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Oh yeah, college football started last night, and this is kind of stuff that you want to see. I didn't see a big time program, but I saw two big time players. That's one thing we'll discuss. Of course, Anthony Edwards still making news because you know or your new Hall of famers who are gonna clap back at them.
Now you knew that, right, You knew that right.
You can't sit up there and talk about dudes like they couldn't play and they weren't on your level when they accomplished things you never accomplished. Magic Johnson clapped back at the great ant Man himself just a few days ago. And now another Hall of Famer made sure the charming as well. We gotta talk about that too. And last, but not least, Yeah, I got something to say. I got something to say. It ain't just about Dak Prescott. It ain't just about football. It's also about politics as well. I got some stuff on my mind, I really really do, because certain things need to be said, and damn it, it might offend a lot of people. It might offend a lot of people, especially in the world of politics.
I don't give a damn. Certain things need to be said.
So I'm gonna sink it the stephen A. Smith Show with the house coming your way. Holla, right now, what's up?
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So thank y'all for the love and support. Keep it coming again. I'm gonna keep on coming. Lots of stuff to get into in the world of politics, in the world of sports on the NBA side, in the NFL as well. But of course, the way we got to get started is with the start of the college football season this week. In the Colorado Buffalo's game on primetime last night on ESPN, Colorado took on North Dakota State at home, beating them thirty one to twenty six. But the game was about their two biggest stars, Shadoor Sanders and Travis Hunter. Shado Sanders completed twenty six and thirty four passes for four hundred and forty five yards four touchdowns, by the way, three of them to Travis Hunter, who is that dude?
By the way. As for Hunter, and that's who I'm talking about.
In addition, there's three touchdown catches four hundred and thirty two yards. He also lined up on defense, playing for a total of one hundred and twenty nine snaps in the game. Didn't get a break, didn't get arrested off head coach prior time. Deon Sanders accepted the win, but expressed anger with his team's defense defensive performance yielding twenty six points and four hundred and forty nine total yards. Now here's what Deon Sanders had to say.
He was happy with the win, but he.
Was gonna have to suppress his anger because he was disgusted that some of the bone headed plays and some of the mishaps his team committed.
To get the negative out of the way.
First, let's understand something here. The Colorado Buffaloes gave up four hundred and forty nine yards total. It was to an FCS school, not an FBS school. So let's get that out the way. North Dakota State ain't no joke, nine time champions in their program's history. But nevertheless, it shouldn't be a situation where they're chalking up and accumulate four hundred and forty nine yards.
Now, to Colorado's credit, they had.
What was it like, twenty points in the first half, and Colorado was down twenty to seventeen. That means they held North Dakota State six to six points in the entire second half. That's clearly an improvement from last year, no doubt about that. But four hundred and forty nine yards, when you were giving up an average four hundred and fifty three yards for the season, you were one of the worst defenses in college football. I know that Deon Sanders has worked on a lot of things this offseason. Clearly their defense wasn't really really one of them, at least in the first half. I know what wasn't worked on at all the running game, because it was virtually non existent.
It really really was.
And so when you look at it from that standpoint, there's some trepidation to exist on a part of the Colorado Buffaloes not to mention their game management situation. Why the hell are you throwing the ball? And that wasn't prime Time's fault. That was his son doing, you know, ad living a little bit and calling an audible and doing this thing, trying to get somebody involved that hadn't been that actively involved because Dravis Hunter and this kid, Jimmy Horn Junior were busy doing most of the damage and he wanted to get another dude involved. But you don't pick up the football on the first down and throw the football when all you need to do is run out the clock because the opposition has one time out remaining and after that the game will be over. That's just not smart. That's just not smart. Having said all of that, that ain't really the story. That ain't really the story. We know Colorado doesn't have much of a running game. We know they don't have a bunch of hogs on their squad, and they're undersized.
We know that you can run rough.
Shot over them on the offensive side of the ball and do pretty much whatever you want for the most part, and they're gonna have some trouble defensively this year. But what we can't deny is that Shador Sanders is a bad brother.
This brother something special, Okay.
His poison in the pocket, his athleticism, his willingness to stand in there amongst the giants and take hits, take punishment.
Gotta give credit with credit to due.
You only got sacked once after being sacked a the FBS record fifty two times last year or the FBS most fifty two times last year during the regular season, he only got sacked once, only got sacked once last night, So that wasn't improven. But he was running for his life half the damn time he was out there and he was getting popped silly after he released the ball on a few occasions as well, So that is not good. But his ability to continue to make plays under Durest, I believe cements him as a short fire first round pick and one of the top two quarterbacks that's going to go in next Springs NFL draft. Shador Sanders, I don't know if you can legitimately pick maybe this this Cat Beck out of Georgia or somebody, maybe somebody like that, But I don't know if you can pick anybody else ahead of Shador Sanders. And when you consider his pedigree and the fact that, yes, primetime, Deon Sanders is your father, the greatest quarterback in the history of football, arguably the greatest athlete who ever lived. Primetime, Deon Sanders is in that conversation, y'all know, he's in that conversation. When we look at some of the greatest athletes that we have ever seen in the history of this country, if not all of mankind, Dion Sanders is in that conversation. You can bring up Jim Brown, you can bring up Michael Jordan, you can bring up Lebron James you can bring up a whole bunch of people. You got to put his name up in there. Primetime Deon Sanders one of the greatest. About Bo Jackson, let's not forget him. But when you think about just athleticism, arguably the greatest athlete in the history of man is Primetime Deon Sanders. Could play football, could play basketball, could play both sides of the ball and football. Could play special teams, I mean the brother special. And you see what Travis Hunter is doing. He doesn't come off the field playing for Dion. He plays wide receiver. He makes plays. Saw that catching the end zone in the right corner of the end zone with the dude draped all over him in his arms, You'll caught the Dan ball.
The brother is special.
And here's a legitimate question, ladies and gentlemen, if you have an opportunity a top pick in the draft, knowing how important the quarterback position is in the sport of professional football, do you automatically take the quarterback or do you say yo? If it's a choice between Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter, what do you do? Do you automatically go with Sanders or does Hunter give you cause for pause and say Yo.
Wait a minute. This brother's all purpose brother.
He can play wide receiver in the slot, wide out outside the numbers.
He can play cornerback. He could play safety. What do you do? He could play free safety.
Could play one of the cornerback positions in the National Football League.
He can definitely play wide receiver with his speed. What can you say?
I gotta look at that and say, Yo, it's not that easy of a decision now. Me personally, I'm gonna go with quarterback because I see how what the quarterback position is than the National Football League.
But it does give me cause to pause.
I can't front. I gotta look at it from that standpoint. That's just where I'm at with it. So I got that out the way, all right. These two brothers right here are something special to behold. And this cat Jimmy Horn Junr that chalked up about one hundred and ninety eight receiving yards is damn self. This brother is special. He's the fastest dude on the team. I just look at Colorado and here's where I'm at. You're still undersized, and when you go up against them hogs than meat and potato, brothers, you understand eating whole chickens and turkeys and stuff like that for breakfast. I just have a hard time try to figure out how you go survive with standing that for a full season and moving to the Big twelve and that conference, although it's not the SEC or the Big Ten, still more physical, more talent than a Pac twelve that they were in.
You went four and eight last year. You lost eight of your last nine games, including.
Six straight, although five of those games was bout one possession. I'm just looking at Colorado and I'm saying Dion got an entirely new, revamped offensive line that clearly is doing a better job of protecting his son from getting sacked.
But what about improving the running game?
And if you haven't improved the running game, then you're asking should doing Sanders to throw the ball thirty plus times? He's gonna accumulate numbers. Travis Hunter is gonna be a leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy he keeps this up. Sander's is gonna be in a conversation for the Heisman himself. But it's Colorado gonna win any games. I'm not gonna lie to you. I can't see them winning more than five or six games. I just can't see it. I can't see it. I'm sorry. So that's just where I'm at with it. I also want to say this, though, before I go to break on the NFL side, There's been so much noise made about Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott is Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott can ball. But if I got an opportunity as the Dallas Cowboys get my hands on Shador Sanders, I mean, can we rule that out, y'all? I mean, we were family, were family. You know, it's sounded like Bernon MACKI family family. Can we rule that out? Can we definitively say that, y'all? He ain't as big, he ain't as strong, He's not gonna be as durable as Dak Prescott. So guess what, No, I wouldn't. But I can't say that because when I see his daddy, knowing what his daddy did as a superstar football player, and then I see this brother play in the quarterback position, that's his seed.
And I see that same moxie, that.
Same bravado, that same bravery and courage, that same poise under pressure. We gotta remember, ladies and gentlemen, when we talked about Colorado last year and how sorry they were. It wasn't because of their offense. They've been scoring points. It was their defense. They've been scoring points. Only time I saw them didn't do much offensively is when they went against Oregon.
These brothers can play.
And when I see that kid, knowing who his father is, knowing the pressure that's on his shoulders at that quarterback position. He ain't playing for Alabama, he ain't playing for Georgia, he ain't playing for Ohio State or LSU or Michigan.
He played for Colorado.
And you still gotta deal with him on an elite level because he's an elite brother.
He's special.
Dil Sanders is special, Travis Hunter is special, and this kid, Jimmy Horne Junior, I believe it is special. Where's the running game? We know about that. And I don't expect much from Colorado this year. I'm just hoping they win more games than last year. But when I think about this kid, I'm thinking about all these damn conversations about Dak Prescott, who.
Clearly is going to get his money. He's got all the leverage in the world for the Dallas Cowboys.
You can't franchise tag him, and you can't trade him because he has a no franchise clause and he has a no trade clause, and he's got all the leverage in the world, so he's gonna get his freaking money. We know this, but every now and then, somebody's special comes along and it's just that it factor. And I just ask a rhetorical question to all of y'all out there. I already asked one question. If you had his chance to get Shador Sanders, do you hold on the Dak Prescott?
Do you go and grab him.
It's all hypothetical because we know it's not realistic that he's going to be available for the Dallas Cowboys, who probably have to trade up to get him.
And who's gonna want to give.
Up the assets to trade for somebody when you know you got an opportunity to get a play off Sander's caliber.
That's fair enough. But here's the other question, because it begs to be asked, if you.
Gave Shador Sanders Ceedee Lamb Michael Gallup in the past, Brandon cooks now Ferguson at the tight end spot, an offensive line that could protect them, and a running game that was at least serviceable, not just Ezekiel Elliott or Dalvin Cook like the Cowboys have now. But what if they had somebody like Derek Henry or whatever. If you put this young brother with.
Talent, does he have the moxie and the poise.
To give you two playoff victories over eight years? I think we all know the answer to that question. And that's how you got to look at stuff.
That's just me. That's just me. Coming up.
Another NBA veteran Hall of Famous slammed ant man themselves, Anthony Edwards comments about the greatness of players in the last era. That's coming up next. Also, I'm gonna touch with some politics too, but not before I touch on this stick around.
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Quarterback Coston Beck from Georgia going up against number fourteen Clemson more or less than two hundred and sixty two and a half passing yards. I'm not sold on Clemson. I think they're going in the wrong direction. Georgia's a powerhouse. They could have easily repeated at national champions last year, but they didn't do that.
This kid Beck is considered the.
Real deal, a Heisman Trophy candidate, possibly the first over quarterback taking overall in the upcoming draft. I'm gonna go with more with him in terms of passing yards at more than two hunds in a sixty two and a half yards. TCU quarterback Josh Hoover playing at Stanford more or less the two hundred and eighty three and a half passing yards. I'm definitely going with more on this because TCU's problems is defense.
Offensively, they don't have too many problems. They know how to score. I believe in that, brother. I think they're gonna score more. I'm going with more in that particular category.
Next up, Alabama quarterback Jalen Milrow going up against Western Kentucky.
More or less than I.
Have passing yards really really so against Western Kentucky. A quarterback for Alabama ain't gonna pass for one yard? Are y'all smoking something? Stop it?
Of course, the answer to that question is more and a half yard. Come on, yard, be serious, be more serious than that. Please.
Miami Hurricanes quarterback cam Ward playing the Florida Gators more or less than two hundred and sixty foot one and a half passing yards.
I'm gonna go with more on this. I think that's the way to go. I just do. I don't know why. I just have that funny feeling.
Finally, by the way, Clinton's in signal caller, Club Nick playing number one Georgia in Georgia more or less than one hundred and ninety and a half pass the yards.
I'm gonna go with more here. But guess what I think it's gonna be by default. I think a potential.
Blowout is in the making, and then you got garbage time and you just throwing the ball over the field and then prevent defense and all of this stuff, and as a result, you're able to accumulate yards. I think that's what we're talking about here. Clubnick is gonna put up yardage, but is he gonna really make a difference with the outcome?
I don't think. So we're gonna go with more, more, more, more, more more.
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Smithshow right here with the digital airways of YouTube and of course iHeartRadio. During an episode of the Ticket in the Truth podcast, Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett slammed ant Man himself, Anthony Edwards, and all of the players in the modern era and Garnette's odes, today's players wouldn't have been able to play in his era. According to Kevin Garnett, the modern era player wouldn't be able to.
Deal with the physicality of the past.
He likened it to the physicality that they dealt with and struggled with during the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics.
Here's more of KG and what he had to say. Take a listen.
He didn't Jordan, the only one has skilled your Yeah, I know you didn't watch the game, him saying that you can't say that respects the young fella. Now, I don't get on here, and we don't use this platform to doubts anything. But I'm not going to start the cunning. I'm here to elevate the game out here to help the young players elevate themselves. But it's all raised different eras and when you hear Michael Jordan. Some of the greats talk about the different eras of play. The ages were different from the seventies, and seventies were different from the sixties, and sixties was different from the fifties. But in all of it, it had game and ship, it had aggressiveness, and they had stuff they came with it that you didn't really hear about that you're here now, nah Lord, he feeling himself and I like that. I like that he feels good. But when you're savant and you talking to the league and you spitting still different shit. Now, you gotta know what you're talking about to be in an argument or be in the discussion of what we're talking about.
First things first, let me tell you what pissed me off.
I should say pissed off, but I kind of felt a little pissed off at KG for this one thing. You ain't got to qualify how much love you got for the young brother in and y'all. Y'all podcast ain't here to hurt nobody, yo, bro, you' a Hall of Famer and a champion the truth, Paul Pierce, You're a Hall of Famer and a champion. I know you work at the other network don't give a damn mad respect for you and what you did on that basketball court, especially in crunch time. The truth God right to say what the hell you want to say, Say what you want to say, as long as you ain't attacking the person. But you can attack what they said. And as long as you're doing that, you got to qualify your comments. Let's get that out the way first. Secondly, I appreciate Kevin Garnett clapping back an ant Man, because I certainly disagree with ant Man. Now, I will say this, Kevin Garnett was also quoted as saying that ant Man and these players couldn't play in the old era nineties, eighties, things like that.
That's not true. That's not true. Let's be more specific, and let's understand what Kevin Garnett was saying.
What you're saying is based on the way the game is played today. These cats on lead who lean on today's rules and regulations.
To qualify their greatness. It would have been significantly.
Tougher for you to be as great as you are now back in the day playing with the rules the level of physicality that they allowed. Perfect example would be Steph Curry. Steph Curry came into the league with soft ankles, you might not have survived. They would have sat up there, they had untied your shoelaces, they'd have stepped on your foot, they'd have twisted your damn ankle. They had have messed with you all day, every day. That's what they talking about, all right. You know when you sit up there, you can hit somebody's elbow like that when they're shooting.
They'd have done that all day.
That Steph Curry absolutely true. But because I believe he's the best shooter that God ever created, I think he would would have adjusted. You can't tell me that a Lebron at six nine two sixty could have deal with the physicality of the old days because he would have been hurting people because that's how powerful and that's how strong he is. You can't tell me Kobe couldn't have done with that. You can't tell me that Vince Carter, the greatest in game dunk I've ever seen, couldn't.
Have dealt with that. Can't tell me that.
So I know that that's not what KG was trying to say, But I just want to qualify. Let me be very very clear, Steph Curry could have played in the old era because you.
Just don't teach shooting ability like that.
At Klay Thompson could have played in the old school era because you just don't teach shooting ability like that. Lebron James any era, Russell Westbrook would have been a monster without having to rely on the three like that, Russell Westbrook would have been off the chain. James Harden would have danced on people. Kevin Durant any era, He's six to eleven with a handle in a j Jokic with his ball handling ability as passing ability is shot making ability. Yes, if Bill Lambier could have been in the NBA, Yokics could have been in the NBA. Let's be very very clear about that. So I'm just saying to all of y'all, you look at certain things and point to it what it is. It's a whole bunch of players that could have succeeded in today's era, in the old school, from today's era.
But I also get where Kg's coming from. KG, like YO.
Predecessors at the stage in the example for successes to follow. How you gonna be disrespectful? I know you said you hadn't watched as you're too young, you didn't see us. But if you're gonna say Michael Jordan was the only skilled player, Isaiah Thomas is one of the greatest skilled players in the history of the game. Charles Barkley was a monster, a keem to dream of. Lajahwan was sensational, one of the greatest big men of all time.
Kevin Johnson for the Phoenix Suns.
Was no Joe, Gary Payton the glove with his defensive prowess and his physicality. Sean Kemp no joke, no joke, Mark Aguire.
Adrian Dantley.
Look now, let's pay attention to Bernard King, A healthy Bernard King. You know what he would have done to some of these players. What are you talking about. I know that Dominique Wilkins didn't have that great of a handle, but he was the human highlight reel for a reason.
What are you talking about?
Some great Dennis Justin, the late great Dennis Johnson. Kevin McHale fifteen feet ten feet in in one of the most unstoppable forces we have ever seen in the history of basketball. Kareem abdul Jabbar, what are you talking about? Can't say that, can't say that, can't do that can't think like that.
No, no, no.
Can't do that now, Aunt Man, the special and ladies and gentlemen. I see him coming when I see Anthony Edwards, I see Michael Jordan, I see Vince Carter, I see Kolbe. I see this potentially not there yet, potentially.
I see this. Ant Man is.
Right on Paul with Steph Curry as my two favorite players in the NBA.
To watch today. He is box office.
And ant Man is gonna do so. Don't let Minnesota get him an additional scoring weapon. My god, don't let that happen, because Minnesota gonna win a championship with ant Man. I love ant Man, but his statement, my brother, you're such a young whipper snapper.
You just don't know.
My condolences to you for what you do not Now remember, Connie Hawkins.
Is what gave doctor J.
The creativity and the innovativeness that he ultimately exercised and took to another level. And Doctor J did that for Michael Jordan, and Michael Jordan did that for Vince Carter, and Vince Carter did that for Vince Carter, and Michael Jordan did that for Kobe Bryant. List goes on and on. When you see something to replicate and emulate, your creativity burst from there. But I also understand why KG clapped back like that. You can't disrespect the errors like that.
You can't do that. I remember when JJ Reddick made noise.
It made news because he was arguing with Mad Dog Russo on my daytime job, first Take on ESPN every weekday morning from today in the twelve noon, and he was talking about firemen and other people that were playing back in the old days, and it came across as disrespectful to the Bob Coosey's and Jerry West of.
The world and others.
Successors come from successful predecessors.
You don't disrespect the errors.
You show an appreciation for them because they showed you the way.
When James A.
Naismith created the game of basketball, you had people walking around dribbling with one hand. Then you learn to driven with two. They had a set shot, then they learned to jump shot. They did layups, then they learned to dunk. But it starts somewhere, and where it starts is what you never ever failed to respect. And when you're young and you do that, it shows a flagrant lack of appreciation, which is why Magic Johnson said, Yo, I really don't listen to anybody who hasn't won anything. And so even though we gonna see the greatness of Anthony Edwards until he wins a championship, how much y'all want to make a bet that what we're gonna remember most is Magic Johnson saying, Hey, I really don't listen to somebody who hasn't won a championship. He didn't win a championship in the NBA yet, for he hasn't won in college. To my knowledge, I don't think he won in high school. That's what Magic Johnson said. Folks gonna hold onto that quote because ant Man said what he said, and now KG clapped back as a champion, that's the big ticket.
That's a Hall of Famer.
Sitting beside him is the truth who's also a Hall of Famer and the champion. Let's just call it what it is. Let's just call it what it is. By the way, as in the side, congratulations to Steph Curry forgetting his new bag and one year extension for over sixty two million dollars. He's earned over half a billion dollars on the court in his career.
Now this is what they're saying. One of only seven.
Players in NBA history with at least four NBA championships, in two League MVP.
Awards, and now he's an Olympic gold medalist.
I thought he should have been the MVP of the Olympics, by the way, even though he didn't showup until the last two games. He was that spectacular about Lebron James was a model of consistency throughout the Olympic game. So I can't poo pool him getting the MVP award. But just so you know something about Steph Curry. One of only four players in league history with multiple NBA titles, multiple League MVPs, and multiple scoring titles, joining Kareem abdu Jabbar, Michael Jordan, and Wilt Chamberlain. And last but not least, Steph Curry's career NBA ranks most in NBA history with three pointers mates seven hundred and seventy four in counting third all time with a minimum of twenty five hundred attempts from three point range. In terms of percentage at forty two point six free throw percentage, he's number one all time in NBA history with ninety one percent for the free throw line and it's true shooting percentage of sixty two point six percent, which is basically an advanced that statistics that measures a player's efficiency at shooting the ball. It's intended to more accurately calculate a player shooting the field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and three point field goal percentage taken individually. Steph Curry's true shooting percentage is sixty two point six percent, which is sixth all time. Major major props and congratulations to the babyface Assassin.
Whatever he's getting paid, he deserves more.
He's that valuable, he's that significant, He's that much of an incredible role model and a champion.
He's that big time.
He deserves even more. Here's the real Question's golden stake. Gonna get anybody to play with him and Draymond Green? And if they can't, why can't they? Is it because of Steve Kerr.
I'm just asking.
I'm just asking, especially after that Jason Tatum experience in the Olympics, I'm just asking.
Something to think about. All right, y'all, I'll be back.
With more in a minute, because I got something to talk about. As it pertains the Vice president Kamala Harris, who sat down for a first interview since becoming the official Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
How did she do?
I'll give you my thoughts, and I just want to put out this disclaimer. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm gonna say what needs to be said, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna be scared to do so. So I'm letting y'all know that right now. If you're weary, if you're leary, I mean, I got producers, male and female, black and.
White, all nervous as hell about what I'm gonna say.
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Welcome back to Steven Ai Smischer right here with the digital airways, with YouTube and of course iHeartRadio. I couldn't wait to get into this next subject. I absolutely positively couldn't wait ladies and gentlemen. It was necessary and I couldn't wait to get into it. I've been waiting all day to touch on this because last night Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for her first interview since entering the race five weeks ago, alongside VP nominee Minnesota govern Tim Walls. Both were interviewed by CNN's Dana Bash. When asked what she would do on day one as president, Harris said she would look for ways to quote strengthen the middle class end quote, and try to bring down housing prices nationwide. Harris also plans to extend a six thousand dollars child tax credit to families in the first year of a child's life. Former President Trump's campaign is mocking Vice President Harris for bringing Walls to her first interview since launching her.
Bid for the White House.
However, Trump's first interview, just to get this out of the way, you remember, this first interview after the Republican National Convention was a joint interview alongside his running mate, Senator jd Vance with Fox News is Jesse Orters and if you look back over the last decade, presidential candidates have sat for interviews with their running mates, including John McCain with Sarah Palin in two thousand and eight. Barack Obama did the same with Joe Biden that same year as well. Hillary Rodham, Clinton and Tim Kaine did a joint interview in twenty sixteen, and finally, Donald Trump and Mike Pence also sat down together in twenty sixteen. That was a quote that a lot of people were making, and I understand that quote. It certainly came from members of my team because I want to put you up to listen. I've got some family members, I've got people that I'm close to, I've got a staff that I trust tremendously so and they expressed themselves on to see I want.
I want the expressions.
I don't want a bunch of yes people around me. Okay, I mean I got you may not know I'm.
This is this dude, Rashaan. Let me tell you something right now. I got a dude named Rashwan that works for me.
That man don't listen to anything I say until he asked.
I mean, he wakes me up at.
Seven in the morning to get on my last damn nerves. Okay about his opinions, Okay, he ain't no, yes, man, I mean I got shovy.
You with that.
I mean, I'm listening. I'm a marvelous boss. I'm told I'm a boss. Right, you wouldn't know. I mean, Sherry, I don't agree with that at all. I mean, I don't know what you're thinking. And somebody else who's gonna remain nameless, took the time out of her busy schedule.
She's married, got dogs in the house, and all of this other stuff.
Happily married person, very very busy, preoccupied with her life and a multitude of jobs and responsibilities and all of this other stuff. But oh, now, this person took the time to sit down and write a damn dissertation to me about how wrong.
She thought my opinion was.
After watching me on Cuomo Nation with Chris Cuomo on Thursday night, she took the time to write a note to me. Let's put that note of because I want the public sey. I ain't gonna let you know who it is. Because I love her to death. You understand that she's entitled to her opinions, but damnit, I want y'all to see the kind of stuff that I got to deal with right here. Okay, now, demnit, that's not enough on the screen. Some of it is cut out, So I need to be able to read this post that that she sent to me respectful.
I respectfully disagree.
There have been at least four presidents day who have sat for an interview with their presumptive vice presidential nominee, and that includes Trump Pence.
The vice president selection matters right now.
It's taking up space in Trump's head, causing him to show out and all of this other stuff.
This is what she said.
This is what she said, Ladies and gentlemen, do you want And I say this, albeit rhetorically, to members of my staff, to Democrats and liberals I know.
Everywhere, to black women.
Who are supporting Kamala Harris, to graphic folks working for me like Shaugoul sitting there looking like Patrick Beverly talking to me and you know, swearing up and down on my lord.
You know, Kamala, Kamala Carol.
Come, I ask one simple question, do y'all want to hug and sing kumbay yard?
And one another?
Do you want to win the damn election because you want to live? To look at me, Rashan when I'm talking to ya, if.
You wanna listen.
If you wanna win the election, listen to me, America, Listen to me.
All of that rhetoric y'all.
Talking don't mean a damn thing, including the text that I just read to you on the ear.
Sit up, Sherry, when.
I'm talking to you, please, I got stuff on my mind, Honor Free. I can't read that you're right like you're right like a kindergarten person. Come on, man, I can't see that. Here's the deal.
Listen to me, y'all, listen good. We're trying to win an election. And I don't say we like I'm some liberal because I'm a registered and dependent I say we people who don't want Trump to win.
You bring up all of those presidents and all of their sit downs were vice presidents. Did any of them avoid a primary? Was any of them vice president? When the president the incumbent, literally had the path paid for him and everybody was moved out of the way so he couldn't be exposed for being cognitively declined? Did that happen with Barack Obama and Joe Biden? Did that happen with Trump and Pitts? Did that happen with Hillary and Tim Kaine? Did that happen with Clinton and Gore. Did that happen with h W I mean, think about it for a second here, and mister dan Quayle himself, I had brain.
Locked for a second. Pay attention. None of these people avoided a primary.
None of these people with people that you didn't see debating candidates for.
Their own party.
People selected them. That did not happen with Kamala Harris. That did not happen before June twenty seventh, when Joe Biden showed up in a debate, and as Anthony Scaramucci showing up on News Nation being interviewed by Chris Cuomo pointed out, and I quote during the debate, President Joe Biden looked like a dude standing in a nursing home waiting for a nurse to feed him apple sauce.
That is a quote. That is a quote.
And if she looked and if Joe Biden looked that way in June twenty seventh, what was he a month earlier or a month before that, or a month before that when those debates could have taken place.
It was nowhere.
We didn't see it because the Democrats greased the skids, so he.
Didn't have to face competition. These are facts. These are facts.
So if that is the backdrop, and you have somebody like Trump who's very very short on substance when he's articulating his message and defers to insults and one liners and doing all of these kind of things, I believe you're playing right into his hands. You can't see that, you, Kamala Harris. You're the vice president of the United States. You are a former senator, a former state attorney general, and the second largest state in the region in the Republic. You're a former prosecutor. This man has been indicted, He's been convicted on thirty four felon accounts, he's been impeached twice, he's lost civil cases and all by the way, he gets grilled at the National Association for Black Journalists and his immediate response is.
Is a very horrible question, worst question that could have ever been asked. You didn't even say hello, how are you. This is what he does. He goes up against Marco Rudio Rubio.
He called them little Marco, he said, Jeff Bush low energy, call a fier REDI, she's a four, teasing Chris Christie about his weight, called Ron Decanus rond sanctimonious. The man comes up with one liners that are catchy, and as a result, people gravitate to that. They pay very little attention to whatever substance he may have or is.
Lacking, and he wins anyway.
And he doesn't even do it by winning the popular vote. He lost the popular vote in twenty sixteen. He lost it again in twenty twenty. You, Kamala Harris, what the hell are you doing? I'm not saying what are you doing at it?
Right now?
The strategy thus far is fine. I'm talking about moving forward. And when you know, the world is transfixed on you as the potential next president of the United States, and we're looking to see what you do, you show up with Tim Watson by your side. Really, really, you know we were looking for you. You know, we wanted to hear from you, no disrespect to him whatsoever.
But it ain't nobody.
How many times you gonna hear that he's a school teacher and a former coach, that he gets you.
How many times we know this already? We got it.
You want to talk to us about the state of affairs of Minnesota. You want to talk to us about it being one of the highest tax states in the Republic. You want to talk to us about whatever crime is going on there, what your positions were doing the riots, et.
Cetera, et cetera.
I'm down with you, I got it, But there's millions of people who disagree.
If you want to go.
That route, No nobody cared. You know why they want to hear from her? And why do they want to hear from her, because when she was the vice president, you've never heard from her, and she was getting blamed for stuff that she may not have deserved to get blamed for. Well, what is it we're blaming you for flip flopping on fracking?
Is it true? Are you.
Healthcare? Has your position flip flopped on that? Or is it the same they're talking about? You got Syracians out there talking about now you're willing to support building the wall after you spoke against it.
Is that true? Is it? These are legitimate questions, is all I'm saying.
I'm not castigating her, I'm not casting convictions upon her or anything like that.
I'm saying we want to hear from her.
Don't give a damn about hearing from Tim Walls right now, he's the vice president nominee.
We got it, we understand. We ain't trying to hear from him. No, we want to hear.
From her because we've been waiting to hear from you for four years.
We want to see where you stand and why.
And oh, by the way, it's Teflon donn As Donald Trump may be. That's with his constituents, it's not with registered independence. That's who you're trying to win over where you at, Ladies and gentlemen, she ain't going up against Mitt Romney, who knows his stuff. Say what you want about Ron DeSantis. He knows his stuff. She ain't going up against Nikki Hally. Whatever your positions may be with the border wall, with inflation, with crime in democratic cities, although there's crime in Republican law led cities too, the point is that ain't even it.
The issue is you did.
You did this in your first press conference, Kamala Harris. You sat up there and said, believe me when I say I know Donald Trump's type. You talked about dealing with criminals, fraudsters, and you know, con artists, and then you said, believe me when I say, ladies and gentlemen, I know Donald Trump's tight. Well, if you know it's tight and you're accustomed to dealing with them.
Why is he the one doing a bunch of interviews again? The strategy was fine.
I'm not complaining about the strategy you employed up to this point. I'm saying, be clear, that ain't gonna win you the presidency. And for your first interview, and by the way, you know the cold that he's using. Na your head, Rashan, Not your head on a free especially you on a free Oh, especially you?
All right? And you too barely Olias Olius. Not your head is yes or no?
Is Trump not using codes when he points out that she's.
Hiding he's leaning on gender. I'm a man, I'm strong.
Look at the war and Russian in Ukraine with Russia, Look at what's going on with Israel in Palestine, in the God's Strip and beyond. Look at the kind of troubles that we're experiencing, whether it's North Korea, it's China or whatever.
Iran, Iraq. I mean, come on, y'all, look at all of this.
You think she's strong enough. She can't even show up to do a hard interview. I show up all the time. This is what he's doing. We all know what that is you feeding into machies, Moe. You trying to say, come in in chief. He didn't do that to Hillary. He said a lot of things about Hillary, like crooked Hillary and.
Stuff like that.
He ain't never said, he ain't never implied she was scared. He ain't never implied she was running because Hillary Clinton was smart as a whip and no hust stuff.
We all know.
But the most qualified woman ever run a president in this country's history, without question?
Ain't that supposed to be common? HBCU grad.
Prosecutor, state attorney general, senator, reigning Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris has all the credentials in the world to stand tall, stand straight up, and.
Be like, Yo, this is the way it's gonna be. Let's get it on.
And as a prosecutor and as an attorney, as somebody who knows the law, as somebody who knows a criminal when she sees them, as somebody who knows the con artist when she sees them, and all of these other things that she said about him.
Why is this to the one we see?
Because the Democrats are telling her, well, you know what, something they broke, don't fix it?
We gain this momentum, We gain this momental, We gain this momentum.
They are right about that, and I'm not disagreeing with anybody on my team who feels otherwise.
Here's my point.
It doesn't matter if the regular process had been followed, but because they avoided the primaries before they were, because they were accused of greasing the skids to disguise and hide Joe Biden from the rest of us in terms of the decline that was clearly taking place. She is now the Democratic nominee without having had to have a debate, without having to experience a primary, without having to campaign.
It was handed to her in.
The eyes of the opposition. That is what they're going to say about her. Say what you will about Trump. He's supposed to be a criminal, right, He's supposed to be in jail. Right, He's supposed to owe nearly a half.
A billion dollars. Right. The bottom line is.
He's been the Republican nominee since twenty sixteen, and he's been through a myriad of debates, and on top of all of that, he got all of this law, these legal issues descending down upon him, and the people have spoken the Republicans said they want him, all of them. Nobody said that about Kamala Harris until July twenty first, So you don't get to just skate to the election and have a debate September tenth on ABC, and you know what, we may barely see you.
Nah.
Why Also, ladies and gentlemen, Biden wasn't doing a bunch of interviews prior to the debate on June twenty seventh, and then what happened thereafter would July and him stepping.
Aside, So we had a White House.
That hasn't been active participants in communicating with the Fourth.
Of State spanning months. Why you're running this country?
Na? Na? I want you, Kamala Harris, to go out there and whip you do you know what?
Of Donald Trump? That's what I want because it shouldn't be that hard.
Who's gonna vote for him is gonna vote for him, just like the left is gonna vote for you, but us independence, Yo, you can't take him. That's like Tommy Hearns or Mike Tyson getting into the ring with somebody with a glass jaw.
You should be able to take them.
We know they could fight too, but once they get clipped by somebody that likes to you.
They supposed to fall you, prosecutor. You should be able to handle this.
Because of him, say Nikki Haley or somebody.
You're going against. This is him. Shouldn't be hard. That was my point.
That is my point, and that's gonna be my point until we see her campaigning the way presidential candidates normally campaign.
She's got my vote because I can't vote for him.
But I don't want to vote for her just because I don't want to vote for him.
I want to vote for her because she shows me she's the one.
And anything that she hasn't shown, I'm not even blaming her. I'm saying the party has paved the way and Greece the skids. We can't let that continue to happen. You gotta show up and earn it. I'm a sports guy. I remember in nineteen ninety one, I remember correctly, Mike Tyson was scheduled to fight Michael Spinks for the heavyweight Championship of the World, and Mike Tyson was furious because there was a delay in Michael Spinx coming out to the ring, so much so that he reportedly punched a hole.
In the wall. He was that damn furious.
Mike Tyson had no idea that what held up Michael Spinx wasn't some gimmick or anything. Michael Spinx was in his locker room crying, according to numerous reports, crying because he had to go out there and fight Mike Dyson and the promoter busch Lewis that was in the locker room with him. Do you know what butch Lewis was doing, crying with him, crying with him, but still hugging him while crying and saying, you gotta go out Champ. You gotta go out there. You gotta fight because they had thirteen million.
Dollars to get.
That's the true story according to everybody that I spoke to, And all I'm saying to y'all is when you want something, when you want the crown, you got to go out there and fight. Because Trump is calling her out. Now we all know that's tactical maneuvering on their part and all that stuff. I'm saying, it don't matter you, Kamala, Harris, Honeymoon's over. Go out there and handle your business and win this election. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, let's get to a couple of quick hitters before I get on out of here for the week. And starting with the w NBA, the Indiana Fever, led by rookie Caitlin Clark, will take on fellow rookie angew Rees in the Chicago Sky tonight. According to tick Pick, the average ticket price for the game is three hundred and thirty four dollars, making it the most expensive WNBA game on record. Now, let's get to my WNBA play of the week, which is Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever. The WNBA All Star broke the Fever's record for the most consecutive games with twenty or more points.
In five straight games, She's averaging the team.
High twenty five points six points per game and led the Indiana Fever to a four to one record since the Olympic break.
First of all, major props to Hug Congratulations on that. Keep doing your thing.
It's just a testament to Cheryl's swoops and what Cheryl Swoops brought up about how they're being. Other people contributing to the success of the Indiana Fever other than Caitlyn Clark, respectfully, However, to the great Cheryl Swoops the champion, that is Cheryl Swoops, the Olympic gold medalist, one of the great players in WNBA history and a basketball savant. All I was saying is you don't mention the Indiana Fever and don't mention Caitlyn Clark. That makes it flag really obvious that that's something you just didn't want to do, which begs the questions as to why you really didn't.
Want to do that.
You get mad at me, you call me names. I'm not gonna call you names. I have too much respect for you for that. If you don't respect me, I understand. I don't give a damn, but I understand. But in the end, it's okay. It's okay. My only point is you can't talk about the WNBA and the Indiana Fever without mentioning Kaitlyn Clark without raising some eyebrows as to why you wouldn't mention her. You don't believe me, go look on social media. People will tell you them themselves. That's all I got to say about that. But congratulations to all of Caitland Clark's teammates because y'all doing some special things. But it was nothing compared I said, but right now far exceeds what you were doing before she arrived. I'll leave it at that. Let's get to my next item. Former Laker and NBA Hall of Fame great Sequille O'Neil shared his thoughts on The Big Podcast about whether Lakers players will respect JJ Reddick as their new head coach. Here's what he said. You have Lebron's respect, what about the other guys? That's going to be the test. I don't think I could play for a guy who I just played against four or five years ago. End quote. Yes, you would stop lying because as they were paying you and you knew the check was in the mill, you'd placed that big voy.
You know I know better than that. That's number one.
Number two. Let me tell y'all something about JJ Reddick. Some people call him in a quiet taste, some people point to arrogance and all of this other stuff. JJ Reddick is one of the great great players that ever played in college basketball.
He's also a fifteen year NBA veteran, And although.
I lament how he got the Lakers job, because clearly that's something that Lebron James manipulated to his liking. If you know anything about JJ Reddick. This brother knows basketball. He knows basketball, and so it's gonna be really interesting to see how he affects the players in terms of his coaching powers. But I know one thing, players ain't gonna question his knowledge and me personally, I'm rooting for him. I believe in him, and I believe he'll be successful. I just don't like how Lebron did it. You could have waited till the season was over to start the damn podcast with him or get him the job with the Lakers, as opposed to doing it in the middle of the damn season where you knew that Darvin hand was on a hot seat.
I think that's bs and I called it.
And I love Lebron and respect him and revere him for all that he has done, but that don't make him right all the damn time. And this was one of the crims that I thought he was wrong, plain and simple. But it is what it is, all right. Quick hitter number two takes me to my day job at ESPN. Number three, I'm sorry my day job at ESPN. Earlier this week, ESPN held a first of its com media day at its headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, where more than fifty multi platform journalists from across the country. We're invited to talk to the network's most notable host including yours truly. The gathering included myself as executive producer and host The First Take, Sports Center host Scott Van Pelt, Sports Center anchor l Duncan, Get Up in New NFL Sunday Countdown host Mike Greenberg, and of course analyst of Pat McAfee.
Host of The Pat McAfee Show, and.
A regular panelist on college football Game Day. All of a sudden, the news primarily me and Pat McAfee. Pat McAfee obviously expressed his opinion about the coverage he was receiving from the media out there. I gotta tell you, you can debate delivery, presentation, whatever. What you can't debate was that he made some very valid points because people have been coming at him from day one. They have been blaming him, and they have been trying to malign the show and him speaking up for himself.
I don't blame him one damn bit.
He was right to do so, So let me get that out of the way. Number two as it pertained to me, and it threw it throughout that I was throwing shade on FS one. I don't throw shade on my colleagues at contemporaries.
Don't do that.
I was asked a question about the competition, and what I did was point out, as I will point out to you over these airwaves right now, at some point in time, I'm you know, people are entitled to defend themselves against falsehoods. We talked about Undisputed at the time, which is no longer on FS one, being competition for first take. Well, it was coming on at the same time as us, But in all the years we did the shows up against one another, they came within half our ratings twice. It was never reported. And when you talk about competition, I'm gonna tell you why I bring stuff like that up. I don't say I want y'all to pay attention to me about something, and I want my team to look at me when I.
Say this as well.
If you notice, I never say I'm the unless I say something like I'm the best, because I know I'm not. I'm constantly working towards being the best, and I think that gives me an edge. But for the most part, what I say to people is I'm number one. You know, why I say that I'm number one, and I never hesitate to remind people of that, because y'all never hesitated.
To remind me that I wasn't when I got fired.
Everywhere we turned stephen A, quite frankly, Rady's wasn't there.
Steven A thought he was this, but he wasn't.
So when I get when I get to that point, I'm supposed to be quiet. I was supposed to be quiet, Rashan, I'm supposed to be quiet, Sherry. So so, in other words, when I'm quiet and I'm not winning, y'all get to bloviate about how I wasn't winning and I wasn't successful and I wasn't number.
One all that time.
But since I've been number one, God forbid that I speak up. Hey, Rashon, sit up in your chair when I'm talking to you, bro. When I was number one on first take? How long was our number one? Before I ever said a word? We were number one since twenty twelve, am I lion? I never mentioned I was number one until two thousand and eighteen. I went six years without telling y'all I was number one.
Until I noticed y'all would never say so.
If it was anybody else who's ratings we doubled triple or quadruple on a daily basis spanning years. If that was somebody else, you would have wrote about them. How come you didn't write that about us?
Oh?
First take in their competition, what are you talking about? Now?
That's not me throwing shade on FS one. It's not me throwing shade on my colleagues at ESPN, because the only thing I think about competition is who's on at the same time as me?
Who the hell is on at ten o'clock. That's it.
To Manuel Watcho and the crew. You'll never hear me speak against them.
I know.
I Choe, his brother works at ESPN actually did a phenomenal job covering college football. I respect them. They're good brothers, and they've always been good to me. You will never hear me see a negative word about them. Lashawn McCoy, come on, Shady, come on dog.
You know me. That's my boy.
We go back years. Keith Shawn Johnson is gonna be on in the afternoon. It's my brother Michael Irvin, a playmaker.
Do I have to.
Remind y'all how I feel about these brothers. They know how much I love them. They know I don't want them to beat me. I'm gonna try to beat them, but that don't mean I'm wishing for them to fail, just like I ain't wishing. I was never wishing for Skip to fail. I hope Skip Bayles's lands on this feet. I hope that brother got big time opportunities coming this way. I hope his career will spend as long as he wants it to. He's the one that brought me on first take, along with Jamie Horwitz. I will never root against them. Jamie Horwitz is the man that runs O my Hard Productions.
That's my man. We're tight.
I root for him all the time. He knows I'm building a production company which is now called straight Shooter. By the way, it's no longer mister Sas Productions. It's Straight Shooter Productions. Okay, that's the name of my production company, now straight Shooter. They know I'm coming, but it ain't for me to root against them. I hope they gonna be all right. I got a number of love for him. I saw a man you will watch you on the EDD the other day on social media, and what he said, I appreciate you, bro, Thank you so much. I'm gonna always try to beat my competition. I will never root against people that I got loved for and I care about. I just root to win. I don't root for other people to lose. You see the difference. I hope y'all can comprehend it and understand that. And as far as my colleagues, I'm there for all of them. Pat McAfee need me, I'm near. Scott van Pelt need me, I'm near. L Duncan needs me. Greedy my man, Oh my god, is he gonna do wonders on Sunday NFL Countdown. Mike Greenberg is one of the greatest top ten hosts in the history of the business. Do y'all know that? Do y'all understand that? Mike Greenberg Greenee? Every time I think I could host, I watch him and then I say I got long ways ago. He is one of the greatest hosts in the history of television.
I'm telling you what I know. I've worked with him for years.
He is one of the greatest hosts in the history of sports television period.
But none belongs up there with anybody, and L. Duncan is a star. To make it.
I'm adding l Duncan to the roster on First Take, look for her on Fridays. For this upcoming season, Scott van Pelt has volunteered to come on in the morning. You know this brother works at night, but he loves First Take. He want to come on and express his opinion. Pat McAfee's welcome to come on any time he wants, anytime he wants.
Me on the show. If I got it done, if I got time, I'm there. We trying to win collectively. I'm not trying to hurt anybody.
But be clear, I ain't gonna apologize for winning, and I'm not gonna apologize for prioritizing winning. That doesn't mean I want you to plumb it and fall on your damn face. It just means that when all is said and done, I want to be the top rated dog. That's all, nothing more, nothing less. I hear a bunch of people talking about me all the time. You don't know who I am, you don't know what I'm made of this. There's one person I'll never root for. We all know who that is.
Outside of that, I root for everybody in this business. Marcellus Wiley. I hear you talking. I tell you talking smack sometimes.
But I'm your brother that used to come on when you had your radio show. You ain't gonna get me to root against you, Bro. I'm rooting for you, Ryan Clark, gonna pivot my Dog Swag, Goole, Big Perk and the rest of the crew. Why you think I talked about JJ Reddick, I'm not gonna forget just because he's the Laker coach that that man was working beside me on First Take held in us build our profile and our platform even more. I will never forget what JJ Reddick did for First Take. And if he needs me, all he got to do is call and he knows that it ain't gonna stop me from being critiquing and calling stuff as I see it. But I will always root for him always. You don't like it, get the hell over it. That's how it's gonna be, how it's been, and that's how the hell let's go stay. I gotta get on out of here. But finally, I've been fired up a time or two from a job. But a TikTok video posted by at we Sick and tie it end quote of a woman who recorded herself being fired from her job has gone viral not because she was let go, but for her response to it.
Take a look at this place.
We had a discussion a couple of weeks ago about your absent seism and tardiness.
Okay, now what.
Time you have to be clocked in at work?
Six o'clock?
Yeah, six am?
Okay.
So unfortunately on seven eighteen, you clocked in at six twelve. The discussion about.
That twelve minutes.
So your employment is really going to be terminated as of today because also on seven twenty eight you clocked in at six twenty.
One one twenty one minutes.
Yes, that's twenty one minutes of company time.
But I still I still work though, Like I still like, why didn't you tell me that today when I was just at work?
So you were also on a eight you clocked in at like six thirty two.
That was it?
Okay? So I let my cousin use my card the night before and he didn't bring it. He overslept or something. He didn't bring it back till the morning.
So like, I still made.
It though, literally like nine days after we talked, so and then on eight twelve, you just did a no call, no show.
That was my birthday, August twelfth, that's my birthday. Like I already told you that day off work though, but yeah, that's my birthday, my birthday.
No, that's all right, okay.
On that birthday even I worked on my birthday.
Y'all too grown for me.
Well, unfortunately, I just needed you to turn your keys in.
And I'll meet her tomorrow. Because that's crazy.
That's crazy.
Oh my god.
Yeah, you can't make some of this up, man, You can't make some of this up. That was my birthday though. That was my birthday. That was my birthday. Let's be biting, un dail's. Oh yeah, that was eight minutes. That was just eight minutes. That was just twelve minutes. That was classic case of somebody who wants to do what they want to do, when they want to do it, how they want to do it, while they.
Got their hand out for somebody else's.
Money, see what I'm talking about, and they ain't got the audacity to sit up there and get indigniti like that was my birthday.
That was my birthday, like they supposed to care about her birthday.
Okay, I mean, if your birthday was that important, how come you didn't go to them and ask in advance?
Could you have your birthday off. Okay, I mean this kind of stuff that I'm talking about right here.
You can't do what you want to do, when you want to do, when you want somebody else's money. And if you don't believe me, just come out of your pocket and pay people and then have them look at you like they could do what they want to do and they don't have to pay attention to you instant and watch what happens. Because I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm a little bit different than them. See, they called her at home on zoom, clearly fearful that she was gonna go belisted.
You understand I'm saying. They clearly was scared. They clearly scared.
See how the fire, I asked to her face. I'm telling that right now. She wouldn't have made it out the door with me. She wouldn't have made it out the door with me. I'd have been like, don't come back, drop your key off right now, goodbye. He said, Oh, that's my birthday. I mean, my godness, I mean that's my birthday. What well, oh my godness, Oh my godness.
I was. I was waiting for her to go shit, and they didn't. I cat.
That's me really, damn damn, y'all have a nice Lady Day weekend. I'll holler let y'all the Monday until man.
Peace of love,
