es war während dieses ganzen Prozesses, dass ich war wie, ich mag das nicht. Ich hasse Politiker. Sie sind alle Lügen. Sie versuchen alle zu werden ausgewählt. Ja.
Und dann, wenn du diese Art von Aufmerksamkeit hast, gibt es keinen Weg, dass diese Art von Aufmerksamkeit und Macht dich nicht beeinflusst.
And then, after it's all done, you go, okay, so this is what's left. Yeah, this is where we're at. This is exactly where we're at.
Are we really friends or are we not? But that's not the point. The point is now, how do you get back to which I feel, you know, when Biden and Trump came out and didn't shake hands, my thought was, fuck you. Fuck you guys. This is the same fucking country. This is the same umbrella. And now it's kind of on us as Democrats. Yeah. that I have a lot of Republican friends.
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