Jay Glazer's Journey: Super Bowl, Marriage, and Mental Health

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00:00Jay Glazer. Good to see you, my friend. It's always great to see you every year at the Super Bowl.

00:04Listen, let's... Did I meet you at... My first Super Bowl was here in New Orleans in the 95 season.

00:11I was here then. I was here before that even. I'm so old I was at the 85 Bears blowout at the

00:17Patriots at the Super Bowl. I think I was working for a sports fan radio network. Yes. No, no.

00:21Doing stuff, right? But I met you then and then we became better friends through Big Daddy

00:26and his golf tournament in Strong Island at the Castle and everything else. Let's start

00:32with what's important though. Your marriage, your wedding. Last year you were getting married

00:38and then I saw you get married. Then I saw your honeymoon. Literally, it was like in living color

00:45in Italy, right? You were in Italy or somewhere. The Amalfi Coast, everything else. I saw the

00:50whole thing. You guys look marvelous. Thank you, man. It was awesome. You look so happy.

00:55I haven't seen you that happy since you broke a story. No doubt about it. That's the thing.

01:01She's changed my life. She's beautiful. She's changed my life and she's an identical twin.

01:05The crazy part is she and her sister were the Doubleman twins. I knew that. The Tennyson twins.

01:10They filmed the commercial right behind the hotel that I'm staying in for the Super Bowl. It's

01:15pretty cool. In the French Quarter? No, no. It's right on the Riverwalk. Oh, all right.

01:19Yeah. But man, she's changed my life. For me, we've talked about mental health. We're going to

01:25talk some here today. For all these years before her, I screwed up every relationship I ever had

01:32because you don't feel worthy of being loved. The pain of when something's going to end

01:38is worse than it ending. You make everything end because you have control over it.

01:43Because I've started to come out and talk about all my mental health stuff and because I have

01:46all these new resources, it's the first time in my life I've

01:51not sabotaged something. I've tried it at times. Doesn't that feel fantastic and free?

01:56Yeah. She won't let me, but she also... I've never seen you smile so much.

02:00It's incredible. I say to her, when I have my melt... Listen, I'm a work in progress. I've got

02:04ADHD, bipolar, depression, anxiety. It's not like it goes away. I just know that I better...

02:11Manage it. Right. But with her,

02:13she says to me, what do you need? And I'm like, make sure I know you're not going to go anywhere.

02:18So when I have my meltdowns, she'll go, hey, I'm not going anywhere. I got you.

02:22How'd you guys fall in love?

02:24I met through my assistant who did Price is Right with her. This girl...

02:28Great show.

02:29Yeah. And so my wife was the first black model for Frederick's of Hollywood.

02:35Her twin was the first ever black playmate.

02:37I mean, she's smoking. Your wedding pictures were just ridiculous. If I were you,

02:42you guys look so beautiful there in Italy. I wouldn't have come home.

02:45Oh, trust me.

02:46I mean, I know you're pretty in LA, but you looked way better in Italy.

02:49I didn't want to come home.

02:50I was so jealous. So let's talk about superness and what's happening with ADHD now. And I know

02:57a lot of people that have it and that have struggled with it. I know my kids have dealt

03:03with it and OCD and all these things. And they're all difficult to deal with, especially for kids

03:12and everything. You've teamed up with these people. And I'm guessing this new drug that

03:18they're...

03:18Kelbree, right? Yeah.

03:19...is making a difference.

03:20Huge. So here's the thing. I got diagnosed with ADHD back in 1989. And I was told back then,

03:26growing up, I had a learning disability. I have a learning disability. I just didn't

03:29learn the way you teach. Clearly, I don't have a learning disability. I just can't sit through

03:33anything I'm not interested in for more than two minutes.

03:35Me neither.

03:36Right. We don't have the attention span. And I think ADHD is more prevalent now because our

03:40attention spans drop because of our cell phones and our...

03:42I clearly have it.

03:43Absolutely.

03:44I have it.

03:45And I try and explain it to people. And when I got put on meds back in 89, the meds I got put on,

03:51which were stimulants, with my bipolar and depression were not...

03:55Working.

03:56No, they were not good for me or anybody else. They were not safe for me and everybody else.

04:01It led to a lot of darkness. But because I talk so much about mental health now,

04:05this drug Kelbree got brought to me and to non-stimulants...

04:08When did that come out?

04:10I signed with them, I think, two or three years ago,

04:12but I used it for three months before I ever said yes.

04:15Right.

04:16I actually take it at night. So think about the other drugs out there. I take this at night.

04:20Right.

04:21It definitely settles me down. But also, I talk to sports teams now, and I try and describe

04:28ADHD. And what it is, I said, if you're in something where you're not interested,

04:33it's like you're drowning. And my only breath of fresh air in the past was to disrupt the class,

04:39to fidget, to draw, to not...

04:41To be the class clown, to be a smart ass.

04:43Do you think I want to get grounded every week?

04:44No.

04:44But I wasn't able to...

04:45I was grounded every week.

04:47But I knew the ramifications...

04:48I'm still grounded every week. I'm still in trouble every week.

04:51You know, the ramifications that you can't stop it. I tell coaches,

04:55as much as you could, like your players, you think they want to get fined? No,

04:58we're not able to, we're not capable.

05:00Is this stuff like...

05:01This stuff, it...

05:02But is it making you like...

05:04It's not enough...

05:06Is it making you like doing this stuff more than reporting on the NFL? Because

05:12you seem so into it now that you're going to teams and you're speaking out and helping people

05:16and making a difference in people's lives. That way, let's face it, at the end of the day,

05:21football doesn't matter. It's cool. It's very entertaining. It's an escape. It's fun. It's

05:26cool. We all love it. The world loves it. America loves it. It's their favorite sport.

05:31But what you're doing here for people and for others, for their lives, for their mental health,

05:37is it getting you off more than being a reporter?

05:40By far, because one of the things that helps me with my depression is being of service.

05:44And doing this is being of service, right? Plus also like having teams help me. Well,

05:49this spreads my team out. It makes us teammates. And there's like, I tell people like,

05:53there are people like, so on the way over here, I feared that I was going to struggle. I'm great

05:59in chaos. So that's, I've also tried to figure out where these things help me. Anxiety. I'm

06:03great in a cage. I'm great on TV. I suck in com, okay?

06:06Right. I know you're a fighter too.

06:08ADHD, man. I can't sit in a three-hour lecture, but I can do...

06:11Do you think you could just snap my neck right now if you wanted to,

06:14like pretty much with all your training, like that you could literally snap my neck?

06:17I would. I'm a man of love now.

06:18You love me, but you could pick me up, superplex me, the people's elbow, and then snap my neck.

06:23I probably could.

06:24Let me ask you quickly. I've got one minute.

06:26Please.

06:27So I'm on the way over here, and I was afraid I was going to struggle here. I FaceTimed Michael

06:31Phelps, because that's my battle buddy. And he's like, I got you. I got you. Anytime you're here

06:35today, you struggle, you FaceTime me. So that's what I'm saying.

06:37He's been through a lot.

06:38Yes. But by talking about it, you're saying, is it fulfilling?

06:41You think he's got enough gold medals? You think he's got enough gold medals, that guy?

06:45But what he's doing now for the rest of the world too is better than anything.

06:48He's got more medals than all these football players.

06:51Mahomes going to get another one? Get another ring?

06:53I know what he's done, but I know what he can't do.

06:55Yeah.

06:55I think the Eagles have the better roster, but that dude over there, it's like Brady.

06:59I can't tell. He wins. That's what he does.

07:01But listen, I'm super happy for you that you're so happy in your marriage.

07:06You're feeling better. Your mental health's better.

07:08I'm smiling now.

07:09I'm glad that you're doing this stuff with ADHD.

07:11It's never too late, man. It took me 54 years to really find love.

07:15So tell Big Daddy, because he's helping me with a project.

07:20We need celebrities to help us with this. We're going to force you to do it too.

07:23So tell him Pharrell was looking for him. I love you. It's good to see you, Jay.

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