- Welcome back y'all to Kevin Hart's
The Kelly Clarkson Show, A Tribute to Rad Dads
with me through this hour is Kevin Hart.
- Yes, yes
- How did I do?
- Yes
- How did I do? How did I do?
- Aah I mean look it wasn't bad.
Can it be better? I mean
(mumbling)
- Okay. I need to dream bigger.
- I mean look
(Mumbles)
Right?
I'll tell you what, I've had these chips and stuff
out here for quite some time.
- You need some new snacks?
- Well, just like a little, another wine.
I like to taste different wine.
- Another wine, yeah.
- I don't really finish it.
- We're at a wine tasting right now, I like it.
- I just like to keep tasting it.
- Any other snack or are you?
- I need some chocolate. You got some chocolate?
- Oh my God.
You're in the right house for that.
- Sitting here is a little chocolate drop, why not?
(drums playing)
- Hello
- Wow.
- Oh, I love chocolate.
- Wow.
- I love this show.
Okay.
- You are winning me over, man.
- Justin, you're nailing it.
- You're really nailing it.
- Except we don't have that wine yet, but we'll get that.
We'll get that out here.
Okay, cool.
I like our wine tasting.
You're going to try some of it?
- Yeah I'm gonna try some chocolate.
- Do it.
Oh, there you go. He's serving you first
Like it should be, apparently.
- Thank you. Giving me mine first.
- Okay. Yeah.
No, it's totally fine.
- What a gem he is.
Oh man.
Oh, how's this one.
- This one is good.
This one is good.
Okay. So earlier we talked about Kevin's new movie
it's based on the real life bestselling memoir
Fatherhood previously known as Two Kisses for Maddy.
We actually have the author, Matt Logelin, joining us.
Give it up for Matt.
- Yes
- Matt
- How you doing? Good to see you again.
- Air cheers.
- Air cheers to you.
- Air cheers.
Wait, speaking of cheers, Justin, what is this one?
You didn't tell me what this one was.
- Well, as of right now, you guys are drinking
Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon.
This one is bright, firm, tannins,
and flavors of boysenberries and black currant.
- Oh
- I can taste it all.
- Yeah.
All of it.
I got all of that.
- That's good.
That's a good one.
That's a good read, Justin.
- So you guys have obviously met before, right?
- Yeah, I met Kevin on the set when they were shooting up
in Montreal and it was a thrill in my life to finally
meet this guy.
He's the busiest man in the world.
And it was just such an awesome opportunity
for me to be there.
And I got to bring my daughter along and Kevin couldn't have
been nicer to her the entire time.
And it was just super impressive.
- I have to say it was mutually,
mutually a feeling that was mutually received
and respected, man.
Such an amazing guy with an amazing story.
His daughter was unbelievable,
but they came to they set, hung out,
and its, its dope when you see the creatives
behind the project, behind the movie,
and you get to see their reaction as to seeing their baby
this thing that started with a pen and a piece of paper
now come to life and turn it into what it became.
Its truly dope and I'm glad I got to be a part of it.
- Yeah, it's gotta be a crazy thing to, to like your life.
Like you wrote this book, like based off your life.
Right. And obviously changed a little to the
movie as adaptations do, but I mean
is it just nuts knowing that that was your
like your life and your hardship that you went through
like inspired this and this might be a really helpful movie.
Not might, it will be to a lot of people out there
that unfortunately have been
through the same circumstances as you.
- Absolutely.
I never expected that my life would go
from having my wife die the day after my daughter was born.
To sitting here with you guys
and talking about this movie that's coming out in June.
It's just an unbelievable experience for me.
And so, you know, writing a book and getting this out
there was such a big part of my healing
and getting me to where I needed to be as a
as a parent, as a father, as a person.
And to know that this is going to be out there
as a movie that, that a lot of people are going to see.
I hope.
And I hope
that they're going to get some inspiration from it.
And they're going to be just blown away
by Kevin and his ability to kind of bring my experience
and my feelings to the screen.
I think it's going to be a really
great opportunity for people.
- Absolutely.
And what, what's your big hope
like when you're creating something?
I know even when I'm writing a song
like sometimes it's just therapeutic for me
but also I really want, not just myself, but other people
there's gotta be a reason why I've gone through something.
Like there's gotta be something I can give people
they can take away from the message as well.
Did you feel that while doing this?
Like what was your message that you really wanted
people to take away from it?
- I want people to understand the universality
of this, right?
No matter who we are
we're all going to go through hard times.
And no matter how you define those hard times.
Mine happened to be my wife dying,
but we all go through these moments
and we have to find a way through them one way or another.
And so my story, writing this book
making sure that people could read it.
Now, this movie was a way to say, Hey, we're all going to go
through something probably pretty difficult in our lives
no matter what, because we're all going to be born.
We're all gonna die.
And we're going to witness that stuff in between.
And I want to make sure
that people understand that, you know, there's a way
through this and that we can find some positivity
in it and we can do things that we never thought we could.
- Cause it's a hard message to receive if you're not ready.
- Right.
It definitely is.
- Yeah. It's gotta be one of those things
you get ready for that at some point.
But, do you, you have a question too, right Kevin?
- My question is about, is about Manny.
How is she man?
How, how's your, how's your daughter doing?
- She's doing great.
She's 13 years old now.
- 13. Wow.
- 13, hard to believe.
So she is just thriving.
She's been doing so great in school.
I just can't believe it.
I like to call her kind of in the most loving way.
She's a bit of a nerd.
You know, she is out there
- I love nerds
- Reading, she reads two to three books a week.
She's right now reading a book about chess.
- Two, three books a week?
- Yeah. It's crazy.
I haven't read two to three books
in the last two or three years.
- It's going to take me.
It's gonna take me quite some time.
It's gonna take me quite some time to read.
- You should share the Queen's Gambit.
I love that one.
She might too young for some of those scenes.
Nevermind. I take it back.
Take it back.
- I'll cover her eyes.
- Yeah. I just saw some of the movie
and I was like, I dunno, maybe not.
But it's, I just mean it's about chess if she's really
into chess.
- Yeah, yeah.
She, It's not enough for her just to beat people.
She wants to destroy them.
- Oh my god, I love Maddy.
- So now reading a book about chess is yeah,
yeah she's tough, so watch out.
- Wow. I love a force.
That's, I love a powerful woman.
- She's a great kid.
She's a great kid.
- Yeah. Well, Matt Logelin's memoir Fatherhood,
previously known as Two Kisses for Maddy
is available everywhere
if you are needing some inspiration.
Fatherhood premieres on Netflix June 18th.