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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But my dad used to say, I remember when your mom was in the driver's seat You were in the passenger seat and you guys were arguing and my dad was in the back with his hands over his ears. And you go, that's a family tree. And you go, who's the husband? The kid. Yeah. The eight-year-old kid who's going, man, just fucking drive. Like, why do you got to stop the car and argue? Just drive, whatever.
And then the dad's in the back with his hands over his ears and you go, okay, so that was how that whole thing was set up. And by the way, where's my brother? He's not even part of that diagram because he was a guy that didn't have the fight that you have, that I have. He just got lost in it. He didn't have the fight. So he lives his life in a very, very simple way now.
Absolutely.
How funny is that?
For sure.
I found out more and more now people have come out to the woodwork out of the woodworks. And maybe I shouldn't even say sexual, but she engaged men nonstop. The sexuality was just as much psychic as it was everything. It was a mental game. It was a sexual game. It was a physical game. It was a spiritual game. Yeah.
So unpredictable. But you don't know why, because it's all you know.
I remember my mom being drunk and there was a church called Joshua's and Joshua's was turned into a bar. And I remember a bar in Paso Robles, Joshua's. What a rebrand. I know, what a rebrand. And I remember my mom pulling somebody, or it was James Lee Barrett, the writer. And he was a writer way back in the day. And I remember her pulling him across the table to give him a kiss, right?
So my mom, who was tiny, had that superhuman drunk strength that you know and I know. But it was always a display. She couldn't just get up and go to the other side. She had to pull them across the table. And I told somebody else this the other day and talk about fear. Not that I forgot about this. Just there were so many things to write about. It's like, what do you land on?
And the book starts to dictate itself. And then what do you cut? I had at one point 450 pages or something and then knocked it down. But if you flipped my mom off on the freeway, you were done. She would actively run you off the road.
80 miles an hour or on the CB, she would call a bunch of truckers and you would see that car that had been identified now get boxed in and literally get run off the road by several truckers. But she would freak the fuck out. And when you're an eight year old in a car, it was wild and how ironic that she died hitting a tree with a car chasing a dude.
That's exactly right. But the whole point, I think, ultimately, it's like, do you feel that this was cathartic in some way? And I go, no. But now I can say, yes, it's starting to become cathartic because of people's reactions to it. To me, what's the point of me writing the book? other than just loving writing. That's my first and foremost.
You know, I'm going to go to Skylight after this because I used to be on the floor of Skylight reading Russian novels and reading Tolstoy and Turgenev and Gogol and Flaubert and fucking Guy de Maupassant and all that kind of shit when I was 18, 19, 20 years old. And now I'm going to go there and I'm going to see my book on the shelf.
But ultimately, how do you accept the chaos of what was and not live the rest of your life as a victim of it? That's the biggest thing.
That's what I was going to say. Do you have a choice? No. Somebody leaves and you go, wait a second. If they leave, you can leave. That means you can leave, you can leave, you can leave, you can leave. Once you get outside of the family, then are you reacting to the potential of anybody leaving?
But you just said it, performing. Then you're performing. Then you're going, how do I assure that I'm not down to zero?
You become less reactionary. And the thing with my mom, which didn't work in life, was my mom loved the high octane volley. So you had to be up here. I still deal with that because I like the high octane volley. That's why I like Italy. Because everybody's it's culturally like what you said about Georgia. It's culturally at that place all the time.
No one's getting their feelings hurt. Whereas here, I may do something and people go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What's the problem? And then if I'm feeling surly or whatever, I go, why does everybody want to be fucking monotone all the time? Everybody wants to be in yawn mode. And I go, it's okay. Let's wake up. And interestingly enough, and this is not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. I have my 36 year old Trevor, my 31 year old Eden, my six year old Westland and my three year old Chapel.
And I see it in my older kids. My son is a little more docile. than what we're talking about. My 31 year old is the only person on this earth, probably who scares me. All she has to do is give me a look. And I'm just like, you said she was born with your menacing look. She just has that Brolin brow. I call it that kind of Neanderthal brow ridge.
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