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Speaker 1: of things to get into. I'll be getting into some
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Speaker 1: yours truly as always, So let's get right to it, Okay,
Speaker 1: some political talks, specifically my conversation on Fox News this
Speaker 1: weekend with the one and only Mark Levin. They called
Speaker 1: him the great one conservative radio host throughout the country.
Speaker 1: Plus you can catch him on Patriot Radio on Sirius
Speaker 1: XM channel one twenty five. He's been a phenomenal host
Speaker 1: there for years. Nevertheless, I appeared on his show, Life, Liberty,
Speaker 1: and Levin, which airs on Fox News on Saturday nights
Speaker 1: and Sunday nights.
Speaker 2: And while I was.
Speaker 1: There, I gave my thoughts on the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: election and expressed some regret about what has transpired with
Speaker 1: the Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris. And I've said
Speaker 1: this on many many occasions. I don't like what I'm
Speaker 1: seeing from the Democratic Party. I said it on Life, Liberty,
Speaker 1: and Levin to Mark Levin himself. I've said it to
Speaker 1: this audience on various occasions. I'm saying it again now
Speaker 1: nobody's backing up from it. Nevertheless, I have to tell
Speaker 1: you that. And I don't blame Mark Levin for this,
Speaker 1: But did you see the headline on Fox News?
Speaker 2: Did you see it? Did you see it?
Speaker 1: In case you didn't see it, put it up there
Speaker 1: for us folks. Let them see it right there. Look
Speaker 1: at that headline right there, stephen A. Smith regrets backing
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris open to voting GOP.
Speaker 2: Not interested in the fear mongering.
Speaker 1: Before I go to the actual clip of what I
Speaker 1: literally said, so I can show you all myself, let
Speaker 1: me stay for the record, I throw no fault in
Speaker 1: the direction of Mark Levin for the headlines as a reporter,
Speaker 1: as a commentator and punedit throughout the years, that have
Speaker 1: been many many times where I have said something and
Speaker 1: having no responsibility for the headlines whatsoever, the headlines didn't
Speaker 1: completely accurately portray what I had said.
Speaker 2: So if I've.
Speaker 1: Gone through that, I'm certainly not gonna blame Mark Levin.
Speaker 1: I know, would I ever accuse him of misrepresenting me.
Speaker 1: Just like I've been friends with Sean Hannity for over
Speaker 1: twenty years, that also applies to Mark Levin, who I've
Speaker 1: also known now are pretty much twenty plus years.
Speaker 2: So he is a friend.
Speaker 1: He is somebody that I communicate with often. No, we
Speaker 1: do not agree on a lot of our politics, just
Speaker 1: as is the case for Sean Hannity. But I respect
Speaker 1: those guys, and I've known them for years, and they've
Speaker 1: always watched my back always, and I always appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and I'm always going to do the same for them.
Speaker 1: So it's not about that, but it is important that
Speaker 1: you all know exactly what I said because headlines like
Speaker 1: that turn to go viral. So, without further ado, this
Speaker 1: is just a small clip of Mark Levin asking me
Speaker 1: the question that he asked.
Speaker 2: And I want you to listen to my answer. Here
Speaker 2: it is Stephen A. Smith. So could you see yourself?
Speaker 2: See what you see? Now?
Speaker 1: Donald Trump can't run for president again, but if he could,
Speaker 1: under this current circumstances, could you see yourself voting for him?
Speaker 2: Quite possibly.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit up there and dismiss that anymore.
Speaker 1: I think we're beyond that. He would have to prove
Speaker 1: a lot mark and I'm not talking about policy now
Speaker 1: for a second.
Speaker 2: Allow me to say this.
Speaker 1: What concerned me about Donald Trump and the reason I
Speaker 1: voted against him and voted for Kamala Harris, was because
Speaker 1: I felt that he would be divisive, that he would
Speaker 1: create chaos, because he demands such a level of loyalty
Speaker 1: and fealty to him, and that would take priority over
Speaker 1: governing our nation. That was my concern, and so I'm
Speaker 1: looking for both sides to work across the os from
Speaker 1: one another. Having said that, when you see some of
Speaker 1: the things that he said, if he follows through on
Speaker 1: some of the things that he has said, it's not
Speaker 1: just about eradicating inflation and proving the economy, obviously controlling
Speaker 1: our borders. These are all things that I care about,
Speaker 1: making no mistake about that, and I certainly would support
Speaker 1: him in that god, but it can't be just about
Speaker 1: fealty to him and loyalty to him. It has to
Speaker 1: be about getting the job done on behalf of what's
Speaker 1: in the best interest of the American people as opposed
Speaker 1: to yourself, and not engaging in the kind of juvenile
Speaker 1: tendencies tweeting all the time and going after people who
Speaker 1: are really much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: You do things like that, and you show that you're
Speaker 1: the adult in the room. Yeah, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: could dismiss Donald Trump at this particular moment in time,
Speaker 1: not just because of him, but because of what we've
Speaker 1: seen the Democrats do.
Speaker 2: That is what I said.
Speaker 1: Anywhere in that headline, Did you hear me say I
Speaker 1: regret voting.
Speaker 2: For Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: You did not hear me say that, But I understand
Speaker 1: how it's a fine line, because I do have my
Speaker 1: trepidations and feelings of disgust when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, how they handle things leading up to the election,
Speaker 1: how they handle the year prior to the election, with
Speaker 1: Joe Biden refusing this step away and going back on
Speaker 1: this word to be a transitional president.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't like the fact that, you know what, they
Speaker 1: got one hundred or one point five billion dollars and
Speaker 1: you know, next thing, you know, we're looking for where
Speaker 1: the money went. I don't like the fact that people
Speaker 1: like Oprah Winfrey and others were paid before doing interviews
Speaker 1: with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I don't like a whole bunch of stuff. A lot
Speaker 2: of it smells.
Speaker 1: But I think it's important to make this point, and
Speaker 1: this is directly aimed at conservative media.
Speaker 2: It may be.
Speaker 1: Because they've been vilified for years and they've found themselves
Speaker 1: to be at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to
Speaker 1: the leftists on the media side. I get that part,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't negate the fact that when it comes
Speaker 1: to conservative media, they won't hesitate to misrepresent your words
Speaker 1: a bit for a better pro Trump anti Democrat headline,
Speaker 1: because indeed they like having prominent influential voice come over
Speaker 1: to their way of thinking. To some of them, not all,
Speaker 1: not most, but to some of them, it makes it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness. You know, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: folks out there, you know that do think like us,
Speaker 1: that do side with us to do favor our mode
Speaker 1: of thinking. And we're not as alienated as you think.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of folks within conservative
Speaker 1: media that are prone to doing something like that, just
Speaker 1: like you can look on the left, because the liberal
Speaker 1: media will misrepresent your words in a heartbeat to make
Speaker 1: you seem more extreme and to work very very hard
Speaker 1: to tie you in with the Trump and the Maga folks.
Speaker 2: We've seen that happen to me on both sides.
Speaker 1: So you know, I just felt the need to say
Speaker 1: that because it's important that people understand. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it again, and I'm gonna have it put up on
Speaker 1: the screen every time I'm on this show and I'm
Speaker 1: talking politics. I am an independent, I am not a Democrat.
Speaker 1: So I apologize if for anything anti anti dam that
Speaker 1: I may say, nor am I a Republican, And I'm
Speaker 1: certainly not apologizing for that. I have things that I
Speaker 1: am conservative about, and I have things I am liberal about.
Speaker 2: I am a staunch conservative when it comes to my money.
Speaker 2: I'm a physical conservative. You damn right.
Speaker 1: I ain't apologize you nobody. My man brand is in
Speaker 1: studio of me. You got a problem with that? Be
Speaker 1: I don't have problems.
Speaker 2: You got problem with that? Get better?
Speaker 1: You got problem with that? Hey, you better not have
Speaker 1: a problem with that. I am a fiscal conservative. I
Speaker 1: can't stand these damn high taxes in New York, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: in California. Okay, so trust you me. Anytime I can
Speaker 1: get away with moving to another place and not having
Speaker 1: to pay them damn taxes, I'm not gonna hesitate.
Speaker 2: Let's get that out the way.
Speaker 1: But I'm very liberal when it comes to living and
Speaker 1: let living. It doesn't matter whether I approve or disapprove,
Speaker 1: whether I like or don't like, I believe in living
Speaker 1: and let living.
Speaker 2: That's how I roll.
Speaker 1: Gay rights, abortion rights, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2: Live your life, Live your life.
Speaker 1: You under said you want to transgender, gohead be transgender.
Speaker 1: You're a gay individual, Go ahead, live your life. Now,
Speaker 1: when you try to say you're a guy and that
Speaker 1: you're transitioning into being a lady and you want to
Speaker 1: compete against women, now you got a problem because I
Speaker 1: think that puts women at a distinct disadvantage.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it. That's me looking out
Speaker 2: for women.
Speaker 1: That's not me going up against somebody that's transgender.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 1: I want to get back to my bigger point, and
Speaker 1: my bigger point is, once again, I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody knew that the headline didn't accurately depict
Speaker 1: what I had said to Mark Levin. If I wanted
Speaker 1: to call out Vice President Kamala Harris like that, I would.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that went at former President Barack Obama
Speaker 1: for talking down to black men, claiming it must be
Speaker 1: misogyny and misogyny if you didn't vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: I didn't appreciate that. I didn't appreciate that, but that's
Speaker 1: what it is. I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: we're clear nobody's backing up or apologizing for who I
Speaker 1: am and where I stand. And as I look at
Speaker 1: President elect Donald Trump coming into office, let me be
Speaker 1: very very clear about what I support.
Speaker 2: When it comes to him, so we.
Speaker 1: All, we're not misconstruing anything. I support eradicating inflation, I
Speaker 1: support lowering taxes, I support closing our borders. I support
Speaker 1: prioritizing national security.
Speaker 2: Yes I do.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go with his words about law and order,
Speaker 1: but damn it is one of.
Speaker 2: My favorite shows for a reason. I like it.
Speaker 1: I believe in law and order, and I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that I'm clear about that. So everything that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has preached about I'm not against, which is
Speaker 1: why if he acts right and doesn't engage in pettiness
Speaker 1: and don't put incompetence in cabinet positions and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I'm going to support the pride, don't. I don't on
Speaker 1: him to fail. I want him to succeed as long
Speaker 1: as it means the country succeeds, not him the country.
Speaker 1: Now let me go to another sort of Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: subject here, and it involves former Representative Matt Gates because
Speaker 1: we gonna get to Washington and the details of the
Speaker 1: House Ethics Committee's report on former Florida Representative Matt Gates
Speaker 1: obtained by CNN. By the way, the report found that
Speaker 1: Gates paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for
Speaker 1: sex or drugs on at least twenty occasions, and one
Speaker 1: of those occasions included sex with a seventeen year old
Speaker 1: girl in twenty seventeen. You might recall that Gates was
Speaker 1: nominated by President elect Donald Trump to be United States
Speaker 1: Attorney General, the top cop. The report concludes that Gates
Speaker 1: violated Florida state loads, including the state's statutory rape law.
Speaker 1: The GOP lead panel GOP led panel chose to take
Speaker 1: the rare step of releasing a report about a former
Speaker 1: member who resigned from Congress. Is a portion of the
Speaker 1: statement from the House Ethics Committee on the findings from
Speaker 1: the Gates investigation.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gates
Speaker 1: violated House rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution,
Speaker 1: statutory rate, illicit drug use, in permissible gifts, special favors
Speaker 1: or privileges.
Speaker 2: And obstruction of Congress end quote.
Speaker 1: As for Gates, he filed a lawsuit today seeking an
Speaker 1: emergency temporary restraining order try to stop the release of
Speaker 1: the report that details the alleged sexual misconduct and alleged
Speaker 1: drug use.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Gates was President Elect Trump's initial pick to run the
Speaker 1: Justice Department as Attorney General. Y'all are going to find
Speaker 1: it shocking what position I'm about to take, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take it. Considering all the things that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was accused of and how the GOP fought to defend him,
Speaker 1: it's kind of ironic, dire, I say, hypocritical that they
Speaker 1: would do this to Gates. The GOP lead panel I'm
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 2: Don't you think.
Speaker 1: Isn't there an air of inconsistency to defend Donald Trump
Speaker 1: while he was running for reelection so fervently?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're throwing Matt Gates under the bus.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to the GOP, the GOP lead panel
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not absolving Gates from any shred of guilt. That's
Speaker 1: not where I'm going. I don't know the details. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna believe what they report. I'm just saying it's a
Speaker 1: little bit inconsistent. Having said that, to Matt Gates, it's
Speaker 1: called come up into my man.
Speaker 2: That's what you're receiving.
Speaker 1: Because you weren't just despised by the Democrats, despised by
Speaker 1: the GOP, your party.
Speaker 2: They couldn't stand your ass. They don't like you.
Speaker 1: Remember how you're forced Kevin McCarthy out. Remember that, Remember
Speaker 1: when during the Republican Convention Kevin McCarthy was doing an
Speaker 1: interview and you were behind him trolling him with the childishness.
Speaker 1: You already got him booted out or speak of the House.
Speaker 1: You already took care of that. But every chance you
Speaker 1: had to take a dig at him was something trivial.
Speaker 1: You didn't hesitate because you didn't like him. Well, there
Speaker 1: were a lot of people, likely on the GOP panel
Speaker 1: that did like Kevin McCarthy. They did like some of
Speaker 1: the other Republicans that don't like you, and they said,
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity to get this dude, even if
Speaker 1: he's one of our own.
Speaker 2: Think about that, and your Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: See what I'm talking about when I talk about the
Speaker 1: importers of being the adult in.
Speaker 2: The room, showing a level of class and decorum.
Speaker 1: So you dissuade people from wanting to come at you
Speaker 1: to some degree, see what I mean. I'm not again,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I don't know what you
Speaker 1: did with some seventeen year old I don't know about
Speaker 1: sex tapes or payments to people. I don't know any
Speaker 1: about this. I'm talking about your behavior with your contemporaries
Speaker 1: that was completely childish and unnecessary. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And now they came back and got you. Now you
Speaker 1: stepped down from your position in the House because you
Speaker 1: were supposed to be the top cop. Which brings me
Speaker 1: to Trump. Why would you even consider putting that man
Speaker 1: in the position where he was going to buy as
Speaker 1: the top cop.
Speaker 2: In this nation be an attorney general. See, this is
Speaker 2: the concern that we should have with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Because Matt Gates is a loyalist. He's somebody that supported you.
Speaker 1: But what about the qualifications. If it wasn't for Republicans,
Speaker 1: let you know, they weren't gonna vibe with that decision,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would still have him trying to be the
Speaker 1: next United States Attorney general.
Speaker 2: Why? Why to Pete hag Seth for Fox News, I
Speaker 2: see your work.
Speaker 1: You work with one of my best buddies, Will Kine,
Speaker 1: used to work with me at ESPN's now over at Fox.
Speaker 1: I root for Will Cain all day every day. Pete
Speaker 1: hag Seth. They talk about you and some of your
Speaker 1: personal transgressions, alleged transgressions. That is, I don't know any
Speaker 1: of that, nor am I trying to talk about that.
Speaker 1: Handle your business. Here's my issue. You're a host on
Speaker 1: Fox News during the weekends.
Speaker 2: Not even the weekday, the weekends.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, Brandon, I'm talking to you. You're a
Speaker 1: Fox News host on the weekend. There's nothing inside. I
Speaker 1: know that you served in the military. I know that
Speaker 1: you served our country with honor and bravery by everything
Speaker 1: that I've read.
Speaker 2: But you're a Fox News host.
Speaker 3: And suddenly you think it's good that you are going
Speaker 3: to head the Department of Defense over three million employees.
Speaker 2: You see, this is the problem. This is the problem.
Speaker 1: We've got hundreds of qualified people out there who are
Speaker 1: Republicans who support Donald Trump and Donald Trump you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Go with Pete access Really, that's what we're doing. Petxces man.
Speaker 1: Come on, bro, Now, I understand the presidency is a
Speaker 1: different animal, and it's an elected position and as a result,
Speaker 1: you know, but you got the House, you got the Senate, you.
Speaker 2: Got a cabinet, you got chief of staff, you got
Speaker 2: all of this stuff. This is the military, bro, This
Speaker 2: is the military.
Speaker 1: You know, should we go to war with Iraq? What's
Speaker 1: up with Iran? Should we pull out of Ukraine? Should
Speaker 1: we continue to support him against Russia? The Israel Palestinian
Speaker 1: conflict involving Hamas and ultimately has a Balah, new leadership,
Speaker 1: new regime in Syria. I mean, we're supposed to look
Speaker 1: at you and say we're comfortable with you being one
Speaker 1: of the dudes in the president's air main dudes in
Speaker 1: the president's air as the guy running the Department of Defense.
Speaker 1: I understand you serving in the cabinet in some capacity,
Speaker 1: but damn you just gonna wake up and run.
Speaker 2: Three million people see this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Be there's kind of stuff to make me hesitant, Betty,
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff Grift, this kind of stuff talking
Speaker 1: to my staff, this kind of stuff that makes me worry.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about Trump.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about some
Speaker 1: of the folks, some of the.
Speaker 2: Folks in conservative media.
Speaker 1: Never before in our lifetime would you have tolerated such
Speaker 1: decisions by an elected official when it came to their
Speaker 1: cabinet members. Forget the behavior, forget the allegations and the accusations.
Speaker 2: I'm not getting in any of that.
Speaker 1: Pete hak Saith, I'm sure he's very smart, very knowledgeable,
Speaker 1: obviously cares about this country.
Speaker 2: His views might be different than a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people agree with his views. I
Speaker 2: get that.
Speaker 1: I'm only talking about going from being a host on
Speaker 1: Fox News.
Speaker 2: On a Saturday to run in the department with three
Speaker 2: million people. That's our military.
Speaker 1: In charge, overseeing generals and lieutenants and captains and everybody
Speaker 1: else in the front lines.
Speaker 2: That is what worries me. That shit is scary.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean when I talk about how Trump
Speaker 1: can scare the living daylights out of people and cause chaos.
Speaker 2: You can't tell me that ain't a bunch.
Speaker 1: Of people officially, resume wise, conspicuously more qualified than what
Speaker 1: Matt Gates brought to the table.
Speaker 2: And what Pete Haig says.
Speaker 1: And I'm not blumping the two because of their accusations.
Speaker 1: I'm lumping the two because of the qualifications on their resume.
Speaker 2: Come on, y'all, come on, coming up.
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter and his fiance continue to catch heat on
Speaker 1: social media. I'll get to that, but first, some Florida
Speaker 1: students are giving up parts of their weekend just.
Speaker 2: To learn black history. I wonder why all that?
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Speaker 1: Beal facing the Nuggets more or less than twenty eight
Speaker 1: and a half points, rebounds and assist.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I'm going with less.
Speaker 1: I mean the Bradley Bill that I see playing, That
Speaker 1: brother could drop twenty three points with no rebounds and
Speaker 1: no assist. You feel me, So I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: less than this one.
Speaker 2: It's not to throw any shade on the brother.
Speaker 1: He can ball, but in the same breath, with his
Speaker 1: skill set, you would wish at times that he was
Speaker 1: a bit more active in other areas that you know
Speaker 1: could lead to wins for the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 2: They can't seem to know what the hell to do
Speaker 2: without Kevin Durant in the lineup. So that's the subject
Speaker 2: for another day.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go with less on the particular answer to
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal's question. Right now, next up paces forward Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam playing the Warriors more or less than thirty one points,
Speaker 1: rebounds and assist. It's Pascal Siakam. He's a versatile player
Speaker 1: and he's not one to mention it. He finds different
Speaker 1: ways to produce. When you say thirty one, hey, twenty
Speaker 1: one points, five assists, five rebounds, something like that, He's
Speaker 1: capable of doing that, more than capable of doing that,
Speaker 1: and I think he will. I'm going with more as
Speaker 1: a particular answer to this question.
Speaker 2: More for Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 1: Next up Warriors three points specialists. The greatest shooter God
Speaker 1: has ever created, The one and only Steph Curry facing
Speaker 1: the Indiana Paces more or less than thirty five and
Speaker 1: a half points, rebounds and assists.
Speaker 2: He's the greatest shooter God ever created.
Speaker 1: He recently had a bad game where he has scored
Speaker 1: field Go for the first time in like ten years.
Speaker 1: He saw what happened the very next game when he
Speaker 1: put on the show. Right, that's Steph Curry we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, and that will continue. He's gonna have more points, rebounds,
Speaker 1: sistent thirty five and a half.
Speaker 2: We going more with the babyface assassin. Right even in.
Speaker 1: His thirties, that thirty five, thirty six years old, the
Speaker 1: brother still got a baby face.
Speaker 2: That's who he is. Lastly, we got.
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets forward Jamal Murray going up against the Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns more or less than thirty and a half.
Speaker 2: Points, rebounds and assist. I'm gonna go with more.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Murray in better shape, better conditioning.
Speaker 1: Understanding this a bit compromising the times because he's had
Speaker 1: knee injuries and all of this other stuff going on
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: We get that part.
Speaker 1: But if this brother, the better shape he's in, the
Speaker 1: more damage he can do because he's got a game
Speaker 1: and he makes big tim shots. He ain't scared of
Speaker 1: a damn thing. I'm a fan of Jamal Murray. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with more on this. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: do just fine. Okay, that's it. You heard me to recap.
Speaker 1: You see what I said. I got less with Bradley
Speaker 1: Beal more on everybody else, Bradley Bial. All that means
Speaker 1: is that you got to step your game up. That's
Speaker 1: not saying you don't have the game. My brother is
Speaker 1: saying you do. Just give him more of.
Speaker 2: It to us. That's what we like in prospects. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you can relate. Welcome back to Stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Before I get into the next story involving the Florida
Speaker 1: school system, just as in aside, I just wanted y'all
Speaker 1: to take a moment to pause.
Speaker 2: And you know, no punt intended.
Speaker 1: This is the Christmas decorations behind me, and you know
Speaker 1: there's a fireplace behind me. There's certainly no connection. I
Speaker 1: don't want it to be taken that way, but let
Speaker 1: me say this. Governor Kathy Hochel for the state of
Speaker 1: New York on Sunday morning, tweeted about how crime crimes
Speaker 1: are down in the subway systems of New York City.
Speaker 1: Yet a few hours later, some homeless woman was burnt
Speaker 1: to death. Now that's not her fault, but you see
Speaker 1: what happens when you open your mouth, you're giving the
Speaker 1: impression that things are so much safer, when in fact
Speaker 1: that may not necessarily be the case. And I'm not
Speaker 1: one of those people that's gonna just spew all in
Speaker 1: progressive cities as opposed to conservative cities or anything like that,
Speaker 1: because we got problems all over the country. But when
Speaker 1: the Trump administration comes in. If you see a fixation
Speaker 1: on law and order, on dissipating the numbers as it
Speaker 1: pertains to crime, to making sure that people are safer
Speaker 1: in the streets, and we resemble a police state, think
Speaker 1: about something like this, because again I'm not necessarily blaming
Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel, but it's just something to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's best to be quiet. Yes, both things can
Speaker 1: be true. Crime could be in the subways, and yet
Speaker 1: that could still happen.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But we got to stop being so
Speaker 2: eager to prove.
Speaker 1: That our politics are on point and that we're the
Speaker 1: way you should go when clearly there are holes in
Speaker 1: that argument that could be exposed every single day.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to throw that out there. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to.
Speaker 1: Throw that out there because as a native New Yorker
Speaker 1: who grew up riding the E and the F train
Speaker 1: every damn day, I have never seen the subway system
Speaker 1: in New York and still such fear and patrons and
Speaker 1: New York City citizens the way that it does now.
Speaker 2: Ever, Ever, even when there was a vigilante.
Speaker 1: Loose back in the seventies, that's how bad it is now.
Speaker 2: Just want to throw that out there, just want to
Speaker 2: throw that.
Speaker 1: Out Let me get to my next subject, because I
Speaker 1: want to get to this story. I noticed out of
Speaker 1: the state of Florida this week and from the Associated Press.
Speaker 1: Did y'all know there are students who are giving up
Speaker 1: their Saturday mornings to learn about Black history. It's happening
Speaker 1: at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and
Speaker 1: at other community centers.
Speaker 2: Across the state.
Speaker 1: School district officials across Florida told the AP that they're
Speaker 1: still following the state mandate.
Speaker 2: To teach about the experience of slavery.
Speaker 1: Abolition and the many contributions of African Americans to society. However,
Speaker 1: a common complaint from students and parents is that the
Speaker 1: instruction seems limited to heroic figures like Martin Luther King,
Speaker 1: Junior Rosa Parks. The curriculum rarely extends beyond Black History Month.
Speaker 1: This we all know now, If y'all remember, we.
Speaker 2: Got to look at.
Speaker 1: Several things when it comes to story like this. First
Speaker 1: of all, I applored the.
Speaker 2: Students for giving up this Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1: I applaud the teachers for making that time available to
Speaker 1: students so they can learn more about black history. I mean,
Speaker 1: when we think about things the lynchings, when we think
Speaker 1: about segregation that still shapes the landscape, at how grassroots
Speaker 1: activists mobilized to make times better for all of us,
Speaker 1: particularly African Americans in this country.
Speaker 2: And just looking at this article from the Associated Press.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about a couple of things it says
Speaker 1: here talk about Florida developed its own Black History tool
Speaker 1: kit last year. More than four hundred congregations have pledged
Speaker 1: to teach the lessons. The advocacy group orn AVAC groups
Speaker 1: stated Florida required public schools to teach African American history
Speaker 1: for the past thirty years in case y'all didn't know,
Speaker 1: but many families no longer trust the state's education system
Speaker 1: that adequately addressed the subject. I wonder why that is.
Speaker 1: Could it be Governor Iron de Santis. Could it be
Speaker 1: that he's the reason why faith has been lost in
Speaker 1: terms of things being taught about black history.
Speaker 2: I'd say so.
Speaker 1: One could easily argue that DeSantis, who won the gubernatorial
Speaker 1: seat his reelection bid quite convincingly, I might add, fell
Speaker 1: off when he started talking about teachings in the school
Speaker 1: system and how there were certain teachings that he wanted
Speaker 1: to eradicate, and we have to remember that. We have
Speaker 1: to pay attention to that because that matters. Remember, you
Speaker 1: had advocates under fire by the administration of Republican Governor
Speaker 1: Iron de Santis at the time, who had championed efforts
Speaker 1: to restrict how race history and discrimination were.
Speaker 2: Talked about in the state's public schools system.
Speaker 1: Desantus, according to the article in AP, had led attacks
Speaker 1: on wokeness and education at rallied conservatives nationwide, including President
Speaker 1: of Alec Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: The year was twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The governor signed the law quote restricting certain race based
Speaker 1: conversations and schools and businesses, and prohibits teaching that members
Speaker 1: of one ethnic group should feel guilty or bear responsibility
Speaker 1: for actions taking by previous generations. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: because you're born white in this day and age, obviously
Speaker 1: you aren't on this earth during the time of slavery.
Speaker 2: You aren't a slave owner.
Speaker 1: You didn't commit any lynchings, you didn't hang anyone, you
Speaker 1: didn't name anyone, you didn't rape anyone, you didn't murder anybody.
Speaker 1: You bear no responsibility towards what your ancestors did. That's
Speaker 1: what Ron DeSantis's position was. My question is this.
Speaker 2: Fair enough?
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with making sure that
Speaker 1: African Americans in this nation are educated and made aware
Speaker 1: of what past transgressions took place that still affect them
Speaker 1: to this very day.
Speaker 2: We live.
Speaker 1: In a predominantly white society in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: The numbers have dissipated. Once upon a time it was
Speaker 1: eighty five to ninety percent white. Now the number is
Speaker 1: dipped last time I checked a few months ago to
Speaker 1: fifty seven point four percent in dwindling. Byt the year
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, the US Census Bureau report says that the
Speaker 1: Hispanic populace in this country will have exceeded more than
Speaker 1: thirty plus percent, if not more. Obviously, the black population
Speaker 1: is about thirteen to fourteen percent. So when we look
Speaker 1: at that, and we look at how things have been politicized,
Speaker 1: and we recognize the power of the Hispanic vote, one
Speaker 1: could easily surmize that at some point in time, if
Speaker 1: numbers were not curtailed, that the Hispanic population may measure.
Speaker 2: Up to, if not eclipse, that of the white populace
Speaker 2: in this country.
Speaker 1: You don't think that has anything to do with people
Speaker 1: being concerned about the borders.
Speaker 2: Are we all blind, deaf and dumb here? We know
Speaker 2: it does.
Speaker 1: And when you take that into consideration and you see
Speaker 1: the focus.
Speaker 2: On immigration, you can connect the dots.
Speaker 1: Why am I bringing that up because when we talk
Speaker 1: about black history and being educated about the transgressions of
Speaker 1: white folks in America back in the day, what you
Speaker 1: want to do, if you're on the is to make
Speaker 1: sure you show no correlation between.
Speaker 2: What happened in the past and what happens now.
Speaker 1: My response to that would be, well, just because things
Speaker 1: aren't as conspicuous and obvious as they once were, do
Speaker 1: you summarily dismiss the notion that to some degree it
Speaker 1: could exist today when you consider the disparity and the incarcerated,
Speaker 1: where you consider a documentary like thirteen on Netflix by
Speaker 1: the great Ava DuVernay and was talking about how the
Speaker 1: penal system served to imprison and dare we say enslave
Speaker 1: in abundance of people. Think about those kind of things.
Speaker 1: When we think about corporate America today, who holds the power?
Speaker 1: When we think about the banking system with loans and
Speaker 1: things of that nature, housing businesses, etc. All of these
Speaker 1: things come into play. You don't have to have somebody
Speaker 1: in chains and hitting them with whips and doing things
Speaker 1: of that nature in order for them to feel enslaved,
Speaker 1: not literally, of course, but figuratively speaking. You entrap the mind.
Speaker 1: The body ultimately follows.
Speaker 2: As they say.
Speaker 1: So, if you're Ron DeSantis and you made a concerted
Speaker 1: effort entering the presidential election to make this a point
Speaker 1: that you wanted to discuss so much so when we
Speaker 1: had people out there saying there were benefits to slavery,
Speaker 1: let me ask you, thet people saying this, what are
Speaker 1: folks supposed to think about? What your ultimate objective was?
Speaker 1: If you don't teach people about history, they'll never know.
Speaker 1: If they never know, then they can't hold those accountable,
Speaker 1: nor can they make any correlation to those who might
Speaker 1: still be of like minded thinking at the very least,
Speaker 1: and you might be able to play a role in
Speaker 1: highlighting and dissecting and noticing where they stand.
Speaker 2: Because history teaches us all. You don't want certain groups favored.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, then why not just let history be taught
Speaker 1: and move out the way. And why not make sure
Speaker 1: they all teach on an exceptional level instead of twelve
Speaker 1: out of like sixty seven different schools getting a good
Speaker 1: grade while the rest of us for by the wayside
Speaker 1: the fact that this is happening in the state of Florida,
Speaker 1: I believe it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: I want to applaud the teachers.
Speaker 1: I want to applaud the students who are attending these classes.
Speaker 1: I want to applaud anybody who wants to know about
Speaker 1: the dark history associated with slavery and indebted servitude. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that we can talk about it, we can have
Speaker 1: discussions about it. I have no problem with any white
Speaker 1: person saying I have nothing to do with that, even
Speaker 1: though some may beg to differ because it's your ancestors.
Speaker 2: I get all of that.
Speaker 1: By the way, black folks sold black folks into slavery.
Speaker 1: Let's not let anybody off the hook here. I'm simply saying,
Speaker 1: when you try to act as if it's not something
Speaker 1: that should be taught, when you try to act as
Speaker 1: if you would prefer that it's not even discussed, that's
Speaker 1: very incriminating, if for no other reason that it's incredibly
Speaker 1: suspicious with all the problems that we got going on
Speaker 1: in this world, that the governor at least over a
Speaker 1: year ago had made such a concerted effort to derail
Speaker 1: edifying and educating youngsters on a come up who happened
Speaker 1: to be black and wanted to know about their history.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's.
Speaker 1: A good thing that this is happening, because folks associated
Speaker 1: with the Florida school system.
Speaker 2: Is adamant.
Speaker 1: That I history should never be forgotten, nor should it
Speaker 1: ever be erased. It builds alligated skin a level of
Speaker 1: intestinal forty two.
Speaker 2: For me personally, that level of insight.
Speaker 1: Strengthens my resolve because when I'm able to look at
Speaker 1: my ancestors and I'm able to say they had to
Speaker 1: overcome that, what the hell am I wanting and moaning
Speaker 1: about what I have to deal with now is nothing
Speaker 1: compared to what they have to deal with. And that, Sir,
Speaker 1: is what enables me to look at individuals on the
Speaker 1: content of their character.
Speaker 2: As a posed.
Speaker 1: To judging folks strictly by the color of their skin
Speaker 1: and castigating everyone collectively instead of car park instead of
Speaker 1: compartmentalizing and recognizing that's not the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: Just the thought for you all to consider. Coming up.
Speaker 1: The first round of the college football playoffs kicked off
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Steven Ate Smith Show. Now let's get
Speaker 1: some college football. With the first round of the newly
Speaker 1: formated playoffs kicked off this weekend, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: front I ain't happy about it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let y'all know that right now.
Speaker 1: Right take a look at the current bracket after the
Speaker 1: first round this weekend, Texas beat Clemson, Ohio State blue out,
Speaker 1: Tennessee beat him down, Penn State romped SMU, and know
Speaker 1: the Dame handled their business against Indiana. Now, the problem
Speaker 1: I have here is the automatic bids for.
Speaker 2: The conference champions.
Speaker 1: See, I gotta get my fan, Kirk Kurvetreet some props
Speaker 1: my colleague at ESPN College Football Game Day. Plus he did,
Speaker 1: he did, he called the game Ohio State that night
Speaker 1: as well, when they beat down Tennessee forty two to seventeen.
Speaker 1: Kirk Curveshet made a very very valid point with this.
Speaker 2: One of the things that we should.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate about this new twelve team college football playoff
Speaker 1: format is that I'm very happy it increased for four teams.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with the twelve teams.
Speaker 2: Here's the issue. An automatic top four bid goes to.
Speaker 1: College a conference champion who's ranked highest amongst the conference champions. Well,
Speaker 1: what if you're a conference champion, then you ranked tenth,
Speaker 1: why should.
Speaker 2: You have a top four seed.
Speaker 1: What if you ranked eighth, why should you have a
Speaker 1: top three or two seed. That shouldn't be the case,
Speaker 1: because what we have now is Ohio State beats out,
Speaker 1: beats down Tennessee, and now they got to go up
Speaker 1: against Oregon, who's the number one team in the nation,
Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals. Last time we saw them against each
Speaker 1: other in Oregon early in the.
Speaker 2: Season, they beat Ohio State thirty two to thirty one
Speaker 2: in the last minute of the game.
Speaker 1: Everybody was looking forward to that as a potential national
Speaker 1: championship matchup. If Ohio State had handled their business now
Speaker 1: I listen, I've been on the record, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I had to go at my buddy Kirk Curshet or Friendly.
Speaker 1: I love the God Dally, respect the hell out of
Speaker 1: him and Chris Fowler do a great job calling college
Speaker 1: football games.
Speaker 2: For ESPN and ABC.
Speaker 1: But I had to get at them because they misquoted me.
Speaker 1: They were talking about I wanted Ryan Day fired. That's
Speaker 1: not exactly what I said.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. They pulled a conservative media joint.
Speaker 1: From Fox News from Another Day, Okay, because that's something
Speaker 1: they did.
Speaker 2: Here's a deal.
Speaker 1: I said that Ryan Day, the head coach for the
Speaker 1: Ohio State Buckeyes.
Speaker 2: He can't get bounced out by Tennessee. He gotta lose
Speaker 2: his job. You can't lose four straight to Michigan.
Speaker 1: And then go and get beat by Tennessee in the
Speaker 1: first round and think you get to keep your job
Speaker 1: being at the Ohio State. He's sixty six now sixty
Speaker 1: seven to ten as a head coach.
Speaker 2: Here's a phenomenal record. We know he could coach his
Speaker 2: butt off. Here's the reality.
Speaker 1: Jim Tressel won there Urban Maya when the one there.
Speaker 1: When Ryan Day got the job, they haven't won a
Speaker 1: national championship, they haven't won the Big Ten since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and you got four straight losses to Michigan. When you
Speaker 1: get the Ohio State job, your job is two full
Speaker 1: beat Michigan and make sure you could beat for national championships.
Speaker 1: When you couple that with the fact that Ryan Day
Speaker 1: had a twenty million dollar roster twenty million ounds twenty
Speaker 1: million ounds, okay via nil, and you.
Speaker 2: Combine that with the fact.
Speaker 1: That eleven NFL caliber players that's what they said, returned
Speaker 1: to the squad for the twenty twenty fourth season.
Speaker 2: What possible excuse could you.
Speaker 1: Have not winning, not beating Michigan, not winning the Big
Speaker 1: Ten title, and.
Speaker 2: Not compete for national championship. We get anybody, coach all
Speaker 2: stand do that now. I want to be very clear.
Speaker 2: I've heard that Ryan Days had it rough.
Speaker 1: You got police outside his house, you got people threatening
Speaker 1: them and his family, You've got it don't look very good.
Speaker 1: I understand their rabbit fans that don't know how to
Speaker 1: act like they have some damn sense and it's gonna
Speaker 1: mess with people. So I got that part and I'm
Speaker 1: sensitive to that, all right, that that's something that I
Speaker 1: got tipped off about this this afternoon. I gotta understand,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be mindful of that. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is getting the job at the Ohio State comes
Speaker 1: with two primary responsibilities because you know they're gonna have
Speaker 1: the money, and you know they're gonna have to roster.
Speaker 2: You gotta beat Michigan at least some of the time.
Speaker 1: Can't losing them four straight years, and you got to
Speaker 1: compete for national title.
Speaker 2: So that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Well, they handled their business against Tennessee and that puts
Speaker 1: them in a position to lose to Oregon, and losing
Speaker 1: the Oregon ain't no shame in the number one ranked team
Speaker 1: in the nation. So we get that part in Ohio
Speaker 1: State has deemed a team that can beat them, so
Speaker 1: we get all of that.
Speaker 2: But in the end, SMU.
Speaker 1: Tennessee, Indiana, the way they got handled by Notre Dame
Speaker 1: kind of ruined the first year of the playoffs with
Speaker 1: some degree because getting back to what Kirk Herbstreet, my
Speaker 1: colleague at ESPN and ABC, had said, he was saying, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: forget who's most deserving, take the best.
Speaker 2: So if you know that Georgia and Alabama or Georgia
Speaker 2: is already in it.
Speaker 1: But Alabama, oh miss South Carolina is better.
Speaker 2: Than these other teams.
Speaker 1: Like a SMU or in Indiana, he's saying, Nah, come
Speaker 1: playoff time, we gotta pick the team that we know
Speaker 1: is the best.
Speaker 2: Now, that's a troubling situation for me.
Speaker 1: And here's why, y'all because in football, unlike basketball, you
Speaker 1: don't get to play everybody. You can only play the
Speaker 1: schedule that's in front of you. So I understand how
Speaker 1: unfair that could be. You Florida State, last year, you
Speaker 1: twelve or so and you don't get picked for the
Speaker 1: college football playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's unfortunate, U SMU.
Speaker 1: You were eleven and one this year and they had
Speaker 1: if they hadn't picked you, that would be unfortunate. But
Speaker 1: the eye test has to matter. And if we see
Speaker 1: a team that we just know, look they ain't better,
Speaker 1: we gotta pick the best teams for the college football playoffs, then.
Speaker 2: That's what the hell we gotta do.
Speaker 1: Because Indiana was listen, their coach talked a lot of
Speaker 1: smack on College Football Game Day Top twenty five. We
Speaker 1: don't just beat them, we kicked the ass. And then
Speaker 1: that night he went out and got his ass by
Speaker 1: no to Dame.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: We can't have, you know, the Georgias versus the TCUs
Speaker 1: for the national championship game. We can't have, you know,
Speaker 1: a team like Georgia who didn't make the playoffs last
Speaker 1: year going up against Florida State who also didn't make it,
Speaker 1: and Florida State don't set half their team to the
Speaker 1: bowl game and they get trounced sixty three to three.
Speaker 2: We can't have stuff like that in the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1: We can't have teams that we look at and we
Speaker 1: can see clearly they don't necessarily belong with the krim
Speaker 1: Dela crime from another conference. It's just that the other
Speaker 1: team that was a krem Dela crin from the other
Speaker 1: conferences to win.
Speaker 2: Their conference championship.
Speaker 1: They're playing the conference championship game, so they get to
Speaker 1: get punished. We gotta make sure that we got the
Speaker 1: best twelve teams in the nation, not the most desired, Okay,
Speaker 1: the best. We can't be shy about this, we just
Speaker 1: can't be.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Kirkhurve Street is absolutely right. You want the best teams
Speaker 1: in the nation in the damn conference and if all
Speaker 1: of them. Got to come from the big ten in
Speaker 1: the SEC, and you gotta peel one from the SEC
Speaker 1: or the.
Speaker 2: Or you know, the big twelve or something. So be it.
Speaker 2: You gotta do something.
Speaker 1: You can't have these rough riders, these dogs, watching inferior
Speaker 1: teams shoot for a national title when you know those
Speaker 1: teams can't shine their damn shoes. Got to pick the
Speaker 1: best teams. Gotta pick the best teams. Now, let's get
Speaker 1: to some quick hitters before I get to your tweets.
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels. That's quick hitter number one.
Speaker 1: Takes since the Washington DC where Daniels came up clutch
Speaker 1: for the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 2: Against the Philadelphia Eagles. The rookie quarterback snatch.
Speaker 1: Victory from the george of defeat late in the game
Speaker 1: with a nine yard touchdown pass the Jamison Crowder. The
Speaker 1: Commanders won thirty six thirty three, this white turning the
Speaker 1: ball over five times.
Speaker 2: Jadon Dais was the best player in football this weekend.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely sensational, but he got help by Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts catching a concussion because the Philadelphia Eagles were initially
Speaker 1: up twenty one to seven before they got outscored twenty
Speaker 1: nine to twelve. The rest of the way, I think
Speaker 1: if Jalen Hurts is in the lineup instead of Kenny Pickett,
Speaker 1: they moved the ball better. They make things happen, and
Speaker 1: as a result, Jayden Daniels in the Washington Commanders would't
Speaker 1: have been a position to win this game. But give
Speaker 1: them credit where credit is due. Daniels is that dude.
Speaker 1: He can ball.
Speaker 2: But I think the.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles would have been better if Jalen Hurts hadn't
Speaker 1: gotten hurt, and I don't think the Commanders would have
Speaker 1: won that game. We'll stay in the belt wait for
Speaker 1: a quick hitter number two. On Saturday night, I was
Speaker 1: on hand to watch Steelers fall to the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: thirty four to seventeen in Baltimore. By the way, I
Speaker 1: was a guest of Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who talked
Speaker 1: smack to me the entire damn gun. Can't believe a
Speaker 1: governor talk like that. I mean, look at this video
Speaker 1: right here.
Speaker 2: Man. The guy was torturing me. I mean he was
Speaker 2: torched me all Saturday afternoon. He was talking, Ravens gonna stop, y'all.
Speaker 2: We got this, and my goodness, this man was.
Speaker 1: This man was slapping high fives, kissing babies, doing all
Speaker 1: the things that a politician do.
Speaker 2: And in the midst of all of.
Speaker 1: That turned around the talks back to me about what
Speaker 1: the Ravens gonna do to the Steelers, and then Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and the Steelers let him do it.
Speaker 2: And Dryland look, and we got the things you ain't got.
Speaker 1: Name the para's um, we got Steep, the name that lasten,
Speaker 1: you know, Miss Maryland, missus Barlord.
Speaker 2: They just raising Tarl's ain't God, let's y'all, that's some trouble. Na.
Speaker 2: I love Farylyns, I love the gum, and I love
Speaker 2: the job, and they George. But that don't mean, y'all
Speaker 2: that's leaning, says Day. I'm gonna be clear about that, y'all.
Speaker 1: A little bit of Trump right now, Lamar Jackson, Larry
Speaker 1: send me, they got some detection.
Speaker 2: Let's go right, let's go range.
Speaker 1: First of all, that's a dedicated politician right there, because
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it was about five degrees out there.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. It's freezing. It's freezing. I ain't
Speaker 1: prepared for that kind of cold. No more, right, I
Speaker 1: like warm temperatures. I don't like to feel warm and
Speaker 1: cozy and cuddling inside, right, I ain't trying to be
Speaker 1: out there freezing, and it was cold as hell.
Speaker 2: Let us get that out the way.
Speaker 1: For he got on a baseball cap, you know, chilling.
Speaker 1: You understand he was beefed uping over he got on
Speaker 1: a baseball cap.
Speaker 2: Doing this thing. But I was very, very happy to
Speaker 2: spend time with the governor.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy that he's got a chance to
Speaker 1: be president in the twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Look at the job that he's doing in Maryland.
Speaker 1: Look at the job Brandon Scott, the mayor of Baltimore,
Speaker 1: is doing in Baltimore, Maryland. I can't say enough about
Speaker 1: them brothers. I spent time with both of them Saturday.
Speaker 1: It was an absolute honor and pleasure to be with
Speaker 1: the both of them. Even though the governor he really
Speaker 1: talks a lot of stuff. He really really darned me.
Speaker 1: This brother talked a lot of stuff. Steelers gotta get him,
Speaker 1: They gotta get him back. That damn Russell Wilson forver
Speaker 1: to the three yard line.
Speaker 2: Who I was ticked off?
Speaker 1: Okay, and they didn't have my man, George pickens out
Speaker 1: there that was problematic as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and Russell Wilson threw a pick six,
Speaker 2: let's not forget that.
Speaker 1: But in the end, the story was Lamar Jackson who
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers complete fifteen to twenty three passes, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and of course Derek Henry who ran all over Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: for one hundred.
Speaker 2: And seat y'all, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Baltimore's gonna win a AFC North because the Steelers have
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Bengals to close out the season.
Speaker 1: Baltimore has Houston and Cleveland, I mean Dan, and they
Speaker 1: got it good.
Speaker 2: They got a good. Let me get to my next
Speaker 2: one quick hit a number three.
Speaker 1: This takes us to social media and Travis Hunter for
Speaker 1: far more serious subject the dismand Trophy went to deactivated
Speaker 1: his Instagram account as online criticism continues about his relationship
Speaker 1: with his fiancee, Leanna Lenay. One notable post came from
Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys wide out Dez Grant in a sense
Speaker 1: deleted tweet, this is what Daz wrote.
Speaker 2: Quote, she talked all that shit about.
Speaker 1: You, saying she was going to address the situation once
Speaker 1: but kept talking about it. She loves the attention way
Speaker 1: more than you. She thinks she's an equal to you.
Speaker 1: I can tell you're a great dude, and I promise
Speaker 1: there's a woman out there who's going to make your
Speaker 1: life easy and respect you. From what I see, she
Speaker 1: has nothing to offer but a fucking headache.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: This is tricky, and this is not It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit more than a quick hitter.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Why Daz Bryant's heart is in the right place. Let's
Speaker 1: get that out the way. He's an older brother looking
Speaker 1: at a younger brother potentially in a dicey kind of situation,
Speaker 1: his future being bright on every major award you can imagine,
Speaker 1: including the Heisman, Sky's the Limit, future millions coming down
Speaker 1: the pike, and Dez, a former star football player for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, is simply looking at the brother and
Speaker 1: saying and doing what he can to help give him guidance.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to throw any shade on des Brian.
Speaker 1: His heart was in the right place, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that the situation doesn't require compassion. If I were
Speaker 1: Dez or me talking to Dez, hear what is what
Speaker 1: I would have preferred he did called her out respectfully
Speaker 1: by saying, where's the love? Stop thinking about just you
Speaker 1: and look out for him. You're choosing to be in
Speaker 1: the public eye because you're on social media. This brother
Speaker 1: is in a public eye because he plays on the
Speaker 1: football field as one of the elite performers out there
Speaker 1: in his career is about to take off.
Speaker 2: Look out for him.
Speaker 1: It's not to say that she did anything intentionally to
Speaker 1: go the other way. I don't believe that about Leana
Speaker 1: one second. And I don't want to hear anything about
Speaker 1: anything that she may have done years ago. And she
Speaker 1: said she's a young lady. Come on, y'all, you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. She ain't some seasoned, grown woman whose
Speaker 1: experienced in her life and you know, manipulating things.
Speaker 2: And she's a young lady.
Speaker 1: Mistakes happen, So I'm not here to criticize her, certainly
Speaker 1: not here to criticize Travis Hunter. I support Chador Sanders
Speaker 1: coming to the defense of his teammate, you know, and
Speaker 1: clapping back at everybody. This is Shador Sanders tweet. All
Speaker 1: y'all athletes entertained as artists, et cetera. If y'all genuinely
Speaker 1: trying to holler at trap y'all know how to get
Speaker 1: in touch with him or someone around At this point,
Speaker 1: y'all just posted for the algorithm trying to look cool.
Speaker 1: Shador Sanders is right, Travis Hunter plays for Primetime Deon Sanders.
Speaker 1: They're ain't an athlete or an entertainer in this country
Speaker 1: that don't know how to get in touch with Primetime
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders.
Speaker 2: And you could get to Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1: You don't have to sit up there and blast them
Speaker 1: out on social media.
Speaker 2: He's a young man.
Speaker 1: There's me, everybody else included. When we were there, what
Speaker 1: kind of mistakes did we make? What kind of mistakes
Speaker 1: will be prone to? Let's have some compassion when it
Speaker 1: comes to trying to look out. Our hearts are in
Speaker 1: the right place. Here's what I would tell you if
Speaker 1: you Travis.
Speaker 2: Hunter and Leanna Linney.
Speaker 1: I applaud the fact that you can't chase your social.
Speaker 2: Media accounts because you're not built for it.
Speaker 1: See, Travis Hunter can take criticism about his play on
Speaker 1: the football field. What he can't take is the cynicism
Speaker 1: throne in the direction of his lady, who's taking a
Speaker 1: lot of heat. She clearly can't take it because she
Speaker 1: was on social media about to break down and cry,
Speaker 1: and he can't take what she's experiencing. So the fact
Speaker 1: that y'all close down your social media account is a
Speaker 1: good thing, you know why, because it will remind you
Speaker 1: that you never needed to be on it to that
Speaker 1: degree in the first place. Your personal life is your
Speaker 1: personal life. Football is one thing, your personal life is another.
Speaker 1: And that applies to her too. You ain't got to
Speaker 1: have everybody know you. He knows you.
Speaker 2: You don't have to have everybody loving you. He loves you.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have everybody cared about you and
Speaker 1: your well being.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 1: And as long as y'all got each other and you
Speaker 1: keep your business to yourself, and people won't have much
Speaker 1: to say. And even if they did, it won't matter
Speaker 1: because they don't know because you didn't let him know.
Speaker 1: Please remember that, pretty please with sugar on top. One
Speaker 1: final quick hit, it takes us to Alaska, where President
Speaker 1: elect Donald Trump is expected to reverse a decision from
Speaker 1: President Obama to rename the Nali North America's tallest mountain.
Speaker 1: Trump says he'll restore the original name of Mount McKinley,
Speaker 1: named after the twenty fifth president, who was assassinated in
Speaker 1: nineteen oh one. Trump said, quote, they took his name
Speaker 1: off Mount McKinley.
Speaker 2: He was a great president. End quote.
Speaker 1: Former President Barack Obama renamed the mountain as Thenaley in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, siding with residents of Alaska after a decade's.
Speaker 2: Long name in battle.
Speaker 1: See this is another thing that bothers me about Trump.
Speaker 1: Why bother with something like this?
Speaker 2: Why so you really really care about the naming of
Speaker 2: a mountain? Donald Trump? Really?
Speaker 1: Now President McKinley, God rest his soul, like you pointed out,
Speaker 1: was assassinated. Reports said that he hadn't even visited Alaska.
Speaker 1: Why was he such a figure for Donald Trump? Because
Speaker 1: he was big on tariffs and tariffs given the US
Speaker 1: economy an economic boom?
Speaker 2: Could that be the reason why? If it is Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: say so.
Speaker 1: As opposed to it looking like you're just interested in
Speaker 1: doing anything to.
Speaker 2: Reverse that Barack Obama made.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama made that decision to rename that mountain because
Speaker 1: the citizens in Alaska wanted it that way, and he
Speaker 1: didn't see any harm in doing so, because they know
Speaker 1: their history better than anybody, and that's what they preferred.
Speaker 1: If you're going to change it back, great President, tell
Speaker 1: us why he was about tariffs.
Speaker 2: I'm about tariffs? Is that a reason to change the
Speaker 2: name of a mountain? I'm just asking.
Speaker 1: These are the kind of things I worry about with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, because any little thing.
Speaker 2: You're going at for what save your swings for the
Speaker 2: things that really, really, really matter. That's my suggestion. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at some of your tweets before
Speaker 1: I get on out of here.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go right here. Let's go right here with it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what you got at cats silliness. Right, stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith, what is your most favorite part about Christmas? I
Speaker 1: love if it's Christmas Day and it's snowing and the
Speaker 1: snow is coming down, the white snow is falling. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about once it lands in the street and
Speaker 1: cars driving by and white turns to brown.
Speaker 2: That's all nasty looking slush. I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about white snow descending from the clouds.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: I love Christmas Eve, the night before Christmas, when little
Speaker 1: kids are looking forward to waking up to open their
Speaker 1: presence and you're hearing the Christmas carols and the Christmas
Speaker 1: music and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Drinking some eggnog and all of that stuff. The spirit
Speaker 2: of Christmas touches me. I do like it.
Speaker 1: It's not being really celebratory for me at this stage
Speaker 1: of point in my life, cause I'm Santa Claus, so
Speaker 1: I'm the one buying everybody everything, you understand saying, So
Speaker 1: it gets on my damn last nervese because it invades
Speaker 1: my pockets and I'll be daying if it. Anybody's buying
Speaker 1: me a bunch of stuff. So I'm Santa Claus. I'm
Speaker 1: giving gifts, but I ain't getting any, Okay. So that's
Speaker 1: a problem. Okay, But in the end for the good
Speaker 1: of the kids, because Stevie A love the kids, he
Speaker 1: sure does. Certainly you like the Christmas carols, you like
Speaker 1: the Christmas spirit, like Christmas songs, so I'll go with that.
Speaker 1: Next up at abashe underscore writes, what was the best
Speaker 1: Christmas gift you ever received as a kid?
Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? I'm about twelve years.
Speaker 1: Old and my sister Linda was unemployed at the time.
Speaker 2: She got injured.
Speaker 1: She lost her job, so that was one Christmas she
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to actually go out and buy a bunch
Speaker 1: of gifts for people. But she went out and got
Speaker 1: her little baby brother a gift. Actually it was two gifts.
Speaker 1: Are y'all ready for this? Actually I'm fifty seven, so
Speaker 1: we talked about forty five years ago.
Speaker 2: She got me a box of Captain crunch cereal and
Speaker 2: some cheese doodos.
Speaker 1: That's what she got for me, and I've been eating
Speaker 1: them ever since all my life.
Speaker 2: You understand, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know if it was called crunchberries back then or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, but I had both and I never forgot that.
Speaker 1: Love your sis. Appreciate you. Next up what you got?
Speaker 1: This is the last one, hey, Stephen. And my wife
Speaker 1: wants her boyfriend to be in a family Christmas photo.
Speaker 1: But I told her, now, hold on, let me be
Speaker 1: he My wife wants her boyfriend.
Speaker 2: That's where you lost me. If she's your wife, what
Speaker 2: the hell is doing she's doing with a boyfriend. But
Speaker 2: I'll get back to that.
Speaker 1: My wife wants her boyfriend to be in a family
Speaker 1: Christmas photo, but I told her, no, I'm fine with
Speaker 1: her having a boyfriend, but him being in the family
Speaker 1: Christmas photo is where I draw the line. She got
Speaker 1: all upset and now she won't even talk to me.
Speaker 2: What's your thoughts? Why are you married? Why are you married?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where you're living, Utah or
Speaker 1: someplace like that. I don't know whether the polygamy is
Speaker 1: going well. I don't know what that was going on.
Speaker 1: But here's what I do know. She wants her boyfriend
Speaker 1: in a picture you don't, and rather than being sensitive
Speaker 1: to your feelings, she's pissed off that the boyfriend ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be in the family Christmas photo. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: she's so pissed off she won't even talk to you.
Speaker 2: You know what that means, right? That means she wants him,
Speaker 2: not you.
Speaker 1: What you should ask her is would she be as
Speaker 1: upset if you weren't in the picture and he was.
Speaker 1: That might solidify for you. Your wife has a boyfriend.
Speaker 1: That's enough solidification for your ass. But as I read
Speaker 1: this here, see this ain't a quick take. Let me
Speaker 1: educate the fellas about something I When a woman wants you,
Speaker 1: it's not enough that she wants you.
Speaker 2: You need to know why does she want you? Because
Speaker 2: you pay the bills?
Speaker 1: Okay, she's about security and safety, but it don't mean
Speaker 1: she wants you. It means she wants what you provide.
Speaker 1: Does a woman want you because you make her laugh?
Speaker 1: That's very important because when you can make a woman laugh,
Speaker 1: that has a profound impact. That's something that stays with her.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing when you're putting the damn right.
Speaker 1: Does she want you because of that? That matters too,
Speaker 1: because chances are and I'm just speculating.
Speaker 5: That last part that I just brought up, does what
Speaker 5: the boyfriend's doing instead of a husband, which is why
Speaker 5: she's mad at you and won't even talk to you,
Speaker 5: which is why I asked you, would she feel the
Speaker 5: same if.
Speaker 1: It were reversed and you weren't in the picture but
Speaker 1: he was. That's what you need to find out, my brother,
Speaker 1: You right here, You need to find out if she
Speaker 1: would be equally as upset if he were in the
Speaker 1: picture and you weren't. If the answer to that is no,
Speaker 1: she's with you for some other ancillary reason outside of
Speaker 1: passion and desire.
Speaker 2: Because this Steward right here, he handling that thoroughly.
Speaker 1: You feel me. You find out what the hell it
Speaker 1: is about him and whether or not you got it,
Speaker 1: and if she confirms it. You got to leave us
Speaker 1: because you don't mean much. If what I'm saying is true.
Speaker 1: That's from the heart to all men out there. And
Speaker 1: it ain't just about being wanted by your woman. It's
Speaker 1: about why she wants you. And if there isn't a
Speaker 1: passion and a desire.
Speaker 2: For you, leave.
Speaker 1: Because her days with you are gonna be numbered anyway.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter who gonna leave first. If it
Speaker 1: ain't you, this damn sure gonna be her.
Speaker 2: That's it for this addition to stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smithshaw, we gonna wave goodbye, and that one