Problems can become complex, but the solutions are like its like when you go to the doctor and say, it hurt when i do that. And he says, dont do that. Stephen by the way, thats a terrible doctor, by the way. I mean, if you tore a rotator cuff, thats not good enough. But, doc im a pro athlete. I cant feed myself anymore. Well, dont eat. Try learning to use your feet. Try combing your hair with your feet. It does stop hurting. Stephen it does stop hurting. Thats true, thats true. Sometimes there are basic rules of life people forget like do not reward bad behavior. Stephen such as . If your kid is throwing a tantrum, do not reward the tantrum. Dont give in to the kid. Dont give them what they want. I see mothers all over america. cheers and applause you know, they reward bad behavior. Stephen those are either people who have terrible children or live near them. laughter . No, those are people that got away with the tantrums and theyre just glad i didnt say it till now. So, i mean, really, you just its simple. You dont reward bad behavior. People do that too much. Stephen well, listen, youre a doctor. I have got a doctorate, an honorary doctorate of combine arts from knoxx college, okay. So what im going to do tonight is last week i asked some members of my audience two tweet do you mind if i look that over. Stephen maybe a little later. Im not going to leave you alone with that or my emmy. I asked some of my viewers out there to tweet some of their psychological problems to me, not saying that you were going to be on the show, and they sent me a couple of good ones. Heres one from matthew kern whats your advice . Does he do it or not . Get a new girlfriend. Because if i mean, thats his beard. If thats him, if thats who he wants to be and shes judging him based on that, i mean, i am i live with hair problems. laughter okay . Theyve got to accept you with i suppose so. Real. I promise you. Im going to differ with the doctor on this one. Okay, matthew, im going to say no matter how much chuck you throw into the grinder, the burger is not going to matter unless the yidled is hot. A beard. Think about the fur on your face kiss it. Shave that thing off, and thats good eating. God, is that what applause . Stephen is that metaphor too complex for you . Is that 52 folksy for you, doctor. That sounded like me with an echo. Stephen im trying to get you 4. 4 Million People. I want your audience, doc. That was good, actually. The advice was wrong, but it was good rhetoric. Stephen how do you know if the advice is wrong . How do you know if your advice is work or not . Do you ever check up on these people . Oh, no. Hell no. laughter applause stephen thats dr. Phil, i and now well be right back after this commercial message. Okay. How about one more. How about one more okay. My exgirlfriend this is from that one guy hayden 12. What do you think . You go get your damn cat. cheers and applause you go get your cat. You dont you dont let somebody you dont let somebody take your cat. Now, they can take your car. They can they can take your cat. Im a cat guy. Stephen youre a cat by . You gotta go get your cat. Stephen i disagree. All right. Heres my advice. Cats have nine lives. Let your cat live its. You dont miss your cat. You miss your girlfriend, all right . laughter applause are you going th cry . You look like youre going to tear up. Are you going to cry . You need a lot of help. laughter stephen well, i hope youll come back and give it to me many times. I will. I promise. Stephen dr. Phil, hes on monday through friday. Check your local listings. Matter . Yeah id like that. Who are you talking to . Uh, its jake from state farm. Sounds like a really good deal. In the morning . Who is this . Its jake from state farm. What are you wearing jake from state farm . Uh, khakis. She sounds hideous. Well, shes a guy so. With state farm. Get to a better state. ,, cheers and applause are you coming at me like this . Ive literally done everything you wanted to do today. And i even talked to that nasty unmarried bald man. Skews me, would you ladies like to take the 110 or 134. Excuse me, ladies. You know, well take the one 10 then. All you do is tell people hey top this, this instant hey, cut it out enough enough okay. Get out. Thats my car enough get out of my car stephen please welcome jay and mark duplass stephen mark, jay, jay, i am. Stephen now, was working together, like, both of your ideas or did your mom say, you have to let your brother play with you, when you were younger because he loves you so much. Thats a great question. There was a little bit of onus that our parents put on us playing together, working together. They were a little bit nefarious. They would punish us and get to the point where we would rebel against the greater force of our parents and work together. Stephen so you guys bonded through the oppression of your parents. Absolutely. Absolute. It was a bleep cold war in the house. Stephen the show is togetherness. What does that name mean for the show . Because the people on the show arent together that much. Theyre they have trouble with their feelings. Theyre togetherish, rather than togetherness. What ask does that title mean for you guys . Theres a little bit of double meaning with togetherness. Mark and i are family guys. Were cloa closewith our friends. Were close with our parents. Do our best to Stay Together and to work together. But you get to that point after about a week or so where youre doing everything together where youre just like, get me out of here i dont like these people anymore and theres a little bit of a tortured element to togetherness. The concept. And its a lot about how jay and i are. Weve been working together since we were kids, and we always feel like what we do is difficult. Our Television Show is like this large monster that is threatening to destroy us at every turn. And we feel like we have strength in numbers and we need to Stay Together to sort of, like, defeat the frankenstein. Yeah, your brothers help you with this show, right . Yeah. Because you dont want to die. laughter you you know that i dont, i dont want to die, jay. But you are your show is going to kill you. Stephen theyre all lawyers. They could help me sue someone. So, theyre not helping im the only one in my family who is in entertainment. All right, hes going to die. Probably going to be okay. Yeah. Stephen because youre brothers, is there a sort of semisecret twin language that you use . Like a code you have that other people dont understand . Yeah, i mean, we have to be able to in any given situation because were directing together Say Something about someone, and have them not really know whats happening, you know. Thats true. It can be helpful we have some code just a little something. We could talk a little bit. Stephen try. Would you like . We could have a little interaction that maybe you could figure out. Stephen ill try to. If were sitting here on a talk show and it was going really poorly, for instance. laughter and we felt our host the host is not pulling his weight. Stephen all right. I would Say Something like, gee, this dudes cream cheesing up on this all over the place. I would say white van. White van. Definitely white van. Stephen i dont know i you get the gist. Stephen i dont understand what cream cheese means. White van sounds like youre going to murder me. Thats it stephen and put me in a white van and ride away. Our grandmother when she didnt have anything for the recipe, if it called for something white, she would just put cream cheese in it. Rice . I dont have those. Lets put the cream cheese in. Thats now our family terminology for someone hodoesnt quite know who theyre doing but tries to make it happen anyway. laughter . And, also, we were really sweet and sensitive as 13yearold kids, basically treating our grandmother, who grew up in abject poverty with like, is there cream cheese in this the woman who was, like, scared to buy anything at a grocery store. Stephen where does white van come from . White van, our father say lawyer and he had a private detective who would often talk about all these nefarious things he would do with the white van. And there was this suggestion at a certain point that if someone was acting really would have to take them away in a white van. laughter . Stephen see, thats forget my brothers. Thats who i want helping me with my show. Absolutely. Absolutely. Stephen well, mark, jay, thanks so much for being here. Thank you for having us. Stephen good luck with frankenstein. Stephen season two of togetherness premieres february 21 on hbo. 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Please welcome michael eric dyson. applause stephen brother dyson, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me, brother colbert. Stephen lets get to the heat of the meat. You have a new book called the black press against, barack obama and race in america. I realize this is the first black presidency. Right. Stephen you seem to be there is opposition to barack obama often that has a racist tinge to it, opposition opposition to barack obama doesnt mean youre a racist, though, youll agree with na. Absolutely right. About the president. You can speak back to him. You can disagree tow him. Racist. Im suggesting despite the ideological and political differences theres an overlay of kind of racist reactions. For instance, a congressman stands up in congress and shouts, you lie. A governor from arizona puts her fing in his face on the tarmac before the world. A reporter at the white house refuses to let him finish his press conference. This is unprecedented kind of stuff. Stephen so rudeness equals racism in this equation. Not at all. Stephen thats all rude but you cant prove its racist. No other president has endured that, number one. Stephen they said some pretty bad stuff to bill clinton. They were pretty mean to him at times. I said some pretty rough stuff about george bush. Look at the racial overlay. Hes from kenya. Can we trust you. Stephen 43 of republicans believe hes a muslim. 15 of democrats, and, like, 23 of independents. As Jerry Seinfeld says, not that theres any problem with that, but the reality is, the guys a christian. Hes been in the church for 20some years and hes been dismissed. The republicans dont believe in abortion but they want to retroactively remove him from birth. They want to distance him from his own body. And i think, look, when you think about the fact. cheers and applause when you think about the fact that barack obama has many more Death Threats than any other president , that the kind of disrespect and acnoni thats been unleashed against him and the Birther Movement, weve got a guy running for president right now who led a Birther Movement suggesting this man was not really an american citizen. Stephen but now, donald trump has moved on to accusing a white person of not being from america. Isnt that progress . Now that hes accusing cruz, isnt that racial progress . No doubt. Youve got to give me that. Well there, would be racial progress but real racial progress would be if a black man could say, if i stood in the middle of the street and shot somebody, i would still get votes. That would be racial progress. cheers and applause . Stephen i dont recommend he say that. I dont recommend he say that. If obama dreamed he could bodonetsk, that he would wake up and apologize. He would have to say im sorry for imagining that. He has to be cool, calm, and dispassionate. People keep say why doesnt the president get emotional . Because an angry black man scares the heck out of many people, right . Ask cam newton. Stephen let me ask you this are you angry . Are you angry. Im not angry at all. I love being here with you. Stephen its a pleasure to have you. Bernie sanders did pretty well in iowa. He is leading in New Hampshire by a substantial margin. But people say beyond, that when he gets into states with hispanic and African American populations voting for president , hes in trouble. What do you believe bern kedo to appeal to the African American population. Though i realize youre not feeling the bern. Youre headed for the hills. What does bernie have to do . What does bernie have to do . I think if he pulled out an impression of naz in 1984, and dropped it, he would youre telling me Hillary Clinton can do that . Hillarys got bars. Hillarys got bars. Bernie sanders is an amazing guy. A democratic socialist running in a very contested race for an american presidency. I think thats remarkable and i love that hes doing that and i love that Hillary Clinton could potentially become the first female president of the United States of america. applause and i believe barack obama has paved the way as a black man, it will be far easier for her as a white woman to be president because he has already broken and proclaimed the virtue and intellect of difference in this country. Stephen hold on for a second. Let me speak for women right now and say sisters are doing it for themselves. No doubt, no doubt. Stephen Michael Eric Dysons new book is the black presidency barack obama and the politics of race in america. Thank you, sir. applause we brought you here today to get your honest opinion about this new car. To keep things unbiased, we removed all the logos. Feels like a bmw. Reminds me a little bit of like an audi. 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