LeBron James ATTACKS Stephen A. Smith ｜ Candace Ep 156
Summary
LeBron James Jr. is the son of former NBA player and current Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, who was drafted by the Lakers in 2010 at the age of 17. In this episode, Candice talks about the circumstances surrounding his entry into the NBA, and whether or not it was through nepotism.
Transcript
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All right, guys, it's Friday and LeBron James appears to have officially lost the thread.
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He doesn't want people to notice that his son is not performing well at the NBA level,
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at the big league level, which, by the way, should come as a shock to nobody, because
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like I noticed, many people have noticed this, his son wasn't performing well before the
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Apparently, he freaked out because no one's allowed to criticize his son.
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And so he freaked out on Stephen A. Smith courtside.
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Also, yes, you guys, I have seen your emails and your tags on X regarding the Daily Wire
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co-CEO Jeremy Boring's tweet, which people are reasonably inferring to be about me and
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So I'm, of course, going to give you my response to that tweet.
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You never want to be the father at the Little League game that runs into the middle of the
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field and starts screaming at the ump over a bad call because it's just Little League,
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bro, it's not going to make or break anybody's life.
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And I always think about that, you know, as my kids and how they have so many of them
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And ironically, just a couple of days ago, I signed my four-year-old up for T-Ball.
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And I said to my husband, I signed him up for T-Ball.
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You are not allowed to be that father at the T-Ball game.
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And he seriously, my husband, asked me, what is T-Ball?
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These are like these fun moments of English and American marriages because obviously my
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And beyond that, I want to say this to parents.
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Please do not pressure your children to do what you are doing in life, OK?
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That is to say that some rather mediocre people can birth individuals that go on to do great
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And some great people can birth people that go on to do mediocre things.
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And what people want and desire out of life is very different.
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So in case you are not a sports person like me, I'll say that right at the top, I'm not
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Let's just discuss the facts regarding Bronny James, LeBron James Jr.
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And I want to be clear here that it was entirely an act of sheer nepotism that brought him into
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So for clarity, he, I would say LeBron James, sort of wanted to sketch his firstborn son
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And early on, by the way, I mean, this kid was like 10 years old and he was playing basketball.
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And LeBron James spoke about how he was getting all of these offers and it was sort of inappropriate.
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From the business side of things, for a bunch of colleges to be wanting to draft him, makes
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The marketing potential to have LeBron James Jr. is there.
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So there is a business consideration of saying, like, honestly, just having you here, no matter
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how great you are or maybe you're just average, it doesn't matter because there is, like I
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Bronny, of course, did play basketball in high school.
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Like, he's not a bad player by any stretch of an imagination.
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He averaged around 14 points per game at the high school level.
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And for those of you, for those of us, rather, who remember high school and sheer lead, like
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if you were making the scoring 14 points per game at that level, you're good.
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Again, not exactly a necessary free ride to the NBA.
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In fact, for comparison, his father, LeBron James, averaged 31.6 points in his senior year
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Kobe Bryant averaged 30.8 points in high school.
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He's one of those stories that, like, you know, he kind of went up from there.
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He plays basketball and he's good at playing basketball.
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And I'm sure he was very fun to watch when he was in high school.
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Beyond high school, he played just one season at USC.
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Now, you guys don't remember the press on this.
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He had like that cardiac arrest, terrible event.
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And right when he was beginning to play for USC, then he got better and he was able to
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But he averaged during those games, he averaged less than five points per game.
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In his lone season at USC at the collegiate level, he averaged less than five points per
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And that was apparently all the NBA needed to see.
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OK, I want to be clear here that not even LeBron James can deny what happened.
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Next was an act of sheer nepotism, because in 2022, LeBron James told The Athletic, quote,
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I would do whatever it takes to play with my son for one year.
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Me, LeBron James, the dad, the father, this is my dream.
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I just want that moment of playing with my son.
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I love a little, you know, daddy and me fairy tale of playing together.
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But to pretend that he didn't say that, to pretend that didn't happen, to pretend that
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there was no consideration for the Lakers or any team that was looking at LeBron James
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that like he is saying that no matter what, this must happen or he's not going to play.
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You're just now you're just gaslighting the public.
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OK, sure enough, in 2024, Bronny signed a four year, $7.9 million contract with the
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And if you're wondering if there were other motivations with that pick, well, I can tell
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He was picked on the very same day that LeBron James agreed to an extension with the Los
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Angeles Lakers, that making them the first father son duo in the history of the NBA.
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They didn't care about the practicality, the potential movies that will be written, the
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movie scripts that could be written in the future.
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They didn't really care so much about the facts in that moment.
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I'm saying, again, LeBron James's dad's dream was realized in October when on the opening
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day of the Lakers season, he was able to play with his son.
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And the headlines of that moment met the emotions of the moment.
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Here was the press coverage on that day via the Associated Press, quote, LeBron James and
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Bronny James became the first father and son to play in the NBA together Tuesday night
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LeBron and Bronny checked into the game together with four minutes left in the second quarter,
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prompting a big ovation from a home crowd aware of the enormity of the milestone.
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LeBron had already started the game and he had played 13 minutes before he teamed up
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Obviously, LeBron James is the 39 year old top scorer in NBA history, while LeBron James
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Jr. was a second round pick from the Lakers last summer.
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As I said, they reiterated in these articles that they were the first father and son to
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play in the world's top basketball league at the same time, let alone on the same team,
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The facts always eventually catch up with the feelings.
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The dream, so to speak, catches up with reality.
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Of course, people are going to note that your son is just not you at some point and that
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you're basically sort of deluding yourself by pretending that your son is as amazing and
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worthy of playing alongside you in the big league.
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Now, I should be clear that Bronny is playing primarily for the Lakers G League team, the
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And those of you that don't know much about that, it's essentially like the minor league
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team where you're supposed to develop your skills and potentially play for the big league
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They can call up their G League players if they need them.
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And at the G League level, Bronny, he's playing great.
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I think he's something like the number four scorer overall on the G team roster.
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But what makes Bronny unusual is how much playtime he is getting on the Lakers team.
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If you want to play in the big leagues, then you're going to have to deal with big league
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You don't get to say, well, my daddy's LeBron James.
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And he says I shouldn't have to listen to any criticism at all.
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So recently on January 28th, Bronny played again for the Lakers alongside his father against
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And he played for 15 minutes straight and he did not score a single point.
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Smith, it's sort of this unspoken rule that even in the world of sports commentating, you're
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Smith obviously has been a sports commentator forever.
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He said that he started getting a ton of text messages from people who were like, you can't
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You can't question because he's looking at the situation going.
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Of course, there's going to be criticism and you can't just cry your way out of this.
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If you do not score a single point in 15 minutes, it's open season.
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Smith said specifically that eventually sets LeBron James off.
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I am not a person that had a problem with Bronny James being on the court for the season
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That was a phenomenal moment to see a father on the court with his son who has NBA aspirations
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playing together for the first time in NBA history.
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The Griffey's in baseball, Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. were in attendance for it.
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My position has always been that should have been the only moment we saw Bronny James in
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a Lakers uniform this season because he's not ready.
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I'm not here to tell you that he won't be ready.
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I'm not here to tell you that he won't be an NBA player.
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I'm not here to tell you that he should give up his dreams and his aspirations.
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And because it's not the case yet, and then you see some of these numbers, I do find myself
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looking at LeBron James instead of Bronny James because LeBron is the basketball savant.
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LeBron is one of the top two greatest players in the history of the game.
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LeBron has forgotten more basketball than most people would know.
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So no matter what we think about Bronny, he knows more.
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Ladies and gentlemen, he's averaging 0.3 points, 0.3 assists, and 0.4 rebounds.
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He shot 1-for-16 from the field in his NBA career, and 0-for-7 from three-point range.
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And he's playing in the first quarter of an NBA game?
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And everybody wants to look at it, and LeBron has nothing to do with that.
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Yeah, he didn't tell J.J. Reddick to put him in the game.
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And by the way, I should clarify, he played in the first quarter.
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So he didn't start, but he played in the first quarter.
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You play 15 minutes in a game, and you don't score anything.
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And even if you say, like, somebody can have a bad night, that's fine.
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But you have to allow sports commentators to do their jobs, okay?
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Nobody says to Tom Brady when he was playing as a QB, if he had a terrible game.
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Well, he's just, you can't say anything about him.
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Because this is who his dad, it's pointedly ridiculous.
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Again, if you are trying to make the argument, LeBron, that your son is ready to play in the big leagues, that he has to be ready to deal with the criticism, okay?
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He wants to cry and spike his ball and go home.
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He's a big old man crying like a baby, trying to protect the feelings of his son.
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And so last night, LeBron James decided to thug Stephen A. Smith on the courtside of a Lakers game.
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Stephen A. Smith was sitting courtside with Ari Emanuel.
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Yes, that Ari Emanuel from the Justin Baloney Baldoni.
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And he found a moment and decided, like, I saw that clip and now I'm going to approach you.
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If you are listening to this on audio, you'll have to go watch it on YouTube or on Rumble.
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But I'm going to just show you the clip and I'll talk over it.
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You can see he's very angry and the social media has determined, you know, these experts lip readers.
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And it does look like he says exactly this, that he told him, keep my son out of this ish, bro.
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So, like, he pulled the Will Smith to Stephen A. Smith.
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And that obviously is meant to be intimidating.
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And if you are saying keep my son out of this ish, then your son should not be in this ish.
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If you think he can't handle the criticism that he should not be on the court.
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OK, so this is a scenario where you have this angry dad because his son isn't good enough.
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And now you're blaming the umps, you're blaming the referees, you're blaming Stephen A. Smith for noticing that your son didn't do anything.
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And it's also kind of this archetype of a guilty dad.
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Like the reason why he is so angry, usually when people are expressing anger, it's because you're hitting upon a truth, right?
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He heard and recognized those words to be true.
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And he knows that his son is going to hear these words and recognize that it's true.
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And how foolish to say or to suggest that, well, he's not making the calls.
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No, he's just the one who essentially said, I won't even play.
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I won't even play unless I'm able to play alongside my son.
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That meant more to me than playing alongside my son.
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You did something that was selfish because you wanted it.
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And now your son is dealing with the brunt of your decision making.
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Dave Portnoy, I thought, summed this up quite brilliantly on X when he tweeted this.
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His dad created an impossible situation for him.
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I just hope his dad's insatiable ego doesn't ruin his love for this beautiful game.
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Bronny doesn't actually deserve any of this heat.
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It is an insatiable ego that put your son in this circumstance in the first place.
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Pretend my son is brilliant at this game to make me happy in my final years on the court.
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You can be mad at me all you want because that's okay.
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Bronny James, this situation with LeBron James and what his father has done via nepotism is
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actually living, breathing proof as to why conservatives believe that affirmative action doesn't work.
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When you give people opportunities or put them into circumstances that they haven't actually
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earned, when it's not a meritocracy and you force someone into a position that they haven't
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actually earned and you artificially place them into places that they don't belong, disaster
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This was the book that I read, White Guilt by Shelby Steele, How Blacks and Whites Together
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And at this time, I was liberal and started to get conservative interested and wanted to
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at least read and learn more about the arguments because, oh, how could you disagree with affirmative
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And then he put it so succinctly when he was describing this time period, and I'm paraphrasing
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here, and I hope it's Shelby Steele and not a Thomas Sow book that I read that I'm confusing
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But essentially, he was an adjunct professor at Cornell University.
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And he noticed that all of these black kids were on academic probation.
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He went to go investigate, like, why are all of these black students on academic probation?
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And what he learned was that while these students were some of the most brilliant in the entire
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nation, because of affirmative action, they were placed into schools that they wouldn't
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So you force them to be at Cornell University, and they're competing now with peers that aren't
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Whereas if you had allowed them to be where they're supposed to be, maybe they would have
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been at a different university that wasn't Ivy League, they would have been at the top
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So it's exactly what's happening with Bronny, right?
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You've artificially placed him amongst a group of people that he's not supposed to be
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And so for him, he walks away and he feels like a failure.
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And it just completely deflates these individuals.
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And Shelby Steele, when he investigated this, he was speaking about how so many of these kids
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But imagine if they went to like the University of Rhode Island, they would have been like
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graduating cum laude and would have been like, yeah, I'm amazing and would have had the confidence
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Because like I said, he assessed that they were something like in the top 90 percentile
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of all students, but were artificially placed at Cornell University where they were failing
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His father, rather, LeBron James, is making this mistake.
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He is actually harming his son, giving his son this like deflated sense that he doesn't
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deserve because he's actually a good basketball player.
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He's just not ready and never has been ready to be in the NBA.
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And then there's this, by the way, I want to say this.
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If you are going to make the argument that your child does deserve to be there still,
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LeBron James, you should know that when you do something like that, it makes it 10
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That's like daddy saying, like, we're rich and powerful and you will do and say and
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give my son the grades that he deserves, even though he doesn't deserve them.
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And now he's got to go back to the G League team.
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And what do you think that how that how that feels when the dad freaks out at the Little
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League game and he yells at someone, the commentator, the whoever it is?
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What do you how do you think that child feels when he goes amongst his playmates after that?
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He feels like everybody is looking at him like, oh, well, you know, I would correct your
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game, but I don't want your daddy to yell at me.
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That's this is just the price of success and fame.
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And if you think about this trade off, I don't even really even feel bad for Bronny.
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He's even in the NBA because of his remarkable privilege.
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And so if the worst thing you think your son has to deal with in life is a little bit
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of criticism, then you are way too privileged, LeBron James.
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I mean, like there's like real life happening outside of the NBA.
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He will survive Stephen A. Smith criticizing him rightfully.
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So this if this is his cross to bear in life, your father is so famous that people are noticing
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that you don't belong in the room that your father put you in.
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And Bronny, I hope you were able to get out of this situation in some regard and just know
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that I agree with everybody saying that the issue really is your father.
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And you shouldn't allow this to make you think that you're not that you don't have
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And secondly, you shouldn't allow this to make you hate the game or dislike the game
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or want to run away from the game because you were good.
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You just didn't need daddy to give you a leg up in life.
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Speaking of not spiking your ball and going home, obviously, I have endured and seen all
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of your tweets and your videos and the journalists and the reporters, which are calling out this
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tweet that went out from Jeremy Boring, who I used to work for at The Daily Wire.
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So just to back this up, obviously, I was promoting yesterday on the show for whatever.
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This was just obviously just the way it worked out.
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But I did Theo Vaughn's show, which was hilarious and very fun.
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And at the same time running parallel to that, Ian Carroll did Joe Rogan's podcast.
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And people began connecting the dots here because obviously with absolutely no coordination at
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all between the parties, both of these podcasts were released within hours of each other.
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And a very small portion of my conversation was about Israel.
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And I would say a larger portion, but again, not the majority of the conversation was about
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And so some people who have an allegiance to Israel that maybe disagree with that position
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or a point were not happy about these podcasts, which were sort of dominating the conversation
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And Jeremy Boring, the co-CEO of The Daily Wire, tweeted this.
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Yesterday was a terrible day for American Jews.
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The embrace by so many prominent voices of demented, conspiratorial, anti-Jewish voices is one
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of the saddest, most alarming events in my lifetime.
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But this way lies madness and worse than madness.
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Audience capture and unchecked tribalism are tools of the devil.
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Even if they really are out to get you, heck, even a righteous cause can lead us to evil if
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The wicked often prosper and the temptation to prosper often tempts us to join them.
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And he already became for us the only Jewish scapegoat for our sin and fear.
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I'm going to consistently be a believer in the free markets and in free speech.
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And what I will say is that some people read that and it perhaps resonated with them and
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And if you want more of that content, you should follow Jeremy Boring on X and follow him in
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You know, I think our conversations, and again, I think it was rational to assume that these
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Like my personal opinion is the podcast between Ian and Joe Rogan was super interesting and
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But he seemed really excited in a way that I haven't seen him in a while because they
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were just speaking about ideas, even like just kind of like the permission to think
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And I know that something like 1.5 million of you, maybe more today, that was yesterday,
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And I just want to focus on what I am putting out there.
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I want you guys to follow Jeremy Boring for more of those considerations.
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And if you would rather, or at the same time, he doesn't even need to be in either or.
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If you want to watch my stuff and Theo Vaughn's stuff, I want you to be open to do that too.
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I thought we had a really good time on Theo Vaughn's podcast.
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And I think Ian Carroll had a great time on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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And so just to share another clip of the Theo Vaughn podcast, because again,
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I am about putting out there what I like and what I believe in.
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And I got to tell you, sometimes McDonald's slaps.
00:28:34.840
And I didn't realize how absolutely hilarious this clip was of Theo Vaughn until after the fact,
00:28:39.220
because his brain works in very mysterious ways.
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He just says a lot of stuff that's super funny.
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And one of the things was me asking him about what his order is at McDonald's.
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I need to know, what's your meal at McDonald's?
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Me, I do a double hamburger, which isn't on the menu, but you can get it with pickles and ketchup.
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If Big Mac himself is back there, I'll take a couple ounces.
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Yeah, it's kind of sad though, but I'll tell you this.
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And that's what he used to call my sister, little milk jug.
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He's the only person that's ever, that's what we used to call my sister, little milk jug.
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Nobody in the history of McDonald's ever got the milk jug but Theo Vaughn.
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Because they only have like 10 because no one orders them.
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So if you order more than two, they've been sitting in the freaking-
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Do you have a double cheeseburger with a double milk jug?
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Why did they call his sister a little milk jug?
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Actually, my producer told me that there was a tweet on the internet.
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But they said, Theo Vaughn utters at least one sentence a day that has never been uttered
00:30:43.820
And I think that pretty much sums up Theo Vaughn.
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Like, I probably eat McDonald's once a year traveling or something, but I would not order
00:30:52.920
And I find that to be more problematic than anything.
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And I think we've got to get to the bottom of why he is ordering milk jugs at McDonald's.
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Anyways, you guys all love, and I hope you guys enjoy that full episode.
00:31:05.580
Moving on now, Blake Lively is going to have to deliver her pound of flesh for a simple
00:31:13.160
And this is going to be very interesting to watch.
00:31:15.940
I think already, obviously, her PR team is trying to make it look like she's a victim
00:31:24.560
She popped up on an A-list red carpet to an event that she was not required to be at
00:31:36.600
So this is kind of trying to make the public feel bad.
00:31:39.380
Like, oh, my gosh, she now has anxiety about going out in the public.
00:31:43.080
And like I said, sometimes your actions have to meet up with your consequences.
00:31:49.880
And then you just introduce them and go, yeah, hey, we actually are kind of related.
00:31:54.420
And so the Daily Mail is running this headline saying that she's terrified.
00:31:57.680
She's absolutely terrified, you guys, ahead of the simple favor premiere.
00:32:02.780
The insiders, otherwise known as her PR firm, are wanting people to know that she's terrified.
00:32:08.160
But what's interesting is thinking about how this is going to harm Anna Kendrick.
00:32:14.820
And essentially, and I've actually been reading this, Anna Kendrick is very upset with how this
00:32:19.740
Obviously, she knows it's going to impact the success of the movie, something that she
00:32:24.980
And she basically is upset because Blake Lively apparently fought for top billing in this film.
00:32:33.140
And these are things that we don't even consider as the public.
00:32:35.200
But even when you see a movie poster, that's a fight between people of who's going to be
00:32:39.020
on the movie poster, who's going to be presented as a star of this film, what level are they
00:32:42.840
going to be on, how small is the picture going to be on.
00:32:45.180
And now that we know that Blake Lively is quite aggressive in general during these movie
00:32:49.220
negotiations, it was revealed that she was similarly aggressive about the Simple Favor,
00:32:54.260
too, and she wanted to be featured prominently.
00:32:56.280
And I'm sure maybe she would have had a different opinion about that if she had known which way
00:33:00.900
the Justin Baldoni suit was going to go in terms of the public.
00:33:04.780
But she is indeed now due to you want to be front facing, you have to be front facing.
00:33:09.880
And she is going to have to walk the red carpet.
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They will prepare for that a million different ways.
00:33:17.560
They will tell journalists what they can and cannot ask.
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Her PR firm will only walk her up to certain friendly journalists.
00:33:25.100
So this apprehension is kind of, like I said, just trying to make people feel bad.
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And like, I think it's kind of perfect karma that now there's this apparent friction between
00:33:34.120
her and Anna Kendrick, like friction with real friction with her co-star, because she wanted
00:33:40.360
Blake Lively to address her ongoing battle with Baldoni.
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And she could have pulled out of this lawsuit a long time ago.
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There obviously now is this big elephant that's in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.
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And they're going to walk this red carpet and not acknowledge it.
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Unless, of course, Ryan Reynolds walks the red carpet with her and makes a couple of Ryan
00:34:01.380
Reynolds jokes, a couple of Deadpool jokes in his perfect style.
00:34:05.680
My guess is she's not going to bring them because he's almost more disliked than she
00:34:09.180
is and that her promo game is just to pretend that she's really scared of the public now
00:34:14.600
when she was the person who initially wanted all of this to be publicized because she was
00:34:18.900
so confident in her power and her husband's power when it came down to It Ends With Us.
00:34:23.260
Speaking of which, a filing which the public is not reporting on just yet.
00:34:27.380
And it looks like Justin's team has responded now to Sloan PR.
00:34:33.800
So Sloan PR, just to bring you up that chart again, is the PR firm that has been repping
00:34:38.560
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for like a decade, which made those text messages that Ryan Reynolds
00:34:50.040
I won't do or say anything about Justin Baldoni.
00:34:58.300
It looks totally like doctored messages ahead of them dropping the New York Times article
00:35:02.300
so that they could say they had nothing to do with it.
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Obviously, it looks like they had plenty to do with it.
00:35:09.840
And if you're paying attention to these legal arguments that are being made, they're essentially
00:35:13.400
making this argument that like trade secrets could be exposed if they were subpoenaed.
00:35:18.400
And Brian Friedman's team has been like, what trade secrets are you so concerned are going
00:35:24.440
Like the trade secret that you helped plant an article in the New York Times and it was
00:35:30.020
Is it going to be like trade secrets of text messages between you and Blake and speaking
00:35:35.920
Like, what are we going to see that are the trade secrets that are going to be exposed?
00:35:38.900
So they have been trying to quietly exit this lawsuit by basically saying, we're not needed
00:35:45.240
And it's like, actually, this entire lawsuit, as Judge Lehman accurately pointed out yesterday,
00:35:52.500
I'm saying this, obviously, with absolutely no authority.
00:35:55.360
But like I said, judging on his statements yesterday, Judge Lehman saying that this is coming
00:36:00.560
I highly doubt that they are going to allow them to wiggle their way out of this, nor should
00:36:05.440
And so in their response to Leslie saying, we want to be dropped from this because we're
00:36:11.320
She keeps making these weird, feminist, weak arguments.
00:36:16.640
They wrote the conspirators referring to first aim to win plaintiff Blake Lively total control
00:36:24.580
He's like, Leslie Sloan, you are implicated in trying to get her the control that she wanted
00:36:30.520
It ends with us by means of extortionate threats to go public with her baseless claims of sexual
00:36:40.580
Having seized complete creative control over the film and its marketing, Lively had only
00:36:44.920
herself and her publicist, Leslie Sloan and Sloan's company, Vision PR Incorporated, to
00:36:50.020
blame when her disastrously tone-deaf marketing efforts for the film plowed her public reputation
00:36:57.040
In a desperate effort to salvage Lively's reputation and to escape her wrath, the Sloan
00:37:01.280
parties conspired with Lively and consolidated defendants Ryan Reynolds and the New York Times
00:37:06.340
company to make scapegoats of the Wayfair parties for Lively's woes.
00:37:10.680
On information and belief, the Sloan parties worked for months to drop breadcrumbs and hints
00:37:14.860
of sinister allegations to the public while secretly feeding defamatory falsehoods to any
00:37:19.580
reporter who would listen, including Megan Toohey of the New York Times.
00:37:22.800
As a direct result of the actions of the Sloan parties and their co-conspirators, the Wayfarer
00:37:30.780
The reputations are destroyed, their businesses lie in tatters, and their own film was taken
00:37:35.520
These are the facts underpinning the Wayfarer parties' allegations against the Sloan parties,
00:37:39.640
and this is what the evidence will prove at trial.
00:37:41.460
The motion should therefore be denied in its entirety, or in the alternative, the court
00:37:46.540
should grant the Wayfarer parties leave to amend their first amendment complaint and allow
00:37:50.920
them to move forward withholding the Sloan parties to account for their part in Lively's
00:37:58.180
It would be insane to let them out of this lawsuit, and they are correct.
00:38:03.300
It's how the public even found out that there was drama.
00:38:05.480
Um, and Leslie Sloan has very strong connections at TMZ at Page Six, and she basically planted
00:38:13.780
I'm, that's what it looks like to me, that, uh, people didn't like him on sets, and there
00:38:19.300
was a reason that everybody had mass unfollowed him in the Taylor Swift move, and that there
00:38:26.840
All of that was happening leading up to it, and there's no way that Blake Lively was communicating
00:38:32.000
That's the reason that you have a PR firm in the first place.
00:38:36.840
I think Brian Friedman's team has made a very strong argument for why they shouldn't be
00:38:40.660
dropped, but we will continue to monitor all of that.
00:38:45.320
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I gave up processed sugar and bread for the Catholics out there.
00:40:08.020
And also, I am giving up my phone on Saturday evenings until Sunday.
00:40:13.560
It's like my very own Shabbat because I think that's healthy.
00:40:16.360
I think it's good to just kind of zone out for a little bit.
00:40:18.700
And that's something that I'm giving up that will actually add value to my life.
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And it was really hard for me to fast on Lent, but I did it.
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I was very proud of myself, like trying to get a pregnant person to fast.
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Intelligent Observer writes, I love how LeBron is worshipped like a god, but Catholics are demonized
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Only a matter of time until his many NDAs come to light and we see how much of a saint he really
00:40:47.660
You know, my commentary on LeBron James is the same on Taylor Swift and the same on all
00:40:57.840
You can, you know, hate the player, but you can't hate the game.
00:41:01.060
Or in this circumstance, I guess I'm saying you can hate the game, but you can't hate the
00:41:07.300
But I think he also suffers from arrested development.
00:41:09.660
Like he was literally taken out of high school and turned into a star and everyone started calling
00:41:16.820
You don't want to just be like called the king from the time you're 18 years old.
00:41:20.300
And I think it's gone a little bit to his head.
00:41:23.700
I mean, even making those statements of like, this is what I'm going to do and I'm going
00:41:35.400
I am a monarch and I will get whatever it is that I want.
00:41:40.180
And now he wants to back out and pretend that he didn't do that.
00:41:42.400
But like I said, the comments, you can go through them.
00:41:47.980
But that's what happens when you just have too much power.
00:41:51.380
It is so important in life for people to tell you no.
00:41:54.880
That's why I say having toddlers is such a humbling experience, right?
00:41:58.300
Because they're just so honest all the time and they don't really have no idea what I
00:42:04.740
And it's the only way that I think someone of his, first off, I would say like his physical
00:42:11.320
prowess, his success, his financial prowess is going to be brought back down to earth.
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This is people saying, you know, what the Lakers should have said.
00:42:20.680
We love you, but I'm not just going to offer your son a deal or else you're not going to
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argument about affirmative action, you should really read Clarence Thomas.
00:43:28.440
He has been working hard to get affirmative action overturned for this reason.
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He's not saying Black people don't deserve anything.
00:43:34.440
He is saying you're harming these students who are plenty capable of themselves and then
00:43:38.260
sometimes are so great and would be at the top of their classes somewhere else.
00:43:45.140
Like, Bronny, maybe he just belongs in the G League.
00:43:48.040
And like I said, he's, I think, the number four scorer on his G League team, which is great,
00:43:55.260
That is the whole point, is like, do not deflate their sense of self, their sense of worth for
00:44:04.720
He just doesn't belong playing alongside his father just because of his father's ego.
00:44:10.620
And I hope, genuinely hope that Bronny takes that to heart and that his dad never does
00:44:18.160
He could have been like, can somebody bring him to the locker room?
00:44:22.740
Like he's, like I said, he's just high in his own supply.
00:44:25.520
And he just wanted to go up to him and say something publicly and no one can...
00:44:29.780
And like I said, that's only going to hurt his son more.
00:44:32.180
His son is going to look absolutely ridiculous at the end of that.
00:44:39.820
Yes, I should actually check and see how many of you guys watched that because I forgot
00:44:43.660
But I was grateful because I had such a fun time.
00:44:46.540
And it was, like I said, Theo Vaughn is very funny.
00:44:51.360
Like I said, that's how the free markets works.
00:44:59.460
And I just have to accept that if one day, if I'm in the podcast big leagues, and if one
00:45:05.200
day people don't want that anymore because they don't like what I'm offering, then that's
00:45:16.980
Reminding you guys, if you want to go to canastones.com and support independent journalism, you can
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We should talk about all that, and we do that in the book.
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I never expected so many people to sign up right away, but I love it.
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And then you guys see in the comments here asking, when is the Harvey stuff coming back on
00:46:45.620
the show, I am sorry to have kept you waiting that long.
00:46:48.660
It takes so much time to read through these transcripts.
00:46:51.540
And literally last night, my baby boy got sick, vomited everywhere.
00:46:57.500
You know, they have these like indoor play stuff, things in Tennessee, and they're just
00:47:04.820
And then my youngest son, who's just a year and, gosh, how old, gosh, I was like a year
00:47:17.560
Literally two hours before we went live, guys, I had vomit on my sweater like I was M&M, like
00:47:28.080
You just got to go, OK, everything's got to stop for a little bit.
00:47:31.120
But I promise you on Monday, barring anything crazy that happens over the weekend, I will have
00:47:37.240
We are moving on to Jessica Mann, who is the second person.
00:47:44.940
It just gets every story just gets crazier and crazier.
00:47:47.280
And I maintain my position that Harvey Weinstein was wrongly convicted as an act of social justice
00:47:52.400
for the Me Too movement, not an act of true justice, which is what we fight for here on