Reguardless of the outcome of this whole situation surrounding the Touhy family, I think we can all agree that there’s no reason that the actors who played them in the movie need to have their names dragged through the mud.
I don't know if you touched on this somewhere else, but it's important to note that the actor who plays Michael in the movie made comments defending Sandra Bullock when asked about all of this. I believe the quote was "Shut up. She was just an actor hired to do a job."
Sandra Bullock is easily one of my most favorite actors, absolutely love her. She doesn't deserve to go through this bs over something not even relevant to her.
She deserves to keep her Oscar for the film, but if what Michael Oher was saying is true, and the movie basically lied about his life, along with his family LYING about the conservatorship(which isn't the same as being adopted into a family)...then he has every right to sue the Touhys.
@@adu1991except that he knew, taken from his own words in his 2011 book, that he was under a conservator ship. He might not have been cognizant of all of the legal details, but from his own words, he knew that he hadn’t been adopted.
Either an activist, or someone who is smart enough to take advantage of activism. "Hey man, your book ain't getting attention, I bet you could just play the race card and get everything you've ever wanted"
I appreciate you trying to take race away from the situation, Brett. I just recently discovered you and I really agree with alot of your points of view.
@@LyftraSmid if you can overlook the plain racist propaganda and how they warped reality injecting white saviour complex and literally it's a movie with a black man as a protagonist and he the guy protecting the blindside earned nothing from it
I thought Kapernick also had a book come out shortly before he accused his his adoptive white parents of being racist. If that is truly the case, then they both have the same PR team.
We all know its a PR stunt for his book but its bad, he bit the hands that fed him, educated him, cherished him and gave him a home. What goes around comes back around.
Wow very ignorant statement on your part. You do realize the movie lied and pretended that the family got him into football even though he was a star player since he was 13. He also felt the movie made him look mentally slow. I promise you he has always spoken out against this movie. Do me a favor and go to Google and type in "michael oher says the blind side movie ruined his life and a 2015 article will come up which is when he said it. He has been begging people to understand the lies of this movie since it came out. All you have to do is Google it and you'll see he's right. It's not a pr stunt. Brett like most women need to believe this story is true. Not trying to be mean.
@@Joseph-xt3el 🙄 You assume much about women, probably because you don’t listen to them. Your comment certainly reflects the fact that you did not listen to the entire video.
@@Joseph-xt3elThe movie lied? What a juvenile statement. The movie took liberties with the facts, like Hollywood ALWAYS does, in order to tell a story, and appeal to a broader audience. And maybe the movie made him look mentally slow, because of the fact he had a 0.76 GPA, and scored below average on IQ testing, prior to meeting the Touhys? Who, along with hiring a tutoring, and getting him enrolled in online courses, helped him to raise it up above the minimum required to attend an NCAA program? So, without their intervention, the chances Oher ever makes it past being just a high school football star (with a D-/F+ GPA) are around slim, and none. Get off the white-guilt bandwagon, and look at the facts with open eyes, instead of just parroting the narratives tossed around by bleeding-heart echo chambers.
@@chrisvanderwielen1530 you should get into politics, took liberty with the facts lol. Why did they need to pretend the family got him into football? Why did they need to pretend bullocks character gave him a speech to teach him how to block? Why did they pretend she punked out some thugs who bullied him? Why did the movie pretend she did anything more than give a football star a place to stay and pay for tutoring? Why is she the main character? Your saying because they did something nice they are responsible for his success in life. If Michael oher says this movie ruined his life due to it's lies, and what he wants is for the tuoys to admit that, what's wrong with that. I would feel the same way if he was a poor white guy. By the way I'm gonna make a film about 9-11. But instead of terrorists attacking us we attack them. And when people ask me why I lied, il say I didn't lie I just took liberty with the facts lol 😂. Thanks for expressing your opinion though.
Brett, you are definitely the eternal warrior for the Truth and i always get such a kick out of your enthusiasm for making sure people really get the clearest picture possible and you definitely know how to get it done too, which surprisingly so many people still don't, even after years of doing what you do, because they get hooked by all the drama, but definitely not you and i absolutely it! lol Enjoy your travels and please be safe over there. Oh, and get me a t-shirt! 888*
Even in the worst possible case, Michael got a pretty decent deal overall from the Touhys. But it seems most likely that he is just maligning his loving family either for attention or because he drunk the kool-aid.
He's worth $22 million to this day.... he also tried to handle this privately but they turned that against him which made him go public... idk what's going on well have to wait until the courts figure it out
@@dangerousdylan6262 Mike Tyson and Evander Holy field were both supposedly worth over 100 million and they both filed for bankruptcy. We don't know these guys'personal finances, he could've made some really bad investments.
I need to find the other post I listened to last night that went into more detail about the money from the movie. Michael’s money is supposedly STILL held in the conservatorship -- which he has not wanted to access, but can do so whenever he decides to. Also, it was reported he was requesting $15milion from them recently - their own money which was invested wisely after the sale of his large restaurant business BEFORE Michael had anything to do with them -and when they did not give it to him is when he filed his petition. There is a lot to this story and obviously many people are hurt.
@@RachelNichols-writer They never withheld a penny of Oher's money from him. They put money they made into his conservatorship account to help him but he wanted more of their money.
@@RachelNichols-writer The conservatorship was so they could have him under their health insurance and car insurance and so he could go to the NCAA even though he didn't qualify for a scholarship because his grades were too low.
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All I care about is this: Is the part where they took him into their home, fed him and gave him a place to live true? That's before we even get to the part where this gave him a multi million dollar NFL career. If so, stop whining and be happy with the life God gave you. If you've been "used" by them, you're the most well-off used person in the world.
Yes, they took him in, clothed him, fed him and paid for 20-hours of tutoring per week in high school and college and probably helped him pay for his first year or two of college because his GPA was too low to receive scholarships. By the third year of college, he was doing very well and was on scholarship. Without them, he would never have made his 30+ million NFL money. They also gave him a percentage of the million dollars they made from selling The Blind Side story.
@@wishingb5859”without them” is where the saviour complex comes in. Help is good and help is fine, but then why sell the story to have a movie about ‘look how much I helped this person’. If I do a christian mission trip and the people i visit improve their lives is it “without me they wouldn’t have got there” no, you just gave additional help to get them where they wanted to go which is great, but doesnt make everything about the hypothetical you. Plenty have had NFL careers with worse upbringings. Its just a pat yourself on the back moment that lasts 90 minutes.
Conservative politicians are usually still trash. Less trash than progressive ones, but still trash in support of the Ukraine war and many other awful policies that make things worse for everyone in the US other than a small select group.
Eh, I don't like it when real flesh and blood people are replaced with AI. They should've just had Brett sit in the studio like in the past, rather than use AI tools to create this episode.
Ok but if he thought he was adopted, doesn’t that mean that they treated him like family ? Like if he had “no idea” he wasn’t adopted until now. Then didn’t they treat him like family ? Didn’t they help him make millions ?
Their situation was they helped him with a stable home to help him secure college and the conservatorship was in part to secure his spot at ol miss. He may have made it to a different college regardless and made his millions we just don’t know.
@@nate4fishI guaranteed you that he wouldn’t have made millions on his own. I think he was selfish when he made this move. Now not only he is dragging the family name that help his career as a football player, but now the actress/actors name as well.
@@MegaSizeBunnyI mean this dude has been making comments for years about that family and criticizing the movie. I don’t blame them for not wanting to be apart of his life. Ungrateful kid if you ask me. Scott adams was right.
@@MegaSizeBunnyhow you know they only took him in for money, it's hard answer that question , when it's asked through emotion..instead of factual accounts of what occured. As for feeling betrayed, what evidence is there for him to even feel that way. Ok he wasnt quote adopted according to paperwork, but does that really reflect he wasn't necessary treated like family. Your asking an unfair question.. all because your in your feelings..
The thing is, most of it is still true. They housed him and clothed him and fed him and paid for 20 hours a week tutoring in high school and in college and he made over 30 million in the NFL. They made a million on the story The Blind Side and gave him a share. But he felt like they stole his story and is suing them for 15 million dollars. (Which they have because of their fast food businesses that they sold)
@@wishingb5859let me explain to you why he has hated this movie since it came out which is documented. First, the movie pretended the family taught him how to play football even though he was a great player since he was 13. He also hated the speech in the movie where bullocks character teaches him to block because it's bs. He also felt the movie depicted him as mentally challenged. The real lady never did any of the things the movie character does. No this movie is not basically true. What happened is the family let a star football player stay at there house, a lot families do it. I know people who let foreign exchange students stay at there house. Michael wants people to know it's a lie more than he cares about the lawsuit.
@@Joseph-xt3el What you are saying is not true. When they met him, he had a .6 GPA and did not qualify to attend the school he was applying to attend and once there, his grades were also too low to be allowed to play football at the high school. Yes the movie (not the family or the book) took liberties but he would not have been allowed to play football even in high school without the family.
@@Joseph-xt3el The family loves him like a son even now. They fed him, clothed him, housed him, bought him vehicles, paid for his car and medical insurance, paid thousands and thousands and thousands for a tutor to work with him 20-hours a week for years. They did the conservatorship so that he could get into Ole Miss. and they did not write either the book or movie The Blind Side and even writers don’t get millions plural for a movie. He liked the book and fame of The Blind Side so much that he wrote a best selling book with The Blind Side in the title. Liked the movie a whole lot when he was getting those book royalties. But he has spent a lot of his 30 million dollars from football and he never would have graduated high school and been able to go to college without the family.
@@wishingb5859 no he never liked the fame from it. Go to Google and type in Michael oher says the blind side ruined his life and a 2015 article will pop up which is when he said it, and he also details how the book and movie are a curse. Oh, and what school did they help him get into? That's right there alma mater which is why they got investigated. Your simply taking in the facts you want to take in. He would of made it to college or the NFL either way, the family just allowed him to go to that particular private highschool. Again, he was a star football player before he ever met the family. A lot of people take in sports stars who want to play for a private school. All he wants is for the family to admit that the story is mostly a lie. Thanks for expressing your opinion though.
@@jessicafrazon7393They dissolved their company and sold their franchise for $219M in 2019, only keeping 11 restaurants… but they owned all of this before they had ever met him and were making millions per year in profit.
@jessicafrazon7393 I know in the movie they mentioned his restaurants (I think it was Taco bell) as if he still owned them. But that's also just the movie, it could have happened before they met him.
No matter what the outcome..... There would be good-hearted people of all colours and races wanting to do some good in the world but scared of future outcomes after watching this. Goodness coming to bite them. Its truly sad.
20/10 video! Regardless of where you're at, this set is awesome. The lighting I think is what does it, seriously, it's bright and uplifting. How long are you going to be in Hungry for? Good luck on the project regardless, and safest of travels to everyone on it!
It's pretty obvious to me Oher is doing this for attention and money. Dude likely got accustomed to fame thanks to his NFL career and the movie, but now that he's retired and isn't getting the attention he did and he saw how Colin Kapernick got some attention by throwing his family under the bus, he figured he could do the same thing.
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Just because a legal document is technically still in effect doesn't mean it has any actual legal usefulness or weight. That is most likely the case with the conservatorship. The story isn't complete without mentioning that Michael supposedly refused his portion of the proceeds from the movie, and that he had been trying to shake the family down for $15 million.
This whole thing is quite a doozy. It sounds like the Tuohys did a horrible job of explaining what Michael was signing (apparently having said the conservatorship was like an adoption), but he didn't ask enough questions over time. I always felt like the movie took some Hollywood-like liberties anyway (such as the bit about Michael not knowing much about football before joining the team, to excelling on the field). No matter where the truth lies, it sounds like a messy situation. Taking it out on the actors from the movie is such a modern problem. The actors were simply doing a story on what they'd been given - they would have known next to nothing about anything else. Demanding Sandra Bullock give back awards she won is laughable and despicable.
Regardless of what the family did to him first of all, there’s no evidence that they actually did something wrong and second of all. Either way they gave him an awesome football career and a lavish life
He was already a well known and successful football player in high school. That’s when this family became interested in him. The movie makes it look like he doesn’t know anything about football.
@@MegaSizeBunnythey still provided the solid foundation, so he could attend college and eventually go to NFL.. Without that , he just another kid playing football.
@@MegaSizeBunny Wrong. Sean Tuohy started paying for his school lunch account shortly after he began school as a sophomore at Briarcrest... before he had seen Oher play any sports AT ALL. Tuohy talked to him all the time for months before they *ever* saw him play football. The school finally lets him play football his junior year and he is mediocre. He even got benched for a number of weeks during the season. So he was NOT a "well known and successful football player" that November when wife bought him clothes, and they started letting him stay at their house whenever he wanted. Where is everyone getting this lie that he was some star player when they met him?
@@Joyaplayscod What Type was it? Apparently the type of conservatorship that satisfies the NCAA and lets him play for Ole Miss, allows the Tuohys to put him on their family medical/auto insurance, lets them sign a few "Parent or guardian" forms for the college... and then goes completely dormant for decade and a half while he hires his own agents, negotiates his own contracts, signs his own leases, and makes $32 million in the NFL.
@@Joyaplayscod They didn't take any money from him if that is what type of conservatorship you think it is. They paid for 20 hours a week tutoring for him and kept him in their house and helped him qualify to play in the NCAA and kept the tutoring going because Oher's grade-point average (GPA) was still too low to meet the requirements for a Division I scholarship at the time of the offer from Ole Miss.
I like a lot how your team on your channel does such a great job with inserting video clips because so many times I have the same part from a movie, or show in my head that would have fit well into what you are commenting on. Great minds think alike it is said. I figured you would comment on this story too.
In his 2010 book I Beat the Odds, he explained then that he was aware he was not adopted. That it was a conservatorship. He used that exact word multiple times. What a fraud HE is, not them!!
Quinton Aaron the actor who portrayed Oher in the movie in defense of the Tuohys and Sandra Bullock saying he didn't perceive their relationship with Oher as questionable and said the same thing Brett said that Sandra Bullock was doing her job as an actress and shouldn't have to give an Oscar back and that she obviously has nothing to do with what going on.
An adoptive son trying to rip off his family for 15 minutes of Andy Warhol fame! Disgusting and reprehensible. All that to sell his memoir. No good deed goes unpunished - at least from the Tuohys perspective.
I don’t know what to make of this story but this much I know: if he was exploited like he said, let’s see the paperwork. This is fairly easy to demonstrate. Follow the money. If true then the paperwork and documentation will validate Michael’s claims. If false then the family will be vindicated. Just produce the documents and put this matter to bed.
There isn't paperwork to prove exploitation. They did financially support him for years. Housed, clothed, fed, paid for vehicles, paid for 2o-hours per week tutoring in both high school and college. He would never have gotten to the NFL and made 30+ million without them. They sold The Blind Side story for about a million dollars and gave him a share. But he feels like they stole his story instead of them sharing their story. They are a wealthy family and he wants 15 million dollars in reparations for stealing the story.
I was wondering if you were possibly going to be acting in the Pendragon project. I'm glad you're involved at the very least. I've been looking forward to this project ever since I read that it was based on Stephen R. Lawhead's books, and I look forward to seeing your role in this!
This is such a terrible story for many reasons but one big one is it will make people not want to help others as much if they have the means for fear of being betrayed.
I hope the truth comes out. I hate when dishonest selfishness cause so much controversy, division and negativity. Thats a big part of the problem with people especially in the US.
Yeah, they helped him to get good enough grades in high school to graduate and kept helping him in college. They made 1 million on The Blind Side and gave him a share of it. But he wants their fast food money.
@@tpsam Nope, he would never have graduated high school or gotten into college without them and the college demanded the conservatorship or they still wouldn't take him because his GPA was too low to get an NCAA scholarship. When they met him, he had a GPA of 0.6. Didn't qualify even for the high school.
@@tpsam They DID pay him an equal share of what they all made from the movie and continue to pay him but he refused to cash the checks, so they put it in a trust fund for him or his children. But he wanted more than what the movie paid them.
As someone who is in a current legal battle regarding written affidavits regarding conservatorship, here's how it works. There's some that require the incompetence to be presented or stated in the courtroom. This one is based on someone being declared unable to consent due to mental deficiencies. The other is for stuff like this for health insurance, car insurance, etc stuff. Given the age of being forced off an insurance plan, I believe is 27 years old. It would be more cost effective to have that person under conservatorship, so in situations like Michael's, you're legally allowed to qualify like a persons legal child. Which I believe is the conservatorship michael oher had. It's not a loss of consent it was to allow the toohy's to give him health insurance, car insurance, etc to save him his own money.
Who paid for his college? Who paid for his room and board the whole time he lived with this family? Who got him into the private high school AND into the college they paid for? And that in turn got him to professional football which earned him millions. Poor him! Millions of children would give anything to be on his shoes!
Yes, his GPA was too low to get a scholarship in the NCAA. They paid for his room and board, his tutor who went to college with him, his clothes, food, insurance, vehicle, etc.
It sounds as if the conservatorship was never an issue as the powers were never used (especially to the extent that Britney Spears father used and abused the power of hers)… until now when it has helped to boost book sales … haven’t heard the whole story yet so not for anyone to judge
Even if the Father and Mother got rich from what they did they still are the people that saw his potential and he is still rich. Just remember the children that work on sweat shop don't earn that much.
hat family was already mega rich, thet did not need to gamble on a street homeless to maybe one day have another mill on topof their many millions. He's pissed because he's not in the will and gets no inheritance money...
@elijahwoods9078I've never seen an American justify someone stealing from someone else until they feel like people should be grateful for something they didn't ask for.
@@dokessezeaka5159Care to explain why he said nothing UNTIL now? As Brett said, he literally states the conservatorship in his book from 2011. Where is the lie again?
Are you referring to his money hungry "parents." Unlike the movie states he actually played football before and he was huge. They did not help him become pro, but instead leached off of him.
@@babybird4255he was a 15 year old homeless kid. The voodoo future reading you read into this family is fucking insane. He is probably a washed out broke retired athlete. He is clearly shaking them down.
Thank you for not just jumping on the poor Michael bad Tuhoy family train. Something about it feels off. When SJ said he had already tried to extort money from the family and it didn't work really gives me pause to just jump to the family being horrible manipulative people.
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A mega wealthy family saw a poor homeless black guy on the streets and thought… “hmmm… we’re going to exploit him for all his money”. Yeah, makes sense… lol
It’s possible they put him under a conservatorship to help preserve his newly acquired wealth. They were incredibly wealthy BEFORE they met Michael and makes more sense that they took their business learnings and helped Michael apply them 🤷♀️
@@dangerousdylan6262 - how many people worth $100-200M do you even know? Sounds like zero. The idea that someone with $200M would “adopt” an 18yr old kid because they think he MIGHT make money in the NFL later and they MIGHT be able to steal some of it is only something a broke !diot would think because it makes zero sense.
That is a good point. I'm thinking he could have not understood what was going on with contracts etc at the time since his youth was messy, but that would also mean he would need a lot of help and direction with finances and could easily be exploited by NCAA, NFL, media etc without it. So there's 2 ways this may have gone...
@@dangerousdylan6262 literally my thoughts on this situation. I love how people in these comments pretend that there’s no way that the tuohys could’ve knowingly exploited a young man with no parental guidance or support for their own financial gain… hilarious
@@dangerousdylan6262 Well, we could say that about him. They paid for his housing, clothes, food, vehicles, and 20-hours of tutoring every week in high school and college and he couldn't qualify for a scholarship because of his GPA until he had been in the NCAA for a few years..... Then, after he graduates solely because of their efforts, he makes over 30 million in the NFL. They make 1 million on the story of The Blind Side which is told from their perspective AND they gave him a share of that money they made. But he wants 15 million because he needs more than 30 million.
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Reguardless of the outcome of this whole situation surrounding the Touhy family, I think we can all agree that there’s no reason that the actors who played them in the movie need to have their names dragged through the mud.
Yeah they don't deserve that
No joke
100% right
Who the H*** is the Toughy family and why should anyone care???
@@stevedallas4942what rock you living under...
Like are you Patrick from Bikini Bottom or something?
I don't know if you touched on this somewhere else, but it's important to note that the actor who plays Michael in the movie made comments defending Sandra Bullock when asked about all of this. I believe the quote was "Shut up. She was just an actor hired to do a job."
Sandra Bullock is easily one of my most favorite actors, absolutely love her. She doesn't deserve to go through this bs over something not even relevant to her.
She deserves to keep her Oscar for the film, but if what Michael Oher was saying is true, and the movie basically lied about his life, along with his family LYING about the conservatorship(which isn't the same as being adopted into a family)...then he has every right to sue the Touhys.
@@adu1991except that he knew, taken from his own words in his 2011 book, that he was under a conservator ship. He might not have been cognizant of all of the legal details, but from his own words, he knew that he hadn’t been adopted.
@@adu1991 the movie wasn’t advertised as a documentary, that’s why people should have no problems with the movie
@@robburross7413goodness forbid people actually read contracts they sign, eh.......
It's basically a hate crime what's happening with Sandra..
'An activist got to him' is EXACTLY what I think happened. Really sad.
It shouldn't be too hard to figure out how much the Touhy's made from the deal.
Evil people tearing families appart
This is probably being pushed by evil leftist lawyers.
Either an activist, or someone who is smart enough to take advantage of activism. "Hey man, your book ain't getting attention, I bet you could just play the race card and get everything you've ever wanted"
@@kwilliams2239 From what I've read so far, ~$260k
I appreciate you trying to take race away from the situation, Brett. I just recently discovered you and I really agree with alot of your points of view.
blacks ALWAYS make it about race..ALWAYS!
If they’re gonna use DEI, we should do something about it
Don't apologise for loving 'The Blind Side'. It's a great movie.
it truly is
Some people just hate feel good stories because they want everyone as miserable as they have chosen to be.
It's my favorite movie
Ehhh pretty mid, but if you wanna pat yourselves on the back maybe.
@@LyftraSmid if you can overlook the plain racist propaganda and how they warped reality injecting white saviour complex and literally it's a movie with a black man as a protagonist and he the guy protecting the blindside earned nothing from it
I thought Kapernick also had a book come out shortly before he accused his his adoptive white parents of being racist. If that is truly the case, then they both have the same PR team.
Brett knocked this out of the park. Right on point.
We all know its a PR stunt for his book but its bad, he bit the hands that fed him, educated him, cherished him and gave him a home. What goes around comes back around.
Wow very ignorant statement on your part. You do realize the movie lied and pretended that the family got him into football even though he was a star player since he was 13. He also felt the movie made him look mentally slow. I promise you he has always spoken out against this movie. Do me a favor and go to Google and type in "michael oher says the blind side movie ruined his life and a 2015 article will come up which is when he said it. He has been begging people to understand the lies of this movie since it came out. All you have to do is Google it and you'll see he's right. It's not a pr stunt. Brett like most women need to believe this story is true. Not trying to be mean.
@@Joseph-xt3el 🙄 You assume much about women, probably because you don’t listen to them. Your comment certainly reflects the fact that you did not listen to the entire video.
@@Joseph-xt3elThe movie lied? What a juvenile statement. The movie took liberties with the facts, like Hollywood ALWAYS does, in order to tell a story, and appeal to a broader audience. And maybe the movie made him look mentally slow, because of the fact he had a 0.76 GPA, and scored below average on IQ testing, prior to meeting the Touhys? Who, along with hiring a tutoring, and getting him enrolled in online courses, helped him to raise it up above the minimum required to attend an NCAA program? So, without their intervention, the chances Oher ever makes it past being just a high school football star (with a D-/F+ GPA) are around slim, and none. Get off the white-guilt bandwagon, and look at the facts with open eyes, instead of just parroting the narratives tossed around by bleeding-heart echo chambers.
@@chrisvanderwielen1530 you should get into politics, took liberty with the facts lol. Why did they need to pretend the family got him into football? Why did they need to pretend bullocks character gave him a speech to teach him how to block? Why did they pretend she punked out some thugs who bullied him? Why did the movie pretend she did anything more than give a football star a place to stay and pay for tutoring? Why is she the main character? Your saying because they did something nice they are responsible for his success in life. If Michael oher says this movie ruined his life due to it's lies, and what he wants is for the tuoys to admit that, what's wrong with that. I would feel the same way if he was a poor white guy. By the way I'm gonna make a film about 9-11. But instead of terrorists attacking us we attack them. And when people ask me why I lied, il say I didn't lie I just took liberty with the facts lol 😂. Thanks for expressing your opinion though.
Brett, you are definitely the eternal warrior for the Truth and i always get such a kick out of your enthusiasm for making sure people really get the clearest picture possible and you definitely know how to get it done too, which surprisingly so many people still don't, even after years of doing what you do, because they get hooked by all the drama, but definitely not you and i absolutely it! lol
Enjoy your travels and please be safe over there. Oh, and get me a t-shirt!
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Brett's transitions into the ad reads are always so smooth.
Ikr 😂
No good deed goes unpunished
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Same! she is so honest and Beautiful
@@JJonpaydayfrrrr literally everything she says is exactly how i feel!
Yes! If we can get Brett to start a gaming channel that would be so great👌😂
Imagine her fighting Sigrun from GOW 2018. That would be quite the show lol.
Omggg youre in Hungary! Thats so close to where I live ( Serbia ), I hope you have a great time!❤
Even in the worst possible case, Michael got a pretty decent deal overall from the Touhys. But it seems most likely that he is just maligning his loving family either for attention or because he drunk the kool-aid.
They literally got him into a college when he was already an adult
Way to bite the hand that fed him
@@raidzeromatt ninjas are good at that
He's a kang.
How is a 20 year conservatorship a good thing?
@@GeorgieB1965 how about he stays with his druggie mom then? He was 18 when he signed it, his decision.
In his book " I beat the Odds" published in 2011, his memoir he wrote that it was a conservortship
They said that in the video
She said that in the video.
I also find it funny that he wrote they told him it was the same as being legally adopted. Everyone's conveniently skipping that part.
This dude obviously burned through his NFL money!! What a crappy thing to do to people who helped him out.
I read he was let go in about 2017 from his football team
@@tonycg9952 probably was garbage
He's worth $22 million to this day.... he also tried to handle this privately but they turned that against him which made him go public... idk what's going on well have to wait until the courts figure it out
@@dangerousdylan6262 Mike Tyson and Evander Holy field were both supposedly worth over 100 million and they both filed for bankruptcy. We don't know these guys'personal finances, he could've made some really bad investments.
Conservatorship… what a crappy way to misrepresent adoption.
She didnt mention how michael tried to extort the family for something like $15 million and they said no, and then he took this story public.
source
I need to find the other post I listened to last night that went into more detail about the money from the movie. Michael’s money is supposedly STILL held in the conservatorship -- which he has not wanted to access, but can do so whenever he decides to. Also, it was reported he was requesting $15milion from them recently - their own money which was invested wisely after the sale of his large restaurant business BEFORE Michael had anything to do with them -and when they did not give it to him is when he filed his petition.
There is a lot to this story and obviously many people are hurt.
If they are withholding Oher's own money from him, he has a right to sue of course. Still odd he didn't do this long ago.
@@RachelNichols-writer They never withheld a penny of Oher's money from him. They put money they made into his conservatorship account to help him but he wanted more of their money.
@@RachelNichols-writer The conservatorship was so they could have him under their health insurance and car insurance and so he could go to the NCAA even though he didn't qualify for a scholarship because his grades were too low.
@@wishingb5859 OK. I didn't know the details. It's good to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
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All I care about is this: Is the part where they took him into their home, fed him and gave him a place to live true? That's before we even get to the part where this gave him a multi million dollar NFL career. If so, stop whining and be happy with the life God gave you. If you've been "used" by them, you're the most well-off used person in the world.
Straight facts my friend
Yes, they took him in, clothed him, fed him and paid for 20-hours of tutoring per week in high school and college and probably helped him pay for his first year or two of college because his GPA was too low to receive scholarships. By the third year of college, he was doing very well and was on scholarship. Without them, he would never have made his 30+ million NFL money. They also gave him a percentage of the million dollars they made from selling The Blind Side story.
Michael has no reason to complain or be mad at the family. He should be happy with what he has.
@@wishingb5859”without them” is where the saviour complex comes in. Help is good and help is fine, but then why sell the story to have a movie about ‘look how much I helped this person’. If I do a christian mission trip and the people i visit improve their lives is it “without me they wouldn’t have got there” no, you just gave additional help to get them where they wanted to go which is great, but doesnt make everything about the hypothetical you.
Plenty have had NFL careers with worse upbringings. Its just a pat yourself on the back moment that lasts 90 minutes.
Brett is a great role model
Brett Cooper changed the way I view conservatives for the best. This story Is crazy. I'm flabbergasted.
Seeing this brilliant and lovely young woman diving deep into the roots of conservatism gives me hope for the future.
She's really something special
She hates gamers. Sad
Conservative politicians are usually still trash. Less trash than progressive ones, but still trash in support of the Ukraine war and many other awful policies that make things worse for everyone in the US other than a small select group.
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Eh, I don't like it when real flesh and blood people are replaced with AI. They should've just had Brett sit in the studio like in the past, rather than use AI tools to create this episode.
@alexlewis5365 what?
@@alexlewis5365she does the same she makes a video about something you know crazy about liberals
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Phenomenal work on this story Brett, keep up the good work.
Welcome to my little country, Brett. I hope you enjoyed your time here.
Ok but if he thought he was adopted, doesn’t that mean that they treated him like family ? Like if he had “no idea” he wasn’t adopted until now. Then didn’t they treat him like family ? Didn’t they help him make millions ?
Their situation was they helped him with a stable home to help him secure college and the conservatorship was in part to secure his spot at ol miss. He may have made it to a different college regardless and made his millions we just don’t know.
@@nate4fishI guaranteed you that he wouldn’t have made millions on his own. I think he was selfish when he made this move. Now not only he is dragging the family name that help his career as a football player, but now the actress/actors name as well.
Would you not feel betrayed when finding out they only took him in for money not and because they wanted to be your parents?
@@MegaSizeBunnyI mean this dude has been making comments for years about that family and criticizing the movie. I don’t blame them for not wanting to be apart of his life. Ungrateful kid if you ask me. Scott adams was right.
@@MegaSizeBunnyhow you know they only took him in for money, it's hard answer that question , when it's asked through emotion..instead of factual accounts of what occured.
As for feeling betrayed, what evidence is there for him to even feel that way.
Ok he wasnt quote adopted according to paperwork, but does that really reflect he wasn't necessary treated like family.
Your asking an unfair question.. all because your in your feelings..
Thank you Brett, as I said in an earlier comment, I have been active most of the day and really needed something like this as a break. Thanks
Congrats on the casting! I watched the blindside last weekend and couldnt stop tearing up. 😢 such a beautiful movie!
The thing is, most of it is still true. They housed him and clothed him and fed him and paid for 20 hours a week tutoring in high school and in college and he made over 30 million in the NFL. They made a million on the story The Blind Side and gave him a share. But he felt like they stole his story and is suing them for 15 million dollars. (Which they have because of their fast food businesses that they sold)
@@wishingb5859let me explain to you why he has hated this movie since it came out which is documented. First, the movie pretended the family taught him how to play football even though he was a great player since he was 13. He also hated the speech in the movie where bullocks character teaches him to block because it's bs. He also felt the movie depicted him as mentally challenged. The real lady never did any of the things the movie character does. No this movie is not basically true. What happened is the family let a star football player stay at there house, a lot families do it. I know people who let foreign exchange students stay at there house. Michael wants people to know it's a lie more than he cares about the lawsuit.
@@Joseph-xt3el What you are saying is not true. When they met him, he had a .6 GPA and did not qualify to attend the school he was applying to attend and once there, his grades were also too low to be allowed to play football at the high school. Yes the movie (not the family or the book) took liberties but he would not have been allowed to play football even in high school without the family.
@@Joseph-xt3el The family loves him like a son even now. They fed him, clothed him, housed him, bought him vehicles, paid for his car and medical insurance, paid thousands and thousands and thousands for a tutor to work with him 20-hours a week for years. They did the conservatorship so that he could get into Ole Miss. and they did not write either the book or movie The Blind Side and even writers don’t get millions plural for a movie. He liked the book and fame of The Blind Side so much that he wrote a best selling book with The Blind Side in the title. Liked the movie a whole lot when he was getting those book royalties. But he has spent a lot of his 30 million dollars from football and he never would have graduated high school and been able to go to college without the family.
@@wishingb5859 no he never liked the fame from it. Go to Google and type in Michael oher says the blind side ruined his life and a 2015 article will pop up which is when he said it, and he also details how the book and movie are a curse. Oh, and what school did they help him get into? That's right there alma mater which is why they got investigated. Your simply taking in the facts you want to take in. He would of made it to college or the NFL either way, the family just allowed him to go to that particular private highschool. Again, he was a star football player before he ever met the family. A lot of people take in sports stars who want to play for a private school. All he wants is for the family to admit that the story is mostly a lie. Thanks for expressing your opinion though.
Brett has the mind of a daughter I wish I had.
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Dont let your future daughter see that 😂
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@@aasfi109 Come on man.
It's kind of strange. This only came up after the family sold all their fast-food franchises for like 200 million.
I thought they did that before they even met Michael?
@@jessicafrazon7393They dissolved their company and sold their franchise for $219M in 2019, only keeping 11 restaurants… but they owned all of this before they had ever met him and were making millions per year in profit.
@jessicafrazon7393 I know in the movie they mentioned his restaurants (I think it was Taco bell) as if he still owned them. But that's also just the movie, it could have happened before they met him.
No matter what the outcome..... There would be good-hearted people of all colours and races wanting to do some good in the world but scared of future outcomes after watching this. Goodness coming to bite them. Its truly sad.
This is what you get for help a dirty monkey.
People need to leave Sandra alone!!! She’s going through so much loss right now I can’t even imagine.
She uses baby foreskin cream.
Agree
Brett, you did a really good and thorough investigation on this topic. Thank you for clearing the air.
20/10 video! Regardless of where you're at, this set is awesome. The lighting I think is what does it, seriously, it's bright and uplifting. How long are you going to be in Hungry for? Good luck on the project regardless, and safest of travels to everyone on it!
I’m so glad you’re making this video because I was wondering about them!!
The title is absolutely perfect. Whoever titles her videos needs a raise!
....it's not that clever
It's pretty obvious to me Oher is doing this for attention and money. Dude likely got accustomed to fame thanks to his NFL career and the movie, but now that he's retired and isn't getting the attention he did and he saw how Colin Kapernick got some attention by throwing his family under the bus, he figured he could do the same thing.
Race is big money and he's cashing in. At the expense of the people who helped him. Classy.
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Just because a legal document is technically still in effect doesn't mean it has any actual legal usefulness or weight. That is most likely the case with the conservatorship.
The story isn't complete without mentioning that Michael supposedly refused his portion of the proceeds from the movie, and that he had been trying to shake the family down for $15 million.
This whole thing is quite a doozy. It sounds like the Tuohys did a horrible job of explaining what Michael was signing (apparently having said the conservatorship was like an adoption), but he didn't ask enough questions over time. I always felt like the movie took some Hollywood-like liberties anyway (such as the bit about Michael not knowing much about football before joining the team, to excelling on the field). No matter where the truth lies, it sounds like a messy situation.
Taking it out on the actors from the movie is such a modern problem. The actors were simply doing a story on what they'd been given - they would have known next to nothing about anything else. Demanding Sandra Bullock give back awards she won is laughable and despicable.
Regardless of what the family did to him first of all, there’s no evidence that they actually did something wrong and second of all. Either way they gave him an awesome football career and a lavish life
He was already a well known and successful football player in high school. That’s when this family became interested in him. The movie makes it look like he doesn’t know anything about football.
@@MegaSizeBunnythey still provided the solid foundation, so he could attend college and eventually go to NFL..
Without that , he just another kid playing football.
@@MegaSizeBunny Wrong. Sean Tuohy started paying for his school lunch account shortly after he began school as a sophomore at Briarcrest... before he had seen Oher play any sports AT ALL. Tuohy talked to him all the time for months before they *ever* saw him play football. The school finally lets him play football his junior year and he is mediocre. He even got benched for a number of weeks during the season. So he was NOT a "well known and successful football player" that November when wife bought him clothes, and they started letting him stay at their house whenever he wanted. Where is everyone getting this lie that he was some star player when they met him?
@@Joyaplayscod What Type was it? Apparently the type of conservatorship that satisfies the NCAA and lets him play for Ole Miss, allows the Tuohys to put him on their family medical/auto insurance, lets them sign a few "Parent or guardian" forms for the college... and then goes completely dormant for decade and a half while he hires his own agents, negotiates his own contracts, signs his own leases, and makes $32 million in the NFL.
@@Joyaplayscod They didn't take any money from him if that is what type of conservatorship you think it is. They paid for 20 hours a week tutoring for him and kept him in their house and helped him qualify to play in the NCAA and kept the tutoring going because Oher's grade-point average (GPA) was still too low to meet the requirements for a Division I scholarship at the time of the offer from Ole Miss.
I love the way you cut through all the bs and tell it like it is.
Can’t wait to see what you’re working on!! Blessings 💕
I’m super excited for the Pendragon cycle! So happy you’ll be a part of it!
It’s so cool that Brett is in Hungry! I can’t wait to see what the Daily Wire is working on now!
I like a lot how your team on your channel does such a great job with inserting video clips because so many times I have the same part from a movie, or show in my head that would have fit well into what you are commenting on. Great minds think alike it is said. I figured you would comment on this story too.
In his 2010 book I Beat the Odds, he explained then that he was aware he was not adopted. That it was a conservatorship. He used that exact word multiple times. What a fraud HE is, not them!!
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The topics she brings up are always interesting, but the segways to the sponsors are always awesome
Everything about this is just sad... where ever it goes, its breaking up a family... it is just sad...
Welcome to Hungary Brett, so happy to see here!! ❤
Quinton Aaron the actor who portrayed Oher in the movie in defense of the Tuohys and Sandra Bullock saying he didn't perceive their relationship with Oher as questionable and said the same thing Brett said that Sandra Bullock was doing her job as an actress and shouldn't have to give an Oscar back and that she obviously has nothing to do with what going on.
No one could have known the man would be successful
An adoptive son trying to rip off his family for 15 minutes of Andy Warhol fame! Disgusting and reprehensible. All that to sell his memoir. No good deed goes unpunished - at least from the Tuohys perspective.
They didn't adopt him though
@@user_angelmumbecause they couldn’t. He had already reached the age of majority and was therefore legally an adult.
Andy Warhol has had way more than 15 minutes of fame!
“Adoptive”? Did you understand the story?
Brett saying all these facts and staying sane is insane to me.
This Brett is kindof funny and nice, someone i would hang with
Brett started pointing at the camera "She's gonna do an ad! She's gonna do it!!"
I don’t know what to make of this story but this much I know: if he was exploited like he said, let’s see the paperwork. This is fairly easy to demonstrate. Follow the money. If true then the paperwork and documentation will validate Michael’s claims. If false then the family will be vindicated.
Just produce the documents and put this matter to bed.
There isn't paperwork to prove exploitation. They did financially support him for years. Housed, clothed, fed, paid for vehicles, paid for 2o-hours per week tutoring in both high school and college. He would never have gotten to the NFL and made 30+ million without them. They sold The Blind Side story for about a million dollars and gave him a share. But he feels like they stole his story instead of them sharing their story. They are a wealthy family and he wants 15 million dollars in reparations for stealing the story.
amazing as always
The only people who will win in all this will be the lawyers.
Maybe he watched “Get Out” and thought it was non-fiction…
I was wondering if you were possibly going to be acting in the Pendragon project. I'm glad you're involved at the very least. I've been looking forward to this project ever since I read that it was based on Stephen R. Lawhead's books, and I look forward to seeing your role in this!
Thanks Brett for touching light on this issue. also this situation is absolutely crazy
This is such a terrible story for many reasons but one big one is it will make people not want to help others as much if they have the means for fear of being betrayed.
I would never helped a Black, look what he's doing with The family who helped him
I hope the truth comes out.
I hate when dishonest selfishness cause so much controversy, division and negativity. Thats a big part of the problem with people especially in the US.
Makes all the sense in the world. He's running out of money and sees deep pockets.
Been waiting for Brett to talk about this.
I love your videos so much!
His personal net worth is over $20 million and he is claiming he have been exploited? 🙄
Yeah, they helped him to get good enough grades in high school to graduate and kept helping him in college. They made 1 million on The Blind Side and gave him a share of it. But he wants their fast food money.
@@wishingb5859the point is they never paid anything from the movie and he was going to the NFL regardless
How was he going to the NFL regardless? @@tpsam
@@tpsam Nope, he would never have graduated high school or gotten into college without them and the college demanded the conservatorship or they still wouldn't take him because his GPA was too low to get an NCAA scholarship. When they met him, he had a GPA of 0.6. Didn't qualify even for the high school.
@@tpsam They DID pay him an equal share of what they all made from the movie and continue to pay him but he refused to cash the checks, so they put it in a trust fund for him or his children. But he wanted more than what the movie paid them.
As someone who is in a current legal battle regarding written affidavits regarding conservatorship, here's how it works. There's some that require the incompetence to be presented or stated in the courtroom. This one is based on someone being declared unable to consent due to mental deficiencies. The other is for stuff like this for health insurance, car insurance, etc stuff. Given the age of being forced off an insurance plan, I believe is 27 years old. It would be more cost effective to have that person under conservatorship, so in situations like Michael's, you're legally allowed to qualify like a persons legal child. Which I believe is the conservatorship michael oher had. It's not a loss of consent it was to allow the toohy's to give him health insurance, car insurance, etc to save him his own money.
4:50 Brett is a master at seamlessly transitioning into the sponsorship ads.
I find it annoying
Who paid for his college? Who paid for his room and board the whole time he lived with this family? Who got him into the private high school AND into the college they paid for? And that in turn got him to professional football which earned him millions.
Poor him! Millions of children would give anything to be on his shoes!
Yes, his GPA was too low to get a scholarship in the NCAA. They paid for his room and board, his tutor who went to college with him, his clothes, food, insurance, vehicle, etc.
It sounds as if the conservatorship was never an issue as the powers were never used (especially to the extent that Britney Spears father used and abused the power of hers)… until now when it has helped to boost book sales … haven’t heard the whole story yet so not for anyone to judge
Even if the Father and Mother got rich from what they did they still are the people that saw his potential and he is still rich. Just remember the children that work on sweat shop don't earn that much.
But the whole movie was a lie, they fight teach him hire to be better at football, he was already good, but they attributed his success to them
hat family was already mega rich, thet did not need to gamble on a street homeless to maybe one day have another mill on topof their many millions.
He's pissed because he's not in the will and gets no inheritance money...
@elijahwoods9078I've never seen an American justify someone stealing from someone else until they feel like people should be grateful for something they didn't ask for.
@@el_killorcure that's true i forgot that they were already rich. That "Will" side of the story is good
@@dokessezeaka5159Care to explain why he said nothing UNTIL now?
As Brett said, he literally states the conservatorship in his book from 2011.
Where is the lie again?
I do enjoy your podcast , and you honest approach to current events
We're about to see a man lose EVERYTHING and EVERYONE who care for and gave to him.
No he's not! He'll be fine...what an awful thing to wish on someone.
Are you referring to his money hungry "parents." Unlike the movie states he actually played football before and he was huge. They did not help him become pro, but instead leached off of him.
What does this sentence mean?
@@timhawks6101 what are you trying to understand?
@@babybird4255he was a 15 year old homeless kid. The voodoo future reading you read into this family is fucking insane. He is probably a washed out broke retired athlete. He is clearly shaking them down.
When I heard about this story last week. My first question was ‘why now?’ It really doesn’t seat right with me! 🤦🏾♀️
good deeds never go unpunished
Your channel was on the Depp vs Heard doc on Netflix! I can’t wait for your take on it
Thank you for not just jumping on the poor Michael bad Tuhoy family train. Something about it feels off. When SJ said he had already tried to extort money from the family and it didn't work really gives me pause to just jump to the family being horrible manipulative people.
All it takes is one small disagreement for family members to hate each other enough to want to slander their reputations.
The Actors were doing the job of “ ACTING 🎭 “
Hi Brett - Enjoy Hungary! My brother moved there in the 90s and is now married with two boys living in Budapest. Love your energy and based views. BTW chagrin is pronounced
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Omg as a Hungarian it made me so happy to hear you’re in Hungary!! I hope you enjoy 😊
loving your studio/set ❤ it looks cozy!
A mega wealthy family saw a poor homeless black guy on the streets and thought… “hmmm… we’re going to exploit him for all his money”.
Yeah, makes sense… lol
Loving the new set and lighting
I loved ghat movie and that family still did lot for him either way he wouldn’t be where he is today without them
HE RELEASED THAT BOOK ON MY BIRTHDAY🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Regardless of the actual story, the movie was good and Sandra did an excellent job.
I was waiting for someone to dig into this story because the initial reports really didn't give us any info.
It’s possible they put him under a conservatorship to help preserve his newly acquired wealth. They were incredibly wealthy BEFORE they met Michael and makes more sense that they took their business learnings and helped Michael apply them 🤷♀️
Yea we've never seen rich people try to get more rich off the backs or perish of others....
@@dangerousdylan6262 - how many people worth $100-200M do you even know? Sounds like zero. The idea that someone with $200M would “adopt” an 18yr old kid because they think he MIGHT make money in the NFL later and they MIGHT be able to steal some of it is only something a broke !diot would think because it makes zero sense.
That is a good point. I'm thinking he could have not understood what was going on with contracts etc at the time since his youth was messy, but that would also mean he would need a lot of help and direction with finances and could easily be exploited by NCAA, NFL, media etc without it. So there's 2 ways this may have gone...
@@dangerousdylan6262 literally my thoughts on this situation. I love how people in these comments pretend that there’s no way that the tuohys could’ve knowingly exploited a young man with no parental guidance or support for their own financial gain… hilarious
@@dangerousdylan6262 Well, we could say that about him. They paid for his housing, clothes, food, vehicles, and 20-hours of tutoring every week in high school and college and he couldn't qualify for a scholarship because of his GPA until he had been in the NCAA for a few years..... Then, after he graduates solely because of their efforts, he makes over 30 million in the NFL. They make 1 million on the story of The Blind Side which is told from their perspective AND they gave him a share of that money they made. But he wants 15 million because he needs more than 30 million.
Girl I’m not even a conservative but I’m soooo tempted to get Daily Wire Plus to see the movie you’re in. I don’t even know what it’s about. 😂💖 I don’t always agree with your viewpoints but I love your content!
He’s had an attorney since he entered the NFL. I think they would have advised him.
Remember, in Hungary, you have to spray down the seat.....
I honestly think he’s just doing it for attention.
The sound actually sounds better in that set ( ❤brett❤)