She asked me if I want to have a glass of rose. I said absolutely, because he turned down Julia Roberts in a glass of rose. And we ended up finishing off a bottle of rose and it was fantastic. Every year I sent her a case of rose. I don't know if he drinks it or not, but you know I send it to her.
We have a living legend on the Bobby Cast Today, super Bowl Champion with the New York Giants. He's a Hall of Famer. He's co anchor of Good Morning America. I'm gonna talk to Michael Strahan from setting a single season sack record, he flew in Space with Blue Origin, which we'll talk about. Like he's all over the place. He also has a collection and it's called The Collection by Michael Strahan. It suits, It's in one hundred Belk
stores and it's online. And I love this guy. I've been able to work with them a couple of times beyond Good Morning America, and he was so nice. We talk about that and we talked football on TV and business space and everything in between. If you don't know him, well, you're about to love him. Here he is. My conversation with Michael Strahan. Michael Strahan, what's up, man?
What's up? Man? I'm so hungry. I'm on here eating from Starburst.
You eat Starburst. I'm surprised that you, for two reasons, would eat Starbursts.
Probably had him in years, but and that's why they're probably harder than a rock. They're all kind of harder than a rock right now, but I mean, deferate times off for different.
Is it that desperate you gotta eat old Starburst?
I'm not desperate right now.
Let me just say it's been it's been a few minutes. I don't even know if you remember me, but I have a couple of Michael Strahan stories. Once once I was in New York for something else, and I got a call going, hey, will you go up to GMA and talk to Michael Strahan about Old Town Road? And I was like, yeah, sure, So I threw on some g I literally threw on some jeans and a B plus shirt and went up and talking about Oldtown Road
whenever Lolana's X was blowing up. Now it's kind of fun because you're just the easiest got to be around. And then obviously when I you know, I want to dancing with the Stars. That was kind of odd that that was a fun one too. But uh, I always tell people like, you're a big dude, but you're a very warm guy. You feel like you've always been that way towards people.
Uh yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate that, and I remember meeting you every time. So yeah, I've always felt like people are important. I was always growing up as a kid, was kind of had those jobs that you weren't the scene person in when you're cutting the grass or you're moving furniture and people just don't see you. You're kind of just there. So for me, it's always about being warm and making people feel seen. So and I like people, so yeah, I always I feel like
I'm that guy except for the football field. Outside of that, I'm actually pretty nice.
Was that a switch?
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, you gotta have a switch. You have to be a It's weird when I was a kid kid, being like twenty one in the first year in the league. You have to you think for years, like I got to be mad at that guy. I gotta be mad he said something about my mama, Like you're creating all these scenarios in your head. But as I got older, it was, hey, we can have the
conversation right now. Like to hold on, Bobby, put my helmet on, run out there, look at the guy, Smile at him, beat him up a little bit, come back, put the helmet down, and continue the conversation. It was more about learning how to control your aggression and how to control your focus. And it took me some years to do it, but it made the game easier, made it more relaxed, made it more fun, less stressful. So yeah, I definitely felt like you have to have a switch.
If you don't, you'll burn yourself out quickly.
I think it's been pretty amazing to watch the new professional identity you've created. But I do, and I work for the NFL, and I work with Matt Cassel, who was a quarterback, and we talked a lot about athletes when they leave, they kind of have to figure out who they are because all they've ever done is be that was that you know mentally for you? Was that a struggle?
Absolutely? I knew I had a job with Fox when I retired, I mean that was that was done. I'd already had a deal that signed and put in a drawer and the first year of that deal went by, and I still I went back to the Giants. It wasn't about having a job. It was about having a you know, being comfortable. And my first year at Fox, first three weeks, I was thinking I should have gone back to play football. This TV stuff is not for me. It's hard. It's a lot harder than it looks. But
once I got it down, I love it. But yeah, football was just it's something we've done on our whole lives, and how do you transition out of that? And you walk into a room and you feel like that's all everybody sees as the football player. They don't see the human being. They don't see someone who has other interest someone who is more rounded than what they expected an athlete to be. So yeah, that was a big adjustment for me. Even though I knew I had a job, it still was tough.
Did you feel like when you would go into a room that you would try to prove you were more of what you actually were, but try to be more of that so people would take you as that instead of just an athlete.
I think at some point probably probably, But I remember I was talking to a movie guy, movie producer, and I remember saying to him, Yeah, you know, I feel like I go into these things because I thought I wanted to be an actur at that point. So I'm like, yeah, I go to these auditions and I feel like I walk in and they just go. Hear the football player and he said, people will see you as you see yourself and he said that, and it kind of like, Okay, I got to take myself out of just that football
player of mentality. And once I did that, it's like a lot of different things start to happen. I think people did see me in a different light. I think being just taking advantage of opportunity, and by that I mean getting over the fear of failure, to feel your fear of being in front of a group of people and something not working out, just saying yes to something just for the experience of it, and see where that led.
And I look back now and I'm so grateful that I kind of got over the fear of the failure, the fear of feeling like you're you're you're gonna look stupid if you do something, and just get rid of all that stuff, drop your ego at the door, and go to work. And that's what I did, and it's worked out.
How early did you start doing Live with Kelly and Michael from after you retired.
Think a fourth year out of football? Yeah, I think my fourth year out.
Did you feel like you were ready for that or do you feel like that was training camp for what you're doing now?
Oh? No, I was ready for that because coming from Fox, got four other guys that have to listen to and pay attention to. That was tough. Live was probably the easiest show I've ever done, to be honest with you, because it was more personality driven. It was more you know, paid by celebrity driven, more fun and upbeat. So that was just kind of natural to me, and I enjoyed it. I loved it. It was It was really a lot
of fun. And GMA is a little bit of that, but you have the news and you have other components, so it required for you to have a different range and much more and much more rounded range and Live. But I felt like I was ready for Live. GMA and Football were the two that when I first started, I was a little overwhelmed. Live felt natural. It was just a good fit.
Did you feel like playing football you would get more scrutiny like film or once you started doing GMA when they were Were you getting scrutiny from you know, producers or executives.
No, it's it's weird producers and executives in a lot of ways. You need people around you outside of that
who we're going to tell you the truth. And not that they don't tell you the truth, but I think a lot of them is so afraid to upset what they call the talent, so they they will go around and try to hopefully get around that gets to you around the bend, not directly to your face, but coming from football, I'm used to it, like a coach cursing you out, screaming at you, talking about everything about you. You just got to take it, or you just got
to tough en up. And I'm being on the field and having guys do that or being in to have the media do that to you have to have a bad game or bad season. So I was pretty tough from the football aspect of it. I think that the other criticism that you get, I think I was. I judge myself a lot harder than anybody in the newspaper
is going to judge me. So I just learned when I played football, and I remember telling one of the reporters this after he had kind of pissed me off, I said, well, you know what I learned, I'm not gonna let take that. I'm not gonna let the opinion of someone upset me who the last time they put on a football uniform is when their mom took them trick or treating. And it's very easy for me to criticize what you do. I can't do what you do, but I know one thing I could do what those
guys were doing. They couldn't do what I was doing at the time. So I used to always look at it and think, no one is more. People want to our people want to see succeed, but most people, you know, sometime they don't. But then if they don't and you have a comeback, they like that too. And being in New York to have that thick skin, so I developed it here man, and it's worked great for me.
It's weird. You bring up a great point, like our culture is funny because they love to build you up. They don't always love to see you stay up there because then they love to knock you down, and then they love to see you build yourself back up again after they've built you up and knocked you down. It's almost like they want to yo yo you. That's exactly what.
Yeah, But I will tell you, if you could build yourself back up after getting knocked down, then you almost feel like nothing could take you down again, you know, unless you do something to sabotage yourself. But I enjoy that. I enjoy channing and being challenged. I enjoy people doubting. I think that's what motivates for me, to be honest with you, to keep on doing all these things that no one expected this football guy to do. So I'll take it as motivation and I take it as fuel.
I don't feel like I have anything to prove anymore to anybody, and now I do things that I love to do, and I enjoy doing it and just trying to prove to myself that I can accomplish and be good at something.
What time do you wake up in the morning?
Five am? Oh, that ain't so bad, not so bad, you know, Like George wakes up at three three thirty and Robin's like four four point thirty, and they're like, oh, we meditate. I'm like, well I do too, it's called sleep. Why why so I wake up at five and it's it's a great job, man. I love it. I actually enjoy going in. I think moving our studios all the way downtown has brought a different kind of vibe and feeling to it and has reinvigorated everybody there. So it's a lot of fun.
Do you have any moments with Good Morning America? And I'll just compare it out for a week, I went and I hosted The Today Show. I hope that's not a.
Bad word, but I want to know not at all. I love them.
I hosted The Today Show and Queen Elizabeth died one of the days that I was doing it, and so it just it threw everything off, meaning it was like, Okay, we had all this planned, but now we're going straight coverage. It's Queen Elizabeth. Has have any of those big world events happened to you where you've had to go all right time to you know, just tighten up and we got to change.
Oh yeah, absolutely every day. I mean, we we got a situation going on and you're on right now. So it's like you're in the middle of something and something happened and it's breaking news and you got to break in the show. Get thrown in flux and when you first start, oh man, you don't know what's going on, your mind just spinning because you've never experienced it. But now you kind of get used to it. It's not that it's easy, but you're able to calm yourself down
and process everything to get through it. And that's what's kind of fun about is the unpredictability of it, because if every day is just the same, after a while you can go in there and be a robot and do the job. I'm like, okay, you guys can just ai me and I'll stay home. You still get this job done. But yeah, you got to be able to just move and flex and be flexible with everything. Sometimes one of the worst is went out like we're talking, all of a sudden, you're remote messes up and then Cara,
You're like, we got to probably be right back. The panic is real, But it's fun. Man. That's the interesting part about my job is that I get to talk to interesting people like yourself, get to meet a ton of people, get to cover world events. So my highlights I went to to when they coordinate King Charles, I
did the coordination for ABC. I let the coverage so I'm throwing all the raw experts and I have to be an expert on the subject myself to go to places like Easter Island and cover the Mai statues and the ecosystem there. So it's like all these interesting places I get to go around the world to cover different things and topics and people and animals and everything.
It's fantastic the documentary you did about your daughter's fight against cancer, and I believe that's even in the title of it, that's that's professional, but it's extremely personal. And this is a professional question. But I'm assuming in final cuts when you get the decision of what's going to be shown, like you're having a balance. This is your daughter's journey, and yet it's also being made as a documentary.
To me, what seemed like to allow people to see they're not alone, and like to also to show you know what had happened, but that a lot of folks are like, how did you balance that?
Well, that's all unheard. I'll be honest with you. My daughter the main because I when when we got the diagnosis and she was going through what she was going through, she couldn't find anybody her age to to communicate with. To to share, to be comfortable with. So that's why she wanted to reach out and like post all these blog blogs and do all blogs and do all these things. And when they came to when we thought about doing the doc, I'll be honest with you, Bobby, I've never seen it.
Oh still still because it because you lived it or too. It's too hard that much.
I lived it, and it's too hard to watch and be in there every day and senend it every day. That is one the one project where I said, okay, if you want to do this, I told her you don't have to do this. She wanted to do this because she wanted to help other people. So I was a one project. So I said handed it to the team and said, here you go. This is this is my baby. Take care of my baby. But I can't. I can't be involved on a daily and look at this.
But she's been remission, she's you know, checkups are great, she's back in college. But yeah, it's a very hard. That was a very hard time because I have to go to work every day and put on a brave, happy face, but yet I know when I go home, I'm dealing with a daughter who I have to take to get radiation treatments, or I got to go to give her you should take her to do her chemo treatment.
So it was, it was it was tough, you know, rushing to the hospital at night if she gets the fever, and then you know, showing up in the morning and acting and being in a way in which, okay that I can't let my personal side interact with my professional side. But her putting it out there really did help me in a sense that I didn't feel like I feel like I could express what was going on with the people that were close to me, and I feel like
I had to hold something back. And because she didn't want the world to know, she wanted the world to know because she felt it was a good way to to help other people in the world.
How did you compartmentalize that?
You know, it's kind of like football a switch. Be honest with you, It's like a switch. And it's a gift in a curse because I can have something serious and I can block it out and do it, can do in a moment, and I can go right back to it, and I can block it out and go do other things. It's a gift in a curse. But in this case it was the gift. And yeah, it was just compartmentalized then. And I think playing sports, playing football and having to develop that skill helped in this case.
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And I spent time going up in Germany. I'd never been until recently, and I stopped in Munich and I got a hot dog, and I really put I put a lot of pressure on that hot dog being good, just because you got a broathw was I got it? Yes, and so at high, hopes high and I got and it met every expectation that I could have ever had. Yes, And I talk about it. If anybody's like, you ever been to Germany, I'm like, not only have I been to Germany, let me tell you about this hot dog
at a street fair? It was abroad. There's definitely a broade. So what ages were you there?
I was. We moved in Germany and when I was nine, and then I came back to the States for half of my senior year to play football and lived with my uncle in Houston for five months, got one football scholarship the Texas Southern, got back on the plane in December for Christmas and flew back to Germany and graduated high school there. So I was there from nine till seventeen, eighteen years old. My parents stayed until I was twenty seven.
I was in the NFL for a six seven years before my parents moved back, So I would still go back. I'd go see my family. Obviously, I felt when I first came back here for high school for that half of my senior year, I felt more a German and European than I felt the American that was home. And yeah, it was. It was definitely a culture shock to come back to the States.
Did you only play American football then? For one year?
I played one year in high school. Yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. Man, I was just like running around getting the guy with the ball just whoever. I had no idea. I knew no technique. I watched the game on TV. You know, you just tackle the guy with the ball. So if I could do that, I got one scholarship and then from there I figured it out and I learned, you know, I really learned a lot about how to do it. I watched TV, man,
I would watch NFL games on Sunday. Even when I was in college, I'd watch NFL games on Sunday, and I'm just watching a guy and what he's doing and how he's successful at different things. And I remember reading in those something and these magazines that needs to have the players their size, their weight, all these things, and I remember going, I need to be six five two fifty.
I need to be six five two fifty. And my brothers aren't big guys really, And I ended up being like sixty five at times in my career, a little bit over to fifty other big bone but but by the end it up. But by by the end of the day, I ended up being would always imagine I needed to be in order to be successful in the NFL. It's crazy.
Is there a person, both in sports and in your we'll call it your second life in media who believed in you and you look at that person and go, man, if it wasn't for that person, I don't know if I'd be here.
I think it's it's two people at different favors than my life. Number one is my dad. My dad, Major Jean Willie Strahan Senior, passed away a few years ago, but incredibly great, great father and a great man, and my dad growing up would always say when not if so? He said, when you do this, when you do that, when you go back to this day with your uncle and get the scholarship, when you make it to the pros, when I mean everything was when never if so? In
my mind, I believe anything was possible. I never had any doubt. So my dad was that growing up. And then once football was over, my business partner, Constant Swarts, it was like Constance kind of picked up the baton and I'll never forget the first time I did live I was a guest host. I was nervous as all could be. I do it. We get backstage and she looks at me and go, this is what you're gonna do. This is your next job, this is your next get.
This type of business is what you're gonna do. And from there to everything that I do now on the business side to the television side, it's all because Constance has taken over the role that my dad had all those years growing up. And yeah, between the two of them, they have really taken care of me.
This may be a really corny question, but what was it like in space?
Oh? Amazing? Well, I tell you. People will ask me that, and I could sit here and take our whole time together to describe it to you. But in essence, the whole thing was twelve minutes up and down twelve minutes. But because you're so hyper aware of every sound, every feeling, everything,
it feels like it was ours. When you're sitting in that capsule and you're watching that screen and it's telling you the countdown clock, and then they added more time to our countdown clock, which makes you go, huh, why did they do that wrong? And they're coming on they're like, no, nothing's wrong or okay, and you're watching that countdown clock, and once you get to two and a half minutes,
then it goes on the computer. You're locked in. So until then you got two things you can say one time out, which means they'll come on and try to say, okay, Bobby, you can do this, you got it, or I don't want to fly today. Then they'll just come take you off. And I'm looking at the countdown clock and I'm like, ooh, is anybody on here gonna say they don't want to party to break? And if they do, will I go
with them? And once you get past that threshold where you realize you're locked in and you have no other option but to do it. It is such a calming piece over your body. You're not even scared. It's a piece. And once we took off and the thing is moving up, everybody just screamed, like unprompted screen because it was like
all this joy and press are relieved and you're flying. Man, I mean you look up there to screen, it's like, oh, we're forty thousand square feet I mean forty feet thousand feet in the air and we have we're going three hundred mileths per hour. You're like, okay, cars that due three hundred and forty thousand. I've been on a plane. Next thing, you know, you look up, you're like two hundred thousand feet in the air doing two thousand mileths per hour. And you were in the light looking at
the darkness. Now you're in the dark looking back at the light. And the first time you realize that they released the main rocket and you go like that and you go, oh my gosh, my arms are floating. Then once you release your seat belts, you put them, you take them off, You push yourself with the pressure of holding up a cell phone with two fingers. That's it. Don't ever use your left You'll break your neck. Don't blow like the cartoon. You're not gonna move anywhere. Don't
do that. You're not going anywhere. It doesn't work that way. But you push off of that seat and you're just floating. You're doing spinning, and you're looking out the window and it looks like you know, when you leave your phone, your TV on the iPhone and I mean the apple and the circular screen and just looking back at the planet.
It makes you realize how insignificant we are to the grand scheme of everything here, and it gives you a different sense of what your life is, your family like you start you get become peaceful with the fact of death when you're getting ready to take off, because you realize this could go awry. But then you know, I don't want to leave my family. I don't want them
to leave me. And you realize how much love that there is that you have inside of you, uh, and but how insignificant the grand scheme of the world you are. At the same time, it's just the most unique feeling I've ever ever felt.
Man, And you didn't take it all to yell, I don't want to do it.
You were in.
You were locked in.
Absolutely. I thought I didn't want to do it. You know, when I got the call to do what I had, I was at I went to the first launch that Bethos dead. Jeff and his brother Mark and I went for gm A and I'm like, okay, you know I'm gonna watch these guys go up in a spaceship. I'm not a space guy. I watched it, and I said, this is the coolest thing. When the rocket came back and landed on the pad by itself there you can't see that. I'm thinking, I'll just see them up there
and they'll come down like a roller coaster. That's really hot.
Hot.
No, they were gone, then they come down. I talked to them. It was the most unbridled joy I've ever seen out of human being in my life. Everybody who did it, and I said, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. When that rocket land I think this is like Iron Man cool. A few weeks later, I get invited to dinner with them and another couple and I got there late because I was doing Thursday night football at that point for Fox, and I'm eating my cold left the cold leftovers that they left me, and
I said, you know that rocket thing. I would say I would never do that, but I would do that. That was one of the coolest thing that I've ever seen. A few days later, I'm playing golf and I get a call and it's Jeff and he goes, I think you know what this is about. I'm like, yeah, And I was so excited for you. I'm in, man, I'm in. A week before I was like, maybe I got COVID maybe, dude. I was scared to death. I was like, what did I sign up for? Because then the interim you got
to get your paperwork in order, you know. I'm like, this could be the last week I'd see my family and friends. It could be it. But it ended up being magnificent. And by the time you get on that ship, they've explained everything to you. You sat with the engineers who built the rocket, you set with other astronauts who have gone in the space. They do an incredible job of educating you. So when you get on the ship, you feel confident you're ready to go. My family cried.
I don't know if they were crying because they wanted me back or they didn't, but they said they cried and I had the best time, the best time.
I want to ask about the coach vic experience as a kid growing up, love Michael Vicker Virginia Tech, like he was that dude. I read the commercials, the Mike vic Experience commercial on the roller coaster, you know, so the rise of Mike Vick and then you know when he went to prison and he's back at So I've just kind of seen Mike Vick, the roller coaster of
Mike Vick. And I wonder now, because I don't know him and he's coaching now, like, what did you take away from Mike Vic as an adult and as a coach and as a leader of men.
Well, one thing I will say about Mike. I've known Mike a long time and I have so much respect for him because he realized what got him in trouble back in the day and the way that he was living his life back in the day, that was the wrong way to live his life. And here's the guy who grew up in a certain way, doing certain things that seem normal for the community that he came from,
but they weren't and they weren't right. So he paid his debt, he went to prison, came out of prison, got back on the football field, but also had a lot of you know, he owed a lot of money to a lot of people, but he didn't found bankruptc and ripped everybody off. He paid people back. So I look at Mike and I think Mike had a lot of honor. I think as a coach, I don't know if there's any other player I would listen, I would be amazed look at Mike and I look at Dion.
I mean, the'se got some of the goats of what they did. And they both are the guys who were signature like they's so incredible at the time. They're one of the few football players at the top with their own shoes which are on a parel line through Nike, Like we didn't get that as football players. That's how exceptional these two were. And I love Mike as a coach because I think he's had some life experiences that
other kids, these kids need to hear. The kids need to experience someone who's been on top, who's been on the bottom, who's making their way back. And I think as a coach, it is so much, probably more than he thought it was going to be. It's a lot to bite off. It's a lot of work, there's a lot of time away from your family. They're the reason I got into TV, because I wouldn't want to be a coach. So I think that Mike is a great
example of resilience. I think he's a great example paying your debt to society and getting back on your feet. And I hopefully he can turn Norfolk State back around because last year was a rough year. But I think he's also learning along with these kids as the coach, and I think they're learning from him as men.
Do you think you could have played another year?
Yeah? Absolutely? Why? Yeah? Why didn't I say I walked off to field, Bobby, I didn't lent Okay, why and we won a super Bowl? Man? I had fifteen years. I did everything I wanted to do.
There was nothing left to do.
What was I'd won every awards, I'd done all the individual stuff, and after so many years of that, you kind of go, this is not really fulfilling. The only thing I hadn't done was one of Super Bowl. So once that happened, it's like, why am I sticking around
for the money to blow my knee? Out and the next thing, I got something that's going to mess me up for the rest of my life for a few bucks, and I just kind of felt confident enough that I could make something happen outside of the game of football. And thankfully I've been able to do that. But yeah, I could have played another year. Physically, I felt great. There are days I wake up now and I feel like I can give him another year.
Did you have good financial life?
Yeah? And not because not because it was because I had a chance encounter with the guy who ended up being like one of my He is one of my best friends and my brother who has looked out for me over the years, and it was like a ten year age No, it'st well, hold on, yeah, it's like twelve year age difference. We met on a golf trip when neither of us played golf. We ended up being like sweet mates and we just really hit it off.
In nineteen ninety four and he got into an accident in the city and call and his wife called me, who was nine months pregnant at the time in her mid forties, which is back then the very risky pregnancy. And I went to the hospital and saw him and made sure that she had nothing to worry about and took care of him, made sure I got all the doctors I made that happen. And his promise to me was you took care of my wife and my own born son, who is now mid twenties and works a
big head fun. I can't teach you. I want to do something for you. So I can't teach you football, and I'm like, yeah, because from the accident when you gotta hit roy roller blader, you can't take ahead, so it was pretty bad how you look. So I want to teach you about money. I don't want to invest your money. I don't want to control your money. I
don't want any say over your money. I just want you to bring me every deal that anyone brings to you and all the things that you've done before you've met me, and I want to make sure we go through it. I wanted to teach you how to look at money. I want to teach you how to value money. I will teach you how to understand it, what question to ask when people want it, like everything, And that was the life lesson of the best financial literacy that
anybody can have as someone who's in that business. In the finance world, who takes you under their wing for nothing, never charge me one penny, and has been that guy for me for over thirty years. So I got very lucky, very fortunate in relationships.
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I'm gonna ask you a question that I've asked a few people recently. I don't have any kids yet. My wife's about to have our first kid, so thank you very much. Vegas. Could be like, give me some advice.
Well, when the baby's born, you come home, they don't give you a manual, but don't panic. I think that first of all, you'll know what you're doing without even knowing what you're doing, and you'll figure it out. And kids aren't as delicate as you think they are. They were off, I mean, we were all kids and ran and fell and hit our head on coffee tables and
everything else, and look at us, we're functioning somewhat. So I would say, you're gonna love your kid more than you ever thought you can love anything, including yourself, because I tell my kids all the time, because I'm that annoying dad who's sending them, you know, stuff, fuf Instagram watch out for this when you're in an uber do this and they're like, oh dad, you're going to take self defense because oh Dad, I'm like, you don't understand when you're not with me, my heart lives outside of
my body. You're my heart now, So wherever you go and whatever you do is me. And that's the thing about having kids. It makes you realize that your life is a lot bigger than whatever you do for a living. And you know, whatever car you drive and how many people you know doesn't matter. Kids are the krem to
krem of what life is about. If you have them, and you'll be fine, don't be nervous, and you'll you'll crush it and whatever they most, for the most part, whatever they learn in life, I think it's Fathers were always told that, you know what I mean, you got
a baby, what are we supposed to really do? And I'd read I read a book of years ago that said the first three years of your kid's life are the most important of the father because we always get this idea that oh, I'm not breast freeding, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that, but being there, your rhythm of your heart, the smell like everything and your kids could get as at tapped to you as they can to anybody. And I'm telling you, man, it's going
to be magical. I can't wait. Do you talk to you in a few months or a year and you're like, Michael, this is the most amazing thing ever. And I'm having a second one.
I got three final questions for you. I love when people do like lines of clothes because there's a lot of like themselves in it. And I know that you have at Belk stores. You have is it suits? Like what do you have? And how much of it is like your style?
It's all of it's my style everything. So we have suits, we have belts, we have all the men accessories. So everything that you need to get suited and booted is what we got and it's all my style. I don't wear everything. Every time you see me in a suit, it's my suit. See me in his shirt, it's my shirt. I don't go out and buy something else and wear and try to say, oh yeah, this is mine everything, because I believe if I'm gonna put my name on, it's got to be me. And but I am kind
of a I'm not a bougie guy. If that's a word like, I'm not this fancy, hoity toity guy because my suits are affordable, but they're nice and there's a lot of thought that goes into them, and I would touch every fabric. Oh, I like this pocket, I like that lapel, like obsessing over it because I didn't want someone. If something the success and you're getting credit for it and you were really really invested, you can feel good
about it. If it were success and I had nothing to do with it and they're giving a lot of credit to me, I would feel bad just like it fit the failure and I didn't put anything into it. Then I'm mad at myself because maybe I could have made it success by investing. But if it's the failure and I put everything intwo of it, I could live with that. At least I try. So everything is me everything, So I love the business. It's organic to me and organic to my life. And being a football player, we
had to dress up. I love getting on the road trips because you would see some of the most interesting outfits you'd ever see. A chameleon suit that changed colors with every freaking way you walk, to suits that looked like skittles bags with yellow, green and purple and everything else. So yeah, interesting life.
Okay, two questions left. This one's probably gonna be tough, but I got if you could go one through three, like, who have you been able to interview that you were starstruck by when you sat down with them?
Wow?
Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts, how about that go first time? Fantastic. I interviewed her at the Beverly Wilster Hotel the anniversary of Pretty Woman, and I interviewed her in the suite where they shot the movie. And when we finished the interview, she asked me if I want to have a glass of rose? So I said absolutely, because who turns down Julia Roberts in a glass of rose? And we ended up finishing off a bottle of rose and it was
It was fantastic. And her birthday is the same as my twins, so you know, every year I sent her a case of rose. I don't know if she drinks it or not, but you know, I send it to her. But yeah, Julia Roberts was one.
Man.
It's so weird because I've interviewed people multiple times now, so I'm not really as nervous. Oh, I had Nicole Kidman yesterday and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Nicole Kidman is so nice. She lives here, like yeah, and I know she's local and I know her, and I knew her and Keith when they were together, and I knew them both really well. She's so nice, Like she shouldn't be that nice, you know what.
She's so nice. And Jamie Lee and her, of course complimented each other, and I love the way in which they met and they're working on this project together, and so I Jamie Lee said how nice she was, and you could just see it. She's a gentle soul man. So she kind of intimidated me because I love her work, like I love everything she does. I think she just is fantastic. And the last one who would be number three?
You stop? What about it? We're gonna stop it, Like what about an athletic? When I interviewed Derek Jeter, thought that was pretty cool? Or it's usually anybody from when I was a kid that I looked up to, because when I meet them, I'm like, this is crazy, because I still have that inside of me, even if I know everything's like real and you know, people are people, but like when I meet somebody from when I was a kid. I still have those feelings.
I mean, you know what, the guy that they're really good like, Jeter's my buddy. I mean, I don't get me started on that knucklehead, but I love it. The one guy who I loved too is a good friend and everything else, but you see him and you're still like, WHOA what. I remember the first time I interviewed him with first year he got into NASCAR, and I was like, Michael Jordan. I mean, MJ is still MJ. And so
that was like the one guy. And as a kid, I started trying to walk a little bow legged and stuff like that, and wish I had grown to six six and about two fifteen so I could have played basketball, but that didn't quite work out, so I had to go to football. But MJ. MJ is like one of those athletes that I look at I'm like, Okay, this is Michael Jordan. This is the guy who I still get a bunch of highlights on Instagram for my buddies.
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Final question for you. You've done many things, and you've been successful at many things like what's the key? What's the key to people doing things and making it.
Really enjoyed and having through the athm for it. Just don't show up at mail in mail it in. Be interested. I think that's the thing a lot of people do things because then we've all done things like oh, I'm gonna make a lot of money. But you just don't jump into something and make a lot of money. You got to build up to those things. But the only way you're going to build up to it if you have an interest and to stay in it. And I've
always been interested in things and that I've done. I think I try to do things that really make me want to do them, and that's just has seemed to be the magic. On top of just being nice to people. I think that is like the greatest thing for me is just people being nice to people, understanding people, having a feeling for people, like I said earlier, making people feel seen, because if you treat people in that way,
people were going to be around you. We never have you ever seen somebody walks in a room and you're like oh, man, or somebody walks in the room and you're like hey, And I think that's just from the vibe and energy that you give off. So for me, I've just tried to give off the vibe of you know, I'm easy. I don't want anything from anybody. I don't need anything from anybody. I just want to truly be friends with people. I think there's so much more fun
in that than always having an angle. So yeah, show up, be authentic, be interested, and do the best you can at it.
Life ain't that complicated. I'm gonna check out. I'm gonna check out the suits. If those are the ones you're wearing on TV. I'm gonna check out the suits.
Then that's it.
You let me know.
I'll sing you some man. I got you now, nobody get your sizes.
We'll shit you some suits, all right, all right, apper dad man, I appreciate that. Like I said, I'm not just saying it because you know we're on Netflix now or whatever. It's like you were always so kind to me, even if you didn't know you were, Like you naturally were that guy that you're talking about right now, Like
that's who you were to me. And that is always the impression when people ask about someone like you, or even someone like Dion, who I know like it's like people make you feel a certain way when you're around them, and you were that guy. So I really appreciate you being so nice to me.
No, you kidding me. You've a great man and ana and we've talked about it today. Dance with the Stars, by the way, congratulations again every athlete that I've talked to who's done it, and Emmitt Smith won the first year he came to New York and I took him to dinner and literally we couldn't walk in the restaurant like women getting up from each table we passed, and he'd have to dance with each one of them to get just to the table. Can we just eat hungry?
But every athlete I talked to you said, man, that is the freaking hardest thing we've ever done. I said, That's why I'll never be on the show. I don't want to work that hard boy. See you go on and not what I'm dancing background or anything. That's what I loved about it, man, And it's how tough. I know it is because I've been around everybody's been on that show. And for you to go out there and crush it like that, I was fun to see man. So congrats again, Champion.
I appreciate that. I'll end on this since you brought up Emma. This is my favorite Emma Smith story. I didn't know Emmett at the time. It's the finale and you know, and you've judged Dancing with the Stars, right, You've like you've been up there and you soudge. Yeah. So on the finale, everybody's super tight because you're just trying to do your best. There's everybody's trying to win. You're doing multiple dances. I'm in the back and I've
got one more dance to do. I did not know what I was doing the whole season, like I was just every week. I was just piecing it together. And I run into Emmett in the back. There was like the craft service is the catering thing, and he sees me, I'm a little bit outside my mind, and he also knows what it's like to be in that spot because he won the show, and he said he came up to me and he said, how you feel one? And I was a little too just wired for the show to go, holy crap, this is EMMITTT.
Smith.
And so I was just talking to Emmett another a champion of Dancing on the Stars. I said, I'm doing pretty good and he said, he said, look look at me in the eyes, and so I like focused on for a second. He put his hand on my shoulder and he said, look, you have worked every bit as hard, if not more than any single person to be here. You have one more dance to do. That dance is already done. You haven't done it yet, but it's already done because of all the work that you've put in.
Just go out there and exist. You're gonna win this show. And then I went out and I'll never forget that. And after I won, the first person to hop up on stage with me was Emmett to take a picture like he gave. He gave me the go get one for the giver's speech right before I won.
I love it. Hey, I kind of got some chills down on me.
Tell them the make me do me doo. Uh, Mike, thank you, thank you so much for the time and uh continued successes and hopefully our pats will cross again soon.
I hope. So man, anything for you, Bobby love it. I appreciate you man, and continue success and everything you do and the honor and pleasure to do this with you, so thank you. Man.
I'm gonna get a couple of those suits, even if I gotta buy them, I'm gonna get them and I'm gonna wear them all. We got you, all right, We got you all right. Thank you, Mike, Thanks brother, see you later.
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