-They love you. We love you. Welcome back, buddy.
It's great to see you. -Good to see you.
What's up, man? -Everything's good. You know, the kids are good. You're a grandpa now twice? -Four kids.
Four grandchildren. -Oh, my gosh. Congratulations.
[ Cheers and applause ] That's amazing. How is it? Do you like it?
-I do like it. And, you know,
everybody jokes about it, that you can play with them
and then send them home. That is a real deal.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, you can, huh?
-Yeah, you can. I got
a 14-year-old, a 12 1/2. That's a girl and a boy. And then a 3-year-old
and a 2-year-old. They were a day --
a year and a day apart. -Oh, my gosh.
-How about that? -That's amazing.
And you just said they had a big party for them,
a birthday? -Yeah. We get to have
the birthday party at our house and we had --
the little girl's name, Row, And so we had -- we set up
a "discrow." -Oh, a disco.
-A discrow. -A discrow party. Oh. -And then the little boy is
in the car. So we had --
-Look at that. -Yeah
. How about that?
That's the discrow. [ Audience aws ]
-Oh, that's so fun. -See the big jam box
in the back? -Yeah. I mean, that's super fun.
Yeah. And then the boy?
-Yeah, he's in the car. So we set him up a --
like a NASCAR track where the kids get in.
They're just two. But they get in
these electric cars. -They know how to drive cars?
[ Laughter ] -Well, they thought --
they think they did. What they didn't realize is
the parents are actually driving them
with a remote control. [ Laughter ] S
o the kids are
in there going all around. The parents are over there, and the parents weren't
very good at it. I got to tell you.
[ Laughter ] They're running off through
the cones and everything, and they didn't know
how to do it. -I saw that you you've
been playing "Fortnite." -Well, my son --
[ Laughter ] My son Jordan got me
playing this "Fortnite" game and I... I can't -- I don't know
which button to push to jump or to shoot or whatever.
-So you're fun to play against. -Every time I look do
wn
to find the button, I get my head blown off.
[ Laughter ] And so I don't --
I don't know what to do. And then I'm looking on there
and everybody has their own -- What do they call it? Skin? -Yes. Correct. Yes.
-Or avatar? -Everyone has their own skin.
-But I don't have my own. What the hell's up with that?
[ Laughter ] -You want your own skin
on "Fortnite"? -Well, yeah.
-You put this video of you asking the creators
of "Fortnite" for a skin. Watch this.
-Hold on, chat. Uh, hey, "Fortnite" cre
ators, what do I got to do
to get my own character? I mean, come on,
Eminem's got three. I got what, zero?
I move like a cat. It's Garfield, but it's a cat. I need my own character.
Come on. -Yeah. And that got
11 million views. -You're kidding.
-That got 11 million views. -That's been looked at
11 million times? -Yes.
-And I still don't have a skin? -No, they watch our show.
We'll get you. You'll definitely have --
-Okay, hey, camera -- Is that my camera?
-Yeah. -Come on!
-Yeah. There you go. T
hat's all he's asking.
-Give me a skin. -Give him a skin,
for God's sakes. -Come on. This is my agent here. -Give him his skin.
Give him a skin. "Fortnite," come on.
But you have to -- When you get your skin, you
have to do your own dance move. Do you have a dance move?
-Oh, hell no. [ Laughter ]
-What would be your dance move? -Motown. It has to be
something like The Temptations. -Like The Temptations?
Could you show us what...? -If you do it with me.
-Yeah, I'll do it with you. -Alright, come
on.
-What are we doing? I've never danced with you
before. Have we? Have we ever danced?
Alright. What would it be? Here you go.
In "Fortnite." -They never did anything. They just kind of like
went side to side. -That would be...
[ Cheers and applause ] That would be your "Fortnite"
dance? -That's it. That's all you got
to have, right? They just turn around.
Got to spin around, right? -Yeah, yeah.
-So... -No, see, you're beating me.
[ Cheers and applause ] If your character does that,
great. -Ye
ah.
-I'm always happy to see you. I'm always happy
to see different things you're doing,
different projects. You're always doing
something different. The "Dr. Phil" show,
you ended it after 21 seasons, and I was like, "Ooh,"
that was heartbreaking for us because we loved watching you. But I was going to ask you,
what did you feel like after that routine
and then it's gone away? -Well, at first it's kind of
like, "Oh, this is good." You know, I don't have to get up
and go stamp out disease and su
ffering.
[ Laughter ] And so -- But I had a plan
when I stopped because I was sitting at the --
we have a breakfast bar in our kitchen. I was sitting down
and flipping back and forth between the news. And, you know, you go from this
one and they're all far left. Go, this one's far right,
spin, spin, spin so much
that your head's spinning. And I said, "God,
the media drives me crazy. Why don't they just tell us
what's going on?" Robin's sitting next to me. She doesn't even look up
from her plate.
She's just saying,
"Well, you are the media. Why don't you do something
about it?" "Oh, damn it."
-Yeah. "Why did I say that out loud?" -Yeah.
So I got to think about it. And, you know,
that's really true. She said, "Oh, by the way, those
last four places you stopped, your ratings are higher than
all of those four combined. So seriously, why don't
you do something about it?" So fast-forward like 18 months and we have our own network
called Merit Street Media. We got five acres under roof.
-Five
acres? -Yeah, and we got
Steve Harvey and Nancy Grace and Bear Grylls and Mike Rowe
and all these people coming in. -You have your own...
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Your own network. -Yeah. We got cops and jail,
I mean. -Oh, you gotta have cops.
-Oh, yeah, you gotta have cops. -Yeah.
-It's Merit Street Media. And I'll tell you,
that was not chosen at random. This country was built
on hard work, talent, added value, merit that
you do something that merits. And it's...
[ Cheers and applause
] And we got too many people
pushing for equality of outcome
independent of input. I mean, come on,
if you got some guy sitting home in a beanbag eating Cheetos and he gets the same outcome
as somebody out busting their ass all day long,
that's not a good deal. -Wow. Yeah.
-Equality of opportunity. I'm all over that.
We need to work towards that. But the quality of outcome
don't -- I don't get it.
I don't get it. -You brought this photo
I thought was interesting. This is a photo. And up in the r
afters
there is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. What is this?
-Alright. When I first started my show 21
years ago on the Paramount lot, and by the way,
we had the longest running show in the history of Paramount,
which is a 105-year-old lot. -Yeah. Congratulations.
[ Cheers and applause ] -So I go in my first day when
we're starting to build the set, and they're up in a cherry
picker taking that picture down. And that's not Kareem.
That's Lew Alcindor. That's when he was at UCLA.
That's how old that pictur
e is. -Ahh!
-And I said, "What is that?" They said, "Well, the only show that ever lasted on this stage,
Stage 29 at Paramount, was Arsenio Hall."
He lasted five years. Everybody else
never even lasted a year. I said,
"Do not touch that picture! Leave that picture
hanging there." And so it was all like this. And I said, "Don't touch it.
Leave it there." And we were there for 21 years
and quit at number one. Wow. -And so then my son launched
"The Doctors." You all know "The Doctors,"
the show "Th
e Doctors." We launched that
on the set next door. And I had one of those made
and took it over to his set and hung it exactly
the same way, crooked right there for him,
and they're the second longest running show on
the Paramount lot. -So there's something to this.
-Apparently. You should get one.
-Kareem -- Yeah, we're gonna get one here. Kareem is good luck. I'm so happy you came on
our show. And best of luck
with the network and the new show and everything. You're a very,
very hardworking ma
n. -Thank you so much.
-Always nice to see you. Dr. Phil McGraw. "Dr. Phil Primetime"
airs weeknights at 8 p.m. on Merit Street Media. More "Tonight Show"
after the break. Stick around, everybody.
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