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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I got a lot of stuff that I
Speaker 1: want to get into today, and one of those things
Speaker 1: was my buddy, my colleague at ESPN, my brother, Ryan Clark,
Speaker 1: an outstanding NFL analysts for the family and outstanding hosts
Speaker 1: for the podcast The Pivot, not to mention doing his
Speaker 1: Inside the NFL show with Bill Belichick chat. Oh your
Speaker 1: those guys, and he's a Super Bowl champion as a
Speaker 1: safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers. We know what his background entails,
Speaker 1: but he made a lot of noise this weekend, and
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you, I was upset about something,
Speaker 1: and I want to explain what I'm.
Speaker 2: Upset about after I play you this clip.
Speaker 1: This is Ryan Clark talking about Lamar Jackson and how
Speaker 1: essentially his success is going to be the finishing touch
Speaker 1: for the whole narrative about black quarterbacks and the question
Speaker 1: marks and the skepticism that have been associated with black
Speaker 1: quarterbacks throughout NFL history, not recent history, but certainly in
Speaker 1: the past. Ryan Clarke was speaking on first take, sitting
Speaker 1: in my chair because I was on vacation on Friday,
Speaker 1: across from El Duncan acrosse, from Monica McNutt, who was
Speaker 1: hosting in place of Molly Carum, and of course across
Speaker 1: from the one and only Cam Newton forming the Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy winning number one overall pick for an NFL quarterback. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: Ryan Clark said some things that rub people the wrong
Speaker 1: way before I commented on it. I want you to
Speaker 1: hear what he had to say.
Speaker 3: Listen up, and I want to say it to you,
Speaker 3: and I want to say it to Randall Cunningham, and
Speaker 3: I want to say it to Russell Wilson, and I
Speaker 3: want to say it to Michael Vick.
Speaker 2: This is the evolution of the position.
Speaker 3: Without Randall Cunningham having to try to conform and be
Speaker 3: a pocket passer and also show his athleticism, we.
Speaker 2: Don't get to Michael Vick.
Speaker 3: And without Michael Vick accepting that and working to become
Speaker 3: a better passer, working to become a better leader, we
Speaker 3: don't get a Cam Newton. And if Cam Newton doesn't
Speaker 3: bring the style of play that he had, the opportunity
Speaker 3: to bring from Auburn to the NFL and win an
Speaker 3: MVP doing it. We don't have a Lamar Jackson. See,
Speaker 3: we've needed at that position because of all the negativity
Speaker 3: surrounding whether or not people like you can play it.
Speaker 3: We needed each of you to get to this point. Yes,
Speaker 3: and that's why we need Lamar Jackson to take that
Speaker 3: next step and hold that Lombardi Trophy the same way
Speaker 3: we all cry when Doug Williams did it.
Speaker 2: In they Yes, Now you heard Ryan Clark right there.
Speaker 1: Personally speaking, I'd like to say that I'm disappointed, but
Speaker 1: that's not the word. I'm pissed off, But I'm not
Speaker 1: pissed off at Ryan. I'm not pissed off at all
Speaker 1: of you guys. Nor am I pissed off at Ryan
Speaker 1: Clark for.
Speaker 2: What he said. You know what, I have a problem
Speaker 2: with that he deleted the post.
Speaker 1: Because when cynicism and criticism came in this direction, Ryan
Speaker 1: Clark somebody who runs from no one, and I'm certainly
Speaker 1: not accusing him of running.
Speaker 2: Now I'm mad he deleted the post. Now, I know
Speaker 2: what a lot of people were saying.
Speaker 1: First of all, Ryan Clark didn't know what he was
Speaker 1: talking about, because guess what, Patrick.
Speaker 2: Mahomes is a three time Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 1: He's the reigning two time Super Bowl champion, having won
Speaker 1: back to back titles for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here
Speaker 1: he's a black quarterback, and you're bringing that up. That's
Speaker 1: really slick on your part, ladies and gentlemen. Ryan Clark
Speaker 1: wasn't wrong. Ryan Clark was right.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He may have come across wrong because he gave you
Speaker 1: an opening to bring up Patrick Mahomes to derail or
Speaker 1: to squash his point. But that's not the point that
Speaker 1: I interpreted him saying. What he's talking about. What he
Speaker 1: was talking about is not the black quarterback, but the
Speaker 1: black quarterbacks who have been questioned as to whether or
Speaker 1: not they should play quarterback. Nobody was questioning whether Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson was a quarterback. Nobody was questioning whether Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: was a quarterback. They were questioning whether Lamar Jackson was
Speaker 1: a quarterback. They were wondering whether he should consider a
Speaker 1: different position going into the NFL. And it was Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson that had to tell them, nah, I ain't down
Speaker 1: with that. I'm a quarterback and I'm gonna be a
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL and I'm gonna wreak havoc and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wreck shop and I'm gonna show you what
Speaker 1: I bring to the table. That's what Lamar Jackson said.
Speaker 1: But they were trying to convince him not to play quarterback.
Speaker 1: And that specter of skepticism and criticism that came associated
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson before he was drafted number thirty two
Speaker 1: overall in the first round at the end of the
Speaker 1: first round by the Baltimore Ravens is something that has happened.
Speaker 1: Only two black quarterbacks. Where's the white dude? And if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I stand corrected, But I don't recall a
Speaker 1: white dude coming into the NFL having played the quarterback
Speaker 1: position in college and they were being dissuaded from entering
Speaker 1: as a quarterback because people were accusing.
Speaker 2: Them of not being able to play the position.
Speaker 1: Don't get us started with why they were saying that,
Speaker 1: because usually when you have questions about a quarterback, it's
Speaker 1: about the ability's or it's their ability to be a
Speaker 1: dual threat at the running back position with black folks
Speaker 1: back in the day, albeit back in the day, there
Speaker 1: was a question about intellect and the ability to comprehend
Speaker 1: and deciphering NFL defense, and read through your progressions and
Speaker 1: make the right call and make the right throw audible
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. Understanding and comprehending and dissecting
Speaker 1: the playbook, et cetera, et cetera. These are the things
Speaker 1: that were thrown into questions about black quarterbacks. And so
Speaker 1: anytime there's a black quarterback that was being questioned as
Speaker 1: to whether or not they should play the position, that
Speaker 1: was the first thing that came to people's mind, because
Speaker 1: that's the level of skepticism that historically has been associated
Speaker 1: with the black quarterback. Until recently, nobody's accusing it of
Speaker 1: being that way now because times are changed and things
Speaker 1: have drastic improved. You could go back to Randall Cunningham.
Speaker 1: You could go to.
Speaker 2: The Warren Moons of the world. You can go to.
Speaker 1: The Dante Colepeppers or the Steve McNair's of the world.
Speaker 1: You can go to the Michael Vicks of the world.
Speaker 1: You can come to the modern day era. Because there
Speaker 1: was a time in the NFL in recent memory where
Speaker 1: you had guys like a Russell Wilson toward Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: to a Patrick Mahomes, who were the highest paid dues
Speaker 1: in the league. So not only were they playing the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, but they were getting paid handsomely to do it.
Speaker 1: That is not what Ryan Clark was talking about in
Speaker 1: terms of what I saw him say on First Take
Speaker 1: My Day Job every weekday morning on ESPN from ten
Speaker 1: am to twelve noon this past Friday, when he was
Speaker 1: feeling it for me who was on vacation.
Speaker 2: That man talking about Lamar.
Speaker 1: Jackson was simply saying he's a dual threat. His athletic
Speaker 1: ability is undeniable, whose running ability is undeniable. His passing
Speaker 1: game has improved, He's done everything right, and now what
Speaker 1: anybody and everybody is waiting for.
Speaker 2: Is for him to deliver the goods.
Speaker 1: Because Josh Allen to a lesser degree, Joe Burrow to
Speaker 1: a lesser degree, but Patrick Mahomes to the umph degree,
Speaker 1: is standing in his way.
Speaker 2: And just his conference alone. We ain't even get it too.
Speaker 1: The Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia, the Jared Goffson detroits, or
Speaker 1: that Jordan loves in Green Bay, or even a Sam
Speaker 1: Donald in Minnesota, Brock Purty last year, Dak Prescott just
Speaker 1: because he's a cowboy, even though they asked as a
Speaker 1: home unofficially, of course, I mean officially they're going home,
Speaker 1: but we know they won't be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Everywhere you turned.
Speaker 1: There were guys and so you're looking at Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and you're saying your two time league MVP bro Nine
Speaker 1: dudes have won two league MVPs in NFL history, every
Speaker 1: single one of them have been Super Bowl champions. But you.
Speaker 2: So you got to answer that call.
Speaker 1: I've agloviated about that on numeriousications. But in the event
Speaker 1: that he does answer the call, Ryan Clark is right.
Speaker 2: That should be it. In terms of seeing a.
Speaker 1: Dual threat at the quarterback position with extreme athleticism being
Speaker 1: questioned as whether or not they could play the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: what's the problem?
Speaker 2: I see no problem.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty ticked off that Ryan Clark de leted
Speaker 1: his tweet, according to the reports, because would you.
Speaker 2: Take it down for you were right?
Speaker 1: His point may not have been articulated as perfectly as
Speaker 1: he would have liked, and he might have left the
Speaker 1: hole here there for somebody to at least question it,
Speaker 1: but its overall point I firmly understand, and he was right.
Speaker 1: If Lamar Jackson wins the Super Bowl. That's gonna go
Speaker 1: a long way towards us, ever questioning, ever, questioning again
Speaker 1: whether a cat can do it at that position, being
Speaker 1: a dual threat, a quarterback who can run. We're marveling
Speaker 1: to Jaden Daniels for the Washington Commanders because of what
Speaker 1: he's doing.
Speaker 2: Ryan Clark is right.
Speaker 1: We want to rave about Sam Donald, and we should,
Speaker 1: but I will remind y'all that Sam Donald, who has
Speaker 1: led the Minnesota Vikings to a fourteen and two record
Speaker 1: this year, who's had thirteen games with a QBR over
Speaker 1: one hundred this year, who has been absolutely sensational for
Speaker 1: the most part for the Minnesota Vikings, That's Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: I gotta give credit where credit is due, that brother
Speaker 1: right there. Fourteen wins, thirteen games with a pass away
Speaker 1: a QBR of over one hundred. His fourteen wins are
Speaker 1: the most by a quarterback with the new team over
Speaker 1: the last forty years.
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning won thirteen and twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Steve McNeil won thirteen in two thousand and six with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. By the way, Sam Donald's been the most
Speaker 1: productive deep ball thrower in the National Football League this year,
Speaker 1: twenty or more air yards, that's what they said. And
Speaker 1: he's playing under the countrect that's playing him ten million
Speaker 1: dollars for one year.
Speaker 2: That same damn Donald.
Speaker 1: Before you go out there throwing a parade for the
Speaker 1: brother like it's seeing the Minnesota Vikers were willing to
Speaker 1: do in the postgame locker room following Sunday's victory over
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, acting like they just won a championship.
Speaker 1: I will remind y'all, as much as Sam Donald deserves
Speaker 1: praise for the great, great year that he's had, it
Speaker 1: was six years that preceded it when he didn't. So
Speaker 1: I was sitting there talking about him and pray him
Speaker 1: and what have you. Isn't it ironic that were praising
Speaker 1: the dude who's produced, really for the first time in
Speaker 1: his career that spans more than six years, but a
Speaker 1: two time league MVP. We're constantly saying that in enough,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. I'm just asking, isn't it ironic?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw that out there. A couple
Speaker 1: other things that I wanted to get on out of here.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to before I got out of here. Today,
Speaker 1: I brought up Sam Donald because I thought it was
Speaker 1: fair and it was necessary.
Speaker 2: I want to give love to.
Speaker 1: Brock Booers, that tight end for the Las Vegas Raiders,
Speaker 1: balling the way that he bawled, because this brother ended
Speaker 1: up having the most catches in the season by a
Speaker 1: rookie at any position that was formally held by Pooka,
Speaker 1: the core for the Los Angeles Rams, by the way,
Speaker 1: And not only did he do that, but Brock Bauers
Speaker 1: had achieved the most receiving yards in the season by
Speaker 1: a rookie tight end and that record was formally held
Speaker 1: by Mike Ditka. Thinking about that, this guy was drafting
Speaker 1: the thirteenth out of Georgia and balling for the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders is the only bright spot that the Raiders
Speaker 1: have had to had to rave about.
Speaker 2: So props to him.
Speaker 1: Props to Baker Mayfield for his five touchdowns on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: all be it against the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers are still in the race for the air for
Speaker 1: the NFC South Division crown. Okay, but Sakuon Barkley, have
Speaker 1: you seen this brother? I mean, this brother has been
Speaker 1: so sensational. I gotta sing one of those songs.
Speaker 2: Have you seen him? Tell me? Have you seen them?
Speaker 2: Seen them? Wooh, that's a odie. It's usually have you
Speaker 2: seen her?
Speaker 1: But I'm saying him for the purposes of Saquon Barkley,
Speaker 1: who rushed for about one hundred and sixty seven yards,
Speaker 1: who finished right now, he has over two thousand yards rushing,
Speaker 1: had one hundred and seventy six yards and seventeen carries
Speaker 1: and a touchdown against the Giants back in October. Had
Speaker 1: a season high ten point four yard ars plug carry
Speaker 1: in that game.
Speaker 2: Why am I bringing that up? Because he's less than
Speaker 2: one hundred.
Speaker 1: And fifty yards from breaking Eric Dickerson's all time single
Speaker 1: season rushing record next week, and that's against the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, his old team, you know, the team that
Speaker 1: went on hard Knocks talking shit about him, acting like
Speaker 1: they could afford to lose him, acting like it wasn't
Speaker 1: a big deal to let him go, to tell him
Speaker 1: to go ahead and test the open market, and did
Speaker 1: it with the cameras rolling on hard knocks.
Speaker 2: Remember that team, that team, his former.
Speaker 1: Team is who say Kwon Barkley is going up against
Speaker 1: next week?
Speaker 2: Is it it poetic justice.
Speaker 1: That this brother I mean, the Giants gonna play and
Speaker 1: they're gonna do everything they can to stop him. And
Speaker 1: if you're the Philadelphia Eagles, you gotta be careful because
Speaker 1: you want him to break the all time squle season
Speaker 1: rush rushing record. But in the same breath, your Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: you got a chance to win the Super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Lions got seventeen people on injury to reserve. The Vikings
Speaker 1: are still being quarterback by Sam Donald. If you're the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, you gotta believe you could take them.
Speaker 2: You got the green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: They came on late, but they were getting blown out
Speaker 1: before they came on late against the Minnesota Viking. Okay,
Speaker 1: they don't miss. Vikers, don't miss those two field goals.
Speaker 1: Green Bay wouldn't have been in a position to come
Speaker 1: back and beat them. Then you've got that in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and it's only one of those teams, whether it's Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: or whomever, it's only one of those teams that could
Speaker 1: come out of the AFC. So you're the Phillydelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: you got a chance, and you got a decision to
Speaker 1: make because you want sain Kwon Barkley to go for
Speaker 1: that all time single season rushing record, especially against the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. But the flip side is you don't
Speaker 1: want to put yourself in a position where he could
Speaker 1: ultimately get hurt, because without him, Philadelphia ain't winning no
Speaker 1: damn Super Bowl. So we gotta get that out the
Speaker 1: way right now. One game left, sa Kwon Barkley, He's
Speaker 1: just one hundred and one yards away from Eric Dickerson's
Speaker 1: all time Russian record.
Speaker 2: One hundred and one yards. You got to put them
Speaker 2: out there to go for it.
Speaker 1: But in the same breath, you gotta be careful not
Speaker 1: to jeopardize his health.
Speaker 2: You got to because it ain't worth it. It just ain't.
Speaker 1: So let's be very very clear about that and leave
Speaker 1: it at that. My last point is in bringing up
Speaker 1: sain Kwon Barkley is to go to the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, The New York Giants.
Speaker 2: Are awful, just awful. GM's gonna deserve to lose his job.
Speaker 1: Don't think about firing Brian Gable Dable without getting rid
Speaker 1: of the GM shine.
Speaker 2: Don't even think about it. That's a man that gotta
Speaker 2: lose his job.
Speaker 1: And the head coach loses the job because Brian David
Speaker 1: was the Coach of the Year a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He ain't forget out of coach. He just don't have
Speaker 1: that talent to coach. Okay, you got rid of Saquon
Speaker 1: Barker because you invested forty million a year, Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: who's now gone, don't tell me you got to keep
Speaker 1: your GM. Hell with that. I know Christmas is here
Speaker 1: and still a holiday season, Christmas is passed and now
Speaker 1: it's the new year, but damn it, the truth is
Speaker 1: the truth and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2: To help me, God, he got to go.
Speaker 1: That ain't the man to keep and light it up
Speaker 1: in up that we've seen from the New York Giants
Speaker 1: this season, they are awful, just awful. So with that
Speaker 1: being said, let me also understand something. There is another
Speaker 1: word that I wanted to give to the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to say this, Okay, I really
Speaker 1: really didn't. And I got one of my producers, Galen here,
Speaker 1: because he's a Giants fan, so you know, he's miserable.
Speaker 2: He has all of these numbers because he's.
Speaker 1: Miserable as shit because they suck and he kind of
Speaker 1: knew it, but he didn't think they'd be this bad.
Speaker 1: But they are this bad. And just reading from the
Speaker 1: notes that he just sent to me. The Giants sent
Speaker 1: it Sunday with a fifty seven percent chance of finishing
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick in the draft. According
Speaker 1: to the ESPN analytics, it would a balloon to eighty
Speaker 1: six percent.
Speaker 2: With the loss. Instead, it dipped to five percent.
Speaker 1: The Patriots, meanwhile, are now the heavy favorites at over
Speaker 1: seventy eight percent to land the top pick in the
Speaker 1: upcoming NFL draft this spring. Why is that important? Because
Speaker 1: you got four quarterbacks that are going to be in
Speaker 1: the draft. According to mel kiper Jr. My colleague at ESPN,
Speaker 1: the absolute guru when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Shud dors Sander's out of Colorado number one, cam Ward
Speaker 1: out of Miami number two, Jaln Milroe out of Alabama
Speaker 1: at number three, Carson Beck for University of Georgia number four.
Speaker 1: I want to hear the damn thing about Carson Back.
Speaker 1: I saw the brother throw eight interceptions in three games.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about casting back on this list.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: And then he was injured, so I had to have
Speaker 1: surgery and Georgia got to play a freshman because Connor
Speaker 1: Beck ain't available. That brother, listen, if he's the fourth
Speaker 1: quarterback in the draft, it's because it's just those three
Speaker 1: and in the damn person else because he didn't look
Speaker 1: great this year.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he can't look great, but he was
Speaker 2: of a mistake waiting to happen. He just was so
Speaker 2: got your door. Sander's cam Ward and Jaalen Milroe and
Speaker 2: the Giants are projected to get the fourth pick. What
Speaker 2: was surprised me at all? If they missed out on that, How.
Speaker 1: The hell are you winning football games and you know
Speaker 1: you need a quarterback and you ain't going no damn place.
Speaker 2: So when they needed to win and to.
Speaker 1: Show that you were respectable, you were getting your ass
Speaker 1: kicked on a weekly basis. And now that your season
Speaker 1: is over, now is the time when you want to
Speaker 1: go out.
Speaker 2: There and win. What the hell is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: That's stupidity, absolute positive stupidity. But that's the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Not only are they inept and bereft of talent necessary
Speaker 1: to win football games on the NFL level most weeks.
Speaker 2: They're all so stupid.
Speaker 1: They lose when they should be winning, and they win
Speaker 1: when they should be losing. The Giants should have been
Speaker 1: throwing games just to ensure that they were going to
Speaker 1: get themselves a quarterback for the upcoming season.
Speaker 2: They didn't do that, which means, in.
Speaker 1: All likelihood what we're seeing from the Giants ain't gonna
Speaker 1: change anytime soon, because you can't win without a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the now. The football league, as the saying so goes,
Speaker 1: it is what.
Speaker 2: It is hard to say anything else. It really really isn't.
Speaker 1: Before I go to break, ladies and gentlemen, on a
Speaker 1: very very sad note, Those of us in the industry
Speaker 1: got hit pretty hard the other day because we've learned
Speaker 1: of the passing of mister Greg Gumble. Greg Gumble, the
Speaker 1: brother of Bryant Gumble, one of the greatest sports broadcasters
Speaker 1: this industry has ever known. Greg in his own right
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. He did it all doing games for various networks,
Speaker 1: most notably CBS, as of late NFL games, Colleges, Final
Speaker 1: four of hors, The list goes on and on. He
Speaker 1: lost his battle to cancer. For me personally, it's something
Speaker 1: that always sits home. Obviously, anytime I hear about somebody
Speaker 1: losing their battle with const to cancer, I automatically think
Speaker 1: about my mom, And there's a level of sadness that
Speaker 1: it's just there that just won't go anywhere. There are
Speaker 1: times that I ask myself, considering all the money that
Speaker 1: has been generated for cancer research, considering the existence of radiation,
Speaker 1: chemotherapy and things of that nature, just wondering when we're
Speaker 1: going to find a cure, when we're gonna beat this.
Speaker 1: So many people fight, and they fight valiantly, doing all
Speaker 1: that they can to extend their lives to eradicate this
Speaker 1: disease from their body, and time after time after time,
Speaker 1: we come.
Speaker 2: Up short, and all we can do.
Speaker 1: All we're left doing is the mourn the losses of
Speaker 1: loved ones, people who were pioneers, who had a profound
Speaker 1: impact on industries, who affected the lives of millions in
Speaker 1: such a positive and a profound way. All you can
Speaker 1: do is reflect on their contribution to society and say
Speaker 1: thank God for them. And because they were here and
Speaker 1: they did so much, you know in your heart, you
Speaker 1: feel in your soul that they're in a better place.
Speaker 1: It's the only solace that exist, at least for me
Speaker 1: personally when it comes to hearing such news like this.
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry. My condolences go out to the Gumbo family,
Speaker 1: to Brian Gumble, who I know personally, and their old
Speaker 1: family as all. What can you say, Great Gumble gone
Speaker 1: but not forgotten and never will be dead at the
Speaker 1: age of seventy eight. I'll be back in a minute,
Speaker 1: transitioning to a newsworthy subject that's going to make people very,
Speaker 1: very very uncomfortable with some of the images that you're
Speaker 1: going to see, reminding us all that no, Vanda, how
Speaker 1: far we believe we have gotten, there is still a long, long,
Speaker 1: long way to go. Certain things are just too heinous
Speaker 1: to ignore. This is one of those things. I'll explain
Speaker 1: it all to you and show you vividly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about in a minute.
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Speaker 2: Hey, run your game. Welcome back to the Stephen a
Speaker 2: Smith show.
Speaker 1: As I told you at the start of the show,
Speaker 1: no matter how affiliated that I am with the world
Speaker 1: of sports, I don't stop there, not when it comes
Speaker 1: to expressing the kind of things that I want to express,
Speaker 1: to addressing the kind of things that I want to address,
Speaker 1: and when I mean when I say what I mean
Speaker 1: by when I say I want it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I'm always taking enjoyment in showing things or speaking on things.
Speaker 1: It means that it's necessary, and it's unavoidable, and it's
Speaker 1: something that we have to make sure that we touch on.
Speaker 1: There is a video that is circulating throughout social media.
Speaker 1: This video it's newly released unveiled Friday by the State
Speaker 1: Attorney General's Office in the state of New York. It
Speaker 1: is a horrifying video footage showing a fatal prison beating
Speaker 1: of a handcuffed black man by New York correctional officers.
Speaker 1: Reading from the Instagram post that says, in a horrfying
Speaker 1: display of brutality, newly released footage captures the fatal prison
Speaker 1: beating of a mister Robert Brooks at New York's Marcie
Speaker 1: Correctional Facility. Shockingly, several officers were executing the attack. The
Speaker 1: video shows correctional officers relentlessly assaulting the forty three year
Speaker 1: old man as he sits handcuffed, helpless to defend himself.
Speaker 1: Officers are seen and I saw the video, and you'll
Speaker 1: see some of the images right here.
Speaker 2: You can see officers.
Speaker 1: Are seen punching Brooks repeatedly, one striking him with the shoe,
Speaker 1: A couple even lifting him by the neck, only to
Speaker 1: drop him back onto a medical examination table. They just
Speaker 1: kept beating him and beating him. Ladies and gentlemen, This
Speaker 1: was worse than Rodney King. Remember Rodney King in the
Speaker 1: early nineties in LA and remember on the riots ensued
Speaker 1: because the police officers got off after being caught on
Speaker 1: video beating the living hell out of him with batons
Speaker 1: and kicking him and all of this stuff. Why was
Speaker 1: this worse than that? Because Rodney King lived, Mister Robert
Speaker 1: Brooks is dead. Statement from the Governor of New York,
Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel says this senseless killing is outrageous and horrifying.
Speaker 1: Thirteen correctional officers and a nurse implicated in the incident
Speaker 1: are facing termination. What the hell do you mean termination?
Speaker 1: Why aren't they arrested. Now it's on video, you know
Speaker 1: it is. You've articulated. It's thirteen of them and a
Speaker 1: nurse at the very least. Where's the arrest of the
Speaker 1: officers we saw choking him, lifting him up by the neck,
Speaker 1: kicking him, hitting him with the shoe, punching him in
Speaker 1: his midset, and beyond kicking him in the groin. Where
Speaker 1: are they arrest choose my language? The fuck do you mean? Termination?
Speaker 2: Where's the arrest? Why are they not in cuffs?
Speaker 1: Why is there not a purp walk with them walking
Speaker 1: in to a courthouse, lawyered up in front of a
Speaker 1: judge having to give a plead of guilty or not guilty.
Speaker 1: Why has that not happened yet? Why not? Maybe because
Speaker 1: it's not Maybe because it's not Monday, Monday now it's
Speaker 1: one in Now, Why they're not ive been arrested? Give
Speaker 1: a damn about a termination? Pumpa termination? Who cares? They
Speaker 1: need to be arrested. Now, there needs to be a
Speaker 1: purp walk.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We need their faces, We need to know their names.
Speaker 1: We need to show the world who they are. They're murderers.
Speaker 1: They're murderers. The videos right there so we can have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go here because I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: With what happened to P Diddy after the video in
Speaker 1: the hotel of him hitting and kicking his girlfriend is
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. We also saw raids on his
Speaker 1: house by home Land Security. We've seen charges that have
Speaker 1: come down the pike. We'll find out whether he's guilty
Speaker 1: or not guilty, but we know that his reputation has
Speaker 1: been irreparably damaged. We saw him get arrested. We knew
Speaker 1: he was turning himself in. Y'all still made sure there
Speaker 1: was a purp walk. We saw him get arrested, we
Speaker 1: saw him thrown in jail. He got our way trial
Speaker 1: in the spring.
Speaker 2: No problem.
Speaker 1: Now with the accusations that have been leveled against them,
Speaker 1: with the charges that are the case that the government
Speaker 1: thinks they have against them, cool, no problem. This ain't
Speaker 1: no civil case. That's a criminal case.
Speaker 2: I got it. Well, what the hell is this, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, This is worse than what happened to George Floyd.
Speaker 1: That's right, I said it, and don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: because there's no way in hell that should have happened.
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin is a murderer. Those cops that sat back
Speaker 1: and did nothing were complicit, and all they asked it
Speaker 1: should be in jail. And the loss of the breath
Speaker 1: of life is the loss of the breath of life.
Speaker 2: And it's painful, and I get it.
Speaker 1: Suffocating calling for your mama, gasping for air.
Speaker 2: That's cruelty. I got it.
Speaker 1: Robert Brooks was beaten to death, wild handcuffed. He wasn't
Speaker 1: just killed, he was tortured on camera. It was caught
Speaker 1: on video. Where are the arrest I want names. I
Speaker 1: want faith that the Governor of New York is gonna
Speaker 1: come out and says thirteen correctional officers. I want to
Speaker 1: know all thirteen. I want their names. I want to
Speaker 1: face this. I want them on camera, every one of them,
Speaker 1: every one of them.
Speaker 2: Damn it, the nurse too. I didn't see a nurse
Speaker 2: hitting this man.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna say that the nurse is implicated,
Speaker 1: to show the nurse as well, all.
Speaker 2: Of them, all of them, it says here.
Speaker 1: Equally chilling is the revelation that body cameras worn by
Speaker 1: the police officers or by the correctional officers, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: were not activated, leaving the public with only silent blood,
Speaker 1: chilling visuals of Brooks being stripped and left motionless on
Speaker 1: his back.
Speaker 2: Letitia James was.
Speaker 1: A very conspicuous figure when it came to Donald Trump's case.
Speaker 1: This is what we want to see a DA prosecuting.
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting up there and getting into the whole
Speaker 1: Trump thing, guilt, innocence or whatever whatever. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: when you talk about menaces to society and a DA
Speaker 1: that goes after them and make sure that folks are
Speaker 1: punished this kind of stuff. We want to see. Every
Speaker 1: single individual who put their hands on Robert Brooks is
Speaker 1: guilty of murder. You want to determine first degree, second degree, fine,
Speaker 1: it's one of them.
Speaker 2: He's dead. You want to sit up there and talk
Speaker 2: about manslaughter or whatever.
Speaker 1: I never understand why I got to be manslaughd instead
Speaker 1: of murder or whatever, but.
Speaker 2: Figure it out. The point is anybody that put their hands.
Speaker 1: On him is guilty of murder, and anybody who stood
Speaker 1: by and watched and did nothing is complicit, although not
Speaker 1: directly guilty of murder, but you're complicit.
Speaker 2: I want names.
Speaker 1: I want faces, all thirteen and the nurse, all of them.
Speaker 1: Having said, all of that there is a way for
Speaker 1: times to get better. There is a way to potentially
Speaker 1: at least the rail some of this and to bring
Speaker 1: a heavy hand down a pond those who transgress in
Speaker 1: such a fashion and those who are complicit, whether it
Speaker 1: be with their ignorance or their neglect, and you know who.
Speaker 1: It's in the hands of Donald Trump. I'll explain in
Speaker 1: a minute stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show. I'll be right back. Welcome back to stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show.
Speaker 1: I know I might have shocked everybody when I talked
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump and how he could go a long
Speaker 1: way towards sort of minimizing I certainly never say we'll
Speaker 1: never say resolving, but at at least to some degree
Speaker 1: minimizing the things that we witness transpire with Robert Brooks
Speaker 1: courtesy of correction or New York City correctional officers who
Speaker 1: murdered him. I'll touch on that in just a second
Speaker 1: and elaborate on my point because I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: make it make sense for y'all. Right now, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is in the news for another reason, and it's because
Speaker 1: of his two guys, Musk Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami,
Speaker 1: former presidential candidate Viveck Ramaswami how they're defending foreign work
Speaker 1: of visas, sparking a backlash from the MAGA wright itself,
Speaker 1: according to a report reading right here from CNN, social
Speaker 1: media posts by Elon Musk and Ravec Ramaswami argue in
Speaker 1: favor of expanding the visa program for highly skilled workers
Speaker 1: have set off a debate among supporters of President elect
Speaker 1: Donald Trump over how the program should fit into the
Speaker 1: income and Administration's aggressive immigration agenda. Musk and Ramaswami, whom
Speaker 1: Trump has tapped to lead his Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 1: That's the DOGE, defendive companies who use workers on H
Speaker 1: one B visas, arguing tech companies, including those owned by Musk,
Speaker 1: of course, depend on foreign workers to operate, but the
Speaker 1: message rankled some of Trump's most loyal defenders, who expect
Speaker 1: his administration to crack down on immigration and promote American workers.
Speaker 1: Trump restricted access to foreign work of visas during his
Speaker 1: first term, and as targeted the H one B program
Speaker 1: and past remarks, but during the twenty twenty four campaign,
Speaker 1: Trump signaled Trump signaled openness to give it some foreign
Speaker 1: workers legal status if they graduated from a US University.
Speaker 1: Musk actually compared the situation to sports. Listen to this
Speaker 1: quote from Elon Musk. If you want your team to
Speaker 1: win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever
Speaker 1: they may be. That enables the whole team to win.
Speaker 1: Month wrote on x which obviously he owns. I am
Speaker 1: referring to bringing in via illegal immigration, the top zero
Speaker 1: point one percent of engineering talent as being essential for
Speaker 1: America to keep winning. This is what Musk. Musk wrote
Speaker 1: in another post on Thursday. Thinking of America as a
Speaker 1: pro sports team that has been winning for a long
Speaker 1: time and wants to keep winning is the right mental construct. Ladies, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I gott tell you I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that whatsoever. We don't want
Speaker 1: open borders because we don't want more than twelve and
Speaker 1: a half million people just coming into the country illegally.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, We certainly don't want folks, the very few
Speaker 1: of them who are criminals into the country.
Speaker 2: But we don't want open borders.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean we don't want folks to come
Speaker 1: through the border legally. It doesn't mean that we don't
Speaker 1: want our society could to continue to be the gorgeous
Speaker 1: mosaic that we've.
Speaker 2: Been known to be. America is the land of opportunity.
Speaker 1: And if you have people for foreign nations that are
Speaker 1: incredibly bright and add a lot to technology and other
Speaker 1: forms of business in this world, that promotes and provokes
Speaker 1: employment for a bevy of other American citizens and beyond
Speaker 1: in this country. Why would we not do that? Why
Speaker 1: would we not do that, especially if you're talking about
Speaker 1: them being some of the top engineers in this world,
Speaker 1: why would we want to keep them out of America.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with Lelon Musk about that. It makes
Speaker 1: perfect sense. It really really does. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the number that he threw out there is zero point
Speaker 1: one percent of the top engineers. That's not hurting anybody.
Speaker 1: If anything, that's helping America. But if Veguamaswami didn't stop,
Speaker 1: he piggybacked off of what Musk said, and he said
Speaker 1: our American culture because obviously he's a first generation US
Speaker 1: citizen whose parents immigrated from India, So let's get that's straight.
Speaker 1: Ve Ramaswami says, our American culture has venerated mediocrity over
Speaker 1: excellence for way too long, at least since the nineties
Speaker 1: and likely longer. That doesn't start in college, it starts young,
Speaker 1: he said. This is what he said on Thursday. A
Speaker 1: culture that celebrates the prong queen over the math Olympiad
Speaker 1: champ or the jock over the valed victorian will not
Speaker 1: produce the best engineers. I can't argue with that point.
Speaker 1: That makes perfect sense. That makes perfect sense. Now here's
Speaker 1: where it gets tricky. And this is what we got
Speaker 1: to think about when it comes to Trump, and there
Speaker 1: is simply no way around us.
Speaker 2: It's a great discussion.
Speaker 1: Because the reality is is that it's something that's open
Speaker 1: for debate. There's reportedly fraud in the H one B
Speaker 1: visa program and it was said to need major reform.
Speaker 2: This is according to the reports, not me.
Speaker 1: But America wants the world's top talent and Trump wants
Speaker 1: to stay number one, right, So how can you be
Speaker 1: number one without top talent? You gotta balance that, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to balance that message with an America first message.
Speaker 1: That's a tough thing to do. America first versus America first.
Speaker 1: People already living and board here, which one is it
Speaker 1: America first instead of the in terms of the country,
Speaker 1: or America first instead of the mega write who voted
Speaker 1: for you? To think about American citizens first. The only
Speaker 1: way for Trump to pull this office to make the
Speaker 1: argument that it's all about America. It's all about America,
Speaker 1: and anything that contributes to America being number one is
Speaker 1: something that we should support. That has to be his argument.
Speaker 1: And it gets very very interesting because now it's a debate,
Speaker 1: and having that debate, here's where the advantage is. At
Speaker 1: least in the Trump administration, there appears to be a
Speaker 1: debate allowed. What has ailed the Democrats. It's not an
Speaker 1: ideology a lot. It's not their feelings alone. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that if you refute it what.
Speaker 2: They said, if you are a part of that party.
Speaker 1: Cancel culture kicked in if you are not a part
Speaker 1: of that party. It was ostracism and it was ultimately
Speaker 1: hate mongering and fear mongering that was.
Speaker 2: Thrown into the equation. There was no room for.
Speaker 1: Debate, and enough voices weren't being heard. Diversity amongst those
Speaker 1: voices not being heard. You're black, you're white, you're gay,
Speaker 1: you're lesbian, you're heterosexual, you're transgender, It don't matter.
Speaker 2: You still had to have one form of thinking.
Speaker 1: If you fell under their umbrella, Otherwise you were pushed out.
Speaker 1: If Trump is saying there needs to be a healthy
Speaker 1: debate about America first meaning the country, or America first
Speaker 1: meaning people born in this country, and sacrificing the best
Speaker 1: that may exist out there across the globe, and that's
Speaker 1: a discussion that's worth having. All of a sudden, that
Speaker 1: opens the floodgates for an abundance of other things that
Speaker 1: we can discuss. Because when we're talking about America first,
Speaker 1: aren't we talking about America being the greatest country in
Speaker 1: the world. Aren't we talking about that being our wish?
Speaker 1: Aren't we talking about being in a position where, whether
Speaker 1: it's financially, whether it's educationally, whether it's intellectually, whether it's morally,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be at the top of the heap.
Speaker 1: Ain't that what we're trying to say? And if that
Speaker 1: is what we're trying to say, where's our behavior to
Speaker 1: replicate or authenticate that level of thinking.
Speaker 2: That's a question it's important.
Speaker 1: Trump released the statement seemingly siding with Musk and Rama Swamwing, where.
Speaker 2: He said, court I've always liked the visus.
Speaker 1: I've always been in favor of the visus that's why
Speaker 1: we have them. I have many H one B visas
Speaker 1: on my properties. I've been a believer in H one B.
Speaker 1: I have used it many times. It's a great program.
Speaker 1: This is what Donald Trump is saying. He's making a
Speaker 1: very very valid point when he brings that up. What
Speaker 1: are H one b's. It's employer sponsored work visas. That's
Speaker 1: what Musk and Ramaswami are in support of, and the
Speaker 1: Maga right is pushing back on because employer sponsored work
Speaker 1: visas basically means immigrants being allowed into the workforce. And
Speaker 1: you got folks on the Maga right that don't want immigrants.
Speaker 1: But in the end, does that make our country better
Speaker 1: or worse? I say it makes us worse to not
Speaker 1: have them. I completely agree with Elon Muskin Ramaswami on this,
Speaker 1: but most importantly I agree with the idea of their
Speaker 1: being an open, robust debate about it, because it is
Speaker 1: not something that the Democrats allow. The Democrats stop letting
Speaker 1: people decide. One could easily argue. Their mentality seem to
Speaker 1: be you must obey the party line or out and yes,
Speaker 1: that seemed to be what they were saying.
Speaker 2: Censorship cancer culture. There was no debate.
Speaker 1: That's why they're home and Donald Trump is on his
Speaker 1: way back to the White House.
Speaker 2: And so since we.
Speaker 1: Look at it from that standpoint, now we got to
Speaker 1: ask ourselves what does the debate bring. One could easily
Speaker 1: argue it only strengthens the party and sharpens the arguments.
Speaker 1: You can make that argument mainstream media. Some con say
Speaker 1: they're blowing to you know, they're blowing the disagreement out
Speaker 1: of proportion a bit.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 1: I just think these kinds of discussions are good for
Speaker 1: the country, and I wish I saw more of it
Speaker 1: on the left. New lines and alliances might be drawn.
Speaker 1: We all know this, but no one's getting canceled a
Speaker 1: deep platform for it.
Speaker 2: This is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And with that in mind, why did I bring up
Speaker 1: Trump over the last segment when I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: correction officers murdering Robert Brooks.
Speaker 2: This issue itself.
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with it, But what it's fomenting
Speaker 1: and what it's provoking in terms of a healthy debate,
Speaker 1: is a beautiful, beautiful thing because it means that you're
Speaker 1: open to reason. Well, here, let me transition back to
Speaker 1: the correctional officers murdering and inmate. I wasn't there, and
Speaker 1: nor did I ever see Trump's comments in its completions
Speaker 1: about Charlottesville. I never liked the idea of white supremacist.
Speaker 1: They're very fine people.
Speaker 2: On both sides.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's not what you wanted to hear from your
Speaker 1: president at that particular moment in time, even though his
Speaker 1: full message might not have been articulated and disseminated to
Speaker 1: the masses appropriately. But that's not what you want to
Speaker 1: hear for the president at that particular moment in time.
Speaker 2: Want to support our police officers.
Speaker 1: I'm now down for defunding the police, because I know
Speaker 1: I'm calling nine to one one. I don't believe in that,
Speaker 1: But I am for making sure that the rogue officers
Speaker 1: amongst us suffer severe punishment and they get weeded out.
Speaker 1: So the ninety five plus percent of law abiding police
Speaker 1: officers who live up to their oath to serve and protect,
Speaker 1: I'm all for them being empowered. But what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do about these correction officers and people like them, What
Speaker 1: we're gonna do about the Derek Chauvins, with the George
Speaker 1: Floyd's of the world, and all of that stuff about them.
Speaker 2: Only reason I.
Speaker 1: Brought up the comparison between George Floyd and now this guy,
Speaker 1: Robert Brooks, is because they were both handcuffed, both had
Speaker 1: their hands behind their back.
Speaker 2: Derek Chauvin had.
Speaker 1: His knee on George floyd neck while several correctional officers
Speaker 1: were beating the living hell out of Robert Brooks, beating
Speaker 1: him to death. Both were tortured, one more visibly conspicuous
Speaker 1: than the other, but both equally dead murdered. What're you
Speaker 1: gonna do about that, Donal Trump? You're not responsible for
Speaker 1: the officer's actions. Nobody's implying that.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Casting blame upon you in any way. I'm simply saying
Speaker 1: that when the mandate has been handed down, when you've
Speaker 1: won all the swing states, when you've gained ground on
Speaker 1: every demographic out there, black, Hispanics, young voters, when you've
Speaker 1: gained ground and in roads where you have this kind
Speaker 1: of mandate handed to you on a silver platter, where
Speaker 1: nobody cared about the impeachment, so nobody cared about the convictions,
Speaker 1: and they bought everything that you were selling in terms
Speaker 1: of this being politicized and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: And now you're going back in the office as the
Speaker 1: forty seventh President of the United States of America, clearly
Speaker 1: with a mandate, but clearly with more power because you
Speaker 1: got the House and the Senate, and you got.
Speaker 2: A damn near colt following.
Speaker 1: That's so profound and so potent and so strong that
Speaker 1: the politicians on your side are scared to go against you,
Speaker 1: which means the vast majority of the times.
Speaker 2: They're gonna do what the hell you say. You're gonna
Speaker 2: take advantage of this moment, Donald Trump. I'd like to see.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump call for those officers to be arrested, or
Speaker 1: those correctional officers to be arrested and indicted. I'd like
Speaker 1: to hear Donald Trump say there is no place in
Speaker 1: our society for such heinous acts like that. He doesn't
Speaker 1: give a damn what uniform you're working. His support is
Speaker 1: applicable to law abiding law enforcement officials who live up
Speaker 1: to their oh to protect and serve, not to be
Speaker 1: criminals themselves. You can do it in all likelihood, which
Speaker 1: H one B program. You can do it in all
Speaker 1: likelihood when it comes to tariffs. You can do it
Speaker 1: in all likelihood when it comes to a plethora of
Speaker 1: other issues.
Speaker 2: How about this. There's violence in the streets of America.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure those people are dealt with.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, But you don't support a dude being handcuffed
Speaker 1: and beaten to death by correctional facility correction officers on camera.
Speaker 1: There's no way to condone that speak against that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Let the minorities, the desolate, and the disenfranchised
Speaker 1: in this country, people who are powerless to go up
Speaker 1: against the system itself.
Speaker 2: Let them know.
Speaker 1: That you're the head of the system that's in place now,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna do what you can to change what
Speaker 1: has ailed the minority communities in this country from stuff
Speaker 1: like this continuing to happen. You got a chance, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: You got a chance to get even more Democrats to
Speaker 1: shift over to the center, and possibly even over the year,
Speaker 1: if you make sure that your mentality of that strong
Speaker 1: arm of the law applies to all corruption, not.
Speaker 2: Just those who voted against you. In our likelihood, just
Speaker 2: the thought.
Speaker 1: Something to consider as the new year twenty twenty five approaches.
Speaker 1: And you're, as of right now, by twenty three days
Speaker 1: removed from entering the White House again as a president
Speaker 1: of the United States, speaking to presidents of the United States.
Speaker 1: Before I get on out of here, I'd be remiss
Speaker 1: in neglecting to bring up mister Jimmy Carter, our thirty
Speaker 1: ninth President of the United States of America. He died
Speaker 1: at the age of one hundred, surrounded by family at
Speaker 1: his home in Plains, Georgia. They say in his final moments.
Speaker 1: That's what the Carter Center said in a statement on Sunday. Obviously,
Speaker 1: President Joe Bidens said Carter stands as a model of
Speaker 1: what it means to live a life of meaning and
Speaker 1: purpose and remembered Carter as a dear friend. President Donald
Speaker 1: the President elect, Donald Trump said Americans owe the former president.
Speaker 2: A dab of gratitude.
Speaker 1: Obviously, preparations are under way for a state funeral for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't remember. President Carter was a
Speaker 1: peanut farm and a US Navy lieutenant before going into politics,
Speaker 1: eventually serving one term as governor of Georgia. As President
Speaker 1: and President of the United States from nineteen seventy seven
Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty one. He lost Arona Reagan in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one nineteen eighty and then obviously gave up the
Speaker 1: office in nineteen eighty one. He was the only former
Speaker 1: US president to reach one hundred years of age and
Speaker 1: reading off of CNN as we speak. Rosalind Carter, the
Speaker 1: former president's wife of more than seventy five years, was known.
Speaker 1: She was known for her mental health advocacy and humanitarian work.
Speaker 1: She had died in November of twenty twenty three at
Speaker 1: the age of ninety six. It's always a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: you know, when you see a wife and or a
Speaker 1: husband and one of them passes away shortly thereafter the
Speaker 1: other goals. It's one of those things where I've always
Speaker 1: looked at it and I said, wow, you know those
Speaker 1: are souls connected. You know, somebody goes to heaven and
Speaker 1: it's like you're ready to go to because your life
Speaker 1: just ain't worth that much anymore on this earth without
Speaker 1: that one person. That is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing
Speaker 1: to see, to experience, to know exist. Can't deny that
Speaker 1: one bit. And that's just how I feel about it.
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of noise was made about
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, what the economy was like, that ran hostage crisis,
Speaker 1: and all of that other stuff. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, he's a former president who was a very,
Speaker 1: very good man in the eyes of practically any and
Speaker 1: all who knew him, who cared about America, who cared
Speaker 1: about this world and did a lot of good, and
Speaker 1: heart and soul was in the right place. Jimmy Carter gone,
Speaker 1: but never forgotten. He's gone at the age of one hundred.
Speaker 1: God bless him and his wonderful wife, who no doubt
Speaker 1: are in heaven together right now. Until next time, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to y'all. Stephen A sign it off peace
Speaker 1: and love.