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Speaker 1: I love this man. He's on my Mount Rushmore of

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Speaker 1: sports media all time. He is and he deserves to

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Speaker 1: be there. I want his Mount Rushmore of sports media

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Speaker 2: At the end of this interview, he is steven A. Smith.

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Speaker 2: He is the host of First Egg.

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Speaker 1: He has his radio show coming up in a little

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Speaker 1: bit on Mad Dog Radio one to three every day

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Speaker 1: one to three Eastern steven A Smith, The Great steven

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Speaker 1: A Smith joins us, steven A, what is.

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Speaker 2: The key to being so fucking cool?

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Speaker 1: Because I think you might be the coolest person I

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Speaker 2: I'm serious.

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Speaker 3: I just think this is about being authentic. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, I let anybody else define it as cool

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Speaker 3: or whatever it is. Just be true to yourself is

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Speaker 3: know is consistent, good, bad, or different. Everybody knows that's

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Speaker 3: you when when they see you and you are, they're

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Speaker 3: not trying to say that you're something different. That you

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Speaker 1: How many steps can you take without someone saying, hey, Steven, Ay.

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Speaker 3: Maybe about three? I mean this day, in this.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if it's a blessing or

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Speaker 3: crying out loud, and so you know, you're doing sports,

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Speaker 3: because of it. So you got that going on?

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Speaker 2: Do you find yourself being exhausted from all the work?

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Speaker 1: And then and when you're done with the work, can't

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Speaker 3: You know what, it's not that stupid. What it is

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Speaker 3: People want your autograph or they want your picture. When

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Speaker 3: it comes to me, they want a debate. It's something

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Speaker 3: And a lot of times they want to challenge you

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Speaker 3: because who doesn't know who the hell my goat is.

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Speaker 3: I've said it a gazillion time, spanning decades. We clearly

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Speaker 3: This is the profession that I chose. I know what

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Speaker 3: You know, well he is. He is crazy, but I

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Speaker 3: When Mad Dog Russo first came on first take, you

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Speaker 1: Yes, but are there times where you're sitting there and

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Speaker 2: You're like, this fucking guy is crazy.

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Speaker 3: He's crazy, I said, every day he's sortifirable. He's absolutely nuts,

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Speaker 3: What is wrong with you? You know? But that's him And

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Speaker 1: Man, what would you prefer steven a a Knicks championship

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Speaker 3: That's a tough ask question.

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Speaker 2: I know, That's why I asked it.

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Speaker 3: I'm a nick man. I add a tough ass question

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Speaker 3: because I mean, it just does something for my soul

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Speaker 3: me to know that Cowboy fans experience that kind of misery.

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Speaker 3: Knicks glory would have to come first.

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Speaker 4: Stephen A, You're you're known for the debating, You're known

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Speaker 4: for being one on one with somebody in debating, but

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Speaker 4: Which do you like better? Do you like being able

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Speaker 3: There is no either or it's the combination of both.

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Speaker 3: When you're doing one, you're salivating for the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: I like the challenge. I like the challenge of knowing

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Speaker 1: Tired off season. I've lost Wade, I'm in shape. I'm

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Speaker 6: I consider you the sports take goat, and I want

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Speaker 5: I'm watching this world series The Doctors.

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Speaker 2: You're working at a take here on Steven A. Smith.

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Speaker 6: Yes, the Dodgers have the highest payroll in baseball. The

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Speaker 1: All Right, the guys here want to play a game

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Speaker 3: As Stephen all the way, Stephen Ay, all the way.

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Speaker 4: Hell no, ordering your steak well done.

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Speaker 1: don't get the game, and I tried to explain it

433
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Speaker 1: to him.

434
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Speaker 3: Be Steven Ain't no, no doubt, that's definitely Stephen Ain't

435
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Speaker 3: no doubt about it. Medium well or well everything, nothing

436
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 3: medium or less, nothing perfect.

437
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Speaker 5: Okay, reclining on a plane, Stephen A or Stephen.

438
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:59,400
Speaker 3: Ay, Stephen Stephen, no question, damn dam aclin I'm a recline.

439
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Speaker 2: There's any of course for me to pay for.

440
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,199
Speaker 3: No damn flights. They're right, I'm gonna sit up the

441
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 3: whole fight. I'll be damn if I'm not gonna go Now,

442
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be rude to somebody behind me and

443
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 3: recline all the way in their lap or something like that. Now,

444
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that, but I'm definitely gonna recline a

445
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,439
Speaker 3: little bit, no doubt. Yes, But you'll.

446
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Speaker 2: Tell them behind you.

447
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: Hey, if I'm reclining, you have a problem with it,

448
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 1: You recline, We all recline or repine.

449
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 3: No, I don't do that. I'm very very considerate to

450
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Speaker 3: other people. Don't tell anybody. Please keep that to yourself.

451
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 3: But I'm actually not very like all right, But nobody

452
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 3: needs to know that.

453
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 4: Speaking of being considerate of other people peeing in the pool.

454
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Speaker 3: That's disgusting. Steepen, Why that's nasty. That's nasty. That's nasty,

455
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 3: and people who do that should be ashamed of themselves.

456
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 3: Oh you know, Coreinos, get rid of that. That's nasty.

457
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 3: That people putting their head underwater and your pistols in

458
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 3: the water. That's jacked up. That's jack dre thoughtless. It's

459
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 3: very inconsiderate, and I don't think human beings should be

460
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Speaker 3: that that way. That's nasty. Hellen, even no way.

461
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Speaker 2: Step I know, Taylor, go ahead and ask the next one.

462
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,160
Speaker 2: I know what it is. Go ahead.

463
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 5: Miami is a better city than New York. Stephen A.

464
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: Stephen A wow, Wow, stephen A easy wow. Miami. Wow.

465
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Speaker 3: It's special.

466
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you love South Beach.

467
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 3: Very very very special. And once upon a time it

468
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 3: was South Beach. It would be South Beach, it could

469
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: be Coral Gables, it could be downtown Miami, it'd be

470
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 3: live places in Miami. Miami, it's special. I'm gonna have

471
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Speaker 3: to stay Miami, yes, and what is nice? And what

472
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 3: is nice?

473
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Speaker 2: It is right? But New York's gonna be mad at you.

474
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 2: They're gonna be very.

475
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 3: Opp I could give a ship I know, get less,

476
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Speaker 3: I get less.

477
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Speaker 2: All right, well more, we'll get you out ahead. Last one.

478
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 4: Rooting for multiple teams in the same.

479
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Speaker 7: Sport, no, no, thank you, no, no, no now now now,

480
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 7: I will say this like, for example, I'm Nick's all day.

481
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm Yankees all day. I don't know. I mean

482
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 3: sorry to say I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in the

483
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 3: National Football League. But here's what I will tell you.

484
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 3: Where my rooting interest vary is where my team is

485
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: eliminated number one and number two. It's all about my

486
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 3: social life come playoff time. I want to be in

487
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 3: the city. I want to be just says that if

488
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 3: I see Utah playing LA, I'm rooted for La. Right,

489
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 3: I'm ru La. I'm not for you, I'm not. I

490
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 3: love I love Shae Gilgers, Alexander Yes, and I love

491
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Speaker 3: the fans. The fans in Oklahoma City are great. I

492
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 3: ain't trying to fly to Oklahoma City if I don't

493
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Speaker 3: have to. I'm not trying to do that. I mean

494
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Speaker 3: I want to be I want to be in I

495
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 3: mean my dream. One of the biggest heartaches I ever

496
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 3: suffered in my war in my lifetime of covering sports

497
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 3: was when the bubble happened and the finals was the

498
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 3: Miami he versus the Los Angeles Laker. I'm like, you

499
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 3: gotta be kidding me. Everybody that knows me knows. All

500
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 3: I ever wanted was a Miami LA Finals, Miami l

501
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 3: A l A Miami Finals, and instead they had it

502
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 3: in the bubble in Orlando. I'm like, y'all couldn't have

503
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 3: done this when there was no COVID and there was

504
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 3: no bubble. I mean, traveling back and forth between Miami

505
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 3: and LA. That's what it's all about to me, and

506
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 3: unfortunately it did work out. It really pissed me off.

507
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 3: I was very unhappy about that.

508
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Speaker 2: How about being in the shower, Steve.

509
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Speaker 3: Well, I would say to you, Steven Stephen, Ay, but

510
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 3: there have been a couple of times in my life

511
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 3: I've done it right. Okay, it's a couple, not in

512
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 3: the last not in the last decade or so. But David,

513
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 3: there's been a couple of times in my life. I'm

514
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 3: in the hour of the water's running down the fourth ahead.

515
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 3: You know that that's entirely different than a pool or

516
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: a tub. You understand what I'm saying. That's entirely different

517
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 3: it's not the same, but there there have been times

518
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Speaker 3: in my life in the past, long time ago where

519
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 3: I did that.

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Speaker 6: That's true, all right, So I actually have one more

521
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Speaker 6: because I just thought of it. I think you've struck

522
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 6: gold with with nephew Josh on your show, steven A.

523
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Speaker 6: The family members that beach off your success, stephen A

524
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Speaker 6: or stephen N.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean? What about the family members? Are

526
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Speaker 3: you saying are there ones that do it or ones

527
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 3: that don't?

528
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Speaker 1: But do you take advantage of your celebrity? And he's

529
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: wondering if you're okay with that, that's what he's asking.

530
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Speaker 3: It's a tepid yes for the simple I like, like,

531
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Speaker 3: I love my nephew. He don't know how to act

532
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 3: half the time, but he's he's always been passionate about

533
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 3: his sports. And to see him happy doing what he's

534
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 3: doing when he's talking sports with me, that makes me

535
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 3: feel good. So I'm happy. I'm happy to look out

536
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: for my nephew. He ain't his cousin though. It's my

537
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:10,239
Speaker 3: daughter and my daughter Samantha's next level and and you know,

538
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 3: she's totally different from him, but he loves his sports.

539
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 3: He'll be around. I'll make sure he's a contributor during

540
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 3: the basketball season, because that's what he loves. He lives, eats,

541
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 3: and breathes basketball. He watches it more than me and

542
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 3: I watch it for a living. So I give him

543
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 3: credit for that and whatever. But you know what I'm

544
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 3: not gonna do is let him steal any more of

545
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: my shades, because he's stolen. He's stolen about five fans

546
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 3: of my shades and then come on a I'm looking

547
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 3: for my shades, I can't find it. And then his

548
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 3: ass walk into my studio with them on when I

549
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 3: was looking for them for weeks and swore it got

550
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 3: stolen or something. He had them. Okay, So it's stuff

551
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 3: like that that he does. And you know, he'll really

552
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: try to take a corporate card and treat himself to

553
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 3: lunch and all this, and I smack him beside his head,

554
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: you know, and get my money back. So he'll try

555
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 3: all the little slick stuff just because he can, because

556
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 3: he knows he's my nephew and he knows you know,

557
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: you know, his uncle Steve loves him. So but that

558
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 3: don't mean I won't slap his ass up side the

559
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: head when he needs it.

560
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 2: I love the kid. I want him on the show.

561
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 2: Is that okay, Steven? That Can I have him on

562
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 2: the show? Can I have him?

563
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 3: Gosh? Sure, sure you can let Josh. You can let

564
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: Josh come. So but if he act up on my buses,

565
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 3: ass okay, then he's still on.

566
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 2: You stand off to the side.

567
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: If he acts up, you bunt as. There you go.

568
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, I love him, Come on the show. It's

569
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 3: no problem, all.

570
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: Right, Get it out of here, man.

571
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: You got a radio show coming up one to three

572
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: every day, mad Dog Sports Radio, every day on First

573
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: Take ESPN.

574
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 2: He is the goat, Steven A.

575
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 3: Smith.

576
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time, so we'll get to your sports

577
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: media about Rushmore the next time we have ya.

578
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, ma man, you take it easy, buddy,