00:00skip bayless this is a this is a story that came out this hour skip bayless is making his return
00:08to espn on friday skip bayless who has not been on espn in 10 years hard to believe is reuniting
00:18with stephen a smith to be on first take and one has to wonder is this a soft launch of
00:28the return
00:28of the dynamic duo yes you would think so right yes wow i think stephen a doesn't work without a
00:38full-time
00:39partner i don't think he does either so what happened was he had max which was he obviously
00:46him and skip yeah he didn't like max right when skip went to fs1 he didn't like max but they
00:51were
00:51still getting their ratings were still number one then when skip and shannon undisputed broke up
00:58they got shannon the ratings were still back i guess this cam newton thing is not working or
01:03maybe cam's got so much other things he has involved because of his podcast and the way he's moving
01:11and skip has not been able to rebound since undisputed since fs1 he's i mean think think
01:17about it the guys the guys that he used to rip about rip about he had to get hired by
01:23them
01:24maybe he feels stephen a because skip was the guy who brought him back you know when he was at
01:29right on the outside maybe he feels like it's time to return the favor it's time to bring it's time
01:35to
01:35bring him back because as you said like you know i don't watch that show a ton because it's on
01:40when
01:40we're on but like when i see clips i never see any good arguments anymore like it's supposed to be
01:44embrace debate all i ever see is skip bales all i see is stephen a takes i don't even see
01:49anybody
01:49arguing with them no because it's like well stephen a now has gotten big to the point where
01:54it's it's almost i don't know if he thinks he's
01:59he he is he thinks his first take is him and he there's nothing you can say first take is
02:04him now
02:05he is first take but he's got so many things outside he wants to get in the political realm
02:09he wants to get he wants to be involved in so many other things that i i i feel this
02:15might be a way
02:16of getting of still having first take still be number one but having somebody he trusts when he's
02:21out and about doing other things true and also there's also there's also another reason
02:32lebron oh they're now they've united on this front they've united on this front they don't know how
02:39long to longer that he's going to be there for them to be able to make money you know so
02:43you want to
02:44bring in you want to bring in skip bayless for the final lebron season you're right especially when
02:49he's playing against the okc thunder and they might get destroyed so it'll be easy for them
02:54it's like what goes true you know so yeah this is this is absolutely this is a soft launch this
03:00is a
03:00united front to one more chance to attack lebron because i mean stephen a has been doing the the
03:06rounds talking about you know his um his beef with lebron his beef with jason whitlock his beef with
03:12everybody else uh why cam newton allowed whitlock to talk so yeah and skip what's he doing he's been
03:18doing something like gilbert arenas yeah which is weird because he was ripping these players now he's
03:23got to do he in order for him to be relevant he's got to be in their part on their
03:26podcast yeah i don't
03:27think it works like i don't even really ever see skip bayless do anything on on those like nothing
03:33i've seen of him goes viral you know so wait so a soft launch here you have him in may
03:38maybe you bring
03:39him back during the eastern conference or western conference finals you know the spurs are involved
03:44right he's you know he's a big spurs fan so he could start talking about one biyama um and then
03:50bring him back to the football season when the cowboys everybody knows people gonna watch because
03:54and then there's shannon passed all his stuff so maybe you can bring him back for i don't think
03:58a triple triple threat match and oh listen and max is back so why don't we just do a four
04:03-way
04:03fatal four is max back i mean max has been doing things with uh rich paul he has doing rich
04:08paul
04:09he's done boxing he's been back with the boxing and i think like once every two months he does
04:12something with bill simmons back with boxing water carrying where he's like this is the greatest i'm
04:17like is it
04:17you
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