Josh Brolin
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488 appearances
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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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My youngest daughter has it more pronounced than anybody. So you have the six year old, but I was listening to him this morning. I was trying to say something. And this is often because we're around our kids all the time. I'm a very present parent. So I go, hey, man, don't talk for 30 seconds. I need to say something to your mom. And they literally go, OK, Papa, go ahead. And I go, OK.
And they go, one, two, three, four. But I listen to their volley back and forth and their volley is phenomenal to me. It's always on this level. And my wife is always trying to bring it down. And I'm always laughing because I go, that's pretty cool. You guys are on a different. So I'm still a proponent of that thing, just not destructively.
If somebody says I didn't learn anything about him. They're saying something very specific. And they're saying, I didn't get spoon-fed the People Magazine shit that I was expecting. Some hot gossip. Which is okay. Like I said, I don't have a judgment of that. That's not what this book is. And there is no juggling of it.
Well, first of all, if you're writing, then you're one of 0.0001% people who are actually writing their own memoirs or writing their own book. When I found out how many people don't write their own memoirs, I go, but that's a biography. Yeah. that you got paid for. And the writer didn't. So that's a cheat.
And I understand I had a great back and forth with Sharon Graham Norton and I absolutely fucking adored her. She's kind of mom-esque. Mischievous, but super honest, fearless, but vulnerable, said something during and then was looking for me afterwards to say, I didn't mean to suggest this. So conscientious, 77, 78 years old. I was like, that fucking broad is great. Yeah, no, she's a gangster.
But her book, Legendary Icons. So I do want to know what happened in those nine days that she was married to Greg Allman. Like what the fuck happened? Why was it only nine days? Take your time. I want to hear about every day. Every day. Every hour. Absolutely.
With this, I was in Austin, Texas and people paid for a book signing and then a picture and all that. And some guy came up to me and like of all the things he could have said, he said, you're too young to write a memoir. Yeah. And then he left. I was like, who the fuck was that dude? How old was he? He was like 40 or something, 45. But he's right.
It's like if I were to write a tell-all, I would at the end of my life. My life in Hollywood. But going back to what you said, writing a good book. That's well-written, meant everything to me. But it can be daunting. It can be incredibly daunting if you care about the writing style and you care about somebody who's written thousands and thousands and thousands of pages.
Me, I probably have 91 full journals now. I've written several books. I've written several books of poetry. I've written a novella and I just put it in a corner. Way too long screenplays. Never wrote a screenplay. Wait, I thought the submarine in the lake next to Fargo. That was a joke. That was always to break the silence and to create a discomfort that made me really happy.
And Nora takes you and it says, well, is it this or is it that? If you spent all your time watching a Nora going, is it a comedy or is it a satire or did this really happen? Is this based in truth? And you're looking at your phone, just fucking follow it.
Just lend yourself to the craziness and the messiness that life always seems to hand out. The thing is, is that we're always trying to get away from it. What if we just sit in it for a while? It can be super funny.
Why are you even telling?
I can admit out loud. I would sit with them and they don't talk. There's no small talk. I mean, now there is maybe because we're close and all that. But we would sit around and nobody would be saying anything. And what's the one thing that you don't say on set as an actor?
Them, Tarantino. We could list the three worst things. So we would literally sit there saying nothing. And I'd be like, I'm so fucking bored right now. And I'd go, hey, listen, I don't want to be inappropriate here. I have an amazing script. I didn't want to bring it up, but I think now is the right time. And then you'd hear like one clearing result.
And then I would go off literally until we shot.
No, it was Wapentin. Which is actually, I had to look up. I was like, what's next to Fargo? Okay, but it's not Fargo, but it's the town next to Fargo. So dumb. It's like, how can you waste somebody's time? Torturously waste somebody's time.
Wait, but I do want to say this, that going back, there is a point in writing, had I just started writing, I think that it would have been affected by my need to be perceived like somebody else. And I wasn't because there was some point in the trajectory of my writing that I found my voice and I know it's my voice. I gave this book while I was writing it to only two people.
They're both in New York. They're both Jewish. They're both neurotic. Uh-huh. Zev Boro and Ethan Cohen. And they both were super fucking honest with me. And Zev said, if for nothing else, this book is a hundred percent you.
It's not me trying to be this. And somebody goes, oh, Bukowski or so. Oh, Hunter S. Thompson. There were so many influences and people I tried to copy for years. And you go, no, that's me. That's how I write.
But that wasn't necessarily the case with me. The greatest exercise of this book was clarifying. There's a great story about Raymond Carver and Raymond Carver wrote, I think, Cathedral that he won the Pulitzer for and short stories. And he was a sober guy. He's my all time favorite. Just the best.
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