I am a proud Army brat, that is absolutely right.
(applauding)
Tell everybody about the Merging Vets and Players.
Yeah, Merging Vets and Players, the MVP Program,
that a friend of mine, Jay Glazer, is starting,
who I work with at Fox Sports.
And what they do is they take retired veteran military
and they merge them with retired NFL players
and some current players so that they can help
make that transition together.
Wow.
Because when you're in the military and you get out,
or when you're in pro sports and you get out,
the hardest thing is adjusting to not being on a team,
to not having that accountability.
So what this program does, it gives you a new team,
gives you a new accountability, and the guys work--
I love that, it is so simple.
It is so simple and it started because Jay owns a gym
called Unbreakable Fitness and guys would come in,
he said, invite the vets to work out.
A workout takes 30, 45 minutes but then they sit in a circle
and they just talk about life.
They just talk.
And it's amazing the stories that these guys tell
that you'll cry, and the stuff that they've gone through.
And they are heroes.
Like I said, I'm a proud military brat.
But these guys are heroes, these young men and young women
put their lives on the line for us and they don't know us,
they do it out of unselfishness.
So we've gotta support them.
(applauding)
All of our first responders too, all of our service people
and our first responders.
It just blows my mind that you do that,
you put your lives at risk for people you don't know,
for your neighbors.
And Jay got us really involved,
my clothing company, really involved because he said,
Michael, we're gonna do these pushups,
we're gonna do these pushup challenge.
So, with 25 pushups, you donate clothing.
Well, it ended up turning into Chris Pratt ending up
doing it, John Krasinski,
it ended up turning into this big thing.
And Sylvester Stallone, and the LA Ram football team,
and a lot of firefighters and service personnel.
And we donated over 530 pieces of clothing to the program.
That's wonderful.
And just to go there and apart of something like that
and see the gratitude from the vets is so special,
I gotta tell you, really special.
Well, that's apart of the reason why we asked
Michael to stop by today, of course,
celebrating Veteran's Day Weekend,
everyday should be Veteran's Day.
We should be mindful of our gratitude for our
service men and women everyday.
(applauding)
But Michael was just mentioning his clothing line.
He works with JCPenney, of course.
I'm sure you guys have seen his clothing line,
not over here on our show,
but out in the world in JCPenney.
But we have a vet with us today, David.
Yeah.
Do you wanna tell us about David?
He's wearing your denim line.
He's wearing a denim line, a denim line.
And David is a 12 year vet,
he served in Iraq '08 '09, Iraqi Freedom.
And he's a guy, he would support, he's a gunner
and on top of that, he was a mechanic as well.
So he would support and has over 12,000 miles
of driving in Iraq to support all the convoys,
which is a very, very dangerous job.
(applauding)
Thank goodness he's back and he's good.
He's also been a component, a part of MVP
for quite a long time.
So he's a very deserving--
Oh, he participates in the program too?
He participates in the program.
And the thing is, when you go to this program,
these guys, they're kind of uncomfortable
if you do something for them.
Because they're so used to giving instead of receiving.
Right, exactly, they're service people.
And it's about time that we start giving to them.
Giving back! That's right.
Well, let's bring him out here
and his lovely daughter's here too.
Come on out, guys.
(fun exciting music)
You look so handsome!
Thank you!
Nice to meet you!
It's a pleasure.
Pleasure to meet you.
Good to see you.
Good to see you, brother.
You look fantastic, how do you feel?
Thank you, I feel great, I feel honored.
I'm very honored to be here representing
Merging Vets and Players today.
We are very honored to have you and
thank you for your service.
Your beautiful daughter's here with us too, Angela.
Yes, she is, my daughter Angela.
(applauding)
She's shy, she's gonna hate me.
A little bit shy, yes.
No being shy here.
Hi, hug it out.
She's 16.
Look how gorgeous she is.
Now you are looking really smart today.
Michael, are these all of your pieces?
Everything from the shoes.
From head to toe, huh?
Head to toe, head to toe!
And these jeans are part of the new denim line.
But what we did with the denim line,
we made the denim line so that you can dress it up,
you can dress it down,
it can be casual with a casual outfit with an MSX line,
or you could use suit jackets.
And David was backstage and he was going through
trying to pick out what he was going to wear,
which I think he did a great job and you look great.
(applauding)
But I just wanna say that I know you were picking through
and there were a lot of choices back there
and you didn't know what exactly to do that,
so you don't have to do that again.
We're just gonna give you a whole new wardrobe.
Oh, what, no way, dude!
Of course, man.
My man, thank you so much, man, I really appreciate it.
Of course.
I know, that's fun, right?
That's awesome, thank you guys.
Michael's a giver.
Everyone here's gonna look and feel pretty good too
because you guys are all going home with $150 gift card
to JCPenney!
(cheering)
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