Speaker 1: From my arm Radio, Common Enemy and Tender with TV's
Speaker 1: They Pal podcast Pal Hey Pal with Jared and Hey Pal,
Speaker 1: Hey Pal. Here I am again. Here you are. This
Speaker 1: is incredible. I don't like you know, I know, I
Speaker 1: did a great job last time. I mean that's still
Speaker 1: you know, up for discussion, but it's been decided. Okay,
Speaker 1: you did a great, a great job. But I feel
Speaker 1: way more comfortable back over on the keys, just making
Speaker 1: but I understand pressed and we're recording, and I respect
Speaker 1: that and appreciate everything that you do and how you
Speaker 1: handle that. We really don't know where Jared is. I
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that he's. His competition in the martot Kart
Speaker 1: Championships is going well. It's very possible that it's it's
Speaker 1: not though, well I hope that's not the case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well of course not definitely. Don't want an Alley death,
Speaker 1: that's no, No, something more dignified. So um, we have
Speaker 1: a great guest today, the best and uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know who he is. Your hair looks good as always,
Speaker 1: well you know you know him. He's the host of
Speaker 1: I was just testing you to see if you go today.
Speaker 1: We have I mean one of the greatest NFL players,
Speaker 1: football players. That's the game with the with the pads
Speaker 1: in America. Nothin pads like no, not not soccer or
Speaker 1: thinking of football football overseas. No, no, this is American
Speaker 1: football football. Just get on with it. I'm still confused.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest of all time, Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: a great friend of mine. Um. He is a host
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America. He's an entrepreneur, he has his
Speaker 1: own clothing line, host a hundred thousand dollar pyramid games.
Speaker 1: Show is awesome, it's it's a great show. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's just he's incredible. He's everywhere. One of the hardest
Speaker 1: working guys in entertainment. Um, and just a great, great person,
Speaker 1: great father, and just one of the good guys. I
Speaker 1: like that. It's nice to get a good guy in
Speaker 1: the show. Michael Strahan, hold on, yep, he's calling. All right,
Speaker 1: we got him, We got him. Hear me, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can hear you day and god damn man, you've got
Speaker 1: a whole official setup. We do we do with some bs.
Speaker 1: That's real. Let me take my jacket on. This is
Speaker 1: my co host, my co host Kyle, who knows nothing
Speaker 1: about sports. He's filling in for my regular co host
Speaker 1: Sonybody know, it's absolutely nothing, but he's handsome. He's got
Speaker 1: great hair, Michael, he has great hair. I'm usually the
Speaker 1: one button is making sure the show doesn't go off
Speaker 1: the rails. Hey man, all you need is hair to
Speaker 1: set on podcast that you don't have to You don't
Speaker 1: have to know a damn thing you're talking about. I've
Speaker 1: made it living about. But by the way, um, what
Speaker 1: car did you drive home today? What were you in today? No?
Speaker 1: You know what. I didn't even get a chab and
Speaker 1: drive my car forever. I was in the Baamas for
Speaker 1: two weeks right then I came back and I've just
Speaker 1: been sitting in my little Navigator man, getting driven to
Speaker 1: it from work myself. But this weekend tomorrow, hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: get to drift something nice. Okay, So I have a
Speaker 1: funny story about that really quick. So remember when I
Speaker 1: was at Super Bowl with Rebel and I was with
Speaker 1: Adam Divine. But I think you were thinking I was
Speaker 1: with Adam Oh God, So I you know who Adam
Speaker 1: Divine is though, So I go, I go up to
Speaker 1: Adam Divine and I'm like, dude, I just talked to
Speaker 1: Michael Strahan. He like loves you and he lit up.
Speaker 1: He like lit up, and I'm like, you guys were
Speaker 1: talking about this car, and so I'm giving him this
Speaker 1: whole spiel about how much you love him in this
Speaker 1: car that he wanted, and he was like, uh, Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm a little confused, and I go, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And he goes, well, I love Michael Stray and he's like,
Speaker 1: I think he's incredible and I would love to talk
Speaker 1: to him and I'd love to talk to him about cars.
Speaker 1: But he goes, I don't think he knows who I am.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, I know who A
Speaker 1: little guy black hair all I thought you said Vine
Speaker 1: and I I remember Adam Levin the last time I
Speaker 1: saw him. Out of Adam. We got to the bottom
Speaker 1: of it, there's Michael Adam Man. I know who you are.
Speaker 1: Of course I know who you are. I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1: We got the last name mixed up, but I had
Speaker 1: cars on the brain. That's that's all. That's all. So
Speaker 1: it reminded me of one night. I'm at the Sunset
Speaker 1: Tower Hotel and I'm with David O. Russell, the director,
Speaker 1: and I'm a Jamie Fox and we're with Timothy shallowmy
Speaker 1: right when he was starting to blow up. And we're
Speaker 1: sitting down and we're talking and david O. Russell's like, so,
Speaker 1: you know, Jamie, tell me about Davo. And Jamie's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you about Davo. I
Speaker 1: don't know how. But he knows everybody on earth. He's
Speaker 1: connected to everybody. He knows everyone. And just as he's
Speaker 1: saying this, Phil Mickelson, the golfer comes over to our
Speaker 1: table and he taps me on the shoulder and he's like,
Speaker 1: get up and give me a hug. Phil Mickelson, I've
Speaker 1: never met him in my life, Okay, So he gives
Speaker 1: me this and I'm like, I'm like, I'm just going
Speaker 1: with it. I'm like, Phil, meet david O Russell, the director,
Speaker 1: meet Jamie Fox and he's like and Jamie Fox goes man,
Speaker 1: He's like, hell the hell you know this motherfucker? And
Speaker 1: Phil goes oh, he's the best, and like I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like this because I have no idea what the
Speaker 1: hell is going on. So it turned out he thought
Speaker 1: I was Jerry Ferrara say that. I'm like, yeah, Jerry
Speaker 1: is by guy too. I love Jr. And it was
Speaker 1: it was after Jerry had lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: It was after he had lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: So Phil Mickelson was like, do you look amazing? And
Speaker 1: he's like sitting there like touching me, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on here? I've never met
Speaker 1: this man? So hold on, did you tell David and
Speaker 1: all those guys that you didn't know? No? Hell no,
Speaker 1: they know now. I would like to tell you, man,
Speaker 1: there's not very many people that I'll ever that I've
Speaker 1: ever been mistaken for. But I will say when I
Speaker 1: was playing, you're a little heavier and bigger guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm at a Knicks game and I'm on the front row.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm feeling good about myself. They gave me
Speaker 1: front row ticket to the Knicks. Baby, I'm like New Yorker,
Speaker 1: right yep, sitting there watching the game, trying to be cool,
Speaker 1: sitting in the front row. Dude, come down at halftime, Hey,
Speaker 1: I get you to sign you know, autograph. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna have. I really appreciate it. Champ. I
Speaker 1: was riding both get out of here. I'm looking like, man,
Speaker 1: that was so amazing. Unbelievable. Alright, let's get with this
Speaker 1: show is over. That was it. That was so podcast.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Alright. So, Kyle, I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about today. We have a very very special guest today.
Speaker 1: It pains me a little bit because, as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a massive Philadelphia sports fan Fly Eagles, Fly, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately I love this man so much. It's difficult for
Speaker 1: me because not only is he one of the greatest
Speaker 1: NFL players of all time, he's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: New York Giants of all time. Mr Michael Strahan show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael, No, hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys having me. Um, you could have changed a wardrobe,
Speaker 1: that's all right. I didn't wear the Eagles. I didn't
Speaker 1: wear the Eagles jersey out of respect. That's what were
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I had to go with Phillies. Now, my
Speaker 1: normal co host is a die hard Cowboys fan, so
Speaker 1: we would have been representing almost the entire uh the
Speaker 1: greatest division in football, the FC East. Um. But today,
Speaker 1: filling in we have our producer who knows nothing about sports,
Speaker 1: Mr Kyle Tequila and that funny but I produce a
Speaker 1: sports podcast. I don't know how that have a question
Speaker 1: for you. Where are you from? Man? Chicago? Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't know anything about sports? I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, I grew up playing hockey. I
Speaker 1: love the Bears, I love black Hawks, I love Chicago spots.
Speaker 1: Have you you pay attention now? Not really? What do
Speaker 1: you do with your life? What do you do that's
Speaker 1: gotta be at some point in time in your life
Speaker 1: on a Funday? That's right? Football? Like, what do you know?
Speaker 1: I watch it, but I'm not like I'm not. But
Speaker 1: tell Michael what you said to me earlier. I said
Speaker 1: you didn't want to watch your watching? I said, I
Speaker 1: have a life, which means I have a wife, I
Speaker 1: have a child, I'm running a business. I like to
Speaker 1: just not watch things for a minute to do I
Speaker 1: have to look outside. Hey, you know what it sounds
Speaker 1: like to me, Kyle. So I was like, your wife said,
Speaker 1: you're not watching, she's listening. You had so, I don't know,
Speaker 1: dis respect hey, wife, your kids. You can come in
Speaker 1: and tell us straight face that I choose not to
Speaker 1: watch because I have a life. Like watching reality TV
Speaker 1: is kind of watching somebody else lived their life. You're
Speaker 1: not living yours, but watching sports is entertainment. So your
Speaker 1: wife told you can't watch sports. That's cool, brother, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Man. Do you take care of your family
Speaker 1: because that's number one and that's why this is why
Speaker 1: he's filling in sports again. Yeah, this is why you're
Speaker 1: feeling in thank you, thank you so much. You've saved me.
Speaker 1: You have our you have our permission not to watch sports.
Speaker 1: There you go, you've been granted permission. This is a
Speaker 1: big day for me. Don't go anywhere. Hey, Pam will
Speaker 1: be right back after a work for our sponsors. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Michael, you've clearly done it all. I'm
Speaker 1: curious with all the things that you've done. What what's
Speaker 1: given you a bigger life high? Is it a sack
Speaker 1: in a in a professional football game? Is it doing
Speaker 1: a great, great interview? Does that give you a bigger high?
Speaker 1: Or is it closing a big business deal? Because you
Speaker 1: are an entrepreneur. So for you at this point in
Speaker 1: your career looking at everything, what gives you a bigger high?
Speaker 1: The sack? Really? Because you know what? Yeah? Because I
Speaker 1: could never do it again. Yeah that makes that's that's
Speaker 1: like like something that wants is over over. Yep, don't know, man,
Speaker 1: that the thing about getting a sack of football is
Speaker 1: that I have to dominate another dude, like throw them
Speaker 1: down beat Like it's nothing better than almost taking somebody's
Speaker 1: soul a little bit with a sack. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like that's better. Like I would love
Speaker 1: to clothe the big business Jill. I love that. But
Speaker 1: if they're not one today, they'll be one tomorrow, hope
Speaker 1: the other doing an interview. Trust me, if there's not
Speaker 1: an interview today, as another of you tomorrow. But a
Speaker 1: sack everyone is precious and there's nothing better than hitting
Speaker 1: a quarterback and you kind of watch the air and
Speaker 1: leave his body fan cast man, you got me fired up,
Speaker 1: Giant Jersey. So let me ask you this. Do you
Speaker 1: have a sack that stands out more than all the
Speaker 1: others because you are the all time sack leader? Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know Tom Brady and the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: was special because that was the Super Bowl. I think
Speaker 1: the Donovan mcna have. I had a few on him
Speaker 1: where I we'll watch back. No, man, I really closed
Speaker 1: on him pretty quickly because he was the tough one
Speaker 1: to get down the hardest sack the best sack I
Speaker 1: ever had. Like I set to move up and I
Speaker 1: made the move when I hit the quarterback so hard
Speaker 1: that it put him out, and and like it was
Speaker 1: a picture perfect sack with gust far Rott with red skins.
Speaker 1: That was the best picture perfect put pain and somebody
Speaker 1: sack I ever had. Everybody, don't think I'm a viting guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not a vioting guy. I was just out there
Speaker 1: at the matter of survival. But if somebody's got to
Speaker 1: get beat up, it's not gonna beat me if I
Speaker 1: can help it. Exactly what you say that, because our
Speaker 1: co host we just love beating the hell out we do.
Speaker 1: We love we love sacking Jared every every opportunity that
Speaker 1: we get. Um, we definitely love sacking him. Now. The
Speaker 1: one thing that's so beautiful when I look back on
Speaker 1: it is, you know, obviously you just interviewed Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and he has the seven Super Bowls and he's untouchable,
Speaker 1: and you know it's unbelievable, but you got to and
Speaker 1: both the super Bowls you got, you beat him, So
Speaker 1: you definitely when you guys talk, you have the upper hand,
Speaker 1: don't you know. You know what I got one the
Speaker 1: Giants got to Yeah, I wasn't met a second time.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you know, not even not even
Speaker 1: the fact that he lost two to the Giant is
Speaker 1: the first one that we beat him in, he said,
Speaker 1: that is the one that that that just eats him alive.
Speaker 1: And the reason being is because they were perfect. They
Speaker 1: were perfect season. But the other one, he you know,
Speaker 1: we lost the game here and there, but a perfect
Speaker 1: season that is immortality. He's already immortal because of seven
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, But to say we had a perfect season
Speaker 1: and did it that is the one. If you talk
Speaker 1: to him to this day, the one that bugs him
Speaker 1: the most is losing that one to us. But I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: you got freaking seven. I just needed one so I
Speaker 1: can retire. I don't get greedy and let the other
Speaker 1: kids play with the ball every once in a while, exactly.
Speaker 1: And I know how how big a fan Don Shula
Speaker 1: is of that Giant's team. For sure. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: what we beat, We beat them. They pop champagne when
Speaker 1: we beat um. Denver had a great record with Elway.
Speaker 1: One of the years they won the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: they came to New York and we sucked with some reason,
Speaker 1: we came together on that Sunday and we beat them.
Speaker 1: They sent the champagne too, so the Dolphins make sure
Speaker 1: they sent ye to whoever beat the team that looks
Speaker 1: like they're gonna go and defeat it. We did a
Speaker 1: twice world. I love it. And Kyle, just so you know,
Speaker 1: Don Shula was a head football coach for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and and he orchestrated. Are you seriously explaining this? Yes,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know who Don Shula is. Michael, he definitely
Speaker 1: doesn't know who Don. I'm just gonna let you handle
Speaker 1: this guy, Michael, Um, good luck with everything. Come on,
Speaker 1: you gotta sit down. We gotta talk about morning the sports.
Speaker 1: Come on back, Hey, pat Ball, come back, alright, I'm back,
Speaker 1: all right. Your eyes when I was explaining who Don
Speaker 1: Cula was my cool, priceless. I can feel the fury.
Speaker 1: You were angry. All right. Now you mean the Miami Dolphin,
Speaker 1: the team that's in a nura exactly, that's the one.
Speaker 1: Now out baby, whatever works, whatever works, all right? Now,
Speaker 1: next question again, this has to do with your career.
Speaker 1: So what made you more nervous or what makes you
Speaker 1: more nervous? Was it your first NFL football game, your
Speaker 1: first NFL on Fox episode, your first Good Morning America episode,
Speaker 1: your first time hosting Kyle's favorite show, a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollar appearing love that show, seeing your teeth without your
Speaker 1: trademark gap, which just happened recently, or seeing one of
Speaker 1: the twins go on a date. What of those makes
Speaker 1: you most nervous? Man, Well, first of all, the twins
Speaker 1: have not really been on a date yet, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous for the boy more than I am for myself,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna put one of those scenes from Bad
Speaker 1: Boys when the guy comes to the door and those
Speaker 1: guys show up my lie and uh man, you know what?
Speaker 1: That's a That is the probably one of the best
Speaker 1: questions I've ever been at, because usually it's very easy
Speaker 1: for me to say one of the other. But I
Speaker 1: was so scared my first football game, but then I
Speaker 1: was so scared at Fox. But then I was terrified
Speaker 1: at g m A. Like, I'm like, you give me
Speaker 1: ptfd manaken over in this joint, isn't because you have
Speaker 1: really triggered me, I would probably say the scariest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever done, maybe gm AM, Yeah, Pyramid didn't scare
Speaker 1: me because you know, practice through all that stuff. G
Speaker 1: M A scared you know what, GM here me football.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what I was doing, or at
Speaker 1: least I did. I knew it, and I didn't think
Speaker 1: I did not realized I had to learn it. So
Speaker 1: what I nervous? Yeah? Um, but it all fell on
Speaker 1: a team in a sense, like I got to do
Speaker 1: my job and I'm on a greater, bigger team. Fox
Speaker 1: scare me to death because I got all these thoughts
Speaker 1: in my head about what I want to say. But
Speaker 1: then by the time they get to me, Terry and
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Everybody's taking all the day on notes. So
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there like, oh, they took everything I had
Speaker 1: written down. I don't have nothing, so you have to
Speaker 1: learn the improbrise and makeup stuff. But GM May You're like,
Speaker 1: just you, it's news. It's more serious. You can't get
Speaker 1: away with like joking your way out stuff like a Fox.
Speaker 1: I'm doing commentary, man, and I'm like, I have three
Speaker 1: points and I go one and this one that too.
Speaker 1: By by by the third one, I'm like, I forgot it.
Speaker 1: And it's funny. You know, everybody can laugh at that.
Speaker 1: I've done Fox where I'm like, okay, this thing. I
Speaker 1: four three points, I go one point, the second point,
Speaker 1: I get to the third and I totally forgot it.
Speaker 1: So I just started coughing like I was choking. And
Speaker 1: then the guys fill in and I'm like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember what I was gonna say. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and let me finish. Yeah, the reason I started.
Speaker 1: They think I'm choking, like you're okay any water, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I just need a thought because I lost my trade
Speaker 1: of thoughts. So that stuff I can get away with. GM.
Speaker 1: You can't get away with that man. And it was
Speaker 1: so Fox Football. I knew football. I've done enough TV football.
Speaker 1: I knew I could play football, but you need experience.
Speaker 1: G m A. That's when I thought I actually knew
Speaker 1: TV because I've been on I've been on five, I've
Speaker 1: been on Kelly and Michael. Like I thought I knew
Speaker 1: TV until that TV and I realized I knew nothing.
Speaker 1: That's a scary thing I've ever done. Okay, great, great answer,
Speaker 1: And just to go for a quick minute, just to
Speaker 1: go to the twins along the lines of what you said,
Speaker 1: you're more worried about the guy. So Chuck Liddell. Uh.
Speaker 1: We were together when his daughter went on her first
Speaker 1: school dance and Chuck used the famous Sean Penn line
Speaker 1: imagine how scary that was for that kid. And Chuck
Speaker 1: went up to him really calm, and he said, here's
Speaker 1: a deal, son. He goes, whatever you do to my daughter,
Speaker 1: I get to do to you. And he smiled. And
Speaker 1: that kid you talk about turning ghost white? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was amazing, amazing. So well, yeah, hey, that's what
Speaker 1: I may have to steal. It's a good line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great line anything I get. Of course, I
Speaker 1: was talking with somebody about this the other day and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you know, it's like a dude, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about I know a dude. I know a kid.
Speaker 1: I know like I was that eight, and I know
Speaker 1: what I hope for now. Yeah, I'm about to go
Speaker 1: upstairs there yell my kid? Wrong? What did I do?
Speaker 1: Blame it on Davo. Um, Michael, you were the player
Speaker 1: picked in the nine three draft Because I don't know, Jack,
Speaker 1: hold up a piece of paper. You want to read
Speaker 1: the question for me? Actually hold up? He's too good man.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I just got to deal with it,
Speaker 1: all right, So let me what is that? Okay? Alright,
Speaker 1: So so there are thirty nine dudes in front of you,
Speaker 1: but you ended up becoming one of the greatest defensive
Speaker 1: ends in history. So do you think that is there
Speaker 1: something there that motivated you to, you know, to become
Speaker 1: great or you already knew you were great, you just
Speaker 1: needed more time, or you know, is there anything about that,
Speaker 1: you know, not being up in the top ten or
Speaker 1: top five in that draft? You know what? You know
Speaker 1: what motivated me? Eric Curry, John Copeland, Dan Flipman, called
Speaker 1: called Coleman, Rudolph Carl Sampson. Um. Um, yeah, those guys
Speaker 1: who got picked in front of me. You know, Todd Kelly,
Speaker 1: I went to thet But it wasn't like I wasn't
Speaker 1: I didn't know the guys that weren't friends. Like I
Speaker 1: was a really good friend with Todd Kelly. Um. But
Speaker 1: I remember sitting with one of these scouts from the
Speaker 1: forty nine is got named Tommy Hart, sitting there with
Speaker 1: him and Todd Kelly. He's a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: and he's right there, like, dude, I'm in college, I'm
Speaker 1: this young year old kid, trying to just make it,
Speaker 1: and Tommy Hart says, well, you know, Michael, you you'll
Speaker 1: never be as good, you know, good of a player
Speaker 1: like like Todd And I was like, h yeah, because
Speaker 1: you can't close on the quarterback. So was like yeah,
Speaker 1: So I remember everybody in front of me, I mean Coleman, Rudolph, Georgia,
Speaker 1: Tech gets drafted by the Jets first round, and I
Speaker 1: get go to the Giants in the second round, and
Speaker 1: that guy ended up being my backup and then and
Speaker 1: then goes into the game and places two plays and
Speaker 1: it raises his hand like okay, come back in. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I see why you weren't in the league
Speaker 1: very long because you were lazy and um you were spoiled.
Speaker 1: And I came from HBCU. I had to gribe I'm
Speaker 1: wearing one pair of shoes and practice in the games
Speaker 1: all year long. I don't get a new pair of
Speaker 1: Nikes every week. So that I had. My experience of
Speaker 1: coming to the NFL was a lot different than other
Speaker 1: everybody else, A lot of these guys experiences. And I
Speaker 1: didn't come in looking at it like I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be there, like they owed me something and they
Speaker 1: were going to open up the gates. I came into
Speaker 1: a team with Lawrence Taylor and and all this guy
Speaker 1: I had to earn it. They weren't giving you. Jack
Speaker 1: and Kyle. You would know Lawrence Taylor from any given Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's where Kyle would know him from. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy you want to cut the truck in half
Speaker 1: with a chainsaw, didn't blow up when you get the
Speaker 1: fuel line? Yeah? Perfect? But yeah, I mean that motivated me. Man,
Speaker 1: it motivated me. But also I was motivated by respect.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you want to be
Speaker 1: respective for the job you do. So I just didn't.
Speaker 1: You weren't gonna leave a game and think that I
Speaker 1: wasn't what you heard or I sucked and nothing. You're
Speaker 1: gonna lead the game and we may have ross, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel it. You're gonna be sort of next
Speaker 1: day you're gonna think back. I don't want to play
Speaker 1: him again. That was always my focus for respect and
Speaker 1: with the respect. Money comes with respect. Um, winning comes
Speaker 1: with respect. I mean, if you get respecting you out
Speaker 1: there and play, you win games. You wouldn't you go
Speaker 1: looking for me when the Super Bowl. Respect come with that,
Speaker 1: But I just want to respect from a players standpoint
Speaker 1: of guys on that field who know who real the
Speaker 1: real good guys are not think guys who good players
Speaker 1: because the media anoints them, but guys who actually, you know,
Speaker 1: you put on the field they actually can't play. That
Speaker 1: motivated me representing the family. Man, can't disappoint my mom
Speaker 1: and dad like that was yeah, that was it. They're
Speaker 1: gonna walk around with the name proudly. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head when you talked
Speaker 1: about you didn't You didn't expect anything to be given
Speaker 1: to you. And I think that's what happens a lot nowadays,
Speaker 1: especially with these earlier picks, as they kind of expect like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is how it's supposed to be or game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So think about it though, Man, you one years old,
Speaker 1: you get picked, You got millions of dollars in your pocket.
Speaker 1: Who could really tell you anything? I had nothing near
Speaker 1: that and you couldn't tell me nothing when I first started.
Speaker 1: I mean I got I used to cast my little check.
Speaker 1: I get like six grand a week cash that check,
Speaker 1: walk around a little not my pocket thinking I was like, bald,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that you know what, that's the last
Speaker 1: for sixteen seventeen weeks. I still got thirty five more
Speaker 1: weeks to live during the seat there the year, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, that money put the last the
Speaker 1: whole year. Like, but you can't tell a young guys.
Speaker 1: Very hard to tell a young guy certain things because
Speaker 1: they've never experienced it. For me, I was just lucky
Speaker 1: enough to outlast my mistakes as far as like my
Speaker 1: career and all that. A lot of different things. We
Speaker 1: just around long enough to outlast the things end up
Speaker 1: coming out on the other side of it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard man to be twenty some years
Speaker 1: old and and have millions of dollars in the bank,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, you're it's easy. But I always
Speaker 1: tell guys, the second game is over with well, the
Speaker 1: team will let you. I can call the giant. Now,
Speaker 1: I can go to the facility, I'll have lunch, I
Speaker 1: go to a game, going to the suite. I can
Speaker 1: stand on the sideline. They're not writing me another check.
Speaker 1: When it's over, it's over. And I just never wanted
Speaker 1: to look back at the end of my career and say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if I only worked harder, if I had only done
Speaker 1: this or done that. No, I put it all in
Speaker 1: when I was there, when I walked away, and no regrets.
Speaker 1: I never once looked back and said I should have
Speaker 1: kept going maybe another year. No, I was good, don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Hey, Pam will be right back after a
Speaker 1: work from our sponsors. But it's so freaking true. It's
Speaker 1: also go so hand in hand because it's not about
Speaker 1: an individual, it's about teamwork. No one want. No one
Speaker 1: has had success. It's gotten has gotten where they had
Speaker 1: gotten because they didn't have people help there. They didn't
Speaker 1: have a good team behind them. They didn't have somebody
Speaker 1: lifted them up, somebody carried them at some time or
Speaker 1: encourage them. And so I have an incredible team, great
Speaker 1: people behind me. And I've always been the guy who
Speaker 1: didn't want to ever be the weak link on the team.
Speaker 1: So I was always willing to push myself and work
Speaker 1: a little harder and stay a little later, and do
Speaker 1: whatever it took to be successful. And that's what life
Speaker 1: is like. Life is not waking up and it's just
Speaker 1: there for you. I remember my dad said, boy, one day,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find out that everything when you out on
Speaker 1: your own, everything is your responsibility fund the toilet paper
Speaker 1: to the Q tips and every time, every day I
Speaker 1: use a que tip. I'm my damn, that was right.
Speaker 1: I had to take this cute tip, gave this cute
Speaker 1: tip like everything is on you, and it was just
Speaker 1: a different attitude I had to take. Man, that I
Speaker 1: gotta you know, if you want to have success, you
Speaker 1: gotta be willing to work for it. You gotta be
Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice some of the things that, um, you
Speaker 1: probably want to do in a moment, do something or whatever.
Speaker 1: You gotta sacrifice those things for the long term goal.
Speaker 1: For me, I've done that. It's just worked out, you know,
Speaker 1: better than I ever imagine. Yeah, it's amazing. It's been
Speaker 1: awesome and and and well deserved by the way. Um,
Speaker 1: will you go Rocky really quick? Nicole? Can you bring
Speaker 1: Rocky down? You're gonna like next question, Michael, we got
Speaker 1: a surprise guest for you, Rocky. Wait, wait until somebody
Speaker 1: got to carry Seves. Wait wait until you see this.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'm almost afraid there is Nicole. Hey, Nicole,
Speaker 1: how are you and that? Let Kyle watch football? Said
Speaker 1: football on Sundays because we're making fun of alcohol. Doesn't
Speaker 1: know anything about about football than Kyle though. Alright, So
Speaker 1: the reason I brought Rocky down is because you had
Speaker 1: a lot of great teammates over the years, and now
Speaker 1: you have a great teammate, your dog, Enzo. Who's who's
Speaker 1: your best friend? Describe that relationship with Enzo, and how
Speaker 1: does it compare to any of the relationships you had
Speaker 1: with some of your teammates. It's unlike any relationship I
Speaker 1: have my teammates. Some of my relationship with my teammates
Speaker 1: may have had limits, like I'm not taking them on vacation,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving them bad I'm not picking up some way.
Speaker 1: I thought that's what you guys did in the locker room. No, man,
Speaker 1: maybe a rookie. May I tell you, man, I did not.
Speaker 1: I didn't want a dog. I didn't want a dog
Speaker 1: for a long time. I don't have time for dog. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm busy of traveling. This at the kids. Man, this
Speaker 1: dog is like the best things ever happened. When I
Speaker 1: walk in the door, he for the most part, he
Speaker 1: is by far the most excited one to see so
Speaker 1: and I just like I can't get enough of him.
Speaker 1: And and even you know, you find out that you
Speaker 1: love with your dog so much that here in New
Speaker 1: York when it's cold, you're like, I don't care how
Speaker 1: I'll take him out for walk, right, you know you're
Speaker 1: willing to take walks in the middle of the freezing
Speaker 1: cold and you don't even mind in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. Yeah, he's perfect, perfect, couldn't ask for a
Speaker 1: better dog. No, I mean, dogs are amazing and and
Speaker 1: and obviously I really unfortunately, I really really understood it
Speaker 1: when when my pops unfortunately passed away and I gave
Speaker 1: my dog to my mom, and that dog saying my
Speaker 1: mom's life for those first couple of years. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because it gave her something. It gave
Speaker 1: her something that loved her unconditionally. It gave her something
Speaker 1: to take care of, something to look out for, something
Speaker 1: that when she was tired and didn't want to get
Speaker 1: out of bed, had to get out of bed to
Speaker 1: take the dog out. That's a huge factor. So you
Speaker 1: totally get it, you know when when when you connect
Speaker 1: with with an animal and something you have to take
Speaker 1: care of it, it's actually a really great thing and
Speaker 1: a really special relationship for babies. No, and I agree
Speaker 1: with you how to present and about all of that man,
Speaker 1: and and yeah, I lost my father to unfortunately in
Speaker 1: that same club. And and you do. It's nice sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know the dog. I can lean on it though,
Speaker 1: and there's no conversation needed, like he just sense and
Speaker 1: feels when you. Well, you're just sitting there on the
Speaker 1: couch some day and he'll come over and just look
Speaker 1: at you and like end. Though he doesn't doesn't jump
Speaker 1: on anything. He had to be called up on the couch.
Speaker 1: He's like one of these boozer lea trained all right, right,
Speaker 1: so they're calling him up there. He just knows when
Speaker 1: you need it, you know, he needs to just be
Speaker 1: there next to you. And it is something, man, help
Speaker 1: you through the hard time. And what kind of dog
Speaker 1: is Rocky? He's a Chihuahua Yorkie mix ch chaa yorkie.
Speaker 1: What do you call it? Chorkey chorky And they call
Speaker 1: the chorky. Yes, I don't call him chorky. He's just
Speaker 1: as bad as you are. I just call him Rocky. Man,
Speaker 1: he says, A dude, look at Michael Man. When I
Speaker 1: come Kyle, when I come out to l a faith
Speaker 1: to faith brother man, you're going to go ahead and
Speaker 1: lunch and straight this guy is the greatest. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's the best. He's just he's a very
Speaker 1: you know when when people say they're likable or they're endearing,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people you know say I'm endearing,
Speaker 1: Jared's not necessary endearing or likable. Um, Michael Strahan is both.
Speaker 1: He has all of it. He does. He's the full package. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a guy. Too bad we have to cut this
Speaker 1: thing in a half. Yeah, but it's good because it
Speaker 1: leaves our audience with with more. I'm want to be
Speaker 1: wanting more anticipation of that exactly one of the yes.
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