Transcript of #622 - Miles Teller

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

Where's your home base?

My home base is Nashville. Okay.

Yeah. Our sister-in-law, or Kelly's sister, my sister-in-law My brother-in-law and my brother-in-law, they just moved to... I think they bought a spot in fucking Trubador.

Oh, yeah, dude, remember that's the first time I met you was when I... Was over there, yeah. You and your wife, I met you out there with...

Steli?

Yeah, with Will Steli.

Yeah, that was cool. He's an LSU boy, too. Yeah. And Todd is awesome.

Yeah, I saw Todd last week.

He's great, dude. He's such a fucking... He invited me to the Ryder Cup with him. I couldn't go, but he's just awesome. Todd Graves. He's a great dude.

Yeah, he's an interesting guy. He owns a Triceratops head. He owns that. He owns one. He lent it to the museum in Louisiana.

I mean, just obviously the skull. Yes. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool, though. Yeah, good call. I would pay somebody to fucking realistically fill that bitch in.

Oh, dude. Well, especially, you'll see a lot of perverts will be like, Oh, look at the tits on that. I'm like, Those are horns, you idiot.

Are we talking right now? Yeah. Is this real?

We can be, or we can start over if you want.

Okay, no, dude. I'm all good. I just had no idea.

But yeah, you'll see people just hang Mardi Cros bees and stuff on. In Louisiana, people just don't give a shit. Wow. But yeah, I just saw Todd the other day, dude. Where does he keep it? There's a museum over there. Oh, wow. It's like a Louisiana Museum. The stuff, the artifacts they keep in there are a little bit different, like a beer bottle or like a shit that's just a little bit more Louisiana.

Half my life, I grew up in central Florida, so I imagine it would be similar museums.

With Daniel Tosh was down there. Was Tosh popping when you were growing up?

Well, yeah, but also the Daily Show came to my county twice when I was growing up. The one is because they have a cuder festival, which is a type of turtle. A cuder? A cuder. It's like a type of turtle.

Bring up that cuder turtle.

Yeah, flash up that cuder. And then the other one, it was like Ed Helms came because the town next to mine banned the devil from coming into the town. And it was the town of Inglis. Some pretty backwoods, like Citrus County, where I went to middle school, high school.

Bro, that's amazing. First of all, this is... Oh, it looks like Cooter-tober just happened. Oh, yeah.

They're really, I guess, branching out. You could probably do it for every month. Anything that ends in a R, I think you're good, dude.

But Cudertover. Yeah. That sounds pretty wild. Cuder-tover is back, it says. Apparently, it was discontinued for a bit.

A whole month of Cuder-rific fun. And it's Florida. Let's go. Shout out.

This year, we're returning with all your favorite events, like the Cuder Carnival, Small Town, Saturday Night, Cuder Comedy. Oh, that's great. Yeah. That's the Cuder turtle.

Yeah, that is. They must not have discovered it for a while, or they must not have given it. They must not have celebrated it as much because I remember that they didn't start Cuder Fest until I was... I don't even know if I was still in high school. I might have been out of high school. So it took a while.

I I wonder how it even got that name because I've heard of people using like, go.

Slang?

Well, goats for like bestiality. But if this would be the worst thing to try to invade a species. How did it get its name? How did the cuder turtle turtle got its name. The cuda turtle got its name from the African word kuta, which means turtle. In the Bambara and Malinke languages, the word was brought to us.

Yeah, so it was. Yeah, it was. It originally was kuda.

Kuda? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kuda. Yeah, kuda fist.

Hey, boy, come on down a kuda fist. I just saw a woman. They have a woman that has two cudas, actually. I saw she's on TikTok the other day. There's a woman-What? Now, are you- Now, I'm talking about the anatomy. Now, I'm changing it. You want to hear a...

Okay. No, go. Yeah, go.

There is a woman who has two vaginas that's on TikTok. Yeah. She sent a DM the other day to me.

The other day- How many DMs did she send? One for each. Dude, dude.

She sent replica DMs. That's insane, bro.

Can I tell you a story? Yeah. I'm at my boy's wedding, and he's from Ohio. We're at the reception now, the after-reception. We're all just hanging out in the hotel room, and the one dude's like, Yo, do you remember that girl went to high school with two vaginas? And he's like, Dude, you're talking about Sheryl? And then his other buddy's like, Yo, Double Barrel Sheryl? And I just thought that was the funniest I've ever heard in my life, Double Barrel Sheryl. I was like, That's got to go in some American pie type movie. Just, I'm Double Barrel Sheryl. So as soon as he started talking about that, I was like, Oh, I have one.

Put her in a museum, dude.

Apparently, she used to say, This one's for my boyfriend. I'm saving this one for my husband. Oh. Yeah.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, right? Yeah. Because I would just... If I had both, I would...

You'd blow them both in the first week.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly, dude.

No, I'd be like, I'm saving this one for after dinner or whatever. But I would definitely, dude.

This is the dessert. This is, yeah. It would be like AM, PM. That's it, dude. Like the gas station. It's 24 hours. Running all night, dude.

This is my morning one, and this is my evening one. And one has like tattoos around it and stuff, and the other one is a bit more like back.

Classy. Yeah.

Yeah, a little bit more upscale.

Yeah, upscale. Leave a Yelp review. This one's closing in on five stars. This other one, you know what that one is.

Yeah, and the other one, for some reason, is 3. 8 stars. You're like, both viable options.

Pretty good.

Look, I'll pull up a chair. Go back to that, that's Double Barrel is a great name.

Double barrels, Sheryl, dude. Wow.

We weren't We're fortunate enough to get a woman like this in our area. Let's see what she says here.

I was born with two vaginas, two uteruses, and two cervixes. There was no joint from my mouth to my stomach, and that instead, my food pipe was connected into my air pipe, going into my lungs. The music is… That's tough. I feel like our tone should have been a little different when we were talking about I'm sure it's a horrible thing to deal with.

Oh, I can't even imagine. Even if I had two... Penises. Two penises, I would... Yeah, I don't know. Well, that would be very tough if you were, especially when you're in high school and stuff, and your body, you're going through puberty and whatever, and you're getting erection in high school. I would...

Erection. Yeah. Unless they will operate different frequencies. You know what I'm saying?

It's like AMF.

That's like an antenna. That's There's no hide in that. You got two ready to rock, dude. But if you could time them out, as soon as the one's done, other boy.

Like a pentameter? Yeah. Almost like a drummer.

Like your one's just getting the tires warmed up. The other one's doing a hot lap.

Yeah, dude. I think if you- You said like drumbers? Yeah, it'd be like a cool pentameter. Oh, yeah.

The Grateful Dead has two drumbers. Do they? It's best. You have their shirt on? Yeah.

I saw you went to their 60th.

I did the Sam Frin show. I've seen them at the Sphere. I've seen this iteration, Dead & Co, I think pretty much since John started. But yeah, they'reJohn Mair. Yeah, John Mair. But even before that, I was seeing some different versions of him and Bob Weer and Phil Lash independently. But yeah, it's the best. Honestly, when our house burned down, the thing that I was, probably one of the things I was most upset about was all of these vintage Grateful Dead shirts. But that community is so awesome. I don't have Instagram or anything, but they reached out to Kelly and were like, Hey, Deadheads. They were like, We feel so bad for you guys, and we know if our house burned down, we would really miss those shirts. Can we send you some from our own collection? So a bunch of people, shout out to you, just sent me shirts. It's such a loving community. I feel like all those bands from that era, especially the dead, who really supported everybody. Their crowds were rainbow-colored before anybody's. You know what I mean? If that makes sense.

Wow. So people just sent you different ones? Is that one of them?

No, this one, I think I got up in San Francisco. Oh, that was the spread. That was just for three days, but I was like, I don't know what pants I'm going to wear. You know what I mean?

Oh, that's for when you went to a show?

For San Francisco, there was three nights. So I just took them all out. It's the only stuff I post about is like... Yeah, even I guess my bio quote. I mean, that's a Jerry Garcia one.

That's great, dude. My brother has a big Jerry Garcia tattoo on his chest. Does he? He loves them. We got to go together, actually, and see them at the Sphere one time. Our producer, Zack, went and saw them I believe, for two nights in San Francisco. Yeah, Zack?

Yeah, I was up there. I was at all three nights, actually. Yeah, they're all amazing. Sturgill. I thought Sturgill was exceptional. I was going to ask, who do you think is the best sit-in? Sturgill is exceptional. I just think, overall, Well, Saturday. Saturday night was the best. It's hard because you can look at the set list, but usually at least one of those weekend shows, they just catch lightning in a bottle. I think that's the beauty of the band is that you're never going to hear the same song twice, but because it's so improvisational, and they're on the ride with you. To play music at that level, and they are, they're such... The skill set from all those guys is so high, but it's just fun, dude. I dance my ass off, too. People think it's like, you're just high and just sitting there. It's like, no, that music makes me boogie, dude. I love it. If you're not sweating, you're not trying either. I think maybe some of that's the Florida thing, but it's like, I grew up with a thin layer of sweat all over my body all the time. It makes you feel alive, dude.

In Louisiana, you can't even lay in a handshake with people. If it's a humid day, you'll see people trying to lay in a handshake for fucking 30 seconds, 40 seconds. They'll just give up on the friendship. They'll go their separate ways. It's just that's the place it is, man.

I always say it's like you have a thought and you're sweating. You know what I mean? But that air, too, you get off because we would always fly into Tampa, you get off that plane, it's just a huff. It's just a thick air, dude.

Yeah, it feels like the air has a little bit of an infection, to be honest with you.

When I feel that air at night, it just makes me feel mischievous because when I was... All those teenage years, just sunsets, get on a bike, just figure out some shit to do in your neighborhood. That air just makes me relapse, I guess. It's It makes me feel good.

It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel good. Dude, there is something about it. There's something about... I even think about this. If you ever stay at a place that doesn't have air conditioning, right? At first, you're like, oh.

Europe, most of Europe, dude.

You're like, this sucks. But then I feel like your dreams and everything is more acclimated to the actual climate of whatever's going on. And I always feel like I have more imaginative or creative dreams whenever I'm in a place that doesn't have air conditioning for some reason. But yeah, that south, dude, that shit hits you hard. Dude, you do dance, man. I remember this now. I think, I don't know if we were at... It could have been like Marshmallow, maybe. It was one night we were both in Las Vegas after a UFC fight. Okay. Maybe it was Chainsmokers or something. It might have been that one when Ed Sheeran was there.

I don't know.

But you were like, you dance, dude. Even if you're just by yourself, you are doing your own thing. It's like some people would think like, oh, Miles Teller, he's just going to this cool guy, and he just flew his jet in there, his fucking Mach 70 jet. Probably Southwest. Yeah. But he flew his Top Gun plane in. He's going to sit. No, dude, I love it. You have your own time. That's what it feels like. It's like you decide that I'm going to have a good time for me. It almost inspires. God, I wish I could be that free.

I think you're pretty free. I think you're a pretty free fucking dude. Just from your also coming-I guess I wish I could dance better. Okay, yeah. That's what I mean. Yeah, I don't know. I heard something a while back, and it's not something I think about, but they were like, if you're having a party or you're a group of people, you're not sure. Everybody, they said the number one way to try and make everybody have a good time is just have a good time yourself. But also I've just always rhythm, yeah, dance, and that's something I've just always got down with. That's how I I just love it. But yeah, I mean, DJ music. But I was like, Bob Seeger, classic rock gets me going, dude, let alone if there's some rock piano. I love that shit.

Yeah, dude, some good jazz. I like my mom came in town recently. We went and listened to some blues. She likes to do that. I went and listened to- Where'd you go somewhere for blues? We went to this blues place in Nashville. It's just in printer's alley. I think it's It's a bit of a touristy spot, but I think we're just having trouble finding a spot. We went, and we had a great time. It was actually a guy from New Orleans that was playing. We just sat there and just had a nice time. She likes to listen to it. It's funny as my mom gets older, she almost turns into a child a little bit. There's moments where it's almost like it's a kid there, just like in an older body.

Just the fascination, it feels near to It's a good question.

It's like, you can just see on her face, she's having a good time.

It almost feels like pure and some innocence to it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's great.

It's almost like-How old is your mom? She's 77. Yeah. So she's an adult. She looks a little bit like Willie Nelson. Let's see a picture of her. She's not going to want to hear that part.

She look a bit like Willy Nels. Oh, hell, yeah.

She's awesome. Dude, I love that. She listens to every episode of this.

Oh, great. What's her name?

Her name is Gina.

What's up, Gina?

There you go, mom. Miles is married, mom. Calm down. What's your mom's name?

Mary. Mary? Yeah, like Christmas. M-e-r-r-y.

Oh, really? Yeah. And they did that on purpose?

Yeah, she was born December 15th. It's close enough. But she gets like... So it's not Mary? There he is. My mom's best friend. My mom says she's the only one who pronounces her name correctly, and it's Mary. Okay. Okay, Mary. Then some of the... I just remember some of it like, they're not your uncles, but these guys live in the neighborhood, and they just all seem like pervy.

Guys at Loiter or whatever?

They were like family, friends and shit, but just some based on the... I don't know. I just feel like when I watch these old home videos, you'll just hear some... You're like, Whoa, that was pervy as shit, dude. They'll say Mary. Then they'll go, I can do it. Lugga, lugga, lugga, lugga, lugga.

Yeah, that's going to raise a few flags. Yeah.

Wow.

Mary. Mary. Yeah, that is nice. What does your mom do for work? Does she work?

She did real estate for a while, but yeah, no, not working. My dad actually retired. He just retired a couple of years ago. He was born in 54, so I'm 71. I think he retired pretty close to 70.

And are they enjoying? Has it gotten weird for them since they're both retired? Because some couples, it weird because they're both at home and stuff.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I see a good amount, but I'm sure... I know my dad likes doing outside work. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean?

A lot of guys, the second they realize that they have to be in the house. When the retirement happens, it's like, Oh, God, there's nowhere to go.

Yeah, you need something like hobbies, dude.

My stepdad built 40 birdhouses in our area. Oh, that's cool. He did not want to be...

Just the building them. Yeah. Did he ever put I mean, some of them on?

Some of them, he did. He got the one, the helmet.

Just go back to 14-year-old in shop class.

I guess that's the-He was building dog house. We didn't even have a dog. I think he just wanted to be... He still needed some time alone.

Yeah.

So I think there's that.

I don't have kids yet, but I imagine. Because growing up, my dad would be working on the pool or something, or just be fiddling with stuff in the garage for hours. I had no idea what he was doing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's got to be cool, dad stuff. I bet it'll be cool whenever you're a dad. It's tinkering.

I just want to tinkering. I just want to tinkering. I could tinker for days, dude.

Let me get out here. Let me start collecting something weird, too. My buddy's dad collected all these toy trains and stuff, and whenever we'd go over there, he'd have to set it all up, dude. It would take...

Like around the holidays, around Christmas or something?

I think it was any time. He started to lose his mind, and he would just set that bitch up in June. Yeah. And he'd have to set, he'd have to do the train. It was just like, you want to support your friend's parents, but it was just a lot. It's a lot to watch somebody do the toy train a lot.

I had this bus driver growing up. His nickname was Fingers because he was missing a couple I love them.

But he had this- Thankfully, that's the reason why I did it because there's a bus full of kids.

Fingers. Yeah, he'd always point at you with the nub. Oh, yeah. But he had this belt buckle because we're just talking about collecting weird shit or whatever. But he had this belt buckle that looked like he had hand-glued on like, silver dollars. And so it was just like 20 Silver Dollars. I thought it was cool as shit when I was a kid.

Oh, dude, the stuff you thought was cool when you were a kid was so great, dude. Even like you said earlier, I remember, I was talking about this the other day whenever the sun, if you were playing in the street with your friends and it was like somebody was pitching the ball, you're like, One more pitch, but the sun was setting. You're like, Dude, just one more. You knew you were going to try to hit a home. The game, it wasn't even It was just these moments when you were a kid, everything was so severe. Or if you rode your bike at night, just anything like that.

It was so-Just riding a bike. In Jackson, I think the beauty... Just riding a bike in general, man, it just brings you back to that. I knocked myself out once playing this game. I got a bunch of concussions when I was younger, but my sister just graduated sixth grade. I was probably in fourth grade. I was trying to come up with a game, so we grabbed a basketball and an aluminum bat. And we're like, play basketball. So she pitched it. I hit it the first time. It's like ding, ding, ding. So I'm like, all right, I got to grip it tighter. Second time, fucking metal bat with a rubber ball, dude. I fucking swung it, ding, knocked myself out. My parents, actually, they were saying And the teachers in my school were thinking that my parents were beating me because I would come in once a week or two, just like, Shiner, like concussion, dude. And I had that little surfer cut. So I would try and just cover the... Oh, yeah. The fucking tennis ball with that. Waves are intense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow, gnarly, gnarly swell today, boys.

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Was that your-Yeah. I was filming a movie in London, and we had a house in Studio City, and that house got robbed while I was filming. I thought I was just going to, I thought we'd go back after filming, bump up security measures, refortify. Kelly's like, no. She's like, they go through all of her stuff. It is. It's a very violating feeling. Then we bought that Palisade's house. Honestly, I would say it was the first neighborhood in LA where my wife, A, felt really safe, and then B, would be excited to go back to LA whenever we'd be filming. I never heard her say that in the 12 years we'd been dating. We worked It was some designers. My wife really designed so much of it. I had this feeling last night because we're in this rental. Obviously, we've been in rentals. I was just laying in bed. I was like, Man, the place we're in, it's a nice place. We don't have to worry about the water, the air. It's really well done. But at the same time, it fucks with your mind when you can't look around at any point and see anything that reminds you of your life.

Everything is just there's no attachment to anything. Oh, that's literally my fucking house.

I don't know why we brought that up.

That's my Bronco, though. That was my '75 fucking Bronco. No way, really? So beautiful, dude. I had that thing for eight years.

Why would we bring this?

No, honestly, to be fair, the first picture I saw, Kelly and I, saw from our fucking house, to know that it was actually burnt down was from TMZ. They sent a drone in there. And also, because they started, the first homes they're talking about are celebrity homes. And that's not fair because the community of the Palisades, all of our neighbors in that community, honestly, were people that had lived there for 30, 40 years. It was people that had raised their kids there, were having their grandkids there. And a lot of those people, their home burns down at 70 years old. It's like, we don't have time to rebuild. But there was a little elementary school across the street, and they had these dudes on bikes with wooden boxes behind them. They would ride the kids home from school. It really was like that movie Pleasantville. I don't know. It was just such a Well done community.

It's a nice place. I've gone a lot of-It was. Yeah. We used to get a lot of recovery meetings up there, and it was just like, it would be the most nicest thing on Saturday. We'd pull up and people would park.

Would you go to the church on Villa de la Paz? Yeah. That's the road I lived on. I lived two blocks, maybe even one block from that church because my buddy said he used to have meetings over there.

Dude, yeah, they had some of the best meetings in the world were there, really. It was just such a special energy over there. If you go walk and go over to that smoothie shop that's over there, and they got those Akai bowls, and then they got the little restaurant right across the street from it. That's right near that Starbucks in that big pink, that whole village.

Are you talking like the village and stuff?

Yeah. No, it's like there's that Starbucks in the corner?

Okay.

And there's that little place that has breakfast right around the corner from it. But we go park at the Galsons and sit there and people would talk before the A meetings, and then we'd walk over to the meeting together. Oh, good. But it was just a nice... It was like, yeah, man, that place is a great place. I'm sorry that that happened, man. Were you guys able to go in and get stuff out, or what was that like?

When the fire started, we could see it start from... Because in that area, Villa de la Paz, you have a good vantage point. You got some altitude to you so we could see where the fire started. And I would say it was probably about three and a half, four miles maybe at our 12 o'clock. And the winds really weren't that bad at that point. It was scary because we were seeing the fire start to on some homes. You're watching a home with this fire going towards the home. You're just feeling for that family, whoever's there, and then turn on the news. Because there's one road out, it was already like... It got serious very fast. People were abandoning their vehicles. It's like women running with babies. This was it within an hour of this fire starting. I was taking care of my grandma at the time because my grandpa had just passed away around Christmas. I was in the process moving her with me. She's got some meds and she's slow moving. So I was like, Hey, grandma, maybe no rush, but let's start getting your meds together. We grabbed a couple of T-shirts. I got two Grateful Dead shirts.

We thought we'd be in a hotel for a couple of nights. But no, I remember at one point my brother-in-law calling my wife and he's like, Now make sure Miles grabs that Kobe jersey or that Eagles thing. I was like, I couldn't come to terms with... I just couldn't face the reality. A, I did not think our neighbor was going to burn down. There's no brush. It would have to jump six lanes, which it didn't. But I just remember thinking, Where do you It's like, where do you stop? If I take this off the wall, then there's just too much. I think it was overwhelming. But it's funny because I always told Kelly, if a natural disaster happens, something like that, you're going to drive the truck, load everything in the back. I'm going to take my Bronco. But when it's actually happening, you're like, no, obviously. I make sure my wife and my grandma and our dog and stuff. So no, we really didn't. We really didn't grab... I'm saying even little shit. When you're at home, I imagine you have a favorite coffee mug. If you drink coffee, or just something that has some history to it.

It's just none of that stuff. Truly, it's everything I've acquired in life. It's gone. Yeah, it's wild.

Was there feelings after that? Because that's such a... It's traumatic. Is there anything in a weird way, and I don't mean this Is there anything cathartic in some weird way about it? Does that sound crazy? Or is that not a real thing?

No, I think- Maybe that's super- No, because there's some people that have lost… I don't know if it was their main home. There are certainly that have talked about that baptism of it. But I told Kelly, this was like a couple of days after I said, Look, I know at some point, especially when we have kids, if we're fortunate enough to have kids, and we're giving them life lessons, that's what it's all about, parent, you've been through the thing they're going through, more or less. I said, the fact that we'll be able to sit down with our kids and say, When your mother and I were your age or this age, we lost everything, and we figured it out. And I know that as a couple, that really is going to just make us stronger. We didn't have any cracks before, but certainly, when you go through something like this, 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 or TikTok. She's like, Bright-siding is when you're telling somebody this thing, no matter what it is, something dramatic, and they're like, Well, look on the bright side, you have your health.

And It invalidates the thing they're going through. But I know what you're talking. For me, I guess I feel that more like 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. It's like spring cleaning. I'm like, Dude, that's a horrible comparison. But yeah.

No, but it's valid. I had 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. That It 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, it was. Yeah, that's true.

That's the other field of just not having whatever home means to you, 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, I don't know, somebody else coming in. So that just thing. Damn. But yeah, it's all good.

Well, thanks for entertaining some of those questions. I didn't. Maybe you've talked about that ad nauseam, man. I'm sorry if you have. I didn't really think about that. I watched your movie, dude. Yeah, what did 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 even think about it. It was like when you look around your rental place that you're at now, that there's not even things that are your... There's not pieces of you that are spaces or memories, or you can walk past something and think like, Kelly and I were there. That's one of our first vacations, or that's where we got a dog, or different things like that. It reminded me of just some of the... Like the archives that... Because the movie is called Eternity, and it's Basically, can you just give me a brief summation of what it's like?

Because you'll do a better job. When you die, you get put with somebody, and then you take a train, and then you get deposited in this Grand Central Station meets World's Fair place. You get an afterlife coordinator, and then the rules are you get to live eternally. You pick an eternity. But once you pick, you're in that forever. And so the eternities have different themes. There's capitalism world or smoking world.

Yeah, Maryland-Manson world.

Yeah, Maryland, yeah, Manson World. Chocolate world. Yeah, you can get down with whatever. Somebody was like, I want an eternity where it's like, Miami Beach, spaghetti and cocaine. I was like, Well, that's Miami. That's It's like, I think you just... You can actually go there now. You know what I mean?

That's a night at Carbone. That's all that is.

Yeah. Carbone is so good. Carbone is good, dude.

Oh, my God.

I thought it was just beautifully shot. I just thought it was really just a really original script. That's what I thought.

It's so original. It makes you think about, if I do pass away, it gave me like-Well, you will pass away. Oh, yeah.

Shit. I'm just thinking, I don't know. Biohacking is crazy. Seat right now. A lot of haters.

A lot of haters in here.

I was thinking if I do pass away, well, debatable.

But it was great because your character's wife-Elizabeth Olson. Elizabeth Olson, right? She passes away, and then she has to choose between her first love.

Yeah, this dude who's been waiting. He passed away in the Korean War. He's been waiting like 60 something years for her.

Right. And you who are at the Grand Central Station now, too. You guys are both waiting for her in a Yeah.

Well, I didn't know he was still waiting for her.

Are we giving away too much of Ethan?

No, I think that's in the trailer.

Yeah. It's all in the first 10 minutes. But it's fascinating because then she shows up, and now you two are vying for her affections. And then who does she stay with? Does she stay with this first love that she lost and didn't get to have a life with? Or does she stay with this love that she already got to have a life with? And it's just...

And there was like... Some people were telling me It's like, Oh, man, that's my nightmare. People that had been widowed and moved on this and that. But it does. It really makes you think about, yeah, your own life and what's beyond and family and... I don't know.

And how long love lives. I think that was part of it. I remember when I've done, and this is a little bit of a weird sidebar, but when I've done in DMT, it's like the only feeling that you're left with is that the only important feeling as it feels like you're leaving the existence is that love was the most important thing and that everything else was just a complete fool's errand. Yeah.

And also that... Well, because we're talking about, but you get this feeling that your consciousness, which is who we are, is really this This really is just 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. You still feel like yourself, and that 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 that consciousness is still able to evaluate that love is so important. That's one thing that I thought.

No, but also I thought about that, too. I'm like, I think the most important thing in life for me really is it's like relationships. To me, that's the thing I imagine when I'm sitting there on my deathbed, if I'm lucky enough to...

If you die.

Yeah, if I die. Because we have a new package for you.

Right, sure.

I can't wait. Give me that longevity, whatever it is.

We got a new peptide for you.

Perfect, dude. Kelly will show me one thing. When you're talking about some product. I'm like, Yeah, sure. Sounds good. Was it bee pollen sperm? I can put it in a smoothie, babe. But no, it's like relationships. To me, that's what I'm thinking. I'm not going to be thinking about that Bronco or that movie or that. I'm going to be like, Man, I'm going to be thinking about my wife, my buddies, my family, my relationship with higher being I have. And I think that's the... And that's what I get the most, the return from. What you put into relationships, that's what you're going to get back. I just think that's always led me on a good path in life.

Yeah. I know. Sometimes I feel like I've almost spent too much time working. One of the nice things, I recently have gotten to take a break from touring because I've I've been on a touring pretty heavily for four or five years, and maybe really for probably 15 years. I've been able to go to football games and maybe try to plan a date and go on a date, not be like, Try to pick up the pieces all the time and stuff like that. Yeah, just things like that. To be able to see a friend a couple of weeks in a row or know that you're going to be able to keep the relationship going, stuff like that is...

When it's not just sandwiched in between it's like, okay, I I have one and a half days. I have this thing on Friday, this thing on Monday, whatever. Yeah, that's never enjoyable.

It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like there's any space.

You need to have some time to yourself. Even with filming, man, I've always been pretty good. Obviously, I have no problem going back to back to back if it's the right thing. But other than that, for me, it's got to be really special because you take time. I enjoy my miles life. I enjoy my life with my friends and my family, Kelly and this and that. To have the time to, like you said, nourish those relationships is so important. And just figure out who... I don't know, get back to what you like.

Yeah, man. I thought it was interesting how in the movie, Oh, who is the... So you get to the Grand Central Station, this purgatory type of place, and they connect you with an afterlife coordinator. And then the funny thing is, it's almost like this mall of afterlives. They're trying to sell you or shop It's like, Oh, here's one. It's just a Bed, Bath & Beyond forever. You're just in a place. You're in a candle and lotion shop forever. Or here's one, it's at the beach. You're at the beach forever or skiing forever. And it's like a Willy Nelson world. It's just like everybody there looks like Willy Nelson, and that's all they do all the time.

There's some people that love... You guys love the same shit? Right.

You get to go there and you're going to meet other people that love Willy Nelson, and it's going to be Willy Nelson forever, right? Hell, yeah. But they give you this afterlife coordinator, like you said. Those characters were great in yours, man.

Thank God. Devine Joy, Randolph, who won the Sporting Actors Oscar for the Holdovers. Then John Early, who is a... I'm sure some people watching this know who John is. He's got some really incredible stand-up specials. Bring him up?

I don't know if I was familiar with him.

A couple of shows, too. 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.

That shit was hilarious, dude. I got to touch Vace with this guy. I got to watch more of his stuff. But yeah, dude, that was great. Then how Yeah, it was just like, man, she'd had this love that had died in the war. And it was like, oh, and she'd waited, and then she'd met you. And yeah, it was just like... And then there was this moment where you You realize that, I don't want to give any more away. But it was also harrowing to think of how many widows were, how many women were widowed by war? Oh, yeah, right. How often that happened. Pull that up, actually. Can you see how many Women were widowed by...

Yeah, I mean, I forget what they said. The average lifespan was for Norm... When they stormed Normandy, but it was... They were getting mowed down.

Wow, it says, For World War I alone, approximately 3-4 million were widowed due to the roughly 9. 7 million military deaths. 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. Because it's a great time. It's fun. You want to go see people that want to pay attention. Yeah. And I would start going to smaller markets. We did 200 in 50-something markets over the past four years with this tour. And it was... Yeah, it's great. But then it starts to become a lot. It just was a lot.

I imagine you're like... Yeah, of course, you want to...

You want to see everybody. You want to make everybody happy.

Yeah, and that's like whenever I go somewhere and if there's an event and you can tell, okay, these are actually These aren't just scalpers or dudes trying to sell your autograph. It's like, of course, I make movies for people to see them. And so the fans are a product of that. It's like, yeah, I love doing that stuff. You just feel like, yeah, of course, we're in the entertainment industry. You know what I mean? It doesn't exist in a vacuum. You want to bring a smile to somebody's face, especially those smaller markets that don't get the acts that the other spots do.

Yeah, we've had so much fun. I mean, from places like Casper, Wyoming, to Beaumont, to Toledo. We've done so many markets, and then we're like, oh, these other places we can go to. And then we'll do a lot of just meeting groups after the show. We'll just go pop out and meet people. You'll be sitting out there just hogging people and checking in on folks and getting a temperature of humanity and stuff like that. And it feels good. It almost feels in a little way like you live everywhere in some ways because you realize that there's just so many great people who are all searching for some of the same things. I think with this podcast, sometimes it's a bit more than just jokes and information. Sometimes it's just creating a connection. Yeah, show me that chart again, man. Thank you for asking, though, man.

Yeah, of course.

The Civil War had 620,000 to 750,000 military deaths. High widowhood. Let me see. World War I, estimated around 325,000 widows. World War II, around 405,000 widows. Korean War, and that was the war that your co-actor died in in this movie. Yes. Around 36,000 widows. But yeah, 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 the boat he was on to come in. Yeah. So I think that was one thing that was neat about Eternity to me was there's this fun thing going on where you guys are figuring out these different worlds, the afterlife, and it's super entertaining. But then there's also there was this pretty emotional stuff going on with like, how do we look at love? And if you've already gotten to live one love, if you got to go back, would you choose a different one? Yeah, it was just cool.

What I enjoyed about reading the script and when we performed it was that it never loses its grounding and the stakes and the sincerity of it. There's some really funny moments, but nothing ever becomes slapso. It's not a movie we're just trying to get in as as many one-liners as we can. I think it always... It's just a delicate balance between having that sincerity and the love. But also, I do think it's really funny. I think it's like... It's just... We did the premiere in Toronto, man. We just had... At the after-party, you could just tell people are coupling off and just talking. It just makes you think. I think it's a beautiful film.

One of my favorite parts, too, is just right in the beginning when they're driving in that car together, 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... You're not going to offend me. Just bullshit banter, bickering, complaining.

And they're both... Neither one of them is saying... Everything they're doing is just making the other one, whatever they're saying, a problem.

I think my wife and I secretly enjoy to fucking annoy each other. You know what I mean?

That's probably part of love, probably. Yeah. Like a little bit of annoyance, a little bickering. I didn't realize that Elizabeth Olson? Yeah. I didn't realize that she was related to Mary Kate and Ashley Olson? Yeah. I had no idea.

I know. A pretty dynamic family.

Yeah, absolutely. That's wild. Did you get to meet them? Did they come by the set?

They did not. No, they did not.

That's so crazy. Because they had a childhood start of lives. That had to be so odd.

Yeah. I know. It tends to... I mean, and they've become very successful in in the design space. Outside of it, yeah. Absolutely. I think it's tough.

It'd be a nightmare. Do you feel like it affected you?

If I was that... What?

Did you feel like you started to become popular at a pretty young age? Do you feel like you were baked into you already, or do you feel like if it had been earlier, do you have any thoughts about that at all?

I think for me, things happened at the pace that lined up with my own maturity or life experiences because it's like I went to college for four years and trained there. I was 22 when I did my first movie, maybe I was 24, 25 when Footloops came out, the project decks, and that thing. And I was doing some college comedy type stuff. So that was all good. I think had I gotten really famous when I was 17, I was raised really well. I I never had to worry about my parents or somebody taking money from me, which happens a lot. It's really unfortunate. That's really a shame to lose trust. Oh, yeah. That young from loved ones, I 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 honestly pretty organic. I felt like I was able to handle. And also, when I moved out to LA, a bunch of my boys from high school all moved out. So I didn't need anything from LA. I didn't come to LA to find myself. I'm like, No, I know who I am. Me and my buddies get a house or whatever in the valley. Yeah, I always had familiar faces around me.

That's so nice.

Even my agent, I met her on my first movie. She's been the same ever since. That shit to me hasn't changed. I think I was lucky in that sense that a bunch of my boys were like, Yeah, we'll go. Dang.

Dang.

Yeah.

That's dope. Dude, were they acting, too?

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.

Getting LA is hectic. What was you all's band name in high school?

We were the Mutes because we all started because we played the Homecoming parade, and then the power went out for our generator, so the amps, there was no sound. That's enough of a reason. That's a That's the name right there. I think we actually were playing for SWAT, on the SWAT float, which was-Really?

Like SWAT team?

No, like students working against tobacco. Yeah. You don't remember SWAT? It was like D. A. R. And SWAT.

No, dude. Bro, we had a Dare officer named Mr. Bob, and RIP, he passed away. Everybody knew who he was, but he would pull off, and he was a humongous man. This is back when a man was very What does D.

A. R. 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. What are some of the meme D. A. R. Ones? I don't even know if I know any of them.

No, I just remember in high school, people would say, Drugs are really expensive.

Especially in Florida, if you got some good drugs. But dude, swats.

What happened with the officer?

It was students working against tobacco? Yeah.

What do you mean working against tobacco? Yeah, there it is, dude. Swat was big. Swat was big time. I'm surprised.

Bro, that sketch on the right. Zoom in. That sketch on the right, dude. What the fuck is he doing there?

Yeah, see, inventors, laboratory, big tobacco. Big Tobacco. Big Tobacco is going down. Let's go. I don't even know what the fuck... I mean, they would have meetings.

Bro, that is sketch. I can't even believe you guys. He was locked in with that shit.

Well, that's not my high school. But our float probably looks... You just needed some dude with a flatbed, and then you just throw some streamers on it.

Bro, I never heard that in my life. That's funny. I've never heard of it. I do remember. Yeah, try it on perplexity. See what they got. Pull up some of the dare me.

What did Officer Bob... What was his big moment? Yeah, see, drugs are really exciting.

Don't actually recover ever.

Jesus. That's heavy. Drop everything and run.

Yeah, but it was a lot of people screaming, I won't do drugs or whatever. But Officer Bob was huge, dude. One year, he pulled up and he could not get it. He couldn't even get out of his car. We had to do the talk from a megaphone from his vehicle. People were like, what? It just sounded so garbled and stuff. 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, we put weed on one of the kids, and all the kids would be like...

And then they just stick a fucking German shepherd on the kid? Yeah. Jesus, dude.

Yeah, pretty awesome.

Dude, there was some weird stuff in my high school, too, man. Yeah, dude, in Florida? And every teacher's coach, every teacher in our high was coach because they used to coach a basketball team where they coach... I remember one dude, he coached the... It was like the debate team or something, and he was still coach.

Oh, dude, yeah. They would just pick whoever the lesbian teacher was at our school was also had to be the drama teacher for some reason.

That was ours for a minute. Our softball coach, lesbian, ended up a couple of years after I graduated, she was having a relationship with a sophomore. Oh, yeah.

It's unfortunate It, and that's Florida. I don't know what that is, but that's-A lot of the time it is Florida. It's Florida, and that's softball. I don't know if it is or not, but there's a lot of inner-Have you ever been down to Key West, though?

Key West is my happy place. Is it, dude? Yeah, just killer life. I think the best live music countries. Austin, obviously, Nashville. Key West, man, just killer music. You Either you're walking around the whole time or if we go in a big group, everyone's just on these little scooters. Every bar looks like it just went through a hurricane. Yeah. I got to 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 a couple of weeks or something, stayed at this hotel for something for months. Yeah, he spent almost a million. Spend a shit ton of money.

I think almost just under a million bucks.

That's hard in Key West, too, because you will get the moisture still for 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. How to spend a million bucks in Key West. Oh, my God. Dude, are you like...

He's a fucking John Daly of Key West, dude. What was I going to fucking talk about?

I don't know.

Dude, oh, there was the... I feel like somebody's been blowing weed smoking here right now.

John Daly, baby.

But SWAT.

Students working against tobacco field. Yes. Because if they're not doing it... That's true. Tobacco is just running rampant.

It'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.

It's specifically a Florida thing.

To revolt against and de-glamorize tobacco. No way. Yeah, wow.

Wow, dude. Well, that makes... I thought it was 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 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. We had this thing, so we had to build a float one It was for the Homecoming parade. And my buddy Patrick, we had to make this tree. Ours was the tree of life or something or whatever, or keep growing or something like that. And my buddy Patrick, he was going to... 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... If you blow enough smoke, some of it will just 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 And nobody will know, but you'll be in there to super high. And it's all like...

Oh, you're saying... Okay, so I was thinking you cut a hole out of the trunk, so it's like his face and just like, roast in 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 trunk of the tree. The trunk is fully built around him. It's like this whole paper, machete and wire setup that's going to be on a float. And then there's this big bulb on top of of him, almost like a very small water tower would be look. That is all adorned with green paper, machete and everything. That's a big tree. They'll put a hole on top of that. Patrick, you just stand in there and keep smoking months, and some of the smoke will leak out the top. It'll be awesome.

We'll love it. You'll be very fucking high, dude. He was so fucking high, dude.

It's like a two-hour break, 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. It was the most high person that we'd ever seen in our area. It was funny.

That dude couldn't go to school for a week.

And he hasn't been.

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... Patrick.

It's going to be awesome, dude. He's going to sit there, he can't smoke as much as he want.

Sometimes for the first two blocks, you could hear him yell, Can you all see the smoke? But after that, there was no sound coming out of there. It was almost like He's not dead.

He probably died for a second.

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And then what's that shoot schedule like on a day-to-day basis? For somebody at your level, do you still have to shoot every single scene? Do they shoot around some stuff? What's the reality of that?

I think I've been fortunate enough to work on some great projects with some great actors, for the most part, some really incredible directors that wanted to be the first one there, last one to leave. I just think it's important that right off the bat, people understand it's like, I'll be here for anything you need. Because a lot of the time, if you got to maybe for the shot or whatever, the eye line is tight, they want you to work with just an X on the thing. And some people are really good working that way. For me, I have to feel the connection with whoever I'm working with. And so for a bigger budget movie, sure, there's certain things that you can build into your contract to make you as comfortable as possible. But at the end of the day, I don't really give a shit, man. I'm pretty low maintenance. It's just like whatever we need to do to make the best movie possible, I'm in. I'm fully in. Anything you need for me, I'm here. And also, I think I approach film or just acting in general. I mean, I grew up loving... I played sports, and every sport, it was like team sports always, and playing music.

And that just being a link in the chain, to me, 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 lead from the front. If I'm number one on the call sheet, and if I'm producing the thing, it's important to me to know everybody's name and just to feel like we're all in this thing together. I think when you're making a movie and you just come out for your stuff, go back to your trailer, it's fine, and everybody works Definitely. But just for me, I need to really feel that camaraderie. Part of the squad. Yeah, part of the squad, man.

Yeah, it is so much fun. Because the fact that something gets created really out of nothing, right? There's words get created and put onto a page, and then you want to make sure there's enough feel.

I think writing is probably the hardest out of all of the disciplines. I can't imagine just staring at a blank page, page one, scene one.

You don't start thinking about... You don't do that stuff? What? Will you write a script or no?

No. I think I'm better at when if writers already have an idea or I can make, I feel like I'm good at collaborating within the scene work and framework of the script. I'll certainly help shape things 100%. I think most actors, through improvisation or through talking with the writer, absolutely inform the material 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. But also, I truly believe in 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 inspiration from the people around them. I think that's really beautiful. I think you have to feel I think the only time I get upset when I'm filming is when I feel like I'm working with a dictator and that I don't feel comfortable to speak up about... I don't like closed-minded people. Closed-minded people, to me, that's when I... I guess I really don't like authority figures. I thought getting in the arts, that's a great path for me because it's a collaborative medium in nature.

But I don't like when people lead with an iron fist too much. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy, dude. What did I see? I'm trying to think of something else. Oh, one part of the movie that was interesting to me was there was a moment where she had chosen an eternity, so she chooses one of the men. But then you can go look at archives. You can go back into a museum of your life.

Yeah, that's a really interesting part of it.

Yeah, it was just neat to see how that... It's just nice to see that if we pass away, which you are a believer of, that we get to go through almost like this zoo where there's different exhibits of scenes from your life that means something.

Yeah, your memories. I think people... I think that term core memories now is something that's become in vogue.

That was fantastical, but that was one thing that I thought was pretty dope about it. What about a heist movie, dude? I just saw this heist.

See if you can see. How about the Louver? That's it, bro. That's the That wasn't a movie. That's the freaking news, dude. But that is wild.

I mean, how the Louver jewelry heist unfolded. On the south side, the heist took a matter of minutes.

They put up a bridge 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 I mean, I have alarms on my windows if something opens. They burst 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 got people out of that room. This very wing of the Louver also contains the Mona Lisa.

So it's the most precious things in France are there. But only 75% of the rooms have security cameras in them. Four minutes later, they emerge with eight precious items, including tierra, necklaces, a beautiful brooch, and a crown. How'd they get away, nick? That had been worn by- 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 more security.

It's like what you and I would decide. Two guys would decide, Hey, let's go get the lure.

Let's steal that crown.

Yeah. Oh, my wife is upset. She doesn't have a crown or whatever. And then you're like, All right, let me see how I can figure it out.

Give us nine minutes. But also it's like, so what do they sell this? Do they take it apart and sell it on the black market? Do they just need to hold onto it until after generation, generation, and then try and get rid of it?

And then say it just popped up somewhere. Yeah, I don't know. It's true. How do you get rid of something like that? It's almost pretty magical that they were able to do it.

But I mean... I know. I think it's... I mean, it certainly gives truth to these heist movies and stuff. You're like, No way. It's like, well, you can do it with just a little saw, actually, and a scooter. You don't even need switching identities and shit. It's like, No, but that's what I was running when the dude's in there banging his... Just carving through this glass. Nobody 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. That's crazy, bro. And the Mona Lisa It's a dude, Mo Lisa, that looks more like a dude, I think.

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 This is what I think happens sometimes. These museums fake having stuff stolen to get people to come to the museum or to add texture and story to their place. Yes, the Mona Lisa.

Yeah, 1911.

Yes, the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. From the Louver.

The Louver needs the button off, dude. The Louver is like, What are you guys doing? No wonder you keep getting robbed. It's obviously not that hard.

Dude, it's a fucking halfway house for art, dude. They got to figure this shit out, dude.

He discussed- Got a ring camera, my guy. What are you doing?

He discussed himself. He discussed 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...

But you can't tell anybody about it. Right. You know what I mean?

Yeah, you can't even get...

You I 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. For sure. That's usually how they end up catching criminals on that most wanted list. They slip up, they tell somebody something.

Bro, I'm so high right now. Don't tell anybody. But I murdered a couple of people.

Yeah, great. Wild. Remember that shit I told you last night? Man, we were fucked up. We were fucked I'm not fucked up. You said you murdered someone. I said I did. We were both just joking. It was a goof. It was a goof. That was a goof.

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 a little bit petty, but I don't know anybody had ever met him.

Tom's great. I had worked with that director before. I had done I had done two movies with him, I think, at that point. No, I had done one movie with him at that point. But yeah, I mean, I had to audition for it. I think they were down to a couple of guys. Fle and did an audition with Tom. He's very disarming. But for some reason, I didn't feel like I was going to be nervous around him. I have, obviously, an immense amount of respect for the guy, but he's such a consummate professional, and he's one of our great, great actors. His filmography, I think, if you attach commercial and critical, I think this run that he went on multiple times through his career is going to be very hard to touch. But yeah, he really cares about the work, and he labors over the script. We would have a meeting when we were filming. He's like, All right, we're going to meet. We're going to talk about this scene that exists on page 50 or something. But you always start page one, scene one, and you start from the very beginning. 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, Well, it's time to go. We'll meet tomorrow. But nobody works harder. He knows everybody's name. He's first one in, last one to leave. But that movie took a long time to make. Everybody was so committed. And also, you have to work in part and parcel and in concert with the Navy. Navy doesn't stop being the Navy. So if we're filming on a carrier, we're filming it in Top Gun, or we're filming all these places, these guys are actively training nonstop. So, yeah, it was a lot. It was a lot to work out.

So you're having to work in between certain days while they're doing stuff or at night while they're-Yeah.

I remember when we were on the carrier, maybe we had a two-hour window for something to be up on the top deck. But 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, you feel like you're on a submarine because the hallways are very cramped. Everything is metal. There's nothing for comfort. There's nothing extraneous. That is an active carrier. It's a wartime carrier. But it's very... It's basically a weapon. I mean, we're launching aircraft from it. But when you're walking around, I mean, all the hallway, everything is so tight, even though it's this massive vessel. I walked by this one sailor, and I was like, Hey, I was like, Living the dream, huh? He just turns me and he goes, Nightmars are also dreams. He said, It's so cold. I was like, We're on the theater, Roosevelt. But no, I just, I don't know. I have so much...

Nightmars are also dreams.

Nightmars are also dreams. Yeah, because I mean, That's a good point. Depending on what your job is on that carrier, I mean, your job placement, you might be seven or eight decks below. And just the nature of operations, sometimes, you're… That's your territory. Oh, yeah, absolutely, man. Do you start-I have so much respect for…

Oh, yeah.

When you think of the-No, the territory is best.

What people go through. We're trying to maybe have Gary Senece come on. I know he's-He is.

There's Nobody that's done more. That guy has truly been his life's mission. Yeah, he's fantastic. To support veterans. Absolutely. Because it's not like the VA... Because I did this movie about guys coming home from war. It's called Thank You For Your Service. It was based on this book, Real Guys. That's what you learn. It's like the VA is not broken, it's just overwhelmed. And for guys to unpack. Our writer-director was telling me, he's like, 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. It is. It's really complicated. Those programs that are working for nonprofit. They can only take so many people. Funding is really important. And the use of people.

Sorry, go on.

No, I was just saying it's really tough. And also just with mental mental health in general, the amount of training that it takes for somebody to be able to appropriately deal with someone, if it's PTSD, if it's bipolar, if it's schizophrenia, whatever it is, 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 change their meds a little bit, somebody that they trust, somebody who has those skills to deal with it. It's very tough. And yeah, that's actually something I have a lot of advocacy for. I think, and also when you talk to people, I think a lot of people It's terrible to have somebody in their family or with friends that are dealt with that. And it's just really tough. I think I have just an immense amount of empathy. And that stuff is always more or less, it always 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. Then how much value, even at a governmental level, how much value Should there be just as much of a training and untraining program? As much as you're training people for military and for combat, should there be just as much of an untraining?

Also, the guys that they go to war with, those are the guys that understand more than anybody what they through. But then they go from being in a battalion and being those guys, and then they come home and everybody disperses. It's tough.

Well, it's like you were saying earlier, just being able to be part of a group and have that. And then suddenly it's different or suddenly even if you're-Shared life experience. You're put on leave or something because you're 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.

And also each Depending on what job you're going for in the military, Infantry, different branches, it's a numbers game. We need numbers at all times. And so some of the boot camps are X amount of weeks, and it's like, Here you go, and here's your gun. When you get more, I guess, tier one- Senior? Yeah, where I'm just saying our Special Forces guys, those guys have been through a lot of training, and you're usually not in those groups until you're... You're certainly not 18. As a Navy SEAL, it takes a couple of years.

Yeah, it's been... I went to this football game last week.

Went to the Vaneuville football game, and there were two-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 is a real deal. Bro, he's such a great guy. You would love him, dude. We went to a UFC fight together, actually. You weren't at Which one?

I'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 remember.

How great are those? That's the best. Well, dude, at the end of the day, they're going to fight. The time in between is great. It's hanging 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. I imagine you were at some of those Connor fights during his 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 at that one. I know Dustin's your guy. It's a shame when that generation, you're on out to the next group of fighters. But yeah, Dustin, 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 because there's some bad asses coming out. It's like, no matter if you think you're cool or not, you are sitting there looking in awe at some warriors. Absolutely. That when it comes down to it, they're the people.

It's one on one. You know what I mean?

And it's just such a test of will and man or woman. It makes you ask yourself a lot of things. I find that whole world's pretty fascinating.

I even remember in high school, man, I played baseball. 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 gross spurt. But It was like stud early years. But I was saying, even with the football players, the wrest, when you looked at the wrest condition compared to the football players, you couldn't even compare. A lot of my buddies were wrest. They're cutting 10, 12 pounds in high school. To have that discipline at 15 to be like, Now I'm skipping lunch. I got to sweat. I got to do a saunasuit or just... Yeah, it'd be crazy. The amount of discipline for those guys.

I remember driving to my neighborhood and my buddy Paul would literally be running. This is when we didn't even know we had a I was listening to him in our school. I think it was the first year they started, he'd be running down the street in a bunch of trash bags and shit. Oh, my God. He did something bad at home or whatever. We just didn't know what had happened.

Like a punishment. It was crazy.

But yeah, dude. Do you start to think like, okay, so now you have a filmography of your own work. I don't know if that's the right term.

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 I'd like to find a more unique way to do that. Is that something that an actor starts to think about? How do you start to think about... Do you start to think about a little bit of how many movies you want to do? What things come into your mind at your juncture in your career, as 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... I enjoyed drama as much as I enjoyed comedy. I actually started out when I was in high school. Everybody knew me as the class clown, and I would play the comedic relief in plays and stuff. And then I remember doing this very serious monolog, and the whole class just started laughing. They couldn't take me seriously. And I remember that pissed me off because I was like, Oh, I've lost my audience. They just...

Oh, they're locked in that I'm a clown. Yeah.

And so I was like, Oh, Oh, shit. Okay. Now I need to work on this other stuff. I didn't want to not be taken seriously for something. So I knew starting out, I had an appetite. I think that's really what it comes down. 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. I love sports, military, my family, my friends. I've done some of that. So I've done a good amount of blue collar stuff. I like that. But I think as far as the genre goes, every once in a while, you'll watch a film, or maybe it's a certain director who works in a certain genre. You're like, I would love to do that. But I think it really just comes down to 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 see this. I can figure this out.

Yeah, I think I've been fortunate enough to... Now, in the beginning of most careers, people are like, Oh, why How did you do that? And it sounds like, Yo, you thought I had multiple options? What are you talking about? No, you're just trying to work professionally. If you can pay your bills, and it's tough, man. You know how many... You're starting out, it I think in your 20s, there's a lot of actors, we can all play teenagers, this, that, whatever. Then when you get older, it's like your audience wants to grow with you. You got to mature with them. I imagine a lot of my fans now have kids and stuff, and that's great. I just try to... I don't know. I think your best asset would be, I guess, when you read a script. If I think it's good, is it? For the most part, I've just went my instincts and gut. But for the most part, a lot of my career has been, a director has got to take a chance on you. I played this boxer, Vinnie Pazienza.

My buddy just sent me a link to it. I haven't watched it yet.

Yeah, Bleed for this. That's how I met Dana White because Vinnie is 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 box in Hall of Fame, Vinnie. Shout out, Vinnie. Oh, he did? Yeah, he's just a dog. Vinnie Pazienza? Vinnie Pazienza, the Tasmanian devil.

But That's a great name. But he... Look at him. That's him?

Yeah. So he broke his... So he had won some titles early, and then the promoters thought he was on the way out. You played him? Yeah. So I had like... There's footage of him, I mean, with that halo on. Now, meanwhile, if you mess up, more or less, with that halo on, you're going to be paralyzed for life. And there's video of him doing some pretty sick rope work with that halo on, just working out like a madman. I don't want to give it away, but it's considered just one of sports all time great comebacks. The only movie I had come out, right before that, I was in fat... Or not fat, but pudgy friend shape. You know what I mean? I was like, I don't need a six-pack. That's BS, man. 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 it. I was like, That dude's ripped. He can't act. Yeah.

Dang, dude. Yeah, there's so many great actors out there. It's just fascinating to watch somebody just be able to create, to be able to carry a story and just be like an instrument just to be like a word on a page.

It's like we're shining a mirror up to society, really. You're just the great actors, right? You watch them and you obviously believe what they're doing, but then it makes feel about your own life. It's beautiful. They just really understand the human condition, human experience. I think because a lot of young actors will ask her, What do you think is so important? I go, I think, obviously, start from the inside. We're from the inside out. I think just two abilities or curiosities that will really aid you is just empathy. If you're somebody who just sees somebody in a different way of life, and you can feel for somebody other than yourself, and then your curiosity. I think that's what's lent me to a lot of projects I've ended up doing, just because I think I've always had a just high level of curiosity and empathy for other people.

Where do you think that comes from for you?

I don't know. I guess the way I was rated, we did. We moved around a lot. Well, there was my family, on my mom's side, there was a lot of trouble. My grandma, she buried all of her kids but one, and a lot of them died very young. I think I'd come from a certain stock. Then my uncle, he was a quadriplegic from the time he was 17, so my entire life spending a lot of time in nursing homes and those environments that can be fairly traumatizing for a young to just hearing like, beepes and people wondering around with maybe dementia, Alzheimer's, and it can be scary. And they're usually not the most well-lit places. But we're constantly in those environments, feeding him meals and just different things like that.

You said wanting to take care of your grandmother whenever you guys' house went through that trauma and stuff like that. Yeah, I could see that, I guess.

And I moved around a lot. I lived in five states by the time I was 12. Oh, God. Yeah.

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 fit in, you got to find a way.

Yeah.

Especially as a kid. That's harder for a kid.

Yeah, I think it was easier. Well, certainly, it's all a part of the, I think, how our personality is developed. Certain things happen in childhood, right? You can dig deep to figure out, Oh, that's why I am. That's why I do that.

But it is, though. I think for a kid to move to a new place, that's a lot.

I told my parents when we first moved to Florida from South Jersey, I was like... Because I really loved South Jersey, and I was just like, I'm going to paint my walls black. I'm going to be a goth. You're going to be embarrassed by me. I'm going to wear Marilyn Manson shirts When your friends come over.

One of my favorite friends.

No, that's it. I'm just thinking back on myself like, I'm going to paint my walls black.

I'm going to paint my fucking ceiling fan black. Has anybody ever even fucking done that? It's just going to make black air in the room. My buddy Jeff, dude, he was hilarious. We would go over to his house, and I've told this part of the story before, but I go We'd all go outside and get high, and then I would come in the house, and I would come in before everybody. I would tell his dad that they were high, right?

You fucking asshole. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Just to You saved yourself.

Just because here's what I love.

I loved-You were high with them.

Yeah, I was high. But I didn't tell them that part.

No, that's what I'm saying.

But I would say that they were high, and they were seeming some of the behaviors they had been doing, it seemed a little zest or whatever. Somebody throwing a little nugget like that, and you couldn't fucking hear it.

Put a cigarette out on a lizard.

Yeah, you'd see him. 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, I would sit in there and wait, and they would come in, and he would just be looking at him. It was always like, Do not tell my dad I'm fucking out. Don't worry. 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. Yes. 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 got to keep them separated.

Yeah, that's Offsprung. 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.

It was fucking sick. I had a buddy like that, and then he ended up working in a construction. And so now he even has an adult, some shit, whatever, fucking kick a hole in his wall. But then he's patching it himself. You know what I mean?

Yeah, dude. Yeah. And Jeff He was in the military, too, dude. Shout out Jeff. And shout out the lead singer of Offsprings. He came up to a show one time, and I told him that story, and I waited my whole life to tell him that story. I was like, Dude, we had so much fun. We just had so much fun, dude. Fuck those ages.

I think that's what it's nice growing up. In the town I grew up, it was a small town. If we skipped school, it was to go float down the river, and we would go to the Walmart. And then, usually, it started out just you buy an air mattress for a couple of bucks. But yeah, you're just sitting at the Walmart looking around like Benjamin Franklin, what do you think we can get to float? And I remember one time we got this eight foot by four foot kids swimming pool. We fit six dudes in it and a cooler of beer in the middle and push off a little bit. Okay, yeah, we're going. It's great. I love it.

I know. I miss. Of course, you miss it. But yeah, I just like, that stuff was so much fun. When the world, when everything felt so new and the world didn't... It felt big in in some ways, but your view was so concise.

Well, because you're typically not jaded. You're not worried about anything. At that point. That's what I noticed when I- You just have to eat and lie to your parents. When I've shot movies in some underprivileged areas, I'll see these kids playing in what you would basically describe as a landfill, and they're so happy, and they're just around trash like it's a soccer ball. You just realize children, 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 people are living in other parts of the world. It's touching and it's also very sweet. But whenever a kid gets their childhood taken away from them too early or they have to become an adult too early, that's That's tough. It's like, no, this was the time for you to just be a kid.

Yeah. You think that that would be guaranteed? Maybe one day it will be. Maybe that's where we're all headed.

No, it's It's like, I know. A ton of people, 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.

You have stuff they shouldn't have to think about, that thing. That's the craziest. Dude, I know a guy who used to wake his kids up and get them to pee for them so we could go do drug tests. Wow. Yeah. They ran a snow cone stand in our town. I'll probably take that part out. We don't have a lot of snow cone stands in our town, so people know who they are.

I got to watch it because that's my town. Is this it?

Anything else you want to tell us about the film? Any reason why you believe? Was there anything about it that resonated with you after it, after having watched it? Did you give notes on the edit? It's just anything like... I don't know.

Yeah, I just think because we had our first premiere up in Toronto, and it was just really wonderful. After the film, how many people, you said, because it just really makes you think about your own mortality and loved ones, but people really wanted to... I mean, for me, those are my favorite movies where you're It leaves you really thinking. But I think it's a really funny movie. I think it's really sweet and sincere. All of Kelly's Girls were crying.

Yes, it's very sweet. It's not too heavy. There's some moments that are.

You're dealing with something that's maybe inevitable or not based on what you're taking supplements-wise and how you take care of the don't-do, brother. But 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 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 the classic romantic comedies that are more character-driven. I'm just really excited for people to see it.

And is it coming out in streaming? Is it coming out in theaters?

No. It comes out in theaters nationwide, like Thanksgiving. Oh, sweet. Yeah. So great holiday film. Take your mom, your grandma, daddy, girl, whatever.

Yeah, I think anybody, a whole family could go see it. I think it's that thing. It's certainly that. I I do think some of those questions, it made me feel a little bit more upbeat. Yeah, it's just like, I don't know. It's certainly something that I hadn't seen before. Yeah. And I thought that was... It was very creative. It was very creative. And then when you're thinking about love, you're thinking about the after-life, you're thinking about the choices that we make and stuff like that. It made me a little mournful that there's some moments you never get to... It's like, you'll start to think, Oh, I didn't have that high school love that last forever. But then it's like, But that couldn't even have been a reality in my life. It never would have fit in. But it's just interesting to think about things like that. I like thinking about matters of the heart and stuff like that. The last thing I was going to tell you. I went to the Venerable game, but I saw there was kids there, and they were there with their dad, and their dad had just gotten back from service.

He was in Qatar. Right when I saw the kids, like, Oh, dude, my dad saw you perform in Qatar. I went over there and did just a thing for the military.

Or 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 I was like, Oh, how long are you there for? He's like, I was there for a year. And it was just like, I don't know. It was just interesting to see this moment. I was like, Are you guys glad your dad is home? And you could just see... I don't know. You just see some of the sacrifice. It was just a moment that I had to witness firsthand, a little bit of the sacrifice that sons deal with, that fathers deal with, that people deal with to keep our country safe. Yeah, it's just touching, man.

Yeah, the guy that I played in Thank You For A Service, Adam Schumann. People say, Thank you for your service. A lot of the time people say that sometimes to just alleviate their own guilt of having not served. But I've heard guys talk about it. It's weird. You're thanking me for something that, Hey, I signed up for or I wanted to do, or you're thanking me for... You don't even know what my job was. It's just a complicated, decorative term that we use out of lack of knowing. But the thing that really broke him, he was filling his truck with gas and his army, the big red one, and guy saw that and basically just shook his hand and said, Welcome home, son. And glad you got home safe. It's tough, but we can do what we do because those men and women are over there doing the dirty work.

Oh, yeah. 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 Sunees I know he does a lot for veterans. Yeah, it's nice to just be reminded. It's nice to be reminded of a space, another reason to just have gratitude for the things we have going on.

But also it's different parts of the... Growing up in Florida, I feel like there's so many people that had family members in the military, but it's a lot more socio-economic-driven now to where the military, it doesn't feel like the entire country is really a part of it, and it's really happening in very specific pockets. It'll be interesting in the next 25 years, 50 years of who you have to live in these certain areas to have a relationship with somebody who's serving because that's what personalizes it.

Yeah, that's a good point, man. In ancient Rome, they used to have the politicians were also on the battlefield, which is pretty fascinating. So it was like the rules that they were making, if they were going to send people in a battle, they were going to have to be associated with those rules. And I think it would be, I mean, who am I to say? I didn't serve. But it would be, I think Maybe some of the rules we would make, some of the choice we would make might be a little bit different if it felt like-If you had skin in the game.

Yeah.

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 elected officials and the leaders, you just feel like you cannot relate to them. They can't relate to you on any level. It feels like those margins are getting wider. Getting wider.

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. Yeah, thank you so much, dude, for all the entertainment and for stopping by and chatting. Thanksgiving week, you guys can check out Eternity with Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olson.

Also my wife, Kelly, she's coming out with a like a pajama, a robe line.

Will that be available for holidays?

Yeah. I'm just so proud of her.

Yeah?

So I 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 the one-I knew she was 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. I didn't know that. Obviously, when I I was just attracted to her face. But then as I've gone in to... But then we're pretty inseparable right off the bat. But I do remember, because I was 25, dude. This was very... I'd lived in L. My career just started, and I remember my boys, my Florida boys I moved out with, when they start seeing her hanging around more and more, I'm like, Yeah, well, she's my girlfriend. They're like, What the fuck are you talking about? They're like, Why would you have a girlfriend right now? This is our moment. This is This is our entourage moment. We ran a house in the valley. We had a pool. They're like, This is our time, dude. I was like, Well, 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. It's like, I don't want... This one's not getting away.

Yeah, for sure. Dude, that's funny.

That's my best friend. I never get sick of her. When I tell people, the difference is Most people, they have a job 9: 00 to 5: 00, whatever it is. When I'm filming, certainly, it's like that. But when I'm not, 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. 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. That truly is. That's what she cracks me up. She's so hard to get rattled. She doesn't raise her voice. She says being calm is her superpower, but she's just unflappable.

She's great. The unflappable Kelly Teller.

She's going to love that. She loves you.

She has a new pajama line that's out. Yeah, I remember the day that I met her, you guys were sitting out there, out back together, man. I think almost every time I've seen you, except for that one time that you were dancing by yourself, which is pretty admirable. In a sea of people, Miles Teller is 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, 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. Congratulations, man, on everything. Thanks, dude. Yup.

Have a good day, brother. I'll see you in a 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 in my bones. But it's going to take.