 Nobody calls me Lebowski you got the wrong guy. I'm the dude, man You see the movie a long time ago. I don't remember it real well, but And we want to hit it before we go any further Nor do I and I saw it just last night We're walking up to the will turn my friends like that's that's him. That's the dude. He's Losing his mind like freaking out. What do you mean the dude? What's happening? There's people everywhere things going on and he's like the dude the movie It's based on that man right there Immediately, I was super comfortable around him because I'm nuts You ever have a feeling you know like a Ferrari in a parking lot ready to go and you're dying of terminal boredom in your work Where you live it? We can change that it's like glorifying a loser, but like in the best romanticizing it Jim really get riffy I lost on entire 80s. I Get a phone call. Hello. It's you know, Johnny's dude dooter. Do you know? We're doing this movie with Jeff Bridges and John Goodman is gonna be a dude character And if you look at me look, I'm on the cusp. It could go either way, right? I mean And if it's John Goodman, I'm going They don't worry. It's Jeff Bridges. Thank you guys. I Did not know that did they get the dude character, right? Physicality things they could have some fun with the way he dances the way he sits the way he mumbles, you know, etc Then they're gonna take other things Things that my expense or the dude's expense. Okay, so he's smoking a joint in the car drops the roach You know it starts going like this and then crashes the car. That's dude all the way The dream that is Lebowski Fest and we're in our 14th year. We've done over 100 Lebowski Fest all over the world Yeah, maybe they don't take me seriously You know, I mean, why would you take somebody seriously who doesn't know what day it is? Because I'm not just that dude from Lebowski. I'm a guy who's helped tons of people's careers Where else was the dude? Just date me in someplace back in 1981 I helped Robert Redford start the Sundance Institute an investor from the Cone Brothers first film was there And they're having to pitch this dark dark movie. It's in post called blood symbol After five minutes of watching that movie we said these guys are gonna be around for a long long time Frank Danielle Frank would say and put his over anything think of the entrances at which casting the Sunday It's kid the four four scenes, you know, think of Mel Gibson And in you know on the roof in Venice with grabbing the guy who's about to jump off the roof You want a job? You want a job? Okay? I want to jump too. Let's fucking job. Come on. He's crazier than the crazy guy Okay, that's a billion-dollar entrance for four movies still got sound the character of the dude is very laid-back And Jeff doubt is not laid-back. I wouldn't say he's he's an activist, you know, he's a fighter What it's always been about and it still is about is racial quality and justice that came to a head with the Vietnam War I led 25,000 people in Seattle on to the freeway. I should say I four or five of us were up front You're here in the Seattle seven That was me the Nixon administration charges with conspiracy to destroy federal property We're putting jail for contempt of court. So when we did the contempt thing I unveiled a full-sized Nazi flag for those of you've never seen a Nazi flag and I've never seen one before and it's Unbelievably heavy symbols and we put it on his elevated bench and I talked about he was being a good German Those are the people who sat by when stuff was moving in the wrong direction and didn't do anything This man appeared to have no fear at all. It came from a rabble rouser personality Which is what he's got dude has abandoned my issues. I was abandoned my mother's breasted Instantly because of her mother thought I won't Hired a nurse and say couldn't afford anyway and she thought it was improper to have a kid breastfed And they had visiting hours. So I didn't even get to see like parents, okay? It's sometimes hard to decipher what he's saying But it's always really worth paying attention and listening because there's really a valid thing there No politician in the history of the world has ever been a leader none blow everybody in West Hollywood right now. You can name you one politician. It was a leader eight percent sustainable energy with fifty seven percent solar My mother died in the hospital because they blew the handoff. But yeah, OJ also killed his wife Okay, those are not mutually exclusive things. You know you have any other point is communication is bad, okay? Okay, right on Let them see that I'm being filmed Okay, so they don't think I'm a crazy beggar because that's the first quick thing you're gonna say Excuse me folks, you know people come up to me all the time and they all say I want to thank you so much And then I see me you like the movie and stuff I said, you know we like to move on to thank you and I said why they said well You speak the truth and in a world where so many people have to put on their costumes and masks every day people appreciate that a lot What is the significance of the dude's character mythologically the dude is a holy fool The best reference point is the gesture in the in the royal court of the king's court The one guy who told it like it was everybody else would never say a king, you know, but not a little wait here, you know So the holy fool is in a time when we need truth more than ever is trying to get us to the truth in a funny way