Louder with Crowder - #336 AMERICA BUILT ON SLAVERY DEBUNKED! Ralph Macchio and HodgeTwins | Louder With Crowder

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00:00:31.000 Hey, I can smell the bug! I'm gonna get you!

00:00:38.000 Hey, I can smell the bug! Hey, I can smell the bug!

00:00:46.000 Hey, I can smell the bug!

00:01:12.000 Morning, Mr. Shapiro.

00:01:14.000 My name is Not-Gay Jared.

00:01:16.000 May I speak with you?

00:01:17.000 You're one of them.

00:01:19.000 Crowded, aren't you?

00:01:21.000 I'm still working in a studio, yes.

00:01:23.000 Still?

00:01:25.000 Still not gay? 0.97

00:01:26.000 Well, you see, I... I...

00:01:31.000 Okay, now tell me.

00:01:33.000 Kimmel, what did he say to you?

00:01:34.000 Kimmel in the next cell?

00:01:36.000 He hissed at you.

00:01:36.000 What did he say?

00:01:37.000 He said, I can smell your mug.

00:01:41.000 I see.

00:01:43.000 I myself cannot.

00:01:48.000 You drink folders?

00:01:50.000 Sometimes at Maxwell House?

00:01:53.000 But not today.

00:01:54.000 Did you do all those drawings?

00:01:56.000 Mr. Shapiro?

00:01:58.000 These are my beloved tumblers.

00:02:00.000 I've seen Holding Leftist Tears.

00:02:02.000 All that detail just from memory, sir?

00:02:04.000 The simple fact is, memory is what I have.

00:02:07.000 I'm not gay here.

00:02:09.000 Instead of a view.

00:02:10.000 Perhaps you'd like to lend us your view on this Mug Club registration form, sir?

00:02:13.000 No, no, no.

00:02:14.000 The fact is, you were doing fine.

00:02:16.000 You had been courteous, receptive to courtesy.

00:02:19.000 I'm not gay.

00:02:21.000 And now with this ham-handed segue to the Mug Club registration form.

00:02:24.000 The fact is, Simply won't do.

00:02:29.000 It's much better than your Tumblr.

00:02:30.000 You're so ambitious, aren't you?

00:02:31.000 You know, you look like to me with your jogger pants and your hipster glasses. 1.00

00:02:37.000 You look like a f**k. You look like a well-trained, late-night-producing f**k. With a little following. 1.00

00:02:44.000 You're a smart guy, Shapiro. 1.00

00:02:46.000 But are you smart enough to point that high-powered perception at your asbestos-laden Tumblr?

00:02:50.000 What about it?

00:02:51.000 Why don't you really look at it and write down what you see?

00:02:54.000 Maybe you're afraid to.

00:02:56.000 Pierce Morgan.

00:02:58.000 Once Freddie tapped me, I had his liver with some latkes and a nice man of shevitz. 1.00

00:03:07.000 Like the wine?

00:03:08.000 Yeah.

00:03:08.000 Why?

00:03:09.000 That's unnecessarily Jewish. 1.00

00:03:12.000 That's just your lady writing. 1.00

00:03:19.000 I'm not going to be able to do that.

00:03:26.000 I'm not going to be able to do that.

00:03:33.000 That's called the Kevin Spacey at the Boy Scouts ball.

00:03:40.000 Or the Kevin Spacey at the Boy Scouts ball.

00:03:47.000 That's called the Kevin Spacey at the Boy Scouts ball.

00:03:54.000 That's called the Kevin Spacey at the Boy Scouts ball.

00:04:01.000 At the Boy Scouts ball.

00:04:03.000 Or Fleet Week, really, as long as they're young enough.

00:04:05.000 Listen, we have a huge show we have to get into.

00:04:07.000 We have Ralph Macchio on the show.

00:04:09.000 Boom! 0.99

00:04:09.000 Then we have Martin Kove, Kreese, Sensei Kreese on the show. 0.99

00:04:09.000 Yes! 0.99

00:04:13.000 And then also the Hodgetwins.

00:04:13.000 Oh!

00:04:15.000 And the Hodgetwins. 0.79

00:04:15.000 Hope you have your censor button ready. 0.79

00:04:17.000 It is... So you have a lot of work to do in post.

00:04:22.000 And we're going to be talking about the NFL, their latest policy regarding kneeling, how President Trump weighed in on it.

00:04:28.000 We'll be talking about North Korea.

00:04:29.000 Also, we'll be talking about the myth that the United States was built off of the backs of slaves.

00:04:33.000 Hint, spoiler alert, it's not exactly true.

00:04:36.000 So we have a lot of news to get to today.

00:04:38.000 And my question, I guess, well, first off...

00:04:40.000 I guess let me ask the question before I introduce him.

00:04:42.000 The question's more important than who's producing.

00:04:44.000 Do you like seeing President Trump tossing in his lot here with the NFL?

00:04:48.000 Do you think it's time that a president chime in on cultural issues, or do you think it—some people think that it takes away from issues like North Korea, which could involve our impending doom?

00:04:56.000 If they had capabilities.

00:04:58.000 What do you think?

00:04:59.000 Do you like it when they put their oar in a president?

00:05:01.000 Do you think he should be more presidential?

00:05:02.000 Or do you think, hey, alright, it's time.

00:05:03.000 I'm curious.

00:05:04.000 I've seen opinions on both sides from both Trump supporters and people who cannot stand Trump.

00:05:08.000 Produced and going to be in video studio as always is Jared, who is not gay. 0.97

00:05:10.000 Follow him on Twitter at notgayjared.

00:05:11.000 Meet us, crowd over at the comments, chat, thoughts, your photoshops.

00:05:12.000 I fulfill my legal obligations.

00:05:13.000 Draw your own conclusions. Are we good?

00:05:15.000 I can smell your mouth.

00:05:16.000 Oh, careful now.

00:05:18.000 That might be misinterpreted.

00:05:20.000 At G. Morgan Jr., how are you, sir?

00:05:21.000 I'm doing well.

00:05:22.000 I watched Karate Kid last night.

00:05:23.000 Did you?

00:05:23.000 Just to get ready for this.

00:05:24.000 Wow, you finally prepared.

00:05:26.000 Well, yeah, on accident.

00:05:27.000 I had no idea.

00:05:28.000 No, I'm kidding.

00:05:29.000 How much wine were you consuming during Karate Kid?

00:05:31.000 Most of this bottle.

00:05:31.000 Duckhorn, Three Palms, Merlot.

00:05:33.000 Duckhorn, Three Palms, Merlot?

00:05:35.000 Who comes up with these names?

00:05:37.000 There's three palm trees.

00:05:37.000 Why is it so long?

00:05:38.000 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

00:05:40.000 He's soused too.

00:05:41.000 Sven Computer, are you ready?

00:05:42.000 I'm ready with the overlays.

00:05:43.000 Beep beep.

00:05:44.000 I blocked Gerald on Twitter because he's an alcoholic.

00:05:47.000 Naturally.

00:05:47.000 I blocked Sanka Edward, beep beep, because I'm still salty that he curbstomped me.

00:05:51.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:05:52.000 I blocked Jared because he likes milk and he shouldn't drink it.

00:05:54.000 And I blocked you because you don't let me talk.

00:05:55.000 I didn't even know he could block anyone.

00:05:58.000 I thought he was off Twitter.

00:05:59.000 Really?

00:06:00.000 You're not allowed to block now.

00:06:01.000 That's going to be a gif.

00:06:01.000 I'm not allowed to block.

00:06:03.000 So news of the day.

00:06:04.000 Donald Trump.

00:06:05.000 First, we have to get to this.

00:06:06.000 He's pulled out of the North Korea summit.

00:06:08.000 So CNN has this.

00:06:11.000 This is what he said in his letter to Kim Jong-un.

00:06:13.000 Let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit will not take place.

00:06:18.000 OK, frankly, you talk about nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive.

00:06:21.000 This is a quote.

00:06:22.000 Ours is so massive, so powerful, that I pray to God they will never have to be used. 1.00

00:06:28.000 Figures crossed, you filthy son of a b****. 1.00

00:06:32.000 You oriental son of a b****. 1.00

00:06:34.000 And I said, I don't care. 1.00

00:06:35.000 Oriental son of a b****. 1.00

00:06:36.000 North Koreans count, yeah. 1.00

00:06:38.000 Go for it.

00:06:39.000 So this has been a rough, fast-paced few weeks on the deal.

00:06:44.000 And courtesy of Obama, we actually have leaked tapped audio from their latest phone call.

00:06:51.000 Yeah, hey, Donald!

00:06:52.000 You see, I did found my nuclear facility for you! 0.99

00:06:54.000 Yeah, but I hear you've been talking a lot of trash, okay? 0.96

00:06:57.000 I don't know, Donald! 0.99

00:06:58.000 You listen to the wrong people!

00:07:00.000 No, no, no.

00:07:00.000 See, frankly, it seems like we're going back and forth.

00:07:02.000 All the time.

00:07:03.000 And it seems like such a waste of time.

00:07:07.000 And if that's what it's all about.

00:07:12.000 Then I pull it out.

00:07:16.000 Pull it out.

00:07:18.000 Who wants to deal with the zipper head? 0.82

00:07:20.000 How about I just nuke your whole country? 0.98

00:07:26.000 He is not one for diplomacy.

00:07:27.000 He has pulled out of more deals than Morgan Freeman has nieces.

00:07:30.000 Come on now, that is terrible.

00:07:34.000 It's his own fault.

00:07:35.000 And far too accurate.

00:07:36.000 And I also don't have a bit of faith that Kim Jong really got rid of his nukes. 0.83

00:07:39.000 It would be like Trump walking into a little kid's room saying, did you clean it up?

00:07:42.000 Yeah, clean it up.

00:07:43.000 What's on your blanket right there, Kim Jong?

00:07:45.000 Gimme, gimme. 0.98

00:07:47.000 Nothing.

00:07:48.000 Is that a dead dog?

00:07:49.000 Yeah, and nukes.

00:07:50.000 And nukes.

00:07:52.000 Did you see Nancy Pelosi saying this was a big win for Kim Jong-un because he was legitimized?

00:07:52.000 Don't look!

00:07:58.000 You're the architects of the Iran deal! 1.00

00:08:00.000 Yes!

00:08:00.000 How do you get to say this?

00:08:03.000 Because it was going to meet with them?

00:08:04.000 The words come out of your mouth.

00:08:06.000 Listen to them, not kill yourself.

00:08:07.000 Listen to them? 0.95

00:08:08.000 Maybe kill yourself on two more urgent stories Stormy Daniels was now awarded the key to the city. That's 0.95

00:08:14.000 about time of wait for it West Hollywood Yeah from USA Today

00:08:17.000 Officials of the city said in a release that they chose to recognize Daniels because in these politically tumultuous

00:08:22.000 times She's proven herself quote to be a profiling courage by

00:08:26.000 speaking truth to power even under threats for safety and under extreme intimidation

00:08:31.000 So they were really big fans though half the audience actually left when they realized stormy was in fact a woman

00:08:38.000 So they just thought oh We thought she just did it 0.72

00:08:43.000 We thought she had a really good stylist.

00:08:45.000 Unfortunately, the event was actually cut short when she choked on the city key. 1.00

00:08:48.000 So that was something that... Old habits die hard.

00:08:50.000 So did Stormy Daniels.

00:08:52.000 Yeah, she did.

00:08:53.000 She was not as skilled in the art of key love.

00:08:57.000 How many people have keys to West Hollywood these days, by the way?

00:08:59.000 Everyone has a key.

00:09:01.000 Pretty much the entire cast of Rent, I think.

00:09:03.000 Just like Stormy's chastity belt.

00:09:05.000 Everyone has a key.

00:09:06.000 Everyone has a key.

00:09:07.000 Why are we glorifying a porn star?

00:09:08.000 I don't think there is a chastity belt.

00:09:10.000 How brave is she?

00:09:11.000 She's very brave.

00:09:12.000 I don't know.

00:09:13.000 Incredibly.

00:09:13.000 She's brave.

00:09:15.000 You have to be somewhat brave to sleep with that guy.

00:09:17.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:18.000 She's definitely brave.

00:09:19.000 I don't know.

00:09:20.000 So now that Obama is speaking of brave, brave and beautiful, they've now signed a deal with Netflix and formed the company Higher Ground Productions, in case you were under the ill-informed illusion that they were self-important.

00:09:32.000 NPR.

00:09:34.000 Netflix said in a statement that the Obamas would produce, quote, a diverse mix of content including docu-series, documentaries, and features.

00:09:40.000 So their main show is launching on Netflix.

00:09:42.000 Also titled, ironically, Orange is the New Black.

00:09:45.000 They didn't really need to change a whole... They already had the template.

00:09:50.000 And apparently, right, they might actually, the Obamas might wade into doing fiction, right, Sven Computer?

00:09:54.000 Yeah, this is from inverse.com.

00:09:56.000 They said, fiction is probably an option, you know.

00:09:58.000 Fiction, like your legacy.

00:10:00.000 Oh, geez.

00:10:02.000 For some reason it sounds much more harsh coming from a German.

00:10:04.000 It does.

00:10:04.000 Ironically, they're probably more qualified for television than the White House.

00:10:08.000 Yeah.

00:10:09.000 I mean, this is the same guy who said no to Netanyahu to meet with Glozell Green, right?

00:10:12.000 Yes.

00:10:12.000 Same guy?

00:10:12.000 We already gave him one.

00:10:14.000 I forgot that.

00:10:15.000 I forgot that.

00:10:18.000 That's one of our favorite memes we ever did was the Glozell Greenfield.

00:10:21.000 People don't remember it.

00:10:22.000 That Yahoo Dad.

00:10:25.000 Mr. President, there are rockets being launched from the Gaza Strip.

00:10:28.000 We would like to... But I ate Cheerios from my bathtub!

00:10:32.000 No!

00:10:35.000 I want a summit!

00:10:37.000 And I'm gonna drink coke!

00:10:39.000 I'm on the YouTubes!

00:10:41.000 I thought you had something to say.

00:10:42.000 I did, but you went past it.

00:10:44.000 I'll cry about it later.

00:10:44.000 I'm sorry.

00:10:45.000 A 30-year-old man has now appealed a court's decision, which ruled in favor of his parents, who kicked him out of the house.

00:10:54.000 Every now and then, you get this perfect moment.

00:10:57.000 That moment on national television when you realize that you've done... You've thought none of this through.

00:11:03.000 Let's rewind for a second, because it's my understanding you've lived, you know, at your parents' house rent-free for eight years, and I know you do your own laundry, you buy your own food, but they asked you five times, please move out.

00:11:19.000 Why couldn't you guys resolve this without the court?

00:11:24.000 I would consider much of what they were doing to try to get me out as a tax and what I was trying to... I was just... Think fast!

00:11:39.000 Think fast!

00:11:40.000 David Hogg freeze frame!

00:11:44.000 Am I still in the split view?

00:11:46.000 Are they going to play me off?

00:11:50.000 How do I get off?

00:11:52.000 He looks like Weird Al Yankovic ate a fatter, weirder, more lonely Weird Al Yankovic.

00:11:56.000 I was hoping that he wouldn't look exactly how he looks.

00:11:59.000 If someone said, sketch me a 30 year old who lives with his parents, that's exactly what you would draw. 1.00

00:12:04.000 It's that guy.

00:12:05.000 He's going to be in movies from here to... To be fair, he actually has a very awesome girlfriend.

00:12:10.000 From Canada.

00:12:11.000 She's a model. 1.00

00:12:13.000 You don't know her.

00:12:15.000 Actually, she's a level 7 Windrunner from World of Warcraft.

00:12:19.000 Okay, six.

00:12:22.000 He...

00:12:24.000 I'm trying to... I was just... you know...

00:12:28.000 Don't make the sound! Don't...

00:12:34.000 Don't narrate when your brain breaks.

00:12:38.000 That's brain breaking 101.

00:12:41.000 In his head and he went... You sound like Milton with the staple.

00:12:44.000 Just don't say anything!

00:12:45.000 Just stop! 0.89

00:12:46.000 It's like me stepping on jokes and saying it out loud.

00:12:49.000 How awkward was it when he had to go to his dad and ask him to borrow a suit to wear to court?

00:12:55.000 So you're suing me.

00:12:58.000 Why would I give you a suit to sue me? 1.00

00:12:59.000 Dad, you're such a son of a bitch! 1.00

00:13:02.000 I can't believe you guys! 1.00

00:13:09.000 Also, by the way, he actually does make a living as a roadie for GWAR.

00:13:18.000 I don't know why that's what I thought.

00:13:19.000 Gainesville, Florida.

00:13:20.000 A man has been accused of...

00:13:25.000 Okay.

00:13:25.000 You're gonna get mad at us until you see the punchline.

00:13:28.000 So it's okay, right?

00:13:29.000 He gets this.

00:13:30.000 Gainesville, Florida man has been accused of punching a pregnant deaf woman that sounds bad on its surface.

00:13:34.000 Yes, we know.

00:13:36.000 And her service dog aboard a Frontier Airlines flight.

00:13:41.000 Manley complained of being allergic to dogs as the plane descended and was being taxied to the gate at the Orlando International Airport.

00:13:48.000 Timothy Manley then punched the service dog, causing it to yelp.

00:13:51.000 Police said he then punched the owner, who was deaf and about 20 weeks pregnant.

00:13:56.000 That's like the trifecta.

00:13:58.000 Sorry, we're overbooked, said Satan.

00:14:03.000 He didn't even have the right form for you to fill out.

00:14:07.000 But your honor, it was Frontier!

00:14:10.000 Exactly.

00:14:11.000 Imagine him, Jesus!

00:14:13.000 Close one.

00:14:15.000 Almost caught the devil.

00:14:16.000 The story clarifies by the fact that he was actually upset.

00:14:19.000 It turns out he was upset with the husband, the owner, actually, of the dog.

00:14:24.000 But then, when he was confronted, he instead opted to punch his deaf, pregnant wife.

00:14:29.000 So this is a special kind of... Similarly, when he was approached by what he saw as hostile air marshals, he teabagged a nun.

00:14:34.000 Oh, yeah.

00:14:35.000 That's reasonable.

00:14:35.000 And then threw a small child out the window.

00:14:37.000 Can you imagine this guy starting any sentence with, okay, okay, but in my defense... I was on Frontier Airlines.

00:14:47.000 It's hell.

00:14:48.000 In my defense, you know what?

00:14:50.000 I'll allow you to continue.

00:14:52.000 Let's see where this goes.

00:14:54.000 It was Frontier!

00:14:56.000 What are you saying?

00:14:58.000 Who, well certainly, who amongst us on a spirit flight has not felt like they wanted to punch a deaf, 20-week pregnant woman? 1.00

00:15:05.000 Yeah.

00:15:06.000 I think you're alone on that one.

00:15:08.000 Don't you love how the left, by the way, is just outraged by this when it's a 20-week pregnant woman who wants to have the baby?

00:15:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:13.000 She doesn't want to have it.

00:15:14.000 It's like, that's a human right!

00:15:16.000 No, it's not.

00:15:16.000 It's a clump of cells.

00:15:17.000 Let's flush it down the airplane toilet.

00:15:17.000 Who knew?

00:15:19.000 Horrible human beings. 1.00

00:15:20.000 They're evil. 0.99

00:15:20.000 Okay, so Germany, speaking of evil, Germany, your homeland, see that? 0.99

00:15:23.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:15:23.000 That's Fencom, shut up. 1.00

00:15:24.000 Germany is now training Syrian I don't even know. 0.99

00:15:28.000 People will think this is funny.

00:15:28.000 Syrian asylum seekers to become truck drivers.

00:15:31.000 The transport industry slag holstein... What?

00:15:34.000 ...lacks 1,200 motorists, so with a nationwide unique project, the Logistics Association, the UVL, and the DRK Care Services in Kiel now want to hire refugees as truck drivers.

00:15:45.000 Really?

00:15:46.000 Said all the Syrian migrants trading in their machetes for CDLs. 0.99

00:15:52.000 Germans really do make everything more efficient.

00:15:52.000 It's true!

00:15:55.000 Why stop there?

00:15:56.000 Just throw in some 747s and box cutters.

00:15:57.000 See what happens.

00:15:58.000 What do they think? 0.99

00:15:58.000 Like, they just... Germany should just host a shark tank for terrorists. 0.99

00:16:03.000 Okay, look! 0.97

00:16:04.000 This looks like a normal knife, right? 1.00

00:16:06.000 Okay, I am seeking 20 million for 40% stake to kill the Jews. 1.00

00:16:12.000 The WIC program already covers beard trimmers and acid, so just, you know, why not? 0.98

00:16:16.000 I just... You know there's going to be a story about this.

00:16:20.000 Yeah, such a lack of awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world.

00:16:24.000 I can't believe... A lack of awareness of what's going on in their own country!

00:16:27.000 Yes, of course.

00:16:28.000 How else are we supposed to drive away from climate change?

00:16:33.000 They would have a job if... They wouldn't be terrorists if you drove a Tesla.

00:16:41.000 Teslas are human rights.

00:16:43.000 Okay.

00:16:44.000 All right, so speaking of human rights, speaking of birth rights, obviously freedom of assembly, freedom to protest is one here in the United States.

00:16:50.000 So the NFL kneeling, it was a big situation a long time ago with Colin Kaepernick, and now it's come full circle.

00:16:55.000 Everyone's talking about this.

00:16:56.000 That's why, again, the question of the day, do you like when the president weighs in on this?

00:16:59.000 And I wanted to tie this into the myth to That the United States was built or dependent on slavery.

00:17:04.000 That's one thing that I don't... Just take a basic economics course and it won't hold up.

00:17:07.000 Slavery was bad!

00:17:08.000 Anyway, let's start with the NFL.

00:17:08.000 I'm not defending it.

00:17:10.000 So the NFL has now announced their policy.

00:17:12.000 It will require players on the field to stand for the national anthem or teams could be fined.

00:17:17.000 This is them announcing it.

00:17:18.000 If anyone is on the field and is disrespectful to the anthem or the flag, there would be a fine from the league against the team and they will make their own decisions about how to manage that from there.

00:17:30.000 Okay, that seems pretty cut and dry.

00:17:31.000 Of course, this has the left everywhere, but we just wanted to pull one clip.

00:17:35.000 You'll see why.

00:17:36.000 Throwing a race baiting tantrum. 0.86

00:17:37.000 Roll Buffalo.

00:17:38.000 First of all, the commissioner says they will impose appropriate discipline on the players if they dare to express their freedom of speech.

00:17:46.000 Lashings, maybe?

00:17:48.000 I don't know what the discipline will be.

00:17:50.000 Lashings.

00:17:51.000 Slavery reference.

00:17:52.000 Lunchtime.

00:17:55.000 So, um, now here's the thing.

00:17:57.000 Despite the trending narrative right now, a lot of people are saying that the NFL kneels for Trump is what was trending exactly on the New York Times.

00:18:02.000 Yeah, and the New York Times or the NFL kneels for Trump.

00:18:04.000 We'll come back to.

00:18:05.000 That's not what this is about.

00:18:06.000 I want to make sure that there is no order from the president that you understand.

00:18:09.000 The NFL first created a policy in response to kneeling during the anthem.

00:18:12.000 By the way, which is common across a lot of other leagues like the NBA.

00:18:15.000 This is not... Absolutely.

00:18:15.000 Yes, exactly.

00:18:18.000 Nary a black man to be found in the NBA. 0.98

00:18:23.000 It's black, black, black, black, black, black. 1.00

00:18:25.000 Nowitzki for a couple more years. 0.96

00:18:27.000 Black, black, black, black, black. 0.94

00:18:28.000 Hall of Fame, Stockton.

00:18:30.000 That's about it.

00:18:32.000 But they did.

00:18:33.000 They made it a policy, likely because of record low numbers in revenue, which they were seeing as a result of all the kneeling.

00:18:38.000 Some people want to just escape and watch football as opposed to dealing with politics.

00:18:42.000 That's why they're turning to sports as opposed to Fox News.

00:18:44.000 So President Trump, again, this is what's causing all the controversy.

00:18:48.000 He spoke out on the NFL's policy.

00:18:51.000 This is the first time you're hearing this.

00:18:53.000 What's your reaction, Mr. President?

00:18:54.000 Well, I think that's good.

00:18:55.000 I don't think people should be staying in locker rooms, but still, I think it's good.

00:18:58.000 You have to stand proudly for the national anthem.

00:19:01.000 Well, you shouldn't be playing.

00:19:02.000 You shouldn't be there.

00:19:03.000 Maybe you shouldn't be in the country.

00:19:06.000 Well... No, I don't disagree.

00:19:09.000 I understand the sentiment.

00:19:10.000 Yeah.

00:19:10.000 Yeah, I do think there's a little bit of those things like, Trump, just let Roger Goodell be the bad guy for five hot minutes.

00:19:16.000 Wait a second, wait a second. 0.96

00:19:18.000 Twelve hours where someone... Roger Goodell's the a**hole. 0.97

00:19:20.000 No, I'm the only a**hole in this! 0.70

00:19:21.000 What do you think about it? 1.00

00:19:24.000 Get rid of the blacks! 1.00

00:19:26.000 If I was his press person, I'd take away the phone. 1.00

00:19:28.000 I think it would be great, frankly, these blacks are so good at sports.

00:19:31.000 If we could have one to call our own, don't you think that'd be great?

00:19:36.000 That's the kind of thing.

00:19:37.000 Anyway, the point is, I guess we have golf.

00:19:40.000 Except what is the buy rate to Tiger?

00:19:42.000 I don't know.

00:19:43.000 But we both had to go with Stormy Daniels.

00:19:46.000 So many of the players, of course, are now threatening to move to Canada if the new rule is implemented.

00:19:53.000 And Colin Kaepernick is now the MVP of all of Canada.

00:19:56.000 So that's good.

00:19:57.000 There's a silver lining.

00:19:59.000 I'd be laying on your feet, Collin.

00:20:01.000 I mean, I think, yeah.

00:20:03.000 Look, the NFL is a business.

00:20:04.000 These guys have the opportunity to do whatever they want any day of the week.

00:20:07.000 Except they're a non-profit, which muddies the water.

00:20:09.000 Well, I mean the owners, their own teams, right?

00:20:10.000 You sign on, there's code of conduct, there's everything else.

00:20:13.000 Fine, use your platform outside of that. 1.00

00:20:14.000 You got six other days of every single week to be a jerk and uninformed. 0.99

00:20:18.000 Go for it, right? 1.00

00:20:19.000 Use it to your advantage.

00:20:21.000 Yeah.

00:20:21.000 Why is this a problem?

00:20:21.000 It's fine.

00:20:22.000 Well, I think a couple things here.

00:20:24.000 Like we said, it is a non-profit.

00:20:25.000 I know people talk about that, but you're talking about business.

00:20:27.000 How in the world did they get that?

00:20:28.000 I have no idea.

00:20:30.000 I want to know the backstory of how a multi-billion dollar business is a non-profit.

00:20:33.000 I don't know how the IRS looks like.

00:20:35.000 Walks in the merch store.

00:20:36.000 Well, that's a jersey that sells for about $125.

00:20:36.000 Okay, and what is this?

00:20:38.000 That's a mug that sells for $49.95.

00:20:40.000 That's an autographed mug that sells for about $255,000.

00:20:42.000 And we'd like our 501c3 status, please.

00:20:46.000 We'd like to not pay taxes on any of it, thank you.

00:20:48.000 It's the insanity plea of business.

00:20:51.000 Well, you know, I was crazy when I murdered those five people, but I'm not anymore.

00:20:51.000 Yeah.

00:20:55.000 I'm good now.

00:20:55.000 I think I should be free.

00:20:56.000 Got it out of my system.

00:20:57.000 Well, button drive for me!

00:21:00.000 I do think they should have let this whole story die a little bit, though, because it was kind of old news.

00:21:03.000 It was over.

00:21:04.000 They kind of brought something back to life that probably should have just faded away.

00:21:08.000 And I would have a problem if the president were to try to implement some policy or tell the NFL what they should do, exactly.

00:21:13.000 Here's the thing.

00:21:14.000 He was responding in an interview with Brian Kilmeade when asked about the NFL's policy.

00:21:14.000 He wasn't.

00:21:18.000 Perfectly appropriate.

00:21:19.000 Perfectly appropriate.

00:21:20.000 They said, what do you think about this new policy?

00:21:21.000 Because it's been politicized a lot.

00:21:21.000 Why?

00:21:23.000 And he answered with his opinion.

00:21:23.000 It's a big issue.

00:21:25.000 That's why Donald Trump is actually gaining popularity.

00:21:28.000 And this is one thing I will say.

00:21:29.000 I'm not the guy who says you can never trust polls.

00:21:31.000 Right now you can't trust polls on whether you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Trump because people feel they need to have an unfavorable view.

00:21:36.000 I don't think many people are that offended by what he said there.

00:21:40.000 And the fact that the media is acting as though he was somehow like a king dictating what the NFL should do is why no one trusts them.

00:21:47.000 Well, and a lot of the players, I read a lot of their responses to this on Twitter.

00:21:50.000 They're saying that they have the right to go ahead and do this.

00:21:52.000 They can do this.

00:21:53.000 It's not about the National Anthem.

00:21:54.000 They don't understand that they are disrespecting the National Anthem by protesting during it.

00:21:59.000 That's what they're missing.

00:22:01.000 Yes, yes, that's a good point.

00:22:02.000 By choosing to protest during that, they're disrespecting the National Anthem.

00:22:04.000 Listen, this country is imperfect, right?

00:22:05.000 They're talking about the injustice.

00:22:06.000 This country is imperfect.

00:22:07.000 There is injustice.

00:22:08.000 I think everyone here would agree with that.

00:22:09.000 Just look at Sven Computer when he was trying to get his work visa.

00:22:12.000 We may still lose him for two years.

00:22:14.000 Hashtag saves Sven, but don't follow him.

00:22:18.000 You can strike the correct imperfections.

00:22:20.000 We do that on this show all the time.

00:22:21.000 We're constantly criticizing our government and our media.

00:22:23.000 We're constantly criticizing the establishment.

00:22:25.000 I have no problem with that.

00:22:26.000 Kneeling at the NFL is not about that.

00:22:29.000 It's not a, if you don't like America, get the hell out, kind of reaction. 0.99

00:22:33.000 This is about goofy, dumb, dumb players trying to make a political statement on the dime of the viewers who've paid them to play football. 0.99

00:22:40.000 This is the unwritten contract between the viewer and the football player. 1.00

00:22:44.000 They're tuning in precisely because it is apolitical.

00:22:47.000 It should be a sporting event.

00:22:48.000 And worse, it's a protest predicated on a lie.

00:22:51.000 This is what bothers most Americans.

00:22:53.000 We've done a whole video, I think.

00:22:54.000 We even have people here of us going through each and every Black Lives Matter case.

00:22:57.000 It was 20-something, right?

00:22:58.000 We do all of those things.

00:22:58.000 Not KJ?

00:23:00.000 And I think all of them, except for maybe two, which were like, okay, we'll give you those.

00:23:03.000 Proven to be fraudulent.

00:23:05.000 But here's the thing, it's like drinking from a fire hose.

00:23:07.000 These people are saying, we're kneeling until there's justice because police brutality.

00:23:10.000 All right, well, let's just go through the stories from the last month, okay?

00:23:13.000 Just this last month.

00:23:15.000 May 22nd, okay, the body cam video revealed that Sherita Dixon-Cole, remember that name, a black woman from Texas, lied about being raped by a cop who pulled her over for DUI. 0.79

00:23:23.000 That was trending for about a day.

00:23:24.000 May 14th, the NAACP president in South Carolina, I think it was Gerard Moultrie, if it's pronounced, said that he was racially profiled and the body camera footage showed otherwise.

00:23:32.000 May 10th!

00:23:33.000 Remember the black woman named Dawn Hilton Williams from South Carolina?

00:23:35.000 She created this tearful video claiming that she was harassed by a white cop during a traffic stop because she was black.

00:23:41.000 Body cam footage revealed none of that happened.

00:23:43.000 So it's like, you want the body camera footage?

00:23:46.000 You want to be the world's most powerful genie?

00:23:48.000 Everything that comes with it?

00:23:49.000 Nooooo! 1.00

00:23:51.000 Now all your claims go away.

00:23:52.000 Who knows?

00:23:57.000 That's the entire Black Lives Matter movement.

00:24:00.000 This is just last month.

00:24:00.000 Dang it.

00:24:02.000 You probably don't even remember, we've talked about Coren Gaines, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, all these other cases we've written about at loudearthcounter.com.

00:24:09.000 But they were all trending, they were all under the narrative of police brutality.

00:24:13.000 By the way, you're actually more likely to be shot by the police if you're a white guy.

00:24:16.000 People don't understand this.

00:24:18.000 We've written about that on the website.

00:24:19.000 People have said, I don't believe that statistic.

00:24:20.000 Well, okay, go to the website, look at the FBI crime statistics.

00:24:22.000 That's when adjusted for population.

00:24:24.000 It's when adjusted for population.

00:24:25.000 And we covered it in detail on the show.

00:24:28.000 And so this is the protest based on a lie. 1.00

00:24:30.000 It's a protest on someone else's dying based on a lie because you're an idiot. 1.00

00:24:30.000 That's the problem. 1.00

00:24:33.000 And sometimes I say, well, it's not about police brutality.

00:24:35.000 I think Colin Kaepernick said it.

00:24:37.000 It's about the basis of the United States.

00:24:39.000 It's built on slavery.

00:24:40.000 The United States was built off the backs of slaves. 0.99

00:24:41.000 First off, okay, you're not exactly eating exclusively shellfish while being bullhopped in the hull of a boat, Mr. 20 million a year Amistad, okay?

00:24:48.000 Let's start with that.

00:24:50.000 They're so far removed from slavery.

00:24:52.000 So at what point do you say, alright listen, maybe there were some bad breaks before, but now you've kind of had a leg up.

00:24:59.000 Namely, fantastic genetics that allow you to run like the wind and set 1 through 25 speed records.

00:25:05.000 Okay?

00:25:07.000 And jumping, right?

00:25:07.000 Second, is it even true?

00:25:09.000 Is it even true?

00:25:10.000 Was the United States built on slavery?

00:25:12.000 You hear that all the time, yeah.

00:25:12.000 We're told that so much.

00:25:13.000 You hear it all the time.

00:25:14.000 And nobody challenges it.

00:25:15.000 No.

00:25:16.000 The truth is, the free North outperformed the slave state South in nearly every economic way imaginable.

00:25:23.000 Yeah, well, and many economists actually attribute it directly to the long-established economic detriment of slavery.

00:25:28.000 So if you're a slave, you have zero incentive to come up with new ways of doing things, to be more productive.

00:25:33.000 Basically, you're just going to keep your head down in a bad situation and not get hurt, right?

00:25:36.000 Exactly.

00:25:37.000 It's never going to change.

00:25:38.000 It would still be the same way today if we didn't change it.

00:25:40.000 No, and I think some people got a quote there, right?

00:25:42.000 Yeah, I mean, you can read the quote right here.

00:25:42.000 Was it from the...

00:25:44.000 I mean if you're if you are one of those slave owners people you're not living really in a free market and you're 0.90

00:25:49.000 not Really trying to compete as it was a free market

00:25:51.000 So you're living more for the pomp and not to innovate and slavery would have much more in common with Marxism

00:25:57.000 Which is what I always find so far like this capitalist society office. Really?

00:26:00.000 Okay Well, the whole idea of capitalism is to incentivize people

00:26:02.000 to benefit from their labor to benefit from what they create

00:26:06.000 Guess what you have guess what your pot of gold is at the end of a rainbow if you're a slave and you do a 1.00

00:26:10.000 Fantastic job damn it more slavery I'm gonna get an underground railway to Canada and 0.98

00:26:17.000 Canadians. Look great. No more slaves. Bring them over bring them over 1.00

00:26:20.000 It's over!

00:26:22.000 There's no incentive to be entrepreneurial or scientific.

00:26:24.000 That's why you go, well, hold on a second, what's the correlation here?

00:26:27.000 Because almost every measurable economic facet here, the North did better than the South, without slaves.

00:26:33.000 Is that why they won the war, or was it just because they had a little less than enthusiastic troops in the South?

00:26:33.000 There you go.

00:26:38.000 In cooler hats.

00:26:40.000 That might have been it, too.

00:26:41.000 I don't think that's true.

00:26:42.000 I mean, we have this image of the cotton picking South. 1.00

00:26:45.000 But the truth is that only after slavery had ended did the cotton industry actually soar and innovate.

00:26:49.000 And there's a strong argument to be made that that was due to technological advancements,

00:26:53.000 which came after slaves were gone.

00:26:55.000 This happens in almost every business.

00:26:57.000 Think about it.

00:26:57.000 Nearly anyone who runs a business or is a CEO, if you look at stories today, these success stories,

00:27:01.000 it's someone who started their way at the bottom.

00:27:02.000 Carly Fiorina is an example that comes to mind.

00:27:04.000 They started their way to the bottom, and they learned everything.

00:27:06.000 They came to the top.

00:27:07.000 Because they spoke with the boss and said, hey, I think you could be doing this better.

00:27:07.000 Why?

00:27:10.000 I think this could be more efficient.

00:27:12.000 Why would you do that if you're a slave?

00:27:13.000 You wouldn't.

00:27:14.000 They were impeded by it.

00:27:15.000 There's a reason the best cars don't come from the Middle East, where they have endless slave labor available to them. 1.00

00:27:19.000 Right, exactly.

00:27:20.000 Innovation doesn't exactly breed innovation.

00:27:21.000 No, it does not.

00:27:22.000 You can build pyramids and all, but that's about it.

00:27:24.000 Yeah, I think that was the aliens.

00:27:25.000 The point is... No one today... Nailed it.

00:27:29.000 By the way, also, hey, Gerald, do me a favor.

00:27:31.000 Right now, jump up.

00:27:32.000 Just jump up.

00:27:33.000 No, give me an actual jump.

00:27:33.000 Jump.

00:27:34.000 What do you want to jump for?

00:27:35.000 Jump.

00:27:36.000 He landed in the same spot, there's no round earth, it's flat, it's flat, it's flat, we're not rotating.

00:27:40.000 So the point is that YouTube video, 5 million plays, you get to disprove it!

00:27:44.000 The point is no one today, okay, out there needs to feel guilty of their privilege because of slavery.

00:27:49.000 It was horrible, listen, absolutely terrible, but thank God we ended it.

00:27:52.000 And thank God that it's not what actually made this country.

00:27:55.000 In a lot of ways, it's what held us back.

00:27:57.000 So you can speak morally, slavery, bad, thank God we ended it.

00:27:59.000 And then intellectually, you can look at it, you can look at the statistics, you can look at the difference between the North and the South, you can look at innovation, you could look at slave nations, some of which still exist today, not exactly the pinnacle of innovation, and say, that's not what made this country. 0.52

00:28:10.000 It held us back.

00:28:11.000 So maybe the fact that these people right now who are protesting don't know anything about police brutality statistics, maybe the fact that they don't know, maybe they don't do any due diligence on the Black Lives Matter charlatans, maybe the fact that they actually don't know anything Anything about the United States and slavery or the history could also explain why they're under this asinine impression that anyone is, quote, kneeling to Trump. 0.57

00:28:29.000 Trump's not a king.

00:28:31.000 Trump did not issue an executive order commanding anyone to kneel.

00:28:34.000 The NFL made a policy because, contrary to the media, the American citizens don't live in a monolith.

00:28:39.000 And with their dollars, with their viewership, they voted to send you a message, NFL fans.

00:28:43.000 So the NFL, the owners, the organizers, responded out of necessity for survival of the league.

00:28:54.000 And the president responded when asked about this policy specifically.

00:28:58.000 This is exactly why the president is so popular with anyone who's not a dynamo leftist.

00:29:02.000 Millions of male Americans say, you know, I really think it's disrespectful.

00:29:06.000 I think it's just respectful to kneel during the anti-media football game. 0.98

00:29:08.000 Then dumbass NFL players, activists, and their lackeys in the media either blatantly or passively accuse said middle Americans of being white supremacists. 0.98

00:29:15.000 Then all of a sudden Trump, all he has to do is say, you know, I don't think they should kneel. 0.99

00:29:18.000 And so millions of Americans breathe a sigh of relief and go, oh, OK, see?

00:29:23.000 I'm not a white supremacist.

00:29:24.000 I'm not a white supremacist.

00:29:25.000 I'm just a veteran.

00:29:26.000 I'm just a veteran who respects our flag, and so the media now has one of two choices. 0.83

00:29:32.000 Either start telling the truth and admit that maybe they were wrong, that maybe there's a cultural divide, maybe there's some disagreement, or double down and not just call you Middle America white supremacists, but run with a narrative, of course, that Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

00:29:45.000 So they have to make that choice.

00:29:47.000 And which do you think they do?

00:29:49.000 Exactly.

00:29:50.000 We'll be back after this with Ralph Macchio.

00:29:57.000 There it is again, so strong.

00:29:59.000 Thanks for watching.

00:30:27.000 It puts the mug in the basket.

00:30:30.000 It puts the mug in the basket.

00:30:30.000 Huh?

00:30:32.000 It does whenever it's told.

00:30:35.000 It places the mug in the basket.

00:30:35.000 Huh?

00:30:38.000 I just can't really... PUT THE MUG IN THE F***ING BASKET! 0.99

00:30:41.000 Huh? 0.98

00:30:42.000 It puts the mug in the basket or it gets the hose again. 0.99

00:30:46.000 PUT THE F***ING MUG IN THE BASKET! 1.00

00:30:47.000 PUT THE MUG IN THE F***ING BASKET! 1.00

00:30:49.000 PUT THE MUG IN THE BASKET! 1.00

00:30:50.000 PUT THE F***ING MUG IN THE BASKET! 1.00

00:30:56.000 I'm f***ing bored of this f***ing thing! 0.99

00:30:58.000 I'm bored of this f***ing thing! 0.99

00:30:59.000 I'm out of the dog! 0.99

00:31:00.000 I'm out of the dog!

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00:31:22.000 I'm out of the dog!

00:31:23.000 Ewww! 0.99

00:31:24.000 Can you believe this?

00:31:25.000 We didn't even show it to the audience.

00:31:27.000 Usually it's a comedian or something.

00:31:28.000 Someone who's, you know, opening up for someone at Hilarities in Cleveland.

00:31:32.000 And they feel they have to dance to impress the audience.

00:31:32.000 True.

00:31:34.000 But our next one, he really needs no introduction, but we're going to introduce him anyway.

00:31:37.000 Of course, star of the new show, Cobra Kai.

00:31:39.000 Biggest hit ever on the YouTube Red.

00:31:42.000 At Ralph Macchio, C-C-H-I-O.

00:31:45.000 Mr. Macchio, thank you for being here, sir.

00:31:47.000 Great to be here.

00:31:48.000 Thanks, man.

00:31:48.000 Thanks for having me.

00:31:49.000 Oh, I am absolutely thrilled to have you.

00:31:51.000 I mean, you know, we have people on the show every now and then who, listen, I tell them, I say, read their book.

00:31:55.000 I don't really read their book.

00:31:57.000 And then, uh... You read the first page.

00:31:59.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:31:59.000 First and last page.

00:32:01.000 Right, I have the cliff notes, and I determine whether I like it based on that.

00:32:04.000 But I grew up watching you, Karate Kid.

00:32:06.000 That was, I mean, that was my jam as far as a film.

00:32:09.000 And now Cobra Kai, I think we have some B-roll here from Cobra Kai.

00:32:12.000 For people who have not seen it, you need to join up at YouTube Red.

00:32:15.000 It's the biggest show.

00:32:16.000 Their numbers are incredible.

00:32:18.000 For people who don't know, it's the biggest hit.

00:32:20.000 I mean, it's among Netflix, Hulu, it's huge out there.

00:32:23.000 What's this been like for you coming back after so long with this franchise and the wonder of the internet to reintroduce this in a way that's been very positively received?

00:32:33.000 Well, listen, it succeeded my expectations.

00:32:36.000 I mean, I knew going in, I felt really confident.

00:32:39.000 These three, three creators of the show were just the guys who sort of, they created Harold and Kumar franchise and Hot Tub Time Machine.

00:32:49.000 And they, they sat me down and I was the last one to come to the party because I've always been quite, Quite protective of that character in the franchise, and I've said no for 30 years, it feels like.

00:33:01.000 And I have, because everyone says, how about this?

00:33:04.000 How about that?

00:33:05.000 An idea!

00:33:05.000 Daniel LaRusso in a shark tank!

00:33:08.000 That's right, that's what he is.

00:33:09.000 Or maybe, you know, Rocky Balboa had a kid and met up with LaRusso.

00:33:16.000 I mean, you have no idea.

00:33:17.000 But more gender-neutral, because it's 2018.

00:33:20.000 That's right.

00:33:21.000 That's right.

00:33:22.000 Of course.

00:33:23.000 But these guys had such a clear vision of what they wanted to do, and the groundswell response, sort of the build-up to it and how YouTube handled the promotional elements and sort of sneaking stuff out slowly, and people kind of snickered, maybe had their arms crossed a little bit.

00:33:41.000 okay, this is another one of those.

00:33:44.000 And it is not.

00:33:45.000 It is very much its own unique take on a classic franchise.

00:33:50.000 We're very proud of it.

00:33:52.000 The audiences are just running to it.

00:33:54.000 And the coolest part is everyone's just telling their friends and their cousins and their kids.

00:33:59.000 And you really have the nostalgia, it feeds the nostalgia part of us

00:34:05.000 that sort of grew up with that film.

00:34:07.000 And yet has a very fresh, relevant take on bullying in 2018.

00:34:11.000 It's not the Fuller House of Martial Arts.

00:34:13.000 It's not the Fuller House of Martial Arts.

00:34:13.000 No, it's not.

00:34:15.000 It's like, how rude!

00:34:17.000 Yeah, but the speech impediment's not due.

00:34:18.000 You're 45.

00:34:20.000 No, I told them, and we have hundreds of emails now and thousands of tweets from audience members, because I said, listen, you really need to go watch Cobra Kai.

00:34:26.000 It's one of the few shows out there that is a wink and a nod to what it used to be.

00:34:30.000 And you know, this nostalgia obviously, it induces incredible nostalgia, but it writes for what it is in today's era.

00:34:36.000 And not in a corny way.

00:34:38.000 It does it in a way that is congruent with the characters.

00:34:40.000 I don't want to say anti-hero at all, but some of the, at some points the role, I don't, spoiler alert, some points the roles are a little changed between you and Johnny.

00:34:49.000 That's what's great.

00:34:52.000 The Karate Kid was clearly a film that was built on the You know, good over evil.

00:35:00.000 It was very black and white.

00:35:01.000 And this show has a lot of gray areas.

00:35:04.000 Your allegiance week to week, or week to week, it's funny, you can binge watch it.

00:35:08.000 Episode to episode.

00:35:10.000 I'm still old school.

00:35:11.000 It's Twinkie to Twinkie.

00:35:12.000 When you reach for a new vertical row, it's time for a new row.

00:35:14.000 When you reach for the next ring thing, you're fine.

00:35:16.000 But it goes, the allegiance switches and there's sort of a moral ambiguity at times, even in In the High School World carriages, and certainly in the Daniel LaRusso-Johnny Lawrence carriages, and I think that freshness and that angle in makes it unique, yet it still pays homage to the source material.

00:35:37.000 Yeah, it really is.

00:35:38.000 Well, I can't recommend it enough.

00:35:39.000 People give us so much flack because for the film reviews, like, you don't like anything.

00:35:42.000 It's like, no, I just didn't like Thor 3, okay?

00:35:45.000 But one thing I will say here with Cobra Kai is I'm trying to see what I can say without spoiling anything.

00:35:55.000 It's very, very hard.

00:35:56.000 Did you see the YouTube video, by the way?

00:35:57.000 Because there's a sort of conspiracy thread.

00:35:59.000 The YouTube video, Daniel LaRusso was the bully.

00:36:02.000 Did you ever see that?

00:36:03.000 Right, right.

00:36:04.000 Yeah, the illegal kick, the one move.

00:36:07.000 It was pretty funny.

00:36:08.000 It was well done.

00:36:09.000 The guy did a great job because he did a very classic breakdown style of, you know, watch this punch while he wasn't looking and watch how he just innocently took away.

00:36:19.000 I think the best part about that, because people ask me about it all the time, the best part about it is it's like 34 years later and people are still making videos about it.

00:36:31.000 Right.

00:36:32.000 And this is before Cobra Kai came out.

00:36:34.000 It's like, I love the fact that it's a conversation, that the groundswell of justice for Johnny exists, although Daniel Russo is clearly, you know, that underdog character that we all root for.

00:36:47.000 He was a piece of all our childhoods, you know?

00:36:49.000 And none of that gets taken away.

00:36:51.000 Cobra Kai just adds to that. 0.98

00:36:53.000 Do you feel partially responsible for all of the asses that were kicked in the school ground from the kids who tried to fight off the bully with a crane kick? 0.98

00:37:00.000 There's gotta be some part of it. 0.97

00:37:02.000 It's my fault that this thing never really worked in the world, but it was genius on film.

00:37:08.000 It was genius on film.

00:37:09.000 I do want to bring something up. Not to be a kiss-ass here, but this is one thing.

00:37:12.000 I think people get caught up in the franchise and Karate Kid and you have, obviously, you have such, people look at your catalog, so much work, that sometimes it's overlooked how great of an actor you are.

00:37:23.000 And there's a scene that I've always thought, and I've talked about it on this show, I'd like to roll a clip, there's a scene in Karate Kid, the first Karate Kid, And I've told people, because we've talked about, you know, James Dean, Rebels Without a Cause, and East of Eden, this sort of portrayal of teen angst.

00:37:35.000 I think this scene, where you're talking to your mother after being beaten up by bullies, is possibly the most genuine feeling portrayal of teen angst, confusion, desperation.

00:37:46.000 I'd like to roll a clip, and then get your thoughts afterward.

00:37:48.000 Let's see this. 1.00

00:37:49.000 Your stupid bike! 1.00

00:37:49.000 Your bike! 1.00

00:37:52.000 I hate it!

00:37:53.000 What's the matter?

00:37:53.000 Daniel!

00:37:54.000 Nothing!

00:37:54.000 Why did you throw your bike away?

00:37:56.000 Because I felt like it, Ma.

00:37:57.000 Please, look at me when I'm talking to you! 0.65

00:37:59.000 Oh, my God!

00:38:00.000 Mom?

00:38:00.000 Oh, my God!

00:38:02.000 Would you tell me what's going on here and don't tell me about another bike accident?

00:38:05.000 What do you want to hear, Ma?

00:38:07.000 I want to hear the truth.

00:38:08.000 No, you don't want to hear the truth.

00:38:09.000 All you want to hear is how great it is out here. 0.98

00:38:10.000 Well, it may be great for you, but it sucks for me! 1.00

00:38:12.000 I hate this place! 1.00

00:38:13.000 I hate it! 0.99

00:38:14.000 I just want to go home!

00:38:15.000 I can only just go back home.

00:38:18.000 Listen to me.

00:38:18.000 What?

00:38:19.000 I cannot help you unless you tell me what's wrong.

00:38:22.000 I gotta take karate, that's it.

00:38:24.000 You took karate?

00:38:25.000 No, not at the Y, at a good school.

00:38:28.000 Fighting doesn't solve anything.

00:38:29.000 Oh, well, neither does palm trees, Ma.

00:38:32.000 That's not fair.

00:38:34.000 Yeah, well, like it was fair coming out here without asking me how I felt about it, right?

00:38:36.000 That was not fair.

00:38:40.000 You're right.

00:38:43.000 I should have asked.

00:38:44.000 Yeah, well, I just want to go home.

00:38:45.000 That's it.

00:38:46.000 I don't understand the rules here.

00:38:47.000 I want to go home.

00:38:47.000 So, for people who don't know what they're watching, that's a one shot.

00:38:51.000 That's one long shot.

00:38:52.000 It is one.

00:38:53.000 It's one steady cam shot.

00:38:54.000 And the great John Appleton, our director.

00:38:59.000 Go ahead.

00:39:00.000 Sorry, it's always uncomfortable, but it's such a great job.

00:39:02.000 People who don't know what they're watching, because a lot of people they just watch films and they see it from an entertainment standpoint.

00:39:06.000 That's one shot, you're conveying a lot of different emotions.

00:39:09.000 Anger, to helplessness, to wanting to go to a karate school, the losing it in your voice.

00:39:15.000 I always watch that scene and say, people don't realize how well performed the scene, how many takes did that take, and how did you get into that headspace?

00:39:23.000 Because it really is something incredible to watch.

00:39:27.000 Well, first of all, thank you very much.

00:39:28.000 And it was nice to, it was even nice to just revisit that audio-wise, because, you know, we've watched this film a bunch of time over the years.

00:39:38.000 That's the great Randy Heller also playing Mrs. LaRusso, who is a nice, without making spoilers, it's a nice Easter egg, and I just gave it away in our series.

00:39:50.000 And we're hoping to have that role and other actors from back then Back in the future of the Cobra Kai show the you know the scene we did it a bunch of times some of it was because the camera

00:40:03.000 You know, some of it was on me, some of it was on the camera.

00:40:08.000 You know, we didn't get it perfect every single time.

00:40:10.000 And I think if you actually watch that take, if you really analyze it, there's one point where the steadicam just does a little bit of a wobble.

00:40:20.000 Am I there?

00:40:21.000 There we go.

00:40:21.000 It should be back.

00:40:22.000 There's that wonderful point.

00:40:23.000 You were saying the camera got a little crooked.

00:40:23.000 Okay, so continue.

00:40:26.000 Right, so the camera got a little, you know, it had a little wobble in it and by technical perfection standards you would say, let's go again, we have a little bit of, but the performance, credit the director, You know, you always go to a performance because that stuff falls away.

00:40:42.000 You know, that stuff you don't notice.

00:40:42.000 Right.

00:40:44.000 I think that scene did have a lot of levels. 1.00

00:40:47.000 I mean, the whole, I hate this bike, this stupid bike, that was all John Avilson saying. 0.89

00:40:51.000 When you walk up, you know, I think he was trying to help me get to that level. 0.99

00:40:56.000 And he had me walk down and keep throwing, he said, just keep throwing it in there.

00:40:56.000 Yeah.

00:41:00.000 He said, go back, do it again.

00:41:01.000 And he had the camera rolling, and I had to do it like three and four times, sometimes, per take, just pick it up.

00:41:06.000 So I went and done it.

00:41:07.000 He said, take it out again and do it again.

00:41:09.000 And he was, I think what he was doing, I'm sure what he was doing, was getting me to that place of frustration and build all that level of emotion.

00:41:18.000 The line when he says, not at the Y at a real school was basically Ralph Macchio forgetting the line and figuring it out.

00:41:26.000 At a good school!

00:41:30.000 It's funny, we quote that in our house all the time.

00:41:33.000 When I was a kid, if we had a problem, I'd be like, I gotta take karate ma, not at the Y, at a good school!

00:41:40.000 It was sort of a line in the house.

00:41:42.000 I think it's a credit to all of us working together, a well-written scene, a fantastic director, a beautiful and wonderful actress to play.

00:41:51.000 Opposite.

00:41:52.000 We had a great chemistry together, and it's just one of those that we caught on film, you know?

00:41:58.000 It doesn't always happen, so it's nice.

00:42:00.000 Look how humble you are.

00:42:00.000 And yourself.

00:42:01.000 That was still, that was... And we did a good job.

00:42:03.000 You did a great job with that.

00:42:05.000 I mean, when I was a kid, I watched it.

00:42:06.000 I remember everything else kind of happening and me going, oh, rewind it.

00:42:09.000 And I was transfixed because I was always watching the performance side of it and going, this is just... And you wouldn't stop telling Ben Shapiro about it when you met him.

00:42:14.000 That's right.

00:42:15.000 Ben Shapiro actually lived, I think, in the home next door to where they shot that.

00:42:19.000 Where they shot where you were.

00:42:19.000 Right.

00:42:20.000 And I was like, Ben, This is where they shot Karate Kid!

00:42:23.000 It's great.

00:42:25.000 Thank you very much.

00:42:26.000 It feels good to hear that and gain that compliment and know what, you know, that was the birth of everything that moved from that point, you know?

00:42:35.000 I have one question, and again, everyone go watch Cobra Kai YouTube Red, but this is somewhat unrelated.

00:42:41.000 And I see the poster behind you, so I'm happy.

00:42:43.000 The Outsiders.

00:42:43.000 There's an easy segue.

00:42:45.000 As far as I'm concerned, this should be Casting 101.

00:42:50.000 For people who don't know, who haven't seen it, you've got Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Holt, Diane Lane, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise.

00:42:58.000 I'm sure I'm missing some.

00:43:00.000 As far as I know, before any of them were stars, it might have been their first actual main role in some of these films.

00:43:06.000 And you all went on to be marquee names.

00:43:09.000 Were you aware when you were on that set, like, oh, he's going to be a multi-million dollar star.

00:43:13.000 Oh, she is. 0.88

00:43:14.000 Oh, he is.

00:43:14.000 Or was it just...

00:43:15.000 We didn't.

00:43:16.000 We all felt like we were.

00:43:18.000 Right, yes.

00:43:19.000 Back then, we all did.

00:43:20.000 I mean, Matt Dillon had a few films at the time.

00:43:23.000 My Bodyguard, I think.

00:43:23.000 That's right.

00:43:24.000 Yeah, and all that.

00:43:25.000 Yeah, My Bodyguard.

00:43:26.000 I think, yes, yes.

00:43:27.000 And Over the Edge was his first one.

00:43:30.000 And then I think Tom Cruise just had, he was just in Taps with Timothy Hutton.

00:43:35.000 And George C. Scott.

00:43:35.000 That's right.

00:43:36.000 So he was, and Leif Garrett was probably the biggest star on the set.

00:43:40.000 It's true.

00:43:42.000 With his music career and everything else.

00:43:45.000 And Diane Lane, obviously, she started really young.

00:43:49.000 And, you know, obviously we're all on the set with Diane Lane just to this day.

00:43:53.000 She's just a beautiful human being and a terrific actress. 1.00

00:43:57.000 I think we, you know, we had hopes.

00:44:00.000 We were in a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on a classic young adult novel that we all read.

00:44:06.000 I read when I was 12 years old.

00:44:08.000 The Outsiders for me was It's your first love.

00:44:13.000 You never forget it.

00:44:13.000 It's your first kiss.

00:44:14.000 It was a great role.

00:44:16.000 I love that part.

00:44:17.000 It holds a special place.

00:44:18.000 I still go around and at certain times go to middle schools and talk to the school classes that just read the book.

00:44:23.000 A lot of the guys do that.

00:44:25.000 A lot of the guys do that.

00:44:28.000 It's a great one to be a part of.

00:44:29.000 It really is.

00:44:30.000 It really is.

00:44:30.000 I remember I read it.

00:44:31.000 I had Mr. Rooney in the 7th grade and I remember he kicked me out of class because I said the Sox when I first read it.

00:44:37.000 The Sox?

00:44:37.000 Well, everyone did.

00:44:38.000 So did I. Yeah, but he kicked me out of class and he called my father.

00:44:41.000 He called my father and said, you know, your son is a 12-year-old who thinks he's a 13-year-old.

00:44:46.000 And my dad said...

00:44:47.000 Okay, I'll bite.

00:44:48.000 It means he thinks he knows more than he does!

00:44:49.000 I know, I was like, this guy teacher was out of his mind.

00:44:51.000 But I remember reading The Outsiders, and it's one of the last classics that I think I read.

00:44:55.000 Everything else was just sort of, you know, experimental.

00:44:57.000 People don't read the classics in college anymore in high school.

00:44:59.000 Right.

00:45:00.000 I was reading Naomi Wolf.

00:45:01.000 Yeah, Naomi Wolf. 0.99

00:45:02.000 Well, it helped.

00:45:03.000 I mean, S.E.

00:45:03.000 Hinton from my generation, you know, jump-started My reading, and so many young readers, like J.K.

00:45:12.000 Rowling did with the Harry Potter books, you know, where every kid, you had to read it, you know?

00:45:17.000 Don't bring up the Harry Potter books, because my wife is going to be watching this in the green room. 1.00

00:45:20.000 She's going to run on in. 0.92

00:45:21.000 I had to take her to Harry Potter World.

00:45:22.000 She's a giant nerd fan, and we will derail this whole conversation. 0.68

00:45:26.000 Look, Barelka, I didn't mean to... No, no, no, but this has been... I'm just trying to make a parallel.

00:45:29.000 I get it.

00:45:31.000 You actors, you all speak allegorically.

00:45:34.000 Can you just calm down on our level?

00:45:36.000 Uh, Mr. Macchio, I know you're a busy man.

00:45:38.000 We actually have Martin Kove coming up after this, a different side of you.

00:45:40.000 Ah, you got the Darth Vader of the 80s.

00:45:43.000 Freeze! 0.97

00:45:44.000 And, uh, yeah, it's great.

00:45:46.000 He's excited too for the, you know, I think we really have.

00:45:49.000 I mean, he was the king, Cobra Kai king.

00:45:52.000 So it's nice, it's really nice.

00:45:55.000 And looking forward to season two.

00:45:56.000 And I'm just, I'm hoping, you know, there's always that season two,

00:45:58.000 you're like, please don't get season two-y.

00:46:00.000 I know, that's sophomore jinx, right?

00:46:02.000 I think we really have, I just spoke to the three writers the other day,

00:46:06.000 and you know, it's important that we pick up right where we left off and forget all this,

00:46:13.000 you know, don't read the press as great as it is.

00:46:15.000 I've never experienced anything that has like 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 35 million views.

00:46:21.000 And it's really been incredible how much of a hit this has become.

00:46:26.000 But we really have to pick up where we left off and Stay focused and charged in that way.

00:46:33.000 If it's focused, there's a Miyagi-ism for you.

00:46:36.000 So we continue to be smart and push the envelope, but yet give that big, fat, warm embrace, that nostalgic embrace that people are feeling by watching the show.

00:46:47.000 And we'll have Martin Kovan, he has something, 200 something credits to his name.

00:46:50.000 The one thing I will say, it's hard to bring a series back often, or you do a reunion, because you're like, oh my gosh, they look like that now.

00:46:55.000 All of you, the main portions of the cast, like you said, those who are still with us, continue to flex the muscle, continue to work, and so it really does work.

00:47:03.000 It's a great show, I highly recommend it.

00:47:04.000 Mr. Macchio, at Ralph Macchio on the Twitter.

00:47:07.000 Thank you so much, man, I know you're- Awesome, thanks for having me, this is a lot of fun.

00:47:11.000 Yeah, absolutely, we'll talk with Martin, and we'll talk with you soon.

00:47:13.000 Thank you, sir.

00:47:14.000 Thanks for having me.

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00:49:39.000 That's perfect, because our next guest, we just had Ralph on.

00:49:49.000 Yep.

00:49:50.000 Though, actually, there's a change of roles at Cobra Kai for people who haven't watched it on YouTube Red.

00:49:50.000 Good guy, Ralph.

00:49:55.000 And our next guest is known as Kreese.

00:49:57.000 Mm-hmm.

00:49:58.000 The bad guy, often.

00:49:59.000 You can follow him on the Twitter at Martin Cove.

00:50:02.000 He has something like 200, I want to say 250 credits to his name.

00:50:05.000 It's insane.

00:50:06.000 If you look, he shows up everywhere.

00:50:07.000 Do you think he's running to Clint Howard at some point?

00:50:10.000 He's almost a catalog of Clint Howard, but he doesn't have to be Clint Howard.

00:50:10.000 We should ask him.

00:50:14.000 So, you know, he has that going for him.

00:50:16.000 Clint, we'll have you on soon again, brother.

00:50:19.000 Mr. Cove, thank you for being on, sir.

00:50:22.000 Thank you, thank you.

00:50:23.000 By the way, Clint Howard, I killed him on gun smoke in my first year in Hollywood.

00:50:27.000 Well, who among us hasn't?

00:50:28.000 Are we talking about the same Clint that was the father of Ron Howard?

00:50:32.000 Yeah, Clint is Ron Howard's brother.

00:50:35.000 Brother, brother, yeah.

00:50:37.000 Yeah, killed him a couple of times in a couple of movies.

00:50:40.000 Yes, pretty much if Clint Howard's in a movie, you're writing around the death scene.

00:50:45.000 But we brought him in, and he did a sketch with us where he actually played Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, because we needed an actor.

00:50:52.000 And we're like, Clint, you could do this.

00:50:53.000 So we dressed him up.

00:50:54.000 And I remember directing him.

00:50:55.000 Oh, I got to tell you, Mr. Cooper, it was very hard.

00:51:01.000 It was a very long, arduous process.

00:51:02.000 And I thought, this is going to be terrible.

00:51:03.000 And then when I looked at the rushes, I said, this is amazing.

00:51:06.000 He's a guy who really knows how he registers on camera.

00:51:10.000 And that leads into you.

00:51:12.000 You often play the villain, right?

00:51:13.000 This is no secret to you.

00:51:14.000 I know you're a nice guy.

00:51:16.000 I shouldn't lead the witness.

00:51:16.000 Are you a nice guy?

00:51:18.000 I cry at supermarket openings.

00:51:20.000 Okay, okay.

00:51:22.000 That might be disturbed.

00:51:24.000 I don't know that that's necessarily nice.

00:51:28.000 But you often play the bad guy.

00:51:29.000 Now, you're one of the few guys out there who is disrespectfully, like, is good-looking enough to still play the tough bad guy.

00:51:36.000 You know, you're like, you're ruggedly tough.

00:51:39.000 And I notice you have the Clint Eastwood, and I don't know if that's, I can't see the one, Coburn behind you.

00:51:42.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:51:44.000 Oh, there you go, okay.

00:51:46.000 The good, the bad, and the ugly.

00:51:48.000 Those are my theme songs.

00:51:50.000 Did you set out to do this?

00:51:51.000 Did you say, okay, I think I'm probably going to be able to do the bad guy role really well, or did it just happen organically?

00:51:58.000 No, I guess it just happened organically, really.

00:52:02.000 I have an eight-month-old grandchild, and if I don't see him every day, I cry.

00:52:06.000 I just love this baby.

00:52:09.000 You're strong featured, and I love the physical.

00:52:12.000 When I did Gunsmoke in the first year I was in Hollywood, it was heaven, because you got a chance to do, you know, work with James Arness and all.

00:52:20.000 And the bottom line is I loved Westerns.

00:52:22.000 But when you're starting out, you do heavies.

00:52:25.000 You just do.

00:52:26.000 I mean, unless you're looking like Gregory Peck, who never did a heavy.

00:52:29.000 Gregory Peck started out with leading men in the late 30s, you know?

00:52:33.000 And there's some people that just go right into it.

00:52:35.000 And I didn't, like so many of my, you know, good friends.

00:52:38.000 And you just, you know, it's sort of like you create a staple of those roles.

00:52:43.000 And I think for young actors, bringing up anger and toughness is probably the easiest emotion to call upon.

00:52:49.000 Because when you're young, you're kind of, you know, touching the vulnerability and doing what Mel Gibson does in all his movies.

00:52:56.000 It's a lot harder.

00:52:57.000 And his voicemail.

00:52:58.000 And his voicemail, right.

00:53:01.000 You have no soul!

00:53:04.000 The reason I find those so funny is because I always would talk, I'd say to you, I was like, oh, come on.

00:53:08.000 All of you are judging this guy in a private voicemail, a private argument.

00:53:12.000 You have had that rage, even if internally at some point.

00:53:16.000 Let you who has not felt that way cast the first stone.

00:53:18.000 Let me ask you this.

00:53:19.000 You've done so many roles.

00:53:20.000 Is this, is Kree still the role you think you're most recognized for?

00:53:24.000 Certainly now with Cobra Kai.

00:53:26.000 But is that the one people connect to most, do you think?

00:53:29.000 Yeah, that and when I did, I followed up the original Karate Kid with Rambo First Blood Part 2.

00:53:35.000 Yeah.

00:53:36.000 And I was doing six years on Cagney Lacey.

00:53:38.000 So a lot of them remember that.

00:53:41.000 Oddly enough, many people are big fans of The Last House on the Left, which is a very bizarre cult movie, which was Wes Craven's first film.

00:53:53.000 I personally don't understand that, but it was 1972.

00:54:01.000 And the other one, which is a cult movie, which also surprises me, is one that Stallone and I did You know, prior to Rambo, which was, um, Death Race 2000.

00:54:12.000 Yes.

00:54:13.000 Yeah.

00:54:13.000 You wouldn't believe how many people, you know, just remember those parts.

00:54:17.000 And, you know, you were playing a crazy, you were playing a, like you say, a tough guy.

00:54:21.000 It was the early parts of your career, you know?

00:54:24.000 And I think that you try to graduate.

00:54:29.000 You know, when I did Cagney and Lacey, I kind of stopped doing bad guys

00:54:36.000 because I played him as a macho, you know, he kind of didn't like women being detectives,

00:54:41.000 but he had a lovable quality about him.

00:54:43.000 And I kept trying to graduate into that area and not do any more wise guys and tough guys.

00:54:48.000 I think you mentioned Last House on the Left.

00:54:50.000 I think that was one of the few films that Wes Craven remade himself.

00:54:54.000 I think Wes Craven remade the Wes Craven because there's a recent one.

00:54:56.000 And I don't know if it was Jennifer Lawrence, but I appreciate your candor with that.

00:55:00.000 You know, Clint Howard, a good friend of the show, has made a living off of cult films.

00:55:04.000 Remember, he was on the show and he goes, you know, some of the trash I've done.

00:55:08.000 I mean, it's borderline unwatchable, because he's done so many. 0.96

00:55:13.000 It's practically pornography. 0.99

00:55:18.000 It's pornography of the lazy mind. 0.99

00:55:21.000 Let me ask you this. 0.66

00:55:24.000 You've been around for so many decades now in the film and entertainment industry, and it's changed.

00:55:29.000 Radically, where we've kind of come full circle.

00:55:31.000 I talked about this before.

00:55:32.000 Remember, they used to say, we'll never have the numbers that we used to have with Carson.

00:55:37.000 And granted, that's probably true.

00:55:38.000 But then American Idol was 30-something million.

00:55:40.000 They said, we'll never have those numbers again.

00:55:41.000 The Voice was lucky to get maybe 15 million.

00:55:44.000 Because cable became so spread out.

00:55:47.000 But now we're sort of back to a few main networks with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO.

00:55:53.000 And you're getting these numbers.

00:55:55.000 There's a season of a lot more less famous people.

00:55:57.000 Yes, there was for a while.

00:55:58.000 But now you've come full circle and Cobra Kai is getting those kinds of numbers that people thought you would never see again.

00:56:05.000 What's it like to be a part of that whole transition and back again?

00:56:09.000 Well, as I said earlier, you and I talked about the writing and the extraction of the great values from Karate Kid.

00:56:19.000 Karate Kid 1 was a religious experience for so many people.

00:56:23.000 You either were bullied in that period of time and you identify with that, you had a love affair that didn't work out as a high school student, or you were fish out of water.

00:56:31.000 You know, and most of the people we've experienced have had one of those things going on in their life when they saw Karate Kid.

00:56:38.000 And I think that, you know, the writing that brings in all of the the fantastic values of the movie into the series is what's

00:56:48.000 making the series work.

00:56:49.000 Yeah.

00:56:50.000 Because all those extractions, the moments, the feelings, the emotions from the kids of what they're experiencing on

00:57:01.000 the show is what Ralph experienced back in the day in 1983 when we made the movie.

00:57:06.000 So I think it's highly identifiable.

00:57:08.000 They've chosen the right experiences to recreate on a weekly basis.

00:57:14.000 And that's what's really selling.

00:57:16.000 It's a show that just like Ed Sullivan in its day, the family can get around the TV and watch it.

00:57:22.000 Right.

00:57:23.000 And that's the value.

00:57:25.000 That's the value, and that's why the numbers are so high.

00:57:27.000 It's a family deal.

00:57:28.000 Yeah.

00:57:29.000 But it's a family deal 30 years later in a more active way.

00:57:32.000 But it really does work, and we talked about this just with Ralph.

00:57:35.000 You know, there are some gray areas.

00:57:37.000 There is some, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't say moral ambiguities because there is redemption.

00:57:41.000 That's kind of hard to do, to have a gray area, to have a bit of an antihero, but for there to still be moral redemption.

00:57:46.000 Otherwise you end up with some of the series out there that are just bleak for the sake of bleakness.

00:57:51.000 I don't want to, you know, no spoilers here.

00:57:52.000 The people on the message boards will go absolutely nuts, but you can see at one point this guy seems like the good guy.

00:57:58.000 Well, then maybe you're not so sure, but there is no moral ambiguity about making the right decisions, and I think that's why it works.

00:58:04.000 I think people are craving that a little bit.

00:58:06.000 What I learned from the original Karate Kid when I was young was that all bad guys had dirt bikes.

00:58:10.000 That's what I thought when I watched it.

00:58:12.000 I was like, he has a dirt bike!

00:58:15.000 He must be a teenager!

00:58:19.000 Mr. Cope, we don't have a ton of time here because Ralph went overtime.

00:58:22.000 Talk with him, being a little bit of a diva, but where's the best place for people to find you?

00:58:26.000 What should people be looking out for next along with Cobra Kai?

00:58:29.000 Well, we just did, we're doing a little comedy now with Barry Bustwick, but primarily we're going off June 8th.

00:58:38.000 I go off to Illinois.

00:58:40.000 to do a very exciting picture about Gettysburg.

00:58:43.000 And there was a character who was 69 years old named John Burns, who in history literally fought in Gettysburg because he lived in Gettysburg and he became a hero and he met Lincoln.

00:58:54.000 And it's all, you know, it's all nonfiction.

00:58:57.000 Yeah.

00:58:57.000 So it's all brilliant stuff.

00:58:59.000 And it's always fun to play someone who's nonfiction.

00:59:01.000 And I believe you said that your son will be acting.

00:59:03.000 You've acted in quite a few films with your son now.

00:59:05.000 So that must be nice to be able to pass the torch.

00:59:08.000 The best, you know, Jesse Coates is the best.

00:59:11.000 You know, he's doing a part in there and we meet on the field of Gettysburg and I'm, you know, a guy who doesn't even have the right musket and he gives me, you know, the bullets and everything circa 1863.

00:59:23.000 Yeah.

00:59:24.000 Because I came out of war in 1812 and they wouldn't let me join.

00:59:27.000 So I'm, you know, old, too old to fight.

00:59:30.000 But it's really interesting, the values and how it affected the entire city of Gettysburg.

00:59:35.000 The town was enormously affected by, you know, every house was turned into a hospital.

00:59:41.000 One moment for the Confederates, another for the Union soldiers.

00:59:44.000 So it's emotionally very, very, and historically a very, very effective film.

00:59:49.000 Terrific story.

00:59:50.000 And I love anything historical.

00:59:52.000 Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

00:59:53.000 There haven't been as many great Civil War films when you compare it to World War II or the Revolutionary War.

00:59:59.000 It seems like it's a tough one to do sometimes because of, obviously, kind of the connotations here in the United States.

01:00:04.000 So I'm looking forward to that.

01:00:05.000 Of course, people can follow you at Martin Kove.

01:00:07.000 Mr. Kove, thank you for making time, sir.

01:00:08.000 We appreciate it.

01:00:10.000 Very good.

01:00:10.000 You follow me at martinkoveonline.com.

01:00:13.000 But thank you very much.

01:00:14.000 martinkoveonline.com.

01:00:14.000 Oh, there we go.

01:00:15.000 We have to be back after this.

01:00:15.000 I don't know who has the hot sauce. Maybe.

01:00:18.000 You want to come back to me, but I don't know.

01:00:35.000 I wonder you'll try to make me this way for sure.

01:01:00.000 That's the helicopter wheelchair that doesn't really work. 1.00

01:01:14.000 Oh, that's disappointing.

01:01:15.000 It just propels you the wrong direction.

01:01:16.000 You've got to crack a brawl, Daniel.

01:01:18.000 Just ran Stephen Hawking straight into a building.

01:01:20.000 Really glad to have our next guest, who are apparently broadcasting from, I think, a warehouse in Bangladesh.

01:01:27.000 You can follow them at Hodgetwins.

01:01:29.000 Hodgetwintour.com.

01:01:31.000 They're going to be starting their European tour date soon.

01:01:35.000 The Hodgetwins, how are you? 0.58

01:01:36.000 Keith and Kevin.

01:01:37.000 What are you hanging in there, man?

01:01:39.000 It's tough, though, man.

01:01:40.000 Why is it tough?

01:01:41.000 Nah, I'm just kidding.

01:01:43.000 Life's great, man.

01:01:44.000 Nah, tell them to be honest, man.

01:01:46.000 It's tough being black in America today.

01:01:50.000 I might have a blind spot.

01:01:50.000 Is it?

01:01:52.000 When you lean conservative, it's real tough for black people.

01:01:57.000 What about, uh... Look what they're doing to Kanye.

01:02:00.000 Look what they're doing to Candace. 1.00

01:02:02.000 Yeah, black lives matter if you're not conservative.

01:02:06.000 That's true. Actually, I thought we were gonna have Candace on the show today and I think there was a miscommunication 1.00

01:02:10.000 or she missed it. So she's always welcome to come on the show. But has she reached out to you, Candace Owens? I don't

01:02:16.000 think we her speed. No, no, I guess not.

01:02:23.000 I guess more so Kanye, you know?

01:02:26.000 So maybe you guys cut a couple of albums and claim that you're the black Jesus.

01:02:29.000 You'll have something to offer. 0.67

01:02:31.000 Now, you talk about how it's hard being a black conservative.

01:02:33.000 See, you just used the word.

01:02:34.000 I didn't.

01:02:35.000 What's your opinion here on that?

01:02:36.000 We've talked about this before, the kneeling with the NFL.

01:02:38.000 But obviously Trump was asked a question about this.

01:02:40.000 He said, what do you think about Goodell's new policy?

01:02:42.000 He said, OK, I think it's disrespectful to kneel.

01:02:45.000 And the media acts as though it's this decree from President Trump to the NFL.

01:02:49.000 I think it's cool that he does it, he's just not too presidential when he does it.

01:03:01.000 He's not a politician, he's a businessman and he knows that's bad for business, especially for the NFL.

01:03:07.000 I just want to look at my football. 0.98

01:03:09.000 I'm not looking at these fools neither. 0.97

01:03:14.000 I mean, it's your right to do so, but come on, man. 1.00

01:03:17.000 You got a brain.

01:03:17.000 There's so many other constructive ways you can do to help bring awareness to police brutality.

01:03:23.000 Why you got to go out of your way to offend people, you know?

01:03:26.000 And to hurt your business that you're getting paid from.

01:03:29.000 So it's like, I don't get it.

01:03:31.000 I'm glad he didn't.

01:03:32.000 Yeah, well, this goes back to Kaepernick, which if you guys have been accused of not being black enough, I mean, Kaepernick looks like someone you'd cut out of the Iran deal.

01:03:38.000 I'm not entirely sure.

01:03:41.000 Do you know the background?

01:03:45.000 I think he just likes skiing, that's all.

01:03:47.000 I don't know.

01:03:48.000 Maybe just because he looks sinister.

01:03:50.000 Yeah, he does look sinister.

01:03:53.000 I'm going to have a bad throwing average.

01:03:57.000 What are you doing?

01:03:59.000 Did you Jafar?

01:04:00.000 Did Jafar sleep with one of the Cosby kids?

01:04:03.000 Let me ask you this.

01:04:05.000 You said you told me recently you guys were in Canada.

01:04:07.000 And I guess some fans of the show, first off, I'm glad they let you in and out of the country.

01:04:14.000 I don't think I'm allowed back, but you had some people approach you who are fans of this show and fans of your newly expressed political opinions.

01:04:22.000 Explain that. 0.98

01:04:23.000 Yeah it's um like right after our comedy show we have like a meet and greet and uh a lot of people come to say we found you guys on Crowder that's the first words out of my mouth that and they say um bitch can't breathe Yeah.

01:04:39.000 Yeah, but I guess we experienced that in all our shows actually Canada was out there in London

01:04:44.000 Got a lot of fans out there. Yeah, we was in what was that Calgary? I'm at show. It was a Trump supporter female

01:04:50.000 Oh my gosh dress from head to toe in American flag, and she had to make America great again 0.98

01:04:56.000 But you know what?

01:04:58.000 Raster anything nobody was just grateful to her or anything.

01:05:02.000 You know, I think they almost think it's it's it's a caricature at that point

01:05:05.000 I don't think they think it's real in Canada, because there is no sort of Trump, there is no sort of right wing.

01:05:10.000 It's kind of like when you went into the gay bar dressed as Trump doing show tunes. 0.99

01:05:14.000 Yeah, I went to a gay bar in Houston as Trump singing show tunes to Hamilton, but flipping on the bird telling him to kiss my ass, and they were cheering because they thought, oh this can't be real. 0.99

01:05:24.000 So I think that's all of Canada. 1.00

01:05:25.000 Canada is one big gay bar. 1.00

01:05:31.000 Your thoughts? 0.99

01:05:33.000 Real touchy.

01:05:34.000 He kept, after the show was in the bar, he went to our show, he kept touching me and said, man, you got some nice arms.

01:05:39.000 I was like, um, quit touching me.

01:05:42.000 This is in Canada?

01:05:44.000 This is in Canada.

01:05:45.000 And it's, uh, his girlfriend was right there and it was just weird.

01:05:48.000 Maybe they were swingers. 0.71

01:05:51.000 And you're twins, so you're right up their alley.

01:05:56.000 If you could fit Morgan Freeman in there, you'd be the trifecta.

01:05:59.000 Man, not Morgan Freeman.

01:06:01.000 Morgan Freeman, another good black man.

01:06:07.000 I don't want to use the term good too loosely there.

01:06:10.000 He's good.

01:06:11.000 He's a good actor, man.

01:06:13.000 He seems wholesome, man.

01:06:14.000 Man, if Bill Cosby was bad, man, he was the pudding pop guy, man.

01:06:18.000 He was the most wholesome black dude we had. 0.96

01:06:21.000 He was putting women to sleep, man. 1.00

01:06:23.000 That's crazy as hell.

01:06:25.000 The Puddin' Pop man, man.

01:06:27.000 Yeah.

01:06:28.000 Back in the day when he first started, he was putting stuff in people's Puddin' Pops.

01:06:31.000 Man. 0.99

01:06:32.000 Shut up. 0.97

01:06:34.000 Alright, well, I'm glad they let you in and out of Canada, and I hope your shows are going well and you're doing live. 0.87

01:06:40.000 You're going to be in Europe soon.

01:06:41.000 I know you were in Europe last year.

01:06:43.000 When does this start?

01:06:45.000 Oh man, it's starting in June.

01:06:46.000 First, we're going to Dublin, Ireland.

01:06:48.000 Okay.

01:06:49.000 We're going to London.

01:06:50.000 We're going to Manchester, UK.

01:06:52.000 Calm down.

01:06:53.000 Calm down.

01:06:53.000 Just calm down, man.

01:06:54.000 Calm down.

01:06:55.000 Take a breath.

01:06:56.000 Calm down! 1.00

01:06:57.000 Shut up! 1.00

01:06:57.000 Then we're going to Leeds, UK. 1.00

01:06:59.000 Then we're going to Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool.

01:07:02.000 Tell them Amsterdam, man.

01:07:03.000 We're going to Amsterdam.

01:07:04.000 No, no.

01:07:06.000 We're going to Rotterdam.

01:07:06.000 That's in Netherlands.

01:07:07.000 Tell them Sweden, man.

01:07:09.000 Then we're going to Sweden.

01:07:10.000 Did you tell them Ireland?

01:07:12.000 We're going to Norway, and then we're going to Glasgow.

01:07:15.000 That's in Scott.

01:07:16.000 Hey, I think you forgot to tell him about the United Kingdom, man.

01:07:18.000 I told him that.

01:07:19.000 No, he told him that.

01:07:19.000 So, you're going to Norway... Basically, he's picking up the backpacking map for Syrian migrants.

01:07:27.000 It's gonna be Syrian migrants hitchhiking. 1.00

01:07:30.000 They're going to Hodgetwins! 0.98

01:07:31.000 Oh, haven't seen you in a long time!

01:07:33.000 Just kidding! 0.99

01:07:36.000 Oh, black people. 1.00

01:07:37.000 We don't have many of them. 1.00

01:07:38.000 We usually burn them.

01:07:39.000 So, wow.

01:07:41.000 Norway, Sweden, Germany.

01:07:42.000 You guys really do have a white fan base.

01:07:44.000 You're going to a country with the population of Rhode Island and nary a colored amongst them.

01:07:51.000 You know what's funny? 0.95

01:07:52.000 All the black people come to my show, they got white girlfriends. 1.00

01:07:57.000 Well, it's like, don't they get a free drink or something on the two drink minimum if they do that?

01:08:05.000 I don't think we need to beep that because you said it.

01:08:08.000 I don't know what it is, man.

01:08:09.000 I've never had a lot of black friends, man.

01:08:11.000 It used to hurt me.

01:08:12.000 We had a couple.

01:08:14.000 Yeah, I had a couple, man, but...

01:08:17.000 We did it by force. 1.00

01:08:18.000 I busted y'all to kill you. 0.99

01:08:22.000 Hey man, we was playin' basketball, man. 1.00

01:08:23.000 He pulled out a damn big-ass... What's them big-ass blades called, man? 0.99

01:08:28.000 A shank. 0.99

01:08:29.000 No, not a shank. 0.62

01:08:30.000 Which blade?

01:08:32.000 Machete?

01:08:32.000 No, not a shank blade.

01:08:33.000 It was a machete.

01:08:34.000 Wait, where was he carrying it?

01:08:35.000 How long had he been playing basketball?

01:08:37.000 Was this, like, in the third?

01:08:38.000 I mean, when does this happen?

01:08:40.000 It was about that big, man.

01:08:41.000 It hit me on the ground because I was frying them all day long.

01:08:43.000 I was shooting threes all in space. 0.99

01:08:45.000 I was talking trash. 0.99

01:08:46.000 He had a machete? 0.99

01:08:51.000 You didn't notice he was walking around like he had a peg leg?

01:08:53.000 At no point did any suspicions arise?

01:08:56.000 He had it.

01:08:56.000 He used to show everybody, hey man, look at my knife.

01:08:58.000 I was like, wow, that's a nice knife, man.

01:09:00.000 What you gonna do with that?

01:09:03.000 Okay.

01:09:04.000 You gonna go hunting with that knife, man? 0.95

01:09:06.000 You gonna go kill some deer with it, or what? 0.98

01:09:08.000 All right.

01:09:10.000 On that note, listen, okay, I want people to go, obviously, to go see you.

01:09:13.000 If you're there in Europe, I know we have a lot of European fans, particularly in the UK, where I cannot go.

01:09:17.000 So you can go enjoy the Hodge Twins in our place, Hodgetwinstour.com.

01:09:20.000 You can follow them at Hodgetwins.

01:09:23.000 And obviously, they have a lot of merch.

01:09:24.000 Maybe we need to co-create a Bitch Can't Breathe shirt and sell it in our store. 1.00

01:09:30.000 There you go. 0.98

01:09:32.000 Just you with the Little News Boys hat.

01:09:34.000 Fish can't breathe! 0.92

01:09:37.000 That'll be our top-selling shirt, I guarantee it.

01:09:40.000 Alright, Keith and Kevin, please stay strong.

01:09:42.000 We appreciate your voice out there and don't get hurt when you go to Europe

01:09:45.000 Now you best start.

01:09:47.000 When the dance time, have to deliver the cookies, be back.

01:09:51.000 Cookies, be back.

01:09:53.000 Oh Oh

01:10:45.000 That was a Morgan Freeman.

01:10:47.000 Before I jumped into the pool I had to put the sunblock on my freckles.

01:10:52.000 You have to get down under so you can look up.

01:10:56.000 Get busy.

01:10:57.000 Get busy swimming.

01:10:58.000 Holding my breath is completely unnecessary.

01:10:59.000 Get busy perverting. 1.00

01:11:02.000 He's a rapist. 1.00

01:11:04.000 That is the undertone. 1.00

01:11:04.000 Allegedly. 1.00

01:11:05.000 That's the undertones.

01:11:06.000 They're a little bit dark.

01:11:06.000 Thank you to the Hodge twins, Ralph Macchio and Kreese.

01:11:10.000 I just forgot his last name there.

01:11:13.000 You okay?

01:11:13.000 You looked like you were suffocating for a bit.

01:11:15.000 I was.

01:11:15.000 Honestly, I don't know why I don't do more acting on that because it's hard on my body.

01:11:21.000 Yeah.

01:11:23.000 It's almost like you don't consider it your job.

01:11:25.000 I know.

01:11:26.000 But, uh, looking forward to it.

01:11:27.000 Next week, by the way, no show Monday because it's, uh, obviously because it's Memorial Day.

01:11:31.000 Remember, it's Memorial Day.

01:11:33.000 And then I don't know if we have a show on Tuesday.

01:11:34.000 I'm not entirely sure because we have some renovations going on in the studio like we've talked about.

01:11:37.000 If you watch the behind the scenes, we're building a whole new green screen studio.

01:11:40.000 So not entirely sure, but definitely not Monday.

01:11:43.000 And then we have a pretty big week of shows Wednesday and Thursday.

01:11:46.000 Thanks for Silence of the Mug Club.

01:11:47.000 Everyone did some good work on that.

01:11:48.000 And thanks to the Hodgewoods for coming in here last minute.

01:11:51.000 Like we said, we were booking Candace Owens today, and I think it was just a miscommunication where she had communicated with the booker, and then I don't know.

01:11:59.000 I had it in my schedule.

01:11:59.000 So sorry, Kate.

01:12:00.000 We'd love to have her on. 1.00

01:12:01.000 A lot of people had some questions for her, so hopefully we can have her on soon.

01:12:04.000 You know, one thing I wanted to talk about here at the end of this week It's been a pretty tiring week.

01:12:12.000 Let me just start with this.

01:12:13.000 You can't be anything you want to be.

01:12:16.000 You cannot.

01:12:18.000 You absolutely cannot be anything you put your mind to.

01:12:21.000 That's reality.

01:12:22.000 Now let me clarify this because I've always been one, especially... People say, hold on, isn't this usually where you encourage people?

01:12:27.000 No, listen, I can't stand dream stealers.

01:12:29.000 I can't stand dream stealers at all. 0.84

01:12:32.000 There are people I despise.

01:12:35.000 There are far I can't think of any people I despise more than dream killers.

01:12:40.000 I do think that people out there should dream.

01:12:41.000 I do think people should have ambitions and you can achieve unbelievable things.

01:12:44.000 Certainly, when most people say you can't, usually they're wrong.

01:12:46.000 But you cannot be anything that you put your mind to.

01:12:49.000 Now why do I say that?

01:12:50.000 I say that because if you're going to start chasing some dreams, and I get some emails Again, let me talk about a lot of college students, a lot of people feel lost out there, and we have, there's some modicum of success with this program.

01:13:00.000 We're incredibly grateful to everyone who's subscribed, who's signed up for notifications, who's bookmarked or joined Mug Club, because YouTube, of course, is trying to make it more and more difficult to reach you.

01:13:08.000 So sometimes people say, well, listen, how do you make it happen?

01:13:11.000 How do you determine success?

01:13:13.000 How do you go after your dreams?

01:13:14.000 Here's something.

01:13:15.000 For example, I'm not going to be an NBA player.

01:13:18.000 Neither is Nakai Jared.

01:13:20.000 You're not going to be a champion eater taking out Kobayashi anytime soon.

01:13:23.000 No.

01:13:23.000 I also can't drink milk.

01:13:25.000 Well, goat's milk.

01:13:25.000 You said you might be able to try goat's milk.

01:13:27.000 When did that start?

01:13:28.000 You weren't lactose intolerant.

01:13:29.000 I don't know.

01:13:29.000 Are you jumping on the gluten trend?

01:13:31.000 Maybe.

01:13:32.000 Could be a queer. 1.00

01:13:35.000 The point I'm trying to make here is we talk about truth a whole lot and you do have to be truthful with yourself and it doesn't help anybody just to blindly tell people you can do anything you put your mind to.

01:13:44.000 No, you can do most things you put your mind to and most people don't fulfill their potential and most people don't fulfill their potential not because they didn't put their mind to take a pick.

01:13:53.000 They didn't fulfill their potential because they didn't fulfill their purpose.

01:13:56.000 You were designed Let's say you don't believe in God.

01:13:59.000 Okay, you exist for a purpose in the mere pragmatic sense that there is something you can probably do better than anyone else or as good as anyone else.

01:14:08.000 And there are some things that you can't do very well.

01:14:09.000 When I was in the 8th grade at one point, no, sorry, not the 8th grade, it was the 5th grade, because I had watched Space Jam, I think, I wanted to play in the NBA for a bit.

01:14:17.000 Then I realized it wasn't in the cards.

01:14:19.000 No, that doesn't mean you're giving up on a dream.

01:14:22.000 You need to figure it out and experiment with things.

01:14:24.000 If you want to know how are you in your wheelhouse, how are you in your purpose, I think everyone has had this moment.

01:14:29.000 I want you to take some time here.

01:14:29.000 This is one thing.

01:14:30.000 You don't have to do it right now during this segment, last segment of the week.

01:14:34.000 Take some time, reflect on it, and think if this ever happened with you.

01:14:37.000 Did you ever have a moment where You realized you weren't good at anything else, and all of a sudden it clicked that you were good at something.

01:14:44.000 Let me tell you that for me, the reason that I'm doing this show, the reason this is the only thing that I could do is, I remember in high school, not only did I have horrible handwriting, not only was I terrible at math, I mean, they thought I was retarded for a while because of my handwriting, and then also because of the fact that they thought I was retarded, and I was in French immersion.

01:15:01.000 Turns out I just needed to go to English school.

01:15:04.000 And I was picked last for gym class, I think I told you this, after way long,

01:15:08.000 the autistic Asian kid, legitimate autistic, by the way, not like on the spectrum, you know what I mean? 1.00

01:15:12.000 Like the kind of guy who would piss his pants, forget who he was, and punch you in the balls, 1.00

01:15:14.000 like that kind of guy. 1.00

01:15:16.000 I remember, I was picked last after way long.

01:15:16.000 Way long.

01:15:19.000 And I remember, for some reason, I could make teachers laugh.

01:15:24.000 For some reason, I could argue pretty well.

01:15:27.000 For some reason, even though I was terrified of giving public speeches, I was put to a provincial competition in public speaking in high school. 1.00

01:15:36.000 For some reason, bullies would have to stop themselves from laughing while kicking my ass. 1.00

01:15:41.000 And I remember sitting in class when I didn't open my textbook at all. 0.99

01:15:45.000 At all, at all, my senior year.

01:15:46.000 My 10th and 11th grade years in high school.

01:15:47.000 My math textbook.

01:15:48.000 I miss her a lot as a teacher.

01:15:49.000 Nice guy.

01:15:49.000 God rest his soul.

01:15:50.000 Terrible math teacher.

01:15:51.000 I didn't open it.

01:15:52.000 And they said, what are you doing all day in class?

01:15:53.000 And all I did was think.

01:15:55.000 All I did was, you know, you call it daydreaming.

01:15:56.000 And I know it sounds like daydreaming.

01:15:58.000 But all we do is think about performing.

01:15:59.000 At this point, I'd been writing stand-up.

01:16:01.000 I remember when I got to college, I'd been performing stand-up.

01:16:03.000 At that point, by my teens, I'd been doing acting since I was 12 years old.

01:16:06.000 All I would do was think about going to Los Angeles to finish what I was doing with acting, or doing stand-up in front of big crowds, or something like hosting a show.

01:16:14.000 Podcasting hadn't been around yet.

01:16:15.000 Immediately when MySpace came out, and Dane Cook was a thing, MySpace comedy didn't exist, but through coding, we uploaded these clips, and I got into the Just for Laughs.

01:16:23.000 But I remember sitting there, and when they said, well, what are you doing?

01:16:26.000 I just, I've never thought about anything else, and I wasn't good at anything else.

01:16:29.000 It's not like I woke up as a kid, and all I ever wanted to be Oh, I knew right away I was going to be a podcast slash first ever online late night host who didn't endorse Hillary Clinton.

01:16:39.000 I didn't know that.

01:16:40.000 I wanted to be a firefighter at some point, and then I realized I wasn't very strong.

01:16:44.000 And then I wanted to be, like I said, a basketball player.

01:16:46.000 Couldn't run or jump.

01:16:48.000 And so I had to be realistic with myself and say, oh, you know what?

01:16:52.000 Here's one thing that you can do pretty well.

01:16:54.000 You can do it pretty well.

01:16:55.000 You've tried the other things.

01:16:56.000 Here's one thing that you can do pretty well.

01:16:58.000 See how far you can go with it.

01:17:00.000 And what did that lead to?

01:17:02.000 That led to striking out cold-calling agents.

01:17:04.000 That led to Tony Camacho, my first manager, sleeping on his daughter's couch in Jamaica Hills, Queens, when I was 18 years old, doing two, three sets a night every night in New York City. 0.97

01:17:15.000 And I sucked. 0.96

01:17:16.000 A lot. 0.84

01:17:17.000 That led to doing festivals and hosting shows with MTV that sucked and were terrible and a lot of the time I thought I wanted to quit because I can't believe that I'm hosting a game show on MTV for pennies on the dollar and this is the only thing I was good at?

01:17:29.000 Why couldn't I be good at building spacecraft?

01:17:30.000 Why couldn't I be the best astronaut?

01:17:32.000 I was really pissed about it.

01:17:34.000 I was able to speak relatively well.

01:17:36.000 That's what I was good at.

01:17:37.000 I want you to think that there's a moment for you in time.

01:17:41.000 Almost everyone has a moment that you can think back to where you realize, okay, hold on a second.

01:17:46.000 I think this is something I can do.

01:17:49.000 I think everyone has that moment and a lot of people just push it back because maybe it scares them.

01:17:53.000 Because they want to think they can pick whatever their purpose is.

01:17:57.000 But you can't!

01:17:59.000 Can you think back to a moment where you said, okay, this is something I can do.

01:18:02.000 This is something I'm good at.

01:18:04.000 It came to me later in life because I was always inclined to technology and kind of performance kind of stuff in high school, but it didn't hit me very early on.

01:18:12.000 Not as early as it hit you for sure.

01:18:14.000 But once you did find that, once I found that, I'm like, oh, I enjoy this and I'm good at it and I think I can make a dollar doing it.

01:18:21.000 Support a family with it.

01:18:21.000 Yeah.

01:18:22.000 So there was a moment I clicked it and I was about 21, 22 years old.

01:18:26.000 What a click for me.

01:18:27.000 And by the way, this purpose can change, by the way.

01:18:29.000 You can be careerful, and then your purpose could be to be a fantastic father, or a fantastic husband, fantastic wife, fantastic mother.

01:18:35.000 You could be a career woman before that. 0.99

01:18:37.000 I want to make sure that people understand you're not fixed.

01:18:39.000 You're not in one fixed track.

01:18:41.000 I think one of the things that we talked about a couple weeks ago, learning which people in your life, as you grow older, you have to figure out which ones do you own and which ones you don't.

01:18:49.000 It's also, there's a flip side to that, which voices matter and which ones don't.

01:18:52.000 Because a lot of people will tell you, Yeah.

01:18:54.000 you know, the dream killers of life, that you can't do this.

01:18:56.000 And then those people have inspired me to do all those things.

01:19:00.000 Yeah.

01:19:00.000 And then there are people in your life you need to realize, oh, my dad or my mom, you know, they really love me, look

01:19:04.000 out for me.

01:19:04.000 And they say, I'm, you know, I am awful at drinking milk and I have to take the work for it.

01:19:09.000 Thank God. Thank God.

01:19:11.000 My purpose is not professional milk tester.

01:19:13.000 No. If that's even a real thing.

01:19:16.000 Okay, that's a good point because you need to learn which voices to ignore in yourself.

01:19:21.000 Everyone is pulled apart by voices.

01:19:23.000 Let me give you a couple examples, okay?

01:19:25.000 I graduated young.

01:19:26.000 Usually I try not to get into names, but I'll tell you this.

01:19:28.000 It was my ex-girlfriend's uncle.

01:19:29.000 And I remember I've told this story, maybe it was back when it was a three-hour show.

01:19:32.000 I've told this story, I still think about it.

01:19:35.000 I was doing relatively well.

01:19:36.000 You know, I did The Voice on Arthur.

01:19:38.000 I was doing a lot of commercials.

01:19:39.000 Enough where I had saved up some money working in high school, missed a lot of days in school.

01:19:42.000 The Voice on Arthur, they just give you a podcast after that, right?

01:19:43.000 Yeah, they just give you a podcast after that, of course.

01:19:45.000 That's how you leverage it.

01:19:46.000 That and the big Jew money. 0.99

01:19:47.000 And I was sitting there going, what are you going to do after high school?

01:19:51.000 And I said, you know what?

01:19:51.000 I don't know.

01:19:52.000 I think I owe it to myself to try to go to Los Angeles and really see how far I can take this.

01:19:57.000 And him, his wife, and his son started, and he had a laugh like this.

01:20:01.000 I started laughing.

01:20:02.000 Imagine the kind of person you have to be to 16 years old.

01:20:05.000 By the way, it's not like it's totally just, I'm going to be an actor.

01:20:07.000 It's like, at this point, I had already had my union card for six years.

01:20:10.000 You know, like I had done some stuff and laughed and said, oh, maybe get your head out of the clouds and think about

01:20:16.000 going into engineering, which was far less realistic.

01:20:19.000 You don't want me building your planes at Pratt & Whitney.

01:20:22.000 I don't want to fly in you with planes.

01:20:23.000 And I remember I had a realization going, the fact that everyone thinks this is laughable and I don't,

01:20:29.000 Okay, maybe this is something I can do.

01:20:32.000 One more story.

01:20:32.000 It was in college.

01:20:34.000 Spanish teacher.

01:20:34.000 Couldn't stand her.

01:20:35.000 I can't even remember her name.

01:20:36.000 I knew I was doomed to fail.

01:20:38.000 I knew I was doomed to fail Spanish.

01:20:39.000 She immediately removed 30% from my grade at the beginning of the semester.

01:20:42.000 The reason for that was, this was in Canada, and the reason, yeah, I was learning.

01:20:46.000 I thought, ah, I don't know.

01:20:47.000 I can learn three languages.

01:20:48.000 Turns out I know more Brazilian-style Portuguese than Spanish.

01:20:51.000 That's how effective it is.

01:20:52.000 That's how effective learning a language in school is.

01:20:55.000 And not at all.

01:20:56.000 So, she took 30% off my grade. 1.00

01:21:00.000 And the reason was, I had missed three classes.

01:21:01.000 Now, we were visiting my family in Texas at the time, and Hurricane Katrina happened.

01:21:05.000 And so, actually, we ended up staying a little bit longer.

01:21:07.000 I remember calling my teachers, saying, hey, listen, I'm not going to be in school for the first couple of weeks.

01:21:10.000 Can you send me the homework?

01:21:11.000 All the other teachers sent me my homework.

01:21:13.000 She didn't.

01:21:13.000 She said, you lose 10% for each class you miss in my class.

01:21:17.000 Talk about a horrible human being, right?

01:21:18.000 So I go, and I'm like, well, listen, I really want to pass this class.

01:21:21.000 I'm really not doing very well.

01:21:23.000 And I'd like to be tutored.

01:21:24.000 She said, you don't need to be tutored.

01:21:25.000 What you need to do is come into my office twice a week, and I'll help you, and you'll be fine.

01:21:29.000 Well, we get about 2 3rds through the semester, and she tells me you're failing.

01:21:33.000 I'm like, I know, right?

01:21:35.000 She says, I think you need a counselor at the library.

01:21:37.000 I said, but I, but, ah!

01:21:39.000 But I said I needed it.

01:21:40.000 That's what I said.

01:21:41.000 And you said, don't do it.

01:21:42.000 She said, no, no, you use the word tutor, not counselor.

01:21:45.000 And we're sitting there going, OK, I see where this is going.

01:21:48.000 And she said at that time, she said, well, I don't know why you screw around so much in my class. 0.62

01:21:51.000 I don't know what you're thinking about in class.

01:21:53.000 What do you think?

01:21:53.000 Are you going to do the Just for Laughs or something?

01:21:54.000 And the day before, I had just found out.

01:21:56.000 And not a big deal, but it's a pretty big comedy festival for young aspiring comedians.

01:21:59.000 The day before, I had just found out that I was the youngest comedian ever to do the Just for Laughs.

01:22:04.000 And so that was a defining moment for me, where I said, okay, the fact that she thinks it's so absurd, and I don't know what I can accomplish, but I do know there's some confirmation that I'm certainly better at this than Spanish, that I'm certainly better at this than math, that I'm certainly better at this than basketball.

01:22:19.000 So when people go out there and say, you know, I want to be successful, but you know, I'm down, how do I, how do I, you know, it seems like you haven't figured, I don't have it figured out.

01:22:26.000 This is honestly pretty, since I've known Not Gay Jared, who were doing an AM radio show, And I said, as long as I own the rights, we'll syndicate this out nationally. 0.82

01:22:33.000 And then we started podcasting it.

01:22:34.000 And remember, we said, I don't think this can work on radio.

01:22:37.000 I don't think radio is going to live for a much longer time.

01:22:39.000 Then we started doing this with, I don't know if conservatives are going to want to watch a late night show.

01:22:43.000 They're so used to listening to AM radio where all people do is bitch about Obama.

01:22:46.000 We didn't know that it was going to work, but it hit a certain point when we had the Nick DePaulos and the Jim Nortons and the Owen Benjamins of the world banging on the door saying, hey, I really like what you're doing.

01:22:53.000 I really appreciate what you're doing.

01:22:54.000 We said, we can do this.

01:22:56.000 Not even a year before I met you, I had a close friend tell me, when I told him I really wanted to make a go of producing and things, he said, you need to get your head out of the clouds, Jared.

01:23:05.000 Right.

01:23:05.000 He told me that.

01:23:07.000 It has driven me mad ever since, and it's kind of, you know, I don't want to say, you know, revenge is the best form of success.

01:23:14.000 Sorry, success is the best form of revenge.

01:23:15.000 Revenge is the best form of success.

01:23:16.000 Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow!

01:23:17.000 That's successful! 1.00

01:23:19.000 No, you're just a serial killer. 1.00

01:23:21.000 Tomato, I say broken spleen. 0.99

01:23:23.000 We'll fix that in post, but yeah, you know what I mean.

01:23:25.000 I mean, it really has driven me, some of those words.

01:23:27.000 It absolutely does.

01:23:29.000 It absolutely does, Trevor.

01:23:30.000 Look at what you're doing now.

01:23:31.000 Here's the thing. 0.99

01:23:31.000 If you were going to talk about fulfilling a purpose and living a life where you feel fulfilled, people who say you can do anything you put your mind to, they're about as stupid as the people who say men can do anything women can do, women can do anything men can do. 0.99

01:23:42.000 Those people are just about as stupid as people who tell you just play it safe. 1.00

01:23:46.000 Just don't leave the state, stay close to mom. 1.00

01:23:49.000 Don't try something that most people don't do.

01:23:52.000 What you need to do, like you said, is you talked about eliminating voices from your life, other people.

01:23:55.000 Figure out the ones that matter, figure out the ones that don't.

01:23:58.000 You are doing yourself a great disservice if you aren't being truthful with yourself in your alone time.

01:24:02.000 And I have found in my life that when I sit and I speak with people, when I speak with fans, particularly young fans who are trying to find direction in life, particularly people who we've even hired here who are younger, I talk with them and I say, when did you realize this is what you wanted to do?

01:24:13.000 Or, when did you realize what you want to do, and what is it?

01:24:17.000 Almost everyone can pin that moment.

01:24:20.000 Just like the flash of genius, an invention with a product or some kind of a new service, that's a film, it's actually a legal term, flash of genius, it can be traced.

01:24:29.000 Almost everybody can trace back to a moment where they realize, you didn't know you were going to be the best.

01:24:34.000 I don't think Michael Jordan knew he was going to be the best.

01:24:36.000 I don't think Wayne Gretzky knew he was going to be the best.

01:24:37.000 I think at some point they said, I can do this.

01:24:40.000 and owed it to themselves to do it to the best of their ability to chase that trail down with everything they had and sometimes it pans out sometimes it doesn't but you'll be happier if you try it the key is that starting off point like everything else we talk about it's got to be true find that moment there's something you can do that someone else can't do either you can do it to the You could be the best in the world at it, or at least as good as the elite of the elite of the elite, and people around you can't do it.

01:25:09.000 Everyone has that.

01:25:10.000 And by the way, people are saying, well, yeah, that's a nice thing to say, but what about people who are retarded, for example? 0.90

01:25:16.000 I can tell you there are people at Friendship Club right now where we used to work with special needs people.

01:25:19.000 They could give you a multiplication table like that.

01:25:21.000 Any number you pick.

01:25:23.000 I can show you people there with a capacity for love that I've never seen with anyone else.

01:25:26.000 People who have the ability to pick up on emotions from other people that I've never seen in a while.

01:25:31.000 So sometimes people will surprise you with what they're capable of doing, and sometimes you'll surprise yourself.

01:25:35.000 But it's got to start from a point of truth.

01:25:36.000 Trace that moment.

01:25:38.000 Figure it out.

01:25:39.000 What do you think you can do pretty well?

01:25:41.000 What do you think you can do better than the next guy?

01:25:45.000 And do it to the best of your ability.

01:25:47.000 Do it with everything you have.

01:25:48.000 See what happens.

01:25:49.000 And if you fail, well, at least you had a life of purpose.

Louder with Crowder - May 25, 2018

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