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Speaker 1: we have two fantastic guests joining us on the show.
Speaker 1: NFL legend Michael Strahan is gonna be here and one
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Speaker 1: strack into today's headlines. All right, everybody, Before we get
Speaker 1: into the big stories, let's catch up on a few
Speaker 1: other things going on in the world, starting off with
Speaker 1: the World Cup and today's knockout games. Portugal absolutely obliterated
Speaker 1: Switzerland six goals to one. Yeah, and after this match,
Speaker 1: now I guess we see why Switzerland doesn't get involved
Speaker 1: in wars. But the major World Cup news of today
Speaker 1: is how the North African nation of Morocco pulled an
Speaker 1: absolutely after against football powerhouse Spain. And I know this
Speaker 1: won't make up for the fact that Spain won colonized
Speaker 1: a part of Morocco, but it goes a long way.
Speaker 1: It ranly does. Oh. In international news, the governments of
Speaker 1: Indonesia has just officially banned all sex outside of marriage. Yes,
Speaker 1: with a penalty of up to one year in prison.
Speaker 1: That's gonna make for some weird conversation in Indonesian prisons.
Speaker 1: You know, there has been like I'm here from murder,
Speaker 1: what are you in for? A medio connect with Jason
Speaker 1: Oh And in some major legal use, the Trump organization
Speaker 1: has been found guilty of seventeen counts of other financial crimes.
Speaker 1: And you know what that means, Donald Trump is going
Speaker 1: to prison. Shoo visit all the lower ranking people who
Speaker 1: did this without his knowledge or his permission. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: we all know that's how that works in the world, right.
Speaker 1: All the successes in Trump's organization. They're due to the
Speaker 1: genius of Donald Trump, all the crimes he had no
Speaker 1: ideas like, that's right, folks, I have zero control over
Speaker 1: the things I run, which is why you should vote
Speaker 1: for me to run the country so I can run
Speaker 1: it like one of my companies, which I don't even run.
Speaker 1: I don't even run. But speaking of speaking of crimes,
Speaker 1: let's move on to our main story. In the run
Speaker 1: up to the mid terms, one of the major issues
Speaker 1: four votes across the land was crime. In fact, any
Speaker 1: time you turned on the news, you were bound to
Speaker 1: see stories like this. Business owners across the country are
Speaker 1: stepping up security as they report brazen shoplifting. We've all
Speaker 1: seen the videos. Shoplifting at supermarkets across the USA is
Speaker 1: out of control. Handbag Hall, the brazen bandit who cops
Speaker 1: a walked out with all these stolen handbags. The shoplifting
Speaker 1: epidemic highlighted by a viirral video at a Walgreens last week.
Speaker 1: Shoplifting is up as video of brazen thieves leaving with
Speaker 1: their arms laden with stolen merchandise continue to shock all Americans.
Speaker 1: Shoplifting has gotten so bad this year right AID is
Speaker 1: considering literally putting everything behind showcases. Yeah, you hear that
Speaker 1: shoplifting has gotten so bad that they're locking everything behind showcases.
Speaker 1: Oh and the person who unlocks the showcase then lock
Speaker 1: behind the showcase too. Yeah, now you screw what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? But yes, almost every day, every day
Speaker 1: the news, we've seen these horrible stories, you know, about
Speaker 1: people blatantly breaking the low and stealing what doesn't belong
Speaker 1: to them. And I don't care what anyone says. There
Speaker 1: is zero excuse for shoplifting, zero excuse even in the
Speaker 1: instances where you find yourself waiting in line forever and
Speaker 1: the six open registers, but the store only decided to
Speaker 1: hire one cashier, which makes you feel like they're taunting you,
Speaker 1: showing you how fast it could be, but they just
Speaker 1: don't want it to be, you know. So then you think, oh,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna go and use the self checkout, But
Speaker 1: then there's an error because you can't put the item
Speaker 1: in the bagging area, or because you put in too
Speaker 1: early or too late, and now you have to wait
Speaker 1: for the supervisor to come over and ask are you
Speaker 1: trying to buy this? No? I just enjoy holding shampoo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing yet yes I'm trying to buy this. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to buy it. And then instead of just
Speaker 1: like helping you out, they give you that look, they
Speaker 1: give you that look like uh, and then they waive
Speaker 1: the magical little key fob. And then even in that instance,
Speaker 1: it is not justified. Even when it's justified, it's not
Speaker 1: justified to steal. But what if I told you, What
Speaker 1: if I told you that the biggest theft isn't people
Speaker 1: stealing from companies. What if I told you the biggest
Speaker 1: theft is companies stealing from people. Well, you might ask
Speaker 1: how or why? Well, let's find out in another installment
Speaker 1: of If you don't know, now you know, when you
Speaker 1: take a job, you're making a simple agreement with your employer, right,
Speaker 1: you do the work, they give you pay. That's the
Speaker 1: very foundation that jobs are built on. And yet all
Speaker 1: over the country, all over the world, in fact, employers
Speaker 1: aren't holding up the end of the deal. Imagine working
Speaker 1: and never getting paid. It's a growing problem called wage theft.
Speaker 1: Wage theft occurs when a worker is paid less than
Speaker 1: they're legally entitled to, such as when they're denied pay
Speaker 1: for working overtime or work off the clock without getting
Speaker 1: paid or are denied legal meal breaks. Sixty seven letter
Speaker 1: carriers say their paychecks were changed to make it look
Speaker 1: like they worked less hours than they actually did. Workers
Speaker 1: at Heartsease and Carl's Jr. Have filed dozens of state
Speaker 1: and federal complaints, including allegations of wage theft, manipulated over time,
Speaker 1: and unfair labor practices. About ten thousand people are saying
Speaker 1: Hippotli forced them to work off the clock to boost
Speaker 1: the bottom line. Wage theft is the costliest crime in
Speaker 1: the country, robbing US workers a fifteen billion dollars per year,
Speaker 1: more than car thefts, burglaries, and other large sneeze combined. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. The costliest crime in the United States is
Speaker 1: actually being committed by corporations. So I guess instead of
Speaker 1: following black people around the store, security guards should be
Speaker 1: hovering over c e O s at their desk. As
Speaker 1: you were looking over there, being like, I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: you to go ahead and put that person's salary back
Speaker 1: where it belongs. I was like, oh, sorry, I didn't
Speaker 1: see that. I had that. Yeah, I bet you didn't.
Speaker 1: And I think we can all agree nobody, nobody should
Speaker 1: be doing work that they're not getting paid for, because
Speaker 1: I mean, then that's not a job. Now you're volunteering
Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant, and who would do that?
Speaker 1: Who's They're like, Oh me, I'm not in it for
Speaker 1: the money. I'm in it for the love of childhood obesity.
Speaker 1: And by the way, by the way, wage theft isn't
Speaker 1: just when companies don't pay employees for the work that
Speaker 1: they've done. In some instances, employers find really shitty ways
Speaker 1: to actually make their employees pay them. For example, there
Speaker 1: was a restaurant owner who comes skates at his employees
Speaker 1: tips at the end of their shift and called it
Speaker 1: god a cleaning fee. Yeah. The NFL Oakland Raiders would
Speaker 1: doc that chilias Chile does pay for ship like wearing
Speaker 1: the wrong color nail polish. Yeah. But this, this example
Speaker 1: of creative wage theft might be my favorite of all.
Speaker 1: This is Fantasy Gentleman's Club in Grand Junction. In This
Speaker 1: is the twenty four page class action lawsuit claiming Fantasy
Speaker 1: Gentlemen's Club has been exploiting these workers for years. Among
Speaker 1: other charges, dancers accused the club of cutting into their
Speaker 1: take home pay with excessive fines, fifty dollars if dancers
Speaker 1: don't share tips with the DJ, and security a hundred
Speaker 1: bucks to change the schedule. There's even a fine for
Speaker 1: complaining to customers about their personal lives. I'm sorry what
Speaker 1: this is the biggest bullshit of all. You can't find
Speaker 1: strippers for complaining to customers about their personal lives? All right?
Speaker 1: First of all, how can you even tell that they're
Speaker 1: complaining and not just singing along to the Drake song
Speaker 1: that's playing. You don't know, you don't know. And second
Speaker 1: of all, if trippers couldn't complain about their lives, then
Speaker 1: how would they be able to convince customers into spending
Speaker 1: more than they plan to help save them from this life?
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is if we go to the
Speaker 1: champagne room, then you can move with me to Chicago?
Speaker 1: Is that age? And there's a lot of reasons businesses
Speaker 1: are able to get away with this. First of all,
Speaker 1: wage theft tends to target people with the least ability
Speaker 1: to fight back, like hourly workers and undocumented immigrants. Making
Speaker 1: matters worse, the government agencies who are supposed to be
Speaker 1: the watchdogs against wage theft are understaffed and undefunded. Oh,
Speaker 1: and when companies do get caught stealing, here's what happens
Speaker 1: to them. McDonald's has agreed to pay twenty six million
Speaker 1: dollars to settle accusations of wage theft. It follows a
Speaker 1: long running class action lawsuit at corporate run locations in California.
Speaker 1: The US Labor Department says Walmart will pay four point
Speaker 1: eight million dollars in back wages and damages to more
Speaker 1: than forty five hundred employees. Amazon agreed to pay eight
Speaker 1: point two million dollars to settle a wage theft lawsuit
Speaker 1: it and Krispy Kreme was ordered to pay workers more
Speaker 1: than one point one million dollars after investigators found widespread
Speaker 1: and systematic failure to pay workers what they were owed.
Speaker 1: That's so strange. All of this theft occurred, but there
Speaker 1: was no mention of anyone going to jail. But then
Speaker 1: how will they learn their lesson? And before you say,
Speaker 1: but Trevor, you you can't put a corporation in jail,
Speaker 1: says who says? They always say corporations of people? So
Speaker 1: why doesn't America treat them like American people? Huh? Why not?
Speaker 1: Every time? Every single time a company gets busted stealing
Speaker 1: their workers wages. You know they should do. They should
Speaker 1: said that the company headquarters should be taken to prison. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they should just take the actual headquarters put
Speaker 1: it in prison. Yeah you hear that Amazon saying thing
Speaker 1: deniver is gonna be a lot harder when you have
Speaker 1: to smuggle that f fry and your butt hole. But
Speaker 1: just because it's all too easy for companies to steal
Speaker 1: from their workers, that doesn't mean workers are powerless. Wage
Speaker 1: theft has been one of the issues driving an increase
Speaker 1: in unionization, and California has just passed the law saying
Speaker 1: that for the first time anywhere in the country, wages
Speaker 1: and payment rules for all fast food workers will be
Speaker 1: said not by employers, but by a council of experts
Speaker 1: appointed by the state. Yes, a council of fast food experts.
Speaker 1: So finally a government job that Trump is actually qualified for.
Speaker 1: But for some workers, waiting for the bureaucracy of the
Speaker 1: courts or the governments tends to be just takes too long,
Speaker 1: which is why one construction worker in England expressed his
Speaker 1: anger in a more physical way. A row over six
Speaker 1: hundred pounds that will end up costing so much more
Speaker 1: to put rights. This construction worker was so angry at
Speaker 1: allegedly not being paid that he took drastic action, driving
Speaker 1: a mini excavator into the newly finished hotel that he'd
Speaker 1: helped build. Okay, okay, I know this seems bad, but
Speaker 1: is it because the guy did the work, didn't get paid,
Speaker 1: and then he undid the work. It seems like a
Speaker 1: fair deal to me, and it reminds me. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of a very wise thing my grandfather used to
Speaker 1: tell me. You'd say, remember forever, if you want to
Speaker 1: screw someone over, make sure they don't own a bulldozer first.
Speaker 1: And yes, my grandfather was Nelson Mandela, who was indeed.
Speaker 1: So the next time you turn the TV on and
Speaker 1: see all the news about people shoplifting from drug stores,
Speaker 1: before assuming there is a crime, maybe just for a moment,
Speaker 1: think that they could just be getting their wages back
Speaker 1: a totally different way. And if you don't know, now
Speaker 1: you know before we go to break it's not to
Speaker 1: check it on the weather fork without very one in
Speaker 1: the dendi line, like everybody. For me, what is what's
Speaker 1: happening in the weather. I don't know my wifi's down,
Speaker 1: so my weather app doesn't work, you know, Trevor. It's
Speaker 1: interesting you're going on and on about the epidemic of
Speaker 1: wage theft, meanwhile ignoring the wage theft going on right
Speaker 1: in front of you. Well, well, no, dizzey, what are
Speaker 1: you What are you talking about? You're getting paid? Well, sure,
Speaker 1: maybe for doing the weather. Well, actually you never actually
Speaker 1: do the weather. But there is a ton of other
Speaker 1: stuff that I do that I'm not compensated for. Like
Speaker 1: I spend hours of the work day selling my bathtub
Speaker 1: combouch on Etsy and I haven't seen a dime from
Speaker 1: this show. Dizzy does not wage theft. We're not paying
Speaker 1: you to do that, exactly. You're not paying me to
Speaker 1: do that, And it's how I spend most of my
Speaker 1: time in the office at work. But it's fine, don't worry.
Speaker 1: You'll read all about it in the lawsuit. Wait wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: well you're suing me. Yeah, no, it's been a long
Speaker 1: time coming because I work very, very hard at this show.
Speaker 1: Do you know that I have never once been paid
Speaker 1: overtime for organizing the office supplies and putting them neatly
Speaker 1: in boxes and taking them home to my apartments. We've
Speaker 1: been stealing office supports. Well not to mention all the
Speaker 1: hours that I spent taking the laser out of the
Speaker 1: laser printer. That's not even how a laser printer works. Well,
Speaker 1: I know that now, but I am not getting that
Speaker 1: time back. Okay, des He, none of this is actually
Speaker 1: wage theft. You realize that. I'm sorry, who made you?
Speaker 1: Judge Judy? Okay, you know I didn't want to do this,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't, I didn't want to do this.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna win a wage left wage
Speaker 1: theft lawsuit with us because I have a solid year
Speaker 1: of video evidence of you never actually doing the weather,
Speaker 1: which is your actual job. Oh okay, okay, is that
Speaker 1: how it's gonna be? You want to play hardball? Huh fine,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Look, I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: you feel that way, all right, sorry that you feel
Speaker 1: that way. I'm just saying, you know, if anything, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you are the person who's stealing from the
Speaker 1: place that pays your wages. You know, So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think taking this case to the court is
Speaker 1: the right idea. It's it's just like it's it's one
Speaker 1: of those things and right does he does he what
Speaker 1: does he? What are you doing? Does he? Yeah? That's right.
Speaker 1: You have your chance, Trevor. Now it's time for bulldoz
Speaker 1: or justice. And by the way, I'm charging extra for this. No,
Speaker 1: don't don't do it. No, no, no, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break. Well, everyone evacuates the studio, doesn't line
Speaker 1: like everybody. When we come back, we listen there Michael
Speaker 1: string I dragging us on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to day show. My first yes tonight is
Speaker 1: pro Football Hall of Famer who posts Good Morning America
Speaker 1: and Fox NFL Sunday. He's gonna talk about a new
Speaker 1: podcast he's produced called American Football How the Gridiron Was Forged,
Speaker 1: which is now streaming on Audible and wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. Please welcome Michael Strahan. What's up everyding as
Speaker 1: I'm good, but you ask me, I'm gonna say, you're brilliant.
Speaker 1: You're brill Okay, thanks, thank you, and um, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be If you ever get like tired of
Speaker 1: not doing this, my living room's always open, come over.
Speaker 1: That would be so much fun. Just the daily show
Speaker 1: for one person. You're not paying me. That would be fun.
Speaker 1: I would do that. It's like daily show for one
Speaker 1: person at their house. I'm actually that's actually an idea
Speaker 1: that I'll just do that. Individual shows will be like
Speaker 1: just be addressing it to you. Perfect. But first, Michael,
Speaker 1: let's kick things off with your story. You can even
Speaker 1: ask questions. Welcome to the show. I feel like you
Speaker 1: make that offer to me, but you wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: time for me to come to your house and do
Speaker 1: that because there are a few people I know who
Speaker 1: have more jobs than you do. You you retired from
Speaker 1: football to do everything else, to not to do everything.
Speaker 1: I'm tired to get more jobs. That's essentially what you did, right.
Speaker 1: So you're working in television, and it's all types of television.
Speaker 1: You've got like morning television, You've got you've got sports television.
Speaker 1: You've got a clothing line. You know, you've got a
Speaker 1: skincare line. Now you've got a podcast. So let's start
Speaker 1: with the podcast because that's one of the newest aspects
Speaker 1: of what you're doing. Talk me through the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Because no so many sports are popular, the
Speaker 1: football has a should places in America. What do you
Speaker 1: think it is about football that that makes it what
Speaker 1: it is in American history. It's violent. Wow, I'm joking, man,
Speaker 1: it's controlled aggression. I call it controlled aggression. But I
Speaker 1: think we love football so much because you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's American American football. The podcast and it goes back
Speaker 1: to the origin of the game and football with a
Speaker 1: white collar sport. Back in the day, they wouldn't let
Speaker 1: the blue collar guys play, so they create their own
Speaker 1: lead to compete. And now it's kind of turned into
Speaker 1: it's blue collar guys playing getting paid white collar salaries.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of if you think about the
Speaker 1: game has changed. But we dove back into things that
Speaker 1: I know about the game of football. I just kind
Speaker 1: of assumed I'm a player. I love the game. But
Speaker 1: when you go back and look at the origin, the
Speaker 1: how it was founded, in the way that they had
Speaker 1: to go and get around the system to create some
Speaker 1: of these teams and to have Kate Mara come in
Speaker 1: and narrator narrated who were the part of two football dynasties,
Speaker 1: the Giants in the in the Steelers through her family.
Speaker 1: It was like a dream project for me because without
Speaker 1: the NFL, I wouldn't be sitting here with you. It
Speaker 1: gave me a completely different life than I ever expected,
Speaker 1: but to dive back into the history of the game
Speaker 1: and understand how far has come but where it began,
Speaker 1: and it's totally different than what I expected. I hope
Speaker 1: people will tune in so that they can learn a
Speaker 1: little bit more about what we love so much, which
Speaker 1: is American football. But what I love about the podcast
Speaker 1: is that it's not just about the sports. So if
Speaker 1: you if you don't like the sport, the podcast is
Speaker 1: still amazing because it does into history, it does into classes,
Speaker 1: and it does into these battles between who hasn't who doesn't,
Speaker 1: and who shouldn't who shouldn't be It's it's it's a
Speaker 1: fascinating story. And as you talk about the progressional football
Speaker 1: and maybe Wanda, you're one of the few people who's
Speaker 1: had the span of Korea that you had in football
Speaker 1: cling for fifteen years. Fifteen years, that's insane. Yeah, tell
Speaker 1: me about it. I know it's crazy. So I would
Speaker 1: love to know, as somebody who witnessed the game up
Speaker 1: like up close for fifteen years, would you change anything
Speaker 1: about football now if you could, if you could waive
Speaker 1: a magic wand and change three things about football tomorrow,
Speaker 1: what would they be. I would make wave a magic
Speaker 1: wand and make it so that I could play for
Speaker 1: a lot longer back. Yeah, I want to go back
Speaker 1: with body man. You know you miss you know what
Speaker 1: you miss? You miss physically dominating another man. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: someone's gonna click that sentence and take it out of context.
Speaker 1: You enjoyed. I love it because was like I miss
Speaker 1: hugging a man. It was hard you loving him as
Speaker 1: hard as I could. But I do miss that. I
Speaker 1: missed the competitiveness of it. I missed the physicality. I
Speaker 1: would probably wave my my magic wand and and um.
Speaker 1: You know, I like what they're doing. Though when it
Speaker 1: comes to like injuries in the brain and all these
Speaker 1: different things, I like what they're doing there. There's not much.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you can change the game,
Speaker 1: because I almost feel like in some aspect you change
Speaker 1: it so much it takes away from what it was. Okay,
Speaker 1: what would you change in and around the game. So instance,
Speaker 1: one of the things that always through me, and I
Speaker 1: might I might be wrong. You just tell me what
Speaker 1: I was always thrown by this is the fact that,
Speaker 1: like if you got injured playing football, it was just
Speaker 1: over for you and then you don't. You don't get
Speaker 1: the money that was promised to you, but you got injured.
Speaker 1: You don't be guaranteed contracts and less certain guys now
Speaker 1: are getting them where you get as much money as
Speaker 1: you can up front of your signing bonus, so they
Speaker 1: can't release you so early because they're gonna get some
Speaker 1: money out of you by making you play. And that
Speaker 1: was the one thing. Yeah, I would probably change the
Speaker 1: guarantees and contract that Basketball have them. Baseball has them.
Speaker 1: But the problem with football that they see is that
Speaker 1: if you're guarantee the money, they are sixty something guys
Speaker 1: on a team. So if you have that many guys
Speaker 1: on into reserve, how can you economically afford you have
Speaker 1: that many guys. I know that's their argument. I didn't
Speaker 1: say they were right. Okay, okay, okay it trust me.
Speaker 1: I would have loved guaranteed money. Anyone who has billions
Speaker 1: going like, I don't know what you have billions? Can
Speaker 1: you get this kind of coffee? Before I let you go,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about one of your latest ventures,
Speaker 1: which is your skincare line. Man, you know you have
Speaker 1: beautiful skin, and this is another another opportunity I don't
Speaker 1: think a lot of people would have thought of a
Speaker 1: long time ago, it would have said like a football player,
Speaker 1: Michael straighthand bo and then it's like the skincare line
Speaker 1: of Michael strahand. I like this, it's all sides of you,
Speaker 1: the guys who like to dominate other men skincare. Now
Speaker 1: do you know what it is? It's like to look
Speaker 1: at these poor look at them? You know. It all
Speaker 1: started with the clothing line and it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm on TV, I'm always sensing steps. It was like
Speaker 1: a confidence thing. Man, you want to feel good, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you look good, you feel good? Right, you perform better?
Speaker 1: And I think that skincare was a missing link, at
Speaker 1: least for me, because everything I've done has always been
Speaker 1: about my life and my lifestyle. I don't do anything
Speaker 1: that isn't authentically me. So it was about skincare and
Speaker 1: having a routine that is easy to do because I'm
Speaker 1: kind of lazy about that, which I think is most men.
Speaker 1: Like every single friend of mine, every woman I talked
Speaker 1: to you, who's a friend and I go, oh, what
Speaker 1: do you do for your skin? Can wash the face?
Speaker 1: And I need the house and yeah, like it's always
Speaker 1: the shock and what's your routine? There's no, And then
Speaker 1: I got tort like, no, you need to respect it
Speaker 1: and treat routine. How many sweet we have? We have?
Speaker 1: We have five products, so we have a face You
Speaker 1: could do one of those YouTube like, so everyone's been
Speaker 1: asking me about my skin curtain and I might just
Speaker 1: saying you could be doing that right now. I think
Speaker 1: it would be amazing. I think it'll be amazing. Right.
Speaker 1: Want to tell me the face wash which every day
Speaker 1: easy routine. You take a shot, wash your face and
Speaker 1: then you have the faith and neck moisturize. Then you
Speaker 1: get out of moisturize. You know, look at mind eight
Speaker 1: two years o' look at that. So you got the
Speaker 1: faith and neck moisture either. And then if you have
Speaker 1: a beard, like I got a beard up with the
Speaker 1: beard oil on and the beard, keep that beard kinky
Speaker 1: and soft. You don't know who you may rub up into,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's the second thing
Speaker 1: I did that beat. I think that that could be
Speaker 1: messed up. Man. And then after that, we have our
Speaker 1: saving jail like a saving lotion, and it's clear so
Speaker 1: that you can actually see when you shave where exactly
Speaker 1: you're shaving, because that was always the thing. I finished
Speaker 1: shaving like ones up here, the others down there, and
Speaker 1: then we have our post shade. You know, bomb so nice,
Speaker 1: easy put on, doesn't really sting your face. But it's
Speaker 1: very simple thing man, and for me takes less time
Speaker 1: than brushing my teeth. So I always say they may
Speaker 1: not be together, but they're clean. But to thank your game,
Speaker 1: the joining on the show, Lord, thank you. Can we
Speaker 1: come back all the stars of anation, charl he wealth
Speaker 1: is gonna be journey on the truck. You don't want
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a Tony nominative and Emmy Award
Speaker 1: winning actor who stars in the hit series Abbott Elementary,
Speaker 1: which airs Wednesday nights on ABC and can be streamed
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. Let me start with saying
Speaker 1: congratulations Emmy Award winning. You know, there are many performers
Speaker 1: in history, many artists, many actors who audiences have said
Speaker 1: critics arelike this person never got their flowers this person
Speaker 1: never got the recognition that they deserve. So many people
Speaker 1: in Black Hollywood never got the flowers that they deserved.
Speaker 1: Talk me through just a part of this journey. You
Speaker 1: know you've done it all. I mean militia for me
Speaker 1: and then moving from one to the next. You know,
Speaker 1: dream girls for so many people back in the day,
Speaker 1: the original dream girl. Talk me through the journey and
Speaker 1: what has kept you being as efficescent as you are?
Speaker 1: Oh my God, I choose to be happy. I choose joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that since I am alive, I might as
Speaker 1: well get up, get out there and enjoy it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that God has chosen throughout all of
Speaker 1: these years to wake me up every morning in my
Speaker 1: right mind so that I can carry on in life.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yes, that's what keeps me going. That's
Speaker 1: what keeps me enjoying what I do through all of
Speaker 1: the ups and downs, through all of the missteps and
Speaker 1: the bad breaks. I choose to carry on. I choose
Speaker 1: to look in the mirror and love what I see.
Speaker 1: We love working se we genuinely love what we see. Again,
Speaker 1: I mean, I am a sucker. I love all comedy,
Speaker 1: anything that is funny, I love you are a master
Speaker 1: and the way you perform it. We Abbot Elementary has
Speaker 1: done what many people said it wasn't possible. People said,
Speaker 1: no one wants his life TV anymore, nobody likes to
Speaker 1: sit comed anymore than he likes these family stories anymore.
Speaker 1: And yet Abbot Elementary has gone on the exact thing
Speaker 1: that everyone said was impossible. You know, Quincon Brunson assembled
Speaker 1: this amazing squad of people to come in and tell
Speaker 1: real stories that teach us love of themselves, of the
Speaker 1: students of the American schooling system. You know, I know
Speaker 1: it touches everything, But what do you think it is
Speaker 1: that brings people back every single week and watching live
Speaker 1: by the way, sharing it with each other. I think
Speaker 1: what they're seeing is their own struggles. There's We're just
Speaker 1: a group of regular people in the show going through life,
Speaker 1: and we just happened to be in a very challenging situation.
Speaker 1: And every week we are getting over the difficulties and
Speaker 1: we are appreciating what we have together working together on
Speaker 1: the show, in the show, in the characters, in the scripts,
Speaker 1: and people see themselves in it and they love it.
Speaker 1: They feel it, they feel it and they love it.
Speaker 1: And they tell us they do all the God, my god,
Speaker 1: my life now has turned into one big photo session.
Speaker 1: Anytime I go out into this threat, everybody wants to
Speaker 1: take a picture. Everybody wants you to talk to their people,
Speaker 1: and everybody wants to tell you how much they love you.
Speaker 1: And I am saying, that's why I wake up happy
Speaker 1: every day. You You're also you're also the brid the
Speaker 1: rear breed of human being. Who is you know, talented
Speaker 1: in every aspect of what you do? You know some
Speaker 1: some people will see you as an act on screen,
Speaker 1: others know you as the phenomenal perform on stage. And
Speaker 1: now you have an album out Christmas album. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: which I like to play on words. But but but
Speaker 1: talk me through that, talk me through why the Christmas
Speaker 1: album and why an album in general. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: it was only supposed to be a song, and before
Speaker 1: I knew it, we had done fifteen songs and we
Speaker 1: have an album called Slay and people are actually downloading
Speaker 1: it everywhere and loving it. It's crazy, people are it's
Speaker 1: not your mother's Christmas album. We're gonna take your mother
Speaker 1: to church and the club. I didn't notice that. I
Speaker 1: didn't notice that it is it is. It is one
Speaker 1: of the sexiest Christmas albums I've ever heard. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna like before I
Speaker 1: let you go. I would be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 1: talk about your moments at the Emmy's where I always say,
Speaker 1: you know, at every awards show, I feel like they
Speaker 1: should be an award for the best award acceptance, and
Speaker 1: yours was that because sometimes at awards, you know, it
Speaker 1: can feel self indulgence, it can feel like we're not
Speaker 1: part of what's happening. It felt like we won with you.
Speaker 1: It felt like people want, you know, with your win,
Speaker 1: even just for their lives. It didn't feel like a platitude.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like you were just saying it. It
Speaker 1: felt like you were embodying it. And I'd love to
Speaker 1: know in that moment, when you're holding that award, you
Speaker 1: know in an industry that everyone thrives to be celebrated
Speaker 1: or successful in what made you think of talking to
Speaker 1: the people and not just talking about yourself, Because I
Speaker 1: thought in that moment, you know, my dad add was
Speaker 1: a great lifelong learner and educator, and I when they
Speaker 1: called my name, it was just like I could hear
Speaker 1: my dad saying, there you are, it's your time, come on,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't. I couldn't. I was so shocked. I
Speaker 1: couldn't get the message from my brain to my feet
Speaker 1: to move, and I my husband kept saying get up,
Speaker 1: get up. And it wasn't until I heard Quintus say
Speaker 1: it's your name, get up. And then I got up
Speaker 1: because Tyler came and literally lifted me up and guided
Speaker 1: me to the stage and I got their center stage,
Speaker 1: and there was my dad again saying, don't you cry,
Speaker 1: don't you cry. This is your moment. Let them know
Speaker 1: who you are and how you got here. And there's
Speaker 1: a big screen like that in front of me saying
Speaker 1: stop now, stop now, And I was like, I haven't
Speaker 1: even gotten started. Oh I love it, Yes, I love
Speaker 1: it so much. Thank you for joining me on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I don't think you do you
Speaker 1: share only Ralph. Everybody. Are you gonna take a petty
Speaker 1: of posing right back off the good Well that's our
Speaker 1: talking tonight. But before we go, before we go this
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