WEBVTT - UltraMegaStar Friday Orbit: An Interview with Matthew McConaughey 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:15.800 Three two one zero all engine running liftoff. We have 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:21.240 a liftof Welcome back to the solid verbal Friday Orbit Show. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.560 My name is ty Hildebrandt, joining me as always over 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.720 there in Chicago, my good friend Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:30.080 are you? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.680 I am ready for an intergalactic ride of a lifetime 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.320 on this UFO episode, Tye, That's how I am. We 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.640 have decided on the U portions. It's the UFO show. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.159 We do it every Friday. We're a college football show. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.919 But we take on a weird kind of space quasi 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:56.320 theme on these Friday episodes. Ultramegastar Friday Orbit is what 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.080 we're I think going with today. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:03.560 Right, somehow an e been more mega, more ultrastar than 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.480 Eastern PA's Ty hilden brand is appearing. I mean, you 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.360 were just recognized in a Wegmans. It's true, fair, it 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.520 is true. But we have somehow booked a star bigger 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.720 than you. We've been trying to do this forever and 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.720 the stars aligned tie space term and we are as 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.400 you know because you've seen the episode title. We are 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:28.200 incredibly thrilled and honored to welcome in angels in the 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.760 outfield's own Matthew McConaughey. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.480 Angels in the Outfield, Dallas Buyers wrote, credit Magic, Mike, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.959 A Time to Kill Interstellar. The list goes on and on. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.600 Matthew McConaughey has been in a bunch of cool movies 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.440 and he's obviously the Minister of Culture down there at 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.280 the University of Texas. Huge Longhorns fan. We are so 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.000 very thrilled to have him on the program. Been trying 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.200 to do so for gosh. I went back years look 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.720 through my email trying to get him on. So finally 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.680 worked out. As he said, the stars lined, he's going 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.560 to be on a little bit. We've got a bunch 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.560 of cool stuff to talk about with him, including his 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.040 new memoir, which we'll link up in the show notes 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.959 called green Lights. I did have the good fortune to 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.440 read it. It's really good, really an. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.920 Of crazy stories, worth a read, and we're crazy excited 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:17.359 to have him on. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.639 Before we go any further, we also want to talk 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.560 about what we are doing on Halloween. Dan, give me 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.800 a spooky laugh. If you've got one of those, Thank you. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.280 I might have been a little Santa. I applied. It 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.560 was a little bit of Santa at the end it's okay. Yeah, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.440 we're doing what we're calling the Solid Verbal live scream 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.880 at seven pm Eastern on Halloween Saturday night, shortly before 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.560 the Penn State Ohio State game. Will be doing it 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.960 for our Patreon subscribers. Will be on Discord answering questions 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.919 as we're doing our live stream. We're obviously going to 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.440 talk about whatever transpires during the day games, also viewing 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.840 the night games, the most notable, which is of course 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.840 Ohio State Penn State. We are working on maybe trying 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.400 to bring some special friends in as part of that. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.680 Don't know if we'll be able to make that happen 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:13.880 or not, but there's potential. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.080 I mean, we're bringing McConaughey to the fold. I mean, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.640 how much can we do it on Saturday night? But 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.720 I know, I know. But just to the verballers out there, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:23.440 I hear you. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.720 This is for the five dollars a month here to 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.040 the lowest here. If you go on out to verballers 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.040 dot com, if you become a certified five dollars per 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.120 month verballer. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.000 Or a premium or a premium tie, it's not only certified, yeah, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.280 it's any verballer for sure. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.440 You can get access to the Halloween live scream, and 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.520 you get access to any future live streams that we 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.920 do in the future, depending on how this goes. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.520 I like anchoring these two holidays because we've got a 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.480 great full calendar year of holidays to do these, but 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.320 especially during the football season tie. It allows us to 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.160 dress up, It allows us to have a theme about 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.760 about the live I mean, this one is a live scream, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.200 but the streams in general. I couldn't be more excited. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.440 And the reason I'm excited is because the people who 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.120 have signed up on Patreon these certified and premium verballers 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.440 and potentially a benefactor of Verballer. If everything works out, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.839 we are going to be bringing emotion that we don't 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.400 normally bring on Sunday mornings when we record the recap 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.560 because we don't have time to put things in perspective. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.200 We're just going raw off of what we've seen and 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.120 what we want to see. So what we've seen during 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.000 the day what we want to see at night, and 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.640 we are incredibly excited to do it with what I 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.839 would consider to be the best college football fans in 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.680 the world are our Patreon subscribers. It's not unfair to 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.880 say so please consider joining us verballers dot com. We 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.400 have a lot of excitement in going into this live 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.920 scream on Saturday night at seven pm Eastern. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.400 I am drinking out of my soliverable plank glass at 0:04:54.400 --> 0:05:00.200 the moment. Are you in preparation for the bruine to 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:00.600 do after? 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:01.960 Committed to the brand? 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:02.160 Hy? 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:02.839 I like it? 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.080 Committed to the brand? 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.200 Okay, check that out. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.080 We will be talking with mister McConaughey shortly before we 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:18.080 get there, though I can't yell today. My voice is 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.200 just toast after a long time. You give me an 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.559 aggressive like McConaughey. Ask whisper, like an intense whisper. About 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:33.640 the breaking news, breaking news, breaking news. Three things to 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:39.359 discuss here, Dan, Yeah, Wisconsin, Nebraska it's off. They're not playing. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.520 We previewed it, talked a lot about it. I think 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.719 we both went Nebraska give an uncertainty. You may recall 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.680 the line was up there around eight and a half 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.359 when it opened. The news broke about Graham Mertz, Chase 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:56.599 Wolf and Danny Van den Boom potentially being the starting 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.080 quarterback due to COVID, and now it looks like that 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:05.640 game is off, which is a bummer. Nebraska actually tried 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:11.240 to schedule a game with Chattanooga to just find a replacement. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.440 They put a deal together that was nixed by the 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.000 Big Ten. So it's not look like Nebraska's going to 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.600 be playing this weekend either, despite their best efforts. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.600 Right, and Nebraska had even offered to pay for and 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.680 help everything with testing for the mocks, and I think 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.400 everybody sort of looked at it as a long shot. Obviously, Nebraska, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.080 when things were up in the air with the Big Ten, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.200 had sort of floated, or at least Scott Frost had floated, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.400 we'll play anyone anywhere, like a Pat Hill type enthusiasm, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.120 and that obviously didn't happen. And this is obviously not happening. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.000 So Nebraska, with an unexpected by week Wisconsin has shut 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.320 down all team activities. And I did see Barry Alvarez 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.960 responded to a recent report about the heart screening for 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.680 myocarditis with COVID positive tests and how doc and you know, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.479 everybody's learning everything at once, essentially, but doctors are saying, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.039 you know, we're finding so little in terms of myocarditis, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.040 and we don't even know if what we are finding 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.680 is due to COVID or it's due to an undetected 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:17.320 birth situation, cardiovascular situation, and so Barry Alvarez was very 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.440 quick to say, you know, we should look into this 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.920 because part of that twenty one day Big Ten sit 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.280 out policy after a couple positive tests is related to 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.640 full screening and giving everybody full time to fully understand. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.440 I guess, to whatever ability, what is going on with 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.080 that positive test and how it's affecting an athlete's body, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.840 so we'll see. I mean, everything in twenty twenty is fluid, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.239 so worth paying attention to. And good news for sure 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.280 about myocarditis not appearing in positive COVID tests. I take 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.600 on that as a positive thing because I don't like 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.200 when people have a hard situation that to deal with. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.960 No, no, for sure to your point about everything in 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.120 twenty twenty being fluid. News Broke also that quinn Ewers 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.840 the number one overall recruit in the twenty twenty two 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:11.240 class A quarterback out of Texas. He had previously been 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.160 committed to the University of Texas. He has since decommitted, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.880 going to open up his recruitment again consider his options. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.800 He's being recruited by places like Ohio, state like Alabama, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.960 Obviously he's the number one kid, so he has his 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.200 pick of the proverbial litter when it comes to where 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.720 he's going next. But a bit of a buber for Texas. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.520 You know, we're going to talk with mister McConaughey briefly 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.040 about the culture at Texas and is it back? What 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.680 does back mean to get talent like this in State? 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.360 I think all kind of plays into that, and it's 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:46.679 it's a bummer to hear this. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.160 Yeah, And obviously when Texas most certainly was not back, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.439 it was when they struggled at quarterback with both injuries 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.640 and with talent. You know, the Garrett Gilbert, David ash 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.640 Case McCoy was not an amazing stretch for Texas is football. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:05.800 But even if Quinn yours decides to recommit to Texas, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.640 if that's what's in his plans, there's still a lot 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.360 of questions about what Texas is looking like moving forward. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.080 In Ohio State and Alabama each have a quarterback of 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:15.920 the future that they signed last year, which they're going 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.840 to sign most years. CJ. Stroud at Ohio State and 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.320 Bryce I always want to say, Bryce Young, Is it 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.440 Bryce Young? Bryce Jones? Bryce Young? 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:24.280 Okay, there's so many. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:29.000 Bryce is such a good name that you know, Quinn 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.520 yours apparently a five star quarterback, six star mullet by 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.040 the way, Oh really, I don't know if you had 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.600 a chance really good investigate and inspect. But yeah, so yeah, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.840 worth paying attention to. Because quarterback dominoes seem to be 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.600 falling sooner and sooner each recruiting cycle, affecting where everybody 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.800 else is going to end up. So whatever he decides 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.520 is certainly going to end up affecting the So this 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.640 is not this year's coming class, but next year's. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.079 The final bit of news also pertaining to quarterbacks that 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.120 I have here is that we talked about Miles Brennan 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.280 practicing potentially being ready for that Auburn game this weekend. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.720 Does not look like that is going to be the case. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.679 He's still working on an injury that he picked up 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.120 I guess more than two weeks ago now, which means TJ. Finley, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.040 a freshman, he's going to get his second consecutive start. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:24.640 Finley was formerly a four star prospect through for two 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.240 sixty five two touchdowns last Saturday. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.400 Had a really nice debut. Yeah, pretty raw, I would say, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.000 But in terms of the physical tools and ability to 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.280 get the ball to more developed players running backs and 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.679 receivers and tight ends. Seems to be more than serviceable. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.520 Yeah, I mean looked raw, but also had a confidence 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.480 about him that I think LC fans could feel good about. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.120 So we'll see how he fares against against the Auburn Tigers. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.840 But perhaps if that's a game you had circled for 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.480 this coming weekend, your plans to go look a little different. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:56.320 Yeah. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.040 Also saw the five I guess antigen tests. Maybe you 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.400 can speak to what that exactly is. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:01.840 I don't know. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.200 The antigen test that came back positive for Oregon players 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.360 were deemed to be a false positive upon the further 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.160 is it PCR test? Hi, that's the most percise one, correct, Yeah, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.760 the PCR one. So that's good news for Oregon football 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.520 and players that they don't have players quarantining, they don't 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.840 have players potentially symptomatic, and they're moving forward. Shall we 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:22.080 do it? 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:22.360 Dan? 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.680 I cannot wait joining us now. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.880 It's a gentleman we've wanted to have on the show 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.960 for quite some time. He needs no introduction. It is 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.440 the one and only Matthew McConaughey, Sir, Welcome to the 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.720 solid verbal How are you. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.880 Dan, Tom doing relatively pretty well? How are y'all doing? 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.160 Thanks for having me, fantastic. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.760 We are doing well. So we're obviously going to talk 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.360 some football with you. Sure, but before we get their 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.680 congratulations on the book green Lights. I see the hat. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:50.360 I like the hat. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:57.080 Yes, indeed, thank you. This is the truest permanent extension 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.200 of me I've ever put out, and I'm happy to 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.640 hear how it's training out there and being received in 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.120 the world. I'm honored. I'm honored with it, and I'm 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.160 happy to say that that was no guarantee. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.360 It's been out for what about a week now. I 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.559 had the good fortune to read it this past week 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.640 and I couldn't put the thing down. Man, it's a 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.199 hell of a story. So kudos to. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.920 You, thank you, Thank you much. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.640 Man. So in the opening chapter of the book, it 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.720 is your mother brandishing a knife at your father, which 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.319 is a hell of a way to grab an audience's attention. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.640 There are a lot of personal stories in this book, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.240 which it's a risky move, frankly, not just because you're 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.680 showing a lot of vulnerability, but because personal stories don't 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.360 always land with other people. The way they might with you. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.960 That was not the case here, at least not for me. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.800 Is that something that you considered when putting this together? 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.720 Yeah? I did consider it. Look, I went away to write, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.880 you know, my diaries and journals of thirty six years. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:00.240 On the surface, that's like, well, so what I mean, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.160 so you want to share that with the world. How's 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.760 that going to translate? What I found out? And I 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.560 didn't know, you know, if if there were if I 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.439 was going to find in those journals something that was 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.800 worthy of sharing. I do remember this. I remember writing 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.480 this down on day four when I took When I 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.360 was writing, I said, the words on these pages need 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.760 to be worthy if signed by anonymous, but at the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.560 same time be a book that only I could have written. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.880 And that's what I tried to pull off. So what 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.480 I mean by that, I can tell you a personal story, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.480 but is that relatable? Can you see yourself in it? 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.760 Do you have the did you did you you know, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.280 did your life story open up with a story with 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.880 your mom brandishing a twelve inch knife on your dad 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.320 and your dad with the ketchup bottle? Probably not, But 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.839 did you have times and things you may have seen 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.760 as a kid that shaped who you were or or 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.720 or you know, hardships in your own life at times 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.480 where you're like, wow, I would have wished that hardship 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.160 on anybody, but it had a green light asset that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.840 it revealed to me later in life. Lesson that I 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.000 learned that helped me move and get on my way 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.440 and on my path. So what I did find that 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.400 surprised me is the more personal I got, the more 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:15.240 relatable actually that the stories became, which happens. You know, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.640 it surprised me, But then I look back at acting. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.400 My best roles are when I go to the most personal, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.360 and my roles that have translated to more people that 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.000 they go I saw myself in that were the roles 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.160 that were the most personal to me. And that's that's 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:30.960 that's so in that way, the book is about the 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.400 human condition. You may not have the same examples and 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.720 circumstances experiences exactly that I had, but we've all had 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.000 similar times in our life when we were lost or 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.320 needed to find our frequency and could not, but then 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.040 later did And well, it's all science in the rearview mirror. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.920 It all adds up in the rear view mirror going forward, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.080 it's all a mystery, but looking back you can kind 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.600 of connect the dots and see how we got to 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:53.160 where we are. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.760 The title is green lights. Explain to the audience what 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:57.720 that means to you. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.480 So green lights, right, we love green lights. They say, go, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.640 we can keep our pedal, We can keep our foot 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.040 on the pedal. Man, They affirm our way. They say, yes, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.080 they are freedom. We do not like yellow and red lights. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.120 They slow us down and they stop us in our tracks. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.480 We don't want red and yell lights. But often, most 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.840 of the times I've found that red and yell lights 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.720 can cometimes give us what we need. Maybe we don't 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.200 want it, but they can give us what we need 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:30.520 and help us grow. There are green lights that we 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.440 can create in our lives with our own choices, meaning like, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.560 we can make choices today that tee us up for 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.040 success tomorrow, that bring us less stress tomorrow, all the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.400 way down to the simplest things I'm talking about. Put 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.480 your coffee and your coffee filter tonight before you go 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.960 to bed, so tomorrow morning, all you gotta do is 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 press the button that's a green light. You've teed yourself 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.840 up for ease. You were kind to your future self 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.920 but they also come in choices that we make with 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.320 our relationships, our responsibilities to our relationships, our accountability for 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.760 our relationships, and ourselves out They reveal choices we can 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.320 make on our careers as well that TuS up for 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.840 more success and more things that turn us on personally 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.920 in our future. We were responsible for those other times 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.520 green light's just fall in our laps and we get 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.600 damn lucky. I don't know where they came from. I 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.080 got lucky. What am I going to do with it? Sometimes, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.680 as I was mentioned in the beginning, a green light 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.480 is just how we see a certain situation at that time. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.760 It's about perspective. We can be in a hardship and 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.560 notice when we're in it, ooh, there's a green light 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.240 lesson I'm supposed to learn here. This just sucks, but 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.160 it's going to be good in the long run. Sometimes 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:34.920 we don't notice till tomorrow. Sometimes we don't know this 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.920 till next week. Sometimes we're probably not going to notice 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.680 what those green lights were in those red and yellow 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.920 lights until we're on our deathbed. But eventually, the red 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.400 and yellow lights in our lives, I do believe, do 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.400 reveal green light assets or actually turn Green themselves. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.120 One of the more interesting stories in the book was 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:58.040 how you describe the process of picking Texas as your college. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.240 So certainly everyone on this call, certainly everybody listening to 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:06.959 the show knows, Matthew McConaughey, native son of Texas, proud Longhorn, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.439 you actually wanted to go to SMU. Yeah, how did 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:11.000 that go down? 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.720 So I'm in Australia as an exchange student. I want 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.719 to be a lawyer. I figure you're SMUs in Dallas, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.359 at a major metropolis. I've always been a big fan 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.680 of experiential learning, so in my mind at that time, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.159 I'm like, look, as a metropolis, I'll be able to 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.639 get an internship in a law school in Dallas sooner 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.560 than I would in Austin. Therefore, I could be in 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.600 practice as a lawyer probably sooner, with more options in 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.320 places to do. So my dad, who was going to 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.520 pay for school, calls me one time. I'm in Australia, 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:44.960 right fro, I'm about to come home and I just 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.040 started applying to colleges and he says he always called 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 a school by their mascot. He's like, so you want 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.000 to be a Mustang? Huh? I yes, sir. I told 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.119 him those reasons why, and he goes, what about what 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.359 about being a longhorn, buddy? And I was like, no, no, no, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.600 I want to be a Mustang and here's those reasons why. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.160 And he's like you sure, like yeah, yeah, I'm sure 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.760 me Hang up, I have no idea why my dad's 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.640 saying want to be a longhorn. The phone rings five 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.680 minutes later and to my brother Pat middle brother. He goes, hey, man, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:14.000 thet brother. Dad ain't gonna tell you this, but financial 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.560 times are tough. The oil business has gone on the tank. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.760 He's kind of broke, and it's going to cost him 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:21.960 three times as much to send you to SMU then 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.560 it will you t you should go to Texas And 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.399 I was like, I don't know about that, you know, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.120 And he goes, man, have you ever been to Austin? 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.080 And I said no. He goes your shirtlet's no shoes wearing. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:33.840 I say, is gonna love it, man. You can walk 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.560 in Austin and saddle up at a bar and you're 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.639 gonna have a cowboy to the right of your Texas 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.320 ranger to the right of you, and a lesbian to 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.840 your left and a dwarf on the other side of them, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.520 and and and and somebody else on the other side. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.919 It's your kind of place. All you got to be 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.040 is you in Austin. And I was like, that sounds good. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.840 Well he was right. I called. I called my dad 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.399 right after that, knowing that it would financially help him, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.000 and said, I want to be a long horn. He's like, oh, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.440 great idea, buddy, Come horns man. And that's why I went. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:04.440 And Look, if I didn't go to University of Texas, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.080 I probably wouldn't be sitting there talking to you with 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:07.080 life I have right now. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.240 It's true and one of the things that obviously came 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.840 of that, especially coming from Texas. You've written about how 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.800 football has been meaningful to you basically your entire life, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.280 from your dad's playing career. It's obviously going to ut 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.439 What is it about college though, that has resonated with 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.480 you more so than the pros, more than high school, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.040 more than any other level. What is it about the 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.000 college football level that is in your DNA? 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:37.640 Well, the purity and look it might be in somewhat romantic, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.600 it's getting to be more and more of a romantic 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.439 notion with each day as college sports become their own business. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.600 But that fact of you've got four years on average 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.520 at one place to play school. There's not a free agency, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.520 you're not gonna you know, now you've got more transfers 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.560 than you used to is still overall. It's not like 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.440 you know, in the pros. Now you can love your 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.639 team this year and it may be a completely different 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.040 team next year. You still may love the team, but 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.840 your players may be completely different. In college, you've got 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.760 that that they're you know, they're essentially not getting paid 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.880 like they do in pro sports. They're still eighteen to 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.400 twenty two years old, most of them in a place 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.119 at the University of Texas where the absolute stud in 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.840 their high school. They really find out how much of 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.880 a stud they are on an overall level. Obviously, most 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:32.399 of them do not go pro. A lot more of 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.880 them think they're going to go pro than they actually do. Obviously, 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.120 it's the ritual around it, it's the school spirit behind it. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.479 It's where the mascot still really means something, or at 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.440