The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Dr. Fauci Declares Pandemic Phase Over | Terry Crews

Episode Date: April 28, 2022

Russia cuts off gas deliveries to NATO countries Poland and Bulgaria, Black Karen (Dulcé Sloan) calls the cops on annoying white people, and Terry Crews talks about his memoir "Tough."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you for coming out. Thank you for staying here. Thank you for coming out. Good to see you. Take a seat, everybody. Welcome to it. We've got a really great show to discuss his new memoir about what it means to him to be a man. Terry Cruz is joining us everybody. It's trying so much fun.

I'm hoping he's going to teach me how to make my chest do that thing. Yeah, I'm going to make my chest break dance. We've also got traffic with Roywood Jr. and the big news today's tod in a pandemic. So let's do this, people. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. Okay, as you know, it has been nine weeks now since Vladimir Putin decided the best way to improve his international standing was to gently slide not into Ukraine's DMs but into the entire eastern region. And since then, the whole world has been trying to figure out what to do. How do you respond to a madman who has nuclear weapons in his back pockets? And the world tried everything.

Tried sanctions, tried cutting off Putin from international trade, tried blocking his PlayStation profile so he couldn't play Fortnite. And now finally, some countries have taken it to the next level, with Germany sending tanks to Ukraine, which the Russians have called a major escalation. And I'll be honest, I agree with Russia on that. It is an escalation. You know, whenever German tanks show up to anything, shit's about to escalate. German tags never show up and are like, ah, all right, it's chilled now. Yeah, you know what it's like? It's like when a black woman takes off

her earrings, there's no way things are cooling down from there. Whatever you did wrong, you were about a pain. But Russia is also doing their own escalations by turning off some of Europe's heat. Overnight a drastic move., cutting all gas deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland, two NATO members. This comes after Putin's ultimatum last month, demanding that, quote, unfriendly nations pay for gas and Russian rubles. Poland's Prime Minister not backing down. Saying, we will be able to protect our economy, protect our households and polls against such a dramatic step by Russia.

Bulgarian officials say they are working with state gas companies on alternative sources, while Poland says it has been working for years to produce its reliance on Russian gas, and there wouldn't be a shortage of gas in Polish homes. Ooh, things are getting tense. Yeah, Russia says no more gas for Poland than Bulgaria. And in response, Poland and Bulgaria are like, screw you, we don't need your gas. We have our own. And then just to prove the point, Poland and Bulgaria posted selfies of themselves surrounded

by gas. Yeah, classic breakup behavior. But this is the thing that's going to suck for Russia. Their main leverage is that their gas provides Europe's heat, but as the months get warmer, their negotiating power goes down. You know, it's the same way your gym teacher has all the power over you to make push-ups, like what you're going to do during the school year, but let him meet you over the summer vacation.

And all of a sudden, it's like, you have no power here, Mr. Papadopolis. Why don't don't don't don't don't don't don't you why don't you why don't you why don't you you why don't you you why don't you you why don't you th you th you th you th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. thus. thus, why thus. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the the the the the the the the. the. It's the. It's the. It's like, I'll see you in September. But I'm here now. So you know what, good for Poland and Bulgaria, because most European countries are still buying Putin's gas. Yeah. Many of them say they can't help it, which you have to admit is a little weird. You know? It's like if the people of Gotham were obsessed with the Joker's taco truck. You know, she's like, look, I mean, this guy is definitely a super villain, but have you tried his Alpastore?

I mean, it is amazing. And here's the thing. So this is the thing. The underlying issue is a little more complicated than gas or no gas, right? What happens is Russia wants to be have to keep buying rubles, which keeps the currency alive. So I understand why Russia is so mad at getting paid in a currency that they don't want. You know?

Like, have you ever gotten a gift from like your little nephew that's like a coupon for one free hug? Yeah, I don't want that shit. I want cold hot cash, Tim-Irs. ti pissed me off, t, t, tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. t, t, t, t, t, t, t, thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thoom. thu. thu. thi. thoom-s, thoom-s, thi. thi, thi, thi, thi. th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. Soo. Soo. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Soo. Soo. Soo. Soo. Soo. Soo. Soo. So, th stupid? Anyway, let's move on. Timmy pisses me off, man. For years, flight attendants in America have complained about, well, two things. One, idiots who press the call button when they meant to turn on the lights, and two, the way they get paid. Well, now, finally, Delta Airlines is taking care of one of those issues.

Flight attendants, with Delta will soon be getting paid a little bit more money. The airline says it'll now start paying cabin crews during boarding. Up until now, flight attendants did not start getting paid until the passengers were seated and the plane's doors closed. That was the moment that their pay started. Delta says the change will start June 2nd as the company faces the possibility of its more than 20,000 flight attendants........ the their their th,000 th,000 th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000. th,000,000. th,000, th, th, th, their their thi, thi, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tha. tha. tha. tha, tha, tha. tha, tha, tha, tha. tha, ta. te. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. te. te as the company faces the possibility of its more than 20,000 flight attendants forming their own union. The change could increase some attendance wages by several thousand dollars every year. Yeah, believe it or not, flight attendants in America do not get paid during the boarding

process, which is crazy. Just think about, you're at work, doing work, but your bus is like, no, this is your free time. What, I only pay you when the doors are closed. That's wild. It also sucks for flight attendants on Spirit Airlines, because they don't even have doors. What do they do? Do they work for free? How does that shit work?

Because here's the thing, people, the boarding process is not easy. If anything, they should be getting paid paid extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra their their to p p p p p p. their their their to be paid paid paid paid paid paid to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be to to be to to work. to work, to to to to to to to to to, to, to, to, to, to, to do, their their, their, to work, to work, to work, to work, to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. to work. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. to. to. to, to, to. to, to, to, toe. to. to, they should be getting paid extra for that part. You've got to deal with passengers who suddenly don't know how numbers work. Does 23 come before 24? And what number is J? And then on top of that, they have to deal with our bags that never fit? Yeah, and by the way, can't ask you, why do the bags never fit? the overhead. Why do they call it that? They shouldn't be allowed to sell it to you and call an overhead bag when it won't put in the overhead? Because now,

I'm the idiot blocking the traffic. And like, everyone's the idiot, like, I'm the idiot. thinne. And I'm like, I swear. They, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they, they're not, they're not, thin. they're not, they're not, they're not, th. tho, they're not, tho, they're not they're not they're not their tho, their their their their their their their, their, their, their, they they they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll to to to to to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. tho. thoo. thoo. thooooooo. thee. thoooooooooo. the. they're thea over. That's what the FBI should be focusing on. That's the real crime. Sell me a bag that makes me look like an idiot. By the way, did you notice how Delta suddenly said it was going to change this rule only after they learned that flight attendants are trying to form a union? Yeah, interesting timing. Yeah, it was like that Marjorie Taylor Green moment. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the the the the the the the, the, oh, oh, oh, oh, the, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, the the the the the the the the the the the the the, oh, oh, you, oh, you th. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh, the. We. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the the the the trying to form a union. Yeah. Interesting timing. Yeah. It was like that Marjorie Taylor Green moment. Oh, oh, oh, you mean that? A union?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing scares these giant airlines more than unions. Like, if someone yelled bomb in an airport and someone else yelled, union! They honestly wouldn't know who to tackle first. And I'm going to give these flights attendants a lot of credit, because let me tell you something, man. People fly all the time. You see these people working hard, but I didn't know that. I don't know that. They're really patient people. If I was working for free, during the whole boarding process, I would have been way less friendly than, yo, I would

have been in that airport like... Hey, all right, zone one, zone one. Get the hell up on the plane right now. Hurry up, I'm trying to get paid. Move, move, move, move, move. Move, move, your dumb ass, put the thing on the thing there, man. And I swear, I swear, I swear, if any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any any to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thra, I'm thrak, I'm thrak, I'm tho, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm tho, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm thoomomomomorrow, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the train, I'm tomorrow, I'm toomorrow, I'm toomorrow, I'm toge, toge, toge, toomorrow.e, I'm toomorrow.ea.ea, I'll tomorrow, I swear, I swear, if any of you broke ass zone 4, my fuck is even trying to get in the line right now, I will have the TSA waterboard your ass, get back zone 4, sit down, you know who you is. That's why I can't work an effort.

All right, finally, let's talk about COVID-19. It's the only one of us that's seen Kamala Harrison like three months. As we all know, a little over two years ago, a bat in China didn't cover its mouth when it sneezed in a lab after visiting a food market, and that started a pandemic. And the world has never been the same. But now, Anthony Fauci, America's most renowned infectious disease scientist and most ready for retirement human, has come out with some news that has left people shook. Listen to this, Dr. Anthony Fauci, telling PBS news that America is out of the pandemic phase. We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.

Namely, we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. We're not going to eradicate this virus. If we can keep that level very low and intimately vaccinate people, and I don't know how often that would have to be. But right now we are not in the pandemic phase in this country. Woo-hoo! The pandemic face is over people! The pandemic face is oh my god, I'm so happy. Oh I'm so happy, I'm so happy. Man, I've been waiting for this moment since March of 2020.

Do the balloon drop! Yeah! Yeah! Oh, wait, these are... Oh, man. They were supposed to be like, fully inflated, but I... We blew them up in April 2020. We thought it was only going to be a few weeks, but I guess things are tough. Are they still air inside these things?

Still air inside? Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. What is that? Covey? the the te. in a pandemic phase, which is cool, but don't let these balloons fool you. It doesn't mean we're out of the pandemic.

A lot of people actually misinterpreted this news today. They were like, the pandemic is over. Time to tongue kiss my grandmother again. Man, time to tongue kiss my grandson again. They're a very loving family. But that's not what this means. What Fauci was was thechchchchchchchchchchchchchch thia Fouch f f f f fouch fouch fouch thiiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thoom-a-a-a-a thoom. thoom-a thoom-a thoom-a thoom-a thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoe. thoe. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tha. tha. tha. tha. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thea. tha. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. thea. thea. thea But that's not what this means. What Fauci was saying is that America is currently not in a pandemic phase. As in not in a pandemic right now, but it's not over. It could come back, or it could go away, but it could come back.

Or go, you don't know. Yeah, it's a phase. It's sort of like wide-leg jeans. They disappeared for 20 years. And now, suddenly, everyone looks like that to borrow a pair of pants from Shaq, you know? But as much as you want to get angry at people, here's the thing, Dr. Fauci, how did you not know? How do you not know by now how stupid people are? We're all stupid.

You can't just say pandemic phase is over? Oh, when you say that all we hear is party time! I feel like that's been the major failure of this pandemic. It's that the scientists have been communicating directly with the public without somebody to interpret what they're saying. That's bound to cause chaos. We don't understand scientists speak. It's the reason God didn't speak directly to the people. He always went through a messenger.

You know, he was like, Noah, soon I will purge the land of all sin and vice so henceforth abundance may spring forth and whence there was squalor, things will change. And Noah was like, all right, gotcha. Hey, yo, grab a giraffe, shit's about to get wet. Now we understand. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go, let's check in on the traffic with our very own. Roywood Jr. everybody. Why are you?

Why am I here again? Why am I here? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? I did the traffic yesterday? Why do I do it again? Well, because there's traffic every day.

Well, because there's traffic every day. You think this is strange? I didn't know that I had to do this every day. I said that I would do it, but I th, but I just, but I just, but I'd just, but it, but it th, th, th, th, know that I had to do this every day. I to tell you that I would do it, but I just thought it would be once a week. I didn't know this is going to be... What are you talking about? Every day, come to work every day type shit? I was not prepared.

Can you just tell us what wearing the mask on the planes. Because, but I just, I hate the fact that flight attendants was getting beat up over a mask. You're supposed to be fighting drunk passengers, not these people wearing a mask. I hear you that. And also part of why people be challenging flight attendants. Nobody thinks about this, Trevor. It's the uniform. The uniform does not command authority. The flight attendant uniform. They all all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. I, I. I, I, I, I, I. I, I. I, I, I'm, I the the the the the the the the the the the th. I'm thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I'm just. thi. the the the the the the the the they all are wearing a vest and a stupid hat. Nobody, you don't respect a vest.

Name a job in a vest. You respect. You have blackjack dealer, you got magician. You got crossing guard at a school, church usher, male stripper. These are all punch in the face. You cannot dress in a vest and expect people to respect you. These are all punchable people. These are all people you can punch in the face. Like you cannot dress in a vest and expect people to respect you. The flight attendant, they really want something,

what they need to be fighting for is a new uniform. They need to put on some of that black leather, like them bounces, them leather, and some of them, them shades, and get you an earpiece. Because when you wearthe earpiece who can also come who who who who whoop your ass. It makes you act right. You see the earpiece, like, oh you got other ass whoopers on the other end of the earpiece. That's the thing, man.

All right, so what's happening in the, uh, in the traffic? What's going on? Here's a thing about COVID, man. I'm happy that some of the restrictions are being, you know, rolled back. I'm happy for that. But it's a lot of stuff that they got that they still doing, that they don't really have to do no. But do you still need a QR code on the menu? Do you need a little square to figure out what the hell I want to eat? Oh, I'm going to scan to figure out what the hell I want to eat. Just bothered you?

Yes, because you get distracted. You don't focus when you scan your phone and you're looking at the food then porn hub notifications are popping up in the text messages. Wait, wait, wait, can you go? Why do you get notifications from porn hub? You got to know when the new shit dropped. You don't. I'm tired of the elbow bump let's get rid of that why is everybody going on with the elbow bump I agree you don't think you don't

think we don't think we no I agree I agree with you stickers the stickers the six feet stickers in the grocery store do we still need that do you still do you not know what six feet is a hopscotting from sticker to sticker around the damn store. Just get rid of that too. Tell Fowchie, I know you got his number. So let's. I'll tell Fouchy, if you tell me what the traffic is, please. Why do I have to do traffic?

Why? Why is it always traffic? Like, I could do cooking? I could do what? We can do the animal man. Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. to. to. the. to. the. to. t. to. to. to. to. to. the crop pot, I can do the animals. Let me be the animal man and bring the little cuddly animals on here. We could do lifestyle. Don't, don't encourage him, he asked me. I said we're going back to the studio, I said what, what do you think about doing

traffic and you were like, I'd love to do it every day. I didn't know that I would have to research and like investigate and figure out the traffic every day. What do you mean you don't have to research to do traffic? Oh, bet. Traffic bad, back to you. Thank you so much for that Roywood Junior. All right, stick around. There's more Daily Show coming up right after this. this. Welcome back to the Daily Show. If you are a black person in America, you have probably come face to face with a Karen at some point in your life.

But what if you could harness the power of Karins for good? Well maybe you can. It's the year 2022, and black people have had enough of getting the cops called on them. In a secret laboratory under 125th Street, one scientist works tirelessly to create a new super weapon. One that will give white people a taste of what black people have to go through on a daily basis. It's alive. It's alive.

It's alive! It's a lie! Time to call some cops. Time to call some cops. What a good day? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh my gosh, please do. What a great day for some barbecue. That would you call this garbage? I'm calling the police. What?

We're not doing anything wrong. Hello, police? Yes, I like to report some white people with some nasty-assed food. There's a cilantro on the mac and cheese, the slurry of salsa, and the chicken is just wet. Not juicy, just wet. And what are these? Oh, mushroom kebabs. They're vegan. Bring the SWAT team. We're gonna need backup. And a stomach pump.

Oh, shuckooms. Oh, shucko. Oh, yes. Mommy, love you so. Mommy, love you so. Oh, you're gonna be. You can't be kissing that dog on the mouth. Hasn't that rescue been through enough? Oh, he's not a rescue.

I only buy. You need to stop slavering on this animal before you make COVID-33. You're assaulting me! I'm not assaulting you. I'm just telling you to mind your own business. That's the same thing to a carrot. Hello? Police? Yes, some woman with aetechildress is coming right at me! Yeah!

You guys always do this to me. I'm gonna do it. Maybe you have heard this little ditty. Hit it. Uh-huh. I'm not letting you butcher Sweet Caroline. You don't even know that's what I was going to sing. You're white and you're drunk. What else are you going to to sing? Wop?

I'm going to have to report this. For what? Singing karaoke is not a crime? It is if it's bad enough. Sweet. Eh! Hello, police! These Caucasians are at it again! What are you doing in this expensive boutique? What are you doing in this expensive boutique?

What are you doing with all that jewelry in your purse with a price tax still on them? Police! That's a bullshit. Police! That's a bullshit! We're calling cops and you cops! Wait! What they're calling cops? Wait! What they get you for?

Being a mad scientist? I was selling bootleg DVDs. People still buy DVDs? You'd be surprised. Hmm. Thank you so much for that Go Say Slamourite when we come back. Terry Cruz is joining me on the Daily Show. My guest tonight is an actor and the host of America's Got Talent.

He's here to talk about his latest book, Tough My Journey to True Power. Please welcome, Terry Cruz. What? What? Yeah. Oh. What the Yeah. Oh, oh.

Oh. Oh, I'm gonna show you how to do it, man. You're doing it right now. I'm gonna show you how to do it. It looks like you've got like six cell phones in your jacket and they're all ringing at the same time. Is this going on? How are you, sir? I am so good. It has been a long time since I lost saw you.

You know, it's been a whole pandemic between everything. You've gone through it, you wrote another book. Yes, I did. Congratulations on that, Tough, my journey to true power. So when I heard about the book, I was like, Tough, my journey to true power is like, oh, Terry's writing, it's like a weightlifting. I figured it was just going to be about the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, and muscles, and muscles, and muscles, and the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, the muscles, to, to, to, to, to be about, to be about, to be about, to be about, to be about, to be about, to be about, to be about, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tooososu., tooombsoosalsalsals. m.a, tooosalsalsalsalsals.. Yes, yes. I had to redefine what tough was in my life. You know what I mean? As a kid, I mean, first of all, I was filled with rage. I'm gonna start at the beginning just a little bit because my father was an alcoholic and he was addicted to alcohol and my mother was addicted to religion which created a really toxic relationship and at at thi tho-and thi. tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho- tho- the the- the-n nothing the the- the- the- the- the the the tou tou tou tou tou tou tou tou tou tou tou tou the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tou. tou. tou. tou. the tou. tou. theee. tou. thee. tou. tou. tou. tou. tou. tou. tou. t was addicted to religion which created a really toxic relationship.

And at five years old, I grew up watching my father knock my mother out on the regular. And it was something that changed me. My whole thing, when I saw him do that, I was like, hey man, it's your world, it's your way or the highway and I learned that that was the only way to be a man and it was through rage and it was I would rather be feared than loved and it got me a lot I mean I lived my life like it was a revenge movie okay and a lot of people see me now you know as oh yeah it's so funny and so great and the whole thing, but this is the thing, man.

I, I was filled with rage. And I mean, I used to snap on people. I read that in the book, and I'm not even joke, like in the first, let's say quarter of the book, first 25 percent, I was like, I'm scared to have Terry on the show. Because you, like in the book, you talk about this journey, you know, and you talk about young Terry, you know, and I like, it's like there's multiple Terry's in this book in your story. You talk about young Terry and you talk about your dad as old Terry, big Terry, and you know, you talk about the terror and the fear, you talk about the protect your mom, unable to protect the house, and you were scared. But then it gets to a part of the book where one day you developed enough and you beat your father in one of the scariest ways.

I got them. And this was so wild because, you know, going up in that kind of household, with the intense alcohol and religion, the whole thing I became a pleaser. I became a searcher for, I wanted approval. And I was addicted to approval. And the thing is, is that if I didn't get it, it was one of those things that would make me very, very angry. But one thing that I discovered, once, by the time, I became an adult. And I said, you know, I knew I needed to get strong because one day I would have to kill my father.

That was the vision that I that I that I that I that I thion that I thion thion that I thion thii because one day I would have to kill my father. That was the vision that I always had in my head because he was such a terror in our house. And one day, he, I mean, as a grown man, I was 30 years old, and I remember, we called it a Christmas from hell. And I get a little emotional thinking about it, but I took my family home for Christmas and he told me that he was going to behave. And I said, cool, because they hadn't been around. And my kids had never been raised with any domestic violence.

And me and my wife go out and he decides he's going to hit my mother in the mouth. And what was crazy, I get a call, we're on the road, we're about to go to dinner. And my mother, my aunt calls me and says, your mother just got hit in the mouth, her tooth is sideways. Man, I turned the car around and I told him, get everybody out of the house and just leave us alone. And I went and I confronted him and I said, hey man, what are you doing? You promised. And he said, oh man get out of here man and BAH! And I hit this man, I don't know how long it was. I know I beat him from downstairs all the way up to his room. He's bleeding. He's screaming. And I, all I could think about is this is revenge.

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but you've never told it in as much depth as you have in the book is the now infamous story, where you were in a Hollywood party. And one of the most powerful agents in the business is there. And he comes up and he grabs your crotch. You know, and at first you're like, oh, was that a mistake? What's going on? And he laughs, and he grabs your crutch again in front of everybody, and he just lofts it off. And you didn't do anything. And the irony of the whole thing is then people on line

were like, man, Terry Cruz, you're going to have all those muscles, people roasting you, but you talk about in the book how you didn't want to do anything. That's right. Explain to me how that change comes about. What what shifts in your perspective? First of all, it was 2017 and I'd already been through seven years of therapy. My wife left me in 2010. First of all, I had an addiction to pornography, I had anger. I had all kinds of stuff. And she was like, you know what, I'm done. And this is the thing. I was very successful. You know what I mean?

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Damn. And I was like, oh, that don't work. Damn. And I'm going, what? But this was the thing. I'm at rock bottom. I have nothing. That was your D-Day.

And that was the D-Day. And I went to this you know this need for people's approval that would send me through the roof that would make me a high achiever you understand I mean like you know you know how you need to go yeah I mean that's where the success comes from but the disapproval brought the rage so now Terry Cruz has this rage he's working on it he goes to therapy sometimes I feel like what happens to people though is they don't understand that anger is a natural part of being a human being. And so when they come out, they go, now I have no anger.

The universe is my spirit. Yeah. So now, how do you deal with anger? How do you, like, everyone gets angry? How do you now deal with it? as a healthy outlet for your anger. First of all, you know, I did come out like that the first year. I was like, peace and love to everyone. And it was the baddest acting I ever did. Like, sit your ass down. Peace and love.

You know, it was bad. Yes. It was horrible. But I actually got to understand. Remember now, this is the whole thing. You can, you can be be angry be angry be angry be angry be angry be angry be angry be angry to be angry be angry be angry be angry then be angry then be then be then be then be than be than be than than than that that the whole thing, you can be angry and sin not. It's a biblical phrase. And the whole thing was righteous anger is a good thing. And it was about accountability. Holding people accountable is how you deal with your anger.

It's like, there's a legal way to do everything. My answer to everything before was like playing chess, it's turn over the chessboard. Right. I was like if I can't get a problem, ah! And what I learned was wait, wait, wait, I got to use wisdom here. I have to figure out this problem. Maybe going backward, I can go forward two steps. And all of a sudden, my everything about the energy toward anyone that I was angry at was a thoughtful, methodical move. And this is what I did with Adam Bennett. It was changed everything because I knew, because my wife had made me promise to.

She was like, don't ever do it. And I was like, yeah, I promised, I promised. But that was the test. And I remember taking her hand, and we went into the car and I drove home. And now, mind you, my first mindset was to drive back through the club and like Terminator and I was going to do it. But I went home, but you got to understand this. Because the support that I had, the whole time I was driving home, my wife said, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of you.

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I said, dude, you work for me and he laughed. He laughed in my face. And I said, wow, okay. And you know what, it made me more emboldened. And I got stronger. And I went like, all right, you want to play this game, we're going, the game, the game, to play, to play, the game, to play, th, the way out. And what happened is, quiet as kept, other people joined my case. Because you don't rob the biggest bank in the, you know, in the state, right?

You always rob little banks. And what was happening is, there was little people, there were all these other people that came out. They said, hey man, joined my case and he was like, oh white flag, I'm out of here, I'm going to retire. And I didn't want any money. I just said, man, you cannot molest the clients and go back to work. That's all.

I said, dude, that's all I wanted. You cannot do it. You can't go back to work. And he's out. And this is the Me Too movement was happening, you know, you spoke out about your case. People were shocked and, you know, a lot of men were emboldened to say, like, hey, I've also had this issue and yes, you know, statistically men are minuscule compared to women,

but it was an interesting story that gave a full of complexity to what we're trying to get rid of in society. People loved you, like Terry Cruz on Twitter, it was amazing. And then you talk about this in the book. A few years after that, Terry Cruz on Twitter became one of the most hated individuals almost overnight. It was people like, he's a coon. He betrayed black people. And it all came around. That's, the, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, that, people, that, and people, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, tha, tha, tha, the. And, the. And, tha. And, tha. And, thea. And, tha. And, tha. And, tha. And, tha, tha, tha, and it all came around, Black Lives Matter. That's what it came around, was Black Lives Matter,

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to say right well this is the thing black supremacy has nothing to do with white people when I was in Flint, Michigan the drug dealer was a black supremist the gang member I was scared of and we could not move around was the black supremacist. And what I meant was, it's this whole thing, if we don't start this movement with the idea of reconciliation, we are just postponing a greater war.

And my whole thing is, I didn't hear a lot of reconciliation. Because reconciliation doesn't meet agreement. Yes. You know what I mean? It's one of those things. I want to bring this up because there's a story about the wisest man in the world. It was Solomon. And the wisest man, it was, it was the woble.

It was Solomon, the wisest man says, okay, what we're going to do is cut the baby in half and I'll give you a half of the baby and you get the other half. And one woman said, yes, that's the way we do it. But the other woman said, no, no, save this baby. No, in fact, give it to her. And he said, that's the mom. That's reconciliation. It doesn't mean you get the result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result result the result want. It means you're saving it because dividing it is going to kill it. And when I look at America, dividing it is going to kill it. And the whole thing is reconcile. We have to reconcile. We have to, white and black, male and female, Republican, Democrat. We have to find a way to reconcile or we're going to kill what we have.

It's beautiful as a thought, and I agree with it. I think the issue, yeah. I think the issue some people had, you know, is reconciliation cannot take place before there's any type of accountability. In order for us to reconcile, there has to be some sort of accountability. People have to say, this is what is happening, and this is what we're going to do to rectify that situation. Just like you talked about reconciling with your wife, you know, in order for you guys to reconcile, you had to fix, you had to acknowledge, you had to say I have a

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tweeted that and you can tell when someone's good things they got swag in the tweet, you were like, let me tell you something what we didn't do this world, white supremacy, black supremacy, all come together, bam. Yeah, no, I went, oh no, that's not what I mean. That's not what's going on. You know what I mean? But you can't have that. I totally understand that. And I think you're right.

And I know you're right. And I actually, one of my things was, it's just when I know my people and I love my people. The big thing was, black people need to hold other black people accountable. Which they do. See, accountability, right, and we do, and we do, and we do, and I'm not saying we don't. But my thing is, as a black man and as a man who had been in these kind of situations, I just knew that it needed to be said by someone like me in order because what my thing is I just wanted peace and I guess it goes back to my

approval. Yes it goes back to my need for approval it went back to that and again it was a mistake it was it was a mistake to tweet that out at that time and I'll be honest. That was, that was, that was a thing thin to that, and again it was a mistake. It was a mistake to tweet that out at that time. And I'll be honest. That was a thing funny enough, because Martin Luther King Jr. has talked about black supremacy. Exactly. Nelson Mandela himself was one of the people who said, I do not look for the oppression of black people. I don't want anybody to be oppressed. But the timing I think was the issue. Yeah. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. Nelson. the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I don't, I don't the the, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I. And, and I'm, and, and I. And, and, and I. And, and, and, and I. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. th. th. th. the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I. the, I. the, I. the, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and be oppressed, right? But the timing I think was the issue. Yeah, it was. I say that in the book. Yeah, you were going, that's not what I was trying to do. No.

And I think, you know, this is one of those moments where I was like, that's why books over tweets. It is. We don't misunderstand each other. Yes. Honestly, I appreciated your, just like your vulnerability, your ability to say, this is where I messed up, this is what I was trying to say, because I was reading it and I was like, man, I was like, why did you send the tweet? Why did you trust Twitter? I know, I know. Twitter doesn't try to understand you? my lesson big time first of all but but I do feel like again because of this

need for approval that I was addicted to it's a matter of also exercising the the will to take disapproval you understand what I mean where really sometimes standing up for the right thing not everyone is going to like you and and again I still know who I am but at the same time thi that thi that that that the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the thi the thi the the the thi thi the the thi the the thi thi the the thi the thi the the thi thi the thi thi thi thi thi the the the thi thi the thooo-tha tho-tha tho-the tho-the thi thi thi the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the neneneneneneneneneneed the the the the the nenenenenenenee the the thi the thi the thi to for the right thing, not everyone is going to like you. And again, I still know who I am, but at the same time, I mean, I would never ever tweet again, to be honest, it's all gonna be cat videos and promotion. And again, and I really, I mean, even on this show, right now,

and I'm gonna let you know, I really do want to apologize to anybody who was offended by these tweets and was hurt deeply, because as an example, as an African-American man, a black man here in this country, I did not want to give the perception that we're supposed to gloss this over and forget the death of George Floyd, the murder of George Floyd. And I want to apologize to everyone right now who was ever offended because it hurt.

And even back, I was trying to explain, it just got worse and worse, and this is where the book came in, because the need is for us as a people to actually come together and really, really be what we need to be to this country, because it's our country. This is our country. Right. We die and fought, and I'm not giving it away.

This is our inheritance. I love you. Appreciate it, you know. Thank you. No real. You know, thank you. Thank you. No, no, no. What I always say to people is find a person who has tweeted, you will find somebody who has messed up. And you will find someone who's been misinterpreted. Thank you so much for being on the show.

Thank you. Thank you for letting me go. Thank you for ladies. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My journey to True Powers available now. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. That's our show for tonight. But before we go, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. So please consider supporting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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