- Welcome back y'all, I'm hanging with Michael Ealy,
give it up.
(audience cheering and applauding)
So last year an Amazon driver in Michigan
was making a delivery.
When she noticed a man collapsed in his driveway,
she immediately called 911,
and first responders were able to save his life.
The woman's a hero, and normally,
that's where we would conclude the story.
But in this case, that's actually where the story begins.
Since that incident, the two have struck up a friendship,
and as you'll soon find out they're both truly Rad Humans.
(upbeat music)
- All right, everybody let's welcome Jaslyn and Milton,
give it up.
(audience cheering and applauding)
So, if you haven't met Michael, that's Michael.
- Hello.
- How are you? - Good.
- What's up?
So let's go back.
This, I found out,
was like your first week of work that this happened.
- Yes.
- [Kelly] Your first week of being on a job.
- Yeah. (chuckles)
- [Kelly] Has any other week been that crazy before?
- No, it has not.
- So what happened?
You you're just like delivering packages,
and then you see him?
- Yep.
So it was actually my third day.
Currently I live in Lansing, Michigan.
- Yeah.
- And that day, I kind of noticed a man on all fours,
and I was like, you know, is he hurt?
Is he sick?
What's going on?
So I ran over and with my experience as a nursing assistant-
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- It helped me.
He wasn't really with it all the way.
So he really wasn't conscious.
So with that being said, I called 911.
I knew what to do. - [Kelly] Yeah.
I waited until they arrived.
And when they arrived, I kind of waited around for a bit.
And when he was in the back, I kind of part my ways,
and you know, I was like, I may never hear from him again.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - I kind of just went on
with my day and continued to deliver, so-
- Yeah, it's amazing that you had a healthcare background,
like 'cause a lot of people freeze in these situations,
and don't know what to do.
You know? - Yeah.
- Lucky that you were there.
Do you remember any of it?
- I don't remember a thing.
All I knew was I'm a diabetic,
my sugar was dropping,
I needed to eat.
I was going to get something to eat.
Next thing I know
I wake up, I'm in the back of an ambulance.
- [Kelly] That's sad. - And had it not been
for Jaslyn, I wouldn't be able to be here
and share this story with you today.
- Yeah, it's... (audience applauding)
It's amazing.
So tell us more about your work in healthcare.
So what do you do?
- Yeah, so like I said, currently I'm a nursing assistant.
I've been doing that for about three years.
- Yeah.
- What does that consist of is me going to long term,
and I also do home care.
So I take care of like elderly patients
and patients with disabilities.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - I help them with-
- That's hard, that can be physical as well.
- Yes, yeah.
So what I usually help them with is ADL.
So like dressing, eating, taking medications,
really everything we do for ourselves.
However, it doesn't really pay the best.
- Yeah.
- So I am now going to college,
Lansing Community College for a surgical technologist.
- [Kelly] Yeah?
- And I'm the first one in my family to go to college.
- [Kelly] Congratulations!
- Thank you.
(audience cheering and applauding)
- [Kelly] That's amazing.
- [Jaslyn] Thank you, I appreciate it.
- And so the Amazon gig is like a side hustle
just to make ends meet, right?
- Yeah.
So I was actually just doing that for the summer
to support me and my brother.
We live alone.
So just trying to make ends meet
and take care of him the best that I can.
- He's your younger brother?
- [Jaslyn] Yes, he is.
- Yeah.
- So we grew up kind of poor and in a rough environment.
And my goal is just to help him
and reach my goals myself
and kind of just part my own way
and really be successful in a sense.
So- - [Kelly] Yeah.
- I gotta stay motivated.
- Absolutely.
You should.
And that kind of determination...
First of all, have you ever run up, Michael?
Have you ever seen anything like that
or had to help anybody in a situation like that?
- No.
No, I haven't.
I thought...
I saw a woman's purse get stolen once,
and I chased the person who drove off with it
and stopped about two minutes later
when I realized I wasn't a cop or FBI agent.
(audience chuckling)
- And probably wouldn't beat the car. (laughs)
- And I probably would...
You know what I was gonna do, like, "Give it back!"
Like I didn't even know what I was gonna do.
- I know, but that's so cool
that you were trying to help, "Give it back!" (laughing)
- That's all I could do at that point, "Please!"
- "You're mean!" (laughing)
- "You know, it wasn't very nice.
She's waiting."
(Kelly laughing)
That's all I had.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh. - Yeah.
- Well it turns out,
Milton, that you do a lot of work
with people trying to get ahead like Jaslyn, right?
So, which is kind of a cool full circle moment.
- I do, and this is an excellent segue.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- I spent 33 years in law enforcement.
I am a cop. - [Kelly] Yeah.
- And-
- Well, where were you when the purse was snatched?
(audience laughing and clapping)
And thank you so much for your service.
It's such a...
(audience clapping) Such a sacrificing job.
You sacrifice so much.
- Thank you. - [Kelly] Yeah.
- But I flunked retirement,
and I now spend time working with youth.
- [Kelly] That's amazing.
- I worked with the black student unions in our community.
I helped establish one, and I revitalized another one.
I'm the president of education foundation fund
now through our fraternity.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
I love that.
- I like helping young people.
There's a young lady out in the audience.
Taylor Taylor.
She's from Lansing.
She's a singer, songwriter.
She lives here in LA, and I'm her uncle Milton, and-
- Oh my gosh.
First of all, I didn't know you were a singer
but when he said your name was Taylor Taylor,
I was like, you should be somebody.
that's like a name,
like Taylor Taylor sounds like a star's name.
(audience clapping)
Like we're gonna have to hear you sing at some point.
Now I'm like interested.
So going back to the day that you collapsed though,
you didn't know who saved you, right?
- I did not know who saved me at all.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- But I did know that I'm gonna find that person.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
You went on a mission.
Yeah.
- And look who I found.
She is a wonderful person.
- Yeah, a great heart.
So Milton, after you recovered,
you still didn't know who Jaslyn was, right?
So how did you find her?
- I had no idea who she was,
but I said, I know I have to find her.
I track down our local Amazon driver.
He told me it wasn't him.
But when I told him the story,
he said, "I know who it is."
And he put me in contact.
I found her boss, talked to him,
I talked to our township.
I put her in for a lifesaving award,
and they they put together a ceremony
with their normal police and fire lifesaving.
- Wow!
(audience applauding)
That's so cool.
So tell us about your friendship now.
'Cause y'all still have a friendship now.
- Yes.
It's honestly just a blessing.
Like you said, we're best friends.
He's an inspiration.
A motivation.
Really everything you can think of.
He helps me with life, school,
just keeps me positive and keeps me going.
We talk all the time we text, we call
just to make sure like he's okay,
like we're having a good day, good week.
Really everything.
It's just been a blessing.
- You're both like little angels for each other.
That's Nice. - Yes.
- I love that. (audience clapping)
You're kinda mentoring Jaslyn right now, right?
- [Jaslyn] Yes.
- 'Cause you already do this for other kids.
So you're used to this role.
- Yes.
I don't have any children, and-
- Well, I think you have a ton.
- I'm like-
- 'Cause you have a ton.
- Yeah, I was like, I think you have a ton.
- Well, he's definitely like a father figure for sure.
- That's awesome.
Hey, I didn't have a father figure growing up.
So that's amazing.
A lot of people are missing that.
the fact that you get to fill that void
is a beautiful thing.
- I'm a bad penny.
She's stuck with me now.
(Kelly laughing)
- She's stuck.
(audience clapping)
I feel like people are meant to meet like...
When I hear stories like this,
Michael, have you ever heard of a story like this?
Like when it's just kind of
like the happenstance is too unreal
like it can't be that you're supposed to meet.
- Yeah. - Right?
Like situations like that
when it's just like it's such a crazy story
and crazy happenstance that you just don't foresee.
Have you ever had anything in your life happen like that?
Like some kind of weird stars line and you're like,
"Whoa, I didn't see that coming."
- Not in like a life saving way,
but, I mean, it's just reaffirming
that the generosity of the human spirit is still there.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- You know, I think that's what's so beautiful
about this story is that the human spirit,
we can still care for each other.
- [Kelly] They care for each other.
- We still take care of each other,
and then form an unknowing bond that could last a lifetime.
(audience clapping) - Yeah.
It's Beautiful.
Well, we know that Jaslyn
is graduating from community college this spring.
(Kelly imitates air horn playing).
And we wanna help her out.
So we're giving you $10,000 to pay off student loans.
(audience cheering and applauding)
Does that sound all right? - Thank you.
- [Milton] Thank you.