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big weekend. The final four is set, NBA Action Galore

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and what in Oscars? My goodness, and the Oscars got
such a uh, something so big happened at the Oscars.
I obviously all know Will Smith slapping the taste out
of Chris Rock's mouth. So big that it's been talked
about on sports shows all day and we of course

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will deal with that in the country, lad there's no
way you can have a talk show and not talk
about that, right. We didn't address it on first things first, Wow,
but yeah we did. We didn't address it, but uh,
this radio format, we will for sure, and uh yeah,
but it was it was big. I didn't I was

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not watching it live, Rob, I wasn't watching watching the Oscars.
You know what. I never missed the Oscars, right, That's
that's that's I'm just not really the only one of
those shows I really am into, honestly is the ES Piece.
I'm just not you know, I like movies and and

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all that music and all that, but I'm just not
into those shows. But my parents were watching it, and uh,
they told me, they showed me, you know, I've just
happened to be down there right after it happened in
their room and they were astonished. And then I checked
it out and my wife, your parents never saw that
on national television, No, no, no, never, nobody has. So

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that's why I was such a big story. But we
will get into all of that in the second hour.
Let's introduce the I Couple crew ribe and get this
thing popping. We got DJ Alex ty Shirt a k a.
Alex the Vegan on The Ones and twos on The
Magic City Monday. We got Danny Geez the golden voice. Yea,

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even though you may not hear much of his voice,
he definitely got the golden voice. And he is in
for super producer Rob G running a blessing when God
gives God gives everybody something, Chris, you know, Danny says
some pipes. You know what I'm saying, even to laugh. Yes, yeah,
we got it. We got an email saying that Rob

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G is in the lead for the Bracket Challenge. So
we're thinking he's at home lightening up a cigar. Why
is that true? Wow? But rob my bracket. I just
stopped looking at my bracket after like Thursday. I mean it,
I said, after yours, after right after Kentucky, which was
my pick to win the championship, because you knowing cards often, Chris,

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My my hand is so bad, I said, have a
hand like a foot, you know what I mean? That's
how bad? And yes, and uh that's what I have
with the Yeah, I did get one final four team,
which is most in a lot of Kansas. You got
Kansas himself, okay, yep. And I had Arizona, Gonzaga and

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Produce and they're all gone. So um. Yeah, it's interesting though,
Rob all four in this tournament of upsets, and Saint
Peter's of course doing something nobody's ever done as a
fifteen seed reaching the Elite eight. All the final four
are essentially blue bloods. I say essentially because Villanova I mean,
but you know, I mean champions twenty five years there,

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as good as anybody. Um, and then you got Kansas,
you got Duke and North Carolina, So um, it's gonna
be good. I mean, it's been a good tournament and
I think it's a good final four. So we will
see and on the updates. Our man Steve Sagrad Michael
Leef and the Washington Post has covered the NBA for
nineteen seasons seasons. He'll join us at the bottom of

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this hour, so will definitely keep it locked. Rob. Let
us start with the LA Lakers and yesterday. You know,
I'm watching a lot of games yesterday and I'm trying
to heavy up. Okay, which ones am I gonna pay
attention to? You had? You had Brooklyn and Charlotte, you
had the Lakers in New Orleans, and uh, there was

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one other big game on that I was into earlier
before that. I can't remember which one it was, Um,
but I was looking at all these games, uh, and
oh it was seventy six ers and the Suns, which
we will get into later, um, and and the Lakers.
When I was like, okay, I don't really have to

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pay too much attention to that when I keep an
eye on it. Three point League, and I'm thinking, I
keep an eye to see what Lebron's doing. But you
know that that one was not competitive. And next thing
I know, here come the New Orleans Pelicans, sands Zaire
Williamson of course, all yeah, all yeah, but Brandon Ingram's there. CJ.

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McCollum's there, and they end up beating the Lakers, not
only beating them, but beating them by eight. Lebron goes
for thirty nine, nine boards and five assists in a
losing effort um and they're rob I took me a
while to get here, and they still may make it.

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I don't think they're making even the play in I
don't think they're making a play. Remember when I stepped
out there a couple of weeks ago, what was it
a month ago and said that they weren't gonna make
it. It It was about two weeks ago. Two weeks ago.
I thought it was two weeks I thought I think
it was maybe because three two to three maybe, yeah,

(06:34):
I say more like three because I don't think it
was last week. It was a car. It wasn't last
week was yeah, yeah, but three weeks ago. But you
know I did say it, right, I stepped out. And
they're as of now, they're at they're the tenth seed,
a half game behind nine seed in New Orleans, which
has the tie break over them, and rob they're a
game in front of San Antonio. San Antonio owns the

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tiebreaker and the scary park. That is scary because their
schedule is ridiculous. They they're they're the worst whole road
team of all of the top eleven seeds in each conference.
So if you want to say the top twenty two
teams in the league, they got the worst road record,

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and they've got Denver, UH, Phoenix, UH Golden State. We're
talking about the Lakers, right Yes, eight on the road,
and six of eight are against teams over five. They
have a hell of a schedule and Lebron has a
bad um. He and a Anthony Davis are questionable for

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tomorrow's game down against Dallas. They're gonna take the l
there and then hold after that because Lebron has a
bad ankle from that game, I don't know how he finished.
That's what he said. Well, I don't know how. I mean,
I don't know. I know adrenaline. You can roll off
adrenaline for a while. You know this. We've covered the
league a long time. And the next day the ankle

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can be worse, or you know, the flight doesn't help either.
But Rob he played thirty one minutes and scored twenty
eight points after the ankle injury. So I just don't
know how bad it is. I just made it. He
made it bad. But I'm saying I gotta go with
I'm throwing with him. I'm not a doctor. If he
says it was so terrible and he doesn't know how

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to continue, you know what I mean. I'm just listening
to what he's right, right, right, But I'm with you.
He kept playing and he didn't he didn't go good, right,
I mean, so that, But you're right, Dallas, Utah, Phoenix,
Golden State, Denver all on the road, like those are
five games they're supposed to lose. Then you got New Orleans,
which has owned you at home, then Denver, which could

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beat you. Okac is like the only game, and heck,
that's not a guarantee because they've lost OKC Rightchel twice
this year. Chris, I feel like they played OKAC like
once a week or something early on. But yeah, OKAC
has been and tough for and they did okayse is
two and one against them. That's what I thought. I
thought that they won a couple of games, right, right,

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So so I think they're out rob But anyway, you
wrote a good column today on danspin dot com about
Lebron and Frank Vogel actually brought up last week that
he should be in the MVP race and you begged
to differ. Explain. Yeah, Chris, I thought yesterday was exhibit
A as as why he shouldn't be in the MVP conversation.

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And it's just he had thirty nine. I don't think
he could play any better, right, And I mean not offensively, right, defensively,
you know what I mean offensively right, not that team
doesn't play defense. But it wound up being for not
that was like a playoff game, Chris, wasn't it. It
was like that. That was the nature of that game

(09:53):
and how important it was against New Orleans And despite
Lebron's numbers. It didn't come close to them winning because
they gave up forty one points in the third quarter
against New Orleans. And nobody wants to boohoo about the
Lakers don't have Anthony David Zion hasn't played a minute
all year, right, right, all years. Nobody wants to hear that,

(10:17):
because they've been able to win games. They're beating the
Lakers a few times. Again, they owned the tidebreaker. Another
bad team, like the Spurs owned the typebreaker against the Lakers.
These are the bad teams. The Thunders out of it, Chris,
but they have to they would have the tiebreakers because
they wanted two out of three. Just think about that. Right.

(10:37):
They're seven and nineteen in their last twenty six I mean, terry,
but they got two wins against the Lakers, you know,
k is that what? They are? Seven to nine in
the last two months. Yeah, I mean just ugly. And
I think when we talk about MVPs, it's got to
include winning. If Lebron had that, Chris and a win

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and and you know, they got a little thing going
and they win five of their last seven or whatever
it is, and they make the play, you know, or
whatever you could say, man, giving all that's going on
or whatever, he was able to rally the troops. I
don't know. But to me, most of his points seem,

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you know, after the fact, meaningless, down by twenty filling
the status. But now last night though he had twenty
five in the first half, No, no, I got So
I think he's been scoring when I think his points
have been meaningful in that they've come you know, it's
not like, oh, they're down thirty and here come Lebron

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with I know, any points in the third they had.
But they had a bad stretch. I get that last
night especially, But they've had a bad stretch Chris, where
they were down by twenty in the first half or
a number of games as and they came back and
some you know, they didn't win them, but they came
back at one point. But That's where I'm at. I
just you think it is meaningless. I just think this

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season for him, as good as he's been at great,
he's leading the league and scoring at thirty points exactly
a little ahead of a little a scoot ahead of Embead.
But but I just Embeads numbers at stuff are more meaningful. Chris.
He had a whole year basically without Ben Simmons kept

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that team afloat one big game after big game in
order to keep that thing from going the other way.
And before he got James Harden And I just think
his his season compared to Lebron is a meaningful compared
to Lebron's which was meaningless. Yeah, I mean, look, Lebron's

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not in the MVP conversation. He's not. And I don't
mean that like you know, in response to Frank vote,
he's not. I don't mean mine. I'm an MBP voter.
I'm one of the official voters. He's not in my
thought process of this, and I'm I will guarantee you
he's not in if not more of the voters thought processes,

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because ever since the writers started voting in nineteen eighty,
winning has become a part of the discussion. Period. Only
twice has a guy won it without winning at least
fifty games. That was Moses Malone the first year or
the second year, I'm sorry, eighty one eighty two, and
then Russell Westbrook the year averages tripled up. But that's

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it now. When the players were voting before that, two times,
Kareem and Bob Pettit won it with with you know,
losing records, but winning matters, because Rob, you said it
last week a few times. You somebody's gotta score. Like
a team's not gonna lose. They're not gonna score in

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the forty, right, They're gonna score. Right, somebody's gonna put
up twenty some odd points on a bad team. And
I'm not saying Lebron he's proven he's not like a
bad you know, just a guy getting numbers on bad teams.
But this year, if the numbers aren't impacting the winning,
you have to take that into consideration. Here's though, Rob,

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why I would say it's not a meaningless year for him,
and it's because what he's doing, even though he can't
impact winning like he used to, what he's doing at
thirty seven years old and more importantly in his nineteenth
season is historic. And I think we'll look back and

(14:30):
I even look at Jordan, and you know, Jordan at
thirty nine and forty years old was a legitimate All Star,
like when he made the All Star team his last
year in the league as a forty year old, averaging
twenty points, six remounds, four assists on like forty four
and a half percent shooting rob Those are like Alan

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Houston prime numbers, Latrelle's Freewell prime numbers. You know, some
of these all star guards who've made it too three
times in their career. Heck, Reggie, those are Reggie Miller
prime numbers. Actually better in terms of rebounding an assist,
and Jordan was doing that as a forty year old.
So I always looked at it. I'm not gonna harp

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on it because they didn't win, but I never looked
at that as all Jordan he's lost, that he's not
any good For a forty year old, that was impressive.
And that's what I look at. Lebron ass for a
thirty seven year old in his nineteenth year, We've never
seen anything like it. That's impressive. So I actually don't

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think it's a knock on his legacy. I think it
enhances it later on as we talk about it. You know.
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Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last night?
After Chris Rock made a joke about his wife Jada.
Jada has shaved her head. It's not fully bald, but
it's very short haircut because she's battling with alopecia, which

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you know is causing her hair loss. She's been very
open about it on social media. I didn't know, but
you know, apparently she's been very open about it on
social media. And how is a struggle for And finally,
I guess a year or so ago, maybe two years
she started wearing her hair short, and you know it

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was a challenge for her to do that. And so
Chris Rock made a joke saying, I'm looking forward to
seeing the sequel. I'm paraphrasing of g I Jane. Remember
that with Demi Moore, she has a short haircut, right,
She was like exactly, So that's where the joke came from.
Will Smith initially laughed, Um, then I don't know, maybe

(17:04):
glanced at Jada. Jada looked upset from the get go,
and uh, and Will went up there and slapped Chris Rock,
And um, that was that. So Rob, let's get your
views and then I'll share my please. I've been been
ready for this. I was mortified and stunned. I was

(17:25):
not watching. It was sent to me. I got the
Japanese TV version. Chris, you know what unedited? Okay? No, wow,
I didn't see that version. So you got to hear
what Chris Rock was saying. And what Will Smith? Oh? Okay, yeah,
someone sent me to Jack see the unedited version. Yeah, yes,

(17:45):
so I saw it and I was stunned. I was
absolutely stunned, and I thought Will Smith was way out
of line. I was embarrassed for him. I thought it
was a bad look. And I know people are making
excuses for him, and there's a split and some people

(18:06):
say it's Chris Rock's fault because he told a joke
or whatever. But I'm sorry, Chris. There's no place for violence.
Not that was assault on national television with people watching,
where Chris Rock is doing a live television show and
he's a comedian. The people are like, oh, whoa Will

(18:31):
Smith was defending his wife. You better not talking about
somebody's wife. You'll get slapped down. No. If I was
in a restaurant and somebody walks up, Chris, you don
know me or know my wife and they have something
to say. I'm I'm gonna have an issue with you.
I'm not talking about violence because you can't justify violence

(18:52):
at all. What Will Smith did, that's violence, that's assault.
He's lucky, Chris Rock is impression charges because they wouldn't
have to do much a lot of investigating on what
happened because it's on tape. Right. I don't think I've
ever seen that, Chris ever, someone attacks somebody on live television,

(19:15):
and I know he apologized today, Chris. It came out,
he apologized and you can read the Chris. Yeah, he apologized.
I just said because he apologized last night to the
Academy and everybody you know there. Here's what he said,
real quick violence quote, violence in all forms is poisonous

(19:38):
and destructive. My behavior at last night's Academy Awards was
unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at the expense, jokes, jokes at
my expense are part of the job. But a joke
about Jada's medical condition was too much for me to bear,
and I reacted emotionally. Smith wrote, quote, I would like

(20:00):
to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of
line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed, and my
actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.
There was no place for violence in a world of
love and kindness and quote and that came today. But

(20:21):
there's no way, Chris, if there's an issue, and here's
my last point. Chris Rock is a comedian. That's what
comedians do, and I and I get it. And if
there's an issue, there's a time in a place off
stage where you let Chris Rock have it and say, man,
that was insensitive. I didn't appreciate it. You know what

(20:44):
I mean. We don't have to be friends. I don't
need to talk to you or whatever it is where
you get across that. You didn't appreciate that. But to
physically attack someone in a setting and a circumstance, it
wasn't a fight, and somebody right, And to slap somebody,
you noticed, Chris, it's the biggest disrespect you could give somebody.

(21:10):
It's worse than a punch when you slap. When you
stay to somebody, I'll slap the s out of you,
like like like. It's a disrespectful gesture. And that's what
he did last night. And I thought Will Smith was
dead wrong. And I applaud Chris Rock for being professional
and holding on because I don't think I would have
been able to do that. Yeah, first of all, I

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will shout out Chris Rock. You're right. I thought he
handled himself very professionally, and had he swung back and
they if they had started fighting, it would have been
chaos up in there, because you know, who knows how
the crowd would have reacted. People would have rushed to stay.
I mean, it just would have been chaos and it

(21:54):
would have been the hell out of them. Yeah. Well,
at first I didn't know he slapped team. I thought
he punched him, And honestly, I was like, Chris Rock
took that punch like a champion because he just stepped
back and then he was fine. But when I saw
it was actually a slap, it made more sense. You
punch somebody that's not expecting a punch Rock, you could

(22:18):
knock them. I mean, you could knock him out even
if they are but you know they're if they're not
bracing themselves for a punch, and you got anything on
your punch, you could knock somebody out. So but so
I do credit Chris Rock because he could have been chaotic.
So shout out to him for being professional. I'm not
as down on Will Smith as you are. I do
think it was wrong. Um, but my first reaction and

(22:41):
I'm just gonna keep it real, Rob, when I first
saw it, the first thing that ran through my mind was, yo,
now you jump in bad. Now you're protective of your
wife when we all have heard what went down with
this young kid, August Alsina, this R and B singer

(23:04):
that what he is? Who put it out there? Who
to let everybody know it? And Jada put it out there?
He put it out He actually said will let Will
gave him his blessing. So it was just like, I'm like,
now you want to be the protective husband. So that
was the first thought that ran through my mind. And Rob,

(23:25):
I think a lot of Will Smith's reaction was a
build up because obviously that's out there and I'm just
gonna keep it real. And I don't I don't know
either one of them from the from the outside, the
marriage looks like is pretty jacked up. I mean, just
keeping it real. You know, you you were both on

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the Red Table Talks her show, and they talk about
her cheating with this kid that was friends of their children.
And Will. According to him, Will was down with it,
although Will and Jada say he was. That wasn't the case.
It's just it just looks jacked up, and people were
joking about it, Like I think it was Regina Hall

(24:09):
is her name, Black actress, she was on stage with
I don't know if you saw this Rob robed earlier
in the show with some single men on stage and
she said, oh, Will Smith and Will your name is
on this list too. You're married, but you know you
could come up here and Jade's giving you the blessing,
you know, like like people were joking about it. There

(24:32):
was something another award show recently where it was joked
about and by Laverne Cox. It joked about it, the actress.
And so my point is I think that maybe Will
Smith he just got tired of it because people were
making their marriage look like kind of a joke. And

(24:56):
I think that may have been That's that was something
I thought about. Man. Maybe it was just like enough
is enough, man. But I also think, see, I'm I'm
with the people that are like, look, once you start
talking about the dude's white comedian or not, I don't
care if you're a comedian. Once you start talking about
my wife, all bets are off, I mean real talk.

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And the thing that hit me she had, I mean
that's fine, comedian or not, I don't care. I mean, man,
all types of rules are being broken today, you know, pep,
all types of standards or chaff changed just because you're
a comedian. She's not. Don't care. Wife. When you bringing
up rob let me finish. You saw when he made

(25:45):
that joke. Now, I don't know, and I my guess
is that Chris Rock doesn't know that or didn't know
that she had this condition Outapiecia, But I don't know.
Maybe did, but I'm assuming he didn't. But you saw
her look on her face when she heard that joke.
She was clearly hurt. And will Smith knows the angst

(26:13):
and the trauma that she may have gone through. I
don't know, but that she may have had to go
through to even get the courage to shave her head
and go out in public with a shaved head, which
is not along the beauty lines of the beauty standards
in America. So I don't know. But she talked about

(26:33):
how it was tough and he saw it up close
and personal, and then on top of that, and you
know this rob for black women, hair is an issue.
Chris Rod did a whole movie on it called Good Hair,
and you know how that's an issue for black women
because natural black hair is not again along this beauty

(26:57):
standards of the European beauty standards and white beauty standards
that America has imposed and even that African Americans have accepted.
And so that is another issue. And if I was
in that situation and my wife, and I know how
tough it was for her to get out there and
do that, and you know this dude's making fun of comedians,

(27:19):
so what it's real life, I'm gonna be upset too. Now,
I would not have done what Will Smith did, and
I don't condone what he did, but I understand his
anger and had I think if he had been able
to walk up there, take the mic and say, look, Chris,
I know you meant this as a joke, but my wife.

(27:43):
I love my wife's haircut. My wife is beautiful. She
is the most beautiful woman out here. And I wouldn't
take anyone over. Like if he had been able to
say something really saluting and praising his wife in that moment,
I think that would have been terrific, and so I
get why he was upset. Again, I'm not condoning him

(28:05):
slapping Chris Rock, but I'm not also gonna sit here
and just, you know, a brush over and gloss over
what Chris Rock said when she has a disease. Now
Chris didn't have that, that'd be one thing, but she
had disease. But the problem I have with you was
you're saying it's okay, what are you saying? I mean, okay,

(28:27):
he made it joke, didn't dare why he was upset,
but you okay, so upset, but to put to go
up and assault someone, did it? Didn't. I just say,
I don't condone what he's doing what he did, but
I understand why he was a I'm not I'm not
giving Chris Rock a pass or his joke, is what
I'm saying. You can say that was you didn't appreciate

(28:48):
the joke and that's what I said, or you thought
that it crossed the line, or if you wanted to
make a point. But people who are just what I
f Will Smith sat it done? Did? I mean, I
don't know if you were listening to me, I don't
heard when he had been able to go up there
and make a statement rather than like defending his wife
because his wife needed defense. And I'm gonna tell you,

(29:10):
I don't think there are many women alive like if
they were in Jada pickings shoes, and I bet you
Jade is looking at it like Will overreacted. Will was wrong,
But I got a soldier. He went to bat for me. Man.
He defended me. Every woman wants their man to be

(29:31):
willing to defend him. Was not with violence, with violence
that Rob, there's we got. We got armies for violence.
I get that, but we got there's a for everything. Yeah,
but but not in the case of world, not in
the case that case of words. If you that's what

(29:56):
we just if you listen, Rob, I'm not. I don't
know how many times I gotta tell you, I don't
agree with what Will Smith did, but I do agree
with him being upset, understand it and defending his wife.
He should have done it differently. Again, make a statement,
and I don't buy the oh. At the end of
the show, go tell Chris, Chris Rock says something publicly.

(30:18):
The whole auditorium was laughing at his wife. The whole auditorium,
Chris and you did come Indian. I don't care roud,
but that's what we did. He hold on the whole
say whatever the heck they won't. But he wasn't just
doing it out of me. This because he saw it
walk and he was he was at the at the

(30:40):
buffet grabbing food and he made fun of her in
front of people for no reason. He's a comedian. Entertain
you and he don't entertain it. Might say this, no,
but say that this dude, you comedian. You want to
be a comedian, you know, you know when you ever,

(31:01):
whenever you do your stand up, you know there are
certain lines you can't cross here if as an employee
at Fox Sports Radio, even if you're not an employee,
we have social kind of unwritten rules that you can't
go to because the things that have happened in society
black people. If you watch black comedians, they always make

(31:22):
fun of white people, but you don't see the reverse.
Because of the history of this country and the social context,
white people can comedians can't even go up there and
mimic of black dude speaking tone because of the social
context and what's going on in this country. No, you know,
I'm right? Am I wrong? No? Am I wrong, but

(31:42):
that's no, You're not wrong, but that's kind. I'm talking
to my point. The comedians can't get away with everything
like you're trying to say. But in this case, this
is what he would. My wife got a disease. You
making fun of her. The thousands of people in this
room are laughing at her, millions on National TV. Oh
you don't grow up and pimp slap somebody and assault somebody.

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I don't care. You could disagree, Okay, you don't disagree
on Jada show Jada to talk to Jada, to say
that Jada, Oh, my man stood up for me in
that way, not that way because I thought a woman.
I wouldn't. In my world, my woman would be proud.
I wouldn't even if he's saying enough for me. Yeah,

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lows common denominators to take you ain't no front of
my nominaked. It ain't about violence. There's a way to
have a conversation and deal with it and tell Chris
Rod that, Heed, why are you putting the violence part
on me? Because I told you maybe the force heard

(32:48):
of him. Well, let me say it again, maybe four
times he was wrong for slapping him. He should have
went up there and and took the mic and saying
something in praise of his wife. But my point is
a woman wants a man to defender. I got a
woman she wants me to defender, all right. And if
Jada Jaden sitting there saying he went overboard, I bet you,

(33:11):
I guarantee you she ain't mad at him. Be sure
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Logan Paul, of course, one of the Paul brothers, trying
to capitalize on the slap herd around the world, as

(33:31):
they're calling it. Logan Paul has offered Will Smith and
Chris Rock fifteen million dollars each to fight in a
boxing ring. Stop it now. He had previously robed offered
Pete Davidson and Kanye West. You know they've beefing over
Kim Kardashian thirty million needs to fight, and now he's

(33:55):
offering these guys fifteen million. But here's the thing, when,
first of all, I don't want to see them fight,
but I would have no interest in that. Chris and
you know what, there would be people who would love
to see it. That's and then they would make a
gazillion dollars if those two put on gloves. Look, I
would watch it if they were roughly the same size.

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I mean, Will Smith is like twice as big as
Chris Rock. That's just not now. And and I'm not saying, oh,
I just want to see these dudes fight. But if
you're fighting a boxing ring, you know what I mean,
it rules and it's a fair fight, you know, then
then that can have interest. People can be interested in
obviously celebrity boxing, but that it just to me, it
makes no sense. These two guys are not even close

(34:41):
to the same size. And I agree with you, Rob,
like this this was kind of so ugly that I'd
rather them just move past it. And Will Smith apologized today.
I'm glad Rob that Chris Rock is not filing charges. Um.
I think he may understand and um, you know, I

(35:02):
don't know if he thinks he crossed the line, but
I think he understands that it hurt Jada, and you know,
maybe that's why he's not doing it. But I'm glad
he's a better man than I am, because I would
have failed assault charges. I'm not even kidding you to
be attacked in that forum. I just don't think that
that that you can disagree with my comedy. You could

(35:25):
say across the line, I made a mistake. And Chris,
if I'm a genuine person and you say to me, Rob,
you crossed the line. I didn't appreciate that talking about
my wife, she has a disease or whatever. And if
I really didn't mean to offender in that light, then
I would apologize to you and to her, and then

(35:46):
that would be for you to accept my apology that
I'm sincere and I didn't mean it to that. I
didn't know about the alopecia, you know what I mean.
If I could make that case, but I really didn't know.
I didn't know that. I just thought it was a
fashion statement that you cut your hair short. And now
that I know, I, had I known that, I would
have left it. I would not have used that joke.

(36:08):
So I apologize for that. But to just come up
out of nowhere and smack the s out of me
in that fashion, I give Chris Rock a lot of credit.
I'm telling you I would have fallen Chargers. Well, he
I give him credit for not basically slapping real back

(36:31):
or starting to fight, and not starting to fight but
making it into a fight, because it would have it
just would have been chaotic and who knows what couldn't
show up going on, Chris. I mean, if they had
a brawl and they started fighting, what would have happened?
Maybe yeah, I mean it just could have been somebody
could have been seriously hurt. Somebody they could have felt

(36:54):
falling off the stage, like other people could have got
been in the crossfire. Maybe other people have started fighting.
Who knows what would have happened, but it would have
been terrible. Let me address this, Rob because a lot
of people are Steve the Saber, but Stephen A. Smith,
Shannon Sharp, a lot of people have said, you know,
even Antonio Daniels brought up that it's bad for us

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and it's black people. And you know there was one there,
a black and I don't want to say director, but
who ran the show, producer of the show, Will Packer
right the show right right, We've had him on the show.
Here's what I say. I get the reality of we're
in a majority white country that has been and still

(37:39):
to some degree is racist towards black people. But don't
allow that to be an excuse, because the reason whites
have discriminated against blacks is not because of things like
happened last night, like this whole racial situation that started

(38:03):
four hundred years ago. Black people just minding their own business,
all right, and and and whites enslave, kidnapped, some were sould,
no doubt from Africans. But that had nothing to do
with all those people are behaving badly, you know, they're
in moral We can do that. No, that racism had

(38:23):
nothing to do. It wasn't our fault. And even today
Jim Crow wasn't our fault. You know, um, even today,
we can look at situation after situation. What's the it
is the NFL coaching situation where black coaches aren't really
being hired, Is that because blacks are behaving badly? Because

(38:44):
we're embarrassing there wor I'm just saying, like we that
is not the reason that white companies or whatever aren't
hiring blacks. I think it is because of racing. And
I get it that people aren't saying. I'm just saying,
let's not give that, let's not go there, because that's
not the reality. And if we if we're gonna go there, then,

(39:09):
what I mean, we put out stereotypical images of ourselves
as African Americans all the time, whether in our rap
music or whatever. We put it out all the time,
and we don't worry about me with all the violence
in our music that we can't put on other people.
You say something violent, being violent to a Jewish person

(39:31):
if you're black, they're gonna shut that down. But we're
allowed to be violent toward one another on the radio
all day or every day. But why aren't we saying,
well that we're putting these images out there, because you know,
that's giving whites an excuse. So I'm just saying, one,
let's not act like that is the real reason for
the discrimination. And two, if you're going to go there,

(39:54):
then be consistent. Yeah, I'm not saying that that is.
I don't agree with um giving them an excuse or
letting people off the hook because there's some some situation
you know, like like that, But I do. It's one
black dude that acted out, you know what, But but
he should But but Will Smith is just you expect

(40:16):
him to be more classy, Chris. It just looks bad
from like like you're normalizing thuggery, that a guy like
Will Smith would reduce himself to the lowest common denominator
when he doesn't like something. That that's the image. It's
not given people, you know, the companies an excuse and

(40:37):
saying oh see, that's why you can't hire them. No,
that's not what I'm saying, but that to normalize thuggery
and to normalize violence, no, violence shouldn't be accepted, and
that's irmalize it. Well. But but but don't you think
that more in in hip hop? Yeah, if you're necessarize
it anywhere, it's in that. But there's certain factions in

(40:59):
pop people where where you can look at a situation
and circumstance and not that you think it's right, but
you can understand it more. You can't understand the guy
who's had success the financial uh um, I want to
say windfall, you know what I mean, Chris, he all
of this, and yet it still came down to this

(41:22):
is the way you handle something when you don't like it.
And I think that was that the imagery. And you know,
there were younger people today who saw that and were
like wow by it that Will Smith gets down like that,
like like that's how he handles circumstances. So then people
other people feel like, Yo, you say something about my

(41:44):
girl or my wife and I'm gonna smack you up.
I'm gonna will Smith you that well, that's already to
feel it. I mean, you can't just be talking about
people's wives or mother You know that in our community.
You can't. You ain't even gotta say a mother insult,
just your mama, and those are fighting words. You can't
be going around talking about people's wives. That's why, like

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I said, I don't agree with Will Smith what he
did with the violence, but I understand his being upset.
You his wife was clearly hurt. And again she's got
a disease. She's talked about, you know, getting up, mustering
up the courage to go ahead and wear the shaving

(42:25):
ball head. Chris Rock knows that's an issue with black women.
He did a whole movie on it. And again I
think I would. I think it would have been beautiful
if if Will Smith goes up there and ask for
the mic from Chris and says look, something to the
effect of, look, man, I love Jada's haircut. She is

(42:49):
beautiful and the most beautiful woman in the world to
me with that something to that effect, that would have
been a wonderful moment and it would have it would
have made your way, I feel better, and it would
have been defending her, coming to her defense, and it
wouldn't have been the violence. And I do, like I
said to me, he could have. I guess he didn't

(43:11):
know if he was gonna win the award, but he
could have said something when he won the award. He
could have waited and saying something. But I do feel
like it had to be public and dealt with at
that time because it wasn't a pro going to Chris Rock,
you know behind stage. Hey man, I ain't agree with that. No,
he said that in front of millions on TV watching

(43:32):
and thousands or hundreds in the auditorium who were laughing.
Now maybe they were laughing because you know Rob and
you know those environments, you know, something might not even
be funny people laugh, But still she was embarrassed. And
I think I understand a husband coming to his wife's defense.
He went too far, but I get that aspect of it.