Speaker 1: Why why do y'all keep doing this to me?
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to doing the show, to talking about
Speaker 2: serious issues, to talk about things that matter, stuff that's substitutive.
Speaker 2: But oh no, y'all can't get enough of this dude.
Speaker 3: Step I don't act like for once they requested you
Speaker 3: because of me.
Speaker 1: It's a cold open. You're not allowed to speak until
Speaker 1: I say so. Zip it.
Speaker 2: To Stephen A Smith show dedicated to nephew Josh coming up.
Speaker 1: Why do y'all keep doing this? Why do y'all keep
Speaker 1: requesting this dude?
Speaker 3: For what?
Speaker 1: Why? Why? Why?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I guess I shouldn't be talking on the cold opening.
Speaker 2: It's some hot it's not cold open now, but now
Speaker 2: you can talk so the cold open.
Speaker 1: Can't talk of the cold because.
Speaker 3: You're hot, saying I'm hot, you're hot? You know what
Speaker 3: they say?
Speaker 2: Usually women call themselves hot. I'm sorry, women call themselves
Speaker 2: how dudes. That's some dudes, you know they call it.
Speaker 2: They call the women hot. You don't hear a dude
Speaker 2: calling himself hot.
Speaker 1: You do know that?
Speaker 3: Right now? You say you hot as far as like
Speaker 3: what's going on right now? Not physically hot, but if
Speaker 3: you was born after the eighties. You know what I'm talking.
Speaker 2: About because I'm up born before the eighties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't got the same lingo. You wouldn't understand.
Speaker 3: That's why everybody I would understand.
Speaker 1: Well, how come I wouldn't understand?
Speaker 2: You should have been showing me this stuff for years.
Speaker 1: I don't listen to you.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be dressed down Fridays. Once again, he's
Speaker 3: looking like he's dressed like Baraq, And it's just like,
Speaker 3: you don't got nothing.
Speaker 1: Don't you admire Barrock? Don't you look up to the
Speaker 1: former president?
Speaker 2: And I said, for the fourth president of United States
Speaker 2: of America, don't you look up to it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's my second favorite president.
Speaker 1: Who's your first?
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton?
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton is your favorite president ahead of Barack Obama?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean me and Barrock. Me and Barack got
Speaker 3: like as far as the looks we got, you do
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Me and Bill Clinton is more like,
Speaker 3: h what we're talking about. You know where I got
Speaker 3: it from. I don't do that.
Speaker 1: You say this stuff on camera. That's what you do.
Speaker 3: That's the difference between me and you.
Speaker 2: I say it on camera, So you have no kouf
Speaker 2: is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say, I live my I speak and
Speaker 3: live my truth. I'm like, you know what it's. I
Speaker 3: ain't gonna say too much. I got it, I get
Speaker 3: it from similar, We got it.
Speaker 1: We got some videos, some videos, some videos.
Speaker 2: You got calls, we got tweets, people wanting to holler
Speaker 2: at us, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I said, all right, I'll bring a man and
Speaker 1: let him sit here for the show with me.
Speaker 3: Say I'm here that just a segment.
Speaker 1: Can handle that, because that that that takes a little while.
Speaker 2: Are you capable of sitting in that chair and and
Speaker 2: and giving the audience content for more than five minutes?
Speaker 1: Are you keep doing it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do a few things more than five minutes. Do
Speaker 3: you speak to me like that four minutes? Five is
Speaker 3: kind of long?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh lord, he just said five was kind of a long.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the videos, please, for this boy gets
Speaker 2: himself in more trouble.
Speaker 1: Let's go to videos.
Speaker 5: Every time you got some smoke, you go right to
Speaker 5: the source and have a respect for conversation about it.
Speaker 5: I want to know why that's not talked about more
Speaker 5: about how you not ducking no smoke?
Speaker 3: You're going straight to it.
Speaker 1: I don't see that a lot.
Speaker 5: It seems like everybody talk around each other and you
Speaker 5: go straight to it, but it gets swooped under the rug,
Speaker 5: trying to see what you think about this man?
Speaker 1: What you think?
Speaker 2: I really really appreciate that brother for sending that video
Speaker 2: in because I'm really thankful. I'm grateful that he said
Speaker 2: that about me, because it's so many people in this
Speaker 2: business that just do their thing and then they go home.
Speaker 2: It's like they ain't coming on to talk to the
Speaker 2: people that get at them or anything like that, or
Speaker 2: address directly accusations that have been made against them in
Speaker 2: uncomfortable environments. You know what I'm saying. It's one thing
Speaker 2: to send on your own platform and speak up. But
Speaker 2: you know me, I'm like, you know you got something
Speaker 2: to say? Where you want to meet up?
Speaker 1: We can talk about it.
Speaker 2: We can talk about it in front of the public,
Speaker 2: we can talk about it privately. Don't make no difference
Speaker 2: to me. Are you willing to give your uncle at
Speaker 2: least that much credit?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I give you some credit. You show up, speak
Speaker 3: your mind and stuff like that. But it's gonna happen
Speaker 3: even more now because I'm here.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: What you mean, this is gonna be more direct and
Speaker 3: sometimes I'm an answer for you from my seven burners.
Speaker 1: From your seven burners. See, you can't be doing that.
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna respond to manseuit.
Speaker 1: You can't be doing that.
Speaker 3: Man, when I'm gonna cross the line. You know, one
Speaker 3: guy was disrespecting me and I checked this page and
Speaker 3: he was a dollar tree cashier. Now I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to knock that. You know, I'm not trying.
Speaker 1: To keep making an honest living.
Speaker 3: And what I'm doing, excuse me, what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: According to you, nothing You living off me. That's what
Speaker 2: That's what you've been telling.
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm better than him. Next video, next video.
Speaker 6: Hey Steda, it's your boy or eb from Hoop Social.
Speaker 6: I obviously know you don't remember, but I remember big
Speaker 6: time that I used to call in on your radio
Speaker 6: show all the time and you were call me Corey
Speaker 6: from Maine.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I'm wasting time, steven A.
Speaker 7: I have a legacy question for you, now that we're
Speaker 7: legitimately almost twenty five years away from it. Is Alan
Speaker 7: Iverson's Game one against the two thousand and one Lakers
Speaker 7: the most impactful legacy boosting single game in NBA history.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. That's a good question. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna dismiss the question.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: That was a big time impactful game because I remember
Speaker 2: when I talked about it in the City of Philadelphia's
Speaker 2: Thatt right for the phill Off the Inquirer, and they
Speaker 2: wanted to be fired and banned because I sat up
Speaker 2: there and said, on June fifteenth, the Los Angeles Legers
Speaker 2: were winning that series.
Speaker 1: In five games. They were like what, they said, You're
Speaker 1: not giving them a chance? I said, no chance. They
Speaker 1: was like why. I said, shack, shack and more shock.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, Kobe, because Kobe was coming
Speaker 2: up and Shaq was already in his prime.
Speaker 1: And then they said you saying the seventy six is
Speaker 1: gonna get swept.
Speaker 2: I said, no, AI will get you one, and sure
Speaker 2: enough he showed up that game dropped forty eight. That
Speaker 2: was the first night I ever met Denzel Washington. Denzel
Speaker 2: Washington game. It wrapped his arm around my shoulder and said, so,
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen? What's gonna do because he was nervous
Speaker 2: about the seventy six because the alloxon I said, oh, they.
Speaker 1: Gonna get you one.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get you one time, but then after that,
Speaker 2: you're gonna smoke him. They don't, they can't. They have
Speaker 2: no answer for for Shack. But was it the most impact?
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting point, Kobe Bryant. I think it was
Speaker 2: either Gay four Gay five in Indiana when Shaq had
Speaker 2: fouled out and Kobe had to save the day.
Speaker 1: In the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: I kind of think that eclipses AI's performance personally, but
Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't mean to be picking the other side here,
Speaker 3: but the best, one of the best playoff moments I
Speaker 3: know is when against Detroit Lebron scoring twenty five street
Speaker 3: We didn't think he was gonna beat Detroit.
Speaker 2: That's true, twenty five straight and twenty nine in the quarter, right, Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: legacy defining.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if the Big three Celtics don't put that
Speaker 3: team together, Lebron doesn't figure out how to get to
Speaker 3: the finals. Yeah, he lost to the Spurs, but I think,
Speaker 3: you know, with a couple more roster.
Speaker 1: That's not Roston most that's not a bad take. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad task. Next video, what's up? All right? Steven,
Speaker 1: and I got a good one for you.
Speaker 4: So if you could create a starting five of species
Speaker 4: of birds, what would you pick?
Speaker 1: And why? Of species and birds?
Speaker 3: A species of birds, A species of birds?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, do eagles count? Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's one, Cardinals, cardinals, two blue jays, I'm using teams,
Speaker 3: A species of birds, pigeons. That's four pinkuin.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love the show penguin.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what is it on now on HBO?
Speaker 1: Oh I love that show with Colin Farrell. Oh, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love that show, so love it.
Speaker 3: That's pigeons, blue jays, cardinals, eagles, eagles and a group
Speaker 3: of birds. I'm meeting up with tonight.
Speaker 1: Next video, Stephen A.
Speaker 4: Smith, what's good? It's your boy two tone superstar, please
Speaker 4: say the superstar. I have to ask you, how come
Speaker 4: we are giving a pass to say all Canelo Alvarez
Speaker 4: for Duck and David the Mexican Monster Ben a Videz
Speaker 4: ain't given a pass to Terrence Bud Crawford for not
Speaker 4: fighting Juron boots Innis.
Speaker 1: And I say that respectfully.
Speaker 4: Because nobody asked for Canelo versus.
Speaker 3: Terrence Bud Crawford.
Speaker 1: Because that's musty energy.
Speaker 3: Musty energy.
Speaker 2: Bro, who's giving Canilo a pass? I've been complaining about
Speaker 2: him not fighting the Mexican monster.
Speaker 1: David been a Vitas forever.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you bring up Crawford versus Boots Ennis,
Speaker 2: I wanted Crawford versus Challo for the for the junior
Speaker 2: middleweight title. That's what I wan on it. So I mean,
Speaker 2: ain't nobody giving them a pass? But this boxing, and
Speaker 2: you know cats are making money, making fights based on
Speaker 2: the money, and anything that's gonna jeopardize the money.
Speaker 1: Because the promoters control.
Speaker 2: The sport, you end up having to deal with that.
Speaker 2: I didn't want Canilo versus the smaller Challo. I thought
Speaker 2: that cat who is best friends with Erol Spence after
Speaker 2: Crawford beat up on Spence, I thought that would have
Speaker 2: been the perfect fight.
Speaker 1: So the fact that that didn't happen bothers me.
Speaker 2: And even though I know Crawford is waiting for Canilo
Speaker 2: and sure he wants that fight, he personally told me
Speaker 2: he think he could take Canelogu's our boxing, et cetera.
Speaker 2: My whole point is I don't like the fact that
Speaker 2: these guys aren't as active as they need to.
Speaker 1: Be. I need to see them in the ring. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm at with it. What about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nah, I think I'm cool with the Canelo versus Crawford.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it.
Speaker 2: But you know, David Benivetez deserves that fight more the
Speaker 2: Mexican monster. He gotta move up to light heavyweight just
Speaker 2: to get a fight because Canelo and them ain't dead
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a problem.
Speaker 3: So once you have, you got Crawford losing because he's.
Speaker 1: No, no, no.
Speaker 3: I think that Crawford.
Speaker 2: Listen, I think that Crawford would out box Canilo for
Speaker 2: twelve rounds unless Canilo caught him and knocked him out.
Speaker 2: I think Canilo's only chance of beating Crawford.
Speaker 1: Is knocking him out. I don't think that.
Speaker 2: You know, Crawford is too marvelous of a boxer, so
Speaker 2: I would not choose him to lose in a boxing
Speaker 2: match to Canilo other than Canilo catching him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, agree with that.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. So you're learning, you're learning. Next
Speaker 1: video what you got?
Speaker 8: So Steven, Nah, I've been having this debate with myself.
Speaker 8: As great as Kevin Durant is absolute future first ballot
Speaker 8: Hall of Famer, two time champion, but with his movement
Speaker 8: from team to team over the past few years and
Speaker 8: what looks like he'll be on another team next season,
Speaker 8: is Kevin Durant the greatest journeyman of all time?
Speaker 2: We can't call Kevin Durant a journeyman when he's a
Speaker 2: two time champion and a two time NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 2: And by the way, as great as the Splash Brothers were,
Speaker 2: as great as Golden State was, he was still.
Speaker 1: The best player on that team.
Speaker 2: But he does get indicted because the only time he
Speaker 2: has won is when he was on Golden State, which
Speaker 2: means that this is.
Speaker 1: What the bottom line, Josh.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant forces you to look into and wonder about
Speaker 2: what the hell is he doing with his life off
Speaker 2: the basketball court, because you find yourself looking at him
Speaker 2: and saying, situations from a leadership perspective have to be
Speaker 2: pretty good, if not close to perfect, around you in
Speaker 2: order for you to win.
Speaker 1: You're so great even when you.
Speaker 2: Departed from Steph Covey, you played with Kyrie Irving. Even
Speaker 2: before you went with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, you
Speaker 2: was in Oklahoma City where Russell Westbrook. Why is it
Speaker 2: that the situation needs to be perfect in order for
Speaker 2: you to win? Why aren't you able to milk and
Speaker 2: soak out of the talent around you in other places
Speaker 2: than Golden State the way somebody like Lebron and others
Speaker 2: have done.
Speaker 3: So that you say, what, well to that, I say,
Speaker 3: once again, we owe Kevin Durant an apology because he's weak.
Speaker 1: Who's weak?
Speaker 3: I'm a new part of the media, so I shouldn't
Speaker 3: even be saying weed. But since it's our money, I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, you ain't no damn media. You just giving up
Speaker 1: for you just giving an opinion. You ain't a media.
Speaker 1: Stop that. Stop that, so go ahead.
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is y'all keep saying like, why
Speaker 3: y'all even looking for leadership out of Kevin Durant? What
Speaker 3: is the coach doing? Why do you make the salary
Speaker 3: that you make. I'm Kevin Durant leader. I lead the
Speaker 3: team at school that's leading. I lead him in rebounding.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm second, third, third and assists. How much more
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to do? Why is my occupation? Why is
Speaker 3: it added that I have to lead the players that
Speaker 3: aren't that good? That's what the coach is supposed to
Speaker 3: do but the coach is supposed to do it.
Speaker 2: But clearly Frank Vogel wasn't capable of doing it. Mike Budenholz,
Speaker 2: it clearly isn't capable of doing it. Steve Nash wasn't
Speaker 2: capable of doing it, and you let Steve Dash be
Speaker 2: the head coach when Kenny Atkinson was there and you
Speaker 2: and Kyrie wanted him going. He's going. He's an assistant
Speaker 2: in Golden State. Now he's a head coach in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: They got the second best record in basketball with this
Speaker 2: man coaching.
Speaker 1: You had a coach. And so the point is.
Speaker 2: Is that because you that superstar, you could kind of
Speaker 2: get things the way that you want things, and the
Speaker 2: kind of chaos that has been around you, you don't
Speaker 2: have to tolerate that.
Speaker 1: If you know me, this is what I do.
Speaker 2: So whether it's here, whether it's first take on the
Speaker 2: ESPN or anywhere else, you know, there's was so much
Speaker 2: stuff I'm gonna tolerate because I'm trying to win and
Speaker 2: anything that I think gets in a way of winning
Speaker 2: is gonna get removed.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to make friends. I'm trying to win.
Speaker 1: That's my mentality. I believe that's what it takes to win.
Speaker 2: And some of the great great players that we've seen
Speaker 2: in NBA and in sports history have.
Speaker 1: Had that mentality.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm on the show. You want to win?
Speaker 1: Come on last video please? Wow.
Speaker 9: Question I have for yours, mister Stephen A. Smith, is
Speaker 9: does your current significant other have the right to know.
Speaker 3: Your ex?
Speaker 10: And?
Speaker 9: If so, why and are they entitled to that information?
Speaker 3: What he said is your current your current relationship? Is
Speaker 3: the girl supposed to know about your ex? Is she
Speaker 3: supposed to know your ex?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: What was he asking is in your current relationship? Is
Speaker 2: your girl supposed to know about your ex?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Not necessarily.
Speaker 2: I mean these women out here don't be telling us
Speaker 2: about their axes. I mean, listen, as long as you
Speaker 2: ain't messing with them, now, what's the problem?
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen. I will say this, if you
Speaker 1: got a woman and you used to.
Speaker 2: That your woman is interested in somebody other than you,
Speaker 2: then you got to be man enough to move on.
Speaker 1: You know you you.
Speaker 2: You can't be you can't expect to be happy accepting
Speaker 2: a role as a constellation prize. Now all of us
Speaker 2: play the fool sometimes, as the old saying goes, it's
Speaker 2: no exception to the rules. But if you are aware
Speaker 2: that you are a consolation prize and you accept that
Speaker 2: clearly you.
Speaker 1: Are lacking confidence as a man. Is that possible for you? Josh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I don't want to charm too much in
Speaker 3: this because you're speaking about half my lineup.
Speaker 1: What is that supposed to be? What do you mean
Speaker 1: half your lineup? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the girls that I own. You told
Speaker 3: me not to talk like that on the camera. Can
Speaker 3: we go to the next video? On the next video?
Speaker 3: No more videos, it's no more you keeping that tweets?
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Speaker 2: Uh see how he got his own thing, nephewtism josh Man.
Speaker 1: You see that that hust I just said. I just
Speaker 1: said I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it for him, gonna dedicated show
Speaker 2: to him. So we go into the tweets next. Now,
Speaker 2: we did the we did the videos. We're gonna do
Speaker 2: the calls later. I'm scared of the calls, by the way,
Speaker 2: because we don't know what the hell is gonna come
Speaker 2: out of his mouth. But now we're gonna do the tweets,
Speaker 2: so let's go right to him so I can hurry up,
Speaker 2: get you out of here.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, man, sus is yours Nick? You want to
Speaker 1: read him?
Speaker 3: Do you think dem should support abolishing the twenty second
Speaker 3: in order to run Obama against Trump in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that the Constitution should be altered.
Speaker 2: I don't think that Trump should even have a chance.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Democrats in the position to be
Speaker 2: arrogant enough to think they would beat him if he
Speaker 2: did pursue a third term, even though he would be
Speaker 2: around eighty two years old at the time. I don't
Speaker 2: believe it at all. I don't think that's a chance
Speaker 2: you take. I don't think you mess with that stuff.
Speaker 2: The Constitution is the Constitution. The twenty second Amendment says
Speaker 2: no president shall serve more than two terms. We should
Speaker 2: not be allowed to circumvent that. Once you open that
Speaker 2: Pandora's box, who knows what they could.
Speaker 1: Do with the constitution next.
Speaker 3: I don't like it, and I feel like if that
Speaker 3: were the case, why would we need barat when we
Speaker 3: run it.
Speaker 1: I go with that prove that message through that message.
Speaker 1: I like that. Let's go we running, know we running? Okay?
Speaker 1: With that man, You'll get me, I'll lose.
Speaker 2: I'll lose by landslide with you as a runner, mate,
Speaker 2: Go ahead and read the next woeman.
Speaker 3: Would you take a cappy barra as a pet over
Speaker 3: a dug?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Why would we do that? Why we do that? That's
Speaker 3: what I'm saying with some of these tweets. Let's go
Speaker 3: to the next one. It's a big.
Speaker 1: Right that looks like a big rats. Hey, I want
Speaker 1: to go that far.
Speaker 3: Current day Jordan and you versus Lebron and Shannon Shaw
Speaker 3: who wins in a game of twenty one?
Speaker 1: In a game of twenty one?
Speaker 2: How current day Jordan's in his sixties. I'm fifty seven.
Speaker 2: I know Shannon got bad hips even though he's a
Speaker 2: mammoth of a man and probably tackle me all day long.
Speaker 2: But Lebron can beat all three of us by himself.
Speaker 2: That's not a smart question.
Speaker 3: So when you say Jordan's in his sixties, you need
Speaker 3: to steal my line and say we or there you
Speaker 3: like fifty yeah, you right there? And second of all,
Speaker 3: so you're basically saying Lebron is a go. He could
Speaker 3: beat all three out at the same time.
Speaker 1: Now he's fifty, Lebron is forty.
Speaker 2: About fifty, Lebron is twenty plus years younger. Excuse then, Jordan. Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get into all of this because it'll
Speaker 2: be accused of hating me. Telling facts would be accused
Speaker 2: of hating Jordan is the greatest ever.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to talk about. Next tweet what you got?
Speaker 3: Read it when you got.
Speaker 2: Down so people can talk me. And by the way,
Speaker 2: people want this shine the Lakers Forum.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'll be telling you.
Speaker 3: I hate when you do that, but I'll do it
Speaker 3: the Lakers at the Lakers Forum. Who you got in
Speaker 3: the street fight? Tell Tubbes or the Wonder Pets.
Speaker 2: That's that's for you to answer, since since you sonowledgeable
Speaker 2: and I'm so outdated because I was born before nineteen eighty,
Speaker 2: you the one that can answer this ahead of me.
Speaker 1: What you got, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna take the Taeler Tubbies. Yeah, I'm gonna take the
Speaker 3: Teler Sevys.
Speaker 1: I don't want to why.
Speaker 3: I don't know you want me to act like I
Speaker 3: watched the Telo Tubby's or the other show at all.
Speaker 3: I don't know what neither one of these things are.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna the Lakers form. Don't send any more
Speaker 3: two meets? Can you say that, Yeah, you don't send it.
Speaker 1: No, right, let's go to the next one.
Speaker 3: That's a lot to read.
Speaker 2: One at just Jeff five sixty. That's a lot to read.
Speaker 2: Sounded like you don't want to read?
Speaker 1: Oh what? Oh? How is kay not more on an
Speaker 1: MVP discussion.
Speaker 2: I know it's no seventy win season that the OKC
Speaker 2: could have if they went out. Is a player that
Speaker 2: turns fourteen wins a year prior to over forty wins?
Speaker 2: Is that not more valuable than a player that has
Speaker 2: his team number one last year to having them number
Speaker 2: one again this year?
Speaker 1: You can look at it that way. That's a decent argument.
Speaker 2: That's not a profound argument because they got a different coach,
Speaker 2: different system, and obviously things have changed a lot. K
Speaker 2: can Ball, no question about a mad respect for him,
Speaker 2: But he ain't SGA. Let's not get that twisted. He's
Speaker 2: not Yes SGA and he's not Jokic. So let's cut
Speaker 2: let's let's let's cut that out. Let's cut that out.
Speaker 2: I know you ain't gonna disagree with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jokic's fresh off for a sixty ten and ten
Speaker 3: game and you want to talk about I like K two,
Speaker 3: But he also answered his own question in the middle
Speaker 3: of the tweet. I know it's no seventy win season
Speaker 3: and that OKC can have if they went out. That's
Speaker 3: it is your MVP.
Speaker 1: Next week, next tweet.
Speaker 3: Please you like how I handled that? Steven Abould, you
Speaker 3: rather swim across a fifty yard leg infested with alligators
Speaker 3: and other swamp creatures or be locked in a zoo
Speaker 3: exhibit before gorillas for two hours?
Speaker 1: Jesus, you can't swim so well.
Speaker 2: Not just that, even if I could swim, you could
Speaker 2: have convinced me that I'd make it.
Speaker 1: See with the gorillas.
Speaker 2: My answer to this would be, I'd rather be locked
Speaker 2: in the zoo exhibit with four gorillas for two hours
Speaker 2: because I'd rather get beat.
Speaker 1: To death than eating to death.
Speaker 2: It's very very simple, beat me to death rather than
Speaker 2: eat me to death.
Speaker 1: Now that's my answer to that damn question. It ain't
Speaker 1: nothing but that in no way in hell.
Speaker 3: And you know I'm not answering this question because he
Speaker 3: just went crazy. Next week, Why.
Speaker 1: You're not answering the question next week, why a you
Speaker 1: not answered? What did I miss? Something?
Speaker 3: You missing them? You're gonna catch it? I said this
Speaker 3: lat that said, what.
Speaker 1: Is he talking about? What did I miss? But I'd
Speaker 1: rather get beaten to death than eating you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? What am I missing? What am I missing?
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Your calls
Speaker 1: to close out the show?
Speaker 2: Up next right here with your boy Stephen A and
Speaker 2: a crazy nephew in a minute, Welcome back to The
Speaker 2: stephen A. Smith Show, the special edition of The stephen
Speaker 2: Ate Smith Show, which really is a The Stephen Nate
Speaker 2: Smith Show because it's an episode dedicated to nephew.
Speaker 1: To them, as they say with Josh himself.
Speaker 2: We already did your videos, we already did your tweets.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to get to your phone calls. Are
Speaker 1: you ready for this?
Speaker 3: Ready?
Speaker 1: Behave yourself? Please? Please?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go to Anthony in Illinois, your Live with
Speaker 2: Stephen Nate.
Speaker 1: What's up? Anthony?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 11: Stephen Nate? As my question to you, my question to
Speaker 11: you brother is can we make your nephew.
Speaker 12: A regular on your show?
Speaker 11: Why your nephew.
Speaker 3: Is my anti TV too.
Speaker 11: He must he must see to me, Stephen, Why why
Speaker 11: why the man is the man is quite entertaining, He
Speaker 11: swagged out. He's smooth with hell sitting on your on
Speaker 11: your podcast with you. It should be you should you
Speaker 11: should change the name to the Smith Show.
Speaker 3: I ain't even I ain't even gonna say nothing like that?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you seeing him?
Speaker 3: Are you seeing how? I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 1: Nothing, Anthony, you know that that you seeing him? He
Speaker 1: swagged out. He swagged out.
Speaker 2: Anybody could take a bunch of Jean's and take a
Speaker 2: scissors and.
Speaker 1: A bunch of bunch of holes in them.
Speaker 3: That Anthony and Chicago, you got a pH d something
Speaker 3: like that. You sound extra smart, and Steve Stephen, they
Speaker 3: has a pH d that they gave him at his
Speaker 3: school for being famous. But we ain't gonna talk about that.
Speaker 3: But you said extra so so me so.
Speaker 2: Me graduating with honors, being one of the most successful
Speaker 2: graduates from the institution in the institution's history.
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with me. See receiving an
Speaker 1: honorary doctor, It's only because I'm famous, That's right.
Speaker 3: Honorary means be giving it to you again.
Speaker 2: You got a bachelors because because because I've earned it.
Speaker 3: You earned a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 11: Hey, Steven, and he got to be on your show, man,
Speaker 11: he gotta.
Speaker 1: Is he not on that?
Speaker 2: You gotta give him, you gotta take him in the listen.
Speaker 2: He could always have his own show. He don't have
Speaker 2: to be sitting next to me and don't bother me.
Speaker 2: But we both know he don't want that, no matter
Speaker 2: how much is sorry he has to.
Speaker 3: Say otherwise I do. I just gotta use I'm gonna
Speaker 3: use his credit card and star my own show. Ya.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. It's coming to say.
Speaker 11: He I appreciate.
Speaker 1: Trouble maker. You need a more trouble maker, Anthony.
Speaker 2: We read the love bro be read to stop stop
Speaker 2: it all right, let's go to Tyler.
Speaker 1: You're live with Steven A. Tillerand Omaha. Talk to me,
Speaker 1: steven A.
Speaker 12: How's it going man?
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm near the nephew. How you think is going
Speaker 1: for me? Man?
Speaker 12: How you think his family?
Speaker 11: Man?
Speaker 3: You know what it is?
Speaker 12: Go ahead, bro, So recently I was in a relationship.
Speaker 12: I don't know if it's the Omaha women down here
Speaker 12: something like that. Everything was going well, right, we're paying
Speaker 12: back and forth on dates, the camaraderie, the banter was there,
Speaker 12: and all of a sudden, she just hits me with
Speaker 12: a text that's basically like, hey, this isn't going to work.
Speaker 12: And this came out of left field. We had just
Speaker 12: gotten off going on a date pretty much right after
Speaker 12: that text came out. So stephen A, how do you
Speaker 12: not even how do you bounce back from that?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 12: How do you make sure that kind of shit doesn't happen?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to a couple of things. A couple
Speaker 1: of points.
Speaker 2: You said y'all were going out and dates and was
Speaker 2: back and forth paying for the dates.
Speaker 1: Is that what you said?
Speaker 12: I paid for I paid for the majority of them.
Speaker 1: The majority of them. But she actually paid for subdates.
Speaker 12: One of them. And that's it. And that's basically because
Speaker 12: I had gotten up and she had paid for it.
Speaker 1: How old are you, bro, I'm twenty five. Okay.
Speaker 2: Secondly, I got to ask you a personal question. Okayeah,
Speaker 2: did y'all connect with each other intimately?
Speaker 12: Uh? Not on that level?
Speaker 3: Now? No?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if you didn't, well then you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean you know, yeah, I mean she did?
Speaker 1: She she she wasn't feeling you.
Speaker 12: Bro right, I mean we did, we did. We didn't
Speaker 12: go all the way. It's just like we did. We
Speaker 12: did a little bit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I don't I don't know what you mean a
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm okay, all right, Well, let me say this to you.
Speaker 2: You know she wasn't feeling you. I mean, you know
Speaker 2: you might have got close enough and it wasn't enticing
Speaker 2: enough for it to continue.
Speaker 3: How many dates did you did you pay for?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 12: Just about all of it? I can't remember how many did.
Speaker 1: Remember?
Speaker 3: What was it more than like can you count your hands?
Speaker 12: It's pasted like double digits. I think we went on
Speaker 12: like ten or eleven days. It was like once a week.
Speaker 3: Listen, I got if you if you're following me, which
Speaker 3: it sounds like you need to listen. I got her budget.
Speaker 3: I don't spend more than two hundred unless you know
Speaker 3: I cracked that third note. Crack yourself.
Speaker 2: You get up it, watch them out and stop lying
Speaker 2: to the public because you know that's not true. David,
Speaker 2: you know, don't give me a C note and analysis.
Speaker 2: Be quiet, Be quiet before you incriminate yourself. Even it's
Speaker 2: not small okay, and you're playing around too much.
Speaker 3: Stop it.
Speaker 1: Next next call, let me.
Speaker 2: Go to let's go here, Let's go to Johnny in California.
Speaker 2: You live steven A and this dude, what's up Johnny?
Speaker 13: Hey, stephen A. I just want to say before I start,
Speaker 13: I'm a huge fan. I've been watching you since I
Speaker 13: was like fourteen years old, and I first started getting
Speaker 13: into American sports. I'm Mexican, so really I just follow
Speaker 13: like soccer, but I started watching you, and you got
Speaker 13: me into basketball and football more. So I just want
Speaker 13: to start off with that my question. I just want
Speaker 13: to give a little bit of context. My girlfriend and
Speaker 13: I just a couple of days ago. You've been together
Speaker 13: for two and a half years officially.
Speaker 12: And.
Speaker 13: Basically the last few months haven't been so well. Haven't
Speaker 13: been going so good. Me and her both lost our jobs,
Speaker 13: and we also lost the apartment where we were living at,
Speaker 13: so I had to come back to live with my mom.
Speaker 13: And it's obviously it's hard not having a job, seeing
Speaker 13: my mom work every day, and there's not really much
Speaker 13: I can do. But besides that, I'm trying to keep
Speaker 13: my relationship happy, and I'm sure the circumstances have something
Speaker 13: to do with. I can noticeably tell my girlfriend isn't
Speaker 13: in like the best mood, not towards me, but I
Speaker 13: guess towards like the world. And I'm kind of just
Speaker 13: like I wish I could be that that pillar for
Speaker 13: her to be like. You know, I know we're both
Speaker 13: in a rough spot, but I'm here for you and
Speaker 13: I want to try to do everything that we can
Speaker 13: to get out of this mess. And I've heard you
Speaker 13: tell your story multiple times, so I know you're not
Speaker 13: you know, you're used to being in those type of
Speaker 13: difficult situations. So I wanted to see if you could
Speaker 13: give me some advice.
Speaker 2: Wow, a couple of things. First of all, I'm very
Speaker 2: very sorry for your situation. You're gonna be a little
Speaker 2: bit quiet on this one. You understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: because it ain't like you're gonna give him some sound advice.
Speaker 1: Or just sit back.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the deal, Johnny, and I want you to
Speaker 2: understand that I'm not saying this out of selfishness. I
Speaker 2: know what it's like to be unemployed. I know what
Speaker 2: it's like to wonder whether or not you can pay
Speaker 2: your bills. I know what it's like to, you know,
Speaker 2: be at home with moms and having to depend on
Speaker 2: that because you can't find for yourself.
Speaker 1: I've been there.
Speaker 2: Having said that, here's the point that you need to understand, Johnny,
Speaker 2: can you still hear me?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 1: His stuff that you got to understand.
Speaker 2: Don't prioritize saving your relationship, prioritize keeping yourself back on
Speaker 2: your feet because the relationship is partially in trouble because
Speaker 2: of your circumstances. Certainly, she's miserable because she lost her
Speaker 2: job and her ability to take care of herself is compromised.
Speaker 2: But if you were still employed and you were in
Speaker 2: a position to help handle your business and ultimately help
Speaker 2: her handle her business, it wouldn't be as trying. The
Speaker 2: fact that you are in the same situation as her
Speaker 2: means you can't do anything for her. And if you
Speaker 2: can't do anything for her, why would she be happy.
Speaker 2: It's already unhappy for her to look at her own
Speaker 2: inability to really take care of herself at this particular
Speaker 2: moment in time. How you think she's feeling if she
Speaker 2: turned around and she looking at her man and he
Speaker 2: can't do anything.
Speaker 1: For her either.
Speaker 2: So what you have to understand is that and it's
Speaker 2: not right or wrong, it's nothing like that.
Speaker 1: But what you have to understand is that.
Speaker 2: When you are a man, your priority is to provide
Speaker 2: and protect, and when you are unemployed, you can't usually
Speaker 2: do either. So when that so, when that is your reality,
Speaker 2: that is a license. It's not to say you don't
Speaker 2: call it. It's not to say you don't reminder you love. It,
Speaker 2: not to say that you don't show affection whenever you can,
Speaker 2: but when you and your circumstances are bad, you have
Speaker 2: to prioritize doing what you need to do to make
Speaker 2: sure you take care or you so you can position
Speaker 2: yourself to take care of her. And you tell her
Speaker 2: that you like, Listen, I love y'all, want to be
Speaker 2: with you. I miss you the whole nine. But y'all,
Speaker 2: I gotta take care of me so I can't take
Speaker 2: care of you. So understand that's what I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: focused on it you tell her that that's what you do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you an opportunity, Josh to add. You
Speaker 2: ain't gonna add nothing, think.
Speaker 1: You can be as.
Speaker 13: Thank you God, conversation.
Speaker 2: Thank God you have nothing to add. I'm serious, bro, Johnny, Johnny.
Speaker 1: You can't take care of it.
Speaker 2: You cannot take care of anyone if you cannot take
Speaker 2: care of yourself.
Speaker 13: It's funny you say that, because I was just thinking, like,
Speaker 13: I have my own stuffy and I'm luckily. Before I
Speaker 13: lost my job, I took up a property and casualty license.
Speaker 13: Of course, that's what I'm working on right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, what I'm saying, I don't I don't need a soliloquy.
Speaker 1: I don't need a dissertation.
Speaker 2: All I'm telling you is you have to be able
Speaker 2: to offset her struggles.
Speaker 1: That don't mean you got to go and pay her
Speaker 1: mortgage and pay her car and.
Speaker 2: All this stuff, but you got to be able to
Speaker 2: do something for your woman. Otherwise, your woman one day
Speaker 2: is gonna look your way and be like, why am
Speaker 2: I with him?
Speaker 1: He can't do anything for me. That's what happens yet.
Speaker 13: Okay, I was trying to like this soliloquy. I was
Speaker 13: trying to add to what you said that you kind
Speaker 13: of just pushed me to doing something. I was scared.
Speaker 13: I was just saying that I have you know, I
Speaker 13: have thought about telling her we got to do this
Speaker 13: ourselves so I can do what I gotta do. But
Speaker 13: I guess the fear of losing the relationship is a
Speaker 13: scared you gonna.
Speaker 2: You're gonna You're gonna lose it any way, if you
Speaker 2: don't take care of you.
Speaker 1: You gotta take the only listen.
Speaker 2: When you are healthy and you have the capability to
Speaker 2: do for self, that's entirely different if you were disable
Speaker 2: to couldn't do anything from you, and you got a
Speaker 2: woman in your life that's dedicated. Now, she ain't gonna
Speaker 2: hold against you your limitations and your limitations. But when
Speaker 2: you healthy and vibrant, but you are devoid of opportunities
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, women expect you to go out
Speaker 2: there and get those I've been trying to tell this
Speaker 2: boy for years that reality if it listen for every
Speaker 2: brother who won't there as a neighborhood will always remember that.
Speaker 2: Never underestimate that. When it comes to a woman, that's
Speaker 2: just a fact. Not with every one of them, but
Speaker 2: with a lot of them. That's the reality and the situation.
Speaker 2: And as a man, you should be thinking like that
Speaker 2: because it should inspire you to want to get yours
Speaker 2: just so you can have something to give.
Speaker 1: Period. You need to listen to that. Don't argue last
Speaker 1: call Keisha in New Jersey. You're live with steven A.
Speaker 1: What's up? Keisha? How are you?
Speaker 14: Hey, Stephen?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 10: I you?
Speaker 1: How's everything?
Speaker 14: I'm good? I'm good. So I really have a question
Speaker 14: for Josh.
Speaker 1: Okay, we this, yes, go ahead, go ahead. It depends
Speaker 1: on what it is, Keisha, but go ahead.
Speaker 14: It shouldn't be too bad. Hey, Josh, how are you?
Speaker 3: Hey? I'm good?
Speaker 14: Okay, So this for contects. I'm thirty nine, I've been
Speaker 14: divorced for six years, but I am trying to get
Speaker 14: back into the dating scene right now. I do want
Speaker 14: to reconnect with somebody from my past. But how should
Speaker 14: I know? Like he's the one out of all the others,
Speaker 14: you know?
Speaker 2: Right now, hold on before Josh answers, let me get
Speaker 2: this straight, Keisha. Yeah, you are a grown ass woman.
Speaker 2: You are thirty nine years of age.
Speaker 1: You are divorced. Okay, you are an adult. You are divorced, which.
Speaker 2: Obviously means you've been married, and you call up to
Speaker 2: this show because you want Josh's advice about how to
Speaker 2: how to get back in the game per se.
Speaker 14: Well, see, you know, sometimes I want to disagree with Josh,
Speaker 14: but he does make sense, like in the weirdest way
Speaker 14: of thinking, and I just want a dude's experience or
Speaker 14: just advice because God.
Speaker 2: God bless you and good luck Josh the floors or go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, so so real quick, I'm gonna make it fast.
Speaker 1: Take the time. I want to hear it. Don't rush.
Speaker 1: I want to hear this. So I want to hear this.
Speaker 3: So so the next guy you meet, right, I know how,
Speaker 3: I know how you like to like hold out and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Oh my god, please do it on
Speaker 3: the first night. And I'm gonna tell you why you
Speaker 3: do it on the first night.
Speaker 1: Do not listen to that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, let me let me tell you
Speaker 3: why you do it on the first night. What you
Speaker 3: don't want him to spend the next few months trying
Speaker 3: to convince you to do that, So you might as
Speaker 3: well get it out the way on night.
Speaker 1: One time out. There's a huge difference between the first
Speaker 1: night and months down the road. Why I got to
Speaker 1: be the first night? How come it can't be a
Speaker 1: few weeks, couple weeks something like that.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to say the first night because if
Speaker 3: she finds out that he's a waste of time, I
Speaker 3: don't want her to waste weeks, find it out on
Speaker 3: night one, give it out.
Speaker 1: Excuse me? You have a daughter? Uh huh, I do too. No,
Speaker 1: that is not advice that you give any lady. You
Speaker 1: don't sit up there and give literal advice.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: The first thing that you value your body, You value
Speaker 2: your soul.
Speaker 1: You value what you bring to the table. You value that.
Speaker 3: So you don't value the only thing that you can't
Speaker 3: get back, and that's Tom.
Speaker 1: Well, it's better. That's a good question. Of course you
Speaker 1: value that. But the flip side to it is that
Speaker 1: who's to say that that's everything matters?
Speaker 2: But the point that I'm making to you is that
Speaker 2: it also matters what you're giving up. Because let me
Speaker 2: tell you something, Keisha, Okay, And you'll know as a
Speaker 2: woman that I'm telling you the truth when I say this,
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how much you enjoy yourself with a man,
Speaker 2: you always walk away thinking about what you gave. Because
Speaker 2: you're because your body, because because your because your body,
Speaker 2: your heart, your mind, et cetera. That means a lot.
Speaker 2: If you walk away thinking about what you gave, you
Speaker 2: gotta be cautious about what you give.
Speaker 1: Now again, I'm not telling you to wait forever?
Speaker 2: Will you do it at the pace that you want
Speaker 2: to do it, that you feel comfortable doing it. If
Speaker 2: that's one night, one month, six months, or whatever. Fine,
Speaker 2: But the point that I'm making to you is you
Speaker 2: do what makes you comfortable. You don't listen to this
Speaker 2: man to say, oh, I gotta give it up on
Speaker 2: the first night, so a while.
Speaker 1: Because why waste my time?
Speaker 2: That is horrible advice to give to any young lady
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: She horrible.
Speaker 3: She called into nephew tism, not uncle tism. And now
Speaker 3: I can't even get a word out. So you know
Speaker 3: what you do?
Speaker 1: No, No, I ain't gonna say that.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, it's too late. You just DM me and
Speaker 3: then uh I did.
Speaker 14: But wait, I already DMed you and you didn't respond.
Speaker 14: I think you thought I was trying to ask you
Speaker 14: for money, so you.
Speaker 2: Left me all right now, I kind of think I think,
Speaker 2: knowing him, he probably thought you was trying to ask
Speaker 2: for something else.
Speaker 1: This dude is unbelievable. How did you possibly give that
Speaker 1: kind of advice?
Speaker 3: This is you right here? Keisha, Yeah, Keisha in Jersey. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, Well we're gonna end this show, really because
Speaker 3: we in Jersey.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, set your ass down right now, shows over.
Speaker 1: It's not over.
Speaker 14: I'll be waiting enough, excuse me, I'll be waiting for
Speaker 14: his response.
Speaker 1: No, no, Keishi, he was talking about getting up to
Speaker 1: see you know.
Speaker 3: That boy said thirty nine. But I'm just.
Speaker 1: Any other questions. Keisha can't believe this.
Speaker 14: I think I'm gonna just wait for him to hit
Speaker 14: me back and see where this goes.
Speaker 1: You're wait for who to hit you back?
Speaker 14: Uh, mister Josh.
Speaker 1: Okay hit you back for what?
Speaker 2: Because you want his advice on a guy that you're
Speaker 2: interested in from your past.
Speaker 14: I mean he doesn't look too bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, hold on, you're talking about Josh.
Speaker 14: Yeah, hell to.
Speaker 1: The No, oh my god, oh my lord.
Speaker 2: So so in other words, Keisha, you weren't being totally
Speaker 2: forthcoming and honest when you called into this show.
Speaker 1: You said, you said hold on it, you said.
Speaker 2: You have you are divorced, and that you want to date,
Speaker 2: and that you have somebody from.
Speaker 1: Your past that you were interested in seeing.
Speaker 2: And in less than one hundred seconds, you looked at
Speaker 2: my nephew and was like success, saying, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean he doesn't look bad. And all of a
Speaker 2: sudden the dude from your past is not the subject matter.
Speaker 1: It's Josh.
Speaker 2: You do unsand that right, choose up, choose up. So
Speaker 2: in other words, Keisha, you really called in here because
Speaker 2: you're interested in my nephew Toby. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't, I don't know. She probably one of
Speaker 3: the few day guys.
Speaker 1: Lets another call, Kesha, you have a wonderful even Let
Speaker 1: me take it.
Speaker 3: Lady lady, lady keys, i'le gonna hit you, yeah, hurt.
Speaker 1: That's it for the special edition of The stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Shaw. Lord help us all until next time.
Speaker 3: Lord help Keisha.
Speaker 10: Watch your mouth, lady girl.
Speaker 9: H