when i hear people talk about what Nurture means to them, and how it’s affected their lives, i can’t tell you how happy it makes me..
i feel understood in all the ways you would hope for as artist; like my exact feelings have reached people, in the exact ways i wanted while making it.
as a listener, i'd always wondered if my favorite artists could feel what i feel when i listen to their music; with Nurture, i’m CERTAIN that’s happening. i’m CERTAIN that you and me are feeling the same things when we listen to Nurture.
it means a lot to me because that highly clear, unambiguous transmission of feeling, where very little is lost or misunderstood along the way, is what i'm always striving for as an artist. it's rare for me and precious to me
happy 5th anniversary to this album. thank you to the people who love it... i hope people will continue to feel what i felt for many years to come
@BrandonPerna where did you find that curse wheel and what kind of magic did it get charged with?? It's out for blood this year
Sincerely, a very surprised and happy Steelers fan
Five years ago, Cobra Kai made the jump from YouTube to Netflix. It’s a surreal feeling when your TV show gets to premiere twice. In 2018, we had a super fun swirl of activity with YouTube — a Tribeca premiere, the Today Show, the Tonight Show, the Howard Stern Wrap Up Show. It was some of the most fun I’d ever had. Ralph even threw out the first pitch to Billy at a Mets game!
The Netflix release was very different. No premiere. No real press. Almost no activity. Because like the rest of the world, we were quarantined in our homes.
The stakes were high. Most fans thought that one of the reasons we moved to Netflix was because they guaranteed we’d get to make more seasons. But that wasn’t the case. They hoped to make more seasons. But it would all depend on the numbers. If the audience didn’t show up, Cobra Kai would die.
But I wasn’t nervous. I was giddy. Why? Because I knew that Cobra Kai Never Dies and our fans were the most passionate, talented, and determined badasses on the planet. I knew they’d spread the word. I also knew that all it would take is one click for a person to get sucked back into the incredible world of The Karate Kid or fall in love with the Miyagiverse for the very first time.
The rest is history, but I’ll never forget how much that influx of love and support meant to me and the entire cast and crew, especially during a time when many of us felt so isolated. Hearing how the show served as comfort food for others brought an extra layer of joy that none of us could have predicted.
And while, I’ll admit it sucked that we couldn’t gather and celebrate Cobra Kai’s second chance over Coors Banquets and ice cold martinis, I was thrilled when soon after the release, my beloved Mets asked me to throw out a first pitch of my own.
Yes, it was virtual, because fans weren’t allowed in stadiums, but that day on a little league field in the Valley, it was my turn to throw to Billy. And we had a pretty good feeling that before we knew it, we’d be back in the dojo again.
Perhaps one day we’ll return. I hope so. Because as they say, Cobra Kai Never Dies.
#CobraKai #CobraKaiNeverDies #Netflix
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H