You're listening to Comedy Central coming to you from New York City. Please me city. In America, it's the Daily Show. Wait's theft in America. Michael Strahan and Sheryl Lee round this. He's the Daily Show with Forever No everybody comes to the Daddy Shop coming. Thank you so much for shooting in, Thank you for coming out in party, keep a feeling over body, Thank you so much for being it. Thank you for coming out. Take a seat, Take a seat, and let's get into us. We have got a great show for you tonight. The World Cup is continuing it's run of upsets, Mozzarenna sticks are getting sued, and we'll give you yet another reason to hate your boss. Plus, we have two fantastic guests joining us on the show. NFL legend Michael Strahan is gonna be here and one of the stars of Abbott Elementary, Cheryl Lee Ralph is gonna be here tonight. So fill the people. Let's go strack into today's headlines. All right, everybody, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting off with the World Cup and today's knockout games. Portugal absolutely obliterated Switzerland six goals to one. Yeah, and after this match, now I guess we see why Switzerland doesn't get involved in wars. But the major World Cup news of today is how the North African nation of Morocco pulled an absolutely after against football powerhouse Spain. And I know this won't make up for the fact that Spain won colonized a part of Morocco, but it goes a long way. It ranly does. Oh. In international news, the governments of Indonesia has just officially banned all sex outside of marriage. Yes, with a penalty of up to one year in prison. That's gonna make for some weird conversation in Indonesian prisons. You know, there has been like I'm here from murder, what are you in for? A medio connect with Jason Oh And in some major legal use, the Trump organization has been found guilty of seventeen counts of other financial crimes. And you know what that means, Donald Trump is going to prison. Shoo visit all the lower ranking people who did this without his knowledge or his permission. Yeah, because we all know that's how that works in the world, right. All the successes in Trump's organization. They're due to the genius of Donald Trump, all the crimes he had no ideas like, that's right, folks, I have zero control over the things I run, which is why you should vote for me to run the country so I can run it like one of my companies, which I don't even run. I don't even run. But speaking of speaking of crimes, let's move on to our main story. In the run up to the mid terms, one of the major issues four votes across the land was crime. In fact, any time you turned on the news, you were bound to see stories like this. Business owners across the country are stepping up security as they report brazen shoplifting. We've all seen the videos. Shoplifting at supermarkets across the USA is out of control. Handbag Hall, the brazen bandit who cops a walked out with all these stolen handbags. The shoplifting epidemic highlighted by a viirral video at a Walgreens last week. Shoplifting is up as video of brazen thieves leaving with their arms laden with stolen merchandise continue to shock all Americans. Shoplifting has gotten so bad this year right AID is considering literally putting everything behind showcases. Yeah, you hear that shoplifting has gotten so bad that they're locking everything behind showcases. Oh and the person who unlocks the showcase then lock behind the showcase too. Yeah, now you screw what are you gonna do? But yes, almost every day, every day the news, we've seen these horrible stories, you know, about people blatantly breaking the low and stealing what doesn't belong to them. And I don't care what anyone says. There is zero excuse for shoplifting, zero excuse even in the instances where you find yourself waiting in line forever and the six open registers, but the store only decided to hire one cashier, which makes you feel like they're taunting you, showing you how fast it could be, but they just don't want it to be, you know. So then you think, oh, you're just gonna go and use the self checkout, But then there's an error because you can't put the item in the bagging area, or because you put in too early or too late, and now you have to wait for the supervisor to come over and ask are you trying to buy this? No? I just enjoy holding shampoo. Yeah, that's what I'm doing yet yes I'm trying to buy this. Yes, I'm trying to buy it. And then instead of just like helping you out, they give you that look, they give you that look like uh, and then they waive the magical little key fob. And then even in that instance, it is not justified. Even when it's justified, it's not justified to steal. But what if I told you, What if I told you that the biggest theft isn't people stealing from companies. What if I told you the biggest theft is companies stealing from people. Well, you might ask how or why? Well, let's find out in another installment of If you don't know, now you know, when you take a job, you're making a simple agreement with your employer, right, you do the work, they give you pay. That's the very foundation that jobs are built on. And yet all over the country, all over the world, in fact, employers aren't holding up the end of the deal. Imagine working and never getting paid. It's a growing problem called wage theft. Wage theft occurs when a worker is paid less than they're legally entitled to, such as when they're denied pay for working overtime or work off the clock without getting paid or are denied legal meal breaks. Sixty seven letter carriers say their paychecks were changed to make it look like they worked less hours than they actually did. Workers at Heartsease and Carl's Jr. Have filed dozens of state and federal complaints, including allegations of wage theft, manipulated over time, and unfair labor practices. About ten thousand people are saying Hippotli forced them to work off the clock to boost the bottom line. Wage theft is the costliest crime in the country, robbing US workers a fifteen billion dollars per year, more than car thefts, burglaries, and other large sneeze combined. Yeah, that's right. The costliest crime in the United States is actually being committed by corporations. So I guess instead of following black people around the store, security guards should be hovering over c e O s at their desk. As you were looking over there, being like, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and put that person's salary back where it belongs. I was like, oh, sorry, I didn't see that. I had that. Yeah, I bet you didn't. And I think we can all agree nobody, nobody should be doing work that they're not getting paid for, because I mean, then that's not a job. Now you're volunteering at a fast food restaurant, and who would do that? Who's They're like, Oh me, I'm not in it for the money. I'm in it for the love of childhood obesity. And by the way, by the way, wage theft isn't just when companies don't pay employees for the work that they've done. In some instances, employers find really shitty ways to actually make their employees pay them. For example, there was a restaurant owner who comes skates at his employees tips at the end of their shift and called it god a cleaning fee. Yeah. The NFL Oakland Raiders would doc that chilias Chile does pay for ship like wearing the wrong color nail polish. Yeah. But this, this example of creative wage theft might be my favorite of all. This is Fantasy Gentleman's Club in Grand Junction. In This is the twenty four page class action lawsuit claiming Fantasy Gentlemen's Club has been exploiting these workers for years. Among other charges, dancers accused the club of cutting into their take home pay with excessive fines, fifty dollars if dancers don't share tips with the DJ, and security a hundred bucks to change the schedule. There's even a fine for complaining to customers about their personal lives. I'm sorry what this is the biggest bullshit of all. You can't find strippers for complaining to customers about their personal lives? All right? First of all, how can you even tell that they're complaining and not just singing along to the Drake song that's playing. You don't know, you don't know. And second of all, if trippers couldn't complain about their lives, then how would they be able to convince customers into spending more than they plan to help save them from this life? So what you're saying is if we go to the champagne room, then you can move with me to Chicago? Is that age? And there's a lot of reasons businesses are able to get away with this. First of all, wage theft tends to target people with the least ability to fight back, like hourly workers and undocumented immigrants. Making matters worse, the government agencies who are supposed to be the watchdogs against wage theft are understaffed and undefunded. Oh, and when companies do get caught stealing, here's what happens to them. McDonald's has agreed to pay twenty six million dollars to settle accusations of wage theft. It follows a long running class action lawsuit at corporate run locations in California. The US Labor Department says Walmart will pay four point eight million dollars in back wages and damages to more than forty five hundred employees. Amazon agreed to pay eight point two million dollars to settle a wage theft lawsuit it and Krispy Kreme was ordered to pay workers more than one point one million dollars after investigators found widespread and systematic failure to pay workers what they were owed. That's so strange. All of this theft occurred, but there was no mention of anyone going to jail. But then how will they learn their lesson? And before you say, but Trevor, you you can't put a corporation in jail, says who says? They always say corporations of people? So why doesn't America treat them like American people? Huh? Why not? Every time? Every single time a company gets busted stealing their workers wages. You know they should do. They should said that the company headquarters should be taken to prison. Yeah, that's what they should just take the actual headquarters put it in prison. Yeah you hear that Amazon saying thing deniver is gonna be a lot harder when you have to smuggle that f fry and your butt hole. But just because it's all too easy for companies to steal from their workers, that doesn't mean workers are powerless. Wage theft has been one of the issues driving an increase in unionization, and California has just passed the law saying that for the first time anywhere in the country, wages and payment rules for all fast food workers will be said not by employers, but by a council of experts appointed by the state. Yes, a council of fast food experts. So finally a government job that Trump is actually qualified for. But for some workers, waiting for the bureaucracy of the courts or the governments tends to be just takes too long, which is why one construction worker in England expressed his anger in a more physical way. A row over six hundred pounds that will end up costing so much more to put rights. This construction worker was so angry at allegedly not being paid that he took drastic action, driving a mini excavator into the newly finished hotel that he'd helped build. Okay, okay, I know this seems bad, but is it because the guy did the work, didn't get paid, and then he undid the work. It seems like a fair deal to me, and it reminds me. It reminds me of a very wise thing my grandfather used to tell me. You'd say, remember forever, if you want to screw someone over, make sure they don't own a bulldozer first. And yes, my grandfather was Nelson Mandela, who was indeed. So the next time you turn the TV on and see all the news about people shoplifting from drug stores, before assuming there is a crime, maybe just for a moment, think that they could just be getting their wages back a totally different way. And if you don't know, now you know before we go to break it's not to check it on the weather fork without very one in the dendi line, like everybody. For me, what is what's happening in the weather. I don't know my wifi's down, so my weather app doesn't work, you know, Trevor. It's interesting you're going on and on about the epidemic of wage theft, meanwhile ignoring the wage theft going on right in front of you. Well, well, no, dizzey, what are you What are you talking about? You're getting paid? Well, sure, maybe for doing the weather. Well, actually you never actually do the weather. But there is a ton of other stuff that I do that I'm not compensated for. Like I spend hours of the work day selling my bathtub combouch on Etsy and I haven't seen a dime from this show. Dizzy does not wage theft. We're not paying you to do that, exactly. You're not paying me to do that, And it's how I spend most of my time in the office at work. But it's fine, don't worry. You'll read all about it in the lawsuit. Wait wait, wait, wait, well you're suing me. Yeah, no, it's been a long time coming because I work very, very hard at this show. Do you know that I have never once been paid overtime for organizing the office supplies and putting them neatly in boxes and taking them home to my apartments. We've been stealing office supports. Well not to mention all the hours that I spent taking the laser out of the laser printer. That's not even how a laser printer works. Well, I know that now, but I am not getting that time back. Okay, des He, none of this is actually wage theft. You realize that. I'm sorry, who made you? Judge Judy? Okay, you know I didn't want to do this, but like I didn't, I didn't want to do this. I don't think you're gonna win a wage left wage theft lawsuit with us because I have a solid year of video evidence of you never actually doing the weather, which is your actual job. Oh okay, okay, is that how it's gonna be? You want to play hardball? Huh fine, I get it. I get it. Look, I'm sorry that you feel that way, all right, sorry that you feel that way. I'm just saying, you know, if anything, it sounds like you are the person who's stealing from the place that pays your wages. You know, So I don't I don't think taking this case to the court is the right idea. It's it's just like it's it's one of those things and right does he does he what does he? What are you doing? Does he? Yeah? That's right. You have your chance, Trevor. Now it's time for bulldoz or justice. And by the way, I'm charging extra for this. No, don't don't do it. No, no, no, We're gonna take a quick break. Well, everyone evacuates the studio, doesn't line like everybody. When we come back, we listen there Michael string I dragging us on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to day show. My first yes tonight is pro Football Hall of Famer who posts Good Morning America and Fox NFL Sunday. He's gonna talk about a new podcast he's produced called American Football How the Gridiron Was Forged, which is now streaming on Audible and wherever you get your podcasts. Please welcome Michael Strahan. What's up everyding as I'm good, but you ask me, I'm gonna say, you're brilliant. You're brill Okay, thanks, thank you, and um, you know you're gonna be If you ever get like tired of not doing this, my living room's always open, come over. That would be so much fun. Just the daily show for one person. You're not paying me. That would be fun. I would do that. It's like daily show for one person at their house. I'm actually that's actually an idea that I'll just do that. Individual shows will be like just be addressing it to you. Perfect. But first, Michael, let's kick things off with your story. You can even ask questions. Welcome to the show. I feel like you make that offer to me, but you wouldn't have the time for me to come to your house and do that because there are a few people I know who have more jobs than you do. You you retired from football to do everything else, to not to do everything. I'm tired to get more jobs. That's essentially what you did, right. So you're working in television, and it's all types of television. You've got like morning television, You've got you've got sports television. You've got a clothing line. You know, you've got a skincare line. Now you've got a podcast. So let's start with the podcast because that's one of the newest aspects of what you're doing. Talk me through the history of the NFL. Because no so many sports are popular, the football has a should places in America. What do you think it is about football that that makes it what it is in American history. It's violent. Wow, I'm joking, man, it's controlled aggression. I call it controlled aggression. But I think we love football so much because you know, it's it's American American football. The podcast and it goes back to the origin of the game and football with a white collar sport. Back in the day, they wouldn't let the blue collar guys play, so they create their own lead to compete. And now it's kind of turned into it's blue collar guys playing getting paid white collar salaries. You know, it's kind of if you think about the game has changed. But we dove back into things that I know about the game of football. I just kind of assumed I'm a player. I love the game. But when you go back and look at the origin, the how it was founded, in the way that they had to go and get around the system to create some of these teams and to have Kate Mara come in and narrator narrated who were the part of two football dynasties, the Giants in the in the Steelers through her family. It was like a dream project for me because without the NFL, I wouldn't be sitting here with you. It gave me a completely different life than I ever expected, but to dive back into the history of the game and understand how far has come but where it began, and it's totally different than what I expected. I hope people will tune in so that they can learn a little bit more about what we love so much, which is American football. But what I love about the podcast is that it's not just about the sports. So if you if you don't like the sport, the podcast is still amazing because it does into history, it does into classes, and it does into these battles between who hasn't who doesn't, and who shouldn't who shouldn't be It's it's it's a fascinating story. And as you talk about the progressional football and maybe Wanda, you're one of the few people who's had the span of Korea that you had in football cling for fifteen years. Fifteen years, that's insane. Yeah, tell me about it. I know it's crazy. So I would love to know, as somebody who witnessed the game up like up close for fifteen years, would you change anything about football now if you could, if you could waive a magic wand and change three things about football tomorrow, what would they be. I would make wave a magic wand and make it so that I could play for a lot longer back. Yeah, I want to go back with body man. You know you miss you know what you miss? You miss physically dominating another man. Okay, Okay, someone's gonna click that sentence and take it out of context. You enjoyed. I love it because was like I miss hugging a man. It was hard you loving him as hard as I could. But I do miss that. I missed the competitiveness of it. I missed the physicality. I would probably wave my my magic wand and and um. You know, I like what they're doing. Though when it comes to like injuries in the brain and all these different things, I like what they're doing there. There's not much. I don't know how much you can change the game, because I almost feel like in some aspect you change it so much it takes away from what it was. Okay, what would you change in and around the game. So instance, one of the things that always through me, and I might I might be wrong. You just tell me what I was always thrown by this is the fact that, like if you got injured playing football, it was just over for you and then you don't. You don't get the money that was promised to you, but you got injured. You don't be guaranteed contracts and less certain guys now are getting them where you get as much money as you can up front of your signing bonus, so they can't release you so early because they're gonna get some money out of you by making you play. And that was the one thing. Yeah, I would probably change the guarantees and contract that Basketball have them. Baseball has them. But the problem with football that they see is that if you're guarantee the money, they are sixty something guys on a team. So if you have that many guys on into reserve, how can you economically afford you have that many guys. I know that's their argument. I didn't say they were right. Okay, okay, okay it trust me. I would have loved guaranteed money. Anyone who has billions going like, I don't know what you have billions? Can you get this kind of coffee? Before I let you go, I want to talk about one of your latest ventures, which is your skincare line. Man, you know you have beautiful skin, and this is another another opportunity I don't think a lot of people would have thought of a long time ago, it would have said like a football player, Michael straighthand bo and then it's like the skincare line of Michael strahand. I like this, it's all sides of you, the guys who like to dominate other men skincare. Now do you know what it is? It's like to look at these poor look at them? You know. It all started with the clothing line and it was like, okay, I'm on TV, I'm always sensing steps. It was like a confidence thing. Man, you want to feel good, like, yeah, you look good, you feel good? Right, you perform better? And I think that skincare was a missing link, at least for me, because everything I've done has always been about my life and my lifestyle. I don't do anything that isn't authentically me. So it was about skincare and having a routine that is easy to do because I'm kind of lazy about that, which I think is most men. Like every single friend of mine, every woman I talked to you, who's a friend and I go, oh, what do you do for your skin? Can wash the face? And I need the house and yeah, like it's always the shock and what's your routine? There's no, And then I got tort like, no, you need to respect it and treat routine. How many sweet we have? We have? We have five products, so we have a face You could do one of those YouTube like, so everyone's been asking me about my skin curtain and I might just saying you could be doing that right now. I think it would be amazing. I think it'll be amazing. Right. Want to tell me the face wash which every day easy routine. You take a shot, wash your face and then you have the faith and neck moisturize. Then you get out of moisturize. You know, look at mind eight two years o' look at that. So you got the faith and neck moisture either. And then if you have a beard, like I got a beard up with the beard oil on and the beard, keep that beard kinky and soft. You don't know who you may rub up into, you know what I'm saying. So that's the second thing I did that beat. I think that that could be messed up. Man. And then after that, we have our saving jail like a saving lotion, and it's clear so that you can actually see when you shave where exactly you're shaving, because that was always the thing. I finished shaving like ones up here, the others down there, and then we have our post shade. You know, bomb so nice, easy put on, doesn't really sting your face. But it's very simple thing man, and for me takes less time than brushing my teeth. So I always say they may not be together, but they're clean. But to thank your game, the joining on the show, Lord, thank you. Can we come back all the stars of anation, charl he wealth is gonna be journey on the truck. You don't want to miss it. I do all. Welcome to Day Show. My next guest is a Tony nominative and Emmy Award winning actor who stars in the hit series Abbott Elementary, which airs Wednesday nights on ABC and can be streamed on Hulu. Please welcome Cheryl Lee Ralph. Thank m h film of hang Out, Wow, The Long On Lads. Cheryl Lee, Ralph, Welcome to the Daily Show. Let me start with saying congratulations Emmy Award winning. You know, there are many performers in history, many artists, many actors who audiences have said critics arelike this person never got their flowers this person never got the recognition that they deserve. So many people in Black Hollywood never got the flowers that they deserved. Talk me through just a part of this journey. You know you've done it all. I mean militia for me and then moving from one to the next. You know, dream girls for so many people back in the day, the original dream girl. Talk me through the journey and what has kept you being as efficescent as you are? Oh my God, I choose to be happy. I choose joy. Yeah, I believe that since I am alive, I might as well get up, get out there and enjoy it. Yes, I'm so happy that God has chosen throughout all of these years to wake me up every morning in my right mind so that I can carry on in life. I love that. Yes, that's what keeps me going. That's what keeps me enjoying what I do through all of the ups and downs, through all of the missteps and the bad breaks. I choose to carry on. I choose to look in the mirror and love what I see. We love working se we genuinely love what we see. Again, I mean, I am a sucker. I love all comedy, anything that is funny, I love you are a master and the way you perform it. We Abbot Elementary has done what many people said it wasn't possible. People said, no one wants his life TV anymore, nobody likes to sit comed anymore than he likes these family stories anymore. And yet Abbot Elementary has gone on the exact thing that everyone said was impossible. You know, Quincon Brunson assembled this amazing squad of people to come in and tell real stories that teach us love of themselves, of the students of the American schooling system. You know, I know it touches everything, But what do you think it is that brings people back every single week and watching live by the way, sharing it with each other. I think what they're seeing is their own struggles. There's We're just a group of regular people in the show going through life, and we just happened to be in a very challenging situation. And every week we are getting over the difficulties and we are appreciating what we have together working together on the show, in the show, in the characters, in the scripts, and people see themselves in it and they love it. They feel it, they feel it and they love it. And they tell us they do all the God, my god, my life now has turned into one big photo session. Anytime I go out into this threat, everybody wants to take a picture. Everybody wants you to talk to their people, and everybody wants to tell you how much they love you. And I am saying, that's why I wake up happy every day. You You're also you're also the brid the rear breed of human being. Who is you know, talented in every aspect of what you do? You know some some people will see you as an act on screen, others know you as the phenomenal perform on stage. And now you have an album out Christmas album. Yes, yes, which I like to play on words. But but but talk me through that, talk me through why the Christmas album and why an album in general. Well, first of all, it was only supposed to be a song, and before I knew it, we had done fifteen songs and we have an album called Slay and people are actually downloading it everywhere and loving it. It's crazy, people are it's not your mother's Christmas album. We're gonna take your mother to church and the club. I didn't notice that. I didn't notice that it is it is. It is one of the sexiest Christmas albums I've ever heard. I'm not I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna like before I let you go. I would be remiss if I didn't talk about your moments at the Emmy's where I always say, you know, at every awards show, I feel like they should be an award for the best award acceptance, and yours was that because sometimes at awards, you know, it can feel self indulgence, it can feel like we're not part of what's happening. It felt like we won with you. It felt like people want, you know, with your win, even just for their lives. It didn't feel like a platitude. It didn't feel like you were just saying it. It felt like you were embodying it. And I'd love to know in that moment, when you're holding that award, you know in an industry that everyone thrives to be celebrated or successful in what made you think of talking to the people and not just talking about yourself, Because I thought in that moment, you know, my dad add was a great lifelong learner and educator, and I when they called my name, it was just like I could hear my dad saying, there you are, it's your time, come on, but I couldn't. I couldn't. I was so shocked. I couldn't get the message from my brain to my feet to move, and I my husband kept saying get up, get up. And it wasn't until I heard Quintus say it's your name, get up. And then I got up because Tyler came and literally lifted me up and guided me to the stage and I got their center stage, and there was my dad again saying, don't you cry, don't you cry. This is your moment. Let them know who you are and how you got here. And there's a big screen like that in front of me saying stop now, stop now, And I was like, I haven't even gotten started. Oh I love it, Yes, I love it so much. Thank you for joining me on the show. Thank you so much. I don't think you do you share only Ralph. Everybody. Are you gonna take a petty of posing right back off the good Well that's our talking tonight. But before we go, before we go this holiday season, please come to the support sing Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States. If you can support them in their amazing work of getting nourishing foods to the people who need it most, and please donate at the link below. Until next time, stay safe out there, and remember the next time you walk past a major corporation, you might want to clutch your back. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven ten Central, Armed Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime I'm on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast

You're listening to Comedy Central coming to you from New York City. Please me city. In America, it's the Daily Show. Wait's theft in America. Michael Strahan and Sheryl Lee round this. He's the Daily Show with Forever No everybody comes to the Daddy Shop coming. Thank you so much for shooting in, Thank you for coming out in party, keep a feeling over body, Thank you so much for being it. Thank you for coming out. Take a seat, Take a seat, and let's get into us. We have got a great show for you tonight. The World Cup is continuing it's run of upsets, Mozzarenna sticks are getting sued, and we'll give you yet another reason to hate your boss. Plus, we have two fantastic guests joining us on the show. NFL legend Michael Strahan is gonna be here and one of the stars of Abbott Elementary, Cheryl Lee Ralph is gonna be here tonight. So fill the people. Let's go strack into today's headlines. All right, everybody, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting off with the World Cup and today's knockout games. Portugal absolutely obliterated Switzerland six goals to one. Yeah, and after this match, now I guess we see why Switzerland doesn't get involved in wars. But the major World Cup news of today is how the North African nation of Morocco pulled an absolutely after against football powerhouse Spain. And I know this won't make up for the fact that Spain won colonized a part of Morocco, but it goes a long way. It ranly does. Oh. In international news, the governments of Indonesia has just officially banned all sex outside of marriage. Yes, with a penalty of up to one year in prison. That's gonna make for some weird conversation in Indonesian prisons. You know, there has been like I'm here from murder, what are you in for? A medio connect with Jason Oh And in some major legal use, the Trump organization has been found guilty of seventeen counts of other financial crimes. And you know what that means, Donald Trump is going to prison. Shoo visit all the lower ranking people who did this without his knowledge or his permission. Yeah, because we all know that's how that works in the world, right. All the successes in Trump's organization. They're due to the genius of Donald Trump, all the crimes he had no ideas like, that's right, folks, I have zero control over the things I run, which is why you should vote for me to run the country so I can run it like one of my companies, which I don't even run. I don't even run. But speaking of speaking of crimes, let's move on to our main story. In the run up to the mid terms, one of the major issues four votes across the land was crime. In fact, any time you turned on the news, you were bound to see stories like this. Business owners across the country are stepping up security as they report brazen shoplifting. We've all seen the videos. Shoplifting at supermarkets across the USA is out of control. Handbag Hall, the brazen bandit who cops a walked out with all these stolen handbags. The shoplifting epidemic highlighted by a viirral video at a Walgreens last week. Shoplifting is up as video of brazen thieves leaving with their arms laden with stolen merchandise continue to shock all Americans. Shoplifting has gotten so bad this year right AID is considering literally putting everything behind showcases. Yeah, you hear that shoplifting has gotten so bad that they're locking everything behind showcases. Oh and the person who unlocks the showcase then lock behind the showcase too. Yeah, now you screw what are you gonna do? But yes, almost every day, every day the news, we've seen these horrible stories, you know, about people blatantly breaking the low and stealing what doesn't belong to them. And I don't care what anyone says. There is zero excuse for shoplifting, zero excuse even in the instances where you find yourself waiting in line forever and the six open registers, but the store only decided to hire one cashier, which makes you feel like they're taunting you, showing you how fast it could be, but they just don't want it to be, you know. So then you think, oh, you're just gonna go and use the self checkout, But then there's an error because you can't put the item in the bagging area, or because you put in too early or too late, and now you have to wait for the supervisor to come over and ask are you trying to buy this? No? I just enjoy holding shampoo. Yeah, that's what I'm doing yet yes I'm trying to buy this. Yes, I'm trying to buy it. And then instead of just like helping you out, they give you that look, they give you that look like uh, and then they waive the magical little key fob. And then even in that instance, it is not justified. Even when it's justified, it's not justified to steal. But what if I told you, What if I told you that the biggest theft isn't people stealing from companies. What if I told you the biggest theft is companies stealing from people. Well, you might ask how or why? Well, let's find out in another installment of If you don't know, now you know, when you take a job, you're making a simple agreement with your employer, right, you do the work, they give you pay. That's the very foundation that jobs are built on. And yet all over the country, all over the world, in fact, employers aren't holding up the end of the deal. Imagine working and never getting paid. It's a growing problem called wage theft. Wage theft occurs when a worker is paid less than they're legally entitled to, such as when they're denied pay for working overtime or work off the clock without getting paid or are denied legal meal breaks. Sixty seven letter carriers say their paychecks were changed to make it look like they worked less hours than they actually did. Workers at Heartsease and Carl's Jr. Have filed dozens of state and federal complaints, including allegations of wage theft, manipulated over time, and unfair labor practices. About ten thousand people are saying Hippotli forced them to work off the clock to boost the bottom line. Wage theft is the costliest crime in the country, robbing US workers a fifteen billion dollars per year, more than car thefts, burglaries, and other large sneeze combined. Yeah, that's right. The costliest crime in the United States is actually being committed by corporations. So I guess instead of following black people around the store, security guards should be hovering over c e O s at their desk. As you were looking over there, being like, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and put that person's salary back where it belongs. I was like, oh, sorry, I didn't see that. I had that. Yeah, I bet you didn't. And I think we can all agree nobody, nobody should be doing work that they're not getting paid for, because I mean, then that's not a job. Now you're volunteering at a fast food restaurant, and who would do that? Who's They're like, Oh me, I'm not in it for the money. I'm in it for the love of childhood obesity. And by the way, by the way, wage theft isn't just when companies don't pay employees for the work that they've done. In some instances, employers find really shitty ways to actually make their employees pay them. For example, there was a restaurant owner who comes skates at his employees tips at the end of their shift and called it god a cleaning fee. Yeah. The NFL Oakland Raiders would doc that chilias Chile does pay for ship like wearing the wrong color nail polish. Yeah. But this, this example of creative wage theft might be my favorite of all. This is Fantasy Gentleman's Club in Grand Junction. In This is the twenty four page class action lawsuit claiming Fantasy Gentlemen's Club has been exploiting these workers for years. Among other charges, dancers accused the club of cutting into their take home pay with excessive fines, fifty dollars if dancers don't share tips with the DJ, and security a hundred bucks to change the schedule. There's even a fine for complaining to customers about their personal lives. I'm sorry what this is the biggest bullshit of all. You can't find strippers for complaining to customers about their personal lives? All right? First of all, how can you even tell that they're complaining and not just singing along to the Drake song that's playing. You don't know, you don't know. And second of all, if trippers couldn't complain about their lives, then how would they be able to convince customers into spending more than they plan to help save them from this life? So what you're saying is if we go to the champagne room, then you can move with me to Chicago? Is that age? And there's a lot of reasons businesses are able to get away with this. First of all, wage theft tends to target people with the least ability to fight back, like hourly workers and undocumented immigrants. Making matters worse, the government agencies who are supposed to be the watchdogs against wage theft are understaffed and undefunded. Oh, and when companies do get caught stealing, here's what happens to them. McDonald's has agreed to pay twenty six million dollars to settle accusations of wage theft. It follows a long running class action lawsuit at corporate run locations in California. The US Labor Department says Walmart will pay four point eight million dollars in back wages and damages to more than forty five hundred employees. Amazon agreed to pay eight point two million dollars to settle a wage theft lawsuit it and Krispy Kreme was ordered to pay workers more than one point one million dollars after investigators found widespread and systematic failure to pay workers what they were owed. That's so strange. All of this theft occurred, but there was no mention of anyone going to jail. But then how will they learn their lesson? And before you say, but Trevor, you you can't put a corporation in jail, says who says? They always say corporations of people? So why doesn't America treat them like American people? Huh? Why not? Every time? Every single time a company gets busted stealing their workers wages. You know they should do. They should said that the company headquarters should be taken to prison. Yeah, that's what they should just take the actual headquarters put it in prison. Yeah you hear that Amazon saying thing deniver is gonna be a lot harder when you have to smuggle that f fry and your butt hole. But just because it's all too easy for companies to steal from their workers, that doesn't mean workers are powerless. Wage theft has been one of the issues driving an increase in unionization, and California has just passed the law saying that for the first time anywhere in the country, wages and payment rules for all fast food workers will be said not by employers, but by a council of experts appointed by the state. Yes, a council of fast food experts. So finally a government job that Trump is actually qualified for. But for some workers, waiting for the bureaucracy of the courts or the governments tends to be just takes too long, which is why one construction worker in England expressed his anger in a more physical way. A row over six hundred pounds that will end up costing so much more to put rights. This construction worker was so angry at allegedly not being paid that he took drastic action, driving a mini excavator into the newly finished hotel that he'd helped build. Okay, okay, I know this seems bad, but is it because the guy did the work, didn't get paid, and then he undid the work. It seems like a fair deal to me, and it reminds me. It reminds me of a very wise thing my grandfather used to tell me. You'd say, remember forever, if you want to screw someone over, make sure they don't own a bulldozer first. And yes, my grandfather was Nelson Mandela, who was indeed. So the next time you turn the TV on and see all the news about people shoplifting from drug stores, before assuming there is a crime, maybe just for a moment, think that they could just be getting their wages back a totally different way. And if you don't know, now you know before we go to break it's not to check it on the weather fork without very one in the dendi line, like everybody. For me, what is what's happening in the weather. I don't know my wifi's down, so my weather app doesn't work, you know, Trevor. It's interesting you're going on and on about the epidemic of wage theft, meanwhile ignoring the wage theft going on right in front of you. Well, well, no, dizzey, what are you What are you talking about? You're getting paid? Well, sure, maybe for doing the weather. Well, actually you never actually do the weather. But there is a ton of other stuff that I do that I'm not compensated for. Like I spend hours of the work day selling my bathtub combouch on Etsy and I haven't seen a dime from this show. Dizzy does not wage theft. We're not paying you to do that, exactly. You're not paying me to do that, And it's how I spend most of my time in the office at work. But it's fine, don't worry. You'll read all about it in the lawsuit. Wait wait, wait, wait, well you're suing me. Yeah, no, it's been a long time coming because I work very, very hard at this show. Do you know that I have never once been paid overtime for organizing the office supplies and putting them neatly in boxes and taking them home to my apartments. We've been stealing office supports. Well not to mention all the hours that I spent taking the laser out of the laser printer. That's not even how a laser printer works. Well, I know that now, but I am not getting that time back. Okay, des He, none of this is actually wage theft. You realize that. I'm sorry, who made you? Judge Judy? Okay, you know I didn't want to do this, but like I didn't, I didn't want to do this. I don't think you're gonna win a wage left wage theft lawsuit with us because I have a solid year of video evidence of you never actually doing the weather, which is your actual job. Oh okay, okay, is that how it's gonna be? You want to play hardball? Huh fine, I get it. I get it. Look, I'm sorry that you feel that way, all right, sorry that you feel that way. I'm just saying, you know, if anything, it sounds like you are the person who's stealing from the place that pays your wages. You know, So I don't I don't think taking this case to the court is the right idea. It's it's just like it's it's one of those things and right does he does he what does he? What are you doing? Does he? Yeah? That's right. You have your chance, Trevor. Now it's time for bulldoz or justice. And by the way, I'm charging extra for this. No, don't don't do it. No, no, no, We're gonna take a quick break. Well, everyone evacuates the studio, doesn't line like everybody. When we come back, we listen there Michael string I dragging us on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to day show. My first yes tonight is pro Football Hall of Famer who posts Good Morning America and Fox NFL Sunday. He's gonna talk about a new podcast he's produced called American Football How the Gridiron Was Forged, which is now streaming on Audible and wherever you get your podcasts. Please welcome Michael Strahan. What's up everyding as I'm good, but you ask me, I'm gonna say, you're brilliant. You're brill Okay, thanks, thank you, and um, you know you're gonna be If you ever get like tired of not doing this, my living room's always open, come over. That would be so much fun. Just the daily show for one person. You're not paying me. That would be fun. I would do that. It's like daily show for one person at their house. I'm actually that's actually an idea that I'll just do that. Individual shows will be like just be addressing it to you. Perfect. But first, Michael, let's kick things off with your story. You can even ask questions. Welcome to the show. I feel like you make that offer to me, but you wouldn't have the time for me to come to your house and do that because there are a few people I know who have more jobs than you do. You you retired from football to do everything else, to not to do everything. I'm tired to get more jobs. That's essentially what you did, right. So you're working in television, and it's all types of television. You've got like morning television, You've got you've got sports television. You've got a clothing line. You know, you've got a skincare line. Now you've got a podcast. So let's start with the podcast because that's one of the newest aspects of what you're doing. Talk me through the history of the NFL. Because no so many sports are popular, the football has a should places in America. What do you think it is about football that that makes it what it is in American history. It's violent. Wow, I'm joking, man, it's controlled aggression. I call it controlled aggression. But I think we love football so much because you know, it's it's American American football. The podcast and it goes back to the origin of the game and football with a white collar sport. Back in the day, they wouldn't let the blue collar guys play, so they create their own lead to compete. And now it's kind of turned into it's blue collar guys playing getting paid white collar salaries. You know, it's kind of if you think about the game has changed. But we dove back into things that I know about the game of football. I just kind of assumed I'm a player. I love the game. But when you go back and look at the origin, the how it was founded, in the way that they had to go and get around the system to create some of these teams and to have Kate Mara come in and narrator narrated who were the part of two football dynasties, the Giants in the in the Steelers through her family. It was like a dream project for me because without the NFL, I wouldn't be sitting here with you. It gave me a completely different life than I ever expected, but to dive back into the history of the game and understand how far has come but where it began, and it's totally different than what I expected. I hope people will tune in so that they can learn a little bit more about what we love so much, which is American football. But what I love about the podcast is that it's not just about the sports. So if you if you don't like the sport, the podcast is still amazing because it does into history, it does into classes, and it does into these battles between who hasn't who doesn't, and who shouldn't who shouldn't be It's it's it's a fascinating story. And as you talk about the progressional football and maybe Wanda, you're one of the few people who's had the span of Korea that you had in football cling for fifteen years. Fifteen years, that's insane. Yeah, tell me about it. I know it's crazy. So I would love to know, as somebody who witnessed the game up like up close for fifteen years, would you change anything about football now if you could, if you could waive a magic wand and change three things about football tomorrow, what would they be. I would make wave a magic wand and make it so that I could play for a lot longer back. Yeah, I want to go back with body man. You know you miss you know what you miss? You miss physically dominating another man. Okay, Okay, someone's gonna click that sentence and take it out of context. You enjoyed. I love it because was like I miss hugging a man. It was hard you loving him as hard as I could. But I do miss that. I missed the competitiveness of it. I missed the physicality. I would probably wave my my magic wand and and um. You know, I like what they're doing. Though when it comes to like injuries in the brain and all these different things, I like what they're doing there. There's not much. I don't know how much you can change the game, because I almost feel like in some aspect you change it so much it takes away from what it was. Okay, what would you change in and around the game. So instance, one of the things that always through me, and I might I might be wrong. You just tell me what I was always thrown by this is the fact that, like if you got injured playing football, it was just over for you and then you don't. You don't get the money that was promised to you, but you got injured. You don't be guaranteed contracts and less certain guys now are getting them where you get as much money as you can up front of your signing bonus, so they can't release you so early because they're gonna get some money out of you by making you play. And that was the one thing. Yeah, I would probably change the guarantees and contract that Basketball have them. Baseball has them. But the problem with football that they see is that if you're guarantee the money, they are sixty something guys on a team. So if you have that many guys on into reserve, how can you economically afford you have that many guys. I know that's their argument. I didn't say they were right. Okay, okay, okay it trust me. I would have loved guaranteed money. Anyone who has billions going like, I don't know what you have billions? Can you get this kind of coffee? Before I let you go, I want to talk about one of your latest ventures, which is your skincare line. Man, you know you have beautiful skin, and this is another another opportunity I don't think a lot of people would have thought of a long time ago, it would have said like a football player, Michael straighthand bo and then it's like the skincare line of Michael strahand. I like this, it's all sides of you, the guys who like to dominate other men skincare. Now do you know what it is? It's like to look at these poor look at them? You know. It all started with the clothing line and it was like, okay, I'm on TV, I'm always sensing steps. It was like a confidence thing. Man, you want to feel good, like, yeah, you look good, you feel good? Right, you perform better? And I think that skincare was a missing link, at least for me, because everything I've done has always been about my life and my lifestyle. I don't do anything that isn't authentically me. So it was about skincare and having a routine that is easy to do because I'm kind of lazy about that, which I think is most men. Like every single friend of mine, every woman I talked to you, who's a friend and I go, oh, what do you do for your skin? Can wash the face? And I need the house and yeah, like it's always the shock and what's your routine? There's no, And then I got tort like, no, you need to respect it and treat routine. How many sweet we have? We have? We have five products, so we have a face You could do one of those YouTube like, so everyone's been asking me about my skin curtain and I might just saying you could be doing that right now. I think it would be amazing. I think it'll be amazing. Right. Want to tell me the face wash which every day easy routine. You take a shot, wash your face and then you have the faith and neck moisturize. Then you get out of moisturize. You know, look at mind eight two years o' look at that. So you got the faith and neck moisture either. And then if you have a beard, like I got a beard up with the beard oil on and the beard, keep that beard kinky and soft. You don't know who you may rub up into, you know what I'm saying. So that's the second thing I did that beat. I think that that could be messed up. Man. And then after that, we have our saving jail like a saving lotion, and it's clear so that you can actually see when you shave where exactly you're shaving, because that was always the thing. I finished shaving like ones up here, the others down there, and then we have our post shade. You know, bomb so nice, easy put on, doesn't really sting your face. But it's very simple thing man, and for me takes less time than brushing my teeth. So I always say they may not be together, but they're clean. But to thank your game, the joining on the show, Lord, thank you. Can we come back all the stars of anation, charl he wealth is gonna be journey on the truck. You don't want to miss it. I do all. Welcome to Day Show. My next guest is a Tony nominative and Emmy Award winning actor who stars in the hit series Abbott Elementary, which airs Wednesday nights on ABC and can be streamed on Hulu. Please welcome Cheryl Lee Ralph. Thank m h film of hang Out, Wow, The Long On Lads. Cheryl Lee, Ralph, Welcome to the Daily Show. Let me start with saying congratulations Emmy Award winning. You know, there are many performers in history, many artists, many actors who audiences have said critics arelike this person never got their flowers this person never got the recognition that they deserve. So many people in Black Hollywood never got the flowers that they deserved. Talk me through just a part of this journey. You know you've done it all. I mean militia for me and then moving from one to the next. You know, dream girls for so many people back in the day, the original dream girl. Talk me through the journey and what has kept you being as efficescent as you are? Oh my God, I choose to be happy. I choose joy. Yeah, I believe that since I am alive, I might as well get up, get out there and enjoy it. Yes, I'm so happy that God has chosen throughout all of these years to wake me up every morning in my right mind so that I can carry on in life. I love that. Yes, that's what keeps me going. That's what keeps me enjoying what I do through all of the ups and downs, through all of the missteps and the bad breaks. I choose to carry on. I choose to look in the mirror and love what I see. We love working se we genuinely love what we see. Again, I mean, I am a sucker. I love all comedy, anything that is funny, I love you are a master and the way you perform it. We Abbot Elementary has done what many people said it wasn't possible. People said, no one wants his life TV anymore, nobody likes to sit comed anymore than he likes these family stories anymore. And yet Abbot Elementary has gone on the exact thing that everyone said was impossible. You know, Quincon Brunson assembled this amazing squad of people to come in and tell real stories that teach us love of themselves, of the students of the American schooling system. You know, I know it touches everything, But what do you think it is that brings people back every single week and watching live by the way, sharing it with each other. I think what they're seeing is their own struggles. There's We're just a group of regular people in the show going through life, and we just happened to be in a very challenging situation. And every week we are getting over the difficulties and we are appreciating what we have together working together on the show, in the show, in the characters, in the scripts, and people see themselves in it and they love it. They feel it, they feel it and they love it. And they tell us they do all the God, my god, my life now has turned into one big photo session. Anytime I go out into this threat, everybody wants to take a picture. Everybody wants you to talk to their people, and everybody wants to tell you how much they love you. And I am saying, that's why I wake up happy every day. You You're also you're also the brid the rear breed of human being. Who is you know, talented in every aspect of what you do? You know some some people will see you as an act on screen, others know you as the phenomenal perform on stage. And now you have an album out Christmas album. Yes, yes, which I like to play on words. But but but talk me through that, talk me through why the Christmas album and why an album in general. Well, first of all, it was only supposed to be a song, and before I knew it, we had done fifteen songs and we have an album called Slay and people are actually downloading it everywhere and loving it. It's crazy, people are it's not your mother's Christmas album. We're gonna take your mother to church and the club. I didn't notice that. I didn't notice that it is it is. It is one of the sexiest Christmas albums I've ever heard. I'm not I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna like before I let you go. I would be remiss if I didn't talk about your moments at the Emmy's where I always say, you know, at every awards show, I feel like they should be an award for the best award acceptance, and yours was that because sometimes at awards, you know, it can feel self indulgence, it can feel like we're not part of what's happening. It felt like we won with you. It felt like people want, you know, with your win, even just for their lives. It didn't feel like a platitude. It didn't feel like you were just saying it. It felt like you were embodying it. And I'd love to know in that moment, when you're holding that award, you know in an industry that everyone thrives to be celebrated or successful in what made you think of talking to the people and not just talking about yourself, Because I thought in that moment, you know, my dad add was a great lifelong learner and educator, and I when they called my name, it was just like I could hear my dad saying, there you are, it's your time, come on, but I couldn't. I couldn't. I was so shocked. I couldn't get the message from my brain to my feet to move, and I my husband kept saying get up, get up. And it wasn't until I heard Quintus say it's your name, get up. And then I got up because Tyler came and literally lifted me up and guided me to the stage and I got their center stage, and there was my dad again saying, don't you cry, don't you cry. This is your moment. Let them know who you are and how you got here. And there's a big screen like that in front of me saying stop now, stop now, And I was like, I haven't even gotten started. Oh I love it, Yes, I love it so much. Thank you for joining me on the show. Thank you so much. I don't think you do you share only Ralph. Everybody. Are you gonna take a petty of posing right back off the good Well that's our talking tonight. But before we go, before we go this holiday season, please come to the support sing Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States. If you can support them in their amazing work of getting nourishing foods to the people who need it most, and please donate at the link below. Until next time, stay safe out there, and remember the next time you walk past a major corporation, you might want to clutch your back. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven ten Central, Armed Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime I'm on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast