- All right, well, let's call up our first guest.
It's time.
He starred in one of my favorite movies
"Guardians of the Galaxy", I love it.
His new movie "Army of the Dead"
is now streaming on Netflix,
you got to check it out.
♪ You got to know when to hold on ♪
(machine guns firing) ♪ Know when to fall down ♪
(intense music) ♪ Know when to walk away ♪
♪ Know when to run ♪
♪ You never count your money ♪
♪ When you're sitting at the table ♪
♪ Every time ♪
♪ When the deal is done done done ♪
(intense music)
- What is this? (creature roaring)
- It's a (beep) Zombie tiger,
that's (indistinct) alien.
(audience clapping) - I am so excited
(giggling) by this movie.
Please welcome Dave Bautista, everybody.
(audience clapping) (upbeat music)
That might have been the best trailer for any movie,
I'm so amped to see it.
What a way to use Kenny Rogers' song.
I'm just, I might add. - I love the trailer,
the song, it makes it (indistinct)
but the trailer itself,
I just watched it for the first time a few days ago
and I was shocked at how good it is.
- Oh my gosh!
I'm so excited about the movie, everything is blowing up
and you're running and people are just killing it.
I'm so...
I love action movies.
I'm like all about like "Shooter", "Equalizer"
all those movies, I love them.
I think they're so fun.
Say hi to my band y'all,
and Hoff, do you know each other?
(both giggle)
- What's up Bob? - What's happening brother?
- I do.
Yeah, I've known Hoff for years,
actually, it's really interesting hearing your backstory
for Germany because the first time I met Hoff,
we actually presented together.
It was actually the second time I met him,
the first time I met him, we were on our way to present
in Berlin for the European MTV awards.
And when they were announcing the presenters
they announced me and it was like,
(claps) yeah eh.
But they announced Hoff and the crowd lost their minds,
and I didn't realize,
I didn't know the backstory to why he was so huge there,
and now like hearing it really makes it,
it puts it, all the pieces together and then I get it.
- By the way, - (indistinct) like crazy.
- that's like what it feels like to be at an award show now
with BTS around, like no one knows you're there,
but as soon as BTS is announced,
it's like, no one else matters.
It's the most amazing energy, I love that.
I love when people get so stoked
about one person they're so connected.
I think it's cool.
(lively instrumental music)
♪ No more worries no more tries ♪
♪ Kelly's here to bring you smiles ♪
♪ Turn it on and kick back ♪
♪ "The Kelly Clarkson Show" ♪
(audience clapping) (Kelly cheering)
I love all of them.
I love every single one of them.
I'm so happy today (chuckles).
So what's up everybody, I'm back with Dave Bautista,
give it up for the (indistinct).
(audience clapping)
His new movie "Army of the Dead" is now streaming on Netflix
and all show long, David Hasselhoff
is sitting here with my band
playing some new theme song options that I love.
I'm not gonna be able to pick one.
Well, the Hoff played a lifeguard on "Baywatch"
but you were actually a real lifeguard in real life,
I hear. - I was,
I life-guarded for years
actually from the age of 16,
well into my mid twenties, probably like 22.
I was like 26, so probably about 10 years.
And I did it because when I was,
from 17 until 30, I was a bouncer.
So I had my days free and in the summer,
like the easiest cake job was life-guarding.
But I was really enormous at the time,
and I had a buddy who I grew up with
and also bounced with who was my size.
And then some, I was a football player.
So we worked for this company,
they would take us 'cause we were intimidating
and stick us in like the worst areas,
the worst neighborhoods
'cause the kids were just so unruly and just so bad.
And so they would put us in those neighborhoods
just to like intimidate the kids, to keep the kids in line.
So they just wouldn't act up
and terrorize the swimming pools.
But, and it worked most of the time,
it just took a good screaming.
We had to raise our voice a few times.
But other than that, no, nothing exciting.
But yeah, it was...
I have great memories of life-guarding
and just easiest summer job ever, I loved it.
- I would be scared, a of word I can't say on TV,
if I were one of those kids and you were the lifeguard,
I would do nothing wrong.
You were very intimidating for me.
- And they weren't scared because,
we were all very, they were like...
We'd fit in, we were from those neighborhoods,
we knew the neighborhood, so we fit in,
but they just, I think they had a respect factor for us.
But every once in a while it really just took nothing more
than us raising our voices.
- Oh, the power in that.
Oh, I could use that at home.
- Well speaking- - Yeah, I got a big voice.
- Yeah, speaking of lifeguard, I saw this picture,
what's going on here, man? (audience giggling)
That is a really sexy number. (indistinct)
(all giggling)
- I guess when in Australia-
- You leaned in?
- But anyway, we spent a day out in the Harbor
and I met some very good friends there
and my friend Sharon and Hayden in Australia.
And they...
We planned to spend this day on the Harbor on this yacht
and they asked me if I do that and originally I said, "No."
And they said, "Come on, come on."
I said, "Okay, of course."
And they said, Well, we're gonna bring a bunch of them.
And then we hope to get everybody in the budgie smugglers.
And they're actually, when it came time
there was only me and another one of my,
actually dragged some makeup artists who agreed to do it.
John Moore, he...
So we threw them on, took a picture
and quickly got out of them and covered ourselves.
(laughs) - Wait,
I have to ask you, what did you call it?
A smuggler, a what?
- Yeah, budgie smugglers, I believe they're called.
It's like a Australian tradition, I believe.
(Kelly laughing)
- They wear them a lot in Australia.
- budgie smugglers, banana hammock...
- The one guy in the picture is amazing,
he's got his legs full out.
He's just, he's embracing all of it.
I love it.
We'll right now, when you...
I love this about you.
You caption your photos on Instagram
and it's #dreamchaser.
So was there a turning point in your life
that gave you drive and positivity?
- Yeah, there really was.
It's clear as day 'cause I remember it.
So it was and I try not to get emotional
about when I tell this story, but it was a very emotional
even to remember it all these many years later
but there was a time when I was closing on 30
and I was so broke one year
that I couldn't afford to buy two various young children
and I couldn't afford to buy them Christmas presents.
So I had to go kind of tuck my tail
between my legs and go and ask my,
the guy who was working for at the time,
one of the club promoters I worked for.
If I could borrow money to buy my kids Christmas presents
and I was so embarrassed and so humiliated
to have to do that.
I just made that conscious effort
that I'll never do this again.
I'll never be put in this position again.
I needed to provide for my children,
and I need to start building a life for myself
and just not stop living week to week
and just an easy job that provided cash for me
on a nightly basis, is just, I was taking the easy way out
and it was leading absolutely nowhere.
So that was when I started looking for things
that I could do and I wasn't qualified.
I wasn't educated, I wasn't skilled at anything
but I was very athletic and I had a decent look
and I thought maybe I could find a future
in professional wrestling.
And that didn't pan out the way I thought it would.
But it did light a fire fire under me to do pursue it
because my first trial at professional wrestling
and they told me to leave, get out.
I'd never be a pro wrestler.
And I really just, I was heartbroken for about a week.
And then I was just so, I was like spiteful.
So I started pursuing it out of spite,
'cause they told me that I couldn't do it.
- I don't know about you
but I feel like I've been driven by that.
I don't know if that's healthy or not.
I'll ask my therapist later today,
but I literally like, I've literally been told
you can't, you can't, you can't you can't so many times.
You're not this you're not this, you're not this.
And I think that honestly like, God, the universe,
whatever you believe in, knows me well enough to know,
all right!
And then watch me do it.
It's like, all right, I see you.
And it kind of pushes me to,
I don't know, better myself
and really pushes me to really make something happen.
So maybe you're that kind of guy as well,
but I have to talk about your new movie,
'cause the trailer was bad-ass.
Your new Netflix movie is called "Army of the Dead"
so obviously there's some form of zombie
but it looks kind of different from normal zombie movies.
- It really is.
And it's hard, it's really hard to describe
because I don't wanna sell it short
because there's so much going on in this film,
but boil it down to, it's kind of a heist movie
in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
So actually there is a zombie apocalypse
and it's hopefully coming to an end,
but there's so many underlying stories.
There's good relationships and backstories
and redemption stories, but it is if you boil it down to it
it's a zombie heist film and we're really not,
it's a hard thing to do, you know?
'Cause I don't, for one I don't wanna give away spoilers,
but also I wanna do it service by describing the film
because we don't, we do focus on the zombie factor
but it's not exactly a horror film.
I think there's more,
I think there's more funny entertaining moments
than there are actually gory moments,
but it is also like really action-packed.
Like the action on this film is second to none.
I'm really proud of this film,
I can't wait for everybody to see it.
- I love that.
I know, but this film looks amazing,
I'm so excited to see it.
Thank you so much for calling in,
I know last time you were here in person,
so next time maybe we'll get you back in person.
- Yeah, I'd love to come back.
Thank you. - All right.
Well everybody Dave's new movie "Army of the Dead"
is now streaming on Netflix.