Join Dave and Len in this exciting episode of News and Trends as they dive into their weekend recap, share their thoughts on a spectacular double rainbow, and discuss the highlights of the ongoing Olympics. From awe-inspiring swimming and gymnastics performances to dramatic track and field events, the hosts cover it all!
Listen in as they congratulate athletes like Katie Ledecky, Nick Fink, and the legendary Simone Biles, while also analyzing some of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. They also touch on the impact of recent weather patterns and their personal experiences over the weekend.
Stay tuned for an engaging conversation that spans from sports to political updates, and enjoy the lively banter between two best friends who keep you informed and entertained.
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Music.
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All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Len.
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Welcome.
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Welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Len. This is Mr.
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Coker. I just figured I'd put that out there.
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Okay, this is Mr. Coker, proprietor of Dave Mark Inc., promoter,
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event planner, all-around good guy, and Leonard's best friend.
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What's going on, sir? How's everything? Dave, everything is good. This is Leonard Young.
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So I have a first name and last name, and it's not B-O-L-O-A-N-G-A, whatever.
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I'm CEO of National Black Guide, DelawareBlack.com, black media specialist,
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all around good guy, and the man who makes the show happen. How's it going, Dave? That's great.
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And believe it or not, people, that is true. He is the guy that makes the show
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happen. Now, how about this? Okay.
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All right. All right. What?
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You're stopping for telling the truth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I feel like
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you're about to say something contradictory to make no happen.
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OK, OK. All right. Well, that's the thing. I think you know me.
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But anyway, I'm good, man. Everything all right with you? Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. How was your weekend?
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From what I remember, it was all right. I mean, the weekend doesn't seem like a blur anymore. I know.
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Well, yeah, because you said you work Saturday, so I'm sure.
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Yeah, I work Saturday. It's like one and a half day off.
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You know what I mean? You know, so I remember it was a Friday.
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We had the big rainstorm that night.
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And did you see the double rainbow in the sky? They were next to each other.
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No, I did not see it. There was two rainbows.
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There was one and then there was one over top of it was a double rainbow.
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And I was like, OK, maybe maybe you get lucky and lucky this weekend,
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you know, with a million dollars or something like that. It didn't happen.
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You know, so just another regular weekend, you know.
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So, yeah, but, you know, it's always a good weekend and and a good beginning
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of the week when I can say I'm still here to be able to talk about the weekend.
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You know what I'm talking about? Definitely. Yeah. So, yeah.
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Anything new going on? No, Dave. I mean, same old, same old,
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you know, trying to take over the world and catch up on some sleep at the same
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time. Yeah, I know that's got to be rough with all that you got going on.
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So do you guys have any events going on down there at the campground? Yeah, really.
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We have a lot of rentals coming up, but not really any events.
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So we're kind of catching up on some stuff and trying to organize,
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reorganize and all that. Okay. All right.
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Do you plan on trying to have a big end of the summer thing down there?
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Yeah, we have a little something in our mind, but we're keeping it under wraps until.
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OK. All right. All right. All right.
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Well, I mean, you know where we are.
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So it's been I know we had plenty of rain, but I'll tell you, it's interesting.
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Interesting have you noticed that even with all the rain
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that a like grass is not
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100 green have you noticed that yeah probably
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because it's been so long without that grass died really yeah
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i know over by my job that grass always
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green and it's brown over a
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lot of a lot of it that normally is like green
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green and it's brown i'm sorry we've had
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a lot of rain i wonder why it's why that's happening but
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then i guess it's trying i guess it's making
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up for the rain that we didn't have because we did have a dry spell
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there for a while yeah yeah so
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okay all right well i
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guess we can go ahead and get into the show because of course quite naturally
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you know what i did get a chance to do this weekend is watch the olympics now
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of course you know it's funny i've talked to a couple people who listen to the
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show and they said you guys are really on the olympics I said, man, it's been great.
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And then, you know, it's been very interesting because it's had a little bit
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of everything like drama,
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you know, intrigue, you know, like crazy things that have happened. And you'd be like, huh?
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Why did that happen? You know, or whatever, you know?
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So, I mean, you know, of course we opened up with the swimming and everything.
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And of course we got to the gymnastics and the gymnastics and the swimming.
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And, you know, congratulations to Katie Ledecky.
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And who's the bell swimmer I'm thinking about? Is it Fink I'm thinking about? Yeah, Nick Fink.
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Yeah, Nick Fink. We had some great, great, they had some great races.
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And Ledecky, of course, is the most decorated female swimmer of all time.
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And he's really something in that water, man. She really is.
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Then, of course, we had the greatest gymnast of all time, Miss Simone Bob.
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Right. Who, you know, it's funny. Funny, she wasn't, I mean,
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and maybe you can back me up on this because I know you saw some of the gymnastics
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too. She wasn't great, great.
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But her greatness is great. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know.
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So she's not happy. Yeah.
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Well, you know, it's funny because I was thinking that, too,
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where, you know, I was looking at something and maybe the one of the events
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she didn't even qualify in to.
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I'm sorry. She didn't get top three. And it's all of my like you almost think
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because we hear it's all about the greatest of all time that she's going to
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win every single thing that she's in.
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Right. but but you know when we think about she
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won the all-around and then she won
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i know she won the the vault but you
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know i almost feel like that's one of her signature races i mean uh signature
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events but yeah you're right she is the greatest of all time but i think we
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know that she's not going to win every now maybe every all-around yes but every
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single individual event maybe maybe not.
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No, I mean, she even admittedly said, you know, that she said she wished she
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could say that she was equal at everything, but she's not.
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Like the balance beam, she came in fifth place on.
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Right. And basically because she fell off the balance beam. And the same thing
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happened with Sunny Lee, too.
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She came off the beam, too. and what made it
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so bad she could have turned in a very average
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performance because the person who won didn't do
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anything spectacular all all all either her or stunningly had to do was stay
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on the beat and they would have finished they would have finished in the medal
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but because they fell off and it was so shocking because i was watching the
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year everybody go oh oh you know like that Yeah, right, you know.
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And so when she does something like that, and even with the floor exercise,
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she came in silver. She got the silver medal in that.
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Okay. And basically because she stepped out of bounds, you know, a few times. Right.
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And still came up with the silver. You know, that was what was so crazy.
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So, like I said, she wasn't great, great, but her greatness is great.
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You know, that's what, you know, and that's what makes it so hard.
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And I was kind of glad that she didn't walk away with everything because the
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young lady from Brazil, I really like her. Yeah, very talented.
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And, you know, you can almost see on her face, you know, I've done everything
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I can do and I just can't beat that.
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You know so and it
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was so very cool that simone and and
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jordan charles yeah yeah they
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bowed down to her that was real cool yeah and of course they said it was black
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girl magic anyway you got all these all these girls that look alike up there
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you know what i mean so but dave you know it's funny i remember watching the
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olympics growing up and i'll just say in the 80s and my early early
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90s, besides Dominique Dawes, you know, in the 90s, there were relatively no, like,
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I'll just say, black skinned females.
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And, you know, it's such a difference now because, like, you know,
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we're talking about France had a couple of black females, of course,
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Brazil, America, and there were a couple of other countries that,
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you know, I forget, but that has some women of color.
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And you know to be honest seeing all three brown skin ladies on the podium I
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mean it really is amazing you know so it would have been more.
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On the American team, if two of their girls hadn't got hurt during the preliminary,
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you know, so, so it was, you know, cause I, you're right coming up and especially
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when I was coming up and, you know, the Russians and, and, and Romania and those
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kinds of countries were running everything.
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And, and, and of course the Asian countries were running, those countries were running everything.
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Things so you you never saw anybody look like us up
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there right you know it wasn't going to happen so so
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that was incredible to see
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those girls filled out and they
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did their thing you know congratulations to jordan
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charles on getting the bronze medal in the
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floor exercise yesterday and that was that was
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on a technicality did you see that that she
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she didn't think she was
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going to a medal yeah right i did and the third something yeah yeah
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right right yeah i remember seeing something
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like that yeah so so you
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know like i said it's been a lot of strange things that happen
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you know so we got through the swimming and the gymnastics then we get to our
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favorite part the track and field right and the craziness just starts going
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on at the track and field And it all started with the 100-meter women's race, Heat, the Heat.
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And Sha'Carri Richardson gets beat by this Julian Alford.
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And everybody's like, who is this chick? Where did she come from?
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Where did she come from? And not only did she beat Sha'Carri, she left her.
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She beat her convincingly. you know and then right after that happened we watched
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Noah Love go down in his heat yeah,
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You know, and I was like, OK, what's going on here?
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Remember, I was like, they look shook. Both of them look shook,
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didn't they? They both look shook.
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You know, I think I think Noah wasn't shook because he feared losing that.
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I think he was shook because and to me, I agree. I think he underestimated his
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opponents and he didn't.
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Which is hard, too, because in the preliminary, he's not going to go all out.
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Well, I mean, you're not going to go all out if you're, you know, on point.
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But I think he just underestimated the people in his heat as far as running faster.
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Yeah, because that kid that beat him, he took off out of the box.
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And see, Noah has a propensity to come out of the block slow.
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So, you know, he had to make, you know, you saw the breakdown on the science of how you run.
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Did you see that and they were talking about what he does in the
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last 50 meters yeah it's incredible
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you know like you know so
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he he not only
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did he lose that heat though he lost in the semi-finals too
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he came second you know and so
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that just kind of set up everything thing
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and shikari gets in the final of
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the 100 meters and get beat again by the
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by the same girl yeah and did
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you hear that her her country you know they man she never have to pay for anything
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again going back you know i believe yeah and don't let her win the 200 don't
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let her win it well we We don't want her to win the 200, but,
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I mean, don't let her win the 200.
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Well, Dave, the 200 came on earlier today. You didn't see it?
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Oh, that's right. I thought it was Wednesday.
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So you already know who won? Yeah.
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Okay, I don't want to know. Well, no, but I'm not going to say it,
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too, because maybe our listeners haven't seen it either. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'll see it. I'll see it tonight. night because that that's the
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first thing i do when i walk in the house and turn it on or turn on the limping
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so so and and i forgot that's right
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yeah they social media ruined it i was scrolling i i didn't know it was today
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either i was scrolling through social media and i saw it and i was like god
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dang it don't you hate it don't you hate it man i do uh i didn't see i didn't
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well i was training today.
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And so I didn't have my phone. I wasn't paying attention to my phone today.
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So I didn't see anything pop up on my newsfeed because normally it does pop
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up on my feed. So I didn't see it yet. So I don't know.
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So, and so I'm going to wait to see it on TV. So I, yeah.
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But so for those of you that may,
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By the time you, you know, but, you know, you sit there and you listen to us
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talking about it, you're going to say, oh, I already know who won that race.
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But anyway, the. Let me see. But of course, we got to talk about.
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Oh, I want to go back and say, you know, you saw the article I sent you yesterday
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in reference to what happened, what really happened with Shelly Frazier.
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You know i i started reading i did
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not get to finish and i didn't get to the the meat of
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it so i i don't know they would not let
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her in the stadiums like there was a big controversy about i saw that video
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so she left because of that they would let her in but then they did let her
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in and they finally let her in but she it was just before the race was about
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to start and she didn't have had time to warm up.
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But I thought she withdrew. I thought I heard they said, okay.
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So I did see the video where they would not let...
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Well, so this was the day before.
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Shikari and Shelly Ann were together and they would not let both of them in.
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So are you saying the next day or another day, they still...
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The day of the race, they wouldn't let her in. Wow.
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Yeah. And they finally let her in. They did let her in.
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But she didn't have enough time to warm up. And she said she wasn't feeling
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comfortable with racing because she didn't have enough time to warm up.
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And but, yeah, they held her up and they said that there was some type of rule
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change that just became present this year because any other time they would
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have been able to go through that gate.
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So the like all the athletes would have been able to enter through that particular gate.
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But why can some athletes go through
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that gate and not others i well don't
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get me started yeah i'm pretty
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sure there was a very good reason
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for that you know so maybe a couple
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good reasons for that so but it's really
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a shame because this was her last olympics and I was been feeling something
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I've been pissed man if I was there I mean and the Jamaicans look the Jamaicans
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are already mad they're already mad they're already mad because they didn't
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already lost Tariqa they lost Tariqa Jackson and,
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What's the other girl? The other sprinter.
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Elaine Hilaire? No. You know who I'm talking about? Yeah.
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Yeah, because she had to withdraw. Both of them had to withdraw.
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Shelly didn't get a chance to run. Those have been the three fastest women in
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Jamaica over the last five to six years.
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And then they met at Christine, got robbed. They just deal. Oh, my God.
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We didn't get. Okay. All right. we got
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to talk about it so this
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race in the hundred was probably
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a lot of people saying the greatest race they
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ever witnessed you know now so many things happened during that race leonard
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that you don't even that we're not even talking about right okay like do you
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know when When Carlos was named the fastest man in the world and won his Olympic gold,
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he ran his personal best of 990 something, right?
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990 and some change.
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Do you know that everybody in that race ran faster than Carlos did?
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The last race guy was faster than him.
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Wow. You know, so Carlos wouldn't have beaten any of those guys in that race.
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Right. Running at his top speed. Okay.
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They said that was the fastest collection of guys to cross the finish line ever. Yeah.
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I remember they said every single person was under 10. Yeah. And the spread.
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Every single one ran at least a 990. 90
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the the spread between all
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of them was like 0.15 seconds ridiculous
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1500th of a second separated first from
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last right when you look at the top four okay so the top four was thompson right
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you had noah thompson curly and the african guy right tobogo yeah tobogo yeah
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okay so those Those were the top four.
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When you look at the video, when you look at the pictures that have been taken,
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they're right next to each other.
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You know, and of course, you know, when when then when you see the final of
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the race, everybody because the Jamaicans, man, I was reading some of the comments
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for the Jamaicans. His foot was across the line.
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Why didn't he win? You know, he didn't lean.
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And, you know, now we will. We learned a lot from that race about who wins the
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race. Right. You know. Right.
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No, I definitely understood the assignment. Yeah, he did.
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So, Dave, I'm looking at the results here. Go ahead.
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The eighth place person did a 9.91.
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Okay, 9.91. Everybody else was under.
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Everyone else was 9.88 or faster. That's crazy. You know, it is.
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That is crazy. And I had my facts wrong.
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It wasn't 1ths of a second. It was twelve hundreds of a second that so it
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spread from point seven nine to point nine one.
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Jesus. Yeah, them guys were moving, man. I'll tell you.
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And what's so incredible about that? Because you had like three guys that came
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out of the block like slingshot.
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The guy from Africa.
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Thompson and Curly, they all came out of the blocks really quickly.
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Quick nor can't got a slow start out of the block to tell you how fast noah's
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finishing time is they said he really didn't hit his top speed to the last 10
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meters oh wow well thank goodness,
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thank goodness miles an hour leonard he was running 27 miles an hour think about that right Right.
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Okay. In the last 50 meters, he was unbelievable.
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So for him to be able to, and to be able to lean the way he did in with control, cause he leaned,
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you know, cause some people will lean and they'll fall over or,
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you know, trying to catch themselves or whatever,
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you know, but I know, cause I know, cause Shane,
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I know thompson is going to continue thompson said is so
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that that won't happen again right no yeah
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and noah and then to watch the reaction after the race and you see did you hear
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what noah said to him you know when noah walked up behind him did you hear what
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he said yeah i think he got me yeah he said i think he got me and he also said
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let me prepare myself to eat this humble pie,
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because he had been doing all that talk. Right. You know? Yeah, so...
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And then the race results went up and he won, you know, I don't know,
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folks, tell me, do you guys think that was the greatest race that you ever seen?
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Prior to that, I think the greatest race I ever seen was the one called Lewis against Ben Johnson.
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I think that was the greatest race I had seen prior to that,
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you know, but that, that was really worth the admission, you know?
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Yeah, it really was. us and then you know
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there was another great race with the mixed relay team
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they go out and set the world record the
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night before they get to the finals look like
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they're going to pull off you know the gold from the gold medal get the gold
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medal win but they forgot about femke bowl yes she was on point literally kicked
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into another gear that was just unbelievable i mean and she She ran past everybody.
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I mean, that was crazy. Yeah. So I'm telling you, this Olympics,
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man, is definitely, even with all the stuff, because you heard about,
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you know, there's a lot of people complaining about the conditions and all of
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that kind of stuff, you know.
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But they, I mean, they've been complaining about the Olympic village and the sleep. For years.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean.
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Yeah. I mean, NBA players, they all stay in hotels and everything.
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So, you know, they ain't worried about that stuff, you know.
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But, yeah, that but the way that and I even had to give what's the he's not
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American, but he actually is American.
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But he's he's he's doing it for Sweden.
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He's did you see the pole vaulter yesterday? Break the world record.
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Yes, I did see that. Yeah. The plastic plastic.
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I think his name is the blackish.
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He's actually born in America, but his mother's from Sweden and he was competing for tweeting.
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That boy looked like he could jump forever. I mean, I mean, I've never seen
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somebody do pole vault that has perfect form.
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Yeah. His form is incredible. You know, so.
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So we got. So the 200 was ran earlier today. I don't know who won.
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So I want to know until I watch it. OK. Okay.
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The men's 200 is tomorrow, right? Or is that the preliminary tonight?
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Yes, I think the semifinals for the men is tonight and then the finals tomorrow. Okay. All right.
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Outside of those things, has anything caught your eye as far as any of the other sports?
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Yeah, so I don't know if you saw the men's 1500. Other than big volleyball.
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No, I ain't watching none of that. The men's 1500 Of course,
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that was the door of Engerstein and Kerr.
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They don't like each other. But the American guy ran right through them and
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got, well, damn, I don't know who's seen what.
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But anyway, yeah. So that was a couple of days ago. I'm sure they know by now.
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The men's 1500. the women's 5000 with I mean the 5k with a little bit of drama
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they had that was interesting was that the one with the Africans that with the
00:25:51
drama yeah like with the pushing yeah yeah I saw that yeah yeah,
00:25:56
that was good what about what about the.
00:26:02
Who am I thinking about? Did you see any of the surfing? I thought that was pretty interesting.
00:26:10
Yeah, I saw a little bit. I was trying to, I was like, what makes somebody want
00:26:15
to go in them kind of ways and just hang out in those waves like that, man?
00:26:20
Gold medal dreams.
00:26:24
Yeah. But the, yeah, they've had,
00:26:28
oh, I watched the table tennis one time, the
00:26:31
ping pong i watched that a little bit that's crazy that is
00:26:34
crazy i i also watched archery a little bit
00:26:37
i was like man they they're good they're good they
00:26:40
are good did you see the american guy missed out on the gold medal by yeah i
00:26:45
saw that oh yeah that was crazy though but he ended up with the silver but i
00:26:50
mean he had he had a shot at the gold though he had a shot at the gold yeah
00:26:54
so it's been great i mean i've really enjoyed it i thought the presentation And I have to say,
00:27:00
Snoop, Snoop is killing it out there, man. He's everywhere.
00:27:07
And he's just been entertaining. Yeah. He, you know, the stuff with Martha Stewart was hilarious.
00:27:14
You know, you know, I mean, God, they just like to know what his paycheck is for this.
00:27:20
Well, they said five hundred thousand a day.
00:27:24
No. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah, $500 a day, plus expenses.
00:27:31
So they're paying for everything.
00:27:34
$500 a day? Yeah. So he made about, what, maybe $6 million?
00:27:40
So he's been there. He's been there.
00:27:43
Like, he was there from the start. So, yeah, got to be $6, right?
00:27:49
$6 million? Yeah.
00:27:54
I can't hate I can't hate on Snoop you know no and he's the only person,
00:28:01
only hip hop artist that can do that I mean right pure hip hop artist you know
00:28:06
like I mean Will Smith could probably get away with it you know what I mean but,
00:28:10
not going to be as entertaining as Snoop Snoop is like plus Snoop not only is
00:28:16
Snoop being Snoop but Snoop knows sports too and he knows he knows this history and he knows,
00:28:25
you know, you know, he just enjoys everything, you know, I mean, man,
00:28:30
that's crazy, you know, so I, I'm glad that they, they added him to the broadcast.
00:28:36
So I'm enjoying it, you know, so, but, you know, but guys, I hope you're,
00:28:42
I hope you guys are enjoying it as much as we have been. I think it's a great presentation.
00:28:48
I heard so many people already start talking about 28, 28.
00:28:53
Leonard is saying he's gone. He's thinking about going. I know a lot of people
00:28:57
that are talking about going, man.
00:29:01
There's a young lady I work with at my job. She's a big pickleball player.
00:29:05
She said, if they start pickleball, I'm there.
00:29:12
We'll see what happens. I do want to see the breakdancing, though.
00:29:16
I like to check that out a little bit. you
00:29:19
know because they are here that's supposed to be pretty good flashbacks they
00:29:22
yeah when i was when i was boogaloo uh
00:29:25
dave yeah you know i was getting down man you know
00:29:28
break dance break dancing all that stuff man so
00:29:31
anyway all right so that's our that's our olympic talk sure you guys there's
00:29:38
probably a couple things we didn't talk about but i know you guys have been
00:29:42
following along you know i've gotten some comments and so forth so but i hope
00:29:46
you guys have been enjoying and as much as we have. So, all right.
00:29:50
So we're going to go ahead and move on to our first story of the night.
00:29:57
Our VP, Vice President Harris, has elected her running mate,
00:30:03
not the person everybody thought it was going to be,
00:30:06
you know, but Minnesota's governor, Tim Walz, is going to be her running mate.
00:30:14
And let me just read a couple things to you about this.
00:30:17
The vice president of Kamala Harris picked Minnesota's governor Tim Walz to
00:30:23
be her running mate on Tuesday.
00:30:27
And Tuesday, Walz, she is turning to the Midwestern governor,
00:30:31
military veteran, and union supporter who helped enact an ambitious democratic
00:30:38
agenda for his state, including...
00:30:44
Sweeping protections for abortion rights and generous age to family.
00:30:50
Harris hopes to shore up her campaign standing across the upper Midwest,
00:30:54
a critical region in presidential politics that often serves as a buffer for
00:31:00
the Democrats seeking the White House.
00:31:02
The party remains haunted by Republican Donald Trump's win in Michigan and in Wisconsin in 2016.
00:31:12
Trump lost those states in 2020, but has zeroed in on them as he aims to return
00:31:19
to presidency this year, and is expanding his focus to Minnesota.
00:31:26
Now, Waltz is 60 years old. Does he look 60 to you?
00:31:30
He looks older than that to me. But anyway, he was joining Harris during one
00:31:37
of her most turbulent period, modern American politics promising an unpredictable campaign ahead.
00:31:44
Republicans have rallied around Trump after his attempted assassination in July,
00:31:50
just weeks before President Biden ended his reelection campaign.
00:31:56
Of course, in Harris to unify Democrats and consider considering potential running
00:32:04
mates during an exceedingly compressed time frame.
00:32:07
Brain so looks like oh let me read this part and then i'll say what i'm going
00:32:13
to say it says harris is the first black woman and person of south asian descent to lead a majority.
00:32:22
Ticket consider nearly a dozen candidates before zeroing in on a handful of
00:32:27
serious contenders all of whom were white men in landing on waltz he decided with a low-key partner
00:32:35
who has proven himself as a champion for democratic cause.
00:32:41
So, yes, it is interesting who her choices were.
00:32:47
And, of course, I don't know who else they thought that she was going to choose other than a white man.
00:32:53
You know, I don't understand where they thought she was going to go.
00:32:57
But it was interesting because all kinds of names were being put out there.
00:33:02
One by one, they were getting shot down.
00:33:05
Shapiro, the governor from Pennsylvania, looked like a shoo-in for a moment there.
00:33:11
But because he is Jewish, and because they were afraid of his ties to Israel,
00:33:18
they decided against that.
00:33:20
That is so much that, you know, you got to look at nowadays when it comes to
00:33:26
the whole political thing right now,
00:33:29
because, you know, if you have feelings towards certain thing one way and then
00:33:36
certain things the other, that's going to knock you out.
00:33:38
You know, and people are just got every people that's got everything on their microscope these days.
00:33:44
What's your thoughts on her? choosing her moneymate
00:33:48
to be honest i almost feel like as long as she chose a white male it almost
00:33:53
didn't matter because you know i think every white male has this disadvantage
00:33:58
advantages and disadvantages and unless you are let's say living in minnesota,
00:34:07
you know you're not gonna know much about them you know and i feel like don't
00:34:10
was the only reason We thought Shapiro was shooing because we live in the tri-state area.
00:34:15
Like, you know, the news kind of hyped it up in our area.
00:34:19
But still, I think this election is going to be based on Kamala versus Trump.
00:34:25
You know, Kamala supporters and Trump supporters.
00:34:29
Well, keep in mind, Leonard, this was a big move.
00:34:32
And even if Shapiro was chosen, that would have been a big move, too. Yeah.
00:34:40
Because these are two states that are very important.
00:34:45
Like, well, Minnesota is a big state.
00:34:48
Pennsylvania definitely is a big swing state. And, you know, she's no dummy.
00:34:55
She had to get people on board from places that she knows can help her win the election.
00:35:01
The whole strategy involved with picking a running mate is somebody that's going
00:35:07
to help to improve your chances. Right.
00:35:10
Just like with Biden, when he picked Kamala Harris,
00:35:13
that was the that was the whole twist, you know, was to get,
00:35:18
you know, she she was a black woman chance to do something new right on the
00:35:26
heels of having a black president, you know.
00:35:29
You know, so here we are again.
00:35:33
She's saying to herself, OK, I'm a black woman who has a chance of winning the presidency.
00:35:39
But I got to have somebody who's going to help me get over the edge.
00:35:43
And especially with, like they said, Trump's newfound admiration for people and,
00:35:50
you know, him getting empathy and sympathy in reference to the shooting attempt
00:35:58
that he staged. I mean, that happened that day.
00:36:01
Right. So, you know, so that was.
00:36:05
So she has to she had to be smart about this and she had to figure out who was
00:36:10
going to be best to help her get over the top.
00:36:13
You know, so I think it's interesting now. Of course, everybody.
00:36:20
She's under a lot of microscope. I mean, she's on a real big microscope right
00:36:24
now because, of course, she's black.
00:36:27
She's black. She's a black female. And she's a woman.
00:36:30
Right. So. So, of course, you know, when you look at these scathing ads that
00:36:36
are on TV, the ads are crazy, man.
00:36:39
I'm telling you, they the commercial.
00:36:43
When you look at the commercials that Trump and has thrown out there against her.
00:36:50
One thing she has taken the high road because she won't really come back at
00:36:55
him the way that he's coming at her.
00:37:27
Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. DJ. Okay. He has the conversation.
00:37:31
Of course he gets into a whole little debate with the person to answer the question
00:37:36
because he wouldn't answer the question.
00:37:38
You know, he never did answer the question that she asked him,
00:37:41
you know, deflection, you know, do you think that was a good look for him to do the go there? Yeah.
00:37:53
And, you know, you and I had, I think we talked about this a little bit.
00:37:58
You know, why wasn't she interviewed first?
00:38:01
Well, because she said that she couldn't make it because she was attending Rep.
00:38:06
Sheila Jackson Lee's funeral.
00:38:09
So that's why she said she wouldn't.
00:38:12
That's why I think later she got on via Zoom, but she wasn't able to be there in person.
00:38:18
But I think I don't think that was a bad look for Trump because he did kind
00:38:24
of what we what he's known to do.
00:38:26
I think it was a bad look on that.
00:38:29
I'm going to say that, too. Yeah. I mean, bringing them there.
00:38:32
I think that was a bad look on the NABJ organizers, the convention.
00:38:38
And I've been looking at some comments. A lot of the members are very upset
00:38:44
at the organization for even bringing him on.
00:38:46
So, you know, what did they think the game where they I mean,
00:38:51
I can understand that they have that he would did they think they had a game
00:38:55
plan and their game plan was trying to get press.
00:38:59
I don't think they knew it would turn out that bad. But it's like and I think that they do.
00:39:05
Yes, I'm sure. Well, you know, one of the people who interviewed him and I didn't
00:39:09
see it on the clip, but I heard about it was a Fox interview.
00:39:12
Did you see that where Donald Trump was like, well, so-and-so interviewed me and she did a great job.
00:39:17
That was one of the best. And of course, that was a black Fox correspondent.
00:39:21
So, right. I mean, I don't know.
00:39:25
I just know, you know, if Trump wasn't running for president,
00:39:29
he would be one of the most entertaining people out there because just listening
00:39:34
to him, it was almost like, oh, my goodness.
00:39:36
And even people in the they I even chuckle sometimes of some of his answers.
00:39:40
They were just so outlandish well obviously he says the first thing that comes
00:39:46
to his mouth and that's what that's what took the jury.
00:39:52
You know, he definitely does not think about anything and he feels that anything he says is acceptable.
00:40:00
And that's what's so crazy is that he still has all these people that worship
00:40:05
him, even with some of the stuff that he says. Yeah.
00:40:11
And that was definitely I'm sitting there when I first tuned in to hear some
00:40:16
of the stuff. I went on YouTube and I listened to a lot of the stuff that was
00:40:20
said at that, that in a BJ interview and everything.
00:40:25
And I'm sitting there and I'm saying to myself, what were they thinking?
00:40:30
The world will never know. Yeah. And the only thing,
00:40:33
I mean, the only thing that I could have been thinking that,
00:40:36
that I thought to myself about that could have made it even acceptable is that
00:40:43
they were planning to make him look so bad.
00:40:46
That it would turn off some of the voters. That's the only thing I could think
00:40:50
of that they were trying to do.
00:40:52
But even with that, with him looking foolish and stupid, it still came back
00:41:00
to haunt them more than it did hurt them more than it did Trump, I believe.
00:41:05
Because people, he did exactly what people know he's going to do.
00:41:08
Yeah. And Dave, I'm sorry to say, Trump's supporters have blind faith.
00:41:14
Kamala's supporters don't have Trump
00:41:16
can say anything and that's still Defending you know
00:41:20
And that's another thing Leonard it's
00:41:23
really a shame That we have
00:41:26
more Black people And people of
00:41:29
color Saying more negative things
00:41:32
In reference to The Democrats and The VP who's running for President Kamala
00:41:42
Harris more to say about her and her track record and everything than they do
00:41:47
about Trump and all the stuff that he has on. Yeah.
00:41:52
That's incredible to me, you know?
00:41:55
And yeah, you know, and I'm sure, you know, we all have a past.
00:41:59
We all have done some things that we probably say ourselves.
00:42:03
Oh man, if I had a chance to do that over again, I wouldn't have done that.
00:42:06
You know what I'm saying? We've all had those moments and I'm sure she has too,
00:42:10
but she has, you know, Consider when you look at her track record and you look
00:42:15
at the stuff that she has accomplished,
00:42:17
you know, and so forth, you know, it's really, it's really crazy that she has
00:42:26
the detractors that she does. I'm going to put it that way.
00:42:32
You got anything to say about that? No, I think I covered it.
00:42:37
That's my buddy. You know, man, a few words. OK. All right. OK, we're going to move on.
00:42:45
Moving on to our next story. And I thought this was a very interesting story.
00:42:50
But go ahead and tell us what happened.
00:42:53
Sure. So the next story. And this is something that actually happened in 2020.
00:42:58
20, because it seemed like all the major race stuff from the past happened in 2020.
00:43:03
But so the next story talks about the there was a Delta pilot who demands that
00:43:10
a black passenger take off her hat.
00:43:13
And basically, if you Google, you know, that topic, you'll you'll be able to see the video.
00:43:21
But, you know, it just brought up a point that I want to kind of talk about,
00:43:26
Dave. So are you familiar with this story before I give any details?
00:43:30
I think I vaguely remember it, yes. Okay.
00:43:33
So this black lady on the plane had a hat that said the word F-U-C-K on it.
00:43:44
That was on the top of her hat.
00:43:46
Okay. The pilot, and I'm sure one of the flight attendants probably mentioned
00:43:52
to the pilot or somehow made the pilot saw it. But the pilot was demanding that she take off the hat.
00:43:59
She refused to take off the hat. And she said, how would I have known that?
00:44:05
And the captain said, I am the captain of this airplane.
00:44:10
That's where it's posted. Delta has guidelines and I don't have to explain them to you.
00:44:17
So this brings up the point, Dave, can let's say pilots or let's say even transportation people,
00:44:26
can they deny people based on what they're wearing or language on what they're wearing?
00:44:36
In this specific case what are your thoughts you're the captain of a plane you see you're.
00:44:47
White and you see whether color matters or doesn't matter you see a lady with
00:44:55
a hat that has the word F-U-C-K on it I would probably be offended by it,
00:45:03
and I would,
00:45:06
Probably say something in the reference to especially and it's a plane because
00:45:10
so there's a good chance that the plane could have children on or young people
00:45:16
under the age of 19, 18, 19 years old.
00:45:21
So you would want to definitely say something to that person saying,
00:45:29
you know, let them know that and try to say it as nice as possible,
00:45:35
you know, to them, regardless of what color that person may be to say,
00:45:39
hey, look, we have some people on here that would probably find that offensive.
00:45:44
Offensive your head offensive and can you take it off you know while you're on the plane you know.
00:45:53
Now there's ways to talk to people that you can probably get them to do right
00:45:58
so we don't know how the conversation happened you know,
00:46:05
You know, we didn't want the same situation to happen that happened down there
00:46:09
in Louisiana where my man threw the cap up in the air and tears started flying,
00:46:15
you know, that type of thing, you know.
00:46:16
But even still, there's a way there's a certain decorum that both could be that
00:46:23
could be approached on both sides.
00:46:25
Yeah, I agree. Now, you already you already have to say to yourself,
00:46:29
if a person is walking around with a hat on with just one single word and it's that word,
00:46:39
then it's probably somebody that you're probably thinking to yourself,
00:46:43
that person ain't right.
00:46:45
You know what I'm saying? You know, because maybe they're having a bad day.
00:46:50
You know, maybe they're having a bad month. Maybe they're just having a bad life.
00:46:56
And you may not want to say anything to that person right but because of the people who.
00:47:05
Find it offensive you don't know if you have pastors you don't know if you have
00:47:09
nuns you don't know if you have children i mean you don't know who may see you
00:47:14
in that you know i mean it's just like you know that's what a lot of people
00:47:19
feel when they see that red hat that that has has, you know, MAGA on it.
00:47:24
You know, they still feel that that's basically the same word to them.
00:47:27
You know what I mean? Right.
00:47:29
But I wouldn't mind a MAGA hat versus that hat.
00:47:36
You know, I don't want to see the other hat. Yeah. I understand.
00:47:41
You know, so that's my feeling.
00:47:44
I just feel that, you know, maybe that person was approached the wrong way that
00:47:49
probably led to the issues that.
00:47:53
Ensued, but maybe it was a way that they could have been approached where they
00:47:57
would have taken the hat off without an issue, and then,
00:48:01
Everything would have been fine. But obviously, that didn't happen. Right. No, not at all.
00:48:08
Yeah. So what's the update to the story? Do you know?
00:48:11
Yeah. So, I mean, there's really no update. It's just the video kind of resurfaced again.
00:48:17
So how it happened, pretty much, as we said, the pilot came.
00:48:21
She felt probably, you know, defensive and, you know, they kind of both started arguing at each other.
00:48:30
And eventually she took the hat off put it
00:48:33
in her lap and then per the video he's
00:48:36
still pointing his finger at her telling her you know you don't need to do this
00:48:41
and the video ends with them two arguing and it says it's unclear what unfolded
00:48:48
after the video so but you know i just brought it up because you know i think
00:48:53
it's just one of those things where you know it's kind of like Like, Dave,
00:48:56
if somebody walked in your office and they had a hat that said,
00:48:59
you know, can we all kind of run into these situations,
00:49:02
whether it's certain words, certain meanings?
00:49:06
You know, I always think of the campground.
00:49:09
We had to tell there was this guy who would ride around with a Confederate flag.
00:49:14
No, a Confederate flag and a make a Trump flag on the back of his truck.
00:49:24
And when he'd ride by, they'd just be blowing in the wind.
00:49:28
And we had to go tell him one of our policies was, you can't have stuff at your
00:49:35
campsite or riding through that's political, defamatory, racist, just a couple of things.
00:49:43
So we kind of threw it under there, but it's just one of those things like,
00:49:46
okay, are people free to express?
00:49:49
Which yes, they kind of are, but But if you're on private property,
00:49:53
you know, you're at our mercy.
00:49:57
Yeah, that's true. That is true. Yep. And basically, you know,
00:50:03
when you're on a plane, you're already dealing with, you know,
00:50:09
interesting conditions already.
00:50:12
So, you know, why make things even harder for yourself by deciding, oh, this is a great hat.
00:50:19
You know what I mean so yeah I don't know I'm sure we probably haven't heard
00:50:27
the last of that story I'm sure it'll come back up at some point we'll see what happens alright well.
00:50:35
Going from some meth to something positive. Let's go to something positive here.
00:50:42
This is a good story, feel-good story,
00:50:46
because you and I have had conversations about the medical field and how there's
00:50:52
a lack of representation for doctors of color, black doctors and so forth.
00:50:59
So I thought this was a great story. And it's about Bloomberg gives $600 million
00:51:06
to four black medical school endowments.
00:51:10
So Michael Bloomberg, former New York City mayor,
00:51:14
his organization Bloomberg Philanthropies, is announcing a $600 million gift
00:51:24
to the endowments of four historically black medical schools.
00:51:32
This gift will empower new generations of black doctors to create a healthier
00:51:38
and more equitable future for our country, Bloomberg said in a statement.
00:51:44
Black Americans are worth fair worth in measures of health compared to white Americans.
00:51:51
An Associated Press series reported last year, experts believe increasing the
00:51:57
representation among doctors as a solution that could disrupt these longstanding inequities.
00:52:04
In 2022, only 6% of U.S. physicians were Black, even though Black Americans
00:52:14
represent 13% of the population.
00:52:18
Now, think about that. 6%, only 6% Black doctors. That makes no sense whatsoever. or wherever.
00:52:26
Are they not allowing us to go through schools or anything? Or what's going
00:52:30
on? What's really going on there?
00:52:32
It says the gifts are among the largest private donations to any historically
00:52:37
black colleges or universities, with $175 million each going to of course,
00:52:44
you know Howard's going to be in there, Howard University College of Medicine,
00:52:47
Meharry Medical College.
00:52:50
I've never heard of that. Have you? Yeah, I think it's in Nashville.
00:52:55
It must be yeah and morehouse
00:52:59
school of medicine and the charles drew
00:53:02
university of medicine and science yeah they
00:53:06
will receive uh 75 million dollars xavier university of louisiana which is opening
00:53:14
a new medical school will also receive a five million dollar grant the donations
00:53:20
will more than double the size of three of the medical school's endowments.
00:53:27
They said that the Lilly Endowment gave $100 million to the United Negro College
00:53:32
Fund towards a pool endowment fund for 37 HBCUs to be split amongst the school.
00:53:41
That same month, Spelman College, a historically black women's college in Atlanta,
00:53:46
received a $100 million donation from Rhonda Stryker and her husband,
00:53:50
William Johnson, chairman of the Greenleaf Trust Corporation.
00:53:54
So they're throwing all this money around to these black schools to try to help
00:54:01
to get these doctors and to have the representation out there.
00:54:08
You know, I think it's great.
00:54:12
But it just seems. OK, all right. I got to play devil's advocate here.
00:54:18
I don't know if you see where I'm going to go with this. No,
00:54:21
OK. I'm waiting and participating.
00:54:27
That's great that Bloomberg and some of these other white philanthropists have
00:54:31
donated this money to these schools.
00:54:34
And I know it is well worth it. And hopefully we'll get the top notch doctors
00:54:39
that we deserve to be out there in the medical field doing their things because
00:54:45
the representation is meek out there.
00:54:49
But we have a lot of black,
00:54:53
millionaires and billionaires what are they giving money to why aren't they
00:54:59
doing that is that a reciprocal question well what's your thought so I mean
00:55:05
you're one of them go ahead,
00:55:08
I don't know about that billionaire thing but anyway.
00:55:15
I think that,
00:55:18
And I mean, I'll just say, like, Dave, every time you donate money to somebody,
00:55:23
are you putting it on social media?
00:55:26
No, no. And that's true. I mean, you know, they talked about one of the one
00:55:31
of the people they talked about for years, but not seeming to reach out and
00:55:36
help his community is none other than Michael Jordan. They've talked about that for a year.
00:55:40
Well, then Harvey Austin and Steve Harvey, because he's mentioned people have said that.
00:55:47
Yeah i've heard him say that too but he ain't got michael jordan
00:55:50
money you know what i'm saying yeah and and
00:55:53
but then it has
00:55:56
come out many times that michael has done a lot in
00:55:59
the communities he just don't talk about it you know
00:56:02
what i mean and we know matthew johnson and then
00:56:05
shaq and you know those guys got money too but you
00:56:09
know michael jordan you know he's you know but then they talk about people like
00:56:14
jay-z you don't see you don't hear or see jay-z doing things like that now we
00:56:21
don't know if he is or not but you know of course but when you got so,
00:56:26
what's the difference in the white people who do these type of things the bill gates the.
00:56:35
Ex-wife.
00:56:36
Melinda. Oh, no, you're talking about Anna Jeff Bezos' ex-wife,
00:56:44
because she's given a lot to HBCUs. Yes, she has, too.
00:56:48
So, when you hear about these people who give the money, and it's public that
00:56:55
they give it, are they doing it for the prestige or,
00:57:02
Or proof that, hey, we like white, black people, that type of thing.
00:57:07
You know, we got black friends, that type of thing. Or are they doing it?
00:57:11
Do you feel that they're being as sincere as possible?
00:57:14
It's just that their name gets out there.
00:57:17
I think I think I think it depends on who the person is. I think some of them,
00:57:22
you know, want to be the great black savior.
00:57:25
And I think some of them are, you know, more legitimate.
00:57:30
Like, I can't remember what Jeff Bezos ex-wife is, but she's been giving to HBCUs for some years.
00:57:39
So it's not like a one and done, you know, type thing. In fact,
00:57:43
let me Google her name while we're talking because, oh, Mackenzie, is it Mackenzie Scott?
00:57:51
No, that's not her. I'm going to say Mackenzie Scott.
00:57:56
Hold on one second. Let me just get this name. Yeah, she's not using the base.
00:58:02
That's her last name, right? Oh, yeah. Okay.
00:58:05
Mackenzie Scott is her name. Okay. All right. But she's been giving,
00:58:09
you know, for five, six, seven years.
00:58:13
So, you know, to me, that seems more legitimate because over those years,
00:58:19
she's kind of been building relationships with the HBCUs over the year, you know.
00:58:24
So, I mean, that's my thought. You know, I think it's just with anything like
00:58:27
some people are going to give money, videotape it, put it to social media,
00:58:31
and some people are just going to give money and keep it moving.
00:58:35
Man i know i know both bill gates
00:58:39
and his ex-wife they give a lot
00:58:42
of money to a lot of different things but they've
00:58:46
also given a lot of money to the black cause as well and you know it's just
00:58:53
interesting though that when we hear these type of things it's usually you know
00:58:58
from the the other side as opposed to our side being the ones that are given
00:59:02
this kind of money. $600 million, man.
00:59:06
That's crazy.
00:59:10
That's real crazy. That's when you know you got money.
00:59:15
You can give $600 million away and not miss it. So,
00:59:22
just thought it was interesting. I think it's a great move. You and I have done
00:59:26
many stories talking about you know, blacks in health care, you know,
00:59:33
doctors, how come they're not signing up black doctors and so forth.
00:59:37
So this will be a great move for being able to get these people educated and
00:59:43
get them out into the field where we need them.
00:59:46
Right. So hats off to former Mayor Williamsburg and all the others that have
00:59:55
also given you know your money definitely has been,
01:00:02
well needed and hopefully it will be put together put to good use for those
01:00:09
that are intending to ride it all the way to the top of their fields so,
01:00:19
great job All right.
01:00:22
So here we are to Leonard's favorite part of the show, Dave's Corner.
01:00:29
And so I got a good question for you today.
01:00:35
Let's see how good you are at this coming off the cuff here. Yeah.
01:00:40
So I was listening to something this morning, made me think about this question.
01:00:44
So I just wanted to ask you how you felt and what you were thinking about. So the question is this.
01:00:52
You are doing an album and you want to collaborate with four different artists
01:00:58
who represent the following types of genre and music.
01:01:03
R&B, rap, country, jazz, reggae, and gospel.
01:01:12
Okay, and you had to pick an artist that represents any one of those genres.
01:01:19
One artist per genre. So, it's got to be four. Okay?
01:01:25
Who would they be, and what genre of music would they come from?
01:01:32
Yeah, so I would do Jay-Z. I knew that one. Okay, go ahead.
01:01:38
I would do... For those that are under a rock, don't know who Jay-Z is.
01:01:42
Which I refuse to give that.
01:01:45
Would they... I know, they don't know. I'm going to have to have them Google that on their own.
01:01:53
Just like Kanye said, we can't give you all the answers. Okay.
01:01:58
Yeah, yeah, yeah. we all will fall down at one point well he also said Jesus walks they you know yeah,
01:02:11
and then we got some gold diggers out there what can we say so that's what he
01:02:17
says but they you know you gotta see through the wire now oh yeah that's true,
01:02:25
we keep going I'm not gonna you know Dave I'm a big Kanye fan I'm just waiting
01:02:32
for you go ahead Wait hold on But you named Jay Z You didn't say Kanye I'm a
01:02:38
big Kanye fan but if I had someone on my album I'd have Jay Z.
01:02:45
Alright so I'm going to do Jay Z Rap I'm going to do the legendary Bob Marley,
01:02:54
Reggae Oh Let's start those He's trying to cross some people up. Okay, go ahead.
01:03:01
I'm going to do a new country music artist who's chart-topping.
01:03:09
I'm going to do... No, you're going to do... Who? Go ahead. Kelly Rowland.
01:03:15
Kelly Rowland? No. Kelly Rowland. No.
01:03:23
I'm doing Shaboosie. I'm going to do Shaboosie for country.
01:03:28
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. And then...
01:03:32
And this is the only one. I feel like I need a lady of music in there, but I'm not sure.
01:03:41
I'm going to go with. You got rap and you got. Reggae.
01:03:46
Reggae. Okay. So where are you going next? So I'm going to go with one of my
01:03:53
favorite R&B singers who is also a FAMU alumni.
01:04:01
I bet you don't know who this is. I don't. Go ahead. None other than Keisha Cole.
01:04:10
In her prime. Well, that girl don't get it. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, I like you.
01:04:18
Okay. All right. All right.
01:04:23
And that's R&B.
01:04:26
That's eclectic. Okay. All right. Dave, what about You're doing an album and
01:04:32
you want to collaborate with four different artists who represent either the R&B,
01:04:40
rap, country,
01:04:42
reggae, jazz,
01:04:45
rock slash pop or gospel genres.
01:04:50
Who would they be and what John would they represent?
01:05:02
My first person would be an R.P. artist by the name.
01:05:09
You may not have heard of him, but he's really good.
01:05:13
And his name is Usher Raymond. Have you ever heard of him? No,
01:05:17
I heard of Usher. Usher, but I haven't heard of Usher.
01:05:21
Oh, that's Ursh, baby. Okay.
01:05:24
I'm going to throw Usher out there since he kind of covers a lot of music there.
01:05:33
Plus, people love him. Because I've got to get some record sales,
01:05:38
so this is the way I'm going.
01:05:42
I'm going to throw country music artists out there. A young lady that is really,
01:05:48
really good and a lot of people seem to like her.
01:05:54
She's kind of popular. Her name is Beyonce. I'm going to throw her out there
01:06:00
and tell her to sing some country for me.
01:06:04
You're going with the heavy hitter. Yeah. I'm trying to get album sales, man.
01:06:10
I'm trying to move some units, man. That's what I'm trying to do. Okay.
01:06:15
Then I'm going to switch it up a little bit. I want them to throw a gospel artist
01:06:19
in there And I got to talk to my little guy Mr.
01:06:23
Kirk Franklin You know, say, come on, Kirk Let's get some souls,
01:06:27
man Let's get some souls Go out there and twerk You know, that's my first fellow,
01:06:31
you know Wait, what did you say? Twerk Jesus?
01:06:34
Twerk Jesus? And Molly Wap And Molly Wap Go out there and twerk and Molly Wap
01:06:38
for me You know, so But I'm going to get Kirk Because I know Kirk can bring
01:06:42
the people in You know what I mean?
01:06:43
So that's what I'm going to do All right Right.
01:06:48
And then my last genre, I got somebody from Rapsid, and you're so predictable
01:06:53
because I already knew you were going to take Jay-Z.
01:06:54
So I purposely did not take Jay-Z because I knew that you were going to take him.
01:06:59
So I went out there and got Mr. Hot right now, Mr. Kendrick Lamar.
01:07:05
Okay, he is hot. Because they're not like us. You know, Leonard's not like us.
01:07:10
So I already knew what Leonard was going to do.
01:07:14
I knew he was going to pull Jay-Z's coattails. So I said, let me go out there
01:07:18
and get Kendrick and we're going to, we're going to, that's what we're going to do.
01:07:21
So it's going to be, it's going to be Kendrick, Kirk, Beyonce, Usher.
01:07:26
We can't be beat, man. We can't be beat. You know, so I ain't got to sing or
01:07:32
do anything on this album.
01:07:34
All I got to do is say my name and that's it. It's over.
01:07:37
It's over. You know, so, yeah.
01:07:40
So, but you guys, you know, think about, think about that. Give us your four
01:07:46
artists and your four genres of music who you would use.
01:07:49
Now, of course, you don't have to do what we did.
01:07:52
You know, you can throw some other names out there. There's so many famous people
01:07:56
out there, so many different things.
01:07:58
I almost thought, you know, I thought about a couple different people.
01:08:01
If I can get her to come on time, Lauren would have been on my team, too.
01:08:05
So, you know, we know Lauren might not show up. Lauryn Hill may not show up.
01:08:09
So that's the only thing. Yeah.
01:08:12
This is where we are. So you guys think of your album, the people you like to
01:08:18
have on it, and we'll go from there. Okay?
01:08:23
So you got anything to add before we close out? No, Dave. I'm just excited about
01:08:28
the last couple days of track.
01:08:30
I'm looking at the 200, the 400, the 800 men's, and I think we got to see some
01:08:37
good races. And the 400 hurdles, women.
01:08:40
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we haven't even gotten to the 110 hurdle yet with
01:08:45
Grant Holloway, you know, trying to redeem himself for the last,
01:08:50
you know, so that's going to be interesting.
01:08:54
Oh, and you talk about the 400 women's hurdles?
01:08:59
The 400 women's hurdles and the 400 men's regular rates.
01:09:05
Regular rates. Yeah, there you go. okay alright
01:09:09
well you know I can't wait to watch it and
01:09:11
I gotta catch up with this 200 race that Leonard told me about
01:09:14
that he told me about so I gotta watch
01:09:18
to see who won that hopefully it will be the Americans
01:09:21
but I don't know yet and some of you guys already know so I don't wanna know
01:09:25
don't be texting me and Dave this is who won I hate people doing stuff like
01:09:30
that yeah okay so but thank you for tuning in and keep in mind If you guys have
01:09:37
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01:09:41
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01:09:49
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01:09:54
And with that being said, thank you for tuning in to News and Trends with Dave
01:10:00
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