Transcript of #640 - Chris Hemsworth

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It's in theaters right now. You can go check it out. I had a good time getting to know this Australian gentleman. Today's guest is Mr. Chris Hemsworth. Australians, I think they just, I feel like they're more like risque with their lives kind of.

Yeah, there is a lack of, well, it's a risk averse due to either the, the, the lack of fear or the extra amount of stupidity at times.

Yeah.

Fluctuates.

It's a beautiful bravery though that they have, you know.

Yeah.

And even like when you travel, like one thing I remember from just traveling a lot was just seeing Australians everywhere.

Yeah.

They pop up in anything. Any, you know, like you turn on a tap in another country, like, you know, you, you're pouring a beer and a couple of Australians just come out on surfboards, kind of a boogie board.

It's. As an Australian, that's always problematic. It's like country to get away from Australia and have a different cultural experience. And it's, oh, g', day, mate. Shit, yeah, I know you. And the next minute you're all at the bar together doing what you did back home.

Yeah, Yeah, I could totally see that, man. Where does that nature come from in Australians to go? Is that like a. Because I, I mean, it's a serious thing that I think everyone would say is that you go anywhere and there's Australians there.

I Think it's, you know, we're quite isolated where we are, you know, and for such a. We're a young country as far as the, you know, the white settlement being there, you know, in the last sort of 200 and so years. And there's been always a sense of adventure either across the country itself or just the need to get out and explore. Because again, it's not like, you know, if you're in Europe, you, you know, jumping from France to, to Italy to London and you can have, you know, you know, different cultural experiences within, you know, a two hour train ride. For us, it's a big adventure. You know, pack a backpack and you're on several flights and busses and trains and boats and whatever and is a. There is an adventurous spirit. But I think a, you know, all the guys I grew up with, it was like, finish high school and go backpacking around the world.

So that's like a big thing where people are like, when they finish. So like when they finish high school, it's like, I'm gonna get out of here. I'm gonna go experience something. Is it almost taboo if you don't in a way that, if you don't have like a.

No, I think it just comes from not having figured out what you want to do next, you know, and, and I like, I had probably 50, 50 with my group of friends who knew what they were doing, they were going to, you know, a couple of them went into a trade and a couple of them went to university. And then a couple of them were like, I got no idea. And maybe I'll find it in, you know, Peru or wherever I'm going to go backpacking and, you know, cross paths with folks that might inspire something else in me. But. Yeah.

Did you do something like that? I know you grew up like partially in the outback and partially in Melbourne, right?

Yeah, grew up in Melbourne, then lived in Northern Territory, the Aboriginal community about four hours southeast, Catherine, and like in the middle of nowhere. And it was. That was my earliest, most vivid memories.

But that were there in the bush kind of.

Yeah, like there's an Aboriginal community, a bunch of Aboriginal communities in the region we lived in. And I mean all out through. All across Northern Territory, but where we were, the proximity, there was sort of three or four communities that my dad worked, ran like a cattle station and then ran like a community center. And I went up there when I was five or six and then came back to Melbourne and then again when I was like 7, 8, 9, you know. So a couple of different times. But as far as the backpacking thing, I started working when I was 18. I ended up on a soap opera. And then that kind of took me, you know, straight into the. What I'm doing now. But I kind of missed that. And I do look back. And I was especially speaking to a lot of friends of mine that. That had this sort of crazy adventure prior also to being famous and prior to being recognized and you could just kind of get into a bunch of trouble and explore the world and, you know, make all those mistakes and hopefully learn something from them. I feel like that period, I do.

There's a romanticism that I sort of. Or nostalgia that I long for that I wish I had done that prior to sort of, you know, jumping into. Into the working world.

Yeah, it's one thing. It's a downside of celebrity popularity is that, yeah, there's things you can't kind of go do, like in a. Like, yeah, like sometimes I'll romanticize as well, like being like, oh, I'd like to go there, go there. But then I'm like, it would be more uncomfortable now or it would be some type of way.

And did you do it after school? Did you ever get a chance to travel and.

Yeah, yeah, I had a girlfriend. We went over there and that was like a seven country fight we went on. Oh, man, I fought in so many territories. Like, oh, man, I thought I was like working with Napoleon or something. It was a lot of, oh, yeah, I should get a medal for that. And so should she. I'm going to say that.

What was, what was the, the drama? What was it coming from?

Just, I think you don't know how you are when it's like stressful out there. When you're on trains and you're moving your bags all the time and we booked too many places to go see. Like, we should have done four days in each spot. And we tried to do like two days, nine spots instead of do like four, four spots, five days. And so you're just constantly on the go and you just. I would be sneaking off and just drinking wine by myself and like. And then one night I took. I went off to the grocery by myself and somebody had like a hit of LSD or something. It was like, probably a pretty, you know, nouveau grocery, I guess, and because, I mean, it wasn't on the shelves, but it was available in the parking lot, you know, which I consider an extension of the grocery store. But yeah, so then I came back there and I was like, I thought it would, like Boost my spirits. And then it was just a long. That was horrible. And that time we were like, in a camping sort of environment where there were outhouses and stuff.

And so we're in what country that.

Was outside of Venice.

Yeah, yeah.

So. But it was great. But it was just like. That was just a lot, you know, too much in.

Yeah, yeah.

But, yeah, like, going on that, doing something like that now, it would just feel like. Yeah, it would feel tougher. And I'm sure. Yeah, it's like you're Chris Hemsworth now. So it's like there's, you know, that name is bigger than you. And so it's like.

It's interesting because I sort of had a point in my life where I don't know if you find this, but every few years you're kind of, you know, what was the goal at one point quickly becomes the norm, and then you're onto something else. And then it's the sort of reassess of, like, what my purpose is around all the why as to doing this thing. And I'm chasing it for one reason, then it's for something else. And. And I'm at that sort of point where I'd love to sort of step away on one hand and, you know, do a little sort of soul searching and dig a little deeper and sort of get a little more solitude and time to yourself. But I think, what would that look like? You know, it's like, does the idea.

That's romantic. That feels like. Yeah, it's not quite within the reality. It's hard to, like, say, well, would I be okay in that footing?

Yeah, like, I'm not going backpacking at 42. And not that. Not that I'm, you know, I got three kids and then that's not my kind of.

Yeah, your backpack will be full.

Yeah, full of all three of them. But it was. But more just the kind of. How do you. The way you see the world through when you are famous and recognized versus when you're not. You know, different things, people interact differently to you, you know, for good and bad, but also the opportunities that sort of present themselves and the places you can kind of inhabit become a little limited in that sense. But, you know, that's what it is.

Yeah. The world's your oyster, but it's like, you know, it's.

You have this opportunity, but there's a restriction. There is such a restriction to your. How much you can really involve yourself in it. You know, it's all. It's. It becomes very observational, you know, we're going to press tour and you go to like 10 different countries and it's like, God, that must be amazing. It's like, yeah, from the hotel room, you know, you're looking out and then, you know, if you're, there's posters and so on, around, around the streets of your face everywhere, then it's even more difficult. But it's, yeah, I, I, I. And not to say you can't navigate your way around it at times.

Right. And we're not complaining, but no, it's an interesting look and that's, it's a good thought.

Yeah.

You can only, it's, it becomes very observational.

Yeah. Which, which look, hey, is, is not a, not a negative either at times.

It's sort of just what it is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's I think of like, popularity and stuff like that. It's just interesting to be part of an experiment. Like, okay, this is what it's like. Yeah, that's kind of how I now like, okay, there's good parts, there's bad parts. I don't think of it as me really as much as like, okay, I'm in this setting.

Yeah.

And this is the experience.

And it's also, it's like the sort of polarity of things. Like every, every time you solve one problem, life has a way of, of presenting another challenge and not even a problem. It's like the, the, in the, in order to be able to evolve and growth, you know, the adversity that's shifted your way and, and I think that's the sort of, the misconception, I suppose, is the assuming that this, that and the other will, I'll be void of those problems, you know, it'll solve it all. And so what, what comes with huge benefit, you know, in, in, in you know, being like your recognizable personality and so on and fame and all that is incredible. And it comes with its own things as that, as does in any industry. I remember talking to my mom about this years ago. She was a high school teacher and I was like, ah, man, it's really tricky at work, you know, the cast and the producer and, you know, then does the film work in this? And she said, yes, I could kind of, you know, line those things up parallel to my experience, you know, and the students might be my audience and the, the principals, the producer and so on.

And it's like, that's life, that's the experience. And I think I've gotten much better at sort of not, you know, egoically thinking that mine, my experience is Somehow separate, different or unique. It's like whatever industry, whatever demographic, wherever you're born, your kind of life has a way of throwing you the same sort of options, I guess, to appreciate things in. In its truest form rather than sort of, you know, goal seeking or accumulating or whatever.

Yeah, the game doesn't really change. It's like you don't think of like, oh, these problems are different. Just like, okay, now there's new things and that's just life. There's not really like. Yeah, I don't think that popularity or celebrity is an escape from.

No. And I think if you've truthful things, if you're.

If you're realistic.

Yeah, for sure. And there's certainly, you know, there's a sort of. We've you see, countless times, again and again, the sort of. I guess the. Not even the purity, but the sort of the. The motivation behind pursuing something if it is for the assumption of it solving all the problems. Like you get ready for a rude awakening and it's like, oh, shit, that didn't answer all the questions I had or did momentarily. And then there's a new set the next morning. And so kind of surrendering to that has been. I think that's the. I'd say the gift in, I think, experience, any form of fame or sort of celebrity or whatever is that you get to kind of see behind the curtain and you get to have that realization that from afar, most people are always going to be living with the assumption that it might bring you way better.

Behind the curtain. Yeah, you get behind the curtain, you're.

Like, I'm on the other side again. You're back to the. I'm back in line.

Yeah, yeah. You open the curtain, you realize it's just a mirror.

Yeah, yeah, exactly that. Exactly that.

Yeah. Hey, Zach, I'm getting a little bit of reverb. I don't know if it's from the audio in the other room. Have Chris pull his mic down just a hair.

Oh, down a bit.

Perfect.

It's up my nose. Down it.

Yeah. We want to see your face, dude. Because this is, you know, I'm saying that's what people want to see, you know? God dang, dude.

Yeah.

You're fricking looks maxing or whatever they call it, you know, it's got to be crazy just being so handsome sometimes, dude. I bet your mirror, whenever it sees you, it's like, oh, yeah, I bet your mirror makes a positive sound, you.

Know, I look, man, does. I mean, does anyone gay at all?

Sorry.

Not just the two of us in a room alone. It's, it's fine. I feel like, whatever, dude. No, I, I appreciate.

With some tits on it.

You're. You're a handsome fella too.

I don't know, dude. I'm side of the road handsome. Like if people are going by at like 50 miles an hour, they're like, hey, I think that guy was okay looking.

I'm sitting right next to you and I'm, I'm, I'm admiring what I see, mate.

I'm hitchhike here, handsome.

Thank you. If you were hitchhiking, bro, you would absolutely.

You can't even hitchhike in America anymore because, like, I think either the, the people picking up hitchhikers were like killing the hitchhikers or the hitchhikers were killing the people. But it became like that really. That became like a real.

You see Wolf Creek, that film years ago. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that kind of ended hitchhiking in Australia for a good decade or two. Yeah.

Dude, do motion pictures realize that they just one motion picture about something ruins the ability to get somewhere across a continent?

That ruined hitchhiking and Jaws, ruined the whole ocean experience. Oh, God. Yeah, I had on hitchhiking. I was in Vancouver once, just shooting a movie there like 15 years ago and driving back from, from Whistler and it was like seven, eight o' clock at night and picked up a hitchhiker and thought, I ain't going so good. And it started to get real sort of creepy and starts kind of asking me like, what are you doing? Where are you from and what are you up to? And like getting a little too sort of personal and where are you staying and whatever. And so I immediately start kind of, you know, filling in sort of. Yeah, I just do heaps of martial arts and, you know, a lot of jiu jitsu and a big background in boxing and, you know, tell like fight stories and seeing if that's going to sort of like sway the. Sway the thing. And thankfully nothing happened. But it was that like, moment where you're sizing each other up, going, well, this. I don't know anything about you and you don't know anything about me. And we could be.

How does this go? Like, how does this story end? You start thinking, yeah, how does this story end and what role am I going to play in?

Yeah, how you use a knife or gun or whatever.

But yeah, that is one thing that is nice, I would say, about picking up hitchhikers. I've picked up a fair share over the Years. And um, it's really like, okay, let's see what God wants for me today.

Yeah, sure. You know, Mark Ruffalo, he was at, we were at a music festival in Australia and just, you know, such a lovely human being and picked up a couple of hitchhikers. And then the next day I spoke to him and he goes, I got back like 7am And I was like, you left at like 2. And he's like, yeah, but I picked up these young kids and they were like, you know, 18 year old, 9 year old kids. And they were like, yeah, we're going in that direction. And I didn't have the heart to tell them I was going the other direction. So I ended up going this like four hour detour.

But that's big hearted.

That's, that's a, that's a Ruffalo. Yeah.

I mean, that's also insane to be driving with children that far.

That seems 18 year olds from a festival. We say kids, but you know, they're the sort of.

Okay, yeah, schoolies, they call them, eh?

Yeah, yeah, schoolies. And then the toolies are the, the older ones hanging around which, which where they're not the, they're the older age kind of creeps that are hanging around.

Oh, they call them toolies. Oh, that's good.

Yeah.

Oh yeah, because they should have a trade by that point.

They should, they should have a job and not be hanging around 18 year olds. Yeah.

Pick up a hammer, you know, do something. Was there, was there kind of a point where you started to like. I think it's interesting what you said about, you know, you get to certain moments and you kind of like, you're like, okay, what's going on now? It's kind of like you're in life a lot of times it does feel like that. And recently I think it's been like that for me where it's like I feel like you're underwater for a long time and not in a bad way or anything. You're just, you're in the mix of life and you're doing things and then you get to a point you're like, okay, let me come up and see what's going on. And why am I, why like what goals did I set? And, and where am I now? And then what do, where do I want to be next? Or what are things are important to me now, you know, or like how I, you know, what strokes do I want to use next in my life to get me to where I want to be? Yeah, at the next checkpoint. Sort of.

For sure, yeah. And I feel.

Has it been like kind of a recent thing that's been going on?

Definitely, yeah. This book called the Middle Passage, which is, you know, a gentler term for a midlife crisis, like James Hollis. And it's Jungian psychology. And it's beautiful because it talks about, you know, this sort of personification of self and this, you know, the gathering of our identity as children and due to our, you know, family bonds and ties, societal expectations. It could be religious, community, whatever. And you go through life attempting to present what you think the world wants from you. Some of it you may have some input in as far as what you want, but a lot of it is kind of an assembling to fit in. And then you get to this certain point, usually around your 30s, 40s, where that mask, that personification starts to wear thin and doesn't hold up, and there's this inner protest and. And Jung talks about the. From this. From the soul, the psyche rises up and says, there's a deeper truth here and a meaning and what is it and what is my contribution? And it usually comes around like when it. And. Or people find themselves in a place of servitude to something outside of themselves, you know, and it's like you.

You. You service yourself for. For so long and as a sort of survival and to. To. To, you know, maintain a position in the workforce and so on. And then all of a sudden it's like there's something deeper that I haven't answered. And I find. And your purpose even shifts around, like the why for doing things, you know, like it might purely be. I was saying this before, but the sort of purity around your motivations and, you know, what is your heart saying? What is your passion? That's all very well, but you gotta pay the bills. And so to be sort of financially motivated for a period of your life and to take care of folks and family and so on, one thing, and then, okay, that's sort of. Now that's in a safe place. That's in a safe place. And what's the next thing? And I think if you're lucky enough to find that thing that speaks to you on a sort of a deeper level, but also allows you to function and operate in the world and be sort of financially secure, then great. But I sort of find myself bouncing around with those questions a lot more than I ever have and a lot more sort of indecision and a lot more.

I had this sort of, not naive, but pretty strong sort of relentless confidence and Pursuit. When everything I was doing and I was going to. And it was when things were as far out of reach as possible.

Dude, same. That's what I had.

All of a sudden you sort of arrive and you have these things that were going to bring you all of that fulfillment and you. They do momentarily. And then you start to come up short and you're like, what is it? There's this. There's this other sort of burning desire or voice that requires attention and. And that, you know, is around, I think, solitude and sort of a slight separation from the busyness of sort of life and work and all the trappings to answer some of those questions. And none of you know, I haven't come to any sort of finite conclusion. But I. I find the more I enjoy the mystery of that question and the seeking and the adventure and that. The path that that takes you on. Then with. Without an attachment to an outcome, I found myself a lot happier.

The better off you are.

Yeah. And a lot more at peace with the. The ebb and flow and things, however rapid that pendulum may be swinging, you know.

Yeah, I want to know. That's the thing. Sometimes I just want it, like, yeah, I want to know. And I want to know now. And I want to know, like sometimes for my own safety, it's like, yeah, because I don't want to be in limbo, you know. But yeah, I think having that space of like. Yeah, what? Of embracing the. Okay, I don't know right now.

Yeah.

And may. And that's okay. And that is what is going on.

Yeah.

And let me enjoy this somehow.

And living in the questions, not the answers. You know, this sort of. I think that there's a danger in definitives. You know, there's a sort of almost a lack of humility in that too. And this is where all of our sort of problems arise is my voice is correct and yours is incorrect and my versus yours. But allowing there to be mystery, questions, curiosity. And I think then there's an abundance of opportunity to learn that the new things start to come your way where as soon as I kind of go, I've got it, I've figured it out and I put it. It in a box or myself or other people or scenarios. The world just obliterates that immediately. And then you're left with that disappointment. And it's that expectation that I'm gonna figure it out is I think, is. I think that the trapping, you know, but this takes real courage and bravery in the surrendering to that and the willingness just to go, wow, this sort of, you know, universal kind of cosmic dance or this adventure we're on is supposed to be fun. And. And the sort of. The most serious thing you can do is not take it serious, you know, And.

And I find myself. The polarity of things coming back to this all the time going, okay, but what does that mean? And then there's that brief sort of moment of stillness of I don't know. And it's just being okay with the. I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. So a lot of times, like. Yeah. Like, when it comes to, like, feeling just kind of in the world and in between spaces and uncertain. I want. It's almost like, you know, when you're a kid and you run and you want to get your foot on the base.

Yeah.

It's like, that's how I want to say I want to have my foot on a base. I want to have something that feels like it's certain or at least like, as certain for, like, as a kid, waiting on, like. I just want to know that's where I have to be, as opposed to being like, I'm going to stand here while the third basement and the shortstop throw the ball back and forth.

Yeah.

And I'm going to be the guy in the middle, and I'm going to enjoy that. Because the truth is, as a viewer, and I'm just using, like, baseball analogy. The. The best part of the viewing is you start to smile when that guy is in between the short second and third basement and they're throwing the ball, and you're like, how's this going to go?

Yeah, for sure.

That's really where the most joy kind of is.

That's. And that's the. The anticipation, the mystery, the sort of immersion in the adventure. And it's like, you know, that's why we pick up books. We want to flick to the end. We want to know what the end is. And same with life. And then you get to the end and you're like, oh, geez. Actually, it was all the tropey things you've heard before that, you know, the journey, not the destination, so on. And I think that. And I wrestle with that all the time and then. But I've gotten better with understanding that I might have a handle on it today and I won't tomorrow. And that's okay, you know, as opposed to kind of just needing that definitive, like, what is it about? But I mean, if we. If we knew if there was, you know, the reason we, you know, the sort of understanding of our own mortality, is what allows us to appreciate and love things, you know, without a sort of conclusion at some point and an end to it, there wouldn't be. We wouldn't even know what. We wouldn't appreciate anything.

Right. What would life be then?

Yeah, you don't know love without loss. And you don't know. And so yet we spend so much time trying to either figure out the answer or avoid suffering. Yet they're, you know, the joy and the love and the loss is one of the same thing without this, you know, and Dang, dude. But it's kind of. I do riddles with myself around it. And I don't know about you, but I was a kid at nighttime that would kind of be sitting there going, what does the end of life look like? And if it's just blackness, if it's nothing, can I still think in the nothing? Or is it like nothing, nothing. Am I, you know, sort of.

Yeah. Do I have any toys in the nothing?

Am I to like talk to someone still?

Or is it just like. Is there a lunchable? Yeah, you know, like. Yeah, like, tell me, just tell me that the nothing is lunchable, dude. Yeah. That's crazy, bro. I'm realizing that you're like a smart guy stuck in a good looking guy. You're not like a good looking guy. That's just like, you know. Oh, sorry. And that's a judgment, dude. Sorry. That was just a good judgment.

A lot of questions.

Yeah, that's a good way to be, man. I. I just. Yeah. Sometimes I want to be at the end of the sentence so I feel safe, you know? Yeah, I just want to, like. It gets scary. I was just talking with. We just had Kevin James on and we're talking about like even like, like if, Especially like if I'm in a relationship or like with women or even just sometimes a buddy and stuff, I will. If there's quiet, it's like downtime. If it's silent. Yeah, I'll just start being like, what else is going on? Like, I'll have to fill it in, you know, it's like, I won't. I. It's hard for me to leave the opportunity for something different to bloom. But then I crave there to be like, like whimsy and unique experiences and stuff like that. So I think this conversation is neat just to even have a thought about that. Because I think even just talking about this will be a reminder of like, next time I'm in some of those moments. Like, let me just see what happens here.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah. Do you ever read anything Ellen Watts?

I hear a lot of his, like audio and stuff. My mom always sends it to me.

It's this beautiful thing about love and about the idea of like falling in love, the absurdity of falling. And he said it's, you know, people say, oh, it's crazy to fall in love, but how, but the act of falling is a risk in itself and a surrender. You don't say rising to love. And so anything that's worth pursuing that has, you know, that brings comfort and love and joy and whatever. There is an act of surrender that occurs at some point and, and that, that, that, that again in the sort of being okay with the unknown that gives me sort of comfort. That's. There's something.

That's a good point, dude. Yeah, it's falling.

It's like you don't rise to love, you fall to love. Yeah, it's a beautiful quote.

And if you fall pretty far, you'll end up in some weird spots and.

You fall so force some pretty tragic places, climb into some other ones.

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Yeah, yeah.

And I know you have your new movie, Crime 101, and we want to talk about some of that. I watched it last night and. But yeah. Was there stuff that you learned, like, because Limitless is about you kind of experiencing different things to challenge yourself. Is that a good thing to say?

Yeah, I've done two seasons of it and then I did an individual episode with my dad, but it was a show about longevity and the science of longevity. In the first season, I was very much the. The guinea pig in the name of science. Then I would be thrown into, you know, like I say, so an episode on cold water exposure. Let's show the benefits. And you can swim in the Arctic, you know, for five minutes and, you know, try and survive, or you can, you know, the benefits of, of muscle mass for the brain. And we'll do a strength episode. So climb a 200 meter damn wall. And. And so it was all these kind of, you know, pretty extreme examples of, of. Of representing the science. We were talking about the second season, I had a bit more agency with and it was great. And I was less of a guinea pig and I had a bit more of a sort of educated opinion around each topic. But I wouldn't say I set out to do it for. I didn't know. It was just sort of came my way and sounded like a fun thing to do.

And yeah, it seems really interesting to go through those moments and just to like, almost have a buffet of things. You're like, I'm gonna try these and see what it's like. What was one of your biggest takeaways from it, like, as a practice for yourself, if there were any? Or was there enough of an experience there even to have a like.

No.

Was it too much of a production to take away?

Oh, no, there was a lot. It profound effect on me, especially the second season and the first season without me realizing what was occurring. Like, there was all the obvious things about, you know, strength training and, and, you know, cognitive health and cold water, hot exposure, you know, fasting and so on. But the, the episode I Did with my dad called a road trip to remember, was the most profound one because he. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about four or five years ago, and he was.

Genetically predisposed to it. Right?

Yeah.

He and your mom.

Yeah. And that's how we found out, because I. I did my blood work on that. On that show and found out that I had two copies of the APOE4 gene, which is you. You get a copy from your mom, copy from your dad, either a two or three.

They both gave you a copy.

They both gave me a copy, but they both gave me the worst copy, which is the four, which meant I was a four. Four, which is like one in. I think a thousand people have. But they. So I remember being with my dad and telling him about it and going, oh, this is a kind of a. You know, it's not a death sentence. It's not a predeterministic gene, but it's like a big warning sign. And he said, oh, don't worry, mate, we'll figure it out.

Yeah, and how many times am I gonna have to tell him about it if he's exposed?

Well, but he. But he didn't. We didn't know he was. And then five years later, he got diagnosed. And I remember sitting there telling him, don't worry, dad will figure it out. And. And. And so we went on this. This journey. This. It's called a road trip to remember. It's this thing called reminiscence therapy where you go back into your past, stimulate memories and experiences to stimulate the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain that dementia is attacking.

Oh, dang. Your dad's Joe Biden. Crazy dude.

He's. But we're spending time with him. It was kind of a love letter to him. And it's not. You know, I was kind of hoping for a silver bullet to fix it, but it became more about connection. It became more about, like, the things I got to say to him and ask him about his concerns and fears around the disease. I probably wouldn't have asked him otherwise. And so it forced this kind of really beautiful, intimate series of conversations and gave him some agency, I think, you know, because they begin to feel like, you know, they're a patient or they're a burden, you know, and all of a sudden, this was about him. And I did. I watched a shift, and the big one being social connection. The most important thing I took away from both of those seasons was support, group friendships and connection and the people in blue zones, you know, where people live over 100 or the, you know, the most centurions in the population within regions around the world. The commonality is having a wonderful sense of community and a wonderful support network. And then whether or not they drank alcohol or smoked or whatever, it was like the lack of.

Or the reduction in stress due to support networks and friendships.

Well, yeah, they say that in recovery, gentlemen. A lot of recovery communities. And they say that connection is the opposite of addiction.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that connection. It's like. Yeah. I mean, I was in a meeting this morning, like a zoom meeting, and it's like. Yeah. I'm sitting there just listening to guys share what's going on with them. That's real.

Yeah.

And some of them say things that I. I've always wanted to say and I didn't know I could. But I couldn't make the words. And then they made the words for me. And so there's a part of me that like, starts to feel like, okay, that's not a crazy pieces of a thought that you've had. Yeah, that's a real thing. And somebody else just put it together for you and. But yeah, just being able to connect, they say, is the opposite of addiction.

Yeah.

Bring that back up. The Blue Zones. I've never heard of this.

It's where there's the most amount of people who have lived to be 100 live to be 100. Yeah. And I think there's like Japan somewhere in Italy.

Yeah. We got Okinawa. Japan.

Yeah.

Icaria, Greece, Sardinia, Italy. Nicoya. And that's Costa Rica. Yeah. And Loma Linda. But hold on, there's none over by Australia. You guys didn't get one.

Yeah. I don't know if they skipped us.

Probably because of the dangerous species, all.

The things that try and kill us. Yeah, we're too busy backpacking to the places.

You guys are too busy over there making people happy in those places, probably. Blue Zones are regions of the world where people have unusually long and healthy lives. The many residents reaching age 90 to 100 while staying relatively free of major chronic disease. Researchers use Blue Zone to describe geographically limited areas where rates of centenarians are far higher than expected and older adults remain active and independent. That's a huge thing, that they remain active and independent.

Work still working as well. Like still having some form of purpose.

Right. Purpose is huge. We talk about that all the time in here.

Yeah.

That if you people lose their purpose, then what do we have?

Do you ever read Man's Search for Meaning? Viktor Frankl.

I have read that.

That's you know, the purposeful suffering he calls it. But watching people in, you know, when he was in the prison camp in Auschwitz, how because he was a psychoanalyst or a therapist and he went in and people all under the same horrific circumstances, environment and why some people's body was, would give up and others wouldn't. And it was often when they found out that a loved one or family had been killed or died, they then their spirit, their soul, their body gave up. And so he produced logotherapy, which was about sort of giving a purpose behind whatever adversity you're facing and giving a sense of meaning to whatever the suffering is you're going through. But, but again with the centurions, people who. Not retiring basically. And that doesn't mean work yourself in. There's difference between working yourself into the, into the grave. But also, you know, the work could be, you have a garden to maintain, right.

You know, grandchildren to keep tabs on. You have a vacation, you have a trip to plan, you're helping with one of your children's activities. Yeah, I think that a lot with my own mom as she gets older, it's like, you know, I want her to be free of things. If she doesn't want to work, she likes to work. She like delivers for Amazon and stuff. She just loves it. She's like, you know, I'll call her and she's like, I'm just sitting in the lot of. She'll deliver for like Whole Foods, different just kind of chain places or something. Yeah, she's like, I'm just sitting here in the lot, just waiting for a, for a route or whatever, you know, and I just, I just pitch her in her van. She's just sitting there. She's 70 something and she's just waiting to, you know, deliver a catalytic converter to some guy across town. Thank you for bringing this up. This is so fascinating. I want to list off some of these just so we can that people know some of the things from these blue zones. Despite very different cultures, blue zones share several recurring features.

Natural movement, lots of walking, gardening and manual chores built into daily life. Plant based diet, high in vegetables, beans and whole grains. Strong social ties. Like we were talking about multi generational living. So probably having your family members around you. Tara Swart was in. She's a neuroscientist, she's an author, she's. She's fascinating lady and she was saying that the. When you feel the best, a lot of people that feel the best, when you have the best feeling at home, is when There's a lot of people in the home.

Yeah.

When there's just like multi generations like and those families often get the best sleep because there's just like a. There's a connectivity going on. Low chronic stress. Just a few more of these blue zone common lifestyle patterns. A clear sense of purpose and generally optimistic, engaged attitudes in light, regular alcohol or none. In some places people drink small amounts of wine. In other places they avoid it entirely. Like in Sardinia, Italy, they got a. You'll see a six year old out there drinking.

Yeah.

You know.

Yeah. I mean that's the thing. It's like a.

He's like, oh, I'll have a Chardonnay and some Peppa Pig. You know, it's like you'll see a five year old on his tablet ordering damn Cabernet.

It's like, it's kind of bad.

Yeah. Well, I think this is just proof that there's ways to do it right. And that this is document. This is like data that shows that there's ways to. To have a life that's the most comfortable if you can.

Because it's sort of, it's like these sort of, you know, stress being the biggest killer and you know, the cause of chronic disease and so on. Stress, I find like the amount of stress involved in the idea of achieving perfection or doing things perfectly, you know. And I get asked all the time about like, you know, you must, you know, never eat sugar or never drink alcohol. Trying seven days a week and so on. And it's like I had periods where I've gone into the extreme realm but they're not when I've been my happiest or my healthiest. Yeah.

Like what do you do when a birthday cake comes?

I just smash it. I love a birthday cake.

What are you supposed to be? That weirdo?

Yeah. No. Yeah. What kind of life is that? It doesn't. You're not going to enjoy in all the sort of, you know, the, the.

Yeah. What do you do when a freaking. They're like, yeah, because I'll do low sugar. You know, I don't do no sugar really. But sometimes if a birthday cake comes, dude, what are you going to be? Some guy just over there just, you know, just carving up a cucumber. Who am I going to. You know what I'm saying? Some dude over there just sneaking a carrot out of his pocket.

Just a little proto tie in the corner, a little bit of icing.

And that's not creepier to the kids at the. People at the party is sure over.

There, like, tell me that guy's not stressed.

He's.

That's a huge amount of stress involved in just smuggling that carrot into the party and then having to explain it.

Yeah, yeah. Showing up at a kid's birthday party with a couple carrots in your pocket is way more stressful. And you're right, dude, how. And there's a different stress of being the person who's sneakily eating crudite, as you called it, as other people are enjoying a birthday cake. That is a different type of like.

Well, so how many people do you meet who are, you know, it's often with your grandparents and I smoke cigarettes and drank alcohol and you know, ate steak and eggs every day and they're living to, you know, 90, 100. But again, just. And again, I'm not saying any of that is the, you know, here's my top 10 tips to live longer. But I think that that was in a time when you did have more family members in the house. If you just said like grandparents, cousins, everyone lived in this sort of smaller communities. And we're also spread out now. And I don't know about you, but like the, in the Last sort of five, 10 years worked really hard to bring my family kind of closer and closer. And we all live in the same area for that reason because it's, I think a lot of us grew up or definitely through history we grew up with bigger households with, you know, shared responsibility. And now you have these little secular sort of, you know, houses where you don't even know your neighbors and grandparents live somewhere else.

It feels good when your family's around in a weird way or you know what, there's layers to life then I think when they're around, like there's nothing better than when you're feeling horrible and sad about yourself to be able to look across the room and look in one of your parents eyes and be like, this is your fault.

Yeah.

And you can't do that if you're at home by yourself.

You can't blame anyone if you're sitting there looking in the mirror, you know, and then you're like, your fault that doesn't work.

Yeah. And I think maybe we're going to be getting back towards that and we may not have a choice just because of like the cost of living and things like that. But my niece just moved in back in with my sister, like, I don't know and things like that. I think it's kind of nice. Like there is something that's fun about, about not about feeling Like a part of something. Even if you're like kind of a curmudgeon about it, like, oh, I live back at home, but good for you.

Good for you. Absolutely. There's plenty of time to sort of live on your own and good for you.

And to get to see his stepdad's nuts hanging out of his freaking undershorts once a year, you know that?

Once a year. Once a week. Haven. What a joy.

Dude, the Lord's mistletoe. That's the best brother with your father. How is he doing today?

He's good. He. Look, compared to. There are a couple other family members and close by folks that were going through or had the same diagnosis around the same time who were in a sort of catatonic vegetable state. He's, you know, he could sit here with us and talk to us and you might not even know, you know, and you spend enough time and it's the short term memories and then it's the wrong kind of stress that then is really evident, you know, like stress for him. Training in the gym and so on and solving a crossword puzzle. Great. But like not finding his keys and then, you know, losing things and then beating himself up about it.

Oh yeah.

Then they'll watch his memory go really bad. But wow.

So stress is such a big activator.

Oh, it's huge. Yeah, he, he went down, he rides motorbikes and used to race motorbikes and to put some gas in the petrol tank and then it wouldn't start. And so mom came, picked him up, went back home. He got home and he said, yeah, I needed the key. And she's like, no, no, it just didn't start. And you know, he got the spare key, went back down, didn't start again. He's like. And he did that three times for the day. By the time then I was at work, I got home and I went, I said, look, I'll just come pick him up, pick the bike up. I put the bike on the back of the car and he was like, all right, so we're going to your place to get my car on me. And I said, no, they were taking your bike home. And he's like, what bike? And he had like twice in this 10 minute drive, turn around and see the bike in the back of the truck. And that was as strong as I've seen it and, and as sort of confronting as, as it's been. But then the next day, once that problem had been solved, he was, he, he could sort of, there was a calm and and it was better, but he's doing good, man.

I, I, I still, what's his name? Yeah, Craig.

Hey, Craig.

Yeah.

What's up, Craig? Yeah, cheers from the US mate.

Yeah, he's a, he's a legend.

Good day, sir. And what was his, what's his, what's his trade been? His life?

He was.

Oh, a cattle man?

Well, no, he worked for, he worked in child protection for most of his career and then when we went to Northern Territory and he mustered cattle, he was, that was just for just a window.

Trying something different.

Trying something different. We had family up there who were doing it and, and we in the documentary, we end up back in the Aboriginal community we lived in. And the couple of the guys, they called him, he said Chuck looking because he had this long ponytail and he would like, you know.

Yeah.

Pull cattle down by the tail and time up.

I love a male rapunzel. There's nothing I love more, brother. Oh, that's beautiful, dude. And child protection, what exactly is that?

Yeah, he would two children who were, you know, neglect family violence, abuse, go into the home and, and basically have to, you know, assess the situation, present evidence to a court, talk to the police department and work out, you know, what should happen and is this child in a safe position?

Oh, wow.

And huge responsibility and, and, and you know, I watched the toll that took on him over the years when he just couldn't, there were certain things he, we wasn't able to fix, you know, and it was, and you do one, solve one thing and feel like you were, you know, had momentum and then the next day there's you know, a big pile of other cases on the desk and so, but very much in service to others and, and has always been fiercely protective of kids. Has this sort of angelic sort of quality to, to his, we'll hire him integrity. He's, he's, he's ready and willing.

Look, I bet we could get him 30% of the vote right now in America to be our next president if we have somebody that's protective of children here. Yeah, we'll take it, man. And thank you for your service, Craig. I think that stuff like that is so important. You know, thinking about the well being of children, I think there's nothing that's more, it's like the purest thing that exists in the world. And so thank you for your service. We appreciate that. They just had a ban for social media, was it? Or cell phones in Australia.

Yeah, I think we're the first country in the world that that has had kids from 16 and under.

Yeah. Australia has banned social media for kids under 16. How does under 16s in Australia have been banned from using major social media services including TikTok X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads. Thread sucks. They cannot set up new accounts and their existing profiles were deactivated. Wow. I wonder if they all had like a D day when they were all like gathered around a fire.

This is the thing. Are they all now like re entering different ages or is that, I mean, I don't know to what I mean. I think it's a fantastic thing and.

The idea of it seems perfect.

Yeah. And it's execution. I hope there's, you know, there's a positive sort of navigation through it because I'm sure, you know, my kids, I change the passcode in the phone or whatever and they figure out shit and you know, seconds. They're like little, little genius hackers with all of it. But we try and keep them off it as much as possible. But.

Yeah, but also your passcode is often like Handsome Guy 4000.

That's it. So it's the obvious one, you know, so exceptionally gorge.

Male 7.

Aren't I lucky? You're special too. Yeah. I mean, hopefully this takes off around the world. I don't know.

I'm going to see what this says here. Australia's government said the ban would reduce the negative impact of social media's design features that encourage young people to spend more time on screens while also serving up content that can harm their health and well being. I don't know any human that would disagree with that.

Yeah.

A study commissioned in 2025 found that 96% of children ages 10 to 15 use social media and that 7 out of 10 of them had been exposed to harmful content. This include misogynistic and violent material as well as content promoting eating disorders and suicide. Yeah. I'm curious what. Yeah. Can you look up on. And this is perplexity that we use to look things up. Large studies of more than a hundred thousand young adults find that each year of smartphone ownership before age 13 is associated with higher rates of depression, like symptoms, suicidal thoughts, aggression and detachment. Detachment for sure. I mean in a field, detached. When you're already like in a place where you're growing and it's, it's like, yeah, your footing is uncertain. Girls show particularly big drops in emotional resilience and self esteem. Cyberbullying and harassment. Phones and apps mean bullying can follow kids home, which raises risks of depression, anxiety and self harm.

Sleep disruption. Big one yeah.

Sleep disruption and body image and comparison, man. Well, cheers to you guys for, like, leading the charger. I think Spain just followed suit. Is that right?

Oh, really? It's where my wife's from.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

Spanish lady, huh?

Yep, yep. Fiery.

Farry's your wife's name?

Fiery? No, I said fire.

She's fiery.

Fiery energy. Oh, yes, her name. Yeah.

Elsa. Like the movie. Yeah.

Frozen.

As of February 26, Spain has announced to ban social media access for children under 16. I don't know if we would ever do it here because I think we look at our children more as okay to be victims of marketing and capitalism, whereas in other countries they. Maybe they don't. You know, I'm glad that Australia is doing this. Do you feel like it would take some getting used to? There will be this group that has to be the one that loses it.

Yeah.

And then there will have to be the younger siblings of them that are like, oh, I wish we had it. But if you could get it to go for like a generation, I think it would. It would really play into something beautiful.

100. It's even like, you know, we were probably. I don't know, like, I remember when the phone first came on, like, how old are you?

I'm 45.

45.

So I'm gonna die soon.

We. We all are. We were kind of the. The guinea pigs for it in a way, you know, Like, I remember getting a phone and wasn't social media. Yeah. Just. And all of it. And then you look at. And so you. But we had enough awareness of what came before, like coming up now and only knowing that that's. That that exists. And every time I try and tell my kids, like, that science around it, they're like, ah, shut up. You know, and there's. There's just no, there's no comparison for them, you know, Whereas we knew the comparison. We knew the comparison, we knew the possibility. Still doing it, and we're still end up depressed and, you know, I don't know about you, but.

Oh, dude, I noticed I've been on TikTok for a while.

Yeah.

And I'm feeling better, man.

Yeah.

And the algorithm.

Oh, yeah.

There should be a. I've always thought there should be able to be like, legal recourse against an algorithm because you're creating.

Yeah.

A system like a vitrol, for me to then go. And that was just my responsibility.

Yeah.

Nine minutes on. I hate a group. And now I'm just back out into the world.

So what, that algorithm is created off a Question. It's not created off a, an opinion. It's. I might have curiosity or ask the question about this particular thing and it goes, oh, that's, that's it. And now you're on that, down that line. And that, that's the danger is it's, it's making up your conclusion, you know, does it giving you the definitive sort of this is how you now should vote, or this is why you should be opinionated, or this is who you should like or dislike based upon human curiosity. You know, like you might not be, you know, the one political party supporter, but you're having a look at it next minute. That's all you're seeing.

Yeah.

You're fully on board.

It takes you from curious to conviction. It takes. And it takes you there. You're right. In the beginning I was like, oh, I'm curious about this.

Yeah.

But then suddenly you're for your next seven videos are about it. And you're like, now I have some.

Sort of a conviction, complete biased opinion about it. Yeah.

And they can even serve. It's almost like, like, here's the next stair step. Here's the next stair step. Like they can do.

You know, you're right though. There should be like, at bare minimum, they're not allowed to create an algorithm that encourages one thing. It should be, you have to continue to put that search in the search engine as opposed to it going, this is all we're feeding you now because it's all perspective. It's like your version of, you know, one thing, or my version of that is all around what I've been exposed to. There's no kind of right and wrong in it. It's like whatever education that I've been fed via this fucking machine in my.

Hand, you know, and on X they have people killing each other. That's insane.

No, more like it's over. My kids were talking about certain, you know, horrific events and so on. I was like, where the hell did you say that? And, and it's, it's, there's nothing to stop it, you know.

Oh, dude. Well, the craziest part is the other night I wake up, I'm, I, for some reason I'm like, you know, I'm obviously lonesome or whatever, but so I'm like on X or whatever. It's like 3:15 in the morning. I don't even know why I'm on there.

Yeah.

I see two people get shot outside of a Wendy's. Right. And they don't even show you if people, if emts come, they don't show you that part. It's just two people shot outside of a Wendy's. Right. And then the next thing is an advertisement for Wendy's.

That's it.

And I'm like, now I'm hungry. I don't even care about the. It's like, I forgot.

Yeah. Oh, it's, it's insane.

And I'm like, well, do I need two bags of platelets and an EMT or a Baconator?

Yeah. The complete sort of desensitization to something and then the immediately sort of bait and hooked into the product being sold is like.

And that you get taken from something that's so serious.

Yeah.

And is something that's so trivial.

Yeah.

That it's like, like it starts to like, deteriorate the part of you that takes something very serious. Serious.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

And for these kids now, you gotta walk over there and look this girl in the eyes.

Yeah.

And see that she might not be interested in you. Which is the genre that we grew up in, brother.

Yeah.

If you want to call somebody fat, you gotta walk across town, you gotta.

Say it to them and then you.

Gotta see their big fat fist come and hit you right in your smug face.

No, there's no accountability. That's the other thing. It's like the amount of like smart alec, sarcastic sort of, you know, sentiment and tone I hear from sort of my kids and their mates based upon the lack of consequence. Like, you said that in high school or school and you, you felt it immediately went well. Lesson to note yourself, don't say that again. Whereas now, now you're like plugging all sorts of things on, on your comment boards or you're commenting on what other people have done with, you know, very little, if any consequence or any repercussion.

Let me see what this says. Instagram rolls out algorithm control option to all English speaking users. Oh, wow. After launching it in early testing with a limited number of users in October last year, Instagram has today announced that all English speaking users globally will now be able to access its your algorithm manual control option, giving you another way to define your reels experience.

I thought it already did that though, because I remember meeting someone who said this is like eight years ago. Said, no, no, you know what? You, we've, you know, you've said, you know, you've talked about, you know, puppy dogs for a while and then all of a sudden puppy dogs are all over. You're real like. And they said, no, no, no. They're listening to individual words And I was like the individual words, bullshit. It's fucking the entire sentence. But. And now there seems to be a sort of oh, that's an option. But I'm pretty sure it's been planted.

I'm sure it's always been an option and it's never been effective.

Yeah.

As you can see in this overview, you can access the, your, your algorithm controls by tapping on the top right. What does it do though? So I've been using it and I changed my feed completely. I put on like editing tutorials, film lighting and like my feed is like all educational now. It's helped a lot. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And I think more people should know about it because. Yeah, I think sometimes my fear is that I'm trapped in this algorithm of times that maybe weren't my best self. Or like times where I just. Just. Or, or just what they fed you.

Yeah, for sure.

You know, and you get fed brassieres and this and that.

And it's all targets big response, you know, big. It triggers big emotions. It's all outrage mostly.

Right. It's like dopamine or.

What's going to piss you off?

Testosterone, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah. So Nick, you feel like it has been effective a hundred percent. And then. But if I do see something, I'm like, I don't want that. Then you just do see like the three dots and see less of. And it's really transformed it. I feel like I'm getting educated when I go on a lot. Yeah. That's the place I want to be in. It's like, God, just for some, you know, get me there. But I guess it's. I have to take some action too, you know. But that's good to know that that's effective. Yeah. Some aldi price. I'll tell you this story. So I one time I got in an argument with my girl, my ex or whatever. I don't know what happened to her, but we were in love or whatever. But anyway, we got in a fight or argument on the side of the interstate. She stabbed my tire and threw a hardware hammer off the front of my car. Bam. Bounced on the hood, broke it out, windshield, cracked it out. So she used to play softball. But anyway, what I'm trying to say is I didn't want to go to my insurance because it was going to be expensive and I was in a tough spot.

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Oh, cool.

Yeah, dude. It's a heist movie, right? Safe to say, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a character driven crime thriller. Somewhat of a sort of homage to the 70s, 80s, 90s, even early 2000s, like heist films that I feel like we used to see a lot more of and, and we just don't tend to make any as much. So much now where, where the. There's insane action and car chases and intensity, but that's matched by the intensity or there's a momentum and a continuity with the emotional intimate scenes as well. And it was one of the best things I'd read in years. It certainly wasn't the types of scripts I was being sent. And I had an interest in doing something very different. And this came along and it was up there with my top sort of two, three films that you've done. Yeah, that I've been a part of.

Was it like the personal challenge? I mean, your character is kind of this. He's a, kind of a. He's a bad guy that's questioning what's going on with himself.

For sure. Yeah. Like all of the like. So Mark Ruffalo plays a detective. I play a jewelry thief. Halle Berry is an insurance broker. And basically all at sort of a crossroads in the, on the, in their life around, you know, the, the Mark's characters facing police corruption. And if he speaks up, he'll be sent one way and if he follows suit, he'll get a promotion. And Halle Berry is facing, you know, ageism and feels like she's being passed over. And my guy is in that same sort of. That moral ambiguity and that sort of gray space of, you know, justifying his criminality. We show the audience and present the, you know, that he has come from meager means, difficult times, in and out of foster homes. And again, not to excuse any of what he does, but it raises, I think, the question of how one got to that point. But he does live by a very strict code. There's sort of non violent, you know, violence throughout his robberies. But he's at a point where he's seeking personal freedom and an escape from this world and is presented with this one final sort of heist which could be the exit.

And it's each character sort of on a collision course for one another and all sort of interweaved this pretty, pretty. I found pretty sort of fascinating sort of crescendo and, and finally. But he, he's a good guy, you know, he's wrestling with, I think, not having, you know, in my sort of backstory with it, not having strong paternal figures or parental figures that, that were of, you know, held integrity or maturity for him to look to and, and, and to be, I guess, modeled behavior by. So, you know, like a lot of guys, the, that we were speaking to and researched, guys in that in the criminal world came from broken homes and you seek connection and brotherhood and safety and kind of all the wrong places. And that's why a lot of guys end up in gangs. There's sort of, you know, there's family there.

Yes. Connection.

Yeah. And then it's also. They're pushing back against a system that in their eyes gave Them nothing. So it's like, well, screw you, I'm gonna, you know, what did the insurance companies or the banks or the, you know, the high end jewelry, fashion entities ever give me? And again, none of this is my justification for the life of crime. But I think that the script does a great job at presenting deeper, further layers and a deeper sort of presentation about just people, you know, and the human.

I agree with that. I think that, yeah, one thing I noticed about it is there's a bit more of the story element. There's a bit more of like you have the action, you have this sort of, you know, you have this like, like a little bit of like, I don't know if it's like Fast and the Furious meets sort of like Jewel Thievery, you know, sort of like you have this high energy, but you have us, you have some sincere storylines about what's going on with these people and, and just how people get into positions maybe that they didn't even want to be in, but there they are and how do we still view them as people and then how do they then operate to the best of their ability, even in not even the best circumstance?

Absolutely, yeah.

Does that make any sense or not?

No, it did for sure.

Yeah.

We should have been the tag most sense I've made of the three weeks and I wish I had that. That quote.

It's been a rough.

Far more succinct than the, the past year.

I haven't been able to get something out. It's been tough, man.

No, it's true. And it does it sort of, I think when it write like it doesn't spoon feed or jam down the audience's throat the answers and conclusions for things, it offers up ideas. And again, in, in the moral ambiguity space of right and wrong, it's like not. Nothing's just black and white. And we love to sort of categorize things, it's easiest for us to understand. But when you kind of get an insight into someone's life, into their backstory, you go, oh shit, if I was faced with that or I'd come from that, would I make this decision? And if I had an opportunity that was, you know, lawfully wrong or immoral on one hand, well, could I justify it through this lens? And if it was gonna pull me into personal freedom and escape this shitty position I'm in, would I do it? And then, so, so you're asking those questions as you're along for the ride, hopefully. And I find that the kind of the beauty of filmmaking and Storytelling is when you're not. When you're given as a. Choose your own adventure sort of internal process that can occur with what your assumptions are, but also not being so quick to judge.

Yeah. Cause there's moments you're like, oh, this guy's scared. Like your character, where he's like, oh, he's kind of. He's scary, you know, he's dangerous. He doesn't care if people die. But then you see. Well, he has kind of a code of his own and how he operates within this space. You know, what he thinks of love, what he thinks possible for him. Yeah, it just had a deeper layer than just like sort of a smash and grab him. Like kind of like heist move.

Yeah, that was the goal.

You know, it had a little bit of a James Bond esque in the sense of like, you know, some of this chase scenes and stuff like that reminded me of some of that energy.

Yeah, for sure.

And just some of the music that went with it. There were certain moments where it gave me some of that energy kind of.

You see Heat or the Michael man and Collateral, it was kind of like those types of films were big. A big sort of comp where the. The action that was the real. A realism and a grit and authenticity to it. But you had complex emotional sort of characters along the way as well, so.

Yeah. You ever steal anything good when you were young? You guys ever stealing. Yeah, Blow dart a wall of being over there and run it out of somebody's yard.

Wallaby, did you say?

Yeah, just put him down. You think one dart would take a wallaby down or not?

It depends. What kind of tranq is in that dart? You mean like a. Like a. Like a tranquilizing dart or something? Yeah, a dartboard dart.

Oh, tran. Talking tranq.

Yeah, yeah, they go down. The wallabies are tiny. The big kangaroos. I don't know.

Oh, dude, not some of the ones I seen over there. Yeah, whatever. We went to that place outside of Melbourne. That was a big kangaroo park. Yeah, maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was outside of.

Now there's a. There's a lot. There's. There's.

Bro, we saw the one that's jacked. We saw the Nate Diaz one.

Ever see the video of the guy punching on with a kangaroo? You didn't see that? The wallaby comes up to get his dog and he literally shapes up, throws a left and a right and pop, bang. Just because it's trying. I think the wallaby's trying to attack his dog or it's got his dog in a headlock or something.

But, yeah, dude, we saw the one. We were afraid to move, dude. I was waiting for, like, Keith Peterson to step in. I was waiting for a UFC referee to come in and say, to your neutral corners. You know, I was waiting for Mark Goddard.

I mean, I don't know what this guy's. This is. This is. Look at this. Wallaby's got.

Who is that? Luke Bryan.

He's got the dog and a headlock. Watch this right jab. The kangaroo is like, what the.

Is that? Luke Bryan? Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful, dude. I mean, that dog should have been able to get free, though. That's a big dog.

Oh, they're pretty strong, these things. And they got little. Little talons. They got big old claws on them.

Oh, dude. The ones we saw, the ones were very scary, but I had such a great time, man. In your car.

How long were you there for?

We were there for probably two weeks, dude. One of my favorite times was, like, we got some. Just some E bikes, and we went. During the day. We would go up and down the Gold coast on the. You could. Yeah, you could bike on the sand, like, basically in the water, if you want. And there would be nobody out there all day, and we would just. Dude, it was like. It almost felt like we're on another planet, man.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then I got to meet Chris. Chris Lilly came out.

Oh, yeah.

When I was in.

Do you ever see his shows back in the day?

Oh, yeah.

Hilarious.

Stop looking at me, dick. Mom, that's my dick. Dad.

Man, he just.

My dick. Yeah.

Touching my dick.

Stop touching my dick, you.

Dad. What you say? I said you. I said you.

Yeah, it's a picture of my dick. Yeah. It would always be his dick.

Jonah. That's his name. Jonah, bro.

And what a legend.

Dude.

Dude. To get to meet him, it literally felt like you were meeting something, like a rare bird that showed up on a branch to talk with you for a little bit.

I. I remember crossing paths with him when I. When I first started acting. And you passed across. Yeah. As in, like, he was a mate of a mate of mine and crossing paths and. And just being. He was just a. What he kind of came up with was, like. I want to say kind of back when the Office was first coming out, but that mockumentary style, but he'd play, like, seven or eight quite different characters and. Yeah. Talented. Dude.

Oh, dude. Mr. G. Dude.

The musical. Musical, Yeah. A lot of it, like, kind of.

Got bad habit for drugs. Dude.

So good. My God.

Dude. The fact that we can say cheese Room.

Cheese room. Welcome to Mr. Cheese Room.

The fact we can say floor and still laugh right now is.

Oh, my.

That is good stuff.

Yeah, that was like, pre, kind of like. I think a lot of it was, is, Is, you know, isn't acceptable now. He wouldn't be able to make any of it now, but, like, oh, that was before anything. And it was.

I'd make it with him in a heartbeat, dude.

If he Give him a call.

I'm sure he's looking to make people now. Would make it easy because you could put it out yourselves. It's like you could do it yourself and put it out.

I think just in the sort of cancel space culture. He kind of got.

I think he felt that more than it was very real.

Oh, really?

Oh, I think so.

Okay.

I think the reality of people. Yeah. Like, I think, like, like, even, like, people, like, I think he was like, I don't know if he was, if people thought he was making fun of aboriginal culture or Tongan culture. What?

It was Polynesian, dude. Those people, I mean, I, I, it depends who you spoke to.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I had Polynesian buddies who, like, loved him and then other guys that were like, no, it's not cool, bro.

Oh, I see.

And, but I. Yeah.

What's not cool? Me dick. You know, but, yeah, I feel you, dude. It was crazy, bro.

I love the way you've seen all that, dude.

When he would do the break dancing, bro.

Oh, my God. And what was Jermaine, the.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. He's a year seven. Oh, God bless him, brother.

Go, Go watch that.

If you've never seen Summer High Tide.

Summer High tie, you can't find it.

Anywhere except for on YouTube. Yeah, I think on some, like, distant channel, but it's out there. There. Are there things where you want to. Like when you're relating with your dad or the things you want to make sure that he knows now. Like, is the responsibility that you feel as a child that it's like, okay, how do I make sure he's okay?

Yeah.

Like, is it. Does that make any sense?

Yeah. And I think from having kids as.

Well, and even for other people that are experiencing this, like, since you've had experience with it, like, if you could just maybe share a little bit of that.

So, so when I had the premiere and in back in Australia, I had someone come up to me afterwards for crime 101. No, sorry for, for the documentary with my dad.

Okay. For limitless.

A road. Road trip to remember.

Say it again.

For a road trip to remember.

Got it.

And he. Someone came up to me and. And he said, I was diagnosed around the same time your dad was. And I wish my kids could see this, because no one asks me how I am or what I'm. What I'm afraid of or what. What I'm experiencing, because people are nervous. They don't know how to discuss it, so they dance around it and pretend it's not happening. And he goes, so you suffer in silence. And the biggest thing I think that has helped, that my dad has responded to, and I'm thankful for having gotten to this place, is asking him how he's feeling about it, you know, because it's. You know, you talk to your parents about this stuff, and then your parents pass away, and then who do you talk to? And it hit me that, God, he doesn't have his dad to go and have these hard conversations or these vulnerable moments with or his mom anymore. And so trying to give him that. Give him that space. But also, I know there's a. I remember 15 years ago, that transition of when him realizing he wasn't the authority, and we knew as we.

As, you know, young men now working and knew more about things and weren't seeking his advice as much. I remember seeing that on his face and it. Not registering enough for me to do anything about it, but kind of being aware that like. Like the changing of the guard was occurring. And so I go to him now and. And I'll ask him things that I may know the answer to, you know, or. Or just so he feels like there is still agency and. And he has autonomy and. And they. They want to see. Thank you. They want to feel like they still matter and there's a purpose.

You know, That's a good point. You don't think about that, that when that change in the guard happens, that there's a. There's a value loss or potential, like, hypothesized value loss for the parent.

Oh, for sure. And I. Even my kids. My daughter's 13. My boys are 11. And I'm already feeling that, like, oh, I'm not cool. And I'm not necessarily who they look to. And. And it's like, you know, and they're young.

Yeah. They're watching Andrew Tate or whatever. Yeah.

They're watching all sorts of. And have other role models. But. But it's like, I think, you know, and then I'm 42, you know, but I can't imagine in the 60s, 70s, when that. That gap becomes far greater, and especially facing having dementia and realizing your memories are being stripped away and that vulnerability that. Just making sure they still feel like they are of purpose and that they have an opinion and the opinion matters. And so, yeah, if anyone's going through it, that would be my advice, is check in with them, ask them how they're feeling, Ask them what they're afraid of, because no one asks.

That's a great question. What are you afraid of? Yeah, it's easy to say, hey, how are you? Yeah, but that's not the same thing.

And that won't bring out the answer. Like, I asked him on the show and he went, I just don't want to be a burden. And it was like, oh, fuck. And I had no idea that he felt that, you know, I thought it was going to be about the kind of, you know, losing, you know, control of this and that and the other, and. But it was like he was more concerned with what it was going to do to the, you know, the group.

Yeah, that's what my mom says sometimes. I don't want to be any burden.

Yeah.

And it makes me think, like, oh, yeah. Like, I don't know. And in some ways, I've always wanted my mom to be, like, a burden. And like, I don't know, like the inverse of a burden, kind of whatever that is. Like a positive burden or just like.

I don't know, like a beautiful responsibility or it's. Yeah, but like.

But for that to say, yeah, I don't want to be a burden.

Do you find that it gives you purpose, though? You know, like, it's like having this time with him as kind of confronting as it's been, has also given me a greater sense of, like, what matters. And also it's like the roles do transfer, and at a certain point, as an adult, you gotta realize, oh, I now need to take care of them.

Right.

And, you know, and especially men, I don't know. But in Australia, there's a real, like, you know, avoidance around that sort of vulnerability or the sort of admittance to I may be afraid of something or I need a hand. And so offering that up rather than having to get them to come to you and say, please check in with.

Me, that's a huge thing. Yeah. What are you afraid of?

Yeah.

Yeah. Because that's really what I want to know, probably.

Yeah.

Yeah. The other day I was thinking, like, I. I messaged my mom and I was like, hey, mom, is there anything that you need? Is there Any like, trip that you've always wanted to take, is there anything because, you know, now I have some finances where I could help do something, you know, or if she wants to do something, you know, and. Or is there anything that, you know? Yeah, is there anything that you want? You know? And she's like, nothing that I can think of, you know? Whereas you always think that it's like, oh, I'm going to get these. Like, I'll have the ability to do this thing and that'll make it perfect. But it's like, that's not real.

I always thought like I would buy my mom things and jewelry and she was like, it's lovely, but like, I want your time, you know? I mean, just yesterday she was like, can I schedule in one of your meetings to just get 15 minutes just with you? And I was like, oh. And she goes, well, I'm sort of half joking, but serious. And, and, and you forget, like, yes, when you get busy, like, it's like, yeah, I'll get to that. I'll get to that. And. And all these other things.

At least you can put her off on one of your other good looking brothers.

Exactly. Yes.

Like, that's gotta be nice. Like, look, talk to the other good looking, you know. I bet you didn't even have wallpaper. No, it was just mirrors everywhere. Just mirrors.

Were so excited.

Like, he's coming, he's coming. Sorry, dude, this is seeming a little bit. Dude, whatever, bro. Pull me a Fosters.

You ever drink Fosters?

I think I have, yeah. It's a big can. I like, drink. This is what I would do though. I would drink it with two hands.

If I had a big old, like extra large absurd can for a while.

Oh, it reminded me of the beer of, of Sean and Marley. You ever seen Sean and Marley?

No.

Oh, bro, bring them up. They're Aussies, man.

Sean and Molly, they're the best.

Yeah, get down with Sean and Molly. Put me on there, there. Show me on. You never seen these guys? Dude, these guys are the best. Chris, if you. Bro, next time you're home. This is one of the best times I ever had in my whole life.

Did you do this in Australia or here?

Yeah, in. In Australia. How you going? Good?

All right.

Can hug it. Dude, they do. They're chefs.

I've never seen this guys.

Thank you, boys. Thank you for welcoming me here. Yes, yes, I'm very happy to be here.

I would say this very fun.

He come to Australian and come see me and Sean from usa.

Usa.

You've been To. Have you been to America?

I can't remember.

Yeah, and look, it's becoming unmemorable, I'll tell you that. Get to the part with the beer, though. We made beer chicken. Right. So these guys do recipes, bro, Bro, if you ever like. Yeah, I'm not saying. But this would be an easy thing for you to go and do a.

A little show with a little cooking.

And bro, they live at. They live. They don't live together. One of them has down syndrome. 1. I don't think one of them does. But one of those is Korean or whatever. Yeah, yeah, they're just mates, but they've been friends for a long time. We made beer chicken, right?

How was it?

Oh, dude, yeah, it was good. But Marley took the beer right out the hot beer and just drank it straight out of the oven. Freaking legend.

Chicken juice and. Oh, cooling, hot temperature.

Look at that. That. That can is probably 200 degrees, bro. Your receptors is off, baby. You gotta come up a little bit, bro. He's right. That right out of the thing, bro. But dude, their families are so sweet that. And they invited us over to their home and they made like up there. There's a piece of art up above, like on the mantle up there on the right. Yeah, right there. They made like a rat for like the rat king. Like they did like special things to make it just for me. But their families are there, dude, and it's like the best. And they have the best time. But bro, just to even you would. It was. Honestly, I think it was the best part of my trip. Besides getting to perform the shows. Yeah, but that's right outside of Sydney, I believe.

Yeah, we've got a rabbit eyes top on, which is Russell Crowe's rugby team, which is a Sydney. Oh, yeah, that, that, that green. And oh, that must be the heroes.

In because they'll go to a lot of the games and stuff like that. But Sean and Marley are the best, bro. And I think they still do this show all the time, so that'd be pretty cool to go see it. Whenever you get into spaces where you're like, you know, we're talking earlier about like kind of regrouping and getting a new look at things and like, you know, having some moments of self evaluation and reflection and seeing if like my old dreams are still my current dreams and where have they got and. And what do I do now? And enjoying kind of the freedom of not knowing or not being sure exactly where I'm at in my journey. What are there practices that you go to? To help you gain a little bit more clarity there. Like, could it be something like just spending time with certain people or meditation? Like, are there some practices that you use?

Yeah, for me, I'm not great at, like, traditional seated meditation. I could benefit from it if I was to sort of force myself to do it, but I prefer physical movement, like. Like training. You know, surfing for me is an obvious one.

Oh, yeah.

Complete. I've done that since I was, you know, 10 years old. And if I spend too long out of the ocean, my whole sort of, you know, being starts to suffer in some way or the other. Not just vitamin D, but this sort of. I don't know, that sort of magnetic pool the ocean has to me. But the. That's. That's my true happy place. So. Yeah, I've spent a lot of. Dang, a lot of time surfing.

You're comfortable enough on a surfboard to make a gang sign. Dude, that is.

That's actually in a wave pool. That's in Abu Dhabi. Oh, that's mechanical. Man made wave. Yeah.

Have you been to Pipe? Yeah, dude, I just went like, two weeks ago.

I went 15 years ago once. It's cool, huh?

Bro, it was so cool. I didn't know they had the Lexus pipeline. Competition was going on.

Oh, yeah, right, of course.

And so I went each day. When I went, it had been canceled for the day because the conditions weren't perfect. But that's one thing that's so amazing about it. It makes it so unique about these surf competitions, is that it can only happen if the water is right.

Yeah.

So it was like. It was almost this little Mecca that we'd make. Each take is about an hour from where I was staying, which was silly. I should have just stayed up in the North Shore. But I get there and we. And they're like, yeah, it's canceled for the day. But it was just like, even seeing that and seeing like, oh, this is a real thing. Like, so many people come out and like.

Yeah.

And they. All the surfers stay are in this place. And, like, it gave me a whole different appreciation for it.

Yeah, it's especially Pipe. I mean, that. That event is. They wait for it to be big and intense and. And beautiful and. And. And if it's not going to hit those, you know, that. That if it's not going to live up to that, they don't run the competition until it does. And so you're often in for a pretty epic week of competition. But that place is. Talk about, like, the power of the Ocean and different regions. You know that you'll have a six foot wave there, which feels like 20 foot compared to what a six foot wave would be at a beach break somewhere else. And. And this, the way the ocean comes from big deep water and just hits big slabs of reef is pretty. Pretty mind blowing and awe inspiring and special. Man, it's.

It's good. You feel the power of it all.

Yeah. Do you say you ever surface surfed?

I surfed. I used to live in Charleston, South Carolina. I would surf out there some. So I could do it, but I would need to go focus on it.

Yeah.

I think it just like, recently what I've been thinking is, man, I just want to, like. And it's like, I could do it, but it's like, you know, podcasting, it's a lot of attention. You know, you're like going for the next week. It's like having a show every week.

Yeah.

And so you're preparing and sometimes we do two a week now because there's so many different people to talk with. With.

Yeah. And so this is another skill you've got to learn. It's another. It's a lot of hours.

Yes. And it's. It's hard to like, feel like I'm always like, all right, I gotta make sure this next one is okay.

Yeah.

I'm never at a place where I feel like, yeah. So it's like I need to give myself a little more space and grace and just be like, okay, if you do go for a week or two, go do some things that you also want to enjoy. You know, I do you find it.

Hard to switch off?

Off.

What do you mean? When you. When you have.

Yes. When you find it hard to switch off. But I also find it like, you know, like, take some time and go do things. These things. And I'm not complaining. I know I can do it. I think it's just like, it's like we're talking about earlier, like having that space in your life.

Yeah.

Letting the uncertain have a little bit more room to walk around, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. The observation, the stepping back, it's like. Yeah.

Like, what will I see if I were to go have some new experiences? Like, you know.

Yeah.

And. And what will I learn when I'm a little separate? And just being like. Like that is as much of the value as being sitting here looking under the microscope.

Yeah.

Is standing out of the room and. And not even being in the laboratory, you know, and having some of that energy. So I'm not complaining. I Know, I can do it, but it's just like that. Some of it probably is a fear.

Yeah.

You know, no, it's.

But it's hard to get off the. The train of when there's momentum with anything, you know, especially if you've been shocked by the handbraking of when it doesn't work out or things are kind of static and you're sitting going, if I only had. Or I was. Had that type of energy and. And so to sort of willingly, by your choice, step off. There's a risk to that, but it also is kind of scary because it's like there's a safety net in just carrying on as exhausting and maybe detrimental. It could be because you're missing other things. It's like there's a risk involved. But again, I'm sure with you, you've found the same thing in life when you've stepped outside of the bubble. The bigger lessons are learned, the bigger sort of experiences occur.

And I think I came from that place where that was the thing I love the most.

Yeah.

You know, but it's okay. It's all interesting. And I think that's why, like, even just having time like this today to think about this, it's like, yeah, we've been talking, we've been podcasting, but it's like, I think this is a conversation that I just needed to hear, you know.

Oh, cool. So me too. I mean, I. It's like I said at the start of none of it I've figured out. It's like I just find. Keep continually sort of asking and exploring and then hopefully not being too bogged down in having to come. Come up with the outcome or the definitive certainty of. It's just staying curious, I feel like, is the. Is the more fulfilling place to be in, you know?

You're going. Are you almost back to Australia, heading back home?

Yeah. I have the premiere tonight for crime 101. And then. Oh, yeah, and I fly back home tomorrow. I've been gone for three weeks. And it's. It's hard, man, with like, with kids.

Oh, and they're here with you now?

No, no. And they're at the age where it. Like, they weren't really aware of time, you know, for a long time. And now they're like. Like, it pisses him off, you know, and it's like, well, how long you said this? And you know, I used to supposed to be a dad and you're never here. And then it's like, it's not a dick dad.

It's not a dick.

A dick dad. So looking forward to getting back Touch my dick, miss.

Bro, that kid was crazy to be saying dick that much at school.

Like 24, 7 as well. He's a ranger. He's a rangamist. Stop calling him a ranger. Well, he is, miss. Why not?

Yeah, yeah, dude. And didn't his dad come down one time?

Yeah, they come down because this is the funniest one. So. So he does a drawing, and it's basically a drawing of an image leaning over and touching him on the groin. And he's just taking the piss. And the teacher's like, what's this? He's like, that's me and my dad. You know, it comes down, the principal's involved, the teacher's involved, and then they call the dad in and they're like, yeah, we're really concerned about, you know, what's happened. And he goes, yeah, I made it up. And then the dad loses his. What the. What would I touch his dick for? What did you say?

Oh, thank God there's humor in the world.

Oh my God. What else? What else? You know, if. If we can't laugh and have fun and enjoy the, the experience, what the hell are we doing?

What's the way that you communicate with your children or teach them to communicate that you think has been like a novel choice for you or something that you brought along from a place that you learned? Like, have you. Has that been a practice for you to do that? Because it just seems like you try to have, like, have some awareness about, like why you think certain ways and why you operate, whereas some people don't. Is it even possible to incorporate that in your. Some of your kids interactions and lives?

You do, But I think the biggest thing I've learned is nothing I say is really imprinted. It's like they learn by example. And if I'm not modeling that behavior, it doesn't matter how many times I tell them, you know, do as I say, not as I do. It's just. It's rubbish. And so if I'm trying to tell them to get off their phones and so on or stop swearing and this, I've got to do it, you know, but it's exposing them to nature, you know, like they're. And we lived in LA for probably 10 years, my wife and I, before we had kids and then we had kids. We're here for about a year or two and it was like kind of chaos trying to do anything with the kids and paparazzi and so on, and moved back To Australia.

What pervert would take pictures of a kid? That's the weird thing, you know what I'm saying? Except for most of the people in our.

Yeah. Except this business.

Except for most capitalists and Hollywood elite.

Oh, it's brutal. Yeah. No, and. And so we went back home and we just didn't get that. That sort of attention.

Has it been a good choice?

You made the best ever, like a big conscious choice to leave the, the. The environment that was kind of, even for my own personal sanity, like, reminded of what I was doing or what I was not doing. And so it's very hard to escape the kind of work, the thought process, but for them just to, if you look to expose them to what I thought was a normal, you know, upbringing and being as much outdoors. And so we have a farm and they surf motorbikes and horses and. And look what a luxury that is, you know, that's not where like we grew up in the. In the bush. But we had no money, you know, and now very different sort of financial circumstances, but. And that's the trick is trying to teach them the same sort of appreciation and gratitude that I had learned by not having my parents, not having money. But now we're equipped very differently and.

That'S tough to do.

It's a really tricky one, you know, but.

But it's hard to teach your kids your same struggle.

Yeah. And it's. So you try and expose them to sort of different situations or parts of the world, but it's also in sort of in discussing with them the not taking it for granted and having gratitude for it. But also, you know, I talk to my mom about this all the time and she's like, I could show you, you know, whether on this pay scale or, you know, this end of the spectrum finance or not, healthy and unhealthy people, and it's about love and security and do they still feel safe to explore this world and explore who they are genuinely, you know, and do they feel seen? And so making sure we're there and present and when I'm not working, I'm 100% there and in your head's not somewhere else, but just getting them outdoors, you know, it's the biggest thing. They went to a school, traditional sort of school, and then we put them into school where it's just like 15 kids and three teachers and they surf for two hours in the morning and then they do like really focused learning for a couple hours in the afternoon and it's kind of like homeschooling in A way.

But they're absorbing that information more because they've exerted energy through the day. But there's less kids and more teachers, so there's far more kind of personal interaction. But the. It's almost like sort of accidental learning where they'll. They'll talk about, you know, their math class might be around shaping a surfboard. So it's, you know, six foot two and eighteen and a half inches, and, you know, what's the leaderage and the volume. And so they're calculating things where there's. There's an invested interest as opposed to just numbers on a board. And, you know, has it been working? Well, they're happier than they've ever been, really. They've been that school for a year and a half or two years and Blessing, man.

Yeah. And a lot of people are talking about homeschool here more in America. You're starting to see a lot more of it.

Yeah.

I'm friends with Candace Owens, and she talks about this all the time. Is like, get your kids into a space if you can.

Yeah.

Where other, like, neighborhood moms or dads are also doing the teaching. And people.

I'd be worried if it was homeschooling, Me trying to teach them, you know, that would be. We did that in Covid, and that was a nightmare.

And you were teaching them during COVID.

Oh, just all of us were being. Every parent was being sent, like, the curriculum, and it was like, trying to teach them math, you know, grade five math that none of it made any sense to whatever math I learned in High School 20 years ago. And I was like, let's go outside. Never surf. And, you know, would you have a chalkboard or whatever? No. Oh, no. We had just, like. It was to get them to do the right. One sentence was just like, World War three. It was. All three of them were just, like, constant protest and not listening. And I called my buddy, who was their teacher, and I said, how you doing? And he goes, mate, I can't even get my own teachers. They're my kids to do it. He said, let's just catch up when this thing passes. So we. Outdoor education, which was like, yes.

Adventure homeschooling hits record numbers last year. Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID 19 pandemic. So it's growing at three times the rate that it did during COVID That's unbelievable. In the 2024, 2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States. Increasing in an average rate of 5.4%. Amen, dude.

Yeah.

I think the system in a lot of places can be contrived so to have some autonomy over what your children are learning. This is nearly three times the pre pandemic homeschooling growth rate of almost 2%. Recent estimates put the total homeschooling population at about 6% of students across the United States, compared to about 3% pre pandemic.

I wonder how much of that is, like, you know, parents teaching their kids or a group, you know, 10 or 12. Like, that's the problem. I think it's. It's class sizes are too big. You've got one. One person for 30 kids. It's like. Like, God, good luck, you know? Whereas having more of a sort of mentorship, tutoring sort of program where it's less children, more teachers, but.

Oh, it's. Yeah. When there's just some connection.

Yeah.

Because when you're just sitting there and you're just. You're almost just like a piece of cattle for information, that's what you feel like in school. A lot of times I would remember that it would be like, yeah, well, there's just this information. I write it down, and it's like, what do we. There's. It doesn't feel like.

No, there's no relationship to it.

There's got to be a better way to do this. And there's no real relationship to each other while we're learning it. Except knowing I can't. A dick on someone. Let me see. The fraction of parents saying K through 12 education is heading in the wrong direction was fairly stable from 2019 to 2022, but rose in 2023 and then again in 2024 to its highest level in a decade. The reasons for the move away from public schools certainly vary from family to family, but there have been notable developments in recent years. During the pandemic, many parents discovered that their preferences regarding school closures and health policies were anything but a priority for educators. I don't even know if teachers have as much, like, individuality and autonomy as they used to, anyway.

Yeah, no, and it's tricky for. My mom was a teacher. It's just.

Yeah. What did she say about it?

Oh, just how.

And this is America, too. America is definitely.

Yeah, but it's just how. It's the hardest. One of the hardest jobs in the world. Like. And she just said trying to control 30 different personalities and then teach 30 different personalities who have different styles of learning and absorbing information was just chaos. And. Yeah. That's how it is. You look at our education system 500 years ago, and now it hasn't changed. Just chalkboard and people sitting at a desk looking in one direction. Yet every other form of, you know, industry has evolved exponentially.

That's a great point.

And so I think we. There does need to be a big, drastic shift in how we're teaching our kids. And. And, you know, like, a lot. People talk a lot about sort of, you know, AI and so on and, you know, absorbing information. Do kids absorb it better? And can you then curate it more? But you have to have an individual there. You know, we can't sort of cut off the human experience or the human connection part of it, but I would. If you could control it. You want to incentivize teachers and encourage more people to come into this industry by paying them more. So government funding, because they don't get paid enough. They don't get rewarded enough.

It's dark.

I mean.

Yeah. The fact that we don't pay them. And nurses now.

Yeah. It's backwards.

It's heartbreaking.

Yeah.

This con, it's just like. And it's not the people.

No.

It's the elites. It's the government. That's the sick part. It's like.

Yeah, no, this sort of. Yeah, we could go down a rabbit hole.

Yeah, we could go down a rabbit hole. But let's. Let's just stay in the Garden for today.

In the Garden, brother.

We'll stay in the garden for today. Crime 101.

It's in theaters Valentine's Day weekend.

Oh, yeah. It's a lady out of your gay. And both you guys like action.

That's right.

You know what I'm saying? Which is kind of rare in a gay relationship. Usually one dude kind of, you know, is a little bit more Bridges in Madison county and, you know. But whatever, you know.

You like heist films.

Yeah. If you like heist films.

Driven, you know, thought provoking.

Yeah. You like some espionage. You like different levels of heist.

Yeah.

You want to support the heisters and.

Thomas Crown Affair, Heat, Collateral. It's a big, beautiful cinematic experience shot in the gritty streets of Los Angeles. So nothing gets shot here anymore either. So. So there's a nostalgia to watching this film, I think, that the people appreciate, you know?

Yeah. David Spade and I made a movie, and I know I've said this before on here. It's coming out in April.

Yeah.

We shot in just north, right outside of here.

Oh, cool.

And here, actually, we shot some of it in Places that I even been at AA meetings. Dude, we shot in places where I've done AA meetings over the years, so it's pretty legendary. But, yeah, it's great to see something shot in la. And if you've been to la, you'll see parts in the background. I was like, oh, that's Venice. Like, whenever Ruffles was sitting outside with Halle Berry. And Halle Berry's in it, huh?

Fantastic. Man, what a force it was. It was crazy working with her. I've admired her for so long, and she's incredible. And then it was one of those. I've had this happen one time with Cate Blanchett as well, where you. I'm so intimidated by the person and watching them and in the middle of the scene, but also captivated by what they're doing, that I'm just like an audience member and I'm forgetting, like, that I have to contribute. I'm just going. And she's that. And she's just a beautiful human being. Barry Keoghan's in it, who's a. Yeah.

That was a surprise.

Yeah, he's a he. Talk about, like, dangerous electricity on screen, on and off the camera. You know, he has such an unpredictability about him, and it's it. But just captivating.

Well, you feel like he's in control of what he was doing, you know?

Yeah.

It's still crazy that he was slurping up that dude's bath water or whatever in the other film, you know what I'm saying? I love the Fosters, you know what I'm saying, bro? That's what I'm saying, bro. I don't sip out of the bottom of the tub anymore. I'll drink off the top of the tub, you know, the top water, but I'm not that undercurrent. That's just for him. And my friend Crosby Fitzgerald is in it as well. She plays Ma in the new remake of the Little House on the Prairie that's coming out. So our fans over the years know that I love that show. And she has just a small role in it. There she is right there. Beautiful young lady. So talented. And. And that show is going to be on Netflix coming out soon. But Crime and One one, it's in theaters now. Give my best to your brother and to your brothers.

Yeah.

And. And yeah, thanks so much for coming and just sharing some information with us, dude.

I appreciate you, man. I love the show and. And have been excited to come on for a long time, so thank you, dude.

It was fun and I appreciate it. And tell everybody in Australia that I said, what's up? And we're coming back there, dude, and we're gonna go to the beach, and we're gonna do everything you can.

Hit me up. We'll go on an E bike, and we'll. We'll. We'll. We'll hit the coast.

Good day. Yeah. Good day for that. All right. Cheers, man. Thank you so much.

Thanks so much.

But when I reach that ground? I'll share this peace of mind I found?

I can feel it in my bones? But it's gonna take.