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Plus, we have two fantastic

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guests joining us on the show. NFL legend Michael

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Strahan is gonna be here and one

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of the stars of Abbott Elementary, Cheryl

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Lee Ralph is gonna be here tonight. So fill

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the people. Let's go strack into today's headlines.

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All right, everybody, Before we get into the

1:28

big stories, let's catch up on a few other

1:30

things going on in the world, starting off

1:32

with the World Cup and today's

1:35

knockout games. Portugal absolutely

1:37

obliterated Switzerland six

1:39

goals to one. Yeah,

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and after this match, now I guess we see

1:44

why Switzerland doesn't get involved in wars. But

1:48

the major World Cup news of today is how the North

1:50

African nation of Morocco pulled an absolutely

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after against football

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powerhouse Spain. And I know this

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won't make up for the fact that Spain won colonized

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a part of Morocco, but it goes a long way. It

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ranly does. Oh.

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In international news, the governments of Indonesia

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has just officially banned

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all sex outside of marriage.

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Yes, with a penalty of up

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to one year in prison. That's

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gonna make for some weird conversation in

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Indonesian prisons. You know, there

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has been like I'm here from murder, what

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are you in for? A medio

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connect with Jason Oh

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And in some major legal use, the Trump organization

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has been found guilty of seventeen

2:37

counts of other

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financial crimes. And

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you know what that means, Donald Trump is

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going to prison. Shoo

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visit all the lower ranking people who did this without

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his knowledge or his permission. Yeah,

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because we all know that's how that works in the world, right. All

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the successes in Trump's organization. They're due to

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the genius of Donald Trump, all the crimes he had

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no ideas like, that's right, folks, I have

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zero control over the things I run,

3:10

which is why you should vote for me to run

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the country so I can run it

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like one of my companies, which I don't even run.

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I don't even run. But

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speaking of speaking

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of crimes, let's

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move on to our main story. In

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the run up to the mid terms, one

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of the major issues four votes across

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the land was crime. In

3:33

fact, any time you turned on the

3:35

news, you were bound to see stories

3:38

like this. Business owners across

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the country are stepping up security as

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they report brazen shoplifting.

3:45

We've all seen the videos. Shoplifting at supermarkets

3:47

across the USA is out of control.

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Handbag Hall, the

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brazen bandit who cops a walked

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out with all these stolen handbags.

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The shoplifting epidemic highlighted

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by a viirral video at a Walgreens last

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week. Shoplifting is up as

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video of brazen thieves leaving with their

4:07

arms laden with stolen merchandise continue

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to shock all Americans. Shoplifting

4:12

has gotten so bad this year right

4:14

AID is considering literally putting

4:17

everything behind showcases. Yeah,

4:19

you hear that shoplifting has gotten so bad

4:21

that they're locking everything behind

4:24

showcases. Oh and the person who unlocks

4:26

the showcase then lock behind the showcase too.

4:28

Yeah, now you screw what are you gonna do?

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But yes, almost every day, every

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day the news, we've seen these horrible stories, you

4:36

know, about people blatantly breaking the low

4:38

and stealing what doesn't belong to them.

4:40

And I don't care what anyone says. There is zero

4:42

excuse for shoplifting, zero

4:45

excuse even in the instances where you find

4:47

yourself waiting in line forever and the six

4:49

open registers, but the store only decided to hire

4:51

one cashier, which makes you feel like they're taunting you, showing

4:53

you how fast it could be, but they just don't want

4:55

it to be, you know. So then you think, oh, you're

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just gonna go and use the self checkout, But then there's an error

5:00

because you can't put the item in the bagging area, or

5:02

because you put in too early or too late,

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and now you have to wait for the supervisor to come over

5:06

and ask are you trying to buy this? No? I just enjoy

5:08

holding shampoo. Yeah, that's what I'm doing yet yes

5:10

I'm trying to buy this. Yes, I'm trying to buy

5:12

it. And then instead of just like helping

5:15

you out, they give you that look, they give you that

5:17

look like uh, and then they waive the magical

5:19

little key fob. And then even in that instance,

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it is not justified. Even when it's justified, it's

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not justified to

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steal. But

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what if I told you, What if I told you that

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the biggest theft isn't

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people stealing from companies. What if I told

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you the biggest theft is companies stealing

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from people. Well, you might ask how

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or why? Well, let's find out in another

5:43

installment of If you don't know, now you know, when

5:54

you take a job, you're making a simple agreement with your employer,

5:57

right, you do the work, they give you pay. That's

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the very foundation that jobs are built

6:01

on. And yet all over the country, all over the

6:03

world, in fact, employers aren't holding

6:06

up the end of the deal. Imagine

6:08

working and never getting paid. It's

6:10

a growing problem called wage theft. Wage

6:13

theft occurs when a worker is paid less

6:15

than they're legally entitled to, such

6:17

as when they're denied pay for working overtime

6:20

or work off the clock without getting

6:22

paid or are denied legal

6:25

meal breaks. Sixty seven letter

6:27

carriers say their paychecks were changed

6:30

to make it look like they worked less hours

6:32

than they actually did. Workers

6:34

at Heartsease and Carl's Jr. Have filed

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dozens of state and federal complaints,

6:39

including allegations of wage theft,

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manipulated over time, and unfair

6:44

labor practices. About ten thousand

6:46

people are saying Hippotli forced them to work

6:48

off the clock to boost the bottom line.

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Wage theft is the costliest crime in the country,

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robbing US workers a fifteen billion

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dollars per year, more than car thefts,

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burglaries, and other large sneeze combined.

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Yeah, that's right. The costliest crime

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in the United States is actually being

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committed by corporations. So

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I guess instead of following black people around the

7:10

store, security guards should be hovering over c e

7:12

O s at their desk. As

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you were looking over there, being

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like, I'm gonna need you to

7:19

go ahead and put that person's salary back where

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it belongs. I was like, oh, sorry, I

7:24

didn't see that. I had that. Yeah, I bet you didn't.

7:27

And I think we can all agree nobody, nobody

7:29

should be doing work that they're not getting paid

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for, because I mean, then that's not a

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job. Now you're volunteering

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at a fast food restaurant, and who would do that? Who's

7:39

They're like, Oh me, I'm not in it for the

7:41

money. I'm in it for the love of childhood obesity.

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And by the way, by the way, wage theft isn't

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just when companies don't pay employees

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for the work that they've done. In some instances, employers

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find really shitty ways to actually make

7:55

their employees pay them. For example,

7:58

there was a restaurant owner who comes skates at

8:00

his employees tips at the end of their

8:02

shift and called it god a

8:05

cleaning fee. Yeah. The NFL

8:07

Oakland Raiders would doc that chilias

8:09

Chile does pay for ship like wearing the wrong

8:11

color nail polish. Yeah. But

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this, this example of creative wage theft might

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be my favorite of all. This

8:18

is Fantasy Gentleman's Club in Grand Junction.

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In This is the twenty four page

8:23

class action lawsuit claiming Fantasy

8:25

Gentlemen's Club has been exploiting

8:27

these workers for years. Among other charges,

8:29

dancers accused the club of cutting into

8:32

their take home pay with excessive

8:34

fines, fifty dollars if dancers

8:36

don't share tips with the DJ, and security

8:38

a hundred bucks to change the schedule.

8:40

There's even a fine for complaining to customers

8:43

about their personal lives. I'm sorry

8:45

what this is the biggest

8:47

bullshit of all. You can't find strippers

8:50

for complaining to customers about their personal

8:52

lives? All right? First of all, how can you

8:54

even tell that they're complaining and not just singing along

8:56

to the Drake song that's playing. You don't know, you

8:59

don't know. And second of all, if trippers

9:01

couldn't complain about their lives, then how would they be able

9:03

to convince customers into spending more than they plan

9:05

to help save them from this life? So

9:08

what you're saying is if we go to the champagne

9:10

room, then you can move with me to Chicago?

9:12

Is that age? And there's a lot of reasons

9:15

businesses are able to get away with this. First

9:17

of all, wage theft tends

9:19

to target people with the least ability to fight

9:21

back, like hourly workers and undocumented

9:24

immigrants. Making matters worse, the government

9:26

agencies who are supposed to be the watchdogs

9:28

against wage theft are understaffed

9:31

and undefunded. Oh, and when

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companies do get caught stealing,

9:36

here's what happens to them. McDonald's

9:38

has agreed to pay twenty six million dollars

9:40

to settle accusations of wage theft. It

9:42

follows a long running class action lawsuit

9:45

at corporate run locations in California.

9:47

The US Labor Department says Walmart will pay

9:49

four point eight million dollars in back

9:51

wages and damages to more than forty

9:53

five hundred employees. Amazon agreed

9:56

to pay eight point two million dollars

9:58

to settle a wage theft lawsuit it and

10:00

Krispy Kreme was ordered to pay workers

10:02

more than one point one million dollars

10:05

after investigators found widespread

10:07

and systematic failure to pay workers

10:09

what they were owed. That's

10:11

so strange. All of this theft

10:14

occurred, but there was no mention

10:16

of anyone going to jail. But

10:19

then how will they learn their lesson? And

10:21

before you say, but Trevor, you you can't

10:23

put a corporation in jail, says

10:25

who says? They always say corporations

10:27

of people? So why doesn't America treat them like American

10:30

people? Huh? Why not? Every

10:34

time? Every single time a company

10:36

gets busted stealing their workers wages. You know they should do.

10:38

They should said that the company headquarters should be taken to prison.

10:41

Yeah, that's what they should just take the actual headquarters

10:43

put it in prison. Yeah you hear that Amazon

10:45

saying thing deniver is gonna be a lot harder when you have to smuggle

10:47

that f fry and your butt hole. But

10:53

just because it's all too easy for companies

10:55

to steal from their workers, that doesn't mean workers

10:58

are powerless. Wage theft has been

11:00

one of the issues driving an increase in unionization,

11:03

and California has just passed the law saying

11:05

that for the first time anywhere in the country,

11:07

wages and payment rules for all

11:10

fast food workers will be said not by employers,

11:12

but by a council of experts appointed

11:15

by the state. Yes, a council of

11:18

fast food experts. So

11:21

finally a government job that Trump is actually

11:23

qualified for. But

11:25

for some workers, waiting for the bureaucracy of the courts

11:28

or the governments tends to be just takes too long, which

11:30

is why one construction worker in England expressed

11:33

his anger in a more physical

11:35

way. A row over six

11:37

hundred pounds that will end up costing

11:39

so much more to put rights. This construction

11:42

worker was so angry at allegedly

11:44

not being paid that he took drastic

11:46

action, driving

11:51

a mini excavator into the newly

11:53

finished hotel that he'd helped build.

11:58

Okay, okay, I

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know this seems bad, but

12:03

is it because the guy did

12:06

the work, didn't get paid, and then he undid

12:08

the work. It seems like a fair deal to

12:10

me, and it reminds me. It

12:14

reminds me of a very wise thing my grandfather

12:16

used to tell me. You'd say, remember forever,

12:19

if you want to screw someone over, make

12:21

sure they don't own a bulldozer first. And

12:25

yes, my grandfather was Nelson Mandela, who

12:28

was indeed. So the

12:31

next time you turn the TV on and see

12:33

all the news about people shoplifting

12:35

from drug stores, before assuming

12:38

there is a crime, maybe just

12:40

for a moment, think that they

12:42

could just be getting their wages back a totally different

12:44

way. And if you don't know, now you know before

12:47

we go to break it's not to check it on the weather

12:49

fork without very one in the dendi line, like everybody.

12:55

For me, what

12:57

is what's happening in the weather. I

13:00

don't know my wifi's down, so my weather app doesn't

13:02

work, you know, Trevor. It's

13:05

interesting you're going

13:07

on and on about the epidemic of

13:09

wage theft, meanwhile ignoring

13:11

the wage theft going on right in

13:13

front of you. Well,

13:15

well, no, dizzey, what are you What are you talking about? You're

13:17

getting paid? Well, sure, maybe for doing

13:20

the weather. Well, actually you never actually

13:22

do the weather. But there is a

13:24

ton of other stuff that I do that I'm

13:26

not compensated for. Like I spend

13:29

hours of the work day selling my bathtub

13:31

combouch on Etsy and I haven't seen

13:33

a dime from this show. Dizzy

13:36

does not wage theft. We're not paying you

13:38

to do that, exactly. You're not paying

13:40

me to do that, And it's how

13:43

I spend most of my time in the office at

13:45

work. But it's fine,

13:47

don't worry. You'll read all about it in the lawsuit. Wait

13:49

wait, wait, wait, well you're suing me. Yeah,

13:52

no, it's been a long time coming

13:54

because I work very, very hard at this show.

13:57

Do you know that I have never once been paid

13:59

overtime for organizing the office

14:01

supplies and putting them neatly in

14:03

boxes and taking them home to

14:06

my apartments. We've

14:09

been stealing office supports. Well

14:12

not to mention all the hours that I spent taking

14:14

the laser out of the laser printer. That's

14:17

not even how a laser printer works. Well,

14:20

I know that now, but I am not getting

14:22

that time back. Okay, des He, none of this is

14:24

actually wage theft. You realize that. I'm

14:27

sorry, who made you? Judge Judy?

14:30

Okay, you know I didn't want to do this, but

14:33

like I didn't, I didn't want to do this. I don't think you're gonna win

14:35

a wage left wage theft lawsuit with us

14:37

because I have a solid year of video

14:39

evidence of you never actually doing

14:41

the weather, which is your actual job.

14:45

Oh okay,

14:47

okay, is that how it's gonna be? You want to play

14:49

hardball? Huh fine, I get it. I

14:51

get it. Look, I'm sorry

14:54

that you feel that way, all right, sorry that

14:56

you feel that way. I'm just saying, you

14:59

know, if anything, it sounds like you are the person who's

15:01

stealing from the place that pays

15:03

your wages. You know, So I don't I don't

15:05

think taking this case to the court is the right

15:07

idea. It's it's just like it's it's one of those

15:09

things and right

15:13

does he does

15:15

he what does he? What are you doing? Does he?

15:17

Yeah?

15:22

That's right. You

15:25

have your chance, Trevor. Now it's time

15:27

for bulldoz or justice. And

15:29

by the way, I'm charging extra for this. No,

15:31

don't don't do it. No, no,

15:34

no, We're

15:37

gonna take a quick break. Well, everyone evacuates

15:40

the studio, doesn't line like everybody. When

15:42

we come back, we listen there Michael string

15:44

I dragging us on the show, so don't go away.

16:07

Welcome back to day show. My

16:09

first yes tonight is pro Football

16:11

Hall of Famer who posts Good Morning

16:13

America and Fox NFL Sunday.

16:15

He's gonna talk about a new podcast he's

16:17

produced called American Football How

16:20

the Gridiron Was Forged, which is now streaming

16:22

on Audible and wherever you get your podcasts. Please

16:24

welcome Michael Strahan. What's

16:41

up everyding as

16:45

I'm good, but you ask me, I'm gonna say, you're brilliant.

16:49

You're brill Okay, thanks,

16:52

thank you, and um, you know you're gonna

16:55

be If you ever get like tired of not doing

16:57

this, my living room's always open, come over.

17:01

That would be so much fun. Just the daily show

17:03

for one person. You're not paying me. That

17:08

would be fun. I would do that. It's like daily show for one

17:10

person at their house. I'm actually that's

17:12

actually an idea that I'll just do that. Individual shows

17:14

will be like just be addressing it to you.

17:17

Perfect. But first, Michael, let's kick things off

17:19

with your story. You can even ask questions.

17:21

Welcome to the show. I feel like you make

17:23

that offer to me, but you wouldn't have the time for me to

17:25

come to your house and do that because

17:28

there are a few people I know who have more

17:30

jobs than you do. You

17:32

you retired from football to

17:34

do everything else, to not to

17:37

do everything. I'm tired to get

17:39

more jobs. That's essentially what you did, right.

17:41

So you're working in television, and it's all types

17:43

of television. You've got like morning television, You've got you've got

17:45

sports television. You've got a clothing

17:48

line. You know, you've got a skincare line.

17:50

Now you've got a podcast. So let's start with the podcast

17:52

because that's one of the newest aspects of what you're

17:54

doing. Talk me through the history of the NFL.

17:56

Because no so many sports are popular, the football

17:59

has a should places in America. What do

18:01

you think it is about football

18:04

that that makes it what it is in American history.

18:06

It's violent. Wow, I'm

18:10

joking, man, it's controlled aggression. I

18:13

call it controlled aggression. But I

18:15

think we love football so much because you know, it's

18:17

it's American American football.

18:19

The podcast and it goes back to the

18:22

origin of the game and football with

18:24

a white collar sport. Back in the day, they

18:27

wouldn't let the blue collar guys play,

18:29

so they create their own lead to compete. And

18:31

now it's kind of turned into it's blue collar

18:33

guys playing getting paid white collar

18:35

salaries. You know, it's kind of if

18:37

you think about the game has changed. But we dove

18:40

back into things that I know about

18:42

the game of football. I just kind of assumed

18:44

I'm a player. I love the game. But when

18:46

you go back and look at the origin, the how it was founded,

18:49

in the way that they had to go and get

18:52

around the system to create some of these teams

18:54

and to have Kate Mara come in and narrator

18:56

narrated who were the part of two football

18:58

dynasties, the Giants in the in the Steelers

19:01

through her family. It was like a dream project

19:03

for me because without the NFL, I wouldn't

19:05

be sitting here with you. It gave me a completely

19:08

different life than I ever expected, but

19:10

to dive back into the history of the game and understand

19:12

how far has come but where it began, and

19:14

it's totally different than what I expected. I

19:17

hope people will tune in so that they can learn a

19:19

little bit more about what we love so much, which is

19:21

American football. But what I love about the podcast

19:23

is that it's not just about the sports. So if you

19:25

if you don't like the sport, the podcast is still amazing

19:27

because it does into history, it does into classes, and

19:29

it does into these battles between who hasn't

19:32

who doesn't, and who shouldn't who shouldn't be It's

19:34

it's it's a fascinating story. And as you

19:36

talk about the progressional football and maybe Wanda, you're

19:38

one of the few people who's had the

19:40

span of Korea that you had in football

19:43

cling for fifteen years. Fifteen years,

19:45

that's insane. Yeah,

19:47

tell me about it. I know it's crazy.

19:51

So I would love to know, as

19:53

somebody who witnessed the game up like up close

19:55

for fifteen years, would you change anything

19:57

about football now if you could, if you could waive a magic

20:00

wand and change three things about football

20:02

tomorrow, what would they be. I would make

20:04

wave a magic wand and make it so

20:06

that I could play for a lot longer back.

20:11

Yeah, I want to go back with body man. You know

20:13

you miss you know what you miss? You

20:15

miss physically dominating another man.

20:18

Okay, Okay, someone's

20:20

gonna click that sentence and take it out of context.

20:24

You enjoyed. I love it because

20:28

was like I miss hugging a man. It

20:31

was hard you loving

20:33

him as hard as I could. But

20:36

I do miss that. I missed the competitiveness

20:38

of it. I missed the physicality. I would probably

20:41

wave my my magic wand and

20:43

and um. You know, I like what they're doing. Though

20:45

when it comes to like injuries in the brain

20:48

and all these different things, I like what they're

20:50

doing there. There's not much. I don't know

20:52

how much you can change the game, because I almost

20:54

feel like in some aspect you change it so much

20:56

it takes away from what it was. Okay, what would

20:58

you change in and around the game. So instance, one of the

21:00

things that always through me, and I might I might be wrong.

21:03

You just tell me what I

21:05

was always thrown by this is the fact that, like if you got

21:07

injured playing football, it was

21:09

just over for you and then you don't. You don't get the money

21:12

that was promised to you, but you got injured. You don't be guaranteed

21:14

contracts and less certain guys now are getting

21:16

them where you get as much

21:18

money as you can up front of your signing bonus,

21:20

so they can't release you so early because they're gonna

21:22

get some money out of you by making you play. And

21:25

that was the one thing. Yeah, I would probably change

21:27

the guarantees and contract that Basketball

21:29

have them. Baseball has them. But

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the problem with football that they see is that

21:33

if you're guarantee the money, they are sixty something

21:35

guys on a team. So if you have that

21:38

many guys on into reserve, how can you economically

21:40

afford you have that many guys. I know that's

21:43

their argument. I didn't say they were right. Okay,

21:45

okay, okay it trust me. I would

21:47

have loved guaranteed money. Anyone who has billions

21:50

going like, I don't know what you

21:52

have billions? Can you get this kind of coffee?

21:56

Before I let you go, I want to talk about one of your latest

21:59

ventures, which is your skincare line. Man,

22:01

you know you have beautiful skin, and

22:06

this is another another opportunity I don't think

22:08

a lot of people would have thought of a long time ago, it would

22:10

have said like a football player, Michael straighthand

22:12

bo and then it's like the skincare line of Michael

22:15

strahand. I like this, it's all sides of

22:17

you, the guys who like to dominate other men

22:22

skincare. Now do you know what it is? It's

22:24

like to look

22:27

at these poor look at them? You

22:31

know. It all started with the clothing line

22:33

and it was like, okay, I'm on TV, I'm always sensing

22:35

steps. It was like a confidence thing. Man, you want to feel

22:37

good, like, yeah, you look good, you feel good? Right, you

22:39

perform better? And I think that skincare

22:42

was a missing link, at least for me, because everything

22:44

I've done has always been about my

22:46

life and my lifestyle. I don't do anything that isn't

22:48

authentically me. So it was about

22:50

skincare and having a routine that

22:52

is easy to do because I'm

22:55

kind of lazy about that, which I think is most

22:57

men. Like every single friend of mine,

22:59

every woman I talked to you, who's a friend and I go, oh,

23:02

what do you do for your skin? Can wash

23:04

the face? And I need the house and yeah,

23:07

like it's always the shock and what's your routine? There's

23:09

no, And then I got tort like, no, you need to

23:11

respect it and treat routine. How

23:13

many sweet we have? We have? We have five products,

23:16

so we have a face You could do one of those YouTube

23:18

like, so everyone's been asking me about my skin curtain and I

23:20

might just saying you could be doing that right now. I think

23:22

it would be amazing. I think it'll be amazing. Right.

23:25

Want to tell me the face

23:28

wash which every day easy routine.

23:30

You take a shot, wash your face and

23:32

then you have the faith and neck moisturize. Then you

23:34

get out of moisturize. You

23:36

know, look

23:40

at mind eight two years o' look at that. So

23:45

you got the faith and neck moisture either. And then

23:47

if you have a beard, like I got a beard up with the beard

23:50

oil on and the beard,

23:53

keep that beard kinky and soft. You

23:55

don't know who you may rub up into, you know what I'm saying.

23:57

So that's

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the second thing I did that beat.

24:03

I think that that could be messed up.

24:05

Man. And then after

24:07

that, we have our saving jail like

24:10

a saving lotion, and it's clear

24:12

so that you can actually see when you shave where

24:14

exactly you're shaving, because that was always the

24:16

thing. I finished shaving like ones up

24:19

here, the others down there, and then we have

24:21

our post shade. You know, bomb so nice,

24:23

easy put on, doesn't really sting your face. But

24:26

it's very simple thing man, and for me takes

24:28

less time than brushing my teeth. So

24:33

I always say they may not be together, but they're clean.

24:38

But to thank your game, the joining

24:41

on the show, Lord, thank you. Can

24:45

we come back all the stars of anation,

24:48

charl he wealth is gonna be journey on the truck. You don't

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want to miss it. I do all.

25:04

Welcome to Day Show. My

25:06

next guest is a Tony nominative

25:08

and Emmy Award winning actor who

25:11

stars in the hit series Abbott Elementary,

25:13

which airs Wednesday nights on ABC and

25:15

can be streamed on Hulu. Please

25:18

welcome Cheryl Lee Ralph. Thank

25:24

m h film

25:36

of hang

25:47

Out, Wow, The

25:49

Long On Lads. Cheryl

25:53

Lee, Ralph, Welcome to the Daily

25:55

Show. Let me start with saying congratulations

25:58

Emmy Award winning. You

26:03

know, there

26:06

are many performers in

26:08

history, many artists, many actors

26:11

who audiences

26:13

have said critics arelike this person

26:16

never got their flowers this person never got the

26:18

recognition that they deserve. So many people in Black

26:20

Hollywood never got the flowers that they

26:22

deserved. Talk me through just a

26:25

part of this journey. You know you've

26:27

done it all. I mean militia

26:29

for me and then moving from one to the next.

26:31

You know, dream girls for so many

26:34

people back in the day, the original

26:36

dream girl. Talk me through the

26:38

journey and what has kept you being

26:40

as efficescent as you are? Oh my God,

26:43

I choose to be happy. I

26:47

choose joy. Yeah,

26:50

I believe that since I am

26:52

alive, I might as well get

26:55

up, get out there and enjoy it.

27:00

Yes, I'm

27:02

so happy that God has

27:05

chosen throughout all of these

27:07

years to wake me up every morning

27:09

in my right mind so

27:12

that I can carry on in life.

27:15

I love that. Yes,

27:19

that's what keeps me going.

27:22

That's what keeps me enjoying

27:25

what I do through all of the ups and

27:27

downs, through all of the missteps

27:29

and the bad breaks. I choose

27:32

to carry on. I choose to

27:34

look in the mirror and love what I

27:36

see. We love working

27:39

se we genuinely love what

27:41

we see. Again, I mean, I

27:43

am a sucker. I love all comedy,

27:45

anything that is funny, I love you are

27:48

a master and the way you perform it. We Abbot Elementary

27:50

has done what many people said it wasn't possible.

27:53

People said, no one wants his life TV anymore, nobody

27:55

likes to sit comed anymore than he likes these family stories

27:58

anymore. And yet Abbot Elementary has gone on the

28:00

exact thing that everyone said was impossible.

28:02

You know, Quincon Brunson assembled this amazing squad

28:05

of people to come in and tell real

28:07

stories that teach us love of themselves,

28:09

of the students of the American schooling system.

28:12

You know, I know it touches everything, But what do you think

28:14

it is that brings people back every single week

28:17

and watching live by the way, sharing it with each

28:19

other. I think what they're seeing is

28:21

their own struggles. There's We're

28:23

just a group of regular people

28:26

in the show going through life,

28:29

and we just happened to be in a very challenging

28:31

situation. And every week

28:34

we are getting over the difficulties

28:36

and we are appreciating what we have together

28:40

working together on the show,

28:42

in the show, in the characters,

28:45

in the scripts, and people see

28:47

themselves in it and they love it.

28:49

They feel it, they feel it and they love it. And they

28:51

tell us they do all the God, my

28:54

god, my life now has turned into one big photo

28:56

session. Anytime

28:58

I go out into this threat, everybody wants

29:01

to take a picture. Everybody wants you to talk

29:03

to their people, and everybody wants to tell

29:05

you how much they love you. And I

29:07

am saying, that's why I wake up happy

29:09

every day. You

29:16

You're also you're also the brid the rear

29:18

breed of human being. Who is you know,

29:20

talented in every aspect of what you do? You know some

29:23

some people will see you as an act on screen, others

29:25

know you as the phenomenal perform

29:27

on stage. And now you have an album out

29:30

Christmas album. Yes, yes,

29:34

which I like to play on words.

29:36

But but but talk me through that, talk me through why

29:38

the Christmas album and why an album in general.

29:41

Well, first of all, it was only supposed to be a

29:43

song, and before I knew it, we had done

29:46

fifteen songs and we have an album called

29:48

Slay and people are actually downloading

29:51

it everywhere and loving it. It's

29:53

crazy, people are it's

29:55

not your mother's Christmas album. We're gonna

29:57

take your mother to church and the club. I

30:00

didn't notice that. I didn't notice that

30:04

it is it is. It is one of the sexiest

30:07

Christmas albums I've ever heard. I'm not I'm

30:09

not gonna lie. I'm not gonna like before

30:12

I let you go. I would be remiss if I didn't talk about

30:14

your moments at the Emmy's where I always say,

30:17

you know, at every awards show, I feel like they should be an award

30:19

for the best award acceptance, and

30:22

yours was that because sometimes at awards, you know, it can

30:24

feel self indulgence, it can feel like we're not part

30:26

of what's happening. It felt like we

30:28

won with you. It felt like people want,

30:31

you know, with your win, even just for their

30:33

lives. It didn't feel like a platitude.

30:36

It didn't feel like you were just saying it. It felt

30:38

like you were embodying it. And I'd

30:40

love to know in that moment, when you're

30:43

holding that award, you know in

30:45

an industry that everyone thrives to

30:47

be celebrated or successful in

30:50

what made you think of talking to the people

30:52

and not just talking about yourself,

30:56

Because I thought in that moment,

30:58

you know, my dad add was a great

31:01

lifelong learner and educator, and I when

31:03

they called my name, it was just like I could

31:05

hear my dad saying, there you are, it's

31:08

your time, come on, but I

31:10

couldn't. I couldn't. I was so shocked.

31:13

I couldn't get the message from my brain to

31:15

my feet to move, and I

31:18

my husband kept saying get up, get

31:20

up. And it wasn't until I heard

31:23

Quintus say it's your name,

31:25

get up. And

31:28

then I got up because

31:30

Tyler came and literally lifted me

31:32

up and guided me to the

31:34

stage and I got their center stage,

31:37

and there was my dad again saying, don't

31:39

you cry, don't

31:41

you cry. This is your moment.

31:44

Let them know who you are

31:46

and how you got here. And

31:49

there's a big screen like that in

31:51

front of me saying stop now, stop

31:54

now, And I was like, I haven't

31:57

even gotten started. Oh

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I love it, Yes, I love it so much.

32:04

Thank you for joining me on the show. Thank

32:06

you so much. I don't think you do you

32:08

share only Ralph. Everybody.

32:11

Are you gonna take a petty of posing right back off

32:13

the good Well

32:25

that's our talking tonight. But before we go, before

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