Getting Outside of the Hollywood Star Machine, with Tony Cavalero

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Famous Hollywood actors aren’t outdoorsy, right? They’re too busy being…well, famous to enjoy the outdoors and certainly too fancy to listen to a podcast about the surprising impacts of a life outside, aren’t they? Turns out, HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” star, Tony Cavalero, is a longtime listener of the Outside Podcast because he’s been obsessed with outdoor adventure since first donning a Boy Scout uniform as a kid. And, Tony’s path crossed with host PaddyO’s decades before either of them decided to move out West to make something of themselves. But Tony and PaddyO have more in common than a “go West, young man” past. Both have felt the crushing weight of active alcoholism and drug addiction. Luckily, they also are both in long term recovery and have a shared joy and gratitude for the rekindling of dormant passions, like adventuring outside and laughing your ass off.

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0:00.0	This is the outside podcast with Paddyo.
0:12.7	Welcome back to the outside podcast with your awesome host, Patty O'Connell.
0:17.8	Kick it off, P.O.
0:19.5	I'm giving you some great sound bites, dude.
0:22.4	So to start things off, Tony, I have dug something up incredible from your past.
0:27.1	Tony, you attended Virginia Military Institute for college. Yes. You were a division one athlete there.
0:33.6	You played lacrosse at VMI. Bingo. Yeah. And in 2003 and 2004, the VMI key debts had games
0:42.9	against the Bulldogs from Butler University. Do you know who was an attackman for Butler
0:48.7	during those games? You? Yeah, dude. Holy hell, what a small world it is. We were on the exact same field together twice.
0:57.1	Oh, my God.
0:58.0	We shook hands at the end of the game for sure, because that's what you do in LaCross.
1:02.4	And now, flash forward 20 plus years later, we're talking on a podcast.
1:06.6	You, a world famous actor and me, a guy who professionally chit-chats in the laundry room that he converted into a recording studio.
1:14.4	This is blowing my mind.
1:18.7	Isn't this insane?
1:19.5	I had no idea.
1:21.2	You were a lax, bro.
1:22.4	Do you remember the scores from those games?
1:25.4	Oh, God.
1:26.3	The first one was real bad, I think.
1:29.3	They were both probably real bad.
1:31.2	Butler versus VMI, 2003.
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