Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, coming to you from New
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Speaker 1: The war is raging, the pandemic is over again, and
Speaker 1: Terry's crew this He's the Daily Show with Trevor Turming
Speaker 1: talk you see much for tuning in. Thank you you
Speaker 1: can cying out. Thank you've been staying here. Thank you
Speaker 1: for coming out just to see. Take a seat, everybody,
Speaker 1: take a seat. Welcome to it. We've got a ready
Speaker 1: great show tonight. Our guest is a sitcom star and
Speaker 1: a fall my NFL player. He had to discuss his
Speaker 1: new memoir about what it means to him to be
Speaker 1: a man. Terry Crews is joining us. Everybody's fun. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping he's gonna teach me how to do make my
Speaker 1: chest do that thing. I'm gonna make my chest breakdowns.
Speaker 1: We've also got traffic with Roywood Jr. And the big
Speaker 1: news today, America is no longer in a pandemic. So
Speaker 1: let's do this people, Let's jump straight into today's headlines. Okay,
Speaker 1: as you know, it has been nine weeks now since
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin decided the best way to improve his international
Speaker 1: standing was to gently slide not into Ukraine's d MS,
Speaker 1: but into the entire Eastern region. And since then the
Speaker 1: whole world has been trying to figure out what to do.
Speaker 1: How do you respond to a madman who has nuclea
Speaker 1: weapons in his back pockets? And the world tried everything.
Speaker 1: Tried sanctions, tried cutting off Putin from international trade, tried
Speaker 1: sucking his PlayStation profile so you couldn't play Fortnight. And
Speaker 1: now finally some countries have taken it to the next level,
Speaker 1: with Germany sending tanks to Ukraine, yeah, which the Russians
Speaker 1: have called a major escalation, and I'll be honest, I
Speaker 1: agree with Russia on that. It is an escalation. You know,
Speaker 1: whenever German tanks show up to anything, ship's about escalates.
Speaker 1: German texts never show up and people are like, all right,
Speaker 1: his show now, yeah, you know what it's. It's like
Speaker 1: when a black woman takes off her ear rings. There's
Speaker 1: no way things are cooling down from there. Whatever you
Speaker 1: did wrong, you are about to pay. But Russia is
Speaker 1: also doing their own escalations by turning off some of
Speaker 1: Europe's heats overnight, a drastic move, Russia cutting all gas
Speaker 1: deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland to NATO members. This comes
Speaker 1: after Putin's ultimatum last month demanding that quote unfriendly nations
Speaker 1: pay for gas and Russian rubles. Poland's prime minister not
Speaker 1: backing down, saying we will be able to protect our economy,
Speaker 1: protect our households and poles against such a dramatic step
Speaker 1: by Russia. Bulgarian officials say they are working with state
Speaker 1: gas companies on alternative sources, while Poland says it has
Speaker 1: been working for years to produce its reliance on Russian
Speaker 1: gas and there wouldn't be a shortage of gas in
Speaker 1: Polish hounds. Things are getting tense. Yeah, Russia says no
Speaker 1: more gas for Poland than Bulgaria, and then response Poland
Speaker 1: Bagharia like screw you, we don't need your gas, we
Speaker 1: have our own. And then, just to prove the points,
Speaker 1: Poland Bulgaria posted selfies of themselves surrounded by gas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: classic breakup behavior. But this is the thing that's gonna
Speaker 1: suck for Russia. Their main leverage is that their gas
Speaker 1: provides Europe's heat, But as the months get warm up,
Speaker 1: the negotiating power goes down. You know, it's the same
Speaker 1: way your gym teacher has all the power over YouTube
Speaker 1: make push ups like what you're gonna do during the
Speaker 1: school year, but let him meet you over the summer
Speaker 1: vacation and all of a sudden, it's like, you have
Speaker 1: no power here, Mr Papadopoulos. Why don't you do whatsh ups? Bitch?
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll see you in September, but I'm here now.
Speaker 1: So you know what, good for Poland and Bulgaria because
Speaker 1: most European countries are still buying Putin's gas. Yeah, many
Speaker 1: of them say they can't help it, which you have
Speaker 1: to admit is a little weird. You know. It's like
Speaker 1: if the people of Gotham were obsessed with the Joker's
Speaker 1: taco truck. You know, it's like, look, I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy is definitely a super villain, but have you tried
Speaker 1: his Alpa store? I mean, it is amazing. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. So this is this is the thing. The
Speaker 1: underlying issue is a little more complicated than gas or
Speaker 1: no gas. Right. What happens is Russia wants to be
Speaker 1: paid for its gas in rubles, right, the Russian currency,
Speaker 1: Because that way European countries have to keep buying rubles,
Speaker 1: which keeps the currency alive. So I understand why Russia
Speaker 1: is so mad at getting paid in a currency that
Speaker 1: they don't want. You know, Like, have you ever gotten
Speaker 1: a gift from like your little nephew that's like a
Speaker 1: coupon for one free hug? Yeah, I don't want that ship.
Speaker 1: I want cold, hot cash to me. Hugs always free?
Speaker 1: Are you stupid? Anyway, let's move on, Timmy pisces me
Speaker 1: off Man. For years, flight attendants in America have complained
Speaker 1: about well two things. One idiots who pressed the coal
Speaker 1: button when they meant to turn on the lights, and
Speaker 1: too the way they get paid. Well. Now, finally, Delta
Speaker 1: Airlines is taking care of one of those issues. Flight
Speaker 1: attendants with Delta will soon be getting paid a little
Speaker 1: bit more money. The airline says it will now start
Speaker 1: paying cabin crews during boarding. Up until now, flight attendants
Speaker 1: did not start getting paid until the passengers were seated
Speaker 1: in the planes doors closed. That was the moment that
Speaker 1: their pay started. Delta says the change will start June second,
Speaker 1: as the company faces the possibility if it's more than
Speaker 1: twenty thousand flight attendants forming their own union, the change
Speaker 1: could increase some attendance wages by several thousand dollars every year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: leave it or not. Flight attendants in America do not
Speaker 1: get paid during the boarding process, which is crazy. Just
Speaker 1: think about you're at work doing work, but your boss
Speaker 1: is like, Noah, this is your free time. What I
Speaker 1: only pay you when the doors are closed. That's wild.
Speaker 1: It also sucks for flight attendants on Spirit Airlines because
Speaker 1: they don't even have doors. What do they do? Do
Speaker 1: they work for free? How does that should work? Because
Speaker 1: here's the thing, people, the boarding process is not easy.
Speaker 1: If anything, they should be getting paid extra for that part.
Speaker 1: You've got to deal with passengers who suddenly don't know
Speaker 1: how numbers work. Does twenty three come before twenty four?
Speaker 1: And what number is jay? And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: they have to deal with out bags that never fits.
Speaker 1: And by the way, why do the bags never fits?
Speaker 1: No honest question, why do they never It's calling overhead
Speaker 1: back right, but it doesn't fit into the overhead? Why
Speaker 1: do they call it that? They shouldn't be allowed to
Speaker 1: sell it to You can call an overhead back when
Speaker 1: won't put into over Because now I'm the idiot blocking
Speaker 1: the traffic, and then like everyone's looking at me, no
Speaker 1: one's getting paid. And I'm like, I swear there starts
Speaker 1: any word fit in the overhead. There's not even like
Speaker 1: you're an idiot. I'm not over and back. But no,
Speaker 1: they're gonna know that. That's what the fb I should
Speaker 1: be focusing on. That's the real crime. It sun your
Speaker 1: bag that makes me look like an idiot. By the way,
Speaker 1: did you notice how Delta suddenly said it was going
Speaker 1: to change this rule only after they learned that flights
Speaker 1: attendants are trying to form a union. Yeah, interesting timing.
Speaker 1: It was like like that Margery Tailer green More. Ohh
Speaker 1: you mean that a union? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Nothing scares
Speaker 1: these giant airlines more than unions. Like if someone yelled
Speaker 1: bomb in an airport and someone else yelled union, they
Speaker 1: honestly wouldn't know who to tackle first. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give these flights attendance a lot of credit because, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something, man, people fly all the time.
Speaker 1: You see these people working hard. But I didn't know
Speaker 1: that they weren't getting paid while the player you did.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're really patient people. If I
Speaker 1: was working for free during the whole boarding process, I
Speaker 1: would have been way less friendly than Yo. I would
Speaker 1: have been in that airport like Zoe one. Zone one.
Speaker 1: Get your hell up on the plane right now, Hungry,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get paid. Move, move, move, move, move
Speaker 1: your dumb mass. Put the thing on the thing there man,
Speaker 1: and I saw yo. I swear, I swear if any
Speaker 1: of you broke a zone four mins even trying to
Speaker 1: get in line right now, I will have the chance
Speaker 1: a water board your ass, get back zone four. Sit down.
Speaker 1: You know who he is if I find work in
Speaker 1: a thro All right, Finally, let's talk about COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's the only one of us that's seen Kamala Harrison
Speaker 1: like three months. As we all know, a little over
Speaker 1: two years ago, a bat in China didn't cover its
Speaker 1: mouth when it sneezed in a lab after visiting a
Speaker 1: food market, and that started a pandemic, and the world
Speaker 1: has never been the same. But now Anthony Fauci, America's
Speaker 1: most renowned infectious disease scientists and most ready for retirement human,
Speaker 1: has come out with some news that has left people shook.
Speaker 1: Listen to this Dr Anthony Fauci telling PBS News that
Speaker 1: America is out of the pandemic phase We are certainly
Speaker 1: right now in this country out of the pandemic phase. Namely,
Speaker 1: we don't have nine thousand new infections a day in
Speaker 1: tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and
Speaker 1: thousands of debts. We are at a low level right now.
Speaker 1: We're not going to eradicate this virus if we can
Speaker 1: keep that level very low and intimately vaccinate people. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how often that would have to be,
Speaker 1: but right now we are not in the pandemic phase
Speaker 1: in this country, the pandemic phase. Ten. I'm happy you're vobing. Man.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I've been waiting for this moment since much
Speaker 1: of Do the balloon drop here? Oh? Oh wait? These
Speaker 1: are oh man? Are They're supposed to be like fully inflated,
Speaker 1: but I we blew them up in April. We thought
Speaker 1: it was only gonna be a few weeks. But I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: things are tough. It's just like this little inside these
Speaker 1: things still inside. Yeah, yeah, what is that COVID anyway?
Speaker 1: But yeah, Fauci says America is no longer in a
Speaker 1: pandemic phase, which is cool. But don't let these balloons
Speaker 1: fool you. It doesn't mean we're out of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: A lot of people actually misinterpreted this news today. They
Speaker 1: were like, the pandemic is over. Time to tongue kiss
Speaker 1: my grandmother again. Man, time to tongue kiss my grandside again.
Speaker 1: Are a very loving family. But that's not what this means.
Speaker 1: What Faucci was saying is that America is currently not
Speaker 1: in a pandemic phase, as in, not in a pandemic
Speaker 1: right now, but it's not over. It could come back,
Speaker 1: or it could go away. But it could come back
Speaker 1: or go you don't know. Yeah, it's a phase. It's
Speaker 1: sort of like wide legged jeans. They disappeared for twenty
Speaker 1: years and now suddenly everyone looks like that's to borrow
Speaker 1: a pair of pants from shack. You know. But as
Speaker 1: much as you want to get angry at people, here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Dr Fauci, How did you not know? How
Speaker 1: do you not know? By now? How stupid people are? Huh,
Speaker 1: We're all stupid. You can't just say pandemic phases over.
Speaker 1: Oh when you say that, oh, we here is party time.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's been the major failure of this
Speaker 1: pandemic is that the scientists have been communicating directly with
Speaker 1: the public without somebody to interpret what they say. That's
Speaker 1: bound to cause chaos. Right, we don't understand scientists speak.
Speaker 1: It's the reason God didn't speak that reckon to the people.
Speaker 1: He always went through a messenger. You know. He was like, Noah,
Speaker 1: soon I will purge the learned of all certain and vice.
Speaker 1: So henceforth abundance may spring forth. And whence there was squalor,
Speaker 1: things won't change. And no I was like a gotcha, hey, yo,
Speaker 1: grab a giraffe. Shit's about to get wet. Now we understand.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go,
Speaker 1: let's check in on the traffic with our very own
Speaker 1: Why would junior? Everybody is why? Why? Why am I
Speaker 1: here again? What do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Why you hear from the traff yesterday? I did the
Speaker 1: traffic yesterday. Why don't I do it again? Because there's
Speaker 1: there's traffic every day? You think it's a strange. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that I have to do this every day.
Speaker 1: I said I would do it, but I just thought
Speaker 1: it would be once a week. I didn't notice nothing.
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you saying about? Every day?
Speaker 1: Come to work everyday? Tape ship I was not, Roy,
Speaker 1: can you just tell us what the traffic is playing?
Speaker 1: But before the traffic man, this this flight attended thing
Speaker 1: and the whole COVID in the fauci, I think we
Speaker 1: should still be wearing the mask on the planes because
Speaker 1: but I just I hate the fact that flight attendants
Speaker 1: was getting beat up over a mask. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be fighting drunk passengers, not these people wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: I hear you that. That's and also part of why
Speaker 1: people be challenging flight of tendency. Nobody thinks about this, Trevor.
Speaker 1: It's the uniform. The uniform does not command authority. The
Speaker 1: flight attendant uniform. They all are wearing a vest and
Speaker 1: a stupid hat. Nobody. You don't respect a vest, name
Speaker 1: of job and a vest you respect. You have blackjack, dealer,
Speaker 1: you got magician, you got crossing guard at a school, church, usher,
Speaker 1: male stre if. These are all punchable people. These are
Speaker 1: people you can punch in the face. Like you cannot
Speaker 1: dress in a vest and expect people to respect you.
Speaker 1: To flight attendant, if they really want something but they
Speaker 1: need to be fighting for is a new uniform. They
Speaker 1: need to put on some of that black leather like
Speaker 1: them bounces, them leather and some of them them shades.
Speaker 1: And get your an earpiece because like when you wear
Speaker 1: an earpiece, everybody knows that you're talking to another person
Speaker 1: on the airpiece who can also come up your ass.
Speaker 1: It makes you act right. You see the airpiece like,
Speaker 1: oh you got other ass whoopers on the other end
Speaker 1: of that airpiece. That's the thing, man, What's what's happening
Speaker 1: in the in the in the in the traffic. Here's
Speaker 1: here's the thing about COVID man, Well, get to that man.
Speaker 1: Just like I'm happy that some of the restrictions are
Speaker 1: being you know, rolled back. I'm happy for that, but
Speaker 1: it's a lot of stuff that they got that they
Speaker 1: still doing that they don't really have to do. Number.
Speaker 1: Do you still need a QR code on the menu?
Speaker 1: Do you need a little square to figure who? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna scan them? And you bring me some paper. I'm
Speaker 1: an American. Bring me a sticky piece of laminated to
Speaker 1: ask paper sign figure out what the hell I want
Speaker 1: to eat? Just bother you gest because you get distracted.
Speaker 1: You don't focus when you scan your phone and you're
Speaker 1: looking at the food and porn hub notifications to popping
Speaker 1: up and the text can you can you go? Why
Speaker 1: do you get notifications from porn hull? You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta know when the new ship dropped. You don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of the elbow bump. Let's get rid of that.
Speaker 1: Why is anybody even going on the elbow bump? I
Speaker 1: can tell you do? You don't think we need to
Speaker 1: with the stickers, the stickers. There's just six ft stickers
Speaker 1: in the grocery store. Do we still need that? Do
Speaker 1: you still? Do you not know what six ft is?
Speaker 1: That there's pop scotching from sticker to sticker around the
Speaker 1: damn store. Just get rid of that. To tell Founty,
Speaker 1: I know you got his number, So let's say I'll
Speaker 1: tell Fauchi if you tell me what the traffic is? Please?
Speaker 1: Why do I have to do traffic? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Why w what always traffic? Like? I could be doing
Speaker 1: so many other They like what I could do cooking,
Speaker 1: I could do what we could sit up a little
Speaker 1: table and the crop pot I can do. I can
Speaker 1: do the animals. Let me be an animal man and
Speaker 1: bring a little the cuddly animals a lifestyle. Don't don't
Speaker 1: encourage him, he usked me. I said, we're going back
Speaker 1: to the studio. I said, what do you think about
Speaker 1: doing traffic? And you were like, I would love to
Speaker 1: do the traffic. Uh. I didn't know that I would
Speaker 1: have to do it every I didn't know that I
Speaker 1: would have to like research and like investigate and figure
Speaker 1: out the traffic everything. What do you mean you don't
Speaker 1: you don't have to research to do traffic? Oh that
Speaker 1: traffic bad back to you. Thank you so much for that,
Speaker 1: Roy with Junia. All right, stick around, there's more Daddy
Speaker 1: Show coming up. Right after this. I could just tell
Speaker 1: welcome back to the day show. If you are a
Speaker 1: black person in America, you have probably come face to
Speaker 1: face with a Karen at some point in your life.
Speaker 1: But what if you could harness the power of Karen's
Speaker 1: for good? Well maybe you can. It's the year two
Speaker 1: and black people have had enough of getting the cops
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Speaker 1: one scientist works tirelessly to create a new super weapon,
Speaker 1: one that will give white people a taste of what
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Speaker 1: that we gonna call this garbage. I'm calling the police.
Speaker 1: What we're not doing anything wrong? Hello, police? Yes, I
Speaker 1: like the reports and white people with some nasty ass food.
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Speaker 1: Oh he's not a rescue. I only by You need
Speaker 1: to stop flabbering on his animal before you make COVID
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Speaker 1: assulting me. I'm not assaulting you. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: to my your own business. That's the same thing to
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Speaker 1: are you gonna sing? Why? I'm gonna have to report
Speaker 1: this for what? Seeing Karen's not a crime? It if
Speaker 1: it's bad nut saying sweet hello Polly. These Caucasians are
Speaker 1: at it again. What are you doing in this expensive boutique?
Speaker 1: What are you doing on the jewelry in your person?
Speaker 1: With a price? Tax? Alot him? Go lo lo, God,
Speaker 1: this's a bullshit you call cops? Are your cap y?
Speaker 1: What did you do for being a mad scientist? I
Speaker 1: was selling bootleg DVDs. People still about DVDs be surprised.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for let's go say startmar When
Speaker 1: we come back, Terry Crews is joining me on the
Speaker 1: show Go Away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guest tonight is an actor and the host of America's
Speaker 1: Got Talent. He's here to talk about his latest book,
Speaker 1: Tough My Journey to True Power. Please welcome Terry Crews.
Speaker 1: H m hm oh. I'm gonna show you how to
Speaker 1: do it. You're doing it right now. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you how to do it. It looks like you've got
Speaker 1: like six cell phones in your jacket and we were
Speaker 1: ringing at the same time, just doing a Dude, I'm
Speaker 1: so good. It has been a long time since I
Speaker 1: last saw you. You know, it's been a whole pandemic
Speaker 1: between everything you've gone through. You wrote another book. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on that, Tough My Journey to True Power. So when
Speaker 1: I when I heard about the book, I was like,
Speaker 1: Tough my Journey to True Powers. Like, oh, Terry's writing
Speaker 1: it's like a weightlifting book. I figured it was just
Speaker 1: gonna be about the muscles and everything, and yet there's
Speaker 1: basically nothing. It's it seems like this whole book is
Speaker 1: about you emotionally weightlifting. Yes, yes, I had to redefine
Speaker 1: what tough was in my life, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: As as a kid, I mean, first of all, I
Speaker 1: was filled with rage. And I'm gonna start at the
Speaker 1: beginning just a little bit. Because my father was an
Speaker 1: alcoholic and he was addicted to alcohol and my mother
Speaker 1: was addicted to religion, which created a really toxic relationship.
Speaker 1: And at five years old, I grew up watching my
Speaker 1: father not my mother out on the regular um and
Speaker 1: it was something that changed me. I mean, my whole thing.
Speaker 1: When I saw him do that, I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: it's your world, this, it's your way on the highway.
Speaker 1: And I learned that that was the only way to
Speaker 1: be a man um and it was through rage, and
Speaker 1: it was I would rather be beared than loved. And
Speaker 1: it got me a lot. I mean, I lived my
Speaker 1: life like it was a revenge movie. Okay, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people see me now, you know as the
Speaker 1: way it's so funny and so great and the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But but this is the thing, man, I I was
Speaker 1: filled with rage, and I mean I used to snap
Speaker 1: on people. I read that in the book and I'm
Speaker 1: not even joked. Like in the first, let's say quarter
Speaker 1: of the books, I was like, I'm scared to have
Speaker 1: Terry on the show, because you like, in the book
Speaker 1: you talk about this this journey, you know, when you
Speaker 1: talk about young Terry, you know, and I like, it's
Speaker 1: like there's multiple Terries in this book. In your in
Speaker 1: your story, you talk about young Terry and you talk
Speaker 1: about your dad is old Terry, Big Terry, and you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about the terror in the field, but also
Speaker 1: the rage that you felt it being unable to protect
Speaker 1: your mom, unable to protect the house, and you were scared.
Speaker 1: But then it gets to a part of the book
Speaker 1: where one day you you developed enough and you you
Speaker 1: beat your father like I got him. And this was
Speaker 1: so wild because you know, growing up in that kind
Speaker 1: of household, with the intense alcohol and religion and the
Speaker 1: whole thing, I became a pleaser. I became a searcher
Speaker 1: for I wanted approval and I was addicted to approval.
Speaker 1: And the thing is is that if I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: it was it was one of those things that would
Speaker 1: make me very, very, you know, angry. And but one
Speaker 1: thing that I discovered once by the time I became
Speaker 1: an adult, and I said, you know, I knew I
Speaker 1: needed to get strong because one day I would have
Speaker 1: to kill my father. I was the vision that I
Speaker 1: always had in my head because he was such a terror.
Speaker 1: And one day he I mean and as a grown man.
Speaker 1: I was thirty years old, and I remember we called
Speaker 1: it the Christmas Christmas from Hell, and I get a
Speaker 1: little emotional thinking about it. But I took my family
Speaker 1: home for Christmas and he told me that he was
Speaker 1: going to behave and I said, cool, because they hadn't
Speaker 1: been around and my kids had never been raised with
Speaker 1: any domestic violence, and me and my wife go out
Speaker 1: and he decides he's gonna hit my mother in the mouth.
Speaker 1: And what was crazy? I get a call. We're on
Speaker 1: the road, were brought to go to dinner, and my mother,
Speaker 1: my aunt calls me and says, your mother just got
Speaker 1: hit in the mouth. Her tooth is sideways. Man. I
Speaker 1: turned the car around and I told him get everybody
Speaker 1: out of the house and just leave us alone. And
Speaker 1: I went and I confronted him and I said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. You promised And he said, oh, man,
Speaker 1: get out of here. Man and bow and I hit
Speaker 1: this man. I don't know how long it was. I
Speaker 1: know I beat him from downstairs all the way up
Speaker 1: to his room. He's bleeding, he's he's screaming, and I
Speaker 1: all I can think about is this is revenge. This
Speaker 1: is what I always wanted. This is what you made
Speaker 1: us go through. This is the revenge. This is gonna
Speaker 1: fulfill every dream, every fantasy, everything is gonna be in
Speaker 1: this moment. And I felt nothing. You talk about that,
Speaker 1: it's it's a savery moment where you you're wailing on
Speaker 1: him and then you cry at the end. Of it,
Speaker 1: and you felt even emptier than when that moment started.
Speaker 1: You didn't feel powerful, you didn't feel you didn't get
Speaker 1: the revenge that you thought you were gonna get. You
Speaker 1: can get the closure. I did it, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be the end of the movie.
Speaker 1: Did you know at that moment that Terry had anger
Speaker 1: issues or did you think that was an isolated incidence. No? No,
Speaker 1: My wife was telling me the whole time. She's like,
Speaker 1: you got you are really angry, And I'm like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean I'm angry? You know I'm getting angry
Speaker 1: and you're telling me I'm angry and I never saw it.
Speaker 1: You understand. It's something that's so imperceptible because you have
Speaker 1: it tied in with your manhood. This is something that's
Speaker 1: tied into you and you go, hey, man, this is
Speaker 1: what you do somebody. I remember when one man disrespected
Speaker 1: my wife. I picked him up, put him on his
Speaker 1: head on the concrete and I'm and my wife is like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to promise me you will never ever do
Speaker 1: this again. And I'm like, but I have to. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm supposed to do this man, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm put on earth to do? How did you
Speaker 1: How did you change that? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: Like people talk about the change, but how do you
Speaker 1: change that? How does Terry go from being the person
Speaker 1: who snaps, the person who's angry, the person who proves
Speaker 1: himself of the person who says, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: react Because I'll jump to another part in the book
Speaker 1: that some people know about as a story, but you
Speaker 1: you've never told it in in as much depth if
Speaker 1: you hasn't as you have in the book, is the
Speaker 1: now infamous story where you are in a Hollywood You
Speaker 1: had a Hollywood party and one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: agents in the business is there and he comes up
Speaker 1: and he grabs your crotch, you know, and at first
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, was that a mistake? What's going on?
Speaker 1: And he laughs and he grabs your crotch again in
Speaker 1: front of everybody, and he just laughs it off and
Speaker 1: you didn't do anything. And the irony of the whole
Speaker 1: thing is then people online were like, man, Terry Crews,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have all those muscles and you're gonna do
Speaker 1: ship and someone grabs your dick, You're not gonna punch
Speaker 1: you bo. You know what I mean, and then they're
Speaker 1: like with these fake muscles and inflatable muscles, people roasting you.
Speaker 1: But you talk about in the book how you didn't
Speaker 1: want to do anything. Explain to me how that change
Speaker 1: comes about? What? What? What? What shifts in your perspective.
Speaker 1: First of all, it was and I had already been
Speaker 1: through seven years of therapy. Um my wife left me. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, I had an addiction to pornography, I
Speaker 1: had anger, I had all kinds of stuff, and she
Speaker 1: was like, you know what I'm done, And this is
Speaker 1: the thing. I was very successful, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I had movies and TV and everybody
Speaker 1: knew who I was and and my trick to life
Speaker 1: was fake it till you make it. But the problem
Speaker 1: is you make it and you're fake, You're still fake.
Speaker 1: It was an image. It was the Terry Crew's image
Speaker 1: is what everybody fell in love with. And my wife
Speaker 1: ended up married to that image. But the real me
Speaker 1: was still messed up, broken, and when she left me,
Speaker 1: it was the highlight. It was like wait a minute.
Speaker 1: And first I was like, go ahead, I'm Terry Crews too,
Speaker 1: Go get me another woman. And it was so stupid
Speaker 1: because I heard myself talking like this, and I went,
Speaker 1: maybe it's me. Maybe it is me. And dude, you
Speaker 1: gotta understand. I got the best advice I ever received
Speaker 1: in my ENTI your life. A friend of mine said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I can't promise you you're gonna get your wife and
Speaker 1: family back, but you have to get better for you
Speaker 1: now my whole life. Therapy, especially in in male culture,
Speaker 1: in black culture, therapy was looked at as quackery. I mean,
Speaker 1: they was like, you can't care crazy, you know, and
Speaker 1: that was that was saying a lot, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, my father went to go see a psychologist
Speaker 1: for his alcoholism. The psychologist killed himself a week later,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh that don't work. Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: going what But this was the thing. I'm at rock bottom,
Speaker 1: I have nothing, And that was the D day and
Speaker 1: I went to therapy and I discovered this anger and
Speaker 1: where it was coming from, and this this you know,
Speaker 1: this need for people's approval that would send me through
Speaker 1: the roof, that would make me a high achiever. You understand,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you will. Yeah, that's where the success
Speaker 1: comes from. But the disapproval brought the rage. So now
Speaker 1: Terry Crews has this rage, he's working on it. He
Speaker 1: goes to therapy. Sometimes I feel like what happens to people, though,
Speaker 1: is they don't understand that anger is a natural part
Speaker 1: of being a human being, and so when they come out,
Speaker 1: they go, now, I have no anger. The universe is
Speaker 1: my spirit. And so now, how do you deal with anger?
Speaker 1: How do you like, everyone gets angry? How do you
Speaker 1: now deal with What did you learn as a healthy
Speaker 1: outlet for your anger? First of all, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: come out like that. The first year. I was like
Speaker 1: piece to everyone, and it was the baddest acting I
Speaker 1: ever did, like set your ass down, piece of love.
Speaker 1: You know. It was bad, Yes, it was hard, right,
Speaker 1: but I actually got to understand remember, now this is
Speaker 1: the whole thing you can You can be angry and
Speaker 1: sin not. It's a it's a biblical phrase. And the
Speaker 1: whole thing was righteous. Anger is a good thing. And
Speaker 1: it was about accountability. Holding people accountable is how you
Speaker 1: deal with your anger. It's like there's a legal way
Speaker 1: to do everything. My answer to everything before was like
Speaker 1: playing chess, turn over the chessboard, like if I can't
Speaker 1: get a problem, And what I learned was wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I gotta use wisdom here. I have to figure out
Speaker 1: this problem. Maybe going backward, I can go forward two steps.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, my my, everything about the
Speaker 1: energy towards anyone that I was angry at was a thoughtful,
Speaker 1: methodical move. And this is what I did with adham En.
Speaker 1: It It was it changed everything because I knew because
Speaker 1: my wife had made me promise too. She was like,
Speaker 1: don't you ever do and I was like, yeah, problem,
Speaker 1: but that was the test. And I remember taking her
Speaker 1: hand and we went into the car and I drove
Speaker 1: home and I mind you, my first mindset was to
Speaker 1: drive back through the club and like terminator and you
Speaker 1: know I was going to do it. But I went home.
Speaker 1: But you gotta understand this, because this is the support
Speaker 1: that I had. The whole time I was driving home.
Speaker 1: My wife said, I'm proud of you, Terry. I'm proud
Speaker 1: of you because she saw me throwing people around. She's
Speaker 1: seen it, and she was like, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1: That support that said I'm doing this right, I'm doing
Speaker 1: this right. And then I went legal and I went
Speaker 1: to the head of William Morris Endeavor and I said,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about this predator that you
Speaker 1: have running in your hallways. And they were like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he's the big man, so we can't do anything.
Speaker 1: And I was like, hell no, I said, dude, you
Speaker 1: work for me. And he laughed. He laughed in my face,
Speaker 1: and I said, wow, okay, And you know what, it
Speaker 1: made me more emboldened and I got stronger, and I
Speaker 1: went like, all right, you want to play this game,
Speaker 1: We're gonna play it. We're gonna play it all the
Speaker 1: way out. And what happened is quiet has kept. Other
Speaker 1: people joined my case because you don't rob the biggest
Speaker 1: bank in the you know, in the state right now,
Speaker 1: you always dropped little banks. And what was happening is
Speaker 1: there was little There were all these other people that
Speaker 1: came out. They said, hey, man, he did the same
Speaker 1: thing to me, and they joined my case. And he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, white black, I'm out of here. I'm
Speaker 1: going to retire. And I didn't want any money. I
Speaker 1: just said, man, you cannot molest the clients and go
Speaker 1: back to work. That's all I said, dude, that's all
Speaker 1: I wanted. You cannot do it and you can't go
Speaker 1: back to work. And he's out and he's out and
Speaker 1: this is the thing, checkmate, so so so great. I
Speaker 1: remember that moment distinctly because you you know, you came
Speaker 1: out the me too movement was happening. You know, you
Speaker 1: spoke about your case. People were shocked, and you know,
Speaker 1: and a lot of men were emboldened to say like, hey,
Speaker 1: I've also had this issue. And yes, you know, statistically
Speaker 1: men on miniscule compared to women. But it was an
Speaker 1: interesting story that that gave a fuller complexity to what
Speaker 1: we're trying to get rid of in society. People loved
Speaker 1: you that Terry Crews on Twitter. It was amazing, And
Speaker 1: then you talk about this in the book. A few
Speaker 1: years after that, Terry Crews on Twitter became one of
Speaker 1: the most hated individuals. Almost overnight. It was people like,
Speaker 1: he's a cool he's he betrayed black people, he was
Speaker 1: and it all came around Black lives matter. That's what
Speaker 1: That's what came around was Black lives matter. And you
Speaker 1: said something and I paraphrase it, you know, because in
Speaker 1: the in the in the book, you talking and you
Speaker 1: lay out the tweet was where you say, you know, essentially,
Speaker 1: I don't want white supremacy the same way don't want
Speaker 1: black supremacy. I want us to all be equal as people.
Speaker 1: People were like, oh, really, Terry black supremacy, and I mean,
Speaker 1: they tore into you. But in the book you talk
Speaker 1: about how you didn't even know that that was a
Speaker 1: talking point some people use. And secondly, you weren't trying
Speaker 1: to say what people thought. You were trying to say, right, well,
Speaker 1: this is the thing. Black supremacy has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with white people. When I was in Michigan, the drug
Speaker 1: dealer was a black supremaciy the gang member I was
Speaker 1: scared of, and we could not move around. What's the
Speaker 1: black supremacists? And what I meant was, it's this whole thing.
Speaker 1: If we don't start this movement with the idea of reconciliation,
Speaker 1: we are just postponing a greater war. And my whole
Speaker 1: thing is I didn't hear a lot of reconciliation because
Speaker 1: reconciliation doesn't mean agreement, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things. I want to bring this up
Speaker 1: because there's a story about the wisest man in the world.
Speaker 1: It was Solomon and two women came to them and
Speaker 1: they brought a baby, and they said, we have this
Speaker 1: baby and the baby is mine. And so Solomon, the
Speaker 1: wisest man says, Okay, what we're gonna do is cut
Speaker 1: the baby in half and I'll give you a half
Speaker 1: of the baby and you get the other half. And
Speaker 1: one woman said, yes, that's the way we do it.
Speaker 1: But the other woman said, no, no, say this baby. No,
Speaker 1: in fact, give it to her. Give it to her.
Speaker 1: He said, that's the moment. That's reconciliation. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you get the result you want. It means you're saving
Speaker 1: it because dividing it is going to kill it. And
Speaker 1: when I look at America, dividing it is going to
Speaker 1: kill it. And the whole thing is reconciled. We have
Speaker 1: to reconcile. We have to white and black, male and female,
Speaker 1: Republican Democrat. We have to find a way to reconcile
Speaker 1: or we're going to kill what we have. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: as a thought, and I agree with it. I think
Speaker 1: the issue, yeah, I think the issue some people had,
Speaker 1: you know, is reconciliation cannot take place before there's any
Speaker 1: type of accountability. In order for us to reconcile, there
Speaker 1: has to be some sort of accountability. People have to
Speaker 1: say this is what is happening, and this is what
Speaker 1: we're going to do to rectify that situation. Just like
Speaker 1: you talked about reconciling with your wife. You know, in
Speaker 1: order for you, guys to reconcile, you had to fix,
Speaker 1: you had to acknowledge, you had to say, I have
Speaker 1: a problem. And I think what a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought in that moment is they felt like I understand
Speaker 1: when reading the book. Now you you are saying something that,
Speaker 1: in my honest opinion, is almost a step ahead. But
Speaker 1: people are going, yeah, a terry right now, we're looking
Speaker 1: for accountability first. Right now, Black people in America are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: can we just have an agreement on how America does
Speaker 1: not treat everybody equally? You know, we don't want everyone
Speaker 1: to be treated equally badly, We want everyone to be
Speaker 1: treated equally. You know, I totally agree. And it felt
Speaker 1: like to some people you had you had skipped, you
Speaker 1: were just like, guys, guys, yeah, so I'll just be together.
Speaker 1: I totally and I totally understand that. But this is
Speaker 1: another thing, and I agree, and you can't have a
Speaker 1: nuanced conversation on Twitter. Oh yeah, that's the biggest That
Speaker 1: was the first with any accident that was it just
Speaker 1: that was maybe one of my favorite books. When you
Speaker 1: talk about because you tweeted that, and you can tell
Speaker 1: when someone's things they got swagging and tweet you were like,
Speaker 1: letna tell you something, what we need to supremacy, black
Speaker 1: spy all come together band. Yeah, you know you made
Speaker 1: an killed believe you me. I went, oh, no, trending,
Speaker 1: that's not what's going on. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But but but you can't have that. I totally understand that, um,
Speaker 1: and I think you're right, and I know you're right,
Speaker 1: and I actually one of my things was, it's just
Speaker 1: when I know my people and I love my people.
Speaker 1: And the big thing was black people need to hold
Speaker 1: other black people accountable, which see because accountability right, and
Speaker 1: we do and we do and I'm not saying we don't.
Speaker 1: But but my thing is as a black man and
Speaker 1: as a man who had been in these kind of situations, UM,
Speaker 1: I just knew that it needed to be said by
Speaker 1: someone like me in order because my thing is I
Speaker 1: just wanted peace, and I guess it goes back to
Speaker 1: my approval. It goes back to my need for approval.
Speaker 1: It went back to that. UM. And again it was
Speaker 1: a mistake. It was. It was a mistake to tweet
Speaker 1: that out at that time. And that was the thing.
Speaker 1: Funny enough, because you know, Martin Luther King Jr. Has
Speaker 1: talked about black supremacist Nelson Mandela himself was one of
Speaker 1: the people who said, I don't look for the oppression
Speaker 1: of white people. I don't look for the oppression of
Speaker 1: back people. I don't want anybody to be oppressed. Right.
Speaker 1: But the timing I think was this, Yeah, it was you.
Speaker 1: I say that in the book. Yeah, you were going,
Speaker 1: that's not what I was trying to do. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, this is one of those moments where I
Speaker 1: was like, that's why books over tweets. It is no,
Speaker 1: it is the book. You made it out. You're a
Speaker 1: human being. Were all mist understand each other. I honestly
Speaker 1: I appreciated your just like your vulnerability, your your your
Speaker 1: ability to say this is where I messed up. This
Speaker 1: is what I was trying to say. Because I was
Speaker 1: reading it, I was going like, man, I was like,
Speaker 1: why did you send the tweeting? Why did you trust Twitter?
Speaker 1: It doesn't try to understand you, does it. It does?
Speaker 1: You know? And I, first of all, I learned my
Speaker 1: lesson Big Time first of all. But but I do
Speaker 1: feel like again because of this need for approval that
Speaker 1: I was addicted to. Um, it's it's a matter of
Speaker 1: also exercising the will to take disapproval. You understand what
Speaker 1: I mean? Where really sometimes standing up for the right thing,
Speaker 1: not everyone is going to like you. And and again,
Speaker 1: I still know who I am. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I mean, I would never ever tweet again, to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be cat videos and promotional uh. And
Speaker 1: I again I and I really, I mean, even on
Speaker 1: this show right now. And I'm gonna let you know,
Speaker 1: I really do want to apologize to anybody who was
Speaker 1: offended by these tweets and was hurt deeply because as
Speaker 1: an example, as a as an African American man, a
Speaker 1: black man here in this country, I did not want
Speaker 1: to give the perception that we're supposed to gloss this
Speaker 1: over and and forget the death of George Floyd, the
Speaker 1: murder of George Floyd. And I want to apologize to
Speaker 1: everyone right now who was ever offended because it hurt
Speaker 1: and and even back when I was trying to explain,
Speaker 1: it just got worse and words and this is where
Speaker 1: the book came in because the need is for us
Speaker 1: as a people to actually come together and really really
Speaker 1: be what we need to be to this country, because
Speaker 1: this is our country. This is our country. We die
Speaker 1: and bought and I'm not giving it away. This is
Speaker 1: our inheritance. I love you, push for real, you know,
Speaker 1: thank you? No, no, no what what I what I
Speaker 1: always say to people is find a person who has tweeted.
Speaker 1: You will find somebody who has messed up, and you
Speaker 1: will find someone who's been misinterpreted. Thank you so much. Thanks,
Speaker 1: We're ready, Thanks Harry. Book My Journey for Two Powers
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