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Speaker 1: got to get to the NBA All Star Weekend in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. First, we're hometown hero Steph Curry captured
Speaker 1: the second All Star Game MVP to the delight of
Speaker 1: the fans at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Curry
Speaker 1: scored twelve points in Team shacks OG's forty one twenty
Speaker 1: five victory Sunday in the first of forty finale against
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley's Global Stars to win the league's new round
Speaker 1: robin tournament. The two teams had dismissed Candae Parker and
Speaker 1: Kenny Smith squads in the semifinals. Some of the players
Speaker 1: acknowledged the new format led to a more competitive product,
Speaker 1: but it was met with mixed reviews overall. Case in point,
Speaker 1: mister Draymond Green. The biggest headlines of All Star Weekend
Speaker 1: may have been generated by him, who expressed his displeasure
Speaker 1: with the changes to the All Star Game. When asked
Speaker 1: to rate the new All Star Game format on a
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten during TNT's broadcast, he gave
Speaker 1: it quote a zero. He questioned the addition of the
Speaker 1: Rising Stars to the Sunday All Star Game festivities and
Speaker 1: said the new three game format quote sucks end quote
Speaker 1: end quote. It ate basketball end quote. A couple of
Speaker 1: things before I get into this. Number one, Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: Jalen Rose, and Vince Carter were outstanding, absolutely outstanding, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. They did that thing yesterday. They did
Speaker 1: what pregame shows are supposed to do, and in the
Speaker 1: case of Draymond Green, can't say enough. He stole the
Speaker 1: show with some of his comments. This was one of them.
Speaker 1: Now I went on Twitter and I said, for the record,
Speaker 1: I agree with him. It's All Star Weekend. You mean
Speaker 1: Ricky All Stars. They're not supposed to be a part
Speaker 1: of basketball on Sunday evening for the All Stars. So
Speaker 1: I think that Draymond Green was absolutely right, and I
Speaker 1: had no problem with him expressing his displeasure. But what
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Weekend had deteriorated into in terms of
Speaker 1: its main event, no doubt about it. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that he was complete in his synopsis and his
Speaker 1: breakdown of what disgusted him about the encore for All
Speaker 1: Star Weekend. Because you see, when you point to the
Speaker 1: game itself and the appearance and the participation of Ricky
Speaker 1: All Star, Draymond Green left one thing out. One thing out.
Speaker 1: He left out the fact that it was the fault
Speaker 1: of the players, the legitimate All Stars, who have basically
Speaker 1: snubbed their nose and given the proverbial middle finger to
Speaker 1: the league, to sponsors and advertisers, and to the fans
Speaker 1: because you've shown up each week over the last two
Speaker 1: to three years minimum, and you have flat out sucked.
Speaker 1: You haven't given a damn. When you couple that with
Speaker 1: the load management issues that had concerned the league, and
Speaker 1: you considered the games missed and the activity of people
Speaker 1: missing games and announcing it the last minute that they
Speaker 1: were going to miss the games and stuff like that
Speaker 1: during regular season and beyond, it became problematic. So the
Speaker 1: dereliction of duty exercised while the players on All Star
Speaker 1: Weekend is specifically the Sunday game, the main event. That
Speaker 1: stuff is what provoked rookie All Stars being added to
Speaker 1: it because we knew that players were gonna get their
Speaker 1: backup and they didn't want to be the one going
Speaker 1: out there losing to the rookie All Stars. And you
Speaker 1: saw that happen, You saw an extra level of an
Speaker 1: elevated level of effort. You saw all of that. Why,
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to get bounced out by rookie
Speaker 1: All Stars who they know were coming for them. That's
Speaker 1: exactly why the league did it. They did it to
Speaker 1: soak and milk every ounce of effort from All Stars
Speaker 1: who were supposed to be showing it. To begin with,
Speaker 1: I will remind y'all that did y'all know All Star
Speaker 1: activities is a part of their country? Did you know
Speaker 1: that it's a part of their country? And for these
Speaker 1: guys to walk up a prominent agent in the league
Speaker 1: said to me a few weeks ago, he said, the
Speaker 1: problem with the All Star weekend is that the players
Speaker 1: look at the league like a instead of looking at
Speaker 1: them like partners. You know what is a bank. It's
Speaker 1: the place that holds your money and you're allowed to
Speaker 1: come get whatever they're contractually obligated to give you based
Speaker 1: on a salary that you receive and nothing more. As
Speaker 1: opposed to looking at the league as partners who helped
Speaker 1: you get an eleven year, nearly seventy seven billion dollar
Speaker 1: deal with a league average salary being of over ten
Speaker 1: million dollars, were God's getting generational wealth. And what we're
Speaker 1: not seeing here is that you got cats that are
Speaker 1: making nine figures, well over one hundred, well over two
Speaker 1: hundred million, in some cases over three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: And literally you got cats going out there signing their
Speaker 1: contract and playing for their next contract or protecting themselves
Speaker 1: for their next contract without honoring what the president contract
Speaker 1: that they signed their name too, and what they're obligated
Speaker 1: to fulfill before they've done anything in regards to that.
Speaker 1: Let me position myself to acquire generation of wealth. But
Speaker 1: before you fulfill your obligations to earn the money you
Speaker 1: just signed off for. Let me tell y'all something right now.
Speaker 1: NBA All Star week is in the world of trouble.
Speaker 1: Last night was a step in the right direction because
Speaker 1: we saw some effort for the first time in a while,
Speaker 1: which was a good thing. Because I'm here to tell
Speaker 1: you right now, had they showed up and not given
Speaker 1: any effort similar to what they did the last two
Speaker 1: to three years, had they done that last night, I'm
Speaker 1: here to tell y'all right now, the NBA All Star
Speaker 1: Weekend was in danger of being canceled. I'm not guessing.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I know. It was on the
Speaker 1: verge of being canceled. So please understand that that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about here, that really, really is. So I
Speaker 1: was pleased with what I saw compared to what I
Speaker 1: saw for the previous two to three years, but it
Speaker 1: still wasn't anything, And knock my socks off, it really
Speaker 1: really wasn't. And I didn't blame Draymond Green one second
Speaker 1: for saying what he said. I'm just saying you got
Speaker 1: to put the owners where it belongs, which is on
Speaker 1: the players who've wet the bed in terms of their effort.
Speaker 1: By the way, we got two examples last night. Listen,
Speaker 1: how you Lebron James, and you're gonna announce right before
Speaker 1: to the league that you can't participate. You showed up
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and you can't play. You didn't know
Speaker 1: that beforehand, so they could have made sure to have
Speaker 1: somebody like a Norman Power of the Clippers or somebody
Speaker 1: else that was there to fill your spot. Adam Silver
Speaker 1: didn't have time to name a replacement because Lebron James
Speaker 1: let him know at the last minute. Though any of
Speaker 1: us believe that Lebron James didn't know he was gonna play,
Speaker 1: do any of us believe for one second that he
Speaker 1: decided at the last minute he was gonna play. Nobody
Speaker 1: believes that. Nobody's by I mean spin teuge wet spending
Speaker 1: somebody's face telling them it's raining. Nobody's believing that he
Speaker 1: could have let him know, but he did it. I
Speaker 1: got news for you too. Who says anything about Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: I mean the great Steph Curry. I mean, talk about
Speaker 1: a godlike figure. I mean, to say anything negative about
Speaker 1: this brother is damn They're sacrilegious because he is, to
Speaker 1: quit essential ambassador. He is perfection personified as a human being.
Speaker 1: He's God fearing, he's decent, he's a family man. Don't
Speaker 1: get himself in any trouble, don't talk bad about anybody.
Speaker 1: Nothing Seth Curry special. But is it just me, fellas
Speaker 1: ladies talking to my staff here? Is it just me? Am?
Speaker 1: I the only one that had a problem with the
Speaker 1: fact that the three point shooting contest was taking place
Speaker 1: right there in San Francisco on his home turf, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't a participant? Is it just me? Is it
Speaker 1: just me? I mean, he's only the greatest shooter God
Speaker 1: ever created. It's a three point shooting contest. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the fact that Damian Lillard was a two time champion
Speaker 1: and then he ultimately lost. It probably had something to
Speaker 1: do with all that damn activity is going on where
Speaker 1: y'all interrupting their rhythm. He damned it looked like he
Speaker 1: was taking a nap on a bench before it was
Speaker 1: his turn to shoot. Maybe if y'all hadn't disrupted this rhythm,
Speaker 1: he would have been better off. But any event, it
Speaker 1: came down to Buddy Heel versus Tyler Hero. Ain't no
Speaker 1: shame in that both the brothers can shoot. But All
Speaker 1: Star Weekend is in San Francisco, on the home turf
Speaker 1: of Steph Curry, and the greatest shooter God has ever
Speaker 1: created chose that three point shooting event to not participate.
Speaker 1: Is it just me? Is it just me? Would have
Speaker 1: been nice to see him. Just wanted to say that.
Speaker 1: Let me move on to the next subject, because we
Speaker 1: got to get to the Dunk Contest, where we saw
Speaker 1: Matt McClung become the first player to win it three
Speaker 1: straight years, beating rookie Stephan Castle of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs in the final. His first dunk was over a car,
Speaker 1: and after his performance, NBA stars John Moran and Jannis
Speaker 1: after the gunpo publicly contemplated participating in the context next season.
Speaker 1: John said he may have to enter the frame next
Speaker 1: year and shouted out former champ Zach Lavine and Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 1: and Yanna said he would participate if Moran entered the contest,
Speaker 1: which basically means neither of the imna gonna participate because
Speaker 1: we know John Moran is just talking. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a brother that has been a skywalker for years, but
Speaker 1: suddenly you gonna want to participate. Who you fooling? Don't
Speaker 1: believe it, ladies and gentlemen, until we see it. I'm
Speaker 1: so sick of this stuff. I really really am. It
Speaker 1: really really rakes my nerves. And by the way, Yana's
Speaker 1: your seven feet, I'm not that interested in seeing you
Speaker 1: in the dunk contest. Honestly speaking, if we really really
Speaker 1: think about do we really care to see a seven
Speaker 1: footer in a dunk contest? You barely have to come
Speaker 1: off your tippy toes to dunk. Now, Mack McClung ain't
Speaker 1: spud Wab but the brother special and props to mac
Speaker 1: McClung because that brother can dunk. White dudes can jump, evidently,
Speaker 1: remember the movie White Man Can't Jump where Wesley Snipes
Speaker 1: and Woody Harrison. White Man evidently can dunk. Because that
Speaker 1: brother Mack McClung, not one, not two, but three times
Speaker 1: back to back to back champions. Having said that, with
Speaker 1: all the credit this kid deserves, can we take a
Speaker 1: moment to pause to give it some proper perspective. Sherry,
Speaker 1: don't laugh too much, Griff, don't look sad because Mack
Speaker 1: McClung looks like you and you're looking out for your brother.
Speaker 1: Just listen to me. Can we just be very, very
Speaker 1: honest and realistic about something here, Ladies and gentlemen, Draymond's
Speaker 1: assertions about All Star Game should also apply to the
Speaker 1: Slam Dunk contest. Do you know that Mac McClung is
Speaker 1: in the G League? Do you know that he has
Speaker 1: three Slam Dunk Championships and it almost matches the number
Speaker 1: of NBA games he's actually played in his NBA career.
Speaker 1: Do you know that Mac mcclun has played a grand
Speaker 1: total of five NBA games in his career and he's
Speaker 1: won three Slam Dunk titles. This is not to throw
Speaker 1: any shade on him whatsoever. It's to show how disgraceful
Speaker 1: the players are. Nobody can participate in this, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: let me stay for the record right now. This is
Speaker 1: not piling on because Lebron James is the second greatest
Speaker 1: player in the history of basketball, who I believe is
Speaker 1: grossly underpaid. It's worth more than he's being paid as
Speaker 1: an ambassador for this league, is a marquee and has
Speaker 1: spent the vast majority of his career showing up in
Speaker 1: every way one can imagine, except for one thing, and
Speaker 1: that is slam Dunk contest of All Star Weekend. Lebron
Speaker 1: James single handedly ruined this competition. Ruined it, Ladies, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: to get Mack McClung out the way, y'all do understand
Speaker 1: that Mac McClung. Those are prop dunks. That's right. I
Speaker 1: said it, Griff, don't be offended. He'll be afraid enough
Speaker 1: talking about your brother like that. It's the truth, that's
Speaker 1: the truth. He doesn't dribble. Even Dominique Wilkins, who didn't
Speaker 1: have much of a hand, who used to dribble, he
Speaker 1: doesn't dribble. What he dunks, there's always assistance or he's
Speaker 1: always getting some running start. Did you see Vince caught
Speaker 1: in two thousand Huh? Did you see it? I saw it.
Speaker 1: Did you see Zach Levie in twenty fifteen that wasn't
Speaker 1: even his best? Did you see him in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: against Aaron Gordon? Did you see it? I saw it?
Speaker 1: Did you see it? I mean these brothers were sensational.
Speaker 1: Did you see Jordan in eighty eight against Dominique Wilkins.
Speaker 1: Did you see him? See him cuff the ball? You
Speaker 1: see Doctor j back in the day, You see sput Web,
Speaker 1: you see Jason Richardson. Did you see Dawaight Howard versus
Speaker 1: Nate Robinson. I appreciate so much what Matt McClung did
Speaker 1: over the last three years to save the dunk contest,
Speaker 1: But let's stop talking about him like he's on those
Speaker 1: brothers level. It's not true. It's not true. He's not,
Speaker 1: but you have to make it seem that way because
Speaker 1: at least he had the decency to be fearless enough
Speaker 1: to participate, which is more than we could say for
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of brothers legitimately in the NBA who
Speaker 1: are stars who want no part of this competition. And
Speaker 1: it all started with Lebron. Doctor j participated, David Thompson participated,
Speaker 1: Dominique Wilkins participated, Michael Jordan participated, Vince Carter participated, Tracy
Speaker 1: McGrady participated, Kobe Bryant participated. All the megastars who played
Speaker 1: above the rim participated until Lebron James refused. He ruined
Speaker 1: the slam Dunk contest, which is why if you can
Speaker 1: have a Matt mcclun coming from the G League, I
Speaker 1: would strongly advise people to embrace my suggestion. Remember when
Speaker 1: I said over the airways before not just this show,
Speaker 1: but on ESPN, I would personally attach my name to
Speaker 1: a nationwide contest going throughout the cities of America to
Speaker 1: find the top ten slam dunkers in the country to
Speaker 1: come to All Star Weekend. And what I would do
Speaker 1: is use ten All Stars to sponsor the players that
Speaker 1: they support that they think would win, where they could
Speaker 1: be active participants but play the role of cheerleaders and
Speaker 1: sponsors while you let them dunk. First prize a million dollars,
Speaker 1: second prize half a million dollars, Third prize one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. We got brothers in the streets starving for
Speaker 1: a portion of those dollars. At one hundred thousand, let
Speaker 1: alone five hundred thousand of a million. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: what they would do to participate in a slam dunk
Speaker 1: contest on All Star Weekend. It would be the best
Speaker 1: slam dunk contest maybe ever. That's what we should be
Speaker 1: thinking about that's what we should be thinking about again.
Speaker 1: Props to Mac McClung. Appreciate his contribution, but let's stop
Speaker 1: acting like we ain't seen better. We have. I gave
Speaker 1: you a plethora of examples. And boy of zach Lavine
Speaker 1: gets back in it next year and Aaron Gordon gets back,
Speaker 1: and I think's too late for Aaron Gordon. They'll be
Speaker 1: a too old to be doing that. But zach Lavine,
Speaker 1: John Morant certainly has the ability, but he didn't want
Speaker 1: to do it to what you want to do it now?
Speaker 1: For I don't believe it. Zack Levine already did it twice.
Speaker 1: He doesn't owe us that. But if he gave us
Speaker 1: gave it to us a third time, boy, what the
Speaker 1: treated would be. That's all I wanted to say about that.
Speaker 1: Before I get back to Draymond Green about something else.
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Speaker 1: from the All Star Break. The Charlotte Hornets are visiting
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday night and the Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: are at the Brooklyn Nets Thursday night. So let's get
Speaker 1: to it first. Up with the Los Angeles Lakers, Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Will he score more or less than twenty three and
Speaker 1: a half points against the Charlotte Hornets. I'm going with more.
Speaker 1: The brother had a break, right's rest? Right? Didn't play
Speaker 1: All Star weekend? Right? I mean, and you look at
Speaker 1: it from that standpoint, I know he's trying to get
Speaker 1: Luke involved in all of this other stuff. But Lebron
Speaker 1: is Lebron, and with the criticism he's gonna get for
Speaker 1: sitting out and letting the NBA know at the last
Speaker 1: damn minute that he was sitting out, not giving Adam
Speaker 1: Silver an opportunity to name a replacement. He's gonna take
Speaker 1: some heat when Lebron gave James since his heat, he
Speaker 1: responds the best way he knows how to on the court,
Speaker 1: and considering the fact that it's against Charlotte Hornets, I
Speaker 1: think he'll be fine. Twenty three and a half points
Speaker 1: is easy. He'll handle that. Next up, will the Charlotte
Speaker 1: Hornets moles Bridges scored more or less than twenty three
Speaker 1: and a half points. I'm gonna go with less. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with less. He's up and down some of
Speaker 1: the Yany's's definitely capable of having big games, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But twenty three and a half points against
Speaker 1: the Lakers is suspect, as their defense is from time
Speaker 1: to time. I think they can handle it. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have that big of a game against
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers this Wednesday night. I could be
Speaker 1: wrong because he could give it to them. I just
Speaker 1: suspect that Wednesday night's not gonna be one of those nights.
Speaker 1: Next up with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Will the Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell score more or less than twenty three and
Speaker 1: a half points, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm thinking about saying
Speaker 1: that the Cleveland Cavali is gonna win the championship. I'm
Speaker 1: not there yet, but I'm getting there. That's primarily because
Speaker 1: of that brother right there. I love me some Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I wish he was a New York nick. I don't
Speaker 1: give a damn what size issue it would have existed
Speaker 1: with him and Jalen Brunson. Could you imagine what those
Speaker 1: brothers would be doing on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball if that brother's on the New York next I
Speaker 1: don't give it damn what anybody says. I'm off the mindset.
Speaker 1: Excuse me that this brother is gonna do his thing.
Speaker 1: I'm always gonna pick him to score over twenty three
Speaker 1: and a half point. Demn it. Even when I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm right. Oh, when I'm right, I'm wrong, it don't matter. Finally,
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, Cavaliers will the Cleveland Cavaliers, Darius Garland scored
Speaker 1: more or less than twenty and a half points. They've
Speaker 1: been playing phenomenal basketball all year long. Darius has got
Speaker 1: his game back. Acting sen Kenny Actinson, the new head coach,
Speaker 1: has done his due diligence. They've got this ToIP of
Speaker 1: the best record in basketball. Darius Garland has a lot
Speaker 1: to do with that. I'm gonna go with more on
Speaker 1: this one too. So it's more with Garland, it's more
Speaker 1: with Mitchell, Okay, it's with Lebron James, it's less with
Speaker 1: Myles Bridges. That's where I'm at with it. Okay, That's
Speaker 1: just where I'm at with it. Maybe I'm right, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Just note this, I'm not wrong too often.
Speaker 1: Flow with me on this. Please flow with me. Now.
Speaker 1: Let me get to the whole Draymond thing, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all saw this last night, but Draymond
Speaker 1: went a bit beyond All Star weekend, started talking about
Speaker 1: his gold to State Warriors. Obviously, he was in front
Speaker 1: of his homes on his home turf to Chase Center
Speaker 1: outside with that crowd watching him, and Draymond Green had
Speaker 1: this to say, ladies and gentlemen, I need you to
Speaker 1: see it. Put this up on a full screen, please,
Speaker 1: because I need them to see it. He said to
Speaker 1: that crowd outside and the Jalen Rose and Vince Carter.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna win the championship. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I lied. I said, I think we're going to win
Speaker 1: a championship. But again I lied. We are going to
Speaker 1: win the champion. Draymond Green, I don't think he's smoking something,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna win. But I will
Speaker 1: say this, Jimmy Butler does bring a different dimension and
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins and those brothers brought. He gets to the
Speaker 1: free throw line. I got to the free throw He's
Speaker 1: only been there four games, got to the free throw
Speaker 1: lines forty times. That stalls the action. That gives Steph
Speaker 1: Curry an opportunity to rest, which means that when you're
Speaker 1: running the floor of your offense and this brother's getting
Speaker 1: loose looking to launch, you got them in a better position.
Speaker 1: Plus Jimmy Butler defends as well. So Jimmy Butler defends
Speaker 1: along with Draymond Green. There's no shortage of heart in
Speaker 1: that locker room. There's no shortage of ability between Steph
Speaker 1: and Jimmy. With Draymond's abilities outside of shooting the basketball,
Speaker 1: I don't think Golden State could be OKAC. I don't
Speaker 1: think they could be the healthy Dallas. I don't believe
Speaker 1: they could be the healthy Denver. I'm not sure they
Speaker 1: could be a healthy LA. I think they got a
Speaker 1: chance against a health the LA because it's Lebron and
Speaker 1: Luke offensively, but the Lakers got some size on them.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, don't I think they could beat
Speaker 1: the Lakers. One thing I will say about Draymond, he
Speaker 1: has made the latter part of this NBA season, these
Speaker 1: last twenty seven games, very interesting, very interesting, because you
Speaker 1: know he's gonna go out there trying to back it up.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry said he ain't had no problem with what
Speaker 1: Draymond said, so he's ready to back it up. And
Speaker 1: you know Jimmy Buckets ain't back it down from no
Speaker 1: damn body. So it's about to get and Steve Kirk
Speaker 1: can coach his ass off, So it's about to get
Speaker 1: very very interesting. On that, I will say. But before
Speaker 1: I go to break, I got a guest in the house.
Speaker 1: I'm out of town. But my nephew is in and
Speaker 1: when I'm not in town, he loves sitting behind my
Speaker 1: desk acting like he's running the show. My nephew Josh, No,
Speaker 1: it's not nephew tism, but that's what he likes to
Speaker 1: call it. Look, look, why you look like you got
Speaker 1: a beanie on or something. What the hell are you wearing?
Speaker 1: What kind of hat is that?
Speaker 2: It's about five degrees out here, feeling like buffalo.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, all right, move to your
Speaker 1: left because you got a sense see this shows your amateurs,
Speaker 1: and move a little bit to your left. You ain't
Speaker 1: even centered trying to say.
Speaker 2: As long as the next next emblem was showing, somebody
Speaker 2: got to show.
Speaker 1: The emblem is showing. Why why are you? Why are
Speaker 1: you in studio sitting in my chair acting like you
Speaker 1: you running the show? What's going on with you?
Speaker 2: I have I have a few announcements. They're calling me JVP,
Speaker 2: j v P. Yes, Jeff Van Gundy when you're running
Speaker 2: for president, aren't you?
Speaker 1: I'm not. But what does that have to do with you?
Speaker 2: Well, people putting you on polls and stuff like that. No,
Speaker 2: no funny stuff, But you're gonna need a vice no.
Speaker 1: What the hell I'm supposed to have you as a
Speaker 1: vice president.
Speaker 2: Wherever you lack, I'm strong. That's that's what's that's the
Speaker 2: dynamic between us.
Speaker 1: So but I'm not lacking. What happened so you can
Speaker 1: give me.
Speaker 2: The perfect the perfect candidate. Politician is no such thing.
Speaker 1: So whatever you're there's no perfect there's no perfect candidate.
Speaker 1: But i'd be pretty damn good, and I think that
Speaker 1: i'd beat any Democrat that's out there, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2: With you, No, but how would you make people like
Speaker 2: me want.
Speaker 1: To vote for you? Well, first of all, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look out for you, because just because I don't smile
Speaker 1: and sit up there and wave the and wave the
Speaker 1: blackfist and talk about black power don't mean I'm gonna
Speaker 1: forget my own. I'm gonna always look out for my own.
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two, I'm gonna look out for
Speaker 1: the American people. See, there's a way to do both.
Speaker 1: There's a way to do both, and you got to
Speaker 1: articulate your position as opposed to creating enemies. The thing
Speaker 1: about it is, we can't act like what we need
Speaker 1: is a smile and we need somebody in our face see,
Speaker 1: I had to give you tough love. You understand, because
Speaker 1: you know what, Grandma smiled enough of your face. Grandma
Speaker 1: set up there and pacified, pacified your baby ass self.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Grandma did. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: But don't I love you. Don't I look out for you?
Speaker 1: Do I not?
Speaker 2: As the vice president? There are a few things that
Speaker 2: I would you know, that I would work on, and
Speaker 2: I feel like you wouldn't think about it, but you
Speaker 2: would back me up, like what give it to you? Like?
Speaker 2: For instance, why do we get tickets for not wearing
Speaker 2: our seatbolt? It's my safety? Why I gotta pay for it?
Speaker 2: If I'm ignoring it? That's just one if.
Speaker 1: You don't have on your seat pert. So in other words,
Speaker 1: you're saying that you should have the right to harm yourself.
Speaker 1: I should. That's that's that that? What are you?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 1: Your motorists are? Are Kavorkian motorists? Now? Something? What the
Speaker 1: hell are you talking about? It's not that.
Speaker 2: I just feel like the government sometimes just sticks there
Speaker 2: and nose where it doesn't belong when there's real issues
Speaker 2: out here?
Speaker 1: What what? What? What real issues are out there? Josh?
Speaker 1: Because you just brought up seat belts. I mean that's
Speaker 1: a that's a real person. That is you. I mean
Speaker 1: saying that's just a small part. All right? So why
Speaker 1: is the weekend only two days? Yeah? What are you
Speaker 1: trying to say?
Speaker 2: Why can't Friday be a part of isn't that something
Speaker 2: that the president can sit there and decide why Friday
Speaker 2: can do?
Speaker 1: It? Is not? And a weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's a weekend universally recognized as the weekend.
Speaker 2: What's the problem universally recognized? No, that's this nation and
Speaker 2: also this nation. Why can you only have one wife?
Speaker 2: It was just Valentine's that I was looked at as
Speaker 2: a villain because I had three.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Cornering it into just having one Valentine. What is that
Speaker 2: what you do this weekend?
Speaker 1: Did you just say on video that you have three Valentines?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that what you just said? What you don't think
Speaker 1: that that that's gonna get you in trouble running your
Speaker 1: mouth like this?
Speaker 2: No, I mean unless if I told my Valentine, yes
Speaker 2: you were my only Valentine, that be a lot. That's
Speaker 2: not what I did.
Speaker 1: What did you do, Josh? What did you do?
Speaker 2: Well, this year, I chose me. Let's start with that.
Speaker 2: I got tired of the same mold. Like I buy something,
Speaker 2: I buy something ground shaking and get back like a
Speaker 2: big comb or something like that, or my favorite. Oh
Speaker 2: you come out with something lace, we're nothing in your hands.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I had that before. Where's my gift?
Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. On Valentine's you're looking
Speaker 1: to receive a gift as opposed to give them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's because I want to start a new tradition.
Speaker 2: The tradition is started by people, so I want to
Speaker 2: start a new one. Valentine's Day is about me, if
Speaker 2: you with me. Valentine's Aa is about me, because all
Speaker 2: year round, I'm about you, right, That's what That's what
Speaker 2: you taught me to do.
Speaker 1: Be all about your lady. Right.
Speaker 2: So what's the one day could I get It's not
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Then what is it?
Speaker 2: That's another time?
Speaker 1: Got your birthday? They got I got that.
Speaker 2: She got a birthday too, So why should get that
Speaker 2: in Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Because she's your lady. I'm a man.
Speaker 2: That's it. We gotta start establishing value in ourselves. I
Speaker 2: got you, I got you, so I'm taking that note?
Speaker 1: What else he taking money?
Speaker 2: Got my notes.
Speaker 1: Here back with more on my nephew Josh. In the second,
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Speaker 1: You saw All Star Weekend. What were your thoughts about
Speaker 1: All Star Weeking? You heard what I had to say,
Speaker 1: Well your thoughts, it's it wasn't the worst.
Speaker 2: It was bad. It wasn't the worst, though, And I
Speaker 2: feel like they are going towards fixing it. I feel
Speaker 2: like I got the solution.
Speaker 1: You want to hear it, Okay, all right, I want
Speaker 1: to hear what the lootion is. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: I think they got it right with the little part
Speaker 2: of the younger, the younger team playing one of the
Speaker 2: older teams. But I think that that should be the
Speaker 2: All Stars. You should have All Stars under twenty eight
Speaker 2: and then All Stars over twenty eight and have them
Speaker 2: play each other I think pride kicks in with that,
Speaker 2: or you could do the Europeans and the international players dynamic.
Speaker 1: I think I think I think soccer is a litmus
Speaker 1: test in disregard Josh in all seriousness when you look
Speaker 1: at the competition overseas and how rapid that fan base
Speaker 1: is and and and how serious they take it. The
Speaker 1: players have no choice because listen, it's it's not safe
Speaker 1: for them when they lose when they give one max effort.
Speaker 1: So so if they were lack of days ago in
Speaker 1: any way, could you imagine how those folks would act.
Speaker 1: So I think that because of the pride that they
Speaker 1: take in representing their homeland wherever that may be, you
Speaker 1: put the international players up against the US players, since
Speaker 1: this is where the sport was born. You put it
Speaker 1: up against the US players, and the US players go
Speaker 1: up against the international players, and that's how you have
Speaker 1: all star wiken. And I also think you put it
Speaker 1: in different places. One year you put it in the States,
Speaker 1: another year you put it in Paris, another year you
Speaker 1: come back to the States. Another year you go to England,
Speaker 1: another year you come back to the States. Another year
Speaker 1: you might go to Croatia or Sweden. Or Finland or
Speaker 1: someplace like that, Amsterdam, which is I here as a
Speaker 1: party town and all of this other Croatia something like that.
Speaker 1: I think you do that. Or rather, let's say, for example,
Speaker 1: you got Luca, he's from Slovenia, all right, you have
Speaker 1: other you know when beyonnas from France, you have and
Speaker 1: be to somebody who's from Congo. I think you go
Speaker 1: to those places where one of those players are represented
Speaker 1: and you have the All Star festivity there. I think
Speaker 1: that's how you do it. I think that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that could potentially save the event. To that you say, what.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully you do have one of the best ideas,
Speaker 2: because like you blame Lebron for the dunk contest.
Speaker 1: This is all your full his fault of mine.
Speaker 2: No. No, the All Star Game and the season where
Speaker 2: people are like load managing and stuff like that, that's you.
Speaker 2: You want to know what why you are one of
Speaker 2: the main starters of championship or nothing. So now they
Speaker 2: ignore the journey and listening to you saying don't count,
Speaker 2: we don't care if you got forty ten and ten
Speaker 2: at night, let's see what you do. In June, you
Speaker 2: were saying that about Lebron for about a decade.
Speaker 1: So it was like, all right, that's inaccurate. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that's inaccurate. What I said was that in terms of yes,
Speaker 1: once you show what you can do and what your
Speaker 1: abilities are, you gotta close. You can't be one of
Speaker 1: them brothers that's doing it with games that don't matter.
Speaker 1: But then when the games matter most, you shrink because
Speaker 1: the great ones didn't do that. That's what I say,
Speaker 1: and that's what I hold him accountable to. You don't
Speaker 1: take away from their greatness as a talent. What you're
Speaker 1: saying is to validate it, to close the deal. You
Speaker 1: got to show up in the moments that count. And
Speaker 1: last time I checked, you agreed with me because you
Speaker 1: brought up a score.
Speaker 2: Championships, I agree with you a little bit, but a
Speaker 2: little I'll see Lebron average thirty four, eighteen and seven
Speaker 2: in the finals and lose. That's not him not closing.
Speaker 1: That's tamau tamout. If Lebron is averaging thirty but in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter like he did against Dallas, you're going
Speaker 1: up against a Jason Terry or you know, JJ Burrea
Speaker 1: and you can't score on them in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: What the hell you want me to say?
Speaker 2: That's that's that's that's only Dallas. I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: other nine.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a big deal. Let me ask you question,
Speaker 1: when did that ever happen to Jordan? Who, by the way,
Speaker 1: congratu happy birthday to Jordan because it's the sixty second
Speaker 1: birthday today. How sixty two sixty two, So Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: is his sixty second birthday today? He had those kind
Speaker 1: of moments. I mean, well he was, he was.
Speaker 2: He was one and eight before Scotti Pittman came on
Speaker 2: the team, and you know how I feel.
Speaker 1: No, he was one and eight and what in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? Excuse me? Aund sweeps that's fine? To first
Speaker 1: round seats? You mean when he dropped sixty three and
Speaker 1: Larry Bird called them god and Jim Shorts mean when
Speaker 1: he had nothing but himself and a bunch of malemen
Speaker 1: working with him. Excuse me? Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Are you? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you on drugs?
Speaker 2: I'm not on drugs? And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: Lebron in two thousand and seven, what was his team like?
Speaker 1: I gave him credit for getting up to the championship
Speaker 1: against the Spurs. I've never held that loss to the
Speaker 1: Spurs against him. But in Dallas when he was with
Speaker 1: d Wade and by send those boys and and he
Speaker 1: went to bed in the fourth quarter. That's a fact.
Speaker 1: You know this. You know this. And by the way,
Speaker 1: why the hell do you have on that tight ass
Speaker 1: New York Knicks jacket? I mean, why why is it
Speaker 1: so tight?
Speaker 2: Oh no, it wasn't tight like a month ago. You
Speaker 2: got me in the gym. So my stuff starting. So
Speaker 2: you're working out my stuff starting, and they're working out yeah,
Speaker 2: and busting out.
Speaker 1: My clothes company, busting out your glothes.
Speaker 2: Company card and needs some new clothes. I'm coming down tonight.
Speaker 2: Worry about it.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, man, get the hell out of here. I'll see
Speaker 1: you later.
Speaker 2: Don't come down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're done. Don't come down. Don't come down. You're
Speaker 1: probably complaining about your flight arrangers anyway, with your spoiled
Speaker 1: that self coming up. Come in the news Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith as President of the United States. Everybody want to
Speaker 1: know if I'm serious or if I'm bluffing. Stick around
Speaker 1: and you'll find out exactly where I stand. But before that,
Speaker 1: we got to get in the hole and some legal
Speaker 1: action that has evaporated before our very eyes. The kind
Speaker 1: of legal action that was being taken against them gone.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss that next right here on Stephen Nate Smithshaw.
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back to Steve Nate Smithshaw, right
Speaker 1: here with the digsual airways, with YouTube and of course iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Let me get into some pop culture please, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna call this entertainment. The woman who accused jay Z
Speaker 1: in Sean Diddy Combs of raping her when she was
Speaker 1: thirteen years old has dropped her lawsuit against both men
Speaker 1: less than four months after it was filed. Court records
Speaker 1: showed that the suit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the
Speaker 1: plaintiff cannot refile a suit. The suit included disturbing details
Speaker 1: of how the woman was allegedly lured by a limousine
Speaker 1: driver outside the two thousand MTV Video Music Awards and
Speaker 1: assaulted by the two rappers at an after party. Jay
Speaker 1: Z strongly denied the claims, and his attorneys had been
Speaker 1: seeking to get the case dismissed. In a statement on Saturday,
Speaker 1: jay Z Sean Carter himself said the claims will quote frivolous, fictitious,
Speaker 1: and appalling, and called the suit a money grab. The
Speaker 1: statement continued, I would not wish this experience on anyone.
Speaker 1: The trauma that my wife, my children, my loved ones,
Speaker 1: and I have endured can never be dismissed. This one
Speaker 1: to eight hundred lawyer gets to file a suit hiding
Speaker 1: behind Jane Doe, and when they quickly realize that the
Speaker 1: money grab is going to fail, they get to walk
Speaker 1: away with no repercussions. The court must protect victims, of course,
Speaker 1: while with the same ethical responsibility, the courts must protect
Speaker 1: the innocent from being accused without a shred of evidence.
Speaker 1: End quote. On Saturday, Colm's attorney said the suit dropped
Speaker 1: on Friday will be the first of many that will
Speaker 1: not hold up in a court of law. End quote.
Speaker 1: Jay z ain't that one. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: He did exactly what he was supposed to do. He
Speaker 1: didn't sit oddly buy and watch his name be raaked
Speaker 1: through the colds and Sully the way that he did.
Speaker 1: Most of us would have. Most of us would have
Speaker 1: let our lawyers handled it. We would have shut up,
Speaker 1: we would have kept silid. He didn't do that, and
Speaker 1: I remember I was taking a lot of heat for
Speaker 1: coming to jay Z's defense. My initial question is where
Speaker 1: the hell are y'all now? And to the people who
Speaker 1: have smiled in jay Z's face, who was supposed to
Speaker 1: be his friends, who are supposed to be supportive of
Speaker 1: his where y'all at? Where y'all at? Let me be
Speaker 1: very very clear, none of us were there. We don't
Speaker 1: know what happened to whatever the case may be. That's fair,
Speaker 1: and if you have a microphone and a camera in
Speaker 1: front of you, you have an obligation to say that.
Speaker 1: But in the same breath, what was I being attacked? For?
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, if you were, if you were recalled?
Speaker 1: What I said was the man that I have known
Speaker 1: and I have been friends with for twenty five years.
Speaker 1: There's no way I believe he's capable of something like that. See,
Speaker 1: the bigger issue is the damn punks that society has
Speaker 1: turned us into. You can say two things at once.
Speaker 1: You can say I wasn't there, and I have no
Speaker 1: factual evidence to prove my position. But the person that
Speaker 1: I've known for twenty five years, nah, I don't believe
Speaker 1: he would do that. I want to stak. I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm clear because I got friends
Speaker 1: and loved ones and people like that in my life.
Speaker 1: If y'all ever handle some stuff with me the way
Speaker 1: that some of these people handle this stuff with jay Z,
Speaker 1: y'all kiss my ass and you go to hell, because
Speaker 1: at the very least somebody should be able to say,
Speaker 1: I've known stephen A for twenty twenty five years, forty years, Nah,
Speaker 1: I can't see him doing it. You're just gonna go
Speaker 1: silent and just leave him hanging like that when it
Speaker 1: ain't like he was silent. It ain't like he hid
Speaker 1: it and leaving others to talk for him. No, he
Speaker 1: spoke and said I'm innocent. This is not true, and
Speaker 1: nobody could stand up and say, nah, I that brother
Speaker 1: that I know, I can't see that a thirteen year
Speaker 1: old girl, Yes, you are guilty. You are innocent until
Speaker 1: proven guilty in the court of law, and we understand
Speaker 1: it in the court of public opinion. It shifted in
Speaker 1: this day and age. You know what the sad part
Speaker 1: is some of you out there might have believed jay
Speaker 1: Z was totally innocent, but you know what, it wasn't
Speaker 1: clickbait to say that so what you wanted to do
Speaker 1: was throw it out there and give a reaction for
Speaker 1: bake purposes. That's sad, it really really is. If I'm
Speaker 1: attorney Buzzby, ILL watch my back because jay Z coming.
Speaker 1: I don't believe for one second that jay Z's gonna
Speaker 1: sit oddly by and stop there. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. You don't have to hang out
Speaker 1: with people everybody, Eh, Steven, you're trying, you name, You're
Speaker 1: trying to act like you cool that. You know how
Speaker 1: many times I've been in forty forty know how many
Speaker 1: times me and jay Z were hanging out in the
Speaker 1: back with with og Wan and the rest of the
Speaker 1: crew talking sports, hanging out, playing cards, playing fantasy football
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. You know how many times I've
Speaker 1: been around these You know how you know? You don't
Speaker 1: know who I know, You don't know who anybody knows.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to be around people every day,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. One of my best friends in the
Speaker 1: world is my boy Pooly. You know Poolly that love
Speaker 1: the big women. You got to be a minimum of
Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftyounds for him to look at you
Speaker 1: Beyonce could be in front of his face and E'd
Speaker 1: be like, what the hell am I supposed to do
Speaker 1: with that? She's too small. That Pooly Pooy was raised
Speaker 1: in Hollis Queen's with me, I'm lucky if I see
Speaker 1: Pooley once a year. Once a year. I'm lucky if
Speaker 1: we talk more than five times a year. The one
Speaker 1: thing you will never hear me say is that there's
Speaker 1: somebody on this planet Earth that is my best friend
Speaker 1: over him. I grew up with him. I've known him
Speaker 1: for over fifty years. Fifty five. Actually, that's my dog.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn if I don't see him
Speaker 1: or I'll talk to him as much I love my brother,
Speaker 1: and if he ever needs me, I'm only a call away.
Speaker 1: This notion that you got to hang out with people
Speaker 1: and got to fratenize all the time and got to
Speaker 1: be in front of their face all the damn time
Speaker 1: for them to be friends, y'all know that's not true.
Speaker 1: I'm doing jay Z for twenty five years. I never
Speaker 1: believed he was guilty of such a thing. Ever, it's
Speaker 1: a damn shame that the only voice I heard say
Speaker 1: that was myself. It's pretty messed up. He's a better
Speaker 1: man than me, though he'll probably move on. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: forget any of y'all asses, wouldn't do much, wouldn't say much,
Speaker 1: but I know you, and you'd know I know you
Speaker 1: to Jay, Beyonce and the family. Hope y'all continue to
Speaker 1: live life wonderfully and prosperously. I'm glad this specific ordeal
Speaker 1: is over, and I hope you never have to deal
Speaker 1: with anything like this again. That's all I got to say,
Speaker 1: because anything else I say, I might just cuss people out.
Speaker 1: Can't speak up for nobody. That's how much punks we
Speaker 1: are in this day, and these can't speak of anybody
Speaker 1: coming up. All bunch of stuff is going on with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump showing you as strength or capitulating the poot,
Speaker 1: and we don't know how I might be of assistance
Speaker 1: if I went in the Oval office. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that either, but I'm about to speculate on a
Speaker 1: very high level to kill some noise once and for all.
Speaker 1: If you didn't know where I stand before on my
Speaker 1: own politics and how I feel, you're about to find out.
Speaker 1: Hold on to this because I don't like repeat myself too.
Speaker 1: Last block of the Steven Ax Smith Show coming out
Speaker 1: in a minute. Welcome back to the stephen Ate Smith
Speaker 1: Show right here over the digital airwaves and YouTube, and
Speaker 1: of course iHeartRadio. Let me switch to a subject near
Speaker 1: and dear to my heart me because once again I'm
Speaker 1: in the news and you would think it would be
Speaker 1: about something else other than what I'm in the news for,
Speaker 1: but one thing after another has appeared. I had a
Speaker 1: couple of articles that I had to pay attention to
Speaker 1: this week, and there is no way around this. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to tackle it with the further that it
Speaker 1: deserves and let you know what I'm thinking. The Daily
Speaker 1: Beast last week wrote the headline is top them a
Speaker 1: lot to like about stephen A. Smith presidential bid, that
Speaker 1: is as a House minority speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who I
Speaker 1: hope will be on this show in a very near future.
Speaker 1: Another article came out this week and by the New
Speaker 1: Yorker headline stephen A Smith for President New Yorker dot Com.
Speaker 1: Check it out. I must admit I got on like
Speaker 1: a lavender blazer with a lavender shirt and a purple tie.
Speaker 1: I was looking pretty fly, if I should say so myself.
Speaker 1: I just want to throw that out there. I just
Speaker 1: want to throw that out there, Okay, and out of
Speaker 1: the latest It's courtesy of TMZ, now mind You, USA Today,
Speaker 1: Washington Post, USA. You know, various other publications have written
Speaker 1: about this as well. Steven A. Smith, I am not
Speaker 1: running for US president. This is when TMZ caught me
Speaker 1: coming out of a Shannon Sharps party in New Orleans
Speaker 1: during Super Bowl week, and I guess they ran this recently,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to go there because I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that I put this to bed once and
Speaker 1: for all. I have no intentions of running for the
Speaker 1: presidency of the United States America. I do not believe
Speaker 1: I am an officionado. I do not believe that my
Speaker 1: pockets are deep enough for me to ignore the financial
Speaker 1: strain that could potentially have on me, because obviously I
Speaker 1: earn more than the President of the United States. Right now,
Speaker 1: it makes about fur hundred thousand dollars a year that position.
Speaker 1: There is Senate and congressional figures make anywhere from one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two hundred and seventy thousand a year.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, I make more money than that, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not really interested on that level. But here's
Speaker 1: a reason why, while being honest about having zero desire
Speaker 1: whatsoever to be a politician, because I consider them beggars donors,
Speaker 1: you know campaign donations, you know sponsors, and you know
Speaker 1: political figures, and even when you get into office, you
Speaker 1: got to curry favor with politicians to get legislation pushed
Speaker 1: through and all of this other stuff. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just no peace in my life. Plus it's given you
Speaker 1: a license because I'm asking to legislate the lives of
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty plus American citizens. That gives you
Speaker 1: a license to get into my personal business that I
Speaker 1: don't want you in. That all of that's true. But
Speaker 1: there's a reason. While there's a reason that, while saying
Speaker 1: what I've said and meaning it, I've often said, even
Speaker 1: in a half joking way, of the American people wanted
Speaker 1: me to be the president of the United States, and
Speaker 1: I knew that I had a really, really good shot
Speaker 1: to win. I can't deny that it's something I would consider.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why I say that, because I
Speaker 1: think our system sucks. I think the binary system that
Speaker 1: we're in where we have to choose between the Democrats
Speaker 1: or the Republicans is a joke. I think it dissuades
Speaker 1: a vast majority of American citizens from wanting to be
Speaker 1: a part of the political process, and I think that
Speaker 1: something needs to be done about it in order to
Speaker 1: bring America back to where it should have always been.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I cover sports full living, Griff Sherry Rashan, Everybody,
Speaker 1: listen up, because I'm only gonna say this once, so
Speaker 1: very very important, because I know, like I told America before,
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of liberals working for me. Some
Speaker 1: are closet Republicans. They don't want to admit it, but
Speaker 1: it's true. We got a bunch of liberals working for me.
Speaker 1: In a whole bit. Let me be very very clear
Speaker 1: about where I stand. Wes, you need to listen to
Speaker 1: damn it. You got a family, Listen to me. Listen
Speaker 1: when I'm talking to you, Ladies and gentlemen, I cover
Speaker 1: sports for a living. I like competition. I want legitimate
Speaker 1: competition between the Republican and the Democratic Party over your
Speaker 1: ideas of what the country should be and how we
Speaker 1: can get it there. I hated when the Left because
Speaker 1: I firmly believed they politicized a whole bunch of legal
Speaker 1: stuff against Donald Trump. I'm not questioning the legitimacy or
Speaker 1: lack thereof. I don't know. You got the eleven thousand
Speaker 1: votes he was seeking in Georgia, you got the thirty
Speaker 1: four felony convictions he received in New York. Some people
Speaker 1: said it's hush money. Others said, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: that and a NDA? Damn it. The man cooked up
Speaker 1: with a poorn star and didn't want anybody to know
Speaker 1: before the election. Oh my god, stop the presses. John
Speaker 1: Edwards got loose as a Democratic nominee or a Democratic
Speaker 1: candidate when he was running for the presidency. He didn't
Speaker 1: want people to know. I'm quite sure he would have
Speaker 1: hit it if if he could have gotten away with it.
Speaker 1: Gary Edwards did the same thing. You don't think Clinton
Speaker 1: tried to submerge evidence against him with the whole Monica
Speaker 1: Lewisky skinned Come on. I think it was politicized to
Speaker 1: some degree anyway. And I hated that because what I
Speaker 1: was saying is beat him, go back to the tapes,
Speaker 1: Griff not ahead. If I'm lyon, I was saying, beat him,
Speaker 1: don't pussy for the round don't depend on the legal
Speaker 1: system to wipe him out, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: go against him in the polls beat him. What's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I think he lost. I think he
Speaker 1: won because he was saying, you can't beat me. You're
Speaker 1: using this to get help, because you can't beat me
Speaker 1: on your own. And sure enough, election day rose around
Speaker 1: and the Democrats got their ass kicked. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear this noise about how he can get fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the vote. Forty nine point eight percent he got.
Speaker 1: Kamala got forty eight point three. The man won fifty
Speaker 1: counties and went up in every one of them. He
Speaker 1: won all six or seven swing states, The black vote,
Speaker 1: the Hispanic vote, the young voters all voted for him.
Speaker 1: He won. He won because we didn't want to engage
Speaker 1: in competition on the left. We were looking for the
Speaker 1: courts to help us. Now we fast forward, and what
Speaker 1: are we saying here? I'm reading an article right here,
Speaker 1: New York Times. I'm reading it right here, New York
Speaker 1: Times headline venting at Democrats and fearing Trump, liberal donors
Speaker 1: pulled back cash. I'm gonna read a couple of excepts
Speaker 1: from here, from you the small dollar online figured that
Speaker 1: powered oppositions to the first Trump administration has slowed to
Speaker 1: a trickle as shaking liberal voters withhold their donations. Charitable
Speaker 1: foundations that are long supported cause like voting rights, LGBTQ equality,
Speaker 1: and immigrants rights are pulling back the voting time to
Speaker 1: prepare for expected investigations from the Republican led Congress, as
Speaker 1: some of the country's biggest legal donors Liberal donors I'm
Speaker 1: sorry have paused giving, frustrated with what they see as
Speaker 1: democrats lack of vision and worried about retaliation from eventful president.
Speaker 1: Some Democrats say a few of their reliable donors are
Speaker 1: now openly supporting mister Trump, or at least looking to
Speaker 1: curry favor with him, and another paragraph it says while
Speaker 1: mister Trump has not taken action against any liberal groups
Speaker 1: or lawmakers, Democrats worry his frequent threats of retribution during
Speaker 1: the campaign have led to a chilling effect on the
Speaker 1: charitable foundations and nonprofit advocacy groups that have long been
Speaker 1: pillars of the country civil society. Jeff Skoll, a Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley billionaire and a longtime friend of Elon Musk, said
Speaker 1: there was an awful lot of pressure to side with Trump.
Speaker 1: This month, mister Skull, who's donated tens of millions to
Speaker 1: Democratic candidates and courses in recent years but said he
Speaker 1: did not vote in twenty twenty four presidential election, posted
Speaker 1: a photo on social media of himself standing with mister
Speaker 1: Trump backstage at the inauguration on Friday at breakfast in
Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Florida, with Senator Chuck Schumer, New York, the
Speaker 1: minority leader, where they discussed the prospect of mister Schumer's
Speaker 1: using mister Skull to back channel ideas to the president.
Speaker 1: Mister Schumer recalls the conversation differently, according to an aid. Okay,
Speaker 1: but here's the biggest thing, and I'll stop the reading
Speaker 1: after this quote. There are people who are absolutely against Trump,
Speaker 1: never trumpets, who fear that they'll be retaliated against it.
Speaker 1: They'll have to leave the country, mister Schul said. Folks
Speaker 1: who wish to oppose them, it may take some time
Speaker 1: before they gather up the courage, but listen to this.
Speaker 1: The result is a political environment that is strikingly different
Speaker 1: from twenty seventeen, when money poured into democratic causes, fortifying
Speaker 1: existing organizations and ceding the flowering of new groups to
Speaker 1: fight different parts of mister Trump's agenda. Now, some of
Speaker 1: those same organizations are struggling to survive, in part because
Speaker 1: few new major liberal donors have emerged since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Groups that support LGBTQ rights, promote gender equity, and champion
Speaker 1: other progressive causes have cut staffing and announced that longtime
Speaker 1: leaders are leaving In United and Citizens United, a left
Speaker 1: leaning group that aims to overhaul campaign finance laws, laid
Speaker 1: off its six senior staff members last month as part
Speaker 1: of her restructuring. Run for Something, which works to elect
Speaker 1: liberal down ballot candidates, laidoff thirty five percent of its
Speaker 1: staff late last year, and Gelson GLS he and a
Speaker 1: group dedicated to protect the LGBTQ students, laid off twenty
Speaker 1: five people last month. Let me tell y'all something. If
Speaker 1: you're the Democrats, that's why Stephen A. Smith is in
Speaker 1: the news, be cause y'all don't have anybody. You don't
Speaker 1: have anybody who got who got Kamala Harris Bett not run,
Speaker 1: she betted, not run. She's not gonna win the presidency
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. Keep in mind respect for her
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna disrespect the former vice president of the
Speaker 1: United States. Never do that. But we got to be
Speaker 1: real about something here. When she ran for election on
Speaker 1: her own, she couldn't make it to Iowa in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: She ultimately positions himself gets the vice presidency they win
Speaker 1: the election. In twenty twenty, Joe Biden is feeling himself
Speaker 1: after the Liberals won the mid terms and instead of
Speaker 1: being a transitional president like he promised, the man backstabbed
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party and turned around and said, I'm staying.
Speaker 1: They wanted him out. So what did everybody rate? We
Speaker 1: all know this now booboo, the fool can see what happened.
Speaker 1: Now you knew he had lost the step We don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell was wrong with them, but clearly
Speaker 1: his fastball was gone. So you have no primary. You
Speaker 1: fix it so he doesn't have to face a primary,
Speaker 1: and then you put him on stage last June twenty
Speaker 1: seventh for a debate. He embarrasses himself and three weeks
Speaker 1: later he has to bow out. So Kamala Harrison come
Speaker 1: in as a Democratic nominee for the presidency of the
Speaker 1: United States of America at a time when they didn't
Speaker 1: have any time to put somebody else and to compete
Speaker 1: with her. You don't overcome that after losing the election.
Speaker 1: America ain't gonna go for it on the left. They
Speaker 1: gonna go for it. Who else you got, Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 1: I personally support west Water, governor of Maryland, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how much of a national figure he is.
Speaker 1: Already interviewed Jos Shapiro. And oh, by the way, that
Speaker 1: the Republicans listening out there, you're welcome to come on
Speaker 1: to Stephen Asmith show. I'm not one sided. See, this
Speaker 1: is why my name is in the election. You hear me, Griff,
Speaker 1: You hear me west You hear me Sherry, You hear
Speaker 1: me with Sea, You hear me the Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: team I'm talking to. That's why I'm in the news.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the news because I'm here. I'm in
Speaker 1: the news because the Democratic Party is here. Damn it.
Speaker 1: Lower than that down at the bottle. They suck right now,
Speaker 1: horrible because they don't have a voice. Where in the
Speaker 1: hell of the voice everybody want to sit up there
Speaker 1: talking about I mean, I need anvience. We do not
Speaker 1: need it, but we don't need a voice. We don't
Speaker 1: need a voice. Well, guess what, somebody got to send
Speaker 1: the message. How the hell can somebody receive a message
Speaker 1: If there's no messenger, you gotta do it, and they
Speaker 1: don't have anybody. That's why Stephen A. Smith as a candidate.
Speaker 1: Who the hell told y'all I'd want to be a Democrat.
Speaker 1: I have conservative ideas. I believe in free market capitalism.
Speaker 1: I believe in patrol on our borders. I believe in
Speaker 1: strong national security. But you all right, I'd probably be
Speaker 1: a Democrat, a moderate, a centrist leaning left. I'm about
Speaker 1: that Bill Clinton Newt Ginridge agreement. I'm about that surplus
Speaker 1: when Clinton walked out of office. I'm about Obama deporting
Speaker 1: more than Trump did, but the American public didn't notice.
Speaker 1: I'm about a strong economy. I want Grift to get paid.
Speaker 1: I want Chevy to get paid. I want Gala to
Speaker 1: get paid. I don't want Rashan to get paid. I
Speaker 1: just want to get paid to you really really think
Speaker 1: that Stephen A. Smith would tolerate crime in the streets
Speaker 1: to the point where you gotta lit three people in
Speaker 1: the store at a time. Do you know anything about me?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I would do as commanded in
Speaker 1: chief if I saw a crime raiding through our streets
Speaker 1: and it was affecting jobs and safety and ultimately the economy.
Speaker 1: Do you know who the hell you're talking to or
Speaker 1: listening to? Hell Trump might not have anything on me
Speaker 1: with that. I ain't having it. I ain't having it.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying to y'all, that's why I'm a candidate.
Speaker 1: It ain't because I want to. It ain't because I'm
Speaker 1: some expert. It ain't because I'm some official or not.
Speaker 1: Who's saying that?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 1: You know how much I would have to learn. Hell,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to pronounce most foreign dignitaries names.
Speaker 1: The sad part is that I'd still be there Democrat
Speaker 1: out there right now, because who the hell is resonating
Speaker 1: with the American people. Hell, even Jos Shapiro came on
Speaker 1: the show, who I like a lot, by the way,
Speaker 1: and even talking about I'm just contre treating on Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: What what we need? More than that, I have no
Speaker 1: interest in getting involved more so than pundency and commentary.
Speaker 1: But you better hope I stay feeling that way, because
Speaker 1: let me tell you something right now, I said, I'll
Speaker 1: bring the rain. I lied, I bring hell hell because
Speaker 1: I ain't playing I'm near to win. I two party
Speaker 1: system sucks. You think I like what I see Elon
Speaker 1: Musk doing. I don't know whether I like it or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he could be trusted. I don't
Speaker 1: like the fact that he's getting billions from our federal
Speaker 1: government while he's doing business on behalf of the president,
Speaker 1: and the president is talking about all police and myself,
Speaker 1: I'll watch him. Why I was supposed to trust that. No,
Speaker 1: but President Trump has a right to do it because
Speaker 1: he won, because y'all didn't beat him. Because while he
Speaker 1: was talking about the economy, and he was talking about
Speaker 1: the price of goods, and he was talking about inflation,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about our borders, and he was
Speaker 1: talking about crime in the streets, the Democrats was talking
Speaker 1: about LGBTQ and transgender rights and one percent of the
Speaker 1: population at the expense and see, and this is the
Speaker 1: part that I want to make sure I'm clear about.
Speaker 1: This was the crime. It's not that they were talking
Speaker 1: about transgender rights. It's that they forgot thirteen percent of
Speaker 1: the population in the black community, and they forgot nearly
Speaker 1: twenty percent of the population in the Hispanic community who
Speaker 1: supported them at the expense of the one percent. How
Speaker 1: stupid can you be. I don't believe that's Kamala Harris's fault.
Speaker 1: I believe that's zealots on the left, on the progressive side,
Speaker 1: who somehow, some way managed to pull these people to
Speaker 1: their side. Nobody sent your left simply looked at them
Speaker 1: in the face, whether it's AOC or anybody else from
Speaker 1: the squad, and ask a simple question, where the hell
Speaker 1: are you going? If you don't vote for us, what
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Go vote, vote, vote, vote for Trump.
Speaker 1: You're gonna vote right, and you're on the progressive left.
Speaker 1: If you all the way left, okay, if you all
Speaker 1: the way left, what you gonna do? All the way right?
Speaker 1: You might not like where somebody is center left, but
Speaker 1: at least they're closer to the left on the other side,
Speaker 1: and the center left was capitulating to that. Why because
Speaker 1: you had no strong leadership, You had nobody to tell
Speaker 1: them to sit their ass down, shut up and follow
Speaker 1: my lead. I'm the Democratic nominee for the presidency of
Speaker 1: the United States, not you. We gonna do this my way.
Speaker 1: They don't have that on the left, and now you
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of people running scared, talking about
Speaker 1: leaving the country because they scared of Trump. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: if you didn't try to lose use warfare to get him,
Speaker 1: and you just sat up there and competed with him
Speaker 1: fair and square about your policies being better than his,
Speaker 1: and articulated that message to the masters, maybe it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be this way. But you didn't do it. That's why
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is being polled as a presidential nominee.
Speaker 1: It ain't because I'm qualified, It damn sure ain't because
Speaker 1: I'm the smartest dude in the room. It's because I
Speaker 1: got herd I got guts, and if we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a fight, let's get down, let's get it on. America
Speaker 1: knows I would do that much, and I'd have a
Speaker 1: clue as to what I'm talking about, and I'd have
Speaker 1: a clue as to what not to talk about, like
Speaker 1: something that's less than one percent of the population. Think
Speaker 1: about this last point, I'm gonna make president. Barack Obama
Speaker 1: deported more people than Trump ever did, and you barely
Speaker 1: heard about it. He just did it knowing that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden opened borders. They can talk about how you can
Speaker 1: open it, but you couldn't necessarily close it after you
Speaker 1: opened it because of COVID and all this stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that the streets of America were
Speaker 1: ravaged with illegal immigrants in our nation and Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and his administs did nothing about it after Obama had
Speaker 1: done everything about it other than past comprehensive immigration reform
Speaker 1: which takes both sides of the aisle. President Obama did
Speaker 1: his job, Joe Biden did not. And the Democrats, who
Speaker 1: are progressives that means looking forward, stood up during his
Speaker 1: State of the Union, knowing that he was approaching eighty
Speaker 1: two years of age and chanted for more years. You
Speaker 1: have no authenticity, you have no legitimacy. Your heart might
Speaker 1: be in the right place with some of the policies
Speaker 1: that you're trying to implement, some of the things that
Speaker 1: you're trying to move forward, while it appears Trump maybe
Speaker 1: trying to turn the clock back. But it's the price
Speaker 1: you pay when you're in selfish tone, death, devoid of impact.
Speaker 1: That's what the Democratic Party, that's where the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is at right now, and it's exactly why some sports
Speaker 1: analyst on National TV is a candidate for the presidency
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. I have no desire
Speaker 1: whatsoever to compromise my quality of life for this, but
Speaker 1: I'll say this much about myself. I don't blame millions
Speaker 1: of Americans if they want me to, because what the
Speaker 1: hell is the alternative? Look at y'all. Look at y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the dem specifically, what a travesty. Everybody's
Speaker 1: jumping ship from y'all. Party has to change, It has
Speaker 1: to be purged. And those who got in Kamala Harris's
Speaker 1: ear and told her that that was the strategy they
Speaker 1: needed to exercise in those one hundred and seven days
Speaker 1: before the election, all of them should be gone, every
Speaker 1: living ass, every one of them. What an egregious plan
Speaker 1: to put forth. She didn't lose this election. Y'all lost it,
Speaker 1: and with it you took her presidential aspirations with her
Speaker 1: and threw it away. That's why I'm a candidate, And
Speaker 1: even though I have no desire to be one, I
Speaker 1: don't mind the noise. Hopefully it'll make y'all uncomfortable to
Speaker 1: get y'all back up so you can get your act
Speaker 1: together and do what the hell you supposed to do.
Speaker 1: If not that holler at me in three years, I
Speaker 1: mighta changed my mind by then. Til next time, Peace
Speaker 1: in love, everybody, Stephen, that sonn