WEBVTT - Tea from Paris: Day Fifteen 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.200 Well breaking debuts. One b girl breaks the Internet to 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.680 carry to the rescue, a shocking disqualification for US men, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:14.240 and I am a woman a Moni Khalif makes a 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:15.320 gold medal state. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.920 Welcome everyone to this tea from Perry edition of Amy 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.920 and TJ on this Saturday, August tenth. Down to the 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.720 last couple of days of competition, and the US and 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.319 China are now tied in the gold medal count. Both 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.640 countries have thirty three gold medals, but the US is 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.040 a way ahead of China in the overall metal count 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.160 one hundred and eleven to China's eighty three. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.239 There were even times we were way ahead in the 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.880 overall metal count and China was ahead in the gold 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.599 medal count. The once track and Field started, things kind 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.239 of yeah, kind of changed even down a little a 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.919 little bit. But yeah, welcome everybody. We know what you're 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.240 talking about is what everybody's talking about. We knew we'd 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.760 be talking about breaking today, break dancing, but we didn't 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.880 know that it would be this. So we're going to 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.440 get into all that everybody's talking about. This is it 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.680 ray Gun. I think she was actually the first because 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.640 I was walking when it started and you were texting 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.880 me and I didn't get to the TV until I 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.479 think a couple of competitors in. She was actually one 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:15.280 of the first I saw. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.800 Yes, same with me and yes. And I have to 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.840 say this, whatever you thought of her performance, you couldn't 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.679 help but smile. Some people might have been even laughing, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:29.000 but there was joy involved. Whatever your emotions were, I 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.200 would argue that you were riveted. You couldn't stop watching. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.360 That is true, and a lot of people are still 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:36.720 watching today. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.360 I might rewatch. I just actually suggested that later today 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.280 I might be up for rewatch. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.120 It was that good good. We're gonna get it too, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.600 ray gun in a second. This morning we got into 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.000 and I guess it's that crazy me, but yes, the 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.520 Men's marathon was live at two am, and I got 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:55.800 up it. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.960 Well, I woke up at two thirty and I finally 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.680 came out into the living room at three something. I 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.000 gave up my quest to go back to sleep. And 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.519 I'm not upset about it, right because. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.679 You and I are marathon runners. We got a couple 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.000 of rnathons this year, and we got a ten mile 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.960 to run today, so it's so interesting to see these guys. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.120 But it's also cool to see them struggle. What I 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.600 mean by that is just you can relate to what 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.720 you're seeing, and we're more impressed by their feet than 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.440 anybody who is a non runner. Probably, Yeah, my god. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.360 I mean, to run a marathon is hard enough, and 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.000 I can't break four hours. That's what I've been trying 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.160 to do. These guys are just over two hours two 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.840 oh six something, I believe, and it was an Olympic 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.000 record actually today in one of the toughest marathon roots, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.160 at least according to the commentators. The hills there was 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.360 some extra heat. It was not optimal in terms of 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.080 getting your fastest run. But just watching them run at 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.760 the pace they run at, I mean, I think, I 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.000 guess my marathon average is around I think it's around 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.400 nine forty five or maybe a little bit better than that, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.200 maybe the nine thirties. But they are running between a 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.160 four and a five minute mile for twenty six point 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.560 two miles. It's unthinkable to me. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.799 I'm trying to look for a good way to put 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.120 that into context. For people at the speed at which 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.200 they're going. The fastest mile I've ever run in my life, 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.000 with six minutes and twenty six seconds ever, and it 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.840 was just on a random day. I wasn't going for 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.080 something like this happened, and you know, feeling it that 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.160 day and on that second or third mile, boom fast 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.280 I've ever run in my life. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.400 When you're running like a three mile race. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.160 Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, two miles, there's nothing. Oh yeah, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.440 it's won the long and it wasn't sustained. This is 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.040 one random ass thing. These guys are running four and 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.680 five minute miles for two hours straight, and I I 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.360 just it's unfathomable. You couldn't keep up with them. If 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.360 they took off running outside right. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.760 Now, I could not run one mile, not even close. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.160 I couldn't run half a mile that fast. So it's 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 so impressive. It's just and some of the guys when 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.160 they came over, I mean most actually was. I was impressed. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.040 We're still walking. But some of them went straight to 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.600 the medical tent. That's how hard this is. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.280 They were stumbling over. They needed medical attention. And it 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.200 looked there was some sun out today and you were 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:12.920 talking about the guys were finding shade. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.880 I know what that's like, always looking for shade. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.360 It makes it different. But the whole race, you see 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.720 them getting these ice packs as they're going down at 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.520 the constantly drinking water. The congrats to the guy who won. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.719 And it's a really really cool story because Robes he 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.359 wasn't even supposed to be on this team. He was 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.360 actually an alternate. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.719 That is so remarkable. He was an alternate because someone 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.800 had to drop out, and you know, they didn't want 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.320 to put him in because I guess he had had 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.440 a couple races where he had issues and couldn't finish, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.040 which we all understand as well because every race is different. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.960 So they felt like he was inconsistent. They didn't necessarily 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:48.880 want him on the team. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.760 And what a way to prove them wrong, and to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.719 actually don't prove them wrong. You're saying, actually, you didn't 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.120 make a mistake by leaving me off. I got an 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.560 opportunity and what I'm able to do, he was just 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.599 able to I guess reconfirm he's showed them what he's 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.200 actually capable of, and I don't know. It's a great 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.880 story from kid from Ethiopia. Where's his name here? Tamrit 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.640 Tola of Ethiopia and set on Olympic row records. So 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.560 congrats to him, and it was fun to watch the 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.719 other thing. You know, I've been watching every day and 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.920 it's getting really close, folks. As of this recording, China 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:28.000 has won seven out of seven diving gold medals and 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.840 we got one more today, Robes. And you know I 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:30.600 ain't gonna miss it. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.240 I know you're not. It's coming up later this morning. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.479 We've been watching the semifinals for the finals or later 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.599 this morning, so I know you will be watching that. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.880 Nice to get to what everybody was talking about yesterday. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.719 We were all so excited Robes Breaking is making its 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.480 Olympic debut, so it was all the buzz. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.000 Anyway, it was all the buzz, and we watched a 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.840 little bit apart and then we came together. But I 0:05:59.960 --> 0:06:02.520 was watching with my daughter Annalyse, and she said something 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:04.960 right before you text it to me, there's a lot 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.800 of questions as to whether or not this should be 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.440 an Olympic sport. I mean, it's it was interesting to watch, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.200 and you know, people have their different opinions. That was 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.480 what I think people were thinking about going into watching Breaking, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.359 but then it turned into something altogether different. When we 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.960 watched one particular bee girl, but. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.840 It was it was it was new, it was fun, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:31.120 it was different, and clearly there's athleticism and creativity, but 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.320 even to an untrained eye, which you could argue overwhelming 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.839 majority of the eyes on it yesterday were untrained. I 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.719 don't know what that trick is. I don't know what 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.400 that trick is worth. I don't know who creative that. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:46.120 I don't know. But when you watched all the bee girls, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.839 one clearly stood out as not performing the same as 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.480 not having the same energy, of not having the same athleticism, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.640 the same skill. She stood out, like it or not, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.520 you could tell that Raygun was different. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.520 I know, I'm laughing because the names are so funny 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.680 because her name is actually doctor Rachel Gunn, and so 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.920 it's just funny she goes by ray Gun. But you know, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.080 I was I was struggling a little bit with it 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.520 because you know, this all happened and began in the Bronx, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.400 and some of it felt a little bit like cultural appropriation. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.160 I sent that to you because I felt a little 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.480 icky watching it, like should these people be acting like this? 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.720 It just felt a little strange, and it felt even 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:36.880 stranger watching Australia's ray Gun. She just look it felt 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:42.000 like she was posturing or corny. It just didn't feel authentic, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.680 I guess, And it stood out for that. And I'm 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.760 not saying she doesn't deserve to be there and she 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.440 doesn't have the resume to prove it, but it just 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.240 felt corny. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.560 You know. I thought that was authentic, like I think 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:06.480 she is authentically. Maybe she's just really white. Guess that's 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:07.520 not a hip hop culture. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.600 I tried to do that, I would have looked probably, 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:11.920 oh definitely. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.920 And if I'm trying to river dance, I'm probably gonna 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:15.680 look pretty stupid. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.480 So well exactly, I mean, that's my point. Like I 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.840 just did, it didn't seem like it came to her naturally. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.800 Okay, there we go. That's a good one because we 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.880 are there are tons of folks outside of the black 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:34.200 community and hip hop culture who are plenty of white 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.800 girls and boys out there who can dance. They asses 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.320 are up against anybody out there in hip hop and 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.040 breaking and whatever you want to call it. True, she 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.880 just didn't seem to be one of them. To an 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.199 untrained eye, she stood out before anyone. Even you want 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.240 to make fun of her or criticize her, you could 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.720 just look at the screen and tell she was not 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.520 doing what a lot of the other women were doing. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.760 She was not like the other She was not like 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.520 the outfit. Even what she was wearing. It was a 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.480 green and yellow, it was a full it was a 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.400 flight suit, would you call it. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.400 It looked very much like a flight suit, yes. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.920 Or a groundskeeper uniform. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.360 She might have been on the tarmac directing airplanes. Yes, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:16.720 it had that kind of look. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.960 She owned that as well. She said, Hey, I came in. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.640 I didn't know we weren't supposed to rep our country. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.040 I didn't being sarcastic about it, but yeah, she was 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.480 proud of what she was wearing. So let's get into 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.360 I know you've seen memes, you've seen jokes, you've seen 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.920 the videos out there, but we want to get into 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.080 exactly who is this lady. So Roles, let's start at 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.080 the top. Exactly who is she? 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.120 Well, she has a PhD in Cultural studies. She works 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.520 as a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:52.719 Literature and Language at Macquarie University in Sydney. And I'm 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.000 going to have to have you help me with one 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.800 of these words because you looked it up. But according 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.240 to the Australian Olympic Committee, her Areas of academic interest 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.719 include dan feminist theory and something called auto ethnography. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.440 Now we decided to go ahead and put that in 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.440 there because we had to look up what that is, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:14.160 but it is it's a type of study, academic study 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.679 in which you use personal experience as a part of 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.160 your data collection when you're studying particular parts of culture. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.880 So maybe she kind of I only mentioned that because 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.640 it seemed to kind of go in line with who 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.640 she is, what she studied, and how she ended up 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.400 in breaking. So we wonder is she an experienced competitive breakdancer? 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.480 And that answer is absolutely. She grew up with a 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.000 dancing background I believe ballroom dancing and something and jazz 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.480 dancing I believe it was, but she didn't start breaking 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.600 until her mid twenties and robes, as we saw yesterday, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.680 that's kind of late to be breakdancing. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.640 Yep. And she's actually crediting her boyfriend who's now her husband, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.800 to be the one who encouraged her to first start breakdancing. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.080 And look, she has been the top ranked B girl 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:08.319 in Australia as in number one, and she represented Australia 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.040 at Breaking World Championships in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.960 and she qualified for the Olympics fairly and squarely. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.520 Yes, how did she qualify? Well, she won in two 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.240 thousand and three, the World Dance Sport Federation. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.040 In twenty three, two thousand and three. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.200 Twenty twenty three. So just last year the twenty twenty 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:34.160 three World Dance Sport Federations Oceania Breaking Championships, she went 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.200 up against fourteen other b girls. She won and by 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.960 winning gold at that event, she punched her ticket to Paris. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.760 Now should mention that she was previously ranked number one 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:52.040 in Australia years back. Currently she has not been a 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.720 top ranked breakdancer out of Australia, but she won this 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.080 competition fair and square, so she got the ticket. So 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.319 how did she score in the event yesterday at the Olympics, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:03.200 Well she didn't. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.600 She did not score one point. She scored nothing. And 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.360 the way the scoring works in breaking, the big girls 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.720 go head to head for three rounds. You get a 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.920 score for each round by the nine judges. They don't 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.319 give you technical stores scores to be added up, but 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 they just simply vote for which danswer they liked better 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.959 in that round, and in all three rounds, Reygun did 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.120 not get a single vote from any judge. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.199 Okay, so now all this has happened, she's exploded on 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.680 the internet. What has she had to say about all this? 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.920 While she told Yahoo's Sports afterwards quote I came into 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.480 the event kind of expecting that I wouldn't get a 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.320 vote in quote. She then told another outlet, I was 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.880 never going to beat these girls on what they do best, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.200 the dynamic, the power moves. So I wanted to move differently, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.480 be artistic and creative because how many chances do you 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.000 get in a lifetime to do that on an international stage. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.640 Well, I mean, and she made her mark, and you know, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.880 she made the point to say her style is different 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.160 from the younger breakdancer. She's thirty six, if we didn't 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.760 mention that, And so she said, I don't know if 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.199 it's going to be valued as much as some of 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.160 the other criteria, but she hopes people are still wowed 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.360 by what she did bring because she said it is 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:22.040 something different. Well, people certainly were wowed, and I feel 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.160 like everyone who watched had an opinion and she was, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.839 if nothing else, extremely memorable. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.080 And that could be good or bad. I suppose, given 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.560 that this was the inaugural event. So who knows what 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.240 you're saying, But what are people saying now about her performance? 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.600 A lot out there is encouraging supportive of her, calling 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.080 her an inspiration. There are others out there who are 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.000 very critical, just saying she didn't do a good job, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.880 or I don't know, she needs to bring up her skills, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.719 or what's going on in Australia. How does she make 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.839 the cut? And then it goes to some folks who 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.200 are just being downright mean and hateful. I've seen some 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.400 stuff robes where folks were saying they were shamed to 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.000 be an Australian. There was some stronger language out there 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.000 that out there like that that goes a little too far. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.320 It's fine if you don't think she was good. She 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.880 put herself out there, so criticism comms, but as always 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.839 sometimes robes, things go a little too far. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.840 Yeah, I mean, I think I just it's one of 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.120 those things where I think, if you can look that 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.400 she she brought. She brought some headlines to the sport, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.960 maybe not the ones that they were anticipating or hoping for, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.480 but it certainly made it even more fun to watch. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.240 That's what I will say. And again so much so 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.560 that I would like to personally rewatch it at some 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.600 point this weekend. It was that fun to watch. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.040 And we should give her a look. I don't know 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.000 all the scoring that the judges do have something there, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.320 some things they're looking for. But a big part of 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.520 your score is creativity, your originality, and your personality. So 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.960 you get scored on some that she had that and 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:55.800 that was creative. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.080 It was all her own kangaroo hops for a little 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.640 Australian legendary is. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.680 What that is? Legendary? 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.920 Well, you just look if you want to smile and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.680 just just check her out. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.800 There are people who bring joy to the world given 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.840 if they don't mean to do so, and there are 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.880 so many fol we are enjoying. She made a smile. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.120 I wouldn't even say it was cringe worthy necessary. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.600 You were laughing so hard, like just enjoying it. You 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.960 had tears coming down your face. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.400 The tears came from reading all the things after. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.520 And the ones that aren't mean. There are some that 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.960 are just funny and lighthearted, like this is what my 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.760 five year old nephew says after saying watch does after 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.800 saying watch this, and then what they have up there 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.240 some of the moves she's making. It very much fits 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.440 the caption and it's just very funny. People are creative. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.720 I apply people who are creative and having fun with 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.560 it versus being mean with it. There's a way to 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.520 do it where it's you can be included. You're including 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.440 her in the fun in a way without being mean spirited. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.680 Hats off to her to get out there on stage 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.880 knowing she was outmatched by all these young girls. She 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.280 knew going in that she's no she did, but she 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.920 went out there and she was herself. I mean, I 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.680 I applaud anybody who's willing to do that, and I 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.200 think Australia should embrace her and be proud of her. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.520 And I don't know, everybody's talking about one of yours 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.800 today and that's not a bad thing. I applaud her 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:22.760 and she made us all smile. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.000 And Ami of Japan, she just goes by Ami. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.280 You know, she was my favorite. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.960 She was she was smooth. You liked her from the beginning. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.560 I warmed up to her and I thought she Yeah, 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.080 she was just smooth and just like she was a 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:37.880 pleasure to watch. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.040 You know what I think she did. I think she 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.560 might have held some stuff back early on. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:41.800 That's what I think it was. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.840 She got better and better, she started getting I was like, oh, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.640 this girl can't be touched. But she was very smooth, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.920 very fun to watch. If you like. If you don't 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.600 like it, what do you think about breaking? Just the 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.080 event itself? What did you think? 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.320 I don't know, because I appreciate the spotlight to the 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.400 sport and that it is an athletic and endeavor. But 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.560 then I'm like, are we opening it up to ballet 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.520 or we're going to open up to when you start 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.639 involving dance. I don't know. It just I it's just 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.760 there's a question as to what is an Olympic event 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.720 and what isn't. And look, this was fun to watch. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.720 I will be we will be watching the men compete 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:15.200 today too. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.200 So I don't know. I don't say about breaking yet. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.840 I don't fully I don't know. I don't know if 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.840 it's a yeah, it is a matter of the Olympics. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.560 Because I'm just watching breaking, I would have no issue. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.639 But on that stick, clearly there's athleticism. This is not 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.879 a question of these athletes or not. No, and the 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.400 moves and the tricks and the study and the practice 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.919 that it takes. I'm not questioning that, but when you 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.840 have someone out there like ray Gun, you then like, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.200 wait a minute, this this person's the same eating in 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.560 the same cafeteria with Lebron and Carrie and right Decky 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.920 and really. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.800 One of the memes was thank you Raygun for making 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.080 millions of people at home feel like they too could 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.520 become an Olympic athlete. So that's the one thing you 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.280 wouldn't want to happen, is that becomes a mockery of 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:06.200 what the Olympics actually are. That's it's all. That's the concern. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.800 Perhaps, oh whattal we do? But here's the thing we 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.320 how this talk break dancing is not in the Olympics 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.480 in twenty twenty eight in LA. It is not on 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.399 the schedule. And what's after LA. It's not on the 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.920 schedule for the one after that either, So we don't 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.920 know when we might see it back. It could change. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.119 But they do this because they're trying to stay relevant. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.840 They're trying to get your body, trying to be relevant. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.399 But look at us, now, how much do you enjoy skateboarding? 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:33.840 Do you question that in the Olympics? 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.600 I really like, no, I don't. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.160 You don't surfing. You question that, No, because. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.680 If anyone could do something that I couldn't possibly dream 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.200 of doing, that to me should be an Olympic event. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.320 Then that's break dancing. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:47.640 I mean I would go with dancing of any kind 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.200 if we're going to go there. Answer your question, I 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:52.600 can't even do the Cuba shuffle. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.119 Oh well, congrass to her plenty more. She came from 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:09.119 I am sure every day I come on here and 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:10.920 I say, it was the moment, the best moment for 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:12.600 me here. This was the best thing I've ever watched. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.080 And I hate to be a just sucker for the moment, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.080 but we saw something yesterday that is going to go 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.040 down as one of the moments of this Olympics. And 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.960 we have Shakari Richardson to thank for it because she 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:32.239 played absolute superhero yesterday. We all witnessed it. Coming up 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.560 on the last leg of the final of the women's 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.879 four by one hundred relay. The US team was in 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.919 third place, and then Robes they gave the batons to 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.680 Shakerri and it was magic. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:51.000 She flat out ran down the German competitor who was 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.480 in the lead significantly actually, and then she beat out 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.560 the woman from Great Britain that was in second place. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.280 It was remarkable to watch she I mean down the 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.920 one hundred meter stretch and in what will be one 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.360 of the lasting images of the Olympics, should Carrie turned 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.760 I mean and just staring down the other runners as 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.320