Josh Brolin Got His First Motorcycle At Age 3 | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you were given your first motorcycle. when you were four years old three and a. half I got bad news for you no I'm. Kidd your birth certificate is wrong you. were. four I want this to be a recurring love. how you're rewriting my book I want this. to be a recurring thing where every time. Josh corrects me I got bad news for you. and by the way you get mad and you shoot. back yeah um okay three and a half and. you get a motorcycle 3 and a half an.

Indian why are you still here Indian 20. an Indian 12 you know Indian 20 I got I. was 3 and a half and then 2 weeks later. I had him take off the training wheels. as you see in my face and all those. pictures my dad my dad my dad who. doesn't ride motorcycles anymore and was. never very good I he he he fell at one. point and really up his ankle and. and uh yeah but I I I rode my whole life. I raced dirt bikes I got my 80 and I got.

and that that's where I was spoiled my. dad always got me a motorcycle so I had. probably five different motorcycles you. done some crazy rides like through New. Zealand well then when I was 19 then I. got into the kind of Harley thing and. then and then from 19 on so however many. that years that is 19 to 56 and I ride. with a group of guys now and we go 1200. mile poles and we go to Chopper shows. and stuff like that I have a 1937. knucklehead 1968 shovel head 1950 56 pan.

head 1947 knucklehead can ask a very. nerdy which is what about maintenance on. those we're breaking down because we're. vintage motorcycles yes so you have to. ride with people who can fix them I'm. I'm not good like admittedly not good I. wish I was better but I ride Steven you. know there's several people that we ride. with that you know you'll see a. transmission on a sidewalk yeah I full. transmission and we'll fix it on. secretly love I I love uh vintage.

motorcycles I don't own one but I love. them and I whenever I get a chance I try. to ride a a vintage motorcycle and we. were shooting something in uh. Thailand and there was a chance for me. this was last year and we wanted one. shot of me riding through this jungle. area and you come out with a nice drone. shot and they found this absolutely uh. gorgeous vintage I think it was a. BMW uh I could be correct about that but.

it was and it was like from the early. 50s and it was just this bike that you. could R over I couldn't wait to get on. it I get on it and my first feeling as. I'm riding is this is terrible. this is meaning the ride I know what you. mean and also if you don't keep the. throttle just right it's going to it's. going to conk out a guy kept having to. come out and kick it and and take it. apart and put it back together again and. I I in order for you just to ride 50 ft. for the shot just literally for 50 fet. for the shot and we I've ended up.

getting the shot and it looks amazing. but I kept thinking this is why I no I. mean there's I like I like an automatic. transm not an when you when you see. Hell's Angels or Mongols now and they're. all on nice bikes they're all on new. bikes I mean there's guys real true. motorcyclists that I know that have. super nice bikes that look at us and say. I could never do what you do because. it's too exposing it's too it's just. yeah I mean you break down there's no. front break there's sometimes not a back.

break you know if you're going throw. anchor you to throw an. anchor well in 100 yards I'm coming for. a stop grab me grab me grab. me that's why I think even now in my. older kids can attest to this I have a. 36-year-old a 31y old a six-year-old and. a. three-year-old and my older kids my. son's a great artist and there's a lot. of like electrical towers and you go oh. I know that's because he was in the back. of the car looking out the window like.

we stayed in motels we stayed in that. and I do the same thing now we make I. make it as uncomfortable as I can we. don't this I have an absolute like fear. of living in nothing but Comfort sorry. for them but it's just how it is yeah. there's something like I said there's. something substantial there's something. substantial about the Vintage. Harley-Davidson's where it's I I wrote. about it in the book they said write.

about motorcycles so impossible to write. about motorcycles and I wrote and I. wrote and I wrote and I kept Crossing. out and finally I said I can't do. it and the minute I said I can't do it I. started riding and then there was some. connection with my mother and being in. the back of the car with my mother and. then riding motorcycles now and those. connections and riding through a swarm. of bees and all that you go that's the. deal the discomfort is the deal yeah if. you can if you have some resilience I. have a massive worry about a of.

resilience even with my kids but I look. at my three-year-old my three-year-old. is literally the toughest person I know. my girl she's just you can see it in her. face you're like oh you're 100% broling. you're going to be okay we just got to. keep you from going crazy but there's. this again it's character it's all the. stuff that's colorful and Lively that I. embrace the other thing uh that uh I. used to say to my wife when our kids. were little is let's remember that it's. important they be bored yes and because.

there's so. much the culture now and the technology. is such that there's never a moment. where you are bored and I remember being. bored as a kid because and having to. resort to your imagination yeah and who. you are yeah and and so I I I think do. you have that with your kids son oh yeah. yeah yeah and it is it takes a a lot of. work to just remind yourself that it's. okay if they're doing nothing and then. you see them start to resort to their. imagin.

and you realize that's what they should. be doing do you I mean cuz I sometimes. see people that just give they give. their kid the screen and they say you're. fine with the screen I'm going to go off. I'll be back in six weeks no no man no. we we we we I'm talking about Matt. gorley Matt Matt does that but not me he. also gives him a little rum yeah well. that part is true yeah well I mean Matt. Matt and I both also have. three-year-olds too and it's it's twin I. have twins he has one yeah right you. have right okay we're not together no I. got it I got you got what they're not.

together they're not together I keep. trying to get them together which is. creepy cuz we are together I just won't. acknowledge one of the no I just saw you. playing footsies underneath the table. and I thought there's something going on. they often just trade shoes underneath. the table so you each have. three-year-olds yeah yeah and we have a. a real pistol too and I know you do as. well yeah it's a girl it's a girl and. yours mine are two boys they're twins. two two boy wow they're crazy it's great. though it is even the irritation is. great I mean there's time there's.

there's a thing right now where they're. both going through like a like when you. get mad it would be great if you lived. in a different house and I'm not even. getting mad I'm just like please don't. do that you know and they're like can. you live in a different house and I'm. like you. man like they're so I go I looked I. looked at my three-year-old at one point. and I said is there nothing about me. that intimidates you yeah when they just. stare you know what I mean but there's. my daughter passive aggressive you speak.

to her hey Glenn we're and she'll go. we're listening oh God that's the worst. it makes you crazy it does and I'm going. crazy I love that you have a a little. kid who stares at you with a broling. face and is like hey old man keep. walking oh yeah keep walking old man you. don't even know the. depths I kind of do no but I'm saying. she's saying that in her mind when she. looks at me yeah yeah yeah yeah you're. you're old now.

we're the Next Generation. I'll bury you like. literally I'll pour the dirt on your I'm. not afraid of many people in this. lifetime but my kids definitely my my. 31-year-old daughter who's on tour she. just got off tour music she was. headlining all over the country and. she's one girl who I'm absolutely. utterly in love with but who scares the. out of me she's the yeah she's the. first person in this life that actually. scared me see it's a very personal.

question but do you see your mom coming. through in yeah for sure in the in the. best way though you know my mom was. spinning man and my mom when I don't. write about in the book too they go God. your mom sounds like. horrible is not what comes across bad. not not at all your mother is an. absolutely fascinating character she is. the thread she's the propulsion behind a. lot of the book she's clearly uh a huge. uh propulsion for you through your life.

and what you do very beautifully is you. you talk about her troubles her. struggles decisions that today some. people would question but you also. include a beautiful letter she writes to. you um about how proud there is no doubt. she loves you there's no doubt she's. proud of you there's no doubt that she's. like zor of the Greek she is living. every single second that all comes. through yeah there was a moment toward. the end of her life and I found like it. was it an allanon book and I still have.

it and it had her name in the in the. front that she wrote Han wrote and I. know that there was a thing at the end. she had thought of What's that show on. right now chimps or something like that. chimp crazy chimp crazy and she had. thought of a show 30 years ago about. like a sitcom of chimps and people and. doing it like animatronic or something. like that because she was into the. wildlife thing and somebody took her. seriously and said I want you to develop. that show and she wasn't in the business. or anything it was just was somebody. that she knew and said I want you to.

develop that show in a serious way and I. remember my mother crying and she said I. said what's the matter and she said I've. never been taken seriously in my life so. she was a freak Show yeah and she and. then you start living up to that freak. Show and then interestingly there's a. guy remember who it was there was a guy. who said hey my friend's coming he was. he was a Canadian and he said my. friend's coming into town do you want to. go out and I said sure and I went out. and I had done something a couple of. days before so I like stopped drinking.

for a few days and we went out and he. said what can I get you and I said. water's fine and he goes what do you. mean and I go I just take a water I'm. not drinking tonight and he goes I. brought my friend down from Canada you. know I told her about you and I go what. do you what do you mean and he said you. know it's like you're going to have a. night I told her that you're crazy and I. was like oh I'm like you're. clown man yeah I'm like your thing I'm. like you you pay the $2 I have the two. heads or I have the thing and you're.

going to experience a broling moment a. broling night he's going to go to jail. and you're going to go home and go how. crazy is that guy right and then you're. going to go on with your life that was. when I started to go uhoh yeah you know. because my mom lived a life of that and. I saw right at the end when she was. taken seriously. 55 and I'm. 56 and strangely enough this book was. never intended to be this book this book. happened organically I just started. writing I'd look at my journal and I'd. go oh that's I remember that moment I.

start writing about it and poorly and. then this thing formulated into this all. these stories about my mom and you go. maybe that's and it happened at 55 what. a strange thing well you uh it is I. can't recommend the book enough and. again when I picked it up I didn't know. what I'd be uh discovering and my big. takeaway is you have lived for a still. or a young man you have lived an.

incredible life and you your pro style. is really striking and great and. admirable and uh that's that's something. that that uh hit me across the face is. you are a very talented writer and you. should write more you as a writer I. appreciate that very much seriously well. I yeah I'm a very great writer okay all. right wait did I go did I go the wrong. way with that why can't you just make a. moment normal just let iten let.

him you said I'm a great very great. writer which grammatically is so. up it's the worst writing possible wor. me be I'm not done very great writer oh. um say thank you Josh uh every time I've. encountered you uh in in my life other. than when I used to run away from you on. the street um cuz I swear to God you had. a weapon um you were going through some. bad at the time but uh every time.

I've talked to. you uh on on one of my shows and and. today um you. are a very. honest uh person who has paid attention. in life and you're sharing what you've. seen with people and you're very wise. and you're hilariously funny and it's uh. it's a joy so thank you so much for. being here really yeah and I'm going to. come hang with you now for a couple days. if that's cool that's f fine I don't. think crawl into bed brother crawl into.

bed snuggle up snuggle up snug I'm open. to it all.