Transcript of LeBron James ATTACKS Stephen A. Smith | Candace Ep 156

All right, guys, it's Friday, and LeBron James appears to have officially lost the thread. He doesn't want people to notice that his son is not performing well at the NBA level, at the big league level, which, by the way, should come as a shock to nobody because like I noticed, many people have noticed this, his son wasn't performing well before the NBA. This is a little bit of nepotism. We're going to talk about that. Apparently, he freaked out because no one's allowed to criticize his son. No one's allowed to criticize Bronnie. We flicked out on Steven A Smith's courtside. It's trending and it's interesting. Also, yes, you guys, I have seen your emails and your tags on X regarding the Daily Wire co-CEO, Jeremy Boring's tweet, which people are reasonably inferring to be about me and Theovon and Ian Carroll on Joe Rogan. I'm, of course, going to give you my response to that tweet. All that coming up on Candice. All right, parents, listen up. Listen up, parents. You never want to be the father at the Little League game that runs into the middle of the field and starts screaming at the ump over a bad call because it's just Little League, bro.

It's not going to make or break anybody's life. It's so embarrassing to your child. I always think about that as my kids, now that I have so many of them are growing up. Ironically, just a couple of days ago, I signed my four-year-old up for T-ball, and I said to my husband, I signed him up for T-ball. You're going to take him. But look, you are not allowed to be that guy. You are not allowed to be that father at the T-ball game. He seriously, my husband, asked me, What is T-ball? These are these fun moments of English and American marriages because obviously my husband, Raj, watches cricket. I have no idea really what cricket is, and he genuinely had never heard of T-ball. But of course, he wouldn't be that person. Beyond that, I want to say this to parents, please do not pressure your children to do what you are doing in life. Greatness cannot necessarily be transferred. Neither, by the way, can mediocrity. That is to say that some rather mediocre people can birth individuals that go on to do great things, and some great people can birth people that go on to do mediocre things.

It's not a problem. Everybody is different, and what people want and desire out of life is very different. In case you are not a sports person like me, I'll say that right at the top, I'm not a sports person. I'm a common sense person. Let's just discuss the facts regarding Bronnie James, LeBron James Jr. That is LeBron James' first born son. I want to be clear here that it was entirely an act of sheer nepotism that brought him into the NBA. For clarity, I would say LeBron James wanted to sketch his first-born son in his name and likeness, so to speak. Early on, by the way, this kid was 10 years old and he was playing basketball, and LeBron James spoke about how he was getting all of these offers and it was inappropriate. I want to say two things here. From the business side of things for a bunch of colleges to be wanting to draft him, It makes sense. The marketing potential to have LeBron James Jr. Is there. There is a business consideration of saying, Honestly, just having you here no matter how great you are or maybe you're just average, it doesn't matter because there is, like I said, strong brand potential.

Brawny, of course, did play basketball in high school. I want to be clear, he was good. He's not a bad player by any stretch of an imagination. He is good. He averaged around 14 points per game at the high school level. For those of you, for those of us, rather, who remember high school and cheer-led, if you were scoring 14 points per game at that level, you're good. Again, not exactly a necessary free ride to the NBA. You're not exactly going straight to the NBA. You're nowhere near going straight to the NBA. In fact, for comparison, his father, LeBron James, averaged 31. 6 points in his senior year of high school. That's why he was drafted right away. Kobe Bryant averaged 30. 8 points in high school. Kyrie Irving, 26. 5 points per game. Michael Jordan, 25 points per game. He's one of those stories that he went up from there. But still, 14 points per game. There's no reason to hate. He plays basketball, and he's good at playing basketball, and I'm sure he was very fun to watch when he was in high school. Beyond high school, he played just one season at USC.

Now, you guys don't remember the press on this. He had that cardiac arrest, terrible event. Right when he was beginning to play for USC, then he got better and he was able to play, I think, something like 26 games. But he averaged, during those games, he averaged less than five points per game. In his lone season at USC at the collegiate level, he averaged less than five points per game. That was apparently all the NBA needed to see. I want to be clear here that not even LeBron James can deny what happened next was an act of sheer nepotism, because in 2022, LeBron James told The Athletic, My last year will be played with my son. Wherever Bronnie is at, that's where I will be. I would do whatever it takes to play with my son for one year. It's not about the money at that So what is he saying? He is saying, This is my dream. Me, LeBron James, the dad, the father, this is my dream. I don't even care about the money. I just want that moment of playing with my son. And sure, that's sweet. I love a little fairy tale.

I love a little daddy and me fairytale of playing together. But to pretend that he didn't say that, to pretend that didn't happen, to pretend that there was no consideration for the Lakers or any team that was looking at LeBron James, that he is saying that no matter what this must happen or he's not going to play. It's a nonsense. Now you're just gaslighting the public, okay? Sure enough, in 2024, Bronnie signed a four-year, $7. 9 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the 53rd fifth pick of the NBA draft. If you're wondering if there were other motivations with that pick, well, I can tell you this. He was picked on the very same day that LeBron James agreed to an extension with the Los Angeles Lakers, that making them They were the first father-son duo in the history of the NBA. To be clear, that's what that was about. It was the story. They wanted the story. They didn't care about the practicality, the potential movies that would be written, the movie scripts that could be written in the future. They wanted the feelings. They didn't really care so much about the facts in that moment.

By any means necessary, I don't care about the money. I want to make this happen. Okay? So LeBron James' dream was realized. I'm saying, again, LeBron James' dad's dream was realized in October when on the opening day of the Lakers season, he was able to play with his son, and the headlines of that moment met the emotions of the moment. Here was the press coverage on that day via the Associated Press, LeBron James and Bronnie James became the first father and son to play in the NBA together Tuesday night during the Los Angeles Lakers season opener. Lebron and Bronnie checked into the game together with four minutes left in the second quarter, prompting a big ovation from home crowd aware of the enormity of the milestone. Lebron had already started the game, and he had played 13 minutes before he teamed up with his 20-year-old son to make history. Okay, beautiful. Love that. Obviously, LeBron James is the 39-year-old top scorer in NBA history, while LeBron James Jr. Was a second-round pick from the Lakers last summer. As I said, they reiterated in these articles that they were the first father and son to play in the world's top basketball league at the same time, let alone on the same team, which is just, this is amazing.

But here's the thing. The facts always eventually catch up with the feelings. The dream, so to speak, catches up with reality. Of course, people are going to note that your son is just not you at some point, and that you're basically diluting yourself by pretending that your son is as amazing and worthy of playing alongside you in the big league. Now, I should be clear that Brawny is playing primarily for the Lakers G League team, the South Bay Lakers. For those of you that don't know much about that, it's essentially like the minor league team where you're supposed to develop your skills and potentially play for the big league one day. They can, the big league, League. The Lakers can call you up. They can call up their G League players if they need them. At the G League level, Bronnie, he's playing great. He fits in there at that level. I think he's something like the number four scorer overall on the G team roster, and like I said, that's good. But what makes Bronnie unusual is how much play time he is getting on the Lakers team. Bronnie is starting games for the Lakers.

He's played thus far in 18 games this season. Here's the rules. Let me tell you how it works. If you want to play in the big league, then you're going to have to deal with big league criticism. No one gets to go around that. You don't get to say, Well, my daddy's LeBron James, and he says I shouldn't have to listen to any criticism at all. Recently, on January 28th, Bronnie played again for the Lakers alongside his father against the Philadelphia 76ers, and he played for 15 minutes straight, and he did not score a single point. Now, apparently, according to Steven A. Smith, it's this unspoken rule that even in the world of sports commentating, you're not really allowed to criticize LeBron's son. Steven A. Smith, obviously, has been a sports commentator forever. He told the truth about Bronnie's performance. He said that he started getting a ton of text messages from people who You can't do that. You can't question because he's looking at the situation going, why is his dad putting him through this? He's now at the NBA level. Of course, there's going to be criticism, and you can't just cry your way out of this.

Your son's going to be criticized. If you do not score a single point in 15 minutes, it's open season. Here is what Steven A Smith said, specifically, that eventually sets LeBron James off. Take a listen.

I am not a person that had a problem with Bronny James being Being on the court for the season opener with LeBron James. That was a phenomenal moment to see a father on the court with his son who has NBA aspirations, playing together for the first time in NBA history. The Griffies in baseball, Ken Griffies, senior and junior, were in attendance for it. It was a special moment. My position has always been. That should have been the only moment we saw Bronnie James in a Lakers uniform this season because he's not ready. I'm not here to tell you that he won't be ready. I'm not here to tell you that he won't be an NBA player. I'm not here to tell you that he should give up his dreams and his aspirations. I think the kid's got potential. I think the kid will be in the NBA one day. I watched him in the G League doing this thing. I think he's going to be fine eventually. But that's not the case yet. Because it's not the case yet, and then you see some of these numbers, I do find myself looking at LeBron James instead of Bronnie James, because LeBron is the basketball savant.

Lebron is one of the top two greatest players in the history of the game. Lebron has forgotten more basketball than most people would know. So no matter what we think about Bronnie, he knows more. But you see what you see. Bronnie James has played in 13 NBA games. Ladies and gentlemen, he's averaging 0. 3 0. 3 points, 0. 3 assists, and 0. 4 rebounds. He shot 1 for 16 from the field in his NBA career and 0 for 7 from three-point range. He's playing in the first quarter of an NBA game? Really? Everybody wants to look at it and LeBron has nothing to do Yeah, he didn't tell JJ Reddick to put him in the game. I get all that. But come on. I'm not being cruel to Bronnie. I'm looking out. Do you want it this way, LeBron?

Totally agree with that commentary. And by the way, I should clarify, he played in the first quarter, so he didn't start, but he in the first quarter, and the results are disastrous. You have 15 minutes in a game and you don't score anything. Even if you say somebody can have a bad night, that's fine. But you have to allow sports commentators to do their jobs. You have to allow them to say things. Nobody says to Tom braided when he was playing as a QB, if he had a terrible... Well, he's just, you can't say anything about him because this is who his dad... It's pointedly ridiculous. What are you talking about? Again, if you are trying to make the argument, LeBron, that your son is ready to play in the big league, that he has to be ready to deal with the criticism. That's just how this works. But LeBron James said, No, no one talks about my son. Again, apparently, this is an unwritten rule. He wants to cry and spike his ball and go home. That's what LeBron James wants to do. He's like, No one can say anything. I own this league.

I've scored so many points. He's just crying like a little baby. This is politically ridiculous. He's a big old crying like a baby, trying to protect the feelings of his son. What is he learning in life from you? And so last night, LeBron James decided to thug Steven A. Smith on the court side of a Lakers game. Steven A. Smith was sitting courtside with Ari Emmanuel. Yes, that Ari Emmanuel from the Justin Baloney, Baldooney. And Larry David. Everybody likes Larry David. He found a moment and decided, I saw that clip, and now I'm going to approach you. Here is a clip of that. If you are listening to this on audio, you'll have to go watch it on YouTube or on Rumble. But I'm going to just show you the clip, and I'll talk over it. You can see he's very angry, and the social media has determined these experts lip readers, and it does look like he says exactly this, that he told him, Keep my son out this-ish bro, but he said the S word, Keep my son out of this-ish bro. So he pulled the Will Smith to Steven A Smith. Keep my wife's name out your mouth, bro.

That obviously is meant to be intimidating. If you are saying, Keep my son out of this-ish, then your son should not be in this-ish. That's it. That's how this works. Again, this is the free market. It's competition. If you think he can't handle the criticism that he should not be on the court. This is a scenario where you have this angry dad because his son isn't good enough. Now you're blaming the umps, you're blaming the referees, you're blaming Stephen A. Smith for noticing that your son didn't do anything. It's also this archetype of a guilty dad. The reason why he is so angry, usually when people are expressing anger, it's because you're hitting upon a truth. You're hitting upon a truth. He heard Stephen A. Smith. He heard his words. He heard and recognized those words to be true. He knows that his son is going to that he these words and recognize that it's true. He's forcing his son into this embarrassment. How foolish to say or to suggest that, Well, he's not making the calls. He's not the one putting him in. No, he's just the one who essentially said, I won't even play.

I won't even play unless I'm able to play alongside my son. The money means nothing to me. There was no offer the Lakers could give me that meant more to me than playing alongside my son. You were selfish, LeBron. That is the reality. You did something that was selfish because you wanted it, and now your son is dealing with the brunt of your decision making. Dave Portnoy, I thought sum this up quite brilliantly on X when he tweeted this. He tweeted, My heart aches for Bronnie James. The poor kid doesn't belong in the NBA. He can't quit. He didn't ask for this. His dad created an impossible situation for him. He's a make-a-wish kid in the NBA. I just hope his dad's insatiable ego doesn't ruin his love for this beautiful game. I agree with that. That is a totally sensible commentary. Brian doesn't actually deserve any of this heat. But LeBron fully does, and that's why he's so angry. He knows he deserves this. It is an insatiable ego that put your son in this circumstance in the first place, and he's just basically saying, Stop noticing. Pretend my son is brilliant at this game to make me happy in my final years on the court.

People are not going to do that. But I want to say this. You can be mad at me all you want because that's okay. I can actually deal with criticism. Brawny James, this situation with LeBron James and what his father has done via nepotism is actually living, breathing proof as to why Conservatives believe that affirmative action doesn't work. When you give people opportunities or put them into circumstances that they haven't actually earned, when it's not a meritocracy and you force someone into a position that they haven't actually earned and you artificially place them into places that they don't belong, disaster. It can be the only endpoint. I actually learned this. I'm pretty sure this was from Shelby Steele. This was the book that I read, White Guilt by Shelby Steele: How Blacks and Whites Together Distroyed the Promise of a Civil Rights Error. At this time, I was liberal and started to get conservative interested and wanted to at least read and learn more about the arguments because, Oh, how could you disagree with the ferment of Action? We had all of these years of slavery. Then he put it so succinctly when he was describing this time period, and I'm paraphrasing here, and I hope it's Shelby Steele and not a Thomas Sow book that I read that I'm confusing it with.

But essentially, he was an adjunct professor at Cornell University. He noticed that all of these Black kids were on academic probation. He thought that was very strange. He went to go investigate why are all of these Black students on academic probation? What he learned was that while these students were some of the most brilliant in the entire nation, because of affirmative action, they were placed into schools that they wouldn't have gotten into otherwise. You forced them to be at Cornell University, and they're competing now with peers that really their peers. Whereas if you had allowed them to be where they're supposed to be, maybe they would have been at a different university that wasn't Ivy League, they would have been at the top of their class. It's exactly what's happening with Bronnie. You've artificially placed him amongst a group of people that he's not supposed to be with. He can't play at this level. For him, he walks away and he feels like a failure. He feels like I'm on academic probation. I can't ball. Why am I doing the sport? It completely deflates these individuals. Shelby Steele, when he investigated this, He was speaking about how so many of these kids then just dropped out.

But imagine if they went to the University of Rhode Island, they would have been graduating cumlaude and would have been like, Yeah, I'm amazing, and would have had the confidence that they deserved because, like I said, he assessed that they were something in the top 90 percentile of all students but were artificially placed at Cornell University where they were failing amongst their peers. Brawni is making this mistake. His father, rather, LeBron James, is making this mistake. He is actually harming his son, giving his son this deflated sense that he doesn't deserve because he's actually a good basketball player. He's a good basketball player. He's just not ready and never has been ready to be in the NBA. Then there's this, by the way. I want to say this. If you are going to make the argument that your child does deserve to be there still, LeBron James, you should know that when you do something like that, it makes it 10 times harder for him. Because that's daddy crying. That's like daddy saying, We're rich and powerful, and you will do and say and give my son the grades that he deserves, even though he doesn't deserve them.

Now he's got to go back to the G League team. Everybody's watched this moment. Everybody knows this moment is about him. What do you think how that feels? When the dad freaks out at the Little League game and he gels at someone, the commentator, the imp, whoever it is, how do you think that child feels when he goes amongst his playmates after that? He feels more out of place. He feels like he's not wanted. He feels like everybody is looking at him like, Oh, well, I would correct your game, but I don't want your daddy to yell at me. I don't want your daddy to come and scream at me. Come on, man. This is just the price of success and fame. If you think about this trade-off, I don't even really even feel bad for Bronnie, okay? Because his life is amazing. He is one of the most privileged people ever. He's even in the NBA because of his remarkable privilege. If the worst thing you think your son has to deal with in life is a little bit of criticism, then you are way too privileged, LeBron James. I mean, There's real life happening outside of the NBA.

It's okay. He will survive. Steven A. Smith criticizing him, rightfully so. If this is his cross to bear in life, your father is so famous that people are noticing that you don't belong in the room that your father put you in, yeah, I'd say that it's a pretty good life. So, LeBron, stop crying. Seriously, stop crying. And, Bronnie, I hope you were able to get out of this situation in some regard and just know that I agree with everybody saying that the issue really is your father, it's not you. You shouldn't allow this to make you think that you don't have worth. You're just in the wrong room. Secondly, you shouldn't allow this to make you hate the game or dislike the game or want to run away from the game because you were good. You just didn't need Daddy to give you a leg up in life. All right, guys, I wanted to throw it to our sponsor's Good Ranchers because since 2017, over 140,000 family farms in the US have shut down. A lot of the meat in grocery stores isn't coming from American farms anymore. In It's actually being imported from overseas where mass production and low costs take priority over the quality.

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Just to back this up, Obviously, I was promoting yesterday on the show for whatever. This was just obviously just the way it worked out. But I did Theovon's show, which was hilarious and very fun. We showed you clips of that. It was a three-hour podcast. At the same time running parallel to that, Ian Carroll did Joe Rogan's podcast. People began connecting the dots here because obviously, with absolutely no coordination at all between the parties, both of these podcasts were released within hours of each other. A very small portion of my conversation was about Israel, and I would say a larger portion, but again, not the majority of the conversation was about Israel and our allegiance to Israel. So some people who have an allegiance to Israel or maybe disagree with that position or appoint We're not happy about these podcasts, which were dominating the conversation on X. Jeremy Boring, the co-CEO of the Daily Wire, tweeted this, Yesterday was a terrible day for American Jews. The embrace by so many prominent voices of demented, conspiratorial, anti-Jewish voices is one of the saddest, most alarming events in my lifetime. But this way lies madness, and worse than madness, do not let the times cost you your soul.

Audience capture and unchecked tribalism are tools of the devil. Paranoia and revisionism are too. Even if they really are out to get you, heck, even a righteous cause can lead us to evil. If we don't guard our hearts in the quest, the wicked often prosper, and the temptation to prosper often temps us to join them, but only God offers the richness of salvation, and he already became for us the only Jewish scapegoat for our sin and fear. Leave the rest of them alone. Okay. You guys are in my response to this. Look, I am a believer in free speech. I am a believer in the free markets. I'm going to consistently be a believer in the free markets and in free speech. What I will say is that some people read that and it perhaps resonated with them and they want more of that content. If you want more of that content, you should follow Jeremy Boring on X and follow him in other endeavors. I think our conversations, and again, I think it was rational to assume that these were about me and Ian, I loved the podcast on the other side of that.

My personal opinion of the podcast between Ian and Joe Rogan was super interesting, and they both seemed really upbeat and happy. Joe Rogan seemed very excited. I finished it last night. It took me a couple of days to get through it, but he seemed really excited in a way that I haven't seen him in a while because they were just speaking about ideas, even. Just the permission to think and to know things and what books to read, and I was totally engaged. I know that something like 1. 5 million of you, maybe more today, that was yesterday, watched me in Theovon's podcast. I just want to focus on what I am putting out there. That's what the free market is, right? Love that for Jeremy. Want you guys to follow Jeremy Boring for more of those considerations. If you would rather, or at the same time, it doesn't even need to be an either or, if you want to watch my stuff and Theovon stuff, I wanted you to be open to do that, too. I thought we had a really good time on Theovon's podcast, and I think Ian Carroll had a great time on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Just to share another clip of the Theovon podcast, because, again, I am about putting out there what I and what I believe in. I got to tell you, sometimes McDonald's slaps. I love McDonald's, and I didn't realize how absolutely hilarious this clip was of Theovon until after the fact because his brain works in very mysterious ways. He just says a lot of stuff that's super funny. One of the things was me asking him about what his order is at McDonald's. I wanted to know who he was, and here's how that went. Take a listen. I need to know, what's your meal at McDonald's? I judge everybody by this. So be very careful. Me, I do a double hamburger, which isn't on the menu, but you can get it with pickles and ketchup. Do you add any Big Mac sauce to that? No, I don't know who's making it back there. It depends. If Big Mac himself is back there, I'll take a couple of ounces. That's an okay order. I mean, it's not fun, but it's okay. Yeah, it's sad, though, but I'll tell you this, I used to get two milks with it. Milks?

Yeah. What in the field of our world. We ride here. What? Oh, hell, yeah, boy. What? Two milks? See me in the streets. You don't know me. I'm the TI of Mickey D's order, baby. Look at that little milk jug right there. And that's what he used to call my sister, the milk jug. He's the only person that's ever... That's what he used to call my sister's little milk jug. Because anybody- Because she built like that. Click on the third one right there. Nobody in the history of McDonald's ever got the milk jug. But Theovon, they kept that on the menu for Theovon. You can't order more than two. That's the crazy thing. What? Yeah. That's 11. Because they only have 10 because no one orders them. So if you order more than two, they've been sitting in the... We ride I'm just saying we get it how we live. Wait, stop a double cheeseburger with a double milk jug? Oh, double milk jug. Let me get you with them. The lady be like, You really want to? I'll be like, Yeah. Then we would laugh a little bit. I'd tip her. It still makes me laugh.

There's so much that happened there. Why did they call his sister a little milk jug? Because she shaped like a little milk jug. That's the O'Von for you, guys. I think he's just such a hilarious comedian, and his brain works in mysterious ways. Actually, my producer told me that there was a tweet on the internet. I should have quite the person. We should have pulled it. But they said, Theovon utters at least one sentence a day that has never been uttered in human history. I think that pretty much sums up Theovon. I probably eat McDonald's once a year, traveling or something, but I would not order the milk jugs. I find that to be more problematic than anything. I think we got to get to the bottom of why he is ordering milk jugs at McDonald's. Arnold's. Anyways, you guys all love, and I hope you guys enjoy that full episode. Moving on now. Blake Lively is going to have to deliver her pound of flesh for a simple favor, too. This is going to be very interesting to watch. I think already, obviously, her PR team is trying to make it look like she's a victim and she's scared.

Like, come on, dude, she's not terrified of anything. She popped up on an A-list red carpet to an event that she was not required to be at in the of the SNL 50th anniversary, and there's a bunch of celebs there, and her husband told a joke. So this is trying to make the public feel bad. Like, oh, my gosh, she now has anxiety about going out in the public. Like I said, sometimes your actions have to meet up with your consequences. They got to run into each other occasionally. Then you just introduce them and go, yeah, hey, we actually are related. The Daily Mail is running this headline saying that she's terrified. She's absolutely terrified you guys ahead of the Simple Fever premiere, the Insiders, otherwise known as her PR firm, are wanting people to know that she's terrified. But what's interesting is thinking about how this is going to harm Anna Kendrick. That's her co-star in Simple Fever, too. Essentially, and I've actually been reading this, Anna Kendrick is very upset with how this has been handled. Obviously, she knows it's going to impact the success of the movie, something that she doesn't deserve.

She basically is upset because Blake Lively he apparently fought for top billing in this film. These are things that we don't even consider as the public. But even when you see a movie poster, that's a fight between people of who's going to be on the movie poster, who's going to be presented as a star of this film, what level are they going to be on, how small is the picture going to be on? Now that we know that Blake Lively is quite aggressive in general during these movie negotiations, it was revealed that she was similarly aggressive about the Simple Favorite, too, and she wanted to be featured prominently. I'm sure maybe she would have had a different opinion about that if she had known which way this Justin Baldon suit was going to go in terms of the public. But she is indeed now due to you want to be front-facing, you have to be front-facing, and she is going to have to walk the red carpet. Now, listen, I want to be clear. They will prepare for that a million different ways. They will tell journalists what they can and cannot ask. Her PR firm will only walk her up to certain friendly journalists.

So this apprehension is, like I said, just trying to make people feel bad. And I think it's perfect karma that now there's this apparent friction between her and Anna Kendrick, real friction with her co-star because she wanted Blake Lively to address her ongoing battle with Baldoni. She could have pulled out of this lawsuit a long time ago. They're already taking it way too far. There obviously now is this big elephant that's in the room that no one wants to acknowledge, and they're going to walk this red carpet and not acknowledge it unless, of course, Ryan Reynolds walks the red carpet with and makes a couple of Brian Reynolds jokes, a couple of Deadpool jokes in his perfect style. My guess is she's not going to bring him because he's almost more disliked than she is and that her promo game is just to pretend that she's really scared of the public now when she was the person who initially wanted all of this to be publicized because she was so confident in her power and her husband's power when it came down to an end with us. Speaking of which, a filing which the public is not reporting on just yet.

It looks like Justin's team has responded now to Sloan PR. Sloan PR, just to bring you up that chart again, is the PR firm that has been repping Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for a decade, which made those text messages that Ryan Reynolds sent so funny. Hey, it's Leslie. Hey, Leslie, don't worry. I won't do or say anything about Justin Baldoni. That's not what we want. We don't want any publicity. It was so fake to me. It looked totally like doctored messages ahead of them dropping the New York Times article so that they could say they had nothing to do with it. Obviously, it looks like they had plenty to do with it. Anyways, the Sloan parties want out. If you're paying attention to these legal arguments that are being made, they're essentially making this argument that trade secrets could be exposed if they were subpoenaed. Brian Friedman's team has been like, What trade secrets are you so concerned are going to be exposed? Like the trade secret that you helped plant an article in the New York Times, and it was nasty. Is it going to be trade secrets of text messages between you and Blake and speaking about Taylor Swift and laughing?

What are we going to see that are the trade secrets that are going to be exposed? They have been trying to quietly exit this lawsuit by basically saying, We're not needed here. We're just the PR firm. It's like, actually this entire lawsuit, as Judge Lehman accurately pointed out yesterday, comes down to PR. You're not getting out of this lawsuit. I'm saying this, obviously, with absolutely no authority. But like I said, judging on his statements yesterday, Judge Lehman saying that this is coming down to PR people, I highly doubt that they are going to allow them to wiggle their way out of this, nor should they. In their response to Leslie saying, We want to be dropped from this because we're women, she keeps making these weird, feminist, weak arguments. Wayfarer Parties wrote this. They wrote, The Conspirators, referring to, First aim to win plaintiff Blake Lively, total control over the film. She's like, Leslie Sloan, you are implicated in trying to get her the control that she wanted over the film. It ends with us by means of extortionate threats to go public with her baseless claims of sexual harassment. That effort wholly succeeded. Having seized complete creative control over the film and its marketing, Lively had only herself and her publicist, Leslie Sloan and Sloan's company, VisionPR Incorporated to Blame, when her disastrously tone-deaf marketing efforts for the film plowed her public reputation straight into the ground.

In a desperate effort to salvage Lively's reputation and to escape her wrath, the Sloan parties conspired with lively and consolidated defendants Ryan Reynolds and the New York Times Company to make scapegoats of the Wayfarer Parties for lively's woes. On information and belief, the Sloan parties worked for months to drop breadcrumbs and hints of sinister allegations to the public while secretly feeding defamatory falsehoods to any reporter who would listen, including Megan Thouy of the New York Times. As a direct result of the actions of the Sloan parties and their co-conspirators, the Wayfarer parties have been damaged beyond measure. Their reputations are destroyed, their businesses lie in tatters, and their own film was taken from them. These are the facts underpinning the Wayfarer Party's allegations against the Sloan parties, and this is what the evidence will prove at trial. The motion should therefore be denied in its entirety or in the alternative, the court should grant the wayfarer parties leave to amend their first amendment complaint and allow them to move forward with holding the Sloan parties to account for their part in lively's malicious and calculated scheme. I mean, it's so well said. It would be insane to let them out of this lawsuit, and they are correct.

There were all these breadcrumbs first. That's how the public even found out that there was drama. Leslie Sloan has very strong connections at TMZ at Page 6. She basically planted all of these ideas. That's what it looks like me, that people didn't like him on sets. There was a reason that everybody had mass unfollowed him in the Taylor Swift move, and that there were allegations of HR complaints. All of that was happening leading up to it. There's no way that Blake Lively was communicating directly with these journalists. That's the reason that you have a PR firm in the first place. That filing is happening. I think Brian Friedman's team has made a very strong argument for why they shouldn't be dropped, but we will continue to monitor all of that. All right, you guys. Just want to remind you about 7 Weeks Coffee because you drink coffee, so why not do a good thing while you drink it? They are America's pro-life coffee company on a mission to fund the pro-life movement, one cup of coffee at a time. They're called 7 Weeks Coffee because at 7 Weeks, a baby is the size of a coffee bean, and it's the same time a heartbeat is clearly detected on an ultrasound.

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Also, I am giving up my phone on Saturday evenings until Sunday. It's my very own Shabbat. Because I think that's healthy. I think it's good to just zone out for a little bit. That's something that I'm giving up that will actually add value to my life. It's good. It's good to do these sorts of things. It was really hard for me to fast on lent, but I did it. I was very proud of myself trying to get a pregnant person to fast. It was just a lot. Anyways, let's get into some of your comments. What do you guys have for me? Intelligent Observer writes, I love how LeBron is worshiped like a God, but Catholic are demonized for venerating saints. Only a matter of time until his many NDAs come to light and we see how much of a saint he really is. My commentary on LeBron James is the same on Taylor Swift and the same on all of these people who find Fame really young. Lebron James, obviously, remarkably talented. You can hate the player, but you can't hate the game. Or in this circumstance, I guess I'm saying, you can hate the game, but you can't hate the player.

Lebron James is an excellent player. But I think he also suffers from a rest of development. He was literally taken out of high school and turned into a star, and everyone started calling him the king. That can't be good. You don't want to just be called the king from the time when you're 18 years old. I think it's gone a little bit to his head. He's a little gast on that. I mean, even making those statements of like, This is what I'm going to do, and I'm going to play with my son no matter what, that's quite monarchy. You know what I mean? He's like, I have full power here. I am a monarch, and I will get whatever it is that I want. He forced this thing, and now he wants to back out and pretend that he didn't do that. But like I said, the comments, you can go through them. This is what he said. This is what he did. You can hate me for telling you that, but that's what happens when you just have too much power. You need people to tell you no. It is so important in life for people to tell you no.

That's why I say having toddlers is such a humbling experience, right? Because they're just so honest all the time, and they don't really... I have no idea what I do for a living. They don't care about anything. It's the only way that I think someone of his... First off, I would say, his physical prowess, his success, his financial prowess is going to be brought back down to Earth. It's with people saying, what the Lakers should have said, it's been great. It's been a great ride, LeBron James. We love you, but I'm not just going to offer your son a deal or else you're not going to play with us. That's just really brady. They would have never said that to him because he's LeBron James and they want to make money. I All right. Sarah writes, Can you shout me out, please? I delivered my... No, you didn't. Oh, I read this comment. She said, I delivered my 40th baby today. I was like, Why are you lying, Sarah? But then I read the second part, I'm now a qualified midwife. Yes, you did deliver your 40th baby today, and congratulations. Dreams are lies, writes, Because you're so awesome, and in case you need bodyguards, thank you so much for that donation.

Anonymous writes, Handing out opportunities just for DEI without considering marriage your qualifications undermines individuals with appropriate qualifications, especially regarding promotions. Opportunities should provide financial support to students in academia who test well with their peers. However, placing students without the academic grades just to fill a statistic does not help them. Yes, it does not help them. They are not set up for success by being placed in a position without the qualifications. Yes. If those of you guys are interested, if that's the first time you've ever heard the argument about affirmative action, you should really read Clarence Thomas. You should read his dissents. He has been working hard to get affirmative action overturned for this reason. He's not saying, Black people don't deserve anything. He is saying you're harming these students who are plenty capable themselves and then sometimes are so great and would be at the top of their classes. Somewhere else, stop forcing them where they don't belong. Like, Brawny, maybe he just belongs in the G League. Like I said, he's, I think, the number four scorer on his G League team, which is great, competing amongst his peers. That is the whole point is like, do not deflate their sense of self, their sense of worth for no reason when they aren't bad.

He's not bad. He just doesn't belong playing alongside his father just because of his father's ego. I hope that makes sense, and I genuinely hope that Brian takes that to heart and that his dad never does that crass thing again. He could have done that privately. He could have been like, Can somebody bring him to the locker room? But it's almost like he wanted to do that. Like I said, he's just high in his own supply, and he just wanted to go up to him and say something publicly, and no one can... I'm LeBron James, and like I said, that's only going to hurt his son more. His son is going to look absolutely ridiculous at the end of that. Nicole writes, Loved the Theo interview. So good. Have a great weekend. Yes, I should actually check and see how many of you guys watched that because I forgot to check today. But I was grateful because it was Because I had such a fun time, and it was, like I said, Theovon is very funny. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. Like I said, that's how the free markets works.

I'm not going to spike my ball and go home. People are allowed to criticize me. People can say things about me. I just have to accept that if one day, if I'm in the podcast, Big Leagues, and if one day people don't want that anymore because they don't like what I'm offering, then that's my own fault. I appreciate. We've already had such an amazing year, and we really are having so much fun. We will end that there, reminding you guys, if you want to go to kandastones. Com and support independent journalism, you can get my book. It's available for presale, make them a sandwich. Gems in here. Gems. You will love this as I break down the feminist movement and everything that is wrong with it because we've been sold a of lies. You got to go back to the history. You got to go back to the beginning to realize how we got here, how we started with what we were told was a movement that was designed to empower women, too many women being miserable, working jobs that don't fulfill them, but feeling that pressure to keep working it because you have to compete with men.

We should talk about all that, and we do that in the book. If you go to kannesownes. Com. Also, you can sign up for our Book Club. We are still reading. I think next week we meet again. And guess what, guys? The live chat is going to be for my Book Club people. We are still reading Chaos. It's amazing. I love it. I think also, by the way, that is what Joe Rogan and Ian Carroll spoke about because Tom O'Neill was on Joe Rogan's podcast. That book is incredible. It will totally blow your mind about everything So even if you don't join the Book Club and don't want to speak about the book with me, you should read it because it's great. But only read it after you read my book, which is available for presale. So me first, Tom O'Neill. Tom O'Neill is doing way too great right now. And what else do we have going on on the website? But you have a live chat is going to be ready, which makes me so excited because I felt like we needed that, and we're just going to keep making the Book Club bigger and greater.

It's already big, which is incredible. I never expected so many people to sign up right away, but I love it. Then you guys see in the comments here asking, When is the Harvey stuff coming back on the show. I am sorry to have kept you waiting that long. It takes so much time to read through these transcripts. And literally last night, my baby boy got sick, vomited everywhere. They picked up a bug. They had these indoor play stuff, things in Tennessee, and they're just griny at the end of the day. My son, first my older son was sick, and then my youngest son, who was just a year and... Gosh, he was a year and four months. Crazy. Time really flies. He got sick, honestly. Then he got sick this morning. It literally two hours before we went live, guys, I had vomit on my sweater like I was M&M. It was mom's spaghetti. It was crazy. But it wasn't mom's spaghetti, it was baby's vomit. It's just the price of being a mom. You just got to go, okay, everything's got to stop for a little We'll kick it to next week. But I promise you on Monday, barring anything crazy that happens over the weekend, I will have the time to go through the transcript.

We are moving on to Jessica Mann, who is the second person. She put Harvey in jail for three years. It's crazy. Every story just gets crazier and crazier. I maintain my position that Harvey Weinstein was wrongly convicted as an act of social justice for the #MeToo movement, not an act of true justice, which is what we fight for here on this show. All right, guys, we will see you on Monday..