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Scott Glenn

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“And what he said was make so much sense. We spend so much of our time looking at cell phones and computers and driving and doing so much stuff like that or like that.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Russian special ops do it in the morning. Use your legs first five time with each leg lying on your back with your arms over your head. Use your legs to turn yourself over the way a baby would, and then you use your arms to do the same thing five times, five times. Then you rock back and forth. I do it 20 times. Do with your neck. I do ten times usually. And then a low crawl. And a bear crawl, you can either do a bear crawl with your butt up in the air or your butt lower than your shoulders. I do it lower than my shoulders.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm not uncomfortable at all. But, you know, I know other people who handle the cold way better than I do. But the humming, you know, who does that? Buddhist monks do that in the Himalayas, and they do that in way colder weather with robes on. It actually will work if you can do it in a relaxed way. You know, you start to learn sort of to anchor your coccyx humback and then take a shitload of vitamins and minerals and crap like that. Probably most of which I don't need, but I do it anyway. And then make the bed upstairs. Always make the bed. And then I do something physical to finish waking up. Today it was baby fit. You know baby fit?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I slip on these slip on shoes because this time of year I'll probably be standing in snow and ice. And I open up the garage and I walk outside and I hum. And when I say I hum, any of us can do it easily. You put your back teeth together and I do that eight times and put vibration in my vagus nerve. This is every morning for sure. And then I come back in, shut the garage door, and usually then I look at what the temperature was because I think, whoa, that was pretty cool. This morning it was 14.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes So, after I finished tapping, I wash my hands, blow my nose, walk outside, and I'm dressed usually like this. Usually I've got a lighter shirt on.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Horizontal breathing and then drop it down low so that you're feeling the diaphragm. That's all. So I do that after the ear massage I tap my head, brain tap it.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you're not bringing anything into the top of your chest at all. That's horizontal breathing. Vertical breathing is where you see the shoulders going up. And we vertically breathe way, way too much because what vertical breathing will do, aside from the fact that you're not taking in as much oxygen, is it will put tension into your upper body and lower body. It'll also jack you into a fight or flight situation. So if you do that at a stoplight because somebody got in your way, that's really a bad idea because you're going to jack up your heart rate, you're going to jack up your blood pressure. You're going to screw with your central nervous system. So I just probably early in the morning try to remind myself.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, there are two kinds of breathing that most people, like most Americans, do improperly after the age of, I don't know, two or three. One is we're born breathing horizontally, which means if I say in a big breath of air, your stomach goes out, your diaphragm is working”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always wake up the same way. I wake up. I didn't today. Oh, I slept in. But normally, I wake up around 5.30. I slept till 7 today. I don't know why, but I come downstairs. I fill up the coffee machine with water, turn it on, clean up the surfaces of all the tables, just because it feels like a good thing to do. And then I massage my ears, pull them up as high as possible. I'm not talking about being gentle, not gentle at all. Pull them down and then massage my ears and if I feel any even slightly tender sore spot, I really go after that as hard as I can. I learned this in a tight she seminar years ago in New York, and I've done it ever since. But anyway, super strong ear massage Then after that, and while I'm doing all this stuff, I'm thinking, I'm making sure that my breath is horizontal and low.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Crags, all of that stuff I found out was really fun and put a smile on my face. And I don't think if I had never gotten Scarlet Fever, I don't know that that would have ever had. I don't know. It did happen. And now I'm 85 and here it is”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or it led me into having discoveries that I wouldn't have had before. Like when I got out of bed from Scarlet Fever, I could take my finger literally and run it in and out of my rib cage. My bodes were soft, so I limped. I grew up in a neighborhood that was very physical. So out of mortification, if there was a pickup football game, I played. But what I discovered from playing sports and stuff wasn't that I was so good at it, but I actually liked it a lot. I loved physicality. Before I got scarlet fever, all my friends were girls. I'd much rather talk about flower arrangements than the NFL. And to some extent, that's still true of me. So Scarlet Fever just introduced me to a different world that I really loved. Marine Corps did too. All of those things, rock climbing with Tony Jones up in the Big Horn.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he said, The good news, Scott, is this is not age related. The bad news is you've been suffering this for at least 40 years. My suspicion is longer. So that was scarlet fever.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they don't know why it does that, but they were trying to protect my eyesight, which turns out to be really good. What Scarlet Fever left me out with was damaged auditory nerves. I mean, I've got hearing aids in now because Carol finally was up here probably five, six years ago. She just got tired of screaming at me and having me walk into the room and turn the TV up ear splitting loud. She said, you got to get hearing aids. Didn't think I needed them, and then I got checked by the audiologist who went behind my back to talk to me, and what happened was he was talking to me, I'm looking at him, and I'm hearing him fine. He walks behind me and I can't hear him, and he told me he said that's because you read lips. I thought, no, I don't read lips. He said, oh, yeah, you do.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who needed the permission of a part to go nuts, to do whatever it was. And Marlon was saying the same thing about himself.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This couple came in to check into the hotel, Filipino couple, and they had two little girls with them. One was holding her mom's dress hiding behind it, the other one, and I think it was satisfaction was playing on the jukebox. The other little girl heard this song, and she came dancing into the place where we were all sitting around, sort of miming to satisfaction. And she was magical. And people were laughing and finally her parents checked in and they all laughed and went upstairs. One of the producers, I think, was a Gray Fredericks said about the little girl who was in Danche. He said, God, that little girl was magical. Someday, that little girl will be a great actress. And Marlon said, great actress? And he said, yeah, and Marlon said, you're wrong. It's the other one. They didn't get it, but I immediately understood because that other little girl doing like this was me.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he would do anything, and I learned from him that part. But I also got from Marlon his understanding about, okay, so brief little story. Where we were in the Philippines was at a place called Paksin Han. And I had a room at Paksan Hann that I basically kept all my crap in. I was living at the time with this group of people called the Ifaga.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if something makes me angry about getting on a subway and I'm playing somebody who's angry about not being left money in a will, the audience doesn't know where that anger comes from. So use the subway because you're not in the other. So Marlon had the reputation of being mainly, if not 100%, the Russian school. I realize around him he was whatever worked. Sometimes he would take a mirror, make an expression on the mirror freezing, say action. At other times, he would say, how are they lighting this scene? And they would say, is there a way I can put this ear in the dark so you don't see it? Yeah, but what are you going to do? And he put a sound plug in his ear and play not his lines, but the stuff he wanted to cover in improvisation so he wouldn't miss stuff.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Technique acting, most of what you still see. Then there's the Russian school, which is Stanislavsky, Boloslovsky, and that is you begin with the inside of the character. Does this person share my same the way I look at life, philosophy, all that stuff? What emotions are really mine that are also this character's? And if they're not the same, can one be replaced with the other?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What do you meant by that was I was trying to squeeze something out of a moment rather than seeing what the moment was going to present to me. And what I learned from watching him was because he had this reputation of being, okay, there are two basic schools of acting that even to this day that when you watch people work and you know which one they're coming from, one is Rata, really great bread actors all have this, which is technique. You get down the accent and the physical characteristics and the wardrobe and the makeup and the dealing with props and get the whole outside perfect and then do the part. That's Ra.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Supported two villages in the Philippines with all his pay and wouldn't let anybody write about it. It's not in the movie. But there's one point where I killed Dennis Hopper. And I was working on the scene and Marlon came over to me. He said, Scott, just because they call it acting doesn't mean you have to act. Okay.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dissolve and then finally disappear. So, what I had with that movie was finally just wound up being with the crew as my very small audience every single take was a one act play called now.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Script. I was in 96 of the pages. So there's no way I couldn't even memorize. I was just hoped that the words would come to me. And what I happened on with that was I realized that what gives in my mind what gives performances on film their juice or electricity is their degree of spontaneity. And complete spontaneity, and I got this from Brian Enos as well about shooting, complete spontaneity is not watching yourself at all. And please spontaneity is being in the now so completely that you really don't have a past and more importantly way more importantly, I think, with acting is you don't have a future, which means plans on what you're going to do in the scene.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to stay out of the way of this because it feels so good and so fresh and I'm lazy too. I mean, it's taking care of me. Why should I work my ass off when the best stuff is just leaving it alone? And then the next job I got after that was something called Eugene the Marine, which is this low budget thriller that will be coming out sometime in the next year. And with that, I realized from the get-go, just stay out of the way, both because the director was going to let me do whatever I really wanted. I would make the physical. I was supposed to pick up a drill and draw a hole in the wall, I'd do that. But how I was going to do it, whether it was going to be the same again and again, whether it would match, I wasn't even going to not even think about that a little bit. To a great extent because I am lazy. And in the part that I was doing in Eugene the Marine was beyond the lead. It was in a 98-page page.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it felt like it was just taking me, Vince said, okay, we know the scene, Scott, will you be cool with just throwing the script out and just winging that scene what we just did just completely open-ended loose? And I went, you mean like I used to do in street theater? Shit, yes. And after we did that, I just thought I'm not going to edit myself or this character that I'm playing because of a key that kind of something that I signed up for a breathing thing with this guy, Erwan Lacour. At any rate, I just realized after that day with Vince and the key that I had to play in the character.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do not make editorial decisions or try to work for that big moment I had a manager used to, his term was having the conversation with Oscar. Have no conversations with Emmy or Oscar. Just stay out of the way of this and let it happen. So that was when I really understood being in that spot as an actor. And then it happened to me again with Vince Vaughan doing a series that hasn't come out yet, the first season. I don't know if there'll be a second season. The first season will be around August. It's called Bad Monkey. It stars Vince. And the first day on the set working with Vince, we did, I play his dad, and the character is a shaman. Who talks to manatees?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Artists wait whole lifetimes to be able to have this experience. And if I could have this experience again, fuck no, I don't want to do it. I do not. And she said, what if I'm not getting what I want? I said, let's do another take. We'll just do one take after another. She said, it'll wipe you out. It'll exhaust you. Three or four more takes of the whole thing, and at the end of it Mimi said, Is this what I'm going to be dealing with for the rest of this episode? And I went, not if you tell me not to. And she said, I'm not going to tell you not to. Let's just go for it. So we did that whole episode Crazy White Fella thinking, and all I would do in the morning when I would wake up, first in the outback and then later on in Melbourne, was I literally look in the mirror and I say stay out of the way.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She said, What do you remember about what you just did? And I went, Not much. She said, You're telling me that so much of you was in that scene there wasn't enough to step outside you weren't watching yourself at all. I went, no. And she said, If you can't direct yourself, I can't direct you. So would you be willing the next time we do this to have a little piece of you watching it so that when I talk about parts of that I want to change, we can talk to each other. And I said, Are you asking me as somebody who has this job and is being told by the director or as an artist? She said, what's the difference? And I said, the difference is I'm a blue collar, enlisted Marine. I know how to take orders. You're my boss. If you tell me to do it, I'll do it. But if as an artist, you're asking me, will I do it?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can you set it up so that I at least give me a shot at doing in one take? And she said, yeah, okay. I can do that. So he said, it's really, it's not a monologue in that it's not me talking to myself. I'm talking to Dava Gopal, but he doesn't say anything. So he just sits there and listens. So we start doing this scene and we come to the end of it. I hear action. I feel my key light a few times. I hear cut. And Mimi says, okay, that was first she said incorrectly, but I'll say it because I got a big ego. She said ladies and gentlemen, you just had a master's class enacted. She said, okay, so Scott. So when you picked up the tape recorder, And you started to play it, and you welled up, and you started to cry, and you wouldn't let yourself, and you put it back down, what did you do next? And I said, what did I do with the tape recorder?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Remember it as you get near the end and you become more and more comfortable and more and more comfortable. So we get down to Carol and I get to Australia, we go to the Outback, and we're going to do this scene. It's the first one we're going to do. And so Mimi says, we'll do this in bits and pieces because this is seven pages. There's no way you can do the whole thing in one. And I said, you know what, Mimi?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'm reading, don't shoot the dog. And the section I'm reading is where she says positive reinforcement can help you train your dog, your husband or your wife, your friends, even yourself. For example, if you got something wrong to memorize, and I'm thinking, holy shit, here's my... So what she said in that was it'll take longer initially, but it's the perfect way to memorize something really long. Start at the end. The last sentence and then the last sentence and the next last sentence and then like that. Because what will happen when you get to the beginning of this thing and you launch into it for real as you're getting towards the end, it'll become more and more familiar. It'll be like walking home. Wait a minute. I know this street lamp. Okay, I know where I am at.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The longest monologue I've ever written. I'm so lucky. So I said, was it two pages long? He said, no, seven. I said, holy shit, seven pages. And he sent it to me. At the time he sent it to me, I was reading this book. I know you've got a dog. I'm going to ask you about your dog. Sure. But I was reading this book called Don't Shoot the Dog.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The next performance I didn't make any decisions about what I would do, what prop I would pick up, anything. Well, let's see what's going on here. Going to live in this space. I know that I am this character. I even told Tracy, I said, I know other people have played this part at Steppenwolf, where it started in Chicago, but you fucking wrote this for me. And I just know it in the way that I felt the same way about West Hightower and Urban Cowboys. So that was Killer Joe. The next time it happened, I was doing leftovers. And I had been in two seasons of the leftovers, and I'd gone from just being a character to Damon Lenloff calling me up with Mimi Later, the producer. She directed most of them. And Damon wrote it. And they said we want you to be a regular member of the cast. We're doing the last season in Australia. And I think the second or third episode is going to be just you, Scott. All just you in Australia. And I've written...”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tracy forced me into that spot. The best thing I could do at the play was just let it happen. Just let it happen. So that was Killer Joe.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So full frontal nudity, fine. But doing that oddly kind of after the first night of doing it was like, I don't know whether Liberate is the right word, but I realized that after that.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that was sort of the way the play worked. There was one scene at the very beginning of Act two where I'm supposed to walk. It's dark and this guy is trying to get in. He's drunk and he's trying to get in the front door. But I don't know who it is. And I've moved in at that point and I'm in bed with a young girl. So I come out in the dark, grab him, slam him down on the ground, and I've got a 45 automatic and I'm wearing a watch. When the lights come up, and then everybody else wonders on stage who's in the trailer My wardrobe is a forty five automatic and a watch. At one point Tracy Letz said Scott, when people walk on stage, all I see is your ass. You live at this place.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was the obligation of the person pulling me to kick if there is a chair or something that I was going to fuck up my back to kick it out of the way. The only place to kick it was the first aisle of the theater. So we told people when they came to see us play, this is a projectile aisle. You may not get a heavy object landing on your lap, or you may, if you for sure are going to be covered with fried chicken and ketchup and fake blood, there's no question, so don't wear suits that you care about. So anybody over the age of 25 avoided those seats, and the kids fought to get them.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Walking down the hallway off stage to take a leak. You did. So it was completely open like that. The only part that was choreographed originally was there was a big fight at the end and we brought it in a guy from the opera to choreograph the fight. And he choreographed a great fight scene, but it didn't look right next to how loose the rest of the play was. So we realized we had to improv the fight as well. Mercifully, the people in the cast had circus skills. We knew how to prat fall and stuff like that. But everybody got hurt doing. 15 minutes before half an hour, we come on stage and we say, okay, tonight, this chair's a breakaway. This will shatter. This is real. And the deal that we had was like if you came up behind me and grabbed the back of my hair and pulled me, I would fall backwards. But since I couldn't see what I was falling into,”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First time it happened was Urban Cowboy. I translated it wrong. I translated it as fear of leaving this character alone. The second time it happened was doing an off Broadway play called Killer Joe. And I just realized that up until one part of Killer Joe, it was a crazy play where we were allowed, the director realized that the acoustics were so good in the Soho Playhouse that we could turn our back on the audience and be heard. We could walk offstage and be heard. So he thought to make this really spontaneous and organic, I'm going to allow anyone to do whatever they want. There's not going to be any blocking at all. None. The whole thing took place in a trailer on the outskirts of Dallas. So if as a character, in the middle of a conversation, you felt like”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But mysticism says all of this is poetry to tell you from God how to live your life, how to be an honorable, just person, how to have a family, all of which I completely believe, absolutely. So to me Lao Tzu is the ultimate mystic because in my mind, what mystics and orthodoxy are looking essentially at doing the opposite thing. Orthodoxy is saying if I bow to Mecca or if I eat... Fish on Friday, or if I live kosher when I die, I'll be cool. My ego will be cool. I'll be fine. I will be fine. Mysticism tries to dissolve the ego altogether. Do I believe when I die, Scott Glenn will be around? No. But do I believe there's something in me that's a point of view that's a point of view of you two guys and the cloud outside and elk running? Yes, I do believe that.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Forget about banning books about LGBTQ or blacks or Latinos. You want to save orthodoxy, ban the teaching of these three following subjects, math, physics, chemistry. Because under the harsh light of science, orthodoxy doesn't work. Carbon dating says to the Bible, the Talmud and the Quran, all of which get kind of close to the same date as the age of the earth. Carbonating says, Yeah, you'll miss that one by only around one hundred seventy million years. Whoops, somebody lived in the belly of a whale. Well, two thousand years ago you look at something as big as whale, you save as possible. Biology says this thing can barely swallow anything bigger than a minnow. Guess what? It never happened. Whoops.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it's like Lao Tzu is the ultimate mystical. And for me, mystical, the mystical side of every religion is not the impractical. That's the practical side. The impractical side is orthodox that says, this is a whole other thing, and I'm just an actor and I'm not that bright. So I'm just saying this, but I believe that orthodoxy right now is under fire and diminishing quickly. It's in the rearview mirror. And people like Mike Johnson even complain about going to fundamentalist evangelical church and seeing less and less people in the pews. The reason for that, I believe, is because orthodoxy is not practical. Orthodoxy says take absolute for real the words that are written in these books. Well, if you want to save orthodoxy,”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They'd never been in one. Now I believe that that's not just true of that kind of stuff, but it's true of pretty much anything you do physically. If you have muscle memory, let your muscle memory alone. It'll do it so much faster and cleaner than you ever will. And for me, spiritually, that's what Lao Tzu is saying.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he wrote a book called Practical Shooting Beyond Fundamentals. And it's about when you enter the space of doing something, the less thought that can be involved and the more you're just present in the now, the better it will be. Dewey martial arts and boxing, wrestling, all that stuff. I just realized at a very young age that if I wanted something to work out well physically, the best thing I could possibly do is watch my body do it, not make any decisions at all. So, you know, if somebody does this, then you do that. I never bought that in martial arts, given where I grew up. I knew that wasn't true. Number one, if anybody who predicted what would happen in, let's say, a physical confrontation, if they were making the prediction, one thing for me was very clear about them.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It feels like an honest description of inner and outer truth the way I know it. It just resonates with me that, I mean, we can talk about this later on or not talk about it. You shoot, I know. Do you know who Brian Enos is?”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ever given me that answer to that question? He said, if you want to take this on, that way, I'm duty-bound to convert you. And then he kind of converted me. I was doing an off-Broadway play at the time, so he would go down, and when I would go to the shoe to learn about Judaism, he was a closet director. He would say, I want to come back on stage in two days. I want you to try this. Okay. I'm not going to say no to the guy. Abraham Ephraim Ben Avraham is my Jewish name.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, I think it's a book with a lot of wisdom, as is the Bible, as is the Quran. But if you're asking me of all that stuff, what resonates the most with me would be Lao Tsu is the way of life. He said, I'll find a rabbi that'll do it for you. I went, okay. I started walking out of the show. And he said, hey, wait a minute, turn around. So I did. And he said, you're not doing it for the Talmud. You're not doing it for her parents. Why do you want me to convert you? And I said, because I met this woman and I love her, and we want to travel, and I don't want to go anywhere in the world where somebody's pointed a gun at her and not at me for the same reason. Period. That's it. If there was no anti-Semitism, you and I wouldn't be having this talk. And he said, sit down. So I sat down and he said, after me, Olive Gimal Doth. And I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm converting you. And I said, well, you just told me you wouldn't. He said, Nobody has.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said I'm going with Carol. I want you to make me a met her. And I said, I want you to make me a Jew. And he said, schmuck a life for you. I'll tell her parents that I didn't and I won't do it. And I said, her parents don't have anything to do with. And he said, I'm a conservative rabbi. I don't really believe in conversions that much. What do you know about the Talmud? And I said, if a man teaches his son no trade, it is as if he taught him highway robbery. And he said, you've read the Talmud. And I said, some of it. And he said, do you accept it as the word of God? And I went, No, not really.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I had a friend, his name was Milton Badot, and I've lost touch with him. I don't even know if he's alive or dead, but he was a rabbi and a shul in the upper east side, New York, and he was a friend of mine. He had been a rabbi in a shul in Charleston, South Carolina. He'd been in some of the first bus sit-ins. He'd been in shootouts with a KKK. And I believe he dropped a couple of those. And he was my friend. He loved theater. And I went to see him and I said, I want you to make me a Jew.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he looked down at me, he said Make your mom cry you're going down and walked away. So the next time my mom wanted me to do something, if he even started to go, I said, okay, Mama”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Growing up in these dysfunctional events, I don't have any excuses. I grew up in the most functionally family, straight out love. My dad never hit me except for once in my life. I remember my mom wanted me to take this girl through a dance, junior high, and she was the daughter of a friend of hers. And I went, ooh, she was a little hefty, whatever. I didn't want to do it. And I said, no, I don't want to do it. And she said, please, I'm asking. I said, no. And my mom teared up and started going. My dad walked in the door and he said, why is your mom crying? I said, something I said. He walked over and hit me with an overcut and dropped me on my ass like wham. This was somebody who had never given me a spanking.”
2024-08-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT