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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Skating rink. I think it's been downhill from there. Yeah, as a DJ in a skating rink. Yep, yep. Going into my summer before my ninth grade year. I sold bait. I worked with a roofing crew.
and going to school too well it was summer right and um but then we had a program once we got into high school where you know you could start working i think in the 11th grade or something like that for however many hours that you could work for a week it was very different back then and yeah i got in that program and uh and i just kept working and i worked uh at
And retail, you know, at the mall, like a lot of people do. But with one of my best friends, this guy Edwin, and a crew of guys that I grew up with, we sold newspapers, the Atlanta Journal of the Constitution, door to door. And we would only work like three hours a day. But we had that gift to gab, you know, and, you know, just to make people have a good time.
And we sold so many, so many subscriptions to Atlanta Journal of the Constitution. It was so much fun. Yeah.
Oh, God, absolutely. And I don't carry it with me so much anymore. But I think that's one of the most profound kind of insecurities that I had with me for a long time. Two things, really. But one, being this outsider, not having a lot as a kid and There was one moment where I was dating this girl, and I just liked her so much. I had the biggest crush on this person.
And I remember her mom was coming to pick me up, and I think I lied to my mom. She knew where I was going to go, and I said, Mom, I think she's going to be here pretty soon. I didn't give her my address. I gave her my neighbor's address. And I said, Okay, Mom, I think you're coming. I love you. Bye-bye. And I ran out and hid in the ditch.
And I saw these lights kind of coming and I, and I knew it was them. And so I just jumped out and like, as if I was walking down the driveway and they pulled in and then the porch light kind of came on behind me. And I just jumped in the car. It's like, okay, let's go. Let's go. Well, can't we meet your, you know, your mom? No, no, no. She's let's just get out of here.
And, and the other thing was not having a, um, not finishing college and not having those four years of deep soulful learning, um,
Yeah. Just being in conversations when I got out to Los Angeles, there was one ride in particular kind of coming back from San Diego to L.A. where I was with this group of people that – that all went to these fancy schools. And they were talking about literature and referencing all of these different authors and the characters in these books. And I just had no idea what they were talking about.
Nothing. And I just kept making these mental notes. Before cell phone, I couldn't put a note down. It was like, okay, yeah.
Somerset Maugham. All of these different things. John Steinbeck. And then I just kind of set out to do that on my own. But I would have given anything to have had that time. I wouldn't have traded my life because I wouldn't want anything to be altered in my life because I'm so grateful for the life that I have, not just in this moment. I've always been grateful for my life.
But if I could go back and not alter my life, I would take four years meeting, you know, kids in class and talking politics in a second.
Because I got this offer from American Express to go into debt.
I showed up to college like everybody else, and I began getting mail. And one of the first pack of advertising was this offer from American Express. That said, if you get this card, you will get two flight vouchers for $99 east of the Mississippi or $199 west of the Mississippi. And I looked at them and I thought, all I've got to do is get this card and I can go to Los Angeles for $199?
Because the tickets were so expensive back then.
And I already started working. Yeah. I'd done like In the Heat of the Night and then this big movie of the week called Murder, Mississippi about the three slain civil rights workers.
Certainly, that was going to be a part of my experience was trying it, endeavoring to do it, endeavoring to learn what it is that you're asking yourself to do. Absolutely, I would be lying if I said otherwise. It was really also to have an experience. I just wanted to get out. I just wanted to see the world. I wanted a passport that was filled with stamps from all over the world.
And that's what I wanted. And coming to Los Angeles, being able to at least try to become a storyteller was going to be a part of my journey. And then if that didn't work out, I don't know what I would have done, but it would have I would have had a passport filled with stamps from other countries. That I do know.
Three hundred bucks.
Always.
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