1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Sabitigang. Welcome into Weekend Motivation for Unbreakable, a mental health 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: podcast with Jay Glazer. I'm Jay Glazer, and before I 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: get into that, if you're like many people, you may 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: be surprised to learn that one in five adults in 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: this country experienced mental illness last year, yet far too 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: many fail to receive the support they need. Charilm Behavioral 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: Health is doing something about it. They understand that behavioral 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: health is a key part of whole health, delivering compassionate 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: care that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social needs in tandem. 10 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: Charilm Behavioral Health raising the quality of life through empathy 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: and action. Bye again today, the message is this too 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: shall pass. And I'm gonna tell you a story I've 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: never repeated before ever in the history of my life, 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: or my career or anything. It's right when I was 15 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: about to finally make it in my career for the 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: first again, eleven years of my career, I've making nine thousand, 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars a year, and I went 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: out to celebrate with three New York Jet players somewhere, 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: and one of the New York Jet players was heading 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: into free agency. Well, this huge fight happened at this bar, 21 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: and here I am. I had just gotten hired by 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: CBS Sports for fifty grand a year the week before. 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: All these these years are being turned down and rejected. 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: I'm finally here, I am. I got my shot. We'll 25 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: go up these jets and a big fight happens. Has 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: nothing to do with me, but I am with these guys. 27 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: At the time, I was working for the New York 28 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Post and I was covering the NFL. But I was 29 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: making two hundred and fifty bucks a story covering the NFL. 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. Well, we get this huge altercation and 31 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: three of the four of us are placed in handcuffs, 32 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 1: put in a police car and take it off to jail. 33 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: I was getting handcuffed. I started praying immediately, please my 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: best friend God, Please, my best friend. Guy helped me 35 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: held me because folks, I did nothing here. Now, other cases, 36 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: I've done things. In this case, I did nothing. Zero. 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: I was the peacemaker. But at the very last second 38 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: somebody said, yeah, he was trying to make the peace. 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: They let me go. Well, these three football players they 40 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: get taken in and it's the biggest thing on the news. 41 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: It's everywhere and I'm like, oh my god, after eleven 42 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: years of trying to finally get a full time job, 43 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: it's gonna be thrown out the window, cut have out 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: these knuckleheads and then get in a brawl. You gotta 45 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: be kidding me. Oh my god, how does this happen? 46 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: And that's all I thought about. And by the way, yes, 47 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: he was front page news everywhere. It was on every 48 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: television station in New York. Well, news then came out 49 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: that these three football players got a big fight and 50 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,839 Speaker 1: there was a fourth mystery guy with them. Oh my god, 51 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: I'm the fourth mystery guy. This is terrible. This is horrible, 52 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: making matters worse. My editor at the time of the 53 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: New York Post, Greg Gallo, called me up and says, hey, 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: you're our scoop guy. You've got to find this fourth 55 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: mystery guy. He assigned me to cover me to find me. 56 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: You've got to be kidding me. Oh my god. Like 57 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: it's eleven years, I finally have my break, and it's 58 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: gonna get taken for me once people know I'm this 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: fourth mystery even though I did nothing. Did you imagine 60 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: my fear, folks, could you imagine that? Well? I called 61 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: a friend of mine named John Mullen, who covered the 62 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: Chicago Bears May Rest Happily in peace, passed away this 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: past year, and Mood said to me, Jay, I know 64 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: you feel like your entire world is about to come 65 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: crashing down around you. I know you're seeing it on 66 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: the news, you're seeing it on television, reading it in 67 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: the papers. It seems like your world is coming to 68 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: an end. But I promise you this, this too shall pass. 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: And once he said it, he said it the way 70 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: they got me to believe it. And folks, here we 71 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: are thirty years later. Have you ever heard the story? 72 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: Did my career come to an end? Did the world 73 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: come pression down around me? Did it suck during the time, Yes, 74 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: totally did, But it did pass. And I was able 75 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,119 Speaker 1: to start this career and have this incredible NFL insign 76 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: a career for all these years, and then have an 77 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: incredible career, and mixed martial arts an incredible career. Then 78 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: helping veteran is an incredible career now in mental health, 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: being able to lift all of you up, This too 80 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: shall pass. I know it's a wild story. I wanted 81 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: to use it to get you there. This too shall pass. 82 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: And by the way. I know you're all wondering how 83 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: I kind of got out of it. I did go 84 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: back to the editor of the newer post, and I said, hey, 85 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: there was a fourth mystery guy, but he had nothing 86 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: to do with it, and I wouldn't be fair to 87 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: out him. Didn't tell him it was me, but I said, 88 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair to associate him with them, because he 89 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: was the peacemaker. And we're all lovele to let it go. 90 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: And then the next day something massive happened in the 91 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: news and everything just got shifted over that, and this 92 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: story just passed. This too shall pass, no matter what 93 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: your problems are, no matter how big they are, no 94 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: matter how massive they seem at the moment. And our 95 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: problems are massive in those moments. And I'm not discounting 96 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: any of your problems because they are huge. As big 97 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: as they are, Think about the biggest problem you've ever had. 98 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: Now say to yourself, did they pass? Eventually? This too 99 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: shall pass? Thank God, I am still in the position 100 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: that I have this day that I can say, this 101 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: too shall pass. Let's keep walking this walk together.