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00:00On the rise, your grocery bill.
00:03Chances are you've noticed feeding your family is a bit expensive these days,
00:06especially when it comes to beef.
00:09Steak prices are up double digits this year.
00:11Beef prices are at record highs.
00:13The average grocery store price for ground beef,
00:16more than $6.50 a pound, up 14% over the past year.
00:22Hamburger Helper has always been a family favorite.
00:25But due to the high price of hamburger, we're proud to present Helper.
00:32All the flavor you love with none of the pricey beef you can't afford.
00:37So you don't need to mix it with hamburger?
00:39Nope. Eat up.
00:41Wasn't hamburger the source of protein?
00:43Oh, it's got protein. Dig in.
00:47If it's not hamburger, what is it?
00:49It's delicious.
00:51What's in there?
00:52I'm not allowed to say.
00:54Hey, perhaps our CEO can answer that question.
00:57Helper is made out of people.
01:01It's people!
01:05It's The Lit Show with Stephen Colbert.
01:10Tonight, peace out.
01:13Plus, Stephen Welcomes.
01:17Her name, Wyatt Russell.
01:19And musical guest, Stephen.
01:28And now, live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City,
01:34it's Stephen Colbert.
01:55Welcome, one and all, ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, Romans and countrymen, to The Late Show.
02:04I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
02:06I want to thank you.
02:07I got to tell you, I knew you.
02:10I got to thank you.
02:11I thank you for your boundless energy, everybody.
02:14I just, allow me to take a moment here to just jam a Capri Sun straw into your spinal fluid
02:20and suck out some of your life force, because I am still dragging ass and spitting out teeth
02:26after Trump's record-breaking 108-minute-long State of the Union on Tuesday.
02:33I mean, I could barely get through it.
02:35How did he stay awake that long?
02:37I took prescription drugs.
02:43The Nielsen ratings.
02:46Refreshing honesty is what that is.
02:49The Nielsen ratings for his speech are in, and Trump's talk-a-thon saw an 11% decrease from last
02:54year.
02:55Yeah.
02:57Yeah.
02:58I mean, Donald Trump is really dragging down broadcast television.
03:00I mean, if I were, if I were CBS, I'd cancel him.
03:07Now, but, you know.
03:14Congrats.
03:17But, you know, linear television is doomed, and everyone's ratings are going down, right?
03:21I'm sorry, what's that?
03:22Our ratings were up 7%?
03:26Both of the same speech last year?
03:31So, last year's ratings and this year's, I'm up 7%.
03:34Wow.
03:36Jesus!
03:37Holy cow.
03:37Jesus!
03:38Jesus!
03:39You know what?
03:40Jesus!
03:41You know what?
03:41You know what I think is going on?
03:43People may not like watching Trump, but they do like watching me not like watching Trump.
03:49Now, preliminary, preliminary viewership for Trump's speech is coming in around 32.6 million.
03:55Compare that to the Super Bowl, which got over four times as much.
03:59Okay?
04:00I think Trump could have saved the whole thing with a blockbuster halftime show featuring Bad
04:04Bernie.
04:17Of course, right now, there's a huge story out of the Middle East where storm clouds are gathering
04:24and the entire region's on a knife's edge because another camel beauty contest has been hit
04:30by a Botox cheating scandal.
04:32I am sick of this!
04:35Every day I wake up and I think, maybe, just maybe, today's the day that another camel beauty
04:40contest won't be hit by a Botox cheating scandal.
04:43But I guess that's just too much to ask for.
04:46Dream smaller, Steve.
04:49The controversy erupted at a contest in, no surprise, Oman, where 20 camels were disqualified
04:56after veterinary inspectors discovered that they had been enhanced with hyaluronic acid
05:01injections, dermal fillers, and silicone and Botox.
05:07That is a lot of procedures for one camel.
05:10What would that even look like?
05:12Okay, yes.
05:14Wow.
05:16Wow.
05:17She looks good.
05:18That's a beautiful camel.
05:21That is a beautiful camel.
05:23All of these enhancements were an effort to give the camels a toe-up in the competition
05:30because judges look for shiny hair, a long and elegantly wide neck,
05:36a large head, and long, dark eyelashes.
05:40Shiny hair, wide neck, large head, dark eyelashes.
05:43Can we see a photo of the winning camel?
05:45There you go.
05:47Good.
05:48She does look good.
05:50Like I said, this wasn't the first time the camel beauty world has been mired in controversy.
05:55See, back in 2018, a dozen contestants were kicked out of Saudi Arabia's Miss Camel contest.
06:01Of course, the best part of Miss Camel is the interview portion.
06:04Camel number one.
06:07Your question is, as a global role model, what's your hope for the next generation?
06:17So beautiful.
06:18See you back here in a bikini.
06:31In a smaller Middle East story, it looks like Trump's going to invade Iran.
06:35This week, the Pentagon shifted more than 150 military aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East.
06:43And on top of that, the Navy has sent roughly a third of all active U.S. ships to the
06:47region,
06:48including the USS Gerald Ford, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the USS Carnival Vista.
06:55Just wait till the Ayatollah gets a load of the unlimited shrimp.
07:00Yeah.
07:01It looks so...
07:02Can we put that back up?
07:03Can we put that back up?
07:05I've never seen him...
07:10When I asked for this graphic, I said, I mean, if possible, could you find a happy picture of the
07:17Ayatollah?
07:19And they said, Stephen, there's going to be no happy pictures of the Ayatollah.
07:23Happy Ayatollah.
07:24Now, the closest we've gotten, the closest we've gotten to any kind of justification has come from
07:30Special Media Envoy Steve Witkoff, seen here after winning Fight Club at Men's Warehouse.
07:36Over the weekend, this is just over the weekend?
07:39Saturday, right?
07:40On Saturday, Witkoff said this about Iran.
07:42They're probably a week away from having industrial-industrial-grade bomb-making material.
07:50And that's really dangerous.
07:52That's a startling claim.
07:54Only slightly undercut by the fact that after bombing Iran's nuclear sites eight months ago,
07:58Trump said this.
07:59They also obliterated Iran's nuclear hopes.
08:02Obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capability.
08:05Totally obliterated the nuclear potential.
08:08Totally, as I say, obliterated.
08:11We obliterated it.
08:12Which can only mean that somehow, Iran's nuclear program has been...
08:18Re-bliterated.
08:24Re-bliterated?
08:27Re...
08:28Is it re-bliterated?
08:31Dis-bliterated?
08:34But regardless, Trump seems poised to attack again, or as Politico put it,
08:39America prepares for war.
08:42Mm-mm.
08:42No.
08:44America is not preparing for war.
08:46America just found out about all this.
08:50America preparing for a weekend.
08:52America is going with some friends to see Scream 7.
08:56So, America not going to be available for war right now.
09:00Can we put a pin in war for now?
09:04And maybe give America more of a heads-up next time?
09:08That's what...
09:09That's okay.
09:10That's what America would like.
09:12Because Trump might be poised to launch a war against a nation of 93 million people,
09:16but as far as I can tell, this administration has done exactly squat to make a case for it.
09:21Senator Mark Kelly was asked,
09:27Yeah, none of us have an answer to that question.
09:32In fact, we have footage of the press trying to get a justification out of the Trump administration.
09:37What do you want?
09:39It's not that simple.
09:40What do you want?
09:42Now, you might be asking,
09:44is there any way to stop this thing that no one knew was starting?
09:48They-they did hold negotiations today, right?
09:51And no-no deal so far.
09:53And according to Trump,
09:54Iran needs to say the secret words
09:58that it will never have a nuclear weapon.
10:01It's not secret if you tell them what to say out loud, okay?
10:07It's like-it's like the doorman in Eyes Wide Shut going,
10:10please say the password, which is Fidelio.
10:14Damn it, Bob!
10:16Damn it!
10:16Every time you did it again, what a screw-up.
10:20Time to go tell Helen you lost another good sex cult job.
10:25Stupid, Bob, stupid.
10:27You can go in.
10:27You can go in.
10:32Now,
10:35it's a good movie.
10:36It's a very good movie.
10:37Watch for tigers in the background.
10:39Another heavyweight intellect
10:41is about to be added to the Trump Cabinet Brain Trust.
10:44I'm talking about Trump's Surgeon General nominee
10:47and mom who substitutes butter with applesauce
10:49because she's a freaking nightmare.
10:52Casey Means.
10:54The Surgeon General is America's top doctor,
10:56after Pepper and Scholes.
10:58And they-they communicate health policy
11:01to the general public,
11:02which is why it's disappointing but not surprising
11:05that Means is most famous for being a wellness influencer,
11:09or as it's also known,
11:11white lady on the internet who owns a blender.
11:14Yesterday,
11:16just add some protein.
11:19Just some protein,
11:21flax seeds.
11:24Yesterday, Dr. Means appeared before the Senate
11:26for her confirmation hearing,
11:27and she laid out her wellness philosophy
11:30in her opening statement.
11:31There is another way.
11:33A path that unites rigorous science
11:35with reverence for our miraculous bodies.
11:38It's true.
11:39Our bodies are miraculous.
11:41I mean, if they weren't,
11:42how else could we do this?
11:58Means went to medical school
12:00but dropped out of her medical residency
12:02and does not have an active license
12:04to treat patients.
12:07Come on,
12:08if we're gonna pick a Surgeon General
12:10who isn't licensed,
12:11why not go with Noah Wiley?
12:15Come on.
12:19He's been practicing fake medicine
12:21for 30 years.
12:23But he does have a PhD in DILF.
12:28Casey Means is a vaccine skeptic
12:31and has said that she believes
12:32taking Advil two or three times a month
12:35is ultimately toxic.
12:37Hold on one second.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Hey, honey, yeah?
12:40Yeah, it's me.
12:42Turns out I'm dead.
12:42Yeah.
12:44Yeah, it was the Advil.
12:46It was the Advil.
12:48So far, a lot like being alive.
12:50Yeah.
12:51We talk about when I get home.
12:52Okay?
12:54Buy Tylenol.
12:55Buy Tylenol.
12:58Okay.
12:59It gets weirder.
13:06It gets weirder.
13:07In one of her books,
13:08Dr. Means wrote that she took psychedelic mushrooms
13:10for the first time
13:11after she was inspired
13:13by an internal voice
13:14that whispered to her,
13:16look, I'm no doctor.
13:19But if you're already hearing voices,
13:21I don't think you need the shrooms.
13:24We've got a great show for you tonight.
13:26My guests are Kurt and Wyatt Russell,
13:29the one who will come back.
13:30Meanwhile,
13:32you'll join us, won't you?
13:40The Late Show
13:42with Stephen Colbert.
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13:46Allstate.
13:48You're in good hands.
14:01Hey!
14:03Welcome back, everybody.
14:04Give it up for Louis Cato
14:05and the great Big Drawing Machine, everybody.
14:08It's been me.
14:09It's a night.
14:10Oh, this is a magnificent crowd.
14:11You're wonderful.
14:12Thank you so much.
14:13Coming up in just a minute,
14:14we have a father-son combination.
14:15I love both of these actors.
14:16We have Kurt and Wyatt Russell
14:18joining us tonight right over there.
14:20For the first time,
14:21this is an exclusive.
14:22I think we call this an exclusive
14:23in my business.
14:24Folks, if you're watching the show right now,
14:27and I suspect you are,
14:28you know that I spend most of my time
14:30over there in the news shop
14:32handling the most topical story,
14:34fiberglass,
14:34into a fast-back body
14:36with a 327-cubic-inch V8 small-block engine,
14:40then adding a fighter-jet-inspired
14:42Quincal dash
14:43to build for you
14:43the 1963 Corvette Stingray
14:45split-window coupe
14:46that is my monologue.
14:47But sometimes, folks,
14:48just sometimes,
14:50when I'm on the lam
14:50from the cult that I started,
14:52which then turned on me,
14:53I flip an abandoned lawnmower's
14:55blade housing on its side
14:56and strap it to the back
14:57of a plastic baby pool
14:58mounted on roller skates
14:59and putter away
15:00on the fan boat Lamborghini
15:01of news that is my segment.
15:06Meanwhile...
15:07You gotta drive that train.
15:11Okay?
15:12Woo-hoo!
15:13Tom, I am a trainer.
15:17Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen,
15:19Duncan just launched
15:20a new product line,
15:2248-ounce buckets of coffee.
15:25Which is convenient,
15:26because if you drink 48 ounces of coffee,
15:28you're gonna need a bucket.
15:29Yeah.
15:31Yeah.
15:33That's good.
15:34That's good.
15:34Not to be outdone,
15:35Starbucks will charge you
15:3610 bucks for one minute
15:37in front of the Hose-a-chino.
15:4248 ounces is a lot of java.
15:44The FDA says no one
15:46should drink more than
15:46400 milligrams of caffeine a day,
15:48and each bucket contains
15:50500 to 600 milligrams.
15:53This explains Duncan's new slogan,
15:55America dies from
15:56ventricular tachycardia.
16:00Possibly.
16:01Possibly.
16:02Allegedly.
16:03Allegedly.
16:05Meanwhile,
16:07Costco's $4.99
16:08rotisserie chicken
16:09is facing
16:10two class-action lawsuits.
16:12Damn.
16:13Imagine getting cooked on a spit
16:15and then being served a subpoena.
16:17That's not fair.
16:19That's not fair.
16:20Meanwhile,
16:21for all those
16:21asking for more creative solutions
16:23to medical school debt,
16:25a New York City
16:25surgical resident
16:26is selling balloon art
16:27to pay back
16:28over $400,000
16:30in student loans.
16:31Great skill for a surgeon.
16:33Mr. Deming,
16:34the obstruction
16:35has been removed,
16:36and while I was in there,
16:38I made your colon
16:39into a poodle.
16:44Meanwhile,
16:46in award news,
16:47the image of
16:48an ultra-rare
16:49white whale
16:50has won the top prize
16:52at the World
16:52Nature Photography Awards.
16:54Of course,
16:55the phrase
16:55white whale itself
16:56means an
16:57unattainable pinnacle
16:58from the classic novel
16:59of the 1850s,
17:00Madame Bovary
17:01whale hunter.
17:04Meanwhile,
17:07people love
17:09Flaubert jokes.
17:11We learned that
17:13on our old show,
17:14the
17:14Flaubert Report.
17:17Meanwhile,
17:19there you go,
17:19the smart choice.
17:25Meanwhile,
17:25last week,
17:26a man accidentally
17:27gained control
17:28of 7,000 robot vacuums
17:30while he was trying
17:31to reverse-engineer
17:32his new DJI Romo vacuum
17:34so that he could control it
17:35with his PlayStation 5 game pad.
17:38That has got to be
17:40the most boring use
17:41of a PS5 controller
17:42since the release
17:43of Dishwasher's Creed.
17:48Meanwhile,
17:51the prior
17:52of a hermitage
17:53in Tuscany
17:53has urged monks
17:55living in the
17:56secluded retreat
17:56to avoid
17:57the use
17:58of social media.
17:59Well, yeah.
18:02What do hermits
18:03post on social media?
18:05Okay, fam,
18:06get ready
18:07with me
18:07to not go anywhere.
18:10Today's
18:11fit
18:11is a burlap sack
18:12cinched with rough twine.
18:14Check out
18:15the new hole
18:15I poop in.
18:17Smash that
18:18like button,
18:19girly pops.
18:22Meanwhile,
18:24in dino news,
18:26scientists have
18:27discovered
18:27a 125-million-year-old
18:29porcupine-like
18:30dinosaur
18:30named
18:31Howlong Dongy.
18:38Now,
18:41I told my writers
18:43I would do
18:44this story
18:45if they could
18:45come up with
18:46a good,
18:46tasteful joke
18:47off the name
18:47Howlong Dongy.
18:50And when they
18:50came up with it,
18:51they were to
18:51call me
18:52on this phone.
19:07Hello?
19:09Uh-huh.
19:12Uh-huh.
19:14Got it.
19:15Thanks.
19:18Wrong number.
19:23Meanwhile,
19:30as baseball spring
19:31training gets underway,
19:32the MLB says
19:33robot umps
19:34are here to decide
19:35baseball's most
19:36important question,
19:38what's a strike?
19:40And not as I thought,
19:41when will this game end?
19:44We'll be right back
19:45with Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
20:05Welcome back.
20:10Ladies and gentlemen,
20:12my guests tonight
20:12are actors who share
20:13more than just a last name
20:15and good genes.
20:16They also share a role
20:18in Apple TV's
20:19Monarch Legacy of Monsters.
20:23And now we're here
20:24to prove that sea serpents exist.
20:26Well,
20:27in the records I've found
20:28in the maritime archives
20:29in Santiago,
20:30there were reports
20:30of violent whirlpools
20:32and sightings
20:33of massive sea creatures
20:35just off the coast here
20:36going back 200 years.
20:38So,
20:40here'd be monsters.
20:43if we're lucky.
20:49Please welcome
20:50Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
21:18Thank you gentlemen, thank you for coming on and coming on together.
21:21Thanks for having us here.
21:23This is a powerhouse panel.
21:24You have a powerhouse acting family.
21:27There's you two, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Oliver Husson, Wyatt, your wife, actress Meredith Hagner.
21:32Yes.
21:33Do you, do you all see all of each other's work?
21:38Oh yeah.
21:40All of it.
21:41Is there time for that?
21:43Every second of everything I want everyone to do.
21:46The dirty little secret is, just recently we were saying, you know, we should take,
21:50we should take some time, like, you know, it's probably take three weeks, a month or something
21:54to see what everybody's done because we've seen very little of what we've done.
21:57Wow.
21:57And we, and Wyatt said, like, I'm like, we'd get tired of each other.
22:01About a day and a half.
22:02Like, that's it.
22:03You watch it, you tell me if it was good.
22:08Did you grow up watching your parents' films?
22:10I, not really.
22:11They made adult movies, so I was a kid and didn't really, you know.
22:15I believe, I believe, they made movies for adults.
22:19Our version of this is for adults, not adult movies.
22:22Unless there's something you'd like to tell us right now, Kurt.
22:25Debbie Does Dallas and that, man.
22:27Yes.
22:27No more.
22:28There's a whole cache of films.
22:29It's just not right.
22:30Yeah, yeah.
22:31No, but, but.
22:32Benjamin's Privates, I think would be the, the Private Benjamin.
22:36Wait a minute, I like The Thing.
22:37I thought that was pretty good.
22:39Yeah, I thought that was pretty good.
22:40Yeah, but I would, I would, I would spend, like, hours in Muskoka, that two hours north
22:45of Toronto, in our cottage, and the only videos we had were, like, used cars and wildcats.
22:51We didn't have cable, it was just VHS.
22:53Used cars is a fine movie.
22:54It's my favorite, one of my favorite movies.
22:56It's Bob's Mecca's second movie.
22:58It's, like, my funniest my dad's ever been.
23:00It's the movie that made every single person go, wait a second.
23:05Kurt Russell's great.
23:06He's not just a Disney kid.
23:08That was a turning point movie for this guy.
23:11Okay, Kurt, you, you, I, I buttonholed you about this, uh, once in Los Angeles, and the
23:16audience may not even understand this, but I told you that, uh, The Thing, John Carpenter's
23:22The Thing, where you play McCready, bronze giant of a man, that, that is, that movie is
23:28my happy place.
23:29Like, if I'm feeling down, or the world's too much with me, or I just, like, I just
23:32need to relax and feel good, I go straight to Antarctica, into that, you know, those bunkers
23:36with those guys, and watch you guys get devoured by this inhuman creature.
23:40And I get all warm and fuzzy all over.
23:43I had John Carpenter right here, sitting right there, uh, a while back, and I asked him, I said,
23:48I don't want to know the answer, but I want to know, is there an answer to the final question
23:51of the movie that people may not know, is you're there with another, your character McCready's
23:55with another, uh, Keith David's character, Childs, and the question is, is Childs The Thing,
24:01is the question, which we don't know, and it's left open.
24:03He said, I said, is it, is there an answer?
24:06And he said, there is an answer.
24:08Do you, Kurt Russell, believe that there is a definitive answer?
24:11When John Carpenter tells me what it is, I'll know.
24:17You were in a Carpenter film, too.
24:19I love this.
24:20I was.
24:20So we all, we all know, uh, Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
24:23Here's Snake Plissken, the character right there.
24:26But, there was another magnetic presence on there.
24:30There you are, Wyatt, right there.
24:32That is me.
24:33Uh, ten years old.
24:35Yeah.
24:35And escape, do you remember being on that set?
24:37Uh, kind of.
24:39I, I, I would visit set, and then sometimes they'd need somebody to, you know, give a look.
24:44Or something, and they needed a kid, and so they just dragged me out.
24:46And were like, will you just, like, uh, look at your dad and do this thing?
24:49And I was probably, I was like, yeah, sure, you know, okay.
24:51But I don't, you remember it better than I do.
24:53I do, I remember it, because, uh, Wyatt was there, was where Snake was, I think, kind of being reintroduced,
24:59as it were.
25:00And so he was coming in, and he's, he's just, he was just a very famous character, even then, to
25:05the people.
25:07Very, you know, a scary guy to a lot of people.
25:10So I said to Wyatt, I said, when I look at you, I said, you don't, you're not scared of
25:14Snake Flissken, okay?
25:15You just, you just see him, and you just, if I eyeball you, you eyeball me back.
25:19Okay.
25:19So when I did, I was, I was, see how good he is here.
25:22I looked, I really, you know, I came by, and I, no, right?
25:26I looked at him, and he just, whatever, dude, you don't get to me.
25:31You know, I was just so afraid of my dad that I'd just do whatever he said.
25:35And I was like, you want me to know what he said?
25:40We have to take a quick break.
25:41Right back with more Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
25:56I was, I was excited.
25:58Oh, yeah.
25:58Hey, everybody, we're back with Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
26:01Hello, gentlemen.
26:02Now, you both now star in Monarch Legacy of Monsters as the same character at different
26:11ages.
26:11Wyatt, you play the younger version.
26:13Yes.
26:14The younger version in the flashbacks.
26:17That would be amazing.
26:20That gives me an idea.
26:22And, Kurt, you play the slightly older version.
26:25So how is it, how is it sharing a role?
26:28Do you have to agree on, like, what the guy's going to be like ahead of time?
26:32Well, we talked about it a lot.
26:34We sort of saw it the same way from the get.
26:36Well, at first, we were both trepidatious about, like, it's Godzilla.
26:41It's the Monsterverse.
26:42You're like, I don't know.
26:43What is this something that we want to do?
26:44And then the way they described it to us, it was, they wanted it to be a grounded version
26:48of this show.
26:49And I was like, okay, I think we can do that.
26:50And then we would read it together.
26:52He was in Europe.
26:53I was at home, and it was, like, 11.30 at night, and I'd, like, sit in my weird little
26:57office and get on Zoom, and we'd read through the scripts.
27:01And as we read through them, it was very apparent that we saw things the same way.
27:04We don't talk about movies like people think we would talk about movies, right?
27:08We come home, we talk about sports and talk about, like, life.
27:11So this was the first time we were really talking about something that we were going to
27:13do, that we were going to, like, do together.
27:15We'd never done it.
27:16And I didn't know.
27:17Maybe it was, like, I hate working with my dad.
27:19I have no idea.
27:20But we saw it the same way, and it was great.
27:22He'd also done them.
27:23I did a movie called Soldier, where I played this.
27:25They took kids that showed aggression.
27:27This was in the future.
27:28Sure.
27:29Showed aggression, and then they turned those kids into warriors.
27:33And so Wyatt played the same character I played at 12.
27:37He was 12, and then we'd go.
27:38That was a really cool shot, actually.
27:40We'd go from when he's 12 to me later on when I'm, like, close to 50, and he's an old,
27:46worn-out soldier.
27:48So he was actually, that's a part.
27:50And he played it, and he really did a good job in that one.
27:53And we could see that he, the joke in our family used to be, well, we have all these people
27:58who act and everything, but the best actor in the family is a hockey player.
28:01And...
28:02Well, that's just it.
28:03Like, you're 10 years old for Escape from L.A., Soldier, you're 12.
28:10Was it going to be, it wasn't going to be acting for you?
28:11No.
28:11You walked away.
28:13Well, I never walked towards it.
28:16It was just something that, look, I always chose to do things that I thought, you know,
28:22weren't the path of least resistance.
28:25It was, I, wired into me.
28:27And so hockey was something that when I, when I was introduced to it, it was the first thing
28:32I fell in love with that was not my parents.
28:34And I, I, I knew that this was going to be my path in life.
28:38And so that's the way things were from the time I was five years old.
28:41My father played professional baseball.
28:43My grandfather played professional baseball.
28:45That was, like, more of what our lineage sort of pointed in terms of things that I understood
28:50at the time.
28:50And so that was what I pursued.
28:52And, you know, hockey's a Canadian blue-collar sport, not this year.
28:59But they don't celebrate, like, like a Hollywood actor kid's coming in.
29:04So I had, I had to, like, sort of disseminate that part of my personality and, like, put it
29:11aside.
29:11Right.
29:12And, and just be the kind of hardworking nose of the grindstone person that they expected.
29:18And so it was just like, put, put that over there.
29:20And then when I got hurt, I really did realize, like, I do love movies and I do love watching
29:25films and I watched the AFI 100 and I did all that stuff that I, I, and I loved it.
29:30And I realized, like, I do like, I do like this and let me try.
29:33I can't help but notice that you have all your teeth.
29:36I have caps.
29:38I have caps on a few.
29:39You have caps on you?
29:40Okay.
29:40I wasn't wondering.
29:41I didn't leave a mask.
29:42I was wondering, does that mean you're a great hockey player or not a great hockey player?
29:45It means, it means, it means I was a goalie.
29:47Yeah.
29:48It means you're a goalie.
29:49I wore a mask.
29:49Okay.
29:50I thought he was going to be calling him for a dentist.
29:52Yes.
29:52He knew what was going on.
29:53I, I, I, so, uh, I, I heard there was some confusion when you got cast in your family
29:58about the part you were playing.
29:59Um, yeah, there was a little confusion.
30:01And, uh, and, uh, so my wife and I had our first child.
30:05We had a doula.
30:07Um, hi, Carmen.
30:08And, uh, my wife was like, yeah, Wyatt's got to go off and do a show and it's going to
30:13take, you know, five months.
30:14And he's like, oh, that's great.
30:15What's it going to be?
30:16And she's like, he's, he's going to be in Godzilla.
30:17And she was like, that is perfect.
30:20He looks just like him.
30:23I was like, she was like, his jawline.
30:27It's, Meredith was like, no.
30:28Like, he's not.
30:29His tiny arms.
30:30I'm not playing Godzilla.
30:31Yeah.
30:31I'm not playing Godzilla.
30:33His tail.
30:34The green lightning.
30:36Yes.
30:36The nuclear energy lining off of him.
30:39I could just tell.
30:40I'm like, no.
30:41What?
30:42Oh, God.
30:44Kurt, have you been in a monster movie before?
30:46Like, had you been, like, men in, like, big rubber suits and stuff like that?
30:49Had you been in?
30:52Um, not really.
30:53Just, you know, doing those, like, the thing.
30:55Yeah, sure.
30:55You know, we're kind of looking at something that we didn't quite understand what it is
30:58exactly.
30:59We've seen drawings of it and stuff.
31:00And that's kind of like what this show does, too.
31:01It's, you've got a general idea.
31:03Yeah.
31:04But then.
31:04What you're looking at.
31:04Yeah.
31:05But then when you see what they did, you're, you're realizing you probably could have gone
31:08bigger on your reaction.
31:11We are taking another break here, gentlemen.
31:13We'll be right back with more Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
31:15Here we go.
31:30You can't leave.
31:31Not true!
31:31You can't leave.
31:33Thank you!
31:34I'm glad you understand.
31:36Wow.
31:36You guys, he told a bit of an off-color story while the commercial was going.
31:43We're back with the stars of Monarch Legacy of Monsters, Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
31:46Uh, you are, you are men of many talents.
31:49Uh, that's no surprise to anybody.
31:50Kurt, you fly planes.
31:51You make wine.
31:53Uh, you hunt.
31:54You drive race cars.
31:55Uh, what'd you say?
31:57I used to.
31:57Used to?
31:58All right.
31:58I got to drive the pace car, the 500.
32:00That was cool.
32:00That's fun.
32:01That was cool.
32:01Wyatt, uh, you have one of the more unique hobbies, uh, that I've ever had a guest, uh,
32:07tell us about.
32:08You enjoy making violins.
32:11Yeah.
32:12Okay.
32:12That's funny.
32:13There's some people laughing in the crowd, like, what the hell?
32:16How did you, how did you get into the luthier game?
32:19Uh, nice.
32:20Yes.
32:21Um, I, I, uh, when I was playing hockey in Vancouver, there was a lot of time I had off
32:26when I was
32:26playing junior hockey and there was a, a, a guitar maker named Daniel Stickle who had a, a luthier
32:32shop on Granville Island and I went down and I was like, would you teach me how to build guitars?
32:37And he was like, absolutely.
32:38So I spent a lot of time doing that.
32:40And then he said, if you really want to learn how to make great guitars, learn how to build
32:43violins.
32:44COVID happened.
32:45Cause that's like the hardest thing to do.
32:46It's, it's, it's a different, it, it, it, yes, it's, it is harder, but making guitars is like construction.
32:53Violin is like sculpting.
32:55Is this one of yours?
32:56Uh, no, that is not one of mine.
32:58So what's very cool, in the case of not everybody's sleeping already, uh, that I'm holding a Guarneri
33:04violin and a Stradivari violin with Dr. Bob and that's my violin making teacher, Jim Brown.
33:09Wow.
33:10And we made it, uh, he's one of the most lovely people on planet earth and we made a great
33:14relationship over COVID, uh, and neither one of us gave each other COVID, but we, he taught
33:20me how to build violins and is continuing to teach me how to violins.
33:23I haven't seen him in a long time and I miss him a lot.
33:25Do you, uh, do you play the violins you make?
33:27I'm a horrible violin player.
33:30Kurt, Kurt, you must've been there when he was learning.
33:32Is he being modest?
33:33I mean, I, I, I, I, I don't, should I?
33:35Yeah.
33:36This is rough.
33:38Maybe it's too rough.
33:39I don't know.
33:39I, I don't know if it's funny cause you had to be there, but I think you'll get it.
33:42I'll do my best, but, um, Goldie had a wonderful mother and she was, uh, she was in the
33:47process of dying and so we were, she was in the hospital and his grandfather
33:53on both sides.
33:54Um, but they were great violinists and rut.
33:57My grandfather was a violinist, but rut was a professional.
34:01That's what he did for a living.
34:03And so, uh, he was married to Laura, Lori Goldie's mom.
34:08And now he decided to take up the violin on his own.
34:12And, uh, now we're, you know, we're dealing with Laura and she's on her way out and, and
34:18so Goldie wanted to take Wyatt in and just clap the violin.
34:24It's rough to get through.
34:25Is it like at the, at the hospital?
34:26Yeah.
34:27It's at the hospital.
34:28I understand.
34:28And it's very sweet.
34:29Of course.
34:29And he said, you know, here comes Wyatt to play the violin for Laura and he knew Twinkle,
34:34Twinkle, Little Star.
34:36That was the only song I knew.
34:38And so, you know, and so now Laura's watching, you know, her, her grandson play the violin like
34:43she had for so many years with her husband.
34:46And I had, I had a video camera and I saw, I started videotaping it.
34:50And when you see the videotape, you can't really watch it cause I'm laughing so hard.
34:57Because it's literally, and every time you hit one really bad, I just move over to Laura
35:07and Laura was like, you know, I'm just dying.
35:10She's like, I got Goldie on there.
35:16I got Goldie going.
35:17Oh, that's so sweet.
35:19And Wyatt's really going hard.
35:23I mean, it was, it was one of the greatest things you want to hear.
35:26It's like terrible.
35:27Possibly was.
35:30It was awful.
35:31He went all the way through the song.
35:35Gentlemen, I think that's a good one to stop on.
35:41Wyatt, thank you so much.
35:43Kurt, such a pleasure.
35:45Thank you so much.
35:45Season two of Monarch Legacy of Monsters premieres tomorrow on Apple TV.
35:52Kurt and Wyatt Russell, everybody.
35:53We'll be right back with a performance by CMAT.
35:56Now don't go.
36:02And now, performing When a Good Man Cries from her album Euro Country,
36:07ladies and gentlemen, CMAT.
36:09Thank you so much.
36:37I got what I want
36:42And it kicked it flat
36:46You know what I'm like
36:49You don't deserve it
36:51But who could start
36:53It just deserves
36:55She kept it at
36:57To show the world
36:59And now I'm sour
37:01Like my mother
37:03What do you do
37:06When a good man cries
37:08And you're the one
37:10To keep him up at night
37:12How could you do
37:14What you said you wouldn't do
37:16Like all the other guys
37:21I hope we don't
37:22Laugh
37:25With our time so
37:26Soar
37:29I hope
37:30The day pass
37:33And I get
37:35That re-boiled
37:37See I never change
37:40But Lord I'm trying
37:42The people's mess
37:44Don't want Diana
37:46All of my jokes
37:49And turn to friends
37:51Because it's their sky
37:53Just like their brother
37:54Hey!
37:56What do you feel
37:57When a good man cries
37:59And is the one
38:01To keep him up at night
38:03How could you do
38:06What you said you wouldn't do
38:08Like all the other guys
38:12And how do you act
38:14When the daddy's not home
38:17Don't refrain
38:18If the door's closed
38:20I'll let you say
38:23I'll let you say
38:23It doesn't matter
38:24You're crushing
38:25What you shouldn't hold
38:28Shouldn't hold
38:31Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
38:37Cause I'll give me
38:38I need to know
38:40Jesus
38:41It's hard to be real
38:44Spit, spit, spit
38:46Let me lay your eyes
38:50Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
38:54Cause I mean
38:55I hate myself
38:56Cause I love all the people
38:58Oh, I wear the beams
39:01Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
39:03I'll let you lay your eyes
39:06What do you do
39:08When a good man cries
39:10And is the one
39:12To keep him up at night
39:14How could you do
39:16What you said you wouldn't do
39:18I got me on a guy
39:21On a guy
39:23Woo!
39:24Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
39:28Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
39:32I'll let you know
39:35Spit, spit, spit
39:37Let me lay your eyes
39:41Oh, I can feel what I had in dreams
39:45I mean
39:46I hate myself
39:48I mean
39:48Love all the people
39:49I will have a peace
39:52I breathe
39:54Let me lay your eyes
40:14THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH, THAT WAS FANTASTIC, YOU CAN CATCH HER ON TOUR THIS
40:21SPRING.
40:21SEE YOU NIGHT EVERYBODY, GOOD NIGHT.
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