Craig Melvin is the multi-layered co-host of the Today Show and his own podcast, Glass Half Full.

But today, you'll learn he's much more than his professional persona, funny, charismatic, smart, real.

All those words come to mind to describe Craig during this conversation.

In the end, he's just a boy from South Carolina supporting his gamecocks while paying taxes in Husky Country. He dives into

his complicated relationship with his father, how they found reconciliation, and what forgiveness

truly looks like. What it is for him to be a parent now, and of course we talk a little sports.

We got into sacrifice, though, and what it took to succeed and maybe some of the parts of life you miss along the way.

It's an example of many seeing the glory without knowing the full story.

Not only is he fantastic at his job, but he's a great teammate.

And so are all the people that he works with.

He took us back behind the scenes of what it's been like to support

Savannah Guthrie through this unfathomable, unimaginable time, how excited they are to have her

back just to show her the love that she's shown all of them whenever they've needed her.

Before we leave, he talks about his biggest pivot or maybe his biggest decision. And if I had to guess,

his wife, Lindsay, won't mind this answer at all. This is a banger of a show from an unlikely

source in my opinion. There are many times that Craig said, you know, that's probably not going

to make the edit. Little does he know, the pivot doesn't leave much on a cutting room floor. So

please enjoy this conversation with the

fascinating Craig Melvin. Hold out. Liminless, nigga some of my people feeling militant. Where I'm

feeling got me up on the mission got me up. Knowing me, I got the key. On the vision,

I can trust. Trust. Liminless. Nickiggins stomach kind pin in it. I father here to witness it. You know my people feeling militant. And you can see, like, you're a little booge. Eric said he had to fix his mic because he had on cashmere. I'll be having a four cashmere one day. I don't know if a Super Bowl champion can call anybody boogey, he's not wearing Haynes T-shirt. Hey, he had on cashmere. Yeah, I'll get that one day. Hey, that's that today's year with money. You know what I'm saying? Craig Melbourne, man, welcome to the show. Oh, we just always started. Yeah, that's how we start. Right on. That's how we start. That's Fred Taylor, Channing Crowder, and Ryan Clark.

I love how you introduce everybody. Like, I don't know who the, I grew up watching. You won a Super Bowl. People know who you are. We got to introduce ourselves, you know what I mean? It's part of it. You don't need an introduction. We got to introduce ourselves.

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