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Speaker 1: into today. Lebron James, some politics, uh Gil's Arena meaning
Speaker 1: Gilbert Arena's podcast, and some things that Kenyon Mark Kenyon Martin,
Speaker 1: former NBA player from NBA stud has said about me.
Speaker 1: So I was one of them days. I gotta tackle
Speaker 1: a few of those issues. You know, That's what comes
Speaker 1: with it, I guess. So I'm here for it. Don't
Speaker 1: want to be, but I'm here for it. And uh
Speaker 1: I'll address all of those things. But before I get
Speaker 1: into any of today's topics, I want to quickly extend
Speaker 1: the heartfelt thank you to Bob Iger, the CEO of
Speaker 1: Walt Disney, Jimmy Pataro, chairman of ESPN, co chair of
Speaker 1: Walt Disney, for the latest news involving me, and that
Speaker 1: is that I've reached a lengthy contract extension with the
Speaker 1: worldwide leader ESPN and the wald this family. On a
Speaker 1: day like today, you just find yourself incredibly humbled. The
Speaker 1: years of the years, they're significant. The money obviously is significant.
Speaker 1: Regardless of what the reports say. They don't know the
Speaker 1: specifics and I'm not about to tell, but let's just
Speaker 1: say that I have no reason to be unhappy with
Speaker 1: the money that I'll be earning and in their future.
Speaker 1: And it's moments like that that you just take an
Speaker 1: opportunity to be humbled, recognizing that blessings like this don't
Speaker 1: come to everybody, but they've certainly come my way. And
Speaker 1: because it is I didn't do this alone. There's so
Speaker 1: many people that I have to think along the way.
Speaker 1: Of course, mister Barb Bieger, who's a great man and
Speaker 1: a great executive, and one of my biggest supporters, of
Speaker 1: course is Dana walden CoA chair of Disney, charge of
Speaker 1: all of entertainment and beyond. She's a superstar and she's
Speaker 1: been very supportive. Deborau Oconnells of the world running ABC
Speaker 1: News along with other things. Jimmy Pittaro of course running ESPN,
Speaker 1: Burke Magnus directly under him, of course, my man Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts as well. The negotiations were too damn long. I
Speaker 1: was not happy with the link of the negotiations. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that it gets very excruciating, and even
Speaker 1: though people may not feel that way, to get you
Speaker 1: for the price they want you at and for you
Speaker 1: to battle for the price you think you deserve, things
Speaker 1: get said, Feelings get hurt and all of that other stuff,
Speaker 1: and it can be very excruciating and damn it at times,
Speaker 1: it's something certain people can't come back from. But in
Speaker 1: the end, the deal is done, and particularly in my case,
Speaker 1: specifically with a baby, Dana Walden and Jimmy Pataro, I
Speaker 1: just can't. My gratitude knows no limits. I'm incredibly appreciative
Speaker 1: to them for the faith that they've shown in me,
Speaker 1: the belief they have in me as the face of
Speaker 1: ESPN and one of the preeventent faces of Walt Disney,
Speaker 1: and I'm just incredibly grateful, and i just want to
Speaker 1: say thank you to everybody, all my colleagues at ESPN,
Speaker 1: the contributors on First Take, Molly Carrom, who's the host
Speaker 1: of First Take, the matriarch of the show, all the producers,
Speaker 1: everybody behind the scenes. I'm not gonna go through all
Speaker 1: the producers, I mean all the contributors because I don't
Speaker 1: want to forget anybody's name, but they know who they are.
Speaker 1: On the NFL, on the basketball side, college football, and
Speaker 1: beyond its just I got a lot of love for
Speaker 1: a lot of people there and how I've been treated,
Speaker 1: how I've been supportive by them, Everybody was rooting for me.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted me to get paid. Everybody wanted me to
Speaker 1: capture what I was after, and on this particular platform,
Speaker 1: just so I don't have to repeat myself to a
Speaker 1: bunch of the masters. The money is more than fair,
Speaker 1: that's undeniable. But it's something very very important that I
Speaker 1: want people to understand. Anybody tells you it's not about
Speaker 1: the money, it's probably lying, because it's always about the
Speaker 1: money until you get at the very least your fear share,
Speaker 1: and then it's about other things. And somewhere along the way,
Speaker 1: I really really hope that some way people learn to
Speaker 1: believe me and know that I'm not a liar when
Speaker 1: I say that I aspire to do other things. I
Speaker 1: said I wanted to talk about pop culture and entertainment.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. I said that I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk politics. In case you haven't noticed, that's what I've
Speaker 1: been doing. I said, I wanted to own my own
Speaker 1: production company. That's what I'm doing. Hell, I said, I
Speaker 1: even wanted to engage in some acting. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I mean what I say, and I say what I mean,
Speaker 1: and this contract has afforded me the luxury of doing
Speaker 1: things that I was never allowed to do in my
Speaker 1: career without ESPN's permission. That's no longer a requirement, and
Speaker 1: that was the biggest thing that took this so long.
Speaker 1: And now that that's no longer the case, the world
Speaker 1: is officially my oyster. Because there are so many things
Speaker 1: that I'm interested in doing outside of the world of sports.
Speaker 1: I no longer have to seek permission in order for
Speaker 1: that to happen, and that is what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: In the midst of all of that, this podcast is
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. There are other opportunities coming down the
Speaker 1: pike in very short order that will be announced much
Speaker 1: sooner than later, and as a result, the future looks
Speaker 1: incredibly bright. On a day like today, I may look
Speaker 1: a bit melancholy, one would say, somewhat exhausted. It's been
Speaker 1: a long, long road, but I didn't get here alone,
Speaker 1: and where I'm planning on going, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get there alone either. My inner circle knows who they are,
Speaker 1: They know how much love I have for them and
Speaker 1: how much faith I place in them. I'm marching on
Speaker 1: and moving forward, but to do it while it's simultaneously
Speaker 1: remaining with ESPN. It's an incredible honor and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to thank all parties involved and let me i'd
Speaker 1: be remissing neglecting to pay an incredible level of thanks
Speaker 1: to the president of William Morris Endeavor, Mark Shapiro, the
Speaker 1: agency that represents me, my agent, John Rosen, and Visionary Management.
Speaker 1: He's exceptional. John Rosen is one of the best in
Speaker 1: the business. He did a hell of a job for me.
Speaker 1: And of course a dear friend, like a sister to me,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest lawyers on the planet Earth, the
Speaker 1: one and only johnnine Barnes. Y'all don't know them, just
Speaker 1: know that I know them, and I love the position
Speaker 1: and their impact in my life for these negotiations, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I just wanted to say that and leave
Speaker 1: it at that. We're marching on. We're marching forward. That's
Speaker 1: where we are. Before I get into my first subject
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Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a short night's work.
Speaker 1: Probably end up with less, that's the way to go.
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Speaker 1: knockout he suffered at the hands of Max Holloway, I
Speaker 1: don't know how any human being recovers for that from
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Speaker 1: Will he have more or less than sixty four and
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Speaker 1: Alex Barrell, Okay, might be less because he might knock
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Speaker 1: with more because he's just that gifted. So with that
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Speaker 1: more for Justin Gaechee and more for Alex Perea. We
Speaker 1: said more more than we said less. That's the way
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Speaker 1: let's get to a subject that's apparently gone viral on
Speaker 1: social media today and it also involves yours truly. Last night,
Speaker 1: I was in attendance at the Knicks Lakers game or
Speaker 1: sitting courtside where during a time out I believe it
Speaker 1: was in the third quarter, I was confronted by none
Speaker 1: other than Lebron James himself. Lebron has some choice words
Speaker 1: for me in regards to comments I've made prior about
Speaker 1: him in regards to his son, Bronnie James. Before I
Speaker 1: get any further, let me just put to bed a
Speaker 1: couple of things that have been reported that are false.
Speaker 1: People was talking about Lebron called me out my name
Speaker 1: or somebody else saw. Somebody said he called me a bitch,
Speaker 1: somebody said he called me a punk, and all this
Speaker 1: none of that is true. He was fiery. He approached
Speaker 1: me during the game and he said, stop effing with
Speaker 1: my son. That's my fing son. Stop effing with my son.
Speaker 1: I said, what nah nah nah man, straight up man
Speaker 1: the man real talk stop effing with my son. And
Speaker 1: I saw how furious he was, and I said, we
Speaker 1: can talk about like nah that f that stop effing
Speaker 1: with my son. That's my son, that's my son. I said,
Speaker 1: all right, though, fine, and he walked away. That's all
Speaker 1: he said. I knew what he was talking about. I've
Speaker 1: spoken about this before. Matter of fact, I heard that
Speaker 1: not many, not all, but a few players were upset
Speaker 1: at me about that. I think one Parrella player in
Speaker 1: particular was Draymond Green, who I haven't spoken to since
Speaker 1: and has no desire to speak to me, primarily because
Speaker 1: of this, I suppose. And I found out the way
Speaker 1: that I found out, which was last night while I
Speaker 1: was at the game. I was a guest of Ari Emmanuel,
Speaker 1: owner of William Morris, Endeavor found of William Morrison, Deavor
Speaker 1: rather found of Endeavor, I'm sorry, before they merged with
Speaker 1: William Morris, and I was a guest of his, sitting
Speaker 1: at the game with him and Larry David from Curb
Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm. I was sitting courtside and the next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, out of the blue, Lebron came in my
Speaker 1: face obviously, since he brought up his son. He was
Speaker 1: piggybacking off of what I had said weeks ago. And
Speaker 1: what I had said weeks ago is that when Bronni
Speaker 1: and James was struggling, and I threw out some stats
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I said, he's not ready
Speaker 1: and that I came on this podcast and I reiterated
Speaker 1: that point. Clearly. It was something that was on Lebron
Speaker 1: James mind that he was aching to confront me about.
Speaker 1: And so it happened the way that it happened. Now,
Speaker 1: before I get into anything else, let me say that
Speaker 1: Lebron's agent, who is Rich Paul his boy, has my number,
Speaker 1: Maverick Carter, who's universally respected and there's a big player
Speaker 1: in the industry these days. He has my number. It's
Speaker 1: very easy for Lebron James to have called me. It's
Speaker 1: very easy for one of them to have called me
Speaker 1: and to say, Lebron wants to see you, want to
Speaker 1: talk to you face to face, man, the man. That's
Speaker 1: not what happened last night at the Lakers game. Happened. Now,
Speaker 1: I get and people have said to me today that
Speaker 1: I'm looking pretty damn sad. I'll fess up, I am,
Speaker 1: because something like that is not something that should make
Speaker 1: any of us comfortable. I didn't anticipate it. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I didn't anticipate it, But I'm not here
Speaker 1: to blame Lebron James. That wasn't a basketball player talking
Speaker 1: to me last night. That was a dad. He rolled
Speaker 1: up on me as a father. That's what he did.
Speaker 1: That was not a basketball player talking to me. We
Speaker 1: talk about Lebron James all the time, practically everybody does.
Speaker 1: That's not what Lebron James does. So for him to
Speaker 1: confront me, obviously, it was something that he was incredibly
Speaker 1: passionate about, put off about, and felt necessary to confront
Speaker 1: me about. And what better motivation could there be than
Speaker 1: to be protective of his son. I understand it. I
Speaker 1: respect it as a parent. I'm a father two daughters,
Speaker 1: and in all honesty, I couldn't definitively tell you that
Speaker 1: if I were Lebron James, I would not have done
Speaker 1: the same thing. I would hope that I would not have.
Speaker 1: I would hope that I would have picked up the
Speaker 1: phone and caught the person instead, or got arranged to
Speaker 1: see that person to face instead, rather than walking up
Speaker 1: to me in the middle of a game court side.
Speaker 1: That was not the end of the game, that was
Speaker 1: not the beginning game. That was in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game that this happened. But that's what happened, and
Speaker 1: there's really not much you can do about it. I
Speaker 1: have a lot to say about it, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to address a couple of things. Number One, because I
Speaker 1: saw this tweet from Kevin Love he was responding to
Speaker 1: my tweet. My tweet was I had no intentions of
Speaker 1: talking about it. And the reason I had no intentions
Speaker 1: of talking about it is because that's what men do.
Speaker 1: You handle it privately if you can. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to address it as I tweeted here. I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: either had it not gone viral. But it did go
Speaker 1: on viral because when I got up, my social media
Speaker 1: person informed me that it was over fifteen million use
Speaker 1: and it had gone viral. It was number one. It
Speaker 1: was the number one sports story going. And regardless of
Speaker 1: everybody wanting to walk around acting like they don't have bosses,
Speaker 1: I don't deny the fact that I have bosses. I
Speaker 1: worked for ESPN, and ESPN called me this morning, said
Speaker 1: what you mean you ain't talking about it. You most
Speaker 1: certainly have to talk about it. This directly involves you
Speaker 1: and Lebron James is the biggest story in the country
Speaker 1: right now in sports. There's no way for you to
Speaker 1: escape it. Talk about it. You got your platform. Do
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. I said, fine, Well, when I
Speaker 1: tweeted out to let everybody know that I will be
Speaker 1: talking about it. Kevin Love, Lebron's former teammate in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: throws out this tweet. You have no choice laugh out
Speaker 1: loud because it went viral, laughs out loud. You didn't
Speaker 1: want to have to laugh out loud. You wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have laugh out loud. Hold that tweet up.
Speaker 1: Let's go over the list. And I like Kevin Love.
Speaker 1: I'm very fond of him, right, I have nothing negative
Speaker 1: to say. I have no choice because of what I
Speaker 1: just told you about my boss is Kevin, because it
Speaker 1: went viral. Kevin, which I just explained, I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: Why would I want to. I take no pleasure in
Speaker 1: something like this, And I guess it's the implication that
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have, you know, laugh out loud on
Speaker 1: all of those things. You see stuff like that dilutes
Speaker 1: the seriousness of the discussion. So let me explain this
Speaker 1: to Kevin Love in simplest terms. First Take has been
Speaker 1: the number one morning show for thirteen consecutive years, and
Speaker 1: on this particular morning, it's the day after I was
Speaker 1: in the news for a lucrative contract extent. So if
Speaker 1: I said that I didn't have any intentions of doing it,
Speaker 1: I don't have to lie, and I'm not starving for ratings.
Speaker 1: And respectfully, Kevin, you should know that I mean what
Speaker 1: I say. I don't have to lie, so I'll just
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Outside of that, feel free to
Speaker 1: support your boy. Let me go back to me and
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Ladies and gentlemen. Any alluding to Bronnie James
Speaker 1: in this is either accidental or just a reference point
Speaker 1: to articulate me and lebron James, because I'm not here
Speaker 1: to talk about Bronnie James. Bronnie James by all the
Speaker 1: count as a wonderful kid who went into the G
Speaker 1: League has been tearing it up and I personally think
Speaker 1: it's going to be an NBA player. You can't root
Speaker 1: against Bronnie James. He's a great kid. I've never met
Speaker 1: anybody that said otherwise. Okay, and I'm genuinely rooting for him.
Speaker 1: Having said that, at the time that I was talking
Speaker 1: about him and his stats in the aftermath of the
Speaker 1: Philly game, that's when things have gone Haywhy because that's
Speaker 1: when you start hearing that a few players don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to you, or folks felt you crossed the
Speaker 1: line or whatever. Here's what they thought I did that
Speaker 1: crossed the line by pointing out how he was struggling.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really talking about Brandy James that much. He's
Speaker 1: a rookie and I think that he'll just get better
Speaker 1: and better at being the NBA. It wasn't really about him.
Speaker 1: It was about Lebron And the reason why it was
Speaker 1: about Lebron was because the heat that Bronni was taking
Speaker 1: and the stories that were going viral. I was making
Speaker 1: the point he didn't have to be in this predicament.
Speaker 1: Three things could have happened. He could have got drafted
Speaker 1: by Golden State, he could have got drafted by the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, or he could have got drafted like he
Speaker 1: did by the Lakers. Open night Opening Night, have that
Speaker 1: moment with his dad, and then go to the G
Speaker 1: League and wreak havo wreck shot, and then come to
Speaker 1: the league after a year's experience in the G League.
Speaker 1: If any of those things did not happen, one surmised
Speaker 1: that it was because of Lebron James, in my mind,
Speaker 1: the second greatest players who have ever played the game
Speaker 1: of basketball, who was a basketball savant, and if we
Speaker 1: know that his son would struggling, then he knows. And
Speaker 1: what I was saying was I was focused on him.
Speaker 1: It was other people that was focused on Bronnie James.
Speaker 1: Show that Magic Johnson quote. Please, this is Magic Johnson
Speaker 1: at the time, Jimmy Kimmelive, it's September. If I'm Bronnie,
Speaker 1: I would tell my dad just let me play in
Speaker 1: the G League all season so that I can develop.
Speaker 1: He needs playing time. He doesn't need to be sitting
Speaker 1: on the lake of bench and not playing. That's not
Speaker 1: a knock against him. He's just not ready. That was
Speaker 1: irving Magic Johnson. There were other articles that were written
Speaker 1: as the season was progressing and people were talking and
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the kid, and I didn't want anything
Speaker 1: too negative to come his way. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Lebron James and saying, right, you had the moment, you
Speaker 1: don't need this because you remember, it's not just the
Speaker 1: Lebron's greatness that we're talking about. That can be somewhat burdensome,
Speaker 1: because when you're a son of arguably the greatest player
Speaker 1: who has ever lived in a lot of people's eyes,
Speaker 1: the expectations for you come with that. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: even just that. It was the quotes that was associated
Speaker 1: with Lebron James. It was Lebron James that said his
Speaker 1: son was better than some NBA players. It was Lebron
Speaker 1: James that told folks, don't even think about it. You
Speaker 1: want to draft, you want me draft my son. It
Speaker 1: ain't even about the money at this point. I'll go
Speaker 1: wherever he is for one year. It was Lebron that
Speaker 1: said those things, and so everybody knew that, and as
Speaker 1: a result, what I was saying was pointing out, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is what it is, and any kind of trouble
Speaker 1: he has, they're gonna pounce on him because of the
Speaker 1: things his dad said. So but the one thing that
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for last night is that when I was
Speaker 1: confronted by Lebron James about this subject, matter. He didn't
Speaker 1: give me an opportunity to say what I know that
Speaker 1: I would have said, and that was this. I wasn't
Speaker 1: talking really about your son. I was talking about you,
Speaker 1: because you know the league, you know people, you know.
Speaker 1: Narratives ain't always created by the media. It's created by
Speaker 1: people the media covers. So you must know what they
Speaker 1: were saying at the time. Nobody's been talking about Bronnie now,
Speaker 1: not for months, but at the time they were. You
Speaker 1: must know, and I was saying, that's you because of
Speaker 1: all the things that you did to make things happen
Speaker 1: in a way that deviated from a relatively merit based situation,
Speaker 1: which is the National Basketball Association. You're Lebron James. You
Speaker 1: are underpaid. You are Lebron James. You deserve more money
Speaker 1: than you're getting paid. You're Lebron James. Won't give a
Speaker 1: damn how much money they paid BRONI he could get it,
Speaker 1: he should get it for you, because, damn it, you
Speaker 1: should have gotten more because of what you've done for
Speaker 1: this league. You deserve all of this, but it's not
Speaker 1: gonna stop him from getting that heat. And when Lebron
Speaker 1: came at me the way that he did, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't on camera, if he didn't instigate something that people
Speaker 1: are allowed to take viral, if he had spoken to
Speaker 1: me man the man privately, I still wouldn't have talked
Speaker 1: about it. I don't violate that trust. I don't have
Speaker 1: private conversations and then they go public. I don't have
Speaker 1: people talk to me off the record and then I
Speaker 1: come on here on the record. Y'all can talk all
Speaker 1: of that. Smack all y'all want to whatever y'all nay say,
Speaker 1: whoever y'all nay says, are But I got thirty years
Speaker 1: in this business. My track record is proven. I don't
Speaker 1: betray trust. I don't do that. If I have a
Speaker 1: conversation with you, it's between us. That's the way it's
Speaker 1: going down. And if Lebron had done that, y'all still
Speaker 1: wouldn't know about this conversation, which obviously has people speculating
Speaker 1: because of the savant that he is and how brilliant
Speaker 1: of a marketer he is. Some would say a manipulator
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. They swear he knew exactly
Speaker 1: what he was doing, he knew the cameras were rolling,
Speaker 1: he knew that somebody would find him. It was a
Speaker 1: nationally televised game. It's Lebron James and he's rolling up
Speaker 1: to stephen A. Smith courtside. He had to know, That's
Speaker 1: what others are thinking. I'm not thinking about that. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about the fact that I'm incredibly sad that it
Speaker 1: had to happen. I'm incredibly sad that a father was
Speaker 1: looking in my face vehemently and defiantly hostily telling me
Speaker 1: to stop effing with his son when I was talking
Speaker 1: about him. That makes me sad, It really does. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you why I'm most sad because I
Speaker 1: wasn't wrong. I stand by what I reported. I stand
Speaker 1: by what I said at that time. What I expressed
Speaker 1: months ago is what I felt, which leads us to
Speaker 1: a far more expansive conversation, albeit a short one, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. I'm a professional journalist turned commentator pundit. There's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people with podcasts and shows out
Speaker 1: there who talk about the NBA. I covered the NBA.
Speaker 1: There's a difference and a position that I'm in. I
Speaker 1: don't get paid to talk to folks, I get paid
Speaker 1: to talk about them. I don't want any enemies. My
Speaker 1: life is good God has blessed me. I've been very
Speaker 1: blessed and fortunate. But I'm not here to make friends either.
Speaker 1: I have a job to do. See. The difference between
Speaker 1: this show and typical shows is that people do those
Speaker 1: shows hoping to get paid. I get paid to do
Speaker 1: those shows. It's different for me because there's years of
Speaker 1: work in the industry that preceded it. I've got people
Speaker 1: calling me Lebron shton that came up to you like that. Nah,
Speaker 1: that's wrong. It's very your professional. No, he knows better.
Speaker 1: This is what forget all that he did what he
Speaker 1: felt he needed to do for himself and his family.
Speaker 1: I have to respect that. It just doesn't make him
Speaker 1: right about the fact. The fact is Lebron James is
Speaker 1: a professional basketball player. So is his son. Lebron James
Speaker 1: is a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, so is
Speaker 1: his son. Lebron James has to get critiqued at the
Speaker 1: discretion of the media covering him play basketball, so does
Speaker 1: his son. He's a professional. This is not a conversation
Speaker 1: about family matters. This is not a conversation about what's
Speaker 1: going on in somebody's bedroom or somebody's backyard. This is
Speaker 1: not a conversation about what's going on. Secretly, this was
Speaker 1: me talking about the game of basketball. Under no circumstances
Speaker 1: do I want to throw any negativity in the way
Speaker 1: of Lebron James family and friends. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of them, all wonderful, and I sincerely apologize for any
Speaker 1: kind of pain or angst I caused them, not Lebron.
Speaker 1: Lebron is a part of the job and by virtue
Speaker 1: of these decisions that he made, so are his teammates,
Speaker 1: one of them happening to be his son. Now I
Speaker 1: understand that that RB was a lot of people the
Speaker 1: wrong way. Okay, when I think about somebody like Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: and I've kept my mouth shut about this for a while,
Speaker 1: but without getting into too many details, Draymond Green has
Speaker 1: felt the need to go to other people to say
Speaker 1: how he's felt about how he feels about me, and
Speaker 1: I got mad love for Draymond. Draymond is a good
Speaker 1: brother that quite frankly, I've always tried to be good too,
Speaker 1: and this shift and his feelings about me, I got it.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna get to a bigger level. You see.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that I had so many great
Speaker 1: relationships in a world of sports over the years is
Speaker 1: because if Kats had a problem, they caught me. Silly me.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that if you get along with people and
Speaker 1: you talk with them, if they have an issue with you,
Speaker 1: at least they'd call you and confront you, man the
Speaker 1: man before something's resolved. I'm talking about Draymond here, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about Lebron. The reason I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: Lebron is because, excuse my language, Lebron and I don't
Speaker 1: really fuck with each other. It's been primarily been high
Speaker 1: and by for more than a decade, and I'm fine
Speaker 1: with it, and so is she, and so is he. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the relationship with me and Draymond. That
Speaker 1: wasn't the relationship with me and quite a few cats.
Speaker 1: And one of the biggest reasons that I loved the
Speaker 1: kind of relationship that we had is because I always
Speaker 1: got the impression, Yo, if they got an issue with you,
Speaker 1: they'll call you. You talk it as men, and if
Speaker 1: you disagree, you part ways. Even if you part ways
Speaker 1: not speaking one another, or you can be agreeable, or
Speaker 1: you can agree to disagree. It could be a boatload
Speaker 1: of things. But the blind sidedness of it all is
Speaker 1: what throws me off, because you see, if I got
Speaker 1: a problem with somebody, I'm not hard to find. You
Speaker 1: called me, I'm gonna pick up the phone. You want
Speaker 1: to come, you want to see me, I'm gonna rap
Speaker 1: to you, and we can hash it out and we'll
Speaker 1: reach a resolution, or we don't. That's not what's happening,
Speaker 1: and so it is what it is. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it had to be that way. I'm sorry the
Speaker 1: look of it all. But I was sitting courtside, mind
Speaker 1: of my damn business, watching my next try to beat
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I didn't know that the greatest player of
Speaker 1: this generation was gonna walk in my face the way
Speaker 1: that he did. But that's what happened. So I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand it, and I wanted to defend Lebron on
Speaker 1: this point. That was a dad talking to me. That
Speaker 1: was not some basketball player that was just pissed off.
Speaker 1: That was a father, And I'm sensitive to that because
Speaker 1: I'm a dad, and if I had a son and
Speaker 1: I felt like somebody have brought negativity to their world,
Speaker 1: I can't say I wouldn't have reacted the way Lebron
Speaker 1: James did. I don't think I would have, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, but I want to emphasize
Speaker 1: I wasn't really concerned about Bronnie. I think Brianni's gonna
Speaker 1: be an NBA player. I think he's got potential, and
Speaker 1: what he was doing in the G League, I think
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of promise. And I just interviewed
Speaker 1: Genie bus right on this podcast. She was raving about him,
Speaker 1: and they wanted him to be a part of the
Speaker 1: Lakers organization for a long time. That's where it starts.
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm root for this kid. I wish
Speaker 1: him nothing but the best. My issue was with what
Speaker 1: he is going through. Nobody best knows how to alleviate
Speaker 1: the problem at the time, and nobody had the power
Speaker 1: at the time as well to alleviate it, more so
Speaker 1: than Lebron James. And I was simply suggesting that he
Speaker 1: alleviate that problem. I didn't know what would be taken
Speaker 1: as I'm coming after his son, because that is not
Speaker 1: what I was doing. That is not the intent that
Speaker 1: I wanted to put out there. So I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm also sorry that this all had to
Speaker 1: happen on a day my new contract extension was announced.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is, So that's all I
Speaker 1: can say about that. That's all I have to say
Speaker 1: about that. Lebron's entitled to his feelings, but I'm also
Speaker 1: entitled to mine. I cover the sport. I did not
Speaker 1: get personal. I talk about players every day. I talk
Speaker 1: about teams every day. I talk about organizations every day.
Speaker 1: I talk about news items every day. I talk about
Speaker 1: it all. It's my job and that's what I did.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Elon Musk wants Derek Chauvin, the police officer
Speaker 1: convicted and the murder of George Floyd, remember him. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk wants this man pardoned. But first, Lebron James is
Speaker 1: the only person who has a problem with me. Former
Speaker 1: NBA star Kenyon Martin has some choice words for you,
Speaker 1: boy as well. HiT's just keep on coming, huh. I
Speaker 1: can take it more to stephen A. Smith Show up next.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Stephen A. Smith Show. I've been called
Speaker 1: out again, this time by my boys over at Gil's Arena.
Speaker 1: I'm playing around. I'm cool with Gilbert. I don't really
Speaker 1: know the other two that well. From man gilbert Arena's
Speaker 1: appeared on My show First Take earlier this week on
Speaker 1: the ESPN, and Kenyon Martin and company were wondering about
Speaker 1: a few things, mainly when I'll be on this show
Speaker 1: as promised. Take a listen to this, please, So what
Speaker 1: happened to him?
Speaker 2: Is supposed to come here?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a very good question.
Speaker 2: He came on this. We saw it with all our eyes.
Speaker 2: We we sit here and watched him. Larry right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pull up. I'm busy. I believe you said a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. It has been one hundred and thirty day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thirty day, like a half a year, damn there since but.
Speaker 3: He said he was coming through one hundred.
Speaker 1: I'm just think I'm just trying to wonder what. Yes,
Speaker 1: I thought he should have lived here.
Speaker 2: I guess he lives in New York, does the show
Speaker 2: there and comes here once.
Speaker 1: In the blue moon. So he was here in the city.
Speaker 1: He was here, But he was here Thursday night.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't well listen, we would have made time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we gotta probably pre record. You know, we
Speaker 1: just come to New York under North.
Speaker 2: It would have been late.
Speaker 1: He would have been the late night edition. You want
Speaker 1: to come here, So it's either got a pre record
Speaker 1: or with the kids. When he is here on a
Speaker 1: Monday through Thursday, it.
Speaker 3: Would have been to put the kids to bed edition.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's all good man. So it's almost like it
Speaker 1: has to be a Friday show.
Speaker 3: So we gotta make us. We gotta make We got
Speaker 3: to make.
Speaker 1: Now because they filmed the end at nine, So trying
Speaker 1: to get here by that time.
Speaker 3: We shoot money through. We shoot money them thirty to
Speaker 3: make time.
Speaker 1: Is that ready?
Speaker 3: You made time to go? When his ass is on
Speaker 3: the right, he can make time. We on there to
Speaker 3: bring his ass on the show. When we all make
Speaker 3: notions for this ain't special, not on this show. Was
Speaker 3: that old saying when I blow up you.
Speaker 1: Boom, I ain't gonna I'm not I'm not gonna front.
Speaker 1: That was funny. That was funny. Message to Kenyan Martin
Speaker 1: he played in the league fifteen years. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see you for you to show me this time.
Speaker 1: We had some kind of problem with each other because
Speaker 1: I've always thought you were a stud when you were
Speaker 1: playing in the n b A. I mean, what the
Speaker 1: hell you was one of the elite defensive players going
Speaker 1: on the reason you earned over one hundred million in
Speaker 1: your career and fort these damn exorbitant contracts were being signed.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about with that so
Speaker 1: I can't wait. My brother, have you seen the news?
Speaker 1: I said, I have business to handle. My negotiations took
Speaker 1: a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy period of time, and I did
Speaker 1: not want to come on to the show, as I
Speaker 1: had told Gilbert until matters were resolved. The matter is
Speaker 1: now resolved. I have numerous people who have wanted me
Speaker 1: to come on their podcast, and I have told them
Speaker 1: weight because I gotta do Gil's arena first with you,
Speaker 1: with Rashard Nick with Gil. I don't break my word, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm coming next week. I'll be calling Gilbert Arenas tonight
Speaker 1: or tomorrow. I'm gonna find out what the schedule is,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to come on sometime next week. Wednesday
Speaker 1: and Thursday. I gotta tape General Hospital. That take General Hospital, brother,
Speaker 1: do my soap opera thing. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I got tape those I got taped some scenes. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the likelihood of me doing it one of those
Speaker 1: days is slim because that's late late night. If I
Speaker 1: was able to do it, because I got tape stuff
Speaker 1: for General Hospital, and we got Friday NBA stuff Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna find a way. I will be calling
Speaker 1: Gil just like I text him yesterday and let him
Speaker 1: know I'm coming on. Okay, so literally the next week
Speaker 1: to ten days, Max, I'm coming. I'm trying to come
Speaker 1: this week because I got a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: do down line. But I got to keep my word.
Speaker 1: I don't mind you calling me out on that because
Speaker 1: I did promise. But I told you I was busy.
Speaker 1: I just didn't tell you why. I had to get
Speaker 1: all of this stuff done, which I've done. So now
Speaker 1: that that is done, the world can expect to see
Speaker 1: me in the house. And you remember what Kenya Martin said, Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll make time. You got to put the kids to bed,
Speaker 1: all this stuf. We don't give it down with it
Speaker 1: late night, early whatever. We'll make time for him. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm making time for you two. I'm coming on Gill's
Speaker 1: arena for no other reason more so than the fact
Speaker 1: that I gave you my word. I will be there.
Speaker 1: I'm aiming for next week. Just so we're clear, okay,
Speaker 1: just so you know, so ain't no hiccups, there's no questions,
Speaker 1: there's no anything, just so you know. Just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure everybody know that. But Kenya mart was right
Speaker 1: from the standpoint when he come in here, when you
Speaker 1: come If I was in Kenya, Martin sy I'd have
Speaker 1: ask the same damn question. He was not wrong. If
Speaker 1: I was in Richard mcanty, I would ask the same
Speaker 1: damn question. They have a right, especially since Gil showed
Speaker 1: up on first take. That is more than fair. I'm
Speaker 1: just letting you know I was waiting. Contract was agreed
Speaker 1: to twenty four hours ago, and I'm about to call
Speaker 1: Gil let him coming on. So I just want you
Speaker 1: to know that, all right, I'll be there, Make no mistake,
Speaker 1: I'll be there. Next subject, gonna give back to some
Speaker 1: sports media talk where Charles Barkley's taking exception to the
Speaker 1: amount of time ESPN spend's talking about the Lakers, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: and the Jordan versus Lebron debate. Here's what Barkley had
Speaker 1: to say on Inside the NBA last night. Check this out, y'all.
Speaker 1: The Lakers are having a great two weeks. Kendrick Perkins said,
Speaker 1: the Lakers saved the NBA season. That's all them fools
Speaker 1: on the other network, which we're going to be working
Speaker 1: for next year, that's all they talk about. Let me
Speaker 1: tell y'all something I want all the smoke between that
Speaker 1: and this lame ass Lebron Michael Jordan debate. I've said
Speaker 1: for years, the only people who talk about Lebron and
Speaker 1: Michael it's people on television who got no talent to
Speaker 1: talk about anything else. End quote. First of all, couple
Speaker 1: of things. My man Kendrick Perkins was pretty upset at
Speaker 1: the way Charles Barkley was talking about him. Kendrick stopped.
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley talks about everybody like this. If you get
Speaker 1: around Barkley for more than twenty four hours, he's gonna
Speaker 1: call you a fool or an idiot about something. That's
Speaker 1: number one, He means no harm. There's only one person
Speaker 1: in media, Charles Barkley hates it. We all know who
Speaker 1: that is. Okay, you used to work at ESPN, anyone
Speaker 1: over the five. Everybody knows who he is, Okay. Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley can't stand skipped Bagler's that's it. That's the only
Speaker 1: person outside of that. Everybody else he just says, you know,
Speaker 1: you're idiot, You're fool. If he don't like something you
Speaker 1: did in the moment, that's all it is. Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: is one of the best people you could ever meet
Speaker 1: in your life. He's a beautiful person. He don't got
Speaker 1: an evil bone in his body. That's not who he is. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's number one. Number two, Charles Barkley is on
Speaker 1: television knowing't television is something he leaves to Ernie as
Speaker 1: in the Great Ernie Johnson chs Waker, Ain't got time
Speaker 1: for that. Why do I bring that up? Because subject
Speaker 1: matters as a pretends to what you're talking about on television.
Speaker 1: You ever heard of Nielsen ratings. People pay attention to
Speaker 1: the stuff that they want to pay attention to. They
Speaker 1: turn the channel when you talk about stuff they don't
Speaker 1: care to hear about. I got news for TNT right now,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley. Spend ten to fifteen minutes talking about Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: the number one team in the West. Spend the same
Speaker 1: amount of time talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then
Speaker 1: take a look at your ratings. If you ain't mentioned
Speaker 1: in Boston, ain't mentioned in New York, you ain't mentioned
Speaker 1: in LA you ain't mentioned in Lebron. You ain't mentioning Steph.
Speaker 1: You're not mentioning Jimmy Butler with Steph. You're not mentioning
Speaker 1: Luka doncik with Lebron, you're not doing any of those things.
Speaker 1: Watch Wig get you ratings matter, I would know. I've
Speaker 1: been blessed and fortunate enough to win at them for
Speaker 1: the last thirteen years now. I'm not an Emmy Award
Speaker 1: winning show like Inside the NBA. But once again, Ernie
Speaker 1: handles a lot of that stuff. Those guys know their
Speaker 1: basketball and they come on to talk basketball. But in
Speaker 1: terms of the subject matters to be tackled, you pay
Speaker 1: attention to what resonates with the audience and also what
Speaker 1: games you're featuring. Charles Barkley is the same person that says,
Speaker 1: literally working for the network, I don't know why the
Speaker 1: hell anybody will watch this game if it's a particular
Speaker 1: game he's discussed by, I don't know why anybody would
Speaker 1: pay attention to this subject that subject because he's talking,
Speaker 1: so everybody just relaxed. That's not who Charles Barkley is.
Speaker 1: But to get to a deeper point, when he brings
Speaker 1: up ESPN, ESPN is a twenty four to seven network.
Speaker 1: We ain't playing NBA games, airing NBA games and airing
Speaker 1: a half hour pregame show and then an hour long
Speaker 1: postgame show. And then before and after you got Law
Speaker 1: and Order episodes. That's not what we do at ESPN.
Speaker 1: We are twenty four to seven Sports network. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna find yourself talking about things, even regurgitating things, getting
Speaker 1: into stuff, talking about things, giving people ideas about narratives
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. Why because the kind of
Speaker 1: thing people think about it happens. And by the way,
Speaker 1: while Charles Barkley was going off and calling us fools
Speaker 1: at ESPN, he acknowledged that he was about to be
Speaker 1: a fool because they're about to be over here. And
Speaker 1: what you think Charles Barkey gonna be doing and what
Speaker 1: kind of narratives you think he's gonna be creating. Charles
Speaker 1: Walker ain't never created any narrative. Charles Walker ain't never
Speaker 1: opened his mouth and said yo, blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: that ended up being a story the next day, didn't
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley? You thought I got called out by Lebron?
Speaker 1: Did you see what Lebron did with Charles Barkley years ago?
Speaker 1: And Charles Barkley had to address it by saying he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna get personal. It happens. How many people in
Speaker 1: shock got into it with it happens. It all contributes
Speaker 1: the great television, and the best part about it is
Speaker 1: that it's not manufactured. It's what really our people are
Speaker 1: thinking about and talking about and what's on their collective minds.
Speaker 1: It just so happens to be manufactured in a good television.
Speaker 1: Where's the crime? Barkley's gonna go off about that. He
Speaker 1: was disgusted that Big Perk said the Lakers have saved
Speaker 1: the NBA. I didn't agree with perks take, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it should be summarily dismissed. You're trying to
Speaker 1: tell me that Luka Dancik being in the second largest
Speaker 1: market in the United States playing for maybe the second
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest sports franchise in NBA history, in the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. You're trying to tell me that's not
Speaker 1: a good angle. You're trying to tell me that Luca
Speaker 1: and the Lakers potentially making a championship run isn't a
Speaker 1: relevant storyline. Is that what you're trying to tell tell me,
Speaker 1: of course it is. Of course it matters, that's how
Speaker 1: it goes. Now, that doesn't mean Cleveland is not a
Speaker 1: great story. It doesn't mean Oklahoma City is not a
Speaker 1: great story. Let me tell you something, right now, Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and Cleveland in the regular season maybe has been the
Speaker 1: best game of the year. That was a phenomenal game,
Speaker 1: and if they were to meet each other in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, it would be phenomenal. But you're trying to
Speaker 1: tell me people don't want that, or people do want
Speaker 1: that more than they want Boston versus La. How about
Speaker 1: LA going up against Cleveland, when Lebron going up against
Speaker 1: his old franchise in an effort to try and capture
Speaker 1: an NBA championship, which would give him five, which would
Speaker 1: tie him with Kobe Bryant, which would make people say
Speaker 1: there's nothing to discuss. Because he won a championship at
Speaker 1: the age of forty, he is officially the goat over
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. You're trying to tell me that nobody would
Speaker 1: care about those storylines. Maybe Barkley would say they don't,
Speaker 1: but that's because he does television as opposed to actually
Speaker 1: knowing it, meaning knowing what storylines resonate on a day
Speaker 1: to day. Basically, I'm not taking a shot of them.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you the brothers preoccupied. It's got golf's
Speaker 1: got gambles, got a whole bunch of stuff that he
Speaker 1: loves to do. He lives his best life. So my brother,
Speaker 1: I love Charles Barkley, love him to death. And guess what,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprised me at all. If tomorrow on TV
Speaker 1: I'm the idiot, or Tuesday or whenever he's back on,
Speaker 1: because he ain't working every day. That's not what he does.
Speaker 1: And he'll tell you the heartbeat, that fool. And I'll
Speaker 1: laugh because I love him, because I know he means
Speaker 1: no harm. He's just expressing an opinion. Everybody need to
Speaker 1: calm down. Everybody needs to calm down. Coming up, a
Speaker 1: conservative commentator calls for the police officer who killed George
Speaker 1: Floyd to be pardoned, and Elon Musk writes that it's
Speaker 1: something to consider that. And you saw what happened when
Speaker 1: Trump addressed both houses of Congress. It's past Tuesday, didn't you.
Speaker 1: I know? I saw it all in that and more
Speaker 1: coming up next. You're listening to the Steven A. Smith
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Speaker 1: Steph Nate Smith Show. I want to get into the
Speaker 1: comments made by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro who publicly call
Speaker 1: for President Trump to part and former Minneapolis Police officer
Speaker 1: officer Derek Chauvin for the twenty twenty murder of mister
Speaker 1: George Floyd. For those of you who didn't hear the sound,
Speaker 1: I'll play it for you. Tike a listen.
Speaker 4: If we are issuing pardons, however, there is one person
Speaker 4: that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith. It
Speaker 4: would be incredibly controversial, but I think that it's absolutely necessary.
Speaker 4: That person is Derek Chauvin. President Trump should, in fact
Speaker 4: pardon Derek Schauvin. He should, He should pardon him his
Speaker 4: federal charges. There is a man who was rotting in
Speaker 4: prison because the media decided in the middle of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty that they were going to turn a tragic law
Speaker 4: enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man
Speaker 4: had a significant problem with drugs and pre existing health
Speaker 4: problems into the rai'sal debt of the entire twenty twenty election,
Speaker 4: and it led to vast chaos. It led to again
Speaker 4: the destruction of racial comedy in the United states to
Speaker 4: billion dollars in property amage and a guy rotting in
Speaker 4: prison who the evidence demonstrates certainly was not guilty beyond
Speaker 4: a reasonable doubt in that case.
Speaker 1: Among those reacting to that sound is Elon Musk, the
Speaker 1: billionaire advisor to President Trump primarily overdoge a department of
Speaker 1: government efficiency, remember him. Musk, who owns X reposted the
Speaker 1: sound with the quote something to think about end quote.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, Ben Shapiro. Let me ask you,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Are you just saying that you just don't
Speaker 1: want black people voting for you at all? Better yet,
Speaker 1: are you saying you don't give a damn about black people?
Speaker 1: I mean, why why wiggle around it? Why don't you
Speaker 1: just say it? Why don't you just say it? Elon Musk?
Speaker 1: What the hell do you mean? There's something to think about,
Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro, Of all the people in the world that
Speaker 1: you could have asked for a pardon four of all
Speaker 1: the people in the world, Ben Shapiro. Derek shov is
Speaker 1: the guy, a white police officer who cuffed George Floyd,
Speaker 1: took his knee, put it on his neck, kept it
Speaker 1: there for over nine minutes as George Floyd was crying
Speaker 1: and whimpering for his mama, as people were taking photos
Speaker 1: and video, as he was telling you he couldn't breathe,
Speaker 1: and you still kept your knee on his neck for
Speaker 1: over nine minutes. And of all the people, being Shapiro,
Speaker 1: that you could have come up with to say he
Speaker 1: should receive a part, and that's the person that came
Speaker 1: to your mind. Why I'll ask you another question, Ben Shapiro.
Speaker 1: You know you brought up you know, drug use, you
Speaker 1: brought up a criminal record. If I remember correctly, I
Speaker 1: think that's what you said, right right, right right, Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: This simple question, respectfully, sir, would you have taken that
Speaker 1: position of George Floyd was a Jewish person, a white
Speaker 1: Jewish person. If a black cop.
Speaker 5: Had his knee on a white Jewish person for over
Speaker 5: nine minutes, Ben Shapiro, would you have called for that
Speaker 5: individual to be part of.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking it's a rhetorical question because you know
Speaker 1: what I believe the answer to be is right, that's
Speaker 1: a website for the petition right there. How low can
Speaker 1: you go? You see, this is the problem, and this
Speaker 1: is where the Republicans are going to mess up. You
Speaker 1: see because even though Trump's approval ratings have dipped from
Speaker 1: weeks ago when he was first reelected, the bottom line
Speaker 1: is he's the president. He's got the House, he's got
Speaker 1: the Senate, he's got a six to three majority in
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. He's been handed down executive orders as
Speaker 1: handed out executive orders like bags of skittles. He's got
Speaker 1: a whole lot going for him. The Republicans are in
Speaker 1: a position where all you have to do is live
Speaker 1: up to what you say, Donald Trump, Remember you said
Speaker 1: in twenty to fifteen, why do you have to lose?
Speaker 1: Remember that? Remember you talked about the black vote, the
Speaker 1: Hispanic vote, and how you would do for other communities
Speaker 1: outside of white nationalists and other white folks who's not
Speaker 1: a member of white nationalist parties and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Remember that, didn't your numbers increase with blacks,
Speaker 1: didn't your numbers increase with Latinos? Didn't your numbers increased
Speaker 1: with the young voters? Think about what you got to do, Republicans.
Speaker 1: All you got to do address the economy, dress inflation,
Speaker 1: address the border, address deportation, by the way, because you
Speaker 1: got to get those folks out that were in here
Speaker 1: as well, and how you're gonna do that. Address crimes
Speaker 1: in the streets of America. Make sure folks got jobs,
Speaker 1: make sure folks are safe. It's all you got to do.
Speaker 1: Here's a few other things that you gotta do. It's
Speaker 1: not a laundry list, it's just a few. Avoid saying
Speaker 1: ridiculous nonsense like Ben Shapiro just said. Avoid making suggestions
Speaker 1: like that. Avoid your head of Doze, whose power has
Speaker 1: dissipated according to reports. By the way, avoid him retweeting
Speaker 1: stuff like that or reposting stuff like that. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna learn. Yes, you may want certain things, Yes,
Speaker 1: you may want your quality of life to be a
Speaker 1: certain way. This is not a quality of life issue,
Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro. This is a quality of life issue. Coming
Speaker 1: to the defense of a cop whose knee was on
Speaker 1: a black man's neck for over nine minutes, that is
Speaker 1: what you want to condone. That is what you want
Speaker 1: to let out of jail. That is what you want
Speaker 1: to fall on your sword for. Would you do it
Speaker 1: if he? Would you do it if a white Jewish
Speaker 1: person had a knee on their neck for nine and
Speaker 1: a half minutes and it was a black cop that
Speaker 1: did it. I mean Damn Ben Shapiro, Damn. See, you
Speaker 1: could all get politics all day. I've seen you before.
Speaker 1: You're quite bright, very very smart, and your issues or
Speaker 1: your issues, whatever they may be. And I get that part.
Speaker 1: But to do something like this, to say something, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing along the lines where you run De
Speaker 1: Santus by all accounts, prior to him running for the
Speaker 1: presidency and absolutely fabulous governor in the eyes of some people.
Speaker 1: Clearly there was a mandate in Florida when he won
Speaker 1: the midterms. There was no red wave in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: but there was certainly a red wave through Florida, one
Speaker 1: by landslide. And what does he do. He wants to
Speaker 1: come out and give an explanation about the good benefits
Speaker 1: of slavery. That's what he wanted to do. This is
Speaker 1: the shit the Republican Party does. That just boggles my mind.
Speaker 1: Everything's slowing. You got the Democrats on their heels. You
Speaker 1: got Kamala Harris out of the presidential picture, contemplating running
Speaker 1: for the governor's seat in California. A decision that's made
Speaker 1: is expected to be made by the end of the summer.
Speaker 1: She is out in a lot of people's eyes. She
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be a part of the national spotlight in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, so she's got to go for the
Speaker 1: governor seat in California if she wants to sustain or
Speaker 1: build upon her political career. Gavin Newsom's running throwing podcasts
Speaker 1: now talking to Republicans. Okay, if you can believe that,
Speaker 1: you got the Democrats showing up for Trump's address to
Speaker 1: both Houses of Conqress looking like damn fools having videos
Speaker 1: with they dancing, You got to be kidding me. Putting
Speaker 1: twenty two people on the screen at the same time,
Speaker 1: same man is saying the same damn thing, as if
Speaker 1: that resident that message is gonna resonate. Got a representative
Speaker 1: like Al Green out of Texas, seventy seven years old,
Speaker 1: obviously has fought the good fight, but looking incredibly immature
Speaker 1: and undisciplined, wouldn't even give Trump a chance to speak,
Speaker 1: and he had to get removed from the House. And
Speaker 1: then yesterday ten Democrats joined with House Republicans to censure
Speaker 1: Al Green from Texas for his protest during President Trump's
Speaker 1: addressed the Congress Tuesday night. Trump didn't even have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to pass gas and this man standing up protesting brothers.
Speaker 1: What he wasn't the election. I'm on the view and
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of ladies who I love and
Speaker 1: I respect coming up to talking to me on the show,
Speaker 1: talking about there's no mandate. Courtesy of Joy Bayhart. What mandate?
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris lost all the swing states. There was an
Speaker 1: increase with black voters, Latino voters, and young voters.
Speaker 3: He won a.
Speaker 1: Popular vote, he won the electoral college vote. Eighty nine
Speaker 1: percent of the counties in the United States switched to Republican.
Speaker 1: But there's no mandate, and you're gonna get up at
Speaker 1: seventy seven years of age, why don't you just tell
Speaker 1: the truth? You didn feel like sitting there. You know
Speaker 1: you couldn't take it, So you have to come up
Speaker 1: with a reason. Because Trump didn't give you a reason
Speaker 1: because he had barely spoken. And then these people holding
Speaker 1: up their signs, these these democrats looking like damn fools.
Speaker 1: I felt sad for my brother, Hakeem Jefferies, Minority House leader.
Speaker 1: He sat there the whole time, But guess what, he
Speaker 1: didn't act like that. He was probably embarrassed by how
Speaker 1: they acted like juveniles. Oh, by the way, I forgot
Speaker 1: to bring up how when Trump talked about the cancer
Speaker 1: pated the kid that was suffering from cancer and I
Speaker 1: made him an honorary member of the Secret Service. Nobody
Speaker 1: stood up, or how he brought up Lincoln Riley, the
Speaker 1: twenty two year old who was killed by a migrant
Speaker 1: and her mother and her sister were in the attendance.
Speaker 1: They didn't stand up for that. All you did was
Speaker 1: give the impression anything that Trump favors you're against. Wow.
Speaker 1: Way to show the American people on the left you're
Speaker 1: ready to go do your job. Really, the Republicans listen
Speaker 1: to me as much as I don't want y'all to.
Speaker 1: When we got to call balls and strikes here you
Speaker 1: got the Democrats. Really, I already pointed out how to vote.
Speaker 1: Highlights divisions within the party over how some members were
Speaker 1: tested to President's remarks. Some held up signs, others walked
Speaker 1: out of boycott at the speech all togethers others took
Speaker 1: a more muted approach under the goddance of House Democratic
Speaker 1: Leader Leadership Rather, who barely urged members not to mount
Speaker 1: high profile protests and courtion them to show restraint. Now,
Speaker 1: House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffies who I brought up the
Speaker 1: cline to comment on Greens move on Tuesday. However, speaking
Speaker 1: to a small group of reporters the next day, Jeffrey said,
Speaker 1: quote and overwhelming majority of House Democrats approached the speech
Speaker 1: with the seriousness that it deserves on the behalf of
Speaker 1: the American people. Great quote to point to avoid point
Speaker 1: out that the rest of them acted like children. Republicans,
Speaker 1: you have them. Really, the Democrats are reeling, They are
Speaker 1: falling backwards. It's bad, but you can't help yourself. Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: with that nonsense. Elon Musk, I'm sorry, was a Democrat,
Speaker 1: he was about to vote Democratic. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's sitting up there, reconsistent tweeting something reconsider you are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? This is most as non nonsense. I
Speaker 1: is there just a concerted effort to show that you
Speaker 1: don't give a flying shit about how black people feel?
Speaker 1: Is that what this is? It makes no sense. Why
Speaker 1: would you fall in your sword for Derek Chauvin? Do
Speaker 1: you know Sean Hannity, Fox News, Mark Levin, the great
Speaker 1: one Big Tom conservative radio host, along with others, they
Speaker 1: all called out Derek Chauvin, all of them, all of
Speaker 1: them they said, his ass need to be in jail.
Speaker 1: He had no business doing what he did. But Ben
Speaker 1: Shapiro and Elon Musk's gonna say we should consider him
Speaker 1: being pardoned. Ladies and gentlemen, if they pardoned Derek Chauvin,
Speaker 1: if they pardon Derek Chauvin, don't even think about giving
Speaker 1: them your vote. We listen, this policy is taking place
Speaker 1: that a lot of people, particularly pioneers and officionados of
Speaker 1: civil rights legislation from nineteen sixty four, talking about how
Speaker 1: you got folks trying to eradicate the progress that has
Speaker 1: been made over all of these decades. Yes, they're far
Speaker 1: more educated than me on that, and I understand it.
Speaker 1: In their odds, you already have no reason to be
Speaker 1: voting for folks on the right. But if they do this,
Speaker 1: if they pardon Derek Chauvin, if they let that man
Speaker 1: out of jail after murdering George Floyd, you've learned all
Speaker 1: you need to know. Don't even look at their asses
Speaker 1: no more. Ben Shapiro again for the third time. If
Speaker 1: that was a white Jewish person on the ground, cuffed
Speaker 1: face down, whimpering and crying for their mother while telling
Speaker 1: you they're struggling, they cannot breathe, and it was a
Speaker 1: black cop on top of them with his knee on
Speaker 1: their net for over nine minutes. Would you be calling
Speaker 1: for that person to be pardoned? I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear your answer on that question. I really really can't.
Speaker 1: And Eli musk you a lot of things. The owner
Speaker 1: of X. Nobody will mistake you for Malcolm X. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that much. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 1: That's it for this edition of The Stephen Asmith Show.
Speaker 1: Hope you all enjoyed it. Until next time, everybody, peace
Speaker 1: of love. I'm out.