byby loans to minorities. we are going adrift. let s get back to ashton. that s the important thing. now, this country would be much stronger if all of us were like me. painted houses and drove a cab and did whatever i had to do tod get through boston university. started in scranton, pennsylvania w and worked my wa up. if everybodydy would do that weh wouldn t need the welfare programs, wouldn t need all of this stuff, right? there are two different things we are talking about. talk aboutut what my questio is. i worked at wendy s when i was in high school. good. i worked my way up. i temped when i graduated from college because there weren t a lot of jobs. i was always working.ith that s an important thing. kwo think it has to do with the government. it s theirir parents who are th coddling them. their parents.but
oversimplifying. i am trying to oversimplify. pier pressure thing out there. when you get into the business. everyone is one way. you have to go that way. everybody can relate to growing up at the kitchen table and hearing your parents talk. only one view. you did work for dukakis. did i. when you were 24. right. dukakis was okay guy but he was a very liberal guy and he got his butt kicked as you know. was that because you were working for him by the way. can i pick him. but i also worked for schwarzenegger and he won. there you go. what happened to him. he took on the entrenched party system in california and got his butt kicked he got terminated by them. they killed him. like, i don t think arnold knew what he was getting into. he really don t. i disagree. i never met a person who was less good at bringing or better at bringing people than arnold. amazing at it. he can bring it together. but he left office with 25% approval rating. it was just you guys that
daymond, sean penn and danny glofer. clooney? i m no longer invited to play in the reindeer game and it s all because of you you or your fault. did anybody say hey you shouldn t do this? no, i think look, even the most partisan person knows can t argue with the success of the book and how the audience has embraced it. right. and that is a huge thing to be able to bring that, to tell a story that the country needs to hear. when this movie was shot in 18 days in virginia. when you were shooting it, did you know how good it is? i mean, did you have an idea how well it was coming out? i did halfway through i was feeling very confident about it because it had a sort of magic about it. i mean, we all felt lucky to be a part. the ozwald young actor, the guy is phenomenal. is he great. he is phenomenal not just great. i told him, i said, whoa. because nobody has really
daymond, sean penn and danny glofer. clooney? i m no longer invited to play in the reindeer game and it s all because of you you or your fault. did anybody say hey you shouldn t do this? no, i think look, even the most partisan person knows can t argue with the success of the book and how the audience has embraced it. right. and that is a huge thing to be able to bring that, to tell a story that the country needs to hear. when this movie was shot in 18 days in virginia. when you were shooting it, did you know how good it is? i mean, did you have an idea how well it was coming out? i did halfway through i was feeling very confident about it because it had a sort of magic about it. i mean, we all felt lucky to be a part. the ozwald young actor, the guy is phenomenal. is he great. he is phenomenal not just great. i told him, i said, whoa. because nobody has really
liked him. 25%? you and your pals out there, lowe. come on. it s a very divisive state, to be they say if you are a centrist in california you get run over. yeah, that s for sure. by the way, that s too bad. in the center is where we should be. all of us agree on a lot. one of the fascinating parts of the book is your relationship with a guy named sean penn. was he that way when he was a kid? did he he have that anti american chip on his soldier. the sean that i know is hilarious. really, really smart. and gets the joke. and and is arguably our best. very intense guy when it comes to politics. very far left. he is very very much occupies that space. do you talk politics with penn? no. that s a good thing, right? you don t want to get into that. i don t want to get run over. have you become more conservative as you get older? without a doubt. i mean, i am a centrist, my son who is studying politics in high school had me take online very complicated