The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Joe Biden: The Worst President in History We Can Remember | Atul Gawande & Leonard Fournette
Episode Date: February 9, 2021Conservative pundits heap scorn on President Biden, Dr. Atul Gawande discusses U.S. COVID-19 challenges, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Leonard Fournette reflects on his Super Bowl win.Please visit ...dailyshow.com/BarbershopBooks to help create child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops and promote literacy for Black boys and other vulnerable children. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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most romantic thing you could possibly do during quarantine. Book a really
nice hotel and leave them alone for an entire day. Anyway on tonight's show Tom
Brady keeps doing Tom Brady things where to go on vacation after you
storm the Capitol
and the endless scandals of the Joe Biden presidency.
Plus, we're going to be talking to Super Bowl winner,
Leonard Fournett and renowned surgeon and author Atul Gawandi.
So, let's do this, people.
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This is the daily social distancing show with Trevor Noah.
Let's kick things off with the Super Bowl.
It's the world championship of a sport only played in America.
And yesterday's game was one for the record books.
This morning Tom Brady is running out of fingers for his rings,
capturing his record's seventh Super Bowl at age 43.
I think we knew this was going to happen, that didn't we?
The Bucks didn't just win.
They trampled last year's champs, the Kansas City Chiefs 31 to 9.
The weekend, also electrifying on stage, singing some of his biggest hits in a slickly produced
halftime show.
Using mass dancers to keep things COVID-friendly.
Hell yeah!
What a great half-time show!
And it looks like the weekend finally found a use for all that toilet paper he's
been hoarding.
And how about Tom Brady winning his seventh Super Bowl ring? At this rate, he's going to be the first player with a Super Bowl toe ring, people.
I mean, at this point, Tom Brady has led the kind of life that eight-year-olds narrates
to themselves in the backyard.
The crowd goes wild. Tom, he wins his seventh Super Bowl, and now he's married to a supermodel.
And now he's riding a dinosaur. And look look, I, I know a lot of people don't like Tom Brady.
Anyway, let's move on now from the Super Bowl to the big game in Washington.
Tomorrow, the US Senate will begin its annual impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump.
And there's three possible outcomes.
He could be convicted, he could be exonerated, or the most likely one, he could commit new crimes during the trial. that that th th th th th th th th th th th thr-the thr- thri thri thri, thri, thri, thri, thri thri- thri- to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thi. thi. thi. the thri. the thri thri the the thr-s the the thr-s the the thom thom thom too too too too too too t's three possible outcomes. He could be convicted, he could be exonerated,
or the most likely one, he could commit new crimes
during the trial that he'll get impeached for next year.
But whatever happens to Trump,
hundreds of his followers are already facing consequences
for rioting at the Capitol,
although at least one of them is getting a chance to cut loose
before she might get locked up.
A woman accused of participating in the deadly capital riot
will get to go on vacation later this month.
The judge in Washington, D.C. granted Jenny Cud's request to travel to Mexico.
The motion was granted and filed yesterday,
Cud's lawyers say she had a prepaid,
week and retreat for herself and her employees at Becky's Flowers
to go to Riviera, Meia, Mexico. The retreat would reportedly serve as a work-related bonding time
for employees and their spouses.
Oh yeah, insurrection at Club Medcosmo!
Honestly, if I were this woman's employee, I'd be a little nervous to go on a bonding retreat.
I mean, these aren't the kind of people I'm putting on a blindfold and going on a trust hike with. Okay, I'm sticking my hands out, all right? Closing them like
you say, wait, hold, hold on. Am I, what am I doing? Am I strangling Nancy? Damn it, not cool, Jenny!
What I love about this is that this woman planned the vacation before she participated in the riots. So in her head, she was going to to to to to to to thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm thre-a, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm, I's, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I's, I's, I's, I'm the, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th gonna go to Washington, overthrow the government, and then what,
hit the beach for two weeks?
I'm like, how serious of a revolution were you planning, lady?
These riots were all shouting that it's 1776 again,
but none of the founding fathers were like,
on July 4th, we declare our independence.
Then on July 5, we got that beach house in Kabul. Thomas, you, you, you gonna be lit, bro. And look, obviously I
want this woman to be held accountable for her actions, but I also kind of want
to party with her in Mexico. I mean, think about it. If she and her friends can
turn a boring election certification vote into this, you best believe their spring
breaks are going to be wild. And look, I know a lot of people are angry about the story. But the law says that if if if if if if if if th, th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the thi, the the the the thi, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the their, I their, I their, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th. I, th. I th. I thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, the, thin, thean, theat th theat thin, th th th thean, thean, thean, thin, the the people are angry about the story. But the law says that if you can post bail and you aren't a flight risk,
you can go back to your life until they actually convict you of a crime.
And I'll be honest, I agree with that concept.
No one should sit in a jail cell because they might be a criminal.
If anything, the problem I have tho' thii.
the problem I the problem I the problem I in jail. I mean, what are the courts scared of? No one is easier to keep tabs on than a broke person. You
know where a broke person isn't going? Mexico or the movies or out to dinner.
You want to track a broke person? Oh, they're at home. And finally,
some education news. February is Black History Month. A beautiful time in America
when Americans celebrate all the black people who died
rather than help the black people who are still alive.
But now, a debate about how to teach Black History is causing a stere in one of America's least black states.
In Utah, a school reverses a decision which would have allowed parents to opt out of lessons on Black History Month.
This is happening at a charter school in Ogden, Utah.
Initially, the school's director said he was asked by several families to opt out,
and he obliged and sent out a document asking if other parents wanted to do the same thing.
But now the school is backtracking after pushback from parents and black history supporters.
Wow. First of all, what an embarrassment for the school.
If I were them, I'd try to play the whole thing off as an intentional history lesson.
You see, parents?
You wanted to opt out, but you're not allowed to.
Just like the slaves couldn't.
Black history accomplished.
Now people are saying that trying to opt out of black
history is racist but even more than that it's stupid because black history is
exciting it's got racism war oppression dudes with aphros in leather jackets
if you have to opt out of something you should opt out of boring shit like trigonometry
you don't need to know that an isosceles triangle has four sides.
Trust me.
Regardless, though, it's a good thing the school backtracked,
because this is a slippery slope.
If you let kids opt out of black history,
then you'll have to let them opt out of white history.
And then what, I'm just here for lunch. But let's move on now to our main story.
President Joseph Ramaposa Biden.
Over the weekend, Biden took a short break from his day-to-day presidenting to catch
the Super Bowl from his home in Delaware.
And if you aren't immediately outraged about that, well, you obviously haven't been watching
the last 48 hours of conservative news media. Joe Biden is planning to travel across state lines to watch the
Super Bowl despite calls from the CDC not to travel. Biden and his wife Jill
are going to spend the weekend at their Delaware home. Now this just a few days
after the CDC warned Americans against traveling this weekend,
stressing it could increase their chances of spreading the coronavirus.
What happened to the suggestion that you shouldn't travel
during this COVID epidemic?
He's setting a horrible example,
and he's not practicing what he preaches in any shape, form or fashion.
And if he really thinks that going out and traveling at this
particular point in timeands of people at risk by doing this. It's very hypocritical. Why does he need to go, you know, what's
wrong with the White House? What's wrong with spending the weekend in the White
House? I guess. Unbelievable. You are setting a horrible example. Joe, if you
go to your home in Delaware, soon everyone will go to your home in Delaware and then they'll expect their the you gonna do? Buy tortilla chips for 300 million people there's no way the
store has that many so you're gonna have to get those kinoa chips and I know
they're better for you but they taste like cardboard Joe and don't tell me oh
but Trevor isn't it different because he's the president and he's flying on Air Force One? No. What if I fly on Air Force One right after Joe Biden? Huh? Coronavirus can linger for hours, people. And I also know that people are saying,
oh, come on, why are you criticizing Biden for traveling during the pandemic
when Donald Trump spent every weekend golfing and coughing on the Marlago
buffet table and hosting rallies at the same time. But that's not the same.
Donald Trump wasn't being a hypocrite because he wanted people to die of COVID. But it's not surprising that Biden bent the travel rules for himself,
because he's been president for less than three weeks,
and already he's had more scandals than we can keep track of.
Although, my friends, we are going to try in our brand new segment,
Joe Biden, the worst president in history that we can remember. There are two things that are unforgivable for any American politicians.
Releasing the aliens from Area 51 and insulting the troops.
And last week, Biden's press secretary launched a gratuitous attack on the newest and
insulting the troops. And last week, Biden's press secretary launched a gratuitous attack
on the newest and bravest troops of all.
White House press secretary, Jamsaki,
facing criticism for mocking the Space Force.
They ask whether the president has made a decision
on keeping or keeping the scope of Space Force.
Wow, Space Force.
It is an interesting question. I am happy to
check with our Space Force point of contact. Am I true that is? I will find out
and see if we have any update on that. Well the top Republican on the House
Armed Services Committee is now calling that comment disgraceful and he's
asking the White House Press Secretary Jen Saki to apologize.
She's literally openly mocking the branch of military that was actually enacted by Congress with democratic support.
There's some arrogance there,
there's a little condescension as well.
A hundred years from now, the space force
will be one of the important parts of our military.
This is no joke.
How dare you, Jensakie?
Space Force is an illustrious branch of the military that was formed an entire year ago because Donald Trump had a weird sex dream about elf. If you're gonna mock Space Force, maybe, maybe you
should mock all the people who were cut in half when Neptune stole Saturn's
rings and threw them at earth. Oh wait, that never happened because Space
Force saved us. Space Force is no joke, okay? This isn't funny. America is sending troops to space where they have to poop in a little bag.
You think that's funny?
And if the bag gets too full, the poop escapes?
And then if the poop gets to escapes, the poop escapes, and then the poop the poop the poop? And then the poop goes in his mouth. And thate to you. And thin' to to chase to chase to chase to chase to chase the poop to chase the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop to chase poop the poop the poop the poop toa toa the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop toa the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop. the poop the poop the poop. the poop the poop the poop the poop the poop the ss. the poop the soa sapeapsoa-aaps. their that's that's that's their their soaaaaa-apea-a-a-s, their sapsapsapsa any of this shit is funny? Huh? Now, insulting the military is bad enough. But before the Space Force scandal had even died down,
Joe Biden took things a step further this time, attacking the honor and decency of our heroes
in law enforcement. There is some controversy over comments that the new president made about these, about
FBI agents as a generality.
He made these comments and it's getting a lot of reaction, listen.
By and large, the vast, vast majority of these men and women are decent, honorable people.
What should be taken away from that for him to say the vast majority of men and women are decent, honorable people?
Why suddenly the qualifiers on, you know, the arbitration of who's a good guy and who's a bad guy?
What percentage of people are we talking? Are 80% good and decent people at the FBI?
90? Can you be more specific?
Yeah, Joe Biden? Be more specific. Is it 99%?
Or is there just one bad guy? Huh? Is it Doug?
It's totally dug, isn't it? I knew it!
You know he cheats on Margaret, right? Like, what have you heard?
But this is just reprehensible?
How dare you say is the vast vast vast
majority. I mean if you cared about those agents at all you would have thrown
in a third vast. And I especially understand why this must have been a shock for
the folks over at Fox News to hear a president slander the brave members of the
corrupt deep state like that. I mean I just hope that decent honorable
scumbags like James Comey don't hear about this.
Now look, it's not surprising that Joe Biden is bringing scandal to the White House.
I mean, after all, his entire campaign was little more than just a front to launder money
for his son, Hunter Biden.
And just as everyone predicted, Hunter is already turning Daddy's presidency into his own personal piggy bank.
So Hunter Biden has a new book that is set to come out within his father's first hundred
days.
But critics are pointing out, President Biden said his family wasn't going to do this, they
weren't going to cash in on his presidency.
Do you write a book for free?
The real concern here though is Simon and Schuster is the company that canceled Josh
Holly and his book, but they're doing the book for Hunter Biden.
How will this book be used?
Will it be kind of test of loyalty to Joe Biden to buy the book?
Will there be mass sales?
Yes, my friends, welcome to Joe Biden's America, where if you want a COVID vaccine, you'll
have to pass a pop quiz on Hunter Biden's book.
What important lesson did Hunter Biden learn in Chapter 9?
To believe in himself?
Wrong! Give him COVID!
And what if you're not getting the vaccine?
Biden will still know if you bought the book.
You know why?
Because our bookshelves
are in the background of all our Zoom meetings. Did Joe Biden engineer the coronavirus just
to make sure we all bought his son's book? I'm just asking questions, but yes, that's what
happened. This is what we're facing people, scandal after scandal. The unfortunate truth is
that Joe Biden is incapable of
doing literally anything right as president. In fact, even before his first day
in office was finished, Biden had racked up three major scandals.
Joe Biden made fighting the coronavirus pandemic the main staple of his campaign.
However, many have noticed that Biden and other high-level officials at his own inauguration
were failing to socially distance.
Even wearing their masks was at times optional or not correct the way they were doing it,
when they were within six feet of others.
Look, there was a lot of hugging going on, and these were not necessarily people who
shared bubbles.
Joe Biden hired private security as if he were not satisfied with the National Guard
and the military, he wanted even more guns at his behest.
Joe Biden jumped the gun a little bit today.
He got sworn in at 10 minutes to noon.
I don't mean to nitpick, but does say noon,
according to the law.
That's right.
Joe Biden stole 10 minutes of Donald Trump's presidency,
or as Fox News calls it, Tengazi.
Who knows what Trump could have accomplished in those 10 minutes?
I mean, maybe that's when he was finally
going to release his health care plan.
He could have used that time to walk down half a ramp.
And do you have any idea how much Fox News Trump could have watched in that 10 minutes? Like 10 minutes!
So those are the many Joe Biden scandals exposed by the muck-raking journalists of conservative
media in just his first three weeks in office.
And who knows?
By this time tomorrow, we could find out that Biden left the toilet seat up, or even worse,
spoiled the end of War Division. And when he does, we'll be there to tell you all about it
in another episode of Joe Biden,
the worst president in history that we can remember.
All right, when we come back,
Dr. Atul Gawandi tells me what it's like,
vaccinating people at Fenway Park.
And Super Bowl champion Leonard Fornet is joining us on the show.
You don't want to miss it.
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This is 60 Minutes.
It's a kind of a magazine for television.
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But that's all about to change.
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I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17.
Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show.
Earlier today, I spoke with Dr. Atul Gawandi. He's a surgeon and a writer for the New
Yorker who is helping vaccine distribution efforts at venues like Fenway Park. We talked
about that, his latest reporting on coronavirus, and what the outlook is. Dr. Atul Gawandi,
welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Great to be here. You are coming to us from Fenway Park. One of the many stadiums and arenas that are going to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the to the to the to the the to the to the too. too. too. too. too. too. the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, the new, 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 th. the. the. the. thean. thean. thean. thean.u. thean. thean. thean. thean. theanx, the. the. the. You are coming to us from Fenway Park. One of the many stadiums and arenas that are going to be used as vaccination sites around the country.
How is the rollout looking? You know, America's been in an interesting place where it seemed like everything was going well
and then all of a sudden they weren't enough vaccines and then there were too many in some places.
What does it look like on the ground right now? I'm part of a consortium that's been running vaccine operations to scale up Gillette Stadium,
Fenway Park, Reggie Lewis, track and fields here in Roxbury, and those have escalated,
you know, we had to start at a few hundred a day.
We're past 5,000 across all of these sites per day, and that will just keep on scaling upward.
And so I think that our problem of distribution will gradually get better and better.
The two problems that remain, number one, you point to supply.
How much can vaccine get pumped out?
It's a big deal that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine vaccine was submitted for consideration by the FDA just last Friday,
and that will potentially bring more supply.
The other big concern is equity.
We are not getting to the people of color and the rural settings which have had some
of the worst rates of spread and brought and bringing those people in is got to be a high priority
now.
Let's talk a little bit about your article in the New Yorker.
You've written for the New Yorker for many years,
and now more than ever, people are reading your writing
through a different lens.
Your most recent article is entitled,
Don't Tell Me What to Do.
And it focuses on a really fiery town in North Dakota.
the small town in North Dakota. Why did you think that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that tho tho tho thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi tho tho tho think it was so important to focus on a fight
happening in a small town in North Dakota?
And what do you think that tells us about the largest story
about America, its vaccine rollout,
and social distancing rules and masks, etc.
Last November in North Dakota,
that was the state with the largest rate of infections,
the largest rate of hospitalizations, and deaths were, the that was the state with the largest rate of infections, the largest rate
of hospitalizations and deaths were deaths were climbing and minot was the
hottest of the hot spots in that state and so what I want to understand is how does
community in the midst of all of this react and you know the state had resisted
having any kind of a mask mandate there continued to be battles know the state had resisted having any kind of a mask mandate
there continued to be battles over the basics and so this City Council had a
member her name was Kerry Evans who said you know what I'm just sick of it I'm
gonna propose a mask a mask mandate and force it the vote and what unfolded
was this debate it was a really reflected a city a town-wide debate over over a the to the the they. the city the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there their c. their c. their c. their c. their c. their c. their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to the to the the to to the to the to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their. And what unfolded was this debate.
It was really reflected a city, a town-wide debate over whether the government could tell
me what to do when we aren't willing to do it.
And with that work, they fought it out.
It was closely voted, but they did adopt the mask mandate.
And that was only the beginning.
People ignored the mask mandate after it was adopted.
It didn't have any penalties associated.
But then hospital leaders started coming out and saying,
our hospital is completely overrun.
And we'll see in place after place as a story like this,
where we're late coming to realizing
what needs to be done but in the face of what becomes just a terrifying level
of a viral transmission. Kerry Evans said it was like steam. You go to the store and
you felt like it was this steam you know there are infected people when
walking around the store and that was that was the world they were in.
You're a doctor.
And so that means you are in the world of convincing people
that medicine can and will help them.
You're also in the world of listening to people's concerns
about why they're afraid to participate or not in taking of medicine or not.
There's a more interesting dynamic conversation happening right now in and around America's schools. Many parents want their kids to go to school. Many teachers are saying
we can't go back into the schools unless we're vaccinated. The CDC has come out and said
teachers don't need to be vaccinated to be at school with these kids. Where do people stand?
Because it feels like there's so much contradictory information. Are the kids a threat to the teachers? Are they not?
Can the teacher survive without getting a vaccination?
What should we be listening to?
And what is the voice of reason in the room?
Well, you know, in many ways, this is what I was trying to unpack
even in mine at North Dakota, because I spent a tode the time the time the time the time the time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time their their their their their their don't want to go back to school because of fear of the virus, or others who say, I don't want to fear the virus,
get rid of the masks, what you have is a tremendous amount of pain.
I mean, the level of pain that you see in the country, the people I was talking to you who said they don't want to wear the mask mask mask, the mask, their mask, their, their, their, to wear, their, their, to wear, their, their, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, or their, or their, or their, or their, or their, or don't, or don't, or don't, or don't, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the people who are feeling like their jobs are disappearing and they're seeing it happen.
They are seeing their kids not being able to go to school.
They've seen them lose a whole year of, you know, a real robust education.
So I understand where folks are coming from.
At the same time, this is the battle, we have to argue it out.
And ultimately, the science is on the side of saying, yes, we can return to the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the battle. We have to argue it out and ultimately the science is on the side of saying
Yes, we can return to the schools. Let's bring testing in and that can help provide reassurance
Yes, we can defeat this virus, but you have to wear the masks and that means
curtailing things like your favorite bar or being out here at Fenway Park
but but we are making our way through it. It is tremendously hard to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep to keep your to keep your to keep to keep your foot to keep your foot to keep your foot to keep your foot to keep the foot the foot to keep the foot their their their to to keep to the the their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to their to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to their te. te. te. te. their te. their their the school. their their the school. their te. toe. toe. toe making our way through it. It is tremendously hard to keep your foot on the pedal
for what are going to be months to come.
We are going to slip.
We're going to have this battle and debate,
and it's just going to continue,
and this is nature of our democratic fight over there.
Yeah, it's going to be a fight.
It looks like tha tha to be the to be the to be their to be their to be the going to be a fight. It looks like we're still in the middle of it, and hopefully we're not just in the eye of the storm,
but we're emerging from it.
Dr. Gawande, thank you so much for taking the time,
and good luck with your efforts out there at Fenway.
Thank you.
The latest issue of the New York in one season. That's right folks. Leonard Fornette is joining us on the show. Stick around.
When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it.
This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access
to the treasures in our archives.
You rolling? But that's all about to change.
Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible.
I'm Seth Done of CBS News.
Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17.
Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show.
So earlier today, I spoke with Super Bowl Champion and Tampa Buccaneers running back. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show.
So earlier today, I spoke with Super Bowl Champion and Tampa Bay Buccaneers running
back, Leonard Fornett.
We talked about last night's game, his journey to becoming a Super Bowl champion and
what's in store for the future.
Leonard Fornett.
Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show and more importantly, welcome to the Super Bowl
Championship.
Thanks for having my guy.
How does it feel, man?
I mean, like, 26 years old, your first Super Bowl appearance and your first Super Bowl win at
the same time.
And on top of that, you really played a part in the team.
Like, I've been a part of winning teams in high school where I did absolutely nothing,
and then I got to stand up at the, you know, and just celebrate with the team.
But you were actually part of the team winning.
Do you understand the gravity of what has happened to you?
What is going on in your head?
I'm just going to start off this help the organization, also my team,
and just become a better man to help my teammates too.
So just from that, and then from Tom Brady
to Devon White reaching out to me
and wanted me to join the Bucks organization
to help him get a ring.
And I had an up and down season, you know, it wasn't the best.
My stats wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't to to to to to to to to use to use to use to use the best. My stats wasn't how to use Lebeg, a thousand yards, as many touches as I wanted.
So it was always up and down for me,
but when the playoffs came,
the playoffs came and I flourish.
You know, it's something I can tell my kids,
my grandkids how I just persevered through whatever I was going through,
stay focused, carrying the nickname
Playoff Lenny,
and I love your tweet,
which was, well I guess now it's going to be a...
Super Bowl Lenny.
It's going to be Super Bowl Lenny.
I love that.
You know, I love that because of the pure joy and the elation.
This has been quite a journey for the team as well.
I mean, you got th th th th th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho you got blocked from going to the Super Bowl for the first time.
You got stopped by Tom Brady.
And then you fast forward to 2021 and Tom Brady is there, you know, celebrating with you.
A Tom Brady who reached out to you personally was like, I want you to play with me.
What has that journey been like, playing with arguably the greatest quarterback of all time? That journey, man, it's been crazy, you know, to see why he has the resume he has, and why
he's so respected in the game and his ritual, how he does, in order to win games, big
games or perform on the big lights, I've seen it firsthand.
I'm in the backfield with this guy, we're in the meet together. He's calling me at night, asked me. to to to to to to play, to play, to me, to play, to me, to me, the the to play, the to play, their, their, their, th me, th me, th me, th me, th me, 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, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thean, thin, thean, thean, thean, thean,'ve seen it firsthand. You know, I'm in the back foot with this guy, wearing meat together. He's calling me at night, asked me
what plays I like, what I think about this run or what I think about this past
protection. And just to see how he cares about his teammates, it's amazing, you know,
and I see why he's considered one of the best in the game. I would love to know to know to know to know to know to know to know to know the to know to know the the to thuu the to to the to the to the the the thu. thiolk. the the to the to the the to be the the to beaqqqq. thi. to beaq. to be to be tooomf. to be tooom. to be to bea. tooom. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. I's to bea. I's to bea. I's, to bea. I, to bea. I, to bea, thi. I'm, thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm the thi. I'm the. I'm t. I'm together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, the. I'm together, th together, th th together, the game. I would love to know, because I don't get the opportunity to talk to many people who
have scored a touchdown in a winning game at the Super Bowl, I would love to know when
you're running into that end and when you're running towards it, what is going through
your mind?
Are you thinking or is your brain just going, are your muscles moving without you? What is happening in your brain in that moment? Well, I could say it's just a skill set we have.
You know, it's a God, it's a God given, a talent that he gave to me,
you know, and it's just everything that's in the game,
just instincts.
You know, you practice so much,
your skills, the drills, you do, you work and dedication, you know, trying to perfect
your craft at the end of the day.
I feel you, damn.
I have a similar thing.
Sometimes I'll go to the kitchen and I'll open the fridge, and I think I'm going to get
water and then I get ice cream and I don't even know how that happened.
It's just like an instinct. you could bring a bad habit in 30 days. That's all, 30 days you can bring a bad habit. Just try to drink water for at least 20 days straight.
Let's talk about life now.
I mean, this morning must have been surreal for you.
You know, the night after a victory,
and then the morning after, you know,
because the morning you wake up and it's like,
was that a dream? Is it the moment of a, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.... thi. thi. tooooooooooi. toeeeeeeeea.. toeeeea. thi. thi. thi. thi. I think you know what I'm talking about. There's just a moment where it's like, wait, did any of this actually happen?
What was the feeling like with the family? Because, I mean, it could have been one of two mornings.
It could have been like one of those, shh, keep quiet. Daddy's not in the great mood mornings.
You know, everyone just like, man, to have my family come on the field and celebrate with me.
Something as a kid I've always dreamed of playing the Super Bowl,
right. And now that that finally happened, and my family was there to witness that,
me scored touchdown, or even much playing the Super Bowl,
for them to come on a field and celebrate that, me, it's no better feeling than that, you know?
Like, you understand, like, all those things I was going through
prior to season, before the season, my family felt that.
They know how much I love football, they're not much I put my soul,
I dedicate myself to this game. And when things was going right, you know,
they feel my pain too. So my family played a big part in my success about, you know,
keep my faith, holding my head up.
My mother always told me, guys, it's a testing time for you, son.
But at the end, you're gonna come out better than ever,
and that's what happened.
I'd love to know before I let you go, where the journey goes from here.
For many people winning, You're amazing, you're great at what you're doing, so this is just the beginning, this is just part of your story.
You're also somebody who's been very vocal, like, you know, people applauded you for being
outspoken during the Black Lives Matter protest.
You were leading some of those protests.
You've spoken your mind.
You know, you're a man of faith, a family man.
You have so many think from here on out you know becoming a I'm
already a better man but being the best that I can be for my kids and for
young for younger guys younger generation that looks up to me you know
they're showing them that no I'm from New Orleans you know so they're
showing them things are bigger than New Orleans right Right. I've seen, I've been on both sides, you know, not having money to being rich, you know,
so I know how it is.
And I just want to get those guys just hope.
You know, the little things can inspire a generation of a person.
You know, I just want, I won't be that god in light.
Hopefully, guys look up me to like Tom Brady. Like Aaron, you know, the Great Center Game.
And I told me part of that legacy to say that, Lena Fannett, my last name, helped change
the world, become better.
Well, I'll tell you this, man.
Will it's a Super Bowl ring?
You're on the path to greatness already.
Superbull Lenny, thank you so much for we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back. Off to this.
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