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Speaker 1: is gonna be a relatively quick show because I'm traveling
Speaker 1: back from the NBA Finals. I haven't had any sleep,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't gonna sit up there and deny y'all
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Speaker 1: me to be a little quick today. All right. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get started with the NBA Finals that concluded last
Speaker 1: night with Game seven in Oklahoma City with the Thunder
Speaker 1: crowd as champions for the twenty twenty four to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five season. The game featured a devastating injury to
Speaker 1: pay the star Tyreese Halliburton. I'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a moment, but I first want to give props to
Speaker 1: the Thunder, who completed the season having the best record
Speaker 1: and the best player in the entire NBA. Shaye Gilgus
Speaker 1: Alexander or as my colleague Malika Andrews from ESPN so affection,
Speaker 1: the league calls him Shay. Butter capped his historic season
Speaker 1: with twenty nine points and twelve assists in Game seven,
Speaker 1: By the way, forty minutes, just one turnover. He's just
Speaker 1: the fourth play in NBA history to win the regular
Speaker 1: season MVP and scoring title while becoming an NBA champion.
Speaker 1: The Thunder victory is also the culmination of longtime general
Speaker 1: manager Sam Presty. Presty, who has been in charge since
Speaker 1: the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight season,
Speaker 1: has led Oklahoma City to the second most regular season
Speaker 1: victories in that span or in the league during that span.
Speaker 1: I like to start there first and foremost. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start off giving some love to Sam Presty, because here's
Speaker 1: the reason why nobody was calling him out more than me.
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of him. I think that
Speaker 1: over the years he's accumulated Hall of Fame talent, and
Speaker 1: he's been in charge since two thousand and seven. My
Speaker 1: issue with him is that they didn't close One of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies is really the opening monologue by Alec Baldwin,
Speaker 1: always be, always be closing, and that was something that
Speaker 1: we could never say about the Oklahoma City Thunder, And
Speaker 1: it got on my last damn nerves because throughout the years,
Speaker 1: I remember when Sam Presty had a team and I
Speaker 1: looked at players, the players that he's had on the squad,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James hard and Serge Ibaka, Reggie Jackson,
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo, Paul George, still having Russell Westbrook, Okay Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 1: The list just goes on and on and on, but
Speaker 1: no championship to show for it. Anybody else, somebody would
Speaker 1: be asking when we're gonna get the chip? When are
Speaker 1: we gonna get the championship? Well, finally Oklahoma City answered
Speaker 1: the call. Courtesy of Shay Gilgess, Alexander and Sam Presty
Speaker 1: deserves a boatload of credit. They've got about anywhere from
Speaker 1: thirteen to fifteen first round picks in the very near future,
Speaker 1: and they got a championship squad. Now, that's the second
Speaker 1: youngest squad in NBA history to have captured such a feat.
Speaker 1: Only the Portland Trailblazers from the nineteen seventy six seventy
Speaker 1: seven season, led by Bill Waltson, was considered younger, averaging
Speaker 1: a little over twenty five years of age, whereas Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City averaged twenty five and a half years of age.
Speaker 1: This is who they are. This is what Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: brings to the table. Shay gilg just is a superstar
Speaker 1: in this league, all right, averaging thirty four in game sevens.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at what this brother has done, and you
Speaker 1: guess you just gotta stand down. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the world. And there's no way around it.
Speaker 1: It's just that simple. Right now. If you're telling me
Speaker 1: a top five in the NBA, you can make a
Speaker 1: legitimate argument that he's top two easily. Him and Nicola
Speaker 1: Jokich to the Denver Nuggets. That's what you could do.
Speaker 1: I give you my top five a little bit later
Speaker 1: if you want me to, but that's where I'm at
Speaker 1: with it right now. Got to give love to Jay Dubb,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Williams showing himself to be that sidekick that any
Speaker 1: championship squad needs that Oklahoma City has. With Shay Gilgess
Speaker 1: Alexander needing that sidekick. The only thing missing from Jay
Speaker 1: Dubb's game is consistency everything else. He's a legit six
Speaker 1: six sixty seven. He's got a j He's got ball
Speaker 1: handling skills. He could finish at the basket, he could
Speaker 1: finish in the open court. He could hit free throws.
Speaker 1: He's got a mid range game. Plus, he defends. One
Speaker 1: of only two players in the entire NBA. Him and
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley of the Cleveland Cavaliers made an All NBA
Speaker 1: team and an All NBA Defensive team. Can't deny what
Speaker 1: Alex Caruso, you know, the eldest statesmen of this crew,
Speaker 1: meant to this team this year. Can't deny what Isaiah Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: who came over from the New York Knicks last year,
Speaker 1: meant to this team this year. Cheded Holmgren is just
Speaker 1: in his third year there. Look at what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do this year. You got cats coming off
Speaker 1: the bench like Wiggins and Wallace and these cats. Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City is loaded and then not going away, and they
Speaker 1: deserve a boatload of credit for it. They really really do.
Speaker 1: My hat's off to them. My hat's off to coach Dagnault,
Speaker 1: who I thought, listen, had they lost Game seven last night,
Speaker 1: we all know what we would have been talking about
Speaker 1: we've been talking about what happened in Game one, how
Speaker 1: he changed the starting lineup before tip off for the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals even arrived, and we would have said, Yo,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you thinking? But turns out they
Speaker 1: ended up getting it done and propped to them for
Speaker 1: doing so. It didn't come easy. It came hard because
Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers were valiant and defeat they pushed this
Speaker 1: series to seven games, and if certain things had gone
Speaker 1: their way, who knows, we might be sitting here talking
Speaker 1: about them as NBA champions. But it was not to be.
Speaker 1: And that's where we go with the second subject. We
Speaker 1: get to Tyrese Halliburton, the Pacers point guard, got off
Speaker 1: to a hot start, scoring nine points on three or
Speaker 1: five shooting, but it all came to an end with
Speaker 1: just under five minutes left in the first quarter. That's
Speaker 1: what Halliburton tried to drive left and his right leg
Speaker 1: gave out and he crashed to the floor in pain.
Speaker 1: He was carried off the court, and his father, John Halliburton,
Speaker 1: later revealed what many suspected an appearent Achilles' injury. When
Speaker 1: it was over, Tyrese Halliburton stood on crutches outside the
Speaker 1: Pacers locker room, welcoming teammates with an embrace as each
Speaker 1: one came off the floor following Indiana's one of other
Speaker 1: three ninety one loss to the Thunder. I know y'all
Speaker 1: have seen me on many occasions talking about Tyre's Halliburton
Speaker 1: and how he's no superstar, But it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: he didn't have the impact of a superstar. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that he's not a damn good player. As I
Speaker 1: reminded his father when he and I were talking following
Speaker 1: their Game six winning Indianapolis the other night, I said,
Speaker 1: I was clamoring for the Knicks to draft your son,
Speaker 1: and the fairness his father was a class act, very
Speaker 1: pleasant to talk to in the whole bit, and to
Speaker 1: see him crying last night was not a good sight
Speaker 1: to see, because boy does he love his son and
Speaker 1: he believes in his son. And it's a damn shame
Speaker 1: that Tyre's Halliburton had to go out like that, because
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell y'all, if Tyree's Halliburton the way
Speaker 1: that he was rolling, we all know when he starts
Speaker 1: off strong, he usually he has a very very good game,
Speaker 1: and last night he shot. He had three of his
Speaker 1: first four shots, all three with three point shots. And
Speaker 1: when you look at what he brought to the table,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Pacers looked like they were gonna have
Speaker 1: Okac in some trouble because we all know that Okac's
Speaker 1: weakness is the half court offense, and sometimes it goes
Speaker 1: a bit stale, and they engage in ISO ball by
Speaker 1: getting the ball to Shay gilges Alexander to come and
Speaker 1: rescue today and we know, listen, that might not have
Speaker 1: been enough. So I look at it from that standpoint
Speaker 1: and give love and respect where is due. The Pacers
Speaker 1: them hard. Nie Smith, they got a future Benedict Mathren.
Speaker 1: I know he had some bad games, but he had
Speaker 1: some good moments. I believe in that kid. Miles Turner
Speaker 1: and Nie Smith seemed a bit like they the moment
Speaker 1: was too big for them in a game seven, but
Speaker 1: they weren't horrible. They got some skills. You could keep
Speaker 1: this Indiana team attack and they could still make some
Speaker 1: noise within the Eastern Conference. The problem is is that
Speaker 1: you're not playing next season with Halliburton. And don't get
Speaker 1: me started on TJ McConnell. Obie Topping had an awful game,
Speaker 1: no points, four shots, clearly rattled at the departure of
Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton, which he openly confessed after the game. But
Speaker 1: when you look at TJ McConnell, ladies and gentlemen, let
Speaker 1: me put it in perspective. If the Indiana Pacers had
Speaker 1: won the game last night, I might have named TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell on MVP Game five, the way he exploded in
Speaker 1: the third quarter Game seven with twelve points in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Yeah, both fourth quarters only scored and scored
Speaker 1: zero points, had one shot, but partially being taken out
Speaker 1: and having this rhythm disrupted by Rick Carlile, who is
Speaker 1: gonna rely on others because the size and etc. You
Speaker 1: might take him out. But TJ McConnell was big time
Speaker 1: for the Pacers in this NBA Final Series, big time
Speaker 1: for them. I got nothing but love for this kid.
Speaker 1: I've known him since his days in Philly, that little either,
Speaker 1: little engine, that could, little rough rider. He could be
Speaker 1: on my team any day. Got nothing but love for
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell, and he warranted MVP consideration if the Pacers
Speaker 1: had won, That's the truth. But it wasn't to be
Speaker 1: because Oklahoma City Thunder was the best team in basketball
Speaker 1: all year long, and they showed it. And so it
Speaker 1: is what it is. They are the champions. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing to be concerned about next season. Look at this
Speaker 1: right here, y'all. Tyree's Halliburton, Achilles, Jason Tatum, Achilles, Damian Lilla,
Speaker 1: the Achilles, Kyrie, Irvin acl That's where I mean. These
Speaker 1: guys are gonna those three, those first three Haliburton, Tatum,
Speaker 1: and Lila are gonna be out probably for the whole season.
Speaker 1: Kyrie gonna be out for most of the season. We're
Speaker 1: starting next NBA season twenty five twenty six season without
Speaker 1: those four guys. That is not good. And the NBA
Speaker 1: a global iconic brand, don't doubt it for one second.
Speaker 1: The NBA. You need them players. People love the NBA
Speaker 1: the world over, but we need those players. It's a
Speaker 1: damn shame. And I'm just telling you right now when
Speaker 1: you look at them, got to tell you it's paying
Speaker 1: for to watch those injuries. I mean, Kyrie is a
Speaker 1: spectacular talent. This is a superstar player and the champion.
Speaker 1: We want to see him. Damian Lillard, we know what
Speaker 1: a closer he is. We want to see him. Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum is a champion of the twenty seven point per
Speaker 1: game scorer who's made all the NBA t in the
Speaker 1: last four years. We want to see him, and all
Speaker 1: three of them are out. Them and Halliburton are out
Speaker 1: for most, if not all, of next season, which brings
Speaker 1: into question what Lakers coach former ESPN and ABC analyst
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick said when he was comparing old school to
Speaker 1: the day's game and how pace of play wears and
Speaker 1: tears on the body just as much, if not more
Speaker 1: than the physicality from the seventies to eighties, the nineties,
Speaker 1: and right now it's looking like he's having a point
Speaker 1: because look at the injuries that we're witnessing. Look at that. Damn.
Speaker 1: It was sad when I saw Haliburton go down. Broke
Speaker 1: my heart because I wanted to see a healthy Haliburt
Speaker 1: on the court making noise. And I originally he was
Speaker 1: playing so well, he played so well in Game six,
Speaker 1: I said to myself, I don't want to hear anything
Speaker 1: about injuries. I ain't seen somebody with a CAF injury
Speaker 1: move like that. And then sure enough he goes down
Speaker 1: in Game seven, and the injury was very, very earily
Speaker 1: reminiscent of how Kevin Durant went down against Toronto in
Speaker 1: a Game five where cav just rolled up the way
Speaker 1: that it did and Achilles tour painful, no doubt, wishing
Speaker 1: nothing but the best of tires. Haliburton props to him,
Speaker 1: Congrats to him for the season and particularly the playoffs
Speaker 1: that he had, wishing him a speedy recovery. God bless him,
Speaker 1: his dad and his family. Hope they get I hope
Speaker 1: he gets healthy much much sooner than later, because he's
Speaker 1: a bright spot for this league. I ain't call him
Speaker 1: a superstar, but he can have superstar impact from toime
Speaker 1: to tom He's a damn good player and I wish
Speaker 1: him nothing but the best. I got more to touch on,
Speaker 1: particularly with Kevin Durant getting traded to the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: but not before I pay these bills. All right, folks,
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Speaker 1: picks for the game. First up, will Caitlin Clark score
Speaker 1: more or less than zero point five points? Next question? Please?
Speaker 1: Zero point five points. That's like saying she ain't gonna
Speaker 1: make a free throw, she ain't gonna make a basket,
Speaker 1: she aint gonna make a three point stop. Just stop it.
Speaker 1: Don't even ask me that damn question. Of course, the
Speaker 1: answer to that is more. Next up, will a Leah
Speaker 1: Boston score more or less than fourteen points. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with more on this I think that she's gonna
Speaker 1: have a big game. Why not go with the Lea Boston?
Speaker 1: I like her? Next up, will Skyler Diggins score more
Speaker 1: or less than seventeen and a half points? I think
Speaker 1: that might be a bit much in this particular game.
Speaker 1: I can see they's scoring fifteen sixteen. You probably gonna
Speaker 1: get more than seventeen and a half. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with less on this one. And finally, will Gabby Williams
Speaker 1: score more or less than thirteen ten and a half points?
Speaker 1: I'm going with more on this one too. Why I
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Speaker 1: and more for Gaby Williams. Okay, you like it. I
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Speaker 1: let's get to the trade news. Early in the day
Speaker 1: that may shake up the Western Conference. The Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: agreed on a deal to send Kevin Durant to the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets in exchange for Jalen Green Dylan Brooks, the
Speaker 1: number ten pick in this year's draft, along with five
Speaker 1: second round picks. The fifteen time NBA All Star now
Speaker 1: elevates the Rockets positioning for championship contention within the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: Durant joins the lineup that includes Alperine, Chagoon, i'm In Thompson,
Speaker 1: and veteran Guardfred van Bleet. Houston won fifty two games
Speaker 1: under coach Email Udoka this past season. The trade can
Speaker 1: be formally completed when the new league year begins July sixth.
Speaker 1: You see those odds right there, Okay, see is still
Speaker 1: a plus two to twenty, still about nearly four times
Speaker 1: better than the Houston Rockets. But that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets are unentitled contender. As you see then
Speaker 1: the top four in terms of Vegas odds right there
Speaker 1: or ESPN bet odds, because they should be. When you
Speaker 1: look at the Phoenix Suns, first things first, for those
Speaker 1: looking at them as saying five second round picks, the
Speaker 1: tenth overall, pick Dylan Brooks, Jalen Green. You know, couldn't
Speaker 1: they have gotten more? Well, Kevin Durant's like thirty six
Speaker 1: turns thirty seven at the end of September if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, and he's in a position to sign a
Speaker 1: two year deal, which means he'd be playing and making
Speaker 1: over sixty plus million dollars you know, approach in his
Speaker 1: thirty ninth birthday. My attitude is, so what he's Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: He's that dude. You couldn't get so much for him
Speaker 1: because of his age and the fact that he gave
Speaker 1: you those choices that he wanted to go to. You
Speaker 1: wanted to go to Miami, San Antonio or Houston. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out how the hell of Miami
Speaker 1: heat then prioritize getting him. Now. I know you don't
Speaker 1: want to give up Tyler Hero because you want Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant to play with somebody, So you want him to
Speaker 1: play with a Tyler Hero and a band out of Bio.
Speaker 1: I get that. But as long as you got those two,
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn what you got to give
Speaker 1: up to get Kevin Durant. You do it. If you're
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat because you've got to be able to
Speaker 1: get something. You got to be able to get something.
Speaker 1: You can't be inside to be squeezing and playing for
Speaker 1: the playing and then you're going home. The second game
Speaker 1: of a playing or the first round of the playoffs
Speaker 1: is pat Riley, it's Mickey Arrison, it's Eric Spolstra. It's
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. We expect better, and you got to
Speaker 1: go out there and get those stars. And the fact
Speaker 1: that you can't or you haven't been able to close
Speaker 1: deals in it. It's just a reminder of what I've
Speaker 1: said to all of y'all when it comes to pat Riley.
Speaker 1: I love him. I revere him. He is the winner within.
Speaker 1: He's a champion. There's a players the champion as a coach,
Speaker 1: he's a champion as an executive. I get it. He's
Speaker 1: pat Riley. But that doesn't mean you don't need to
Speaker 1: step upstairs. Sometimes I just say step down. I said
Speaker 1: step up, meaning having a meritis status, mingling with the owner, vibing, talking, conjoling, etc.
Speaker 1: And talking to the coach of the president of basketball operations,
Speaker 1: but leaving the actual responsibility to somebody else. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to give that to Eric Spostra, I really
Speaker 1: really do. But back to the KD deal, Phoenix one
Speaker 1: could argue they could have gotten better. I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure that. So they had to take the trade that
Speaker 1: they could get five second round picks, a first round
Speaker 1: of number ten overall, and Dylan Brooks, who's a starter
Speaker 1: in Jalen Green, who's a starter and twenty two years
Speaker 1: of age, very athletic and very capable. He just needs
Speaker 1: his skills honed in a bit better, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And if you're the Phoenix Sons, this has to make
Speaker 1: you happy. Because Jalen Green could play, Dylan Brooks can play.
Speaker 1: The tenth overall pick is gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: You can matriculate, you can materialize something out of those
Speaker 1: second round picks into something worthwhile. Okay, and in a way,
Speaker 1: and now you've got to prioritize getting rid of Bradley Beal.
Speaker 1: Him and Lebron James are only two people in the
Speaker 1: entire league that have a no trade clause, and Phoenix
Speaker 1: wants him going in the worst way, to the point
Speaker 1: where I'm being told that if they can't get rid
Speaker 1: of him, they might sit his ass down or pay
Speaker 1: him to stay home, but they don't want Bradley Beal
Speaker 1: on the Phoenix Suns any longer. And if you're Bradley Beal,
Speaker 1: you got to think about how good that looks for
Speaker 1: you or how bad that looks for you. They paying
Speaker 1: you over fifty million, they don't want you, and they
Speaker 1: can't give you away for a box of cookies. What
Speaker 1: the hell is going on? What are you doing that
Speaker 1: they got them questioning that about you? How this is
Speaker 1: not stephen A talking. I'm just saying to you, this
Speaker 1: is what they're saying in Phoenix about Bradley Beal. There's
Speaker 1: nowhere around us. So if you know that's your circumstances
Speaker 1: in your situation, you're not in much of a position
Speaker 1: to play hardball with anybody about Kevin Durant now to
Speaker 1: Houston and Kevin Durant with Chagoon of Van Vliet, and
Speaker 1: I'm and Thompson, who I think is an absolute stud.
Speaker 1: This brother's gonna be it. He's got star written all
Speaker 1: over him. Jabari Smith, I think the Houston Rockets are
Speaker 1: in position to compete for the championship. I really really do.
Speaker 1: When ladies and gentlemen, their issues was perimeter shooting, half
Speaker 1: court set, three point shooting, etc. These are problems Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant single handedly resolves. He's KD. He's KD. I know
Speaker 1: he's gotten on me, he's criticized me. Ma, Please, I
Speaker 1: ain't gotten up of love for that brother. Kevin Durant's
Speaker 1: a good brother. Heart's in the right place. He just
Speaker 1: gets sensitive some time, that's all. But this brother's all
Speaker 1: world player. Don't wish harm on nobody, and will bust
Speaker 1: your living ass anytime he on the basketball court and
Speaker 1: the ball is in. He can do what he wants offensively.
Speaker 1: Nobody can stop him. He's unguardable. Ladies, gentlemen, let me
Speaker 1: throw you these stats up here because I want you
Speaker 1: to see what Kevin Durant did in the earlier part
Speaker 1: of his career and what he's doing now throughout his career.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven points, fifty percent shooting, thirty nine percent from
Speaker 1: three point range, eighty eight percent shooting from the free
Speaker 1: throw line, seven rebounds, four sister. Look at his numbers
Speaker 1: last season at age thirty six, twenty six shooting better
Speaker 1: from the field, shoot better from three point range. Might
Speaker 1: have done a little less for the free throw line,
Speaker 1: but this is Kevin Durant. Remember the years ago when
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly was was knowing at him and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and people were getting on him for not being aggressive,
Speaker 1: and he says, I could do this and I could
Speaker 1: do that, but I don't want you because that's not
Speaker 1: playing within the Florida game. But I'm Kevin Durant. You
Speaker 1: know who I am. You know who I am? Yes,
Speaker 1: the hell we do. He's Kevin Durant, and aged Town
Speaker 1: has got him. It's one of the places he wanted
Speaker 1: to go. He earned the right to pick his destiny.
Speaker 1: He's pulled it off, and now Kevin Durant is going
Speaker 1: to Houston. To me, that solidifies him as one of
Speaker 1: the top two seeds in the Western Conference and one
Speaker 1: of the top three seeds in the entire NBA. I
Speaker 1: applaud the fact that aunt Man Anthony Edwards in Minnesota
Speaker 1: or upon hearing that Kevin Durant didn't want to go there,
Speaker 1: refuse to give him a call to try to coax
Speaker 1: him into coming. I applaud that because guess what, if
Speaker 1: the brother don't want to be there, it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be nothing but problems if he ends up coming there.
Speaker 1: So you got to make sure he wants to be there.
Speaker 1: And if he didn't want to be in Minnesota, he
Speaker 1: didn't want to be in Minnesota, he wanted to be
Speaker 1: in h Town.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: It's Kevin Durant. You know who he is. You know
Speaker 1: who he is. But despite what we've known, we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him coached by an email Eudoka. It's got roots
Speaker 1: with him back in Brooklyn. They know each other. Email
Speaker 1: Udoka wanted this to happen, no matter what reservations everybody
Speaker 1: else had. Email Udoka wanted this to happen, and that
Speaker 1: is why it happened. Kevin Durant knows this. I anticipate
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Speaker 1: don't mean they ain't got something to look out for.
Speaker 1: Come October, you feel me, You feel me coming up?
Speaker 1: Then Trump drops bombs on Iran, causing significant damage to
Speaker 1: three nuclear sites. What does it all mean for the
Speaker 1: United States and Iran's war with Israel. I'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that next right here on the steven As
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Speaker 3: A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
Speaker 3: precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Speaker 3: Iranian regime for dou Natance and s Fahan. Everybody heard
Speaker 3: those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
Speaker 3: Our objective was the destruction of orange nuclear enrichment capacity
Speaker 3: and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
Speaker 3: world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can
Speaker 3: report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular
Speaker 3: military success. Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been
Speaker 3: completely and totally obliterated. Rand the bully of the Middle
Speaker 3: East must now make peace. If they do not, future
Speaker 3: attacks would be.
Speaker 2: Far greater and a lot easier.
Speaker 3: For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
Speaker 3: death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
Speaker 3: off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside.
Speaker 2: Bombs, that was their specialty.
Speaker 3: We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands
Speaker 3: throughout the Middle East and around the world.
Speaker 2: Have died as a direct result of their hate.
Speaker 3: In particular, so many were killed by their general Cassem Solamani.
Speaker 3: I decided a long time ago that I would not
Speaker 3: let this.
Speaker 2: Happen, it will not continue.
Speaker 3: I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Speaker 3: We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
Speaker 3: worked before, and we've gone a long way to erasing
Speaker 3: this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the
Speaker 3: Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. And most importantly,
Speaker 3: I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew
Speaker 3: those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the United States
Speaker 3: military on an operation the likes of which the world has.
Speaker 2: Not seen in many, many decades.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we will no longer need their services and this capacity.
Speaker 2: I hope that's so.
Speaker 3: I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint
Speaker 3: chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kane, spectacular general, and
Speaker 3: all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
Speaker 3: With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There
Speaker 3: will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,
Speaker 3: far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember,
Speaker 3: there are many targets left. The night's was the most
Speaker 3: difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
Speaker 2: But if peace does not come, quickly.
Speaker 3: We will go after those other targets with precision, speed
Speaker 3: and skill. Most of them can be taken out in
Speaker 3: a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world
Speaker 3: that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
Speaker 3: There has never been a military that could do what
Speaker 3: took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kin,
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, we'll have a press conference
Speaker 3: at eight am at the Pentagon, and I want to
Speaker 3: just thank everybody, and in particular God, I want to
Speaker 3: just say, we love you God, and we love our
Speaker 3: great military.
Speaker 2: Protect them.
Speaker 3: God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God
Speaker 3: bless America.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Stephen Eismith Show. That was President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump leate Saturday night announcing the Estates had struck
Speaker 1: three nuclear sites in Iran. The President sent b two
Speaker 1: bombers and dropped a number of massive ordinance penetrate the
Speaker 1: bombs also known as bunker busters, during the mission over Iran.
Speaker 1: Earlier today, the United Nations Nuclear watchdog said the bombing
Speaker 1: ray likely caused quote very significant damage end quote to
Speaker 1: the underground parts of Iran's Far Doh nuclear site. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Iranian military officials and members of parliament vowed that the
Speaker 1: United States will pay a price for the strikes, and
Speaker 1: today they fired missiles toward US bases in Iraq and Qatar.
Speaker 1: All this while President Trump alluded to the possibility of
Speaker 1: regime change in Iran in a social media post Sunday.
Speaker 1: There has been no word yet from Iran Supreme leader,
Speaker 1: but the exile quote Crown Prince end Quote of Iran
Speaker 1: has called for the iotolic COMMANI to step down and
Speaker 1: face justice. This ugly situation, no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: those of us who are reticent about war involving the
Speaker 1: United States, I can't blame them. But it doesn't stop there,
Speaker 1: and we're not about to stop there. On this show,
Speaker 1: I will preface my comments by saying that I'm the
Speaker 1: novice of the crew compared to officionados out there who
Speaker 1: cover politics for a living. But boo boo to fool
Speaker 1: can see certain things. That's pretty damn obvious. Number One,
Speaker 1: we have a situation where Iran has been a threat
Speaker 1: to our ally in the Middle East, Israel for many,
Speaker 1: many years. We understand that they have called for death
Speaker 1: to Israel, just like they've called for death to the
Speaker 1: United States of America. When you consider that, and you
Speaker 1: consider how determined they appear to be to wipe Israel
Speaker 1: off the face of this earth, we shouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: that we're here today. I don't like war. I don't
Speaker 1: like war evolving America. I get that part. But I
Speaker 1: do believe that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, that
Speaker 1: they would use it. And I do agree that you
Speaker 1: can't allow an enemy of the United States to have
Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. It's that simple to me. Having said that,
Speaker 1: I want to preface the comment by saying I stand
Speaker 1: by everything that I say if it's absolutely true, and
Speaker 1: let's not sit here and act like they're arening questions
Speaker 1: as to whether or not that is true. You got
Speaker 1: to remember that since nineteen ninety six, Benjamintan, Yahoo, the
Speaker 1: leader of Israel, has repeatedly stated that Iran is close
Speaker 1: to developing a new weapon. He said it in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, he said it in two thousand, he said
Speaker 1: it in two thousand and five, he said it in
Speaker 1: twenty and eleven, he said it in twenty and fourteen,
Speaker 1: he said it in twenty and fifteen, he said it
Speaker 1: in twenty and eighteen. He said it in twenty and twenty,
Speaker 1: he said it in twenty and twenty four. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: it's been almost thirty years since nat Yahoo's been saying this.
Speaker 1: So forgive folks in the world if there's some skeptics
Speaker 1: out there, because we all know that he doesn't play.
Speaker 1: He wants to eradicate Iran at all courts, at least
Speaker 1: the ability to have a nuclear weapon. He wants to
Speaker 1: completely disarmor because he considers them a threat to the
Speaker 1: existence of Israel. Now here's where I get frustrated, because
Speaker 1: once again, here's the novice, that's a centrist that comes
Speaker 1: into play, and he's listening to all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And here's where I get infuriated. The Democrats are calling,
Speaker 1: or at least some of them, are calling for the
Speaker 1: impeachment of Donald Trump. Same old song and dance. Thought
Speaker 1: we heard this before. I thought that was over and
Speaker 1: done with. The minute you lost the election, with the
Speaker 1: popular voter in the electoral College, Roldan losing every sweep state,
Speaker 1: I thought we were over that. But evidently not. Question
Speaker 1: Number one, No matter what you feel about the president
Speaker 1: of the United States, do you think that's the time,
Speaker 1: while we're in the middle of such strife to be
Speaker 1: calling for the impeachment of the president of the United States,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're a representative, you're an elected official in
Speaker 1: the United States of America. I don't think so. It's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two were the Democrats saying that when
Speaker 1: Obama Bamba Libya when he was in office, we're making
Speaker 1: all of this noise about how the War Powers Act
Speaker 1: is utilized and how Donald Trump didn't receive congressional approval. Well,
Speaker 1: this is not an act of war. This is eradicating
Speaker 1: a threat. Civilians weren't targeted. Nuclear sites were targeted. So
Speaker 1: if nuclear sites were targeted but no civilians were targeted,
Speaker 1: then that's not a war, at least not yet, which
Speaker 1: means that you can navigate your way around the War
Speaker 1: Powers Act itself and you don't have to concern yourself
Speaker 1: with receiving congressional approval. The Democrats know that because of Obama.
Speaker 1: So if you knew that because of Obama and you
Speaker 1: didn't say it when it involved him in Libya, why
Speaker 1: would you turn around and all of a sudden try
Speaker 1: to make that case against Donald Trump. I'm not here
Speaker 1: condoning what Trump did, because I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: completely telling the truth. I'd like to believe he is.
Speaker 1: I like to believe that he did it totally because
Speaker 1: Iran is that kind of existential threat and we see
Speaker 1: him here. What does the president say the sites that
Speaker 1: we hit in Iran are totally destroyed and everyone knows it.
Speaker 1: Only the fake news will say anything different in order
Speaker 1: to try and to mean as much as possible, and
Speaker 1: even they say they were pretty well destroyed. Working especially
Speaker 1: hard on this falsehood is Alison Cooper of fake News CNN. Alison,
Speaker 1: you mean Anderson. It's very disrespectful, mister President. It's very disrespectful.
Speaker 1: We live in a country where we embrace the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus community. You don't have to mock Anderson Cooper that way.
Speaker 1: His name is Anderson Cooper. Could you show some respect please,
Speaker 1: that's all. Be a grown up. That shouldn't be too
Speaker 1: much to ask. Dumb. Brian L. Roberts, chairman of Concast,
Speaker 1: So now it's not Comcast, it's Comcast. Johnny Call of
Speaker 1: ABC fake news. Really, if you're attacking the individual, why
Speaker 1: I attack the whole network? Everybody for ABC or NBC,
Speaker 1: CBS and anybody else ain't fake? Could you please grow up?
Speaker 1: See this is the kind of stuff that I've spoken
Speaker 1: against when it comes to this president. But I digress.
Speaker 1: This says here and always the losers of again Comcast
Speaker 1: NBC fake news. It never ends with the sleeves bags
Speaker 1: in the media, and that's why their ratings are at
Speaker 1: an all time low zero credibility for listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get into that. What I'm gonna say to you,
Speaker 1: mister president, is that are we sure you're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing? Because it's not just the left that's against you,
Speaker 1: it's also the maga right. Steve Bannon says, You've got
Speaker 1: to talk to the maga right because why did you
Speaker 1: have to get involved. Candice Owens was on this show
Speaker 1: last week saying the same thing. Both big tim supporters
Speaker 1: of yours. Tucker cost As another person, and they all
Speaker 1: look at that, and a whole bunch of people. Marjory
Speaker 1: Taylor Green, who is I think crazy but nevertheless is
Speaker 1: a staunch supporter of yours. Even she said we shouldn't
Speaker 1: be involved in all of this. Now. Obviously that's different
Speaker 1: from cats on the right like Mark Levin. Conservative host
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham and others. I get that. Senator Lizzie Griminer,
Speaker 1: I get it. But the point is, it ain't just
Speaker 1: the left that's going up against President Donald Trump on this.
Speaker 1: It's also the maga right. So who's right? Even former
Speaker 1: Florida Rep. Matt Gates had something to say, and by
Speaker 1: the way, what he had to say was very very interesting.
Speaker 1: Put this uff of the people to see. Please let
Speaker 1: me read this to y'all. Right now, North Korea's nuclear
Speaker 1: weapon is a far greater threat to the United States
Speaker 1: than Iran. It's not even close. Iran has neither the bomb,
Speaker 1: to the litvery system, nor the re entry vehicle you
Speaker 1: need for any intercontinental ballistic missile to launch and re
Speaker 1: enter orbit. North Korea has all three. North Korea could
Speaker 1: launch a nuclear weapon at the mainland United States today.
Speaker 1: We probably have the ability to knock it out of
Speaker 1: the sky, but Iran can't even get their bird in
Speaker 1: the air. US cities like Los Angeles, San Diego, and
Speaker 1: Seattle are on maps and North Korea openly discusses them.
Speaker 1: Of course, we aren't looking to drop one hundred bunk
Speaker 1: of busters in the mountains of North Korea. President Trump
Speaker 1: took other brilliant diplomatic steps to constrain North Korea's hostilities,
Speaker 1: and the same could be done with Iran. That is
Speaker 1: from former Rep. Matt Gates, who Trump was very very
Speaker 1: fond of until the other Republicans said hell, no, we
Speaker 1: don't want him serving in your cabinet, and he was
Speaker 1: booted up out of there, and now he's here doing
Speaker 1: the podcast these days. Doesn't make him false, doesn't make
Speaker 1: him wrong, doesn't make him ill informed, considering like he say,
Speaker 1: he's on Foreign Relations Committee and all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: The man kind of knows what he's talking about as
Speaker 1: it pertains to this, because everybody knows that North Korea
Speaker 1: does have a weapon. North Korea could do considerably more
Speaker 1: damage than Iran could do at this point or at
Speaker 1: any point in recent memory. Now. To be fair, North
Speaker 1: Korea is relatively isolated, so when you compare that to
Speaker 1: where Iran is located and the damage it could potentially do,
Speaker 1: I understand number two, there's nothing wrong with eradicating a
Speaker 1: potential threat from developing and leaving it at that, as
Speaker 1: long as we're not getting a bit more extensive. But still,
Speaker 1: in all that doesn't mean problems can't come from this
Speaker 1: Remember Iran said their friends with Russia, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have conversations with Russia, and who knows what that's gonna
Speaker 1: materialize into. Who knows what Putin, who's ticked off that
Speaker 1: the United States was helping armed Ukraine against him, is
Speaker 1: feeling right now what he's plotting to do. Remember I
Speaker 1: told y'all before this man wants to reclaim Europe, most
Speaker 1: of Europe. Remember after World War Two? What the goal
Speaker 1: was from Stalin and those boys. They wanted Europe. They
Speaker 1: backstabbed the United States, they went against the agreement of
Speaker 1: developing democracies and stayed with communism. They want Europe. What
Speaker 1: do you think Putin's after? So he can't trust anything
Speaker 1: he say in a lot of people's eyes. But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: let's see what Trump had to say about this. Did
Speaker 1: I hear former President Medvedev from Russia casually throwing around
Speaker 1: that word as in nuclear? Really, that's what we classifying
Speaker 1: as the N word now nuclear instead of the other word. Really,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, okay, and saying that he and other countries
Speaker 1: would supply nuclear warheads to Iran. Did he really say
Speaker 1: that or is it just a figment of my imagination?
Speaker 1: If he did say that, and if confirmed, please let
Speaker 1: me know immediately. The N word should not be treated
Speaker 1: so casually. I guess that's why Putin's the boss. By
Speaker 1: the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over
Speaker 1: the weekend, far and away, the strongest and best equipment
Speaker 1: we have twenty years advanced over the pack is our
Speaker 1: nuclear submarines. They are the most powerful un leath the
Speaker 1: weapons ever built and just launched the thirty Tomahawks. All
Speaker 1: thirty hit their mark perfectly. So in addition to our
Speaker 1: great fighter polots, thank you to the captain and crew.
Speaker 1: So basically, in this particular post on truth social essentially
Speaker 1: what Trump is saying that you know, don't throw around
Speaker 1: the word nuclear casually, labeling that the new N word.
Speaker 1: But he also took an opportunity to praise Putin as
Speaker 1: the boss. Meanwhile, Iran is talking about working with Russia.
Speaker 1: No doubt Russia would give advice to their friend Iran
Speaker 1: on how to combat anything that the United States is
Speaker 1: throwing in their direction. And Iran, who obviously had Hamas
Speaker 1: and hesbalized proxies and the hoodies to some degree until
Speaker 1: the United States dealt with them in Yemen, we got
Speaker 1: to look at all of this and understand this problem
Speaker 1: is not going away, and then taking it back to
Speaker 1: the streets of America. You've got people around here from
Speaker 1: the Jewish community walking around petrified of the proliferation of
Speaker 1: anti Semitism that they feel is swelling throughout the streets
Speaker 1: of America. In part, it could be because of what's
Speaker 1: been happening in Gaza since October seventh, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. But the other thing is that there are
Speaker 1: far too many American citizens asking themselves, are we gonna
Speaker 1: get into yet another fight? And if so, why, essentially
Speaker 1: implying let Israel handle their own business. Trump essentially is
Speaker 1: saying no, we got their back. Some have been speculating
Speaker 1: that he jumped in as after Israel did marvelous work
Speaker 1: in attacking some of Iran's facilities over the last week
Speaker 1: to ten days or so, that chump jumped right in
Speaker 1: because he saw how effective Israel is that he wanted
Speaker 1: to move in do some damage so he could take
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world for it. Who knows,
Speaker 1: who cares? All we care about it. This particular point
Speaker 1: is safety, not just in the streets of Amora, but
Speaker 1: throughout this world. We don't want World War three, and
Speaker 1: we need to know that the people in power don't
Speaker 1: want it just as much as the rest of us
Speaker 1: don't want it. And right now we don't know. We
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell is going on. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this, as much as I'm pointing the finger
Speaker 1: at Trump, as much as I'm pointing the finger at
Speaker 1: what's going on right now in terms of its discomfort
Speaker 1: and whether or not we're making the right decisions, I
Speaker 1: don't know, even though I do consider Iran a threat
Speaker 1: that needed to be dealt with. I will say this
Speaker 1: the Democrats, first of all, all the representatives in Congress,
Speaker 1: where the hell have you been? You didn't say much
Speaker 1: until Trump dropped the bombs on the nuclear sites. You
Speaker 1: acquiet as a mouse, you acquired as hell. We heard nothing.
Speaker 1: Where were you? That's number one. Number two, I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear stuff about impeachment because the president abused
Speaker 1: its power and a violated Article two of the Constitution.
Speaker 1: I want to hear all of that. Obama attacked Libya
Speaker 1: without congressional approval. No one said anything, including to you.
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer might say anything. And number three, if indeed
Speaker 1: we do our research, in our homework, and we find
Speaker 1: out that President Trump and Benjaminett and Yahoo were correct
Speaker 1: in their assessment of the threat that Iran posed, thereby
Speaker 1: fully justifying the actions that took place over this weekend.
Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat, do you need to be quiet
Speaker 1: about that? I would say no, you need to come
Speaker 1: out and you need to say say they did the
Speaker 1: right thing. When we talk about building faith in our government.
Speaker 1: If something walks like a duck and quacts like a duck,
Speaker 1: it ain't a freaking mongols, it's a damn duck. Say so.
Speaker 1: Say so because by saying so, even if it's favorable
Speaker 1: to the other side in the moment, at least you're
Speaker 1: proven your trustworthy enough to call balls and strikes. Figuratively speaking,
Speaker 1: you're trusted enough. You can be trusted enough to just
Speaker 1: tell the freaking truth, assess the situation, use your powers
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill to find out how legitimate and potent
Speaker 1: the threat was, and if President Trump was right, and
Speaker 1: if y'all was right, say so. If you do that
Speaker 1: on left, it'll show your reasonable after all, that might
Speaker 1: help you in twenty twenty six for the midterms. And
Speaker 1: they I say, twenty twenty eight for the presidency, just saying,
Speaker 1: just saying, coming up, I'll get into your tweets. Plus
Speaker 1: a curious story about an elderly woman and a male escort.
Speaker 1: Do I have your attention? I think I do. Back
Speaker 1: with more to stephen A. Smith's show, closing out the
Speaker 1: show in a minute, Welcome back to stephen A Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Before I get to your tweets, I had to react
Speaker 1: to this story. Family members are suing after an eighty
Speaker 1: four year old British Columbian woman left her one million
Speaker 1: estate to a male sc Janet Colville Sutherland Henry of
Speaker 1: North Vancouver, changed her will shortly before she died, leaving
Speaker 1: her estate to escort Simon Garston. Henry's husband died in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and following that, she paid various
Speaker 1: male escorts for companionship and sexual services. In February twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, a year before she died, Henry met Garston,
Speaker 1: who was in his late twenties and worked as a
Speaker 1: professional companion and male escort. The two met via Skype,
Speaker 1: and the significant fees for his services were discussed and
Speaker 1: agreed to. They met in person for the first time
Speaker 1: in April of twenty twenty one when mister Garston came
Speaker 1: to the deceased home for an overnight visit, then met
Speaker 1: several times for overnight stays in the following weeks. Their
Speaker 1: last face to face meeting was for three nights. A
Speaker 1: few months before she died, Henry changed her will, leaving
Speaker 1: her approximately one million dollar estate to Garston. The family
Speaker 1: did not know about the change until after her passing.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be the most popular opinion,
Speaker 1: I'll confess, But are you challenging her mental acuity? Are
Speaker 1: you challenging her cogency? She seems to be an elderly
Speaker 1: woman who was in control of her faculties and was
Speaker 1: completely aware of what she was doing. How do we
Speaker 1: know this? Because she had several male escorts and then
Speaker 1: she met him and she ain't want nobody else. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen in English, that's a brother that was handling
Speaker 1: the business. Is that appropriate to say?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's true, whatever proclivity she had,
Speaker 1: that she could have fulfilled herself and needed to be
Speaker 1: fulfilled by somebody else. He handled. And it might be sad, hell,
Speaker 1: it might be pathetic, But if it's her money, it's
Speaker 1: perfectly within her right to leave it to whoever she chooses,
Speaker 1: and if she chooses to leave it to a man
Speaker 1: who happens to be a male escort, that she clearly
Speaker 1: feels fulfilled her to her lasting days. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, How are you not that evidently he did
Speaker 1: more for her than she felt her own family did
Speaker 1: for her, which is why she left the one million
Speaker 1: dollar state to him. Now, I'm not saying it's right.
Speaker 1: You would like to think life there's more things to
Speaker 1: life than get you freak on, But evidently to her
Speaker 1: it really really was mad at most was what out
Speaker 1: of the moment, And she seems very very appreciative of
Speaker 1: his efforts. And if that's the case, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he sposedn't like it. I'm not saying it's not a
Speaker 1: little bit trifling. But you gotta live with it. Me myself,
Speaker 1: you know how you in your twenties getting excited about that.
Speaker 1: But you know, everybody has things that stimulate them in
Speaker 1: certain ways. One of my uncles was like that, You
Speaker 1: know me, I like a voluptuous figure, My boy, Pooley,
Speaker 1: he wants you to size of rasputia from norpit I
Speaker 1: one of my other boys. He wants you number skin
Speaker 1: and bones. But my uncle, his afrodisiac. What turned him
Speaker 1: almost was money. If you could make this brother money,
Speaker 1: he didn't give a damn whether you were white, black, Asian, Hispanic, fat, skinny,
Speaker 1: mid rain, cellulite, firm, skinny. It didn't mean a damn
Speaker 1: thing to him. Green was what turned him on. It
Speaker 1: really really turned him on. That was him money. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about my sounds. I swear I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about my sounds. I'm talking about him. But it's the truth.
Speaker 1: Everybody got that thing clearly. Until her dying breath at
Speaker 1: age eighty four, that was her thing. Now let's get
Speaker 1: to your tweet before we get on out of here.
Speaker 1: Please at Real exhibib Rights, Steven A. Smith, five Lebron's
Speaker 1: versus five Jordan's, who wins more championships? That's a stupid
Speaker 1: ass question. I refuse to answer. You know what my
Speaker 1: answer is, because you know what my goal is. Next tweet,
Speaker 1: please give it to me at Yogi Canoli Wright Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: If you could do one job that you have zero
Speaker 1: affiliation to, what would you do for a living? I'd
Speaker 1: be a criminal lawyer. That's what I would do. I
Speaker 1: love the courtroom. I love the courtroom. Saw my bucket
Speaker 1: list when you saw me on Law and Noor this
Speaker 1: want my bucket list to be a lawyer in the courtroom.
Speaker 1: Understand I love it. I mean I prefer to be
Speaker 1: a prosecutor rather than a defense attorney. But the courtroom
Speaker 1: for me is everything. It's everything. I would love it.
Speaker 1: That's what I will tell you this next tweet. Please
Speaker 1: give it to me at double three Underscore PUG nine
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Speaker 1: believe in aliens?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be specific. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I believe in. I believe that there are other beings
Speaker 1: in this universe than just the human race. Call them Martians,
Speaker 1: call them folks from Venus or other planets throughout the galaxy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't believe that human beings
Speaker 1: on planet Earth are the only species in the universe.
Speaker 1: So if that means aliens, fine, sure. I believe other
Speaker 1: planets they have their beings, just like on this planet
Speaker 1: you have human beings. That's what I believe. One more tweet,
Speaker 1: let's get to check it out at Jimmy from the
Speaker 1: Q right, stephen A. Smith, if you are to get
Speaker 1: in the WWE wrestling ring, what song would be your
Speaker 1: theme as you entered their Where the Hood? Where the Hood?
Speaker 1: Where the Hood At? I think it would be something
Speaker 1: like that. I think it would be something like that.
Speaker 1: I will say to you that my all time favorite
Speaker 1: entry is between Uh Goldberg coming into the ring. I
Speaker 1: love that music. I love the rock his entry, even
Speaker 1: though it wouldn't be for me. I did kind of
Speaker 1: like Hulk Hogan's entry. I am a realve Aerican. I
Speaker 1: like that stuff, you know, and I like John C.
Speaker 1: I love that. I do. I must admit that. But
Speaker 1: I would tell you Goldberg and and and the Rocks
Speaker 1: stand out. I love their entries, and if it would me,
Speaker 1: it would be Where the Hood At by Dmax God
Speaker 1: Rest the Soul. Or it would be jay Z with
Speaker 1: Kanye No Church in a while, But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's suitable for w w E. It would be Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, m mmmm. I gotta think about something. I
Speaker 1: gotta look into my phone if I remember something. Let
Speaker 1: me look this real quick to see what comes to
Speaker 1: my mind. Because I listen to my music every morning,
Speaker 1: and I got to think about that just a little bit.
Speaker 1: I would say to you anti up and up, but
Speaker 1: with Buster Rhymes, the remixed version it's saying it would
Speaker 1: be with Buster Rhymes. I like that too. Hmmm. I
Speaker 1: gotta think about this a little bit more. And uh,
Speaker 1: justin seven Music, the Best Three, it's like they play
Speaker 1: that with the twenty four to seven boxing uh shows
Speaker 1: they did with Floyd Money made with the Dent and
Speaker 1: then and then I like that music theme, you know,
Speaker 1: I like that too. Those are just some of the names,
Speaker 1: you know. But Auntie up or Way the hood that
Speaker 1: stands out above the crowd. That's it for this edition
Speaker 1: to the Steven Nasmith Show. I hope y'all enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I'll be back in a couple of days. Until then,
Speaker 1: I'll see you later. I gotta get on out of
Speaker 1: here and get some rest, all right. I'm traveling back
Speaker 1: from the NBA Finals. I need some damn sleep. But
Speaker 1: I was here for y'all, giving y'all some content about
Speaker 1: things that was on my mind. I hope y'all appreciate
Speaker 1: that as much as I appreciate y'all. Thanks again so much.
Speaker 1: I've talked to y'all in a couple of days until
Speaker 1: then piece of love.
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