-Matthew McConaughey.
Welcome back, Matthew McConaughey.
-Good to be back. -You stud, you.
Welcome back to the show. We love you.
How were the holidays? How was everything?
How's the fam? -Holidays were great.
I mean, they're not really done.
It doesn't feel like. -No.
-So you got Christmas. -Yes.
-You got New Year. -Yeah.
-Everyone's got that, right? -Yeah.
-But I've got a son
with a birthday of the 28th of December.
I've got a daughter with a birthday the 3rd.
I've got a mother with a birthday of the 7th.
-How old is Mom? -92.
Just a couple of days ago. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Happy birthday. Mom.
-Mama kicking ass, man, kicking ass.
-So, you know, when they were younger,
you could kind of merge Christmas
into the New Year's birthday.
"Hey, kiddos. It's all one big party."
They don't play that game anymore.
-Wow! That's a lot of parties.
-You got to prep, you party, reset, party again.
Prep, party, reset.
And it's gotta be the first time. Another kid.
We've had more damn cakes in our house.
[ Laughter ] And so we're still going.
My wife's got one coming up at the end of the month and then
when they get past Valentine's Day,
the rest of the year is smooth sailing.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I know you're a great family man.
You're a great dad. I follow you on the socials.
I don't know if you mind telling this story,
but the roller coaster story?
-Oh, yeah. So, Vida, my daughter,
the one with the birthday on the 3rd of January,
wants to go ride roller coasters for her birthday.
-I love that. -She comes up with this idea
at 9:00 at night on the 2nd.
-Yeah, that's what they did.
-Roller coasters tomorrow. Let's do this. Get on the horn.
Oh, Six Flags Fiesta down in San Antonio.
Let's hit it. We're out the door that morning,
we go to Six Flags.
We rode every roller coaster at least three times.
-There you go. -I'm still sore.
[ Laughter ]
But on the very last ride, it was the 26th ride of the day,
four hours into the day.
And I've been Mr. Dad with my jacket and pockets.
Right? Because I know I'm going to have to carry snacks
and everyone's phones. -Sunglasses, water.
-So I'm bloated. I'm dad at Six Flags
and I've got all -- Everything's been buttoned up.
And on the very last ride, just as we finish behind me,
Livingston and Vida are going, they go,
"Papa, I think your phone flew out on that last loop."
[ Crowd ohhs ]
And I went, "No, no, no, no, no, I've got my stuff together, man.
Taken care of it." I was like, "Oh, no."
There's everything else but my phone.
And there's a security guard
that was with us who had been videoing us.
And he goes, "I think your phone did fly out."
[ Laughter ] He stopped on this frame,
and we're upside down.
And there's this phone right above my kids' head flying off.
Anyway, it landed off in the middle of a swamp.
Phone's gone. Right? -Yeah.
-These guys at Six Flags says, "We can't check down there
right now because the park's still open.
But when it closes tonight,
we'll go out with flashlights and look for your phone."
The next afternoon at 6 p.m., my phone shows up in the mail.
-Yeah. -They found it
and sent it to me. -And did it work?
-It worked! -Six Flags!
-Come on! [ Cheers and applause ]
-Props to Six Flags. That's awesome. Love that.
Love that story. That's just the best that that works out.
-Happy birthday.
-Well, it's a brand-new year. Do you make resolutions?
Matthew McConaughey?
-If things are going okay or good,
I try to keep it quiet and just put my head down
and shut up and keep going. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-I try this. I don't necessarily try to come up with new things.
I do try and go back and backlog
through the last year of what [bleep] worked, right?
What small successes,
what green lights, what things that I wanted
did I get, even if I expected to get them.
Let's write a tally of those on January 1st
and respect what we did.
And I feel it gives me confidence
and some momentum to go,
"Well, let's double down on some of those things that worked."
And some of those times in the year that I was happy
and things felt like they were going well.
And let's carry that momentum into this year.
Double down on some of the past success.
I like that. What worked. Let's keep doing that.
Double down.
Last time you were here --
thanks again for coming on the show --
We were talking about your children's book
"Just Because," which I have here.
It was an instant number-one New York Times best seller
and congrats. It is -- [ Cheers and applause ]
I love it. -Thank you.
-I read it to my kids. I read it to myself.
I read it to myself as well as the kids.
Yeah, I think it's awesome.
These are things that you can take.
You don't have to be a kid to understand these things.
They're just -- It's just cool.
But you know what I thought was interesting?
It is still on the best-seller list.
-Yeah. -How cool is that, buddy?
-Yeah, it's real cool. -That's a long time.
-I wrote it, you know --
it was a kid in me writing it for the kid in all of us,
and I thought some kids would enjoy it.
But now I'm -- What I'm loving is I'm talking
to so many people that are saying,
"I'm having these brand-new conversations
with my children that I never had before."
I'm having youngsters come up to me going,
"I'm talking to my parents about things
I hadn't talked to them about before from the book."
So that feels great. -Come on, that's the best.
[ Cheers and applause ] Congratulations.
It's a totally different feeling
than any other thing that you've done in your career.
Right? You've written a children's book.
You go, "I didn't ever think I would,"
but then you do it and you go, "Wow, this is awesome."
-Yeah. -All these kids reacting to it
and reading it, you're like, "That's cool. I wrote that."
-Well, I figured, look, we're -- whatever age we were in life,
which if we're here, we've been weaving from one
to whatever we are now. Right?
We still have that age in us,
and we can go back and visit that age,
at least through the eyes, whether it's an innocence
where things were for the first time.
And that's one of the hardest things to do as we get older,
is to keep seeing things for the first time,
even if we've seen them a hundred times.
But it's a pretty good thing to try and do.
-See, that's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You're always doing fun things and cool things.
Let's talk about Pantalones. -Pantalones.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Look at this. The crowd already --
It's a party. Already they know it's a party.
You did this with your your wife, Camila.
-My wife, who cannot be here.
The chief...officer, my co-creator,
who would be sitting here and I'd be sitting over there.
I'm here one-legged tonight because she is not here.
But we met -- Camila and I met over tequila 17 years ago,
and I made her a margarita.
And that night, that language of love was happening, right?
And I spoke better Spanish than I've ever spoken since.
And I understood her Portuguese better than I ever have since.
[ Laughter ]
And we got together.
I got her to go out with me again.
That's the only person I've dated for 17 years.
Our favorite drink is tequila.
We have it very consistently in our life.
[ Laughter ] And so we said
let's make our own favorite tequila.
And that's what we came up here with Pantalones.
After 47 tasting tests and almost two years
of trying it out, we came up with this juice.
We have a badass juice in this bottle.
And then we said, once we got a great juice in the bottle,
now let's throw the pants off and throw caution to the wind
and have some fun with the name and the feel.
Tequila in the last 5, 10 years has gotten kind of serious.
I mean, some people are tequila snobs.
And we were like, no, no, no, no no, no, not tequila.
You keep that for the wine.
For tequila, let's have some fun.
So, Pantalones, it's the best thing we've made
with our pants on. [ Laughter ]
And there you go.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Alright. Let's -- -Oh! There it is.
-Let's cheers to making more good things.
Here's to making more good things.
-More good things. -You're the best.
Matthew McConaughey, everybody.
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