#665 - Jeff Bridges
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Shine on me, and I will find a soul.
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.
Let me try those bad cats on.
Well, let me see. Here you go for these. Those are reading.
Just give me one pair. You don't get them both, huh?
No, I think I'd go for the other one, man.
Oh, let me see how I'm looking. Oh.
Huh?
Nope.
Not a little off, right? Yeah, not bad, but... Yeah, this is better.
Okay. Nothing. I don't want to pick a wife out with those on, you know?
Are you getting close? I mean, I'd like to be married. Yeah?
Yeah, I'd like to be. But sometimes it's out of your control, you know?
Anything close?
Uh, not that at the moment. Have you been close? I think I've been close, man. And I just wasn't like, uh, just like my heart wasn't in the right spot. My brain wasn't, I was touring a lot and I wasn't ready to like, um, I had two wheels out of town, you know?
she kicked you to the curb where you kicked her or a little boat.
She, yeah, I've had them. They've all kicked me. They've all at a certain point kicked me, but I deserve to be kicked.
Yeah. I know that you mean it's tough. I resisted it as long as I possibly could. You did? Yeah. Well, you've been married. You've had a, we just had our 49th anniversary. Oh man. Oh yeah. Really a good one. I scored man. Yeah, how'd you score that? Oh, I was making a movie called Rancho Deluxe in Montana. And we're shooting in this place called Chico Hot Springs. They used to do brain surgery there 100 years ago. It's like a hot spring place. For sure. Warm water. That's where I want to be cut open. Exactly, man. Yeah. And I'm sitting there in this hot tub with Harry Dean Stanton on one side and Sam Waterston on the other end. We're doing a scene and I look across and I see this gorgeous girl with two black eyes and a broken nose.
And that juxtaposition of that disfigurement and the beauty, you know. that you know part of the trouble with these interviews like this because i've done a bunch now is i end up telling the same story i'm going to tell the story okay but it's one of my favorite stories so i don't mind but it feels a little funny because i've told it so often you know so i think i imagine people say don't tell that fucking story man i've never heard it man so you know i've never talked about love and so you see so you're sitting in a tub first of all with two men oh Oh, and I'm going to show you something. I think I got it. I usually don't have the thing that goes along with it, but I think I got it in my satchel here.
So I'm sitting in there with two guys, Harry Dean Stanton, Stan Watterson. See this gorgeous girl with a broken nose and two black eyes.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–7:20
2
What insights does Jeff Bridges share about love and relationships?
7:20–27:28
3
How does Jeff Bridges describe his creative process?
27:28–54:41
4
What insights does Jeff Bridges share about his new movie 'Minions and Monsters'?
54:41–55:05
5
How do Jeff and Theo discuss the concept of influence and creativity?
55:05–55:28
6
What philosophical questions arise regarding the nature of good and evil?
55:28–55:57
7
How does Jeff Bridges reflect on his experiences with wolves and their symbolism?
55:57–1:47:44