Speaker 1: Damn ain't nothing but chaos been going on this weekend
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. First up, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: more or less than zero point five passing yards. Of course,
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Speaker 1: quarterback Jalen Hurts more or less two hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: and a half passing yards. I'm gonna go with more
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Speaker 1: big game in order for them to win the championship.
Speaker 1: You know, listen, Vontae Smith, he's gonna have to do something.
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Speaker 1: little bit personally. That's just what I think. Finally, the
Speaker 1: Eagles wide receiver Aj Brown more or less than seventy
Speaker 1: and a half receiving yards. I'm going with more on
Speaker 1: this as well. Like I just told you, like I
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Speaker 1: efforts to freeze federal funding. Trump's mission to cut government
Speaker 1: spending became very clear this week when a White House
Speaker 1: offered a buyout to roughly two million federal workers and
Speaker 1: an order to freeze aid. The abrupt stoppage on federal
Speaker 1: grants and loans announced one they created confusion throughout the government.
Speaker 1: So yesterday the Office of Management and Budget omg B,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sent a memo clarifying that programs such as Medicaid,
Speaker 1: food stamps, head Start, and pelgrants would not be part
Speaker 1: of the pause. But today the White House rescinded the
Speaker 1: federal aid freeze after the administration received a flood of
Speaker 1: calls from lawmakers and state officials with questions on how
Speaker 1: it would impact their home states. Here's part of the
Speaker 1: statement from the Office of Management and Budget. Quote OMB
Speaker 1: Memorandum M twenty five thirteen is rescented. If you have
Speaker 1: questions about implementing the President's executive orders, please contact your
Speaker 1: agency general counsel end quote. If the freeze had not
Speaker 1: been rescinded, it would have essentially set up a long
Speaker 1: brewing legal battle over the core constitutional principle that says
Speaker 1: Congress gets to decide how to spend tax payer money. Legally,
Speaker 1: these arguments would eventually have made their way up to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, where some legal experts believe Trump could
Speaker 1: be in for an uphill battle. Meanwhile, a federal judge
Speaker 1: had temporarily blocked part of the administration's plans to freeze
Speaker 1: the federal aid Ladies and gentlemen, let's get one thing straight.
Speaker 1: All of us should have a heightened level of sensitivity
Speaker 1: for the disoline and the disenfranchised amongst us. If you
Speaker 1: are poor and impoverished, or you are old, we need
Speaker 1: to be looking out for folk. For those folks. First,
Speaker 1: people got to eat. They gotta survive, got to have
Speaker 1: a roof over their head, gotta have clothes on their back,
Speaker 1: food on their table. Some heat can't freeze the death
Speaker 1: at certain parts of this country, particularly how vicious these
Speaker 1: winters have been. And if you're old and you put
Speaker 1: in your time, and you paid your taxes, and you
Speaker 1: got social Security and stuff out there, and that's not
Speaker 1: enough to live on, we got to help them too.
Speaker 1: So nobody's advocating for anything otherwise. When the Trump administration
Speaker 1: spoke up and they clarified that Medicaid and Medicare and
Speaker 1: Social Security wasn't being compromised and stuff like that, I
Speaker 1: believe them. Having said all of that. How they've looked
Speaker 1: over the last few days. Dare I say the word
Speaker 1: inept might apply. They look a bit confused at the
Speaker 1: very very least. I mean, you have situations where other
Speaker 1: Republicans have to step in and say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this is a bit chaotic. This is not the way
Speaker 1: to go. It would take a lot in order to
Speaker 1: continue to move with fluidity and not disrupt our entire
Speaker 1: apparatus when it comes to federal funding as it pertains
Speaker 1: to Medicare and Social Security and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So that's something that's going to be a blemish on
Speaker 1: Trump's resume, no question about it, because he's going to
Speaker 1: come across with somebody who doesn't know what the hell
Speaker 1: he's doing. That's what they're going to say. How true
Speaker 1: that is, we don't know, but it's clearly something that
Speaker 1: the left is going to say. Here's what I like
Speaker 1: about it. What I like about it is that go ahead,
Speaker 1: Democrats attack that all day. Finally you're attacking something substantive
Speaker 1: fun because that makes sense. That absolutely makes sense. If
Speaker 1: he would to go along with his federal freeze and
Speaker 1: that disrupted so many American lives, that would have been
Speaker 1: problematic when you speak up on those issues, those are
Speaker 1: the Democrats that we remember, Those are the Democrats we
Speaker 1: voted for. Those are the Democrats we can support. That's
Speaker 1: what you do. We got a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: going on here, and we got to understand something Trump
Speaker 1: deserves heat for this, for how discombobulated and somewhat disorganized
Speaker 1: that disappeared to be. But he doesn't deserve it about everything.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at some of the decisions that he
Speaker 1: has made and some of the things that he has
Speaker 1: taken heat for. If you have illegal immigrants in the country,
Speaker 1: the more you have, the more some have to be
Speaker 1: taken care of, and how you're gonna take care of
Speaker 1: them through tax bare dollars. And when you're complaining about
Speaker 1: being able to help the desolate and the disenfranchised amongst us,
Speaker 1: how can you justify supporting folks who aren't American citizens
Speaker 1: ahead of those who are. You can't do it. That's
Speaker 1: the argument for the right. Why do you think he's
Speaker 1: able to get away with America First during his first term?
Speaker 1: Why do you think he's able to get away with
Speaker 1: slogans like make America great again? Because once upon a
Speaker 1: time the belief was it was America First. When he
Speaker 1: threatened Columbia with tariffs when they weren't willing to take
Speaker 1: a military plane with immigrants on it being returned to
Speaker 1: Columbia and he had to get on the phone with
Speaker 1: mister Petro, they had a Columbia. What do you think
Speaker 1: happened there? He threatened to smack five percent tariffs on them,
Speaker 1: threatened to elevate it to fifty percent. Why do you
Speaker 1: think he did that? Why you think the president changed
Speaker 1: his mind for Columbia? Why do you think he changed
Speaker 1: his mind? Because what Trump said is we being pinched.
Speaker 1: It's time y'all get pinched too. What do you think
Speaker 1: he's talking about when he's talking to Canada. What do
Speaker 1: you think he's talking about. When he's talking about Mexico.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's talking about. When he's talking
Speaker 1: about China, He's saying, we getting holes, we're getting pinched,
Speaker 1: we're suffering. Why should you live pretty? So you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get folks to disagree with him on everything because
Speaker 1: the left took it to a different place. When you're
Speaker 1: talking about identity politics, when you're talking about well culture,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about transgender what do you think is
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Then any issues that affect the everyday lives
Speaker 1: in the pocketbooks of the average American. But if you
Speaker 1: let twelve to fourteen million immigrants cross the border illegally
Speaker 1: and you're giving out fifty three million dollar prepaid credit
Speaker 1: cards in the city of New York and you're spending
Speaker 1: billions of dollars as a state like California, what do
Speaker 1: you think people are gonna complain about? Because they're gonna
Speaker 1: look at it as a direct assault on their wallet,
Speaker 1: which is a direct assault on their livelihood and their
Speaker 1: quality of life. And they're gonna say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: what's going on? What does that have to do with
Speaker 1: the conversation. It's Trump? What is he doing offering buyouts
Speaker 1: to two million federal players? Everybody?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, Wait a minute. Yeah, that might be excessive,
Speaker 1: it might be too much, But guess what the idea?
Speaker 1: Ain't that damn bad? Why? Because he's already telling you
Speaker 1: we're downsides in his government. Y'all gonna lose some jobs now.
Speaker 1: The overhead is too steep. We gotta downside, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna let you go. You if you accept the buyout,
Speaker 1: you'll probably get about eight months pay. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: That's what he's saying, and you best believe. Let me
Speaker 1: be very clear, some of them better take it because
Speaker 1: they're gonna get cut anyway. If I tell you, yo, Grift,
Speaker 1: what's up, yo? Gala, what's up? Charry? What's up? Is so?
Speaker 1: H ten of the isso, what's up? Bro? If I
Speaker 1: tell you, look, man, I'm gonna let you go right now,
Speaker 1: but you got eight months pay coming your way. If
Speaker 1: you don't take it, I might let you go. I
Speaker 1: might note it might be in three months, six months,
Speaker 1: or a year two years, or it might be next week.
Speaker 3: What you gonna do.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, See, we gotta bring it with
Speaker 1: the goats can get it. As the late great Joe
Speaker 1: Madison would say on Urban View Radio, you gotta put
Speaker 1: it where the goats can get it. That's the analogy.
Speaker 1: That's a real life analogy. Yo, Gayala, what's up? Eight
Speaker 1: months pay? Or I can let you go at my discretion,
Speaker 1: I might. I might note. It might be soon, it
Speaker 1: might be later. I don't know, but you might be going.
Speaker 1: You see where I'm going at, ladies and gentlemen. That's
Speaker 1: what he's talking about here. We got a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people out here complaining about everything, complaining about the buyouts.
Speaker 1: He's clearly coming to downsize government. Why do you think
Speaker 1: DOGE exists? That Ramaswami walked away from, but that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is still overseeing once again, is the Press Secretary
Speaker 1: for the for the Presidency, the White else. This is
Speaker 1: not a recession. There's not a recision of the federal
Speaker 1: funding freeze. It is simply a recision of the o
Speaker 1: NB memo. Why to end any confusion created by the
Speaker 1: court's injunction, the President's eos on federal funding remain in
Speaker 1: full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented. They're
Speaker 1: going to fire people. They're giving you advance notice. You're
Speaker 1: getting you're going to be gone now. You can take
Speaker 1: it with eight month severance, or you could take your chances.
Speaker 1: That's what he's doing. They ain't playing. So this is
Speaker 1: the way it goes. And why let's not forget it's
Speaker 1: a product of spending. Now, don't let the Republicans off
Speaker 1: the hook. Some of them have overspent two Even Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity and Mark Levin admit that for years and years
Speaker 1: and years when we think about a thirty six trillion
Speaker 1: dollar budget that we have the Republicans' hands ain't ain't
Speaker 1: ain't clean, And all of this Trump spent, Bush spent,
Speaker 1: hw Bush spent read my lifts no new taxes, and
Speaker 1: then put it for more taxes. Reagan spent. It's not
Speaker 1: about spending, because they all spend. It's who you're gonna
Speaker 1: spend on what you're gonna spend on. Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 1: They're all guilty. All of their hands are filthy, and
Speaker 1: it's thirty six trillion dollar deficit that we operate under.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make changes. It's coming. That's the way that
Speaker 1: it goes. And if you are the Democratic Party, rather
Speaker 1: than give that old song and dance with your frivolous
Speaker 1: arguments about in regards to identity politics and woke culture
Speaker 1: and immigration and even immigration transgender issues as opposed to
Speaker 1: LGBTQ overall issues, if you're gonna do all of that,
Speaker 1: that's not what people care about. When their wallets are
Speaker 1: being pinched, when eggs and milk and gas and bread
Speaker 1: and everything is expensive, they don't care. They only care
Speaker 1: when they're comfortable. They don't care when they're suffering. Get
Speaker 1: used to it. D I. Oh, everybody's in an uproar
Speaker 1: about d I. You know what my uproar was. I
Speaker 1: don't like the fact that you're acting like everything associated
Speaker 1: with DEI involved some incompetent people that weren't getting jobs
Speaker 1: based on their merit. But you're forgetting why the need
Speaker 1: for dee I was necessary to begin with, similar to
Speaker 1: white a Rooney ruling the National Football League was was
Speaker 1: necessary to begin with, similar to our affirmative action was necessary.
Speaker 1: If you hadn't been so in citios, so vicious, so inequitable,
Speaker 1: and in terms of how you treated other human beings
Speaker 1: that weren't white, those programs wouldn't have needed to be
Speaker 1: in existence. But that doesn't mean that the left end
Speaker 1: go overboard in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis by those police officers, mainly Derek Chauvin, and that
Speaker 1: they didn't use it as an opportunity to try to
Speaker 1: guilt the nation in the voting for them, regardless of
Speaker 1: the incompetence and the tone deafness that they operated under.
Speaker 1: Everybody's hands are dirty, everybody. The difference is Trump. Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't mind getting his hands dirty and dirty are so Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. This whole thing with the freeze, the federal
Speaker 1: freezing has been somewhat mishandled, particularly in the public eye,
Speaker 1: and he had to be called on the carpet for it,
Speaker 1: and he had to backtrack a little bit to make
Speaker 1: sure that they dited their eyes and courts their teas
Speaker 1: appropriately before moving forward with it at a later date.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, he has sent the message he
Speaker 1: ain't messing around. Now the Democrats can get back to
Speaker 1: doing the job they were supposed to do, legitimately pointing
Speaker 1: out the flaws and his moving forward as opposed to
Speaker 1: trying to take us back when you swear he's the
Speaker 1: one doing it, it's you two trying to get us
Speaker 1: back to a time where we fall for your frivolous
Speaker 1: nonsense instead of the issues that are really really important
Speaker 1: to us coming up. He's known for the sitcoms Blackish
Speaker 1: and Grownish, and he also directed the hilarious You People
Speaker 1: on Netflix. The one and only Kenya Barras is here.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him just ahead, but first, Drew ski
Speaker 1: is here and he's got some exciting news from Prospects.
Speaker 1: That's next on a Stephen Nasmith's show, My Guest is
Speaker 1: an actor, comedian, and creative reality shows, comedy tours, a
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Speaker 1: As well. He's here to talk about the prospect Super
Speaker 1: Sweat contest. Please we come up, boy, drew Ski's in
Speaker 1: the house. What's up big time with you? Man?
Speaker 4: How's everything ready? We ready? You see, I'm in the
Speaker 4: just locking you.
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with that. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: Working on Jay and all of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, working on the j I've been doing a couple
Speaker 2: back down. Who was working on the dribble?
Speaker 4: For sure? I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1: Look, before we get into the Prospects supersweat Conscious want
Speaker 1: to take a moment to acknowledge some of the alcolades
Speaker 1: you received in the last few years, because I think
Speaker 1: the audience needs to know, Okay, we're talking. June twenty
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Speaker 1: influential influencers. So props for that. Forbes twenty twenty four
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Speaker 2: Man, I got a guarantee. I gotta get it to you.
Speaker 2: Eight it's a blessing. I'll say that for sure. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm not one of those guys. I don't like to rebdend.
Speaker 2: You can keep throwing. If there's more.
Speaker 4: I think there's a couple more thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple more highlighted on Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: Top twenty five most Influenced.
Speaker 2: All Right, were done, We've.
Speaker 1: Done, We've done. Okay, I'm just saying. But you know,
Speaker 1: when with prize picks, we like winnows bro and you're
Speaker 1: a winner. So that's why we do it.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm ready for the Super Sweat.
Speaker 2: Man. You know, I need everybody to put in there.
Speaker 2: You know, their dance lists and everything they need to do.
Speaker 2: Just get it popping. It's time for you submit your
Speaker 2: videos of your best dance. So that's really what I'm
Speaker 2: excited about. You know, last year I won a million
Speaker 2: dollars in the Super Sweat during the Big Game, so
Speaker 2: you know they're doing a million dollars again, so we
Speaker 2: gotta you know, I'm trying to get all my fans
Speaker 2: to participate.
Speaker 1: Damn right, damn right, get that shit. You know I'm
Speaker 1: all about that. Get that paper. Let's I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know. You know how
Speaker 1: everybody got your bag on the back of That's right,
Speaker 1: you know I want it on the back end. I
Speaker 1: do want it on the back end, I really really do.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the reason you're here. You want a
Speaker 1: million dollars, like you just said during the Big Game
Speaker 1: last year making your picks on prize picks. How surprised
Speaker 1: were you when you want?
Speaker 2: Honestly, bro, I honestly, I had no idea that I
Speaker 2: was that close because I think it came down to.
Speaker 4: Overtime.
Speaker 2: So if the game last year didn't go into overtime,
Speaker 2: I really there was no chance I was gonna green now.
Speaker 2: But I think with everything working together and it all, Hey,
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but I'm thankful that they
Speaker 2: put that dude no agree back in the game is
Speaker 2: as a backup tight end for Travis Kelce and they
Speaker 2: put him in for one play and that one play
Speaker 2: home stew So I'm like, hey, I was, Hey, I
Speaker 2: ain't gonna lie. I almost passed out that night for sure,
Speaker 2: absolutely celebrating going on in Vegas.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 1: People don't realize. That's what it's one thing to make
Speaker 1: some money. It's another thing to make a lot of
Speaker 1: it in one night. I mean that really hits you.
Speaker 1: It's a that's a different kind of effect. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: you know where I went that night. I got you.
Speaker 1: We're both part of the Prospect Super Sweat concous So
Speaker 1: let's get that out of the way with prosects. Are
Speaker 1: not the first Super Sweat petitor. On Conference Championship Sunday,
Speaker 1: you have a Prospect social media contest that will give
Speaker 1: someone a chance to win one million dollars on the
Speaker 1: Big Games. Explain how that works, Juicy.
Speaker 4: So pretty much what you do. Everybody has to make
Speaker 4: a dance video.
Speaker 2: And you know, with social media being so popular, you
Speaker 2: gotta submit this dance video to the world. Has tag
Speaker 2: put Super Sweat anywhere. It don't matter if you post
Speaker 2: it on x, Instagram, TikTok, whever. Just post it tag Prize, pickts,
Speaker 2: tag Drew Ski, hastag super Sweat and you got You
Speaker 2: gonna get a chance at a million dollars. But you
Speaker 2: got to have a good dance with your dance. Move's
Speaker 2: gotta be on point. We need to like your best
Speaker 2: touchdown type celebration dance. That's what that's honestly what I'm
Speaker 2: looking for. And I got to pick between you know, three,
Speaker 2: I think two or three people. So yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 2: come down to see who can make that happen. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm excited for that for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you have a go to touchdown dance?
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people always see the little
Speaker 2: stuff I do, Man, they see it on social media.
Speaker 1: I got you, But do you have one go to?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. Come asking.
Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm gonna tell you. I've been in the gym,
Speaker 2: I've been training. You know, I'm at the ote arena
Speaker 2: right now, so I kind of I just pulled my
Speaker 2: hind leg and practice. We just was running suicide, So
Speaker 2: I can't. I couldn't show you nothing now. Usually you know,
Speaker 2: I get up, I'll show you whatever.
Speaker 1: But I but you got cramp and you're running your tie.
Speaker 1: You got cramps? All that, right? That's yeah?
Speaker 3: You know how it is.
Speaker 4: You get this right, athletes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 4: I gotta hop, but I'm gonna be good. That's right.
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with the ice. Bad works, bro. It
Speaker 1: does work. It'll do some things for you. It'll do
Speaker 1: some things. Look, man, I appreciate your time. Man, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being here. Man, go get in
Speaker 1: the ice bucket. You know what I'm saying, ice everything.
Speaker 1: Don't catch any cramps. We got a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: to deal with between now, over the next one months,
Speaker 1: over the next week, week, you know everything that everything
Speaker 1: damn right, icy hot baby, and everything else too.
Speaker 2: Shoot, you know about that.
Speaker 1: We gotta go, We gotta go, We gotta go. Alright, alright,
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Speaker 1: to Stephnie Smith Show, My Next Guest is an Emmy
Speaker 1: Award winning producer and the writer, director, and actor known
Speaker 1: for hit ABC sitcoms Blackish, Grownish, Mixed Dish. He's also
Speaker 1: known for directing You People, starring Eddie Murphy on Netflix,
Speaker 1: among other things. Of course, now he's got a new
Speaker 1: podcast on Audible called The Unusual Suspects, and it appears
Speaker 1: that he's taken over my studio. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what else to say. One and only Kenya
Speaker 1: Barris is in the house.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: Big time? How are you man?
Speaker 3: I'm good, bro. I just want to make a couple
Speaker 3: quick changes.
Speaker 5: Oh my lord, that's my book, just a couple of
Speaker 5: what could I have done better? What could I have
Speaker 5: done better?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: It's perfect as tell me, how are you?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 1: It's good to see you. My brother's good to see you,
Speaker 1: first of all, First or to business, with all that
Speaker 1: you've accomplished, with all the great things that you continue
Speaker 1: to do in Hollywood and beyond. Here you are with
Speaker 1: a new podcast. Talk to me about this, the usual suspects,
Speaker 1: what it's all about.
Speaker 6: I got with Malcolm, we became friends. I approached him
Speaker 6: at a restaurant, and always my joke is like, when
Speaker 6: you see a writer in public, it's kind of like
Speaker 6: saying a porn star, because it's like you've seen somebody
Speaker 6: who you have this intimate relationship with, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, and you don't see him out And so
Speaker 6: when I saw him, I was like, oh, I I
Speaker 6: did the whole I never do this, but like, he
Speaker 6: couldn't have been sweeter. And we struck up a friendship
Speaker 6: since then, and we kind of realized that we looked
Speaker 6: at things as he's a million times smarter than me,
Speaker 6: but we looked at things.
Speaker 3: We both like to look at the thing.
Speaker 6: Behind the thing, and we kind of thought we were
Speaker 6: our couple, but at the same time not our couple.
Speaker 6: And we I'm a huge fan of his revisional history
Speaker 6: podcasts and his books, and were like, let's get together
Speaker 6: and talk to people. We both love that other people love,
Speaker 6: but might not know that they love him, or why
Speaker 6: they love him, or who exactly are. And that's kind
Speaker 6: of the point behind the podcasts.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great idea. Shoot, I wish I would
Speaker 1: have thought about it my damn self. But that's why
Speaker 1: you are who you are. And I'm just littlelone me.
Speaker 1: I'm just little low me. I mean, how much? How
Speaker 1: interested are you really really doing this? Because you're a doer.
Speaker 1: Some of us are just talkers for crying out loud.
Speaker 1: But you've done a lot, You've accomplished a lot. What
Speaker 1: is it going to be like for you to be
Speaker 1: in front of the microphone? And not only that, keep
Speaker 1: in mind that even in the age of podcasting, it
Speaker 1: almost seems like a video is a attached to every podcast.
Speaker 1: So you're going to be seen and heard more from
Speaker 1: a literal perspective. And it's not just your name and
Speaker 1: people knowing the name and that's the man who does
Speaker 1: this great work. But now they'll see you and they'll
Speaker 1: know you. How ready are you for that?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: We did it, so it's finished, so so's it's coming out,
Speaker 6: so we will we will see I was I'm you know,
Speaker 6: I'm I got a little bit more comfortable being in
Speaker 6: front of the camera doing black af but I still
Speaker 6: feel like you can rob me with a camera beyond
Speaker 6: Cole says you can rob him or a snake, you
Speaker 6: can rob me with a camera.
Speaker 3: Like but I do I do like asking questions.
Speaker 6: I think that everybody's story is amazing, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Even the time we've spent just talking about
Speaker 6: just think everybody's story. If you just sit out and
Speaker 6: talk to anybody, everybody's story is amazing. And we got
Speaker 6: to talk to some truly amazing people who had truly
Speaker 6: amazing stories. And one of the things that we I guess,
Speaker 6: like the narrative, you know, thematic that we were looking
Speaker 6: for everybody.
Speaker 3: It's like, is there.
Speaker 6: Something that people who have achieved great things? Is there
Speaker 6: something in them that we could kind of find a
Speaker 6: narrative to. And there were some things I'm saying, relationships
Speaker 6: to mothers or surrogate mothers, relationships to you know, passion
Speaker 6: compared to compulsion, compared to you know, ambition. But like
Speaker 6: in general, it was really just an amazing center and
Speaker 6: listening to people that we all kind of had our
Speaker 6: own like sort of secret private love, relate relationship with.
Speaker 1: You know, when I look at you and I think
Speaker 1: about the great work that you've done throughout the years,
Speaker 1: I guess the question that I think about asking you
Speaker 1: often is what would you say you bring to Hollywood,
Speaker 1: to television, to movies, et cetera. That's an aberration that's different,
Speaker 1: nothing than what other people have brought.
Speaker 6: A bunch of luck. Now, I feel like I think,
Speaker 6: I you know, you know, and just same thing. I
Speaker 6: think that you do the same thing. I think that
Speaker 6: a lot of people do. We come from a different
Speaker 6: place that Hollywood was not used to, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, And I try to bring the most authentic
Speaker 6: version of who I am, the most author version of
Speaker 6: telling stories, and also the most authentic version of other
Speaker 6: people's stories.
Speaker 3: I think that is for me.
Speaker 6: I don't like to play the you know, the game
Speaker 6: of like trying to say or you know, reach everybody.
Speaker 3: I want to reach the people who want to hear
Speaker 3: the truth.
Speaker 6: And I think that's something that we do in this podcast,
Speaker 6: and then I, you know, I won't hopefully do just
Speaker 6: in the in the work that I do.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you've been able to pull it off,
Speaker 1: particularly in ways that most people especially most black folks
Speaker 1: haven't been able to pull off obviously, the road or
Speaker 1: the obstacles that Hollywood presents and what have you. That's
Speaker 1: a challenging and of itself. But you've clearly conquered a
Speaker 1: lot of the obstacles that have been placed in the
Speaker 1: path of many many of us. That hasn't been the
Speaker 1: case for you, at least from the from from from
Speaker 1: our vantage point, how do you think you've been able
Speaker 1: to pull it off?
Speaker 3: I mean, first and foremost, like you know, not just
Speaker 3: as the goodest.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, obviously, God I'm saying, like you know,
Speaker 6: I think he has plans and He's given me, you know,
Speaker 6: some blessings and a destination that has a journey for me.
Speaker 3: So I always want to, you know, take that first.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 6: I also feel, like, you know, I started from the bottom,
Speaker 6: I was a PA and work my way up. I
Speaker 6: think that's something that doesn't happen as much anymore, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. People kind of get thrust into
Speaker 6: it and they aren't quite ready because the place that
Speaker 6: they're thrust into, they haven't seen all the stuff that
Speaker 6: can come before. I think working your way up and
Speaker 6: learning that you know, what everybody's job is, what everybody's
Speaker 6: name is, what everybody's job is important, and having respect
Speaker 6: for that, and just like really really being curious, Like
Speaker 6: I'm really really curious about a lot of different stuff,
Speaker 6: and so I'm being curious and trying to answer my curiosities.
Speaker 3: And then do it in an entertaining way.
Speaker 6: I think that's sort of if there's been anything that's
Speaker 6: sort of been. The thing that I try to do
Speaker 6: is like take stuff that people are curious about and
Speaker 6: how to answer it back, and not just answer from
Speaker 6: one point of view. Make sure you put enough different
Speaker 6: people in different characters. Me and Malcolm are different but
Speaker 6: the same in some aspects. But make sure you don't
Speaker 6: come out I from just one point of view. Come
Speaker 6: at it from a lot of different points of view,
Speaker 6: and be open to like people disagreeing like you disagree
Speaker 6: with your co hosts and people all the time. I
Speaker 6: think that's what makes some of the best stories.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wondering what do you feel about the
Speaker 1: advent of podcast and not only that, suemingly everybody having
Speaker 1: their own production company in this day and age, venturing
Speaker 1: into a world that some would say you've now mastered.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the proliferation of it, just
Speaker 1: the activity in the industry now more so than ever before,
Speaker 1: because I imagine somebody like yourself has an idea about
Speaker 1: who's qualified to be in this space and who isn't.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that?
Speaker 3: I love it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I love it, and I the reason I love it is,
Speaker 6: you know I you know, I look up you know,
Speaker 6: I look at you. The difference between you, i'll, difference
Speaker 6: between Cam and May is the difference between shann and
Speaker 6: the difference between you know, Oprah or whoever. Really, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, people or you know whatever, And
Speaker 6: I feel like there's a I think, finally there's a
Speaker 6: lot of diversity, and I think it's really important.
Speaker 3: I also feel like it will show.
Speaker 6: Eventually that the cream will rise, which I think is
Speaker 6: really important because I think that everybody can't do something,
Speaker 6: and once people everybody thinks they can, it kind of
Speaker 6: actually makes the people who can do it a little
Speaker 6: bit more special. So in a little bit of an
Speaker 6: asshole way, I love that everybody's trying to do it.
Speaker 6: I love One of my favorite things is like people
Speaker 6: come from my house, and my house is decent. My
Speaker 6: boys who grew up with will be like, man, I
Speaker 6: should start writing, and I'm like, yeah, man, because because
Speaker 6: it's just that easy, everybody can do it, you should
Speaker 6: start doing it too, you know what I'm saying. It's like,
Speaker 6: I think the idea of you know, we're in a
Speaker 6: place where the media and the tools have allowed people
Speaker 6: feel like everybody can do it.
Speaker 3: Everybody can't do it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: We'll see if I can do it, but I feel
Speaker 6: like there are certain people who are good at what
Speaker 6: they do, and you got to give everybody a chance
Speaker 6: so that it will actually the cream will rise and
Speaker 6: people will say, oh, that dude is actually really special.
Speaker 1: When you look at right now. Particularly, let me transition
Speaker 1: for a quick second to what you know. You live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and what has transpired in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: with the wildfires obviously has been catastrophic, so many people
Speaker 1: being displaced, so many people losing their homes, et cetera.
Speaker 1: You have folks who ain't even political getting a bit
Speaker 1: political because they're disgusted with the local government and how
Speaker 1: they've been doing things in terms of their planning, being
Speaker 1: their preparation, et cetera, et cetera. You could take it
Speaker 1: anywhere you want to go. As this stuff has unfolded
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks in Los Angeles and it's
Speaker 1: outskirts of Pacific Palisades and beyond out to Dina, let's
Speaker 1: not forget that. What have you been What have been
Speaker 1: your thoughts watching all of this unfold.
Speaker 6: I've had a huge amount of thoughts, I'm saying, and like,
Speaker 6: it's a really big, big, big big It's like it's
Speaker 6: it's stopped me from doing a lot of my work.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I had a conversation, you know, with a couple of filmmakers.
Speaker 6: If I had if I have time right now, I
Speaker 6: would turn a camera on and I would tell that
Speaker 6: camera to go and start taping, and I would call
Speaker 6: it a tail of two cities.
Speaker 3: And I want to see.
Speaker 6: Right now, in real time, how these two cities affected
Speaker 6: by both fired unbelievable strategy or people a lot of stuff,
Speaker 6: how it's handled, and the difference in how it's handled.
Speaker 3: I love to tell that story. That's one thing I'd
Speaker 3: love the point love.
Speaker 6: I think you could almost make a case study out
Speaker 6: of how it's you know, the difference of how it's handled.
Speaker 6: I've also talked to you know, a lot of friends
Speaker 6: and people that have relationships with to try to talk
Speaker 6: about for my particular you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 6: sad for everyone, but you know, my particular people to
Speaker 6: advocate like in Althadium was the first one of you know,
Speaker 6: if not the first black middle class enclave where we
Speaker 6: could have it. And it's one of the only places
Speaker 6: in America where you have like historic you know, passed
Speaker 6: down like grandmother's gave the houses to mothers, gave the
Speaker 6: houses to daughters, you know what I'm saying. And that's
Speaker 6: one of the only places that still in this country
Speaker 6: you could see that. I'm very much so concerned that Alad,
Speaker 6: you know, some big development group, black so black Rock,
Speaker 6: whatever you wanna call it, is going to come in
Speaker 6: and they're going to take it from us, and it's
Speaker 6: going to be you know, passing in the hills, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, passing in too. And I feel
Speaker 6: like I want to make sure that that place continues
Speaker 6: to look like it was like it looked before it was.
Speaker 6: You know, this tragedy happened because I think it's really
Speaker 6: important that we had We saw it happen to us
Speaker 6: in New Orleans. We saw it happened, happened, is happening
Speaker 6: to us in Harlem, saw it happening in.
Speaker 3: Brooklyn.
Speaker 6: We saw it happen in you know, Miami, the Venice Canals,
Speaker 6: we saw it happened in the idea that when things happen,
Speaker 6: we get you know, we get wiped out, and they
Speaker 6: figure out another way. So I've I've had some conversations,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm saying. I have been in some aspects
Speaker 6: really inspired by there was response, and other aspects try
Speaker 6: to keep it to myself right now, I feel like
Speaker 6: certain people have sort of degalvanized from a group and
Speaker 6: sort of been more interested in their path. I feel like,
Speaker 6: for me, I really want this to be something that
Speaker 6: we help the city and the audience and the guests
Speaker 6: and the people who live there, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: and the people who've been a part of the strategy
Speaker 6: be able to look and see that that city looks
Speaker 6: like the city that they remember when they you know,
Speaker 6: when it was at its heyday. I think the population
Speaker 6: is at thirty six percent black, It was well over
Speaker 6: fifty or sixty and gentrification and started shrinking it. I
Speaker 6: don't want to look up ten years from now and
Speaker 6: it's just been wiped away.
Speaker 1: Please consider me a soldier on your behalf and making
Speaker 1: sure we keep a spotlight on that kind of story,
Speaker 1: because clearly we don't need to just sit back and
Speaker 1: let that happen to be quiet about it. Ain't no
Speaker 1: question about that. So I'm riding with you on that
Speaker 1: one all day every day. I got to ask you
Speaker 1: about Hollywood in this regard though. Talking to Rob Lowe
Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago, he was talking about
Speaker 1: how he's lived in Los Angeles since the seventies and Hollywood,
Speaker 1: meaning the business in Hollywood, Hollywood itself, you know, just
Speaker 1: the business that's everywhere. It's Atlanta, there's various other places, Detroit,
Speaker 1: various other places throughout the country, out the world, even
Speaker 1: Vancouver of around out loud stuff like that. But in
Speaker 1: Hollywood businesses, you just see the level of activity dissipating.
Speaker 1: Does Hollywood have a lot to worry about because of
Speaker 1: the government, the local government and things that are going
Speaker 1: on in the state of California. Does Hollywood have a
Speaker 1: lot to worry about?
Speaker 3: Hell?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like you are in an industry that
Speaker 6: is controlling the world right now in terms of entertainment.
Speaker 6: Sports controls is the number one, you know driver right
Speaker 6: now of entertainment. All the entertainment facets, from the streamers
Speaker 6: to the linear parts to the cable have quadrupled ten
Speaker 6: times fold their contracts, double down, triple down. They understand
Speaker 6: the sports is a driving force. I think the idea
Speaker 6: of like actual narrative, you know, content is taking a die.
Speaker 6: There's been several articles that talked about I think comedies
Speaker 6: are down thirty seven percent. I feel like, I, you know,
Speaker 6: try to like examine why. I think, you know, I
Speaker 6: went to a game the other day and the Clippers
Speaker 6: were down the Clipper and the Clippers were down twenty
Speaker 6: six in the first by the end end, but we
Speaker 6: won the game. And I think that's one thing that
Speaker 6: people understood about sports and the why those contracts in
Speaker 6: the NBA and NFL we were able to sort of
Speaker 6: get the money they want because every night when you
Speaker 6: watch a sports game, it's like watching potentially a hit movie.
Speaker 6: And there's nothing else in the world that can give
Speaker 6: you that promise of that, you know, I'm saying, you
Speaker 6: can't promise that with a with a with the television
Speaker 6: show a promise that on the movie. So I understand
Speaker 6: why sports is so important, but I also feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, we're seeing a contracting of all the media studios.
Speaker 6: You know, it used to be twenty and now we're
Speaker 6: saying this game became attracted to this, manuye this, and
Speaker 6: it's gonna be smaller and smaller, and I feel like
Speaker 6: more and more jobs are being lost. You see, when
Speaker 6: tragedies like this happen, those are people are gonna move
Speaker 6: out of Los Angeles where they gonna go. I feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, I was looking. I'm doing a documentary on
Speaker 6: the Great Jerry West. I got to interview Adam Silver
Speaker 6: and basketball, which I'm a huge fan of. It's down
Speaker 6: and watching I think it's down forty eight percent something
Speaker 6: like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And I think the only.
Speaker 6: Reason you can look at that is kids don't watch
Speaker 6: aren't watching TV live, right, what I'm saying. So if
Speaker 6: you're really a basketball fan growing up, I watched my
Speaker 6: team every you had to watch them three four.
Speaker 3: Times a week, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Football has a great advantage, even though there's a couple
Speaker 6: of days, but in general, you get you get one
Speaker 6: day week, they own a day of the week, you
Speaker 6: know I'm saying, And it's benefiting from that. Also, the
Speaker 6: thing that I this is my own personal before like
Speaker 6: you know, NBA dominates social media. You can go look
Speaker 6: at the clips, which in some aspects probably felt like
Speaker 6: a really great thing. But when you're not watching watching
Speaker 6: your team every week every night, and you can just
Speaker 6: look on clips and see LaMelo's highlights or see Bronze highlights,
Speaker 6: or see jobs highlights, that helps hurts the you know things.
Speaker 6: So and I also feel like, you know, the globalization
Speaker 6: of sports, you know.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I think there's a lot of different things that are
Speaker 6: affecting what media is. But I do think that it
Speaker 6: is we're seeing sparks if it come back. I was
Speaker 6: super happy to see East's movie Open up. Well, I'm
Speaker 6: excited about the oscars. Maybe bring some excitement to it.
Speaker 6: I think if you look at the you know, we've
Speaker 6: had to survive a pandemic, a strike, and now these fires,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, and now you know, just
Speaker 6: in an election, you know what I'm saying. I think
Speaker 6: there's been some things that have really stunned and what
Speaker 6: entertainment is and having it grow. But I feel like there,
Speaker 6: hopefully there is some hope of some things coming back.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I think that we're seeing some of the bright people
Speaker 6: like you know, you, Chuck Shaq. I've seen people who
Speaker 6: actually know the game getting into it in a different way.
Speaker 6: They're going to create you guys are going to create
Speaker 6: better stuff. So I have faith, but I do I
Speaker 6: am worried.
Speaker 1: Let me transition to you in this regard multi generational
Speaker 1: Coca Cola commercial. I watched it. I saw Laura London
Speaker 1: and then I mean I was like, I said, damn,
Speaker 1: that seemed I mean, that seemed like a Super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is some special stuff right here right now.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about with Kenya Burch. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about that. Tell me about how that came about.
Speaker 3: I got a chance. They came to me.
Speaker 6: They've only did it once before, they did with the
Speaker 6: creator of the Bear. They wanted to do something that
Speaker 6: scratched over some generations. I worked with them. I pitchedhot
Speaker 6: idea of like you know, growing up in the hood,
Speaker 6: everybody had that liquor store that they went to and
Speaker 6: it served a lot of different purposes. It was, you know,
Speaker 6: the thing that kind of almost becomes like a community icon.
Speaker 6: And I felt like I wanted to tell a story
Speaker 6: that like what happens over the generations. And I think,
Speaker 6: you know, interesting enough, Coca Cola is often a sponsor
Speaker 6: of that.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You go in there and you do your suicide at
Speaker 6: the machine, or you play video games, or you had
Speaker 6: your first kiss, or you got your in your first fight,
Speaker 6: got your bikes, got your bike still there.
Speaker 3: So I feel like telling.
Speaker 6: That story was really special to me, and they really
Speaker 6: you know, we had, you know, to get that cast together,
Speaker 6: you know, get my sister Lauren, Lauren London, and get
Speaker 6: the great Omara Harwig, you know, Tay Hecker, I got
Speaker 6: my kid's mom, and my kids were in it with
Speaker 6: me and saying Linel voices. I think I think could
Speaker 6: be the face of the next generation of black superstars.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, to do.
Speaker 6: It under the banner of coke and under the banner
Speaker 6: of a store in the hood, like that was.
Speaker 3: I was a dream come true. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever realized, I mean, how
Speaker 1: phenomenal it is that you pulled off what you pulled
Speaker 1: off with Blackish. And this is what. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you this little story because Anthony Anderson is a friend
Speaker 1: of mine and he came to me and he talked
Speaker 1: to me about Blackish. He came on first take to
Speaker 1: promote Blackish before before the first episode, and I never
Speaker 1: forget he and I were talking in the green room
Speaker 1: prior to it, and I said, bro, great cast ken
Speaker 1: use that, dude. I'm not worried about the content. Here's
Speaker 1: my problem. Look at the world we live in. In the
Speaker 1: title Blackish, are you sure? Are you sure that that's
Speaker 1: not gonna hold it back? ABC Network Television Blackish? He said,
Speaker 1: we ain't worried one damn bit. We're gonna do this.
Speaker 1: That's what he said to me. That's what And sure enough,
Speaker 1: y'all did it? Did you have any reservations or was
Speaker 1: that on purpose purposeful the title Blackish? Did you think
Speaker 1: in any way that that was going to galvani or
Speaker 1: not shouting to say galvinized, but polarized or alienate an audience?
Speaker 1: Were you ever worried about that at all?
Speaker 3: I wasn't the network wise.
Speaker 6: I'm saying that on tour, saying to talk about what
Speaker 6: because people thought it meant like cursed. People thought it
Speaker 6: might like is this saying like black shit or just
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, or like or less than
Speaker 6: black and whatnot, And they really didn't come down from
Speaker 6: I really came to like, I have six kids, they
Speaker 6: had their.
Speaker 3: Little friends come over.
Speaker 6: I looked around the country, and there really wasn't a
Speaker 6: black or white kid that I remember left in the
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Like, even though when you
Speaker 6: go to the hood, you know what I'm saying, black
Speaker 6: kids is dressing in like skaters. I feel like we're
Speaker 6: all a little bit of blackish black, white black. What
Speaker 6: I'm saying, there's a black culture has penetrated the culture
Speaker 6: in such a way that I really felt like that
Speaker 6: was what like we are this country is blackish, I'm saying,
Speaker 6: is a little bit of us? Isn't everything we've done?
Speaker 6: And I want I'm a big fan of titles. I
Speaker 6: think titles matter a lot, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like when I solid four year old virgin, you got
Speaker 6: what it was immediately.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: When I you know, I'm saying the things that I
Speaker 6: really love, Like I feel like you know, you want
Speaker 6: a title that sticks out, that makes noise. It's loud,
Speaker 6: and I feel like, you know saying I did black
Speaker 6: af I feel like you want something that says what
Speaker 6: it is, you know what it is in the title,
Speaker 6: and makes people actually want to tune in it.
Speaker 3: What's that story? Uh? That's that?
Speaker 6: The average how Restern fan listens an hour a day,
Speaker 6: The average how Restern hater listens two hours?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: When you when you get people sort of mad, it's
Speaker 6: all something they want. They actually want to tune in more.
Speaker 6: And sometime we'll actually find something that they will know
Speaker 6: the best way. I think you know my grandmother thing.
Speaker 6: You want to exit a conversation differently than you enter it.
Speaker 6: That's a good conversation. You want people to try to
Speaker 6: exit this this episode different than the interest. So they
Speaker 6: want them to go into the show feeling a certain
Speaker 6: way and leave out feeling a different way.
Speaker 3: And then then I feel like that's what true success is.
Speaker 1: Do you care about being hated or disliked doing what
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 3: Full of it?
Speaker 6: I don't, I'm saying, but I but I do for
Speaker 6: my kids, if that makes sense. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: I met, I make jokes about the whole I'm a colorist,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, thing like I saw a
Speaker 6: joke somebody puts, you know, says like I'm a color
Speaker 6: So I just did a show based around my family.
Speaker 6: My wife is biracial and the kids that we make
Speaker 6: look like the kids that me and biracial who will make.
Speaker 6: And people were like, you're a coloross. I'm like, well,
Speaker 6: are just doing a show based on my feeling. But
Speaker 6: I understand, you know, the commentary around, and I wanted
Speaker 6: to talk about that, but I do feel like when.
Speaker 3: The only time it affects me is when it affects
Speaker 3: my kids.
Speaker 6: When people come and like you know, leave comments like
Speaker 6: you're not really black and things like that, that does
Speaker 6: affect me because I feel like they don't they didn't
Speaker 6: ask to be brought into this, although they've you know,
Speaker 6: reaped a lot of the benefits of.
Speaker 3: It too much sometime.
Speaker 6: But I do feel like, you know, I think that
Speaker 6: that is and I think you know better than anybody,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Like you're gonna do you
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, and if you do, if
Speaker 6: you do, you and people don't have some shit to say,
Speaker 6: then you're probably not doing the right. Look at Lebron,
Speaker 6: look at exact, look at George, look at anybody who's you know,
Speaker 6: we're doing everything.
Speaker 3: If people just like everything you're doing, you're problemly not
Speaker 3: doing right.
Speaker 1: With that being said, you brought up your kids on
Speaker 1: a couple of occasions from minder. And first of all,
Speaker 1: you got six kids, right, I'm right about that, right,
Speaker 1: you got six kids?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Uh? You and your wife? How many and how many
Speaker 1: of your kids work for you? And how do you
Speaker 1: do you even try to shield them from the kind
Speaker 1: of things you just talked about, wanting to avoid them
Speaker 1: being subjected to.
Speaker 3: Well, my daughter and I just sold a movie yesterday.
Speaker 3: She wrote.
Speaker 6: Okay, we wrote the Richard Pryor series which were out
Speaker 6: with which I'm unble. She was in the room and
Speaker 6: she did an amazing job. She became one of the
Speaker 6: young my middle daughter, she became one of the young.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Can you first of all,
Speaker 1: what's her name and how old does she?
Speaker 3: Her name is Leah Barris. Okay, she's twenty three. Okay,
Speaker 3: amazing young young writer.
Speaker 6: She is, you know, just such a better writer me smart, funny,
Speaker 6: you know I'm saying, really her own person. My daughter
Speaker 6: Kaylee is runs our social media. She is she went
Speaker 6: to USC and very interesting, like it's full of riz
Speaker 6: and full of always kind of telling me, you know
Speaker 6: how I'm what I'm not doing right and I'm corny.
Speaker 6: My daughter come to corny and lame constantly.
Speaker 1: My youngest daughter, I got a sixteen and a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old. My youngest daughter just called me corny. She
Speaker 1: she just called me corny two days ago. I feel it,
Speaker 1: really did.
Speaker 6: It does hurt your feeling because they can get you.
Speaker 6: They don't care. My youngest daughter, not a little bit.
Speaker 6: My youngest daughter, Lola Gosta, she's been she's interned at
Speaker 6: our company.
Speaker 3: She's at Spelman right now. Four point oh student.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, went to Sierra Kenyon with
Speaker 6: Juju and and Bronnie and Rice and was all part
Speaker 6: of that and went out to Atlanta and is having
Speaker 6: her culture shocked. A liiver bit that My oldest son
Speaker 6: Bo we call him Pops. He's interned there. He's doing
Speaker 6: you know, has his own thing. So those four have
Speaker 6: worked there. Hopefully my next two will will in some
Speaker 6: aspects come and work, work with me. But I feel
Speaker 6: like that's the greatest thing that I've been been able
Speaker 6: to do, is to be able to do something. I
Speaker 6: get to work with my kids, and I've stolen so
Speaker 6: much from them in the stories and the ideas, and
Speaker 6: you know, they're my my test group. No matter what
Speaker 6: I do, they have to like they're forced to read,
Speaker 6: listen and hear are pitches and do all that. I
Speaker 6: kind of think like that's something that we used to
Speaker 6: do a lot more as Black people would get to
Speaker 6: like work with our family.
Speaker 3: And I think, to me.
Speaker 6: That's the greatest gift any of this has been given me,
Speaker 6: is the idea of not only being able to provide,
Speaker 6: but to be able to work with them and see
Speaker 6: them grow and see them be a part of what.
Speaker 3: You know, our hope is a better future.
Speaker 1: Why do you think we're not doing more of that
Speaker 1: as a people? I don't know what we used to do.
Speaker 1: What you just alluded to, think the opportunity.
Speaker 6: I think the opportunities are not there, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, or not as present, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: With the American dream has not been as kind to
Speaker 6: us as we would like it to be. You know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, We've had to sort of grab it
Speaker 6: in a different kind of way, and when it has
Speaker 6: we've kind of more so done it to you know,
Speaker 6: provide and and and just you know, get by. I
Speaker 6: think the idea of the you know, for most of
Speaker 6: us have had any kind of real, you know, some
Speaker 6: type of success that people would say is is more
Speaker 6: of than nominal. We're first generation. I got to work
Speaker 6: with Tracy Ross and Rashida Jones, who like are some
Speaker 6: of the only second generation successful people I know, But
Speaker 6: in general, for most of us, this is first generation.
Speaker 3: We don't have a blueprint.
Speaker 6: Who's been our blueprint of how we sort of we
Speaker 6: don't know how to pay taxes and pay packs is
Speaker 6: the right way and tax loops and when a stock
Speaker 6: is gonna split and we're how to how to do this,
Speaker 6: Like we're kind of figuring it out for the first time.
Speaker 6: So I feel like having my kids around so that
Speaker 6: when their their time comes up, they have an ability
Speaker 6: to do something that I didn't do.
Speaker 3: Like that, to me is everything.
Speaker 1: Great, great advice. I ain't gonna lie to you because
Speaker 1: I think about the same thing you got me thinking
Speaker 1: about it. I'm thinking about going home having a conversation
Speaker 1: with my daughters. But they gotta get to work for me.
Speaker 1: They gotta get to work for me. They've been holding
Speaker 1: off long enough. They don't want to answer to their dad.
Speaker 1: That's what they do. They're like, we gotta deal with
Speaker 1: you enough. We don't want to deal with you on
Speaker 1: a job too. But anyway, care I'm gonna make them
Speaker 1: anyway before I let you get on out of here.
Speaker 1: You brought up the Richard Pryor project, right, I know
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, but didn't you once you involved the
Speaker 1: remake of the Wizard of Oz, once you involved with
Speaker 1: something along those lines as well as It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 1: What's going on with those two projects?
Speaker 3: I mean, were they were ready to go?
Speaker 6: Strike happen, you know what I'm saying, And now everything
Speaker 6: has to People understand that whenever things like you you know,
Speaker 6: you've seen it happen in sports, or you've happened contract negotia,
Speaker 6: it takes everything and step back, you know what I'm saying. Scripture,
Speaker 6: you know we're ready to go. We have to you
Speaker 6: know it right now, it's about getting things cast. People
Speaker 6: don't understand how magical actors are you know, I'm saying,
Speaker 6: you can't do anything with actors. So it's like getting
Speaker 6: a cast and budgets are shrinking because the studios are
Speaker 6: all contracting and like they have to look at, you know,
Speaker 6: what is their spend for this year, what's their spending
Speaker 6: for that year.
Speaker 3: It's it's a lot that goes into make a movie.
Speaker 6: I don't think people understand, like you have to not
Speaker 6: only get the script to a point wh people want
Speaker 6: to make it. Then you got to get a budgeted.
Speaker 6: Then you got to get the stars. Then the stars
Speaker 6: have to be available. Then you have to get a
Speaker 6: director who's available during the time. Then you have to
Speaker 6: make sure that the company and that quarter has you know,
Speaker 6: one hundred hundred and fifty million dollars two hundred million
Speaker 6: dollars to spend. Then they have to make sure that
Speaker 6: they have you know, seventy five to one hundred million
Speaker 6: dollars in PA. Then you have to make sure that
Speaker 6: you're you're ready in a place to go shoot.
Speaker 3: The things that come.
Speaker 6: Together to make a movie happen are it's it's amazing
Speaker 6: that they happen the way that they do, because it
Speaker 6: is a lot of things that have to fall into place.
Speaker 1: I got you before I get you, let you get
Speaker 1: on out of here. I'm inn you think you know
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you get on out of here
Speaker 1: without talking about your clippers. Right, You're not gonna have
Speaker 1: to ask you what we got talking about. I didn't
Speaker 1: expect them to be I didn't expect them to be
Speaker 1: as good as they were. They still got some work
Speaker 1: to do. It's nice to see Kawhi Lendon on the court.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long that's gonna last. We got
Speaker 1: a hold on it that moment. We got a question
Speaker 1: about that. James Tyler is a hell of a coach.
Speaker 1: He came on this show. He came on this show
Speaker 1: and raved raved about uh, you know, Jeff Van Gundy
Speaker 1: and what he's brought to the team defensive as an
Speaker 1: assistant coach. How are you feeling about your clippers right now?
Speaker 3: I'm feeling I'm feeling excellent. I'm feeling excellent.
Speaker 6: I feel like every night before we got Kawhi, I
Speaker 6: feel like every night we were competitive. Even if we lost,
Speaker 6: every night we were competitive. And I feel like tyleru
Speaker 6: the ability to get dudes who before they came to him,
Speaker 6: who didn't think that they could play on that level.
Speaker 6: The ability of not just the coaching that but the
Speaker 6: what it takes for a coach to get into the
Speaker 6: mentality of a player to make them believe that they
Speaker 6: can compete on the highest level and play as a team.
Speaker 3: That is an amazing thing to do.
Speaker 1: How the hell is somebody living in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: they find themselves being a Clippers fan and not a
Speaker 1: Lakers fan. How does that happen?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm a Laker fan. I'm not allowed. Clipper fans
Speaker 6: can be Laker fans. Laker fans have to be Clipper haters.
Speaker 6: I'm a Laker.
Speaker 3: I'm elect point. I'm a Laker fan.
Speaker 6: Love Lebron, you know, love j jj Reddick is trying
Speaker 6: to do love a d rich Paul is my boy.
Speaker 3: I keep saying I'm a Laker fan. But my Clippers.
Speaker 6: When I started being able to buy tickets from my
Speaker 6: family could afford them.
Speaker 3: They were affordable.
Speaker 6: The the environment felt like a real environment, like people
Speaker 6: who were there wanted to be there.
Speaker 3: It wasn't so good seeing glossy. They were scrappy.
Speaker 6: I got to go through Lob City, I got I
Speaker 6: got to see the end of Pool Richardson. I get
Speaker 6: to now see I got to CEPG whose game was
Speaker 6: like jazz to me. I got to see, you know, Harden,
Speaker 6: who I think might be. You know, when it all
Speaker 6: goes sitting down, you know, is he in the top five?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, when it's all said and done,
Speaker 3: I got to know. No, I love him.
Speaker 6: If you want to start talking about stats, you're gonna
Speaker 6: start talking about stats.
Speaker 1: Somebody stopped that.
Speaker 3: Come on, come on.
Speaker 1: Stop, can you stop it? He's not top top five,
Speaker 1: He's top one of the greatest scores in NBA history,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest scorers, no doubt.
Speaker 6: In history, in history, right, and you have when you
Speaker 6: add up all his stats, his stats have to put
Speaker 6: him in the top ten.
Speaker 3: His stats have to put him in toping.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna dedicate a segment on this show.
Speaker 3: It's gonna blow your mind on this show. Your mind, It's.
Speaker 1: Gonna blow your I'm gonna say, I'm gonna replay it
Speaker 1: for the NBA audience, and I'm gonna say, ken, you
Speaker 1: bears said James Harden, top five, say top ten?
Speaker 3: It I say, top.
Speaker 1: Ten, top ten, top Ten's.
Speaker 3: Lokistically he might be in the top five.
Speaker 6: And if you just go shooting guards, I am absolutely
Speaker 6: sure he's in the top five.
Speaker 1: You know you on camera, right, I will say that
Speaker 1: right now, you know right.
Speaker 3: And James James is not my boy.
Speaker 6: I love his game, I am saying that, and he's
Speaker 6: his When you look at his statistics, they are phenomenal, phenomenal, Okay,
Speaker 6: you know they are.
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking it. I'm saying I'm saying you piaqued
Speaker 1: my curiosity. I gotta go back and look at it
Speaker 1: hard about this, and I gotta say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: must look at Kenya Barris's vantage point and let's see
Speaker 1: if it's right. Look, man, I'm gonna let you get
Speaker 1: on out of here. I appreciate it. The usually the
Speaker 1: unusual suspects. When is the podcast? When is the podcast?
Speaker 4: Drop?
Speaker 1: It drops tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna say yes because I don't have actual.
Speaker 1: Yes it drops tomorrow. I know this for sure. I
Speaker 1: was just double checking. But anyway, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I owe you big time. Man. I'm sorry they got
Speaker 1: my day job. Maybe I don't run. I'm not my
Speaker 1: own boss with everything like you something just not with everything.
Speaker 1: So That's what I got to tell me. I owe
Speaker 1: you big time man. Thank you, bro.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you having me. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: All one and only. Can you barrass right here with
Speaker 1: stephen A coming up? Could we see Daron Fox team
Speaker 1: up with Victor women Yama And did jj Reddick make
Speaker 1: a mistake playing Brownie James extended minutes last night in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I'll get into some NBA news. Plus I respond to
Speaker 1: your tweets. Don't go away. It's your boy, stephen A
Speaker 1: right here back with moren a minute. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. I know you are. Super Bowl fifty nine
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, Louisiana. Baby, the Philadelphia Eagles versus the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, Hurts sat Kaan versus my homes Kelsey
Speaker 1: and the crew. I'm looking forward to it for several
Speaker 1: Number one, I expected to be a good game. Number two,
Speaker 1: guess what, I love New Orleans sometimes anyway, the food
Speaker 1: is great. Number Three, I get to be away from
Speaker 1: my damn nephew, Josh. He's trying to come down there.
Speaker 1: I'm not letting him. This little knucklehead right here, this
Speaker 1: is this is Josh Junior, my little nephew, Jase. He
Speaker 1: can't come to the super Bowl. He's gonna be in school,
Speaker 1: just the way I like it. He can't come.
Speaker 3: And you like that.
Speaker 1: You gotta stay at home. You gotta stay home. That's
Speaker 1: how it goes. See y'all at the Super Bowl. Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show will be in the house all week long.
Speaker 1: Holler at you boys, Welcome back to the stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show. Now let's go to Philadelphia, where Bronnie James
Speaker 1: last night played his most minutes by far in an
Speaker 1: NBA game last night as the Lakers lost to the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers one eighteen to one oh four. Brownie
Speaker 1: was held scoreless in fifteen minutes and struggled guarding Sixers
Speaker 1: star Tyree's Maxie. Before I get to my thoughts, please
Speaker 1: take a listen to coach JJ Reddick and what he
Speaker 1: had to say about Bronnie's performance last night. Take a listen.
Speaker 7: Maybe put him in a tough spot, you know, flying
Speaker 7: up yesterday and you know, nationally televised game and Philly
Speaker 7: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: It's you know, he didn't play well, but.
Speaker 7: He's been playing great, you know, in the stay ready games,
Speaker 7: and he's been playing great in the g You know.
Speaker 1: I was on First Take My Day job on ESPN
Speaker 1: earlier this morning. I spoke about this and I felt
Speaker 1: the need to elaborate even further because a couple of
Speaker 1: people text me and pissed me off, and they know
Speaker 1: who they are, people close to lebron James talking to
Speaker 1: me about questioning him as a father. Come on, y'all,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotten to a point where this Lebron
Speaker 1: sensitivity is just beyond the pale. You call him the
Speaker 1: second best player in the history of the game. You're
Speaker 1: insulting him because you said he's not the goat. You're
Speaker 1: saying that at age forty, we've never seen anybody do
Speaker 1: what he does, but pointing out at times how he
Speaker 1: may not have hustled back on defense in a key
Speaker 1: pivotal moment, and that's a problem. You give him all
Speaker 1: the praise in the world when he drops forty, but
Speaker 1: he has a bad night and you say he had
Speaker 1: a bad night and you're hating. It's ridiculous. But never
Speaker 1: before has it been more ridiculous than it is right now.
Speaker 1: Because the reality is is that we got to be
Speaker 1: real about what we're seeing when we talk about Bronnie James,
Speaker 1: I am not a person that had a problem with
Speaker 1: Bronnie James being on the court for the season opener
Speaker 1: with Lebron James. That was a phenomenal moment to see
Speaker 1: a father on the court with his son who has
Speaker 1: NBA aspirations, playing together for the first time in NBA history.
Speaker 1: The Griffi's in baseball, King Griffy and Junior were in
Speaker 1: attendance for it. It was a special moment. My position
Speaker 1: has always been that should have been the only moment
Speaker 1: we saw Bronnie James in the Lakers uniform this season
Speaker 1: because he's not ready. I'm not here to tell you
Speaker 1: that he won't be ready. I'm not here to tell
Speaker 1: you that he won't be an NBA player. I'm not
Speaker 1: here to tell you that he should give up his
Speaker 1: dreams and his aspirations. I think the kids got potential.
Speaker 1: I think the kid will be in the NBA one day.
Speaker 1: I watched him in the G League doing this thing.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be fine eventually. But that's not
Speaker 1: the case yet. And because it's not the case yet,
Speaker 1: and then you see some of these numbers, I do
Speaker 1: find myself looking at Lebron James instead of Bronnie James
Speaker 1: because Lebron is the basketball savant. Lebron is one of
Speaker 1: the top two greatest players in the history of the game.
Speaker 1: Lebron hast forgotten more basketball than most people would know.
Speaker 1: So no matter what we think about Bronnie, he knows more.
Speaker 1: But you see what you see. Brinnie James is played
Speaker 1: in thirteen NBA games, Ladies and gentlemen. He's averaging zero
Speaker 1: point three points, zero point three assist and zero point
Speaker 1: four rebounds. He shot one for sixteen from the field
Speaker 1: in his NBA career, an zero for seven from three
Speaker 1: point range. And he's playing in the first quarter of
Speaker 1: an NBA game, really, and everybody wants to look at it.
Speaker 1: And Lebron has nothing to do with that. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't tell JJ Reddick to put him.
Speaker 3: In the game.
Speaker 1: I get all that, but come on, I'm not being
Speaker 1: cruel to Bronnie. I'm I'm looking out. Do you want
Speaker 1: it this way, Lebron? Do you want it this way?
Speaker 1: Rich Paul? Do you want it this way? He can't
Speaker 1: go into the G League and average twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and stay there until he's ready because he's Lebron's son,
Speaker 1: you know, how they're gonna judge him. And before anybody
Speaker 1: wants to jump on me, remember I never saw Bronnie
Speaker 1: James play until he showed up in the NBA and
Speaker 1: the G League. I refused to watch him because if
Speaker 1: I watched him, I would have to talk about him.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to talk about Lebron James son
Speaker 1: because I thought it was so unfair to the kid.
Speaker 1: He's such a wonderful kid, wonderful family. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear me talking about questioning Lebron James' fatherhood, Lebron
Speaker 1: How many times do I have to rave about Lebron
Speaker 1: James On ESPN? I put up a ticker great father,
Speaker 1: great husband, great philanthropians, great businessman, great actor, great producer,
Speaker 1: great director, great great great great. How many times have
Speaker 1: I said that, I'm simply saying, yo, he's not ready yet,
Speaker 1: and to put him out there getting him exposed to that,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to watch. When Kobe Bryant was a
Speaker 1: rookie and shot those airballs in that closed out playoff
Speaker 1: game against the Utah Jazz, people were talking about he
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for the moment, and I thought it was unconscidable.
Speaker 1: What coach Del Harris at the time did to him
Speaker 1: by throwing him to the wolves because he got frustrated
Speaker 1: because Kobe kept talking about how he's gonna end up
Speaker 1: being the greatest ever because he was chasing Jordan, and
Speaker 1: they got tired of here in his mouth and his bravado,
Speaker 1: and he threw him to the wolves very unfairly, which
Speaker 1: I think it's something that ultimately ruined Del Harris because
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have done that. But nobody questioned whether or
Speaker 1: not Kobe Bryant belonged to the NBA. Nobody question that.
Speaker 1: With Bronnie James, they're questioning it because there's no collegiate
Speaker 1: career to speak of, because he had the health issue
Speaker 1: and never really did anything at USC in his only
Speaker 1: year there. And he ends up getting drafted fifty fifth overall,
Speaker 1: and I don't care about the money that he's gonna
Speaker 1: end up making, like he'll end up making over a
Speaker 1: span a couple of years, eight million, while the other
Speaker 1: fifty fifth pick from the year before the year before
Speaker 1: that probably made it about eight hundred thousand. The hell with that.
Speaker 1: Lebron James is underpaid. Lebron James is underpaid. He should
Speaker 1: get paid much more than he's getting paid. In Any
Speaker 1: money that he could get for his son, he could
Speaker 1: get for Rich Paul, he could get for him, anybody
Speaker 1: he should get because he is underpaid. Well what he
Speaker 1: means to the NBA. I don't care about the money.
Speaker 1: I care about what the kid is being exposed to.
Speaker 1: With Lebron James mystique hoefery over him zero point three points,
Speaker 1: zero point three assists, zero point four rebounds, one for
Speaker 1: sixteen shooting over all, zero for seven from three point
Speaker 1: range thirteen games. There are millions of kids out there
Speaker 1: starving to play in an NBA game that are more
Speaker 1: qualified than his status show. And what I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: if you see a son being exposed to things they
Speaker 1: may not be ready for, when do you wrap your
Speaker 1: arms around them and say, all right now, now's not
Speaker 1: the time. I use the box analogy on first take
Speaker 1: earlier this day, and I used Marvis Fraser, the son
Speaker 1: of Joe Fraser. Go back and look at the highlights.
Speaker 1: He went into the ring against heavyweight champion Larry Holmes,
Speaker 1: who had one of the best jabs and one of
Speaker 1: the best right hands in boxing history. And I remember
Speaker 1: Larry Holmes being interviewed and saying, ain't no kid with
Speaker 1: ten damn fights beating me, That's what he said, And
Speaker 1: then went in there and beat him in the first round.
Speaker 1: Remember he dropped them. And then remember Fraser gets up
Speaker 1: and if you remember the fight, ladies and gentlemen, Larry
Speaker 1: hit him with a right and waved the referee on
Speaker 1: hit him with the right and waved the referee to
Speaker 1: come and stop the fight. Hit him again, waved the
Speaker 1: referee to stop the fight because he knew the kid
Speaker 1: didn't belong in the ring with him, and you know,
Speaker 1: took the hits for that. Joe Fraser, former heavy champion
Speaker 1: of the world, one of the great fighters in history,
Speaker 1: had no business putting his son at that early stage
Speaker 1: in the squared circle with Larry Holmes. Look it up.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying with Lebron the best of intentions,
Speaker 1: wonderful father by all accounts. I'm not casting any aspersions
Speaker 1: on him. I'm saying, that's your son, bro. You know
Speaker 1: the game of basketball. He ain't ready yet. Why put
Speaker 1: him in that position? You had your moment being on
Speaker 1: the court with him. Now, that kid's gotta go earn
Speaker 1: his stripes, which I believe he will do watching him
Speaker 1: in the G League. Can't do this, can't continue to
Speaker 1: let us see what we've been seeing. And I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm questioning him as a father because I'm saying, YO,
Speaker 1: wrap your arms around him and say not now, not
Speaker 1: just yet. That's questioning somebody's fatherhood, you see. That's why
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Contrary to what people believe, I have
Speaker 1: a great relationship with a lot of NBA players. You
Speaker 1: don't have to know that. I know that. I know
Speaker 1: who talks to me, I know who gives me information.
Speaker 1: I know who reaches out to me. There's plenty of players.
Speaker 1: Some of the stars don't, and I could give less
Speaker 1: than a shit because we've devolved to a point where
Speaker 1: literally trying to be constructive and helpful is considered hating.
Speaker 1: They adopted, their hanging on is adopted, and you're the
Speaker 1: villain for pointing out obvious. I'm tired of that sensitive shit.
Speaker 1: It drives me nuts. We gotta preface every comment we
Speaker 1: make with a bunch of platitudes and lauda bulls about everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, damn, what do we gotta do do their
Speaker 1: laundry before we say something? We gotta sit there and
Speaker 1: give them a bubble bath. Before we sat they played
Speaker 1: like shit. I mean, come on, it's gotta stop. I mean,
Speaker 1: no disrespect whatsoever to Lebron on this issue. I would
Speaker 1: never do that to any player, any athlete. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we all see what's happening with your son right now.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to watch. Not that it won't change,
Speaker 1: not that it won't get better, but it's not there yet.
Speaker 1: You could do something about that. Why haven't you. That's
Speaker 1: all I mean, no disrespect, none, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Staying in the NBA, where, according to ESPN Shan Sharania,
Speaker 1: the Sacrament of Kings expected to open talks for a
Speaker 1: potential the Aaron Fox trade. The King's all star guard
Speaker 1: has one year left on his contract before he hits
Speaker 1: free agency in the summer of twenty twenty six. San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs are apparently the top destination on his list
Speaker 1: as a potential landing spot. I wish he could go
Speaker 1: to the Lakers personally, I know Anthony Davis wants a
Speaker 1: five so he can go back to his natural position
Speaker 1: at the four. The Aaron Fox has average at least
Speaker 1: twenty five points over the last three years. He's an
Speaker 1: All Star. He's an All Star caliber player. He's also
Speaker 1: the only individual that I've ever gotten into an argument
Speaker 1: with Magic Johnson about in twenty five years. The Aaron
Speaker 1: Fox is that dude. I implored Magic Johnson to draft
Speaker 1: that kid number two overall instead of Lonzo Ball. I said,
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball is a business decision. De Amon Fox is
Speaker 1: a basketball decision. I saw what that brother did in
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament to Lonzo. I saw that he was
Speaker 1: a better player than Lonzo. I think, you got to
Speaker 1: keep that kid, you got to get him. And they
Speaker 1: passed because Lonzo Ball, Chino Hills, Box Office, all of that.
Speaker 1: No knock against Lonzo because I hope he gets healthy,
Speaker 1: and I believe in the brother. But de Aaron Fox
Speaker 1: is Diaron Fox. However, his wife and what I'm told
Speaker 1: is from San Antonio obviously playing with Victim when Mionna
Speaker 1: the best defensive player in the NBA as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned right now and will soon be the best
Speaker 1: player in the world at seven five, with his skill set,
Speaker 1: who knows what's down the pipe for them? They've got
Speaker 1: it like nine picks. You get de Aaron Fox when
Speaker 1: Vianna could be special. So I understand that Houston, Miami,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, other teams like that are in the mix.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing the Aaron Fox in Miami either.
Speaker 1: But in the end, what it really really comes down
Speaker 1: to is that I really wish he was with Anthony Davison.
Speaker 1: Lebron James in Los Angeles ain't gonna happen at all
Speaker 1: likely so they don't have the assets to get them,
Speaker 1: but it would be nice. Let's go to some tweets
Speaker 1: before I get on out of here for the day.
Speaker 1: First up, Stevin A. Smith. How legendary with a battle
Speaker 1: between Obama and Trump?
Speaker 3: Be?
Speaker 1: Oh? I think it would be legendary because I think
Speaker 1: that Trump would try his insults and Obama is quick
Speaker 1: with it, enough, stylish enough, with enough charisma, he'd come
Speaker 1: right back at him, and he'd eat Trump alive. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about in that category as it pertains to debates, Lebron.
Speaker 1: You know, Obama smooths and even though it didn't come
Speaker 1: across as him being a centrist, because obviously you had
Speaker 1: the progressive left pulling them and tugging towards him to
Speaker 1: be in their direction and the Republicans were giving him
Speaker 1: problems every time he took a deep breath. In the end,
Speaker 1: I think that Obama is somebody that would be willing
Speaker 1: to work across the all if you allow them to
Speaker 1: do so. And the statesmanship Trump doesn't even compe in
Speaker 1: that regard. But some would argue that Trump was a
Speaker 1: better president than Obama was. Most of us would not,
Speaker 1: but it would be an epic battle for the debates.
Speaker 1: I could tell you that much. Next tweet, show me
Speaker 1: what you got, y'all at Jennifer McGraw, McGr aw right,
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, what is an underrated thing I can
Speaker 1: do as a girlfriend to make my boyfriend happy? Okay,
Speaker 1: there is an R rated answer to that question that
Speaker 1: you are not going to get from me. Figure it
Speaker 1: out as it pertains to the G rated version of
Speaker 1: my answer. I would say to you, master the art
Speaker 1: of timing. It could be anything from sex to a meal,
Speaker 1: to cuddling while watching a movie on television, to go
Speaker 1: into the movies, to going out to eat, to just
Speaker 1: talk and conversation. I would tell you mastering timing is everything.
Speaker 1: See some ignorant ass men out there would be like,
Speaker 1: just be quiet, don't talk your man will love you.
Speaker 1: But those are boys that say that men don't mind conversation.
Speaker 1: We mind when it arrives at the wrong time. There
Speaker 1: are times we're willing to listen, and there are times
Speaker 1: that we don't want to hear anything. There are times
Speaker 1: that we don't want to hear anything because we're annoyed
Speaker 1: and stressed from the job or the outside world. There
Speaker 1: are times that we're stressed because of you and we
Speaker 1: don't want to hear anything. There are other times that we
Speaker 1: don't want to hear anything because we got other things
Speaker 1: on our mind that we'd like to do with you,
Speaker 1: and talk it ain't one of them. So all of
Speaker 1: those things play a role. But when you master the
Speaker 1: person that you're with and timing that comes with how
Speaker 1: you interact with them, that goes a long way. Put
Speaker 1: it you this way, ladies, if you had a man,
Speaker 1: assuming you have a man in your life, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna go you know, I'm just gonna say that, and
Speaker 1: you wanted them at ten o'clock, is eleven o'clock good enough?
Speaker 1: Is mid night good enough? I mean, you'll settle for it.
Speaker 1: But what you want is what you want when you
Speaker 1: want it, And when he responds in a timely manner.
Speaker 1: That goes a long way, because he's feeding you when
Speaker 1: you're hungry, not when you're okay or full, and that
Speaker 1: has more value. Look at it that way. One more tweet.
Speaker 1: Let's go to it. Please at Jimmy John's right, Steven A. Smith,
Speaker 1: could you date someone who happens to be a loud
Speaker 1: and messy eiter? No, I'm loud enough. Two of us
Speaker 1: don't need to be loud. That's number one. Number two,
Speaker 1: I don't like messy. Two of us don't need to
Speaker 1: be messy. I'm a little messy. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not a slob. I'm not slovenly. I believe in
Speaker 1: carrying myself with some level of distinction and what have you.
Speaker 1: I believe in doing what I do in that regard.
Speaker 1: But I would tell you that I don't like a
Speaker 1: messy woman. I like a woman who's top na choose
Speaker 1: a bit vain, who cares about appearances, how she looks,
Speaker 1: how she conducts herself, how she carries herself, his mind
Speaker 1: full and cognizant of her surroundings, and acts accordingly. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine being out to dinner with company and your
Speaker 1: girl is eating like this, What the hell is that?
Speaker 1: Nobody want that? You don't want that from your man.
Speaker 1: She could eat like that by herself around you. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit more decorum in the face of company.
Speaker 1: In the presence of company, you want class beside off.
Speaker 1: You don't want nobody looking at your woman like she
Speaker 1: just love. You don't want messy associated with your woman.
Speaker 1: And you damn sure don't want loud. She don't know
Speaker 1: how to exercise class and decorum. She got to be
Speaker 1: all loud and boisterous and all of that stuff. You
Speaker 1: as a man, you got to be all loud and
Speaker 1: boisterous yourself when you with your woman around company. Not
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody want that. You want somebody that's mellowed, that
Speaker 1: understands the moment and what it calls for and what
Speaker 1: it doesn't call for. That's the difference between a girl
Speaker 1: and a lady and a boy and a man. That
Speaker 1: is my answer to your question, and it's the right one.
Speaker 1: I'm out, y'all until next time. This is Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith signing off. Thanks again to the one and only
Speaker 1: Kenya Barras and of course Drewski coming on the show.
Speaker 1: Blessing us with their presence really really appreciated. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I'll talk to y'all a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Until then, Peace of love,