The Best of SBS: Stephen A. Smith

Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz

Sports, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Whether you love him or hate him, you've never heard Stephen A. Smith like this before. In this now infamous conversation with Dan Le Batard from March 20, 2023, Stephen shares with Dan how despite all the success, growing up in poverty will never leave him and the controversy that still haunts him today. Dan pushes Stephen to address his relationship with the black community, how he handles the haters and imitators flooding the landscape, if he's getting bored with "First Take", and where things stand with him, Skip Bayless and Max Kellerman. Stephen also tells Dan how his words of advice and a near-death bout with Covid, changed his life forever. Watch Stephen A. daily on ESPN’s "First Take" and his bestseller, "Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes", is available wherever you get your books and audiobooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.6	The most loquacious of the talkers, anywhere in the sports media business, Stephen A. Smith is here to bring back South Beach sessions with a little bombast. Here he is the roots of
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1:50.2	and he's got big plans beyond all of that. Let's talk to Stephen A. Smith.
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