The stories behind his selfmade success. Here is the trailer. Performing your music and having a connection, that is the ultimate rush, and the truest of addictions. Last year i cracked over 300 shows. He is a machine. Steve brought a rock n roll attitude that did not exist. I think that is motivated by what ever where weird passion his father had. His dad was almost like a superhero to steve. Record hot aird ballooning. He did not know what he was doing, he just did it. Up, it was always how do i impress my father . When he became a dj he struggled. I did not know how to run a label. He would always a unique to get a job and do something with your life. And family is number three. I wanted to prove to him that i could be successful with music. About showingwas his that that he could uphold the aoki legacy. Danger is your competition. I just feel so lucky that i am in this position, and i do not want to sleep on it. Charlie i am pleased to have steve aoki at the table for the first time. I met your father. Steve whenever i come here i think about him. Charlie was it the thing that ofcks deepest in usa sense desk was a sense of he lived and give it all you got . That ine instilled every waking moment when i was around him. He was the busiest man that i work ethic was insane. He is always drilling that into his kids and into me. Charlie but you have that, the same kind of work ethic. E i feel like he taught me in a way he instilled this idea that you have to do it on your own, i cannot just handing steve chris if i hand things to you you will not understand how to survive. If i was like this is my business, benihana, i want you to follow in the footsteps, then i might not learn the survival to possiblyusiness run a company like that. Instead, he said figure out what you need to do with your lives. When i decided it was going to be far different than what he expected, then he was like, ok, this is not what i intended when i said step out on your own. Then i had to prove to myself and to him that i could actually make it on my own. At the tail end of his life i that i got show him to a place were he did not have to worry about me. Charlie was music part of his life . Steve not really. He was a basis in high school. I think he retired that because he did not see a career. , when iicked it up picked up the guitar and the base and started being in bands, i thought he would share an affinity with me. At the time he said to go and have fun with your toys and you will eventually grow up. I did not realize that this was the career path i wanted to choose. Inwing that when you are this band, you not making that much money. When you are starting a label, youre not making much money. He saw a short lifespan, as far washere my career path going. Just like any traditional japanese parent, he said you need to wake up and get a real and you will job not like it, but you will have to do that. Charlie you said once that if you were not a dj you would be dreaming of life as a dj. What is the life of a dj . Steve i guess the life i am living right now. Charlie in music . Steve exactly, making music and playing your music. It is the same thing i was doing when i was in a band. Is it the performance aspect that is the most appealing to you . Music sou make the that you can connect with people when you play it out. When you play to a global community, you play all over the world and you get to cb impact to el two people in spain salvador, to japan, to all over europe, to america, it is incredible having this global connection. Charlie do you consider yourself an artists, a musician, a dj, what is it . Steve i would say it is all of the above. Charlie it is performer, creative . Steve dj kind of wraps up at all. Charlie what is the deal about throwing take at the audience . Time there was a point in where i was not doing any sort of activities on stage. When i had the opportunity at coachella in 2009 to have a i thought about what i would be bringing to the stage. I thought at this song, i will stage dive. At this song i will bring out graphs in the crowd. In the crowd. I was thinking of new ideas to entertain the audience. Some of them stuck and summer popular. Ing was something i introduced in 2011. Every artist wants to bring something to the show, where it is like hey that is a steve aok thing and i want to get caked in the face. It is a defining act . Steve it makes it unique. When you go to the show you are experiencing it. You thinkell me how you changed electronic dance music . How did you make it become more of something . Steve i was definitely a part of a group of people that brought a level of entertainment, if you will, to the show. I brought a level of entertainment that might not have been there before. I just added more color. The production side of things, which is why people even come to the show in the first place, you have to have the music to drop people there. My goal is always to work outside of my status quo world. I prefer to work with hiphop artist. I am working with country artists and thinkers who have not worked in the space. I am trying to find new ways to reinvent the sound and not be so pigeonholed. The sound is changing. Charlie how is it changing question mark steve changing . Chain smokers and Calvin Harris is always being number one. It brings us more of a form to think outside of the box and not think if this will affect only on the dance floor. Charlie where do you think you are in that . You know her Calvin Harris is, where are you . Steve if i think, i need to write a number one hit so that i can survive, i have always survived without even having hits. That is where i feel local lucky. My music survives in that world. Of course, we can all dream to have songs that permeate culture and are listened to by millions of people. That is essentially the goal. Charlie tell me about your social media. Steve for me it is a big deal. You get instant feedback. It is not always good, but i love the feedback. The feedback is a big part of the process. Charlie where do you see the evolution of all of this . Are you just in the moment and that is it . Steve everyone thinks about the fiveyear plan. Much a it is not so plan, but how it has its own momentum and you know it is going somewhere, or headed somewhere. Steve that is the hardest thing to answer. That question is always asked. Where is our music going . It is always fluctuating. Charlie but it has never been bigger, never been stronger, never been more listen to. Its moment is now russian mark now . Have here are artists you have reached the top of the charts. You always have that outlet and it is incredible that we have that. Charlie suppose somebody is watching the show right now and they are saying to themselves, what is electronic dance music . They say,mply what electronic, dance and it is music . Steve that is why it is a great term for it even though it is five or six years old. The words are very much what it is. Basically it is about these producers who produce electronic dance music, and you can merge with different john russ. That is what is exciting. It is happening more and more. Charlie where you want to be next year, if you come back and do another interview. Steve i would love to come back in a year. I have my previous projects. I have a third one coming and working on that outcome. I am also working on a book. Charlie you have a documentary, a book and 365 . Is 220. Y magical number i like to hover around that number. Charlie it is great to see you. We turn now to a remarkable conversation between two performers. And mikehelps krzyzewski are two of the most highly decorated competitors in sports history. Phelps achievements as an olympian are unprecedented. He finished a crew that spanned five olympics and 23 gold medals. Collegeas one more basketball games than mike rusedski. Led to five cap in chips. He led team usa in the real olympics where he became the First NationalTeam Head Coach to win three gold medals. I recently sat down with Michael Phelps and coach k in chicago at the global summit. We talked about their olympic memories, what it means to be the best at what you do, and the strategies they have utilized to achieve the remarkable performance. Here is that conversation. Lets start with you coach k. What is the x factor . You not only have it in your life, but you teach it and share it with thousands of young basketball players. K you expect me to give that to you right now . Charlie i want to make my life better. K right for the jugular he went. Michael promised me he would teach me how to slam swim. K he has a annual you are in constant search for it. It is great players and great teams that i have had the honor of coaching. It is much more than physical. That personlly that or that team does not have a point of failure. They have interruptions, which knocked them back, but they will never accept failure in training, in competition, or whatever. They are just woven a certain , and ine they see gold, case, the old they see themselves being great. In teaching you have to help them get over those points. Whether it is great heel or look Ron James Lebron james, or a number of guys that i have that , i think if i had to say one thing, they are certainly talented and all that, it is that thing inside of them. Sometimes you have to help them. Ind that all of a sudden they go past the one that they thought they had. All of a sudden there is another but in. Button. I just want to tell you it is an honor for a coach to sit next to. Im i have coached more great players because i have coached the u. S. Team for a number of years, then anyone in the history of a sport. He is as great an athlete that has ever been placed on this planet. He has done it not just for one. Period, it is for one of time. I am not just blowing smoke. [applause] he has the x factor. Charlie and the olympics have been around a long, long time. In ave more than anybody long, long history of the olympics, says something important. What do you think it was . Along the same lines as coach says, i have been with my coach i have competed with my coach for 20 years. If you look at sports today, you do not find many athletes are with a coach for that long. You do not see it, right . When i was trying to think of another athlete who has been with a coach for that long, bob and i started at 11 and from 11 to about 18, he would say jump and i would say how high. When he first met me at 11, he told me in four years i could make the olympic team. I stop playing lacrosse, baseball and focused on swimming. For some strange reason i decided to trust him and four years later i made my first team. Six months later i came back and i worked my tail off for those six months. I broke my first world record at 15. We got to 18, we went to michigan for four years, that is when i started realizing that i could talk back. I never had that before. [laughter] of played withd that a little bit. In 2006, he let me do it my way. At the end of 2006 i was not the happiest camper. 2007 and 2008 we changed it again, i can probably say today that those were the two best years i have had in my career. I just started trusting him again. Of course we have our battles, but it all goes back to him pressing my brains buttons. We grew together as we both changed. Some of the obstacles i went through, and he had to change how he approached me and how we worked together. That was something that i really saw over the last two years that made us work as well as we did. Of mylast two years career, i could not ask for a better finish. This is what i wanted in london. I wanted closure on the sport and closure on my career. When i hung up my suit i wanted to hang it up the way that i wanted to hang it up, not in 2012i felt like i just wanted to get through it and i did not really care. Half, two year and a years off and deciding things of my own i think help me learn a lot. Once i came back and i had to do it a certain way and i had to do it his way. Charlie was he there for the struggles . Sident obama of course michael of course. He help me out through a lot of things. I went through a phase where i probably saw my father five times in 20 years. That was a struggle for me. Now we are finally at the point where we are friends and we are building a friendship again. For thevery thankful things that have happened in my life that have brought me to the point where i am today. This is how life should be. Charlie and you can build the relationship. Amazing to not only have them apart of my life, but a part of my familys life as well. After 2012 did you think you would come back in 2016 . For him or me . One thing i would like to say. Michael we both said that. Be with one him to coach for that long, that is incredible because you are going through different stages. I coach 18yearolds who become 22yearold sunday leave. When i started coaching the olympic team 11 years ago, wow, it is different. The thing that you had with your coach and something that you all the time is shared a vision. At times, like when you are 18 or something, he saw a vision for you that you could not see. Relationship, whether it be business, family or in coaching, that is the thing i like the best. For me, it is not just a shared player,ith a particular it is a shared vision with a group. That in themanifest olympics a certain way, and i do it a little bit, not a little bit but a different way with my duke team. A shared vision is a really important thing. It is built on trust. Can i ask him . Charlie if they are good questions. Coach k did you ever not trust your coach or question your coach . When i i guess at 11, am 11 and he says you can make the olympic team in four years, obviously that is something gay kid wants to hear. At that point i was like, ok, this guy says he can do it so i might as well trust him. Ever since then i think i might have trusted him. That is why i never left. He was the only one that i would swim for. Obviously there were times that we but heads and i threatened to leave, but that would never happen. Something that was really cool that you said, shared vision, i he washat was something probably trying to get me to see from the age of 11 where he taught me to dream as big as you can possibly dream. I think that is one thing that i have lived on for so long. As an 11yearold kid that i dream of being the best ever, yeah, everybody does. It is the sacrifices that i made and the goals that i had and the things that i had to do to be able to get to that point are even have that opportunity. I think that was something he taught me at a young age. To setht me how shortterm and longterm goals. I do it every year. I was talking to you about michael she that i just found. I have it hanging in my closet and i just found it. I was not very happy when i saw it. [applause] [laughter] of my goalsit one and i texted my coach and i told him the interaction my fiancee had when i was talking about it. He smiled and just said let it go. [laughter] michael it ended up being really good, but i think as i got older and older, i started realizing that there were so many people that doubted things that i wanted and i believe that i could achieve. I believed that i could go into 2008 and be perfect. I hadeved that, because trained for it and prepared for it. I was getting ready to do something that nobody had ever done in olympic history. Think just being able to get to that point where i believed in my hot might in myself that i believed it could happen, it gave me the extra edge. I would not be able to win that race by one 100th. Charlie it wasnt it was an important time in his life as well. Wasnt he ready to leave and he saw somebody that has potential to be an olympic star . Michael he did, he came to intimore and he coached cincinnati, he was helping for the 96 olympics and that is when we worked together. He saw something in me, a passion, a drive that i had. I was a little kid that was in his Group Swimming with 18 your old that would never let me go first 18yearolds that would never let me go first. I was swimming through obstacles in a lane to try to make sure i was ahead of these guys. Charlie beyond focus and the mental attitude, how much of it was your own physicality. How much of it was that you had unique qualities as a swimmer . Shoulders, long arms, short legs, a kind of works. I have tiny legs. I have very small lakes. Legs. I think my body proportionally was good for swimming. You see tall people, but theyre sharks is different. I am 64. An is 67 and 67 inches and i am six feet four inches. Charlie, if he had long legs i would have recruited him. [laughter] said about 12 and doing it until six the 16. One of the things we havent common is continuity. He had the continuity of having the same coach. With the u. S. Team, and so much of what you guys do is you are big on culture. The culture that you have and the continuity of that. When we to go over in 2005, there was no culture it was more of an arrogance that we could just win by putting 12 guys out there and we were not winning. Decade, west developed a culture, not just me, but the players and everyone. I did not want to give up on the continuity, we built something really good and i wanted to take it another four years. In saying that, at west point i in an army officer i met army officer, he and i are really good friends and he would take over, he is an air force academy graduate. This summer, he spent a week with us in training, when we were training our olympic team to learn about how we do culture, we became very close. We look at it as, like i was saying, command. He is taking over command. In the military, we want the next guy to do better. He will want the next guy to do better, that is what we are trying to establish with usa basketball. He is great. I will try to help them. Charlie jerry, who brought you in, i think wants you to come and stay there and be involved in the process. He also says he wants you to take over his job. Coach k i was not hit i would not take over his job because he has to raise money. [laughter] coach k i do not know how they yout, but a basketball dont get any money. You have to get into Marketing Agreements to support the sport at all levels. Juniors, 17, 16 and all of that. He is masterful at all of that. Charlie but you are going to stay with him question mark him . What is the difference in coaching pros and colleges . Coaching boys and boys who will become men. When i am coaching the team i help them cross bridges. Bridges of maturity or improvement and develop the relationship. If you cross that bridge with that person, there is a bond. Just like you did with your coach. In the pros, they have already crossed a lot of ridges. They have crossed some bridges that i would probably not want to cross with them. [laughter] me, or couldeve not cross with them. Lets put it that way. Different. In college, they have to edge tapped to me and i adapt to their abilities. In the pros we adapt to each other. We try to figure out a way where we all own it. I am sure you are trying to figure out with your Younger Generation. How do they own it, how can they feel it, how can they do that . Of time with that and we include the armed forces so they can feel what it is to represent our country, and things like that. To me, continuity, ownership, shar