#622 - Miles Teller

Summary

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Podcast Summary: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von - Ep #622, Miles Teller

Date: November 4, 2025
Guest: Miles Teller (actor)
Main Theme:
A funny, heartfelt, and reflective conversation between Theo Von and actor Miles Teller, exploring Miles’ upbringing, career, experiences with loss and adversity, the community around the Grateful Dead, love and relationships, his new movie "Eternity," the meaning of home, service and gratitude, and plenty of small-town stories and off-the-cuff comedic moments.

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Episode Overview

In Episode #622, Theo sits down with award-winning actor Miles Teller, known for Whiplash, War Dogs, Top Gun: Maverick, and now the upcoming film Eternity (released Nov. 26). The conversation winds through hilarious and poignant territory: stories from Teller’s youth in Florida and New Jersey, reflections on home, loss, and the meaning of memory, deep dives into relationships and the creative process, and thoughts on military service and gratitude. All delivered in the signature loose, irreverent style of both Theo and Miles.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Meeting and Shared Connections

[01:31–03:05]

• Miles and Theo bond over Nashville connections, shared friends, and their first meeting at a local social club.
• Banter over eccentric acquaintances, e.g., the man with a triceratops skull on loan to a museum.

Theo, on Louisiana museum exhibits: “Their artifacts are a little bit different. Like a beer bottle, you know, or like...” [02:55]

2. Small Town Upbringings & Festivals

[03:05–04:48]

• Teller recounts rural Florida stories: Cooter Festival (a turtle-focused event), small-town oddities, Daily Show visits, and ‘Cooter Tober.’
• Humorous back-and-forth about how the turtle got its name, and town attempts to ban "the devil".

3. Hilarious Stories—Two Vaginas and Double Barrel Cheryl

[05:21–08:12]

• Theo brings up a TikTok story about a woman with two vaginas, sparking Teller’s own legendary “Double Barrel Cheryl” anecdote from an Ohio wedding.
• Both riff on the absurdity, joking about uses, nicknames, and what life would be like with multiple organs.

Miles: “She used to say, like, this one's for my boyfriend. I'm saving this one for my husband.” [06:23]

4. Grateful Dead & The Power of Community

[09:01–11:49]

• Miles discusses his love of The Grateful Dead, attending shows, losing cherished memorabilia in a house fire, and the kindness of Deadhead fans.
• The inclusive, vibrant atmosphere of Dead shows, and the deeper meaning found in such a loving music community.

Miles: “Their crowds were rainbow colored before anybody... you know what I mean?” [10:10]

5. Childhood, Family, and Florida Nostalgia

[12:02–20:15]

• Both reminisce about growing up in the humid South, the special feeling of hot, sticky air, and late childhood freedom and mischief.
• Reflections on parents: Theo’s sweat-soaked Louisiana, Miles’ real estate-working mom “Merry”, and the sometimes strange characters of small-town America.

6. Retirement, Hobbies, and Dads Tinkering

[17:21–19:48]

• Conversation about what happens when parents retire—dads building birdhouses, tinkering, finding solitary hobbies, and memories of bus drivers with odd nicknames (“Fingers”).

7. Nostalgic Tangents - Biking, Games, and Childhood Injuries

[20:15–21:08]

• Teller tells of knocked-out childhood games and being suspected at school for frequent black eyes.
• Theo: “...everything was so severe... just these moments when you were a kid...” [19:52]

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8. Loss, Home, and Dealing With Disaster

[25:10–34:26]

• Miles shares the story of his family losing their house in the Palisades to a fire.
• The trauma of losing all possessions and identity-markers, the community's pain, reflections on what truly matters.
• He describes the chaos and disbelief during evacuation, and not realizing the gravity until seeing drone photos from TMZ.
• Emotional resonance: losing a home’s “attachment to anything” and the overwhelming task of deciding what to save.

Miles: “When you can’t look around and see anything that reminds you of your life, there’s no attachment to anything.” [26:16]

• Theo asks about the catharsis of losing everything; Miles notes the duality—trauma, but also the growth and lessons it gives.
• Cautions against “bright-siding,” invalidating grief by focusing only on silver linings.

9. Film Discussion—Eternity (Major Segment)

[33:46–47:37]

• Introduction to “Eternity”: a comic, heartfelt film where the deceased choose their version of the afterlife, with wild ‘eternity’ options (e.g., “Marilyn Manson World” or “Miami Beach Spaghetti and Cocaine”).
• The film’s creative premise: after death, you pick an eternity, but must live with that choice forever.
• Teller describes the plot: his character’s wife (Elizabeth Olsen) must choose between two loves in the afterlife—her first love (lost in the Korean War) and the partner she lived life with.

Miles, summarizing the film’s core question: “If you've already gotten to live one love, if you got to go back, would you choose a different one?” [46:05]

• Reflection on the nature of love, memory, nostalgia, and the impermanence of relationships.

• Theo notes the originality and emotional depth of the movie—how it makes one contemplate mortality, love’s endurance, and “how long love lives.” [36:59]

• Philosophical digression: DMT, consciousness, and the afterlife.

• Both muse on death, core memories, relationships as the ultimate object of meaning.

10. On the Importance of Relationships & Work-Life Balance

[38:20–40:48]

• Both discuss the real payoff of a creative or busy life—the quality of relationships.
• Miles values time off, maintaining friendships, and not being solely “career-focused.”
• Theo reflects on the realization that after years of touring, the best joys are connection and community.

Miles: “The thing...I'm gonna be thinking about, you know, my wife, my... family, my relationship with whatever higher being I have.” [38:48]

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11. Stories: School Assemblies, SWAT, and DARE

[51:08–54:22]

• Theo and Miles recount odd educational programs: DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco), and sardonically recall “coach” teachers.
• Anecdote: “SWAT” is a Florida-only anti-tobacco youth group.

12. Florida Field Days, Key West, and Small-Town Mischief

[54:20–58:24]

• Nostalgic reflections on Key West, live music, small-town parades, and epic misadventures (e.g., a friend hotboxing a parade float in a homemade tree).

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13. On Acting, Film Sets, and Craft

[62:52–66:39]

• Miles discusses his team-focused attitude on film sets, low-maintenance needs, preference for camaraderie and collaboration, and dislike of “dictator” directors.
• Emphasizes the challenge and joy of building something creative together.

14. Heist Stories & The Louvre

[67:02–71:04]

• Conversation about recent news of a daring jewelry heist at the Louvre.
• Joking about how attainable museum thefts seem and the reality of crime vs. movies.

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15. Military, Service, Mental Health, and Veterans

[72:22–78:18]

• Miles discusses working with Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick), his deep respect for servicemembers, and work on the film “Thank You for Your Service.”
• The unique challenges veterans face upon returning, issues with the VA, and the societal gap in helping soldiers transition home.
• Both stress the importance of empathy, service, and gratitude for freedoms.

Miles, via a film director: “We've known how to send guys to war for centuries... We still don't really know how to bring them back.” [76:18]

16. Sports, Childhood, and the Joy of Simpler Times

[81:28–94:54]

• Miles reminisces on discipline and camaraderie from sports; Theo reflects on mischievous youth and the universal innocence of children, even in the toughest conditions.
• Both note the sadness of children losing childhood too soon due to adversity.

17. Philosophy & Empathy in Acting

[87:28–89:30]

• Teller observes that the best actors reflect “the human condition,” stressing empathy and curiosity as the core acting tools.
• Discusses his upbringing: moving often, family tragedy, exposure to hardship, and how it shaped his worldview.

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18. Love, Marriage, and Personal Life

[102:35–105:12]

• Teller gives a tribute to his wife Kelly’s new pajama and robe line, and heartfelt reflection on 13 happy years together.
• Talks about the importance of friendship, companionship, and mutual support in a strong relationship.

Miles on Kelly: “She cracks me up... She says being calm is her superpower, but she is... unflappable.” [104:44]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the power of community and loss:
  “...when you can't look around at any point and see anything that reminds you of your life, there’s no attachment to anything.” — Miles Teller [26:16]

• On romantic comedy and the new film
  “I think it fits with kind of the classic romantic comedies that are more character driven and... I'm really excited for people to see it.” — Miles Teller [96:49]

• On loss and resilience:
  “We'll be able to sit down with our kids and say, you know, when your mother and I... we lost everything. And we figured it out.” — Miles Teller [31:30]

• On the meaning of life:
  “The most important thing in life for me... is relationships.” — Miles Teller [38:20]

• On acting and empathy:
  “We're shining a mirror up to society really... Empathy... and curiosity, that will really aid you.” — Miles Teller [87:28]

• On working with Tom Cruise:
  “He’s one of our great, great actors... nobody works harder. He knows everyone's name. He’s first one in, last one to leave.” — Miles Teller [72:32]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|----------------| | Opening & Banter | 01:30–04:48 | | Childhood Stories & Cooter Fest | 03:05–04:48 | | Double Barrel Cheryl / Two Vaginas Story | 05:22–08:12 | | Grateful Dead & Community | 09:01–11:49 | | Family & Humid Nostalgia | 12:02–20:15 | | House Fire, Loss & Grief | 25:10–34:26 | | Eternity Film Deep Dive | 33:46–47:37 | | Acting, Teams, & Collaboration | 62:52–66:39 | | Heist: Louvre Story | 67:02–71:04 | | Service, Veterans & Gratitude | 72:22–78:18 | | Acting Philosophy / Childhood Hardship | 87:28–89:30 | | Relationship & Personal Tributes | 102:35–105:12 |

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Tone & Style

• Loose, self-deprecating, and playful:
  The episode is laced with comedic detours, wild stories, and quick-witted banter.
• Emotional and sincere:
  Both Theo and Miles are unafraid to discuss vulnerability, trauma, and hope.
• Philosophical and reflective:
  Deep dives into meaning, memory, the afterlife, and the value of human connection.

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Final Thoughts

This is an engaging, laughter-filled, and unexpectedly touching episode. Miles Teller’s humility and good humor shine, with sincere reflections on adversity, the creative journey, love, and legacy. For fans of Theo, Teller, or anyone pondering life’s meaning (and ready for a few wild detours), it’s a rewarding listen.

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Check out Miles Teller in “Eternity”—in theaters Thanksgiving week, 2025! And keep your eyes out for Kelly Teller’s new pajama and robe line.

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Transcript

[Theo Von]

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[Miles Teller]

And where. Where's your home base?

[Theo Von]

My home base is Nashville.

[Miles Teller]

Okay. Yeah, our sister in law or Kelly's sister? My sister in law, brother in law, they just moved to. I think they bought a spot in Troubador.

[Theo Von]

Oh, yeah, dude, remember that's the first time I met you was over there.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

You and your wife. I met you out there with Stelli. Yeah. Will. Stelly.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was. He's an LSU boy too. Yeah, yeah. And Todd is awesome.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, I saw. I saw Todd last week.

[Miles Teller]

Dude, he's such a. He invited me to the Rider cup with him. I couldn't go, but he's just awesome. Todd Graves, he's a great dude.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, he's an interesting guy. You know, he owns a triceratops head. He owns that. He owns one. He lent it to the museum in Louisiana.

[Miles Teller]

I mean, just obviously. The skull. Yes. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool, though.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Good call. I would pay. I would pay somebody to realistically fill that in.

[Theo Von]

Oh, dude. Well, especially, like, you'll see a lot of perverts will be like, oh, look at the tits on that. I'm like, those aren't. Those are horns, you idiot.

[Miles Teller]

Like, are we talking right now?

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Is this real?

[Theo Von]

We can be. Or we can.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, yeah.

[Theo Von]

Start over.

[Miles Teller]

Okay. No, dude, I'm all. Yeah, I'm all good. I just had no idea.

[Theo Von]

But yeah, you'll see. People just hang Marty Gro bees and stuff on in Louisiana. People just don't give a. Wow. Wow. But yeah, I just saw Todd the other day, dude, I got.

[Miles Teller]

Where does he keep it?

[Theo Von]

In the. There's like, a museum over there.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, well, so it's.

[Theo Von]

It's like a Louisiana museum. So there's like, you know, the stuff they. The artifacts they keep in there a little bit different. Like a beer bottle, you know, or like.

[Miles Teller]

Right.

[Theo Von]

That's just a little bit more Louisiana.

[Miles Teller]

Like, I mean, I grew up a lot of my Half my life, I grew up in central Florida, so I imagine it would be similar kind of museums. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

With, like, Daniel Tosh was down there. Was Tosh popping.

[Miles Teller]

Well, yeah. But also, like, the Daily show came to my county twice when I was growing up. The one is because they have a Cooter festival, which is a type of turtle, and then the other, a cooter. It's like a type of. Type of turtle.

[Theo Von]

Bring up that Cooter.

[Miles Teller]

Bring up that. Yeah, flash up that cooter. And then the other one, it was like Ed Helms came because the town next to mine banned the devil from coming into the. The town. And it was the. It was the town of Inglis. Like, some pretty backwoods, like, citrus counties were. You know, I went to middle school, high school, bro.

[Theo Von]

That's amazing that they. First of all, this is. Oh, it looks like Cooter Tober just happened.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, yeah, they're. They're really kind of, I guess, branching out. You probably do it for every. Every month. Anything that ends in an R, I think you're.

[Theo Von]

You're.

[Miles Teller]

You're good, dude.

[Theo Von]

Cooter Tober. Yeah, that sounds pretty. Pretty wild. Cooter Tober is back. It says apparently was discontinued for a bit.

[Miles Teller]

A whole month of cooterific fun. Inverness, Florida. Let's go. Shout out.

[Theo Von]

This year, we're returning with all your favorite events like the Cooter Carnival, small town, Saturday night, cooter comedy, and. Oh, that's great.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And that's the Cooter turtle.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, that. Yeah, that is. Yeah. They must not have discovered it for a while or they must not have given it. They must not have celebrated as much because it didn't. I remember that they didn't start, like, Cooter Fest until, like, I was. I don't even know if I was still in high school. I might have been out of high school, so it took a while.

[Theo Von]

I wonder how it even got that name, because I've heard of people using, like, kind of slang, well, goats for, like, bestiality. But if they were. If this would be the worst thing to try to invade a Species, you know, like. Yeah. Did some, like. Yeah. How did it get its name? How did the cooter turtle get its name? The cooter turtle got its name from the African word kuta, which means turtle in the Bambara and Malinke languages. The word was brought.

[Miles Teller]

Yes, it was. Yeah. Originally it was cuda.

[Theo Von]

Cuda?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuda. Yeah, Cuda fist.

[Theo Von]

Hey, boy, come on down. A cuda. I just saw a woman with. They have a woman that has two cudas. Actually, I saw she's on TikTok the other day. There's a woman.

[Miles Teller]

What now?

[Theo Von]

Are you now talking about the anatomy now? I'm changing it, so you want to hear.

[Miles Teller]

Okay, no, go.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, go. There is a woman who has two vaginas. That's on Tik Tok.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

She sent a DM the other day to me.

[Miles Teller]

How many DMs did she send? One of one for me, dude.

[Theo Von]

Dude, she sent replica dms. That's insane.

[Miles Teller]

So can I tell you a story? Yeah. So I'm. I'm at my boy's wedding, and we're. He's from. He's from Ohio. We're at the, you know, reception now, the after reception, we're all just hanging out in the hotel room. And the one dude's like, yo, do you remember. You remember that girl went to high school with. With two vaginas? And he's like, dude, you're talking about Cheryl. And then his other buddy's like, yo, double barrel Cheryl. And I just thought that was the funniest nickname I've ever heard in my life. Double barrel Cheryl. I was like, that's got to go in some American Pie type movie. Just Double barrel Cheryl. So as soon as you started talking about that, I was like, oh, I have one.

[Theo Von]

Put her in a museum.

[Miles Teller]

But she used to. Apparently, she used to say, like, this one's for my boyfriend. I'm saving this one for my husband. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

Kind of beautiful. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, Right?

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Because I would just. I would if I had both. I would. Dude, you'd blow them both. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Dude.

[Theo Von]

No, I'd be like, I'm saving this one for after dinner or whatever. But I would definitely.

[Miles Teller]

Dude, this is the dessert.

[Theo Von]

This is.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. AM, PM.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's it, dude.

[Miles Teller]

Like the gas station, 24 hours.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

This is running all night. Dude.

[Theo Von]

This is my morning one, and this is my evening. And one is like, tattoos around it and stuff. And the other one is. Is a bit more like back classy.

[Miles Teller]

Classy. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

A little bit more up.

[Miles Teller]

Upscale. Upscale. Levyel per view. This one's. This one's closing in on five stars. This. The other one. You know. You know what that one is?

[Theo Von]

Yeah. And the other one, for some reason is 3.8 stars. You're like, both.

[Miles Teller]

Both viable options.

[Theo Von]

Pretty good. Look, I'll. Look, I'll pull up a chair. Go. Go back to that. That's. Double Barrel's a great name.

[Miles Teller]

Double Barrel Cheryl.

[Theo Von]

Dude. Wow. We didn't. We weren't. We weren't fortunate enough to get a woman like this in our area. Let's see what she says here.

[Miles Teller]

I was born with two vaginas, two uteruses, and two cervixes. There was no join from my mouth to my stomach and that. Instead, my food pipe was connected into my air pipe going into my lungs. Okay. The music is. That's. That's tough. I feel like our. Our tone should have been a little different when we were talking about.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's.

[Miles Teller]

I'm sure it's a horrible thing to deal with.

[Theo Von]

Oh, I can't even imagine. Even if I had two penises. Two penises. I would. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, well, that would be very tough if you were. Especially like when you're in high school and stuff and your body. You're going through puberty and whatever and you're getting erection in high school. I would.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, erections.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Unless they will operate different frequencies. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Theo Von]

Yeah. One's. It's like amf.

[Miles Teller]

That's like an antenna. Like, that's. That's like. There's a. No hiding that you got. You got two radar, dude. On rock, dude. But if you could time them out.

[Theo Von]

Oh.

[Miles Teller]

You know, as soon as the one's done, other boy.

[Theo Von]

Like a pentameter.

[Miles Teller]

Almost like a drummer. Like Nas. Like, your one's just getting the tires, you know, warmed up.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

The other one's like, you know, doing a hot lab.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, dude, I think if you.

[Miles Teller]

Well, especially like drummers.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. It'd be like if they had a cool pentameter kind of.

[Miles Teller]

Well, the Grateful Dead has two drummers. You know, it's the best.

[Theo Von]

You have their shirt on.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

You went to their. I saw you went to their 60th.

[Miles Teller]

I did the San Fr show. I. Yeah, I mean, I've. I've seen him at the Sphere. I've seen kind of this iteration. Dead and Company for, I think, pretty much since John started. But. Yeah, they're my John Mayer. Yeah, John Mayer. But even before that, I was seeing, you know, some different versions of him and, you know, Bob Weir and, you know, Phil Lesh kind of independently. But yeah, it's the best, honestly. Like, when our house burned down, like, the thing that I was. Probably one of the things I was most upset about was all of these vintage Grateful Dead shirts. But that community is so awesome. I don't have Instagram or anything, but they reached out to Kelly and we're like, hey, you know, Deadheads. They were like, we feel so bad for you guys. And we know if our house burned down, we would really miss those shirts. Can we send you some from our own, you know, collection? So a bunch of people shout out to, you know, just sent me shirts. It's such a loving community. I feel like all those, you know, bands from. From that era, especially the Dead, who really kind of supported, you know, everybody there was. Their crowds were rainbow colored before anybody. You know what I mean? If that makes sense. So.

[Theo Von]

Wow. So people just sent you different ones, did they? Is that one of them?

[Miles Teller]

No, this one? This one, I think I got up in San Francisco. Oh.

[Theo Von]

Oh.

[Miles Teller]

That was the spread. That was just for like three days. But I was like, I don't. I don't know what pants I'm gonna wear. You know what I mean? I gotta.

[Theo Von]

Oh, that's for. When you went to a show for.

[Miles Teller]

San Francisco, there was three nights, so I just took them all out. It's kind of the only stuff I post about is like, yeah, even my, I guess my bio quote or. I mean, that's a Jerry Garcia one.

[Theo Von]

That's great, dude. My brother has a big Jerry Garcia tattoo on his chest.

[Miles Teller]

Does he?

[Theo Von]

He loves them. Yeah, we got to go together actually and see them at the Sphere one time. Our producer Zach went and saw them, I believe, for two nights in San Francisco. Yeah, Zach.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I was up there. I was at all three nights, actually.

[Theo Von]

Nice.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I thought. Yeah. I mean, they're all amazing. Sturgel. I thought Sturgel was. I was going to ask who do you best sit in? Sturgill is exceptional. I mean, I. I just think overall Saturday. Saturday night was kind of the best night. It's hard because you can look at the. You can look at the set list, but usually at least one of those weekend shows, they. They just catch lightning in a bottle. And I think that's the beauty of the band is that you're never going to hear the same song twice, but because it's so improvisational and they're on the ride with you, you know, I mean, to play music at that level, and they are. There's such. I mean, the skill set from all those guys. So high. But it's just fun, dude. I dance my ass off, too. People think it's like, you do. You're just high and just sitting there. It's like, no, that music makes me boogie, dude. Yeah. Like, I love it. I love it, dude. If you're not sweating, you're not trying either. I think maybe some of that's the Florida thing, but it's like I grew up with a thin layer of sweat all over my body all the time. It makes you feel alive, dude.

[Theo Von]

Oh, in Louisiana, you can't even land a handshake with people if it's humid day.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

You'll see people trying to land a handshake for 30 seconds. Seconds. They'll just give up on the friendship. They'll go their separate ways. It's just. That's the kind of place it is, man. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I always say it's like you have a. Yeah, you have a thought and you're sweating. Yeah. You know, I mean, but that air, too, like, when you get off the plane. Because we would always fly into Tampa. Like, you get off that plane. It's just a huff. It's just a thick air, dude.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, it feels like the air has a little bit of an infection, to be honest with you.

[Miles Teller]

When I feel that, like, air at night, it just. It just makes me feel, like, mischievous. Because when I was, like, all those teenage years, just, you know, at sunsets, you know, get on a bike, just figure out some to do in your neighborhood, like, that air just makes me kind of. Yeah. Relapse, I guess.

[Theo Von]

It makes. Dude, there is something about it. Like, there's something about. I even think about this, like, if you ever stay at a. If you ever at a place that doesn't have air conditioning, right? Like, at first you're like.

[Miles Teller]

You're most of Europe, dude.

[Theo Von]

You're like, this sucks. But then I feel like your dreams and everything is more acclimated to the actual climate of whatever's going on. Right. And I always feel like I get like I have, like, like, like more imaginative or creative dreams whenever I'm in a place that doesn't have air conditioning for some reason. But, yeah, that south, dude, that shit hits you hard, dude. You do dance, man. I noticed. I remember this now. I think. I don't know if we're. It could have been like, marshmallow, maybe. It was one night. We Were both in Las Vegas after a UFC fight.

[Miles Teller]

Okay.

[Theo Von]

And maybe it's chain smokers or something. It might have been that one when Ed Sheeran was there.

[Miles Teller]

I don't remember. I don't know. I don't know.

[Theo Von]

But you were like, you dance, dude. Even if you're just by yourself. Yeah. You are doing your own thing. It's like some people would think, like, oh, Miles Teller, like, he's just gonna be like, this cool guy, and he just, like, flew his jet in there. His Mach 70 jet.

[Miles Teller]

Right. Southwest. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But he just. But I mean, he flew his Top Gun plane.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

He's gonna sit, like, you know, dude, I love it. You have your own time. That's what it feels like.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

It's like you decide that I'm gonna have a good time for me, and it almost, like, inspires like, God, I wish I could be that free.

[Miles Teller]

Well, I heard. I think you're pretty free. I think you're pretty free, dude. You know, just from.

[Theo Von]

I guess I wish I could dance better.

[Miles Teller]

Okay. Yeah. I mean, what? I mean. Yeah, I don't know. I think. I don't know. It's somebody. I heard something a while back, and it's not something I, like, think about, but they were like, you know, if you're having a party or you're a group of people, you're not sure. Everybody, they said, like, the number one way to kind of try and have everybody, make everybody have a good time is just start. Just have a good time yourself. And I think that. But also, I've just always like rhythm. Yeah. Dance. And that's something I've just always kind of got down with. Like, that's how I, I. I just. Yeah, I love it. But, yeah, any. I mean, that DJ music. Um, but I like Bob Seeger. Like, classic rock. Gets me. Gets me going, dude. Let alone if there's, you know, some rock piano. I love that shit. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, dude. Some good jazz. I like. My mom came in town recently. We went and listened to some blues. She likes to do that. I went listening.

[Miles Teller]

Where'd you. You go somewhere for blues or.

[Theo Von]

We went to this blues place in Nashville. It's just like, in Printer's Alley. It's a. I think it's kind of a. It's a bit of a touristy spot, kind of.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But I think we're just having trouble finding a spot. And. And so we went and we had a great time. It was actually a guy from New Orleans that was playing, and so we just sat there and had A And just had a nice time. She likes to listen to it. It's funny. As my mom gets older, she almost turns into a child a little bit. And there's moments where it's almost like it's a kid there, you know? But, like, just like in an older body.

[Miles Teller]

Like what? Just the. The. The fascination. The kind of. It feels near to her. Kind of.

[Theo Von]

That's a good question. It's like you can just see on her face, she's having a good time.

[Miles Teller]

It almost feels like pure and some innocence to it.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's great.

[Theo Von]

It's almost like.

[Miles Teller]

How old's your mom?

[Theo Von]

She's 77.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. So she's an adult. She looks a little bit like Willie Nelson. Let's see if it's over. She's not going to want to hear that part.

[Miles Teller]

She looks a bit like. She look a bit like Willie Nelson. Oh, hell, yeah.

[Theo Von]

She's awesome, dude. I love that she listens to every episode of this.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, great. So what's her name?

[Theo Von]

Her name is Gina.

[Miles Teller]

What's up, Gina?

[Theo Von]

There you go. Mom, Miles is married. Mom, calm down. What's your mom's name?

[Miles Teller]

Mary.

[Theo Von]

Mary?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Like Christmas. M E R R Y. Oh, really? Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And they did that on purpose?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah. She was born, like, December 15, but she gets like. It's so. It's not Mary. And my mom's, like. My mom's, like, best friend. My mom says she's, like, the only one who pronounces her name correctly. And it's memory.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Okay. And then some of the. I just remember, like, some of the, like, not. They're not your uncles, but, like, these guys live in the neighborhood. They just all seem, like, kind of pervy.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You know.

[Theo Von]

Oh, guys that loiter or whatever.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, they were, like, family friends and. But just some based on the. I don't know. I just feel like when I watch these old home videos, it's. You'll just hear some. You're like, whoa, that was. Yeah. Pervious, dude. So they'll say, like, memory. Then they'll go, all right, can't do it.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's gonna. That's gonna raise a few flags.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. Wow. Mary Maverick. Yeah. That is nice. What does your mom do for work? Does she work?

[Miles Teller]

She was. She did real estate for a while, but yeah. No, not working. My dad actually retired. He just retired a couple years ago. He was born in 54, so 71. I think he retired pretty close to 70.

[Theo Von]

And are they enjoying. Has it gotten weird for them since they're both retired. Have they all. Because, you know, some. It gets weird because they're. They're both at home and stuff.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

I don't.

[Miles Teller]

I mean.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I don't know. You know. Yeah. I don't know. I. I mean I see a good amount, but I. I'm sure. Yeah. I know my dad likes doing like outside work.

[Theo Von]

Oh yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You know what I mean, a lot.

[Theo Von]

Of guys, the second they realize that they're have to be in the. Like when the retirement happens, like, oh God, there's nowhere to go. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You need some like hobbies.

[Theo Von]

My stepdad built like 40 bird houses in our yard. He did not want to be just the building.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah. Just never did he ever put them on.

[Theo Von]

I mean he's.

[Miles Teller]

Some of them.

[Theo Von]

He did.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

He also. He got the one.

[Miles Teller]

The helmet back to 14 year old in shop class. I guess that's kind of the.

[Theo Von]

He was building doghouse. We didn't even have a dog. I think he just wanted to be. He still needed some time alone.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. You know. Yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. So I think there's.

[Miles Teller]

I mean I don't have kids yet, but I. I imagine, you know. Yeah. Because growing up my dad would, you know, he'd be like working on the pool or something. Just be fiddling with stuff in the garage for like hours. I don't. I have no idea what he was doing.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's got to be cool dad stuff. I bet it'll be cool whenever you're kind of tinkering.

[Miles Teller]

I just want to tinker, you know. I mean I could tinker for. For days.

[Theo Von]

Dude, let me get out here. Let me start collecting something weird too. My buddy's dad collected all these toy trains and stuff. And whenever we go over there, he'd have to set it all up. Dude. It would take.

[Miles Teller]

We just like around the holidays, around Christmas or something.

[Theo Von]

I think it was any time I started to lose his mind. And he would just set that up in June, you know.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And. And we. He'd have to set and have to do the train and it was just like, you want to support your friend's parents. But it was just a lot. It was a lot. It's a lot to watch somebody do the toy train a lot.

[Miles Teller]

We had. I had this bus driver growing up. His nickname was Fingers because he was missing like a couple of them. But he had this.

[Theo Von]

Thankfully, that's the reason why. Because there's a bus full of kids.

[Miles Teller]

Fingers. Fingers, yeah. He'd always point at you with the, with the nub.

[Theo Von]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles Teller]

But he had this belt buckle. Because we're just talking about collecting weird or whatever, but he had this belt buckle that was. Looked like he had hand glued on like silver dollars. And so it's just like 20 silver dollars. I thought it was cool as and I was a kid.

[Theo Von]

Oh, dude, the stuff you thought was cool when you were a kid was so great, dude.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Even like you said earlier, like, I remember I was talking about this the other day whenever, like the sun, like if you were playing in the street with your friends and it was like somebody was pitching the ball, you're like one more pitch, but the sun was setting. Like you'd be like, dude, just one more. Like you knew you were going to try to hit a home or like it just the game it did, it wasn't even. It was just like, just these moments when you were a kid, everything was so severe. And if you rode your bike at night, just anything like that, it was.

[Miles Teller]

Just riding a bike. Like jazz, I think the beauty, you know, just riding bike. And in general, man, it just brings you back to that. I got, I knocked myself out once playing this game. I got a bunch of concussions when I was younger, but my sister just graduated like sixth grade. I was probably in fourth grade. So like I was trying to come up with a game. So we grabbed a basketball and like an aluminum bat and we're like, I will play basketball. So she pitched it, I hit it the first time. You know, it's like ding, ding. So my guy, I got to grip it tighter. Second time, fucking metal bat with a rubber ball, dude. I swung it, ding. Knocked myself out. My parents actually, they were saying that like the teachers in my school were thinking that my parents were beating me because I would come in like once a week or two just like shiner, like concussion, dude. And I had that little surfer cut, so I would try and just cover the. Oh yeah, the tennis ball with that.

[Theo Von]

Waves are intense.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Gnarly, gnarly swell today, boys.

[Theo Von]

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[Miles Teller]

We, you know, and I was filming a movie in London, and our. We had a house in Studio City, and that house got robbed while I was filming. And so I thought I was just going to, like. I thought we'd go back after filming, kind of bump up security measures, refortifying. Kelly's like, no, she's like. They, you know, they go through all of her stuff, and it is. It's a very violating feeling. So then we bought that Palisades house, and honestly, I would say it was the first kind of neighborhood in LA where my wife, A, felt really safe, and then B would be, like, excited to. To go back to LA whenever we'd be filming. I never heard her say that in, like, the 12 years we'd been dating. And, yeah, we, like, worked with some designers. My wife, like, really designed so much of it. And I had this feeling last night because we're in this rental. You know, obviously we've. We've been in rentals. And I was just laying in bed. I was like, man, this. You know, we're in a. The place we're in is, you know, it's a nice place. We don't have to worry about the, you know, the water, the air, the. You know, it's. It's really well done. But at the same time, it just.

[Theo Von]

It.

[Miles Teller]

With your mind, when you can't look around at any point and see anything that reminds you of your life, you know, everything is just. There's no attachment to. To anything. Oh, that's literally my house.

[Theo Von]

I don't know why we brought that up.

[Miles Teller]

That's my Bronco, though. That was my 75 Bronco. So beautiful. Dude, I had that thing for, like, eight years.

[Theo Von]

Why would we bring this?

[Miles Teller]

No, honestly, it's. It's. But to be fair, the first picture I saw, Kelly and I saw from our house, to know that it was actually burnt down was from tmz. Oh, like they sent a drone in There. And also they just. Because they started, the first homes they're talking about are like celebrity homes. And that's not fair because the community of the Palisades, all of our neighbors and that community, honestly, were people that had lived there for like 30, 40 years. It was, you know, it's people that had, like, you know, raise their kids there, were having their grandkids there. And a lot of those people, you know, their home burns down at like, 70 years old. It's like, we don't have time to. To rebuild. But, you know, there's like a little elementary school across the street, and they had these dudes on bikes with, you know, like, wooden boxes behind them. They would, you know, ride the kids home from school. It really was like. Like that movie Pleasantville. I don't know. It's just such a well done. Yeah. Community.

[Theo Von]

It's a nice place. Yeah, I've gone to a lot of like. Yeah, yeah, we used to go to a lot of recovery meetings up there. And it was just like, it would be the most nicest thing on Saturday. We'd pull up and people would.

[Miles Teller]

You go to the church on Via De la Pass? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the road I lived on. I lived down. I lived like two blocks, maybe even one block from that church because my buddy said he used to have meetings over there.

[Theo Von]

Dude. Yeah, they had some of the best meetings in the world were there, really. And it was just such a special energy over there. If you go walk and go over to that. That smoothie shop that's over there and they got those acai bowls.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And then they got the little restaurant right across the street from it. Yeah, that's right near that Starbucks in that big pink, like that whole village.

[Miles Teller]

Are you talking like the village and stuff?

[Theo Von]

Yeah, no, it's like there's that Starbucks.

[Miles Teller]

Okay.

[Theo Von]

And there's that little place that has breakfast and like, right around the corner.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

But, yeah, we go park at the Gelson's and sit there and people would talk before they a meetings, and then we'd walk over to the meeting together.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, good.

[Theo Von]

But it was just a nice. It was like. Yeah, man, that place is. It's a great place. I'm sorry that that happened, man. Were you guys able to go in and get stuff out or what was that like?

[Miles Teller]

No, I mean, so like, when the fire. When the fire started, like, we could see it start from. Because in that area, Via de la Paz, you kind of. You have a good vantage point. You got some. Some altitude to you. So we could see like where the fire started. And I say it was probably about three and a half, four miles maybe at our 12 o'. Clock. And the winds really weren't that bad at that point. It was scary because we were seeing the fire, you know, start to encroach on some homes. And so you're watching a home, you know, with this fire going towards the home, you're just feeling for that, that family or whoever's there. And then turn on the news and because there's one road out, I mean, it was already kind of like it got serious very fast. And you know, people were like abandoning their vehicles. You know, it's like women running with babies. And this was it within like an hour of this fire kind of starting. And so I was taking care of my grandma at the time because my grandpa had just passed away, like around Christmas. I was in the process moving her out with me. And so, you know, she's got some meds and she's slow moving. So I was like, hey, grandma, you know, maybe, no, no rush, but, you know, start getting your meds together. And yeah, I mean, we grabbed, grabbed a couple T shirts. I got like two Grateful Dead shirts. We thought we'd be in a hotel for like, you know, a couple, couple nights and. But no. I remember at one point my brother in law calling my wife and he's like, you know, make sure Miles grabs that, you know, Kobe jersey or that Eagles thing. And I was like, what I couldn't come to terms with. I just couldn't face the reality. A. I did not think our neighbor was going to burn down. There's like no brush. It would have to jump six lanes, which it didn't. But I just remember thinking like, where do you, you know, it's like, where do you stop? You know, if I take this off the wall, then there's just too much. I think it's kind of. I think it's kind of overwhelming. But we. It's funny because I always told Kelly, like, if a natural disaster happens, something like that, you're gonna drive the truckload, everything in the back, I'm gonna take my Bronco. But when stuff, when it's actually happening, you're like, no, obviously I have, you know, make sure my wife and, you know, grandma and you know, and our, our dog and stuff. So. No, we really didn't, we really didn't grab. I'm saying even little, like when you're at home, I imagine you have like a favorite coffee mug. If you drink coffee or just something that you have has some history to it. It's like just none of that stuff, truly. It's like everything I've acquired in life gone. Yeah, it's wild.

[Theo Von]

Was there feelings after that? Like, because that's like. I mean, that's such a, you know, it's traumatic. It's. Is there anything in a weird way, and I don't mean this. Is there anything cathartic in some weird way about it? Does that sound crazy? Not a real thing.

[Miles Teller]

No, I think.

[Theo Von]

And maybe because I've.

[Miles Teller]

No, because there's some people that have lost. I don't know if it was their. Their, you know, main home. There are certainly people that have talked about that kind of baptism of it. But I told, I told Kelly this was like a couple days after I said, look, I know at some point, you know, especially when we have kids, if we're fortunate to have kids and we're giving them life lessons, that's what it's all about. Parent, you've been through the thing they're going through, more or less. And I said, you know, the fact we'll be able to sit down with our kids and say, you know, when your mother and I were, you know, your age or this age, we lost everything. And we figured it out. And I know that as a couple, that really is going to just make us stronger. We didn't have any cracks before, but certainly, like when you go through something like this, you know, it bonds you in such a. In such a way. And then she told me, stop. Bright sighting me. I said, what the is bright sighting? She goes, it's this term I'm learning on Instagram. It's. Or tick tock. She's like, bright siding is when you're telling somebody this thing, no matter what it is, something traumatic, and they're like, well, look on the bright side. You know, you have your health.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

And it's like it kind of invalidates the thing they're. They're going through. But I know what you're talking. I know for me, I guess I feel that more like when I move, if I ever move, and you go through everything you own, you're like, oh, my God, that's what. I don't care about half this.

[Theo Von]

That's what I'm thinking. I'm more just like spring cleaning. I'm like, yeah, dude, that's a horrible comparison. Yeah, but.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, no, but it's. It's valid. I had a. This director I worked with, his house burned down and he. He felt like it was. And we know. Right, you shouldn't have attachment to things. Right. That. That doesn't really. Really fill you up as much as relationships do and this and that. But the things I'm talking about, they weren't. Even though they're considered material. It was a home. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's true.

[Miles Teller]

That's the other field of just, like, not having a. Whatever home means to you. Like, a place where you go back, it's yours. Like, we've been getting kicked out of rentals. Like, they tell you we have it for three months, they're like, now somebody else coming in. So that. That just kind of thing.

[Theo Von]

Damn.

[Miles Teller]

But, yeah. Yeah, it's all good.

[Theo Von]

Well, thanks for entertaining some of those questions. Yeah, I didn't. And maybe you've talked about that ad nauseam, man. And. Yeah. And I'm sorry if you have. I just didn't. I didn't really think about that. I watched your movie, dude. Yeah?

[Miles Teller]

What'd you think?

[Theo Von]

I watched it last night, man. I thought it was really great. I thought it was one of the things you talked about a few minutes ago. Made me kind of even think about it. It was like, when you look around your. Your rental place that you're at now.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

That there's not even things that are your. Like, there's not pieces of you that are spaces or memories or you can walk past something and think, like, oh, Kelly and I were there. That's, you know, one of our first vacations. Or that's where we got a. Or different things like that. Right. And it kind of reminded me of just some of the, like, the archives that. Because the movie's called Eternity, and it's basically. Can you just give me a brief summation of what it's like? Because you'll do a better job.

[Miles Teller]

So when you die, they. You get put with somebody and. And then you, you know, you take a train, and then you get kind of deposited. Deposited in this, like, Grand Central Station meets, like, World's Fair kind of place. You get an afterlife coordinator. And then they. The rules are you, you know, you get to live eternally. You pick an eternity, but once you pick, you're in that for, you know, forever.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

And so the eternities have different themes. There's, like, capitalism world or, like, smoking world.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. Marilyn Manson world. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Marilyn. Yeah. Manson World. Chocolate world. Yeah. You can get down with, you know what. Yeah. Whatever. Somebody was like, I want to. Eternity, where it's like Miami beach spaghetti and cocaine. I was like, well, that's Miami. That's like. I think you just. You can actually go there now. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

That's a night at Carbone.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carbon is so good.

[Theo Von]

Carbon is.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah, Beaut. I thought it was just beautifully shot. I just thought it was really. Just a really original script. You know what I mean?

[Theo Von]

It's like, it's so original. And it makes you think about, like, you know, if I do pass away, it gives me. It gave me like, well, you will pass away. Oh, yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I'm just thinking, well, I don't know. Biohacking is crazy right now.

[Theo Von]

Haters. A lot of haters.

[Miles Teller]

If I do pass away. Well, yeah.

[Theo Von]

Debatable.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But it was great because your. Your character's wife, all.

[Miles Teller]

Elizabeth Olsen.

[Theo Von]

Elizabeth Olsen, right. She passes away and then she has to choose between her first love. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

This dude who's been waiting.

[Theo Von]

He.

[Miles Teller]

He passed away in the Korean War. He's been waiting like 60 something years. And for her.

[Theo Von]

Right. And you who are at the. Of like at the Grand Central Station now too, you guys are both kind of waiting for her in a way.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Well, I didn't know he was. I didn't know he was still waiting.

[Theo Von]

Right.

[Miles Teller]

For her.

[Theo Von]

Are we giving away too much of you think?

[Miles Teller]

No, that's. That's in. I think that's like in the trailer.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. It's all like in the first 10 minutes. But it's kind of fascinating because then she shows up and now you two are kind of vying for her affections, and then who does she stay with? Does she stay with this first love that she lost and didn't get to have a life with, or does she stay with this love that she already got to have a life with?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And it's just. And there are.

[Miles Teller]

There was like, some people were telling me, you know, it's like, oh, man, that's. That's my. My nightmare. You know, people that have been, you know, had, you know, been widowed and moved on. This and that. But it, but look, I think it. But it does. It really makes you think about. Yeah. Your own life and what's beyond and, you know, family and I don't know.

[Theo Von]

Well, and how long love lives. Yeah, I think that was part of it. Like, I remember when I've done this, a little bit of a weird side bar. But, like, when I've done like dmt, it's like the only feeling that you're left with is that the only important feeling as it feels like you're leaving the existence is that love was the most important thing. And that everything else was just a complete fool's errand.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. And also that. Because we were talking about. But you get this feeling that your. Your consciousness, which is who we are, is really, you know, this really is just kind of this vessel, this physical form totally is. But who you are exists. When you ever. You've been in a situation where you feel like you've left your body, but you still, you know, think like yourself, you still feel like yourself and that. That kind of remains intact. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. That's a good. And we're not saying that, you know what I'm talking about, but.

[Miles Teller]

Right.

[Theo Von]

We're just saying that. That, yes, the consciousness of who we are still exists outside of our vessels. That's what certain experiences have made me feel like.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And that. That consciousness is still able to extend, to evaluate that. Love is so important. Yeah. That's one thing that I thought.

[Miles Teller]

No, but also I've thought about that too. I'm like. I think the most important thing in life for me really is, you know, it's like relationships, you know, to me, that's the thing. When I'm. I imagine when I'm sitting there on my deathbed, if I'm lucky enough to.

[Theo Von]

If you die.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, if. If I die, too, because we have.

[Theo Von]

A new package for you.

[Miles Teller]

Right. Sure. I can't wait. Give me that longevity, you know, whatever it is.

[Theo Von]

We got a new su. A new Peptide for you.

[Miles Teller]

Perfect, dude. You know, Kelly will show me, like, one thing. Somebody talking about some product. I'm like, yeah, sure. Sounds good. Was it bee pollen, sperm? Like, yeah, I can put it in a smoothie, baby. But no, but it's. It's like relationships, like, to me, that's. That's something I'm not gonna be thinking about how this, you know, that. That Bronco or that movie or that I'm gonna be like, man, I'd be thinking about, you know, my wife, my, you know, my buddies, my, you know, my family, my. My relationship with whatever higher being I have. And I think that's kind of the. And that's what I get the most. Like, the return from what you put into relationships. That's what. That's what you're going to get back. I just think that's. That's always kind of led me on a good path in life.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. It's like, I know sometimes I feel like I've almost spent too much time working. One of the nice things, like, I recently kind of have gotten to take a break from touring because I'd been kind of touring pretty heavily for like, four or five years.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And maybe really for probably 15 years. And. And so, like, I've been able to, like, go to football games and like, maybe try to plan a date and go on a date, you know, not be like, yeah, try to pick up the pieces all the time and stuff like that. And, like. Yeah, just things like that. To be able to see a friend, like a couple weeks in a row or know that you're going to be able to keep the relationship going. Stuff like that is. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

And when it's not just sandwiched in between, it's like, okay, I have one and a half days. You know, I have this thing on Friday, you know, this thing on Monday. Whatever. Yeah, that's never enjoyable.

[Theo Von]

It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like you need to.

[Miles Teller]

Have some time to yourself. And I've, like, even with filming, man, I've kind of always been pretty good. Obviously, if it's. I have no problem going, like, back to back to back if it's the right thing. But other than that, it's. For me, it's got to be really special because you just. You take time. Like, I enjoy my miles. Life. I enjoy my life with my friends and my family and, you know, Kelly and this and that. So to have the time to, like you said, kind of nourish those relationships is so important.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You know, and just figure out who, like, I don't know, get back to what you like.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, man. Yeah. I. I thought it was interesting how in the movie. Oh, who is the. So you get to, like, the Grand Central Station. Right. Like this sort of this purgatory type of place.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And they connect you with an afterlife coordinator.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And then the funny thing is. Yeah. There's like. It's almost like this mall of, like, afterlife they're trying to sell you or shop to you. It's like, oh, here's one. It's just a Bed Bath and Beyond forever. You're just in a place. You're in a candle and lotion shop forever. Or. Here's one. It's at the beach. You're at the beach forever. Or skiing forever. And it's like all the. It's like, you know, Willie Nelson world. And it's just like everybody there looks like Willie Nelson, and that's all they do.

[Miles Teller]

People that love, you know, you guys love the same.

[Theo Von]

Right. So you can. Yeah. And you get to go there and you're going to meet other people that. That love Willie Nelson. And it's going to be Willie Nelson forever, right?

[Miles Teller]

Hell yeah.

[Theo Von]

But they give you like this afterlife coordinator like you said. And those characters were great in yours, man.

[Miles Teller]

Divine Joy Randolph, who won the Sporting Actress Oscar for the Holdovers. And then John early, who is a. I'm sure some people watching this like, know who John is. He's. He's got some really incredible stand up specials.

[Theo Von]

Bring him up. I wasn't. I don't know if I was familiar.

[Miles Teller]

With him or a couple shows too. John's. He's impressive, man.

[Theo Von]

Bro, they were killing me, dude. Some of the looks he was giving.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I know. He's pretty sassy in this movie, which.

[Theo Von]

I love was hilarious. Dude, I gotta touch base with this guy.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

I gotta watch more of his stuff. But yeah, dude, that was great. And then how. Yeah, it was just like, man, she'd had this love that had died in the war, you know, and it was like, oh, and she'd waited and then she'd met you and yeah, it was just like. And then like there was this moment where you realized that, yeah, I don't want to give any. I don't want to give any more away. But it was also harrowing to think of like how many, how many widows were. How many women were widowed by war, you know?

[Miles Teller]

Oh, yeah, right.

[Theo Von]

Like, how often did that happen? Pull that up actually. Can you see how many women were widow by.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. I mean, I forget what they said the average lifespan was for Norton. They stormed Normandy, but it was. They're getting mowed down. Wow.

[Theo Von]

It says For World War I alone, approximately 3 to 4 million women were widowed due to the roughly 9.7 million military deaths. Wow.

[Miles Teller]

Wow.

[Theo Von]

Other conflicts show varied figures. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Because also women were married pretty young. Do you like torn?

[Theo Von]

Yeah. You almost get addicted to it though, in some ways. Yeah. Because it's, it's a great time. It's fun. People you want to go see people that want to pay attention, you know?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And I like, I would start going to smaller markets. Like we did like 250 something markets over the past four years.

[Miles Teller]

Wow.

[Theo Von]

With this tour. And it was. Yeah, it's great. But then you start, it is like it starts to become a lot. It like, it just, it just, it just, it just was a lot.

[Miles Teller]

Imagine you're like, yeah, of course you want to, you know, that's.

[Theo Von]

You want to see everybody, you want to make everybody happy.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. And that's, it's like whenever I go somewhere and you know, if there's some event you Know, an event and you can tell, okay, these are actually fans. These aren't just, you know, scalpers or dudes trying to sell your autograph. It's like, yeah, of course I make movies for people to. To like to see them. And so the fans are a product of that. It's like, yeah, I love. I love doing that stuff. You just feel like, yeah, of course we're in the entertainment industry.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You know what I mean? It doesn't exist in a vacuum. Like, you want to bring a smile to somebody's face. Especially those smaller markets that don't get the kind of the ax that, you know, the other spots do.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, we've had so much fun. I mean, from places like Casper, Wyoming, to Beaumont to Toledo, I mean, we've done like, so many marketing. They're like, oh, well, these other places we can go to. And then we'll do like, a lot of just meet and greets after the show. We'll just go pop out and meet people. So. So, yeah, you know, you'll be sitting out there just hugging people and, like, checking in on folks and like, getting a temperature of humanity and stuff like that. And it feels good. It almost feels in a little way, like you live everywhere kind of in some ways because you realize that there's just so many great people, you know, who are like, a lot, like, are all kind of searching for some of the same things, you know, I think with our. With this podcast, it's sometimes it's a bit more than just kind of like, jokes and information. Sometimes it's like, just like kind of creating a connection, you know? Yeah. Show me that chart again, man. Thank you for asking, though, man.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah. Of course.

[Theo Von]

The Civil War had 620,000 to 750,000 military deaths. High widowhood. Let me see. World War I estimated around 325, 000 widows. World War II, around 405, 000 widows. Korean War. And that was the war that your co actor died in in this movie. Yes, around 36, 000 widows. But yeah, when you just think of all those women. And there was a moment where she said she went and sat at the boat docks and was waiting for his. For the boat he was on to come in. Yeah, yeah. Oh. So I think that was one thing that was neat about eternity to me was like, there's this fun, like, thing going on where you guys are like, you know, figuring out these different world, like the afterlife, and it's super entertaining. But then there's also like, there was this sort of like emotional, like kind of pretty emo emotional stuff going on with like, yeah, how do we look at love? And like, if you've already gotten to live one love, if you got to go back, would you choose a different one? And yeah, it was just.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, certainly. I mean, what I enjoyed about reading the script and kind of when we performed it was that it does. It never loses its kind of grounding and, and the stakes and the sincerity of it. There's some really funny moments and there's some kind of, you know, but nothing ever becomes like slaps. It's not, it's not a movie. We're just trying to get in as many one liners as we can. I think it's. It always kind of. It's just a delicate balance between having that sincerity and the love. And also I think, I do think it's really funny. Yeah, I think it's like, it's just. And we had, after the, we did the premiere in Toronto, man, we just had like at the after party, you could just tell people were kind of coupling off and just talking. It just makes you think. I think it's a beautiful, a beautiful film.

[Theo Von]

One of my favorite parts. Who just write in the beginning when they're driving in that car together. Dude, I could have watched those two people in that car.

[Miles Teller]

That's the northeast, dude. But also it's just couples that have been around for that long just this natural, just kind of, oh, you're not going to offend me. And just bullshit banter, bickering, complaining.

[Theo Von]

And they're both. Neither one of them is saying everything they're doing is just kind of like making the other one like whatever they're saying. Problem?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think my wife and I secretly enjoy to like kind of annoy each other. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Theo Von]

That's probably part of love. Probably.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

Like a little bit of annoyance, a little bickering. I didn't realize that the Elizabeth Olsen. Yeah. I didn't realize that she was related to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

I had no idea.

[Miles Teller]

I know. A pretty dynamic family. Yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

That's wild. Did you get to meet them? Did they come by the set?

[Miles Teller]

They did not. No, they did not.

[Theo Von]

It's so crazy because they had a childhood, stardom, lives that had to be so odd.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I know. It tends to. I mean. And they've become very successful, you know, in the design side of it. Yes, absolutely. I think it's, it's, it's tough.

[Theo Von]

Oh, it'd be A nightmare.

[Miles Teller]

Do you feel like I was that.

[Theo Von]

What did you feel like you started to become popular at a pretty young age? Do you feel like you were kind of baked into you already or do you feel like if it had been earlier, like, do you have any thoughts about that?

[Miles Teller]

Like, I think, I think for me things happened kind of at the pace that, that lined up with my own kind of maturity or life experiences because, you know, it's like I went to, went to college for four years and, and trained there and so yeah, I was like 22 when I did my first movie. Maybe like 20, maybe I was like 24, 25 when Footloose came out and Project X and that kind of thing. But now I was doing some college comedy type stuff. So that was all good, I think. Had I gotten, you know, really famous when I was like 17? I mean I was raised really well. I, you know, I never had to worry about my parents or somebody taking money from me, you know, which happens a lot. It's really unfortunate. That's, that's really a shame to lose trust.

[Theo Von]

Oh yeah.

[Miles Teller]

That young from loved One. I think that's gonna you up for the rest of your life, truly.

[Theo Von]

Oh, that's a good point.

[Miles Teller]

But yeah, for me it was pretty, it was like honestly pretty, pretty organic. I never, I felt like I was able to handle. And also I moved when I moved out to la, a bunch of my boys from high school all moved out. So I didn't, I didn't like need anything from la. I was, I didn't come to LA to like find myself. I'm like, no, I know, know who I am and me, you know, me and my buddies get a house or whatever in the valley and yeah, I always had like familiar faces around me.

[Theo Von]

Oh, that's so nice.

[Miles Teller]

Even my agent, I met her on my first movie. She's been the same ever since. Like that to me hasn't, hasn't changed. Yeah, you know, I think I was lucky in that sense that a bunch of my boys were like, yeah, we'll go.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's dope, dude. Were they acting too?

[Miles Teller]

The one, the one moved out. We played in a band together in high school. I think he was trying to do something maybe music wise, but no.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, it's a tough getting. LA is hectic. What was Yalls band name in high school?

[Miles Teller]

We were, we were the Mutes because we played the. We all started because we played like the homecoming parade and then the electric, the power went out for our generator so the amps. There was no sound. So that's enough of a reason to. You know. That's a band name right there. I think we actually were playing for swat. Like, on the SWAT float, which was.

[Theo Von]

Really, like, this, like, SWAT team.

[Miles Teller]

No, like, students working against tobacco.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You don't remember SWAT? It was like, dare and, like, SWAT.

[Theo Von]

No, dude, we. Bro, we had a dare officer Mr. Bob and Rip. He passed away. Everybody knew he was. Was, but he would, like, pull up and he was. He was a humongous man. And this is back when, if a man was very busy.

[Miles Teller]

What does DARE stand for again?

[Theo Von]

Drug abuse. Resistance Education.

[Miles Teller]

Because I can only just. I instantly just think of whatever the. The ones that people would make up their own.

[Theo Von]

Oh, the meme ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are some of the meme dead ones? I don't. I don't even know if I know any of them.

[Miles Teller]

No, I remember in high school, people would say, like, drugs are really expensive.

[Theo Von]

Oh, yeah.

[Miles Teller]

You know, Or.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, well, especially in Florida if you got some good drugs. But, dude, swat.

[Miles Teller]

So what happened with the officer?

[Theo Von]

It was students working against tobacco.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

What do you mean, working against tobacco?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, there it is, dude. SWAT was big spot. Was big time surprise, bro.

[Theo Von]

That's Sketch on the right. Zoom in. There's Sketch on the right.

[Miles Teller]

Dude.

[Theo Von]

What the Is he doing there?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, see? Inventors Laboratory. Big Tobacco. Like, Big tobacco is going down. Let's go. I don't even know what the. Because, Yeah, I mean, they would have meetings.

[Theo Von]

Bro, that is sketch. I can't even believe you guys. He was locked in with that.

[Miles Teller]

Well, that's not my high school, so he was. Yeah, but our float probably looks. You just needed some. Some dude with a flatbed and he just throws some streamers on it. Bro.

[Theo Von]

I never heard that in my life. I do.

[Miles Teller]

Funny.

[Theo Von]

I've never heard of it.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Okay. I do remember.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Try it on Perplexity. See what they got. Pull up some of the dairy.

[Miles Teller]

So what did this. What did Officer Bob.

[Theo Von]

Bob.

[Miles Teller]

What was his. What was his big moment? Yeah, see, drugs are really. Drugs are really exciting.

[Theo Von]

Don't actually recover ever.

[Miles Teller]

Jesus.

[Theo Von]

Heavy.

[Miles Teller]

Drop everything and run.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, those are. Yeah, but it was a lot of. It was like people screaming, I won't do drugs or whatever. But Officer Bob was huge, dude. And one year he pulled up and he could not get it. He couldn't even get out of his car. Right. So he had to do the talk from a megaphone from his vehicle. And people were like, what? And it just sounded, like, so garbled and Stuff and like. Oh, and then they would hide a sack of weed in some kid's bag or whatever in the audience. And a dog would just go, like.

[Miles Teller]

A real bag of weed?

[Theo Von]

Yes. Or something that the dog could smell.

[Miles Teller]

So I'm guessing it was so just okay.

[Theo Von]

Because it was like, yeah, we put weed on one of the kids and all the kids would be like, you.

[Miles Teller]

Know, and then they just sick a German shepherd on the kid. Yeah, easiest, dude.

[Theo Von]

Dude. Yeah, pretty awesome.

[Miles Teller]

We. Dude, there was some weird. There was some weird stuff in my. Florida. And every teacher's coach. Every. Every teacher in our high school was coach because they used to coach a basketball team or they could. I remember one dude, he coached the. It's like the debate team or something. And you still. He was still coach.

[Theo Von]

Oh, dude. Yeah, they would just pick, like, what. Whoever the lesbian teacher was at our school was also had to be the driver. Drama teacher for some reason.

[Miles Teller]

Like, that was ours for a minute. Our softball coach. Lesbian ended up a couple years after I graduated. She was having a relationship with like, a sophomore. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

It's unfortunate. And that's Florida. That's. Or that's.

[Miles Teller]

That's.

[Theo Von]

I don't know what that is, but that's.

[Miles Teller]

Well, a lot of the times it is Florida.

[Theo Von]

It's Florida. And that's softball.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

I don't know if it is or not, but yeah, I mean, there's a lot of inner.

[Miles Teller]

Have you ever been down to Key west, though? Key West's like my happy place.

[Theo Von]

Is it?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, just killer life. Some of the best, I think. Best live music countries like there. Austin, obviously, like in Nashville. Yeah, Austin or Key west, man. Just killer music. You just. Either you're walking around the whole time or, you know, if you. We go in a big group, everyone's just on these, like, little scooters. Every bar looks like it just went through a hurricane.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, I gotta go down there.

[Miles Teller]

So fun, dude.

[Theo Von]

I always hear Nick Swartzen loves it down there, though.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, he. He lived down there for. He's just supposed to go for like a couple weeks or something. Stayed at this hotel for some. For, like, months.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

He spent, like, almost a ton of.

[Theo Von]

Money, I think, like, almost just under a million.

[Miles Teller]

That's hard in Key west, too, because you will get them oysters still for like a quarter during happy hour. Oh, dude, I don't know how you spend a million bucks, actually. He needs to write a book. Yeah, he's about a million bucks in Key West. Oh, my God. Dude, you like.

[Theo Von]

He's a John Daly of Key West. Dude, what was I gonna talk about?

[Miles Teller]

I don't know.

[Theo Von]

Oh, dude. Oh, it was the. Oh, I feel like somebody's been blowing.

[Miles Teller]

Weed smoking here daily, baby. But SWAT this students working against tobacco field. Yes.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

And because if they're not doing it, that's true. Tobacco is just running rampant.

[Theo Von]

It's like Agatha Chris still.

[Miles Teller]

They're still rocking and rolling.

[Theo Von]

SWAT is Florida's statewide youth organization working to mobilize, educate and equip.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, it's specifically a Florida thing to.

[Theo Von]

Revolt against and declare tobacco. Yep. Wow.

[Miles Teller]

Wow, dude. Well, that makes. I thought it was like a national program.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

But I guess we never did go on field trips.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's it. No, you. This was a. This was an experimental program down there in the south. Dude, there's 400, there's 43 high schoolers vape now.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Oh yeah. There's 4, 300 active youth though, in the SWAT. SWAT youth in the state of Florida. And so shout out to them. We had this thing so we had to build a float one time. It was for the homecoming parade.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And my buddy Patrick, we had to make like this tree. Ours was like the tree of life or something or whatever or keep growing or something like that. And my buddy Patrick, he was gonna. We're like, dude, Patrick, you stay in the tree, stay in the middle, light up a blunt in there and just blow smoke out of the. Like if you blow enough smoke that some of it'll just will keep a hole in the top of the tree. Some of it will leak out. So we're pushing this down the street and everybody will, will and nobody will know, but they'll be just. You'll be in there to super high.

[Miles Teller]

And it's all like, you know, oh, you're saying. Okay. So I was thinking like you cut a hole out of the trunk so it's like his face and just like roasting blunts or something. But you're saying just a little hole just so he could breathe. Yeah, but he was hot boxing this tree.

[Theo Von]

Well, we forgot about everything. We just thought put him in the tree. Like in the trunk of the tree. The trunk is fully built around him. It's like this whole paper mache and wire setup that's going to be on a float and then there's this big kind of bulb on top of him. Almost like a very small water tower would be kind of look. And that is all adorned with green paper machine everything. That's a big tree. And they'll put A hole on top of that. So, Patrick, you just stand in there, keep smoking months, and some of the smoke will leak out the top. It'll be awesome.

[Miles Teller]

We'll love it. And you'll be very high, dude.

[Theo Von]

He was so high, dude. It's like a two hour parade.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And you couldn't see any of the smoke coming out. It was just him, like smoking countless black and mild blunts in this tree. And then we got him there, dude.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Oh, he didn't. He couldn't go to school for one whole week. He couldn't go to school for one whole week, dude. His mom had to stay home with him. He was. It was the most high person that we'd ever seen in our area. It was fun.

[Miles Teller]

Dude couldn't go to school for a week.

[Theo Von]

And he hasn't been.

[Miles Teller]

He hasn't been the same since.

[Theo Von]

He hasn't. Yeah, he hasn't been the same. What was something like. How long did you guys. How long did you guys.

[Miles Teller]

Patrick, it's gonna be awesome, dude. He's gonna sit there, smoke as much weed as you want, you know, and.

[Theo Von]

Sometimes you hit for the first like two blocks you could hear him. Yeah. Well, can y' all see the smoke? But after that, there was no sound coming out of there. It was almost like dead.

[Miles Teller]

Probably died for a second.

[Theo Von]

Well, he was almost like when those kids got trapped in that mine, you know, after the second day, they couldn't hear anything.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

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[Miles Teller]

Mean, I think I've been fortunate enough to work on some, you know, some great projects with some great actors, for the most part, some really incredible directors that wanted to be the first one there. Last. Last one to leave. I just think it's important that, you know, kind of right off the bat, people understand. It's like, I'll be here for anything you need. Because a lot of the time, you know, if you got a maybe for the shot or whatever, the eyeline's tight. They want you to work with just like a, you know, an X on the thing. And some people are really good working that. For me, I have to feel the connection with, you know, whoever I'm working with. And so for a bigger budget movie, sure, there's certain things that you can kind of build into your contract to make you as comfortable as possible, but at the end of the day, I don't really. I don't really give a shit, man. I'm pretty low maintenance. It's just like, whatever, whatever we need to do to make the best movie possible, you know, I'm in. I'm fully in. Anything you need from me, I'm. I'm here. And also, I think I approach film or just acting in general. Like, I mean, I grew up loving, you know, I played sports and every sport. You know, it was like team sports always and playing music and that kind of just being a link in the chain. Like, to me, that's, you know, that's how it has to. To happen. So I enjoy, I enjoy that camaraderie. I enjoy that teamwork. As I've moved up in my career, it's. I take it upon myself to really, like, lead from the front. You know, if I'm number one on the call sheet, like, it's to, it's. And if I'm producing the thing, like, it's important to me to know everybody's name and, you know, just to feel like we're all, we're all kind of in this thing together. I think when you're making a movie and you're just kind of come out for your stuff, go back to your trailer, it's fine, and everybody works differently. But just for me, I need to really feel that kind of camaraderie.

[Theo Von]

Part of the squad.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, part of the squad, man.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. It is so much fun, like, even, like being on a being because the fact that something gets created really out of nothing, right? Like there's.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Words get created and put onto a page and then you want to make sure there's enough.

[Miles Teller]

I think writing is probably the hardest out of all of the, the disciplines. I can't imagine just staring at a blank page, you know, page one, scene one.

[Theo Von]

You don't start thinking about, you don't do that stuff.

[Miles Teller]

What, right.

[Theo Von]

Will you write a script or.

[Miles Teller]

No, no, I'm, I, I, I think I'm better at when, you know, if writers already have an idea or I can make. I feel like I'm good at kind of collaborating within the scene work and framework of the script and I'll certainly kind of help shape things 100%. I think most actors, through improvisation or through, you know, talking with the writer, absolutely inform, you know, the material to a good amount. Some scripts you don't really need to touch at all. But I think I'm better at coming in. I don't have the first idea, but I'm good at. Okay, that's great. And, and now this. But also I, I truly believe in like, best idea wins. And so when you work with a director who's really collaborative and whose ego isn't so precious to where they can take, you know, inspiration from, you know, the people around them, I think that's, that's really beautiful. I think you have to feel collaborative. I think the only time I get upset when I'm filming is when I feel like I'm working with like a dictator and that I don't feel comfortable to kind of speak, speak up about. So I don't like closed minded people. Closed minded people. To me, that's when I, I guess I don't like, I really don't like authority figures. And I thought getting into arts, like, that's kind of the, that's a great path for me because we're all, you know, it's collaborative medium in nature. But yeah, I just, I don't like when people lead with an iron fist too much.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of crazy. Dude. What did I see? I'm trying to think of something else. Oh, one part of the movie that was interesting to me was there was a moment where they were kind of where she had chosen an eternity, so she chooses one of the men. But then they, you can go look at archives. You can kind of go back into a museum of your life. Okay.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, that's a really, it was interesting part of it.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, it was just neat to see like, like how that, it's just nice to see that. It's if, if that h, like if we pass away, which you are a believer of that, that we get to go through almost like this zoo where there's different exhibits of scenes from your life that.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Your memory. Yeah. Your memories. You know, I think people think that term like core memories now is something that's kind of become in vogue.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that was kind of fantastical, but that was one thing that I thought was pretty dope about it. Oh, what about a heist movie? Dude, I just saw this heist. See if you can.

[Miles Teller]

How about that loot the Louvre. I mean, that's the. I mean, that wasn't a movie. That's the freaking news, dude.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

But that is wild. I mean, how the Louvre jewelry heist unfolded. Yeah.

[News Reporter]

On the south side. The heist of minutes Bridge crane. Here's how it happened. At 9:30 on Sunday, four individuals arrived on scooters and a truck that had mechanical ladder attached to the back of it. Two of them ascended to the balcony and used power tools to carve into the outside window.

[Miles Teller]

It's crazy. None of that. I mean, I have alarms on my windows if something opens.

[News Reporter]

Immersed inside the Apollo gallery that houses all of the Louvre's special royal jewels and use their saws to break into two of those cases. In the meantime, we've been told that the security guards really quickly got people out of that room. This very wing of the Louvre also contains the Mona Lisa. So it's the most sort of precious things in France are there. But only 75% of the rooms have security cameras in them. Four minutes later, they emerge with eight precious items, including tiara necklaces, a beautiful brooch, and. And a crown.

[Theo Von]

How'd they get away, Nick?

[News Reporter]

Worn by.

[Theo Von]

They escaped out the window and they.

[Miles Teller]

Took off on scooters that they had planted.

[Theo Von]

Dude, that seems like almost. It would be.

[Miles Teller]

You just think like more. More security.

[Theo Von]

It's like what you and I would decide. Yeah, yeah, you guys would decide like, hey, let's go get the Louvre.

[Miles Teller]

Let's. Let's steal that. Steal that crown.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, my wife is upset. She doesn't have a crown or whatever.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And then you're like, all right, let me see how I can figure it out.

[Miles Teller]

Give us nine minutes. No, but also it's like, so what then they sell this. Like, do they take it apart and sell it on the black market? Do they just need to hold on to it until, you know, like after generation. Generation. And then try and then say, get.

[Theo Von]

Rid of it up somewhere?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Theo Von]

How do you get rid of something like that?

[Miles Teller]

That.

[Theo Von]

Oh, it's almost pretty magical that they.

[Miles Teller]

Were able to do it, but I mean, no, I think it's. Yeah. I mean, it certainly gives, you know, truth to these. These. These heist movies and stuff. You're like, ah, no way. It's like, well, you know. Yeah, you can do with just a little saw.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Actually, and a scooter. You don't even need, like, switching identities. And it's like. No, but that's what I was running when the dude's in there, like, banging his, like, just like, carving through this glass. Nobody. It's like. Because obviously it was full of people. Yeah. No, that's incredible to me, you know.

[Theo Von]

Quiet. Quiet down. I can't hear. The guided tour over here, dude. That's crazy, bro. And the Mona Lisa, dude. Mo Lisa. That looks more like a dude, I think.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, but, yeah, that was stolen. It was stolen at one point. Not in this, but I think back in the. Was it like the 70s or something? Mona Lisa was stolen.

[Theo Von]

I wonder if it was really stolen or somebody faked having. See, this is what I think happens sometimes. These museums fake having stuff stolen to get people to come to the museum or to add, like, texture and story to their place. Yes, the money.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. 1911.

[Theo Von]

Yes, the monolith was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre.

[Miles Teller]

The Louvre needs to button up, dude. Is like, what are you guys doing? Doing? No wonder you keep getting robbed. It's like, obviously not that hard, dude.

[Theo Von]

It's a halfway house for art, dude. They gotta figure this out, dude. He just got a ring camera.

[Miles Teller]

My guy, like, what are you doing?

[Theo Von]

He disguised himself. He disguised himself as a museum employee. Hid overnight inside the museum. That's the move. And took the painting the next morning by removing it from its frame and concealing it under his smock. The theft was not discovered until the following day. And the painting was hidden in Perugia's apartment in Paris during that time, dude, when I was. When I was growing up.

[Miles Teller]

You can't tell anybody about it.

[Theo Von]

Right.

[Miles Teller]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Theo Von]

You can't even get.

[Miles Teller]

You can't put it on display. I have no. I really don't know how you move.

[Theo Von]

This stuff and you get high and definitely tell somebody.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, for sure, for sure. That's how. I mean, that's kind of usually how they end up catching. Yeah. You know, criminals on that most wanted list. Like, they. They slip up, they tell somebody something.

[News Reporter]

Something.

[Theo Von]

Bro, I'm so high right now. Don't tell anybody.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

But I murdered a couple people.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, yeah. Great. Yo, Wild. Yeah. Remember that? I told You. Last night, like, I was just, man, we were up. Yeah, up. You said you murdered someone. I said I did. Like, yeah, we were both. It was a goof. Yeah, yeah, that was a, that was a goo.

[Theo Von]

What? You've had so many interesting experiences. You got to work with Tom Cruise. Was that pretty fascinating? Yeah. Did, did you get to meet him before you got to work with him? And sorry if some of this seems like a little bit petty, but I don't know anybody that ever met him.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, yeah, no, Tom. I mean, yeah, Tom's, Tom's great. I flew. It was this, I had worked with that director before. I had done two movies with him, I think at that point. No, I had done one movie with him at that point. But yeah, I mean, I flew, I had to audition for it. I think there was, they were down to like a couple guys flew and you know, but did a. Yeah, audition with Tom. He's, he's like, he's very disarming. I mean, I, but for some reason I, I, I didn't feel like I was going to be nervous around him. I have like, obviously an immense amount of respect for the guy, but he's, he's such like a consummate professional and he is, he's one of our great, great actors. And his filmography, I think if you attach commercial and critical. I think this run that he's, you know, has went on multiple times through his career is going to be very hard to, to touch. But yeah, he's, he really cares about the work and he labors over, he labors over the script. I mean, we would go, we would meet, we would have a meeting or we're filming. He's like, all right, we're meeting. We're going to talk about, you know, this scene that exists on page like 50 or something, but you always start page one, scene one, and you start from the very beginning. And then three hours later when we've had all these side conversations about just different parts of the script, by the time you get, get to the scene you met, were there to meet about, it's like, ah, well, it's time to go. We'll meet tomorrow. But nobody works harder. He knows everybody's name. He's first one in, last one to leave. But that, that movie, I mean, that movie, yeah, that movie took a, a long time to make. Everybody was so committed. And also, like, you have to work in part and parcel and in concert with the Navy, you know, I mean, Navy doesn't stop be in the Navy. So if we're filming on a carrier. We're filming it, you know, in Top Gun or we're filming all these places. These guys are actively, you know, training non stop. So. Yeah, it was a lot, it was, it was a lot to, to kind of work out. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

So you're having to like work like in between certain days while they're doing stuff or at night while they're.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, like, I remember when we were on the carrier, we could maybe we had like, you know, two hour window for something to be up on, on the top deck. But yeah, that was. Yeah, we're on the carrier for two weeks. And I remember I, I walked by this one sailor that's like one of my first few days being there. And even though you're on this giant carrier, like you feel like you're on a submarine because the hallways are very cramped. Everything is metal. There's nothing for, for company comfort. There's nothing extraneous like that is an active carrier. It's, it's a wartime, you know, carrier. But it's very.

[Theo Von]

A weapon.

[Miles Teller]

It's very, It's a weapon. I mean, we're launching, you know, aircraft from it and so. But when you're walking around, I mean, all of the hallway, everything is so tight. Even though it's this massive vessel. And I walked by this one sailor and I was like, hey, yeah, I was like living the dream, huh? He just turns to me and he goes, nightmares are also dreams. And he said, it's so cold. I was like, that is. We're on the Theodore Roosevelt. Yeah. But no, I just, I, I don't know. I have so much nightmares are all. Nightmares are also dreams. Yeah. Because I mean, that's a good. Depending on what your job is on that carrier. I mean, your job placement, you might be seven or eight, you know, decks below and you know, just the nature of operations. Sometimes, like you're kind of, that's kind of your, your territory. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Man, do you start so much respect for.

[Theo Von]

Oh yeah.

[Miles Teller]

When you think of terrorists, best what people go through.

[Theo Von]

We're trying to maybe have Gary Sinise come on. I know he's.

[Miles Teller]

He is. There's nobody that's done more. Yeah, that guy is. It's truly been his, like life's mission. Yeah, he's fantastic.

[Theo Von]

To support veterans.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, absolutely. Because it's not like the VA like, because I did this movie about guys coming home from war is called thank you for your service. And it was based on this book, Real Guys. And that's kind of what you Learn. It's like the VA is not broken, it's just overwhelmed. And so, you know, and for guys to kind of unpack. And our writer director was telling me, he's like, no, Miles. We've known how to send guys to war, men and women to war, for centuries. Since the beginning of time, we've known how to create a soldier, but we still don't really know how to bring them back. And it is, it's really complicated. Those programs that are, you know, working for, you know, non profit, they can only take so many people. Funding is really important.

[Theo Von]

And the people. Sorry, go on.

[Miles Teller]

No, I was just saying it's, it's really, it's really tough. And also just with mental health in general, the amount of training that it takes for somebody to be able to appropriately deal with someone with, you know, if it's ptsd, if it's bipolar, if it's schizophrenia, whatever it is, it takes a really, it takes a long time to train somebody and to be able to get them to sit with the person and be able to potentially, you know, change their meds a little bit. Somebody that they trust, somebody who has those skills to deal with it. It's very tough. And yeah, that's actually something I'm. Yeah, I have a lot of advocacy for, I think. And also when you talk to people, I think most. I think a lot of people have somebody, you know, in their family or with friends that are, you know, dealt with that and it's, it's, it's just. Yeah, it's really tough. I think I have, yeah, just immense amount of empathy. And that stuff's always, you know, it's more or less. It always kind of. That some traumatic event happened at some age and that leads to, you know, these, these mental health issues.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's such a great statement. We don't know how to bring these people home. And then how much vat, like at, you know, at. Even at a governmental level, how much value, you know, should there be just as much of a training and untraining program, you know, as much as you're training people for military and for combat, should there be just as much of an untraining?

[Miles Teller]

And also these guys, you know, they, the guys that they go to war with, those are the guys that understand more than anybody what they went through. But then, you know, they go from being in, you know, battalion and you know, being those guys, and then they come home and everybody kind of disperses and, you know, it's. Yeah, it's, it's tough.

[Theo Von]

Well, it's like you were saying earlier, just like being able to be part of a group and have that, you know, and then suddenly it's different. Or suddenly, even if shared life experience, you're put on leave or something because you're a mental condition, then that's got to be even scarier because now are you maybe struggling, but also you're away from your group. Right.

[Miles Teller]

And also each, like, each, you know, depending on what job you're going for in the military, you know, infantry, different branches, you know, you need. It's a numbers game. We need numbers at all times. And so some of these, you know, some of the boot camps are, you know, X amount of weeks, and it's like, here you go, Here's a gun. And when you get more kind of. Of, I guess, tier one senior.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Well, I'm just saying, like our special Forces guys, I mean, those. Those guys have been through, you know, a lot of training, and they're. They're. You're usually not in those groups until you're, you know, you're certainly not 18. As a Navy SEAL, it takes, you know. Yeah, a couple years.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, it's been. It was. I was. I went to this. To this football game last week, going to the Vanderbilt football game, and there were two.

[Miles Teller]

Did you go to Vandy?

[Theo Von]

I didn't, but they just happened to be in Nashville, and I became buddies with their quarterback.

[Miles Teller]

That quarterback's a real deal. Yeah, bro.

[Theo Von]

He's such a great guy. You would love him, dude. Yeah, he's come. We went to a UFC fight together. Actually, you weren't at that.

[Miles Teller]

Which one? I've been out of the mix for a little bit just because of the.

[Theo Von]

House stuff, but seven months ago, maybe. I don't remember which one it was. I can't.

[Miles Teller]

How great are those? It's the best.

[Theo Von]

Well, dude, you know, at the end.

[Miles Teller]

Of the day, they're gonna fight. Yeah. And there's just. And the time in between is great. You just hang for a little chat and then it's just when that music comes on, forever's coming in just the crowd, I think Madison Square Garden especially, or. That's good, you know, or. I imagine you were at some of those Connor fights during his heyday.

[Theo Von]

I got to go to one with him and Dustin. That was. But when he came out, it was just.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I think I saw you. Yeah, I saw you at that one.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I know. Dustin's your guys. It's a shame when that kind of generation. You're on out to the Next group of fighters. But yeah, Dustin's. He's the man.

[Theo Von]

They have so many great guys. But also being at those events is so much fun. And you also realize that you are nothing like cuz there's some badasses coming out thing. It's like no matter if you think you're cool or not, you were sitting there looking in awe at some warriors. You know that when it comes down to it, like they're the peace.

[Miles Teller]

It's one on one. Oh, you know what I mean?

[Theo Von]

And it's just like such a test of will and like. And man or woman and like what do you like? It makes you ask yourself a lot of things. It's. Yeah. I find that whole world is pretty fast.

[Miles Teller]

Like I remember in high school, man, like you know, I'd be, you know, I played baseball and.

[Theo Von]

Were you pretty good in high school?

[Miles Teller]

I was, yeah. No, I pitched up until like I said, it took me a minute to hit my gross spurt. But yeah, I was like, you know, studio good. You know, kind of early years and then.

[Theo Von]

Oh, there's probably.

[Miles Teller]

But I was saying, you know, even with the football players, like the wrestlers, when you looked at the wrestler's condition compared to the football players, like you couldn't even compare. Like a lot of my buddies are wrestlers. They're cutting 10, 12 pounds in high school. Yeah. Like to have that discipline at 15 to be like, now I'm skipping lunch, I gotta, you know, I gotta sweat, I gotta do a sauna suit or just.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, be crazy.

[Miles Teller]

Not a discipline for those driving down the.

[Theo Von]

I remember driving through my neighborhood and my buddy Paul would literally, literally be running. And this is when we didn't even know we had a wrestling team at our school. Right. I think it was like the first year they started, he'd be running down the street in a bunch of trash bags and like, oh my God, like he did something bad at home or whatever. Like we just didn't know what it.

[Miles Teller]

Like a punishment. Yeah, that's it. It's. I mean it was crazy. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But yeah. Dude. Do you start to think like, okay, so now you have like kind of like a filmography of your own work. I don't know if that's the right term, but that's the right word. Do you start to think, okay, this is a genre I would like to do or I loved that so much. I'd like to find a more unique way to do that. Like, is that something that an actor starts to think about? How do you start to think about. Do you start to think about a little bit of, like, how many movies you want to do or, like, what kind of things come into your mind, like, at your kind of juncture in your career as far as the work goes.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I think when I. I first started out, and even, I guess when I was in college and be doing different scenes and stuff in class, I always wanted to, like, I enjoyed drama as much as I, you know, enjoyed comedy. I actually kind of started out when I was in high school. You know, everybody kind of knew me as, like, the class clown, and I would play, like, the comedic relief in plays and stuff. And then I remember doing this very serious monologue and the whole class just started laughing like they couldn't take me seriously. And I remember that pissed me off because I was like, oh, I've lost my audience. Like, they're. I. They just.

[Theo Von]

Oh, they're locked into that. I'm a clown.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. And so they like. I. I was like, oh, okay. I. Okay, now I need to kind of work on this other stuff. I was like, because, like, nobody. I didn't want to, like, not be taken, you know, seriously for something. But so I knew starting out, like, I always. I had an appetite. I think that's really what it comes down. It's like, what are your interests? So I've done movies with music. I grew up playing a bunch of instruments. I haven't done a sports movie yet. Love sports, military, my family, my friends. I've done some that. So I've done like a good amount. Like, blue collar stuff. I like that. But I think as far as the genre goes, every once in a while, yeah, you'll watch a film, or maybe it's a certain director who works in a certain genre. You're like, yeah, I would love to do that. But I think, yeah, it really just comes down to, like, taste and interest. I think I have a pretty wide range of. Of interests, and I don't really necessarily care what the genre is as long as it just feels authentic to me. Can you feel that you can make a bad version of any genre?

[Theo Von]

Yeah, I guess you can just feel that when you read the script, you're like, I can see this. I can figure this out.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I. I think I've been fortunate enough to now in the beginning of. Of most careers, right. People are like, oh, why'd you do that? And this. That's like, yo, you thought I had, like, multiple options. Like, what are you talking about? Like, no, dude, you're just trying to work professionally. Like, if you, if I. If you can pay your bills and it's tough, man. You know, how many. Like, you're starting out, it kind of. I think like, in your 20s, there's a lot of actors kind of. We can all play teenagers, this, that, whatever. Then when you get older, it's like your audience, you know, wants to grow with you. You got to kind of mature with them, you know, it's like. I imagine a lot of my fans now have, like, kids and stuff, you know, and that's great. And so I just try to. I don't know. Yeah, I think your best asset would be, I guess, when you read a script, if. If I think it's good, is it. And I. For the most part, I've kind of just went with my instincts and gut. But for the most part, a lot of my career has been, you know, a director's got to take a chance on you. Like, I played this boxer, Vinnie Pazienza.

[Theo Von]

My buddy just sent me a link to it. I haven't watched it.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, bleed for this. That's how I met Dana White, because Vinnie's like Dana's favorite boxer all time. And he loved the movie. Loved the movie. That's how I got plugged in with UFC early on.

[Theo Von]

My buddy just.

[Miles Teller]

He just got in the boxing hall of Fame. Vinnie Shout Out Vinny.

[Theo Von]

Oh, he did.

[Miles Teller]

But he's a. Yeah, he's. He's just. Any pasians. The past manian devil. But.

[Theo Von]

But he. Look at him. That's him.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. So he broke his. So he was. He had won some titles early, and then he was kind of.

[Theo Von]

They.

[Miles Teller]

The promoters kind of thought he was. On the way out.

[Theo Von]

You played him?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, So I had, like. Yeah. So there's footage of him. I mean, with that halo on. Now, meanwhile, if you. If you, you know, mess up more or less with that halo on, you're gonna be paralyzed for life. And there's video of him, like, you know, doing some pretty sick rope work with that Halo one. Just working out like a madman. I don't want to give it away, but, yeah, it's considered, like, you know, just one of sports. All time. Great comebacks.

[Theo Von]

Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

The only movie I had come out, like, right before that, I was like, in fat or not fat, but pudgy friend shape. You know what I mean? Like, I was like, I don't need a six pack. That's just. That's BS, man. Like. Like, you need a six pack if you can't hold their attention with your acting. I mean, just all bullshit. I was thinking I was 25 and I used to not like, I was like, dude's ripped, he can't act.

[Theo Von]

Dang, dude. Yeah. There's so many great actors out there. I can, it's so, it's just fascinating to watch somebody just be able to create, to be able to carry a story, right and just be like an instrument. Just to be like a word on a page, you know.

[Miles Teller]

Well, it's, you know, it's like we're, we're shining a mirror up to, you know, society really. You're just kind of the great actors, right? You, you watch them and you obviously believe what they're doing, but then it makes you feel about, you know, your own life. And so it's beautiful. They just really understand kind of the human condition, human experience, I think because a lot of young actors will ask her like, what do you think's like so important this that I said I, I, I go. I think obviously start from the inside. We're from the inside out. And I think just two abilities or curiosities that will really age you is like, you know, just empathy. If you're somebody who just, you know, sees so many different, you know, way of life and you can feel for somebody other than yourself and, and then your curiosity. I think that's what's lent me to a lot of project side I've, I've ended up doing just because I think I've always had a, just high level of curiosity and empathy for, for other people.

[Theo Von]

Where do you think that comes from for you?

[Miles Teller]

I think just, yeah, I don't know. I guess the way I was rated, we did, we moved around a lot. Well, there was my family like on my mom's side there was a lot of trouble. Like my grandma, she's, she, she's, she buried all of her kids but, but one. And a lot of them died very young. And I think I come from, you know, a certain kind of stock that, and then my, you know, my uncle, he was a quadriplegic from the time he was like 17. So my entire life spending a lot of time in like nursing homes and you know, those kind of environments that can be fairly traumatizing for a young kid to just hearing like beeps and people wandering around with you know, maybe dementia and Alzheimer's and it can be scary and they're usually not the most well lit places. But we, you know, we're constantly kind of in those in environments, you know, and you know, feeding him at you know, you know, meals and I don't know, just different things like that.

[Theo Von]

I think you said wanting to take care of your grandmother whenever you were. You know, when you guys. House. Went through that trauma and stuff like that. Yeah, I could see that, I guess.

[Miles Teller]

And I moved around a lot. Like, I lived in, like, five states by the time I was 12.

[Theo Von]

Oh, God.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

So you have to be willing to open yourself up to people because you got to be liked. You got to be accepted. You got to be. You got to fit in. You got to find a way.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, but she's a kid.

[Theo Von]

That's harder for a kid.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. I think it was easier. Well, yeah, well, certainly kind of. It's all a part of the. I think how our personalities develop. Certain things happen in childhood.

[Theo Von]

Right.

[Miles Teller]

That's. Yeah, you can dig deep to figure out. Oh, that's why I am. Right. That's why I.

[Theo Von]

But it is, though, I think for a kid to move to a new place, that's a lot, you know? Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I told my parents when we first met, moved to Florida from South Jersey. I was like. I was like. Because I really loved South Jersey, and I was just like, I'm gonna paint my walls black. I'm gonna be a goth. You're gonna be embarrassed by me. I'm gonna wear Marilyn Manson shirts. When your friends come over, like.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, one of my favorite. One of my favorite friends.

[Miles Teller]

No, that's.

[Theo Von]

It.

[Miles Teller]

Just. I'm just thinking back on myself, like, paint my walls black.

[Theo Von]

I'm gonna paint my ceiling fan black. Has anybody ever even done that? It's just gonna make black air in the room. Dude. I. My buddy Jeff. Dude, he was. He was hilarious. We would go over to his house, and I've told this part of the story before, but we would. I go. We all. We'd all go outside and get high, and then I would come in the house, and I would. I would come in before everybody. I would tell his dad that they were high, right? Oh, yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, my God. Just to, like, save yourself.

[Theo Von]

Just. Just. Because here's what I love. I loved.

[Miles Teller]

You were high with them.

[Theo Von]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't tell him that part.

[Miles Teller]

No. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But I would say that they were high and whatnot, and they were seeming. Some of the behaviors they'd have been doing and seem. A little zest or whatever. Some of that. Throwing a little nugget like that, and you. You could kind of hear his.

[Miles Teller]

Put a cigarette on a lizard.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd see him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'd put A cigarette. He just. That energy took over, dude. If he thought like his, if kids, kids were being high and zesty, it scared him a little. But anyway, then I would sit in there and wait and they would come in and he would just be looking at him and they would. It was always like, do not tell my dad I'm high. Like, don't worry. And just seeing the dad figure him out, bro. I would, I would lay there in the other room crying of laughter. Just knowing that, that they're about to get beat. Yes. Knowing that this whole scenario had been created.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

But my buddy Jeff, dude, he had this like, anger sometimes. Sometimes. And he would go play that song. He had one CD and it was that song, you Gotta Keep them separated.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Oh, that's Offspring. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

He would go in his room, he would beat the drywall out of his room. And then every year for Christmas, his parents would redo the drywall. Yeah, that was his Christmas present.

[Miles Teller]

Every year it's. I had a buddy like that and then he ended up kind of working in a construction. And so now he, he, like, even as an adult, some whatever, kick a hole in his wall. But then he's patching it himself, like, you know what I mean?

[Theo Von]

Yeah, dude.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And Jeff is in, in the military too.

[Miles Teller]

Dude.

[Theo Von]

Shout out Jeff. And shout out the. The least favorite singer of all spring. He came up to a show one time and I told him that story. And I'd waited my whole life to tell him that story. Yeah, I was like, dude, we had so much fun. And my. Yeah, we just had so much fun. Dude. Dude, those.

[Miles Teller]

I think that's what's nice. Growing up like in the town. I grew up with such a small town. It's like. Yeah, I mean, our, if we skipped school, it was to like go float down the river and we would go to the Walmart and then, you know, usually it started out just, you know, you buy an air mattress for a couple bucks, but yeah, you're just sitting in the Walmart looking around like, you know, Benjamin Franklin, like, all right, well, you know, what do you think we can get to float? And I remember one time we got this like 8 foot by 4 foot kids like swimming pool. We fit like six dudes in the, and a cooler of beer in the middle and, you know, push off a little bit. Okay. Yeah, we're going. It's great.

[Theo Von]

I love that. Yeah, I know. I miss, I, I, of course you miss it, but yeah, I, I just like that kind of stuff was so much fun when the world. When everything felt so new and the world didn't. It felt big in some ways, but it. But your view was so concise, kind of.

[Miles Teller]

Well, because you're not. You're typically not jaded. You know, you're not worried about anything at that point. That's what I noticed when I.

[Theo Von]

You just have to eat and lie to your parents.

[Miles Teller]

When I've shot. When I've shot movies in some, you know, underprivileged areas, I mean, I'll see these kids playing in what you would basically describe as like a landfill. And they're so happy, and they're just kicking around trash like it's a soccer ball. You just realize, like, children, like, for the most part, are innately happy. They don't know what else, especially where we were at. It's like they don't know what else out there. They don't know how we're, you know, living. How people are living in other parts of the. The world. Yeah, it's really. It's like. It's a. It's. It's touching and it's. It's also, you know, it's very sweet and. But it's. I always. Whenever a kid gets kind of their childhood taken away from them too early or they have to become an adult too early, that's. That's tough.

[Theo Von]

It's like.

[Miles Teller]

No, these, like. Like this was the time, you know, if you just be a kid.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. Yeah. You'd think that that would be auto. Like, at that. That that would be kind of guaranteed, you know, maybe one day it will be. Maybe that's where we're all headed.

[Miles Teller]

No, it's tough, man. It's like, I. You know, I know, you know, some people, you know, adult adulting, adult life's, you know, really tough for them and because it's tough on them. They're their kid. You know, a lot of time is handed a little more, I think, responsibility or even just emotional.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. Stuff they shouldn't have to think about that sort of thing. That's the craziest. Dude. I know a guy who used to wake his kids up and get him to pee for him so he could go do drug tests. Wow. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

They ran a snow cone stand in our town. I'll probably take that part out because we don't have a lot of snow cone stands in our town, so people know.

[Miles Teller]

I know I gotta watch it because that's, like, my town. Is this it?

[Theo Von]

Anything else you want to tell us about the film? Any reason, like, why you believe, like, Or. Or was there anything like about it that resonated with you after it, after having watched it? Did you give notes on the ed. It's just. Or anything like. I don't know.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, I just, I just think because we had our, you know, first premiere up in Toronto and it was just really wonderful after the film. Like how many people like you said. Because it does. It just really makes you think about your own kind of mortality and loved ones. But people really wanted to. I mean, for me, those are my favorite movies where you're, you're, you know, leaves you really thinking. But I think it's, it's just really. It's a really funny movie. I think it's really sweet and sincere and all of Kelly's girls were. Were crying.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, it's very sweet. It's not like too heavy. I mean, there's some moments that are.

[Miles Teller]

You're dealing with heavy. I mean. Well, you're dealing with something that's maybe inevitable or not based on kind of what you're taking supplements wise and how you take care. Take care of the dojo, bro. But it is, it's just, it's just my wife says her. Her favorite film that, that I've ever been in her favorite film maybe of the last, like, you know, however long.

[Theo Von]

I.

[Miles Teller]

And also I feel like it's.

[Theo Von]

That's pretty sweet, huh?

[Miles Teller]

I think it's a movie that I think it can. I think it fits with kind of the, the classic romantic comedies that are more character driven and. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm. I'm just really excited for. For people to see it. It.

[Theo Von]

And is it coming out in streaming. Is it coming out in theaters?

[Miles Teller]

No, so it comes out in theaters nationwide like Thanksgiving.

[Theo Von]

Oh, sweet.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. Yeah. So great holiday film. Take your, your mom, your grandma, dad, girl, whatever.

[Theo Von]

Yeah. I think anybody. A whole family could go see it. I think it's that kind of thing. It's certainly that. And yeah, I do think some of those questions it. Yeah, it made me feel a little bit more upbeat.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

It's just like, I don't know, it's. It was something that. It's certainly something that I hadn't seen before.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

And I thought that was. It was very creative. It was very creative. And then when you're thinking about love, you're thinking about the actual life, you're thinking about the choices that we make and stuff like that. You know, it made me a little mournful that ever. Like there's some moments you never get to. It's like, oh, I, you know, like, you'll start to think, oh, I didn't have that high school love that lasts forever. But then it's like, but that couldn't even have been a reality in my life. It never would have fit in. Right. But it was just. It's just interesting to kind of think about. About things like that. You know, I like, I like thinking about matters of the heart and stuff like that. Oh, the last thing I was going to tell you. So, yeah, I went to the venerable game, but I saw these two. There was two kids there, and they were there with their dad. And their dad had just gotten back from service. He was in Qatar. And he. And right when I saw the kids, like, oh, dude, my dad saw you perform in Qatar. I went over there and did just a. A thing for the military.

[Miles Teller]

Like, was it through USO or something different?

[Theo Von]

No, it was like they were doing like, something.

[Miles Teller]

Something for troops.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, the President was doing something over there and they were doing some troops thing. But. But anyway, it was just. They're like, oh, dude, our dad. And you could just tell, like, I was like, oh, how long are you there for? He's like, I was there for a year. And it was just like, I don't know, it's just interesting to see this moment. And I was. I was like, are you guys. Dad, you're glad. Are you. Are you guys glad your dad is home? You know, and you could just see, like, I don't know, it's just. You just see some of the sacrifice. It was just a moment that I had to witness, like, kind of firsthand, a little bit of, like, the sacrifice that. That.

[Miles Teller]

Absolutely.

[Theo Von]

That sons deal with, that fathers deal with, that people deal with, to keep our country safe. And. Yeah, it's just touching, man.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah. This guy, the guy that I played in thank you for service, Andrew, or Adam Schuman, he, you know, because people say, you know, thank you for your service. And a lot of the time people say that sometimes to just alleviate their own guilt of. Of having not served. But, you know, I've heard guys talk about it. It's weird. You're that. Thank me for something that, hey, I signed up for, I wanted to do, or you're thanking me for. You don't even know what my job was. And it's just a complicated kind of decorative term that we use out of lack of. Of knowing. But he would say the thing that really broke him, he was, you know, filling up his, you know, his. His truck with gas and, you know, his army the big red one. And you know, guy saw that and you know, basically just kind of shook his hand and you know, said like, welcome home, you know, welcome home, son. And, and you know, glad you got home safe. And that's, you know, it's, it's. Yeah, it's tough. It's, it's. But you're, that's because we can do what we do because those men and women are over there doing, you know. Oh yeah, doing the dirty work.

[Theo Von]

I mean, our job is built on the freedom of speech, you know. Yeah. Both of our jobs are built on it. Like it doesn't even exist if people don't. If people aren't making the sacrifice for us. But yeah, that would be great to be able to talk with Gary Sise. I know he does a lot with the, with the. For veterans and yeah, it's nice to just be reminded. It's nice to be reminded of a space to. Another reason just to have gratitude for the things we have going.

[Miles Teller]

But also it's like, it's different parts of the, like we're, you know, growing up in Florida. I feel like there's so many people that, you know, had family members in the military, but it's, it's a lot more socio. Like economic driven now to where the military. It's, it doesn't feel like the entire country is really a part of it and it's really happening in very specific pockets. So it's kind of, it'll be interesting in the next like 25 years, 50 years of who you kind of have to live in these certain areas to, to have a relationship with somebody who's serving because that's what personalizes it.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, that's a good point, man. You know, during, in ancient Rome they used to have the, the politicians were also on the battlefield, which is pretty fascinating. So it was like the rules that they were making, if they were going to send people into battle, they were going to have to be associated with those rules. And I think it would be. I mean, who am I to say? I didn't serve, but it would be. You know, I think maybe some of the rules we would make might be. Some of the choices we make might be a little bit different if it.

[Miles Teller]

Felt if you had skin in the game. Yeah, yeah.

[Theo Von]

I think there's always some value in having skin in the game. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I think that's just a tricky thing with politics in general. When you just can't recognize the, you know, the, the elected officials and the leaders, you just feel like you cannot relate to them, they can't relate to you on any level. And it feels like those margins are getting wider.

[Theo Von]

Getting wider. Right, dude, that might be a cool. I'm sure there's a cool film out there. A lot of cool opportunities. Well, man, I hope you continue to serve us in, in great ways by bringing art to life and bringing it into video format for us. And yeah, thank you so much, dude, for all the entertainment and for stopping by and chatting. Thanksgiving week, you guys can check out Eternity with Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olson.

[Miles Teller]

And also my, my wife Kelly. She's coming out with a, like a pajama, a robe line.

[Theo Von]

Will that be available for holidays?

[Miles Teller]

Yeah, yeah. And I'm just so, I'm just so proud of her. Yeah, so had to get that out there too.

[Theo Von]

Oh, that's, that's awesome. Yeah. You guys have been together for how long?

[Miles Teller]

It's almost 13 years.

[Theo Von]

Dang.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Did you know right when you met her that that was the one?

[Miles Teller]

I knew she was like the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. Yeah, there you go. Appreciate that, guys. She's the most pure hearted person I've ever met in my life. I didn't know that. Obviously, when I saw her, I was just attracted to her face, you know, and, but then as I've gotten to, you know. But then we're pretty inseparable right off the bat. But I do remember because I was like 25, dude. This was like very, I'd lived in my career just started, and she, you know, I remember my boys, my Florida boys I moved out with. When they start seeing her hanging around more and more, I'm like, yeah, well, she's my girlfriend. They're like, what the are you talking about? They're like, why would you have a girlfriend right now? This is our moment. This is our entourage moment. Like, we rented a house in the Valley, we had a pool. They're like, this is our time, dude. I was like, well, you know, I, I, I was probably like, yeah, am I ready to settle down? No. But also, I'm not ready for, for her to just leave me either, you know, it's like, I don't want. This one's not getting away.

[Theo Von]

Yeah, for sure, dude. That's funny.

[Miles Teller]

That's my best friend, dude. We literally, like, I never get, I never get sick of her. I like, and when I, and when I tell people the difference is like, you know, most people, they have a job nine to five, whatever it is. And when I'm filming, certainly it's like that. But when I'm not. It's like. And she comes with me when I'm filming. It's like I see her from the moment I wake up to the moment when I go to bed. You know, maybe I go work out for a little bit or do something like that, but we are with each other all of the time, and we. We love it. Like, it truly is. Like, that's. She cracks me up. She's very low. Like, she's so hard to rattle, to get rattled. She doesn't raise her voice. She says being calm is her superpower, but she is. She's just, like, unflappable. She's great.

[Theo Von]

The unflappable Kelly Teller.

[Miles Teller]

Oh, she's gonna love that. She loves you.

[Theo Von]

And she has a new pajama line that's out. Yeah. I remember the day that I met her. You guys were sitting out there out back together, man. I think almost every time I've seen you, except for that one time that you were dancing by yourself, which is pretty admirable. I think I'll see you people.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Miles Tellers are dancing by himself. I'm like, that dude is. Dude. Yeah.

[Miles Teller]

I took my. I took my boy to the. The fight that time.

[Theo Von]

It's so much fun. It's fun to bring your friends, man, and it's fun to bring us into.

[Miles Teller]

Your world for a little while.

[Theo Von]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. It. Check out Kelly's new pajamas. And. And congratulations, man, on everything.

[Miles Teller]

Thanks, dude.

[Theo Von]

Yep. Have a good day, brother.

[Miles Teller]

I'll see you to fight soon.

[Theo Von]

It sounds good.

[Miles Teller]

Yeah.

[Theo Von]

Now I'm just floating on the breeze.

[Miles Teller]

And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone oh but.

[Theo Von]

When I reach that ground I'll share.

[Miles Teller]

This piece of my life I found I can feel it in my bones but it's gonna take.