Ask a Grown-Up With Giancarlo Esposito

0:00 this is giancarlo esposito ask a grown-up i sure have cameron and baby yoda is hard not to me one of those electrifying personalities who is centered in his being or her being who exudes an element also of wonder and joy and anticipation when you sit with baby yoda the sum of

0:31 words could never put together this terrific grounded loving and spiritual feeling you feel around this child wow jody i want to know what an axolotl is i love animals i love animals that are friendly to us human beings so i was a dog person growing up and um i had had a tragic event happen which which i saved my life i had a fire in my home when i was 13 years old and was asleep and the wall was going up

1:03 and the room was going up and my dog queenie jumped into the bed bit me and woke me up and i got out safely so for me i love a lot of different animals and i think we have to honor them on our planet today um and i have to look up what your favorite animal is but for me it's a dog it's a man's best friend oh my goodness well you know i really loved the night

1:26 before christmas because it had held such anticipation in what was to come in the morning so that was one of my favorites um i also really loved um a little red riding hood because i really related to her innocence and her wonder of the world and the way she gets out of a tough situation [Music] in my dreams i have and although i have been close to a real spaceship in the smithsonian institute

1:57 some of the kids who may be watching will get there one day and maybe people will sit in one um i soar every night in my dream so i believe dreaming big is the way to achieve your goals in life oh my goodness uh you know i want to meet derek jeter because i think he was a great yankee and i really love what he did with during his time with the yankees and i also love thurman munson so this is

2:24 going way back this great catcher who also caught for the yankees as well the crossover athletes to me are the ones who have really been able to solidify their physical element and their mental conditioning to play more than one sport so bo jackson's one of those and a few other guys as well [Music] anderson oh that's a tricky question uh but from my time i was more into star

2:54 wars i felt like i was a western i loved westerns because they dealt with something called justice right and wrong um good and evil and so star wars for me was the ultimate space question and i really loved it because it had all the toys we had all the the lights and all the spaceships and the the the lightsaber all of those things really appealed to me in my dream and vision of a new world on

3:18 another planet