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Speaker 1: Let's get started. I remember, I'm gonna get to the NBA.
Speaker 1: I gott We'll go get to my sports now, but
Speaker 1: we've got to get started in the nation's capital and
Speaker 1: the latest headlines coming out of the White House as
Speaker 1: we're just about one hundred days into the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit over seventy to be exact,
Speaker 1: but who cares. I appeared on Chris Cuomo's show on
Speaker 1: News Nation a few weeks ago to address this notion
Speaker 1: of President Trump running for a third term. The idea
Speaker 1: was first floated by Trump's former key advisor, Steve Bannon.
Speaker 1: On Cuomo's show, Trump failed to dismiss the idea. Despite
Speaker 1: the twenty second Amendment that says, quote, no person shall
Speaker 1: be elected to the office of the President more than
Speaker 1: twice end quote. So let's say President Trump could run
Speaker 1: for a third term, that would mean the Democrats could
Speaker 1: put Barack Obama back on the ticket. Here's what President
Speaker 1: Trump said just yesterday when posed that question. Please take
Speaker 1: a listen to this. If you were.
Speaker 2: Allowed, for some reason to run for a third term,
Speaker 2: is there a thought.
Speaker 3: That the Democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you.
Speaker 4: I'd love that.
Speaker 1: I'd love that.
Speaker 4: That would be a good one.
Speaker 1: I'd like that.
Speaker 4: And no people are asking me to run. And there's
Speaker 4: a whole story about running for a third term. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: I never looked into it.
Speaker 4: And they do say there's a way you can do it,
Speaker 4: but I don't know about that, but I have not
Speaker 4: looked into it. I want to do a fantastic job.
Speaker 4: We have four years, just about almost close to four years.
Speaker 4: Its time is flying, but it's still close to four years.
Speaker 4: And we're getting a lot of credit for having done
Speaker 4: a great job in the first almost one hundred days.
Speaker 1: I got at a couple of opinions about that. To
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, But before I get into that,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to remind everybody that this past weekend,
Speaker 1: this past Sunday afternoon, at three pm at the Westbury
Speaker 1: Music Fair in Long Island, New York, myself, Bill O'Reilly
Speaker 1: and Chris Cuomo were on stage essentially doing a town
Speaker 1: hall in front of fifteen hundred people. Five hundred you know,
Speaker 1: it was a few hundred VIP members paid five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a pop. VIP folks, Thank y'all for the love
Speaker 1: and support. Again. But what I love about what y'all
Speaker 1: are seeing right there is that all three of us
Speaker 1: were talking, All three of us were listening to one another,
Speaker 1: All three of us were getting along with one another. Why,
Speaker 1: because of America. To be quite honest with you, that's
Speaker 1: the way it should be. As opposed to politicians being
Speaker 1: on capitolhood and beyond acting like a bunch of juveniles.
Speaker 1: These are the people we've placed our faith in, and
Speaker 1: what do we have to show for it? Half the
Speaker 1: damn tom That's what we're looking at right now. That's
Speaker 1: why I want to show you all that footage. And
Speaker 1: thanks again to mister Bill o Raleigh and Chris Cuomo
Speaker 1: for putting it together in their participation. It's something that
Speaker 1: we may do more of in the future. We shall
Speaker 1: see if the people call, the likelihood is we shall come. Now,
Speaker 1: let me get to what Trump said there. What he
Speaker 1: said was appalling, he'd entertained running for a third term.
Speaker 1: He's not ruling it out. It's inexcusable stuff. And the
Speaker 1: reason why it's inexcusable is because, as the twenty second
Speaker 1: Amendment stipulates, presidency is something that you can only have
Speaker 1: for two terms. I'm paraphrasing, of course, two terms. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's an amendment in the United States Constitution. And the
Speaker 1: reason why had a problem when Steve Bannon said weeks
Speaker 1: ago and Bill O'Reilly summarily dismissed because it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen. Let's not forget Eli Honing from CNN,
Speaker 1: the legal analyst who has appeared on this show on
Speaker 1: many occasions, or Ellie Honing, I'm sorry, he's appeared on
Speaker 1: this show on several occasions. And a man knows what
Speaker 1: he's talking about. A brilliant, brilliant legal analyst talking about
Speaker 1: the likelihood of it not happening. What I said then,
Speaker 1: and what I would say, now, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is, why are you talking about something that
Speaker 1: clearly is in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even thinking about Trump on this on
Speaker 1: this level, I'm thinking about the Republicans out there. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about the conservatives out there who religiously preach to
Speaker 1: us about the Constitution. Constitution. Constitution. Now, a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of black folks don't refer to that quite often because
Speaker 1: we remember the original Constitution labeled us three fifths of
Speaker 1: a human being. We didn't like that necessarily, so that's
Speaker 1: not something that we defer to. But since you on
Speaker 1: the right, you being a conservative religiously a referred to
Speaker 1: the Constitution, suddenly it's not applicable because your guy is
Speaker 1: in office. See, that's the inexcusable nonsense that I got
Speaker 1: a problem with. As for him going up against Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: once upon a time, I thought Barack Obama would smoke him,
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure anymore. It was Barack Obama that
Speaker 1: spoke on behalf of Kamala Harris Michelle. Obama certainly put
Speaker 1: fourth hod due diligence in doing the same. Where did
Speaker 1: that get them. They lost, the popular vote, lost, the
Speaker 1: electoral college vote, lost, every swing state lost, the Senate,
Speaker 1: lost the House. I mean, damn, it's l's all over
Speaker 1: the place. Now, Barack Obama will always be my president.
Speaker 1: I voted for the man, loved the man, respect the man.
Speaker 1: But we have an obligation to be honest here. The
Speaker 1: number and the facts have shown that while Obama himself
Speaker 1: has been popular all of these years, his policies may
Speaker 1: not be because judicial seats, congressional seats, Senate seats, gubernatorial
Speaker 1: seats all el's all over the place when it came
Speaker 1: to Democrats during his administration from two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: to twenty sixteen. Look at the numbers, look at the
Speaker 1: drop off, look at the number that was there when
Speaker 1: he arrived, and look at the numbers of judicial seats,
Speaker 1: gubernatorial seats, congressional seats, Senate seats when he departed. It's inescapable.
Speaker 1: There's no way around that. That is factual evidence that
Speaker 1: while he is popular and very much liked and resonate
Speaker 1: with a vast majority of American citizens out there, black, white,
Speaker 1: Latino and everything in between, it doesn't necessarily resonate with
Speaker 1: others as it pertains to his policies, or at least
Speaker 1: the people who he supports who co sign on his policies,
Speaker 1: because those people they can't stay in office. So now
Speaker 1: it would be interesting if Barack Obama could get a
Speaker 1: third term and decided to run again and Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and him wanted to run up against one another. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie about that, but it wouldn't be the
Speaker 1: four cong conclusion it once was. That is what we
Speaker 1: have to get to there. But the only reason I
Speaker 1: bring this up it doesn't matter whether it's likely or not.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that it's unlikely. In the eyes of many,
Speaker 1: the fact that you would talk about circraventing the Constitution
Speaker 1: is problematic. Now there's people like Bill o'relly and others
Speaker 1: who say it's an evasive measure by Trump. It's an
Speaker 1: opportunity to create a miraage, So we compare attention to
Speaker 1: that instead of the real issues that are going on.
Speaker 1: Will let me not be one of those people that
Speaker 1: for a victim and pray to that. Let me bring
Speaker 1: up a name like Kilamar Armado Armado of Brego, Garcia,
Speaker 1: remember him. He's the Salvadorian based in Maryland who was
Speaker 1: snatched up by the government I I believe, ultimately deported
Speaker 1: because they were saying he didn't belong in the country.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a citizen, his wife's a citizen. They were
Speaker 1: saying he wasn't eligible to be here, when in fact
Speaker 1: they had to ultimately admit that there was a mistake
Speaker 1: in court records, because indeed he does belong here. But
Speaker 1: they said, oh no, what can we do about it?
Speaker 1: Now we can't get him back. What the hell you
Speaker 1: mean you can't get him back because you deported him
Speaker 1: to El Salvador and now you can't get him back.
Speaker 1: And so now the excuse is, well, he was a
Speaker 1: gang member. So remember on MS thirteen, And this is
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that they're saying to Justif five
Speaker 1: that you really shouldn't want to back here anyway. So
Speaker 1: what's the big deal. Once again, we're missing the point.
Speaker 1: We're a nation of laws. How many times have we
Speaker 1: said that? How many times have we heard both sides
Speaker 1: say that? And if we are a nation of laws,
Speaker 1: then you don't get to summarily dismiss your willingness to
Speaker 1: break the law or your incompetence in breaking the law.
Speaker 1: If we gonna call it, let's call it. We got
Speaker 1: so many people in this country it's about this guy.
Speaker 1: It's about that man who's the forty seventh president of
Speaker 1: the United States. The banners of the world and others.
Speaker 1: You want him so bad. You got to coastard and everything.
Speaker 1: You gotta be puppeteers. You gotta parrot his speeches, you
Speaker 1: gotta do everything. What's wrong with saying he's wrong? The
Speaker 1: election's over. You can't just say he's wrong. You can't
Speaker 1: just say he could do better. You can't just say
Speaker 1: this should be this level of incompetence where we've got
Speaker 1: national security figures mistakingly texting war material and war plans
Speaker 1: to journalists. You can't just flat out say that is
Speaker 1: an inexcusable act. There is no excuse for it. You
Speaker 1: gotta let heg sayth and Walls and everybody but Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio look in our face and lie about the blatant
Speaker 1: incompetence that has been exercised. And the Republicans want to
Speaker 1: sit up there and point the finger at the Democrats.
Speaker 1: I'll get to the Democrats in a second. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're talking about y'all, what you're gonna do about that?
Speaker 1: I mean is it really that bad. Are y'all just
Speaker 1: that stuck and addicted to this dude, or are you
Speaker 1: scared that he's the only one that can resonate with
Speaker 1: the American people, because like the Democrats, you don't feel
Speaker 1: you have a bullpen. I think Marco Rubio qualifies as
Speaker 1: bullpen material. I think Marco Rubio could be the next
Speaker 1: president of the United States at twenty twenty eight. I
Speaker 1: think JD. Van's got a chance after I watched him
Speaker 1: on the debate stage against the Democratic VP, mister Walls
Speaker 1: out of Minnesota himself. I think you got a couple
Speaker 1: of cats that you can look at. But evidently y'all don't,
Speaker 1: because if Trump passes gas, y'all will say it's perfume.
Speaker 1: What the hell you scared? You can't disagree with anything,
Speaker 1: You can't say he did this wrong. He's got to
Speaker 1: do better. This mistake can't happen. That's ridiculous, It really
Speaker 1: really is. And let me make this warning to the
Speaker 1: Republicans out there, particularly in the aftermath of Trump with
Speaker 1: the Smithsonian and you know, you want to sit up
Speaker 1: there and eliminate access to African American material, The history
Speaker 1: of African Americans particularly as it pertains the slavery, Jim
Speaker 1: Crow laws, civil rights legislation, et cetera. Let me be
Speaker 1: very very clear, y'all, on the verge of blowing the
Speaker 1: support you mustard during election time, it ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: just farmers all of a sudden saying, Yo, Trump, I
Speaker 1: thought you made us these promises. How you doing these tariffs?
Speaker 1: This is hurting us. This is harming us, This is compromising.
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna be just them. That's gonna get all
Speaker 1: up in y'all. It ain't gonna be just democrats. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be minorities in this country. How dare you try
Speaker 1: to eradicate history? How dare you try to eliminate what
Speaker 1: happened to us? How dare you try to say we're
Speaker 1: not gonna give you access or we're going to deny
Speaker 1: or compromise access to historical facts that can't be disputed,
Speaker 1: just because you think it's anti American. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a part of America. You did this for, you know,
Speaker 1: as a nation for many years, civil rights legislation that
Speaker 1: came into effect that was obviously denied the African Americans
Speaker 1: in this country before you ultimately relented Voting Rights Act
Speaker 1: that was denied as well, Women's right to vote that
Speaker 1: was denied as well. There were so many denials on
Speaker 1: a part of the white power structure in the United
Speaker 1: States of America for so many years, not only to
Speaker 1: its own women, but to minorities in this country. That's
Speaker 1: where you're going back to. Is that what you're threatening
Speaker 1: to do? Is that what you're attempting to do? It
Speaker 1: seems that way. It seems that way. Keep this up.
Speaker 1: It's gonna course you all the mid terms and then
Speaker 1: all hell is gonna break loose. From twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, mark my words, Mark my words. Let
Speaker 1: me get to the second topic, because that's necessary. But
Speaker 1: before I do that, because there's a lot to get into,
Speaker 1: I'm not finished. I'm just gonna wait until my sponsors
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Speaker 1: Back on MO in a minute. All right, folks, I
Speaker 1: need you all to stop what you're doing and listen up.
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Speaker 1: this Saturday's basketball games between Auburn Tigers and the Florida
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Speaker 1: Houston Cougar. So let's get to it all right. First up,
Speaker 1: will Auburn's Jennard Broom score more or less than eighteen points?
Speaker 1: I messed up the other day. I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna score less than eighteen and a half. I ain't
Speaker 1: making that mistake of getting the brothers a ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: God hurt came back hand with this business propelled Auburn.
Speaker 1: I got love for this brother. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: more than eighteen points in this particular question. Next up, well,
Speaker 1: Florida's Walter Clayton Junior score more or less than twenty
Speaker 1: and a half points. This brother special might be the
Speaker 1: best guard in the country. Your brother spectacular, gotta clutch
Speaker 1: gene as well, knows what's needed, when it's needed, and
Speaker 1: how to get it done and provide what's needed. I
Speaker 1: believe in this brother. I'm going with more on this
Speaker 1: one too. Right Next up, will Duke's Cooper Flags score
Speaker 1: more or less than eighteen and a half points. Cooper
Speaker 1: Flag is gonna be Player of the Year. Coople Flag
Speaker 1: might win the National Championship. Cooper Flag may end up
Speaker 1: being the number one overall pick in the upcoming NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I don't think. Maybe I think it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. The brother is that legit. Okay, some
Speaker 1: white dude from Maine busting everybody living. You know what.
Speaker 1: He's that special. He's that special and because of that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, he wins the National Championship.
Speaker 1: He is on the Mount Rushmore of Duke college basketball.
Speaker 1: The Mount Rushmore that means Grand Hill, that means Christian Layton,
Speaker 1: that means Jay Williams, and that means Cooper Flag. He's
Speaker 1: got that kind of skill six eighty six y nine,
Speaker 1: A hand who can shoot interior on the outside and
Speaker 1: get to the basket, finish at the basket, hit free throws. Plus,
Speaker 1: he's rough and rugged. Ain't scared of anybody. He's special.
Speaker 1: He's special, ladies and gentlemen, and Duke. I believe if
Speaker 1: they win the national championship, it's gonna because of that brother.
Speaker 1: We gonna what more than eighteen and half points just
Speaker 1: because of him? Oh say, can you see the flag?
Speaker 1: That brother special? And finally, will Houston's LJ. Cryer score
Speaker 1: more or less than sixteen and a half points? Houston
Speaker 1: is the one with the big time defense, all right,
Speaker 1: But have they faced a real formidable defense somebody that's
Speaker 1: focused on locking them down? Cry can ball And I
Speaker 1: know this, but I'm still anticipating he's gonna score about
Speaker 1: sixteen as opposed to more than sixteen point five. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with less on this particular question. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. But I have to pick less on somebody,
Speaker 1: and out of the four y'all gave me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick him. So that's it, all right, Let's go with it.
Speaker 1: More for Jenni Broom, Okay, more for Cooper Flag, More
Speaker 1: for Walter Clayton Jr. Less for LJ. Cryer. That's where
Speaker 1: I'm at with it. Y'all flow with me on this.
Speaker 1: I haven't been bad this year, not bad at all.
Speaker 1: Welcome back back to the politics and Capitol Hill. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Corey Booker, the New Jersey Democratic Senator, has staged a
Speaker 1: filibuster of sorts, not literally, but of sorts to protest
Speaker 1: what he calls the crisis that President Trump and top
Speaker 1: advisor Elon Musk have created in Washington. Booker began speaking
Speaker 1: on the Senate floor Monday night at seven pm, and
Speaker 1: as of this taping, Booker has been speaking out against
Speaker 1: the Trump administration for twenty hours plus. Here's a portion
Speaker 1: of Booker's comments on the Senate floor. Quote, in just
Speaker 1: seventy one days, the President of the United States has
Speaker 1: inflicted so much harm in American safety, financial stability, the
Speaker 1: core foundations of our democracy, and even our aspirations as
Speaker 1: a people. For our highest offices a sense of common decency.
Speaker 1: These are not normal times in America and they should
Speaker 1: not be treated as so. End quote. So long as
Speaker 1: book is holding the floor, the Senate won't be able
Speaker 1: to conduct other business unless he's temporarily yields. Meanwhile, California's
Speaker 1: top Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom is speaking out against his
Speaker 1: own party. Newsom criticized the party and implored fellow Democrats
Speaker 1: to take accountability for their losses, and called the party's
Speaker 1: current brand quote toxic end quote. Newsom appeared on Real
Speaker 1: Time with Bill Maher and said the following quote, Democrats,
Speaker 1: we tend to be a little more judgmental than we
Speaker 1: should be. We need to own our mistakes. We need
Speaker 1: to own what's wrong with our party. Part of the
Speaker 1: problem with the Democratic brand is that we talk down
Speaker 1: to people. We talked past people end quote. Newsom recently
Speaker 1: launched a new podcast called Quote This is Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: end quote. The California governor hosts a conservative guest like
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and the aforementioned Steve Bannon. Newsom also found
Speaker 1: common ground with the right on the issue of transgender
Speaker 1: athletes competing in women's sports he called these athletes participation
Speaker 1: quote deeply unfair end quote. Bravo, bravo, I mean bravo.
Speaker 1: I'm so, so, so very touched, Gavenusso, Governor of California,
Speaker 1: that you would say that. Why didn't you add that
Speaker 1: you would have one doing it, because that's exactly what
Speaker 1: the hell you were doing when you talked about the right,
Speaker 1: when you talked about conservatives, when you talked about conservative
Speaker 1: folks out there and what their principles were, and how
Speaker 1: they may not have been for transgender athletes competing in sports,
Speaker 1: how they may not have been for you know, for
Speaker 1: open borders, how they may not have been for sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1: Did you question their humanity in a roundabout way at
Speaker 1: the very least, weren't you one of the voice boxes
Speaker 1: out there saying that stuff?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: I like gaven Usso. I think the brother looks the part.
Speaker 1: He looks presidential in them damned blue suits, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. He's sharp as attack, he's smart as hell.
Speaker 1: But on far too many occasions when he was spewing
Speaker 1: out facts, it was rife with the motion. Instead of
Speaker 1: addressing the facts that the right was throwing in his
Speaker 1: direction to debunk anything that he had to say, but
Speaker 1: we forgot to mention that to Bill Maher on real time.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of problem that exists right now.
Speaker 1: So now that we've lost an election, Suddenly we're gonna
Speaker 1: admit you were talking down to people. Suddenly were gonna
Speaker 1: admit you weren't paying attention to people. Suddenly you're gonna
Speaker 1: admit that the things that were prioritized didn't need to
Speaker 1: be prioritized. And now we need to have conversations on
Speaker 1: both sides. That's what we were all saying leading up
Speaker 1: to the election. Now, in fairness to gaven Newsom, who
Speaker 1: I like as a person, I must say that I
Speaker 1: don't believe he would have run from an interview with
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. I don't believe he would have avoided the
Speaker 1: last minute until the last minute of an interview with
Speaker 1: Fox News. I don't believe that he would have been
Speaker 1: as cushioned and as safeguarded as Kamala Harris. I will
Speaker 1: admit that. But there is no doubt, respectfully, mister Governor
Speaker 1: of California, that your record won't hold the mustard. That's
Speaker 1: why you got a podcast. We keep inviting you on
Speaker 1: the show. Still waiting still waiting, because here's the reality, sir,
Speaker 1: with the homelessness, with the crime, with the cost of
Speaker 1: living in California. I can't imagine Gavin Newsoen winning a
Speaker 1: presidential election with what is going on in the state
Speaker 1: of California. Period. And even though it may not have
Speaker 1: been your mistake because natural disasters happened, the first words
Speaker 1: out of your mouth can't be it's a local problem.
Speaker 1: I'm not a state problem. When you're confronted by it,
Speaker 1: and then you show up on real time where Bill
Speaker 1: Maul months later and you're saying, hey, we got to
Speaker 1: own up to our mistakes. Californians don't believe you. I'm
Speaker 1: not one of them. I'm not a Californian. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about myself, but I know plenty of Californians that
Speaker 1: do not believe you at all. But I got some
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Speaker 1: and the things that you're seeing right now. I got
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Speaker 1: thought about yet. It's very important that you understand this,
Speaker 1: and I'll let you know what that is right after
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Speaker 1: Even with Corey book is sitting there twenty plus hours
Speaker 1: raising Holy hell about all the things he's been seeing
Speaker 1: from the Trump administration. Things that I mentioned earlier, didn't
Speaker 1: mention Doge and Musk Department of Governmental Efficiency and what
Speaker 1: Musk has been doing, cutting jobs, looking in the one
Speaker 1: in folks social security numbers, you know, trying to find everything,
Speaker 1: talking about curbing spending, eliminating wasting, fraud and all of
Speaker 1: this other stuff. And to the Republicans out there, I'm
Speaker 1: fully aware of this footage of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer back in twenty ten and twenty twelve saying the
Speaker 1: same damn thing we hearing from Trump right now and
Speaker 1: Elon Musk about fraud and wasting all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So there is a bit of hypocrisy there, I'm fully aware.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about watching Corey Booker talk the
Speaker 1: way that he's talking about them is this, y'all. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's realized this. It's real issues being discussed. See,
Speaker 1: we ain't talking about nouns and pronouns. We ain't talking
Speaker 1: about unisex bathrooms. We're not blaming a legal immigrant immigrants
Speaker 1: for everything. We're talking about real issues that are affecting
Speaker 1: the American people. Federal government jobs being stripped from folks,
Speaker 1: cost of living, quality of life being compromised, No happy
Speaker 1: medium in sight, absence of negotiations, the friction that exist.
Speaker 1: At least we're discussing the issues now. No more this
Speaker 1: bs distracting us from what's really going on, or talking
Speaker 1: about issues that affect less than one percent of the population.
Speaker 1: No more that. When you talk about eradicating the Department
Speaker 1: of Education, that's real jobs. When you're battling unions and
Speaker 1: the teachers that are at the mercy of the unions,
Speaker 1: and you're saying that change needs to happen, that's a
Speaker 1: real issue. We talk about national security and our defense
Speaker 1: spend seventy seven million on one subject, but when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Department of Defense, we're spending eight or
Speaker 1: seventy seven billion rather, And then it comes to the
Speaker 1: Department of Defense and the number we're spending this eight
Speaker 1: hundred billion year. We got to talk about some real
Speaker 1: issues because the money's there, but where's it going? What
Speaker 1: are we prioritizing? How many American lives are benefiting when
Speaker 1: we talk about the war in Ukraine. Yes, it's important
Speaker 1: to talk about why. When Bill O'Reilly brings up something
Speaker 1: like the y Alta Conference or the Yulta Convention from
Speaker 1: nineteen forty five, where you have the Brits in the
Speaker 1: United States and Russia collaborating with one another to create
Speaker 1: a new world. After Hitler was defeated, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, people are able to look to the year
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and say, in the way that Trump
Speaker 1: is acting, it's similar to how Stalin acted and how FDR.
Speaker 1: These guys gave the power to the Russians who wanted
Speaker 1: Europe and it agreed to a democratic society, but before
Speaker 1: ultimately renigging on that promise and instituting communism. All of
Speaker 1: these things that have been said, and somebody's able to
Speaker 1: point to it being done right now and asking the question,
Speaker 1: how does the American citizen benefit from all of this?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I'm loving it, not because I know the answer, but
Speaker 1: it's because none of us really know. But we gonna
Speaker 1: find out the more they talking about it, and ultimately
Speaker 1: a conclusion is going to be drawn, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: ultimately confront what's truly in the best interests of America
Speaker 1: as opposed to debunking and knocking down stuff that the
Speaker 1: other side was doing. And then we're just offsetting it
Speaker 1: by going to a complete opposite. No, at some point
Speaker 1: in time, it's got to be about America again, not
Speaker 1: talking about America first, but legitimately, realistically fair putting America
Speaker 1: first in the right way, because it ain't about America first,
Speaker 1: it's about the American citizens being first. Anybody could come
Speaker 1: up with the slogan about America first, but everything they're
Speaker 1: doing is for themselves. When you start benefiting the working
Speaker 1: class of America by making sure you're addressing their concerns,
Speaker 1: their needs, their desires, their fears, their wants. When you
Speaker 1: do that, then you could get away. We're saying America
Speaker 1: first without the citicism that comes accompanied with it. I
Speaker 1: like this. We're debating and discussion real issues now as
Speaker 1: opposed to being emotional devoid of facts about what the
Speaker 1: hell is really going on. So I enjoyed the banter,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it back and forth as long as
Speaker 1: it's substantive. That's all I wanted to say about that.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing, y'all. Maybe not today, but it
Speaker 1: will be a good thing in the days, the weeks
Speaker 1: and the months to follow, and you know, when we'll know, really,
Speaker 1: really what It's all about when the midterms arrive. If
Speaker 1: the Republicans win the midterms, America is saying that's how
Speaker 1: we want this nation to be. If America says otherwise,
Speaker 1: then the Republicans will lose. Very very simple, very simple.
Speaker 1: Coming up, he's an actor, probably best known for his
Speaker 1: role on Insecure. The One and Only Jay Ellis joins
Speaker 1: the show to talk about his latest project. But first,
Speaker 1: Lebron versus Steph or Steph versus Jo Kitch. What matchup
Speaker 1: should NBA fans want to see in the first round
Speaker 1: of these upcoming NBA playoffs. We'll dive into that right
Speaker 1: here when a Stephen Nate Smith show up next. Don't
Speaker 1: go mus goork back to the Stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of NBA stuff to get into. Make
Speaker 1: no more stake about that, particularly with the fight for
Speaker 1: the Western Conference playoff seatings, because that's exactly where I
Speaker 1: want to go. Here's a look at the current seating
Speaker 1: out West, where the Douvin Nuggets are currently the third seed,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are the fourth seed, and the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors are currently at sixth. So we could be looking
Speaker 1: at a scenario where Lebron and Steph face each other
Speaker 1: in the first round, and that could be a dilemma
Speaker 1: for the fans and the league. And here's where I'm
Speaker 1: going with this. At some point in time, we got
Speaker 1: to make a decision. Ladies and gentlemen, think about the
Speaker 1: scenario here. Let's say, for example, that the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors hold on to the sixth seed in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: They would possibly face Denver, who's a three seed. Right,
Speaker 1: but if they moved up to the fifth seed because
Speaker 1: Memphis is sliding after letting go of their coach, Taylor Jenkins,
Speaker 1: they don't look great. They've lost the last two games
Speaker 1: or so. If Golden State finds a way to inch
Speaker 1: up to the fifth seed and the Lakers stay at
Speaker 1: the fourth seed, that's Lebron James and the Lakers versus
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors in the first round.
Speaker 1: It guarantees one of them gets to the second round,
Speaker 1: but it also guarantees that one of them is bounced
Speaker 1: out in the first round. So what do you prefer?
Speaker 1: Do you prefer Lebron going up against, say the Clippers
Speaker 1: going up against, say the Minnesota Timberwolves with ant Man
Speaker 1: in the first round? Do you prefer that with the
Speaker 1: possibility of advancing to the second round. While go to
Speaker 1: State goes up against somebody like Denver, they'd be undersized.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, with Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler and what
Speaker 1: they could do together if they were fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: knock off Denver, did you get to the second round
Speaker 1: as well? Or do you want Lebron and Steph to
Speaker 1: face one another and one of them go home in
Speaker 1: the first round. I'm not gonna lie to you. I
Speaker 1: like that scenario better because I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could bet on the Golden State Warriors to beat the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets. When Jokic or Jamal Murray or out of
Speaker 1: the lineup or both of them, Denver ain't the same.
Speaker 1: But when they're in the lineup, they're league leaders in
Speaker 1: field goal percentage shooting, They're one of the better three
Speaker 1: point shooting teams. Oh, by the way, they're top notch
Speaker 1: in fast breakpoints for crying out loud. This is what
Speaker 1: they bring to the table, and they got a championship pedigree.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to bet my money
Speaker 1: on Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler. The Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: knocking off those brothers and Devor, particularly with never having
Speaker 1: a home court advantage in a first round playoff series
Speaker 1: of Game seven would be back in the Mile High City.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. So we might have to
Speaker 1: settle on Steph Curry and Lebron James going up against
Speaker 1: one another and advancing, with one of them definitively advancing
Speaker 1: out of the first round. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: in that series, I would still go with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: even though Golden State could beat them. I would say
Speaker 1: the Lakers have to be the favorites. Here's my personal preference, though,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, I want ant Man to go
Speaker 1: as deep as he could go. I want to see
Speaker 1: ant Man. I want to see Anthony Edwis. That's who
Speaker 1: the hell I want to see. Okay, I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm clear about that before we
Speaker 1: move on to my next subject. Y'all can sit up there.
Speaker 1: We'll take a poll. Y'all can sit up there, expressed
Speaker 1: us what y'all think. Who would y'all rather see? Would
Speaker 1: you rather see Lebron and Steph in the first round
Speaker 1: against one another or do you want to see them
Speaker 1: going against different opponents, so they could possibly both advance
Speaker 1: beyond the first round. Is that your preference or is
Speaker 1: the preference them going up against one another? Just let
Speaker 1: a brother know, Just let a brother know. I'm about
Speaker 1: to ask this next brother to this question because he
Speaker 1: is my next guest. Talented actor best known for his
Speaker 1: role as Lawrence on HBO's hit series Insecure. Since then,
Speaker 1: he started a string of hit TV shows and films,
Speaker 1: including his latest called Freaky Tales, which hits theaters on
Speaker 1: April fourth. My brother, the one and only Jay ellis
Speaker 1: in the house. What's that, big time? How you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: How's everything? My guy was good, bro, It's good to
Speaker 1: see you. By the way, tell everybody the first of all,
Speaker 1: how tall are you? I was with you about two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You're about to logit six three six' four,
Speaker 1: right you're about six four?
Speaker 5: Inch? Yeah how about six y four that's what they call?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: Right and you in turn with The Portland trailblazers before
Speaker 1: you became this you know, this this star on television
Speaker 1: and you are damn intern with The Portland Trades, trailblazers
Speaker 1: were you?
Speaker 9: Not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, MAN i was there for the THREE s TWO
Speaker 3: o three season the Jail blazers this, season Man Mo
Speaker 3: cheeks was the coach obvious to know that, Roster but,
Speaker 3: YEAH i was there for all the.
Speaker 1: Trouble, man there we, Go and so that means you
Speaker 1: know your. Basketball so you heard WHAT i, said you
Speaker 1: heard WHAT i broke. Down if you had your brothers
Speaker 1: knowing that you out in Southern, california but you're very
Speaker 1: familiar with The, bay et. Cetera what scenario would you want?
Speaker 1: Most would you Want lebron And steph going up against
Speaker 1: one another in the first? Round will one of them
Speaker 1: definitively advanced to beyond the first round or do you
Speaker 1: want to take the risk of them going against somebody
Speaker 1: else and both of them getting bounced.
Speaker 5: OUT i like to see them both get. Deeper.
Speaker 3: Verus that's a great, team, Man So i'm not sure
Speaker 3: that's who they want to see in the first round for.
Speaker 3: Sure so you, KNOW i think you're. RIGHT i think
Speaker 3: it's a lot of. FUN i think it's great for
Speaker 3: the game to go, see you, know The warriors and
Speaker 3: The lakers slugging out in the first.
Speaker 1: Round so you're you're good with them and at least
Speaker 1: knowing that one of them will advance past the first?
Speaker 3: Round, right, yeah, man, listen this is playoff basketball as
Speaker 3: we know. It these are two great, teams and, so you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i think we're gonna have a lot of.
Speaker 5: Fun you.
Speaker 3: KNOW i think the series will go longer than what
Speaker 3: some people might expect it to.
Speaker 5: Go but you, KNOW i think that's the basketball that.
Speaker 3: We want to, see and that's why we sign, up
Speaker 3: and that's why we, watch and that's why we show
Speaker 3: up to these stadiums and these arenas to see games like.
Speaker 1: This are you sure it's fit to classify both of
Speaker 1: them as great when you talk about them as, TEAMS
Speaker 1: i know they're, good but great we know great teams
Speaker 1: when we see. Them do you really feel both of
Speaker 1: them are?
Speaker 5: Great, here here's WHAT i.
Speaker 3: Think boston is, Great Oklahoma city is. Great, right we
Speaker 3: know what the top of the pack looks. Like we
Speaker 3: know that for, Sure like there's no questions about. That
Speaker 3: here's what you can't do. Though you can't count either
Speaker 3: of these teams. Out you can't count the experience, out
Speaker 3: you can't count the pedigree, out you.
Speaker 5: Know and SO i think these teams can.
Speaker 3: Have had flashes of greatness and can be, great you,
Speaker 3: know sustaining that over the playoffs obviously is, tough and
Speaker 3: that's what basket ball is.
Speaker 1: About would you be excited about A BOSTON okc? Finals,
Speaker 1: yeah it give it to, me.
Speaker 3: MAN i, mean, Listen i'd love to See okac maker.
Speaker 3: RUN i Think, boston you, know will get. There i'm
Speaker 3: excited to see them back and see them defending their.
Speaker 3: Championship it would be fun to See okay see you
Speaker 3: know WHAT i, mean especially as An oklahoma. Boy you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i grew up In, tolsa so you, know it'd
Speaker 3: be fun to See Okay see.
Speaker 5: You, know going there and and have a real.
Speaker 3: Shot that team is, special, Man like you look at that,
Speaker 3: team like those guys are really. Special they really show
Speaker 3: up EVERY i was listening this. Morning many they might
Speaker 3: mess around and whin seventy. Games, yeah, like this is
Speaker 3: a really great, team AND i do think it would
Speaker 3: be fun to go watch a team where everybody is locked,
Speaker 3: arms you know What i'm, saying going to play.
Speaker 5: Basketball it'd be fun to see them get.
Speaker 3: There there's some other teams THAT i might like to get,
Speaker 3: there but you, know it'd be fun to.
Speaker 1: Watch let me tell you WHAT i shared before we
Speaker 1: get in THE u a little bit. More let me
Speaker 1: tell you WHAT i shared about this. Season first of,
Speaker 1: ALL i don't want as much as as popular and
Speaker 1: as much of a bonanza in the ratings it would
Speaker 1: be for The lakers to go up Against. Boston the
Speaker 1: REASON i don't want to see that series is BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i believe The Los Angeles lakers would get slaughtered by
Speaker 1: The Boston. CELTICS i don't think that's a match they're made.
Speaker 1: For they're built for, THAT i don't think. SO i
Speaker 1: just don't like that for The. LAKERS i want a
Speaker 1: COMPETITIVE Nba. FINALS i don't want some lopside of the
Speaker 1: fair where we, go we're lucky to see you win a.
Speaker 1: GAME i Think boston would destroy. Them here's WHAT i
Speaker 1: would tell you is my most attractive proposition in terms of,
Speaker 1: interest as great as The Oklahoma City, thunder all those
Speaker 1: young thoroughbreds led BY, sga who's MY mvp this, year
Speaker 1: by the, way the Brother. Spectacular let me tell you
Speaker 1: what my matchup. Is could you imagine if it Was,
Speaker 1: Lebron james And luca and The lakers going To cleveland
Speaker 1: to try to Stop cleveland from capturing the. Championship lebron
Speaker 1: having to Stop cleveland from winning the. Championship to, me
Speaker 1: that would be that could be a epic. Matchup what
Speaker 1: do you say to.
Speaker 5: That, no that's a lot of, fun.
Speaker 3: MAN i mean obviously to see him have to go
Speaker 3: back home and win a championship would be you, know
Speaker 3: it would be Amazing That cleveland team, Also, BRO i, mean, wow,
Speaker 3: wow what a phenomenal team from from one through, Twelve,
Speaker 3: bro everybody shows up and plays their. Part that would
Speaker 3: be a lot of. FUN i, mean obviously the storylines
Speaker 3: would be, great you know WHAT i mean in terms
Speaker 3: of all the other things that come with. It but the,
Speaker 3: basketball the style of play for those two, teams it
Speaker 3: would be a lot of fun to watch them go
Speaker 3: up against each.
Speaker 5: Other but you can't count out A Boston. Lakers, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: no you know WHAT i, Mean, like that's that's.
Speaker 1: BASKETBALL i, mean that's that's that's that's. Basketball And i'm
Speaker 1: NOT i Think boston is the best team in THE
Speaker 1: nba and they should. Repeat you gotta bet your money on.
Speaker 1: Them i'm just talking ABOUT i think that The lakers
Speaker 1: are no match for. Them where is there a better
Speaker 1: match For? Cleveland and so because of it that it
Speaker 1: would make for an epic, matchup WHEREAS i Think boston
Speaker 1: AGAINST la that series ends in. Five that's my. PROBLEM
Speaker 1: i want to say a game series for the. FINALS
Speaker 1: i want a game seven of AN Nba, finals a
Speaker 1: championship on the, line it's forty eight minutes. Away everybody
Speaker 1: got to show. Up that's WHAT i want to.
Speaker 3: See, yeah, listen, LISTEN i think, again you, know, listen
Speaker 3: really get to. SEVEN i don't, know BUT i Think
Speaker 3: lebron And luca could pull something. Out you know What
Speaker 3: i'm saying that maybe we wouldn't have, expected but you're.
Speaker 3: RIGHT i Think Cleveland lakers matchup is a lot more
Speaker 3: fun to. Watch it's a lot more even, again the
Speaker 3: style of play of those two, teams it would be.
Speaker 3: Fun the, storylines it would be. Fun that'd be fun to, watch.
Speaker 3: MAN i also would love to Watch donovan get.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: MAN i Think donovan is a, guy he's a stud
Speaker 3: bro AND i, think you, know he's kind of was
Speaker 3: overlooked In, utah even though he was doing the thing
Speaker 3: In utah as, well and obviously he's flourished In.
Speaker 5: Cleveland so we'd love to see him get.
Speaker 1: There let me transition to, you, man BECAUSE i got
Speaker 1: to get to some of the things that you're. Doing
Speaker 1: that's why you're, Here not to talk. BASKETBALL i JUST
Speaker 1: i just got your basketball analysis WHILE i had you on.
Speaker 1: Camera but let me ask you this AN nba, star
Speaker 1: a corrupt, cop a female rap, duo teenage, punks Neo,
Speaker 1: nazis and a debt collector and balk on a collision
Speaker 1: course in nineteen eighty Seven, Oakland. California does this sum
Speaker 1: up the present the premise Of Freaky? Tales?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man this is a wild.
Speaker 3: Movie Bro it brings together four different groups of people
Speaker 3: in four different stories that all obviously converge at one
Speaker 3: point in my. Story you, KNOW i got to Play
Speaker 3: Sleepy floyd in this, film who, obviously as we know
Speaker 3: as a warrior great still holds the record for twenty
Speaker 3: nine points in the fourth quarter in the, Playoffs and you,
Speaker 3: know it was amazing to be able to go in
Speaker 3: there and play a fictionalized version of him WHERE i
Speaker 3: got to honor that that, greatness but still got to
Speaker 3: go have fun and do this amazing martial arts and
Speaker 3: weapons work THAT i get to do in this film
Speaker 3: to kind of avenge all these characters and all these.
Speaker 1: Stories why Was Sleepy ford the character you. Picked what
Speaker 1: was that?
Speaker 3: About, yeah, yeah, MAN i mean, listen the first TIME
Speaker 3: i read the, script it was the most original THING
Speaker 3: i feel LIKE i had read in a really long,
Speaker 3: time you, know and it really jumped off the page of,
Speaker 3: me and it really set me in nineteen eighty, Seven.
Speaker 3: OAKLAND i grew, up you know, This but LIKE i
Speaker 3: spent time In sacramento as a. KID i had an
Speaker 3: uncle In, HAYWARD i got family In. STOCKTON i spent
Speaker 3: a lot of time around The bay and got in
Speaker 3: and out of there a.
Speaker 5: Lot so you, know obviously thinking of that.
Speaker 3: Eighties warriors team and this moment that he, had you,
Speaker 3: know it was just an honor to be able to do.
Speaker 3: It but you, know to be able to flex and
Speaker 3: show my action skills and my martial arts, skills my
Speaker 3: practice like that was you.
Speaker 5: Know a lot of fun and a. CHALLENGE i love a.
Speaker 3: CHALLENGE i love a physical, challenge and you, know getting
Speaker 3: to do that in this film was, amazing, Man and you,
Speaker 3: know get getting to be the hero there we.
Speaker 1: Go so this wasn't something where you, know you had
Speaker 1: some stunt double or somebody just was you doing martial
Speaker 1: arts and all of that. Stuff that's what you would, Do.
Speaker 3: Jay, yeah we don't do stunt Double steven and we
Speaker 3: don't do stunt double steven and we don't do.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 5: Bro Now i'm, listen, MAN i will tell you.
Speaker 3: SOMETHING i hadn't done martial arts SINCE i was about
Speaker 3: seven or eight years, old AND i might have got
Speaker 3: a yellow, Belt i'm not even. Sure AND i met
Speaker 3: my stunt double in this film AND i told. HIM
Speaker 3: i was, Like, bro you're not gonna work in this.
Speaker 3: Movie and he was, like, cool that just means you
Speaker 3: got a lot more to. Do AND i learned five
Speaker 3: or six different styles of martial. ARTS i learned how
Speaker 3: to use five or six different. Weapons. BRO i was
Speaker 3: doing three. DAYS i would do two hours every. MORNING
Speaker 3: i would do an hour of lifting in the middle
Speaker 3: of the, day and Then i'd go two hours of
Speaker 3: weapons at, night two and a half hours of weapons at,
Speaker 3: night six days a. Week and did that all the
Speaker 3: way up until you, know we started rolling cameras on
Speaker 3: On Sleepy.
Speaker 1: STORY i heard you Called Tom cruise for some, help some,
Speaker 1: advice Mister maverick Top gun. Himself is that trupis submission?
Speaker 1: Impossible is that? True?
Speaker 3: Yeah, MAN i, mean, listen who better to call than
Speaker 3: than the guy who's really he's really the definitive you,
Speaker 3: know action, star you know WHAT i, Mean like when
Speaker 3: you think about that genre and you think about all
Speaker 3: that he's, done like who better to call and, say, hey,
Speaker 3: man how DO i do?
Speaker 5: This you know WHAT i? Mean how DO i?
Speaker 3: Train how DO i how DO i? Recover how DO
Speaker 3: i prepare myself for? This how DO i make SURE
Speaker 3: i don't get? Injured how DO i make Sure i'm
Speaker 3: hitting my mark and through all this? Physicality how DO
Speaker 3: i make sure THAT i am absorbing every single one
Speaker 3: of these martial arts styles and weapons practices that that you're.
Speaker 5: You, know you're learning at a.
Speaker 3: Time and he was gracious, man you, know he sent
Speaker 3: me this crazy long text with all these different things
Speaker 3: to do and think about and to.
Speaker 1: Watch watch.
Speaker 5: Film you.
Speaker 3: Know one of the THINGS i keep telling people is
Speaker 3: like he told, me watch film, everything and every single
Speaker 3: night before you go to, bed watch it so you
Speaker 3: can see what you did, right what you did, wrong
Speaker 3: what you.
Speaker 5: Need to improve.
Speaker 3: On and literally every single NIGHT i would lay in
Speaker 3: bed and watch WHATEVER i did that.
Speaker 1: Day how hard is it for you to watch? THIS i,
Speaker 1: know DOING tv every DAY i don't like to do
Speaker 1: that too. MUCH i really really don't to. Men tomorrow's
Speaker 1: the next. DAY i got to show, up. Right how
Speaker 1: hard is it for you to look at it and
Speaker 1: just watch yourself and critique. Yourself?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nah that's not for, me, man that's not really you,
Speaker 3: know in A tv, SHOW i think it's interesting Because
Speaker 3: i'm watching to understand the tone of the. Show i'm
Speaker 3: watching to make SURE i understand That i'm locked into
Speaker 3: the right the right, show and then after a WHILE
Speaker 3: i stop. Watching but you, know it's not my favorite
Speaker 3: thing to, do you know WHAT i. MEAN i feel
Speaker 3: LIKE i get to go make, it and that's WHAT
Speaker 3: i want to.
Speaker 8: DO i.
Speaker 3: Don't i'm not the ONE i want to necessarily watch.
Speaker 3: IT i want other people to watch it and experience.
Speaker 5: It and you, KNOW i.
Speaker 3: Hear how people feel about, it you, Know and that's
Speaker 3: HOW i Know i'm doing my. Job you, know whether
Speaker 3: you love my, characters whether you hate my, characters as
Speaker 3: long as you feel one way or, Another i'm doing
Speaker 3: my job.
Speaker 1: Right the key the enemy is. Indifference that's the death and.
Speaker 1: Difference as long as they'll love, YOU i hate, you
Speaker 1: you good to go that? Much we do that. Much we.
Speaker 1: Don't you, know The netflix Series Running point what you
Speaker 1: staring as? Well you know you played ahead of the
Speaker 1: Fictitious La. WAVES i mean that's a hit On netflix right.
Speaker 1: Now you look at what you're doing with all of these.
Speaker 1: Projects where do you feel you are in your career
Speaker 1: at this particular moment in, Time and how are you
Speaker 1: feeling about the industry as a whole with this quote
Speaker 1: unquote sensitive times that we live in and so much
Speaker 1: to be watching out for in terms of characters you
Speaker 1: portray and how information is.
Speaker 5: Absorbed, YEAH i, Mean i'll say for the, industry, Man
Speaker 5: i'm feeling.
Speaker 3: Optimistic i'm feeling, like you, know we obviously hit some
Speaker 3: bumps and, bruises you, know from obviously the pandemic like
Speaker 3: everyone else in the, world through you, know the strikes
Speaker 3: that we went, through and obviously there's been a ton
Speaker 3: of reshuffling and. Restructuring BUT i think some of, those you,
Speaker 3: know those things are starting to. Settle OBVIOUSLY la had its,
Speaker 3: own you, know heartbreaking troubles with the fires this, year
Speaker 3: BUT i feel like a lot of that's.
Speaker 5: Starting to settle a little bit in the.
Speaker 3: Industry you, know people want to get back to, work,
Speaker 3: man and the writers are getting busy, again and writers'
Speaker 3: rooms are opening, up and films are being you, know
Speaker 3: kind of fast track to be. Made and SO i
Speaker 3: feel like we're gonna make a roaring comeback and start
Speaker 3: making a lot of stuff.
Speaker 5: Again AND i, think you, know for me in my
Speaker 5: career and Where i'm, at you, KNOW i.
Speaker 3: Only dreamed of a lot of this, man and THEN
Speaker 3: i started putting it up on a vision board at
Speaker 3: a certain, point and.
Speaker 5: You, KNOW i feel Like i've.
Speaker 3: Been building these pieces and putting this career together of
Speaker 3: work That i'm proud of and work that you, KNOW
Speaker 3: i want to look back and SAY i did, that
Speaker 3: you know WHAT i, mean and be proud of. It
Speaker 3: and you, Know i've been fortunate to do. That i've
Speaker 3: been fortunate to work with a lot of amazing, people, filmmakers,
Speaker 3: writers you, know actors, obviously and you, know it's it's.
Speaker 3: BEAUTIFUL i think of it like winning a. CHAMPIONSHIP i
Speaker 3: never won a, championship you know What i'm. Saying BUT
Speaker 3: i think of it, like you, know next, year you
Speaker 3: start all over again and none of whatever happened in
Speaker 3: the past doesn't. Matter so you, KNOW i pick up
Speaker 3: every single day and just keep doing the work and you,
Speaker 3: know hopefully the career keep.
Speaker 1: Going i'm wondering about the challenge of an, artist particularly
Speaker 1: one In, hollywood like yourself and, others considering how the,
Speaker 1: industry according to the reports anywhere his skill back to
Speaker 1: some degree since to, strike you, know how much production
Speaker 1: is actually being put out? There seems like content is,
Speaker 1: king but it also seems like, studios, networks et cetera
Speaker 1: spending less, money making less of an. INVESTMENT i, Yes
Speaker 1: i'm asking are these times harder or is it more
Speaker 1: of the Same coming from a perspective such as yourself
Speaker 1: based on what we, Know.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's a great, Question. Steven you, KNOW i think
Speaker 5: it is. Challenging. Right there's not as many opportunities out
Speaker 5: there for.
Speaker 3: People there's not as many you, know if you're an,
Speaker 3: actor there's not as many productions, going which means you
Speaker 3: don't get.
Speaker 5: As many opportunities to go get a.
Speaker 3: Job if you're a, writer there's not as many writers' rooms,
Speaker 3: open which means you don't get an opportunity to get a.
Speaker 5: Job or when the few rooms.
Speaker 3: Do, open they staff so, quickly you don't get an
Speaker 3: opportunity to get a. Job and, so you, KNOW i
Speaker 3: think it has been a challenge. Man you, KNOW i
Speaker 3: think about a lot of friends of mine who are
Speaker 3: below the line. Workers you, know you think your, craftsmen
Speaker 3: you think your hair and makeup, folks you, know your,
Speaker 3: gaffers your, teamsters you, know and a lot of folks
Speaker 3: have been out of. Work so it's definitely been a
Speaker 3: hard time and it's been a trying.
Speaker 5: TIME i.
Speaker 3: Think on the creative, side, though you try to look
Speaker 3: at it as an opportunity to, create and you try
Speaker 3: to look at it as an opportunity to, say IF
Speaker 3: i can tell a story THAT i want to, tell
Speaker 3: how COULD.
Speaker 5: I do that?
Speaker 3: Right how DO i do that via a scripted? Podcast
Speaker 3: DO i do that via A tv? Show DO i
Speaker 3: do that via.
Speaker 5: A film That i'm writing OR i want to direct
Speaker 5: or a short?
Speaker 3: Film and SO i think it's it's really forcing people
Speaker 3: or giving people the opportunity rather to like go be
Speaker 3: creative and think about how you want to give back
Speaker 3: to this creative community and put something into. It and that,
Speaker 3: is you, know that's HOW i try to look at, it.
Speaker 3: Man AND i think a lot of my friends who
Speaker 3: aren't as busy as they want to be like that's
Speaker 3: how they're trying to look at it as. Well it's,
Speaker 3: like how can they go create something for themselves and
Speaker 3: start a whole new lane for?
Speaker 1: Themselves is it challenging when you consider? Fact like, like for,
Speaker 1: me this is my, Show i've created this, show et.
Speaker 1: Cetera you, know but you got to go out there
Speaker 1: and get support unless you want to finance it. Yourself
Speaker 1: that's not the role of an active producer. Whatever that's
Speaker 1: not a role that folks customarily want to. Play do
Speaker 1: you find that to be more, challenging more, fulfilling or
Speaker 1: too challenging to the point where you're, like damn, IT
Speaker 1: i got to do something new that's got some guaranteed
Speaker 1: funds in the. Mix what's your mentality about?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 3: MAN i love a, Challenge So i'm probably the, person
Speaker 3: you know What i'm, saying who's gonna, go who's going
Speaker 3: to go try to figure it? Out, Right i'm the
Speaker 3: person who's going to, go you, know be, like, oh,
Speaker 3: well how do you raise money or how do you you,
Speaker 3: know get this thing? Made how do you do a?
Speaker 3: Podcast excuse, me how do you license a piece of
Speaker 3: ip's that's me and kind of how my brain. Works you,
Speaker 3: know it is a very daunting thing, though you, know
Speaker 3: like that is not why many of us got into.
Speaker 5: This many of us became actors because we just want
Speaker 5: to tell, stories.
Speaker 3: Right we love the power of storytelling and how we
Speaker 3: can reach the. World and it is self indulgent at,
Speaker 3: times like it's no, lie but like at the end
Speaker 3: of the, day like you, know you do love the
Speaker 3: work and you love the study of people and you
Speaker 3: get to. Perform and so now knowing that you have
Speaker 3: to add all these different, layers you, KNOW i think
Speaker 3: of it as you, know putting little things in your,
Speaker 3: toolbox you know WHAT i. Mean and you slowly you
Speaker 3: start to become A swiss army knife and you start
Speaker 3: to realize, like, OH i can write a, thing act
Speaker 3: in a, thing get my homeboy to direct, it get
Speaker 3: another friend to produce, it and now we can put
Speaker 3: it out on, YouTube or now we.
Speaker 5: Can license it to a. Streamer and you know.
Speaker 3: It it's a tough, thing for, sure you, know it's
Speaker 3: a lot to. Learn BUT i think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of people out there who who want to do, it
Speaker 3: and you, know are now given the opportunity to do
Speaker 3: it because there's no other, choice right AND i think
Speaker 3: people would rather do that before walk away from it
Speaker 3: because you love it too, much you know WHAT i, Mean,
Speaker 3: LIKE i couldn't imagine doing anything. Else Stephen, Ey, wow
Speaker 3: you know WHAT i. Mean, LIKE i just this is
Speaker 3: my this is WHAT i was put on this earth to,
Speaker 3: do is tell stories and entertain. People So i'm going
Speaker 3: to find a way to do that by any means.
Speaker 1: Necessary So i'll let you get on out of, here
Speaker 1: man speaking and telling. Stories tell us the story of
Speaker 1: the UPCOMING Nba? Finals who are you? Seeing?
Speaker 5: Who cool? Man why you do?
Speaker 1: This come, on? Man you want to tell, stories? Right
Speaker 1: you want to tell? Stories, well, listen toys come with
Speaker 1: a variety of. Forms stories could come with. It there
Speaker 1: could be reality, stories or they could be. Fantasy they
Speaker 1: could be. Fantasy you know What i'm. Saying you could
Speaker 1: give a fantasy. VERSION i Mean Draymond green out there
Speaker 1: talking about The Golden State warriors gonna win the. Championship
Speaker 1: some people think that's, fantasy a few think that's. Reality
Speaker 1: others think That lebron And luca got a shot they
Speaker 1: want to. Ignore oh kn't see In. BOSTON i mean
Speaker 1: those are fantasy's that could become. Reality what about.
Speaker 3: You, okay, okay, okay. OKAY i Think boston gets. THERE
Speaker 3: i Think boston gets. THERE i think we know, that
Speaker 3: we see that.
Speaker 5: The west is. Tough, Man, LISTEN i mean you know.
Speaker 3: This you do this every single, day, man, six seven and,
Speaker 3: eight five or five through, eight or like one game.
Speaker 3: Apart like this is, crazy, man like it. Is it
Speaker 3: is insane to see, this you know, again you know
Speaker 3: going back to, that you know you brought out who
Speaker 3: YOUR mvp. Is you, Know joker is MY. MVP i
Speaker 3: would love to See denver get there. AGAIN i think
Speaker 3: that would be a lot of.
Speaker 5: Fun don't wish that, then, obviously don't wish.
Speaker 1: That you just feel LIKE i don't feel like being
Speaker 1: in The Maha, city, MAN i don't feel like being
Speaker 1: in that. Altitude. MAN i just don't feel like going
Speaker 1: through it, Again, JAY i just. DON'T i just don't, Know,
Speaker 1: bro my body doll losing his breath and shit all the.
Speaker 1: TIME i, mean you know what's up.
Speaker 3: When that dude is on the, court you know. It
Speaker 3: everybody knows. It, Bro it's the craziest thing to.
Speaker 5: Watch.
Speaker 3: Man you look up and you, like this dude has
Speaker 3: a triple double in the third, quarter and you don't
Speaker 3: even know how it, happened because it.
Speaker 5: Happens it's so smooth you don't even, know you know
Speaker 5: WHAT i.
Speaker 3: Mean and then When Jamal murray is clicking and you
Speaker 3: know It's Aaron gordon can catch the ball anywhere and
Speaker 3: his bag has gotten, better especially on the.
Speaker 1: Dribble.
Speaker 5: Man like you, know they're a really fun team to,
Speaker 5: watch and you.
Speaker 3: KNOW i believe In, okay, see BUT i think they
Speaker 3: got to go against some dogs to get. There they
Speaker 3: got to go get some vets to get. There they
Speaker 3: got to go and get some dogs to get. There
Speaker 3: and that's not to say that they're not. Dogs But
Speaker 3: i'd like to See denver get. There and if it's Not,
Speaker 3: denver then you, KNOW i like to see The lakers get. There,
Speaker 3: Man i'm a hometown. Boy i'm a hometown.
Speaker 1: Boy so you're a hometown boy that ultimately doesn't want
Speaker 1: to admit that you're picking The boss And celtics to
Speaker 1: win the. Championship, whoa, whoa that's what you're. SAYING i,
Speaker 1: mean that's what that's my. INTERPRETATION i, MEAN i could be,
Speaker 1: wrong but that's my. INTERPRETATION.
Speaker 5: Whoa, LISTEN i don't know what happens when the finals come.
Speaker 1: Around you deserve the right to hold on to that, thought, Right.
Speaker 3: YEAH i don't know what happens when the finals come,
Speaker 3: around freaky you know What i'm. Saying but but you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i would love to See boston play The.
Speaker 5: Nuggets and if it's not The, Nuggets i'd love to
Speaker 5: see him play The.
Speaker 1: Lakers all, right my, Man all the best of, you my.
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Speaker 1: You we'll catch him, soon thank. You doubt one only
Speaker 1: jay ellis in the house right here with Steven a
Speaker 1: up next your calls and. Videos folks want to get at,
Speaker 1: me BUT i got a. Weapon the only part about
Speaker 1: it is that he ain't no damn. Secret it's my Nephew.
Speaker 1: Josh but on this particular day he might have my.
Speaker 1: Back he just my miracles still. Happen STEVEN A Smith
Speaker 1: show in the. House back for more in a. Minute,
Speaker 1: well back To Stephen Nate smith. Show you heard me talking,
Speaker 1: politics you heard me talking TO. Nba thanks again to
Speaker 1: the one and Only Jay ellis for coming on the
Speaker 1: show talking with us as. Well AND i felt THAT
Speaker 1: i was gonna lighten the mood a little. Bit and you,
Speaker 1: know when this man asked me to come on the,
Speaker 1: show he didn't really, ask he just, Said i'll be.
Speaker 1: There i'll be, there you, know because he a. Boss
Speaker 1: now that's what he. Does, Nephew josh's in the. House
Speaker 1: what's going? On? Man m what the hell is that?
Speaker 10: YOU i got a date? Tonight don't say nothing?
Speaker 1: Crazy why does that ship look like shiny?
Speaker 10: Plether that's what's going on right. Now everything is not
Speaker 10: A steve.
Speaker 1: So but but is That pleatha or? Leather and don't
Speaker 1: disrespect my Brother Steve. Harvey you be, no, no.
Speaker 10: No, Harvey steve Stephen a Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Harvey no, no there's only one Stephen a, baby it's
Speaker 1: only want Stephen. A but you were you wearing the?
Speaker 1: Type so hold on for a. Second you said you
Speaker 1: got a date? Tonight didn't you just say? That? Yeah
Speaker 1: where you? Goinging sight? Seeing this is.
Speaker 10: Free it's my turn to. Pay so so you, said.
Speaker 1: Because it's your turn to, pay you go on sight
Speaker 1: seeing because it's. Free so that means you don't want
Speaker 1: to spend no. Money it's not just that.
Speaker 11: Too did the weather's turning around, too like the city's
Speaker 11: nice to do the weather, fields get, outside you're gonna
Speaker 11: get some, head.
Speaker 1: But you. Eat but the first words out of your mouth,
Speaker 1: was it's my turn to. Pay so this is free.
Speaker 11: Because you, know you know when they be, like it's
Speaker 11: the thought that. Counts SO i put one hundred percent
Speaker 11: thought into this instead of instead of, money one hundred pought.
Speaker 1: Zero so, so, so so where you're going to take
Speaker 1: her for the tight. Seeing we're gonna we're gonna.
Speaker 10: Go we're gonna start at thirty Fourth.
Speaker 11: Street then we're gonna walk a marathon until you, know
Speaker 11: she probably gonna wear heels because she thinks we're gonna,
Speaker 11: eat so we're not gonna walk too, far and she's
Speaker 11: gonna be, tired and you're gonna head back as soon
Speaker 11: as you're getting Sid but if she's.
Speaker 1: Hungry but if she's, hungry why would you head back
Speaker 1: anywhere when you really really is supposed to be taking
Speaker 1: out to.
Speaker 11: Dinner, No i'm not supposed to take you out to.
Speaker 11: Dinner i'm supposed to take her. Out it's on me
Speaker 11: on Where i'm taking.
Speaker 1: Her so where's she where's she? From i'm, saying if
Speaker 1: she's From New, york it is what a? Masket, Yeah
Speaker 1: so why you think taking her To Times square thirty
Speaker 1: Fourth street is something that's gonna.
Speaker 11: Move her because on every block somebody's gonna shout we
Speaker 11: rich and it's just the feeling of you, know you're
Speaker 11: with a jaler.
Speaker 10: Celebrity now working my way?
Speaker 1: Up, yeah what's on your? Mind? Man why do You
Speaker 1: why do you want to sit in here with me? Today?
Speaker 1: Man BECAUSE i mean you already getting on my damn
Speaker 1: nerves with. This go? Ahead, man did you.
Speaker 10: Tell him that we was at The Three americans thing?
Speaker 1: TOGETHER i didn't tell them that WAS i WAS i
Speaker 1: supposed to tell him? That? Yeah why you want me
Speaker 1: to tell him?
Speaker 11: That because you have to add some some some validness
Speaker 11: to my my JV p.
Speaker 1: Run, well you were there filming it for, me but
Speaker 1: you did a bunch of shots from the back of
Speaker 1: my head that made no.
Speaker 11: Sense oh you want me to get Into why because
Speaker 11: the people at the place would not let me film
Speaker 11: from in front of. You you know, why right my
Speaker 11: last name Wasn't cuomo Or 'reiley BECAUSE i told. HIM
Speaker 11: i told him WHO i. Was they tried to like
Speaker 11: they ain't know WHO i. Was so that's either your
Speaker 11: fall today fall who taking the.
Speaker 1: Blame so you saying that you know because you said
Speaker 1: that you Were, smith STEPHEN A smith's, nephew that they
Speaker 1: let they, denied that's.
Speaker 11: PAST i didn't say STEPHEN A smith's. NEPHEW i Said
Speaker 11: I'm Josh, smith and we running in twenty twenty. Eight
Speaker 11: now where DO i see? It and she looked at
Speaker 11: me LIKE i was. CRAZY i got over.
Speaker 1: It we? Running? Yeah how we? Running we we running vice.
Speaker 11: President i'm Gonna i'm gonna get you to vote that
Speaker 11: that the people that don't want to vote for you
Speaker 11: gonna want to vote for.
Speaker 1: Me don't you tell the people what you said to
Speaker 1: me On sunday when you. Came you walked up to
Speaker 1: me and you, said Uncle Steve, MAN i might have been.
Speaker 1: Wrong you you you you really could do, This you,
Speaker 1: could you? Should you should? Want you tell elaborate to the,
Speaker 1: audience let him.
Speaker 11: KNOW i walked right down on, him BECAUSE i did
Speaker 11: see him speaking on our.
Speaker 10: Behalf i'm not sure where you can see. That what
Speaker 10: can you watch?
Speaker 1: THAT i don't. Know, yeah that's bill a.
Speaker 11: Rally you don't even know who we could watch, That
Speaker 11: but he was speaking on our.
Speaker 10: Behalf AND i was thoroughly impressed by.
Speaker 5: THAT i was.
Speaker 10: Impressed And i'm, like.
Speaker 11: Listen between me and, you you got you got The
Speaker 11: you got the, left AND i got the.
Speaker 1: RIGHT i think it would be the other way around
Speaker 1: the way you. Talk i'm just, SAYING i don't, know
Speaker 1: but go. Ahead why you got these cards in your?
Speaker 1: Hand what you?
Speaker 11: Got this is these are my notes for. LATER i
Speaker 11: GOT i got a, few uh new laws and stuff like.
Speaker 11: That we're gonna get into that after the new.
Speaker 1: Laws new. Laws oh, god let me go to the, videos,
Speaker 1: man let me go to. Visit some people gonna call.
Speaker 1: In they send the videos. In they got some stuff to.
Speaker 1: SAY i don't know whether it's to me or you or.
Speaker 1: Whatever it's probably to me because they don't care about.
Speaker 1: You they care about. Me but let's hear what they
Speaker 1: got to. Say all, right who we got.
Speaker 5: Here Steven.
Speaker 6: A my question to you, today, sir is if you
Speaker 6: could change the outcome of one game in sports, history
Speaker 6: not just for the, result but for the impact it
Speaker 6: would have on the player's. Legacy what game would you
Speaker 6: choose and? Why by the, way that's the best question
Speaker 6: they ever asked, You.
Speaker 1: Boom game, Seven Lebron james Against goldens and The cleveland
Speaker 1: Cavili is Against Golden. State Treymond green should have never
Speaker 1: been ejected For game. Five that was a stimulus package
Speaker 1: THE nba Gave Lebron. James but give him credit because
Speaker 1: him And Kyrie irving went ballistic in games five and.
Speaker 1: SIX i think both of them dropped forty won a.
Speaker 1: Piece in game six that was a. Game Steph curvey
Speaker 1: got ejected when he took his mouthpiece out and threw.
Speaker 1: It we actually filed, out but he threw it at
Speaker 1: the failed to aim at the official but accidentally hit
Speaker 1: a fan the patron. There and Then game seven the
Speaker 1: block By lebron On Andrea goodala's, layup and of Course
Speaker 1: kyrie with the side step three Over Steph curry won
Speaker 1: the championship For. Cleveland if he doesn't win that, championship
Speaker 1: there's no championship In. Cleveland, okay that's one less championship
Speaker 1: he would have on his, resume, Right and there's no conversation,
Speaker 1: whatsoever no conversation about goats and all of this other.
Speaker 1: Stuff SO i would say to, You i'm not THAT
Speaker 1: i wish Because i'm not wishing. That BUT i look
Speaker 1: at that game in terms of impacting. Legacy you, Know
Speaker 1: magic and berwin the finals for a. Decade jordan won
Speaker 1: six SIX nba, finals six to. Six but when you
Speaker 1: talk about legacy, defining that would have been.
Speaker 11: THAT i Think mon's that one right there is, Like
Speaker 11: i'm cool with, that with the results of, that because
Speaker 11: that was player is deciding what happened the legion Of
Speaker 11: boom losing a ring because you decide to throw a
Speaker 11: pass when you're at the two yall line when you
Speaker 11: Have Marshawn, Lynch, RIGHT i don't like.
Speaker 1: That that's a good. One that's a good. One galen's
Speaker 1: over there talking to me About Patrick ewing in the
Speaker 1: next in nineteen ninety. Four, yeah it would have Changed
Speaker 1: Patrick ewan's, legacy that is, true but we still wouldn't
Speaker 1: be thinking about him that much if The new, year
Speaker 1: Their knicks fans, would but not the, world not the basketball.
Speaker 1: World that's WHY i didn't pick. That, gali sit back.
Speaker 1: There continue to lose. Weight, Bro let's go to the next.
Speaker 1: Video let's go to the next. Video show me what you.
Speaker 9: Got what's Up steven? It so here's my, question, man
Speaker 9: why do WOULD i just have to see you every? Everywhere?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 9: Like involved in, politics involved in the sports, stuff involved in. Everything.
Speaker 9: MAN i means to people that tried to stay out
Speaker 9: of the, spotlight Like Jim murray or any of THE
Speaker 9: La times writers before it got. Terrible SO i don't, Know,
Speaker 9: Man you're not a, Journalist you're just an. Influencer and,
Speaker 9: yeah your political career is.
Speaker 5: LAUGHABLE i don't.
Speaker 9: Know why you're trying to get. Involved you seem more
Speaker 9: literate Than kamala, was so that doesn't make any. Sense
Speaker 9: they need someone sharp or someone that's going to represent the,
Speaker 9: people and you seem to be just about. Yourself so,
Speaker 9: YEAH i guess my question is why are you everywhere
Speaker 9: and making millions of? Dollars all, right thank?
Speaker 1: YOU i guess my answer to the question would be a,
Speaker 1: question why the hell do you Know i'm? Everywhere clearly
Speaker 1: you can't get enough of, me says you decided to
Speaker 1: send take time out of your, life you know to
Speaker 1: send me THAT i won't get into the fact that
Speaker 1: you look like you got a lot of time on your.
Speaker 1: HANDS i wonder WHY i won't go that. Route, instead
Speaker 1: WHAT i will tell you is. This first of, All
Speaker 1: i'm not an. INFLUENCER i have been a. Journalist i'm
Speaker 1: a journalist that transitioned to a pundentit slash. Commentator WHY
Speaker 1: i have a resume my brother spanning thirty Years New
Speaker 1: York Daily, News Philadelphia, enquirer SEEING, Nsi Fox, SPORTS, espn
Speaker 1: now owning my own. Platform, brother this wasn't, given it was.
Speaker 1: Earned so you can. Hate you could do what you
Speaker 1: want to, do BUT i do this for a. Living,
Speaker 1: now clearly you have a problem with. That there's a simple.
Speaker 1: Solution don't. Watch but the reason why you can't stop
Speaker 1: watching is because you know you hate, it but you
Speaker 1: like what you see and you like What i'm, Giving
Speaker 1: SO i appreciate the. Support i'm sorry you can't admit.
Speaker 1: It sorry about, that but that's when, You, josh what
Speaker 1: are your?
Speaker 10: THOUGHTS i think he was talking to me BECAUSE i
Speaker 10: ain't got no.
Speaker 11: RESON i ain't got none of, that AND i got
Speaker 11: put on AND i don't mind being spoken about.
Speaker 10: It and then you know another. Thing we all we
Speaker 10: Owe Kevin durant an.
Speaker 11: Apology we all. DO i used to get on. Him
Speaker 11: you two about having burn that. ACCOUNTS i got seven no.
Speaker 11: Them so you can catch me At britney spizz seven
Speaker 11: nine to seven three seven watch him mouths BECAUSE i
Speaker 11: could be answering you familiar with.
Speaker 1: You got Seven bernouck. Hunts, yeah are you talking? ABOUT
Speaker 1: i don't have no dan. BERNOIN i know you gotta
Speaker 1: wake up and fight. Back, WHY i don't.
Speaker 10: KNOW i just think it's.
Speaker 1: Finally let me get to the coles man BEFORE i
Speaker 1: get on out of. Here let's go to the first.
Speaker 1: One Go zach And. Wisconsin go, ahead, bro go, ahead.
Speaker 8: Bro so my question for you IS jj McCarthy and The.
Speaker 8: Vikings and IF jj McCarthy can, play you, know just
Speaker 8: above average quarterback play with a talent Around, minnesota how
Speaker 8: far do you see him going if he's, up if
Speaker 8: he plays that, way.
Speaker 1: You know, WHAT i think they got a, chance, MAN
Speaker 1: i Deep their defense is big. Time flores is no.
Speaker 1: JOKERS a defensive coordinator Or condela is no joke as
Speaker 1: a as a head coach and a quarterback coach Quarterback.
Speaker 1: Guru What i'm shocked, By zach act is this reliance
Speaker 1: ON jj, McCarthy like they act like he's played in
Speaker 1: THE nfl. Before he was just injured or. Something he,
Speaker 1: was he won a national championship At, michigan he got
Speaker 1: injured his rookie year before he ever played the. Game
Speaker 1: and yet they gonna, say you know, what uh you,
Speaker 1: know A Sam, donald you can. Leave they're gonna, Say Aaron,
Speaker 1: rodgers you don't have to. Come SO jj McCarthy is that?
Speaker 1: Dude they're acting like he's produced. ALREADY i don't get.
Speaker 8: It do you think it was Valt amark moved to
Speaker 8: not Get Aaron rodgers on the team just in.
Speaker 1: Case maybe maybe Maybe what are your, Thoughts, josh real,
Speaker 1: quick because That's.
Speaker 10: Irons fan over. Here don't speak on A. Bikings good
Speaker 10: luck next.
Speaker 1: YEAR a right works for. Me appreciate the goals. Act thank.
Speaker 1: You this Is, ben go, Ahead, ben go ahead.
Speaker 7: MAN i have only been watching basketball for about a,
Speaker 7: year seriously watching, basketball AND i love. It the first
Speaker 7: GAME i ever saw was The lucas seventy three point,
Speaker 7: game and that made me A maverage Sent i'm wondering
Speaker 7: where do you after the trade and after every the
Speaker 7: disaster these past have been for The, mavericks where do
Speaker 7: you think will be in a? Round not five, years
Speaker 7: but like two, years like long? Term how do you?
Speaker 1: Think, well two years ain't long. Term that's number. One
Speaker 1: number TWO i would say this to. You within the
Speaker 1: next two, YEARS i Think Dallas mavericks have a shot
Speaker 1: to win the. CHAMPIONSHIP i think If, Kyrie Anthony, Davis Daniel,
Speaker 1: Gafford Derek, LIVELY. Pj washington and the rest of the
Speaker 1: crew With Jason kidd coaching, them are, HEALTHY i think
Speaker 1: The Dallas mavericks have a chance to win the. Championship
Speaker 1: AM i wrong about?
Speaker 10: That josh definitely.
Speaker 1: Wrong ain't a?
Speaker 11: Way why Not Daniel, Gafford Derek, lively these ain't And
Speaker 11: kyrie in two more?
Speaker 1: Years, No, No i'm saying over the next two, years
Speaker 1: meaning next year of the year after they got a.
Speaker 10: CHANCE i don't think so you got them be in
Speaker 10: the top teams in The.
Speaker 1: West they can if they're all, healthy because they Got
Speaker 1: that's Why Anthony Anthony davis is Not. Now it might
Speaker 1: have been foolish to let Go Luka, doncic but Understand
Speaker 1: Anthony davis is good for twenty eight and twelve at
Speaker 1: night when, healthy and he's. Legitimate he's a legitimate power
Speaker 1: forward at six feet, ten six feet eleven when you
Speaker 1: look at him and gaffering and. Lively if you get
Speaker 1: stellar guard, Player If kyrie and And Anthony davis are
Speaker 1: both available to you and everybody's, healthy The MAVs can
Speaker 1: compete with.
Speaker 10: Anybody When i'm, FOCUSED i could do. Anything how open
Speaker 10: to my?
Speaker 1: Focus, Yes griff just got in my ear talking About
Speaker 1: kyrie's got to play an option for next. Year the
Speaker 1: brother just got had. Surgery they're gonna still pay him his,
Speaker 1: money but he was in live for damn near two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million. DOLLARS i don't know how much
Speaker 1: he's going to. Get. Now let me go to this
Speaker 1: last caller. Here let's go To christian From. Atlanta you're
Speaker 1: live With STEVEN a and Nephew. Josh, christian talk to,
Speaker 1: us all, Right so.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about the holder shig In watson?
Speaker 2: Situation and where do you see The browns going from?
Speaker 2: There like how did they move? On did they just you,
Speaker 2: know bought all up Trade Nick chubb and things like
Speaker 2: that and move on or should they just keep what
Speaker 2: they hope did they find the quarterback in The you gotta.
Speaker 1: Hope you find a quarterback because you ain't blowing it
Speaker 1: up when you just Paid Miles garve at all that.
Speaker 1: Money you didn't pay him all of that money to take.
Speaker 1: Seasons and the fact of the matter Is Toshaun. Watson
Speaker 1: it's inexplicable what's happened to? Him, BRO i, mean that's
Speaker 1: just the mental completely contaminating your. Game when you have
Speaker 1: a situation where you give this brother a guarantee two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million dollar, deal every penny, guaranteed when
Speaker 1: a brother got twenty seven lawsuits at the time against,
Speaker 1: them and you give him the money, anyway and he
Speaker 1: steps on the football field and looks nothing like he
Speaker 1: looked when he was a quarterback for The Houston. Texans
Speaker 1: that's just messing with your Mental. Josh i'm going to
Speaker 1: my nephew. HERE i can't believe how Bad Deshaun watson has.
Speaker 11: Looked, yeah he definitely been looking, bad so bad That
Speaker 11: i'm in the movie.
Speaker 10: Look at my neck THAT i need a little.
Speaker 1: Sad, Really, damn that's pretty. Low that's kind of low
Speaker 1: to do that that was kind of. Low you should
Speaker 1: be nice in thanim got you need in a? Massage
Speaker 1: take it, easy take. It let's get to you and
Speaker 1: your list before we get on out of. Here, josh
Speaker 1: you got new? Rules you said you.
Speaker 11: Got oh, yeah you forgot to have the new. RULES
Speaker 11: i did it BECAUSE i got caught up In, Deshaune.
Speaker 11: WATSON i really don't need, Them. Sorr If i'm driving
Speaker 11: AND i catch IF i catch a heat, flash right
Speaker 11: AND i cracked the, window but the passenger.
Speaker 1: Is, cold who should we go?
Speaker 10: With i'm the, driver remember that.
Speaker 1: Part if it's your. Lady if it's your, lady, look
Speaker 1: you got to find at least a happy. Medium you
Speaker 1: got the. Compromise you have to always do something that
Speaker 1: tells her it's not just about. You that's All i'm
Speaker 1: trying to say with.
Speaker 10: That is it about me at?
Speaker 1: All it can be because you don't need to be
Speaker 1: freezing if you're. Driving you don't need to be uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because your, safety her safety is in your hands because
Speaker 1: you're behind the. Wheel but you you do need to
Speaker 1: be a bit sensitive to what she wants and, needs
Speaker 1: even at that particular moment in, time because damn, it
Speaker 1: if she's. Freezing that's a.
Speaker 10: Problem so if she starts a question with, so CAN
Speaker 10: i ask you a? Question AND i say? No is that?
Speaker 11: Valid say what if she asks me a question and
Speaker 11: it starts with CAN i ask you a?
Speaker 10: Question AND i say? No is that?
Speaker 11: Valid because we all know when y'all start with can
Speaker 11: you ask you a?
Speaker 10: Question there's nothing good coming behind? That so you gave
Speaker 10: me an you gave me an, option AND i said?
Speaker 1: No is it?
Speaker 10: Rhetorical CAN i ask a?
Speaker 1: Question? Like it's? Rude CAN i ask you a? Question? No,
Speaker 1: really it is. True it's an. Answer, Forward next, rule,
Speaker 1: bro next. RULE i got a surprise for, you by the,
Speaker 1: way before all of this shows.
Speaker 11: Up but go, Ahead oh you do the indecision, Shot.
Speaker 11: Clark IF i ask you what you want to? Eat
Speaker 11: you got twenty four seconds to figure it. Out you
Speaker 11: got two back and forth before the twenty four seconds runs.
Speaker 11: Out you Know i'm vegan this. Month, no we don't
Speaker 11: have time for. That, Like i'm really sick of. It
Speaker 11: i'm going on the day, tonight LIKE i told, You
Speaker 11: and it's, outside we're gonna. Stop we might, stop but
Speaker 11: a hot dog truck or something like.
Speaker 1: That why would you be going outside on a date In,
Speaker 1: april in Early. April why would you pick an outside
Speaker 1: venue that this Early?
Speaker 11: April like it might get a little, chilli but the
Speaker 11: wind's not gonna go through. This hopefully she doesn't have
Speaker 11: on nothing that's too that's too.
Speaker 1: Damn so you're thinking about what you was. Wearing you
Speaker 1: took into, account not at all what she might be.
Speaker 5: Wearing, no not.
Speaker 10: Exactly if she wants to go, home then the sooner
Speaker 10: we be getting, side.
Speaker 1: Man, sit what's your next?
Speaker 11: Rule so so that's it for, today because my, my my.
Speaker 11: Mails we're gonna get to the mails on the next.
Speaker 11: Show it's a surprise for.
Speaker 1: Me, Okay i'm gonna bring you back later on the
Speaker 1: week to get to your. Rules BUT i got a
Speaker 1: little surprised your little video That i'm gonna play for
Speaker 1: you in just a. SECOND i just sent it to
Speaker 1: my Man griff And. Galen when y'all have that, video
Speaker 1: play it For. Josh were gonna end the show on this,
Speaker 1: please cause you got something explained to. DO i got
Speaker 1: you good on this. One hold on for a, second, Yo,
Speaker 1: stephen a, man tell your, Nephew Tell josh That i'm
Speaker 1: really disappointed in him that he didn't know who the Original.
Speaker 5: Flash.
Speaker 3: Was all, right pay homage to the Original flash before
Speaker 3: you introduce a New flash.
Speaker 5: Character all. Right So i'm still a big, fan but
Speaker 5: let's strike.
Speaker 1: One you not entretaining one of the nicest dudes on the.
Speaker 1: Planet who's one of the greatest off guards in the
Speaker 1: history of, basketball a three time, champions A hall Of.
Speaker 1: Famer all, right one of the best PEOPLE i. Know
Speaker 1: you know that's my brother right. There and how In
Speaker 1: god's name do you not know who the Original flash?
Speaker 1: WAS i, mean ignored him and he called you.
Speaker 10: OUT i never not knew Who Dwayne wade?
Speaker 1: Was is he Still? Flash excuse? Me he's whatever he
Speaker 1: wants to. Be that's What hall Of famers. Are hall
Speaker 1: of famous who are champions multiple times, over plus The, FINALS.
Speaker 1: Mvp those are those guys right. There and by the,
Speaker 1: way he didn't send that the. Hub he's not bad
Speaker 1: to me because he didn't send that video for me
Speaker 1: to put over the. Airways but you, know he got
Speaker 1: love for, You SO i. TRIED i thought he would
Speaker 1: appreciate me showing.
Speaker 11: That what that reminded me of was was It Rick
Speaker 11: barry saying that like he could have played in any
Speaker 11: era if he had all of the things that they. Had,
Speaker 11: now this is WHAT i mean with. Everybody we have
Speaker 11: to move along with the. Times if you see, better
Speaker 11: say it's.
Speaker 10: BETTER i mean way was, So so who.
Speaker 1: Are you saying is better than The? Wade Now i'm,
Speaker 1: saying who are you? Saying who were you alluding to
Speaker 1: at that time that he had to call you? Out
Speaker 1: who are you alluding?
Speaker 10: To that's not that somebody's better than exactly all.
Speaker 1: Right so now we get that out the. Way, secondly
Speaker 1: that's not what he was getting on you. About he
Speaker 1: was getting on you about like you were acting like
Speaker 1: you didn't know Who flash.
Speaker 11: WAS i know, Who But i'm just saying that if
Speaker 11: there's a New, flash does he Keep flash like?
Speaker 1: You to see how you? Smiling you smiling because you
Speaker 1: caught out there you're trying to find a man you
Speaker 1: call your. BOYS i, Didn't, josh he was watching. You
Speaker 1: he was watching you on the show and saw you
Speaker 1: forget his.
Speaker 11: Name you, SEE i do things to support this. Show
Speaker 11: we end this as a. WHOLE i even did The
Speaker 11: Chris brown residuous challenge on behalf of the. Show we're
Speaker 11: gonna show it on the next on the next, episode challenge. Residuals,
Speaker 11: yeah it's like when you remake his, song AND i
Speaker 11: did it on behalf of our on behalf of our,
Speaker 11: show music video and all of That i'm gonna show.
Speaker 10: Is gonna be me go oh my, GOD r AND
Speaker 10: b album. Pending that's what The, america the world is.
Speaker 1: YouTube, goodbye. Y'all we we gotta.
Speaker 10: Go let it go out on me, too but on
Speaker 10: me