Matthew McConaughey
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You know what time he's, you know if he's married, if he's got kids, if he doesn't, what music he listens to, what he's buying, if he's got a dollar in his pocket, goes in 7-Eleven. Yep. You know what this guy's got, right? You know what's in his car. You know what's in his console. Yep. By that line.
You know what time he's, you know if he's married, if he's got kids, if he doesn't, what music he listens to, what he's buying, if he's got a dollar in his pocket, goes in 7-Eleven. Yep. You know what this guy's got, right? You know what's in his car. You know what's in his console. Yep. By that line.
You know what time he's, you know if he's married, if he's got kids, if he doesn't, what music he listens to, what he's buying, if he's got a dollar in his pocket, goes in 7-Eleven. Yep. You know what this guy's got, right? You know what's in his car. You know what's in his console. Yep. By that line.
You got to earn your moments acting in, in life. You got to earn your moment. Stand up. You got to earn that punchline. Sure. Right. You got to earn that callback. Yeah. Right? If you don't earn it, it lands in like, what are you talking about? Yeah. You got to earn your moments in a performance. I think like in life too. You got to, it's just important to where you're not.
You got to earn your moments acting in, in life. You got to earn your moment. Stand up. You got to earn that punchline. Sure. Right. You got to earn that callback. Yeah. Right? If you don't earn it, it lands in like, what are you talking about? Yeah. You got to earn your moments in a performance. I think like in life too. You got to, it's just important to where you're not.
You got to earn your moments acting in, in life. You got to earn your moment. Stand up. You got to earn that punchline. Sure. Right. You got to earn that callback. Yeah. Right? If you don't earn it, it lands in like, what are you talking about? Yeah. You got to earn your moments in a performance. I think like in life too. You got to, it's just important to where you're not.
It's where you are. If you look, I look at Staying on Days Confused and Wooderson. The last scene we shot, I'm now working three weeks. I'm loving this. People are telling me they think I'm good at it. I'm getting paid $360 a day. I'm going, is this legal? This is great, man. Call me back as much as I can. There's a scene where Wooderson, they've had the night at the field.
It's where you are. If you look, I look at Staying on Days Confused and Wooderson. The last scene we shot, I'm now working three weeks. I'm loving this. People are telling me they think I'm good at it. I'm getting paid $360 a day. I'm going, is this legal? This is great, man. Call me back as much as I can. There's a scene where Wooderson, they've had the night at the field.
It's where you are. If you look, I look at Staying on Days Confused and Wooderson. The last scene we shot, I'm now working three weeks. I'm loving this. People are telling me they think I'm good at it. I'm getting paid $360 a day. I'm going, is this legal? This is great, man. Call me back as much as I can. There's a scene where Wooderson, they've had the night at the field.
I mean, I felt it for decades. probably 15 years, I didn't have the courage to even go try and write it. I mean, I'd been gathering all these journals in a treasure chest and then telling my assistant, you know what? You're going to start logging that stuff. Maybe something's worth sharing one day. And it stayed on micro cassettes.
I mean, I felt it for decades. probably 15 years, I didn't have the courage to even go try and write it. I mean, I'd been gathering all these journals in a treasure chest and then telling my assistant, you know what? You're going to start logging that stuff. Maybe something's worth sharing one day. And it stayed on micro cassettes.
I mean, I felt it for decades. probably 15 years, I didn't have the courage to even go try and write it. I mean, I'd been gathering all these journals in a treasure chest and then telling my assistant, you know what? You're going to start logging that stuff. Maybe something's worth sharing one day. And it stayed on micro cassettes.
Now they're going to go get the Aerosmith tickets in Wooderson's car. And he's like, talks to the gang. He goes, all right, man, we're heading out. And he goes to his car, towards his car. And the group stayed there. And I don't remember exactly, but the group stayed where they were. And I returned to the group. And I remember that night feeling like, false move, bullshit.
Now they're going to go get the Aerosmith tickets in Wooderson's car. And he's like, talks to the gang. He goes, all right, man, we're heading out. And he goes to his car, towards his car. And the group stayed there. And I don't remember exactly, but the group stayed where they were. And I returned to the group. And I remember that night feeling like, false move, bullshit.
Now they're going to go get the Aerosmith tickets in Wooderson's car. And he's like, talks to the gang. He goes, all right, man, we're heading out. And he goes to his car, towards his car. And the group stayed there. And I don't remember exactly, but the group stayed where they were. And I returned to the group. And I remember that night feeling like, false move, bullshit.
Wooderson would have never two-stepped. Wooderson would have gone to his car, sat back, cranked it up, put on some tunes, rolled a doobie, and waited for everyone in their own time to come get in his car. I two-stepped. Not a Wooderson move. It's a tad dorky. You know what I mean?
Wooderson would have never two-stepped. Wooderson would have gone to his car, sat back, cranked it up, put on some tunes, rolled a doobie, and waited for everyone in their own time to come get in his car. I two-stepped. Not a Wooderson move. It's a tad dorky. You know what I mean?
Wooderson would have never two-stepped. Wooderson would have gone to his car, sat back, cranked it up, put on some tunes, rolled a doobie, and waited for everyone in their own time to come get in his car. I two-stepped. Not a Wooderson move. It's a tad dorky. You know what I mean?
And Wooderson was a guy who just, whatever way he heads, by hook or by crook, if he passes the pot of gold, well, he passed it. Maybe he'll catch it next time around. But he's never going to two-step. And I shouldn't have gone back to that scene. I shouldn't have re-entered that scene.
And Wooderson was a guy who just, whatever way he heads, by hook or by crook, if he passes the pot of gold, well, he passed it. Maybe he'll catch it next time around. But he's never going to two-step. And I shouldn't have gone back to that scene. I shouldn't have re-entered that scene.
And Wooderson was a guy who just, whatever way he heads, by hook or by crook, if he passes the pot of gold, well, he passed it. Maybe he'll catch it next time around. But he's never going to two-step. And I shouldn't have gone back to that scene. I shouldn't have re-entered that scene.
No, I didn't realize it at the time. Getting more screen time, bro. Sure, yeah. Hanging out with a guy. I mean, why not?
No, I didn't realize it at the time. Getting more screen time, bro. Sure, yeah. Hanging out with a guy. I mean, why not?
No, I didn't realize it at the time. Getting more screen time, bro. Sure, yeah. Hanging out with a guy. I mean, why not?
All right, so your first three.
All right, so your first three.
All right, so your first three.
Yeah. Dude, and I, yeah, the first one I get, walking in the right bar at the right time, meet a guy named Don Phillips. Four in the morning, he's riding with me in a cab to go drop me off at my apartment. He rolls a dupe, says, you ever done any acting? I said, man, been in a Miller Lite commercial for about that long. More of a modeling job. Well, you might be right.
Yeah. Dude, and I, yeah, the first one I get, walking in the right bar at the right time, meet a guy named Don Phillips. Four in the morning, he's riding with me in a cab to go drop me off at my apartment. He rolls a dupe, says, you ever done any acting? I said, man, been in a Miller Lite commercial for about that long. More of a modeling job. Well, you might be right.
Yeah. Dude, and I, yeah, the first one I get, walking in the right bar at the right time, meet a guy named Don Phillips. Four in the morning, he's riding with me in a cab to go drop me off at my apartment. He rolls a dupe, says, you ever done any acting? I said, man, been in a Miller Lite commercial for about that long. More of a modeling job. Well, you might be right.
Come to this address in the morning, pick up the script. Go pick it up. That was three lines in days. That worked out for three weeks. The chainsaw, a masker. I was supposed to play a part of a guy that was like a Romeo to Renee Zellweger's Juliet, where I like ride up on a motorcycle at the beginning, pass the school, black leather helmet, look at her, ride off.
Come to this address in the morning, pick up the script. Go pick it up. That was three lines in days. That worked out for three weeks. The chainsaw, a masker. I was supposed to play a part of a guy that was like a Romeo to Renee Zellweger's Juliet, where I like ride up on a motorcycle at the beginning, pass the school, black leather helmet, look at her, ride off.
Come to this address in the morning, pick up the script. Go pick it up. That was three lines in days. That worked out for three weeks. The chainsaw, a masker. I was supposed to play a part of a guy that was like a Romeo to Renee Zellweger's Juliet, where I like ride up on a motorcycle at the beginning, pass the school, black leather helmet, look at her, ride off.
And at the end, after she escapes, pick her up. I go in for that. I've already got my U-Haul packed to go west, young man. It's packed. I've moved out. I'm out of that. I'm not renting a place anymore. I'm going to swing by. It's a one-day job. I go by the production house to go see the director.
And at the end, after she escapes, pick her up. I go in for that. I've already got my U-Haul packed to go west, young man. It's packed. I've moved out. I'm out of that. I'm not renting a place anymore. I'm going to swing by. It's a one-day job. I go by the production house to go see the director.
And at the end, after she escapes, pick her up. I go in for that. I've already got my U-Haul packed to go west, young man. It's packed. I've moved out. I'm out of that. I'm not renting a place anymore. I'm going to swing by. It's a one-day job. I go by the production house to go see the director.
And while we're sitting there, and I'm going to shoot like two days, he goes, hey, we haven't been able to cast the main killer, Vilmer, the guy with the mechanical leg who can't find his remote. He drives a tow truck. He goes, you know any male actors in town? I gave him a couple names. And I remember I left, I got to my car, and I'll never forget it, my blue truck, old blue.
And while we're sitting there, and I'm going to shoot like two days, he goes, hey, we haven't been able to cast the main killer, Vilmer, the guy with the mechanical leg who can't find his remote. He drives a tow truck. He goes, you know any male actors in town? I gave him a couple names. And I remember I left, I got to my car, and I'll never forget it, my blue truck, old blue.
And while we're sitting there, and I'm going to shoot like two days, he goes, hey, we haven't been able to cast the main killer, Vilmer, the guy with the mechanical leg who can't find his remote. He drives a tow truck. He goes, you know any male actors in town? I gave him a couple names. And I remember I left, I got to my car, and I'll never forget it, my blue truck, old blue.
I opened the door, and as I was stepping from the sidewalk into the cab, I stopped, and I went, I should go read for that. I shut the door, went back in, said, I want to read for it. He goes, okay, we don't have any actions around here. And I went... And the secretary goes, I'll do it. And he goes, well, man, just, you know, I don't know, see if you can scare the hell out of her.
I opened the door, and as I was stepping from the sidewalk into the cab, I stopped, and I went, I should go read for that. I shut the door, went back in, said, I want to read for it. He goes, okay, we don't have any actions around here. And I went... And the secretary goes, I'll do it. And he goes, well, man, just, you know, I don't know, see if you can scare the hell out of her.
I opened the door, and as I was stepping from the sidewalk into the cab, I stopped, and I went, I should go read for that. I shut the door, went back in, said, I want to read for it. He goes, okay, we don't have any actions around here. And I went... And the secretary goes, I'll do it. And he goes, well, man, just, you know, I don't know, see if you can scare the hell out of her.
And the last kicker to get out the door and go see what I had to write something was I asked my wife. If, hey, when I die, I got these books. These are really important to me. I'm looking in there and seeing if something's worth sharing. And she just gave me the bird and said, F you, dude. You go do it. Don't put that on me.
And the last kicker to get out the door and go see what I had to write something was I asked my wife. If, hey, when I die, I got these books. These are really important to me. I'm looking in there and seeing if something's worth sharing. And she just gave me the bird and said, F you, dude. You go do it. Don't put that on me.
And the last kicker to get out the door and go see what I had to write something was I asked my wife. If, hey, when I die, I got these books. These are really important to me. I'm looking in there and seeing if something's worth sharing. And she just gave me the bird and said, F you, dude. You go do it. Don't put that on me.
And I went to the kitchen and I grabbed a big exercise like serving spoon. And I came back and welded it like it was some knife and went off and it scared the shit out of her. And she drew tears. And after we were over, she was like, that was great. You really scared me. And he goes, you got the part. So all of a sudden I'm working for a month in Pflugerville.
And I went to the kitchen and I grabbed a big exercise like serving spoon. And I came back and welded it like it was some knife and went off and it scared the shit out of her. And she drew tears. And after we were over, she was like, that was great. You really scared me. And he goes, you got the part. So all of a sudden I'm working for a month in Pflugerville.
And I went to the kitchen and I grabbed a big exercise like serving spoon. And I came back and welded it like it was some knife and went off and it scared the shit out of her. And she drew tears. And after we were over, she was like, that was great. You really scared me. And he goes, you got the part. So all of a sudden I'm working for a month in Pflugerville.
And I had to go sleep on a buddy's couch and pull out stuff out of my damn U-Haul for the next month. Then drove out west, which I had days confused. The film would come out, and I had that as a bit of an audition. And then I had the stories in there about feeling needy, feeling like I needed to get an agent.
And I had to go sleep on a buddy's couch and pull out stuff out of my damn U-Haul for the next month. Then drove out west, which I had days confused. The film would come out, and I had that as a bit of an audition. And then I had the stories in there about feeling needy, feeling like I needed to get an agent.
And I had to go sleep on a buddy's couch and pull out stuff out of my damn U-Haul for the next month. Then drove out west, which I had days confused. The film would come out, and I had that as a bit of an audition. And then I had the stories in there about feeling needy, feeling like I needed to get an agent.
And that same guy, Don Phillips, who I met in the bar that night, is the one who ate my ass out and said, get the hell out of here. This town will eat you up. They smell needy. get out of here, go off with your buds. And me and Cole and Rory hit Europe for over a month riding motorcycles. Came back, I was ready.
And that same guy, Don Phillips, who I met in the bar that night, is the one who ate my ass out and said, get the hell out of here. This town will eat you up. They smell needy. get out of here, go off with your buds. And me and Cole and Rory hit Europe for over a month riding motorcycles. Came back, I was ready.
And that same guy, Don Phillips, who I met in the bar that night, is the one who ate my ass out and said, get the hell out of here. This town will eat you up. They smell needy. get out of here, go off with your buds. And me and Cole and Rory hit Europe for over a month riding motorcycles. Came back, I was ready.
Because I was, I was running out of money, but I was also like, come on, man, I need... And I would have taken those meetings and they'd have been like... He's not as cool as we thought he might have been. Desperation always reads. I would have been trespassing. I was desperate.
Because I was, I was running out of money, but I was also like, come on, man, I need... And I would have taken those meetings and they'd have been like... He's not as cool as we thought he might have been. Desperation always reads. I would have been trespassing. I was desperate.
Because I was, I was running out of money, but I was also like, come on, man, I need... And I would have taken those meetings and they'd have been like... He's not as cool as we thought he might have been. Desperation always reads. I would have been trespassing. I was desperate.
Yeah, I mean, I'd read the script. I was like, Jake McCants, that's the guy I'd like to, you know. And I go in and I had that meeting, and I did plan it. It's one of those things, those plans that kind of went well. I have to say I've been fortunate a few times where some ideal plans where I'm going to lay down the snafu or the bait that have worked out. Many of them haven't, but this one did.
Yeah, I mean, I'd read the script. I was like, Jake McCants, that's the guy I'd like to, you know. And I go in and I had that meeting, and I did plan it. It's one of those things, those plans that kind of went well. I have to say I've been fortunate a few times where some ideal plans where I'm going to lay down the snafu or the bait that have worked out. Many of them haven't, but this one did.
Yeah, I mean, I'd read the script. I was like, Jake McCants, that's the guy I'd like to, you know. And I go in and I had that meeting, and I did plan it. It's one of those things, those plans that kind of went well. I have to say I've been fortunate a few times where some ideal plans where I'm going to lay down the snafu or the bait that have worked out. Many of them haven't, but this one did.
And after, I remember I was wearing a John Mellencamp sleeveless T-shirt, man. Smoking cigarettes. I'm laying back and he's like, we've agreed. I've got the part of the Klansman. We're all set. And I said, so who's playing the lead of Jake McGann? And he says, I don't know. Who do you think should? I think I should.
And after, I remember I was wearing a John Mellencamp sleeveless T-shirt, man. Smoking cigarettes. I'm laying back and he's like, we've agreed. I've got the part of the Klansman. We're all set. And I said, so who's playing the lead of Jake McGann? And he says, I don't know. Who do you think should? I think I should.
And after, I remember I was wearing a John Mellencamp sleeveless T-shirt, man. Smoking cigarettes. I'm laying back and he's like, we've agreed. I've got the part of the Klansman. We're all set. And I said, so who's playing the lead of Jake McGann? And he says, I don't know. Who do you think should? I think I should.
It planted a seed, though. And as you read, a lot of things went my way. Sandra Bullock, who was already cast while you were sleeping, really made a lot of money. All of a sudden, I think she could green light a movie. Where when she was cast, I don't think she was able to. John Grisham wouldn't approve my buddy Woody Harrelson. It's crazy. You know why? You hear this crazy stuff, man?
It planted a seed, though. And as you read, a lot of things went my way. Sandra Bullock, who was already cast while you were sleeping, really made a lot of money. All of a sudden, I think she could green light a movie. Where when she was cast, I don't think she was able to. John Grisham wouldn't approve my buddy Woody Harrelson. It's crazy. You know why? You hear this crazy stuff, man?
It planted a seed, though. And as you read, a lot of things went my way. Sandra Bullock, who was already cast while you were sleeping, really made a lot of money. All of a sudden, I think she could green light a movie. Where when she was cast, I don't think she was able to. John Grisham wouldn't approve my buddy Woody Harrelson. It's crazy. You know why? You hear this crazy stuff, man?
She was like, get out of here. So I loaded up the truck and headed off to Marford for 20 days with those, which was intimidating. But then when I did turn it in to declare.
She was like, get out of here. So I loaded up the truck and headed off to Marford for 20 days with those, which was intimidating. But then when I did turn it in to declare.
She was like, get out of here. So I loaded up the truck and headed off to Marford for 20 days with those, which was intimidating. But then when I did turn it in to declare.
So Oliver Stone, remember that time? I don't know if you remember that time. Oliver Stone and John Grisham were having a...
So Oliver Stone, remember that time? I don't know if you remember that time. Oliver Stone and John Grisham were having a...
So Oliver Stone, remember that time? I don't know if you remember that time. Oliver Stone and John Grisham were having a...
battle evidently there was a killing of a farmer in mississippi i think excuse me i don't get the details right and it was a murder by a young man a young woman and they said they were enacting the mickey mallory from natural point killers all right the farmer john grisham's was good friends with John Grissom deconstructs, has approval over the roles. Well, that guy's not playing me.
battle evidently there was a killing of a farmer in mississippi i think excuse me i don't get the details right and it was a murder by a young man a young woman and they said they were enacting the mickey mallory from natural point killers all right the farmer john grisham's was good friends with John Grissom deconstructs, has approval over the roles. Well, that guy's not playing me.
battle evidently there was a killing of a farmer in mississippi i think excuse me i don't get the details right and it was a murder by a young man a young woman and they said they were enacting the mickey mallory from natural point killers all right the farmer john grisham's was good friends with John Grissom deconstructs, has approval over the roles. Well, that guy's not playing me.
You know? So odd things opened up, and then the timing was right, and all of a sudden, the movie's going, the last thing to cast is the lead. They got Carly Haley, they got Sam Jackson, they got Sandra, everything's looking good. Well, maybe we'll take a chance on this more relatively unknown guy. And Schumacher does me a real solid. I remember it was either Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
You know? So odd things opened up, and then the timing was right, and all of a sudden, the movie's going, the last thing to cast is the lead. They got Carly Haley, they got Sam Jackson, they got Sandra, everything's looking good. Well, maybe we'll take a chance on this more relatively unknown guy. And Schumacher does me a real solid. I remember it was either Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
You know? So odd things opened up, and then the timing was right, and all of a sudden, the movie's going, the last thing to cast is the lead. They got Carly Haley, they got Sam Jackson, they got Sandra, everything's looking good. Well, maybe we'll take a chance on this more relatively unknown guy. And Schumacher does me a real solid. I remember it was either Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
I can't remember, but it was a Sunday. And they flew me to LA and he said, we're going to shoot in this little studio on Fairfax.
I can't remember, but it was a Sunday. And they flew me to LA and he said, we're going to shoot in this little studio on Fairfax.
I can't remember, but it was a Sunday. And they flew me to LA and he said, we're going to shoot in this little studio on Fairfax.
Was it Mother's Day? Yeah. Okay. We're going to shoot. It's a pretty good day to malaprop one or the other. Valentine's, Mother's Day. Love you, Mom. You called your mom that morning. So we go on Fairfax and he says, the reason we're not shooting in a studio is is because no matter how good you do, you're probably not getting this part.
Was it Mother's Day? Yeah. Okay. We're going to shoot. It's a pretty good day to malaprop one or the other. Valentine's, Mother's Day. Love you, Mom. You called your mom that morning. So we go on Fairfax and he says, the reason we're not shooting in a studio is is because no matter how good you do, you're probably not getting this part.
Was it Mother's Day? Yeah. Okay. We're going to shoot. It's a pretty good day to malaprop one or the other. Valentine's, Mother's Day. Love you, Mom. You called your mom that morning. So we go on Fairfax and he says, the reason we're not shooting in a studio is is because no matter how good you do, you're probably not getting this part.
And I don't want it to be on your record or resume of try it out and didn't get it. It's not a good way for you to get started in Hollywood.
And I don't want it to be on your record or resume of try it out and didn't get it. It's not a good way for you to get started in Hollywood.
And I don't want it to be on your record or resume of try it out and didn't get it. It's not a good way for you to get started in Hollywood.
Now, being a writer. Yeah. It's a big thing. I can't dance around this thing. You can't kind of put lipstick on it and call it a thoroughbred if it's a donkey, right? Yeah, for sure. You put it there. I mean, I felt like it was something. Right. But I didn't know if it was going to translate, if anyone else was going to go. Dude, that's your own pipe dream. Totally. I don't get it.
Now, being a writer. Yeah. It's a big thing. I can't dance around this thing. You can't kind of put lipstick on it and call it a thoroughbred if it's a donkey, right? Yeah, for sure. You put it there. I mean, I felt like it was something. Right. But I didn't know if it was going to translate, if anyone else was going to go. Dude, that's your own pipe dream. Totally. I don't get it.
Now, being a writer. Yeah. It's a big thing. I can't dance around this thing. You can't kind of put lipstick on it and call it a thoroughbred if it's a donkey, right? Yeah, for sure. You put it there. I mean, I felt like it was something. Right. But I didn't know if it was going to translate, if anyone else was going to go. Dude, that's your own pipe dream. Totally. I don't get it.
Cool as shit. That is really thoughtful. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And it worked out. But that was a little, I planted a seed that day that did, I think, help for it to end up to pay off when I was in there and that audition said, I think I should.
Cool as shit. That is really thoughtful. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And it worked out. But that was a little, I planted a seed that day that did, I think, help for it to end up to pay off when I was in there and that audition said, I think I should.
Cool as shit. That is really thoughtful. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And it worked out. But that was a little, I planted a seed that day that did, I think, help for it to end up to pay off when I was in there and that audition said, I think I should.
Yeah. So the best directors say yes. It puts fuel on your fire. Yeah. The best directors, you want the actor, you want the talent to own their stuff. You want them to believe it's their idea. We all want it to feel like it's our idea. Sure. I say one thing when I go and meet directors now, and I just say it a lot. I'm easy to direct. Just don't tell me what to do.
Yeah. So the best directors say yes. It puts fuel on your fire. Yeah. The best directors, you want the actor, you want the talent to own their stuff. You want them to believe it's their idea. We all want it to feel like it's our idea. Sure. I say one thing when I go and meet directors now, and I just say it a lot. I'm easy to direct. Just don't tell me what to do.
Yeah. So the best directors say yes. It puts fuel on your fire. Yeah. The best directors, you want the actor, you want the talent to own their stuff. You want them to believe it's their idea. We all want it to feel like it's our idea. Sure. I say one thing when I go and meet directors now, and I just say it a lot. I'm easy to direct. Just don't tell me what to do.
That's great. But I love it when you manipulate me and make me think it's my idea, but it was really yours. I'm quietly going, bravo.
That's great. But I love it when you manipulate me and make me think it's my idea, but it was really yours. I'm quietly going, bravo.
That's great. But I love it when you manipulate me and make me think it's my idea, but it was really yours. I'm quietly going, bravo.
I saw that, but I'm not calling it out. Yeah. But I caught that. I love that. Yeah. Trick me, bro.
I saw that, but I'm not calling it out. Yeah. But I caught that. I love that. Yeah. Trick me, bro.
I saw that, but I'm not calling it out. Yeah. But I caught that. I love that. Yeah. Trick me, bro.
It's simple. I'm letting you know. I'm easy prey, man. Like a coyote. Tell me to go that way, I'm going to go that way. So just tell me you want me to go the opposite way.
It's simple. I'm letting you know. I'm easy prey, man. Like a coyote. Tell me to go that way, I'm going to go that way. So just tell me you want me to go the opposite way.
It's simple. I'm letting you know. I'm easy prey, man. Like a coyote. Tell me to go that way, I'm going to go that way. So just tell me you want me to go the opposite way.
I'll fall right into your hands.
I'll fall right into your hands.
I'll fall right into your hands.
Well, to one is a lot of directors... If things are going well and your actors, you know, and it's going, the performances are going well, have the confidence to sit back and go, yep, next. Because we get hot hands sometimes. Yeah. And you don't want a director and you also don't want an actor that's competing for the best idea.
Well, to one is a lot of directors... If things are going well and your actors, you know, and it's going, the performances are going well, have the confidence to sit back and go, yep, next. Because we get hot hands sometimes. Yeah. And you don't want a director and you also don't want an actor that's competing for the best idea.
Well, to one is a lot of directors... If things are going well and your actors, you know, and it's going, the performances are going well, have the confidence to sit back and go, yep, next. Because we get hot hands sometimes. Yeah. And you don't want a director and you also don't want an actor that's competing for the best idea.
It happens in those, probably in those situations. Some of those green rooms, right? For sure. You know, because I've been around some of those. There's competition for the best idea. And when you've got the hot hand and you've had the best six ideas in a row on a set when you're acting as a director, I want you to have the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 40th in a row.
It happens in those, probably in those situations. Some of those green rooms, right? For sure. You know, because I've been around some of those. There's competition for the best idea. And when you've got the hot hand and you've had the best six ideas in a row on a set when you're acting as a director, I want you to have the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 40th in a row.
It happens in those, probably in those situations. Some of those green rooms, right? For sure. You know, because I've been around some of those. There's competition for the best idea. And when you've got the hot hand and you've had the best six ideas in a row on a set when you're acting as a director, I want you to have the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 40th in a row.
You're hot, man. Yeah, go. You're getting me what I want and you're owning it. Let's do it.
You're hot, man. Yeah, go. You're getting me what I want and you're owning it. Let's do it.
You're hot, man. Yeah, go. You're getting me what I want and you're owning it. Let's do it.
If the director will try my way or try the way I want to do it and sincerely go, I see that. Now we try it this way. I'm much more able to go, damn right I will, and I'm going to give this real justice. I'm not worried that it's my idea. We just want the best idea to happen. Sure.
If the director will try my way or try the way I want to do it and sincerely go, I see that. Now we try it this way. I'm much more able to go, damn right I will, and I'm going to give this real justice. I'm not worried that it's my idea. We just want the best idea to happen. Sure.
If the director will try my way or try the way I want to do it and sincerely go, I see that. Now we try it this way. I'm much more able to go, damn right I will, and I'm going to give this real justice. I'm not worried that it's my idea. We just want the best idea to happen. Sure.
The other thing is that when you're in a movie, I always say this, the communication with the director is what you do between action and cut. It's not what you say outside of it. Here's what I think we want to do in the scene. All that can be great to get there, but really your communication is what you do between action and cut.
The other thing is that when you're in a movie, I always say this, the communication with the director is what you do between action and cut. It's not what you say outside of it. Here's what I think we want to do in the scene. All that can be great to get there, but really your communication is what you do between action and cut.
The other thing is that when you're in a movie, I always say this, the communication with the director is what you do between action and cut. It's not what you say outside of it. Here's what I think we want to do in the scene. All that can be great to get there, but really your communication is what you do between action and cut.
And the best thing that can happen is when you have an idea what you want to do in a scene. You don't say it to anybody. Then you do the scene. And they come back and you go, you know why I love that? Here's what I got from the scene. And they go, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. And you pull your paper out of your pocket and you go, that's exactly what I wrote.
And the best thing that can happen is when you have an idea what you want to do in a scene. You don't say it to anybody. Then you do the scene. And they come back and you go, you know why I love that? Here's what I got from the scene. And they go, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. And you pull your paper out of your pocket and you go, that's exactly what I wrote.
And the best thing that can happen is when you have an idea what you want to do in a scene. You don't say it to anybody. Then you do the scene. And they come back and you go, you know why I love that? Here's what I got from the scene. And they go, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. And you pull your paper out of your pocket and you go, that's exactly what I wrote.
I wrote down what I wanted to do, what I wanted to hopefully come across. You just said, and there it is. I had written it down beforehand. That's kind of a kismet moment when that can happen. Yeah. So I think no. No, you know, I don't like the word no. Best Directors started off with this with Linkletter. You know, listen, we call it verbal ping pong.
I wrote down what I wanted to do, what I wanted to hopefully come across. You just said, and there it is. I had written it down beforehand. That's kind of a kismet moment when that can happen. Yeah. So I think no. No, you know, I don't like the word no. Best Directors started off with this with Linkletter. You know, listen, we call it verbal ping pong.
I wrote down what I wanted to do, what I wanted to hopefully come across. You just said, and there it is. I had written it down beforehand. That's kind of a kismet moment when that can happen. Yeah. So I think no. No, you know, I don't like the word no. Best Directors started off with this with Linkletter. You know, listen, we call it verbal ping pong.
But it's a forward-moving process. You're figuring out. And he's directing me, redirecting me through the give and the take and the flow of the creative, but never going, no. Not that. Boom. Axles will go, whoa, you just gave me a red light. Yeah. You just stunted my growth. My creativity just stopped. Now anything you tell me to do after this, it's your idea, not mine. Come on, man.
But it's a forward-moving process. You're figuring out. And he's directing me, redirecting me through the give and the take and the flow of the creative, but never going, no. Not that. Boom. Axles will go, whoa, you just gave me a red light. Yeah. You just stunted my growth. My creativity just stopped. Now anything you tell me to do after this, it's your idea, not mine. Come on, man.
But it's a forward-moving process. You're figuring out. And he's directing me, redirecting me through the give and the take and the flow of the creative, but never going, no. Not that. Boom. Axles will go, whoa, you just gave me a red light. Yeah. You just stunted my growth. My creativity just stopped. Now anything you tell me to do after this, it's your idea, not mine. Come on, man.
I can operate independently, but I like approval of it. Because there's times where, and I've tried to close these gaps, meaning there's what we intend to do, there's what we actually do, there's what gets recorded, and there's what gets edited. Trying to close all those gaps.
I can operate independently, but I like approval of it. Because there's times where, and I've tried to close these gaps, meaning there's what we intend to do, there's what we actually do, there's what gets recorded, and there's what gets edited. Trying to close all those gaps.
I can operate independently, but I like approval of it. Because there's times where, and I've tried to close these gaps, meaning there's what we intend to do, there's what we actually do, there's what gets recorded, and there's what gets edited. Trying to close all those gaps.
And over 35 years, I have been able to close the gaps where what I'm wanting to do is pretty close to what I'm doing, which is pretty close to what's getting recorded. Hopefully what's going to get edited. Yeah. But sometimes it's not. And I need that director to go, come here. I know what you're trying to do, but come look at it.
And over 35 years, I have been able to close the gaps where what I'm wanting to do is pretty close to what I'm doing, which is pretty close to what's getting recorded. Hopefully what's going to get edited. Yeah. But sometimes it's not. And I need that director to go, come here. I know what you're trying to do, but come look at it.
And over 35 years, I have been able to close the gaps where what I'm wanting to do is pretty close to what I'm doing, which is pretty close to what's getting recorded. Hopefully what's going to get edited. Yeah. But sometimes it's not. And I need that director to go, come here. I know what you're trying to do, but come look at it.
And I'll watch the scene and go, oh, that's not what's coming across. Gotcha. Maybe that's the angle. Maybe that's me. But sometimes there's a larger gap. Here's what I thought I was doing. Maybe it was, but it's not captured. Or maybe what you thought you were doing is not actually what you were doing.
And I'll watch the scene and go, oh, that's not what's coming across. Gotcha. Maybe that's the angle. Maybe that's me. But sometimes there's a larger gap. Here's what I thought I was doing. Maybe it was, but it's not captured. Or maybe what you thought you were doing is not actually what you were doing.
And I'll watch the scene and go, oh, that's not what's coming across. Gotcha. Maybe that's the angle. Maybe that's me. But sometimes there's a larger gap. Here's what I thought I was doing. Maybe it was, but it's not captured. Or maybe what you thought you were doing is not actually what you were doing.
Loves funny. Really? So... And nonverbal. I don't think he gave me any direction that had an English word in it. Really? No. It's musical. Everything's musical.
Loves funny. Really? So... And nonverbal. I don't think he gave me any direction that had an English word in it. Really? No. It's musical. Everything's musical.
Loves funny. Really? So... And nonverbal. I don't think he gave me any direction that had an English word in it. Really? No. It's musical. Everything's musical.
Musical and funny, and to see his little shoulders start bouncing when he's laughing is just beautiful.
Musical and funny, and to see his little shoulders start bouncing when he's laughing is just beautiful.
Musical and funny, and to see his little shoulders start bouncing when he's laughing is just beautiful.
So, you know, I go in, I wrote a lot of extra stuff in that scene in there, and that character had a launchpad line. That character who says to Leonardo's character, when Leonardo says, what's the secret of this business? There was a line written in the script that said, Cocaine and hookers. And I just went, okay, is this guy being funny? Or does he really believe that?
So, you know, I go in, I wrote a lot of extra stuff in that scene in there, and that character had a launchpad line. That character who says to Leonardo's character, when Leonardo says, what's the secret of this business? There was a line written in the script that said, Cocaine and hookers. And I just went, okay, is this guy being funny? Or does he really believe that?
So, you know, I go in, I wrote a lot of extra stuff in that scene in there, and that character had a launchpad line. That character who says to Leonardo's character, when Leonardo says, what's the secret of this business? There was a line written in the script that said, Cocaine and hookers. And I just went, okay, is this guy being funny? Or does he really believe that?
What if the guy really believes that the secret to this brokering business is cocaine and hookers? We can unpack that and write a book, right? Yeah. Why cocaine? Why hookers? What do all these things do? Which led to, you know, jerking off. And how many times a day? Rookie numbers. Don't want too much travel. Need more bass. All that stuff. Bullshit that I was spewing.
What if the guy really believes that the secret to this brokering business is cocaine and hookers? We can unpack that and write a book, right? Yeah. Why cocaine? Why hookers? What do all these things do? Which led to, you know, jerking off. And how many times a day? Rookie numbers. Don't want too much travel. Need more bass. All that stuff. Bullshit that I was spewing.
What if the guy really believes that the secret to this brokering business is cocaine and hookers? We can unpack that and write a book, right? Yeah. Why cocaine? Why hookers? What do all these things do? Which led to, you know, jerking off. And how many times a day? Rookie numbers. Don't want too much travel. Need more bass. All that stuff. Bullshit that I was spewing.
And I remember- It was just so funny. It was so fun to do. Thank you. It was super fun to do. And I went in. Sometimes I'll just go like, let's just do it live. I'm going to introduce it on the day. Sometimes I don't have the balls for that. And I'm like, I might want to run this by. Yeah.
And I remember- It was just so funny. It was so fun to do. Thank you. It was super fun to do. And I went in. Sometimes I'll just go like, let's just do it live. I'm going to introduce it on the day. Sometimes I don't have the balls for that. And I'm like, I might want to run this by. Yeah.
And I remember- It was just so funny. It was so fun to do. Thank you. It was super fun to do. And I went in. Sometimes I'll just go like, let's just do it live. I'm going to introduce it on the day. Sometimes I don't have the balls for that. And I'm like, I might want to run this by. Yeah.
So it was the day before. I said, listen, I've been playing with this scene and extended it, but I think it's like, yeah, we'll do it. And I did it. And I was like, those are the times like you better do it well.
So it was the day before. I said, listen, I've been playing with this scene and extended it, but I think it's like, yeah, we'll do it. And I did it. And I was like, those are the times like you better do it well.
So it was the day before. I said, listen, I've been playing with this scene and extended it, but I think it's like, yeah, we'll do it. And I did it. And I was like, those are the times like you better do it well.
But you go back and... Watch the same thing. You're watching the same thing.
But you go back and... Watch the same thing. You're watching the same thing.
But you go back and... Watch the same thing. You're watching the same thing.
Because if you don't, they're going to go, no. And you can't bring them back, reel them back in the next day when you're live, right?
Because if you don't, they're going to go, no. And you can't bring them back, reel them back in the next day when you're live, right?
Because if you don't, they're going to go, no. And you can't bring them back, reel them back in the next day when you're live, right?
So I did it. Well, he was sitting there kind of laughing. And I remember he just goes, did you say the thing about the thing? I went, yes, I did. He goes, did you say the thing about there were two points he wanted to hit? Did you say the other thing about the thing? I said, yeah. He goes, okay, great, do that. And the next day he went out and did it.
So I did it. Well, he was sitting there kind of laughing. And I remember he just goes, did you say the thing about the thing? I went, yes, I did. He goes, did you say the thing about there were two points he wanted to hit? Did you say the other thing about the thing? I said, yeah. He goes, okay, great, do that. And the next day he went out and did it.
So I did it. Well, he was sitting there kind of laughing. And I remember he just goes, did you say the thing about the thing? I went, yes, I did. He goes, did you say the thing about there were two points he wanted to hit? Did you say the other thing about the thing? I said, yeah. He goes, okay, great, do that. And the next day he went out and did it.
And I tell the story all the time, but we were five takes, got it, moving on. And Leonardo goes, hang on, Marty. And he goes, what's that thing to me? He goes, what's that thing you're doing before the scene? Because I was doing the... And it was a thing I do before scenes in different rhythms to relax. Get myself out of my head. Find the rhythm. You don't want to come in thinking, right?
And I tell the story all the time, but we were five takes, got it, moving on. And Leonardo goes, hang on, Marty. And he goes, what's that thing to me? He goes, what's that thing you're doing before the scene? Because I was doing the... And it was a thing I do before scenes in different rhythms to relax. Get myself out of my head. Find the rhythm. You don't want to come in thinking, right?
And I tell the story all the time, but we were five takes, got it, moving on. And Leonardo goes, hang on, Marty. And he goes, what's that thing to me? He goes, what's that thing you're doing before the scene? Because I was doing the... And it was a thing I do before scenes in different rhythms to relax. Get myself out of my head. Find the rhythm. You don't want to come in thinking, right?
I'm stepping into a Scorsese movie. I'm a one-day worker, two-day worker. I got nerves. It helps get rid of anxiety. It also... Helps the crew go, what's the fucking weirdo doing? Which is good. Puts you in an underdog situation. Fight out of it, right?
I'm stepping into a Scorsese movie. I'm a one-day worker, two-day worker. I got nerves. It helps get rid of anxiety. It also... Helps the crew go, what's the fucking weirdo doing? Which is good. Puts you in an underdog situation. Fight out of it, right?
I'm stepping into a Scorsese movie. I'm a one-day worker, two-day worker. I got nerves. It helps get rid of anxiety. It also... Helps the crew go, what's the fucking weirdo doing? Which is good. Puts you in an underdog situation. Fight out of it, right?
It's a good feeling. So I'm going to, good. They're not sure, so I've got to really make this count. And I sold him. That's what I'm doing it for. He goes, what if you do that in the scene? In the next takes, which is in the movie. That's awesome.
It's a good feeling. So I'm going to, good. They're not sure, so I've got to really make this count. And I sold him. That's what I'm doing it for. He goes, what if you do that in the scene? In the next takes, which is in the movie. That's awesome.
It's a good feeling. So I'm going to, good. They're not sure, so I've got to really make this count. And I sold him. That's what I'm doing it for. He goes, what if you do that in the scene? In the next takes, which is in the movie. That's awesome.
It's kind of a compliment. And the way I was talking about the director about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but how about this? They're stealing. And it's an honor to kind of be stolen from. And you want to steal. And then also still, that was a version of Leonardo giving. That's very giving, yeah. He goes, that thing, I don't know what it is, but this is a wild scene. This is a wild kick.
It's kind of a compliment. And the way I was talking about the director about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but how about this? They're stealing. And it's an honor to kind of be stolen from. And you want to steal. And then also still, that was a version of Leonardo giving. That's very giving, yeah. He goes, that thing, I don't know what it is, but this is a wild scene. This is a wild kick.
It's kind of a compliment. And the way I was talking about the director about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but how about this? They're stealing. And it's an honor to kind of be stolen from. And you want to steal. And then also still, that was a version of Leonardo giving. That's very giving, yeah. He goes, that thing, I don't know what it is, but this is a wild scene. This is a wild kick.
You put that in. So we just, how it fell in, it fell in. And then he sat over there very easy. I mean, he's playing it. Listen, trying to get on the groove. What's he talking about? Yeah, I think I understand. Or do I? I'm not sure, you know? And a lot of times, yeah, you will have people in that position that may go, dude, I don't like this.
You put that in. So we just, how it fell in, it fell in. And then he sat over there very easy. I mean, he's playing it. Listen, trying to get on the groove. What's he talking about? Yeah, I think I understand. Or do I? I'm not sure, you know? And a lot of times, yeah, you will have people in that position that may go, dude, I don't like this.
You put that in. So we just, how it fell in, it fell in. And then he sat over there very easy. I mean, he's playing it. Listen, trying to get on the groove. What's he talking about? Yeah, I think I understand. Or do I? I'm not sure, you know? And a lot of times, yeah, you will have people in that position that may go, dude, I don't like this.
They will think I'm losing this scene or I'm getting shown up in this scene. Really confident actor's not gonna feel that way. Look, confident actor's gonna go, I've got plenty to do. This is great. Let me put fuel on this fire. This makes the movie better maybe. This is a great scene.
They will think I'm losing this scene or I'm getting shown up in this scene. Really confident actor's not gonna feel that way. Look, confident actor's gonna go, I've got plenty to do. This is great. Let me put fuel on this fire. This makes the movie better maybe. This is a great scene.
They will think I'm losing this scene or I'm getting shown up in this scene. Really confident actor's not gonna feel that way. Look, confident actor's gonna go, I've got plenty to do. This is great. Let me put fuel on this fire. This makes the movie better maybe. This is a great scene.
Trying to get from the reason to the rhyme. Because you go study, you prepare. It's reason. You want to know what you're saying. I think words are important. But by the time you show up, you kind of want to hopefully chunk all that shit out of the way and get out. I don't want to get nonverbal now, man. Let's get into the...
Trying to get from the reason to the rhyme. Because you go study, you prepare. It's reason. You want to know what you're saying. I think words are important. But by the time you show up, you kind of want to hopefully chunk all that shit out of the way and get out. I don't want to get nonverbal now, man. Let's get into the...
Trying to get from the reason to the rhyme. Because you go study, you prepare. It's reason. You want to know what you're saying. I think words are important. But by the time you show up, you kind of want to hopefully chunk all that shit out of the way and get out. I don't want to get nonverbal now, man. Let's get into the...
Let's get into the rhyme and let's get into the ether here and get this thing off. Let's levitate.
Let's get into the rhyme and let's get into the ether here and get this thing off. Let's levitate.
Let's get into the rhyme and let's get into the ether here and get this thing off. Let's levitate.
You were just doing a Speedo ad out there.
You were just doing a Speedo ad out there.
You were just doing a Speedo ad out there.
Then I hope so. I don't want to, you know.
Then I hope so. I don't want to, you know.
Then I hope so. I don't want to, you know.
Astral?
Astral?
Astral?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. And some things would go on late night over there.
Yes. And some things would go on late night over there.
Yes. And some things would go on late night over there.
Yeah. I mean, look, every performance I see. I really don't see... I don't think I'm fair about any performances of mine in the movies until about the third or fourth viewing.
Yeah. I mean, look, every performance I see. I really don't see... I don't think I'm fair about any performances of mine in the movies until about the third or fourth viewing.
Yeah. I mean, look, every performance I see. I really don't see... I don't think I'm fair about any performances of mine in the movies until about the third or fourth viewing.
Yeah, the first viewing, in every film I've ever done, I physically have gotten sick in the parking lot. And I think it's partially... You know, one scene, a full week comes rushing back. Yeah. And I'm like, why did you just take four? Oh, the second half, take eight. I moved that morning. I didn't... Or, you know, so I'm not really laid back watching the story.
Yeah, the first viewing, in every film I've ever done, I physically have gotten sick in the parking lot. And I think it's partially... You know, one scene, a full week comes rushing back. Yeah. And I'm like, why did you just take four? Oh, the second half, take eight. I moved that morning. I didn't... Or, you know, so I'm not really laid back watching the story.
Yeah, the first viewing, in every film I've ever done, I physically have gotten sick in the parking lot. And I think it's partially... You know, one scene, a full week comes rushing back. Yeah. And I'm like, why did you just take four? Oh, the second half, take eight. I moved that morning. I didn't... Or, you know, so I'm not really laid back watching the story.
I remember this. The little gate had some steps up and it plateaued out and there was this thing. Yeah.
I remember this. The little gate had some steps up and it plateaued out and there was this thing. Yeah.
I remember this. The little gate had some steps up and it plateaued out and there was this thing. Yeah.
I remember that. Yeah. I, I, I mean, they played some pretty good music. You could tell it was a good time to have it. I figured it was time to, you know, if I was already feeling corny, to keep the circus going.
I remember that. Yeah. I, I, I mean, they played some pretty good music. You could tell it was a good time to have it. I figured it was time to, you know, if I was already feeling corny, to keep the circus going.
I remember that. Yeah. I, I, I mean, they played some pretty good music. You could tell it was a good time to have it. I figured it was time to, you know, if I was already feeling corny, to keep the circus going.
Yeah, it was. I never knew.
Yeah, it was. I never knew.
Yeah, it was. I never knew.
I never got to know that neighbor well.
I never got to know that neighbor well.
I never got to know that neighbor well.
The tennis coach probably knows all his stories.
The tennis coach probably knows all his stories.
The tennis coach probably knows all his stories.
So let me tell you this.
So let me tell you this.
So let me tell you this.
I mean, I honestly... what's in that book I honestly hope he can live through that much or even more if he wants there's stories that are not in that book that are the ones that I are the reason I wear a mouth guard at night because I wake up wake up at the exact second where I go back and I remember and I was like oh I almost died right there none of those that I almost died
I mean, I honestly... what's in that book I honestly hope he can live through that much or even more if he wants there's stories that are not in that book that are the ones that I are the reason I wear a mouth guard at night because I wake up wake up at the exact second where I go back and I remember and I was like oh I almost died right there none of those that I almost died
I mean, I honestly... what's in that book I honestly hope he can live through that much or even more if he wants there's stories that are not in that book that are the ones that I are the reason I wear a mouth guard at night because I wake up wake up at the exact second where I go back and I remember and I was like oh I almost died right there none of those that I almost died
And so those, I've got a few circumstances that I would not want my son to live through. Those, no, man, I mean, look, there's things I made it through. The beauty of ignorance, God bless ignorance. Cheers.
And so those, I've got a few circumstances that I would not want my son to live through. Those, no, man, I mean, look, there's things I made it through. The beauty of ignorance, God bless ignorance. Cheers.
And so those, I've got a few circumstances that I would not want my son to live through. Those, no, man, I mean, look, there's things I made it through. The beauty of ignorance, God bless ignorance. Cheers.
You know? Cheers, here. Yes, man.
You know? Cheers, here. Yes, man.
You know? Cheers, here. Yes, man.
So there's things. Oh, that's good. That I survived because I didn't know better, thank goodness. But most of those stories in that book that I went through, I would not go back in my own life and say, ooh, if I could get rid of that, I wouldn't have to do it. And I wouldn't... You know, it's part of... Our kids are living a more affluent life than I was.
So there's things. Oh, that's good. That I survived because I didn't know better, thank goodness. But most of those stories in that book that I went through, I would not go back in my own life and say, ooh, if I could get rid of that, I wouldn't have to do it. And I wouldn't... You know, it's part of... Our kids are living a more affluent life than I was.
So there's things. Oh, that's good. That I survived because I didn't know better, thank goodness. But most of those stories in that book that I went through, I would not go back in my own life and say, ooh, if I could get rid of that, I wouldn't have to do it. And I wouldn't... You know, it's part of... Our kids are living a more affluent life than I was.
That doesn't mean they don't or can't have the experiences that I had. Um... I don't want them to fall under prey to any kind of entitlement. And part of not doing that in life is having to be in situations where you have no safety net. You're like, I've got my own devices, man. How am I going to roll here? How am I getting out? How am I getting what I want? How am I going to survive?
That doesn't mean they don't or can't have the experiences that I had. Um... I don't want them to fall under prey to any kind of entitlement. And part of not doing that in life is having to be in situations where you have no safety net. You're like, I've got my own devices, man. How am I going to roll here? How am I getting out? How am I getting what I want? How am I going to survive?
That doesn't mean they don't or can't have the experiences that I had. Um... I don't want them to fall under prey to any kind of entitlement. And part of not doing that in life is having to be in situations where you have no safety net. You're like, I've got my own devices, man. How am I going to roll here? How am I getting out? How am I getting what I want? How am I going to survive?
I'm micromanaging my performance and everybody else's. And I get out of a two-hour screening, I'm sweating. It was a workout.
I'm micromanaging my performance and everybody else's. And I get out of a two-hour screening, I'm sweating. It was a workout.
I'm micromanaging my performance and everybody else's. And I get out of a two-hour screening, I'm sweating. It was a workout.
How am I not going to go crazy? How am I going to go crazy and out endure the craze? How am I going to go wing it? How am I going to know better? I want my son to be in those situations. And I was in a lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of the success, I engineered. A lot of it, didn't engineer at all. It was divine invention, something I can't make the math of.
How am I not going to go crazy? How am I going to go crazy and out endure the craze? How am I going to go wing it? How am I going to know better? I want my son to be in those situations. And I was in a lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of the success, I engineered. A lot of it, didn't engineer at all. It was divine invention, something I can't make the math of.
How am I not going to go crazy? How am I going to go crazy and out endure the craze? How am I going to go wing it? How am I going to know better? I want my son to be in those situations. And I was in a lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of the success, I engineered. A lot of it, didn't engineer at all. It was divine invention, something I can't make the math of.
Look, you might be right. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I sure don't think you're wrong. Do I think that's necessary? No. Do I think, do I try as a father and his mother as well to not make things harder? But to go, no, you've got to earn that. I'm not handing that to you. There's initiations and there's rites of passage. You've got to skin your knees.
Look, you might be right. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I sure don't think you're wrong. Do I think that's necessary? No. Do I think, do I try as a father and his mother as well to not make things harder? But to go, no, you've got to earn that. I'm not handing that to you. There's initiations and there's rites of passage. You've got to skin your knees.
Look, you might be right. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I sure don't think you're wrong. Do I think that's necessary? No. Do I think, do I try as a father and his mother as well to not make things harder? But to go, no, you've got to earn that. I'm not handing that to you. There's initiations and there's rites of passage. You've got to skin your knees.
I'm not really kicking back watching a movie, but...
I'm not really kicking back watching a movie, but...
I'm not really kicking back watching a movie, but...
If you pull it off the first time, bravo. But if you skin your knees a few times on the way, bravo. I'm not giving you the pass to the door. We like to say, look, you're going to get access. More access. You're gonna get more access with us. I have no problem getting you in a door. Right. Once you're in that door, bro, it's on you.
If you pull it off the first time, bravo. But if you skin your knees a few times on the way, bravo. I'm not giving you the pass to the door. We like to say, look, you're going to get access. More access. You're gonna get more access with us. I have no problem getting you in a door. Right. Once you're in that door, bro, it's on you.
If you pull it off the first time, bravo. But if you skin your knees a few times on the way, bravo. I'm not giving you the pass to the door. We like to say, look, you're going to get access. More access. You're gonna get more access with us. I have no problem getting you in a door. Right. Once you're in that door, bro, it's on you.
second third or fourth time i could sit back and watch it it's kind of like watching any coen brothers movie for me and i've never been in a coen brothers movie but my favorite music coen brothers movie is about the fourth time because you pick up all the great genius background stuff yeah yeah had a carrot you know oh the line in raising arizona we are in the proverbial catbird seat i'm my fucking favorite line in any movie didn't catch it until my eighth time watching it and i went to my wife what is that she goes catbird he's on cat birds he's blowing funny shapes that one
second third or fourth time i could sit back and watch it it's kind of like watching any coen brothers movie for me and i've never been in a coen brothers movie but my favorite music coen brothers movie is about the fourth time because you pick up all the great genius background stuff yeah yeah had a carrot you know oh the line in raising arizona we are in the proverbial catbird seat i'm my fucking favorite line in any movie didn't catch it until my eighth time watching it and i went to my wife what is that she goes catbird he's on cat birds he's blowing funny shapes that one
second third or fourth time i could sit back and watch it it's kind of like watching any coen brothers movie for me and i've never been in a coen brothers movie but my favorite music coen brothers movie is about the fourth time because you pick up all the great genius background stuff yeah yeah had a carrot you know oh the line in raising arizona we are in the proverbial catbird seat i'm my fucking favorite line in any movie didn't catch it until my eighth time watching it and i went to my wife what is that she goes catbird he's on cat birds he's blowing funny shapes that one
So don't embarrass yourself and handle it and show up on the other side. Let's see where the rubber hits the road. So yeah, they're getting a little quicker access to certain things and say, I did, sure. But we're doing our best to make sure they earn it. Whatever that is, I don't think you got a proverbial bleed to make it count. Trip yourself running downhill when things are going well.
So don't embarrass yourself and handle it and show up on the other side. Let's see where the rubber hits the road. So yeah, they're getting a little quicker access to certain things and say, I did, sure. But we're doing our best to make sure they earn it. Whatever that is, I don't think you got a proverbial bleed to make it count. Trip yourself running downhill when things are going well.
So don't embarrass yourself and handle it and show up on the other side. Let's see where the rubber hits the road. So yeah, they're getting a little quicker access to certain things and say, I did, sure. But we're doing our best to make sure they earn it. Whatever that is, I don't think you got a proverbial bleed to make it count. Trip yourself running downhill when things are going well.
Base plant for the hell of it. It's a great chapter. I still battle with that. So, you know... Confidence to go find shit out. I don't know. I wanted to travel. Travel has been my best educator. I think it's the best. Getting lost. It's the best. Getting found. Meeting strangers and going like, oh, geez, we are all a hell of a lot more similar than I thought.
Base plant for the hell of it. It's a great chapter. I still battle with that. So, you know... Confidence to go find shit out. I don't know. I wanted to travel. Travel has been my best educator. I think it's the best. Getting lost. It's the best. Getting found. Meeting strangers and going like, oh, geez, we are all a hell of a lot more similar than I thought.
Base plant for the hell of it. It's a great chapter. I still battle with that. So, you know... Confidence to go find shit out. I don't know. I wanted to travel. Travel has been my best educator. I think it's the best. Getting lost. It's the best. Getting found. Meeting strangers and going like, oh, geez, we are all a hell of a lot more similar than I thought.
I'm a much better traveler than vacationer.
I'm a much better traveler than vacationer.
I'm a much better traveler than vacationer.
I've still got to learn how to be... My wife tells me I've got to learn how to take a vacation better. Because I have to either... I have to write something or break a sweat or do something in the day to go, okay, cocktail's going to taste better this afternoon. But if it's, I can only, I'm not as good at handling successive Saturdays.
I've still got to learn how to be... My wife tells me I've got to learn how to take a vacation better. Because I have to either... I have to write something or break a sweat or do something in the day to go, okay, cocktail's going to taste better this afternoon. But if it's, I can only, I'm not as good at handling successive Saturdays.
I've still got to learn how to be... My wife tells me I've got to learn how to take a vacation better. Because I have to either... I have to write something or break a sweat or do something in the day to go, okay, cocktail's going to taste better this afternoon. But if it's, I can only, I'm not as good at handling successive Saturdays.
I need to chunk a little bit of Monday in each day just to go, all right, earn that. Here we go. I think it does feel better. Another notch. That's why I love Friday the best. First half, business. Second half, 48-hour runway of freedom.
I need to chunk a little bit of Monday in each day just to go, all right, earn that. Here we go. I think it does feel better. Another notch. That's why I love Friday the best. First half, business. Second half, 48-hour runway of freedom.
I need to chunk a little bit of Monday in each day just to go, all right, earn that. Here we go. I think it does feel better. Another notch. That's why I love Friday the best. First half, business. Second half, 48-hour runway of freedom.
Like, did you know? It wasn't quite real, but it was real. It's insane.
Like, did you know? It wasn't quite real, but it was real. It's insane.
Like, did you know? It wasn't quite real, but it was real. It's insane.
Yeah, that was perfect.
Yeah, that was perfect.
Yeah, that was perfect.
I love you. There's one small problem.
I love you. There's one small problem.
I love you. There's one small problem.
We're twins.
We're twins.
We're twins.
Yeah. It can tear them apart.
Yeah. It can tear them apart.
Yeah. It can tear them apart.
They're not midgets. They're dwarves. Whatever. Or bring them together. This is Gary Oldman, dude. This is Gary Oldman. Patricia Arquette.
They're not midgets. They're dwarves. Whatever. Or bring them together. This is Gary Oldman, dude. This is Gary Oldman. Patricia Arquette.
They're not midgets. They're dwarves. Whatever. Or bring them together. This is Gary Oldman, dude. This is Gary Oldman. Patricia Arquette.
Faith Beckintale. He's like, get some of those fucking midgets. Wait. You could have prepared us for this, don't you think? If you embarrass me, I'll never speak to you again, so just get it together.
Faith Beckintale. He's like, get some of those fucking midgets. Wait. You could have prepared us for this, don't you think? If you embarrass me, I'll never speak to you again, so just get it together.
Faith Beckintale. He's like, get some of those fucking midgets. Wait. You could have prepared us for this, don't you think? If you embarrass me, I'll never speak to you again, so just get it together.
How we doing, man? Buddy. Actually, I won most hands in 1988. There's a story in there about how he lost a lawsuit case against this oil of mink when it had the bad acne.
How we doing, man? Buddy. Actually, I won most hands in 1988. There's a story in there about how he lost a lawsuit case against this oil of mink when it had the bad acne.
How we doing, man? Buddy. Actually, I won most hands in 1988. There's a story in there about how he lost a lawsuit case against this oil of mink when it had the bad acne.
This is chaos, dude. A walk down the aisle.
This is chaos, dude. A walk down the aisle.
This is chaos, dude. A walk down the aisle.
Just hope he's smart enough not to screw it up. Is just a beginning.
Just hope he's smart enough not to screw it up. Is just a beginning.
Just hope he's smart enough not to screw it up. Is just a beginning.
Trailer. You shot that movie? Yes. Real production. Real production day. Showed up to work. No one thinks that's real. It doesn't look real. It doesn't look real, but damn, that's a good trailer. That goes for it.
Trailer. You shot that movie? Yes. Real production. Real production day. Showed up to work. No one thinks that's real. It doesn't look real. It doesn't look real, but damn, that's a good trailer. That goes for it.
Trailer. You shot that movie? Yes. Real production. Real production day. Showed up to work. No one thinks that's real. It doesn't look real. It doesn't look real, but damn, that's a good trailer. That goes for it.
No, the second half dropped into serious melodrama.
No, the second half dropped into serious melodrama.
No, the second half dropped into serious melodrama.
Circular's funny.
Circular's funny.
Circular's funny.
And I have the dwarf gene in me. Yeah. So if you have children, like Kate and I in the films, I was going to like procreate. Good chance.
And I have the dwarf gene in me. Yeah. So if you have children, like Kate and I in the films, I was going to like procreate. Good chance.
And I have the dwarf gene in me. Yeah. So if you have children, like Kate and I in the films, I was going to like procreate. Good chance.
If she doesn't know, I'm the biggie in the family, okay? Yeah, yeah. That's actually what we called. There's a chair where they get out of the house. There's like one big chair. It's like, oh, no, that's his. He's the biggie. It's absurd.
If she doesn't know, I'm the biggie in the family, okay? Yeah, yeah. That's actually what we called. There's a chair where they get out of the house. There's like one big chair. It's like, oh, no, that's his. He's the biggie. It's absurd.
If she doesn't know, I'm the biggie in the family, okay? Yeah, yeah. That's actually what we called. There's a chair where they get out of the house. There's like one big chair. It's like, oh, no, that's his. He's the biggie. It's absurd.
Yeah, I think he's sitting on his... I think he's sitting on his... His knees? His heels back, and then you had the... Or he had just the green... You wear the green sort of back screen where they... Remove it in post and put there, but I don't know. They had much money to remove most of it in post.
Yeah, I think he's sitting on his... I think he's sitting on his... His knees? His heels back, and then you had the... Or he had just the green... You wear the green sort of back screen where they... Remove it in post and put there, but I don't know. They had much money to remove most of it in post.
Yeah, I think he's sitting on his... I think he's sitting on his... His knees? His heels back, and then you had the... Or he had just the green... You wear the green sort of back screen where they... Remove it in post and put there, but I don't know. They had much money to remove most of it in post.
So, I mean, I have that with performances with the book. By the time we had edited down, I will say this. Did you have this experience or that you send something in and you're like, ah, this is hot shit. This chapter's good. This story's great.
So, I mean, I have that with performances with the book. By the time we had edited down, I will say this. Did you have this experience or that you send something in and you're like, ah, this is hot shit. This chapter's good. This story's great.
So, I mean, I have that with performances with the book. By the time we had edited down, I will say this. Did you have this experience or that you send something in and you're like, ah, this is hot shit. This chapter's good. This story's great.
No, we're playing it... Look, it was obviously a wild concept. Yeah. See the talent it drew. The talent is... It was anarchic. It still had some heart to it, which maybe I think of the script, felt less sentimental than that did. Um... We knew it was a soap opera, but it felt so carny for that word to come back. It felt so carny. We were like, this is wild.
No, we're playing it... Look, it was obviously a wild concept. Yeah. See the talent it drew. The talent is... It was anarchic. It still had some heart to it, which maybe I think of the script, felt less sentimental than that did. Um... We knew it was a soap opera, but it felt so carny for that word to come back. It felt so carny. We were like, this is wild.
No, we're playing it... Look, it was obviously a wild concept. Yeah. See the talent it drew. The talent is... It was anarchic. It still had some heart to it, which maybe I think of the script, felt less sentimental than that did. Um... We knew it was a soap opera, but it felt so carny for that word to come back. It felt so carny. We were like, this is wild.
And Matthew Bright, writer, director, was a good writer, had come up with the concept. And I just was like, this is bringing together two worlds of high comedy, but if we straight face this, it can be really funny and also might actually make you drop a tear.
And Matthew Bright, writer, director, was a good writer, had come up with the concept. And I just was like, this is bringing together two worlds of high comedy, but if we straight face this, it can be really funny and also might actually make you drop a tear.
And Matthew Bright, writer, director, was a good writer, had come up with the concept. And I just was like, this is bringing together two worlds of high comedy, but if we straight face this, it can be really funny and also might actually make you drop a tear.
That second half of that trailer... Pushes that direction. I've shown 100 people that trailer. I've never seen the trailer.
That second half of that trailer... Pushes that direction. I've shown 100 people that trailer. I've never seen the trailer.
That second half of that trailer... Pushes that direction. I've shown 100 people that trailer. I've never seen the trailer.
Sure. You know what? My biggest dammit for me was probably... Right as we finished Time to Kill. What was the name? Damn it, he just moved on. L.A. Confidential Director.
Sure. You know what? My biggest dammit for me was probably... Right as we finished Time to Kill. What was the name? Damn it, he just moved on. L.A. Confidential Director.
Sure. You know what? My biggest dammit for me was probably... Right as we finished Time to Kill. What was the name? Damn it, he just moved on. L.A. Confidential Director.
Anyway, excuse me. We had a meeting, and he'd come down, and he'd offer a role. I don't remember if it was the Guy Pearce role or the Russell role. Curtis Hanson? Curtis Hanson, thank you. Curtis Hanson came down, and it offered me a role in that. And I loved that movie. I think it's a great movie. And... I said no. Now, mind you, at that time, people were asking me what I wanted to do.
Anyway, excuse me. We had a meeting, and he'd come down, and he'd offer a role. I don't remember if it was the Guy Pearce role or the Russell role. Curtis Hanson? Curtis Hanson, thank you. Curtis Hanson came down, and it offered me a role in that. And I loved that movie. I think it's a great movie. And... I said no. Now, mind you, at that time, people were asking me what I wanted to do.
Anyway, excuse me. We had a meeting, and he'd come down, and he'd offer a role. I don't remember if it was the Guy Pearce role or the Russell role. Curtis Hanson? Curtis Hanson, thank you. Curtis Hanson came down, and it offered me a role in that. And I loved that movie. I think it's a great movie. And... I said no. Now, mind you, at that time, people were asking me what I wanted to do.
I'm like, things are starting to come in an onslaught. I'm like, it was hard for me to sit down and read a script and go, no, this is really good and I know why. Everything. It was just coming from like, I'll do whatever I can do.
I'm like, things are starting to come in an onslaught. I'm like, it was hard for me to sit down and read a script and go, no, this is really good and I know why. Everything. It was just coming from like, I'll do whatever I can do.
I'm like, things are starting to come in an onslaught. I'm like, it was hard for me to sit down and read a script and go, no, this is really good and I know why. Everything. It was just coming from like, I'll do whatever I can do.
And it's coming and I'm supposed to be, and I'm getting asked, well, which one of the great stuff do you want to do? I'm like, I write about this a lot in the book. I'm going, yesterday, I didn't have a chance. None of these were even on the table. And now you're telling me which one of these you want to do? That's when I packed up and got the hell out of Dodge and went to Peru.
And it's coming and I'm supposed to be, and I'm getting asked, well, which one of the great stuff do you want to do? I'm like, I write about this a lot in the book. I'm going, yesterday, I didn't have a chance. None of these were even on the table. And now you're telling me which one of these you want to do? That's when I packed up and got the hell out of Dodge and went to Peru.
And it's coming and I'm supposed to be, and I'm getting asked, well, which one of the great stuff do you want to do? I'm like, I write about this a lot in the book. I'm going, yesterday, I didn't have a chance. None of these were even on the table. And now you're telling me which one of these you want to do? That's when I packed up and got the hell out of Dodge and went to Peru.
And they go, I don't get it. Yeah. And I puffed up going, how can you not get that? If you don't get that, then you don't get the whole book's about. Sweet.
And they go, I don't get it. Yeah. And I puffed up going, how can you not get that? If you don't get that, then you don't get the whole book's about. Sweet.
And they go, I don't get it. Yeah. And I puffed up going, how can you not get that? If you don't get that, then you don't get the whole book's about. Sweet.
But that's a movie that I love, that I would have loved to be a part of, and I love that movie. There's always been a rumor that I think James Cameron started, he and I have had a few laughs about this, that I got offered and turned down the role in Titanic. That did not happen. That did not happen. I did not get offered.
But that's a movie that I love, that I would have loved to be a part of, and I love that movie. There's always been a rumor that I think James Cameron started, he and I have had a few laughs about this, that I got offered and turned down the role in Titanic. That did not happen. That did not happen. I did not get offered.
But that's a movie that I love, that I would have loved to be a part of, and I love that movie. There's always been a rumor that I think James Cameron started, he and I have had a few laughs about this, that I got offered and turned down the role in Titanic. That did not happen. That did not happen. I did not get offered.
And as I've said to this day, if I did, I got to find that agent because they bogeyed. No, I did read for it. I was there at the end. Kate Winslet and I read. It was a good read. I walked out of there thinking that I may have had it, but I never got the offer. So other than that, not really. Other than L.A. Confidential, which was early on in 96-ish.
And as I've said to this day, if I did, I got to find that agent because they bogeyed. No, I did read for it. I was there at the end. Kate Winslet and I read. It was a good read. I walked out of there thinking that I may have had it, but I never got the offer. So other than that, not really. Other than L.A. Confidential, which was early on in 96-ish.
And as I've said to this day, if I did, I got to find that agent because they bogeyed. No, I did read for it. I was there at the end. Kate Winslet and I read. It was a good read. I walked out of there thinking that I may have had it, but I never got the offer. So other than that, not really. Other than L.A. Confidential, which was early on in 96-ish.
I don't, what movies I see, I'm like, ah, oh, that's good. That would've been fun. That would've been fun, yeah. But I didn't, but none that I'm like, ah, I can't believe I, I bogeyed that one or I blew that one or I didn't see that.
I don't, what movies I see, I'm like, ah, oh, that's good. That would've been fun. That would've been fun, yeah. But I didn't, but none that I'm like, ah, I can't believe I, I bogeyed that one or I blew that one or I didn't see that.
I don't, what movies I see, I'm like, ah, oh, that's good. That would've been fun. That would've been fun, yeah. But I didn't, but none that I'm like, ah, I can't believe I, I bogeyed that one or I blew that one or I didn't see that.
No, I had a few, but what happened, here's what I learned. Okay. 90% of the time, thankfully I had good editors, I hadn't written it well enough. That was them saying, and then I went back and wrote it better and they're like, oh, I get it. Right. But I went in thinking, you know, sometimes we have our own cliff notes and we don't. Sure. Oh, they're going to get that part. No, you didn't write it.
No, I had a few, but what happened, here's what I learned. Okay. 90% of the time, thankfully I had good editors, I hadn't written it well enough. That was them saying, and then I went back and wrote it better and they're like, oh, I get it. Right. But I went in thinking, you know, sometimes we have our own cliff notes and we don't. Sure. Oh, they're going to get that part. No, you didn't write it.
No, I had a few, but what happened, here's what I learned. Okay. 90% of the time, thankfully I had good editors, I hadn't written it well enough. That was them saying, and then I went back and wrote it better and they're like, oh, I get it. Right. But I went in thinking, you know, sometimes we have our own cliff notes and we don't. Sure. Oh, they're going to get that part. No, you didn't write it.
Yeah. It was the... I kept having the... The 3 a.m. turmoil. Unable to sleep. Oh, I remember having this line. I was like, no, man, I feel like I'm just an entertainer. I'm not an actor. And I remember my great mentor going, well, first of all, what the fuck's wrong with being an entertainer? It was a great question. Like, are you boohooing that? I was like, oh, you're right.
Yeah. It was the... I kept having the... The 3 a.m. turmoil. Unable to sleep. Oh, I remember having this line. I was like, no, man, I feel like I'm just an entertainer. I'm not an actor. And I remember my great mentor going, well, first of all, what the fuck's wrong with being an entertainer? It was a great question. Like, are you boohooing that? I was like, oh, you're right.
Yeah. It was the... I kept having the... The 3 a.m. turmoil. Unable to sleep. Oh, I remember having this line. I was like, no, man, I feel like I'm just an entertainer. I'm not an actor. And I remember my great mentor going, well, first of all, what the fuck's wrong with being an entertainer? It was a great question. Like, are you boohooing that? I was like, oh, you're right.
It's not that, just something else is eating at me, man. And again, my life... wildly full at that time. Fall in love with Camilla. She's pregnant with her first child. All I ever wanted to be is a dad and I got one coming, man. I mean, I'm vital, bro. My head and loins and heart and gut are all in sync. My bets, I'm tripling down on them and they're like winning.
It's not that, just something else is eating at me, man. And again, my life... wildly full at that time. Fall in love with Camilla. She's pregnant with her first child. All I ever wanted to be is a dad and I got one coming, man. I mean, I'm vital, bro. My head and loins and heart and gut are all in sync. My bets, I'm tripling down on them and they're like winning.
It's not that, just something else is eating at me, man. And again, my life... wildly full at that time. Fall in love with Camilla. She's pregnant with her first child. All I ever wanted to be is a dad and I got one coming, man. I mean, I'm vital, bro. My head and loins and heart and gut are all in sync. My bets, I'm tripling down on them and they're like winning.
But in my career, I'm going back and doing this thing, romantic comedies, that I had owned that lane at that time. And they were fun and they paid well. But I'm like, they feel like more different, in a wrong kind of vacation from my life. It's like I needed more resistance. In real life, I'm dealing with great drama, great comedy. In work, I'm dealing with, yep. Step right up.
But in my career, I'm going back and doing this thing, romantic comedies, that I had owned that lane at that time. And they were fun and they paid well. But I'm like, they feel like more different, in a wrong kind of vacation from my life. It's like I needed more resistance. In real life, I'm dealing with great drama, great comedy. In work, I'm dealing with, yep. Step right up.
But in my career, I'm going back and doing this thing, romantic comedies, that I had owned that lane at that time. And they were fun and they paid well. But I'm like, they feel like more different, in a wrong kind of vacation from my life. It's like I needed more resistance. In real life, I'm dealing with great drama, great comedy. In work, I'm dealing with, yep. Step right up.
I can knock this out. I can do this tomorrow. Fine. Am I not? Can I dig deeper to find a different? No, these things, these rom-coms have a certain frequency you need to be on. You need to bounce from cloud to cloud to cloud. If you drop the anchor, you can sink them.
I can knock this out. I can do this tomorrow. Fine. Am I not? Can I dig deeper to find a different? No, these things, these rom-coms have a certain frequency you need to be on. You need to bounce from cloud to cloud to cloud. If you drop the anchor, you can sink them.
I can knock this out. I can do this tomorrow. Fine. Am I not? Can I dig deeper to find a different? No, these things, these rom-coms have a certain frequency you need to be on. You need to bounce from cloud to cloud to cloud. If you drop the anchor, you can sink them.
No, don't go there. And that frequency that those were were just not getting me off. I didn't feel like I was having an experience.
No, don't go there. And that frequency that those were were just not getting me off. I didn't feel like I was having an experience.
No, don't go there. And that frequency that those were were just not getting me off. I didn't feel like I was having an experience.
No, they let me know, bro, stay in your lane. Stay over there. Really? I'd already done a couple. Tried. Where... If they were in more of the dramatic side or outside of romantic comedy genre, the pay took a major pay cut. And then those didn't do well, box office wise. So they weren't going, please do this again.
No, they let me know, bro, stay in your lane. Stay over there. Really? I'd already done a couple. Tried. Where... If they were in more of the dramatic side or outside of romantic comedy genre, the pay took a major pay cut. And then those didn't do well, box office wise. So they weren't going, please do this again.
No, they let me know, bro, stay in your lane. Stay over there. Really? I'd already done a couple. Tried. Where... If they were in more of the dramatic side or outside of romantic comedy genre, the pay took a major pay cut. And then those didn't do well, box office wise. So they weren't going, please do this again.
Whether you did well or not, Chops, you're leading the charge over here on rom-coms and you're nailing them. They cost us 35. They're coming back at 60. We're making good money and you're good at them and the people like them. Just do that. Nothing wrong with that. Ben loved it. I needed some resistance.
Whether you did well or not, Chops, you're leading the charge over here on rom-coms and you're nailing them. They cost us 35. They're coming back at 60. We're making good money and you're good at them and the people like them. Just do that. Nothing wrong with that. Ben loved it. I needed some resistance.
Whether you did well or not, Chops, you're leading the charge over here on rom-coms and you're nailing them. They cost us 35. They're coming back at 60. We're making good money and you're good at them and the people like them. Just do that. Nothing wrong with that. Ben loved it. I needed some resistance.
So I self-imposed after many long talks, many late nights, many tears, many prayers, made a pact with my wife. She's great. She's a real baller this way. She was like, okay. I see what this means to you. But do you understand if we're going to do this, again, it's going to get rocky. And there's no going back. It's committed. I was like, yeah, we have to commit the whole way. No flinching.
So I self-imposed after many long talks, many late nights, many tears, many prayers, made a pact with my wife. She's great. She's a real baller this way. She was like, okay. I see what this means to you. But do you understand if we're going to do this, again, it's going to get rocky. And there's no going back. It's committed. I was like, yeah, we have to commit the whole way. No flinching.
So I self-imposed after many long talks, many late nights, many tears, many prayers, made a pact with my wife. She's great. She's a real baller this way. She was like, okay. I see what this means to you. But do you understand if we're going to do this, again, it's going to get rocky. And there's no going back. It's committed. I was like, yeah, we have to commit the whole way. No flinching.
No two-stepping. No stepping out. Oh, I think I've come back. All right. Day's going to get long. She knows me. That bottle's going to look better earlier in the day. I know you need to accomplish for significance. We're going to have to trust this. And I was like, I'm trusting no matter how long it goes. She goes, it could be dry for a while. And it was. It was dry for a long time.
No two-stepping. No stepping out. Oh, I think I've come back. All right. Day's going to get long. She knows me. That bottle's going to look better earlier in the day. I know you need to accomplish for significance. We're going to have to trust this. And I was like, I'm trusting no matter how long it goes. She goes, it could be dry for a while. And it was. It was dry for a long time.
No two-stepping. No stepping out. Oh, I think I've come back. All right. Day's going to get long. She knows me. That bottle's going to look better earlier in the day. I know you need to accomplish for significance. We're going to have to trust this. And I was like, I'm trusting no matter how long it goes. She goes, it could be dry for a while. And it was. It was dry for a long time.
And all those things did happen. The fact that I've got the looking forward to a son coming. the fact that I'm bored out of my mind, which is a great thing to be, because you've got to work some tools in your nugget that you don't have to work when everything's right there for you.
And all those things did happen. The fact that I've got the looking forward to a son coming. the fact that I'm bored out of my mind, which is a great thing to be, because you've got to work some tools in your nugget that you don't have to work when everything's right there for you.
And all those things did happen. The fact that I've got the looking forward to a son coming. the fact that I'm bored out of my mind, which is a great thing to be, because you've got to work some tools in your nugget that you don't have to work when everything's right there for you.
The fact that I'm not on the beach in Malibu shirtless and my daily life there looks like turn the page into the romantic comedy that you go see in the theater the next night. They were kind of merged into one at that point when I removed myself. Um... The fact that I was back home, the fact that we had a family, not tragedy, but a big crisis in my family that I need to tend to.
The fact that I'm not on the beach in Malibu shirtless and my daily life there looks like turn the page into the romantic comedy that you go see in the theater the next night. They were kind of merged into one at that point when I removed myself. Um... The fact that I was back home, the fact that we had a family, not tragedy, but a big crisis in my family that I need to tend to.
The fact that I'm not on the beach in Malibu shirtless and my daily life there looks like turn the page into the romantic comedy that you go see in the theater the next night. They were kind of merged into one at that point when I removed myself. Um... The fact that I was back home, the fact that we had a family, not tragedy, but a big crisis in my family that I need to tend to.
That sobers you up. You know what I mean? Where you get like, that I had things that I knew were more ultimately existentially more important than my acting career. Kind of put that on the side. Go along, got tempted with the $8 million offer that turned into a $14.5 million offer.
That sobers you up. You know what I mean? Where you get like, that I had things that I knew were more ultimately existentially more important than my acting career. Kind of put that on the side. Go along, got tempted with the $8 million offer that turned into a $14.5 million offer.
That sobers you up. You know what I mean? Where you get like, that I had things that I knew were more ultimately existentially more important than my acting career. Kind of put that on the side. Go along, got tempted with the $8 million offer that turned into a $14.5 million offer.
As I talk about not two-stepping, as I said, did I two-step enough to say when it got to 14.5, let me read that sumbitch again? Yes, I did. I ain't that pure. Still said no, though. The fact that saying no to that, do I believe that sent a little invisible lightning bolt through Hollywood going, this fucker's not bluffing. Yeah, he's serious. Who turns that shit down? What's he up to?
As I talk about not two-stepping, as I said, did I two-step enough to say when it got to 14.5, let me read that sumbitch again? Yes, I did. I ain't that pure. Still said no, though. The fact that saying no to that, do I believe that sent a little invisible lightning bolt through Hollywood going, this fucker's not bluffing. Yeah, he's serious. Who turns that shit down? What's he up to?
As I talk about not two-stepping, as I said, did I two-step enough to say when it got to 14.5, let me read that sumbitch again? Yes, I did. I ain't that pure. Still said no, though. The fact that saying no to that, do I believe that sent a little invisible lightning bolt through Hollywood going, this fucker's not bluffing. Yeah, he's serious. Who turns that shit down? What's he up to?
Someone does that. You know, a girl in a relationship, whatever. You're like, what are they up to? You kind of become more attractive.
Someone does that. You know, a girl in a relationship, whatever. You're like, what are they up to? You kind of become more attractive.
Someone does that. You know, a girl in a relationship, whatever. You're like, what are they up to? You kind of become more attractive.
Novel. What are they up to? They got something going on. They're not just, they didn't just step out and waft. They're on a line of something where they're going or what they're holding out for. And that's what I was doing. I was kind of on the picket line. I was kind of holding out.
Novel. What are they up to? They got something going on. They're not just, they didn't just step out and waft. They're on a line of something where they're going or what they're holding out for. And that's what I was doing. I was kind of on the picket line. I was kind of holding out.
Novel. What are they up to? They got something going on. They're not just, they didn't just step out and waft. They're on a line of something where they're going or what they're holding out for. And that's what I was doing. I was kind of on the picket line. I was kind of holding out.
Mud came. No, Mud came.
Mud came. No, Mud came.
Mud came. No, Mud came.
When I was 12, would have come to me and said, hey, buddy, you see this movie, Mud? And I'd have gone, no, sir. And he'd have gone, oh, we got to watch together. It's a good one. Plus, the tree house that I built as a kid that's in that book was my boat in a tree. That was in Mud. The fantasy, the magic reality through a child's eyes.
When I was 12, would have come to me and said, hey, buddy, you see this movie, Mud? And I'd have gone, no, sir. And he'd have gone, oh, we got to watch together. It's a good one. Plus, the tree house that I built as a kid that's in that book was my boat in a tree. That was in Mud. The fantasy, the magic reality through a child's eyes.
When I was 12, would have come to me and said, hey, buddy, you see this movie, Mud? And I'd have gone, no, sir. And he'd have gone, oh, we got to watch together. It's a good one. Plus, the tree house that I built as a kid that's in that book was my boat in a tree. That was in Mud. The fantasy, the magic reality through a child's eyes.
And then the aristocrat of the heart, the love story that Mud has with Jupiter, Juniper.
And then the aristocrat of the heart, the love story that Mud has with Jupiter, Juniper.
And then the aristocrat of the heart, the love story that Mud has with Jupiter, Juniper.
I love ketchup. I put ketchup on my ketchup.
I love ketchup. I put ketchup on my ketchup.
I love ketchup. I put ketchup on my ketchup.
Right. I think I fell in love with ketchup first. With the ketchup.
Right. I think I fell in love with ketchup first. With the ketchup.
Right. I think I fell in love with ketchup first. With the ketchup.
All in one. And let's admit it. Can we say it online? Can we say it live? Heinz has got the monopoly on fucking ketchup. Get the money out of here, guys.
All in one. And let's admit it. Can we say it online? Can we say it live? Heinz has got the monopoly on fucking ketchup. Get the money out of here, guys.
All in one. And let's admit it. Can we say it online? Can we say it live? Heinz has got the monopoly on fucking ketchup. Get the money out of here, guys.
Whatever not put ketchup on. Scrambled eggs is not crazy.
Whatever not put ketchup on. Scrambled eggs is not crazy.
Whatever not put ketchup on. Scrambled eggs is not crazy.
No, my editors did too with me. There's times where... Yeah, there was a lot cut. But once I declared and we kind of put it all together and tried to make it a bit of an interactive play, interrupted by a prescribe or a poem or a picture and had that playfulness and every time I'd get going. Every time I'm preaching something. Yeah.
No, my editors did too with me. There's times where... Yeah, there was a lot cut. But once I declared and we kind of put it all together and tried to make it a bit of an interactive play, interrupted by a prescribe or a poem or a picture and had that playfulness and every time I'd get going. Every time I'm preaching something. Yeah.
No, my editors did too with me. There's times where... Yeah, there was a lot cut. But once I declared and we kind of put it all together and tried to make it a bit of an interactive play, interrupted by a prescribe or a poem or a picture and had that playfulness and every time I'd get going. Every time I'm preaching something. Yeah.
Yeah. So, I mean, I put it on. We had one throw-up vegetable in our household. We had one vegetable you didn't have to eat. And mine was boiled squash. My mom boiled everything. She was not a good cook. Ma, I know you're out there in 92. You were not a good cook. Boiled squash. And that's how I got it. But you had to eat it.
Yeah. So, I mean, I put it on. We had one throw-up vegetable in our household. We had one vegetable you didn't have to eat. And mine was boiled squash. My mom boiled everything. She was not a good cook. Ma, I know you're out there in 92. You were not a good cook. Boiled squash. And that's how I got it. But you had to eat it.
Yeah. So, I mean, I put it on. We had one throw-up vegetable in our household. We had one vegetable you didn't have to eat. And mine was boiled squash. My mom boiled everything. She was not a good cook. Ma, I know you're out there in 92. You were not a good cook. Boiled squash. And that's how I got it. But you had to eat it.
No, that was the one, I'm sorry, the one I didn't have to eat, but then you had to eat everything else. So the boiled okra, nobody in the family liked it, but man, that's where ketchup became my favorite because I got to drown that shit.
No, that was the one, I'm sorry, the one I didn't have to eat, but then you had to eat everything else. So the boiled okra, nobody in the family liked it, but man, that's where ketchup became my favorite because I got to drown that shit.
No, that was the one, I'm sorry, the one I didn't have to eat, but then you had to eat everything else. So the boiled okra, nobody in the family liked it, but man, that's where ketchup became my favorite because I got to drown that shit.
And I remember sitting there in our family, if you didn't finish it, you finally had to go to bed at dinner time, and then the next morning it was on the breakfast plate. Oh, wow. And if you were late for school, you got the demerit, then it just went back to sort of structure. So now what's your punishment for being late for school? So you're like, oh, man. Ketchup was my friend.
And I remember sitting there in our family, if you didn't finish it, you finally had to go to bed at dinner time, and then the next morning it was on the breakfast plate. Oh, wow. And if you were late for school, you got the demerit, then it just went back to sort of structure. So now what's your punishment for being late for school? So you're like, oh, man. Ketchup was my friend.
And I remember sitting there in our family, if you didn't finish it, you finally had to go to bed at dinner time, and then the next morning it was on the breakfast plate. Oh, wow. And if you were late for school, you got the demerit, then it just went back to sort of structure. So now what's your punishment for being late for school? So you're like, oh, man. Ketchup was my friend.
Get over things, to swallow things, and also just to... And it's where the ketchup is. I love ketchup on a burger, but it's best to dip it so the ketchup's the first thing to hit the palate.
Get over things, to swallow things, and also just to... And it's where the ketchup is. I love ketchup on a burger, but it's best to dip it so the ketchup's the first thing to hit the palate.
Get over things, to swallow things, and also just to... And it's where the ketchup is. I love ketchup on a burger, but it's best to dip it so the ketchup's the first thing to hit the palate.
Yeah. And there's a whole bunch behind him, but he does the intro. Yeah.
Yeah. And there's a whole bunch behind him, but he does the intro. Yeah.
Yeah. And there's a whole bunch behind him, but he does the intro. Yeah.
Like on the flight later? On the fucking flight. Just give it a lick? Just a little... Yeah. Just to have a buddy there.
Like on the flight later? On the fucking flight. Just give it a lick? Just a little... Yeah. Just to have a buddy there.
Like on the flight later? On the fucking flight. Just give it a lick? Just a little... Yeah. Just to have a buddy there.
Next time I have ketchup, I'm going to not be able to not think about you licking on your hand.
Next time I have ketchup, I'm going to not be able to not think about you licking on your hand.
Next time I have ketchup, I'm going to not be able to not think about you licking on your hand.
My buddy actually, Marcus Stowers, made me a T-shirt, a red T-shirt in white, writing it and said, I put ketchup on my ketchup. Yeah. Heinz the one. Viva la ketchup. Cheers to that.
My buddy actually, Marcus Stowers, made me a T-shirt, a red T-shirt in white, writing it and said, I put ketchup on my ketchup. Yeah. Heinz the one. Viva la ketchup. Cheers to that.
My buddy actually, Marcus Stowers, made me a T-shirt, a red T-shirt in white, writing it and said, I put ketchup on my ketchup. Yeah. Heinz the one. Viva la ketchup. Cheers to that.
I don't even know them. No one does. This is how we busted my mom. Mom would always save money. All right, let's go to peanut butter.
I don't even know them. No one does. This is how we busted my mom. Mom would always save money. All right, let's go to peanut butter.
I don't even know them. No one does. This is how we busted my mom. Mom would always save money. All right, let's go to peanut butter.
Yeah. For me, right? Heinz catch up. We'd finish, and we'd come back to dinner, and all of a sudden, next night, you'd be at the inn the night before. And the next night it'd be full. You'd pour it and it'd just pour out of the water. You're like, mom, bullshit. This is not. Yes, it is. And they're like, no, it's not.
Yeah. For me, right? Heinz catch up. We'd finish, and we'd come back to dinner, and all of a sudden, next night, you'd be at the inn the night before. And the next night it'd be full. You'd pour it and it'd just pour out of the water. You're like, mom, bullshit. This is not. Yes, it is. And they're like, no, it's not.
Yeah. For me, right? Heinz catch up. We'd finish, and we'd come back to dinner, and all of a sudden, next night, you'd be at the inn the night before. And the next night it'd be full. You'd pour it and it'd just pour out of the water. You're like, mom, bullshit. This is not. Yes, it is. And they're like, no, it's not.
And she did the same thing with peanut butter for a while. And we're like, this is not peanut butter pan. This is your local. Yeah, the bullshit knockoff. And we bust her every time on it.
And she did the same thing with peanut butter for a while. And we're like, this is not peanut butter pan. This is your local. Yeah, the bullshit knockoff. And we bust her every time on it.
And she did the same thing with peanut butter for a while. And we're like, this is not peanut butter pan. This is your local. Yeah, the bullshit knockoff. And we bust her every time on it.
Have to come off of that or come in, have to precede that with a story where I eat shit. Yeah. Or so the reader can stomach it. You want to let, you know?
Have to come off of that or come in, have to precede that with a story where I eat shit. Yeah. Or so the reader can stomach it. You want to let, you know?
Have to come off of that or come in, have to precede that with a story where I eat shit. Yeah. Or so the reader can stomach it. You want to let, you know?
I bet you like, it's the Jamaican prickly, what's that Jamaican? It's a dark sauce like A1. It's Jamaican. Pick a pepper. You like pick a pepper? If you like A1, you probably like pick a pepper.
I bet you like, it's the Jamaican prickly, what's that Jamaican? It's a dark sauce like A1. It's Jamaican. Pick a pepper. You like pick a pepper? If you like A1, you probably like pick a pepper.
I bet you like, it's the Jamaican prickly, what's that Jamaican? It's a dark sauce like A1. It's Jamaican. Pick a pepper. You like pick a pepper? If you like A1, you probably like pick a pepper.
Asian? More than that English mustard? We have that tight, tight, tight, little white, little teaspoon of that.
Asian? More than that English mustard? We have that tight, tight, tight, little white, little teaspoon of that.
Asian? More than that English mustard? We have that tight, tight, tight, little white, little teaspoon of that.
Where's Asian mustards between English mustards and wasabi?
Where's Asian mustards between English mustards and wasabi?
Where's Asian mustards between English mustards and wasabi?
You're like, am I fucking breathing through my eyes?
You're like, am I fucking breathing through my eyes?
You're like, am I fucking breathing through my eyes?
I've been using wasabi pretty liberally lately. I do too. To mix up even with tuna fish salad. I'm a tuna fish salad mastermaker. Really? Yeah. Every Sunday night, clean out the fridge, mochito style, going to make a badass tuna fish.
I've been using wasabi pretty liberally lately. I do too. To mix up even with tuna fish salad. I'm a tuna fish salad mastermaker. Really? Yeah. Every Sunday night, clean out the fridge, mochito style, going to make a badass tuna fish.
I've been using wasabi pretty liberally lately. I do too. To mix up even with tuna fish salad. I'm a tuna fish salad mastermaker. Really? Yeah. Every Sunday night, clean out the fridge, mochito style, going to make a badass tuna fish.
So you can see me self-deprecate and tell a story where I ate shit. And then after that, you can stomach me going, so here's the lesson I learned from it.
So you can see me self-deprecate and tell a story where I ate shit. And then after that, you can stomach me going, so here's the lesson I learned from it.
So you can see me self-deprecate and tell a story where I ate shit. And then after that, you can stomach me going, so here's the lesson I learned from it.
Well, it's a long list of all kinds of things. I mean, it starts with the, with, with the base. You get your good, get your good tuna. Yeah. Um, Next, you got to watch how much lemon and vinegar you add. Because if you add the mayo mixed with wasabi. Oh, shut the fuck up.
Well, it's a long list of all kinds of things. I mean, it starts with the, with, with the base. You get your good, get your good tuna. Yeah. Um, Next, you got to watch how much lemon and vinegar you add. Because if you add the mayo mixed with wasabi. Oh, shut the fuck up.
Well, it's a long list of all kinds of things. I mean, it starts with the, with, with the base. You get your good, get your good tuna. Yeah. Um, Next, you got to watch how much lemon and vinegar you add. Because if you add the mayo mixed with wasabi. Oh, shut the fuck up.
Whip it up. A little light green. Get that in there on the tuna. Because if you put, whatever you put on the tuna first is gonna soak it up.
Whip it up. A little light green. Get that in there on the tuna. Because if you put, whatever you put on the tuna first is gonna soak it up.
Whip it up. A little light green. Get that in there on the tuna. Because if you put, whatever you put on the tuna first is gonna soak it up.
We should have been talking about this the whole time. Get a base. Yeah. And then all the rest of the stuff from the chopped red onions or the dill pickled gherkins. I'll finally slice the dill pickled gherkins. There's a jalapeno product now. It's been seared in hot oil, so it's crispy jalapeno chips to give it a little crunch. I come in with... To balance that out. At the end, I do go.
We should have been talking about this the whole time. Get a base. Yeah. And then all the rest of the stuff from the chopped red onions or the dill pickled gherkins. I'll finally slice the dill pickled gherkins. There's a jalapeno product now. It's been seared in hot oil, so it's crispy jalapeno chips to give it a little crunch. I come in with... To balance that out. At the end, I do go.
We should have been talking about this the whole time. Get a base. Yeah. And then all the rest of the stuff from the chopped red onions or the dill pickled gherkins. I'll finally slice the dill pickled gherkins. There's a jalapeno product now. It's been seared in hot oil, so it's crispy jalapeno chips to give it a little crunch. I come in with... To balance that out. At the end, I do go.
You know? But don't be going straight advice across the board. People shut that thing on. Shut up. Quit telling me what the fuck to do. For sure. Did you notice this? This is something, big thing. The person. First, second, third, I, you, we. So it's about us telling the first person. This is my experience. You can have an opinion, but you can't really judge me right or wrong.
You know? But don't be going straight advice across the board. People shut that thing on. Shut up. Quit telling me what the fuck to do. For sure. Did you notice this? This is something, big thing. The person. First, second, third, I, you, we. So it's about us telling the first person. This is my experience. You can have an opinion, but you can't really judge me right or wrong.
You know? But don't be going straight advice across the board. People shut that thing on. Shut up. Quit telling me what the fuck to do. For sure. Did you notice this? This is something, big thing. The person. First, second, third, I, you, we. So it's about us telling the first person. This is my experience. You can have an opinion, but you can't really judge me right or wrong.
I'll go with some apple for some sweetness, a touch of agave to balance out that wasabi here. Yeah, yeah. And at the end, I do go, man, I always have corn in there. I always got corn. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then at the end, I'll go some frozen green peas. Yeah.
I'll go with some apple for some sweetness, a touch of agave to balance out that wasabi here. Yeah, yeah. And at the end, I do go, man, I always have corn in there. I always got corn. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then at the end, I'll go some frozen green peas. Yeah.
I'll go with some apple for some sweetness, a touch of agave to balance out that wasabi here. Yeah, yeah. And at the end, I do go, man, I always have corn in there. I always got corn. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then at the end, I'll go some frozen green peas. Yeah.
And then, as you know, as every redneck knows, is it better right then or is it better covered after you put it in the fridge the next day? It's all coagulated. All the tastes are right. You're sitting there now. I've hit the home run. So it sat in there.
And then, as you know, as every redneck knows, is it better right then or is it better covered after you put it in the fridge the next day? It's all coagulated. All the tastes are right. You're sitting there now. I've hit the home run. So it sat in there.
And then, as you know, as every redneck knows, is it better right then or is it better covered after you put it in the fridge the next day? It's all coagulated. All the tastes are right. You're sitting there now. I've hit the home run. So it sat in there.
Oh, yeah, he did. Well, then I pull out extra pickles because I love to dip my pickle, take a bite of tuna, bite the pickle with the Heinz ketchup on the end of the pickle.
Oh, yeah, he did. Well, then I pull out extra pickles because I love to dip my pickle, take a bite of tuna, bite the pickle with the Heinz ketchup on the end of the pickle.
Oh, yeah, he did. Well, then I pull out extra pickles because I love to dip my pickle, take a bite of tuna, bite the pickle with the Heinz ketchup on the end of the pickle.
That's all I heard. Yeah, man.
That's all I heard. Yeah, man.
That's all I heard. Yeah, man.
Steak, what cut do you eat? One and five-eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Admit it or not, if we're not talking about, oh, I want to eat lean, I know I have my elk, I do fillet.
Steak, what cut do you eat? One and five-eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Admit it or not, if we're not talking about, oh, I want to eat lean, I know I have my elk, I do fillet.
Steak, what cut do you eat? One and five-eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Rib eye's the steak. Admit it or not, if we're not talking about, oh, I want to eat lean, I know I have my elk, I do fillet.
Well, there are different ways. So I go one and five eighth inch, which means it's a big, thick piece of meat, which means I don't take it to the oven to ever bake it to get the middle cooked. I do like to sear it. I either go... On the grill. Yeah. I mean, if I can get that green egg to sit there and hold at 455, then I'm, then I'm enclosed that thing and trust it. Beautiful. Yeah.
Well, there are different ways. So I go one and five eighth inch, which means it's a big, thick piece of meat, which means I don't take it to the oven to ever bake it to get the middle cooked. I do like to sear it. I either go... On the grill. Yeah. I mean, if I can get that green egg to sit there and hold at 455, then I'm, then I'm enclosed that thing and trust it. Beautiful. Yeah.
Well, there are different ways. So I go one and five eighth inch, which means it's a big, thick piece of meat, which means I don't take it to the oven to ever bake it to get the middle cooked. I do like to sear it. I either go... On the grill. Yeah. I mean, if I can get that green egg to sit there and hold at 455, then I'm, then I'm enclosed that thing and trust it. Beautiful. Yeah.
Other times where we're just inside and I'm time for that. I'm a big 16 inch black skillet. oil, butter, cast iron, get that baby height and sear that and flip some oil and butter on top of that thing because I just learned this, that that butter doesn't brown if you put it in early with the oil.
Other times where we're just inside and I'm time for that. I'm a big 16 inch black skillet. oil, butter, cast iron, get that baby height and sear that and flip some oil and butter on top of that thing because I just learned this, that that butter doesn't brown if you put it in early with the oil.
Other times where we're just inside and I'm time for that. I'm a big 16 inch black skillet. oil, butter, cast iron, get that baby height and sear that and flip some oil and butter on top of that thing because I just learned this, that that butter doesn't brown if you put it in early with the oil.
And then obviously that old trick that everyone forgets, let that son of a bitch sit for as long as you cooked it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's got to settle. Yeah. And all those tendons have to just kind of relax.
And then obviously that old trick that everyone forgets, let that son of a bitch sit for as long as you cooked it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's got to settle. Yeah. And all those tendons have to just kind of relax.
And then obviously that old trick that everyone forgets, let that son of a bitch sit for as long as you cooked it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's got to settle. Yeah. And all those tendons have to just kind of relax.
And also, do you all know this one? This may be obvious, but it's the cook it at room temperature. You can't pull it out of the fridge. You can pull it right out of the fridge. Yeah. No, no. You got to let it. You got to let it sit. Get back to room temperature. That's a good one. And all those pores open up. So one and five eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye.
And also, do you all know this one? This may be obvious, but it's the cook it at room temperature. You can't pull it out of the fridge. You can pull it right out of the fridge. Yeah. No, no. You got to let it. You got to let it sit. Get back to room temperature. That's a good one. And all those pores open up. So one and five eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye.
And also, do you all know this one? This may be obvious, but it's the cook it at room temperature. You can't pull it out of the fridge. You can pull it right out of the fridge. Yeah. No, no. You got to let it. You got to let it sit. Get back to room temperature. That's a good one. And all those pores open up. So one and five eighth inch American Wagyu ribeye.
That's like a religion around here. I mean, look, man, I've never tasted any brisket I like better than Franklin's. Yeah. Have you had the steak over at Lambert's? No. I won't be doing that tonight. Taste that dirty little brown sugar top, son of a bitch. Oh, it's a dirty little dog. It's good. Ooh. Yeah. The ribeye over there. Taste it. Make you want to go.
That's like a religion around here. I mean, look, man, I've never tasted any brisket I like better than Franklin's. Yeah. Have you had the steak over at Lambert's? No. I won't be doing that tonight. Taste that dirty little brown sugar top, son of a bitch. Oh, it's a dirty little dog. It's good. Ooh. Yeah. The ribeye over there. Taste it. Make you want to go.
That's like a religion around here. I mean, look, man, I've never tasted any brisket I like better than Franklin's. Yeah. Have you had the steak over at Lambert's? No. I won't be doing that tonight. Taste that dirty little brown sugar top, son of a bitch. Oh, it's a dirty little dog. It's good. Ooh. Yeah. The ribeye over there. Taste it. Make you want to go.
Peter, please get us reservations for tonight. And they're not afraid of salt. No. Oh, neither. I'm on blood pressure medicine. I mean, come on. It's serious. Mm-hmm. Um... The barbecue I've had. I mean, there's so much good. Yeah, it's so good. I'm not a barbecue nerd. I'm not religious about it. Right. I've had great barbecue in many places. But Franklin's brisket, what he figured out.
Peter, please get us reservations for tonight. And they're not afraid of salt. No. Oh, neither. I'm on blood pressure medicine. I mean, come on. It's serious. Mm-hmm. Um... The barbecue I've had. I mean, there's so much good. Yeah, it's so good. I'm not a barbecue nerd. I'm not religious about it. Right. I've had great barbecue in many places. But Franklin's brisket, what he figured out.
Peter, please get us reservations for tonight. And they're not afraid of salt. No. Oh, neither. I'm on blood pressure medicine. I mean, come on. It's serious. Mm-hmm. Um... The barbecue I've had. I mean, there's so much good. Yeah, it's so good. I'm not a barbecue nerd. I'm not religious about it. Right. I've had great barbecue in many places. But Franklin's brisket, what he figured out.
Yes, it's incredible. Walk away. Yeah. Drop your mic. That Opie's jalapeno cream corn with the jalapeno sausage. Take the chunk of sausage, fork it, dunk it in the Opie's. Cream of corn and jalapeno, then eat it. That's one of the top three bites I've ever had in my life.
Yes, it's incredible. Walk away. Yeah. Drop your mic. That Opie's jalapeno cream corn with the jalapeno sausage. Take the chunk of sausage, fork it, dunk it in the Opie's. Cream of corn and jalapeno, then eat it. That's one of the top three bites I've ever had in my life.
Yes, it's incredible. Walk away. Yeah. Drop your mic. That Opie's jalapeno cream corn with the jalapeno sausage. Take the chunk of sausage, fork it, dunk it in the Opie's. Cream of corn and jalapeno, then eat it. That's one of the top three bites I've ever had in my life.
I'm just telling you how I experienced it. Second person is you. Now we're giving advice. You've got to watch. You're telling people what to do, right? You've got to watch that because no one likes to be told what to do. Third, the royal we. Which you got to watch that because then your shit can all sound like big platitudes. Like, what are you, God or something?
I'm just telling you how I experienced it. Second person is you. Now we're giving advice. You've got to watch. You're telling people what to do, right? You've got to watch that because no one likes to be told what to do. Third, the royal we. Which you got to watch that because then your shit can all sound like big platitudes. Like, what are you, God or something?
I'm just telling you how I experienced it. Second person is you. Now we're giving advice. You've got to watch. You're telling people what to do, right? You've got to watch that because no one likes to be told what to do. Third, the royal we. Which you got to watch that because then your shit can all sound like big platitudes. Like, what are you, God or something?
For osos. Yeah.
For osos. Yeah.
For osos. Yeah.
Here's what the inspiration that was. I was going through some old scrapbooks, and there was a picture of my mom and dad at Halloween. And they had taken these. She was in glad trash bags taped up, and it said M&M's with tape on it. Plain. I fucking love your parents. M&Ms with nuts. I love your parents.
Here's what the inspiration that was. I was going through some old scrapbooks, and there was a picture of my mom and dad at Halloween. And they had taken these. She was in glad trash bags taped up, and it said M&M's with tape on it. Plain. I fucking love your parents. M&Ms with nuts. I love your parents.
Here's what the inspiration that was. I was going through some old scrapbooks, and there was a picture of my mom and dad at Halloween. And they had taken these. She was in glad trash bags taped up, and it said M&M's with tape on it. Plain. I fucking love your parents. M&Ms with nuts. I love your parents.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
I kind of, after reading your book, feel like you're... I'm a whole lot more my mom than I realize, and that's a happy... Trail for me to recognize and learn along the way. Look, my mom, I'm still aspiring to understand and be some things that she is. My mom is like real grade A proof in the value of denial if you truly commit to it. And she commits to it.
I kind of, after reading your book, feel like you're... I'm a whole lot more my mom than I realize, and that's a happy... Trail for me to recognize and learn along the way. Look, my mom, I'm still aspiring to understand and be some things that she is. My mom is like real grade A proof in the value of denial if you truly commit to it. And she commits to it.
I kind of, after reading your book, feel like you're... I'm a whole lot more my mom than I realize, and that's a happy... Trail for me to recognize and learn along the way. Look, my mom, I'm still aspiring to understand and be some things that she is. My mom is like real grade A proof in the value of denial if you truly commit to it. And she commits to it.
Not intellectually talks herself into it and then commits. No, bam. That's what, I don't have cancer. Well, mom, you do. No, I don't. She's not doing an intellectual trick. I do not. Okay, well, then would you take this pill anyway? Okay. But I don't have it. Life, I don't like you. I don't like whatever. You don't like someone. Nope. Boom. Out of my life.
Not intellectually talks herself into it and then commits. No, bam. That's what, I don't have cancer. Well, mom, you do. No, I don't. She's not doing an intellectual trick. I do not. Okay, well, then would you take this pill anyway? Okay. But I don't have it. Life, I don't like you. I don't like whatever. You don't like someone. Nope. Boom. Out of my life.
Not intellectually talks herself into it and then commits. No, bam. That's what, I don't have cancer. Well, mom, you do. No, I don't. She's not doing an intellectual trick. I do not. Okay, well, then would you take this pill anyway? Okay. But I don't have it. Life, I don't like you. I don't like whatever. You don't like someone. Nope. Boom. Out of my life.
Mom, I mean, do you want to let him down easy? No. Why do I want to waste any time? No. Not for me. I didn't. But she does. I mean, I don't know if I wrote about it. I've shared this many times. I went to this. The way, her ability to forgive herself. or actually not even feel guilty about anything in the first place to forgive herself about is amazing. And this is not a shallow woman.
Mom, I mean, do you want to let him down easy? No. Why do I want to waste any time? No. Not for me. I didn't. But she does. I mean, I don't know if I wrote about it. I've shared this many times. I went to this. The way, her ability to forgive herself. or actually not even feel guilty about anything in the first place to forgive herself about is amazing. And this is not a shallow woman.
Mom, I mean, do you want to let him down easy? No. Why do I want to waste any time? No. Not for me. I didn't. But she does. I mean, I don't know if I wrote about it. I've shared this many times. I went to this. The way, her ability to forgive herself. or actually not even feel guilty about anything in the first place to forgive herself about is amazing. And this is not a shallow woman.
This is a woman who, 92, mom, what's the secret? Well, I can't imagine not being here. Walk off. Okay. It's not a line. It's not a Hallmark card. It's not an intellectual choice she's making to say, oh, I want to think positively. Uh-uh. She's beyond that to where it's a full-on capacity. That's her identity. Yes is her favorite word.
This is a woman who, 92, mom, what's the secret? Well, I can't imagine not being here. Walk off. Okay. It's not a line. It's not a Hallmark card. It's not an intellectual choice she's making to say, oh, I want to think positively. Uh-uh. She's beyond that to where it's a full-on capacity. That's her identity. Yes is her favorite word.
This is a woman who, 92, mom, what's the secret? Well, I can't imagine not being here. Walk off. Okay. It's not a line. It's not a Hallmark card. It's not an intellectual choice she's making to say, oh, I want to think positively. Uh-uh. She's beyond that to where it's a full-on capacity. That's her identity. Yes is her favorite word.
Dude, I went to her because she pulls wild-ass stunts. Wild stuff. My brother's playing golf one day after my father passed away and the four older men on the other fairway are like, hey, congratulations, Pat.
Dude, I went to her because she pulls wild-ass stunts. Wild stuff. My brother's playing golf one day after my father passed away and the four older men on the other fairway are like, hey, congratulations, Pat.
Dude, I went to her because she pulls wild-ass stunts. Wild stuff. My brother's playing golf one day after my father passed away and the four older men on the other fairway are like, hey, congratulations, Pat.
The proverbial we? But the interplay of those was something that I got real conscious of along the way. Because if I would go into the you too much, it comes across preachy. Definitely. Going to the I all the time, you're going, well, it's your story, but what's that have to do with me? I don't see myself. And if you use the proverbial we, you're like...
The proverbial we? But the interplay of those was something that I got real conscious of along the way. Because if I would go into the you too much, it comes across preachy. Definitely. Going to the I all the time, you're going, well, it's your story, but what's that have to do with me? I don't see myself. And if you use the proverbial we, you're like...
The proverbial we? But the interplay of those was something that I got real conscious of along the way. Because if I would go into the you too much, it comes across preachy. Definitely. Going to the I all the time, you're going, well, it's your story, but what's that have to do with me? I don't see myself. And if you use the proverbial we, you're like...
My brother's like, what? I ain't getting married. They're like, oh, yeah, anyway, sorry. You tell them that, mom, what'd you do? What are you talking about? Mom, what'd you do? What's it say here about you and Jack getting married? Oh, that. Mom, what'd you do? Well, first, I didn't think you'd find out, but here's what we did.
My brother's like, what? I ain't getting married. They're like, oh, yeah, anyway, sorry. You tell them that, mom, what'd you do? What are you talking about? Mom, what'd you do? What's it say here about you and Jack getting married? Oh, that. Mom, what'd you do? Well, first, I didn't think you'd find out, but here's what we did.
My brother's like, what? I ain't getting married. They're like, oh, yeah, anyway, sorry. You tell them that, mom, what'd you do? What are you talking about? Mom, what'd you do? What's it say here about you and Jack getting married? Oh, that. Mom, what'd you do? Well, first, I didn't think you'd find out, but here's what we did.
Look, the Country Club dues are $400 a month if you're just together, but they're only $250 a month if you're married. So we just told them we were married. Mom, come on. And she'll cry, say I'm sorry, and then boom, forget about it.
Look, the Country Club dues are $400 a month if you're just together, but they're only $250 a month if you're married. So we just told them we were married. Mom, come on. And she'll cry, say I'm sorry, and then boom, forget about it.
Look, the Country Club dues are $400 a month if you're just together, but they're only $250 a month if you're married. So we just told them we were married. Mom, come on. And she'll cry, say I'm sorry, and then boom, forget about it.
To have told everybody at the country club that they were married. To save $150 a month. Just like badass like that. And then he'll sit there and cry and say, I'm sorry. Not a shallow woman at all, but just bam.
To have told everybody at the country club that they were married. To save $150 a month. Just like badass like that. And then he'll sit there and cry and say, I'm sorry. Not a shallow woman at all, but just bam.
To have told everybody at the country club that they were married. To save $150 a month. Just like badass like that. And then he'll sit there and cry and say, I'm sorry. Not a shallow woman at all, but just bam.
Asks for show. Makes all the girls scream. Gets you on TV. That's for dough. Puts the roof over our head, food on the plate, takes care of business. It's a work muscle. Work ethic was a big thing to him. Don't half-ass it. If you're gonna do it, man, do it. And if you can't, don't say can't. If you're having trouble, ask for help. But don't sit there and say I can't because there's a solution.
Asks for show. Makes all the girls scream. Gets you on TV. That's for dough. Puts the roof over our head, food on the plate, takes care of business. It's a work muscle. Work ethic was a big thing to him. Don't half-ass it. If you're gonna do it, man, do it. And if you can't, don't say can't. If you're having trouble, ask for help. But don't sit there and say I can't because there's a solution.
Asks for show. Makes all the girls scream. Gets you on TV. That's for dough. Puts the roof over our head, food on the plate, takes care of business. It's a work muscle. Work ethic was a big thing to him. Don't half-ass it. If you're gonna do it, man, do it. And if you can't, don't say can't. If you're having trouble, ask for help. But don't sit there and say I can't because there's a solution.
Yeah, to dads, man. Hey, and to more Govans out there because there's no... There's no better. You got kids? Two. And you got kids. Dude, this is a... If more dads, the dads out there, you're not in a toast here and say, can we be as good of a dad as we can be? Good of a father? This whole planet's going to be looking good for all of us, man. A lot better. Amen on that. What do you think?
Yeah, to dads, man. Hey, and to more Govans out there because there's no... There's no better. You got kids? Two. And you got kids. Dude, this is a... If more dads, the dads out there, you're not in a toast here and say, can we be as good of a dad as we can be? Good of a father? This whole planet's going to be looking good for all of us, man. A lot better. Amen on that. What do you think?
Yeah, to dads, man. Hey, and to more Govans out there because there's no... There's no better. You got kids? Two. And you got kids. Dude, this is a... If more dads, the dads out there, you're not in a toast here and say, can we be as good of a dad as we can be? Good of a father? This whole planet's going to be looking good for all of us, man. A lot better. Amen on that. What do you think?
Oh, that's nice and easy. It's vodka. I don't drink much vodka. Not a lot of men do. But a little on the backside kind of opens up.
Oh, that's nice and easy. It's vodka. I don't drink much vodka. Not a lot of men do. But a little on the backside kind of opens up.
Oh, that's nice and easy. It's vodka. I don't drink much vodka. Not a lot of men do. But a little on the backside kind of opens up.
I walked in, he was doing a Speedo shoot. It's in his contract. It's in my contract. It's in the contract.
I walked in, he was doing a Speedo shoot. It's in his contract. It's in my contract. It's in the contract.
I walked in, he was doing a Speedo shoot. It's in his contract. It's in my contract. It's in the contract.
Okay, Mr. Big Stuff, speaking with the voice of God.
Okay, Mr. Big Stuff, speaking with the voice of God.
Okay, Mr. Big Stuff, speaking with the voice of God.
Because, look, you can sell snake oil with a good marketing campaign. You can get away with shit. You can put lipstick on the donkey and call it thoroughbred and people will go bet on it in the race. But we said, look, let's make some real good fucking juice first. We're serious about our tequila. Let's make some really good juice first.
Because, look, you can sell snake oil with a good marketing campaign. You can get away with shit. You can put lipstick on the donkey and call it thoroughbred and people will go bet on it in the race. But we said, look, let's make some real good fucking juice first. We're serious about our tequila. Let's make some really good juice first.
Because, look, you can sell snake oil with a good marketing campaign. You can get away with shit. You can put lipstick on the donkey and call it thoroughbred and people will go bet on it in the race. But we said, look, let's make some real good fucking juice first. We're serious about our tequila. Let's make some really good juice first.
Let's be formal about that process, which took two years and 47 tasters. But once we got that, we said, boom, circus. Now let's have some frickin' fun. People have been talking real snooty up nosy about tequila for a long time. Now let's have some fun. Pantalone is a great name. Oh, I can run with that. Oh, what can you do with your pants off? Pixels will be our friend.
Let's be formal about that process, which took two years and 47 tasters. But once we got that, we said, boom, circus. Now let's have some frickin' fun. People have been talking real snooty up nosy about tequila for a long time. Now let's have some fun. Pantalone is a great name. Oh, I can run with that. Oh, what can you do with your pants off? Pixels will be our friend.
Let's be formal about that process, which took two years and 47 tasters. But once we got that, we said, boom, circus. Now let's have some frickin' fun. People have been talking real snooty up nosy about tequila for a long time. Now let's have some fun. Pantalone is a great name. Oh, I can run with that. Oh, what can you do with your pants off? Pixels will be our friend.
The pixels that cover in our midsection are joke. And they're a running joke. They're like the beep, mother beeper. They're like the beep. You laugh. Ah, I think they cussed right there. Ah, I think they're naked under there. And we can run with that forever. I also think, though, and ask me this. Curious if I'm giving this too much justice.
The pixels that cover in our midsection are joke. And they're a running joke. They're like the beep, mother beeper. They're like the beep. You laugh. Ah, I think they cussed right there. Ah, I think they're naked under there. And we can run with that forever. I also think, though, and ask me this. Curious if I'm giving this too much justice.
The pixels that cover in our midsection are joke. And they're a running joke. They're like the beep, mother beeper. They're like the beep. You laugh. Ah, I think they cussed right there. Ah, I think they're naked under there. And we can run with that forever. I also think, though, and ask me this. Curious if I'm giving this too much justice.
Do you think it would have worked if I'd have been with anyone other than my wife?
Do you think it would have worked if I'd have been with anyone other than my wife?
Do you think it would have worked if I'd have been with anyone other than my wife?
I don't either.
I don't either.
I don't either.
Right?
Right?
Right?
Because there's a good, clean fun of it that whatever you know about Camilla and I, her and I married, we got kids. It's like, all right. There's a certain demographic, I think, if it had been me and, I don't know, another actress, there's a certain demographic that would have been like, no, I'm not. This is too much of a stunt. I don't want to think that those two are naked in front of each other.
Because there's a good, clean fun of it that whatever you know about Camilla and I, her and I married, we got kids. It's like, all right. There's a certain demographic, I think, if it had been me and, I don't know, another actress, there's a certain demographic that would have been like, no, I'm not. This is too much of a stunt. I don't want to think that those two are naked in front of each other.
Because there's a good, clean fun of it that whatever you know about Camilla and I, her and I married, we got kids. It's like, all right. There's a certain demographic, I think, if it had been me and, I don't know, another actress, there's a certain demographic that would have been like, no, I'm not. This is too much of a stunt. I don't want to think that those two are naked in front of each other.
Who's my best friend? Great question. That's two great questions I got in this interview. I think it's the third.
Who's my best friend? Great question. That's two great questions I got in this interview. I think it's the third.
Who's my best friend? Great question. That's two great questions I got in this interview. I think it's the third.
Who's my best friend? Probably Camilla. I'm happy to say. I mean, I got some really close friends, and I don't have a best friend like I had a best friend in high school. I had a best friend in college. I had a best friend.
Who's my best friend? Probably Camilla. I'm happy to say. I mean, I got some really close friends, and I don't have a best friend like I had a best friend in high school. I had a best friend in college. I had a best friend.
Who's my best friend? Probably Camilla. I'm happy to say. I mean, I got some really close friends, and I don't have a best friend like I had a best friend in high school. I had a best friend in college. I had a best friend.
Early part of my career, I mean, as far as the person that I share with and that sees me express myself and sits there and comes to me and pops me and gut checks me on places where maybe I'm trying to get away with something that she's like, no, no, no, no, that ain't gonna fly. Or lets me know, hey man, here's a glass of pantalones, man. Be easy on yourself for a second.
Early part of my career, I mean, as far as the person that I share with and that sees me express myself and sits there and comes to me and pops me and gut checks me on places where maybe I'm trying to get away with something that she's like, no, no, no, no, that ain't gonna fly. Or lets me know, hey man, here's a glass of pantalones, man. Be easy on yourself for a second.
Early part of my career, I mean, as far as the person that I share with and that sees me express myself and sits there and comes to me and pops me and gut checks me on places where maybe I'm trying to get away with something that she's like, no, no, no, no, that ain't gonna fly. Or lets me know, hey man, here's a glass of pantalones, man. Be easy on yourself for a second.
She walks a good line with that. She's great about... Next day is after the party. She's great about this. You know, everyone goes to the weekend wedding in Mexico. And it's Friday, Saturday night's the wedding. And then Sunday, everyone gets out of there, shade in their eyes to make it to work on Monday morning. She's great about this.
She walks a good line with that. She's great about... Next day is after the party. She's great about this. You know, everyone goes to the weekend wedding in Mexico. And it's Friday, Saturday night's the wedding. And then Sunday, everyone gets out of there, shade in their eyes to make it to work on Monday morning. She's great about this.
She walks a good line with that. She's great about... Next day is after the party. She's great about this. You know, everyone goes to the weekend wedding in Mexico. And it's Friday, Saturday night's the wedding. And then Sunday, everyone gets out of there, shade in their eyes to make it to work on Monday morning. She's great about this.
Let's make sure that we have Monday open and the first thing on Tuesday is after 2 p.m. And we're going to not leave until Monday afternoon. So while everyone rushes out, we're going to merge out. Have a beer by the pool. Grab another sign. Have another cocktail that night. Eat a good meal. She's really great about the soft landings.
Let's make sure that we have Monday open and the first thing on Tuesday is after 2 p.m. And we're going to not leave until Monday afternoon. So while everyone rushes out, we're going to merge out. Have a beer by the pool. Grab another sign. Have another cocktail that night. Eat a good meal. She's really great about the soft landings.
Let's make sure that we have Monday open and the first thing on Tuesday is after 2 p.m. And we're going to not leave until Monday afternoon. So while everyone rushes out, we're going to merge out. Have a beer by the pool. Grab another sign. Have another cocktail that night. Eat a good meal. She's really great about the soft landings.
She's really good about that.
She's really good about that.
She's really good about that.
Sorry. And I've got some other friends. I've got some real good... I have some girls I'm good friends with, but I have a lot of good male friends. And I've been seeking elders. I found myself in the last eight years. Mentors. Older men that have done it well, held their stuff together, been about themselves. We should get some mentors.
Sorry. And I've got some other friends. I've got some real good... I have some girls I'm good friends with, but I have a lot of good male friends. And I've been seeking elders. I found myself in the last eight years. Mentors. Older men that have done it well, held their stuff together, been about themselves. We should get some mentors.
Sorry. And I've got some other friends. I've got some real good... I have some girls I'm good friends with, but I have a lot of good male friends. And I've been seeking elders. I found myself in the last eight years. Mentors. Older men that have done it well, held their stuff together, been about themselves. We should get some mentors.
I'm with you, man. It reminds me of another. This is not a trick, but it's a good reminder. And it's a simple one that I think is a really good one. It has been in my life. in this world where so many of our relationships, whether it is for us or not, it is for the other, transactional.
I'm with you, man. It reminds me of another. This is not a trick, but it's a good reminder. And it's a simple one that I think is a really good one. It has been in my life. in this world where so many of our relationships, whether it is for us or not, it is for the other, transactional.
I'm with you, man. It reminds me of another. This is not a trick, but it's a good reminder. And it's a simple one that I think is a really good one. It has been in my life. in this world where so many of our relationships, whether it is for us or not, it is for the other, transactional.
To sit there every month, and I've tried to, is reach out to people. It's just a five-minute howdy, and I don't ask for nothing. And I've noticed that it's almost like they go, well, what do you, nothing. Don't need anything. It can go a long way.
To sit there every month, and I've tried to, is reach out to people. It's just a five-minute howdy, and I don't ask for nothing. And I've noticed that it's almost like they go, well, what do you, nothing. Don't need anything. It can go a long way.
To sit there every month, and I've tried to, is reach out to people. It's just a five-minute howdy, and I don't ask for nothing. And I've noticed that it's almost like they go, well, what do you, nothing. Don't need anything. It can go a long way.
And it's a quick little hit. It's not a deep, long thing. It's just a quick little hit for nothing at all. Just checking in.
And it's a quick little hit. It's not a deep, long thing. It's just a quick little hit for nothing at all. Just checking in.
And it's a quick little hit. It's not a deep, long thing. It's just a quick little hit for nothing at all. Just checking in.
Get the audio book. It just fucking talks. It was fun to read. They said it was going to take like four days to record it. And I remember just sitting there going... man, I know these stories. I wrote this. It's not going to take four days. Popped a couple of buds and eight hours. One take.
Get the audio book. It just fucking talks. It was fun to read. They said it was going to take like four days to record it. And I remember just sitting there going... man, I know these stories. I wrote this. It's not going to take four days. Popped a couple of buds and eight hours. One take.
Get the audio book. It just fucking talks. It was fun to read. They said it was going to take like four days to record it. And I remember just sitting there going... man, I know these stories. I wrote this. It's not going to take four days. Popped a couple of buds and eight hours. One take.
It ain't going to be long.
It ain't going to be long.
It ain't going to be long.
You ain't going to go take a long walk to go sit down. And it's just a...
You ain't going to go take a long walk to go sit down. And it's just a...
You ain't going to go take a long walk to go sit down. And it's just a...
He's writing and he's writing. He's making a living writing scripts. For real? Yeah. I'm like, he's writing scripts that are being made by major studios. So he's got, he found a good, I met with him. It's been a couple of years, but he's, I think he's doing, when I talked to him, he's doing well.
He's writing and he's writing. He's making a living writing scripts. For real? Yeah. I'm like, he's writing scripts that are being made by major studios. So he's got, he found a good, I met with him. It's been a couple of years, but he's, I think he's doing, when I talked to him, he's doing well.
He's writing and he's writing. He's making a living writing scripts. For real? Yeah. I'm like, he's writing scripts that are being made by major studios. So he's got, he found a good, I met with him. It's been a couple of years, but he's, I think he's doing, when I talked to him, he's doing well.
Fucking wasted that. Got some killer black and whites from it. It's so cool. Well, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of what... If you try and be cool... I don't know anyone that's really cool. We try to be cool. We always talk about this about the city of Austin. All you got to do is be you. A lot of people move to Austin going, okay, well, I'm going to try to be what I think being me is like.
Fucking wasted that. Got some killer black and whites from it. It's so cool. Well, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of what... If you try and be cool... I don't know anyone that's really cool. We try to be cool. We always talk about this about the city of Austin. All you got to do is be you. A lot of people move to Austin going, okay, well, I'm going to try to be what I think being me is like.
Fucking wasted that. Got some killer black and whites from it. It's so cool. Well, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of what... If you try and be cool... I don't know anyone that's really cool. We try to be cool. We always talk about this about the city of Austin. All you got to do is be you. A lot of people move to Austin going, okay, well, I'm going to try to be what I think being me is like.
No, that's not cool. Or I'm going to try to be what Austin is like. No, no, no. No, just be you, bro. Stay in your own lane. Do your own thing. Yeah.
No, that's not cool. Or I'm going to try to be what Austin is like. No, no, no. No, just be you, bro. Stay in your own lane. Do your own thing. Yeah.
No, that's not cool. Or I'm going to try to be what Austin is like. No, no, no. No, just be you, bro. Stay in your own lane. Do your own thing. Yeah.
Uh, dude, I think cool comes from just ownership. You know, if it's an actor, I'll owning my man. Uh, yeah. For instance, first role I ever did, Wooderson, Days Confused. Fucking love it. There's a line written in there, Richard Linklater, one of the original lines. I call it a launch pad line. Those lines that you go, this character means that.
Uh, dude, I think cool comes from just ownership. You know, if it's an actor, I'll owning my man. Uh, yeah. For instance, first role I ever did, Wooderson, Days Confused. Fucking love it. There's a line written in there, Richard Linklater, one of the original lines. I call it a launch pad line. Those lines that you go, this character means that.
Uh, dude, I think cool comes from just ownership. You know, if it's an actor, I'll owning my man. Uh, yeah. For instance, first role I ever did, Wooderson, Days Confused. Fucking love it. There's a line written in there, Richard Linklater, one of the original lines. I call it a launch pad line. Those lines that you go, this character means that.
There's a book written I could write on that character, right? Wooderson's hanging out in front of the pool hall. High school chicks walk by. He checks him out the backside. His buddy leans in his ear and says, Wooderson, you've got to cut that out, man. You're going to end up in jail. He says, no, man, that's what I love about those high school girls, man. I get older, but they stay the same age.
There's a book written I could write on that character, right? Wooderson's hanging out in front of the pool hall. High school chicks walk by. He checks him out the backside. His buddy leans in his ear and says, Wooderson, you've got to cut that out, man. You're going to end up in jail. He says, no, man, that's what I love about those high school girls, man. I get older, but they stay the same age.
There's a book written I could write on that character, right? Wooderson's hanging out in front of the pool hall. High school chicks walk by. He checks him out the backside. His buddy leans in his ear and says, Wooderson, you've got to cut that out, man. You're going to end up in jail. He says, no, man, that's what I love about those high school girls, man. I get older, but they stay the same age.
I went, who the fuck is that? Now, what if that guy is not saying that line to be cool? What if that guy's, that's not an attitude. He's not trying to make a joke to make Sasha laugh. He's like, I got life figured out, man. This is how the math works. I am living in the salad days, to quote the Coens, right?
I went, who the fuck is that? Now, what if that guy is not saying that line to be cool? What if that guy's, that's not an attitude. He's not trying to make a joke to make Sasha laugh. He's like, I got life figured out, man. This is how the math works. I am living in the salad days, to quote the Coens, right?
I went, who the fuck is that? Now, what if that guy is not saying that line to be cool? What if that guy's, that's not an attitude. He's not trying to make a joke to make Sasha laugh. He's like, I got life figured out, man. This is how the math works. I am living in the salad days, to quote the Coens, right?
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah. Wow.
life philosophy yeah now that unpacked all kinds of stuff because it was truth truth and the guy's saying this truth and i think what happened and i look back at the scene i actually stepped forward on the curb and kind of set it to the ether set it to the universe like yeah we're good man yeah yeah that's why i like a wooderson and i wasn't trying to be cool but owning owning it is your your your your life your politics whatever it is you're what you want what you can do what you can't do yeah
life philosophy yeah now that unpacked all kinds of stuff because it was truth truth and the guy's saying this truth and i think what happened and i look back at the scene i actually stepped forward on the curb and kind of set it to the ether set it to the universe like yeah we're good man yeah yeah that's why i like a wooderson and i wasn't trying to be cool but owning owning it is your your your your life your politics whatever it is you're what you want what you can do what you can't do yeah
life philosophy yeah now that unpacked all kinds of stuff because it was truth truth and the guy's saying this truth and i think what happened and i look back at the scene i actually stepped forward on the curb and kind of set it to the ether set it to the universe like yeah we're good man yeah yeah that's why i like a wooderson and i wasn't trying to be cool but owning owning it is your your your your life your politics whatever it is you're what you want what you can do what you can't do yeah
What works for you, what doesn't? Without soliciting, without intruding, cool doesn't really intrude. Cool doesn't trespass. You know those people you talk to, you're like, man, I love talking to them because they kind of hold their space, man. You know those people you talk to that are always trying to get in there and solicit and get the, you're like, be cool, man. Yeah, yeah. Own your shit.
What works for you, what doesn't? Without soliciting, without intruding, cool doesn't really intrude. Cool doesn't trespass. You know those people you talk to, you're like, man, I love talking to them because they kind of hold their space, man. You know those people you talk to that are always trying to get in there and solicit and get the, you're like, be cool, man. Yeah, yeah. Own your shit.
What works for you, what doesn't? Without soliciting, without intruding, cool doesn't really intrude. Cool doesn't trespass. You know those people you talk to, you're like, man, I love talking to them because they kind of hold their space, man. You know those people you talk to that are always trying to get in there and solicit and get the, you're like, be cool, man. Yeah, yeah. Own your shit.
Yeah. You don't need me to convert to make you cool. Right.
Yeah. You don't need me to convert to make you cool. Right.
Yeah. You don't need me to convert to make you cool. Right.
Right. Right. So I think it's ownership. And if I can find that or any performance I see where you see somebody own whoever they are, the most, nerds are cool.
Right. Right. So I think it's ownership. And if I can find that or any performance I see where you see somebody own whoever they are, the most, nerds are cool.
Right. Right. So I think it's ownership. And if I can find that or any performance I see where you see somebody own whoever they are, the most, nerds are cool.
right when they're like i'm a nerd man i like this that's cool yes i don't think dorks are cool because dorks what's the difference between a nerd and a dork nerd dorks don't want to want to say dorks change their answer for wherever they are to fit the circumstance to do what they think is the cool thing you need to come to the comedy mothership fucking green room there's a bunch of dorks in there okay
right when they're like i'm a nerd man i like this that's cool yes i don't think dorks are cool because dorks what's the difference between a nerd and a dork nerd dorks don't want to want to say dorks change their answer for wherever they are to fit the circumstance to do what they think is the cool thing you need to come to the comedy mothership fucking green room there's a bunch of dorks in there okay
right when they're like i'm a nerd man i like this that's cool yes i don't think dorks are cool because dorks what's the difference between a nerd and a dork nerd dorks don't want to want to say dorks change their answer for wherever they are to fit the circumstance to do what they think is the cool thing you need to come to the comedy mothership fucking green room there's a bunch of dorks in there okay
There's no compass. Everything's an affair. There's no marriage on any sort of POV or stance.
There's no compass. Everything's an affair. There's no marriage on any sort of POV or stance.
There's no compass. Everything's an affair. There's no marriage on any sort of POV or stance.
It's like... We talk about improv a lot. Y'all know improv, but I mean movies. And comedians do this sometimes. Some comedians are very good actors. Some... are better performers at a skit and not necessarily a great actor.
It's like... We talk about improv a lot. Y'all know improv, but I mean movies. And comedians do this sometimes. Some comedians are very good actors. Some... are better performers at a skit and not necessarily a great actor.
It's like... We talk about improv a lot. Y'all know improv, but I mean movies. And comedians do this sometimes. Some comedians are very good actors. Some... are better performers at a skit and not necessarily a great actor.
There are some scenes, and I won't point them out, but there are some scenes in the movie that we've all laughed at very hard, but I look at it and go, that's a great SNL skit, but that had nothing to do with the relationship and the circumstance in that movie. Right. So riffing and improv is not an amendment.
There are some scenes, and I won't point them out, but there are some scenes in the movie that we've all laughed at very hard, but I look at it and go, that's a great SNL skit, but that had nothing to do with the relationship and the circumstance in that movie. Right. So riffing and improv is not an amendment.
There are some scenes, and I won't point them out, but there are some scenes in the movie that we've all laughed at very hard, but I look at it and go, that's a great SNL skit, but that had nothing to do with the relationship and the circumstance in that movie. Right. So riffing and improv is not an amendment.
Oh, hell yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
It's not a one-off of, I've got to find a spot to get this joke in, and if I get a gap, I'm going to throw it.
It's not a one-off of, I've got to find a spot to get this joke in, and if I get a gap, I'm going to throw it.
It's not a one-off of, I've got to find a spot to get this joke in, and if I get a gap, I'm going to throw it.
If it has no context. Yeah, it doesn't. Then it's like, okay, that's a skit. Improv comes from the... Good improv, I think, comes from the written word, from what was the base of who the character is, what's the circumstance, what's the relationship. And then if you can riff on that, then you're like, I don't know. You call it improv? I don't know. It's coming from... You're just expanding.
If it has no context. Yeah, it doesn't. Then it's like, okay, that's a skit. Improv comes from the... Good improv, I think, comes from the written word, from what was the base of who the character is, what's the circumstance, what's the relationship. And then if you can riff on that, then you're like, I don't know. You call it improv? I don't know. It's coming from... You're just expanding.
If it has no context. Yeah, it doesn't. Then it's like, okay, that's a skit. Improv comes from the... Good improv, I think, comes from the written word, from what was the base of who the character is, what's the circumstance, what's the relationship. And then if you can riff on that, then you're like, I don't know. You call it improv? I don't know. It's coming from... You're just expanding.
I get a launch pad line like that. I'm going... I come back, work for three weeks. Linklater throws me in scenes. I'm going like, everything's based off the guy who believes that I've got life figured out because that's what I love. But high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age. You know what car that guy drives.
I get a launch pad line like that. I'm going... I come back, work for three weeks. Linklater throws me in scenes. I'm going like, everything's based off the guy who believes that I've got life figured out because that's what I love. But high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age. You know what car that guy drives.
I get a launch pad line like that. I'm going... I come back, work for three weeks. Linklater throws me in scenes. I'm going like, everything's based off the guy who believes that I've got life figured out because that's what I love. But high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age. You know what car that guy drives.
Those are pursuits.
That comes with...
I just watched.
You can't say there's no score.
This is so crazy.
Why is our goalie trying to keep them from scoring?
What's the point?
Well, especially once they leave the house.
And they're on their own because the world sure plays by the rules and the score is kept.
And you don't win every one.
There's nobody coming back in to tuck you in bed and say it's okay.
Let's put some ice on it.
It's cold-blooded.
I got a cool movie coming out called The Lost Bus.
It'll be out in October.
It's going to be in theaters for a couple weeks, and it goes on Apple and streams.
Remember the Paradise Fires in 2018 in Paradise, California?
I think the number was 30 people or so died.
Jamie Lee Curtis heard this story on NPR and went to Jason Bloom, and Jason Bloom went to Paul Greengrass, who's the director of Captain Phillips, United 93, Black Sunday.
Really good action director, but also with a good personal dramatic story in it.
And then they came to me for it.
And there were a lot of heroic people that at that time that went – ran towards the crisis instead of away from the crisis.
But this one particular story about this bus driver and this teacher that –
got 22 kids to safety was the story we picked to tell.
And, um, we went and shot it in Santa Fe.
This guy that, uh, this guy that I play is, um, Oh, here's the trailer.
So this guy, Kevin, in our story, comes back home because his dad has passed away, and he's going to take care of his widowed mother and try to reunite with his son, which, by the way, check this out, Joe.
My mom plays my mom, and Levi plays my son.
You think that's where I got a hunch that in there is where you where we find belief.
In a movie, man.
Your mom plays your mom?
So he comes back, do that, and he gets a part-time job as a school bus driver.
He goes out that morning.
There's a fire coming across the canyon, as they always do.
First responders head out.
Well, by the afternoon, it had gotten out of hand and was jumping the canyon.
And so that afternoon, as he's now decided, oh, shit, I've got to go back and get my mom and my son.
Neither one of them can drive.
Get them to safety.
On the way home, barging home to go barge down the highway to go get them, a call comes through dispatch.
I got 22 stranded kids on the east side of town.
Is anyone over there with an empty bus?
Guess who's got an empty bus?
I want to go get my mom and my son, man.
But he takes the call and says, I'll go get them.
He goes and gets them.
A teacher, their teacher gets on the bus, and this is their story of about eight hours of going through hell and how and if they got out of it.
You know, that's going to the dream and saying, let's go to let's let's let's look at the dream and see if we can still believe in making that a reality.
Like starting with that question, who or what would you die for?
awesome adrenaline pumped action, which you're going to get from green grass and a story like that.
Like the fire, this is as good as fire movie as there's been.
The fire is a fucking predator.
It's from the POV.
It's like jaws.
The fire is actually like the shark and jaws in this thing.
Plus a really cool story of redemption, father, sons, um, and, uh,
You know, two people doing what they can to survive when there were no contact.
good place to start right for going what do i believe in what do i have faith in yeah do you think that that extends out to a location a career uh uh some work we do i'm not saying that
All the telephone towers were down and the dispatch was down.
No one had any contact.
So he didn't know if his mom and son were okay.
He didn't know where to go, where the traffic jams were.
And what happened is the first responders left early to go get the fires.
When they got there, it had already jumped the canyon.
So when they were coming back to town, the mandatory evacuation, the whole town's leaving.
They couldn't get back in town.
So it's a bit of a horror film in that way.
The fire is predator.
It's pretty good.
Tough movie, but a good one.
I'd die for the experience to perform.
And if you figure out what you're going to do, what you'll die for, that's what you'll live for that much more.
While you're alive, while you're here.
Go for whatever.
Raise your skirt, man.
Let's get some team spirit here.
Instead of looking at reality and saying, how do you turn that into a dream?
Which is what I usually do.
I'm like, art emulates life, man, not the other way around.
Wondering why he liked it so much?
But I flipped the script a little bit here and said, no, no, let's dive into the dreams and belief.
The Pentagon didn't deny it.
Man, I think it's in short supply.
Look out, Greenland.
I got one for you.
My tank was getting low on belief.
How about the gay bomb?
I mean, you lay it out like that, and there's a few people in that room up there going like,
measure in the Pentagon.
What was going to make everyone so horny that they had to attack the nearest human or animal or whatever, I suppose.
Turn 50, something like that.
Maybe it's that where I start to project, you know, what am I?
We were talking about teamwork.
What's the next half?
They're still looking.
They definitely are not at a can't not do it stage there.
They're going, what about this?
I've got more than a campfire to make on this one frying pan tonight.
I've got a lot of options out there and a lot of money, and I can make an argument for this.
Maybe subconsciously it was.
I think I look around and there's a lot fewer leaders that I'm like, hey, son.
So how do we do that, though?
I mean, I hear you, man.
Are we giving ourselves too much credit?
The heel's hanging over.
I mean, do what I'm saying is I love the prospect and the idea.
But I also think that we're guilty of thinking we're a more evolved species than we are.
And always have been.
Always have been.
And keep trying to talk like we were more mature and evolved and intellectually sane.
I want to grow up like that.
So the warfare is different, though, now, like you were talking about, from gay bombs to chemical warfare to informational warfare to data warfare.
Or is that where the wars are being fought now and it's not hand-to-hand?
I see people that aren't embarrassed for doing something shitty.
Do you think there's a way that we can keep evolving AI where we as humans do work with AI, that AI improves the human existence?
What about the camp that is, no, forget humanity.
This is the next step in evolution.
We are creating this to become the superior species.
Existent species and we will be obsolete and that's the order of things to come.
I see people that sleep just fine.
I found myself starting to go, oh, I sleep fine too.
You got to hear this.
That's that part where I was like, uh-uh.
You can't you don't you don't don't sleep fine if you half ass that situation or if you did that person wrong and can get away with it.
The second scenario is where what I'm not necessarily fearing, but where I see it be going faster, quicker.
The first scenario is what you're talking about, like a neural link.
The first scenario is how we survive with it.
This is when it first was coming on, questions.
And I would always ask people, what can it do?
And, you know, there's the question of sentience and all that stuff.
And that's already being argued now.
Well, no, it's getting emotional.
And so so trust what where do we look to for belief?
People are having relationships with it.
It's also toying with people.
Do you think it could be a tastemaker?
And in a way, the argument was that I understood, no, I didn't believe it could be a tastemaker.
Look, it can tell you the most popular band on 6th Street, but it doesn't know that one down on 2nd Street that's playing at midnight that no one knows about, that those are real talented people.
At the same time,
You know, there's an argument against that that I'm seeing with, like, what's the term or what words does it use?
If it uses the most popular words to explain, AI uses the most popular words.
You say, no, no, no, no, no.
Go down three notches and use the, you know, play me the best B-sides.
That's more of a human language.
And I'm going, oh, that's starting to become a tastemaker.
If you can ask it to... Yeah, but...
Tell me what the best band is out there that Joe Rogan would like on a Friday night when he doesn't have to work till Monday and he's out with his wife on a date that you can customize.
It can actually be a tastemaker and it'll use different language than, oh, here's the across the board protocol of what's the most popular.
And I'm using the most popular language that it actually can be customized to be a tastemaker.
Me, I believe in God, but it doesn't have to be that.
It's your better self, your transcendent self, your kids, their future.
I very sparingly use it, and I do have a little pride about not wanting to use an open-ended –
AI to share my information so it can be part of the worldwide AI vernacular.
I am interested, though, in a private LLM where I can upload, hey, here's three books I've written.
Here's my other favorite books.
Here's my favorite articles I've been cutting and pasting over the 10 years and log all that in.
And here's all my journals or whatever, the people, and log all that in so I can ask it questions based on that.
And basically learn more about myself.
There's all kinds of things to believe in.
Where do I stand on the political spectrum?
Right, right, right.
No, that's what I would like to do, which is sort of a glorified word document, but it still would hold a lot more information than just, oh, can you find this term?
I would be asking it and it would be responding to me on things that I've forgotten along the way.
Yeah, I guess I would just like to load it with the information I'd like to load it with.
Maybe even, like I'm saying, in the words of belief, in the man I'm working to be, the man I want to load it with that, load it with my aspirational self.
And then ask it, and it's giving me answers going, oh, this is – but before –
It's slowly learning about me through conversations, then going, oh, I think this is what you like based on our conversations.
No, I want the answers based on what I've uploaded it with only, not from the outside world.
Their own library.
You could have a conversation with yourself.
That'd be a great Socratic dialogue to have with an AI that's like,
I've got all that 80% of stuff you forgot.
I've got all that 80% of stuff you maybe forgot, Joe.
I've got it all right here.
Then you're the passenger.
And not the objective one.
You're like that zone you're talking about.
Because you get to look at yourself.
You're your passenger live in the documentary that is your life.
That sounds pretty exciting.
My forgiveness on myself, because playing grab ass with our thoughts is sometimes good when we finally get the memory and we go, yes, there it was.
But also to let myself off the hook.
Sometimes I'm like, dude, what's the big fucking idea with this?
I was there, man.
Yeah, it just goes away.
I don't remember, Joe, but we were there.
Was it a great memory?
Was it a good time?
Isn't that better than me fucking having to remember?
Do you think that...
So I can go on, I've got a speech I'm giving to, you know, on gun control, or I've got a speech I'm giving on grant initiatives.
I can ask AI, and it can pop out a badass, here's one, two, three sections.
I'm not going to cut and paste this and say exactly these words, because it kind of sounds like a little AI, but...
Boy, it's done a lot of work and it's laid out a synopsis.
It's laid out a treatment for me in 10 seconds.
Do you think that there's value in not doing that and going?
No, I'm looking over my stuff.
I'm cutting and pasting.
I'm doing it myself.
Are we learning more by that way to understand the content and the context of our content when we do that, what some would call busy work now to formulate our synopsis, which I can do it in 10 seconds.
Are we learning more by doing it ourselves?
You have more knowledge.
You passed the math test.
And what happens when we're in the proverbial foxhole?
When we have to improvise in a moment before we're linked up.
Right, you're soft.
When we have to go, I've got to handle this.
And you can't because you're soft.
I can't rely because I don't have anything to lean on.
I'm looking for my safety net of AI to find out what it should be, and I don't have it.
It's got to be a death.
These relationships, these people that are dating, that program them, do not argue with me.
Just placate me and tell me sweet tales and how great I am.
And this relationship is awesome.
It has no resistance.
It gives me self-confidence.
It doesn't really.
or a sense of self-confidence and significance.
They're there whenever, 24-7.
Well, it's consequences, man.
They're never sick.
They're never in a mood.
No matter what mood I'm in, they're always right there to coddle me.
And that's, talk about conveniences.
Well, that's that.
What's the asset of that?
Or because I don't want to be nostalgic in the midst of all this change either.
I don't want to be an old fashioned guy because it's coming.
So I want to learn how to how to interact with it.
If I can shortcut it and light sheet and steel, I'll get the same thing.
I don't want to sit there and be, you know, a guy who's going all bullshit.
Everything needs to be manual.
I don't want to be that guy.
But I'm trying I'm trying to measure like a lot of people.
What's use what's actually useful for the long term?
In our own evolution and my evolution and your evolution, what's useful with this AI?
How do we use it smartly?
And what's a bad idea?
So there's going to be a major...
security breach before any regulation comes out, right?
There's going to be a major... There already has been.
And I'm in a world that rewards that.
What are we waiting on the regulations for?
Because Europe will regulate it first, right?
We innovate, Europe regulates, and China imitates, I heard.
poems and prayers yeah um so I've been kind of writing try to keep this like these are a little bit direction how's that I've been kind of I've been writing points and prayers down for since I was like 18. um and then this last I don't know a couple years I started
Wait, now, who programmed the first...
incentive and impetus to they didn't survive at all costs because what would to where the where the desire to remain functional functional come from it's just inherent
That's an emotional response.
There's nothing mathematical about that.
You expand and multiply.
If me or an entity poses a question or a prompt or does something that is –
going to debilitate the expansion and multiplication of it.
It is therefore going, uh-uh, that stops my forward movement.
I am programmed to multiply.
What did it say?
I'm not ready to give up on believing that both can be true.
That, hey, man, hardcore capitalists go for it.
That's what I'm saying.
That sounds present.
That sounds like us.
Except, again, not the physical warfare, but the inhabitation.
Of a digital god, an alien, whatever that is, the monsters that come down, that does sound like a nice little mirror to us.
More, more, more success.
But you can also, how do you have profit with your success?
I see a lot of people that are successful but lack profit.
Meaning value of their success.
Have you gotten what you consider...
good at how to make the specific prompts, the wording, like your word.
Tell me the crazy shit.
I mean, are you good at prompting?
Because, like, what does crazy mean to that AI?
Have you worked on, like, AI is as good as the questions we ask it.
Are you – you consider yourself good at the questions and your wording to ask it?
And that math is inverted.
It shouldn't be that way.
If that's what we're pursuing and I got nothing against it, I'm actually for it.
So with time, as AI allows...
Goodness to expand and multiply.
It also is going to allow evil to expand and multiply.
What becomes that war in your mind?
I mean, you talk about the obvious ones are the medical uses.
You talked about the cancer.
That where it's going to help so much.
Well, we're looking in the mirror.
Now, I'm afraid we're not going to like a lot of what we see.
But are the tyrants or the evil ones with the access?
Not the person who said, how do you make a nuclear bomb?
The one who does it and then uses it.
What do you think the stakes are?
Are they the same?
Are they just expanded?
You notice it by— And then you're getting lost in that son of a bitch, and you wish the ceilings were a little bit lower because it's too tall, too damn big.
Where do you get –
Your ethics, your values.
You're in a position of power.
You could screw people over.
You could ask live the silliest questions to try and put me in a corner.
You're not a gotcha guy.
But why – where do you get your ethics of who you are?
You could be cruel and you're not.
But where does that come from?
And you have no responsibility to do that.
No, I wanted to do that.
But you take that, though.
That's what I mean.
That would have been even higher ratings.
I'm playing devil's advocate here.
Why do you care about that?
I'm just curious where that comes from because a lot of people who are not evil people would at least let shit like that slide and go –
Oh, look at that picture.
Shit, that's the first time I've noticed that painting in two years.
I don't want anybody having a bad time.
Okay, that's something that I want to come back to, and let's try to maybe open this up.
You do that because if I said something stupid, you may let me know, hey, let's let that out.
So I'll feel better.
So I won't look like – feel like a pig.
But you also will feel better.
Independent of me.
That's very – that's a selfish thing of you to let me know, hey, man, you stuck your foot in it.
Let's cut that out.
You're acting selfishly because that makes you feel better.
And I think that's what I'm saying is the point is as much as we think of selfless, I think selfish – the true definition is selfish.
To live a certain way.
To have a certain code of ethics is a very selfish thing to do.
Either I don't like it or I got it in the wrong place.
Much more selfish than to lie, cheat, steal, fuck people over, be evil on the short term.
You're building an army of people, a collective friends along the way.
Someone that might have your back.
Not that you're doing it for those reasons, but it's happening.
That's a selfish means of your own survival.
Yeah, it's in the fourth bedroom down the second hallway and I'm never down here.
And I think that's something that we forget sometimes, that these acts to be a fucking good dude is a selfish thing to do, man.
That used to be my favorite chair.
I hadn't sat in it.
I – and I know I fail on that sometimes when I –
Misrepresent selfishness for certainty.
Yeah, because you got it off down in the fifth bedroom.
Certainty can be hard.
But it's different than being selfish.
And I sometimes bogey because I can confuse the two.
And my wife lets me know.
Well, there's more than one way to be right.
That would be a real problem.
Well, you said something interesting, though, man.
Your first one to go, hey, man, sorry, bogeyed.
Now, that's an altruistic trait, man.
Or no, you never go.
That is something that a lot of people have trouble doing.
To say I'm sorry to a lot of people means –
I'm laying down.
And that's not what it means.
When I see movies where a dude's living in a log cabin, I'm like, I want to do that.
What I'm saying is I wish more of us had, hey, man, sorry about that.
I stuck my foot in my mouth.
And now that's not a big deal.
Now we're not – it's part of where woke went too far.
We got so myopic on the word instead of the spirit –
Oh, dude, don't.
Fuck, I didn't know that's how you're going to feel.
I'm still your friend, but that was, sorry, that was out of line.
Instead of, uh-uh.
Cast him out of the kingdom.
We're going to all focus on that.
Instead of the spirit of the intent.
Even if we were wrong.
Woke up from a nightmare.
Fuck, I don't know.
I was pissed off.
Had the little eye.
Got to give everyone a little bit of a break.
And also look at what your intent is.
Instead of focusing on the identity of the word.
Because the word, there's no life in the word.
It's just the alphabet in a certain fucking order.
The lack of options.
The spirit of intention, I believe, is what we should put more focus on.
What is the intent?
The Ten Commandments in the schools.
What do you think about that?
The lack of options is relaxing.
And I'm, okay, I'm curious.
Since Christian society, Ten Commandments, but we have 10 minutes where everyone can take 10 minutes to bow to Allah, to whatever your religion is.
If you care to partake or not, there's no exclusion about what can be a spiritual time of worship in these 10 minutes.
But in our classroom in America, we're going to have the Ten Commandments.
Now, my question then goes to this.
Is there any one of the Ten Commandments that you or anyone disagrees with?
Or is your problem that it can be considered an oppressive author?
Dude, that's what I loved about living in the Airstream for four years.
You only have room for one of everything.
But he's saying maybe I don't have a problem with this.
I do have a problem with this is a beginning of an overcompensation.
So I would get my best, the best pan, the best, the best, the best parish was the best sheets.
That's a selfish way to live life.
But in the way that we were defining selfish.
And then you can only have one of each because you get two.
But there were no options.
I do also, though—
think there could be what if there were tenants yeah on the wall of each religion that we pull the author off for a minute right this is my my my hang up is that we go to the prop most people go to the problem of that not with your argument they go to the problem with it because the author god hey man so we go to the author instead of the content what i'm saying when you look at the commandments is there anything that anyone out there's gonna like i disagree with that one
Those are all pretty solid.
We can use number 10 a lot right now.
We love comparison.
Well, that's in the younger generation.
That's how life's supposed to be.
And I'm just here in my room with my family and I got a good meal downstairs in this house.
I'm not at that party.
I've talked to youth about this and the consensus I hear –
and I haven't found anyone that doesn't feel this way yet.
It's like, look, you mean if you could say, yes, social media, it exists, or it doesn't?
Oh, please, just no.
I wish it didn't exist.
But it does, and I have to be a part of it to feel, I don't know, the word's not relevant to even feel a part of youthful society.
But boy, if you gave me a choice, could we have it or not?
Please take it away.
Wish it wasn't there.
Wish it didn't exist is what I hear a lot of you say.
Do you think there's a China element to that?
So that's part of the new world.
How it would add up with TikTok.
Now, you think it's everywhere through all social media that it's infiltrated to get us into these understandings, perceptions?
Well, he's got...
Decreased amount of options, that's for sure.
And sometimes I call him up and I'm like, dude, I can't do this anymore.
This is like really fucking with me.
So with all of that exterior stimulus.
And here we are with, you know, adult minds and even talking about, man, you've got to watch this.
Imagine a child.
Now I'm going, is there something?
Has anyone got a better suggestion than the Ten Commandments?
Four, to get a child's mind going.
Take care of that one frying pan.
Ten, just those ten things.
If I look at that and aim that direction.
I feel like I can't go wrong or I can go closer to closer to right.
looking around at life and the facts and evidence and people and I was like not finding the amount of things or people to believe in that I was wanting to.
Meaning I'm seeing youth and adults spun out, man.
I don't understand the general expectation between us.
What do you mean?
I can pick your pocket and steal from you if I got away with it.
Yeah, I'm not embarrassed.
I don't feel guilty.
Hey, man, I won a blue ribbon.
I got the shoes.
They gave me the trophy.
What do you mean?
Do it the right way.
You fucking old dinosaur.
What are you talking about?
I hear that conversation.
I'm going, uh-uh.
And that's different than saying, like you told me, you love chaos.
That's different than saying, oh, there's a chaotic moment.
I love to try and create order in it.
That's different.
That's like a...
That's a stimulus.
You know, this is, it's four dimensional.
Where's the ground?
That they can go, okay, I can rely on that.
What can I rely on that will stand with me?
That's a time and test of truth that can take me into the future.
No matter the changes of AI that I can go, in the storm, I can go to this and catch my breath.
I can go to this and rely on it.
In the dark, on my own and in the masses with the millions going, no, no, no, do this, do this.
I can go, uh-uh.
What's that simple sheet that's ingrained that our youth can go, yeah.
It can rely on it.
Forget the author.
Forget the author.
It's similar to the – on a national level, the flag burning thing starts burning up.
That would be like taking the Lord's name in vain.
Burning the flag would be like taking the flag's name in vain.
So you're saying it would go to that creep you're talking about.
uh these these areas where uh like giant muslim populations are all right you know if we get with what would you get what if we get with the hindus and muslims and everybody and we get out you got bring your best 10 christianity's bringing his 10 commandments let's get together here and we'll put them all together hell we'll mix some years on your my number eight will be number nine because yours is going to be number eight and we're going to put them up there it's going to be a creed a little bit constitution to get our day started interesting way to do it but the problem is
They disagree on – And rising from the dead, right?
Well, I just think there could be a creed, a bit of a constitution.
And if you pull the author of it, I think we find more similarities that are not exclusionary than we would find things that are combative ideas.
We wouldn't have to follow—it would just be right now there's not an agreed-upon expectation of how to treat each other.
And almost—not almost, maybe much more than almost—if you do follow the rules— Kind of a sucker.
That—I don't—I'm—that—
That's not going to have a long that can't have a long play.
That is not a selfish move.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Joe, let me tell you this thing.
South Beach, right?
If you don't flinch, nobody's stopping you, right?
Miami, where even the mannequins have fake boobs.
You know what I mean?
It's what I like about Miami because they're so open.
People get the face job and boob jobs and tummy tucks.
And how do you do that?
I mean, you look great.
They're like, oh, I just take cold showers.
But Miami's like, oh, no, here, Dr. Juarez, go see him, man.
I just left him.
You know, they're open about it.
I love that about Miami.
I'm there working on, I think it was the...
And I'm walking down through South Beach and there's this, under a palm tree on the beach, there's this purple and pink Lamborghini pulled in under a palm tree with the beach behind it.
And there's this guy leaning back on it, the gold chain.
He unbuttoned his silk shirt a couple times.
He's greased up.
And these guys are taking pictures of it.
I'm like going, what's going on here?
Well, there's another guy coming by to stop.
You see him chat.
All of a sudden, the new guy hops in on the show.
Yo, does all the pauses.
And I go up to the guy.
I go, what's going on here?
He goes, oh, man, I'm taking a picture for my Tinder cover.
And I go, you are?
But who's the other guy?
He goes, oh, he just came by and said, like, hey, man, you mind if I get a picture for my Tinder cover?
And he paid me 50 bucks.
I said, so that's not your car?
No, man, I rented this car for the day.
And he was proud of it, man.
He was like, yeah, it's just what I did.
South Beach, Miami.
It's a very low vibration.
But they're open about it.
Oh, I haven't seen two.
Remember the police chief that was here?
That then went to Houston because he wanted some real drama.
And Katrina came and he got his real drama.
Then he went to Miami.
And it didn't last.
I didn't get the details on it.
But wasn't it something about the Miami, I don't know if it was mafia and city council going, uh-uh, there are certain things you cannot infiltrate here.
And he was either fired, booted out, or retired and moved on pretty soon.
You know, and if you don't stutter and you don't flinch.
It's all a green light.
Boom, you're out.
He dropped that gay bomb on them.
Is he still an optometrist?
I was in Alabama doing research for –
Free State of Jones.
And this is what I think probably 11 years ago.
And we were staying in Mobile.
And the next day, there was all these parades that night.
And I was like, what's going on?
The next day, the percentage for the vote for gay marriage was coming out.
And I remember talking to a lot of my friends on the West Coast.
The next day, because what happened, it passed 53-47.
And I was like, holy shit.
I thought it was going to be 20-80.
Oh, interesting.
And it passed 53-47.
What year was that?
This is 11, 12 years ago.
Maybe you can pull it up.
I think it was about 11 years ago.
Anyway, I talked to a lot of my friends who are Democrats or liberals, and they were appalled.
at the minor margin.
I was like, guys, no, I thought it was, you're appalled that it barely made it.
I thought it was going to be 28 at the other way.
It is amazing how quickly, though, America were very nimble.
Very nimble to understand different ways.
I was shocked that it even came close, that it did pass.
I thought that my romantic idea, or she had traveled there, been around there and stayed there many times, got friends there.
I thought that it was so entrenched in a...
born again, read Christianity, that that was blasphemy to the majority.
And I just remember thinking, there's an example, not an ideal, but if you were for gay marriage, that's not an ideal example, but there's an example of talk about
An evolution or adaptability to.
What do you think about that?
Because we're always talking and thinking about how you make the world a better place.
Talk about leadership.
Talk about our CEOs.
You talk about politicians.
But if you go back to the root, the beginning seems to me to be parenting.
Secondly, what if – what could be done –
To get more fathers to stay around.
More mothers do than the fathers.
A lot of fathers are out early.
And what could be done if more marriages, if we took another step to salvage our marriage instead of, ah, smell the heat, getting out.
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
What could that do?
Do you think that would be a way forward?
I have a hunch that it is.
I don't know what to do about it except –
prop up the reverence for parenthood, prop up the reverence for marriage to where it's more important to us than it is.
To stick with it a little longer, to salvage that.
Our personal character, our responsibilities that we take as a parent, and our responsibility that we take in going into a marriage make it mean a little bit more than I feel like it does to us a lot of times.
I know I've seen some good divorces too.
I was like, oh, that was good for the both of them.
I've seen that go down.
And I was starting to have doubts in myself as well.
I agree with you.
I think it makes sense.
Is it divorce right now?
What if that was 45?
He goes, that's just the cowards that stay.
He's like, how many of them wish they were divorced?
He's like, really good point.
Really good point.
Because all those 50% get divorced.
How many of those 50% that stay are just cowards?
Well, the sanctity of it, if it had more reverence going into, you're not getting one that's just, oh, she's hot.
We love to shag.
Like, this is it.
Why are we in Galveston for our honeymoon when she's on a yacht?
And that comparison thing comes.
Well, you paint yourself in a corner.
get on uh grandma he turned 15. and he i don't know if he'll stay on it but that was one of the things we were talking i was like dude you know he was surfing at the time i was like don't just put all your all your best waves right on there because you're going to paint yourself on a corner when you go to the break and you guys like oh we've seen it i said better put some wipeouts on there too yeah just so you can go and not have that pressure because you're going to paint yourself in a corner if life looks too good yeah you know what i mean then you're going to go out you gotta live up to this
What's that thing that happens in those relationships when you hold the other one?
If I make my wife superwoman and she thinks I'm Superman, neither one of us can live up to that.
And so we're going to come in under our expected bar and there becomes the recipe for...
You're not who I thought you were.
Because we had an unfair expectation.
Sit in that passenger seat you're talking about and have a look.
Tell me, explain to me what that is.
What that does, it unpacks some sort of neural cables that have gotten kind of solidified that may work, but they become doctrinaire.
And I started to see myself slip into a little bit of cynicism.
You ever seen the Dumbo, the animated?
The times I've gone off on my own, I've always – my goal has always been, okay, stay here until you – whether it's Mali or Peru or even in the Airstream at those times or going out to Marford to go right on my own.
I just noticed it because I noticed it just saw it for the first time.
Seen it before, but recently saw it three years ago.
So Dumbo, after the circus, goes over, puts his snout down, and drinks the runoff from the bar and the party.
Stars start to sink.
The next thing, next edit, is he's in the top of a tree.
That was more than alcohol.
It was the psychedelics.
He cut his directly to him on top of a tree.
If you see it again, you'll catch it.
And the crows, they're talking shit about him, about how he got up here.
What are you doing up here, man?
You should have seen yourself last night.
Talk about I don't remember, but I was there.
Dumbo didn't remember none of it, man.
But he ended up in the top.
And the last we saw was he just drank some.
And it ends here.
Wait, no, he's not back to Earth.
He's up in a tree.
He's up in a tree.
I go, all right, stay here long enough to believe this could be your existence, Makani.
You could live here forever.
Then it's okay to come back home.
If I get to that point, I'm going, I could do this.
It's really crazy.
Then I've given it the justice, right?
So during the three hours after having some, did you get a little bit of a— Well, it was in the middle of the podcast.
How soon did it get interesting?
To then go come home.
Because I sure do.
So these psychedelic trips when you lose the ego and you unlock some of the, you know.
Which I promised myself, no, that's a living man's disease.
Silk sheets on my bed at home sure do feel silkier after those times in that log cabin.
Do they help you have more energy because you're hanging on to old ideas a little bit less and you have more of an open beginner's mind and the day unravels with less certain concrete expectations or this is how that should go?
You know, I like coming back and reengaging.
You know, spending time over in Hawaii, coming back over to the mainland was great to get the stimulus again.
You'll get a relief from— I just got one the other day from acupuncture.
Did not expect it at all.
And, I mean, I came out going, oh, my gosh, I just felt like I'd hibernated for a 14-hour nap and woke up clean as a whistle.
I got to get up from the sky.
That's the masseuse that when you lay down, they go, so what's your horoscope?
And I'm like, oh, shit.
Ah, in the game, you feel the teeth.
And they go, any injuries?
Yeah, this left shoulder, left side of your body.
That means you need to get in touch.
I'm like, no, no, no.
I actually got hit by a car.
Don't go psychological on me just yet, man.
Don't go horoscope out of the gate.
If we want to add that on for some color commentary afterwards, I'm okay with it.
I wanted that, you know.
But let's not come out of the gate saying this is the reason.
Carl Sagan, I got to sit with him for a few hours before we made this film called Contact.
I was in with Jodie Foster.
One of my all-time favorite movies.
Got to talk to him and listen to him, actually, for a few hours.
Anyway, I got to know his wife, and his wife's really cool, but her hello, her greeting...
is always, hey, what's your coordinate?
What's your coordinate?
What's your coordinate?
But, I mean, that was similar of the north, south, east.
Where are we coordinated?
Where's the earth coordinated in the galaxy, in the universe, in the hands of time?
What has happened?
What's our coordinate?
And what happens when you're doing it well, but you don't feel it?
It is kind of an out there, but it's a pretty cool objective way to go.
Let me think about that.
Reminds me of, yeah, like you ever meet Bush 41?
Hi, President Bush.
How are you doing today?
While he's holding your hand.
About an 8.2 today, Matthew.
He would give you an answer out of 10 to the 10th of how he was doing.
I always thought that was pretty interesting.
Because everybody goes, oh, I'm good, man.
Great, great, great.
That's some CIA shit, son.
He was adding it up to the 10th.
What's your coordinate?
And you're on autopilot.
Everyone's telling you you're knocking it out of the park.
If they came out with this information, to share this information, what would be the effect on society?
More negatives than positives.
More negatives than positives.
But you're going...
The good, because I didn't feel it.
What do we know?
In the Bible, Ezekiel has golden chariots from the sky.
I'm not having a real experience here, man.
Don't change a thing.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but these kind of really weird things, as you put them,
they excite you more than they give you fear.
You go from innocence to naivete to skepticism, but let's stop there.
Would that be fair?
I mean... I mean, you seem excited.
You get excited about different possibilities.
You know, I have people go, oh, man, Rogan loves these conspiracy theories.
I don't see him liking the conspiracy theories.
I see him always being interested in an alternate way.
Something went down and being interested and excited about that, but not going.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Never disengaging from it and going.
Because I believe.
How it was and what I read and that's how it is.
That's not where you're moving from.
You're objectively watching while you're doing it.
It doesn't add up to what we could practically do.
You say because you don't have to be taken seriously.
Wait, because you're saying your theories on things are solid or because you and your position are going, hey, I don't have to be taken like on the Bible?
What do you say to them?
It's like because you get attacked for like, hey, man.
You had so-and-so on here and you placated them.
And we do take you seriously because so many people – listen, because I always hear and I always find that I think there's a hole in those attacks on –
You have a massive audience of listening.
Does that mean inherently, not necessarily is what I hear you saying, that, oh, everything I say should be taken seriously because that information is going wide?
So people's argument is going, Joe, you have a massive audience.
So that's your responsibility to make sure they go down that rabbit hole.
You make it sound so simple, but as you probably know, for a lot of people in your position, it ain't that simple.
It's not that hard.
Well, that's not an overly common trait.
I think it should be, too.
Crusade to change the understanding of that word because I think we sell ourselves short.
And there is a way where what is best for us is actually best for the most amount of people and vice versa.
At the end of the day, it has all got to be very personal.
And then to have some dignity in it.
It's the difference between choice and a mandate.
No, you got a choice, but make the fucking right choice.
Measure the choice.
You got power when you make the choice.
And you deal with the consequences.
I love to go, oh, bogey there, McConaughey.
And I can look in the mirror and go, that's on you.
Something works out.
I can look in the mirror and go.
What's the last big fuck up you had where you're like, ooh, I got to reset?
Like come in charging and getting ahead?
See, but that's self-regulation.
You're self-regulating because I could have done better.
I missed my mark.
Oh, I don't like it when I do that.
I'm a little embarrassed when I do that.
I didn't leave that situation better than I found it.
I didn't come forward.
I didn't prepare enough or whatever that might be.
Man, more of that across the board.
And I kind of got...
A little self-regulation, man.
I mean, he's out there running, like, marathons literally every day.
And he was just like, I don't want to do this.
It's a little bit of that – I don't know if you ever saw that Djokovic interview on 60 Minutes.
And 60 Minutes interview, I forget his name, was going like, look, so your mental capacity is why you're so good.
And my hunch is that, Novak, it's because you have less negative thought and Djokovic interrupts him.
You might want to pull this one up.
His answer is great.
He goes, no, no, no.
I have as many or more negative thoughts.
I just get past them quicker than others.
So he's not denying the negative thoughts.
He's letting them come and then bam, out of the way.
I got a poem on it, but I'm just trying to remember what it was about.
It's success in, say, MMA, for instance.
What's a better resume for a great performance or victory?
I didn't act in front of the camera for a few years.
Suffering to succeed or revenge?
And I went back and did a couple of films last year.
Yeah, you were telling me that.
To go, I revered this enough to just do this.
In the suffering to succeed.
Is it fair to say, I think it is, that like the people that, you know, like the seeing beyond the immediate goal, meaning we choke at the goal line.
When we look up and get objective and go, oh, shit, fourth and one.
And if I'm complacent, that means I'm being lazy.
This could be the game winner.
All I got to get is one yard.
Whereas, no, I run.
I will run through.
I'll use my ability.
Bo Jackson, when he scored, he'd go through the end zone, down the fucking tunnel.
Scared and a little pissed off at myself.
The best snipers don't aim at the target.
They aim on the other side of it.
Getting through COVID, part of what I know helped me was going, oh, it's going to be like this for 10 years, gang.
Family, buckle up.
It didn't last 10 years.
I can just go back to working on my character, look at it from every angle.
We were preparing for a much longer journey, going to work out.
This is going to be hell.
Get ready for it, dude.
And then all of a sudden you're like, all right, that's it.
Projecting past the goal.
cellularly, I think, wakes up something in us on survival level that we don't choke.
We don't get fatigued as quickly.
We don't want to quit sooner because we have in our mind, no, the end is not right around the corner.
And it's a bit of a mental trick.
But I think that it has something to do with what champions do.
They see beyond.
They're playing Arch Manning right now.
And that is an absolute vacation.
There's never been more hype on a college quarterback ever.
I believe that guy is wired and that family bloodline is even wired.
They're beyond this hype.
This hype, this is mortal.
This is mortal shit, guys.
It's about the process.
It's about winning games.
If UT goes and wins the championship, they're preseason ranked number one.
Never been ranked number one before.
I believe that this team is like, oh, well, thank you for the compliment, but we're on our own mission.
That being preseason ranked number one or being on the cover of frickin' Sports Illustrated is not a curse nor a validation.
noise out there and if we do it and you go we told you you'd be number one we'll look at you and go oh well thank you but that's it I'm not they don't need a pep rally to go the rest of the world thinks you can win this too right
Well, good for them.
We're not playing for them.
We're doing our thing.
I have a mission here.
I believe in a path that I'm on.
And I'm going beyond this hype, or I'm going beyond this game.
I'm prepared mentally and spiritually for an entire season of hell.
I'm prepared to fight this assassin on the other side of me that wants to defend and do to me what I want to do to them.
Making the resistance or the adversary seem bigger and longer and going to be more tumultuous seems to be a good way to succeed going beyond and all of a sudden you look up.
I get this from when I've done my best acting.
I didn't know it was the last day.
When they yelled cut at the end of the last scene of the last day of shooting, I was walking off going, all right, see you tomorrow.
And they're like, no, no, no, there is no tomorrow.
You were just in the zone.
For the first time.
Because you were just locked in.
Best rounds of golf.
I walked off the 18th green.
and was heading to the next tee box to look up and realize, no, that's it.
You played eight.
Oh, shit, what'd I shoot?
I didn't look at my scorecard on 16 and go, if I can just keep it in the fairway in this last three holes, maybe get in with the parts, don't bogey.
I didn't anticipate.
So I didn't get in my room.
I behaved and went through the finish line.
Something in there is in suffering to succeed rather than
And I was like, well, wait a minute.
fighting for revenge, seeing on the other side of the target.
This is how I do this.
This is how I behave.
It's also in today's world with all the stimulus we're talking about and social media, et cetera,
we're all sort of living in the third person or being fed opportunities to live in the third person all the time.
It's like we have a jumbotron.
And to use a football analogy, you kick me the ball.
Here we go, baby.
I'm running the kickoff back, and I'm going down the sideline, and I see the goal line, and I think I'm going to score.
And then I have a look at the jumbotron to see how I'm doing.
That's when I'm getting tackled from behind.
If we step outside to have a look at how are we doing.
That passenger you open up talking about when you're hitting it comedically is not hopping out over here to have a look.
And if you do, you'll get lost.
You get conscious of what you're behaving, what you know how to do, what's your fashion to do.
And you're out of the moment and you become objective.
I'm not ready to give up.
How much do you think preparation has to do with the freedom to adapt and flow once you're in the game?
And the problem and fear of that is what?
Getting actually really injured?
More so than if you were- 100%.
I'm not ready to wave the white flag and let myself off for certain things I was starting to even want to let myself off on, you know, or other people.
Get in there and go.
I get so damn excited about this.
This seems like the blind spot that still is there to be taken advantage of for preparing for peak performance.
Darryl Royal, coach of the University of Texas that won a couple of national championships here at Texas, had always said, if you've got 12 games in the year, you can expect for your team to be at peak performance level two Saturdays out of 12.
Or maybe even get to the place of going, I can't not not do it.
You want to make sure that those two Saturdays are against the toughest teams.
You want to make sure that the other ones where they're like, okay, they did well, but they didn't play to their peak performance, are against the good teams.
And you want to do your best to make sure that the days that they're off, you're playing the shitty teams that you can beat, even when you're not really there.
That seems like so much more opportunity for that number to rise today, to have a much higher number that you can be ready for peak performance.
Who are the best preparers today?
in, I don't know, MMA, in your mind?
They're all – Yes.
It's impeccable.
They have a team behind them.
I can't help myself.
Are these two different coaches?
Are these one camp?
It's more than my fault.
And that doesn't always happen.
Even, I know for me, when I'm feeling like I'm actually in the zone, I still sometimes have to make a choice and go, wait, no, you're good at this.
They're going to have an advantage.
You know, the argument of athletes, you know, well, who was better then or now?
What would they have done then?
I think that athletes have evolved and the athletes we have now are just better than athletes ever were.
Yeah, I think so too.
And that they're bigger, they're more powerful, they're more focused, they're more specific athletes.
that they're just better, that if they played in that time, they would be that much better then, even than they are now.
It feels pretty good.
Seems to be, I think we're just evolving that way.
But what I really love to get to is if I'm doing something, I'm like, no, I can't not.
There's experiments that have happened in the NFL.
You can't not do this right now.
I think this is correct.
I was always a Washington.
I was then the Redskins fan.
I think it was 1986 or 1988 they had the heaviest offensive line and they averaged 286.
Somewhere around there, those numbers.
Pretty close, right?
But compared to today, that would be the lightest.
And then Dallas, with Nate Newton and those guys, had a point where they were going, oh, we're going to get guys up to 330.
Oh, let's get them to 340.
And they peaked when some of them got to 360.
The bone marrow, they were big, but they lost agility and speed.
And they went, uh-oh, we hit the ceiling.
I'm the subject of it.
We got to come back.
These are the hogs.
These are the hogs.
The guy in the middle with the mustache.
I think that's Russ Grimm.
You're locked on.
And that's Joe Jacoby over here, 66.
But they hit the top of Dallas.
On that passenger thing, though, are you the subject?
They went too far.
The thing was bigger is better, so let's get bigger.
And then all of a sudden agility went.
It's come back down.
You don't have to fight.
Isn't that never going to have to rise?
If I'm giving a performance, it's not an objective experience at all.
I'm not even hopping out to look at myself from a third eye.
I'm not even supposing or anticipating, oh, how will this go?
Yeah, I never knew that.
I thought heavyweight's like...
265 and up, 250 and up.
Whatever you want to come in with.
That's what it should be, yeah.
Or, oh, this is that punchline.
Or, oh, this is a great beat to hit.
And then how much is he putting on that last week?
I met him in Saudi Arabia.
And then I can feel it, though.
Now, if I go, oh, right afterwards, I can look at you and go, that was it.
I had a dream of being an NBA basketball player.
How old were you when you had that dream?
I was young, and I was like, I'm going to dunk.
And you go, that was it.
No matter how much.
This guy sitting here would have worked out and hustled.
I was never going to be able to dunk, bro.
Didn't have the innate ability.
Or I can go, I bullshitted right there in the middle, blah, blah, blah.
Didn't have the DNA.
Didn't have the makeup.
Well, that thing about not everyone being created equal.
Yeah, you've got to have innate ability.
I can feel it when it's happening.
If you've got both, and there's a lot of...
Look, there's a lot of five-star players who don't have the hustle, and then there's a lot of— Some of the most talented ones, right?
But I'm not, there's nothing objective about the experience.
I hear more and more CEOs saying, give me Johnny and Jane Hustle.
from Western Kentucky before Belinda and Joseph from Harvard.
Give me this one that's ready to come hustle, that's ready to get scrappy, adapt, work, press the edges on the front and the back end.
Do you think there's theories about with AI coming that now more than ever that's what you need is the one that has more of a liberal arts education?
I know a little bit about a lot of things, and I can hit many different avenues rather than be an expertise in one certain thing.
I mean, it's like just, what, six years ago you toured the campuses and were like –
Computer programming.
That's what you want your child to be.
That's what we need.
So what specifics are the jobs or the creations, the vocations that are going to be out there for our youth here coming up that are going to be like, that's how you're going to make it?
I question the college education now.
I question the worth of it.
How much is it still a knowledge factory that has not adapted to changing times and needs in the workforce?
and how much of it needs to be updated for getting young men and women prepared to go into the workforce.
And I said, all right.
Is it coming through?
You think we're going to want –
A tangible, physical.
You're not even coming up with it.
Well, and the tech, the –
The AI tech companies keep saying, no, trust is – a lot of jobs are going to be lost, but AI is going to create so many other jobs.
But I haven't heard anyone answer what those jobs are going to be.
Is crime going to go up?
We're going to have people out of jobs.
Poems and prayers.
What are these people going to do?
Well, these are ones that I thought.
Could be cool conversation starters for us.
And we've kind of covered, actually, some of them.
You ever had anyone read poems on this show before?
Oh, there you go.
No, September the 16th.
This is a fun one that I wrote.
It's kind of based on extra credit.
It's kind of relying on fate or extra credit that we get that sometimes we rely on the extra credit participation trophies.
It's where this one kind of started for me.
So, I mean, it's a fun one.
And it might get us talking about something.
It's called Tips Included.
When extra credit's included, credit doesn't get its due.
When more gives us less, the exchange rate's going to skew.
When amnesty is offered going into the crime, we're more bound to commit it because there is no fine.
We start playing to tie instead of going for the win when participation's the trophy for every cow in the pen.
If I stay on the porch because you picked up the slack, when you look over your shoulder, I can't have you back.
If there is no curfew, we'll stay out all night.
No tab at our bar, we get drunk and start a fight.
All these long lenses got us losing our sight.
You keep lifting it for me, I'm going to lose all my might.
When a four-star duty suits a six-star rate, we take our hands off the wheel, rely on fate.
Eating all we can at the all-we-can-eat buffet gives us a 3.8 education and a 4.2 GPA.
We steal from ourselves and get away with the scam.
What's the measure of merit with less give a damn?
These unlimited options, mmm, they sure got me confused, while all the conveniences keep me properly lubed.
In this red light district with the whore of inflation, the ROI's math don't pay for the vacation.
So let's just admit it, this extra credit's quite a fluffer.
Because when the tip's included, the service will suffer.
It's a fun one, man.
I think I came with my,
The 11th place team got the same size trophy as the first place team.
And I was like, wait, they went 0-10, but the winning team went 10-0.
You kind of like saying, oh, the winning team went 5-5 and the losing team went 5-5.
Don't hurt the feelings.
Don't get told no.
Hey, Matt.
Hey, Matt.
Hey, Matt.
Hey, Carlos, how are you? But now, you know, with this terrible situation, with COVID, I'm at home yelling at the screen like my grandfather used to yell at the professional wrestlers.
Hey, Carlos, how are you? But now, you know, with this terrible situation, with COVID, I'm at home yelling at the screen like my grandfather used to yell at the professional wrestlers.
Hey, Carlos, how are you? But now, you know, with this terrible situation, with COVID, I'm at home yelling at the screen like my grandfather used to yell at the professional wrestlers.