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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They don't even know. She was a drug dealer. Yes. She was a kingpin. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Mike Herbert, who's still one of my closest friends, he looked older. So he would go to the drum shop or he had a mustache, a mustache, a herb estate, the herb estate. Yeah.
It is the most beautiful part, accountability. It's just so counterintuitive. To some, most people, not all.
It's hard after you do it and you put it out there and somebody says, this is the worst book I've ever read in my life. And you go, huh. But ultimately, it's even better because then you start to realize the thing that you've learned early on in the program is that has everything to do with them and not about me. They're like, I don't want you to reveal shit, man. That means I have to reveal shit.
Power of example within massive discomfort. I love the idea of anybody, even with acting, you know, you're like, hey, you got a scene coming up where you have to cry. So I think about my dead grandmother. Never made me cry. So crisis mode puts me in a different place. Now, if I think of a mother lifting a car off her kid, like even when I say it, forget it. Same, same, same. That's it. I'm done.
If I think of people who go beyond this design of themselves that they feel that they have to adhere to, the betterment of humanity, I lose it. Powerful. Me too. Yeah.
Just even literally thinking about it.
That's it. My daughter had, you know, whatever fears. She did it last night. We went to the ice cream shop. I said, go ask for another spoon. She dropped her spoon and she was looking back and I could see building up the whole, oh my God, I'm going to have to go in there. What if it doesn't come out right? And I said, don't think, just go.
And then finally she went and she did it and she came back with a smile on her face, dude. Yeah.
I was 19 years old when Debbie got pregnant and we were living at 2020 Beachwood Villa, just the worst apartment down here on Beachwood Canyon. And then by the way, when I got off the freeway at Vine, then we moved from 2020 Villa, once we found out we were gonna have Trevor, went to Hollywood towers. And then we went over to Kenwood in Los Feliz. You know, we just didn't have any money.
And that was a really shitty part of town, just like gunshots all the time and all that stuff. But I was looking at 14 years in prison. And I'd fought six cops. So six felonies, basically thought I was Bruce Lee. And they taught me a big, I told you that story. It's just the dumbest story, literally most embarrassing story ever, but great.
So again, you're in the habit, you get sober and then you're like, okay, it's okay. And then you're responsible. And then you go back and go, God, this sobriety feels like a ball and chain. I want to have fun my life. I'm 23 years old. I should be having fun. You convince yourself in all those ways. And then you go back out and it doesn't get worse. It just gets gnarly. It was always gnarly.
But I will have been a parent from 20 years old. And my youngest right now will graduate when I'm 70.
So I will have been a parent my entire adult life. So I don't know life without kids.
So whether it's me going off and whatever this messy trajectory is of a human being, which we're all messy and you just have to accept these moments, not that they're okay. It's like people saying they needed to relapse in order to find out. I don't agree necessarily. I relapsed and did I learn anything else? No, but I chose to do it and I take full accountability for it.
There's stuff that I haven't written in the book that my family and I talk about everything. So it's all open and it's all out there. But there's things that I've done that really put my family in jeopardy. And I always tried to keep it separate. I tried to live this life and then I tried to live that life. You have that goal, but obviously the thing is more powerful than you.
When it would cross over and bleed over and things would happen, you just go, this is awful. But no matter what I did, whether it was involving addiction, because it wasn't always... There's a story in the book where I go to Portland, Oregon to be discovered. Oh my God, this is from my own private Idaho. My own private Idaho. I stayed in a flop house. I mean, I stayed in a true whorehouse.
There were like hookers going in and out. And I'm reading Rambo at the time, trying to be that guy.
I can't get an audition for this thing. Okay, I have enough money to fly to Portland, Oregon, and I'm going to walk around Boys Town in Portland, Oregon, and Gus Van Sant obviously hangs out in Boys Town. He's probably scouting for the real deals. He's probably scouting for the movie. This is your camping trip. And he's going to see me, and he's going to go... Holy shit.
Have you ever thought about acting?
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