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Speaker 1: Morning. Everybody is DJ n V Charlemagne the guy. We

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Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We got our guest host with

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Speaker 1: us Lilight here this morning, and we got our guests person.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to see, but also not happy to see why.

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Speaker 1: He knows why. Yes, Steve Smith, gentlemen, welcome whatever, It's

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Speaker 1: always good. You know, this man dedicated the whole last

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Speaker 1: chapter to his book Damn Near Slander, and cowboy fans

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Speaker 1: mad at it. I'm like, why I wouldn't say slander.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say slander. I was being factual, and once

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Speaker 1: again I was proven to be correct. I mentioned you

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Speaker 1: on on on, get up the other morning. It's ridiculous, man,

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Speaker 1: these these Dallas cowboy fans and like cockroaches everywhere. I

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Speaker 1: told them, I said, just be patient, eybody. They was

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Speaker 1: winning games. Everybody's the signed. I said, just be patient,

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Speaker 1: it's coming. And sure enough, when the lights got brightest, wow,

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Speaker 1: you'll be happy to though I had no expectations for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, They'll tell you I had none. After thought

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Speaker 1: they were gonna lose the temple. Okay, well, you do

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Speaker 1: understand you're an anomaly. You never I'm most cowboy friends.

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Speaker 1: That's what you have to do. You have to do

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna break your heart broke. That's right. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Knicks do to me. That's what the Cowboy's

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Speaker 1: gonna do to you. That's right. Now. We can talk

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Speaker 1: about sports all day, But you got a book out,

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Speaker 1: an amazing book, by the way. Now you go into

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Speaker 1: your life about this book. Usually you don't talk about

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Speaker 1: your personal life at all. We never hear about your

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Speaker 1: personal some of these stories that I've been hearing, I

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Speaker 1: was like, really have no idea, So why did you

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Speaker 1: decide to talk to go so in depth about your

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Speaker 1: personal Well, first of all, the seat that I sit

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Speaker 1: I pride myself and my character assassinated people. I talk

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Speaker 1: got to give both of y'all props, actually all three

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Speaker 1: and the fact that the matter is the kind of

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Speaker 1: I knew that it was. If I was going to

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Speaker 1: go about doing it. Ain't know the some damn sports book.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be about me, who I am, how

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Speaker 1: I knew I wanted it to be about, you know,

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Speaker 1: my life, et cetera, et cetera. And my mother at

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Speaker 1: So when they're editing, it's calling upon you to revisit

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Speaker 1: don't do this. What would mommy want? What would mommy want?

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Speaker 1: You know what mommy would say? Said, I got it,

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Speaker 1: But then I brought up my mother. I said, my

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Speaker 1: and I don't think I would have gotten to that

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Speaker 1: I didn't say, you are Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Clinton.

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Speaker 1: You cannot get yourself into some nonsense because she running

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Speaker 1: for the president. You understand you can't be out there

425
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Speaker 1: messing up because it's going to bring attention to her

426
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Speaker 1: while she's trying to win the presidency. I didn't bring

427
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Speaker 1: that up because I wasn't thinking about that in a moment.

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Speaker 1: But I'm only bringing that up as an example that

429
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Speaker 1: I should have mentioned because I wasn't trying to make

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Speaker 1: an agenda thing. I'm saying, if if la LA is

431
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Speaker 1: in a public position, if you or you are in

432
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Speaker 1: a public situation in the moment and there's a tension

433
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Speaker 1: that some your spouse or your significant other could potentially

434
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Speaker 1: bring to you that could detrimental, that that can make

435
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Speaker 1: a detrimental to what you're trying to accomplish. They can't

436
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Speaker 1: get in the way of that. That's all I was

437
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Speaker 1: trying to say. I've been in that position. The thing

438
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Speaker 1: is that also nobody in this room has been married

439
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Speaker 1: to an NBA player before. Day in and day out,

440
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: You're hearing about things that are going on. You're getting

441
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Speaker 1: invented to about everything. You have emotions, You act off

442
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,440
Speaker 1: emotions sometimes, so every night you're hearing about this whatever's

443
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Speaker 1: being said, and it's just building up and you get

444
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Speaker 1: protective and then something just set you off and you

445
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Speaker 1: want to say something because you realize your spouse has

446
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Speaker 1: continuously taken the high road. I said earlier, I remember

447
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Speaker 1: a time we talked about it before you came, when

448
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Speaker 1: I think I treated something at Skip Bayliss because I

449
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: was like, yo, enough with the mellow slander every single

450
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Speaker 1: day and he's not saying anything, and I'm just like

451
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Speaker 1: this is enough because now it's affecting the household, it's

452
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Speaker 1: affecting the mood, it's affect so it becomes a bigger thing.

453
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Speaker 1: That's like, somebody got to say something. Now. Is it

454
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Speaker 1: a right time and place for those things? Of course,

455
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Speaker 1: But when you care about somebody, when you're protective, and

456
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Speaker 1: when you're competitive, we're all competitors, and you act off emotion,

457
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Speaker 1: you say things that might not be the right time

458
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Speaker 1: the right place, but at that time you're not thinking

459
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Speaker 1: like that. That's absolutely true. And my point is is

460
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Speaker 1: that I didn't blame how Esha Curry for anything. You know,

461
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Speaker 1: I was saying in that moment, you can't do that.

462
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Speaker 1: I've never said a word about her prior to that, right,

463
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Speaker 1: and so I said that. And when I said that,

464
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Speaker 1: horror response was you paid two black women against each other?

465
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Speaker 1: And I was like, what how we get to that?

466
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Speaker 1: So that we did? Whether you realize it or not, Okay, fine,

467
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Speaker 1: I didn't look at it that way, but that's fine.

468
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Speaker 1: If you're saying that I did, okay, well, then now

469
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Speaker 1: I'll correct it. So what happens is I go back

470
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Speaker 1: to the office and a few days later, after the

471
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Speaker 1: finals is over, and It's like a damn Morgue. Executives

472
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: are walking around the head. I'm like, what did happened?

473
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Speaker 1: And they were like, man, what you did? It was bad?

474
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Speaker 1: It was bad. And I find out weeks later the

475
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Speaker 1: sports Center, the six o'clock Sports Center that was supposed

476
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Speaker 1: to be given to me. I was supposed to host

477
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Speaker 1: First Take in the morning and the six o'clock Sports

478
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Speaker 1: Center by myself at night. And it was taken away

479
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Speaker 1: from me because of that. So what's gonna be taken

480
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Speaker 1: away from you because of Rihanna? Nothing? Nothing, and you

481
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Speaker 1: know something and and and if it ever does find

482
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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, there's a level

483
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Speaker 1: of authenticity that has to come with what we do.

484
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be me, damn it. That's how I feel.

485
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Speaker 1: I did not say a negative word about Rihanna. I

486
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Speaker 1: think she's sensational. I'm just to Beyonce fan. When you

487
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Speaker 1: go into your I don't care. And if anybody tells

488
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Speaker 1: me differently, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna even discuss

489
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Speaker 1: it because you're lying. We go home. We all got

490
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Speaker 1: our favorite artists, we all have our favorite actors and actresses,

491
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Speaker 1: we all have that there's a particular show we like

492
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Speaker 1: watching more than others. There's a particular particular music we

493
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: like listening to more to others. It doesn't mean that

494
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Speaker 1: we don't like this person, this person, and that person.

495
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Speaker 1: It just means we have our favorites. That is not

496
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Speaker 1: a crime. And then they playing context. There was no contact.

497
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Speaker 1: But I didn't know I would have to. How did

498
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Speaker 1: I know this was gonna happen? You gotta remember you

499
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Speaker 1: living this world. I'm doing sports. I didn't even know.

500
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Speaker 1: Did you know that I didn't know about Navy until

501
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: last week? Really, I had no I don't care about that.

502
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Speaker 1: What I cared about, To be honest with you, the

503
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Speaker 1: one concern that I had was right on this show

504
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Speaker 1: when Angela I was talking about why are we pinting

505
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Speaker 1: two black women to get Oh my god, I'm glad

506
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Speaker 1: I wasn't here that morning because I'm like, what the

507
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Speaker 1: hell are you talking about? So if I sit up

508
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Speaker 1: there and I listen, I'm not apologizer for this. For example,

509
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that I like. There's a

510
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Speaker 1: lot of women that I know that are cool people.

511
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Speaker 1: I don't like too many people more than I like

512
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Speaker 1: La La La. LA's always known that I ain't apologizing

513
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Speaker 1: for it to anybody. But if you say more than now,

514
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Speaker 1: you can't listen. I'm not gonna do like somebody. I

515
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Speaker 1: don't feel like. You don't know. If I sit up

516
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Speaker 1: there and I say you ugly, you gotta stick attitude,

517
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Speaker 1: I don't like you. That's different. If I sit up

518
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Speaker 1: there and saying, look, you know you sensational woman, but

519
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Speaker 1: you ain't la la damn, that might be something you

520
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Speaker 1: got to get over. You got to get over that.

521
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I mean, listen, listen. I'm

522
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Speaker 1: not a lot of people. So what somebody says Stephen

523
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Speaker 1: that you ain't know Kendrick Perkins, So what that's your opinion.

524
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Speaker 1: Last time I check, the check still comes. I still

525
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Speaker 1: got my job. I'm still going to work every day.

526
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Speaker 1: I'm still the number one show. You can tell that.

527
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can say what you want to say.

528
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Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't affect me. Now. If you sat

529
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Speaker 1: up there and say you ain't, that's a different time

530
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Speaker 1: of it. That's a different conversation. But if I if

531
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Speaker 1: you have someone that you prefer more than me, so

532
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Speaker 1: what but so because so do you just feel like

533
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Speaker 1: in your position you really just cannot care what anyone

534
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Speaker 1: thinks about you, because I feel like people always want

535
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Speaker 1: to say like, I don't care what anybody But there

536
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Speaker 1: is a point that everyone does care and everyone has

537
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Speaker 1: a place where they truly do want to be. But

538
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I don't care about what people think

539
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Speaker 1: in general, lah Lah. I'm saying there are certain things

540
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Speaker 1: we can't care about because we know it's not as

541
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Speaker 1: unfair and as inhumane as people are trying to make

542
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Speaker 1: it out to be. If I sat up there and

543
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Speaker 1: I disrespected Rihanna and I said I don't care, that's

544
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: a problem because she doesn't deserve that. She's home, she's

545
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Speaker 1: a new mom, she's a beautiful artist, she's doing her things.

546
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: Most people would dream to have the life that she's had.

547
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Speaker 1: She's earned it. I got nothing but mad lover and

548
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: respect for her. If I said something disrespectful like that

549
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: and I didn't care, that's a problem. That's a lack

550
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: of humanity. I would never do that. What I'm saying

551
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: is it's not a crime to say I'm a huge

552
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Speaker 1: Beyonce fan. There is only one and you are about

553
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: to go on the same stage. She has blessed not once,

554
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: but twice, and there is a standard to live up

555
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Speaker 1: a bar. There's nothing wrong. You come on first take.

556
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all, there's a bar that's been set. I've

557
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: said it. You come on breakfast Club, there's a bar

558
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: that's been set. Y'all said it. You do what the

559
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 1: things that all the different things that you're doing with

560
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: power and now being method. I'm seeing you, I'm watching

561
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,239
Speaker 1: what you're doing. You know you continue to ascend. Well,

562
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: damn everybody can't measure up to you. Now, that doesn't

563
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: mean they're whack. That doesn't mean they're not gifted. It

564
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: means they're not you. You got you gotta line in

565
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: the book that kind of sums that up. You say

566
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Speaker 1: on first take. We capitalize on the kind of polarization

567
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Speaker 1: people supposedly at phor what's the word I believe So

568
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I mean, I read it, I

569
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Speaker 1: read it eleven times. But in terms of what like

570
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: what you're discussing like, it's the kind of polarization. You know,

571
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: people act like they don't life, but when we do

572
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: it all the time. But what I'm saying is this,

573
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Speaker 1: you you wake up and you pay attention we all

574
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Speaker 1: do it. You have a show, you know what's trending,

575
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Speaker 1: you know what's newsworthy, you know what's percolating and as

576
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: it was, and not only that, you know who percolates.

577
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: And so because of that, it determines what subject matter

578
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: you're going to tackle, because you're not doing the show

579
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: for you, You're doing the show for the audience you're

580
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: trying to reach. And I have an audience that has

581
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: an expectation as it pertains to content. And so when

582
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: we're talking about sports and it's me, there's a level

583
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Speaker 1: of expectation that they have as it pertains to the

584
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Speaker 1: issues I'm willing to tackle. I'm mindful and cognizant of that,

585
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: and I operate accordingly. And when somebody questions that, I

586
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: would remind them I've been number one for eleven years,

587
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: every month, every year for eleven years, so evidently I

588
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: kind of have an idea of what people want to see.

589
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: And hear, all right, no, I know, you gotta go.

590
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: I got one more question because it ties into all

591
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: of this and the No Safety Net chapter. You know,

592
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: you talk about basically personalities who attack other personalities for

593
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: things they say. Because you talk about it, I think

594
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: it was the ray Right scandal last everybody got upset

595
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: with what you said about that, and I feel the

596
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: same way. I'm like, man, if you got a microphone

597
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: in front of you, you're going to say something at

598
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: some point that you're going to get backlash. Four. So

599
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: I don't understand when I see other personalities like calling

600
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: for other personality to be fired. Can't wait? Yeah, what

601
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: it is is? And remember this, all three of y'all here,

602
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: Remember what I'm about to say. When you're winning, they

603
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: always coming for you, because, unfortunately, particularly in this day

604
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,239
Speaker 1: and age, their definition of winning the closest they can

605
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: get to it is knocking you off your perch instead

606
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: of creating one for their own. It's inevitable. And and

607
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: it's just like when he used to call me donkey

608
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Speaker 1: of the day and all of this other stuff, and

609
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: people expected me to have a problem with him when

610
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: I first met you. What did I say? Had no

611
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: problem with him? Whatsoever? You say? Because he didn't attack me.

612
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: He attacked what I felt about a particular issue. I

613
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: know the difference. They wanted to create that divide. You're

614
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Speaker 1: not creating that because I'm gonna root for y'all and

615
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: I want y'all a root for me, and I'm a

616
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Speaker 1: root for a whole bunch of brothers and sisters to

617
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Speaker 1: make it. But in the same breath, you have to

618
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Speaker 1: be real and authentic about what's going on in the

619
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Speaker 1: moment that it's going on, and do what you can

620
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Speaker 1: to enlighten folks. If you feel you have an enlightening

621
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Speaker 1: point of view, that's what you do, and you let

622
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Speaker 1: the tips to where they make. People who don't win

623
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 1: are real good about doing what you describe. Let them

624
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: keep doing it because it reminds you that you will winner.

625
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about you. I want to

626
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: end it with something that's true because I learned a

627
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: lot from you and I feel like it's vice versa.

628
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say this because I was really

629
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Speaker 1: sitting here thinking about what we were talking about earlier,

630
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Speaker 1: and I want to say this. You know, it is important.

631
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Speaker 1: Everyone can have an opinion and who you like better,

632
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: who is your opinion. But I will say this as

633
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: a black woman, let's acknowledge and celebrate the fact that

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Speaker 1: we have two amazing, talented black women who were able

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Speaker 1: to do the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Outside

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Speaker 1: of sports fans and players. The majority of people I

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Speaker 1: know that's the reason they watched the Super Bowl, not

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Speaker 1: for who's playing. They're watching for that halftime show. So

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Speaker 1: let's acknowledge an uplift and applaud the fact that on

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Speaker 1: such a huge forum you had Beyonce and now you

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Speaker 1: have Rihanna as a black woman. I'm proud of that.

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Speaker 1: That's something that makes me proud. That doesn't take away

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Speaker 1: from your opinion on who you like more or whatever whatever,

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Speaker 1: But at that moment, for me, it's about uplifting the

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Speaker 1: fact that we need to celebrate that. Well, let me say, well,

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Speaker 1: let me end up by saying this, I completely agree

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Speaker 1: with that one thousand percent. And what you're saying and

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Speaker 1: what you would prefer is entirely different than someone throwing

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Speaker 1: out an accusation that my sentiment was making it a

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Speaker 1: divide between we ain't two black women. That's a difference.

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Speaker 1: You're just simply saying they're both great. Let's celebrate them,

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Speaker 1: no problem, no problem whatsoever. That's entirely different than and

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Speaker 1: understanding that they're both the reason that majority people are

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Speaker 1: even watching. You guys are watching for the sports aspect,

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Speaker 1: and sure, majority people are watching right. But what happens

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Speaker 1: is is that when we question people's intent because they

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Speaker 1: express something differently, what happens is then you didn't lose

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Speaker 1: those folks, those folks that they like that because they're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: here they go with this, and I'm like, no, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, Rihanna is phenomenal, and she's

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Speaker 1: got her own army or navy as they say Beyonce,

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Speaker 1: it's got her crew. They're both fantastic, they both sell

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Speaker 1: out stadiums and arenas. They're both making gobs and gobs

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Speaker 1: of money and they've earned it. Okay, much love and

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Speaker 1: respect to you. Ain't no doubt about it. I'm root

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Speaker 1: for I ain't rooting against her. I'm just a Beyonce fan.

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Speaker 1: I think with these microphones, uh, you know. And it's

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Speaker 1: something that we would debate to the end of time.

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Speaker 1: Intention versus impact, Yes, because it's a lot of times

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Speaker 1: my intention wasn't to offend, but then somebody like a

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Speaker 1: lot got to be like, nah, you know you offended.

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Speaker 1: You know you impacted that person in a negative way

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Speaker 1: in those moments. You just got an apologize to keep

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Speaker 1: it moving. Yeah, you know, I understand which is which

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Speaker 1: is what I did. But let me be very clear,

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Speaker 1: people didn't like your apologize all that. First of all,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Jones on Comedy sent you so, and she's supposed to.

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Speaker 1: That's what she does. I wasn't offended by it at all, right,

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Speaker 1: because she's great. I can't hand bro it's there struggling,

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Speaker 1: but I'm fifty five. It ain't like I'm thirty five

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Speaker 1: walking around with five. You know what, if you got it,

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Speaker 1: you know, I might visit. I might hit then I

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Speaker 1: got some time. I might visit here cluff for men,

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Speaker 1: because you know I you know, I don't think I'm Godzilla,

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Speaker 1: but ain't the most attractive dude the world. But if

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Speaker 1: my headline moved forward, I might have a m that

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Speaker 1: might be hopeful that I got some Manala rice water

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Speaker 1: drops for you. Okay, work it better work. Let me

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Speaker 1: text her right now, because then they're gonna get on

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Speaker 1: me forgetting that as another system, because if it don't work,

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Speaker 1: I'm blaming. I'm blaming you. Right now, I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 1: I'm blaming. I'm blaming. You're recommending this for me. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly what I'm gonna do. I'm telling you that right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that right now. I appreciate y'all, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. I just want to tell you one

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Speaker 1: last thing. You know, we have a new studio, okay,

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Speaker 1: so now we have the option to go to you

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Speaker 1: when we need some questions. So next time next season,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys start losing and I need to go to

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Speaker 1: you for some backup or some like a zoom call

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Speaker 1: right right to that camp. We could put pat you

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Speaker 1: right in. I got you, and you could just I'm

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Speaker 1: killing you. I got you. I got boy going to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl next year. I can tell you I

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Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do

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Speaker 1: it's the back can't. I can't. Y'all. Ridiculous, man, ridiculous