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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And I go, I have actually. I'm doing a movie right now. No way. I'm totally available. And by the way, I have to provide for a wife and child right now.
We've all done that. I ended up. Yeah, but not like this. We end up in the adult booths and you got glory holes. Big dicks come through the wall. I went full into it, freaking out and then also thinking, what am I doing?
And by the way, that's not the first time I did. I did it with Oliver Stone for The Doors. Then I heard Val Kilmer got it. But I was walking around looking like Jim Morrison in Tucson, Arizona. I thought somehow it would get it. It's so sad that the irony is.
And I think what the book suggests is you never know, man, if you keep putting yourself out there, you don't know what your life has in store. You just have to keep doing that. You keep having to lift the car off the child.
You have to keep being brave. You have to be willing to go through the meat grinder and get ground and ground and ground and ground and ground because you don't know what's going to be sculpted out of it. So the only time I get nominated so far, Gus Van Sant. Wow. I ended up doing W with Oliver Stone. Yeah. How fucking crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, he doesn't. And I loved working with him and I love him. And I don't say that just to say it, but great working relationship. I think he was slightly afraid of me, which was probably a good thing. Yeah, it takes a lot to scare him. It takes a lot to scare him. And he's usually this guy that's creating chaos. Talk about creating a vortex that he controls.
There was a great, can I tell you this quick story?
Okay, during W, there was a thing and Richard Dreyfuss, and I don't know what Richard was going through. I don't know if he was sober or not sober. I think he was sober, but we had a seven page scene and we chose to eat sandwiches. We chose along the lines of doing this movie. We thought, I think he uses his hands a lot.
So he's eating potato chips or eating sandwiches or always popping a candy or whatever. We had a scene between me and Dreyfuss And it was just seven pages of going back and forth informationally. And I'm eating a sandwich during the time. And I say my first line, I go, you know, so vice, what's today hold? And he goes, and I go, this is literally the first line. And he goes, what?
I go, it's your line, man. And he goes, what do you mean? What do you mean? And dude, it was just that over and over. Every time we did the take, he would stare at me. And then Oliver comes in, he goes, what's the problem? I go, I don't fucking know. I don't know what's happening. He's studying my ass off of the scene. I don't know what's happening.
And the driver was still sitting there and he goes, what? And I go, what do you mean, what, dude? I don't understand what. We have a dialogue. It's not a monologue. There's a dialogue. I'll hold this shit up so you can read it. He was like, why would you do that? I go, so you can speak. And I didn't know.
I thought it was like one of those Alan Font things where I was like, I'm definitely being pumped. Yeah. I wouldn't know if he was trying to get control over me. I don't know. Did he not know his lines? And you never know with actors because that goes on all the time. I got mad. And then Oliver was like, no, I can't have you getting mad. I can't. You're getting emotional. You can't get emotional.
Go over there. And then they're yelling at each other.
I still, to this day, I don't know what's happening. It's either Dreyfuss is a genius or something was going on. Sure.
Yeah. The cover was Joey Feldman, who's a sober buddy of mine. OK. Dang. All right. This is great because you didn't know you were going to do this. No. And by the way, I never wrote down the story. And I did take my younger kids to this very place where this happened. We revisit it at the Kerrang. Let's see if I can pronounce this stuff right.
My girlfriend was getting minor surgery. I had my 11-year-old and my 7-year-old with me. We were visiting her in England. She kept pushing that we should travel, so we eventually came up with Scotland. I've always had a thing for Ireland, but Scotland never really came up before then. The Isle of Skye is a paradise.
I would learn later that most of our ancestry comes from the highlands of the Isle of Skye. Clan Ross and Clan Reed. Maybe that would explain the feeling we had when we were there. The kids and I had a banter. Where are we going to sleep tonight? I'd yell to wish they'd reply in equal decibels. We don't care. We didn't care. We were carefree and happy. We were Clan Brolin. We were a unit.
One day, about five days into a very nomadic vacation, we came across the Kerrang, a landslip on the northernmost part of Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland. There was no car park at that time, but for a little soggy dirt lot along the edge of the road, everything was new to us there. Everything was a discovery. Clan Brolin just rolling along with whatever came along.
A trail was barely visible in the distance, and from it overlooked a stunning portrait of the valley below. We decided to trek and make use of our whimsy. No water bottle, no idea how long it was, we took off, Eden, my seven-year-old, holding my hand and Trevor bringing up the rear. The walk was precarious at times. Right from the trail's edge shot down hundreds of feet, it seemed, in moments.
I questioned myself and my abilities as a parent. What am I doing up here? Why do I do this with little kids? What about a typical playground? Why don't you do what is already set up for children? The trail would even out with the pitch of landscape and we'd be back freely being our lively selves. Sheep are in high population in Scotland. They are everywhere. And here was no exception.
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