- Our next guest is a Super Bowl champion, television host,
and fun fact, at 6'5", the tallest person
to ever fly into space.
It's Michael Strahan.
(audience cheering) (energetic music)
- Oh. - Hello.
- Hello.
Hey, everybody.
Hello hello hello. (audience cheering)
How are you?
- You are approaching the one year anniversary
of going to space.
I mean come on, what?
I watched you,
but like what was going through your head?
Or your body?
What did it feel like? - Oh, I'll tell you this.
I wasn't worried about it when I said yes
until a week before, and then I said,
what did I sign up for?
- Right. (laughing)
- But the thing is we had been promoting it,
so I'm like, is it too late to back out?
- Oh my God.
You just, like, described my constant mental state.
Sure, I'll do that.
Mental gymnastics, mental gymnastics, mental gymnastics.
- Yeah, and I was worried about that.
But by the time, they did such an incredible job
of making sure we were ready, simulating everything,
by the time we got to that day,
and you're on the rocket, and they're counting down,
you just wanna do it.
- Look at your stance. - Yeah.
That was all the bravado before the flight.
(audience laughing)
Like, if they had taken a picture
like, right before the flight, I was like.
(Drew laughs)
- Did you bring anything special with you?
- I took my Super Bowl ring.
I took my NFL Hall of Fame ring.
I took my grandmother's, my mom gave me a stopwatch
from her father, my grandfather.
So I took everything that was very personal,
that meant something, because you know,
the most fascinating, incredible thing I've ever done.
And they give us a little pouch that we,
they stuff under our seats.
And I brought something for you that went to space with me.
It's very simple.
Don't get too excited. (audience chuckles)
But it is
- Are you gonna share it with everybody?
- a key chain - Oh.
- that actually was on the ship with us.
Wait. That was in my personal,
I don't get to keep this?
- No, that is yours. - No, really?
- That is the first one I've ever given anyone.
(audience clapping)
I haven't given anybody any of those.
- Thank you. (audience clapping)
- But I appreciate you.
- I appreciate you so much.
Now your father was in the military,
and you grew up in Germany.
- Yeah.
- I spent some time there.
I was curious like what,
'cause when you came back to the States,
that's when you got into football.
- [Michael] Yeah.
- What did you take from Germany?
Like the little possessions, memento
that you took up to space,
what did you bring back?
What changed you?
What stuck with you about living in Germany?
Like in your upbringing?
- It was the mentality that, you know,
my dad being in the military,
we started on the military base,
so around a bunch of Americans in a foreign country,
and you'd need each other.
But then my dad retired,
and for the next 15, 16 years, we lived off base
within the German community.
And you learn that people,
even though they're in a different country,
they're just like you.
People just wanna be loved, respected,
and you have to learn to get along with people
and respect people in their culture
and the way that they do things.
And I think that that outlook
of being around all different people,
no matter what race, religion, or whatever,
social background, financial background,
that we all really can coexist if we really want to.
- [Drew] Yeah. - And so I kind of look at,
I treat people like I want to be treated.
I make sure that, I don't care who you are,
I don't care what you got, I'm gonna respect you
because everyone wants to feel valuable.
- Yes. - In the world.
Everybody wants to feel they have some value.
(audience clapping)
And that's what I learned from living in Germany.
- Well that really speaks volumes
about exactly who we know that you are.
So that is an origin story. - Thank you.
Thank you.
- Okay, growing up, you used to do Jane Fonda workouts?
- I tell you what, Jane Fonda saved my life.
- Really? - Yes.
I was 13 years old. (audience clapping)
I was 13 years old.
My brothers and their friends called me Bob,
which meant booty on back, big old butt.
(Drew laughs) (audience laughs)
And I found the Jane Fonda VHS tapes,
and they saved my life.
And it was the first time that I saw,
if you don't like something about your life,
no one's gonna save you.
No one's gonna change it for you.
You have to do it yourself.
And Jane Fonda helped me do that.
(audience clapping) She really did.
- All right.
You had an interesting pre-game routine.
What was your pre-game ritual?
- I used to talk to my socks. - Okay.
- Well, you want me to demonstrate?
I mean, I'll demonstrate exactly how it would go.
(audience cheering) I would get.
I would get to the locker room, and I would put my,
grab my socks, and I would look at them,
and I would go, which one?
Which one? Which one of you should be on the right foot?
Huh? You like the right foot?
Okay, let me see.
And then I would get it halfway on sometimes,
and go, no, no, no, you don't like the right.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You like the left foot.
Because I felt if I didn't, my socks would,
if I didn't put the right sock on the right foot,
I would be off balance.
And now I see socks with right and left,
and an R and L, and I'm like, I was the ahead of my time.
(Drew laughing) (audience clapping)
They stole my idea.
- I'm really happy to now know
what the ritual looks like.
Thank you for sharing and demo-ing it.
- Yeah, I'm about to go smash in a 300 pound guy,
then I'm in here worried about a left and a right sock.
But that's kind of how it was.
- Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
- [Michael] 100%.
- Speaking of you gotta do what you gotta do.
I have met your beautiful daughters.
- Yes. You were very nice to them.
- Oh, I love them.
I got like, I was worried they were gonna think
I was, well, too much 'cause I'm a too much kind of person.
But because I have two daughters,
and they're both so lovely,
I just kind of got right in there and was talking to them.
- But I don't think you knew who they were.
I don't, you didn't know who they were.
- I did not know they were your daughters.
- You didn't know they were my daughters.
- No, I didn't.
- And we happened to be in the same place
taking a little break, and they came back to the house,
and they're like, Drew Barrymore talked to us
for a long time today, Dad.
(Drew laughing) They were so excited.
And I'm like, yes, she's really sweet and really nice.
And then I saw you, and you talked about it,
and I saw you with your daughter,
and it was like, it was, you know,
you were so nice and just brought such light.
And just to see my kids come back and see someone
that they admire, to meet them in person,
is not always, you know, the best thing sometimes.
But to meet you in person is better than anybody can expect.
So thank you for being so nice.
(audience clapping) - Oh my God.
- To my two girls. You were amazing to my girls.
- They're such good girls.
- Yeah, they're awesome.
- They're so special and cool and thoughtful.
And of course, because I have two girls, I was like,
tell me everything I need to know about sisters, you know?
- Yeah.
- I'm on constant research mode,
but boy are they so lovely.
- I'm on constant referee mode.
(audience chuckling) (Michael chuckling)
- I mean, are they, how old are they now?
- They will be 18 on the 28th of this month.
They are seniors in high school,
and they couldn't be any different.
And it's tough.
I mean, you got daughters, and the boyfriends and.
- What do I do?
What am I, what?
'Cause I feel like I'm gonna have a taser, an NDA,
a chastity belt, a background check.
How am I supposed to navigate anyone dating my daughter?
- I tell you right now, it is not,
Drew, when I tell you it is not easy,
it has taken everything in me not to walk in there and say,
what do you want?
Like, I even at one point,
I was gonna put on my football uniform.
Full uniform. - Yes.
- Full uniform.
Put the stuff under the eyes, like put water on my face,
come down like I was sweating and hitting people,
like what do you, who are you?
(audience laughing)
But then, you know, it's a line that Howie Long,
who I work with at Fox, told me this line,
and I've used it.
I said, I just want you to know, son.
I'll do the time.
(audience laughing) (audience clapping)
(Drew chuckling)
Just to let you know.
- Well I have to say they are such good girls,
and you're raising your family so beautifully,
and you take care of people.
And now I love this new endeavor.
I cannot wait to discuss it with you.
You are doing men's skincare.
I also love the name Daily Defense.
- Yes. - Defense.
A double entendre. - Yes.
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