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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. First things first,
Speaker 1: this week we are changing up the format of the
Speaker 1: podcast asks and so I want to let you guys
Speaker 1: in on what exactly it is that we're doing. And
Speaker 1: so obviously, as you know, we've been starting each show
Speaker 1: off with me kind of giving my thoughts on the
Speaker 1: going around the association, my thoughts on things that's taken
Speaker 1: place in the NFL, and then also from time to
Speaker 1: time just things other things. But because this is the
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Showing, because the guest conversations has been so incredible. Uh,
Speaker 1: and again I always want to say thank you to
Speaker 1: all our former guests that have been on the show. UM,
Speaker 1: this show isn't what it's been without you. So we
Speaker 1: truly appreciate all the guests that we've had on. But
Speaker 1: these conversations have been so incredible, and as I tell you,
Speaker 1: after every single one of them, I am taking so
Speaker 1: much away from these conversations and I'm enjoying them so much,
Speaker 1: and I hope you're doing the same. So what we
Speaker 1: want to do is we want to give those guest
Speaker 1: conversations a chance to breathe, a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: live on their own, because they're kind of taking on
Speaker 1: the life of their own and so we want to
Speaker 1: give those a chance to breathe. And and so what
Speaker 1: we're going to do is we're going to separate the
Speaker 1: show into two UM different segments and they'll air throughout
Speaker 1: the week. So this week, for instance, we have the
Speaker 1: top of the show and my thoughts on the NBA
Speaker 1: and different things that's happening around the world, and then
Speaker 1: pop culture, and then later this week we will drop
Speaker 1: the Player Guests interview and that will live on its
Speaker 1: own UM with with also a little more commentary. But
Speaker 1: it can breathe and kind of be its own thing,
Speaker 1: and so we want to see, um, how this works out.
Speaker 1: But as you know, same show, same great conversations, just
Speaker 1: splitting up the interview so it lives on its own.
Speaker 1: So this is week one of testing it out. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it goes great, but um, we'll love to hear everyone's feedback,
Speaker 1: whether that's on my Twitter, um, whether that's on the
Speaker 1: volumes Twitter, you know, after a week or two, would
Speaker 1: love to hear your feedback, see how you're liking it,
Speaker 1: because obviously, as you know, we do this for you
Speaker 1: and so just let us know. But we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes. But going around the association, the Warriors are
Speaker 1: one in five since Steph went out, and since I've returned,
Speaker 1: I have been a minus forty one in the seven
Speaker 1: games that I've played, which is absolutely mind boggling to me.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, who can't put their finger hunted
Speaker 1: better than anyone is me, which is why a couple
Speaker 1: of nights ago which I've gotten a back a lot
Speaker 1: of backlash from, by the way, and not backlash in
Speaker 1: a bad way, backlashing like people like hold on, man,
Speaker 1: like stop it, like give it a break. But the
Speaker 1: reality is I'm always gonna be honest. As you know. Man,
Speaker 1: maybe a week ago now, I called out my teammates.
Speaker 1: I called out us, not just my teammates. How I
Speaker 1: called out us for being soft. I called out us
Speaker 1: for getting punk. I called out us for laying down
Speaker 1: and not competing at the level that we know that
Speaker 1: it takes to compete at and in order to win
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And so in doing that and being
Speaker 1: a leader, one thing I hate as a leader that
Speaker 1: can call someone else out but think they're ship. Don't
Speaker 1: sneak because you, my friend, are not a leader. Uh,
Speaker 1: you my friend, are a phony. You my friend are fake.
Speaker 1: And so I don't really get with the whole I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call this guy out, or I'm gonna call uh
Speaker 1: my teammates out. But but when your ship is stinking
Speaker 1: the gym up, you can't call yourself out. When you
Speaker 1: when your ship is stinking up the office, you can't
Speaker 1: call yourself out. And any other industry, we can go
Speaker 1: down the list. I don't respect leaders like that, So
Speaker 1: don't ever expect me to be a leader like that.
Speaker 1: And so in saying that, as I said, I caught
Speaker 1: a little backlash from people that know the game, from
Speaker 1: people that are in my corner, um from people that
Speaker 1: are not in my corner, and just simply fans of basketball,
Speaker 1: and just saying like, YO, give yourself a break. You
Speaker 1: come off a very serious injury. We know the team
Speaker 1: isn't what the team could be with at you and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Thanks, I appreciate it, But the
Speaker 1: reality is, I've been terrible. Um, I've been terrible defensively.
Speaker 1: I've been terrible offensively, and so that's just what it is.
Speaker 1: Now what am I going to do to fix that? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to do what I've been doing,
Speaker 1: which is putting the work in. And ultimately, my whole
Speaker 1: life is a product of hard work. You put the
Speaker 1: work in, you get the resource. I know I've put
Speaker 1: the work in, but I also know things don't happen overnight.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't just go from missing two and
Speaker 1: a half almost three months of basketball while everybody's playing
Speaker 1: at a high level and just returning it. And that's that.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't work like that. The reality is,
Speaker 1: in my mind, I think it worked like that, and
Speaker 1: I thought it worked like that, and I just assumed
Speaker 1: that I'll come right back playing the way I was
Speaker 1: when I left all but this is also my first
Speaker 1: time having an injury that kept me out that long,
Speaker 1: and so in my mind and I'm like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I've been working harder, just probably harder than I've ever worked.
Speaker 1: I've improved things that and muscles that I never even
Speaker 1: knew I had in my body and that existed. Like
Speaker 1: I've been putting the work in. I'm gonna see the results.
Speaker 1: I haven't, and that's okay. But I think there are
Speaker 1: a ton of things that I can get better. I
Speaker 1: think there's a ton of things that I will get better.
Speaker 1: I think my my personal frustration with myself has been
Speaker 1: everything has just been a step slow for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I see it, I see a pass, to make a pass,
Speaker 1: I go to finally make the passing boom. It's a turnover,
Speaker 1: you know, like probably like you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: tapping back into those quick twitch muscles and you know,
Speaker 1: reading and reacting to things that you know. It's taken
Speaker 1: a little while for it to come back a little
Speaker 1: longer than I expect it. But like I said, that happens.
Speaker 1: But there are things that I know for certain that
Speaker 1: I will get better at um covering up guy's mistakes
Speaker 1: on the defensive end. I'll get better at not making
Speaker 1: mistakes myself. I'll get that back on the offensive end.
Speaker 1: Like everything will come back, and so I don't have
Speaker 1: a doubt in my mind that it will. Oh but
Speaker 1: I'll be one hundred honest. I've I've been extremely frustrated
Speaker 1: and aware of how we look when I'm on the court.
Speaker 1: And you know, uh, you know, we we we have
Speaker 1: a lot of talking heads and a lot of basketball
Speaker 1: heads that probably couldn't make out how shitty that I've
Speaker 1: been on the court. So you know, I have no
Speaker 1: problem with helping anyone out, you know, because now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, something pops up on ESPN about like
Speaker 1: me to having bad clothes outs and stuff, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm off fined with. I don't take it personal.
Speaker 1: It's cool. It also took me to kind of let
Speaker 1: people in on the secret that I'm playing terrible. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't look at the box score and say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: this guy is minus this this game or minus that
Speaker 1: that game. But if you don't thoroughly know the game
Speaker 1: of basketball, which a lot of people that talk about
Speaker 1: the game of basketball don't actually know the game of basketball,
Speaker 1: then you sometimes can't make those things out. So I
Speaker 1: threw myself under bus. Now ESPN seems to want to
Speaker 1: throw me under bus, which is great. Helped you get there,
Speaker 1: no problem, um, and so I'm fine, We'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I think health is an important thing. So we definitely
Speaker 1: have to get healthy and need to get healthy, and
Speaker 1: I think we will get healthy. Um. I think right
Speaker 1: now we are sitting here with six games left in
Speaker 1: the season, and so you know, uh, one thing you
Speaker 1: never want to do is you don't want to stumble
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. When you stumble into the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: stumble through the playoffs and out. And so these next
Speaker 1: six games, it's on me as a leader, It's on
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson as a leader with Steph Curry. I have
Speaker 1: to lead our guys, to lead our troops, to show
Speaker 1: them what it takes to compete at this level, to
Speaker 1: prepare for a nice deep playoff run and hopefully that's
Speaker 1: in it in the championship. But that falls on us.
Speaker 1: We have to do a better job. We will do
Speaker 1: a better job. But that's kind of where we're at
Speaker 1: with the Warriors in the lay of the land with myself,
Speaker 1: obviously hoping to get Steph Curry back. We've been on
Speaker 1: the road for the last week, so having seen him,
Speaker 1: don't really know what his status is. I have talked
Speaker 1: to him a little bit, but you know, don't really
Speaker 1: know how he's looking. I will get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: marrow to see him. Which brings me to the fact
Speaker 1: that why I have this hat on. As you know,
Speaker 1: I like to come on my my my barber. It
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be piste off at me when you
Speaker 1: see this, because, as you know Brownie Blinds, he always
Speaker 1: keep me together and I like to keep myself well groomed.
Speaker 1: But coming off of a five city, seven day world trip,
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my struggle and as you can see, I am.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I remember coming on and taping
Speaker 1: the show. I think it maybe was the second and
Speaker 1: third episode, and my wife went at me. She said,
Speaker 1: I think I had a beanie on that day or
Speaker 1: something like that, because my hair looked like this, and
Speaker 1: so I'm going to acknowledge why I have this hat
Speaker 1: on today. So she don't go at me like she
Speaker 1: did that day. But she said, what are you selling you?
Speaker 1: You look terrible. You don't have a hair cut you
Speaker 1: And so I want you all to know I take
Speaker 1: that very seriously. She takes it very seriously. But I
Speaker 1: just haven't had the time. I landed back at two am.
Speaker 1: And when I landed back at two am, here I
Speaker 1: am at ten am filming. So um, that's why I
Speaker 1: have this hat on. And that's kind of where we
Speaker 1: are with Steph Kurry, Kyrie Irving back at home are
Speaker 1: playing home games for the Nets, which I think is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. I want to number one say kudo, shout
Speaker 1: out in much respect to Kyrie Irving for standing his
Speaker 1: ground for what he believes in. So many times, all
Speaker 1: of us, most people are victim to not standing your
Speaker 1: ground for what you believe in because somebody want to
Speaker 1: hit your pockets. You know, anytime somebody wants you to
Speaker 1: do something, they try to hit your pockets. And so
Speaker 1: they were hitting Kyrie pockets. And what did Kyrie do?
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm this is why I believe in.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this and that's just that and so
Speaker 1: contrary or not contrary, but regardless to whatever Europe and
Speaker 1: maybe on why Kyrie didn't play on? Um, what Kyrie
Speaker 1: decided to do with his body. Whatever your opinion is,
Speaker 1: I really don't care what your opinion is on it
Speaker 1: either way, I don't really care what your stands is
Speaker 1: on it. What I respect and what I love is
Speaker 1: how that brother still his ground for what he believed in.
Speaker 1: So whatever your belief is is your belief. That's not
Speaker 1: what matters here. What matters is Kyrie Irvan's courage, Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irvan just being the man that he's grown into and
Speaker 1: really following through with what he said he was gonna
Speaker 1: follow through. So much kudos to Kyrie on that much respect.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, when looking at him, returning
Speaker 1: for the nets, obviously a big deal. Number One, you
Speaker 1: you can get more connuity and and playing more games,
Speaker 1: you get more familiarity with each other, and coming down
Speaker 1: the stretch, I think that's very important. Number Two is
Speaker 1: we're headed into the playoffs and one game can change
Speaker 1: a series, and I don't think people really understand that,
Speaker 1: but one game can can shift an entire series. And
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, there's you know, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, there's two All of a sudden, there's there's
Speaker 1: two home games, two row games, and the beginning of
Speaker 1: a seven game series and you missed two of those games.
Speaker 1: All it takes is for one of those games to
Speaker 1: get away from you and you can, you know, lose
Speaker 1: total control of a series. And so I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's obviously going to help Kyrie, And I
Speaker 1: mean and in the Brooklyn Nets, Kyrie, Katie and the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets. You know, just having Kyrie there a full
Speaker 1: time I think it was absolutely ridiculous that this even
Speaker 1: went this long. When they start rolling back the mandates
Speaker 1: for all others weeks ago, I mean, one of the
Speaker 1: craziest things ever too. A guy can go sit in
Speaker 1: the stands and watch the game, but he can't play
Speaker 1: in the game. Didn't really make sense to me. But
Speaker 1: I'm happy that at least Kyrie and other entertain and
Speaker 1: has gotten through that they can continue to move forward
Speaker 1: with Number one trying to master their craft, because that
Speaker 1: is always a constant battle when doing what you do
Speaker 1: at the level that we do at UM trying to
Speaker 1: chase the goals that his team put out there at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year that they want to chase it.
Speaker 1: So it's great to see Kyrie back on the floor
Speaker 1: in a full time capacity. I think is well deserved.
Speaker 1: It should have been that way, and now you know, uh,
Speaker 1: kudos to the to the Mayor of New York City
Speaker 1: as well for getting around to that and making it right.
Speaker 1: Because again, if that's not going to be the rules
Speaker 1: for everyone else, then it can't be the rules for Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Like that's totally unfair. So that was great to see. Now, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Eastern Conference has gotten really tight and
Speaker 1: really tough, so you know, we'll see, we'll see how
Speaker 1: that plays out. And I think Brooklyn is currently in
Speaker 1: the A spot, if I'm not mistaken, seven or eight
Speaker 1: spot in the playing game, and so I think for
Speaker 1: the most part, they will probably end up in the
Speaker 1: play again or less one of the teams in front
Speaker 1: of them drop a few that they're not supposed to
Speaker 1: drop over the course of the next a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that turned out. But one thing
Speaker 1: we know for certain is that kye Rees returned to
Speaker 1: home games is only going to help the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: over the course of the long run. And hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm always in favor of every team being at full
Speaker 1: strength and putting the product out there that they that
Speaker 1: they thought they'd have on the court when they assembled
Speaker 1: that team in the summertime. So and moving on from that,
Speaker 1: the news of the weekend, Will Smith and Chris Rock.
Speaker 1: I know everyone has their opinions on this this topic,
Speaker 1: and to be honest with you, I waited a couple
Speaker 1: of days to form an opinion because there's so many
Speaker 1: things like being thrown out at you you don't really
Speaker 1: know the full details. For instance, when it first happened,
Speaker 1: everybody like, yo, it's this stage, Like it's a not stage.
Speaker 1: It's so initially I'm just sitting there, like, no chance
Speaker 1: this is stage. The Oscars won't sell that, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's just not what the Oscar sell. That's not what
Speaker 1: this is. So I don't think there's I think there's
Speaker 1: a zero percent chance that it was stage um on
Speaker 1: and on an evening, like like it was for Will Smith,
Speaker 1: who I think we all kind of knew Will Smith
Speaker 1: would take home the Oscar um for Best Male Actor
Speaker 1: and a Leading Role or whatever the I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the exact title of of it was the war
Speaker 1: that he won, but we know, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we all had a sense that Will Smith was going
Speaker 1: to get his first Oscar off that role. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any reason for Will Smith to participate in
Speaker 1: a stage slap Chris Rock to take away from what
Speaker 1: was probably one of the most incredible nights and definitely
Speaker 1: the most incredible honor of his career. Here he's going
Speaker 1: to go stage slapping someone to take away from that moment.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think his emotions got the
Speaker 1: best of him. If you think that his emotions got
Speaker 1: the best of him, because the reality is, number one,
Speaker 1: there are so many people that does not have a wife,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a fiance, that doesn't have a girlfriend,
Speaker 1: or that doesn't have a husband, that doesn't have a boyfriend,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a fiance saying oh, that's ridiculous and
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have done that. But but you also don't
Speaker 1: know how it feels to share in someone's pain. And
Speaker 1: so the reality is, was it a funny joke with
Speaker 1: no contexts Okay, yeah, it's a funny joke. But guess
Speaker 1: who did have context? Jada had context. Guess who did
Speaker 1: have context? Will had context? Guess who did have context?
Speaker 1: All of those that knew and saw Jada's announcement a
Speaker 1: little while back that she had alopecia those people did
Speaker 1: have context initial ale. If I'm not mistaken, Will Smith
Speaker 1: laughed at the joke as well. But then to look
Speaker 1: and turn and see the pain on your wife face. See,
Speaker 1: no one knows how many times that she's cried about
Speaker 1: cutting her hair. One thing I am certain of is
Speaker 1: as especially as I think women in general. But I
Speaker 1: know for certain I can speak of Black women who
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I'm married to a black woman. I
Speaker 1: was raised by a black woman. Black women don't just
Speaker 1: want to cut their hair off, like very seldomly does
Speaker 1: a black women just want to shave their head ball Normally,
Speaker 1: there is something that's going on. I'll be one honest.
Speaker 1: I'm one of the biggest fans of the movie Set
Speaker 1: It Off, one of my favorite movies. I remember when
Speaker 1: Jada shaved their hair and Set It Off. I've always
Speaker 1: just taken it as like a fashion thing, like Jada
Speaker 1: does what the hell she wants. It's Jada Pinker Smith,
Speaker 1: Like she does what she wants when it comes to
Speaker 1: look and when it comes to fashion, and she wears
Speaker 1: she wears it so well. To why I always it
Speaker 1: was just a fashion thing. So I actually had no
Speaker 1: idea that she had alopecia. Until that happened, and everyone
Speaker 1: starts saying, what she announced that she had alopecia, I
Speaker 1: actually mixed. I I actually missed that because again, she
Speaker 1: wears it well, so I just thought that's something like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's going back to that look. But in learning of
Speaker 1: the condition and understanding, I am certain that she's had
Speaker 1: countless of nights and countless of times crying about that, weeping, sobbing,
Speaker 1: hurt about the conditions that she's dealing with. Will has
Speaker 1: lived that, He's lived at He's listened to those cries,
Speaker 1: He's he's come to her, he's come in as a
Speaker 1: security blanket and comforted her and and all of the
Speaker 1: sobbing and crying and and things that she's had to
Speaker 1: endure since finding out that information. And then most importantly,
Speaker 1: he looked to the side and he saw his wife
Speaker 1: in pain in front of everybody, not only everybody in
Speaker 1: the room, but everybody in the world who's watching. So
Speaker 1: what do you do? Do you just sit idle or
Speaker 1: do you show her I got your back? Or do
Speaker 1: you do you stand up for her because she's hurt.
Speaker 1: I don't condone violence. I don't condone violence at all.
Speaker 1: I don't condone Will Smith going up there to slap
Speaker 1: Chris Rock number one as a black man versus a
Speaker 1: black man, I personally don't want to see it. But
Speaker 1: then also just an understanding that like violence usually doesn't
Speaker 1: end well no matter in what shape or form it is,
Speaker 1: no matter who's carrying out the violence, it normally just
Speaker 1: doesn't end well. The way it ended in that situation
Speaker 1: is one of the best situations we ever see that
Speaker 1: ways we see that in and so no, I one
Speaker 1: percent don't condone virus one percent don't condone Will Smith
Speaker 1: going up there. But I one pent feel where Will
Speaker 1: Smith was coming from. Because as a protector, as a provider,
Speaker 1: um as the rock for your wife, as the person
Speaker 1: she turns to when everything is going wrong, you're stuck
Speaker 1: right like right there, there's a split second decision for
Speaker 1: you to make in order to help make her feel good.
Speaker 1: Was that the right decision to make? I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. The reality is that there's
Speaker 1: a split second decision that you have to make in
Speaker 1: order to try to help her feel better. Now, there's
Speaker 1: several that you could have made, but what Will did
Speaker 1: was one of them. I have nothing but respect for
Speaker 1: him for standing up for his wife. I think he
Speaker 1: could have handled it totally better. I think we all
Speaker 1: can handle things totally better. I'm not canceling Will Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm not off Will Smith because he slapped someone. The
Speaker 1: reality is that we all make mistakes, and we live
Speaker 1: in this world that everyone wants to punish others for
Speaker 1: their mistakes, but they want grace when they when they
Speaker 1: have their own mistakes. We live in a very hypocritical
Speaker 1: world that wants to cancel someone who worked their ass
Speaker 1: off to get to a position because they make a mistake.
Speaker 1: Be very careful where this is gone, and where this
Speaker 1: is gone already and where it continues to go. That
Speaker 1: people can't make mistakes because one thing is for certainly
Speaker 1: one thing that will never leave this world as mistakes.
Speaker 1: People will always make mistakes, and so at some point
Speaker 1: cancel culture. You need to find it within yourself to
Speaker 1: realize that people are going to make mistakes, that you've
Speaker 1: made mistakes. Maybe your mistakes aren't in front of the
Speaker 1: world because you don't have that platform. But shit happens,
Speaker 1: and it happened that night, and guess what it is
Speaker 1: gonna happen again, Not necessarily that, but it happens, and
Speaker 1: so I respect Will. I'm a big fan of Will,
Speaker 1: big fan of Chris Rock as well. I respect both
Speaker 1: of them. But you never want to be the guy
Speaker 1: that hits the funny guy. I agree with that in
Speaker 1: joking on someone and making someone the butt of your joke,
Speaker 1: that is always the risk that you take is that
Speaker 1: you don't know how someone is gonna respond, whether someone
Speaker 1: responds verbally and like verbally assaut you, whether someone responds
Speaker 1: and physically assass you, whether someone taking personally never want
Speaker 1: to speak to you again. You don't know how someone's
Speaker 1: going to receive what you say. So when that is
Speaker 1: the case, you have to be able to take out
Speaker 1: what you dish out. You have to be able to
Speaker 1: take back what you dish out. Chris Rock dished something
Speaker 1: out and there was something that came back from that.
Speaker 1: There was a reaction to that. Every action has a reaction.
Speaker 1: We learned that years ago. And so what's Will Smith
Speaker 1: right for what he did? I can't necessarily say Will
Speaker 1: Smith was right for slapping him, But in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, whether you believe in God or not,
Speaker 1: or anything past that, you protect your wife at all costs.
Speaker 1: No matter what, you protect your wife. And so I
Speaker 1: say kudos to Will for protecting your wife. Like I said,
Speaker 1: should you have gone up there and slap the man.
Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't agree with going up there and
Speaker 1: slap him, but I do agree with protecting your wife.
Speaker 1: And if that's the way that he help he needed
Speaker 1: to do that, that is his business. You know why,
Speaker 1: Because that man makes his own money, which means he
Speaker 1: makes his own decisions. That's his business. That ain't really
Speaker 1: on me to decide if that was the right method
Speaker 1: to go about it. I disagree with it, But just
Speaker 1: because I disagree or you disagree, don't mean he was wrong.
Speaker 1: That maybe what he felt he needed to do to
Speaker 1: protect his wife. And who are you to tell a
Speaker 1: man how to protect their wife. You can't because it's
Speaker 1: not your wife to protect. So, like I said, I
Speaker 1: got nothing but love and respect for Will Smith. Bad moment,
Speaker 1: move move on from it. Congratulations on an Oscar well deserved,
Speaker 1: probably was deserved long ago, but you got it, you're here. Congratulations. Will.
Speaker 1: Sucks that that moment happened, but we all make mistakes.
Speaker 1: We move forward, and that's all you can do. He apologized.
Speaker 1: I I really respected him apologizing that night and not
Speaker 1: apologizing to Chris Rock. And the reason being is he
Speaker 1: hadn't even had time to really process what was going on,
Speaker 1: and to go up there and apologize to Chris Rock
Speaker 1: right away because that's what people wanted to hear. I
Speaker 1: don't roll like that. I don't I disagree with that one.
Speaker 1: So I totally respect him going up there and apologizing
Speaker 1: to the Academy, apologizing to all the nominees that were
Speaker 1: nominated with him as well, and not apologizing to Chris Rock.
Speaker 1: I respect that the next day he did apologize to
Speaker 1: Chris Rock, because now I've had time to gather myself.
Speaker 1: I've had time to think about my actions. I've had
Speaker 1: time to be remorseful or not. You know, do I
Speaker 1: feel that there's a need to be remorseful towards Chris
Speaker 1: Rock or not. He had the time to process all
Speaker 1: of that. And again, I say kudos to Will for
Speaker 1: not just going up there and saying I apologize to
Speaker 1: Chris Rock because that's what everyone else thought he should
Speaker 1: have done, because then that's false and that's just feeding
Speaker 1: into what people want you to feed into. And so
Speaker 1: I thought that was incredible. Um and Like I said,
Speaker 1: much much respect to Will and and much respect to
Speaker 1: Chris Rock as well. You're carrying out your job. You're
Speaker 1: doing what you do that normally doesn't happen, but sometimes
Speaker 1: things spill over and that's what takes place. So that's
Speaker 1: that um. Like I sat up top, this is the
Speaker 1: end of today's episode. We will continue testing this out
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. Like I said, we would
Speaker 1: love to hear you're appearing and what you think about
Speaker 1: the way we're going to go about doing this pot
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks as we as we
Speaker 1: carry out this trial, and make sure you tune into
Speaker 1: our guests show this week. Would like to share the
Speaker 1: guests with you, but I'm gonna hold that one tight.
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