Episode Transcript: #121 - Bryan Callen
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It doesn't feel like a podcast.
Oh, the black guy.
It's always that character, that Charles Bronson dude who wants to live in the woods by himself and doesn't bother anybody, but the government has to go out there and fuck with him and he winds up killing everybody.
What is it that we admire about that guy who doesn't need anybody?
That's the American way.
Self-sufficiency, man.
I don't need anybody but myself.
I'm self-reliant.
Yeah, but with a lot of guys, the loner would be kind of creepy, but Charles Bronson had a way of pulling it off that was admirable.
There was nothing Ted Kaczynski about him.
No, Charles Bronson was a badass, and God help you if you were a fan and tried to come out to him.
This guy I know, Adam West, you know Batman?
Yeah.
He told me a story 16 years ago about how Charles Bronson was reading a book in a bookstore, and this guy comes up and goes, excuse me, Mr. Bronson, I'm a huge fan.
And Charles Bronson goes, fuck off, and goes right back to his book.
Just like that.
The guy was like, oh, okay.
It's hard to know how much of that is the truth.
God damn it, people are so full of shit.
He was notorious for being just not the friendly.