This Past Weekend - #622 - Miles Teller

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Starting point is 00:00:39 One of the greats of our time, some people would say. You may know him from some of his many films, Whiplash, War Dogs, Top Gun 2. And he has a new movie, Eternity, that comes out November 26th. It'll be in theaters. You can go check it out. I've met him before, and I'm grateful to sit down and spend time with him today. He's a one of a kind. Today's guest is Mr. Miles Teller.

Starting point is 00:01:28 And where's your home base? My home base is Nashville. Okay. Yeah, our sister-in-law, or Kelly's sister, my sister-in-law, brother-in-law, they just moved to, I think they bought a spot in fucking Trubidor. Oh, yeah, dude, remember that's the first time I met you was when I was over there, yeah. You and your wife, I met you out there with, uh. Stelly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was cool.

Starting point is 00:01:50 He's an LSU boy, too. Yeah. Yeah. And Todd is awesome. Yeah, I saw Todd last week. He's such a fucking, he invited me to the Ryder Cup with him. I couldn't go, but he's just awesome. Todd Graves.

Starting point is 00:02:00 He's a great dude. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. You know, he owns a Triceratops head. He owns that. He owns one. He lent it to the museum in Louisiana. I mean, just obviously the skull. Yes.

Starting point is 00:02:12 Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool, though. Yeah, good calls. I would pay somebody to fucking realistically fill that bitch in. Oh, dude. Well, especially like, you'll see a lot of perverts.

Starting point is 00:02:22 I'll be like, oh, look at the tits on that. I'm like, those aren't, those are horns, you idiot? Are we talking right now? Yeah. Is this real? We can be or we can start over. Okay, no, dude, I'm all good. I just had no idea.

Starting point is 00:02:33 But yeah, you'll see people just hang marty crawbys and stuff on. And Louisiana people just don't give a shit. Wow, wow. But yeah, I just saw Todd the other day, dude. Where's he keep it? And there's like a museum over there. Oh, well. So it's like a Louisiana museum.

Starting point is 00:02:49 So there's like, you know, the stuff that, the artifacts they keep in there are a little bit different, like a beer bottle, you know, or like a shit that's just a little bit more. Louisiana. I mean, I grew up a lot of my, half my life, I grew up in central Florida. So I imagine it would be similar kind of museums. Yeah. With like Daniel Toss was down there. Was Tosh Popping well, yeah, but also like the Daily Show came to my county twice when I was growing up. The one is because they have a Cooter Festival, which is a type of turtle. A cooter? A cooter. It's like a type of turtle. Bring up that Cooter turtle. Bring up that, yeah, flash up that Cooter. And then the other one,

Starting point is 00:03:24 it was like Ed Helms came because the town next to mine banned the devil from coming into the town and it was the town of Inglis like some pretty backwoods like Citrus counties where you know I went to middle school high school bro that's amazing that they

Starting point is 00:03:40 first of all this is oh it looks like Cooter Tober just happened oh yeah or they're really kind of I guess branching out you could probably do it for every every month anything that ends in an R

Starting point is 00:03:52 I think you're good but Cooter Tober Yeah. That sounds pretty wild. Cudor Tober is back, it says. Apparently it was discontinued for a bit. A whole month of Coutheriffic fun, Inverness, Florida.

Starting point is 00:04:08 Let's go. Shout out. This year we're returning with all your favorite events like the Cudor Carnival, small town Saturday night, Cudor comedy. And, oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah. And that's the Cuder Turtle. Yeah, that, yeah, that is.

Starting point is 00:04:22 Yeah. They must not have discovered it for a while or they must not have given it. they must not have celebrated it as much because it didn't, I remember that they didn't start like Cooter Fest until like I was, I don't even know if I was still in high school. I might have been out of high school.

Starting point is 00:04:35 So it took a while. I wonder how it even got that name because I've heard of people using like kind of slang. Well, goats for like bestiality, but if they were, if this would be the worst thing to try to invade a species, you know.

Starting point is 00:04:49 Like, yeah, it's some, like, yeah, how did it get its name? How did the Cooter Turtle get its name? The Cooter Turtle got its name from the African word, which means turtle in the Bambara and Malinke languages. The word was brought to... Yeah, so it was, yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Originally it was Cuda. Cuda. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuda. Yeah, Cuda fist. Hey, boy.

Starting point is 00:05:09 Come on down a Cuda face. Yeah. I just saw a woman, they have a woman that has two Cudas, actually. I saw she's on TikTok the other day. There's a woman... What, now are you... Now, I'm talking about the anatomy. Now I'm changing it.

Starting point is 00:05:24 So... Do you want to hear a... Okay. No, yeah. Yeah, go. There is a woman who has two vaginas that's on TikTok. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She sent a DM the other day to me the other day.

Starting point is 00:05:33 How many DMs did she send one of each, one for me? Dude, dude, dude. She sent replica DMs. That's insane, bro. So, can I tell you a story? Yeah. So I'm at my boy's wedding and we're, he's from, he's from Ohio. We're at the, you know, reception now, the after reception.

Starting point is 00:05:54 We're all just hanging out in the hotel room. And the one dude's like, yo, do you remember, you remember that girl went to high school with with two vaginas? And he's like, dude, you're talking about Cheryl? And then his other buddy's like, yo, double barrel Cheryl? And I just thought that was the funniest fucking nickname I've ever heard in my life, double barrel Cheryl. I was like, that's got to go in some American pie type movie. Just double barrel Cheryl.

Starting point is 00:06:18 So as soon as you started talking about that, I was like, oh, I have one. Put her in a museum, dude. Apparently, she used to say, like, this one's for my boyfriend. I'm saving this one for my husband. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:30 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I would just, I would, if I had both, I would, dude. You'd blow them both in the first week. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah. Exactly, dude. No, I'd be like, I'm saving this one for after dinner or whatever. I would definitely, dude. This is the dessert. This is, yeah. It would be like, A.m. PM. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:51 That's it, dude. Like the gas station. 24 hours Running all night, dude This is my morning one And this is my evening one And one has like tattoos around it and stuff And the other one is a bit more like

Starting point is 00:07:06 Back classy classy Yeah a little bit more upscale Upscale Upscale Leave a Yelp review This one's This one's closing in on five stars This other one you know

Starting point is 00:07:18 You know what that one is Yeah and the other one for some reason It's 3.8 stars You're like Both viable options. Pretty good. Look. I'll pull up a chair.

Starting point is 00:07:30 Go back to that weapon. That's double barrels. A great name. Double barrels, Cheryl, dude. Wow. We weren't fortunate enough to get a woman like this in our area. Let's see what she says here. I was born with two vaginas, two uteruses, and two cervixes.

Starting point is 00:07:49 There was no join from my mouth to my stomach. and that instead my food pipe was connected into my air pipe going into my lungs. The music is, that's tough. I feel like our tone should have been a little different when we were talking about. I'm sure it's a horrible thing to deal with. Oh, I can't even imagine.

Starting point is 00:08:13 Even if I had two penises, I would, yeah, I don't know. Well, that would be very tough if you were, especially like when you're in high school. school and stuff and your body, you're going through perverty and whatever, and you're getting erection in high school. I would, oh. Erections. Yeah. Unless they will operate different

Starting point is 00:08:32 frequencies. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's like AMF. That's like an antenna. Like, that's, like, that's like, there's no hide in that. You got, you got too ready to, right on rock, dude. But if you could time them out, you know, as soon as the one's done. Other boy. Like a

Starting point is 00:08:48 pentameter? Almost like a drummer. Like NASC, like your one's just getting the tires, you know. warmed up, the other one's like, you know, doing a hot lab. Yeah, dude. I think if you, well, especially like drummers? Yeah, it'd be like a if they had a cool pentameter kind of tool.

Starting point is 00:09:03 Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, the Grateful Dead has two drummers. Do they? It's the best. You have their shirt on. Yeah, yeah. You went to their, I saw you went to their 60th? I did the Samfran show. I, um, yeah, I mean, I've seen them at the sphere. I've seen kind of this iteration dead and co for, I think pretty much since John started.

Starting point is 00:09:22 But yeah, they're my... John Mayer. Yeah, John Mayer. But even before that, I was seeing, you know, some different versions of them and, you know, Bob We were, you know, Phil Lesh, kind of independently. But, yeah, it's the best. Honestly, like, when our house burned down,

Starting point is 00:09:34 like the thing that I was... Probably one of the things I was most upset about was all of these vintage, Grateful Dead Shirts, but that community is so awesome. I don't have Instagram or anything, but they reached out to Kelly, and we're like, hey, you know, deadheads. They were like, we feel so bad for you guys,

Starting point is 00:09:50 and we know if our house burned down, we would really miss those shirts. Can we send you some from our own, you know, collection? So a bunch of people shout out to you, you know, just sent me shirts. It's such a loving community. I feel like all those, you know, bands from that era, especially the Dead, who really kind of supported, you know, everybody. There's crowds were rainbow colored before anybody's, you know what I mean, if that makes

Starting point is 00:10:13 sense. Wow. So people just sent you different ones. Did they, is that one of them? No, this one, this one I think I got up in. San Francisco. Oh, that was the spread. That was just for like three days, but I was like, I don't, I don't know what pants I'm going to wear. You know what I mean? I got to. Oh, that's for when you went to a show? For San Francisco, there was three nights. So I just took

Starting point is 00:10:33 them all out. It's kind of the only stuff I post about is like, yeah, even my, I guess my bio quote or, I mean, that's a Jerry Garcia one. That's great, dude. My brother has a big Jerry Garcia tattoo on his chest. Does he? He loves them. Yeah, we got to go together actually and see them at the sphere one time. Our producer, Zach went and saw them, I believe, for two nights in San Francisco. Yeah, Zach? Yeah, I was up there.

Starting point is 00:10:56 I was all three nights, actually. Nice. I thought, yeah, I mean, they're all amazing. Sturgle, I thought Sturgle was exceptional. I was exceptional. Sturgle is exceptional. I mean, I just think overall Saturday, Saturday night was kind of the best.

Starting point is 00:11:10 And it's hard because you can look at the set list, but usually at least one of those weekend shows they just catch lightning in a bottle. And I think that's the beauty the band is that you're never going to hear the same song twice but because it's so improvisational and they're on the ride with you you know i mean to play music at that level um and they are there's such i mean the skill set from all those guys so high but it's just fun dude i dance my ass off too people think it's like you do you're just high and just sitting there too it's like no that music

Starting point is 00:11:37 makes me buggy dude like i love it i love it dude if you're not sweating you're not trying either i think maybe some of that's the florida thing but it's like i grew up at the thin layer of sweat all over my body all the time it makes you feel alive dude Oh, in Louisiana, you can't even land a handshake with people. If it's humid day, you'll see people trying to land a handshake for fucking 30 seconds, 40 seconds. They'll just give up on the friendship. They'll go their separate ways. It's just, that's the kind of place it is, man.

Starting point is 00:12:01 Yeah, I always say it's like you have a thought and you're sweating. Yeah. You know what I mean? But that air, too, like, you get off the plane, because we would always fly into Tampa. Like, you get off that plane, it's just a huff. It's just a thick air, dude. Yeah, it feels like the air has a little bit of an infection, to be honest with you. when I feel that like air at night it just it just makes me feel like mischievous because when I was like all those teenage years just you know that sunsets you know get on a bike just figure out some shit to do in your neighborhood like that air just makes me kind of yeah relapse I guess it's it makes dude there is something about it like there's something about I even think about this like if you ever stay at a if you ever at a place that doesn't have air conditioning, right?

Starting point is 00:12:48 Like, at first you're like, you're like, oh, most of Europe, dude. You're like, this sucks, but then I feel like your dreams and everything is more acclimated to the actual climate of whatever's going on, right? And I always feel like I get,

Starting point is 00:13:01 like I have like, like, like more imaginative or creative dreams whenever I'm in a place that doesn't have air conditioning for some reason. But yeah, that South, dude, that shit hits you hard. Dude, you do dance, man.

Starting point is 00:13:13 I noticed, I remember this now. I think, I don't know if we're, It could have been like marshmallow maybe. It was one night we were both in Las Vegas after a UFC fight. Okay. And maybe it's chain smokers or something. It might have been that one when Ed Sheeran was there. I don't remember.

Starting point is 00:13:27 I don't know. I don't know. But you were like, you dance, dude. Even if you're just by yourself, you are doing your own thing. It's like some people would think like, oh, Miles Teller, like, he's just going to be like this cool guy. And he just like flew his jet in there, his fucking, his mock 70 jet. Right, you know. Southwest?

Starting point is 00:13:45 Yeah. But I mean, he flew his top gun plane He's gonna sit like You know, dude, I love it You have your own time That's what it feels like Yeah It's like you decide

Starting point is 00:13:55 That I'm gonna have a good time for me And it almost like inspires Like God I wish I could be that free Well I heard I think you're pretty free I think you're pretty free fucking dude You know just from I guess so much I could dance better

Starting point is 00:14:08 Okay yeah I mean yeah I don't know I think I don't know I heard something a while back And it's not something I like think about But they were like, you know, if you're having a party or wherever you're a group of people, you're not sure everybody.

Starting point is 00:14:22 They said like the number one way to kind of try and have everybody, make everybody have a good time is just have a good time yourself. And I think that, but also I've just always like rhythm, yeah, dancing. That's something I've just always kind of got down with. Like that's how I, I just, yeah, I love it. But yeah, any kind of, I mean, that DJ music, but like Bob Seeger. Like, classic rock gets me going, dude, let alone if there's, you know, some rock piano. I love that shit. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:53 Um, yeah, dude, some good jazz. I like my mom came in town recently. We went and listened to some blues. She likes to do that. I went to a joke. Where'd you, did you go somewhere for blues? We went to this blues place in Nashville. It's just like in Printers Alley.

Starting point is 00:15:06 It's a, I think it's kind of a, it's a bit of a touristy spot, kind of. Yeah. But I think we're just having trouble finding a spot. And so we went, and we had a great time. It was actually a guy from New Orleans that was playing. And so we just sat there and just had a nice time. She likes to listen to it. It's funny.

Starting point is 00:15:22 As my mom gets older, she almost turns into a child a little bit. And there's moments where it's almost like it's a kid there, you know, but just like in an older body. Like what just the fascination, the kind of, it feels neuter, kind of. That's a good question. It's like you can just see on her face she's having a good time. It just feels like pure and some innocent.

Starting point is 00:15:45 to it? Yeah, okay, yeah, that's great. It's almost like... How old's your mom? She's 77. Yeah, yeah. So she's an adult. She looks a little bit like Willie Nelson. Let's see a picture over. She's not going to want to hear that part. She looks a bit like Willie Nelson. Oh, hell yeah. She's awesome.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Dude, I love that. She listens to every episode of this. Oh, great. What's her name? Her name is Gina. What's up, Gina? There you go, Mom. Miles is married, Mom. Calm down.

Starting point is 00:16:15 Um, what's your mom's name? Mary. Mary? Yeah, like Christmas. Ooh. M-E-R-R-Y. Oh, really? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:23 And they did that on purpose? Uh, yeah. Yeah, she was born like December 15th. It's close enough. But she gets like, so it's not Mary. Oh, there he is. And my mom's like, my mom's like best friend. Uh, my mom says she's like the only one who pronounces her name correctly and it's

Starting point is 00:16:37 Mary. Okay. Okay. And then some of the, I just remember like something like, not, they're not, they're not, your uncles, but like these guys live in the neighborhood and they just all seem

Starting point is 00:16:48 like kind of pervy. Yeah. You know? Oh, guys at Loiter or whatever? Yeah, they were like family friends and shit, but just some based on the money,

Starting point is 00:16:55 I don't know. I just feel like when I watch these old home videos, it's, you'll just hear some, you're like, whoa, that was like,

Starting point is 00:17:00 pervy as shit, dude. Yeah. So they'll say like, Mary, then they'll go, uh, I can do it. Uh,

Starting point is 00:17:06 lugga, lugga, lugga, lugga, lugga, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

Starting point is 00:17:10 that's gonna, That's going to raise a few flags. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Merry. Yeah, that is nice. What is your mom do for work? Does she work?

Starting point is 00:17:21 She was, she did real estate for a while, but yeah, no, not working. My dad actually retired. He just retired a couple years ago. He was born in 54, so 71. I think he retired pretty close to 70. And are they enjoying, has it gotten weird for them since they're both retired? Because, you know, some couples, it gets weird because they're both at home and stuff? Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:17:40 I mean, yeah, I don't know. You know, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I see him a good amount, but I'm sure, yeah, I know my dad likes doing, like, outside work. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? A lot of guys the second they realize that there have to be in the, like, when the retirement happens, like, oh, God, there's nowhere to go. Yeah, you need some, like, hobbies, dude. My stepdad built, like, 40 birdhouses in our other dude.

Starting point is 00:18:02 Oh, that's cool. He did not want to be. Just the building them. Yeah. Yeah. Just never, did he ever put him on? I mean, some of them, he did. Yeah. He also, he got the one in the helmet. Just go back to a 14-year-old in shop class.

Starting point is 00:18:13 I guess that's kind of the... He was building dog house. We didn't even have a dog. I think he just wanted to be... He still needed some time alone. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think there's that.

Starting point is 00:18:22 I mean, I don't have kids yet, but I imagine, you know, yeah, because growing up, my dad would, you know, he'd be like working on the pool or something would just be fiddling with stuff in the garage for like hours. I don't know. I'd no idea what he was doing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:33 Yeah. Yeah, that's got to be cool dad stuff. I bet it'll be cool whenever you're a day. Kind of tinkering. I just want to tinker. You know, I mean, I could tinker for days, dude. Let me get out here. Let me start collecting something weird, too.

Starting point is 00:18:46 My buddy's dad collected all these toy trains and stuff. And whenever we'd go over there, he'd have to set it all up, dude. It would take, we'd just stop. Like around the holidays, around Christmas or something? I mean, I think it was any time. He started to lose his mind. And he would just set that bitch up in June, you know? Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:01 And we'd have to set, he'd have to do the train. And it was just like, oh, you want to support your. friend's parents but it was just a lot it was a lot it's a lot to watch somebody do the toy train a lot we had the I had this bus driver growing up uh his nickname was fingers because he was missing a couple of them but he had that's thankfully that's the reason why I did because there's a bus full of kids fingers fingers yeah and he'd always point at you with the with the nub oh yeah but he had this belt buckle because we're just talking about collecting weird shit or whatever but He had this belt buckle that looked like he had hand glued on, like, silver dollars.

Starting point is 00:19:41 And so it was just like 20 silver dollars. I thought it was cool as shit when I was a kid. Oh, dude, the stuff you thought was cool when you were a kid was so great, dude. Even like you said earlier, like, I remember, I was talking about this the other day, whenever, like, the sun, like, if you were playing in the street with your friends, and it was like, somebody was pitching the ball. You're like, one more pitch, but the sun was setting. You're like, dude, just one more. Like, you knew you were going to try to hit a home. Or, like, it just, the game, it didn't, it wasn't even, it was just like, just these moments when you were a kid, everything was so severe.

Starting point is 00:20:11 Or if you rode your bike at night, just anything like that, it was so. Just riding a bike, like, in Jackson, I think the beauty, you know, just riding bike in general, man, it just brings you back to that. I got, I knocked myself out once playing this game. I got a bunch of concussions when I was younger, but my sister just graduated, like, sixth grade. I was probably in fourth grade. So, like, I was trying to come up with a game, so we grabbed a basketball. and like an aluminum bat. And we're like, I will play basketball.

Starting point is 00:20:38 So she pitched it. I hit it the first time. You know, it's like, ding, ding. It's like, all right, I got to grip it tighter. Second time, fucking metal bat with a rubber ball, dude. I fucking swung it. Ding, knocked myself out. My parents actually, they were saying that, like,

Starting point is 00:20:54 the teachers in my school were thinking that my parents were beating me because I would come in like once a week or two, just like, shiner, like concussion, dude. And I had that little surfer cut. So I would try and just cover the fucking tennis bowl with that. Waves are intense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, wow, gnarly swell today, boys.

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Starting point is 00:25:16 and our we had a house in studio city um and that house got robbed while i was filming and so i thought i was just going to like i thought we'd go back after filming kind of bump up security measures, re-fortifying. Kelly's like, no. She's like, they, you know, they go through all of her stuff. And it is, it's a very violating feeling. So then we bought that Palisades House. And honestly, I would say it was the first kind of neighborhood in L.A. where my wife, um, A, felt really safe. And then B would be, like, excited to, to go back to L.A. whenever we'd be filming. And I never heard her say that in, like, the 12 years we'd been dating. And, um, yeah, we, like, worked with some designers. my wife like really designed so much of it and I had this feeling last night because we're in

Starting point is 00:25:59 this rental you know obviously we've we've been in rentals and um I was just laying a bed I was like man this you know we're in the place we're in is you know it's a nice place we don't have to worry about the water the air the you know it's it's really well done but at the same time it just it fucks with your mind when you can't look around at any point and see anything that reminds you of your life you know everything is just there's no

Starting point is 00:26:24 attachment to anything oh that's literally my fucking house I don't know why we brought that up that's my Bronco though

Starting point is 00:26:33 that was my 75 fucking Bronco oh way really so beautiful dude I had that thing for like eight years why would we bring

Starting point is 00:26:43 this my my no honestly it's but to be fair the first picture I saw

Starting point is 00:26:50 Kelly and I saw from our fucking house to know that it was actually burnt down was from TMZ like they sent a drone in there and also they just

Starting point is 00:27:00 because they started the first homes they're talking about are like celebrity homes and that's not fair because the community of the Palisades all of our neighbors

Starting point is 00:27:09 and that community honestly were people that had lived there for like 30, 40 years it was you know as people that had like you know

Starting point is 00:27:17 raise their kids there were having their grandkids there and a lot of those people you know their home burdens down at like 70 years old it's like we don't have time to to rebuild um but you know there's like a little elementary school across the street and they had these dudes on bikes with you know

Starting point is 00:27:31 like wooden boxes behind them they would you know ride the kids home from school it really was like like that movie Pleasantville i don't know it was just such a well done um yeah community it's a nice place yeah i've gone a lot of like it was yeah yeah we used to get a lot of recovery meetings up there and it was just like it would be the most nicest thing on saturday we'd pull up and people would park. Would you go to the church on a Via de la Paz? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:55 That's the road I lived on. I lived down, I lived like two blocks, maybe even one block from that church because my buddy said he used to have meetings over there. Dude, yeah, they had some of the best meetings in the world were there, really. And it was just such a special energy of there. If you go walk and go over to that smoothie shop that's over there and they got those archive bowls. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:13 And then they got the little restaurant right across the street from it. Yeah. That's right near that Starbucks and that big pink, like that whole village. Are you talking to like the villa? village and stuff. Yeah, no, it's like there's that

Starting point is 00:28:22 Starbucks in the corner. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's that little place that has breakfast and, like, right around the corner from it.

Starting point is 00:28:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, we'd go park at the Gelson's and sit there and people would talk before the A meetings and then we'd walk over to the meeting together. Oh, good. But it was just a nice, it was like, yeah, man,

Starting point is 00:28:36 that place is, it's a great place. Um, I'm sorry that that happened. And were you guys able to go in and get stuff out or what was that life? No, I mean, so like when the fire,

Starting point is 00:28:45 when the fire started, Like we could see it start from, because in that area, Via de la Paz, you kind of have a good vantage point. You got some altitude to you. So we could see like where the fire started. And I'll say it was probably about three and a half, four miles maybe at our 12 o'clock. And the winds really weren't that bad at that point. It was scary because we were seeing the fire, you know, start to encroach on some homes. And so you're watching a home, you know, with this fire going towards a home, you're just feeling for that family or whoever's there.

Starting point is 00:29:15 and then turn on the news, and because there's one road out, I mean, it was already kind of like, it got serious very fast. And, you know, people were like abandoning their vehicles. You know, it's like women running with babies. And this was it within like an hour of this fire kind of starting. And so I was taking care of my grandma at the time because my grandpa had just passed away like around Christmas. So I was in the process moving her out with me. And so, you know, she's got some meds and she's slow moving. So I was like, hey, grandma, you know, maybe a no, no rush. But, you know, start getting your meds together and uh yeah i mean we grabbed grabbed a couple t-shirts i got like two

Starting point is 00:29:53 grateful dead shirts we thought we'd be in a hotel for like you know a couple couple nights and um but no i remember at one point my brother-in-law calling my wife and he's like uh you know make sure miles grabs that you know Kobe jersey or that Eagles thing and i was like what i couldn't come to terms with i just couldn't face the reality a i did not think our neighbor was going to burn down. There's like no brush. It would have to jump six lanes, which I didn't. But I just remember thinking like, where do you, you know, it's like where do you stop?

Starting point is 00:30:24 You know, if I take this off the wall, then there's just too much. I think it's kind of, I think it's kind of overwhelming. But we, it's funny because I always told Kelly, like if a natural disaster happens, something like that, you're going to drive the truck load everything in the back. I'm going to take my Bronco. But when stuff, when it's actually happening, you're like, no, obviously. I, you know, make sure my wife and, you know, my grandma and, you know, and our dog and stuff. So, no, we really didn't, we really didn't grab.

Starting point is 00:30:53 I'm saying even little shit, like, when you're at home, I imagine you have, like, a favorite coffee mug. If you drink coffee, or just something that you have, has some history to it. It's like, just none of that stuff. Truly, it's like everything I've acquired in life. Gone. Yeah, it's wild. Was there feelings after that, like, because that's like, I mean, that's, such a you know it's traumatic it's is there anything in a weird way and i don't mean this

Starting point is 00:31:22 is there anything cathartic in some weird way about it does that sound crazy to think or is that not a real thing no i think and maybe that's i know because there's some people that have lost i don't know if it was their their you know main home there are certainly people that i've talked about that kind of baptism of it but i told i told kelly this was like a couple days after i said look I know at some point, you know, especially when we have kids, if we're fortunate enough to have kids, and we're giving them life lessons, that's what it's all about. You've been through the thing they're going through more or less. And I said, you know, the fact we'll be able to sit down with our kids and say, you know, when your mother and I were, you know, your age or this age, we lost everything and we figured it out. And I know that as a couple, that really is going to just make us stronger.

Starting point is 00:32:12 we didn't have any cracks before but certainly like when you go through something like this you know it bonds you in such a in such a way and then she told me

Starting point is 00:32:22 stop bright siding me I said what the fuck is brightsiding she goes it's this term I'm learning on Instagram it's or TikTok she's like brightsiding is when you're telling somebody this thing

Starting point is 00:32:33 no matter what it is something traumatic and they're like well look on the bright side you know you have your health and it's like it kind of invalidates the thing they're going through but I know what you're

Starting point is 00:32:42 So I know, for me, I guess I feel that more like when I move, if I ever move and you go through everything you own, you're like, oh my God. That's what I'm thinking about half this shit. That's what I'm thinking of more just like spring cleaning. I'm like, dude, that's a horrible comparison. Yeah. But yeah. No, but it's valid. I had a, uh, this director, I worked with his house burned down and he, he felt like it was, um, and we know, right? You shouldn't have attachment to things, right?

Starting point is 00:33:07 That doesn't really really fill you up as much as relationships do and this and that. But the things I'm talking about, they weren't, even though they're considered material, it was just. Yeah, that's true. And that's the other feel of just like not having a whatever home means to you, like a place where you go back, it's yours. Like we've been getting kicked out of Reynolds. Like they tell you we have it for three months. They're like, I know somebody else coming in. So that just kind of thing.

Starting point is 00:33:31 Damn. But yeah. Yeah, it's all good. Well, thanks for entertaining some of those questions. Yeah, I didn't. And maybe you've talked about that. nauseam man and yeah and I'm sorry if you have I just didn't I didn't really think about that um I watched your movie dude yeah what you think I watched it last night man I thought it was really

Starting point is 00:33:49 great I thought it was one of the things you talked about a few minutes ago made me kind of even think about it it was like um when you look around your your rental place that you're at now that there's not even things that are your like there's not pieces of you that are spaces or memories or you can walk past something and think like, oh, Kelly and I were there. That's, you know, one of our first vacations or that's where we got a dog or different things like that, right? And it kind of reminded me of just some of the, like the archives that, because the movie's called Eternity.

Starting point is 00:34:21 And it's basically, can you just give me a brief summation of what it's like because you'll do a better job? So when you die, you get put with somebody and then you, you know, you take a train and then you get kind of deposited in this like grand central station meets like world's fair kind of place you get an afterlife coordinator and then they the rules are you you know you get to live eternally you pick an eternity but once you pick you're in that for you know forever yeah and so the eternities have different themes there's like capitalism world or like smoking world yeah maryland manson world yeah mason world yeah yeah manson world yeah you can get down with you know what yeah whatever

Starting point is 00:35:00 somebody was like, I want to eternally where it's like, Miami Beach, spaghetti and cocaine. I was like, well, that's Miami. That's like, I think you just, you can actually go there now. Yeah, that's a night at Carbone. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:13 Yeah. Carbone is so good. Carbone is good, dude. Oh, my God. Yeah, beautiful. I thought it was just beautifully shot. I just thought it was really, just a really original script.

Starting point is 00:35:24 That's what I thought. It's like. It's so original. And it makes you think about like, you know, if I do pass away, It gives me, it gave me like... Well, you will pass away. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:33 Shit. You know, I'm just thinking, well, I don't know. Biohacking is crazy right now. A lot of haters. Yeah. A lot of haters in here. I'll see if I do pass away. Well, debatable, yeah. But it was great because your, uh, your character's wife, um, all Elizabeth Olson.

Starting point is 00:35:51 Elizabeth Olson, right? She, uh, passes away. And then she has to choose between her first love. Yeah, this dude who's been waiting, he passed away in the Korean War. He's been waiting like 60-something years for her. Right. And you who are at the track, kind of like at the Grand Central Station now too,

Starting point is 00:36:05 you guys were both kind of waiting for her in a way. Yeah, well, I didn't know he was, I didn't know he was still waiting for her. Are we giving away too much of you, you think? No, that's in, I think that's like in the trailer. Yeah, it's all like in the first 10 minutes. Yeah. But it's kind of fascinating because then she shows up

Starting point is 00:36:21 and now you two are kind of vying for her affections. Yeah. And then who does she stay with? Does she stay with this first love that she lost and didn't get to have a life with? or does she stay with this love that she already got to have a life with? Yeah. And it's just, uh...

Starting point is 00:36:34 And there was like, some people were telling me, um, you know, it's like, oh man, that's, that's my, my nightmare, you know, people that have been, you know, had, you know, been widowed and moved on this and that, but it, but look, I think it, but it does, it really makes you think about, um, yeah, your own life and what's beyond in, you know, family and, I don't know. well and how long love lives I think that was part of it like I remember when I've done and there's a little bit of a weird

Starting point is 00:37:05 side bar butt like when I've done like DMT it's like the only feeling that you're left with is that the only important feeling as it feels like you're leaving the existence is that love

Starting point is 00:37:18 was the most important thing and that everything else was just a complete fool's errand yeah and also that um well because what you're talk about, but you get this feeling that your, your consciousness, which is who we are,

Starting point is 00:37:35 is really, you know, this really is just kind of this vessel, this physical form, but it is, but who you are exists when you ever you've been in a situation where you feel like you've left your body, but you still, you know, think like yourself, you still feel like yourself. and that kind of remains intact. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good... And we're not saying that you know what I'm talking about, but we're just saying that, yes, the consciousness of who we are still exists outside of our vessels.

Starting point is 00:38:10 That's what certain experiences that made me feel like, and that that consciousness is still able to evaluate that love is so important. Yeah. That's one thing that I thought about that. No, but also I've thought about that, too. I'm like, I think the most important thing in love, life for me really is, you know, it's like relationships.

Starting point is 00:38:30 You know, to me, that's the thing when I'm, I imagine when I'm sitting there on my deathbed, if I'm lucky enough to... If you die. Yeah, if, if I die. Because we have a new package for you. Right, sure. I can't wait. Give me that longevity, you know, whatever it is.

Starting point is 00:38:46 We got a new sweet, we have a new peptide for you. Perfect, dude. You know, Kelly will show me like one thing. Somebody talked about some product. I'm like, yeah, sure, sounds good. was it B pollen sperm like yeah if I can put it in a smoothie baby but no but it's it's like relationships like to me that's that's what I'm thinking about how this you know that that that bronco or that movie or that I'm gonna be like man be thinking about you know my wife my you know

Starting point is 00:39:08 my buddies my you know my family my um my relationship with whatever higher being I have and I think that's kind of the and that's what I get the most um like the return from um what what you put into relationships that's what that's what you're going to get back I just think that's always kind of led me on a good path in life. Yeah, it's like, I know, sometimes I feel like I've almost spent too much time working. One of the nice things, like I recently kind of have gotten to take a break from touring

Starting point is 00:39:37 because I'd been kind of touring pretty heavily for like four or five years. Yeah. And maybe really for probably 15 years. And so, like, I've been able to, like, go to football games and, like, maybe try to plan a date and go on a day, you know, not be like, try to pick up the pieces all the time. and stuff like that and like, yeah, just things like that. To be able to see a friend, like a couple weeks in a row

Starting point is 00:40:00 or know that you're going to be able to keep their relationship going, stuff like that is, yeah. And when it's not just sandwiched in between, it's like, okay, I have one and a half days, you know, I have this thing on Friday, you know, this thing on money, whatever. Yeah, that's never enjoyable. It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like there's any space.

Starting point is 00:40:16 You need to have some time to yourself. And I've, like, even with filming, man, I've kind of always been pretty good. Obviously, if it's, I have no problem going like back to back to back to back if it's the right thing. But other than that, for me, it's got to be really special because you just, you take time, like I enjoy my Miles life. I enjoy my life with my friends and my family and, you know, Kelly and this and that. So to have the time to, like you said, kind of nourish those relationships is so important. Yeah. You know? And just figure out who, like, I don't know, get back to what you like. Yeah, man. Yeah, I thought it was interesting how in the movie, oh, who is the, um, so

Starting point is 00:40:54 you get to like the grand central station right like this sort of this purgatory type of place yeah and they connect you with an afterlife coordinator yeah and then the funny thing is yeah there's like it's almost like this mall of like afterlifes they're trying to sell you or shop to you it's like oh here's one it's just a bed bath and beyond forever and you're just in a play you're in a candle and lotion shop forever or here's one it's at the beach you're at the beach forever yeah or skiing forever yeah and it's like all the it's like uh uh you know um willie nelson world and it's just like Everybody there looks like Willie Nelson, and that's all they do. People that love, you know, you guys love the same shit.

Starting point is 00:41:31 Right. So you can, yeah, and you get to go there, and you're going to meet other people that love Willie Nelson, and it's going to be Willie Nelson forever, right? Hell yeah. But they give you, like, this afterlife coordinator, like you said, and those characters were great in yours, man. Yeah, Devine Joy Randolph, who won the sporting actress Oscar for the holdovers. And then John Early, who is a, I'm sure some people watching this.

Starting point is 00:41:54 Like, know who John is. He's got some really incredible stand-up specials. Bring him up? I don't know if I was familiar with him. A couple shows, too. John's, he's impressive, man. Bro, they were killing me, dude. Some of the looks he was giving.

Starting point is 00:42:08 Yeah, I know. He's pretty sassy in this movie, which I love. That shit was hilarious, dude. I got to touch vase with this guy. Yeah. I got to watch more of his stuff. But yeah, dude, that was great. And then how, yeah, it was.

Starting point is 00:42:24 just like man she'd had this love that had died in the war you know and it was like oh and she'd waited and then she'd met you and yeah it was just like and then like there was this moment where you realize that yeah I don't want to give any I don't want to give any more away but it was also harrowing to think of like how many how many widows were how many women were widowed by war you know oh yeah right like how often that happened pull that up actually can you see how many were widowed by yeah i mean i forget what they said the average lifespan was for norm when they stormed normandy but it was

Starting point is 00:43:01 they're getting mowed down wow it says for war war one alone approximately three to four million women were widowed due to the roughly 9.7 million military deaths wow wow other conflicts show varied figures yeah because also women were married uh pretty young do you like touring Yeah, you almost get addicted to it, though, in some ways. Yeah. Because it's a great time.

Starting point is 00:43:29 It's fun. You want to go see people that want to pay attention, you know? Yeah, yeah. And I would start going to smaller markets. Like, we did, like, 250-something markets over the past four years with this tour. And it was, yeah, it's great. But then you start, it does, like, it starts to become a lot. Like, it just, it just, it just was a lot.

Starting point is 00:43:53 imagine you're like yeah of course you want to you know that's you want to see everybody you want to make everybody happy yeah and that's like whenever I go somewhere and you know if there's some of an event

Starting point is 00:44:05 you know an event and you can tell okay these are actually fans these aren't just you know scalpers or dudes trying to sell your autograph it's like yeah of course I make movies for people to like to see them and so the fans are a product of that it's like yeah I love

Starting point is 00:44:17 I love doing that stuff you just feel like yeah of course we're in the entertainment industry you know what I mean it doesn't exist in a vat You want to bring a smile to somebody's face, especially those smaller markets that don't get the kind of the acts that, you know, the other spots do. Yeah, we've had so much fun. I mean, from places like Casper, Wyoming to Beaumont to Toledo.

Starting point is 00:44:35 I mean, we've done like so many markets, and then we're like, oh, well, these other places we can go to. And then we'll do, like, a lot of just meeting groups after the show. We'll just go pop out and meet people. So, you know, you'll be sitting out there just hugging people and, like, checking in on folks and, like, getting a temperature of humanity and stuff like that. And it feels good. It almost feels in a little way like you live everywhere, kind of in some ways. Because you realize that there's just so many great people, you know, who are all like a lot of, like, are all kind of searching for some of the same things, you know? I think with our, with this podcast, it's sometimes it's a bit more than just kind of like jokes and information.

Starting point is 00:45:07 Sometimes it's like just like kind of creating a connection, you know. Yeah, show me that chart again, man. Thank you for asking them, man. Yeah, yeah, of course. The Civil War had 620,000 to 750,000 military deaths, high widowhood. Let me see World War I estimated around 325,000 widows

Starting point is 00:45:26 World War II Around 405,000 widows Korean War And that was the war That your co-actor died in In this movie Around 36,000 widows But yeah

Starting point is 00:45:40 I mean you just think of all those women And there was a moment Where she said she went and sat at the boat docks And was waiting for his For the boat he was on to come in Yeah yeah So I think that was one thing that was neat about eternity to me was like there's this fun like thing going on where you guys

Starting point is 00:45:56 are like you know figuring out these different world like the afterlife and it's super entertaining but then there's also like there was this sort of like emotion like kind of pretty emo emotional stuff going on with like yeah how do we look at love and like if you've already gotten a live one love if you got to go back would you choose a different one and uh yeah it was just yeah it's certainly i mean what i enjoyed about reading the script and kind of when we performed it was that it doesn't, it never loses its kind of grounding and, and the stakes and the sincerity of it. There's some really funny moments and there's some kind of, you know, but nothing ever becomes like slap. So it's not, it's not a movie we're just trying to get in as many

Starting point is 00:46:38 one-liners as we can. I think it's, it always kind of, it's just a delicate balance between having that sincerity and the love. And also, I think, I do think it's really funny. Yeah. I think it's like, it's just, and we had, after the, we did the premiere in Toronto, man, we just had, like, at the after party, you could just tell people we're kind of coupling off and just talking, it just makes you think. I think it's a beautiful, a beautiful film. One of my favorite parts, too, is just right in the beginning when they're driving in that car together, dude. I could have watched those two people in that car. That's the Northeast, dude. But also, it's just couples that have been around for that long, just this natural, just kind of.

Starting point is 00:47:16 You're not going to offend me. and just bullshit banter, bickering, complaining. And they're both, neither one of them is saying everything they're doing is just kind of like making the other one, like whatever they're saying, a problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think my wife and I secretly enjoy to like

Starting point is 00:47:32 kind of fucking annoy each other. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's probably part of love probably. Yeah, yeah. Like a little bit of annoyance, a little bickering. I didn't realize that the, Elizabeth Olson. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:46 I didn't realize that she was related to Mary Kate and Ashley also. Yeah, yeah. I had no idea. I know, a pretty dynamic family. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Did you get to meet them? Did they come by the set? They did not.

Starting point is 00:47:57 No, they did not. It's so crazy. Because they had a childhood start on lives. It had to be so odd. Yeah. I know, it tends to, I mean, and they've become very successful, you know, in the design. Outside of it, yeah. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:48:09 I think it's, it's tough. Oh, it'd be a nightmare. Do you feel like it affected you? If I was that, what? Did you feel like you started to become popular at a pretty young age? Do you feel like you were kind of baked into you already? Or do you feel like if it had been earlier? Like, do you have any thoughts about that?

Starting point is 00:48:27 I think for me, things happened kind of at the pace that lined up with my own kind of maturity or life experiences. Because, you know, it's like I went to college for four years and trained there. And so, yeah, I was like 22 when I did my first movie, maybe like 20, maybe I was like 24, 25 when footloops came out and the project X and that kind of thing. And that was doing some college comedy type stuff. So that was all good. I think had I gotten, you know, really famous when I was like 17, I mean, I was raised really well.

Starting point is 00:49:07 I, you know, I never had to worry about my parents or somebody taking money from me, you know, which happens a lot. really unfortunate um that's that's really a shame to lose trust um oh yeah that young from loved one i think that's going to fuck you up for the rest of your life um truly oh that's a good point but yeah for me it was pretty it was like honestly pretty pretty organic i never i felt like i was able to handle and also i moved when i moved out to l a bunch of my boys uh from high school all moved out so i didn't i didn't like need anything from l. i was i didn't come to l.a to like find myself i'm I'm like, no, I know who I am.

Starting point is 00:49:42 You know, me and my buddies get a house or whatever in the valley. Yeah, I always had like familiar faces around me. Oh, that's so nice. Even my agent, I met her on my first movie. She's been the same ever since. Like, that shit to me hasn't changed. Yeah. You know, I think I was lucky in that sense that a bunch of my boys were like, yeah, we'll go.

Starting point is 00:50:03 Dang. Yeah. That's dope. Dude, were they acting too? The one moved out. We played in a band. other in high school. I think he was trying to do something maybe music-wise. But no, yeah.

Starting point is 00:50:17 It's a tough. Getting out is hectic. What was y'all's band name in high school? We were the mutes because we played the, we all started because we played like the homecoming parade and then the electric, the power went out for our generator so the amps, there was no sound. So that's enough of a reason to, you know, that's a band name right there. I think we actually were playing for SWAT, like on the SWAT float, which was a really? Like the SWAT team? No, like students working against tobacco. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:50:49 You don't remember SWAT. It was like DARE and like SWAT. No, dude. Bro, we had a dare officer named Mr. Bob and RIP. He passed away. Everybody knew he was. But he would like pull up and he was a humongous man. And this was back when if a man was very big hit.

Starting point is 00:51:08 Dare stand for again? Drug abuse, resistance, education. Because I can only just, I instantly just think of whatever, the ones that people would make up their own. Oh, the meme ones?

Starting point is 00:51:18 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what are some of the meme dare ones? I don't even know if I know any of them. No, I just remember in high school, people would say,

Starting point is 00:51:24 like, drugs are really expensive. Oh, yeah. You know, or. Yeah. Well, especially in Florida, if you got some good drugs. But, dude, Swats.

Starting point is 00:51:34 So what happened with the officer? It was students working against a, Yeah. What do you mean working against tobacco? Yeah, there it is, dude. SWAT was big. Spot was big time. I'm surprised.

Starting point is 00:51:46 Bro, that's sketch on the right. Zoom in, this sketch on the right, dude. What the fuck is he doing there? Yeah, see, inventors laboratory, big tobacco, like, big tobacco's going down. Let's go. I don't even know what the fuck, because, yeah, I mean, they would have meetings. Bro, that is sketch. I can't even believe you guys.

Starting point is 00:52:06 He was locked in with that shit. in with that. Yeah. Well, that's not my high school. So he was, yeah, but our float probably looks, you just needed some, some dude with a flatbed and they just throw some streamers on it. Bro, I never heard that in my life. I do. I've never heard of it. Yeah. Okay. I do remember, yeah, try on perplexity. See what they got? Pull up some of the dare me. So what did this, what did Officer Bob, what was his, what was his big moment? Yeah, see, drugs are really, drugs are really exciting. Don't actually recover ever. Whoa, Jesus.

Starting point is 00:52:40 Drop everything and run. Yeah, those are, yeah, but it was a lot of it was like people screaming, I won't do drugs or whatever. But Officer Bob was huge, dude. And one year he pulled up and he could not get it. He couldn't even get out of his car, right? So we had to do the talk from a megaphone from his vehicle. And people were like, what? And it just sounded like so garbled and stuff.

Starting point is 00:53:02 And like, oh, and then they would hide a sack of weed in some kid's bag or, or whatever, in the audience, and a dog would just go, like a real bag of weed? Yes. Or something that the dog could smell. So I'm guessing it was a... So just, okay. Because it was like, we put weed on one of the kids,

Starting point is 00:53:19 and all the kids would be like, you know... And then they just sick a fucking German shepherd on the kid? Yeah. Jesus, dude. Yeah, pretty awesome. We, um, dude, there was some weird... There was some weird stuff in my... Yeah, dude, in Florida.

Starting point is 00:53:33 And every teacher's coach, every teacher in our... high school was coached because they used to coach a basketball team or they could. I remember one dude, he coached the, it was like the debate team or something and he was still, he was still coach. Oh, dude, yeah, they would just pick like, whoever the lesbian teacher was at our school was also had to be the drama teacher for some reason. That was ours for a minute. Our softball coach lesbian ended up a couple years after I graduated. She was having a relationship with like a sophomore. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:54:06 Yeah. Yeah, it's unfortunate, and that's Florida. That's, I don't know what that is, but that's... Well, a lot of the time it is Florida. It's Florida, and that's softball. Yeah. I don't know if it is or not, but... But, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of inner...

Starting point is 00:54:20 Have you ever been down to Key West, though? Key West's like my happy place. Is it, dude? Yeah, just killer live, some of the best, I think best live music in countries like there. Austin, obviously, like, in Nashville. But, yeah, Austin, or Key West, man, just killer. Music, you just, either you're walking around the whole time or, you know, if we go to a big group, everyone's just on these, like, little scooters. Every bar looks like it just went through a hurricane.

Starting point is 00:54:46 Yeah. I got to go down there. It's so fun, dude. I always hear, Nick Swarton loves it down there. Though, yeah, he lived down there for, he's just supposed to go for, like, a couple weeks or something, stayed at this hotel for something for, like, months. Yeah, he spent like almost a shit ton of money. I think, like, almost just under a million bucks. That's hard in Key West, too, because you will get the moisture stuff.

Starting point is 00:55:06 for like a quarter during happy hour. Oh, dude. I don't know how you fucking spent a million bucks, actually. He needs to write a book. How to spend a million bucks in Key West. Oh, my God. Dude, are you like... He's a fucking John Daly of Key West, dude.

Starting point is 00:55:24 What was I going to fucking talk about? Oh, dude. Oh, there's the... Oh, this... I feel like somebody's been blowing weed smoking here right now. John Daly, baby. But SWAT this students working against tobacco Thiel.

Starting point is 00:55:41 Yes. Yeah. And because if they're not doing it. Yeah. That's true. Tobacco's just running rampant. It's like Agatha Christie novel. They're still rocking and rolling.

Starting point is 00:55:53 SWAT is Florida's statewide youth organization working to mobilize, educate, and equip. Oh, it's specifically a Florida thing. To revolt against and de-glamorized tobacco. Yeah. Wow, dude. Well, that makes. I thought it was like a national program. Yeah, I'd never.

Starting point is 00:56:10 But I guess we never did go on field trips. Yeah, this is it. No, you, this was a, this was an experimental program down there in the fucking south. Dude, there's 400, there's 4,300 high schoolers vape now. Oh, yeah. There's 4,300 active youth, though, in the SWAT, SWAT youth in the state of Florida. And so, shout out to them. We had this thing

Starting point is 00:56:36 So we had to build a float one time It was for the homecoming parade And my buddy Patrick We had to make like this tree Ours was like the tree of life Or something or whatever Or keep growing or something like that And my buddy Patrick

Starting point is 00:56:49 He was gonna We're like dude Patrick You stay in the tree Stay in the middle Light up a blunt in there And just blow smoke out of the Like if you blow enough smoke Some of it will just keep a hole

Starting point is 00:57:02 On the top of the tree Some of it will leak out So we're pushing this down the street, and everybody will, and nobody will know, but there'll be, you'll be in there to super high. And it's all like, you know. Oh, you're saying, okay, so I was thinking, like, you cut a hole out of the trunk. So it's like his face and just like, Rosenblunts or something. But you're saying just a little hole just so he could breathe, but he was hotboxing this tree. Well, we forgot about a breathing hole.

Starting point is 00:57:26 We just thought put him in the tree, like in the trunk of the tree. The trunk is fully built around him. It's like this whole paper machet and wire setup that's. going to be on a float and then there's this big kind of bulb a top of him almost like a very small water tower would be kind of look and that is all adorned with green paper machine everything that's a big tree and they'll put a hole on top of that so patrick you just staying in there keep smoking months and some of the smoke will leak out the top it'll be awesome we'll love it and you'll be very fucking eye dude he was so fucking eye dude it's like a two hour break yeah and you couldn't

Starting point is 00:58:01 see any of the smoke coming out it was just him like Like, smoking countless black and mild buntz in this tree. And then we got him there, dude. Oh, he couldn't go to school for one whole week. He couldn't go to school for one whole week. Dude, his mom had to stay home with him. He was, it was the most high person that we'd ever seen in our area. It was fun.

Starting point is 00:58:24 He couldn't go to school for a week. And he hasn't been the same since. He hasn't. He hasn't been the same. What was something? And then, like, how long did you guys, how long did you guys, Patrick? It's going to be awesome, dude. He's going to sit there.

Starting point is 00:58:41 He can't smoke as much as you want, you know. And sometimes you would, for the first, like, two blocks, you get here and yell, can y'all see the smoke? But after that, there was no sound coming out of there. It was almost like. He's probably dead. He probably died for a second. Well, he was almost like when those kids got trapped in that mine, you know, after the second

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Starting point is 01:02:30 On when you're shooting a movie like that like at this point when you go into a film like are there things

Starting point is 01:02:40 you want to have on set that make your day easier and then what's that shoot schedule like on a day-to-day

Starting point is 01:02:46 basis for somebody kind of at your level like do you still have to shoot every single scene?

Starting point is 01:02:49 Do they shoot around some stuff? Like what's the reality of that? I mean, I think I've been fortunate enough to, um, work on some, you know, some great projects with some great

Starting point is 01:02:59 actors, uh, for the most part, some really incredible directors that wanted to be the first one there last, last one to leave. I just think it's important that, um, you know, kind of right off the bat, people understand it's like, I'll be here for anything you need. Because a lot of the time, you know, if you got to, maybe for the shot or whatever, the eye lines tight, they want you to work with just like a, you know, an X on the thing. And some, you know, people are really good working that way. For me, I have to feel the connection with, you know, whoever I'm working with. And so for a bigger budget movie, sure, there's certain things that you can kind of build into your contract to make you as comfortable as possible. But at the

Starting point is 01:03:38 end of the day, I don't really, I don't really give a shit. I'm pretty low maintenance. It's just like whatever, whatever we need to do to make the best movie possible, you know, I'm in. I'm fully in. Anything you need for me, I'm here. And also, I think I propose. film or just acting in general like I mean I grew up loving you know I played sports and every sport up you know it's like team sports always and playing music and that kind of just being a link in the chain like to me that's you know that that's how it has to to happen so I enjoy I enjoy that camaraderie enjoy that teamwork as I've moved up in my career it's I take it upon myself to really like lead from the front you know if I'm number one on the call sheet like

Starting point is 01:04:21 Like it's a, it's, and if I'm producing the thing, like, it's important to me to know everybody's name and, um, you know, just to feel like we're all, we're all kind of in this thing together. I think when you're making a movie and you're just kind of come out for your stuff, go back to your trailer. Um, it's fine and everybody works differently. But just for me, I need to really feel that kind of camaraderie. Part of the squad. Yeah, part of the squad, man. Um, yeah, it is so much fun. Like, even like being on a.

Starting point is 01:04:51 being because the fact that something gets created really out of nothing right like there's words get created and put onto a page and then you want to make sure there's enough feeling I think writing is probably the hardest out of all of the the disciplines I can't imagine just staring out of blank page you know page one scene one you don't start thinking about you don't do that stuff what right will you write a script or no no I'm I I think I'm better at when you know if writers

Starting point is 01:05:20 already have an idea or I can make I feel like I'm good at kind of collaborating within the scene work and framework of the script and I'll certainly kind of help shape things

Starting point is 01:05:33 100%. I think most actors through improvisation or through, you know, talking with the writer absolutely inform you know the material to a good amount some scripts you don't really

Starting point is 01:05:41 need to touch it all. But I think I'm better at coming in I don't have the first idea but I'm good at okay that's great and and now this but also I I truly believe in like best idea wins and so when you work with a director who's really collaborative and whose ego isn't so precious to where they can take um you know inspiration from you know the people around them I think that's that's really beautiful I think you have to feel collaborative I think the only time I get upset when I'm filming is when I feel like I'm working with like a dictator

Starting point is 01:06:15 and that I don't feel comfortable to kind of speak up about. I don't like close-minded people. Closed-minded people to me, that's when I, I guess, I really don't like authority figures. And I thought getting into arts, like, that's kind of the, that's a great path for me because we're all, you know, it's collaborative medium in nature. But yeah, I just, I don't like when people lead with an iron fist too much.

Starting point is 01:06:40 Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, dude. what did I see I'm trying to think of something else oh one part of the movie that was interesting to me was there was a moment where they were kind of where she had chosen in eternity

Starting point is 01:06:53 so she chooses one of the men but then you can go look at archives you can kind of go back into a museum of your life yeah that's a really interesting part of it yeah it was just neat to see like like how that

Starting point is 01:07:05 it's just nice to see that if if we pass away which you are a believer of that we get to go through almost like this zoo where there's different exhibits of scenes from your life that means something. Yeah, your memories. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:22 You know, I think people, that term like core memories now is something that's kind of become in vogue. Yeah. That was kind of fantastical, but that was one thing that I thought was pretty dope about it. Oh, what about a heist movie, dude? I just saw this heist. See if you can see.

Starting point is 01:07:37 Well, how about that Louvre? That's it, bro. I mean, that's the... I mean, that was the... I mean, that was. wasn't a movie that's the freaking news dude but that is wild I mean

Starting point is 01:07:45 how the Louvre Jewelry Heist unfolded on the south side the heist took a matter of minutes bridge cream here's how it happened at 930 on Sunday four individuals arrive on scooters and a truck that had a mechanical ladder

Starting point is 01:08:01 attached to the back of it two of them ascended to the balcony and used power tools to carve into the outside window it's crazy none of that I mean And I have alarms on my windows if something that opens. They burst inside the Apollo gallery that houses all of the Louvre's special royal jewels and use their saws to break into two of those cases. In the meantime, we've been told that the security guards really quickly got people out of that room.

Starting point is 01:08:33 This very wing of the loop also contains the Mona Lisa. So it's the most sort of precious things in France. are there, but only 75% of the rooms have security cameras in them. Four minutes later, they emerged with eight precious items, including tiara, necklaces, a beautiful brooch, and a crown. How'd they get away, Nick? They escaped out the window and they took off on scooters that they had planted. Dude, that seems like almost it would be...

Starting point is 01:09:07 You just think like more security. It's like what you and I would decide. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, hey, let's go get the Louvre. Let's, let's steal that fucking, uh, steal that crown. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my wife is upset.

Starting point is 01:09:20 She doesn't have a crown or whatever. Yeah. And then you're like, all right. Let me see how I can figure it out. Give us nine minutes. No, but also it's like, so what do then they sell this? Like, do they take it apart and sell it on the black market? Do they just need to hold onto it until, you know, like after generation,

Starting point is 01:09:37 generation and then try and get rid of it. And then say it just pop up. up somewhere. Yeah, I don't know. How do you get rid of something like that? Oh, it's almost pretty magical that they were able to do it. But I mean, I don't know. I think it's, yeah, I mean, it certainly gives, you know, truth to these, these heist

Starting point is 01:09:54 movies and stuff. You're like, ah, no way. It's like, well, you know, yeah, you can do it with just a little saw. Yeah. Actually, and a scooter. You don't even need, like, switching identities and shit. It's like, no, but that's what I was running. When the dude's in there, like, banging his, like, just, like, carving through

Starting point is 01:10:08 this glass, nobody. It's like, because obviously it was full of people. Hey, quiet down. Yeah. No, that's incredible to me. Hey, quiet, quiet down. I can't hear the guided tour over here. Dude, that's crazy, bro.

Starting point is 01:10:24 And the Mona Lisa, dude, Mo Lisa, that looks more like a dude, I think. Yeah. But, yeah, that was stolen. It was stolen at one point. Not in this, but I think back in the, like the 70s or something, Mona Lisa was stolen. I wonder if it was really stolen or somebody faked having, See, this is what I think happens sometimes.

Starting point is 01:10:42 These museums fake having stuff stolen to get people to come to the museum or to add, like, texture and story to their place. Yes, the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. From the Louvre. The Louvre needs the button off, dude. The Louvre is like, what are you guys doing? No wonder you keep getting robbed. It's like, obviously not that hard. Dude, it's a fucking halfway house for art, dude.

Starting point is 01:11:07 They got to figure this shit out, dude. He disguised... Got a ring camera, my guy. Like, what are you doing? He disguised himself as a museum employee, hid overnight inside the museum. That's the move. And took the painting the next morning

Starting point is 01:11:21 by removing it from its frame and concealing it under his smock. The theft was not discovered until the following day and the painting was hidden in Perugia's apartment in Paris during that time. Dude, when I was growing up... Because you can't tell anybody about it.

Starting point is 01:11:37 Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. You can't even get... You can't put it on display. I have no... I really don't know how you move this stuff. And you get high and definitely tell somebody.

Starting point is 01:11:46 Oh, for sure. For sure. That's how... I mean, that's kind of usually how they end up catching, you know, criminals on that most one list. Like, they slip up, they tell somebody something. Bro, I'm so high right now. Don't tell anybody.

Starting point is 01:11:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I murdered a couple people. Oh, yeah, great. Yo. Wild. Yeah. Remember that shit I told you last night? Like, I was just...

Starting point is 01:12:08 Man, we were fucked up. Yeah. You said you murdered someone. I said I did like, yeah. We were both. It was a goof. Yeah, it was a goof. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:12:17 That was a goop. What, uh, you've had so many interesting experience. You got to work with Tom Cruise. Was that pretty fascinating? Did you get to meet him before you got to work with him? And sorry if some of this seems like a little bit petty, but I don't know anybody that ever met him. Oh, yeah, no, Tom. I mean, yeah, Tom's, Tom's great.

Starting point is 01:12:35 I flew, it was this, I'd worked with that director before. I had done two movies with him, I think, at that point. No, I had done one movie with him at that point. But, yeah, I mean, I flew. I had to audition for it. I think they were down to, like, a couple guys flew and, you know, did, yeah, audition with Tom. He's, he's, like, he's very disarming. I mean, I, but for some reason, I didn't feel like I was going to be nervous around him.

Starting point is 01:13:03 I have, like, obviously, an immense amount of respect for the guy. But he's such, like, a consummate professional, and he is, he's one of our great, great, actors. And his filmography, I think, if you attach commercial and critical, I think this run that he's, you know, went on multiple times, his career is going to be very hard to touch. But yeah, he really cares about the work. And he labors over, he labors over the script. I mean, we would go, we would meet, we would have a meeting or we're filming.

Starting point is 01:13:33 He's like, all right, we're going to meet. We're going to talk about, you know, this scene that exists on page like 50 or something. but you always start page one scene one and you start from the very beginning and then three hours later when we've had all these side conversations about just different parts of the script by the time you get to the scene

Starting point is 01:13:47 you met we're there to meet about it's like well it's time to go we'll meet tomorrow but nobody works harder he knows everybody's name he's first one in last one to leave but that movie I mean that movie yeah that movie took a long time

Starting point is 01:14:03 to make everybody was so committed and also like you have to work in part in parcel and in concert with the Navy. You know, I mean, Navy doesn't stop being the Navy. So if we're filming on a carrier, we're filming it, you know, in Top Gun or we're filming all these places. These guys are actively, you know, training nonstop. So, yeah, it was a lot.

Starting point is 01:14:24 It was a lot to kind of work out. Dang. Yeah. So you're having to, like, work at, like, in between certain days while they're doing stuff or at night while they're... Yeah, like, I remember when we were on the carrier, we could... Maybe we had, like, you know, a two-hour window for something

Starting point is 01:14:37 to be up on the top deck. But yeah, we're on the carrier for two weeks. And I remember I walked by this one sailor. It's like one of my first few days being there. And even though you're on this giant carrier, like you feel like you're on a submarine because the hallways are very cramped. Everything is metal.

Starting point is 01:14:56 There's nothing for comfort. There's nothing extraneous. Like that is an active carrier. It's a wartime carrier. But it's basically a weapon. It's a weapon. I mean, we're launching, you know, aircraft from it. And so, but when you're walking around, I mean, all of the hallway, everything is so tight, even though it's this massive vessel.

Starting point is 01:15:18 And I walked by this one sailor and I was like, hey, I was like, living the dream, huh? And he just turns me and he goes, nightmares are also dreams. And he said it's so cold. I was like, that is, we're on the theater, Roosevelt. Yeah. But no, I just, I don't know, I have so much. nightmares are also dreams yeah because i mean that's a good

Starting point is 01:15:41 depending on what your job is on that carrier i mean your job placement you might be seven or eight you know decks below and you know just the nature of uh operations sometimes like you're kind of that's kind of your your territory oh yeah absolutely man um do you start so much respect for oh yeah when you think of

Starting point is 01:16:05 is the best what people go through we're trying to maybe have Gary Sinise come on I know he's He is there's nobody that's done More yeah that guy is It's truly been his like life's mission Yeah he's fantastic To support veterans yeah absolutely Because it's not like the VA

Starting point is 01:16:20 Like the because I did this movie About guys coming home from Moore It's called Thank You for Service And it was based on this book Real guys And that's kind of what you learn It's like the VA is not broken It's just overwhelmed

Starting point is 01:16:33 and so, you know, and for guys to kind of unpack, and our writer-director was telling me, it's like, you know, Miles, we've known how to send guys to war, men and women to war for centuries. Since the beginning of time, we've known how to create a soldier, but we still don't really know how to bring them back. And it is. It's really, it's really complicated. Those programs that are, you know, working for, you know, nonprofit, they can only take so many people. Funding is really important. And the use of people, sorry, go on. No, I was just saying it's really, it's really tough. And also just with mental health in general, the amount of training that it takes for somebody to be able to appropriately deal with someone with, you know, if it's PTSD, if it's bipolar, if it's schizophrenia, whatever it is, it takes a really, it takes a long time to train somebody and to be able to get them to sit with the person and be able to get them to sit with the person and be. be able to potentially, you know, change their men's a little bit, somebody that they trust, somebody who has those skills to deal with it. It's very tough. And, yeah, that's actually something I have a lot of advocacy for.

Starting point is 01:17:50 I think, and also when you talk to people, I think most, I think a lot of people have somebody, you know, in their family or with friends that are, you know, dealt with that. And it's, it's, it's just, yeah, it's really tough. I think I have, yeah, just immense amount of empathy. And that stuff's always, you know, it's more or less, it always kind of some traumatic event happened at some age. And that leads to, you know, these, these mental health issues. Yeah, that's such a great statement.

Starting point is 01:18:19 We don't know how to bring these people home. And then how much value, like, you know, even at a governmental level, how much value, you know, should there be just as much of a training and untraining program, you know, as much as you're training people for military and for combat, should there be just as much of an untraining. And also these guys, you know, the guys that they go to war with, those are the guys that understand more than anybody what they went through. But then, you know, they go from being in, you know, battalion and, you know, being those guys. And then they come home and everybody kind of disperses. And, you know, it's, yeah, it's tough.

Starting point is 01:18:51 Well, it's like you were saying earlier, just like being able to be part of a group and have that, you know, and then suddenly it's different or suddenly even if you're, you're put on leave or something because you're a mental condition, then that's got to be. be even scarier because now are you maybe struggling but also you're away from your group right and also each like each um you know depending on what job you're going for in the military you know infantry different uh branches um you know you need it's a numbers game we need numbers um at all times and so some of these you know some of the boot camps are you know x amount of weeks and it's like here you go Here's a gun.

Starting point is 01:19:26 And when you get more kind of, I guess, tier one. Senior. Yeah, where I'm just saying like our special forces guys, I mean, those guys have been through, you know, a lot of training. And they're, you're usually not in those groups until you're, you know, you're certainly not 18. As a Navy SEAL, it takes, you know, a couple of years. Yeah, it's been, it was, I went to this to this football game last year, went to the Vanderbilt football game. and there were two... Did you go to Vandy?

Starting point is 01:19:57 I didn't. But they just happened to be in Nashville and I became buddies with their quarterback. That quarterback's a real deal. Yeah. Bro, he's such a great guy. You would love him, dude. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:20:07 He's come... We went to a UFC fight together, actually. You weren't at that one. I've been out of the mix for a little bit just because with the house stuff, but... Seven months ago, maybe. I don't remember which one it was. I can't remember.

Starting point is 01:20:20 How great are those? It's the best. Well, dude, you know, at the end of the day, they're going to fight. Yeah. And there's just, and the time in between is great. You know, it's hanging for a little chat. And then it's just when that music comes on forever's coming in, just the crowd.

Starting point is 01:20:33 I think Madison Square Garden, especially. Oh, that's good. You know, or I imagine you were at some of those counterfeights during his heyday. I got to go to one with him and Dustin. That was it. But when he came out, it was just great. I think I saw you. Yeah, I saw you at that one.

Starting point is 01:20:47 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know Dustin's your guys. It's a shame with that kind of generation. You're on out to the next group of fighters. But, yeah, Dustin's, he's the man. They have so many great guys. But also being at those events is so much fun.

Starting point is 01:20:59 And you also realize that you are nothing. Like, because there's some bad asses coming down. It's like, no matter if you think you're cool or not, you were sitting there looking in awe at some warriors, you know, that when it comes down to it, like, they're the piece. It's one on one. It's one on one. You know what I mean? And it's just like such a test of will and like, and man or woman.

Starting point is 01:21:22 And like, what do you? like it makes you ask yourself a lot of things it's yeah i find that whole world's pretty fast like i even remember in high school man like you know i'd be you know i played baseball and um were you pretty good in high school uh i was yeah no i pitched up until i guess it took me a minute to hit my gross spurt um but i was like you know stud you know kind of early years and then um oh there's probably i was saying you know even with the football players like the wrestlers when you looked at the wrestlers condition compared to the football players and you couldn't even compare like a lot of my buddies are wrestlers,

Starting point is 01:21:52 they're cutting 10, 12 pounds in high school. Like to have that discipline at 15 to be like, now I'm skipping lunch, I got to, you know, I got to sweat. I got to do a sauna suit or just... Yeah, it would be crazy. We've been driving down the... I remember driving through my neighborhood

Starting point is 01:22:07 and my buddy Paul would literally be running and this is when we didn't even know we had a wrestling team at our school, right? I think it was like the first year they started. He'd be running down the street in a bunch of trash bag and shit and like, oh my God, like he did something bad at home or whatever. Like, we just didn't know what... Like a punishment.

Starting point is 01:22:22 Yeah. That's it's, I mean. It was crazy. Yeah. But yeah, dude. Do you start to think like, okay, so now you have like kind of like a filmography of your own work. I don't know if that's the right term. That's the right word.

Starting point is 01:22:35 Do you start to think, okay, this is a genre I would like to do or I love that so much. I'd like to find a more unique way to do that. Like, is that something that an actor starts to think about? How do you start to think about, do you start to think about a little bit of like, how many movies you want to do? What kind of things come into your mind at your kind of juncture in your career? As far as the work goes.

Starting point is 01:23:01 Yeah, I think when I first started out, I guess when I was in college and be doing different scenes and stuff in class, I always wanted to, like, I enjoyed drama as much as I, you know, enjoyed comedy. I actually kind of started out when I was in high school. You know, everybody kind of knew me as, like, the class clown,

Starting point is 01:23:21 plays and stuff. And then I remember doing this very serious monologue and the whole class just started laughing. Like they couldn't take me seriously. And I remember that pissed me off because I was like, oh, I've lost my audience. Like they're, I, they just. Oh, they're locked into that I'm a clown. Yeah. And so they like, I was like, oh shit. Okay. I, okay, now I need to kind of work on this other stuff. I was like, nobody, they didn't want to like not be taken, you know, seriously for something. Um, but, So I knew starting out, like I always, I had an appetite. I think that's really what it comes down.

Starting point is 01:23:55 It's like, what are your interests? So I've done movies with music. I grew up playing a bunch of instruments. I haven't done a sports movie yet. Love sports. Military and my family and my friends. I've done some of that stuff. I've done like a good amount of like blue collar stuff.

Starting point is 01:24:11 I like that. But I think as far as the genre goes, every once in a while, yeah, you'll watch a film. Or maybe it's a certain director who works in a certain genre. You're like, yeah, I would love to do that. But I think, yeah, it really just comes down to, like, taste and interest. I think I have a pretty wide range of interest. And I don't really necessarily care what the genre is, as long as it just feels authentic to me.

Starting point is 01:24:38 Can you feel that? So you can make a bad version of any genre. Yeah, and I guess you can just feel that when you read the script. You're like, I can fucking see this. I can figure this out. Yeah, I think I've been fortunate enough to, now, in the beginning of most careers, right? People are like, oh, why'd you do that?

Starting point is 01:24:56 And it's like, yo, you thought I had like multiple options? Like, what are you talking about? Like, no, you're just trying to work professionally. Like, if you can pay your bills. And it's tough, man. You know how many, like, you're starting out. It kind of, I think like in your 20s, there's a lot of actors, kind of we can all play, teenagers, this, that, whatever.

Starting point is 01:25:16 And when you get older, it's like if your audience, you know, wants to grow with you, you got to kind of mature. I'm with them. You know, it's like, I imagine a lot of my fans now have, like, kids and stuff, you know, and that's great. And so I just try to, I don't know, yeah, I think your best asset would be, I guess, when you read a script, if I think it's good, is it? And for the most part, I've kind of just went with my instincts and gut.

Starting point is 01:25:41 But for the most part, a lot of my career has been, you know, a director's got to take a chance on you. Like, I played this boxer Vinnie Pazienza. My buddy just sent me a link to it. I haven't watched it yet. Yeah, bleed for this. That's how I met Dana White because Vinnie's, like, Dana's favorite boxer

Starting point is 01:25:54 all the time and he loved the movie, love the movie. Because that's how I got plugged in with UFC early on. My buddy just sent me this yesterday. He just got in the Boxing Hall of Fame, Vinny. Shout out, Vinnie. Oh, he did? But he's a, yeah, he's just a dog.

Starting point is 01:26:06 And he Pasienza? The Pasmian devil. But, um, dude. But he, uh, look at him, that's him? Yeah. So he broke his, so he was, uh, he had won some titles early.

Starting point is 01:26:18 And then he was kind of, they, the promoter, kind of thought he was on the way out. You played him? Yeah, so I had like, yeah, so there's footage of him. I mean, with that Halo one, now meanwhile, if you, if you, you know, mess up, more or less with that Halo one, you're going to be paralyzed for life. And there's video of him, like, you know, doing some pretty sick rope work with that Halo

Starting point is 01:26:38 one just working out like a madman. I don't want to give it away, but it's considered like, you know, just one of sports all-time great comebacks. but yeah the only movie I had come out like right before that I was like in fat or not fat but pudgy friend shape

Starting point is 01:26:56 you know what I mean like I was like I don't need a six pack that's just that's BS man like you need a six pack if you can't hold their attention with your acting I mean just all bullshit I was sick when I was 25

Starting point is 01:27:06 but I used to not like I was like that dude's ripped he can't act it dang dude yeah there's so many great actors out there I can it's just fascinating

Starting point is 01:27:17 to watch somebody just be able to create um to be able to carry a story right and just be like an instrument just to be uh like a word on a page you know um well it's you know it's like we're we're shining a mirror up to you know society really you're just kind of the great actors right you watch them and you obviously believe what they're doing but then they makes you feel about you know your own life and so it's real they just really understand kind of the human condition human experience I think because a lot of young actors

Starting point is 01:27:51 will ask her like what do you think is like so important this and that I think obviously start from the inside we're from the inside out and I think just two abilities or curiosities

Starting point is 01:28:04 that will really age you as like you know just empathy if you're somebody who just you know see somebody a different way of life and you can feel

Starting point is 01:28:14 for somebody other than yourself and then your curiosity I think that's what's lent me to a lot of projects I've ended up doing just because I think I've always had a just high level of curiosity and empathy for other people. Where do you think that comes from for you? I think just, yeah, I don't know, I guess the way I was rated, we did. We moved around a lot. Well, there was my family, like on my mom's side, there was a lot of trouble.

Starting point is 01:28:42 Like my grandma, she buried all of her kids, but one. And a lot of them died very young. And I think I'd come from, you know, a certain kind of stock that, and then, you know, my uncle, he was a quadriplegic from the time he was, like, 17. So my entire life, spending a lot of time in, like, nursing homes. And, you know, those kind of environments that can be fairly traumatizing for a young kid to just hearing, like, beeps and people wandering around with, you know, maybe dementia, Alzheimer's. and it can be... It's scary. And they're usually not the most well-lit places,

Starting point is 01:29:20 but we, you know, we are constantly kind of in those environments, you know, and, you know, feeding him at, you know, meals and, I don't know, just different things like that. I think that's... Well, you said wanting to take care of your grandmother, whenever you, you know, when you guys' house went through that trauma and stuff like that. Yeah, I could see that, I guess. And I moved around a lot.

Starting point is 01:29:39 Like, I lived in, like, five states by the time I was 12. Oh, God. Yeah. So you have to be willing to open yourself up to people. because you got to be liked, you got to be accepted, you got to be, you got to fit in, you got to find a way. Yeah. Especially as a kid.

Starting point is 01:29:53 That's harder for a kid. Yeah, I think it was easier, well, yeah, well, certainly kind of, it's all a part of the, I think, how our personalized, developed, certain things happened in childhood, right? That's, yeah. You can dig deep to figure out, oh, that's why I am. Right, right, right. But it is, though, I think for a kid to move to a new place, that's a lot, you know? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:30:13 I told my parents when we first moved to Florida from, South Jersey, I was like, I was like, because I really loved South Jersey and I was just like, I'm going to paint my walls black. I'm going to be a gothic. You're going to be embarrassed by me. I'm going to wear Marilyn Manson shirts when your friends come over. Like, yeah, bro, one of my favorite friend, one of my favorite friends. No, that's it. Just, I'm just thinking back on myself, like, paint my walls black. I'm going to paint my fucking ceiling fan black. Does anybody ever even fucking done that? It's just going to make black air in the room. Dude, my buddy Jeff, dude, he was hilarious. We would go over to his house, and I've told this part of the story before, but we would, I'd go, we'd all go outside and get high, and then I would come in the house, and I would come in before, everybody. I would tell his dad that they were high, right? You fucking asshole. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:31:08 Oh, my God. Just to, like, save yourself. Just because here's what I love. I loved... You were high with him. Oh, yeah, I was high. But I didn't tell them that part. No, that's what I'm saying, yeah.

Starting point is 01:31:18 But I would say that they were high and one of, and they were seeming some of the behaviors they'd have been doing and seem a little zest or whatever. Something about throwing a little nugget like that, and you could fucking kind of hear his fucking... Put a cigarette out on a lizard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd see him fucking, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he'd put a cigarette out.

Starting point is 01:31:33 He just, that energy took over him, dude. If he thought like his... If kids were being high and zesty, it scared him a little. But anyway, then I would sit in there and wait, and they would come in, and he would just be looking at him and they would it was always like do not tell my dad

Starting point is 01:31:48 I'm fucking eye like don't worry and just seeing the dad fucking figure him out bro I would I would lay there in the other room crying of laughter just knowing that

Starting point is 01:31:57 they're about to get beat yes knowing that this whole scenario had been created but my buddy Jeff dude he had this like anger sometimes and he would go play that song he had one CD and it was that song

Starting point is 01:32:09 you gotta keep them separated yeah that Oh, that's offspring. Come out of my boy. Yeah, yeah. He would go in his room. He would beat the drywall out of his room. And then every year for Christmas, his parents would redo the drywall.

Starting point is 01:32:20 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was his Christmas president. Yeah. It's fucking sick. I had a buddy like that. And then he ended up kind of working in a construction. And so now he, like, even as an adult, some shit, whatever, fucking kick a hole in his wall. But then he's patching it himself.

Starting point is 01:32:37 Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, dude. And Jeff is in the military, too, dude. shout out Jeff. And shout out the least favorite singer of offspring. He came up to a show one time and I told him that story. And I'd waited my whole life to tell him that story. I was like, dude, we had so much fun.

Starting point is 01:32:54 And my, yeah, we just had so much fun, dude. Fuck those ages. I think that's what it's nice growing up. Like in the town I grew up with such small town. It's like, yeah, I mean, if we skipped school, it was to, like, go float down the river. And we would go to the Walmart and then, you know, usually it started out just, you know, you buy an air mattress for a couple bucks. But, yeah, you're just sitting at the Walmart looking around, like, you know, Benjamin Franklin, like,

Starting point is 01:33:15 well, you know, what do you think we can get to float? And I remember one time we got this, like, eight foot by four foot kids, like, swimming pool. We fit, like, six dudes in the, and a cooler, a beer in the middle and, you know, push off a little bit. Okay, yeah, we're going. It's great. I love that. Yeah. I know.

Starting point is 01:33:30 I miss. Of course you miss it, but, yeah, I just, like, that kind of stuff was so much fun. When the world, when everything felt so new and the world didn't, it felt big in some ways, but it, but your view was so concise, kind of. Well, because you're not, you're typically not jaded. Yeah, you're not worried about anything. At that point, that's what I noticed when I... You just have to eat and lie to your parents.

Starting point is 01:33:56 When I've shot movies in some, you know, underprivileged areas, I mean, I'll see these kids playing in what you would basically describe as like a landfill, and they're so happy. and they're just kicking around trash like it's a soccer ball and you just realize like children like for the most part are innately happy they don't know what else

Starting point is 01:34:18 especially where we were at it's like they don't know what else out there they don't know how we're living how people are living in other parts of the world yeah it's really it's like it's a it's touching and it's also you know it's very sweet but it's I always

Starting point is 01:34:32 whenever a kid gets kind of their childhood taken away from them too early or they have to become an adult too early that's that's tough it's like no these like this was the time you know if you just be a kid yeah yeah you think that that would be ought to like at that that that would be kind of guaranteed you know maybe one day it will be maybe that's where we're all headed no it's tough man it's like i you know i know you know a ton people you know adult adulting adult life uh you know

Starting point is 01:35:03 really tough for them and because it's tough on them they're their kid you know a lot of time is handed a little more, I think, responsibility or even just emotional. Yeah, stuff they shouldn't have to think about, that sort of thing. That's the craziest. Dude, I know a guy who used to wake his kids up and get him to pee for him

Starting point is 01:35:19 so we could go do drug tests. Wow. So, yeah. They ran a snow cone stand in our town. I'll probably take that part out. We don't have a lot of snow cone stands in our town, so people know. I know.

Starting point is 01:35:31 I got to watch it because that's like my town. It's just, yeah. Anything else you want to tell us about the film? Any reason, like, why you, believe like or was there anything like about it that resonated with you after it after having watched it did you give notes on the ed it's just or anything like um i don't know yeah i just i just think because we had our you know first premiere up in toronto and it was just really wonderful after the film like how many people you said because it does it just really makes you

Starting point is 01:36:02 think about your own kind of mortality and loved ones but people really wanted to i mean for me Those are my favorite movies where you're, you know, leaves you really thinking. But I think it's, it's just really, it's a really funny movie. I think it's really sweet and sincere. And all of Kelly's girls were, we're crying. Yeah, it's very sweet. It's not like too heavy. I mean, there's some moments that are.

Starting point is 01:36:25 You're dealing with heavy, I mean, well, you're dealing with something that's maybe inevitable or not based on kind of what you're taking supplements wise and how you take care of the dojo, brother. But it is, it's just, my wife said it was her favorite film that I've ever been in her favorite film maybe of the last, like, you know, however long. And also I feel like it's pretty sweet, huh? I think it's a movie that I think it can, I think it fits with kind of the classic romantic comedies that are more character-driven. And, yeah, I'm just really excited for people to see it. And is it coming down in streaming? Coming out in theaters? No, so it comes out in theaters nationwide, like Thanksgiving.

Starting point is 01:37:12 Oh, sweet. Yeah. Yeah, so great holiday film. Take your mom, your grandma, dad, your girl, whatever. Yeah, I think anybody, a whole family could go see it. I think it's that kind of thing. It's certainly that. And, yeah, I do think some of those questions, yeah, it made me feel a little bit more upbeat.

Starting point is 01:37:28 Yeah, it's just like, I don't know. It's, it was something that, it's certainly something that I hadn't seen before. Yeah. And I thought that was It was very creative It was very creative And then when you're thinking about love You're thinking about the after life

Starting point is 01:37:43 You're thinking about the choices that we make And stuff like that You know, it made me a little mournful That ever like there's some moments You never get to, it's like Oh, I didn't start to think Oh, I didn't have that high school love It lasts forever

Starting point is 01:37:53 But then it's like But that couldn't even have been a reality In my life It never would have fit in right But it's just interesting To kind of think about things like that You know, I like thinking About matters of the heart

Starting point is 01:38:04 And stuff like that Oh, the last thing I was going to tell you. So, yeah, I went to the Vanderbilt game, but I saw these two, there was two kids there, and they were there with their dad, and their dad had just gotten back from service. He was in Qatar. And right when I saw the kids, like,

Starting point is 01:38:19 oh, dude, my dad saw you perform in Qatar. I'd went over there and did just a thing for the military. Was it through U.S.O. or something different? No, it was like they were doing, like, something for troops. Yeah, the president was doing something over there, and they were doing some troops. thing. But anyway, it was just, they're like, oh, dude, our dad. And you could just tell, like, I was

Starting point is 01:38:40 like, oh, how long are you there for it? He's like, I was there for a year. And it was just like, I don't know, it was just interesting to see this moment. And I was, I was like, are you guys dad, you're glad, are you guys glad your dad is home, you know, and you could just see like, I don't know, it's just, you just see some of the sacrifice. It was just a moment that I had to witness, like, kind of firsthand, a little bit of like the sacrifice that, um, that sons deal with, that fathers deal with, that people deal with to keep our country safe and uh yeah it's just touching man yeah this guy the guy that i played in uh thank you for service um Andrew or adam schumann um he you know because people say you know thank you know

Starting point is 01:39:14 thank you for service and a lot of the time people say that sometimes to just alleviate their own guilt of having not served but you know i've heard guys talk about it's weird you're thank me for something that hey i signed up for i wanted to do or you're thanking me for you don't you don't even know what my job was and it's just a complicated kind of decorative term that we use out of lack of knowing, but he would say, the thing that really broke him, he was, you know, filling up his, you know, his truck with gas and, you know, his army, the big red one and, you know, guy saw that and, you know, basically just kind of shook his hand and, you know, said, like, welcome home, you know, welcome home son. And, you know, glad you got home

Starting point is 01:39:53 safe. And that's, you know, it's, it's, yeah, it's tough. It's, it's, it's, but you're, that's we can do what we do because those men and women are over there doing you know doing the dirty work I mean our job is built

Starting point is 01:40:12 on the freedom of speech you know yeah both of our jobs are built on it like it doesn't even exist if people if people aren't making the sacrifice for us

Starting point is 01:40:22 but yeah that would be great to be able to talk with Gary Sinise I know he does a lot with the for veterans and yeah it's nice to just be reminded it's nice to be reminded

Starting point is 01:40:32 of a space to another reason just to have gratitude for the things we have going on. But also it's like it's different parts of the, like we're, you know, growing up in Florida, I feel like there's so many people that, you know, had family members in the military. But it's, it's a lot more socioeconomic driven now to where the military,

Starting point is 01:40:52 it doesn't feel like the entire country is really a part of it. And it's really happening in very specific pockets. So it's kind of, it'll be interesting in the next, like 25 years, 50 years of who you kind of have to live in these certain areas to have a relationship with somebody who's serving, because that's what personalizes it. Yeah, that's a good point, man. You know, during, in ancient Rome, they used to have, the politicians were also on the battlefield, which is pretty fascinating. So it was like the rules that they were making, if they were going to send people in a battle, they were going to have to be associated with those rules.

Starting point is 01:41:30 And I think it would be, I mean, who am I to say? I didn't serve. But it would be, you know, I think maybe some of the rules we would make might be, some of the choice we would make might be a little bit different if it felt like. If you had skin in the game. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's always some value in having skin in the game.

Starting point is 01:41:48 Yeah. I think that's just a tricky thing with politics in general. When you just can't recognize the, you know, the elected officials and the leaders, you just feel like you cannot relate. to them. They can't relate to you on any level. And it feels like those margins are getting wider. Getting wider.

Starting point is 01:42:07 Dude, that might be a cool. I'm sure there's a cool film out there. A lot of cool opportunities. Well, man, I hope you continue to serve us in great ways by bringing art to life. And bring it into video format for us.

Starting point is 01:42:21 And yeah, thank you so much, dude, for all the entertainment and for stopping by and chatting. Thanksgiving week, you guys can check out Eternity with Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olson. And also

Starting point is 01:42:36 my wife Kelly, she's coming out with a, like a pajama, a robe line. Will that be available for holidays? Yeah, yeah. And I'm just so proud of her. Yeah? So I had to get that out there too. Oh, that's

Starting point is 01:42:52 awesome. Yeah, you guys have been together for how long? It's almost 13 years. Dang. Yeah. Did you know right when you met her that that was a one or? I knew she was like the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. Yeah, there you go. I appreciate that, guys. She's the most pure-hearted person I've ever met in my life.

Starting point is 01:43:09 I didn't know that. Obviously, when I saw her, I was just attracted to her face. You know? But then as I've gotten to, you know, but then we're pretty inseparable right off the bat. But I do remember, because I was like 25, dude. This was like very, I'd lived in hell. My career just started, you know.

Starting point is 01:43:27 And I remember my boys, my first. Florida boys I moved out with when they start seeing her hanging around more and more I'm like yeah well she's my girlfriend they're like what the fuck are you talking about they're like why would you have a girlfriend

Starting point is 01:43:38 right now this is our moment this is our entourage moment like we rented a house in the valley we had a pool there like this is our time dude I was like well you know I I was probably like yeah am I ready to settle down

Starting point is 01:43:52 no but also I'm not ready for her to just leave me either you know it's like I don't want this one's not getting away Yeah, for sure. Dude, that's funny, you buy your body. That's my best friend.

Starting point is 01:44:05 Dude, we literally, like, I never get, I never get sick of her. I like, and when I tell people the difference is like, you know, most people, they have a job, 9 to 5, whatever it is. And when I'm filming, certainly it's like that. But when I'm not, it's like, and she comes with me when I'm filming, it's like, I see her from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. You know, maybe I go work out for a little bit or do something like that. But we are with each other all of the time. and we love it. Like, that truly is like that's what she cracks me up.

Starting point is 01:44:31 She's very low, like, she's so hard to rattle, to get rattled. She doesn't raise her voice. She says being calm is her superpower. But she's just like unflappable. She's great. The unflappable Kelly Teller. Oh, she's going to love that. She loves you.

Starting point is 01:44:48 And she has a new pajama line that's out. Yeah, I remember the day that I met her. You guys were sitting out there out back together, man. I think almost every time I've seen you, except for that one time that you were dancing by yourself. Which is pretty admirable In a sea of people Miles told us there

Starting point is 01:45:02 Dancing by myself I'm like that dude is doing his own thing I took my boy to the fight That time It's so much fun It's fun to bring your friends Man And it's fun to bring us into your world

Starting point is 01:45:11 For a little while Thank you so much Miles I appreciate it Check out Kelly's new pajamas And congratulations man on everything Thanks dude Yep have a good day brother I'll see the fight soon

Starting point is 01:45:22 It sounds good Yeah Rolling like these leaves, I must be cornerstone. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind I found I can feel it in my bones. But it's gonna take...

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