➡ The speaker reflects on a challenging year marked by feelings of betrayal from those he trusted. He discusses his career, highlighting his willingness to tackle difficult issues and make sacrifices, even when it wasn’t popular. He also talks about his support for Colin Kaepernick and the backlash he faced. The speaker emphasizes that the pain of betrayal is more impactful than any financial or career setback, as it shapes one’s perspective on life and relationships.
➡ The speaker is expressing their feelings about cutting ties with people who have wronged them. They don’t want to make amends or be friends with these people anymore. They’ve learned to move on without holding grudges, focusing on their own life instead. They also discuss a former colleague, Molly, expressing their respect and affection for her, despite her no longer being part of their work life.
➡ The speaker emphasizes the strong bond and sense of family among the members of their online community, despite not meeting in person. They’ve worked together for over a decade, sharing personal experiences and supporting each other through various life events. The speaker also mentions plans for the future, which will be revealed after the summer. Lastly, they express appreciation for Stephen A. Smith, a figure they admire and have learned from.

People think that this last year has been hard for me, and it has been. It’s been one of the hardest years of my life. But it’s not for the reasons people think. It’s the betrayal. That is one thing I don’t get over very easy. It doesn’t matter to me. Like, I told you before, you called me, we talked with them. Good! Even before then, I wasn’t mad, because I never felt betrayed. I just felt that y’all could have done a better job by asking them questions about me. That’s it. But I never felt betrayed.

But when I feel betrayed, bro… Who did it? I love… What? Who did it? No, no, I’m just saying. But… No, no, I’m just… Like, bro, it could be women. It could be some of my boys. I’ve had people literally say, black people don’t fuck with you. You betrayed your race. We… We don’t want to fuck with you. Cam, those people can never come back in my life. I’m gonna look at that camera. They can go to hell. They can never come back. Because to know me, you know that but deep. I almost lost my career because I look out.

I cannot count the amount of times I’ve put my ass on the line for us. Think about it. The archives are there. Go back to the columns of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Go back to me on Fox Sports on the Best Damn Sports show. Go back to me on ESPN and look at the shit that I’ve done and the issues that I’ve been willing to tackle and the sacrifices I could have shut up and got paid. Remember, everybody want to look at this contract. That contract was signed in 2025. I’ve been in the business since 1993.

I’ve been repeatedly underpaid. Repeatedly I had challenges. I got fired, dog. Fired. People look at me and they say, oh, he, he, he, he, he tight with the damn Sean Hannity. Sean Hannity and I being tight ain’t got nothing to do with politics. It got everything to do with the fact that when everybody else had turned their back on me, that motherfucker went to war. And then they want you to hate white people. And then they want you to hate white people. Right after that, they want you to hate white people. Sean Hannity held them down, made sure that he was straight, went to war for him on his behalf.

And it’d be the very people that you go to war for that turn their back on you and say, they don’t mess with you because they trying to much. And it’s like, no, that’s my man. He ain’t that person. What are you talking about? I’m talking about the industry. You understand? Now you got a lot of people that I set up there and oh, Steven ain’t black people. Steven ain’t as damn fucked up. What happened to you? Oh, that’s bad. They got their own platforms. And when it’s time for them to speak up, it’s crickets.

But see cats get get brave now. That is popular. But I was doing it when it wasn’t popular. And it’s like the whole Colin Kaepernick thing. People was giving me hits for that. Let’s go back to that for a second. Because I’m just using this as nuggets of examples to highlight that. So you’re Colin Kaepernick. I’m not going to bring up the fact that you started making noise after for a reserve. It was never when you were a starter. I’ll ignore that fact. But what I’ll do instead is say, Hey, you’re reserved playing behind Blaine Gabbard.

You remember him. I came in again. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Remember that. And you decide that you want to take a knee. Who the hell is going to refute or argue with that? You taking a knee on behalf of us. Police brutality going on in the streets of America. Thank you. But there’s a caveat with all of that. This is National Football League. All of them owners ain’t none of them black. It’s a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. And they’re going to make sure you know they ain’t comfortable with that. So now we got to have a decision. How important is your voice in terms of its utilization? Is it with you wearing an NFL uniform or is it with you out on your own? We got to deduce what level of importance that is because remember, as you talk to me and you’ve gotten to know me, how many times do you say to me, damn, Steven, are you strategic? I’m maneuvering through the terrain because we live in a society and working in industry where that’s something that happens every day.

Rashawn talks to me. Everything is about strategy. Everything is about that. I’m the one that debunks that book that I don’t care. I’m gonna do this. You got you got to give him some credit, bro, because you can’t question Steven A’s credibility. Again, regardless of whether you agree with the decision that he made to stand up or to support Colin Kaepernick or to not support Colin Kaepernick. He did what he thought was going to be supportive of the culture. Right or wrong, bad, indifferent, whatever. You can’t say that he didn’t stand on something when it was unpopular to do so.

When the right thing to do in most people’s eyes in order to ensure that you are going to get your back is to be quiet. It’s to be quiet. And I feel him on a betrayal. I feel him. I will say that the hardest years of my life, and I’m sure that a lot of y’all that’s in this chat, listen, you don’t have to have a big platform. You don’t have to have a huge voice to be able to relate to what he’s saying. The hardest years of your life is not going to be your financial status, your socioeconomic status, whatever.

That’s not going to be the thing that hurts you because you can come back from that. You can get some more money. You’re going to find another opportunity. Yeah, that’s going to be a temporary hurt because it limits your ability to really be able to maneuver and be mobile. And so you got to kind of go down deep within yourself to dig yourself out of that situation, regardless of how you got there. But when you have people that you thought was holding you down, but they was only holding you down when it was popular to do so and they switch up, that hurts way worse because that type of pain don’t go away.

It molds you. It shapes you. It gives you a perspective of how you see life. That’s why a lot of people have difficulty getting into relationships because of the betrayal that they’ve experienced in previous situations. You’re never going to not have that in the back of your mind when somebody did you a certain way. When they tried to leave, and I ain’t talking about on those simple jumps. I ain’t talking about cheating. I ain’t talking about none of that type of stuff. I’m talking about defending somebody. I’m talking about abandoning you. I’m talking about aligning with your enemies.

I’m talking about jumping ship when you needed them the most or when things started to get a little dicey and they was like, you know what? I’m just going to do what’s best for me. Respect. That’s cool because I have no problem with it because we live in the US and you have the freedom to do what you want to do. But you can’t tell me how to feel as a result of it. Oh man, in my life, I’ve seen so many people switch up in my life that I’m numb to it.

I’m numb to it. It don’t hurt any less when you go through it initially, but you’ve learned over time, you learn how to get over it quicker and you completely divest yourself from it. It ain’t no coming back. I’m going to tell you all this. I’m going to give you all some gain, right? I’m going to tell you all the honest to God truth. And I’m not going to say no names. Y’all don’t have to try to guess it because y’all are going to be, I’m not going to confirm nothing that you say.

On Sunday night, we were live streaming on Room 9 and we were doing a movie show and I was kicking it with people and nobody that was on the platform has admin rights that was on that show that day. So they can’t see who was in the background. Somebody, somebody from the past that y’all have seen on platforms with me and stuff before jumped into the back to try to come up on Room 9. Just honest to God truth. Jumped up in the background to try to come up on Room 9. Normally, up until probably late last year, normally, I will bring them up, have the conversation, fix whatever the situation is, have the conversation and forgive and move on.

I will tell you, I looked up in the back and I left them there and I just kept streaming and I never want to talk to them. I never want to kick it. I never want to, I never want to have a conversation. I don’t want, I don’t want to make amends. I don’t want to fix nothing. I don’t want to be friends. I don’t want to be amicable. I’m not, as far as I’m concerned, there are people that don’t even exist. You are dead to me. You’re dead to me. And again, I already told y’all that I’m not going to confirm anybody that y’all say in the back.

You’re dead to me. Even if I’m cool, listen, listen to what I’m saying. I feel what Stephen is saying right now. Even if I’m cool, meaning that I could see you in the streets and be like, what up? Hey, what’s going on? Hey, how y’all doing? No, y’all good. Okay, cool. And in my heart, in the back of my mind, because I’m going to keep it. I’m going to keep it cute. Ain’t that what the ladies say? I’m going to keep it cute a thousand percent of the time. I’m going to keep it cute a hundred percent of the time.

I’m never going to let you know that I don’t mess with you like that. I don’t have to prove nothing to you. That’s how you know that it’s dead is because usually when somebody come to you and say, hey, man, you betrayed me or a baby girl, you hurt me. That means that they’re looking to have a conversation or they trying to get some kind of resolution to be able to, you know what I’m saying? It is something that they got to get off the chest. I don’t feel like I got to get nothing off my chest.

I just don’t ever want to see you again. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to see you. I don’t want to watch you. I don’t want to kick it. I don’t want to check on you. I don’t want to see what you got going on on social media. You’re dead to me. You’re dead to me and I don’t have a grudge against you because I don’t even feel like I like because you know me. I’m never going to stop nobody from getting any money. I’m never going to mention nobody. I’m never going to get into that, but you’re dead to me.

And I had to learn how to be that way. What does that mean? I had to learn how to be that way. That means that my nature as me historically, I’ve always, hey man, come on back. Buzz them in the arms. Hey baby girl, come on back. Buzz them in the arms. Hey, no, we got to forgive and forget. I’ll forgive you. I just don’t ever want to see you again. I don’t have nothing against you. I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to do you dirty. I don’t want nothing to happen to you.

God bless you. I don’t care if you wind up becoming the president of the United States of America. I just don’t care no more. You’re gone out of my life. I’m at the age now, and this is why I resonate so much with what Stephen is saying right now. I’m at the age of my life at 44 years old. You see all of this grand here? I seen too much. I’ve done a lot of trial and error in the first 40 years and the first half of my life. The second half is no shorts, no losses, no Ls, no take backs, no nothing.

If it’s over, it’s over. If it’s up, it’s up. It’s too little time to be sitting here wasting on people that I don’t trust. And that goes for everybody. Anybody and everybody, if you feel as though you need to do something and bust a move, bust a move. But I want you to bust a move knowing that it ain’t no take backs. It just ain’t no take backs. I don’t want nothing bad from you. I don’t want none of that. I just don’t want to talk to you again. I don’t want to see you.

I don’t want to check on you. I don’t want to have a conversation. I don’t want to be friends. I don’t want to, I don’t even talk on the phone. Don’t call me. I don’t even like talking on the phone. I don’t even like texting. If I talk to you on the phone, you, you really, we like, we really got something. Like we really connected for real. We really friends in real life. I don’t want to talk. It’s too, it’s too small of a time. So I’m feeling when he says, when Steven A.

Smith says, no, listen, it was the most difficult year for me, not because he got a hundred M’s, but because, you know, it’s a lot of people that switched up on him and betrayed him. So a lot of people that switched up. And I’m loyal to a fault. I’m pretty sure that he loyal to a fault because I see some people saying stuff, some stuff about him that they got his phone number and they not even calling him. They just saying crazy stuff online and he still be giving grace.

Loyal to a fault, loyal to a fault. I will put everybody before I put myself, I will make sure that everybody else is paid before I pay myself. I will make sure that I take all the L’s, all the darts, go to bat for people, pay for their medical bills, come through with them, say, you need me, I’m there for you, whatever. No matter what happened, the minute that you turn on me, it’s up, it’s over. And rather than put energy back into going back and forth for people, I’d rather just cut it off and keep it moving.

It’s nothing for us to talk about no more. Let’s just keep it moving. You, you, I’m me. I’m pretty sure that neither one of us is going to trip about the fact that we never going to see each other again. You knew me before you got here. Or you didn’t know me before you got here. I didn’t know you. Your life was fine without me. I’m pretty sure it’ll be fine without me going forward. Real talk. Before we get out of here. Yeah. My last questions. Um, and when I first came on ESPN, there was a person that was affiliated.

That’s no longer there. Molly care. Yeah. Do you guys still communicate? Rarely. We’ve spoken once or twice, but we still got a lot of love for each other. But how did that unfold? And were you behind that? I was not behind that. I had nothing to do with that. I love Molly. Molly is a really good friend. She’s always been good to me. And she was on the show with me for 10 years and, you know, we were number one. And she had a lot to do with that. Because a lot of people got a lot of love for her.

This is Steven A being loyal again, but neither here nor there. Shay Cornette is the new host who is outstanding. Yes, she is. She is thorough as hell and she is outstanding. And I’m proud to have her. And she’s better than Molly. Molly Cura, not my Molly. But I’m not just speaking about Molly’s ability as a host. I’m not just speaking about the love and the affinity that the community had for her. She and I are friends. And there were times that, you know, I wondered whether she wanted to be there or not because she had a lot going on.

And it just got to a point where, you know, she was just at odds in terms of what she wanted to do compared to what they wanted to do. The bosses. I’m not at liberty to get into details. I can’t do that. I’m not going to do that. But I will tell you that they have a right to make those decisions. But I will tell you that I miss her. That I got a lot of love for her. That she’s very, very near and dear to me on a personal level.

Because especially over the last few years, she’s confided in me a lot. Trusted me with a lot of things. And our friendship only grew. And I miss her. I miss her a lot. And that’s no shade at shade because I’m not even talking about work because Shay is legit. Shay’s the real deal. But I’m getting to know Shay because I didn’t know Shay. But I’ve known Molly now for over 11 years. And I’m glad that she’s doing her thing with Zufferboxing. There’s a lot more that she can do. Who? Zufferboxing? What is Zufferboxing? Somebody in the chat, give me some insight on what that is.

I want to know what that is. She’s been very, very public about her battles with endometriosis. And I hope that she’s really, really healthy and all of that stuff. And we don’t speak often because I’m a busy dude. And I don’t just pick up the phone and call people all the time and stuff like that. But she knows if she ever needs me for anything, I will be there. Because we’re friends. All right, so I want you all to understand something too. Because I see somebody in the chat trying to make it out to be more.

Dana White’s Boxing League. All right, cool. That’s what’s up. That’s what’s up. I see somebody in the chat trying to make it out to be more than what it is. Y’all got to stop. Just because people have an affinity for somebody, you can’t work with somebody for more than a decade, for years, and not grow to know who they are. There is nobody that doesn’t know everything almost about everybody on after hours. At this point, we are family. And we don’t even work in person with each other.

I got plans for that, but I’m not going to reveal it to y’all. That’s going to come later on after the summer. We’re going to talk about that. I got plans. So I’m working on some stuff. All right, but there’s been people that, you know, us on after hours, we so, man, we rock with each other. That’s not, I don’t even look at them as co-workers. I look at them as family, man. Real talk. I look at them as family. I look at them as big time family. And so you can’t work with somebody, male or female, for 10, 11 years and not personally know about their life.

We all personally know about each other’s lives. On Room 9, we all personally know about each other’s lives. We know what we go through. We know what the issues are. We know what the problems are. We know what the successes are. We celebrate each other, all that type of stuff. Kimmi know, she in the chat. That’s why betrayal is in loyalty. Those are big words and people take that stuff for granted. People take that junk for granted. Shout out to Stephen A. Smith, man. Stephen A. Smith, let me say something.

When I went on Stephen A. show, I will tell you that, shout out to Nia. I appreciate you, Nia Woodward. When I went on Stephen A. show, I made sure that I told him before we even got started and afterwards at the end. And people didn’t like that. I don’t know why y’all don’t like it when people give people their flowers regardless of whether you agree or disagree with them. I gave him his flowers and I said, listen, you did it the hard way. I, you know me, I’m a well-prepared monster.

So I had read his book. I deep dove into his background. I read sharp, you know, his book. You know what I’m saying? Straight shooter. I gave him his props because I’ve been watching him for years and I’ve seen the growth. I’ve seen adversity. I’ve seen and read from his own words the things that he said that he went through. And my bag chasers, we family. We’re literally, we different. We’re a different animal. We’re family. We’re literally family. I know, Kimmy. I already know. We’re family. And so we just, we take it serious.

This ain’t no internet stuff. This is real life. We get money together. We do jobs together. We connect with each other. We pray for each other. We study with each other. We mourn with each other. We hold each other down. It’s different. It’s different. Make sure to like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. That’s true. Before the show even start, when I look over and see what’s happening in the chat before I even start the show, all I see is a bunch of people saying, good morning.

How was that to yesterday? Whatever. I said, man, people. Because, you know, the internet was never supposed to be this immersive. We wasn’t supposed to learn to link up in person on the internet. We was just all supposed to remain anonymous. Do y’all realize that we actually know each other in real life? Y’all know how crazy that is? To know that people that you’ve met online are people that you consider family because you really connected in real life. Me and Slimmy are literally like real life family, like real life brothers.

Like before he ever came on the platform, me and Slimmy were like this in real life. All through the pandemic, all through that. Like me and Slimmy are like top. Like we are real and we can almost be blood bro. [tr:trw].

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