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Naked Lunch

Jeff Bridges

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Dude abides and joins Phil and David for a funny and moving "Naked Lunch" to remember. The Academy Award-winning actor and musician discusses his remarkable life and enduring Hollywood career. Jeff, Phil and David discuss "Lights, Camera, Take Action!: A Telethon Benefitting the Motion Picture & Television Fund," which airs Saturday night on KTLA and can be seen on mptf.com. Jeff shares amazing stories about his legendary father Lloyd Bridges, his brother Beau Bridges, Robin Williams, "The Last Picture Show," "The Big Lebowski," "Crazy Heart," "The Old Man." All this and Jeff's remarkable story of surviving cancer and COVID and what it taught him -- and can teach the rest of us. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Phil, I want to start off by saying, congratulations.

0:07.0

Since we last spoke to the good people, you became a New York Times best-selling author.

0:12.8

Woo-hoo!

0:14.0

And it's good because I already was one and I've always looked down on you and was slightly ashamed to be seen with you.

0:20.6

And now I've gotten past that.

0:22.2

Should we change the name of the show? Best-selling naked lunch?

0:27.1

Yes. Best-selling naked authors.

0:29.3

Exactly. That's even more frightening. This is a very special episode today.

0:34.2

Yes.

0:34.6

First of all, we have one of my first favorite actor, and I'll tell you that story with him,

0:39.8

Jeff Bridges.

0:40.9

The best.

0:41.7

And Jeff partly is doing this because he likes us, and partly because we're doing this

0:48.0

as a sort of special effort.

0:50.8

We are, Phil and I are producing a telethon on KTLA in Los Angeles on December 10th, 7 to 9 p.m.

0:59.0

Because we're going to talk a lot about the motion picture and television fund, their home and the campus they have out here in L.A.

1:08.3

But all the amazing work they do for the show business community,

1:11.5

not just the stars, but everybody in the community. And he, I've been working with him on

1:17.2

projects for the last three weeks, and he has made me so happy. Like, talking to Jeff Bridges

1:23.1

is one of the joys of life. He's a Zen master.

1:28.5

He's a dude.

1:29.6

He is the dude.

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