I normally write books (fiction and non), but I do have one screenplay under my belt. I admire ANYONE who can write a screenplay. Just getting the indentations right is a nightmare! Beyond that, to write one with the quality of Sling Blade is right up there at a superhero level. NO question Billy is not only supremely gifted, but also dedicated to quality. All good wishes.

If Billy Bob Thornton isn't just about the coolest cat around I don't know who is.

I have so much respect for you, Billy Bob. You are the real deal... no b.s. Please keep doing what you do and don’t stop. For the few naysayers out there you have to put up with... there are thousands more who are huge fans of your work like me. I wish you all the best and look forward to whatever you’re working on next. :-)

Kevin's the best and Billy is great. ... You two duke it out.

Thornton is a legend!

I like Billy Bob, not only a great actor but very direct.. no bullshit attitude which should be respected :)

Billy Bob is one of the coolest and genuine movie stars out there,love to get wasted with him!

Kevin, you are my hero, man. You get all these great interviews! BBT is so freakin awesome, he must be aware of it, but he seems so normal. I love him in EVERYTHING. He is so good, he's like completely different people from one role to another. LOVED him as Johnny Tyler in Tombstone, as Karl Childers in Sling Blade, as Jacob in A Simple Plan... He's alway so different, and one easily forgets that's him! And when BBT writes a script, it stays written! The dialog in Sling Blade is so good and so quotable. I remember nearly all of it. It is my sincerest wish that Billy somehow understands how much he is appreciated for who he is and how good he is at what he does. P.S. Just for fun: $400 in 1984 is $1139 in 2022, which for ME is between $8.9 and 9.2 billion

I love Billy Bob so much really he's a wonderful man. From Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 ❤️

I could listen to Warren Zevon stories all day long

i love how he says don't judge me in one breath and judges others in the next.

Billy Bob is just another Cardinals fan which makes him Aces in my book.

Wonderful interview, I really like the Billy Wilder story.

8/2022,................This stuff is golden! Even though its years later, from when it aired, it was compelling and very entertaining. Kevin is a great interviewer.

Great Actor and Artist👍🏼😊❤️

I love the discussion about Zappa and a great reminder to go revisit that music as I've never gone as deep into him as I would like to, but many of the musical artists I love are in that vein and have similar influence, also seen Dweezil Zappa a couple times. I think todays equivalent would be Umphrey's McGee (not gonna go on an endless rant about them, though I could), I am curious if Billy Bob is aware of them and a fan as they are famously from Chicago, his favorite city, and are very inspired by the prog. rock & improv heavy "jam" band of that time: Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Talking Heads etc. also then Primus & Phish etc. Umphrey's McGee from South Bend Indiana/Chi-town . . . . CHECK EM OUT! Nothing Too Fancy!

happy 64th birthday billy bob thornton !!!!

Billy Bob comes in at 9:24

I Could listen to him talk all day.

Refreshing candid interview. No pretentiousness bullshit.

Put Bonnie Hunt in a movie please, she’s fabulous ❤❤❤

Fantastic. I wish it were a couple hours longer. Great stuff.

Does anyone actually come here for Kevin Pollak? Do as I do, folks: Skip to the interviews, every time.

Fantastic interview, great anecdotes.

What does he mean he wishes he could do imitations ... ? According to Robert Duvall, Billy Bob does a great Lee Marvin impression.

Great interview, the swallowing every five seconds for those of use wearing headphones sucked though...

How does this chat show only get seventeen thousand views?!

great interview !!! thx

Still plenty of negativity all these years later. He's famous tor trapping people into saying something that he can become outraged over. Practically everyone in Canada was offended by a radio interview where he clammed-up because the host mentioned his movie career. His reaction was: "It's only Canada." Lovely guy.

Billy Bob not having any of the Larry King game eh

It's really, really great hearing people babbling in the background

This interview was done years ago. Since then we have found out that Billy Bob was quite the problem child. Several directors have found him to be a real stinkbomb, creating a toxic work environment on set. Even one of the nicest guys around, the director of Bad Santa, went through this nightmare. Apparently after the first two weeks or so, it's too late to fire certain actors in certain positions, and that's when this booze-fueled ego machine really ramps it up. His "punishment" is that he got a Sling Blade academy award and a Santa sequel from the studio. Plus fan adoration and whatever sympathy he got from breaking up from Jon Voight's bratty kid AJ. (Never meet your faves, and yes, he was once also one of my faves. Thankfully I've met several, but he wasn't one of them.)

It's the size of Texas Mr President

swallowing in stereo

Baseball part was awesome

Kevin was great in Billions

everytime he says a 'w' word i can hear hank hill

Anyone notice that Sling Blade's Carl has the same haircut as Forrest Gump that came out two years before?

Brilliant

I'm looking for the interview when b.b. talks about sitting in with the Allman brothers. Anyone ?

........."Fuck!!" lol.

Awesome

Kevin, Who is talking in the background?

This guys an actor? I thought he was a music historian/drummer.

How did Kevin Bollaks ever get this job?

Great interview!

looks like the postal dude

How did pollack get a show?

Kevin! Publicity, man! You're sitting on a goldmine!

I love his accent.

He was so nice on that Q show

Daym, he smokes a lot!

The guest brought up Sam Raimi's 'dark' films. Seriously, is there anything darker than watching a grown man get sucked off by a child( in the Coen Bros. film)? Still recovering from that magical moment. You gotta love actors. When they start flying without a script, watch out!

KPCS interviews are painful for those of us with misophonia. Both people are miked so can't the sound be edited to remove the swallowing sounds? This was great interview besides that.

wow they didn’t talk about monsters ball

a good interviewer listens and talks less but it seems he sure likes to talk about himself a lot

was this the first podcast?

Kevin Pollak's show is a great interview show, but somebody should consider creating an impression of Kevin Pollak while he takes long dramatic pauses to collect his thoughts preparing to compliment the guest. These pauses have their own character, and they seem to take forever. He does certain gestures, like putting his arms straight out against the table, slowly rubbing his open palm over his face, and looking heavenward as if staving off tears. The guest always seems to be slightly non-plussed while he is doing this. The impression would have him start to voice his thoughts, only to lapse into this weird wordless jumble of gestures and facial expressions he does, and just never come out of it, or else just end the show, or go into a plug for some advertiser.

If this guy would lose the cheap, low rent, back alley, cheesy little hat, he'd have more presence and gravitas, and maybe his statements would matter.

2:00-4:00 time marker.

The "sign-off" is horribly anticlimactic.

11:57 who farted?

ok so years later- same two talking about paying off Bob Gibson to not play for Harlem, now it's $400? Years later it's $500, I get it- nobody is perfect but I mean if I say oh yah it was $5 . There has got to be some point it really maters right?! Fuck Canada! 54 40 or fight!

What?? No Billy doing Larry King? Unsatisfactory :(

I love this podcast, but does Kevin have to drink so loud? Gross!!

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Does KP really think that "least we forget" is correct? If it is a joke, then stop. We've all heard it enough now.

Kevin's wife / girlfriend is such an irritant.

kevin pollock is such a bore.

Kevin is such a pompous douchebag. "I went o school with Dave Rigehtti". Wow, what an accomplishment. You were a joke in Usual Suspects

Doyle isn't a bible -thumper. He makes fun of the Bible because he doesn't understand it. I'll bet a dime to a donut that Thornton knew the Bible much better than Doyle.

Jesus how long does it take to say a friggin sentence. 2hrs could have been done in 45 mins

Haha you both tell the same stories about the Cardinals again in the 2017 interview. Don't feel bad - I'm pretty sure I go around youtube making the same comments on the same videos over and over. What are you gonna do? Stop smoking pot? I do not think so.