Stephen A. Smith & Shannon Sharpe Open Up About Skip Bayless | EP. 85 | CLUB SHAY SHAY

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, yes you work with him I think a little longer than me and we both have given him credit for

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ing up his platform and allowing us to be who we are and we could grow our own platforms like you mentioned. previous business of ourselves what he is what he is to people I don't know how many people have heard and I'll follow up after you

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what he really likes because I think the thing is if you've never met him just watch him. on television you say "okay", that's him and who he is.

Skip is a different beast. Don't know. I don't know if you can describe it in a simple way. Can? The definition of advice like this is Diet Mountain Dew. This guy was in his 60s and 70s and ran five to eight miles a day. He ate the same foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He introduced himself to his now wife and to his first date. You will never be more important than my job. Get over it from now on or don't bother, I mean, that's his definition of turning her on, I guess, so I think he's a different animal, right, you know, and there are ups and downs that come with it, right. um he knows that the ups and downs of him that come with me, there are ups and downs that come with you and absolutely everyone and that's how it works, but you know I'm a man first and it's about a core decency of appreciation, the reality is. that no matter how problematic he is and he can be problematic at times, no matter how problematic he can be, the reality is that I wouldn't be where I am today if he didn't give me that opportunity on the first take to be able to do it. being where I am and knowing it's spring, are stepping stones to something he was directly involved in that happened, insulting him in any way is just disrespectful, it's wrong and something I will never do now, that doesn't mean I can't to absolutely disagree with him, that doesn't mean I can't feel that he's wrong and anyone like Jamie Harwich, you and others who know me, have gotten to know me in your case, know that I would tell you that you're wrong.

To his face, he knows where I stand, but that doesn't take away from my love and appreciation for him and the fact that he will always be a brother from another mother to me, yeah, so I've always made that clear with everyone, Yeah. It's not often that someone can give you that opportunity and uh, I and I've said it several times. I can't let six months ruin six and a half good years, because sometimes people are willing to throw everything away for one mistake. bad comment or something, right, and even though that was all we were supposed to get, my sister tells me this all the time, Shannon says, this was all we were supposed to get if I'm like five, four ago months I had Tabitha.

Brown wait, I interviewed her before, she's fantastic Stephen A, I had no idea this was happening so we ended the interview and I'll end it with this and I'm grabbing my microphone, she says, uh, it's on full blast. I said well I'm going to take off my microphone you can take off yours we take off our microphones and she leans towards me she said I had a dream last night God told me everything would be okay and to go ahead and do it . what you have to do, she says it's going to be different, but you have to go on your own now.

God told me that she said now do what you want with it well, but God only she says and when I have dreams like this. and I am always in the presence of the person, it is my duty to tell her a month later, yes, yes, and I say and when she tells me tonight, you see how you look at me, I am looking at her, how do you know what it is. It's going well, she said God told me this last night and it's funny that I'm sitting here doing this interview. I did this interview with you and I needed to tell you this once you told me I was at peace because it's racking my brain I'm like what did I do?

I said something I offended someone I mean, I just think I'm doing a great job she said be at peace with it yeah and that's what I told you you did, that's what I told you because the reality of the situation is You know I'm not going to apologize. Listen. I have a lot of friends there. Well, we all know that I know a lot of people. But that doesn't mean what happened. to you it's fair, plain and simple, okay, that's not the end of the world, no, but it is what it is, yeah, so you know for me it was important for us in this industry to stand up and say, "He's one of us".

I can't let them go out like that and that was it for me, it was that simple: you go wherever you want, you want to come first, take five, you want to go somewhere else, good, because I have my team here first. I'm not trying to get rid of anything, you know what I'm saying because I'm not going to do this forever and when the time comes, when the time comes, it's my time to go well and it's time for someone else to do it. take a step forward, but while I'm here my attitude will be to listen to the people who have been a treasure and a tribute to this industry, they are the people who I'm going to do everything I can to remind people that this is what they do, I don't want to be one of those guys that I have these First Take platforms and I have my podcast and I'm doing NBA Countdown and I have more stuff coming up and all that and all I'm talking about is what I'm doing as my job to highlight what everyone else is doing you're one of the few Stephen A because I know a lot of people could have the opportunity to help someone but they want to be the only ninja with money I don't want that and I told you this and I'll tell the audience that I told you this I said you could be the first shot for a year you could be the first shot for years to come it's my responsibility and I'm serious, it's a heart attack, it's It's my responsibility to make sure you have more success with me than before I came, that's what you told me, it's my responsibility and I'll make sure it happens when the high tide comes, no We're not going down brother, we just don't know, you know that guy, you know, that's how it goes, the goat man comes exactly HBCU, it's the takeover.

I'm not trying to lose, no, no, I never mean that, no one. I don't know anything about that, I don't want to disrespect anyone, I heard it, but that's him. Best possible here Stephen A Smith Monday 4th September Certainly ah