Jun 26, 2026 · 2h 38m
Scott Eastwood warns of American food quality gaps and Hollywood pressures
#2519 - Scott Eastwood
This conversation reveals how even highly successful individuals struggle with mental health during career transitions, emphasizing why physical discipline and clean nutrition are vital anchors.
- 1Stricter food processing standards in Europe highlight the health risks of common additives allowed in American diets.
- 2Taking an unstructured hiatus from a demanding career can trigger unexpected mental health struggles and a loss of purpose.
- 3Rigorous third-party testing is essential to ensure the safety and efficacy of daily dietary supplements.
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The brief
Actor Scott Eastwood joins Joe Rogan to discuss navigating the pressures of Hollywood, the mental health challenges of taking a career hiatus, and his transition into the health and wellness space with his new supplement venture.
Eastwood highlights the stark contrast between food processing standards in America and Europe, arguing that artificial ingredients and lax regulations in domestic food production are driving widespread health issues.
The conversation also dives into the realities of growing up with a famous father in Carmel, Clint Eastwood's brief political career as mayor, and the intense preparation behind Scott's upcoming World War II film, Lucky Strike.
Both men emphasize that physical discipline, third-party testing for daily supplements, and maintaining a strong work ethic are essential tools for combating modern anxiety and finding personal purpose.
What was said on this episode
64 statements · 29 positive · 27 negative · 8 neutral
The supplement contains more than 70 vitamins.
“it's 70 plus vitamins in there”
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Liposomal glutathione may be more bioavailable than other forms.
“especially liposomal glutathione which is I think more available, bio absorbable”
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People optimizing health should review blood work with a wellness clinic.
“you should work with a wellness clinic and have someone go over your blood work”
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The majority of the American diet is unhealthy.
“the majority of the American diet, as delicious as it tastes, is like garbage. It's bad for you”
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Italian cheese processing may remove lactose and improve tolerance.
“the process of making this cheese is like four to six hours in the morning every day. And it gets the lactose out”
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Raw milk provides beneficial calcium, protein, and fats.
“Raw milk is good nutrition. There's calcium and protein and fats. Milk fat, it's good for you.”
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Everyone should eat organic food exclusively.
“We should all be eating organic food. That should be the only food.”
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Political actors use division as a means of control.
“they divide, in my opinion, to control”
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A higher group of wealthy interests actually makes political decisions.
“it's actually just one higher group that are actually making decisions. The big money.”
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People in England are arrested for social media posts.
“in England, you know, they're also getting arrested for social media posts”
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Schools should teach children how to think, not merely provide information.
“we should be teaching people to think correctly from the time they're young”
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Creating things substantially increases happiness.
“If you create, you're exponentially happier, I think”
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Becoming highly skilled at any activity will generate income.
“If you get good enough at anything, you'll make money at it for sure.”
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Practice intention is at least as important as practice duration for improvement.
“the intention that you put into each and everything you do that is as if not more important than the time”
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Psychedelic experiences benefit many people by broadening their perspective.
“a lot of those people would benefit from a psychedelic experience”
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Internet exposure has shifted public perception of psychedelics.
“the public's perception on this has really radically shifted in my lifetime. And I think it's because of the Internet.”
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Marijuana legalization reduces alcohol consumption in affected places.
“places that do have legal marijuana, you see a diminished alcohol intake”
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Frequent cannabis use at age 14 harms brain development.
“If you're getting high all the time when you're 14 years old, it's gonna your head up.”
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Drug legalization would reduce empowerment of cartels and organized crime.
“what you're not going to do is empower the drug cartels and organized crime”
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Legalizing cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine would probably benefit society overall.
“I think ultimately it'd probably be better for us”
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Loneliness substantially increases mortality risk.
“Loneliness kills people quicker than anything else.”
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Nutrition and exercise should be non-negotiable health priorities.
“for me, there's two. There's nutrition and exercise. Those are non negotiables.”
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Men should try martial arts for confidence, humility, and vulnerability awareness.
“for men, you should at least try martial arts”
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Experiencing controlled danger is probably beneficial for mental health.
“you should do some dangerous things in your life. It's probably good for you.”
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Pushing through frightening surfing experiences increases calmness, clarity, and happiness.
“You've never been calmer. You've never been more Zen with nature and clear in your mind about and happy because you've accomplished them.”
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Touching or striking an approaching shark’s nose usually makes it turn away.
“if you touch their nose. So if they're coming at you and you poke them hit their nose, they're usually going to turn.”
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Bull sharks can live in freshwater.
“bull sharks are one of the weird sharks that can live in freshwater”
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Future drugs will probably restore vitality to very old people.
“they probably will be able to do that, too”
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Future drugs may restore very old people to life or vitality.
“they probably will be able to do that, too. It's gonna get real weird.”
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Laboratories have rejuvenated 60-year-old human skin cells to resemble 20-year-old cells.
“they've been able to take human skin cells and take like 60 year old skin cells and make them 20 again”
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Bowhead whales can live between 100 and more than 200 years.
“bowhead whale whales can live for 100 to over 200 years”
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Fermented shark is a popular dish in Iceland.
“they have a fermented shark dish in Iceland that it's very popular”
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Bowhead whales recovered after demand for whalebone corsets collapsed.
“the bowhead was in danger of being hunted to extinction at the turn of the century, but bounced back after demand for whale born whale bone core sets plummeted”
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A cattle-processing facility uses heart tissue in medical operations.
“They use the part of the heart, I believe it's an organ. I can't remember. They use it in medical operations.”
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Becoming famous too early stunts personal development.
“you get famous too early, you get stunted in your growth”
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Child actors generally fail to emerge from fame psychologically normal.
“They never make it out normal”
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California has driven much of the film industry away.
“They've completely driven it out”
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The entertainment industry contains substantial deep insecurity.
“There's a lot of deep insecurity in that industry”
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Film is fundamentally a director’s medium rather than an actor’s medium.
“films, a director's medium, it's not really an actor's medium”
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Guy Ritchie often discards the prepared script during filming.
“Guy Ritchie. Here's the thing about Guy Richie. You learn the script, then you show up and he's just like, throws it out the window”
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Guy Ritchie is the benchmark for British crime films.
“he's like the benchmark for that genre of like British crime genre”
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Lee Murray will probably remain imprisoned for the rest of his life.
“He'll be in jail for probably the rest of his life”
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The Lee Murray heist may be Britain’s largest armed robbery.
“I think it's the biggest armed robbery in Britain's history”
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David Ayer lived aboard a submarine underwater for approximately two years.
“he lived on a submarine for, like two years, like, underwater”
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Another world war will probably eventually occur.
“eventually it'll probably happen again. A world war”
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Humans would die after 72 hours without water.
“You take water away for 72 hours and we're dead”
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Nazi Germany exterminated innocent people during World War II.
“What they were doing in Nazi Germany was terrifying. You know, they were exterminating innocent people.”
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Methamphetamine use was widespread among Nazi forces during World War II.
“It was evil people on meth”
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Nazi Germany possessed approximately 35 million methamphetamine doses.
“They had, like, 35 million doses of meth”
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Vulnerable people can be gradually manipulated into becoming different individuals.
“if you find someone who's vulnerable, vulnerable, you can coax them slowly but surely into becoming a different person.”
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Mind-control activity continued after the 1960s.
“They didn't stop doing it in the 1960s.”
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The attempted Trump shooter was probably influenced by an organization.
“that guy who tried to shoot Trump, he was probably a product of that”
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Reassembling a dismantled rifle does not guarantee shooting accuracy.
“There's no guarantee that that thing's going to be accurate.”
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The alleged shooter’s text messages appear to have been AI-generated.
“they seem like AI made them.”
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Claims that people signaled for the shooting are speculative.
“That's a lot of. Seems like speculation to me”
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A .30-06 rifle round should produce a larger wound than the observed neck injury.
“a 30 odds. Well, it does. It's not a big enough hole. 30 odd 6 is a big rifle round”
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Charlie Kirk’s neck wound had no exit wound.
“And there's no exit wound.”
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Authorities paved over the crime scene within days of the shooting.
“Like, they paved over the, the crime scene, like, within days afterwards.”
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A rifle cannot be reassembled and remain that accurate without further adjustment.
“You can't put a gun back together again and make it that accurate.”
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People should fact-check claims before repeating their own narratives.
“And let's fact check.”
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An unidentified person most likely recruited the Trump shooting suspect.
“But most likely somebody got a kid to try to do it, and he didn't pull it off, but he came close.”
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The theory that the Trump shooting was staged is extremely foolish.
“And then there's the real dummies who think it's staged, which is so Crazy.”
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A shooter could not intentionally graze an ear accurately from that distance.
“there's not a chance in hell that you could nick someone's ear with a bullet at that distance and be that accurate.”
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The Secret Service’s roof-slope explanation for lacking protection was nonsensical.
“And that didn't even make sense because this. The slope of the building where the snipers were on was steep, deeper, made no sense.”
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