welcome to the show let me begin by apologizing last night for mispronouncing your name i was
saying kinu or something it's Keanu is that correct it's an unusual name i've
not heard it before is does it mean something in a different language different part of the world
how did you come by the name um let's see i was told that it means cool breeze over the mountains
wow that's right from my great great uncle and it's uh what origin is that hawaiian well it's
a lovely name yeah do you have a but i don't know what it means the way you pronounced it oh no no
you know in hawaiian you know what dave means don't you
raised by poodles
it's a true story
how you doing i'm all right i've already what do you want to talk about you want to talk about the
uh the motion picture which by the way we saw part of it this afternoon unbelievable yeah and people
who have seen it tell me that it's gripping it's great excitement it is indeed and we're talking
about a bus now out of control got a bomb on it right got to go 50 miles an hour it explodes
exactly yeah i know it sounds kind of silly doesn't it well but it's good i mean that's what's
good about it and that's why when i opened up the cover when i first saw the script it said speed
and then there was a bomb on a bus and if it went under 50 it would blow up et cetera et cetera and
it sounded so fantastic that you know i liked that it was so complete only in hollywood was
it was it fun to do that i'm guessing you spent a great deal of time on the bus yes indeed yes
just about about um six weeks six weeks on the bus yeah going round and round in circles but it was
cool i mean we would drive through the streets and smash into cars were you actually on the
bus when it ran into stuff yeah we did a couple of times that's not a good idea is it um it was
weird because sometimes we would they would set up these stunts right and then they wouldn't go quite
how they were planned so one time this car um got hit spun around went over a divider and flipped
and so everyone in the bus was a little freaked out because they didn't tell us that
yeah that might be discouraging had they read it in the script
uh now i i know you have an injury of some kind i don't know how old the injury is i think it was a
motorcycle accident so now did the the injury what was it what did you do to yourself um
well this the one that i think that you're talking about is a uh uh well pick pick your favorite
injury oh okay whatever well i've i've had some cool crashes i have i mean they're cool because
i'm here not there you know what i mean but um i don't know this one i crashed in um in topanga
canyon on a demon road los angeles yes yeah and um i had you're on a motorcycle yes i'm sorry
i was on a motorcycle i was into panga canyon i was going really fast didn't know the road
and there was a hairpin turn i hit the mountain i had trauma a couple of broken ribs etc and went
to the hospital and they took the blood out and then sewed up my spleen showed up your spleen
well see now that's a mistake because i know if your spleen is damaged it should come out i know
no that's what i thought so so they i'm out of a hospital in five days
right which to me seems short you know if you know you've had the operation i mean they cut
you open they take your guts out all right all right all right okay and my friends are over
and um were talking and i hadn't seen a long time and we started to laugh and laugh and i
had that feeling where you know when you that expression i think i'm going to laugh to death
i had like i had like i had like it's happened many nights right here in our studio audience
so i had all these staples i was afraid they were gonna pop out
and they were like what's wrong i'm like i think the doctor put my guts in wrong you know
and uh it turns out they said well what happened i told him you know well like he
sewed up my spleen and they all said that yeah but you're okay now yeah
keanu let me ask you a question when you were riding the bike did you have both hands on the
come handlebars