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Speaker 3: Yep, it's the one, the most dangerous morning show, the

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Speaker 3: Breakfast Club. Charlamagea God just hilarious. DJ Envy is not here,

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Speaker 3: give up and coming talent a shot.

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Speaker 1: And today we have a man who.

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Speaker 3: Is entering this industry and trying his hand at poetry.

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Speaker 3: He goes by the name of Matthew. Is that that mconnaugh.

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Speaker 1: Mcconagie, Mcconagieye rhymes with what would Madonna's how are you man?

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Speaker 1: I'm good man, good morning.

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Speaker 3: He's got a new book out, Poems in Prayers available now.

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Speaker 3: Most folks know you for movies, they know you for speeches.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they necessarily know you for poetry.

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Speaker 3: What made you want to put your thoughts in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, out the last few years, I started finding

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Speaker 1: myself getting a little bit cynical. I mean, doubt was

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Speaker 1: And you know, mankind. I'm looking at the new I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at leadership, and I'm going like, huh, all right,

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Speaker 1: it seems that jackpot goes to the winner, no matter

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Speaker 1: think this doubt crept in on me. I started to say, well,

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Speaker 1: then thankfully it then pissed me off, and I said, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: since I wasn't finding belief in reality and evidence, I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to go to dreams and ideals, poems,

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Speaker 1: prayers and say, you know, let's not forget that beginner's

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Speaker 1: that's cynicism, I'd always swore to myself, you know, you born,

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Speaker 1: The next step, though, seems to be when we go

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Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. You start doing that enough,

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Speaker 1: you know what happens. You look in the mirror, you

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Speaker 3: You said something earlier, you said, you know, people think

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Speaker 3: that they're getting the jackpot here, right, But you got

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Speaker 3: a poem in the book called the Other Day, I wrote,

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Speaker 3: wrote God a letter, And I feel like that's what

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a yeah, it's a it's a talisman,

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Speaker 1: or it's it's it's it's something that we that we

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Speaker 1: got to do that, you know, because I'm talking about belief.

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Speaker 1: For me, I'm working on my belief in God. But

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Speaker 1: I think if anybody believes in their better self, their kids,

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Speaker 1: like say, ask yourself, who are what you die for?

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Speaker 1: Start there. It's a good spot, probably what you would

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Speaker 1: And but you know, as a believer myself in God,

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Speaker 4: You know, is this book passion project for you? Because

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Speaker 4: you're instead promoting a book. Was this passion project?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, look like I said, I wrote it

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Speaker 1: And h you have doing a little little tour with this.

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Speaker 1: We jammed going to Nashville tonight, Lucas Nelson, a friend

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Speaker 6: one point in time. Because you're big on God now

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Speaker 5: Like you were awaiting you felt snow like this happened.

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Speaker 1: This is real? No, And I was completely sober. I'm

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Speaker 1: stay in your lane. So I said, all right, I

427
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 1: can't do what I want to do. I'm gonna stop

428
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 1: doing what I've been doing. So went to Texas with Camilla.

429
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: She's pregnant, we said, stepping out, told my agent no

430
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: more rom Comma Da Da Da da. I said, okay.

431
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: And I remember Camilla and I saying that this. You

432
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 1: don't know how long you're gonna go without work. This

433
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,120
Speaker 1: could be a drive spell for a while. You don't

434
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 1: win the money yet. Man, I might have just wrote

435
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:33,199
Speaker 1: myself one way money right, all right, I hear you,

436
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: and I'm going I hear you. Plus I got accomplished

437
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,879
Speaker 1: stuff for my own significance, and now what am I

438
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna do? I ain't gonna go down, and you know,

439
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 1: start making chimes for a living, you know. So I'm

440
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out of them, out of rom comms. I'm

441
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 1: I'm not on the beach anymore shirtless, which kind of

442
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: looked like I was in a rom common in real

443
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 1: life as well. Right, and uh, I got nothing coming

444
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 1: in my agent's like, man, I hadn't heard your name

445
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 1: in five months, et cetera, et cetera. Damn Yeah. So

446
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: now we get into twelve months where year no work.

447
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think maybe I did write myself one

448
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 1: way ticket out of Hollywood. Maybe I need to look

449
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: for another vocation. Maybe I'm gonna go back to law school,

450
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 1: become a lawyer. Maybe I've become a teacher. Eighteen months

451
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,239
Speaker 1: go by. Check this out, and I think you'll you'll

452
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 1: know exause what I'm talking about when I say this,

453
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,640
Speaker 1: This uh rom com action coming to the script comes

454
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: in eight million dollar offer. I read it. I said, no,

455
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: thank you. They come back. Ten million dollar off. I said, no,

456
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 1: thank you, they come back, twelve million dollar offer. I said,

457
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: no thank you, they come back fourteen point five million

458
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: dollar offer. I said, let me read that thing again.

459
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 1: So I opened it up the same script as a

460
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: million mal offer, but it was better. I can see

461
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: myself making this work. Did you was turning it down?

462
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: She knew everything, she knew, She thought, now, My brothers

463
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: thought I was buck. Brothers were like, what is your

464
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: major malfunctional? But I had made the decision, and come on,

465
00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: I made the decision. There wasn't It was no negogtial

466
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: wasn't going back anyway. I read it again, it was better,

467
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 1: but I ultimately he said no thing. And I think

468
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 1: that sent a signal after eighteen months of being out

469
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: of Hollywood. Oh old McConaughey bluffing, you know what I mean.

470
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing, but he's playing offense.

471
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: He's he's turned down fourteen to five. That's not a

472
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,719
Speaker 1: receding move to do that. He's up to something. So

473
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: you parlay that declining fourteen to five along with eighteen months,

474
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,719
Speaker 1: which turns to twenty months out of Hollywood, out of

475
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: rom coms, not in the theater, not in your living room.

476
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, well, you know who'd be a novel,

477
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, new good idea for this drama? Killer

478
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: Joe or Mud or Lincoln Lawyer now aspires club true

479
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: de TEXTI McConaughey. Wow, But only because I unbranded, because

480
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: I was gone. I had to go get anonymous, you

481
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah?

482
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 6: What type of prayers were you seeing during that time?

483
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 6: Because that's all right, the money you know.

484
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: I needed to I trust me that that The old

485
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: bottle on the shelf started looking better earlier and earlier

486
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: in the day too, you know, I was I lost

487
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: my work. Man's got to work for significance and I

488
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: didn't have it. You got depressed. No, I didn't get depressed.

489
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 1: I didn't get depressed because thankfully I got a newborn

490
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: and the only thing I ever wanted to be, no,

491
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: I've ever wanted to be in life is is father.

492
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: So anytime I focused on our son, Levi as a

493
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: newborn and a new life brought in, that really kept

494
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 1: my compass grounded. It was long days, you know, without

495
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: cheapness of my own stuff, but I had that as

496
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: an anchor.

497
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 3: And that's that's such an incredible story because I you know,

498
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 3: when I think about you going from rom com to

499
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 3: an Oscar winning dramatic actor, I always wondered, what was

500
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: the pivot or how did you know it was time

501
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 3: to pivot? And just to know it was just an

502
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 3: intentional decision to want to be taken serious. Was That's

503
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 3: That's powerful.

504
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: That was it. And I had to step out, and

505
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: it was it was twenty months total that I was out.

506
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: And trust me, like I said, I did think that

507
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: I just I think I wrote myself a one way

508
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: to take it out of Hollywood. What did that teach you

509
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: about the power of intention.

510
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: That.

511
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: There's certain decisions like that decision to do that that

512
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: came that hit me at four am. You know that

513
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 1: the fact that I wasn't feeling alive in my work,

514
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: the fact that it was paling in comparison to how

515
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: wonderfully dramatic my life was, that was clear to me

516
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: that that's what I needed to make a change, and

517
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: I it was a non negotiable. So once again, once

518
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: those truths hit, as we talked about earlier, and you go,

519
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: I know that's true for me in my soul, but

520
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,239
Speaker 1: now I'm going to re engage with the masses, and

521
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: slowly that onion can get peeled and you start to go, well,

522
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: I can't maybe I could, You know I didn't. It's

523
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: very clear. It was like, no, this is I'm not

524
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: going back on the idea that if nothing would have

525
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: come at twenty months, I was not going to go

526
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: back and do what I'd done. I'd be doing something

527
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: different if nothing had comes since then, I would be

528
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: doing something different in my life right now. I was

529
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: not going to go back. So the idea that of

530
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: not flinching once you made a decision, and you can

531
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 1: out endure a situation, and you can also seem to

532
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: find after a while, like fifteen months of nothing from

533
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: going out of my mind, all of a sudden kind

534
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: of start to get a little honor in charge and

535
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: filled up with like the endurance of it. It's almost like, Okay,

536
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: the longer this goes, I got to hunt the reward

537
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: on the other sides getting bigger with every day I'm

538
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: going through this penance drought. I got a feeling that

539
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: that there's a bigger reward over there. I'm in this

540
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: for the long game. And you know, thankfully said it

541
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: all came back around. I didn't have anything to do

542
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: that besides being out of Hollywood, but the offers came

543
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: in for the work I wanted to do. But making

544
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: a decision, being clear on it and then saying as

545
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: I I know this and projecting ahead. It's like COVID.

546
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: I think, hey, we did my family did pretty good

547
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: in COVID. And one of the things I think was

548
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: when it came we sat down, I told the cause

549
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: playing on this being this way for ten years, what

550
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: damn so think it's going to be longer? And then

551
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: when it is over in four years, You're like, oh shit,

552
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: I was rolling. I could have handled more. Yeah. Right,

553
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: So I was thinking it could be worse than it

554
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: was going to be. I was thinking that I may

555
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 1: be in a drought and not get any offers for

556
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: five years, and hell, I'm gonna have to find something

557
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: else do. Well, luckily it comes in two years in

558
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: WHEREK came. You know that's a psalm forty six ten.

559
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: Be still and know that I am God. You just

560
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: got to be still and hold it and hold it.

561
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: Sometimes you change by staying the same, and the world

562
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: does this and it comes right back to the baseline

563
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: that you're on going. Oh you're brand new, and you're like, no,

564
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: I've been right here. I just held you know what

565
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah.

566
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 4: So when you transitioned into drama, Matthew McConaughey, have any

567
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 4: did any of your roles alter your perception of reality?

568
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: Did any of my roles alter my perception of reality? Well,

569
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: I will say this, I kind of flipped the script.

570
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: Remember earlier I was saying my life was so vital

571
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: and my work was paling. The work got so vital

572
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, I was like I had

573
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: a little moment you know, I was like, Oh, my

574
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: life's not as vital as my work. Ooh fiction. Playing

575
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: these other characters that are written, I'm kind of getting

576
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: off to them more than I'm getting off being me

577
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: in the documentary That is My Life. That scared me

578
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: a little bit too, which is why I started writing.

579
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: And then while I wrote Greenlight to when I'm writing

580
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: Points Press, I tried been challenging myself for the last

581
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: six years, going all right, you know, you go out,

582
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: You're doing someone else's script, written by somebody else, directed

583
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: by someone else, lends in a camera by someone else,

584
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: and edited by someone else. That's for filters from your

585
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: raw expression. So I was like, let's get rid of

586
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: some filters here. And who are you in life McConaughey,

587
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: in this documentary where action has been called the day

588
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: you were born and cuts gona be called the day

589
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: you leave this life? What are you doing live in

590
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: this live show where hands of time or recording it?

591
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 1: And That's what I've been the last six years, kind

592
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: of challenging myself. So I go to a book. Now

593
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,479
Speaker 1: if there is one filter with the book, because it's

594
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: a written word the performance, right, there's no filter. That's

595
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: direct to the audience. So it was one filter. But

596
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: I wanted to see if the written word and I

597
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: could tell some personal stories that could be entertaining that

598
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: people could see themselves in and go and then go

599
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: look in there and go, you did that good job, McConaughey,

600
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: or you know, here's where you could have made it

601
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: even more true or better. And I wanted to need that.

602
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: And so that's sort of a phase I'm in now

603
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: where I'm still doing work. What made lost bus made

604
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: another one called the Ribbers of M'SI and I tell

605
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: you I went back to you know, it spent six

606
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: years since it acting in a role. I one forgot

607
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: how much I enjoyed it, and two forgot how much

608
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: it feels like a vacation because it's a singular focus.

609
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: And I've been compartmentalizing more of the last six years,

610
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: taking on more different things, checking out leadership roles, writing books, family,

611
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: et cetera. But the singular focus of going to act

612
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: and going I'm obsessed and all I revered this craft

613
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: enough to be obsessed with my man, this character. In

614
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: every idle moment I've got, I've got work I can

615
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: do to tell more of the truth on this character,

616
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: and I give myself three months to do that. That

617
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: sort of blinders. Yeah, And I think for my wife

618
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: that when I go out the door every morning, she

619
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: got the kids and says, don't look over your shoulder,

620
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: go conquer. I got this shit handled, big, big help.

621
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: But I'm able to just singular focused when I go

622
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: act and I missed. It felt like a vacation. Why

623
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: didn't the Yellowstone spend off happen? So we talked about it,

624
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: Taylor and I. It just never it never came to

625
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: I never saw a script I wanted to see, you

626
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: know what. The the idea was good, it just never

627
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: got the script form. So Taylor and I continue to

628
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: talk about what might be the best way to work together.

629
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: So you were you were attached to it like it

630
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: was actually happen. Well, I mean I was. It came out.

631
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm always curious about this because it came out my attachment,

632
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: which I wouldn't never signed anything. There wasn't any real attachment.

633
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: It just Taylor and I creedively talking about it could

634
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: be a good idea, right. But it was interesting because

635
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: it came out in the news in the trades about

636
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: the same time Coster's leaving, so I don't know if

637
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: it was publicly put out there to sort of counterbalance.

638
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: We got the exit of our guy Gostler, who we've

639
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: all known, so let's make sure it looks like we've

640
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: got somebody else coming in that we can be excited about.

641
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: So there was never a contract or anything. It was

642
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: just he and I. He and I talking about it,

643
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: and what about this Barbie sequel? You really gonna be

644
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: in the Barbie? Said O, Man, I don't know. Someone

645
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: came up with that. No, someone just I think American Frere,

646
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: just like who's in Lost Bus with me? I think

647
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: she mentioned it on some talk show going you could

648
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: be the King of Kens and he kins, I can

649
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: put a font to that. Hey, let's put a picture

650
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: up all of a sudden, I some of the show,

651
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,959
Speaker 1: he said yesterday, I'm on some show and I'm there

652
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: in a white suit at Kings. That's just as real

653
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: as that is. Would you do it? I don't know.

654
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: It sounds like it could be fun.

655
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 5: You know, it'd be good for the kids.

656
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah.

657
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 6: And then with the Lost Bus, I saw that you

658
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 6: when your son because he's in a movie with you. Yeah,

659
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 6: Leb yeah, Levi, you asked for his last name to

660
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 6: be taken off when you submitted his casting video.

661
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, what was the dad decision to do that?

662
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 6: Like?

663
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I pitched every you know story of the

664
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: script that a movie I'm going to do the family

665
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: and this one has a son, and my son comes

666
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: to me and goes, hey, your son cash? Yeah, I

667
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: said no. He goes, how old is it kidding the

668
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: script about your age? Say, it's kind of can I

669
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: read for it? And I'm like, huh, kind of ignored him.

670
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I want to see some hustles. He

671
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: He's not just coming at me like this is a

672
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: whim right. Well, he kept badgering me and kept badgering me,

673
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: and finally go okay, all right, so first of all,

674
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: let's sit down. Let me talk you about this acting gig.

675
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: This ain't you don't show up with attitude. There ain't

676
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: no modeling gig. This is a rodeo man. You gotta

677
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: go with soul and nobleshit in your bones. All right,

678
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: So just set the table of this is a serious craft.

679
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: And then we talked him for a couple of days

680
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,239
Speaker 1: and then he said I've got to see and I'd

681
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: love to shoot. I pulled up my phone shot him

682
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, he holds a camera, all right,

683
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: he can behave honestly in front of the camera. He

684
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: can even improvise. Did well? I send that to the

685
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: cash and director? I said, I think this might be

686
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: good enough for a callback. She writes back, I think

687
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: it might be good enough to send to the director. Okay, great.

688
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: Can you do me a favor and pull his last name?

689
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: Because you know, forgetting nepotism? Just what if he got

690
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: the job with my last name? You're at a bar,

691
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: right or he's got it thinking in his mind? Did

692
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: part of the reason I got that? Because come on,

693
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: that ain't a good friend. That's why we didn't name

694
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: it Matthew, so it would be Matthew Jr. You know

695
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: what I mean? Although Levi is another name for Matthew.

696
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: We got away with that, Yeah, saying Matthew jeans post alone.

697
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: Get on that way? You got your prayers in print, right? Yeah?

698
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 3: How often do your prayers going going answers? And do

699
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: you still trust God in those seasons that they do?

700
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: Where is there any such thing as an unanswered prayer?

701
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: Meaning if you don't get what you're praying for, and

702
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: now that it's still an answer. Sometimes you know, Mighty

703
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: gave you what you need, not what you wanted. What

704
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: you need what you want right, that's and and and

705
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: and you know, it's funny sometimes when I hear people

706
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: praying for it because you've got blue collar prayers and

707
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: you've got white collar prayers. You hear someone praying death.

708
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: You know, win that oscar, get that yacht. You're going, Man,

709
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: I hang on, but I ain't. Guys got better stuff

710
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: to do. Man, you talk about as white collar prayers

711
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: that ain't ain't working. We got to talk about what

712
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: do you need now? What you want now? I do

713
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: think my definition of heaven on earth is where what

714
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: you want is what you need, and what you need

715
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: is what you want, Where what you actually need is

716
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: what you desire, or what you desire, what you're salacious for,

717
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: what you lust for is actually what you need is

718
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: actually worth loving, hard place to get to. But boy,

719
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: when that's when in the pocket, I think that's when

720
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: we're in the honey hole right there. You know, some

721
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: people say, what could you still be praying for?

722
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 3: Because you have the Oscar, you have the fame, you

723
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 3: have the money you had those.

724
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never prayed for any of those either. Okay,

725
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: no way, I'd feel like I'd feel like a fraud

726
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: praying for that again, I think that would be a

727
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: white collared prayer. Where God's going on. I got, I got,

728
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: I got real stuff to try and handle, you know

729
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: what I mean. I pray for the health of my family.

730
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: I pray for myself to be the type of father

731
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: that can maintain a healthy family unit. I pray for

732
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: UH to have the patience to sometimes be a what

733
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: I would call better husband. I pray for the discernment

734
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: to listen and try to make the choices that can

735
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 1: feed me and my family and life going forward, to

736
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: make decisions that will pay me back for the long term,

737
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: for the long haul, and for the decisions that can

738
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: those decisions that can pay me back also, where are

739
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: those also the ones that can pay the most people back.

740
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: That's the kind of things I pray for, you know.

741
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: And then I mom's ninety three, man, you know, he's awesome,

742
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: and she's rolling and from the neck up, she's younger

743
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: than that. We'll see how long the body holds up.

744
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: But I pray for and I, you know, I don't

745
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: even know. She feels like I need to pray for her.

746
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: She's she's she's great. She's good. Man. When she's ready

747
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: to go, she goes tomorrow. She's good. You know what

748
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: I mean. She's nothing sentlemental about it her. She can

749
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: talk about death like right here in front of you,

750
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: like you're talking about drink of water.

751
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 5: Older people, Margaret, mother's the same way they get.

752
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: They live like they it's like your revolutionary when you're young, right,

753
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: and then you get your thirties and forties and you

754
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: start to go, oh, some of that stuff Mom and

755
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: dad taught me was right. So I'm gonna get a

756
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: little more responsible. And then you get about sixty and

757
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: what they slip back. They don't give a shit about it.

758
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: I mean hurting anybody. Oh, they'll get over it. And

759
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: you're like, like, my mom, the stuff she'll lie about,

760
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: I would do her. She's still lying in ninety three.

761
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. She's like, she's like, oh yeah, you lie,

762
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: I swear to it. So she starts telling me she

763
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: she's done some crazy stuff. Man. She had this, uh

764
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: she had this boyfriend that my dad died and uh

765
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: uh he was living at the house and stuff, And

766
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: they've been dating for about a year and a half

767
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: and they lived out this country club out in southwest Houston,

768
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: and my brother Pats playing golf one day and these

769
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: four older gentlemen on the other fairway call them over

770
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: and go, hey, pack, congratulations. Man pass about what and

771
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: he goes about your mom c J. The marriage. He's

772
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: like what Mary, Oh yeah, yeah, we all heard about it.

773
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: So he goes home, Mom, what'd you do? We're talking about? No,

774
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: I just so you got oh that? What what'd you do? Mom? Well,

775
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: the monthly bills the club are four hundred if your

776
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: only partners, but there are two fifty if you're married.

777
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: Come on, dragged her down to the country club, made

778
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: her get on the mic and tell everyone I was

779
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: bullshit and I was lying out of so she do

780
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: stuff like that, right, And I'm like, yeah, you know

781
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: not to lie, blah blah blah blah. And I go,

782
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: do you have anything, Mom? No one forgives themselves quicker

783
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: than you do. You have anything at the night. But

784
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: when you roll the deck through your mind about things,

785
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: you may regret things you want to change it her.

786
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: She goes, oh, honey, I do every night. I got

787
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: a list. It's probably twenty five things on I got regrets,

788
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: things I change, oh, things that I just I'm sorry for,

789
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: she said. But you know the thing is, when I

790
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, I forgot them all. That's

791
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: her and she's not a shallow woman at all. But

792
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: boy does she move on from And she doesn't generally

793
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: judge people. That's another thing about her. She has zero stress,

794
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: zero stress. Yeah, anyway, that's my mom.

795
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 3: I didn't realize they told us the wrapt five minutes ago.

796
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 3: So my last question, if you could go back and

797
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 3: talk to the version of yourself that first said all right,

798
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 3: all right, all right, yeah, what would you.

799
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: Tell that person? Days Confused nineteen ninety first scene I

800
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: was ever in a movie and tell you where it's from.

801
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm wasn't even supposed to work that night. I'd never

802
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: acted before, I'd never been on screen. All right, So

803
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm in this car getting a

804
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: lava leer Mike put up. I mean the scene is

805
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to pick up this red headed intellectual

806
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: who's played by Marissa Robisi, and she's got nerds in

807
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: the car, and I'm Woodson, who's hanging out at school

808
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: and then I'm older, but I still like the high

809
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: school girl, So pull and pick her up. Nothing's written.

810
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: Gonna improvise this. Well. As I'm getting the mic put

811
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: on me, I'm starting to get a little nervous.

812
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 3: Make sure you're acting with that line, because they'll take

813
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 3: that out of context and put that on the internet.

814
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: That's Watterson and everything. Everything I'm about to say, gotta

815
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: remember us talking talking the first person from our characters.

816
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: There's plenty, plenty of times, plenty of times through the day.

817
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: You could record what I'm saying and put me in jail.

818
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm going on, I'm peeking through the pills someone else. Right.

819
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: So Woodson was a guy who was hanging out the

820
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: high school. He was out, and that's he has the line.

821
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: There's a great line written run there like, man, you

822
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta quit. You know you gotta cut that

823
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: out work, And he says, no, that's what I love

824
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: about those high school girls. Man, I get older, they

825
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 1: stayed the same.

826
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: Aig that was you have to have to double down.

827
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: We got it, we got a right. I raved that

828
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: line because people know that a right anyway.

829
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there nervous about this first scene, starting

830
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: to get you know, a little anxious, and I'm like,

831
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: who's my man? Who's Wooterson? Going through my head? Who's

832
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: my guy? I got a Wooterson man loves loves it,

833
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: love my car, I said, Boom, I remember seveny chavelle.

834
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: There's one, I said Woterson. Watterson loves rock and roll,

835
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: I said, boom. I got ted NuGet stranglehold in the

836
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: eight track. There's too, I said. Waterson loves to get high.

837
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: I said, Oh, Slater's riding shot gun. He's always got

838
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: to do. We rolled up all of a sudden, I

839
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: hear action. Now as I hear action, I look up,

840
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: put it in drive, and as I pull out to

841
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: go do the fourth thing that Watterson lens he likes ladies. Yes,

842
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 1: I say the three things, and affirmation for the three

843
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: things that I do have. All right, all right, all right.

844
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: Those were three affirmations. And that actually was based off

845
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: of a live doors concert and Jim Morrison barks at

846
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: the crowd all right, all right, all right, all right,

847
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: And I had listened to it, heard that four months earlier,

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Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, my version of it three times

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Speaker 1: came out that night. So what would you tell that

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00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: version of yourself. Hey, you may think this is gonna

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00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: be a hobby where you gotta have a fun weekend

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Speaker 1: acting in Austin, Texas one summer in your life. Well

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00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: guess what, buddy, this is gonna be more than a hobby.

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00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a career and you're gonna end up

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Speaker 1: loving it. Wow. Matthew McConaughey, I'm sorry, real quick.

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Speaker 4: Did you improve your role in Oh my God, The

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Speaker 4: Leonardo the Wall Street?

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Speaker 1: Did you?

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Speaker 4: It was that improv all of that?

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Speaker 1: Well, not all of it, no, but but but quite

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Speaker 1: a bit was I mean, you know people ask about

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Speaker 1: the chest beating, All right, that's something I'll do before

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Speaker 1: scenes and I've done many times before. It's a relaxation technique,

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Speaker 1: you know, get to get out of head. It's getting

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Speaker 1: the rhythm. Yeah, let's get the blood flowing. And it's

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Speaker 1: good because the whole crew is going. Was he doing what?

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Speaker 1: It's the weird and it's nice to put himself in

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Speaker 1: an underdog position so I can out of it, right.

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Speaker 1: And then I was doing that before the scene. Yell action,

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Speaker 1: I'd stop. We do the scene. We do the scene

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Speaker 1: five times we got it moving on. Great, nailed it

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Speaker 1: moving on. All of a sudden, Leonardo raises his hand

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Speaker 1: and says, hey, Marty, hang on a second. He goes,

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Speaker 1: what's that thing you're doing before I told him? When

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00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: I just told you? And he goes, what if you

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Speaker 1: did that in the scene? Next take is what you

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Speaker 1: see on on film?

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Speaker 4: I love it, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's Matthew McConaughey poems and prays. Good.

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Speaker 3: Great conversation with you, brother, Poems and prais is out

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Speaker 3: right now, man, Thank you for coming, brother.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Having and the Lost Bus is in theaters Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, it's the Breakfast Club every day a week ago.

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Speaker 1: Click your ass up, the Breakfast Club. You don't finish,

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Speaker 1: So y'all have done it.