Charity Livestream with Seth Rogen & Adin Ross
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Summary
Actor and comedian Will Smith joins Jemele to discuss his new movie, Superbad 2, and why he thinks the Fast and Furious franchise should go to space. He also talks about Bitcoin and how he thinks Bitcoin is a scam.
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If you guys get the 30 grand, he will shave it off right now.
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My partner, Evan, who I've been working with since I was 13,
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who I've written all my movies with, he hates it.
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Yeah, but it's been such a contributor to the success of the films.
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Yeah, me and Evan wrote Superbad and Pineapple Express and Is the End and Sausage Party and...
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Yeah, we were amazed at how many young people were in the theaters for that film.
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But yeah, I met my writing partner in bar mitzvah class.
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And we started writing Superbad when we were in high school.
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And we were, and we made Superbad when we were around your age.
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We were like 22 when we started filming that movie.
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I don't want to even take a percentage because I love you.
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You guys have like a little high school reunion.
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I don't, I, we can't make a, people don't want a sequel to Superbad.
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And then you would watch it and you'd be like, ah, why'd they do this?
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If there's no action in it, it can't have a sequel.
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How many Fast and Furious movies do you think is too many Fast and Furious movies?
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Until they're going to space, it seems, in this next one, which, and this is a story.
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The guy who produced the Green Hornet was a producer on the Fast and Furious films.
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My partner Evan was with him and we were joking around.
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And he was like, you know what they should do in the next Fast and Furious movie is they
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And he looked at him dead serious, the producer, and looked at my partner and he goes, not yet.
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He just knew, like, they're going to go to fucking space one day, but they're saving
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Speaking of going to space, Jeff, that was crazy.
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Your air is on packages or not to show him solely.
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I say that as someone with several TV shows on Amazon.
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If I was to go to space, I would go with the richest person I could find because odds
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are their space trip would be a successful one, I would imagine, on a grand scale of them.
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Do you avoid it because you're just like, I don't like it, I'm not into it, or what?
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I was never someone who was taught that your money should be a thing that makes you money.
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I was always taught that you should work for money.
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And I'm not saying that you should, I'm not saying that that's right.
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That's just always was like the philosophy I had.
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So the idea of taking your money and investing it in another form of money and expecting that
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to turn into more money is super confusing to me.
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You may be one of the only rich people I've ever heard with that strategy.
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Well, it's also maybe because I'm rich and I don't need Bitcoin.
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Pat, guys, if you're watching this, passive income streams in every part.
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Yeah, I don't, I said like that could also be it is, I might be too rich for Bitcoin.
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I'd rather like believe I don't know what it is than tell me.
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So Houseplant, a book, the yearbook, right yearbook?
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It was a New York Times bestseller for four weeks, I think, which is wonderful.
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I grew up, I've been smoking weed all day, every day for 25 years probably.
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So it's been, yeah, it's nice that I finally get to have a weed company.
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Why did you start, why did you start smoking weed originally?
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What benefits do you get out of it now, I guess?
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Like, I talk about, like, to me, it is no different than, like, my glasses or my shoes.
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It is something that, like, I need to get through my day-to-day life.
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It would be exactly like if I didn't have my glasses or my shoes.
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It would be like, I wouldn't die, but I'd be like, everything's a lot harder to do than I would.
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Is there any way we can get rid of whatever the fuck that is?
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Go to nightbot.tv, sign in, go to the spam shit, and just turn on the symbols.
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So, when was the last time you didn't smoke weed?
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And in Singapore, you get executed if you smoke weed.
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Yeah, and so I did not smoke weed in Singapore.
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Was there a slight part of you that was like, it might be worth it?
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And they do not, and when you arrive at the airport in Singapore, they put a thing, they
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give you a thing that says, if you have any drugs on you, you will be executed in no uncertain
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So, I was like, yeah, I'm not fucking around with this shit.
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Well, if you're my age and you're not, but if you're around 40, there's one thing you
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And that is, in the 90s, there was a guy who was American, who went to Singapore on vacation
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And the punishment was, he was publicly beaten with a cane.
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If you're watching, please donate a dollar or something like that.
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If we get the deal, I'll let him shave my beard.
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If we get the shave, he can shave it on stream right now.
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My mother-in-law, my wife's mother, was diagnosed when she was in her 50s.
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So, we were around your guys' age when we started dealing with it.
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And we felt like there was nothing we could do.
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And so, we started a charity because it just made us feel like we had some control over the situation.
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And at the time, especially, if you got a diagnosis for Alzheimer's, they would tell you that there's no treatment and there's no cure and there's pretty much nothing that can be done about it.
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And there's already things like brain health, things that we know we can do to help prevent Alzheimer's, which is not something that people knew was even a thing.
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And so, like, if there's one thing that I am fascinated by, and I think especially young people should wrap their heads around, it's, like, the idea that you can keep your brain healthy.
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Like, you could, just like you can keep your lungs healthy, you can keep your heart healthy, you can keep your brain healthy.
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What are some tips that kids watching this can do to try to achieve...
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Like, it is, like, infrastructural propaganda that has been put into your heads that make you think sugar is, like, a remotely acceptable thing to be eating.
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Is there's this, like, philosophy that you probably hear is, like, you'll sleep when you're dead.
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And I think a lot of people like to make it seem like you're lazy if you need sleep.
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Or, you know, you're not maximizing your potential or some shit.
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And if you don't get enough sleep, you will die sooner than you would if you did get enough sleep.
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Since 2012, they've raised $15 million, over $15 million, for Alzheimer's education, conversation, research.
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Yeah, and we provide in-home care for people, too.
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So, someone with Alzheimer's needs 24 hours a day, seven days a week supervision, basically.
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And most people, if you're married to someone, then you can't work.
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And it destroys your entire income structure, you know?
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And so, yeah, we provide in-home care for people who are dealing with that so they can go about their lives, you know?
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Yeah, so I watched my grandfather pass from Parkinson's, which is a little bit different, but similarly degenerative.
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And so, I commend you guys on starting this and raising all that money.
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And if you guys are watching this, you can donate to HFC.
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Like, it just automatically takes money out of doing that.
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No, Chad, I swear to God, if you guys give it 30 grand, he will shave it off right now.
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People said to my beard, did it take you a long time to grow?