Shaquille O’Neal: Helping others when no one is looking | Trending Now

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0:30Hey, everybody. It's Graham and it's Friday, which means today we get to bring you another trending clip. This week, Shaquille O 'Neal. The clip you're about to hear is trending on our Instagram right now. Hope you enjoy. Charity. You know, we were speaking about your upbringing earlier, and obviously you guys were poor, did not have a lot of money. But there's one time your father's Philip is taking you out to get a burger and sees a homeless guy. What ends up happening? He's driving, and he sees a homeless guy and some Army fatigues. Like, if you ever saw a guy in Army fatigues, he's pulling over.

1:10So he sees a guy. He makes a U.E. in the middle of the street. He's talking to this guy, and he recognized the platoon that the guy was from. Man, I know. Did you know what? Yeah, I know him and then there. So the guy was down on his luck, and my father had, we had like five double cheeseburgers left. My father had$20. And in my mind, I'm like, what are you doing, bro? I'm going to eat that later. When y 'all go to sleep, after everybody get there, I'm going to eat. What are you doing? I'm like selfish at this point. You finally get some change. I get to stop eating army crackers and army cheese.

1:43This is my food. So he gives the guy the food, and he gets in the car, and he slams the door, and he got a little tear in his eye, and he just looks and says, if you ever make, and I remember these words, if you ever make it big time, make sure you help those in need. And then on Thanksgiving, you know, he would go to the barracks, round up the troops, and we would go. We'd have blankets. We'd have all the Army rations that they were getting ready to throw away. Whatever we can. Spam, peanut butter, bread, give it to the homeless people. So those are three things that I do today because of what a man that made$30 ,000 a year taught me.

2:22From a woman who was a secretary, probably made$20 ,000 a year. They taught me that. So you know a lot of people when they look at me and the charities that I do, this is from the heart. Sometimes when I see people doing charities, I could tell they're just doing it for the moment. Like for example, whenever it's a hurricane relief thingy, people who you never see do anything, all of a sudden they just pop up and they're tweeting about it. Like I tell people all the time, I do a lot of stuff seen and unsteamed. It doesn't matter to me if you know that I just fed 10 ,000 homes. I'm doing this because this was what I was taught.

2:59I'm doing it because to walk in there and see a family put a smile on their face for a day, that's just awesome to me. Whether it be visiting an ill child in the hospital, donating money or something else, what's been the singular most personally satisfying thing you've done? Well they all have been satisfying. One time a grandmother had a had a kid that couldn't walk. I bought her a van. See like these are stories that you'll never hear. I bought her a van. Just the other day I get a I get an email a little beautiful and I'll give you her mother's number so you can talk to a little beautiful girl that has cancer.

3:47A. Marie. So the Mom hits me in the email. I don't know if this is your email, but my daughter, she calls you Bubby. She would like to see you. I'm in L.A. So I hit her back. I'll be in L.A. I'm going to come see you. This isn't Shaq. I was like, all right, whatever you say. So I go see her and she wasn't doing well before I went to go see her. So now that I went to see her, her spirits are up. She's happy. I told her to hang in there. and you know just just seeing the kid kid smile just seeing the kids smile I it's fulfilling to me you know to know that that a former high-level juvenile delinquent who all the experts said was gonna be an army like his father all the people said he was gonna be a bum all the people said he wasn't gonna do anything is now the guy that's that's making kids all around the world smile That's my thing.

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