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LeBron James reveals why he doesn’t recommend Miami for a 25-year-old “I don’t recommend anybody go to Miami at 25” How old were you when you went to Miami? LeBron James: “25.” What was that like? LeBron James: “I don’t recommend anybody go to Miami at 25. If you don’t have… (laughs) Yeah, you gotta have a strong mindset. Uh yeah, I had it. I had a strong mindset. I don’t recommend people to go to Miami at 25. Yeah. Yeah.”

Zach Galifianakis recounts the exact moment a stranger reduced him to the “fat guy from The Hangover” while he was mid-seaweed pitch “You have an uncanny resemblance to the fat guy from The Hangover.” “The mother goes, ‘What are you doing?’ like that, rudely. And I was like, ‘Well, I’m getting something for my garden.’ And I was telling the kid… ‘The seaweed has all the minerals in the world in this seaweed.’” “Why’d she say ‘fat guy’? I know who she’s talking about!” “And honestly, I just said, ‘Yeah, I get that all the time.’” Her closer: “And she stares at me, and she just goes, ‘I don’t like his stuff.’”

Jerry Seinfeld officially takes back the claim that the extreme left suppressed comedy and says the real job is making the gate wherever culture puts it “I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true. It’s not true” “If you’re Lindsey Vonn, if you’re a champion skier… you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain. She’s going to make the gate” “That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I make the gate and get down the hill” “Does culture change, and are there things I used to say that I can’t say? Yeah, but that’s the biggest, easiest target. The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that to just be a comedian” “I’m taking that back now officially. They have not. It’s my business to make the gate”

Jeremy Renner reveals how he got sucked under a snowplow, broke 38 bones, and had his eyeball hanging out “I just reacted. My instinct was to jump back on it and try to stop it. That obviously didn’t work. I got run over. I leaped up and over to grab onto it and got sucked right under the whole thing” “38 broken bones and my eyeball was out. The doctors kept saying they didn’t know how the eye was still functioning. I think the ice helped. I could literally see my eye with my other eye, so I was like, “Let me try to keep that thing… put the eye on ice until I could figure out how to breathe”” “A ton of ribs, spiral fractures in both legs, all my joints were broken. But my spine was spared, all my organs were spared, my brain” “At the end of the day it’s almost no harm, no foul, even though there’s probably 20% titanium in my body now”

Will Ferrell thought leaving SNL for a movie about a human raised by elves would end his career for good “I’d been there seven years, and you always have to leave at some point. Short of Kenan, you are thinking when’s a good moment to fly the coop, so to speak” “It just felt like I’d had enough momentum, but it’s not like I had a stack of scripts waiting for me. But we were developing this one movie about a human who was raised by elves at the North Pole” “Two weeks into filming, I’m sitting in New York in my little tiny trailer looking in the mirror dressed as Buddy the Elf in my yellow tights going, ‘What was I thinking? Buddy, this could be the end right here’” “This is either a home run or a complete strikeout and people are going to be like, ‘What happened to the guy on SNL? He was pretty funny’” “I had no idea that we had lightning in a bottle”

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody on why he and his co-founders turned down acquisition offers that would let them walk away forever “Adarsh and I have had opportunities where we could walk away with a lot of cash and never work again and get whatever we want in life, but that’s not what motivates us” “we could walk away with a lot of cash and never work again and get whatever we want in life” “but that’s not what motivates us. We’d rather work 100 hours a week to solve a really important problem in the world” “we have the privilege of doing that in an incredible market with a spectacular team, and it’s hard to know if we’ll have that privilege again”

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody agrees with Jeff Bezos that the bottom half of earners should pay zero income tax “The largest positive externality in the economy is creating jobs. & the largest way that the government collects tax revenue is by taxing jobs.” “The largest positive externality in the economy is creating jobs.” “The fact that we do this for the bottom half of Americans that are making under 70K a year is so deeply irrational.” “The bottom half of Americans constitute 3% of federal government tax revenue, & yet it’s a giant burden on them.” “Then I saw my hero, Jeff Bezos, posting about this on X. & so I retweeted him, & then he reposted me.”

Ft Megan Fox x The Crew Has It

Jon Lovitz reveals he warned Chris Farley his drug use and weight would kill him before 40 “I said, ‘Chris, it’s great, but you gotta lose weight. My dad’s a doctor, and I told him about you. He said that he won’t make it till 40. You really gotta lose weight.’ Then I said, ‘You gotta love yourself.’” “Well, okay, but Jon, if I love myself and drugs make me feel good, and I deprive myself of drugs, isn’t that depriving myself of love?” “So I started laughing. I go, ‘Shut up, you idiot. Yeah, they make you feel good, but they kill you.’” “He was half joking, but when he died, I was like, ‘Idiot.’ Of course, I was very upset, but I went, ‘That idiot, goddamn it. We told him, we told him, we told him.’ But with any drug, they have to do it themselves. They have to stop. You just can’t make them.”

When Giannis Antetokounmpo responded to a reporter asking if the season was a failure “It’s not a failure. It’s steps to success.” “Do you get a promotion every year at your job? No, right? So every year you work is a failure? Yes or no? No. Every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal. To get a promotion, take care of your family, provide a house for them, take care of your parents.” “Michael Jordan played 15 years. Won six championships. The other nine years was a failure? That’s what you’re telling me? Exactly, so why ask me that question? It’s the wrong question.” “There’s no failure in sports. Good days, bad days. Some days you’re able to be successful, some days you’re not. Some days it’s your turn, some days it’s not your turn. And that’s what sports is about. You don’t always win.” “So 50 years from 1971 to 2021 we didn’t win a championship, it was 50 years of failure? No, it was not. It was steps to it. We were able to win one, hopefully we can win another one.”

Steve Jobs’ daughter on growing up with a man worth over $200 million who paid $385 a month “Her mother cleaned houses and went on welfare. The county had to sue him to pay it back.” “you, as a little girl, walks up and take the phone from her and said just give her some money okay? And like, hang up the phone” “another time, her mother asked him for a house. He said yes. Then he bought one for himself.” “his condition: she couldn’t see her mother for six months.” “the thing he kept on saying was I owe you one and I’m so sorry” “I think not at the time… In many ways, yes. I understand him more and understand myself more” “her story differs dramatically from our memories of those times.”

Salma Hayek shares how she poured holy water on her chest at a miracle church as a kid after feeling insecure about her breasts “I was the youngest in my class and all the girls started getting them, and I wasn’t getting anything, and I was really scared” “I was getting teased a lot because everybody was like older and I was like the skinny tomboy” “We went on a road trip with my parents and we went to this church that had a saint that was supposed to do a lot of miracles” “And so when we went back to the car, I said, Oh, I forgot something, I went back in the church, put my hands in the holy water and went, Please, Jesus, give me this”

Maya Jama opens up about the exact moment she stopped visiting her father in prison and cut contact at age 10 “You get a bit more mature and you realise actually, you’re the grown up and I’m a child. I shouldn’t have to keep visiting you in these places” “I didn’t want to go and visit… you just started to have friends that you’d sleep over their house” “It’s not really fair on my weekends or weekdays going to visit you and you’re just doing exactly the same thing again and again and you get kind of fed up” “One day he was out and at my grandparents’ house and he knocked on the door to speak to me and I was like, ‘I don’t want to speak to you anymore. Like, you’re doing bad things and it’s boring for me now. And I don’t really know you anymore either because I don’t have any proper memories with you apart from sitting across the tables’”

Tom Cruise reveals he bans email and messaging from his production teams because technology cuts celebrities off from real human connection. “Don’t lock me in a room. I want to be with the people. In the production meetings, don’t send me emails. We’re going to sit down and communicate. I like face-to-face” “First of all, it’s a beautiful thing to walk into a room and see people smile. It really is beautiful because I want to create. I love all kinds of music and movies, and being able to play in those arenas” “It opens those doors to humanity in a real way, and I like being right there in it” “I see it as an absolute privilege and a responsibility”

Inde Navarrette fought her director just so she could look ugly on camera “I remember asking the director, hey, can I see playback? And he goes, you look beautiful, you’re fine.” “It’s a very intimate scene and there’s like 1,500 people… it can kind of take me out of it.” “I remember being so confused and kind of fighting back on it… no, you don’t understand, it’s for the scene.” “He pulled me aside and he gave me this big long monologue about how Robert Pattinson was considered the hair on Twilight. I felt so confused and almost like I was speaking a different language.” “I didn’t want to be seen as like, oh, you look good… I really, really wanted to hunker down and play a role where… I could be taken seriously.” “And I felt like with Obsession, it was nothing but ugly, and I loved it.”

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Jason Bateman on why his long marriage has lasted “I married a friend as opposed to a girlfriend. That was a big one for me.” “the girlfriends that you had before this current marriage you’re in didn’t last. You break up with girlfriends.” “I found that I didn’t break up with friends. What was keeping me with my friends? What was that dynamic? What did I like about them, what did they like about me, who was I when I was with them?” “Find someone you’re sexually attracted to that’s also a friend.” “Amanda I knew was that for many years before she agreed to go out with me, and really before I deserved to go out with her. I was still working out a bunch of other crap, and she sensed that.”