I think, No, I don't.

I will be able to talk and she says, Honey, oh, you're just temporarily out of order.

Better than you know, When I first had my stroke, I could only babble.

And then I worked with the speech therapist.

And then I got to talk about as good as my three year old granddaughter, Kelsey.

Huh?

But one day I said, that kills him.

I want Kelsey say transcontinental.

He couldn't say, Hurt in the dust.

Now I speak like a sick, you know, You look fantastic to I got to say Thank you.

Stunning to see you.

I've never met you before, Andi.

I saw you out in the hallway.

Just it's It's Kurt Douglas.

It's a stunning thing.

Well, you probably maybe saw the top of the show.

We don't get to meet many people like you.

It's a real tree.

Tell you, one of the as I said, is that for me that that ad for impressing the grim Reaper's eyes.

Not for you.

Definitely not.

No.

Uh uh.

I didn't think people really watch the show back there in the green.

Most the time.

I go back in the green room, they're watching something else.

Plane.

Another thing.

When I see when you have a stroke, you must be slowly to be understood.

And I find that when I speak slowly, people listen.

I gotta try that.

They think I'm going to say something important.

Then you just order a cheeseburger.

I just wanted a cheeseburger.

You know, when I when I get excited, I can't speak well.

And sometimes I will talk to Michael.

And he said What?

That What?

That Michael, Don't you speak English?

He's gotta listen.

That kid, Exactly.

Speaking.

Speaking of your son Michael, his movie of the game was number one this weekend.

Are you must be very proud of the way the game is a wonderful movie, believe me.

And he's so good in it.

You know, if I knew he was going to be so famous, I would have been not much.

Not here to win when he I have an agent.

Then you kid, you're gonna make a movie do you think with We are talking about making a movie?

As a matter of fact, we're never worked together.

Mike and I.

And then before I had my stroke, we're working on the script and then I have my stroke and he said, Well, Dad, listen, you just work with the speech therapist and then we'll make the movie.

So I said, Michael, why don't you work with my speech on?

Then I said, Michael, when you talk like I talk, will make the move seriously.

I'm so proud of Michael and have any youth in the thing.

The game theory.

It's really wonderful movie, and I think that Michael, is it really terrific?

Are you able to look at him completely as an actor?

Is there always part of you that's just from you know, that that has that fatherly pride?

Well, I always have the father of the pride because I think he's a much better actor than I am.

And I thought I was good.

Actually, no, really.

You think he's a better actor than you know?

I think so.

I think so.

He's good, but no, I was afraid he was going to agree with thing.

You could have punched me out here.

I want to ask you, Um, it's a funny story.

I was reading in Ah, in your book, Climbing the Mountain.

It's a It's a You're making the movie Oscar with Sylvester Stallone and and it's a very funny story where it's a very physical scene you had with them.

I think I think you're playing his father isn't a career, You know, I never read this script and they said, Hey, says the loans in and I'm not gonna read the script.

Will you play a cameo?

I said that was just a lead.

If it takes place before the title What?

I read the 1st 5 places and I thought I was bad because I played a dying father and he is my son.

But he is a gangster.

So Kim comes in and I keep slapping and the faith.

And I tell you, I had a wonderful time slapping Theo.

He was he okay with that being slapped around so much?

After what I said, Stop it.

I'm getting bank crazy.

What?

He's the good guy.

Yeah, he he's the good guy.

I want to ask you about about your son because we touched on briefly.

But in the book you talk about the fact that your son's started criticized the way you were dressing, they wanted you to dress more.

Gen x is that Is that the case?

No, I tell you might have send something.

My one.

They said that you dress you look at what they're You dress like your clothes come from a dairy Actiq Geriatrics workshop.

Really?

You They won't be dude the sword and they may be put on the on closed shoes.

I tell you, I hated it.

I hated it.

You had never worn shoes before?

No, but they made your dress in the book you're talking about.

It's all that kind of really loose fitting baggy pants dress.

You like a rapper like you.

Bagby.

Baggy bank.

Like you ever had an accident when I were working that mambo.

I'm I'm a book And I would be the press, you know, shows like yours.

I'm very important.

We got important to laugh.

They make a joke, man, no matter how bad things are.

Thank you for that part.

Now I know I can relate to any no matter how bad things come, they can always be worse.

So I and that's why when I I think that life climbing a mountain, everybody climbing the mountain and life is how you climb the mountain And you must climb in life with a sense of humor.

So any show that make you laugh, I think it's very, very precious and important.

Thank you very much, Theo.

I mentioned before Kirk Douglas climbing the mountain and a broken mirror.

And they're both in bookstores now.

And I know I speak for Andy to this is it was a really a pleasure and a thrill to meet you.

And, uh, we hope sometime you come back again and visit us.

But we can't thank you enough for all the work you've done and for being here.

Thank you.