This Past Weekend - #636 - Jason Momoa

Starting point is 00:00:00 Today's guest is an actor, a producer, an entrepreneur. He's a real do-it-all type, brother. He has a new film out with Dave Bautista called The Wrecking Crew. Highly recommend it. Great action film. He's out the mud and the water. It's Aquaman. Today's guest is Mr. Jason Mamoa.

Starting point is 00:00:24 We'll be fine. We'll be fine. I'm here to do the greatest deal of an interview ever. Oh, damn. Actually, it could be it. I'm trying to think we've had the greatest one. We had an Amish kid. That was pretty great.

Starting point is 00:00:55 Oh, wow. He's pure Amish, too. He's like every now and then I'll sneak off to the creek and we hide a cell phone down there and we'll listen to a little bit of deaf leopard. That was one of the best things I ever heard. A little bit of pour some sugar on me? Yeah, yeah, I do.

Starting point is 00:01:11 And I don't even think they have sugar, which is the craziest part. So just down there listening to songs, about illegal ingredients. That's all they're doing. Jason, thanks for hanging out, man. Thanks for having me, buddy.

Starting point is 00:01:25 We met at the, at the 50th, I think it was a 50th S&L. Yep. I just remember I was walking and then this big, like, kind of, I would say semi-beautiful hand,

Starting point is 00:01:36 just grab me, this thing that definitely, and immediately I felt like I hadn't been in the gym. That was like my immediate feeling. And then it just like pulled me into like this orbit. And it was like,

Starting point is 00:01:46 hey man, nice to see you here. And that was it, dude, but it was awesome. This is great to see you, man. Yeah, it made my day. You make people smile. You make me smile. So I'm like, when you see that, like, it was a bit of an overload there.

Starting point is 00:01:57 It was a lot. And I feel like once you're talking, yeah, like when you're with Merrill Streep and Robert De Niro's on one thing. And then, you know, I freaked out when I saw Chevy Chase. Yeah. Like this grand, this older lady is like, come here, darling. You're the aquaman. I was like, yeah. And she's like, Chevy, get over here.

Starting point is 00:02:16 Chevy, get over here. I'm like, oh, my gosh. is a Chevy Chase's wife. And then she's like, Bill, get over here. And I'm Sam, Bill Murray. Oh, God. Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. I'm sandwiched between him.

Starting point is 00:02:29 And I'm just going like, this beautiful one brought this together. Bill's like, who the fuck is this guy? And she's like, and so was Chevy. And he's like, that's the Aquamanca. Our grandchildren love him. Oh, yeah. But you just go like, it was, there it is. Oh, that's cool.

Starting point is 00:02:44 See, in my mind, I was sandwiched. Yeah. But right there, I'm a little bit more. of the bun. Yeah, you seem like more of a bun. Yeah. You know, or like a nice rye or something, a pumper nickel. So, but we were, uh, that was, it was just a, it was a crazy night, huh? Yeah, that was a lot, man. I met Hansen. Hansen was there. Yeah. They look like adult Hanson kids or whatever. Yeah, because what you're on? What year are you born? I'm born in 1980. I'm 79. There we go. So we know what Hansons look like when they were bopping it out. Yeah, we know the real Hanson's

Starting point is 00:03:16 You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I just gave my son a criss cross colors that you remember that brand. It was like it was just this brand that I had when like Chris Cross came out. And my son didn't know who that was. And it was the year? It was the year, you were born maybe when it came out?

Starting point is 00:03:33 82. Yeah. I think it was just. I get Chris Cross. Cross colors. Anyways, I just gave it to my son. And I was just dating myself, man.

Starting point is 00:03:41 But it was, it was a, it was a moment. I've been unpacking my, my, stuff and giving it to my son and he loves it because all that stuff's cool again yeah oh that's a good point yeah things come back around yeah uh you grew up in hawaii i was born in hawaii yeah and my parents got divorced when i was little and i moved to iowa but like you know bridges of madison county

Starting point is 00:04:04 iowa like dude marrill street bridges of madison county boom one of my favorite books the book and the movie it's identical it's like word for word um yeah every the the the movie's the exact way of the book so not that that matters or i'm like graduated, you know. Did you go to University of Iowa? No, no. I actually went to, we'd like to make fun of it, University of Southern Ankeny.

Starting point is 00:04:25 I went to D-Mack, Des Moines Area Community College. And then went to... Is that still open? It is, DMAC. And then I went off to get in-state tuition in Colorado. And I was living out in Colorado State, and I was working on the trail crew out there

Starting point is 00:04:38 and working at Lee Cyclery and Bizzettys and all these different busing tables and shit, trying to get in-state tuition, trying to postpone, college as much as possible. Trying to postpone it or stay in it? Well, I'm just trying to get in state tuition so I could do wildlife biology there. But I want to, I went to school.

Starting point is 00:04:55 It's weird because when I was in Iowa, I did marine biology. They have a place called Central Campus where all these different schools would go into Des Moines and you would learn marine biology. And I'd have like a shark tank and I had my own eel. And you'd learn about all these different things. And I always want to be a marine biologist and we'd spend our spring breaks down in the Keys. So we'd get in a yellow bus go all the way down from fucking Iowa. all the way down to the keys.

Starting point is 00:05:18 Yeah. That's so far. Yeah. And we'd study with scientists, but I did that two years. Get credit for college. And then I was going to go, like, over summertime, I was like, I'll go to Hawaii. Since I'm Hawaiian, maybe I'll get a better deal going to college. And TV show came. That was it. And I was just surfing with my family and a big, pretty big surf family. So we, and then a show came and I ended up getting it. It changed everything. I was 19.

Starting point is 00:05:45 And you were working so, but they had the ant. Oh my God, that's him? Yeah, dude. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't what? Get some lotion out? To rub on the picture. Have some respect, guys.

Starting point is 00:06:05 Dude, that's wild that you got to let. I was 19, man. That was crazy. My job before that was busting tables, yeah. I was a bussed table, bro. I was one of the first busters to ever use creatine. in Arizona. South of Phoenix,

Starting point is 00:06:17 I was one of the best bus boys there was, I think, for probably about a two and a half year period. Is that where you went to Arizona? I went to University of Arizona for one year and then I went to some other schools. But, dude, I was,

Starting point is 00:06:28 I was so good at Busting Tables, man. Yeah, well, I would take all the food because I worked at a really nice restaurant. Yeah. And we were all, my buddies that lived together just a bunch of climbing dirt bags and I'd bring this nice pasta home because, you know,

Starting point is 00:06:41 if the couple didn't look too suss and they left their stuff, You know, you just box it in and bring it home. And so I always had like the best restaurants pasta. Dude, I worked at a place called Dakota's Wine and Feed. And the guy there was taught like this perverted manager who would kind of teach us how to do like he would like kind of like oral sex on women. But just like in conversation. Anyway, that guy was a complete pervert.

Starting point is 00:07:06 But I will take not in person, not with a real woman. Just he would like tell us young kids like how to do it and stuff. And we didn't know what was going on. Dude, like I remember when he would talk about it, all the pimples on my face would like explain. explode at once. But anyway, that was beside the point. But they had very nice food there. And I remember if I'd see a couple, if they used their knife, that to me was like,

Starting point is 00:07:24 oh, they're fancy. I can eat off of their plate. Yes. So if the knife was dirty, I would definitely take a little bit of that. They have some cured ham or some specialty meats on there. And I'd get a stack of like some like special sandwich that was made of all types of stuff. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:07:37 It was nice. That's back, um. Feeding the homies. Yeah. And back then it's like when you're out of your mom's house, your first time out, you're like, orange juice. was like champagne. If someone had orange juice,

Starting point is 00:07:47 oh my God, I haven't had orange juice and fucking, because I don't want to beer and fucking booze. Yeah. Right? Milk, never saw it again.

Starting point is 00:07:54 You live mom's out of my fuck milk. And then it's basically water, beer. My dad still kind of had to pay child support. So that was like that paid rent. And I could just save enough bus and tables. Yeah. Or I could work just Thursday,

Starting point is 00:08:09 Friday, Saturday. I go rock climbing and snowboarding. So it would be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, come back.

Starting point is 00:08:15 So I had like four, I had a little plan, you know. And were you with like a certain group of friends from growing up? Or was it just like is still like a core group or was you just guys? There's one guy. I didn't have too many friends growing up. And I mean, I had friends, but like the like true buddies. They're in my neighborhood. But they stayed there.

Starting point is 00:08:32 There's one guy. He is my best friend of this day. Godfather, my kids. He went out to Colorado first. So he was one year older. And then I went out there to be with him. And he's my best. Yeah, he's my best.

Starting point is 00:08:43 So it was just us running. running a muck. So much fun. Colorado is so awesome. It is. It was good. God, I love being out there.

Starting point is 00:08:50 Is that the altitude always gets me so much, dude. I get affected pretty easily by the environment. It's got to be hard for you from Nashville to here because it gets dry.

Starting point is 00:08:59 Like, I just came from New Zealand right now. Last night, I'm like, I felt sorry for my lady because I'm just like, up weasings. Just shedding.

Starting point is 00:09:06 It's just fucking dry. I mean, it's summer down there. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, dude, New Zealand

Starting point is 00:09:14 is a, dude, I met people on any ornie. I'm like, what are you talking about? You're not using any letters. They have people there. It's like, I don't know. I think that's Australians, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we went to New Zealand. We had some shows down in Auckland.

Starting point is 00:09:28 And we met Pete is just like, any on. Oh, hey. We met guys who like, it was like they had a sentence stuck in them. They just couldn't get it out of them no matter what. Like, the people there that talked were just, anyway, it was just some of the craziest ling I had ever heard. But one of the most beautiful places, We went to, we got to meet Israel Adasanya down there because he lives there.

Starting point is 00:09:48 Yep. Yep. And they were super nice to us whenever we went over there. But we went to the beach one day. And they said you can only be outside of the beach for a certain amount of time because they don't have that much marine layer. Or they don't have the ozone. Ozone layer. You're fried.

Starting point is 00:10:02 Dude, I was like, it's so beautiful, but you got to go back inside. I don't know what never told me to go back inside. But I mean, yeah, if you're sitting out there, you're going to feel it. Like, you just feel yourself cooking. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:12 Well, at a certain point, you should go in, I think. Yeah. You definitely should. Or to stay out there in grill, maybe. So you went to, you went from Des Moines Community College, DMAQ. Yep.

Starting point is 00:10:23 And then you ended up over in Colorado. Yep. I went to Colorado and then went to Hawaii. You get to just kind of be on my father, get to know him better. Was he cool? My dad's great. My dad's,

Starting point is 00:10:33 he's awesome. But just, um, I'd go there when I was young, like eight, nine, 10, you know,

Starting point is 00:10:39 like basically when I was young enough to comprehend it, right enough to be with my, mom and then I'd go until like high school years we had probably a bit of a falling out so I didn't go too much and maybe my sophomore junior senior year so once I was like I'm gonna go back be with dad bury the hatchet and see if I can get into college over there and um and then like I said show came and changed my life and then kind of tried to you know telling my mom like I'm on this show and she's like what are you talking about you know like my mom's in the same house I was raised in Wow.

Starting point is 00:11:14 She's like, what are you doing? Are you doing something with Satan? I know. She's like, you're on, you're on Bay of Hawaii. I was like, mom,

Starting point is 00:11:19 I'm like, it's not what you think. It's like a whole different spin on it. They're in Hawaii. It's not. And she's like, what? It's a whole different spin.

Starting point is 00:11:26 They're in Hawaii. Yeah, I know. I mean, Hasselhoff wasn't really on it anymore, but they're trying to change it up. So anyways. Dang.

Starting point is 00:11:33 And then I spent the, you know, the next 30 years digging myself out of that hole. Yeah. Cheers to that. And here we are now. And so your mom is a white woman and your father is more islander? My dad's Hawaiian, yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:48 Kaanamoly and my mom is basically German-Irish. Is there a lot of beef between Hawaiians and Hawaii of like the, are there different kind of sex of like SECTS of Hawaiians, like different kind of like, or is it if you're a Hawaiian, you're Hawaiian? I mean, that's a good question. I wouldn't say it's like sex. Definitely, you know, back in the day,

Starting point is 00:12:11 there was different islands were different kings until it was united by Kamaamaa, but not everyone loved Kama'i. You could have been with Kahiki. You could have been with different islands.

Starting point is 00:12:23 And that obviously to unite them, your family could have been murdered. So I don't think everyone sees eye to eye. But having said that like we are, you know, since we are a part of America now, like I think all those generations, you know, our culture and our language is completely removed from us

Starting point is 00:12:37 like most indigenous races. And, you know, really trying to, get it back and I don't necessarily think there's like sex to it. Right. Yeah. It's not like, so people aren't like that tribal. I'm going to try what. Not as much as like if you were compared to New Zealand where there's, I don't, don't quote me, but there's 200 plus different Ewees, different tribes and mud eyes. Oh yeah. I met some Ewees. Yeah. Whereas the South Island, there's one like Naita who's just one tribe on the South Island. The North Island has many. So it

Starting point is 00:13:10 definitely has to go through a lot more if you're trying to agree on certain things. Like it's got to go through more people. Yeah. Got it. And did your dad have a like like, is he like very, a very Hawaiian kind of guy? Very much so. He is really. I mean, in the sense of like.

Starting point is 00:13:25 Because there's so much pride in that culture. It's such a unique culture. Yeah. I come from the west side of Oahu. My dad lives in Nanakuli. Most of my family's like Nanakouye and then Makaha. And, uh, that whole west side is called Hawaiian homestead land. It's like our reservation kind of,

Starting point is 00:13:40 kind of thing. And so, but my father's very much a waterman. And in that sense. What does that mean? He likes to be out in the water? Yeah. Or is that a specific job? Outriggers, paddling, surfing. He was a coach. And I mean, just any,

Starting point is 00:13:55 a waterman is, as in knowledge of sailing, knowledge of. Anything out there. And you're Aquaman, which is crazy. Which is crazy. That's crazy. It is. And I've always wanted to. My, my,

Starting point is 00:14:06 my family is very much, some of the, the last living legends of surfing or of Watermen is like my great uncle's Buffalo Kiolana. Bring him up. See if we can get a gander at him. Buffalo Keolana and Brian Keelana is an amazing Waterman too, who's my cousin. And Rusty's a four-time world champion. So I just come from a very of the Keolanas.

Starting point is 00:14:29 Oh, wow. That's Uncle Buff. Hell yeah, dude. Beautiful Hawaiian man, yeah? Yeah, I think I've seen him on the pictures of the bronzer at the tanning salon as well. I think, I'll just say, I'll just say this, they're using his name, image, and likeness over there, okay? It's Sun Tane City. I'll say that fast.

Starting point is 00:14:46 Dude, that's awesome. Yeah, I always wanted to, yeah, be with him. But that's, that's kind of, that's the family. And he still lives over there? He does, yeah. Wow. Oh, that's beautiful, man. Yeah, I just want to do Hawaiians feel like, it seems to me like Hawaiians always feel like

Starting point is 00:15:02 a responsibility to uphold their culture, kind of, or that they're Hawaiian. Like there just seems to be like a certain like level of respect that they carry about themselves with that. I think that's true. I think there's a lot of things that have happened to our to our people that have, it's been very challenging and what's happened and, and getting our identity back, getting our culture back and our language back. So there's,

Starting point is 00:15:27 I'm sure there's a lot of, there's a lot of things. Yeah. There's a lot of, a lot of terror and trauma that's happened to the Hawaiian Islands. Dang. There's a lot. Yeah, I think when you have something beautiful, people want it, you know?

Starting point is 00:15:40 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's so nice over there, dude, I even remember one time I was drowning over there, and I remember being like, where else am I going to drown? Like it was so nice. I remember looking back at the shoreline, literally I was snorkeling, and I wasn't doing well. I was losing. And I remember looking back at the shoreline, and I thought I was going to drown. And I was like, dude, where else are you going to drown?

Starting point is 00:16:04 You know, you're going to drown in a Hampton Inn pool somewhere? Like, you know, outside of Jacksonville or something. No, dude, this is where you do it, you know. And so there was almost this crazy moment of peace with just how beautiful it was there, you know. It's a really special place. Where were you out when you're drowning, man? I was off of, I was in Maui. Was there waves?

Starting point is 00:16:22 Was it just because of deep water? There were waves, but it was like, he just got a little too carried away and you got too far out, maybe? Oh, yeah. I went snorkeling and it was by myself. And bad idea, huh? Yeah, it's bad to do anything. Yeah, go in the water and do that by yourself.

Starting point is 00:16:36 And that's what I realized. It was kind of fun. It was kind of fun. And I remember I got out there a little bit and I was like, oh, man. And then I would see the fish. But then the water would go down and then I would just be like almost like trying to like not get on the coral or whatever, like being like that. Yeah. And then it would go back.

Starting point is 00:16:52 It was just like, it just got super scary. And that was further and further out. And I started getting really, really spooked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I caught a bad rip.

Starting point is 00:16:59 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I caught a bad rip. I think, yeah, every surfer, you know, everyone drowns. Have you ever been at a drowning before out there? Very much so. No way.

Starting point is 00:17:10 Yeah, I've drowned. And it's just, I mean, it's a beautiful teacher, man. The oceans of, I mean, she's an ultimate teacher. So it sucks. Drowning sucks. Yeah. There's no way about it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:21 Yeah. You just see your slow death. It sucks. Everything flashes in and you can't move your arms anymore and you're going down and can't breathe. That's when I used to smoke a lot. I smoked cigars still, but it took me a while to get back to it. But I used to smoke like two packs a day.

Starting point is 00:17:36 It was pretty, just love, love, love, like roll up. And I tried to slow down. I'd be like, roll a pouch. And then I'd burn a pouch in a day. Just, just. Just love tobacco and. Damn, I'll keep believe I was a damn smoker. That's inspiring, actually, dude.

Starting point is 00:17:51 You can do anything, people. And that was the hard one to quit. I mean, that's, I'm a fair, sure of shit. But it's like, I think smoking was, I couldn't suffer my, you know, from my family. And then when I drowned, you know, some, took my breath, I came out of that water and that thing died. And I mean, I tried really hard to stop many times. And I came out and if I tried to smoke, I'd vomit, like, it might, that part of me just died because it took my breath and I had to go through it. And, and then the reason I didn't,

Starting point is 00:18:23 I got saved is I actually hit the outer reef because I was over a half mile off shore. It's just there's two reefs. It's always on the outer reef of Maui. And it was doing, you know, some, some, some coast paddling and I hit the I hit the reef and it just touched my toe and and uh I just bubbled down grab the reef and just jumped up and then got hit another wave and I just held onto the reef and waited I was out there for a while dang who rescued you I was with Laird I was with out surfing with Laird and um I saw him once at a home foods yeah it sounds on point is that on brand yeah yeah but uh yeah and um Dave Kalama and my friend Joe Flanagan And yeah, but it was my leash snapped.

Starting point is 00:19:08 I was stuck out in the middle of the ocean. So it was just very windy and took the board and it was gone. And smoking was done for you. Yeah, never, never, never, never smoked again. Damn. Look at you guys over here. Just type quick and get it up. Boom, boom, boom.

Starting point is 00:19:24 Yeah, I was looking at your new film. It's called The Wrecking Crew. I'm excited for you. See it. It's funny. I saw it. Oh, you did. Yeah. Oh, thank you.

Starting point is 00:19:33 I've seen it, dude. I know the premiere was last night. So sorry. that but no I saw it on my computer they sent me a screener of it yeah dude it's great and it's so beautiful it's it's so nice to be able to just you feel like you're in Hawaii for a while yeah you know it's just the movies we grow up with right lethal weapon 48 hour all these things buddy cop movies yeah I did a TV show with David Batista he played my brother in C on Apple oh yeah and he plays your brother in

Starting point is 00:19:59 this gone sorry yeah yeah and we just were really got really close and it's like you know in this business when he meets somebody really like you're like oh we should in the next one it would be fun to do a comedy instead of covered in blood and us beating each other. And it was, uh, so we, I had this, this pitch to him. And, um, I had it, now it's been for two decades. One of the first things I ever wrote as a pitch packet and told him. And then next day, he just posted it and put it out there and went viral. And, uh, what about you guys doing it together? Yeah. And then attached David Leach to it. And like, and basically like, this is what we're doing. Do you like it? And everyone freaked out.

Starting point is 00:20:35 My agent's calling me going like, what are we doing? And like the next morning, I'm like, Dave, I didn't even know that Dave would do that. And Dave just like, just did it. I like going like, yeah, me and you were doing, you know, twins. You know what I mean? It's just they just put it out there. And, uh, fraternal twins too. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:51 And people are like, I don't know. I don't know. People are like, it's like before and after. Yeah. And so, uh, anyways, in our, and our showrunner, Jonathan Tropper ended up writing it. And yeah, it's just a, it's just a fun movie that where we want to, I want to, I want to, do laugh a little more and it'll make you know make you cry working out to family trauma you know that kind of stuff yeah it's never too late yeah yeah there's some sweet stuff in it it's the

Starting point is 00:21:15 action is really great i loved it i mean it's just it's a nice easy it's an easy movie to watch and it's just super enjoyable and it's a beautifully shot it's just like and it's just in hawaii you can't afford to take your wife to hawaii make her to see this movie that's the best pitch it's not bad you spent too much money this weekend Can't quite take her on vacation. The wrecking crew. You're welcome. Look.

Starting point is 00:21:40 Jason Miller, thanks, bro. Just put a little cocoa butter on her arms and take her to see the wrecking crew. It's this. Tell her it's the same thing. Okay. You got to tell her it's the same thing, man. Was there ever a movie role where you liked it kind of so much or the environment that you were at you liked so much that you're like, I wish I could stay here.

Starting point is 00:21:58 I wish this was my life, kind of. That's an interesting question. Where you just want to stay in that time period? in that place. Yeah. Or even as that person even. I don't think I've, you know, I did this show,

Starting point is 00:22:15 Chief of War that came out last year and I think it was really cool because it's all about a... Is it on Apple TV? It's all about Hawaii. Yeah, it's like when they're uniting the kingdoms. It would have been really beautiful to be in Hawaii before the white man arrived

Starting point is 00:22:28 and just kind of see that time and place and, you know, see what our people who are like our ancestors. It was so special to make that show Because you grow up in Iowa And you watch it like Last the Mohicans And Braveheart You see all these things like

Starting point is 00:22:44 Oh I would love to see my culture I'd love Samurai movies or Native American movies And all we had was paintings You know my grandparents They've never seen a movie With us wearing all the regalia And like and going into the big battles With no metal

Starting point is 00:22:59 So it's fish I mean it's just brutal battles The UFC see to the next level yeah before they had i can shark teeth did yeah like you're ripping each other apart so um just imagining that or seeing a movie on that scale it took me a long time to make that that show because you know oh yeah that's beautiful and also as a gay marty grow vibe as well i'll say that but that's outside and that that's just a joke i think it's very beautiful of these that you get to even envision something like this that's crazy dude oh man

Starting point is 00:23:33 It's crazy to even get to see moments like that. Like even just like on a movie set or something like that, it must be so bizarre to see moments like that. Have you seen this? You should see like just the trailers or something, you know, when you, you know, we're right. You have some spare time. It's pretty, it's pretty wild.

Starting point is 00:23:48 The fight scenes in this are pretty wild. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. Anyway, so that was the first thing I ever created. So I was a co-creator and produced it, and co-wrote it and directed like the finale and started it. So that was like my big, that's fine.

Starting point is 00:24:05 That's my little love letter. Yeah, it's my baby to my people. Oh, that's beautiful, dude. And was it, was that special to your dad or special to like some of your friends and family from home? I think everyone, because you have to, all the people I was, when I was 19, I hired on Baywatch to like make a artist to craft services to your drivers.

Starting point is 00:24:23 They knew me when I was 19. I'm coming back at 45 at the time, 44, and coming back and making something like doing Baywatch was just kind of shit. and then coming back and doing something that's about our people. Yeah. There's a real big honor, man, for sure.

Starting point is 00:24:37 It's like, I mean, that's my ultimate goal. I'm kind of done now. Yeah. I'm just going to do fun, fun shit, and I want to do comedy. Like, we're going to do Minecraft with Jack Black again. Oh, nice. Excited to do that.

Starting point is 00:24:49 Thanks, buddy. Sorry about that. You're good, man. When you were doing that show, did you go to parts of the island and learn stuff about Hawaii that you didn't know before? Yes.

Starting point is 00:25:01 Yes. but also like got to go and just scout and go to places. I've never been to meet uncles and aunties and people who are just know so much about our culture. Like we had to, yes, had to learn. You know, we had to do it. We didn't know Lela Hawaii. So you didn't where? We,

Starting point is 00:25:18 a Lela Hawaii. So we did it in our, in our native language. Yeah. So all the other characters in here, I'd say half of the cast, it's all Polynesia. So you got to understand like there's, there's, there's, there's, there's Maudi, New Zealand. There's Samoan, there's Tongan, there's, there might have been some teaching, but like all of us in and Kanaka Maoli, which is us, all these different people who had different, their own languages, they had to learn this ancient language.

Starting point is 00:25:47 So like everyone in there doing that is like, it's hard. It was the hardest for me, but I thought it would have been a lot easier, but it was very challenging for me. Yeah, the Tongans are tough, huh? Samones and Tongans are, yeah. They're all tough. Who's the toughest one now? I mean, I wouldn't fuck with the Tongan. Bring up a Tongan.

Starting point is 00:26:07 I wouldn't fuck with us a moment. Like, I'm good. Pull up a pair of Tongans. I heard you should never have just one. I mean, look at that guy over there. I mean, yeah, there you go. Click on that one. That guy on the right.

Starting point is 00:26:20 Oh, my God. That guy is doing something different, huh? You know what? We're all at Olaug, so it's nice. We don't have to fuck. I don't have to get in the fight with the tongen. Yeah, no, I'm never gonna. But that's wild.

Starting point is 00:26:33 Just Polynesians in general, man. They're just like, oh, it's such a different breed. Dude, you know, well, I like Filipinos. They're kind of like the comfortable Polynesians, you know? There you go, yeah. And they're the smiling people, you know? They are. And they're the last people that most people see before they die

Starting point is 00:26:50 because a lot of them work in hospice care, which is crazy. When you think about that, imagine you're laying there and you open up a little and it's just some Filipinos, dude. And they're just singing something nice to you? I mean, it sounds nice. That's a portable Hawaii, dude. I just hope my kids are there and they're looking after me.

Starting point is 00:27:13 But I'm going to put that shit on them. You put me in a home, I'm going to haunt your ass. I'm going to fucking haunt your ass. You put me in a home. Dude, I'm going to have my fans break me out. You think he'd be a good ghost, though, dude? There's another script right there.

Starting point is 00:27:25 Me and you old, we'll just get old, do all the old makeup. Yeah. Yeah. just us in our dying ages in a nursing home. Yeah. And fans break us out. And they break us out and then what?

Starting point is 00:27:35 I don't know. Yeah. We go to a Comic Con for like the old time days. Yeah. And you interview them all. Yeah. We'd be like the hangover. We just relive all the good times.

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Starting point is 00:31:43 Oh, he's the best, dude. Yeah. So I'm excited about that. Tommy Boy, one of my favorites. Oh, that was one of the best ever. Was there, uh... That's just an old-time buddy or you just were like, yeah. He and I became friends like four years ago.

Starting point is 00:31:55 five years ago and we became really close friends and then we uh we started we had kind of an idea and when he started writing and it took like a year and then we decided to just self-fund it and it's like a four million dollar budget i think and then we got i think we got one investor and um yeah and we made it we shot in like 23 days wonderful what's it's it's called it was exciting it's called busboys it's about two guys who aren't doing that good and uh one of them loses his girlfriend to a waiter at a restaurant And so we figure if we can become waiters, then everything will be great. That's why you're still going to be in a busboy. You're talking about like what we were talking about.

Starting point is 00:32:32 Oh, I channel. Professional busboys, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I channeled this wasn't, yeah. People like this is just whimsical. What are you guys doing? No, this is in me, bitch.

Starting point is 00:32:40 You feel me? So, yeah, I definitely channeled that. And David was a bus boy too in Arizona as well when he was growing up. They wouldn't make me a waiter. That was my last job. Yeah, I was bus boy at two places. I could see that. They wouldn't let me.

Starting point is 00:32:53 They were trying to hold me. be down. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Dude, there's a glass ceiling. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:58 I never made a waiter. Yeah, it's everywhere. Fuck waiters. Bus boys are dope, dude. Bus boys are dope. Boss boys are dope. They're always the coolest.

Starting point is 00:33:05 They're going to have the drug. They're going to know where the shit's at. They're going to have the bread. You know what I mean? Like busboys are dope. Yeah, who's going to get extra butter? With the dishwasher and like, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:14 Who's got extra butter? The bus boys do. I love salt and pepper. Guess he's got that. Yeah. Let's go see your waiter do that. No, they're off fucking making more money than you. Yeah, they're off counting.

Starting point is 00:33:24 They're usually counting their money. Not sharing their tips is what they're not doing. Type shit, homie. That's what they're doing, dude. And who's got the extra salt? You know what? I'm going to tip my waitress less and I'm going to slip my bus boy more. I haven't been doing that.

Starting point is 00:33:36 I'm going to say, where's the fucking bus boy at? I'm going to throw the homies or homettes some fucking loot. Started at the bottom. It's all happened because of Reagan because it trickle down economics. Who started trickle on economics? Bring that up. It was Reagan, wasn't it? Give it to the waiters.

Starting point is 00:33:52 They'll give it to the bus boys. That's not helping. I was just at the nurses strike. The largest nurses strike in New York City history is going on right now. Right now? Yeah. And I just came from it a little while ago. And it was awesome.

Starting point is 00:34:05 I like strikes because it's like being in a parade, kind of because I'm from New Orleans. So it's like you're definitely partying that a band out there. Yeah, but it's the largest nurses strike that's ever happened in New York City. It's going on right now. Oh, my goodness. See, you can play that real fun.

Starting point is 00:34:18 There you, Gar. Play it right there. They're from New Orleans. The band was pretty good. They played, actually they did Abby Road. They did the whole album. Really?

Starting point is 00:34:32 Which I thought was impressive, dude. Even that one where it's like, bang, bang, Maxwell Silverhammer came down upon his head. Yeah, they even played that one. And they only had three instruments. But yeah, I loved it. I really enjoyed that. My sister's a nurse.

Starting point is 00:34:47 So I was like, oh, this is going on, dude. I'm out there. Now, did I think I would meet some hot nurses? Yeah. But a lot of men, days, which doesn't mean they can't be hot, but, you know, I had a different bedside manner in mine, you know, so anyway, moving on, Jason, you pervert. So, yeah, do you get to point in your career?

Starting point is 00:35:09 Because it is interesting to hear you say where you feel like you have, like, some personal achievement or some person or success or something where you kind of feel like, okay, I'm okay, you know? Does that make any sense to you, kind of? because we're all trying to, like, we're all trying to, like, everyone's trying to feel like, you know, we all want to feel some sort of, a lot of people want to feel some sort of success, right? I mean, I noticed in my own life, what makes me feel like, okay, I'm, I'm okay for me, you know? Oh, I mean, it's a, it's a very complex, I mean, there's many things I'm going through.

Starting point is 00:35:47 And maybe that's just my age or like, you know, I've been, like you were saying, trying to accomplish, get to a certain place. and just because you just because even in those in those worst times and like maybe not doing the things I really truly want to be doing but I'm doing it to put food on the table and then I get to the place where I'm actually like wow I'm producing writing doing all these things and this is my dream come true why am I why was I happier when I was in the fucking hole why was I happier back then is it just because it's nostalgic is it I mean why was it because I'm still hunting I'm hungry I mean, I got to this place where I considered, like, well, I don't have any more per se dreams as an actor. Like, I never thought to get this far in the first place.

Starting point is 00:36:36 You know what I mean? Yeah. The biggest dream to me is so, like, make a TV show or a movie for my people, make a real true authentic point story. Like, I did that. And the comic book I was read when I was a kid and I, well, I'm fucking playing him. Yeah. And then you're like, the video game that I fucking loved, I'm fucking playing him too. and it's like all these things are great

Starting point is 00:36:57 and then sometimes you're it's but you're not why do you not feel does that happen you think even in career like you got such a great career does it happen even in careers like yours like do you think that's just a human thing

Starting point is 00:37:12 I guess it's just a human thing yeah yeah but I just like I just try to I just try to have gratitude in all of it man because you know I have so many friends that are maybe could be ill sick dying and just I mean, I'm kind of the kind of person, like pretty high energy and I'm really, really generally happy.

Starting point is 00:37:32 Like, I'm like Christmas morning every morning. I'm pretty fucking happy. I don't eat coffee. I'm jazzed. Dang. And so I love, I love morning. I love being up. And I don't necessarily sleep that much.

Starting point is 00:37:42 So I'll probably die earlier. Yeah. But my days are filled. Yeah. They're going to be filled with freaking Filipinos as well, dude. That's for sure. If this is the rate you're going to. But I just, I can't sit still.

Starting point is 00:37:53 And I think if I, I don't have those things. I was pretty self-destructive if I wasn't creating and constantly doing stuff. So I think that's what gives me like, I don't necessarily think there's a measure by, oh, because I'm in this movie or this and this and that. I'm actually like there's these little smaller things that I love doing. Staying busy. Yeah, but it's like the things I really truly love.

Starting point is 00:38:13 Like I'm an environmentalist at heart. So there's, you know, I work as much as I can with different, just it's all the things that the little small things that probably no one gives a shit about that I give about. And it's like trying to do those things that I, really love. And it's not about being necessarily seen as trying to help in certain things that I love and care about. Yeah, do you think like a lot of that stuff comes back to you more, like once you've kind of gotten a certain level or once you kind of, because life just kind of gets busy. Like in your 30s and 40s, life gets busy, right? And especially if you have a busy career like

Starting point is 00:38:42 yours or a career we have to travel a lot. And it's, and it varies from place to place, location to location. I find that it like, it just gets, it gets hard to focus on some of the smaller things that are more important to me sometimes. So is it easier? Do you feel like it's easier now in your career to be able to have more time for those types of things? I don't have any time of those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:39:04 I have a hard time saying no. So I say yes to everything. And I'm like, I work a lot. And so if something comes in and I'm fully loaded, I'm like, yeah, I can't not say yes. And so I don't know. Here's the thing. I'm doing everything I love to do.

Starting point is 00:39:20 Right. So I don't ever think of it as work. I'm just doing things I love to do. And so that's maybe the biggest honor of it all. And I think, I mean, that's why I want my kids now, they look at me,

Starting point is 00:39:31 they like, oh, my dad does what he loves to do, which maybe I didn't. One earlier in my life. It was just like, make sure I can put, it was very worrisome earlier because like I said,

Starting point is 00:39:42 it wasn't on the best shows. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, people were like, oh, why don't you go do that movie or that way? I'm like,

Starting point is 00:39:47 I didn't have an agent. I couldn't get called. Like I couldn't get those things. And so now I'm in a good place. But I'm like, oh, I'm making it for a lost time. I'm like, there's so many things I want to do in this life. And so it's a bit crammed in. But I'm, I'm, I'm kind of doing everything I love.

Starting point is 00:40:02 Yeah. I wouldn't say I'm taking care of myself the best. But I'm like, that's, something's got to give. I'm like, fuck, that's why I'm this big. Burn this bitch down. Well, if it's not, if those are muscles. Here we go. Yeah, here we go, dude.

Starting point is 00:40:16 Fire up the feely truck, huh? Back them up, dude. Let them in the room. but what about you? I mean, like, you're just blown up. And like in your time, I mean, how does it feel to you? Do you? I think this year I started just recently started thinking to having a little bit more like,

Starting point is 00:40:34 okay, I think everything will be okay. Like I'll be able to eat and have a roof up from my head for the rest of my life. So I have a little bit more semblance of like, okay, what does, um, things look like those around me? What are some other things that I can put my time into? Like I've been touring mostly for probably about 17 years. years for probably half the weeks, you know. And so this year, I don't have any tour dates. And so it's nice to like, be like, oh, what does this look like? Like, I had like two months with no,

Starting point is 00:41:04 three months with no tour dates. And I was like, this is crazy. What is this? So there's still like a lot of podcasting and there's still a ton of work to do with this. But it's not like I have to travel as much. So sometimes for the first time it feels like my spirit even can be in like one place where it can, like, gather its thoughts, you know? I feel like I've just been playing hide and go seek with myself for a long time, just even geographically. So having some more, just, having some more, like, solace and being in one spot is really kind of helped me

Starting point is 00:41:37 just to start to get a look around me. Do you go stir crazy? Because we're such gypsy. We have to, you know, our careers are. A little bit, but sometimes that's a trap for me. I know, but you're like, I'm like, oh, my God. I would love to get some rest. Then you get, like, rest for a solid week.

Starting point is 00:41:50 And you're like, I got to get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I got to get the fuck out of this rest. I was like, my ass hurts. My back hurts. And you're in the rest area along the interstate? You're like, this is insane. Like, do you get that where you're just like, oh, man, I got to get out? Oh, for sure.

Starting point is 00:42:04 But I think sometimes I got to be careful because that's a trap, man. That's just the devil trying to get me back out there. Do you work with that in sobriety? Like, is that, is like a thing? Do you have to, do you a? Yeah, I go to A meetings and I go to that stuff. It's been like, you know, a. been in and out of sobriety for 10 years probably, mostly in. And so that's been good.

Starting point is 00:42:23 So, yeah, I like it just because otherwise, yeah, I just can't, like I'll do too much of the of the cocaine, to be honest, but, you know, I'll do too much of it. And so I just don't want to be, just don't, I don't want to be around it, you know. I'll even walk and just look straight at the ground and see if anybody's dropped it sometimes outside. I'll fucking run right into something. What was that? Not an eight ball. I'll tell you that. I just peeped this whole block. But yeah, man. Dude, I'll tell you this crazy story.

Starting point is 00:42:54 So one time my friend and I, and I didn't even know anything about drugs, my friend and I are going to my apartment. He was staying in town. He was staying in town. He's getting out of the taxi. He dropped a little thing of cocaine in the taxi. When I'm getting out,

Starting point is 00:43:08 I just see it on the thing. I pick it up and put it in my pocket. So he didn't tell me that he had ever done cocaine. And he'd been doing it, but he didn't tell me, right? And I just thought he was kind of itchy or whatever, you know, because it was spring. And so we go in my apartment and he's like,

Starting point is 00:43:22 hey, man, we help me look for something. And I'm like, yeah, what is it? And he like, wouldn't tell me what it was. And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense, but yeah, I'll help you, you know? So me and him are walking around looking for something that I don't know what it is, okay? And then I kept sneaking off and doing the cocaine, right?

Starting point is 00:43:39 So, dude, now at one point, he gave up and went to sleep. I'm walking around my apartment, looking everywhere for something. And it was the drugs I was. doing absolute insanity dude absolute insanity bro so yeah i mean you just people can get lost out there um but yeah dude do you ever read that miles davis you're ever read miles davis's uh biography uh-uh this is this great part where he was up in harlem and you know at the time he's at the peak of his career he had this Lamborghini let's just say it's like bright yellow it snows out

Starting point is 00:44:16 it's snowing outside and he comes up to this spot and he's in harleum Harlem gets out, goes in, and he's coming back out, and he gets back in the car. He's got some drugs. Comes back out, gets in the car, looks down, and he's like, fuck. He, like, drugs are all the coke is all over the floor. And he's fucking freaking out. And then he thinks he can get busted by the cops, so he just gets out, goes back in, hides in his fucking closet, waits it out for a couple hours, sweating it out,

Starting point is 00:44:48 and he's on the drugs. Yeah. comes back out hours later car's still there because they know it's Miles Davis open up the door and all the drugs are gone and he like clicks and he's like it was fucking snow on his shoes

Starting point is 00:45:01 when he got in and like totally lost his mind like he spot he spilled all the fuck I was like that's a good time that was a pro story that's a good time yeah and he didn't drive which is the best part that's the best part good job Miles October 21st 1972 Miles Davis

Starting point is 00:45:19 never mind, wrecked his coke-filled Mayura and broke both of his legs. So he took it for one lap. Jim Glickenhouse was the first person unseen Miles was in the hospital for a long time and didn't play for almost a year. Dang. That don't make you quit doing drugs right there. That'll make you quit smoking, dude.

Starting point is 00:45:37 That's his drowning near the reef right there. Dang. If my, dude, but if my legs were broken, I could still do cocaine, I think. And I hate to say that. And don't say that to your kids. kids. But what's, so now you have children? I've had it, man. Yeah. Did you collect some along the way? Or did I mean that? But did you like, did you have a family that you had planned? Or was it

Starting point is 00:46:01 just kind of like, did you sort of have children? No. Yeah, no. I was, I was married and kids. Oh, nice, man. Was it cool being a father? Like, was that like a scary thing for you? Like, it's actually funny. He's, he's just got into. Oh, yeah, beautiful kids. He just got into acting. He's I mean they've been acting and doing Wolf is his name yeah Oh that's a cool name Nicole Wolf but he's uh He's gonna be in Dune with me

Starting point is 00:46:26 Dune? He's yeah he's Lido Jr. Dang So he auditioned on his own and Got it and He killed him Was he geeked? I mean he those guys grew up watching me

Starting point is 00:46:39 You know he was sitting on Afflick's lap And she's sitting with gal And you know we're doing Justice League They were like six and eight I mean, just as they grew up on set with me. So it's so much of the world. Yeah, I mean, he was in a Batman outfit for at least five years.

Starting point is 00:46:55 Like the kid loves all that and love Dune. And so, yeah, my babies are low as a singer. So she wants to continue in music and the wolf wants to do acting. So I was very, she's such a gnarly business. Yeah. I'm like, I'll be a doctor. Use your brain. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:13 And go pay these nurses, Doc. Actually, it's the hospital. I'm paying them. But yeah, dude, that's got to be interesting if your kid wants to go down that road. But then you'll have a lot of experience too. And you'll be there to help him be supportive in that way. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:27 And he's doing it's young so we can try it out. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Guide them. You have kids? No, I don't have any kids yet. I want to get some kids.

Starting point is 00:47:35 I want to, sorry. I would like to have children. I'm not trying to get some kids. No. I want all kids to be free if they're not. If I don't know them. Oh, my. I don't want to know them. That's my new. That's my rule. If I don't know kids, I don't want to know them.

Starting point is 00:47:52 You know, people like, hey, I want you to shoot my kids. I'm like, fuck no. I don't want to meet your kids, dude. People are perverts, man. You know, these politicians. Anyway, what else were we talking about? You got a special lady you're with right now? No, I don't. That's another thing. You're free bird right now, too. What's that? Your free bird? Free bird, yeah. But I would like to have a, I would like to have a spouse. I would like to have a woman spouse, too. And I would like, I would like, to, yeah, I would like to have that, man. So it'll happen. It's just like, you know, I just got to, I think for one, too, I'd just been going all the time. It was like, I'd be like, I'd be like dating somebody and I'd be out of town for a while and you come back and you're like, oh, shit, I forgot about this. And not in a bad way. It's just like my brain was somewhere else. It's hard for me to focus on

Starting point is 00:48:36 stuff sometimes. So I think I just feel like more of that semblance of like, okay, now this maybe could be more manageable. But I got to change some of my own ways and stuff like that a little bit to and and uh and be more purposeful i think about just like just different prayer and different things like that overall you know so you come from a big family you got brothers sisters yeah i got three siblings and uh one of them is married your your baby i'm the middle one of the middle kids two boys and two girls so we got a good little group yeah um but yeah nobody in my family can swim that good though we're not yeah land people yeah if you need us We'll be on the land, you know?

Starting point is 00:49:18 That's our motto, dude. That's our family motto. I'm going to get a tattooed on my brother's back. When you're in Orleans, look, what kind of sports are you into? Basketball. Dude, is it true that they have the team called the Tall Blacks? Yeah. Is that true?

Starting point is 00:49:32 The basketball team in New Zealand is called the Tall Blacks? That's freaking amazing, dude. We got, yeah, and New Orleans, we have, well, we have some of the players are kind of thick over there, you know? So we got the round Browns over there. That's our team. No offense, Zion Williamson, but his weight does fluctuate. And he's cost our city a lot of money.

Starting point is 00:49:52 But what is this? Yeah, this is, oh, that's New Zealand All Blacks? I don't know. This is a bunch of Ben Simmons. They got maybe one and a half brothers on this team, dude. And this, but hey, that's awesome, though. Good for them. You big basketball fan?

Starting point is 00:50:10 I like college football. It's probably my favorite. Coach football. Who's your team? I'm a Tennessee and an LSU guy. So those are my squads. What about you? I don't do college football that much.

Starting point is 00:50:21 You didn't get into it with your size? I'm sure they were like, get out here. I was hockey. Really? Yeah. You were goalie? Soccer. No, I was center.

Starting point is 00:50:29 Nah. But I love soccer too, man. I was play soccer. But then I was like skateboarder. I mean, like they all want you to get into rest. Yeah, that's weird. That's weird. I have a powerful.

Starting point is 00:50:40 But if you were a surfer, that makes sense. Yeah. No, I just grew up skating. I wasn't always as big. I mean like I was you know but that's what I was doing when I was little and took that into high school but I love skateboarding and then Surprisingly my main love is rock climbing. Yeah, so I travel the world rock climbing and that was kind of my thing and do you ever go rock climbing with Charma Gerrador Leto no no I mean I've seen him out when we've been climbing yeah he loves he does he comes a lot with Honnold Honnold oh Alex Honnold yeah oh cool yeah he climbs a lot with him they do like the L-cap and all kind of

Starting point is 00:51:13 stuff together. He took me to a party here one time. I just remembered in New York and everybody was kind of dressed like they looked like different birds and stuff. It was pretty crazy. Yeah. And there was no air conditioning in the place. It was like fancy. It was bizarre, but it was what you'd expect out of him. Yeah, that's people out on the rock right there. Yeah, rock climbing is pretty amazing, isn't it? I love it. What makes you love it so much? Well, it's something I did when I was little at the first moment, like my mom took me climbing in South Dakota and I just, when I touched a rock and just moved on it. It just felt like I'm probably better at climbing than I am at walking.

Starting point is 00:51:49 My body just feels. It's just something that you connect with that you really enjoy. Yeah. But I love just the fear and the problem solving and like the fear of it all because like we'll do like deep water soloing now and you mayorka and you like climb up and then you fall down in the water. But it's just like the challenge of like I love climbing stuff when I was a kid.

Starting point is 00:52:09 It's like how do you not like I love climbing trees. I love just climbing. So I don't know. I'm a fucking gorilla. I don't know what to say. Yeah. Being in the dirt and I just enjoy taking my kids. My kids do it and it just keeps us out in nature something to do. I guess it'd be like fishing or hunting like for other people, but like being in nature.

Starting point is 00:52:26 Oh, yeah. And going to do adventures and, you know, setting out to do something and accomplishing it. And also the other thing too is I think I'm very, very much. And I'm not diagnosed ADHD, but I'm just, I'm my, there's a lot of things going on. I feel like when I ride motorcycles and I go rock climbing, it's just like you can't do anything else but be there. So that's just like a little bit of my therapy. Your meditation is like that's when everything just gets real clean and clear.

Starting point is 00:52:53 Makes you focus in. Yeah. Yeah. What you get, you know, everyone gets high on that or loves that. You know, I mean,

Starting point is 00:52:59 when you can really mind, body spirit connects and you, oh, yeah. And something that's what you, you know. Oh, when you're zipping down on a freaking motorcycle,

Starting point is 00:53:08 you can't, yeah, it's hard to be like, oh, I got to do that email or whatever. Well, just like everyone, you're in a car,

Starting point is 00:53:12 you're like, doing your makeup, you're eating food, you're talking to someone, but I'm paying attention to shit where you're riding a motorcycle. It's, you're gonna die if you're fucking, if you're out, if you're doing your makeup way around your motorcycle, you're fucked.

Starting point is 00:53:23 Yeah, it's not easy. Unless they come all those self-driving motorcycles, which I read about, that's going to be, I'm like, what are we doing now? Self-driving motorcycles?

Starting point is 00:53:31 Yeah, that's not what we need. No. A lot of organ donors are motorcyclists. And I didn't mean to say that out loud to you, but you knew it. A lot of them are. You know, Oregon dinner? A lot of them are.

Starting point is 00:53:44 Yeah. You keeping them? No, no. Yeah. I don't know if anyone wants them. Fucking pickled. I'm actually waiting for this AI and shit's come around to go like, yo, two new kidneys. Livers and kidneys right here.

Starting point is 00:53:59 Livers and kidneys, dude. That's what I need, bro. Oh, yeah. I want a fresh sack of lungs, boy, them inner tits. Yeah. And then just nail them again. 30 more years. Just bashing these bishes up.

Starting point is 00:54:10 Yeah, dude. Toughing up. Bro. That'd be crazy. You're like, Swap them out. Yeah, like, yeah, I'm 95, but I got a seven-year-old liver. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:54:18 You're just partying on that thing? Just getting hammered drunk on one bud light. Fucking sick. Sleep in somebody's boat or whatever. You know, one thing I wish I had done in the past was invest earlier. I didn't think I knew enough. You know, I didn't think I had the right connections. I didn't think I had the time.

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Starting point is 00:57:15 And when generally there's not a lot of big guys that are good actors and do action. It's kind of a rare thing to have all of them. And I think Dave is a phenomenal actor. And I really wanted to fight him and see. And I was like, dude, I would love to go toe to toe with him. And it's just kind of like, yeah. I respect them. And then when we met, we're very different, but like super, you know, there's no ego.

Starting point is 00:57:47 There's no, like, we're very supportive of each other. We understand the story. Like, it's just a wonderful, when you find an acting partner that you just, you're there for the story instead of, like, your career, a lot of guys, a lot of famous dudes can't bleed or can't get hurt. I'm like, fuck, I die in everything. Like, my kids beg me not to die anymore. I'm like, that's how you fucking eat.

Starting point is 00:58:09 I'm like, you're not going to die again. I'm like, everything. That's how you have your life. So I'm not afraid to do all that kind of stuff and, you know, bleeding. And I think Dave likes to get down and dirty too. So, but he's just a really great guy. The reason why we want to do it again is because it's just a good working relationship. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:32 Yeah. I saw him in Blade Runner. and I just thought he was, he was phenomenal. And it was so subtle. He's very just, like, the opposite of me. I couldn't be subtle if he tried. Like, it's just. I think you did a great job in this movie, man.

Starting point is 00:58:45 Thanks, bud. Yeah. Thank you. I don't know if I even pay attention. I guess it's like if you're not paying attention, if you're not noticing the acting and then it's great, right? Isn't that kind of the usual kind of, isn't that usually kind of the thought?

Starting point is 00:58:58 Yeah. Yeah. If it's not tripping you up, yeah. Do you feel like it's gotten easier to act over time? Like, do you start to just understand it better? Does it become a little bit more like a muscle? What is that like? I just think I'm getting, I'm getting, you know, chances to do it now.

Starting point is 00:59:10 Like, I've never even been in a rom-com. You know, like, my first comedy was last year with Jack Black doing Minecraft. So, like, you know, it's just now finally catching on that I can... Do other stuff? Yeah, I'm not just getting my ass kicked and dying all the time. Yeah, you're not just a bouncer who's freaking going to the salon or whatever. Yeah. I think after, like, Game of Thrones, like, people didn't know what to do it.

Starting point is 00:59:34 So it's like you didn't speak English so it was like what the fuck do you do with drogo or like We're gonna put is that in that rom-com Drogo is I mean he's handsome like Let's let's get that motherfucker. I don't I hope he speaks English like he's French and I mean like what are you gonna So is hilarious that's great um have you ever get to spend any time of Jack I haven't gotten to spend any time with them man so funny It's just the just like the greatest human man. Wow. Like you just would love just being with him.

Starting point is 01:00:06 He's so much fun. Oh, that's great. And it's just like he's that all the time. You go, you know, after work, we go eat together.

Starting point is 01:00:13 Like, I just like people who, they don't, they don't act one way. And then, you know, when it works over, there's someone different.

Starting point is 01:00:20 You know, like, I'm just, I wear my heart of my sleeve. This is exactly who I am. It's what you're going to get. Here we are.

Starting point is 01:00:25 Yeah. Um, do you ever get people that confuse you for people a lot? Because I'll have, I'll let people come up to me sometimes. and they think I'm Tony Cavallero. Do you get people like that sometimes, I think? Or even like this. If you walked in downstairs,

Starting point is 01:00:37 somebody might think you're Joaquin Phoenix downstairs. Because how he did that Letterman, remember? Pull up Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman that time. What? See if we're close or not. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty much it, bro.

Starting point is 01:00:52 There's my twin brother right there, dude. If you were Joaquin Phoenix today this whole time, if you tell me you're walking Phoenix, bro, it's going to get crazy. in here. Oh, wow, huh?

Starting point is 01:01:04 I'm fucking blind. Yeah. Oh, yeah, dude. There's a, yeah. I wear this so I can see. There's a prescription.

Starting point is 01:01:11 Yeah, no, I wear glasses. Dude, I wear glasses. Yeah. Mine are downstairs. My eyes are going bad.

Starting point is 01:01:16 I just can't do contacts. I can't put them in, man, but. I'm not putting a little thing like that in my eye, like a little sight painted.

Starting point is 01:01:22 Would you ever get the little surgery? I don't think I would. I don't want somebody going in my eye. I don't want that. I'm laying there like some pet of,

Starting point is 01:01:31 I don't. I don't think you look like that guy, but do you know who the, uh, the dancing outlaws? That guy that does that, uh, the Tennessee two step guy. Yeah. There he. Oh, that guy. What's his name? Jessica.

Starting point is 01:01:45 You get Jessica White? Bro. Dude, you could totally play Jessica White. You could. You, dude. Not me. Oh, I thought you're saying you look like him. No, man.

Starting point is 01:01:55 Pull up the one who's got no beard. That one in the middle. Dude, that's you for days. What are you talk about. Oh, God. Listen, I said nice things about this guy. No, you don't get Jessica White? This guy is a fucking listening to Methadone all day, which is a band.

Starting point is 01:02:15 But it's only, yeah, I'm joking. Okay, all right, my bad. No, that's okay. Is there any recent, is there a recent interview with Jessica White or do you pass away? He passed away. Damn. You show us in the way he talks, but it's probably because you guys, just because you sound familiar.

Starting point is 01:02:30 Eh. That's him? No, that doesn't look like. He looks like Hunter is Thompson right there. Yeah, that is not. No, that's not. No. Yeah, it's just in general white.

Starting point is 01:02:41 Wow. He's dead now. That's a kid rock. You ever interview Kid Rock? Yeah, he lives in Nashville. That'd be easy then. I see him there all the time. He has his name.

Starting point is 01:02:51 Oh, he does. He's got to be club. Yeah, he has a club. And he has a crazy house there. He built like a replica of the White House up on this hill there. No shit. It's insane. It's insane.

Starting point is 01:03:00 And he collects a lot of cool stuff. Bob is his real name, but he's a super interesting guy. And he's really nice, too. That's his house right there. I think, holy shit. It's crazy, bro. And it's got a lot of kid rock stuff in it. Nobody's a bigger fan of kid rock than kid rock, dude.

Starting point is 01:03:18 And I feel like he, has he built, has he played, he's doing new albums? Oh, yeah, he still does stuff. He has a rock the country. Okay. Pull that up. I think it's called Rock the Country that just came out, a tour, a new tour that just came that Ella Langley's going to be on, Jason Aldeen, Williams, Hank Williams.

Starting point is 01:03:36 There you go, Kid Rock, Jason Aldeem, Blake Shelton, Jellyroll, Creed. Under Sunlight. Dude, I could see you play Scott Stapp in like a biopic, or biopic, whatever they call it. You getting me back at that, Jessica White. Yeah. I deserved it. I apologize.

Starting point is 01:03:52 Dude, you know why I used to love Soundgarden, dude. Of course. Yeah, man. What a legend. And I feel, was that them? But shit, maybe I don't know who they are. These are the eyes of disarray. Is that, no, that's not.

Starting point is 01:04:10 Would you even care? And I'm feeling. Oh, St. Oh, Sto's Pots. Yeah. Dude, Sonno Pots was good, bro. They were. What's the first concert you ever went to?

Starting point is 01:04:23 What the, I was at the Iowa State Fair. What the fuck is his name? He does. Bourbon, one scotch and beer. Jesus Christ. I'm blanking all his name. Trace Atkins, maybe? No.

Starting point is 01:04:33 No. God damn it. It's okay. By the bone. Yeah, George's so good. Yeah, George, Surrogate. Yeah. One bird, one scotch, one beer.

Starting point is 01:04:45 Mm. Iowa State Fair, baby. Dude, how nice is that thing? I was State Fair. Yeah. It's amazing. I haven't been in years. Funnel cake.

Starting point is 01:04:52 Yeah. But I'm not driving across town for some, for a funnel cake. Like, but I guess that one would be the best because you'd have all the animals. You'd have all the crafts. Yeah. and the big rides. I had a good time when I was growing up. Yeah, I guess people did.

Starting point is 01:05:05 I couldn't walk around there now. I'd be fucking screwed. There's no way. Yeah, you'd have to hide you to dress up like something. Those days are over, man. But it's your size. Do you have to disguise yourself

Starting point is 01:05:14 as something unique if you're out in the public? There's no way I'm going to hide. You could hide. I can't hide. I mean, I'm in the flannel in the hat. It's about as hiding as it gets. If you got a special outfit.

Starting point is 01:05:25 I mean, you mean if like go out as like Bobafet or like, like fucking the helmet on? Iron Man? I mean, I could hide if I had a helmet on. Yeah. Yeah. If you were like a football helmet or something. It was I was in Jordan one time. We were shooting Dune and I wanted to see Petra and I got all wrapped up and it was great because I got to walk through there. There's tons of tourists and so I did the whole, you know, full wrap and everything's on. But it was hot and just a little

Starting point is 01:05:56 bit of my triangles are sticking out and we're walking through and this this girl's like a season she goes and i'm like this fucking thing gets me in trouble more than anything man because it is that a is that like a this is a this is basically tapped on and i have one goes on my head it goes right to there and how do people earn do you earn them or how do you get it's like a family crest think about it like that's like the guardian this is the shark and this is for protection those are the you hit the spear it's the mono shark so basically when I'm in the water and we're some snorkeling the shark knows to go to you because you're white and I'm Hawaiian so it's like this is what just lets them know yeah that's fair yeah I got to get something you just can roll with me

Starting point is 01:06:42 I'm like I'll point it somewhere on your back point out the directions that you ever see sharks you're about you're seeing oh I went so much sharks sometime in South Africa we're in a cage have ever seen any big great one of Yeah. Did you see a big gray white? Oh, yeah. One came and got, so there were these two round cages off the boat. And since the edge of the boat's like this, and you have two circles, there's a space in

Starting point is 01:07:03 between the cages right up against the boat, like, because it's two circles. And one of the trucks got stuck right in there, and he was absolutely going ape shit. And then another one came up and put his snout, like, in the cage. And I got to touch the top of it, pat him on the head a little bit, pretty cool. That old Doberman touch I put on him, you know, just. Great whites. Did you like South Africa? Oh, dude, it's the most beautiful place that I'd been.

Starting point is 01:07:28 Yeah. You know, is there a place you've been that really makes you feel like this is really something special? I just got back from Guatemala. I went there with my lady. Oh, nice. She's from Guatemala. That was my first time. So we went to like, we got to go see the pyramids, which is like the largest pyramids in the world.

Starting point is 01:07:41 Bring them up. My father's from Nicaragua. Really? Yeah, which is neighbors to Guatemala, I think. Is it in Central America? Yeah. Ooh, that thing's nice. I'm surprised you don't live in one of those.

Starting point is 01:07:54 Because people think you do, dude. Tikal, the one that's there, yeah, Tikal, the one that's there, right, that one. Pretty spectacular. And the one to the left. Food, culture, just so rich. Wow. How long was y'all's trip for? Antigua.

Starting point is 01:08:08 I went to Antigua. Antigua was just like, I've never seen streets like that. We were there for like two weeks, sorry, two weeks seeing family. Get his parents and the family. Yeah? See if they like me, you know. The fucking gringo's coming in. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:08:23 Yeah. But you weren't the gringo though. I was. To them, huh? Yeah. Wow. Dude, it's good. I got white blood in me.

Starting point is 01:08:30 It's good. Yeah, that's a good point. I see German blood, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Don't bring that. In Irish. Don't bring that honky blood around here, whitey. That's the kind of shit that I hear all the time.

Starting point is 01:08:40 But they love me. They love me. Yeah, I got two thumbs up. Did you get a written review or how did it? Like on the plane ride home she read? I could see it in their eyes. Yeah. And I could, I could feel the temperature.

Starting point is 01:08:53 The anties were. cool with it. The nieces and nephews love me. The dad's amazing. I mean, I love her dad. He went to go see him play. He's a musician? He's probably one of the biggest Latin. He maybe, no, he's definitely one of the biggest Latin musicians of all time. Really? Yeah, Ricardo Arjona. Let's bring up a picture of this man. He's actually, he's got, his father, this might be your father-in-law. Yeah, he's, uh, he's doing, um, time, time, time square, two nights in a row. Ricardo, uh, Ricardo Honoha, yeah. Seca is the new, his new tour. Secaal?

Starting point is 01:09:27 Yeah. He's skinny. Ooh, Ricardo Alona. Yeah. God, I want to be something like that. He kind of looks like my old brother, right? You and him? A little bit, right?

Starting point is 01:09:38 Oh, yeah. You can see it. That's what's up. If I were Latin. Yeah. But I'm not in Hawaiian. And he's probably the biggest Guatemalan in history. He's very tall?

Starting point is 01:09:49 Six, five. No way. You can't even tell from this photo. I know. They should say that on the poster. First of all, they should have a poster says, hey, come see a 6-5 Guatemalan. And he's, bro, he's...

Starting point is 01:10:00 Dude, I'd pay 40 bucks to go over and see that. He's got two nights in a row at New York Times Square. I think he'll be playing Nashville too, bro. Really? Yeah. Dude, if he is, I'm gonna, I'll make sure to go and watch. Yeah, but he'd be ready on a show too. I'll take a Latin, I'll take a Spanish girl out there on a date.

Starting point is 01:10:18 You definitely gonna meet some Spanish nurses. That's a place to go. Yeah. How do you say nurse in Spanish? Bring that up for me, fellas. Infermera? Ooh, see. Infermera.

Starting point is 01:10:33 Infermara. Infermara. That's what I'm going to say. That's where it's at for you. Yeah. They take care of you, love you. That's what I'm saying, dude. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 01:10:40 Yeah. Yeah, there were ages when I was like, yeah, I'm going to get, oh, I want to find a, like a model or something. And now it's like, and I'm getting older. I'll take a nurse. You've had all the models. You know what I'm saying? I don't know about that.

Starting point is 01:10:51 But I just. of like, yeah, I'll just, you got to think ahead, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if models are going to take care of you, but nurse take care of you. Dude, no, a model's not going to take care of you, dude. And she's not going to feed you anything because she doesn't eat anything.

Starting point is 01:11:06 What do you do, just both sit there and suck on an empty bottle together? And she's lazy anyway, probably. Anyway, sorry. What about this guitar, dude? I saw you brought this in. Well, yeah, because we were both tired. I was going to take a little nap because I didn't want to suck on your show.

Starting point is 01:11:23 I appreciate that, man. Yes. I'm probably like a solid six right now. I'm normally a tan. But we had the premiere before I came to Theo Vaughn, which was a big accident. So anyways, I was downstairs,

Starting point is 01:11:34 Chelsea guitars. I found this at 59. It kind of went, like got a little bit of that watermelon color to it. Yeah, it's beautiful. Because it's usually cherry, right?

Starting point is 01:11:42 Yeah. And then it just fades because of that paint that used back then. But it doesn't have the original pot, so it was kind of cheap. And then, you know, I'll put some,

Starting point is 01:11:50 put some new pickups in it. And it'll be a little, back to new. Are you a collector of guitars? I am, I'm a big fan. I got a band. We're going to go play Dubai here on the 28th. And look, too.

Starting point is 01:12:03 I forgot to show you. Yeah. I was in Dubai. I was in Qatar, actually. Signed by Chuck Barry. Yeah, they have all the guitar sign on there. Chuck Barry. That was just up on the...

Starting point is 01:12:17 That's signed by Chuck Barry, dude? Oh, that's him. See, there's a guitar. Johnny Be Good. There you go. I used to carry his guitar in her, say. between the tree by the railroad track. I loved him, dude.

Starting point is 01:12:29 We used to listen to his tape all the time. I had his cassette tape when I was young. Actually, it might be a good idea. My son loves Chuck Berry. I might do him right. When he turns 18, maybe I'll give him this guitar. Just let him play it. You keep it.

Starting point is 01:12:46 You know, he just booked a role in a movie next year. Like, he's doing fine, okay? He can get his own. My love language is presence. He can get his own stuff now. Are you? I am here. Oh, that's pretty cool.

Starting point is 01:12:56 Yeah. Oh, I heard that you were working with a water company. Is that true? Yeah, I started this company called Mononalu. Mononalu? Mononalo. Started eight years ago. I was on a flight and, you know, you're flying over the, on the plane, and you see a Coca-Cola

Starting point is 01:13:14 an aluminum can. You got beer in aluminum can. You got sparkling water aluminum can, and they give you those little shitty, Desani water bottles with a cap, you know, the label. and then there's like three different types of plastic on it that we can't recycle. It goes into our land. It goes into our landfills. And I'm a father.

Starting point is 01:13:30 I don't want to see plastic. We don't need single use plastic. Generally, I carry my own water bottle. When I go to the airport, you fill it up. Eight years ago, they didn't even make,

Starting point is 01:13:39 they didn't even have aluminum for water. So I went to Ball, people who make those cans. And I went to the aluminum company. I said, I'm going to make a water bottle with you. A water without aluminum cans are like, we're not a you're not a we're not a um this is it a water company as it well you are now I'm awful man let's do this so we we set out to do it and then we ended up making the first

Starting point is 01:14:07 like screw can it went back on and uh so we made monono and then it changed well now it's got we put our movie on there oh great put the labels on there but see how it's got mona no prayer on the top and so once we kind of stopped single you use plastic and now, because at the time I went to Desani and I went to the blue and the red guy, Coke and Pepsi. And I was like, would you do this? Would you make the aluminum? They're like, it doesn't make sense to us because it's easier to do plastic.

Starting point is 01:14:34 But anything that's in plastic is just leaching in there. It's just poison, man. You don't want to be drinking out of plastic bottles, man. Yeah, that's what I think about a lot of times, especially now with people talking about all the bad stuff that's in our food and our water. It's become such like a, you know, such a talking point right now. It's inner. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:14:50 I thought a lot about how do you find water that isn't? because most of the water is in plastic. Yeah. And even if you look up, like, what's the best water that doesn't have plastics in it? You know, they won't even really tell you. It's all these, like, kind of gimmick videos

Starting point is 01:15:01 that lead you to buy certain things, usually to buy water purifiers and stuff. Yeah. But, I mean, the idea is just to go, so now we kind of change it. Now that they are making those, we made a circular system. So we're now on an hollow powered by boomerang.

Starting point is 01:15:14 And it's actually, it's pretty cool, man. Like, the idea is to be in, starting with Hawaii, mainly is to be like in hospitality. So you're in hotels, hospitals, schools, where you imagine just go into your room and you got a crate like a milk crate and there's all your water in there

Starting point is 01:15:31 and you drink it and you put it back. And then down in the basement there's a machine. It's a circular system. It sterilizes it. It fills it with your natural local water source and put some minerals back into it and cleans it and makes it. So it's fresh water. It's not packaged up. It's, there's no emissions. It's not sitting in some crate and some warehouse stagnant dead water. It's fresh water always. And if there was a COVID or anything of that,

Starting point is 01:15:57 each hotel would still operate. The water still operates, right? So you can still have fresh water. And it's just bottled up. Think of it as like you're going to a restaurant, you eat with their plates and their fork and you're done. You leave. You come back. You're not going to take shit home. It's just a container for it. And so it's constantly reusable and recyclable. So you're cutting out waste. Now the idea is just to cut waste. So because even, when you're having the aluminum bottles, you still gotta recycle those. And so it's just the idea is just to either,

Starting point is 01:16:25 if you're not carrying your own stuff, it's pretty cool that you can go to a hotel and you know that it's, it's, there's no, not only are you not doing waste, it's getting recycled. So it's a full circular system. That's incredible man. Just to kind of get rid of the single, I mean, just to call that shit down

Starting point is 01:16:38 because it's just absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, when you think about it. Like the idea of like taking shitty water, putting it in plastic bottles, shipping it to a place like Hawaii, which has the best water in the world. We drink it and then the shit ends up in our ocean. or a landfill. So it's the dumbest thing in the world.

Starting point is 01:16:54 I'm going to try to do that in Hawaii first. So, I mean, obviously, we're self-contained, playing island earth. We didn't need anyone. We can self-contained it one time. So if we can just do that with all our tourism, and people come from all over the world, getting married, and they get to see what they're doing.

Starting point is 01:17:08 And each hotel, so we have four, see, all different hotels, four seasons, and twin, fin, all these different places where it'll have their, it'll have their label on it. So it's still all there. So their advertising is for them. It's just we're trying to stop the waste. Yeah, I love that.

Starting point is 01:17:23 Yeah, dude, when I even think about just how many bottles, I, like, I probably drink seven bottles of water a day. So that's seven empty bottles. It's like, that's just me. That's ridiculous. Oh, bro, it's just, it's the most archaic thing that we're drinking out of plastic bottles. But I mean, so we're doing it in a business side. And eventually we'll try to get it where, you know, we'll have depots for it.

Starting point is 01:17:42 But, I mean, the idea is to get people doing. Because in every school, kids can be doing this. I like the idea, too, that you can have your thing at home that you could just, that would then be able to refill it. I think that's pretty novel. Yeah. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, it's monololo powered by boomerang.

Starting point is 01:17:56 You can check it out. And that's the goal is to, you know, just another thing to try to fix in a very broken world. And we don't need that pollution in our oceans. Aquaman, you heard it. You heard it, man. Have you ever been a lifeguard or not? Yeah, that's why my whole family are Waterman.

Starting point is 01:18:12 Yeah, they're all lifeguards, yeah. I went to junior lifeguards my whole life when I was growing up. Dang, that's like, I wish I could be a lifeguard. It's pretty cool when you save someone's life. I saved a person's life before. You did? In the ocean, yeah.

Starting point is 01:18:25 And it's, it's, when you do, do your life cards, it's really cool to really take your time, things slow down. I'm sure it's probably like a firefighter. Like, I'd panic in a fire,

Starting point is 01:18:33 but I think if I saw so many of them, I practice, you know, most people go, oh shit, and then they, they freak out, whereas the natural calm

Starting point is 01:18:40 kind of comes over you and you just like assess the whole situation so you can both get out of alive. You understand the rip, you understand what the ocean's doing. And you get to save, somebody? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. But I mean, it's just the right. I'm like I said, I've been many times like drowned. I mean, it can you cut you get caught a rip. Yes.

Starting point is 01:18:59 You it's taking you out. You're not going to beat the ocean. And you can literally be. I mean, I've been at pipeline, a leaf snapped and I'm literally eight feet from the shore. But it's like a river going by and you're swimming trying to get in like it's eight feet and you're just getting burn out. Yeah. And you're like, there are cameras everywhere. There are people right there.

Starting point is 01:19:19 I could yell for help. And I look like a idiot. I'm going to drown in eight feet of water. Yeah. And the current's so, it's just, the undertow is just pulling your feet out and it's going to exhaust you. And it generally is got to go with it.

Starting point is 01:19:31 It's going to take you out to see and it'll dump you back in. But everyone drowns like that. It's just you got to watch out for the rips. They'll go jumping into the fucking ocean. And then if you see a sign, don't go in. That's why, I mean,

Starting point is 01:19:44 don't be stupid. You're like the yogi bear. of the ocean kind of. Remember him? Oh, I do. You put out those fires, kids. Yeah, dude, put them out. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 01:19:53 I know. He was so adamant. He was talking to the other day. I built a fire and I was like, everything's green around here. What Yogi was? Yeah, in my head because you guys were psychos. But I was like, listen, I could dump out.

Starting point is 01:20:04 Oh, Smokey the Bear, dude. Sorry. Who did I say? Yogi Bear. Yogi Bear. Picking bastards. Oh, dude. He's starting the fires then.

Starting point is 01:20:15 God, he's probably on Suboxone or whatever by now. Oh, yeah, he's not doing well. I think he was a stepdad too. You can tell by his outfit. You can tell by that outfit. He was definitely trying to meet a lady that already had kids probably too. Not like the Bernstein bear where he was locked in. Yeah, he was just a dumb dad.

Starting point is 01:20:37 That guy was a family man. He was, he was. Yeah, Bernstein was a family. I love me some Bernstein. God, they were good. Especially like the fall issue is always like it was got snuggled. down when I read those ones. And the skit,

Starting point is 01:20:47 remember there was that one scary book of one of them, there was a fire, and people were like, no, no fires in the Berenstain bears and people flipped out and shit. Oh, really? Yeah, dude,

Starting point is 01:20:57 people just cannot handle real shit. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Was there ever, was there a time in a movie where you were training for something? It was like one of the toughest things you ever had to actually train for, or does it never go that far with training?

Starting point is 01:21:10 Yeah, I mean, trained for, trained for Aquaman was pretty was pretty challenging I'd have to say maybe the yeah I'd say probably Aquaman's probably the hardest I've ever had to train I'm not a very like I'm not like a gym rat

Starting point is 01:21:32 I just like to do things or climbing you know go surfing and things like that but actually like get you do that for a role I don't necessarily like You're not in there getting pumped every day like a maniac or taking so arms or whatever I just want to do the things I love to do Yeah yeah but I'm yeah

Starting point is 01:21:46 You know like some subs monkey that's over their G and C every day or something. Supplements guy. Yeah, I don't even do like chatein, all that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like to eat food. Damn. I like to eat.

Starting point is 01:21:57 Yeah. Hawaiian. Dude, yeah, you got to get fat when you get older. Yeah, I'm definitely going that way. Hell yeah. I can't wait to get fat. I'm trying not to, baby, but. As soon as I get married, I'm getting fat.

Starting point is 01:22:09 And then I'm getting divorced, too. I can't wait to get divorced. What else? So people should go see the wrecking crew. It's a great film. It's fun. It's... Yeah, it's good. Actually, it's feel good. You get to go to Hawaii. You know, if you can't make it there, put on the wrecking crew. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:27 Let me and Dave take care of you. Yeah. Work out some trauma in your family. Open up a can of dull pineapple for your lady and put on the wrecking crew. Yeah. It's almost the same thing. Some shaved coconut. Yeah. You know what I mean? Some mounds. Oh, dude. Bust out a couple of those.

Starting point is 01:22:43 My dad used to give us mounds sometimes when we're good. Not a lot, then, huh? Not a lot. Not a lot of mounds. Yeah, dude, thanks so much for taking time. I know you had a long day, man. I know it's like kind of a pain in the ass. It's not, man.

Starting point is 01:23:00 I don't do podcasts that much because I was getting trouble. So you're my second and it was wonderful. And dude, I'm just, it's awesome to meet you, man. Yeah, it's a pleasure, man. Thanks for all the awesome entertainment. And, yeah, thanks for just sitting and sharing some of your experiences and story with me. You know, there's one thing, too. You know, the thing that you have with, oh, my goodness.

Starting point is 01:23:19 David Spade. Mm-hmm. When we were at the 50s, SNL. He was there. Yeah. So I saw him when we were there. My daughter is like a massive, massive fan of Brooklyn Nine-N-N-N-N-N-Sah. So Andy Sandberg's like her.

Starting point is 01:23:32 Dude, she loves the most. So I saw him about the last person I'm leaving. I see him and I go, dude, my daughter loves you. Can I please get a picture with you? And I send the video to my daughter. And I say, hey, listen, if there's anything, I'd love to do something with you. About three weeks later, he pitches. this story in Hawaii.

Starting point is 01:23:50 It's amazing. I left my ass off. We instantly sell it. I'm going in two weeks to go shoot it in Hawaii. No way. With David's Faye? It's a fucking year later. No, with Sandberg.

Starting point is 01:24:00 But I'm just saying it's the same thing where you've just like minded friends. Oh, what you were saying? Yeah, just friends and buddies meet in the comedy. Like, I've never met him before. It's just through my daughter, but you see something and you're like, dude. And you make a friend. But like I'm saying, you got anything in there and you want to, you know, you see me.

Starting point is 01:24:15 You see you like, oh, dude, Momoa would be that. Oh, my got you. I'm going to think it's something good. It's just be fun to be in it. You know what I'm going to think of something good. You're Paul Bunyan. I can be the Blue Ox, bro. You could be Paul Bunyan.

Starting point is 01:24:28 I don't know. Babe. Yeah, you'll be Babe the Blue Ox then. And we've got to find somebody to be Paul Bunyan. I'm going to be the brother that's on methadone. But we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, homie. Jason Moe.

Starting point is 01:24:40 Thanks so much, man. Thanks for having to you. Thanks for everyone. Guys.

This Past Weekend - #636 - Jason Momoa

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