S4E20 I know why Shannon Sharpe is successful

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Speaker 1 (0s): Hey, bows and bow ties. you know, I, I didn't get a chance to finish up what I wanted to say this morning. I had to cut it short because I was getting close to my job situation. But I wanted to follow up on something else that I had a ready previously discussed, and that was in reference to people being jealous of Shannon Sharpe. I just wanted to circle back to this conversation because obviously this morning I was talking about something else and then I had to cut it short because I was getting close to work.

I just wanna say, I know why people are jealous. I know why people are jealous having throw all the numbers and stuff out. I think the reason why is because they realize like, he's like a legit dude. And what do I mean by that? Number one, he actually had a real profession. Many of these guys that are out here on these podcasts, I don't know what they did or what they do, okay? Their whole job is to sit there and just yammer on with no authority on anything.

They don't speak on with authority on finances, they don't speak with authority really on anything And. they, they're actually just, like I said, they're hyper-focused on women on what they want to get out of women and, you know what I mean? But like their whole, everything is centered around women. Like I would be grossly irritated if I was listening to a female podcast and all they talked about were men. I'd be like, I need you guys to get alive.

So I think the biggest thing is when you get somebody like a Shannon Sharpe, he doesn't require women, at least not solely to be successful. He doesn't have to talk solely about men, although he's talking about the sport of football. But I think what happens is Shannon Sharpe when he's talking, 'cause he tends to still circle back to his profession. He had a profession which was playing a professional sport, and what happens was he could speak with a level of authority and legitimacy because he played at the highest level.

So what happens is, when he leveraged that, he leveraged his, his notoriety, he leveraged the fact that he's a hall of famer. He, he won several Super Bowls and he spoke on things that he knew he leveraged, things that he knew and you can't deny him. And then when he's giving his commentary, he gives analysis behind everything. But I think what happens is he was able to parlay that into something else. And what happens is he already was able to organically capture an audience.

He did not have to denigrate a group of people. He didn't. So he doesn't require bringing women up on the panel regularly to be successful. He doesn't have to call women out of their name. He doesn't have to do that. Most of these people who have these from what ends up it might be they have these podcasts, all they do is send their conversations around the opposite sex. A lot of women do that too, but I'm just kinda like, so they, they talk about the opposite sex And.

they talk about them with so much disdain, even the way they talk, refer to women. They're referred to them as bees and hoes and threes, oh fours and all this other stuff. Okay? So what happens is he doesn't have to do that. He doesn't have to. And what, and and most of these men that I hear who have these ridiculous podcasts, they all say the same thing as far as like they, they don't offer up any real solution. They're so, they're hyperfocused on women.

And not only that, they talk about them in the sexual nature so much. And I'm just sitting there thinking like, these are empty vapid people, the ones who are talking about them, and the ones who bring up the same type of women. They don't bring up any women who fit any sort of, like, they don't get a cross section of women on these podcasts. And most women wouldn't go on there anyway. For example, I wouldn't go on a silly podcast like most of these podcasts. I wouldn't, I just don't see myself having an intelligent conversation.

There would be a bunch of straw man arguments and a lot of non sequiturs. And I'm just sitting here thinking like, what does one have to do with the other? It'd be a whole bunch of people trying to get their weirdo talking points out about modern women. And I don't know, whatever else they talk about in, in, in those circles, But. anyway, I think when you have somebody like a Shannon Sharpe, he was able to establish an air of authority behind much of what he's talking about. And because you can't deny what he's saying. I mean, you could be, but you were foolish when it comes to sports.

Oh man, it just fell out. I, I have a ton of groceries in my car to, to the passenger side and in the back seat. So something fell out of the back I. think what happens is even the way he gives his commentary, he doesn't sound like everybody else. He's this big country guy with a, with a interesting, with an interesting accent. But he also has demonstrated the ability to provide a level of analysis. And he's kind of funny.

And so now when he parlays into, or he jumps into something like interviewing people of the culture, when I say that, like you're comedians, because I think comedians have a, a, their, their thumb or their finger on the pulse of the culture, right? Because that's what ends up in their, their material. So when he's talking to entertainers and comedians and, and whoever else he's talking to, what happens is now people trust him.

He's likable. He's not attacking people when they come into his space. Like I heard Kat Williams and Monique I think Monique said this too. People feel safe because they can express themselves, they can express themselves and I don't think they feel like they're gonna be attacked. Whereas if you think about somebody like a Stevie a Smith, he doesn't give me the impression that he knows how to interview somebody without attacking them. Right?

Like even like when Shannon like, oh, come on. Like he's just funny. I don't know what it is. But he has a, a way of disarming you Stephen A. Smith is not gonna disarm anybody. He's gonna brother, brother, brother you a lot. And he's going to try to pull out every possible vocabulary word that he can, right? And so instead of just being candid, and there's nothing wrong with using sexy, immature language, but when you, you take that and you marry that with a very aggressive personality, right?

When you marry that with somebody enjoys being contentious. 'cause people see how he performs. And I do call it a performance, right? It's part of his per on on air personality. Well, when they see that he's getting lard and he's large, loud, I'm sorry, loud and, and he's performing, he's getting a full on he ego and any Grammy Oscar and attorney, like he, he's performing, right? And so what happens is people are not gonna feel as safe in the presence of someone that is a Stephen A. Smith versus Shannon Sharpe.

So now, like I said, circle back to what I was saying is he makes people feel safe. He gives you this down home relatable persona, right? And he, he is, I guess I don't know him personally, he's a country boy. So like I said, sometimes he's like, I mean I can't even mimic what he says, but he's funny. He's not attacking in how he's having a conversation with you. Not only that, women are gonna feel even more safe because look at the way he handled Monique, right?

You can tell he didn't necessarily probably agree with everything and Monique is a strong personality too. But he didn't attack this woman. He did not drag this woman. He let her speak. He didn't have to agree. Cynthia was like a Cat Williams. And so what happens is look at what everybody else has done in the media. I can't stand this. So, so she's a horrible parent. Everyone is dragging her. And I keep trying to say like one thing has nothing to do with the other. Her parenting, right? Is separate from what she's saying has happened to her in industry.

She felt safe enough that she can go on his platform and have a conversation and check this out. He didn't have to denigrate her. He didn't have to say, you woman ain't this and throw you out like some of the other weirdo podcasts have done in the past. He doesn't have to do that to women. So he doesn't have to denigrate women, he doesn't have to get a panel of women out there to be successful. Most of these male podcasters, that's what they have to do. They have to bring women up on a panel and dog them out. And then these, these women are silly enough to go up on on these panels.

They have to get a certain type of woman, right? See, Shannon Sharpe can get anybody I think if he wanted to, he can get Gayle King. I mean look at the Pivot podcast has done I think it was the Pivot. Was it the Pivot I? think it was Pivot? Was it Pivot? Somebody lemme know. I believe it was Pivot the one with I like I see his face. I don't know why no. Ryan Clark. I like Ryan Clark by the way. Was it the Pivot I? think he's Pivot Cop podcast.

I I'm so sorry if I'm butchering these names. So you know, you get, I I think Shannon Shark could get like a a a Gayle Kae. I kid you not I think he can get Gayle Kae I think he could probably get a justice, the the Justice Jackson, whatever her name is from the Supreme Court. The point I'm making is Shannon Sharpe is successful because one, when he started out, he leveraged his authority and his expertise in football. And then on top of that, he demonstrated that he can provide expert commentary and analysis.

He can make people laugh, he can disarm people. He didn't have to bring people up on these panels and speak the same talking points, right? He doesn't have to go out of his way to shame people. 'cause see, I find that this, this black culture that we, I try to disassociate myself from black culture, right? Because I think it's a hot mess even though I'm a Blackity Black, black, I'm part of the community, but I'm not part of this bad.

I call it, was it the rap culture or whatever it is. He doesn't have to participate in terms of engaging in the same talking points that's happening in the community. What he can do now is say, Hey, let me get, I wanna like open, I I want to share what the culture is talking about. And he has his, his finger on the pulse of the culture. Like I said, comedians, singers, all these other people, people they have, you know, they, they interact with the culture.

They're part of what moves the needle in culture. And so he can do that without engaging in like a lot of the other shenanigans. He can have people come sit and feel comfortable. Women can go sit and feel comfortable in his space. And, they know that he's not going to be disrespectful. You see what I mean? He's not gonna call them bees and ho and be for three or fours.

He disarms people. Heck, he would probably design me. 'cause I'd be looking at him sideways like, now wait a second, wait a second. But because he's not coming at you now, that doesn't mean that he can't be aggressive, but I feel like his nature from what he has displayed to me is he's a big teddy bear until he's not. And so while the rest of the culture, for example, will tear down a Kat Williams, they will tear down a Monique, he gave them an opportunity to express himself.

He asked questions but he didn't badger. And that's the difference. And what happens is when you look at somebody like that, he can command more elite guests. He can command the likes of I I'm saying Gail Kane. 'cause that's what's coming to the top of my mind. But he can command people like that. Heck, he may turn around and I'm just making this up, he may mess around and command Vlad v ad or whatever his name is to come on the show because, you know, he likes to hide behind the camera and, and I think exploit black people.

But he, he's so disarming and charming. I can see how he would get more people coming into his spaces versus a Steven A. Smith. Like my first thought if they said is not that he's gonna interview me. I I, they don't know me from a can of paint, but I'm like, why would I wanna go on Steven a Smith's show for anything so he can yell and perform and he wants to pull out all of his his words. And it is not like I'm not a well read person, but, or, or a learned person.

I haven't read like educational books in a while, but he likes to use his words. And there's nothing wrong with that on top of performing a yelling and being demonstrative and not everybody receives that. And so what happens is you get somebody like Shannon Sharpe with, with Ochocinco And, they also provide a comedic element to everything. That's why he's successful. When you look at a lot of these, these other male podcasters, you know, granted they may have grown their platforms and I don't know what their numbers look like, but many of them have significant numbers.

They have to do it off of the backs of women, particularly black women. They have to do it. Now I'm talking about black male podcasters. If they weren't talking about black women and anything sexual about black women, their podcast would not flourish. They're not talking about anything else. Shannon Sharpe gets to grow two platforms where he gets to talk about sports, dating, entertainment.

That's off the top of my head. Anything. So anything silly, anything interesting because he knows how to talk to people. Many of these other podcasts, they don't really know how to talk to people. They can denigrate you. They can just be disrespectful, And, they can make you feel armed. You have to be armed. They don't make you feel comfortable. They don't make you feel welcome. It's an attacking situation.

It's like you're going to battle and I think with Shannon Sharpe, like if somebody said, Hey, he's gonna interview you, I would feel more comfortable going on his, his his platform. Not that he's gonna interview me. I watched the clips of how he handled Brittany Renner, okay? And I think some of what she said was a performance and how she responded, but she felt comfortable enough that she could respond anyways that she did I think that if people are looking at this, you know, holistically I think they, they would understand that like Shannon Sharpe is going about this much differently.

He's not going the the Stephen A. Smith way. He's not going the the crazy angry black man podcast way where they get get down with talking about women And. they bring women up on a panel and then the women can even speak intelligently. They don't even know how to defend their position appropriately. And it doesn't have to be sophisticated, but many of them, they just, that they don't have that talent for defending themselves, right? And these men are coming in armed with a bunch of statistics, And, they haven't done the analysis behind the statistics And, they don't understand this concept of data science.

So they think that they're spitting and dropping knowledge And, they don't even realize how silly they sound. So getting back to somebody like a Shannon Sharpe, he's going to just bring up things like, okay, so you used to take clip your toenails at night and that was something that caused you trauma. You wanna talk about it? I I just made that up, right? He's not saying, Hey, I read somewhere that people put their toenails at night are walking ding dongs.

So what do you say to that? Since now you're a walking ding-dong. I mean, I don't know, I'm just making up like there there's a difference, right? He's just like, Hey, talk, talk to me about it. What do you say to that? Do you think that this is something that people have misunderstood about you? I don't know. I'm, I'm just making this up. And that's the difference. That is the difference. So all these people who are jealous of this man, they, they, they, they are attacking everything from his style of interviewing. They're attacking his sexuality.

There are people, I mean, there's so much coming out on him and I'm just kind of like, he must be doing something right. And let me tell you something, when you were doing something, everybody's gonna come for you. I clearly am not doing anything right because my channel is so small But. anyway, that, that's pretty much it. I just wanted to say, I know why he's successful. He's gonna disarm you. And let me tell you something else, it is not lost on me. I. think I might be losing my signal shortly. Mike AB knows he needed to make up with Shannon Sharpe Shannon Sharpe is winning right now.

He's winning. And if he wants to keep his name in the mouth of every, in everybody's mouth, it would be better for him to practice kindness. like, you don't have to attack this man. He looked corny attacking him. Anyway. all right. I don't even know if I have a good signal 'cause I'm coming through this area that typically likes to get challenging. But go ahead and like this video because I'm amazing and everybody could do no wrong and it make sure you subscribe.

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