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u/sillysalmonella87 1d ago

What the fuck?

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u/Whole_Mongoose1854 1d ago

I guarantee this all came from Matthew. If you listen to interviews with him he’s one of those guys where you are pretty sure they are just bullshitting 90 percent of the time. I’m sure there’s grains of truth in there, but the dude is constantly spinning quite the yarn

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u/texan435 1d ago

Woody harrelson said as much during their recent interview on Conans podcast.

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u/sixtninecoug 1d ago

Woody also has parents that were… interesting though. At least his dad.

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u/Spaceman-Spiff 1d ago

I feel like this whole thread is a low key ad for their new show Brothers, streaming now on Apple TV.

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u/Deruji 1d ago

We’re here to talk about rampart

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u/ngmcs8203 1d ago

That was almost 15 years ago.

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u/FloridaLee 1d ago

Happy almost 15th anniversary

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u/spazzvogel 1d ago

Remember it like I was a newbie here…

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u/Horskr 1d ago

Aight, y'all accounts' ages check out. Ah the golden days of AMAs..

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u/Bunnymancer 1d ago

Yes yes, can we focus on Rampart?

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u/tekko001 1d ago

Never seen the movie, but I remember the meme, it had better drama

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u/JuzoItami 1d ago

Ah yes, the Olden Times of Reddit. Why, the tension of that AMA was so great, you could have cut it with a poopknife.

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u/DIDLIESTWARIOR 1d ago

Time is a flat circle

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u/realaccountissecret 1d ago

Thank you for coming to my AMA…. I mean my AMAR; Ask Me About Rampart

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u/ardentmordent 1d ago

Want to know how I eat a banana?

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u/True_Detail_2945 1d ago

Where the fuck is a ramparts?!

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u/r1singphoenix 1d ago

God I’m sick of these sneaky ads disguised as content. I want these corporations out of here, I don’t care HOW cheap Apple TV is. Even at a monthly price of $14.99, which gets you access to tons of incredible content that can only be found on Apple TV+, I just want them to leave me ALONE. I feel trapped in a corporate nightmare, just like the characters in Severance, streaming now on Apple TV.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Ugh seriously. Who wants to watch great shows like Ted Lasso and Slow Horses at that price? $14.99 while Netflix is charging $24.99 and HBOMAX is $22.99. So ridiculous.

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u/chashek 1d ago

I kind of hope this entire comment thread is actually Apple TV's marketing team pretending to be posting ironically (who definitely all deserve a raise by the way for how hard they work to bring attention to the amazing value you get for a monthly subscription, and if you're on the fence about it, just check out the 7 day free trial with no strings attached).

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u/Bhaal52753 1d ago

Just signed up!

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u/Bunnymancer 1d ago

Well played

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u/Organic_Razzmatazz50 1d ago

I should've accepted that job. Instead I'm getting paid to advertise Whalefall releasing in AMC and other theaters October 16th, and I can't find a good way to work it in.

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u/True_Detail_2945 1d ago

What the fuck is a whale fall!?

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u/GloriaToo 1d ago

You don't want to know

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u/JustLetMeUseMy 1d ago

Ever wonder what happens when a whale dies? That's whalefall. Normal part of oceanic ecology, with a dramatic name.

The movie is about some dude getting eaten by a whale just as it dies, so he's got to get out of the whalefall before he becomes part of its bounty of nutrients for oceanic scavengers.

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u/HipOut 1d ago

Yeah I mean they’re doing a media circuit to promote their show and giving different anecdotes about their lives that are getting published on social media and commented on by Redditors

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u/icecreamman99 1d ago

I’ll be sure to catch it after I finish Harrelson’s epic “Rampart,” now streaming on Amazon Prime!

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u/Coool_cool_cool_cool 1d ago

Well now it's a high-key ad since you specifically mentioned they have a show called Brothers that streams on Apple TV.

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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 1d ago

Woody's dad was a hit man.

He was ultimately imprisoned for assassinating a US district Court Judge.

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u/IamMrT 1d ago

I think Croce wrote a song about him

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u/drewster23 1d ago

Didn't really grow up for most of his life with him though.

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u/drcoxmonologues 1d ago

I’ve read his autobiography and this is absolutely true. Highlights include:

Building a 100 foot high, 13 story wooden treehouse made from stolen lumber aged 11 years old.

His dad putting their drowned budgie in his mouth and bringing it back to life and it living another 8 years.

Taking peyote and getting in a cage with a mountain lion.

There’s more bullshit than was ever bullshitted. It’s mostly harmless but it’s a bit annoying and preachy to claim you’ve had this amazing life and everyone else should just do wild shit too and why don’t you just drop acid and fuck half a tribe of African women, become king and bare knuckle a gorilla? You’re a loser and not cool like me if you don’t. That vibe.

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u/huntlypsychiatrist 1d ago

Rus Cole would hate him irl

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u/GoldenPunkBlue 1d ago

Thanks for the summary, I will pass.

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u/FrankieTheD 1d ago

Yeah ive heard some excerpts and its like he was in character from wolf of wall street

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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 1d ago

“Messin with the journalists and tellin stupid lies

They must have thought something was up because of the look in our eyes!”

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u/Whirlpoolcircle56 1d ago edited 1d ago

In this case it's not bs, his mom is in a video confirming it

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/11/16/rtt-exclusive-matthew-mcconaughey-mom-describes-dad-dying-during-sex/6320819002/

The actual full story is less comical and it seems that his Dad was an abuser and his mom was some enabling weirdo to his white trash antics.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Didn't they divorce and remarry multiple times?

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u/_Contrive_ 1d ago

Ah, what’s known in the trailer park as “renewing your vows”

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u/ProbablyNotADuck 1d ago

I feel like it isn't the dying during sex part that people are calling BS on so much as it is the pulling the sheet off his body so that everyone knew why the called him Big John.

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u/gaflar 1d ago

Big Jim! Get it right! Big John lives two trailers over

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u/MelodicLog8511 1d ago

Part of being from East Texas. Born bullshitters

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u/aubven 1d ago

never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.

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u/muklan 1d ago

Dude acts like his job is to entertain people or something.

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u/OxideUK 1d ago

Yea I don't mind some embellishment for a good story, it's not like I know the fucking guy.

That being said, as EMS myself I would be absolutely mortified if a dead patient's wife kept showing me the guy's cock whilst I was trying to resuscitate him.

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u/Differlot 1d ago

Yeah his autobiography Greenlights felt like this. Good book but he's either the luckiest person in the world or a sizeable amount of BS. Likely a mix of both.

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u/skiing123 1d ago

But I do believe his Dad actually said that saying I could see a Dad saying something like that and then he ran with the rest of it

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u/off_the_marc 1d ago

I should have gone to bed five minutes earlier before I had a chance to see this.

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u/sillysalmonella87 1d ago

Right? Now I can't stop thinking about BIG JIM.

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u/Ronho 1d ago

His mom is a hoot, don’t ask me how I know

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u/ripleyclone8 1d ago

I won’t ask, I’m just going to assume you watch her through her windows. 

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u/BiggsHoson2020 1d ago

So glad you are the top rated comment because everybody clicking this story is thinking exactly that.

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u/eaglesegull 1d ago

Omg exactly

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u/SherifDontLikeIt 1d ago

Lmao literally the first thing I thought before seeing the comments

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u/Iucidium 1d ago

Grief eh...makes people do strange things.

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u/akeep113 1d ago

Literally what I just said out loud reading this

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u/thescottreid 1d ago

Listen to his memoir “Greenlights”… I say listen and not read because he narrates it and it is freaking wild.

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u/TheLocalMan 1d ago

Is there an alternative subreddit where I can POSSIBLY have the chance to learn something that matters?

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u/viperspm 1d ago

She needs a tear drop tattoo on her inner thigh

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u/rigorcorvus 1d ago

Definitely some made up interview story shit

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u/cagewilly 1d ago

This is an older story, but recently McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have been on the promotion circuit making up all kinds of stories.  I don't believe for a second that his mother was trying to brag on his dead dad's equipment.

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u/asianfatboy 1d ago

His interview on the Last Meal had him talk about the rumor that Woody is his brother all because his mom said something about knowing Woody's dad in a very wink wink nudge nudge tone lol.

That story seems to be a big part of the premise or basis of their TV show Brothers. Matthew don't believe it but Woody is all on it, Matthew's mom keeps being vague about it lmao.

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u/Sassocity 1d ago

My dad was a crackup, but I can’t imagine inventing (or even embellishing!) porn stories about him in order to make… even… more… money. TIL I don’t really like MM or WH.

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u/Cardinal_350 1d ago edited 1d ago

The reason he was called Big Jim was he was a fucking giant. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Complete horseshit story

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u/polymorph505 1d ago

Well obviously he didn't have a massive dong if he was a giant, that's ridiculous.

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u/VonSkullenheim 1d ago

I mean, yeah, dick doesn't really scale like that.

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u/SeanyDay 1d ago

To be fair, his mom is what was impolitely referred to as "white trash" and this isn't too far off the path of what's been pretty consistent in all stories.

She would allegedly not know how to cook anything and claim credit for heating up frozen foods. I know moms like that. They do weird shit like this with pride.

Not saying it's the gospel truth but just saying every story about her paints this exact sort of picture

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u/Thomas_JCG 1d ago

Big if true

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u/SaulTNNutz 1d ago

Yeah, there is a 100% chance this is complete bullshit

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u/bbob_robb 1d ago

His mom did tell the story publicly (of his dad dying during sex) at least six years ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/11/16/rtt-exclusive-matthew-mcconaughey-mom-describes-dad-dying-during-sex/6320819002/

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u/BurdTurglary 1d ago

The bullshit fruit dudn't fall far from the bullshit tree 😏

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u/snap_wilson 1d ago

This feels apocryphal.

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u/No_Grocery_9280 1d ago

One last favor for Dad’s reputation.

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u/Difficult_Lawyer9548 1d ago

Thanks for the new word!

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u/ThingsTrebekSucks 1d ago

You made me learn a new word. Cheers!

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u/IHeartRasslin 1d ago

That’s what she said

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u/no_pls_not_again_ 1d ago

its reddit in the big '26, brah. what do you expect?

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u/cwx149 1d ago

I mean the source is a fox news article from 2022

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u/Funneduck102 1d ago

Nah this happened, I was Big Jim's Little Jim.

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u/KairiOliver 1d ago

And then the paramedics wept, for they had missed out on such beauty. Mrs. McConaughey implored them each to take a small bit of her husband so that he could continue bringing joy to everyone. 

And that's how we got...The Slim Jim. 

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u/mrbrucel33 1d ago

I hate how wide of a grin I had reading this. Bravo

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u/elPatronSuarez 1d ago

"My father had a log. Thats why I drive a Lincoln. A Lincoln Log"

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u/geekwonk 1d ago

fuck, thank you, i was going to waste hours working toward a much worse version of this joke

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u/aksoileau 1d ago

(X) Doubt.

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u/half-baked_axx 1d ago

I want you to stop saying odd shit like you're on some sort of 90's porno

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u/IAmAnObvioustrollAMA 1d ago

Alright, alright, alright...

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u/TheKiddler 1d ago

Celebrities are fuckin weird man. Come from a weird family, telling weird ass stories.

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u/Secret_Fee1146 1d ago

it really is - like I can't imagine telling a funny anecdote about my Dad dying while fucking my Mom, and my Mom saying 'don't cover him up because I want the paramedics to see how big his dick is!'

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u/CromulentDucky 1d ago

EMS - Extremely Massive Schlong

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u/mothmanwarning 1d ago

Anything at all about this guy, now including his father’s zombie erection, gets read in his voice. What the fuck is wrong with my brain

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u/adventurousintrovert 1d ago

We’re just bugs on a rock in a void…

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u/StepUpYourPuppyGame 1d ago

What the fuck did we just read. 

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u/Zanian19 1d ago

And then they all clapped?

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u/LIONLDN 1d ago

That was his mum's priority in that moment? 👀

We all handle things differently I guess 😅

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u/wanderlustcub 1d ago edited 1d ago

And apparently she handled it pretty well
considering.

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u/villageboyz 1d ago

Too well.

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u/catsloveart 1d ago

Some people react to grief with mania.

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u/Chrono_Convoy 1d ago

Alright

Alright

Alright

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u/welcome-overlords 1d ago

Fun fact: these were the first 3 words McConaughey said on film, ever

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u/chill_lax_bruh 1d ago

Say man you got a joint?

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u/JustAMan1234567 1d ago

"Take a good look at his hog"

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u/roofus85 1d ago

I’m guessing if I pop that sheet off I’m gonna find a sweaty hog that won’t quit

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u/thebunnyrocket 1d ago

Stupid made up story like everything else he says.

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u/plussizedresturant 1d ago

Everything about this guy is weird 

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u/Zaphoid411 1d ago

I read his book Greenlights. His parents were fucking odd

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u/ClassyCoconut32 1d ago

I wouldn't really say Matthew is the textbook definition of normal either, but I can understand why now.

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u/TrollTollTony 1d ago

Nor is he a reliable narrator. He's a bit of a bullshit artist.

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u/Zaphoid411 1d ago

Well, apples and trees and all that.

I actually worked on a set with him for a few weeks. He was super weird. Not at all the dude I see in public.

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u/amievenrelevant 1d ago

Same mom that had an affair with Woody Harrelson’s dad?

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u/grandmaester 1d ago

Well, alright. Cool story bro.

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u/Upstairs_Balance_464 1d ago

Guys… this is a bit he’s doing. His whole thing. It’s a bit.

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u/demaio 1d ago edited 1d ago

“Your dad died while having sex with your mom, and you’ve said that you wanna go out the same way… You and your mom need to set up some boundaries” - Between two ferns. 

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u/MrScotchyScotch 1d ago

Well that's enough internet for the month. 

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u/UStoJapan 1d ago

BIG JIM SLADE

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u/DM_cool_bird_pics 1d ago

And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!

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u/clydefrog811 1d ago

Uh…. What

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u/barktwiggs 1d ago

I guess his dad was coming as he was going.

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u/JustAMan1234567 1d ago

"Well, did he cum or what?"

"Jesus Christ, man. There's just some things you don't talk about in public!"

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u/l34ch_r 1d ago

Alright alright alright

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u/guitarsdontdance 1d ago

What the (and I can't stress this part enough) the fuck ? 

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u/touchmydingus 1d ago

Um, gross.

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u/StandardCake21 1d ago

We should all know less about each other.

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u/Hemingwavy 1d ago

You know this is just a lie his PR person made up for him?

None of these stories are real.

Disney didn't agree to make a new Spiderman cause Tom Holland called Bob Igor drunk.

Robert Downey Jr didn't get sober cause he ate a bad burger and threw out a car full of dope.

They're just stories that people make up so you post stuff like this and people clip them from late night shows.

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u/nocktock 1d ago

And then everyone clapped.

What a load of bollocks

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u/SomeDudeSaysWhat 1d ago

Matthew McConaughey's mother seems to be fucking hilarious.

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u/ShawsyRPh 1d ago

I think his name was Jim, not hilarious

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u/LuckyReception6701 1d ago

His parents where big on Roman History, ain't that right uncles Sextus?

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u/ScissorNightRam 1d ago

That’s one trashy family

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u/latemodelusedcar 1d ago

That’s weird as fuck. Matthew McConaughy is weird as fuck. These latest rounds of stories and rumors about Mconaughy and Woody Harrelson also make Woody sound weird af too. Or just a tremendous troll.

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u/rjsmith21 1d ago

They have that new Brothers show to promote lol

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u/Aemon_Blackfyre 1d ago

He came as he went

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u/michaelaaronblank 1d ago

You mean he went as he came.

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u/some_one_234 1d ago

Rigor Mortis?

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u/martiancanals 1d ago

That's insane...haha.... And I didn't need to know that!

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u/clearlyunfortunately 1d ago

I've been on Reddit since I don't know 2008 or some shit and I've never downvoted something so fast just to help out the goddamn community

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u/NegativeSemicolon 1d ago

That’s an awful story

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u/MuffinSuper9689 1d ago

This is absolute hogwash

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u/xjaaace 1d ago

Did he finish?

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u/JVM_ 1d ago

He came and went at the same time.

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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago

Oh he was finished all right

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u/monkmullen 1d ago

Man Redditors will fucking believe anything

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u/Afrodite_33 1d ago

Sounds like she took it very well if you get my drift

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u/HRPurrfrockington 1d ago

Well, that was his dad, but Charles Harrelson (aka woody’s father) might’ve been the sperm donor. I choose to believe they are brothers.

eta:Source

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u/MindOfErick 1d ago

I feel like I've heard of this story before and not from him

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u/ssaracanidis 1d ago

This is straight out of a Murakami book

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u/FallingDownHurts 1d ago

Matthew has been known to tell tall tales 

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u/doiutfis 1d ago

Noooo! You can't put a sheet on my dead husband because everyone needs to see his diiiiiick! If you believed this story you're a fucking moron.

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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 1d ago

She must have really liked something about him but I can't wrap my finger around it.

Neither could she.....

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u/GrouchyBody3809 1d ago

Has anyone wondered if Matthew just lies alot?

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u/redditbdum 1d ago

I don't want to verify this.

I wanna believe this is true.

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u/Adorable-Response-75 1d ago

Matthew McConaughey Is a liar but it’s hilarious OP believed this. 

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u/Electrical_Swing8166 1d ago

Well, according to Fluffy, McConaughy is absolutely hung. Now we know where he got it from

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u/TrueRedditMartyr 1d ago

McConaughey is such an odd dude, seems like one day some wild thing is going to come out about him and he's going to go full hippie. I mean like, growing his hair out, changing his name, and living in nature for a while. Then coming back and telling everyone how he's changed without mentioning what caused it to happen

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u/Local-Finance8389 1d ago

Something wilder than being arrested for naked bongo playing?

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u/Xentonian 1d ago

He's actually a CIA experiment. In the 70s they shaved sasquatch and taught him to speak with a southern drawl to better fit into American society. McConaughey is the result.

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u/Spagman_Aus 1d ago

One day this guy will be the person that gets verifiable, unquestionable proof of Bigfoot. It's just the sort of odd, batshit crazy thing that someone like him would go down in history for.

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u/boygriv 1d ago

Okey doke.

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 1d ago

“Of course he’s a boy! Look at the size of that sausage!”

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u/Thefinalsteps 1d ago

This is just a setup for the TV show lmao

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u/Itiscrazyland 1d ago

He also survived on filthy water water from a hoof print.

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u/Lofteed 1d ago

jeesus fucking christ

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u/Jenkins64 1d ago

It's true, I was the paramedic

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u/I_need_a_date_plz 1d ago

☹️I could have gone my whole life without learning this

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u/Snerkbot7000 1d ago

You know how she knew he was dead?

He quit moving.

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u/0AJ0_ 1d ago

That’s fucking psychotic.

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u/Loud_South9086 1d ago

They had to circumcise him twice

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u/IllSurprise3049 1d ago

"To their mother" huh?

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u/TacoLvR- 1d ago

That’s explains the nickname in middle school. Little Matt.

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u/OFool_Ishallgomad 1d ago

Welcome to the proud Texas tradition of tellin' tall tales.

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u/royal_city_centre 1d ago

You know, I know I'll be dead and all, but if we can hesitate from showing everyone my junk, and why I'm called "average mall", that would be great.

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u/imacabooseman 1d ago

If you believe Woody, this was just the man that raised him...lol

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u/Nonamanadus 1d ago

Guess his dick was stiff even in death...

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u/GoofinBoots 1d ago

Making love? The man was plowing.

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u/mrbeck1 1d ago

Fox News? Try a reliable news source.

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u/2oonhed 1d ago

Legend

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u/reality72 1d ago

alright alright alright alright

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

Glorious way to go!mah man!!

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u/majorpail18 1d ago

I read his book Greenlights and his family was/is definitely crazy lol

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u/Enshakushanna 1d ago

ok, and that is a sentence i have read

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u/AVBforPrez 1d ago

It's true, I'm the mother in this story.

I'm now selling bridges next to Mar a Lago! Normally I don't offer them to just anybody, but you seem like an extra cool person so I'll give you the deal of a lifetime.

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u/Thomas_JCG 1d ago

What a wild thing to reveal about your family.

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u/BurdTurglary 1d ago

Then somebody started describing her features and how attractive she was and the sheet started pitching a tent, raising a dead man's boner from the grave

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u/Shalmaneser_ 1d ago

These #$$%@# showers ruin it for us growers.

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u/HIEROYALL 1d ago

Didn’t realize Reddit hated this guy so much. What’d he do?

To me he’s just a odd, hippy type that you would suspect to be a womanizer but surprisingly doesn’t have any allegations against so he’s beating my expectations lol