Edward Norton Returns Again
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Norton.
Hello.
Hello.
It's not true. We're not married.
No, because he's married to my friend, Shawna. To Shawna. Yeah, yeah. For people who don't know the backstory, Shawna, Edward's wife.
That's right.
Producer extraordinaire.
Yes.
Introduced Kristen and I. Yes.
Yes.
And then you'll hear a funny story about when we had babies, which maybe you've already heard, but we revisit it.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, a very serendipitous Simmy moment happened.
Because she had a dinner party. If you missed it originally, Shauna had a dinner party where you two met.
Yeah, a birthday dinner party for Jonah, I think, at a restaurant. There's only like eight of us.
Do you remember which restaurant?
It was on Melrose. It's kind of a famous, fancy restaurant on Melrose, but I can't think of the name of it.
Like Jones, like Dantana.
It wasn't Jones or Dantana. More towards La Brea. Like more in that pocket of Melrose.
Yeah.
Yeah. Or Beverly. Could also bet on Beverly.
And that whole zone.
No, further east. It doesn't matter. West. The point is, Edward Norton is our guest today. He's an Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker. Fight Club, America History X, Primal Fear, Birdman. Here's a new movie out. We're continuing on with our invite week because we love the movie so much.
Yes, so good.
So we're pushing on strong and hard to talk more about the invite and to hear all good things from Edward Norton.
Please enjoy.
I'm going to do this after because it's such a dessert treat. You got your tea. It's steeping. You have a cream top. Did you drive from Malibu or from Hollywood?
I was in Santa Monica working and then I came here.
What are you working on?
I am raising a lot of money right now. Okay. For that. Cargo company? Shipping the mission. Yeah.
Have you seen this thing?
No.
He has a barge company, right? And it has a 13-story crane on it. 15. 15, sorry.
Get it right.
Get it right. I imagine in the crane game, it's all about those stories.
How did Edward Norton navigate his early acting career?
You know what this crane was originally? It was a construction site concrete delivery. Oh, right. It was for the delivery of concrete up into high stories of construction sites.
Yeah, so they're built for a ton of weight, right? That concrete ones, you've got 13 stories of it in a tube. And all we're doing is bringing gas Down. Yeah, yeah. So he has these barges, and then there's a 15-story crane on top. And when a ship is in port, it hovers above the smokestack of the ship and sucks up all the carbon monoxide.
Or I'm not sure what it's getting. It's actually the poisons. It's the nitrous oxide, sulfurous dioxide, and particulate matter. All these diesel wastes. We don't even actually deal with the CO2. Obviously, people have their opinions, and there's a lot of debate about CO2 and atmospheric gas. CO2 and all of it, right? Yeah. But there are no regulations on CO2 right now.
For the ships?
No, just society. We don't make you be compliant with zero CO2. But we do have, it's super interesting because even the Trump EPA regulates nitrous dioxide, sulfurous dioxide, because it kills people. That's what gives you lung cancer. So you could call it the smog. That's the stuff that creates the smog. It's really, really bad for people. I think the stat I heard is that the emissions off the ports in California drive like six and a half billion of respiratory health costs in the state every year, like cancer, asthma.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the number I heard you talking about, which is crazy, is that you've only been doing this for what, a year or something? How long has this been operational? Operational since 2023. Okay, so for three years. But you were saying, maybe it was in the full duration of its deployment, but maybe you were just saying a year that it was the equivalent of 65 million cars. Just last year. Yeah, okay, so in one year.
Oh my God.
It's sucking the equivalent of 65 million cars. Operating for a year. Wow.
Those things fucking billow poison, huh? The ships are really, really, I mean, you know a lot about cars, so you actually know what a catalytic converter is.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–2:28
2
How did Edward Norton navigate his early acting career?
2:28–5:08
3
What innovative project is Edward Norton involved with?
5:08–9:34
4
How does Edward Norton describe the filmmaking process with Olivia Wilde?
9:34–1:07:41
5
What humorous observation does Edward make about language use?
1:07:41–1:07:55
6
How does Edward describe his unique memory abilities?
1:07:55–1:08:33
7
What insights are shared about the impact of childhood experiences on adulthood?
1:08:33–1:09:28
8
What are the implications of aging on creativity and memory?
1:09:28–2:02:51