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He was named in a lawsuit earlier this week, alongside Showing Diddy Coombs. The suit accuses both men of raping a thirteen year old girl more than twenty years ago. Jay Z came out swinging in his defense, calling out the attorney Tony Busby, who reportedly approached jay Z with a demand letter before attaching his name in the Diddy suit. Jay Z even called on Busby to file a criminal complaint.

End quote.

In the aftermath of the many have wondered what impact the allegations would have on jay Z and his businesses. His company, Rock Nation has a partnership deal with the National Football League to produce the Super Bowl Half Tom Show. Here's what Commissioner Roger Goodell of the NFL had to say this.

Week when asked about the suit. Quote.

We are aware of the civil allegations and jay Z's really strong response to that. We know obviously that litigation is happening, but from our standpoint, our relationship is not changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.

End quote. One could easily.

Surmize that saying innocence until proven guilty, but we won't even go there. We won't even go there, and any interest of full disclosure. When I say family, I'm not talking about immediate family. You talk about cousins and aunts and people like that. You're talking about people who you consider family. You're talking about people that you work with every day, colleagues and all of this other stuff.

Right, I have tremendous people that work for me.

I'm very proud of myself, and even though I getting ass a lot of times when especially when they get on my.

Last damn nerves as they have done today.

Okay, in the end, I want to preface my comments about them and anybody who thinks like them, some of them. I want to preface my comments by saying I know they're doing it to look out for me, and I appreciate it. But I can appreciate you looking out for me and still be annoyed as shit at you.

Because That's where.

I'm going here, And the reason why I'm going in this direction, ladies and gentlemen, is because I want you to understand something. When I spoke about jay Z and I saw my comments all over social media, and I saw it every way. You didn't hear me say I had knowledge of the case. You didn't hear me say I had knowledge of who Jane Doe is. You didn't hear me say that I knew a sentilla of what the hell these allegations entail.

Other than what all of you know, I don't know anything.

I'm not espousing innocence or guilt from a literal perspective, But what I'm saying to you, to all of yours in America.

In the Baya and Abu Dhabi where I just.

Came from, to Africa, to England and France and everywhere in between, what I'm saying to you is this, If you're known somebody for twenty five years, do you not have the right to say I've known that person for twenty five years. I can't see that. I can't see that happening. Do you know how I would feel. I have somebody that works for me, my man Rashan. I got my man Galen that I've known for twenty five years,

My friends, they've known me for decades. Stephen A. Smith gets accused of rape, y'all.

Got nothing to say nothing. You're just gonna sit there and have.

Nothing to say, Just gonna let me hang out there.

If you believe in your heart, damn, I've known her for twenty five years. I can't imagine him being guilty of such a thing.

Nobody's gonna say that. Nobody. There's nobody in this world that you say that about.

If that's your answer, I feel sorry for you because that means you don't believe in anybody. You don't have a heart and a soul enough inside of you to imagine that somebody's core.

Decency is just.

Too much to think that they would do something like that. That is a generic statement that is not impuning the alleged accuser, the accuser, that is not impuning even the lawyer. We certainly wouldn't impune the courts. We wouldn't do that. But I would hope that if somebody knows you for twenty five years and you consider them a friend, that you can say I can't I can't imagine that. I can never see them doing something like that. I don't

That I have seen around young ladies.

Is not a person I could ever imagine doing something like that.

I can't say that because that's all I said.

Anything else to go any further would be irresponsible, It would be stupid, and I don't believe I'm either.

So when people come.

And they want you to be so ultra ultra, ultra careful, I understand the careful part I understand it, but shouldn't you be careful enough to actually listen to my words? You see, this is the same platform where I was raked through the colds for months.

Because I was accused of lumping.

Donald Trump and criminality in the black community. When I was asked a question about his direct supporters and how they felt about his assertions that there was relatability, that is the question I was answering. It didn't stop the NAACP from opening their mouth. It didn't stop colleagues and contemporary from opening their mouth. I had friends that I've known for decades that open their mouth.

And just jumped on the bandwagon along with everybody else and forgot who I was.

How you think I feel about them now? Because all you have to do is listen to what I said and say, Yo, that's not what he said. Maybe he should have said something differently, or maybe he's wrong. We'll talk about it. But the casters versus on them. Why do you think I get pissed off when I see people on podcasts and stuff like that talking.

Shit all the time. It's never with people that don't know me. And if you're an enemy.

Like a couple of people are, because it's just a couple's really just one that makes up a couple. But I ain't gonna go there today. Outside of that, I don't sweat it. You have a right to your opinion whoever you are. Just contextualize it accurately and stick to the actual issue, as opposed to using something to branch out and castigate people's characters. My sympathy and my empathy is extreme when it comes to anybody that has been raped. Women are obviously far more often victims of such a

It to rape a woman is to kill her, to kill a part of her. There is nothing outside of literally taking her life. That is what you have done to her.

It's just that blood is still circulating through our body and she's still able to breathe, but she's dead. It should never be condoned, ever in anybody who's guilty of that, at the very least should be thrown under the damn jail.

Fine.

Outside of that, If somebody is accused and they adamantly deny it and you believe their character is incapable of such a thing, it's not you okaying such a heinous act, it's you saying that act is so heinous. I don't believe that person is capable of that based on the person that I've.

Known for twenty five years.

And if I were ever the found to be wrong, I'd be sick to my stomach, as we all should be.

Simple. Forget jay Z for a second. I've got plenty of us.

I got cast I grew up with my man Cardell, my man Polly.

Spank Ski Boris, the cats that I went to school with, the cats that I grew up with.

You come to me and tell me, and remember, I grew up in Hollis Queens.

I grew up around drug dealers and drug users, and yes, murderous, there's a few cats that I grew up with. They in jail are dead.

So you don't vouch for everybody in terms of what you believe. But what you can say is those who you do feel that way about, you can never imagine them doing that because you never consider them a friend. If you could imagine them doing that.

That's all. That's all. It's all I wanted to say about it. Nothing else.

I don't understand why that's controversial when I know nothing.

I wasn't there. I have no idea who to accuse it. I don't know anything.

All I was saying is that I know the guy for twenty five years. It's hard for me to imagine he could ever be guilt. Not that guy that I've been around. I can't imagine it. That's all, nothing more than that, nothing more. It's time for me to go to a guest because I've said enough. That's the only point that I wanted to bring up. I didn't want

What's going on, Steven A. I'm good.

How you doing.

I had to have you on because last time you were on, everybody wanted to see that one.

So I had to have you back on. Let's get right to it.

According to the reports jay Z became inbroad in a puffy case after Busby sent the letter back last month that alleged jay Z raped and drugg that thirteen year old girl with combs at the two thousand VMA after party. My question to you with this was this, for those that don't know he received the demand letter, whatever, what's a demand letter?

Explain what that is.

A demand letter is essentially a letter a lawyer is going to send to ask somebody to take a certain action. Here, the demand letter sent by Tony Busby, the lawyer on behalf of the Jane Doe in this case, was Hey, let's get together and have a mediation over a claim that my client has made that you assaulted her. Now it seems once you hear that, you're alarmed, right if you get that kind of letter. Tony Busby requested of mediation,

So for Jay Z.

This demand letter would have, if he said yes, put him in mediation and in his mind, opened him up for a discussion about whether or not he owes damages for something he says he didn't do. So a demand letter is fairly common for lawyers to send to each other asking for a certain particular legal action.

But in this case, because of the.

Explosive nature of the claims, you can understand why jay Z went off on Tony busby Z.

Jay Z's team labeled this an extortion attempt? How is that hyperbole? Is that excessive? Is that on point? How would you qualify or classify such a label an extortion attempt?

By Buddy Steven It depends on your perspective, right, So, if you're Tony Busby, you have a client and that it's the lawyer for this Jane Doe who's accusing jay Z of raping her when she was thirteen at this after party. If you're Tony Busby, your client has made this claim, you want to try to settle it in civil suits. So essentially you're looking for money damages. So for you, it's reaching out saying, hey, let's settle this thing. You've been named and it's something I've filed, but I've

Any sort of legal procedure.

But when you think about the way jay Z's looking at it, it's okay, I haven't been named in something, and if I don't do this mediation, what happens then I'm named.

I'm subject to public scrutiny.

Now everybody believes that I did this thing that I said I didn't do, which, as you and I know Steve and A, when somebody's name is put out there for a crime, a lot of times people believe it before they find out the facts. So for jay Z, it appears to be an extortion attempt because he's saying, look, you're just trying to do this to get me for money. If I don't come to mediation, then you're gonna expose me, which,

That's what that's why they qualify it as extortion.

His response was swift, no question about that. In a strongly worded statement, he categorically denied any any truth to these allegations that have been levied against him and said he wanted to give Busby one red penny quote unquote, and challenged Buzzby to follow a criminal lawsuit rather than

You know, where's the criminal charges? Bring it on. That's basically was what jay Z was saying.

Yeah, stephen A, It's like he's saying, hey, look I'm innocent, so bring it all at me. If you think it's that, if you think I committed a crime, file a criminal charge.

A couple things there.

First, Tony Buzzby said in response to that, Hey, I'm considering that it's up to my client. I'm going to leave that to her. There's a lot of different complications in this. The first thing is somebody might be able to file a criminal complaint in this case, or let's say Tony Buzzby could in some ways, but it's up to prosecutors to prosecute that case. So it's not as if you just go in and say, hey, I'm going to file a criminal charge against you.

Not how it works. Prosecutor would have to be able to take up the case.

The other thing is, in the case like this, this happened all the way back in two thousand, right, so this is over twenty years ago, and if a prosecutor is looking at a case like this, they're looking at what's the evidence, Like who are the witnesses. This is one of the reasons why Jay Z is actually requesting right now in a filing that the.

Name be revealed of the Jane Doe here.

He's trying to figure out, Okay, if you've made this claim, let's hear some witnesses. Let's try to see the evidence here let's try to let me try to get a sense.

Of what my case would be here.

But the real difficult part of this is the statute of limitations for first degree rape in New York State. If this is a New York State case that right now doesn't have a statute of limitations, back then depending on the charge, there could be a statute of limitations.

The alleged victim was thirteen at the time, which means she's now grown.

So how likely is it that she will be named.

It's a tough scenario. They're asking the judge to talk about it. We can't know for sure. There's a couple different reasons. First, you name a client, you name a Jane Doe. In a case of this, the argument is generally this, you weigh the public need to have the information and the defendants right in some ways to have the information with the needs of the particular Jane Doe

The possibility for retribution?

What would happen to that person if their name was revealed? That's one thing a judge would weigh on jay z side. They're going to weigh the public interest of it, is there something that requires this to be out there?

Does it in some way help the defendant build their case? So right now, I look at a case.

Like this and I say it's an unknown because you just don't know how a judge is going to decide in this case. And we also, here's the big thing, stephen A. We don't know the evidence in the details here. What we have right now is a claim from someone from over twenty years ago that this happened. Not saying it's not true, not saying the allegations aren't to be believed, just saying it's hard to know what's happening here until you have more evidence and more information out there.

But he has a right to know who she is now they might not be revealed to the public, but if he's being accused, he has a right to know who he is being accused by. If not now, then obviously at some point that is expected to be the case, right.

And definitely that will happen eventually.

And you look at a case like this Stephen that what becomes really interesting is this is a civil case. So I mentioned before that's her money damages. But if this goes ahead as a civil case, so right now, jay Z is asking that it be thrown out, either reveal the name or throw it out.

If they don't throw it out and.

It goes forward, so if it's not dismissed, then you have things like depositions that happen.

In those depositions, jay Z is interviewed.

The accuser, the person who's accusing him of the crime, is interviewed, and that's where things get very interesting.

See.

I look at a case like this and I think back to what we saw in the p.

Didy case, the allegations that came out there, and I look back to what happened in that case. Allegations, Investigators started interviewing people, started talking about different things, and eventually reco charges were filed, not saying jay Z.

Is related to that in any way. But one thing I think jay.

Z has got to be concerned about is if this case goes forward those depositions, he's got to answer all kinds of questions under oath. If you lie in depositions, you face the threat of perjury, which is an offense, which is a criminal offense. So in those instances, what

Could you illustrate because one of the things that I've been making a point of is that you know, Listen, I don't know what happened, and I'm certainly not going to pretend to know what happened. I've known him for twenty five years, so I've been on the record saying I can't believe that the person that I've known for twenty five years would be capable of such a thing.

I don't believe it. But that's as far as.

Anybody, any human being, as far as far as I'm concerned, can go. To go any further than that would be utterly irresponsible. But what I want to also do is highlight the difference right now people are acting like to me when you bring up P Diddy. People bring up him, and they bring up P Diddy in the same sentence five his reasons, and I'm like, well, Homeland Security showed up the P Diddy's properties in Miami and Los Angeles. Ultimately an arrest was forthcoming, which he knew, which is

I'm glad you asked that question, because I want to distinguish between what we're seeing right now, stephen A, with the jay Z situation, and what we saw in the Diddy situation. There As you mentioned, rate on his home lengthy investigation, going at even the charges, talking about a criminal enterprise, his companies and all that, not only in him not only involved in making records, but having this criminal enterprise with these free costs.

I would not connect. I'd be loath right now to connect the P.

Diddy case with jay Z, and for one really big reason and then other smaller reasons. The big reason is in the Diddy Combs case, they're arguing that he set up this entire criminal enterprise, and part of this enterprise worth these free costs. That's not being suggested in the jay Z case. The jay Z case is suggesting, at least the accusation is he was at this party that P. Diddy was throwing and that there was a sexual assault

Do I know if it could go there and something could happen.

We don't know at this point, As you said, we don't know enough information about that right now. But that's a big difference the other differences here you talked about should he be fearful, I would say there has to be concern. And the reason there has to be concerned is and we talked about this when we talked about the Ditty case. We talked about the idea that there were all these people involved. Even in the jan and Dos case. With jay Z, she claims that she runs out and nobody did anything.

One of the things.

US attorneys said when they were doing the Ditty case was when they made that big announcement P. Diddy has been arrested, they made the point of our investigation is on going, they.

Are not stopping. That was not the end of it. So why I think jay Z should be concerned.

He's saying he didn't do anything, but and on its face, let's assume that's the case. Why he should be concerned is being involved in the orbit. That is P Diddy being involved in the orbit of this situation.

Being involved in the.

Orbit of the claims that Jane Do made piques the attention of investigators. This is just how investigators think when they file a claim. When they see a claim like p Didy and as expansive as that was, and they think about all the people that might have been involved or seen something or been there. They're trained to look at this and say who else might have been involved?

Ditty criminal enterprise.

It's more concern of investigators follow the trail of whatever evidence they find and whatever they hear and whatever they see, and.

What you have to wonder about and worry about.

I think be concerned about if you're Jay Z, is our investigators eventually going to ask questions in some way of me because of this case that's been filed against me.

As you well know, Rock Nation has a partnership deal with the National Football League to produce a Super Bowl halftime show, and so naturally, when these allegations got aimed at jay Z, a lot of people were waiting to hear from the National Football League to see what it was going to do, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had this to say this week when asked about the suit. Quote, we are aware of the civil allegations and jay Z's

End quote Number one.

From a legal perspective, how common of a position was that to receive from an entity like the NFL? And number two, what kind of effect, if any at all, do you think will have on this ongoing situation?

So number one, I'll admit stephen A.

I was surprised to see that only because my sense usually when you talk about organizations like the NFL and claims against partners who have been accused of really heinous situations is basically no comments or we're waiting to see what happens with the evidence, That would be the first thought. Perhaps there was some sort of discussion that happened after these claim surface, and Roda Gudell was made to feel that, hey, there's nothing to see here. This is something that's going

Our name and our brand in any way, we're gonna at least say let's wait and see what happens here.

We're gonna at least say no comment, We'll see as it comes. We'll we're just following whatever happens. Come me your second question.

Again, I said, how will this affect it?

How do you think this will the NFL's position with jay Z at this particular moment of time affect things moving forward, whether it be their relationship with him or this overall case.

I think it's interesting when I look at this, will the NFL's relationship with him affect the processing of the case.

I don't think it will affect what authorities do or what a judge might do.

I think what becomes interesting in all of this is how does this case process based on that relationship he has with the NFL and based on what jay Z does and has. One thing we know about jay Z is he has a deep pocket. So and that was part of what you brought up here. Hey, just because I have money doesn't mean you can come at me

It's twenty four years after the fact.

A lot of people have made noise about that doesn't mean anything because we know how often women have been victimized and how they've been reluctant to come forward.

The laws have.

Changed, society has changed. A heightened level of sensitivity has really kicked up as well. Even in these times where I think that people are far more understanding and men have no choice but to be far more receptive to these things that women have been telling us that they have been enduring and experiencing for quite a long time. What are we to make of it being coming to light twenty four years later, these allegations.

That they mean more to the public and to all of us now. And that's not to say they didn't mean anything before. That's to say you can even see it in the law of stephen A based on how this We talked earlier about whether or not a case could be brought a criminal complaint. When you talk about that years ago there was a statute of limitation.

For certain degrees of rape. That was only five.

Years Those laws have been changed significantly now there's much more.

But that's part of the problem of this case. It happened so long ago. Depending on if.

Prosecutors took up a case, it could affect whether or not the statue of the limitations applies. But even in the law, is what I'm saying. Even in the law, our way of viewing cases like this has changed drastically. But in the public, I think is where it really matters.

Stephen A.

We look at cases like this and we say, people who are in power, who did bad things to others have to be held accountable. I want to say it again, that is not me saying anything about jay Z. What that's saying is when you talk about authorities, there is not some sense of hey, this happened twenty four years ago, not a lot of evidence, nothing to see here. We're just going to move on and prosecute cases from today.

No, we're going to move on.

This is we are going to doggedly pursue something where we have a good faith belief that there is a crime and it doesn't matter if it's old, and it doesn't matter if it might not fit in the particular context of what you might think the crime might be on its face.

We're gonna look deeper see if there's some enterprise here. See if there's something else going on. Stephen A. I can't even tell you haven't been a lawyer for well over two decades.

It is a massive, massive shift in the way we look at survivors of sexual assault.

Massive four.

I think people thought, Hey, if I don't say something quickly, if I don't do something quickly, I don't have a chance. And even if I do, my name's going to be dragged to the mud. I'm going to be tortured through this entire process. Even in then I might not get justice. Now we live in a different world. Now these cases are being heard. There is a sense on behalf of law enforcement, judges others to say, let's hear the evidence, let's see what's here, let's try to figure out these cases.

Ryan Smith, Legal land List, ESPN, ABC. I'm proud to call you a colleague and a contemporary. I'm really proud of the work that you're doing. I appreciate you edifying this show and this audience or every time you come home on Man, thank you so much.

Man.

I'll talk to you soon anytime.

Man, Take care, all right, The one and only Ryan Smith right here with Steven A and Steven A Smith Show.

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Does a trick question? That's a trick question.

The only way he's not gonna throw for more than hundred and seventeen yards. He decided out to throw the ball because he can run on them all day.

That's it. That's it. So I'm gonna go with more as a particular answer to this question.

Next up, we've got to Washington command this quarterback Jaden Daniels going up against the New Orleans Saints more or less two one one hundred and thirteen and a half passing yards. It's jad and Daniels. New Orleans is done seasons over, not a good team. They'll be looking for a new coach after this season. Jayden Daniels in Washington's trying to play for a playoff spot. I think more is the way to go with this one as well.

Yards with that, brother, So I'm gonna go with more.

Finally, we've got New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito, not Danny DeVito, not him, Tommy DeVito going up against the Baltimore Ravens more or less than one hundred and seventy eight and a half passing yard duds.

I have no faith in anything associated with the Giants at this point, zero zero.

I know that Baltimore's defensive suspect, I get that, but I have no faith in the New York Giants. Anything that is associated with them should be less because their value dissipates with each passing week.

Okay, I'm on the verge of saying they need new ownership. It's just bad. It's just bad.

There we gonna go with less for Tommy DeVito in the New York Giants one hundred and seventy eight and a half passing yards. I think that's entirely too much when it comes to him. That's just where I'm.

At with it. Either way you slice it, it's.

More and more and more and less. That's three out of four. That ain't bad. Matter of fact, it's pretty damn good. That's what prospects of breenshit. Welcome back to Steph Nick Smith Show. Let me get into some sports headlines in a moment. All right, that's what I plan

First of all, it's all in fun.

That's my brother right there, His big brother, Vincus Smith, was the one that trained me and helped me get a basketball scholarship to Winston Salem State. Kenny Smith's family and myself go back a very, very long ways. It's my brother from another mother. I love him to death, but he was disrespectful. He really really was disrespectful. Now, damn it. I ain't no damn NBA player. Hell I wasn't even a college player as far as I'm concerned, because I was too damn injury prone. But the bottom

Heavy the other day. It's all right, It's okay, Kenny.

You know, the TNT crew is the Krem Dela Krem did the elite, and I'm honored to be joining them tomorrow afternoon before we do NBA Count on the ESPN Saturday night. I gotta be there with them three thirty pm Eastern time, live in Vegas. I'm just wondering why the hell is alimited to free throw shooter? Why why don't we just have a shooting contest since you want to, since you want to.

Be all big, bad and bold. While we got to go to the free throw line we are, why can't we go to the wing. Why can't we go to the quarters? Why can't we shoot beyond the three point line? Ain't nobody scared, Kenny? Anybody scared? You understand I ain't got to play against you.

You adn't say say even over everybody teasy you're about tonabs whatever. I don't do that because I know you the jet I know you a bad brother. You und to see you bust my ass all day, every day in a game.

But just to shoot the ball. I mean, why are we living in ourselves to free throw? Free throw? Ain't nobody scared? Ain't nobody scared. I'm good, I'm good with it. What's up? That's what I want to say. I ain't asking Chuck and Shock the same because we know better. Y'all. Y'all know what Tom. That is all right?

Ernie Johnson, I ain't messing with you. You the godfather, my brother. I love you to death. Ernie will probably slay all of us. But Kenny, I see you, I see you Saturday, Saturday.

I'll be there. I will be there. Now, let me move on.

Let's get to some of the sports headlines, real sports headlines.

I want to begin with Thursday night football.

Last night in San Francisco, the Los Angeles Rams came into town and essentially ended the Niner season, beating them twelve to six. But the biggest headline of the night was what we saw from the NINAS linebacker group, specifically the Andondre Campbell. Campbell was asked to enter the game the two starters, Dre Greenlaw and d Winters were dealing with injuries. Campbell refused to enter the game and then

That is the epitome of abandoning your teammates.

That is the epitome of selling out.

It is unforgivable. His career may be in jeopardy because of this, and no one will defend him.

You see the way George Kittle talked about him, You see the way Javarius Ward talked about him. You think they'd only two that feel that way. Let me tell you something. He's lucky he heard that, because you know what's more conspicuous, what's most palpable, what's more riveting than their words? You see those words by there by George Kittle. I don't like distractions on the sideline. I think that's ignorant, and I think it's just dumb. It's just stupid, and

Again. That's George Kittle, sit all pro tight end.

Do you understand that what he did, where it's really gonna be riveting is with silence.

See those brothers spoke. Ninety nine percent of the.

League is gonna look at him and be like, man, I don't want that dude, that's my Teammate't got nothing to.

Say to him.

They're gonna have the Kyle Shanahan approaching the postseason as postgame news conference last night where he said, why are we talking about him? He's that's history. In other words, he's done. It's over. It's over.

You can't blame Kyle Shanahan.

I don't care what you can say whatever you want. Not before the game is one thing to dress in uniform for the game to be ongoing, and then for you to quit and walk.

Into the locker room.

By refusing to enter the game when called upon in the middle of the game, it's unforgivable. It's unforgivable. Maybe somebody will forgive.

Him, but I doubt it. Listen up, y'all, I love football.

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Let's get to some quick hitters in the headlines that I want to start with. Caitlyn Clarker right, the Indiana Fever star, was named Tom Magazine's Athlete of the Year earlier this week, and she took time to acknowledge that race played the role in her success this year. Here's a passage from the article in Times magazine quote. I want to say I've earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege.

A lot of those players.

In the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has been kind of been built on them. The more we can appreciate that highlight that talk about that, I think it's very important.

I have to continue to try to change that.

The more we can elevate black women, that's going to be a beautiful thing end quote. You see why I had no problem with her being Times Athlete of the Year. You see why I said that she should have been on Team USA.

You see why I.

Had to go off on the likes of Ryl Swoops and others who were clearly distant and dismissed and dismissive of her. No matter how much they try to deny it, there was resentment towards her.

And here's why I said it was stupid because when.

She came into into the w NBA for twenty two plus years, they had been flying commercial. They were begging for chartered flights. She arrives there and two weeks later they got chartered flights. She automatically and instantaneously improved the conditions.

Attendance is still lagging.

WNBA is still losing money compared to what you would hope it would earn, but clearly things are upward trending trajectory. It's improving and she has everything to do with it. Attendance for Indiana Fever games Are you kidding me? MWNBA draft games on ABC, ESPN television ratings.

She's directly responsible and people were resenting.

Her for it, like she was the cause of the problems that they had for the lack of recognition. No, she just happened to be born white, that's it. Caitlin Clark hasn't spoken against anybody. She has an assistant in denying anybody else the privileges they deserve. If anything, she's tried to provide assistance. A rising tide lifts all boats. She's trying to be the rising tide that lifts the boats.

They saved the vendom for those who wouldn't.

You don't run away from people who support you, You run to them, especially when they're in a better position than you to help you. But it still seems like people are slow their way to a form of progressive thinking that enables them to appreciate the Caitlin Clarks of the.

World instead of resenting.

Her, which means, as always, no matter how far we've come, we still have a ways to go. Quick hit the number two takes us to Tempe, Arizona, where Bronnie James played in his first road game for the South Bay Lakers and had a career night. The Lakers rookie scored a game high thirty points and thirteen of twenty three shooting as the South Bay Lakers fell to the Valley Suns,

Be just fine.

For our last quick hit, I want to give major props to Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes, Hunter, who's a favorite to win the Heisman this weekend. Last night, at the thirty fourth Annual College Football Award Show on ESPN took home four count them four big awards. He won the Associated Press Football Player of the Year, receiving twenty six to forty three votes Thursday from a panel

Receiver in the country. He clearly should win the Heisman.

That kid from Boise State, that running back ain't no joke though, But I'm Travis Hunter all day, every day, no questioning. He deserves the Heisman, and I hope he gets it. I'm proud of him. Four point oh GPA, special kids, special talent, great head on his shoulders, wishing him nothing but the best. He really deserves it. I'm really happy for him. But let's not stop there. Close the deal. Give that brother the Heisman. He's earned it.

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I want to get into some politics before we get on out of here, as we've now enter the final month of Joe Biden's presidency, and for the sake of argument, it hasn't been a good one. The Democrats lost to White House, Senate and House in November into November election. Meanwhile, this week, FBI Director Christopher Ray announced plans to resign at the end of the body administration as President elect

The Justice Department says only three of.

Its twenty six informants president had been instructed to observe potential domestic terrorist suspects on the day of the riot. The rest of the twenty three appeared to have gone to the capital on their own accord. Upon hearing news of the report, Vice President elect JD. Vance posted the following on X quote for those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy thirty months ago.

End quote.

So twenty three folks for the FBI win the crowd, and we're just finding that out. Didn't hear anything about that for the election. Didn't hear anything about that when the quote unquote insurrection was broached by Vice President. Kamala Harris is a Democratic nominee by President Biden. Before her, by Democrats in both the House and the Senate, as they articulated the belief that Donald Trump was a danger to democracy and using this as a profound, illuminating bullet point.

To make that case.

And now here we are yet again finding even more evidence to Donald Trump's claims when he articulated that process is rigged the Democrats or this, or that they're talking about us, but look at what they do. We don't know all the details. It's a report Justice Department comes

Where's it? Where the money go? Why was Oprah given too and a half million?

Why was our Shopton's National Action that we're giving that much money before interviews? By the way, why I think it was five hundred k for the National Action Network.

Why?

I want to be clear, I.

Don't have any problem with the National Action Network taking that money because.

They don't have a lot of money.

I have more of a problem with Oprah taking two and a half million when she's worth over a billion.

But speaking to.

Us as if and Soul were so immersed in supporting Kamala Harris, then why didn't you do it for free?

I'm just asking.

I'm just asking these things because I think it's important and I think that the.

Time has arrived where we have to stop.

Letting stuff go all the time, particularly when it comes to the left. I mean, I see Republicans like Megan Kelly or Officer Tatum or a Canvas Owens or you know, the showing Hannities of the world that you.

Know what I'm getting tired of. I'm getting you know what I'm.

Getting to the Democratic Party, you know what I'm getting really.

Pissed off about. I'm getting really ticked off.

And every time they open their mouth about something pertaining to y'all, they seem right.

I would love to argue with Sean Handedy.

How can I Do you know what Sean Handedy used to do to me when I told him Kamala Harris had a chance. He'd laugh, like literally genuinely giggle. He'd go on TV and put on his straight face to.

Y'all, I've got to be concerned this selection can go either way, he laughed. He wasn't concerned about.

Her before I called out Biden. He was calling Biden sleepy Joe. What's percolating on social media today? Just go and look at it, y'all. Joe Biden is caught.

Napping at an African summit in Angola.

For at least a full minute. They didn't say whether he was snoring or not. That's about all I was missing, but he was clearly sleep.

I'm not going to pardon my son.

I want to say for the record, I have no problem with him pardoning, pardoning Hunter Bidy.

I had a problem with.

Him trying to act like it was unjust what was being done in pursuit of getting after my son. Because they wanted to get to me. All you had to say was I'm pardoning my son because he's my son. You couldn't just say that, though. You know why you couldn't say that, President Biden, because you had been telling us you it was the last.

Thing that you were you were you were going to do.

And why did you say that? Why they karn Jean Pierre. Remember as she said, he will absolutely not pardon his son. It's all over social media right now. They kept saying that, it's everywhere. How many times did the Democrats tell us. No one's above the law. No one's above the law. No one's above the law.

Anti Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Elizabeth.

Warren, who makes you feel like your soul is going to hell if you don't agree to what her inconsistency after inconsistency after inconsistency. We can argue policies, we can argue politics all day long. But the Democrats worked really, really diligently to make the case that the right had a monopoly on insidious, evil tendencies, corrupt tendencies, duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies. And every time they made those accusations, turn around and find out that at least some of them

Think about that. He didn't just get to raise his fist on election night as a victor.

He's been raising it every night ever since for one different issue after another that he keeps winning because he keeps highlighting what they lied about.

I'm sick of it. I have nothing to say, enjoy y'all weekend.

I gotta get to Vegas for the Emirate Cup semi finals in the National basket Ball Association, and outside of that, I'm just sick of all of this and I'm sick of a lot of people, so I'm just gonna shut up for the rest of the weekend.

Y'all have a nice night.

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