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Paris Olympics, Historic #olympics Controversies, USA #usa Political Madness: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Mind of the Professor ft. Omar 'The Professor' Fonseca)
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Mind of the Professor #3 feat. Omar 'The Professor' Fonseca (#BALLandBUDS)
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2024 Paris #paris Olympics Games (S/O Puerto Rico & #USA)
Historic Olympic #olympics Controversies
US #president Political Madness (Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris)
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Introduction and Podcast Promotion
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Yeah, yeah, Newton call his man, man. Professor, Professor, Professor, Professor, Professor.
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, friends? And welcome to the mind of the professor featuring yours truly, Omar the professor on Seca. Welcome all of my fans and all of our friends from fans of the bottom line.
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Boxing Special Announcement
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so please go subscribe there we are on instagram as well if you would like to follow us there um youtube being the most important that being said ball and buds uh we'll also be hosting tomorrow night clubber d the combat g's combat sports special boxing edition We will be featuring special guests from 86 boxing and we will be talking about the huge card from this past weekend August 3rd with Terrence Crawford on that card We will also talk a bunch of other boxing news fights and events So if you like boxing make sure you tune in tomorrow night 8 p.m 8
Personal Insights and Future Topics
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p.m. Excuse me at ball and buds now I thank you all for tuning in because this is the third installment of as I mentioned of the obviously the the mind of the professor which comes from kind of just my creation of what I want to talk about you know I you know y'all know I do other shows with a bunch of other people I love that
00:02:20
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But I like to have my own time where I dig deep into my mind. And when I'm actually thinking about certain subjects, ah the most topical topics going on right now. And so we're definitely going to touch on that today. We are going to get into the Paris Olympics. We'll be talking about Team USA and Team Puerto Rico because, you know, I got to talk about my island, ah my country um as well.
00:02:41
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USA is my country. But yes, you know, my island as well. Got to talk about that. ah But as well, we'll touch on USA. And then we're also going to get into the historic Olympic
Olympic Controversies and Highlights
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controversy. So although we celebrate the sport and the athletes, which we should first and foremost, and I'll get a lot more into that today. um It's also ah has a lot more mechanisms involved that go into these things. A lot of people, a lot of hands in the in the cookies are so to say. So when you have ah so many entities and stakeholders, um things can get good get a little awry and you start to have bad things happen. And so we'll talk about the historic Olympic controversies through the years and all the ones they've had from this year.
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um yeah know They've had many just this year alone, including, you know, where I'm getting at the ah opening ceremonies with the, you know, the the what they consider, some people consider, to be the Last Supper, right? So we will get into all of that controversy with that and the LGBT community and and the drag queens that perform that and all that good stuff. We'll get into all that controversial stuff because, you know, like I like to dig in the dirt, maybe.
00:03:56
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oh And then, ah and you know, but I'm giving you both sides of the coin. I'm also honest. I'm here to present all of the facts from both sides so you understand everything because I am like the yin and the yang, right? I come from both sides. I understand everything of every subject.
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um And then finally, we'll talk about the political um arena we have right now. All the madness going on. I mean, since the last time we talked, which is about five weeks ago on this show. No, no, it was about a month ago on this show, about four weeks ago, which apologies for my belateness, but I had to go spend some time with my grandmothers in Puerto Rico. Shout out my family in Cagua, Puerto Rico. And as well, I went to Dallas with my boy DJ Danny West. Shout out.
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Um, for, uh, co-wetched birthday party, which was a blast and a good weekend. So shout out to all them boys out there. Um, but anyways, So we're back and now we're ah back into business. And so, yeah, we're going to get into all this stuff today. We'll talk about the Trump assassination attempt. We'll also talk about Joe Biden dropping out the race and come and Kamala Harris um replacing him. And now Kamala Harris choosing her vice president pick and Tim Walz. And so we'll get into all of that today. Again, make sure you are subscribed at
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Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. And we thank you again for tuning in. So let's go ahead and jump right into this, what we got popping
NFL and Olympic Updates
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today. So first of all, I wanna celebrate the Olympics.
00:05:28
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um Oh, actually, one thing before we jump into the Olympics, one more thing I want to update um from the last episode, we talked about the NFL Sunday ticket lawsuit that they're going through right now for the consumers and the bars and stuff that are trying to get money back from ah apparently ah you know accusing the NFL of a monopoly basically charging a premium price for services that many people didn't want, because maybe it wasn't their team that was playing, but they have to get all the team. Anyways, this is a whole big kerfuffle.
00:05:59
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What a great word. And so what had happened since the last time we talked, an appeal went through by the NFL and a judge declared that the lawsuit was unlawful against the or the judgment of the verdict of the lawsuit was unlawful against the NFL. So right now, this is all on in in a in a in a holding pattern right now while they figure everything out. um This doesn't mean the NFL is in the clear.
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um But it doesn't mean that necessarily the NFL is going to have to pay yet either. There will be a few other appeals obviously that are going to belong in this process. But I did want to update you and let you know where we stood there as of now. um Also, ah jump that being said, that's it for the updates. Jumping into our Olympics, yes.
00:06:43
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um You know, it's been a it's been a great Olympics for sports. um It's been a great Olympic for the athletes that are competing for the countries that are represented. And so I definitely want to celebrate um at least obviously the country ah where my country I love the country I live in the United States and then obviously where my family is from Puerto Rico. So I'd like to talk about those two countries in specific, but we'll talk about all of the athletes in general. First of all, let's just start off in generalities.
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The Olympics so far have been great to watch in terms of the competitive sport and the comp but the athletes. the the the last the I love track and field and swimming. Everybody does. That's what they come for the Olympics for, right? The track and field, the swimming and the gymnastics. But the track and field and the swimming,
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Man, it's just beautiful how races come down to milliseconds and and and last second touches or last second, ah you know, ah springs across the line. And it's just so cool to see it. It's such an adrenaline rush every time you get one of these awesome races. um So shout out. I mean, obviously, Recency Bias brings us to ah and a DMV boy. Make me proud. DMV representing.
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That man Noah Lyles, he is him and him is he. Noah Lyles winning that 100 meter now going for the 200 meter win, but he from the DMV. Shout out. He from my area up in Virginia. So shout out a lot of Virginia people in there winning medals at the Olympics. So shout out to our VA people. um But yeah, Noah Lyles.
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Simone Biles, obviously we can't go without talking about Simone Biles or Katie Ledecky, who both had three goals in a silver. Ledecky added a bronze. um ah so
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With that right now, they are ranked among the top female or top Olympians ever in United States history, which reminds me, by the way, be on the lookout ah later this week. I'm going to have my top five US Olympians short. I'll be putting out. I'm actually going to record it right after this. um But Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are both up there, right? um Katie Ledecky now has 13 medals in total at the Olympics um with nine gold and and Serena, up Serena, excuse me.
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Simone Biles has 11, with nine, ah seven gold medals, 11 total with seven gold medals. ah But in my eyes, um and in terms of technical skill, in terms of
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strength and concentration and just I personally believe yes it is an endurance sport to run you have to be fast you have to have a you have to have the body you have you have to have the correct mechanics same goes for swimming you gotta have length right all these things come into play for running for track and field and for uh swimming but from gymnastics There's a lot more, I mean, just risk of life and death, first of all, from all the flips and stuff you have to do. But just like the tricks in general are more difficult and things like that. so
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It is harder, in my opinion, and in I would think and I've heard this a lot, but I mean, in my opinion, personally, it's hard to win a medal in gymnastics than it would be in track and field and or swimming. Now, deck again, track and field and swimming, you either can or you can't. Right. There is no in between like there may be with gymnastics. Right. You can have a shorter body. You can be maybe a little bit pudgier, even though most of the ones you see in the Olympics are very skinny. But
00:10:21
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Point taken. The point is ah that I would put those two ladies um ah right among the same level. And so they're representing the country great. Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, shout out to both of them as well. um Gabby Douglas, shout out to her first US women's winner in the 200 meters since 2008 when Alex Felix last did it. So 16 years of shout out ah to her as well.
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uh Cole Hawker winning in the 1500 coming back at the last second that was yesterday it was so amazing if you haven't seen that race go back and watch the 1500 meter Cole Hawker from the US wins it at the last second and an amazing scramble come back it was awesome um The US s men's team, right? The basketball team and the women's team are both still in the tournament, but I want to shout out Kevin Durant, ah Team USA Captain America who just passed Lisa Leslie for the most points all time and Team USA history were 488. So shout out to him. ah He has represented us well in the Olympics. Now I can't go through every US Olympian because obviously I could sit here all day, but
00:11:33
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As of right now, we are in the lead in gold medals with 27 to China's 26. Usually people don't go by overall medals because obviously the US, we have a lot more athletes in the games. So inherently, we're probably gonna win more medals, right? It only makes sense logically. ah So that's why a lot of countries like to go off of gold medals.
00:11:52
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um And before we move on, I definitely want to shout out. I know we just shouted out all of the the U.S. Olympians that have been killing the game out there. But I definitely want to shout out Puerto Rico, you know, where my family is from. First of all, shout out to the men's and women's basketball team. Valiant effort.
Athlete Achievements and Olympic Dedication
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They gone. They gone. They gone.
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They at the beach, they at La Playa, having a Medaya, you know, at the Playa with a Medaya, you know what I mean? But salute anyways for the effort. But Jasmine Camacho Quinn, earlier today, blazed the fastest time in the second heat of the 200 meter hurdles.
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Um, excuse me 100 meter hurdles I apologize ah at 12.42 seconds. um And so, Jasmine Camacho Quinn is a track and field star from Puerto Rico in 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics she was the first um Puerto Rican of Afro Latino descent and second person representing the Puerto Rico in the Olympics to win a gold medal. So now she moves on to the semifinals, which is on Saturday, I believe, and then the finals are on Sunday. Yeah, the 9th and the 10th. So Jasmine Camacho Quiz Salute Boricua, you know I'm rooting for you and the rest of us are as well. where i wep power Wepa, Moving on, let's talk about
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what the Olympics should really be about. We've talked about all these Olympic athletes who have, um you know, starred in the game so far. And I know, again, there's so many US athletes I wish I could touch on. I know I just touched on the main ones. But, you know, ah Olympics are about celebrating the athletes these people that have spent their entire lives trying to get to this point training and and and and dieting and and not having any fun not going to party well they did that don't believe the don't believe some of those swim kids they be they be partying anyways um uh they show me some things um but anyways you get what i'm saying right uh just crazy regimens and all sorts of
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of hurdles and things, no pun intended, that they have to get through to get to the Olympics.
Olympic Rewards and Criticisms
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So to celebrate them and and the accomplishments of them getting there is just awesome. So again, shout out to all them team USA Gymnastics team, ah Leon Marchand, the French swimmer, when every time he does the breaststroke and he comes up, the crowd's like, ah, ah, and they're just like, yeah, it's a crazy. French crowds, by the way.
00:14:25
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Y'all have really impressed me this year. Earlier with the WWE, w ah um when they went to France and y'all crowd was wild. And now this um pretty cool to see how invested they get into sports over there.
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um But one thing that I do want to touch on before we move into the actual historic controversies that have happened throughout ah the Olympics is is probably the the biggest controversy I feel that is not talked about at all. And um and that is the fact ah that several, not several,
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most of the Olympic countries, these athletes are not getting paid at all, um especially highlighting at least the main ones. UK, Norway, and Sweden were, oddly enough, Sweden being one of the ah highest of, ah you know, living places to live, excuse me. Anyways,
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Excuse me. they ah They do not pay anything to their athletes. They do not give any compensation um to their athletes. So what are we doing here, y'all? You mean these people are going to represent your country? You mean to tell me they're going through all this work to do so? They're winning medals, hopefully, for your country. And y'all ain't willing to pay them? Y'all ain't willing to give them a little bit of... mola some Little bonus? I mean, what are we talking about here? Not even a little bit. The billions of dollars that pour into the Olympics and that all these greedy bastards get their hands on. um And you're telling me these athletes can't get paid? ah Now, there are some countries that are at least trying to do good.
00:16:11
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ah You know I'm saying by ah their athletes for instance Hong Kong who only has four gold medals in their history offers an over $750,000 bonus 768,000 to be exact There are also other countries with six-figure prizes if you're to win a gold medal. um Now granted, I know that's not paying all of them anyways. It's just the gold medalists, and I think all of them should get paid, at least at something. I know they get stipends for food and and stuff like that, but damn. Anyways, moving on.
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um The Filipinos, the Philippines, ah one gold medal in their 100 year history. They give $100,000 in cash with a house, with a lot, with two bedroom condominium, a lifetime supply of cookies, free meals for life from local restaurant chains. Like, yo.
00:17:07
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If you're a Filipino gold medal winner, I feel i feel good.
Historical Olympic Scandals
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ah You're probably drinking for free the rest of your life too, which is probably probably pretty pretty awesome. Let's see, Malaysian athletes, they receive cars if you, I mean, that's cool, right? ah Indonesian ah gold medalist, the badminton ones specifically received five cows and a meatball restaurant.
00:17:33
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I mean at least you're giving them a business to invest in something for the future but the most important one and I see you South Korea and it's not it's important because you shouldn't have patriotism you shouldn't want to sacrifice for your country I'm a veteran so I clearly did but South Korea Obviously, most men over there um have to serve 18 to 21 months of comp complete compulsory service in the South Korean military. If you are a Olympic medal winner, not even gold medal, just medal winner, you are exempt from that 18 to 21. So that gives you a chance to go to school or maybe just to live your life as a young um adult. ah so But I think that all of the athletes should get paid. So come on. I don't see
00:18:19
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I do see, I know what's happening because we're about to get into it. ah What's happening is that there's too many, again, yeah hands in the jar, too many hands in the cookie jar, and there's too many greedy um people, no matter what their positions are, getting paid,
00:18:37
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ah substantial amounts of money to make things happen, greasing the wheels, right? Not to mention a lot of these countries are getting the money, but they're not obviously passing that on to their athletes. They're just using that to you know ah buffer the coffers, as they say. um So really, countries need to start being more are gracious of the athletes that are you know dedicating themselves to the to winning for the country, and at least, at the very least,
00:19:08
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give them a little payment, man, at least a car like the like the Malaysian do something. I mean, 10, 20,000. What are we talking about? You're getting billions of dollars just to compete in the Olympics. And that brings us into the Olympic controversies and the biggest Olympic controversy, first of all, and I'm going to contradict myself. And I'm telling you this ahead of time, because I don't want you to think that I was accidentally caught. I am purposely going to contradict myself when it comes to a later story in the program.
00:19:38
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But the biggest corruption is the IOC themselves. The International Olympic Committee, they have been embroiled in so many scandals. Again, anything we talked about involving money or those kinds of scams, but even things to their migrant workers that worked on building the stadiums and other facilities that weren't getting adequate pay were dying, were unsafe work conditions, all of these other things that were happening, right?
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um I mean,
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the the then the Nazis when they were, cut and we'll get into this in a second, when they were coming to power, the 1936 Olympics were in Berlin, right? So this this is like, it's never been,
00:20:26
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the Olympic way to not have controversy. Yes, it's great. We have the sports to athletes. We want to celebrate. We want to, ah you know, enjoy what we're seeing. But at the same time, there's so many things happening in the background which are not being seen and not being heard of. And especially like those migrant workers, the ones that are dying in an unsafe war, that's not acceptable. Like you're again, billions of dollars are coming through these organizations.
00:20:48
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they need to be treating the people who are actually helping them to build this up correctly. Do we know that this happens all over the world all the time anyways? Yes, sure. Am I being a utopian, you know, ah hopeless romantic? Possibly. um But the fact is that the Olympics have always had some sort of controversy all the time and even when it's not an Olympic year, they're involved in something. So let's go back, let's touch on all the controversies going all the way back and then we'll come all the way full circle to this year. So
00:21:22
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It's funny because Trickery is originally based in the creation myth of the Olympics. So check this, the myth of the creation of the Olympics is that the first Olympic Games were inspired by a chariot race between the hero named Pelops and the father of his girlfriend, his soon-to-be wife, the girl he wanted to marry. um His name, the king, he was the king, right, his daughter was the princess, he was Oniomas. So Oniomas, right, a prophecy warned Oniomas that he would be killed by his son-in-law.
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um So as we know, through all these great stories of history, whether they're true or not, I don't know, I wasn't there. But in self-laud in classic self-fulfilling prophecy style, right good the king challenges the daughter's suitor to defeat him in a chariot race or die by the young man's hands, right the the hero plops. So there were 18 would-be husbands before this boyfriend came along that were all killed.
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So he knows, Pelops knows what's going to happen within this this race, right? There's going to be some kind of chicanery, right? Some kind of a bamboozlement. And indeed, there was. Just not from the sides you thought it came from. So ah what happened was, before the race started, Pelops sabotaged Oney Omos' chariot so that the wheels would come off in the middle of the race and no one knew he did it. He didn't see it. So shortly after the race starts, they're going along.
00:23:03
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Boom, chariot wheels fall off and the king's horses drag the king to his death. The el ancient Olympics are born. So even back then, right, it started. The the creation story is a kind is a controversy in of itself that would be a major controversy these days. um It was later relaunched in Athens in 1896. Our modern Olympics are obviously less bloody, but still full of controversy so let's again go through the times 1936 Olympics in Berlin we talked about this during the rise of the Nazis in coming into power under Hitler um obviously Berlin this was they were awarded three years before Hitler came into power so the Olympic committee at least was clean of not knowing that that's what was going to happen it was even said that Hitler wasn't even sure that he wanted to have the games anyways
00:23:55
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um because he didn't want all these other minorities and Jewish people and all these other people being there. um but He thought it would be a good message for his Aryan race white supremacy message um to show how how ah in tune they were with the world, so to say, to show that that they are to pretend, obviously, because we know what happened afterwards, but to pretend like they weren't the horrible, evil, ah malfeasance, ah ah you know, just horrible spirits that they were, people that they were. um
00:24:29
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So again, it wasn't even sure. And the greatest part about this story um or or about this Olympics, at least, is that Jesse Owens, the African-American that represented the U.S., went there and just completely shut shit down and told Hitler, yo, big F you to Hitler like, yo, I'm coming in. I'm demolishing all your white boys like we're coming in. Right. He's good. He's doing it. Right. So show to Hitler like you are not all supremacy and not and and you know the one race is not ah better than any other race or anything like that and so this was what was proven through these races but also all the
00:25:10
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ah all the tricks and and things that Hitler tried to pull. Like even at one point in time, he
Political Debates and Polarization
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brought he took off of the American team two Jewish athletes um because their names were Marty Glickman and Sam Stroller. He took them off the team and replaced him with Jesse Owens and another African-American Ralph Metcalf because he didn't want to be beat by the Jewish people. He didn't want Jewish people to upstage him in his own um in his own Olympics. So that was obviously a huge controversy. There's the CIA getting involved. We've talked a lot about the CIA on this show already in the first few weeks. But the CIA had a case where they were enlisting people to go and try to get people from Russia
00:25:56
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back in the Cold War to defect to America, especially Uzbekistanis and Ukrainians and other people that were living in Russia of other ethnic descent that may want to escape. um So that's a whole crazy story that I read about ah the other day um where they had um the well,
00:26:18
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I guess it doesn't really matter now at this point. um But the the guy, Kentayo was the guy that they used to try to infiltrate um the Russians to try to get people to defect to the United States. So ah it's it's said um that it's a high level It's like a candy shop for high-level people. Leaders, diplomats, businessmen, celebrities, athletes, all these people co-mingling, cohabitating, and maybe even having some drinks, you know, whatever, and maybe spilling some beans and some tea that they shouldn't be, you know what I mean? So, you know, that in and of itself is a controversy that can happen every year. That could be an issue. How about this one? Obviously, we know
00:27:05
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recently the in the real games, the 100 Russian athletes that were banned for alleged doping, um right, they sent 271 athletes was and 116 of them were banned because they tested positive for, you know, these alleged performance enhancing supplements. So and that's a real big problem, obviously. I mean, we can we can we can laugh about it now, I guess. But back in the eighty four ah was eighty four, eighty eight. I can't remember exactly. Excuse me. Olympics in the track and field. One of the hundred meter races with Carl Lewis and the other guys.
00:27:46
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Um, the top three placers all tested positive later, including Carl Lewis. And so, and when asked about it, he said, well, if everybody else is doing it, why, why shouldn't I try to get my advantage? Right. and I mean.
00:27:59
Speaker
Yeah, because everybody's doing it. Why not? So we can look back and laugh on things like that now. But then you look at this year, the Chinese team has alleged doping a scandal going on right now for this year. And the China just beat the US s in a in a ah four by 100 mixed medley race relay in the swim pool the other day to take the gold.
00:28:18
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So could the U.S. have some sort of ah beef ah with China in that specific swimming race? You know, so these are all controversies that have happened. Speaking the U.S. swimming, let's not let the U.S. get off light. A few years ago, we remember Ryan Lochte and the crew, Jimmy Fagan, Gunnar Bence, Jack Conger, right? When they got drunk and vandalized the gas station in Rio um and then he ah said they were held at gunpoint.
00:28:48
Speaker
Uh, on some Jesse Smollett type stuff, you know what I mean? So, uh, and locked, he came out later saying it was all his fault. He completely fabricated the story. So, I mean, it's not just limited to any country or any specific sport or person. This can happen anywhere, you know? So, and it's, it's, it's everything. It's from the, it's from the, it's from the extreme, which can be hurtful or even maybe even ah Deadly the terrorism attacks um um um That we had back in the in the Blanken right now. I apologize. I think it was the the games in Mexico right before the games in Mexico where they had terrorist attack. I Mean the 11 Israelis athletes that were killed at the at one of the games so we have all of and it' it's everything from that to even
00:29:40
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Um, uh, what we talked about vandalism with the swimmers, uh, you can even go to recently where the Olympic committee, uh, one of, they were a banning, uh, all natural swim caps for minorities this year. He jobs for Muslims in France.
00:29:57
Speaker
So again, they these controversies span the realm of things that may happen and it even goes to some less things that might be even a little funny, right? So maybe you talk talk about the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis where they had the marathon and they said it was probably the the hardest marathon ever there were hills traffic wild dogs you know at this point i'm guessing they're not back in the day they're not probably not doing a lot of blocking off of streets and and stuff at a time but uh american runner i was looking down because there's a spider calling a little across the carpet but it's harmless it looks like a
00:30:35
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Daddy a baby daddy long legs, so we'll leave him alone um American runner Fred Lords decided after nine miles that he was tired He hitched a ride in the taxi cab for the next 11 miles and the car allegedly broke down So he got out and he ran the rest Obviously he was caught cheating um and his
00:31:03
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The person who came in second had actually been, ah I guess, poisoned. He'd been given some kind of like mixed concoction of egg whites, brandy and strike her name. So just wild controversies going on. How about in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Ukrainian athlete Boris Onischenko had his his.
00:31:25
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yeah I learned how to pronounce this this last night, Epe, his Epe, which is the front the fencing sword, the Epe, they got the tip, they modified it um and so that it would go off and counterpoint even if it didn't hit the person just when he was like jabbing. And so the the great Britain team called it, I was like, you know, I ain't get hit, why is he getting a point? And they got caught for that. So there are some funny ones, but If we're being completely real because I need to get i mean get away from the the laughter about it because it's not really funny. A lot of these controversies are truly serious, especially the death of of workers and other things like that. And so the International Olympic Committee in itself should be ashamed. But they're not and they never are.
00:32:18
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And they never, they they they never even bothered to apologize. And when they do, it's half-hearted. And we'll get to that here in a second as well. um One person I didn't shout out earlier for the U.S. athletes, ah because i I was waiting till now, Sha'Carri Richardson, banned because she used marijuana after her mother passed.
00:32:40
Speaker
The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my entire life. I didn't know that smoking a little bit of marijuana made you faster and made you run the hundred meters faster. Actually, I would think we'll do the complete opposite. I mean, I don't know. I have no clue. I don't run the hundred meters. You know what I mean? I don't run the hundred meters. I don't know. But I'd assume it's not going to make you faster. So even things like that is just the hypocrisy of the Olympics and
00:33:10
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having different double standards for different people along the way. And then finally, before we move on to the biggest controversy of this year, I do want to mention a couple bunch other controversies that happened this year. How about the CN? The river that the the triathlons were supposed to be ah swam in. E. coli levels through the roof. This one girl, she got sick for four. I think she was on the Dutch team. The rest of her team left. She got sick, still sick, I think, like four days later.
00:33:41
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You can't be havin' people swimmin' rivers when they cola! You shouldn't be swimmin' in no damn city river anyways. Let me tell you that right now. You come to Nashville and try to swim in the Cumberland, I'ma tell you a dummy, because you're probably gonna run into a couple, uh... You're gonna run into some stuff you're not gonna wanna run into. Don't get in that river. Don't get in any damn river in the city. It's stupid. You're gonna get some kind of disease you don't wanna get.
00:34:04
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And so making these swimmers swim is both dangerous, ludicrous, not the rapper. Shout out. um Just ridiculousness. I can't believe you would put people's lives at risk like that just for a show. Oh, they swam in the sea. No, it's so beautiful. We had them swim. Shut up. No, no, no. Get them to a safe damn place where they can swim. ah A freshwater lake or something. You got to have one over there.
00:34:34
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That's ridiculous. That is ridiculous. All for a show. Oh, by the way, which reminds me, if you've seen the Under Paris on Netflix, it's pretty much, which is crazy that Netflix made that movie and then this happened. It's pretty much the same kind of example, except in Under Paris, it's a shark attack in the CN, where here it's a fecal matter attack.
00:34:56
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Ah, I would never catch me dead swimming in a damn river like that. Anyways, we talked about the Chinese athletes and the alleged doping scandal going on with them. How about the New Zealand? Um, the New Zealand team.
00:35:10
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caught flying a drone over canada over Canada's women's soccer team practice. They are huge rivals. um The coach was sent home to other staffers as well. ah Sent home, they were deducted six points. um ah They ended up coming back to beat Canada, which is kind of like an insult to injury. I felt bad for Canada there. ah But the six points is are going to hurt them, so they still are kind of uh you know it's it's it's unsure uh still got games to go to see what happens there if they're gonna make it or not but I mean there's just so much controversy which by the way that reminds me of Spygate um by the way uh Bill Belichick, Tom Shady y'all are still cheaters y'all are still bastards and cheaters don't think I forgot about y'all sidebar Olympic sidebar to flame Bill Belichick and Tom Shady y'all call him the best quarterback ever what is wrong with you people
00:36:06
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the disgust I have for your for your opinions. I'm just joking. Anyways, let's move on to the biggest controversy this year. Y'all know what happened. The Olympic opening ceremony. There was one portion of the ceremony and I was actually at my grandmother's house watching it while it was occurring.
00:36:28
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And I was, you know, in and out talking to my grandmother and her fine hairstyles. That girl was beautiful. Sorry, excuse me. um She was on another level. um I need to move to Puerto Rico. ah Anyways, ah she was doing my grandmother's hair and we were all talking. But i was kind I was watching the ceremony I was going on. And when this actual scene happened, I was like,
00:36:52
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Yeah, it's really odd. well I mean, I saw like the Dionysus, right? He's supposed to represent the the god of wine and ecstasy, Dionysus, the guy in the blue that was like laid out on like the the muffin top or whatever. um He had a muffin top. Anyways,
00:37:11
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but like I'm seeing him, I'm seeing the other drag queens dancing around him. right We're seeing all these like you know dances and colors and people sashaying down the the walkway, which you can you know makes sense, fashion, Paris, all that all that stuff. And I'm not even here to say anything about the LGBT community or about the drag queens or whatever. um Artistic expression, France's culture, a mix of those things is why they decided to do that.
00:37:41
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Right? That was their decision. um
00:37:46
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The thing is, what happened there, and we'll get into each of these different aspects, what happened there was a lot of ah pretty much all the Christians and and and Catholics and people of of Christian faith around the world ah got upset because the scene resembled the Last Supper with Jesus and his apostles.
00:38:10
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um Now, let's set the scene for you. They have the fashion runway. You start to see some models walking down. Then it pans over. There's a table full of people, drag queens. There's a girl in the middle by the name of DJ Barbara Bush. Butch, excuse me, Barbara Butch.
00:38:33
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um apparently ah a LGBTQ icon. I didn't know, but she's apparently a huge DJ in the LGBTQ community. So um she was there and she had what appeared to be a ah halo sort of behind her, right? A contraption that resembled a circle behind her head. That could be considered a halo. So, you know, first,
00:39:02
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seeing it, uh, while I'm, you know, talking and not really paying too much attention. Not much of it caught my eye. I missed the beginning of it. So I didn't really catch, I didn't see the first start of it when they like panned over. Cause I was looking to decide, but when I came back, I saw the guy with the beard in like the the dress and then I saw the blue guy. Right. And so I'm like, Hmm, okay.
00:39:29
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odd But okay, whatever ah this whole thing has been really dance so it's not really that odd which I thought was odd anyways Not even just the the I don't care about the drag queens or whatever you want dance dance I just thought it was weird that they danced the whole time anyways. I was like man. I even said at one point in time I was like is it me or is there just like is everyone dancing like the announcers were dancing the people they were panning by were dance. I'm just like I Can we just get like one minute of just like stop moving? Like I'm getting a little like seasick with all this. Anyways, it was just too much dancing, way too much dancing. Um, but anyways, that's neither here nor there cause I had nothing to do with that. That was just overall ceremony. Uh, but, um, it was said to later resemble the Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's favorite paint, uh, famous painting, uh, and insulting to the Christian Catholic community around the world. So, uh,
00:40:25
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I went on, I was you know scrolling through Twitter as this is happening and stuff like that. And I start to see the stuff pop up. And I look at the picture and they have the picture of the the the opening of the DJ and the drag queens and stuff. And then they have the Last Supper and they put him side by side right when they opened up and I'm like, okay. that They were in the exact poses as Jesus and his apostles, like exact arms, heads, everything. And I was like,
00:40:55
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Okay, I didn't think anything of it. I was like, yeah, okay, maybe it's yeah, we'll see what happens with this. So obviously Twitter moves very fast. You're at the weight very long. um And then all this stuff starts to come out about the obviously the offense that is being had by one portion of the world, the community, and then the other side trying to defend themselves as being you know culturally inclusive and and all of these things, which is what the whole ceremony was attempting to be, was culturally inclusive. And I get that. I understand completely. um The
00:41:34
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The director, artistic director Thomas Jolly, went on to say ah that that was not their intention. The Olympic committee, the IOC, who we talked about earlier, half ass apology that we talked about, came out and was like, well, you know, if you were offended, we didn't mean to.
00:41:50
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um
00:41:53
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And then things started to come out. Well, no, it wasn't based on that. It was also it was actually based off of a famous painting from Greek mythology about a baccarat, which is a a Greek party back in the day. And and it's Dionysus and all of these different things. And they showed this painting that it could be a representative of. ah And I think here in this case, two things can be true. I believe both of those things are true. I believe because it was too unmistakable of the poses. I do believe ah that it started off with the Last Supper pose. I do believe that if you look at this side by side, it's just too hard to say it's not. And there's a smoking gun, which I'll get to in a second.
00:42:39
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but um But I also believe the rest of it had to do with the Greek painting, right? You had Dionysus there. He's whatever. They're having the wine. They're eating the grapes, whatever. And ah again, I'm not here to say anything about the LGBT community. I am a Christian. Yes. I love Jesus. Yes. I've been raised Catholic, right? My whole life. But.
00:42:59
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I have no issue or whatsoever with your lifestyle choice or whatever you want to do. I also believe like Jesus said that we shouldn't judge. So if you want to be gay, if you want to do whatever you want to do, that is fine by me. I do not care. I support your right to choose. As long as you're not hurting anyone else.
00:43:21
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So then that's what this dichotomy comes into play, right? I understand why the why ah ah Christians and Catholics and people like that would be upset um if they figured that is, if they're thinking of that as a mockery, which if it is, then yes, they have the right to be upset. Of course they do. But, and I'm looking at this from both sides. If you're looking at this from the artistic point of view, artistic freedom, other things like that,
00:43:48
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How different is this than a comedian, um you know, making fun of a different race in their set or ah religion in their set? But then I have to back up and look at it from a more macro point of view and not just the micro and say, well, this is on the Olympic stage, shown to millions of people around the world. This isn't just some Netflix special.
00:44:15
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So then that takes on a bigger tone of how much does this actually mean? How much of an effect does this actually have? What are they trying to accomplish? What was trying to be done through this? And no matter whether they were trying to be blasphemous or make a mockery or not, and whether or not you think that that's okay, and again, on the side of artistic freedom and people being able to have the freedom of speech and things like that, well, then technically, if you believe in that, then you believe that this is this this shouldn't be uh more than an offense to the people that it is which again is understandable that they will be offended if you watch the comedy special and someone made fun of your race you'd probably be offended right you might laugh and you might laugh if it's somebody else's race but you might be offended if it's yours so i get that and everybody has their right to feel the way that they want to feel but
00:45:15
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it's hard for me to accept them going back and saying, no, this wasn't what this was about. When the actual DJ we mentioned earlier, Barbara Butch posted on her social media that it was the new gay testament and then later deleted it before the IOC and the artistic director apologized. I mean, it's the main character of the skit literally telling you. And as I usually, as I always tell you, when people are trying to When people are talking about important issues, you should probably listen because they're probably telling you the truth somewhere in there. and You have to decide for that. So now you're like, OK, well, now you were trying to make fun of or possibly hurt ah other people. Now, again, I don't believe that it was done in necessarily ah malice for
00:46:10
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a Certain set of people I believe you know, it's probably going along with the whole Marie Antoinette France Revolution Which was against the Catholic Church was against Christianity. I mean that's all out there if you even know history um That was the whole point ah Then if it's going along with that that that timeline that tradition that culture and that's what they're trying to represent then You can't say that you might not see something like this in there. Now. Can you be offended? Of course you can Again, everyone has the right to feel the way they feel.
00:46:42
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um And them doing that, that is their decision. They're going to have to live with that choice. ah In my eyes, though, my question is, how does it help the movement? If you are trying to And the LGBTQ community has been trying to come on for a long time, getting their rights, getting you know the treatment they they deserve as human beings and all of these things. It seems to me counterproductive to do something like this that may offend a huge portion of the world when you're trying to get acceptance within the world. um So to me, it's more like, I think y'all did more of a disservice to yourself than you really helped yourself at all.
00:47:26
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like If anything, that's really going to hurt yourself more with these people who are offended now than it's going to necessarily help you to get more rights or be more accepted among because I mean, we can say it is what it is. You know what I mean? The LGBT community is still not accepting in a lot of places around the world. There's a lot of countries that they do not accept that. Right. France, they do. US, they do. But there's a lot of places they don't. And again, I don't care. You do whatever you want to do. You'd be a damn furry if you want to be a furry. I don't care.
00:47:57
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I don't care. I'll support you. As long as you're not hurting nobody. Now you're going out and mass murdering people, mass shooting people, things like that. Yeah. Now you got to stop that shit. You know what I mean? You got to stop that. That ain't happening. We haven't that. Um, but again, it's up to you. I just, I come to bring you facts. I come to bring you the research from both sides of the coin. I give you both sides of the story and I let you make your own decisions.
00:48:23
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Do I believe it was based off The Last Supper? Yes. Do I believe it was based off of the other painting? Yes. I believe it was both. Do I believe they were necessarily trying to hurt people? No. Were they trying to make a a mockery? Yes. Do I believe that artistic freedom and includes the ability to mock people? Yes. But do I believe that those people have the ability to be offended? Yes. All of these things are true. And all of these things can be true simultaneously.
00:48:54
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But again, I'm not the one that has to deal with those decisions and what may come from that. Cause I'm not the one that did it. I will say one thing though, it is telling quite, quite telling when the next day, right? When the next day Paris loses power all over the city and the one place the one place that still had lights on in the city of paris was the basilica which is like the catholic church the only place that still had lights on i ain't getting struck down today not for y'all that was your decision y'all gotta deal with that thank you lord for another day i appreciate thank you god
00:49:46
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uh hey hey y'all gotta deal with that because that if that don't tell you something that tells me a little something tells me a little something about what we got going on because that that's not just a coincidence sorry not not sorry that's not just a coincidence can't be and if it is it's a great telling coincidence how about that but the point is that the olympic Games have always had controversy and this year is no different.
00:50:19
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um ah The IOC in itself is just corruption ah and this global tradition of of invoking these controversies and showing them to around the world in lieu of actually showing ah the athletic glory, the the the countries and their they're beautiful ah cultures and different you know everything that can come along with the different countries and cultures and athletes and games and sports and things that don't necessarily bring divisiveness between us. Because again, what does it bring to your cause? It doesn't really help you.
00:51:03
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um Just coming from a neutral point of view, I'm just saying, probably the grand scheme of the global events, not helping. Now, does it bring up conversation? Yeah. If that's what they wanted to do, bring up kind of conversation through controversy. They definitely did that. it definitely did that right They offended, they confused, and they inspired some people all at once. There are plenty of people who were inspired by the same performance.
00:51:28
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So things can be seen, obviously, from different ways, as we know. And you have to examine that dichotomy. You have to examine the different sides to see, okay, well, where are these people coming from? And that's the problem we have in this world. And the problem why we are so divisive right now is because we have ah differing opinions that are so different, it won't even allow us to hear another person and their opinion.
00:51:54
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So then we're divisive, then we're going against each other, then we're fighting, then things are happening, people are getting killed, worlds are getting blown up, wars are starting and all of these things when we need to be considering everyone as a human being is who they are and considering their opinion but not trying to hurt other people, not trying to throw things in people's faces, not trying to ah Better your movement through the hurt of another movement So But anyways, the Olympics are wasteful again, they get billions of dollars a lot of crooks and and politicians and and countries and autocrats and all these Different hands in the pot and it's just it's it's so corrupted. It's just not even funny So for them to have all these controversies is not not a surprise at all. I Hey, thank you all for tuning in. Yes, sir. David, my brother. Thank you for tuning in my friend. That's my boy, David.
00:52:58
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00:53:25
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00:53:56
Speaker
Ah, she's got nothing working out. Gatorade at me. So what do we see right now? Well, what we are seeing is that going back to what we were just talking about, right? All the divisiveness.
00:54:13
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Right. We know right now it is so polarized. It is one part of the country versus the other part of the country. It is one sect of people versus another sect of people. It is these um conglomeration of ah of races versus one race. Right. And we're not going to sugarcoat it. We don't sugarcoat shit on this program. You know that you know that you know that we ain't going to sugarcoat nothing here. Right. And so there is a thing on especially in the conservative circles and things like that, the great reset, right, where ah white people, the the white ah population is taken over by the minority population.
00:54:56
Speaker
um these things are all things that are are are bantered and talked about um which leads to things like white nationalism which leads to things like the Ku Klux Klan and things like that now are there extremists on both sides yes of course there are yes i agree and as you all know and let me again preface this conversation with this i am an independent i in no way uh care for either party i think all politicians are pieces of shit I think they're all, ah as my boy Francis would say, JFL, Francis Long, liars, cheats, and steals. Liar and a sheep. But they they lie, they cheat, and they steal, right? um That's all they do. That's all they do. They're just there to fill their pockets and make themselves better, make their families better, make their friends better. um But no one ever really looks out. No politicians.
00:55:46
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really look out for the common people. um They always have some sort of set of other interests happening ah that they're trying to accomplish aside from what politicians and initially were created to do, which is help a subsect of people that you represent, however big or small that sect may be.
00:56:11
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So what happened in the past few weeks? Well, first of all, it started off with this crazy, crazy, jeez, it was so crazy. So I did not, I,
00:56:24
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It's not that I didn't think it would happen. I was just very surprised. Did I think that it was a possibility? Sure. I even said on the end of the ah what was at the end of the second episode, I even said that there's a bunch of people out there on both sides that probably want, ah you know, Trump and Biden, you know, to to to not to be unalive, as the kids say these days.
00:56:49
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um And that turned out to be the case. We had this crazy dude, which I completely condemn. Let me start up front with that. Completely condemn the attack on former President Donald Trump. Completely disgusting.
00:57:03
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um ah And it should not happen to any of our politicians. ah Yes, they're all liars, cheats and steals, but Uh, they are a, a, unfortunately a necessary evil, which we have to have. And if there's not going to be good people that are going to enter politics, which probably inherently just isn't a job they want to do. Well, then that's what we have to deal with. Does it suck? Sure. Do we have another choice? No, but, um, but that doesn't mean that we should be going around and trying to murder anyone. And first of all, it's in the tip. Don't, don't murder anyone. We shouldn't be trying to murder anyone anyways.
00:57:39
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I don't know how crazy you have to be to try to kill someone, but you got to be kind of crazy. And I thought I was pretty crazy, but that's just really crazy. So um Thomas Michael Crooks will put his name out there because it deserves to be put out there. He is now deceased. He was shot by the Secret Service, which is a whole other thing that we'll get into in the poor, horrible job that was done by all of the law enforcement agencies involved in that assassination attempt. But we are thankful, ah you know, that ah President Trump is alive, that nothing happened, that because I'm sorry, I don't want anything like that to happen because the moment, not because of anything, you don't want that to happen at all. You want anybody to be killed at all. But let's think about what would have happened. What would have happened if that actually happened? What would have happened if he actually got shot and killed? but What would have happened?
00:58:27
Speaker
Boy, we have, you know, that Civil War movie they got right. That's exactly what we have right now. And we don't need that. We need to unite. We need to come together. And I know it's a far-fetched utopia. I know. I get it. I hear you. I understand. But we got to try. Got to try. Got to try to be better. And that is unacceptable. Also unacceptable is the Secret Service and their not only response, but preparation.
00:58:55
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and the communication with the law enforcement. So I went through the whole report. I went through the timeline. I've looked at the responses from the local law enforcement and from the Secret secret Service. I also looked at the responses from former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheeto, who has now resigned after calls for her resignation, which damn well she needed to resign because it was under her watch and it's her fault. But as a synopsis to make this long story short,
00:59:25
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there was very much miscommunication between the parties. The local law enforcement agencies there, the local SWAT teams there, say that they did not even get their initial briefing from the Secret Service when they arrived that day. Yeah, they knew of some overall plans of some initial things that they were going to be involved in, but there were no specifics. There were no specific directions given from the Secret Service during this communication or anything.
00:59:53
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so leaving these law enforcement, local law enforcement, high-end drive. Then you have stupid excuses like the roof not being guarded because it's sloped even though there were people in there a couple hours before checking. You've got this random kid walking around like a freaking weirdo just walking around scoping out the joint like people are pointing him out complete failure by all law enforcement there at that time even if you weren't communicated with properly someone's got to see that and stop that. that's There's no reason anyone should get that close to a president, former president, any politician, anybody, really. that Anybody, really. You don't even have to be famous. if Let's just say it was ah a random college professor or a valedictorian at a university. No one. hey We should always have proper protection, but especially you know something like this. You need to have the proper protocol in place, and clearly that was not done.
01:00:51
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um So again, the Secret Service Director, she retired, she needed to. ah the um The shooter is dead, good. you know We don't need crazy people like that in this world. um There obviously needs to be some some things going forward for former president trump where they make sure this does not happen because he's planning on still doing outdoor rallies he says so got to make sure you put those ah proper protections in place so that we don't have things like that happen because that is completely unacceptable um yeah i mean it would have got really bad flow it would have got it would have it would have been really really bad um and i i don't i mean
01:01:36
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And I read this the other day because I'm still sort of in my military world. um But ah Canada right now, one of their biggest external threats in the world is a United States Civil War. They actually have it written in their government that it's in the top 10 list of their greatest threats right now for Canada is a US Civil War. So I just read that in a ah report the other day. So it's, you know, it's it's it's not out of the realm. And I actually think it'll probably happen at some point um with how we're going. I wish it doesn't. Again, I hope that we can all get along and unite and
01:02:14
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and be able to listen to each other and love each other and and and and and respect each other, but probably not gonna happen. um
01:02:23
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Yeah, you know, and there's always gonna be a conspiracy theory with anything like this, you know, like with the JFK shooting, there's always gonna be a conspiracy theory. some Something's gonna come out where it'll be something like that. I agree with you. There's no reason that he should have been walking around like that. I mean, you could clearly see from the video, there's people pointing more normal,
01:02:43
Speaker
regular civilians pointing him out. So clearly people knew something was up. The fact that there weren't just two you know a couple of police officers stationed there the whole day anyways, blows my mind considering that ah they apparently scoped it two hours before. um The fact that they just didn't keep them there the whole time really you know blows my mind and we'll get into that segment in a little bit. But um yeah, an inside job, I can't see it.
01:03:10
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ah I mean, that would be going through a lot for ah ah the kind the conservatives or or even Trump or someone within his side to want to do that. to But would I put it past? No, I would not.
01:03:24
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wait Would I put it past ah Trump to to to, I mean, he's a showman he's a showman. He's a wrestling heel. So would I put it past him? No. Would I put it past the CIA or the FBI to come from the other side and try to do it? No, I would not. um But I do think in this case, it was just a rogue ah guy. And I do believe that rogue crazy ass and I do believe that um that it was a failure uh uh clearly uh uh from the law enforcement um but an actual inside job I'm not gonna I don't think in this case that it was but hey if you dig deep enough into that JFK uh conspiracy theory you can uh you can go into a lot of rabbit holes I'll tell you that
01:04:15
Speaker
Um, but anyways, thankfully he is alive, but moving on. Now we go on to his challenger. It was Joe Biden. And I told y'all the last time that Joe Biden could not be the democratic representative because he's just too old. And I'm sorry, but when we get to a certain age, father time gets us all to it's clear in the athletic world. It's a common roof, uh, you know, for refrain that father time catch. It happens always it's going to happen to Trump in a couple of years. right It's happening right now to Trump.
01:04:40
Speaker
and don't act like it's not happening to him either. He's old too. he ain't he can We can barely talk too. So let's not get let's get that straight. there both ah But at least he has a little bit more of his wits than Biden. We can definitely see that. um But now he has a younger competitor, right?
01:04:57
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um ah Biden was essentially removed. Yes, he's still technically the president, but essentially kaal ah Kamala is on her um on her trail, on her presidential campaign trail. Just yesterday, she chose her running mate, ah Governor Tim Walz from Minnesota, a National Guard veteran.
01:05:20
Speaker
Um, and, uh, you know, um, uh, Midwesterner obviously in a swing state. So, uh, an older white gentleman, so obviously these things can help her as a black Indian, um, young woman. Right? Because we know inherently she's already going to face challenges as a woman.
01:05:41
Speaker
There hasn't been a woman president before. The last time we saw that, when Hillary went up for it, she was completely ah demolished. She was disrespected. I don't care if you don't like her at all. What she went through was quite disrespectful in a lot of ways, I believe. Whether you like her or not, people shouldn't deserve to go through these sort of things. But um you saw what she went through. It's not going to be any easier. And actually, it's going to be much harder for a black woman And let's not get into this this stupid birtherism stuff again. I know the conservatives are starting to do this again like they did with Obama. We ain't doing this. She is black and Indian. She don't be portraying to be nothing. Just because she goes to an Indian symposium um and says that she has Indian heritage does not mean that she's disproving her black heritage.
01:06:29
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so just get that straight okay we don't need to be starting this again it just if you say stuff like that it just proves that you have racial racist tendencies that's all it does that's all it proves and it just makes you sound stupid so just don't do it right um that being said she's gonna have her issues she's going to she's a woman she's she's she's she's a minority woman she's going to have a lot of problems Um, and so it's going to be very hard for her. I still believe, uh, as I said last time, I thought that Trump will win. I still do now, even with, uh, Kamala. And I do believe that Kamala is a better candidate than Biden. And I do believe that, uh, Kamala is going to make it a lot, lot closer and have Trump sweating a lot more than he ever thought he was going to. Um, she has a movement behind her.
01:07:23
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And that movement is due to the internet. That movement is due to Gen Z. That movement is due to the young population, the women population, the minority population.
01:07:35
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I mean, not to mention Trump went into that speech with the Black coalition and completely made himself look like an idiot and completely just invalidated himself from every Black vote unless they're you're a rich Black person and and you're just looking out for your money. um So that was horrible on his part. He just doesn't know when to just keep his mouth shut sometimes. You know, you would think at this point he would just like have learned. I thought he did at the debate. I really thought he had learned, but now he doesn't. he the You think for a second he learns, but then he just starts going again. It's, you know, it it is what it is. um
01:08:11
Speaker
ah but ah ah Anyway, so you know they have now ah much more of a challenge. um She is going to have much more ah of ah of ah of a you know wave behind her, a power behind her going forward, and it's going to be a lot tougher. I still think Trump will win, but it's going to be a lot much tougher for him because she has, again, the younger population is behind her. The women are behind her. The minorities are behind her.
01:08:36
Speaker
so Let's see what Flo got to say. How is this the democracy like the Democrats always say? Republicans try and destroy. She didn't go through the democratic process. She got endorsed by Biden. Well, this is the thing. um You can say that how is this democracy like the Democrats always say?
01:08:54
Speaker
uh republicans try and destroy it both both parties try and destroy and that's why i hate both parties um because they both are trying to destroy democracy they both don't care about democracy no one of these politicians really gives a crap about democracy at all um but if you're going to equate that for her being chosen and then not going through a specific democratic process like going to the dnc next month and having the whole uh dog and pony show with a gavel and votes and things like that that seems more like just performative um and it seems really unnecessary considering she just received 99 percent of the delegates um the vote they did a vote so it's not like they didn't do a vote it's not undemocratic they don't have to do the vote in person there's no rule that says that that's pretty stupid why would you anyways
01:09:46
Speaker
Why would you waste your time? Do it electronically. There's no point. um But if you really wanted them to go to the DNC and do it, gavel and hand dog and pony show, then fine. I guess if that's what you require, then okay. But I don't think that defeats the democratic process at all because they still solicited the votes and she got 99% of the delegates. So it's not like she wasn't going to win regardless.
01:10:10
Speaker
um Is it something we've never seen before? Yeah, it's unprecedented flow. It sure is. It is kind of weird to see ah someone who has been already pretty much ah nominated as the as the candidate, you know, going out on the trail running for ah president. But if you have all of the people that would have been going up against her, endorsing her, then what is the point? You're just going to go have a debate for the fun of it just to watch a bunch of people bash on each other. I mean, that's cool. I like watching debates for that exact reason, but it's not going to prove a purpose because she would have won anyways. So that that I don't like that point that conservatives are making because it doesn't make any sense because they still voted. Whether or not you want them to go vote in ah in a place ah where they're all around or something, that doesn't make any sense. This is in Congress. They're not voting for laws. So
01:10:56
Speaker
um ah Yeah, Democratic Republic, whatever you want to call it, the Founding Fathers wanted this place to be. We're far from that. And we're far from ever getting back ah to that. And, you know, a not me personally, but depending on who you ask, maybe not all of that was great. But they originally intended. I know not all of it was. I can tell you not all of it was. We're not going to get into it because we all know, but not all of it was. But heck.
01:11:27
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um
01:11:31
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Well, yeah, because Biden was the overall winner. So you're not really saying anything because Biden was going to be the choice then, too. And just because the the Republicans have so much problems on their end in having people wanting to compete against Trump like Mickey Haley did and and Rameswani and and Chris Christie and all them, that's not the Democrats fault that they don't have those issues and they rally around.
01:11:52
Speaker
their people that's that's y'all that's that's the republicans i'm gonna say y'all flow i'm not going to port pretend to know your politics um all i'm going to say is the republic just because the republicans don't do that don't mean the democrats have to that doesn't make any sense that argument um uh biden was their clear nominee they like to stand behind one person and i think that's how parties should do honestly the republicans should have stood behind trump the whole time anyways if you're gonna stand you know how we say it on the show stand 10 10 toes down 10 toes down.
01:12:24
Speaker
Right. You know, I know that stand 10 toes down. So yash or the Republicans should have just stood behind Trump and never had a primary anyways, but they did. And Nikki Haley got embarrassed. And if that's what you want to see, if you just want to have the the the the jovial effect of watching people get embarrassed, I'm cool with it. I didn't mind. I watched it. I watched every single one of the Republican debates. um So if that's what you want to see, I get it. But it didn't prove a purpose. Trump still won. And it was very embarrassing for the rest of the candidates.
01:12:54
Speaker
Um, uh, so what's the point? Um, yeah, she dropped out early. Again, this was four years ago, dude. You're talking a long time ago. She was chosen as the vice president. The democratic party got behind her. Any of the people that would have gone against her, Buddha, chedge, um, uh, Shapiro, uh, uh, walls, uh, Gretchen Whitmer, uh, um, uh, uh, guy in California Newsom, they have all endorsed her. So there's, there's no, there's no need for a dog and pony show when all of your opponents have endorsed you. That is a democratic process right there.
01:13:24
Speaker
So anyways, thank you for tuning in though flow. I really appreciate it And y'all make sure you check us out at the bottom line sports If you like this arguing right here between me and flow you're gonna love us talks talk Trash about sports because we were getting at each other with hot take Jake and canteen So tune in every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Go ahead join the bottom line sports on Facebook join our Facebook group We talk a lot of trash about sports over there also Subscribe at ball and buds on YouTube so you stay up to date with all of these videos So, um, you know, it's gonna be tough again. Now you have these two vice president candidates ah both are former veterans um So that no one really has an upper hand. There are although there are um some whispers as to
01:14:14
Speaker
ah services completed and things like that. You can go look that up for yourself. um But both of the VPs are going to have to look into ah their history, they're going to get ah very much dissected. um As long as they're not giving themselves away like JD Vance, who already, you know, gave away that story about him in the couch.
01:14:35
Speaker
ah You know, yeah and it's not the greatest thing you should probably be putting out there. But hey, whatever I support it I mean, whatever you want to do dude, that's how you gotta to get your jollies off and I am with it. No problem um float the point is That what you want what you're asking for them to do is go to the DNC next month sit around and Put five people up on ah on on a podium on a stage for a few hours so Republicans can watch and then making make fun of each other and trashy and and and me and other independents just for the fun of it. Also, they can have a then have a vote which would be the same exact outcome that they just had yesterday. Stop it. You're not making any sense. That's a bad argument. Conservatives need to drop that argument because it's not going to work.
01:15:27
Speaker
They just voted. They soitit solicited every single delegate across the the Democratic Party. And she got 99% of the votes. Whether you like it or not, that is a democratic process. You don't need the dog and pony show. You just want them to do that. And that's fine. I get it. I want to see it too. um'm ah I'm a fan of chaos, controlled chaos, but chaos nonetheless.
01:15:52
Speaker
Um, you know, I love you flow. You my boy. Uh, anyway, so how does this, how does this play out? We can only, we, we can only, we can only pretend to even know at this point, we know that, uh, obviously Kamala is going to get very much dissected. There's no amount, uh, to tell the amount of race jokes and other things Trump may tell. So that's the debate is going to be must watch TV. I will be there with my popcorn. Uh, that's going to be, that's going to, you think the NFL got good ratings.
01:16:21
Speaker
that That Trump Harris debate, that Donald Trump, com Kamala Harris debate, that's going to be a banger. As the kids say, I'll be front and center for that. um Now, what about Biden? um You know, to be able to, even if you're, if you're, if again, I agree, he does not have the mental capacity to be able to be president.
01:16:48
Speaker
But for you to step aside from the world's most powerful job, knowing that you still want to continue on is a ah a selfless act of service that is rarely seen, especially in politics. So whether you like Biden or not, whether you approved the job that he did or not, yeah, I don't approve everything he did. He did a lot of good. um But he made some mistakes, as every president is wont to do.
01:17:16
Speaker
um But I think that he gave his all for this country of for a long time. I think he was um ah a person that did care about America and does care about America. And so I just want to thank him for his service and wish him well off into the sunset. But there's no doubt about it that that had to happen. Again, he was in no position to be able to run a country.
01:17:47
Speaker
When again, Trump's getting to that point, he's a year or two away from that, which is why electing him may not be the best idea because of the fact that he could very well be Biden part two halfway through his term. Again, I still think Trump's going to win, but yeah that's very, very possible and actually probably very likely, probably very probable that about two years in, we see the same thing happen to Donald Trump that happened to Biden.
01:18:13
Speaker
Just saying, watch, watch. I'm usually right about these things. So, um, let's see what it flows say. Come on, maybe black, but she's not from the South. Like the fake accent. She tried to pull like, yeah, yeah. She tried to pull off the, uh, who was that? Um, Oh man. What's his name? Brian Kelly, where he used to be the coach at Notre Dame and then he went to go to LSU and all of a sudden had a, had a, had a down South country accident. Like son, what?
01:18:41
Speaker
You you ain't never had no country. Actually, that was hilarious. um Yeah, I mean, everybody tries to fake. I mean, come on now. All these politicians are fake. I'm not going to put anything past her like she isn't just like all the other ones. All politicians are are liars, cheaters, scumbags, fake, whatever you want to call them, Trump, Biden, all of them, all of them. It don't matter. All of them are out for their own good.
01:19:11
Speaker
Ah, I mean whatever you can but it it doesn't matter because Either way, uh, there should be Age limits for presidents. I don't believe that you should be a president if you're the age over the age of 70 I think you should automatically be disqualified There's no reason you should be able to collect social security and be the president. Sorry. Nope We need young minds in here. We don't need that. That's that's ridiculous. That's crazy And you can again you can say that I'll put that comment back up there because I took it down a little quick I didn't mean to I was just trying to talk but uh, I don't I I I was being a little facetious I don't know necessarily that he's gonna go that quick um But he's these duties 70 is what 78 years old 76 years old. du He's not gonna last much longer He ain't got much longer. You think he's gonna go the whole term and be coherent. He's not even coherent now.
01:19:59
Speaker
Like I know they, like Biden is way is worse off. I agree with you. I completely accept that fact, but let's not act like Trump is first of all, he's not the smartest tool in the shed. Actually he's pretty, ah's he's not very smart to begin with, but let's not act like he doesn't do and say a lot of stupid things.
01:20:20
Speaker
And then the whole thing, oh, Biden needs a teleprompter to talk. And then a few weeks later, Trump's like, oh, my teleprompter went out. Like, come on, it's both sides. It's the same thing. You could say it about both sides. You could say it. So the same thing you could say about Trump, you could say about Biden and vice versa. It doesn't matter. He shouldn't be present because of age. No president over the age. And actually, you know what? I'm backing it up. No presidents over the age of 60. That's a little too young. 65. No presidents over the age. I've moved my age limit down to 65.
01:20:50
Speaker
There's no reason you should be that old and be a damper. No, no, you should be retired. Sitting somewhere on the beach and you shouldn't, old people shouldn't even be able to drive when they get that old. What are you talking about? I'm just joking. I'm joking. My grandmother still drives. No, I don't think she does anymore. She's 85 now, but she was at like her 80s. She wasn't bad. She wasn't good either. She wasn't bad. Shout out, Gagua. She told me to give her a shout out, Mauella and Gagua.
01:21:17
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um
01:21:22
Speaker
You see, and this is the greatest part, Flo, and I appreciate you for doing this for me because you reminded me that I had to mention this. This is this is great when the conservative side does this because you know that they're in their Fox News Newsmax
Media Bias and Information Sources
01:21:36
Speaker
silo. And yes, I watch all of them. I watch Fox News Newsmax CNN, and MSNBC. ah I even watch OAN sometimes and that crazy ass network and it gets crazy.
01:21:45
Speaker
but this is how you know when you're in a silo and you only listen to one side because this is exactly what they say on Fox News and on Newsmax. He's way smarter than Kamala and all of her word salads and she doesn't talk and she does all. I have watched pretty much 75% of Trump rallies since COVID because I think they're hilarious and I laugh because he goes off on tangents, he says a bunch of dumb shit He does a bunch of dumb things and he is not smarter than Kamala. Kamala, Kamala went to freaking Howard. Trump couldn't even get into a university. She is not smarter than her at all. Not even close. If you gave them an IQ test, she would blow him out the water, dude. It's not even close. Not even close. That being said, Trump is a good businessman.
01:22:34
Speaker
Trump is smart when it comes to getting his way, his advantage. But if you're talking about pure IQ, there's not even a chance. There's not even a chance. There's not even close. And the word salad thing, that's how I know you're in a silo because that was made up by Newsmax and Fox News. I know because I just watched it yesterday and I watched them say that. And I laughed when they said it because I was like, I literally watched Trump rally all the time and he goes off on tangents and word salads like I've never heard. He goes through, he can't even pronounce some words.
01:23:04
Speaker
And it's funny because he'll then try it. it's It's funny the way he does it because it'll try to play it off. He'll be like in the the sacrifice and the sacrifice of the country is just sacrificial. And it's so funny the way he does it. But anyways, you go ahead. You go ahead and think that if you want, bro. If you think that Trump doesn't do that, you don't watch his rallies. I literally try to catch every Trump rally that I can because I think they're hilarious. And he goes off on way more tangents and word salads than I've ever heard come Kamala do so.
01:23:32
Speaker
You're just you're repeating things that come from the echo chamber from the end. That's okay I know you don't watch CNN or MSNBC. I know you don't get the other side of things. I know you just hear your side and That's fine. Most can most most of I'm not gonna say conservatives most people do that Most people do that both sides Will stick to their echo chamber, but I don't I listen and I watch both sides. I watch all the news channels I hear everything they say I watch all the rallies I watch all the speeches and I know I better than most people because I watch and I see with my own eyes and I've seen Trump do that plenty of time. So you're not going to tell me any different. I do watch her.
01:24:13
Speaker
Well, that's not good either, because if you're just getting your news from YouTubers, then you're just listening to people like us. And Flo, if people were really coming to take sports knowledge from ah you or Cantina or Hot Take Jake, they ain't going to be getting very much. So I think we know what that means. I think you need to turn on maybe some news channels, some official journalists, people actually in the muck of things, not just ah YouTube. But I do love YouTube. Shout out.
01:24:38
Speaker
And I can't keep going back and forth. I got a show to run flow. Okay. I love you. All right. Let's move on from that to what is really blowing the professor's mind. What is blowing my mind this month or this episode rather? Um, we just talked about the U S elections. Uh,
01:25:00
Speaker
How about the Venezuelan elections? Maduro, Nicolas Maduro in for trying to get a fourth term, bullying his way to a fourth term. Some would say corrupted his way to a fourth term. Some would say his opponent beat him. I don't know. This could be akin to what we had with the controversy with the US election the last time. so um But what we do know is Nicolas Maduro is a dictator. That is what we know. ah We know that there are currently 100,000 people have defected from Venezuela within this year alone. Obviously, something's not right. Obviously, something is going wrong. The Venezuelan people are not. Their economy is down. Jobs are are down. Unemployment is up. Crime is up. And so, you know, the people are starting to fight back. They want a revolution. Will the revolution be televised? Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. But if it isn't, then you never get heard.
01:25:59
Speaker
So they're trying to make themselves heard. And wow, I mean, you see some of the stuff going on over there. It's crazy. Like they're firebombing and doing all this. um All the. What was it? No, no, no, I meant you three. Not me. Come on. yeah They call it. They call me the sports professor for a reason. Talking about the other three on the show. ah Talking about ah Blasphemous one. um ah The other one. who
01:26:32
Speaker
And some fellow by the name of Dak Prescott. That's your own quarterback. What are you talking about? I'm just messing with. Anyways, let me keep it moving. um So the Venezuelan elections, obviously, those people are trying to fight back to try to get their country back from this dictator. But this dictator has been there for a long time. Maduro has been in power for a long, long time.
Digital Media and Social Impact
01:26:55
Speaker
It's going to be very hard to get him out as it is to get any dictator out.
01:26:58
Speaker
um Some people may even equate him in this country to Trump. I'm not going to do that. But there are some people that but would say that there are similarities. But the point is that um when you have that dichotomy, when you have that divisiveness between two political parties or two between two religions or races or whatever it is in this world, you're going to have these corruptions. You're going to have these butting of heads. You're going to have this violence and these wars. And right now we're seeing it not only um ah in Venezuela, ah ah where, again,
01:27:36
Speaker
Hospitals are being burnt, right? People are being killed. It's just, it's not something we want to see. We don't ever want violence like that in our world. Um, but it's happening where else it's happening all over the world pretty much, but there's other things that are going on, uh, kind of blowing my mind. Um, and this is going to be a little bit of a touchier subject.
01:28:02
Speaker
And I'm ah um'm a digital marketer. I teach digital marketing. I taught digital marketing for Vanderbilt and for University and other universities around the country. I teach and run digital marketing programs. I consult for small businesses and for you know athletes, musicians, all the sorts of things that I do that involve digital marketing, which involves social media, which involves websites. um Digital marketing,
01:28:31
Speaker
social media, it is a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing that we have this technology that allows us to be able to communicate with each other so quickly, that allows us to get things done in a more expeditious and more efficient and effective manner. um But it also harms us because it can be used for bad. um Not to even mention getting into the AI stuff that we're on the verge of.
01:29:01
Speaker
But just people in their opinions and people wanting to be the first to have something to say about other things occurring in this world. So what are we talking about? Well, now we're talking about the controversy in the Olympics of the two female boxers. Algerian boxer Iman Khalif and ah Chinese boxer uh let me get this right i want to make sure i say this correctly um uh chin uh shing i'm sorry i apologize for butchering uh this name but ching chan um uh were both
01:29:47
Speaker
have both been cited as failing an unspecified test by the International Boxing Association for gender specificity and that they were barred by the IBA from competing against other females in the female division. Now, why is this an issue? Well, first of all, before we even get into the issues of um of transgenderism or ah transgender athletes and where they fit in male versus female sports. Before we even get into that, let's talk about the actual internet and the power that people hold and the power that we hold with this small device in our hands, right? I can easily go on Twitter right now and spout whatever kind of BS I want to spout.
01:30:42
Speaker
um And I don't even have to be correct. And I don't even have to be researched. I don't need hell i don't even have to be nuanced. But that's not why you come here to the mind of the professor. You come here because I do weeks of research before I even come on here to make sure that you get the right information. I also give you both sides of the coin, both sides of the aisle, both sides of the situation so you can see it from both sides. And I also don't make any judgments for you. I let you make your own judgments and your own decisions. I don't put my judgments or decisions on you. Most of the time, you won't even hear a judgment or a decision I've made on here unless I'm very, very passionate about it.
01:31:23
Speaker
So, the internet is is a horrible place when it comes to people degrading other people. And these two women, and as far as we know, and again, I told you earlier in the episode, I was gonna contradict myself, right? And here comes that contradiction. Earlier in the episode, I said the IOC is one of the most corrupt organizations ever, and they are. But believe me, there are more corrupt organizations. And the IOC has come out and said, both of these boxers have birth certificates that say they were born female, they grew up female, they've always competed female, and nothing has changed since then.
01:32:02
Speaker
But a bunch of people ran to the Internet. Oh, these are men and women boxing. And we can't have this so much so that it got up to J.K. Rowling. And she's making her which she's one of the worst, not worst people in terms of her opinions. I don't care about that. She can have whatever opinion she wants. I mean, in terms of running to the Internet and saying things as quickly as possible. Anything like this happens. She's on the Internet and like two point five seconds saying something. And she hasn't even heard the whole story. So in a situation like this, where now it turns out that she could be incorrect. And again,
01:32:32
Speaker
I'm just giving you both sides of the story um And I'm giving you the facts that I know and the facts that have come out But not all the facts have come out in this case So I'm gonna give you both sides because we still don't actually know right um ah What is true? We can assert, or we can assume, or and and you will make your own decision once I give you these facts. But these are the facts. The IOC, even though I said they were corrupt, they say they were born, their birth certificates are female, they've always competed female, there's been no gender transitions, anything like that. The organization that said this, by the way, the International Boxing Association, and here's where it comes in, that member I said, some organizations are more corrupt than others,
01:33:18
Speaker
Watch this. The International Boxing Association is the managing director and president is watching. And who lost to these two women boxers in that initial IBA, um the initial IBA tournament they had a couple of years ago?
01:33:39
Speaker
when they were disqualified from competing against females. Guess what? These two boxers, they beat Russian fighters. So, okay, let's back up a little bit. And again, I'm not making any judgments or decisions, but you're telling me that these And as far as we know, they're women were born women with women, ah female birth certificates, always competed as females or raised female have had no ah no conclusive evidence that they have any transition of gender at all or anything like that. These women, as far as we know, but went into a into a competition against Russian fighters
01:34:20
Speaker
beat Russian fighters, and then the president of the organization who is also Russian, then comes in and disqualifies them for some unspecified, because it still hasn't come out what that test was, unspecified test that proved that they were not, or they they did not their gender specificity could not be confirmed so they could not compete against females. Those are the facts.
01:34:48
Speaker
You make your own judgment, but those are the facts. The facts are, from the IOC side, these are women that were born women and have always been women. ah From the IBA side, we know that that's a Russian-run federation. Russian fighters were defeated, and only after the Russian fighters were defeated were these other two women disqualified. Again, do I know if they're actually women or not? No, I do not. I haven't seen the birth certificates.
01:35:17
Speaker
I can only tell you what both sides are saying and what both sides are coming from. And I gave you the facts from both sides. And I let you make your own judgment and decision. But I know what I'm asserting in my head from what I've heard. I know what I think because I know that the IOC is very corrupt. But I also know from my time in many various different positions in my life that the Russians are some of, not the Russian people. I will not pretend to put this on their people. I am sure their people are, a lot of their people are very kind, nice ah people. And I've heard good things. But in terms of their government, in terms of the Russian oligarchy, in terms of all of that, the Russian billionaires and aristocrats that run that place, um no, they're all way more corrupt than the IOC. So,
01:36:11
Speaker
a Right? We're weighing that it's the is' the judges scales, right? We got to weigh what we know. And I know a lot more about Russian corruption than I do much other corruption, unless you're talking about the Chinese government and the other aristocrats. and Again, not the Chinese people. Love my Chinese people, my Russian people. There's not about y'all. This is about your governments and you' and all that stuff. So um there's more to come out about this.
01:36:37
Speaker
We'll find out more, but the the the thing that really blows my mind is how people can just run and talk shit on the internet without having the right research, without having the right information. It takes me weeks to do these shows. I i purposely come on after everybody else has said their piece so I can listen to everybody else and hear what they have to say and do my own research and do diligent research with sources that I can cite because I keep them in my documents.
01:37:04
Speaker
A lot of people don't do that and they just run to the internet and use it and make it a cesspool that it is because of people like that. So
Transgender Athlete Inclusion Debate
01:37:13
Speaker
if you're going to use the internet, be responsible. I know there's going to be trolls. I get it. There's trolls everywhere. But if you actually want to be a responsible human being that is not making other people's lives a miserable hell because you want to put things out into the universe that may or may not be true.
01:37:31
Speaker
then make sure you do your research. Stop popping off at the mouth too soon. Don't run to the internet and want to be the first to talk shit or the first to report a story if you don't know what's really going on. And that's blowing my mind. Now, digging deeper into that, not blowing my mind, but being the professor, I need to give you solutions oriented. Well, solutions, you know what I mean?
01:37:55
Speaker
So what can we do in this situation? Because this is not going to get any easier, the conversation. And we have to address this head on right now. Because again, I mean, as we see with the the Olympic shit opening ceremonies, or as we see with the conservatives and a lot of their, you know, um couldn't criticisms of the LGBT community and and things that they do, well, transgenderism is happening.
01:38:23
Speaker
There's no going back from that, um whether or not you agree with it, um whether or not you think children should be exposed to those sorts of things, which I do not believe that children should be exposed to any of those sorts of things. I believe that should be up to the parent to decide when a child is exposed to whatever it is they're exposed to, which is why I try not to even curse around children, because I believe that that should be up to the parent to decide when they learn that. And I curse pretty much every,
01:38:51
Speaker
other word that I speak not on camera obviously but if I made my house you probably hear me curse a lot more so I don't think that children should be subjected to things that other people are are trying to
01:39:10
Speaker
I don't want to use the word indoctrinate, which a lot of people use these days, but pushing, pushing your agenda. Everybody has an agenda they want to push. Sure. We get it. Right. But don't be so pushy. Don't push. ah You know, even me, like I'm Christian and I want people to know the love of Jesus, but I'm not just going to go up to him and be like, Hey, you should know Jesus and you should love Jesus. No, I'm not going to push that on you. That's not, that's not, that's not what people should do. Right.
01:39:34
Speaker
We should all want to learn and live and love each other as our neighbor, as a friends, as ah human beings that we are. We should want to lift each other up and not bring each other down. But most people, not most people, I shouldn't say that, most people inherently are actually good. But there are a lot of assholes out there. There are a lot of people out there that are just horrible people. um And just don't be that person is what I'm trying to say. um But there are some things that we are going to talk about that are going to turn people into those sorts of things because of this, the opinions that they may or may not have about this sort of thing. So what I'm saying now is that we have to figure out a solution and the solution for this
01:40:21
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at least the initial solution that we can all work with is that we have to have a transgender category when it comes to athletics, when it comes to sports. If you want to be a transitioning ah athlete, a person who is transitioning from male to female or vice versa,
01:40:43
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there needs to be a middle division. And I don't know exactly how they would figure that out, right? Because then you got to look at when it comes to fighting sports and things like that. And you got to look at white classes and all that other stuff. It's going to be very hard. It's not a nuance. It's going to be a very detailed but very nuanced discussion. But that's so at least a starting point is a middle division where anyone who is transitioning can compete against other transitioning people.
01:41:08
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But one thing that cannot happen is we cannot have males who are transitioning to females be competing against other females in female sports. It's just not right. It's just not, it's not even fair.
01:41:23
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okay yes we don't want to yes we want equality yes i want women to be equal i love women's equality i love women's rights i love that you know uh we're more progressive now than we've ever been i mean at least we you know i mean back in the day women couldn't even vote at one point which is ridiculous to me um that men would think that they can subjugate themselves to be that much more important than women but that's another subject for another day um uh that's unacceptable because men are more physically and this is not across the scale obviously if you're gonna put Clarissa Shields in against against that asshole Thomas Michael crooks that tried to assassinate uh from president trump yeah Clarissa Shields gonna beat the hell out of his ass so yeah there are obviously outliers to this but for the main
01:42:16
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majority of the population when it comes to you putting a group of males and a group of females in a competitive sport or in something where ah yeah um physical traits are necessary to complete the task, it's just inherent that most of the time the men are gonna be stronger and faster. Just is. Not saying smarter, I'm not saying it's it's always true, but for the majority, that is the case.
01:42:46
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So you cannot have men transitioning into female be playing against females because it's not fair because they originally had traits that for the majority are going to be more inherent to helping them in athletic competition.
01:43:05
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Now, if it goes the other way and you want to be a female transitioning to a male and you want to go compete against males, I'm fine with that, obviously, because you're going to be going in at most likely a disadvantage. Unless again, you're Carissa Shields, then, hey, you're probably going to beat them up too, right? You're probably going to beat the regular man up too, right? Shout out Carissa Shields to quote, love her. Um, that was not a slice against her at all, but she's just good. She's going to go in there and beat your ass.
01:43:29
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But anyways, we have to come up with a solution now and that needs to be the initial starting point because we cannot have these controversies keep going. Obviously, we're going to have them pop up from time to time. But if we have these at at least this initial middle category where we can place transitioning people who again are human beings and deserve to be treated as such, just because they made the decision that ah they're a um that they feel like they're a male stuck in a female body or vice versa, who am I to tell them that they're not that they that they're wrong?
01:43:59
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I'm not going to sit here and judge you. Jesus told me not to judge anybody, so I ain't going to judge you. If that's what you decide is is right for you, if you feel like you're a female stuck in a male body or a male but stuck in a female body, and this is what you need to do to be happy, then by all means, please do it. But we don't need to be pushing this on our children. We don't need to be um ah letting um former males compete in female sports. Those are just two things that are non-negotiable.
01:44:29
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And that
Societal Values and Harmony
01:44:30
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takes us all the way back to the Olympic ceremony we talked about earlier. The thing I was most pissed about, and I wasn't really, again, I wasn't really mad about any of it, honestly, because again, we talked about it like I believe in artistic freedom and and and all that good stuff. But the one thing I was actually mad about was that there was a young child in there. Couldn't have been more than, I don't know, maybe eight, 10 years old.
01:44:54
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Young children should not be subjected to anything now if her and it probably was probably one of those people were her dad or or his dad or whatever. That just that's a bad look. That's a bad look that you just have children involved in that sort of thing. And again, it's just defeating your what you're trying to get accomplished.
01:45:14
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By pushing your agenda, again, that's fine. We all deserve equal rights. It's not helping your case. And when you have a child in there, it just looks, it's a really bad look. It looks like you're trying to indoctrinate children into these sorts of things. And children should learn about things whenever their parents decide, or, you know, whenever you go to school and you learn a curse word or something, right? It's going to happen, but it really shouldn't until parents decide it's okay.
01:45:39
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And that's what's blowing the professor's mind today. So, you know, worldwide elections going crazy, including our ours own. We can't even say that we're not turning into a second world country now, third world country now, because we are, you know. And again, I am not here to to judge anyone.
01:46:04
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to bash anyone, to discredit anyone. I support all of my friends in the LGBT community and I have friends in that community. I support them. I support whatever you want to do. If that's the lifestyle you choose, please, by all means, go ahead and do it. And actually anything you want to do in this life, go ahead and do it. As long as you're not hurting other people.
01:46:32
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And believe me, we all do hurtful things. I've done hurtful things, but just try your best not to hurt other people and to judge only yourself and keep only to yourself. And maybe we'd be a lot better off than we are right now. Just think about a family, you know, we just love and live in better harmony. We wouldn't have all these issues and we could all just, I know, I know.
01:47:01
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Omar, you're a hopeless romantic, a utopian lover, and it's never going to happen. And I know, but that's OK. I can always wish. And as we all wish, you know I like to end these episodes on positive notes because I want to send you all into the universe with positivity and love and joy. So let's talk about
Sports Sponsorship Highlights
01:47:19
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a couple of positive stories that came out since I am an artist. I am a musician and an artiste, as they say, and I do respect the artistic freedom. I want to talk about a couple of musicians here lately um that have done some pretty cool things. So first of all, and the most important,
01:47:36
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ah here and connected to the Olympics is Flavor Flav former public enemy frontman hype man and now niche sport hero has become the official sponsor and hype man for the US women's water polo team. So what happened?
01:47:56
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Um, the water polo teams obviously don't get a lot of support, don't get a lot of monetary support at all either. Um, underappreciated, under supported, uh, not fully funded. So now a lot of these athletes have been having to have second and third jobs aside from the water polo team because they don't have enough money to survive. What happens? They're floundering. We don't know what's going to happen. They're asking for additional support. The coach is on Instagram asking for help.
01:48:26
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Flavor Flav comes along signs of five-year sponsorship deal with the women's law and men's water polity to elevate the visibility and the excitement. the The financial terms are not yet public but he's been constantly promoting them. He's there at the Olympics promoting them and this is the feel-good story we need. Flavor Flav coming through with money that he made from a hip-hop career, which most people would have said was B.S. back in the day. But look at that. Hip hop doing good in the world. Shout out to that man. Flavor Flav supporting the water polo team. I love that. Second positive note, another musician, another. ah Well, I guess you can't call him hip hop. He's more pop at this point. He's always been pop, I guess. I guess he was a little bit of hip hop when he first started. Pitbull.
01:49:13
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Just came out this morning at Pitbull, Mr. Worldwide, Mr. 305, pretty much everywhere on your radio, has now purchased the naming rights for FIU's football stadium. Yes, Florida International University. I didn't even know it's possible you could purchase a stadium's naming rights, but he has at the very cheap cost of $1.2 million annually for five years. It's only $6 million. dollars isn't not I mean, shit.
01:49:39
Speaker
I want to name a stadium after, once I get my first six million, I'm gonna go name a stadium after me. um But anyways, he will also ah be able to use the stadium 10 times a year for concerts. He'll have two boxes at all home games, but he will also have to promote including multiple shows and 10 social media posts every year for the university. So what a beautiful, harmonious relationship that is as well. And you know, again, I love
Conclusion and Audience Engagement
01:50:05
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ending on positive notes and so that my friends is how we are going to end today's episode i really appreciate you tuning in today what an explosive episode i'm already sure that i'm gonna get a bunch of trolls a bunch of comments hopefully i don't get uh you know canceled assassinated hopefully they don't come after me the russian and chinese governments uh but you know what if they do fuck them
01:50:31
Speaker
ah That being said, um thank you to Flo tuning in with the comments. You came through with all those wonderful comments making me think a little bit more insightful, making me you know bring a little more in nuanced and detailed conversation ah so that we could think about things. And that's how we got to do it, right? We got a conversation just like me and Flo did.
01:50:50
Speaker
keeping the love but as well, having differences of opinions. And again, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I don't have one side or the other that I'm cheering for. I'm just giving you facts and and and and and and and the the deal the the deal from both sides of the stories. But I can, ah you know, at least rebut his conservative viewpoints and talking points because I do ah Watch both sides of the aisle because I do pay attention to any story I pay attention to both sides um and that's what this show is all about is about bringing you research of both sides of all of these controversial and ah Crazy topics that we talk about on this show and I appreciate y'all
01:51:29
Speaker
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01:51:50
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01:52:39
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01:53:31
Speaker
Thank y'all for tuning in. Thank you for the support. Remember to go out love each other be kind ah And yeah, let's just try to get along and be the best we can be and I will see y'all Tomorrow tomorrow 8 p.m. Eastern. Don't forget the clubber D combat sports boxing edition That being said holla five thousand
01:53:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, you know they call us mans, man. We professor, professor. That's the cause, man. Come on, come on. Come on, stand up. Gee. Call me human. Call me absolute.