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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

#665 - Jeff Bridges

26 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

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You know, America's 250th birthday is coming up. That's going to be a big cake. And who's even going to blow out the candles? I wonder. Probably maybe Thomas Jefferson will come down from the clouds and huff and puff a few out. Maybe Betsy Ross or Frederick Douglass. I don't know. Somebody is going to come on down and just huff and puff them cake candles out. Happy 250th. America.

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The Big Lebowski, True Grit, Crazy Heart, if you haven't seen that one, Tron, many more. He's got a new movie, Minions and Monsters. It's in theaters July 1st. I had quite a time with today's guest, Mr. Jeff Bridges. Shine on me, and I will find a soul.

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Gotta get my right specs. You might be too far away for these. No, what you got? Plus two, you got 2.5s? What are you rocking? No, these are a prescription, man. These are my reading glasses, but I have, let me see.

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Let me try those bad cats on.

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Well, let me see. Here you go for these. Those are reading.

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Just give me one pair. You don't get them both, huh?

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No, I think I'd go for the other one, man.

Chapter 2: What insights does Jeff Bridges share about love and relationships?

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I mean, they may also get other stuff, too. But do you think, like, that that's one of the things that keeps a guy from asking a woman out sometimes, is the fear of losing their autonomy without even thinking about that?

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Well, that's what... Yeah, so...

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Because you usually think it's just general fear, right? Because I never thought about it like that, like what you're saying, like, because I think about, oh, I'm like, I feel like if I'm going to ask you a lot, I feel like, okay, I'm nervous, right?

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But I've never thought that the nerves are really just like a deep internal fear, like it's your autonomy showing up and be like, no, we're going to lose it. You think that could be true?

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Oh, absolutely. That's what it was with me. You know, I'm in my, you know, prime.

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Oh, you were prime rib.

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You know, I mean, I was, you know, my career was, on the rise, all these beautiful women that were around. And I felt it was like, literally like the cartoon where the eyes go out. You know, I was, boom, in love at first sight. And it was frightening to feel like that. Yeah. And so I was torn. And while I'm, you know...

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The high that we're looking for, I find, or the one I'm looking for, is intimacy, right? And that's what marriage, that's the playing field of intimacy. You know, you're committed for the whole shot, and you say, and I'm just lucky that I found somebody who I'm so attracted to, and the intimacy seems to grow. But your question triggered me.

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You know, we lived together for about three years and it was on again and off again. And she says to me, hey, I know you love me. And... And that you have ebulia. Now, ebulia is a disease, mental disorder that my mother used to tell me, which I have a hard time making decisions.

Chapter 3: How does Jeff Bridges describe his creative process?

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Now, along with the head, uh, The person would get a certificate. You'd get the thing about, hey, let me give you a little head. You'd get to say that joke to your friends. You could pass the head on to other people. There would also be a website that would talk about the genealogy of the head, who had the head. My fantasy, I just went way up out there.

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It's like Cabbage Patch Dolls, kind of all that. Yeah.

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Yeah. And I don't know, but it's still in the works. I still have a, but then I got hit with this flood up here and all the heads got lost. And so I have to make more.

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So you're saying there's some missing head around here.

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There's some missing head. I agree, brother. I need some head, man. I mean, yeah. But you know, but, uh, oh man.

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Chapter 4: What insights does Jeff Bridges share about his new movie 'Minions and Monsters'?

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Okay. Dude, I like it. And I have to get a job, though, don't I? No. Yeah, good answer, bro. That's what the dude would answer. That's the only answer.

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Yeah, man. Yeah. You're doing it now. Yeah. This is what the little Lebowski dude would do.

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Yeah, he'd be podcasting probably.

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He'd be podcasting, man. He'd be an influencer.

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Chapter 5: How do Jeff and Theo discuss the concept of influence and creativity?

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Now, what a word. Now, you're an influencer, right? That's what you are. That's a good question.

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Isn't it? Wouldn't you say? That's a good question. Am I an influencer, do you think? I don't think I am. Do you think I am? Yeah, comedian with influence. Like, we have a real job. Some influencers don't have, like, an actual skill. Like, I'm a comedian by trade. That was my first job, and it still is.

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Chapter 6: What philosophical questions arise regarding the nature of good and evil?

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But isn't that all our jobs? Aren't we all influencers? Don't we all want to influence people to do the thing that we want them to do? In that case? Yeah.

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A hundred percent. All I've been is like, yeah, most of my life. It's like, I've been trying to, yeah. I just want some, like, I want like to be somebody to see me. I want something out of you. It doesn't mean like I need, like I'm trying to cheat you or anything, but yeah, I want to influence.

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Yeah. You know, a Bucky Fuller, Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller. Yeah.

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Chapter 7: How does Jeff Bridges reflect on his experiences with wolves and their symbolism?

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No, it's a black guy.

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No, no. He's a, and he's dead. He's a dead white guy. Oh yeah. He's most, The geodesic dome. He invented the geodesic dome.

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No, wait, like Epcot Center, you mean?

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Yeah. Yeah, that's used. But you see the geodesic dome used all over the place.

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Buckminster, dude, that's a savage name, huh?

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Isn't that cool? Bucky Fuller, man. Now, here's what this guy did. He also... helped engineer these giant battleships and ocean-going vessels during World War II. And there was a challenge for these engineers to come up with a rudder you know, that was so large to move this giant ship and to have it, the efficiency, you got to get the energy to move this rudder, and it took too much energy.

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So they came up with a brilliant, elegant, simple solution. Let's put a little rudder on the big rudder. The little rudder turns the big rudder, the big rudder turns the ship. And then Bucky said, this is a great analogy of how the individual affects society and affects our culture. In fact, we're all trim tabs. That's what's on Bucky's gravestone. Call me trim tab.

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That we all affect our culture and our society. And we may think, oh, I'm just one little person. What can I do? Look what you do. I was Googling you. You're 9 million people that you hear what you say, man?

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Yeah, we got a lot of people that tune in.

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