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Speaker 1: Your own anyway, this particular show while I'm on vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys that you know, what sports
Speaker 1: is my background, that's my wheelhouse. But it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that I don't know a thing or two about politics.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I don't know a thing it too about
Speaker 1: pop culture entertainment. It certainly doesn't mean that I know
Speaker 1: a thing or two about some of the artists out there.
Speaker 1: And I've been very, very interested in talking to a
Speaker 1: guest of mine today and it's not my nephew, who'll
Speaker 1: be on later on in the show, answering questions on relationships,
Speaker 1: believe it or not from people. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell possessed me to do such a thing, but
Speaker 1: I said, hell were that I'm gonna try it because
Speaker 1: he's been bugging me and bugging me and bugging me,
Speaker 1: you understand, And I want to give him an opportunity
Speaker 1: to show his ignorance yet again. And he did not
Speaker 1: let me down in that department. You'll see what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. You'll see what I'm talking about. But he
Speaker 1: won't be on before my guest, who is an accomplished individual,
Speaker 1: earned two Billboard Music Awards a Grammy nomination. He's been
Speaker 1: doing music for years. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't think they've heard from him for years, but his
Speaker 1: music will speak for yourself. You'll know exactly who I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when I mentioned his name. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that artists bring to the equation. So many
Speaker 1: times we look at comedians, for example, and we're so
Speaker 1: gratified and thankful that they find.
Speaker 2: A way to relieve us of stress.
Speaker 1: And tension and misery because they find a way to
Speaker 1: make us laugh when nobody else can. Well, there's another
Speaker 1: powerful element that lives out there, and we've known it
Speaker 1: since the days we were born, and that's the power
Speaker 1: of music. When you're listening to a song or a
Speaker 1: particular artist and their voice and what they bring to
Speaker 1: the table, and how it just soothes you and it
Speaker 1: makes you a bit introspective and appreciative of all that
Speaker 1: you have and all that you aim to and aspire
Speaker 1: to achieve. You can't say enough about the impact that
Speaker 1: music can have on any of our lives. So anytime
Speaker 1: I have an opportunity to interview a music artist, it's
Speaker 1: something that I want to take advantage of, and I
Speaker 1: definitely did that with this episode.
Speaker 2: His name is Mario.
Speaker 1: He's got a holiday film coming out Style Me for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I already told you about some of his accomplishments in
Speaker 1: the music industry. He's also an actor, and guess what
Speaker 1: he's up next Right here for the stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show.
Speaker 3: So don't go away.
Speaker 1: Okay, everybody, you know what time it is contor stephen
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Speaker 1: for this Thursday's NFL matchup, the Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Rams against the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: First up, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford more or less than
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty nine and a half passing yards.
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford is a bad brother. Pook in the Coop
Speaker 2: and Cooper Cup a no child.
Speaker 1: Sean McVay is no Joe called him plays and again,
Speaker 1: Matthew staff is a bad brother. And I don't like
Speaker 1: the way San Francisco has looked for the most part
Speaker 1: this year. I'm going with more on this one. More
Speaker 1: than two hundred and forty nine and a half passing
Speaker 1: yards for Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: Next up, Rams wide.
Speaker 1: Receiver for Pook and the Coop, more or less than
Speaker 1: eighty four and a half for sea yards. He's a
Speaker 1: bad brother, and he's got Matthew Stafford throwing him the football.
Speaker 1: So obviously the answer to this question is gonna be more.
Speaker 1: Just look at what I said. Okay, it's very very simple.
Speaker 1: Next up, let's go to the next one.
Speaker 2: Please. Forty nine a signal call a brock perty.
Speaker 1: Face in the Los Angeles Rams secondary more or less
Speaker 1: the twildred and thirty nine and a half passing yards. See,
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people that look at tw
Speaker 1: undred and thirty nine and a half passing yards of
Speaker 1: some big, big day you throw for over three hundred yards,
Speaker 1: over three hundred and fifty yards, that's a big day.
Speaker 1: Twidren and thirty nine and a half passing yards. With
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel George Kittle in the lineup, you should be.
Speaker 2: Able to pull that off. B Rock Party, I think
Speaker 2: you will. I'm going with more on this one.
Speaker 1: And finally, San Francisco receiver de Bo Samuel more or
Speaker 1: less than forty three and a half yards receiving. It's
Speaker 1: de Bo, y'all. I got mad, love and respectful. I
Speaker 1: know that forty nine has been a show of themselves.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey has been hurt for the most part, this
Speaker 1: year Brandon and Yuke went down for the season.
Speaker 2: Obviously, your bit off more.
Speaker 1: Than you could chew because you've been knocking on the
Speaker 1: door for a super Bowl the last five years. You've
Speaker 1: been in four conference championship games, two super Bowls, and
Speaker 1: you haven't walked away with one super Bowl championship. So
Speaker 1: I get it. Slippage was evident, it was inevitable. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that don't mean that applies to Deebo Samuel. This
Speaker 1: is a bad brother. He can play forty three and
Speaker 1: a half yards receiving. That is more than I mean,
Speaker 1: that is not as much as you would expect. Okay,
Speaker 1: he should be able to do that. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with more. So let's recap right here. Matthew Stafford, Pooka,
Speaker 1: Nakoua rock Purty, Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 2: What's the common denominated here?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 5: More, more more more.
Speaker 1: We like that, especially the prospects, because when we hear more,
Speaker 1: we think more money.
Speaker 2: And who's got a problem with that?
Speaker 1: My next guest is a singer, songwriter and actor known
Speaker 1: for the hit songs like how Do I Breathe Again?
Speaker 1: And let Me Love You, which earned two Billboard Music Awards.
Speaker 2: In a Grammy nomination. After six year.
Speaker 1: Hiatus for music, he's back with a new album in
Speaker 1: a holiday film. Please welcome the one and only Mario to.
Speaker 2: The Steven A.
Speaker 6: Smith Show.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 6: Big Time? How are you?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 2: How's everything good?
Speaker 5: Good afternoon with my brother? Things are great. Man.
Speaker 4: It's good to see you, even though we're doing screens. Man,
Speaker 4: it's good to see you. Always feel your energy. You
Speaker 4: always got that high energy.
Speaker 2: You know it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Going crazy out here.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta ask you a question because I
Speaker 1: know you know your sports a little bit before I
Speaker 1: get into you and what you're doing.
Speaker 2: You Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 5: Fan, I am, man, what the hell are you going on?
Speaker 4: I first came out, my first my first my first
Speaker 4: jersey was the Ray Lewis fifty two jersey and the
Speaker 4: Justin Firm video.
Speaker 5: I haven't been watching lady, okay, So don't don't go
Speaker 5: too crazy.
Speaker 1: But I'm not holding I'm not holding you accountable for that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll leave the sports analysis to me. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm thinking about Lamar Jackson, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about Derek Henry, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: About the fact that he was supposed to be making
Speaker 2: some noise.
Speaker 1: They got five losses on the season of spart I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you worried that they're gonna bow out early yet again?
Speaker 8: You know what?
Speaker 4: I never you know, listen, you can never put it
Speaker 4: past Lamar Man, and guys, you know sometime he pops
Speaker 4: out and shows up when you at least expect it,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, just just give.
Speaker 5: It some time.
Speaker 4: You know, we got a couple more to go, and
Speaker 4: you know, I feel like he gonna he's gonna pull
Speaker 4: it through.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: Even watching the game the other day against Philly, you know,
Speaker 4: and the and the last in that he pulled up,
Speaker 4: you know, close to what We almost got that touchdown, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Almost, you know.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, you know, Philadelphia outplage all
Speaker 1: that day, Derek Heary a little bit more. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is give them a ball about twenty five times.
Speaker 2: I think you'll be all right. You give Derek he
Speaker 2: It ain't that damn complicated.
Speaker 1: But let me get to you, man, because get it
Speaker 1: to your holiday film style me for Christmas streaming now
Speaker 1: on BT Plus.
Speaker 2: Tell me about that role and what inspired you to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I played Teddy Maxwell, not too too far departure
Speaker 4: from from what I do in music.
Speaker 5: But you know, he's a guy who is passionate.
Speaker 4: About his art, but he's finding it hard to find
Speaker 4: his space in love.
Speaker 5: And Tiffany.
Speaker 4: Raven Goodwins plays a character by the name of Tiffany
Speaker 4: who just inherited this boutique from her late mother. So she's,
Speaker 4: you know, so having a tough time transitioning into that ownership.
Speaker 4: And while that's happening, my manager goes into her store
Speaker 4: to find a suit for me. It ends up seeing
Speaker 4: her as a girl who could change my.
Speaker 5: Perspective of love.
Speaker 4: So there's this love story that's happening unbeknownst to Tiffany
Speaker 4: in the movie, and then me struggling with my my
Speaker 4: you know, infidelity issues and just like being an artist
Speaker 4: and trying to find loving that we end up having
Speaker 4: this story together that kind of shows both sides of
Speaker 4: you know, love loss, with you know, acquiring this this
Speaker 4: her acquiring this business while at the same time trying
Speaker 4: to be you know, my stylist.
Speaker 5: But it's all challenging for her and my challenges are
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 4: So it's just you see a story of both sides
Speaker 4: coming together and messing and trying to make it make sense.
Speaker 4: And in the end, it's all about purpose and connection
Speaker 4: and love.
Speaker 5: I think it's a beautiful story.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful Christmas story, different from your typical Christmas story,
Speaker 4: but I think people enjoy it.
Speaker 5: We get a lot of love for me so far.
Speaker 1: Obviously you can act and what have you, but everybody
Speaker 1: pretty much knows you primarily for your singing.
Speaker 2: What inspired you to do the acting thing.
Speaker 4: I think acting is a way for me to express
Speaker 4: myself through different mediums and escape from the selfish world
Speaker 4: of being an artist. I can control my surrounds. I
Speaker 4: can control you know, my stage show. I can control
Speaker 4: this is my world, right, But in acting, it's a
Speaker 4: more collaborative, it's more community involved. So I mean, it
Speaker 4: really just teaches you to, you know, be able to
Speaker 4: stretch yourself in different ways creatively, which also helps musically
Speaker 4: and helps with working as a team.
Speaker 5: Right. Also just the imagination.
Speaker 4: Right when I was a kid growing up in Bottomore,
Speaker 4: I had to use my imagination to escape the harsh
Speaker 4: realities of what I was growing up in. So, you know, acting,
Speaker 4: I think is something that kind of comes at the
Speaker 4: hand of just having a more expanded mind and just
Speaker 4: you know, exploring different parts of your creativity.
Speaker 1: Man, I ain't no damn actor, but I act on
Speaker 1: the soap opera General Hospital.
Speaker 2: People tell me I'm being damn good. But I got
Speaker 2: to tell you something.
Speaker 1: I don't view myself as an actor, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what I've grown the love about it and
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna I'm gonna take it far more seriously
Speaker 1: in the future. I love the idea that I can
Speaker 1: be whatever the role commands.
Speaker 2: That's what I've learned to appreciate it about. It's like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, Wait a minute, what if I wanted
Speaker 2: to be a villain?
Speaker 1: What if I wanted to be corrupt I get away
Speaker 1: with Yeah?
Speaker 5: It was crazy about getting those types of opportunities.
Speaker 4: Is that you don't even realize that there's certain parts
Speaker 4: in your life where you can actually pull that from
Speaker 4: where you may have felt like the villain, Right, But
Speaker 4: if you think about heroes and villains, they kind of
Speaker 4: like the same person a little bit, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: but just in different in different forms. Right, So you know,
Speaker 4: I think I feel like acting there's always a space
Speaker 4: that you don't tap into and in real in your
Speaker 4: everyday life that we you know, a lot of times
Speaker 4: we escape from certain things that we experience or we've
Speaker 4: been holding on to. Acting allows you to ex to
Speaker 4: explore those different things. So teach you a lot about
Speaker 4: mental health as well. You know, it's it's so many
Speaker 4: different avenues to it.
Speaker 1: Six years, bro, I mean on the rids, doing your thing,
Speaker 1: very very talented, well respected, the whole nine, and then
Speaker 1: you step away for six years.
Speaker 4: Why I never stepped away from music, you know, I
Speaker 4: think that as an artist, the way we look at.
Speaker 5: Time, like I'm always create. I'm in my studio now,
Speaker 5: matter in fact, I was working on something earlier today.
Speaker 4: As an artist, well, I speak for myself as an artist,
Speaker 4: I look at time completely differently, you know. So I
Speaker 4: don't feel the six years because during that time, I'm
Speaker 4: still creating. During that time, I'm still I have the
Speaker 4: four vision of seeing what the next two three years
Speaker 4: ahead is going to look like.
Speaker 5: Right, So when.
Speaker 4: You're creating, I've been doing this for a long time,
Speaker 4: so I'm already like a customing kind of like wired
Speaker 4: to think like that.
Speaker 5: So for people who like.
Speaker 4: Or fans like I put an album out, douring a pandemic.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't count projects that came out
Speaker 4: during the pandemic because it was such a different type
Speaker 4: of release. But glad you came what you're looking at
Speaker 4: right now when the new album comes out December thirteenth.
Speaker 5: This mentally has been in the making for a long time.
Speaker 4: But me and James fart Laurie, who executive produced this,
Speaker 4: talk a while ago about working and the timing just
Speaker 4: worked out.
Speaker 5: Man, and I feel like we.
Speaker 4: Made a project that's very imaginative, it's very confident, it's
Speaker 4: very sexy, it's very classic. It preserves the firm of
Speaker 4: R and B. It's inspired by so many different types
Speaker 4: of music that I grew up listening to. You know,
Speaker 4: the first single, Space is more jazzy and R and B.
Speaker 4: You know, that's that's an hormie to my grandfather who
Speaker 4: played jazz and drank liquor, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But then when you get into the album and listen
Speaker 4: to it, you know, it goes from this nostalgic feeling
Speaker 4: to more of this contemporary fresh vibe, you know, So
Speaker 4: you're really getting like a full spectrum of who Mario
Speaker 4: is as a creative Vocally, you know, I think I've
Speaker 4: showed growth on all of my projects.
Speaker 2: Oh yes you have.
Speaker 1: Yes, you have no doubt about that. You you got
Speaker 1: my support on that one, our co sign on that one.
Speaker 1: But I will say this to you.
Speaker 2: You know, despite the fact that you were.
Speaker 1: Still on your ground, still work and still creating and
Speaker 1: what have you. When you look at artists today, one
Speaker 1: of the things that I'm skeptical about, certainly not what
Speaker 1: you certainly not those who are established, but cats who
Speaker 1: are aspiring to get in the business, to get where
Speaker 1: you are, a lot of times they're thinking about the
Speaker 1: creative freedoms that come with it. I'd like you to
Speaker 1: speak to the work and the commitment and the discipline
Speaker 1: your craft requires, because I don't hear enough people talking
Speaker 1: about that, but I know you have to have that
Speaker 1: in order to be successful as you've been.
Speaker 4: I think it's just like anything else, Stephen, where you
Speaker 4: got to decide at what level you want to play off,
Speaker 4: you know, and based on that level is how you
Speaker 4: govern you know, your input and your discipline and your
Speaker 4: patience and your resilience within the process, because that's what's
Speaker 4: going to determine, like you know, making something that's classic
Speaker 4: and commonness versus just something that's just for right now.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: And I think it also all of it matters as
Speaker 4: you build your appetite and your strength of being not
Speaker 4: only the artist but also the business man because you
Speaker 4: are woman, because you have to understand the business side
Speaker 4: of it in order to be a good partner, especially
Speaker 4: when you deal with a label like Sony, and I
Speaker 4: partnered with Sony to do this project with New Citizen,
Speaker 4: which is my label, So you know, all of it matters.
Speaker 4: I think the hardest part of it would probably be choosing,
Speaker 4: you know, out of the hundreds of songs you might make,
Speaker 4: choosing which records really is is going to be a
Speaker 4: part of this portal and this capsule that you're creating.
Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to creating the album, you know,
Speaker 4: singles you can kind of like test the market and
Speaker 4: just those singles on and do this and this and that.
Speaker 4: But when you're making an album, you want to make
Speaker 4: something that has some type of purpose behind it.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you came.
Speaker 4: It was like this all encompassing invitation to this new
Speaker 4: era of me as an artist and this new era
Speaker 4: of R and B.
Speaker 2: Is this your first project with Epic Records.
Speaker 5: This is my first album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your secondlbum, but this is your first album with
Speaker 1: Epic Records. The music industry has changed obviously with streaming.
Speaker 1: How do you believe you've evolved along with it?
Speaker 2: And who did you work with on the album?
Speaker 5: So man James fart Loerray pretty much wrote a lot
Speaker 5: of the album.
Speaker 4: The production on the album is like friends of mine
Speaker 4: that I've been making music with over the last three years.
Speaker 5: And you know, the evolution of the evolution of.
Speaker 4: Me is from both the business side of it and
Speaker 4: the creative side and just kind of merging the two.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: For example, you know, when releasing the album like I'm on,
Speaker 4: calls out about different campaigns, digital campaigns, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: the manufactured content versus the very organic content that I
Speaker 4: put out. There's just so many different you know, aspects
Speaker 4: of getting the word out and pulling people into the process.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a you know, a timeline of engagement.
Speaker 4: You know, as you get into the album and then
Speaker 4: you get into the touring conversation and you get into
Speaker 4: the meat and Greece and you get into all these things.
Speaker 5: Is diferent levels.
Speaker 4: And what I love about Glad you came, and what
Speaker 4: we're talking about is again is the invitation to the
Speaker 4: journey of all of it, and like bringing it for
Speaker 4: a circle and also talking directly to women.
Speaker 5: I feel like there's not a lot of music that.
Speaker 4: Speaks to women in a very direct way. And I
Speaker 4: feel like, even though my songs are metaphoric, it's very
Speaker 4: direct at the same time, Like when I came out
Speaker 4: with just a friend or breaking my head was very
Speaker 4: direct to what I'm stating in the record. You know,
Speaker 4: the the call and answer of it all crying out
Speaker 4: for me, the vulnerability to confidence, you know, all of
Speaker 4: that in one on one space.
Speaker 1: In my line of work, my attitude is I'm talking
Speaker 1: about television, I'm talking about you know, for sports it's male.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, if you want to be successful.
Speaker 1: I always say this about Madison Avenue. You know, just metaphorically,
Speaker 1: you got to have to support a women. If you
Speaker 1: don't have to support a woman, you ain't You ain't
Speaker 1: pulling it off. I mean, the ladies got to help you.
Speaker 1: The ladies got to help you out. Do you gives
Speaker 1: you a decisive edge because clearly there's a lot of
Speaker 1: way I listen to the music there's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of women that like that that got love for you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I go, yeah, no, for.
Speaker 5: Sure, man.
Speaker 4: And I feel like women that are often neglected when
Speaker 4: it comes to music, certain parts of them are neglected,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 4: Women are forgiving and adaptable and they invite you to
Speaker 4: be who you are like as a man. They like
Speaker 4: seeing every different side of us. You know, you got
Speaker 4: people who are just like, you know, make music that's
Speaker 4: grungier and just like.
Speaker 5: You know, talking you know, different to women.
Speaker 4: Then you got music that is, you know, ambiguous, and
Speaker 4: then you got music that's direct and like very much
Speaker 4: so geared towards women.
Speaker 5: Like Glad You came. This record is specifically about a woman.
Speaker 4: The first line of the song is, I listen to
Speaker 4: what you say, girl, I'm watching what you do. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm not the type of man to leave you with
Speaker 4: your hands out asking if it felt good.
Speaker 5: I finish what I started, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's really much it's very much so geared towards
Speaker 4: talking directly to women from a man perspective. And if
Speaker 4: you're a guy and you you know, are into what
Speaker 4: I'm into, you know you're gonna enjoy it too. You
Speaker 4: know and yeah, man, you know we we definitely not
Speaker 4: neglect the women on this one.
Speaker 2: Don't ever do that, even glad you came.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's dropping December thirteenth, So let's
Speaker 1: make sure we remind an audience of that your top
Speaker 1: three R and B artists of all time would be
Speaker 1: who That's why I'm put you on the spot. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm asking because you would know. I mean, your
Speaker 1: opinion matters.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my top three R and B solo artists or
Speaker 5: groups or what.
Speaker 1: Give me both separated, give me top three total artists,
Speaker 1: top three groups.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start with top greet three groups. Boys to
Speaker 4: Men Okay, number number one all.
Speaker 5: From me.
Speaker 4: Because they did both straight R and B records, R
Speaker 4: and B pop Christmas record like.
Speaker 5: They can do anything. They did anything. Uh, Jodasy and ls.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm d.
Speaker 5: There that's hard. All right, I'm gonna say I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say next.
Speaker 1: Next, next, So okay, that's the joas in next voice,
Speaker 1: the man Jodasy in next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just what came to the
Speaker 4: top of mind. So then we're gonna go to solo artists.
Speaker 5: Crazy Joe Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: One. I like that one.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Joe. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: musically only, I'm gonna have to go Urka.
Speaker 2: I was getting ready to say it. Don't be ashamed.
Speaker 2: He in jail now jail listen, wee.
Speaker 1: That don't mean we can't That don't mean we can't
Speaker 1: give him props for his music now.
Speaker 5: God on God r K. And then I'm gonna go, Wow.
Speaker 1: You got to really good ones, though, you got to
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 5: Ones Joe r K.
Speaker 4: And then just for like in terms of like urban
Speaker 4: R and B that like like I'm gonna have to
Speaker 4: go Usher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna jump. I'm gonna go Usher.
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like he you know, he's the
Speaker 4: closest artist to like. I would say that I grew
Speaker 4: up listening to and I was like in my early teens,
Speaker 4: that was doing what I aspire to do now, so
Speaker 4: I'll continue to aspire dude. So yeah, I would say
Speaker 4: that as far as like this, this so many man, so.
Speaker 2: Many artists, bro give me the give me the three females.
Speaker 5: Three females.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's not leave.
Speaker 1: Them out, because you care about you care about females
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 2: That's what we've just been talking about. Give me the
Speaker 2: top three females.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Yes, we agree, we agree.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Beyonce. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Take your time, take your time because you got to
Speaker 2: get this be.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go because I'm thinking of like when I
Speaker 4: was like coming up, like whatever was I listening to
Speaker 4: that was like, Okay, they was represented for the I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go be I'm gonna GOA.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: What about Mary J.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go definitely yeah, Mary, all right, No, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go be Mary J.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's right for sure.
Speaker 5: J Okay, we're about to go and tour together.
Speaker 2: That's right. I was getting ready.
Speaker 5: I was going the next well, go ahead and then yeah, man,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Keisha. Yeah yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give Kescha some love. Man.
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like she you know, like for
Speaker 4: for she liked the young She like a young Mary
Speaker 4: like you feel me energy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Before I get into you and Mary J Blige, I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you this as an aside you remember. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the episode of my show
Speaker 1: when I got into it with Tank tanks by to me.
Speaker 1: I was at I was at Prom one twelve in Miami.
Speaker 5: Right I heard about it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, that's my man. I love Tank Man.
Speaker 1: And I was leaving and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: he stopped me. We were talking for a while, him
Speaker 1: and his boys were hanging together, and.
Speaker 2: Then he said, he said to me, you do understand that.
Speaker 1: The greatest artist, the greatest art pop art. I said,
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, what are you talking about? He said, Chris Brown.
Speaker 1: I said to him, Chris Brown is all world the
Speaker 1: greatest performer right now, I got it.
Speaker 2: But there's only one Michael Jackson.
Speaker 5: Man, I think this is this is the thing, man,
Speaker 5: It's it's we live in.
Speaker 4: That's a completely different generation of music and tension like
Speaker 4: what Michael was facing back then, like there was so
Speaker 4: much going on in his life. But when it comes
Speaker 4: to what we're talking about today, man, we're talking about
Speaker 4: kids who don't remember Michael in that crime.
Speaker 5: Right, Chris? Is that for them?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That explosive to that explosiveness, the performance he's you know,
Speaker 4: the ESD he comes with.
Speaker 5: On stage, like, that's not so that everybody.
Speaker 4: It takes a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication
Speaker 4: and love and passion for the art to do what
Speaker 4: he does in his space, you know. Yeah, that's there's
Speaker 4: nobody like him, you know, in his space. I personally
Speaker 4: would not compare Mike and CB because when I listened
Speaker 4: to Michael had a completely different time and zone, Like
Speaker 4: his music was live, he had strings and live this,
Speaker 4: and there were so many other things going on in
Speaker 4: his concepts, concepts of his music and what he was
Speaker 4: talking about, and his voice and everything. He's in the
Speaker 4: land of his own. To me, right, I'm inspired by
Speaker 4: Mike two. So you know, I'm really inspired by his voice.
Speaker 4: Like Mike, if you take Michael, Marvin, Stevie, and Joe
Speaker 4: putting together, you get Mario vocally, in my opinion, if
Speaker 4: you listen to all of my music, right, So, I'm
Speaker 4: inspired by Mike too, like a lot of things. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think CB is like the greatest of in his
Speaker 4: lane and what he does, he's no one's is touching him.
Speaker 2: He does greatest dance.
Speaker 1: By the way, let me get to the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. That's because that's gonna start off right for you.
Speaker 1: Tell me about this, sir, you're embarking on with Mary J.
Speaker 1: Blige and yo, you're you're the opening act out here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this tour, like my set, is gonna be
Speaker 4: good towards glad you came. And I'm obviously the classics, right,
Speaker 4: but I'm giving you know, very much so intimate performance
Speaker 4: and you know, inviting people to get to know me
Speaker 4: on a different level than they have from a from
Speaker 4: a vocal standpoint and from a storytelling standpoint on stage.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that night in itself, I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be You're gonna dance, You're gonna sing, and you're gonna cry,
Speaker 4: You're gonna feel good, You're gonna you know, you're gonna
Speaker 4: you're gonna feel the essence of R and B in
Speaker 4: so many different spaces, you know, because all of us
Speaker 4: do something completely different.
Speaker 5: So I think it's gonna be a beautiful night.
Speaker 4: And tickets available now obviously, but yeah, I can't wait
Speaker 4: to perform these songs and you know, classics for you
Speaker 4: all on the stage and just reconnect with y'a again.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm proud of you man, keep doing your thing. Man,
Speaker 2: it's just good.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm certain, big things is just getting
Speaker 1: started for you.
Speaker 2: You already have big.
Speaker 1: Things going on, but you're gonna trust on an elevated
Speaker 1: level all the best that you always hear for you.
Speaker 1: Anything you need, feel free to holler.
Speaker 2: Man. You take care of yourself, all right.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you, Steven. Glad you came December thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 5: I cannot wait to see you on the road layout.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to the phenomenon one himself, the one and
Speaker 1: only Mario. I'm kind of feeling bad for him. And
Speaker 1: as Baltimore Ravens, I don't think they gonna do what
Speaker 1: a lot of us expected them to do this year
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at the Pittsburgh Steels or the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills and the Kansa City Chiefs ain't going no where
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes, And I'm saying, what Baltimore is gonna do?
Speaker 1: You understanding when the defense is usually horrid, their offense
Speaker 1: can do but only so much. And then when the
Speaker 1: defense shows up, the offense doesn't show up. They can't
Speaker 1: seem to get it together. They can't seem to get
Speaker 1: it together. But that's a personal problem because I'm a
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and they'll figure out a way to.
Speaker 2: Get over it. I gotta get over some things.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that I had Mario on here because
Speaker 1: he set the tone. And my staff here asked me.
Speaker 1: He said, there was a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: clamoring for some reason to call into the show to
Speaker 1: ask me moah for relationship, and.
Speaker 2: I was looking forward to doing it. I was actually
Speaker 2: excited about doing it.
Speaker 1: I really really was, like, look at me in my suit,
Speaker 1: I'm looking all good and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll give the advice. Sure.
Speaker 1: And then my nephew strolled around and he said, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm here.
Speaker 2: You know, why wout you to this segment without me?
Speaker 1: You understand saying you old? You understand I'm saying you're
Speaker 1: in your sixties. I'm actually fifty seven, but he always
Speaker 1: says I'm in the sixties. Al he throws that extra shade,
Speaker 1: extra dust on my birth certificate. That's what he does
Speaker 1: with his sorry ass self. Okay, but in the end,
Speaker 1: it's like this, he said, let me do this. The
Speaker 1: weekend's over, the new week is here. You gonna be
Speaker 1: on vacation so you.
Speaker 2: Need some semblance to you to be involved in all
Speaker 2: of this to sort of jump start the holiday season.
Speaker 1: This is what he said. He's not telling the truth.
Speaker 1: It's not accurate, but that's his perception. And you know
Speaker 1: howeople say all the time, can't tell me how to feel,
Speaker 1: can't tell me how to feel.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel. That's what he was saying. So
Speaker 2: he insisted on being in on the segment, and I said,
Speaker 2: bump it. Why not?
Speaker 1: So I take the segment with my nephew taking calls
Speaker 1: about relationships, And after listening to him, I had to
Speaker 1: be talked out of not deleting the whole damn segment
Speaker 1: because that's how ignorant his ass sounded. I am not
Speaker 1: responsible for the words to come out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: I am his uncle. I've tried to set a better example. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I have a lot more work to do.
Speaker 2: I really really do.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna let y'all hear him anyway, because it
Speaker 1: means a lot to him to get some camera time.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give it to.
Speaker 7: Him, much to my potential detriment, yours truly, with my
Speaker 7: nephew Josh in a minute, I don't even wanna tell
Speaker 7: y'all his last name, but it ain't hard to figure
Speaker 7: it out.
Speaker 2: It's my nephew Ryan. He's up next.
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Speaker 2: This is you know, my segment, can you know?
Speaker 1: Calls for people about relationships? And since he was already
Speaker 1: here in studio with.
Speaker 2: Me, my nephew Josh right here. Okay, he's supposed to
Speaker 2: get off.
Speaker 5: The air, all right, but it's.
Speaker 1: Crazy ass I said, no, no, I want to stay.
Speaker 1: I want to say, can I before we even get
Speaker 1: to the call.
Speaker 2: Can I have my shades?
Speaker 6: These ants you stole? Can you stop?
Speaker 2: We are rich.
Speaker 10: You're not gonna be missing a pair of shades and
Speaker 10: not buy another pig.
Speaker 6: Be rich? All right, we got a contract coming out.
Speaker 6: We're gonna sign it.
Speaker 2: We we gonna sign it. We gonna sign it.
Speaker 10: My last name is Smith too, so you gotta sign
Speaker 10: half my name. Technically you have to sign half my name.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the calls. Let's go to the call.
Speaker 1: These are relationship cause ladies and gentlemen, people calling me
Speaker 1: for relationships. I apologize for whatever this crazy ass nephew
Speaker 1: your mind is gonna say.
Speaker 5: But I let him.
Speaker 2: I'm letting him stay in on the segment. I will
Speaker 2: answer your call. Seriously. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 2: he's gonna say, but we gonna listen. All right, Josh,
Speaker 2: this is a niatra. This is a female.
Speaker 1: This is a nietra in Saint Louis, Missouri. You're live
Speaker 1: with Stephen a anitra.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 8: I'm good?
Speaker 11: How are you, Stephen?
Speaker 2: How you doing? I appreciate you calling? Go ahead, I'm
Speaker 2: here for you. I'm here for you this holiday season.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 8: Okay, So I have a quick question. What are your
Speaker 8: thoughts on someone in a relationship or marriage having the
Speaker 8: opposite sex as a friend or best friend?
Speaker 2: Anitra, do you mind?
Speaker 1: I got my little knucklehead and nephew sitting next to
Speaker 1: me right now. He's in his thirties. He thinks he
Speaker 1: knows everything. But since he's here do you mind him
Speaker 1: participating in this segment with me and answer. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: answer your question, but I'm gonna let him answer first.
Speaker 2: That all right with you? Is that all right? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's Josh go ahead. How would you answer that question?
Speaker 6: It depends on how the friend looks.
Speaker 10: If you know that your man likes uh, women that
Speaker 10: are in sheep, then if he has a big friend,
Speaker 10: and that's what friend.
Speaker 6: If it's a.
Speaker 10: Girl that's in shape, it's only a matter it's own
Speaker 10: if you asks me.
Speaker 1: All right, my my nephew put it in a very
Speaker 1: crass kind of way, Anitra, let me break this down
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, he's for the most part. My nephew's
Speaker 1: actually right from this standpoint, speaking as a man, if
Speaker 1: you are friends with somebody you find attractive, if you're
Speaker 1: in the friend zone.
Speaker 2: It's usually because of her. It ain't cause to you because.
Speaker 1: If you had your brothers, you gonna want to get
Speaker 1: with her because she fine. Now, if you're not attracted
Speaker 1: to her at all, you understand, then that's a different
Speaker 1: matter altogether. If it's it's a media attraction, all right,
Speaker 1: that's cool too. But if you're not attracted to her
Speaker 1: at all, you don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2: Like my boy, Pooly Pooly.
Speaker 1: You remember that movie Norbit, Remember the movie Norban in
Speaker 1: the remember rasp Fu. Sure, yeah, so me being friends
Speaker 1: with somebody like that, that she's safe, it ain't none
Speaker 1: to worry about it. But if you're fine, and here's
Speaker 1: a key point here, here's a key point here, if
Speaker 1: you've never been with her, if you've never been with her,
Speaker 1: because if you've never been with her, then curiosity kills
Speaker 1: the cat. So you're gonna always be curious because you've
Speaker 1: never been with her. So there's going to be an
Speaker 1: insatiable appetite for her for you to get with her.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have that, now, flip it. If it's a
Speaker 2: girl and a dude is attractive, well, women are different, y'all?
Speaker 1: Are y'all have your proclivities, y'all have y'all desires and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff.
Speaker 6: That's true.
Speaker 1: But in the same breath, how happy are you in
Speaker 1: your relationship?
Speaker 2: If you're happy with your.
Speaker 1: Man, then even if you find somebody else attractive, you
Speaker 1: happy with who you have, So you good. But he
Speaker 1: on thin ice, because the second he make you unhappy,
Speaker 1: you gonna notice the friend even more that you find attractives.
Speaker 2: And because of that, it could be trust.
Speaker 8: Do you trust? Do you trust like your person? Having
Speaker 8: like a man as a best friend, do you trust?
Speaker 6: Hell?
Speaker 1: No, trust, no woman, trust, no woman in mind having
Speaker 1: a dude a's a best friend.
Speaker 2: Particularly if he's attractive and he's.
Speaker 1: In Now mind, you you knew who you knew before
Speaker 1: I came along, So I'm not gonna police your friendships.
Speaker 1: But what I'm going to say is that again, if
Speaker 1: you're around the brother, if you still communicating with the brother,
Speaker 1: that ain't an accident.
Speaker 2: You communicate with.
Speaker 1: Him, you staying in touch with him because in case.
Speaker 2: Of emergency, open glass. Now that may not be literally correct,
Speaker 2: but a lot of men think like that. And because
Speaker 2: they think like that, they always have that.
Speaker 1: They always have that sixth sense and by having that
Speaker 1: sixth sense, there's a level of trust that they're lacking,
Speaker 1: which means suspicion elevates, which means any little thing you
Speaker 1: do can cause a problem, which means the relationship is
Speaker 1: gonna be on the n ice.
Speaker 2: Am I right about that? Josh?
Speaker 6: You right? Are you the friend with a friend?
Speaker 8: So I'm not the friend with the friend though, I'm
Speaker 8: like the person that's dating him. And then he's like,
Speaker 8: oh I got a best friend, we've been friends.
Speaker 2: Okay, start right there.
Speaker 5: How it is?
Speaker 2: How do you think that friend of your man looks?
Speaker 10: I don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 2: You never you never met her.
Speaker 8: I don't think she ugly? No, I've never like met her.
Speaker 2: No, you never met her. No, you don't sound very convincing.
Speaker 1: You don't sound very convincing. You sound like you got
Speaker 1: your suspicions. And if you haven't met her, and that's
Speaker 1: your man, he keeping you distant from her for a reason,
Speaker 1: just raisnas. That don't mean he's guilty, but it means
Speaker 1: to elevate younis.
Speaker 6: She sounds extra okay with it, like she got.
Speaker 2: It's okay with it? Thank you, okay, take care, need
Speaker 2: to thank you?
Speaker 1: Let's go to Troy in Toronto, Canada, a beautiful city
Speaker 1: by the way.
Speaker 2: What's up, Troy, how are you?
Speaker 9: I'm great man, just finished listening to first take in
Speaker 9: podcast form Daily Ritual.
Speaker 2: Oh all, we do appreciate it. Thanks so much. Man,
Speaker 2: you're here.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with my knucklehead and nephew who's sitting
Speaker 1: in the studio with me thinking he's God's gift to
Speaker 1: women and relationships and all of that other stuff. He's
Speaker 1: listening on a call with you right now as well.
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? Troy talked to me.
Speaker 9: Okay, so after a long year, a lonely year, after
Speaker 9: some past transgressions. Uh, I was single, but I'm currently
Speaker 9: working on fixing things with my ex and was wondering
Speaker 9: what are some ways to now that she's moving back,
Speaker 9: spice things up and make sure I never lose her again.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're saying she's moving back, meaning she's moving
Speaker 1: back to live.
Speaker 12: With you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And when you talked about your transgressions, that means you
Speaker 1: cheated around, you screwed around somebody else.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 12: I didn't want to get too far into you don't
Speaker 12: have to, you know.
Speaker 1: How I mean your Troy. We don't know who she is,
Speaker 1: your Troy from Canada. I'm sure there's other Troyes in
Speaker 1: the whole damn country. I'm just saying nobody knows your
Speaker 1: last name or anything like that. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: that's what you did, right, Yes, sir, okay, you believe
Speaker 1: she's a good woman, a great woman.
Speaker 2: Do you are you? Are you? Are you very attracted
Speaker 2: to her?
Speaker 12: Yes? Sir?
Speaker 2: Are you stimulated sexually by her?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 2: Are you stimulated outside the bedroom by her?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 2: My brother, you got a great one.
Speaker 1: Because you're talking about letting her move back in, So
Speaker 1: that means she moved out and she's will to come
Speaker 1: back to live with you despite what you did.
Speaker 2: That's a very big thing.
Speaker 1: But here's my advice, and I'll lean on a little
Speaker 1: nephew here, not leaning on him because I certainly don't
Speaker 1: need his advice, but I'm gonna listen to what he
Speaker 1: got to say. But I will say this, since you
Speaker 1: were wrong, you do understand she's forgiving you, but she'll
Speaker 1: never forget.
Speaker 2: Oh know that? Right?
Speaker 5: You know that? Right?
Speaker 1: So that means every move you make that creates an
Speaker 1: eyebrow raise will be hard thinking the worst.
Speaker 2: You understand that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 12: It's happened, and I know I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 2: Can you deal with that? Can you deal with that?
Speaker 12: I've been dealing with it, and I think I will
Speaker 12: happily deal with it. Okay, to fix things, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Josh?
Speaker 6: Hey, Troy, Hey, Josh, you like you like the word accountability? Accountability?
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, well, I'm I'm a fan of reverse accountability.
Speaker 6: You did what you did because she might have did something.
Speaker 6: So if you.
Speaker 10: Can't like deflect, my god, you're not You're not just guilty.
Speaker 6: I'm not buying that.
Speaker 5: I can hear it in your voice.
Speaker 6: You're a decent guy.
Speaker 1: Hold hold, you just gonna assume I can't believe, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I'm not responsible for all the thoughts and
Speaker 1: the things that come out of my nephew's mouth.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to sit up here and automatically?
Speaker 1: Are you saying that because he cheated, it must have
Speaker 1: meant that she cheated and that's why he did it.
Speaker 6: I'm a supporter of Troy. He's calling us. We don't
Speaker 6: speak to her, all right?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Troy? Did you girl cheat on you?
Speaker 12: Josh?
Speaker 9: I got love for you, and I appreciate you trying
Speaker 9: to come and save me.
Speaker 12: But I'm the only shitty person in this situation.
Speaker 2: See what you mean?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what what you You just tell me?
Speaker 6: Yes, he is got it.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't don't don't don't
Speaker 2: step up, don't stigmatize like that.
Speaker 1: Here's the point, Josh. He just said it's not him.
Speaker 1: It's not it's he.
Speaker 2: Told you that. He said he's he's the bad guy
Speaker 2: in all of this.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're sitting up there, you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like you're ashamed that he's own up. But you use
Speaker 1: the word accountability and you said reverse accountability, No, reverse
Speaker 1: accountability accounting.
Speaker 2: You're my nephew. How are you acting like this? Oh?
Speaker 2: With the cameras, Roland.
Speaker 10: This is embarrassing because I felt like he said what
Speaker 10: he said.
Speaker 13: But.
Speaker 2: Then when he said it was just him, not her,
Speaker 2: you would discuss he did it again.
Speaker 6: He did it again because he told her.
Speaker 10: I look, I got through to the stephen A show,
Speaker 10: and you want to listen to what I said. Of
Speaker 10: course he's gonna say everything that she wanted to.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, what you're saying right now is
Speaker 1: that you don't believe that his girl didn't cheat.
Speaker 10: I'm just I'm not saying that because I don't know
Speaker 10: what I'm saying is it's a plenty.
Speaker 6: It's plenty listeners and.
Speaker 10: His I'm thinking about the totality and the bigger picture
Speaker 10: of this. Kids watching, they need to know that women
Speaker 10: can be wrong sometimes too. You just jumping on their
Speaker 10: side because they be on you in the shape room.
Speaker 10: You was on here today too.
Speaker 2: First of all, I've called out women in my day.
Speaker 1: For you to not even come to me with that
Speaker 1: weak ass argument, that's number one.
Speaker 2: Would I believe what I believe?
Speaker 1: You know me better than most you know, I don't
Speaker 1: backstep number two?
Speaker 2: Okay, But if they write, they write because guess what?
Speaker 2: Who did you love? Who's the person that you loved
Speaker 2: most in the world?
Speaker 6: Ganma say a louder Grimma.
Speaker 2: Grandma the greatest woman you've ever known? How many times
Speaker 2: do I say that? How does she raise us? Await?
Speaker 2: Would she say?
Speaker 1: What would Grandma say to you if you're sat up
Speaker 1: there and said what you just said.
Speaker 6: She wouldn't understand either though. GMA's grandma, but she wouldn't
Speaker 6: know Troy.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the call. Man, I can't deal
Speaker 2: with this right now. Parker and Burlingham your Live with
Speaker 2: stephen A. What's up? Parker?
Speaker 11: Hey, stephen A. First and foremost, I just want to say,
Speaker 11: it's honored to be speaking with the CEO of Love
Speaker 11: Enterprise Questions for you.
Speaker 2: I'm a CEO of Love Enterprises.
Speaker 1: That what you just said, I never I never thought
Speaker 1: about it like that.
Speaker 2: I kind of liked that.
Speaker 1: Logo's about me, the CEO of Love Enterprises.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: I mean that I won't forget to love doctor lessam Alonzo,
Speaker 1: but the CEO of Love Enterprises, I mean I might
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 2: I might have to embrace that. That that that model.
Speaker 2: I might have to do that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, listen, Parker, you here with my little nephew
Speaker 1: and myself.
Speaker 2: He's just sitting here chilling in my studio.
Speaker 1: So I figure I put him the good use because
Speaker 1: he don't do shit anyway, So I figured I might
Speaker 1: as well. I'm listening to the call, I might as
Speaker 1: well have him join with me. Go ahead and tell
Speaker 1: us what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Poker, go ahead.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So recently, my girlfriend of about two years really
Speaker 11: like her, I'd rate her about eight point nine out
Speaker 11: of ten. I'm about a seven on a good day. Anyways,
Speaker 11: we are getting into the fact that we need some
Speaker 11: foreplay in our life to spice things up, you know,
Speaker 11: and make things interesting. She is very adamant that the
Speaker 11: next time that we make love that I dress up
Speaker 11: as a firefighter. Now my options are this, stephen A.
Speaker 11: I can either, you know, go about fulfilling her fantasy,
Speaker 11: no questions asked. But am I to think that when
Speaker 11: she's making love to me, she's actually wanting to be
Speaker 11: making love to a local firefighter in my town? Those
Speaker 11: are the thoughts that I'm having. Okay, I appreciate.
Speaker 5: No, No, you.
Speaker 2: Can't hang up. Hold on, don't hang up. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you why. I just want to make sure I
Speaker 2: got this correct.
Speaker 1: You qualify yourself as a seven on a good day, right.
Speaker 11: On a good day?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: You said she's about an eight point nine?
Speaker 11: Right, I would say so.
Speaker 1: And you said that she y'all want to spice up
Speaker 1: your sexual relationship. So as a result, you want to
Speaker 1: y'all have agreed to engage in some level of foreplay
Speaker 1: and for her, she would like you.
Speaker 2: To dress up as a fireman. Yes during four play, Well,
Speaker 2: let me role play role play right?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, if you're a fireman or firefighter.
Speaker 2: What she want to be?
Speaker 11: That's the thing, stephen A. She just wants to be herself.
Speaker 2: So she wants to be a herself, but she wants
Speaker 2: you to be a firefighter.
Speaker 1: Ext Okay, second question, Second question you and Cali A ruh?
Speaker 1: How near by is the fire department from where you live?
Speaker 11: Here's the thing, stephen A. The fire station is just
Speaker 11: around the block from where she gets her morning coffee.
Speaker 1: The fire station is just around the block from where
Speaker 1: she gets a coffee every morning.
Speaker 11: Yep fight.
Speaker 2: Oh yo, man, there's a firefighter. She's she's she she's
Speaker 2: she she she's feeling No, I'm sorry. How old are you, bro?
Speaker 2: How old are you Parker?
Speaker 11: I'm twenty nine.
Speaker 2: How old does she? She is?
Speaker 11: Twenty six?
Speaker 2: You said that you're a seven on a good day?
Speaker 2: What does she say you? Are?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 5: Guys?
Speaker 11: The nephew doing the math over there is this no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: The nephew's listener, he hears you a lot of clear.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you if you say you're a seven on
Speaker 1: a good day, what does she say you are?
Speaker 11: You know, I've been too afraid to ever ask.
Speaker 2: You never asked her.
Speaker 1: You don't have the confidence of yourself to ask her
Speaker 1: how you think, how she thinks you look.
Speaker 11: I'm afraid of what the response would be, stephen A.
Speaker 2: And now, and now you brought up the firefighter, Josh.
Speaker 10: Well, if you want to know what I think, I
Speaker 10: think you got a cheat on her just to get
Speaker 10: your confidence.
Speaker 6: He got to, he got to and you know it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know that. I don't.
Speaker 6: You just said she put the firefighter tomout.
Speaker 1: But that's not gonna necessarily boost his confidence.
Speaker 6: It's gonna make him do what he gotta do.
Speaker 1: That's gonna make him more vulnerable to whatever she throws
Speaker 1: in his direction, because he's going to know he was wrong,
Speaker 1: which gives her justification for whatever it is that she
Speaker 1: ends up doing.
Speaker 6: And again the woman wins.
Speaker 10: What I tell you what to do, Go get you
Speaker 10: a fire lady or articulated. Get a six, though, don't
Speaker 10: get a nine, because that's.
Speaker 6: Why you're not confident. Because she looked better than you,
Speaker 6: look better than your girl.
Speaker 11: I like that.
Speaker 1: Well, let me stop this right there, let me stop
Speaker 1: disrect there First of all, la gentlemen, this is my nephew.
Speaker 1: He does not work for the show. He is not
Speaker 1: connected to the show. He is paying his uncle a visit.
Speaker 1: And I decided to put his ignorant as on camera.
Speaker 1: And you see why I call him ignant right because
Speaker 1: of the nonsensical stuff coming out of his mouth right there.
Speaker 1: I will say this, though the last part of his argument,
Speaker 1: Parker does provide a good point. Let me say this
Speaker 1: to you, Parker, in all seriousness, all joke inside. When
Speaker 1: you lack confidence in yourself, sometimes you take it out
Speaker 1: on a woman because it's not about her.
Speaker 2: It's about what you know you're not see being part.
Speaker 1: And I'm not really talking about myself on this level.
Speaker 1: But let me give you some insight. When I had
Speaker 1: COVID and I was sick as hell, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have any kind of definition whatsoever, and I'm walking around
Speaker 1: with a pop belly and I can't breathe and I'm
Speaker 1: overcoming double pneumonia and I'm doing all of this other
Speaker 1: stuff right, Even.
Speaker 2: Before then, my confidence wasn't.
Speaker 1: High because I knew that I wasn't what I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be and I couldn't shred the pounds around
Speaker 1: my mid section, my nephew looking at me, my little
Speaker 1: nasky tore o.
Speaker 2: God, uncle Steve, you got that? Oh my lord, where
Speaker 2: that belly come from?
Speaker 1: Stuff like that, right, And I never thought about it
Speaker 1: because all you heard was that you climbing up there
Speaker 1: in age.
Speaker 2: This is what happens, and you.
Speaker 1: Just got to deal with it, because that's all of us.
Speaker 1: When I got my health in order and I started
Speaker 1: being in the gym every day, and I didn't mind
Speaker 1: taking off my shirt, I didn't mind walking around with
Speaker 1: a tank top or a tight shirt or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. And I was in shape, my confidence elevated,
Speaker 1: and at that particular moment, I don't worry about anything
Speaker 1: because my attitude is, whoever don't want me, that's their loss.
Speaker 1: I'm good because I'm good with me. Has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with anybody else. But when you're not.
Speaker 2: Good with you, you.
Speaker 1: Find reasons to be suspicious Parker about everybody around you
Speaker 1: because you know you don't have it.
Speaker 2: You know you don't have it.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they do. Let me get real with you,
Speaker 1: it's almost like that dude who can't get the job
Speaker 1: done in the bedroom. You suspicious about her, when in fact,
Speaker 1: it's because you know you ain't that dude, because when
Speaker 1: you with her, you don't feel like you're handling your business.
Speaker 1: And as a result, because you don't feel that way,
Speaker 1: you're willing to point to her and bring up every
Speaker 1: excuse under the sun as to why things ain't right,
Speaker 1: when deep in the crevices of your soul, you know
Speaker 1: it's you. So that's why my nephew's advice is completely
Speaker 1: out of whack, off kilter and ignorant because he's not
Speaker 1: taking into account the fact that you haven't looked at
Speaker 1: you with an honest eye. You're using her to gloss
Speaker 1: over your own insecurities about you. Because if you were
Speaker 1: more secure about you, Parker, you know what you would do.
Speaker 1: You dig her to step out, because you'd be like this,
Speaker 1: make sure it's worth it, because I'll be out and
Speaker 1: I'll have your ass replaced in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2: See what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: I definitely see what you're saying. I appreciate this advice.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna take a long look in the mirror, might
Speaker 11: Papa bluetoo, and I'm gonna get to work.
Speaker 1: That's right, Get to work. Be all you can listen.
Speaker 1: All you can be is your best self. You can't
Speaker 1: be the firefighter, you can't be some actor, you can't
Speaker 1: be some model, you can't be.
Speaker 2: All you can be is your best self. But when
Speaker 2: you know that you have achieved or have come close.
Speaker 1: To achieving, your best self, it elevates your confidence and
Speaker 1: you worry about all of that other stuff significantly less
Speaker 1: because you believe you're aprise too. Instead of focusing on
Speaker 1: the fact that she's the one closer to a nine.
Speaker 11: Than year you feel me, I feel you.
Speaker 2: Got you taking ease of my brother. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1: Holidays, trying to fire fight, trying to firefight the outfit
Speaker 1: to see how she reacts. You still benefit for the
Speaker 1: immedia moment, still benefit.
Speaker 2: Try try Mickey.
Speaker 1: In Middletown your Live with stephen A. Talk to me, Nicky,
Speaker 1: you're the last call. What's going on, Mickey.
Speaker 2: Dmo.
Speaker 13: I got a bit of an ethical dilemma for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sitting here with my nephew, my knuckle ahead
Speaker 2: and nephew.
Speaker 1: You know he's right here with me. But he thinks
Speaker 1: he the love doctor, or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: He's not. You understand them saying what did they call
Speaker 1: me the CEO the Love What was that?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: The CEO of Love Enterprise, the CEO of Love letting
Speaker 1: the prize.
Speaker 2: I like that. I like that. We're gonna go with
Speaker 2: that for today, CEO of Love and the Prize.
Speaker 1: Let's go with what's going on?
Speaker 2: Mickey? Talk to me? What's up you? Me and my nephew?
Speaker 13: All right, all right, So here's the story. Basically, I
Speaker 13: decided to get back out there. Right I get on
Speaker 13: Tender at the dating site.
Speaker 2: Time out, time out right there. You said you decided
Speaker 2: to get back out there.
Speaker 1: First of all, how long have you been gone? And secondly,
Speaker 1: how old are you? Especially since you're on Tender now.
Speaker 13: I've been out for about four months, mom, how old
Speaker 13: are you? I just went through I went through a
Speaker 13: rough breakup.
Speaker 2: I'm twenty two, okay, rough breakup, age twenty two.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you wet BEHONDI here is bust some one
Speaker 1: like sim like, it's okay, You'll be all right, but.
Speaker 13: Go ahead exactly. So I get myself back out there.
Speaker 13: I go on a date with a nice young lady
Speaker 13: and we had a real nice time, ended the night
Speaker 13: with a little kiss, and then I'm supposed to be
Speaker 13: going out with her tonight, but I had another match
Speaker 13: offer me free Knicks tickets. Hold lo, so I do
Speaker 13: some digging, right, and I agreed forgetting about my previous plans.
Speaker 13: So now I have two dates tonight, and on top
Speaker 13: of that, they are sorority sisters and friends.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want my advice.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me let me let me I
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna do, but I'm gonna listen to
Speaker 1: my nephew with his crazy ass give you some advice.
Speaker 2: First, go ahead, Josh, go.
Speaker 10: I have on a Knick's jacket, so that should tell
Speaker 10: you right there what you should do and you should
Speaker 10: be to night.
Speaker 6: That's number one. Number two, I don't I used to be.
Speaker 10: I have a friend that's on tended and how he
Speaker 10: pretty much takes over. He said he's on tender. I'm
Speaker 10: trying to teach him something because you're gonna need a
Speaker 10: new tended person after tonight. You're choose another girl, right,
Speaker 10: So when you go back on tender and you back
Speaker 10: on the market, read their profiles first to find out
Speaker 10: what they're looking for, and then you change your profile
Speaker 10: to that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Mickey, I've never been I've never been.
Speaker 2: Don't listen to that.
Speaker 1: Please, I've heard of it. I've never been on it.
Speaker 1: I don't do stuff like that. I I don't need to.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. Okay. First of all, if.
Speaker 1: You're gonna mess with two women that are friends and
Speaker 1: sorority sisters, understand that you're trash.
Speaker 2: You don't come back from that. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: You'll end up missing out on both. That's number one.
Speaker 2: You don't do that.
Speaker 5: You have some class.
Speaker 2: Number two, are you broke? You broke? I mean, can
Speaker 2: you afford to go to a Knicks game?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 13: I can.
Speaker 2: Well, then you.
Speaker 1: Don't need to be worried about being invited to a
Speaker 1: k next game.
Speaker 2: Because you could afford to do that on your own.
Speaker 1: You ain't some pauper that will never see the Knicks.
Speaker 1: You don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: Okay. What the question, what my nephew should.
Speaker 1: Have told you, is who do you like more? The
Speaker 1: person that you like more is who you should go
Speaker 1: out with.
Speaker 2: If you like.
Speaker 1: If you went out on the first and you were
Speaker 1: interested in having a second date, and you had a
Speaker 1: kiss from the girl off the first date, right then
Speaker 1: you already got an end. Because not only does she
Speaker 1: kiss you, but she wants you to come back for
Speaker 1: another one. Why would you mess that up just to
Speaker 1: hook up with somebody else? And the only thing they
Speaker 1: got going for them is that they offered you Nicks tickets.
Speaker 13: Holy he again again laid the sales pitch.
Speaker 1: Well, the sales pitch, sure, But the point is that's
Speaker 1: if you just looking to play. You sitting up there
Speaker 1: talking about you got your heart broken, you were hurt,
Speaker 1: you were down and out for four months. This is
Speaker 1: a different animal, Josh. This ain't some dude that's just
Speaker 1: single and trying to have a good time. This is
Speaker 1: a dude that was in a relationship, things fell apart,
Speaker 1: broke his heart, he.
Speaker 2: Was down and out for four months. He's gotten back up.
Speaker 1: And so what you're gonna do is your heart gets broken,
Speaker 1: ultimately it gets repaid.
Speaker 2: You're willing to go back out there. Why for the
Speaker 2: purposes of breaking somebody else's heart. How does that work
Speaker 2: for you? Of productive? That's kind of productive.
Speaker 1: You pick one or the other, So don't go to
Speaker 1: the niggame. I'm saying you pick one or the other.
Speaker 1: You don't play with both. And the reason why I
Speaker 1: say pass on the knickgame is because he went out
Speaker 1: with the other girl.
Speaker 2: Now, if if you hadn't gone out with either of them,
Speaker 2: I'd say pick the Knicks game too.
Speaker 1: But the fact is you went out with the other
Speaker 1: girl first, You went out with her, You enjoyed yourself,
Speaker 1: kiss the good night. She wants a second date. You
Speaker 1: wanted a second date with her, which means you're interested.
Speaker 1: Why jeopardize that for Knicks tickets?
Speaker 6: It's because it might end different after the Knicks game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the point is he don't know anything about
Speaker 1: the girl with the Knicks tickets.
Speaker 2: Oh, he knows that she got a free tickets. He
Speaker 2: knows enough about the first date that he went out
Speaker 2: with to know that he wants a second date.
Speaker 6: Go to the niggame, you ask me.
Speaker 2: But you only saying that because it's the Knicks.
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying that it can indifferent. Maybe it's more
Speaker 10: than the kiss, kiss kiss.
Speaker 6: You aid give another day.
Speaker 1: That's the first date, the first day he went out
Speaker 1: with that was their first date, got.
Speaker 6: A kiss, good night and it ended with the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 6: Go wrong with it? Sound a little incomplete?
Speaker 13: Oh my god, Hey listen up, Steve, Go ahead, the
Speaker 13: heartless side of me wants to do demon mode, like
Speaker 13: Josh is saying, right, but I feel like I really
Speaker 13: needed that fatherly advice.
Speaker 2: People get people get hurt all the time.
Speaker 1: Life mandates that the question is is.
Speaker 2: Somebody gonna do that to you? Intentionally? You're talking to
Speaker 2: her brother right now.
Speaker 1: I've been all over national television and lived my life,
Speaker 1: and I've been very, very blessed and fortunate to be
Speaker 1: as successful as I am. My high school sweetheart broke
Speaker 1: up with me, got back together with me, stuck with
Speaker 1: me for three months until I took her to her prom,
Speaker 1: and then dumped me the next morning.
Speaker 2: And I found out that.
Speaker 1: The only reason that she got back with me was
Speaker 1: because I was the fool willing to take her to
Speaker 1: the prong to pay for her to go to the drong.
Speaker 2: Let me take something. Everybody plays the fool sometimes.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that you intentionally go about the business
Speaker 1: of trying to hurt other people. Now, people get hurt
Speaker 1: because you might want something that they don't want, or
Speaker 1: vice versa. But I'm talking intent you sitting up there
Speaker 1: talking about you in devilish mode and you ready to
Speaker 1: recavoc and hurt people. That are innocent because you've been
Speaker 1: hurt by somebody that had nothing to do with any
Speaker 1: of these people. I'm saying, that's bad karma. Bro, you
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Could you at least agree
Speaker 1: with that?
Speaker 2: Josh?
Speaker 6: Are you saying go to the Nick game and saying
Speaker 6: what you just said?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Don't go to the next game.
Speaker 6: Nah, we're not gonna agree on that one.
Speaker 5: Then go to that Nick game.
Speaker 10: Go to that Nick game and finish up strong.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 13: I really needed to hear both sides of that, Nicky.
Speaker 2: I do good luck, good good luck.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for exposing you to my nephew. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: Just take it easy, nay Ta, take it easy, Mickey,
Speaker 2: j Just just.
Speaker 1: Go, Nicky, Just go and and and be careful and
Speaker 1: and and try not to break anybody's heart intentionally.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 1: That's all I could tell you, ladies and gentlemen. That's
Speaker 1: it for this edition to the Stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry that I had to subject you all
Speaker 1: to some of the stuff that came out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: We harbor no responsibility in this whatsoever. He is my nephew.
Speaker 1: He's my loved one. I love him dearly. But he's
Speaker 1: a bit loose.
Speaker 2: He's a bit out there, to say the least.
Speaker 6: Fix some relationships today. You did it.
Speaker 1: Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, Stephen, They signing off
Speaker 1: peace in love.