Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome to the latest edition of Stephen A.
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Speaker 1: is not a sports book. It is a book about me,
Speaker 1: my life, my trials and tribulations, and how motivational and
Speaker 1: inspirational I hope it can be to a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there who see no light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. But once you persevere, you continue to
Speaker 1: march on and climb, you'd be surprised what you end
Speaker 1: up discovering about yourself. If I sound somber, it's because
Speaker 1: I've got good reason to. And it's not because I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here before you sick, you know, battling allergies and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, scratchy throat and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Went to season, traveling a lot. Obviously my health is
Speaker 1: not pristine. But I'm okay, okay enough to be here.
Speaker 1: The somber tone is because of the news, some tragic
Speaker 1: news that broke just a few hours ago in the
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin, a school shooting that left at least
Speaker 1: three people dead, including who police suspect is a juvenile shooter.
Speaker 1: Six others were wounded in the incident that happened at
Speaker 1: Abundant Life Christian School this morning in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison
Speaker 1: police Chief Sean Bonds said officers who responded to a
Speaker 1: call of an active shooter at the school also found
Speaker 1: the alleged shooter dead at the scene. The suspected shooter
Speaker 1: was also a student at the school. Initial police reports
Speaker 1: said the fatalities included four victims plus the shooter, but
Speaker 1: later they lowered the number of fatalities. It's sad. It's
Speaker 1: Christmas time and there are folks who have lost loved
Speaker 1: ones and what appears to be another senseless shooting. Now, see,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of stuff that I was talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the most riveting moments in my life,
Speaker 1: something that affected me. And I don't cry often, to
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you. It's just not something that
Speaker 1: I've done much of in my lifetime. I can count
Speaker 1: on one hand the amount of times tears have come
Speaker 1: streaming down my face. And I remember one of those
Speaker 1: times being when those little kids, it's Sandy Hook in
Speaker 1: Connecticut when Obama was in office, were killed. I think
Speaker 1: it was like twenty one deaths if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: nineteen of them with children. And when you heard the
Speaker 1: descriptions of how the shooter would go one by one
Speaker 1: and would shoot a six or seven year old right
Speaker 1: in front of others their age, with those little kids
Speaker 1: knowing that they were next. It can't get more heinous
Speaker 1: than that. And so naturally, stuff like that ultimately ends
Speaker 1: up getting politicized, and people start talking about gun control
Speaker 1: or gun laws, and that forces the other side to
Speaker 1: fight for their Second Amendment rights. And what gets lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle are lives lost. Lives lost, And how, somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, human beings who are supposed to have a
Speaker 1: heart and are supposed to have a soul can't seem
Speaker 1: to come together for the betterment of the most helpless
Speaker 1: amongst us. With your children, And when I heard the
Speaker 1: story about what transpired in Madison, Wisconsin this morning. It's
Speaker 1: a Catholic school. K to twelve. We don't know yet
Speaker 1: the name. I'm sorry. It's a Christian school. I apologize.
Speaker 1: K to twelve. We don't know yet the age of
Speaker 1: the victims at the moment that we're taping this show.
Speaker 1: K to twelve, Ladies and gentlemen. It could be a
Speaker 1: six or seven year old, It could be a nine
Speaker 1: or ten year old. Lives lost are heinous enough at
Speaker 1: the hands of somebody who felt like being a murderer.
Speaker 1: But let's face reality, when it involves kids, it stings
Speaker 1: us a bit more significantly. And that's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that we have to think about. And so, yes,
Speaker 1: this is a show that tackles all issues. We run
Speaker 1: from nothing and we talk about everything. We try to
Speaker 1: be as informed as we possibly can. If we make mistakes,
Speaker 1: we own up to it. If we don't have all
Speaker 1: the facts, all the information necessary, we own up to
Speaker 1: that as well. But there are some things that you
Speaker 1: don't need, but so much information. When you find out
Speaker 1: that kids were killed, that's the bottom line, and something
Speaker 1: has to be done about it. Now. I'm one of
Speaker 1: those people that I will openly confess as a registered independent.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck. On one hand, I want guns off the streets.
Speaker 1: On another hand, I'm tired of people being killed and
Speaker 1: then we turn around and find out that folks were
Speaker 1: utterly defenseless because they weren't armed. Now, obviously that's not
Speaker 1: going to be applicable in a Christian school K twelve.
Speaker 1: What would teenagers or people that are younger be walking
Speaker 1: around with firearms? For? I get that part, But how
Speaker 1: to hell let that person have a firearm and get
Speaker 1: into school and why was there no one there to
Speaker 1: derail that individual? It's anyboy, is anybody in the school
Speaker 1: on We don't know. We don't know the facts of
Speaker 1: that information as of yet, or that situation as of yet.
Speaker 1: But those are the common things to me that should
Speaker 1: be debated. Whether or not having a firearm on your
Speaker 1: person is more helpful or harmful, those are the kind
Speaker 1: of things that should be debated. I'm not getting into
Speaker 1: somebody's rights because to me, even though rights are important,
Speaker 1: it pales in comparison to someone's life. Rights are important,
Speaker 1: but not at the expense of the lives of human beings,
Speaker 1: particularly the youngest amongst us, who haven't even had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to really really live their lives as of yet.
Speaker 1: And so at least two to three people have been
Speaker 1: stripped of their life because of a juvenile shooter, who
Speaker 1: I think is okay to call a murderer because that
Speaker 1: person killed innocent people. We don't know the gender of
Speaker 1: the shooter. We don't know the age of the shooter.
Speaker 1: We don't know the description of the shooter. We don't
Speaker 1: know the age of the descriptions or the genders of
Speaker 1: the victims. We don't know whether there was teachers killed.
Speaker 1: We don't know whether there was a police officer killed,
Speaker 1: somebody in security. We don't know all of those details
Speaker 1: at the time of this taping. That much is true.
Speaker 1: We don't know those things. And I get that, and
Speaker 1: I understand it, and we have to find out more.
Speaker 1: And Sandy Hook, it was twenty children, six adults. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that again. Twenty children were killed. And I
Speaker 1: remember that being politicized. I remember when President Obama at
Speaker 1: the time stood at the podium and said the name
Speaker 1: of each child and wiped a tear from his eye,
Speaker 1: and you had folks on the right accusing him of
Speaker 1: being inauthentic and phony. Like our core decency sometimes escaped
Speaker 1: us because I don't give a damn what your political
Speaker 1: affiliation is, what your ideology is, what your religion is, etc.
Speaker 1: You hear that twenty children were killed in cold blood,
Speaker 1: it's got to hit you. And any time I hear
Speaker 1: about a school shooting, particularly involving K to anything, let
Speaker 1: alone K to twelve, I'm thinking about Sandy Hook. That's
Speaker 1: what it reminds me of. And I piggyback off of
Speaker 1: that conversation to get to this point, a point that
Speaker 1: I was discussing last week, and that was with folks
Speaker 1: online and other places celebrating the shooting of the United
Speaker 1: Healthcare CEO, mister Thompson. That was disgusting, It was appalling.
Speaker 2: And I've got people that want to come on this
Speaker 2: show to talk with me and debate me, well, bring
Speaker 2: it on, but be prepared to sit there on a
Speaker 2: set sitting across from me with the cameras rolling, justifying murder,
Speaker 2: because that, in essence, it's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing flowers or acting like the healthcare system
Speaker 1: isn't an atrocity, that it's right in any way to
Speaker 1: take advantage of American citizens and beyond denying their cases
Speaker 1: when they have legitimate health issues, when they paid money
Speaker 1: into a healthcare plan and they denied the treatment that
Speaker 1: they deserve because of monetary reasons, because of people trying
Speaker 1: to make a profit. I understand how egregious that is.
Speaker 1: I get that, I truly truly do. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I don't give a shit what
Speaker 1: the circumstances are. You can never sit down and justify
Speaker 1: cold blooded murder. That United Healthcare CEO was shot in
Speaker 1: the back getting out of his car walking into a hotel.
Speaker 1: He was gunned down from behind. He was a husband,
Speaker 1: life is now a widower. He was a father. His
Speaker 1: children don't no longer have their father. We gotta be
Speaker 1: careful about the things that we say and a man
Speaker 1: in which we're willing to come across as if we're
Speaker 1: condoning something. We want to say. All right, we're not
Speaker 1: condoning murder, but well, wait a minute, cold blooded murder,
Speaker 1: gunning somebody down, taking their life. Really, when we open
Speaker 1: our mouths and we say stuff like that, it can
Speaker 1: incite and spark anybody to do the same. Anybody can
Speaker 1: have a reason. You know what in the movies I
Speaker 1: never watched before Ladies and Dinner, I never watched The Purge.
Speaker 1: The Purge. All right, twelve hours of lawlessness. You get
Speaker 1: to kill anybody you want to for twelve hours. Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm not down for that. That's the void of civilization.
Speaker 1: That's the void of a civilized society, and that the
Speaker 1: core room and the behavior and the lawfulness is supposed
Speaker 1: to come with it. That's not what America is supposed
Speaker 1: to be about. That's not what any place in this
Speaker 1: world should be about. Yes, there are people that's taking
Speaker 1: advantage of us. Yes, there are people that's getting over
Speaker 1: But to me, the only excuse to take somebody's life
Speaker 1: is self defense. That's it. Under no other circumstances. Should
Speaker 1: killing somebody be something that we can do at some
Speaker 1: point in time, our coredecency has to come into plane.
Speaker 1: It has the matter her and if it doesn't, that
Speaker 1: really says a lot about who we are and what
Speaker 1: we're lacking. Then it says about anybody else. I got
Speaker 1: some other stuff to get into, But now before I
Speaker 1: pay some bills, I'll be right back with some additional
Speaker 1: stuff to touch on in a moment. Don't go away.
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Speaker 1: let's move on to some politics and social media with
Speaker 1: some of you no surprises. You're just continuing to piss
Speaker 1: me off. Why because every time I make a comment
Speaker 1: that's critical of the Democratic Party or the left, I
Speaker 1: get accused of being a pundit for the right. Prior
Speaker 1: to the election cycle, I voiced my concerns about Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and his ability to serve as second term a
Speaker 1: second term rather as president. Then Biden stepped on the
Speaker 1: debate stage in late June and revealed what many suspected.
Speaker 1: He embarrassed himself. The White House and the Democrats eventually
Speaker 1: switched the Vice President Kamala Harris when he stepped away,
Speaker 1: who ultimately ran you know what, some would say, a
Speaker 1: valiant presidential campaign, at least in the eyes of some,
Speaker 1: that ultimately fell short with voters across the country. I
Speaker 1: pointed out my concerns with the campaign and the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party along the way, and many of you wanted to
Speaker 1: accuse me of being a voice for the right. So,
Speaker 1: you know what, I feel like it's time to set
Speaker 1: the records straight, because ain't nobody hiding, ain't nobody running. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me be very very clear. I'm a registered and
Speaker 1: dependent because I don't trust either side. I think both
Speaker 1: sides are full of it on so many levels and
Speaker 1: so many circumstances, it's nauseating. But I also want to
Speaker 1: take a moment because a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: on social media be saying to me, here's Stephen and
Speaker 1: you take these positions, you frustrated with the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: but then you voted for Kamala Harris against Trump. Why.
Speaker 1: It's very very simple. I believe that Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been a divisive figure, and I was thinking coming into
Speaker 1: this election that the last thing we needed was four
Speaker 1: more years of what we saw the last time, where
Speaker 1: there was so much strife and so much division that
Speaker 1: even though the economy clearly was doing well under his
Speaker 1: watch before COVID struck, it was just too much for
Speaker 1: the country to take. I was fearful of civil war
Speaker 1: in this country. It wasn't so much that he was
Speaker 1: supportive of white supremacists and he was this racist and
Speaker 1: all of this stuff, like people were saying. I didn't
Speaker 1: even engage in that incendiary rhetoric because I've always believed
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was just somebody who did things that
Speaker 1: were politically expedient. If supporting one side was going to
Speaker 1: generate votes for him, he would flow with it. And
Speaker 1: if it was not going to support his cause, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: It's just simple. It's just that simple. Why did I
Speaker 1: say that and why did I refrain from that in
Speaker 1: Sydney every rhetoric that was thrown in his direction, it
Speaker 1: was because I knew Donald Trump before he ran for president,
Speaker 1: and black, white male females and everybody in between got
Speaker 1: a law with him. Great. So for all of a
Speaker 1: sudden everybody to stand up and act like he was
Speaker 1: this pariah was bs. But I was also acknowledging he
Speaker 1: didn't help his own cause from the moment in twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen when he strolled down those escalators escalators with Milania.
Speaker 1: The man offended fifty percent of the population back then
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, came across the xenophobic in the eyes
Speaker 1: of many, and it just seemed to go downhill from there.
Speaker 1: So after he served us four years in the White House,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to repeat all of that. But I
Speaker 1: didn't call him a racist. I didn't compare him the Nazis.
Speaker 1: I didn't sit up there and accuse him of befriending
Speaker 1: white supremacists and all of that stuff, because I knew,
Speaker 1: no matter how what people believed they were trying to
Speaker 1: politicize it. So when I thought about him agains Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: I said, excuse me, let me make sure Republicans are
Speaker 1: in the House and the Senate. You have somebody that's
Speaker 1: gonna work with both sides in the White House, and
Speaker 1: we'll have peace domestically. That's what I was thinking. But
Speaker 1: under no circumstances was I this raving supporter of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: I saw her during the primaries in twenty twenty. I
Speaker 1: saw that she couldn't get to Iowa. I saw her
Speaker 1: comments about transgenders, particularly those in prison that wanted sex changes.
Speaker 1: I saw how incoherent she appeared in communicating what her
Speaker 1: objective would be when it came to the economy. I
Speaker 1: know for a fact that she was supposed to oversee
Speaker 1: the issues involving the border. Yes, like Roland Martin said,
Speaker 1: she wasn't the quote unquote borders are, but she was
Speaker 1: perceived as such. I also saw a going to view
Speaker 1: and categorically denied that there was any need to change
Speaker 1: anything that Biden had done, even though over twelve million
Speaker 1: people crossed the border illegally, and you were acting like
Speaker 1: there was no border crisis. I saw the duplicit ascendencies.
Speaker 1: I saw the inconsistencies. I also saw the hypocrisy. And
Speaker 1: as the election came about and ultimately unfolded, and I
Speaker 1: saw Donald Trump win convincingly. No, he did not get
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the popular vote, as the Democrats is
Speaker 1: so quick to point out. My attitude to them is,
Speaker 1: shut the hell up. Nobody wants to hear that. Now,
Speaker 1: who cares whether he got fifty percent of the vote
Speaker 1: or now? He beat you in the popular vote and
Speaker 1: the electoral College vote. He swept the swing states, he
Speaker 1: improved his numbers in every demographic imaginable, Blacks, Hispanics, women,
Speaker 1: he beat you, and the American people spoke, and they
Speaker 1: spoke flagrantly. And from that moment forward, I'm like, damn
Speaker 1: all of that. We're gonna support the fact that he
Speaker 1: won the presidency. And I'm gonna tell you where I'm
Speaker 1: at with it. And that doesn't mean I'm gonna become
Speaker 1: some registered Republican because I'm still I still find them
Speaker 1: a bit shaky. But when I see Attorney Bragg in
Speaker 1: New York trying to treat, trying to convince the judge
Speaker 1: and the courts to treat Donald Trump as if he's deceased,
Speaker 1: as if he has died, just to make sure that
Speaker 1: your convictions on those thirty four fellon in the accounts
Speaker 1: remains a part of the record. It just shows another
Speaker 1: level of patheticness. If that is such a word that
Speaker 1: creeps in once again, you can't let it go. He
Speaker 1: is the president elect of the United States of America
Speaker 1: in January twentieth. He is gonna be the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, and you want to sit up here
Speaker 1: and waste tax payer dollars and literally go before the
Speaker 1: courts to do everything it can to make his conviction
Speaker 1: a matter of record, knowing he ain't gonna get any
Speaker 1: jail time, You're not gonna be able to incarcerate him,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to find him. Sir, it's over.
Speaker 1: It's over. Democrats, it's over. It's over. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this before and I'll say it again. You know what
Speaker 1: I would do if I were Joe Biden President Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: especially since I basically gave the Democratic Party the finger
Speaker 1: because you kept saying, we follow the rule of law,
Speaker 1: we follow the rule of law, We follow the rule
Speaker 1: of law. And then you're win, and you circumvented all
Speaker 1: of that to get to party your son, since you
Speaker 1: were willing to do that. If I was President Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: I would parton Donald Trump. I'm gonna see it again.
Speaker 1: I would pardon Donald Trump for one reason and one
Speaker 1: reason only, to move the hell on. Enough's enough, Enough's enough.
Speaker 1: You tried to get him. If you're Nancy Pelosi, you
Speaker 1: tried to get him. If you Chuck Schumer, you tried
Speaker 1: to get him. If you would have damned in the
Speaker 1: Senate and the House, you tried to get him. If
Speaker 1: you were the FBI, you tried to get him. If
Speaker 1: you were the Department of Justice, you tried to get him.
Speaker 1: I mean, damn Russian collusion. What happened. See, we keep
Speaker 1: talking and talking and talking, and all we see at
Speaker 1: the end of the day is that you inconvenienced Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and you caused them headaches, probably forced them to
Speaker 1: take a few of you doses of moultri or toalano.
Speaker 1: So you did. You ain't doing anything else to him.
Speaker 1: He is back in the White House next month. All
Speaker 1: that shit y'all did, all the stuff you pulled, You
Speaker 1: had your surrogates out there, your pundits out there, you had,
Speaker 1: you're engaged in law fare. You did everything, and you
Speaker 1: convinced the American people. Yo, his ass belongs in jail.
Speaker 1: And where you're going in dead back to the White House. So,
Speaker 1: of course, when you see that preponderance of evidence, that
Speaker 1: ultimately hits us with the reality is that no matter
Speaker 1: how hard you try, whatever mechanisms you put in place,
Speaker 1: whatever you know, tactics you utilized, it all amounted to nothing.
Speaker 1: Joe Boden, they called him sleeping at an African conference
Speaker 1: in Angola. Donald Trump wide away going back to the
Speaker 1: White House. Peggy Noonan, an outstanding columnist for the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, wrote about the unprecedents that exist with a
Speaker 1: president elect who's usually chilling. They're normally only making news
Speaker 1: when there are headlines announcing that cabinet members. Yet Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is walking around like he's president now. In France
Speaker 1: recently for the reopening was it the Notre Dame Cathedral
Speaker 1: talking to Zelenski for Ukraine, no doubt, boot for Russia,
Speaker 1: talking about jen that Yahoo with the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Speaker 1: Looked at what is happening every time there is substantive
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. In the world of politics, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's name is the headline instead of President Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: You're lost the Democrats, You've lost. You got Joe ass
Speaker 1: kicked in everywhere imaginable. And why am I saying it
Speaker 1: like that. It's not because of the election. It's because
Speaker 1: of what's still happening every single other day. This man
Speaker 1: is making headlines about political issues that are supposed to
Speaker 1: be dominated by President Biden and the White House. It's
Speaker 1: not happening. It's him. If that ain't definitive evidence that
Speaker 1: you have lost, and it is time to lick your wounds,
Speaker 1: look in the mirror, and revisit all of those tactics
Speaker 1: you tried to exercise, clearly in an effort to keep
Speaker 1: them out of the White House. It's now maybe you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have adopted woke culture, embraced woke culture and woke
Speaker 1: ideology the way that you should to the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 1: Anybody with decency should support you and your right to
Speaker 1: live your life. But I didn't hear the right talking
Speaker 1: about the LGBT community in general and painting everybody with
Speaker 1: a broad brush. I heard them addressing transgender issues in
Speaker 1: terms of somebody electing to change their gender, participating men
Speaker 1: transitioning into women, but competing with women. Now we can
Speaker 1: get into the nuances and to particulars about it, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats can sit up there and say that the
Speaker 1: Republicans are misrepresenting their positions and vice versa, what have you.
Speaker 1: Here's the bottom line. They were successful in disseminating whatever
Speaker 1: they wanted their message to be to the masters. Better
Speaker 1: than you were. You lost, and you're still walking around here.
Speaker 1: Evidence by the latest from Attorney Bragg in New York State.
Speaker 1: Evidence by him trying to keep the conviction alive. What
Speaker 1: is that going to resolve Donald trump felony convictions? It's
Speaker 1: a matter of record. Wow. I mean, you're really accomplishing
Speaker 1: great things there. Huh. He ain't going to prison. He's
Speaker 1: not even forced to keep on an ankle bracelet and
Speaker 1: be confined to his home, which is a result, by
Speaker 1: the way, Marolago going Florida. Oh no, he's going back
Speaker 1: to the White House, and he travels back tomorrow. Lago
Speaker 1: at his discretion whenever he damn well pleases. You lost,
Speaker 1: Let it go. When we want to talk about whether
Speaker 1: or not I want to be a Republican or whatever. Listen,
Speaker 1: there are conservative issues that I adamantly support. I support
Speaker 1: lower taxes, I support free market capitalism, I support control
Speaker 1: in our borders absolutely, and I'm a big, big dude
Speaker 1: on national security. I ain't apologizing for that to anybody.
Speaker 1: On those issues, I'm conservative. What am I liberal?
Speaker 3: On?
Speaker 1: Live and let live? Social issues? Heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, gay,
Speaker 1: you know, lesbian, whatever, it's your life, and I'm certainly
Speaker 1: down for looking out for the disolate and disenfranchised your
Speaker 1: minority community in this country. You need help, I'm down
Speaker 1: for it. You're pouring and wished. We're only as strong
Speaker 1: as our weakest link, the elderly. We should always revere
Speaker 1: an honor and look out for them because they contributed
Speaker 1: to our society long before we got older, and it
Speaker 1: was our turn to do so. On that note, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. That's why I'm an independent. I
Speaker 1: flow with either side. But what I don't like about
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party at this particular moment in time, you
Speaker 1: keep walking around on your moral high horse, acting like
Speaker 1: you're above reproach your President. Biden. He's my son, that's
Speaker 1: all you had to say. I can't let my son
Speaker 1: go to jail. I'm sorry, America simple, but instead you
Speaker 1: try to get on your high horse and act like
Speaker 1: they were after him because of you, and try to
Speaker 1: make it in to something political. Stop. This is what
Speaker 1: the Democrats repeatedly do, and you've gotten away with it
Speaker 1: for far too long. I've never been a fan of
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren for one reason, and one reason only. I
Speaker 1: know her heart's in the right place. I know she's
Speaker 1: smart as a whip, I know she's very capable. My
Speaker 1: only problem with her is that if you don't agree
Speaker 1: with her, you're going to hell. Something must be wrong
Speaker 1: with your soul to disagree with her. That bothers me.
Speaker 1: I looked at Obama, pr former President Barack Obama, my president,
Speaker 1: at who I admire and revere, and watched him talk
Speaker 1: to black men like that and accuse of us of
Speaker 1: misogynistic tendencies because we may not be supporting Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: How come it couldn't be hypolicies we supported Hillary, Hillary
Speaker 1: Rodham Clinton. Sick of it, Sick of the Democrats walking
Speaker 1: around like they have such a higher moral compass, a
Speaker 1: higher moral foundation than everybody else. Know enough of that demagoguery,
Speaker 1: Enough of that fear mongrant. No, you're behind. Need to
Speaker 1: go out there and learn the politic better to win.
Speaker 1: Make sure your issues are better, make sure you're capable
Speaker 1: of doing a better job. Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland,
Speaker 1: you'd have my vote tomorrow, my brother. But guess what,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, I also like Byron Donald representative out
Speaker 1: of Florida. That's where I'm at with it. I'd love
Speaker 1: for Wes Moore to be the President of the United
Speaker 1: States of twenty twenty eight. I'd love for Byron Donald
Speaker 1: to be the next governor of Florida. There I said it.
Speaker 1: If that ain't independence, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But I'm sick of all of this. I really am Democrats.
Speaker 1: You lost, You got your butts whipped. Own it, live
Speaker 1: with it, accept it, embrace it, and look in the
Speaker 1: damn mirror and stopped acting like the problem lies with others.
Speaker 1: It lies with you. Your messengers were weak, Your message
Speaker 1: was weaker, and I know that because the American people
Speaker 1: said so in droves. Own it and get off your
Speaker 1: moral high horse. I wanna follow up. I'm moving on.
Speaker 1: I wanna follow up on a story we've been talking
Speaker 1: about on the podcast since last week and involves Jay Z.
Speaker 1: The one and only jco so known as Sean Carter
Speaker 1: was attached to a civil lawsuit filed last week accusing
Speaker 1: him and Sean Diddy Combs of raping a thirteen year
Speaker 1: old more than twenty years ago. The alleged incident happened
Speaker 1: back in two thousand at an MTV Video Music Awards
Speaker 1: after party. Cardi immediately came out swinging to his defense,
Speaker 1: of course, saying criminal charges should be filed against anyone
Speaker 1: who would commit such a heinous crime. His defense attorneys
Speaker 1: also fillled motions to name the victim, who is now
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old, or to drop the suit altogether. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Carter's lead attorney, Alex Spiro pointed out inconsistencies in the
Speaker 1: alleged victim story, who sat down with NBC News last
Speaker 1: week in an exclusive interview. Among the inconsistencies he noted
Speaker 1: were the following. Jane Doe's description of the home doesn't
Speaker 1: match any of Sean Combe's properties at the time. Spiro
Speaker 1: also says Jane Doe claimed she snuck out the house
Speaker 1: to attend the VMA's and watched on a jumbo tron
Speaker 1: outside well, MTV did not construct the jumbo tron for
Speaker 1: the two thousand VMAs. Again, this is all according to
Speaker 1: jay Z's attorney, who spoke out today. Here's the point.
Speaker 1: What really really happened is that NBC News reported leading
Speaker 1: into the weekend that the alleged victim admitted inconsistencies with
Speaker 1: what she had initially said. Now, she didn't come out
Speaker 1: and say that, meaning that what happened to her didn't
Speaker 1: happen in fairness to her, but there are insistencies. And
Speaker 1: as I said before, I'm not here to cast the
Speaker 1: spurges or hall or anything like that would be irresponsible.
Speaker 1: Nor am I here to cast the spurs is on
Speaker 1: the lawyer. I'll leave Jay Z and his team to
Speaker 1: do all of that. What I said to people is
Speaker 1: what I'll say one more time. I've known the man
Speaker 1: for twenty five years and I've never ever, ever seen
Speaker 1: anything that would indicate that he would be guilty of
Speaker 1: such a thing. And some people are sitting up there saying, man,
Speaker 1: Stephen a full of it, which you mean you don't
Speaker 1: know me? All right? Fine, there are people that got
Speaker 1: family members that commit hainous acts and they would have
Speaker 1: never imagined it fair enough, But folks are sitting there
Speaker 1: and they're talking about well, you know, stephen A. You mean,
Speaker 1: who the hell is he? And you talk about a friend,
Speaker 1: What kind of friend are you really? I'm known for
Speaker 1: twenty five years. I know O g wan is right hand,
Speaker 1: just as long I've known Michael Kaiser, I've known my
Speaker 1: boy spank, Gary Stevens. I've known plenty of people who
Speaker 1: have been around and are befriended them. We've all been
Speaker 1: around each other together. Not that I have to justify
Speaker 1: to anybody, but i'm'a set the reconstraint on one damn
Speaker 1: thing once and for all. This is stephen A baby.
Speaker 1: I'm not somebody working, and not to discredit anybody that does.
Speaker 1: Don't do this because as long as you earn this
Speaker 1: honest living, I got nothing but mad respect for you.
Speaker 1: But I love how people talk to me like, oh
Speaker 1: my lord, I must be jock sniffing, And you know,
Speaker 1: because of the stars. Excuse me, I am a star
Speaker 1: in this business. This is what I do and I'm
Speaker 1: not working some nine to five in the post office
Speaker 1: or somewhere elsewhere. I never get an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: around these people. These people had sports events all the time.
Speaker 1: I've gotten to know these people because they made it
Speaker 1: a priority to get to know me, because they they
Speaker 1: love sports. I wouldn't accuse them of sniffin just because
Speaker 1: they wanted to get to know me. Just because you
Speaker 1: don't like my opinion or you might disagree with where
Speaker 1: I'm coming from, doesn't mean that I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell I'm talking about, or that I have no
Speaker 1: connections with people. I have a connection with lots of
Speaker 1: people because I'm stephen A. Because my day job involves
Speaker 1: me working for the world Wide Leader, which everyone happens
Speaker 1: to watch. You see these cats when they in concert,
Speaker 1: whether it's a rap artist, it's a comedian. You see
Speaker 1: sports figures when they're performing. You just happen to see
Speaker 1: me every weekday over the number one sports network in
Speaker 1: the world, which by the way, is the number one
Speaker 1: show for the last thirteen years. Coming this April, that
Speaker 1: would be to the next time. Y'all want to run
Speaker 1: your mouth and act like, oh my god, what does
Speaker 1: he know? Does he know Jay Z or whatever? Yes,
Speaker 1: I know him, Yes I do. Forty forty I used
Speaker 1: to go there religiously, just to walk upstairs and go
Speaker 1: in the back and hang out with him and the
Speaker 1: crew to watch games. I've known him for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: and I don't believe that he's capable of something like this.
Speaker 1: That's all. I have no evidence. I'm not casting in
Speaker 1: this versers on the accuser or their lawyer or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just telling you I got a right
Speaker 1: to speak up for somebody that i've known that long
Speaker 1: to say that's not what I see when I see him.
Speaker 1: And I'm a repeat and end here by saying what
Speaker 1: I said to y'all last week. If someone would ever
Speaker 1: accuse me of such a thing, I would hope that
Speaker 1: people who have known me for decades would sit up
Speaker 1: there and say, hell no, not stephen A. Because if
Speaker 1: they were quiet, it would hurt me. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: you have nothing to say in my defense, nothing, You
Speaker 1: just gonna leave me hanging like that. I'm not casting
Speaker 1: you the castle. I'm not asking you to cast Spersons
Speaker 1: or anybody else. I'm simply saying, you just gonna leave
Speaker 1: me hanging like that. See, that's the punk ass world
Speaker 1: we live in now, where folks are literally scared to say, remember,
Speaker 1: you're not casting, You're not sitting up there and saying
Speaker 1: somebody's innocent. You're not saying somebody else is lying. You're
Speaker 1: not doing anything like that. You're saying that's a friend
Speaker 1: that I've known for X amount of years. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that's in them. You can't say that. That's the
Speaker 1: punk ass world we live in in where people scared
Speaker 1: because they worried about their jobs and everything else to
Speaker 1: speak up for somebody. But then it was okay with
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell in the National Football League put out a
Speaker 1: statement saying they're aware of the allegations, but they're still
Speaker 1: moving forward. We're working with Rock Nation to Jay Z
Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl Halftop Show. Then it was okay.
Speaker 1: So the conglomerate, the big fish, the mammoth that is
Speaker 1: the National Football League, they could speak up that it's okay.
Speaker 1: They just started doing business with JAZ a few years ago.
Speaker 1: For somebody that's been around it for twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Can y'all full of it? Y'all are just full of it?
Speaker 1: Coming up. Unidentified flying objects are hovering over parts of
Speaker 1: New York and New Jersey. If you could believe it,
Speaker 1: should we be concerned. I'll get into that, but first,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen put on the show in Detroit. So as
Speaker 1: he locked up the MVP race, I'll get into that. Plus,
Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson from the All the Smoke Podcast had something
Speaker 1: to say about me. I'll show you what he said,
Speaker 1: and I'll show you my response to all of that
Speaker 1: up next right here on the Stephen Nick Smith Show
Speaker 1: over the Digital Airways YouTube and of course iHeart radio
Speaker 1: back and more in a minute.
Speaker 3: The first round of five. How he ain't make a
Speaker 3: shot yet, go on, I got three locks. Hey, he
Speaker 3: gotta he gotta shoot with all the plus on.
Speaker 1: The money down, I'm concentrating Smith. Welcome back to Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show that was yours truly Saturday in Vegas. Responded
Speaker 1: to that free throw shooting challenge from my brother Kenny
Speaker 1: Smith at T n T. Kenny decided to shoot with
Speaker 1: his left hand and that essentially sealed his fate against
Speaker 1: Wall as I won three to one. Lit'sten, y'all, let's
Speaker 1: all it fun. I mean, you know, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you know it's free throw shooting contests and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Sort of bricks we were laying when we shoot from threes, right,
Speaker 1: But I tell you this much, that's because first of all,
Speaker 1: we practice indoors, and we only practiced on the free throws,
Speaker 1: didn't know we were gonna be outside. And then when
Speaker 1: we go outside, it looked like the damn rim was
Speaker 1: eleven feet instead of ten feet high, and the three
Speaker 1: point line looked back. I mean, it reminded me when
Speaker 1: I went on the first on the mound for the
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium the first pitch, I mean, look like a
Speaker 1: damn mile away for crying out loud. And I shot
Speaker 1: three air balls just like everybody else did and shot
Speaker 1: shot airballs. Kenny shot airballs, Ernie Johnson shot airballs. Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley definitely shot airballs. Okay, but I hit one, but
Speaker 1: I would have hit more if I warmed up a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But it's cool. It's cool, but you
Speaker 1: know this basketball is not baseball, so I wasn't worried
Speaker 1: about it. I just knew that I had to make
Speaker 1: shots because, I mean, after the first pitch fiasco, I
Speaker 1: couldn't go out there and just shoot the free throws
Speaker 1: and not shut up. But in all seriousness, I want
Speaker 1: to give props to the whole TNT couci. They come
Speaker 1: to ESPN next year, and I can't speak for everybody else.
Speaker 1: But I'm ecstatic that they're doing that. I'm ecstatic that
Speaker 1: they're doing that. You know what, As I've said, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: ESPN and Disney, I mean listen, I've been there for
Speaker 1: the last twenty years or so, okay, and I've had
Speaker 1: a phenomenal relationship with all of those guys as I've
Speaker 1: set on many occasions, right, and so for me, it's
Speaker 1: just about looking at them. I just want to say,
Speaker 1: Kenny did me a favor, all right, because if he
Speaker 1: shot right handed, he probably would have smoked me. He's
Speaker 1: a career eighty three percent shooter, all right. He's an
Speaker 1: NBA two time NBA champion. I know my lane. His
Speaker 1: brother Vincent taught me how to play. For crying out line,
Speaker 1: I know better. Kenny Smith is Kenny Smith. So people
Speaker 1: looking at him and acting like I legitimately beat him.
Speaker 1: I made my free throws. Okay, that's really all that's
Speaker 1: good out of this. The man shot left hand next time,
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna give me that kind of break. I
Speaker 1: know this, all right, So I appreciated it. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, but I just got a lot
Speaker 1: of love for them. We all go back decades, and
Speaker 1: so to have that, to be on tn T with
Speaker 1: those guys having that kind of fun, I just can't
Speaker 1: say enough about what an experience it was, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to thank them for it. Right, It's all
Speaker 1: in fun and nobody walking around here with some big
Speaker 1: head just because I hit three free throws of crying
Speaker 1: out lot. Even though it was pressure. It was on
Speaker 1: national television. Everybody was watching, and had I missed, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt the end of it. So I did respond
Speaker 1: to the pressure of the moment. I would give myself
Speaker 1: credit for that, but not for beating Kenny Smith, who
Speaker 1: rolled left handed. I know better, y'all, I know better.
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Speaker 1: me get to another sports media headline that involves yours truly,
Speaker 1: many of you know, I've been at ESPN and Disney
Speaker 1: for nearly twenty years. We've had a good relationship, and
Speaker 1: I've set on many occasions that I will never speak
Speaker 1: on my contract negotiations because only a fool talks about
Speaker 1: as negotiations while they're on going. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: start here. However, I do want to acknowledge former NBA
Speaker 1: player and podcast to Stephen Jackson from All the Smoke,
Speaker 1: who recently made comments about my ongoing discussions with ESPN.
Speaker 1: Want to read to y'all what he said. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Steven A and I we disagree on a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but the respect still remains, and I congratulate him on
Speaker 1: being able to get that money. Go get that money, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm never being the hater. Get that money if anybody
Speaker 1: deserves it from the way he's self made. You know,
Speaker 1: Stephen A deserves it. You ain't got to agree with
Speaker 1: everything he says, to respect him and congratulate him on
Speaker 1: the success he's had all these years. End quote. Now,
Speaker 1: let me say this, I appreciate Stephen Jackson saying that
Speaker 1: I'm not on front. I've been pretty pissed at him
Speaker 1: for a few months, and I've been waiting to see
Speaker 1: him one on one talk to him, man the man,
Speaker 1: because he and I haven't spoken since he on his
Speaker 1: podcast telling his partner Matt Bonds, he don't fuck with
Speaker 1: me because he called me a snitch for calling the
Speaker 1: league office to ask why Russell Westbrook was not suspended.
Speaker 1: To reiterate that point and revisit it for a second,
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook was excessively physical with Luka Doncik in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Ultimately a little scuffle ensued, Russell Westbrook was ejected from
Speaker 1: the game. I was on National TV and I made
Speaker 1: it very very clear I thought Russell Westbrook should be suspended.
Speaker 1: I said, had that been Dramond Green, they would have
Speaker 1: suspended him. Why not suspend Russell Westbrook At that time
Speaker 1: before the next game, NBA Countdown was the pregame show,
Speaker 1: so I was asked by my superiors at ESPN to
Speaker 1: call the league office to find out why Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: who had been ejected from that game, wasn't suspipt bend
Speaker 1: it for the next game, and the league gave me
Speaker 1: the explanation. They didn't suspend him because there wasn't history there.
Speaker 1: Number one, Number two, he left the court in a
Speaker 1: peaceful fashion and there was nothing that ensued thereafter. And
Speaker 1: number three, it was the playoffs. It wasn't a regular
Speaker 1: season game. While admitting to me, had it been Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: it might have been a different story. So they gave
Speaker 1: the explanation, and I went on the air and I
Speaker 1: revealed to the audience I called the League office and
Speaker 1: that was the explanation. And then Gilly from Wallow and
Speaker 1: Gilly's podcast went off of social media about me covering
Speaker 1: you know, call it the league office, and Matt Barnes
Speaker 1: and Stephen Jackson ultimately said, you know, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with Stephen a on that, et cetera, et cetera. The
Speaker 1: difference was is that Matt Barnes called me up, ultimately
Speaker 1: came on the show to discuss it with me, and
Speaker 1: Stephen Jackson didn't respond to my invite for him to
Speaker 1: do the same Willow and Gilly with Gillies. So I said,
Speaker 1: is this you talk about the NBA, I cover it.
Speaker 1: It was my job to call the league office. I
Speaker 1: didn't call the league office to get Russell Westbrook suspended.
Speaker 1: I'd already say if it was me, I would have
Speaker 1: suspended them. What I called was to find out their
Speaker 1: rationale behind not suspending him when you know they would
Speaker 1: have suspended Draymond Green. That is all. It's called doing
Speaker 1: my job for that. Stephen Jackson labeled me a snitch
Speaker 1: without knowing all the facts, never apologized for it or
Speaker 1: anything like that. And this is a brother that I
Speaker 1: go back with for years, decades actually, and I didn't
Speaker 1: appreciate that. First of all, in our community, we know
Speaker 1: what being a snitch connotats. That's not some shit you say.
Speaker 1: And I didn't appreciate that at all. Secondly, especially from
Speaker 1: somebody that I'm pretty damn cool with. But in the end,
Speaker 1: I know how to differentiate my issue with with him
Speaker 1: over an incident and my issue with him over character. See,
Speaker 1: I had a problem with Steven Jackson not recognizing and
Speaker 1: remembering where my character stands. There's a lot of shit
Speaker 1: that I don't say, and anybody that knows me knows
Speaker 1: I ain't no damn snitch. I don't roll like that,
Speaker 1: and so to associate that word with me was highly offensive.
Speaker 1: And we haven't spoken since. Maybe we will, maybe we won't.
Speaker 1: But having said all of that, I really appreciate him
Speaker 1: coming out and saying what he said. It meant a
Speaker 1: lot to me, and I thank him for it, really sincerely,
Speaker 1: because I want people to understand, no matter what the
Speaker 1: deal is, no matter what money it entails, it was earned,
Speaker 1: not given whatever. Whenever we reach an agreement, which we
Speaker 1: have not yet, it will be earned. Anybody giving me anything,
Speaker 1: I've earned it. And if I earn it, and I'll
Speaker 1: show you how to snot nosed kid from Hollis Queens,
Speaker 1: from the streets of Hollis Queens, New York ultimately ascends
Speaker 1: in the business. Not as a rap artist, not as
Speaker 1: an actor or an actress, not as a baller, whether
Speaker 1: it's football or basketball or something else, but through journalism.
Speaker 1: And I do that with the advent of podcasts and
Speaker 1: YouTube shows and channels and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: If I could do it, imagine what doors it'll open
Speaker 1: for the rest of us. That's where I'm coming from
Speaker 1: with it, and I can't speak on it, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna speak on it, but let me assure you
Speaker 1: with something. While there is an agreement, you have no
Speaker 1: idea what the deal is. You have no idea idea
Speaker 1: rather what it doesn't tell, and you have no idea
Speaker 1: about how what I'm aiming to do is gonna rock
Speaker 1: the foundation of this industry. I'm after big, big, big things,
Speaker 1: and I can't speak on it until it's done. Only
Speaker 1: a fool would speak on it prematurely. But I'm coming
Speaker 1: and I appreciate all the support from the Stephen Jackson's
Speaker 1: my man, Matt Bondes can't say enough about that. I
Speaker 1: love that brother, can't say enough about him and his
Speaker 1: support of me, Cam Newton, how he supported Shannon Sharp,
Speaker 1: Ryan Clark, Swaggoo and all them. Kendrick Perkins. List goes
Speaker 1: on and on and on. I'll speak it when it's time,
Speaker 1: but I see everything, and to those who have supported me,
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say is, I will never forget. I
Speaker 1: will never forget. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
Speaker 1: For now. Let's get to the NFL. In the MVP race,
Speaker 1: which might have ended yesterday and Detroit. By the way,
Speaker 1: did y'all see what Josh Allen did to the lines? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: The Bills quarterback rush for two touchdowns and threw for
Speaker 1: two touchdowns as Buffalo beat Detroit forty eight to forty two.
Speaker 1: And last week, Allen became the first quarterback to rush
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns and throw for three touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: same game. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Allen has a kund
Speaker 1: of for ten touchdowns in the last two games alone.
Speaker 1: He's kind of for thirty six touchdowns throwing. A runner
Speaker 1: for the season while leading Buffalo to the second best
Speaker 1: record in the AFC is actually thirty seven touchdowns. That's
Speaker 1: why he's my pick for MVP. I don't wanna hear
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. I don't wanna hear about Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this about this about Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's having an outstanding season. He's playing on another level.
Speaker 1: He's also lost to two last place teams, and he's
Speaker 1: also in second place in the AFC North. This is
Speaker 1: with coming into the season projecting to be better because
Speaker 1: you got Derek Henry in your backfield, who was a
Speaker 1: stud for the first half of the season. What did
Speaker 1: Josh Allen come into the season with. It wasn't with
Speaker 1: Stephan Diggs. He went to Houston. It wasn't with Gabe Davis.
Speaker 1: He went to Jacksonville. You got a rookie at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver spot and Keon Coleman before you acquired Amari
Speaker 1: Coople who you didn't even target yesterday and still put
Speaker 1: up forty eight points. We knew James Coople was good.
Speaker 1: We didn't see him doing what he's been doing. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's been on another level, Ladies and gentlemen, the brothers,
Speaker 1: the MVP. Now he's five and five in the postseason,
Speaker 1: zero and three against Patrick Mahomes, owing one against Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: You gotta handle your business compostseason time, just like jam
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has to. But in terms of this regular season,
Speaker 1: with Buffalo looking the way that they are looking on
Speaker 1: the verge of potentially getting home field dependence throughout the
Speaker 1: AFC postseason because Kids A City is only one game
Speaker 1: up on them if they end up time with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: particularly since Patrick Mahomes injured had a high ankle screen
Speaker 1: and probably ain't gonna play the next game. If they
Speaker 1: end up with a tie record, Buffalo beat them in
Speaker 1: a regular season so they get the tie breaker. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's coming in the Orchard Park this
Speaker 1: year and beat the Buffalo Bills. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. I just want to say that there's
Speaker 1: nothing to talk about here. Josh Allen is the MVP.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or the Buffalo Bills is the imminent NFL MVP.
Speaker 1: Barring a catastrophe coming up. There are unidentified flying I've
Speaker 1: just hovering over the Eastern Seaboard. Should we be concerned
Speaker 1: about them? I'll get into that and respond to your
Speaker 1: tweets as well. Don't go anywhere. It's the stephen Ate
Speaker 1: Smith Show. The boy ain't leaving, gonna be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the stephen A. Smith Show. I want
Speaker 1: to get into a story that has many folks concerned
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, including yours truly. There've been a
Speaker 1: number of reported drone sightings in New York, New Jersey
Speaker 1: and other states that have many concerned. The sightings have
Speaker 1: put intense pressure on federal agencies to provide answers to
Speaker 1: what people are seeing. Some officials have urged calm and
Speaker 1: emphasized there's no evidence suggesting the sightings pose a security threat. However,
Speaker 1: other leaders, like New York Governor Kathy Hochel, have said
Speaker 1: enough is enough. Listen to what she had to say.
Speaker 1: She said, this is going too far, adding that she
Speaker 1: quote directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively
Speaker 1: investigate drone sightings and coordinate with federal law enforcement to
Speaker 1: address the issue end quote. Meanwhile, take a look at
Speaker 1: what President the leg Donald Trump posted to X this weekend,
Speaker 1: poking fund at former New Jersey Governor Chris Christy. Look
Speaker 1: at this. Look at this, Yes, y'all, it could be
Speaker 1: seen as being funny to some degree, drones carry McDonald's
Speaker 1: bag descended, you know, holding over former governor Chris Christy.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, it's classless. It's classless. See that. It's stuff
Speaker 1: like that that makes me think Trump is gonna go
Speaker 1: back to be to being the tweeter in chief. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, This is what this is what
Speaker 1: I worry about. You understand, you know, you got you,
Speaker 1: you got leaders all over the world, China, you know,
Speaker 1: Russia and everywhere else. And this dude going after Kathy
Speaker 1: Griffith you understand that this is this is who Trump
Speaker 1: is now, no doubt. It's hilarious at times, no doubt
Speaker 1: you understand. I never get a June twenty seven de
Speaker 1: bait against Joe body. I don't know what he said.
Speaker 1: I don't think he knows what he said. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of it is hilarious, no doubt, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no doubt, without question. Okay, I get it. But in
Speaker 1: the same breath, Come on, man, you got to be
Speaker 1: better than that. This is a serious issue. Now listen,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna laugh at me. But I'm one of those people.
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but I don't happen to
Speaker 1: think we do only creatures on Earth, human beings and
Speaker 1: the animals that you see and stuff like that. Do
Speaker 1: I think that beings from Dare I say other planets
Speaker 1: exist on a planet Earth? Yes? Yes, Look at that
Speaker 1: right there. You see that that's the fly for that.
Speaker 1: That's right. But see here's the difference. You see the
Speaker 1: picture that that's giving off. You see the picture that
Speaker 1: that's displaying right there. See that's some shit that existed
Speaker 1: on Independence Day, you know, and listen, if you notice, y'all,
Speaker 1: if you go back to Independence Day. I don't recall
Speaker 1: seeing any black people on that roof looking up at
Speaker 1: the spaceship, you know, because black people a little bit different.
Speaker 1: We see a spaceship, we try and get the hell
Speaker 1: out of town. White folks like that's peculiar. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Wow. I have to go up there and
Speaker 1: see that. Hell no, no. And that's why I like
Speaker 1: that when the spaceship beamed down on a building and
Speaker 1: blew everybody the smith of rings, because you ain't supposed
Speaker 1: to be underestimating stuff like they ain't supposed to be thinking. Yo,
Speaker 1: you know, that's peculiar. I mean, I have to see
Speaker 1: what's going on there. I mean, wow, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to see that. You want to see that, y'all?
Speaker 1: That Independence Day stuff, I believe that. Remember that movie
Speaker 1: with Rowdy Roddy Piper from the World Wrestling Federation the
Speaker 1: WWF at the time, and it was called They Live
Speaker 1: and as basically, you put on these glasses and you
Speaker 1: see regular human beings in their true you know, the
Speaker 1: people that look like regular human beings in their true form.
Speaker 1: You could tell the difference between those who were actually
Speaker 1: humans and those who were alien figures. And then they
Speaker 1: noticed that when he put the glasses on, he saw
Speaker 1: exactly who they were, and they pointed him out and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. See, I think like that happens. I'm
Speaker 1: not foolish enough to believe that the only beings on
Speaker 1: this Earth are human beings. I'm not down with that. Look,
Speaker 1: we trying to go to Mars, ain't we what Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle said, Mars bitches red rock ya yay? Remember that? Okay,
Speaker 1: we trying to go to Mars. How come people can't
Speaker 1: be trying to get to Earth. I don't underestimate that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, y'all. I don't sleep on it. So
Speaker 1: when I see these drones hovering over homes in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and New York, and they big ones too, by
Speaker 1: the way, I don't know what they armed with. To me,
Speaker 1: if it's our government, shoot them down, shoot them down,
Speaker 1: knock them right out of the sky, every one of them,
Speaker 1: every one of them. That's what I feel should be happening.
Speaker 1: Damn that stuff, And don't tell me y'all don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. Y'all always got an idea. We in
Speaker 1: the United States of America. You always got something on
Speaker 1: and then you keep it from the American people, cause
Speaker 1: you want to scare folks, you want to tell them
Speaker 1: the truth. And I can understand that if you're doing
Speaker 1: something about it. But when they continue hold rent over
Speaker 1: homes in New Jersey and New York and other places,
Speaker 1: day after day after day, what the hell y'all gonna
Speaker 1: do about it? See, that's when people with their Second
Speaker 1: Amendment rights got a whole bunch of shotguns and everything else,
Speaker 1: talking about shooting stuff out of sky. I don't blame
Speaker 1: them what you hold rent over their house for. That's me.
Speaker 1: That's me Independence Day. And you know aliens And I
Speaker 1: not that that got anything to do spaceships or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm just saying, y'all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff I believe. I ain't gonna front I Actually, I
Speaker 1: absolutely believe that other beings exist on this planet. When
Speaker 1: I see drones in the sky, you might say they drunes.
Speaker 1: I might think they something else. I might think they
Speaker 1: It could be spa material you spawn on the homes
Speaker 1: of a American citizens. For all we know, that could be.
Speaker 1: That would be very very egregious, But it could be that,
Speaker 1: or could actually be aliens. And y'all could tease me
Speaker 1: all you want to I ain't listen. I don't know
Speaker 1: that to be the case, but it ain't far fetched.
Speaker 1: It ain't far fetched. I'm just saying, let's get to
Speaker 1: the tweetsfore I get on out of here for the day. Please,
Speaker 1: let's get to them right now, right let me see
Speaker 1: what tweets that you got here. Show it to me. Please,
Speaker 1: First up at E girls XO stephen A. Which city
Speaker 1: in the US has the best looking women? And why
Speaker 1: is it Miami? Well, first of all, you answered the question.
Speaker 1: It's Miami. Miami is special. It's special. And I'm not
Speaker 1: just talking about the city of Miami. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the outskirts. I'm talking about going towards Coral Gables. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about South Beach, I'm talking about uh uh uh
Speaker 1: uh you know, uh near Fort Lauderdale. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Coral Gables, like I said before, and I Little Cuba Miracle, Mild,
Speaker 1: all of those spots. You know it's bad in Miami.
Speaker 1: When one of the finest women you ever saw in
Speaker 1: your life is at a gas station pumping gas in Miami,
Speaker 1: That's when you know this place is different, like different.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the kind of beauty that stops traffic,
Speaker 1: cats getting in car crashes cause they scre screeching on
Speaker 1: their brakes. Of course, the three car accidents and stuff
Speaker 1: like that cause you, and then the accidents happened, and
Speaker 1: then people say, what the hell is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: And they all look up at the gas station. You
Speaker 1: go like this, Oh, I understand, Miami's like that. It
Speaker 1: really is like that. Swam won't hang out in Miami.
Speaker 1: Swam won't hang out in Miami. Next tweet, please at
Speaker 1: Greg one six, six, seven, six, nine, three, five, four
Speaker 1: to two zero, rights, which zone do you typically aim
Speaker 1: for when you're peing you're an eighty, I would tell
Speaker 1: you zone five. And then when I really want to
Speaker 1: show you know the di versatility, the control that I have,
Speaker 1: I'll venture out between three and seven just to circle
Speaker 1: around because I can. But the answer to that question
Speaker 1: would be five. I never thought I'd be asked that
Speaker 1: question in my life. You understand I'm saying I would
Speaker 1: tell you. I would tell you from B to F
Speaker 1: and three to seven, focusing on five whenever I choose to.
Speaker 1: That would be the answer to the question. Very unique question.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next tweet. Please give it to
Speaker 1: me what you got here at Dylan Rights. Would you
Speaker 1: rather fight and orangutang once a year? Get a sword,
Speaker 1: but you don't know when the fight is going to happen,
Speaker 1: or fight a chicken every day you got in any car,
Speaker 1: fight the orangutang. First of all, you give me a sword,
Speaker 1: and secondly is once a year. You understand my chances
Speaker 1: of survival far exceeds a wild chicken being in a
Speaker 1: car with me every damn day. Eventually I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: tired of fighting, so I will tell you the rangutang
Speaker 1: once a year with a sword in my hand. That's
Speaker 1: where I would go with next tweet, Please give it
Speaker 1: to me. Add updating on Rome rights A stephen A.
Speaker 1: In your opinion, it was the great Julius Caesar, a
Speaker 1: tyrant or the people's hero of Rome. I say a tyrant.
Speaker 1: Know when they say you got a Caesar complex, whatever
Speaker 1: that means. People short they got you know, they like
Speaker 1: to be an authority. And all this time I never
Speaker 1: bought into that or anything like that, but they got
Speaker 1: it from somewhere. It was Julius Caesar. So he was
Speaker 1: very very big on authority, very very big on having
Speaker 1: dominion over everyone or whatever, and his tendencies was were tyrannical. Okay,
Speaker 1: So again, when that would that being the case, I
Speaker 1: hardly would say that that's the greatness of Rome, even
Speaker 1: though I'd be partial to listen to Maximus Decimus Meridius,
Speaker 1: lord servant to the true Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to
Speaker 1: a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I
Speaker 1: shall have my vengeance in this life for the next.
Speaker 1: That's it. For this addition that Stephen A Smith shall
Speaker 1: hope y'all enjoyed it. I'll see y'all in a couple
Speaker 1: of days. Until then, peace of love, everybody. I gotta
Speaker 1: balance later