00:00That was like my top three dreams as a kid, was like, be the hands of Cheadle, be a superhero, and be a literal doll.
00:09Brooke, I'm three for three, so I'm dying a happy man.
00:12Yeah, great, great, perfect. Hold here.
00:14You can't even see me.
00:16Can you give me a little bit of something with the fingertips? Maybe a bit of a waggle?
00:19A waggle?
00:20A waggle.
00:22Uh...
00:23Yeah, yeah, yeah, that. Do that, but with your fingertips.
00:28Yes.
00:29Yes.
00:29Hey, Simu. Thanks so much for taking the time to chat with Narcity.
00:32I see you got a nice little background there. How are we doing?
00:35I got a nice little spread.
00:36Like, I thought I'd spruce up the place with a little bit of orange.
00:39I thought it needed a little pop of color.
00:41As you can see, the walls are very gray.
00:43And then, you know, funny thing, I had all these Cheetos lying around,
00:48and so I just started arranging them.
00:51And three hours later, this is what I came up with.
00:54I love it. It feels very fitting, you know?
00:56Now you're the face. Sorry, sorry.
00:58You're the hands of Cheetle, so your apartment kind of has to reflect that, I feel.
01:01Yeah, yeah.
01:03What made you want to be the hand of Cheetle?
01:05Uh, who doesn't? Who doesn't want to be the hand of Cheetle?
01:08I feel like that was my, that was, like, on my dream board.
01:12That was, like, that was, like, my top three dreams as a kid, was, like, be the hands of Cheetle, be a superhero, and be a literal doll.
01:20And, um, Brooke, I'm three for three, so I'm dying a happy man.
01:26You've been traveling so much. You're in Toronto, you're in L.A., you've gone to some amazing destinations around the world.
01:31With winter coming up for Torontonians, if they could have one vacation, where should they go?
01:35Where should they go? Where should they go? Um, that's a really good question.
01:41Um, you know, it depends. I'm a big, one of my favorite things to do is to plan itineraries for myself, for other people.
01:48Um, you know, I'm, my instinct would be to say, go somewhere tropical, you know?
01:53Go to, go to Cancun, you know? Go to, um, last, uh, last winter, I went to Anguilla, which, which is crazy.
02:04I, maybe two years ago, didn't even know that Anguilla existed, but it's got some of the most beautiful beaches and amazing people you'll ever meet.
02:11But if you're a cold weather person and you love the slopes, then go to Trombleau, you know?
02:17Go to Trombleau, go to Whistler, stay in Canada, um, do a little apres ski, you know what I mean?
02:22Um, it all just depends on what you want, but the most important thing is that you replenish yourself, you know?
02:30Rest your body and your soul and your mind and, um, and, and have a, do it with a little bit of Cheetle on your fingertips, you know what I mean?
02:40We did it, Simu.
02:41Yeah, basic Cheetos, that's a big deal.
02:43Yeah, there's just like a couple of things in the contract I want you to peruse.
02:46Yeah, sure.
02:48Whoa, whoa, whoa, so I can't sign autographs?
02:50You hosted the Junos again this year.
02:51What did you think of the person who crashed during Avril Lavigne's presentation?
02:55It takes a lot of something to go up on a stage, a nationally televised stage with, uh, with a Canadian sweetheart and then to just, you know, show it all.
03:06Well, I wouldn't be able to, um, so, so yeah, I, I mean, it definitely, it definitely takes something amounting to courage or, or, you know, that fine line between courage and stupidity.
03:19I don't know where she was, I think she was all over that line and over on both sides and just hopstepping.
03:24But, but, you know, what I, what I really was surprised by is how long the security let it go on for.
03:32Because I saw it happening backstage and I was like, oh my God.
03:37And then, like, it's still, it just went on for another 30 seconds.
03:42And I, and I wonder if it was because it was just so brazen that the security guard was like, oh, well, this must be a part of the show.
03:49But, but I mean, for the, for those of us who knew that it wasn't, I think we were just like horrified, just standing there, um, watching it happen.
03:58And, and I know that that particular woman had a, had a cause that she was there to, you know, to promote.
04:04Um, I don't know what that had to do with breasts, but, um, you know, I, I was something about that message.
04:11I think maybe got lost in the nudity of it all.
04:14I mean, it was an effective way to get people talking and, you know, talking about people talking.
04:18Have you ever Googled yourself and what was the most surprising thing you learned and what was one wild and untrue thing you learned?
04:25Oh my God.
04:27Um, yeah, I've Googled, I've done it a couple of times.
04:30I've done it a couple of times.
04:31I would say it's terrible for mental health.
04:34Um, cause it's like that thing in high school where it's like, you, if you know, people are talking about you, like, would you rather know what they're saying or not?
04:45Um, I think, I don't really want to get into specifics, but I think there's definitely been untrue things that I've read about myself.
04:52And I think the thing that, that is hard about this, this whole, I don't know, I guess this fame thing is like, you know, you, you come up in a place where at one point in your career, everything you hear is generally pretty supportive.
05:06And then, you know, you get to a place and I think that's maybe indicative of, of like, where, you know, what is that in their career when the negativity starts to happen?
05:16And, and, and, you know, I think, I think there's there, it takes a real discipline and a strength of mind to say, I'm not going to be able to get through to everyone.
05:28I'm not going to be able to explain myself to everyone or to tell the truth to everyone.
05:33Not everyone's going to want to hear it.
05:35Not everyone's going to, you know, uh, care, uh, which fair enough, you know, um, and you just got to let the haters hate because, you know, as, as they say, haters, haters going to hate.
05:47So I'm going to read you some Narcity headlines about you and I want you to read it.
05:52Okay.
05:53Okay.
05:53This is top of mind.
05:54So we're going to start.
05:55Similiu was a total fanboy at Taylor Swift's concert and shared some deep cuts with D takes.
06:00Um, yeah, yeah, I have been a bit more of a Swifty, um, in, in recent, I mean, I think I've always been like a support, like a casual fan.
06:10You know, I know the songs that everyone else knows and Taylor's released some absolute bangers over the years, you know, her 1989 era in the Ares tour was like, I was pretty much on my feet jumping the whole time.
06:24Um, what I've really learned to appreciate in this last year is, um, some of the like lesser known songs or some of her, for like, you know, it's like, it's not the stuff that is potentially like maybe the catchiest, but there's real insight and real heart.
06:42And, you know, um, and songs like, we'll just talk about midnights for us.
06:46Like songs like the great war, you know, which is one of my favorites, one of my absolute favorites, um, songs like daylight, um, songs that like, are, are just, they're so songs like Cornelius for, you know, like they, they're so specific.
07:03Sounds like all too well, 10 minute version.
07:05They're, they're so specific.
07:06And because they're so specific, they're so universally relatable.
07:10And, um, she's got this just wonderful, unique ability to just tap into what everyone is feeling.
07:16And, and I think she's so real for that, you know?
07:20So I got the, I got the next one for you.
07:21Okay.
07:21This one's a little spicy.
07:23Buckle up.
07:23Okay.
07:24Oh, okay.
07:25Here we go.
07:25New book has inspired some extremely thirsty reviews and apparently he's a daddy.
07:30Okay.
07:34Uh, um, that's, that's so interesting that a book that the book wouldn't would inspire that, but I appreciate, I appreciate that.
07:42I appreciate that because it is the book.
07:45The book is, uh, it's, it doesn't, that's a very vulnerable part of me more.
07:49It feels more, it feels like I'm bearing more of myself than that woman that crashed the stage at the 2023 Juno Awards, you know, like, but it's,
08:00a similar action, if you will, of just like the vulnerability of like, just showing all of the parts of yourself.
08:08And maybe, maybe that book is doing it in a more, um, metaphorical sense, less on the nose, but, um, definitely just like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:18Um, so I, I appreciate that.
08:20I appreciate that.
08:21I'm very proud of the book and I'm glad that people are responding to it in whatever positive way that they, uh, they so choose.
08:29Simu Liu says he grew up the definition of poor and that treating his parents is the greatest.
08:34It is the greatest.
08:35Um, and I'm sure my parents would have something to say about, about what I said.
08:39Um, but, but, you know, we weren't, we weren't well off by any means, but we made it work.
08:43And, you know, it was great too, is, you know, I got to watch my parents grow in their careers from, you know, when I, when I first came to Canada, it was about four and a half.
08:54My parents were, yeah, they were in grad school, they were living off of, you know, scholarship money and I got to witness them get their first jobs and get from, you know, and both my parents work at the same, worked at the same engineering company together for like 20 years.
09:11And they, um, and I got to watch them grow and get promoted and get to, you know, get to a place where they could buy their first house.
09:20Of course, they wouldn't be able to afford it in this day and age with the price of the way that they are.
09:24But back then it was still possible.
09:27And, um, and that's the house that I grew up in and the house that they still live in.
09:31So, um, I'm just so proud of them.
09:33You know, their story is, is so inspirational, so much more inspirational than anything I'll ever do.
09:40And, um, and I just, I'm, I'm very grateful to be in a position now where I can, I can show appreciation and I can give back and, and let them know.
09:50I know that, you know, their, their next few years are going to be the definition of not poor and that we're going to, um, just, you know, go ham and I'm going to spoil the crap out of them.
10:00Well, thank you so much for taking the time to chat.
10:02It's always a pleasure.
10:04Always love chatting with you.
10:05Uh, and congratulations on Cheadle, you know, keep those fingers in tip top shape, my friend.
10:11Thank you for, thank you for referencing Cheadle.
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