Jason Momoa is an actor and producer known for his roles in Game of Thrones, Aquaman, Minecraft and more. His new movie “The Wrecking Crew” with Dave Bautista is out 1/28.
Jason joins Theo to talk about his community college days in Iowa, how rock climbing helps his focus, and why protecting the beauty of Hawaii has always been important to him.
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Today's guest is an actor, a producer, an entrepreneur.
He's a real do-it-all type brother.
He has a new film out with Dave Bautista called The Wrecking Crew.
I highly recommend it.
Great action film.
He's out the mud and the water.
It's Aquaman.
Today's guest is Mr. Jason Mamoa.
We'll be fine.
We'll be fine.
I'm here to do the greatest Theovon interview ever.
I'm sure.
Oh, damn.
Actually, it could be it.
I'm trying to think we've had the greatest one.
We had an Amish kid that was pretty great.
Oh, wow.
He's pure Amish, too.
He's like, every now and then, I'll sneak off to the creek and we hide a cell phone down there and we'll listen to a little bit of Def Leopard.
That was one of the best things I ever heard.
A little bit of pour some sugar on me.
Yeah, yeah.
Fuck yeah, dude.
I don't even think they have sugar, which is the craziest part.
So just down there listening to songs about illegal ingredients.
That's all they're doing, dude.
Jason, thanks for hanging out, man.
Thanks for having me, buddy.
We met at the, at the 50th, I think it was the 50th SNL.
Yep.
I just remember I was walking and then this big, like kind of, I would say semi-beautiful hand just grabbed me.
This thing that definitely, and immediately I felt like I hadn't been in the gym.
That was like my immediate feeling.
And then it just like pulled me into like this orbit and it was like, hey, man, nice to see you here.
And that was it, dude.
It was awesome.
This is great to see you, man.
Yeah, it made my day.
You make people smile.
You make me smile.
So I'm like, when you see that, like, it was a bit of an overload there.
It was a lot.
And I feel like once you're talking, yeah, like when you're with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niros and one thing.
And then, you know, I freaked out when I saw Chevy Chase.
Yeah.
Like this older lady's like, come here, darling.
You're the Aquaman.
I was like, yeah.
And she's like, Chevy, get over here.
Chevy, get over here.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, this is Chevy Chase's wife.
And then she's like, Bill, get over here.
And I'm, who's Bill?
Murray.
Oh, God.
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.
I'm sandwiched between them.
And I'm just going like, this beautiful woman brought this together.
Bill's like, who the fuck is this guy?
And she's like, and so was Chevy.
And he's like, that's the Aquaman.
Our grandchildren love him.
Oh, yeah.
But you just go like, it was, there it is.
Oh, that's cool.
See, in my mind, I was sandwiched.
Yeah.
Right there, I'm a little bit more of the bun.
Yeah, you seem like more of a bun.
Yeah.
You know, or like a nice rye or something, a pumpernickel.
So, but we were, that was, it was just a, it was a crazy night, huh?
Yeah, that was a lot, man.
I met Hansen.
Hansen was there.
Yeah.
They look like adult Hansen kids.
Yeah, because what year are you born?
I'm born in 1980.
I'm 79.
There we go.
So we know what Hansen's look like when they were bopping it out.
Yeah, we know the real Hansen kids.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I just gave my son a crisscross, cross colors.
You remember that brand?
It's like, it was just this brand that I had when like crisscross came out.
And my son didn't know who that was.
And it was the year, it was the end, was it the year you were born, baby, when it came out?
82?
Yeah, I think 82.
I get crisscrossed cross colors.
Anyways, I just gave it to my son and I was just dating myself, man.
But it was a moment.
I've been unpacking my old stuff and giving it to my son.
And he loves it because all that stuff's cool, guys.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a good point.
Yeah, things come back around.
You grew up in Hawaii?
I was born in Hawaii.
Yeah.
And my parents got divorced when I was little and I moved to Iowa.
But like, you know, Bridges in Madison County, Iowa.
Dude, Nerral Street, Bridges in Madison.
And boom.
One of my favorite books.
The book and the movie, it's identical.
It's like word for word.
Yeah, the movie's the exact way of the book.
So not that that matters.
I'm like, graduated, you know.
Did you go to the University of Iowa?
No, no, I actually went to, we like to make fun of it, University of Southern Ankony.
I went to D-Mac, Des Moines area community college.
And then went to.
Is that still open?
It is, D-Mac.
And then I went off to get in-state tuition in Colorado.
And I was living out in Colorado State and I was working with a trail crew out there and working at Lee Cyclery and Bazetti's and all these different bus and tables and shit, trying to get in-state tuition, trying to postpone college as much as possible.
Trying to postpone it or stay in it?
Well, just trying to get in-state tuition so I could get wildlife biology there.
But I went to school.
It's weird because when I was in Iowa, I did marine biology.
They have a place called Central Campus where all these different schools would go into Des Moines and you would learn marine biology.
I'd have like a shark tank set up.
I had my own eel and you'd learn about all these different things.
And I always wanted to be a marine biologist.
And we'd spend our spring breaks down in the keys.
So we'd get in a yellow bus, go all the way down from fucking Iowa all the way down to the keys.
That's so far.
Yeah.
And we'd study with scientists, but I do that two years, get credit for college.
And then I was going to go like, wow, over summertime, I was like, I'll go to Hawaii.
Since I'm Hawaiian, maybe I'll get a better deal going to college.
And TV show came.
That was it.
And I was just surfing with my family.
And I have a big, pretty big surf family.
So we, and then a show came and I ended up getting it.
And it changed everything.
I was 19.
And you were working so that they had the aunt.
Oh, my God.
That's him?
Yeah, dude.
Don't, what?
Get some lotion out to rub on the picture.
I have some respect, guys.
Dude, that's wild that you got to live.
I was 19, man.
That was crazy.
My job before that was busting tables.
Yeah.
Working in a surf shop.
I bus tables, bro.
I was one of the first busers to ever use creatine in Arizona.
South of Phoenix, I was one of the best busboys there was, I think, for probably about a two and a half year period.
Is that where you went to Arizona?
I went to the University of Arizona for one year, and then I went to some other schools.
But dude, I was, oh, I was so good at busting tables, man.
Yeah, I would take all the food because I worked at a really nice restaurant.
And we were all, my buddies that lived together, there was a bunch of climbing dirtbags.
And I'd bring this nice pasta home because, you know, if the couple didn't look too sus and they left their stuff, you know, you just box that in and bring it home.
And so I always had like the best restaurants pasta.
Dude, I worked at a place called Dakota's Wine and Feed.
And the guy there was taught, like, this is his perverted manager who would kind of teach us how to do like, he would like kind of like oral sex on women, but just like in conversation.
Anyway, that guy was a complete pervert.
But I will tell you, not in person, not with a real woman, just he would like tell us young kids like how to do it and stuff.
And we didn't know what was going on, dude.
Like, I remember when he would talk about it, all the pimples on my face would like explode at once.
But anyway, that was beside the point.
But they had very nice food there.
And I remember if I'd see a couple, if they used their knife, that to me was like, oh, they're fancy.
I can eat off of their plate.
So if the knife was dirty, I would definitely take a little bit of that, like some cured ham or some specialty meats on there.
And I'd get a stack of like some like special sandwich.
I was made of all types of stuff.
Yeah, man.
It was nice.
That's back.
Feeding the homies.
Yeah.
And back then, it's like when you're at your mom's house your first time out, you're like, orange juice was like champagne.
If someone had orange juice, I was like, oh my God, I haven't had orange juice in fucking, because it all went to beer and fucking booze.
Yeah.
Right?
Milk, never saw it again.
You left mom's house.
Fuck milk.
And then it's basically water, beer.
My dad still kind of had to pay child support.
So that was like that paid rent.
And I could just save enough bus and tables.
Yeah.
Where I could work just Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
I go rock climbing and snowboarding.
So it'd be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
I'd come back.
So I had like four, I had a little plan, you know.
And were you with like a certain group of friends from growing up, or was it just like still like a core group, or was it just guys?
There's one guy.
I didn't have too many friends growing up.
And I, I mean, I had friends, but like the like true buddies, they're in my neighborhood, but they stayed there.
There's one guy, he is my best friend of this day, godfather of my kids.
He went out to Colorado first.
So he was one year older, and then I went out there to be with him.
And he was my best, yeah, he's my best bud.
So it was just us running, running amok.
So much fun.
Colorado is so awesome.
It is.
It's good.
God, I love being out there.
Is that the altitude always gets me so much, dude?
I get affected pretty easily by the environment.
It's got to be hard for you to go from Nashville to here because it gets dry.
Like, I just came from New Zealand right now.
And last night, I'm like, I felt sorry for my lady because I'm just like up wheezing.
Trying out like, just shedding a straight.
I mean, it's summer down there.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
You're annoying.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
New Zealand is a dude.
I met people on any.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
You're not using any letters.
They have people there.
It's like, I don't know.
I believe that's Australians, but yeah, it is.
Oh, we went to New Zealand.
We had some shows down in Auckland.
And we met Pete.
It was just like Enio.
We met guys who like, it was like they had a sentence stuck in them.
They just couldn't get it out of them no matter what.
Like the people there that talked were just anyway.
It was just some of the craziest lingo I'd ever heard.
But one of the most beautiful places, we went to, we got to meet Israel Adesanya down there because he lives there.
Yep, stylebender.
Yep.
And they were super nice to us whenever we went over there.
But we went to the beach one day and they said you can only be outside of the beach for a certain amount of time because they don't have that much marine layer or they don't have to have the ozone.
Ozone layer.
You're fried.
Dude, I was like, it's so beautiful, but you got to go back inside.
I know it never told me to go back inside, but I mean, yeah, if you're sitting out there, you're going to feel it.
Like you just feel yourself cooking.
Yeah.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, at a certain point, you should go in, I think.
Yeah, you should definitely should.
Or just stay out there and grill, maybe.
So you went, so you went from Des Moines Community College, D-Mac.
Yep.
And then you ended up over in Colorado.
Yep.
I went to Colorado and then went to Hawaii to get to, just to kind of be with my father, get to know him better.
Was he cool?
My dad's great.
My dad's, he's, he's, he's, he's awesome, but just I'd go there when I was young, like eight, nine, ten, like basically when I was young enough to comprehend it and bright enough to be with my mom.
And then I'd go until like high school years.
We had probably a bit of a falling out.
So I didn't go too much and maybe my sophomore, junior, senior year.
So once I was like, I'm going to go back, be with dad, Bury the Hatchet, and see if I can get into college over there.
And then, like I said, show came and changed my life.
And then kind of tried to, you know, tell my mom, like, I'm on this show.
And she's like, what are you talking about?
You know, like, my mom's in the same house I was raised in.
Wow.
So I was a little bit more.
What are you doing?
Are you doing something with Satan?
I know.
He's like, you're on Baylor from Hawaii.
I was like, mom, I'm like, it's not what you think.
It's like a whole different spin on it.
They're in Hawaii.
And she's like, what?
It's a whole different spin.
They're in Hawaii.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, Applehop wasn't really on anymore, but they're trying to change it up.
So, anyways.
Dang.
And then I spent the next 30 years digging myself out of that hole.
Yeah.
Cheers to that.
And here we are now.
And so, so your mom is a white woman and your father is more island?
My dad's Hawaiian, yeah.
Kamakama, and my mom is basically German-Irish.
Is there a lot of beef between Hawaiians in Hawaii?
Are there different kind of sects of like S-E-C-T-S of Hawaiians, like different kind of like, or is it if you're a Hawaiian, you're Hawaiian?
I mean, that's a good question.
I wouldn't say it's like sex.
Definitely, you know, back in the day, there was different, the islands were different kings until it was united by Kamehameha, but not everyone loved Kamehameha.
You could have been with Kahikili, could have been different, you could have been with different islands.
And that obviously to unite them, your family could have been murdered.
So I don't think everyone sees eye to eye.
But having said that, like we are, you know, since we are a part of America now, like, I think all those generations, you know, our culture and our language was completely removed from us like most indigenous races.
And, you know, really trying to get it back.
And I don't necessarily think there's like sex to it.
Right.
Yeah.
There's not like, so people aren't like that tribal.
I mean, the tribe would not be in Hawaii.
I'll tell you what, not as much as like if you were compared to New Zealand where there's, I don't, don't quote me, but there's 200 plus different iwis, different tribes in Marais.
Oh, yeah, I met some iwis.
Yeah, whereas the South Island, there's one.
Like Ngaitahu's just one tribe on the South Island, the North Island has many.
So it definitely has to go through a lot more if you're trying to agree on certain things.
Like it's got to go through more people.
That's what you mean.
Yeah.
Got it.
And does your dad have a lot of like, is he like a very Hawaiian kind of guy?
Very much so.
He is.
I mean, in the sense of like...
Because there's so much pride in that culture.
It's such a unique culture.
Yeah, I come from the west side of Oahu.
My dad lives in Nanakuli.
Most of my family's like Nanakuli, Waianae, and then Makaha.
And that whole west side is called Hawaiian Homestead Land.
So it's like our reservation kind of esque kind of thing.
And so, but my father's very much a waterman.
And in that.
What does that mean?
He likes to be out in the water?
He just outriggers, paddling, surfing.
He was a coach.
And I mean, just any waterman as in knowledge of sailing, knowledge of anything out there.
And you're Aquaman, which is crazy.
Which is crazy.
That's crazy.
It is.
And I've always wanted to.
My family is very much some of the last living legends of surfing or of watermen is like my great uncle's Buffalo Keolana.
Bring him up.
See if we can get a gander at him.
Buffalo Keolana.
And Brian Keolana is an amazing waterman, too, who's my cousin.
And Rusty's a four-time world champion.
So I just come from a very Keolanas.
Oh, wow.
That's Aquabuff.
Hell yeah.
I do.
Beautiful Hawaiian man, yeah.
Yeah, I think I've seen him on the pictures of the bronzer at the tanning salon as well.
I think I'll just say, I'll just say this.
They're using his name, image, and likeness over there, okay?
It's Sun Tan City.
I'll say that fast.
Dude, that's awesome.
Yeah, I always wanted to be with him.
But that's kind of the family.
And he still lives over there?
He does, yeah.
Wow.
Oh, that's beautiful, man.
Yeah, I just wonder, do Hawaiians feel like it seems to me like Hawaiians always feel like a responsibility to uphold their culture kind of, or that they're Hawaiian.
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Like they, like, there just seems to be like a certain like level of respect that they carry about themselves with that.
I think that's true.
I think there's a lot of things that have happened to our, to our people that have, it's been very challenging and what's happened and getting our identity back, getting our culture back and our language back.
So there's, I'm sure there's a lot of, there's a lot of things.
Yeah.
It's a lot of terror and trauma that's happened to the Hawaiian Islands.
Dang.
There's a lot.
Yeah, I think when you have something beautiful, people want it, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's so nice over there, dude.
I even, dude, I remember one time I was drowning over there and I remember being like, where else am I going to drown?
Like, it was so nice.
I remember looking back at the shoreline.
Literally, I was snorkeling and I wasn't doing well.
I was losing.
And I remember looking back at the shoreline and I thought I was going to drown.
And I was like, What, dude?
Where else are you going to drown?
You know, you're going to drown in a Hampton Inn pool somewhere, like, you know, outside of Jacksonville or something.
No, dude, this is where you do it, you know.
And so there was almost this crazy moment of peace with just how beautiful it was there.
You know, it's a really special place.
Where were you at when you're drowning, man?
I was off of Maui.
I didn't was there waves?
Is it just because of deep water?
There were waves, but it was like you got a little too carried away and you got too far out, maybe?
Oh, yeah.
I went snorkeling and it was by myself.
And bad idea, huh?
Yeah, it's bad to do anything.
Yeah, go in the water and do that by yourself.
Yeah.
And that's what I realized.
That was fun.
Yeah.
It was kind of fun.
And I remember I got out there a little bit and I was like, oh man.
And then the and then I would see the fish, but then the water would go down and I would just be like, almost like, like trying to like not get on the coral or whatever, like me and like that.
Yeah.
And then it would go back.
It was just like switching because it just got super scary.
And that was further and further out.
And I started getting really, really spooked.
Yeah, well, there's just different rips, too.
Yeah.
I caught, I caught a bad rip.
I think, uh, yeah, every surfer, you know, everyone drowns.
Have you ever been into drowning before out there?
Very much so.
No way.
Yeah, I've drowned.
And it's just, I mean, it's a beautiful teacher, man.
The ocean's a, I mean, she's ultimate teacher.
So it sucks.
Drowning sucks.
Yeah.
No way about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
You just see your slow death.
It sucks.
Everybody flashes in and you can't move your arms anymore and you're going down and can't breathe.
That's when I used to smoke a lot.
I smoke cigars still, but it took me a while to get back to it.
But I used to smoke like two packs a day.
I was pretty just love, love, love.
Like roll.
And then I tried to slow down.
I'd be like, roll a pouch and then I'd burn a pouch in a day.
Just roll them yourself.
Just loves tobacco.
Damn, I'll keep alcoholine as a damn smoker.
That's inspiring, actually, dude.
You can do anything, people.
And that was a hard one to quit.
I mean, that's honestly for sure as shit.
But it's like, I think smoking was, I couldn't stop for my, you know, for my family.
And then when I drowned, you know, something took my breath.
I came out of that water and that thing died.
And I mean, I tried really hard to stop many times.
And I came out.
And if I tried to smoke, I'd vomit.
Like it might, that part of me just died because it took my breath and I had to go through it.
And then the reason I didn't, I got saved is I actually hit the outer reef because I was over a half a mile offshore.
It's just there's two reefs.
So I was on the outer reef of Maui and it was doing you know some coast pedaling and I hit the I hit the reef and it just touched my toe and and uh I just bubbled down grabbed the reef and just jumped up and then got hit another wave and I just held onto the reef and waited and I was out there for a while.
Dang who rescued you?
I was with Laird.
I was out surfing with Laird and I saw him once at a Whole Foods.
Yeah.
That sounds on point.
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That on brand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But uh yeah, and um Dave Kalama and my friend Joe Flanagan.
Yeah, but it was uh my leaf snapped and I was stuck out in the middle of the ocean.
So and it was just very windy and took the board and it was gone.
So and smoking was done for you.
Yeah, never never never smoked again.
Damn.
Look at you guys over here.
Just type quick and get it up.
Boom, boom, boom.
Um, yeah, I was looking at your new film.
It's called The Wrecking Crew.
I'm excited for you to see it.
It's funny.
I saw it.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
I've seen it, dude.
I know the premiere was last night, so sorry I missed that.
But no, I saw it on my computer.
They sent me a screener of it.
Yeah, dude, it's great.
And it's so beautiful.
It's so nice to be able to just, you feel like you're in Hawaii for a while.
Yeah, you know, it's just the movies we grew up with, right?
Lethal Weapon, 48 Hour, all these things, buddy cop movies.
Yeah.
I did a TV show with David Batista.
He played my brother in the C on Apple.
Oh, yeah.
And he plays your brother in the scorn.
Sorry?
Yeah, yeah.
And we just were really, got really close.
And it's like, you know, in this business, when you meet someone you really like, you're like, oh, we should, in the next one, it'd be fun to do a comedy instead of covered in blood and us beating each other.
And it was, so I had this pitch to him.
And I had, now it's been for two decades.
One of the first things I ever wrote is a pitch packet.
Told him.
And then next day he just posted it and put it out there and went viral.
And uh, what about you guys doing it together?
Yeah, and then attached David Leech to it and like, and basically like, this is what we're doing, do you like it?
And everyone freaked out and my agents call me going, like what are we doing?
And like the next morning i'm like Dave, I didn't even know that Dave would do that and Dave just like, just did it.
Like me going like yeah, me and you were doing you know twins, you know, I mean, it's just, they just put it out there and uh, paternal twins too yeah, and people are like I don't know, I don't know people like this is like before and after yeah, and so uh anyways, and our and our showrunner, Jonathan Chopper, ended up writing it and yeah, it's just.
Uh, it's just a fun movie, though where we want to, I want to do laugh a little more and it'll make you, you know, it'll make you cry working out to family trauma, you know that kind of stuff.
Yeah, it's never too late yeah yeah, there's some sweet stuff in it.
It's the.
The action is really great.
I loved it.
I mean, it's just, it's a nice, easy.
It's an easy movie to watch and it's just super enjoyable and it's a beautifully shot.
It's just like, and it's just in Hawaii, just like.
Oh, if you can't afford to take your wife to Hawaii, take her to see this movie.
That's the best pitch.
It's not bad.
She spent too much money this weekend.
Can't quite take her on vacation.
The wrecking CREW.
You're welcome.
Luck, Chase and Moa.
Thanks bro, just put a little cocoa butter on her arms and take her to see the wrecking crew.
It's this.
Tell her it's the same thing.
Okay, you got to tell her it's the same thing.
Man um, was there ever a movie role where you liked it kind of so much, or the environment that you were at you liked so much that you're like I wish I could stay here, I wish this was my life, kind of?
That's interesting question.
Or you just want to stay in that time period in that place?
Yeah, or even as that person even um, I don't think i've.
You know, I did this show, Chief Of War that came out last year and I think it was really cool because it's it's all about uh it's, it's on Apple TV, it's all about Hawaii.
Yeah, it's like when they're uniting the kingdoms, but it would have been really beautiful to be in Hawaii before the White Man arrived and just kind of see that time and place and, you know, see what our people are like our ancestors.
It was so special to make that show and because you know, you grow up in Iowa and you watch like Last Of The Mohicans and and then Braveheart, and you see all these things like oh, I would love to see my cold trip, you watch it.
I love Samurai movies or Native American movies and all we had was paintings.
You know, my grandparents, they've never seen a movie with us wearing all the regalia and like and going into the big battles with no metal.
So it's fish, I mean, it's just brutal battles to the next level.
Yeah, before they had fucking shark teeth, dude.
Yeah, like you're ripping each other apart.
So um, just imagining that or seeing a movie on that scale.
It took me a long time to make that move, that show, because you know oh yeah, that's beautiful and also has a gay mardi Gras vibe as well.
I'll say that, but that's outside and that this is just a joke.
I think it's very beautiful of these that you get to even envision something like this.
That's crazy dude, oh man, it's crazy to even get to see moments like that, like even just like on a movie set or something like that.
It must be so bizarre to see moments like that where you've seen this you should see, like just the trailers or something you know, when you, you know, Spare time.
It's pretty wild.
The fight scenes in this are pretty wild.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
Anyway, so that was a first thing I ever created.
So I was a co-creator and produced it, co-wrote it, and directed the finale and started it.
So that was like my big, that's my, that's my baby.
Yeah, it's my baby.
They're my people.
Oh, that's beautiful, dude.
And was it, was it something, was that special to your dad or special to like some of your friends and family from home?
I think everyone, because you have to, all the people I was, when I was 19, I hired on Baywatch to like makeup artists to craft services, to your drivers.
They knew me when I was 19.
I'm coming back at 45 at the time, 44, and coming back and making something like doing Baywatch, which is kind of shit.
And then coming back and doing something that's about our people.
Yeah.
That was a real big honor, man, for sure.
It's like, I mean, that's my ultimate goal.
I'm kind of done now.
Yeah.
I'm just going to do fun, fun shit, and I want to do comedy.
Like, we're going to do Minecraft with Jack Black again.
Oh, nice.
Excited to do that.
Thanks, buddy.
Sorry about that.
You're good, man.
When you were doing that show, did you go to parts of the island and learn stuff about Hawaii that you didn't know before?
Yes.
Yes, but also got to go and just scout and go to places.
I've never been, meet uncles and aunties and people who are just know so much about our culture.
Like we had to.
Yes.
Had to learn.
You know, we had to do it.
We didn't know Lelo Hawaii.
So you did it in where?
Ale Hawaii.
So we did it in our, in our, in our native tongue, yeah.
So all the other characters in here, I'd say half of the cast, it's all Polynesia.
So you got to understand, like, there's, there's, there's Maori, New Zealand, there's Samoan, there's, there's Tongan, there's, there might have been some Titian, but like all of us and Kanaka Maori, which is us, all these different people who had different, their own languages, they had to learn this ancient language.
So like everyone in there doing that is like, it's hard.
It was the hardest for me, but I thought it would have been a lot easier, but it was very challenging for me.
Yeah, the tongans are tough, huh?
Samoans and Tongans are, yeah, they're all tough.
Who's the toughest one, though?
I mean, I wouldn't fuck with the Tongan.
Bring up a Tongan.
I wouldn't fuck with a Samoan.
So it was like, I'm good.
Pull up a pair of Tongans.
I heard you should never have just one.
I mean, look at that guy over there.
I mean, yeah, there you go.
Click on that one.
That guy on the right.
Oh, my God.
That guy is doing something different, huh?
You know what?
We're all loha, so it's, it's nice.
We don't have to fuck around to get in a fight with a tongan.
Yeah, no, I'm never gonna.
But that's wild.
Just Polynesians in general, man.
They're just like, oh, it's such a different breed.
Prize Picks: Quo's Game00:04:59
Dude, you know who I like?
Filipinos.
They're kind of like the comfortable Polynesians, you know?
There you go.
Yeah.
And they're the smiling people, you know?
They are.
And they're the last people that most people see before they die because a lot of them work in hospice care, which is crazy.
When you think about that, imagine you're laying there and you open up a little and it's just some Filipinos, dude.
And they're just singing something nice to you.
I mean, it sounds nice.
That's a portable Hawaii, dude.
I just hope my kids are there and they're looking after me.
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You put me in the home.
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You put me in a home.
Dude, I'm going to have my fans break me out.
You think he'd be a good ghost, though, dude?
There's another script right there.
Me and you old, we'll just get all do all the old makeup.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just us in our dying ages in a nursing home.
Yeah.
Our fans break us out.
And they break us out and then what?
I don't know.
Yeah.
We go to a Comic-Con for like the old time days.
Yeah.
And you interview them all.
Yeah.
We do like the hangover.
We should relive all the good times.
Yeah, it sounds just like the hangover.
At least we'll go see it.
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Dope Bus Boys and Extra Cash00:02:25
Me and David Spadis made a movie actually that's going to come in in like two months.
Shut up.
Yeah, we wrote it, funded it, everything.
I love David Spade.
Oh, he's a bastard.
Yeah.
So I'm excited about that.
Tommy Boy, one of my favorites.
Oh, that was one of the best ever.
Was there.
That's just an old-time buddy or you just were like, yeah.
He and I became friends like four years ago or five years ago.
And we became really close friends.
And then we started, we had kind of an idea.
And when he started writing it, it took like a year.
And then we decided to just self-fund it.
And it was like a $4 million budget, I think.
And then we got, I think we got one investor.
And yeah.
And we made it.
We shot in like 23 days.
Wonderful.
What's this called?
It was exciting.
It's called Bus Boys.
It's about two guys who aren't doing that good.
And one of them loses his girlfriend to a waiter at a restaurant.
And so we figure if we can become waiters, then everything will be great.
That's why you're so good at being a bus boy.
You're talking about like what we were talking about.
Oh, I channeled.
Professional busboys.
Yeah.
I channeled.
This wasn't, yeah.
People are like, this is just whimsical.
What are you guys doing?
No, this is in me, bitch.
You feel me?
So, yeah, I definitely channeled that.
And David was a bus boy too in Arizona as well when he was growing up.
They wouldn't make me a waiter.
That was my last job.
Yeah, I was busboy at two places.
I could see that.
They wouldn't let me.
They were trying to hold me down.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Dude, there's a glass ceiling.
Yeah.
Never made a waiter.
Yeah, it's everywhere.
Fuck waiters.
Busboys are dope, dude.
Busboys are dope.
Busboys are dope.
They're always the coolest.
They're going to have the drugs.
They're going to have all they're going to know where the shit's at.
They're going to have the drugs.
They're going to have the bread.
You know what I mean?
Like, bus boys are dope.
Yeah, who are you going to get extra butter?
Yeah.
Who's got extra butter?
The bus boys do.
Yeah, for sure.
I love salt and pepper.
Guess you got that.
Let's go see your waiter do that.
Now they're all fucking making more money than you.
Yeah, they're off counting.
They're usually counting their money.
They're not sharing their tips is what they're not doing.
Shit, homie.
That's what they're doing, dude.
And who's got the extra salt?
You know what?
I'm going to tip my waitress less and I'm going to slip my bus boy more.
I haven't been doing that.
I already said, where's the fucking bus boy at?
I'm going to throw him.
I'm going to throw the homies or hometts some fucking loot.
Started at the bottom.
It's all happened because of Reagan because of Trickle Down Economics.
Who started Trickle Down Economics?
Bring that up.
It was Reagan, wasn't it?
Give it to the waiters.
They'll give it to the bus boys.
That's not helping.
I was just at the nurses strike.
The largest nurses strike in New York City history is going on right now.
Right now?
Yeah.
Cocaine and Miles Davis00:11:31
And I just came from it a little while ago.
And it was awesome.
I like strikes because it's like getting in a parade, kind of, because I'm from, because I'm from New Orleans.
So it's like, you're definitely partying that a band out there.
Yeah, but it's the largest nurses strike that's ever happened in New York City.
It's going on right now.
Oh, my goodness.
See if you can play that real longer.
There you go.
Play it right there.
They're from New Orleans.
The band was pretty good.
They played, actually, they did Abby Rowe.
They did a whole album.
Really?
Which I thought was impressive, dude.
Even that one where it's like, bang, bang, Maxwell Silverham came down upon his head.
Yeah, they even played that one.
And they only had three instruments.
But yeah, I loved it.
I really enjoyed that.
My sister's a nurse, so I was like, oh, this is going on, dude.
I'm out there.
Now, did I think I would meet some hot nurses?
Yeah.
But a lot of them are men these days.
Which doesn't mean they can't be hot.
But, you know, I had a different bedside manner in mind, you know?
So anyway, moving on, Jason, you pervert.
So, yeah, do you get to points in your career?
Because it is interesting to hear you say where you feel like you have some personal achievement or some personal success or something where you kind of feel like, okay, I'm okay.
You know, does that make any sense to you, kind of?
Because we're all trying to climb, like we're all trying to, like, everyone's trying to feel like, you know, we all want to feel some sort of, a lot of people want to feel some sort of success, right?
I mean, I noticed in my own life, what makes me feel like, okay, I'm okay for me, you know?
I mean, it's a very calm, it's a complex.
I mean, there's many things I'm going through, and maybe that's just my age.
I'm like, you know, I've been, like you were saying, trying to accomplish, get to a certain place.
And just because you just because even in those in those worst times and like maybe not doing the things I really truly want to be doing, but I'm doing it to put food on the table.
And then I get to the place where I'm actually like, wow, I'm producing, writing, doing all these things.
And this is my dream come true.
Why am I?
Why was I happier when I was in the fucking hole?
Why was I happier back then?
Is it just because it's nostalgic?
Is it, I mean, why?
Was it because I was still hunting?
I'm hungry.
I mean, I got to this place where I considered like, well, I don't have any more per se dreams as an actor.
Like, I never thought I'd get this far in the first place.
You know what I mean?
The biggest dream to me is to like make a TV show or a movie for my people, make a real true, authentic point story.
Like, I did that.
And the comic book I was read when I was a kid, well, I'm fucking playing him.
Yeah.
And then you're like, the video game that I fucking loved, I'm fucking playing him too.
And it's like, all these things are great.
And then sometimes you're, you, it's, but you're not, why do you not feel?
Does that happen?
You think even like in career, like you had such a great career.
Does it happen even in careers like yours?
Like, do you think that's just a human thing?
I guess that's just a human thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I just, like, I just try to straighten up gratitude and all of it, man, because, you know, I have so many friends that are maybe could be ill, sick, dying, and just so.
I mean, I'm kind of the person like pretty high energy and I'm really, really generally happy.
Like, I'm like Christmas morning every morning.
I'm pretty fucking happy.
I don't eat coffee.
I'm jazzed.
Dang.
And so I love, I love morning.
I love being up and I don't necessarily sleep that much.
So I'll probably die earlier.
Yeah.
But my days are filled.
Yeah.
They're going to be showed with freaking Filipinos as well, dude.
That's for sure.
If this is the rate you're going to be.
But I just, I can't sit still.
And I think if I don't have those things, I was pretty self-destructive if I wasn't creating and constantly doing stuff.
So I think that's what gives me like, I don't necessarily think there's, I measure it by, oh, because I'm in this movie or this and this and that.
I'm actually like, there's these little smaller things that I love doing.
Staying busy.
Yeah, but it's like the things I really truly love.
Like I'm an environmentalist at heart.
So there's, you know, I work as much as I can with different, just it's all the things that the little small things that probably no one gives a shit about that I give about.
And it's like trying to do those things that I really love.
And it's not about being necessarily seen, but it's trying to help in certain things that I love and care about.
Yeah.
Do you think like a lot of that stuff comes back to you more like once you've kind of gotten to a certain level or once you kind of because life just kind of gets busy like in your 30s and 40s life gets busy right and especially if you have a busy career like yours or a career where you have to travel a lot and it's and it varies from place to place location to location I find that it like it just gets it gets hard to focus on some of the smaller things that are more Important to me sometimes.
So, is it easier?
Do you feel like it's easier now in your career to be able to have more time for those types of things?
I don't have any time for those things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have a hard time saying no.
So, I say yes to everything.
And I'm like, I have work a lot.
And so, if someone comes in and I'm fully loaded, I'm like, Yeah, I can't not say yes.
And so, I don't know.
Here's the thing: I'm doing everything I love to do.
Right.
So, I don't ever think of it as work.
I'm just doing things I love to do.
And so, that's maybe the biggest honor of it all.
And I think, I mean, that's why I want my kids now.
They look at me, they like, oh, my dad does what he loves to do, which maybe I didn't earlier in my life.
It was just like, make sure I can put, it was very worrisome earlier because, like I said, I wasn't on the best shows.
Yeah, it's more.
People were like, oh, why don't you go do that movie or that?
I'm like, I didn't have an agent.
I couldn't get called.
Like, I couldn't get those things.
And so now I'm in a good place.
But I'm like, oh, I'm making up for lost time.
I'm like, there's so many things I want to do in this life.
And so it's a bit crammed in.
But I'm kind of doing everything I love.
Yeah.
I wouldn't say I'm taking care of myself the best, but I'm like, something's got to give.
I'm like, fuck, that's why I'm this big.
Burn this bitch down.
Well, if it's not, if there's a lot of go.
Yeah, here we go, dude.
Fire up the feely truck, huh?
Back them up, dude.
Let them in the room.
But what about you?
I mean, like, dude, you're just blown up.
And like, in your time, I mean, how does it feel to you?
Do you?
I think this year I started just recently started thinking, having a little bit more like, okay, I think everything will be okay.
Like, I'll be able to eat and have a roof over my head for the rest of my life.
So I have a little bit more semblance of like, okay, what does things look like for like those around me?
What are some other things that I can put my time into?
Like, I've been touring mostly for probably about 17 years for probably half the weeks, you know?
And so this year I don't have any tour dates.
And so it's nice to like be like, oh, what does this look like?
Like I had like two months with no, three months with no tour dates.
And I was like, this is crazy.
So there's still like a lot of podcasting and there's still a ton of work to do with this, but it's not like I have to travel as much.
So sometimes for the first time, it feels like my spirit even can be in like one place where it can like gather its thoughts.
You know, I feel like I've just been playing hide and go seek with myself for a long time, just even geographically.
So having some more, just having some more like solace and being in one spot has really kind of helped me just to start to get a look around me.
Do you go stir crazy?
Cause we're such gypsy.
We have to, you know, our careers are.
A little bit, but sometimes that's a trap for me.
I know, but you're like, I need, I'm like, oh my God, I would love to get some rest.
And you get like rest for a solid week.
And you're like, I got to get the fuck out of here.
I got to get the fuck out of this rest.
My ass hurts.
My back hurts.
And you're in a rest area along the interstate.
You're like, this is insane.
Like, do you get that?
Where you're just like, oh, man, I got to get out.
Oh, for sure.
But I think sometimes I got to be careful because that's a trap, man.
That's just the devil trying to get me back.
Do you work with sobriety?
Like, is that a thing you have to, yeah?
I go to A meetings and I go to that stuff.
It's been like, you know, I've been in and out of sobriety for 10 years, probably, mostly in.
And so that's been good.
So, yeah, I like it just because otherwise, yeah, I just can't handle, like, I'll do too much of the cocaine, to be honest, but, you know, I'll do too much of it.
And so I just don't want to be, just don't, I don't want to be around it, you know?
I'll even walk and just look straight at the ground and see if anybody's dropped it sometimes outside.
I'll fucking run right into something.
What was that?
Not an eight ball, I'll tell you that.
I just peeped this whole block.
But yeah, man.
Dude, I'll tell you this crazy story.
So one time my friend and I, and I didn't even know anything about drugs, my friend and I are going to my apartment.
He was staying in town.
He was staying in town.
He's getting out of the taxi.
He dropped a little thing of cocaine into the taxi.
When I'm getting out, I just see it on the thing.
I pick it up and put it in my pocket.
So he didn't tell me that he had ever done cocaine.
And he'd been doing it, but he didn't tell me, right?
And I just thought he was kind of itchy or whatever, you know, because it was spring.
And so we go in my apartment.
He's like, hey, man, will you help me look for something?
And I'm like, yeah, what is it?
And he like wouldn't tell me what it was.
And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense, but yeah, I'll help you, you know?
So me and him are walking around looking for something that I don't know what it is.
Okay.
And then I kept sneaking off and doing the cocaine, right?
So, dude, now at one point he gave up and went to sleep.
I'm walking around my apartment looking everywhere for something.
And it was the drugs I was doing.
Absolute insanity, dude.
Absolute insanity, bro.
So, yeah.
I mean, you just, people can get lost out there.
But yeah, dude.
Did you ever read that, Miles Davis?
You ever read Miles Davis's biography?
Uh-uh.
There's this great part where he was up in Harlem.
And, you know, at the time he's at the peak of his career, he had this Lamborghini.
Let's just say it's like bright yellow.
It snows out.
It's snowing outside.
And he comes up to this spot and he's in Harlem, gets out, goes in, and he's coming back out.
And he gets back in the car.
He's got some drugs and comes back out, gets in the car, looks down, and he's like, fuck.
He like drugs are all the Coke is all over the floor and he's fucking freaking out.
And he thinks he's going to get busted by the cops.
So he just gets out, goes back in, hides in his fucking closet, waits it out for a couple hours, sweating it out.
And he's on the drugs.
Yeah.
Comes back out hours later.
Car's still there because they know it's Miles Davis.
Opened up the door and all the drugs are gone.
And he like clicks and he's like, it was fucking snow on his shoes.
Oh.
When he got in and like totally lost his mind, like he spotty spilled all the fucking, I was like, that's a good time.
That was a pro story.
That's a good time.
Yeah.
And he didn't drive, which is the best part.
That's the best part.
Good job, Miles.
October 21st, 1972, Miles Davis, never mind, wrecked his Coke-filled Maura and broke both of his legs.
So he took it for one lap.
Jim Glickenhaus was the first person on scene.
Miles in the hospital for a long time and didn't play for almost a year.
Miles' Mishap00:02:59
Dang.
That'll make you quit doing drugs right there.
That'll make you quit smoking, dude.
That's his, that's his drowning near the reef right there.
Dang.
It's my, dude, but if my legs were broken, I could still do cocaine, I think.
And I hate to say that.
And don't say that to your kids.
But what's, so now you have children?
I've had them, man.
Yeah.
Did you collect some along the way?
I didn't mean that, but did you like, did you have a family that you had planned?
Or was it just kind of like, did you sort of have children?
No, yeah, no, I was, I was married and had kids.
Yep.
Oh, nice, man.
Was it cool being a father?
Like, was that like a scary thing for you?
Like, it's actually funny.
He's, he's just got into.
Oh, yeah.
Beautiful kids.
He just got into acting.
He's, I mean, they've been acting and doing this place.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a cool name.
Nicole Wolf, but he's, he's going to be in Dune with me.
Dune?
He's, yeah, he's Leto Jr. Dang.
So he auditioned on his own and got it and he killed it.
Was he geeked?
I mean, he, those guys grew up watching me.
You know, he was sitting on Affleck's lap and she's sitting with Gal.
And, you know, we're doing Justice League.
They were like six and eight.
Wow.
I'm doing Justice League.
They grew up on set with me.
So they just took so much so much.
Yeah.
I mean, he was in a Batman outfit for at least five years.
Like, the kid loves all that and love doing.
And so, yeah, my babies are.
Lila's a singer, so she wants to continue in music and Wolf wants to do acting.
So, which I was very, it's just such a gnarly business.
Yeah.
I'm like, go be a doctor.
Use your brain.
Yeah.
And go pay these nurses, Doc.
Actually, it's the hospitals that aren't paying them.
But, yeah, dude, that's got to be interesting if your kid wants to go down that road.
But then you'll have a lot of experience too.
And you'll be there to help him be supportive in that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he's doing young, so he can try it out.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Guide him.
You have kids?
No, I don't have any kids yet.
I want to get some kids.
I want to, sorry.
I would like to have children.
I'm not trying to get some kids.
No, I want all kids to be free.
If they're not, if I don't know them, I don't want to know them.
That's my new, that's my rule.
If I don't know kids, I don't want to know them.
You know, people are like, hey, I want you to see my kids.
I'm like, fuck no.
I don't want to meet your kids, dude.
People are perverts, man.
You know, these politicians.
Anyway, what else are we talking about?
You got a special lady you're with right now?
No, I don't.
That's another.
You're a free bird right now, too.
What's that?
You're free bird.
Free bird, yeah.
But I would like to have a spouse.
I would like to have a woman spouse, too.
And I would like to, yeah, I would like to have that, man.
So it'll happen.
It's just like, you know, I just got, I think for one, two, I've just been going all the time.
It was like, I'd be like, I'd be like dating somebody and I'd be out of town for a while and you come back and you're like, oh, shit, I forgot about this.
Love in Nature00:04:59
And not in a bad way.
It's just like my brain was somewhere else.
It's hard for me to focus on stuff sometimes.
So I think I just feel like more of that semblance of like, okay, now this maybe could be more manageable.
But I got to change some of my own ways and stuff like that a little bit too.
And be more purposeful, I think, about just like just different prayer and different things like that overall, you know?
So you come from a big family?
You got brothers, sisters?
Yeah, I got three siblings.
And one of them is married.
You're a baby.
I'm the middle.
One of the middle kids, two boys and two girls.
So we got a good little group.
But yeah, nobody in my family can swim that good, though.
Yeah.
Land people.
Yeah.
If you need us, we'll be on the land.
You know, that's our motto, dude.
That's our family motto.
I'm going to get it tattooed on my breast.
When you're in New Orleans, look, what kind of sports were you into?
Basketball.
Dude, is it true that they have the team called the Tall Blacks?
Yeah.
Is that true?
The basketball team in New Zealand is called the Tall Blacks.
That's freaking amazing, dude.
We got, yeah, in New Orleans, we have, well, we have some of the players are kind of thick over there, you know?
So we got the round Browns over there.
That's our team.
No offense, Zion Williamson, but his weight does fluctuate.
And he's cost our city a lot of money.
But what is this?
Yeah, this is, oh, that's the New Zealand All Blacks.
I don't know.
This is a bunch of Ben Simmons.
They got maybe one and a half brothers on this team, dude.
And this, but hey, that's awesome, though.
Good for them.
You a big basketball fan?
I like college football.
It's probably my favorite.
College football.
Who's your team?
I'm a Tennessee and a LSU guy.
So those are my squads.
What about you?
I don't do college football that much.
You didn't get into it with your size?
I'm sure they were like, get out of here.
I was hockey.
Really?
Yeah.
You were goalie?
Soccer.
No, I was center.
Nah.
But I love soccer too, man.
I was playing soccer.
But I was the skateboarder.
They all want you to get into wrestling.
Yeah, that's weird.
That's weird.
I haven't had that.
But if you're a surfer, that makes sense.
Yeah, no, I just grew up skating.
I wasn't always this big.
I mean, like, I was, you know, but that's what I was doing when I was little and took that into high school.
But I love skateboarding.
And then surprisingly, my main love is rock climbing.
Yeah.
So I traveled the world with rock climbing, and that was kind of my thing.
Do you ever go rock climbing with Jared Leto?
No.
Oh, I mean, I've seen him out when we've been climbing.
Yeah.
He loves it.
He does.
He climbs a lot with Honold.
Honold.
Oh, Alex Honald?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, he climbs a lot with him.
They do like Dell Cap and all that kind of stuff together.
He took me to a party here one time.
I just remember to New York, and everybody was kind of dressed like they looked like different birds and stuff.
It was pretty crazy.
Yeah.
And there was no air condition in the place.
It was like fancy.
It was, it was bizarre, but it was what you'd expect out of him.
Yeah, that's people out on the rock right there.
Yeah, rock climbing's pretty amazing, isn't it?
I love it.
What makes you love it so much?
Well, it's something I did when I was little.
At the first moment, like my mom took me climbing in South Dakota, and I just, when I touched a rock and just moved on it, it just felt like I'm probably better at climbing than I am at walking.
Like it's just my body just feels, it's just something that you connect with that you really enjoy.
Yeah.
But I love just the fear and the problem solving and like the fear of it all.
Because like we'll do like deep water soloing now and you Majorca and you like climb up and then you fall down in the water.
But it's just like the challenge of like I love climbing stuff when I was a kid.
It's like, how do you not like, I love climbing trees.
I love just climbing.
So I don't know.
I'm a fucking gorilla.
I don't know what to say.
Yeah.
Being in the dirt and I just enjoy taking my kids.
My kids do it and it just keeps us out in nature.
Something to do.
I guess it'd be like fishing or hunting like for other people, but like being in nature and going to do adventures and setting out to do something and accomplishing it.
But the other thing too is I think I'm very, very much, and I'm not diagnosed ADHD, but I'm just, there's a lot of things going on.
And I feel like when I ride motorcycles and I go rock climbing, it's just like, you can't do anything else but be there.
So that's just like a little bit of my therapy or meditation is like, that's when everything just gets real clean and clear.
Makes you focus in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, everyone gets high on that or loves that.
You know what I mean?
When you can really, mind, body, spirit connects and you slow in something, that's what you, you know.
Oh, yeah.
When you're zipping down on a freaking motorcycle, you can't, yeah, it's hard to be like, oh, I got to do that email or whatever.
Much as like everyone, you're in a car, you're like, you know, doing your makeup, you're eating food, you're talking to someone, you're not paying attention to shit, where you ride a motorcycle.
It's you're, you're going to die if you fucking, if you're up, if you're doing your makeup while you're riding your motorcycle, you're fucked.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not easy.
Unless they come all those self-driving motorcycles, which I read about, that's going to be, I'm like, what are we doing now?
Start driving a motorcycle?
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That's not what we need.
No.
A lot of organ donors are motorcyclists.
And I didn't mean to say that out loud to you, but you knew it.
A lot of them are.
You an organ donor?
A lot of them are.
Yeah.
You keeping them?
No, no.
Yeah.
I don't know if anyone wants them.
Fucking pickled.
I'm actually waiting for this AI and shit to come around and go like, yo, two new kidneys.
Livers and kidneys right here.
Livers and kidneys.
That's what I need, bro.
Oh, yeah.
I want a fresh sack of lungs, boy, them inner tits.
Yeah.
And then just nail them again.
30 more years just bashing these bitches up.
Yeah, dude.
Toughen up, fucking shit.
Bro, that'd be crazy.
You're like 90.
Swap them out?
Yeah, like, yeah, I'm 95, but I got a seven-year-old liver.
Yeah.
You're just partying on that shit.
You're getting hammered drunk on one Bud Light.
Fucking sick.
Sleep in somebody's boat or whatever.
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Um, when you uh, what else is gonna ask about?
Oh what, what made you and Dave Batista become such uh, such friends?
you think well we do a lot of action and when generally there's there's not a lot of big guys that are good actors and do action it's kind of a rare thing to have all of them and i think uh dave uh is a phenomenal actor and and and i really wanted to fight him and and uh see and i was like dude i would love to go toe-to-toe with him and it's just kind of like yeah i respect him and i and and then when we met we're very different but like super
you know um, there's no ego, there's no like, we're very supportive of each other, we understand the story, like it's just a wonderful when you find an acting partner that you just you're there for the story instead of like your career.
You're a lot of guys, a lot of famous, Famous dudes can't bleed or can't get hurt.
I'm like, fuck, I die in everything.
Like, my kids beg me not to die anymore.
I'm like, that's how we, that's how you fucking eat.
I'm like, you're not going to die again.
I'm like, everything.
That's how you have your life.
So I'm not afraid to do all that kind of stuff and you know, bleeding.
And I think Dave likes to get down and dirty too.
So, um, but he's just a real, a really great guy.
The reason why we want to do it again is because it's just a good working relationship.
Yeah.
Yeah.
His acting is great.
Yeah.
I saw him in Blade Runner and I just thought he was he was phenomenal in it.
It was so subtle.
He's very just like the opposite of me.
I couldn't be subtle if you tried.
Like it's just I thought you did a great job in this movie, man.
Thanks, bud.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I don't, it's, I don't, I don't know if I've even pay attention.
I guess it's like if you're not paying attention, if you don't, if you're not noticing the acting, and then it's great, right?
Isn't that kind of usually the usual kind of thing?
Isn't that usually kind of the thought?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not tripping you up.
Yeah.
Do you do you feel like it's gotten easier to act over time?
Like, do you start to just understand it better?
Does it become a little bit more like a muscle?
What is that like?
I just think I'm getting, I'm getting uh you know chances to do it now.
Like I've never even been in a rom-com.
You know, like my first comedy was last year with Jack Black doing Minecraft.
So like, you know, it's just now finally catching on that I can do other stuff.
Yeah, I'm not just getting my ass kicked and dying all the time.
Yeah, you're not just a bouncer who's freaking going to the salon or whatever.
Yeah.
I think after like Game of Thrones, like people didn't know what to do with me.
So it's like he didn't speak English.
So they was like, what the fuck do you do with Drogo?
We're like, who are we going to put is that in that rom-com?
Drogo is, I mean, he's handsome.
Like, let's get that motherfucker.
I don't, I hope he speaks English.
Like, he's French.
You know what I mean?
Like, what are you going to?
So this is hilarious.
That's great.
Have you ever got to spend any time with Jack?
I haven't gotten to spend any time with him.
Oh, man.
So funny.
No, he's just like the greatest human, man.
Like, you just would love just being with him.
He's so much fun.
Oh, that's cool.
And it's just like he's that all the time.
You go, you know, after work, we go eat together.
Like, I just like people who they don't act one way.
And then, you know, when someone works over, there's someone different.
You know, like, I'm just, I wear my heart on my sleeve.
This is exactly who I am.
That's what you're going to get.
Here we are.
Yeah.
Um, do you ever get people that confuse you for people a lot?
Because I'll have people come up to me sometimes and they think I'm Tony Cavallero.
Um, do you get people like that sometimes?
I think, or even like this.
Like, if you walked in downstairs, somebody might think you're Joaquin Phoenix downstairs because how he did that Letterman.
Remember, pull up Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman that time.
What?
See if we're close or not.
Yeah.
Oh, that's pretty much it, bro.
There's my twin brother right there, dude.
If you were Joaquin Phoenix today this whole time, bro, put these on.
If you tell me you're Joaquin Phoenix, bro, it's going to get crazy in here.
Oh, wow.
I'm fucking blind.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, dude.
I wear those fucking suits.
There's a prescription.
Yeah, no, I wear glasses.
Dude, I wear glasses.
Yeah.
Mine are downstairs.
My eyes are going bad.
I just can't do contacts.
I can't put them in, man.
But I'm not putting a little thing like that in my eye.
Like a little sight.
Would you ever get the little surgery?
I don't think I would.
I don't want somebody going in my eye.
I don't want that.
While I'm laying there like some pedophile.
I don't think you look like that guy.
But do you know who the dancing outlaw is?
That guy that does that the Tennessee two-step guy?
Yeah.
There he is.
That guy.
What's his name?
Jessica Frank.
Jessica White?
Bro.
Dude, you could totally play Jessica White.
You could.
You, dude, not me.
Oh, I thought you were saying you look like him.
No, man.
Pull up the one where he's got no beard.
That one in the middle.
Dude, that's you for days, bro.
You talk about it.
Oh, God.
Listen, I said nice things enough.
I know, dude.
This guy.
No, you don't get Jessica White.
This guy is a fucking listening to methadone all day, which is a band.
But it's only, yeah, I'm joking.
Okay.
All right.
My bad.
No, that's okay.
Is there any recent, is there a recent interview with Jessica White or did he pass away?
He passed away.
Damn.
You should have listened to the way he talks.
It's probably because you guys sound familiar.
That's him?
No, that doesn't look like he looks like Horace Thompson right there.
Yeah, that is not.
No, that's not.
No.
Yeah, it says Jessica White.
Wow.
But he's dead now.
That's Kid Rock.
You ever interviewed Kid Rock?
Yeah, he lives in Nashville.
That'd be easy then.
I see him there all the time.
He has his neighbors.
Oh, he does.
He's got a club.
Yeah, he has a club.
And he has a crazy house there.
He built like a replica of the White House up on this hill there.
No shit.
It's insane.
It's insane.
And he collects a lot of cool stuff.
Bob is his real name, but he's a super interesting guy.
And he's really nice, too.
That's his house right there.
I think.
Holy shit.
It's crazy, bro.
And it's got a lot of Kid Rock stuff in it.
Nobody's a bigger fan of Kid Rock than Kid Rock, dude.
I feel like he's doing new albums.
Yeah, he still does stuff.
He has a Rock the Country.
Pull that up.
I think it's called Rock the Country that just came out.
A tour, a new tour that just came out that Ella Langley is going to be on.
Jason Aldean, Williams, Hank Williams.
There you go, Kid Rock.
Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll, Creed.
Under Sunlight.
Dude, I could see you play Scott Stapp in like a biopet or biopic, whatever they call it.
You getting me back at that, Jessica White.
Yeah.
I deserved it.
I apologize.
Dude, you know what?
I used to love Soundgarden, dude.
Of course.
Yeah, man.
What a legend.
And I feel.
Is that them?
Shit, maybe I don't know who they are.
These are the eyes of disarray.
No, that's not.
Would you even care?
And I'm feeling.
Oh, Sonya Pilots.
No, it's Sony Apple Pilots.
Dude, Son of the Pilots was good, bro.
What's the first concert you ever went to?
What the?
I was at the Iowa State Fair.
What the fuck is his name?
He does.
Bourbon, Wisconsin Beer.
Jesus Christ.
I'm blanking on his name.
Trace Atkins, maybe?
No.
No.
God damn it.
It's okay.
Bad of the bone.
Yeah, George Surger.
Yeah.
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.
Iowa State Fair, baby.
Dude, how nice is that thing?
Iowa State Fair?
Yeah.
It's amazing.
Haven't been in years.
Funnel cake?
Yeah.
But I'm not driving across town for a funnel cake.
But I guess that one would be the best because you'd have all the animals.
You'd have all the crafts.
Yeah.
And the big rides.
I had a good time when there was growing up.
Yeah.
I guess people did.
I couldn't walk around there now.
I'd be fucking screwed.
There's no way.
Yeah.
You'd have to hide.
You have to dress up like something.
Those days are over, man.
But it's your size.
Do you have to disguise yourself as something unique if you're out in the public?
There's no way I'm going to hide.
You could hide.
I can't hide.
I mean, I'm in the flannel and a hat.
It's about as hiding as it gets.
If you've got a special outfit.
I mean, you mean if I go out, it's like Boba Fett or like fucking the helmet on?
Like Iron Man?
I don't know, dude.
I mean, I could hide if I had a helmet on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you wore like a football helmet or something.
I was in Jordan one time.
We were shooting Dune and I wanted to go see Petra.
And I got all wrapped up and it was great because I got to walk through there.
There's tons of tourists.
And so I did the whole, you know, full wrap and everything's on.
It was hot and this little bit of my triangles were sticking out.
And we're walking through and this girl is like a season.
She goes, and I'm like, this fucking thing gets me in trouble more than anything, man.
Because that like a monkey.
Yeah, this is basically tapped on.
And I have one that goes on my head.
It goes right through there.
And how do people earn?
Do you earn them or how do you get?
This is like a family crest.
Think of it like that.
It's like the guardian.
This is the shark.
And this is for protection.
Those are the IHA, the spear.
It's the mono, the shark.
So basically, when I'm in the water and we're snorkeling, the shark knows to go to you because you're white and I'm Hawaiian.
So it's like, this is what this lets them know.
Yeah.
That's fair.
Yeah.
I got to get something.
You just roll with me.
I'll be like, I'll point it somewhere.
I'll be on your back.
Pointing out the directions.
You ever see any sharks?
You ever seen any?
I went to swimming sharks one time in South Africa.
We're in a cage.
Have you ever seen?
Like big great whites?
Yeah.
Did you see a big great whites?
Oh, yeah.
One came and got, so there were these two round cages off the boat.
And since the edge of the boat's like this, you have two circles, there's a space in between the cages right up against the boat, like because it's two circles.
And one of the sharks got stuck right in there and he was absolutely going ape shit.
And then another one came up and put his snout like in the cage and I got to touch the top of it, pat him on the head a little bit.
Pretty cool.
Yep.
That old Doberman touch I put on him.
You know, just great.
Did you like South Africa?
Oh, dude, it's the most beautiful place that I've been.
Yeah.
You know, is there a place you've been that really makes you feel like this is really something special?
I just got back from Guatemala.
I went there with my lady.
Oh, nice.
She's from Guatemala.
That was my first time.
So we went to like, I got to go see the pyramids, which is like the largest pyramids in the world.
Bring them up.
My father's from Nicaragua.
Really?
Yeah, which is neighbors to Guatemala, I think.
Is it in Central America?
Yep.
Ooh, that thing's nice.
I'm surprised you don't live in one of those.
Because people think you do, dude.
Tikal.
The one down there.
Yeah, Tikal, the one that's there, right?
That one.
Pretty spectacular.
The one to the left.
Food, culture, just so rich.
Wow.
How long was y'all stripped for?
I went to Antigua.
I went to Antigua.
Antigua is just like, I've never seen streets like that.
We were there for like two weeks.
Sorry.
Two weeks seeing family.
Getting to view the parents and the family.
Yeah.
See if they like me, you know.
The fucking gringos coming in.
Oh, yeah, huh?
Yeah.
But you weren't the gringo, though.
I was.
To them, huh?
Yeah.
Wow.
Dude, it's good.
You got white blood in me.
It's good.
Yeah, that's a good physician.
German blood, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't bring that Irish.
Don't bring that honky blood around here, Whitey.
That's the kind of shit that I hear all the time.
But they love me.
So I'm in.
Yeah, I got two thumbs up.
Did you get a like?
Do you get a written review or how to, like on the plane ride homes, you read?
I see in their eyes.
Yeah.
And I could feel the temperature.
The aunties were cool with it.
The nieces and nephews love me.
The dad's amazing.
I mean, I love her dad.
We went to go see him play.
He's a musician?
He's probably one of the biggest Latin music.
Maybe, no, he's definitely one of the biggest Latin musicians of all time.
Really?
Yeah, Ricardo Arjona.
Let's bring up a picture of this man.
He's actually, he's got.
That's your father.
This might be your father-in-law.
Yeah.
He's doing Times Square two nights in a row.
Ricardo Ahon.
Ricardo Ajona.
Yeah.
Secal is his new tour.
Secal?
Yeah.
I mean, skinny.
Ooh, Ricardo Aldona.
Yeah.
God, I want to be something like that.
He kind of looks like my old brother, right?
You and him?
A little bit, right?
Oh, yeah.
You can see it.
That's what's up.
If I were Latin, I'm not a Mawaian.
And he's probably the biggest Guatemalan in history.
He's very tall.
He's like 6'5.
No way.
You can't even tell from this photo.
I know.
They should say that on the poster.
First of all, they have a poster that says, hey, come see a 6'5 Guatemala.
And he's, bro, he's.
Dude, I pay 40 bucks to go over and see that.
He's got two nights in a row at New York Times Square.
I think he'll be playing Nashville too, bro.
Really?
Yeah.
Dude, if he is, I'll make sure to go and watch.
Yeah, but he'd be right.
I'll take a Spanish girl out there on a date.
Definitely know Ricardo.
You're definitely going to meet some Spanish nurses.
That's a place to go.
Yeah.
How do you say nurse in Spanish?
Bring that up for me, fellas.
Infermera.
Infermera?
Ooh, see.
Infermera.
That's what I'm going to say.
That's where it's at for you.
They take care of you, love you.
That's what I'm saying, dude.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, there were ages when I was like, yeah, I'm going to get, oh, I want to find a, like a model or something.
Now it's like, and I'm getting older.
I'll take a nurse.
You've had all the models.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know about that, but I just have like, yeah, I'll just, you got to think ahead, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if models are going to take care of you, but nurse will take care of you.
You know, a model's not going to take care of you, dude.
And she's not even going to feed you anything because she doesn't eat anything.
What are you going to do?
Just both sit there and suck on an empty bottle together.
And she's lazy anyway, probably.
Anyway, sorry.
What about this guitar, dude?
I saw you brought this in.
Well, yeah, because we were both tired.
I was going to take a little nap because I didn't want to suck on your show.
I appreciate that, man.
Yes.
I'm probably like a solid six right now.
I'm normally a tan, but we had the premiere before I came to Theo Varn, which was a big accident.
So, anyways, I was downstairs at Chelsea guitars.
I found this in 59.
It kind of went like got a little bit of that watermelon color to it.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Because it's usually cherry, right?
Yeah.
And then it just fades because of that paint that used back then.
But I didn't have the original pot, so it was kind of cheap.
And then, you know, I'll put some new pickups in it, and it'll be back to new.
Are you a collector of guitars?
I am.
I'm a big fan.
I got a band.
We play.
We're going to go play Dubai here on the 28th.
And look, dude, I forgot to show you.
Yeah.
I was in Charlotte.
Oh, no, I was in Qatar, actually.
Signed by Chuck Berry.
Yeah, they have all the guitars signed up on it.
Who is it?
Chuck Berry, the guy that was just up on the...
That's not about Chuck Berry, dude?
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Yeah.
Oh.
Oh, that's him.
See, there's a guitar.
Johnny Be Good.
There you go.
He used to carry his guitar in a rural site.
Even the tree about a railroad track.
I loved him, dude.
We used to listen to his tape all the time.
I had his cassette tape when I was young.
Actually, it might be a good idea.
My son loved Chuck Berry.
I might do him right.
He turns 18, maybe I'll give him this guitar.
Just let him play it.
You keep it.
You know, he just booked a role in a movie next year.
Like, he's doing fine.
Okay.
He can get his own stuff.
I love languages, presents.
You can get his own stuff now.
Are you?
I am, yeah.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Oh, I heard that you were working with a water company.
Is that a bad thing?
Yeah, I started this company called Monanalu.
Mona Nalu?
Mononalu.
Started it eight years ago.
I was on a flight, and you know, you're flying over on the plane and you see a Coca-Cola in aluminum can.
You got beer in an aluminum can.
You got sparkling water aluminum can, and they give you those little shitty Dasani water bottles with a cap, you know, the label.
And then there's like three different types of plastic on it that we can't recycle.
It just goes into our land.
It goes into our landfills.
And I'm a father.
I don't want to see plastic.
We don't need single-use plastic.
Generally, I carry my own water bottle when I go to the airport.
You fill it up.
Eight years ago, they didn't even make, they didn't even have aluminum for water.
So I went to ball, the people who make those cans, and I went to the aluminum company.
I said, I'm going to make a water bottle with you, a water out of aluminum cans.
We're not a we're not a we're not a water company.
I was like, well, you are now.
I'm off, man.
Let's do this.
So we set out to do it, and then we ended up making the first screw can.
It went back on.
And so we made Monanolo, and then it changed.
Well, now it's got our, we put our movie on there.
Oh, great.
So we put the labels on there.
But see, I've got Monanola printed on the top.
And so once we kind of stopped single-use plastic and now, because at the time I went to Dasani and I went to, I went to the blue and the red guy, Coke and Pepsi, and I was like, would you do this?
Would you make the aluminum?
They're like, it doesn't make sense to us because it's easier to do plastic.
But anything that's in plastic is just leaching in there.
It's just poison, man.
You don't want to be drinking out of plastic bottles, man.
Yeah, that's what I think of a lot of times, especially now with people talking about all the bad stuff that's in our food and our water.
It's become such like a, you know, such a talking point right now.
It's inner.
Yeah, I've thought a lot about how do you find water that isn't because most of the water is in plastic.
Yeah.
And even if you look up like what's the best water that doesn't have plastics in it, you know, they won't even really tell you.
It's all these like kind of gimmick videos that lead you to buy certain things, usually to buy water purifiers and stuff.
Yeah.
But I mean, the idea is just to go.
So now we kind of changed it.
Now that they are making those, we made a circular system.
So we're now Monanola powered by boomerang.
And it's actually, it's pretty cool, man.
Like the idea is to be in starting with Hawaii mainly is to be like in hospitalities here in hotels, hospitals, schools, where imagine just going to your room and you got a crate like a milk crate and there's all your water in there and you drink it and you put it back and then down in the basement there's a machine.
It's a circular system.
It sterilizes it.
It fills it with your natural local water source and puts the minerals back into it and cleans it and makes it so it's fresh water.
It's not packaged up.
There's no emissions.
It's not sitting in some crate and some warehouse stagnant dead water.
It's fresh water always.
And if there was a COVID or anything like that, each hotel would still operate.
The water still operates, right?
So you can still have fresh water and it's just bottled up.
Think of it as like you go into a restaurant, you eat with their plates and their fork, and you're done.
You leave you come back, you're going to use it.
You're not going to take the shit home.
It's just a container for it.
And so it's constantly reusable and recyclable.
So you're cutting out waste.
Now the idea is just to cut waste.
Because even when you're having the aluminum bottles, you still got to recycle those.
And so it's just.
The idea is just to either, if you're not carrying your own stuff, it's pretty cool that you can go to a hotel and you know that it's it's there's.
No, not only are you not doing waste, it's getting recycled, so it's a full circular.
It's incredible man, just to kind of get rid of the single, I mean just to cut all that down, because it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, when you think about it, the idea of like, taking shitty water, putting it in plastic bottles, shipping it to a place like Hawaii, which has the best water in the world, we drink it and then the shit ends up in our ocean or a landfill.
So it's the dumbest thing in the world.
I'm going to try to do that in Hawaii first.
So I mean, obviously we're self-contained, plant island earth.
We didn't need anyone.
We can, we were self-contained at one time.
So if we can just do that, with all our tourism And people come from all over the world getting married and they get to see what they're doing in each hotel.
So we have four seats, all different hotels, four seasons, and Twin Finn, all these different places where it'll have their label on it.
So it's still all there.
So the advertising is for them.
It's just we're trying to stop the waste.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, dude, when I even think about just how many bottles I like, I probably drink seven bottles of water a day.
So that's seven empty bottles.
Like, that's just me.
That's ridiculous.
Oh, bro.
It's just, it's the most archaic thing that we're drinking plastic bottles.
But I mean, so we're doing it in a business side.
And eventually we'll try to get it where, you know, we'll have depots for it.
But I mean, the idea is to get people doing it.
Because in every school, kids can be doing this.
I like the idea too that you can have your thing at home that you could just, that would then be able to refill it.
I think that's pretty novel.
Yeah.
Thanks, buddy.
It's yeah, it's Monanola Powered by Boomerang.
You can check it out.
And that's the goal is to, you know, just another thing to try to fix in a very broken world.
And we don't need that pollution in our oceans.
Awkleman, you heard it.
You heard it, man.
Have you ever been a lifeguard or not?
Yeah, that's why my whole family are watermen.
Yeah, they're all lifeguards.
Yeah.
I went to junior lifeguards my whole life when I was growing up.
Dang, that's like, I wish I could be a lifeguard when I was a fan.
It's pretty cool when you save someone's life.
I've saved a person's life before in the ocean.
Yeah.
And when you do junior lifeguards, it's really cool to really take your time.
Things slow down.
I'm sure it's probably like a firefighter.
Like, I panic in a fire, but I think if I saw so many of them in my practice, you know, most people go, oh shit, and then they freak out, whereas the natural calm kind of comes over you and you just like assess the whole situation so you can both get out alive.
You understand the rip.
You understand what the ocean's doing.
And you had to save somebody?
Yeah.
Is that in Hawaii?
Yeah.
Wow.
But I mean, it's just the, and I, I'm, like I said, I've been many times like drowned.
I'm like, yeah, it can, you get cut, you get caught in a rip.
Yes.
You, it's taking you out.
You're not going to beat the ocean.
And you can literally be, I mean, I've been at Pipeline, a leaf snapped, and I'm literally eight feet from the shore, but it's like a river going by and you're swimming, trying to get in like it's eight feet and you're just getting burnt out.
Yeah.
And you're like, there are cameras everywhere.
There are people right there.
I could yell for help.
And I look like an idiot.
I'm going to drown in eight feet of water.
Yeah.
And the current so it's just that undertill is just pulling your feet out and it's going to exhaust you.
And it generally just got to go with it.
It's going to take you out to sea and it'll dump you back in.
But everyone drowns like that.
It's just, you got to watch out for the rip.
So go jumping into the fucking ocean.
And then if you see a sign, don't go in.
That's why, I mean, don't be stupid.
You're like the Yogi Bear of the Ocean, kind of.
Remember him?
Oh, I do.
You put out those fires, kids.
Yeah, dude, put them out.
You know what I'm saying?
I know.
He was so adamant.
He was talking to me the other day.
I built a fire and I was like, everything's green around here.
Was he a yogi was?
Yeah, in my head, because we're psychos.
But I was like, listen, I could dump out.
Oh, Smokey the Bear, dude.
Sorry.
Who did I say?
Yogi Bear.
Yogi Bear is a pretty bear.
Oh, dude, he's starting the fires, man.
God, he's probably on Suboxian or whatever by now.
Oh, yeah, he's not doing well.
I think he was a stepdad, too.
You can tell by his outfit.
You could tell by that outfit.
He was definitely trying to meet a lady that already had kids, probably, too.
Not like the Bernstein bear where he was locked in.
Yeah, he was just a dumb dad.
That guy was a family man.
He was.
He was.
Yeah, Bernstein was a family man.
I love me some Bernstein.
God, they were good.
Especially like the fall issues.
Always got snuggled down when I read those ones.
And the skip.
Remember there was that one scary book when there was a fire where people were like, no, no fires in the Bernstein bears and people flipped out and shit.
Oh, really?
Yeah, dude.
People just cannot handle real shit.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Was there ever, was there a, was there a time in a movie where you were training for something?
It was like one of the toughest things you ever had to actually train for?
Or does it never go that far with training?
Yeah, I mean, training for training for Aquaman was pretty challenging.
I'd have to say maybe the Aquaman's probably the hardest I've ever had to train.
I'm not a very like, I'm not like a gym rat.
I just like to do things, rock climbing, you know, go surfing and things like that.
But actually, like, you do that for a role.
I don't necessarily like.
You're not in there getting pumped every day like a maniac or taking SARMs.
No, I just want to do the things I love to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I'm, yeah.
You know, like some sups monkey that's over there at GNC every day or something.
Supplements, guys.
Yeah, I don't even do like shit.
Creatine, all that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I like to eat food.
Damn.
I'd like to eat.
Yeah.
I'm Hawaiian.
Dude, yeah, you got to get fat when you get older.
Yeah.
I'm definitely going that way.
Hell yeah.
I can't wait to get fat.
I'm trying not to, baby.
As soon as I get married, I'm getting fat.
And then I'm getting divorced, too.
I can't wait to get divorced.
What else?
So people should go see the wrecking crew.
It's a great film.
It's fun.
Yeah, it's good.
Actually, it's feel good.
You get to go to Hawaii.
You know, if you can't make it there, put on the wrecking crew.
Yeah.
Let me and Dave take care of you.
Yeah.
Work out some trauma in your family.
Open up a can of dull pineapple for your lady and put on the wrecking crew.
Yeah.
It's almost the same thing.
Some shaved coconut.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Some mounds.
Oh, dude.
Bust out a couple of those.
My dad used to give us mounds sometimes when we were good.
Not a lot then, huh?
Not a lot.
Not a lot of mounds.
Yeah, dude.
Thanks so much for taking time.
I know you had a long day, man.
I know it's like kind of a pain in the ass.
It's not, man.
I don't do podcasts that much because I always get in trouble.
So you're my second, and it was wonderful.
And, dude, I'm just, it's awesome to meet you, man.
Yeah, it's a pleasure, man.
Thanks for all the awesome entertainment.
And yeah, thanks for just sitting and sharing some of your experiences and story with me.
You notice one thing, too.
You know, the thing that you have with, oh my goodness, David Spade.
When we were at the 50s SNL.
He was there.
Yeah.
So I saw him when we were there.
My daughter is like a massive, massive fan of Brooklyn 99.
So Andy Sandberg's like her dude she loves the most.
So I saw him about last person I'm leaving.
I see him and I go, dude, my daughter loves you.
Can I please get a picture with you?
And I send the video to my daughter.
And I say, hey, listen, if there's anything I'd love to do something with you.
About three weeks later, he pitches his story in Hawaii.
It's amazing.
I laughed my ass off.
We instantly sell it.
I'm going in two weeks to go shoot it in Hawaii.
No way with Dave Faith.
A fucking year later.
No, with Sandberg, but I'm just saying it's the same thing.
That's what you were saying.
Yeah, just friends and buddies meet in the comedy.
Like, I've never met him before.
It's just through my daughter.
But you see something and you're like, dude.
And you make a friend.
But like I'm saying, you got anything in there and you want to, you know, you see me, you see, you're like, oh, dude, Mamoa, do that?
Oh, my God.
I'm going to think of some good.
Do you know this would be fun to be in?
You know what I mean?
I'm going to think of something good.
You're Paul Bunyan.
I could be the blue ox, bro.
You could be Paul Bunyan.
I don't know.
Babe.
I'll be babe.
Yeah, you'll be babe the blue ox then.
And we got to find somebody to be Paul Bunyan.
I'm going to be the brother that's on methadone.
But we'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out.
Jason Mamoa, thanks so much, man.
Go see the wrecking crew, guys.
Now I'm just floating on the breeze.
And I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
I must be cornerstone.
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.