#622 - Miles Teller

32:06And we figured it out. and I know that as a couple that really is going to just make us stronger 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 way and then she told me stop bright siding me I said what the fuck is bright siding she goes it's this term I'm learning on Instagram it's or TikTok she's like bright siding is when you're telling somebody this thing 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 talking 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 I don't care 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 but yeah no but it's valid this director I worked with his house burnt down and he felt like it was and we know You shouldn't have attachment to things.

33:07That doesn't really fill you up as much as relationships do and this and that. But the things I'm talking about, even though they're considered material, it was just – It was a home. Yeah, that's true. That's the other field of just not having a – whatever home means to you, like a place where you go back, it's yours. We've been getting kicked out of rentals. They tell you we have it for three months. They're like, ah, now somebody else is coming in. So that just kind of thing. Damn. But yeah. Man. Yeah, it's all good. well thanks for entertaining some of those questions yeah i didn't and maybe you've talked about that ad nauseum man and yeah and i'm sorry if you have i just didn't uh i didn't really think about that um i watched your movie dude yeah what'd you think i watched it last night man i thought it was really 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 yeah that there's not even things that are you're 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.

34:08That'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 is called Eternity. Right. 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 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 the rules are you get to live eternally. You pick an eternity.

34:44But once you pick, you're in that forever. And so the eternities have different themes. There's like capitalism world or like smoking world. Yeah, Marilyn Manson world. Yeah, Marilyn Manson world. chocolate world yeah you can get down with you know what yeah whatever somebody was like i want to eternity where it's like uh 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 uh that's a night at carbone yeah yeah yeah yeah oh carbone is so good carbone is oh my god um yeah yeah i thought it was just beautifully shot i just thought it was really just a really original script you know what i mean And it's like.

35:26It'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. Shit. 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 say if I do pass away, well, debatable. Yeah. But it was great because your character's wife. Elizabeth Olsen. Elizabeth Olsen, 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 and for her right and you who are at the kind of like at the grand central station now you guys are 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 right for her uh are we giving away too much of you think no that's that's in i think that's like in the trailer yeah it's all like in the first 10 minutes yeah um but it's kind of fascinating because then she shows up and now you two are kind of vying for her affections.

36:24And 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? And it's just... And there was like, some people were telling me, you know, it's like, oh man, that's my nightmare. You know, people that have been, you know, had, you know, been widowed and moved on this and that. But look, I think it – but it does. It really makes you think about, yeah, your own life and what's beyond family and – Well, and how long love lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that was part of it.

37:01Like I remember when I've done – and this is a little bit of a weird sidebar, but like when I've done like DMT, it's like the only feeling that you're left with is that the only important feeling is it feels like you're leaving. Oh, yeah. The existence is that love was the most important thing and that everything else was just a complete fool's errand. Yeah. And also that – well, because what you're talking about, but you get this feeling that your consciousness, which is who we are, is really – this really is just kind of this vessel, this physical form. Totally. But who you are exists whenever you've been in a situation where you feel like you've left your body, but you still think like yourself.

37:54You still feel like yourself, and that kind of remains intact. 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. That's what certain experiences have made me feel like. And that consciousness is still able to evaluate that love is so important. That's one thing that I thought about. No, but also I've thought about that too. I'm like, I think the most important thing in life for me really is, you know, it's like relationships. 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.

38:36If you die. Yeah, if I die. too because we have a new package for you right sure i can't wait um give me that longevity you know whatever it is we got a new peptide for you perfect dude um you know kelly will show me like one thing somebody talking about some product i'm like yeah sure sounds good was it bee pollen sperm like yeah 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 i'm not gonna be thinking about how this you know that that bronco or that movie or that i'm gonna be like man i'm gonna be thinking about you know my wife my you know my buddies, my, you know, my family, my, um, my relationship with whatever higher being I have.

39:15And I think that's kind of the, and that's what I get the most, um, like the return from, um, what you put into relationships. That's what, that's what you're going to get back. I just think that's, 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. Cause I'd been kind of touring pretty heavily for like four or five years yeah and maybe really for probably 15 years and uh 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 date you know not be like yeah 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 or know that you're going to be able to keep the relationship going stuff like that is um 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 monday whatever um yeah that's never enjoyable it doesn't feel real it doesn't feel like 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 if it's the right thing but other than that uh it's 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 uh 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 i thought it was interesting how in the movie oh who is the um so you get to like the grand central station right like the 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 we're 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 there's some people that love you know you guys love the same shit right so you can yeah And you get to go there and you're going to meet other people that love Willie Nelson.

41:35And 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. Thank God. Divine Joy Randolph, who won the supporting actress Oscar for the Holdovers. And then John Early, who is a I'm sure some people watching this 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 or a couple of shows to John. he's impressive man bro they were killing me dude some of the looks he was giving yeah i know he's pretty sassy in this movie which i love it was hilarious yeah i gotta touch base with this guy yeah i gotta watch more of his stuff um but yeah dude that was great and then how uh yeah it was just like man she'd had this love that had died in the war you know and it was like Like, oh, and she'd waited, and then she'd met you.

42:33And, yeah, it was just like – and then, like, there was this moment where you realized that, yeah, I don't want to give any more away. But it was also harrowing to think of, like, how many widows were – how many women were widowed by war, you know? Oh, yeah, right. Like, how often did that happen? Pull that up, actually. Can you see how many women were widowed by – Yeah, I forget what they said the average lifespan was when they stormed Normandy, but they were getting mowed down. Wow, it says for World War I alone, approximately 3 to 4 million women were widowed due to the roughly 9.7 million military deaths.

43:11Wow, wow. Other conflicts show varied figures. Yeah, because also women were married pretty young. Do you like touring? yeah you almost get addicted to it though in some ways yeah because it's it's a great time it's fun people you want to go see people that want to pay attention you know yeah yeah and i like i would start going to smaller markets like we did like 250 something markets over the past four years with this tour um and it was uh yeah it's great but then you start it does like it starts to become a lot it like it just it just it just it just was a lot i imagine you're like um yeah of course you want to you know that's you want to see everybody you make everybody happy yeah and that's it's like whenever i go somewhere and uh you know if there's some event 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 to like to see them and so the fans are a product of that it's like yeah i love i love doing that stuff you just feel like yeah of course we're in the entertainment industry yeah you know what i mean it doesn't exist in a vacuum like 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 i mean we've done like so many markets and 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 will just go pop out and meet people.

44:42So, 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 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 sometimes it's like just like kind of creating a connection you know um yeah show me that chart again man thank you for asking though man yeah yeah of course um the civil war had 620 ,000 to 750 ,000 military deaths high widowhood uh let me see world war one estimated around 325 ,000 widows world war ii around 405 ,000 widows korean war and that was the war that um your co-actor died in in this movie yes around 36 000 widows but yeah 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 oh so i think that was one thing that was neat about um eternity to me was like there's this fun like thing going on where you guys 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 to 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 does 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 um you know but nothing ever becomes like slapstick it's not it's not a movie we're just trying to get in as many one-liners as we can i think it's it always kind of um it's just a delicate balance between having that sincerity and the love and but also i think i do think it's really funny yeah 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 are kind of coupling off and just talking.

46:59It just makes you think. I think it's a beautiful, a beautiful film. Um, one of my favorite parts too, 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, Oh, 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 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 um i didn't realize that the um uh elizabeth olsen yeah i didn't realize that she was related to mary kate nashley olsen yeah yeah i had no idea i know a pretty dynamic family yeah yeah that's wild did Did you get to meet them?

47:55Did they come by the set? They did not. No, they did not. That's so crazy. Because they had a childhood start on lives. That had to be so odd. Yeah. I know. It tends to, I mean, and they've become very successful, you know, in the design space. Outside of it, yeah. Absolutely. I think it's tough. Oh. It'd be a nightmare. Do you feel like it affected you? I don't know, dude. If I was at, 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?

48:27I think for me, things happened kind of at the pace that that lined up with my own kind of maturity or life experiences. Because, you know, it's like I went to went to college for four years and 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 Footloose came out and Project X and that kind of thing and I 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 I never had to worry about my parents or somebody taking money from me you know which happens a lot it's really unfortunate that's really a shame to lose trust that young from loved one.

49:21I think that's going to fuck you up for the rest of your life. 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 LA, a bunch of my boys from high school all moved out. So I didn't, I didn't like need anything from LA. I was, I didn't come to LA to like find myself. I'm like, no, I know who I am. And me, you know, me and my buddies get a house or whatever in the Valley. And yeah, I always had like familiar faces around me. Oh, that's so nice. even my agent, I met her on my first movie.

49:52She's been the same ever since. Like that shit to me hasn't, 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. Dang. Yeah. That's dope. Dude, were they acting too? The one, the one moved out. We played a band together in high school. I think he was trying to do something maybe music wise. But no. Yeah. 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 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?

50:44Like SWAT team? No, like students working against tobacco. Yeah. You don't remember SWAT? It was like D.A.R.E. and like SWAT. No, dude. Bro, we had a D.A.R.E. officer named Mr. Bob and R.I.P. He passed away. Everybody knew who he was. But he would like pull up and he was a humongous man. And this is back when if a man was very big hit. What does D.A.R.E. 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? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are some of the meme dead ones? I don't even know if I know any of them.

51:23No, I just remember in high school, people would say, like, drugs are really expensive. Oh, yeah. You know, or. Yeah. Well, especially in Florida, if you got some good drugs. But, dude, SWATs. So what happened with the officer? It was students working against tobacco? Yeah. What do you mean? Yeah. working against tobacco. Yeah, there it is, dude. SWAT was big. SWAT was big time. Surprise. Bro, that's sketch on the right. Zoom in, dude. That's sketch on the right, dude. What the fuck is he doing there? Yeah, see, Inventor's 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.

52:04Bro, that is sketch. I can't even believe you guys. He was locked in with that shit. 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've never heard that in my life i do funny i've never heard of it yeah okay i do remember yeah try on perplexity see what they got pull up some of the 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 drop everything and run uh yeah those are yeah but it was a lot of it was like people screaming i won't do drugs or whatever um 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 he 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 and like um oh and then they would hide a sack of weed in some kid's bag 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 so just okay because it was like yeah we put weed on one of the kids 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 high school too Florida and every teacher's coach every 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's like the debate team or something and you still he was still coach oh dude yeah they would just pick like what whoever the lesbian teacher was at our school was also had to be the drama a teacher for some reason like that was ours for a minute our softball coach lesbian ended up a couple years after i graduated um she was having a relationship with like a sophomore oh yeah um yeah yeah it's unfortunate and that's florida that's that's i don't know what that is but that's a lot of the time today it's florida it's florida and that's softball yeah i don't know if is or not but but yeah i mean there's a lot of inner have you ever been down to key west though key west like my happy place is it like yeah just killer live some of the best i think best live music countries like they're austin obviously like in nashville um yeah austin or key west man just killer music you just either you're walking around uh the whole time or you know if we go to big group everyone's just on these like little scooters every bar looks like it just went through hurricane.

54:46Yeah. I gotta go down there. It's so fun, dude. I always hear, Nick Swartzen loves it down there. Oh, yeah. He lived down there for, he was just supposed to go for like a couple weeks or something and stayed at this hotel for something for like months. Yeah, he spent like almost a million. Spent 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 that moisture still for like a quarter during happy hour. Oh, dude. I don't know how you fucking spend a million bucks actually. He needs to write a book. how to spend a million bucks in Key West oh my god dude he's a fucking John Daly of Key West yeah um what was I gonna fucking talk about oh dude oh oh I feel like somebody's been blowing weed smoking here right now John Daly baby but um SWAT yeah um this students working against tobacco field yes yeah Because if they're not doing it, tobacco's just running rampant.

55:49It's like an Agatha Christie novel. They're still rocking and rolling. 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-glamorize tobacco. Wow, dude. Well, that makes, I thought it was like a national program. But I guess we never did go on field trips. Yeah, this is it. No, this was an experimental program down there in the fucking south. Dude, there's 4 ,300. 80 % of high schoolers vape now. Oh, yeah. There's 4 ,300 active youth, though, in the SWAT youth in the state of Florida. And so shout out to them.

56:35We had this thing. So we had to build a float one time. It was for the homecoming parade. Yeah. 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 he was gonna um 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 will keep a hole in the top of the tree some of it will leak out so we're pushing this down the street and everybody will uh well and nobody will know but there'll be just you'll be in there to super high and it's all like you know oh you're saying not okay so i was thinking like you cut a hole out of the trunk so it's like his face and just like roasting blunts or something but you're saying just a little hole just so he could breathe but he was hot boxing this tree well we forgot about a breathing hole we just thought put him in the tree like in the trunk of the tree the trunk is fully built around him okay it's like this whole paper mache and wire setup that's going to be on a float and then there's this big kind of bulb on top of him, almost like a very small water tower would be kind of look.

57:42And that is all adorned with green paper mache and everything. That's a big tree. And we'll put a hole on top of that. So Patrick, you just stand in there and keep smoking once and some of the smoke will leak out the top. It'll be awesome. We'll love it. And you'll be very fucking high. He was so fucking high, dude. It's like a two-hour parade. And you couldn't see any of the smoke coming out. It was just him smoking countless black and mild blunts in this tree. And then we got him there, dude. 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.

58:17It was the most high person that we'd ever seen in our area.

58:23It was fun. That dude 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 like, how long did you guys, how long did you guys, uh, Patrick, it's going to be awesome, dude. He's going to sit there and smoke as much as he wants, you know? And sometimes you would have to, for the first like two blocks, you could hear him 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 day, they couldn't hear anything.

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1:02:17Our listeners get 10 % off their first month at betterhelp.com slash theo. That's betterhelp.com slash theo. video um on when you're shooting a movie like that like at this point when you go into a film um like are there things you want to have on set that make your day easier and then uh what's that shoot schedule like like on a day-to-day basis for somebody kind of at your level like do you still have to shoot every single scene do they shoot around some stuff like what is it what's the reality of that yeah i mean i think i've been fortunate enough to um work on some you know some great projects with some great 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 gotta maybe for the shot or whatever the the eye line's tight they want you to work with just like a you know an x on the thing and some 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 end of the day i don't really i don't really give a shit man i'm pretty low maintenance it's just like whatever whatever we need to do to make the best movie possible um you know i'm i'm in i'm fully in Anything you need from me, I'm here.

1:03:51And also I think I approach film or just acting in general. Like, I mean, I grew up loving, you know, I played sports. And every sport, you know, it was 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's how it has to happen. So I enjoy that camaraderie. I enjoy that teamwork. As I've moved up in my career, I take it upon myself to really like lead from the front. You know, if I'm number one on the call sheet, 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. 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 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 Yeah it is so much fun Even like being on a Because the fact that something gets created Really out of nothing right Words get created and put onto a page And then you want to make sure there's enough I think writing is probably the hardest Just out of all of the disciplines, I can't imagine just staring at a blank page, you know, page one, scene one.

1:05:08You don't start thinking about, you don't do that stuff? What, write? Will you write a script or no? No, I think I'm better at when, you know, if writers 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 100%. I think most actors through improvisation or through talking with the writer absolutely inform the material to a good amount. Some scripts you don't really need to touch at 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 now this.

1:05:50But also 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, you know, inspiration from, you know, the people around them. I think 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 and that I don't feel comfortable to kind of speak up about. I don't like closed-minded people. closed-minded people to me that's when I I guess I don't like 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 yeah yeah it's kind of crazy dude um 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 an eternity.

1:06:53So she chooses one of the men, but then they can, 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, it's just nice to see that if, if that happened, like if we pass away, which you are a believer of, um, that, that we get to go through almost like this zoo where there's different exhibits of scenes from your life that. Your memory. Yeah. Your memories. you know I think people that term like core memories now is something that's kind of become in vogue 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 how about that Louvre that's it bro that wasn't a movie that's the freaking news dude but that is wild I mean how the Louvre jewelry heist unfolded on the south side The heist took a matter of minutes.

1:07:53Bridge crane. Here's how it happened. At 9.30 on Sunday, four individuals arrived on scooters in a truck that had a mechanical ladder 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, I have alarms on my windows if something opens. Versed inside the Apollo gallery that houses all of the Louvre's special royal jewels and used their saws to break into two of those cases. In the meantime, we've been told that the security guards really quickly brought people out of that room. This very wing of the Louvre also contains the Mona Lisa, So it's the most sort of precious things in France are there.

1:08:42But only 75 % of the rooms have security cameras in them. Four minutes later, they emerge 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... You just think like more security. It's like what you and I would decide. Two guys would decide like, hey, let's go get the Louvre. Let's steal that crown. Yeah. Oh, my wife is upset. 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.

1:09:24Give us nine minutes. No, but also it's like, so what do they sell this? like do they take it apart and sell it on the black market do they just need to hold on to it until you know like after generation generation and then try and and then say get rid of it 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 no i think it's yeah i mean it certainly gives um you know truth to these these these heist movies and stuff you're like i know 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 this glass nobody's like because obviously it was full of people hey quiet down yeah no that's incredible to me hey quiet down I can't hear the guided tour over here dude that's crazy bro and the Mona Lisa dude Mo Lisa, that looks more like a dude, I think.

1:10:28But, uh... Yeah, that was stolen. It was stolen? At one point. Not in this, but I think back in the... Was it 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. 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... Yeah, 1911. Yes, the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. From the Louvre. The Louvre needs to button up, dude. The Louvre is like, what are you guys doing? No wonder you keep getting robbed. It's like obviously not that hard.

1:11:04Dude, it's a fucking halfway house for art, dude. They got to figure this shit out, dude. He disguised. Got a ring camera, my guy. Like, what are you doing? He disguised himself. He disguised himself as a museum employee, hid overnight inside the museum. That's the move. And took the painting the next morning 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 you can't tell anybody about it you know what I mean you can't put it on display I really don't know how you move this stuff and you get high and definitely tell somebody oh for sure that's usually how they end up catching criminals on that most wanted list Like they slip up, they tell somebody something.

1:11:56Bro, I'm so high right now. Don't tell anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I murdered a couple people. Oh, yeah, great. Yo, wild. Yeah. Remember that shit I told you last night? I was just, man, we were fucked up. Yeah, we were fucked up. You said you murdered someone. I said I did. Like, yeah. We were both just joking. It was a goof. Yeah, that was a goof. what uh you've had so many interesting experiences 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 i flew it was this i had 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 um but yeah I mean, I flew, I had to audition for it.

1:12:49I think there was, they were down to like a couple of guys flew and, you know, did a 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. I have like obviously an immense amount of respect for the guy, but he's, 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 for his career is gonna be very hard to to touch but yeah he's 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 filming he's like all right we're gonna meet we're gonna 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 you met we're there to meet about it's like ah well it's time to go we'll meet tomorrow but nobody works harder uh he knows everybody's name um uh he's first one in last one to leave but that that movie i mean that movie yeah that movie took a a long time uh to make everybody was so committed and also like you have to work in part and 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 um non-stop so uh yeah it was a lot it was it was a lot to to kind of work out yeah so you're having to like work like in between certain days while they're doing stuff or at night Yeah, like I remember when we were on the carrier, we could – maybe we had like a two-hour window for something to be up on the top deck.

1:14:40But yeah, we were on the carrier for two weeks. I remember I walked by this one sailor. It was 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. There's nothing for comfort. comfort there's nothing extraneous like that is an active carrier it's um it's a wartime you know carrier um but it's very a weapon it's very it's a weapon um i mean we're launching you know aircraft from it um and so but when you're walking around i mean all the hallway everything is so tight even though it's this massive vessel and i walked by this one sailor and i was like hey i was like living the dream huh and he just turns to me and he goes nightmares are also dreams and he said it's so cold.

1:15:28I was like, that is, we're on the Theodore Roosevelt. Um, but no, I just, I don't know. I have so much, um, nightmares are also dreams. Yeah. Because I mean, that's a good, 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 the terrorist 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 um yeah he's fantastic to support veterans yeah absolutely because it's not like the va like because i did this movie about guys coming home from wars called Thank You for Service, and it was based on this book, Real Guys.

1:16:29And that's kind of what you learn. It's like the VA is not broken. It's just overwhelmed. And so, you know, and for guys to kind of unpack, and our writer-director was telling me, he'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 complicated. in those programs that are you know working for you know non-profit they can only take so many people funding is really important um and the use of people sorry go on no i was just saying it's it's really it's really tough and also just with mental health in general um the amount of training that it takes for somebody to be able to um 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 potentially, you know, change their mends a little bit, somebody that they trust, somebody who has those skills to deal with.

1:17:41It's very tough. And yeah, that's actually something I have a lot of advocacy for. I think – and also when you talk to people, I think most – I think a lot of people have somebody in their family or with friends that are dealt with that. And it's just – yeah, it's really tough. I think I have just a immense amount of empathy. And that stuff's always – it's more or less – it always kind of – some traumatic event happened at some age and that leads to these mental health issues. Yeah, that's such a great statement. We don't know how to bring these people home and then how much – like even at a governmental level, how much value – should there be just as much of a training and untraining program?

1:18:30As 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. Well, it's like you were saying earlier, just like being able to be part of a group and have that, you know. Yeah. And then suddenly it's different or suddenly even if you're – Shared life experience.

1:18:57You're put on leave or something because you're in a mental condition. then that's got to be even scarier because now are you maybe struggling, but also you're away from your group, right? And also each, like each, you know, depending on what job you're going for in the military, you know, infantry, different branches, you know, you need, it's a numbers game. We need numbers 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 and here's a gun. And when you get more kind of, I guess, tier one. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying like our special forces guys.

1:19:36I 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'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 football game last week. going to the Vanderbilt football game. Did you go to Vandy? 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. We went to a UFC fight together, actually. You weren't at that one. Which one?

1:20:12I've been out of the mix for a little bit just because of the house stuff. Seven months ago, maybe. I don't remember which one it was. I can't even remember. How great are those? It's the best. Well dude You know at the end of the day They're gonna fight Yeah And there's just And the time in between is great You know It's hang for a little chat And then it's just When that music comes on Forever's coming in Just the crowd I think Madison Square Garden Especially That was good You know I imagine you were at Some of those Connor fights During his heyday I got to go to one With him and Dustin That was it But when he came out It was just crazy I think I saw you Yeah I saw you at that one Yeah Yeah I know Dustin's your guy It's a shame When that kind of Generation You're on now 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 and you also realize that you are nothing like because there's some bad asses coming out i think it's like no matter if you think you're cool or not you were sitting there looking in awe at some warriors absolutely that when it comes down to it like they're the yes it's one-on-one oh you know what i mean and it's just like such a test of will and and like and man or woman 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 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 i was yeah no i pitched up until i guess it took me a minute to hit my growth 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 that you couldn't even compare.

1:21:51Like a lot of my buddies are wrestlers. 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, you know, be crazy. Discipline. We were driving down the, I remember driving through my neighborhood 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 bags and shit. Like, Oh my God. Like he did something bad at home or whatever.

1:22:19Like we just didn't know what happened. Yeah, like a punishment. Yeah. 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, but. That's the right word. 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 a little bit of how many movies you want to do? What kind of things come into your mind at your juncture in your career?

1:23:00As far as the work goes. 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 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 and I would play like the comedic relief in 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.

1:23:33Like they're – they just – Oh, they're locked into that I'm a clown. Yeah. And so they – like I was like, oh, shit. Okay. Okay. Now I need to kind of work on this other stuff. I was like, nobody didn't want to like not be taken seriously for something. But so I knew starting out, like I always, I had an appetite. I think that's really what it comes down to. 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, but love sports. Military, my family, my friends, I've done some of that. So I've done like a good amount of like blue collar stuff.

1:24:11I 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 interests. And I don't really necessarily care what the genre is as long as it just feels authentic to me. Can you feel that? So you can make a bad version of any genre. yeah 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 of most careers right people are like oh why'd you do that and it's not it's like yo you thought I had like multiple options like what are you talking about like no dude you're just trying to work professionally like if you if I if you can pay your bills as a director 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 and when you get older it's like your audience you know wants to grow with you you got to kind of mature um with them you know it's like i imagine a lot of my fans now have like kids and stuff um you know and that's great and so i just try to um i don't know yeah i think your best asset would be i guess when you read a script if If I think it's good, is it?

1:25:38And for the most part, I've kind of just went with my instincts and gut. 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, Vinny 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 Vinny's like Dana's favorite boxer all the time and he loved the movie, loved the movie. 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, Vinny. Oh, he did? But he's a, yeah, he's, he's just a dog.

1:26:06And he Pazienza, the Pasmanian devil. That's a great name. Bro, look at him. That's him? Yeah. So he broke his, so he was, he had won some titles early and then he was kind of, the promoters 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 on you're gonna be paralyzed for life and there's video of him like you know doing some pretty sick rope work with that halo on just working out like a madman um I don't want to give it away but yeah it's considered like um you know just one of sports all time great comebacks yeah the only movie I had come out like right before that I was like in fat or not fat but pudgy friend shape 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 and i used to not like i was like that dude's ripped he can't act dang dude yeah there's so many great actors out there i can it's so it's just fascinating 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 like a word on a page, you know.

1:27:28Well, it's like we're shining a mirror up to society, really. You're just kind of the great actors, right? You watch them and you obviously believe what they're doing, but then it makes you feel about your own life. It's beautiful. They just really understand kind of the human condition, human experience. I think because a lot of young actors will ask her like what do you think is like so important isn't that I said I I go I think um obviously start from the inside work from the inside out and I think just two abilities or curiosities that will really aid you is like you know just empathy if you're somebody who just you know sees somebody a different you know way of life and you can feel for somebody other than yourself and then your curiosity.

1:28:18I think that's what's lent me to a lot of projects I've, I've ended up doing just cause I think I've always had a just high level of curiosity and empathy for, 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. Like my grandma, she buried all of her kids but one. And a lot of them died very young. And I think I 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.

1:29:02So 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 and Alzheimer's. And it can be scary. And they're usually not the most well-lit places. But we, you know, we're constantly kind of in those environments, you know, and, you know, feeding him at, you know, meals and just different things like that. You said wanting to take care of your grandmother whenever you were, you know, when you guys' house went through that trauma and stuff like that.

1:29:35yeah I could see that I guess and I moved around a lot 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 um especially as a kid 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 personalities develop certain things happen in childhood right that's yeah you can dig deep to figure out oh that's why i am right that's why i but it is though i think for a kid to move to a new place that's a lot you know yeah um 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 gonna paint my walls black i'm gonna be a goth you're gonna be embarrassed by me i'm gonna wear maryland manson shirts when your friends come over like yeah one of my favorite right one of my favorite friends no that's it just i'm just thinking back on myself like paint my walls black and i'm gonna paint my fucking ceiling fan black has anybody ever even fucking done that it's just gonna make black air in the room oh dude i uh my buddy jeff dude he was he was hilarious we would go over to his house and i've told this part of the story before but um we would i go we all we'd all go outside and get high and then i would come in the house and i would i would come in before everybody uh i would tell um his dad that they were high right you fucking asshole oh yeah oh my god just to like save yourself just just because here's what i love i loved you were high with him oh yeah i was yeah yeah i didn't tell him that part no that's what i'm saying yeah but i would say that they were high and one and they were seeming some of the behaviors they'd have been doing it seemed a little zest or whatever someone's throwing a little nugget like that and you He couldn't fucking kind of hear his fucking - Put a cigarette out on the lizard.

1:31:28Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd see him fucking, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he'd put a cigarette out. 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 I'm fucking out. I was like, don't worry. And just seeing the dad fucking figure him out, bro. I would lay there in the other room crying of laughter just knowing that they're about to get beat knowing that this whole scenario had been created but my buddy Jeff dude he had this anger sometimes and he would go play that song he had one CD and it was that song you gotta keep them separated yeah man come out of my 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 That was his Christmas present every year I had a buddy like that And then he ended up kind of Working in a construction And so now he Even as an adult Some shit Whatever fucking kick a hole in his wall But then he's patching it himself You know what I mean And Jeff is in the military too 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.

1:32:51I was like, dude, we had so much fun. And my, yeah, we just had so much fun, dude. Fuck those angels. I think that's what's nice growing up, like in the town I grew up, it was such a small town. It was 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, all right, 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 I miss I like I of course you miss it but yeah I 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 you know at that at that point that's what i noticed when i you just have to eat and lie to your parents when i've shot when i've shot movies in some uh you know underprivileged areas uh 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 especially where we were at it's like they don't know what else out there they don't know how we're you know living how people are living in other parts of the the world yeah it's really it's like it's a um it's it's touching and it's it's also you know it's very sweet and but it's I always 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 tough it's like no these like this was the time you know for you just be a kid yeah yeah you think that that would be like 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 you know I know you know some people you know adulting, adult life's really tough for them and because it's tough on them, their kid 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.

1:35:16Dude, I know a guy who used to wake his kids up and get them to pee for him so he could go do drug tests Wow They ran a snow cone stand in our town I'll probably have to take that part out because we don't have a lot of snow cone stands in our town so people know who they are. I know, I gotta watch it because that's like my town. It's just it. 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 edit? It's just, or anything like, I don't know.

1:35:50Yeah, 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, like you said, because it just really makes you 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 it leaves you really thinking. But I think it's just really – it's a really funny movie. I think it's really sweet and sincere. All of Kelly's girls were crying. Yeah, it's very sweet. It's not like too heavy. I mean, there's some moments that are. 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.

1:36:39But it is. It's just – my wife says it was her favorite film that I've ever been in, her favorite film maybe of the last like however long. And also I feel like it's – That'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 out in streaming? Is it coming out in theaters? No, so it comes out in theaters nationwide like Thanksgiving. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Yeah, so great holiday film. take your 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 uh yeah i do think some of those questions it yeah it made me feel a little bit more upbeat yeah it's just like um i don't know it's it was something that i it's certainly something that i hadn't seen before yeah and i thought that was uh it was very creative it was very creative um and then when you're thinking about love you're thinking about the afterlife you're thinking about the choices that we make and stuff like that.

1:37:45You know, it made me a little mournful that, like, there's some moments you never get to, it's like, oh, I, you know, like, you'll start to think, oh, I didn't have that high school love that lasts forever. 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 was just, it's just interesting to kind of think about things like that. You know, I like, I like thinking about matters of the heart and stuff like that. Oh, the last thing I was going to tell you. So yeah, I went to the Venerable 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.

1:38:14He was in Qatar. And right when I saw the kids, they're like, 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 USO 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 like oh how long were you there for he's like I was there for a year and it was just like I don't know it's just interesting to see this moment and I was I was like are you guys dad you're glad are you 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 the 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 absolutely 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 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 thanking me for something that hey i signed up for i wanted to do or you're thanking me for you don't even know what my job was it's just a complicated kind 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, his truck with gas and, you know, his army, the big red one.

1:39:46And, you know, a 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 safe. And that's, you know, it's, it's, But yeah, it's tough. But we can do what we do because those men and women are over there doing the dirty work. I mean our job is built on the freedom of speech. Both of our jobs are built on it. It doesn't even exist if people aren't making a sacrifice for us. But yeah, that would be great to be able to talk with Gary Sinise. I know he does a lot with that with the for veterans and yeah it's nice to just be reminded it's nice to be reminded of a space to another reason to step gratitude for the things we have going 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 socio like economic driven now to where the military it's it doesn't feel like the entire country is really a part of it and it's really happening in very specific pockets um 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 to have a relationship with somebody who's serving because that's what personalizes it um yeah that's a good point man you know during uh in ancient room they used to have the 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 into battle they were going to have to be associated with those rules 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 choices we make might be a little bit different if it felt if you had skin in the game.

1:41:45Yeah. Yeah. I think there's always some value in having skin in the game. 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. Right. 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 bringing it into video format for us. And yeah, thank you so much, dude, for all the entertainment and for stopping by and chatting.

1:42:29Thanksgiving week, you guys can check out Eternity with Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olson. And also 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 had to get that out there too. Oh, that's 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 wonder? 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.

1:43:09I didn't know that. Obviously, when I saw her, I was just attracted to her face. um you know and uh 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 my career just started and she you know and i remember my boys my florida boys i moved out with um 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 right now this is our moment this is our entourage moment like we rented a house in the valley we had a pool they're like this is our time dude i was like well you know i i i was probably like yeah am i ready to settle down 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 That's my best friend.

1:44:05Dude, we literally, like, 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, nine to five, 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, it truly is. Like, that's what she cracks me up. She's very low. But like she's so hard to rattle, to get rattled.

1:44:36She 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. 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. I think I was seeing people. Miles Tyler was there dancing by himself 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 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 have a good day brother I'll see the fight soon it sounds good yeah now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be Cornerstone Oh, but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take