It's all a dream fever dream to me at this point, Hello?

My name is Jeff Goldblum and I'm here to explain it all, whatever that means.

Anyway, that's what I'm here to do.

I grew up in Pittsburgh pennsylvania, my dad has a story, he says that he was poor and his, his parents, his dad came from Russia by the name of poverty sick, he changed it to gold bloom when he came here and he had a luggage in a candy store in Pittsburgh when he was very young, told us that he wanted to either be an actor or a doctor and he stuck his head in the back of a class at Carnegie Tech and said to us that he told himself when he did that, whatever he saw, gee that's out of my league, whatever you meant by that.

And he became a doctor, I think I caught a bug maybe or early on when I got very excited about theater or something and started to do something that seemed like performing or acting.

Maybe he was tickled.

I'm saying this in a new way for the first time and maybe I, I that kind of sparked something and then I took part in a camp at Chatham music day camp between 5th and 6th grades when I was 10 ish, that was it, That was it because I, they put me in the lead of a play, I leapt on stage and people laughed and after the show they said, how did you like that?

How do you like that?

And I was like, yeah, I like that.

But from that time on I was like, I think I'm an actor, I want to be an actor.

And then by the time between ninth and 10th and 10th and 11th grades came along, I went to Carnegie Mellon University in between the summers, my head head exploded and I became obsessed with the idea I must be an actor.

And in fact every day when I took a shower, my hair hygiene was always impeccable.

I'd take a shower before school and the glass door would steam up.

It was still a secret to that.

I kept to myself, I was too embarrassed or whatever it was too important.

And I said, please God, let me be an actor.

And before I left the shower I would wipe it off.

That's a little bit about me and a little little Jeff getting the idea to be an actor.

Mhm Mhm.

Look, self doubt.

Hey, if you're in the creative you're doing anything important in life.

I think even if it's falling in love and putting yourself out there and making yourself vulnerable to an important relationship of one kind or another, you will feel doubtful about yourself.

Am I up to this.

Can I do all of that stuff?

You'll be out of your comfort zone and good for you.

That's just where you want to be a fear is can be a useful ally and an ingredient.

And it'll transmogrified itself from fear into energy and creative energy and focus and urgency.

Of course, you know, acting is always scary and getting up in front of people and you know, promising them something and they're having to deliver is scary because it may not work.

And so it makes you that that that doubt uh weather.

Hey, can I, can I, you know, do my part in this uh makes you focus like I say and prepare and work and do something that you haven't done before and makes you reach further and start to sing and start to fly.

That's that's one of the ingredients that's part of the engine.

So do not combat it.

Don't lock it in the basement.

Don't try to pretend otherwise.

Be honest about it to yourself and to others.

It's a, it'll unlock something good freedom and juice.

There you go.

Uh said call me in the morning and uh, and tell me what happens.

Been working for a long time.

That's the premise of the question.

And certainly, you know, a blind man could see that.

Do I have any regrets about things I have or haven't done regrets?

I had a few but just a for too few to mention, I would say, you know, I'm philosophical minded, I have a bent toward philosophy.

So I would say, oh, you know, whether I, whether you believe in free will or not look.

I've done all the things I've done exactly as I've done them, and the only posture to take at this point is acceptance.

And it's not as if I'm unfamiliar with recrimination and self second thinking, because after I shoot a movie I've seen in a movie, sometimes I go home and okay, Okay.

Was that the did I did I miss it?

Did I do it the best way I could have?

Did I miss anything?

Oh, do I regret doing it that way?

Oh, I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have said that a day.

Uh and then I kind of work myself, and so I do on an individual basis, I go, no, no, no, that wouldn't have been better, you know?

No, I think it was okay, I think was okay.

So I kind of talked myself around into, you know, accepting it, but I I got to go through a little something to sort of uh do that.

But besides that, you know, that's it when all is said and done.

Hey look, I'm spectacularly happy with my lucky lot.

It all.

You know, if you go back and you went and you pull one thread out of the tapestry, who knows?

Uh the whole thing would have gone the whole thing would have gone to H E double hockey sticks, but so so no, I'm fine, it's all gone so far.

Very lucky.

I mean, so far lucky, I hope I don't ruin it with something I will come to regret.

So I'm being careful who in my life inspires me the most?

Well, I've never had much esteem for collectors of wealth or position, but I have had a, an enchantment with and an infatuation and a, uh, and get inspired by people who make lovely things and to follow their own creative personal voices and paths and make beautiful things and have some element of humility and non arrogance and perspective about themselves and are humbled, fleeting place in a mysterious universe.

So some of those people, you know, you know, I've played some scientists and this and that got a chance to talk to Neil Degrasse Tyson on air did an interview and I find him terrifically inspiring recently, just this day or the last days I'm kind of in a cycle of and down the rabbit hole of listening to physicists of one kind or another and I adore them and I'm inspired by them.

I like to hear what they're talking about.

And my kids and my wife, I find inspiring.

The kids are just naturally unbelievably amazing in 1000 ways that I can't go into right now, but they just crack my heart wide open and Emily is so beautiful and brilliant and brave and authentic and down to earth and the way we go through challenges, uh, is just great and very inspiring for me.

Yeah.

Mm hmm who decided how many buttons would be unbuttoned in Jurassic park?

Well, if you're talking about the scene that I, I'm thinking of.

All the buttons were unbuttoned.

It was fully unbuttoned as I was, you know, draping myself in dramatic pain there.

Um, sweating and heaving.

Uh, you know, I can't remember Steven Spielberg was directing it.

He was there as I remember he said to Jeff unbuttoned more.

All of them unbuttoned them.

I don't know that he said that.

I can't imagine that he would have.

But what I have said, steven steven before we roll a couple of our I don't know that.

I would have said that.

I don't know how it happened.

Somebody must, maybe somebody came in and just did that.

I wasn't even aware of it.

I don't know.

I can't remember.

It's all a dream fever dream to me at this point.

These are good questions.

What's my advice for a full and happy life?

Oh, for heaven's sakes.

Well, that's my advice for a full and happy life.

Oh yeah, okay.

I'm just gonna quote you, I'm just gonna, I've done before.

You've probably heard me to say this before, but there's nothing better than this.

I mean, what would I say?

We're so lucky to be on this planet.

Treasure of a ming vase of a planet do what you can.

Albert Schweitzer said all those only those of you who serve will be happy.

So do what you can to contribute before you leave to the place being better than when you got here.

Leave every relationship every encounter better off than it would have been otherwise contribute and and do that.

But you're such a miraculous item yourself.

You know, there's so much to learn about your own consciousness.

See if you can push the ball forward and learn something about yourself and teach us about something about who we all are, etcetera etcetera.

But I'll end with this quote by George Bernard shaw.

It goes like this.

This is the true joy in life.

The being used for a purpose considered by yourself as mighty.

The being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and while I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work, the more I live, I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no brief candle to me.

It's a sort of splendid torch that I've got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

That's George bernard shaw, that's my that's my advice.

Mhm.