Zach Galifianakis once bought steaks out of some guy’s trunk
Galifianakis stars in Ron's Gone Wrong, but when it comes to his own life, he says "here ain't no robots allowed in the house. Don't trust them"
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Zach Galifianakis might play an adorable best friend robot in the new animated movie Ron’s Gone Wrong, but that doesn’t mean he trusts them.
As he told The A.V. Club in a recent interview, when it comes to his own house, robots are a no-go. “There ain’t no robots allowed in the house,” Galifianakis emphatically told us. “Don’t trust them. That Alexa can go fuck herself. I’m just not into it. I don’t trust them. No, absolutely not.”
Part of that could be attributed to Galifianakis growing up in the pre-internet age. “Maybe it’s because I’m 52,” he said. “It’s certainly newer to my generation, but even my generation seems to be fine with it all. I feel like I’m kind of the the cranky old guy that doesn’t like it, but I don’t know what the answer is.”
Galifianakis even weighed in on the recent whistleblower documents coming out of Facebook, alleging that the social network knows some of its practices are harmful to young people and continues to follow them anyway. “It just seems like there needs to be regulation. These algorithms are designed, I think, to take advantage of people more often than we think. I think it’s a capitalistic thing to make money and it’s as simple as that.”
Galifianakis also told us and co-star Jack Dylan Grazer about the time he bought raw meat out of a stranger’s trunk. “I was in my car once in the late ‘80s, and I don’t know why, but I bought steaks,” says Galifianakis, mentioning that they came frozen out what he remembers as a Chevy Malibu. “I didn’t ask a lot of questions,” he says. “It was a good price.”
You can hear more from Galifianakis and Grazer in Ron’s Gone Wrong, which hits theaters this weekend. You can read our review of the movie right here.
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My cousin used to sell cuts of meat out of his car. Like, as his job. It’s a thing.
They sell (frozen) lobsters and shrimp at the side of the road where I live, and it’s a long way from the ocean.
Well, yeah… if you don’t live close to the docks where the boats come in, you really should be buying shrimp frozen.
I had no idea he was 52. He’s looked the same for like 15 years.
52? He’s maybe around 44. He just graduated when my sister started high school, and she’s two years older than me, so he’s mid-40’s. That would mean he was 30-years-old when I went to that party at his place when I was a freshman in high school, and there’s just no way.
I’ve bought eggs off of craigslist before
How many kids do you guys have now?
12
Is it true that they’re cheaper by the dozen?
We have trucks that drive around here with signs on them asking you to beep to get them to pull over. Then they’ll sell you frozen meats.
Zach Galifianakis once bought steaks out of some guy’s trunk. Which is such a Zach Galifianakis thing to do, lol