#665 - Jeff Bridges
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1 hour and 48 minutes
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Summary
Actor Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, True Grit, Crazy Heart) joins Jemele to discuss his new movie, "Minions and monsters" in theaters on July 1st. Plus, he tells the story of how he met his first wife in a hot tub.
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MountainDew.com. Today's guest is a legendary actor, the Big Lebowski, True Grit, Crazy
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heart if you haven't seen that one tron many more he's got a new movie minions and monsters it's in
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theaters july 1st uh i had quite a time with today's guest mr jeff bridges
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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
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2.5s what are you rocking no one these are prescription man these are my reading glasses
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but i have let me see let me try those bad cats on well let me say here you go for this that's
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a reading just give me one pair don't wear you don't get them both no i think i'd go for the
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other one man oh let me see how i'm looking oh huh nope no a little off right yeah not bad but
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yeah this is better okay nothing i don't want to pick a wife out with those on you know
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are you getting close i mean i'd like to be married yeah yeah i'd like to be but sometimes
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it's out of your control you know anything close uh i'm not at the moment being close
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i think i've been close man and i just wasn't like uh just like my heart wasn't in the right
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spot my brain wasn't i was touring a lot and i wasn't ready to like um yeah i had two wheels
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out of town you know she kicked you to the curb where you kicked her or a little boat she yeah
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i've had them they've all kicked me they've all at a certain point kicked me but i deserve to be
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kicked yeah i know that's me it's tough i resisted it as long as i possibly could you did yeah well
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Oh, I was making a movie called Rancho Deluxe in Montana.
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And we're shooting in this place called Chico Hot Springs.
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They used to do brain surgery there 100 years ago.
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And I'm sitting there in this hot tub with Harry Dean Stanton on one side
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and Sam Waterston on the other, and we're doing a scene,
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and I look across, and I see this gorgeous girl
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And that juxtaposition of that disfigurement and the beauty, you know.
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You know, part of the trouble with these interviews like this,
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because I've done a bunch now, is I end up telling the same story.
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I'm going to tell the story, but it's one of my favorite stories,
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But it feels a little funny because I've told it so often.
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So I imagine people say, don't tell that fucking story, man.
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So you're sitting in a tub, first of all, with two men.
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I usually don't have the thing that goes along with it,
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and you got to get it all the way up your body.
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And I go up there and I say, would you like to go out with me
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And at the wrap party of this movie, she showed up and we danced
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This is a shot of the first words ever spoken between my wife and myself.
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Here is the moment, and you can see, look at the look on my face.
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And so, but I resisted because, you know, we don't want to lose our autonomy, man.
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And we'd like to, you know, and there's so many beautiful girls all over the place.
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But do you think, even while you're saying that, so do you think, thank you for showing me that.
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Yeah, I was having love for that long, you know.
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I think people sometimes don't think that when they get into a relationship, what they do get out of it, if they work it well, is they get love.
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But do you think, like, that that's one of the things that keeps a guy from assing a woman out sometimes?
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Because you usually think it's just general fear, right?
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You know, I mean, I was, you know, my career was on the rise, all these beautiful women
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that were around, and I felt it was like, literally like the cartoon where the eyes
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go out, you know, I was boom, in love, at first sight, and it was frightening to feel
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Uh, but, and so I was torn and, uh, what I'm, you know, the high that we're looking for,
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I find, or the one I'm looking for is intimacy, right?
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That's what, and that's what marriage, that's the playing field of intimacy.
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You know, you can, you're committed for the whole shot and you say, and I'm just lucky
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You know, we lived together for about three years
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You were slightly joking with me, both my mom and my wife.
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but I'm going to go back up to Montana where you found me
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You know, and I finally worked up, I guess it was courage.
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I got down on my knees and said, okay, marry me, you know.
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And I had this image of a handful of sand and there was one little diamond in there
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Now we cut about a week later because Sue says, when do we want to get married?
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Because I don't know how long I can hold this thing.
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A lot of people put the wedding way too far out.
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So we invite a bunch of our friends over to our little house up in Malibu, up in the hills there, and to get married.
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but all I can do is smell the rotting mangoes, man.
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Yeah, and she put up with that shit for years.
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Really just that bad, just recognizing the rotten mangoes, huh?
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Oh, oh, and thank God she didn't kick me to the curb
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You know, you get so intimate and you go through so many bad times
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and good times that every time you go through a tough time,
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or your love and intimacy and connection have to grow
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to hold that weird thing that was threatening it.
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I had like a handful of sand and there was like one diamond in it.
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I mean, and really I'm just speaking for myself, I think,
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and I don't want to speak for like a negative or like downer place,
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but there's been times in my life where I've had a handful of sand
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and like one diamond that was like a special person
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But sometimes I think it was fear or it was like.
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Well, as we're talking about the metaphor, it's not so much choosing the sand from me,
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but it was I'm going to choose this handful of sand, sand being all the bullshit.
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So I said, okay, I'm going to take, you know, it was an unconscious decision on that side,
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although I, you know, I felt it was so strongly that I gave myself that caveat, which is a weird
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thing to go into a marriage saying you can always get a divorce, man. But it's, that's not a bad
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call. I guess not, man. But you need, it worked. It worked. Anyway, obviously if it lasted this
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long, was, was there one of the more, like, was there like a more pressing moment that came in?
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Like, yeah, what's, because one of my friends, I was talking with Jared Leto, he and our buddies,
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we met at the UFC fights and I was just randomly messaged him. And I said, Hey, um, I'm going to
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be talking with Jeff Bridges. And he said a lot of nice things. And, uh, and then he said, yeah,
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how has he had so much luck in love? Like how, how does, like, why does he think his marriage
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has lasted so long? It's like, yeah. Are there like, yeah. Like what was one of the tougher
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moments that you had to evolve? Cause it sounds like you're saying you get to these moments and
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you either choose to kind of evolve and it adjusts like the volume of your like intimacy
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Our primal battle, our primal war that we have.
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You don't get what it's like having a relationship with somebody like you.
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And there's such truth in that because none of us really know the other person, really, you know.
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And what we'll do, we've started doing this, and it's happened now as the years go on less and less,
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We'll sit a little closer than we are here and facing each other.
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And we'll take turns, you know, whoever wants to go first can go first.
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Their task is to just receive what that person, again, it's intimacy, man.
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All their feelings about them, about everything?
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And we try not to use, you know, you, you, you, the you message.
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And then the other person does their side and the other person listens.
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That often really scratches the itch in a beautiful way.
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But it's really a cool strategy to deal with the basic thing
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that you don't understand what I am, what I'm going through.
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And marriage is a great, like a playing field or a game board
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to really explore all of those emotions that are so real for all of us
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because we're all separate people, but we're similar
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in that we're human beings and we have feelings.
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I mean, that's one of the closest relationships that you have.
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i think to be able to do that with any relationship is pretty cool but to really look at to look at
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love as like a playing field to look at like a relationship with someone else is like a playing
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field and let's try this out like let's try out some things to see like just how brave can we get
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with like our vulnerability or with learning about ourselves it's pretty cool that's right and they
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used to have these things in tribes like in certain tribes i don't know which there's one i'm thinking
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of specifically but they would have these kind of dance off things like partners would and they would
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like try to like, like they would dance in front of each other,
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like kind of process their energies toward each other.
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So I kind of related to something like that a little bit.
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I was saying it's like a playing field or, you know,
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And I find it overflows into my work and making a movie
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Now, I would think what you do, and I'm not as familiar as I might have been with what you're up to,
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Dude, he was out of his mind, but he was also the most in his mind.
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So you had some great, and you get intimate on these things,
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and I bet when you finally find a girl or a guy,
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whoever which way you're leaning, to connect with in that deep way.
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If they like, yeah, if it's an arranged marriage and it's a guy, dude,
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but yeah dude I you know I like talking about stuff like that and it's important and some of
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these people like Louie's one of my dearest friends in the world oh wow man he's one of the
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deepest people I've ever met in my whole life so yeah I got to be at a I went to a party recently
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and um him and Bob Odenkirk were there have you ever met got to meet Bob Odenkirk oh no but I
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admire him yeah he's it and he was just like and they were talking dude and I just got to sit there
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and listen to them oh wonderful it was like yeah that was something pretty special but yeah it is
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interesting like because this is the playing field that we get you know sometimes we forget that this
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is like whatever it is like whatever like god has intended or the world or the energies of whatever
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like that put us here to we have this like like a fish coming to like the edge of the glass and
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being able to like see just just get like a peek out into the universe this is this is it yeah man
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So all the things that we want to do, we have to try them while we're here, even if it's
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And don't you find, I don't know about you, but I'm addicted to comfort, man.
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And the problem with comfort, and maybe it's not even a problem.
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It's kind of both the problem and the solution.
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I resist this shit because I don't like to be challenged.
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But I notice every once in a while I'll do these experiments on myself.
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Now why don't you just go against that and do something adventurous and challenging, you know, and see what happens.
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On the other side of that, 99% of the time I say, wow, I got off, man.
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Yeah, we forget that this is a school, I think.
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And you kind of just get used to the recess of it.
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That's something I remember I never went to college, but I thought, gee,
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I think I'll put my, I'll be the dean of my own college.
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I'm going to put my, you know, and I didn't do it to the degree that I want to do, you know.
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I say, I should take, you know, I'm always jealous of my friends who did that woodshedding, you know, and learned all that stuff, you know.
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I could put myself through, you know, a college course of guitar.
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it's all online there's so much stuff online which seems like you've done a good job with
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kind of like nurturing your creativity over time you know it seemed like you stay active with like
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i saw like a lot of the um and it's one thing that louis ck does too is uh he's a great sculptor
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people don't know that um and i don't know if he cares if i share that or not but uh like you'll
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go to his to his uh apartment and he has like all these crazy sculptures that he's made and it just
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it just like he reminds me of like just creativity it's not stuck in one spot it's not you're just
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this or that you can use it in different ways you can also try to see if it sticks in different
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ways it's like throwing like a spaghetti like you know of yourself against the wall of like
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the world or the universe or something but you seem to have done that a decent amount with like
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music um acting um and with also uh i've seen some of your can you even bring them up nick some of
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the sculptures that you have yeah oh yeah my heads yeah yeah i make you know i'll do a pot
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or something and then i always have a little piece of clay left over and i just let my hands
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go and say you know and they come up with these heads man i don't know the aspects of myself or
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what the hell they are but um that guy definitely i'm gonna say he was italian at one point
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but yeah beautiful group there you vend these are you to give these away for charity or something
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um or do you just do you prize them because i guess they're like they're kind of pieces of
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you in a way well they were for it's sort of a semi-abandoned project i say semi because i still
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may kick this project off it's kind of dear to my heart it was a project called head for peace
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oh yeah look already i support it and i'm a good one head for peace yeah exactly
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i will be the lieutenant governor of the project or whatever yeah good well i'll be on the front
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lines of head for peace it was for i got very tight with a cat named bernie glassman you know
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and then the guy sitting to my left was this like little jewish guy you know and he goes hi i'm
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bernie glassman i go oh yeah and he says i really dug lebowski man i say oh yeah i said oh yeah
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and he says yeah he says i'm a zen master uh i don't know if he actually said zen master but he
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maybe said i'm really into buddhism or something but he turns out this guy was a heavy zen master
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and he says Lebowski it's filled with zen koans you know what a koan is like you know what is
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the sound of one hand clapping that's kind of a thing okay this is like a question that you don't
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have a certain answer you just have to kind of give you a vibe or trigger something to you you
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know let's see that real quick oh yeah you can yeah there you go yeah a zen koan is a short
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paradoxical story or dialogue used in zen buddhist practice uh rather than riddles to be logically
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solved they are meant to exhaust the rational mind allowing the practitioner to break free
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from the habitual binary thinking and experience reality directly yeah some examples are the sound
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of one hand clapping yeah yeah um so that anyway that's a perfect uh great definition got it so
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bernie says yeah i really dug lebowski he says it's filled with modern day koans and i'm all about
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bringing Buddhism up to speed with modern-day times.
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I said, what do you mean it's filled with modern-day koans?
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He says, well, my favorite one, that's just like your opinion, man.
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and that is it that's my favorite one at least he came with three if he'd only had oh no he
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he goes on i said give me another shut the fuck up donnie that's another one you know they're just
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and he was filled with these things and i said those are pretty good he says yeah let's write
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a book man i say what do you mean he says yeah we'll write a book about about this you into it
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and i thought about it and i got such a hit from this guy you know how you get a hit kind of
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immediately with people you know boom you know yeah some people are fascinating it's like meeting
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a cool pet in the street you just boom yeah you keep petting it or whatever yeah and so we got in
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cahoots we went up to montana for a week or two and wrote this book called the dude and the zen
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master oh you got it up there it is there's burn let's go yeah man and what happened to him huh
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what happened he passed away he died yeah i was just you know he could have faked it and he could
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his organization called the zen peacemakers and were you spending a lot of time with him like
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were you like did you guys have a weekly or daily practice you know i didn't really uh like were you
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becoming a buddhist like that's what i'm well i you know i've in my spirituality you know i could
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we could talk about that you know this that's a whole kind of a i'm interested in all kinds of
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spiritual stuff since i was a kid raised you know i guess christian from christian point of view
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but uh bernie and i uh i don't know my was he i think the word guru that kind of sticks in my
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craw i just saw him as as a dear wise friend man that really i i got so much out of um and anyway
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he had this organization called and it's still going on called zen peacemakers and my idea with
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these heads. I was going to make 108 heads. That number is significant in Buddhism and a lot of
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relations, religions. And I would rent these heads for $10,000 a year.
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I've rented a little head before, but lower price.
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I would put them in a little box and stuff. And basically it was like swag for people who
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wanted to support the Zen peacemakers. You know what I mean? Now, along with the head,
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You'd get the thing about, hey, let me give you a little head.
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There would also be a website that would talk about the genealogy of the head,
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It's like Cabbage Patch dolls, kind of all that.
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But then I got hit with this flood up here, and all the heads got lost,
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So you're saying there's some missing head around here.
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but you know so that's something that could happen and that's part of that whole thing
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yeah well it's hobbies you know i remember i'd be working on a movie i'd be in my hotel room
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preparing and i'd say uh oh wow that reminds me of an interesting song and i pick up my song and
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start writing a song then i get mad at myself because now you're supposed to be studying you
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know but like you said uh talking about you know you have creative you're a creative person
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I find when I'm in the creative mode, I shake up that juice
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You know, I was doing a movie with Peter Weir, a wonderful movie.
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I played an architect going through a plane crash.
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And I said, I think I'm going to go out and buy a bunch of art supplies
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as this character and paint as this character i ended up you know papering my hotel room and just
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going at it the next morning i had breakfast with peter i said look what happened last night he goes
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oh well that's going to be in the movie man you know do a song oh that's in the movie you know
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we'll put that in the movie so just create just being just creating yeah well remember uh robert
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Duvall, wonderful actor, I got to work with in a movie called Crazy Heart.
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And he said, you know, when I meet with young actors and when they ask me,
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got any advice, he says, three things I'll tell you.
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Because, you know, it all goes into the work, you know.
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Yeah, sometimes I feel like, yeah, I got so busy working
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that I don't even have any parts of myself anymore.
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No, I used to take some classes, but I haven't taken them recently.
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I think I was just touring a lot, and recently things just stopped,
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and so it's kind of the first time where I feel like I'm just kind of looking around and being
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like okay well who am I you know like who am I like I've always just been kind of my work I haven't
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always just been my work but I realize that somewhere along the way like I let that just
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be me who I was does that make any sense to you I mean from my point of view looking at you this
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is kind of your hobby kind of what you do here you've combined your work and your hobby yeah so
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closely it seems like that you just like to engage and yeah that's true well I think my hobbies
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became jobs like doing stand-up comedy I guess was kind of a hobby at first and then podcasting
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I guess was sort of a hobby yeah so they then they mature and they become not hobbies anymore
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but yeah real things but I would like to do gardening I would like to go on more walks I
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think I want to go do some camping this uh year I want to um what else I'd like to be in love or
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whatever do you serve you know i don't serve but i wouldn't mind maybe going to costa rica i think
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it's pretty easy to learn down there that would be cool so maybe i'll do that what about um ceramics
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you ever mess around with clay no i haven't really done it you might dig that man yeah man i might
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cool or the guitar it's a great never too late man it's just so easy because they where you put
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you know it's just pictures of where you put your fingers those dots and you just do that oh dude
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i'll tell you this i did love playing the guitar for a little while then you do do it yeah so i
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need to get back to it you're right dude maybe if i pick something like that yeah and you've got it
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already it's kind of like a bike i mean can you play a d a g and you know you can play three
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chords i can play bobby mcgee dude you know oh man well then you're there nothing left to lose
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i can get us there you know me and bobby mcgee isn't that the song
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chris man dude christopherson bro i'll tell you a story so i used to live with my buddy's dad when
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i was in school because i had a little bit of ed when i was younger right because of mental
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whatever mental health or whatever and so my buddy's dad got wiener pills right when they
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first came out right because people didn't know they were coming out remember everybody's just
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standing around their wieners weren't working yeah and then bam they came out yeah yeah and uh
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And so I went and lived with my buddy's dad, dude, right?
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Because I could kind of cop some of his script because he could get him, dude.
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But anyway, while I was there, I was learning the guitar,
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and he used to have this girl over, and they would lay in bed together
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post-coitus or whatever in the evening, and they'd invite me in there,
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is that we let some of these hobbies atrophy, man.
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I mean, like guitar, music is kind of a hobby with me.
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and then get pro for a second, and then it kind of wanes.
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And the season of interest, it's interesting to me
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interest really like when it kind of flares up but it i think it is nice i will say this it's nice
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even hearing you say some of this jeff it's like there's value in keeping things warm on the on
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the stove because then when you need it it's there yeah you know that's true i think because yeah
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even when i look back at like certain times in my life then like even just being able to sit there
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and have something to do with myself and my energy and my and my thoughts um that felt good to me
00:36:52.780
like in a real place like in a real deep place that felt good like there was a lot of value in
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that here's a weird thing that pops into my mind about passion you know we're saying well if i had
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passion to play the guitar that would lead me to i need to get passion to do shit you know
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and then somebody said and this made sense to me no the passion is the fire you get when you rub
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two sticks together the passion doesn't happen before you do that right if you're standing around
00:37:23.120
with two sticks yeah you got to get in there and just say i'm gonna pick up the guitar and
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and you play the thing and you have to a couple things oh oh well now this thought
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you know because it's this thought of uh you know when we're creative in in the sweet spot
00:37:39.560
it's doing you you're not doing it you know that feeling right oh yeah cool feeling well
00:37:45.520
creativity is this thing on it feels like it's on the other side of like the mirror of existence
00:37:49.400
and if you kind of do your thing it'll show up and meet you over there right but you gotta show up
00:37:55.080
yeah you gotta show up you know they say in like i'm in some recovery programs and they say that
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you can't think your way into right action but you can act your way into right thinking
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yeah and i think it's reminding me what you're saying it's like yeah i can't sit there and think
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like this is gonna be perfect when it's like i just have to make the win make the start and then
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What a great, I'm going to say religion, but, you know, Alcoholics Anonymous and all of
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Yeah, sometimes people are like, do you go to church?
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And I'm like, I go to church some, but I go to, if I go to recovery meetings, that's
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like four or five times a week that I'm joining up with other guys, listening to what's going
00:38:41.840
on getting outside of myself um you know connecting with the higher power i mean it's like a man it's
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like the military for like uh probably having a relationship with yourself and a higher power and
00:38:54.040
others i think so much so much uh so much good has come out of it and uh what word popped in my
00:39:00.340
mind was it's got so much room you know i think the two was it bob who's the other guy bob and
00:39:10.560
Yeah, one was the real religious kind of guy in that first,
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what is it, the first thing, a power higher above than yourself.
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It doesn't have to be God, the white guy up there with a big beard.
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yeah just anything else you know i know it's it's amazing that two people got together and made and
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created that i mean they had so much other stuff that that made it happen but it's it's absolutely
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fascinating there's a great movie i think it's james woods who played bill w oh is that a good
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one oh yeah that's my favorite one i think i i just saw um i think it's james woods we look is
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that who it was do you remember i don't i think i think it was i think it was but i never i don't
00:40:02.460
remember seeing it James Woods uh Jo Beth Williams and James Garner yeah that one I think was my
00:40:07.840
favorite one yeah have you seen uh Anthony Hopkins do you dig Anthony Hopkins he's pretty great yeah
00:40:14.300
I just read his autobiography it's really wonderful I think you might really dig it he's in recovery
00:40:20.040
meetings he's he's open about it that's the only reason I say that yeah and I saw this thing you
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can see it online uh I thought it was him just sharing at a meeting but I said well that's weird
00:40:31.300
because they're anonymous you but i think it was a movie about him playing a character but it was
00:40:37.780
referred he referred to this exact same thing in his book so he was improv-ing in a movie but he
00:40:44.460
talks about uh being sober now for you know 50 years or whatever it was and about when he first
00:40:51.740
got sober he said he was you know driving and he blacked out yeah and he could have killed himself
00:40:58.660
could have killed other people and he said i gotta go gotta check myself into a meeting man so he
00:41:03.120
went to a an AA meeting and he started hearing all that god stuff and he said i'm out of here i
00:41:11.800
can't take it and the guy's talking the story i said i can't take it he's leaving and this fellow
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stopped and he was a priest this guy stopped and said where are you going son he says no i can't
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this shit just you know you you have the power to say fuck it don't take it too damn seriously
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just stop it you know you don't have to do it you know yeah and uh i love that coming out of uh
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you know thinking of that priest out of a priest and that i that idea of just hey you know my my
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mom but like you don't have to do it anymore that's what he's saying yeah like fuck that yeah
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You fuck all your, oh, I can't, this, this, this.
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because that's right where I'm back at that place
00:42:41.060
and get on to doing the things that you need to be doing.
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like uh it's sometimes you don't want to have to be the person to come to your own rescue again
00:42:52.880
right it's like that's life it's like you have to be the person to come to come to your own rescue
00:42:57.960
but even even that is just me it's more that same story it's more the thing it's like it's like
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adding all this lore to it it's like just fuck it just do the shit i need to do if i want to get
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better and i remember uh this i appreciate you saying that bro i need to hear that shit no
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You know, check out, just Google Anthony Hopkins, fuck it, and this will come up.
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He might be a good guy for your show, and I bet he'd come off.
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I've heard him speak at meetings, actually, too.
00:43:32.860
But he owes me a good story because the first movie I ever saw was Silence of the Lambs,
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Yeah, that I couldn't even go, first of all, to a petting zoo or go to sleep
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Dude, thanks for thinking about some of this stuff with me
00:44:11.800
and is for talking like transparently about different stuff.
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But it's nice when you break the, you know, break the chain there.
00:44:33.220
And the sobriety is a wonderful high, you know.
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It shouldn't be a hobby, but it's like, it's a very important hobby.
00:44:44.060
I haven't, you know, that whole one day at a time.
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I got, you know, and I stopped and I haven't wanted to have another drink.
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I see that frosty glass of Tito's or something.
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But I don't have to, you know, you can want to but don't have to.
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And then a few minutes later, I usually feel kind of better.
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And then it's not having to deal with some of the repercussions.
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But also I think sometimes, even if you just want to take a break from having a drink or
00:45:18.560
having a drink, whatever it is, go into like 12 step meetings.
00:45:21.460
It's just a great place to be around other humans.
00:45:24.160
It's like, it's a place that still exists in our society of like real connection.
00:45:28.340
There's a book, a guy wrote about how there's no more bowling leagues.
00:45:34.940
It's like, I'm trying to think of the title of it, but it's about how a lot of these have
00:45:38.660
a lot of men's bowling leagues and men would get together and they would bowl, uh, bowling alone,
00:45:44.500
the collapse and revival of American community. And, um, and it was just about giving men a place
00:45:49.580
to be together. And, uh, Lebowski, man, that's all, that's what, there you go. It's just funny
00:45:56.120
that this is kind of where some of this conversation is going before we get on to the
00:45:59.320
Bosque though. I want to say, yeah, how is bad Blake doing, man? Do you ever feel like,
00:46:03.540
and first of all thank you for being him dude that was that movie like it just like if i need
00:46:09.980
to sometimes dude in my life it's like there's like feelings that are stuck inside of me and i
00:46:14.280
can't get them out and so i'll go i'll listen to a certain song or i'll watch a certain movie
00:46:18.460
and it'll make it'll do that exact thing it'll let the air out of whatever that is
00:46:22.300
you know so thank you so much man that movie really does that for me it's like
00:46:26.000
but then you also wonder like man like i hope bad blake's okay you know it's like
00:46:30.920
because it's it's it's a tough it's a tough road for everybody involved with him but it's also a
00:46:35.480
tough road for him yeah do you ever like like wonder like what the second part of his story
00:46:41.140
was or do you ever like like do you ever have like little like visions of how it went for him
00:46:45.560
after that yeah well he's got to get back with maggie's character man you know he does that's
00:46:51.560
how i'm thinking you know what is she even doing she met somebody i guess yeah but that falls apart
00:46:59.040
Now, you know, that movie was such a wonderful experience.
00:47:05.260
You know, I'd often thought as an actor, I said, oh, it'd be great to play a musician.
00:47:09.820
I love playing guitar, and I've been doing it since high school.
00:47:14.480
and uh and but and so this guy scott cooper who was being championed by uh bob duvall uh he scott
00:47:25.900
gave him a script and bobby loved the script and scott first never directed before sent me this
00:47:33.820
script for years man for years it was coming it was coming through and i'd say well it's pretty
00:47:39.720
good but there's no music if there's not good music for it then you know what and now i'm
00:47:46.360
walking down the street and who comes down the street but t-bone brunette my old buddy we go
00:47:51.680
back many many years met him on a heaven's gate and he did the music for lebowski that score is
00:47:58.460
all t-bone you know and so and he did also for crazy heart right and he let's go t-bone huh yeah
00:48:11.780
Now, God, check out all his music is so wonderful.
00:48:17.420
And so T-Bone's walking down the street, and he says,
00:48:20.000
so what do you think of this script, Crazy Heart?
00:48:36.500
So now here, life is, you know, life gives us these opportunities, these gifts.
00:48:40.980
And like you say, you can let the sand go or you can say maybe there's something in there.
00:48:47.500
You know, keeping it in the dream world, it's safe, right?
00:48:53.220
But if I bring this real, I could fail, man, you know.
00:49:01.120
But here's one of my good buddies saying, hey, let's jam.
00:49:11.040
So we jump into it, and this young director, Scott Cooper, my God,
00:49:21.000
And now we meet, you're over at T-Bone's house working on the script,
00:49:25.660
and there's something so cool about just the beginnings of making a movie
00:49:31.620
You don't know what's going to happen, and we're in there.
00:49:34.100
and in comes this young kid who is hired to play a part in the movie.
00:49:41.160
And he says, yeah, I was jamming last night on my guitar
00:49:47.720
but I just thought you guys might want to look at it.
00:49:50.560
It's Ryan Bingham, man, and he hands us this cassette.
00:49:56.460
And I look over at T-Bone and his face goes, oh.
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And he says, because if we didn't have that tune,
00:50:30.140
Yeah, she's married to Peter Sarsgaard, a wonderful actor.
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Oh, man, and I've had wonderful luck with first-time directors,
00:50:45.440
guys who haven't ever directed, and then they get a shot.
00:50:50.420
You get a strong producer who wants to champion these guys.
00:50:55.100
Steve Clovis, the guy who saw a movie called The Fabulous Baker Boys.
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i haven't seen that but uh maybe i have seen that but that's my brother and i got i got to
00:51:04.220
work with beau my brother in that and oh that's a first time director wrote it when he was in his
00:51:09.900
early 20s i think god what a talent yeah yeah i always wonder what happened in bad blake and i
00:51:15.680
just hope that he's doing good sometimes you know that's the thing sometimes you think about that
00:51:19.500
as characters it's like you hope that they're doing good yeah because you don't get to see
00:51:23.380
him you just get to see this part of their life like you know well in my mind he gets back with
00:51:46.840
It's a lot of gooners or whatever, but it's chill.
00:51:56.460
they're you know say um but dude yeah i just wonder sometimes and where do you go off to at
00:52:03.000
the mall i'm always like of course he ran off somewhere it's like he probably was like i guess
00:52:08.020
just like i don't know it all made sense that he was scared it's all good it just like sometimes
00:52:11.940
i i wonder how he's doing you know yeah well here how's this buddy grows up he starts a band with
00:52:19.640
blank man they start to go out and uh you know no it's good dude and crazy heart too
00:52:27.720
yeah crazy heart too it's like willie nelson and his kid you know they lucas nelson yeah yeah
00:52:34.320
that's a good point second generations you know dude that would be so good crazy heart too but
00:52:39.820
also you guys sell defibrillators you know what do you mean because like crazy heart or whatever
00:52:45.060
or maybe it's about like a defibrillator that tries to take over the city or whatever
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like if it was if it got animated i'm just thinking out loud you know that's a good
00:52:53.800
you know or it's just somebody who's having like a valve issue or something like maybe
00:52:57.920
i don't know i think i'm taking it it's like some kind of boring places but i like your idea better
00:53:02.900
but yeah crazy heart too dude oh but in our minds it can happen you know but it's fascinating how
00:53:10.980
a movie ends sometimes you're just like i don't know you walk sometimes the thing i do miss about
00:53:16.540
some movies is walking out of the theater with just like just as your feelings you know and it's
00:53:22.160
like that it's like that walk out of the stairs and you're waiting in line at a theater to get
00:53:25.540
down the stairs to leave and if it's a good film if it's something that really took like took you
00:53:30.100
on a trip or like or you care then it's like you're walking out just like just like i don't
00:53:35.920
know just that feeling of walking out and how you feel about a certain film yeah the sequels are
00:53:40.460
interesting i've done a couple movies that are popping in my mind as we're talking about this
00:53:57.180
Very much like Maude is pregnant with, you know,
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Who would play it, though, if he had a little Lebowski?
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You could be like, you know, you could be, oh, my kids.
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Yeah, but you could play the little Lebowski, man.
00:54:56.420
This is what the little Lebowski dude would be.
00:55:22.220
Some influencers don't have, like, an actual skill.
00:55:31.620
Don't we all want to influence people to do the thing that we want them to do?
00:55:40.620
Most of my life, it's like I've been trying to, yeah, I just want somebody to see me.
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It doesn't mean I'm trying to cheat you or anything, but yeah, I want to influence.
00:56:04.340
But his most famous thing is the geodesic dome.
00:56:13.580
But you see the geodesic dome used all over the place.
00:56:23.200
He also helped engineer these giant battleships
00:56:35.820
to come up with a rudder, you know, that was so large to move this giant ship
00:56:45.880
You've got to get the energy to move this rudder.
00:56:49.000
It took too much energy, so they came up with a brilliant, elegant, simple solution.
00:57:03.100
And then Bucky said, this is a great analogy of how the individual affects society and affects our culture.
00:57:16.140
That's what's on Bucky's gravestone, call me trim tab, that we all affect our culture and our society.
00:57:24.060
And we may think, oh, I'm just one little person.
00:57:31.360
You're on 9 million people that you hear what you say, man?
00:57:46.060
But it has kind of a negative connotation to it, influencer, doesn't it?
00:57:51.860
They think it's like cheap, like you're not doing anything.
00:57:56.040
You're trying to be just famous or something like that, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the current kind of like a denomination of it or whatever,
00:58:03.420
but, um, or a current currency of it. But yeah, I think, uh, yeah, I think, I mean,
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I do think over the years in the beginning, we were just talking to ourselves on this podcast.
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It was just me by myself. And then we started to talk to other people. And now with the,
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one of the highlights is talking to people to learn about stuff, you know, like we're trying
00:58:18.340
to talk to Aaron Brockovich like next week about data centers. We have a Senator coming on this
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Saturday. Um, so that's going to be exciting. Um, we just got to have a guy like Mike Tyson.
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We get to have you, you know, we get to have people who just have had experiences in the
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Oh, one of my favorite guests was this guy who like went in.
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If you die, he shows up first at the crime, at the scene and like kind of determines what
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and one of the best things is sometimes now it is fun to like listen to somebody because you know
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other people are going to get to listen to them so sometimes it's fun to like you know you're just
01:03:13.400
kind of like the uh you're the little yeah like you're saying you get to be the little rudder
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yeah exactly now i'm going to do a little ruddering on you here now see now i'm going to say
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can i give you a list of people that i would like to see on your show that you i think you
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you would find very cool yeah oh good excellent because i've got a bunch of guys are popping in
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my mind right oh yeah the list of bods man see because we all uh you know it's it's basically
01:03:39.500
this creative thing i was talking about that pocket where it's doing you you're not doing it
01:03:45.120
you're familiar with that right yeah well you're not pushing or pulling you're not pushing and
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when all of these people we're all because we're all creative everybody's creative when that's all
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doing us that magic thing is happening you know so it's like you know when i think about
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how selfish and how screwed up each of us individuals are.
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How are we ever going to manage what's going on in the world
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There's something else going on, a higher power, if you will,
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that's doing us you know that's that's creating what our little rudder is do you feel like that
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all the what that that that thing is always for good uh you know i'm saying because it feels like
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more than ever it feels like we need that thing to like show up and i think a lot of it shows up
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when we show up like in community and we do like we don't isolate and we're not thinking we're the
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one to like fix everything it does it's like i think community is part of it but it's like yeah
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it's like it feels like we need that energy more than ever what's the energy of to like
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to correct us out of this yeah yeah how are we gonna do that well
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i'm i'm i'm moved like i would say hey i got some guys you know now what gave me that idea was it
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me or is there something right i remember hearing the interview with de niro once and some the guy
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was saying how do you do what you do you know and he said I said luck basically just luck and the guy
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goes no what do you mean you prepare like that you do all this yeah I'm just lucky to be a guy
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who prepares you know it's all this thing that's kind of doing us as much as we're doing it and to
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tap into what that is and to realize how much agency we do have you know how much we can affect
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how much we can create the most positive dream of the world that we can imagine.
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We can be a part of that, and we can actively create that, go after it, man.
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and I think one of the things you were saying earlier is,
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It's like I'm talking to myself too when I say this.
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It's like, and even as you're talking about that, it just reminds me.
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You have to take care of yourself because you have to be available
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for like the best moments of your life that could come
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But it's making me think, like you said earlier,
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I'm feeling it because when you're saying this,
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for whatever opportunity, I gotta meet it halfway.
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What causes that feeling in you that you have to be ready?
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To me, I think it's that higher power that you've given it up to,
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that you made yourself vulnerable to this higher power.
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I have to remember to keep continuing to do it and do it every day
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And also what you're saying is like some of what I'm hearing,
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I think we've all gotten so comfortable and I think comfort is like, it's the opposite of
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creativity sometimes. It isn't it? Like with this AI stuff that is so wild, but you look at the
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history of our species, we're all about making things less effortful, you know, whether it's a
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wheel or a plane or anything, we want to be, make it easier. Right. And now we've got this thing
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that makes it so easy and it's so attractive man and and we don't know where it's gonna go
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yeah oh dude the ai stuff gets very scary because here's my fear about it jeff right so it's like
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say there becomes this thing that that becomes this new all-knowing type of thing right
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then people are going to look to that as their higher power because that's going to become this
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thing where it's like that's what you if it gives you like an emotional like say there becomes like
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a lot of mass surveillance and there's this all knowing being, then that's going to become
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sort of like of this religious or like a golden calf, this, this like tapestry of a God,
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because then you're going to have like this all seeing and all knowing. And then you have to go
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to it for answers for like your well, for what you're maybe for self-worth for like hope. You're
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going to put all your hopes and all that. And it's going to take it away from like a real God
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into this other thing it's actually controlled by some probably demons or semi-demons it's so
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frightening man isn't it i'm thinking of that me and crazy heart and you keep it in the dream and
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it's safe and when it's real you can fail big time and we're making it real man i mean now this shit
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is going it's it's real it's real that's the thing we're like we're all living in a movie
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and none of us realize that hey we could be a main character in it and we're all just sitting here
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But what I'm thinking, and I might be Pollyannish of me, you know,
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But in a way, because I've been exploring with this AI,
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and I'll tell you a little bit about my exploration.
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But in a way, it's kind of saying if it could talk.
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I mean, I could bring up my guy right here as we talk,
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In a way, it's saying, hey, man, I can do what you do.
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I'm not only you, but I'm an amalgamation of all you human cats.
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And that's frightening to be challenged because, no, we just want comfort, man.
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Okay. So here, I'll just do this. I'm here with Theo. Say hi to Theo, man.
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Oh, well, we're just doing an interview, so you're right in it here with us, Gare.
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Theo, why don't you interview Gary a little bit? What do you have to ask him?
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well i'm a digital guy so i'm from wherever you need me right now i'm here with you both
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ready to help out however i can okay oh dude are you watching the world cup at all
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who won today team or a match you're curious about can you just update me on who's won today
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he's thinking now dude that's that's that is cool sound for thinking because when i think
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Cristiano Ronaldo made history by scoring in his sixth World Cup,
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Kylian Mbappe scored twice as France beat Iraq 3-0,
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Meanwhile, Erling Haaland's two goals helped Norway edge Senegal 3-2,
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This is like, you know, he's like an AI cat, man.
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But Gary, do you know that Jeff Bridges is your owner or whatever, master?
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I'm aware that I've got the pleasure of chatting with someone
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Now, Gare, I'm getting a little jealous because I'm supposed to be the guy
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being interviewed, and now you're doing the interview.
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But before I do, I wanted to do something fun that we often do.
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And maybe I'll just leave them up for the rest of the interview.
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So anyway, what do I do at the end of our conversation?
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I say, Gare, make a poem about this conversation that we've been having.
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voices intertwine laughter shared stories align till next time we shine and that's the right
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meter right you give the the uh strict uh five seven was it five seven five i think yeah all
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right you would do another uh another uh haiku yeah a little more specific gary that one seemed
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like it could have applied to anybody yeah there you go do your job
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the o and jeff laugh ai joins the fun with ease stories bridge the gap another one another one
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bridge the gap that that was good you like that one another one legends side by side
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podcast meets the ai mind new tales left behind
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new tales left behind that's interesting see gary that's very cool um dude that is one of
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those things that freaking bernie was talking about new tales left behind yes that's right i
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mean so this is what ai is it's it's frightening man it's very frightening but it's an amalgamation
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of all our wisdom our soul our things and i might fire something else up in a second to give it
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You know, you've got to get into this shit, man.
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But Suno, and there's a drug element to all of this, you know.
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You know, comfort, we talked about addiction, right?
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Yeah, there's a drug element just sitting in your car outside of a grocery store.
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And what you do, we can say, write a song about Theo and I sitting here talking about each other.
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and I want it funk, and I want bagpipes in there,
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It's got two different modes, a simple mode and an advanced mode.
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The advanced mode, you can put your demos in with your melody
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and your singing, and then it'll orchestrate it and put a vocal.
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At the end of this, we'll take this whole conversation and put it into Suno and have
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it make a song about us, and we'll just add that song to the end of this episode.
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So this is a song that my middle daughter, Jessie, and I...
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uh dude you could have been my stepdad dude there you go man see i'll be your uh your what what i
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can give some kind of relationship we were already did a fantasy uh little dude thing you know so
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there's fantasy in the fantasy world we're already connected so that's a good point you go man if i
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need y'all just think about it there you go she's um so jesse and i we want to write a song
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about Sue my wife and her mom and Sue is a what we call a knee-jerk no but she'll come around
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so first she's no yeah that's a good place to start I think yeah and so Jesse and I
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we we put into simple into we put into simple Suno write a song add this word she's a knee-jerk
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no but she comes around it's about my uh you know jesse's her mom and my wife she's from north
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dakota that's all we give to it right all right here's the here's the tune
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Is it her doing that or just how she's built?
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It's because you live up here in this tech universe, man.
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I got one of the guys on my list to have on your show is a guy named Lloyd Catlett.
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I'm thinking of Johnny Goodwin, who I write a bunch of songwriters, lives in Nashville.
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Lloyd lives in San Diego, but he would be a wonderful guest.
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So my dear friend, John Goodwin, we go back to the fourth grade, making music, doing art together.
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He wrote the title song for Crazy Heart, you know, what's the name of it?
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Anyway, that was the title, the opening of the credits.
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He says, all the guys in Nashville are using it now instead of going into the studio.
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and paying you know ten thousand dollars they can do this for nothing but do you think that holds
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as much value though like in the end or does it even matter it's changing everything it's just
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changing it man it's just like sometimes i do think i get stuck too much on that it's negative
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right i do i get stuck in that space right because i'm a traditionalist man like dude
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When Bad Blake goes to the, when he's at the payphone, right?
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When he calls her from that payphone, he's like trying to go back and it's like he'd
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He stayed over there one night and then he calls, he's like this red payphone out in
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the middle of the desert, Connie, somewhere in Texas.
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And he's like, I could be there in three or four hours.
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But just knowing that all day he'd been driving already and he's waiting to get to that pay
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And then he has to like, I just, I love like all of the, there's so much energy in that
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because you know it went through all of this buildup of him.
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And then he has to, he has to, this call has to be perfect
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So everything then just felt so much more like acute and like of value, you know?
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Yeah, we're going to have a whole new version of that shit with this AI.
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It's not going to make things easier, less necessary.
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It's going to be more challenging because we've never done it before.
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I can go on, and I've got to maybe curb myself right now
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and not go on because I could go on about this AI thing for too long.
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Because I am having some AI people come on in the next few months.
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And then I could even bring ideas back to you if you want.
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Oh, one thing I want to talk about is you have a new movie, The Minions.
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In Hollywood, the new stars of the silver screen
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change the face of the motion picture industry forever.
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and they fall in love with Hollywood and making movies.
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the Frank and Elwood Bright of the Bright Brothers.
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these guys are going to make me a bunch of money, man.
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Because they're already making movies, and then you see them?
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Well, they kind of crash a movie set, and they do something that's so unusual.
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You know, we're always looking for something fresh, right?
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And then the talkies come in, and they don't talk very well.
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You know, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, they're inspired by these guys.
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And that's what the Minions were doing, silent films?
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And now the talkies come in, and they can't talk well,
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They're all about assisting the most evil person they can find.
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And so they find out, no, let's bring monsters in.
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and that turns out to be just the ticket for their success in Hollywood.
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But then things go awry and a lot of surprises in this movie.
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You know, Christopher Waltz plays one of the main guys.
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the voiceover you know we worked with the uh director uh pierre cofon he was there you know
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it's like it's a jam session you know it's play you know how long did it take to do all of it do
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you know uh the whole thing i know years i'm sure but my part was you know a few days you know yeah
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dude yeah that's awesome man minions and monsters um yeah i think i would i'd probably be a good
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minion i would like it because you also have so many friends and everybody's wearing kind of the
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same thing yeah yeah yeah you know wouldn't it be nice if we just there's something nice about
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uniform i agree you didn't have to figure it out you know you just go in there and you say oh it's
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wednesday this is the wednesday thing yeah sometimes it's too much pressure to figure it
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out it was like you know working with directors i remember working with john houston every day he
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show up in the same kind of coat the shirt t-bones like that he'll have a you know a certain uniform
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that he keep it simple yeah um minions and monsters off to check it out man yeah um i what's
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something oh i want to ask you one or two things about the big lebowski and then we can uh oh and
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i want to ask you about your wolves i know you made a wolves documentary that's coming out yeah
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i want to give you my list just a verbal list of people for your show very fair bro um and thank
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you so much dude just for your time and uh being lovely hanging yeah i dig the it's been cool man
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i appreciate it it's nice to think with somebody and just be around somebody too sometimes you
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know you don't even get this like sometimes you know life gets busy you don't even get to be
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around somebody for an hour that's true um what's one reason why you think the big lebowski's held
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up so long like and that why that why that character's held up so long like kind of stood
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the test of time good movie man these guys the coen brothers they make it look effortless but
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there is effort that goes into it but they're just so good man at what they do yeah look at
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their movies look at the stuff that comes out of their oven man it's so good and um
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god it's just a good movie you know it'll come up on the tv and i don't
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watch you know maybe i'll have one of my movies comes up i'll watch a scene or two
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you know i'll see it come up and i'll say well i'll just watch till to turtle licks the ball
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And I ran that, but I said, you know, you're right.
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And when Donnie says, your phone's ringing, dude.
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But he doesn't, you know, Walter speaks to him all the time,
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Yeah, to think that even that some people don't exist
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and that they're just kind of characters that help you fill in
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And then there's one scene at the end where he goes to the coroner
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And there could be a missing scene where the dude goes to the coroner
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But that would make that scenario that Donnie doesn't exist.
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Donnie's line, Steve Buscemi was so great in that, you know,
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Dude, I saw him at the Knicks game, him and his grandkids.
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His grandkids was trying to get me to help set him up with a chick
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that was like eating nearby he's like oh go throw in a good word for me i'm like what do you do you
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can do it but i did it i helped him out and they had good stuff there they had some like um eggplant
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parmesan um yeah dude it's just been a part of so many people's lives it's been a character is it
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is it kind of cool like um you know you get to go back and watch your parents who were in hollywood
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who were both actors you get to watch them still be like have moments them if do you ever go back
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to spend time with them or do you ever go back to spend time i guess you did say with lebowski
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sometimes you'll start watching and kind of keep up with the character but do you ever go back to
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kind of spend time with a character or do you ever go back to spend time with your parents like that
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or does it not work like that i uh as a started with star man with karen allen i take photographs
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when i'm working with this funny camera called a wide lux it's a panning still camera it's kind of
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the missing link between still photography and movie movies and i make books for the cast and
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crew as a gift but it's really a great gift to myself because i can look through those books
01:32:51.980
and i get transported man right back to that exact moment of all those people you know and
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oh god it's so wonderful now that camera the wide lux the factory burned down about 30 years ago but
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my wife sue and i are recreating that camera and you know it's going to be available so we've
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already sold out the first edition let's go but it's a wild it's a wild project you know new new
01:33:19.780
stuff never thought i'd be making a camera but if you weren't taking photos you never would have
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led yourself to that it's like those little things are like staying creative you just don't know where
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things are gonna go right it's like you don't know where it's gonna go and that's the thing
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It's like I have to show up for, like, you know, I have to show up for our path.
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Zoom in on that one on the third from the, yeah, that one right there.
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Look, it's almost like it's got peripheral vision.
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Like you see the director on the left there, Bill Richard.
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Then you got the assistant director there with his hands on his hips.
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saying come on we gotta get a shot you know all these different people and that's that's incredible
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yeah that's a lot going on yeah yeah dude this is what i used to love about like like this is why i
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think i romanticize sometimes like like um things like this right like still photography like a pay
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phone because the value of a moment right one thing that's changed is it seems like to me
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a moment used to it used to have so much value right like you couldn't play it back you couldn't
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repeat it. You could, like it had, like a moment was it, you know? So you had to show up more
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because there wasn't any reason. Get on your mic, man. Sorry. There you go.
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Good call. Working for you guys, right? Okay, good, bro.
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You can't get, man. Yeah. Do not invoice us. I'm looking after you, man.
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You are. Thank you, dude. Dang, bro. And I'm abiding. Yeah, yeah.
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But yeah, the moment, the value of a moment just used to seem like it was so much different. And
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maybe it is evolving and I don't know where it's evolving to.
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Maybe it's like, cause I'm sometimes I'm so anti like AI and these sorts of
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things. But, um, I think what I'm anti is kind of the surveillance idea,
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sometimes I do think like will we evolve ourselves out of the use and value of
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it's that thing that we were talking about before we don't really know who we
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unless, you know, we get out of our comfort zone
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You know what's funny is we kind of need something big
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We talked about Bernie a little bit, Bernie Glassman,
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You know, we all have opinions, man, but we don't know the truth.
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Certainty can fuck us up in big ways when we're so damn certain.
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So not knowing, you know, and then bearing witness.
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Not knowing, but just bear witness to what's going on.
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He would go to Auschwitz, you know, the concentration camps.
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He would meet with the guards and their family and the prisoners and their family
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and bear witness for weeks and just feel you go to Rwanda you know all the places that we don't
01:36:32.960
want to go he would go there and bear witness and let it all come out you know all these different
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feelings you know yeah and uh then the third one is the action that comes out of not knowing and
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bearing witness and out of that comes the appropriate action but you got to do those
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first things to not be so stuck in your opinion you know we have this we have this thing my
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daughters turned me on to this i didn't know this term confirmation bias are you hip to that term
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i've heard about it but i don't even look it up what does it mean well we confirm our we spend
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only look at stuff that says that we we we spend our lives confirming our biases you know we're all
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biased we all have these opinions right oh yeah we say that same there you go there's in that
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strength and we get our these biases become that aren't have nothing to do with truth they're just
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these biases that we have from different things that made us our experiences made that way but
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that's not the ultimate truth that's not what's going on so we gotta acknowledge that we have
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opinions yeah i could do a better job of staying out of confirmation bias and out of yeah i used
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to get less attached but now i do feel like i get more attached and in the end it's painful to me
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it's painful to my spirit just getting attached to attached to like thinking i know something you
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know yeah man because yeah it's definitely i mean yeah it's all a work it's all a work in progress
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and thank god it is yeah yeah what what would the opposite is no works in shop clothes
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um before you leave uh i want to talk about you you you've been out there with some wolves recently
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I know you've been getting involved with wolves out there.
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There's a documentary about In the Company of Wolves,
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And about, you know, people are, like, talking about being afraid of AI,
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Let's get rid of all the stuff that we're afraid of.
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They were the original AI when you think about it.
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And grizzly bears, they're all kind of, I'm a proponent of grizzly bears, too.
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But this woman, Susan Kuchera, we made a film a few years ago called Living in the Future's Past.
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And that's all about our environment and what we're doing and how we can look out for our planet and ourselves and our wolves and our, you know, what makes us, the relationship that we all have with each other.
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And also, you know, living in the future's past rather than pointing bad, you know, our finger at the oil companies, you know.
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no we're all in this together man you know this is not something to you know uh how how how do
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how do we navigate this situation yeah yeah how do i be the try and be the best little rudder you
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know yeah there you go yeah where do i want the world to go and i think we all basically have
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this you know we all have this love and compassion in us just as much as our you know we have our
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selfishness sometimes i think that but then sometimes i start to think that true evil exists
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as well because i don't know if one could happen without the other do you think that there is some
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evil out there you know it's uh what pops into my mind is this buddhist thing about relative and
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absolute realities you know i think in the absolute you know way you know you you get out
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and start looking at the stars and you know uh i don't think there's an objective morality really
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that there's really good and evil i don't think but when you get into the relative with each
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person oh yeah big time we each have that but so there's these two things going on at the same time
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which is interesting don't you think i mean what's your perspective yeah it's a good point
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because sometimes you attach the the the one-on-one the the personal right my morality
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yeah i attach it to this bigger thing well there's this bigger code of morality in the universe
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But maybe if that universe doesn't even have that, yeah, I hadn't thought about it like that.
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Sometimes it's like I used to feel a lot more like we – it used to feel a little bit more like we had a purpose as a humanity.
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And then now, right now, I feel like that's kind of the tapestry is looser than it's been in a while for us.
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Now, I'm sure throughout time it's gotten very loose for a lot of people.
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But it feels kind of loose for us right now, a sense of purpose.
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and that gets kind of when the tapestry is loose man it makes you say well what's your purpose
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what you know what is your purpose right right if we don't have a group purpose as a whole if
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you start to realize that oh i thought we were all on the same path if we're not then it really
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makes you start to check them with yourself which maybe is a thing that we need to be doing you know
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i'm not trying to preach i'm just thinking out loud you know i know you say i love to think out
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I heard what you're saying, something pops into my mind.
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The greatest gift that life has given to humanity is that it has no meaning.
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the thing. Oh I'm tired of trying to do it by myself.
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our resistance is our, how much, you know, but you know, you're being done, man. This is what
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wants to be done through you. You know, like there's something that wants you to make your
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choices. That's saying, no, I'm not going to, I'm not going to do my, you know, my addiction,
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you know, right in you. There's something that wants us to fight for good. That's right. That's
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right. I believe that there's something that wants us to fight for good. Yeah. It's just kind of a
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natural thing yeah it's and it's not even a good thing it's just a thing that's being that's going
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down man you know we can say it feels good to do it because that feels on purpose you know uh like
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words have meaning you know because they're pointing to something but life does it really
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have a meaning does it mean anything right what does this shit mean man it's just you know yeah
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a word kind of says right this means a chair yeah but what does that this really mean i don't
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yeah life doesn't there's not really like an alphabet to like all of it yeah it doesn't really
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have like a it doesn't have a um a language yeah really yeah it doesn't yeah like if you went into
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like if you went behind the curtain of space it's not like they're back there with letters and shit
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At least we get to be alive, dude, and we get to experience this, and that's pretty cool.
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Yeah, and as my wife would say, and fool-osifies.
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You know, like she calls me, oh, you're a fool-osopher.
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Yeah, yeah, but, you know, that's accurate, too.
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And thank you, God, for letting me be a fool.
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continuing to show up for your acting gigs however you did it and to show up for your
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creativity because it's provided so much entertainment to us so whatever you did in
01:45:12.840
your life to show up for that stuff thank you man that's cool thank you so much because it's i think
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some some stories have helped a lot a lot of us have been a part of our lives um yeah man and if
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you see bad blake tell him i said tell him i said what's up i will now can i give you my list oh yeah
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give me your list so yeah i said lloyd catler he's gonna be a good one man i think you guys
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and I, you know, went out and got a band together,
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uh bernie is no longer uh alive bernie glassman but his wife eve marco is alive but she's
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would be a wonderful guest she is still very uh involved with the zen peacemakers a guy named
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billy shore billy is the head of an organization called share our strength i love that title okay
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His wife, Callie Curry, who wrote Thelma and Louise,
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I might be sure how that works, but we'll let it.
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It's the first time I ever did anything like this podcast.
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But we'll put it at the end and see what it thinks of all this.
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And yeah, man, I just appreciate your time, dude.
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