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Speaker 1: I'll definitely talk about that. Will Smith is making an appearance.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking about that. Some NBA and NFL action.
Speaker 1: I'll touch on that as well. But the first order
Speaker 1: of business is to get in the trumpet. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna even call it politics. I'm gonna call it social
Speaker 1: commentary because that's what I feel it is, and that's
Speaker 1: where I need to get started. First, the news, the
Speaker 1: tragic news out of Washington, DC, Wednesday night, the plane
Speaker 1: crash between an American Airlines commuter jet and.
Speaker 2: A black Hawk helicopter.
Speaker 1: All sixty seven people aboard the American Eagle flight and
Speaker 1: Army helicopter were killed when an aircraft collided over the
Speaker 1: Potomac River. Victims on the American Airlines flight included Russian
Speaker 1: Olympic figure skaters youth skaters and their parents, just to
Speaker 1: name a few. The cause of the collision is unclear,
Speaker 1: and the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. However, a
Speaker 1: preliminary report by the FAA by the FAA indicated that
Speaker 1: air traffic control staffing was quote not normal end quote
Speaker 1: at the time of the crash. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: spoke to reporters and implied that diversity, equity and Inclusion
Speaker 1: programs DEI may have been the cause of the tragedy.
Speaker 1: He's what President Trump said before reporters at the White
Speaker 1: House yesterday.
Speaker 3: So, as you know, last week, long before the crash,
Speaker 3: I signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for
Speaker 3: air traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country.
Speaker 3: So it was very interesting about a week ago, almost
Speaker 3: upon entering office, I signed something last week that was
Speaker 3: an executive board. Are very powerful on restoring the highest
Speaker 3: standards of air traffic controllers and others. By the way,
Speaker 3: then my administration will set the highest possible bar for
Speaker 3: aviation safety. We have to have our smartest people.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what they.
Speaker 3: Look like, how they speak, who they are matters intellect, talent,
Speaker 3: the word talent. They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses.
Speaker 3: It can't have regular people doing that job. They won't
Speaker 3: be able to do it, but will restore faith in
Speaker 3: American air travel.
Speaker 4: I'll have more to.
Speaker 3: Say about that. I do want to point out that
Speaker 3: various articles that appeared prior to my entering office, and
Speaker 3: here's one. The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring
Speaker 3: people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
Speaker 2: That is amazing.
Speaker 3: And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities
Speaker 3: a most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want
Speaker 3: them in, and they want them they can be air
Speaker 3: traffic controllers. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: This was.
Speaker 3: In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
Speaker 3: entered office. They put a big push to put diversity
Speaker 3: into the FAA's program.
Speaker 1: Now, before I get to my comments, because I got
Speaker 1: a lot to say about that we just saw. I
Speaker 1: want to play some sound from New York Senator Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer reacting to Trump's comments.
Speaker 2: Take a listen.
Speaker 4: I just watched President Trump's news conference. Listen. It's one
Speaker 4: thing for Internet pungits to spew off conspiracy theories. It's
Speaker 4: another for the president of the United States to throw
Speaker 4: out idle speculation as bodies are still being recovered and
Speaker 4: families still being notified.
Speaker 2: It just turns your stomach.
Speaker 1: Amen, Amen, and let me stay for the record. I'm
Speaker 1: not one that usually agrees with Chuck Schumer. I don't
Speaker 1: like a lot of things he says. It does personally
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of it is pomping circumstance
Speaker 1: and not much to do about anything. Half the time,
Speaker 1: I know how knowledgeable and formidable he is and has
Speaker 1: been in the United States Center, but nevertheless, there are
Speaker 1: things that I disagree with him about.
Speaker 2: This is not one of them.
Speaker 1: To say that President Trump was utterly irresponsible in the
Speaker 1: rhetoric that he spewed is an understatement. You don't know
Speaker 1: if DEI had anything to do with it, He admitted
Speaker 1: he didn't know. Well, do what the hell you say
Speaker 1: it for? Whytch you open your mouth? Why would you
Speaker 1: do that? Because you see the more he opens his
Speaker 1: mouth about stuff like that, and the quickness with which
Speaker 1: he's willing to throw in DEI, it's crystallizing what ultimately
Speaker 1: your gender in terms of your administration.
Speaker 2: Is really really all about.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go that direction, and let's understand
Speaker 1: what we're talking about and what we're listening to when
Speaker 1: we hear him spew this diversity, equity and inclusion, regardless
Speaker 1: of the fact that when you talk about diversity, usually women,
Speaker 1: primarily white women, benefit from such things, just as they
Speaker 1: had benefited from affirmative action because they were labeled a minority,
Speaker 1: we're never including them when we're talking about this stuff.
Speaker 1: When you say diversity, equity, and inclusion, when you say DEI,
Speaker 1: you know what that means to people outside of the.
Speaker 2: Minority communities, unqualified to minorities.
Speaker 1: It's automatically assumed that that's who you're talking about, and
Speaker 1: nobody wants to take into account. As I reiterated and
Speaker 1: regurgitated just the other day, how did it come about?
Speaker 1: How was affirmative action? How did affirmative action ever come about?
Speaker 1: How did stuff like the Ruiney Rule ever come about?
Speaker 1: How did DEEI come about? DEI came about in the
Speaker 1: aftermath of George Floyd's murder by a police officer in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin, who kept his foot on Floyd George Floyd's
Speaker 1: neck for more than nine minutes and twenty seconds, and
Speaker 1: the other cops right near him did nothing as this
Speaker 1: young as this man was calling for his mama and
Speaker 1: losing his breath of life, and an uproar ensued, and
Speaker 1: protest ensued, and riots ensued, and White America couldn't deny
Speaker 1: how heenous that act was. So they stood up and
Speaker 1: they raised their hands and they said, we're listening, we
Speaker 1: want to hear you. And what they did is they
Speaker 1: engaged in overkilled. Let's admit it. Let's call them what
Speaker 1: it is. We're talking business now. Overkilled ensued and what
Speaker 1: happened is you saw corporate America and beyond trying to
Speaker 1: make amends for its negligence, for it's unfair. It's unfairness
Speaker 1: the inequities that it had exercised, and they said, we
Speaker 1: want to make up for it. So they went in
Speaker 1: a overload and they poured money in resources into certain things,
Speaker 1: in some cases DEI.
Speaker 2: And what you're seeing now is.
Speaker 1: The scaling back of that, because the momentum is died
Speaker 1: down and you no long have to prioritize things the
Speaker 1: way that you once did. You feel me air and
Speaker 1: you feel me, Mikey, hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And as a.
Speaker 1: Result, now you're saying Let's get back to normalcy per se.
Speaker 1: Let's not engage in overkill. Let's not be a bit
Speaker 1: too excessive. Let's not just throw money against the wall. Money,
Speaker 1: by the way, most folks don't have. And now you're
Speaker 1: seeing the scaling back of it. And in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and it's just an opinion, there's a justification on the
Speaker 1: part of the Trump administration to hide behind DEI, to
Speaker 1: justify cut that you know inevitably have to come in
Speaker 1: order for you to shave.
Speaker 2: Some of the overhead that.
Speaker 1: You have to have because of the national debt and beyond,
Speaker 1: with thirty six trillion dollars in debt, you really really
Speaker 1: think that immigration it's just about people feeling safe in
Speaker 1: the streets. We've had immigrants in our country forever. Immigrants
Speaker 1: helped build this country. That's why, for the most part,
Speaker 1: we've been proposents of folks coming across our borders. We
Speaker 1: just didn't want flagrantly open borders like President Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Authenticated or okayed.
Speaker 1: But we've always had immigrants coming to this country, and
Speaker 1: we've always benefited from their participation in this country, in
Speaker 1: building this nation.
Speaker 2: So this is not new.
Speaker 1: What happens is you have an inordinate amount of bodies,
Speaker 1: and because you had that in order, in about of bodies,
Speaker 1: you're saying, Okay, that has to stop because it's costing
Speaker 1: the tax payer billions of dollars. It's very simple when
Speaker 1: you look at it, how it's handled is where the
Speaker 1: crime kicks in. Because when you handle it the way
Speaker 1: that the Trump administration is handling it, we want the
Speaker 1: most qualified, we want the smartest, we want this, we
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 2: What you're really saying is we want white dominance.
Speaker 1: Again, that's what you're really saying, you want white dominance,
Speaker 1: because if you're pointing the DEI, and that's usually pointing
Speaker 1: towards quote unquote unqualified minorities, because you're always using the.
Speaker 2: Word qualified, qualified, qualified, as if.
Speaker 1: Everybody they got a position through DEI is not qualified.
Speaker 1: We know what you're implying, we know what you're insinuating.
Speaker 1: And you got folks in the administrations and Pete heg saith,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the nerve of him to just join
Speaker 1: into the frame and give his quote about making sure
Speaker 1: qualified people have these jobs. You're the Defense secretary whose
Speaker 1: only job prior to this was as a weekend host
Speaker 1: on Fox News.
Speaker 2: I didn't bring up personal allegations against Pete Hegson.
Speaker 1: What I said was not being qualified for Defense secretary
Speaker 1: all of a sudden going from a weekend host on
Speaker 1: cable television to overseeing the department with over three and
Speaker 1: a half million people.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, not an accident, the nerve.
Speaker 1: Nerve Hell was truck qualified to be president. If we
Speaker 1: want to get if we want to get down to
Speaker 1: the beer.
Speaker 2: Bones of it, I'm talking about first go round.
Speaker 1: Was he wasn't Hillary more qualified? Just qualifications. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about who you prefer your vote for. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking qualifications. Was not Hillary more qualified? But you decided
Speaker 1: to go that route anyway? Right? But here we are
Speaker 1: talking qualifications, and I'm all for qualifications and having the
Speaker 1: best and the brightest, especially when it comeok to public safety,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But what you had to bring
Speaker 1: up DEI for every white person was qualified. Every white
Speaker 1: person that got that job deserved that job. Every white
Speaker 1: person that wasn't highed through DEI was exceptional and the
Speaker 1: best and the brightest.
Speaker 2: You ain't got any black people, any Hispanic people that
Speaker 2: you want to sprinkle into the mix. Could you do
Speaker 2: that could you do that?
Speaker 1: No, you cannot, and I know why. But I'll get
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Speaker 1: Receiver Davonte Smith more or less than fifty one and
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Speaker 1: than fifty six and a half receiving yards. I'm going
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Speaker 1: one play for that, and I think he's gonna have
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Speaker 1: See there's a difference between the Magarite and the rest
Speaker 1: of the people who voted for Trump. And where Trump
Speaker 1: has an opportunity to really cement a legacy and to
Speaker 1: push the Republican Party forward in a positive direction is
Speaker 1: if he remembers how he got elected. Margarite is Magarit.
Speaker 1: They gonna vote for him regardless. But it was those
Speaker 1: swing voters that couldn't convince themselves to cast at the
Speaker 1: ballot for Kamala Harris that ultimately won him the election.
Speaker 1: And what has he done since, given executive orders all
Speaker 1: over the place. Just today he sat up there and
Speaker 1: talked about tariffs are coming away of Mexico and Canada
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 2: We know what other executive orders he's.
Speaker 1: Given as it pertains needs to being identified as a
Speaker 1: man or woman and nowhere between and all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I got a problem with some
Speaker 1: of the stuff he's did.
Speaker 2: Some I did some I did it. I ain't got
Speaker 2: time to get in all of that today. What I'm
Speaker 2: saying is we got to know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent of the American population a minimum is white.
Speaker 2: He's making sure he caters.
Speaker 1: To them because somehow, some way, like Chris Rock pointed
Speaker 1: out in his stand up comedic routine on Netflix, he
Speaker 1: said white folks were trying to overthrow a government that day.
Speaker 2: Run It's what he said. But if you Trump, here's
Speaker 2: the warning.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from an article by Jason Riley Jason L.
Speaker 2: Riley in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: I want to read a couple of paragraphs that he
Speaker 1: wrote in this article because I want you to understand
Speaker 1: and what he's saying. When I brought up the part
Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris, the difference between Maggie Wright and swing voters,
Speaker 1: here's what Jason Riley said, The distinction matters Trump loyalists
Speaker 1: don't care if the president part is January sixth protesters
Speaker 1: who assaulted police officers after he condemned George Floyd protesters
Speaker 1: who assaulted police officers.
Speaker 2: It doesn't care that. It doesn't concern them that Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, the President's nominee for Secretary of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services, declared as recently as twenty twenty three that quote,
Speaker 1: there's no vaccine that's safe and effective end quote. They're
Speaker 1: not bothered that he yanked security protection for former key
Speaker 1: advisors involved in planning the lead through drone strike on
Speaker 1: Iran's leading terrorists, Cassim Solomone or Solomone, not because it's
Speaker 1: no longer needed, but because he simply doesn't like them anymore.
Speaker 1: Mister Trump can't be confident that all his supporters will
Speaker 1: ignore such rank hypocrisy, foolishness, and petty behavior.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The threat to anyone involved in President Trump's strike on
Speaker 1: Solomoni is persistent.
Speaker 2: It's real.
Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton, Republican out of Arkansas, said chairman of
Speaker 1: the Intelligence Committee, and a strong Trump ally.
Speaker 2: That's what he said on Fox News Sunday last weekend.
Speaker 1: More all of it it's not just about these men
Speaker 1: who helped President Trump carry out his policy in the
Speaker 1: first term. It's about their family and friends, and it's
Speaker 1: in bystanders every time they're in public. It's also about
Speaker 1: the president being able to get good people and get
Speaker 1: good advice. He ain't listening. He appears back to his
Speaker 1: old ways. What has he learned? And so now, if
Speaker 1: you're the Democratic Party, why am I bringing this up?
Speaker 1: Because you have a perfect opportunity. Suddenly it's not about
Speaker 1: woke culture, it's not about cancel culture, it's not about
Speaker 1: proper pronouns and all of this.
Speaker 2: Now we're getting into the hearts of the real issues.
Speaker 1: My Man Roland Martin was on his show just the
Speaker 1: other day talking about civil rights legislation in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: four and how you've got folks within the Trump administration
Speaker 1: trying to roll that back sixty years of progress. That's
Speaker 1: what you have minorities in this country fearing right now
Speaker 1: that that was the agenda all along, and they're pointing
Speaker 1: to these things and it's making it and it should
Speaker 1: make the Democratic Party stand up and say, wait a minute, now,
Speaker 1: now these are issues you can fight for because these
Speaker 1: are issues that the American people can get behind. And
Speaker 1: what you have to do if you're a Democratic party
Speaker 1: is be centered thinking as in center left. Prioritize the economy,
Speaker 1: prioritize national security, security, prioritize foreign relations, and forget all
Speaker 1: that other stuff. We got battles in this country that
Speaker 1: we have to fight. Why am I giving this advice
Speaker 1: because some of y'all have walked around.
Speaker 2: Trying to castigate people like me. Now, gon't remind you
Speaker 2: of who.
Speaker 1: The hell I am. Okay, I am a registered independent.
Speaker 1: Put that damn thing up on that screen, grif for me.
Speaker 1: Please remind these people who the hell I am. Republican Democrat.
Speaker 1: I don't like none of your asses. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: as a party, not as individuals. I don't like every
Speaker 1: one of y'all. This two party binary system sucks. It
Speaker 1: has contaminated our society in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: It has gotten our eyes off the ball. You know why,
Speaker 1: because you have to agree with everything. Think about that
Speaker 1: for a second. Whatever workplace you are, whatever family you have,
Speaker 1: whatever boys or ladies you hang out with each other,
Speaker 1: y'all agree on everything, everything one hundred percent of line.
Speaker 1: And you're thinking about everything. Of course, you're not, but
Speaker 1: our system of government.
Speaker 2: Will have you thinking you have to be.
Speaker 1: All the Republicans vote with one another, all the Democrats
Speaker 1: vote with one another. Nobody has to do any freaking work.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to read the policies. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is ask your sister, how did the
Speaker 1: Republicans vote, vote to how did the Democrats vote vote
Speaker 1: the opposite?
Speaker 2: That's all you have to do. That's why you got
Speaker 2: folks in the eighties still in office. And I'm not
Speaker 2: engaging in agism here, I'm just speaking real. The hell
Speaker 2: you doing on Capitol Hill?
Speaker 1: You really think I believe you reading four or five
Speaker 1: hundred pages a legislation? You think I believe you putting
Speaker 1: the network. But you vote anyway because you don't have
Speaker 1: to do any work. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: take the side that you're on and vote against the
Speaker 1: other side that ain't serving our country. That's why the
Speaker 1: country pissed off, That's why they put somebody like Trump
Speaker 1: in office, because they sick and tired of the cesspool
Speaker 1: that is our nation's capital.
Speaker 2: And if you're the.
Speaker 1: Democrats, you've got an opportunity to say that although Trump
Speaker 1: is different and he's a political The dominance with which
Speaker 1: he's governing over his first two weeks on the job
Speaker 1: is antithetical and very detrimental to us as a nation.
Speaker 2: You can say that.
Speaker 1: And as a result return to some level of normalcy,
Speaker 1: But what is that. You're the Democratic Party? Where's your voice?
Speaker 1: Who's your voice? Me calling you out about it? Has
Speaker 1: you thinking or has you acting like I'm the enemy.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to help.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to see you get your ass
Speaker 1: kicked in another election.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see you losing the mid terms.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see you lose four years from
Speaker 1: now in advance with JD. Vance or Marco Rubio or
Speaker 1: somebody being the next president of the United States just
Speaker 1: because they're opposite you. I want the best candidate for
Speaker 1: the country to win. That cannot happen. That can't happen
Speaker 1: if you have no voice and you have no.
Speaker 2: Face for your party. I doubt I'll ever run. It's
Speaker 2: not me.
Speaker 1: I live a pretty good life and I don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin it by getting involved in politics. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell y'all something. The Democratic Party looks so pathetic
Speaker 1: after this election, I might entertain running. I just might
Speaker 1: change my mind one day.
Speaker 2: I don't. I doubt it, but I might, because how
Speaker 2: much would it take to beat y'all? And Trump can't
Speaker 2: run again.
Speaker 1: He's done, regardless of what some representatives want, a third
Speaker 1: term for him, kissing his ass at every turn.
Speaker 2: Will you do your job? Please do your job.
Speaker 1: He been back in the office for two weeks, and
Speaker 1: you got one representative caller.
Speaker 2: For him to get a third term, and you.
Speaker 1: Got another representative talking about him being put.
Speaker 2: On Mount rushmore.
Speaker 1: Will you do your damn job? Is that too hard?
Speaker 1: Just do your job. Look at our country, look at
Speaker 1: the state that's in Understand what policies may work and
Speaker 1: what might not work, what's to the best interest or
Speaker 1: what's to the detriment of the country, And make that
Speaker 1: damn decision.
Speaker 2: Is it really that hard?
Speaker 1: Do you have to get on your knees and kiss
Speaker 1: his ass at every turn? Did you see the crash
Speaker 1: after it happened and Trump handed.
Speaker 2: It over.
Speaker 1: To one of the aviation executives. I forget his name
Speaker 1: or his title.
Speaker 2: For the moment, don't matter every other word he was saying,
Speaker 2: I want to thank Donald Trump. I want to thank
Speaker 2: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I want to thank don Trump, thank you for your Lisia,
Speaker 1: thank you for shut the hell up and do your job.
Speaker 2: How much ass kissing must y'all.
Speaker 1: Do before your breath starts smelling like shit?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. Just do your job.
Speaker 2: Do your job. If you Trump, that means you too.
Speaker 1: Swing voters got you elected, my man, and they got
Speaker 1: you elected because they couldn't vote for Kamala Harris. But
Speaker 1: you promise them to address inflation. You promise them to
Speaker 1: address our borders. Trump promised them to address national security.
Speaker 1: You promise the thriving economy, You promised.
Speaker 2: The peace in the streets.
Speaker 1: If your actions are to lean on DEI every chance
Speaker 1: you get to point out some supposed discrepancy between white
Speaker 1: individuals and minorities who got jobs as it pertains to
Speaker 1: their qualifications and their intellect and their resume and their accomplishments.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's gonna compromise peace. You don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to create chaos. Be careful, mister Trump. Be careful,
Speaker 1: President Trump, Be careful. Society is only as strong as its.
Speaker 2: Weak, as links you alienate for.
Speaker 1: There's a price that's going to be paid for that,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be the compromising and the eradication
Speaker 1: of peace and tranquility. Enough people from all different facets
Speaker 1: of this country voted for you because they believed that
Speaker 1: you were going to do a better job at galvanizing
Speaker 1: our nation than the left ever. Could you owe it
Speaker 1: to all of us to do that, not to alienate us,
Speaker 1: because you're trying to roll back stuff from sixty civil
Speaker 1: rights legislation from sixty years that was black folks, that was.
Speaker 2: Minority folks access to capital.
Speaker 1: That is what civil rights legislation did for us, amongst
Speaker 1: many other things.
Speaker 2: To attack that in any way, it's sacrilegious.
Speaker 1: And if you're the left, you remember what the hell
Speaker 1: I said and you pounce like on it like a
Speaker 1: bunch piranhas. Hispanics and minorities in this country make up
Speaker 1: more than seventeen eighteen percent of the population. Black folks
Speaker 1: make up thirteen to fourteen percent of the population, and
Speaker 1: the Hispanic populace is growing.
Speaker 2: If you lost them, get them back.
Speaker 1: Know what Cubans, Dominicans, Venezuela is, Guatemalians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 2: And blacks.
Speaker 1: No what they mean in this country and what they
Speaker 1: bring to this country.
Speaker 2: And remind folks.
Speaker 1: Of that instead of getting caught up in your frivolous
Speaker 1: stuff on the extreme left that compromised.
Speaker 2: Your power in the nation's capital. Get it together.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of tired of people listening to me and
Speaker 1: talking to me, and by the way, that includes people
Speaker 1: that work for me. I'm sick of tired everybody acting
Speaker 1: like I'm somebody that's some right winger. I have conservative views.
Speaker 1: I have liberal views. Trust me, I have plenty of
Speaker 1: liberal views. But that don't mean I ain't gonna call
Speaker 1: it like I see it. I've been doing that for
Speaker 1: my entire career, and damn it, I ain't stopping, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. I'm in the best health I've been in
Speaker 1: the twenty five years. If you thought I wasn't going
Speaker 1: away before, you have no idea how the hell I'm
Speaker 1: not going away now. I'm just getting started, mister Trump.
Speaker 1: President Trump, I'm sorry. I don't like what I'm seeing.
Speaker 2: In some cases, bruh, I don't.
Speaker 1: Like what I'm seeing. Democrats pounce on them. If you don't,
Speaker 1: I'll find somebody who will, or I'll do it my
Speaker 1: damn self. I'm gonna give President Trump all the credit
Speaker 1: in the world when he deserves it, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call him out when he deserves it too.
Speaker 2: That's how it's going down on this show. Get used
Speaker 2: to it, because I'm coming coming up.
Speaker 1: Adam Silva talks about a shorter NBA game and LaMelo
Speaker 1: Ball gets snubbed from the.
Speaker 2: All Star Game. I'll get into that just ahead, but.
Speaker 1: First, Sean did he comes is hit with a new
Speaker 1: indictment in this sex trafficking case. Plus there's some stuff
Speaker 1: going on with some docu series about him too.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. We got to talk
Speaker 2: about that next right here on The steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show, back with more in a minute.
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Speaker 1: I know you are Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: the crew. I'm looking forward to it for several reasons.
Speaker 1: Number one, I expected to be a good game. Number two,
Speaker 1: guess what, I love New Orleans sometimes anyway, the food
Speaker 1: is great. Number Three, I get to be away from
Speaker 1: my damn nephew Josh.
Speaker 2: He's trying to come down there. I'm not letting him.
Speaker 2: This little knucklehead right here, this is. This is Josh Junior,
Speaker 2: my little nephew, Jase. He can't come to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be in school, just the way I like it.
Speaker 2: He can't come. And you like that. You gotta stay
Speaker 2: at home. You gotta stay home. That's how it goes.
Speaker 2: See y'all at the super Bowl. Steven A. Smithial will
Speaker 2: be in the house all week long. Holler at you boys,
Speaker 2: welcome back to stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: I want to get into the latest on Seawan Ditty Combs, y'all,
Speaker 1: I can't avoid this. Yesterday, federal prosecutors in New York
Speaker 1: filed a new superseding indictment against Combs. The indictment contains
Speaker 1: no new charged crimes, but includes additional conduct as part
Speaker 1: of the alleged racketeying conspiracy, which prosecutors now say spanned
Speaker 1: a longer timeframe of about twenty years. Did They's attorneys
Speaker 1: responded to the amendment with the following statement, quote, The
Speaker 1: latest indictment contains no new offenses. The prosecution's theory remains flawed.
Speaker 1: The government has added the ridiculous theory that two of
Speaker 1: mister Combe's former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all, but
Speaker 1: were prostitutes. Mister Combs is as committed as ever to
Speaker 1: fighting these charges and winning at trial.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, did y'all see the new docu series The Fall
Speaker 1: of Ditty by Investigation Discovery that's also streaming on Max.
Speaker 1: The series is a comprehensive look at Shawn Combs's evolution
Speaker 1: and music mogul, entrepreneur, and cultural icon. The many the
Speaker 1: series also get into his alleged dark side that includes
Speaker 1: accusations of rape, sex trafficking, and prostitution. One notable quote
Speaker 1: came via Diddy ex girlfriend Kat Passon, who alleged did
Speaker 1: he once told her a quote there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of R Kelly and all of us end quote while
Speaker 1: the two watched the surviving R.
Speaker 2: Kelly documentary.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something right now,
Speaker 1: I have an opinion that might not be popular, Have
Speaker 1: an opinion that you may not agree with, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it anyway because somebody needs to say it.
Speaker 1: I don't think the network should have been allowed to
Speaker 1: air that. I don't think any network should be allowed
Speaker 1: to air that before the trial. See, you can't convince
Speaker 1: me that P Diddy showing P Diddy Combs is gonna
Speaker 1: be able to find a jury of.
Speaker 2: His peers who have not seen that docu series.
Speaker 1: I find that impossible to believe.
Speaker 2: I find it impossible to believe.
Speaker 1: Why am I saying all of this Because I got
Speaker 1: to tell you, ladies.
Speaker 2: And gentlemen, he looks guilty as hell.
Speaker 1: I don't know how guilty he is, but I know
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to be on a jury, and
Speaker 1: I know that if I saw that five part docuseries
Speaker 1: that I just finished watching, and I was on that jury,
Speaker 1: I would walk in here looking.
Speaker 2: At him like, man, please, your ass is guilty as hell.
Speaker 2: This bullshit. That's exactly what I'd be thinking. That's exactly
Speaker 2: what I would be thinking. Because of the docuseries.
Speaker 1: In this country, you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. I
Speaker 1: understand that's for the purposes of the auspices of.
Speaker 2: The court of law.
Speaker 1: I get that part, but damn should you be allowed
Speaker 1: to incriminate somebody to a point where it completely, completely
Speaker 1: manipulates and dictates your opinion of that individual.
Speaker 2: There is no defense of the video.
Speaker 1: That you saw with Diddy hitting and kicking and throwing
Speaker 1: stuff at Cassie Venturo.
Speaker 2: There is no defense for it. He will never live
Speaker 2: that down.
Speaker 1: But a whole bunch of stuff on this docuseries were
Speaker 1: people giving their takes. I'm not saying they're lying or
Speaker 1: telling the truth. I have no cluel, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that for the purposes of the docuseries.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, there's no way in hell you
Speaker 1: walk away from that thinking he's anything less than a monster.
Speaker 1: And because that's the reality, I got a real problem
Speaker 1: with this airing before his trial, because you still.
Speaker 2: Got to go out there and find a jury.
Speaker 1: You still got to go out there and find a
Speaker 1: jury of his peers. You've got to find people who
Speaker 1: are willing to be objective and fair minded and what
Speaker 1: have you, and be completely neutral thing their opinion strictly
Speaker 1: on the evidence that the prosecution presents. Juxtaposing that to
Speaker 1: what the defense puts forth, and that is what is
Speaker 1: supposed to determine your decision, not stuff that's happening outside
Speaker 1: the court and permeated and plastered all over the airwaves.
Speaker 1: Prime Video five part series. Again, he looks guilty as hell.
Speaker 1: I mean, damn, I mean, if this stuff is true,
Speaker 1: I mean, damn, damn, damn. But should it be should
Speaker 1: we be privy to at before the trial? With no
Speaker 1: defense for himself, he has to wait until he goes
Speaker 1: to court to plead his case and to defend himself.
Speaker 1: Sex traff racketeering, people throwing out accusations.
Speaker 2: Of rape, sexual assault, et cetera. Even dudes.
Speaker 1: It ain't just women, It ain't just ex girlfriends. It's
Speaker 1: dudes too, patting it behinds and feeling them in the
Speaker 1: bathroom while he's taking showers, having meetings while he's in
Speaker 1: the shower butt naked, bathing himself right in front of.
Speaker 2: Them, men and women. Damn.
Speaker 1: You know when he said he was really fed up,
Speaker 1: it's time to believe them. I don't know what drugs
Speaker 1: we could speculate, weed, marijuana, cocaine, adderall.
Speaker 2: I don't know. He definitely wasn't in his right mind,
Speaker 2: that might be a part of his defense. For all
Speaker 2: we know. All I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Is, damn, it's very incriminating, and I find it very
Speaker 1: difficult to believe that anybody can watch that and then
Speaker 1: walk away saying he in the sin. I'm gonna find
Speaker 1: him not guilty. They gonna walk in there, you know, Listen.
Speaker 1: I wish I had the video of when I was
Speaker 1: on First Take My Day Job on ESPN, when the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys was losing and they had that sister just
Speaker 1: sitting there with her face looking like totally disgusted, like
Speaker 1: black sisters can look like like like our sisters can
Speaker 1: look when they like.
Speaker 2: You know you are sorry, ass. You know that kind
Speaker 2: of look, you know that only the sisters could give
Speaker 2: you that kind of look. I wish I had a picture.
Speaker 1: Of that woman as a Dallas Cowboy fan wear in
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy jersey when they lost to the green
Speaker 1: Bay package when green Bay gave her for when Dallas
Speaker 1: theas called forty eight on Dallas. That look says it all.
Speaker 1: It speaks ten thousand words for various different situations. This
Speaker 1: would be wonderful. I don't like the fact that it's
Speaker 1: over the air waves before his trial. I just thought
Speaker 1: that needed to be said. Let me switch to another
Speaker 1: subject before I in this segment. Moving on, the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Grammy Awards are this weekend, and some of
Speaker 1: the presenters have been have been announced. Earlier to day,
Speaker 1: the Recording Academy revealed that Cardi B. Sizza and Will
Speaker 1: Smith will join Taylor Swift among the presenters at the
Speaker 1: award show. One could argue there's a big moment for
Speaker 1: Will Smith, who hasn't presented on this big of a
Speaker 1: stage since slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Smith did perform it the BET Awards
Speaker 1: last summer, but that's been about it in terms of
Speaker 1: appearing at major award shows.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Grammys will also celebrate the life.
Speaker 1: Of Quincy Jones, in addition to the resilience of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles amid the ongoing fires in the city. But I
Speaker 1: want to focus on Will Smith. Obviously, I've been critical
Speaker 1: of Will Smith because I'm a friend of Chris Rocks
Speaker 1: and I don't appreciate what Will did.
Speaker 2: But I want to thank several people.
Speaker 1: I want to thank my man Charlie Mack, who is
Speaker 1: a bodyguard and a longtime friends span in decades.
Speaker 2: For Will Smith.
Speaker 1: I want to thank the great Antoine Fuqua, the director
Speaker 1: and producer extraordinaire who did Emancipation with Will Smith. Would
Speaker 1: have won an Oscar for that too, had Will Smith
Speaker 1: not slapped Chris Rock. I want to thank Will Packer,
Speaker 1: who produced the Oscars, that same Oscars that Will Smith
Speaker 1: did what he did with Chris Rock.
Speaker 2: I want to thank my man Dougie.
Speaker 1: Cash, who used to work at Hulu and used to
Speaker 1: work under Will Smith years ago, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They weren't the only ones, but primarily those four brothers
Speaker 1: reached out to me directly, and Charlie Mack was the
Speaker 1: most profound because I had said something about Will Smith
Speaker 1: prior to Bad Boys, Rod to Die Coming Out, which
Speaker 1: by the way, was a fantastic movie I've now seen
Speaker 1: about five times, and Charlie Mack said, what about Grace stephening.
Speaker 2: He made a mistake. And I explained to Charlie Mac that.
Speaker 1: As bad as I thought it was to be slapping
Speaker 1: a black man on national television, what really vexed.
Speaker 2: Me most was.
Speaker 1: How it would affect Will Packer, how it would affect
Speaker 1: Antoine Fuqua, how it would affect Chris Rock, and I
Speaker 1: thought about the collateral damage that would take fold and
Speaker 1: how it would detrimentally affect opportunities for all of us
Speaker 1: down the line, and I just found myself asking how
Speaker 1: could he do that? How could he lose himself and
Speaker 1: hurt all of us like that? But Will Smith is
Speaker 1: a fantastic artist who's done so much for so many
Speaker 1: people in this world, especially stuff you know, folks from
Speaker 1: our community that the reality is is they were right.
Speaker 1: And I've known that for quite some times, which is
Speaker 1: why I haven't said anything from Will Smith. To see
Speaker 1: him in the movies is a great thing. To see
Speaker 1: him still thriving is a great thing. Chris Rock has
Speaker 1: moved on with his life. Who says Will Smith isn't
Speaker 1: entitled to do so himself? And to think about him
Speaker 1: coming back to the big stage and being at the
Speaker 1: awards and what have you, I'm quite sure he'll get
Speaker 1: a good ovation, and it'll be because none of us
Speaker 1: want to be measured by our worst moment. All of
Speaker 1: us are flawed in the eyes of God. I knew
Speaker 1: that before, but I know that even now. And my
Speaker 1: man Dougie, Antoine Fuqua, and the Will Packer, and especially.
Speaker 2: To my man Charlie Mac. I just want to say
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you for reminding me of
Speaker 1: something I should have known all along. Despite what Will
Speaker 1: Smith did, he's still wanted the great ones and he's
Speaker 1: one of the genuine good guys.
Speaker 2: He made a mistake.
Speaker 1: And all of us should move on, especially since Chris
Speaker 1: Rock has moved on, and we should just march ahead
Speaker 1: and wish him nothing but the best to him and
Speaker 1: his family.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at with him. I just wanted to
Speaker 2: say that. More to Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show, NBA All Star, and who knows what else
Speaker 1: I'll touch on.
Speaker 2: Just know I'm coming back at the minute. This is
Speaker 2: Stephen X.
Speaker 1: Smith Show.
Speaker 2: Don't go over there, Welcome back to Steve A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: I want to follow up on some comments I made
Speaker 1: earlier this week on Bronnie James.
Speaker 2: The comments were.
Speaker 1: In reaction the Lakers head coach JJ Reddick, who said
Speaker 1: he put Brownie in a bad spot Tuesday night when
Speaker 1: the Lakers lost to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Well,
Speaker 1: with all the noise that I made about that, apparently
Speaker 1: I wasn't the only one, because Colin Cowhard of FS
Speaker 1: one also heard those comments and spoke about the Lakers
Speaker 1: handling of their second round pick, who happens to be
Speaker 1: the son of Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Take a look at this, please right here on the
Speaker 2: full screen.
Speaker 1: In the NFL, media, coaches, fans, anybody, you can have
Speaker 1: real grown up conversations. You can hold players accountable. There's
Speaker 1: no walking on eggshells. There's a way to measure success
Speaker 1: in the NBA. You have to pretend that Bronnie's an
Speaker 1: NBA player, because otherwise you'll upset the King. Can we
Speaker 1: stop pretending with this? Come on, let's just stop pretending.
Speaker 1: This continues to be an unserious story. Cowherd continued, what
Speaker 1: you don't want to become is an unserious league. The
Speaker 1: NFL you take it seriously because they take it seriously.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: What's the interpretation for what Colin Cowherd was explaining. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what the interpretation is. The interpretation is that
Speaker 1: you can't get away with having somebody who's clearly not
Speaker 1: ready to be in the league be in the league
Speaker 1: and put them on the field with dudes who are
Speaker 1: putting their bodies and their livelihoods on the line. Can't
Speaker 1: do it now Again, I want to reemphasize what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. I'm not a person that believes that
Speaker 1: Brownie James doesn't have potential. I'm certainly not rooting against them.
Speaker 1: I think the money he gets paid is nobody's business.
Speaker 1: His father's underpaid, grossly underpaid, continuously underpaid.
Speaker 2: With what he means to the league.
Speaker 1: The salary that lebron James is subjected to pales in
Speaker 1: comparison to what his worth actually is, even though obviously
Speaker 1: he makes god and gobs of money off the court.
Speaker 2: But the reality.
Speaker 1: Is that Bronnie James hasn't appeared to be ready to
Speaker 1: play in the NBA. Just because you make a shot
Speaker 1: here and there doesn't mean you're ready to play in
Speaker 1: the NBA. On a night in a night out basis,
Speaker 1: I used the Marvis Fraser going up against Larry Holmes
Speaker 1: an analogy because Joe Fraser was criticized of putting his
Speaker 1: son in a ring against former heavyweight champion of the
Speaker 1: world Larry Holmes, and Larry Holmes was cold and saying,
Speaker 1: ain't no dude with ten fights, Ain't no kid with
Speaker 1: ten fights? Gonna beat me, and he went in there
Speaker 1: and finished him off in the first round and called
Speaker 1: for the referee to stop the fight, wave the referee
Speaker 1: three times and hit him and wave for the referees
Speaker 1: to stop the fight because he was clearly in over
Speaker 1: his head. And that seems to be the case with
Speaker 1: Bronnie James. Now, some people close to lebron James and
Speaker 1: his camp felt that that was stepping over the line,
Speaker 1: that that wasn't a good analogy, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
Speaker 1: I asked this question rhetorically, what the hell did Tyree
Speaker 1: Maxey look like the other day going against Bronnie James.
Speaker 1: If that wasn't a Larry Holmes Marvis Fraze in comparison,
Speaker 1: I don't know what is he had forty three. By
Speaker 1: the way, all I'm saying to you is that Brownie
Speaker 1: James has potential, and I think the potential is better
Speaker 1: suited working your way in the G League and working
Speaker 1: your way up so you ain't going back and forth,
Speaker 1: but you're literally there permanently, You're in the G League
Speaker 1: until you come to the NBA, as opposed to going.
Speaker 2: Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 1: Because that's just reminding people that your Lebron James son,
Speaker 1: as opposed to an individual earned the stripes. And I said,
Speaker 1: Lebron James, your dad, and you're a basketball savon, why
Speaker 1: expose him to this? Going into last night's game against Washington,
Speaker 1: the hapless Washington Wizards. By the way, he doesn't even
Speaker 1: resemble an NBA team. Don't get me started with them
Speaker 1: in the sixteen game losing streak thirteen games, forty four minutes,
Speaker 1: once for sixteen, shooting from the field, o for seven
Speaker 1: from three point range, zero point three point, zero point
Speaker 1: three rebounds or three assists rather zero point four rebounds
Speaker 1: per game. Come on, That's all I'm saying. I want
Speaker 1: Briannie James to make it. I want him to shut
Speaker 1: up critics. I want him to succeed. I am not
Speaker 1: rooting against them. You ever met Lebron james family, You
Speaker 1: ever met Savannah, one of the most wonderful, wonderful human
Speaker 1: beings you could ever meet. Have you really sat down
Speaker 1: and talked to Lebron James at some point in time
Speaker 1: A really good dude?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't mess with each other because I
Speaker 1: work in a profession that has to be critical of him,
Speaker 1: and I understand that, but I know he's a great guy.
Speaker 1: You ever met his mother, Gloria Love Miss Gloria, love
Speaker 1: it to death, Maverick Carter, Rich Paul, Randy, Renny Memes.
Speaker 1: These are good dudes. They're just loyal to him. I
Speaker 1: see Randy and he looking at me all hard and
Speaker 1: all this. I don't take that personally. He loves that's
Speaker 1: this guy, Rich Paul. When he texts me and call
Speaker 1: or calls me and he's complaining about something, that's his guy.
Speaker 1: You know what if I was in Lebron James position,
Speaker 1: y'all would hear from a boy Cardele, You would hear
Speaker 1: from Jeff, you would hear from Mark, you would hear
Speaker 1: from my man's spank, You would hear from you know.
Speaker 2: A whole bunch of cats.
Speaker 1: Because I got boys who love me too, just like
Speaker 1: his boys love him.
Speaker 2: I understand take that personal.
Speaker 1: As long as I don't get personal, I don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, because I'm never gonna do that. I am
Speaker 1: a fan of Lebron James. I just got to call
Speaker 1: it like I see it. And I think in the
Speaker 1: case of his son, the dad needs to step in
Speaker 1: and say this might not be you might not be
Speaker 1: ready yet. That's okay, that's all I'm saying. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But I was glad he looked decent against
Speaker 1: the Wizards of other night. And I hope that he
Speaker 1: continues to succeed. And I hope that Ronnie James makes
Speaker 1: lives of a bunch of people.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the kid, never rooting against him.
Speaker 1: He and a lot about his brother, bryce younger brother,
Speaker 1: and a lot about his potential.
Speaker 2: This kid is something.
Speaker 1: But I didn't even bring up Mello as in Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony and how his son, who has committed to Syracuse,
Speaker 1: who has a game and everybody knows has a game,
Speaker 1: seems to be doing it the right way, just seems
Speaker 1: to be doing it the right way.
Speaker 2: But I'll leave that alone for now.
Speaker 1: I'll wait until I go on seven pm in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: with my man Mellow to discuss that further. Let me
Speaker 1: get to some quick hitters before we get on out
Speaker 1: of here for the day. We'll continue in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Did y'all see that game last night Houston Rockets Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 2: Did you see it? I know I saw it. Grizzlies
Speaker 2: airs the Rockets.
Speaker 1: One twenty to one nineteen in the battle between the
Speaker 1: two and three seeds in the Western Conference. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: if this is the Western Conference finals matchup, I'd love it.
Speaker 1: I'd love it. John Morant didn't played last night. You'll
Speaker 1: go in there and play last night for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn. That kid, Jalen Green is
Speaker 1: gonna be a star. That kid a Men Thompson. Remember
Speaker 1: I keep telling y'all this brother turned twenty two January
Speaker 1: thirtyeth This brother Amen Thompson, special, special, fierce defender, rebounder, competitor,
Speaker 1: and he's got a game that's just blossoming. He made
Speaker 1: Udoka than me. Is one of the best coaches in
Speaker 1: the game. He's gonna win a championship in Houston. Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jenkins can coach his butt off Memphis. Memphis
Speaker 1: to be respected. John Moran brings his game, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it. Memphis is formidable. But the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all, I'm telling y'all, Houston is gonna make
Speaker 1: some noise. Houston. I'm not even sure it's right to
Speaker 1: say they're piece away. I just think their experience away.
Speaker 1: I love what I'm seeing he Houston. I love what
Speaker 1: Emai Udoka is doing. Keep your eyes on it, y'all.
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets they come, and y'all they coming. Now, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the All Star Game, please. The Eastern and
Speaker 1: Western Conference teams have been named, but there's a glaring
Speaker 1: omission on the Eastern roster.
Speaker 2: In some people's eyes anyway, it's LaMelo Ball.
Speaker 1: Ball is now the first player, the leader his position
Speaker 1: group and fan voting that is not named an All Star.
Speaker 1: The voting the voting format changed in twenty sixteen twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen season. It's a factor in fans, media, and players, Okay,
Speaker 1: and that's why LaMelo Ball didn't get in because the
Speaker 1: media and the players didn't have him as the top guy.
Speaker 1: The fans did because they want to see a brother
Speaker 1: put on the show. He averaging like twenty eight points
Speaker 1: a game, but he shooting like forty two percent for
Speaker 1: the field, like thirty three percent for three point range.
Speaker 1: He's a volume shooter. I'm not questioning in LaMelo's game.
Speaker 1: The brother can ball. Here's what I would tell you.
Speaker 1: Your team is twelve and thirty two. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: You you you miss All Star games when your team
Speaker 1: is twenty games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. And to me, that's not
Speaker 1: the biggest snub, Ladies and gentleman. Kyrie Irvin for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks. What about him? What about Kyrie Irving? I
Speaker 1: got it even better. You see what he's doing. Twenty
Speaker 1: four point two points, forty percent shoot from the fear,
Speaker 1: forty two percent from three point range, and they win
Speaker 1: when he's on the court, even with our Lukadancik. Kyrie
Speaker 1: is special and he's made for All Star Weekend? Why
Speaker 1: he ain't there? Here's another one. Ladies and gentlemen, you're
Speaker 1: ready for this. How about the Clippers Norman Powell. I'm
Speaker 1: not in any way saying James Harden doesn't deserve it,
Speaker 1: because he does. He's had a great he's had a
Speaker 1: damn good season and he's really resurrected his career and
Speaker 1: it reminded us all of the respect that he deserves.
Speaker 2: James Harden I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But how about Norman Powell brother averaging about twenty four
Speaker 1: game shooting about forty three percent for three point range.
Speaker 1: The Clippers are seven games over five hundred, and this
Speaker 1: dude has been to reserve his entire career and has
Speaker 1: worked his tail off. Never cheats you, always comes ready
Speaker 1: to ball always. Norman Powell to me, that's the biggest
Speaker 1: snub of them all. Clippers of seven games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard has missed about thirty eight thirty nine games,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers of seven games over five hundred in
Speaker 1: the top six seed in the Western Conference. Why the
Speaker 1: hell ain't Norman Powell led He deserves it. He deserves it.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who made
Speaker 1: waves earlier this week. By the way, Silver appeared on
Speaker 1: The Dan Patrick Show and said that he was in
Speaker 1: favor of the league shortening the game for forty eight
Speaker 1: minutes to forty minutes. Here's what the commissioner had to say, quote,
Speaker 1: the NBA is the only league that plays forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: I am a fan of four ten minute quarters. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that many others are. I mean, putting this
Speaker 1: what it means for records and things like that. I
Speaker 1: think that a two hour format for a game is
Speaker 1: more consistent with modern television habits. Incidentally, if you went
Speaker 1: to a forty minute game with the minutes around load
Speaker 1: management and resting, it would be the equivalent of I
Speaker 1: don't know exact math, taking like fifteen games off the season.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. I get where Adam
Speaker 1: silv is coming from. Limit the minute minutes. It amounts
Speaker 1: to about fifteen less games a year when you take
Speaker 1: into account the minutes because you chopping eight minutes off
Speaker 1: of regulation.
Speaker 2: I get that part. I get the part about.
Speaker 1: The modern day era of television watchers and how it
Speaker 1: appears to be viewer friendly with what he was suggesting,
Speaker 1: Sir Commissioner, That is not the problem. The problem is
Speaker 1: the effort. How many concessions are you going to make
Speaker 1: for players who just don't want to come to work.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, come on, now, you give him.
Speaker 1: You chop it down to forty minutes, it still ain't
Speaker 1: gonna stop them from load managing.
Speaker 2: It's still not gonna stop them from missing.
Speaker 1: It's still not gonna stop them from being lack of
Speaker 1: days ago at times. I'm not talking about all, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about most, but some it's still not going
Speaker 1: to get them to prioritize stuff like All Star Weekend.
Speaker 1: The commissioner somebody sent me a text yesterday and I
Speaker 1: thought it was very, very profound, especially when they were
Speaker 1: talking about All Star Weekend.
Speaker 2: They said, the players look at the.
Speaker 1: League like a bank, not like partners. The bank has
Speaker 1: your money. We gotta go to the bank to get
Speaker 1: the money. So okay, that's what we gotta do. But
Speaker 1: we don't like going to the bank. We don't like
Speaker 1: dealing with them.
Speaker 2: But we have no choice because they got our money.
Speaker 1: The person that sent me that text was absolutely right.
Speaker 1: That's how the players view the league. And the sad
Speaker 1: part about it is they get away with it only
Speaker 1: because Adam Silver is an incredibly player friendly, nice man. Y'all,
Speaker 1: lucky as hell commission to David Stern is in alive
Speaker 1: and in that seat, and you didn't have to deal
Speaker 1: with him. Y'all know, good and well, y'all wouldn't even
Speaker 1: try it. Let me tell y'all something, and I want
Speaker 1: everybody to listen. I want my whole team out there
Speaker 1: to listen. I want my team right here to listen.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something about David Stern and
Speaker 1: I'm not casting Anya Spurgeons on the man. I love
Speaker 1: the man, and we had our battles and issues in
Speaker 1: the past, but in the years leading up to his passing,
Speaker 1: we cultivated a very close relationship and I grew to
Speaker 1: just love him and respect the hell out of him,
Speaker 1: and I appreciated the advice and the counsel in the straight, candid,
Speaker 1: no nonsense approach he had with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me tell y'all a little story.
Speaker 1: David Stern once said this to a network head executive.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you which network it wasn't mine.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you which network. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you the name of the person. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you anything. I gonna give you an example of
Speaker 1: who David Stern was. David Stern wanted somebody to come
Speaker 1: to a game with him, fly out with him, and
Speaker 1: go to a game with him one of the network executives,
Speaker 1: and the executive said, Dave, I appreciate it, and I
Speaker 1: will come with you, and I'll bring my kids, like
Speaker 1: because David's trying to ask them to bring excuse me them,
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go to this game.
Speaker 1: And the executive said to him, only on one condition,
Speaker 1: you can't call me a dumb motherfucker in front of
Speaker 1: my kids.
Speaker 2: That's a true story. What is the lesson appeal from that?
Speaker 1: David Stern would say that to any He pulled no punches.
Speaker 1: When we got in an argument one day early in
Speaker 1: my career, he caught me a piece of shit and
Speaker 1: he said, lose the number and hung up on me
Speaker 1: and we didn't talk for two years. And ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I'm one of countless victims of his diatribes and wraths.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan knows about his wrath. Alan Iverson knows about
Speaker 1: his wrath. Dwayne Wade knows about his wrath, along with
Speaker 1: countless others players, coaches.
Speaker 2: I saw him walk up.
Speaker 1: To a coach that was critical of the referees, and
Speaker 1: he walked up to the coach and smiled right at
Speaker 1: courtside as he was walking to his seat, and he says,
Speaker 1: do you like your job?
Speaker 2: And the coach of course I love it.
Speaker 1: He said, Will you to shut the fuck up if
Speaker 1: you want to keep liking it, because it won't be
Speaker 1: here for long if you don't learn to shut up
Speaker 1: and walk away right in front of me and other
Speaker 1: media members David Stern in play. Adam Silver doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be that. I don't think he's capable of being that,
Speaker 1: but he cares so much about the players. My advice
Speaker 1: to him would be care about those who care about
Speaker 1: you and leave the rec bee to your discretion, because
Speaker 1: you gotta lead to run. That would be my advice
Speaker 1: to Adam Silver, who I also have a great relationship
Speaker 1: with and I respect the hell out of and I
Speaker 1: think he does a great job. Our last quick hitter
Speaker 1: is a shout out to the one and only Dayne Wade,
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat legend and Hall of Famer, revealed yesterday
Speaker 1: that he had surgery on his kidney in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three to remove a tumor. Wade said doctors removed forty
Speaker 1: percent of his right kidney and that test on that
Speaker 1: tumor showed it was cancerous. He also said he was
Speaker 1: thankful that he decided to go forward with the procedure,
Speaker 1: while acknowledging the decision itself was a low point in
Speaker 1: his life. I've been tired with d Wade for years.
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this. Nobody tells you everything.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that my man seems well in the
Speaker 1: good spirits. He was out of the country the couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. He and I spoke. One of the
Speaker 1: best people I've ever covered in professional sports. Just a
Speaker 1: good hearted, soulful, decent at his core human being. Even
Speaker 1: when he was mad at you, he didn't come at
Speaker 1: you wrong. Class personified, one of the best human being ever.
Speaker 1: Thank God he's okay. Thank God he's feeling well. Wishing
Speaker 1: him nothing but continued health moving forward. I love this brother,
Speaker 1: He's good people's one of the best people I know
Speaker 1: and I've ever covered in professional sports in my life.
Speaker 1: So I'm very, very relieved that he seems to be okay. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get to your tweets before I get on out
Speaker 1: of here. Let's see what you got for me. Three
Speaker 1: tweets Lego at James Underscore six rights stephen A. Who's
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's NBA player comparison? Oh god, oh my lord,
Speaker 1: I have no idea of this question.
Speaker 2: I really really don't.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think Donald Trump's NBA player comparison. One
Speaker 1: of my producers ignorantly said, Jordan who left and came back.
Speaker 1: You can't mention Michael Jordan and Donald Trump in the
Speaker 1: same breath. No, they can't do that, can't do it.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Somebody else said big country remember him? You can say
Speaker 1: Sean Bradley. No, I don't know. I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1: I have to think about this. I can't just splat
Speaker 1: out an answer when it comes to comparing somebody that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump as a basketball but I can't do.
Speaker 2: It better yet. Who do you think is the NBA
Speaker 2: player you could compare to Donald Trump? What y'all think?
Speaker 2: Send in your responses.
Speaker 1: I swear to you no question has ever stuck me
Speaker 1: like that before. I have no I can't think of
Speaker 1: a player who I would mention that. Since the NBA
Speaker 1: player that most resembles Donald Trump, I guess their play
Speaker 1: compared to his actions is the commander in chief.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm interested oning what y'all think, though, tell you that much.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next tweet, which you got at Chief?
Speaker 1: Be mad or cheap pot maggett C H E A
Speaker 1: P I E M A C.
Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: My fiance is mad that I keep referring to our
Speaker 1: future wedding as my first wedding. I don't understand what
Speaker 1: she's upset about Now, that's some ignorant ass shit to
Speaker 1: say my first wedding as opposed to my wedding. What
Speaker 1: you planning on having a second wedding and a third
Speaker 1: wedding and a fourth wedding. You're planning getting divorced and remarried.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna sit up there and say my first wedding,
Speaker 1: tell her because you have every intention of renewing your vow.
Speaker 2: Every ten or twenty years. Don't just say my first
Speaker 2: wedding and just leave it out there.
Speaker 1: See you the type of person that's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be deprived. It's some loving that's what's gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get deprived. She gonna give you go cold
Speaker 1: turkey on you. She gonna keep the sheets cold, she
Speaker 1: ain't gonna keep you on, she ain't gonna take care
Speaker 1: of you. And then she gonna train your ass to
Speaker 1: get it right, because clearly you don't know any better.
Speaker 1: That's just dumb. My first wedding. Stop saying that my wedding.
Speaker 1: And if you say my first, just say baby, because two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: and six and seventh wedding are all gonna be with you.
Speaker 1: When I renew my vals over the next seventy years,
Speaker 1: say some smooth stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Don't just sit up there and say my first wedding
Speaker 2: and just leave it at that. You're telling her you're
Speaker 2: planning on getting divorced.
Speaker 1: At sometime down the line and somebody else gonna replace her.
Speaker 2: That's not smart. That's not smart. Last tweet, what you got.
Speaker 1: At young drol Right, Steven They Smith and Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: can't go in two weeks?
Speaker 2: Will you step in that quarterback? If you got the call?
Speaker 2: Hell to the no. That's football.
Speaker 1: I got long legs, the first tackle, my knees is shot.
Speaker 1: Hell no, Hell to the no. Now, basketball is a
Speaker 1: different matter. But football, I've never put on a helmet.
Speaker 1: I've never touched the football field in my life, and
Speaker 1: I've never once had a desire to do so, Hell
Speaker 1: to the no. That's just the way it goes. Okay,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'll let y'all get on out of here.
Speaker 1: I got something to tell y'all. Don't miss the Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show next week from New Orleans, where we'll be
Speaker 1: broadcasting all week ahead of the Super Bowl. We've got
Speaker 1: an all star cast of guests joining us throughout the
Speaker 1: week as we count down the Super Bowl fifty nine
Speaker 1: between the.
Speaker 2: Eagles and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So, by the way, tell us who you think will
Speaker 1: win the game on our poll on my Twitter page
Speaker 1: at Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith. Okay, make sure you do that.
Speaker 1: I'll be looking for your responses. Until then, I gotta
Speaker 1: sign off on here.
Speaker 2: Y'all be good.
Speaker 1: Hope y'all have an absolutely positively wonderful weekend. I will
Speaker 1: see y'all Monday live from New Orleans. Until then, everybody,
Speaker 1: that's it for this edition of The Stephen A. Smith Show,
Speaker 1: signing off peace of love,