This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

So I get this email from someone who we deal with quite frequently here and they're doing their thing and they were like, so I'd like to ask you if you'd have Stephen A Smith on to talk about Black HBCU week and I was like, so I said to Jameson,

I said, yeah, go ahead, tell them it it's all right and I was like I we got we

going through publicist now okay all right I thought that was interesting

that wasn't me all right I was like a publicist he got a representation to get on the show I ain't no use he just

text me and I'm like come on in all right here we go let me welcome to the show

he is the ambassador for for Wilmington's third annual historically black colleges and universities month, it says, in September.

And actually his show is going to be live, he's the ambassador.

Let me welcome to the show show the one and only Stephen A Smith Good, what's up. Well, first of all, first of all.

Publicist, yeah.

Well, listen, here's the deal.

ESPN is directly involved in it.

All of these folks here, they do a phenomenal job obviously, Earl Cooper, Ashley Christian, outside, co-creators

for H.C. U. Week and every day.

They reach out and they've been doing a fabulous job, but you know me.

You know, I mean, I would have called you myself I mean I would have

just called her a week off and said yeah I need to come on to promote something I

had no idea that's not how we roll but you know it was very professional exactly

they're exceptional and I appreciate that but you know it came home like these are the

proper channels so we're gonna operate and I let my people contact your people I'm thankful for it but you know me I got

friends and I'd have been like you wanted them excuse me can't I need to come

off for sucking so let's get that out of the way.

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