Speaker 1: What is that? Excuse me? Ain't you ed? Stephen H.
Speaker 1: Smith's next for Josh. He used to be Daisy. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: two days after two bowl. I mean here another two days.
Speaker 1: He's so pathetic, he really really is.
Speaker 2: Then again with the news we've got to discuss today, Diddy,
Speaker 2: Serena k d.
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Speaker 2: Got to get started on a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking about a lot of different things today.
Speaker 2: Kanye West, We're gonna be talking about, of course, Diddy,
Speaker 2: who knows what's going on with that President Trump, Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: There's so much stuff going on.
Speaker 2: But I've got to get started with the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: last Sunday between the Chiefs and the Eagles, a game
Speaker 2: with a few headlines percolating in the wake of the
Speaker 2: forty twenty two beat down the Eagles handed to Kansas City.
Speaker 2: The first headline is the ratings for the game. According
Speaker 2: to Nielsen, and Fox Sports. More than one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty seven million people watch Super Bowl fifty nine with
Speaker 2: Philadelphia destroyed Kansas City. That's a new record for American
Speaker 2: viewership for an event across all platforms. The other headline
Speaker 2: that came out of the game was the halftime show
Speaker 2: courtesy of Kendrick Lamar that also featured Sissa. The set
Speaker 2: was a thirteen minute mashup of Kendrick hits, including the
Speaker 2: much anticipated not Like Us. Remember that the disc track
Speaker 2: dedicated to Drake. That performance featured the world's greatest female
Speaker 2: athlete in Serena Williams, who was seen krip walking to
Speaker 2: the song. For those of you who don't know, Williams
Speaker 2: wants actually dated Drake. Now, I had some comments on
Speaker 2: Serena's appearance on the stage on Super Bowl Sunday that
Speaker 2: I shared on ESPN's First Take or that following Monday.
Speaker 2: Apparently that made many of folks agitated, because a lot
Speaker 2: of people had a problem.
Speaker 1: On what I had to say.
Speaker 2: Before I give my thoughts on that, however, I do
Speaker 2: owe you the opportunity to see what has created this
Speaker 2: whole brew ha ha and what's got everybody up in
Speaker 2: the Nancy take a look. If I'm married and my
Speaker 2: wife is going to join troll and her ex go
Speaker 2: back to his ass, because clearly you don't belong with
Speaker 2: me what you worried about him for and you there,
Speaker 2: you have it, And because of that, everybody's up in
Speaker 2: the tizzy. Newsflash, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I
Speaker 2: was playing around. It was a lot of fun. Secondly,
Speaker 2: I didn't utter a disrespectful word towards Serena Williams, so
Speaker 2: I don't know where the whole Serena protection protocol kicks in.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about her.
Speaker 2: I said, hey, listen, if I'm a man and I'm married,
Speaker 2: I certainly don't want my wife showing any kind of energy, positive, negative,
Speaker 2: or otherwise to another dude that happens to be her ex.
Speaker 2: That'll make me think, what was she thinking about him?
Speaker 2: Why is she thinking about him so much? Why does
Speaker 2: she feel the need to exert any energy emotional or
Speaker 2: otherwise when it comes to that, That's where I was
Speaker 2: coming from. But it was more of a gender issue
Speaker 2: more so than anything else, in terms of men and
Speaker 2: how a lot of men feel. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: say most I'm not going to say all because I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm going to tell you how I feel.
Speaker 2: What I expressed is exactly what I meant. I'm not
Speaker 2: apologizing for it.
Speaker 1: I'm not condoning it either.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen sometimes and I would imagine that women
Speaker 2: would a pre ciate what I'm about to say and
Speaker 2: what I'm about to do, because that's all.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you women say all the time?
Speaker 1: You want a man expresses emotions, express yourself, express yourself,
Speaker 1: talk to us.
Speaker 2: That's what you want to say. Right Well, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: talk to you. Hope the shape room is listening. I
Speaker 2: hope all these women out here listening.
Speaker 1: Some men are insecure. Now that's breaking news, supposedly. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I kind of thought that y'all
Speaker 1: automatically knew that not all, not most. Every man can
Speaker 1: speak for himself.
Speaker 2: Every man could go online because you know they are,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna say not, ain'my not that ain't me.
Speaker 2: Not it ain't me, And I have no proof to
Speaker 2: the contrary. So I'm just gonna tell you me and
Speaker 2: the men that I know most men we're a bit
Speaker 2: insecure when we see energy expressed in the direction of
Speaker 2: another dude, even if it's vitriol, even if it's venom,
Speaker 2: even if it's hate, even if.
Speaker 1: It's get back, whatever it is. You haven't heard the
Speaker 1: saying the true end of any relationship isn't love, nor
Speaker 1: is it hatred. It's indifference. You ever heard that? In
Speaker 1: other words, when.
Speaker 2: You simply don't matter, somebody chooses not to expend a
Speaker 2: sintilla of energy in.
Speaker 1: Your direction because you're not worth it.
Speaker 2: They have a better life, they are preoccupied, and they
Speaker 2: don't give you a second thought. That's indifference. That's when
Speaker 2: the end truly arrives. And the reason why some, not most,
Speaker 2: not all might react in a certain way as a man,
Speaker 2: because the men I know tend to think along the
Speaker 2: lines of my woman wouldn't have any time to be
Speaker 2: expending any kind of energy like that because.
Speaker 1: She's happy with me. Were good.
Speaker 2: Now, for those that want to throw out facts instead
Speaker 2: of touching on a perspective like I would like you to,
Speaker 2: let me make sure that I let you know that
Speaker 2: I am aware of the facts involving Drake, Serena Williams,
Speaker 2: and a husband. Apparently, Drake had dissed Serena's husband in
Speaker 2: the past, so her crip walking on stage to not
Speaker 2: Like Us on Super Bowl Sunday was seen as a
Speaker 2: slap in Drake's face for disrespecting her and her husband.
Speaker 2: Drake's lyrics on the song sidebar Serena, your husband a groupie,
Speaker 2: he claimed, we don't got a problem.
Speaker 1: But no, boo, it's like you coming for sushi. Whatever
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not about to get in all that, Okay,
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure that I'm clear that
Speaker 2: everybody knows that I know there's history there, all right,
Speaker 2: and this Serena Williams issued this statement out here when
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar and team called and was like, We've been
Speaker 2: trying to do something forever.
Speaker 1: What about this? We loved your crip walk at the
Speaker 1: Olympics after you want to gold medal. I'm like, super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Winn in the world? Would I ever
Speaker 1: be able to dance at the Super Bowl? Never, let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: I knew my winning dance after the Olympics would pay
Speaker 2: off one day, end of story. Fine, she did it
Speaker 2: at Wimbledon back in twenty thirteen, if I remember correctly. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's where she's from. She's from Compton, she's from Compton.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar's from same mayor obviously same time. Of course
Speaker 2: that's her homie, no biggie. Nobody was insulting Serena Williams.
Speaker 2: I'm simply saying from the male.
Speaker 1: Perspective, because I thought the males would pick up on it. Well,
Speaker 1: damn not.
Speaker 2: Serena not a husband, that's their personal business. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they talked about it before she did it. I'm saying
Speaker 2: in general, I use that to metaphorically touch on men
Speaker 2: and women and how men feel about a woman showing
Speaker 2: any kind of energy, negative, positive, or otherwise.
Speaker 1: Towards an X.
Speaker 2: And I got people up in the tissy, not just
Speaker 2: in social media. I got people that work with me,
Speaker 2: people that work for me.
Speaker 1: Nah nah no.
Speaker 2: Somebody said Ryan Clark actually tried to save me for myself. Well,
Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to be saved. I got disipinion. What
Speaker 2: am I going to jail for it? I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: cuffed and throw them behind bars because I'm acknowledging what
Speaker 2: some men won't, what some men feel. If you're a
Speaker 2: woman is showing energy towards an axe. That involves feelings,
Speaker 2: that involves emotions, which might make a man be introspective
Speaker 2: that one of my boys sit up there and say
Speaker 2: to me, well, then that just means you insecure.
Speaker 1: Why would you say that publicly? Who cares?
Speaker 2: You know how many men out hear insecure ladies? A
Speaker 2: lot of us are insecure. We want to have that
Speaker 2: discussion when I had that discussion. You want me to
Speaker 2: get emotion? Hold on as petition, Michael, I mean, do
Speaker 2: I need to get emotional? Ladies and gentlemen. I cry sometimes,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, I get a bit emotional. Sometimes, sometimes
Speaker 2: I feel alone. Sometimes I just want to I just
Speaker 2: want to be held.
Speaker 1: All these things are true.
Speaker 2: Now, you don't expressed it the way a woman expresses it.
Speaker 2: And I'm joking around obviously in fashion that I did
Speaker 2: say it. But every emotion that I expressed is true.
Speaker 2: I've cried before, I've been lonely before. I wanted to
Speaker 2: be held before. There Sometimes I come home from a
Speaker 2: hard day's work and guess what, some sex ain't on
Speaker 2: my mind. I just want to lay down. I just
Speaker 2: want to lay my head on my lady's cauch, on
Speaker 2: my lady's lap. I'm sorry, I want my head rub.
Speaker 2: I want my shoulders massage. I want that back rug.
Speaker 1: I want affection. What I'm a what's now? That means
Speaker 1: I ain't holding it down. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Be careful before you answer that question, fellas. Valentine's Day's Friday.
Speaker 2: Everybody forgot about that, didn't you. Valentine's Day is coming up,
Speaker 2: It's Valentine's Day weekend, perfect time to express your emotion.
Speaker 1: Set the stage from now. Listen to your boy.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to tell you, okay, what about Serena
Speaker 2: and her husband. The incident was used to broach a
Speaker 2: different kind of discussion.
Speaker 1: Some dudes.
Speaker 2: To my married boy, Galen, especially because you know, you
Speaker 2: know him. You know what I'm saying saying. I mean
Speaker 2: he got to be here. I mean he he got
Speaker 2: to be doctor Phil one day, uh and doctor Drew
Speaker 2: the next. You're always trying to get in. It's always
Speaker 2: timed around Valentine's Day and birthday and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: He think he's slick, but it's okay, or as all right,
Speaker 2: it's okay. We want to be in touch with our emotions.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying, folks, is that every man is not
Speaker 2: secure under every situation and circumstance and through.
Speaker 1: No fault of a woman.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you'll find yourself in a precarious situation with a
Speaker 2: man because of his own insecurities that he may or
Speaker 2: may not have verbalized to you.
Speaker 1: If you had And this is not clearly what Serena did,
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not talking about her fellas. What if
Speaker 1: you had.
Speaker 2: Your woman and she saw a friend, just a friend,
Speaker 2: never been with him, or he could be gay, or
Speaker 2: it could be something. And what if you had a
Speaker 2: woman and just in your presence, she just ran and
Speaker 2: jumped into the arms of another.
Speaker 1: Man right in front of you.
Speaker 2: Clearly wasn't doing anything, totally innocent, he could be just
Speaker 2: a friend, but she leaped off her feet and jumped
Speaker 2: into his arms.
Speaker 1: How would you feel you insecured?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: What if you ran in.
Speaker 2: To a female friend of yours in the presence of
Speaker 2: your girl, and you picked her up off her feet
Speaker 2: and spun her around and gave her this beautiful big hug.
Speaker 2: How do you think your girls feel about it? See
Speaker 2: me want to act like I'm speaking a foreign language,
Speaker 2: but we know better. There's a lot of us out
Speaker 2: here that have insecurities. Last time I checked. That's human
Speaker 2: if y'all disagree, I'm sorry y'all liing, and you choose
Speaker 2: the lot of the public, even if it's to yourself.
Speaker 1: But that's just me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be somebody that just spews this
Speaker 2: rhetoric and I don't get a perspective from someone different
Speaker 2: than myself. So I'm gonna introduce my next guest to
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Speaker 1: I'm going with more. We don't know the status of Giannis.
Speaker 1: He's been out for a few games.
Speaker 2: That puts more of a load on Damian Lillard, who
Speaker 2: is a scoring machine whenever he wants to be. Do
Speaker 2: I see him putting up twenty seven and a half
Speaker 2: or more versus Anthony Edwards Minnesota Timberwolves. Absolutely, I'm going
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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards scores more or less than thirty and a
Speaker 2: half points with this one, going with less. I know
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Speaker 2: need a collective effort to Rudy go Bears of the world,
Speaker 2: the nas Reeds of the world, and others. They don't
Speaker 2: have to step up and do what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I think Anthony Vera was gonna give him an opportunity
Speaker 2: to do just that. Is he gonna score twenty five
Speaker 2: or twenty six, Sure, but I'm gonna go with him
Speaker 2: less on this particular question. Next up, well, Golden State
Speaker 2: Warrior's point guard Stephan Curry score more or less than
Speaker 2: twenty seven and a half points against Kyrie Irvin and
Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks. Come on, now, I'm going with more.
Speaker 2: It's Steph Curry going up against lay Thompson. Was no
Speaker 2: longer remember the Wold Timberwolves, no more longer member the Warriors.
Speaker 2: He's a member of the MAVs. Steph Curvey ain't gonna
Speaker 2: sit ady bind just let him do his thing, and
Speaker 2: stepth curryin't gonna try to do his thing. I think
Speaker 2: Steph Curry's gonna get loose. You can go with more
Speaker 2: on this one. That's a sure bet in my mind. Finally,
Speaker 2: with Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reeves, will he scored
Speaker 2: more or less than twenty nine points, rebounds and assists
Speaker 2: against you talk, I'm gonna go with more. Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: is really coming to his own. He had a forty
Speaker 2: five point game last week. You look at what he's
Speaker 2: capable of putting up, how he crashes the boys when necessary,
Speaker 2: He scores, assists, he does whatever he needs to do,
Speaker 2: good decision making. He's blossoming under the tutelage of JJ Reddick.
Speaker 2: So I want to get props. With props? Is do
Speaker 2: to go back to my answers? More on Damien Littla,
Speaker 2: less on Anthony Edwards, more on Steph Curry, More on
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves. Surprispects it's more as in more money. That's
Speaker 2: what they like to say. That's what I know happens
Speaker 2: to be true. For more on this story, I want
Speaker 2: to bring in my good friend. You've seen it before,
Speaker 2: we haven't seen it. In a couple of weeks, I
Speaker 2: had a bunch of football and basketball stuff to do,
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But she's back.
Speaker 2: The lovely, the wonderful Miss Tory Cooper is back here
Speaker 2: on the show. God, what's up, Tory?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? You heard what I have to say.
Speaker 1: And if you're getting with my comments.
Speaker 4: You're getting cooked. You're getting cooked on social media and
Speaker 4: just a shade room everywhere. You're getting cooked for this
Speaker 4: one Stephen, you used to that though. It's fine that.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's two things happening. What you didn't say
Speaker 4: anything wrong. Okay, you didn't say anything wrong. That as
Speaker 4: a perspective, that is out there, but you have to
Speaker 4: acknowledge the other part of the conversation, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, if your man is
Speaker 4: cool with this, your man is school with this. Okay,
Speaker 4: your man is school with this. Your man is school
Speaker 4: with this. You have to have that conversation. And it
Speaker 4: starts and stops there.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So her man said, look, this was bigger than Drake,
Speaker 4: and she said, this was bigger than Drake. This is
Speaker 4: because if you look back at the history of it,
Speaker 4: go back to twenty twelve when she won the Olympics,
Speaker 4: she did the crip walk. She got pushed back for it,
Speaker 4: and it's because they said, you know, you shouldn't be
Speaker 4: doing a performance like that, you know, dancing on a
Speaker 4: public stage like that that has gained connotations to the
Speaker 4: dance that you're doing. Now we know that she is
Speaker 4: reclaiming and celebrating her past. She's from Compton, Kendrick's from Compton, California, Bloods,
Speaker 4: the crips. There was symbolism in the Kendrick Lamar super
Speaker 4: Bowl performance, and so this was those two moments in
Speaker 4: one and all. So that was her way of saying, like, look,
Speaker 4: you're not gonna steal the dance I love doing and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it on the super Bowl stage. So
Speaker 4: if my man is cool with me reclaiming my narrative,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Be cool with it. But listen to what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Listen what I'm saying. Nobody's disputing that. Nobody's having a
Speaker 2: problem with that. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: Do your thing I'm saying. I used it to springboard
Speaker 2: to a general gender kind of conversation or relationships, say
Speaker 2: gender a relationship kind of conversation. Most men, when if
Speaker 2: they look at you and they saw that you were
Speaker 2: given energy in any way to your ex they would
Speaker 2: be like you with me. You're supposed to be happy
Speaker 2: with me? Why is your ex getting that kind of energy?
Speaker 2: Just like a woman if she sees you giving any
Speaker 2: kind of energy you. I mean, time's dudes go off
Speaker 2: and they're pissed off about an ex and a woman
Speaker 2: is looking at her, going like this.
Speaker 1: What's he so mad about? Why is he in that way?
Speaker 1: I mean, what's his problem? He's with me? Why is
Speaker 1: he worried about?
Speaker 3: Ha?
Speaker 1: You trying to tell me women don't do that.
Speaker 4: Of course they do, of course they do. But in
Speaker 4: this situation, I really believe they you. It's bigger than that.
Speaker 4: So of course you're gonna get cooked online though for this,
Speaker 4: because they're saying, why are you even coming for Serena?
Speaker 4: This was so much bigger And they're saying two things.
Speaker 4: But what I want to say is two things can
Speaker 4: be real and can be true. And I do say
Speaker 4: I do agree with what you're saying that, yes, this
Speaker 4: is a conversation that's out there. Men are the ones
Speaker 4: who at times feel this way that why are you
Speaker 4: gonna be forty with two kids out there and giving
Speaker 4: this type of energy to another man? There is that
Speaker 4: conversation out there and the people who are not gonna
Speaker 4: act like they maybe have that feeling towards it. You
Speaker 4: know that they may not. But there are men that
Speaker 4: hold that perspective. But I think at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, as long as you're having that conversation with
Speaker 4: your man, that's what matters.
Speaker 2: But Tory, what I'm saying to use this, I ain't
Speaker 2: bring up the kids. I didn't bring up her age.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying is you're in a relationship and happy
Speaker 2: with your men. Not forget Serena and her husband. Again,
Speaker 2: that was the springboard towards a bigger conversation because we
Speaker 2: were just joking about that, but it was like, there
Speaker 2: you know that kind of energy. Of Course she has
Speaker 2: the right to do it. Of course there's nobody's business.
Speaker 2: Of Course she could do what she wants to do.
Speaker 2: She doesn't deserve to be insulting. And now that does
Speaker 2: a husband. I'm saying off of a general conversation, there's
Speaker 2: plenty of men that would have an issue with their
Speaker 2: woman showing any kind of energy.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, can I get a little personal story?
Speaker 1: Can I get little person? Okay? Okay, you know you
Speaker 1: know you you expressed you know you. You know you're
Speaker 1: pretty happy. You know you found a man in your
Speaker 1: dreams and you know you're very, very happy and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I want to ask a question about you, man.
Speaker 1: Nobody got to know who he is.
Speaker 2: If you're a man, if saw you on on a stage,
Speaker 2: given it could be negative, but given extra energy.
Speaker 1: To an ax, how would you fee.
Speaker 4: I'd have to ask him. I'd have to ask him beforehand,
Speaker 4: Steven have to ask man had this conversation, so you
Speaker 4: know what stephen A. I would assume that it could
Speaker 4: be a touchy area, and that's why I would have
Speaker 4: the conversation with him. Okay, before I would even step.
Speaker 2: Foot got you, no problem. But what I'm saying to
Speaker 2: you is this toy. Is it possible that you know
Speaker 2: him already? And because I'm not talking about Serena and
Speaker 2: a husband, forget that now, I'm talking general man women,
Speaker 2: is it fair to say that you would.
Speaker 1: Never put yourself in that position because he's a man
Speaker 1: and you know how he probably feel.
Speaker 4: Again, it's still a super Bowl. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I'm still gonna reach out to my man and see
Speaker 4: how he feels about it. I'm gonna see how he
Speaker 4: feels about it because if this meant so much to me,
Speaker 4: if I had this lore, this background of this dance
Speaker 4: was basically criticized, and then now I have a to
Speaker 4: do that same dance on a Super Bowl stage in
Speaker 4: a symbolic message to America. I'm I'm gonna want to
Speaker 4: potentially take that and I'm gonna still talk to my man.
Speaker 4: Don't see how it feels about it. But it's so
Speaker 4: much bigger than some guy. It was kind of maybe dating,
Speaker 4: and I shared a few kisses with and was caught
Speaker 4: taking pictures.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like they didn't even really come out and
Speaker 4: really express how much their relationship was. You know, and
Speaker 4: you've probably had relationships to stephen A that maybe aren't
Speaker 4: as in depth and we're as serious and maybe don't
Speaker 4: deserve all this energy either, But that is to your
Speaker 4: point too. She didn't give a lot of energy to
Speaker 4: this moment.
Speaker 2: But I didn't give a lot of energy to it
Speaker 2: until everybody was on social media going on. All I
Speaker 2: did was joke about it on national TV for thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: That's all I did. And by the way, I got
Speaker 2: one of my peeps here want to make sure because
Speaker 2: I want to make sure.
Speaker 1: I gotta be fair. I got to be fair. I
Speaker 1: to give the information. R I got to Oh my god,
Speaker 1: faugh be it for me for fail to give the information.
Speaker 2: Right, Drake di Serena's husband this is in a past,
Speaker 2: so her doing that was also a slap in Drake's
Speaker 2: face for distress expecting her and the husband.
Speaker 1: Here was the Drake. There was the lyrics in Drake's
Speaker 1: song about it.
Speaker 2: Sidebar Serena, your husband a groupie, he claimed, we don't
Speaker 2: got a problem, but no, boo, it is like you
Speaker 2: coming for sushi.
Speaker 1: That's what he wrote. Okay, I don't know the damn song.
Speaker 1: I don't care. All I'm saying is all I'm saying,
Speaker 1: is you a dude, most dude. This is what pisses
Speaker 1: me off.
Speaker 2: See you, women, you got men scared of their own
Speaker 2: damn shadow, so they got to agree with you, even
Speaker 2: when they know our nature from time to time.
Speaker 1: As men, most not all.
Speaker 2: If you have a woman in your life who is
Speaker 2: showing extra energy of any kind to an x, it
Speaker 2: will raise an eyebrow and elevate suspicion, which is why
Speaker 2: women who don't want to lose their man watch out
Speaker 2: for stuff like that, And when they don't.
Speaker 1: Watch out for stuff like that, it's because they've reached.
Speaker 2: The point where they don't care because he might have
Speaker 2: pissed them off.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you to let me ask you, so
Speaker 4: you don't think she had this conversation with her husband.
Speaker 4: They did have this conversation.
Speaker 1: I think she did.
Speaker 2: Okay, so she did, But why do you keep ignoring
Speaker 2: the fact that But why But why do you keep
Speaker 2: ignoring the fact that it wasn't about her? It was
Speaker 2: springboarding towards the male female dynamic and how most men
Speaker 2: would feel if their woman.
Speaker 1: Was in that position that is necessarily specifically Serena.
Speaker 4: Okay, No, I know, and I see that point too.
Speaker 4: There is a gender. There is a gender. A point
Speaker 4: about gender that you're trying to make about how there
Speaker 4: are men out there that share this perspective and the
Speaker 4: ones that didn't under your defense and social media and
Speaker 4: basically left you hanging high and dry, acting like they
Speaker 4: don't feel that way. It's not true. But they're not
Speaker 4: trying to get cooked like you.
Speaker 2: That's what it is, is that because of Valentine's Day,
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Valentine's coming out. Yeah, they're not trying to stir the bot.
Speaker 4: We're not trying to stir the bot.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: Things are good.
Speaker 4: They got their Valentine's Day plans, they got the fake roses,
Speaker 4: they got the chocolates. The last thing they want to
Speaker 4: hear about is that they don't want to hear about.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So this is how you feel about that.
Speaker 2: So, so, Tory, check out what I'm gonna do. Check
Speaker 2: out what I'm gonna do, because see I'm a man
Speaker 2: of the people. I'm a man of the people. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do, Tory is I'm gonna look
Speaker 2: out for all the fellas on behalf of all the fellas.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take this on the chin. I'm gonna act
Speaker 2: like it's just me.
Speaker 1: Shaney ain't got none to do with this. I see,
Speaker 1: ain't got nonhing to do with this. Den Or Laws
Speaker 1: ain't got none to do this. All the men out
Speaker 1: there on social media, y'all ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it. I'm gonna take this on the chin for
Speaker 1: the fellas seem gonna act like it's just me. Let
Speaker 1: me when I know dan Well is most of the
Speaker 1: male species. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: So do you feel you really do feel that way personally.
Speaker 4: This is your personal belief of how you would feel
Speaker 4: it in this situation, because people want to know where
Speaker 4: you fall in certain places for certain copies. This is
Speaker 4: where you feel.
Speaker 1: Hell, yes, let me put you this way. If I had.
Speaker 2: A woman who was going to perform on stage on
Speaker 2: a disk track, during a disk track for her ex boyfriend,
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: Look at her and go like this, what fuck do
Speaker 1: you think you're doing? What's the probble? Why do you
Speaker 1: feel the need to do that. I would look at
Speaker 1: her like what tell me why you need to do that?
Speaker 1: But that's me.
Speaker 2: If Serena's husband do that, that's his business, it's prerogative.
Speaker 2: I'm not insaulting him at all. I'm telling you what
Speaker 2: I would do. Yeah, And I would raise an eyebrow.
Speaker 2: So he affects you that way.
Speaker 1: Huh? He still got that kind of fact? Really okay?
Speaker 2: Because you know, I mean, I think I'm gifted enough
Speaker 2: in a variety of ways not to be a consolation
Speaker 2: prize for anybody. And I would instantly be thinking of
Speaker 2: myself as a consolation prize if I saw that kind
Speaker 2: of energy.
Speaker 1: That's just me being honest as a dude. If other
Speaker 1: dudes don't want to be honest enough to admit that.
Speaker 1: That's on them. To the ladies out there. I don't
Speaker 1: mind being vulnerable. I don't mind expressing myself, just showing
Speaker 1: you where my heart lives. Is it is it?
Speaker 4: Is it annoying to you because of the message it
Speaker 4: sends to other people?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. I just I just think that
Speaker 1: men are not being honest.
Speaker 2: I just think that the guys out there that are
Speaker 2: spoken against it from me, not Serena and her husband
Speaker 2: for the last time, in general, the male female dynamic
Speaker 2: relationship dynamic. I don't think men are being honest about that.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying to you is most men that I
Speaker 2: know feel that way, whether they willing to admit it or.
Speaker 1: Not, that's on them. It's a damn shame that I've
Speaker 1: been left to stand alone on this issue.
Speaker 2: That's all I gotta say, Tory, I gotta run, all right.
Speaker 2: I gotta get on out of here for the moment, anyway.
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Speaker 2: Now, it's time to get to the NBA where history
Speaker 2: was made in Phoenix last night as Kevin Durant became
Speaker 2: the eighth player in NBA history to score thirty thousand points.
Speaker 2: It happened on two free throws last night and the
Speaker 2: third quarter as the Suns lost to the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 2: one nineteen one twelve. Durant joins an elite scoring group
Speaker 2: that includes Lebron James, Kareem abdu Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan, Dirk Novitski, and the one and only Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 2: By the way, Lebron is the only player in league
Speaker 2: history to score more than.
Speaker 1: Forty thousand points.
Speaker 2: As for Durant, the four time NBA Scoring Champion, remains
Speaker 2: one of the league's best shot makers, currently averaging just
Speaker 2: over twenty seven points per game in his seventeenth season.
Speaker 2: I've said this early on Television'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant is one of the top.
Speaker 1: Ten players in the history of basketball.
Speaker 2: I challenge anybody to find me a dude that's six
Speaker 2: feet eleven seven feet tall that could do the things
Speaker 2: he can do with the basketball on the perimeter, beyond
Speaker 2: the arc, mid range game. It doesn't matter. He's a
Speaker 2: bona fide professional pure scorer. It's who he is, and
Speaker 2: strictly when it speaks to scoring as opposed to overall play,
Speaker 2: I can make an argument that duran as one of
Speaker 2: the top three scorers in the history of basketball. Do
Speaker 2: y'all know that after twelve years in the NBA he
Speaker 2: had torn his achilles and since that time he's actually
Speaker 2: shot better and more efficiently than he was doing before
Speaker 2: his injury. Fifty three percent from the field, forty one
Speaker 2: percent from three point range. That's what he's done in
Speaker 2: the last four plus years since he's been back from
Speaker 2: that achilles here, he's been averaging twenty seven point six
Speaker 2: points since he turned thirty. No NBA player in history
Speaker 2: has done that. This is who Kevin Durant is now.
Speaker 2: I know it's shocking because he got pissed at me
Speaker 2: and he called me a clown because I questioned his
Speaker 2: leadership and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: He could be mad all he wants to.
Speaker 2: The man got swept to it the last three years
Speaker 2: and would have lost in the first round of third
Speaker 2: straight year. I Kawhilon hadn't gotten hurt. But nothing takes
Speaker 2: away from his greatness as a basketball player. Nothing's going
Speaker 2: to stop me from acknowledging it, and I happen to
Speaker 2: the believe no matter what he said about me, he's
Speaker 2: a pretty damn good dude. He just gets emotional sometimes
Speaker 2: and then he lashes out, but he's a good brother.
Speaker 2: He's never cheated the game he steps.
Speaker 1: On the court.
Speaker 2: He performs at a high level all the time. Now,
Speaker 2: are there some questions about the intangibles? Yes, does he
Speaker 2: have the intangibles to lead, meaning to maximize the potential
Speaker 2: around him, to make sure guys are doing what they're
Speaker 2: supposed to do. That remains a question mark, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. But having said that, there's still no question
Speaker 2: his greatness. This dude's one of the greatest players in
Speaker 2: the NBA history and one of the top three greatest
Speaker 2: scorers in the history of basketball.
Speaker 1: Look at the numbers.
Speaker 2: They speak for themselves, ladies, gentlemen, He's the greatest scorer
Speaker 2: than Lebron James. Ladies, gentlemen, he's a greatest scorer than
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant. And you know that's damn they're sacrilegious to say.
Speaker 2: But Kobe wasn't six feet eleven with a seven six
Speaker 2: wings band. That was KD Trey. That was Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: The only person that I would say wasn't a better
Speaker 2: scorer than was Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: But KD is that dude.
Speaker 2: Remember he missed time when he was in Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: with the foot injury. He definitely missed tim when he
Speaker 2: tore the Achilles KD selling special, y'all, and I'm not
Speaker 2: going to deny him his props under any circumstances. Congrats
Speaker 2: to him joining the thirty thousand club. I don't think
Speaker 2: he'll make it to forty because he'll have to average
Speaker 2: about two thousand points a season for the next five years.
Speaker 2: And you know he's over thirty five, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: He don't play till he's forty forty two or whatever.
Speaker 2: But hell, I can't put nothing past him because he's
Speaker 2: that dude, no doubt about it. Congratulations and props to
Speaker 2: the one and only Kevin Durant coming up. Kanye West
Speaker 2: is making headlines again.
Speaker 1: For all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 2: I'll get into that straight ahead, but first Elon Musk
Speaker 2: holds a press conference inside the Oval Office with President
Speaker 2: Trump sitting.
Speaker 1: Right next door.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next right here on the steven A.
Speaker 2: Smithshaw Wait until you hear what I have to say
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Steven A.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: The nation's capital where Americans saw a different image of
Speaker 2: power coming from the White House. Elon Musk, the world's
Speaker 2: richest man and new head of the Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 2: god of the press conference from the Oval Office with
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald Trump sitting right
Speaker 2: next to him. Both men defended their efforts to enact
Speaker 2: sweeping changes to the federal government and limit spending. The
Speaker 2: move comes as Trump signed an executive order yet another
Speaker 2: one providing new guidance for federal agencies to cut what
Speaker 2: both men characterize as excessive government spending.
Speaker 6: Mister Musk, including a lot of Democrats, I have detractors,
Speaker 6: I don't believe it, say that you're orchestrating a hostile
Speaker 6: takeover of government and doing it in a non transparent way.
Speaker 1: What's your response to that criticism.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger
Speaker 7: mandate from the public. The people voted for major government reform.
Speaker 7: There should be no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: That was on the campaign.
Speaker 7: The President spoke about that at every rally. The people
Speaker 7: voted for major government reform, and that's what people are
Speaker 7: going to get. They're going to get what they voted for.
Speaker 6: Mister Busk.
Speaker 8: The White House says that you will identify and excuse
Speaker 8: yourself from any conflict of interest that you may have.
Speaker 8: Does that mean that you are in effect policing yourself.
Speaker 8: What are the checks and balances that are in place
Speaker 8: to ensure that there is accountability and transparency.
Speaker 7: Well, we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible.
Speaker 7: In fact, our actions we post our actions to the
Speaker 7: DOGE handle on x and to the DOGE web site,
Speaker 7: so all of our actions which are maximally transparent. In fact,
Speaker 7: I don't think there's been I don't know of a
Speaker 7: case that we're organization's been more transparent than the those organizations,
Speaker 7: and I fully expect to be scrutinized and get a
Speaker 7: daily proctology exam. Basically, I so well just camp out there.
Speaker 7: So it's not like I think I can get away
Speaker 7: with something. I'll be scrutinized, not stop.
Speaker 5: And we thought that we would not let him do
Speaker 5: that segment or look in that area if we thought
Speaker 5: there was a lack of transparency or a conflict of interest,
Speaker 5: And we watched that.
Speaker 8: Also, if a judge does block one of your policies
Speaker 8: part of your agenda, will you abide by that ruling?
Speaker 3: Will you? Well, I always abide by the courts, and
Speaker 3: then I'll have to appeal it. But then what he's
Speaker 3: done is he's slowed down the momentum and it gives
Speaker 3: crooked people more time to cover up the books. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the answer is I always abide by the courts, always
Speaker 3: abide by him, and will appeal.
Speaker 2: You know, I listened to Elon Musk speaking there. I
Speaker 2: listened to Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, forty seventh President
Speaker 2: of the United States, formerly the forty fifth President of
Speaker 2: the United States, speaking there.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching Democrats.
Speaker 2: Protesting on Capitol Hill, demanding justice, highlighting that nobody elected Elon.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing politicians rightfully, so I might add.
Speaker 2: Emphasizing the need to not stand pat and just wait
Speaker 2: to make change come midterm elections.
Speaker 1: They're not wrong. We don't need to stand out of
Speaker 1: by and wait until the midterm elections. Folks do need
Speaker 1: to speak out, especially I elected officials.
Speaker 2: But like I told y'all before, my politics, regardless of
Speaker 2: what you want to think, because most of the time
Speaker 2: I vote Democrat, that's usually involving the presidency. I didn't
Speaker 2: tell you how I vote for a gubernatorial seat or
Speaker 2: a mayoral seat or anything like that. But that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. The point is I pride myself and
Speaker 2: being a centrist. I'll openly confess that most people on
Speaker 2: my team are not.
Speaker 1: They're leftist.
Speaker 2: I'll openly confess that a lot of people that I
Speaker 2: work for and whatever, and regardless of what they say,
Speaker 2: I think they're rights.
Speaker 1: They're not fooling anybody. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I look at the information and I'm going to call
Speaker 2: balls and strikes like I see them.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is a problem. He is a problem.
Speaker 2: Because he's the world's richest man. According to numerous reports,
Speaker 2: he's received money from our government because he's in business
Speaker 2: with the government, whether it's Skylink, Tesla or whatever. I
Speaker 2: don't have that information in front of me. And he's
Speaker 2: not an elected official. So not only have the people
Speaker 2: not elected him, he wasn't even confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 2: He's just Trump's guy. That is an incredible, incredible reason
Speaker 2: to be alarmed, especially when they're looking at have access
Speaker 2: to the Treasury Treasury, thereby giving them access to private
Speaker 2: information involving every American citizen in this country.
Speaker 1: Certainly there's a reason to be very, very alarmed. Nobody's
Speaker 1: denying that.
Speaker 2: But you see, I'm fair minded. There's a flip side.
Speaker 2: I don't know about y'all, but aren't you a little
Speaker 2: bit suspicious about watching a bunch of Democrats raise holy
Speaker 2: hell over his access before we find out whatever it
Speaker 2: is that he's found out. I don't know about y'all,
Speaker 2: but I don't want laws being broken. I don't want
Speaker 2: the Constitution being ignored or violated. I don't want the
Speaker 2: civil liberties of American citizens being compromised.
Speaker 1: All of that is true, but I have to confess.
Speaker 2: I do want to know how much money politicians are
Speaker 2: getting from the moment they arrive on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: What are your investments. Who did you invest with?
Speaker 2: What kind of information did you get access to to
Speaker 2: enable you to make those investments so.
Speaker 1: You can make money? Do the American people have the
Speaker 1: same access you have? We damn sure.
Speaker 2: I don't have the same health care. From my understanding,
Speaker 2: these are questions. Why do we have a problem knowing
Speaker 2: that the answers to them. Inquiring minds would like to know.
Speaker 2: You're an elected official. That makes you a public figure.
Speaker 2: I think Trump should have given us access to his books.
Speaker 2: I think it should have been mandated when he was
Speaker 2: running for election at twenty fifteen into twenty sixteen. How
Speaker 2: in the hell did he not have to show us
Speaker 2: his tax returns? That should have been mandatory. I got
Speaker 2: a red flag up about Musk too. I'll be damned
Speaker 2: if I trust Trump. But nearly eighty million people have spoken,
Speaker 2: regardless of what the Democrats want to tell us, and
Speaker 2: I hear like the number was like two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty thousand out of millions.
Speaker 1: That's what it ultimately came down to.
Speaker 2: The different it's in the polls between Kamala Harris and
Speaker 2: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is. He won every swing state on about
Speaker 1: fifty counties.
Speaker 2: He increased in the black, the Hispanic and the young
Speaker 2: voter demographic, and the white woman that was supposed to
Speaker 2: come out and be against him and droves because of
Speaker 2: his position on Roe V. Wade didn't equate to him
Speaker 2: not being re elected. Somewhere along the line said miss it,
Speaker 2: I understand the uproar. I understand the need for the
Speaker 2: Democrats to make noise di is another thing. We'll be
Speaker 2: revisiting that in the days, in the weeks to come,
Speaker 2: make no mistake about it. But understand on its premise
Speaker 2: to have somebody elected in office targeting excessive government spending.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out, how is the tax payer
Speaker 2: supposed to be appalled and put off and threatened by
Speaker 2: that exposure being revealed to us? If I'm not trusting Musk,
Speaker 2: I'm not trusting Trump. But I'll be damned if I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear what they have to say about
Speaker 2: where to hell millions upon millions of dollars of tax
Speaker 2: payer money has gone or I want all those details.
Speaker 1: Every penny if you can find out, I want it all.
Speaker 2: Where has this money been appropriated to, who has it
Speaker 2: been appropriated by?
Speaker 1: What level of benefit did they incur? From it and
Speaker 1: who suffered because of it.
Speaker 2: There are strong questions to ask coming down the pike,
Speaker 2: especially with these executive orders Trump is handed it down.
Speaker 2: You want to get rid of the Department of Education, Well,
Speaker 2: what kind of damage is that going to do? Where
Speaker 2: will we be as a country without the Department of Education?
Speaker 2: What tentacles does it have and does it reach that
Speaker 2: could detrimentally affect the American people? And if you don't
Speaker 2: have a Department of Education, how specifically is that going
Speaker 2: to benefit our country. I want to hear about all
Speaker 2: of that. I want to hear about that with the
Speaker 2: CIA or a bunch of people that.
Speaker 9: You asked to resign or take off or take seven.
Speaker 2: Back, whatever you did. I want to hear that with
Speaker 2: d I. I want to hear that about the FBI.
Speaker 2: I want to hear about everything, because are you doing
Speaker 2: what you're doing to find money to make it look
Speaker 2: like we're doing better because we've located where the money
Speaker 2: is gone, and we've identified we're accessiuspending.
Speaker 1: Needs to be targeted so we don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that anymore.
Speaker 2: Are you doing it to dismantle the government in such
Speaker 2: a way that we don't really have one, and we're
Speaker 2: at the behast in the mercy of Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, because if the latter is true, then our
Speaker 2: democracy is in danger, an autocracy.
Speaker 1: Is being get detained.
Speaker 2: If the latter is true, we don't know. Perhaps we'll
Speaker 2: find out sooner than later, but I know this much.
Speaker 2: I want to know where the money is, where the
Speaker 2: money is gone, and who the hell's been spending it
Speaker 2: and how much did they take for themselves. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: want to know that, even if it comes from some
Speaker 2: South African dude worth billions that has no relation to
Speaker 2: me whatsoever. My interest is in where the money resides,
Speaker 2: where the money resides, where the money resides, where the
Speaker 2: money resides. Okay, that's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 1: Coming up showing did he come slaps NBC.
Speaker 2: Universal with a one hundred million dollar lawsuit? Will it
Speaker 2: mean anything for his upcoming trial? I'll get into that,
Speaker 2: but first, what the hell is going on with Kanye West?
Speaker 2: I've got the latest headlines on the disturbing headlines surrounding
Speaker 2: this brother.
Speaker 1: All that and more next right here on The Stephen A.
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Speaker 2: I should say I want to, but I really don't
Speaker 2: want to. But I have to get into Kanye West
Speaker 2: and his series of disturbing headlines surrounding this entertainer.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I don't even know I gonna call him entertaining anymore
Speaker 2: stuff he's getting himself into. West has been sued and
Speaker 2: dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream
Speaker 2: of anti semitic views on x That account has since
Speaker 2: been shut down. He also put t shirts with a
Speaker 2: swatstickup on sale in his online shop that was also
Speaker 2: deactivated by Shopify. The company issued a statement that read,
Speaker 2: in part, quote, all merchants are responsible for following the
Speaker 2: rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in
Speaker 2: authentic commerce practices and violated our terms, so we removed
Speaker 2: them end quote, and yes they A former employee of
Speaker 2: West filed the lawsuit the Los Angeles accusing him of
Speaker 2: wrongful termination, citing gender and religious discrimination.
Speaker 1: The woman, who is.
Speaker 2: Jewish, alleged he fired her after sending a series of
Speaker 2: anti Semitic text messages.
Speaker 1: Wes has not commented on.
Speaker 2: A lawsuit all the actions of Shopify that shut down
Speaker 2: his online website.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's real easy.
Speaker 2: To insult Kanye West. Yay, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a plea. I'm gonna try to talk
Speaker 2: to the brother. Kanye West is one brilliant dude. His
Speaker 2: artistry and the brilliance of that artistry cannot be denied.
Speaker 2: Once a billionaire who knows what he is now with
Speaker 2: the damage that he has done to his brand, speaks
Speaker 2: for itself and we don't need to revisit that. But
Speaker 2: my brother, what do you trying to do? Have you
Speaker 2: really asked yourself that question? You see ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: so many people. I'm not gonna go there because I
Speaker 2: know Kanye West lost his mother. I lost my mother
Speaker 2: after long battle with cancer. I can sincerely say to
Speaker 2: you from the bottom of my heart, there is no
Speaker 2: pain that I've ever felt in my life that comes
Speaker 2: close to the pain of losing my mother. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna bore y'all with this. I've told y'all list in
Speaker 2: the past. I think of her every day, every night.
Speaker 2: Anybody who's had a wonderful mom in their life, I
Speaker 2: can assure you there is never a full twenty four
Speaker 2: hours that goes by that misery doesn't touch you.
Speaker 1: Simply because she's not there.
Speaker 2: She's not there to hug, she's not there to get
Speaker 2: on you, scream at you, hug you, love you, whatever
Speaker 2: you just miss. I'd give anything to see my mother
Speaker 2: right now, yelling at me, getting on me about something
Speaker 2: stupid I may have done.
Speaker 1: There is no pain.
Speaker 2: I don't outside of a parent losing their child. There
Speaker 2: is no pain greater than losing a good mama or
Speaker 2: a great one. Anybody that lost their mother knows what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, especially the dudes.
Speaker 1: Not to dismiss women.
Speaker 2: Of course, you love your mamas and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: but just like women could be daddy's girls, boys and
Speaker 2: men could be mama's boys. And you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: People have speculated that Kanye hasn't been the same since
Speaker 2: his mom passed away.
Speaker 1: The only part about.
Speaker 2: That that's alarming as opposed to understanding, is that whether
Speaker 2: it's grabbing anc from Taylor Swift and talking about how
Speaker 2: Beyonce deserved the award instead of her years ago, or
Speaker 2: the myriad of things he has done since, there seems
Speaker 2: to be no regard for the potential hurt in pain
Speaker 2: that he may cause others In a moment courtesy of
Speaker 2: one of his diatribes, and at some point in time
Speaker 2: that's got to end. I remember one of the most
Speaker 2: riveting moments I saw on video social media was when
Speaker 2: my man Van Lathen was working for TMZ and Kanye
Speaker 2: West came to this studio and said a few things.
Speaker 2: And I don't recall what it was, but I remember
Speaker 2: Van Lathen laid him out with such eloquence, with such sincere,
Speaker 2: heartfelt disappointment. Even Kanye had to roll up on him
Speaker 2: and say, come on, brother, let me talk to you,
Speaker 2: because Van acknowledge. Man, I'm hurt, brother by what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Anybody just just google Van Lathen Kanye. I promise you
Speaker 2: it'll show up when Van lay thing Kanye.
Speaker 1: TMZ.
Speaker 2: You just find yourself looking at Yay these days and
Speaker 2: wondering who's the next Van Lathen that you're gonna hit
Speaker 2: like that, that's gonna be in a position to tell
Speaker 2: you what you're doing is so wrong and so unnecessary.
Speaker 2: I am not disrespecting Yay, not trying to do that.
Speaker 2: He's doing that to himself, bringing up his wife. That's
Speaker 2: his business. It's far more serious than you know what
Speaker 2: we've talked about with Serena and her husband.
Speaker 1: All that stuff that was just fun. This is some
Speaker 1: serious stuff here, and I just hope that.
Speaker 2: Somebody's able to touch Yay in a way that can
Speaker 2: get him to stop doing this. And you don't have
Speaker 2: to go back to giving us beautiful music and all
Speaker 2: of this other stuff. You can simply go away and
Speaker 2: live your best life, or try to be a constructive
Speaker 2: voice that really really touches on the issues in a
Speaker 2: constructive way that would provoke people wanting to listen to
Speaker 2: what you have to say instead of running, instead of
Speaker 2: wanting to run away from your words because they're too piercing,
Speaker 2: too damaging, and too unnecessary. That's all I want to
Speaker 2: say about that. I wish he ain't nothing but the best,
Speaker 2: but he just seems to be on this mission. You
Speaker 2: know what they say, hurt people, hurt people. He seems
Speaker 2: to be hurt and determined to distribute hurt and I
Speaker 2: just don't understand it, because he's such a brilliant, brilliant brother.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand it. Before I get on out
Speaker 2: of here, I want to address the latest news on
Speaker 2: Sean Diddy. Combs Combs lawyers for the music mogul father
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollar lawsuit today accused of NBC Universal
Speaker 2: and Peacock for defamation. The suitors related to claims made
Speaker 2: by accuses in the documentary Diddy The Making of a
Speaker 2: Bad Boy released earlier this year. The documentary makes several
Speaker 2: claims against Combs, including the sexual assault of minors, and
Speaker 2: accuses him of murdering a series of rivals and close friends,
Speaker 2: including longtime partner Kimberley, Porter Raptors, Christopher Biggie Wait, of
Speaker 2: course notorious Big and Heavy d whose given name is
Speaker 2: the White Arrington Myers. Diddy's attorneys release the statement related
Speaker 2: to the suit that reads, in part quote and making
Speaker 2: and broadcasting these falsehoods, among others, the companies seek only
Speaker 2: to capitalize on a public's appetite for scandal, without any
Speaker 2: regard for the truth, and at the expense of mister
Speaker 2: Coles's right to a fair trial. Mister Coles brings this
Speaker 2: lawsuit to hold them accountable for the extraordinary damage their reckless.
Speaker 1: Statements have caused. End quote.
Speaker 2: Colmebs is currently being held in jail on federal sex
Speaker 2: trafficking and racketeering charges. As you all know, his trial
Speaker 2: is expected to begin later this spring. Let me say
Speaker 2: this because it's important. I don't know about the innocence
Speaker 2: or guilt of P Diddy. One could easily presume he's
Speaker 2: guilty because of the video we saw of him beating
Speaker 2: up his ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura. One would surmise, based
Speaker 2: on these docu series that have been put out about them,
Speaker 2: that there's a strong level of guilt. I have one
Speaker 2: person's look at me and say, if any of it
Speaker 2: is true, he's a monster. Here's what I have to say.
Speaker 2: His lawyer is right, His lawyer is right. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: this is America. You are innocent until proving guilty in
Speaker 2: the court of law. For those of you quit to say,
Speaker 2: that's not applicable to the court of public opinion, let
Speaker 2: me remind you of something. While that is true, undoubtedly so,
Speaker 2: it does not negate the fact that the court of
Speaker 2: public opinion can influence the court of law, and by
Speaker 2: virtue of that reality, certain things shouldn't be exposed to
Speaker 2: the court of public opinion until a trial takes place.
Speaker 1: See that's the problem. I said this a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. It is wrong for these networks to be
Speaker 1: allowed to do these kinds of shows.
Speaker 2: On him before his trial. Do whatever you gotta do,
Speaker 2: I do. I'll watch all the old J stuff.
Speaker 1: If you want me to. I remember when when when when.
Speaker 2: Courtney Vance imitated Johnny Cochrane, he was sensational. Okay, watching
Speaker 2: you know the old J stuff, and I get that.
Speaker 2: But to do something before the trial makes it that
Speaker 2: much harder for the defense team to find a jury
Speaker 2: of his peers who are unbiased and neutral and will
Speaker 2: only judge based on the evidence presented than the court
Speaker 2: of law.
Speaker 1: It's not right, even if he's guilty, it's.
Speaker 2: Not right, since his guilt hasn't been proven yet, for
Speaker 2: somebody to be allowed to be broadcasting these pieces talking
Speaker 2: about him. He can't defend himself. He can't say anything.
Speaker 2: He's at the mercy of former handlers, former employees, former
Speaker 2: colleagues or former girlfriends and all of this.
Speaker 1: He can't say anything because he got.
Speaker 2: To deal with sex trafficking and racketeering charges and now
Speaker 2: is when everybody comes out with this. There's just something
Speaker 2: wrong with that. There's something wrong with that.
Speaker 1: Innocent until proven guilty news is one thing. The video
Speaker 1: by seeingn.
Speaker 2: Exposing and beating up Cassie Ventura that's news.
Speaker 1: That's news.
Speaker 2: You know, another charge coming down the pike, another alleged.
Speaker 1: Victim, that's news.
Speaker 2: But a docuseries with a bunch of allegations being thrown
Speaker 2: out about who.
Speaker 9: He was, what he did, how he lived, who he
Speaker 9: did it to, whether or not drugs and alcohol were involved,
Speaker 9: or baby oil and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Homeland Security coming out with us, that's news.
Speaker 1: That's news. The ain't a docuseries. That ain't scandal.
Speaker 2: You know, that's news. That ain't scander. It ain't How
Speaker 2: do you get away with murder? Dexter Ray Donovan and
Speaker 2: shit like it. No, ain't supposed to be that.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to be the news until the trial.
Speaker 2: So I applored his lawyer for taking this position, and
Speaker 2: I think it's important that he puts forth the best
Speaker 2: defense for himself possible, because indeed, it is absolutely true
Speaker 2: that his life is on the line, his brother's in
Speaker 2: trouble in a world is freaking trouble, and I just
Speaker 2: hate to see stuff publicized before he goes to trial.
Speaker 2: It should have been during or after and during if
Speaker 2: they're secluded and they don't have access to see the
Speaker 2: docu series that's being put out of bottle. It's like
Speaker 2: the like there's too many people out there trying to
Speaker 2: luence the public to convict him in the court of
Speaker 2: public opinion, thereby insinuating that it would influence the court
Speaker 2: of law.
Speaker 1: That ain't what our country's supposed to be about. It
Speaker 1: just isn't.
Speaker 2: I gotta get on out of here, but I'll be
Speaker 2: back in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. I hope y'all enjoyed the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks again to the wonderful Tory Recooper for coming on
Speaker 2: and bringing balance to my discussion about Serena Williams and
Speaker 2: her husband and men and women and our insecurities and
Speaker 2: all of.
Speaker 1: This other stuff.
Speaker 2: It's necessary to talk about that stuff sometimes, right. I'll
Speaker 2: give thanks to my little nephew Josh, you know, for
Speaker 2: lying to the public about how he was stuck in
Speaker 2: the airport because it was clearly a scene for video,
Speaker 2: because I'll be damned if he was stuck in the
Speaker 2: damn airport. That's the three days. Please stop, but that's
Speaker 2: what he want to say to y'all, So be it.
Speaker 2: Until next time, everybody piece in love. Stephen A signing
Speaker 2: off talk to you later,