Jemele Hill

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691 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 1 Jul

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The Dan Le Batard Show · Hour 2: The Steph Curry of Sports Media (feat. Jemele Hill) · 24 Mar 2025 podcast

And it's really quite a masterclass into how if you can drill into the performance part of this, what lay ahead for you. I mean, because the thing with me is that while certainly I'm comfortable on TV, comfortable in formats like this and virtually any format. At some point, like I can't perform like this is what you get and this is all there is.

So I can't every day sort of create this level of enthusiasm and fight and all these other things to sort of sell the natural opinion that I have. Like, that's just not a talent that I have. And he has that talent.

to such a incredible degree that I guess the downside of it is that I feel I worry that for younger journalists that this is becoming sort of like a Steph Curry effect in the sense that Steph Curry started, you know, shooting these logo threes and shooting these completely ridiculous and banana shots.

And now every NBA player thinks that they can do that or young kids coming up learning how to play basketball. You know, they're firing off 60 footers thinking like this is how you play the game, not realizing that that talent is reserved to one player who can do that. And so my I guess my larger concern is that what is.

And I don't mean to make it sound like it's a bad thing, like he's negatively influencing younger journalists, but I know a lot of them are watching him and thinking, I can do that very same thing. And so right now, they're drilling into persona as opposed to work. So that's sort of like the long-term 64,000-foot view that I'm a little bit more concerned about.

It has. It's a sucker move. And wait, maybe I need to retract everything I said. This is actually my favorite story from the last couple of days. Because, okay, there's so many things with this story. Like, one, you have this producer who, as you mentioned, may or may not have been on the date.

Like, I don't know how much people have listened to this, but if you haven't, I encourage you to listen to it. It literally sounds like that they're on a podcast. I mean, the sound quality is so crisp. I'm like, was my man wearing a lavalier? Like... Why is this sound quality so good? And the other thing, too, I mean, I agree with you, Dan, like this is this is ultimately despicable.

Like regardless, a lot of people are caught up in what this producer said and how he characterizes Stephen A. Smith and more or less how people view him at ESPN. Like to me, that's like irrelevant. The most the relevant part of this is that you could be in a social setting and if you work at ESPN. wind up being taped and then somebody else giving that to the media.

But it also kind of reminds me of a rule I used to have when I was dating. And, you know, a long, long time ago when I was a single woman out here in the wild of dating, I had a rule that if I was on a date with somebody or in that kind of initial interaction where it's like, okay, you know, this guy's cute, you know, there's some level of flirting that's going on.

If they asked me about Stephen A. Smith or Skip Bayless, immediately that dude was canceled. Immediately. No, I don't want anything to do with you because there is nothing more unsexy and unflattering than when you're talking to, you know, somebody who's a potential love interest and you're like, oh yeah, you know, so what are your hobbies? What are you, you know, trying to get to know them?

And they're like, so what's Stephen A. Smith like? I'm like, do you want to be on a date with Stephen A. Smith? Because this is doing nothing for me. Like whatever arousal point that I had in this conversation just immediately went to negative. So it kind of reminded me of that rule that I used to have When I was when I was dating, like who does that?

Do you believe that, Dan? Like, seriously. I don't believe it. I personally don't. Like, I really do not believe that's true.

I do not believe this. I have to say, like, listen, I realize right now we're in, if we did a tournament of top, you know, dumbest times in America to have lived through, I truly realize we're in a time where this could be a number one seed. I get it.

But I refuse to believe that the average person out here would look at Stephen A. Smith and say, of all the candidates that are possible in the Democratic Party, that this one is the fourth most viable that they have. And I just I don't believe I know that I'm probably going to regret saying this. I don't. And this is, again, no reflection of Stephen A. Smith.

I don't believe America's that stupid.

You know what? That's actually to my to my single ladies out there that that might be the one, you know, because we hear all these reports that one of the reasons or you want to talk about things, whether or not you believe or don't believe. But one of the things that's messing up the dating game is that like, oh,

a lot of men who have expressed support for Donald Trump is turning off the ladies, okay? And so this is part of the reasons that social scientists and experts say that men are living in the loneliest time that they've ever experienced because a lot of women are choosing to stay single. One of the top reasons is our political beliefs, the differences, especially among college-educated women.

And so maybe that is now the ultimate dating test. Would you vote for Stephen A. Smith? And whatever the answer is, ladies, you can decide if you found your man or not found your man.

Between Stephen A. and Donald Trump? Yeah. Okay, I can believe that. I can believe that. I would believe that. I would sprinkle something on that. Would you pay for it? Would you pay five bucks for it?

I am disgusted with myself in this moment.

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