Speaker 1: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I know you're looking for me.
Speaker 2: You're looking for me to dissect what transpired in the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals between Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Paces in
Speaker 2: Game six.
Speaker 1: You're looking for me to talk about Diddy.
Speaker 2: You're looking for me to talk about some other topics
Speaker 2: involving President Trump and the NAACP in the city of
Speaker 2: Memphis and beyond. I'm looking forward to talking about that myself.
Speaker 2: But somebody's in a way. She's about to take over.
Speaker 2: I'm a dad. What can I say? Sometimes we just
Speaker 2: ain't the boss. You'll know what I'm saying. In the
Speaker 2: second stephen A. Smith Show in the House, please forgive me.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, y'all, welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 3: The stephen A. Smith Show over the digital airwaves of
Speaker 3: YouTube and iHeart Radio over one point twenty five million subscribers.
Speaker 3: Let's go, all right, So let's get started with the
Speaker 3: NBA Finals, where the Pace was dominated the Thunder in
Speaker 3: Game six to force the decisive Game seven back in
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City on Sunday, Okay, and he dominated the OKC
Speaker 3: with balanced scoring throughout the lineup and route to a
Speaker 3: one away to ninety one victory. Last night, Tyreek Tylerburton
Speaker 3: shrugged off any concerns about his injured calf with fourteen
Speaker 3: points and five assists in twenty three minutes. The basers
Speaker 3: were led by Obi Toppin, who dropped twenty off the bench. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: the thunder were held to just ninety one points, their
Speaker 3: fewest in any game since April of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Funk back that SATs up the first NBA Finals Game
Speaker 3: seven since twenty sixteen. And it's going down Sunday night
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma City. Let's go here, Come here, hey guys.
Speaker 3: Today it's Sammy yesterday night, and my dad and I
Speaker 3: were at the game in where were we Indianapolis? We
Speaker 3: were We were in Indianapolis, Okay, And I hopped on
Speaker 3: his show and it.
Speaker 4: Low key went viral. Not even gonna lie.
Speaker 3: So here I am because y'all have just been asking
Speaker 3: for it and care. I care what the viewers think.
Speaker 3: So the first thing I want to talk about, I
Speaker 3: just want to clear up some rumors about my dad. Okay,
Speaker 3: So the first thing I want to say is I
Speaker 3: know that a lot of y'all think my dad's really loud.
Speaker 3: He's really outspoken and at times. Let me tell y'all,
Speaker 3: I definitely agree. However, my dad is one of the
Speaker 3: most introverted men I know. I would like to say this,
Speaker 3: he's really shy. So if you go up to him
Speaker 3: in public, he's gonna be shy because he's introverted.
Speaker 4: Don't let him fool you.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, he does this for you because he cares
Speaker 3: about his viewers and about his fans.
Speaker 4: The next thing I would like.
Speaker 3: To talk about, Okay, I really need y'all to spam
Speaker 3: these comments. Bring Samantha back, Bring Samantha back, Bring Samantha back,
Speaker 3: Bring Samantha back, because I really will talk about anything
Speaker 3: you guys want me to talk about. I will slow
Speaker 3: him down, I will quiet him down. If that's what
Speaker 3: you guys need.
Speaker 4: I'm willing.
Speaker 3: I'm willing to give the viewers whatever y'all want. I'm
Speaker 3: I'm open minded. Tell them say I'm open minded. Say it, Sam,
Speaker 3: I'm open minded. Okay, guys, we are here to talk
Speaker 3: about politics, but I think I also want to start
Speaker 3: talking about current events. Okay, so we just had Streamer University,
Speaker 3: right Kai sinat did Streamer university?
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell my dad to hop on Kay
Speaker 3: Sanat's stream.
Speaker 4: Don't let him fool you. It will be hit. I
Speaker 4: know y'all all want to see it. So we had
Speaker 4: Streamer University.
Speaker 3: We had Streamer University prom Okay, we have Love Island
Speaker 3: season seven going crazy. Meghan the Stallion just went on
Speaker 3: Love Island. How did we get their? Dad?
Speaker 4: Tell them how we got there?
Speaker 3: What guys see what I'm saying? Okay, So Love Island
Speaker 3: is the show. Okay, it's on Peacock. It comes on
Speaker 3: Peacock every night nine pm Eastern times, six pm Pacific. Okay,
Speaker 3: and has all It has all the Islanders, right. Cordel
Speaker 3: and Serena won last year. Cordel Trina. If you guys
Speaker 3: see this, Leah and Miguel, Janey, Kenny, I love all
Speaker 3: of you guys. I'm huge fans, Kendall live, Kaylor, all
Speaker 3: of y'all. But it's huge, Dad, tell him it's huge.
Speaker 1: How do I know if it's huge?
Speaker 4: If I watched, I'm telling you it's huge.
Speaker 1: So it's huge when you say it's.
Speaker 3: Huge, Yeah, y'all Love Island. I'd be on it every
Speaker 3: single night. Okay, you guys, Love Island is huge.
Speaker 1: I was gonna come on the thing. Kai.
Speaker 4: Let me on to Kai.
Speaker 1: No, no, you said me.
Speaker 3: I need y'all to spam the chat. Tell him, let
Speaker 3: me come on Kai Sinatra Street. He just has to
Speaker 3: think on it. He has to think on it.
Speaker 4: Okay. Personally, I also would like to take this opportunity
Speaker 4: to stand on my pick.
Speaker 3: I picked Oklahoma City last night to win. Okay, we
Speaker 3: got blown out, yes.
Speaker 1: Right, Thursday night, you did Game six? You got blow out?
Speaker 1: Yes you did.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think a huge part of being in this industry
Speaker 3: right is learning how to take accountability. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if my dad does that, but we're working on it, okay,
Speaker 3: and it's about taking accountability. I take accountability for my pick.
Speaker 3: I picked Oklahoma City to win. They lost and were
Speaker 3: coming back this Sunday, June twenty second to win the championship.
Speaker 1: Tell him, yeah, I picked him to the seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I picked it before he picked it, and
Speaker 3: now he's right in my pick because I said that
Speaker 3: they were gonna win first.
Speaker 1: Win Game six. I picked Indian of the win Game six.
Speaker 4: You picked the Pacers to win Game six. But that
Speaker 4: was a wild guest.
Speaker 1: What means a wild guest?
Speaker 3: I said before I said, I picked Oklahoma City twiny entire,
Speaker 3: I said the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Take it down down?
Speaker 1: Are you raising your voice? Your dead?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm just really passionate. I think Oklahoma City is
Speaker 3: gonna win the championship. My father Steven agrees with me.
Speaker 1: Win all right, little let me talk to him right,
Speaker 1: Let me help you out. Let me know.
Speaker 4: Shae is why they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: Alexander absolutely the best player in the NBA right right now, yes,
Speaker 3: right now today, the MVP, his support system, everything he's
Speaker 3: been carrying this season.
Speaker 1: He was going to show up too. But he's going
Speaker 1: to be the man. They're gonna be.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be effective, They're gonna be playing better on
Speaker 2: their home court. Indiana played lightside in Game six. Give
Speaker 2: Halliburton credit, Give to McConnell credit, Give Obe Topping credit,
Speaker 2: Give them all credit because they came in a bum
Speaker 2: rushed after being down ten to to start the game.
Speaker 2: Indiana outscored the Oklahoma City Thunder eighty eight to fifty.
Speaker 2: By the end of the third quarter, they were up
Speaker 2: ninety to sixty. To be exactly what it is, what
Speaker 2: they were doing. Remind me listen, bottom line is ninety
Speaker 2: to sixty in the third quarter. All right, they blow
Speaker 2: him out of the building. So in the end, what
Speaker 2: it comes down to is this, Here is my concern.
Speaker 2: When you get beat down and blown out like that,
Speaker 2: talk to they talked to the A Final series. What
Speaker 2: is that going to mean for you come Game seven?
Speaker 2: I got Oklahoma City win, win it. But I don't
Speaker 2: underestimate Indiana by any stretch of the imagination they can
Speaker 2: beat Oklahoma City. I think it's going to be tight.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a thriller, and I
Speaker 2: think it's going to come down to the end where
Speaker 2: the ball is in shake Gil just Alexander's ends and
Speaker 2: league MVP is going to answer the call, win.
Speaker 1: A championship and win an NBA Finals MVP, if.
Speaker 3: We're talking, if we're speaking truthfully, right. A lot of
Speaker 3: people wonder if I watch First Take every morning? No,
Speaker 3: I avoid it. If it's in the gym, I leave,
Speaker 3: If it's in the restaurant, I leave. I don't watch
Speaker 3: First Take. However, this morning, okay, your daddy, No, I
Speaker 3: love you and I love First Sake.
Speaker 1: It's just not my watch it because you're not in
Speaker 1: because you're in school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm getting it's just the reason. I'm getting educated, y'all.
Speaker 4: But listen I say that.
Speaker 1: Don't just say like you don't like the show. You
Speaker 1: don't watch a.
Speaker 4: Dad, that's a great show.
Speaker 1: School.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in school. I'm getting educated. Okay, y'all.
Speaker 3: But let me tell y'all, I was watching First Take
Speaker 3: this morning and they were talking a lot about this
Speaker 3: home court advantage. Okay, home court advantage is.
Speaker 4: A real thing. Now.
Speaker 3: Obviously y'all are gonna be like ah, Samantha, like duh,
Speaker 3: but no, for real, for real, I really think that
Speaker 3: is going to carry Oklahoma City to the championship.
Speaker 1: To the Chick'd you say for real? Twice? Like for real?
Speaker 1: For real? How come? Once? Is it good to me?
Speaker 4: Because it's like for real but not like for a
Speaker 4: for real.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, you guys, it's such a
Speaker 3: blessing to be here on this beautiful afternoon. I'm just
Speaker 3: really really grateful to be here. Where were we this morning?
Speaker 4: Dad?
Speaker 3: Tell them we were at Fanatics Fast, Yes we were,
Speaker 3: and we had a great time, didn't we, Dad, Yes
Speaker 3: we did.
Speaker 4: There was a man dressed up as my dad and
Speaker 4: he had on like a.
Speaker 3: Bald cap and his for it started back here also
Speaker 3: all the haters that were in the comments saying that
Speaker 3: I have my dad's for it come here.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I have to work now.
Speaker 4: Bye you guys, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4: I love you all.
Speaker 3: Please Spam Samantha should come back so he brings me back.
Speaker 3: I know you guys love seeing me. I love seeing
Speaker 3: all y'all. Have a blessed afternoon, and I'll be back soon.
Speaker 4: Piece God.
Speaker 2: Coming up, the NAACP will not invite President Trump to
Speaker 2: their national convention, a first in a one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixteen year history of the civil rights organization.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: That's a mistake, A big mistake. That and more up
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Speaker 2: And two headlines linked to the civil rights organization. The
Speaker 2: first involves President Donald Trump. The organization announced they will
Speaker 2: not invite the president to their national convention next month
Speaker 2: in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: This would mark the first time.
Speaker 2: That NAACP has opted to exclude a sitting president in
Speaker 2: its one hundred and sixteen year history. NAACP president Derek
Speaker 2: Johnson announced the move during a press conference, accusing Trump
Speaker 2: of working against its mission. Here's a portion of what
Speaker 2: Johnson had to say. Quote this has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with political party. Our mission is to advance civil rights,
Speaker 2: and the current president has made clear that his mission
Speaker 2: is to eliminate civil rights.
Speaker 1: End quote. The NAACP has filed.
Speaker 2: Multiple lawsuits against Trump in the last few months, including
Speaker 2: suing to stop the Department of Education from withholding federal
Speaker 2: money for schools that did not end DEI programs, arguing
Speaker 2: the department was prohibiting legal efforts to provide equal opportunity
Speaker 2: to black students. First things, First, respect to Derek Johnston.
Speaker 2: Dereck Johnson, I understand where you're coming from. I just
Speaker 2: don't agree, respectfully. I don't agree that this was the
Speaker 2: right decision to make. Number One, Let's stop associating DEI
Speaker 2: with black people. When you talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Speaker 2: We all know that the biggest beneficiary is of DEI
Speaker 2: has been white women.
Speaker 1: And we all know.
Speaker 2: That folks associate DEI with individuals who weren't qualified. But
Speaker 2: were just giving an opportunity so a place could be diverse,
Speaker 2: And that's not what I would classify us as. And
Speaker 2: I'm certainly I'm certain that you wouldn't either, mister Johnson.
Speaker 1: So that's number one.
Speaker 2: Number two, here's where my reticence really really comes in.
Speaker 2: Why not let the forty seventh President of the United
Speaker 2: States come and address THATACP convention.
Speaker 1: Why not give Donald Trump a chance to.
Speaker 2: Sit before your audience, your constituents, and explain exactly what
Speaker 2: he's doing and why why not let him do that?
Speaker 1: Why not let him stand.
Speaker 2: Before the very people whose lives he's purported to have
Speaker 2: had a profound effect upon with some of his decisions,
Speaker 2: and let him explain what is it that he's doing
Speaker 2: and why. When we talk about the Department of Education again,
Speaker 2: we all understand that our students need all the help
Speaker 2: that we can get, especially in the public schools. There's
Speaker 2: no question about that. Federal funding is essential, and we
Speaker 2: understand that. But at some point in time, don't we
Speaker 2: have an obligation to look at exactly what the Education
Speaker 2: Department has done and whether or not it has served
Speaker 2: to benefit our community, as in the black community, along
Speaker 2: with various communities throughout the country, throughout this country, the
Speaker 2: United States of America. Do we just write a check
Speaker 2: and automatically give it to people, taxpayer dollars to people,
Speaker 2: without deciphering how well they do their jobs? Are we
Speaker 2: not allowed to probe and a look at them and
Speaker 2: to say, what exactly are you doing with the American dollars,
Speaker 2: with the taxpayer dollars from the American citizens. I don't
Speaker 2: know the answer. I'm not proclaiming to know the answer.
Speaker 2: I'm simply saying I want to hear. If the president
Speaker 2: is taking this strong position, and he's campaigned on eradicating
Speaker 2: the Department of Education for years, why does he feel
Speaker 2: that way, What evidence does he have to validate his assertions,
Speaker 2: And if indeed there is profound evidence to support such
Speaker 2: a position, who are those that are supporting it. We
Speaker 2: need to ask those questions. And I think that standing
Speaker 2: before members of the NAACP, that's your very own convention,
Speaker 2: I think that that would serve well to invite him
Speaker 2: and let him come before you all and try to
Speaker 2: explain what he's doing, so you'll have him on the record,
Speaker 2: not just sound bites that airs on CNN or MSNBC
Speaker 2: or Fox News or ABC, CBS, NBC or whatever.
Speaker 1: No, let him sit before you and explain and defend
Speaker 1: his position.
Speaker 2: Most importantly, you could try to ignore the president of
Speaker 2: the United States, but you know what can't be ignored
Speaker 2: his actions until twenty twenty eight, Mister Derrick Johnson. He's
Speaker 2: not going away. He's not going away. By the way,
Speaker 2: the NAACP did sue him, and you remember sue him
Speaker 2: with a civil suit successfully, I might add, as it
Speaker 2: pertains to the insurrection in twenty twenty one on January sixth?
Speaker 2: Did that stop him from becoming president again? He's been sued,
Speaker 2: He's been convicted thirty four felony counsel whatever did it
Speaker 2: end of the jail. Didn't he still run for reelection?
Speaker 2: Didn't he still skate right through the GOP.
Speaker 1: Didn't he win the.
Speaker 2: Popular vote and the Electoral College.
Speaker 1: Vote and every swing state. You don't get to ignore him.
Speaker 2: As my point, he has been the most powerful, the
Speaker 2: most influential member of the GOP since twenty and fifteen.
Speaker 2: How does you refusing to invite him, ostracizing him, not
Speaker 2: wanting to hear what he has to say to you all?
Speaker 2: How does that help you? How I'm not saying to
Speaker 2: agree with him. I'm not saying side with him. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying befriend him. I'm not saying any of those things.
Speaker 2: But ignoring him ain't gonna get it done. None of
Speaker 2: you truly want to be about the business of helping folks,
Speaker 2: particularly the desolate and disenfranchise in our country, the urban
Speaker 2: communities throughout America. Not that that's all the NAACP does,
Speaker 2: because I'm certainly not implying that. All I'm saying is
Speaker 2: that clearly is who you're interested in helping. Ignoring him
Speaker 2: and not even inviting him to come and speak at
Speaker 2: your convention, what's that gonna accomplish?
Speaker 1: For the first time in a one hundred.
Speaker 2: And sixteen year history, you're not inviting the president. Are
Speaker 2: you trying to tell me that there's no president that
Speaker 2: has been as offensive to the NAACP as Donald Trump
Speaker 2: in one hundred and sixteen years. Are you really making
Speaker 2: that argument that, no matter what you think about Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: that's the only person that's the only president of the
Speaker 2: United States that you've been able to say that about
Speaker 2: in a one hundred and sixteen year history of the NAACP.
Speaker 2: One hundred and sixteen years doing the math that goes
Speaker 2: back to nineteen oh nine. Since nineteen oh nine, there's
Speaker 2: no president that has ever been more offensive to the
Speaker 2: NAACP than Donald Trump. Is that your argument? Let's say,
Speaker 2: for the sake of argument, that it is for the moment.
Speaker 2: Other than the progressive left, who's going to definitively agree
Speaker 2: with your position. You might have folks out there that
Speaker 2: want to contribute to the courses of the NAACP that
Speaker 2: are center left and center right. They may not agree
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump either, but they recognize the importance of
Speaker 2: being able to work with the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: Just think about it. I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: right move. If all of us had to like the
Speaker 1: people we.
Speaker 2: Had to deal with and do business with, how would
Speaker 2: business ever get done in this country if not this world.
Speaker 2: It's a rhetorical question, mister Derek Johnson, I know you
Speaker 2: know the answer. Let me move on to a second
Speaker 2: headline involving the NAACP, and this is pertaining the Elon
Speaker 2: Musk in the city of Memphis. The NAACP, along with
Speaker 2: the Southern Environmental Law Center said they intend to suit
Speaker 2: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company.
Speaker 1: Called x AI they have major.
Speaker 2: Concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located
Speaker 2: near predominantly black communities in Memphis. The XAI Data center
Speaker 2: began operating last year, powered in part by pollution emitting
Speaker 2: gas turbines, without first applying for a permit. Officials have
Speaker 2: said an exemption allowed them to operate for up to
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty four days without a permit. However,
Speaker 2: Southern Environmental Law Center says there is no such exemption
Speaker 2: for turbines and that it's now been more than a year.
Speaker 2: They also say the use of the turbines violates the
Speaker 2: Clean Air Act and that residents who lived near the
Speaker 2: facility already face cancer risk at four times the national average.
Speaker 2: That last sentence is all that matters to me.
Speaker 1: No doubt. This is in South Memphis.
Speaker 2: From what I read that it's a poor and impoverished neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Now Elon Musk and his company will tell you that
Speaker 2: it's generating billions for the local economy, if not at
Speaker 2: least hundreds of.
Speaker 1: Millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: They're talking about plants that are being built, one that's
Speaker 2: cost over thirty five million dollars, and something else, and
Speaker 2: that's gonna generate jobs. We certainly understand the importance of
Speaker 2: generating jobs, generating revenue, stimulating an economy, making sure that
Speaker 2: folks within the Memphis community, specifically the Southis Memphis community,
Speaker 2: are benefiting. As mere Poor Young pointed out, they're trying
Speaker 2: to make sure that the revenue generated at least twenty
Speaker 2: five percent of that revenue is allocated for folks within
Speaker 2: a five mile radius of this plant. I respect that,
Speaker 2: I understand it. I understand the importance of economics. I
Speaker 2: understand the importance of a flourishing local economy. I understand
Speaker 2: about jobs.
Speaker 1: I get it because you want to pay your bills
Speaker 1: and what have you. But air pollution.
Speaker 2: Risk of cancer four times greater than it normally is
Speaker 2: what good is everything I mentioned? If you're dead, we
Speaker 2: can't have that. We can't have that. So the NAACP,
Speaker 2: according to law, is obligated if you're going to follow
Speaker 2: us lawsuit, you gotta give them sixty days notice. And
Speaker 2: that is what has happened. So this lawsuit essentially is
Speaker 2: forthcoming and we'll know the facts. And in fairness to
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Xai, they've essentially said that they violated
Speaker 2: no laws, They followed all the protocols and the rules
Speaker 2: and regulations necessary to justify doing this project, and this
Speaker 2: is what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But if people.
Speaker 2: If their health is endangered at four times the normal
Speaker 2: rate of what it normally would be, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: we got ourselves a problem. And there's nobody on this planet,
Speaker 2: especially nobody in the United States of America, especially nobody
Speaker 2: in Memphis, who should sit silent about this. We're as
Speaker 2: strong as our weakest link, and those impoverished living in
Speaker 2: impoverished neighborhoods need our.
Speaker 1: Voice, they need our help.
Speaker 2: So we need to keep a watchful eye on this
Speaker 2: and to make sure all the odds are dotted and
Speaker 2: t's are cross, to ensure that wild revenue is being generated,
Speaker 2: that corners aren't being cut to potentially compromise the well
Speaker 2: being of the impoverished amongst us. They matter just as
Speaker 2: much as the rest of us, just as much as
Speaker 2: the rest of us. And there's no way in hell
Speaker 2: that we should sit oddly, buy and be quiet of
Speaker 2: something like this.
Speaker 1: It's potentially going on. So, while I.
Speaker 2: Disagreed with the NAACP's position about inviting Trump to their
Speaker 2: convention to speak I applaud the NAACP for bringing attention
Speaker 2: to this by announcing that they're gonna follow this lawsuit
Speaker 2: to get this matter addressed. Good looking out, mister Johnson,
Speaker 2: Good looking out.
Speaker 1: Coming up.
Speaker 2: The latest on the Sean Diddy Combs federal sex trafficking
Speaker 2: and racketeering trial. The music mogul will not take the
Speaker 2: stand in his own defense. I'll tell you why that
Speaker 2: matters right here. Next on the Stephen Nasmith Show. Don't
Speaker 2: go away, come back to the Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, my daughter will be back. She has some things
Speaker 2: she'd like to express to me about making the Stallion
Speaker 2: Love Island and all.
Speaker 1: Of this other stuff.
Speaker 2: But anyway, before I get into that, I have more
Speaker 2: important matters to get to first, because we have an
Speaker 2: important update on the trial of Seawan Diddy Combs, now in.
Speaker 1: Its sixth week.
Speaker 2: The judge overseeing the trial says he expects things to
Speaker 2: wrap up before July fourth.
Speaker 1: Multiple sources have.
Speaker 2: Confirmed to people that Combs will not take the stand
Speaker 2: in his own defense, despite the high profile nature of
Speaker 2: the proceedings and the serious charges he faces. The decision
Speaker 2: comes as both legal teams prepare for what will be
Speaker 2: the final phase of the trial. No question is a
Speaker 2: wise decision by Seawan Diddy Combs, Ladies, gentlemen, he can't
Speaker 2: just find his own behalf sex trafficking and racketeering. I
Speaker 2: understand the specificity of the charges, but not with the
Speaker 2: incriminating evidence that has already been put out there about him.
Speaker 2: He got a video of him beating up his girlfriend,
Speaker 2: his ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, snatching her, throw on her
Speaker 2: to the ground, kicking her, throw on.
Speaker 1: A vositor, stuff like that.
Speaker 2: We've got testimony about some of his proclivities and some
Speaker 2: of the things that he compelled her to do.
Speaker 1: Whether he forced her or she did so.
Speaker 2: Willingly of her own volition is something that's open for
Speaker 2: debate in a lot of people's eyes. But nevertheless, there's
Speaker 2: nothing about him that's a sympathetic figure. Now, if there
Speaker 2: was a way that he could get on that stand
Speaker 2: and be a sympathetic figure as opposed to somebody who
Speaker 2: can definitively convince you that sex trafficking and racketeering has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with him, I don't know how you
Speaker 2: can okay him testifying on his own behalf.
Speaker 1: I can't see that.
Speaker 2: I don't see that That's just where I'm at with it, seriously,
Speaker 2: because ultimately, if you get on the stand and you
Speaker 2: raise your right hand and use where to tell the truth,
Speaker 2: the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help
Speaker 2: you God, and they start asking you about some of
Speaker 2: your behaviors, Yeah, you can sit up there and say
Speaker 2: it's not sex trafficking or racketeering. You could say it's
Speaker 2: not against the law. But if the jury deems it heinous,
Speaker 2: we all know that juries can decide the hell with
Speaker 2: the specifics of the charges, we want your ass in jail,
Speaker 2: you got to go, And.
Speaker 1: That's the issue here. So with that, I say to you,
Speaker 1: he's making the right decision.
Speaker 2: As hard as it is to sit there and let
Speaker 2: people talk about you and have to listen to what
Speaker 2: they have to say for weeks upon weeks at a.
Speaker 1: Time while you give no retort to.
Speaker 2: Debunk those claims, those salacious claims, those insidious, incendiary claims
Speaker 2: they aim against you. Hey, him opening his mouth might
Speaker 2: not be the wisest thing. So when I saw the
Speaker 2: news that he wasn't gonna testify on his own behalf,
Speaker 2: I was like, it's pretty smart, because I don't think
Speaker 2: that he can garner any sympathy from a jury. And
Speaker 2: I don't even think it's about the charge of sex
Speaker 2: trafficking racketeering. I think the things that have been said
Speaker 2: about him, that have been introduced about him, that X's
Speaker 2: and former employees and others have said about him are
Speaker 2: so incriminating.
Speaker 1: Unless you can fly out point out that their lives.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't speak. I think he's making the right decision.
Speaker 2: That's where I stand with it. I'll get to your
Speaker 2: tweets in just a minute, but I have to bring
Speaker 2: my daughter back first, so being with me, she insists
Speaker 2: on joining me. The only thing she's upset about is
Speaker 2: that her sister, Nihila ain't here with her. She said,
Speaker 2: we wanted I wander us both to gang up on
Speaker 2: you somehow.
Speaker 1: Some way.
Speaker 2: I think she's gonna do enough of the job. More
Speaker 2: to stephen A. Smith's show with Samantha in a minute,
Speaker 2: pray for me. Please welcome back to the stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show. As you can see, I'm not alone. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: is there anybody you want to give a shout out to?
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, actually the first person I question, I didn't
Speaker 3: think the first person I'd like to shout out as
Speaker 3: my sister.
Speaker 4: She is not here. We actually just saw her. She
Speaker 4: could not make it, but we love you and we
Speaker 4: wish you were here to say. Oh.
Speaker 3: Her name is Nyla Nyla Smith and I'm Samantha Smith.
Speaker 3: That's my Instagram. You guys should follow. But listen, guys,
Speaker 3: the other people I need to shout out.
Speaker 4: I need to shout out you.
Speaker 3: Listen, guys, the other I have to hurry up, ready,
Speaker 3: count to death. The other people have to shout out.
Speaker 3: My best friend Yd Dylan. Go listen to his song
Speaker 3: Mass Appeal. Amir Amari, Mirrorball, Kendy Courtney Nia.
Speaker 4: I love y'all, just.
Speaker 3: All of my supporters, all my fans, all the people,
Speaker 3: my mom. I love you, Mom, thank you so much
Speaker 3: for making me me. And that's really who I want
Speaker 3: to shout jailing you too, j.
Speaker 4: Who my friend.
Speaker 1: I ain't never heard of.
Speaker 4: Jam, I said Amir Amari. Jalen.
Speaker 1: I never heard Jaen.
Speaker 4: Oh, Jalen's my friend from WE No way you're doing
Speaker 4: this on the podcast.
Speaker 3: I ain't here to get cliff No. Jayalen's my friend.
Speaker 3: He lives in Atlanta. He's an actor. He's very successful.
Speaker 4: Jayleen. We love you over here.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you this question. Love Island, Love Island.
Speaker 1: You brought up Love Island. What is so special about
Speaker 1: Love Island?
Speaker 4: What isn't special about Love Island?
Speaker 1: What is a special?
Speaker 4: What is special Love Island?
Speaker 3: It's like it's just it has your soul and it
Speaker 3: takes your soul and then attaches to it and then
Speaker 3: once it's attached, it rips it out.
Speaker 4: Like it's just really emotional.
Speaker 1: It doesn't show.
Speaker 3: So there's people that go in, right, it's like maybe
Speaker 3: with five girls five boys and they find love and
Speaker 3: they couple up and then they break up and then
Speaker 3: bombshells come in. And I was like ah, because then
Speaker 3: the bombshells come in and then they rock.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: Then they rock everything up because the bombshells like come
Speaker 3: and they try and take take.
Speaker 1: Your show comes on.
Speaker 3: It comes on daily Peacock. Every day on Peacock, but
Speaker 3: Wednesdays you have to watch.
Speaker 1: It was Megan the Stallion on it.
Speaker 3: Because it's that popular that she went on there and
Speaker 3: she promoted her swimwear brand, Hot Girl Summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hot Girl Summer. I don't have it yet.
Speaker 1: You're not going to be having.
Speaker 4: That, Megan the sound is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I know she is. I know she is.
Speaker 2: But you're not going to be having not gonna be
Speaker 2: having the Megan Stallions swim away anytime soon.
Speaker 3: I just really, I just want everybody just to watch
Speaker 3: Love Island like this is promo. I'm not paid to
Speaker 3: do this. This is like my free will, Like you
Speaker 3: have to watch it. As and Shelley are my favorite.
Speaker 3: I think they'd be my dad's favorite too.
Speaker 1: Ace and Shelley. Yes, why would they be my favorite?
Speaker 3: Because they're black, and they're beautiful, and they're cute, and
Speaker 3: they're fun, and they're spontaneous and they play the game right.
Speaker 4: They're not toxic either.
Speaker 1: They're not toxic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because what's what's what's your definition of toxic?
Speaker 4: I think we have to say that for another episode.
Speaker 1: Do you watch General Hospital?
Speaker 4: Don't. Don't watch it at least episodes that you're in.
Speaker 1: Don't ever say that it's the best soap opera in
Speaker 1: the business. Dad and Young Andres.
Speaker 4: I'm a Young and the Restless fan.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Eric Braden's our buddy plays Victor Newman
Speaker 2: on Young and the Restless.
Speaker 1: You know, we got nothing of love for Eric.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, So that's all good, right,
Speaker 2: m hm okay, So so we're gonna give him love,
Speaker 2: but you don't have to deny to love. The General Hospital.
Speaker 3: That's all shootout scene and it was so overdone. He
Speaker 3: was like, and it was just like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Like what everybody?
Speaker 2: Everybody, everybody can't bet you on two bat?
Speaker 1: What was the name of your movie?
Speaker 3: It's called Wrong Place, Wrong Time on TV. I didn't
Speaker 3: shoot anyone though, Like when I was on Disney Channel,
Speaker 3: I was roller skating, I was being appropriate.
Speaker 4: Why are you shooting people?
Speaker 1: Remind everybody what was showing.
Speaker 4: It's called Saturdays.
Speaker 1: That's right. You did good, but your knees got messed up.
Speaker 4: Yo, t m I. Okay, guys.
Speaker 3: So now we're gonna go to your tweets because all
Speaker 3: of y'all tweeted some crazy stuff about my dad that
Speaker 3: I need to address and I'm so excited. Okay, First one,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 1: Who's s g A, who's that?
Speaker 4: That's my friend?
Speaker 3: Is Shay's legacy greater than Kyrie's if he wins this
Speaker 3: finals championship?
Speaker 4: Kyrie?
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I don't know Kyrie's a bad brother, but he wasn't
Speaker 2: the league MVP when he won the championship, and Lebron
Speaker 2: was his teammates, so he was basically second fiddle. Not
Speaker 2: throwing no shade on Kyrie because because he's great, but
Speaker 2: Lebron was the man. And even though he helped deliver
Speaker 2: that championship with Lebron with the three over steph Curry
Speaker 2: to win the championship in a game seven, the reality
Speaker 2: is that when you look at shay Gil just Alexander
Speaker 2: averaging thirty two point seven points being the team leading scorer,
Speaker 2: win the league in VP, having the number one.
Speaker 1: Seed, you the big fish.
Speaker 2: Everybody's trying to knock off, and you still knock them
Speaker 2: all off anyway. You beat ant Man in the conference finals,
Speaker 2: you beat Jokic in the semifinals. Okay, when Memphis in
Speaker 2: the first round, do you go beat Indiana in the finals.
Speaker 2: You got to give love to Share. You can't say
Speaker 2: that Kyrie's legacy. What the clip says I would go
Speaker 2: with Share on that one?
Speaker 1: Are you right? Just no, Just listen you we all
Speaker 1: know you allow me.
Speaker 4: For sports, Okay, so I'm just letting you talk.
Speaker 1: For the next week.
Speaker 4: Then if you could fly, can I say it.
Speaker 1: Or no, what that that curse word? No? Now, go
Speaker 1: ahead and read it without the curse works.
Speaker 3: I've never cursed before, guys. Okay, at stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 3: if you could fly, would you still use the toilet?
Speaker 3: Would you take a poop from the sky? So I
Speaker 3: just feel like, that's just John Connor. What are you
Speaker 3: talking about? That's silly? If you could fly, would you
Speaker 3: still use the toilet? Or would you poop from the sky?
Speaker 3: What's wrong with the toilet? A nice bidet moment? What's
Speaker 3: wrong with the toilet?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Why do we need why do we need flight? Why?
Speaker 3: Why am I pooping from the sky? What if I
Speaker 3: just want to fly?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: Why are we.
Speaker 1: Making it next week? Next week?
Speaker 4: I was kind of silly, don't you? Yeah? Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith, what's the longest amount of time that you can
Speaker 3: go without mentioning the next?
Speaker 4: Never?
Speaker 1: Never?
Speaker 4: Never, never never never?
Speaker 3: But let me tell y'all, I Samantha Smith. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: a diehard seventy six ers fan. Now, I don't care.
Speaker 3: Are all gonna be in the comments?
Speaker 4: Hated?
Speaker 3: Take your hate somewhere else. I need to shout out
Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxy. We need to shout out Joel embiid. We
Speaker 3: need to shout out Jared McCain painting his nails and
Speaker 3: all we love it, we support it. I get my
Speaker 3: nails painted because of Jared McCain. What are we doing,
Speaker 3: Kelly Oubre Like, seriously, guys, what's his name?
Speaker 4: George? Give it? Give me the last name.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: No, there's somebody named George.
Speaker 1: Paul George, Paul, George, Paul George.
Speaker 4: We like you too.
Speaker 3: Over here, my dad can't ever go without mentioning the Knicks.
Speaker 3: I'm a seventy six erss fan, seventy six ers on
Speaker 3: their best den.
Speaker 4: I think I'm a shot.
Speaker 3: At beating Jared McCain paints his fingernail that particular reason.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe he is making it a whole brandy.
Speaker 3: He's like low key, like a TikToker now, like he
Speaker 3: is on TikTok, but.
Speaker 4: Like he's so nice. He seems like so sweet, like
Speaker 4: he seems like one of those NBA players.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about sports and then you're gonna look
Speaker 1: on the camera like he's so sweet.
Speaker 4: No, not like that, he's just sweet, like he seems
Speaker 4: so kind, Like he seems like if I met him,
Speaker 4: he would like give me a hug and take a
Speaker 4: picture and be really nice.
Speaker 2: So that's really your criteria for like of the player,
Speaker 2: if they're willing to give you a hug and take
Speaker 2: a Tyri Snax.
Speaker 3: He gave me a hug and he and he gave
Speaker 3: me hugg and he took a picture with me and
Speaker 3: almost died.
Speaker 4: But he has a girlfriend. Her name is Mara Mira Gordon.
Speaker 4: She's so beautiful. But I was just gonna say, Tyry Snax,
Speaker 4: he's like one of my favorite players of all time.
Speaker 3: Can we go show no no, no advice for an admin
Speaker 3: that's going balled at a hilariously fast rate.
Speaker 4: Y'all? Okay? Wait? Can I on second one, two, three, four?
Speaker 4: God dang, I ran out of fingers chat guys, it's
Speaker 4: not his fall.
Speaker 3: Like if you find pictures of him when he was
Speaker 3: like little or like younger, it wasn't like this.
Speaker 4: Dad.
Speaker 3: Give advice for an admin. It's going involved added hilariously faster.
Speaker 1: Right hairclub for men?
Speaker 4: I'm down hair club for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you got to push my hairline forward?
Speaker 2: I think I listen. When are you going to admit
Speaker 2: that your dad is pretty fly? I mean when you
Speaker 2: look at me. You know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 4: No, I had no, no, no, Dad. That's actually insane
Speaker 4: that they would ever clip you like that.
Speaker 1: But your dad looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you were better now that you didn't
Speaker 3: that that was rough?
Speaker 4: Where was that?
Speaker 2: If I came to your school, when some of your
Speaker 2: teachers saw me, they would feel a certain way about me.
Speaker 1: But I ain't gonna go there. I'm gonna be nice.
Speaker 3: There's a surgery you can get, like a plastic surgery.
Speaker 4: You can get and you can move your hairline down.
Speaker 3: And my theory is that if my dad gets paid
Speaker 3: for making these podcasts, right, eventually he can save up
Speaker 3: the money to be able to afford a surgery like that,
Speaker 3: and then you guys will all stop bullying him.
Speaker 4: But like, wait, one, two, three.
Speaker 3: Three, four, it's a forehead, dad, yours is like, look
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 4: That's like giving seven eight. It's God.
Speaker 3: But he can't help it. He's so beautiful. Tell him
Speaker 3: he's beautiful.
Speaker 1: In the comment, I don't need to be beautiful. You're beautiful,
Speaker 1: so the beauty belongs to you.
Speaker 2: I don't have any makeup on, guys, beauty belongs to you,
Speaker 2: and I don't need to be beautiful, but I am handsome.
Speaker 1: I will say that regardless of what you or your
Speaker 1: friends think. They know better my friends. Bye, that's it,
Speaker 1: get out, bye, guys.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. That's it for
Speaker 4: this edition of The Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith Show. Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
Speaker 3: You guys, please tune in for the next episode. Please
Speaker 3: request me in the comments. I'm really grateful to be here,
Speaker 3: and everyone have a great, great, great day.
Speaker 4: That's it the show.