Michael Strahan is hilarious - Part 1

you did a great, a great job. But I feel way more comfortable back over on the keys, just making but I understand pressed and we're recording, and I respect that and appreciate everything that you do and how you handle that. We really don't know where Jared is. I I'm hoping that he's. His competition in the martot Kart Championships is going well. It's very possible that it's it's not though, well I hope that's not the case. Yeah, well of course not definitely. Don't want an Alley death,

that's no, No, something more dignified. So um, we have a great guest today, the best and uh, I don't know who he is. Your hair looks good as always, well you know you know him. He's the host of I was just testing you to see if you go today. We have I mean one of the greatest NFL players, football players. That's the game with the with the pads in America. Nothin pads like no, not not soccer or thinking of football football overseas. No, no, this is American

football football. Just get on with it. I'm still confused. One of the greatest of all time, Hall of Famer, a great friend of mine. Um. He is a host on Good Morning America. He's an entrepreneur, he has his own clothing line, host a hundred thousand dollar pyramid games. Show is awesome, it's it's a great show. Yeah, he's he's just he's incredible. He's everywhere. One of the hardest working guys in entertainment. Um, and just a great, great person, great father, and just one of the good guys. I

like that. It's nice to get a good guy in the show. Michael Strahan, hold on, yep, he's calling. All right, we got him, We got him. Hear me, Yeah, we can hear you day and god damn man, you've got a whole official setup. We do we do with some bs. That's real. Let me take my jacket on. This is my co host, my co host Kyle, who knows nothing about sports. He's filling in for my regular co host Sonybody know, it's absolutely nothing, but he's handsome. He's got

great hair, Michael, he has great hair. I'm usually the one button is making sure the show doesn't go off the rails. Hey man, all you need is hair to set on podcast that you don't have to You don't have to know a damn thing you're talking about. I've made it living about. But by the way, um, what car did you drive home today? What were you in today? No? You know what. I didn't even get a chab and

drive my car forever. I was in the Baamas for two weeks right then I came back and I've just been sitting in my little Navigator man, getting driven to it from work myself. But this weekend tomorrow, hopefully I'll get to drift something nice. Okay, So I have a funny story about that really quick. So remember when I was at Super Bowl with Rebel and I was with

Adam Divine. But I think you were thinking I was with Adam Oh God, So I you know who Adam Divine is though, So I go, I go up to Adam Divine and I'm like, dude, I just talked to Michael Strahan. He like loves you and he lit up. He like lit up, and I'm like, you guys were talking about this car, and so I'm giving him this whole spiel about how much you love him in this car that he wanted, and he was like, uh, Dave, I'm a little confused, and I go, what do you mean?

And he goes, well, I love Michael Stray and he's like, I think he's incredible and I would love to talk to him and I'd love to talk to him about cars. But he goes, I don't think he knows who I am. And I'm like, oh my god, I know who A little guy black hair all I thought you said Vine and I I remember Adam Levin the last time I saw him. Out of Adam. We got to the bottom of it, there's Michael Adam Man. I know who you are. Of course I know who you are. I'm a big fan.

We got the last name mixed up, but I had cars on the brain. That's that's all. That's all. So it reminded me of one night. I'm at the Sunset Tower Hotel and I'm with David O. Russell, the director, and I'm a Jamie Fox and we're with Timothy shallowmy right when he was starting to blow up. And we're sitting down and we're talking and david O. Russell's like, so, you know, Jamie, tell me about Davo. And Jamie's like, I don't know what to tell you about Davo. I

don't know how. But he knows everybody on earth. He's connected to everybody. He knows everyone. And just as he's saying this, Phil Mickelson, the golfer comes over to our table and he taps me on the shoulder and he's like, get up and give me a hug. Phil Mickelson, I've never met him in my life, Okay, So he gives me this and I'm like, I'm like, I'm just going with it. I'm like, Phil, meet david O Russell, the director, meet Jamie Fox and he's like and Jamie Fox goes man,

He's like, hell the hell you know this motherfucker? And Phil goes oh, he's the best, and like I'm like, I'm like this because I have no idea what the hell is going on. So it turned out he thought I was Jerry Ferrara say that. I'm like, yeah, Jerry is by guy too. I love Jr. And it was it was after Jerry had lost a lot of weight. It was after he had lost a lot of weight. So Phil Mickelson was like, do you look amazing? And he's like sitting there like touching me, and I'm like,

what the hell is going on here? I've never met this man? So hold on, did you tell David and all those guys that you didn't know? No? Hell no, they know now. I would like to tell you, man, there's not very many people that I'll ever that I've ever been mistaken for. But I will say when I was playing, you're a little heavier and bigger guy. Yeah. I'm at a Knicks game and I'm on the front row. You know, I'm feeling good about myself. They gave me

front row ticket to the Knicks. Baby, I'm like New Yorker, right yep, sitting there watching the game, trying to be cool, sitting in the front row. Dude, come down at halftime, Hey, I get you to sign you know, autograph. I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm probably gonna have. I really appreciate it. Champ. I was riding both get out of here. I'm looking like, man, that was so amazing. Unbelievable. Alright, let's get with this show is over. That was it. That was so podcast.

I really appreciate it. Alright. So, Kyle, I'm so excited about today. We have a very very special guest today. It pains me a little bit because, as you know, I'm a massive Philadelphia sports fan Fly Eagles, Fly, and unfortunately I love this man so much. It's difficult for me because not only is he one of the greatest NFL players of all time, he's one of the greatest New York Giants of all time. Mr Michael Strahan show. Thank you, Michael, No, hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate

you guys having me. Um, you could have changed a wardrobe, that's all right. I didn't wear the Eagles. I didn't wear the Eagles jersey out of respect. That's what were the Eagles. I had to go with Phillies. Now, my normal co host is a die hard Cowboys fan, so we would have been representing almost the entire uh the greatest division in football, the FC East. Um. But today, filling in we have our producer who knows nothing about sports, Mr Kyle Tequila and that funny but I produce a

sports podcast. I don't know how that have a question for you. Where are you from? Man? Chicago? Okay, you don't know anything about sports? I mean that's kind of the thing. I mean, I grew up playing hockey. I love the Bears, I love black Hawks, I love Chicago spots. Have you you pay attention now? Not really? What do you do with your life? What do you do that's gotta be at some point in time in your life on a Funday? That's right? Football? Like, what do you know?

I watch it, but I'm not like I'm not. But tell Michael what you said to me earlier. I said you didn't want to watch your watching? I said, I have a life, which means I have a wife, I have a child, I'm running a business. I like to just not watch things for a minute to do I have to look outside. Hey, you know what it sounds like to me, Kyle. So I was like, your wife said, you're not watching, she's listening. You had so, I don't know,

dis respect hey, wife, your kids. You can come in and tell us straight face that I choose not to watch because I have a life. Like watching reality TV is kind of watching somebody else lived their life. You're not living yours, but watching sports is entertainment. So your wife told you can't watch sports. That's cool, brother, I appreciate that. Man. Do you take care of your family because that's number one and that's why this is why he's filling in sports again. Yeah, this is why you're

feeling in thank you, thank you so much. You've saved me. You have our you have our permission not to watch sports. There you go, you've been granted permission. This is a big day for me. Don't go anywhere. Hey, Pam will be right back after a work for our sponsors. Let's get into it. Michael, you've clearly done it all. I'm curious with all the things that you've done. What what's given you a bigger life high? Is it a sack in a in a professional football game? Is it doing

a great, great interview? Does that give you a bigger high? Or is it closing a big business deal? Because you are an entrepreneur. So for you at this point in your career looking at everything, what gives you a bigger high? The sack? Really? Because you know what? Yeah? Because I could never do it again. Yeah that makes that's that's

like like something that wants is over over. Yep, don't know, man, that the thing about getting a sack of football is that I have to dominate another dude, like throw them down beat Like it's nothing better than almost taking somebody's soul a little bit with a sack. You know what I'm saying. It's like that's better. Like I would love to clothe the big business Jill. I love that. But if they're not one today, they'll be one tomorrow, hope the other doing an interview. Trust me, if there's not

an interview today, as another of you tomorrow. But a sack everyone is precious and there's nothing better than hitting a quarterback and you kind of watch the air and leave his body fan cast man, you got me fired up, Giant Jersey. So let me ask you this. Do you have a sack that stands out more than all the others because you are the all time sack leader? Well, I think you know Tom Brady and the Super Bowl was special because that was the Super Bowl. I think

the Donovan mcna have. I had a few on him where I we'll watch back. No, man, I really closed on him pretty quickly because he was the tough one to get down the hardest sack the best sack I ever had. Like I set to move up and I made the move when I hit the quarterback so hard that it put him out, and and like it was a picture perfect sack with gust far Rott with red skins. That was the best picture perfect put pain and somebody sack I ever had. Everybody, don't think I'm a viting guy.

I'm not a vioting guy. I was just out there at the matter of survival. But if somebody's got to get beat up, it's not gonna beat me if I can help it. Exactly what you say that, because our co host we just love beating the hell out we do. We love we love sacking Jared every every opportunity that

we get. Um, we definitely love sacking him. Now. The one thing that's so beautiful when I look back on it is, you know, obviously you just interviewed Tom Brady and he has the seven Super Bowls and he's untouchable, and you know it's unbelievable, but you got to and both the super Bowls you got, you beat him, So you definitely when you guys talk, you have the upper hand, don't you know. You know what I got one the Giants got to Yeah, I wasn't met a second time.

But you know what, you know, not even not even the fact that he lost two to the Giant is the first one that we beat him in, he said, that is the one that that that just eats him alive. And the reason being is because they were perfect. They were perfect season. But the other one, he you know, we lost the game here and there, but a perfect season that is immortality. He's already immortal because of seven Super Bowls, But to say we had a perfect season

and did it that is the one. If you talk to him to this day, the one that bugs him the most is losing that one to us. But I'm like, dude, you got freaking seven. I just needed one so I can retire. I don't get greedy and let the other kids play with the ball every once in a while, exactly. And I know how how big a fan Don Shula is of that Giant's team. For sure. Hey, you know what we beat, We beat them. They pop champagne when we beat um. Denver had a great record with Elway.

One of the years they won the Super Bowl and they came to New York and we sucked with some reason, we came together on that Sunday and we beat them. They sent the champagne too, so the Dolphins make sure they sent ye to whoever beat the team that looks like they're gonna go and defeat it. We did a twice world. I love it. And Kyle, just so you know, Don Shula was a head football coach for the Miami Dolphins and and he orchestrated. Are you seriously explaining this? Yes,

he doesn't know who Don Shula is. Michael, he definitely doesn't know who Don. I'm just gonna let you handle this guy, Michael, Um, good luck with everything. Come on, you gotta sit down. We gotta talk about morning the sports. Come on back, Hey, pat Ball, come back, alright, I'm back, all right. Your eyes when I was explaining who Don Cula was my cool, priceless. I can feel the fury. You were angry. All right. Now you mean the Miami Dolphin, the team that's in a nura exactly, that's the one.

Now out baby, whatever works, whatever works, all right? Now, next question again, this has to do with your career. So what made you more nervous or what makes you more nervous? Was it your first NFL football game, your first NFL on Fox episode, your first Good Morning America episode, your first time hosting Kyle's favorite show, a hundred thousand dollar appearing love that show, seeing your teeth without your trademark gap, which just happened recently, or seeing one of

the twins go on a date. What of those makes you most nervous? Man, Well, first of all, the twins have not really been on a date yet, thank you. I'm nervous for the boy more than I am for myself, because I'm gonna put one of those scenes from Bad Boys when the guy comes to the door and those guys show up my lie and uh man, you know what? That's a That is the probably one of the best questions I've ever been at, because usually it's very easy

for me to say one of the other. But I was so scared my first football game, but then I was so scared at Fox. But then I was terrified at g m A. Like, I'm like, you give me ptfd manaken over in this joint, isn't because you have really triggered me, I would probably say the scariest thing I've ever done, maybe gm AM, Yeah, Pyramid didn't scare me because you know, practice through all that stuff. G M A scared you know what, GM here me football. I had no idea what I was doing, or at

least I did. I knew it, and I didn't think I did not realized I had to learn it. So what I nervous? Yeah? Um, but it all fell on a team in a sense, like I got to do my job and I'm on a greater, bigger team. Fox scare me to death because I got all these thoughts in my head about what I want to say. But then by the time they get to me, Terry and Jimmy and Everybody's taking all the day on notes. So I'm sitting there like, oh, they took everything I had

written down. I don't have nothing, so you have to learn the improbrise and makeup stuff. But GM May You're like, just you, it's news. It's more serious. You can't get away with like joking your way out stuff like a Fox. I'm doing commentary, man, and I'm like, I have three points and I go one and this one that too. By by by the third one, I'm like, I forgot it. And it's funny. You know, everybody can laugh at that.

I've done Fox where I'm like, okay, this thing. I four three points, I go one point, the second point, I get to the third and I totally forgot it. So I just started coughing like I was choking. And then the guys fill in and I'm like, oh yeah, I remember what I was gonna say. So I'm like, oh yeah, and let me finish. Yeah, the reason I started. They think I'm choking, like you're okay any water, I'm like, no, I just need a thought because I lost my trade

of thoughts. So that stuff I can get away with. GM. You can't get away with that man. And it was so Fox Football. I knew football. I've done enough TV football. I knew I could play football, but you need experience. G m A. That's when I thought I actually knew TV because I've been on I've been on five, I've been on Kelly and Michael. Like I thought I knew TV until that TV and I realized I knew nothing.

That's a scary thing I've ever done. Okay, great, great answer, And just to go for a quick minute, just to go to the twins along the lines of what you said, you're more worried about the guy. So Chuck Liddell. Uh. We were together when his daughter went on her first school dance and Chuck used the famous Sean Penn line imagine how scary that was for that kid. And Chuck went up to him really calm, and he said, here's a deal, son. He goes, whatever you do to my daughter,

I get to do to you. And he smiled. And that kid you talk about turning ghost white? Oh my god, it was amazing, amazing. So well, yeah, hey, that's what I may have to steal. It's a good line. Yeah, it's a great line anything I get. Of course, I was talking with somebody about this the other day and they're like, oh, you know, it's like a dude, I'm not worried about I know a dude. I know a kid. I know like I was that eight, and I know what I hope for now. Yeah, I'm about to go

upstairs there yell my kid? Wrong? What did I do? Blame it on Davo. Um, Michael, you were the player picked in the nine three draft Because I don't know, Jack, hold up a piece of paper. You want to read the question for me? Actually hold up? He's too good man. I can't. I can't. I just got to deal with it, all right, So let me what is that? Okay? Alright, So so there are thirty nine dudes in front of you, but you ended up becoming one of the greatest defensive

ends in history. So do you think that is there something there that motivated you to, you know, to become great or you already knew you were great, you just needed more time, or you know, is there anything about that, you know, not being up in the top ten or top five in that draft? You know what? You know what motivated me? Eric Curry, John Copeland, Dan Flipman, called called Coleman, Rudolph Carl Sampson. Um. Um, yeah, those guys

who got picked in front of me. You know, Todd Kelly, I went to thet But it wasn't like I wasn't I didn't know the guys that weren't friends. Like I was a really good friend with Todd Kelly. Um. But I remember sitting with one of these scouts from the forty nine is got named Tommy Hart, sitting there with

him and Todd Kelly. He's a good friend of mine, and he's right there, like, dude, I'm in college, I'm this young year old kid, trying to just make it, and Tommy Hart says, well, you know, Michael, you you'll never be as good, you know, good of a player like like Todd And I was like, h yeah, because

you can't close on the quarterback. So was like yeah, So I remember everybody in front of me, I mean Coleman, Rudolph, Georgia, Tech gets drafted by the Jets first round, and I get go to the Giants in the second round, and that guy ended up being my backup and then and then goes into the game and places two plays and it raises his hand like okay, come back in. I'm like, okay, all right, I see why you weren't in the league very long because you were lazy and um you were spoiled.

And I came from HBCU. I had to gribe I'm wearing one pair of shoes and practice in the games all year long. I don't get a new pair of Nikes every week. So that I had. My experience of coming to the NFL was a lot different than other everybody else, A lot of these guys experiences. And I didn't come in looking at it like I was supposed to be there, like they owed me something and they were going to open up the gates. I came into a team with Lawrence Taylor and and all this guy

I had to earn it. They weren't giving you. Jack and Kyle. You would know Lawrence Taylor from any given Sunday. That's where Kyle would know him from. Oh yeah, yeah, that guy you want to cut the truck in half with a chainsaw, didn't blow up when you get the fuel line? Yeah? Perfect? But yeah, I mean that motivated me. Man, it motivated me. But also I was motivated by respect. At the end of the day, you want to be respective for the job you do. So I just didn't.

You weren't gonna leave a game and think that I wasn't what you heard or I sucked and nothing. You're gonna lead the game and we may have ross, but you're gonna feel it. You're gonna be sort of next day you're gonna think back. I don't want to play him again. That was always my focus for respect and with the respect. Money comes with respect. Um, winning comes with respect. I mean, if you get respecting you out there and play, you win games. You wouldn't you go

looking for me when the Super Bowl. Respect come with that, But I just want to respect from a players standpoint of guys on that field who know who real the real good guys are not think guys who good players because the media anoints them, but guys who actually, you know, you put on the field they actually can't play. That motivated me representing the family. Man, can't disappoint my mom and dad like that was yeah, that was it. They're

gonna walk around with the name proudly. Well, I think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about you didn't You didn't expect anything to be given to you. And I think that's what happens a lot nowadays, especially with these earlier picks, as they kind of expect like, hey, this is how it's supposed to be or game. Yeah. So think about it though, Man, you one years old, you get picked, You got millions of dollars in your pocket.

Who could really tell you anything? I had nothing near that and you couldn't tell me nothing when I first started. I mean I got I used to cast my little check. I get like six grand a week cash that check, walk around a little not my pocket thinking I was like, bald, I didn't realize that you know what, that's the last for sixteen seventeen weeks. I still got thirty five more weeks to live during the seat there the year, I was like, oh yeah, that money put the last the

whole year. Like, but you can't tell a young guys. Very hard to tell a young guy certain things because they've never experienced it. For me, I was just lucky enough to outlast my mistakes as far as like my career and all that. A lot of different things. We just around long enough to outlast the things end up coming out on the other side of it. But yeah, it's hard. It's hard man to be twenty some years old and and have millions of dollars in the bank,

and I feel like, you're it's easy. But I always tell guys, the second game is over with well, the team will let you. I can call the giant. Now, I can go to the facility, I'll have lunch, I go to a game, going to the suite. I can stand on the sideline. They're not writing me another check. When it's over, it's over. And I just never wanted to look back at the end of my career and say, oh, man, if I only worked harder, if I had only done

this or done that. No, I put it all in when I was there, when I walked away, and no regrets. I never once looked back and said I should have kept going maybe another year. No, I was good, don't go anywhere. Hey, Pam will be right back after a work from our sponsors. But it's so freaking true. It's also go so hand in hand because it's not about an individual, it's about teamwork. No one want. No one has had success. It's gotten has gotten where they had

gotten because they didn't have people help there. They didn't have a good team behind them. They didn't have somebody lifted them up, somebody carried them at some time or encourage them. And so I have an incredible team, great people behind me. And I've always been the guy who didn't want to ever be the weak link on the team. So I was always willing to push myself and work a little harder and stay a little later, and do whatever it took to be successful. And that's what life

is like. Life is not waking up and it's just there for you. I remember my dad said, boy, one day, you're gonna find out that everything when you out on your own, everything is your responsibility fund the toilet paper to the Q tips and every time, every day I use a que tip. I'm my damn, that was right. I had to take this cute tip, gave this cute tip like everything is on you, and it was just a different attitude I had to take. Man, that I gotta you know, if you want to have success, you

gotta be willing to work for it. You gotta be willing to sacrifice some of the things that, um, you probably want to do in a moment, do something or whatever. You gotta sacrifice those things for the long term goal. For me, I've done that. It's just worked out, you know, better than I ever imagine. Yeah, it's amazing. It's been awesome and and and well deserved by the way. Um, will you go Rocky really quick? Nicole? Can you bring Rocky down? You're gonna like next question, Michael, we got

a surprise guest for you, Rocky. Wait, wait until somebody got to carry Seves. Wait wait until you see this. Oh boy, I'm almost afraid there is Nicole. Hey, Nicole, how are you and that? Let Kyle watch football? Said football on Sundays because we're making fun of alcohol. Doesn't know anything about about football than Kyle though. Alright, So the reason I brought Rocky down is because you had a lot of great teammates over the years, and now

you have a great teammate, your dog, Enzo. Who's who's your best friend? Describe that relationship with Enzo, and how does it compare to any of the relationships you had with some of your teammates. It's unlike any relationship I have my teammates. Some of my relationship with my teammates may have had limits, like I'm not taking them on vacation, I'm not giving them bad I'm not picking up some way. I thought that's what you guys did in the locker room. No, man,

maybe a rookie. May I tell you, man, I did not. I didn't want a dog. I didn't want a dog for a long time. I don't have time for dog. Man. I'm busy of traveling. This at the kids. Man, this dog is like the best things ever happened. When I walk in the door, he for the most part, he is by far the most excited one to see so and I just like I can't get enough of him.

And and even you know, you find out that you love with your dog so much that here in New York when it's cold, you're like, I don't care how I'll take him out for walk, right, you know you're willing to take walks in the middle of the freezing cold and you don't even mind in the middle of the night. Yeah, he's perfect, perfect, couldn't ask for a

better dog. No, I mean, dogs are amazing and and and obviously I really unfortunately, I really really understood it when when my pops unfortunately passed away and I gave my dog to my mom, and that dog saying my mom's life for those first couple of years. You know what I mean, because it gave her something. It gave

her something that loved her unconditionally. It gave her something to take care of, something to look out for, something that when she was tired and didn't want to get out of bed, had to get out of bed to take the dog out. That's a huge factor. So you totally get it, you know when when when you connect with with an animal and something you have to take care of it, it's actually a really great thing and

a really special relationship for babies. No, and I agree with you how to present and about all of that man, and and yeah, I lost my father to unfortunately in that same club. And and you do. It's nice sometimes, you know the dog. I can lean on it though, and there's no conversation needed, like he just sense and feels when you. Well, you're just sitting there on the couch some day and he'll come over and just look at you and like end. Though he doesn't doesn't jump

on anything. He had to be called up on the couch. He's like one of these boozer lea trained all right, right, so they're calling him up there. He just knows when you need it, you know, he needs to just be there next to you. And it is something, man, help you through the hard time. And what kind of dog is Rocky? He's a Chihuahua Yorkie mix ch chaa yorkie. What do you call it? Chorkey chorky And they call the chorky. Yes, I don't call him chorky. He's just

as bad as you are. I just call him Rocky. Man, he says, A dude, look at Michael Man. When I come Kyle, when I come out to l a faith to faith brother man, you're going to go ahead and lunch and straight this guy is the greatest. I mean, he's he's he's the best. He's just he's a very you know when when people say they're likable or they're endearing, like a lot of people you know say I'm endearing, Jared's not necessary endearing or likable. Um, Michael Strahan is both.

He has all of it. He does. He's the full package. Yeah, what a guy. Too bad we have to cut this thing in a half. Yeah, but it's good because it leaves our audience with with more. I'm want to be wanting more anticipation of that exactly one of the yes. All right Thursday, Straight Hand Part two. Hey Pal is a production of My Heart Radio from an Enemy and tender Foot TV, hosted by Jared Einson and Dave Osco producer is Kyle Tekla. Executive producer for I Heart Radio

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