This week, the Not-Gay Shapiro joins the show to talk about his new book, The Boy Scouts of America: The Real Story, and why he thinks President Trump should be more involved in cultural issues. Plus, the latest on the NFL, North Korea, and much, much more.
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00:04:29.000Also, we'll be talking about the myth that the United States was built off of the backs of slaves.
00:04:33.000Hint, spoiler alert, it's not exactly true.
00:04:36.000So we have a lot of news to get to today.
00:04:38.000And my question, I guess, well, first off...
00:04:40.000I guess let me ask the question before I introduce him.
00:04:42.000The question's more important than who's producing.
00:04:44.000Do you like seeing President Trump tossing in his lot here with the NFL?
00:04:48.000Do 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?
00:09:20.000So 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.
00:09:34.000Netflix said in a statement that the Obamas would produce, quote, a diverse mix of content including docu-series, documentaries, and features.
00:09:40.000So their main show is launching on Netflix.
00:09:42.000Also titled, ironically, Orange is the New Black.
00:09:45.000They didn't really need to change a whole... They already had the template.
00:09:50.000And apparently, right, they might actually, the Obamas might wade into doing fiction, right, Sven Computer?
00:10:45.000A 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.
00:10:54.000Every now and then, you get this perfect moment.
00:10:57.000That moment on national television when you realize that you've done... You've thought none of this through.
00:11:03.000Let'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.
00:11:19.000Why couldn't you guys resolve this without the court?
00:11:24.000I 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!
00:15:28.000Syrian asylum seekers to become truck drivers.
00:15:31.000The 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.
00:16:44.000All right, so speaking of human rights, speaking of birth rights, obviously freedom of assembly, freedom to protest is one here in the United States.
00:16:50.000So the NFL kneeling, it was a big situation a long time ago with Colin Kaepernick, and now it's come full circle.
00:17:18.000If 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.
00:17:38.000First of all, the commissioner says they will impose appropriate discipline on the players if they dare to express their freedom of speech.
00:17:57.000Despite 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.
00:18:02.000Yeah, and the New York Times or the NFL kneels for Trump.
00:21:29.000I'm not the guy who says you can never trust polls.
00:21:31.000Right 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.
00:21:36.000I don't think many people are that offended by what he said there.
00:21:40.000And 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.
00:21:47.000Well, and a lot of the players, I read a lot of their responses to this on Twitter.
00:21:50.000They're saying that they have the right to go ahead and do this.
00:23:15.000May 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.
00:23:24.000May 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.
00:24:02.000You 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.
00:24:09.000But they were all trending, they were all under the narrative of police brutality.
00:24:13.000By the way, you're actually more likely to be shot by the police if you're a white guy.
00:24:40.000The United States was built off the backs of slaves.
00:24:41.000First 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?
00:27:36.000He landed in the same spot, there's no round earth, it's flat, it's flat, it's flat, we're not rotating.
00:27:40.000So the point is that YouTube video, 5 million plays, you get to disprove it!
00:27:44.000The point is no one today, okay, out there needs to feel guilty of their privilege because of slavery.
00:27:49.000It was horrible, listen, absolutely terrible, but thank God we ended it.
00:27:52.000And thank God that it's not what actually made this country.
00:27:55.000In a lot of ways, it's what held us back.
00:27:57.000So you can speak morally, slavery, bad, thank God we ended it.
00:27:59.000And 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.
00:28:11.000So 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.
00:28:31.000Trump did not issue an executive order commanding anyone to kneel.
00:28:34.000The NFL made a policy because, contrary to the media, the American citizens don't live in a monolith.
00:28:39.000And with their dollars, with their viewership, they voted to send you a message, NFL fans.
00:28:43.000So the NFL, the owners, the organizers, responded out of necessity for survival of the league.
00:28:54.000And the president responded when asked about this policy specifically.
00:28:58.000This is exactly why the president is so popular with anyone who's not a dynamo leftist.
00:29:02.000Millions of male Americans say, you know, I really think it's disrespectful.
00:29:06.000I think it's just respectful to kneel during the anti-media football game.
00:29:08.000Then dumbass NFL players, activists, and their lackeys in the media either blatantly or passively accuse said middle Americans of being white supremacists.
00:29:15.000Then all of a sudden Trump, all he has to do is say, you know, I don't think they should kneel.
00:29:18.000And so millions of Americans breathe a sigh of relief and go, oh, OK, see?
00:29:26.000I'm just a veteran who respects our flag, and so the media now has one of two choices.
00:29:32.000Either 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.
00:32:18.000For people who don't know, it's the biggest hit.
00:32:20.000I mean, it's among Netflix, Hulu, it's huge out there.
00:32:23.000What'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?
00:32:33.000Well, listen, it succeeded my expectations.
00:32:36.000I mean, I knew going in, I felt really confident.
00:32:39.000These three, three creators of the show were just the guys who sort of, they created Harold and Kumar franchise and Hot Tub Time Machine.
00:32:49.000And 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.
00:33:01.000And I have, because everyone says, how about this?
00:33:23.000But 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.
00:34:20.000No, 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.
00:34:26.000It's one of the few shows out there that is a wink and a nod to what it used to be.
00:34:30.000And you know, this nostalgia obviously, it induces incredible nostalgia, but it writes for what it is in today's era.
00:34:38.000It does it in a way that is congruent with the characters.
00:34:40.000I 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.
00:35:12.000When you reach for a new vertical row, it's time for a new row.
00:35:14.000When you reach for the next ring thing, you're fine.
00:35:16.000But 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.
00:36:09.000The 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.
00:36:19.000I 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.
00:36:32.000And this is before Cobra Kai came out.
00:36:34.000It'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.
00:36:47.000He was a piece of all our childhoods, you know?
00:36:53.000Do 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?
00:37:09.000I do want to bring something up. Not to be a kiss-ass here, but this is one thing.
00:37:12.000I 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.
00:37:23.000And 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.
00:37:35.000I 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.
00:37:46.000I'd like to roll a clip, and then get your thoughts afterward.
00:39:00.000Sorry, it's always uncomfortable, but it's such a great job.
00:39:02.000People 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.
00:39:06.000That's one shot, you're conveying a lot of different emotions.
00:39:09.000Anger, to helplessness, to wanting to go to a karate school, the losing it in your voice.
00:39:15.000I 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?
00:39:23.000Because it really is something incredible to watch.
00:39:27.000Well, first of all, thank you very much.
00:39:28.000And 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.
00:39:38.000That'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.
00:39:50.000And 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
00:40:03.000You know, some of it was on me, some of it was on the camera.
00:40:08.000You know, we didn't get it perfect every single time.
00:40:10.000And 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.
00:40:26.000Right, 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.
00:40:42.000You know, that stuff you don't notice.
00:41:07.000He said, take it out again and do it again.
00:41:09.000And 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.
00:41:18.000The line when he says, not at the Y at a real school was basically Ralph Macchio forgetting the line and figuring it out.
00:41:42.000I 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.
00:42:05.000I mean, when I was a kid, I watched it.
00:42:06.000I remember everything else kind of happening and me going, oh, rewind it.
00:42:09.000And 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.
00:42:26.000It 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?
00:42:35.000I have one question, and again, everyone go watch Cobra Kai YouTube Red, but this is somewhat unrelated.
00:42:41.000And I see the poster behind you, so I'm happy.
00:42:45.000As far as I'm concerned, this should be Casting 101.
00:42:50.000For 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.
00:46:02.000I think we really have, I just spoke to the three writers the other day,
00:46:06.000and you know, it's important that we pick up right where we left off and forget all this,
00:46:13.000you know, don't read the press as great as it is.
00:46:15.000I've never experienced anything that has like 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 35 million views.
00:46:21.000And it's really been incredible how much of a hit this has become.
00:46:26.000But we really have to pick up where we left off and Stay focused and charged in that way.
00:46:33.000If it's focused, there's a Miyagi-ism for you.
00:46:36.000So 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.
00:46:47.000And we'll have Martin Kovan, he has something, 200 something credits to his name.
00:46:50.000The 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.
00:46:55.000All 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.
00:47:03.000It's a great show, I highly recommend it.
00:47:04.000Mr. Macchio, at Ralph Macchio on the Twitter.
00:47:07.000Thank you so much, man, I know you're- Awesome, thanks for having me, this is a lot of fun.
00:47:11.000Yeah, absolutely, we'll talk with Martin, and we'll talk with you soon.
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00:50:37.000Yeah, killed him a couple of times in a couple of movies.
00:50:40.000Yes, pretty much if Clint Howard's in a movie, you're writing around the death scene.
00:50:45.000But 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.
00:50:52.000And we're like, Clint, you could do this.
00:52:09.000You're strong featured, and I love the physical.
00:52:12.000When 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.
00:52:20.000And the bottom line is I loved Westerns.
00:52:22.000But when you're starting out, you do heavies.
00:53:41.000Oddly 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.
00:53:53.000I personally don't understand that, but it was 1972.
00:54:01.000And 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.
00:55:58.000But now you've come full circle and Cobra Kai is getting those kinds of numbers that people thought you would never see again.
00:56:05.000What's it like to be a part of that whole transition and back again?
00:56:09.000Well, as I said earlier, you and I talked about the writing and the extraction of the great values from Karate Kid.
00:56:19.000Karate Kid 1 was a religious experience for so many people.
00:56:23.000You 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.
00:56:31.000You 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.
00:56:38.000And 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
00:58:40.000to do a very exciting picture about Gettysburg.
00:58:43.000And 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.
00:58:54.000And it's all, you know, it's all nonfiction.
00:58:59.000And it's always fun to play someone who's nonfiction.
00:59:01.000And I believe you said that your son will be acting.
00:59:03.000You've acted in quite a few films with your son now.
00:59:05.000So that must be nice to be able to pass the torch.
00:59:08.000The best, you know, Jesse Coates is the best.
00:59:11.000You 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.
01:03:32.000Yeah, 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.
01:04:05.000You said you told me recently you guys were in Canada.
01:04:07.000And I guess some fans of the show, first off, I'm glad they let you in and out of the country.
01:04:14.000I 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.
01:04:23.000Yeah 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.
01:04:39.000Yeah, but I guess we experienced that in all our shows actually Canada was out there in London
01:04:44.000Got a lot of fans out there. Yeah, we was in what was that Calgary? I'm at show. It was a Trump supporter female
01:04:50.000Oh my gosh dress from head to toe in American flag, and she had to make America great again
01:04:58.000Raster anything nobody was just grateful to her or anything.
01:05:02.000You know, I think they almost think it's it's it's a caricature at that point
01:05:05.000I don't think they think it's real in Canada, because there is no sort of Trump, there is no sort of right wing.
01:05:10.000It's kind of like when you went into the gay bar dressed as Trump doing show tunes.
01:05:14.000Yeah, 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.
01:11:48.000And thanks to the Hodgewoods for coming in here last minute.
01:11:51.000Like 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.
01:12:50.000I 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.
01:13:00.000We'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.
01:13:08.000So sometimes people say, well, listen, how do you make it happen?
01:13:35.000The 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.
01:13:44.000No, 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.
01:13:53.000They didn't fulfill their potential because they didn't fulfill their purpose.
01:13:56.000You were designed Let's say you don't believe in God.
01:13:59.000Okay, 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.
01:14:08.000And there are some things that you can't do very well.
01:14:09.000When 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.
01:14:17.000Then I realized it wasn't in the cards.
01:14:19.000No, that doesn't mean you're giving up on a dream.
01:14:22.000You need to figure it out and experiment with things.
01:14:24.000If you want to know how are you in your wheelhouse, how are you in your purpose, I think everyone has had this moment.
01:14:30.000You don't have to do it right now during this segment, last segment of the week.
01:14:34.000Take some time, reflect on it, and think if this ever happened with you.
01:14:37.000Did 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.
01:14:44.000Let 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.
01:15:01.000Turns out I just needed to go to English school.
01:15:04.000And I was picked last for gym class, I think I told you this, after way long,
01:15:08.000the autistic Asian kid, legitimate autistic, by the way, not like on the spectrum, you know what I mean?
01:15:12.000Like the kind of guy who would piss his pants, forget who he was, and punch you in the balls,
01:15:19.000And I remember, for some reason, I could make teachers laugh.
01:15:24.000For some reason, I could argue pretty well.
01:15:27.000For some reason, even though I was terrified of giving public speeches, I was put to a provincial competition in public speaking in high school.
01:15:36.000For some reason, bullies would have to stop themselves from laughing while kicking my ass.
01:15:41.000And I remember sitting in class when I didn't open my textbook at all.
01:15:55.000All I did was, you know, you call it daydreaming.
01:15:56.000And I know it sounds like daydreaming.
01:15:58.000But all we do is think about performing.
01:15:59.000At this point, I'd been writing stand-up.
01:16:01.000I remember when I got to college, I'd been performing stand-up.
01:16:03.000At that point, by my teens, I'd been doing acting since I was 12 years old.
01:16:06.000All 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.
01:16:15.000Immediately 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.
01:16:23.000But I remember sitting there, and when they said, well, what are you doing?
01:16:26.000I just, I've never thought about anything else, and I wasn't good at anything else.
01:16:29.000It'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.
01:17:02.000That led to striking out cold-calling agents.
01:17:04.000That 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.
01:17:17.000That 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?
01:17:29.000Why couldn't I be good at building spacecraft?
01:18:04.000It 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.
01:18:41.000I 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.
01:18:49.000It's also, there's a flip side to that, which voices matter and which ones don't.
01:18:52.000Because a lot of people will tell you, Yeah.
01:18:54.000you know, the dream killers of life, that you can't do this.
01:18:56.000And then those people have inspired me to do all those things.
01:21:53.000Are you going to do the Just for Laughs or something?
01:21:54.000And the day before, I had just found out.
01:21:56.000And not a big deal, but it's a pretty big comedy festival for young aspiring comedians.
01:21:59.000The day before, I had just found out that I was the youngest comedian ever to do the Just for Laughs.
01:22:04.000And 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.
01:22:19.000So 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.
01:22:26.000This 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.
01:22:34.000And remember, we said, I don't think this can work on radio.
01:22:37.000I don't think radio is going to live for a much longer time.
01:22:39.000Then we started doing this with, I don't know if conservatives are going to want to watch a late night show.
01:22:43.000They're so used to listening to AM radio where all people do is bitch about Obama.
01:22:46.000We 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.
01:22:53.000I really appreciate what you're doing.
01:22:56.000Not 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.
01:23:31.000If 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.
01:23:42.000Those people are just about as stupid as people who tell you just play it safe.
01:23:46.000Just don't leave the state, stay close to mom.
01:23:49.000Don't try something that most people don't do.
01:23:52.000What you need to do, like you said, is you talked about eliminating voices from your life, other people.
01:23:55.000Figure out the ones that matter, figure out the ones that don't.
01:23:58.000You are doing yourself a great disservice if you aren't being truthful with yourself in your alone time.
01:24:02.000And 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?
01:24:13.000Or, when did you realize what you want to do, and what is it?
01:24:20.000Just 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.
01:24:29.000Almost everybody can trace back to a moment where they realize, you didn't know you were going to be the best.
01:24:34.000I don't think Michael Jordan knew he was going to be the best.
01:24:36.000I don't think Wayne Gretzky knew he was going to be the best.
01:24:37.000I think at some point they said, I can do this.
01:24:40.000and 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.