when all is said and done, i wanted to go to the congo, and i did. hey, george. >> hey, man, how are you? >> really good. congratulations on the premier. >> thanks, bud. congrats on the finale. how did it go? how was the season? >> all good. >> all good. >> welcome to cnn. got to practice that line. this is cnn. >> this is cnn. do you channel your inner james earl jones? >> i do, i do. >> look, a couple of things before you go on air, okay? >> okay. >> you've got to know this stuff. first you've got to get your hands on one of these. >> what is that, i don't have one of those? >> cnn all access pass. gets you into anywhere. you can walk right into the "the situation room." more importantly, it opens up a whole world of secrets. >> what do you mean, george? >> i can't tell you that, george, that's classified. there a few words you cannot use on cnn. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] and lou dobbs. >> yikes, that's my entire

repertoire, especially the last part. thanks a lot, anthony. >> take risks, have fun and stay gold, pony boy. >> thanks. oh, my goodness. how much fun is this going to be? what a show we have for you. tonight the icon and comedy legend martin short is going to be here. this person has given birth to some of the most memorable characters of the past five decades, including ed grimly. >> your hair is standing up. >> there's a lot to talk about with martin short. we'll dig deep. imagine this, at 25 years old, rich, sold a lot of records, your twitter army is 10 million strong. what do you do for an encore? i don't know. how about having a baby. >> you don't know what you look like as a baby, but can you just tell he's making a face that you make. i'm looking in the mirror right now. >> we'll talk about rap and so much more with wiz khalifa. >> and finally -- >> remember the thing you're so

passionate about but it ain't your day job and you can't get it done. what happens when it starts to become true and what happens when you're keanu reeves? find out what keanu reeves is driving/riding literally tonight. ♪ >> how is it going, everybody? nice to see you. welcome to the show. it's so lovely to be with you. i hope you're having a wonderful night and had a great day wherever you may be across this land. i'm george stroumboulopoulos and i'll be here with you in the summer to keep you company. it's going to be a fun show. it's an interview show, as you can tell. we'll have a lot of different people on the program over the next ten weeks, everyone from ellen page to ely roth, westerner herzog, snoop dogg, bill maher and betty while. i know what you're thinking,

snoop and betty. is the feud over? they have agreed to bury the hatchet, just for this series, so i'm really excited to get into that one. tonight on the show big liz khalifa in the red chair and, of course, later on, keanu reeves. right now one of the loveliest people you'll ever meet, as famous at all hell but his story is so interesting. tonight we start with martin show. what a life he's had. here's t story. i'm not sure if comedians are born or made, but comedy icons are certainly developed over years. the great martin short, born in hamilton, ontario, martin was his mother's son. as a boy used to record himself singing frank sinatra songs and even added his own applause at end. in absurdity and creativity were always encouraged in the short household, but just as martin was coming into his own, tragedy

struck. his older brother was killed in a car crash when marty was only 12. both of his parents would pass before marty would turn 21. as martin short said himself, you can either be a victim or be empowered so he chose to be empowered. in 1972 rksz he ended up in this small canadian production. check out the kids that were in this, eugene levy, gilda radner, victor garber, dave thomas and nancy dolman, marty's future wife. marty continued to hone his performance skills in short-lived american sitcoms like "i'm a big girl now" and "the associates" and in 1928 he got his dream job, invited to join the cast of sctv where he met his iconic characters such blorks brock, jack kie robbin j

as ed grimley. >> i couldn't believe it. i couldn't be more excited. >> from there he joined the "saturday night live" team and starred in "three amigos" and stole scenes in "father of the bride," backing one of those rare performers who didn't have to be the star to earn the spotlight. today, martin short is still charming, laughing and dancing his way into your living rooms via your heart. please say hello to martin short! [ applause ] >> how are you, baby? >> hello. >> hello, young man. >> very good. >> things are well? >> oh, these are comfortable chairs. >> aren't they. >> thanks for showing up. >> someone spent some money. >> we put all of it in the chair. >> i didn't think cnn had money. i'm so wrong about so many things. >> well, we're happy that you're a part of it. >> thank you, welcome to the united states of america. high time. >> you're lovely. you're the first person that agreed to the do the show. >> because i've been on george's show many, many times. this is one of the greatest interviewers you can have, and listen, i -- i've been interviewed.

>> thank you. you're writing a book. did you ever think you'd write a book of any kind, a memoir? >> no, because i've never finished reading a book. i thought why write one, but then, you know, it's amazing what american money in an advance check will do to inspire you. writing a book is something that you just can't do because you think it's a good idea or are told it's a good idea. it's got to come from within. you've got to go actually i know what that book might be, and i know what that story could be. >> are you a reflective person by nature? >> yes, absolutely. i mean, i think that we learn, we constantly learn from our experience not to repeat mistakes, so you always have to reflect on what's gone down. you're constantly trying to figure out, i think, how do i -- how i do not repeat that mistake? like i remember in 1977, randomly, i became anxious. i would have ang sity attacks. they lasted about four months.

when you first experience it, you think oh, i'm going -- i'm going to get a tongue depressor in me and be institutionalized and that doesn't happen so you become a little tougher. oh, i can take you on. and once i was through that phase, an uncertain phase of lots of things in my life i thought, okay, that's never going to happen again. i'm never going to let that happen again. i'm going to be the master of that. so i always think with me i'm more drawn with trying to make me the boss of my life, whatever the outcome is. >> it never happened again or the moment they started to happen you knew what to do to stop them from getting more severe? >> i knew it was about taking things too seriously and for a while i used to worry about opening nights. what if i'm no good opening night? what if i forget my lyrics and then at a certain point you go, that's never happened. now you're in your 30s. it's never happened. i bet it will never happened. >> you don't forget your words? >> and then do you and there are other theories. other theories. that blank thing.

line! >> let me show you this photograph. look at this picture that we have here. >> ahhh. >> that was taken two years ago. >> right. >> right after the surgery. >> that's backyard of witten road. look at the ears. >> but it looks like you're ready to perform right there. >> i'm sure i had just done an opening number of "gypsy" or something. >> another one here. >> these are the brothers. >> yeah. >> that's my brother david on the left, marty, michael in the back, brian. >> what were the bros like? >> oh, adorable, sweet, sweet, good. we always -- you know, i -- i always think that when you have kids, you have to just set down this bottom line of what can't happen, and i've done it in my house, and my parents did it in their house which was everyone has to like each other and get along. and if you don't, you'll get the wrath of parents. there's no kind of -- how -- how does that make you feel when he says that? don't hurt your brother. you know, one time my son oliver and henry were wrestling in their room.

oliver is three years old, two and a half years older and i saw oliver had henry pinned and they don't know i'm standing there. i'm thinking okay, if oliver hurts henry i'll flip him out and he has him pinned and leans over and kisses his forehead which is the same thing would i do with ollie when i wrestle so those things trickle down, get along and we all did. ked to >> somehow you've managed to be this seemingly level happy guy, but there's a lot of tragedy in your life, lost both your parents young. you seem to have been okay with it. did you have to learn to be okay with it? >> well, i think that you become empowered in a weird way by loss at any age, but certainly when you're young, you can either go into a direction of saying, i am going to be a victim from this. i'm going to be a drunk. i'm going to do drugs, but you don't know what i went through.

or you become more resilient. a little tougher. if someone doesn't like you on stage, you got your hair is standing up, you're kind of looking at them saying i don't even know you. if you don't like me, i don't like you. you go through that weird tough ass place. >> way better training for comedy to see yourself that way. >> anything to prepare you for failure and rejection is good. >> always been okay with failure and rejection? >> no, no, i've never been okay. right now i'm feeling badly. >> so far you're doing okay. >> no, no, i'm not saying that you're ready. i'm just saying that i think you have to prepare yourself to saying you're the boss of your life. you know. if you don't like me, audience, you might be right. i might have to do some more work, but i'm not going to be deflated by it. it's just a job.

it's just, you know, you try doing it. i'm sorry. >> have you always dreamed about the hollywood part? was that part of your story? >> i would pretend i'm on a private plane. i'm 9 and i had my own television show, my attic, my applause record and i used to pretend i was on nbc 8:30 every other tuesday. which left me room for my imaginary film career. meanwhile kids are playing hockey outside and i'm going -- ♪ it's such a cuckoo day >> people love you in comedy, and this stage of your life you're popping into dramas. you have a cool series. you're in a paul thomas anderson movie. it's a very different type of performance. >> yeah, it's cool. i think everything -- you know, you reach a point in your career where you don't have to worry

about rent as much as something even more monumental which is how do you keep yourself interesting? how do you stay interested in doing this? >> were you as confident walking in as a dramatic artist as opposed to a comic. >> if you're playing a character, if he's frank from "father of the bride" he still has to be real, so you have to create your actor stuff to make this person real, and then you have to heighten his eccentricity to make it but it always has to be real or the audience goes i don't care about that. >> it's the same thing in drama then. >> so you're just dropping the second part, and you're trying to be interesting and yet real and yet all the things you're supposed to do, so i don't find it that different actually. >> stick around. more with martin right after this. come up after the break, not that i'm going totally canadian but we'll hit the road with keanu reeves in just a bit and we'll have wiz khalifa on the show tonight as well. see you soon. and be good for your face? [ female announcer ] now there's new neutrogena® naturals acne cleanser.

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all right. back here hanging out with martin short. >> oh, hello. beautiful audience. >> lovely. >> oprah gives away cars. >> this man has had a breast reduction, i can tell that right away. >> is it true your dad was a stowaway, a natural stowaway? >> he was 17 when he left northern ireland. this was 1926, and he had uncles that lived in texas. i later found out he had a ticket. it was buy the ticket or buy the two new suits, and he bought the suits and stowed away, and then they caught him in texas, and he was deported, and then at 21 he

came over legally to canada. >> how different would your life have been if he didn't get deported? >> well, i would have been supporting george w. bush and rick perry, and i would have been one of those texan boys. >> you would have been one of those guys? you think? >> when i was 16 i used to tape everything, reel-to-reel tape recorder, and i once taped a christmas present opening in 1966, and one point my father is saying would you pick up that record, please, and there's a record i've opened on the ground. he still thinks it's a 78, that if you step on it you'll break it. i don't move it. two minutes later. marty, would you pick up those records, please. four minutes later, marty, would you pick up the records. and i'm thinking at the time what is with him? and now i'm listening to him would you pick up the records, you idiots? why won't you pick up the records. >> what was it like to hear his voice in that context? >> i never let go of these. marty, get down here.

he's irish and had to go to mass every morning. once a year he'd sleep in. >> that's it. >> yeah. you're always lying in bed could this be the morning. marty, do you not love christ? coming dad, on my way. coming down the stairs, dear. >> the evolution of you as a performer has been fun. do you have to look at not different things to be challenged, but do you look at different things to make you happy? does the stuff that made you happy still hold? >> i don't know. i always think you have an option of two words to put on my gravestone. one is almost and -- but i would say performer, and so i love performing, so some people, like i could do, when i've done broadway shows and i'll do eight shows a week, i love doing eight shows a week and some people just go nuts because they couldn't stand repeating the same material or not creating

new material if they are a writer, but for me i just -- it's the execution of it that's exciting, so i still get a tremendous rush and enjoyment from performance. >> do you have boundaries? >> you mean as far as what i would do or wouldn't do? >> yeah. well, because, the -- >> frontal nudity, that stuff? because i'll do it. >> for some people who -- you did the cross, thank you. >> oh, yeah. i'm not an idiot. go ahead, what's your point? >> the idea of carving space out for yourself as opposed -- some people who like to work and get the rush of performance, when the rush goes away and the crowd goes away there's an emptiness. you don't seem to have that? >> gee, i hope not. i mean, that would be sad,

wouldn't it? because it goes away. it goes away. >> yeah. it hasn't really gone away for you, has it? >> it hasn't gone away, but, you know, talk to me at end of the summer. i'm saying it goes away. >> yeah. >> it goes away or it alters. no one is, i don't care who you are, at a certain point the light starts dimming and gets dimmer and that's the natural way of things, so if you finish your career, whatever that time of it is and you go, now i'm empty, you've made some major life problem mistakes. >> right. >> i mean, this is -- i always think it's like you take courses at university. it's nine categories syndrome. started this when i was in my 20s, not in the '20s. >> i kind of wanted to let that slide. >> i remember herbert hoover was -- we were optimistic. no. when i was in my late 20, i used to think, my first experience of being an unemployed actor and i used to think, oh, god, this is bad, and then i would get

through a couple of months and then i would be working and then it would happen again. oh, i wish i didn't waste those months, you know, where i just sat there, and then i thought oh, i know what to do. this would be like university. at university you take nine subjects, and you might be failing in biology, but you can make up your gpa by doing other stuff. >> right. >> and getting great grades, so i thought, okay, if my career is terrible, i can be -- i can get in better shape. i can work out. i can get esteem that way, or i can be a better husband or father or brother or friend. i can be creative. i can -- i can go to europe during that time. in other words, you can get your own gpa up even if your career is in the tank. >> how did that come to you? >> i was left money, that helped. i had an inheritance from my parents. if i had been broke, i would have no philosophy at all.

>> but having money -- base chris because i was rich. >> thanks, man. >> thank you. >> martin short, everybody. wonderful martin short. we'll be right back. >> when we come back it's big wiz khalifa in the red chair and then we leave the studios and get on some bikes and follow his passion with keanu reeves.

hi, how are you? our next guest is one of the most interesting guys making music today, and he's achieved an awful lot for a very young age and has had quite a young

life experience, if you will. traveled all over the joint. his name is wiz khalifa. believe me, someone in your room is singing his song right now. wiz is on his way out. here's his story. when his grandfather gave him the name khalifa, the arabic word for successor he must have known wiz was destined for big things. his family constantly moved. during his childhood he lived in germany, japan, georgia and more before finally and now, famously, settling in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. when he was just 6 years old, his mom's friend turned him on to music of snoop dogg and wiz started rapping to help him fit in with his cousins and uncles. he showed practice so his dad bought him recording equipment as incentive. at 17 he signed his first record deal and a year later released his first studio album. wiz has hit number one with his pittsburgh-inspired "black and yellow," a tribute to all the

pittsburgh teams. how did the city respond? well, they named a day after him? not many get that. >> hey, wiz khalifa. [ applause ] >> nice to see you. >> welcome to the show. >> i was hesitating to grab that hand. you hurt that hand? >> yeah, i hurt my hand skateboarding? >> you went down and that's it? >> yeah, it happens sometimes like that. >> nobody is looking on you when they book you on the tour, listen, for insurance purposes you cannot do that anymore? >> they always get really mad at me because i'm skateboarding around the venue. don't get hurt. we'll lose our jobs. >> joking aside, it is kind of an interesting place that you're in right now. >> yeah. >> that you have created a scenario where people are depending on you, not just your own kid and everything else. have you felt some of that new reality on you?

>> totally, man. i deal with a lot personally and just professionally, but my whole thing is always to just move forward, and i know what i'm here for so i just play my role and do that the best i can. >> how old were you when you first got connected? was this snoop that somebody introduced you to, the snoop music? >> i was really young, probably in pre-school. >> which song were you singing in pre-school? exactly, that's what i'm talking about. >> kind of caught me off guard. it sounded like scary, like good scary. i'm like, man, this is bad, you know what i mean? >> what stuff? >> well, doggie style. that whole doggie style and my mom's friend, she had a system in her truck so she used to play like really loud, too. >> and were you in pre-school. you would think she would at least play you puppy style. >> straight doggie style in a big way.

>> when did it occur to you that this was something that you could do? >> really, i was about 14, 15 years old. lived with my dad down in oklahoma. that's when i started taking more serious and going to the studio all the time while a lot of my friends were out. i would hoop and skate and stuff like that, but i really, really into my music. i kind of shut everything out and put myself in the studio and then, you know, when i turned about 15 or 16, that's when i got my independence deal, and i never really looked at it as an option from there, you know. it was more or less like everything is just going to, you know, pretty much snowball, and i'm going to get to where i need to be, no matter how long it takes. >> let me show you a picture of a young and passport photo here. look at this shot. >> yeah. >> so cute, man. >> military family, right, so moved around a lot? >> yeah, totally. i lived in japan. i've lived in germany. i lived down south. east coast. i just now moved to the west

coast, but, man, i've been everything, a little bit of everything. >> do you think that's left a mark on you? >> i think it's left a good mark on me. i know what to expect when i bump into different types of people, especially different races and the different cultures. i kind of know how like to entertain them and what to expect from them and their crowd because everybody communicates on a different level. like music brings everyone together, but you have to real be able to identify with those certain people, too, for them to, you know, gravitate towards your stuff. >> so much of what happens to a lot of artists, hip-hop artists, roots are a big part of it and it's really important to represent where you're from. but a guy who didn't have roots for a very long time, you have a very different relationship with that. >> yeah. i just take it more as the most that i've learned from my life has been from pittsburgh, you know, and anybody who can identify me with anything, it would be pittsburgh. i know the ins and outs of the street.

i know where to go to eat. i know what cars we drive. i know what clubs we go to. >> you know where not to walk, where there are cops when you're carrying weed? >> more or less what to say when you're carrying weed when you're walking across. >> how many times have you got jacked for weed now? >> a lot. more like -- more than 18. >> so here's the thing. how many guys get that many and get a day named after them in pittsburgh? >> well, you know, weed is a peaceful drug. i think if i was getting caught with something a little more dangerous then i wouldn't have gotten that day, but, you know, it's getting a little bit more lenient and people know what my message is to bring everyone together. >> it's funny, remember back in the early '80s, snoop, cyprus hill, others very big into legalizing it, and now we're in a different place. >> i think it's a trick honestly. i think they are like trying to bait people in and then like, er, i'm not getting caught up in it.

i'm smoking it the same way it was before and nothing is going to change. >> what do you mean? >> i'm hiding it. i'm in the back. you may smell me but you not going to see me. >> you're the guy who has a whole bunch of mouthwash and gum in the car? >> no, no, no, i'm not like that. i'm pretty precautious. cleanly. >> you were talking to larry king, just this idea that you're not going to stop smoking, right? >> yeah. >> but you got a baby, and i wonder if you look at kids and say, okay, maybe i have to be a bit different. i don't mean the weed thing but just change your approach to life. >> you know, i've found myself just changing my patterns, you know what i mean? i'm still the cool person that i always was, fun person that i always was, but as far as waking up and the thing i do is smoke a joint that changes because when you have a baby, because your baby needs you, and, you know, you can't put those two up against each other. it's baby first.

it's baby as long as he needs you and until somebody comes and, you know, you might get a chance to get away, but you don't make no breaks from the baby to go smoke. >> right. >> so it's just -- i still smoke as much as i used to, it's just later on in the day, you know what i mean, because i'm with my kid? >> where's dad? he's in the garage. >> or the pool room, the billiards room. that's where i get my stuff at. >> what was it like when you finally got to work with snoop? >> it was amazing. it was like a dream come true. i had to keep my cool and not blow it, be who i really wanted to be, and not like a little kid. >> did you pull a special batch out? >> i did. >> you did? >> i did. because i knew he was smoking like snoop stuff, but i knew -- i came up, and i'm like i've got some confidence, and you know what i've known and what i've learned, and i got some real good friends who show me some things, so i just wanted to show him. >> what does that mean, showed you some things?

>> well, you know, there's different ways to grow it. people don't flush it. they use different chemicals, and there's all types of impurities, man, so we get rid of that and we put it on a pure. >> you're like a science teacher, that's what you are. >> it is science. >> it really is, isn't it? >> stick around. more with wiz right after this. >> so what will wiz see when the glasses come off? we'll find out. more from wiz next. to your kids' wet skin. neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®.

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welcome back here on the program. wiz khalifa is with us. he's on quite a run. you're like top five in the hip-hop game for followers on twitter. are you competitive? >> nah, i'm not really competitive. i just, you know, kick those other dudes' hineys. >> are you monitoring justin bieber's feed? >> no, i can't compete with him. that boy's out of here. >> that's a lot. >> he's way out of here. >> we're saying in the commercial break that you look at your kid sometimes and you're like, man, i have a son. >> i look at his face. sometimes, like you don't know what you look like as a baby, but you can just tell he's making a face that you make. man, i'm looking in the mirror right now. >> do you think it's going to have an impact on the kind of stuff you make, your heart? >> it's going to make me more fun i think, you know. i think it's just going to make me cooler.

>> i'm thinking about snoop. snoop had a trance in addition his life where he realized he wanted to be more positive. >> yeah. >> really important to him and you're still young. do you have a sense that at some point -- >> i've always been a pretty positive dude. the only thing that i do here and there, i slow down drinking, because i -- i do that a lot, but then i'll stop and then i'll start again and i'll stop so maybe one day i'll just completely give up alcohol, but that's about it. >> do you have people around you who let you know when you might be pushing yourself too far? >> well, my wife, that's it. she nags me all the time. i don't know the difference. >> do you nag her back? >> of course. >> the big part of this business is you make sure you don't surround yourself with people that go you're great all the time? >> no, yeah, you've got to. i've been blessed with really good friends and just the knowledge of myself when i'm doing too much or doing just enough because at the end of the day it's about business first. having fun is supposed to be the reward so when i get to a point like i'm having too much fun, i'll usually pull back a little bit.

>> thinking about, again, the snoop thinking. thinking about when i was 20 years old, and i was thinking, oh, my god, the lyrics are so over the line. if you had a daughter would you change the use of the word -- everybody is calling girls bitches all the time. >> yeah, yeah, oh, man, i don't know. i would have to have a daughter to like really know. i have a little sister, my mom and my nene and everybody, they listen to my music and they know how i talk and what i say and they don't take any disrespect. >> none ever say easy on that? >> my aunt leah does. she's the only one because she's like, yo, chill out. >> how do you take that? >> i just take it with love. that's what aunties are supposed to do. >> speaking of your sister, look at this. i love that. >> oh. >> i had an early start, man. >> love those glasses, first of all. >> i got a pair. i went through phases, man.

>> finding yourself? >> yeah. >> at least we could see your eyes with those. >> here you go, eh. >> look at the different waves of hip-hop, how much it's about new york and l.a. and then for a while atlanta and even more south, louisiana became the spot. >> yeah. >> between cash money, no limit where all the videos were made and pittsburgh sort of pops up out of nowhere. >> you know what? nobody ever shouted out pittsburgh, ever, like ever. they would be like where brooklyn at? where phil philly at? where jersey at? where south carolina at? where vegas at? i'm like, yo, where's pittsburgh at, so now they shout out pittsburgh. >> what's the celebration of pittsburgh? what is it about it? >> it's just a hometown vibe. i think that we support a lot of people, like in their early stages.

there's a lot of rappers like gucci man, nicki minaj, future, there's just a lot of people who like they started their first couple of club shows and stuff like that, they would pack those clubs in pittsburgh, and they would come out and they were showing life and people would fight and be crazy and they would show up next week. quite a thing. >> someone put your arm around you and help you navigate the wildest part of it? >> juicy, juicy j. that's my mine. he's the biggest person who led by example for me because i watched him do his whole career, like anybody who came out under him was a success so i look up to that, and i look up to the originality that he brought to the game. >> do you think as a 45-year-old, as khalifa, do you think what that rapper will be like? >> me or somebody else? >> you. >> i think i'm going to be

awesome. >> usual making records still? >> yeah, yeah, i'm going to be writing. i want to learn an instrument by that time because that's 20 years. if i start now, i'll be playing that instrument for 20 years. i could be a professional at that. >> have you started now? >> on and off. i do guitar, piano, because i -- i really like the piano because when i sing and stuff like that, i do a lot of harmonies and things like that, so when i play the piano, it helps me like find new, like little stuff with that, i don't know what you call it. >> are you digging into other artists, looking into places that you wouldn't normally -- >> yeah, i listen to a lot of older artists. i kind of get obsessed with one person and then just research that person, order music, their live stuff, interviews, everything like that. it was jimi hendrix, james brown. really into elton john right now. he's super tight, so, yeah. >> you've got to check this song called "curtains," man, it's unbelievable. >> his lyrics are frigging insane. >> he and bernie taupin has been

able to build something that's changed over the years, that's really lasted. do you find yourself wanting to evolve? >> yeah, totally. i want to evolve. i don't want to be one of those people who evolves and everybody wants him 20 years ago, you know what i'm saying? i want to be be like who i am and always be me. >> nowhere near a country record? >> no. well, you know what? possibly, you know what, well, i like country music, so -- it might just take a while. >> yeah. >> but we'll see. >> where do you want to grow into? >> well, i want my hair to be like all the way down here. so i'm going to grow into that. >> all tight like that the whole way down? >> dreaded up and locking it. >> that's a long time, a lot of growth. in about seven years it should be down my back. >> you'll be totally ready for your snoop reggae phase. >> exactly. i don't know what i'm going to

do. rev it up, drag it on the floor, but i'm definitely hiding weed in there. >> wiz khalifa, everybody. [ applause ] >> all right. the wait is almost over. motorcycles with keanu reeves, next.

we're back here on the show. obviously we've jumped out of the studio for just a second. i want to explore the different side of a really creative person, and it's sort of manifest itself now in his brand new company called arch motorcycles, a new american, a little canadian company which kind of blends old and new and passion from a guy that you recognize. hey, man. >> good morning. >> how are you, bud? >> welcome to arch motorcycle company. >> that guy is keanu reeves. what is this? you said i'm going to start making bikes, is that what it is? >> yes. this particular motorcycle was an endeavor that started five years ago. i ride norton's, for the most part, my day-to-day bike.

arch, it's retro modern, so, you know, the tank has kind of a norton influence, it's a classic rear cowelling and then we get into the modern silhouette, so for five years, this bike happened and as i was looking at it, i was like this looks like it wants to be in the world and i was like i think we should make these so we started to go from this wik to an idea of going from, you know, a custom motorcycle to kind of a production custom motorcycle. >> so five years is not that long in one sense to design a product and for a guy who loves to ride i'm sure there's a level of impatience or patience. what was that process like? >> you know, when you're in love. ♪ ladies and gentlemen, garth

hollinger. >> hey, man, nice to see you, bud. >> this is great. >> thanks for letting you in your shop. >> isn't this part of the larger cultural conversation that needs to have, that everything is so stylized that there's very little substance to a lot of what's stylized? >> that's the foundation of arch. >> it's fine but you need balance. >> you can't make a motorcycle so wacky and modern that it doesn't look like a motorcycle anymore. >> yes, can you. >> you can? >> that's awesome, too. this is where we manufacture our parts. >> help. it's alive. >> and this machine, i mean, it's a robot. it will change tools, so when it wants a different tool to do a different op it will grab it. >> what about when this thing gets artificial intelligence and makes what it wants instead of what you want. then you start a war, gard. who knows. i think we should try these bikes out, that's what i think. >> let's do that. >> keanu reeves, yes. >> the face, what are you wearing?

>> this is what i have to wear by law. >> keanu reeves, it's a money-maker. >> well, you know, that's just how it has to go. ♪ ♪ >> here you go. ♪ >> when i saw these machines, they are beautiful. i love the aesthetic behind them the engineering behind them, so for me it was a happenstance that turned into something that was very personal, and then it has become even more personal. if people feel like really experienced riding machine, then the story continues, you know.

>> through the love and the passion of motorcycles and riding. we're very fortunate to have the opportunity and, you know, it's very exciting. it's very creative, and, you know, hopefully bring into the world something that is beautiful and that will bring people joy. how did that feel? >> felt great. that's how you want to live your life, too. can contact with the road. comfortable. >> contact, tight. congrats. thanks for the ride. keanu reeves, everybody. t can mw more beautiful every time you wear it. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin's natural texture, tone or clarity. it's healthier for your skin than wearing no makeup at all. does your makeup do that? healthy skin liquid makeup.

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