- My next guest is a sports, ball,
and daytime talk show legend.
You can see him each morning on "Good Morning America"
and he has a new apparel line out called
MSX by Michael Strahan for NFL.
Here he is, Michael Strahan, everybody!
(Kelly applauds)
(upbeat music)
Yes!
Hello! - Hey!
What's up, Kelly?
- I am livin' my best life.
I wanted to first give though, my condolences.
I heard that you lost your daddy.
Like how, and this was recent, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
I lost my dad. - I'm so sorry.
- And yeah, it's been tough.
Thank you, thank you.
You know what, I was supposed to do your show then,
the same week that it happened,
and I couldn't, obviously,
but you and your staff sent the sweetest note
and the most beautiful flowers.
So I want to thank you so much for that.
And I love your show, I love your energy
and everything about you and that even
solidified that even more.
So thank you.
- Well, it's one of those things, you know?
He was lucky to live at least a full life.
I've met so many kids.
I know you probably have too,
that they get two to five years sometimes on the planet.
So it is a thing, it's so sad that you lose them,
but what a well-lived life, right?
What a beautiful life they did get to live.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so it's--
- 83 years, married to my mom for 63 of those years.
- [Kelly] Oh my God!
- So I look at it like you do.
It's like, you know what, you had a great life,
you raised some great kids, a great family.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Very loved and appreciated,
so nothing to be ashamed about with that.
I'm just happy I had him as my dad for that long.
- That is an amazing thing to have.
I mean, not all of us got a great daddy.
So the fact that you did,
you feel very, very thankful for that.
And also what an amazing man, to be married that long.
Your mom and daddy, that's an incredible...
You don't hear about those kind of years anymore.
Well, your dad was in the Army.
So did you travel around the world?
Like when you were a kid?
- Yeah, yeah, my dad's a retired Major.
So we spent most of our time in the States,
in North Carolina and Maryland.
Then we moved to Germany when I was nine.
And we always had a camper.
Even when we were in the States, we always had a motor home.
So we go to Germany.
We're like the only family in Germany,
with an American motor home, 'cause they shipped the thing.
We used to go to Spain every year to go fishing.
We used to go to France.
We used, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia.
- What?
(audience laughs)
- Yeah, you name it, we did it.
Because he wanted us to see the world.
And that's what I loved about growing up in Germany,
is the world is big to me.
And I think it helps me live now,
because I don't look at the community I live in
as the only way life should be.
I have a have a global view.
And that's because as a kid, we traveled a lot.
- Wow, that's a blessing too.
What a cool childhood.
Like you're summering in Spain, I want your life.
(Kelly laughs)
(Michael laughs)
And speaking of family though,
how's your dog Enzo been doing?
- Oh man, I wish Enzo were here.
I'm in my man cave, I'm not at home where Enzo is,
but Enzo is fantastic.
I always say, when I grow up, I want to be Enzo.
(Audience awws)
He has the life.
He is so loved and he gives love though, unconditional love.
I walk in the door and I am so happy to see him.
And I got to give him a bath tonight,
but he's not gonna be happy to see me
when it's time for that.
- I know.
I have a Golden Doodle and he is...
he's got three layers of fur.
I'm like, "Oh Lord, you smell."
Well, besides like long walks,
you also started cooking more this year.
'Cause I know you take Enzo on walks,
but you've started cooking.
So how's that been?
Are you gonna have a cooking show soon?
- No, I'm not gonna have a cooking show,
but I'll cook you dinner.
I'll cook whatever meal you want.
- Hey, I hate cooking, but I love eating (laughs).
This is a match made in heaven!
- But that's been the great thing about quarantine.
I didn't know I liked cooking either.
I love to eat.
But once I started making my own food
and just start messing around and taping it
and fooling around with it, it is a lot of fun.
At the end of the day, when you eat the food,
you realize why they say food is love,
because it takes a lot of love to put that much effort in
for somebody else to eat what you're making.
And my hands were sore from all the chopping and stuff.
So I haven't done it in a while,
because I've kind of been back at work,
but I'm going to take some time to cook.
And my twins love to help me cook too.
So that, that always is a good daddy and daughter time.
- Oh, that's so cool.
I think it's more fun in the kitchen.
I do like cooking when there's other people there.
I just don't like doing it by myself.
When there's other people there it's fun and an experience,
but I think-- - I agree.
- I think you sent me that oxtail dish
that you are telling my producers about.
- Yeah. - So I want to taste it.
I've never had oxtail, but I like meat, so I'm into it.
Oxtail, coconut rice and fried plantains.
- I'm into the fried plantain.
- Yep, let me see, what do you think?
- Oh my gosh, Chris, on our show,
literally was telling me about oxtail yesterday.
He had no idea this was going to happen.
This is so good!
How bad is this for you?
Is this your specialty?
This is so good.
This can't be good for you if it's this good.
- I don't think I have a specialty (laughs).
I would just go through and just come up with ideas.
And I had a friend, a few few friends quarantining with me
and it was like, "Okay, what do you want
to cook this weekend?"
And one of them suggested that meal,
oxtail with coconut rice and fried plantains.
I wasn't so sure about it,
but it actually ended up being my favorite meal
that I cooked the entire time,
I mean by far. - I love that.
Michael, I love that most people start with spaghetti,
or something easy.
You were like oxtail, coconut rice and fried plantains.
(audience laughs)
This is so good.
- Well, the great thing is right,
If I screw it up, nobody's gonna see it.
'Cause I'm just not gonna post a video.
(Kelly and audience laugh)
- That's clever.
And so how are things going over at GMA though?
- Things at GMA are good.
It's been such a different time,
I think since the COVID crisis hit.
And at one point I was the only one in the studio.
And it's been a good reset in some ways.
And so I still, I just love doing the job,
keeping people informed and telling them
what's going on in the world.
And it keeps me informed too, so it's a double whammy.
- Yeah, amen.
- Do you actually enjoy live TV?
'Cause I have to tape my show.
My momma knows better.
I couldn't be doing some live show.
I'd say something I shouldn't say (laughs).
Is it a lot of pressure?
Like anything could happen, it's live!
- I get scared of messing up names.
- Me too! - That is the number one.
I love live TV.
Everything I pretty much do is live,
outside of the $100,000 Pyramid.
So I love live TV.
But when you got a name, and you're just like,
"I'm not so sure, I'm not so sure."
That is frightening to me.
And I have messed up a few names here and there
and I just skip over it like it never happened
and hopefully no one noticed.
- Yeah, so, okay, you're also
a football analyst for Fox Sports.
So analyze this.
Why is it called football?
(Kelly laughs)
- You know, they told me, they said,
"You know Kelly knows everything about football."
- I do, everything.
- And everything, I heard you could take my job on Sunday
and just come in and talk football all day
and tell me how it is. - I mean, if you like
a train wreck, yep (laughs).
- Well we love a train wreck.
We have Terry Bradshaw on our show.
(Kelly laughs)
(audience laughs)
(Michael laughs)
But you know what, it is...
Why did they call it football?
I don't know, because you don't, just one person kicks it.
Everyone else touches it with their hands.
- I know!
- I don't know why they call it football.
Soccer is originally football, that makes sense.
- Yeah.
- We call it football, I think because we were
just lazy Americans and we just--
- What? Never!
- Put in what they called it overseas.
- Never!
(audience laughs)
No, I've always wondered that though with the sports.
Not all the time, I don't think about football all the time.
Were you left though, with any battle wounds
from your football days?
'Cause I grew up in Texas and it didn't matter,
if you came out a boy, you were playing football.
If you wanted to or not, I had a lot of guy friends
that had to play. - Yeah.
- And they get so injured!
So I mean, did you have a lot of them?
- Well, you know, I'm a Texas boy too.
That's where I'm originally from and yeah,
I mean, I've had peck surgery, wrist surgery,
all these different things. - Oh my God.
- I feel great now, but my fingers,
see how my fingers are crooked?
- Wait! - They don't go together.
- [Kelly] Oh, yep, yep!
- See this pinky?
See that?
(audience gasps)
- Oh!
- And how about this one?
- Oh my God!
Don't!
Oh my God, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it!
I can't believe you did it.
Oh, you're like those double-jointed people.
- No, that is what you call tearing the ligaments
in your finger and that is what you're left with.
But I've had thumb surgery and all that stuff.
I won't do it again, but yeah, it's like a good party trick.
- Oh my God, please say you did that on your first date.
When you were just like, "Check this out."
(Kelly and Michael laugh)
That's awesome.
- That way you know she's a keeper,
if she sticks it out after that.
(Kelly laughs)
- Like, "He's weird, I'm down."
So you have a new athleisure collection,
collaboration with the NFL.
I have some of your shirts here
and I noticed that you sent some Cowboy gear.
'Cause hey, I do like this kind of sports ball.
I'm just saying, this is my sports ball I can get into, yes.
- You know what, you and the Cowboys,
you know, I'm a Giant-- - I don't care (laughs).
- So Cowboys haven't been on my Christmas list.
But I will say, we do have
MSX by Michael Strahan for the NFL
and it's a great collection.
We make women's, as well as men's.
And it's at fanatics.com and team shops.
And I'll be on HSN and QBC as well with it.
- Yeah.
- But it's fantastic.
And I love it because you know what?
Men and women love sports.
They love football.
They can support it together, look good doing it.
- Yeah.
- And now you can't go to the game,
so you might as well lounge around the house
and represent your favorite team.
- Yes!
With chips and queso, Michael, that's where I show up.
So well, before you go, we're doing a campaign
called Be The Difference, to continue the social change
that we all need right now.
So how do you think people can help?
- Continue to go.
Don't stop.
Don't think that, "Oh, it doesn't seem
to be as prevalent now.
It doesn't seem to be as in the news as much now."
Because the news moves in cycles.
We're getting into an election cycle now
and there's gonna be coronavirus cycle.
But this is something that, you know,
those things will change and go away.
This is something that we need to stick with
that may never, who knows when it's gonna go away,
but it's not gonna go away by some kind of vaccine.
It's not gonna go away by an election.
It's only gonna go away by us really sticking together
as a community.
And I think that is it.
We have to remember that this is an ongoing battle
and an ongoing fight for equality and social justice.
And we need everybody black, brown, white.
You cannot do it alone.
And I think as long as people stick together,
we've got a great shot of making a real change
that I never thought that I'd see in my lifetime.
And I'm pretty sure others didn't,
but this feels about as great of an opportunity as we have
to really to make a difference.
- Yes and amen, I agree with all of that.