Stephen A. Smith
speaker
1,045 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Stephen A. Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not a problem.
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And then with the Shohei Otani thing.
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When I talked about, you know, him being a a major league baseball player and I I knew he could speak English, but he didn't always do so.
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And sometimes he used an interpreter and stuff like that.
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When I s when I spoke about it like that.
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There were people that were in an uproar, particularly the Asian community, because they talked about racial tropes that they've had to deal with, which I was completely unaware of.
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So
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The next day when the whole stuff was in an uproar.
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I not only invited
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our major league baseball insider Jeff Passing on.
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to literally go off and rake me a new one and tell me how ignorant I came across.
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But I also invited reporters from the Asian community to come on the show to educate me and our listeners about
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What it takes.
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Why?
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First take has been the number one because of y'all.
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First take's been the number one morning show for 14 straight years.
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And if it wasn't for y'all love and support and uh how you doing buddy, it wasn't for y'all love and support and what you do for me.
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the show wouldn't be as successful and I wouldn't be as successful.
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So let me return the favor by making sure I use this as an opportunity to suck it up.
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Take it, I put myself, me and my big mouth, put myself in this situation.
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