Greenlights

And now you've written this kid's book, which I, as I mentioned, the thing that I read, uh, and I thought I really think it, and I read a lot of kids' books because, uh, I have basically, you know, I have three kids and a stepson.

So you wrote Greenlights, huge success.

I got her story in the book of green lights where she told me to say, sign my name under this Ann Ashford poem.

Vince just loved Matthew McConaughey's autobiography.

I said green light to start you guys have Matthew McConaughey on his books called green light

You wrote it, you had a journal for 35 years. And then I read that you wrote it by going to the desert for 52 days without electricity. Is that true?

I always write things down not to remember. I write things down so I can forget them.

I've done Peyote in rail, De Kectores, Mexico in a cage with a mountain lion.

I have some starting back from when I was eight... So many people don't get it, Matthew. They think the kids are a do over. And you've come to the same realization that ... in Greenlights and somewhat in poems and prayers.

I think there's been some pretty good stories along the way. I think there's been some pretty good stories in Greenlights and somewhat in Poems and Prayers.

Yeah. And you can find a bit of science to that satisfaction. It can be who you're hanging out with, where you were going, how late you were staying up, what you were eating.

And it can help nudge you back. It's never the same, but it can help get you back in your lane.

I love how much of the book is like literally looks like scribbles of your writing in your journals and your annotation, which which I get fascinated by.

But that was you when you when you talk about the concept of knowing who you are is hard and eliminating who you're not first.

Make sure you grab the book. We're putting the link in the comments. I highly recommend it. If you want to be entertained and lightened and have an experience at the same time, it's a, it's a perfect journey in that.

But, and in writing Greenlights, when I went back, that's a lot of the consistencies that I found that I wrote when things were going well, that I was taking some, for some reason, taking time to go, can I try and bottle some science here to why things are going well?

Congratulations on the new book.

I think it was in the book, tripping myself running downhill.

When I wrote about in the book, I was thinking about my brother when I was 11.

And I talked about in the book, the part where I went to my favorite bar and met the casting director.

I'm reading Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lads and I've been thinking how great it would be to hear old Billy's memoir.

I'm reading Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lads, and I've been thinking how great it would be to hear old Billy's memoir.

I know you had Matthew McConaughey on, and in his book Green Lights, he tells this story of he's going to, he's told his father his whole life he's going to be a lawyer.

Microsoft is taking a page right from Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lights, because it is straight cruising right now, catching green lights left and right.

It was Matthew McConaughey's Green Light.

The last thing I did read was Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. That was four years ago.

And in this book, it just tells the start of how he grew up, how he made it into Hollywood, the ups and downs in Hollywood, and then just these crazy trips he would go on.

Was this book proven to be a little bit hyperbolic? I think there were certain stories that were probably exaggerated. Embellished, made up a little bit. Yes, but he says they're all true. But you know, who knows?

So the last thing I did read was Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. That was four years ago.

And in this book, it just tells the start of how he grew up, how he made it into Hollywood, the ups and downs in Hollywood, and then just these crazy like trips he would go on.

I think there were certain stories that were probably exaggerated. Yeah, embellished, made up a little bit. Yes, but he says they're all true. But, you know, who knows? Because some of them are like wild, right? Dude, wild.

I won't tell you exactly what happens but he goes into a village in Africa and he gets invited by these villagers and they're like to prove your stay, you got to fight the strongest man in the village. What? And he fights the strongest dude.

And I'm like come on man. I guess I want it to be true because it's a memoir. Yeah, but I never read it because I had people saying it's not all the way true. So I was like eh.

And then I read Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights

Yeah, I read his book. It's actually pretty good. That motivated me!

He goes to some village and they offer him to spend the night or whatever, but his ticket to spend the night with the villagers is to fight their strongest guy ever. And it's this big villager who fights McConaughey.

Green lights.

This is a green light Matthew McConaughey book that Eddie Redd and signed. My mother read a Matthew McConaughey book and signed it. My mother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas and then I passed it around. I think lunchbox, Reddit and signed it. Eddie did the diet. Oh, and Mike D signed it too. Mike D also read it and signed it.

And this is a pro from the studio it is Eddie's Matthew McConaughey, Greenlight book that Eddie assigned for you.

Matthew McConaughey and his book Greenlights talks about how he just lived in an Airstream in Malibu Beach RV Park.

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be.

I grabbed the audiobook as I always do and it's like you really do need the audio version of this even if you're not an audiobook person because the way you tell the story is totally different.

The book is called green lights and it's kind of about this and having a bunch of green lights in front of you could actually be a big problem.

big thank you to Matthew McConaughey the book title is green lights

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out. I don't know how much it's going to translate to people. I hope it does. It's very personal.

Thankfully, the books doing well. The ideas are obviously scaling out because individuals and everybody I'm talking about is a completely different conversation about similar topics.

I read an excerpt from the book in Newsweek or something. I would say, oh my god, I had no idea he was so abused by his parents and their relationship was so dysfunctional.

And then later in the book, you know, you know, from the audiobook that it wasn't like that or at least from the sound of it, it wasn't like that.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be. You don't get my end you endow, you don't get a you hair raised eyebrow or whatever that may be.

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be.

So you got to find the right word, you got to find the right sentence.

And as I talk about the book, you know you can engineer green lights for your future by the choices and responsibilities you take today.

The book is called green lights and it's kind of about this and having a bunch of green lights in front of you could actually be a big problem.

But I gotta tell you, I have not been entertained and inspired by a book in a long time.

You guys read Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey?

Oh my gosh, dude.

He is a Frisella. He is a Frisella.

But he is such a good storyteller.

Maybe you read his book, Green Lights which is great, there's also Green Lights Journal.

You can grab his book Green Lights here in the painted porch as well.

I'll link to it in today's show and it's all you can just go to artoflivenevent.com slash Road Trip or if you just Google Matthew McConaughey Road Trip, it should come up there at the top also I think you'll really like it and it's always a treat to get a peek inside this guy's head because there's not many people thinking or living like he is and that's why I wanted to have him back on the podcast.

This is part two, listen to part one if you haven't and remember you can follow him on all social platforms especially now on YouTube at Matthew McConaughey and I'll link to the new course Road Trip The Highway to More.

It's my book. It's published more or less how I want it to be published.

So you can grab that and then check out his book Greenlights which is also extremely good and I quite enjoyed him.

I loved Matthew's book Greenlights and he was nice enough to ask me to blurb it, which I did.

If you haven't read Greenlights or seen the Greenlights Journal, you should; they've bostled a bazillion copies for good reason.

I am a fan of writing the headline before writing the story.

I'm having a wonderful time; I get more mad, more sad, I get more joy, I'm laughing hard, I'm feeling resonance with the thing I'm doing...

I had such a great time; I had the best creative time I've ever had writing this book; I laughed, I cried, I drew blood, but I had the best time I've ever had with the best company I've ever kept writing this book, me.

The incredible work he's done as an actor since and now his book Greenlights, it's a testament to that.