Walton Goggins
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1,611 appearances
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6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jan
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Right in. Like, give me a crowd. If I'm dancing for one person or I'm dancing for a million, it doesn't matter to my mom. And she's had such an amazing spiritual journey that she knows exactly who she is. And that's rubbed off on me.
I mean, I have a single mother, and she had some amazing boyfriends that were extremely influential in my life. But she also had three sisters, my aunts and my grandmother. And then I had my grandfather, my father's father, and my grandmother kind of on that side too. But I wasn't raised, honestly, Tanya, by anybody. And if my mom was sitting here, she would say the same thing.
I've always kind of had the moniker that Walton raised himself. Yeah. And what I mean by that is it wasn't neglect. It was the opposite. There were always people around. It was like a village. I was raised by a village of people.
Yeah, I mean, you know, my mother wasn't, you know, young, young when she had me. I mean, she had me at, I think she was 23 or something like that. But, you know, my parents got divorced when I was three. And, you know, we lived in Decatur, Georgia, you know, downtown, a little duplex. And then eventually we, you know, got this little house out in Lithia Springs, Georgia.
And, you know, it was everything for my mom to buy a house. And but with that, my mom just had a lot of great friends.
Yeah, you know, yeah. No, we didn't go to see a lot of movies. I mean, we went to some seminal movies, but it wasn't certainly a big part of our life. I mean, we had a television, you know, I mean, Sanford and Son and, you know, The Jeffersons and TBS. Those were the ones you were watching? And The Braves, you know. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Still watch them, you know, but but yeah, so we didn't didn't have a lot of screens kind of growing up. That really wasn't a big a big part of our life. My my my aunt Joan and her husband, my uncle Mark, they were both actors in the theater and in a regional kind of equity equity theater space.
usually like all over kind of the south, but they traveled a bit up north, and I grew up watching them on stage.
But this entire group of people that I'm talking to you about, all of them, like you could just hand the microphone to any one of these people, and they could just command the room for hours, and no one interrupted their story because they just wanted to hear it, and it was just a lot of laughter. And a lot of weed, you know. And they were all deeply empathic people.
And they wore their emotions on their sleeve. And they always cared about other people.
I do feel that being kind is important. I mean, it's not like, excuse my language, it's not like I can't be an asshole. I can, for sure.
It is something that I value, yeah, deeply. And this is the women in my family. This is my mother. We never had a washer and dryer when I was young. And so we'd go to the laundromat like a lot of people do. And there was a video game there, arcade game, centipede or whatever. And she would give me the change to play it. But spending those years in a laundromat. Just being around people.
My mother's dream in life was to be able to afford, to be able to take $1,000 out of the bank and go around to all these other people folding their laundry. And when they weren't looking, slip in a $20 bill. You know, like so that when they got home, it's like, wow, oh, my God, like in their sweatpants.
Yeah, absolutely. It's like, what would you do with a million dollars? This is what I would do with a thousand dollars, you know. And that led me to have this experience in Cambodia.
OK, ready for this? I was traveling in Southeast Asia. I was in Cambodia and then I was in northern Vietnam. I came back to Cambodia and I wanted to go work for an organization because I met this really cool backpacker. And she said, I just got back and this organization was cool. I called them and I said, I'd really like to come.
I'd like to give some money or I'd like to do something like a lot of people do. The guy, you know, never got back to me. But so then I had this driver. His name was Tang. And he had this tuk-tuk, right, that he drove me around. I knew enough about the country to know that there are families that still comb the trash pile looking for jewelry and things of value that they can make money off of.
Correct. So I stopped at the ATM. I got out $2,000. And small bills. And we spent, I want to say, 12 hours just walking that trash pile on top of it and then the tents and everything that are off to the side. And I just gave it out $20 at a time, just like my mama. And it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Yeah, at 12. Yeah.
Yeah, mixing cement.
Yeah, for rock masons, yeah.
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