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Health Update: Surgery + Chemo Hey guys, I had my 23rd chemo session 10 days ago and everything went wrong My vein couldn’t handle the meds anymore and it spread around the area. Long story short, haven’t slept for the past 10 days, suffering from an inner 3rd degree burn running through my left arm’s veins. Ranking this without a doubt as the worst thing that ever happened to me I thought i can push through the remaining 5 sessions but apparently i was wrong and my doctor said it’s time to install the port, a small device placed under the skin in my chest that is connected to a large vein near the heart, hence the surgery i had today 7 surgeries in 1 year is crazy but we keep pushing. I love you all 🤍 next step: 24th chemo session on Thursday

ft. Colin Farrell / @Variety

Colin Farrell says a Steven Spielberg movie exposed his own family problems and made him feel less alone “I remember I was horrified seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I was raised on Steven Spielberg films, and John Williams kind of raised me through his scores” “But in that film, and in a lot of his films, there was a central dysfunction of family dynamics” “The father of the family has a nervous breakdown. There was a certain aggression and tension and inevitable disassociation that came between him and his family” “I remember being shocked by that as a kid, because I was there to be entertained, and I was entertained, but there was also something very painful and truthful at the center of this big Steven Spielberg sci-fi film about aliens arriving on Planet Earth” “That’s why it worked, and that’s why it went in so deeply” “That was the first time I remember being shocked seeing elements of my own family life represented on the screen” “It didn’t have any definitive answers, but it was that thing of just feeling less alone” “I remember me as a kid and how less alone I felt by watching other lives be explored on a screen”

ft. @NotSoEasyMoney

Easy explains why listing memecoins would be EV negative for Robinhood's own users "I don't think Robinhood's chain is truthfully going to list a lot of memecoins. I just don't see Robinhood's chain listing memes" "I don't see the value out of Robinhood's chain coming out and listing memes on the Robinhood app in any capacity. It just doesn't feel like a real scenario. I don't see why Robinhood would go and list cash-cat:native. I don't think that that's like a logical move at all" "I think them listing a meme could actually be pretty EV negative for the user base, and that's really not what you want. You don't want the user base to go and blindly buy a bunch of sh*t from that" "The volume is great, it's great volume. It'll generate fees short term, it makes sense, sure" "But long term, them leaning more and more into memecoins could ultimately be bad for their general user base. I think that it's actually pretty negative in general for that user base, and I think that the users would be the ones that lose"

ft. Colin Farrell / @Variety

Colin Farrell says acting may be more truthful than real life because everyone walks around pretending “I’ve seen actors that I love go, ‘I just lie for a living’. I get it. It’s cute. I kind of want to say the same and take the piss out of it all” “But is it not potentially more truthful than the human experience that we have every day on the street?” “Every day on the street, not only myself, you walk around and we’re all pretending like we’re presenting to each other what we really are, and none of us, myself included, are” “We adopt these personas and moments, and we have one generalized persona that we’ve built up over the years. Whereas at least in the dramatic context, there’s an agreement with the audience. You go, ‘We’re doing a thing here’” “There’s an agreement with the audience that it’s artifice, but the hope is that at the center of this artifice, you will recognize some truth of your own experience” “You will recognize some joy, some hope, some fear, some loss, some grief - something that will just make you feel” “Because it’s one thing to be told you’re not alone. It’s another thing to see that you’re not alone”

ft. Colin Farrell / @Variety

Colin Farrell admits his addiction came from things he was too afraid to confront “I’ve had a history of addiction, and bits of depression and anxiety, and the whole smorgasbord of human frailties as well” “I didn’t feel clinically like, ‘I’m ready to do this now,’ [role of Brendan Reilly] or I have enough distance, because inevitably, you’re always drawing from your own personal experience” “But I didn’t feel like I was drawing from the experience I had with addiction, which was very particular at that time” “This was very different, because it’s the human beneath the addiction. The addiction is just a consequence of certain things unanswered, or certain uncertainties that are too fearful to even comprehend” “So you pretend that they’re not there, and you pretend that you have answers where you don’t have any business having an answer” “You just have to sit in the mystery and the uncertainty of it all, and sit with the agitation and the sorrow and the fear of that”

ft. Will Ferrell / @imopodcasts

Will Ferrell reveals his future wife confessed she still liked him then admitted she was dating someone else “She’s really nervous and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Once again, I’m telling you, we’re just friends. I blew it with her” “She sits down: ‘I just want to tell you, I still really like you.’ And of course I can’t play it cool. I go, ‘You’re not gonna believe this. I told my uncle, if there was anyone I would marry, it’s you’” “Then we didn’t know what to do. She drove me home, and I thought it was game on. I went in to give her a kiss and she gave me the cheek” “We were in this weird kind of thing where it was out there, but we were friends. And then she’s like, ‘By the way, I’m also dating someone right now’” “I was like, ‘Okay. Take back what I said.’ Then we saw each other when the season was over. She’s like, ‘By the way, I broke up with that guy, just so you know.’ Like, ‘Oh, good for you. So?’”

ft. @NotSoEasyMoney

Easy says Trump is manipulating the market with war headlines and he refuses to trade any of it "I don't wanna trade any of it. 'Cause what's gonna happen - let's talk about what's gonna happen. They're gonna get back into this situation where once again some bullsh*t happens" "All it takes is one announcement for them to pump the market again. It's just what they've been doing. They just continue to do it. Every single day they pull up, drop some bullsh*t, say some bullsh*t" "They say the strait is closed, stocks dump, oil pumps. Over and over and over and over"

ft. Will Ferrell / @imopodcasts

Will Ferrell admits he thought Elf could end his career two weeks into filming “We were developing this one movie about a human who was raised by elves at the North Pole. It was an amazing concept, but it needed a lot of work, and so we kind of rewrote the whole thing” “Two weeks into filming, I’m sitting in New York in my little tiny trailer - because that was one of my first bigger movies, but it was still a little tiny trailer - looking in the mirror dressed as Buddy the Elf in my yellow tights going, ‘What was I thinking?’” “Literally, ‘Buddy, this could be the end right here. This is either a home run or a complete strikeout, and people are gonna be like, what happened to the guy on SNL? He was pretty funny’” “I had no idea that we had lightning in a bottle, but we did”

ft. Will Ferrell / @imopodcasts

Will Ferrell reveals he brought a briefcase of fake money to his meeting with Lorne Michaels “I had read a story how Adam Sandler had done some crazy bit, had a five-minute meeting and was hired on the spot. And I thought, be free, be yourself and just be crazy” “My version of craziness was, I bought a whole bunch of fake money from a novelty store. I had a briefcase, and I was gonna let him talk and just start piling money on his desk” “I was like, ‘Lorne, we can keep talking till the cows come home, but we know what really talks: money. I’m going to stack this money up on your desk. No one’s going to know. You can take it or leave it. It’s up to you’” “Then I was going to pack up my thing and walk out. That was going to be my meeting” “I walk in there with my briefcase and the atmosphere is like: not that. What comedian walks in with a briefcase? I’ve got my little briefcase and I’m, ‘Okay, so don’t do that. Throw out my entire audition’” “Lorne was like, ‘Steve, do you have anything you want to ask?’ He’s like, ‘Nice briefcase.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, thanks. You have no idea’”

ft. @RyanGosling @newheightshow

Ryan Gosling reveals pre-fame Will Ferrell rescued his miserable first experience in Hollywood by crashing a talk-show interview “When I first went to Hollywood, I went to see the taping of a talk show, and one of the guests was late or something” “They had us sit on the floor, and then they were throwing 3 Musketeers at us to feed us. It was just awful the way they were treating everyone, and we were all like, ‘This sucks’” “Then we showed up and sat in the audience, and they’re telling us when to laugh. Everything felt pretty rehearsed, and it just wasn’t aligning with what you wanted it to be” “Suddenly - this was before Will Ferrell was known - he started pretending he was lost on the set, so he would show up behind the host, then move along and get lost” “He was crashing this person’s interview. It was so funny, and it just made the whole experience for us. We were like, ‘This sucked until he showed up, and now everything’s better’”

ft. @RyanGosling @newheightshow

Ryan Gosling reveals his uncle became Elvis full-time and hired eight-year-old Ryan as his head of security “My uncle was an Elvis impersonator. I came home one day when I was eight and my uncle was bedazzling a white jumpsuit in the living room” “I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ He was like, ‘I’m going to be Elvis for a little while’” “He became Elvis. He was doing karate in the backyard, talking like Elvis and wearing the outfit in the house. He was showing me how to method act, basically” “He put us all in the act. He said to me, ‘You’re going to be my head of security.’ I’m eight. He got me a gold lamé jacket that said ‘Head of Security,’ and I was serious. I was like, ‘Okay, that’s my job’” “He would perform at the mall and it changed everybody’s life. The whole town came alive. People were singing and dancing” “Then he decided not to do it anymore and everything got real boring again. My sister and I were like, ‘Can we do that again?’ My sister and I started singing at weddings. That’s where the music thing started”