Candace Owens - LeBron James ATTACKS Stephen A. Smith ｜ Candace Ep 156

00:00:00.000 All right, guys, it's Friday and LeBron James appears to have officially lost the thread.

00:00:05.660 He doesn't want people to notice that his son is not performing well at the NBA level,

00:00:13.080 at the big league level, which, by the way, should come as a shock to nobody, because

00:00:16.720 like I noticed, many people have noticed this, his son wasn't performing well before the

00:00:21.920 NBA.

00:00:22.540 So this is a little bit of nepotism.

00:00:23.680 We're going to talk about that.

00:00:24.940 Apparently, he freaked out because no one's allowed to criticize his son.

00:00:28.120 No one's allowed to criticize Bronny.

00:00:30.000 And so he freaked out on Stephen A. Smith courtside.

00:00:32.740 And it's trending and it's interesting.

00:00:35.420 Also, yes, you guys, I have seen your emails and your tags on X regarding the Daily Wire

00:00:42.020 co-CEO Jeremy Boring's tweet, which people are reasonably inferring to be about me and

00:00:47.620 Theo Vaughn and Ian Carroll on Joe Rogan.

00:00:50.840 So I'm, of course, going to give you my response to that tweet.

00:00:54.140 All that coming up on Candace.

00:00:56.140 All right, parents, listen up.

00:01:12.880 Listen up, parents.

00:01:13.880 You never want to be the father at the Little League game that runs into the middle of the

00:01:19.000 field and starts screaming at the ump over a bad call because it's just Little League,

00:01:22.840 bro, it's not going to make or break anybody's life.

00:01:26.980 And it's so embarrassing to your child.

00:01:28.840 And I always think about that, you know, as my kids and how they have so many of them

00:01:32.380 are growing up.

00:01:33.640 And ironically, just a couple of days ago, I signed my four-year-old up for T-Ball.

00:01:39.620 And I said to my husband, I signed him up for T-Ball.

00:01:41.580 You're going to take him.

00:01:42.600 But look, you are not allowed to be that guy.

00:01:45.380 You are not allowed to be that father at the T-Ball game.

00:01:48.560 And he seriously, my husband, asked me, what is T-Ball?

00:01:51.940 These are like these fun moments of English and American marriages because obviously my

00:01:56.400 husband watches cricket.

00:01:57.860 I have no idea really what cricket is.

00:01:59.420 And he genuinely had never heard of T-Ball.

00:02:01.800 But of course, he wouldn't be that person.

00:02:04.180 And beyond that, I want to say this to parents.

00:02:06.120 Please do not pressure your children to do what you are doing in life, OK?

00:02:11.360 Greatness cannot necessarily be transferred.

00:02:13.880 Neither, by the way, can mediocrity.

00:02:15.920 That is to say that some rather mediocre people can birth individuals that go on to do great

00:02:21.400 things.

00:02:21.900 And some great people can birth people that go on to do mediocre things.

00:02:25.340 And it's not a problem.

00:02:26.160 Everybody is different.

00:02:27.100 And what people want and desire out of life is very different.

00:02:30.260 So in case you are not a sports person like me, I'll say that right at the top, I'm not

00:02:33.720 a sports person.

00:02:34.460 I'm a common sense person.

00:02:35.600 Let's just discuss the facts regarding Bronny James, LeBron James Jr.

00:02:40.220 That is LeBron James' firstborn son.

00:02:42.900 And I want to be clear here that it was entirely an act of sheer nepotism that brought him into

00:02:49.080 the NBA.

00:02:50.660 So for clarity, he, I would say LeBron James, sort of wanted to sketch his firstborn son

00:02:57.520 in his name and likeness, so to speak.

00:03:00.340 And early on, by the way, I mean, this kid was like 10 years old and he was playing basketball.

00:03:04.940 And LeBron James spoke about how he was getting all of these offers and it was sort of inappropriate.

00:03:09.280 And I want to say two things here.

00:03:10.500 From the business side of things, for a bunch of colleges to be wanting to draft him, makes

00:03:15.200 sense.

00:03:16.000 The marketing potential to have LeBron James Jr. is there.

00:03:19.320 So there is a business consideration of saying, like, honestly, just having you here, no matter

00:03:22.860 how great you are or maybe you're just average, it doesn't matter because there is, like I

00:03:28.220 said, strong brand potential.

00:03:30.280 Bronny, of course, did play basketball in high school.

00:03:32.460 And I want to be clear, he was good.

00:03:33.760 Like, he's not a bad player by any stretch of an imagination.

00:03:36.580 He is good.

00:03:37.020 He averaged around 14 points per game at the high school level.

00:03:41.800 And for those of you, for those of us, rather, who remember high school and sheer lead, like

00:03:45.260 if you were making the scoring 14 points per game at that level, you're good.

00:03:49.440 Again, not exactly a necessary free ride to the NBA.

00:03:53.880 You're not exactly going straight to the NBA.

00:03:55.440 You're nowhere near going straight to the NBA.

00:03:56.860 In fact, for comparison, his father, LeBron James, averaged 31.6 points in his senior year

00:04:04.840 of high school.

00:04:05.560 That's why he was drafted right away.

00:04:06.740 Kobe Bryant averaged 30.8 points in high school.

00:04:10.520 Kyrie Irving, 26.5 points per game.

00:04:14.240 Michael Jordan, 25 points per game.

00:04:16.280 He's one of those stories that, like, you know, he kind of went up from there.

00:04:20.160 And yeah, so, but still 14 points per game.

00:04:23.240 There's no reason to hate.

00:04:24.000 He plays basketball and he's good at playing basketball.

00:04:27.160 And I'm sure he was very fun to watch when he was in high school.

00:04:30.320 Beyond high school, he played just one season at USC.

00:04:35.400 Now, you guys don't remember the press on this.

00:04:37.440 He had like that cardiac arrest, terrible event.

00:04:39.740 And right when he was beginning to play for USC, then he got better and he was able to

00:04:47.000 play, I think, something like 26 games.

00:04:49.640 But he averaged during those games, he averaged less than five points per game.

00:04:57.280 In his lone season at USC at the collegiate level, he averaged less than five points per

00:05:02.360 game.

00:05:02.960 And that was apparently all the NBA needed to see.

00:05:05.640 OK, I want to be clear here that not even LeBron James can deny what happened.

00:05:09.660 Next was an act of sheer nepotism, because in 2022, LeBron James told The Athletic, quote,

00:05:15.540 my last year will be played with my son.

00:05:20.000 Wherever Bronny is at, that's where I will be.

00:05:23.060 I would do whatever it takes to play with my son for one year.

00:05:28.160 It's not about the money at that point.

00:05:30.580 So what is he saying?

00:05:31.660 He is saying, this is my dream.

00:05:34.320 Me, LeBron James, the dad, the father, this is my dream.

00:05:37.200 I don't even care about the money.

00:05:38.960 I just want that moment of playing with my son.

00:05:41.760 And sure, that's sweet.

00:05:43.160 OK, I love a little fairy tale.

00:05:45.240 I love a little, you know, daddy and me fairy tale of playing together.

00:05:48.460 But to pretend that he didn't say that, to pretend that didn't happen, to pretend that

00:05:52.120 there was no consideration for the Lakers or any team that was looking at LeBron James

00:05:57.280 that like he is saying that no matter what, this must happen or he's not going to play.

00:06:01.680 It's a nonsense.

00:06:02.580 You're just now you're just gaslighting the public.

00:06:04.080 OK, sure enough, in 2024, Bronny signed a four year, $7.9 million contract with the

00:06:12.040 Los Angeles Lakers.

00:06:13.440 He was the 55th pick of the NBA draft.

00:06:17.340 And if you're wondering if there were other motivations with that pick, well, I can tell

00:06:21.340 you this.

00:06:21.640 He was picked on the very same day that LeBron James agreed to an extension with the Los

00:06:27.620 Angeles Lakers, that making them the first father son duo in the history of the NBA.

00:06:34.100 And to be clear, that's what that was about.

00:06:35.740 It was it was the story.

00:06:37.800 They wanted the story.

00:06:38.940 They didn't care about the practicality, the potential movies that will be written, the

00:06:43.340 movie scripts that could be written in the future.

00:06:45.700 They wanted the feelings.

00:06:47.380 They didn't really care so much about the facts in that moment.

00:06:49.760 By any means necessary.

00:06:50.760 I don't care about the money.

00:06:52.160 I want to make this happen.

00:06:53.200 OK, so LeBron James's dream was realized.

00:06:56.500 I'm saying, again, LeBron James's dad's dream was realized in October when on the opening

00:07:02.160 day of the Lakers season, he was able to play with his son.

00:07:06.660 And the headlines of that moment met the emotions of the moment.

00:07:10.900 Here was the press coverage on that day via the Associated Press, quote, LeBron James and

00:07:15.880 Bronny James became the first father and son to play in the NBA together Tuesday night

00:07:20.680 during the Los Angeles Lakers season opener.

00:07:23.140 LeBron and Bronny checked into the game together with four minutes left in the second quarter,

00:07:28.120 prompting a big ovation from a home crowd aware of the enormity of the milestone.

00:07:34.120 LeBron had already started the game and he had played 13 minutes before he teamed up

00:07:38.320 with his 20 year old son to make history.

00:07:41.600 OK, beautiful.

00:07:42.940 Love that.

00:07:43.880 Obviously, LeBron James is the 39 year old top scorer in NBA history, while LeBron James

00:07:50.720 Jr. was a second round pick from the Lakers last summer.

00:07:54.560 As I said, they reiterated in these articles that they were the first father and son to

00:07:58.780 play in the world's top basketball league at the same time, let alone on the same team,

00:08:02.760 which is just woof.

00:08:04.380 This is amazing.

00:08:05.680 But here's the thing.

00:08:06.960 The facts always eventually catch up with the feelings.

00:08:10.700 The dream, so to speak, catches up with reality.

00:08:13.380 Of course, people are going to note that your son is just not you at some point and that

00:08:19.380 you're basically sort of deluding yourself by pretending that your son is as amazing and

00:08:24.320 worthy of playing alongside you in the big league.

00:08:28.300 Now, I should be clear that Bronny is playing primarily for the Lakers G League team, the

00:08:33.920 South Bay Lakers.

00:08:35.040 And those of you that don't know much about that, it's essentially like the minor league

00:08:38.240 team where you're supposed to develop your skills and potentially play for the big league

00:08:42.160 one day.

00:08:42.700 They can like the big league.

00:08:45.220 The Lakers can call you up.

00:08:46.640 They can call up their G League players if they need them.

00:08:49.940 And at the G League level, Bronny, he's playing great.

00:08:53.280 Like he's he fits in there at that level.

00:08:56.200 I think he's something like the number four scorer overall on the G team roster.

00:09:01.020 And like I said, that's good.

00:09:02.360 But what makes Bronny unusual is how much playtime he is getting on the Lakers team.

00:09:07.720 OK, Bronny is starting games for the Lakers.

00:09:10.180 He's played thus far in 18 games this season.

00:09:14.360 And here's the rules.

00:09:15.460 Let me tell you how it works.

00:09:16.420 If you want to play in the big leagues, then you're going to have to deal with big league

00:09:21.200 criticism.

00:09:22.080 OK, no one gets to go around that.

00:09:23.800 You don't get to say, well, my daddy's LeBron James.

00:09:26.460 And he says I shouldn't have to listen to any criticism at all.

00:09:29.560 So recently on January 28th, Bronny played again for the Lakers alongside his father against

00:09:34.860 the Philadelphia 76ers.

00:09:36.320 And he played for 15 minutes straight and he did not score a single point.

00:09:40.480 Now, apparently, according to Stephen A.

00:09:42.940 Smith, it's sort of this unspoken rule that even in the world of sports commentating, you're

00:09:47.580 not really allowed to criticize LeBron's son.

00:09:50.220 OK, and Stephen A.

00:09:51.700 Smith obviously has been a sports commentator forever.

00:09:54.180 He told the truth about Bronny's performance.

00:09:56.540 He said that he started getting a ton of text messages from people who were like, you can't

00:10:00.560 do that.

00:10:00.960 You can't question because he's looking at the situation going.

00:10:03.700 Why is his dad putting him through this?

00:10:06.680 You know, he's now at the NBA level.

00:10:08.340 Of course, there's going to be criticism and you can't just cry your way out of this.

00:10:12.240 Your son's going to be criticized.

00:10:13.500 If you do not score a single point in 15 minutes, it's open season.

00:10:18.600 And here is what Stephen A.

00:10:21.160 Smith said specifically that eventually sets LeBron James off.

00:10:24.720 Take a listen.

00:10:25.900 I am not a person that had a problem with Bronny James being on the court for the season

00:10:33.020 opener with LeBron James.

00:10:35.080 That was a phenomenal moment to see a father on the court with his son who has NBA aspirations

00:10:40.820 playing together for the first time in NBA history.

00:10:44.140 The Griffey's in baseball, Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. were in attendance for it.

00:10:48.280 It was a special moment.

00:10:50.360 My position has always been that should have been the only moment we saw Bronny James in

00:10:56.800 a Lakers uniform this season because he's not ready.

00:11:01.200 I'm not here to tell you that he won't be ready.

00:11:04.840 I'm not here to tell you that he won't be an NBA player.

00:11:07.220 I'm not here to tell you that he should give up his dreams and his aspirations.

00:11:11.520 I think the kid's got potential.

00:11:13.000 I think the kid will be in the NBA one day.

00:11:15.080 I watched him in the G League doing his thing.

00:11:17.200 I think he's going to be fine eventually.

00:11:21.440 But that's not the case yet.

00:11:22.980 And because it's not the case yet, and then you see some of these numbers, I do find myself

00:11:32.020 looking at LeBron James instead of Bronny James because LeBron is the basketball savant.

00:11:37.520 LeBron is one of the top two greatest players in the history of the game.

00:11:41.180 LeBron has forgotten more basketball than most people would know.

00:11:44.300 So no matter what we think about Bronny, he knows more.

00:11:50.760 But you see what you see.

00:11:53.940 Bronny James has played in 13 NBA games.

00:11:57.660 Ladies and gentlemen, he's averaging 0.3 points, 0.3 assists, and 0.4 rebounds.

00:12:05.700 He shot 1-for-16 from the field in his NBA career, and 0-for-7 from three-point range.

00:12:16.320 And he's playing in the first quarter of an NBA game?

00:12:23.940 Really?

00:12:26.940 And everybody wants to look at it, and LeBron has nothing to do with that.

00:12:30.260 Yeah, he didn't tell J.J. Reddick to put him in the game.

00:12:33.120 I get all that.

00:12:35.700 But come on!

00:12:40.120 I'm not being cruel to Bronny.

00:12:43.040 I'm looking out!

00:12:47.020 Do you want it this way, LeBron?

00:12:53.480 Totally agree with that commentary.

00:12:55.080 And by the way, I should clarify, he played in the first quarter.

00:12:58.760 So he didn't start, but he played in the first quarter.

00:13:01.620 And the results are disastrous, okay?

00:13:03.720 You play 15 minutes in a game, and you don't score anything.

00:13:06.540 And even if you say, like, somebody can have a bad night, that's fine.

00:13:09.280 But you have to allow sports commentators to do their jobs, okay?

00:13:11.980 You have to allow them to say things.

00:13:13.460 Nobody says to Tom Brady when he was playing as a QB, if he had a terrible game.

00:13:18.220 Well, he's just, you can't say anything about him. 0.96

00:13:20.080 Because this is who his dad, it's pointedly ridiculous. 0.95

00:13:24.300 What are you talking about? 0.65

00:13:25.340 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?

00:13:34.460 That's just how this works.

00:13:36.480 But LeBron James said,

00:13:37.360 No, no one talks about my son.

00:13:41.520 Again, apparently this is an unwritten rule.

00:13:43.960 He wants to cry and spike his ball and go home.

00:13:46.740 That's what LeBron James wants to do.

00:13:48.060 He's like, no one can say anything.

00:13:51.200 I own this league.

00:13:52.380 I've scored so many points.

00:13:55.260 He's just crying like a little baby. 0.99

00:13:57.880 He's just pointedly ridiculous. 1.00

00:13:59.300 He's a big old man crying like a baby, trying to protect the feelings of his son. 1.00

00:14:05.220 What is he learning in life from you?

00:14:08.860 And so last night, LeBron James decided to thug Stephen A. Smith on the courtside of a Lakers game.

00:14:14.300 Stephen A. Smith was sitting courtside with Ari Emanuel.

00:14:18.500 Yes, that Ari Emanuel from the Justin Baloney Baldoni.

00:14:22.060 And Larry David.

00:14:23.100 Everybody likes Larry David.

00:14:25.180 And he found a moment and decided, like, I saw that clip and now I'm going to approach you.

00:14:30.160 Here is a clip of that.

00:14:31.500 If you are listening to this on audio, you'll have to go watch it on YouTube or on Rumble.

00:14:36.040 But I'm going to just show you the clip and I'll talk over it.

00:14:39.320 You can see he's very angry and the social media has determined, you know, these experts lip readers.

00:14:55.380 And it does look like he says exactly this, that he told him, keep my son out of this ish, bro.

00:15:01.440 But he said the S word.

00:15:02.900 Keep my son out of this ish, bro.

00:15:04.160 So, like, he pulled the Will Smith to Stephen A. Smith.

00:15:07.200 Keep my wife's name out your mouth, bro. 0.55

00:15:10.480 And that obviously is meant to be intimidating.

00:15:13.420 And if you are saying keep my son out of this ish, then your son should not be in this ish.

00:15:18.900 That's it.

00:15:19.280 That's how this works.

00:15:20.000 Again, this is this is the free market.

00:15:21.780 It's competition.

00:15:22.700 If you think he can't handle the criticism that he should not be on the court.

00:15:25.840 OK, so this is a scenario where you have this angry dad because his son isn't good enough.

00:15:31.860 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.

00:15:41.500 And it's also kind of this archetype of a guilty dad.

00:15:45.700 Like the reason why he is so angry, usually when people are expressing anger, it's because you're hitting upon a truth, right?

00:15:52.660 You're hitting upon a truth.

00:15:53.320 He heard Stephen A. Smith.

00:15:54.500 He heard his words.

00:15:55.560 He heard that it's true. 0.65

00:15:56.420 He heard and recognized those words to be true.

00:15:58.480 And he knows that his son is going to hear these words and recognize that it's true.

00:16:02.240 He's forcing his son into this embarrassment. 0.98

00:16:05.240 And how foolish to say or to suggest that, well, he's not making the calls. 0.98

00:16:10.020 He's not the one putting him in. 0.98

00:16:12.260 No, he's just the one who essentially said, I won't even play.

00:16:16.820 I won't even play unless I'm able to play alongside my son.

00:16:19.420 The money means nothing to me.

00:16:20.660 There was no offer the Lakers could give me.

00:16:22.600 That meant more to me than playing alongside my son.

00:16:26.280 You were selfish, LeBron.

00:16:27.400 That is the reality.

00:16:28.920 You did something that was selfish because you wanted it.

00:16:32.260 And now your son is dealing with the brunt of your decision making.

00:16:36.480 Dave Portnoy, I thought, summed this up quite brilliantly on X when he tweeted this.

00:16:41.980 He tweeted, my heart aches for Bronny James.

00:16:44.040 The poor kid doesn't belong in the NBA.

00:16:46.040 He can't quit.

00:16:47.240 He didn't ask for this.

00:16:48.660 His dad created an impossible situation for him.

00:16:51.500 He's a make-a-wish kid in the NBA.

00:16:53.740 I just hope his dad's insatiable ego doesn't ruin his love for this beautiful game.

00:16:59.460 I agree with that.

00:17:00.900 That is a totally sensible commentary.

00:17:03.120 Bronny doesn't actually deserve any of this heat.

00:17:05.600 But LeBron fully does.

00:17:07.840 And that's why he's so angry.

00:17:09.180 He knows he deserves this.

00:17:11.140 It is an insatiable ego that put your son in this circumstance in the first place.

00:17:14.580 And he's just basically saying, stop noticing.

00:17:17.200 Pretend my son is brilliant at this game to make me happy in my final years on the court.

00:17:21.960 And people are not going to do that.

00:17:23.380 But I want to say this.

00:17:25.080 You can be mad at me all you want because that's okay.

00:17:27.760 I can actually deal with criticism.

00:17:30.400 Bronny James, this situation with LeBron James and what his father has done via nepotism is

00:17:35.220 actually living, breathing proof as to why conservatives believe that affirmative action doesn't work.

00:17:41.500 When you give people opportunities or put them into circumstances that they haven't actually

00:17:47.380 earned, when it's not a meritocracy and you force someone into a position that they haven't

00:17:51.760 actually earned and you artificially place them into places that they don't belong, disaster

00:17:58.480 can be the only end point.

00:18:01.140 And I actually learned this.

00:18:02.180 I'm pretty sure this was from Shelby Steele.

00:18:04.560 This was the book that I read, White Guilt by Shelby Steele, How Blacks and Whites Together

00:18:09.480 Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. 0.64

00:18:11.140 And at this time, I was liberal and started to get conservative interested and wanted to

00:18:15.960 at least read and learn more about the arguments because, oh, how could you disagree with affirmative

00:18:19.180 action?

00:18:19.700 We had all of these years of slavery.

00:18:21.240 And then he put it so succinctly when he was describing this time period, and I'm paraphrasing

00:18:25.240 here, and I hope it's Shelby Steele and not a Thomas Sow book that I read that I'm confusing

00:18:28.600 it with.

00:18:29.500 But essentially, he was an adjunct professor at Cornell University.

00:18:33.060 And he noticed that all of these black kids were on academic probation.

00:18:37.620 And he thought that was very strange.

00:18:38.560 He went to go investigate, like, why are all of these black students on academic probation? 0.84

00:18:43.160 And what he learned was that while these students were some of the most brilliant in the entire

00:18:48.400 nation, because of affirmative action, they were placed into schools that they wouldn't

00:18:54.240 have gotten into otherwise.

00:18:55.460 So you force them to be at Cornell University, and they're competing now with peers that aren't

00:19:00.000 really their peers.

00:19:01.400 Whereas if you had allowed them to be where they're supposed to be, maybe they would have

00:19:04.940 been at a different university that wasn't Ivy League, they would have been at the top

00:19:08.240 of their class.

00:19:09.880 So it's exactly what's happening with Bronny, right?

00:19:12.120 You've artificially placed him amongst a group of people that he's not supposed to be

00:19:16.360 with.

00:19:16.600 He can't play at this level.

00:19:18.160 And so for him, he walks away and he feels like a failure.

00:19:20.400 He feels like I'm on academic probation.

00:19:21.800 I can't ball.

00:19:22.860 Why am I doing this sport?

00:19:24.140 And it just completely deflates these individuals.

00:19:27.600 And Shelby Steele, when he investigated this, he was speaking about how so many of these kids

00:19:31.800 then just dropped out.

00:19:32.900 But imagine if they went to like the University of Rhode Island, they would have been like

00:19:36.460 graduating cum laude and would have been like, yeah, I'm amazing and would have had the confidence

00:19:41.380 that they deserved.

00:19:42.160 Because like I said, he assessed that they were something like in the top 90 percentile

00:19:47.720 of all students, but were artificially placed at Cornell University where they were failing

00:19:52.020 amongst their peers.

00:19:53.340 Bronny is making this mistake.

00:19:54.760 He is making this mistake.

00:19:55.960 His father, rather, LeBron James, is making this mistake.

00:19:58.520 He is actually harming his son, giving his son this like deflated sense that he doesn't

00:20:05.240 deserve because he's actually a good basketball player.

00:20:08.120 You know, he's a good basketball player.

00:20:09.180 He's just not ready and never has been ready to be in the NBA.

00:20:14.240 And then there's this, by the way, I want to say this.

00:20:16.280 If you are going to make the argument that your child does deserve to be there still,

00:20:21.400 LeBron James, you should know that when you do something like that, it makes it 10

00:20:24.760 times harder for him.

00:20:25.820 OK, because that's daddy crying.

00:20:27.940 That's like daddy saying, like, we're rich and powerful and you will do and say and

00:20:33.400 give my son the grades that he deserves, even though he doesn't deserve them.

00:20:37.260 And now he's got to go back to the G League team.

00:20:39.400 Everybody's watched this moment.

00:20:40.560 Everybody knows this moment is about him.

00:20:42.120 And what do you think that how that how that feels when the dad freaks out at the Little

00:20:46.280 League game and he yells at someone, the commentator, the whoever it is?

00:20:51.640 What do you how do you think that child feels when he goes amongst his playmates after that?

00:20:56.300 He feels more out of place.

00:20:58.260 He feels like he's not wanted.

00:20:59.700 He feels like everybody is looking at him like, oh, well, you know, I would correct your

00:21:03.340 game, but I don't want your daddy to yell at me.

00:21:05.960 I want your daddy to come and scream at me. 1.00

00:21:08.260 Like, come on, man.

00:21:09.120 That's this is just the price of success and fame.

00:21:11.100 And if you think about this trade off, I don't even really even feel bad for Bronny.

00:21:13.820 OK, because his life is amazing.

00:21:16.900 He is one of the most privileged people ever.

00:21:18.620 He's even in the NBA because of his remarkable privilege.

00:21:21.300 And so if the worst thing you think your son has to deal with in life is a little bit

00:21:25.460 of criticism, then you are way too privileged, LeBron James.

00:21:29.620 I mean, like there's like real life happening outside of the NBA.

00:21:32.460 It's OK.

00:21:33.020 He will survive Stephen A. Smith criticizing him rightfully.

00:21:37.420 So this if this is his cross to bear in life, your father is so famous that people are noticing

00:21:44.160 that you don't belong in the room that your father put you in.

00:21:46.820 Yeah, I'd say that is it's a pretty good life.

00:21:49.880 So LeBron, stop crying.

00:21:51.700 Seriously, stop crying.

00:21:53.080 And Bronny, I hope you were able to get out of this situation in some regard and just know

00:21:57.840 that I agree with everybody saying that the issue really is your father.

00:22:01.740 It's not you.

00:22:02.600 And you shouldn't allow this to make you think that you're not that you don't have

00:22:06.780 worth.

00:22:07.360 You're just in the wrong room.

00:22:08.640 And secondly, you shouldn't allow this to make you hate the game or dislike the game

00:22:12.960 or want to run away from the game because you were good.

00:22:14.820 You just didn't need daddy to give you a leg up in life.

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00:24:24.880 Speaking of not spiking your ball and going home, obviously, I have endured and seen all

00:24:31.260 of your tweets and your videos and the journalists and the reporters, which are calling out this

00:24:38.240 tweet that went out from Jeremy Boring, who I used to work for at The Daily Wire.

00:24:43.560 So just to back this up, obviously, I was promoting yesterday on the show for whatever.

00:24:48.180 This was just obviously just the way it worked out.

00:24:50.000 But I did Theo Vaughn's show, which was hilarious and very fun.

00:24:54.800 And we showed you clips of that.

00:24:56.180 And it was like a three-hour podcast.

00:24:57.620 And at the same time running parallel to that, Ian Carroll did Joe Rogan's podcast.

00:25:02.280 And people began connecting the dots here because obviously with absolutely no coordination at

00:25:06.080 all between the parties, both of these podcasts were released within hours of each other.

00:25:10.620 And a very small portion of my conversation was about Israel.

00:25:15.240 And I would say a larger portion, but again, not the majority of the conversation was about

00:25:20.380 Israel and our allegiance to Israel.

00:25:22.420 And so some people who have an allegiance to Israel that maybe disagree with that position

00:25:28.880 or a point were not happy about these podcasts, which were sort of dominating the conversation

00:25:34.080 on X.

00:25:34.740 And Jeremy Boring, the co-CEO of The Daily Wire, tweeted this.

00:25:41.800 Yesterday was a terrible day for American Jews. 0.87

00:25:45.480 The embrace by so many prominent voices of demented, conspiratorial, anti-Jewish voices is one 0.93

00:25:53.140 of the saddest, most alarming events in my lifetime. 0.96

00:25:56.720 But this way lies madness and worse than madness.

00:26:04.240 Do not let the times cost you your soul.

00:26:08.500 Audience capture and unchecked tribalism are tools of the devil.

00:26:13.920 Paranoia and revisionism are two.

00:26:16.220 Even if they really are out to get you, heck, even a righteous cause can lead us to evil if

00:26:22.360 we don't guard our hearts in the quest.

00:26:25.220 The wicked often prosper and the temptation to prosper often tempts us to join them.

00:26:31.480 But only God offers the richness of salvation.

00:26:35.360 And he already became for us the only Jewish scapegoat for our sin and fear. 0.92

00:26:41.740 Leave the rest of them alone.

00:26:43.520 Okay, so you guys know my response to this.

00:26:49.520 Look, I am a believer in free speech.

00:26:54.320 I am a believer in the free markets.

00:26:56.220 I'm going to consistently be a believer in the free markets and in free speech.

00:27:01.400 And what I will say is that some people read that and it perhaps resonated with them and

00:27:07.040 they want more of that content.

00:27:08.500 And if you want more of that content, you should follow Jeremy Boring on X and follow him in

00:27:14.260 other endeavors.

00:27:15.560 You know, I think our conversations, and again, I think it was rational to assume that these

00:27:19.840 were about me and Ian.

00:27:22.020 I loved the podcast on the other side of that.

00:27:25.380 Like my personal opinion is the podcast between Ian and Joe Rogan was super interesting and

00:27:29.140 they both seemed really upbeat and happy.

00:27:31.680 And Joe Rogan seemed very excited.

00:27:33.560 I finished it last night.

00:27:34.640 It took me a couple of days to get through it.

00:27:36.060 But he seemed really excited in a way that I haven't seen him in a while because they

00:27:38.780 were just speaking about ideas, even like just kind of like the permission to think

00:27:43.100 and to know things and what books to read.

00:27:45.320 And I was totally engaged.

00:27:46.680 And I know that something like 1.5 million of you, maybe more today, that was yesterday,

00:27:52.480 watched me and Theo Vaughn's podcast.

00:27:54.780 And I just want to focus on what I am putting out there.

00:27:58.140 That's what the free markets is, right?

00:27:59.440 So love that for Jeremy.

00:28:02.280 I want you guys to follow Jeremy Boring for more of those considerations.

00:28:08.440 And if you would rather, or at the same time, he doesn't even need to be in either or.

00:28:12.980 If you want to watch my stuff and Theo Vaughn's stuff, I want you to be open to do that too.

00:28:16.940 I thought we had a really good time on Theo Vaughn's podcast.

00:28:19.620 And I think Ian Carroll had a great time on Joe Rogan's podcast.

00:28:22.680 And so just to share another clip of the Theo Vaughn podcast, because again,

00:28:28.020 I am about putting out there what I like and what I believe in.

00:28:31.060 And I got to tell you, sometimes McDonald's slaps.

00:28:33.700 I love McDonald's.

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.

00:28:41.840 He just says a lot of stuff that's super funny.

00:28:44.760 And one of the things was me asking him about what his order is at McDonald's.

00:28:48.680 I wanted to know who he was.

00:28:50.480 And here's how that went.

00:28:51.500 Take a listen.

00:28:53.080 I need to know, what's your meal at McDonald's?

00:28:55.160 I judge everybody by this, so be very careful.

00:28:56.960 Me, I do a double hamburger, which isn't on the menu, but you can get it with pickles and ketchup.

00:29:02.380 Do you add any Big Mac sauce to that?

00:29:04.380 No, I don't know who's making it back there.

00:29:06.340 It depends.

00:29:07.340 If Big Mac himself is back there, I'll take a couple ounces.

00:29:10.220 That's an okay order.

00:29:11.260 I mean, it's not fun, but it's okay.

00:29:12.820 Yeah, it's kind of sad though, but I'll tell you this.

00:29:15.200 I used to get two milks with it.

00:29:17.520 Milks?

00:29:18.000 Yeah.

00:29:18.900 What in the Theo Vaughn world?

00:29:19.960 We ride here.

00:29:21.540 What?

00:29:21.860 Milks?

00:29:22.480 Oh, hell yeah, boy.

00:29:24.080 What?

00:29:24.760 Two milks?

00:29:25.680 See me in the streets.

00:29:26.880 You don't know me.

00:29:27.760 I'm the T.I.

00:29:28.580 of Mickey D's orders, baby.

00:29:30.480 Look at that little milk jug right there.

00:29:33.080 And that's what he used to call my sister, little milk jug. 1.00

00:29:35.220 He's the only person that's ever, that's what we used to call my sister, little milk jug.

00:29:39.540 Because she built like that. 0.99

00:29:40.780 She built like that. 0.99

00:29:41.680 Click on the third one right there.

00:29:43.400 Nobody in the history of McDonald's ever got the milk jug but Theo Vaughn.

00:29:48.400 They kept that on the menu for Theo Vaughn.

00:29:50.200 You can't order more than two.

00:29:51.320 That's the crazy thing.

00:29:52.220 What?

00:29:52.620 Yeah.

00:29:53.600 That's a limit.

00:29:54.060 Because they only have like 10 because no one orders them.

00:29:56.140 So if you order more than two, they've been sitting in the freaking-

00:29:58.640 We ride here.

00:30:00.700 I'm just saying, we get it how we live.

00:30:03.800 Wait, stop.

00:30:04.300 Do you have a double cheeseburger with a double milk jug?

00:30:06.560 Oh, double milk jug, baby.

00:30:08.400 Give me two of them. 0.90

00:30:09.720 And the lady be like, you really want to? 0.99

00:30:11.500 I'll be like, yeah.

00:30:13.400 And then we would laugh a little bit.

00:30:14.760 I'd tip her.

00:30:16.960 It still makes me laugh.

00:30:18.840 There's so much that happened there.

00:30:20.620 Why did they call his sister a little milk jug?

00:30:22.900 Because she's shaped like a little milk jug. 1.00

00:30:25.400 That's Theo Vaughn for you, guys.

00:30:27.080 I think he's just such a hilarious comedian.

00:30:29.980 And his brain works in mysterious ways.

00:30:31.960 Actually, my producer told me that there was a tweet on the internet.

00:30:35.560 I should have quit the person.

00:30:36.440 We should have pulled it.

00:30:37.080 But they said, Theo Vaughn utters at least one sentence a day that has never been uttered

00:30:43.020 in human history.

00:30:43.820 And I think that pretty much sums up Theo Vaughn.

00:30:47.320 Like, I probably eat McDonald's once a year traveling or something, but I would not order

00:30:52.240 the milk jugs.

00:30:52.920 And I find that to be more problematic than anything.

00:30:55.760 And I think we've got to get to the bottom of why he is ordering milk jugs at McDonald's.

00:31:00.280 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

00:31:12.240 favor, too.

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 1.00

00:31:21.880 and she's scared.

00:31:22.780 Like, come on, dude.

00:31:23.380 She's not terrified of anything.

00:31:24.560 She popped up on an A-list red carpet to an event that she was not required to be at

00:31:29.620 in the form of the SNL 50th anniversary.

00:31:34.020 And there's a bunch of celebs there.

00:31:35.260 And her husband told a joke.

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.

00:31:47.440 They got to run into each other occasionally.

00:31:49.540 Right.

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.

00:32:12.620 That's her co-star in Simple Favor, too.

00:32:14.820 And essentially, and I've actually been reading this, Anna Kendrick is very upset with how this

00:32:18.720 has been handled.

00:32:19.740 Obviously, she knows it's going to impact the success of the movie, something that she

00:32:23.720 doesn't deserve.

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. 0.90

00:33:14.100 Now, listen, I want to be clear.

00:33:15.500 They will prepare for that a million different ways.

00:33:17.560 They will tell journalists what they can and cannot ask.

00:33:20.500 Her PR firm will only walk her up to certain friendly journalists. 0.65

00:33:25.100 So this apprehension is kind of, like I said, just trying to make people feel bad.

00:33:29.520 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.

00:33:44.860 And she could have pulled out of this lawsuit a long time ago. 0.50

00:33:47.260 They're already taking it way too far.

00:33:49.600 There obviously now is this big elephant that's in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.

00:33:53.900 And they're going to walk this red carpet and not acknowledge it.

00:33:56.420 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 1.00

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

00:34:44.400 sent so funny.

00:34:45.780 Like, hey, it's Leslie.

00:34:48.240 Hey, Leslie, don't worry.

00:34:50.040 I won't do or say anything about Justin Baldoni.

00:34:53.940 That's not what we want.

00:34:55.020 We don't want any publicity.

00:34:56.180 It was like so fake to me.

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.

00:35:05.140 Obviously, it looks like they had plenty to do with it.

00:35:07.960 And so anyways, the Sloan parties want out.

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

00:35:23.680 to be exposed?

00:35:24.440 Like the trade secret that you helped plant an article in the New York Times and it was

00:35:29.200 nasty.

00:35:30.020 Is it going to be like trade secrets of text messages between you and Blake and speaking 0.55

00:35:34.220 about Taylor Swift and laughing?

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

00:35:43.360 here.

00:35:44.040 We're just the PR firm.

00:35:45.240 And it's like, actually, this entire lawsuit, as Judge Lehman accurately pointed out yesterday,

00:35:49.760 comes down to PR.

00:35:50.860 Like, you're not getting out of this lawsuit.

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

00:35:59.220 down to PR people.

00:36:00.560 I highly doubt that they are going to allow them to wiggle their way out of this, nor should

00:36:04.620 they.

00:36:05.440 And so in their response to Leslie saying, we want to be dropped from this because we're

00:36:10.920 women. 0.81

00:36:11.320 She keeps making these weird, feminist, weak arguments. 1.00

00:36:15.200 Wayfair parties wrote this.

00:36:16.640 They wrote the conspirators referring to first aim to win plaintiff Blake Lively total control

00:36:23.880 over the film.

00:36:24.580 He's like, Leslie Sloan, you are implicated in trying to get her the control that she wanted

00:36:29.940 over the film.

00:36:30.520 It ends with us by means of extortionate threats to go public with her baseless claims of sexual 1.00

00:36:37.580 harassment.

00:36:38.400 That effort wholly succeeded.

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 0.99

00:36:55.920 straight into the ground.

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. 0.58

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

00:37:27.840 parties have been damaged beyond measure.

00:37:30.780 The reputations are destroyed, their businesses lie in tatters, and their own film was taken

00:37:34.640 from them.

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

00:37:55.160 malicious and calculated scheme.

00:37:57.120 I mean, it's so well said.

00:37:58.180 It would be insane to let them out of this lawsuit, and they are correct.

00:38:01.960 There were all these breadcrumbs first.

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

00:38:12.260 all of these ideas.

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

00:38:24.900 were allegations of HR complaints.

00:38:26.840 All of that was happening leading up to it, and there's no way that Blake Lively was communicating

00:38:30.900 directly with these journalists.

00:38:32.000 That's the reason that you have a PR firm in the first place.

00:38:34.400 And so, that filing is happening.

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.

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00:39:55.840 I don't know.

00:39:56.180 My voice just went very loud at that moment.

00:39:59.000 Speaking of Lent, what did you guys give up for Lent?

00:40:01.180 I gave up processed sugar and bread for the Catholics out there. 1.00

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.

00:40:22.320 And it's good.

00:40:23.200 It's good to do these sorts of things.

00:40:25.220 And it was really hard for me to fast on Lent, but I did it.

00:40:28.140 I was very proud of myself, like trying to get a pregnant person to fast. 1.00

00:40:31.360 It was just a lot.

00:40:32.960 Anyways, let's get into some of your comments.

00:40:35.440 What do you guys have for me?

00:40:37.200 Intelligent Observer writes, I love how LeBron is worshipped like a god, but Catholics are demonized

00:40:41.740 for venerating saints.

00:40:42.860 Only a matter of time until his many NDAs come to light and we see how much of a saint he really

00:40:47.400 is.

00:40:47.660 You know, my commentary on LeBron James is the same on Taylor Swift and the same on all

00:40:53.200 of these people who find fame really young.

00:40:55.660 LeBron James, obviously remarkably talented.

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

00:41:05.400 player.

00:41:05.700 LeBron James is an excellent player.

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

00:41:15.020 him the king.

00:41:15.900 Like that can't be good.

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.

00:41:22.200 He's a little gassed on that.

00:41:23.700 I mean, even making those statements of like, this is what I'm going to do and I'm going

00:41:26.940 to play with my son no matter what.

00:41:28.280 But that's quite monarchy.

00:41:31.360 You know what I mean?

00:41:32.400 Like he's like, I have full power here.

00:41:35.400 I am a monarch and I will get whatever it is that I want.

00:41:38.940 And he kind of forced this thing.

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.

00:41:44.480 This is what he said.

00:41:45.280 This is what he did.

00:41:46.180 You can hate me for telling you that.

00:41:47.980 But that's what happens when you just have too much power.

00:41:50.220 You need people to tell you no.

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

00:42:02.700 do for a living.

00:42:03.340 They don't care about anything.

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.

00:42:15.880 This is people saying, you know, what the Lakers should have said.

00:42:18.340 It's been great.

00:42:19.100 It's been a great ride, LeBron James.

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

00:42:24.680 play with us.

00:42:25.180 That's just really bratty. 1.00

00:42:26.920 They would have never said that to him because he's LeBron James and they want to make money.

00:42:29.960 All right.

00:42:30.480 Sarah writes, can you shout me out, please?

00:42:32.980 I delivered my...

00:42:34.020 No, you didn't.

00:42:35.240 Oh, I read this comment.

00:42:37.720 She said, I delivered my 40th baby today.

00:42:39.800 And I was like, why are you lying, Sarah?

00:42:41.820 But then I read the second part.

00:42:43.080 I'm now a qualified midwife.

00:42:45.320 Yes, you did deliver your 40th baby today.

00:42:47.540 And congratulations.

00:42:48.840 Dreams are lies, right?

00:42:50.680 Because you're so awesome.

00:42:52.360 And in case you need bodyguards, thank you so much for that donation.

00:42:55.560 Anonymous writes, handing out opportunities just for DEI without considering merits or

00:43:00.100 qualifications undermines individuals with appropriate qualifications, especially regarding

00:43:04.780 promotions.

00:43:06.000 Opportunities should provide financial support to students in academia who test well with

00:43:10.720 their peers.

00:43:11.280 However, placing students without the academic grades just to fill out statistics does not

00:43:15.440 help them.

00:43:16.020 Yes, it does not help them.

00:43:16.840 They are not set up for success by being placed in a position without the qualifications.

00:43:20.760 Yes.

00:43:21.260 And if those of you guys are interested, if that's the first time you've ever heard the

00:43:23.600 argument about affirmative action, you should really read Clarence Thomas.

00:43:27.320 You should read his dissents.

00:43:28.440 He has been working hard to get affirmative action overturned for this reason.

00:43:31.880 It's not...

00:43:32.280 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.

00:43:42.840 Stop forcing them where they don't belong.

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,

00:43:53.340 competing amongst his peers.

00:43:55.260 That is the whole point, is like, do not deflate their sense of self, their sense of worth for

00:44:01.120 no reason when they aren't bad.

00:44:03.740 He's not bad.

00:44:04.720 He just doesn't belong playing alongside his father just because of his father's ego.

00:44:09.640 So I hope that makes sense.

00:44:10.620 And I hope, genuinely hope that Bronny takes that to heart and that his dad never does

00:44:14.700 that crass thing again of...

00:44:16.400 I mean, he could have done that privately.

00:44:18.160 He could have been like, can somebody bring him to the locker room?

00:44:20.760 But it's almost like he wanted to do that.

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...

00:44:28.960 I'm LeBron James.

00:44:29.780 And like I said, that's only going to hurt his son more. 0.98

00:44:32.180 His son is going to look absolutely ridiculous at the end of that. 0.92

00:44:35.520 Nicole writes, loved the Theo interview. 0.96

00:44:38.100 So good.

00:44:39.040 Have a great weekend.

00:44:39.820 Yes, I should actually check and see how many of you guys watched that because I forgot

00:44:42.700 to check today.

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.

00:44:49.060 And if you like it, you like it.

00:44:50.380 If you don't, you don't.

00:44:51.360 Like I said, that's how the free markets works.

00:44:53.880 I'm not going to spike my ball and go home.

00:44:55.880 People are allowed to criticize me.

00:44:57.580 People can say things about me.

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

00:45:09.080 my own fault, you know?

00:45:10.380 And so I appreciate.

00:45:12.120 We've already had such an amazing year.

00:45:13.500 And we really are having so much fun.

00:45:15.460 And so we will end that there.

00:45:16.980 Reminding you guys, if you want to go to canastones.com and support independent journalism, you can

00:45:20.580 get my book.

00:45:21.500 It's available for pre-sale, Make Him a Sandwich.

00:45:23.480 Gems in here.

00:45:24.760 Gems.

00:45:25.220 You will love this as I break down the feminist movement and everything that is wrong with

00:45:28.680 it because we've been sold a bill of lies.

00:45:31.040 And you got to go back to the history.

00:45:33.360 You got to go back to the beginning to realize how we got here, how we started with what we

00:45:37.280 were told was a movement that was designed to empower women, too many women being miserable, 1.00

00:45:42.200 you know, working jobs that don't fulfill them, but feeling that pressure to keep working

00:45:48.320 it because you have to compete with men.

00:45:49.680 We should talk about all that, and we do that in the book.

00:45:51.660 So if you go to canastones.com, also, you can sign up for our book club.

00:45:55.100 We are still reading.

00:45:56.120 I think next week we meet again.

00:45:57.940 And guess what, guys?

00:45:58.700 The live chat is going to be ready for my book club, people.

00:46:01.320 We are still reading Chaos.

00:46:02.760 It's amazing.

00:46:03.560 I love it.

00:46:04.100 This is, I think also, by the way, that is what Joe Rogan and Ian Carroll spoke about

00:46:08.160 because Tom O'Neill was on Joe Rogan's podcast.

00:46:11.500 That book is incredible.

00:46:12.540 It will totally blow your mind about everything.

00:46:15.220 So even if you don't join the book club and don't want to speak about the book with me,

00:46:18.320 you should read it because it's great, but only read it after you read my book, which

00:46:21.920 is available for pre-sale.

00:46:23.020 So me first, Tom O'Neill.

00:46:24.600 Tom O'Neill is doing way too great right now.

00:46:27.140 And what else do we have going on on the website?

00:46:29.160 But yeah, the live chat is going to be ready, which makes me so excited because I felt like

00:46:32.700 we needed that, and we're just going to keep making the book club bigger and greater.

00:46:35.620 And it's already big, which is incredible.

00:46:37.360 I never expected so many people to sign up right away, but I love it.

00:46:41.820 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.

00:46:56.600 They picked up a bug.

00:46:57.500 You know, they have these like indoor play stuff, things in Tennessee, and they're just

00:47:01.040 grimy at the end of the day.

00:47:02.700 And my son, first, my older son was sick.

00:47:04.820 And then my youngest son, who's just a year and, gosh, how old, gosh, I was like a year

00:47:10.280 and four months.

00:47:11.160 Crazy.

00:47:11.660 Time really flies.

00:47:14.080 He got sick, honestly.

00:47:16.040 And then he got sick this morning.

00:47:17.560 Literally two hours before we went live, guys, I had vomit on my sweater like I was M&M, like

00:47:22.540 it was mom's spaghetti.

00:47:23.460 It was crazy, but it wasn't mom's spaghetti.

00:47:25.080 It was baby's vomit.

00:47:26.080 So it's just kind of the price of being a mom.

00:47:28.080 You just got to go, OK, everything's got to stop for a little bit.

00:47:30.220 We'll kick it to next week.

00:47:31.120 But I promise you on Monday, barring anything crazy that happens over the weekend, I will have

00:47:34.940 the time to go through the transcript.

00:47:37.240 We are moving on to Jessica Mann, who is the second person.

00:47:41.220 She put Harvey in jail for three years.

00:47:44.240 And it's crazy.

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

00:47:56.540 this show.

00:47:57.320 All right, guys, we will see you on Monday.

00:48:07.240 We'll see you on Monday.

Candace Owens - March 07, 2025

LeBron James ATTACKS Stephen A. Smith ｜ Candace Ep 156

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