Speaker 1: And you know what cognitive dissonance means. It's us knowing
Speaker 1: full well that Thanksgiving is a BS holiday. This is
Speaker 1: low the crap. But you think I'm not gonna stuff
Speaker 1: my face? You think I can't wait to get to
Speaker 1: my auntie house. I know we shouldn't be celebrating this.
Speaker 1: I also know that MC and Cheese though and mud Horde.
Speaker 1: You think I don't know Fourth of July ain't for
Speaker 1: people of color. You think I don't know that. You
Speaker 1: think I'm not excited for these ribs. I know both
Speaker 1: these things are true. Did Kanye not show up with
Speaker 1: a maka hat top? My slavery was a choice? But
Speaker 1: did he not fill an arena with a half done
Speaker 1: album a second ago that he was able to stream
Speaker 1: live on Apple TV? Y'all know that album ain coming
Speaker 1: out when you say it is? Come on, fam. Did
Speaker 1: we not know when R Kelly married a Leah when
Speaker 1: she was fourteen? We all knew that man had issues?
Speaker 1: But hell stepping the name of love, I believe I
Speaker 1: could fly. You think I don't know Columbus Day is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: But if you give me a day off, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go to work. I know it's ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna day home. I like having a day off.
Speaker 1: This is some bull. I know it's bull. I know
Speaker 1: I don't celebrate this. A matter of fact, I've adamantly
Speaker 1: and vehemently disagree with it. Do you think I don't
Speaker 1: know that gang violence in our cities has stolen so
Speaker 1: much from our family, so much of our young men
Speaker 1: are young women. You just have been cut short. We
Speaker 1: killed each other in our own If you think I
Speaker 1: don't know that, you think I still you think I
Speaker 1: still don't be like, that's my cousin, though, that's my family,
Speaker 1: Though that's my relly, right, You think we still don't
Speaker 1: celebrate what we know was so detrimental to us. You
Speaker 1: think we don't know it's a problem. Same thing got
Speaker 1: every girl singing as soon as too short? Come on,
Speaker 1: what's my favorite word? You? You? You finished it already,
Speaker 1: know you finished it. You ain't even gotta tell me.
Speaker 1: Same thing I know when I say it ain't no
Speaker 1: fun if the homies can't you already you didn't even
Speaker 1: have to finish it. Why is that every girl's anthem?
Speaker 1: When I was growing up? Don't look, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to tell you. You know it's wrong. I know
Speaker 1: it's wrong. But got dog that mugs slap, then ribs slap.
Speaker 1: Kanye can make some music. Y'all. You are fully aware
Speaker 1: that both these things are true. This is wrong, but
Speaker 1: the dog is right too. And it's wrong and it's right.
Speaker 1: Both are living. There's a dissonance. We got to talk
Speaker 1: about the Olympics, y'all. Hood politics. It's so who right now.
Speaker 1: Little politics, y'all so good. I was a really, really,
Speaker 1: really young child during the eight four Olympics, and I
Speaker 1: just remember all the excitement about it. I remember Carl
Speaker 1: Lewis and black people love track and field. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: for a long time, I thought that was the only
Speaker 1: thing that was in the Olympics until the Dream Team.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm here for the track and then
Speaker 1: you learn about Mary lou Retton in the in the
Speaker 1: gymnastics and stuff like that, and I got caught up
Speaker 1: in the excitement. I remember in fifth grade being like,
Speaker 1: I want to go to the Olympics and track and field,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just in my head. It was like,
Speaker 1: this is the best of the best. But there's things
Speaker 1: you're just not aware of. Now you become an adult
Speaker 1: and you start going, oh wait, so the Olympic torch
Speaker 1: was invented by the Nazis as a sign of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: You know, you started in Greece and you go around
Speaker 1: all the Western civilization as the passage torch of just
Speaker 1: of the dominance of Western culture. They invented de toy.
Speaker 1: We all know what the torches. It's it's the white
Speaker 1: supremacist thing. I'm out here thinking Jesse Owens out there
Speaker 1: doing the lord's work and changing maybe possibly the mind
Speaker 1: of the Nazi regime, but white supremacy already believed that like, well,
Speaker 1: of course the black man is gonna be a run
Speaker 1: faster us. They're running in the jungles, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So they it just reinforced they understanding of
Speaker 1: eugenics views they already had. You're talking about, it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be the best of the best, get to compete
Speaker 1: from all over the world. When we know for a
Speaker 1: fact Sharia Kari was gonna smoke everybody, but y'all took
Speaker 1: her off because she had to smoke, because y'all ain't
Speaker 1: won't the smoke, So you clearly ain't want her there.
Speaker 1: We noticed racist stuff going on. Hell, they told the
Speaker 1: black swimmer she can't use a cap that fits her head. Hell,
Speaker 1: we know it's sexist. There's the Norwegian team this year,
Speaker 1: the Norwegian beach volleyball team that said they don't want
Speaker 1: to wear bikini bottoms because they don't make no damn sense.
Speaker 1: So they had just like some some like workout shorts on.
Speaker 1: They got fine because they wasn't wearing no bikinis. That's
Speaker 1: some ball. Like, we know it's bullshit. Listen, Russia got
Speaker 1: kicked out a few years ago as a country for doping,
Speaker 1: but they here they just can't be called Russia. So
Speaker 1: the Russia is still sent a team. They're just not
Speaker 1: under the This some bullshit. We know it's some bullshit,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what the hell else to tell you.
Speaker 1: It's the Olympics is fun as hell. I just it's
Speaker 1: a dissonance that I feel like I'm not saying it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm just like it's Sports has and continue to break
Speaker 1: down so many racial barriers. So many advancements we've made
Speaker 1: have been be has of sports people like man Jackie Robinson. Again,
Speaker 1: I mentioned again Jesse Owens. You know Wilma Rudolph like
Speaker 1: people have really seeing their lives change. The world has
Speaker 1: changed because of like athletes, and I'm a fan. I
Speaker 1: know some personally. I know some Olympic athletes and I'm like, Doc,
Speaker 1: these are just the dopest humans and it's amazing to
Speaker 1: see them work. It's amazing to see them put in
Speaker 1: their work and earn their goals. It's fresh, dogins inspiring.
Speaker 1: These people work as hard as they do. I get
Speaker 1: the glory they get. It's incredible. I watched the sport
Speaker 1: I've never seen before, just earlier to day called it
Speaker 1: was a single person rolling. The girl was on her
Speaker 1: knee on a canoe on one knee and had one
Speaker 1: or and was paddling up on his sparon. He was
Speaker 1: the first one to have It was the first goal
Speaker 1: metal ever in that sport. It was a woman from America.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's sister is yoked. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a sport like that. They said it. When she was little,
Speaker 1: she had a weird thing with her hip where hip
Speaker 1: didn't fit in the ball socket right, so she could
Speaker 1: never play soccer or any other get sport that she liked.
Speaker 1: Ever again, discovered this sport that I ain't never seen before,
Speaker 1: discovered it nine years later, want of gold medal. It's inspiring.
Speaker 1: So when you talk about why people in the hood
Speaker 1: glorified gang culture and glorify our you know, violent passing
Speaker 1: our loss, like why we glorify the hood, and it
Speaker 1: gets the same reason you still celebrate the Olympics. No
Speaker 1: one full and got dog All, well, this is not
Speaker 1: good for us. Got dog and mugs slap and mugs
Speaker 1: slap slap slap, slam slack. Now, let's get down to it.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. As to like what I really
Speaker 1: mean by like this thing is really not good for us.
Speaker 1: There's so many assumptions we have seemed like faris sumptions
Speaker 1: like it's it seems like this would be the case.
Speaker 1: It just ain't. We would believe that when you're the
Speaker 1: whole city, you make a gang of money that the
Speaker 1: city would like from tourism, from building all these new spots, artists,
Speaker 1: new stuff you with artists like attention on the city.
Speaker 1: You would think this would be good. You would think
Speaker 1: you'd be good for the athletes. That looks like Doc,
Speaker 1: you get to be seeing all over the world, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like you're supposed to make a
Speaker 1: ton of money. You know, you feel me like this
Speaker 1: is supposed to be a win for everybody, and the
Speaker 1: nation gets the flaws, they get to finally put their
Speaker 1: arm around their people. We know it's we know it's pageantry.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Flashback to the nineteen Olympics,
Speaker 1: the poster that's saying everybody's every at least every black
Speaker 1: person's house. Of the two brothers, what they fist up,
Speaker 1: you know, with the poor dude from Australia that was
Speaker 1: in second place that had to stand there while these
Speaker 1: brothers with they with the big black power fits stuff.
Speaker 1: They was making a political statement that like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: out here running for y'all, but y'all still beating in
Speaker 1: the streets, y'all still killing that. So it's like, who
Speaker 1: am I really cheering for? What's really going on? Like
Speaker 1: why are we playing this pretend game like it's all
Speaker 1: ra ra you know sis boomed By, Like it's coom
Speaker 1: By y'all back at home. My nigga is not but
Speaker 1: we all know it. But damn you see that nigga
Speaker 1: run a ten flat? That mug was crazy. It's just
Speaker 1: it's this, it's this dissonance. The mug introduced you to sports. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I never seen no water polo game ever.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But yo, since two million
Speaker 1: people have been displaced because when you come to a city,
Speaker 1: you gotta build an aquatics center. It ain't one here,
Speaker 1: and you just gotta build one. And where do you
Speaker 1: build them? You build them where you could get the land?
Speaker 1: Where do you get the land? The land that the
Speaker 1: easiest land to get. It's poor communities. They can't fight
Speaker 1: back take their land. You just two million people have
Speaker 1: been displaced. Where I get that from? I got that
Speaker 1: from a bunch of sources. So there's the New Republic.
Speaker 1: There's a Washington Post are the hole, There's an Oxford
Speaker 1: University research projects about the Olympics between nineteen sixty and
Speaker 1: like this stuff is. I mean, it's like clear data
Speaker 1: shows that this mug is damaging. Said, so look, let's
Speaker 1: get to the numbers according to the New Republic. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be paraphrasing and doing some direct quotes, so just
Speaker 1: bear with me. So here go to paraphrase. Networks, you know,
Speaker 1: cable media outlets. I mean they're making billions on airing
Speaker 1: the thing not to mention corporations making millions off you know, sponsorships.
Speaker 1: Not to mention real estate, infrastructure, just all of the
Speaker 1: things that takes to become a whole city. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars to be made. But okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna start quoting. The whole city gets stuck
Speaker 1: with the bill for billions in infrastructure tweaks, construction and
Speaker 1: operation costs. As specific University professor Jules Boykoff, who has
Speaker 1: written extensively on the politics of the Olympics, argued in
Speaker 1: The Washington Post, there's an overwhelming evidence that the Games
Speaker 1: are a financial disaster for cities. Every Olympics since nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty has exceeded its budget, and cities and host countries
Speaker 1: are on the hook for the cost overruns, a loss
Speaker 1: rarely recouped by the eventual influx of revenue, so enthusiastically
Speaker 1: touted by the elected officials as the reason to place
Speaker 1: an Olympic bid in the first place. One recent study
Speaker 1: found that since two thousand and seven, the Games cost
Speaker 1: twelve billion of peace in sports related costs alone, including
Speaker 1: event security, medical services, catering, and the construction of stadiums
Speaker 1: and Olympic villages, not to mention up to several times
Speaker 1: as much for food and transit improvements, hotel expansions, and
Speaker 1: whatever else is needed to accommodate the quote largest and
Speaker 1: highest profile and most expensive mega event hosted by cities
Speaker 1: and nations. If the Japanese governmental audit is correct, Tokyo
Speaker 1: will come out to eight billion, almost four times the
Speaker 1: original budget of seven point five billion. Who you think
Speaker 1: gonna pay for that? Yeah, you got the answer. Check
Speaker 1: this out. Look, I'm paraphrase again. Venues in peong Yang
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen and then in Rio in two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen are empty, like you build these days and
Speaker 1: ain't nobody there. But where did they build them? They
Speaker 1: built them man hoods where there was communities that were there.
Speaker 1: Favelas completely knocked down in n in Atlanta, listen, four
Speaker 1: thousand people lost their houses to build the Olympic stadiums. Listen.
Speaker 1: In Rio in two thousand sixty, there was where there
Speaker 1: was favelas, their luxury condos. Where you think those people
Speaker 1: gonna go? People talking about we got a home, this problem.
Speaker 1: You just knocked down the houses right in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: This is the we gotta bid we so we didn't
Speaker 1: want the bid for the Olympics in but check this out.
Speaker 1: Data already knocked down rent stabilized houses. Hell, do you know?
Speaker 1: Do you know what's happening this skied road? You know,
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission is right down in six three
Speaker 1: in downtown. Do you really think you really think Los
Speaker 1: Angeles gonna let downtown just be full of the house
Speaker 1: lists population we got right now? No, they that's that's
Speaker 1: prime real estate. They didn't already sold their building. We y'all,
Speaker 1: And look, I don't say this as a disk to
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. They do amazing work. I know
Speaker 1: some of them folks. They problem was will never sell?
Speaker 1: I know, we know our location is amazing. They're like,
Speaker 1: we'll never sell because we can't go nowhere. What city
Speaker 1: wants the hub of services for the house list? Like,
Speaker 1: we can't go nowhere. Nobody wants us, so we stay here.
Speaker 1: People have been trying to buy that spot for a
Speaker 1: long time. They finally found a place, though. I think
Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with the Olympics. But
Speaker 1: think about it, though, they take our houses and they
Speaker 1: build these things and then we gotta pay for the
Speaker 1: family is trash. But did I not get that original
Speaker 1: dream Team T shirt? I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: So look, uh, here's this article from the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull most of this data from and it's
Speaker 1: this article is called the Five Myths about the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And again it's one of those things you don't want
Speaker 1: to look at because I enjoy it so much much
Speaker 1: and you kind of already know. So it's like, dog,
Speaker 1: don't man, don't say it out loud, but we know
Speaker 1: you you knew good and well, someone's wrong with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: That boy. Listen. You don't build no Neverland in your
Speaker 1: front yard talking about you miss being a child. You
Speaker 1: got an amusement park in your house. That's that's for kids?
Speaker 1: Are you we? Dog? We knew, like we can't say
Speaker 1: we ain't no, we knew. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: We knew? Okay, I need to stop stress at this point.
Speaker 1: Cat Williams did this stand up a while back where
Speaker 1: he was talking about Mike and he was like, man,
Speaker 1: we can't front like we ain't know he So I
Speaker 1: was listening. I got stuff around my house because I'm
Speaker 1: quoting him because I like batches. So I got stuff
Speaker 1: around my house that women like. I got a drawer
Speaker 1: full of pads and tampons. I got silk sheets. Why
Speaker 1: because women like it, So it's shipped around my house
Speaker 1: that women like. He was like, if you build an
Speaker 1: amusement park, nigger, it's because you like kids. He was like,
Speaker 1: I don't act like we ain't know now. The first
Speaker 1: myth is the idea that it's going to be a
Speaker 1: big money maker. And like I said, the city don't
Speaker 1: make money right a matter of fact, they're always over budget.
Speaker 1: We always end up having to have all around the city,
Speaker 1: these things we don't ever get to enjoy. Oxford University
Speaker 1: research analyzed Olympics between nineteen sixty and twenty and found
Speaker 1: out that every single game ran over budget, with an
Speaker 1: average cost overrun of a hundred and seventy two in
Speaker 1: real terms, notably higher for the mega projects. The Tokyo
Speaker 1: Olympics is a striking example. Originally slated for seven point
Speaker 1: five billion, like I said, the price tag is around
Speaker 1: twenty eight billion according to the Government Audit of Japan.
Speaker 1: Postponement increased the bill to about thirty billion, and in
Speaker 1: academic paper, economists Robert Blade and Victor Mathieson found that
Speaker 1: the overwhelming conclusion that it is in most cases, the
Speaker 1: Olympics are money losing proposition and result in a positive
Speaker 1: net benefits only under very specific and unusual circumstances. In
Speaker 1: other ways, look, dog, you're gonna take a hell the
Speaker 1: money's you're gonna lose money, and the Olympics just get
Speaker 1: the card off into So it's really not making y'all
Speaker 1: know money. You may think, so that's a cool, nice
Speaker 1: little aquatic center that can nobody go to. It's one
Speaker 1: of down to Long Beach. I think an aquatic center
Speaker 1: down in Long Beach that I think maybe we did
Speaker 1: a summer camp at. But like I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: like this like tourist attraction when they get like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, it's way down there at Long Beach.
Speaker 1: I mean when I used to live down there, Like
Speaker 1: I said, me and my I took my daughter to
Speaker 1: a summer swimming class down there. But like once you
Speaker 1: feel me. Myth two is that the cities are super
Speaker 1: eager to host. That's just not true. Cities aren't don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. It's the oligarchs to do because Nika,
Speaker 1: your traffic gonna suck nig. You might lose your house.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying. Uh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a million of the outside is out here taking up
Speaker 1: all the everything, gonna cost more. It's like it's a
Speaker 1: it's it's a headache. Not to mention. If you black
Speaker 1: and brown, like I said, you might lose your home.
Speaker 1: So check this out here I'm quoting. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen, the IOC unanimously passed Agenda in a slate
Speaker 1: of recommendations designed and resuus costs and to incite bidders.
Speaker 1: The closing report asserted that this new flexible approach is
Speaker 1: bearing fruit and is well appreciated, as demonstrated by the
Speaker 1: interests currently being shown in future Olympic Games. At one time,
Speaker 1: bidder interests was indeed strong. Twelve cities vied for the
Speaker 1: two thousand four Summer Olympics. After night a number of
Speaker 1: bits emerging from developing countries more than tripled. But more recently, though,
Speaker 1: fewer and fewer cities have been game to host, which
Speaker 1: is partly why the IOC embarked on Agenda. A look
Speaker 1: at the race for Winter Olympics is instructive. Initially, multiple
Speaker 1: cities were interested, but Ukraine, uh Poland, Stockholm and many
Speaker 1: others pulled out. Then Oslo withdrew after Norway's parliament jettison
Speaker 1: the necessary financial guarantees, as the io C seven thousand
Speaker 1: pages of demands like a private meetings with the Norwegian
Speaker 1: King v i P traffic lanes and hotel mini bars
Speaker 1: stocked with coke products, which comedians just dragged, landed with
Speaker 1: a thud that left only Beijing and Kazakhstan neither bastions
Speaker 1: of democracy, and the IOC went to the known entity Beijing,
Speaker 1: who previously hosted the two thousand eight Summer Games. Now
Speaker 1: this is what they said, Hey, you guys want to
Speaker 1: do this. It's like, here's seven thousand pages of what
Speaker 1: it takes to do it, and cities are like, okay,
Speaker 1: hold up, we have to have coke products in here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every yeah, if you want the Olympics, you have to
Speaker 1: you have to. You could only have coke products what
Speaker 1: you trivit And then the city's budgets look at it
Speaker 1: and they go, family, it's gonna cost us how much?
Speaker 1: Not homie? Were good? The cities don't really want it.
Speaker 1: That's been too Mid three the Games. Our path to
Speaker 1: riches for athletes. Okay, let's talk about megastars, then some mobiles.
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps, can you name anybody else the Dream Team? Dudes, Well,
Speaker 1: they're pro athletes there. They don't make money off the Olympics.
Speaker 1: The Olympics is reflex. Yeah, who got second place in
Speaker 1: men's archery in nineteen? I don't know. Hell, it's Olympic sports.
Speaker 1: I don't even know our Olympics sports quoting, most Olympic
Speaker 1: athletes don't cash in. Even medal winning Americans don't strike
Speaker 1: it that rich. A gold medal earns thirty five thousand,
Speaker 1: five dollars paid by the US Olympic Committee, while silver
Speaker 1: means twenty two thousand, five hundred and bronze means fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1: After earning a bronze medal in judo in the two
Speaker 1: thousand eight Beijing Olympics, future Mixed Martial Artists star Rhonda
Speaker 1: Rousi lived in her two thousand five Honda Accord to
Speaker 1: make ends me. Two time medal winning cyclists Rebecca Twig
Speaker 1: ended up homeless in Seattle ahead of her two thousand
Speaker 1: sixteen Rio games. More than a hundred US athletes started
Speaker 1: go fund me pages to pay for their Olympic dreams.
Speaker 1: Success can lead to lucrative sponsorships, at least for athletes
Speaker 1: in high profile sports. But the show ain't no bet.
Speaker 1: So you are telling me to think of it like this.
Speaker 1: You make it to the NBA and hopes to be
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Nigg has one Lebron James. Everybody don't get
Speaker 1: a shoe deal. Nigga? Where the last time you wore
Speaker 1: some air Gasol's nigga? He don't get a shoot Listen,
Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand, five hundred dollars for a gold medal,
Speaker 1: that's in four years. They only come every four years.
Speaker 1: You have to win the whole thing. You feel me.
Speaker 1: All they're gonna get sponsors and they can get. Really
Speaker 1: every gold medalist as a silver medalist. Theyy doing no
Speaker 1: commercials and they work just as hard as a gold medal.
Speaker 1: They made less talk about we're gonna make money. I
Speaker 1: was there with you ain't making a dime? What about
Speaker 1: fourth place? You know what I'm saying, Like you've been
Speaker 1: working fifth? Hell six you made the Olympic team. Think
Speaker 1: you fitna work in Starbucks because Dave passing out no
Speaker 1: shoe deals for sixth place? Now they don't. Everybody don't
Speaker 1: make it, but everybody gotta go. We all gotta pay
Speaker 1: the same. And as a matter of fact, y'all just
Speaker 1: saw some old biobs like this, I'm going home. At first,
Speaker 1: you know what, her situation really taught me a lot
Speaker 1: about the generation I was raised. Then, let me tell
Speaker 1: you what I mean by that, because I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: we wasn't allowed to quit stuff when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: We wasn't allowed to quit. You could, man, y'all built different.
Speaker 1: It's like you don't let down your team simone like fan.
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't want mold medals than anyone.
Speaker 1: Some of them medals, some of them championships I won
Speaker 1: with two broken toes. And you asking me to go
Speaker 1: back to the Olympics after knowing full well Larry Nasser
Speaker 1: Nig had been molested, he'd been sexually assaulting these kids
Speaker 1: this whole damn time, and you want me to go back.
Speaker 1: She like, kick rocks, nigger. I'm going home. I wish, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have nobody gave me that option.
Speaker 1: I come for the generation where we wasn't giving the
Speaker 1: option to goal. We was out there passing, and I
Speaker 1: and what's crazy. Is I wear it as a badge
Speaker 1: of honor. It's so crazy to be like, listen, we
Speaker 1: was out there getting heat strokes, summer league basketball, getting
Speaker 1: heat strokes, running laps because you can't give up. How
Speaker 1: many of y'all hate it? Soccer hated it, but you
Speaker 1: had to play. You can't you can't get you don't
Speaker 1: give up on your team. Was like, Ni, I hate
Speaker 1: this game. You had to do it. And look, look
Speaker 1: we grow up saying you know what, But it taught
Speaker 1: me stick with itness. It taught to me how to
Speaker 1: stick it out and stay for your team. And yeah,
Speaker 1: these are important things. But fam, how many of us
Speaker 1: in therapy because we should have quit some ship? You
Speaker 1: understood what I'm saying. Sophie, Sophie that produced this show
Speaker 1: and produced all the other shows on the network that
Speaker 1: we all like. When she she played basketball in high school,
Speaker 1: she said she popped her shoulder, got popped, got displaced
Speaker 1: in the game, stayed and they popped it in, popped
Speaker 1: it in wrong, stayed in the game and they won.
Speaker 1: She was like eight years of physical therapy after that, Nik,
Speaker 1: your shoulder out of just sit down. We don't come
Speaker 1: from that. Look, we come from play through the pain.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You suck it up. Physical
Speaker 1: and emotional and emotional pain don't count. That's not real pain.
Speaker 1: That's where we come from. What is doing to these
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps one of the most gold medals ever. You
Speaker 1: know what he is now a spokesman for mental health.
Speaker 1: He'd the dude on the call map NI because we
Speaker 1: just don't what we're doing to these athletes. Man far entertainment.
Speaker 1: Day's like, look, I'm going home. I didn't look, I
Speaker 1: got nothing else to prove. If you're an Olympic athlete,
Speaker 1: you're the best in the world unless you smoke some
Speaker 1: herb in which is part of the bullshit. Unless you
Speaker 1: smoke some herb in Oregon where it is legal and
Speaker 1: you black, then you're the best of the world. But
Speaker 1: don't get to go, do you know? I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's is it really helping these athletes if they like
Speaker 1: this too much? Y'all this too much on it? If
Speaker 1: you could get go back to nineteen where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder dog Mohammed Ali he said in his own interview,
Speaker 1: I went out there in the Olympics and I whooped
Speaker 1: all I whipped all of of of of America's enemies.
Speaker 1: I beat them up, and then I came home and
Speaker 1: I can't get a piece of pie in my own hometown.
Speaker 1: It's like, what is we? The mind bender that must
Speaker 1: be for an athlete, especially if you go back all
Speaker 1: the way to that, but they like I can't even
Speaker 1: can you imagine? Can you imagine like that? Just I
Speaker 1: just read you Rhonda Rousing she became a legend after,
Speaker 1: but after she don't want to meddle. She living in
Speaker 1: her car? Is it really that good? Myth number four,
Speaker 1: which is the easiest one, that are athletes have the
Speaker 1: right to freedom of expression? Do that? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: do I need to bring back up the Norwegian women's
Speaker 1: volleyball team that was like I'm not playing in bikini
Speaker 1: pants like I mean, and and even and look look
Speaker 1: look I'm gonna put the most f boy and who
Speaker 1: I just learned like the British version of that is
Speaker 1: the lads like the lad culture. That's like the British
Speaker 1: version the UK's version of like a fun boy. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but I've learned it. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: the most fun boy lands on. They still looked good,
Speaker 1: these these professional women athletes. I'm saying, Okay, so they
Speaker 1: ain't got their cheeks out, they got the tight biker
Speaker 1: shorts on. I'm like, if you're gonna be a douchebag,
Speaker 1: they still look they're still look good. Was I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this is the most douchebag way ever to
Speaker 1: say it. But I'm like, but that's not the damn point.
Speaker 1: Man Like they athletes? Man Like, why why are you
Speaker 1: going to tell them their uniform needs to be sexier?
Speaker 1: Like this don't make no damn sense. What did you
Speaker 1: talking about? Foods get fined? You think here's a quote.
Speaker 1: But athletes remained barred from expressing their views during metal ceremonies,
Speaker 1: opening and closing ceremonies, in the Olympic village, or on
Speaker 1: the field of play during competition. Rule fifty was a
Speaker 1: response to the indelible act of political dissonan the movement
Speaker 1: in ninety eight where the Olympians John Carlos and Tommy Smith,
Speaker 1: through their black gloved fists, skyword for the human rights
Speaker 1: and black freedom. Curiously, the Olympic official channel celebrates Carlos
Speaker 1: and Smith as legends for their demonstration, dubbing it one
Speaker 1: of the most iconic moments in the history of modern Olympics,
Speaker 1: yet updated their guidelines to prohibit any other Carlos and
Speaker 1: Smith's from emerging at the Tokyo Olympics. So when you
Speaker 1: get it's so dope that you guys did that. Man,
Speaker 1: you were standing up for your rights. Y'all change the
Speaker 1: change the laws. Make sure don't nobody else do this
Speaker 1: Like it's a joke. Doc man, y'are weirdos in l A.
Speaker 1: That's probably like the worst that you can call somebody.
Speaker 1: It's like it's for weirdos. Y'are weirdos. And then the
Speaker 1: last myth, at least for these Olympics is that they're
Speaker 1: gonna stop the coronavirus. Come on, because you're gonna say
Speaker 1: it's top right, and they're doing what they can. It's
Speaker 1: like there's no there's no audience in the stands. You know,
Speaker 1: they're trying to stagger the overlap of athletes using the
Speaker 1: best scientific guidelines and safety available. However, the idea of
Speaker 1: getting all these people one place and thinking you're gonna
Speaker 1: stop the spread of an invisible virus is ridiculous. A
Speaker 1: matter of fact, multiple athletes have already tested positive, but
Speaker 1: let me stack on top of that, Japan still got
Speaker 1: a low vaccine rate. They ain't got enough vaccines for themselves.
Speaker 1: So if you're sitting outside trying to get your vactual,
Speaker 1: just a regular Joe blow citizen of Japan, and you,
Speaker 1: like I thought, y'all said, y'all ain't have money for
Speaker 1: vaccus for us. Well, why y'all got it all for
Speaker 1: these oh niggy y'all don't care. Y'all don't care. So
Speaker 1: to summarize, it's built on and has racist practices. It
Speaker 1: cost the city more than it makes The athletes, unless
Speaker 1: you are the like Simone bios of your sport, probably
Speaker 1: not gonna make no money. The city don't want it,
Speaker 1: and you can't stop disease from spreading. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it again a go back to rock. I can't
Speaker 1: stress this enough. Even if you cheat, you can still come.
Speaker 1: You just gotta change. I just think that's the funniest
Speaker 1: to me. That's the funniest part of this mug. You
Speaker 1: just Russia just can't wear their shirt. But we all
Speaker 1: know it's Russia. That's hilarious to me, So we all know.
Speaker 1: And did you see that girl just do that triple
Speaker 1: backflip axle off the thing, y'all. Did you see the
Speaker 1: US men's basketball team? One? Y'all? Did you see that wrestling? Y'all?
Speaker 1: Did you Philippines? Philippines just won their their first medal ever.
Speaker 1: It was in like powerlifting. I'm so happy for that lady. Now,
Speaker 1: when she got back to the city, they I mean,
Speaker 1: they deemed her good. They did her good. She was
Speaker 1: the first Olympic winner ever. Do I every time when
Speaker 1: you do the opening ceremony, I'm sitting there with my
Speaker 1: Google maps out. Whenever like nations come fam I'm looking
Speaker 1: them up because it's like, I get it. It's exciting
Speaker 1: and it's trash. That's called all cognitive dissonance, and we
Speaker 1: have it all the time in so many areas. Take
Speaker 1: it back to politics. Do you think I don't understand
Speaker 1: gentrification completely, wrote a damn song about it, working purposefully
Speaker 1: to fight against it. I do like craft beer, though
Speaker 1: I am a coffee nerd ah dissonance. So what's my
Speaker 1: takeaway for us? Big Old Air quotes us as people
Speaker 1: of color, as black and brown communities, as you know, BIPOC, indigenous,
Speaker 1: l g B t Q. Oftentimes we don't allow ourselves
Speaker 1: to have this type of dissonance. Uh, my wife. If
Speaker 1: y'all new to hear my wife referred to her by
Speaker 1: her prefix dot dolmroz. There goa the most smartest person
Speaker 1: I know, first gin Latina from southern Mexico or her
Speaker 1: daddy from MC to go see your mom from Acapoco. Anyway,
Speaker 1: first gen came like came from no running waters to
Speaker 1: a pH d and educational policy. She's brilliant, She's she's
Speaker 1: smarter than me. She gave me this term. It's called
Speaker 1: class straddler. And I think if you listen in the podcast,
Speaker 1: and you came from where I came from, any town, USA,
Speaker 1: where I came from, where she came from, you came
Speaker 1: from working class, check to check, make spaghetti, because spaghetti
Speaker 1: last for weeks. You know, serpup sandwiches, Uh salt tacos.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You know your dishes ain't match you feel me? You
Speaker 1: thought making it was having a pantry or an upstairs
Speaker 1: that meant you made it. You feel me. We come
Speaker 1: from that, but now we're in a place where we
Speaker 1: can sit down and listen to podcasts. You're living comfortable.
Speaker 1: Maybe not you ain't balling, but like if you want it,
Speaker 1: to rent an airbnb in you know, Palm Springs or
Speaker 1: you could. You could take a weekend and go to
Speaker 1: Vegas like you could. So you and this like in
Speaker 1: between space to where it's like in your childhood, you
Speaker 1: would have been one of the houses that got displaced
Speaker 1: when the Olympics came. In your childhood, that would happen
Speaker 1: to you. And guess what, It's probably happened to the
Speaker 1: people you probably grew up with. It's probably happening to
Speaker 1: people you love dearly because you're in between these guys.
Speaker 1: And it's like and you live comfortably in this space,
Speaker 1: but still have the sentiment of and this and the
Speaker 1: you still think like where you from to where it's
Speaker 1: like I have a hard time, like this is me.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time spending money like I got it,
Speaker 1: but like there's certain things I just I can't. I
Speaker 1: just can't get myself to back because I'm just like
Speaker 1: I think we ain't feel about that like I've never
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, we didn't go on vacation.
Speaker 1: We went to visit family, but I ain't going vacation.
Speaker 1: We have money for like to go do what, like
Speaker 1: just to go kick it somewhere, like we just didn't.
Speaker 1: We ain't had the money for that, you know, said
Speaker 1: we I would like I said. We went to visit family.
Speaker 1: We flew to d C. My mom's from d C.
Speaker 1: We flew to d C, you know, but we we
Speaker 1: had to straddle it. It was like either one of
Speaker 1: us could go, like all me and my sister, either
Speaker 1: she could go or I could go. Right, either my
Speaker 1: dad went or my mom went, but we never all went.
Speaker 1: Wet had the money for four people to fly like,
Speaker 1: we just ain't have it, you know, and still to
Speaker 1: this day, like my plates don't match, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: like you don't throw away perfectly fine dishes. All of
Speaker 1: our bowls got chips on them because I just can't
Speaker 1: get myself to go buy like I just ain't nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with the bowl. You buy it when it breaks
Speaker 1: yourself saying you buy new one for breaks, and you
Speaker 1: buy one like I gotta set of dishes, like I
Speaker 1: just it's those type of like little things that when
Speaker 1: you come from it's called a class straddler like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in between, Like I understand this because I've kind
Speaker 1: of lived there, but I still I still feel these
Speaker 1: sentiments here. You and I have this dissonance of things
Speaker 1: we understand politically, things we under stand socio economically, culturally,
Speaker 1: and can relate to much closer, but it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: where we live now. It becomes this mental sort of
Speaker 1: tub a war that is unique to people in these
Speaker 1: marginalized groups. You like nice things, but I kind of
Speaker 1: feel bad for liking nice things because we never really
Speaker 1: had nice things, and a lot of my folks can't
Speaker 1: get it. That's it's weird, the cognitive dissonance of going
Speaker 1: back to the music. Example, we just forgave Kanye, We
Speaker 1: just let it go. My man said slavery was a choice,
Speaker 1: like and then he did the Sunday services and we
Speaker 1: just like forgot this all the madness this man was
Speaker 1: talking because it bangs the music banks. It's just like,
Speaker 1: y'all field an arena with unmixed music. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he just walked around in circles to hear this man
Speaker 1: play songs that really ain't done and charts fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for chicken strips, Like, what are we doing, y'all? Well,
Speaker 1: it slaps We feel like we should make a choice.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all don't feel it. You just okay with
Speaker 1: the dissonance. We're just like whatever, they get slaps. But
Speaker 1: it's still a question we ask in our culture, should
Speaker 1: we have canceled R Kelly much earlier? What do we
Speaker 1: mean by cancel now? What we mean is always and
Speaker 1: oftentimes having nothing to do with what conservative pundits think
Speaker 1: we mean by cancel culture. What they talk about is
Speaker 1: they just don't want accountability. They just want to be
Speaker 1: able to do what the hell they want to do.
Speaker 1: And we got nowhere to go because y'all on top,
Speaker 1: or because it was so long ago, we supposed to
Speaker 1: just get over it. You know what I'm saying. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're canceling Dr SEUs, Well, nigga. Dr SEUs
Speaker 1: said some trash ship and we just ain't never had
Speaker 1: the chance to say nothing about it. It ain't nobody
Speaker 1: canceling him for were holding him accountable. We're saying maybe
Speaker 1: the culture has moved on it and we shouldn't talk
Speaker 1: about So that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about us when we're like, yo, this is enough years.
Speaker 1: Why aren't we say something? Why aren't we doing nothing
Speaker 1: about our Kelly? We knew that man was sick because
Speaker 1: I think at twelve play go listen. Yes, I know
Speaker 1: gang violence is a problem. That's my RELI though I
Speaker 1: know some things feel like selling out. I think selling
Speaker 1: out of something totally different, like selling out your your issues.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, if you've been listening, that might
Speaker 1: have been something you've been waiting for me to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that like selling out of selling out, that's that's a thing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, dissonance. I'm talking about the turkey leg,
Speaker 1: the color greens, and the macaroni and cheese that you're
Speaker 1: gonna have on Thanksgiving. Enjoy it. It's good food. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know el to tell you.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it. It's good food on a terrible holiday. Dissonance,
Speaker 1: you know, Fourth of July. Look, if you get some
Speaker 1: some of that dry rub Memphis barbecue, get the barbecue,
Speaker 1: enjoy it, and keep you fisted up. It's both. We'll
Speaker 1: never get to be both. I'm saying, be both. That's
Speaker 1: the dissonance, protest, fight, stand up, and just I don't
Speaker 1: it's weird dog look man, because the wealthy gets to
Speaker 1: have at you know Branson didn't Whitey on the Moon
Speaker 1: knowing full well to Earth dying. They get to have
Speaker 1: it listen to in the Olympics is trashed. I think,
Speaker 1: I know. I can't wait for the Foe by One Lane, y'all.
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