Full Show: "We Rich" Nephew Josh is back with NFL Picks. Congrats to Maverick Carter, but Lebron's NBA relationships are newsworthy too.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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a lot of stuff to get into today. Got the
wildfires and Los Angeles. You've got a twist to the
story because, uh, former stars on the show The Hill,
The Hills.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
They've been out there.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Uh they lost their home, uh, their parents home, and
they've been out on TikTok and somehow, some way they've
been able to generate in an exorbitant amount of money,
at least in some people's eyes. And so we're gonna
talk to them about what's going on and how they've
been able to twist this catastrophe that has taking place
in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas to show you know,

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what they're doing and how they're making these times work
for them. That's been a story that's been generating virally
over the last couple of days or so. So I
felt the need to talk to them about them. Looking
forward to get and end of that. Definitely gonna get
into some stuff in the National Football League because he
got the playoffs coming up. Gonna do that, Im gonna
touch on something about Drake as well. But before I
get into all of that, I gotta get started with

(02:11):
some sports business news involving Lebron james longtime business partner
Maverick Carter Maverick. He's been hired as an advisor by
a group of investors seeking to raise five billion dollars
to form an international basketball league that would essentially rival
the NBA. The story was first reported by Bloomberg. The

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investor group, which includes multiple private equity funds, wants to
form the league made of six men's teams and six
women's teams playing games around the world.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
By the way, Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Is reportedly not involved in the efforts of this new league.
As for the NBA, they have not faced the significant
rival five on five league since the nineteen seventies when
it merged with the American Basketball Association and absorbed four
of its teams, the Pacers, the Nets, the Nuggets, and
the San Antonio. Don't expect this to be competition either.
Let's get that out the way right now. It's not

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gonna be competition. Not gonna be some five or five
league rivaling the United States in the National Basketball Association
to be specific. First of all, most places don't have
the money, not in Europe. Most of the money goes
to their soccer talent. Not in other places, just primarily
the Middle East. And what's the chances of you getting guys,
particularly superstars, to form some kind of lead, some kind

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of five or five league. It's not gonna happen. So
let's just get that out the way first. Secondly, we're
gonna get another thing out of the way. We're gonna
stop acting like any time we hear the name Maverick Carter,
it doesn't include Lebron James. We're not falling for that
lie anymore. We're not trying to hear that. Now, love
me some Maverick Carter. He's a good brother and he's
done great things, and I'm happy for him, and I
applored Lebron James for always looking out for his boys.

(03:48):
Whether it's Maverick Carter, whether it's Rich Paul, whether it's
Randy Members, it doesn't matter who it is. All of
them have done well for themselves and they deserve all
the love and respect one could give them, especially in
the case of Maverick and Rich.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm sorry Rich Paul, especially in their cases.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Rich Paul has proven to be an absolutely outstanding agent.
Clutch Sports is Clutch Ports. You can't deny the work
that he's been doing. In the case of Maverick, there's
a lot of power brokers that love.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And respect Maverick Carter.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
But we're gonna stop acting like this has nothing to
do with Lebron James. Lebron James got his fingerprints all
over stuff like that, no matter what it is. Now
I understand in this particular instance why you want to
make sure to let the world know you have nothing
to do with this. Because Lebron James aspires to become
an owner, an owner of an NBA team, preferably an
expansion franchise to be placed in Vegas as opposed to

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Seattle on someplace else. And that's where this story really
takes fold because let me tell y'all something, Lebron James
is reportedly worth about one point two billion dollars. To
get an expansion franchise in the NBA in Las Vegas,
it would cost about seven billion. Obviously, equity in the

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NBA via ownership of a franchise is very very important.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
We understand it, We get it, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
But let me be very very clear to you, that
ain't all it takes in order to become an owner
of an NBA team.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's not just the money that you have to have.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
It also has to be a board of governors consisting
of those other NBA owners along with the Commissioner's office
who wants you to be an owner in their league.
And I'm here to tell you right now, everybody don't
want that for Lebron James. See, we're gonna be real
about Lebron James. We should miss him once he's gone.

(05:40):
We should treasure his greatness and a commitment to excellence
that he has clearly had in being in considerable shape
and conditioning to be as phenomenally great as he has
been in his attire career, being number two in amount
Rushmore of basketball and my eyes behind everybody, but ahead
of everybody, rather but Michael Jordan. But he's the same

(06:02):
Lebron James that decided to take his talents from Cleveland
to South Beach, and former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert
had to find out on the news like everybody else,
he's the same Lebron James that I personally will contest
his ruined the Slam Dunk Contest and.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Arguably All Star Weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
You got people, once upon a time, it was Jordan,
it was David Thompson before him, the Connie Hawks, the
Julius Irvings of the world, ultimately the Vince Carters and
the Tracy mcgrady's and the Kobe Brynt of the world.
All stars with an aerial assault to their game participated
in the Slam Dunk Contest until Lebron James decided not

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to be one of those dudes. He wanted to use
layup lines prior to games to do all of that
teasing the NBA and its fan base in the salivating
for him and clamoring for him to be a participant
in a Slam Dunk contest, and he never did it,
and then last year happened. You might not remember this,

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doctor j Julius Hervey, Larry Bird. Guys like that walk
in and they want to talk to Lebron James. And
when they want to talk to Lebron James, I'm sorry.
They want to talk to the team, the NBA All
Star Team, and Lebron James obviously was one of those guys,
and they wanted to talk to them about taking it
seriously and putting forth a decent effort and going out
there and competing for the fans. And the NBA thought

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that those guys reached those All Stars inside their soul
until they saw Lebron James give the players a side eye.
And once that happened, once that happened, they went out
there and embarrassingly allowed nearly four hundred points to be scored,

(07:52):
playing no defense whatsoever. And what's inexcusable about it, ladies
and gentlemen, is that when you are working out in
the summer time, playing pick up basketball with your contemporaries,
you play harder than these guys play on All Star weekend.
And they know it. They have ruined All Star Weekend.
I want no parts of All the Star Weekend because

(08:15):
of what they've.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Done to the game.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
The three point shooting contest is the only contest worth watching.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
The slam dunk contests ain't worth watching.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The new rules that would have been implemented in order
to make it to try something new and different and
make it more competitive, it would be necessary if you
went out there and played with a shred of effort.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
They didn't care.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
And when they look to leaders, just the same way
everybody looked at Lebron when it came to playing in
the bubble during COVID. Like Patrick Beverley has said, back then,
let us all stop front, let's stop bsen. We all
gonna do what Lebron does. We all gonna do what
Lebron wants us to do. We all know it. That's
what he said. Because Lebron was that kind of leader,

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and so that kind of impactful individual can go a
long way towards doing things where you don't have to
worry about load management as well as much. You're not
looking for your next deal the second you signed this
deal and all of that other nuance, all those other
nuances that come with it. People look at Lebron James

(09:20):
fear or not. He's the blame in a lot of
those owners' eyes. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
I ain't guessing. I'm telling you what I know. And
because that's the reality when it comes time for him
to want to be an owner and they get to

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say yeah, a nay, and they are even when there
are other comparable offers on the table who say they
got to pick Lebron James when they can find somebody else,
particularly in this day, this day and age of hedge funds,
private equity, et cetera, when they can pick somebody else. Now,
that's not the rule out of it being impossible, because
all of us should be demanding that Lebron James, if
he wants to become an owner, and he has the
assets and resources necessary to have equity in an NFNBA franchise,

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he should be allowed to do that. He's done too
much for the game for you not to do that
for him. But some of the owners feel otherwise, and
when it's time for him to get his come uppance
in any way they can deliver it to him, chances
are some of them will. I'm telling you what I know.

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So when you saw this story about a five or
five team and Lebron James has nothing to do with this,
what Maverick Carter does has bad enough for them because
even though it's not a threat, how dare you support
anything that will compromise our bottom line? That's how they'll think,
and it doesn't even have to be accurate that it'll
just be an excuse to have negative feelings towards Lebron

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because some owners look for it anyway, some form if
some executives for other teams look for it. Anyway, he
is not the most liked dude in the world, not.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
In NBA circles. That's just a fact. I'm not saying
he did anything wrong. I'm not blaming him.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm just telling you there are people in very powerful
positions associated with the NBA who feel otherwise.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm not guessing. I'm telling you what I know. I'm
telling you what I know.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
So it would behoove Lebron if he wants ownership down
the line, to try and play nice with some people
just to get things done so he can be the
owner of an NBA team. I'm just saying it's just
a suggestion. Now I want to talk about Drake, who

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for the second time this week, is making headlines.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
On Wednesday, we.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Talked about the Rap Superstars suing his own record label,
Universal Music Group for promoting Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us Now.
The Canadian born raping Rappers and Raptors Global ambassador as
in the Toronto Raptors, has been reportedly banned from commenting
on their games. The one year ban reportedly stems from

(12:14):
his controversial remarks about former Raptors star DeMar DeRozan. You
may recall back in November when Drake appeared on a
live broadcast and called DeRozan a goof take a listen,
speaking of national treasure. Yes, if you ever put up
a DeRozan banner about glove there and pull it down myself,
that's answer you question.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Is that what you're gonna ask?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, you know, yo, Kyle, Yeah, shout out statue. The
statues are next.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, yeah, they are going to like this. These remarks
walked backlash and the Raptors organization have now decided to respond.
But before I respond, I'd be remiss neglecting to show
you DeMar Deroza's response. Immediately upon hearing what Drake had
to say about him.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Today's broadcast, Drake said, if you ever put up de
rosenventner up, I'll go up there and put it on myself.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
What's your actions done?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, he gotta he gonna have a long way to
climb to take it down, So I tell him good luck.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Drake is looking weaker and weaker every day. I said
the other day, I understand how it can be a
bit sensitive when he's got to take his kids out
of school. The mother of his kid, along with his child,
has to move out of Toronto because of the treatment
they were receiving. In light of Kendrick Lamar's not like

(13:36):
a song blowing up the spot. I got it, but
I also felt like, if somebody gets the better of
you in the studio, you either stand down and say
they got me, or you come back with something stronger.
When you're as great as Drake is, why can't you
do that? But this, the Mark de Rosen thing took

(13:58):
it a bit too far. Damarrow, Russell Westbrook and those guys,
they're from that area. They're from the same spot as
Kendrick Lamar. When they're listening to the song they liked
the song or whatever you on stage and it's constant
dancing the way that they were. Drake was salty about
there was hell's wrong with you. DeMar de Rozan starts
with the Toronto Raptors for nine years. Damar DeRozan has

(14:21):
an average less than twenty points a game in the
last twelve years of his NBA career. Damar DeRozan his
crime is one crime and one crime only. He could
not beat Lebron James. That's about it. He was an
elite NBA player for the Toronto Raptors and was always
cool with Drake. And because Kendrick Lamar got you, you

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gotta turn around and it's like, Yo, you're gonna hate
on DeMar DeRozan.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, I personally think that this was set in November.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't know why the hell of Raptors are coming
out now talking about Drake is bann from talking about
of talking to you know, commentating for a year.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
With free speech is free speech? You the hell of
you to say you can't speak for a year? You understand.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm just saying that if you're Drake, really, do you
want this reputation?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
You want the reputation as being somebody that's that that
is that weak.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Cat? Get you listen? Ain't nobody look listen and if
you look at look at the lyrics.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
He didn't specifically and directly call you a pedophile, Kendrick Lamar,
He did not do that. But ain't nobody thinking about
whether or not you're a pedophile or not when they
listen to the music, They just saying, damn, he ripped
you the shreds.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
What you're gonna do about it? You gonna respond to
You're gonna stand down. That's all. That's all.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Ain't nobody looking at you differently? They looking at you
as a bit soft because every time we turn around,
there's a reaction from you that sparks a reaction from
somebody else. Because you've taken what Kendrick Lamar did to
you to heart very very significantly. You damn they're making

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people look at you and wonder what.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
You are because of how not because of Kencher Lamar's music,
but because of.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
How you're reacting to it, and other people vibing with
the song Tomorrow Derozenin' looking at you like some pedophile
or something like that. He liked the song, like the beat,
saw Kendrick Lamar going at you. They from the same hood.
He on stage dancing support him.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
So what.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
So what?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
That's just me.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I just think that in these kinds of situations, it's
great and somebody like Drake is you're minimizing your own cachet,
you're compromising it rather because you're making people look at
you in a different light because of how you're compelling
people to react to you, because of how you've reacted
to people just because.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of a song some music group represents both of y'all.
I get it put there in the money making business.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
If you came out with a song and you've tried,
but if you came out with a song that checked
Kendrick Lamar to the degree that he checked you, and
they could make money off of that, Kendrick Lamar would
not like it. But I think when we look at
him and we see him, you know what we suspect

(17:31):
he would not have went to the courts. He wouldn't
have been about suing the music group or you for
you getting at him in front of the mic or
behind the mic. He either stand down and he come
back at you anytime. We see a different story. Now

(17:52):
it's a basketball player and the team that Toronto Raptors,
who demarg Rosa doesn't even play for any longer. He
played in San Antonio, play to Chicago. Now he's with
the Sacramento Kings. Hasn't played for them in years. Even
they said you would banned from commenting or commentating for
a year. Even they are salty and want to separate

(18:12):
themselves from you.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Come on, Drake, it's just a song.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You too great for this, You too great to be
in the news for this kind of stuff. Man, too
much you bring to the table, bro Come on, man,
come on, coming up. President elect Trump is getting ready
for the inauguration on Monday, while his cabinet picks faced
confirmation hearings this week.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
I'll get into all of that.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
But first, the Supreme Court upholds a lord that could
ban TikTok here in the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'll get into why everyone.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Should be paying attention to this story next right here
on The Stephen A.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Smith Show, They'll go.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Away all right, y'all, listen up. We've got the NFL
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cool facing the Philadelphia Eagles secondary more or less than
eighty eight and a half receiving yards. Ladies and gentlemen,

(20:06):
I'm going with less. You've seen the Eagles defense. Have
you seen them? Have you seen these brothers play? Vic
Fangill got them balling right now, and they got pressure
that can get at you without needing the blitz. I
think it's gonna be a tough tough day for Matthew Stafford.
If anybody can overcoming this him and Sean McVay, I
just don't think they will. I'm going with less for
putting the coop on this one because they gonna target him.
They're gonna make sure to limit him. They're gonna try

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to make Coop a cup of Higgsby or somebody else
beat them.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Next up, wide receiver for.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
The Philadelphia Eagles, Davonte Smith facing the Los Angeles Rams
more or less than thirty nine and a half receiving yards.
I'm gonna go with more on this. Okay, they're gonna
key on AJ Brown. They're gonna dare Devontae Smith to
beat them. It's gonna give Jalen Hurts an opportunity to
throw him the ball more than he could throw it
to AJ Brown. I could see Davontae Smith getting more
than thirty nine and a half yards receiving. Next up,
we've got Baltimore Ravens tight and Mark Andrews facing the

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Buffalo Bills defense more or less than thirty eight and
a half receiving yards.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm gonna go with more on this one as well.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
If you are Mark Andrews, you're gonna be targeted because
you're gonna be the guy running in between the numbers,
and Lamar Jackson's gonna take advantage of that. He's gonna
feed you the football. I can see you get more
than thirty nine and a half receiving yards. Finally, Buffalo
Bills wide receiver Khalil Shakur for Khalil Shaker facing the
Baltimore Ravens more or less than fifty one and a
half receiving yards, I'm gonna go with more for this brother.

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I still think even though Baltimore Ravens defense has been
pretty impressive over the last six seven weeks of the season,
I still think if you're a receiver, you can get
off against their secondary. So I'm gonna go with more
on this too. That's how I feel about it. My
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as I've called him, the guy everyone goes against.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
He's been there before.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Please welcome back to the show to one and only
Trent Atia, known to the world as book It with Trent.
Trent is good to see you again, my man. You
saw my picks up there any issues.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
With it whatsoever, steven A, It's an absolute pleasure to
make it back on the show. Thank you so much
for having me. I was just looking at your picks. Honestly,
they look pretty surgical. I'm not gonna lie. I can
get behind them.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh really, so you showed me Puka Nakua at less.
You ain't got no problem. You don't have a problem
with that.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I don't have a problem. I don't have a problem
with that at all.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
You know why because I had a lot of money
pending on Cooper Cup in that game last week, and
he was no show, no show at all, and.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
So I expect one one one reception.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
He had zero targets up until the last two minutes
of the half.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
It was ridiculous. It was tough to watch.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
But I just think Cooper Cup, the game plan for
the Eagles is gonna have to be to stop pooking Akua,
which is going to allow Cooper Cup to have more
opportunities to get the ball. H So I do not
mind that less than even though a lot of other
people are gonna think, why would you go less than
on Pooka. I think it's a great play to be
honest with you.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I appreciate it, mat I hope you're right. I hope
you're making me look good.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
You know, your last appearance and I follow up interaction
revolved around your NFL goat whale lineup, which your season
long prospects line up around five player projections for the
year at the end of the regular season on January fifth.
To be exact, the lineup cash for one hundred thousand dollars.
So let's just get it out the way. You hit
a trash talk, you hit a trash troke man.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
You know I am stephen A.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
At the couple months ago, you told me that Josh
Allen was one thousand percent throwing thirteen interceptions, and I'm
happy to tell you he didn't even throw half that
stephen A six of them.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, you got me, there, you got me there. I
can't front.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
You do goat whale lineups for every major sports, for
every season. Is this the first time you successfully completed
one in full?

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Finally, the first time I was able to do it.
I've done it in the NFL, NBA, MLB, all the
sports are my favorite to do the season long, but
this one felt so good to finally get and the
way it cast was so great. I mean Saquon Barkley
literally hit by week eight. Josh Allen was never a sweat.
Jamar Chase had seventeen touchdowns, and Vijan and Jared goffo

(23:59):
to their So it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Hurt You want word at all that that Jamal Chase
would get himself hurt or with slow drag it because
he was in a contry. You know, you couldn't get
a contract. I know you had the fifty million dollars
insurance policy. But I give Jamal Chase a lot of
love for going out there and playing away.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
He played this year, Oh my gosh, it was phenomenal
to watch. I'm sad he's not in the playoffs to
be able to keep watch him. But I was absolutely
concerned because I placed this goat well and then all
the contract trauma eventually came out leading up to the
season starting, and I had no idea this was going
to happen.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
So I was very worried about that.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
One, and it ended up being the freest one out
of them all, which was insane.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
You're on a hot street.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I think it's with the eighty six five hundred winning
a college football players across two lineups. How have you
how have these two projections affected your fan base?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
And how does it feel to prove people wrong?

Speaker 6 (24:50):
I feel as fantastic. For years, I've been known as
the guy to go, the complete opposite of is the
fade god. So it feels great to finally have a
great end of twenty twenty four and hit my first
Demon slip. Actually I had five legs, all demon and
in the college football playoffs, and that one I cannot
believe it was hit. Shout out Jeremiah Smith and the

(25:13):
quarterback for Notre Dame, Riley Leonard. They're both amazing. I
can't wait to watch them in the finals too.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Are you concerned about messing up your brand? I mean, yo, Trent,
I mean you made a reputation to getting it wrong,
and people gravitated to you because you got it wrong.
Getting it right, they might be like, damn, wait, what
what what?

Speaker 7 (25:30):
What?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
What? What? What's the purpose now?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Are you worried about affecting your brand in a negative way?

Speaker 6 (25:36):
It's a completely valid question, for sure. I've had that
been asked a couple of times because people are so
used to me never winning. Uh, and then to go
out and win damn near two hundred thousand in the
last month and a half on prize picks. People are confused,
but it does feel great to finally actually see one
go through the hoop and have something go my way
for once. But you know, the last couple of days

(25:57):
have been back to regular regular skips sedule programming with
some losses, but hopefully, you know, I can turn it
around here in a bit in the NFL playoffs and
the college football playoffs too.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I got you on that. So let's get to your prospects.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
NFL playoff lineups right in the NFC the Los Angeles Rams,
Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Commanders, Detroit Lions.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Who you got well, yeah, so for prize picks in
that Lions Commanders game, I love Sam Laporta in this matchup.
The DBS for Washington, I think are gonna have their
hands full with Jamison Williams and a Monra, which is
going to allow Sam Laporta to be able to get
open and on some short passes. I think more than

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forty nine and a half receiving yards for Sam Laporta
is going to be green at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
I mean why, I mean, come on. Man, it's Detroit Lions.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
They got a top rated offense in the National Football League, and.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You acting like it's a big deal to say more
than forty.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Nine and a half yards. You could have been a
little bit more risk a thing that I'm saying you
at least say sixty nine and a half a laporter,
you couldn't do.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
The deem And I don't mind it one bit. I
think that Washington secondary is not gonna be able to
stop all these weapons for Detroit. I've got a big,
big futures bet on the Lions to win the Super Bowl,
so I'm very confident for them to handle business passing
the ball. Jared Goff, you know, he just cast me
for one hundred thousand for his season long passing yards,
and I don't see him slowing down in the playoffs

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one bit. So give me one of his favorite targets,
Sam Laporta more than forty nine.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
All right, let's transition to the AFC.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Houston, Texas, Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Who you got here?

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yeah, I think this is probably one of my favorite
squares of the weekend.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
It's a Comba square.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Actually, both quarterbacks both MVPs. Potentially, we don't know who's
gonna win yet, but they're both fighting for that MVP
trophy and I think they're gonna do what they do best,
and that's run the ball. We saw Lamar run the
ball fifteen times in that last playoff game, and we
saw Josh Allen run it damn near ten times as well.
I don't see it changing at all in this matchup.

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This is actually the most exciting game of the weekend,
without a doubt, and I think we see both these
quarterbacks use their legs to their advantage and it goes
more than ninety nine and a half rushing yards for
both Lamar and Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Wow. Okay, I love that squad.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
I got that book it with Trent. That's what they
call you book it with Trent. Even though they usually
go to opposite direction, this time we might not need
to do that.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean, you're on a little roll right now. You
want a little roll.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
But Trent Atia appreciate you, my man. Always good to
see you man. Definitely looking forward. Hope your Lions get
to the Super Bowl. I want to see him in
the Super Bowl. I ain't gonna front I would like
to see him in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
I would love that. I want to know real quick
before we go, who do you have winning the NBA Finals?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Steven A. Smith.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm staying with Boston until further notice. I think that
they won a championship last year. They're not concerned about
Cleveland having a better record than them being the number
one seed or whatever. Brown and Tatum of Stars. If
Porzingis is healthy and they get to the playoffs fully
loaded and healthy, I think that Boston is still the
team to beat no matter who you put out there,

(29:04):
Oklahoma City or whatever. But I will say this, when
Jamal Murray plays the way that he played last night,
oh for Denver, When.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
He plays the way that he played the other day.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
For Denver rather when he dropped forty five, If that
Jamal Murray shows up with Jokic, different animal, different animal.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
But I'm still gonna go with Boston for now.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
Okay, I feel that respect that I'm a big OKC fan, and.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know me, you know me.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I got shait I voted Shay Gilges Alexander's my MVP
last year, so you know I got him as my
MVP now. The way he's been balling. Was it thirty
five straight games with twenty plus points? The brother He's
just special. He's just special.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
He really is. Yes, all right, Trent. Appreciate you, bro,
Thank you, of.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Course, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Steven A, good luck this weekend.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Welcome back to steven E. Smith Show.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'll get it to the NFL playoffs in a moment,
but first I want to address an important story that
will affect at least one hundred and seventy million Americans
who used TikTok. Earlier today, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld
a law that would effectively ban the social media platform
in the United States this coming Sunday. The Court rejected

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an appeal from the apps owners that claimed the ban
violated the First Amendment. In its opinion, the Supreme Court
acknowledged that for one hundred and seventy million Americans, TikTok
offers quote a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means
of engagement, and.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Source of community end quote.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
But the Court said Congress was focused on national security
concerns and that was a deciding factor in how it
weighed the case. They said, quote, Congress has determined that
divestiture is necessary to address its well supported national security
concerns regarding TikTok's data collection practices and relationship with a

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foreign adversary end quote. The foreign adversary would be China.
So what happens next? The focus now shifts the President
elect Donald Trump, who can intervene after he takes office
on Monday. Speaking to CNN after the ruling, Trump said, quote,
it ultimately up goes up to me, So you're going
to see what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
End quote.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Trump also acknowledged that he spoke to Chinese President Jishingping
earlier today. Again, roughly one hundred and seventy million Americans
and more than one billion people worldwide used TikTok, according
to the company. I'm torn, but let me be very clear,
I'm only torn because of the moment that we're living in.
We're about to have on a guest who, along with

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his wife, is making some money, money they desperately need
because they lost their home in the fires and palisades.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Their parents lost their home as well.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
And a guy's name is Spencer Pratt, and he's about
to come on here in a few minutes to talk
to us about what he lost, how he lost what
he was able to retain or to save and conserve,
and what he ultimately had to forfeit because the fires
wouldn't allow otherwise. He encouraged people to go and listen

(32:12):
to her music and what have you. Apparently people have
been doing that and they've been using that as you know,
music on TikTok and stuff like that, and it's gone
viral and as a result, they're generating some revenue off
of that.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
And there's no crime in that.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
When you see something like that, you make money any
way you can, legally, any way you can in such
desperate times. They're not robbing anybody, they're not killing anybody,
they're not doing anything. So as far as I'm concerned, hell, YouTube,
while we got to show on YouTube, why does everybody
got a podcast and it's running on video and YouTube
and other platforms because you're gonna generate revenue for it.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
So I get that part.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
But national security is national security, and if Congress has
a concern about that, maybe the appropriate decision would be
to delay it for about a few months or so.
As one Democratic representative suggesting, maybe that's something that you do,
I don't know. I'm just reading from an article here
on the verge I believe it says the Supreme Court

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couldn't have been more direct. The Protecting Americans from Foreign
Adversary Control Applications Act as applied to TikTok with stand's
First Amendment scrutiny and can take effect on January nineteenth.
The Court agreed that the government had a compelling national
security interest in passing the law and that its rationale
was content neutral.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
The solution proposed.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Forcing Chinese parent company byte Dance Byte Byte Dance to
divest TikTok or see it ousted from the US was
ruled appropriately tailored to meet those needs.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
So essentially, here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Somebody out there needs to be able to purchase this
from Byte Dance, so it's no longer under Chinese authority,
because evidently we've got an issue with the Chinese government
using TikTok to influence so many American citizens, especially the
youth amongst us. Now, I do know that TikTok is

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banned in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, places like that.
Why is it banned there but not here? Who else
is thinking about banning TikTok? What's their rationale behind it?
Evidently the Chinese government has figured out a way to
utilize TikTok not only to spy on American citizens, but

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also to influence the youth amongst us. And it's so
alarming that the United States government has considered it a.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
National security concern.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I say, those security concerns usurp our preferences. I got
my daughters crying about TikTok, talking.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
About it's not fair. I don't like it. It's not right, daddy.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I'm like, wait a minute, I happen to believe you
on TikTok to damn much myself, And what the hell
are you looking at on there?

Speaker 1 (34:54):
And why do you believe that that's the best source of.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
News that you can find. Because we can't stop everything.
You could take their phones away. They got an iPad
or a laptop, they use it, then they use other
people's phone, they exchange messages, they're reading the news. They're
acting like it's the it's the modern day ABC News
or something. That's how these kids feel about TikTok. So

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I don't blame the government for feeling this way, but national.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Security is national security.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I don't blame the government for being concerned, but to
sort of meet your middle ground. Maybe Trump comes in
and you delayed this decision from being made for a
few months until folks get their bearings under them.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Maybe that's what you do.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Anyway, to my next guest, the former star of the
hit MTV reality show The Hills, He and his wife
Hedi Montag recently lost their home in the Palisades fire.
Please welcome to the show, mister Spencer Pratt Spencer, how
are you? How you feeling? How you feeling these days?
I know there's a lot going on. Put in the
words how you feeling?

Speaker 8 (36:01):
Man, I've just been on highs and lows, an emotional
roller coaster. So thankfully a lot of positive things are
happening to us now that I.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Can stay focused on.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
So I don't you know, I try not to call
my mom because you know, she lost her house also,
so you know, if I call my mom, you know,
then we go sideways. And so I tried to just
stay on the stay in the light because a lot
of sad.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Things going on, you know, but I'm looking at the positives.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Take me back to the evening of January seventh, When
did you realize you were going to have to evacuate
the fires were coming and you were going to have
to evacuate.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
So the night before I looked out the wind our
sun at like one hundred and four degree temperatures. So
we were up real late at night and the winds
out the it looked I got of that Twisters movie.
I never seen anything like it, and my I just
got hit with the worst feeling. I was like, if
there was a fire, we're in big trouble.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
I never had a feeling like that. So then in
the morning, you know, everything's going normal.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
On our our nanny that was helping that day, she
went to take our child up on our hiking trail
and she runs down and she said, the.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Construction workers just said there's a fire and you need
to get out of here.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
And respectfully to her, you know, I've lived there in
policies my whole life. I know those little fires pop
up and they hit it with the plane. So I said,
let me go check it out. See how you know
what we're talking about. So I hiked up the trail
where we always hang out, and I see a few
ridges over, you know, some smoke, but it's it's not
like I haven't seen flames yet. And I'm thinking, okay,

(37:37):
I call my wife and she's I said, you know,
maybe pack some stuff up. You know, I think we're good.
When these planes hit this, we're gonna be good. I
think we can calm down. So the next thing, you know,
the two yellow planes just start hitting it like out
of an action movie. I mean, we're talking as close
as you could get to the ground. Maybe I got
videos of it. It was the coolest thing i'd seen before

(37:59):
when it was a positive and they're going and getting
out of the ocean and they're coming back, and I said, oh,
we're good.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
They got this under control.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
But then I see from my vantage point that it
creeped down from this one ridge and I see it
start heading towards like you know, it's far away still,
so I'm thinking, okay, the fire truck goes on that
street and stops it on that house, We're still good.
So I'm watching it creep down from this hill and
it hits the first house, and this is the first

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time I've ever seen a house catch on fire. And
you know, I'm seeing people riding by. You know, this
is far away, but I'm you know, seeing it, and
I've seen people riding by on bikes. I'm like, okay,
they must know, you know, the firemen are coming.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
It must not.

Speaker 8 (38:40):
Look that bad because it doesn't look like everyone's freaking
out and driving away. So that house I see way
down the way catches on fire. And now a little
while later, the planes kind of you know, they were
hitting it for a good long time, so I don't
want to like be like they just bounced right away.
But now the planes leave. The planes are gone, and
now I'm starting to see the flames come.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
And now I call my wife.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
I'm like, oh, this is not looking good, you know,
unless a fire truck gets here on our street. Because
thankfully I always had such confidence because we did have
one of those water reservoirs. And these guys came and
I saw them turning it on and water was coming
out of the top, and I said, is that for
those helicopters that dip the thing in. He's like, yeah, yeah,
when they come in here, we don't know. So I

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was still like, oh, they got the water here, the
helicopter's gonna come and they're gonna drop it on it.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
We're gonna be good. That didn't happen. No fire truck camp.

Speaker 8 (39:31):
So I called nine one one, and they're connected me
to the fire department and the fire departments like, I'm sorry,
we don't have the assets.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
There's no fire truck coming.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
So I said to my wife, you better pack anything
you ever want to keep.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
And so that's what I knew was getting real.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
So she loaded up fast and she left to go
to my parents' house, which is so far from our
house in the like you know when I say so
far in the Palisades, the idea of that not being
a safe place, like it's like, go to my parents' house,
you'll be safe because you could never comprehend up on
our top hill, like we're the top of the Palisades,

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you know, where it makes sense that the fire could hit.
But when my parents live, it's like down by the
ocean side of the Palisades. So like my parents' house
one hundred and twenty five years old. And I said
to my dad when I found out he had no insurance,
I'm like, you do not have insurance, he said, the
house of one hundred and twenty five years old. I
knew if it ever burned down, it would mean the
whole town would have to burn down. And unfortunately, horribly

(40:32):
that's what happens. So Heidi goes with the kids to
my parents' house with all our belongings and my older
sister because we're not watching the news because the kid
was sick, our son was sick with one hundred and
four degrees or watching Blue Wee or curious George whatever.
I keep calling him, like, put on the news, what's
going on?

Speaker 1 (40:48):
She's like, I.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
Can't you know?

Speaker 8 (40:49):
When the kids only you know it is what it is.
We probably should have looked on the news, but I
guess what we weren't aware of. We're like the last
people still in the Palisades. Everybody had already evacuated and
got stuck on the streets on Sunset with the fire
hitting them, and people are running down this street and
they had to. So the positive out of that is
we didn't get stuck in that where everyone got trapped

(41:12):
in the cars and they're abandoned the cars because we weren't
watching the news and we didn't know. I was just
watching one piece over by our house. But that house
that I saw, that initial one, it started going down
that street and then it went down into the town
across Sunset, and now it's coming up onto Mescal Cannon
by Pally High and now it's coming at my parents' house.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
So my oisters were recalls. I get out of there so.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
That my mom took nothing like we're not like you know,
we got some teddy bears and some kids clothes and
you know, like three suitcases quick this My mom got nothing.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
I want to ask you because I remember, if I
remember correct, I saw you doing an interview on Good
Morning in America and you were essentially detailing the shock
of the loss of your home and how you didn't
have fire insurance playing. First of all, is that accurate?
And secondly, why was that the case when it came
to you. I understand what your dad at all, because
the house was one hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Years of age, But what about yourself? Why was that?

Speaker 8 (42:10):
So we had farmers like the great like I would
be set right now if I still had farmers, but
they after the Woosley fire.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
I think farmers.

Speaker 8 (42:19):
Don't quote me exact, I don't know about I thought
of Mercury. I know farmers dropped us and a lot
of people in the Palisades after those fires. So the
only thing we could get, honestly, thank god, we got
is this thing called California Fair Plan. But it just
covers I'm talking, you know, it's not covering anything that
our house had and what was in it. I mean

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maybe a little bit, but not like a real insurance.
So you know, I'm thankful we even got that little something,
but it's not enough to rebuild a house.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
You know, we put all.

Speaker 8 (42:51):
The money we've been hustling for for seventeen years, it
was just in our house, from you know, the kitchen
knives to the dishes to the sheet like you know,
we just had had a nice little setup and we
didn't have some mansion.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
The house was three thousand square feet. Let's be clear.

Speaker 8 (43:05):
Like, you know, people just think the Palace is all
these this one hundred millionaire rich people, movie stars. Like
I've been in the Pali States since I was born.
It was just became all these rich people came and
jacked up all the prices in the last like six years.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
I feel like, so this.

Speaker 8 (43:22):
Is like a new thing where you think of the Palate.
Like when I was growing up, it was not like
these all ballers. It was a small little town and
it's like that's all my friends and family that lost
their house.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
You know, I was horrible that anybody lost their house.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
But when people are like, you know, you see a
lot of negativity, like, oh, these are just you know,
rich people.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
It's like, these are people who've been in the palace
a sixty years.

Speaker 8 (43:42):
My next door neighbor, Calliope, the lovely Greek lady, she's
been in the palaces for like, I want to say,
seventy years.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
I don't want to like say she's a hundred.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
But my point is everyone on my block have like
they've lost everything.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
They're not these like So that's this disconnect, you know.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
The disconnect, and I want to get to that because
you know, you've been criticized on social media for your
emotional interview and for wearing a shirt promoting your wife's music. Obviously,
by promoting your wife's music, y'all have been able to
generate some revenue for yourself.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I don't see I don't see the problem.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
With that, especially during the time like this, But I
wanted to know what you had to say and what
your thoughts were about what the critics were having to
say about you and your wife.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
So first off, people have been following me for like
the last solid two years on Snapchat. They know I
only have Heidi Merch shirts. So when I evacuated, I
got my Heidi Merch shirts, like seven of them.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
That's really my only clothes. And even if I have
more clothes, I'd.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
Only be wearing the Heidi shirts because you can go
back a year. Every single day on Snapchat, every shirt
I ever wear is Heidi.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
So just because it's tragedy I've been I'm not like
changing my style of my appearance. I wear shorts and
I wear.

Speaker 8 (44:54):
A Heidi shirt every day to promote my wife's music.
So I didn't like switch up like, oh I'm on
Good Morning America, let me get some merch to put on.
You know, this has then my identity since I started,
you know, goes way back.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
And then for critics that are saying that.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
You know, they're always dealt with negativity controls and I'm
fine with it and I love the engagement thing, but
this time it just truly makes no sense because I'm
trying to rebuild a life for my two kids.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
And my parents and a family.

Speaker 8 (45:23):
It's like I'm trying to get money any way I
can on TikTok lives, getting gifts, Snapchat, selling crystals, T shirts,
Heighti's music like, there's full transparency.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
So the critics, that's not a critic to me.

Speaker 8 (45:36):
That's what somebody describing exactly what I'm gonna do, and
tell we rebuild a house for ourselves, and we rebuild
a house.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
For my mom.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
I told my mom I'm gonna get all things she
collected or hula dolls replaced and anything I can. I'm
gonna make sure that my mom and she looks back
at this, it's not the end of her life and
she's like, my son helped rebuild our world.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Spencer, what kind of money are we talking about here?

Speaker 2 (45:59):
And did you ever anticipate that you would be able
you and your wife would be able to generate this
kind of revenue. And again, it's not a crime you're asking.
You're not robbing anybody or anything like this. I just
want to stay for the record, I have no problem
whatsoever with what you're doing. I'm just curious as to
how successful this has been for you. And I'm hesitant

(46:19):
to use that word in light of the circumstances you
and your parents losing their home.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Please understand that one.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
Hundred percent, so we've never made I have no idea
about music. Everyone's like, you're not actually making that money.
You get zero zero zero zero zero point one percent
of stream so I don't even know, Like you don't
get the checks for like three months. I guess again,
this is new where Heidi's a global music pop stars,
so I can't be like, oh, last month, and you
know this is brand new, four days old, so I

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have no idea how much money the music is going
to generate.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
God willing, but you know, I'm like that, you know TikTok.

Speaker 8 (46:55):
Here's the craziest thing about you know, I went up
a million followers in a week. So the way these
RPMs work on these videos because I'm in the creator
fund and somebody explained it to me, and I only
get ten cents, So I got to make a minute video,
minute and one second video and I get ten cents
back if like a certain amount of millions of people

(47:15):
watch it, engage and watch that minute. So like on TikTok,
I made four hundred million views worth of videos and
I'm not kidding. We'll check the screenshots. I'll send you
a producer's evidence. I don't think I made more than
six thousand dollars. So it's not like, oh my god.
You know, on the TikTok lives when people choose to
send me, you know, you go live and people choose

(47:35):
to send me their gifts. They don't have to they
can tap the screen, they can share, and I tell people,
you don't got money, don't send it to me. I
just I'm happy you're here supporting. But the other night,
you know, I went live for thirty minutes and there,
you know, which was a big night. It was incredible.
It was eighteen thousand dollars with a miracle. You know,
you know, we got a long way to go to
get these millions.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
I'm trying to get.

Speaker 8 (47:57):
Obviously, but you know, that was a huge blessing and
I was so thankful. But it's not rolling in, you know,
I'm hustling to get to like, you know, people keep
following me a rich celebrity is like and I'm like,
a week ago, my Google network for the last fifteen
years was like washed up z listed with a thousand dollars.
But now I'm getting hate for like trying to hustle

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to get become an.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Actual rich celebrity. So it's just weird, like.

Speaker 8 (48:22):
Oh, now, now rich celebrity wants money. I'm like, nobody's
calling me a rich celebrity for the last fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
So and then.

Speaker 8 (48:29):
One of our friends in Georgia just that, you know,
a random guy that I met on TikTok live.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
That became a close friend through social media on TikTok.
Not random. Now he's a good friend, but him and
his wife.

Speaker 8 (48:40):
When this all happened, with nothing to do with us,
they made a GoFundMe, which was a miracle because I
was in I didn't I was hustling. I didn't even
know what so they did that, and that's been I
think that's over.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
You know.

Speaker 8 (48:53):
The other day I read through on TikTok every single
person at the time their name and I thanked them
for their donation. And again people are like, always ask
the man, it's five dollars, it's five dollars. It's five dollars.
Because I'm not complaining about but people are just buying
me a nice latte, you know, like these aren't people like,
oh he's you know, so you know, there's some nicer
people maybe have more money that did put more than that.

(49:15):
But if you go look, the average is five dollars,
seven dollars so it's not this like crazy hol Spencer's
asking people to give them their paycheck. You know, it's
just you know, so it adds up with volumes. So
that's incredible. Another miracles because there's no crowd of that.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
No, I know, you're making money on social media the
way a whole bunch of people have made money on
social media.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It's no big deal.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
But let me ask you this because I'm thinking about
Howdie You're the album she did. It was released in
twenty ten, and fans of supported you all in light
of what's going on.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
It reached number.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
One for both song and album this week on the
iTunes charts. Your thoughts on the potential of TikTok getting
banned come January ninth, You thought about that at all?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Yeah, I've thought about it a lot, so of course,
like the thing that haunts me the most is the
flames coming down my street when I drove away and
I was watching and I've been comparing it in my brain.
TikTok being banned now was like a new flame coming
down the street to trying to burn up everything I
have and then I built because in the last week,

(50:23):
the power and the love and community the people on TikTok.
You know, obviously I got great people on Snapchat and ig,
but TikTok's power the way everybody gets together. Like somebody said,
what they're doing for us is the greatest group project
this ever existed on the Internet, where everyone's come together
and they're making remixes and they're tagging, and they're reaching

(50:45):
out and they're making sure famous people posted. And it's
just like this organization of so many humans from all
over the world. That's why Hedie was number one in Australia, Oman, Netherlands, Canada.
I mean the list was fifteen number ones out of America,
and it's all because of TikTok.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
I mean, we don't have presence in these places. So
it's just the.

Speaker 8 (51:07):
Most insane, horrible extra little like of the all the
weeks I've needed something more, just dealing with that stress
of now and that anxiety of like the most powerful
platform that's helping us rebuild our.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Lives is being taken away.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
It's another tragedy.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Well listen, man, all the best to you, your wife,
your parents. Of course, you're doing nothing wrong. You're not
robbing the stealer from anybody. People are making so hell,
I'm doing this show with you. It's gonna be on YouTube.
You understand we ultimately generate a revenue because of that.
There's no crime in what you're doing. You do what
you have to do as long as it's legal, and
it ain't hurting anybody. The hell with all of them.
You do what you gotta do to take care of

(51:51):
yourself and your family. My man, you take care of
yourself a right, so much Spencer Pratt right here on
the stephen A.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Smith Show, And I mean that, I know what was
he doing wrong? What's he doing with?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
What's all the noise about? It's all the noise about.
I don't get that. I don't understand that. You got
people making money talking shit about people at every turn.
That's what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
This man lost his house, his parents lost their house.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
They're trying to rebuild, and they found a way to
generate money on TikTok, and we got people got a
problem with that.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Makes no sense whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Thanks again to my guest Spencer Praffor taking time out
of his schedule to come on here. Clearly he has
better things to do with his time, but he still
made the time to come on the show.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
And I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Coming up next, of course, I promise you'll will get
into some NFL playoff action, and I will do that
as well, but I will also engage in what a
new word I've learned called nephewism.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Is that what they call it?

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Because my nephew Josh is going to be in the
house and he wanted to come on the show.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
So who am I to stop him? Y'all seem to
like him. I have no idea why, but y'all do.
He'll be up next with yours truly right here in
the Steven Asmith Show.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
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Speaker 2 (54:23):
Now let's get into the NFL playoff picks in the
divisional round kicking off this weekend. But first, my next
guest wants a long introduction, but he ain't getting it.
He's my nephew.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
I know.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
He introduced me to the word nephew tism. I give
it to him. I give you credit for that. That was
a good one because I've never heard of it in
my life until he brought it up.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
But this is what he is. What's up, man? How
you doing?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
What's up? Josh?

Speaker 5 (54:45):
You Josh?

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Ladies and gentlemen, you like my sweater? Please please tell me.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
First of all, you're not sitting at my desk. You're
sitting at my desk on my studio.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
I'm sitting at my desk today.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
And you're wearing my sweat.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Yeah, they gave me a They gave me a degree
because we're related.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
They gave you, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
That sweater was not only in my closet, It was
in my drawer folded up. You went into my closet
and took my sweater out and wore my damn sweater.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Well, it fits me like this, so it's no way
it could fit you. So I don't know if you
had it for show, but it looked good thought look
on me run dampnse hat we rich?

Speaker 3 (55:27):
And what were we talking about? Today?

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Man?

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Listen I'm gonna you know what, I don't know how
much you even know about football. You should know since
you you know, you raised practically raised by your uncle.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
But nevertheless, we're gonna get started.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
With the Texans heading the Kansas City on Saturday to
face the Top City Chiefs. There's word out of Houston
at running back Joe Mixon injured his ankle this week
in practice, so he knows what his availability is going
to be. By the way, Josh, I don't give a
damn whether he's available or not. You don't have Stefan Diggs,
you don't have Tank Dell. As far as I'm concerned,
the Kansas City Chiefs are completely healthy, with the Patrick Mahomes,

(56:01):
with the Travis Kelsey, with all of these brothers getting
their rest, including Chris Jones and what have you.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Who can get at CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
By the way, I don't give Houston a snowballs chance
in hell of winning this game.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
What does my neph you have to say about this?

Speaker 4 (56:16):
Nah?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
I got Pat Mahomes. You see the numbers.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
He don't really lose this early in the playoffs. Like
you said that, the Texans are a pretty incomplete team
right now, and the Chiefs are reversed.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I got Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Got kid City.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Yeah, all right, just hope for you.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
After all, you ain't this knuckleheaded as I thought you
were in every situation. Let's go to the next game
in NFC, Jaden Daniels and the Commander's head to Detroit
to face the Super Bowl favorite Detroit Lions. Listen, this
is I think he's gonna be a thriller. I don't
think you, Detroit. You want to be in a position
with it's a one score game, even if you're up
in Jadon Daniels has the ball in his hands.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Late. We see what he's done this year.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Thirty five hundred and sixty eight yard sixty complete eight percentage,
twenty five touchdowns, just nine interceptions of one hundred passer rating,
a rush for nearly non hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
The Brothers no joke for Jared Goff.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Look at the season he's had, look at the weapons
he has available to him running the football as well
as catching the football. And even though they had a
multitude of dudes on the injured list on the defensive
side of the ball, be it in Detroit. In Motown,
I think spells doomed for the Commanders.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
What about you, Nah, I got I got Jaden Daniels
with the upset, and I really got him going all
the way. I don't see nobody beating him. He's like
a younger version of Pat Mahomes to me.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
So you're telling me that you got Jaden Daniels winning
the Super Bowl Championship as.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
A rookie, I do.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
What could you justify that?

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Thinking he pulled for he's the best clutch quarterback in
the league this year. You only got one example to
use from him.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Well, actually, Patrick Mahomes has had more you know, game
winning you know TV's than Jayden Daniels, just so you know,
I mean, go ahead touchdown.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Yeah, Pat Mahomes heroics this year is more about the defense.
Jaden Daniels then came through a lot, and I'm I'm
gonna I'm gonna go with him.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
I'm gonna go with Jaden Dean.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Colright correct, I'm gonna let you slide on that.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
On Sunday, the Rams had to Philly to take on
the Philadelphia Eagles. They're supposed to snow, it's cold, they
are accustomed to being in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
I'm not listen.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
They got a chance because the Pooka na cool and
Matthew Stafford is a veteran in the Super Bowl champion
Sean McVay is a great head coach. But I can't
see them beating Sakuon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
What say you, Yeah, I don't see him being the
Eagles neither. I got Saquon too.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Okay, say it with your chess man. You don't sound
that I didn't like the way.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
Jade on the quarterback look for the Eagles neither though,
Jalen hurts. Yeah, I was watching first take earlier and
I was agreeing machine and I just ain't like the
way you look, so.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Really, yeah, I ain't like it.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Whatever. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Finally, the marquee matchup of the week, and Lamar Jackson
and the Ravens had to Buffalo to take on Josh
Allen and the Bills, the leading candidates for MVP this season.
By the way, both been are looking to get over
the hump and playing their first Super This is a
pick them. This could go either way. I'm of the
mindset that you know what, I know, it's in Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
It's gonna come down to the wire.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
But the way Lamar Jackson has looked this year having
Derreck Henry at his disposal, King Henry, as they call him.
I think the Baltimore Ravens might go on the road
and pull this out, and we're gonna have a rematch
of the ANFC championship game last year between Kansas City
and Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
What are your.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Thoughts are, Zay Flowers? Is he playing?

Speaker 1 (59:32):
They don't know. I don't think he I don't think
he will be.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
I don't even know why I asked that, because I
really do believe Lamar Jackson is fast enough to throw
the baller himself. Then he asked Derek Henry too, I'm
gonna go with Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Did you just finish saying he's fast enough tough the
ball of himself.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
I believe he can, he's faster.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Did you say that on the airwaves? Yes, move on
to a different subject.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
I just can't deal I just some of the things
you say. I just can't deal with it, Dad, I
just can't deal with.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
It being at that have the bills getting stopped by Lamar.
It's always cold in Buffalo, so let's see if the
temp is looking So let's see if the temp is
low enough to freeze some of the tears. Twenty two
degrees January nineteenth. How do you think that's gonna work out?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Am I supposed to be holding?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
I'm I'm stuck on you grabbing the damn microphone working
up with that big ass microphone and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Going up to the screen. Sorry, you didn't know that.
You ain't supposed to grab the microphone.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
It's my first day on the job.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
First day, but you think you should have my job. Yeah,
it's by the way, what are you drinking? What are
you drinking?

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
It's coffee? Had a long day?

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
What you had a long day?

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
When?

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
How did you have a long day?

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Josh?

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
What have you been doing that you had a long day?

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
I took the bus here, but you want to buy
me a car? But anyway, it's gonna be twenty two
degrees in Buffalo?

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Do people live here? About choice?

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Yes, don't be rude to people in Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
I would run and never leave the house.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
What's the weather like in New York right now?

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
This is the weather for the rest of the week
in Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
So we're gonna see how depressing it will be four
degrees on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
For what are you doing four degrees.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
What they got to do with Sunday's football game?

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
Josh, No, this is this is this is Buffalo, this
is what.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
This is what they have to deal with after the L.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
So you're talking about after the L they're gonna suffer from.
That's what they're gonna have to deal with. I mean,
it ever occurred to you that since that weather is
not foreign to them, they may be more prepared to
play in those weather conditions on Sunday instead of Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
Nah, because most players are from down south. So when
she when she won the Bills, it's like that's why
they when's the last time they've been to the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Oh my lord, you are so clueless. Sit your ass
down over there. Get back to the desk. Get back
to the desk, Just get back. Did you see, by
the way, what happened on the Eagle sideline Sunday? With
why aj Brown on the bench reading a self help
book called was It in an Excellence? By the way,
The book, originally published in twenty twenty, is now number
one on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Before I let you go, What did you make of that?

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
I don't think it was a problem, like if he
was reading a double Excel magazine or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Okay, but if it's called if that's the name of
the book, and in excellence, in an excellence.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
He was trying to tap into that during the playoffs,
like he only had what he had to catch one one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Catch for ten yards. He had one catch for ten yards.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
I was I was gonna put my top three books
that I would have been caught reading.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Hold up, make Her Chase You.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
So, if anybody wants to know why I am the
way I am, blame Darcy Carter. It's a pretty good author.
This is this is number three on my list. Can
we show number two? Make It Chase You Part two?
And can we round out my top three really fast?
Make It Chase You Part three?

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Make Her Chase You. It's a book that those are
the books. Let me ask you a question. You've read
those books three?

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
It's my bibles?

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
What what?

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
What did you learn from the book? Tell me? Tell me,
tell me the tricks that the book taught you. I'm interested.
Now you got it. You got my interest piqued the book.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Don't make it seem like I'm into trickery with with
the ladies and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Made you the one that presented the book.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
I'm saying there's no tricks involved.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Now we're disrespecting Darcy Carter, the author that came up
with all of these methods on how to meet her.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Okay, so I'm gonna ask you again, what methods did
you peel from parts one, two, and three of the
book make a chase you?

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
I learned well, she taught us to be appealing and
then to run away.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
You don't you know your advice to me is find
a honey, settled down.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
You know something that somebody's pushing sixty would say Darcy,
Darcy Carter, you know she she she has different suggestions.
I don't want to expose it because I really support
her and I want you to go out and get
her book.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
You talked about, you know, making yourself appealing, right, how
would you say you've done that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
What did you take for them?

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I mean, what is it that's appealing about you?

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
You know the shades that I get from your house,
this hoodie.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
I can't wait to see what they say about me
today because I really put it, put put all of
this together. Let me spend all the way around for
them and come back. I don't want youry to miss
it be rich on this side of my you know, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
That's what it was, the killing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
And did you just admit did you just admit to
the public you did run away? You run away?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
You just admit that you said run away?

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Yeah, you leave, you depart, you run away like like
like avoid seriousness if I'm not ready for it. She
doesn't believe in misleading ladies into making them believe that
that's what you want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
If that's not and you and you you would never
mislead anybody. That's just not you. Nothing about you that
would do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
That's what you said, right, Yeah, it's like an open book.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Well, I have encouraged you to be that. I don't
know whether you've listened to that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
You encourage everything, you encourage everything that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Hm, I don't encourage everything. Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
And by the way, and by the way, I don't
know if you notice that your mama, your mama, ar
Lean Smith, your mama. You know that she texts me
the other day she loves absolutely loves you on the
shelf and I'm sitting there like this, what are you watching?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
How do you approve of this? And you're his mother?
What the hell is this world coming to I've said that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
To her first.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
She said, oh, that's that's true. I didn't really think
about it that way. I'm gonna go and you know
what she said next, I'm gonna go pray for him.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
So you're not gonna tell him that when you was
in a mall in Miami that they called you Josh
Smith's uncle. I'm no longer just known as Steven Ae's nephew.
That's not our dynamic no more. Now you're Josh Smith's uncle.
And not only that, I have a problem with Google too.
When you google Josh Smith, Josh Smith from the Hawk

(01:06:43):
still comes up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
No, why would that happen?

Speaker 9 (01:06:50):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Lord help us all man. Get out of here. I'll
see you after the weekend. Get the hell out of here.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
It up.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
More on President elect Donald Trump, who decided to move
Monday's inauguration indoors. I'll get into that in these crazy
confirmation Hearing's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Next on The steph Atesmith Show. Don't Go Away.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Welcome back to the steph Ate Smith Show. On Monday,
president elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the
forty seventh president of the United States. The inauguration will
officially mark Trump's return to the White House after losing
to Joe Biden in twenty twenty. By the way, the
event has been moved indoors due to defrigid temperatures forecast
in Washington, DC on Monday. The last time in the
inauguration was held indoors was back in nineteen eighty five,

(01:07:34):
when Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term
as president. Meanwhile, six of Trump's big office nominees faced
Senate confirmation hearings this past week.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Some of the candidates included.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Pam Bondy for Attorney General, Marco Rubio for Secretary of State,
Sean Duffy for Transportation Secretary, and John Radcliffe for CIA Director.
The confirmation hearings were off the contentions for many of
the candidates. Take a listen to some of the out
from Wednesday when Pam Bondy sat down before the committee.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
Are you prepared to say today under oath without reservation
that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden
in twenty twenty.

Speaker 9 (01:08:12):
Ranking Member Derwin President Biden is the President of the
United States. He was duly sworn in and he is
the President of the United States. There was a peaceful
transition of power. President Trump left office and was overwhelmingly
elected in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
Do you have any doubts that Joe Biden had the
majority of votes electoral votes necessary to be elected president
in twenty.

Speaker 9 (01:08:38):
Twenty You know, Senator, all I can tell you as
a prosecutor is from my first hand experience, and I
accept the results. I accept, of course, that Joe Biden
is President of the United States. But what I can
tell you is what I saw first hand when I
went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the campaign. I

(01:08:58):
was an advocate for the campaign, and I was on
the ground in Pennsylvania, and I saw many things there.
But do I accept the results?

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Of course I do.

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
Do I agree with what happened, and I saw so much.
No one from either side of the aisle should want
there to be any issues with election integrity in our country.
We should all want our elections to be free and
fair and the rules and the laws to be followed.

Speaker 7 (01:09:30):
I think that question deserved a yes or no, and
I think the length of your answer is an indication
that you weren't prepared to answer yes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I try to keep my cool and all of this.
I don't like having our time wasted.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Do Democrats in this particular situation look utterly pathetic. It's
the year twenty twenty five and you're talking about election
results from twenty twenty. Clearly there are millions of American
citizens who believe it was rigged.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Do I believe they were wrong? Yes? Do I believe
that Trump lost in twenty twenty fair and square. Absolutely?
Do I believe that Joe Biden won the election. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I also believe that most people didn't vote Joe Biden.
They voted against Donald Trump, just like I don't believe
most people voted for Donald Trump in this election against
Kamala Harris.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
I believe they were voting against walk culture. Period. That's
how I feel.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
No matter what your feelings are, you want me to
tell you the idiocy of what transpired with some of
the Senate confirmation hearings this week, particularly with Pam Bondy.
She was an attorney representing Donald Trump in twenty twenty
election interference in Pennsylvania. Why would she admit otherwise she's

(01:10:51):
working for him. She was fighting against the state of
Pennsylvania about the election in twenty twenty. That's what she
was doing. Why would you even ask her that? And
why would we sit up here now with her in
line to be the next Attorney General for the United
States of America and asking her about whether she believed

(01:11:15):
he truly truly lost in twenty twenty. Clearly she did
it she was representing him, or even if she did,
she was willing to make an argument.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
To support his point. If she supported this point all
of these years, why would she come up on Capitol
Hill and say otherwise you knew that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
You all saw told deaf that's how you're coming across
if you're a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
Because nobody cares about that anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
He's about to be sworn in as the forty seventh
president of the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Period he was impeached twice, they didn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
It was thirty four felony convictions on a hush money
trial that everybody was saying, what's the difference between him
going through his lawyer to pay USh money to a
former poet star, what's the difference between that and an NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
They thought it was rigged.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
They thought the Democrats would use the law fare to
keep him out of office because they couldn't beat him
on their own, and then he showed up.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
On an election day and showed them they couldn't beat them.
You would think, in.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
The face of all of that, you would be quiet,
or you would strictly stick to the questions pertinent to
an attorney general. But they sounded like they were still
on the campaign trail, talking to constituencies, in front of
mass rallies, spewing the rhetoric that would dissuade them from

(01:12:38):
even thinking about Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
No, the election is over, he won.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
You lost.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Here's a better question, and this one is for the
Democrats as opposed to them asking the questions to the
other side. When you're gonna get a candidate that could
beat them, and in him, I don't mean him literally
because he ain't running for office again.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
I mean JD.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Vance because the way y'all look up on Capitol Hill,
it's so sad.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
You're gonna get JD.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Vans elected and you're gonna have a whole bunch of
conservatives winning these elections because they're looking at you with
your head in the sand, not embracing reality.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
You lost.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Nancy Belosi's not gonna show up to the inauguration final
at least she's consistent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
She doesn't like she doesn't want to be there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Michelle Obama's not showing up to the inauguration, Fine, no problem,
she doesn't want to be there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Their positions are consistent. Joe Biden called them a racis.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Now you're working with them, Kamala Harris said a whole
bunch of things about them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
She's gonna be on that stage. Y'all tried everything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
You lost, and the inability to accept the fact that
you lost not just the White House, but the House
and the Senate as well, and the inability to look
at yourself and to see how tone deaf you are
and how annoyed people are at the fact that you
are that way. Let me tell y'all something, looking at
that for what it is. You're going this way, You're

(01:14:14):
going this way. Folks are tired of it. They want
the economy addressed, they want our border security address, they
want the streets of America safe. That's what folks want.
And if you want to look at him as a criminal,
you know what the right said, you know what the
conservative said, the hell with it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
He's still a bit closer to normalcy than y'all. That's
what they're saying that's how they're looking at the left.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
And knowing this, you showed up in a confirmation hearing
this wasn't haccept that you're talking to with allegations about
his sexual behavior or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
This wasn't gay too.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
You you absolutely despised and you didn't want an office,
and that was the right decision. By the way, this
is her Pambondy, whose qualifications nobody questions. All you're doing
is show on the same level of desperation your show

(01:15:21):
to to with Trump and he beats you anyway. Until
you learn to live with it, all of you Democrats
on Capitol Hill, until you learn to live with that reality,
you're not gonna resonate with anybody. A matter of fact,
you're gonna lose a lot of people. Because I ain't

(01:15:41):
about to call myself a Republican and I ain't about
to swear to you that I'm gonna vote.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Conservative and Republican everywhere down the line.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
But I will say this, I've got no problems avoiding
supporting you based on what I'm seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
It's utterly ridiculous. That's it for this edition. To the
Stephen A. Spenceheld y'all have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
I'm going to enjoy my NFL playoff weekend in the
National Championship Game coming up Monday night too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
I'll see you on Monday and tell that everybody. Stephen
a signing off He's in love.

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