Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Stephen A. Smith | Sports Media Personality Offers His Reaction to Fauci's COVID Ruse

Transcript

Stephen A. Smith | Sports Media Personality Offers His Reaction to Fauci's COVID Ruse · Sid & Friends In The Morning

0:00
Speaker 1: Voucher on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought
0:06
Speaker 1: about most was Kyrie Irving. Kyrie Irvan stood out of
0:10
Speaker 1: my mind because of the heat that he was taking.
0:16
Speaker 1: He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him
0:19
Speaker 1: ineligible for home games, and he inked, and he linked
0:23
Speaker 1: his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates. In
0:27
Speaker 1: my opinion, particularly hindsight wise, it didn't make him stubborn
0:33
Speaker 1: or selfish. It made him brave for his willingness to
0:39
Speaker 1: stand up and say no, I'm not doing that. Kyrie
0:45
Speaker 1: Irvin did nobody wrong. We did him wrong. I did
0:53
Speaker 1: him wrong, and for that I'm sincerely sorry.
0:58
Speaker 2: Stephen A was right, he did take the hit. He
1:01
Speaker 2: did the right thing. And you know, stephen A came
1:05
Speaker 2: out and said, Okay, I had it all wrong. By
1:07
Speaker 2: the way, stephen A, I gotta say this, This guy
1:11
Speaker 2: does a tremendous part. He the guess he get, Oh yeah,
1:15
Speaker 2: Josha Piro last week, the governor phi of Pennsylvania. He
1:19
Speaker 2: had ran Paul on last week. So not only is
1:22
Speaker 2: stephen A Smith sorry Pat McAfee the best sports guy
1:25
Speaker 2: in the world, but his podcast is tremendous. Although that said,
1:31
Speaker 2: he's still gonna be mad at me. So here he is,
1:33
Speaker 2: Stephen A good morning, Steve, how are you?
1:36
Speaker 3: Good morning? Said?
1:37
Speaker 2: How you doing, my man, I'm doing great.
1:39
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be mad at you inside of the opas. Yeah,
1:42
Speaker 3: not gonna be mad at all.
1:43
Speaker 2: Do you know why I'm mad at Kyrie Irvingon?
1:46
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna tell you why.
1:48
Speaker 2: Because even though you're right about the whole vaccine thing,
1:51
Speaker 2: I'll let you finish your thought on that, because you're right,
1:53
Speaker 2: and that was a really, really cool apology. I don't
1:57
Speaker 2: like it when basketball players show up wearing kaffeas postgame conferences.
2:01
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, well again.
2:05
Speaker 3: One of the things that I get on you about
2:07
Speaker 3: is that you got to compartmentalize. You know, one thing
2:10
Speaker 3: may not have anything to do with the other. I
2:13
Speaker 3: didn't sit up there and get into a soliloquy about
2:17
Speaker 3: all the things involved in Kyrie Irvin. I was talking
2:19
Speaker 3: about the coronavirus pandemic and his actions during that particular
2:24
Speaker 3: moment in time, and as somebody that took the vaccine
2:28
Speaker 3: and at least the first booster shot never took anything else.
2:32
Speaker 3: You see an ordinate amount of stories that have been
2:36
Speaker 3: put out there, where the questions about doctor Anthony Fauci,
2:40
Speaker 3: the questions about what our government was compelling us all
2:43
Speaker 3: to do at that particular moment in time deserved scrutiny
2:47
Speaker 3: and deserved questions, and a lot of us you know,
2:51
Speaker 3: locked in, you know, lockstot Barrow in terms of Okay,
2:56
Speaker 3: you got to take the vaccine to get back to work, Okay,
2:58
Speaker 3: you got to take the vaccine to be safe, except
3:00
Speaker 3: et cetera. And he was like, no, I'm not doing it.
3:02
Speaker 3: And then in hindsight, when we see there was so
3:05
Speaker 3: much going on that wasn't related to science at all,
3:08
Speaker 3: but had so much to do with ego, had so
3:10
Speaker 3: much to do with politics. Just cynical and skeptical eye
3:14
Speaker 3: as far as I'm concerned, turned out to be right. Now,
3:17
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that some people didn't need the vaccine
3:19
Speaker 3: or whatever, but it certainly didn't make him wrong for
3:22
Speaker 3: taking a stance in the position that he took at
3:24
Speaker 3: that particular moment in time. And that goes for anybody else.
3:27
Speaker 3: That goes for police and firefighters and everybody else in between.
3:31
Speaker 3: And how us as a society were compelled to you know, march,
3:35
Speaker 3: you know, parrot the speech of the government at the
3:37
Speaker 3: time and march lockstep with what they wanted us to do.
3:40
Speaker 3: If we want to keep our jobs, if we want
3:42
Speaker 3: to be able to go to work, et cetera, et cetera.
3:45
Speaker 3: You know, the stuff that was placed on our shoulders
3:49
Speaker 3: just seemed incredibly unfair. And when PEROUTI went up to
3:51
Speaker 3: Capitol ear the other day and pledged to f one
3:55
Speaker 3: hundred and eleven times, I just thought it was one
3:57
Speaker 3: of the most egregious things we have ever seen. Was
4:00
Speaker 3: the face of science. He's the one person not only
4:05
Speaker 3: that he had a presidential party and given to Biden,
4:07
Speaker 3: given to him by Biden that dated back to January
4:11
Speaker 3: of twenty and fourteen until January nineteenth of twenty twenty five.
4:18
Speaker 3: So for me personally, for him to be taking the
4:22
Speaker 3: fifth I just felt that that was real, real weak.
4:26
Speaker 3: And I know that people are going to say, hey,
4:29
Speaker 3: they're coming after him, and anything he says could have
4:32
Speaker 3: incriminated him and all of that other stuff, But the
4:35
Speaker 3: damage that that, you know what, that he contributed to
4:38
Speaker 3: inflicting upon this nation, I didn't think should go unnoticed
4:42
Speaker 3: or unsaid. And that's why I said what I said.
4:44
Speaker 2: Could not agree more. Chris Como is one of those guys.
4:46
Speaker 2: So when you go back on his show, beat the
4:48
Speaker 2: hell out of them. Calls him Tony Pauci, my friend,
4:50
Speaker 2: Tony POUCHI shut up, but I couldn't agree more. But
4:52
Speaker 2: everything you just said. And I also took the booster
4:55
Speaker 2: because I wanted to. I had a cover of ballgames.
4:57
Speaker 2: I couldn't go into any stadium without it. I wanted
4:59
Speaker 2: to take my kids at dinner. I lived in Manhattan.
5:01
Speaker 2: I couldn't gone to it. I mean I had to
5:02
Speaker 2: carry around a card like nineteen thirty six Nazi Germany.
5:05
Speaker 2: I get it, but I wasn't going to destroy my
5:07
Speaker 2: kids' lives. I don't call it.
5:09
Speaker 3: Let's not forget Let's not forget the mask manday might
5:11
Speaker 3: not to get the six feet of separation. Let's not
5:14
Speaker 3: forget all you know, the closing of restaurants and businesses.
5:19
Speaker 3: Let's not forget all of these things. And then and
5:21
Speaker 3: then to hear that it wasn't based on science at all. Nope,
5:26
Speaker 3: I just I just think some of it, not all
5:28
Speaker 3: of it, but some of it wasn't based on science
5:29
Speaker 3: at all. I just think it's a very very egregious
5:32
Speaker 3: thing to have happened to this country.
5:34
Speaker 2: You know what I love, and I love when you
5:35
Speaker 2: had done. I'm gonna Bobby Kennedy on this program coming
5:38
Speaker 2: up in about forty five minutes. Bobby'll be on at
5:40
Speaker 2: nine thirty, so we'll get more into this too. But
5:42
Speaker 2: you did such a great job, Steve with Ran Paul
5:45
Speaker 2: and Ran Paul talked about the bird flu and you know,
5:48
Speaker 2: luckily it doesn't go from human to human or that
5:50
Speaker 2: would be a huge pandemic right now. As well. I
5:53
Speaker 2: learned more from that three minute conversation you put on
5:56
Speaker 2: Instagram between you and ran Paul than I did watching
5:59
Speaker 2: Anthony Eat Bouncy for three hours last week.
6:03
Speaker 3: Well you should go and listen to it again, because
6:05
Speaker 3: Ram Paul was kind enough to come on my show
6:07
Speaker 3: for twenty nine minutes twenty nine minute interview and you know,
6:11
Speaker 3: I just I just gave him the floor. You know,
6:13
Speaker 3: I asked a question that needed to be asked. But
6:15
Speaker 3: you know so much to you know, there's so much
6:17
Speaker 3: cynicism going on in our world. That's why I employ
6:20
Speaker 3: you and others along with myself to go on a
6:23
Speaker 3: case by case basis. I can be disgusted with you
6:26
Speaker 3: overall and not talk about you, of course. But I
6:28
Speaker 3: can be disgusted with an individual overall, but that doesn't
6:31
Speaker 3: make them wrong about a particular situation. And I think
6:34
Speaker 3: that in our politics, you have a lot of people
6:37
Speaker 3: that look at some of the critical things that Ran Paul,
6:40
Speaker 3: Senator Ram Paul has said about Anthony Bauci in the past,
6:44
Speaker 3: and I'm like, wait a minute. He says that this
6:46
Speaker 3: man probably should be in jail or whatever. Whatever. Okay, fine,
6:50
Speaker 3: but he also came up my show and said, I'm
6:52
Speaker 3: not looking to put him in prison. He's in his eighties.
6:54
Speaker 3: What I want is the truth, that's all. And we
6:56
Speaker 3: can move on going with your life. Let's make sure
6:58
Speaker 3: that we don't have a replica Niel. I have somebody
7:01
Speaker 3: else to come, you know, following in his footsteps, trying
7:04
Speaker 3: to emulate his actions, because we don't need that to happen.
7:07
Speaker 3: Senator ram Paul said that. But more importantly than anything else,
7:11
Speaker 3: I wanted to remind everybody I wasn't just talking to
7:13
Speaker 3: the chairman of the committee investigating all of this. I
7:16
Speaker 3: wasn't just talking to a senator. I was talking to
7:18
Speaker 3: a doctor. Grand Paul is a doctor, and it's important
7:22
Speaker 3: that people understand where he's coming from is as a
7:26
Speaker 3: member of the medical profession who found what Anthony Fauci
7:31
Speaker 3: was doing was egregious. That's something that you have to
7:34
Speaker 3: listen to, and I think it's important that everybody recognizes
7:37
Speaker 3: in the future, you know what, you got to listen.
7:39
Speaker 3: You just got to listen. You got to hear all sides.
7:41
Speaker 3: And we should always raise an eyebrow when we're shut
7:46
Speaker 3: down from even having to listen to somebody. When you're
7:49
Speaker 3: denying us the opportunity to hear what other what a
7:55
Speaker 3: contentious or you know, a different side has to say.
7:58
Speaker 3: That should raise a red flash when people don't even
8:01
Speaker 3: want you to hear it and they're ready to cancel
8:03
Speaker 3: you just because you want to listen to an alternative viewpoint.
8:06
Speaker 2: I'm curious that Kyrie Irving get back to you after
8:10
Speaker 2: you made that really good and accurate, heart felt apology.
8:14
Speaker 2: No you want them to.
8:17
Speaker 3: I don't care, you don't care. Listen man, let me
8:19
Speaker 3: let me, let me. Let me be very very clear.
8:22
Speaker 3: And I think that in the world of podcasting and YouTube,
8:24
Speaker 3: people lose perspective. They lose a very important perspective about this.
8:28
Speaker 3: You know what, I've been a columnist, I'm a pundan, commentator,
8:32
Speaker 3: radio host, television hosts, all of these different things. But
8:35
Speaker 3: at my core, I've been a journalist for over thirty years.
8:39
Speaker 3: I'm not here to be liked. I don't want to
8:42
Speaker 3: be hated, but you're not here to be liked. I
8:44
Speaker 3: have enough friends, I have enough loved ones. Good. You understand.
8:48
Speaker 3: I'm trying to do the best job that I possibly
8:50
Speaker 3: can do, you know, to serve my audience and by
8:55
Speaker 3: and large, the American people, because millions of people watch
8:58
Speaker 3: me and listen to me every day. That's my job.
9:00
Speaker 3: And I don't want any enemies. Please don't get me wrong,
9:03
Speaker 3: But I'm not here to make friends.
9:05
Speaker 2: You know.
9:05
Speaker 3: I'm not going out to things, giving dinner with Cayviri Irving.
9:08
Speaker 3: We in exchanging Christmas gifts. You know, if he was
9:11
Speaker 3: kind enough to call, I would have appreciated it, because
9:14
Speaker 3: I have a lot of respects for him. I think
9:15
Speaker 3: he's a sensational basketball player, and I think that he's
9:18
Speaker 3: gotten a bad rap in certain respects. But in the
9:20
Speaker 3: same breath, he's not flawless now than mine. I got
9:23
Speaker 3: a job to do and I'm gonna always do that.
9:25
Speaker 3: I don't get caught up in oh, who likes me
9:28
Speaker 3: and who hates me or whatever. I got a job
9:30
Speaker 3: to do and I'm going to do my job always.
9:34
Speaker 2: I love that about you. Nah, You're great stephen A.
9:37
Speaker 2: Smith at this point, you know again, you get all
9:39
Speaker 2: these amazing political guests on and you're great with him.
9:43
Speaker 2: I'm not patronizing you. I have no reason too. You
9:44
Speaker 2: don't make me a pennymore so, I'm just being honest
9:47
Speaker 2: with you. Do you get equally as excited when you're
9:50
Speaker 2: sitting there with the governor of Pennsylvania as you do
9:53
Speaker 2: talking about a basketball player in Pennsylvania like Lebron James
9:57
Speaker 2: I get.
9:58
Speaker 3: I get excited because I'm in a position to help
10:01
Speaker 3: make a difference, to help contribute to making our society better.
10:05
Speaker 3: You know, I don't agree with sid Rosenberg at least
10:07
Speaker 3: half the time, with the stuff that comes out of
10:09
Speaker 3: your mouth, right, But it doesn't make you an awful person.
10:12
Speaker 3: Quote but I don't agree with me, But it doesn't
10:14
Speaker 3: make me an awful person. We still get along great.
10:17
Speaker 3: The same applies to Sean Hannity, the same applies to
10:20
Speaker 3: Mark Levin. I'm not a Republican, but I'm not a
10:23
Speaker 3: Democrat either. I'm certainly not a supporter of the Democratic
10:26
Speaker 3: Socialist out here. Oh hell to the no, I'm totally
10:29
Speaker 3: against them. You might think I'm a Republican listening to
10:32
Speaker 3: me talk about them, because I think they're out of
10:34
Speaker 3: control and they're trying to ruin this country. But the
10:36
Speaker 3: point is is that there's a lot of people on
10:38
Speaker 3: both sides of the aisle that have good ideas, that
10:42
Speaker 3: care about this country, that want to contribute to making
10:45
Speaker 3: the country a better place. And I want to be
10:47
Speaker 3: a part of that in any way that I can help,
10:49
Speaker 3: you know, you know, facilitate that for the better end
10:52
Speaker 3: of the whole. I'm going to be willing to do
10:54
Speaker 3: without hesitation. That's who I am, That's who I've been,
10:57
Speaker 3: and that's what excites me, you know, to be sitting
11:00
Speaker 3: from a governor, you know, whether it's him, it's Wes Moore,
11:03
Speaker 3: Senator Ram Paul, it's Representative Jim Jordan, it's Senator Ted Crew,
11:08
Speaker 3: it's you know, Tenda, the Tim Pott and various others
11:12
Speaker 3: that have been on the show. The fact that they've
11:15
Speaker 3: falk to me, they've been willing to come on my show.
11:18
Speaker 3: I don't know what you and others know. I don't
11:20
Speaker 3: do this for a living, but I know how to interview,
11:23
Speaker 3: and I know how to ask the right questions and
11:25
Speaker 3: to touch on the subjects that need to be touched on.
11:27
Speaker 3: And I think that when you give your audience that
11:29
Speaker 3: kind of you know, that that kind of flavor and
11:32
Speaker 3: that kind of content, you're basically saying to them, listen,
11:35
Speaker 3: I want to learn just like everybody else. Let's get
11:38
Speaker 3: them on the record, Let's hear what they have to say,
11:41
Speaker 3: and then those who are officionados can judge accordingly and
11:44
Speaker 3: we can move the conversations and the subject matter forward.
11:47
Speaker 3: That's what I view my job to do is. I'm
11:49
Speaker 3: not an officionado on this. This is not sports, but
11:52
Speaker 3: I do enjoy it. I love talking to people, I
11:55
Speaker 3: love having an impact, and I love contributing to making
11:57
Speaker 3: a difference.
11:58
Speaker 2: I've heard all those interviews are all great, and look,
12:00
Speaker 2: for a long time, I was not an aficionado. I'm
12:03
Speaker 2: still not. I'm not Hannity Olivin. I'm a guy that
12:05
Speaker 2: did sports talk radio for seventeen years. But I always
12:07
Speaker 2: said this, the same guys that listen to me and
12:10
Speaker 2: girls every morning that want to see the Giants win,
12:13
Speaker 2: and the Knicks win, and the Rangers and Yankees win.
12:16
Speaker 2: They got kids. They're worried about the future of this city, clearly,
12:20
Speaker 2: this state, clearly the country. So guess what. They don't
12:24
Speaker 2: have to go listen to one at bat from a
12:25
Speaker 2: Yankee club game with Boomer for forty minutes. They can
12:28
Speaker 2: get all of that in forty minutes with Sid Rosenberg
12:31
Speaker 2: or stephen A. Smith. You know, people are okay enjoying
12:34
Speaker 2: more than just you know, just the appetizer. They want
12:37
Speaker 2: theentre and dessert as well. I think that's what we
12:39
Speaker 2: provide guys like you and I talking to the everyday
12:41
Speaker 2: man because we're not political pundits, but but we come
12:45
Speaker 2: from where they are. They could appreciate guys like you
12:49
Speaker 2: and me. That's why I think we've got this type
12:51
Speaker 2: of popularity. I really do.
12:53
Speaker 3: Well, it's not just that I think it's a you know,
12:56
Speaker 3: we do come from them, that's true. We do care
12:59
Speaker 3: passion about what's going on with the country, and we're
13:03
Speaker 3: not going to be pigeonholed. And when you look at
13:05
Speaker 3: the society as a whole, look at some of the
13:07
Speaker 3: biggest stars that exist in this world. Tell me who's
13:09
Speaker 3: one dimensional? You know, you've got actors who are directing
13:13
Speaker 3: and producing. You've got rap artists who are acting and singing.
13:18
Speaker 3: You know, you've got you know, athletes who are doing
13:21
Speaker 3: the same thing. And now they're venturing into the world
13:23
Speaker 3: of entrepreneurship and in the world of business. People are
13:27
Speaker 3: not trying to be one dimensional? Why should we be?
13:31
Speaker 3: You know what, I may not be an aficionado, but
13:33
Speaker 3: I read the newspapers, I watch the news, I pay attention.
13:37
Speaker 3: I'm a conscientious reserver. I pay attention to what's going
13:40
Speaker 3: on to some degree. And most importantly, I'm able to
13:43
Speaker 3: leave my emotions at the door far more often than
13:46
Speaker 3: people are willing to do themselves. And I think that's
13:49
Speaker 3: incredibly important, because I think too many people are led
13:52
Speaker 3: by their emotions, and that's a mistake because when you
13:55
Speaker 3: do that, then you're you're showing that you have an
13:58
Speaker 3: agender and that's not right. I can disagree. I disagree
14:01
Speaker 3: with the President about a lot of different things. You
14:04
Speaker 3: know that, you know, I have a real problem with
14:06
Speaker 3: how he behaves and how he comports himself. But that
14:09
Speaker 3: doesn't make every single thing he does wrong. Some things
14:13
Speaker 3: he's done may not be wrong, and you got to
14:16
Speaker 3: be willing to save that too, particularly if you're asking
14:19
Speaker 3: an audience to trust that you're objective enough to put
14:23
Speaker 3: the truth out there as best as you possibly can.
14:27
Speaker 3: That is what I believe our responsibility is. That's what
14:29
Speaker 3: I try to live up to.
14:30
Speaker 2: Two more the Great Stephen A. Smith. Another amazing conversation.
14:33
Speaker 2: So when they're right about the mayors raised in twenty
14:36
Speaker 2: twenty nine here in New York, they talk about the
14:38
Speaker 2: guys that have already said they're going to run, people
14:41
Speaker 2: like the former Chief of Department NYPD, John Shell, my
14:44
Speaker 2: dear friend, the comedic actor you know him very very well,
14:47
Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport, he's talked about running, Dave Portnoy, and me,
14:50
Speaker 2: my name is in every single column now. The truth is,
14:53
Speaker 2: my wife will kill me. And much like you, I'm
14:55
Speaker 2: not about to take a pay cut to run for
14:57
Speaker 2: mayor of New York City. But I'm in there and
15:00
Speaker 2: they say to me, isn't this enough? You're on the
15:02
Speaker 2: radio talking BB last week, President Trump two weeks before that.
15:06
Speaker 2: Isn't it enough? And the truth is it really is
15:08
Speaker 2: so for you? A guy that's been talking about possibly
15:12
Speaker 2: running for president in twenty twenty eight. Haw's the podcast
15:15
Speaker 2: Now Quenched that thirst.
15:19
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think. I think what makes me a
15:22
Speaker 3: little bit different And I don't know if if this
15:25
Speaker 3: was good or bad. My thirst is never quenched. I'm
15:29
Speaker 3: always hungry. I'm always thirsty. I'm you know, it's day
15:34
Speaker 3: to day. Every day is a new challenge. That's what
15:36
Speaker 3: keeps you know, there's a difference between being alive and living.
15:39
Speaker 3: And I pride myself on living constantly trying and striving
15:42
Speaker 3: to evolve and push myself forward and never relenting. And
15:46
Speaker 3: when it comes to what they were talking about with
15:49
Speaker 3: me and politics, I have no desire to be a
15:50
Speaker 3: politician whatsoever. But I do have a desire to contribute
15:55
Speaker 3: to making the world a better place and to make
15:57
Speaker 3: this country a better place. And I think that right now,
16:00
Speaker 3: the way things are, it's so polarizing, it's so divisive
16:03
Speaker 3: that it's you know, I think it's it's it's and
16:05
Speaker 3: it's kind of productive to everything that we're striving to achieve.
16:09
Speaker 3: You know, there's absolutely nothing that Everything is not right
16:13
Speaker 3: about the Democrats and everything is not right about the Republicans.
16:17
Speaker 3: There are flaws.
16:18
Speaker 2: Everywhere, but there's much more right about the Republicans and Democrats.
16:22
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I will say you.
16:25
Speaker 3: I will say this to you. Your point is valid
16:28
Speaker 3: if you're looking at things as presently constructed, because there
16:32
Speaker 3: is no Democratic party. They don't even have a party
16:34
Speaker 3: right now. They're house divided, they're fragmented because they can't
16:37
Speaker 3: decide whether they want to be moderates or they want
16:39
Speaker 3: to be socialists. That's a problem right now because they're
16:42
Speaker 3: getting pulled to the left right. But if there was
16:45
Speaker 3: a party that was strictly moderate, hardcore moderate, and they
16:50
Speaker 3: were about okay, I'm center left, Okay, that means you're
16:54
Speaker 3: willing to veer across to au and take those things
16:57
Speaker 3: into consideration before making your decision. I think we'd have
17:01
Speaker 3: a better Democratic party on the Republican side. You can
17:05
Speaker 3: say what you want because you're a fan of his, Okay.
17:08
Speaker 3: My point is is that when you look at some
17:10
Speaker 3: of the things that he's done, what our continuously implore
17:13
Speaker 3: you on the right to take into considerations, understand the
17:18
Speaker 3: monster that you've created. I'm not talking about him as
17:20
Speaker 3: a person, I'm talking about systemically. If you, okay, all
17:25
Speaker 3: the things that he has done and the manner in
17:27
Speaker 3: which he has gone about doing it. Understand that precedence
17:32
Speaker 3: being set matters. We paid attention to that through history.
17:36
Speaker 3: When you comport yourself the way that you do, when
17:38
Speaker 3: you talk the way that you do, when you're as
17:40
Speaker 3: polarizing it as you are, when you are as authoritarian
17:44
Speaker 3: or dictatorial as you're willing to be from time to time,
17:47
Speaker 3: When you do stuff like that and everybody is okay
17:51
Speaker 3: with it now because it's him, Well, he's not going
17:54
Speaker 3: to be there forever. What then and when that kind
17:57
Speaker 3: of stuff takes it comes into consideration, and you sers
18:01
Speaker 3: our standard, our moral standard as a nation, Now you've
18:04
Speaker 3: got yourself a problem because what you've done is you've
18:07
Speaker 3: put an individual ahead of the system and society itself.
18:13
Speaker 3: And that's never good because some way along the line,
18:17
Speaker 3: somebody else is going to have that power and they're
18:19
Speaker 3: going to use that as an excuse to justify the
18:22
Speaker 3: things that they do. And that's why we always try
18:26
Speaker 3: to uphold a standard. And it's incredibly important that we
18:29
Speaker 3: get that. If I was the president, there's no way
18:31
Speaker 3: I would act like that. There's no way that I
18:34
Speaker 3: would be as polarizing as divisive. What I would be
18:38
Speaker 3: doing is I would come on said show. I would
18:40
Speaker 3: come on show and show I would I would talk
18:43
Speaker 3: to people on the other side. I would say, damn it,
18:45
Speaker 3: that's a damn good idea. If they've got a Republican
18:48
Speaker 3: congressman or a senator and they had a good idea,
18:51
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give them credit. I'll even go to their city,
18:54
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Maybe I wouldn't go as
18:55
Speaker 3: far as campaigning on their behalf, but I would make
18:57
Speaker 3: sure they never speak about them in a very disrespectful
19:01
Speaker 3: and incendiary matter, Because how can I sit up there
19:03
Speaker 3: and call you everything but a child to God, but
19:05
Speaker 3: then say let's work together. Well, wait a minute, I've
19:08
Speaker 3: just tried to humiliate you. I've disrespected you, I've diminished you.
19:12
Speaker 3: These are basic, basic things as a society, as citizens
19:16
Speaker 3: in the society that we understand. But somehow it comes
19:19
Speaker 3: to our politics and we forget all of that. And
19:22
Speaker 3: that is what we have to get back to. We
19:25
Speaker 3: have to get back to recognizing the fact that there's
19:27
Speaker 3: a level of the core room professionalism indecency that we
19:30
Speaker 3: all should hold for one another, regardless of race, ethnicity, age,
19:35
Speaker 3: or whatever it is, show some damned respect and when
19:38
Speaker 3: you don't do that, you're asking for disaster.
19:41
Speaker 2: Thirty seconds ago, that was a damn good rand, Steve.
19:44
Speaker 2: That was really good. I'm not going to lie to you,
19:46
Speaker 2: and a lot of it made a heck of a
19:47
Speaker 2: lot of sense. Thirty seconds from now, my daughter Ava
19:51
Speaker 2: is going to start her very first class at University
19:54
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania Carrie Law Center. We spent three days, although
19:59
Speaker 2: we dropped that we took thank you took her that
20:01
Speaker 2: Thursday nights where she said, you pen law. And yesterday
20:04
Speaker 2: I was in the bookstore, Steve, I'm buying you pended
20:07
Speaker 2: sweatshirts and you pended T shirts. I'm really part of
20:10
Speaker 2: my little girl who did her undergrad work, by the way,
20:12
Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom, came home with a law degree already.
20:15
Speaker 3: Anyway, rich Stark College Susan give re start college next month.
20:18
Speaker 2: Oh wow, how about that? All right? Weck? So every bookstore,
20:22
Speaker 2: I mean every store I went to in Philadelphia has
20:25
Speaker 2: a T shirt almost all of them with the faces
20:28
Speaker 2: of embiid Maxie, Jaylen Brown and yeah, you guessed it,
20:33
Speaker 2: Lebron James. If Steph Curry goes to Boston, I think
20:37
Speaker 2: they become the favorite. But as long as he stays
20:39
Speaker 2: in Golden State in the final minute, are the seventy
20:42
Speaker 2: six Ers now the best team on paper in the East?
20:47
Speaker 3: Well, you could make the argument the best team on
20:49
Speaker 3: the paper in the East. I think if Steph Curry went,
20:52
Speaker 3: what would you give up for him? I can't imagine
20:54
Speaker 3: going to State giving him up. But if you were
20:56
Speaker 3: to get Steph Curry, what would you have to give up?
20:59
Speaker 3: You have to give up half the Tea would get
21:01
Speaker 3: the Boss and Celtics you can't keep. You can't. I
21:04
Speaker 3: can't see that happen. And that's number one. Number two.
21:06
Speaker 3: I think that it's important, you know, when you look
21:09
Speaker 3: at the seventy six Ers, clearly, on paper they would
21:12
Speaker 3: be the best team in the East. But I still
21:15
Speaker 3: wouldn't count out the New York Knicks because of their
21:17
Speaker 3: chemistry and cohesiveness. And I certainly wouldn't give the Sixers
21:21
Speaker 3: the edge over Oklahoma City out west, you know, and
21:27
Speaker 3: to a lesser degree, even San Antonio. I don't think
21:29
Speaker 3: those things could be ignored. So I think you'd have
21:31
Speaker 3: a challenge in that regard. We got to remember Kevin
21:34
Speaker 3: Durant recently brought up as comparable to him going to
21:37
Speaker 3: Golden State years ago. That is not true. That is
21:40
Speaker 3: patently false. That is wrong because Kevin Durant was a
21:43
Speaker 3: free agent that had lost in the Golden State Warriors
21:46
Speaker 3: in the Game seven after giving up a three to
21:48
Speaker 3: one lead, and then went to them a month later
21:50
Speaker 3: and joined the greatest shooting backward in the history of
21:52
Speaker 3: basketball and Steph Curry and Klay Thompson to the point
21:55
Speaker 3: where there was no competition. It wasn't any reason even
21:58
Speaker 3: have the twenty seventeen season because you knew how great
22:01
Speaker 3: he was and they were. It was a foregone conclusion.
22:04
Speaker 3: That's not the case here. Even with Lebron come into Philadelphia,
22:08
Speaker 3: you're still not sure if they're coming out of the
22:10
Speaker 3: East and your damn sure ain't sure they're gonna win
22:12
Speaker 3: the championship. So it's not the same scenario. And on
22:15
Speaker 3: top of all of that, Jaylen Brown was traded for it.
22:18
Speaker 3: He didn't necessarily ask, He didn't ask out of Boston.
22:20
Speaker 3: They traded him there. Kevin Durant went to Golden State
22:23
Speaker 3: as a free agent, and Lebron James is not at
22:26
Speaker 3: the top of his game anymore. He's still great, but
22:28
Speaker 3: he's not what he used to be because age and
22:30
Speaker 3: attritionans kicked. He's going to be forty two years of
22:32
Speaker 3: age come December, so it's really not the same situation.
22:36
Speaker 3: But the Sixers are formidable, there is no doubt about that,
22:40
Speaker 3: and they definitely definitely have a chance to win it all.
22:43
Speaker 2: You know, it's at the top of his game. You are,
22:45
Speaker 2: stephen A. That was a great conversation. And I'm loving
22:49
Speaker 2: your podcast and I love your sports stuff on ESPN
22:52
Speaker 2: and I watch all your Instagram stuff. You really are.
22:54
Speaker 2: You're great and love when you come on this program.
22:56
Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith, wait to start my week, buddy.
22:59
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, you take it eaty.
23:01
Speaker 2: God bless you. What a great job. Stephen Ah Smith,
23:03
Speaker 2: what are you? One of my favorite people. I know
23:05
Speaker 2: it sounds crazy because we disagree on so much, but
23:09
Speaker 2: that's him off the air too. He's a very mild mannered,
23:13
Speaker 2: decent guy. You know, he's not maga like I am.
23:17
Speaker 2: But he's a very entertaining, very smart and if you
23:21
Speaker 2: like the common sense stuff, that's stephen A. Smith to
23:23
Speaker 2: the tea.
23:24
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to sit In Friends in the morning.
23:27
Speaker 4: You can hear sit In friends in the morning weekday
23:30
Speaker 4: mornings at six. If you like the podcast, share it
23:33
Speaker 4: with your friends and listen anytime at wabcradio dot com
23:37
Speaker 4: and download the WABC Radio app. Hit that subscribe button
23:41
Speaker 4: on all major podcast platforms. Plus follow WABC on social
23:46
Speaker 4: on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X see you next time
23:50
Speaker 4: for a new episode, so you never have to wonder
23:53
Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here