S4E100 Olympics wrap up, diaspora division, etc

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Speaker 1 (0s): Good morning, bow and bowties. So yes, I, I need some lip gloss. I mean, because the lips are looking a little plain I know I look a little busted today, early every day, because it is early. I wanted to leave about 38 minutes ago, but I couldn't get myself together. So it's 5 0 8. So I'm gonna wrap up a couple of things on the Olympics and this diaspora division that I'm seeing on the internet, I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on a diaspora division, but I wanna get a couple of haws at the Olympics.

Okay? Number one, I wanna just give a shout out to every, everyone or any country that has won a medal who's athlete trains in the United States. Yeah, no, that was a shady shout out. Now, on the one hand, I am happy for their dreams, okay? Because to be able to compete at the Olympics is amazing.

I. think where I'm getting a little bit of a chuckle is many of the people who train in the United States have ile like dual citizenship, or they have Trinity in the United States. They have found school in the United States. They, they, they use all of our facilities or whatever. So the reason why I'm giving a shady shout out is because on the one hand, I think it's amazing that these athletes have achieved something incredible, right? To be able to compete at the Olympics, let alone if you got a medal, and I say this because I feel like you, you know, I'm still riding that whole American thing, you know, you know, being them proud to be an American, you know, everyone is using American resources and training and that type of thing.

I shouldn't say everyone, but I am because I'm sure it'll trigger somebody. But, you know, I feel like those are really American medals. At the end of the day, many of these athletes are not truly homegrown like athletes, right? They live in the United States, they train in the United States. They have, they have our coaches, our facilities, everything. They, some of 'em, I think May, may even have dual citizenship. And. they choose to, to compete for either their other nationality or their so-called home nationality, because I don't blame them that it's an opportunity to compete in the Olympics, but it cracks me up every year, every world, or every three years, every Olympics.

I listen to people who clearly live here in the United States, grow, grown up here, et cetera. I mean, you know what it makes me think of, I know it's a slight segue. It makes me think of Naomi Osaka, the tennis player. She's lived much her life in the United States. She's Haitian and Japanese American, if I remember correctly. You know, so her father's from Haiti lived here, and her mom is Japanese.

But it was easier for her, and if you read up on her story, to claim Japan as, as a flag that she competes under, right? My understanding is there were some things on the United States development, tennis development, or whatever that program is, I think it didn't either they weren't supporting her. I don't remember the whole story. And plus she makes a lot of money by claiming Japan and it, but let's be clear, most of these athletes are not training in their, so-called home country. They're not.

Look at Leon from France as shady as France was, and it's her Olympics. They're, they're their hero has had to come I. think it was the University of Arizona. He looked up, Michael Phelps said, I wanted to be the best I'm gonna trainer during whoever his trainer was. I, I understand, but generally speaking, our athletes train at home. I'm sure there's an exception to every rule. Don't add me. Don't come for me. you know, just, I'm just calling A big thing we like, I totally can respect.

I look at like China now, I'm sure some of their athletes compete here too, but I mean have, have, I'm sorry, use our resources, whatever. But largely my understanding, and I could be wrong, I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again. Their athletes grow up and train in China. So they grow their, their, they, they have their own system. They grow their their athletes. That doesn't mean that they don't learn from other people and vice versa. We've had to do that with gymnastics. When they ies immigrated to the United States back in 1900 something, you know, And, they had to bring over and we, they had to give us a system under how to create these athletes.

And of course we ran with it, and now we've created a whole other look for gymnastics. But what I'm going back at it with is Julian ey, shout out to her for one of the 100 meter women's gold medal. But let's be clear that that woman is probably American, and I forgot what country she's representing someplace in the Caribbean, okay? But she got to compete under her Caribbean flag, because I'm sure she was having a hard time qualify.

I don't know. Anyway, I'm just calling the thing a thing to include the Jamaicans. Now lemme just talk about the, for the Jamaicans for a second. As much as Jamaica has all this pride, pride And, they should, because, you know, really they're only known for producing track and field assets as far as I know. But let's be clear, they're still training here in the United States. Our resource are systems, et cetera. I'm just calling the thing and thing, but what was, okay, now I'm gonna, I'm gonna get off of the trainee thing. Go to something else.

I was so disappointed that they did not give Shelly Ann Frazier the opportunity to run. Well, technically they did. But what they did to she, Carrie and Shelly Ann, not allowing them into the village because they changed role overnight. I just kind of felt like Parish is a piece of SHIT or France rather. The way they, they treated these athletes to not have her run, or for her to not compete in the 100 meter final. I was just turned off.

I was just like she has to run. Because as much as I'm shading all these athletes for training the United States and this, that, and the other, the fact of the matter is I still wanted to see the Jamaicans run. They're fun to watch. At the end of the day, they're still are people, they just have an accent. you know, I, I I was just really disappointed that they didn't get a chance to, to do what they need to do. I was disappointed in their beat down relay team, like, like the US beat relay team.

Good lord, that four by 100 shenanigans. I just feel like, because we have such a high standard here, I feel like it just, I don't know what's going on, but they are a disgrace. They're a national disgrace. How do you not even get on a metal stand? So don't even get me started with the mens four by one. I wanna give a special shout out to Australia because Australia clowned so bad these Olympics.

Let me just start off with, Australia is one big Karen Australia is a Karen. They are a Karen. Let me tell you why Australia picked a fight with us that we didn't even know we were in. We just need n we had beef with Australia. They picked a swimming fight over the, this medal camp thing, know that it was early in the Olympics, and we usually run away on the middle to the back end of the Olympics with many medals.

But they picked a fight with us because they're like, these Americans, I'm sick of tired of hearing this star, big banner I think they don't know how to count medals because we count all of our medals, right? And they're like, it only goes by the gold And. they are so psycho. And so of course, from the time that they, they made those silly comments, which was actually pre Olympics leading up and during Olympics, I'm sorry, they made, they made an issue about our star Springle banner before the Olympics. Then they complained during the Olympics about how we counted medals, right?

Well, by the time that they were speaking, it was already outdated because we, we continued to win medals, particularly gold. But they, they talked too much. So then they gotten their feelings because people were calling 'em out, like, why are you picking a fight with us? It's a one-sided beef that we didn't even know we were in. So now Australia loses their mind. They were upset. Like, see, well, we're gonna count based off of per capita. I actually saw that now they changed the rules and during the medal they were like, that's not, you can't, you don't go buy gold anymore.

We go buy per capita. They were making up new lists. I was like, Australia is a Karen. Then Australia had the audacity. I now listen to this. They had the audacity to put this woman Reagan, this PhD student and whatever out there on a national stage doing, I don't know what that was she was doing, but she was competing in break dancing.

And then this is what their country put the look, your country did this, not us. You guys did that. You guys put that woman out there blew her head up. And she went out there and did a kangaroo hop and some other stuff. I'm like, nothing about that says hip hop or did break dancing. She was so bad that the worldwide web decided to make memes on her. And I was here for the memes. And I know that people like, like, like their inner Karen, Australia's Karen came out because now they're mad that people are making memes off a gray gun.

And her bad dancing, I mean, I don't even know what that was. She was rolling around flopping on the floor to the kangaroo hops, did some weird thing with her arm. And I was like, what? What's happening right now? What is happening? you know, the hee-haw ain't me because, you know, I caught everything afterwards, you know, 'cause I was on vacation, I was not in the country, therefore I did not really have full access to marijuana. But they had the audacity to be upset that the world was like, no ma'am, I don't know what this is, but this isn't it.

This woman was so bad by understanding. She came in last place. So now Australia in full on Karen mode is mad at the world. Na, United States for key high at Ms. Ray or, or Dr. Ray. I don't know what, she's a doctor of I. think she's a PhD. What I do know is you can't get mad and pick a fight with everybody. And. they get mad when people respond. Now they would've just left us alone.

There would not, no, we probably still would've made names about this. This lady was ridiculous. And then of course, you know, the blacks and black blacks had to weigh in and they're like, had I know that this was gonna be a category? Everyone's like, I could have break dance at this point. So they're like, how is it that y'all gonna go take our break dancing stuff and, and, and do that? No sir. No ma'am. So anyway, I wanna give a shout out to Karen Australia because they picked so many fights and then got mad when people started clapping back.

The memes over the metal counts and the swimming and, and the break dancing and everything. I was here for all of it. All of it. Because it was funny. I'm like, you cannot get out here picking fights with people on the internet. And in mad when people clap back and slap back. I'm like, it was, it was just hilarious. Let me jump into the beautifulness of it all. Now. I know, I just meant up a word, but let me just say, shout out to these track and field athletes.

These women were just stunning. I was like, is that a requirement? Do they have to chisel that in concrete that in order to run anything really, like the sprinting, metals, whatever, if you wanna run for the United States and track and field, we have a beauty standard. These women, I was like, can I get a snippet of your hair? Can I just get some, some skin samples from under your nails?

Just a little bit of DNA didn didn't even see what's in the DNA of these women. These women were flat out stunning gorg. And I like the fact that they weren't all wearing these wigs all the time. These crazy wigs. I'm like, I know they, they had their hair done. Get me wrong. you know how the hair stitches, whatever like that. But these women, they're so beautiful And. they were so clean and so simple and you could see their face. They were just flat out gorgeous. By the way, shout out to the Irish track star.

Her name was Rashida Rashida, Rashida Ague. And I know I'm saying her being wrong, my apologies. It is not my intention of saying her being wrong. This woman I was looking at this, this stunner I was like, how do you wake up like that on purpose and just look like that? And so unfair. She was gorgeous. I couldn't stop staring at her. I couldn't stop staring at all of our track and field women athletes, like I was just looking at, they, they were all, you must think I was some sort of guy or somebody way I was looking at these women.

I was like, they're just so beautiful. They, they were just beautiful and long lagged and strong and gorgeous. And I was like your face game. The face card was not declining. Okay? The, the, the body was bodying like, and then they were winning gold medals. I was like, yo, these women. So for all of you up and coming like track track stars and track wannabes, you better make sure that you go get somebody to give you a full on like a, a real beauty assessment because you may not be the team.

Just if you're looking regular. These women were everything. They were flat out beautiful. And then because I was on the TikTok, I saw some of their posted content. Gorg, they were funny too. They were funny. all right, let's see. Shout out to Almar. I still think she's a national treasure. I mean, watching her, just her throw down in women's rugby. Hello. And she's funny. So I just wanna give a shout to the Lamar. I'm like, I heard you, you were like amazing.

There's so much I wanna say, of course, I some videos where I was like, Paris is tack. I mean like Francis tacky, the Olympics is tacky. Everything from like the no like protein and the eggs and the, the chicken and the chickpeas to the cardboard bed, to the no air conditioning. Like, yeah, just all around tacky changing the rules. The weird thing with the gymnastics beam and all these girls are falling up in the same spot and whatever. I don't know, like everything about, about Paris was just tacky. And I, look, I lived in Europe.

I've been to ta to Paris more than once. I don't remember it being this tacky, but maybe it always was. And I had wanderers on. I don't know, there's more I could talk about with the Olympics, but I don't really wanna get to the Jordan child thing. And is she gonna keep her medal? 'cause I know there was some scoring controversy and the Romanian girl wanted to have a medal. I, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what they're gonna do with that. I wish I'd seen her performance. I wasn't able to see her performance at the time during my vacation so I could catch, you know, just the news on it.

Let me just say this 'cause I don't have much time for all of the people who are in my comments on, because I, I posted a video on some of the black British, so there's a level of delusion with some of the black British, because they don't believe that black British are talking bad about the Americans. They're like, well, we don't sit around and talk about the Americans. I'm like, well, clearly you do because a lot of you are showing up in my timeline. So let's call it thing and thing. Don't sit there and say you guys don't talk about the Black Americans when you clearly do.

I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say again and then you guys are just gonna have to get over it. If you're a hit dog, please go ahead and holler bow wow Wolf, wolf. Whatever it is you need to do. I'm going to say it again and you're going to have to get with some acceptance. Everybody tells about everybody. I guess. I don't know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna say this. Generally speaking, black Americans do not think about other black people around the world. Do you know why? Because we think about ourselves.

We're into ourselves. Me, me, me. We're not trying to be like, like British. We don't care what's going on over there. 'cause you know why we're American and you know how Americans are. Americans tend to be like self-centered and and focused on ourselves. It's the truth. Now you don't have to like it, but the fact of the matter is, you guys don't push culture. You're not the culture. Wait is this my said should probably get off. Please run my mouth.

You guys don't push the culture. We push the culture. The fact of the matter is the black British are, seem to be weirdly obsessed with black Americans. We don't think about you. You wanna be like us. If you ask me now, I know this is kind of a little bit of a rib, but the point I'm making is you wanna play in our movies. You impersonate our accent. You want to be like us and you get mad when we call a thing, a thing that I've done with be a petty. We actually don't have any beef with the black British. You have beef with us. You say you don't, but you do.

And and at the end of the day, we push culture, good and bad culture. It's not the black British. You don't find anybody saying or trying to be like the black British yout wanna wear our hairstyles, have our lingo, our clothing, our everything. And it's okay, we're the same people. But the fact of the Americans, the fact of the matter is black Americans are pushing culture. We're pushing the needle. And if you think that that Caribbean are better than us, they're no different. They are actually part of North America.

Even if you got off the boat, either got off in the Caribbean or you got off in the United States, they're the same people. Different accent. And if the Caribbean, those from the Caribbean think that they're different, they're delusional and uneducated too. I said what? I said, I don't know why you're hyperfocused on us. You are like, well, you don't know where you're coming from. Look, the Caribbean, those in the Caribbean don't know come from, they're off the earlier. But at the end of the day, we're like, actually yes we do. We come from here. We, we can actually trace our lineage back hundreds of years. However, you guys probably can't trace yours back because you guys, your your your country lines keep moving.

You, you're recreating new countries. You're probably not even a hundred years old. Some of these countries can you confidently go back and say where you come from? Have you guys even had a census longer than a hundred years? So don't get in my comments. Being all upset now. We still love y'all, but the fact of the matter is we're not focused on y'all. 'cause you're living over there. We're living over here, but we're really into ourselves. I know I'm into myself. all right now, go ahead and be mad. It's all right to be mad. Maybe I'll do another video on it. I don't know I. think my inner a DD kicks in.

I'm like, I'm tired of talking about it. I said, what? I said, just be mad. You still love y'all though, whether you wanna accept it or not. Those are your issues. They're not mine. I'm sorry. Those are your issues. They're not mine. But look, go live your lives. Go eat your little tea, your scones, and drink your tea, okay? We're gonna probably eat a freaking burger with a whole bunch of, I don't know, preservatives or something in it. all right? Now look, let me get off of here because I gotta go into work shortly and I don't feel like arguing with you guys.

Like y'all just have to be mad by yourself. Argue with yourselves. Do not argue with me. all right. Happy Monday. Go ahead and subscribe. Leave it coming.

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