Keanu Reeves Shares Mind-Expanding, Jaw-Dropping Stories From His New Roku Series Visionaries

Since Arch Motorcycle began, curiosity has been our lifeblood. Searching for inspiration from those who help shape and change the world around us. So listen, I got a ton of questions for both of you. What was cooler, getting an Arch Motorcycle in Cyberpunk, or getting to visit the Rodan Crater? Oh, Rodan Crater. Yeah, I know that. Yeah, Rodan Crater was crazy. Rodan Crater. But I mean, Cyberpunk, Arch, Nazaray, pretty darn cool. Yeah, listen, the Rodan Crater, which is episode six of your series, I was blown away by that episode. I didn't really know much about the crater, and what James has done is just inspiring and jaw-dropping. What was it actually like for the two of you visiting that for the first time? Because even just watching it on the screener, I was really blown away. Does that work? Just mind-expanding, like jaw-dropping. What an incredible experience. I mean, the enormity of it, the ambition of it is impressive. And I mean, it's not done. Yeah. He's still working on it. It's so incredible, and it just makes you think. I mean, I'm truly blown away by the art and what he's done. I'm just inspired. Yeah, great, good, great, great. I'm sure you've been asked this many times. I'm going to ask you again. Do you have, for each of you, do you have a favorite motorcycle to ride, and do you have a favorite motorcycle design? An Arch motorcycle, the 1S. You like the 1S? I like the KRGT-1. That's a forward control. He likes it a little sportier. In terms of design, when I was a kid, the Norton Commando, the upswept pipe, the shape of it was inspiring. My list is too long. Talk about one of the bikes you raced in, maybe. Like which dirt bike was the choice? The 1983 Mako 490 Spider. There you go. With Arch, I'm so curious. You guys started the company in 2011. How much each year are you looking at like a five-year plan or a 10-year plan, and how much are you looking at it as like a year-by-year? Do you know what I mean? Because you get to be sort of nimble because it's not such a huge company. Not a huge company. It is not a huge company. No, but it's a huge endeavor. It's a huge endeavor, and we have like what? We have a day. It's kind of everything. Day, week, month. Life. Year. Life. Life over the whole thing. But you have to definitely, you know, pick realistic time spans to focus on each phase of it, but we're looking pretty far down the road. Yeah. I was going to say, technology changes all the time, and so I'm curious what technology or like engineering are you thinking about in terms of like how will technology or even AI help you guys in the designing of bikes, or is that not something that like with AI, are you even looking at stuff like that? You know, it's there, and I know it's being used in design. My personal experience has been that it's maybe not quite there yet, but I also, you know, then there's a whole philosophical thing, which is, you know, another topic. Yeah, but, I mean, I could see how design iterations like show me, put together a Ducati with a BMW and get pictures of a bike that looks like a thing. Yeah. The result right now isn't where. I mean, there's some kind of, I mean, it's AI adjacent with some of the mapping that's going on, but it's not inserting itself, right? Yeah, not yet. No, not yet. Maybe mapping. Or it's so far behind the, you know, the scene in front of you that maybe they're doing something, but, you know. Yeah. Another episode that you guys shine a light on is the 3D printing. I forget the name of the company, man. Relativity Space. Thank you. And the way that they are using 3D printing and invented a 3D printer to print a rocket ship, which is, again, jaw-dropping, but it made me also think about the other applications as you enlarge these 3D printers and as you advance the technology, how it could be possibly used on motorcycles and other things. So my question is, is 3D printing a motorcycle engine possible or do you think it's never going to be possible? No, it's absolutely possible. I think at the moment it's just not a cost-effective process for, you know, large volume manufacturing, but it's certainly possible. It gets used, you know, in many genres, especially motorcycle racing, car racing, this type of thing. One of the things is you guys got to work with all these really cool or meet all these cool artists and be inspired. And I'm curious, what did you take away from all the people that you met that perhaps influenced what you're doing at Arch or actually just influenced your own life, like meeting these people and experiencing these things? I would say my horizon was made even broader. Yeah, which is lovely. Which is lovely. Yeah, like, just don't limit your thought. Don't limit what your horizon is, you know? Potential, possibility. One of the things, I believe his name is James Turrell. He's the person who created the Rodent Crater. What is it like when you are, like, leaving a place like that and you've experienced and getting to, because he's a brilliant artist, but, like, what is it like when you're leaving, like, your mental state? Are you, like, because one of the things the series talks about is where does creativity come from, you know? And I'm just wondering if that is the kind of thing that, you know, impacted both of you. Personally, I found it stimulating and at the same time a little sad to have to leave, you know? Like, the wish to be able to spend more time with him and there. But it was incredibly awe-inspiring. Yeah, the work is a kind of celebration of, I don't know, individual and the cosmos and the celestial bodies that we don't oftentimes really appreciate. And I think through that appreciation comes a specialness to actually being alive. One of the things about what he's done is the art, the installations look like they're on another planet at times. And I'm wondering, Keanu, did you even bring up with him, like, I make movies, can we film something here? Yeah, it was called, can we do a TV show and interview you? Because this is friggin' awesome. And hopefully it'll be inspiring to others. And, you know, I mean, a lot of what he's doing is, like, classical geometry. And it's kind of cool to see, in a way, that I think there's sometimes a prejudice about the present being, the validity of the present. Sometimes what's come before, sometimes, in broad, very broadly speaking. But just what is a circle? What is a triangle? What are these different shapes? And what do they do? And what the complexity of that? The concept of time. Time and space. Well, I also found it interesting what he was talking about, how light is a different thing. And then when people look at it, light becomes another color. The way he was talking was above my head. Did you understand all that stuff that he was saying? He probably did. Absolutely not. I'm looking to see about a verification of how light is affected by the observer. I innately believe that. I mean, we speak about so many things and about things being changed by just being witnessed. And it seems like that is born out of nature itself. I think it's akin to, like, when you're, like, you know, driving in a car and, like, for some reason you, like, look over and someone's looking at you and it's really not in your field of sight. Or you think of someone and something happens. There's an interconnectivity that I think is beyond what we appreciate as, you know, what we might call magic now or something that's woo-woo. I think we're discovering all the time how nature is more mysterious and more profound. I have to stop. I just want to ask one last quick thing, Keanu. When did you come up with yummy being the thing that gets you, you know, you're like, this is yummy. I don't know where it came from, but it felt like something appropriate to the feeling. You know, that's yummy. On that note, I just want to say congrats. I wish you guys both nothing but success with Arch Motors and thank you for giving me your time. Thanks, Steve.