Charlie Sheen Unfiltered: Life Lessons from Fame, Failure & Redemption

0:00We would just drink all night and then throw on a tunic and storm the castle the next day. Pretty awesome. I should sign up for one of your seminars, one of your programs, you know. We're not going to have as much time to say goodbye as you're going to wish that we did. I know that sounds grim, and it's not really progressive or passive parenting. I get that. But I just want them to feel the value of time. I had the privilege of reading a book, loved it, The Book of Sheen. Oh, thank you. You guys are up for The Book of Sheen. We're going to give copies out, say yes, The Book of Sheen. Woo! Thank you.

0:34Thank you. Thank you. And let me just add, just because you've seen the doc doesn't mean that you don't need to read the book. Yes. Yes. There's a lot of shit in the book that's not in the doc that I think is worthy of your time and energy. And if I had the privilege, and I couldn't recommend it more, And if I had the privilege of sitting and chatting with Mr. Sheehan alone, I would ask him 600 questions I'm not going to ask him here because I think they would be so fun and fascinating to like dig into, you know, in just a completely joyful voyeuristic way. But that wouldn't serve you or Mr. Sheehan this moment.

1:23I appreciate that. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. And I'm going to venture to guess all these folks do as well. Yes. Yes. But I can say this. If you've done something that you could look back on and go, oh, my God, I cannot believe I did that, raise your hand and say yes. Yes. If you've done like 50 of those things, say yes. Yes. So I would love to compete with you someday for who has done more stupid and crazy things. And I think I might beat you. Wow. Yeah, yeah. I really think that. That was fighting words. Yes, let's go. Let's go. So I could tell you a couple right now that you go, dude, like, really?

2:09I think you got me. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So for everybody, for real, we're in this beautiful place of unconditional love with boundaries. We've talked about this a lot. Charlie and the Space One Blind did because it's really funny when people are like, could you believe they did that? And before we ever say they did that, it's like, what did we do? How much do we squander? How much do we screw up? And the net effect of anybody's life is to me what I'm hoping to look at and be inspired by. So we said it before you came out. I don't know if you could hear us back there, but just acknowledging you for the transcendent level of impact you've created and all these beautiful things you've done.

2:46And what was fascinating for me in the book was when you dug into, in your childhood, I think it was you lived in the Philippines at some point during the filming of Apocalypse. now. Am I correct? Yes, correct. Yeah. Could you share, like, what was it like? And it was in the book. It was so beautiful. Imagine like Francis Ford Coppola, you know, Martin Sheen as father, like they're living in a foreign land. I'm sure the, and the book outlines certainly, the advanced level of your emotional intelligence, your presence to a different world because of your dad. And so, but what was it like during that time?

3:25I thought it was so beautiful in the book. And there was some challenging moments, you know, certainly for your dad, the family, other folks that were engaged in behavioral eccentricities in the world. Like, what would you want us to know about that? And what did it mean to you, including nothing? And like every question I'm here is only if you think there's something valuable for you and the group. But what was that like? Apocalypse Now, the Philippines, and I think you were 14 when that No, I was 10. 10, I'm sorry. I was 10, yeah. And I was there so long that I turned 11. Got it. Because the joke on the set about the title was that they were starting to call it Apocalypse Never.

4:06And so, yeah, I mean, Francis threw a party one day to celebrate one million feet of film being shot. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, no, it was it was interesting. It because we had we had traveled with dad to a lot of his other locations. But you still felt like we still felt like we were still, you know, close enough to home to that that that help was always, you know, just over the just over the knoll, you know. But in the Philippines, we knew that, I think I describe it in the book as an entirely unexampled culture, you know. We didn't know what we were getting into. And the film had to overcome so many obstacles and so many hurdles and, you know, from natural disasters to, you know, a very intense health crisis that my dad went through.

5:15You know, he had a heart attack making the movie. Right. But then recovered and still went and killed Kurtz. so talk about an example of an absolute badass right um that's a lot to live up to you know um but yeah no it um and and it's interesting and the reason i spend a lot of time in the philippines on apocalypse in the book um is just because it was uh it was in a it was in a formidable you know transitional time for me you know um and yeah i i i i just i i i kind of surrendered it at one point that that's pretty much where we were just going to be living that that's you know that we just put malibu in our rear view and it was just manila or bust you know um but yeah i mean i i I, I, it's, it's difficult to really describe things, you know, yeah, just in a different way than I already did on the page, you know, and that's not like a cheat trick to say, well, now, you know, obviously, you have to read the book to get the real story.

6:40But it's what, what I, what I also think about with Apocalypse is then, you know, 10, 10 years later, going back to that same faraway land to do platoon, which is, and narrate it. And if you think about the odds of that happening, like the son of the guy a decade later does his own Vietnam saga and narrates it, that's, I mean, what would you place the odds of that happening? I like the age of the universe squared. Right. Uh, it's, yeah. So I knew, um, and I don't really write a lot in the book about, you know, the, the, the, the thematic or, or, or, or the emotional connections between the, you know, those two movies.

7:34I, I, I, I think you, I think you saw, I think you felt this reading the book or, or the audio book or Harbor that happened with, um, that I, I don't want to tell the reader how they're supposed to feel about the things that I'm experiencing. And that's a fine line that you have to walk sometimes. And if I could, so thank you for going right there. You didn't answer any part of your question. You know, you'd certainly... None of it. Right? No. What I just laid out was useless. Not even... It was useless. Yeah. Not even remotely. Sorry about that. Not even remotely. Not even really, because that's exactly where I was going.

8:17Okay. Was the intersection of Apocalypse Now and Platoon. I got you. Okay, cool. Yeah, and I had our AI agents helping prepare. I did. And what that would have been like, and we don't need to go into this in this moment, but you, your dad, the meaning, the possibility. I'm definitely not trying to manufacture emotional moments. I won't do that. But yes, the size of the universe squared the possibility of these two iconic films in the history of our nation depicting its deepest, greatest, darkest struggles in war and Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen being in these just preposterously impactful movies.

8:59Am I hearing you correctly? What was the last thing you said? Am I hearing you correctly? Yes, yes, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So sorry, there's a feedback loop. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah. No, it's fine. Work on that. Yeah. So.

9:17Your transition from the Philippines into and through your high school years, you have your the eight camera. What is that called? The Super eight Super eight camera. uh rob low sean penn filming friendship movies things how is that transition from a childhood into film i mean i think you were in your first film it was at nine with your dad that you had a an appearance in something or am i wrong about that no that is correct yeah it was a it was a movie that we called the execution of private slovak got it yeah and then the progression into your film career? And actually, before you go there, what now is the ultimate mission?

9:59You're here, you're everywhere currently, you're impacting the book, the Netflix documentary. What's the ultimate why behind it? I mean, of course, there's financial abundance, right? And there's generating value, but what's the meaning, the purpose and from like this day to the end? if anything. Some people I ask that question to, they'll say, just kind of live each day and try to be happy and fulfilled. But is there this larger why that drives your heart, your soul? Please. Well, the larger why as far as this moment right now with the doc, with the book, and incidentally, two projects that weren't planned to happen simultaneously.

10:49they just they just timed out that way um but i but i'm i'm grateful that they did because i'm i'm seeing it as an opportunity um not so much as a as a comeback but um but as a as a reset you know just where because there's still you know there's a lot of people that may only remember me as the guy, you know, in a freaking bowling shirt or screaming winning, you know. And so it's, it's, it's, it's important for me that, that, that with, with this amount of exposure and, and, and all of it positive, you know, doing so many appearances that, that people just get a sense that the guy is not insane.

11:39He kind of, you know, wandered off the res for about three or four months, right? And that was highly publicized. And that's all on me. I mean, it wasn't like I didn't know that there was a camera, you know what I'm saying? But so, no, so it's a really cool moment for me right now to just deal with so much from my past and stuff that people knew and other stuff that I've revealed that nobody knew. And just to kind of push everything, just present it in a way where you can watch it, you can read it, you can listen to it. And then I feel coming out of this that I can really focus on just moving forward.

12:36Thank you. Thank you. and yeah and if i may and and and why like so you yes it's it's first of all it's so valuable what you're doing thank you um it really is um because everybody in this room has suffered from uh times that they've lost center a bit by the way michael johnson michael smyken adam gugino friend of valencia if we played the audio and video of me in atlantic city with the uh episodes for the commercials for the aspire event and heard me the entire time and had the video of my pants being around my ankles as i was screaming and yelling um do you think that the world would think i'm saying um michael johnson right so and i think this is a part of it like you just you're just on film more you know like and these things are captured more and so um i'm curious you know in my heart for you know you shared this piece um how much do you think this is just people overreact when people are famous and fundamentally um overemphasize a moment of challenge that they themselves have probably been in in their life.

14:02Like, you know, so I'm whatever, however you relate to is how you relate to it. But whether it's about you or just celebrities, athletes, Hollywood folk, anybody that's caught on camera in a moment, like how much do you believe in your heart that it's just this overstated distortion of reality that the public creates versus, yeah, it's like the human condition. I don't know, any thoughts? Yeah, no, I think we're living in a time where everybody's really has a thirst for the next spectacle, you know. But there's more, it feels like there's more of that today. And I think just because it's so easily documented, you know.

14:52It, I mean, how many cameras are in this room right now? Tripp. Over a thousand, right? So, but I think there's another element that comes into play with the amount of attention or the amount of focus that is given to one event or a particular individual. You know, I use myself as an example. I think it had a lot to do with a multi-generational connection that I had built over the years through film, through television, of a relationship, right? That does in some way build a trust between an audience and the person that they're drawn to, the talent they're rooting for. So I think there was something in play when I, you know, had that had that grand departure from all things sane.

16:13I think people felt they were curious as hell, but I think they were also they were concerned for my health. But they also felt in a way almost let down. like like I had I had I had broken some covenant or some something that that that we had spent years developing. Does that does that make sense? Yes, that's right. Yeah. OK. Yes. Yeah. And I think that was a part of it, which I think is also connected to the reception and the and the compassion and the love and the excitement that I'm encountering with this this return. this you know this invite that's been extended back to back into the fold you know so yeah III I feel like people have missed me yes less amen so go so thank you thank you so i'm not wrong in feeling that right now okay okay so thank you thank you so why what why i have my own ideas about why people love you and appreciate you and value you right yes but but what do you so because we and this is part of what we're here to teach right is how people become influential and he's we're here like trying to teach things we are Believe it or not.

17:48Yes. So if not, I could ask you about that night you wrote about in the book. I'm just kidding. Right. So we are. And what we're looking to do, that's what I do for a living. I got you. I'm a personal law firm. We teach people how to generate more financial abundance. Okay. More time, freedom, and impact. And so I was on my way to going blind and being broke. I didn't know how to do it. My college baseball career is captain of the team. I was going to get drafted. That I have right now. It's pigmentosa. Same eye condition as Steve Wynn. you know, quick background. And so I didn't want to go blind to be broke.

18:21So I didn't want to be a business person. I wanted to be an athlete. It wasn't going to happen. So I had to figure out how you do things. And all of a sudden I discovered marketing and sales were a thing. I was horrified and disgusted because I thought marketing and selling was gross and bad. And I was going to be a high school baseball coach, football coach, but I didn't go blind to be broke and do that. So I had to figure out how to succeed. I went to Ivy League undergrad, I went to law school and nowhere could I find how to do that. So that was my search. It worked. I created massive freedom, massive financial abundance.

18:51In my own little mini way, I became micro-famous within certain ecosystems of business and opportunity, which is something I teach. So what we're here to do is to study that. And one of the principles we talk about, and it's a very codified mechanism, like we're a stand for the fact that we're the best in the world in teaching and doing this. I bet that with all kinds of fun people for codification of it, etc. So why I say that is because you have, we all have, a level of heroic, unique identity that causes people to be drawn to us. And so how I would describe your heroic, unique identity is that you are incredibly funny.

19:30You're brilliant. Thank you. You're witty, right? You're loving. You've played heroic characters. You died for your brother. in Red Dawn. You went for it in Wall Street, lost yourself, violated covenant with your father, re-found it. You turned in the true evildoer of the movie, of course, Gordon Gekko. You reset yourself, and then you went into comedy and television and Paco, I'm sorry, Platoon. So you have all of these various elements of your personality that show your resiliency, your wit, your diversity. So those characteristics are magnetic. Like that's not the same thing that you could say about a number of other mega Hollywood celebrities like yourself or Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Leonard.

20:22These are universal characteristics in the, you know, Joseph Campbell's hero's journey that you represent. And as you articulated a moment ago, and then you had your moment where you went off some of those characteristics, went off the track. But of course, the hero's journey is about resiliency. So with the depth of love you've created for yourself, it isn't challenging because you had so much identity, so powerfully magnetized. Then in fact, I think people love the comeback even more than they love you staying there the entire time. That's why after Ali lost to Frazier and comes back. So I see some of those elements.

21:00I don't see it. They're clearly demonstrated what you're experiencing right now. This is like what we teach here. But what I'm curious about is how you relate to that. You know, do you, why do you think people love you and like how you're loved? You're clear. They're obvious. You walk down the street, people stop you. They ask your autograph. You're famous. You're one of the most famous people in America. That's absolutely true. It was true before the last couple of months. It's been true for much of your life. why do you think that people I give you some my thoughts you know why do you believe people love you so much please I I think that um there's been a consistency that that I I I think folks um they they I think they applaud the fact that that that I've I've I've maintained a level of honesty that has been a through line from, you know, right when I started, you know, getting the attention and just never, never, never betrayed that.

22:12You know, if things went sideways or, you know, off the rails, whatever, I was always the guy that owned it. I was always the guy that's here for that we don't sand so thank you thank you so so I think I think that's a big part of it because if you if you look at at that specific terrain in my industry that's not usually the case you know people don't usually they're usually looking to you know have a fall guy or or some fantastical alibi that nobody believes, you know? Um, so, um, I mean, that's just the main thing that comes to mind as far as the why. And I won't, I certainly won't reveal any of the amazing, super interesting, inspiring, funny, crazy moments in the book.

23:14Thank you. Yes. Thank you. It is. And one of the things I didn't see in the book, and maybe I missed it, was you ever blaming anyone. So consistent with what you're just sharing, it seemed that you were always presenting reality, sharing it, accepting responsibility, being so uber transparent. But if anywhere the finger was pointed in the book, it was at yourself. Am I recalting that accurately? 100 you are 100 yeah because if i blame people then i'm presenting myself as a victim and and there there are no victims in my book thank you so is it also accurate to say that some of the things you first of all do you feel comfortable saying things that you love about yourself or respect about yourself or proud of these words that are accurate.

24:10I don't want to have inaccurate questions. So are the things about yourself that you love and respect and are proud of? Are there those things? I'm not the best person to rely on for, you know, accessing that type of stuff about myself. I think that's I see others doing that and it's nothing that I'm as that's not something I'm I'm drawn to, you know. But I mean, no, I do take credit for the accomplishments and the perseverance and the discipline and the focus and the longevity and all that stuff. But I don't ever really think about, you know, I'm a good guy. I mean, I just based on the response of others, I'd like to think that there is a goodness that shines through just walking around, just in my daily life.

25:22But how do you or not, if you don't mind, relate to the concept of self-love, loving yourself? Like it doesn't. Yeah. Like how, how does that statement like, yeah, if somebody in the audience said, um, or somebody said, Hey, I love myself. Like, is that, how do you relate to that or not? Just self-love. I look at it more as if I'm doing things that I know are really healthy or positive or just, you know, that I'm tapped into a frequency that I thrive inside of. I view that as a form of self-love. I don't you know so but I don't I don't like take inventory at the end of the day or or really try to break things down before before I've been engaged you know it's I you know I should I should I should sign up for one of your seminars one of your one of your programs you know yeah but if you think if you think that we would have a lot of fun Charlie and I say yes that so so yes fire at LBI so and I am in awe to be sitting here oh thank you I think my belt by being here really amazing it is a blessing thank you thank you for that at the highest level I do so I'm just you know a kid that grew up in Jersey City and you know born in hospital with a living in the house my parents were divorced my grandfather was blind so the thought of being here is um is a blessing and it is also i think predictable for everybody here to learn how to do that and that again is our work which you are stand for and so from that place you know if and again i always ask i don't want to presume things and questions that aren't accurate sure but do you ever think about what you'd want to feel and think on your last day if you're blessed and privileged to know was your last day if you were to be spoken of or remembered are these things that you do think about whether it's from a higher vibration or healthy place or just no place or or is it because i do relate to people sometimes like now like my world my life is about you know i just i take it every day at a time which i live my best day and i keep it right here how like what's that all about for you like like how like what how would i want to spend my last day if i knew it was the last day no no if you if you could fast forward to that day what would you want to accomplish between now and then or you don't even think that way or feel that way you know is there that for you and yeah legacy to be i actually fantasize about that um more in a in a comedic setting that um that the people that would be in the room right please that i could say to all of them this is the day that I kept talking about to all of you that all of that all of that stuff that that that you know all of that time that you took from me for me having to engage in your bullshit you know um this is this is the day when I really need that time back because

28:54because you know with as much that that that was absconded with um uh this wouldn't be the last day this would probably be my last month you know i hope that i am not in that camp uh at the end No, no, not even close. No, but I do actually tell my sons, I tell them, you know, we're going to be on my deathbed. And because I'm solving this thing for you again, we're not going to have as much time to say goodbye as you're going to wish that we did. You know, I know that sounds grim and it's not really being a progressive or passive parenting. I get that. But I just want them to feel the value of time.

29:42value of time though you know they say let's hear that so so oh and and also I'm not dying in a hospital okay I'm not dying and I don't care what's going on health wise where would you want it where would you want to die I'd be on a on a game I'm in tropical waters if I'm where do you like yeah what do you like to do for fun I'm sorry what do you like to do for fun oh we didn't finish the dying part let's go back to let's go back to dying yes please no I just I I see people I yeah I've seen people people I love dying hospitals and I and I just I've not I'm just not that's not that's a picture I can't paint for myself you know so i would go somewhere beautiful with with with people i cared about and others i just met um and uh and just you know keep an emergency dose of something if it got too painful yeah you know i mean you got to plan ahead sure yeah and just just you know um confronted on on on my terms that's awesome even though you're in a moment where it's like you like the the absolute like the most grand example of of not being in control of that moment you know amen um but you know what yeah maybe spend a little more energy on the living stuff yes on the stuff like right here right now and you know it like in a situation like today um you never really know what the moment is going to be until you're in the middle of it you know but today I just um I I wish to have more time again to have done a little more research uh just about you know what what what all of this is I was I was given the I was given the cliff notes I was given the cliff notes and and and given a pretty legit deep dive into you right and so and and and honored to be here and and and thank you and it so yeah so So this is a little bit on the fly, just kind of putting the pieces together.

32:25So I'm not going to say I'm totally up to speed right now. That is entirely intentional. I'm getting close. Entirely intentional. Entirely intentional. Okay, good. Yes. Good. So as we draw towards our last few moments together. Not on the planet. Just fucking. Just.

32:52okay okay good I'm hoping I'm hoping okay okay so you are amazing oh really thank you our of fun and humor and wit and you say yes so okay what what if anything was your training in humor was it natural model did you have somebody you looked after and taught, picked up from on screen? How would you support these people in getting some access to a micro-fraction of the wit of Charlie Sheen? Oh, gosh. Thank you. No, I grew up in a very humor-filled household. You know, my dad is just a jokester, you know? and he'll always he'll lead with humor and then decide based on whatever happens to be next but no it was it was just the influences I grew up on sitcoms I grew up on you know the comedic influences of what were some of your favorites like Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

34:15And, you know, later on, you know, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield. I mean, just like these geniuses, you know? But I always related to the straight man. You know, I had a ton of respect for the person, for the clown or the jester, right? The zany person handling that part of it. But, like, you know, my favorite character, I'm totally dating myself, on Get Smart is the chief. What do you think? Ed Platt, you know? So even if you look at a lot of the comedy that I've done, I'm always the anchor. I'm the guy in the eye of the storm and everybody else is that that maelstrom that cyclone around me you know so that's that that's where I feel comfortable that's where I feel that there's I'm I'm much more attracted to the subtlety of humor and not like in a you know and intellectual sense but just in in the simplicity of it.

35:36if that answers your question. 100%. Thank you. And that's what we're here for. We're here to dig into those types of elements, so thank you. Massively helpful. Oh, right on. Yeah, awesome. So, what do you do for fun and enjoyment?

35:57Yes.

36:00That was not a joke.

36:05I mean, fun for me is a weird word because there's been so many different definitions of that word. Versions. But then, yeah, what do I do for fun? What do I do for fun? I mean, I don't have to seek fun. there's always there's there's fun in everything that I do just by doing it you know what I'm saying yes yeah um yeah because I never say hey if we do this we're gonna have fun yeah um because guess what happens you never do you get there and it sucks and so I think just uh again it's it's the I can find humor in everything. And even if it's just me in an internal, private, secret monologue, walking around, some of the jokes work, some of them suck.

37:14But it just keeps it light. And that doesn't mean that I'm not in the moment engaged, right? But it just, all the voices in my head are all me, right? So it's not one of those things. um but but um but yeah there's a there's there there's a lot of dialogue that that um that is sort of a soundtrack to everything that i do so that that is fun for me that's literally fun yeah and and i guess this will be i'm gonna maybe if you have time for one question from audience. Oh, of course. Yeah. So is there a, Hey, this would be something I'd like to have happen in the future, whether it be in projects impact, is there anything like that?