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JUSTIN LONG Talks New Podcast LIFES TOO SHORT And New Horror Mystery ‘BARBARIAN’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 22, 2022
Justin Long stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about his new horror/mystery movie 'Barbarian'.
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This is perfectly natural.
0:04
Yeah, man. That's That's the trailer
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from Barbarian, which is in theaters
0:08
now. And one of our good friends, DB,
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I'll let you do the honors. I call him a
0:12
good friend because we watched him
0:14
throughout his career. Would you please
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do the honors, DB?
0:16
So, you might remember when we went to
0:18
the screening of Tusk a few years ago
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and how badly that scarred your mind,
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but
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he's back with us now and I actually got
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to see him. I was talking to him about
0:26
it in the hallway cuz I went to go see
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this movie last week. I am a huge horror
0:29
fan and I loved it and I guarantee
0:31
anybody else who's a horror fan as well
0:32
will appreciate how original this this
0:34
movie is. He plays AJ Gilbride. You're
0:37
going to love him as a character.
0:38
There's so much to unpack in this film
0:40
because it's almost like watching three
0:41
films in one, but I won't want to give
0:42
too much away. But, the film is in
0:44
theaters right now. It's called
0:45
Barbarian and with us is the star Justin
0:47
Long.
0:49
Thank you, guys.
0:50
Justin, good to have you back, man.
0:53
Thank you. It's good to be back.
0:54
It's good to see you, guys.
0:55
You look like you're in foreign
0:56
territory. Like, you have When was the
0:58
last time you done a press run?
0:59
What do you mean with foreign territory?
1:01
Oh, I don't know the cool words.
1:02
That that that uh foreign territory.
1:04
How do you How would you describe that
1:05
to a nerd? A white nerd?
1:07
Okay, that That was That was actually my
1:08
white nerd terminology.
1:11
[ __ ] if you didn't KNOW IT, MAYBE
1:13
YOU'RE NOT the white nerd you thought
1:14
you were.
1:14
Listen, a new environment.
1:16
A NEW ENVIRONMENT.
1:17
OH, OKAY.
1:18
NO, IT'S JUST LITERAL. I I I READ TOO
1:20
much into it.
1:21
I That's how cool I think you are.
1:23
But, so no, you know what it is, too?
1:24
The Yeah, woulda I like this. This guy
1:25
been podcasting. You can tell, right? He
1:27
got to answer for everything now. How's
1:29
that podcast like?
1:30
Thank you for asking, Sway. It's great.
1:32
You got to come on.
1:33
Well,
1:33
No, no, too busy. Never mind. All right.
1:35
Well, that was awkward.
1:36
You got a couple podcasts you got to
1:37
say.
1:38
You know, I was sent the offer.
1:39
Okay, no, no, I just
1:40
You're You're no longer invited.
1:41
that's right. No, but tell me about it.
1:42
Life is Short and because, you know,
1:44
life is short. And we we just discover
1:47
how people make the most out of life. A
1:48
lot of
1:49
you know, impressive people and people
1:51
I've known in the past, people I don't
1:53
know. I just been a fan of. And so,
1:54
we've been We've been lucky. We've had a
1:56
lot of great guests and Ben Stiller was
1:57
just on. We just had Christina Ricci is
1:59
on our episode this week and so we've
2:01
been lucky. Neil deGrasse Tyson some
2:03
real thing Dr. Jane Goodall not to keep
2:05
name dropping but I'll name drop all
2:06
day. That's all.
2:07
So so you this you on the side now.
2:10
Yeah. What's that on the other side? I
2:11
am?
2:11
Yeah, you on the other side of media
2:12
now.
2:13
I am. I get it. I've seen behind the
2:15
curtain. I've seen the man behind the
2:16
curtain and it's
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See what the [ __ ]
2:18
We got to go through.
2:19
Yes, that's why I appreciate the I
2:21
appreciate having me because I know how
2:23
hard it is now to schedule things and I
2:24
was telling you I had to bump and I'll
2:26
say it Sheryl Crow for you. The great
2:28
Sheryl Crow who I love. We're
2:30
rescheduling with Sheryl
2:31
Love Sheryl Crow but she's no Heather B
2:32
and Tracy G.
2:35
Don't make it Don't make an example of
2:36
Heather B was on your show. Give me
2:38
example of a question you would ask her.
2:39
Heather B, why go by just Heather B? Why
2:41
not just Heather Heather?
2:44
Well, I actually go by Heather Billie.
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Okay. Okay.
2:46
Yeah, that's my alter ego because I'm a
2:48
billionaire. My bank account doesn't say
2:50
so just yet but I speak it into
2:52
existence Justin.
2:53
So inside you feel like a you're going
2:55
to manifest how you feel inside. You
2:56
feel like a
2:57
Not just on the inside. My mind,
2:58
everything, my life, how I live, all of
3:00
it. Like if you want to call yourself
3:03
Justin Hip. You just you just Justin
3:05
Hip. Then you just manifested. You up on
3:07
everything so it can't get over on you.
3:09
He can't ask you any uncool questions
3:11
cuz you hip on everything.
3:12
So when you do you mean billionaire
3:14
financially like a financial billionaire
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or billionaire like a rich in in other
3:17
ways?
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All that. All of
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H Billie.
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I might try that Justin Billie. I might
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steal it.
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Well, you're not really stealing. You're
3:25
just extending. You're part of the
3:26
Billie family. Yeah, you passing it.
3:28
Jay-Z did it.
3:29
Just you just part of Billie family.
3:31
Welcome.
3:31
Thank you.
3:32
Welcome Jay-Z.
3:33
Thank you for adopting me so quickly.
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No problem. That's how you do.
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What's the name? Tell the name of the
3:37
podcast again?
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That's how we do. I now know that's how
3:39
we do cuz I'm part of the family.
3:40
Name the podcast.
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It's called Life is Short.
3:42
We're here with my guest Heather Billie
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and
3:45
what is You know what we do? We have a
3:46
lightning round at the end so we always
3:47
ask somebody you know the same questions
3:50
the same uniform questions and we always
3:51
say one of them is
3:52
what is your favorite I know this is
3:54
kind of simple this I couldn't ask Dr.
3:55
Jen good all what but what is your
3:56
favorite emoji? What is your go-to emoji
3:59
and for surprisingly it sometimes leads
4:02
to like interesting why do you like this
4:04
one? I've been using this one a lot. I
4:05
see this one.
4:07
That's the one you do what is that what
4:09
is that one represent?
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to me it's like I don't know if I should
4:12
have sent that or I made a joke that was
4:13
questionable. I make a lot of like jokes
4:15
that I'm I don't commit to and I'm like
4:18
this is probably not very funny.
4:19
The cringe face.
4:20
Yeah, cringe face.
4:21
Yeah, what is so Heather B what would
4:23
your
4:23
So my favorite emoji is it's like a
4:26
little happy face but it has all heart.
4:28
A heart eyes.
4:29
That's a nice one.
4:30
I often use I I use a kissing the
4:33
blowing the heart off and that's a nice
4:34
one.
4:35
The wink that could be
4:36
the emoji queen over here Tracy Chee
4:38
right here.
4:39
That can be suggestive though. You don't
4:40
want to wink in the wrong way.
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Yeah, it's only the wink with the heart
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with the heart coming out because that
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to me is platonic love.
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Oh, it is.
4:49
I'm also very big on the yellow heart
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cuz the yellow right symbolizes
4:54
friendship so I never want you to get it
4:55
twisted.
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Oh, I didn't know that I didn't know it
4:57
symbolizes see my girlfriend and I have
4:59
a she yellow for some reason yellow
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hearts were symbolic of her. I I I use
5:03
those with her a lot.
5:04
You have a girlfriend Justin?
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I do so I thank you for asking. I
5:08
I'm very excited. Yeah, you sounded
5:10
surprised. So you sounded
5:13
How long how long?
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How is someone touching you regularly?
5:17
Um she's in the movie right?
5:19
movie?
5:19
She is has a cameo the incredible
5:22
actress Kate Bosworth has a cameo in
5:25
Barbarian. Yeah, you got to you got to
5:27
listen for it. That's a little hint.
5:28
Okay.
5:29
Yeah.
5:29
DB how does she do in her camp? DB saw
5:32
the movie I've yet to see it and I'm I'm
5:34
being totally transparent cuz I wanted
5:36
to see it.
5:36
you are.
5:37
Yeah.
5:37
Yeah, that's how you sway. That's how
5:38
you sway.
5:39
how I get down. By the way my favorite
5:40
emoji is the black fist of power.
5:42
Mine too.
5:43
Okay, good.
5:45
All right, DB go ahead.
5:46
Yeah, actually one of this is going to
5:48
come off a little serious to people who
5:49
don't know, but you actually had
5:50
experience where you were almost
5:53
abducted.
5:53
Oh, boy. DB
5:54
And I'm sorry, but when I when I found
5:56
that out and I watched this film, I was
5:58
like, this has to be more than just uh
6:01
an experience for the viewer for you to
6:02
to be a part of this cuz it's like
6:05
you're touching on a lot of personal
6:06
things.
6:07
I've been thinking about a lot is now
6:08
you you've seen the movie. The director
6:09
the writer director wrote it. He was
6:11
inspired by this Gavin de Becker
6:14
who's known for like private security.
6:16
He wrote a book called the gift of fear.
6:19
And it's about how fear can be a gift if
6:22
you listen to it and you
6:24
use it in a healthy way because people
6:26
often people who are going to come mean
6:28
to cause you harm will show you sign I
6:30
mean red flags. You know, it's it's it's
6:32
basically how to look out for red flags
6:34
and he was intrigued by this the idea
6:35
that women have to go through their
6:38
lives
6:39
looking out for these red flags in a way
6:41
that men don't have to do and he was he
6:43
thought that was really fascinating and
6:44
so that was the genesis for the script.
6:47
He that's that that was the kind of
6:48
jumping off point and all of these
6:50
subtle red flags in the beginning both
6:51
Skarsgard's character for example will
6:53
say
6:54
you know, do you want some he'll invite
6:56
little things. Do you want some tea?
6:57
I'll open it for you.
6:58
it for you. I thought you had said that.
7:00
I didn't see your mouth move. I thought
7:02
you said
7:03
I thought it.
7:03
Yeah, I was like you have seen it. You
7:05
have seen it.
7:06
So anyway, that's where it came from and
7:08
and it reminded me a lot that idea
7:10
reminded me of when I was as you said
7:12
abducted which is a crazy thing to talk
7:14
about casually on a show, but but it it
7:16
did happen and I and I I remember
7:18
thinking those two guys that did that um
7:21
they gave off definite had I been more
7:24
attuned had I been more attuned to that
7:25
behavior to that those red flags, I
7:27
would have maybe saved myself some
7:29
but then we wouldn't be talking about
7:31
it. And it wouldn't be a crazy
7:32
experience, but I talked about it on Dax
7:34
not to plug another podcast, but Dax
7:36
Shepard's uh
7:37
That's our guy.
7:38
Dax is a great podcast. You know,
7:39
everyone knows armchair expert. So I was
7:41
when I was on that I I talked about it.
7:42
It's like I had a 20-minute story. So,
7:44
Everybody in the theater was doing the
7:45
casual like not the casual but the the
7:47
the typical horror movie thing. Don't.
7:49
No. Stop. What are you doing, you idiot?
7:52
I saw it at Union Square on Friday night
7:54
and we were sitting Normally, I hate
7:56
when people talk during movies, you
7:57
know, it's like a And but this was the
7:59
we sat behind in front of this
8:02
a woman if they if they made a movie
8:03
about her life, I think like
8:06
like Loretta Devine would have played
8:08
her, you know, maybe Jackee she was
8:12
commenting every thought that came into
8:14
her head, she was just saying out loud.
8:15
Which which is it sounds annoying but it
8:17
was the best. I'm calling and using the
8:20
word [ __ ] in a positive way, in a
8:23
negative way, you know, can I say
8:25
Can you demonstrate how you can use it
8:27
in a positive and a negative?
8:28
So, she would say this. Like for the
8:30
lead character is the great Georgina
8:31
Campbell, she's an amazing actress and
8:33
she would say if she was going and
8:35
checking out what's behind the door, she
8:37
would go, "Oh, no, [ __ ] NO, [ __ ]
8:39
DON'T DON'T YOU OPEN THAT DOOR, BITCH."
8:41
You stupid [ __ ] you know, and then but
8:43
then when she was like kicking ass and
8:45
being doing smart things, HEROIC YES,
8:47
[ __ ] GO, [ __ ] YEAH, [ __ ]
8:50
IT WAS the best. It was the best.
8:54
I wanted to like hug her afterwards. I
8:56
wanted to There was also a wild thing
8:57
that happened. There was a little girl
8:59
like a 6-year-old in the theater and the
9:01
usher, shout out to Regal Cinemas for
9:04
doing this. They tried to remove her
9:06
from you know, with her her mother
9:07
A 6-year-old? They tried to remove a
9:09
6-year-old?
9:09
Well, not physically but like but you
9:11
know, they said to the mother, "Get the
9:12
bitch."
9:13
No, they didn't grab her and drag her.
9:15
Yeah, move
9:16
Nice. Nice TV. Yeah.
9:18
Uh [ __ ] can we have a word?
9:21
Uh it was they were very
9:23
little [ __ ] come here.
9:25
There will be I'm sure is there a rapper
9:27
Little [ __ ]
9:28
There's If there's not, I'm going to
9:30
take it.
9:30
Yeah, that's you. Go ahead and call him
9:31
Little [ __ ]
9:32
Yeah, there's there's I know
9:33
There's some rappers who are Little
9:34
[ __ ] but you know, it's not it's not
9:36
sure
9:36
But little you got to say the T's in
9:38
those. Um
9:39
But so I so they they the mother was
9:41
like I don't tell me how to parent, you
9:43
know, and and one cuz the girl was like
9:45
sitting right right behind us. So you
9:47
have seen the movie. Imagine
9:49
a 6-year-old sitting through that. I I
9:51
was so close way to walking up to them
9:53
and saying, "Look, I'm cuz I have my
9:54
mask on and I wanted to like be, you
9:56
know, I didn't want cuz people get mad
9:57
at me in the movie. People yell at my
9:59
character and
10:00
And so I but I almost said to her,
10:02
"Ma'am, I I I'm in this movie. I can
10:04
attest to the fact that this will scar
10:06
your daughter. Like this will cause real
10:08
damage psychologically your daughter.
10:09
You should go But after the movie I saw
10:11
her, this little kid, and she was kind
10:13
of bopping out and like talking about
10:15
it. She didn't seem all that
10:16
swayed by the yeah, you know, that by
10:19
the horrors.
10:20
And she the little girl probably walked
10:22
away and said, "Don't worry about it,
10:23
Justin. You're being a little bitch."
10:26
But then I thought, "Well, it's two more
10:27
people for the box office. We want the
10:29
box office to do well. What do I care
10:30
about?" Yeah.
10:31
Yo, that's a thing now. Can the box
10:33
office do well or straight
10:35
It what I don't know. It won the
10:36
weekend. It was I mean, you know, not
10:39
that it's about that, but number one
10:40
movie in America. It was exciting, you
10:42
know, for an old, you know, an old fart
10:44
like me it's exciting to be a
10:45
Don't don't go with to that narrative.
10:46
Well, well, you know, you you're someone
10:48
who's been doing this for a long time. A
10:49
long time.
10:50
Congratulations. Justin Long got a
10:52
number one movie. Damn it.
10:54
No, please.
10:54
Come on, man.
10:56
Damn it.
10:57
Life too short, man. Celebrate.
10:59
Exactly. Nice.
11:01
Come on, man. I'm here with you,
11:02
brother.
11:03
Thank you, man.
11:03
Um man, it's good to see you. I'm glad
11:05
we made this happen if only for 15
11:07
minutes. It was a great 15 minutes.
11:09
it count.
11:10
I'm happy for you.
11:11
Thanks.
11:11
You've been doing this for a while,
11:12
brother. So we're in this fraternity
11:14
now. Those of us who fight have the head
11:16
of the going to Urban View to do our
11:17
next show. All right, then.
11:20
You know, so I'm proud of you. Keep
11:22
going. You look happy. You look great.
11:24
good.
11:24
I'm happy you found love. Don't mess
11:26
this one up.
11:26
No, no. This one's a keeper. This is the
11:28
one.
11:29
Okay, cool, man.
11:29
Thank thank you.
11:30
You got a track record. All right,
11:31
Justin Long, give it up.
11:33
man.
11:34
We were doing so well. ON THAT NOTE.
11:37
MAKE SURE Y'ALL SEE the film Barbarian.
11:39
It's in theaters now. We want to thank
11:42
um
11:42
Simba for coming by today and tearing
11:44
that microphone up. Salute to Simba. Get
11:47
his new album Results Take Time. That's
11:49
out Friday. And we want to
11:50
new album Little [ __ ] Little [ __ ] is
11:51
out now. The mixtape is out now.
11:53
The Gangster Grillz mixtape featuring DJ
11:56
Drama and Justin Long, Little [ __ ]
11:58
Justin Long, how can they reach you?
11:59
Uh my phone number is 323
12:02
Uh Instagram is Justin Long.
12:05
@justinlong. Yeah.
12:06
The way it sounds is the way it's
12:08
spelled. I'm @realsway across the board.
12:09
Thank you for tuning in. We're creating
12:11
and we're starting a new week together.
12:13
And uh let's do it hand in hand. Stay on
12:14
the right side of positivity. Until
12:17
tomorrow, we have nothing
12:19
left to say.
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