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Speaker 2: Got a lot of stuff to get into today. I
Speaker 2: got this whole thing with those Department of Government efficiency,
Speaker 2: some of the cuts that they've been making some of
Speaker 2: the people, some of the communities, some of the other
Speaker 2: nations that have been affected by Elon Musk cuts. Obviously,
Speaker 2: spearheaded by my President Donald Trump as well. We'll get
Speaker 2: into that asap Rocky was acquitted. We'll get into that.
Speaker 2: Something about Kim Kardashian coming up. I'll get into that.
Speaker 2: I'll even mention something else about jay Z. I forgot
Speaker 2: to mention the other day because it's impoint that y'all know.
Speaker 2: But the first order of business to get started with
Speaker 2: is mister Kevin Duran himself KD Trey and a conversation
Speaker 2: he had with my ESPN colleague, the one and only
Speaker 2: Malika Andrews. The two sat down and discussed the tumultuous
Speaker 2: trade deadline that nearly landed him back with the Golden
Speaker 2: State Warriors. That deal fell apart when it became clear
Speaker 2: KD was not interested in a reunion, and he spoke
Speaker 2: on why exactly that was the case.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, and I just wanted to read you
Speaker 1: this quote from Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3: He said, I don't blame Kevin one bit for not
Speaker 3: wanting to rerun things here. He took so much for like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're jumping on the bandwagon, and then he's the finals
Speaker 3: MVP two years in a row and he still gets criticized.
Speaker 3: Why would he want to face all that bs again,
Speaker 3: what do you think about it?
Speaker 4: Talk crazy about me all the time? You know, like,
Speaker 4: that's not the reason why I didn't wanna come back.
Speaker 4: I just didn't wanna get traded in their way through
Speaker 4: the season. It was nothing against my time with the Warriors,
Speaker 4: or I heard because I don't like dray Bond. At
Speaker 4: the end of the day, I just didn't wanna move,
Speaker 4: and I think I want and I wanted to see
Speaker 4: it through with my team in Phoenix and see what
Speaker 4: we can do the rest of the season. So I'm
Speaker 4: glad I'm still there.
Speaker 3: How does the second half of the season shape your
Speaker 3: outlook for even beyond this year?
Speaker 1: Moving mid season is one thing.
Speaker 3: Moving in the summer is maybe something else.
Speaker 4: You gotta aks front officer about that. I mean, I
Speaker 4: never planned on leaving and moving fil you know, getting traded.
Speaker 4: I didn't asks for a trade from Phoenix, But obviously,
Speaker 4: when we pay so much for a team and we're
Speaker 4: not playing up to our expectation and somebody has to go,
Speaker 4: you know, so you know, pressure to check in with
Speaker 4: those guys in the front office throughout the rest of
Speaker 4: the season and see how they feel about the team.
Speaker 4: I know that I'm gonna keep bringing trying to bring
Speaker 4: my best every single day, and I let to hire
Speaker 4: up focus on what's next.
Speaker 2: Interesting conversation Kevin Durant had there with Malika Andrews, but
Speaker 2: I think it's important to address just for clarification purposes.
Speaker 2: I totally believe it when he says he didn't want
Speaker 2: to leave. He's happy in Phoenix once to stay there,
Speaker 2: didn't really want to move. He's that kind of dude. Obviously,
Speaker 2: he's scheduled to give about fifty four million next year.
Speaker 2: So the reality is is that it's not his choice.
Speaker 2: Is going to be the team's choice as to whether
Speaker 2: they want to move him or not, And in all likelihood,
Speaker 2: from everything we've been hearing, the Phoenix Suns man ded
Speaker 2: elect to move him out this off season. So I
Speaker 2: love the fact that he gets to finish this season
Speaker 2: in Phoenix. They get to try and turn things around.
Speaker 2: You do have Devin Booker, you do have Bradley Beal.
Speaker 2: These are not scrubs. These brothers can play. How they
Speaker 2: haven't figured out how to play together and win effectively
Speaker 2: beats me. It makes no sense whatsoever. I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, when it comes to Kevin Durant, we all
Speaker 2: know my wishes. I wish he was in New York
Speaker 2: with the Knicks because I think if the Knicks had
Speaker 2: him with Karl Anthony Towns, if they had their coop,
Speaker 2: but you can't get him because you got a trade
Speaker 2: for him and they gave up too much assets. As
Speaker 2: much as I love mikel Bridges five first round picks,
Speaker 2: if the Knicks could have given up three, they could
Speaker 2: have had a couple of first round picks to give
Speaker 2: to the Phoenix Suns and got KD before the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: And then if the New York Knicks had KD and
Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson on the squad together,
Speaker 2: your brother Stephen A. Smith would have been sitting up
Speaker 2: here talking about we gonna win the chip. We gonna
Speaker 2: win the chip. That's what I would have said. But
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. That didn't happen. Getting back to KD.
Speaker 2: In his conversation with Malikah Andrews, there's a couple of
Speaker 2: things that he said that I wanted to address. He
Speaker 2: said that he was hearing some noise about how he
Speaker 2: didn't like Draymond and him and Draymond Green didn't get along.
Speaker 2: That can't be true. We saw y'all do an interview
Speaker 2: together years ago and revisited that whole ordeal and how
Speaker 2: things had been fined ever since that time, and there's
Speaker 2: been no friction ever since. So why would anybody be
Speaker 2: saying that about Draymond? What do they think about Draymond?
Speaker 2: What we were thinking about was the fact that Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant went to Golden State won back to back titles,
Speaker 2: would have easily repeeded if he had not torn his achilles,
Speaker 2: because there's no way on Heather's Toronto Raptors would have
Speaker 2: beaten Kawhi leonned. Everybody admits that now, there's no way
Speaker 2: that Toronto was beating Golden State if KD hadn't gotten hurt. Okay,
Speaker 2: but he did, and so he was out that finals
Speaker 2: and out the entirety of the following season. So did
Speaker 2: it really come back until a year and a half later.
Speaker 2: That's why when I look at his age and everybody
Speaker 2: wants to bring up his thirty five thirty six years old,
Speaker 2: I'm like, chop off a year and a half of
Speaker 2: that because he wasn't playing basketball, so he still got
Speaker 2: Tom and he's averaging twenty seven a game. So this
Speaker 2: brother right here, that is Kevin Duran. I could see
Speaker 2: him doing that for at least the next three years
Speaker 2: because he just has that kind of skill set. He's
Speaker 2: six to eleven with a seven six wings man, he's
Speaker 2: got a handle, he could shoot, he's got a high
Speaker 2: basketball IQ. He knows what he's doing. Please, ain't nobody
Speaker 2: gonna stop KD. But the real story here is why
Speaker 2: wouldn't he want to go back to Golden State Because
Speaker 2: obviously him reunite with Steph Curry and Draymond Green. You
Speaker 2: gotta look at Golden State differently. I know we're looking
Speaker 2: at them differently already with Jimmy Butler. Could you imagine
Speaker 2: how we would have been looking at them if they
Speaker 2: had KD back. But yeah, as I said on my
Speaker 2: day job, first take on ESPN this morning, when Draymond
Speaker 2: and KD got into it, they didn't get into it,
Speaker 2: And that's why KD wanted to leave. They got into
Speaker 2: it because before that, KD wanted to leave because when
Speaker 2: Draymond was cussing him out, it was like, motherfucker, go,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be here anyway. Lead we want whatever,
Speaker 2: we won before you got here, we'll win after you leave.
Speaker 2: And actually it's kind of true because they did win
Speaker 2: before KD got there, and then they won after he
Speaker 2: left because they went in Boston. So factually, Draymond Green
Speaker 2: was prophetic in saying what he said because it's true
Speaker 2: it actually happened. But with that being said, that tiff
Speaker 2: with Draymond and KD on the court at the Crypto
Speaker 2: dot Com Arena formerly Staples Center, where DeMarcus Cousins had
Speaker 2: to basically restrain Draymond Green and keep him cool, that
Speaker 2: was a product of KD already having one foot out
Speaker 2: the door. So let's get that out the way. Here's
Speaker 2: the other thing that gets out of the way. We
Speaker 2: saw a quote from Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr talked about
Speaker 2: he doesn't blame KD for not wanting to come back
Speaker 2: with all the shit that he had to absorb when
Speaker 2: he got here. Whatever. Steve Kerr left something out. His
Speaker 2: relationship with came wasn't the greatest when they were there.
Speaker 2: Everybody that covers the NBA heard that. You don't want
Speaker 2: to believe stephen A. Believe everybody else to cover the NBA.
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr was obliged to try and have a better
Speaker 2: relationship with KD. And that's not what it materialized it
Speaker 2: to for whatever reason. Of course, I've heard the reasons,
Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna tell y'all that because we don't know.
Speaker 2: But we do know that Steve Kerr did not have
Speaker 2: the greatest relationship with KD. It was Bob Myers, the
Speaker 2: GM at the time, that had the relationship with KD.
Speaker 2: It was Bob Myers who escored at KD out of
Speaker 2: the arena in Toronto when he tore his achilles into
Speaker 2: the hospital. It was Bob Myers that was see crying.
Speaker 1: On the day.
Speaker 2: It's when they were talking about KD in terms of
Speaker 2: all that he endures or whatever it was. It was
Speaker 2: a sad moment. I was right there. Y'all had to
Speaker 2: be there. It was sad to see KD go a
Speaker 2: lout like that. And the Toronto fan should have been
Speaker 2: ashamed of themselves, like if you remember, Klay Thompson was
Speaker 2: waving them off like with disgust because they were cheering
Speaker 2: that he got injured, which is not something you do.
Speaker 2: Not like that, and that's what they did. So all
Speaker 2: of that was going on. It was a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of things and a whole bunch of personal stuff going
Speaker 2: on with Kat. That's none of my business than anybody
Speaker 2: else's business that contributed to him wanting to leave the
Speaker 2: Bay Area. But the bottom line is he wanted out.
Speaker 2: So my attitude is, if you were to Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 2: why should you want somebody back that left of their
Speaker 2: own volition, clearly stating they didn't want to stay. That
Speaker 2: showed you somewhat how desperate Golden State was to make
Speaker 2: any kind of move with Joe Lake Up the owner,
Speaker 2: Peter Gouber the minority owner, obviously, Mike Dunley v JUNR
Speaker 2: is your GM now replacing Bob Myers, they were desperate
Speaker 2: to do something. Jimmy Butler's a damn good pickup, six
Speaker 2: time All Star, rough and rugged, Jimmy buckets playoff, Jimmy,
Speaker 2: that brother shows up. He's special. He's special. But we
Speaker 2: know Kd's another dimension. But I just wanted to bring
Speaker 2: up the fact that there was a lot that went
Speaker 2: to that. And now the question that we have to
Speaker 2: ask ourselves is two things. Number One, what do we
Speaker 2: think Phoenix is going to do the rest of this year?
Speaker 2: I say not a damn thing more than they've done.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be an average team, They're gonna make it
Speaker 2: to the postseason. They're gonna take their ass home. That's
Speaker 2: what I believe about the Phoenix Suns. I hope I'm
Speaker 2: wrong because KD is great and Bill is good people
Speaker 2: and Devin Booker I just got love for that brother.
Speaker 2: He's special. And I think bulldenh Hosts is a hell
Speaker 2: of a coach. It's a championship coach. We know this.
Speaker 2: He beat Phoenix for the championship. Crime alive. It would
Speaker 2: be nice to see them make a run. I just
Speaker 2: don't see it. And as a result, they're gonna have
Speaker 2: to make a move and a likelihood is that they're
Speaker 2: gonna move Kevin Durant. So where would be the ideal
Speaker 2: place for KD to be? And the last year of
Speaker 2: this deal paying in fifty four million, And by the way,
Speaker 2: somebody should give him an extension because he's great and
Speaker 2: you know that for the next all he wants to
Speaker 2: do is who He only to be bothered with anything else,
Speaker 2: but he loves the hoop and that's what he gets
Speaker 2: paid to do. So guess what you get your money's worth?
Speaker 2: Who should get him. I would love it if my
Speaker 2: Knicks could. I think I might cry. I think I
Speaker 2: got to cry on national television if KD landed in
Speaker 2: the New York Knicks and I don't give a damn
Speaker 2: what names he's caught me. I don't give it damn
Speaker 2: how much he might dislike me or whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be. I'd love him for life. If he was
Speaker 2: a New York you never hear me utter another negative
Speaker 2: syllable about that brother. I don't give a damn he
Speaker 2: passed gas, I'd call it perfume if he was in
Speaker 2: the New York Knicks uniform, and I ain't apologize if
Speaker 2: it to anybody. I'm telling you that right now. That's
Speaker 2: how desperate I am for the Knicks to win a championship.
Speaker 2: That's how desperate I am. And if KD came there,
Speaker 2: they call Anthony Towns and Jaylen Bruson didn't have to
Speaker 2: leave in order for KD to get there. NICKT, Yeah, yeah, Cleveland, Boston,
Speaker 2: what bring him on? That's how excited I would be.
Speaker 2: But I'm just fantasizing. Got to think about the other
Speaker 2: teams KD and Miami wouldn't be bad, wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, wouldn't be bad at all. I think
Speaker 2: about that. You know what else I've thought about as
Speaker 2: crazy as the Sound Ladies and Gentlemen since Sam Presty
Speaker 2: seems to know how to do everything as an executive
Speaker 2: but win the championship. Everything but win the championship, wins
Speaker 2: the Vision crowns, win playoff series, accumulates an all star
Speaker 2: caliber roster, always got a superstar tour on the squad.
Speaker 2: He seems to know how to do everything but win
Speaker 2: a championship. Know what I would do if you Oklahoma City?
Speaker 2: I know he left Oklahoma City just like he left
Speaker 2: Golden State. Actually was a little bit worse than that,
Speaker 2: because he was up three to one and the Western
Speaker 2: Conference Finals lost the three one lead, lost to the
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors, and then joined them a month later.
Speaker 2: I get all of that, but that was a long
Speaker 2: time ago, byguns and Bygnes, who has more assets to
Speaker 2: offer than the Oklahoma City Thunder. If I'm Phoenix, I
Speaker 2: reach out to Oklahoma City to try to get some
Speaker 2: of those assets this summer, because if I pull that off,
Speaker 2: and I got Shay Gilders, Alexander with k D and
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams, and I still keep Chet Holmgren as well,
Speaker 2: and possibly Hartenstein. She you definitely talking that championship in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City then, and they got the assets to do
Speaker 2: it thanks to Kawhi Leonnett forcing the Clippers to get
Speaker 2: blackmailed and give up. And okay, see gives up Paul
Speaker 2: George for all of them damn assets, which included Shae
Speaker 2: Gilgers Alexander by the way, along with the bevy of
Speaker 2: other things that Russell Westbrook dial has studyed and so
Speaker 2: on and so forth. I'm just saying, if I'm Oklahoma City,
Speaker 2: if I'm Phoenix, definitely, if I'm Oklahoma City, I strongly
Speaker 2: think about that. I really really do. Coming up asap,
Speaker 2: Rocky is found not guilty in his fellow in the
Speaker 2: assault trial, much to the delight of him and his
Speaker 2: partner Rihanna. Plus Nike announces a partnership with maybe the
Speaker 2: most famous woman on planet Earth. But first, my buddy
Speaker 2: Chris Cuomo has some strong words on Elon Musk and
Speaker 2: the Department of Government Efficiency. This week. He'll join me
Speaker 2: next to discuss what's fantasy and what's reality when it
Speaker 2: comes to Musk claims got another item to get into
Speaker 2: involving NBA All Star weekend. But before I do that,
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Speaker 2: some NBA stars who are back in action following the
Speaker 2: NBA All Star break. First up, New York Knicks take
Speaker 2: on the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night. Will Jalen Brunson
Speaker 2: score more or less than twenty eight and a half points.
Speaker 2: I'm going with more. I don't think the Bulls are
Speaker 2: that good. I certainly don't think they're that good. Defensively,
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson is on a roll. This is the latter
Speaker 2: part of the season. Stuff is getting thick. They're fighting
Speaker 2: to maintain the third seed, possibly climb to the number
Speaker 2: two seeds. You never know. I think it's one of
Speaker 2: those situations where looking at Jalen Brunson and the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks going up against the Bulls, I think he'll
Speaker 2: score more than twenty eight and a half points. The
Speaker 2: brother puts up thirty in to sleep these days. Next up,
Speaker 2: Chicago's Nicole Vucevic scores more or less than seventeen and
Speaker 2: a half points. I'm gonna go with more on this.
Speaker 2: When the Brother can shoot, he's not a scrub. He
Speaker 2: can play. I don't think he's the most rugged big
Speaker 2: man in the game. He's not gonna score a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of points in the post, but he can put
Speaker 2: in some buckets. He can hit from the free throw line.
Speaker 2: As well. I'll give him that. I'll go with more
Speaker 2: on that particular answer. Next, the Atlanta Hawks take on
Speaker 2: the Orlando Magic, also on Thursday night. Will Trey Young
Speaker 2: score more or less than twenty eight points? Normally I
Speaker 2: would say yes to him, say more, But in this
Speaker 2: particular instance, I'm gonna go with yes. The fresho off
Speaker 2: the All Star break, he could be a little rusty.
Speaker 2: Orlando plays defense. They're a team to be reckoning with.
Speaker 2: They've got sizeable defenders, which I think can be problematic
Speaker 2: for him. And I think in the first game back,
Speaker 2: this is one of those games where I could see
Speaker 2: him scoreing less than twenty eight points. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with that. And finally, Orlando's Polo ben Kiro scores more
Speaker 2: or less than twenty four points. I just think the
Speaker 2: brothers a stud. I'm a huge fan of Ben Cairo.
Speaker 2: The brother can borrow. I think that they would have
Speaker 2: had a chance to knock off Cleveland in the first
Speaker 2: round last year in a Game seven if he wasn't
Speaker 2: so completely exhausted and devoid of help for crying out loud.
Speaker 2: This brother is a star. He's a future star in
Speaker 2: the league. I love Polo Ben Carroll. I think that
Speaker 2: he's definitely going to score more in this particular situation.
Speaker 2: So let's go back and revisit the four once and
Speaker 2: for all before I move on. Okay, we got Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson with more. Okay, we got Nicola Vucevic with more,
Speaker 2: we got Trey Young with less, and Paulo ben Kiro
Speaker 2: with more more more so than less. That's the way
Speaker 2: it works with prospects. That's why you always get paid,
Speaker 2: you feel me. Another item I needed to get to
Speaker 2: before I went to break was the news that just
Speaker 2: came down while I'm sitting here doing this show taping
Speaker 2: it earlier this afternoon. Headline from front Off Sports reports
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game ratings second least watched ever are
Speaker 2: down thirteen percent. Misseasons Showcase averaged four point seven million
Speaker 2: viewers across TNT platforms, down thirteen percent compared to last year,
Speaker 2: according to Front Office Sports media and entertainment reporter Ryan Glasswiegel.
Speaker 2: It's the second least watched NBA All Star Game, ahead
Speaker 2: only of the twenty twenty three All Star Game, which
Speaker 2: drew four point six million viewers. The last three NBA
Speaker 2: All Star weekends have all averaged under six million viewers,
Speaker 2: the only three in NBA history that have not breached
Speaker 2: that threshold. This is bad, ladies and gentlemen, This is
Speaker 2: not good, it says. The league also competed against SNL's
Speaker 2: SNL fifty the special fiftieth anniversary episode of Saturday Night
Speaker 2: Live on NBC, which by the way, owns the rights
Speaker 2: of the NBA All Star Weekend start next season. That
Speaker 2: drew fourteen point eight million viewers for SNL fifty, two
Speaker 2: hundred and two percent than its usual viewership this season,
Speaker 2: and obviously fourteen point eight million NBC, yet only four
Speaker 2: points you know, was it four point seven million on TNT.
Speaker 2: Also keep in mind, not only does SNL fifty beat
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Weekend ratings, you know what else beat them?
Speaker 2: Do you know what else beat them? NHL's Four Nations
Speaker 2: faceoff match between the United States and Canada. All Right,
Speaker 2: they said, we drew four point four million viewers on ABC,
Speaker 2: so it almost beat them. Didn't beat them, but it
Speaker 2: overshadowed them. Why is this so bad? It's so bad
Speaker 2: because we're talking about players who have been accused of
Speaker 2: being entitled and getting their bag and don't give a shit.
Speaker 2: About the product. We're talking about stars that don't care.
Speaker 2: We're talking about effort. See, if it was anything other
Speaker 2: than effort, then the product is a product than it
Speaker 2: is what it is. But when it's because of effort,
Speaker 2: there is no greater indictment than that. There's no greater
Speaker 2: indictment than that. And that's how we have to look
Speaker 2: at this. Anthony Edward's sick, couldn't play, got it. He
Speaker 2: came there feeling good, didn't feel good for the game.
Speaker 2: Understood Lebron James. A lot of people have been getting
Speaker 2: on them because they don't believe he just knew at
Speaker 2: the last minute. He knew he wasn't gonna play, but
Speaker 2: he told the NBA league late because he wanted to
Speaker 2: inconvenience them. That's what people are saying. I don't know
Speaker 2: whether that's true or not. I'm gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: accuse Lebron James or that. I will say, However, I
Speaker 2: find it very hard to believe he didn't know until
Speaker 2: it was too late for them to bring somebody else
Speaker 2: to All Star Weekend. I mehan, you consider some of
Speaker 2: the things that are transpired in some of the ways
Speaker 2: he's handled things over the years. It's gonna be very
Speaker 2: interesting to see Lebron James whether or not he's gonna
Speaker 2: get to own an NBA team. It's gonna be very
Speaker 2: interesting to see if the NBA is going to allow
Speaker 2: that to happen, because you got a lot of people
Speaker 2: that are salty about him. I'm just letting you know
Speaker 2: what I know. Either way you slice it, you know what,
Speaker 2: I believe. I believe one or two things should happen.
Speaker 2: I believe there should be a nationwide slam dunk contest.
Speaker 2: Me and a few sponsors and others who want to
Speaker 2: get in on the mix to make sure something like
Speaker 2: this happens. Go throughout the country and find the best,
Speaker 2: the ten best slam dunkers in the country, and then
Speaker 2: bring them all the All Star weekend. And when you
Speaker 2: bring them all the All Star Weekend, then what you
Speaker 2: do is you turn around. He said, you know what,
Speaker 2: a million dollars for the first prize, half a million
Speaker 2: dollars for the second prize, one hundred thousand for third place.
Speaker 2: We got people dying in the streets, so less you
Speaker 2: know what cats would do to put themselves in a
Speaker 2: position to win a million dollars, half a million dollars,
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars you have any idea and get
Speaker 2: the players to sponsor them. Yeah, you're an All Star.
Speaker 2: I got this guy. I got this guy. This is
Speaker 2: who I'm supporting. I think he's gonna win. I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna win. I think he's gonna win. That's how
Speaker 2: you do that. That way, the players don't have to
Speaker 2: dunk themselves. They just sponsored dudes who do. It would
Speaker 2: be a good good feel. You have a lot of
Speaker 2: people out there that have the potential, a lot of
Speaker 2: people who need the money, who could use the money.
Speaker 2: It would be beautiful to watch. And I promise you
Speaker 2: as impressed as I was with macl McClung, mister g
Speaker 2: League himself, a three time champion, you'd have dudes that
Speaker 2: do an even better job than that. Outside of that,
Speaker 2: the All Star Game itself, it wouldn't bother me at
Speaker 2: all if it was done away with. Yeah, they showed
Speaker 2: a little more effort this time, but the fact that
Speaker 2: all of that had to be done just to get
Speaker 2: you to show effort bump it. Just name an All
Speaker 2: Star lem going vacation, because clearly we can find better
Speaker 2: things to watch on television. If God's gonna lill the
Speaker 2: gag around and I give effort, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Coming up asap, Rocky is found not guilty and its
Speaker 2: fellow the assault trial, much to the delight of him
Speaker 2: and his partner Rihanna. Plus, Nike announces a partnership with
Speaker 2: maybe the most famous woman on the planet Earth. But first,
Speaker 2: my friend, the one and only Chris Cuomo has some
Speaker 2: strong words on Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 2: This week, you'll join me next to discuss which fantasy
Speaker 2: and what's reality when it comes to mister Elon Musk
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Speaker 2: You know my buddy Chris Clmo has been on News
Speaker 2: Nation all week long discussing Elon Musk in the Department
Speaker 2: of Government Efficiency, a subject that has spurned a lot
Speaker 2: of debate nationwide. He started by breaking down some falsehoods
Speaker 2: regarding claims about USAID. Take a listen to this please.
Speaker 1: Did USAID send two million to Guatemala for sex change surgeries?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: First, they only got three hundred and fifty grand and
Speaker 1: the money went for a lot more than surgery. We
Speaker 1: help poor countries. Is that now bad? And if you say, yeah, America, First,
Speaker 1: why do you think we do it if we stopped?
Speaker 1: Do you really believe that what goes bad there doesn't
Speaker 1: affect us here?
Speaker 2: Here's a hint.
Speaker 1: Most migrants are leaving what distressed places less distressed there,
Speaker 1: less need to come here. Okay, so you look at
Speaker 1: the next one, fifty five million to strengthen Libya's whatever
Speaker 1: financial Did we do that? Yeah? But why didn't mass
Speaker 1: tell you the project started during the Trump administration? Why
Speaker 1: would he leave that out? He want you to get
Speaker 1: angry about something, but not blame the guy who did it.
Speaker 1: Same thing with complaining about money for tourism in Egypt.
Speaker 1: Trump did it. So if it's so stupid, is in
Speaker 1: Trump the stupid one? Or does he really believe you
Speaker 1: are because he doesn't think you're gonna check?
Speaker 2: How about that? How about that? The latest flash point
Speaker 2: in the slashing of government entities surround Social Security. Who's
Speaker 2: getting paid and whether or not some recipients may be
Speaker 2: long gone from this earth. Clomo had something to say
Speaker 2: about that as well.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, and now he's claiming massive fraud at
Speaker 1: Social Security administration. Now this program matters, but not to
Speaker 1: him because he's already botching it in favor of heat
Speaker 1: over light. He shared this screenshot. All the Maga and
Speaker 1: the pod bros with their ski caps and their big
Speaker 1: cans on their head went crazy. Look at this. Millions
Speaker 1: of people above the age of one hundred are receiving
Speaker 1: Social Security.
Speaker 5: This is the.
Speaker 2: Biggest fraud ever.
Speaker 1: This was to back up the claim in the Oval
Speaker 1: Office that many people receive Social Security are falsely aged
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years old. What a scam, so stupid?
Speaker 2: How did we miss it?
Speaker 1: Because it's bs We did some basic research and once
Speaker 1: again the situation with Social Security is not what mister
Speaker 1: Musk suggests. Social Security uses this antiquated computer language called
Speaker 1: cobal cobol. Now on that system, if a birth date
Speaker 1: is missing, it automatically codes for May twenty, eighteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: Why this old story that goes with it, But that's
Speaker 1: the answer. Eighteen seventy five is one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years ago. I thought he had these genius coders. They
Speaker 1: didn't know that? Or is he just guessing that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't know that and you wouldn't find out.
Speaker 2: Again, it's the ladder, It's the ladder. It's an accusation
Speaker 2: on my part because I'm not inside the head of
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, but certainly clear appears to be the case.
Speaker 2: The reality is is that when you look at the
Speaker 2: Department of Government agency, I don't have a problem with
Speaker 2: it in theory. I have a problem with who's been
Speaker 2: put in place to oversee it. First of all, Elon
Speaker 2: Musk isn't a government employee. He's basically a consultant to
Speaker 2: the president. He isn't somebody that needed to be confirmed
Speaker 2: by the Senate or anything like that. He's not receiving
Speaker 2: a check, so essentially he gets to operate with relative impunity. Now,
Speaker 2: of course, the President, Donald Trump has said on the record,
Speaker 2: I will be watching him, I will be supervising him.
Speaker 2: Trust me, trust me, trust me, and the cult like
Speaker 2: following that he has. Clearly people are going to do
Speaker 2: that because their mentality is that he's the president of
Speaker 2: the United States. He's the forty seventh president of the
Speaker 2: United States of America. He wanted a fair and square election.
Speaker 2: Rather convincingly, regardless of what the Democrats want to say
Speaker 2: about it, was the only forty nine point eight percent
Speaker 2: of the forty eight point three percent Demnity won convincingly
Speaker 2: and he has a mandate, even though they want to
Speaker 2: try to say he doesn't have a mandate. When you
Speaker 2: win all the swing states, when you improve in democratic
Speaker 2: graphics like the blacks, the Latinos, the young voters, when
Speaker 2: you've upgraded in fifty counties for crying out loud, no,
Speaker 2: you've won convincingly. That's what it is. And because he
Speaker 2: has that trust, he's able to get away with saying
Speaker 2: that for now. But when you see the kind of
Speaker 2: latitude that Elon Musk has at his disposal, when you
Speaker 2: see the access to private information that ultimately he is
Speaker 2: going to get, at least purportedly, so it does make
Speaker 2: you a bit nervous. It really really does. Not to
Speaker 2: mention the fact that some of the stuff that he
Speaker 2: has said is not true, as Chris Wolmore pointed out,
Speaker 2: social security not true, Guatemalia, that surgeries in Guatemala not true,
Speaker 2: Tunaisia not true. What else is not true? I don't
Speaker 2: know how much money was legitimately wasted. I want to
Speaker 2: know the answer to that question. Not only do I
Speaker 2: want to know how much money has been w I
Speaker 2: want to know who wasted it, Who appropriated those funds
Speaker 2: to certain places. Was it legit? Was it excessive? What
Speaker 2: money is missing? How much is missing? Where did it go?
Speaker 2: I want to know all of that. That's just me.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it. And all I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you is is that again. I'm gonna remind you
Speaker 2: I'm a registered independent. I'm gonna remind you. You've seen
Speaker 2: Joshapiro on this show. Governor philid Pennsylvania. You've seen Wes
Speaker 2: Moore on this show, Governor of Maryland. You've seen Eric
Speaker 2: Adams on this show, Mayor of New York. But you've
Speaker 2: also seen Byron Donald on this show. You've seen Sean
Speaker 2: Hannity on this show. Megan Kelly is invited on this show.
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio is invited on this show. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you the names of the people I personally want Megan Kelly,
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, Pete Haig, Seth jd Vance Vice President jd Vance,
Speaker 2: Senator Ted Cruz because I've always wanted to talk to him,
Speaker 2: Senator Lindsey Graham as well. I like Lindsey Graham sometimes,
Speaker 2: and of course the President himself, Donald Trump. I'm not
Speaker 2: really that interested in talking to Elon Musk. Let him
Speaker 2: do what he does. I'm talking about the elected officials,
Speaker 2: the people that the American people chose or elected officials confirmed.
Speaker 2: Talk about those dudes. That's what I want to see,
Speaker 2: That's what I want to talk to. I don't want
Speaker 2: anybody to think for one second that you're watching this
Speaker 2: show and all you want to see is liberals, Democrats, etc.
Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly's been on this show. He's coming back on.
Speaker 2: I want Andrew Cormo on this show too. In light
Speaker 2: of the charges being dropped by the DOJ forcing the
Speaker 2: Southern District of New York to drop those charges against
Speaker 2: every Adams, I want him back on. Nobody's running, nobody's hiding,
Speaker 2: but nobody's gonna be unfair either. But this stuff, the
Speaker 2: Department of Government efficiency, that's not very efficient when you
Speaker 2: look at what Chris Crmo pointed out, it's not very
Speaker 2: efficient at all. And since this man is so brilliant
Speaker 2: and being utilized by a president because of his brilliant
Speaker 2: I don't expect mistakes, which means, if they are one,
Speaker 2: are you as efficient as the president claimed? And if
Speaker 2: you're not, if that's not it, will you purposefully, purposefully
Speaker 2: or purposely disingenuous, just a legitimate question. Joining me now
Speaker 2: to discuss all of this and to try to provide
Speaker 2: some clarity is none other than the man, the myth,
Speaker 2: the legend himself, my brother, the one and only Chris Cmo.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Big time? How are you?
Speaker 2: Stephen A is one of one. It's good to see you, man,
Speaker 2: It's good to see you. I can't say enough about
Speaker 2: how much I appreciate it. I played the sound of you,
Speaker 2: footage of you talking on your show Cuoma on News
Speaker 2: Nation every weeknight at eight pm easton Standard time. I
Speaker 2: played the clip of you talking about DOGE and talking
Speaker 2: about social Security, talking about supposed gender surgeries and Guatemalia
Speaker 2: and all of this other stuff. As you sit back
Speaker 2: and reflect to zero in on DOGE itself, why did
Speaker 2: you feel the need to do so? And what have
Speaker 2: you gathered from your research about the Department of Government efficiency?
Speaker 1: So let's start with what should be obvious. Everybody should
Speaker 1: be in favor of finding waste, fraud and abuse, and
Speaker 1: the idea that I'm inclined or anyone should be inclined
Speaker 1: to be against the effort reeks of partisan politics. So
Speaker 1: of course this is great, and nobody has ever failed
Speaker 1: to find waste fraud and abuse, different name, different ways,
Speaker 1: every administration, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, everybody has let's find waste
Speaker 1: fraud and abuse, and they have found it. Every time
Speaker 1: government is huge, mistakes are going to be made, Intentional
Speaker 1: errors are going to be made. Dooze does not bother
Speaker 1: me as an effort doesn't bother me. That they're using
Speaker 1: an outsider bothers me a little bit. That they keep
Speaker 1: being wrong about things, and it starts to smell like
Speaker 1: they are intentionally trying to get people to think that
Speaker 1: everything government does sucks and that is irresponsible. And it
Speaker 1: feels like more heat than light. And if the reason
Speaker 1: we're bringing on in Elon instead of having Congress do
Speaker 1: it is because he's better at it, why does he
Speaker 1: keep getting it wrong? And now they say they're going
Speaker 1: to give out a five thousand dollars diffidend by giving
Speaker 1: us twenty percent of two trillion dollars or whatever the
Speaker 1: number is. They don't know what the number is. I
Speaker 1: thought this was about getting the deficit down. Now they're
Speaker 1: saying they're going to give us checks. It reeks of
Speaker 1: overpromising and setting up and under delivery. So that's my
Speaker 1: angle on it. Efficiencies are good, finding waste for aud
Speaker 1: abuse great. The fact that Trump is doing it, so what,
Speaker 1: it's not bad just because he's doing it or Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is doing it, But how they do it matters.
Speaker 1: And all this hype stephen A, it bothers me.
Speaker 2: What do you think the intent is? Assuming that they're
Speaker 2: getting these things wrong and they're doing it purposefully, they're
Speaker 2: being disingenuous about it. What could possibly be the benefit
Speaker 2: from doing that? Is that painting the government as corrupt
Speaker 2: because it will facilitate Trump's agenda down the line leading
Speaker 2: into the midterms. What could it be?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it. Musk hates government. He has
Speaker 1: said it many many times, many different ways. He has
Speaker 1: obvious personal incentive to pretend that there's a better way
Speaker 1: than our government. And you know, you got to read
Speaker 1: the disconnect between the Musk and the Oval Office, who
Speaker 1: Steven I was very impressed by. We talked about it
Speaker 1: a little bit in private that I thought he was
Speaker 1: really good. I thought it was bad for him because
Speaker 1: I thought he outshined the president and you know what
Speaker 1: happens when we do that. But the difference between him
Speaker 1: there and on Twitter. I mean, he's just like you know,
Speaker 1: just in the amplification of absurdity business on Twitter. And
Speaker 1: I don't believe he can be this wrong this often,
Speaker 1: so I think it's intentional. And the responses always give
Speaker 1: him time. Give them time. It's not about time. Telling
Speaker 1: the truth isn't about time. Showing receipts of what you
Speaker 1: say you found isn't about time. You can do it
Speaker 1: in real time. I'm not coming after them about the
Speaker 1: price economy. I know two and three people think he
Speaker 1: should spend more time on it. I know that people
Speaker 1: are worried that prices are going the wrong way. I
Speaker 1: know that he promised something that he didn't deliver, which
Speaker 1: was quick change. I'm not chasing him on that because
Speaker 1: I knew he was the FOS when he said it
Speaker 1: during the campaign, because I knew it would take time.
Speaker 1: And we'll see what his policies do. He hasn't even
Speaker 1: had a budget in yet, so I'm being reasonable about it.
Speaker 1: But what they can do right now, they should do
Speaker 1: right now, and that's showing receipts. Let me see where
Speaker 1: these dividend checks are going to come from.
Speaker 2: I don't buy it, how concerned are you by the
Speaker 2: Democrats reaction on Capitol Hill? We saw the protest, We
Speaker 2: saw people being a bit vociferous, to say the least,
Speaker 2: and saying some things that I didn't think was the
Speaker 2: most advisable thing to say. I think they came across
Speaker 2: as people that were still campaigning, as opposed to recognizing
Speaker 2: this is the new power and office. Y'all lost. There's
Speaker 2: a different mandate and you got to accept at him
Speaker 2: and might be and might be inclined to act a
Speaker 2: little bit differently, but that's not what transpired. How do
Speaker 2: you feel about what you've seen from the humans of
Speaker 2: the world and others on Capitol Hill?
Speaker 1: I can't put it any better than that they're still
Speaker 1: in campaign mode. Sounds right. It seems like anything that
Speaker 1: Trump or Musk does they have to condemn, and they
Speaker 1: have to condemn it on the basis of the people personally.
Speaker 1: Trump is a Nazi, Musk has apartheid roots, and to me,
Speaker 1: it just proves they haven't learned their lesson yet that
Speaker 1: they should be in a better idea business and they
Speaker 1: do seem like they're defending the status quo. They're just
Speaker 1: defending the establishment, and I don't think that's where you
Speaker 1: want to be right now. You want to be in
Speaker 1: the business is better, and they seem like they're still
Speaker 1: in the business of painting the other side as worse.
Speaker 1: And a little of it that sounds like semantics or
Speaker 1: rhetorical device, but I don't think it is. I think
Speaker 1: it reads to people as Listen, I don't like the
Speaker 1: guy either, or maybe I do, but either way it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I just want stuff to get better for
Speaker 1: me and my family. Are you about that? Or you're
Speaker 1: just about comparative advantage over the other side, And they
Speaker 1: have to find a better answer to that question. And
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of this going on over
Speaker 1: there's a lot of hand ringing going on on the left,
Speaker 1: and to me, that's almost like masturbatory. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not really about getting them to a better place. When
Speaker 1: they are at their best. Democrats, they are speaking to
Speaker 1: the masses with dynamic messengers who are taking on the
Speaker 1: hard work of showing that things can be more light
Speaker 1: than dark. The Republicans starting with the you know in
Speaker 1: our Lifetime the Contract with America nineteen ninety three for
Speaker 1: Nu Gingrich him saying that Republicans need to learn how
Speaker 1: to get mean, and they took toughness as an advantage
Speaker 1: and it has worked well for them. The Democrats are
Speaker 1: not going to win a bully contest, They're not going
Speaker 1: to win a tough guide contest, and they shouldn't want
Speaker 1: them be in the business of better You want to
Speaker 1: find efficiencies? Awesome. If I were they, I'd say, can't
Speaker 1: wait for the dividend check where are you getting it from?
Speaker 1: Because we have some ideas. You say you're going to
Speaker 1: find two trillion dollars. I think you got to get
Speaker 1: rid of the DOJ, the Department of Education, and a
Speaker 1: huge chunk out of Medicare Medicaid and a twenty five
Speaker 1: percent decrease in Social Security contributions back to the people
Speaker 1: who paid in to reach that number. Is that your plan?
Speaker 1: That's what they should be doing, But that's not what
Speaker 1: they're doing. So you're right to call it out.
Speaker 2: Is it possible based off of what you just explained
Speaker 2: that that's why the false information is being put out
Speaker 2: there by Musk to some degree and obviously Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: who says that he's watching him personally, because I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: if this is the kind of thing that can spark
Speaker 2: outrage from the Democrats. Right, then you get the Democrats
Speaker 2: to act that way, and then you're able to say, see,
Speaker 2: look at them, same old, same o. They just don't
Speaker 2: get it, and they'll probably act in this way because
Speaker 2: we're noticing the kind of corruption that was taking place
Speaker 2: on this side while they were running this country. Is
Speaker 2: it possible that that's the incentive behind all of this?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible. I think it's probable. The
Speaker 1: last part. I mean, look, doesn't it sound like that
Speaker 1: to you? Doesn't it sound how like everything they find
Speaker 1: is kind of on the Democrats. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the interesting points of analysis that we've done,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, look, I have a team and
Speaker 1: on my own enterprising I can dig very deep into
Speaker 1: things with sources and research. I have not had to
Speaker 1: do that here. To find that some of the things
Speaker 1: that they're calling out as waste or crazy or whatever
Speaker 1: adjective you want to put on it started under Trump
Speaker 1: and they're just ignoring it. Shows you what this is
Speaker 1: really about, is that it's about blaming Democrats for the
Speaker 1: status quo, and I think the Democrats are playing right
Speaker 1: into it. And could you.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead? I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I just feel like AOC is the crystal is a
Speaker 1: of this for me. And again I'm not anti AOC.
Speaker 1: I respect her pursuit of passion. I respect that she's
Speaker 1: built this big platform for herself. I think she's got
Speaker 1: a lot more reach than resonance, meaning I don't know
Speaker 1: that what she says matters as much as the number
Speaker 1: of her following. But I think she's kind of the
Speaker 1: poster boy right now for handling this the wrong way.
Speaker 2: And why what specifically has she done when you mentioned
Speaker 2: her handling it the wrong way?
Speaker 1: She seems to be an apologist for the set quo
Speaker 1: and everything with her is personal. Musk is dumb, Trump's
Speaker 1: an asshole, you know whatever it is. It's like, ah,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about somebody at a fraternity party, you know,
Speaker 1: as opposed to being a leader and having a better
Speaker 1: way and showing that you have better ideas. Proving that
Speaker 1: Elon and Musk are imperfect is going to be easy.
Speaker 1: The problem is nobody thinks you're perfect either. And in fact,
Speaker 1: as you said, and I got to tell you, I
Speaker 1: said it that the time I said it repeatedly on
Speaker 1: TV off TV Man, did you nail it? On Bill?
Speaker 1: Maher's show by saying that not only did they get
Speaker 1: beaten by a guy who's one of the most unpopular
Speaker 1: politicians in modern history, but the Democrats have to wake
Speaker 1: up to the proposition that more people thought that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump reflected normalcy more than the Democrats do. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know when you said that, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: when it comes to like the pursuit of thought and
Speaker 1: reason and understanding, somebody just puts it right and it
Speaker 1: just hits you, like when you get just enough salsa
Speaker 1: on a chip. You know, I'm talking about, when you
Speaker 1: get just enough case of on the chip where you're like,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm here. That was that line. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. More people thought that Donald Trump reflected normal
Speaker 1: more than the Democrat offerings, and that when you very embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Now when when you talk about what Trump did, what
Speaker 2: programs he started that fell in the usaid, can you
Speaker 2: be specific about what those programs are based on?
Speaker 1: A couple of the like the Core in Egypt thing
Speaker 1: that they came out with where we gave all this
Speaker 1: money to tour Egypt. You know, it was unstarted under him.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of those other programs. Now here's
Speaker 1: what Trump has, then nobody else gets the benefit of.
Speaker 1: If this was on stephen A. Smith, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: steven A, you did that too, You'd have a problem.
Speaker 1: Not Trump, whether it's the vaccine or the boosters or anything.
Speaker 1: Trump gets a pass. Why does Trump get a pass
Speaker 1: when nobody else gets a pass? Because he is seen
Speaker 1: differently by by his base. Most bases see their people
Speaker 1: as their agents. He is their spirit animal. He is
Speaker 1: their ambition to disrupt and destroy what they believe against them.
Speaker 1: So they will not go bad on him because that
Speaker 1: would be them going bad on that ambition, and that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So being in the Trump subs business
Speaker 1: is a bad business.
Speaker 2: You're in great shape, you got your big chest out,
Speaker 2: in your arms and everything like that. The top, the
Speaker 2: word on the top says angry. That's on your shirt.
Speaker 2: Why why are you wearing that shirt?
Speaker 1: Because I love the podcast that PJ. Rykoff does and
Speaker 1: it used to be called The Angry American now it's
Speaker 1: called The Independent Americans. But I believe in anger, anger
Speaker 1: as passion of pursuit, not anger as animus. You know
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have me on you know, Steven, you're a
Speaker 1: tough guy. You're a strong guy, but you're a sweet guy.
Speaker 1: You don't like bullies, you don't want to hear bullies,
Speaker 1: and not even do I But anger is a good thing.
Speaker 1: If you're angry about something, good, work harder at it.
Speaker 1: If you're angry about something, great, change it. If you're
Speaker 1: angry about something, use that passion, use that enter, use
Speaker 1: that provocation to get yourself to a better place. There's
Speaker 1: nothing more satisfied than saying, oh, you don't think I can.
Speaker 1: You don't think I can do this. Now you kissed
Speaker 1: me off, and I'm coming for you. I'll prove it
Speaker 1: to you. Great. It's all how you direct it. I
Speaker 1: have no problem with people being outraged. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are outrageous. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of things that are enraging. I'm enraged. I'm enraged at myself.
Speaker 1: I'm angry at me for not being able to make
Speaker 1: things more clear, make them more obvious, be more productive
Speaker 1: about how I help people be critical thinkers and make
Speaker 1: their own choices instead of getting pushed into silos. So
Speaker 1: I'm cool with anger. It's just how you direct it.
Speaker 2: With that being said, I mean as we go on
Speaker 2: from here. I'm just thinking along the lines of where
Speaker 2: is the Democratic Party gonna go? Should you shut up
Speaker 2: and let Trump do his thing, expose himself probably before
Speaker 2: the midterms, which would position you to make some noises
Speaker 2: and kind of recover some seats in the House. Or
Speaker 2: do you raise Holy Hell orbeit in a different way
Speaker 2: than you've been doing. If you're the Democratic Party, where
Speaker 2: do they go from here? In light of what we're
Speaker 2: seeing from Trump and Musk specifically, they.
Speaker 1: Have to be in the business of better They're gonna
Speaker 1: have opportunities in the budgeting process to show that one
Speaker 1: Trump is being pushed to do things that he said
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do. Okay, you know, there's a common phenomenon
Speaker 1: in politics where people sometimes most times they're motivated to
Speaker 1: their own self interest. Okay, sometimes they're motivated to something
Speaker 1: that's against their self interest. And that is happening in
Speaker 1: the MAGA movement. If this guy gets convinced, and I
Speaker 1: don't like to give him the excuse, but this is
Speaker 1: just how I see the dynamic. If the Republicans get
Speaker 1: him to take a bite out of Social Security, a
Speaker 1: bite out of medicaid, I'm not talking about waste, frawd
Speaker 1: and abuse. I'm talking about bone, not fat, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about muscle bone. I think that there is an
Speaker 1: opportunity in that to get back to the masses because medicaid,
Speaker 1: you can feel any way you want about it. Ever
Speaker 1: since they put it into practice in nineteen sixty five
Speaker 1: is an extension of the Social Security Administration. The need
Speaker 1: has only grown. Five out of eight people in nursing homes,
Speaker 1: one in ten people are what they call food and secure.
Speaker 1: We used to call it four hungry. One in six
Speaker 1: kids are medicaid. And it used to it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be like seventy thirty state money federal money. Now
Speaker 1: it's fifty to fifty and sometimes sixty five thirty five
Speaker 1: federal money. The states can't carry the load, and the
Speaker 1: Republican states, some of them tried to seem austere and
Speaker 1: refuse expansion during the ACA to kind of smite Obama,
Speaker 1: to spite him, not smite him. God does that. And
Speaker 1: they have referenda in some of those states because people
Speaker 1: need it. So they're going to be opportunities in the
Speaker 1: budgeting process for Democrats to be in the business. Are
Speaker 1: better that you don't have to cut medicaid. You don't
Speaker 1: have to cut for the poor when you can go
Speaker 1: after the rich without without creating pain the same way,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be opportunities. But if they're obsessed with playing
Speaker 1: gotcha and saying that everything he does is terrible, they're
Speaker 1: gonna stay right where they are and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: another aberration, which is a midterm cycle where the incumbent
Speaker 1: doesn't lose seats first time out. If they keep it
Speaker 1: this way, stephen A, that's what's gonna happen to them again,
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Speaker 2: coming up. Asap Rocky is found not guilty and it's
Speaker 2: Nike banking on Kim Kardashian to be there next. Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan will dive into that next, plus an update on
Speaker 2: Jay Z and I respond to questions from you, my
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Speaker 2: To Welcome back to the Stephen A. Smith Show. You
Speaker 2: saw the big news yesterday from the world of entertainment
Speaker 2: with rapper Asap Rocky being found not guilty in his
Speaker 2: fellow in the assault trial. On Tuesday, a Los Angeles
Speaker 2: jury acquitted the rapper who was accused of firing a
Speaker 2: semi automatic handgun at his former friend and ASAP Mob
Speaker 2: member Asap Rally in an altercation in November of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, of two charges of fella in the assault
Speaker 2: with the semi automatic firearm. After the first verdict was read,
Speaker 2: Rocky immediately jumped over the stand to hug his mother, sister,
Speaker 2: and partner Rihanna. He also told the jury quote, thank
Speaker 2: y'all for saving my life. Thank y'all for making the
Speaker 2: right decision. End quote. Rihanna expressed the gratitude following Roy
Speaker 2: he's a quitted, writing on her Instagram stories, the glory
Speaker 2: belongs to God and God alone. End quote. Asap, whose
Speaker 2: real name is Rakkeien Mayers, was facing up to twenty
Speaker 2: four years in prison. I found guilty. I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about this case other than what we just read
Speaker 2: to You don't know Asap Rocky at all. Don't follow
Speaker 2: him like that obviously. I know he's with Rihanna and
Speaker 2: they've got two beautiful children together and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm very very happy for them. I'm very very happy
Speaker 2: that he was acquitted. I was very nervous for him
Speaker 2: because he was in Los Angeles and the jury, and
Speaker 2: you know, when you live through Rodney King, you never
Speaker 2: let go of it. You never let go of it, Okay,
Speaker 2: because everybody ain't oj all right where you're gonna have
Speaker 2: a jury to let you off. They ain't like that,
Speaker 2: and so I'm very very happy for him, But I
Speaker 2: just wanted to take an opportunity to say something to
Speaker 2: him and to all the brothers out there who are
Speaker 2: living good lives, achieving big things. You do understand you're
Speaker 2: a target, right, You do understand that. I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about Asap rally, and I'm not casting any aspersures
Speaker 2: on them. Again, I don't know him. I know that
Speaker 2: they said, according to the reports, that he had conflicting
Speaker 2: testimony and that led to Asap Rocky being found now guilty.
Speaker 2: So I do know that. But in the end, what
Speaker 2: it really really comes down to is that brothers out
Speaker 2: here are doing big things. You're always a target, always
Speaker 2: a target, especially when you are a black man. We
Speaker 2: want to act like everything is equal, and everything's the same,
Speaker 2: everything ainte the same, everything you hate the same, trice
Speaker 2: is good to get half as much and all of
Speaker 2: this other stuff. Yeah, but you know what, guilty, intel
Speaker 2: proven innocent. That's something that comes with today's society that
Speaker 2: we live in. And there's a lot of people out
Speaker 2: there that were looking at Aside Rocky and thinking that
Speaker 2: I He's gonna end U in jail. What a beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful woman and a sensational artist you have as your woman,
Speaker 2: and Rihanna and y'all have a family together. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying you're guilty of anything. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the hell hell I know is that you were found
Speaker 2: out guilty props to you. What I'm saying is, my brother,
Speaker 2: I want asap Rocky to think about those few tense moments,
Speaker 2: not even the months and the years, the months and
Speaker 2: the weeks and the days leading up to that verdict.
Speaker 2: I want you to think about when you were standing
Speaker 2: in between your lawyers and you were facing twenty four
Speaker 2: twenty five years in jail. I want you to hold
Speaker 2: on to that moment and remember you want to do
Speaker 2: everything in your life possible to make sure you are
Speaker 2: never in that position again. Somebody can't accuse you of anything.
Speaker 2: Live your best life. Understand that the life that you
Speaker 2: have is a life most people, most people on this earth,
Speaker 2: will only dream of. And I'm only speaking to you
Speaker 2: as a concerned big brother because of how my mother
Speaker 2: would speak to me. My mother, God Rest the soult
Speaker 2: I didn't give a damn what situation I found myself
Speaker 2: in her first question to me was always what did
Speaker 2: you do? I told this story years ago, I'll tell
Speaker 2: it again. I'm driving from a Pistons game. I'm driving
Speaker 2: through Troy, Michigan. I'm headed to the Romulus Marriotte at
Speaker 2: the airport in Detroit. I got three colleagues in the
Speaker 2: car with me. I got pulled over. Ultimately eight cops
Speaker 2: surrounded my car. I did nothing. I showed no resistance.
Speaker 2: It was completely unnecessary. I knew that the district attorney
Speaker 2: in the city I wanted to go after the damn offices.
Speaker 2: I thought it was excessive. They threw me in jail
Speaker 2: for four hours. Damn near four hours. One of my
Speaker 2: dearest friends working at CNN called every five minutes and
Speaker 2: why because bell was two hundred and fifty dollars. I
Speaker 2: had two hundred and forty one dollars and they wouldn't
Speaker 2: let me out because of nine dollars until she came calling.
Speaker 2: Her name was Audrey. She called every five minutes until
Speaker 2: the officer, after about three hours or so, came and said,
Speaker 2: I can't take the calls anymore. I can't take it.
Speaker 2: Just go and he let me out because he wouldn't
Speaker 2: let me out because of nine dollars, and knowing that
Speaker 2: I had a case, and knowing that I had an argument,
Speaker 2: and knowing that I was a position to make some noise.
Speaker 2: I went and I told my mom, and my mom said,
Speaker 2: what you do? Well, you mean what I did? What
Speaker 2: you speaking? I was not speeding, I wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2: Why did they pull you over? When he pulled me
Speaker 2: over five minutes? Has been a license? Was your license suspended?
Speaker 2: You'd have to throw up my hands, That's what they
Speaker 2: told me. Carried out. My license was suspended because I
Speaker 2: had a fine to pay. But I paid the fine late,
Speaker 2: so there was a fifteen dollars late charge attached to it.
Speaker 2: But I didn't see the notice of a late charge.
Speaker 2: So even though I paid the ticket, I still owe
Speaker 2: the fifteen dollars for the late charge. And my mother said,
Speaker 2: if you paid it on time, it would not have
Speaker 2: been suspended and you would not have been arrested. In
Speaker 2: other words, it was on me. I tell that story
Speaker 2: because we don't hear that story enough that sometimes it's
Speaker 2: on you, even when you're not guilty of what you're
Speaker 2: being accused of. Sometimes it's on you because of the
Speaker 2: predicaments we keep ourselves in or put ourselves in. So,
Speaker 2: whether it's me, it's Asap Rocky, it's my nephew, Josh
Speaker 2: is anybody, let's make sure as black men we do
Speaker 2: everything we can to guard ourselves as men. Period. I
Speaker 2: take that back, White, black, Hispanic, don't all y'all, my brothers,
Speaker 2: just remember we want to do everything we can to
Speaker 2: avoid situations and circumstances. We don't want to find ourselves
Speaker 2: in precarious situations that could compromise everything we worked our
Speaker 2: entire lives for for that position to be in. That's
Speaker 2: my message to Asav Rocky. Other than I'm happy for you,
Speaker 2: my brother, I'm happy for Rihanna and your wonderful family.
Speaker 2: I wish you nothing but the best, my brother, nothing
Speaker 2: but the best. Before I get to Nike's big news,
Speaker 2: I want to update the story we discussed Monday, the
Speaker 2: sexual assault lawsuit against jay Z and Diddy being dropped.
Speaker 2: In addition to the strife this situation caused his family,
Speaker 2: jay Z is now alleging his business Rock Nation, missed
Speaker 2: out on deals worth twenty million dollars due to the
Speaker 2: legal action, and the filing just days before the case
Speaker 2: was dismissed connected to another lawsuit involving an attorney Tony Busby.
Speaker 2: Sean Carter had this to say, quote, mister Busby's actions
Speaker 2: undermined my relationship with other businesses in the sports and
Speaker 2: entertainment space. After mister Busby father the law or the
Speaker 2: media reported that other businesses could and their deals with
Speaker 2: the Rock Nation and forced one to speak out and
Speaker 2: address whether these false allegations would end our business relationship.
Speaker 2: My company, Rock Nation also lost other contracts that would
Speaker 2: have generated revenues of approximately twenty million dollars per year.
Speaker 2: You know why jay Z put that out because he's
Speaker 2: coming from mister Busby. He's coming for him. That's why
Speaker 2: jay Z put that out. I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 2: spoken to him. I'm just speculating, but that's what I
Speaker 2: believe is the case. And if it was just a
Speaker 2: one eight hundred lawyer coming after him, I don't know
Speaker 2: that to be the case with Buzzby or anybody else.
Speaker 2: But if that is the case, he messed with the
Speaker 2: wrong one. Because jay Z's coming twenty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Rock Nation makes a lot more money than I get that,
Speaker 2: but twenty million dollars a year is twenty million dollars
Speaker 2: a year, especially based off of false accusations. The case
Speaker 2: has been dropped. Jay Z has maintained his innocence. He's
Speaker 2: earned the right to be presumed innocent at this stage
Speaker 2: in point, especially before being before being accused of being
Speaker 2: guilty that much. I know He's coming for Buzby. He's
Speaker 2: coming for Busby. Another big celebrity story yesterday was the
Speaker 2: announcement of a partnership between Nike and Kim Kardashian's Skims Shape,
Speaker 2: where brand, amid a couple of down years in sagging
Speaker 2: stock prices, the sportswear giant shocked the world yesterday with
Speaker 2: the announcement of the collaboration. Nike Skims, which will launch
Speaker 2: globally in twenty twenty six, but will be released in
Speaker 2: secret retail locations and online this spring, is women's active wear.
Speaker 2: The partnership is significant because Nike has never partnered with
Speaker 2: an outside brand like this. Nike has even created a
Speaker 2: separate internal division of works specifically on Nike Skims, similar
Speaker 2: to how it runs it's seven billion dollar Jordan brand.
Speaker 2: Nike stock sawing immediate six percent jump after the announcement.
Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations to Kick Kardashian. You know, people
Speaker 2: try to sit up there and get it all the time.
Speaker 2: What I'm marveled at is she's clearly got a business
Speaker 2: acumen all of us sleep on because the girl knows
Speaker 2: how to make money. Now, numerous women that I've spoken to,
Speaker 2: they rave about Kim Kardashians. You know, sportswear they do.
Speaker 2: And these are women that are not inclined to be
Speaker 2: supportive of Kim Kardashian. They don't like how she got
Speaker 2: in the news all of those years ago. They don't like,
Speaker 2: you know, how you know she's always modeling or the
Speaker 2: reality show and you know, I mean, they talk about
Speaker 2: all of this stuff. There's a lot of women that
Speaker 2: hate on Kim Kardashian. It's never me. Let me be
Speaker 2: very very clear about that. I have no problems with
Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian whatsoever. You understand I'm saying, I like, I
Speaker 2: like her personality. She seems cool. I don't know her,
Speaker 2: but I like a personality. She seems really cool. She
Speaker 2: always talks nice and needless to say, she is not
Speaker 2: difficult to look at at all. But then when you
Speaker 2: take into account the Nike skims, this is what I'm
Speaker 2: told I don't know. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you what I'm told. What I'm
Speaker 2: told is that is stuck. It touchses it to tummy
Speaker 2: in a little bit, and it formulates in shapes or
Speaker 2: dare I say, accentuates your figure and the same breadth
Speaker 2: of material is not too heavy and it's not too light,
Speaker 2: so you can lounge around with it on, or you
Speaker 2: can work out with it on, or you can just
Speaker 2: rocket in a very very casual way. I have not
Speaker 2: met any women out there that have complained about this woman.
Speaker 2: This woman, Kim Kardashians clothing gear, so more power to
Speaker 2: She's got a figure, she uses that to market her products.
Speaker 2: I see no problem with it whatsoever. I don't want
Speaker 2: to sound like Martin and steal his line for saying this,
Speaker 2: but all I'm gonna say is you go girl. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that. I ain't ad at all. And
Speaker 2: connecting with Nike, you could do worse. Six percent jump Nike,
Speaker 2: Nike stepping out of the box to relate itself to
Speaker 2: this brand. Kim Kardashian is a reliable brand. The Kardashians,
Speaker 2: period are a reliable, bland brand. We could talk all
Speaker 2: we want to. They're billionaires. These people got money because
Speaker 2: they've been business savvy. We say a lot of things
Speaker 2: about the Kardashians, we never talk enough about how business
Speaker 2: savvy they are. They know what they're doing and they
Speaker 2: know how to make money. My suggestion to all of
Speaker 2: you out there who don't who who don't mind making money,
Speaker 2: pay attention, pay attention. We can all learn from somebody,
Speaker 2: and Kim Kardashian has definitely qualified to teach. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, let me get to some tweets and
Speaker 2: some videos before I get on out of here. Please
Speaker 2: show me the first one. Please let me see it.
Speaker 9: So, my big question for you is, as a Steelers
Speaker 9: fan for as long as you've been and someone who
Speaker 9: really wants the team to succeed, do you feel that
Speaker 9: there is a way of flipping the team to be
Speaker 9: a success this year or do you think it's going
Speaker 9: to take multiple years to fix the mess that they
Speaker 9: have left the team in since Big Ben's retirement.
Speaker 2: Well, big Ben stayed around too long. You should have
Speaker 2: retired about two years earlier than he did. Get that
Speaker 2: out of the way for a Stember one number two
Speaker 2: not only did that happen, But I think the important
Speaker 2: thing to point out with Big Ben not really with him,
Speaker 2: but with the quarterback position. Steelers have really struggled to
Speaker 2: find Mitchell Trbinski, Mason Rudolph, Kenny Picketts and know all
Speaker 2: of this other stuff. I like Justin Fields, and I
Speaker 2: think that Justin Fields still might have some work to do.
Speaker 2: But it didn't escape me that he was in the
Speaker 2: starting line for the Steelers for the first five or
Speaker 2: six games or so, and that they won those games.
Speaker 2: Most of those games only had like one loss if
Speaker 2: I remember correctly. Plus he ran with the football, which
Speaker 2: is something we don't normally see Steelers quarterbacks doing in
Speaker 2: recent memory. So I'm happy about that. But I believe
Speaker 2: that the Steelers have an opportunity to get Ameron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: You take it. You got pickets, you got Fried Moved,
Speaker 2: you got Harrison Warren in the backfield, you got a
Speaker 2: decent offensive line, you got a leader like Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2: Nobody's voice is gonna be loud in that locker room
Speaker 2: than his, And you got an elite defensive assumer. You
Speaker 2: keep teaching, hey, why you get Aaron Rodgers. You get
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers that's my deal with that. Next up, what
Speaker 2: we got this tweet. It's hard to see the Twitter handle,
Speaker 2: but let me ask you this, good afternoon, missus stephen A.
Speaker 2: If you could have only one, what would you choose?
Speaker 2: Captain America's Super Soldier Serum or Spider Man's power Me personally,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, I would tell you this. I
Speaker 2: would keep Spider Man's. Here's the reason why. As much
Speaker 2: as I love Captain America's Serum, and I went to
Speaker 2: see Captain America. By the way, major major propter Anthony
Speaker 2: Mackie and the crew. That was a damn good movie.
Speaker 2: Y'all should go see it. He did his thing. Major
Speaker 2: props to him. But let me say this to you.
Speaker 2: You know why I would pick Spider Man because Spider
Speaker 2: Man ages.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I don't want to live forever. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be thirty years of age. Look, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be one hundred and fifty years old but still on
Speaker 2: this earth looking thirty. I don't want to be here
Speaker 2: when the old goes out and the new comes in.
Speaker 2: I want to die with my generation. That's what I
Speaker 2: want to do. I don't want to sit up there.
Speaker 2: I don't want. I don't want to be somebody that
Speaker 2: does that. That's just not me. So I would tell
Speaker 2: you I'm a verse to that me personally. I want
Speaker 2: the powers to speed, the agility to strength. Spider Man
Speaker 2: had all of that, but in the same breath, having
Speaker 2: said all of that, he aged too. He wasn't somebody
Speaker 2: that stayed the same while everybody else that he loved
Speaker 2: and cherished got old and withered away. So that's me
Speaker 2: with that. That's how I feel about it. Let's get
Speaker 2: to the next video.
Speaker 1: Please, Philip from North Carolina. But man, am I not
Speaker 1: happy with you?
Speaker 10: Kobe can't beat Top five because he played with Shaq
Speaker 10: Lebron lost in twenty eleven one all star on the
Speaker 10: team outscored by Jason Terry twenty fourteen losers to Tim
Speaker 10: Duncan thirty seven going on thirty eight, thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Going on thirty eight.
Speaker 2: When's the bubble ring?
Speaker 10: Then, don't even make the playing tournament with these two guys.
Speaker 1: Magic play with Kareem All.
Speaker 10: Five championships inherited. James Worthy, I will squash you in
Speaker 10: the goat debate, Brother squash.
Speaker 1: You bring me on the show.
Speaker 2: You won't squash me. You'd have no chance in hell
Speaker 2: of squashing me. But I like your enthusiasm, I like
Speaker 2: your delivery, and guess what, bro I am gonna bring
Speaker 2: you in the show, not even for this debate. I
Speaker 2: just like the way you roll, like your personality. I
Speaker 2: like that delivery is good. You might have a future
Speaker 2: in television, you might have a future in streaming. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring you on. I got no problems with
Speaker 2: it whatsoever. But let's be very very clear. I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about KD was better than Kobe. Kobe's a five
Speaker 2: time champion. What I'm saying is you can't summarily dismiss
Speaker 2: that KD wasn't Cody, wasn't Kobe. When the brothers averaging
Speaker 2: the career twenty seven point three points, we gave me
Speaker 2: six to level with a seven to six wingspan. You
Speaker 2: know kat Trey, we know he's automatic in terms of
Speaker 2: his offensive prowess. You just can't dismiss it. As all
Speaker 2: I was trying to say, he has to be mentioned
Speaker 2: in your top ten of all time. This brother is
Speaker 2: one of the legitimately one of the top three or
Speaker 2: four scorers in the history of basketball. The numbers prove it.
Speaker 2: The efficiency proves it. Do you know that he is
Speaker 2: shooting fifty three percent of from the field forty percent
Speaker 2: from three point range since he came back from his
Speaker 2: Achilles teer. He's playing better since his Achilles tier as
Speaker 2: he has aged than he did when he was younger
Speaker 2: in Wreaking Havoc, So I don't think you can ignore that.
Speaker 2: And as much as we love Kobe and we reveal Kobe,
Speaker 2: let's understand why. Because he was an assassin, he was
Speaker 2: a dog. He wasn't trying to leave teams after being
Speaker 2: up three to one, losing the series and then joining
Speaker 2: them a month later. Nah, Kelbe, wasn't that dude? You understand?
Speaker 2: Kobe was a dude that accepted and embraced the challenge
Speaker 2: of the Lakers being his when Shock the party, and
Speaker 2: that's what he wanted, that kind of stuff, even though
Speaker 2: at one point he has to be traded, told me
Speaker 2: he'd rather go play on the planet Pluto then returned
Speaker 2: thes the Los Angeles Laker before they got the power
Speaker 2: Gasol deal done and got him up there and ship
Speaker 2: Kwame Brown out of town. These are the kind of
Speaker 2: things that happened in the end. Though Katie has nothing
Speaker 2: to sneeze at and we got to act like we
Speaker 2: gotta stop acting like we can't ignore that. That's all
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Bro. But again, I loved your delivery, and
Speaker 2: I am gonna bring you on the show just because
Speaker 2: I liked your delivery. It was very impressive. Next tweet
Speaker 2: what you got at time? Cap tails? Right, stephen A. Smith?
Speaker 2: If you could have lunch with one past US president,
Speaker 2: who would you pick? That's the easy one, Barack Obama,
Speaker 2: Barack Obama, she'd talk about. That'd be me, you know.
Speaker 2: Number two on that list would be Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 2: but number one would be Barack Obama without question, you know,
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I take that back. Reagan would be
Speaker 2: three on the list. Trump would be number two because
Speaker 2: who knows what the hell he'd say over lunch. Who
Speaker 2: knows what the hell he'd say. I wouldn't mind having
Speaker 2: lunch with Donald Trump, okay, but it would be Barack
Speaker 2: Obama first than Trump, than Reagan. H W nine Clinton,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't like just relacious within woman Marna
Speaker 2: Ka Lewinski. Remember when they did that imitation, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, Clinton's kind of funny, but it had been
Speaker 2: b Obama Trump than Reagan. I think Trump, who knows
Speaker 2: what the hell he'd say, And I think uh Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2: I think that he would. He would have said more
Speaker 2: than most think he would because he seemed like a
Speaker 2: people person. That's just me. Last video. What you got?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: What's up, Steven, I'm out here in New Orleans. Rob
Speaker 5: your Parker's your man, that's my co host, of course,
Speaker 5: the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio. That's your good friend, Steven.
Speaker 5: Ain't help your boy out. Tell me how I'm gonna
Speaker 5: deal with him for the duration of our show, duration
Speaker 5: of his contract. Okay, you see, I got gray hairs
Speaker 5: kicking in all over the place. This is from me
Speaker 5: dealing with Rod for three hours a day, five days
Speaker 5: a week.
Speaker 2: So that's your man's help, your.
Speaker 1: Boy, Kelvin.
Speaker 2: You don't understand. You don't understand. Just the facts, just
Speaker 2: the facts. Okay, Look, okay, we're gonna pooh pooh that attitude.
Speaker 2: We're gonna poo poo that. That's not what we're going
Speaker 2: to do here on this show. I'm doing a Rob
Speaker 2: Parker imitation in case my audience doesn't know. That's how
Speaker 2: Rob Parker talks. Okay, for the odd couple on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Rob Parker and I go back more than
Speaker 2: thirty five years. He's one of my best friends on
Speaker 2: the planet. I love him dearly. And Kevin, I think
Speaker 2: you're doing that outstanding job as his co host, especially
Speaker 2: following up being the successor to another one of my brothers,
Speaker 2: Christopher Broussard. Chris Broussard is one of the best human
Speaker 2: beings I've ever known in my life. Good people. So
Speaker 2: for you to be filling in his shoes says a
Speaker 2: lot about you, My brother, keep doing big things. But
Speaker 2: getting back to Rob Parker, let me tell you that
Speaker 2: right now, Rob Parker is one of the nicest human
Speaker 2: beings on the planet outside of his job. At his job,
Speaker 2: it's like a personality transplant kicks in and he just
Speaker 2: wants to slice and dice people up with no sympathy whatsoever.
Speaker 2: This dude is on another level. He's the first one
Speaker 2: to bring up Mickey Man to drinking drinking issues, you know,
Speaker 2: and when he was talking, nobody was thinking about talking
Speaker 2: about that, but Rob Parker brought it up. Rob Parker
Speaker 2: brings up everything you understand when you talk about a hater.
Speaker 2: That's Rob Parker. No, why, why, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: That's not true. That's Rob Parker, that's him. He'll do
Speaker 2: it and you're like, what seriously, you know, and that's
Speaker 2: how he talks, and that's how he talks. And he's
Speaker 2: absolutely positively hilarious. Okay, sounds a bit slow when he talks,
Speaker 2: but he's brilliant. It's a really, really smart and educated brother.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't sound like that when he talks if
Speaker 2: you're listening to his voice, not his words, but his
Speaker 2: voice doesn't sound that. Everything is long and drawn out, Okay,
Speaker 2: like he's drooling or something. But don't underestimate that brother.
Speaker 2: Kelvin gotta sleep on one eye open dealing with that brother,
Speaker 2: because let me tell you something, you slip up, he
Speaker 2: gonna catch, he gonna catch. That's it for this edition
Speaker 2: of The Stephen A. Smith Show. Hope y'all enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Thanks again to Kelvin for that interview. Anytime you're bringing
Speaker 2: up my brother, Rob park I'm happy about that, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, teaches at USC as well, so let's
Speaker 2: not forget that because a lot of students are benefiting
Speaker 2: from his tutelitic Thanks again to the one and Only
Speaker 2: Chris Cuomo for coming on the show with us as well.
Speaker 2: Really really appreciated time. That's it for this edition of
Speaker 2: The Stephen Nate Smith Show. I gotta sign off, y'all,
Speaker 2: but I'll hotlet y'all in a couple of days. Until then,
Speaker 2: Peace of love, everybody, Stephen A signing off.