Nathan For You (2013) s04e00 Episode Script
A Celebration
1 - Good evening.
I'm Anthony Napoli.
Over the past four and a half years, "Nathan for You" has delivered 24 episodes of premium television entertainment, making sure to keep the volume low and the quality high.
What started as a modest show, where a young Canadian set out to help struggling small businesses, has remained modest, never losing sight of its roots.
Tonight, in anticipation of the premiere of its fourth season, we celebrate this extraordinary achievement by taking a look back at some of the show's best moments, and check in with some familiar faces we've met along the way.
Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride.
I'm Anthony Napoli, and this is "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" Tonight, we get updates from ghost realtor Sue Stanford, hero Corey Calderwood, private investigator Brian Wolfe, production office staff member Salomon Flores, teenage vandal Kyle Heitz, and so much more.
- Let's celebrate - Wow.
We've got so much in store for you tonight.
But what would a "Nathan for You" celebration be without the man himself? Nathan Fielder.
Hi, Nathan, how are you? - Good, thank you for having me, Tony.
- Well, thank you for having me.
So what we want to, uh, talk about is, how has the show gone for the past four and a half years? - Um, well, it's--it's been good.
You know, it's taken a lot of work to make all these episodes, 24 - Sure.
- You know, which is a lot of content, and I'm pretty proud of everything we've done.
- Good.
You should be proud, because the episodes are very funny - Thank you.
- Um, I have to say so myself.
I've seen a lot of your episodes, um, and I really enjoyed you having me on--season one.
- Of course.
Yeah, well, it was a pleasure having you.
For those that don't remember, you hosted the, uh, "The Hunk" episode, which was a fake dating show I did in the first season.
- Sure.
- I think we actually have a photo of you, um, in--at the mansion.
There it is.
- Nice.
- So that's you at the mansion there.
- It was really funny how you had a lot of emails, a lot of phone calls, uh, things like that, everyone wanting to know if I ever had that threesome with two guys.
- Oh, okay.
Have you ever had a threesome? - I have, yes.
- He had a threesome.
- Him with two guys? - Yeah.
- No, not with two guys.
So here's the thing.
Um, I don't know.
I guess I wanted to clear up or just throw it out there, 'cause I never got to add to that.
- Okay, yeah.
- You asked me if I had the threesome, and I said yes.
- Yeah.
- But I never said yes to two guys.
- Okay.
- So the reason why I held my tongue is, it was with two women, but it wasn't with just an ordinary two women.
- I'd really-- just so you know, I do want this program to be G-rated, so everyone can enjoy.
- There's no har--no harm.
- So I'd prefer, maybe, if we didn't talk about threesomes.
- Sure.
Done deal.
- Yeah.
- I'm happy with that, because it was a mother and a daughter combo, but we'll move past that, and I'll introduce one of your first segments.
- Okay.
- Great.
One of the show's most memorable episodes was when Nathan helped a struggling real estate agent rebrand herself as The Ghost Realtor.
Let's have a look.
- Back in the second season of my show, I gave Los Angeles-based realtor Sue Stanford the idea of capitalizing on the 50% of people who believe in ghosts by specializing in the sale of ghost-free homes.
- That's really a wild idea.
- So after giving her marketing a complete overhaul - Oh, my gosh.
That's amazing.
- I paired her up with professional psychic Ron Bard to help her detect any ghosts that might be lurking in her properties.
- Definitely a change of energy.
You feel that, correct? - Mm-hmm.
Definitely.
I feel, like, chills coming down my spine.
- Right.
- Is it a ghost? - No.
- What I never saw coming was that Sue herself had had intimate encounters with spirits in her past.
- It's like--you know what an incubus is? It's a ghost that will have sex with someone until they die.
- Wow.
That's like what I experienced when I was in Switzerland.
- What happened in Switzerland? - When I was being choked? - You were being choked in Switzerland? - Yeah, I-- - We were just talking about that.
- What? - Yeah, uh, earlier-- - Choked by what? - By an entity like that.
I felt like I was being picked-- - Wait, a ghost choked you in Switzerland? - Yes.
- Wow.
The filming of the ghost realtor episode turned out to be an intense personal experience for Sue.
- Come out! Come out, evil spirits! - [sobbing.]
- Come out, evil spirits! Demons messing up with the vertebras in the neck.
Leave now.
- Uh - Leave now! - Okay! - Leave, leave! Leave! - Stop it! - Leave! Leave! - Stop it! - But with so many distractions, it was hard to tell at the time what she really thought of my idea.
Are you okay, Sue? - Yeah.
Actually, I'm fine.
I think I'm in-- feeling a little relief now.
It's amazing.
[sighs.]
- It's been three years since I rebranded Sue as The Ghost Realtor, and when I recently checked out her website, I was delighted to discover that she'd not only continued to use my idea in her real estate practice but had gone as far as teaming up with Ron Bard the psychic and a small-time production company to create a television pilot for a "Ghost Realtor" reality series that she was pitching around town.
- I feel kind of funny in here.
This is--this is not good.
- We're putting salt in the corners to disperse the negative energy.
If this was my house, I'd burn this shit down.
- I was so proud of how far Sue had run with my idea.
How are you, Sue? - But when I gave her a call to schedule a follow-up, she shared some sad news.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Sue.
But she told me she was now working with a new psychic, and she wanted me to come meet him.
So at Sue's insistence, I paid her a visit at her home.
- I want you to meet-- - Hi.
- Hey, Nathan.
- Joshua.
- Good to meet you.
- Nathan, good to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- J-Joshua? - Yes, sir.
- Good to meet you.
- So I'm what's known as a psychic medium, but I'm also clairsentient, which means that I feel, uh, my angels.
I'm also clairvoyant, which means I can see.
I'm also clairaudient, which is--most of the time, I actually hear-- I hear voices.
and, uh, I also do financial advising.
- Oh, okay.
- Uh, it's--utilizing spirit with everything.
- Sue told me she was still working hard to get the "Ghost Realtor" show off the ground, and she even hoped that Ron could still be a part of it.
- He probably can help us from the other side, also.
- Yes, definitely.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's a great point.
- Yeah, it truly is.
- We call on Ron when we need some help.
[chuckles.]
- Definitely.
- So you can talk to Ron? Even though he's gone, you can still - Sure, and, you know, I can do--I could try communicating with Ron right now, if you all would like.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right now? - Sure.
- Why not? - So dear Mother-Father God, how grateful am I just for this vortex, for this space, for this time.
Grateful am I just for all of the angelic beings that are in this home, and as we evoke the spirit of Ron, we are grateful that Sue, myself, and Nathan, as a collective consciousness, that we are open and available.
Okay, go ahead.
- Go ahead? - Do you want to ask a question? - Uh, for Ron? - Yes.
- Um Did he enjoy his experience, uh, on the show? - Yes.
- Great.
Um - Are there any more questions that you--that you have? - I guess, how does he feel about you replacing him? - Uh, he says it's good.
He says he knows-- he says that I've got a good heart.
Um So he--he says it's good.
- That's good.
- Do you have any other questions, Nathan? - Um I know, on the show, he mentioned that he worked on the O.
J.
trial.
- Uhh, worked on O.
J.
's defense team - You worked on O.
J.
's case? - Yeah.
- So do you think he's innocent? - He was definitely innocent.
- O.
J.
- Definitely.
- Now that he's on the other side, does he have any clearer info on, maybe, who the real killer was? - He--he does, uh, but I don't-- I'm not getting a name or anything like that right now.
- He knows who the killer is? - Yeah.
They--yes.
- Was it O.
J.
? - This is not coming from Ron.
This is coming from me, and that answer is yes.
- But Ron's not telling you that.
- Every time I present him with that, he steps back.
- Who's telling you then? - My own connection with-- with my own-- with my own spirit guides.
- Okay.
Cool.
- That's how it works.
- Bye, Sue.
- Bye, honey.
You take care.
[gasps.]
Oh, I got a little kiss.
- Yeah, of course.
- That's so sweet.
- Oh, you're welcome.
- Okay.
Well, thanks for coming by.
- It's only--only for women.
[laughter.]
It was great to see that Sue and her new psychic got along so well, and even though it was sad that Ron had died, I was happy he'd still be able to guide them from the other side.
- I'm Jack Garbarino, and I've never been to a gym in my life, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Nathan has always believed that teens are the adults of the future, which is why he tries to be a role model for teenagers everywhere, including Kyle Heitz.
- In season one, I set out to catch a teen doing graffiti and then tell on him to his parents in order to help him turn his life around.
Hey, how's it going? - It's going.
- Cool, what are you doing there? Oh-ho, that's so funny.
You drew a [bleep.]
.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's really funny.
- To lure him in, I pretended we were a show called "Teen Street" that featured cool teens and said that we wanted to profile him.
- What up? I'm Kyle, 19 years old, and this is "Teen Street.
" If you don't like it, [horn honks.]
you.
Bam.
[chuckles.]
First tattoo when I was 13.
This is the only girl that never complains to me.
[woman moans.]
[chuckles.]
All right, so now I'm going to show you where I live.
Let's do this.
- The "Teen Street" profile worked perfectly and led me straight to Kyle's mom, where I informed her of his vandalism.
And you can see, I'm holding them as if I'm masturbating these two men.
- [chuckles.]
- You're--you're laughing.
But neither of them seemed to take the intervention very seriously.
The penises? Do you like that? - No.
- Being held like that? [laughter.]
Is that So after scaring him straight with a visit from a retired cop - And believe me, you don't want to go to jail.
- I left him with some words of wisdom.
You're a good kid.
- Mm-hmm.
- And you have a lot of potential, and to be honest, I see some of myself in you, but you just have to try to become more like me and less like you.
And since that day, I'd always wondered if Kyle took my advice to heart.
[uplifting music.]
- A'ight, so check this one out.
- When I recently checked in with Kyle, I was delighted to discover that he was now a contributing member of society, selling discount vaporizer pens door-to-door.
- So what I do is, I take, you know, 40, 60 vape pens, and I go out there, and I knock 'em all out in a day, and it's just kind of "rinse, repeat.
" It's what I've been doing ever since, you know, last time you guys ran into me.
- But he hadn't only found his calling.
He also found his soul mate.
- I stay at home, and he brings home the money.
That's how it should work.
- That's how it should be.
That's how it should be.
I've--I've never been so passionate about a woman until I've met this girl, you know? Where I see myself in the future with this girl is definitely, you know, I'm gonna ask her to marry me.
Love you, babe.
- Love you too.
- I was so proud of everything Kyle had accomplished since I set him on the right path, and I wanted to let him know.
I just want to say, I'm so happy to see how well you're doing, and, you know, it's so exciting to see how much of a success you are; I'm so proud.
- Thank you.
- Especially to know that none of this would have happened without my intervention.
It's so humbling for me.
- Good.
- But there was still one problem.
Despite Kyle's claims of being an amazing salesman - I can sell anything.
Like, I can sell the shoes off your feet back to you.
I can make an old Honda look like a Porsche.
I will sell that shit to you.
- His results told a different story.
- I'm loading up 13 other stores out here in the--in your guys' general area.
- Is, uh, anybody in the back I could talk to? - Anybody in the back I could talk to? No, okay.
Mind if I speak to the people in the back? - And I realized there was still one part of Kyle that could be turning off his customers - This is the only girl that never complains to me.
[woman moans.]
- A pornographic tattoo on his wrist.
So I decided to give him a little surprise to help with his business aspirations.
No peeking! - I'm not peeking.
- All right.
So, Kyle - All right.
- Uh, this is Dr.
Rubinstein.
- How's it going today? - Nice to meet you.
- Very nice to meet you.
- He's gonna explain to you what we're doing here today.
- Okay.
- I'm a board-certified dermatologist, and I specialize in laser tattoo removal.
The production has agreed to pay for all of your tattoos to be removed by laser and if that's okay with you, we can get started as soon as possible.
- Absolutely not.
- Well, Kyle, obviously, I know you want to be-- you're in business now, and-- - Right.
- No one's going to take you seriously as long as you have tattoos, so - What about a long sleeve? - Well, I mean, right now, you're wearing a long sleeve, and I can see them.
You just covered them, but you lost the deal before they were covered.
I was shocked that Kyle was so against taking this obvious step towards professionalism, but I'd invested too much in this young man to give up on him now.
Kyle, you think this is good for business? A tattoo of a naked woman smoking? You can see her breasts, her nipples there-- - I mean, y-you guys-- - And - You guys-- - A vagina? - That's a belly button.
- That's a belly button? - Yeah, she's-- - What is that, doctor? Is that a vagina? - No, I would say that's a navel.
- How can you tell? - Uh, I-I think she just has a long torso, is what's going on there.
- But wouldn't her legs start right here, normally? So that would be the vagina hole? - It is possible.
- And after some negotiation, we finally came to a compromise.
At least will you remove the breasts and the vagina? Is that-- - Of course.
- Is it possible just to remove the private parts? - Yes, of course.
- Okay.
Let's get it done.
- You'll do that? - Yeah.
- Okay.
You know, a woman's body is--is gorgeous, but sometimes we don't want that, you know, for business.
- Right.
- With the terms agreed upon, Dr.
Rubinstein brought Kyle to his operating suite so his technician could begin the procedure.
- Does that look like a vagina to you, or what is that? He says it's a navel.
- [sighs.]
You know, I would be distracted by the whole thing.
- Right.
- Right, but what is this? - So if I was in a meeting with you-- It could be the top of a vagina.
Yeah, it-- - The top.
Right.
- Yeah.
The procedure only lasted a few minutes, but by the time it was done, the image on Kyle's arm had been transformed from a disgusting naked woman into a respectable young lady.
- Well, I think it definitely looks a lot more professional than before.
- I appreciate the work you guys did.
- It was amazing what four men could accomplish when they put their minds together, and with an arm now free of female private parts, I was certain that Kyle would be a success.
- Appreciate it.
- Keep going.
- I'll do it.
- Great work.
- Still to come, production assistant Salomon Flores opens up about what really goes on behind the scenes of "Nathan for You.
" - I'm retired Superior Court judge the Honorable Anthony Filosa, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Welcome back.
Well, we're about halfway through tonight's celebration.
Nathan, how are you feeling so far? - Great.
I feel like there's a lot to celebrate, so - That's great.
I mean, it's a great thing-- celebration.
- Um, I should also mention that I have a little surprise later for you in the show.
- Okay, and what would that surprise be? - Well, I can't tell you, or it wouldn't be a surprise.
- Ooh.
Great.
- Yeah.
- How about a segment? - Uh, yeah, that'd be great.
- Great, okay.
One of the best parts of "Nathan for You" is watching Nathan find solutions to problems that most in the business world had given up on, like a way to sell alcohol to minors.
- From now on, you allow them to purchase it, but they just can't take it home until they're 21.
Look what you got.
- [inaudible.]
Look at that.
- 40 ounce.
- Yeah, that's tight.
- Pretty sweet.
Uh-uh-uh.
No.
So close.
You get a claim check, so you're allowed to come back and claim it when you're 21.
- Yeah, but I want it for right now.
I don't want it two years later.
[orchestral music.]
- So that segment was shot over three years ago, and today, one of those minors has finally come of age.
And I'm excited to announce that he's here with us tonight, in studio, to reclaim the 40-ounce bottle of Miller High Life he purchased in 2013.
So let's bring out Jason.
- How's it going, guys? - Hey.
All right.
So, uh, you-- uh, do you remember this? - I do.
- Buying this in 2013? - I sure do.
- Now that you're of age, you can finally have possession of it and enjoy it.
- All right.
It's about time.
- Yeah.
You excited, man? - Oh, yeah.
- Ready to get crunk? - Oh, yeah.
- Yeah? - I'm ready.
- Daddy wants? - Daddy wants.
- All right, so, I know it's a little lame, but I gotta check ID, so - Yeah, no problem.
Here you go.
- All right.
Cool.
Cool.
Well, checks out.
- Cool.
- All right, so, all I need is your, uh, claim check, and - My claim check? - The half the ticket they gave you with the alcohol.
- Huh Well, that's gone.
- Oh, you didn't keep it? - No.
I did not.
- You know what? I recognize you from the video of the segment, so I'm gonna let it slide.
- All right.
- So no worries, man.
-All right.
Cool.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
- All right.
Well, here you go.
- Thank you.
- All right, sweet.
- Well, cheers.
- Cheers, yeah.
- Thanks for the beer.
- Yeah, definitely.
- It's about time.
- All right.
Awesome, man.
So - All right, well, thank you.
- Yeah, of course, so-- - See you guys around.
Thanks.
- Yeah, okay.
Definitely, man.
- Appreciate it.
- Have a good one, Jason.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Nice.
Nice.
[chuckles.]
That was fun to watch.
One of the most complicated relationships Nathan has had over the past three seasons has been with a private investigator named Brian Wolfe.
But recently, Nathan paid Brian a visit after doing an investigation of his own.
Let's have a look.
- Back in season one, I met a private investigator and offered to help him by getting him his first review on Yelp.
I'm going to give you 24 hours to track my whereabouts, And if you do a good job at that, I'll give you a five-star review.
- Easy.
- Even though I threw Brian off my trail with the help of a team of look-alikes, he managed to find me anyway and earn his five-star review.
- You're an easy prey, kid.
- But to my disappointment, he wasn't happy with my work.
- I don't give a flying [bleep.]
about Yelp, okay? I ought to do a background check on you, see what type of fellow you are.
You know what you are? You remind me of the "Wizard of Loneliness," 'cause you're your own self, your own wizard.
That's what you are.
[chuckles.]
Look at you, with a [bleep.]
pink shirt and everything else.
Oh, you're killing me.
You have no friends.
That's why you're the Wizard of Loneliness.
- Even though he didn't appreciate my help, he ended up getting his own TV show based on his "Nathan for You" appearance, and over the next two seasons, I went back to him whenever I needed PI help and also once just for an honest opinion.
- You know you're a nerd.
You've been a nerd your entire life.
- I'm not a nerd.
But the last time I saw Brian, he brought up something that surprised me.
- And then all of a sudden, it just went from that magazine to that magazine, and-- - What magazine? - It was "Penthouse" magazine.
- Oh, "Penthouse".
Sorry.
- Years ago, years, years, years, years, years ago.
- He told me that he'd worked as a nude model in the '80s but was evasive about the details.
That's porn, right? - No, it's not.
Not even close to being porn.
No.
- So recently, I did some PI work of my own and discovered that Brian's portfolio extended far beyond just "Penthouse.
" Going under the stage name "Kory Wolf," Brian had been a full-blown porn star, featured in centerfolds and on the covers of the nation's top smut magazines.
There were images that literally took my breath away.
It wasn't easy tracking this stuff down, and I thought that Brian might be impressed that I managed to uncover the evidence of his modeling days, so I paid him a visit to show him what I found.
- What year is this? '84? - Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
- At first, Brian was a little hesitant to admit that Kory Wolf was him.
That's not you? - No.
- You're saying Kory Wolf is not you? - No.
- But after getting over his initial shyness, Brian was happy to open up about his glory days.
- They don't want you erect, number one.
Okay? They don't want it.
Okay, they want to show that when you're soft, you're still [bleep.]
golden, pal.
- Why? - Because they don't want to show it fully erect.
They want to say that when you pull your pants down to go take a [bleep.]
piss, you got some meat there between your legs.
Okay? - So they want you to pose soft? - They want you to pose medium.
- What's medium? - They don't want you to be, uh What was the word? What did he say to me? I said to him, I go He said, "No, Wolfe, you don't have to be [bleep.]
erect.
"All they care about is that, you know, that, uh, you have some strength in your penis," blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah.
- But it wasn't only Brian's penis that was soft that day.
A softer side of his personality seemed to emerge as well.
- Okay, let's go.
Come on.
- You want to throw that around with me? - I'll throw you some rockets of death.
- You want to throw the football with me? - If I threw a football at you right now, do you think you could catch it? - I could catch the football.
- You can catch a football? - Yeah.
- I doubt it.
I doubt you can catch a football.
- Okay.
- There you go.
You good, you good.
You're good to go.
Blue, 27! Blue, 27! Hut, hut! Go! - Throw it--ah.
Oh-- - Back of your ear, then boom.
Oh, yeah.
You do.
Here, you ready? It's like this.
And then you run.
There you go.
There you go.
- Wow! Well, stick around, because the celebration continues when we return.
- It's clear from what we've seen so far tonight that Nathan has a generous heart, which is why when he discovered anti-Semitism lurking in the softshell jacket industry, he set out to fix it by starting his own jacket company, Summit Ice.
- While filming the third season of my show, I discovered that Taiga, the company that made my favorite jacket, had published a tribute to a notorious Holocaust denier in their winter catalogue.
As a Jew, I was horrified and knew I could never wear my Taiga jacket again.
But in searching for a new jacket, I was worried that other companies might have dark secrets as well, so I launched a jacket company of my own called Summit Ice, the first outdoor apparel company to openly promote the true story of the Holocaust.
But after getting some questionable marketing advice from a rabbi - Definitely makes a statement.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Definitely makes a statement.
- My brand failed to get traction in a retail environment.
- I think that this mash-up of retail and, uh, history is a train wreck.
I, uh-- - And at the time, it seemed like we would never succeed as a business.
- Now, that episode aired a year and a half ago.
Nathan, I believe you have an update.
- We do.
- Well, let's take a look.
- After being rejected by a retail store, I wasn't sure if Summit Ice would ever take off.
But after the episode aired, our Holocaust-affirming message - Summit Ice.
Deny nothing.
- Clearly resonated with people, as Summit Ice's fleece-lined, water-resistant softshells became a hot item, racking up thousands of sales in our online store and were seen being worn by all kinds of celebrities, including white blues legend John Mayer and king of the court Blake Griffin, and we soon expanded the product line to include T-shirts and tuques as well.
But prior to launching Summit Ice, I had pledged that all the profits would be donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, so earlier this year, I got on a plane and headed to my home town of Vancouver, British Columbia, to present them with the check.
- Call me crazy, say my head's Too high up in the clouds And you'll make a difference 'Cause I can do anything I put my mind to 'Cause superstars come in many colors - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Superstars come in many colors - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Superstars come in many colors - Whoa, oh, whoa - It was great to be back in beautiful Vancouver, B.
C.
, site of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, and I was especially excited to pay a visit to the Holocaust Education Centre, where executive director Nina Krieger was awaiting my humble donation.
- We're absolutely thrilled to welcome you here today.
- Oh, I'm so thrilled to be here.
Thank you so much.
- I don't know-- have you been here before? - Um, no, I haven't been here, but-- - Okay.
- You know, I'm familiar with the--your--your work.
- Okay.
- Unlike most donors, who show off the generous amount they're giving with an oversized check, I made mine barely visible to the human eye so as not to brag.
So you can see that-- - "Made out to "the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre for the amount of $150,000.
" - Yes.
- Nathan, on behalf of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, thank you so, so much for your generous support.
- You're welcome, Nina, and on behalf of Summit Ice, thank you for the privilege of allowing me to donate to you such a large amount of money in U.
S.
dollars.
- Nathan, I'd love to introduce you to Phil Levinson, who's the current president - Hi.
- Of our board of directors.
- So nice to meet you.
- Dr.
Robert Krell, who's the founding president of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre - So nice to meet you.
- And a survivor of the Holocaust.
- It was truly an honor to meet the founders of the Holocaust Education Centre.
You can see, there's lots of zippers here, and they're also water-resistant, and they're wind-resistant as well.
- They're actually perfect for our climate.
- And tuques here.
- It's been so cold.
Thank you so much, Nathan.
- Yes.
- Yeah, I could hide my kippah under it.
- And if the awareness created by my humble donation could help delay the next Holocaust by even a day, it would all be worth it.
Keep up the great work.
- Thank you, Nathan.
- Wow.
You donated 150,000 U.
S.
dollars to charity.
- Holocaust awareness, yes.
- That's unbelievable.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Do you support Holocaust awareness? - Um, I mean I don't know if I've thought about it.
I mean, I would - I mean, why did you hesitate so much? - Nah, I mean, it's the first I've heard of it.
- The Holocaust? - Well, I mean, just the awareness and all that stuff.
- Do you believe the Holocaust happened? - I do, yeah.
- How many Jews died in the Holocaust? - Oh, I don't know.
I can't give you an exact number.
I wasn't there.
- 6 million.
- Were--were you there? - Was I in the Holocaust? - Well, I mean, were you around at that time? - No, it was in the '40s.
- All right.
So the number is just, you know, what we read in books and, you know, historical novels and things like that.
- Um - What do you say we make a-- uh, make a commercial break? - Okay.
- Okay.
We have to take a quick commercial break, but we'll be right back.
Coming up next, you don't want to miss my exclusive one-on-one interview with production office staff member Salomon Flores.
- I'm security guard Simon Kellogg, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Lots of people wonder what goes on behind the scenes of "Nathan for You," and one person who can answer that question is long-time production office staffer Salomon Flores.
You might remember him from a blind date at Quiznos that Nathan set him up on.
And here he is again, giving a eulogy for Buzz, Nathan's pet fly.
And I happen to have Salomon here in studio tonight to join me for a one-on-one interview.
Salomon, thank you for being here.
- You're welcome.
- Now, "Nathan for You" seems like a crazy production, but you're actually behind the scenes.
Can you give our viewers a sense of what it's like behind the curtain? - Well, just, uh, the usual, like, the moving of cameras and equipment and all that.
- Sure.
- Yes.
All that.
- Like grips, lighting-- - Yes.
- Technical people.
- Yes.
[laughter.]
- Yeah.
- All right.
Can you give us anything else? - Uh, that's about it.
- No, like, behind-the-scenes secrets of the show, or - Uh, no, just, uh, serious work.
- Serious work, huh? - Yeah.
- So no secrets? - No secrets.
- Okay.
Well, all right, Salomon.
Thank you for being here.
- Okay.
Do I - Yeah, sure.
Yeah, you can get up.
If you know me, I'm a big fan of motorcycles, so let's change gears and take a look at this.
- Nearly two years ago, I approached an average Joe named Corey Calderwood with the opportunity of a lifetime.
By the time I'm done, you will re-emerge as a national hero.
- All right.
That is interesting.
- After secretly stealing his face - So this is gonna just test for epilepsy.
Just gonna have you close your eyes, okay? - And isolating him in the Mojave Desert, I completely took over his entire identity.
Knowing he was single, the first thing I did was get him a girlfriend.
It's kind of hard to talk about myself with a goddess sitting right in front of me.
- Aww, thank you! - Yeah, sorry.
Is that a bit cheesy, or - No, it's actually really sweet.
Nobody's ever called me that before.
- But my ultimate goal was to transform him into a national hero with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity.
After pulling off the stunt and convincing all of America it was him on that wire, we switched back bodies and Corey took over the relationship that I'd begun.
- It's pretty hot.
- Yeah.
- Wanna--wanna kiss now? - Definitely.
- Okay! - Oh, you got soft lips.
Thank you.
- The stunt not only made him a media sensation but gave him a new identity that earned him the respect of his grandparents.
- You did something I never, ever thought would be possible from you.
- I was curious to see what Corey had done with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so I recently sent a camera crew to Corey's new home of Fresno, California, to catch up.
Since the episode aired, Corey had moved out of his parents' house and into a three-bedroom home he shared with two of his friends.
- Tom lives over here in this room, and Robert lives over here on this side.
- Corey was no longer with Jasmine, but I discovered that he had used the confidence I had given him to find a new woman, named Lily.
- We play a lot of beer hockey.
Do a lot of drinking.
"Jessica Jones", we watch that together.
Like, a lot of Netflix Original series.
- It was sad to see Corey turn his back on the amazing chemistry he had with Jasmine, and his reason for breaking up didn't make much sense to me.
- I wasn't comfortable trying to, like, start dating someone on-- essentially, lying to them the whole time about what was going on.
- But Corey and Lily seemed happy together, and even though she wasn't the woman I had chosen for him, the fact that he was sexually active was good enough for me.
- One of the most consistently surprising things about "Nathan for You" is the way it brings people together, and over the past few seasons, moments of genuine human connection seemed to happen in the most unexpected places.
- These days, I just can't think straight I got too many angles running round my brain 'Cause I know It won't be the same Won't be the same [gentle music.]
- Picture me underneath your bed Talking in circles, trying to make sense of What will come when the time line - Roses are red, violets are blue.
No one is prettier than you.
- Aww, thanks! - Am I still someone you'd want to be friends with? - Yeah, I mean, you just took my urine.
I mean, that's in the past, man.
- I love you.
- Okay.
- You know, I wasn't supposed to leave him.
You know? I was supposed to stay.
Um - Do you want a hug? - I won't be the same - I, I, I - Won't be the same - I, I, I I, I, I - Won't be the same - I, I, I - Wow.
I just got a shiver down my spine.
We'll be right back.
[rhythmic strumming.]
I'm Anthony Napoli.
Over the past four and a half years, "Nathan for You" has delivered 24 episodes of premium television entertainment, making sure to keep the volume low and the quality high.
What started as a modest show, where a young Canadian set out to help struggling small businesses, has remained modest, never losing sight of its roots.
Tonight, in anticipation of the premiere of its fourth season, we celebrate this extraordinary achievement by taking a look back at some of the show's best moments, and check in with some familiar faces we've met along the way.
Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride.
I'm Anthony Napoli, and this is "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" Tonight, we get updates from ghost realtor Sue Stanford, hero Corey Calderwood, private investigator Brian Wolfe, production office staff member Salomon Flores, teenage vandal Kyle Heitz, and so much more.
- Let's celebrate - Wow.
We've got so much in store for you tonight.
But what would a "Nathan for You" celebration be without the man himself? Nathan Fielder.
Hi, Nathan, how are you? - Good, thank you for having me, Tony.
- Well, thank you for having me.
So what we want to, uh, talk about is, how has the show gone for the past four and a half years? - Um, well, it's--it's been good.
You know, it's taken a lot of work to make all these episodes, 24 - Sure.
- You know, which is a lot of content, and I'm pretty proud of everything we've done.
- Good.
You should be proud, because the episodes are very funny - Thank you.
- Um, I have to say so myself.
I've seen a lot of your episodes, um, and I really enjoyed you having me on--season one.
- Of course.
Yeah, well, it was a pleasure having you.
For those that don't remember, you hosted the, uh, "The Hunk" episode, which was a fake dating show I did in the first season.
- Sure.
- I think we actually have a photo of you, um, in--at the mansion.
There it is.
- Nice.
- So that's you at the mansion there.
- It was really funny how you had a lot of emails, a lot of phone calls, uh, things like that, everyone wanting to know if I ever had that threesome with two guys.
- Oh, okay.
Have you ever had a threesome? - I have, yes.
- He had a threesome.
- Him with two guys? - Yeah.
- No, not with two guys.
So here's the thing.
Um, I don't know.
I guess I wanted to clear up or just throw it out there, 'cause I never got to add to that.
- Okay, yeah.
- You asked me if I had the threesome, and I said yes.
- Yeah.
- But I never said yes to two guys.
- Okay.
- So the reason why I held my tongue is, it was with two women, but it wasn't with just an ordinary two women.
- I'd really-- just so you know, I do want this program to be G-rated, so everyone can enjoy.
- There's no har--no harm.
- So I'd prefer, maybe, if we didn't talk about threesomes.
- Sure.
Done deal.
- Yeah.
- I'm happy with that, because it was a mother and a daughter combo, but we'll move past that, and I'll introduce one of your first segments.
- Okay.
- Great.
One of the show's most memorable episodes was when Nathan helped a struggling real estate agent rebrand herself as The Ghost Realtor.
Let's have a look.
- Back in the second season of my show, I gave Los Angeles-based realtor Sue Stanford the idea of capitalizing on the 50% of people who believe in ghosts by specializing in the sale of ghost-free homes.
- That's really a wild idea.
- So after giving her marketing a complete overhaul - Oh, my gosh.
That's amazing.
- I paired her up with professional psychic Ron Bard to help her detect any ghosts that might be lurking in her properties.
- Definitely a change of energy.
You feel that, correct? - Mm-hmm.
Definitely.
I feel, like, chills coming down my spine.
- Right.
- Is it a ghost? - No.
- What I never saw coming was that Sue herself had had intimate encounters with spirits in her past.
- It's like--you know what an incubus is? It's a ghost that will have sex with someone until they die.
- Wow.
That's like what I experienced when I was in Switzerland.
- What happened in Switzerland? - When I was being choked? - You were being choked in Switzerland? - Yeah, I-- - We were just talking about that.
- What? - Yeah, uh, earlier-- - Choked by what? - By an entity like that.
I felt like I was being picked-- - Wait, a ghost choked you in Switzerland? - Yes.
- Wow.
The filming of the ghost realtor episode turned out to be an intense personal experience for Sue.
- Come out! Come out, evil spirits! - [sobbing.]
- Come out, evil spirits! Demons messing up with the vertebras in the neck.
Leave now.
- Uh - Leave now! - Okay! - Leave, leave! Leave! - Stop it! - Leave! Leave! - Stop it! - But with so many distractions, it was hard to tell at the time what she really thought of my idea.
Are you okay, Sue? - Yeah.
Actually, I'm fine.
I think I'm in-- feeling a little relief now.
It's amazing.
[sighs.]
- It's been three years since I rebranded Sue as The Ghost Realtor, and when I recently checked out her website, I was delighted to discover that she'd not only continued to use my idea in her real estate practice but had gone as far as teaming up with Ron Bard the psychic and a small-time production company to create a television pilot for a "Ghost Realtor" reality series that she was pitching around town.
- I feel kind of funny in here.
This is--this is not good.
- We're putting salt in the corners to disperse the negative energy.
If this was my house, I'd burn this shit down.
- I was so proud of how far Sue had run with my idea.
How are you, Sue? - But when I gave her a call to schedule a follow-up, she shared some sad news.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Sue.
But she told me she was now working with a new psychic, and she wanted me to come meet him.
So at Sue's insistence, I paid her a visit at her home.
- I want you to meet-- - Hi.
- Hey, Nathan.
- Joshua.
- Good to meet you.
- Nathan, good to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- J-Joshua? - Yes, sir.
- Good to meet you.
- So I'm what's known as a psychic medium, but I'm also clairsentient, which means that I feel, uh, my angels.
I'm also clairvoyant, which means I can see.
I'm also clairaudient, which is--most of the time, I actually hear-- I hear voices.
and, uh, I also do financial advising.
- Oh, okay.
- Uh, it's--utilizing spirit with everything.
- Sue told me she was still working hard to get the "Ghost Realtor" show off the ground, and she even hoped that Ron could still be a part of it.
- He probably can help us from the other side, also.
- Yes, definitely.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's a great point.
- Yeah, it truly is.
- We call on Ron when we need some help.
[chuckles.]
- Definitely.
- So you can talk to Ron? Even though he's gone, you can still - Sure, and, you know, I can do--I could try communicating with Ron right now, if you all would like.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right now? - Sure.
- Why not? - So dear Mother-Father God, how grateful am I just for this vortex, for this space, for this time.
Grateful am I just for all of the angelic beings that are in this home, and as we evoke the spirit of Ron, we are grateful that Sue, myself, and Nathan, as a collective consciousness, that we are open and available.
Okay, go ahead.
- Go ahead? - Do you want to ask a question? - Uh, for Ron? - Yes.
- Um Did he enjoy his experience, uh, on the show? - Yes.
- Great.
Um - Are there any more questions that you--that you have? - I guess, how does he feel about you replacing him? - Uh, he says it's good.
He says he knows-- he says that I've got a good heart.
Um So he--he says it's good.
- That's good.
- Do you have any other questions, Nathan? - Um I know, on the show, he mentioned that he worked on the O.
J.
trial.
- Uhh, worked on O.
J.
's defense team - You worked on O.
J.
's case? - Yeah.
- So do you think he's innocent? - He was definitely innocent.
- O.
J.
- Definitely.
- Now that he's on the other side, does he have any clearer info on, maybe, who the real killer was? - He--he does, uh, but I don't-- I'm not getting a name or anything like that right now.
- He knows who the killer is? - Yeah.
They--yes.
- Was it O.
J.
? - This is not coming from Ron.
This is coming from me, and that answer is yes.
- But Ron's not telling you that.
- Every time I present him with that, he steps back.
- Who's telling you then? - My own connection with-- with my own-- with my own spirit guides.
- Okay.
Cool.
- That's how it works.
- Bye, Sue.
- Bye, honey.
You take care.
[gasps.]
Oh, I got a little kiss.
- Yeah, of course.
- That's so sweet.
- Oh, you're welcome.
- Okay.
Well, thanks for coming by.
- It's only--only for women.
[laughter.]
It was great to see that Sue and her new psychic got along so well, and even though it was sad that Ron had died, I was happy he'd still be able to guide them from the other side.
- I'm Jack Garbarino, and I've never been to a gym in my life, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Nathan has always believed that teens are the adults of the future, which is why he tries to be a role model for teenagers everywhere, including Kyle Heitz.
- In season one, I set out to catch a teen doing graffiti and then tell on him to his parents in order to help him turn his life around.
Hey, how's it going? - It's going.
- Cool, what are you doing there? Oh-ho, that's so funny.
You drew a [bleep.]
.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's really funny.
- To lure him in, I pretended we were a show called "Teen Street" that featured cool teens and said that we wanted to profile him.
- What up? I'm Kyle, 19 years old, and this is "Teen Street.
" If you don't like it, [horn honks.]
you.
Bam.
[chuckles.]
First tattoo when I was 13.
This is the only girl that never complains to me.
[woman moans.]
[chuckles.]
All right, so now I'm going to show you where I live.
Let's do this.
- The "Teen Street" profile worked perfectly and led me straight to Kyle's mom, where I informed her of his vandalism.
And you can see, I'm holding them as if I'm masturbating these two men.
- [chuckles.]
- You're--you're laughing.
But neither of them seemed to take the intervention very seriously.
The penises? Do you like that? - No.
- Being held like that? [laughter.]
Is that So after scaring him straight with a visit from a retired cop - And believe me, you don't want to go to jail.
- I left him with some words of wisdom.
You're a good kid.
- Mm-hmm.
- And you have a lot of potential, and to be honest, I see some of myself in you, but you just have to try to become more like me and less like you.
And since that day, I'd always wondered if Kyle took my advice to heart.
[uplifting music.]
- A'ight, so check this one out.
- When I recently checked in with Kyle, I was delighted to discover that he was now a contributing member of society, selling discount vaporizer pens door-to-door.
- So what I do is, I take, you know, 40, 60 vape pens, and I go out there, and I knock 'em all out in a day, and it's just kind of "rinse, repeat.
" It's what I've been doing ever since, you know, last time you guys ran into me.
- But he hadn't only found his calling.
He also found his soul mate.
- I stay at home, and he brings home the money.
That's how it should work.
- That's how it should be.
That's how it should be.
I've--I've never been so passionate about a woman until I've met this girl, you know? Where I see myself in the future with this girl is definitely, you know, I'm gonna ask her to marry me.
Love you, babe.
- Love you too.
- I was so proud of everything Kyle had accomplished since I set him on the right path, and I wanted to let him know.
I just want to say, I'm so happy to see how well you're doing, and, you know, it's so exciting to see how much of a success you are; I'm so proud.
- Thank you.
- Especially to know that none of this would have happened without my intervention.
It's so humbling for me.
- Good.
- But there was still one problem.
Despite Kyle's claims of being an amazing salesman - I can sell anything.
Like, I can sell the shoes off your feet back to you.
I can make an old Honda look like a Porsche.
I will sell that shit to you.
- His results told a different story.
- I'm loading up 13 other stores out here in the--in your guys' general area.
- Is, uh, anybody in the back I could talk to? - Anybody in the back I could talk to? No, okay.
Mind if I speak to the people in the back? - And I realized there was still one part of Kyle that could be turning off his customers - This is the only girl that never complains to me.
[woman moans.]
- A pornographic tattoo on his wrist.
So I decided to give him a little surprise to help with his business aspirations.
No peeking! - I'm not peeking.
- All right.
So, Kyle - All right.
- Uh, this is Dr.
Rubinstein.
- How's it going today? - Nice to meet you.
- Very nice to meet you.
- He's gonna explain to you what we're doing here today.
- Okay.
- I'm a board-certified dermatologist, and I specialize in laser tattoo removal.
The production has agreed to pay for all of your tattoos to be removed by laser and if that's okay with you, we can get started as soon as possible.
- Absolutely not.
- Well, Kyle, obviously, I know you want to be-- you're in business now, and-- - Right.
- No one's going to take you seriously as long as you have tattoos, so - What about a long sleeve? - Well, I mean, right now, you're wearing a long sleeve, and I can see them.
You just covered them, but you lost the deal before they were covered.
I was shocked that Kyle was so against taking this obvious step towards professionalism, but I'd invested too much in this young man to give up on him now.
Kyle, you think this is good for business? A tattoo of a naked woman smoking? You can see her breasts, her nipples there-- - I mean, y-you guys-- - And - You guys-- - A vagina? - That's a belly button.
- That's a belly button? - Yeah, she's-- - What is that, doctor? Is that a vagina? - No, I would say that's a navel.
- How can you tell? - Uh, I-I think she just has a long torso, is what's going on there.
- But wouldn't her legs start right here, normally? So that would be the vagina hole? - It is possible.
- And after some negotiation, we finally came to a compromise.
At least will you remove the breasts and the vagina? Is that-- - Of course.
- Is it possible just to remove the private parts? - Yes, of course.
- Okay.
Let's get it done.
- You'll do that? - Yeah.
- Okay.
You know, a woman's body is--is gorgeous, but sometimes we don't want that, you know, for business.
- Right.
- With the terms agreed upon, Dr.
Rubinstein brought Kyle to his operating suite so his technician could begin the procedure.
- Does that look like a vagina to you, or what is that? He says it's a navel.
- [sighs.]
You know, I would be distracted by the whole thing.
- Right.
- Right, but what is this? - So if I was in a meeting with you-- It could be the top of a vagina.
Yeah, it-- - The top.
Right.
- Yeah.
The procedure only lasted a few minutes, but by the time it was done, the image on Kyle's arm had been transformed from a disgusting naked woman into a respectable young lady.
- Well, I think it definitely looks a lot more professional than before.
- I appreciate the work you guys did.
- It was amazing what four men could accomplish when they put their minds together, and with an arm now free of female private parts, I was certain that Kyle would be a success.
- Appreciate it.
- Keep going.
- I'll do it.
- Great work.
- Still to come, production assistant Salomon Flores opens up about what really goes on behind the scenes of "Nathan for You.
" - I'm retired Superior Court judge the Honorable Anthony Filosa, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Welcome back.
Well, we're about halfway through tonight's celebration.
Nathan, how are you feeling so far? - Great.
I feel like there's a lot to celebrate, so - That's great.
I mean, it's a great thing-- celebration.
- Um, I should also mention that I have a little surprise later for you in the show.
- Okay, and what would that surprise be? - Well, I can't tell you, or it wouldn't be a surprise.
- Ooh.
Great.
- Yeah.
- How about a segment? - Uh, yeah, that'd be great.
- Great, okay.
One of the best parts of "Nathan for You" is watching Nathan find solutions to problems that most in the business world had given up on, like a way to sell alcohol to minors.
- From now on, you allow them to purchase it, but they just can't take it home until they're 21.
Look what you got.
- [inaudible.]
Look at that.
- 40 ounce.
- Yeah, that's tight.
- Pretty sweet.
Uh-uh-uh.
No.
So close.
You get a claim check, so you're allowed to come back and claim it when you're 21.
- Yeah, but I want it for right now.
I don't want it two years later.
[orchestral music.]
- So that segment was shot over three years ago, and today, one of those minors has finally come of age.
And I'm excited to announce that he's here with us tonight, in studio, to reclaim the 40-ounce bottle of Miller High Life he purchased in 2013.
So let's bring out Jason.
- How's it going, guys? - Hey.
All right.
So, uh, you-- uh, do you remember this? - I do.
- Buying this in 2013? - I sure do.
- Now that you're of age, you can finally have possession of it and enjoy it.
- All right.
It's about time.
- Yeah.
You excited, man? - Oh, yeah.
- Ready to get crunk? - Oh, yeah.
- Yeah? - I'm ready.
- Daddy wants? - Daddy wants.
- All right, so, I know it's a little lame, but I gotta check ID, so - Yeah, no problem.
Here you go.
- All right.
Cool.
Cool.
Well, checks out.
- Cool.
- All right, so, all I need is your, uh, claim check, and - My claim check? - The half the ticket they gave you with the alcohol.
- Huh Well, that's gone.
- Oh, you didn't keep it? - No.
I did not.
- You know what? I recognize you from the video of the segment, so I'm gonna let it slide.
- All right.
- So no worries, man.
-All right.
Cool.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
- All right.
Well, here you go.
- Thank you.
- All right, sweet.
- Well, cheers.
- Cheers, yeah.
- Thanks for the beer.
- Yeah, definitely.
- It's about time.
- All right.
Awesome, man.
So - All right, well, thank you.
- Yeah, of course, so-- - See you guys around.
Thanks.
- Yeah, okay.
Definitely, man.
- Appreciate it.
- Have a good one, Jason.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Nice.
Nice.
[chuckles.]
That was fun to watch.
One of the most complicated relationships Nathan has had over the past three seasons has been with a private investigator named Brian Wolfe.
But recently, Nathan paid Brian a visit after doing an investigation of his own.
Let's have a look.
- Back in season one, I met a private investigator and offered to help him by getting him his first review on Yelp.
I'm going to give you 24 hours to track my whereabouts, And if you do a good job at that, I'll give you a five-star review.
- Easy.
- Even though I threw Brian off my trail with the help of a team of look-alikes, he managed to find me anyway and earn his five-star review.
- You're an easy prey, kid.
- But to my disappointment, he wasn't happy with my work.
- I don't give a flying [bleep.]
about Yelp, okay? I ought to do a background check on you, see what type of fellow you are.
You know what you are? You remind me of the "Wizard of Loneliness," 'cause you're your own self, your own wizard.
That's what you are.
[chuckles.]
Look at you, with a [bleep.]
pink shirt and everything else.
Oh, you're killing me.
You have no friends.
That's why you're the Wizard of Loneliness.
- Even though he didn't appreciate my help, he ended up getting his own TV show based on his "Nathan for You" appearance, and over the next two seasons, I went back to him whenever I needed PI help and also once just for an honest opinion.
- You know you're a nerd.
You've been a nerd your entire life.
- I'm not a nerd.
But the last time I saw Brian, he brought up something that surprised me.
- And then all of a sudden, it just went from that magazine to that magazine, and-- - What magazine? - It was "Penthouse" magazine.
- Oh, "Penthouse".
Sorry.
- Years ago, years, years, years, years, years ago.
- He told me that he'd worked as a nude model in the '80s but was evasive about the details.
That's porn, right? - No, it's not.
Not even close to being porn.
No.
- So recently, I did some PI work of my own and discovered that Brian's portfolio extended far beyond just "Penthouse.
" Going under the stage name "Kory Wolf," Brian had been a full-blown porn star, featured in centerfolds and on the covers of the nation's top smut magazines.
There were images that literally took my breath away.
It wasn't easy tracking this stuff down, and I thought that Brian might be impressed that I managed to uncover the evidence of his modeling days, so I paid him a visit to show him what I found.
- What year is this? '84? - Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
- At first, Brian was a little hesitant to admit that Kory Wolf was him.
That's not you? - No.
- You're saying Kory Wolf is not you? - No.
- But after getting over his initial shyness, Brian was happy to open up about his glory days.
- They don't want you erect, number one.
Okay? They don't want it.
Okay, they want to show that when you're soft, you're still [bleep.]
golden, pal.
- Why? - Because they don't want to show it fully erect.
They want to say that when you pull your pants down to go take a [bleep.]
piss, you got some meat there between your legs.
Okay? - So they want you to pose soft? - They want you to pose medium.
- What's medium? - They don't want you to be, uh What was the word? What did he say to me? I said to him, I go He said, "No, Wolfe, you don't have to be [bleep.]
erect.
"All they care about is that, you know, that, uh, you have some strength in your penis," blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah.
- But it wasn't only Brian's penis that was soft that day.
A softer side of his personality seemed to emerge as well.
- Okay, let's go.
Come on.
- You want to throw that around with me? - I'll throw you some rockets of death.
- You want to throw the football with me? - If I threw a football at you right now, do you think you could catch it? - I could catch the football.
- You can catch a football? - Yeah.
- I doubt it.
I doubt you can catch a football.
- Okay.
- There you go.
You good, you good.
You're good to go.
Blue, 27! Blue, 27! Hut, hut! Go! - Throw it--ah.
Oh-- - Back of your ear, then boom.
Oh, yeah.
You do.
Here, you ready? It's like this.
And then you run.
There you go.
There you go.
- Wow! Well, stick around, because the celebration continues when we return.
- It's clear from what we've seen so far tonight that Nathan has a generous heart, which is why when he discovered anti-Semitism lurking in the softshell jacket industry, he set out to fix it by starting his own jacket company, Summit Ice.
- While filming the third season of my show, I discovered that Taiga, the company that made my favorite jacket, had published a tribute to a notorious Holocaust denier in their winter catalogue.
As a Jew, I was horrified and knew I could never wear my Taiga jacket again.
But in searching for a new jacket, I was worried that other companies might have dark secrets as well, so I launched a jacket company of my own called Summit Ice, the first outdoor apparel company to openly promote the true story of the Holocaust.
But after getting some questionable marketing advice from a rabbi - Definitely makes a statement.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Definitely makes a statement.
- My brand failed to get traction in a retail environment.
- I think that this mash-up of retail and, uh, history is a train wreck.
I, uh-- - And at the time, it seemed like we would never succeed as a business.
- Now, that episode aired a year and a half ago.
Nathan, I believe you have an update.
- We do.
- Well, let's take a look.
- After being rejected by a retail store, I wasn't sure if Summit Ice would ever take off.
But after the episode aired, our Holocaust-affirming message - Summit Ice.
Deny nothing.
- Clearly resonated with people, as Summit Ice's fleece-lined, water-resistant softshells became a hot item, racking up thousands of sales in our online store and were seen being worn by all kinds of celebrities, including white blues legend John Mayer and king of the court Blake Griffin, and we soon expanded the product line to include T-shirts and tuques as well.
But prior to launching Summit Ice, I had pledged that all the profits would be donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, so earlier this year, I got on a plane and headed to my home town of Vancouver, British Columbia, to present them with the check.
- Call me crazy, say my head's Too high up in the clouds And you'll make a difference 'Cause I can do anything I put my mind to 'Cause superstars come in many colors - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Superstars come in many colors - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Whoa-oh, oh - We're always dreaming - Superstars come in many colors - Whoa, oh, whoa - It was great to be back in beautiful Vancouver, B.
C.
, site of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, and I was especially excited to pay a visit to the Holocaust Education Centre, where executive director Nina Krieger was awaiting my humble donation.
- We're absolutely thrilled to welcome you here today.
- Oh, I'm so thrilled to be here.
Thank you so much.
- I don't know-- have you been here before? - Um, no, I haven't been here, but-- - Okay.
- You know, I'm familiar with the--your--your work.
- Okay.
- Unlike most donors, who show off the generous amount they're giving with an oversized check, I made mine barely visible to the human eye so as not to brag.
So you can see that-- - "Made out to "the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre for the amount of $150,000.
" - Yes.
- Nathan, on behalf of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, thank you so, so much for your generous support.
- You're welcome, Nina, and on behalf of Summit Ice, thank you for the privilege of allowing me to donate to you such a large amount of money in U.
S.
dollars.
- Nathan, I'd love to introduce you to Phil Levinson, who's the current president - Hi.
- Of our board of directors.
- So nice to meet you.
- Dr.
Robert Krell, who's the founding president of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre - So nice to meet you.
- And a survivor of the Holocaust.
- It was truly an honor to meet the founders of the Holocaust Education Centre.
You can see, there's lots of zippers here, and they're also water-resistant, and they're wind-resistant as well.
- They're actually perfect for our climate.
- And tuques here.
- It's been so cold.
Thank you so much, Nathan.
- Yes.
- Yeah, I could hide my kippah under it.
- And if the awareness created by my humble donation could help delay the next Holocaust by even a day, it would all be worth it.
Keep up the great work.
- Thank you, Nathan.
- Wow.
You donated 150,000 U.
S.
dollars to charity.
- Holocaust awareness, yes.
- That's unbelievable.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Do you support Holocaust awareness? - Um, I mean I don't know if I've thought about it.
I mean, I would - I mean, why did you hesitate so much? - Nah, I mean, it's the first I've heard of it.
- The Holocaust? - Well, I mean, just the awareness and all that stuff.
- Do you believe the Holocaust happened? - I do, yeah.
- How many Jews died in the Holocaust? - Oh, I don't know.
I can't give you an exact number.
I wasn't there.
- 6 million.
- Were--were you there? - Was I in the Holocaust? - Well, I mean, were you around at that time? - No, it was in the '40s.
- All right.
So the number is just, you know, what we read in books and, you know, historical novels and things like that.
- Um - What do you say we make a-- uh, make a commercial break? - Okay.
- Okay.
We have to take a quick commercial break, but we'll be right back.
Coming up next, you don't want to miss my exclusive one-on-one interview with production office staff member Salomon Flores.
- I'm security guard Simon Kellogg, and you're watching "Nathan for You: A Celebration.
" - Lots of people wonder what goes on behind the scenes of "Nathan for You," and one person who can answer that question is long-time production office staffer Salomon Flores.
You might remember him from a blind date at Quiznos that Nathan set him up on.
And here he is again, giving a eulogy for Buzz, Nathan's pet fly.
And I happen to have Salomon here in studio tonight to join me for a one-on-one interview.
Salomon, thank you for being here.
- You're welcome.
- Now, "Nathan for You" seems like a crazy production, but you're actually behind the scenes.
Can you give our viewers a sense of what it's like behind the curtain? - Well, just, uh, the usual, like, the moving of cameras and equipment and all that.
- Sure.
- Yes.
All that.
- Like grips, lighting-- - Yes.
- Technical people.
- Yes.
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- Yeah.
- All right.
Can you give us anything else? - Uh, that's about it.
- No, like, behind-the-scenes secrets of the show, or - Uh, no, just, uh, serious work.
- Serious work, huh? - Yeah.
- So no secrets? - No secrets.
- Okay.
Well, all right, Salomon.
Thank you for being here.
- Okay.
Do I - Yeah, sure.
Yeah, you can get up.
If you know me, I'm a big fan of motorcycles, so let's change gears and take a look at this.
- Nearly two years ago, I approached an average Joe named Corey Calderwood with the opportunity of a lifetime.
By the time I'm done, you will re-emerge as a national hero.
- All right.
That is interesting.
- After secretly stealing his face - So this is gonna just test for epilepsy.
Just gonna have you close your eyes, okay? - And isolating him in the Mojave Desert, I completely took over his entire identity.
Knowing he was single, the first thing I did was get him a girlfriend.
It's kind of hard to talk about myself with a goddess sitting right in front of me.
- Aww, thank you! - Yeah, sorry.
Is that a bit cheesy, or - No, it's actually really sweet.
Nobody's ever called me that before.
- But my ultimate goal was to transform him into a national hero with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity.
After pulling off the stunt and convincing all of America it was him on that wire, we switched back bodies and Corey took over the relationship that I'd begun.
- It's pretty hot.
- Yeah.
- Wanna--wanna kiss now? - Definitely.
- Okay! - Oh, you got soft lips.
Thank you.
- The stunt not only made him a media sensation but gave him a new identity that earned him the respect of his grandparents.
- You did something I never, ever thought would be possible from you.
- I was curious to see what Corey had done with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so I recently sent a camera crew to Corey's new home of Fresno, California, to catch up.
Since the episode aired, Corey had moved out of his parents' house and into a three-bedroom home he shared with two of his friends.
- Tom lives over here in this room, and Robert lives over here on this side.
- Corey was no longer with Jasmine, but I discovered that he had used the confidence I had given him to find a new woman, named Lily.
- We play a lot of beer hockey.
Do a lot of drinking.
"Jessica Jones", we watch that together.
Like, a lot of Netflix Original series.
- It was sad to see Corey turn his back on the amazing chemistry he had with Jasmine, and his reason for breaking up didn't make much sense to me.
- I wasn't comfortable trying to, like, start dating someone on-- essentially, lying to them the whole time about what was going on.
- But Corey and Lily seemed happy together, and even though she wasn't the woman I had chosen for him, the fact that he was sexually active was good enough for me.
- One of the most consistently surprising things about "Nathan for You" is the way it brings people together, and over the past few seasons, moments of genuine human connection seemed to happen in the most unexpected places.
- These days, I just can't think straight I got too many angles running round my brain 'Cause I know It won't be the same Won't be the same [gentle music.]
- Picture me underneath your bed Talking in circles, trying to make sense of What will come when the time line - Roses are red, violets are blue.
No one is prettier than you.
- Aww, thanks! - Am I still someone you'd want to be friends with? - Yeah, I mean, you just took my urine.
I mean, that's in the past, man.
- I love you.
- Okay.
- You know, I wasn't supposed to leave him.
You know? I was supposed to stay.
Um - Do you want a hug? - I won't be the same - I, I, I - Won't be the same - I, I, I I, I, I - Won't be the same - I, I, I - Wow.
I just got a shiver down my spine.
We'll be right back.
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