WEBVTT - Warriors Sliding, Kyrie Back In Brooklyn, and Will Smith vs. Chris Rock 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:07.440 The volume. The Draymond Green Show is presented by a 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.720 fan duel sports book. There's no better place to bet 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:15.400 the action than on FanDuel sports Book during the football season. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.239 It's easy to use, it's safe and secure, you get 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.319 payouts and as fast as two hours. There's so many 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:27.200 bet types. My favorite same game parlay bets. There's live betting, 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.120 player props, futures. If you're new, just download the FanDuel 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.559 sports Book app to get started now sign up. Please 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:41.720 use the promode code column C O l I. An 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:51.800 fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody? 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.840 Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. First things first, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.480 this week we are changing up the format of the 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.280 podcast asks and so I want to let you guys 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.080 in on what exactly it is that we're doing. And 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.600 so obviously, as you know, we've been starting each show 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.880 off with me kind of giving my thoughts on the 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.760 going around the association, my thoughts on things that's taken 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.480 place in the NFL, and then also from time to 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.520 time just things other things. But because this is the 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.960 Draymond Green Showing, because the guest conversations has been so incredible. Uh, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.520 and again I always want to say thank you to 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.480 all our former guests that have been on the show. UM, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.240 this show isn't what it's been without you. So we 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.760 truly appreciate all the guests that we've had on. But 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.679 these conversations have been so incredible, and as I tell you, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.480 after every single one of them, I am taking so 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.400 much away from these conversations and I'm enjoying them so much, 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.520 and I hope you're doing the same. So what we 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.400 want to do is we want to give those guest 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.840 conversations a chance to breathe, a chance to kind of 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.720 live on their own, because they're kind of taking on 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.200 the life of their own and so we want to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.760 give those a chance to breathe. And and so what 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.200 we're going to do is we're going to separate the 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:10.239 show into two UM different segments and they'll air throughout 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.400 the week. So this week, for instance, we have the 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.040 top of the show and my thoughts on the NBA 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.400 and different things that's happening around the world, and then 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.640 pop culture, and then later this week we will drop 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.840 the Player Guests interview and that will live on its 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.080 own UM with with also a little more commentary. But 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.240 it can breathe and kind of be its own thing, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.520 and so we want to see, um, how this works out. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.080 But as you know, same show, same great conversations, just 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.360 splitting up the interview so it lives on its own. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.360 So this is week one of testing it out. Hopefully 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.799 it goes great, but um, we'll love to hear everyone's feedback, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.679 whether that's on my Twitter, um, whether that's on the 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.760 volumes Twitter, you know, after a week or two, would 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.679 love to hear your feedback, see how you're liking it, 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.800 because obviously, as you know, we do this for you 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.200 and so just let us know. But we'll see how 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.119 it goes. But going around the association, the Warriors are 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.359 one in five since Steph went out, and since I've returned, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.520 I have been a minus forty one in the seven 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.400 games that I've played, which is absolutely mind boggling to me. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.400 But in saying that, who can't put their finger hunted 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.880 better than anyone is me, which is why a couple 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.760 of nights ago which I've gotten a back a lot 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.440 of backlash from, by the way, and not backlash in 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.240 a bad way, backlashing like people like hold on, man, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.480 like stop it, like give it a break. But the 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.440 reality is I'm always gonna be honest. As you know. Man, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.200 maybe a week ago now, I called out my teammates. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.560 I called out us, not just my teammates. How I 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.520 called out us for being soft. I called out us 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.080 for getting punk. I called out us for laying down 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.520 and not competing at the level that we know that 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.360 it takes to compete at and in order to win 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:59.560 in the NBA. And so in doing that and being 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.960 a leader, one thing I hate as a leader that 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.080 can call someone else out but think they're ship. Don't 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.320 sneak because you, my friend, are not a leader. Uh, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.000 you my friend, are a phony. You my friend are fake. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.280 And so I don't really get with the whole I'm 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.880 gonna call this guy out, or I'm gonna call uh 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.080 my teammates out. But but when your ship is stinking 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.520 the gym up, you can't call yourself out. When you 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.080 when your ship is stinking up the office, you can't 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.279 call yourself out. And any other industry, we can go 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.320 down the list. I don't respect leaders like that, So 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.200 don't ever expect me to be a leader like that. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.880 And so in saying that, as I said, I caught 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.760 a little backlash from people that know the game, from 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.599 people that are in my corner, um from people that 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.200 are not in my corner, and just simply fans of basketball, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.360 and just saying like, YO, give yourself a break. You 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.599 come off a very serious injury. We know the team 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.400 isn't what the team could be with at you and 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.479 all of that stuff. Thanks, I appreciate it, But the 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.200 reality is, I've been terrible. Um, I've been terrible defensively. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.200 I've been terrible offensively, and so that's just what it is. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.320 Now what am I going to do to fix that? Well, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.440 I'm going to continue to do what I've been doing, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.880 which is putting the work in. And ultimately, my whole 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.479 life is a product of hard work. You put the 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.479 work in, you get the resource. I know I've put 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.880 the work in, but I also know things don't happen overnight. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.200 You know, you don't just go from missing two and 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.760 a half almost three months of basketball while everybody's playing 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.200 at a high level and just returning it. And that's that. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.039 You know, it doesn't work like that. The reality is, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.640 in my mind, I think it worked like that, and 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.920 I thought it worked like that, and I just assumed 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.000 that I'll come right back playing the way I was 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.960 when I left all but this is also my first 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.480 time having an injury that kept me out that long, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.040 and so in my mind and I'm like, yeah, like 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.800 I've been working harder, just probably harder than I've ever worked. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.000 I've improved things that and muscles that I never even 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.040 knew I had in my body and that existed. Like 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.359 I've been putting the work in. I'm gonna see the results. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.719 I haven't, and that's okay. But I think there are 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.919 a ton of things that I can get better. I 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.960 think there's a ton of things that I will get better. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.640 I think my my personal frustration with myself has been 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.719 everything has just been a step slow for me. You know, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.760 I see it, I see a pass, to make a pass, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.560 I go to finally make the passing boom. It's a turnover, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.560 you know, like probably like you know, just kind of 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.800 tapping back into those quick twitch muscles and you know, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.119 reading and reacting to things that you know. It's taken 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.280 a little while for it to come back a little 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.440 longer than I expect it. But like I said, that happens. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.200 But there are things that I know for certain that 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.760 I will get better at um covering up guy's mistakes 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.440 on the defensive end. I'll get better at not making 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.160 mistakes myself. I'll get that back on the offensive end. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.359 Like everything will come back, and so I don't have 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.719 a doubt in my mind that it will. Oh but 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.320 I'll be one hundred honest. I've I've been extremely frustrated 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.400 and aware of how we look when I'm on the court. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.160 And you know, uh, you know, we we we have 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.160 a lot of talking heads and a lot of basketball 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.600 heads that probably couldn't make out how shitty that I've 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.520 been on the court. So you know, I have no 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.000 problem with helping anyone out, you know, because now all 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.320 of a sudden, something pops up on ESPN about like 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.120 me to having bad clothes outs and stuff, which, by 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.240 the way, I'm off fined with. I don't take it personal. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.840 It's cool. It also took me to kind of let 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.200 people in on the secret that I'm playing terrible. Like, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.160 you know, you can't look at the box score and say, oh, man, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.080 this guy is minus this this game or minus that 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.000 that game. But if you don't thoroughly know the game 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.840 of basketball, which a lot of people that talk about 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.560 the game of basketball don't actually know the game of basketball, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.000 then you sometimes can't make those things out. So I 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.680 threw myself under bus. Now ESPN seems to want to 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.800 throw me under bus, which is great. Helped you get there, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.760 no problem, um, and so I'm fine, We'll be fine. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.080 I think health is an important thing. So we definitely 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.280 have to get healthy and need to get healthy, and 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.560 I think we will get healthy. Um. I think right 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.680 now we are sitting here with six games left in 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.440 the season, and so you know, uh, one thing you 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.320 never want to do is you don't want to stumble 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.880 into the playoffs. When you stumble into the playoffs, you 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.480 stumble through the playoffs and out. And so these next 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.280 six games, it's on me as a leader, It's on 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.440 Clay Thompson as a leader with Steph Curry. I have 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.600 to lead our guys, to lead our troops, to show 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.040 them what it takes to compete at this level, to 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.560 prepare for a nice deep playoff run and hopefully that's 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.000 in it in the championship. But that falls on us. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.480 We have to do a better job. We will do 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.120 a better job. But that's kind of where we're at 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.720 with the Warriors in the lay of the land with myself, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.920 obviously hoping to get Steph Curry back. We've been on 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.480 the road for the last week, so having seen him, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.600 don't really know what his status is. I have talked 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.840 to him a little bit, but you know, don't really 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.480 know how he's looking. I will get the opportunity to 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.120 marrow to see him. Which brings me to the fact 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.200 that why I have this hat on. As you know, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.040 I like to come on my my my barber. It 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:10.800 is probably gonna be piste off at me when you 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.040 see this, because, as you know Brownie Blinds, he always 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.679 keep me together and I like to keep myself well groomed. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:23.640 But coming off of a five city, seven day world trip, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.480 I'm wearing my struggle and as you can see, I am. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.959 And it's funny because I remember coming on and taping 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.400 the show. I think it maybe was the second and 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.760 third episode, and my wife went at me. She said, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.800 I think I had a beanie on that day or 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.600 something like that, because my hair looked like this, and 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.160 so I'm going to acknowledge why I have this hat 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.160 on today. So she don't go at me like she 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:49.959 did that day. But she said, what are you selling you? 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.800 You look terrible. You don't have a hair cut you 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.960 And so I want you all to know I take 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.840 that very seriously. She takes it very seriously. But I 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.760 just haven't had the time. I landed back at two am. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.840 And when I landed back at two am, here I 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.920 am at ten am filming. So um, that's why I 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.400 have this hat on. And that's kind of where we 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.400 are with Steph Kurry, Kyrie Irving back at home are 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.120 playing home games for the Nets, which I think is 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.320 absolutely incredible. I want to number one say kudo, shout 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.880 out in much respect to Kyrie Irving for standing his 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.440 ground for what he believes in. So many times, all 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.400 of us, most people are victim to not standing your 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.640 ground for what you believe in because somebody want to 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.000 hit your pockets. You know, anytime somebody wants you to 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.120 do something, they try to hit your pockets. And so 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.600 they were hitting Kyrie pockets. And what did Kyrie do? 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.360 I don't care. I'm this is why I believe in. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:54.400 I'm not doing this and that's just that and so 0:10:54.960 --> 0:11:00.079 contrary or not contrary, but regardless to whatever Europe and 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:06.280 maybe on why Kyrie didn't play on? Um, what Kyrie 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.440 decided to do with his body. Whatever your opinion is, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.600 I really don't care what your opinion is on it 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.880 either way, I don't really care what your stands is 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.280 on it. What I respect and what I love is 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.400 how that brother still his ground for what he believed in. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.880 So whatever your belief is is your belief. That's not 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.040 what matters here. What matters is Kyrie Irvan's courage, Kyrie 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.360 Irvan just being the man that he's grown into and 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.079 really following through with what he said he was gonna 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.480 follow through. So much kudos to Kyrie on that much respect. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.160 And I think you know, when looking at him, returning 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:47.280 for the nets, obviously a big deal. Number One, you 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.240 you can get more connuity and and playing more games, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.280 you get more familiarity with each other, and coming down 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.080 the stretch, I think that's very important. Number Two is 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.280 we're headed into the playoffs and one game can change 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.600 a series, and I don't think people really understand that, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.240 but one game can can shift an entire series. And 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.959 so all of a sudden, there's you know, all of 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.559 a sudden, there's two All of a sudden, there's there's 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.080 two home games, two row games, and the beginning of 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.600 a seven game series and you missed two of those games. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.120 All it takes is for one of those games to 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.880 get away from you and you can, you know, lose 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.440 total control of a series. And so I think, um, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.920 you know, that's obviously going to help Kyrie, And I 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.360 mean and in the Brooklyn Nets, Kyrie, Katie and the 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.040 Brooklyn Nets. You know, just having Kyrie there a full 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.680 time I think it was absolutely ridiculous that this even 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.360 went this long. When they start rolling back the mandates 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.880 for all others weeks ago, I mean, one of the 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.040 craziest things ever too. A guy can go sit in 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.800 the stands and watch the game, but he can't play 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.640 in the game. Didn't really make sense to me. But 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.040 I'm happy that at least Kyrie and other entertain and 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.959 has gotten through that they can continue to move forward 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.760 with Number one trying to master their craft, because that 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.600 is always a constant battle when doing what you do 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.720 at the level that we do at UM trying to 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.720 chase the goals that his team put out there at 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.559 the beginning of the year that they want to chase it. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.200 So it's great to see Kyrie back on the floor 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.200 in a full time capacity. I think is well deserved. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.320 It should have been that way, and now you know, uh, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.920 kudos to the to the Mayor of New York City 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.360 as well for getting around to that and making it right. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.680 Because again, if that's not going to be the rules 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.040 for everyone else, then it can't be the rules for Kyrie. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.400 Like that's totally unfair. So that was great to see. Now, well, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.160 you know, the Eastern Conference has gotten really tight and 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.079 really tough, so you know, we'll see, we'll see how 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.640 that plays out. And I think Brooklyn is currently in 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.840 the A spot, if I'm not mistaken, seven or eight 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.439 spot in the playing game, and so I think for 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.400 the most part, they will probably end up in the 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.520 play again or less one of the teams in front 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.160 of them drop a few that they're not supposed to 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.319 drop over the course of the next a couple of weeks. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.800 So we'll see how that turned out. But one thing 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.920 we know for certain is that kye Rees returned to 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.000 home games is only going to help the Brooklyn Nets 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.360 over the course of the long run. And hey man, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.720 I'm always in favor of every team being at full 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.480 strength and putting the product out there that they that 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.280 they thought they'd have on the court when they assembled 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.680 that team in the summertime. So and moving on from that, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.880 the news of the weekend, Will Smith and Chris Rock. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.440 I know everyone has their opinions on this this topic, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:48.000 and to be honest with you, I waited a couple 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.680 of days to form an opinion because there's so many 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.880 things like being thrown out at you you don't really 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.360 know the full details. For instance, when it first happened, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.480 everybody like, yo, it's this stage, Like it's a not stage. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.200 It's so initially I'm just sitting there, like, no chance 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.720 this is stage. The Oscars won't sell that, Like that's 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.920 that's just not what the Oscar sell. That's not what 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.600 this is. So I don't think there's I think there's 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.040 a zero percent chance that it was stage um on 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.640 and on an evening, like like it was for Will Smith, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.200 who I think we all kind of knew Will Smith 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.840 would take home the Oscar um for Best Male Actor 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.880 and a Leading Role or whatever the I'm not sure 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.320 what the exact title of of it was the war 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.360 that he won, but we know, I mean, I think 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.720 we all had a sense that Will Smith was going 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.600 to get his first Oscar off that role. I don't 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.200 think there's any reason for Will Smith to participate in 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.040 a stage slap Chris Rock to take away from what 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.680 was probably one of the most incredible nights and definitely 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.720 the most incredible honor of his career. Here he's going 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.360 to go stage slapping someone to take away from that moment. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.720 I don't think so. I think his emotions got the 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.360 best of him. If you think that his emotions got 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.840 the best of him, because the reality is, number one, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.480 there are so many people that does not have a wife, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.320 that doesn't have a fiance, that doesn't have a girlfriend, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.800 or that doesn't have a husband, that doesn't have a boyfriend, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:30.680 that doesn't have a fiance saying oh, that's ridiculous and 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.000 you shouldn't have done that. But but you also don't 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.040 know how it feels to share in someone's pain. And 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.840 so the reality is, was it a funny joke with 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.720 no contexts Okay, yeah, it's a funny joke. But guess 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.040 who did have context? Jada had context. Guess who did 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.040 have context? Will had context? Guess who did have context? 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.320 All of those that knew and saw Jada's announcement a 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.880 little while back that she had alopecia those people did 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.680 have context initial ale. If I'm not mistaken, Will Smith 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.160 laughed at the joke as well. But then to look 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.280 and turn and see the pain on your wife face. See, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.960 no one knows how many times that she's cried about 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.000 cutting her hair. One thing I am certain of is 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.320 as especially as I think women in general. But I 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.840 know for certain I can speak of Black women who 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.120 you know, Um, I'm married to a black woman. I 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.960 was raised by a black woman. Black women don't just 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.840 want to cut their hair off, like very seldomly does 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.440 a black women just want to shave their head ball Normally, 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.399 there is something that's going on. I'll be one honest. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.200 I'm one of the biggest fans of the movie Set 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.920 It Off, one of my favorite movies. I remember when 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.400 Jada shaved their hair and Set It Off. I've always 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.600 just taken it as like a fashion thing, like Jada 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.280 does what the hell she wants. It's Jada Pinker Smith, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.440 Like she does what she wants when it comes to 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.879 look and when it comes to fashion, and she wears 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.280 she wears it so well. To why I always it 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.280 was just a fashion thing. So I actually had no 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:06.400 idea that she had alopecia. Until that happened, and everyone 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.600 starts saying, what she announced that she had alopecia, I 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.080 actually mixed. I I actually missed that because again, she 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.040 wears it well, so I just thought that's something like, oh, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.840 she's going back to that look. But in learning of 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.800 the condition and understanding, I am certain that she's had 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:29.840 countless of nights and countless of times crying about that, weeping, sobbing, 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:35.480 hurt about the conditions that she's dealing with. Will has 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:40.280 lived that, He's lived at He's listened to those cries, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:46.320 He's he's come to her, he's come in as a 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:51.399 security blanket and comforted her and and all of the 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.800 sobbing and crying and and things that she's had to 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:01.720 endure since finding out that information. And then most importantly, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.720 he looked to the side and he saw his wife 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.360 in pain in front of everybody, not only everybody in 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.199 the room, but everybody in the world who's watching. So 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.760 what do you do? Do you just sit idle or 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.879 do you show her I got your back? Or do 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.640 you do you stand up for her because she's hurt. 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.200 I don't condone violence. I don't condone violence at all. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.160 I don't condone Will Smith going up there to slap 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:37.520 Chris Rock number one as a black man versus a 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:45.159 black man, I personally don't want to see it. But 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:52.280 then also just an understanding that like violence usually doesn't 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.240 end well no matter in what shape or form it is, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.199 no matter who's carrying out the violence, it normally just 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.000 doesn't end well. The way it ended in that situation 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.200 is one of the best situations we ever see that 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:11.280 ways we see that in and so no, I one 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.040 percent don't condone virus one percent don't condone Will Smith 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.200 going up there. But I one pent feel where Will 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.760 Smith was coming from. Because as a protector, as a provider, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:29.040 um as the rock for your wife, as the person 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.960 she turns to when everything is going wrong, you're stuck 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.600 right like right there, there's a split second decision for 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.359 you to make in order to help make her feel good. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.840 Was that the right decision to make? I don't know. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:45.640 That's neither here nor there. The reality is that there's 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.960 a split second decision that you have to make in 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.440 order to try to help her feel better. Now, there's 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.600 several that you could have made, but what Will did 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.399 was one of them. I have nothing but respect for 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.000 him for standing up for his wife. I think he 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.960 could have handled it totally better. I think we all 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.879 can handle things totally better. I'm not canceling Will Smith. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.560 I'm not off Will Smith because he slapped someone. The 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.760 reality is that we all make mistakes, and we live 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:17.600 in this world that everyone wants to punish others for 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:23.200 their mistakes, but they want grace when they when they 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.880 have their own mistakes. We live in a very hypocritical 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:31.720 world that wants to cancel someone who worked their ass 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.080 off to get to a position because they make a mistake. 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.520 Be very careful where this is gone, and where this 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.760 is gone already and where it continues to go. That 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:48.479 people can't make mistakes because one thing is for certainly 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.600 one thing that will never leave this world as mistakes. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.760 People will always make mistakes, and so at some point 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.560 cancel culture. You need to find it within yourself to 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:01.400 realize that people are going to make mistakes, that you've 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.920 made mistakes. Maybe your mistakes aren't in front of the 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:09.800 world because you don't have that platform. But shit happens, 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:17.920 and it happened that night, and guess what it is 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:23.000 gonna happen again, Not necessarily that, but it happens, and 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:27.840