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"Timothy Olyphant"

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35 Years of Marriage and 7 Good Ones

"Timothy Olyphant" · Jul 20, 2026 Society & Culture

Olyphant is celebrating 35 years of marriage this summer and is now an empty nester. He jokes that only 7 of those years were really good ones — but the casual delivery lands harder than any complaint.

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Eric Roberts, Double-Digit Arrests, and the Monaco Bust

At 11:35 · chapter starts 9:35

The crime confessional continues as Olyphant describes a car ride on the Justified set where he asked Eric Roberts how many times he'd been arrested. Roberts answered: double digits, at least half before 18. When Olyphant admitted he'd never been arrested, Roberts simply replied 'Pussy.' The room loves it. Jason Bateman then completes his Monaco story: drunk and disorderly in a leopard outfit, fueled by cheap champagne and armed with a pocket full of casino chips. Olyphant immediately declares 'cheap champagne and a pocket full of chips' the name of Bateman's biography. The segment closes with Olyphant inventing the collective noun 'a complaint of actors' to describe the group — a reference that becomes one of the episode's most quotable moments.

Society & Culture
35 years of marriage

"Timothy Olyphant" · Jul 20, 2026

Timothy Olyphant revealed he and his wife are celebrating 35 years of marriage this summer, joking that only 7 of those were really good ones.

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