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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Terry Crews - "Tough: My Journey to True Power"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

"I had to redefine what tough was in my life." Terry Crews discusses his emotional journey of growing up in an abusive household and reflects on the "Black Supremacy" backlash he faced on Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.5

You're listening to Comedy Central

0:05.0

Terry crew

0:07.0

Oh

0:28.0

I'm gonna show you how to do it man. You're doing it right now. I'm gonna show you how to do it

0:32.8

It looks like you got like six cell phones in your jacket and they're all ringing at the same time

0:39.0

This is doing how are you sir dude? I am so good. It has been a long time since I last saw you

0:44.1

You know it's been a whole pandemic between everything. You've gone through it. You wrote another book

0:49.2

Congratulations on that tough my journey to true power

0:51.6

So when I when I heard about the book I was like tough my journey to true power is like oh Terry's writing

0:56.4

It's like a weightlifting book

0:58.4

I think it was just gonna be about the muscles and everything and yet there's basically nothing

1:02.4

It's it seems like this whole book is about you emotionally weightlifting. Yes. Yes

1:06.6

I I had to redefine what tough was in my life, you know what I mean

1:12.5

As a kid, I mean first of all I was filled with rage

1:17.0

I'm gonna start at the beginning just a little bit because my father was an alcoholic and he was addicted to alcohol

1:24.3

And my mother was addicted to religion which created a really toxic relationship and

1:30.6

At five years old I grew up watching my father not my mother out on the regular

1:36.6

Right

1:37.3

And it was something that changed me. I mean my whole thing when I saw him do that

1:42.3

I was like hey man. It's your world

1:44.6

This it's your way or the highway and I learned that that was the only way to be a man

1:50.4

And it was through rage and it was I would rather be fear than loved and it got me a lot

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