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ESPN FIRING PURGE?! Ryan Clark, Cam Newton & More—Who’s Next and Where Will They Land?
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Hey man, look.
It has been a purge on ESPN.
It has been a purge on ESPN.
For whatever reason, it's been a big huge firing going on in ESPN.
Where would they land?
Ryan Clark, Cam Newton, Carl Ree, and others have been let go from ESPN. a full purge onslaught of sports analysts from the biggest network in sports.
ESPN, we all watch ESPN and sometimes in some part of our lives and hear some of the lives and some of the content that they bring to the table. A lot of us, of course, myself growing up watching ESPN, you know what I mean, just go there for casual talk and casual things of what we had done. But we got sick and tired of the lies. We got sick and tired of the Kool-Aid. We got sick and tired of just the same old machine. We just got sick and tired because we knew that they were running a script. Not a script of honesty, but a script of disingenuous takes mostly. You know what I'm saying?
But there are some of the bright lights that's there on ESPN and we going to get into it. So, welcome to the Gingerbread Man Show. This is This is Steady Serving Sports ENT, an extension of Simply Ball Dropping Podcast with my main man Kap.
What's up, Kap? Shout out to the fullcourt trio. Shout out to the players club. Shout out to get that off your chest with me and my brother Kap.
Tomorrow we'll be talking and get things off our chest. But tonight we're here to bring the facts, give our opinion, and let the audience get itself, you know what I'm saying, and get it off their chest tonight. Tonight, ESPN is uh shaking the entire sports media industry.
Ryan Clark gone. Cam Newton gone. Carl Ree after more than three decades at ESPN reportedly gone. Tom Plesero, Bart Scott, David Lloyd, Stephania Bell, Charles Davis, and others respected employees have reportedly been affected by the sweeping round of layoffs. But why is ESPN cutting recognizable personalities just as the network prepares for one of the most important periods in its history? Was this strictly about money? Was it caused uh by ESPN interrogation of the NFL network? Did the company suddenly have too many analysts, reporters, and production employees performing similar jobs? And how in the world did Ryan Clark reportedly find out that his ESPN career was ended while he was in the middle of appearing on NFL Live? Tonight we are breaking down what happened, how it happened, why ESPN made these decisions, and where these talented personalities could land next. Everybody watching, hit the like button, subscribe, and listen, put on uh your answer in the comments. Is ESPN making smart decisions and destroying or destroying personalities that they made people watch? Let's get into it. First, I want to say, you know, what's up to my family. You know, my family with the ammo. You know what I'm saying? I know they gonna chime in. What's going on? My sister Victory Taylor first in the building. My my nephew Jabari. My brother Brian Lewis from another mother.
I Hey, we fa to get into it tonight y'all. Hey, first let's separate uh the verified reports from the rumors. ESPN began a significant round of layoffs connected largely to its interrogation of NFL network and other NFL media assets. ESPN chairman Jimmy Petero told employees that most of the reductions were related to the interrogation, although other parts of the company were also in affected. The transaction included NFL network, the NFL fantasy football operation, and the red zone distribution rights. The NFL receives a 10% ownership stake in ESPN. The deal was announced in August 2025, approved in January 2026 and followed by employee interrogation uh integration beginning in April. So you know they you know mean they even integrated the associated press that timeline matters.
This was not necessary. ESPN waking up one morning and suddenly decide deciding that uh it dislike Ryan Clark, Cam Newton and Carl Rivage. This was a large corporate combination. When two sports media operations come together, they bring duplicate positions. Multiple NFL insiders, multiple studio analysts, multiple producers, multiple editors, multi multiple executives, multiple digital departments, multiple fantasy football teams, multiple production crews. Once ESPN leaders uh leadership reviewed the new combined operation, it apparently decided that some jobs and contracts were no longer part of its future structure. But we must also remember something important. Behind every famous name are many producers, researchers, camera operators, editors, and employees. employees whose names the public may never know. These workers have families. They built programs, prepare statistics, book guests, uh, edit highlights, and help the onair personalities succeed. This story is bigger than celebrities losing television contracts. It involves people throughout ESPN and the NFL network suddenly facing uncertain futures.
Do we do you believe highly paid on air personalities should be cut before behind the scene employees or should the network protect the people who make the programs possible?
Let's examine ESPN's possible business u reasoning.
Number one, duplicate NFL operations.
ESPN already have one of the largest NFL operations in sports media. NFL network brought another complete group of reporters, analysts, producers and executives. ESPN therefore had to decide which personalities is considered essential considered uh that inside position. ESPN has Adam Sheffer while NFL network has the report uh report and had Tom Bellis in the major uh reporting role. When companies combine executive co commonly asked whether the uh they need more prominent inside uh performing overlapping assignments.
That does not mean that Tom Pes uh Pelisero was excellent at his job. It means executives may have decided that Sheffner and Rep uh rep reports uh were enough for the operation.
Reports identify Pleso as one of the people's effective uh personalities established on the air. Personalities can command substantial salaries if executives are um are ordered to reduce expense. eliminate a few expenses expensive uh contracts can save more money than eliminate numerous lower paid positions.
That does not make the decision morally right or creatively smart. It simply explains the mathematics that the company is using.
The danger is ESPN could save money today while losing viewers tomorrow.
People don't um form emotional connections with corporate balance sheets. They uh connect with and recognize voices, personalities, and chemistry like y'all do with me. What's up, she wins? You lick it. ESPN is built for a digital future. Traditional cable television continues to change. Audience increase increasingly watch highlights, podcasts, and debates through YouTube.
social platforms and streaming services.
ESPN is no longer building solely for cable television. It needs talent cable and appearing across live television, streaming, podcast, social media, YouTube, digital art articles, live events. ESPN may believe it can operate with a few people while using the remaining stars across the platform.
Border Disney border Disney cost reduction. These reductions also occurred during a wider cost cutting at Disney. ESPN's parent company.
Therefore, the NFL network um integration appears to be the primary explanation. but not necessarily the only one. This is why I call it a purge.
For the audience perspective, but from ESPN's corporate perspective, it is called uh restricting and reconstructing, integrating and positioning the company for the future. Some people are living a different language and some people have their mind made up on how this [ __ ] went.
Ryan Clark's uh stunning exit. Now we discussed the uh the bigger and the biggest uh problem, the most controversial name, Ryan Clark. Ryan Clark joined ESPN after completing a 13 season NFL career. He began one of the network's most recognizable football analysts, appeared on NFL Live, First Take, and other programming. Clark was not afraid to disagree. He brought the perspective of a former player, but he also understood how to create television moments. he could deliver serious football analysts, defending players, and participate in emotional debates. In 2023, Clark won the sports Emmy for outstanding personality stu studio analyst. So, how did it I'm sorry. So, how did a decorated analyst with major roles suddenly find himself out? Reports say Clark was originally expected to be notified with uh uh um with other affected uh affected employees. However, a media inquirer created concerns that is information uh that was leaked. ESPN reported report reportedly informed him during a break while he was appearing on NFL Live. He did not return after the break. Let's be uh precise. ESPN did not appear to announce the dismissal live on television. He was reportedly told during the program away from cameras.
Nevertheless, the timing is stunning.
Imagine preparing for a show, sitting at the desk, discussing football, and then being informed during a break that your 11-year ESPN career is finished.
Regardless of whether somebody likes Ryan Clark's opinion, that is brutal, way unexperienced, and it is a crazy way to lay somebody off. Hey, hey, Miss D.
Ryan Clark response. Clark later posted a message focused on faith, inner peace, and continuing his journey. He also expressed support for everyone else affected by the layoffs and hope the new opportunities will open uh up for them.
The response showed perspective. Instead of publicly attacking every executive involved, he acknowledged other employees experiencing the same pain.
Stephen A. Smith reaction. We gonna play that for you. I got it queued up. Yeah.
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Stephen A. Smith here. Um, it's a rough day. Rough day to say the least.
um working at ESPN. We all know the news right now. Uh no need to delay the obvious. Um my man Ryan Clark for ESPN is gone. Uh he was let go by ESPN yesterday. There's a lot of noise circulating throughout social media and beyond um about how he found out he was on the air doing NFL live when he was notified and various reports out there were saying that you know ESPN was concerned as a result of knowing that the information had leaked that he would find out while he was on the air from somebody else so they wanted to make sure he heard from them or whatever. I don't know all those details and to be quite honest with you, I don't care.
What I care about is that my brother Ryan Clark, a person that I consider to be arguably the best.
Come on with it. Africa is no longer a member of ESPN. Arguably the best NFL analyst in America is no longer a member of ESPN.
And I can't even tell y'all how much that hurts.
He's a man and so he's going to handle it the way men do and we understand that. But I'm going to miss him.
I am not happy about this decision one bit. Um, the bosses know I'm not happy about this decision.
I've made that very, very clear.
But it's also important that myself and anybody else in the world of business be grown-ups and understand that these are the kind of things that happen when layoffs happen.
It's Tuesday and by the end of this day, you're going to hear about a lot more folks getting laid off. People that are my colleagues, my contemporaries.
Um, for all I know, and I don't know the names yet, but for all I know, some more of my friends are going to be gone.
The only thing that I can definitively say to you is that there's nobody that's going to be let go that was more of a friend and a brother to me than Ryan Clark.
I don't and I don't know how many times I have to say this.
I don't care whether people agree or disagree. When I debate, I think about two things. This is why I believe I've never lost a debate because I'm either right or I'm edified because I've learned from somebody who was more right than me. And I walk away from the debate and the conversation more educated, more informed, more edified than I ever thought possible.
Well, Stephen A, I'mma let you ride for a little bit about him because I working with somebody like Ryan Clark, anytime I talked about the NFL, anytime I talked about life, I walked away feeling in that way about him because I had just finished talking with him or debating with him or arguing with him about something because the brother's that smart.
He's that conscientious. He's that thoughtful.
He's that sincere. He's that real. He's that authentic.
And over the last few hours, I had to really really refrain. Damn, there got blisters on my tongue and my fingers from biting my tongue and biting my fingers from refraining from going after folks when I saw how people were talking about him. I was like, they don't know him at all. They don't know him at all.
And it's a real shame some of the things that people will try to say, some of the narratives they'll try to create. And as I was alluding to just a second ago, like I said, when I don't care, it doesn't bother me when people dis >> disl.
>> Yeah.
And Ryan Clark is somebody that was a man amongst boys when it came to stuff like that. Because contrary to popular belief, there's nothing that he'd say on social media or on television that he wouldn't tell you to your face if that's how he felt.
And he would never hesitate to let you know where he stood. Does that mean he was perfect? No. Does that mean he was right all the time? No. But he was conscientious and he was thoughtful.
And he's not somebody that I just loved working with. He's somebody that I love period that I will always be here for in every way, shape, form imaginable that I can.
I just wish that I could have been in enough of an influential or powerful position to prevent his exit from happening.
But that's where you have to get to a point where you recognize what being an adult in the room is all about. When we think about ESPN, first of all, let me be very, very clear. I can disagree with my employers.
What you're not going to get me to do is insult my employers. Business is business. And whether we like it or not, those people who made the decisions, whether it's a Ryan Clark or a host of other people, are paid to make those decisions.
It's an enviable position to be in.
This ain't the days when ESPN could just hire and hire and hire some more without ever having to let go or lay off anybody. Those days are long gone.
I'm looking at notes here and I'm thinking about May of 2013 when ESPN laid off 400 employees, 5% of its workforce.
And it was the network's first sizable staff reduction since 2009 when ESPN had laid off a 100 people. I'm thinking about October 2015 when ESPN had about 8,000 employees, but 350 cuts represented a bit over 4% of their workforce reduced. I'm thinking about April of 2017 when ESPN laid off 100 employees. And I remember guys like the great Ed Werder and my buddy Danny Canel and Trent Dil who was doing a good job for us along with others like Jason Stark and others that were laid off. I'm thinking about November of 2017 when another 150 cuts came about.
Roughly 2% of the workforce that was mostly in production, digital content, and technology, but it happened.
I'm thinking about that. What about November 2020 when President Jimmy Petaro announced that 300 jobs would be cut with another 200 open positions eliminated.
or in June of 2023 when on air personalities like Jeff Van Gundy, my brother Mark Jackson, >> Jaylen Rose, >> Susie Cobra >> Mhm.
>> will let go.
>> What if you could make a song using only your voice? Let's start with the drums.
fall of 2024 when RG3 was let go along with Zack Low and Samantha Ponder.
And just this spring, ESPN had eliminated about 30 off camerara positions as part of broader job cuts at parent company Disney because it all gets tied in together.
The point that I'm making is is that these kind of things happen all the time, especially in this day and age.
So, when I think about it, it's [snorts] like, thank God Ryan's got the pivot.
Thank God he's a three-time Emmy award winner. Thank God he just won another Emmy with NFL Live, winning Emmys as a studio show and won as an individual in 2023. Thank God he's so exceptional at what he does that a network would be a fool not to gobble him up. It's NBC, it's CBS, it's Fox Television, it could be Netflix, it could be Amazon, it could be whatever. Ryan Clark is arguably the best NFL analyst in America.
Well, we heard what Stephen A. Smith said, but you already know. I got to let the hat Hey, I got the clown in the show and the clown got something to say, so we going to play it cuz this is what we do on Steady Service Sports ENT.
There you go.
He just got through eating a whole pack of donuts and here we go.
>> Ryan Clark is sitting on the set of NFL Live, lights on, cameras rolling, doing his little analyst thing, probably dropping a race card or two, and somewhere in the middle of that broadcast, somebody lets him know, uh, Ryan, bring your playbook. The coach wants to see you. You're done late.
>> He's so happy, chat. This fat bastard.
He's so happy, chat. But I got to show y'all this ain't just with certain angel and certain pe I mean they have they have a Kool-Aid season going on.
I'm trying to show y'all something on how the hidden hand work. So when I'm doing this, I'm trying to show y'all how it is because this bastard can't even get a job nowhere. You got what I'm saying? He is out out with them. So let's continue on. Off and Ryan Clark gets up and leaves. Didn't finish the show.
Just gone. Gone, boy. Walked off his own program.
You heard what he said? Gone, boy.
Y'all hear that? Poking the belt. Ryan Clark beat your ass, Jason Woodlock.
Now, a bigger man, a more dignified man would feel sorry for Ryan Clark. I'm not that man. I'm a man that sees the humor, the irony, the righteousness of this act. Yes, this is quite the pivot for Ryan Clark and ESPN.
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[laughter] Jason Whlock, you know you can't even fight. I don't KNOW WHY YOU SIT. YOU AIN'T THAT PROTECTED. You got to come out your cubby hole in your potato chip bag and your ribs that you have your pork chops that you got. You know what I'm saying? THAT YOU EAT. HEY, JASON.
LIKE, YOU GONNA HAVE TO COME OUT TO GO TO THE grocery store to get your liquor.
You know what I'm saying? You be buzzed.
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Okay.
to my mono. Now, let me take you back a couple of months because this is where the comedy was planted as it relates to Ryan Clark. Cam Newton's got a show.
Cam invited me on it. We talked. I gave my honest opinion, including about Stephen A. Smith because that's what I do and that's what Cam asked for. Let's take a listen.
>> Look, you said you going to keep it in a buck. Uh a thousand thousand.
>> Keep it a th000 line. Now >> I've done the homework on Stephen A.
He's fraudulent. He's lying about his college basketball career. He's admitted he's lying about his college basketball career. If I sat in the media space for 20 years telling everybody I played for Big House games and I got a full ride scholarship after knocking down 17 straight three-pointers in a scrimmage on a Sunday when they played a game on Saturday and they hosted a scrimmage on Sunday and I knocked down [screaming] 17 straight three-pointers and they gave me a [laughter] Y'all got [laughter] Hey, he Stephen. Hey, see the drama of it all. I told y'all it's going to be a good show. Y'all just come on in. He hit the I'm telling y'all it's going to be coming. I'm trying to tell y'all. I know Ryan is a serious dude, but these are the clowns that that man had to deal with as he, you know, we know that Ryan Clark is a very very very stious individual and he's very serious about his work and he gives his honest opinion. Even though he's sharp with with how he does and his tone is real thorough, he also had to deal with these type of things that's going on around him. So, come on in. Hit the like button.
>> On the spot.
>> Hey, ADP, this is one for mental health.
This is a big thing because they did a straight purge at ESPN. What about the people who lost their jobs? The ones that don't have pivot. the ones that don't ain't set up like you know what I mean Cam Newton. You got what I'm saying? Some of those people are going to actually be hungry chat because the the industry is saturated with all of these people giving their opinions, analysts and cameramen and work. Hey, my son is in the industry so I know exactly what's going on.
So more This going to get >> survive has to be one of the most relaxing and comforting games of >> Don't go nowhere. It's Hey, it's going to get hot up in here. It's been [laughter] fat boy. Hey, fat boy clown gonna get >> Ryan Clark. He didn't care for my comments on Cam show. Uh neither did Stephen A.
So the two of them got on their platforms and started scolding Cam Newton. The gist. Bam.
If a man shows you love, has you around, you don't platform his enemies. Loyalty is at a minimum these days.
Loyalty. Two grown men running the loyalty police on Cam Newton's own show over who Cam Newton is allowed to have a conversation with. Now, here's why the time. Now that part is right because there's some people that was mad at me.
>> Loyalty sermon age like fine.
>> You know what I'm saying? There's some people that was mad at me and playing that loyalty game of who I should and who I shouldn't have on my show. Who I should talk to, who I shouldn't talk to on my show. So, I understand that part.
I mean, for real, y'all. Y'all listen.
Y'all don't be knowing what be going on.
But this stuff is real though. This stuff happened even on this YouTube level. This happens.
So that part fat boy burger he he actually telling the truth on that cuz this is how you know some sick fans and some you know people that's deranged and dulu they I mean you ain't going to tell me that's if Kap said that I can do what I need to do and have who I want to have on the show. Who do you think you are to say who I can and I can't talk to?
That's why you cut [clears throat] off.
You can't tell no grown ass man what to do and I'll cut you quick. Nope. Not going to have it. Not going to play no games and no gang banging games. We not going to do that. We going we going to keep it main thing the main thing and we going to keep it a buck. I had to let that go cuz this even happens. You know, some of y'all was around when certain things happened to us over, you know, I mean, some odd maybe about a year and a half ago. Y'all know what I'm talking about. And then some things is happen current. So, what I'm saying is is that who am I to tell ADP who she could have and can't have on her show? That's ADP's show. She could have whoever she wants to have on HER SHOW. WHO AM I to say or get mad at Sister Kesha about who she whoever it is? I don't care if it's a Clue Class clan member.
How can I get mad at her creating media for herself and what she's doing and how she's going about it inadvertently?
Who am I to tell Tony or KP what they should and who they should not be? And if they have somebody on their channel, they not loyal to me. That's crazy work.
You need to go to the Lulu Hospital and get yourself some biscuits so that your ass can get fixed because God ain't with that unrighteousness. That's madness.
If a man shows you love, has you around, you don't platform his enemies. Loyalty is at a minimum these days. [laughter] Loyalty. Two grown men running the loyalty police on Cam Newton's own show over who Cam Newton is allowed to have a conversation with. Now, here's why the timing is absolutely perfect. build >> for two whole Ryan Clark walked around believing his loyalty sermon aged like fine wine and the whole time the network he was demanding everyone be loyal to was quietly sharpening the axe with his name on it >> and here's the kicker the man Ryan was scolding Cam over Stephen a myth he couldn't spell the word if Kendrick Lamar helped him do it let me make sure I've got the loyalty math That's right.
Clark and Stephen A lectured Cam for being disloyal and ESPN may be about to lay off all three of them. Yes, I said all three. I don't think Stephen A is going to see all five years on his latest contract. That's my prediction.
>> Very well be the next ESPN casualty.
>> He was right.
>> The universe didn't rush this punchline.
Fearless family. It's serving the whole table.
>> So Cam Newton was told earlier today that he was let go. So that hit that news broke. So when he aired this at 10:00 in the morning when Jason Whitlock came on at 10:00 in the morning, I got you. MSL, hold on a second. I got you. I know this a real juicy chop topic for you. I had you in mind. I got you. Hold on. I got you, brother.
Hold on. I got you.
I got you. Okay, as my brother from another mother get itself together.
Let's talk about the man Ryan Clark was defending because this is where it gets very educational. Stephen A. Smith preaches loyalty the way a fox preaches hen house security. Ask Molly Carum. Sat next to Stephen A for years. Held the first take desk down. Looked good doing it. But when the wind shifted, was she protected? When she wanted a little pay bump from 500,000, did Stephen A make it happy happen? Was she saved? Could she get paid? Let's ask Shannon Sharp.
Stephen A was right there. Did that famous leverage do anything for Shannon when Shannon needed cover?
Oh, wait.
But maybe Stephen A is planning on bringing Shannon Sharp back. Maybe that's why he let Ryan Clark get dusted.
We'll marinate on that in the panel. But so being let go, this right up your alley. Uh ADP, if you want to come up, you can come up too cuz I dropped the link in because this goes right into your psyche and this clown play. Listen, he couldn't wait. And he Listen, they crying in heaven right now for Ryan Clark right now because I know that man wasn't supposed to be cut, but he was he was waiting for this type of thing. Didn't you hear him? He said that he was waiting for this type of thing because obviously because Jason Willock really do know how these things go down.
But the mental health side of it, what do you mean, bro? Well, we all know that Jason Whitlock is actually playing mind games.
And he did call, even though he called Cam Newton to be the next one to be fired, he already had inside information cuz they all talk about things. So y'all don't fall for the Kool-Aid. Everybody talks in that game. Even just Jason Whitlock hear certain things. You got what I'm saying? So he already knew that Cam Newton was already on the chopping block because he knew that there were going to be a decrease in jobs.
And no disrespect Cam Newton not the analyst uh the way the the way that Ryan Clark carry his himself. They both different.
You got what I'm saying? Cam Newton more loose funny do his thing. You know what I mean? Young the new breed the new media. And Ryan Clark is the original uh uh analyst guy that understands that played the game that knows the game well that's able to give himself a former champion. He's been on different teams and he understands systems. He understand coaches and he understands all the different parts of the game. So Ryan Clark already know you know what I mean? out of most of the people, like he said, he's probably the one of the most smartest of them all, but I'mma go forward.
Here's the truth about Stephen A and loyalty. It's a one-way street. And every lane runs towards Stephen A. His leverage benefits exactly one human being on this planet. And you're looking at his initials on that big hundred million dollar contract. Everybody else is a supporting character in the Stephen A. Smith show. Ryan Clark thought he was a partner. He was a prop. And now Ryan Clark is finding out what Molly found out. What Shannon found out that the man who talks the most about loyalty has the least of it to give. Okay, here's the part I actually want you to remember because it's the whole game.
Ryan Clark got fired and Stephen A.
Smith, the highest profile face at the network, the man with the $100 million contract, the man who never stops reminding you how big he is.
Couldn't save Ryan Clark, couldn't save Shannon, couldn't save Molly, can't save anybody. Because here's the secret ESPN doesn't want said out loud. Stephen A.
Smith's leverage is a magic trick. It's loud. It's shiny. It works on the audience. It does not move one executive. You want to see what real power at ESPN looks like? Look at Pat McAfee. McAfee walked in, cut his own deal, brought his own production controls, his own content, and the network rearranges the furniture around him. When McAfee talks, the building moves. When Stephen A talks, the building rolls its eyes, nods politely, and does whatever it already was going to do.
See, those are the mind games that he plays, guys. That's the stuff that I'm talking about. And me, you know what I mean? I'mma get into that mental that these are the things that we got to understand that these all these people know each other. They've been working with each other for decades and decades long. And like Stephen A. Smith went off on uh Jason Whitlock and Jason Whitlock going off on him. And they all been intertwining with each other for a long long time. So that's when I already made up in my mind. Let me get on here.
Let me get on here real quick. That's what I made up in my mind.
Chad, that me broke Claude.
Me, I am not going to drink the Kool-Aid.
Can't do it. It got too much sugar in it. Uh-uh. I don't want diabetes from it cuz it's going to kill you. So, I'm just telling y'all, man, that these people already know each other. They familiar with each other. They've been working around each other for decades long. And people like Jason Whitlock, uh, they were waiting for Ryan Clark day to come.
They also, you also heard him, he called out Cam Newton before it happened. And then he's also waiting on he's waiting on uh uh Stephen A. Smith to lose his job. He say within the next five years. But they all always know each other and the certain moves and how these networks are. And I always told y'all, man, every time I got up in here, me and MSL told y'all that the editors, the production, the all the way down to the crewmen, these the producers, they all have control of what we take in and what we see. and they cut the the actual truth down. They water it, water it, water it down. And therefore, they give their their their their blindly gold piece that's there. They give the blind piece a shiny replica. Rub it down, put it in the sun, so you could look at it and you could feed all up into it and eat it up just like Porky the Pig. But I'm just saying this situation that Ryan Clark has gotten himself, you know, fired during the middle of a a a TV program is diabolical. I don't want to hear nothing about no this ain't no racism, this and that. Everybody got cut, bro. Claude, no. He is the elite. That's exactly what ESPN done. This is exactly what Jeff Pagliosha and Michael Alton and Nadia Rollson ultimately done with Angel Reese.
You can't convince me of that. MSL they did the exact thing. This was not something that had just somehow came on.
They knew for months and I believe >> no there no there there obviously had to be some level of vitriol or bitterness in order to fire someone on the air like that.
Obviously that was very very personal and not you know not accidental >> pissed off somebody cuz you know Ryan Clark don't play with none of them. You got what I'm saying?
>> And and he's been on ESPN for a long time right? Like 20 years right? Uh 11 11 and a half >> 11. Okay. Okay. Like NFL Live, right?
>> Yes.
Yes. He started, you know, I mean, he started doing just coming up in appearances and stuff like that, but then he worked his way on being permanent about a solid nine years, eight years, about a solid eight years. Let's say around right like three years before COVID 2017, something like that. You got what I'm saying? So he worked his I mean it was organic the way it happened but we saw him coming on coming you know what I mean >> and you know Whitlock and you know and you know Whitlock likes none of the three people involved right?
>> No all three of them he he got he got >> he don't like Stephen A. Smith you know besides whatever they dealt with in their professional careers obviously he thinks you know first of all first of all he doesn't see Stephen A. Smith as a true Republican cuz he's not, you know, Stephen A is more of a grifter.
>> Yes.
>> Is more of a grifter because he actually supported Camala. Yes.
>> During the during the during the election and then when he and then when he realized Trump won, he flipped the script. He flipped the script and he started to slow first he played the middle and then after he played the middle then he started you know highlighting Trump 75%. He never full went to Trump but you know but everybody thought he supported Trump. He didn't.
He actually supported >> more than >> Camala and he hated and he hated Trump.
So yeah, that's one of the reasons why Whitlock don't like him. Obviously Whitlock >> doesn't like the fact just like he didn't like Steuart A. Smith. He thought he was too brash, you know, too street, too, you know, you know, too young, too hiphop, whatever. So he had a problem with that. He always looked at Stephen A as an idiot. And interestingly enough, they had similar careers in this sense.
Whitlock fell out of favor, which is why he's doing YouTube now.
>> So did so did Stephen A. Smith. He fell out of favor. I don't want to get out.
>> Whitlock is one of the old school one of the old school journalists. He's he's one of the original paper boys. Right.
>> Right.
>> Go ahead.
>> Right. So he was on First Take >> when it was actually Homeboy's show, Skip Balis. When it's actually Skip Bellis's show, >> he got on the show and found a way to stay on the show and get rid of Skip Balis.
>> And and then it's been and then he brags to everybody, oh, that's been the top rated show in it segment since then. So Jason Whitlock looks at him and it's like, godamn, how you able to crawl out of your stuff, you know?
But then I, you know, then I couldn't.
He always hated Cam Newton when Cam Newton came up. And Cam Newton was a great great great player. We could talk about him another day.
>> Great great great great guy. Like I didn't really see anything wrong with Cam. I mean later in his career, he started to act a little dress a little flamboyant and sassy. I can't speak.
>> But he but he got it out the mud. Cam came from >> Right. Exactly. But when he came up, >> Right. He was a great college player, great college quarterback. His coach sucked or everybody thinks his coach is good, Ron Rivera. He was not.
>> He was not. He was a new coach. It was a new coach, new quarterback. And they had a >> they had a they had a great offensive coordinator um called Chud Rob Chajinski. And his first his first two games, he threw 400 yards.
>> Yes.
>> 400 yards each game. And then all of a sudden, Ron Rivera, who was a defensive coach, kind of like what somebody like Jeff P would do, he was like, "Oh snap."
He's like, "Oh snap, I'm an offensive coach. I can't have these games, you know, where somebody's throwing like that." So, they actually told the offensive coordinator to not throw the ball as much and to play these close games. And make a long story short, they the Panthers would go out like 20 like be up by 20 points and a half and almost every game would end either with a loss or in a close game because the coach did not know how to coach Ron River. It took him years to learn how to coach. And of course Cam always >> took years to coach Cam, >> right? And Cam would get the rap for it, right? Cam would get the rap for it because kind of like Angel, but obviously not the same. Not the same because of what happened to him.
when he was at Florida State or Florida, one of those two schools with the quote unquote laptop, right? And how he got to and how he got to Auburn >> because his father was like a minister who didn't kiss behind.
>> The press hated him. They were private.
They were quiet. They did that. They didn't kiss butt. They didn't give access. They didn't pay.
>> He was very concealed. He was very concealed.
>> He was very private explosion.
>> Right. He was private and the press hated him >> though. He was the they told all type of lies about him with the draft that were not that that were not true >> anything like >> Yeah. They saw all Now the difference is Cam was so talented they had to draft him number one and the team was always going to draft him number one because they did the proper background check.
They went as far as talking to babysitters >> because they was trying to throw that he he was a junior college attendee and >> No, Cam was a great No, Cam was a great great great kid. He met Michael Jordan when he first got to the team. You know, >> we can talk about Cam and other stuff like this another day. I don't want to, >> you know, talk too much about but he was a great great but Stephen A hated him just like the press in general and uh and the sellout black press which Stephen A was a part of. He gave Cam way way way way too much critic.
>> I remember cuz Cam even said on the show, you know, I know I was more criticized by you probably than others.
He say, "But I looked up to you, so I took it on the chin." Remember that?
>> No. And he Yeah. And he did and he didn't deserve it cuz he if he would have had if he would have had but and the thing about Cam, which they never which people didn't know, he was he was actually he was actually a downfield pastor. Tam was just super uber talented. He was 66, 265 pounds or they listed him at 250.
He was actually 265. He was fast. He ran like a 45. He ran like a four five. But he could also juke you out of your shoes, right?
>> But but he could also throw the ball 60 70 yards >> downfield. And he was always a pocket he was always a pocket passer. The problem was his coach Rivera, he [snorts] was too lazy on getting a proper running back. So what he would do is he would run Cam because he knew Cam could always get the first out or get a good run and ultimately that was going to catch up that was going to catch up with him. And it did later later in his later in his career. But in reality, if they would have ran the running backs properly, Cam could have played 20 years like like like anybody else. Like he was really really really talented. He was an excellent thrower, excellent runner. He could read he could read defenses. He didn't have the plays on his wrist. They were all memorized. The whole, you know, the whole nine. But that's a, you know, and as far as Ryan, obviously, he was set up. There's no way in hell that you get that you get fired on screen. Like that's some extra personal with no Vaseline type stuff right there.
>> Yeah. Real personal. But, you know, just a little bit a snippet on Cam. Y'all y'all know that they they thought that he was a they they thought that Cam Newton was a better Michael Vic. If I could get y'all some of y'all that remember Michael Vic in his in his peak >> or you could say what's the dude that played with Philly again? Forgot his name.
What the dude that played with Philly again? Randle Cunningham. Or Rand Cunningham.
>> Yeah, Randle Cunningham. Yeah, but Randall didn't have But Randall couldn't juke. where Randall had the arm and the smarts. He was smart. You got >> Or he was Doug Williams who could run his ass off.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Cuz nobody was as big as Cam. Cam, I'm tell 265 and built like a tank.
>> 66. 66 and ready and limber and he could and he could do he used to throw blocks.
Remember when they had to stop making him stop throwing blocks?
>> Remember that he was throwing?
They was like, "Whoa, you the quarterback. You don't throw no damn blocks."
>> And you know what's so funny? And you know what's funny? And him and him and him and Angel definitely had a lot of parallels because I follow because I followed both players. But the difference is to Angel's credit to Angel's credit she said, "I don't give a damn. Get me the hell out of here." what Cam, the situation Cam had, everyone knew that that franchise was a terrible Everyone knew that franchise was a terrible franchise. And the owner at the time, who's not there now, Jerry, forgot his last name, used to be a former player. He was cheap as hell, didn't like to spend money. He was kind of crazy and everybody so nobody wanted to go there, right? As a matter of fact, the other dude, I forgot his name, the guy that came, him and Cam were at the same class, but Cam came out early. And this dude came out after his name would come back to me, but he was like, I ain't going to he I'm not going to the Panthers. That's why he didn't go there.
So anyway, >> make a long story short, when they kept when they started offering Cam the $20 million contracts instead of him saying, "I'm no no thank you."
He was loyal and took he was loyal and took the money. And just like how Chicago was a terrible franchise, >> um, Carolina was a terrible franchise and Cam should have got his ass the hell out of there as soon as he could because if he did, he'd probably be a shoein Hall of Fame quarterback and multi MVP winner because homeboy, the press like to make it sound like he was some running quarterback. No, he's 66 265 and can throw the ball 75 yards downfield and he could read defenses.
This dude could play. Plus, he could juke anyone out of their shoes. He can he can truck any linebacker or outrun a linebacker. Like this dude was like Superman, which is what he which is what he did, right?
>> But Ron Rivera, it took him years to become a good coach because he was an assistant coach. He was a royal hire. um Ron Rivera, he ain't know what the hell he was doing, but and then he actually took credit for Cam be being a good coach and I think he went to LA, right? But all that was built. Anyone who followed the Panthers will tell you that that was Cam's team and it was so hilarious because some of the guys who follow the team was racist as hell as far as some of the fans and even they got to respect and love and love and love Cam. So, >> I mean, he was just a big pulverizing just like he is now. He was just a big personality. You got what I'm saying?
And Jerry Richardson took advantage of his loyalty. You know, he told the kid, you know, nobody else wanted you. I got you. And, you know, Cam talked about all of how Jerry uh Richardson manipulated things. You got what I'm saying? So, right, >> we gonna go on a real quick. Your favorite. We gonna go. [laughter] >> What's AO? Oh, Ao. Oh, Acho had to try.
So, all the So, all the brother man.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, here go. Ao. I wanted to play Jason Whitlock in the middle because you know we got this had a clown show. We got to have a clown show in the midst of this [ __ ] I mean, I can't make this stuff up. Chad >> for you today. First, we have to talk about the biggest news in the sports world. Ryan Clark was let go from ESPN today. ESPN cut ties with him. The Athletic has learned. BUT THIS THING GOT EVEN CRAZIER BECAUSE RYAN CLARK was live on NFL Live today and was told during the program that he was being let go. He didn't finish the program. ESPN was expected to inform him tomorrow morning when it's uh when when it is anticipated the network uh to inform the employees of the layoffs. But crazy news is Ryan Clark was let go while on air earlier today as maybe some news leaked earlier.
Fellas, you guys' reaction. And I know ao you you were an expert at being fired. [laughter] Um, wow. Your reaction to Ryan Clark being let go. Um, all right. Look, >> will get fired regardless of your profession. But to fire a man that helped bring a show, its very first Emmy award in the midst of that show is Cal Live. NFL Live, a show that's for the last two years won backtoback Emmy awards for best best daily sports show.
Y'all know how many daily sports shows there are in the world, many of which you watch and even more that you don't watch. And they have objectively been voted on two years straight for having the best.
Just now about to have a Super Bowl.
That's why you got Troy Aman. That's why you came out here from Fox and you got our talent and Ryan Clark is on that Monday night show. Fire that man. So to me, it is cowardly to fire a man in the midst of him working for a show that he has built up to Emmy level and Emmy quality. I fully understand firing somebody. YOU GOT TO FIRE SOMEBODY. YOU GOT TO FIRE SOMEBODY. BET WE ALL GOING TO GET FIRED. AT least I have. I'll speak for me. I can't speak for nobody else. You get fired. BUT >> IT'S ANOTHER thing to fire somebody in the midst of a show. To me, that's repulsive. It's cowardice.
>> Yeah. I mean, listen, people get fired every day. But what I don't understand is he had all these other opportunities to fire Ryan Clark. Why are you firing while he's on air? I don't I don't understand that. At the old show, I heard that you know Acho and his homies got fired on air. I wasn't there. I knew it was about to happen.
>> Yeah. YOU WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN? I WILL NOT BE A [laughter] TRUE STORY. It's a true story.
>> But that's true story. But my thing is it's like, you know, and I don't have anything said bad about ESPN because I don't want to know all the particulars of what really happened. But I do know this is that Ryan Clark is really really good on TV, right? And I think a lot of viewership, they love to see Ryan Clark.
He's one of them guys, he's an ex player that speaks and gives you the insight of what a player goes through, you know?
So, I just don't understand why they finding why he was on air. That that's kind of wild to me. I'm sure that you see. So, ADP Ryan Clark is kind of like how you are. He's very personal. He's very, very personal. He cares about the players. He cares about the people that he interviews like the comedians and the different people that he comes on. He deals with that mental health of certain situations. He also commemorates the the the journey. He likes to hear and want people to come up with the journey and make sure that the people are able to connect. can't listen RC is very very good in being a a a person who can relate uh if that made sense. uh MSL. So what what what what Shady which I don't like Shady you know I don't care >> Shady is Shady >> I don't care about Shady at all but one thing that Shady is saying is that the mental health of it all he don't understand we don't understand but we do know they got rid of that black man because he it was him or someone else of the Lord tenure, right?
Cuz nepotism is definitely Watch what I'm telling y'all. Watch when they put on these shows and the new times and the hours and the people that they merge cuz this is a merger. You know what I'm saying? With the with the uh with the NFL. So, this is a big merger uh that they're doing and they purging all of the people. And for the people that just got here, for the people that just got here, go ahead.
No, go ahead. Sorry.
>> Okay, for the people that just got here, Ryan Clark gone. Cam Newton gone. Carl Rivich after more than a decade at ESPN reportedly gone. Tom Pleserel gone. Bart Scott gone. David Lloyd gone. Stephania Bale gone. Charles Davis gone. All of these people were let go, including cameramen, production pieces, um analysts, uh uh um associated press, um relations, all of those people who give um uh editorial uh decisiveness, a lot of those people that's been there for years gone. Right?
So this purse that we seeing, this was already thought of, man. They could have told the man before he, you know what I'm saying, left out his door that, hey, some stuff went down and not not even let him get dressed and pulled him in.
You know what I'm saying? A lot of people be like, "No, man. They should have, you know, they should have after that show that he did, the last show that he did or the time that he had to do cuz it was yesterday, Monday, right?
So the weekend had transpired. So they, you know, they could have called him on Sunday. But what they didn't want him to do was they didn't want him to they wanted him to actually finish uh MSL the time length of cuz they didn't want him to just leave then. I believe they want him to finish this week. You got what I'm saying? But since they was gonna cut him, Ryan Clark like, "No." And then he was hearing the news.
He was hearing it when he got to the, you know, people was looking at him different and crazy. You know what I'm saying? Aro fa to take y'all into all of this type of thing. I just want you guys to see the insight of how that [ __ ] feel and how them networks be moving. All right, here you go.
>> We'll get the the real story eventually soon because he'll speak his peace and later on really happen.
>> Yeah. Know, firing someone while they're in the middle of a workday a little crazy, especially while they're doing their job to the best of their ability.
It does seem It does seem crazy. Let me provide some nuance. Again, we're going to haha Kiki. That's the show. I'mma laugh at myself. Y'all can laugh at me in the chat, throw tomatoes, do all the things. Um, last year, true story, I find out that we're our show's getting cancelled. Me, Shady, James Jones, Chase Daniel. I find out our show's getting cancelled like 5 days before it gets cancelled. But we found out in reality on social media.
Y'all see that, right? They got they they knew about it five days. Ryan Clark knew about it yesterday. MSL yesterday and he knew about it and heard about it through social media marketing.
So when they pulled him in since they they was already seeing it and >> the executives never and he was s seeing it they went on and told him while in the middle of the break because he like man what's this [ __ ] that's on my phone what's going on I mean that's just the way that was trash that was raggedy the way they did it I don't trust these networks they could go to hell far as I'm concerned I like to be in the simply ball dropping podcast network because guess what? It's communication. It's small. It's actually, you know what I mean? Communication on what's going on.
People that we do bring in like, you know what I'm saying? People that's on the panel or different ones that we got coming in. We got relationships with them. We start seeing how they get down and invite them come on to the panel.
Let's see if they really know they [ __ ] You got what I'm saying? MSL. So they they actually, you know, they actually knew that this man did not have a clue, did not have an idea, did not not that did not even have it in his mind, even though he knew that the merger was coming. There's no way a Emmy awardwinning man was supposed to be losing his job Monday morning in the middle of a goddamn show.
No way. That's >> yeah that's some sort of that's some sort of punishment. [clears throat] >> So >> the question is who made the question is whose decision was to do that >> that came from the higher up because you know once you get in which you already know uh uh uh MSL I'm just talking to the people that don't know like my son is in media you know that right already.
So it it comes from the main office.
It comes FROM THE BIG MAN FROM THE BIG MAN. You got it. THE BIG MAN ASKS, "WHO is it?" The bigger man the man the bigger man asks, "Who is it?" The big man say, "Well, we got to do all of these." AND THEN THE FLUNKY GOES, "WELL, we could cut this, this, this, and that."
When I say flunky, that's one of the executive producers. the one of the executives that's there, the higherups and the editors, the executives, the editors and the production company, they all they all talk, right? They all have a pow-wow and Ryan Clark was already focused on and they knew this [ __ ] for months once they started the merger.
That's my point myself. Go ahead, Cook.
Well, you know, Disney has been losing audiences from right around the time of Trump's Trump's election and it did affect ESPN because a lot of people just felt they were going to protest anything that was Disney that was Disney related. So, and all these things kind of happened at the same time. It just wasn't, >> you know, it was also like what's that word? Like people just got burnt out of Marvel movies.
>> Yes. Yes.
Marvel movies, you know, the stuff that Disney was doing, you know, and and what they were putting in the movies. And then ESPN, you know, they're just yelling and shouting all the time. And so I think a lot of so so ESPN already all already started cutting people and talk about layoffs and stuff like that as they were doing. So, like you said, this would have just been another phase of those layoffs and people would have known, but they just said, "Hey, you know what? We don't like you, so we're going to do it this way." And or they wanted to get rid of certain people, so they designed it as a layoff in order to get rid of these people, you know, depending on how many they got rid of.
And one thing I I would agree with Jason Whitlock is like where were you >> Stephen A if you work with Ryan Howard on letting the brother man know >> hey look out here's what's coming here you know look for this look for this you know look for that because I do think unfortunately that Stephen A. Smith works for the man. Like if you just look at the way he's handled the Angel Reese situation, if for every two passable just passable nice things he may have said about Angel Reese, he said eight terrible things about Angel Reese. And as a matter of fact, everyone on ESPN and the ESPN um networks, they can't they're handcuffed. They can't give a praise of of Angel of Angel Reese. They can't because they're not because they're not they're not allowed to. And I know this is right up your alley what I'm about to say. This is why when people get into this whole >> especially especially when the idiot conservatives say, "Oh, the media is liberal." The media ain't no damn liberal. Because when push come to shove, whatever they want to do, they all stand they all stand with the same.
>> Yes.
>> And you have not heard you have not heard one any of these networks come out 100% and support and support Angel Ree. This thing with Brond Delo is the craziest thing I have ever seen.
>> Psycho. Psycho.
>> It's the craziest thing I've ever seen because this the whole thing comes from the Indigenous Protection Act, >> which they had back in the late 1800s, early >> 1800s. 1867, >> right? Which is which was a farce. It was only a name. It was a name only. was a far. So it was how they took their land. How they just So when y'all went and looked this stuff up and you saw geology and this this this part Google didn't tell you was how it affected the Aboriginals when they took their land.
How did it affect the Aboriginals when they took their resources? How did it affect the Aboriginals? That's what that's what it was about. It was that's what it was about. So this sports thing obviously would have came decades after because killing off the Aboriginals was a process that they had did when they got there 200 years ago when it had started.
>> Absolutely. Like they did >> that was always going to that was always going to be first. So for anyone to say, "Oh, it's a sports thing. It's a sport."
That don't even make no sense. That's like me saying, you know what that would be like me saying, bro? That would be like me meeting a white person, calling his wife or daughter the B- word or a hoe, and then saying and then saying, "Oh, in my culture, we in my culture, you know, we you you know, we call women bees and hoes because that's what that's how they think we talk anyway. So, if that was the case, would they be happy that I ran up to someone's daughter and called her bee or or I'll give you another one, the N word, right?" That would be like a white man in America going to Australia getting into an argument with a black person and then calling them the n-word in Austral and go, "Oh, well, in my culture, it's a term of endearment." Because guess what?
99% of the time, right or wrong, whether we like it or not, it's used as a term of endearment. So words have always have duality.
them trying to pretend they they treat us like we're stupid, brokart, like we're idiots, right? It's like the word bad. The word bad can mean bad or the word bad could mean good.
>> Language has always been used like that.
So when they gaslight us and say, "Oh, it means an athlete." Sorry, the mic came off. Oh, it means an athlete, a very good athlete. We're idiots. And they don't even bring up the part about it's a slur used against the the Aboriginals or the indigenous blacks.
>> Like they don't even say that and all you and it's not that hard to find.
>> So for them to say that it's just so we're always gaslighted. And when it comes to the media, they work in force.
And the reason why, you know, they work in force because no none of them even brought up that Vadella call Angel a POS.
>> Mhm. So obviously if you call someone a POS and you use this term in the same process that means you didn't say anything nice. You didn't say anything good because you were angry. It's just like when you see a brother and you go what's up my you know what he knows you're not mad. He knows you're not upset. You go what's up my n you know and you do it like that. Oh everything's cool. Right. But if a woman got met a stranger and they got into a fight or an argument and said you effing be you know it's on and popping. That's what Brondello did. She used a curse word and then used a slur and they come and try to gaslight us. All of the media, all of the fake black, all of the fake black people on on social media t go, "Oh, well, you know, it's it was just >> so I want to get you guys in the frame of mind.
This is what they found in old in old 200 years ago in Australia when the colonizer went there."
>> Well, those are pyramids. I think that's Africa.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, that. No, no, this is Australia.
>> It must be a different screen. But that Well, they may have pyramids in Australia, too. They got pyramids everywhere. So >> that that's what that Wait, let me let me lead them. Let me guide them. I know this right here. I'm I'm I'm I'm going somewhere. So this is Australia, guys.
And this is what when the colonizer came to Australia, this is what they saw. This is what they see.
All over the world, we got pyramids right now.
In America, in Illinois, the state that I'm in, they have pyramids.
>> Yes. Illinois, the mounds, Illinois.
Yeah. That central part of the country >> with gold with gold and all this hieroglyphs, etc. >> THEY WANT TO SELL YOU. They want to sell you that this is how they found us.
These are some tribals that's like that.
No. No. They want to sell you that because they want you to think that we were not intelligent beings. And those pyramids that you see all over the world, even in Australia, that's your connection. That this is a Aboriginal man. It's a black man. He look like Willie that drunk too much over there on Fifth Avenue. Bro, since you're showing the Aboriginals, can I just make a comment for everyone in the chat?
>> Go ahead.
>> Okay. And I think you know this, but here's here's the funny thing, right?
>> Black people are the indigenous people >> all over the world, right? On every single continent, including the Americas. And these black people have been in from up until modern times including Europe, right? A lot of the royal families are black, etc. and so forth in Spain and in all of these places of Europe, >> right? Even in so-called scan Scandinavia, right?
>> But here's the thing. Here's the thing, right? White skin or any other races if you want to call them that, right? cuz it's either one race which is the black race and everything is a deviation of it >> deviation of it >> right because what happens is in Africa they have every facial characteristic every facial feature every eye color those epicanic fos that we call slinky or chanty eyes those originate in Africa you have different facial features different this different this so when you see certain people in the let's say in the Solomon Islands or you see certain people in Australia that look a certain way.
Those are just different facets of the African population because if they can trace your genealogy, Homo sapiens sap back two to 300,000 years, then you're always going to have mutations.
And the reason why black people are by far the most diverse people on the planet is because we've been around the longest. So we have all these mutations.
So for example, they say there's more genetic diversity in one village in any village in Africa than the rest of the world combined just to give an example.
So what they try to do is make you think that different people are not really black or not really African but or African descented because they are because those aboriges that are in Australia now they they made that out of Africa track 60 to 100,000 years ago to be in Australia. Same in North America, same in South America. So those mounds that Bro Claude was talking about, they want you to believe that Tanto, that the Native American looks like Tanto, those people came approximately 2,000 2,000 [clears throat] to 1,000 years ago. And why? Because there's a natural track from West Africa to get to the Americas.
You can just throw a boat in the ocean and it will end up in Brazil. It will end up in the Caribbean. it will end up just just like that. So that's the part that's so funny. So make a long story short, white skin did not show up in the genetic record until approximately 6 to 8,000 years ago. And it didn't show up in the historical record until until about 2 to 4,000 until about two 2 to 4 thousand years ago. So whites did not show up in history until 2 to 4 thousand years ago. So, >> and they didn't have prominence until they were what they call ma malmuks, soldiers, slaves, things like that. And they didn't really take power in different places. They took some power.
But everywhere, you know, white people took place. They call it the Aryan invasion. So, India had an Aryan invasion. That's where you get Indo-Uropean. So, Europe had an Aryan invasion approximately, 1200 BC. So I say all this to say that black people have been on this earth for depending on how you want to time it for 99.789% of this earth existence and whites and any of the other so-called races which are really not races they're just deviations or mutations of the black race because those people in that we call Chinese that are Han Chinese they're a combination of modern whites and some deviations of the original blacks they were there but if you go back and look at the Shang dynasty.
>> The white man called them Chinese. That was >> so So those Aboriginals which Broccclaw just showed, they killed off the overwhelming majority of them. So when we come today and talk about Sandy Brondello, they try to act like these people don't exist. They just go, "Oh, it's about rules. It's about this."
Well, those same jokes if they claim that they say about athletes, they it's a joke. a cryptic joke, a bad joke based off of those those original Aboriginals that they slaughtered and killed and had under bondage and had under bondage and and they became a quote unquote protected species because they were species because they were considered subhuman or subjre. They were protected because they were being mutilated, killed in the genocide and then they use all those rules against them to take their land and steal their land and steal their riches. But that's another story. Well, I got it even more.
I got it even more. So, you guys got to understand and then I'mma get up off of this.
You you you know, when when people tell you who you are, you don't have to believe them.
When people say who you are, you don't have to believe them.
This is this what I'm going to show you.
[cough] This is the original statue that was fashioned of who Buddha was.
Buddha was a black man.
>> Oh, with the locks. Oh, with the locks.
>> This is Buddha. This is the original.
This is the This is what they have right now in China.
We have been all over the place. The statue they didn't want and they didn't want the relic of us knowing that this man was a black man, knowing who he is. They just put him in gold. And as the times and the centuries went on, they started to do him just like they did John Henson.
>> Well, they whitewashed every they whitewash everything with imperialism/colonialism.
And in the history books, they call it European romanticism, where in approximately the last 200 years, um, modern-day Europeans decided to rewrite the history books and turn everything that they knew knew was black that they knew openly was black. No, I'm talking about the last 200 years. This >> I'm saying Donald Trump doing >> the last 200 years, >> they've decided to turn everything that they knew was that was black and whitewash it. Like for example, Beethoven, right? Beethoven was a black man, right? The reason why we notice is because his his his biographer who who did Beethoven, he they called him Beethoven the Moore. Beethoven was a Moore. And we've seen hiserary mask, hiserary mask as an example. And also his teacher was a Moore was a Moore because at that time at that time in Europe there was there was still a healthy enough black population that was still left over before the 30-year wars before the religious wars before the wars where they started to ward the ward the blacks out kill them and some of them they shipped here into the Americas. They shipped here to the Americas and what in a different rever what you call a different reverse slave trade. But the thing is blacks were very were very healthy in the aristocracy of Europe up until in some places up until the 1700s and most of the places until the 1400s the late 1400s which ironically is where the European Renaissance took place. The European Renaissance took place when they started to sack when they started to sack the um the black the black establishments in Europe and then which is what happened when Greece and Rome etc. when they went to East Africa. But ironically, Greece was black also because that's how that's how [clears throat] it was that's how it was found.
>> Greece was black because Spain was black. The first queen of Spain was a African woman, >> right? And at that time and at that time there were no blacks in there were no whites. Sorry. In the historical record, like I said, whites didn't arrive to Europe until approximately 1,200 BC.
>> Caucuses. So [clears throat] any so anything that happened in Europe before that time, >> white folks weren't involved. Like I said, there's a book called When the World was Black. I forgot who wrote it.
But make a long story short, >> the overwhelming majority of this world's existence, whether you want to take it millions of years for homoctus, homoabilis, you know, etc., or if you want to take it for so-called modern man, homo sapiens, sapen 300,000 years ago. But black people have been the only people on this earth for anywhere from 97 to 99.9% of this history. And the the aristocracy knows this. Like they know this. Like this is why y'all don't hear me get upset about racists. I know brokart gets a little more upset than I do because I know they I know they know the truth.
The people who run stuff, they know the truth. They always say they know they is coming to an end. And this is this is the president that they tell you John Henson see the man.
>> Well, I don't know what Trump knows, but I'm talking about the people back in the back in the day and the people who really run stuff >> they fighting against. That's why they did everything because >> but they use race to they use race to keep us to keep us apart because those same whites like take like like Hitler he worship he worshiped Abn sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. that that guy sorry >> yes >> that guy in Germany he worshiped Aknatan he worshiped you know he had he he he went to Ethiopia he was looking for the ark of the covenant etc and all they they they knew that's why when they took him out of power because it was the European and American industrialists that put him in power he said he said wait till the black Americans find out that they are the true children of the true children of God and you know it go it's it it It it goes deep. You can talk about stuff like that forever. But you were saying real.
>> But what I was saying was so this picture here, the man on the left is who they they they carved out and painted.
But the man on the right is the original first black president of America. That's John Henson. No one knows that. So, what I what we brought >> what what what we brought this up for >> and while we're talking about that little part of the segment, y'all, that 20 minutes that we just gave you to get to give you how irritated they are that you are rising up again. how irritated they are because Angel did nothing to Sandy Bell but beating her teams behind. Now go to Ryan Clark.
>> Hold up, hold up, hold up, bro. Can I just say this real quick? Cuz your brother a your brother AC Chai Town, he sometimes he be running his mouth for no [ __ ] Did I not say earlier? I don't know where he was >> that I said Ron Rivera ruined ruined um Cam Newton because once he threw those two 400 yard games, his first two games, they pulled back because he was a defensive coach, he did not want to get into offensive games because like a lot of defensive coaches, they're either embarrassed or they only know. It takes a real courageous coach to say, "Okay, you run the offense the way you want to." But so what he did was he wanted to run the offense in a way to where ultimately they would lose a lot of games, which is what they did. And eventually they fired Rob Chisinski because Chajinski was the one who ran that open who ran that open offense. And then every offensive coordinator he got after that, he didn't want to run that open offense. Though Cam was a deep pocket pass and draw and then he gonna tell me, "Oh yeah, Cam could throw, but he ran a lot." He ran a lot because that's what Rivera wanted. Because >> I agree, Sam.
>> Because the running backs that they had, they didn't utilize their running backs.
It wasn't until they got the white guy, I forgot his name. The one that's really good, Christian. Is that his name?
>> Mhm.
>> That's really good. Until they got him, McCaffrey, sorry. McCaffrey until they got McAffrey like they they didn't utilize their running backs properly because because Cam was such a good runner was such a great first down that like a lot of bad coaches. It's kind of like what we complain about with um Smeesco, right? It's like dude you can't use your bench. You can't use your start run your starters into the ground when you got a bench. Have some guts.
>> Tibido.
>> Well, now well now talk about Atlanta.
Yeah. I'm just saying co people coaches like Tom Tiff.
>> Yeah. But like Yeah. But like right like any coach that don't use their bench, the reason why they don't use their bench is because they're afraid. The reason why they don't use their young players is because they're afraid. But if you but if you want to break out of a mold, you got to do you got to have courage in what you do. And Rivera as a new head because remember him and Cam were both rookies. They were both he was a first time head coach. Cam was a rookie. So they grew together. So he blew and lost a lot of games for the team because he wanted to because he wanted because because they'd run out to big leads like 20 point leads, 15-point leads, and instead of him keeping the pressure, he would just basically go into a stall offense and because he couldn't coach and didn't know how to use timeouts, they would lose.
>> Yes. Let's get back into this and then we almost done. Come on.
>> Told us first. My representatives told me first. It's how I found out. Ao, this is about to happen. Keep it a secret.
Don't tell anybody. Funny enough, obviously shady my dog, so with all due respect, I talk to my dog. But keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody. Executives did not tell us that we were getting fired. We found out on Twitter in a post show meeting. True story. And Rome is my witness in the back. He was with me at the LAST SHOW. SHOUT OUT MY DOG ROME.
>> Shout out to producer.
>> Um, after every show, we do a post show meeting. Post show meeting to prepare for the next show. That's how it goes down. You do the show, you do a post show meeting. We're in the post show meeting. Hahan and Key. Hey, what y'all want to talk about tomorrow? Oh, yeah.
Let's talk about Eagles repeat Super Bowl champs. Da da bet. As the executive is upstairs, we get tweets and texts and oh my god, you know, uh the facility getting cancelled. Da da getting cancelled. Getting cancelled. DIDN'T EVEN TELL, BRO. TRUE STORY. James had left cuz only I did the post show meeting. Shady James Chase didn't have to do post meeting. I did the post show meeting. James had left two. He forgot something. His badge didn't work. Shady, I swear to God, Shady, I can't make this up.
>> Death ass.
>> Swear death ass. His badge did not work when he was coming back to get something. He didn't know we had been fired yet.
>> He hadn't got called by the exe. So, James is trying to figure out, yo, why my badge don't work?
>> Jamal Adams mean >> straight up. He trying to figure out why the hell don't my badge work? Cuz you got fired and deactivated. An exec didn't tell nobody. Craziest piece is everybody that would be like, "Hey, morning got morning. Hey, you want your same coffee? Ao, what you need? What you need?" Suji have fire act like you dead like you got the plague like >> like some wild stuff to the point where I sent my team in to collect my clothes like like like I'm not you're not going to play me and then there came a point where the executive was like hey Emanuel you know we want to call you you know talk I don't need you to call me I already saw I got fired so like what but if you want to call me call me before Twitter notifies me this ain't about me this about >> absolutely cuz y'all understand that chat y'all understand why did They tell Ryan in the midst of the show because I don't think they wanted him to find out during the show on NFL Live on >> TW. I think we'll call him, you know, the night before and don't have him coming in to work.
>> Correct.
>> My thing is like Ryan got a whole family, you know, he got his own brand and and I think he's going to be fine because he's a hell of a talent, but this could take a hit in his brand where it's like, damn, you making me look a certain way. You know what I mean? I might be the butter of the joke cuz you fired me while I'm at work.
>> You could have fired me last night and save me the trip. That's the stuff I don't like because it's more of a a respect and I think Ryan has earned the respect for all the great things he's done, you know, at ESPN.
>> Yeah. I mean, you know, I >> Ryan must have pissed somebody off.
>> Yeah. So, so I usually don't agree with Shady because I don't I don't really care for Shady because he be doing stuff for attention. But he's 1,000% right. This man, you should have gave him the integrity. You should have gave him the the the the justice, the right thing, the right steps, the proper way of communicating the right the right way. It's it's always, you know, like the song, there's a right and a wrong when you're loving somebody. You dig what I'm saying? It's a right and a wrong way to do things.
And it seems like that these people always pick and choose what it is best for us or how they're going to handle a certain situation when it's us at the top. Yes. Did they fire white people?
Yes, they did. Yes, they did. But they wasn't in the middle of a damn show.
They weren't in the middle. They didn't have them come in. These people were alerted. These people were told before they even stepped foot into the studio again. And this is why it's so significant. You guys got to see the picture to understand that this man was actually doing siloqu once they break and then he start hearing his phone. His phone blowing up.
He hearing everything on his phone. He look at his phone. He seeing things happening. He go ask what's going on.
Oh, we let you go. This is uh this is your last last day. Like how dirty can you be?
>> ESPN will never get my I I mean they can't never see I I I don't I can't look at that after that type of thing happened because they feel like they can do us any type of way. They're comfortable dismissing us even at at the highest level. I'm just saying y'all, I'm not up here race baiting. I ain't doing none of that. I'm talking about executives, people that's in these games. I don't care if they were black or white cuz the black ones is just as worse cuz look at Nadia Rollinsson. So I'm not trying to say I'm not putting a race on it. I'm not. I'm talking about the conspirators. The ones that get together that don't have no color.
Because guess what? A snake is a snake.
It come in all colors, shapes, sizes, and lengths. So, the snakes gathered together to do this man just like how they done them. And it was probably, this probably gonna go down in history as one of the worst firings that a network has ever done.
It it really do. And I hope Ryan is all right. And then I know he's not a prideful man. He's always talked about that on Pivot that his pride don't get in the way of his emotions and how he feels about a thing because I watch Pivot a lot. So he he never lets his pride, his ego get in his emotions get into the actual rationality of things.
He's done that as a young man. And then of course in a in a in in in the in the uh in in the process of it all, you got to understand that the mental health part of this ADP, what is it like to get yourself up in the morning, get sharp as he always is, his hair cut done, his butts is dead. You know what I'm saying? He looking good, he smelling good, he come for a great day.
And nobody likes to be fired. I never been fired. I did the firing, but I never fired. I, you know, I left my job because of course I didn't let them know what was going on with me. You know what I'm saying? When my record, you know what I'm saying? When the group started doing whatever, I came in, gave, you know what I mean? Said this my last day.
Showed them the Vibe magazine. I was up.
I mean, you know what I mean? The Murder Dog magazine and I was up. You dig? Oh, that's me right there on your shelf. You know what I'm saying? See that magazine right there? Open that up to page, you know what I mean? To page 23. That be me. You got one.
>> I'm sorry.
>> Yeah.
>> No, go ahead. I had a question, but go ahead.
>> So, so when I never gave them an opportunity to fire me. I never been fired from a job. I've always left a job. I'm only had I've only had in my lifetime two jobs.
I worked at Burger King in high school throughout my high school years from from junior year, senior year. When I graduated from uh high school, I I went to Dominic's, which was a grocery store, became a you mean a beggar, then a stock boy. I went through the chain and then became one of the district man assistant district managers of the chain and going over 132 stores. That's that's how I learned to open up my stores because I learned from Mr. Damatello, the owner, the actual owner of all of those stores.
I learned went in his program to to learn those type of things. And then of course when I went away for the military I came back my job was there and I was you know me even by me coming from the service I really excelled in doing whatever because I was a great uh organizer and I I I had uh zero tolerance by me coming out of the military especially in as a sergeant a drill sergeant uh uh uh uh situation that I was in you know teaching and doing everything you know as as as I always, you know, wanted to do after that. After that, I wanted I wanted to, you know, come home and be in a prominent position because I always had music. So, I always wanted to do music. I always wanted to to be free. I never really wanted to punch a clock. So, when I was able to to to do what I was doing, I stole the way, y'all. I I stole away. I I love you, uh, T. Camila. You know what I'm saying?
>> Oh, I stole away.
>> Yeah, I stole away from their job, man.
Because what they do is MSL, oh, you so smart and this and that. You got the military behind you. We going to get behind you and we going to put this, you know what I'm saying, Michael? They they put out, this is before NIL and all of that. They put an imagery out after I left of about maybe 10 years after I left. Seven years, eight years about eight years after I left, they put an imagery out about Michael Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan sued the company Safeway. I don't know if you know about what Safeway is, but Safeway is, you know, had had uh Dominic bought the company that I originally started doing since they turned it. It still was Dominic's, but Safeway was the one, the parent company who bought that franchise. And I was able to get up out of there. You know what I'm saying? I was able to be blessed to have enough talent that I could be able to say, "Forget you, not you forgetting me." You got what I'm saying? So, I I I I just think that it was just a trashy job on how they handle it. It's a proper way to do anything. You know what I'm saying?
Just like with, you know, with what we're doing in this network, if it's ever a time, I just want to be handled right. I just want to be, you know, told in the in the best way. Not me coming up and saying blah blah blah. Yeah, this is this and this is simply ball dropping networks pop. Whatever go on, whatever changes is happening or however we explode. I don't want it to be while I'm on the air with you guys telling you guys proper things and then y'all wondering what's going on, what's happening, what's up. You know what I'm saying? I want to be able to to stand on my own. And that's why, you know, Kap as we building the network, we got our own independent shows where he, you know what I mean, he he's he's actually gave us power of our own channel. You got what I'm saying? He didn't ask for anything. When I say that, he's let He didn't ask ADP for nothing. ADP's channel is all ADP. It's how ADP handle it the way she want to handle it. She choose her whatever topics.
>> I heard I heard I heard you on ADP's channel the night the >> the Brondello the Brondello thing came out. You was going you was going in. I was half awake though. I think I was able to say, "Damn, y'all up." I think I was able to say that. But yeah, >> y'all was going >> in like in and was like, "ADP, I don't want to do so much on your show." And she was like, "No, no, if you want to."
So I I I saw that. I saw that in action.
>> Yeah. I gave her the business. I I I I gave her the business. And And the thing is is that I wanted to I wanted to I was going to go live.
>> You was hot. Like that that was the true raw emotion at two at 2 three 2 3:00 in the morning because I had just found out. I didn't know.
>> Oh, you didn't know? I didn't know that that was going on and I couldn't go to sleep. ADP I mean it was real. I couldn't I couldn't go to sleep and ADP I was about to go live at 1 but I mean at 12 but ADP was already on. So I was like okay my sister on but this is how we do in Simply Ball dropping. I saw my sister on. What is it for me to come on and go live when my sister already on?
>> You can talk to her, right? I could I wanted to say the things that I wanted to say. I could go on her platform, make make her be able to get people to come over. So, I merged my channel so that people that come and listen to me can come over to ADP and be able to listen and know that ADP is there and exists even though she's always in the chat.
But I wanted people to be able to experience how she runs her show, how her show is. And in the midst of it, cook that boy up just like we doing right now. But I wanted to say I'mma let you go ahead and close on this thing, but I wanted to say there's a right and a wrong for sure.
>> You know what I'm saying? just like I find time to communicate what you know and I and and and and the thing is is that when I don't communicate well I can apologize as a man to say hey I didn't intend for it to be this way apologize I try not to make that type of mistake again but here's the events that went down as we get better you know what I'm saying [laughter] What? Brother Robert, what is you doing?
Don't fall for the MS elbow, bro. Claw.
Did Caitlyn try to steal some sh?
[laughter] >> Yeah.
>> You know what's so funny? I was just reading something Robert said, but it was something different.
>> Yeah, we ain't gonna let Caitlyn Clark ain't gonna steal this show. So the thing is is that we we have to when we're telling the people and I want you guys the ones that's listening I want you guys to understand we not coming here to deceive you. We come here to give you raw information what we see and what we you know I mean I looked into it to bring you guys the actual facts of it all. You know what I mean? The first you know I mean the whole thing and I'm f to drop some uh some bombs. I'mma go to a commercial MSL then I'mma do my part and you going to close us out. Okay. So, we got we got a lot more to go. We got a few more, you know, I mean about 20 more 30 more minutes. We going to lay lay some stuff out for you guys and and we going to come back after these messages.
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>> Yeah, you guys. So, I'mma break this down and then MSL, I'm going to let you uh end off. It's just like a layup. Why?
Why? Why you think ESPN made these cuts, chat? ESPN already have one of the largest NFL operations in sports media.
NFL network brought another complete group of reporters, analysts, producers, and executives. ESPN therefore had to dice and decide which personalities it considered essential. Y'all heard the word essential. Considering that the insider position, ESPN has Adam Sheffner while NFL network has uh rep uh repaort and had Tom Pelro in a major reporting role. When companies combine, executives commonly ask whether they need three prominent insider performing overlapping assignments or thus does >> this is just all disgusting.
Like >> just just listen, hear me out. I got you. I wrote this whole thing out. That the whole thing out. You going to be you you going to close us out. That doesn't uh mean that Tom Plesi serial wasn't excellent at his job. It means the executives may have decided that Sheffner and Rapaort uh were enough for the new operation. Reporters identified with Palaciro as one of the uh people that was affected. Establishing uh the expensive contracts established on air personalities can con command substantial salaries if executives are ordered to reduce expenses eliminate a few expens uh expensive contracts can save more money than elim eliminating numerous lower positions.
That does not make the decision morally right or creatively smart. It simply explains the mathematics that the company used. The danger of it all is that ESPN could save money today while losing viewers tomorrow. People don't form emotional connections with uh corporate balances and balance sheets.
They connect with rec recognizing voices, personalities, and chemistry.
Like you guys that's in the chat, MSL on the show, you have a reason why you able to come and and support a brother like me. It says ESPN is rebuilding for the digital future. Traditionally, cable television continues to change.
audiences increase watching highlights, podcasts, and debate debates through YouTube, social platforms, and streaming services. ESPN is no longer building solely for cable television. It needs talent capability to appear across live televisions, streaming podcasts, uh streaming podcast, regular podcasts, social medias, YouTube, digital articles, live events. ESPN may believe it can operate with few pe fewer people while using its remaining stars across the whole entire platform. The reductions also occur during a rider cost cutting of Disney ESPN parent company. Therefore, the NFL network intric um integration appears to be primarily explanational but not necessarily the right choices in this particular event. This is why I called it a purge for the audience perspective. But the EXBN corporate perspective, it is called restructuring, integration, position the company for the future, which I told you guys and I need to cover that. Absolutely. And listen, here's my final word. The situation remains. Every media personality of one truth build something of your own. I told y'all entrepreneurity which y'all know I advocate under this shirt I got hustle prneur on. It says Ryan Clark has pivot.
Cam Newton has personal brands and his digital audience. Others affect personalities now have the opportunity to create platforms that cannot be eliminated by one executive decision.
ESPN will survive. It still owns power rights, massive distri distribution, and one of the most recognizable names in sports, Stephen A. Smith, McAfee. But these talented people will survive too.
A company that can end a contract, it cannot erase experience, credibility, personality, and audience, the connection and the broadcast itself. Now it's your turn, MSL, to get it off your chest. Go. I you know I years ago you could have never had anyone believe that ESPN could buy the NFL network or Disney buy the NFL network and then the NFL the NFL would have a 10% interest in in ESPN like it or Disney. It just sounds crazy. And then the bed, the bedding thing. I had the article in front of me. I'm away from it now. But the bedding, the bedding stuff, like all of this stuff is combined and it's just seems to be an incestuous relationship. Like we have the on screen stuff that we can discuss, you know, about is it is it more right-wing, is it more racist, is it more this, is it more that. But then for any fan, the underlying deals, stuff that they're doing today is stuff that we would have never thought we'd see 30, 40, 50, even 20 years ago. The NFL network >> is buying interest in Disney that owns ESPN and ESPN through Disney is acquiring the NFL network and its betting app and all it. It it's like, you know, it's already we already when we see games like in the WNBA, we go they must have somebody must had a parlay on that, huh? Somebody must have had this is just going to make this is just going to make it worse. And then also, is ESPN going to cover the NFL fairly and properly when they own the NFL network?
Right? Because the NFL Network still has like the NFL network is still going to be run by the NFL, but ESPN will dis will distribute its programming. Oh, it's sorry, it's games. It's games.
Sorry, it's games. The editorial stuff is probably be on the ESPN, but the but when the NFL network, they'll still show those seven games that they do, but they say it'll be distributed.
>> That's Yeah, that's Stephness. So, it's a it's an incestuous relationship and I'm sick and tired of it because before I was going to say this, I was going to say ESPN is the same network that's in bed with the WNBA and we don't like how they cover the WNBA.
>> No, >> because it's all Caitlyn Clark all the time. Everyone else, you know, is a vassel. Is a vassel.
>> Y'all thought y'all saw something >> to Kaitton a saw nothing >> to Caitlyn Clark. So, how are they going to cover the NFL now? Now that they have this incestuous relation, it's bad enough. You show their games, but now you want to own the NFL network.
>> Like, this is just this is just crazy.
And we as fans, we only have one thing we can do and we can say no because a lot, you know, it's funny. A lot of a lot of fans will say something like, I really don't like the WNBA anymore. I watch the Dream. I I don't really like the WNBA more. I'll watch Dallas and the Dream. I know you can't say that, bro, because you got to talk about this stuff. Kesha can't. Tony can't. I I I get it. But it's coming to the point where this stuff is not enjoyable >> anymore because the cross-section of sports and business and politics and it's just it it just doesn't make it for the happy experience that we always had.
You you feel me where I'm coming from? I I absol absolutely feel you. Yes, sir.
So >> I go ahead. Cool.
>> Yeah. So now, as far as how they got rid of him, I mean, I don't know what his issue is with them, but obviously there's something going on because, right, cuz Ryan Clark is is kind of outspoken.
>> ESPN, >> right, with the whole Pat McAfee thing.
You know, a lot of so-called liberals didn't want him on there because he's like a >> excuse me, like an outkick barf stool type of guy. Yes.
>> That people that people are like, uh, I'm not really >> You're a good old boy. You're a good old boy.
>> Right. I'm not really feeling that on ESPN. Cuz I remember, you know, it's funny. I remember one of the things these idiots wanted was they said when Kathy was on his show, basically they want Kathy and the reporters to rewrite history, which is what the WNBA has trying to do, and say only say Caitlyn Clark revive basketball and not Angel Reese and Caitlyn Clark because you could still find even stupid Google search, >> right? They just want it to be Caitlyn Clark. That's what they're pushing on Pat McAfee and cheering for it. So, it's like, yeah, >> the programming is already dumbed down.
How dumb do we want the How much dumber do we want the programming?
>> Like that chick on CBS, right? Isis, whatever her last name is, she clearly saw that Angel didn't elbow that girl in the nose, but she still said she elbowed her in in the nose.
Uh the people who were covering the game on the weekend when Ewill knocked Angel down, you know, they're just standing there to announce like I don't I don't get it. It's like the integrity in broadcasting just keeps getting lower.
The bar just keeps getting lower and lower and lower and lower and we the fans, what are we going to do? We could only complain or not show up or not pay or flood the you know the emails and the and the phone numbers and so and tell them what we don't what we don't like. But this is a very incestuous relationship. The WNBA has an incestuous relationship with ESPN and now the NFL is going to have an an incestuous relationship with ESPN or on top of what it already was. This is disgusting.
>> I'm listening.
>> Yeah, it's just it's disgusting. I just wanted I wanted I wanted you to to to to finish because uh hey my Tony I wanted to finish because what I'm gonna do is I'mma land in the plane and and do whatever. So that's why my pause was I was just making sure we was set up to do so. But I um but I agree with everything that you just said, brother. I really I really um I really I'm not I'm not torn at all about this [ __ ] Like I'm not I'm actually ADP. I'm just as heated with the way that Ryan Clark has been dismissed and disrespected as Angel Reese was ultimately ended up wound up hurting herself. Of course, the floor was slippery. No one. It was a non cat contact type of thing, but the aggressiveness that was going on, I mean, as literally pushed.
>> But, bro, Claude, if I could just pause you for one second. Don't you find it interesting though that on my browser, right?
>> I see Ryan Howard on my browser as far as Let me let me pull it up again.
It says Ryan Clark takes the high road after ESPN took the low road. Yes. And you see a picture. So, and it's by I think it's by NBC, right? So, they're already taking Ryan's side, right?
>> When this thing happened with Brondello.
I was curious. I wasn't going to look for it, but I was curious to see what people were going to say about this Brondello thing because there's no way anyone that does not tell the truth about this, you hate black women and or you hate Angel Ree and you're a serial gaslighter because there's no other way to say it. And I'm And you know, and it's funny because we've been hearing about that girl for three, four weeks when they've been trying to say she's a victim and she's a this and she's a this and she's a that. So now you have someone that's insulted by a coach in the league. In the league. She didn't do anything wrong. She didn't. And if you really want to look at it, brol was the one who stopped Angel's 15game double double streak in 2024.
We know what happened with Izzy on how uber physical she was playing.
>> I mean, but she was supposed to do that.
You know what I mean?
>> We know she gave her the suplex.
>> We know she gave her the suplex.
We saw what happened to >> to Sabali. We saw how she reacted to it.
And we also saw how saw how Izzy acted during the suplex of Angel along with the press conference that took that that we saw recently where she didn't even want to say anything nice about Angel.
Now you have this Tammy girl saying all types of crazy stuff. And what is her business with Angel Reese? Angel has no business with Tammy. So I ask all these questions to say is Sandy Brondello the problem? Because if you can't even control your players, what are you telling your players to where someone like Tammy Fagellyi is saying all this crazy stuff to Angel online like a whack like a whack job and Angel has no issue with her.
>> Like this thing could be deeper than what >> No, because they were in the locker room.
>> Y'all, I can't get into it with today. I won't get I won't because I got to get up off here. But I'm just saying something like >> no to close and you can close. I was just I was just saying >> she said that's a phrase they use in Australia. M I didn't mean it you for you to say that. What is it with everybody bothering Angela Ree? First of all, I don't give a how you feel about her. The girls is she's beautiful. I think she's man she's beautiful. She's a businesswoman. She's doing a lot of great things. She's very young and she's just having a good time. And even with the whole controversy with her and Kayla Clark, who gives a as long as the WNBA is making their money, I'm glad. Right.
But this whole always got something to say about Angel Ree is annoying. Doesn't it annoy you all?
She called her a protected specy. A protected specy. Now, have you seen what this looks like? She looks like a unprotected species. She looks like something from out of god space them vulcan ears. You got you talking about you look crazy and you have the nerve to talk about this beautiful black woman.
You got a lot of nerves. First of all, I'm not Listen, I give credit to Caitlyn Clark. Great player. Not taking anything from her. But I'm not going to ignore all the black women that built that WNBA. from Cheryl Swoops to Don Stey to um Lisa Leslie all of that. Do not ignore that. And it's majority black women that bust their that are fantastic players and and for you to say that as a coach, that's actually what you think about black women cuz you're around mainly black women. It really bugs me on how these coaches that coach majority black athletes come out their mouth to say stupid like that coach from Yukon who said it's dumb about Don Staley cuz he got beat and lied on her because that's how you think. You don't think black people are human beings. You don't think that you you you see about black people's presence. You see about their happiness. It did. It bugs you and you can't help but say stupid like that. I don't know how long this is going to continue where you mother just continue to say stupid because of your insecurity and your insufficiency, your non-melanated spirit. I don't know what it is, but it's getting a little played the out. A a protected specy. I'm trying to figure out what kind of specy animal you are.
You Oh, wait a minute. I think I found it. I found the specy. I think it's nonmelanis biggest iris karinus. That's what it is.
I think it's nonmelanis biggest iris karinus. Ugliest faces. Yeah, I think that's what it is. I'm not sure. You guys let me know if I I got the scientific term right. So >> So >> I already like Gotham. I mean I really really love >> I appreciate that. I appreciate you playing that.
>> Yeah. So, so we gonna end it on that note to let y'all know. Hey, shout out to Angel Reese. Shout out to uh Ryan Clark. I know brother the pivot gonna be banging. We get more time to see pivot.
We get more time of how you nurture different artistes. Shout out to everybody. Turn on your notifications every time we drop a high banger. Like, share, and subscribe to the channel.
Give to the channel when you can give to the channel. support my channel cuz I can't do it without you. I just can't.
And also you guys, I appreciate everything that you've done. I appreciate everything that you do and I appreciate everything that you will do.
And listen, tomorrow, tomorrow night, 9:30, me and KAP, get it off your chest.
We are coming back tomorrow to give you some good fire. And this is gonna be a good part of the topic that we gonna be getting off our chest. And of course, of course, you guys see me in the morning between 8 and 8:30. I'll be starting in the mornings from now on. And then the shows at night is going to be starting at 9:30. That's right. And we MSL will not be having me up at 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm just saying. We just out here doing what we got to do, man. I appreciate you so much, man. And I appreciate everybody that is faithful and loyal to come on and just give your boy some love, a shout out. Even if you flick in and flick out, share this with everybody, man. Subscribe to the channel if you ain't subscribed. I thank you for coming and I appreciate you also. And we >> Bro, Claude, before you close, you know, I gotta ask you this before you get off the air.
>> Go ahead.
what you if you didn't if I if you said it already, I didn't hear you. My apologies.
>> Are you so disappointed in what Becky said today or you expected from from the pale folks?
>> We gonna talk about that on Get It Off the Chest. So, they we saving it.
>> Okay, >> that's going that's going to be on on tomorrow. So, you know, we going to get it off your chest. But this right here, this this is uh absolutely for Ryan Clark, Angel Reese, and all my brothers and sisters above.
Brought me here against my will.
Never ask questions. Shoot to kill.
Built this country with our hands.
Label me three [music] man.
All we've ever known was pain.
Mixed with thunder, [music] mixed with rain. Austral [music] to be free. So take them cuffs off me. I mean mentally and physically. [music] And don't be trying to taser me. My neck. Don't need your knee. And don't be pulling your gun on me. I don't need your punk degree. I know [music] I'm supposed to be SEE WITH 10,000 fearless and we be all believers. We only roll off instructions [music] even by FEARLESS LEADER. MAN, Y'ALL SOME CHEATERS. Your justice ain't going to free us. Your bill club might beat us for the [music] king to free us. MARONE, NEVER GOING TO GET US NOTHING. REACH ON HOW LONG [music] MY PEOPLE SUFFERING. WE BETTER BE doing some adjusting. I'm just out here [music] hustling. Got to keep changing this thing. More people just die for free. We want to be free. We [music] just free. We want to be free.
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Free. We just free. We want to be free.
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Divided we fall. Send a message to the black man. IT'S THE FINAL CALL. [music] SEE, BUSINESS IS WARFARE, Y'ALL. And it's going to free us all. Time to b the hood back. GET THAT BREAD AND PASS SOME MORE. And when they leave the hood, what [music] you going to do? What you going to do? Are you going to be blowing through? Spread that money with [music] your crew. I'm spitting true game to you. Got to get that sack. Never look back cuz I came for you. [music] We just came on free. Free. We free. We just [music] We want freedom. Freedom.
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Brought me here against my will.
Freedom.
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