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Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio Together Everything, So don't fuck the Olympics. Olympics, Fuck

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a show where

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Speaker 1: we say fund the Olympics, but we don't fuck the

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Speaker 1: Olympics because step one of anti Olympic solidarity, and this

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Speaker 1: is a hard one, do not have sex with the Olympics. Well,

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Speaker 1: especially not on those cardboard beds, which has been They

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Speaker 1: are not I understand it. They're not handing out the

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Speaker 1: condoms anymore. Though the Olympics is supposed to be less

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Speaker 1: of an unhinged funk Festum I mentioned this song even

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Speaker 1: more news. But I actually have a friend who's boyfriend

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Speaker 1: is at the Olympics. Uh, for base and baseball. Yeah apparently. Um,

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Speaker 1: I guess he's playing for Team is Real and they're

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Speaker 1: not good. Um that doesn't surprise me. Not surprising. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's like, okay, whatever. But the cardboard bed she's on

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Speaker 1: a picture of it. It is a cardboard bed. They

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Speaker 1: give them exactly one pillow and one thin blanket for

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Speaker 1: the Olympians. You gotta be fresh. It's a it's a

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Speaker 1: bad idea. The Olympics has always been a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it was good back. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to share my favorite piece of Olympics related trivia.

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Speaker 1: You know, the weird penises and all those statues. This

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Speaker 1: old Greek statues define weird, like okay, right where Robert goes.

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Speaker 1: How the tips the tips of the if you look

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Speaker 1: at like David or any of those other number one,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people will comment that, like, the penises

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Speaker 1: the people. But also the heads of the penises are

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Speaker 1: that's not because their dicks looked different. That's because they

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Speaker 1: had a different attitude towards nudity, particularly among athletes. And

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Speaker 1: when you're an athlete, you didn't perform nude. You performed

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Speaker 1: with a little thing wrapped around the head of your penis.

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Speaker 1: Because what made you naked as a man wasn't that

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Speaker 1: your dick and balls were exposed. It was that the

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Speaker 1: glands were exposed. So you had to tie up the

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Speaker 1: little head of your penis. They had these little things

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Speaker 1: you would wrap it around your waist and UM's it

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Speaker 1: was a whole thing. And so the Olympics, all of

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Speaker 1: those guys competing, they weren't naked. They had a little

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Speaker 1: thing tied up around the head of their of their dick,

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Speaker 1: which is why their dicks all corkscrew in a kind

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Speaker 1: of a weird way in those statues. Thought you were

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Speaker 1: making a joke, But I believe you now that's absolutely true.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the best. Um. So anyone who tells you

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Speaker 1: the Greeks and the Romans just didn't care about nudity,

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Speaker 1: that's not true. But the only thing they cared about

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Speaker 1: if the heads covered up, you're not naked, then it's

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Speaker 1: fine to grope another naked man covered an oil. On

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Speaker 1: that note, I think it's time for us to introduce

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Speaker 1: our guest for the day. Uh. And that would be

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Speaker 1: Molly Lambert from the No Olympics l a uh organization. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And she'sier to talk about why the Olympics are terrible.

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Speaker 1: Hi Molly, Hey, guys, thanks for having me fucking the Olympics. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're very grateful to have you join us today because

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Speaker 1: there is a lot to unpack here. Um. This is

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Speaker 1: something that act like an Olympian untying that weird little

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Speaker 1: all right, First of all, I gotta get in on

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Speaker 1: that argument. Um. So the thing is the modern Olympics,

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Speaker 1: the Olympics that we are against, that we are talking about,

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Speaker 1: of like industrialism, around the time when industrialism solves you know,

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Speaker 1: But the modern Olympics have nothing to do with the

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Speaker 1: competition between city states where they would allegedly like you know,

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Speaker 1: Total bullshit narrative. And the reason they invoke that is

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Speaker 1: because the Olympics are invented by a eugenicist. Like so

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Speaker 1: many things we love today, you love to hear it.

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Speaker 1: He was a French guy and founder of the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: which is the Nazi Olympics, right, And how like I

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Speaker 1: by Larry Nasser for many years. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: redeem her abuser in the public eye, it's fucking insane, twisted, twisted. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, sports you wouldn't normally get to

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Speaker 1: watch on television. That's completely a construct. There's no reason

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Speaker 1: It's also a totally bad idea for these athletes to

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Speaker 1: got involved with them. Sure, yeah, No Olympics. L A

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Speaker 1: Jerry McGuire. He manages Megan Rappano. Blah blah blah. He

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Speaker 1: when they try to make it be like this is

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00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: about like how we love Simone Biles and she's so

428
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: great and we're all rooting for her, it's like, well,

429
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: if you really cared about her at all, you wouldn't

430
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: make her compete in these circumstances. And if you cared

431
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: about any of these athletes, you wouldn't put them through this.

432
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: And if you cared about the human spirit and togetherness,

433
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: you wouldn't completely funk over Japan the way that you're

434
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: doing um and sweep up the undesirable, which is so

435
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: blatantly not about celebrating athleticism or giving these athletes an

436
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: opportunity to perform. It's just so blatantly not and it's

437
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: using sports swashing to try and as a cover for

438
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And I think it's really not working

439
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: this year. And that's interesting to see, just because they

440
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: have so much money. They've spent so much money on

441
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: advertising and on you know, propaganda, and when you watch

442
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: the Olympics coverage, it's just propaganda. It's not even real

443
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: sports coverage. It's like this person like the human spirit,

444
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: it is so strong. They came from nothing and now

445
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: they're doing it for America. Boring. It's totally boring. The

446
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: only thing that's cute, like everything. I watched it last

447
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: night for like twenty minutes just to like and so boring.

448
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: And the only thing was cute was at a seventeen

449
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: year old one and the live stream of her family celebrating. Yeah,

450
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: it made me smile, But see the rest of it sucks.

451
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: You can you can appreciate when someone who's worked hard

452
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: all their life to something succeeds and feels good and okay,

453
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: but but we don't need this nightmare infrastructure building. What

454
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: if what if Captain bring down over here? That's me

455
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: thinks that actually like child athletes is probably just a

456
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: bad idea in generate a very very well taken point one.

457
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: Maybe that child probably started training way too early to

458
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: enjoy being a conversation. I mean, I feel the same

459
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: way about child athletes the way I feel about child actors,

460
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: which is that they should not exist and they should

461
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: all be replaced with Martin Short's Lefford. My god, did

462
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: you see my friend? Wait? Wait, wait, my friend wrote

463
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: an amazing article about the making of Oh that was

464
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: your friend. I loved that. That was the best thing

465
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: I keep seeing it passed around at the time. Honestly,

466
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: the only thing that could have got me into watch

467
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: boyhood is if they'd followed Martin Short around for fifty years.

468
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. So, Molly, that's such a

469
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: good point, and you're completely correct. I mean, they're too

470
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: young to say with child actors, you're too young to

471
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: make informed decisions about your when they're young. When I mean,

472
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: that's wait, I don't I think that I might get

473
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: dreamed for that informed decisions. You're growing, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: learning that's obviously people have encouraged you to go down

475
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: this path. Any people are treating you like a mature

476
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: adult who should be going, you know, training like an

477
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: adult athlete. But we see that child athletes allowed the

478
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, allows the Olympics to explain them because what

479
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: happens is they what happened with the Larry Nasser gymnasts.

480
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: They were sent to a facility in Texas and they

481
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: were told their parents weren't allowed to come, you know,

482
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: which is like obviously very sketchy. But when someone's like

483
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: you're doing this all, you know, you're sacrificing everything for

484
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: this dream that everyone has for your child, people don't

485
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: ask a lot of questions necessarily, and they don't you know,

486
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: they they just trust that it's their kids going to

487
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: be taken care of. And you can't trust adult men

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00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: with teenage girls in a weird physical sport. It's just

489
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: a totally weird construct that allows us to happen. Um,

490
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: you know, when we see it across a lot of

491
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 1: the sports that like the younger athletes do you get

492
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: exploited and abused and and their safety is never almost never.

493
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: Oh it's not it doesn't matter, and then they get

494
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: kind of thrown in the trash when they're done, you know,

495
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: like when and and a lot of them obviously like

496
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: never go through puper and their bodies are affected for

497
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: their whole lives because they gave their lives to you,

498
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: Team USA, and what did Team USA give them? Nothing good?

499
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: And that's a broader issue than just the like you

500
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: can just the Olympics. You can look into like when

501
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: Lebron got scouted for the first time and how he was,

502
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: like he was like a preschooler when people started like

503
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: looking at him as a professional athlete. Right, And I

504
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: think this case in like a lot of football players

505
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: to who just kind of destroyed themselves by the time

506
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: they're twenty two. And with right and like with Colin Kaepernick,

507
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, another black players drawing attention to the fact that,

508
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, black athletes are exploited and cashed in on

509
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: by the league's and and expected to not express themselves,

510
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: to not have mental health issues, to just be these

511
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: sort of bodies, like it feels very fucking racist and

512
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: fucked up, you know. And I think, um, they banned kneeling,

513
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: they banned any form of BLM stuff, at the Olympics,

514
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: they always ban any form of political expression. There was

515
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: the time in Mexico City that too black athletes did

516
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: a Black Power salute and at the time the io

517
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: C was fucking furious. They have since reheck coon did

518
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: into like, oh we're you know this beautiful moment. Yeah,

519
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful moment because it was a beautiful moment,

520
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: but at the time they were fucking furious because, um,

521
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: it's not again, it's not really about you know, um

522
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 1: people showing up for representing the groups that they are from.

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00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: You know, Um, you're you're supposed to just shut up

524
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: and do what the IOC tells you. Um, yeah, all

525
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: of that. So, yeah, we see it just a real

526
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: connection between the exploitation of athletes and the exploitation of cities.

527
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: That's all the IOC is there to do is exploit

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00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: and extract capital from people and places and had a

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: huge cost to taxpayers, you know, with very little actual

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00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: uh job creation at least not in the long term.

531
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: Like this isn't the big cash cow that you know,

532
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: you bring in stuff in it and it's a big

533
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: economic moon to to your city. It's a logistical nightmare

534
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: and um, you know, like like this placement of low

535
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: income or unhoused people, the raising of you know, shelving uh,

536
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: development of low income housing and instead making way for

537
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, stadiums nobody will ever use, and stadium you know,

538
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: hotels sitting empty. Um uh. You know what that does

539
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: to the pressure, the stress that it puts in the

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00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: city infrastructure, um, and the enment and the environmentally. That's

541
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: exactly what I was getting to. I would love to

542
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: talk about some of the environmental costs. Yeah, they tore

543
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: down an old fish market, like a beloved old fish

544
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: market in Japan for the games and um yeah. Again

545
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 1: it's like they're like, we're building all this stuff, isn't

546
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: it great? And it's like it's always ends up being

547
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: white elephants, none of it. You know. Some of the

548
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: people we're more hardline, but some people are like, what

549
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: if we built dorms for the athletes and then turn

550
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: them into public housing, which is like, well, unfortunately, the

551
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: people that are building this stuff have no interest in

552
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: it being used. They're here to make money, not um

553
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: do something for the common good, right, And we've see

554
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: so much of that in l A anyway, that all

555
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: the there's all this development. There's buildings going up constantly,

556
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: but we have a huge housing crisis and you know,

557
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people living on the street because

558
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 1: they can't afford housing here. Um, and there isn't housing

559
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: you try to move, there just isn't anything. And so

560
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: one of the big Olympic partners that was just announced

561
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: is Airbnb. Right. We also know are another like exploitative, extractive,

562
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: like fucked up company who don't give a funk about

563
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: the people in the cities um that they are moving into.

564
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: And it's all connected. It's like hotels, they're building all

565
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: these hotels um. One of the things they said about

566
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: l A. L A had a hotel shortage. So stable

567
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: hotels short How much you want to bet it doesn't

568
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: drop the price of hotels, you know exactly. It's like

569
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: and these rooms are empty. We know they're empty. We

570
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: know people are investing in them as just like you

571
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: know investment properties, and not nobody's in them. And it's

572
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: very just taping. It's very right off for you if

573
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: you're losing money on the property, you don't it's already

574
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: just so Blade Runner in Los Angeles, it's like we

575
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: have these giant, tall empty buildings and then people living

576
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: on the street who aren't allowed to live in the

577
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: empty buildings. UM. And it all connected. The homelessness UH

578
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: is connected to the development UM, and the development is

579
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: is connected to the environmental impact. I mean UM. In

580
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: so Chi there was widespread cases of illegal landfills for

581
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: the construction materials. UM. You know animal migration territories. We

582
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: used a construction sites. There was a lot of spillage

583
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: of waste into waters. UM, all of them saying with

584
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: Rio de Janeiro, Uh, well, where is this from the

585
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: concentration of viruses and bacteria and waterways and at sea

586
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: was so high that according to a study, it would

587
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: have been enough to win just three tea spoons to

588
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: get seriously ill. What yeah, I mean, it's like it's

589
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: so hot in Japan right now too, Like summer in

590
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: Japan is incredibly hot, humid, And so this idea that

591
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: they always used of like people are just outside doing sports,

592
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: it's you know, with with climate change that's going to

593
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: be increasingly dangerous. It is funny to be super dangerous.

594
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: They lied so shamelessly about what Tokyo summer was, Like

595
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: it's Americans don't now and that's like they say that

596
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: about l A' is like, oh, well, we have all

597
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: these existing venues, we'll just use them, which is like

598
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: they're already putting tons of money into remodeling a lot

599
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: of stuff, and they're still building tons of new ship anyway.

600
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: But um, I ran into our bleaker mayor Eric Garcetti,

601
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: did you know? I did, And I told him that

602
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: we were going to stop the Olympics, and he was,

603
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't really even feeln't really listening to

604
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: what I was talking about until halfway through. He was like, oh,

605
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: you're against the Olympics. But you know, I said, like,

606
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, do you know how hot

607
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: it's going to be in Like, no one's going to

608
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: be able to be outside. It's going to be a

609
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: hundred thousand degrees. No one's a lingo, right, I mean, yeah,

610
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: it's getting hotter and hotter by the time. Again, I

611
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: don't think anybody should even stay in l A. I'll

612
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: be clearing out. He's going to be the ambassador to India, right, Yeah, yeah,

613
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: he's clearing out already. Um. That's why we're also kind

614
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: of trying to throw some of the focus on Casey

615
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: Wasserman because he's somebody who wants to be sort of

616
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: a public presence without really being a public figure. You know,

617
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: he's very involved in capital and development in Los Angeles

618
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: and sports booster ism, and we have a ton of

619
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: teams nobody cares about most of them. And you know,

620
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: he he locked his Twitter account when it first came

621
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: out that he was on the Epstein plane. Um, so

622
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: he's sort of like wants to be this guy who's

623
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: like doing all this stuff behind the scenes, and we

624
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: we're kind of trying to throw a spotlight on him

625
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: and say, hey, you can't just do all this stuff

626
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: and not expect to get blowback, you know, with your

627
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: name attached to it. Yeah. Absolutely, And he and Garsetti

628
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: are the same. Actually they're both They call themselves the

629
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: eighty four Boys because they're both rich kids from l

630
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: A who were there for the eighty four torch real A,

631
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: which was run by O. J. Simpson. Whatever happened to

632
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: him must a good career. He was a great athlete.

633
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: Let me take a quick sip of coffee and google

634
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: his name. Well, I mean that's the thing. All these

635
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: people show up, you know, throughout l A history, just

636
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: like over and over again, so like, yeah, there were

637
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: people who thought the eighty four Games were great. They

638
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: were rich people from Brentwood who got to go to

639
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: the Games and you know, be little Lord Fauntleroys because

640
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: there because their families were important, you know, and rich

641
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: and go back to their mansions on the other side

642
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: of town and avoid the fallout. Nobody else even gets

643
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: to go to the olymp becks. There are no like

644
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: tickets for locals. It's all taken up with like the

645
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: oligarchs and uh Internet. You know what have you seen

646
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: Los Angeles people? No, thank you, thank you. They're not

647
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: going to put us on television because we're too beautiful,

648
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: well together everything, do you know? I I've been aware

649
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: of no Olympics for a while now, UM, and I

650
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: think that the work you guys are doing and spreading

651
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: awareness is really uh important and very well done. UM.

652
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about the the changing perceptions UM

653
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: of the Olympics and and how you've done this organizing work.

654
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: I think when No Olympics started, people were very skeptical

655
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: about the Olympics, UM, just like why would you want

656
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: to stop them? You know, you can't stop them. They're

657
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: this unmovable force and we've definitely seen people kind of

658
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: come around and thin. People were also like why are

659
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: you fighting this, Like isn't there more important stuff? And

660
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 1: we were like, well, it's part of the important stuff.

661
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: And what it's really all about is like who are

662
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: these cities for? Who are our big metropolis is making

663
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: space for? And who do they belong to? And who

664
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: does public space belonged to? And who gets to decide

665
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: what gets done with that public space. Yeah, most people

666
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: didn't even realize the Olympics were a possibility in Los Angeles,

667
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: nor that they were being voted on just by city

668
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: council um or even that we have them now. I

669
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: think most people in l A have no idea that

670
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: we're supposed to have the games. Yeah, they just approved

671
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: another games in Brisbane, Australia, and people in Australia were

672
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: fucking pissed because they did it very shadily and you know,

673
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: with no input from the actual population shin, And they

674
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: did it while these nightmare Tokyo Games are happening where

675
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: nobody wants the Olympics. Right now, people can see that

676
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: the Olympics are a wrecking ball. It almost feel like

677
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: this like malevolent alien invasion that just like a community funny.

678
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: You should say that because um One of the big

679
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: touch points for Tokyo is Akira, which takes place at

680
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Olympics. Um. It was made in the eighties,

681
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: but it it takes place in a dystopian world that

682
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: involves the Tokyo Olympics stadium and a giant monster, alien

683
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: psychic ball of energy type thing. So a lot of

684
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: people in Japan were doing memes about it and just

685
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: how like Akira came true, except for I'm going to

686
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: guess the Olympics will wind up doing a lot more

687
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: damage than Akira. Yeah, we will get way less cool

688
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: mode recycles at least. I'd like to see a Space

689
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: Jam three that gets into this that the the like

690
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: the regular monstar competition they have, is actually destroying the

691
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: tune world and they have to deal with the fallout

692
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: of that. I think that's uh. Comes starts like bombing

693
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: condo developments in order to keep rent prices low. I've

694
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: always felt that Bugs Bunny was a comrade. Yeah, Bugs

695
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: Bugs Bunny and Uncle Ted are like this. I'm twining

696
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: my fingers to get you can't see it. Um. Yeah,

697
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is we move through this and

698
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: talk about it, and you say that, people like, why

699
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: are you focusing on this? Well, this is a cross

700
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: section of so many issues that are vitally important right now,

701
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: the environment, social justice, um you know, racism, over policing, developments,

702
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: and community impact. This is actually um ah, I mean,

703
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: it just represents all of the issues that we have

704
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: to work on, right And like this sort of like

705
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: unstoppable monster. That's like it's a thing that's like a

706
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: tradition that we like started at a certain time and

707
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: it's got to the point where everyone who looks at

708
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: it can look at it and go, we obviously we

709
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that, but here we are. Yeah, the train

710
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: just can't stop, right, And they make it seem like

711
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,240
Speaker 1: the train really can't stop, you know, which is similar

712
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: to what happens with gentrification, where people are like, oh,

713
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: you just can't stop it. It's just going to happen,

714
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, if you get enough people in

715
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: front of the train, right, if you want to stop it,

716
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: and you decide to that. Yeah, no, I mean they

717
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: promised things to communities that are like we're going to

718
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: give you a swimming pool and we're gonna give you

719
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: a tennis court, and you know, that'll make up for

720
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: all the gentrification. And um, there's this really great James

721
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: Baldwin quote that I'm going to totally um funk up

722
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: just quoting it from memory, but um, in this PC

723
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: he did an esquire in the sixties where he talked

724
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: about how the white people expect black communities to just

725
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: be happy with like, oh, we we put in a

726
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: swimming pool, like now everything's you know, now everything's fine, Um,

727
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 1: you know, and he says that it's like they don't

728
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: want to think about what it would actually take to

729
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: invest in a black neighborhood, invest in a black community

730
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: in a way that is like meaningful or makes any sense.

731
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: They just want to put the swimming pools in and

732
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: be like, look at what, look at all we've done

733
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: for you. And it's also this idea that you can't

734
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: just invest in the black community, that the investment, so

735
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: to speak, in the black community that's not really an investment,

736
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: has to come as part of a bunch of rich

737
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: people getting entertainment. Right. So there's like a tennis court

738
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: that Venus and Serena Williams played on that you know,

739
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: l a boosters are always using is like, look they

740
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: played on the tennis court that the eight four games

741
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: like put into South l A. But again it's like

742
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: if you look at what was happening in South l

743
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: A in the eighties and early nineties, like it was

744
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: a nightmare for people living in South l A. Doesn't

745
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 1: off at it. It doesn't offset it. And it also

746
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: like if if you know, if two athletes were able

747
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: to get out of that environment and become like great athletes,

748
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: like you know what about everybody else who like, isn't

749
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: a great athlete who you just completely fucked over, you know,

750
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: militarized police and sent them to terrorize people in these

751
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: black and brown neighborhoods. You know they really and and

752
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: still you see with the current games are just like hey,

753
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: look skateboarding, pay no attention to anything else, Like check

754
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: it out. We've got skateboarding now. So yeah, we we say,

755
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, follow the money. Um, if you want to

756
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: start following the money with l A, you can follow

757
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: the money at Airbnb. Rick Caruso, the creep who made

758
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: the Americana and the Grove and like hates people, hates

759
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: real neighborhoods, um the Americana and the grove to all

760
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: of our there's not in the Los Angeles are big

761
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: shopping center experiences, Disneyland, malls, um a com who developed

762
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 1: Sophie Stadium, which is the big new kind of white

763
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: elephant stadium in Inglewood that they're using to gentrify Inglewood.

764
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: UM And the l A eighty four Foundation is a

765
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: big one because that's like where the profits allegedly went

766
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: from l A eighty four. UM. The prophets in l

767
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: A eighty four we're only made because everybody pulled out

768
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: at the last second and McDonald stepped in and like, uh,

769
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: gave away some free cheeseburgers and stuff. But again, like

770
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, they always say, well that one made a profit,

771
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: and we say will for who Who did it make

772
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: a profit? Fore? And the people made a profit for

773
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: was this thing the eighty four Foundation, which is all

774
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 1: over Los Angeles. UM. They took the ninety two million

775
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: dollars surplus from l A eighty four and put it

776
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: into a private on accounted well nonprofit that has millions

777
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 1: invested in black Stone and Goldman sacks. There it is,

778
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 1: and it's run by this woman. We're not a simpl

779
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: a nonprofit, Okay, anyway, dude, I mean nonprofits are there? Yeah,

780
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: black box of of corruption. But yeah, it's run by

781
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: someone who is a real estate uh person. So you

782
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: know again, just like it's not about sports, it's not

783
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: about togetherness, it's not about showing off a city to

784
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: the world. It's about money for a bunch of rich

785
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: ghouls and that is it. So how can our listeners

786
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: support you guys are getting involved? I mean, what are

787
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: their goals here right now? Education? And yeah, I mean

788
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: are you know we have a goal which is to

789
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: stop the Olympics from coming to Los Angeles. There are

790
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: precedents for Olympics getting canceled. Um, could you talk about

791
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: that a little more? That's not the story I've ever heard. Sure, Yeah,

792
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: I mean there they've been a lot of bids have

793
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: been canceled. Boston stopped a bid. Um. I don't know

794
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: that anyone has stopped the Olympics like that were, but

795
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: but it could happen any That's the thing is, like

796
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: we live in unprecedented times. You know, all of these

797
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: things that were invented for the beginning of like modern society,

798
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: a lot of them don't serve a purpose anymore because

799
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: model society is collapsing, and I think people are aware

800
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: of that. And I do think that because of COVID,

801
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: people's priorities. Your average person who watches the Olympics or

802
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: might compete in the Olympics might have had their priorities

803
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: shift to a place where giving it all up for

804
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: capitalism for someone else to make a profit with the

805
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: idea of glory isn't what anyone wants to do, either

806
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: as an athlete or just like as an employee. You know,

807
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: because they talk about the athletes the same way they

808
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: talk that Jeff Bezos talks about like amaz On workers,

809
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 1: like they're doing it all because they love it so much,

810
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: and like they don't care that they are breaking their

811
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: bodies and destroying their minds and might die on the

812
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: line because it's all for the greater good of me

813
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, And that's what the Olympics are like. It's

814
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: like nobody's life is worth sacrificing to the Olympics. Kissinger.

815
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: I like your idea where Kissinger is the only athlete.

816
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's compelling for sure. Two weeks of just

817
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: kind of like hilarious torture. Yeah, yeah, I don't think

818
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: it would last two weeks. He's a work pretty well.

819
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: But you think about how long he stayed alive. He's

820
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: clearly he's made with somebody. She made a pact with

821
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: the devil. But yeah, I think the Devil's not nearly serious.

822
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, Robert. I think the Oligarch

823
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: Olympics is a great idea. Let's see those people get

824
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: out swim in the ship bay. That would you see?

825
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: And that's a thing cities would fight to have. I

826
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: would be fine with with Los Angeles hosting that Olympics, like, yeah,

827
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna have you. We're gonna have you do like,

828
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, a two swim in the Port of

829
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Mean, everybody would watch that, everybody would watch.

830
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: That was going to bring everybody together. That would bring

831
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: I think the thing that really brought people together the

832
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: other day was hoping Jeff Bezos would blank in space.

833
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 1: I mean all of us were disappointed by that outcome,

834
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: but that really brought the world together. It was a

835
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: brings us together. It was hope. Yeah. So I think

836
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: that it's all just you know, people are seeing that

837
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: the Olympics is kind of this microcosm of all the

838
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: bad things that are happening to the planet because of

839
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: rich people who want to just extract everything they can

840
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: and then get the funk out to Mars as soon

841
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: as they can. Um, you know, just especially the idea

842
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: that they're going to bring like tons more police into

843
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I don't think that's something most people want,

844
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: and I think the people that do want it are

845
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 1: the same people that like the Olympics. They are. Yeah,

846
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: there's a real cross section there. There is a cross section.

847
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: People who like fascism also tend to like giant displays

848
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: of national power and propaganda. Interesting interesting correlation. They like

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Speaker 1: everyone's favorite girl Boss Lenny Reef and Shalls Triumph of

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Speaker 1: the Will, which not a good movie, not a good movie, terrible,

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Speaker 1: terrible pacing, terrible pacing, but like very fascist, just like

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Speaker 1: bodies bodies, bodies with no interiority, which is what the

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Speaker 1: Olympics is. And again I think we're seeing like some

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Speaker 1: of the viewers don't like it when the athletes express

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Speaker 1: their interiority when they say, like, you know, my mental

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Speaker 1: health is important to me, more important, take care of

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Speaker 1: yourself at the right And then they were putting so

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Speaker 1: much pressure on like Simone Bios and Naomi Osaka and

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Speaker 1: people to like redeem the games and redeem it for

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Speaker 1: athletes and and you know, no, no, just let them,

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Speaker 1: let them relax, especially when you look at what they

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Speaker 1: did to Simone Bios, the idea that they're sending her

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Speaker 1: back into the situation where she was traumatized and being

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Speaker 1: like okay, now, like when a gold medal, it's truly horrifying,

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Speaker 1: it's fucking insane. And there are alternatives, there are other

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Speaker 1: ways the world could be. And I think again, just

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Speaker 1: after the pandemic, which is still happening, We're not this

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Speaker 1: for a long time. No, they sent volunteers half vaccinated

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Speaker 1: to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Right now, Um, there

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Speaker 1: was this clip that went around if this Australian coach

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Speaker 1: like jumping around when his person won, and he like

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Speaker 1: pulls his mask off and he's screaming, and there's this

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Speaker 1: like Japanese woman trying to get away from him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about just h the pop the

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Speaker 1: percentage of the population that's been inoculated in Japan. Also

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Speaker 1: that the fact that the the majority of countries do

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Speaker 1: not have access to vaccines the way we do and

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Speaker 1: and are struggling with this. So they're putting their athletes

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Speaker 1: at risk, they're putting their home country at risk, and

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Speaker 1: they're putting UM the local citizens at risk. Right, They're

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Speaker 1: putting everybody at risk, and people are not happy about it.

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Speaker 1: And I think we're seeing that UM, that they can't

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Speaker 1: just roll over people, you know, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: we're getting any traction on no impacts when we have,

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Speaker 1: you know, no money, and they have so much money

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Speaker 1: for their propaganda, and you know, we hear more and

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Speaker 1: more people say, oh, you guys are right. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know what you were talking about at first, but now

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Speaker 1: I get it. It says a lot about the issue.

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Speaker 1: And uh, the state that the approvals of this, of

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Speaker 1: this institution is just that people that that it's changing

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Speaker 1: and people are realizing and you don't need a lot

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Speaker 1: of money to make it clear that this isn't okay UM,

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Speaker 1: and the world is changing and people's priorities are changing,

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Speaker 1: and I think that athleticism just the old systems aren't

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Speaker 1: working anymore. And people see that UM and the IOC

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Speaker 1: is just a relic of this type of colonialist grift UM.

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Speaker 1: And that's just been made very clear right now because

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Speaker 1: they are screwing over Japan and being real dicks about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Bock, who was one of the head of the

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Speaker 1: IOC like referred to Japan as China the other day.

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Speaker 1: Well you can't even you can't even remember what country

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Speaker 1: he's exploiting. What you get further east than I don't know, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: It's all pretty much the same, all right, York, Russia, China, Japan,

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Speaker 1: basically the same. Have you met like like racist European

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Speaker 1: men they're terrifying? Yeah, it's yes, yes I have, although

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Speaker 1: I did meet a European man once at an anarchist

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Speaker 1: squat in Lubyana who believed the moon was a hologram.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's been my favorite European conversation. Yeah. Um, Molly,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. This was

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Speaker 1: really interesting and informative. UM. Can you tell our listeners

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Speaker 1: where they can find you guys online and you share

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Speaker 1: your work and find you can find no Olympics at

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Speaker 1: no Olympics l A dot com and at no Olympics

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Speaker 1: l A on Twitter. Um, you can find me at

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Speaker 1: Molly Lambert on Twitter and I we'll have a podcast

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Speaker 1: out later this year about Heidi flice Um, the Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Madam that will also involve a lot of Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: based corruption. Very interesting. I will definitely be checking that out.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, thanks for having me, thanks for joining us,

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Speaker 1: and as always, you guys can follow us online at

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Speaker 1: Worst Year Pod on Twitter and Instagram, etcetera. You know

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Speaker 1: the score, you know what's up. Very cool everything, Everything's

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Speaker 1: so dull again. I tried. Worst Year Ever is a

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