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[cheering]
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A McDonald's legend is saying goodbye.
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Well, stay tuned to find out.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
[cheering]
All right.
Before we get into the big story,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world,
starting with some fashion news.
Adidas has officially ended its partnership with Kanye West
after public outcry over his numerous anti-Semitic remarks.
But good news-- good news-- you can
still get a pair of Yeezys.
You just have to take a normal pair of sneakers
and microwave them for 30 minutes.
[laughter]
In environmental news, a new study by Greenpeace USA
has declared plastic recycling as a failed concept,
saying that only 5% of plastic waste
was actually recycled last year.
Yeah, and I can't wait to tell this to those people who
always get mad at me for not putting
my plastic in the recycle.
Oh, you didn't unscrew the thing.
You didn't unscrew it.
Yeah, this is why I didn't do it.
I mean, I didn't know that at the time.
I was just being lazy.
But this is why I did it, for the future.
But you realize what the solution is here, right?
We need to stop using single-use plastic.
We just need to stop using it.
[applause]
And us people, this should be banned from the top.
No more-- no more plastic water bottles.
We all do it. I do it.
You-- we all do it. No more.
We need to be drinking out of materials that
are easier to reuse like glass or tin
or the skulls of our enemies.
Yeah, our ancestors knew what they were doing.
I have thirst!
Bring me the skull of Jehoshaphat!
Unless my Garfield mug is clean.
Is the Garfield mug clean?
No?
Then bring me the skull of Jehoshaphat!
[applause]
In fast food news, McDonald's has
announced that they're once again bringing back the McRib.
But this time they claim it could be the last time
ever, which is shocking to me.
I never thought people who eat the McRib
would outlast the McRib.
Wow, you learn something new every day.
All right, let's turn to the big news of the day.
It's about the midterm elections,
you know, that all-important day in November where you vote
for a Senator or a Congressman, and then
a bunch of positions you're not even really sure are real.
But this November-- this November, there's
one governor's race that could change
things not just for their state, but for everyone.
And I'm talking about Arizona.
It's the state for people who like Texas but wish it had
more scorpions and old people.
[laughter]
Right now in Arizona, Republican Kari Lake
is in a neck-and-neck race against Democrat Katie Hobbs.
And if Lake wins, it could change the course
of American democracy itself.
So let's get to know her better in our latest installment
of Fringe Watching.
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[cheering]
Meet Kari Lake, candidate for Arizona Governor
and boss who's going to send you back to Starbucks
until you learn the difference between a flat white
and a latte, you moron!
Of all the newcomers to MAGA politics,
Kari Lake is making the biggest waves.
She defeated a mainstream Republican in the primaries.
She's endorsed by Donald Trump himself, right?
And she insists on saying Merry Christmas even in July.
And every time she opens her mouth,
every single time she speaks, you can see
why the Trump crowd loves her.
As governor, I will issue a declaration of invasion,
finish President Trump's wall, blow up the cartel's drug
tunnels and surveillance drones,
and deploy the Arizona National Guard to stop
illegals from entering.
Between anti-American history that's being taught,
inappropriate sex education, and the racist critical race
theory, or as I like to refer to it all, woke curriculum,
it is teaching our children hatred.
It's time to take a sledgehammer to the mainstream
media's lies and propaganda.
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REPORTER: During Pride Month, Lake
tweeted, "They kicked God out of schools
and welcomed the drag Queens.
They took down our flag and replaced it with a rainbow."
Katie Hobbs thinks there are 47 different genders.
Why don't you go out and try to milk a bull
and tell me how that goes?
REPORTER: GOP strategists say she's taking Trump's message
and morphing it into her own.
You can call me Trump in a dress any day.
No!
No, why didn't she say that.
Ugh.
Now I'm picturing it, Trump in a dress.
Ugh, I didn't want that image in my head.
Oh, I can see it now.
The balls are just dangling in the breeze.
[laughter]
Ugh, they look like two tiny mandarins.
Oh.
Oh, and each one has a comb over.
Why did she say that?
Why?
But, yeah, as you can see, Kari Lake is full on MAGArific.
She hates illegal immigrants, drag queens,
and the mainstream media.
I mean, did you see how she just smashed the shit out
of those TVs, which, for some reason,
are all from 30 years ago?
[laughter]
No, really, why are those TVs so old?
What?
Is her whole campaign just an excuse
to clean out her garage?
Big government is just like these-- this lawnmower
that I no longer need.
Hya!
Also, for the record, if you disagree with what you
see on one channel, you don't have
to sledge hammer the whole TV.
You can just change the channel to something different.
We have that technology now.
[applause]
It's the future.
Now, if you've only been following her
for this election, you might think
she's your standard, right-wing Republican--
you know, MAGA this, hang Mike Pence that, normal stuff.
But what makes Kari Lake's story fascinating
is not who she is, but who she used to be.
REPORTER: Kari Lake used to be known in Arizona
as a charismatic newscaster.
He's a lion.
Hear him roar.
REPORTER: A staple on Phoenix TVs for more than two decades.
REPORTER: Just over a decade ago, she was an Obama donor.
Her friends described her as liberal.
And yet you saw her shift slowly and gradual
over the last decade.
REPORTER: In 2015, several of her friends
say she found Trump to be funny and defended his crassness.
She began spreading internet conspiracy theories.
You can take the hydro--
hydroxychloroquine as a preventative.
REPORTER: Although Lake has criticized drag queens,
she was friends with a popular local drag queen for 20 years
and often went to his drag shows.
Yeah, believe it or not, Kari Lake
went from being a popular local news
caster to hating the media.
She was personal friends with a drag queen,
and now she says that they're a danger to children.
Plus she was a donor to Barack Obama's campaign-- a donor--
and now she rolls with a guy who thinks
Obama isn't even American.
Like, I've heard of people being open to change,
but this is almost not the same person.
Like, I wouldn't be shocked if we found out
that the real Kari Lake is locked up in a basement
somewhere, while this MAGA alien pretends to be her.
Because this is a bigger transformation than the drag
queens that she suddenly hates, which, by the way,
is particularly shitty.
[applause]
It's already horrible to turn on any friend.
But betraying the one who taught
you how to get your contouring on point,
that is unforgivable!
[applause]
And, you know, over the past few years,
this seems to have happened to a lot of people.
Like, everywhere, everyone has a story about this.
They used to be normal, living a chilled life.
But then they clicked on the wrong Facebook post,
and they got sucked in by a few YouTube videos.
And the next thing you know, they
believe the Care Bears are actually
a Democratic sex cult that's going to penetrate
your children with rainbows.
And while she sounds just like Trump on most issues,
there's one thing Kari Lake has in common with Trump
that is especially dangerous.
And I'm not talking about a friendship
bracelet with Kim Jong-un--
no, no, no.
I'm talking about her refusal to take an election L.
Anybody who was involved in that corrupt, shady, shoddy
election of 2020, lock them up.
No more stolen elections.
We have this illegitimate President Biden.
We will no longer accept rigged elections.
Who's with me on that?
You've said that you think Trump won Arizona in 2020.
Do you still believe that?
I believe Biden is the president
just like OJ is innocent.
The system is corrupt.
In Arizona, the Republican candidate for governor
is refusing to say whether she'll
accept the results of the upcoming election
if she loses.
Will you accept the results of your election in November?
I'm going to win the election,
and I will accept that result.
If you lose, will you accept that?
I'm going to win the election,
and I will accept that
result. [laughter]
(ROBOTICALLY) I'm going to win the election,
and I will accept that result. I'm going to win the elec--
election, and I will accept that result.
You realize, thanks to Trump, every Republican running
for office now is just like a whiny little kid who refuses
to lose a board game, right?
They used to be like, we are the party
of personal responsibility.
And it's like, well, it looks like you lost the election.
Do you take responsibility for that?
It's not my fault!
It was stolen!
I'm the governor!
I am!
[whines] Why?
Why?
[applause]
And, by the way-- by the way, it's
ridiculous to compare Trump's election loss to OJ's
murders, right?
I mean, for one thing, OJ had a much better legal team.
And, also, that was the system doing its thing.
But maybe you think Kari Lake's election
denials don't concern you.
Maybe you're thinking, hey, I don't live in Arizona, Trevor.
The only issue that affects me there
is whether the iced tea stays at $0.99.
But you'd be wrong because, you see,
Arizona isn't just where your aunt gets
all her turquoise jewelry.
No, it's also a key swing state that helped push Joe
Biden over the top in 2020.
And if Kari Lake becomes governor,
she could have the final say over who wins it in 2024.
And it doesn't sound like she's going to be shy about getting
the result that she wants.
In the last 24 hours, you said
the 2020 election was stolen.
Would you have certified Arizona's results?
Hell no.
In 2024, would you be willing to put the country
into position potentially of a constitutional crisis
by not certifying Arizona's results?
In 2024?
If you were governor, that would come down to you.
I think-- let me ask you one.
Would you certify a crooked, corrupt election?
Just to make peace?
Yes?
No?
That's not how I operate.
Oof.
You know things aren't looking good
when the future of your democracy
is being decided in a Home Depot parking lot.
[laughter]
But just think about it.
Think about what Kari Lake is saying.
She's saying that if the election in 2024
is stolen for Biden the same way
the last election was stolen for Biden,
then she's not going to approve the results.
And that would be chaos.
That could throw America into a constitutional crisis
like it's never seen before.
Who knows?
Maybe even another Civil War, which is bullshit!
Think about it.
Some local newscaster gets way too into Trump fan fiction,
and now I've got to grow out mutton chops, huh?
I mean, can I pull it off?
Yeah, but it's got to be for the right reasons.
And I know you might be saying, oh, relax.
Trump tried to do a coup last time, and it didn't work.
Yeah, the only reason it didn't work
is because there were various Republicans in key positions
who didn't go along with it.
But if those people get replaced
by people like Kari Lake, it's a whole different story.
Because, you see, you don't need to storm the Capitol when
your friends have the keys.
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go, let's check in
on the traffic with our very own Roy Wood, Jr., everybody!
[cheering]
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
Bud Light, free beer, free beer all over the freeway
just at I-20 on that off ramp.
Just it's free beer.
Yeah, take the truck.
Get as much of-- it's Bud Light,
but we'll still drink this shit.
If not, we'll flip it.
Yeah, we can make a lot of money off--
TREVOR NOAH: What are you--
Hey, let me just right back.
Hey, what's going on, man?
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah, what's going-- are you--
The traffic.
[laughter]
TREVOR NOAH: It looked like you were telling--
This is free beer.
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah, you were telling
your friends to go and get beer from a truck that--
Well, no, to rescue the beer.
The beer need to be rescued.
I was listening to you though.
I was still listening what you're talking about.
Man, you talking about the Karen, Karen Lake, yeah.
No, no, no, Kari, Kari, not Karen.
She still got a Karen haircut, so it's good.
It's good. TREVOR NOAH: Roy, we--
all right, let's get to the traffic, please.
Yeah, I'mma get to the traffic.
Also, the McRib? The McRib?
You said the McRib is gone. That's it?
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah, well, they--
This is the last ride for the McRib?
TREVOR NOAH: They said they're going to cancel the McRib.
That'll-- I don't--
I don't--
[laughter]
What did the McRib do?
Did it-- did it say something about Jewish people
or something?
I thought the McRib-- the McRib is an ally.
The McRib has been an ally for years and years.
We all know why McDonald's canceled the Snack Wrap.
We know what the Snack Wrap said.
That made perfect sense. - No, wait.
No, I don't know. What did the Snack Wrap say?
I'm not going to repeat that on television.
[laughter]
Oh, so you can't cancel the McRib.
The McRib-- you talking about recycling.
The McRib is friendly-- it's echo--
eco-- echo-- it's good for the environment, the McRib.
They were-- the McRib is recycled.
Did you know every McRib this year is just an unsold McRib
from last year?
TREVOR NOAH: Aw! What?
No!
That's how they do the McRib.
No.
That's how they-- when they get--
when the McRib-- when McRib season in,
they put them in storage in a warehouse in Indiana
like Christmas decoration.
They just put it up in the attic.
TREVOR NOAH: Oh, that-- no.
I don't want to think of that.
Oh, so the McRib, man, look, I don't know how--
what your relationship is with seasonal food, but--
but the McRib come around every year, and that's joy.
That's joy.
The McRib-- the McRib-- you know what the McRib is?
The McRib is that uncle that show up once a year,
and you have a good-ass time with that uncle.
That uncle teach you how to fish.
He let you sit in his lap behind the wheel
so you can blow in that tube so his car will start.
He teach you about cocaine.
This is a good uncle.
He teach you all the ropes, and then he just disappears.
And you miss him, but you know deep down,
your life is probably better off without him.
You want to do the traffic. I'll do the traffic.
Yeah, the traffic, Roy, thank you.
If anything, you know what McDonald's need to get rid of?
They need to get rid of all that damn Shamrock Shake.
That's why they need to get rid of.
TREVOR NOAH: Why would they need to get
rid of the Shamrock Shake?
Damn oozing, look like some sewage.
I don't need to be sipping on sewage.
Well, they're not.
They're getting rid of the McRib.
I just don't think it's right, man.
If you want to get rid of something, man,
get rid of all them other mystery meats.
TREVOR NOAH: What are you--
All them other-- you talking about the McRib.
Get rid of all them other mystery meat.
Beyond Meat, beyond what?
Right?
This is beyond.
Oh, it's an Impossible Burger.
If it's impossible, then how they eat it?
How do they eat the burger if it's impossible?
[applause]
That's stupid.
I don't Beyond Meat.
I don't know where Impossible Burger come from,
but I know what the McRib come from-- the rib.
I know that.
Half the time, the sauce do half
the work anyway in the McRib.
And it could be a dish sponge.
Hell, I don't know.
You want some traffic, though, right?
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah, yeah, because it's
gone-- it's gone now, Roy.
So, yeah, let's do the traffic.
Look, I'mma be real with you, bro.
[laughter]
I'm not worried about this.
You seem worried.
I'm not worried about this.
No, I'mma stay positive.
I'mma stay positive because, you know, all the greats take
a break, then they come back.
All the greats take a break.
They come back.
Jay-Z took a break, retired, came back.
Jordan took a break, retired, came back.
Jesus left, came back.
So--
[laughter]
--the McRib is up there with the greats.
The McRib better come back.
In fact, let me just talk to Mc--
I can't even talk to you.
I have to talk to McDonald's right now.
McDonald's, talk to Ronald.
Hey, Ronald, how you doing, Ronald?
It's me, Roy Wood, Jr., Customer of the Month,
McDonald's Birmingham, 5 Points West.
Look.
[laughter]
If you dare as an organization to certify
the cancellation of the McRib, I
will not accept those results.
[laughter]
I'mma get a group of people together.
And we're going to travel, and we're going to march down
to McDonald's headquarters.
We going to McDonald's the first week of January
to start the year off with a bang.
TREVOR NOAH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You with me on that, man? You want to get one?
Man, we gonna storm the McDonald's office.
No, no, no, no.
Marching in January, that sounds--
that's a familiar road. Don't--
No, no, no, this is a whole brand new plan.
We're going to hang Grimace. Look--
TREVOR NOAH: Whoa!
I know he ain't got no neck, but I'mma figure
something out, man. You coming with me, man?
I am not coming-- I think we should cut this off.
Let's just cut this off here.
That's what I'm talking about, the media.
As soon as you start talking about something--
TREVOR NOAH: Roy Wood, Jr., everybody.
--the media starts muting you and controlling you.
Grimace is fine.
The McDonald's is fine.
We're going to take a quick break.
And after that, we're going to be talking about how AI
is going to change us forever.
So don't go away.
[cheering]
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
Over the past few months you've probably
seen the internet has been abuzz with original art
or realistic images that are completely generated by AI.
So now things that only exist in your imagination,
like a banana hitchhiking on the side
of the road or a Knicks player holding a trophy,
you can just type it in.
And a few seconds later, there it is.
Anyway, we wanted to find out more about this technology,
which is why my first guest is the Chief Technology
Officer of OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E 2,
the artificial intelligence system that
can generate images from text.
DALL-E was created by training
a neural network on images and their text descriptions.
Through deep learning, it not only
understands individual objects, like koala bears
and motorcycles, but learns from relationships
between objects.
And when you ask DALL-E for an image of a koala bear
riding a motorcycle, it knows how
to create that or anything else with a relationship
to another object or action.
Please welcome Mira Murati.
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[applause]
Mira Murati, welcome to The Daily Show.
Thank you for having me.
So many people have seen the images that DALL-E creates.
Many people may even think they understand it.
But let's get into it.
Like, how does an AI create an image?
Because it's not copying the image.
That's right, yeah.
It's not taking from something else.
It is creating an image from nothing.
How is it doing this?
Exactly.
It's an original image never seen before.
And we have been making images since the beginning of time,
and we simply took a great deal of these images
and we fed them into this AI system.
And it learned this relationship
between the description of the image and the image itself.
Right.
It learned these patterns.
And eventually, it was generating
images that were original.
They were not copies of what it had seen before.
Right.
And basically, the way that it learns,
the magic is just understanding the patterns
and analyzing the patterns between a lot of information,
a lot of training data that we have fed into this system.
There are people who are terrified about this.
I mean, for instance, there was an art competition
and the winner in the art competition
used a version of this kind of software.
Whether it was DALL-E or not, I don't remember.
But they used a version of this kind of software
to create an art piece that won the competition.
Artists were livid.
They were like, well, this is not art!
It was created by, and the artist said, no, the same way
you use a brush, I use a computer,
and that's how I designed this.
Right.
In creating AI, are you constantly
grappling with how it will affect people's jobs
and what people even consider a job?
Yeah, that's a great question.
The technology that we're building
has such a huge effect on society,
but also the society can and should shape it.
And there are a ton of questions
that we're wrestling with every day.
With the technologies that we have
today, like GPT 3 and DALL-E, we
see them as tools, so an extension of our creativity
or our writing abilities.
It's a tool.
Right.
And there isn't anything particularly new about having
a human helper.
Right, right.
Even the ancient Greeks had this concept of human helpers
that when you give something infinite powers of knowledge
or strength or so on, maybe you had to be
wary of the vulnerabilities.
And so these concepts of extending the human abilities
and also being aware of the vulnerabilities are timeless.
And in a sense, we are continuing
this conversation by building AI technologies today.
Well, it might be frightening,
because some people go, oh, the world is going to end
because of this technology.
But in the meantime, it's very fun, I'm not going to lie.
No, because like, you know, DALL-E for instance,
doesn't just create an image from text.
You know, you've also gotten it to the point
now where as a company, you've designed it
so that it can imagine what an image would be.
So for instance, there's that famous image.
It's The Girl with the Pearl Earring.
Right, yeah.
It's a famous image, right, but what DALL-E can do is,
you've got the famous image.
And then DALL-E can expand that.
All of the uses, everything you're seeing that
never existed.
So DALL-E's like, well, this is what
I think it would look like if there was more to this image.
It can assume, it can create, it can inspire.
Yes, it can inspire.
And it makes this beautiful, sometimes touching, sometimes
funny images, and it's really just an extension
of your imagination.
There isn't even a canvas or the boundaries of paper
are not there anymore.
You just extend it.
So how do you safeguard them?
Someone might look at this technology and go, oh, then
you could type in a politician was caught doing something.
Here, now I've got the image.
You've got, and now all the politicians
say, oh, that's not, that's not me,
it was made by that fake program.
We can very quickly find ourselves in a world
where nothing is real and everything that's real
isn't, and we question it.
How do you prevent or can you even prevent that completely?
You know, misinformation and the societal impact
of our technologies, these are very important and
difficult questions.
And I think it's very important to be able to bring the public
along, bring these technologies in the public consciousness,
but in a way that's responsible and safe.
And that's why we have chosen to make DALL-E available.
But with certain guardrails and with certain constraints.
Because we do want people to understand
what AI is capable of.
Right, right.
And we want people in various fields
to think about what it means.
But right now, we I don't feel very
comfortable around the mitigations on misinformation.
Yeah.
And so we do have some guardrails.
For example, we do not allow generation of public figures.
So we will go in the data set and we
will eliminate certain data.
So if you type something in, you can't pull up a,
it can't create a politician for you.
It won't be a picture of that person.
Yes.
So that's the first step, and the training of the model
itself, just looking at the data and auditing it,
making interventions in the data
sets to avoid certain outcomes.
And then later in the deployment stage,
we will look at filters, applying filters, so that when
you put in a prompt, it won't generate things that contain
violence or hate, and make it more in line
with our content policy.
Wow.
So let me ask you this then.
Obviously, part of your team has
to think about the ethical ramifications
of the technology that you're creating.
Do your team also then think about the greater
meaning of work or life or the purpose that humans have?
Because most of us define ourselves by what
we do, i.e. our jobs.
As AI slowly takes away what people's jobs are,
we'll find a growing class of people who don't have
that same purpose anymore.
Do you then also have to think about that
and wonder like what does it mean to be
human if it's not my job?
And can you tell me what that is?
We have philosophers and ethicists at OpenAI.
But I really think these are big societal questions
that shouldn't even be in the hands of technologists alone.
I like that.
We're certainly thinking about them.
And the tools that we see today,
they're not the tools that are automating
certain aspects of our jobs.
They're really tools extending our capabilities,
our inherent abilities and making them far better.
But it could be that in our future
we have these systems that can automate
a lot of different jobs.
I do think that as with other revolutions that we've gone
through, there will be new jobs and some jobs will be lost,
some jobs will be new, and there will be some retraining
required as well.
But I'm optimistic.
It's interesting, it's scary, because change always is--
[sneeze]
But as long as we have, bless you, as long as we have,
as long as we have koalas riding bicycles,
I think we're headed in the right direction.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
Stay tuned, because when we come back,
The Karate Kid himself, Ralph Macchio,
will be joining me right here.
You don't want to miss it.
Thank you very much.
[applause, cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My next guest tonight is an actor and producer
you know from films like The Karate
Kid, My Cousin Vinny, and the hit Netflix series Cobra Kai.
He's here to talk about his memoir, Waxing On--
The Karate Kid and Me, which is available now.
Please welcome Ralph Macchio.
[cheering, applause]
The Karate Kid himself.
Yeah, kind of.
How are you?
I'm great.
[cheering, applause]
- Welcome to The Daily Show. - Thank you.
Thanks for having me. Great to see everyone here.
It's awesome.
[applause, cheering]
You are somebody who has defined a generation.
You are somebody who now is in the next phase
of defining a new generation on streaming, on Netflix.
Your face became synonymous with a move.
You've got that on the book.
And you wrote a story that, I'm going to tell you,
is one of the more honest accounts of anybody's life.
I would love to know why you chose to go into the depth
that you went into because you could have kept it safe.
But you tell everything.
You know, it's very specific.
I walked in the shoes of this character that
has been so impactful and so inspirational, aspirational,
wish-fulfilling, for decades.
You know, I was the lucky guy that got the part.
TREVOR NOAH: Right
But I-- so I wanted to be honest about
what that journey has been.
It's never gone away for me.
It's always been a part of me.
The fans give so much back for 38 years.
Yes, I said it out loud.
[cheering, applause]
But there's such a-- it's such a two-way street
of inspiration.
And now with the Cobra Kai show exploding the way it has
and opening up for the next generation, I mean,
I have 12-year-old kids that know who Mr. Miyagi is.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
You know, you think of this legendary actor, and you go,
he was always Mr. Miyagi.
And yet, you talk about how when Pat came
in for the audition, everyone-- before he auditioned,
everyone was like, I don't know if this guy
will be Mr. Miyagi.
Well, they didn't-- they didn't want him for--
some of the studio and the producer
didn't want him for the role because they were looking more
like Toshiro Mifune, some of these Akira Kurosawa,
the Seven Samurai kind of actors.
And so Pat was-- and he was Arnold from Happy Days for me
as well. TREVOR NOAH: Right.
I mean, he was part of my Tuesday nights.
I mean, I watched Arnold.
You know, so I was-- we all kind of questioned the depth
and breadth of his chops.
He came in there.
We-- I can only explain it as soulful magic, which
is what I titled his chapter.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
And it was instantaneous.
It was a give and take.
A great deal of that goes to the writing.
But it was elevated by the two guys that were
meant to play those parts.
TREVOR NOAH: And that's what I love
about how you tell the story is that I
can't imagine another one.
I can't imagine Mr. Miyagi being,
like, this buff Kung Fu.
What made him so special was that he--
- Well, he was a-- - --was surprising.
It was-- - He was a human Yoda.
Exactly.
That's exactly what it is.
That's exactly it.
[applause]
You-- you're also really vulnerable in the book,
which I appreciate.
Because as you said, many people looked at your life
and went, man, this guy is lucky.
And in many ways you were.
You were the Karate Kid.
It was a massive blockbuster.
It was all over the world.
And then because of that, your career was essentially done.
You talk about how you couldn't get
another job because people said,
well, you're the Karate Kid.
You can't be anybody else.
Yeah, it started to--
I had two things working for and against me.
One, I was associated with a role
that was famous for being an iconic character right away.
And two, I decided to age very slowly.
You look great, by the way. I'm just going to say it.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
[cheering, applause] Thanks.
No, you actually do.
So now I wasn't able to graduate sort of out of it.
And then I had missed opportunities
because I was locked into a three-picture contract.
So that made it-- when there were
certain other projects I wanted to be involved with,
I couldn't.
You know, the thing that I've been able to do is-- and I
write to this in the book--
I've always kept one foot in and one foot out of it.
And therein lies, for me, the balance.
There you go.
That's a Miyagi-ism.
But it is-- there are lessons in life from that film
that I use in my own life and share with people.
So it's-- with readers-- it's about how to navigate through
that and keep your focus.
And so-- and then stuff came back around.
Always through those dry times, I kept myself creative.
I jumped back to writing screenplays, shooting films,
doing guest spots here and there.
And then somehow the universe has me on Netflix
on a big TV show right now.
On a massively successful TV show, with people loving you,
a whole new generation loving you.
And can I just say, if--
I don't know who's working in ad
agencies for anti-aging creams and all these other.
If they do not design a line around you
and they call it "Wax On, Wax Off"--
There you go.
--they're wasting their money.
- That's right. - You are the face of it.
Congratulations on everything. - Thank you, brother.
- Thank you. - Happy to be here.
Thank you for everything you did for all of us.
Thank you.
Waxing On is available now.
It's a fascinating book. Go out and get it.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this.
Thank you so much.
[cheering, applause]
[applause]
And that's our show for tonight.
But before we go, before we go, before we go,
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And remember to tell the McRib in your life that you love it.
Because you never know when it'll be gone.
Now here it is, your moment of zen.
McDonald's is bringing back the McRib.
- OK. - Right?
And evidently--
- I have never had that. - Well, if you want--
- Have you? - Yes, I have, yes.
Did you like it?
Yeah?
I don't ever remember ever having a McRib.
I don't think I've ever had a McRib.
I've never had one.
[inaudible],, I was just thinking about it.
- No. - I just don't want--
Have you had one?
- Uh, no. - Right?
- I never had a McRib. - Neither have I.
I never had a McRib.
None of us have.
I've never had a McRib.
I guess now is the time to try it.
I've never had a McRib, by the way.
I haven't either.
I feel like I need to try one, but.
I think I'll pass.
I have never tried it, because I'm
troubled by the concept.
I've never tried one.
I never tried one.
It's, I'm not going to say.