Walton Goggins

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Walton Goggins does it all. Master of comedy, action and drama – take his latest project Fallout. Goggins also gets into his love of horseback riding and growing up with a father who’s larger than life. Plus, how The Ghoul, one of the characters he portrays on Fallout became an accidental sex symbol. A version of this conversation originally ran in 2024.

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0:00.0	Bullseye.
0:29.6	My first guest this week is the kind of actor you see once and you never, ever forget his face.
0:35.8	It's Walton Gagans.
0:37.1	Maybe you saw him unjustified as Boyd Crowder.
0:40.1	Got an Emmy nomination for that.
0:42.8	So what was life like in Florida?
0:47.3	Just as advertised.
0:49.1	Sunny and hot.
0:51.1	You know, I just don't think I could take me a place so flat.
0:55.0	Yes. You've seen your daddy yet?
0:57.0	No, not yet.
0:59.0	Well, he was a wild man back in his day, wasn't he?
1:02.0	What was that scam he had going back in the early 90s, stealing mining machinery,
1:06.0	selling it to the Colombians getting paid in cocaine? You remember that?
1:10.0	I guess I was gone by then. That's your daddy. Selling it to the Colombians getting paid in cocaine. You remember that?
1:12.4	I guess I was gone by then.
1:14.3	That's your daddy.
1:17.5	I suspect you know how my daddy is.
1:21.7	Or maybe you saw him in the Tarantino movie The Hateful Eight.
1:23.8	He played Sheriff Chris Mannix.
1:27.2	You got a letter from Abraham Lincoln.
1:27.9	Yes.
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