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  • - I accidentally became a meme

  • and this is that story.

  • My name is Joe Cirkiel and you may know me from this meme.

  • - Have you ever had a dreams, that, that you had?

  • - This all started in the year 1999.

  • I was five years old.

  • My favorite thing to do when I was a kid

  • was watch fantasy action stuff,

  • you know, Dragon Ball Z, Power Rangers.

  • I liked all the Disney stuff.

  • Hercules came out around the summer

  • before I went into kindergarten

  • and I definitely watched it a lot.

  • I really liked the soundtrack, especially "Zero to Hero."

  • That was a tune, that still is a tune.

  • One day, my mom reached out to me and said,

  • "Do you want to be in a movie?"

  • There was a few schools that they filmed at

  • for this HBO production.

  • The reason my elementary school got picked, in part,

  • was because the production manager,

  • their kid was in my class,

  • or in one of the kindergarten classes.

  • At first, I really had no idea

  • what this production was about.

  • They had repurposed one of the bigger classrooms

  • to look sort of like a nursery.

  • There's lights, there's cameras.

  • I picked up pretty early on

  • that it was about bedtime stories and rituals,

  • because that was what the people interviewing us

  • were interested in.

  • So they were asking us guiding questions to that effect.

  • The red sweater, the haircut, that was like all of my mom.

  • She really wanted me to get on TV.

  • They were asking us a bunch of questions.

  • There wasn't anyone that I would consider a rival per se,

  • but there were kids that were even better

  • at getting the attention of the producers.

  • And based on a promise I made to my mother

  • in the car this morning

  • that I was definitely gonna get on TV,

  • I kind of had a sense that time was running out

  • and I didn't get as much talking time

  • as compared with the other kids on my panel.

  • And then they asked me about dreams.

  • I remember this one scene from Hercules

  • where Hercules searches out for Pan,

  • who's Danny DeVito's character.

  • He doesn't want to train anybody anymore and he's a failure.

  • So that's when Hercules comes in

  • and tries to persuade him about a dream.

  • "Have you ever had a dream?

  • I've had a dream that I wanted so much

  • that I could do anything."

  • And once he said that it really resonated with Pan

  • and Pan said, "Okay, fine.

  • I'm gonna train you."

  • And the rest is history.

  • So that was when I came in

  • with my Hail Mary speech about dreams.

  • Suffice to say, I didn't come even close

  • to what Hercules had to say about dreams.

  • - Have you ever had a dreams, that, that you, um

  • you had, you could, you do, you.

  • - I'm thinking a little bit slower than how I'm talking,

  • which tends to happen, so.

  • - You, you can do so, you do, you can you.

  • - But I'm kind of hoping that if I have the beginning

  • and the end of that speech down,

  • everything else was gonna kind of fall into place.

  • - You could, you want him to do you so much

  • you can do anything.

  • - So as everyone likes to point out,

  • my signature lean back and smile is just like,

  • "oh, I totally nailed that."

  • If memory serves me,

  • the reaction in the room was very dead pan and professional

  • by the interviewers.

  • So they just kind of let me talk like, "Oh, okay.

  • Yeah, dreams, sure like, run with that.

  • And, oh, you know, we're all set here, Joe.

  • Like, that was great, you know, good job."

  • I wasn't too sure whether they were gonna use anything

  • that I said,

  • but I definitely felt like what I said

  • was really, really compelling.

  • I didn't hear much follow-up about the movie

  • until it was time to go see the premier in New York.

  • And so it was this big, fancy hall that HBO booked out

  • and they invited all the kids that had a speaking part

  • and it was kind of a red carpet moment.

  • And I enjoyed watching the production

  • and all my other friends that talked.

  • And then my part is an outtake at the end of the movie.

  • The whole audience is laughing at me.

  • With the benefit of hindsight,

  • I think they were more so laughing with me,

  • but I didn't feel that at the time.

  • And I actually was so upset with the producers.

  • I actually blamed them.

  • I thought that they had manipulated the film in some way

  • to make it look like I stammered.

  • I didn't even accept that I had stammered on the camera,

  • which isn't true, but it's just to say,

  • I wasn't necessarily a good sport about that.

  • Especially because for the rest of my childhood

  • and early teenage years,

  • that was always gonna be shown at most family reunions.

  • Anyone in my family that wanted to get a VHS or a DVD

  • of that documentary, got it.

  • And they all reveled in my part.

  • And I just kind of want that swept under the rug.

  • I want to get past it.

  • And it was more or less buried.

  • And then one of my friends reaches out to me in high school

  • and he says, "Dude, I can't believe it.

  • Somebody circulated the clip of your video."

  • Eventually someone put that on YouTube

  • and it started to get momentum.

  • It was in the tens of thousands

  • to the hundreds of thousands of views.

  • The last time I looked on YouTube,

  • but the original post it's about 76 million views.

  • And that's just YouTube.

  • So now I want to take this opportunity

  • to say what I meant to say that time.

  • Have you ever had a dream that was so palpable,

  • so crucial to your goals and your aspirations

  • that you would do absolutely anything to accomplish it?

  • I've had that dream and this is my story.

  • (laughs)

  • (exciting music)

- I accidentally became a meme

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