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The Joe Rogan Experience.
My dad eats a lot of salmon. He's big into salmon.
Yeah, but your dad's like 100 years old. He's doing great.
He's in 91. Did he just turn yesterday?
Yeah.
How badass is he? He's born on Memorial Day.
Bad motherfucker.
I know. I know. He almost...
Oh my gosh, this is a crazy story.
I don't know if you know this story, but...
He was about two seconds from being deployed to the Korean War.
And he was in a plane crash off San Francisco.
When he was 21 years old.
Wow.
He was in the Army.
And he was doing a flight somewhere.
He had done some like a training flight or something.
They said, oh, you need to hop on this thing.
And he said, okay, cool. Last minute, I'll go do it.
He was in a plane crash.
The crash landed outside of San Francisco Bay.
And because he ultimately ended up there.
I think one person died.
Him and the pilot or co-pilot, I can't remember,
had to swim to shore, like at night.
Jesus Christ.
Over two miles, I want to say something crazy.
And, you know, there's tons of sharks,
tons of shit out there in San Francisco.
And this was, you know, 1950.
So at the time, my grandmother,
they had told him, they had told my grandmother
that he had gone down in a plane crash.
I thought he thought they, she thought he was dead.
And there was no cell phones.
There was no social media.
There was no anything.
It took a week for him by the time he got back
and he got back to the thing to be able to call her.
After, I don't know, maybe I had to go to the hospital.
I can't remember, for him to be able to call his mother
and say, hey, I'm alive.
Wow.
And that is what kept him from going to the Korean War
because he was supposed to be deployed.
But because he was in this plane crash,
he had to stay and testify and do the whole,
do this whole thing.
And that they had just deployed without him.
Wow.
Isn't that crazy how one moment in time
can change the whole course of someone's life?
Yeah, and a moment that's completely out of your control.
There's these weird, like, sort of pathways
that you come to in life, gateways.
And you go left, and you're okay.
You go right, and the trip ends.
Trip's over.
Yeah.
My dad was born in 1930.
That's crazy.
Before World War II.
That's crazy.
Which is nuts.
What is it like talking to him?
First of all, what is it like being Clint Eastwood's son
and also being a movie star yourself?
That's got to be weird.
It's, well, look, I'm stumbling through it
just like anyone else in life.
You know, you're just, you're trying,
you're taking the information you have,
trying to make the best decisions at the time.
Speaking to my dad,
it's like there's a wealth of knowledge and fork knocks,
and you're trying to just like pull little slivers out
when you speak to him.
Because you, he'll just say things casually, like,
yeah.
And everyone shuts the fuck up like at dinner, you know,
you know, finally you'll know he's able to say something.
And then he'll say, yeah, well, that was, you know,
back in the 60s, I was with Frank Sinatra at that place at the time.
Oh, yeah, we did, we met her in the thing.
And you go, wait, what?
Did you just say you were with Frank Sinatra?
Like, wait, hold on, stop, stop, like, more, more, give us more,
and then he'll, he'll be on to something else,
and you know, you can't get it out of him.
But it's like, he's just lived this incredible life.
Incredible.
Incredible.
So it's, you know, I'm trying to, right now,
I'm trying to just soak up every piece of knowledge I can from him,
listen to him, sit with him as much as possible.
So I know he's not going to be around forever,
and that's, that's terrifying, you know, to think about.
But it's, it's like, oh, man, this is,
I got to, like, spend every moment I can.
Does he exercise?
Yeah.
He's super active.
Obviously, he's 91, so.
How old are you?
35.
So he had you way late in life.
But he had three kids after me.
Whoa.
What's the youngest?
The youngest is two.
20.
20?
He has had some younger, younger wives.
He has a 20-year-old kid?
Yeah, 23.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
Shooting live rounds deep, deep, deep into his 60s.
Machine gun rounds.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That was that newscaster lady, right?
Was that her?
It was.
It was, yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
She's great, actually.
She was great.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
He had a few younger ladies around.
He's such a throwback.
Yeah.
He really is.
You know?
And what's interesting, though, is what people think about him.
They think they see this bigger-than-life character, but he's so much more
complex than what you see in the movies he's in.
He's, there's a lot of nuance.
It's like humans, you know?
It's like, I'm sure.
All humans.
People would think about you just because of whatever, and they're like, oh,
well, he's just this thing.
It's like, they don't know about your personal life.
They don't know about how you are with your kids, how you are, you know, how
you think, you know, esoterically about things.
And, you know, when you're speaking to your wife, like, he's, like, much
different than just that.
He's got a lot of shades, and he's very, I think, middle of the road.
A lot of things, he looks at issues and says, well, this is that, and this is
that, and maybe there's a middle ground, and I don't know, you know?
Well, there's always this urge to dismiss people, any person.
You have this reductionist perspective of who that person is, and it's hard to
just go, to just be curious.
And it's just to say, huh, like, abandon all your preconceived notions and go,
imagine, imagine being that guy.
Like, imagine being Clint Eastwood.
Yeah.
You know?
Imagine being.
Lived a lot of lives.
Lived, like.
A lot of lives.
Lived a lot of lives.
Did you ever talk to him about what it was like to be the mayor of Carmel?
He was the mayor when I was a young kid.
I was, you know, a few years old.
I think he had his fill of politics.
That was it.
Because they asked him.
They were kind of like, well, you know, you've been the mayor now.
Why don't you, you know, go for governor?
You know?
And he's like, nah, this shit ain't for me.
Just gave it a shot.
Yeah, it was, you know, I think it was good.
It was, he did what he did.
But, you know, you can never please everybody.
Everyone's, there's always someone pissed off.
There's always some conflicting point of view.
Always.
So.
Did you ever talk to him about that time that he pretended Obama was sitting
next to him?
And then he was on the podium.
That was bizarre.
And it was.
It's like impromptu.
You know, like he just like was winging it.
He was winging it.
Yeah.
Yeah, he was doing a bit.
He was working.
Crazy thing to do.
On TV, live.
I mean, you do the same thing more or less.
Yeah, but I do it in comedy clubs.
And everybody knows what I'm doing.
But what's the difference, right?
It's like you go out, you practice material.
You're working material out.
Right.
It's like, you know.
There's, you're getting up in front of people doing something.
It's, it's, it's like we call it different because it's like, oh, that was that
thing.
But.
But I guarantee you Obama would not have said the things that he thought Obama
would have said.
Obama would have probably had some pretty nuanced perspectives himself.
Sure.
Yeah.
You know, like again, same sort of thing that people wanted to do to him or
want to do to
other folks.
Like he was kind of doing it to Obama.
Look, maybe he didn't work out his material.
No, I'm sure he didn't, but it's a, it was a bold choice.
I was like, wow, how bad-ass is Clint Eastwood?
And Richard Pryor did that too.
If you go back and listen to Richard Pryor's old cassettes, there's like, there's
some of
them that are available from the Red Fox comedy club and you could find them
online.
But I bought them from a gas station one day in like the nineties, these
cassette tapes.
And they were all like him at Red Fox's comedy club.
And it was just him.
Like you could hear drinks clinking.
You could hear things in the background and ice and shit and you could hear
people talking
and it was just like a small crowd where he was just fucking around.
And that's where a lot of like his most brilliant bits came from.
Interesting.
So it's similar to what your dad was doing, but different.
Hey, look, I don't, I don't pretend to speak for him.
That's, you know, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
He's Clint Eastwood, you know?
And you know what, one of the things I love your dad did unforgiven because
like he went
back and made like this, I mean, he did, obviously he did all those great
spaghetti Westerns,
all those amazing, and they call them spaghetti Westerns for people who don't
know because
they did them in Italy.
That's right.
Yeah.
And so he did all these American Western films, but they were all done in Italy
and they were
all like, people didn't think those were going to be like real successful at
the time.
Right.
Yeah.
He, he was coming off a show called Rawhide.
If you remember that show.
Rawhide.
Rolling, rolling, rolling.
Rawhide.
And, and he was actually sick of doing Westerns at the time because he was like
been known for
seven years and he got an offer to do this spaghetti Western.
It was like in Italy.
He was like, I don't know.
You know, what should I do?
It's like, I want to go to Italy.
Eh, never been there.
Okay.
Pretty good.
It goes out there and he works with Sergio Leone and crazy story.
He comes back.
Actually, I think he might've done all three or he came back and did one and he
came back
and people started talking about this movie, but it was the movie he had done.
He known was in Italian.
So it was like per uno dollar, por, you know, por dos dollars.
And so he was like, people were saying, you know, this is a great movie.
You know, it's a fistful of dollars or whatever it was.
And, uh, he's like, oh, that's cool.
I want to go check it out.
No one, no one even knew.
No, no, no.
He didn't even know.
He didn't know.
He didn't know.
It was his movie that was catching fire in America.
And so he's like, oh, I got to go check this movie.
He realized it's his movie that had caught fire in this overnight sensation.
And then, yeah, he just kind of just, I don't know, fell into doing those
movies.
Did a few of them.
And then he did his own.
Then he started directing and doing his own Westerns.
But bringing it back to Unforgiven, what's really, I think, most interesting
about that film is that it is an amalgamation.
It's the whole history of his Westerns, but really looking back as what would
it be like to be an older man and having regret, having things he did wrong,
you know, looking back.
And so it's kind of using the history that he had created and talking about,
you know, what it's like to look back at life and, you know, one last ride to
do things different for his family.
So there's like a lot going into that movie.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, it was a much more sober and realistic depiction of like a killer in the
West.
Yeah.
You know?
Like being paid.
Yeah.
You know, probably not that much money, but like, hey, like we need this person
dead.
Yeah.
And you're the man to go do it.
And it's like.
Also, there was a much more realistic depiction of the way some people react to
the idea that they're about to be killed.
Yeah.
Or that they're going to have to kill someone or they're going to be in a gunfight
where they might, they might die.
That's a fucking great movie, man.
It was almost like he wanted in my, the way I felt to me is like he had all
these amazing Westerns that he did.
But then there was this one is like, you know, you know what?
Let me do a real one.
Like, let me go back and make this fucking thing where it.
He sat on that script for 10, almost 10 years.
Wow.
Before he made it.
Yeah.
He was like, this is an amazing, I don't think I'm old enough yet.
Oh.
Wisdom.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
You know what else?
I love High Plains Drifter.
Yeah.
I watch that one every couple of years.
That's a good one.
That's a fucking great one.
I like Outlaw Josie Wales.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Fucking love that.
Love that movie.
That's a great one.
Yeah.
That's a great one.
But there's something about High Plains Drifter that's like a ghost movie.
And you don't realize it.
It is.
You don't realize it.
It's like there's a supernatural element to it.
Yeah.
You're like, what is happening here?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I forget about that one.
Fuck.
It's one of my favorites.
Yeah.
Your dad made some goddamn classics.
And then he also made some comedies.
You know?
Every Which Way But Loose.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, what a crazy career.
That's one I think they should remake.
Ha-ha.
With who?
How about you?
Maybe.
Would you do it?
That would be weird.
Why not?
Could you imagine, though?
Why not?
Bring it on.
You know?
Yeah.
Big old orangutan.
I don't want to fuck around with orangutans, bro.
You just piss it off for the wrong reason.
It rips your hand off.
Stuffs it up your ass.
They're dangerous.
They're so dangerous.
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Scott Eastwood Talks About His Dad, Clint Eastwood

The Joe Rogan Experience.
My dad eats a lot of salmon. He's big into salmon.
Yeah, but your dad's like 100 years old. He's doing great.
He's in 91. Did he just turn yesterday?
Yeah.
How badass is he? He's born on Memorial Day.
Bad motherfucker.
I know. I know. He almost...
Oh my gosh, this is a crazy story.
I don't know if you know this story, but...
He was about two seconds from being deployed to the Korean War.
And he was in a plane crash off San Francisco.
When he was 21 years old.
Wow.
He was in the Army.
And he was doing a flight somewhere.
He had done some like a training flight or something.
They said, oh, you need to hop on this thing.
And he said, okay, cool. Last minute, I'll go do it.
He was in a plane crash.
The crash landed outside of San Francisco Bay.
And because he ultimately ended up there.
I think one person died.
Him and the pilot or co-pilot, I can't remember,
had to swim to shore, like at night.
Jesus Christ.
Over two miles, I want to say something crazy.
And, you know, there's tons of sharks,
tons of shit out there in San Francisco.
And this was, you know, 1950.
So at the time, my grandmother,
they had told him, they had told my grandmother
that he had gone down in a plane crash.
I thought he thought they, she thought he was dead.
And there was no cell phones.
There was no social media.
There was no anything.
It took a week for him by the time he got back
and he got back to the thing to be able to call her.
After, I don't know, maybe I had to go to the hospital.
I can't remember, for him to be able to call his mother
and say, hey, I'm alive.
Wow.
And that is what kept him from going to the Korean War
because he was supposed to be deployed.
But because he was in this plane crash,
he had to stay and testify and do the whole,
do this whole thing.
And that they had just deployed without him.
Wow.
Isn't that crazy how one moment in time
can change the whole course of someone's life?
Yeah, and a moment that's completely out of your control.
There's these weird, like, sort of pathways
that you come to in life, gateways.
And you go left, and you're okay.
You go right, and the trip ends.
Trip's over.
Yeah.
My dad was born in 1930.
That's crazy.
Before World War II.
That's crazy.
Which is nuts.
What is it like talking to him?
First of all, what is it like being Clint Eastwood's son
and also being a movie star yourself?
That's got to be weird.
It's, well, look, I'm stumbling through it
just like anyone else in life.
You know, you're just, you're trying,
you're taking the information you have,
trying to make the best decisions at the time.
Speaking to my dad,
it's like there's a wealth of knowledge and fork knocks,
and you're trying to just like pull little slivers out
when you speak to him.
Because you, he'll just say things casually, like,
yeah.
And everyone shuts the fuck up like at dinner, you know,
you know, finally you'll know he's able to say something.
And then he'll say, yeah, well, that was, you know,
back in the 60s, I was with Frank Sinatra at that place at the time.
Oh, yeah, we did, we met her in the thing.
And you go, wait, what?
Did you just say you were with Frank Sinatra?
Like, wait, hold on, stop, stop, like, more, more, give us more,
and then he'll, he'll be on to something else,
and you know, you can't get it out of him.
But it's like, he's just lived this incredible life.
Incredible.
Incredible.
So it's, you know, I'm trying to, right now,
I'm trying to just soak up every piece of knowledge I can from him,
listen to him, sit with him as much as possible.
So I know he's not going to be around forever,
and that's, that's terrifying, you know, to think about.
But it's, it's like, oh, man, this is,
I got to, like, spend every moment I can.
Does he exercise?
Yeah.
He's super active.
Obviously, he's 91, so.
How old are you?
35.
So he had you way late in life.
But he had three kids after me.
Whoa.
What's the youngest?
The youngest is two.
20.
20?
He has had some younger, younger wives.
He has a 20-year-old kid?
Yeah, 23.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
Shooting live rounds deep, deep, deep into his 60s.
Machine gun rounds.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That was that newscaster lady, right?
Was that her?
It was.
It was, yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
She's great, actually.
She was great.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
He had a few younger ladies around.
He's such a throwback.
Yeah.
He really is.
You know?
And what's interesting, though, is what people think about him.
They think they see this bigger-than-life character, but he's so much more
complex than what you see in the movies he's in.
He's, there's a lot of nuance.
It's like humans, you know?
It's like, I'm sure.
All humans.
People would think about you just because of whatever, and they're like, oh,
well, he's just this thing.
It's like, they don't know about your personal life.
They don't know about how you are with your kids, how you are, you know, how
you think, you know, esoterically about things.
And, you know, when you're speaking to your wife, like, he's, like, much
different than just that.
He's got a lot of shades, and he's very, I think, middle of the road.
A lot of things, he looks at issues and says, well, this is that, and this is
that, and maybe there's a middle ground, and I don't know, you know?
Well, there's always this urge to dismiss people, any person.
You have this reductionist perspective of who that person is, and it's hard to
just go, to just be curious.
And it's just to say, huh, like, abandon all your preconceived notions and go,
imagine, imagine being that guy.
Like, imagine being Clint Eastwood.
Yeah.
You know?
Imagine being.
Lived a lot of lives.
Lived, like.
A lot of lives.
Lived a lot of lives.
Did you ever talk to him about what it was like to be the mayor of Carmel?
He was the mayor when I was a young kid.
I was, you know, a few years old.
I think he had his fill of politics.
That was it.
Because they asked him.
They were kind of like, well, you know, you've been the mayor now.
Why don't you, you know, go for governor?
You know?
And he's like, nah, this shit ain't for me.
Just gave it a shot.
Yeah, it was, you know, I think it was good.
It was, he did what he did.
But, you know, you can never please everybody.
Everyone's, there's always someone pissed off.
There's always some conflicting point of view.
Always.
So.
Did you ever talk to him about that time that he pretended Obama was sitting
next to him?
And then he was on the podium.
That was bizarre.
And it was.
It's like impromptu.
You know, like he just like was winging it.
He was winging it.
Yeah.
Yeah, he was doing a bit.
He was working.
Crazy thing to do.
On TV, live.
I mean, you do the same thing more or less.
Yeah, but I do it in comedy clubs.
And everybody knows what I'm doing.
But what's the difference, right?
It's like you go out, you practice material.
You're working material out.
Right.
It's like, you know.
There's, you're getting up in front of people doing something.
It's, it's, it's like we call it different because it's like, oh, that was that
thing.
But.
But I guarantee you Obama would not have said the things that he thought Obama
would have said.
Obama would have probably had some pretty nuanced perspectives himself.
Sure.
Yeah.
You know, like again, same sort of thing that people wanted to do to him or
want to do to
other folks.
Like he was kind of doing it to Obama.
Look, maybe he didn't work out his material.
No, I'm sure he didn't, but it's a, it was a bold choice.
I was like, wow, how bad-ass is Clint Eastwood?
And Richard Pryor did that too.
If you go back and listen to Richard Pryor's old cassettes, there's like, there's
some of
them that are available from the Red Fox comedy club and you could find them
online.
But I bought them from a gas station one day in like the nineties, these
cassette tapes.
And they were all like him at Red Fox's comedy club.
And it was just him.
Like you could hear drinks clinking.
You could hear things in the background and ice and shit and you could hear
people talking
and it was just like a small crowd where he was just fucking around.
And that's where a lot of like his most brilliant bits came from.
Interesting.
So it's similar to what your dad was doing, but different.
Hey, look, I don't, I don't pretend to speak for him.
That's, you know, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
He's Clint Eastwood, you know?
And you know what, one of the things I love your dad did unforgiven because
like he went
back and made like this, I mean, he did, obviously he did all those great
spaghetti Westerns,
all those amazing, and they call them spaghetti Westerns for people who don't
know because
they did them in Italy.
That's right.
Yeah.
And so he did all these American Western films, but they were all done in Italy
and they were
all like, people didn't think those were going to be like real successful at
the time.
Right.
Yeah.
He, he was coming off a show called Rawhide.
If you remember that show.
Rawhide.
Rolling, rolling, rolling.
Rawhide.
And, and he was actually sick of doing Westerns at the time because he was like
been known for
seven years and he got an offer to do this spaghetti Western.
It was like in Italy.
He was like, I don't know.
You know, what should I do?
It's like, I want to go to Italy.
Eh, never been there.
Okay.
Pretty good.
It goes out there and he works with Sergio Leone and crazy story.
He comes back.
Actually, I think he might've done all three or he came back and did one and he
came back
and people started talking about this movie, but it was the movie he had done.
He known was in Italian.
So it was like per uno dollar, por, you know, por dos dollars.
And so he was like, people were saying, you know, this is a great movie.
You know, it's a fistful of dollars or whatever it was.
And, uh, he's like, oh, that's cool.
I want to go check it out.
No one, no one even knew.
No, no, no.
He didn't even know.
He didn't know.
He didn't know.
It was his movie that was catching fire in America.
And so he's like, oh, I got to go check this movie.
He realized it's his movie that had caught fire in this overnight sensation.
And then, yeah, he just kind of just, I don't know, fell into doing those
movies.
Did a few of them.
And then he did his own.
Then he started directing and doing his own Westerns.
But bringing it back to Unforgiven, what's really, I think, most interesting
about that film is that it is an amalgamation.
It's the whole history of his Westerns, but really looking back as what would
it be like to be an older man and having regret, having things he did wrong,
you know, looking back.
And so it's kind of using the history that he had created and talking about,
you know, what it's like to look back at life and, you know, one last ride to
do things different for his family.
So there's like a lot going into that movie.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, it was a much more sober and realistic depiction of like a killer in the
West.
Yeah.
You know?
Like being paid.
Yeah.
You know, probably not that much money, but like, hey, like we need this person
dead.
Yeah.
And you're the man to go do it.
And it's like.
Also, there was a much more realistic depiction of the way some people react to
the idea that they're about to be killed.
Yeah.
Or that they're going to have to kill someone or they're going to be in a gunfight
where they might, they might die.
That's a fucking great movie, man.
It was almost like he wanted in my, the way I felt to me is like he had all
these amazing Westerns that he did.
But then there was this one is like, you know, you know what?
Let me do a real one.
Like, let me go back and make this fucking thing where it.
He sat on that script for 10, almost 10 years.
Wow.
Before he made it.
Yeah.
He was like, this is an amazing, I don't think I'm old enough yet.
Oh.
Wisdom.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
You know what else?
I love High Plains Drifter.
Yeah.
I watch that one every couple of years.
That's a good one.
That's a fucking great one.
I like Outlaw Josie Wales.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Fucking love t