All right,
Brandon Newman has been standing by listening to our
conversation. He has been curating
comments from
several of our conversations this week
that people have consumed and weighed in on it. I don't know
Brandon of all the comments are just because people are looking
for Outlets to weigh in on and in general or if their comments
that they're specifically
interested in what we have to say,
but nonetheless your thoughts on what we just
the conversation. We just had
had as well as the tenor and tone
of the comments and the feedback that we've gotten from
our loyal listeners and viewers and subscribers and streamers.
We thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. What? They've
had
to say all week about about this
hot button topic that we're putting the bed after today.
Brandon.
Well, good luck with that because like you said earlier
in the show, news is the unusual. And this is the most
unusual story
and it's Thursday.
And I think the reason why it's such a Hot Topic in it.
No streets is outside of it being a top 5, internet moment
in Internet history and Twitter history.
People want to know the why
people just can't wrap their minds around. Why Will Smith
would do this. Now? Keep in mind Who Will Smith was to us
before this incident before Michelle Obama. We had Will and
Jada it was like, oh, they can
they can never break up. You know, this is before you start
putting all your business out in the street. This was like
a first black Hollywood couple for us. We all looked up to
Will
and Jada. Yeah, in a very real way. And speaking of
Chris Rock being in Boston.
I need an addendum to the autobiography
that that Will Smith foot out. Now, on the internet. It sounds
like everyone who is not saying he's dead wrong,
New York, aping up for him and you're doing you're working too
hard to
keep up for Will Smith and that's why people are coming at
you and the comments. I quit smoking. I'm working too hard
to keep up for Will Smith. They think that any excuse to why
for his actions is that and I say you got to think about
Who Will Smith is in this moment.
After he's a method actor, got into the character of King
Richard, this father, who was a bully in some regards? You've
seen out in the media to an extent protecting his children,
and he was just still in that mode. Now, I'm not trying to
defend it at all because what we saw was
insane and should never happen and it rolls that little
violence, but I think it is important to think about when
these incidents happened who are these people at this stage
in their life and Yay.
Came out and said, yeah that Taylor Swift had the greatest.
He just lost his mother and a very very Hollywood public way.
And also this last thing was saying layout because there's
so much to say about based on we don't know in a way out
here for a second. Keep going.
Well, there's there's there's a reality is reality to Hollywood
being so fake
that they can't recognize a real moment as soon as it happens.
And and that's what I think, there's a whiplash to that and
then everyone talking about for me.
How traumatic things have been since then, like, trauma is
dealt with, it's connected to pain. So I feel weird about Amy
Schumer and Wanda Sykes acting like they going to get smacked
up at the next comedy special. That's not the situation
happening. Now. That's why I think
trauma is more, is little bit,
a little bit, a little bit of a stretch, but I can't speak on
how they handle this. The same way. I can't speak on Jada,
Pinkett Smith, and taking our picture joke, but I'll do this.
I will say, I will say it is a little bit of
bullying from Chris Rock at this point because this joke
isn't made in a vacuum. Umm, his eyes are set up on Jada and
making fun of Jada in the spectrum of this Oscar, and it
just felt a little bit too much too, too personal.
So I'm looking at this one comment. I should stop dancing.
I'm about to, I don't know,
I don't dance. Hey, I don't know how to dance. I don't have
rhythm
be I said what I said and I meant what I said and sometimes
what I'm saying has Nuance to it.
Okay, you may think there's no Nuance here for me. There is
you said I was working too hard to
somebody else working through all the Kpop for Will Smith
that I guess I guess.
Oh poor here's some irony. By the way. I want to point out
some ironies Michael.
There's some irony to the people who have, right. We
observed Will Smith sense of entitlement
when it came to getting up out of his seat and smacking
slapping Chris Rock. When like I said earlier,
everybody on the internet think the entitled to say what they
want to say.
So that's very hypocritical that people think they can say
what they want, but they want to cut 10 recognize somebody
else's entitlement. Even though he was entitled.
I'm not keeping up a Will Smith. Everything. I've said
over the last 20 years. It's gonna sound real narcissistic
and real egomaniacal, but I can understand what here we go.
Here we go. More than usual.
I understand I'm talking about
it's about me
and I love whenever possible to attach a larger message to
these stories. I'm inconsistent.
And I live my life by a certain code of don't start. None won't
be none. I don't know Will Smith. We ain't got nothing in
common. Other than the surname.
Okay. I don't know him. I'm not keeping up a Will Smith
and I've said that he shouldn't have gone up and slapped him.
I wish he would not have but I think too many people in this
world. I'm speaking from
experience and observation too many people in this world.
Think they can get away with saying, whatever the hell they
want to say to people.
And that's our problem. So you want to talk about Will Smith.
Crossing the line
and not respecting boundaries
and not being respectful. It goes both ways.
Nobody respects anybody nowadays
and that's the problem
because too many people
don't be recognized other people's Humanity, A and B.
They ain't afraid of getting smacked.
I think that was I think that is a separate issue.
I think that is a valid issue on its own. I don't think
that's what was happening here though.
I don't think, I don't think.
I always offer me.
Something about me. I'm just a mom.
Come on my perspective, in my commentary on it separate and
apart, from what?
All the motivation was or Chris Rock. I'm talking about how
I see it through the prism of my worldview. That's all I was
addressing. This is interesting. This is
interesting. All right here, say that the celebrity
of Jada joke aside.
It's almost like we talked about
talk about the guy
and not the woman. Well,
they're both, they are both public figures. They're both
celebrity. So it's not like hey, you can talk about me, but
don't talk about my family. But what if your family is just as
famous As You Are,
I don't know if that quite applies in this case
with Will and Jada.
I mean, there's still people.
Yeah,
celebrities. I'm not saying.
So you're saying
I'm just let me just make sure I understand what you're
saying. You're saying that.
He's not that, she's that, she's fair game because she's
a celebrity in her own, right? And that he should understand
that.
So, beyond the quote unquote, toxic masculinity of rescuing,
the so-called Dan's and damsel in distress. And you're saying
this is not just a regular damsel. This is a public
figure.
I want the camera on her too.
I wanted the cam on her the whole time.
What if she just said?
Hey Chris Rock, You Know,
fu.
A few or flip them, a bird, whatever. Okay, fine. Like
we'll
why is he in it?
I mean, she's she's capable. She's capable of handling it
herself without going everybody. But, but but but,
but you don't go but Michael met. Again, we have assigned
the whole protecting his wife thing,
partly. Because of what he said in his speech because what he
said, but and what if I'm the audience keep my wife's keep my
weight,
but yeah, but here's but he is, but here's the eagle part.
Here's the ego part. Here's the Part, here's the part that he
talked about in his book.
He didn't just go up there for
for JD, went up there for him.
Right or wrong. He went up there for him. So you're saying
she's capable of Defending herself.
He might not only been thinking about, oh, I gotta go up there
to defend her even though the laughs is still confusing. He
might have been like, this is for me as much as it is for
her, which that maybe the narcissism you've talked about
that. Maybe the ego
the ego, the toxic masculinity. I get all of that.
I'm simply saying
one thing led to another
but very chronological thinker.
It doesn't mean that the response
was necessary. There was Ponce it happened because that's what
happens
often times in the streets and not at the Oscar. But that's
what happens. Yeah, when you say, something about somebody
that's personal
and all I'm saying is, how about? We just all respect one
another more than we do. Let's be more compassionate in
general
and nobody will get slapped or were.