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The life of Matthew McConaughey
Brut America
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3/25/2025
A romcom heartthrob, a proud Texan, and a soon-to-be candidate for governor...?
This is the life of Matthew McConaughey.
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All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
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♪♪
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I saw two films before I was 18 years old,
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Orca and King Kong.
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The idea of doing this for a living
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was not even in the vernacular of my dreams
00:26
until I was 19.
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And I had a friend suggest it to me,
00:32
but I didn't think it was a possible reality
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for a working way to a job.
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I got my first job in Austin, Texas
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on a film called Dazed and Confused.
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Woo-hoo!
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All right.
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01:26
Say, man, you got a joint?
01:30
Uh, no, not on me, man.
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It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
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If I have any rule or any strategy,
01:43
it's try to do things different.
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Try to surprise myself, go over here,
01:47
and let's accent that side of my own personality.
01:49
Let's mix it up.
01:51
I would like a broad, interesting library
01:53
of great Americans
01:55
at the end of my career, you know?
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02:01
I lived on the road.
02:03
I was living in an Airstream,
02:05
traveling across America.
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02:31
I mean, I guess that's how I got it, you know?
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I mean, just keep doing it.
02:35
I don't know, you know?
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I kind of keep laughing along the way.
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Kind of sure helps.
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♪♪
02:51
Calling all students!
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Coming to the Just Keep Living program
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can provide so many first-time experiences
02:58
and be something that you can carry on
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throughout your life after high school.
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Learn nutrition, learn exercise,
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learn good life choices.
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And we've got attendance raising.
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The kids that are in our curriculum,
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their attendance is getting better
03:13
in the real school that they're in.
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♪♪
03:25
You guys see a lot of lawbreakers
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up in this house.
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I almost said McComasants.
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I thought that was a good play on words.
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Somewhat deliberate.
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There was a time over two years ago
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where I was receiving romantic comedies,
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I was receiving action adventures,
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that I said two things.
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I said, one, I feel like I've done that before.
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Then two, I was looking at some of them going,
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well, I like it, but I could do it tomorrow.
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And I said, you know what, I don't want to do something
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I feel like I could do tomorrow.
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I want to do something where I go, whoa,
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that turns me on, but I don't have the answer.
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Go to work and figure out who this guy is.
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♪♪
04:11
You look great.
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Honestly, I look amazing.
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04:17
I had a sensational year of acting.
04:20
I did this film, Dallas Buyers Club.
04:24
Not an easy film to find,
04:28
not an easy story to find.
04:30
They do not come across our desk that often.
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And as a bunch of us know, if they do come across our desk,
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it's even harder to get the damn thing made.
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♪♪
04:52
That's a big bull.
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♪♪
05:19
We are Cooking Barbecue,
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and we are delivering barbecue
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to 20 different fire stations to different people.
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First responders that are responding to the fires
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that are going on in L.A. right now.
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♪♪
05:36
You know, they got that line,
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if you don't do politics, politics will do you.
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There's a lot of truth to that.
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And yeah, you could say a lot of things
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are heavily divided now.
05:45
I think it's a phase we're going through.
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And we'll come out the other side
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and we'll find our proverbial water line
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and see that, hey.
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But that's also part of democracy
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is the push and the pull from the so-called left and the right.
06:01
It's the push and the pull.
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There is a divide there to push.
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I'm preferably a little more aggressively centric.
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But we'll see where we come out
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and getting out to vote's the first step
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and doing something about it.
06:15
♪♪
06:19
You got an aye 24, aye 24.
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Aye 24.
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Oh!
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07:00
It's a true consideration.
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All right, all right, all right.
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