#636 - Jason Momoa

34:25They're from New Orleans. The band was pretty good. They played, actually they did Abbey Road. They did his whole album. Really? Which I thought was impressive, dude. Even that one where it's like, bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon his head yeah they even played that one and they only had three instruments um but yeah I loved it I really enjoyed that my sister's a nurse so I was like oh this is going on dude I'm out there um now did I think I would meet some hot nurses yeah but a lot of them are men these days um which doesn't mean they can't be hot but you know I had a different bedside manner in mind, you know?

35:01So anyway, moving on, Jason, you pervert. So yeah, do you get to a point in your career? Cause that is, it is interesting to, to, to, to hear you say where you feel like, um, you have so like some personal achievement or some personal success or something where you kind of feel like, okay, I'm okay. You know, does that make any sense to you? Kind of? Cause 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 notice in my own life, what makes me feel like, okay, I'm okay for me, you know?

35:41I mean, it's a very complex, I mean, there's many things I'm going through, 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 uh just because you just because uh 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 was 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 i'd get this far in the first place you know what i mean the biggest dream to me was like make a tv show or movie for my people make a real true authentic story like i did that and and the comic book i was read when i was a kid and i Well, I'm fucking playing him.

36:50Yeah. 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. And then sometimes it's, but you're not, why do you not feel? Does that happen? You think even in career, like you had such a great career, does it happen even in careers like yours? Do you think that's just a human thing? I guess it's just a human thing, yeah. Yeah, but I just try to have gratitude and all of it, man, because I have so many friends that maybe could be ill, sick, dying, and just so, I mean, I'm kind of the kind of person, like pretty high energy, and I'm really, really generally happy.

37:32I'm like Christmas morning every morning. I'm pretty fucking happy. I don't need coffee. I'm jazzed. Dang. And so I love morning. I love being up, and I don't necessarily sleep that much, so I'll probably die earlier. Yeah. But my days are filled. Yeah. 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 have. But I just, I can't sit still. And I think if 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.

38:07I'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. 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 but it's 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 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 um it just gets it gets hard to focus on some of the smaller things that are more important to me sometimes um 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 for those things yeah yeah yeah i i have a hard time saying no so i say yes to everything and i'm like i i have i work a lot so if someone comes in and i'm fully loaded i'm like yeah i can't not not say yes and so i don't know here's the thing i'm doing everything i love to do 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 uh i mean that's why i want my kids now they look at me they like oh my dad does what he loves to do which maybe i didn't when earlier in my in my life it was just like make sure i can put it was very worrisome earlier because like i said i wasn't on the best shows yeah yeah people were like oh why don't you go do that movie or that i'm like 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 up for lost time i'm like there's so many things i want to do in this life.

39:57And so it's a bit crammed in. But I'm kind of doing everything I love. Yeah. I wouldn't say I'm taking care of myself the best, but I'm like, something's got to give. I'm like, fuck, that's why I'm this big. Burn this bitch down. You know what I mean? Well, if it's not, if those are muscles. Filipinos, here we go. Yeah, here we go, dude. 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 in your time. I mean, how does it feel to you? Do you? I think this year I just recently started thinking of having a little bit more like, okay, I think everything will be okay.

40:36Like, I'll be able to eat and have a roof over my head for the rest of my life, so I have a little bit more semblance of like, okay, what does things look like for 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 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, three months with no tour dates. And I was like, this is crazy. What is this? So, but 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.

41:14So 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 has really kind of helped me 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, Arnie. I'm like, oh, my God, I would love to get some rest.

41:48Then you get like rest for a solid week. 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 a 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. 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 like a thing? Do you have to do AA? Yeah, I go to AA meetings and I go to that stuff.

42:16It's been like, you know, I've been in and out of sobriety for 10 years, probably mostly in. And so that's been good. 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, 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 in this 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.

42:54So 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's getting out of the taxi. He dropped a little thing of cocaine into the taxi. When I'm getting out, 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, um, I just thought he was kind of itchy or whatever, you know, cause it was spring. And so we go in my apartment. He's like, Hey man, will you help me look for something? And I'm like, yeah, what is it?

43:25And 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. So dude, now at one point he gave Buffett 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. Yeah, I mean, people can get lost out there. But yeah, dude. Do you ever read that Miles Davis? Do you ever read Miles Davis' biography?

44:06Uh-uh. There's this great part where he was up in Harlem and at the time he was at the peak of his career he had this lamborghini let's just say it's like bright yellow it snows out it's snowing outside and he comes up to this spot and he's in harlem gets out goes in and he's coming back out and he gets back in the car and 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 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 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 oh when he got in and like totally lost his mind like he thought he spilled all the fuck i was like that's a good time yeah that's 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 never mind wrecked his coke-filled myura and broke both of his legs so he took it for one lap jim glickenhaus was the first person on scene miles in the hospital for a long time and didn't play for almost a year Dang.

45:34That'll make you quit doing drugs right there. That'll make you quit smoking, dude. That's his drowning near the reef right there. Dang. 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. But what's – so now you have children? I've had them, man. Yeah. Did you collect some along the way? I didn't mean that, but did you like – did you have a family that you had planned? Or was it just kind of like did you sort of have children? No, yeah, no, I was married and had kids, yeah. Oh, nice, man. Was it cool being a father? Like, was that, like, a scary thing for you?

46:11It's actually funny. He's just got into. Oh, yeah, beautiful kids. He just got into acting. I mean, they've been acting. Wolf is his name? Yeah, Wolf. Oh, that's a cool name. Nicola Wolf, but he's going to be in Dune with me. Dune? Yeah, he's Leto Jr. Dang. So he auditioned on his own and got it and he killed it. Was he geeked? I mean, those guys grew up watching me. You know, he was sitting on Affleck's lap, and she's sitting with Gal, and, you know, we're doing Justice League. They were like six and eight. Wow. I mean, Justice League, they grew up on set with me. So they just. So it's so much other world.

46:51Yeah, I mean, he was in a Batman outfit for at least five years. Like, the kid loves all that and loved Dune. And so, yeah, my babies are, Lola's a singer, so she wants to continue in music, and then Wolf wants to do acting, so, which I was very, she's such a gnarly business, so I'm like, I'm like, go be a doctor, use your brain. Yeah, and go pay these nurses, doc. Actually, it's the hospitals that aren't 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.

47:26Yeah, yeah. Andy's doing it. Andy's young, so he can try it out. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Guide him. You have kids? No, I don't have any kids yet. I want to get some kids. 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 I don't know them, I don't want to know them. That's my rule. If I don't know kids, I don't want to know them. People are 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 are we talking about?

48:04You got a special lady you're with right now? No, I don't. That's another thing. You're a free bird right now, too? What's that? You're a free bird? Free bird, yeah. But I would like to have a spouse. I would like to have a woman spouse, too. And 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've 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.

48:35It's hard for me to focus on stuff sometimes. So, um, 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 too. 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 one of them is married. Your baby? I'm the middle. One of the middle kids, two boys and two girls. Yeah, yeah. So we got a good little group.

49:06Yeah. But, yeah, nobody in my family can swim that good, though. No? Yeah. Land people. Yeah. If you need us, we'll be on the land, you know? That's our motto, dude. That's our family motto. I'm going to get it tattooed on my brother's back. When you were in New Orleans, look, what kind of sports were you into? basketball dude is it true that the all that they have the team called the tall blacks and yeah is that true the basketball team in new zealand is called the tall black yeah that's freaking amazing dude we got yeah in new warlands 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 um no offense zion williamson but his weight does fluctuate um and he's cost our city a lot of money but What is this?

49:53Yeah, this is, oh, that's the New Zealand All Blacks? I don't know.

50:00This is a bunch of Ben Simmonses. They got maybe one and a half brothers on this team, dude. And this, but hey, that's awesome, though. Good for them. You a big basketball fan? I like college football. It's probably my favorite. College football. Who's your team? I'm a Tennessee and a LSU guy. So those are my squads. What about you? I don't do college football that much. 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 a goalie? Soccer. No, I was center. Nah. But I love soccer too, man. I was playing soccer. But then I was a skateboarder.

50:36I mean, like they all want you to get into wrestling. Yeah, that's weird. That's weird. But if you were a surfer, that makes sense. Yeah, no, I just grew up skating. I wasn't always this 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 traveled the world of rock climbing and that was kind of my thing. Did you ever go rock climbing with... Sharma? Jared Leto? No. Oh, I mean, I've seen him out when we've been climbing. He loves it. He does. He climbs a lot with Honnold.

51:08Honnold? Oh, Alex Honnold? Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, he climbs a lot with him. They do like El Cap and all that kind of 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. 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.

51:38At the first moment, my mom took me climbing in South Dakota, and when I touched the rock and just moved on, and it just felt like I'm probably better at climbing than I am at walking. 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 the fear of it all because we'll do deep water soloing now in Mallorca and you 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. It's like how do you not let, I love climbing trees. I love just climbing.

52:12Yeah. 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 for other people, but like being in nature. Oh, yeah. And going to do adventures and setting out to do something and accomplishing it. But also the other thing, too, is I think I'm very, very much, and I'm not diagnosed ADHD, but 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.

52:48So that's just like a little bit of my therapy or meditation is like that's when everything just gets real clean and clear. Makes you focus in. Yeah. Yeah. What you get, you know, everyone gets high on that or loves that. You know what I mean? When you can really mind-body-spirit connects and you flow in something, that's what you, you know. Oh, yeah. When you're zipping down on a freaking motorcycle, you can't, yeah, it's hard to be like, oh, I got to do that email or whatever. Which is like, everyone, you're in a car, you're like, you know, doing your makeup, you're eating food, you're talking to someone, you're paying attention to shit, where you're riding a motorcycle, it's, you're gonna die if you fucking, if you're out, if you're doing your makeup while you're riding a motorcycle, you're fucked.

53:23Yeah, yeah. It's not easy. Unless they come out with those self-driving motorcycles, which I read about, that's gonna be, I'm like, what are we doing now? Self-driving motorcycles? 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 organ donor a lot of them are 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 that's what i need bro oh yeah i want a fresh sack of lungs boy them inner tit And then just nail them again.

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57:57You're 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. 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. 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, his acting is great. Yeah. I saw him in Blade Runner and I just thought he was phenomenal in it.

58:37He was so subtle. He's very just like the opposite of me. I couldn't be subtle if he tried. I thought you did a great job in this movie, man. Thanks, bud. Yeah. Thank you. I don't know if I even pay attention. an act i guess it's like if you're not paying attention if you don't if you're not noticing the acting and then it's great right isn't that kind of usually the usual kind of isn't that usually kind of the thought yeah yeah if it's not tripping you up yeah it's great do you 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 uh you know chances to do it now like i've never even been in a rom-com you know like my first comedy was last year with with 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 with me so it's like he didn't speak english so they're like what the fuck do you do with drogo we're like who's gonna to put is that in that rom-com drogo is i mean he's handsome like like let's let's get that motherfucker i don't i hope he speaks english like he's french you know i mean like what are you gonna so this is hilarious that's great um have you ever get to spend any time with jack i haven't gotten to spend any time with him man so funny no he's just just like the greatest human man like you just would love just being with him he's so much fun and it's just like he's that all the time you go you know after work we go eat together like i just like people who they don't they don't act one way and then you know and then there's someone different you know like i'm just i wear my heart on my sleeve this is exactly who i am is what you're gonna get here we are yeah um do you ever get people that confuse you for people a lot because i'll have people come up to me sometimes uh and they think i'm tony cavalero um do you get people like that sometimes I think or even like this like if you walked in downstairs somebody might think you're Joaquin Phoenix downstairs um 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 there's my twin brother right there dude if you were Joaquin Phoenix today this whole time bro put these on if you tell me you're Joaquin Phoenix, bro.

1:01:00It's going to get crazy in here. Oh, wow, huh? I'm fucking blind. Yeah. Oh, yeah, dude. Those are, yeah. Oh, yeah. I wear those so I can see. Those are prescription. Yeah, no, I wear glasses. Dude, I wear glasses. Yeah. Mine are downstairs. My eyes are going bad. I just can't do contacts. Can't put them in, man, but. I'm not putting a little thing like that in my eye, like a little sight panty. 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. While I'm laying there like some pedophile. I don't think you look like that guy. But do you know who the dancing outlaw is?

1:01:36That guy that does that, the Tennessee two-step guy? Yeah. There he is. There you are. Oh, that guy. What's his name? Jessica White? Bro. Dude, you could totally play Jessica White. You could. You, dude. Not me. I thought you were saying you look like him. No, man. Pull up the one where he's got no beard. That one in the middle. Dude, that's you for days. What are you talking about? Oh, God. Jason, I said nice things about you. I know, dude. This guy. No, you don't get Jessica White? This guy is a fucking listen to methadone all day, which is a band. But it's only, yeah, I'm joking. Okay, all right, my bad.

1:02:19No, that's okay. Is there any recent, is there a recent interview with Jessica White or did he pass away? He passed away. Damn. You should listen to the way he talks, but it's probably because you guys, Maybe it's because you sound familiar.

1:02:33That's him? No, he looks like Hunter S. Thompson right there. Yeah, that is not. No, that's not. No. Yeah, it's in the White House. Wow. He's dead now. That's 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 - Oh, he does. He's got up at the 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. 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.

1:03:07That'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. I feel like, has he built, has he played, is he doing new albums? 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 new tour that just came out that Ella Langley's going to be on. Jason Aldean. Williams. Hank Williams. There you go. Kid Rock. Jason Aldean. Blake Shelton. Jelly Roll Creed. Under the sunlight. Dude, I could see you play Scott Stapp in like a biopic.

1:03:46Or biopic, whatever they call it. You getting me back at that, Jessica White. Yeah. I deserved it. I apologize. Dude, you know what I used to love? Soundgarden, dude. Of course. Yeah, man. What a legend. And I feel... Was that them? Shit. Maybe I don't know who they are. These are the eyes of disarray. Is that... No, that's not... Would you even care? Do-da-da-da-da. What's that? And I'm feeling... Oh, Stone Temple Pilots. Oh, Stone Temple Pilots, yeah. Dude, Stone Temple Pilots was good, bro. They were. What's the first concert you ever went to? What the... I was at the Iowa State Fair. What the fuck is his name?

1:04:26he does bourbon, one scotch and a beer. Jesus Christ, I'm blanking on his name. Trace Adkins, maybe? No. No. God damn it. It's okay. Bad to the bone. George Sergan? Yeah, George Sergan. Yeah. One bourbon, one scotch, one beer. Iowa State Fair, baby. Dude, how nice is that thing? Iowa State Fair? Yeah. It's amazing. Haven't been in years. Funnel cake? Oof. Yeah. But I'm not driving across town for a funnel cake. 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 there. I was growing up. Yeah. I guess people did.

1:05:05I couldn't walk around there now. I'd be fucking screwed. There's no way. Yeah. You'd have to hide. You'd have to dress up like something. Those days are over, man. But it's your size. Do you have to disguise yourself 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 and the hat. It's about as hiding as it gets. If you've got a special outfit. I mean, you mean if like Boba Fett or like, like fucking the helmet on like Iron Man? I mean, I could hide if I had a helmet on. Yeah. Yeah. If you wore like a football helmet or something.

1:05:40I was in Jordan one time. We were shooting Dune and I wanted to go 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 this little bit of my triangles are sticking out and we're walking through and this this girl's like kind of sees and she goes and i'm like but this fucking thing gets me in trouble more than anything man because it is that a is that like this is basically tapped on and i have one that goes on my head goes right through there and how do people earn do you earn them or how do you get it like a family crest.

1:06:20Think of it like that. It's like the guardian. This is the shark and this is for protection. Those are the Ihe, the spear. This is the mono, the shark. So basically when I'm in the water and we're 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. I got to get something. You just roll with me. I'll be like, I'll point it somewhere else. I'll be on your back. Point out the directions that way. You ever see any sharks? You ever seen anything? I went swimming with sharks one time in South Africa. We're in a cage.

1:06:53Have I ever seen any? Like big great whites? Yeah. Did you see a big great 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 between the cages right up against the boat, like because it's two circles. And one of the sharks got stuck right in there and he was absolutely going apeshit. 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. Yep. That old Doberman touch I put on him. You know?

1:07:24Just two taps and two. Did you like South Africa? Oh, dude, it's the most beautiful place that I've been. 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. Bring them up. My father's from Nicaragua. Really? Yeah, which is neighbors to Guatemala, I think. Is it in Central America? Yep. Ooh, that thing's nice. I'm surprised you don't live in one of those.

1:07:54Because people think you do, dude. Tikal. 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. 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. and getting to the parents and the family. Yeah. See if they like me, you know. The fucking gringos coming in. Oh, yeah, huh? 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. Yeah, that's a good point, dude.

1:08:31It's the German blood, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Don't bring that fucking... And the Irish. Don't bring that honky blood around here, whitey. That's the kind of shit that I hear all the time. But they love me. They did? Yeah, I got two thumbs up. Did you get a... Like, do you get a written review or how did, like on the plane ride home, she read? I could see it in their eyes. Yeah. And I could feel the temperature. The aunties were cool with it. The nieces and nephews love me. The dad's amazing. I mean, I love her dad. We went to go see him play. He's a musician? He's probably one of the biggest Latin, maybe, no, he's definitely one of the biggest Latin musicians of all time ever.

1:09:10Really? Yeah, Ricardo Arjona. Let's bring up a picture of this man. He's actually, he's got. This might could be your father-in-law. Yeah, he's doing. Or your stepdad. Time Square, two nights in a row. Ricardo Alona. Ricardo Alona, yeah. Seca is the new, his new tour. Seca? 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? Oh, yeah. You can see it. That's what's up. If I were Latin. Yeah. But I'm not, I'm Hawaiian. and he's probably the biggest Guatemalan in history. He's very tall?

1:09:49He's like 6 '5". 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 that says, hey, come see a 6 '5 Guatemalan. And he's, bro, he's - 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'll make sure to go and watch him. Yeah, but he'd be right on the show too. I'll take a Spanish girl out there on a date. You're definitely going to meet some Spanish nurses. That's the place to go. Yeah. How do you say nurse in Spanish?

1:10:24Bring that up for me, fellas. Infermera. Infermera? Ooh, si. Infermera. Infermera. Infermera. That's what I'm going to say. That's where it's at for you. They take care of you, love you. That's what I'm saying, dude. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah, there were ages when I was like, yeah, I'm going to get, oh, I want to find 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. But I just have like, yeah, you've got to think ahead, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got to take care of you. I don't know if models are going to take care of you, but nurses take care of you.

1:10:59Dude, 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 need anything. What are you going to do to just both sit there and suck on an empty bottle together? and she's lazy anyway probably anyway sorry um 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 i appreciate that yes i'm probably like a solid six right now i'm normally a tan but um we had the premiere before i came to theo von which was a big accident so anyways i was downstairs chelsea guitars i found this at 59 it kind of went like It got a little bit of that watermelon color to it.

1:11:40Yeah, it's beautiful. Because it's usually cherry, right? Yeah. And then it fades because of that paint they used back then. But it doesn't have the original pot, so it's kind of cheap. And then, you know, I'll put some new pickups in it, and it'll be 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. Really? I forgot to show you. Yeah. I was in Dubai. Sorry about that, brother. Oh, no, I was in Qatar, actually. Signed by Chuck Berry. Yeah, they have all the guitars signed on there. Who is it? Chuck Berry.

1:12:15That was just up on the... That's signed by Chuck Berry, dude? Yeah. Oh, that's him. See, there's a guitar. Johnny B. Goode. There you go. I used to carry his guitar in a row, say. He's between the three by the railroad track. I loved him, dude. 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. You know, he just booked a role in a movie next to you. Like, he's doing fine, okay? He can get his own.

1:12:51My love language is presence. He can get his own stuff now. Are you? I am, yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Oh, I heard that you were working with a water company. Is that true? Yeah, I started this company called Mananalu. Mananalu? Mananalu. started eight years ago um i was on a flight and you know you're flying over the on the plane and you see a coca-cola in aluminum can you got beer in aluminum can you got sparkling water aluminum can and they give you those little shitty dasani 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 which goes into our land it goes into our landfills and i'm a father i don't want to see plastic we don't need single use plastic.

1:13:33Generally, I carry my own water bottle. When I go to the airport, you fill it up. Eight years ago, they didn't even make, 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. They're like, we're not a, you know, we're not a we're not a um this is a water company i was like well you are now i'm awful man let's do this so we we set out to do it and then we we ended up making the first like screw can it went back on and uh so we made mononalo and then it changed well now it's got our we put our movie on there oh great put the labels on there but see how it's got mononalo printed on the top and so once we kind of stopped single-use plastic and now because at the time i went to dasani and i went i went to the blue and the red guy coke and pepsi 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 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 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 um it's in a yeah 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 or they won't even really tell you it's all these like kind of gimmick videos 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 now that they are making those we made a circular system so we're now on on hollow powered by boomerang.

1:15:14And 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 going to your room and you got a crate, like a milk crate, and there's all your water in there 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, fills it with your natural local water source and put some minerals back into it and cleans it and mix it so it's fresh water it's not packaged up it's there's no emissions it's not sitting in some crate in some warehouse in stagnant dead water it's fresh water always and if there was a co-vittering that each hotel would still operate like the water still operates right so you can still have fresh water and it's just bottled up think of it as like you go into a restaurant you eat with their plates in their fork and you're done you leave you come back you're gonna use you're not gonna take shit home you just 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 got to recycle those and um so it's just the idea is just to either 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 that's incredible man just to kind of get rid of the single i mean just to call that shit down because it's just absolutely ridiculous yeah when you think 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 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 we're self-contained at 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 in each hotel so we have four c 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 it's still all there so their advertising's for them it's just we're trying to stop the waste yeah i love that 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 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 fucking plastic bottles.

1:17:36But 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. But I mean, the idea is to get people doing it. 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. It's, yeah, it's Mononalo powered by Boomerang. 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.

1:18:07Aquaman, you heard it. You heard it, man. Have you ever been a lifeguard or not? Yeah, that's why my whole family are watermen. 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 when I was young. It's pretty cool when you save someone's life. I've saved a person's life before. You did? In the ocean, yeah. Yeah, and when you do junior life cards, it's really cool to really take your time, things slow down. I'm sure it's probably like a firefighter. I'd panic in a fire, but I think if I saw so many of them I practiced, most people go, oh, shit, and then they freak out, whereas the natural calm kind of comes over you, and you just assess the whole situation so you can both get out alive.

1:18:45You understand the rip. You understand what the ocean's doing. And you had to save somebody? Yeah. Was that in Hawaii? Yeah. Wow. But I mean, it's just, like I said, I've been many times like drowned. I mean, you get caught in a rip. Yes. 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 leash 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 burnt out. Yeah. And you're like, there are cameras everywhere. There are people right there.

1:19:19I could yell for help and I look like an idiot. I'm going to drown in eight feet of water. Yeah. And the current's so, it's just, the undertow's just pulling your feet out, and it's going to exhaust you. And it generally has got to go with it. It's going to take you out to sea, 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, 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.

1:19:51Yeah, dude, put them out. You know what I'm saying? I know. He was so adamant. He was talking to me the other day. I built a fire, and I was like, everything's green around here. What, Yogi was? Yeah, in my head, because Yogi's were psychos. But I was like, listen, I could dump out. Oh, Smokey the Bear, dude. Sorry. Who did I say? Who's Yogi Bear? Yogi Bear is the piggy bastard. Oh, dude, he's starting the fires then. 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.

1:20:33Not like the Bernstein Bear where he was locked in. Yeah, yeah. He was just a dumb dad. That guy was a family man. He was. He was. Yeah, Bernstein was a family man. I love me some Bernstein. God, they were good. Especially like the fall issues. I always got snuggled down when I read those ones. Remember there was that one scary book where there was a fire or whatever, and people were like, no, no fires in the Berenstain Bears, and people flipped out and shit. Oh, really? Yeah, dude. People just cannot handle real shit. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Was there a time in a movie where you were training for something and it was like one of the toughest things you ever had to actually train for, or does it never go that far with training?

1:21:10yeah i mean training for

1:21:16training for aquaman was pretty was pretty challenging um 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 i just like to do things rock 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 sarms no i just want to do the things i love to do yeah yeah but i'm yeah you know like some sups monkey that's over there g and c every day or something supplements guy yeah i don't even do like shakes all that oh yeah yeah i like to eat food damn i'd like to eat 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...

1:22:06As soon as I get married, I'm getting fat. 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. 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. Let me and Dave take care of you. Yeah. Work out some trauma in your family. Open up a can of Dole Pineapple for your lady and put on the wrecking crew. 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.

1:22:43My dad used to give us mounds sometimes when we were 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. I don't do podcasts that much because I always get in 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, David Spade, when we were at the 50s SNL, he was there.

1:23:24Yeah. So I saw him when we were there. My daughter is like a massive, massive fan of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. And so Andy Samberg's like her 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 his story in Hawaii. It's amazing. I laugh my ass off. We instantly sell it. I'm going in two weeks to go shoot it in Hawaii. No way. With David Spade?

1:23:58It's a fucking year later. No, with Sandberg. But I'm just saying it's the same thing where you've just like minded friends. Oh, that's what you were saying. Yeah, just friends and buddies meeting 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, you see you like, oh, dude, Momoa would be like, oh, my gosh. I'm going to think of something good. It'd be fun to be in it. You know what I mean? I'm going to think of something good.

1:24:21You're Paul Bunyan. I could be the Blue Ox, bro. You could be Paul Bunyan. I don't know Babe I'll be Babe Yeah you'll be Babe the Blue Ox then And we gotta find somebody to be Paul Bunyan I'm gonna be the brother that's on methadone But we'll figure it out We'll figure it out homie Jason Momoa thanks so much man Thanks for having me Go see the record crew guys 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 tell you