August 11, 2024 • 69 mins
In this episode, join Cameron, Carlon and Carl on the Parkers' Couch as they delve into the latest from the Olympics and beyond. The hosts kick off with a heartfelt apology to Steph Curry for doubting his prowess, acknowledging his stellar performance that secured the gold medal for the USA. They also address past comments and set the record straight on their support for Black women, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and uplifting the community.
The discussion transitions to the thrilling Olympic events, with a particular focus on the track and field performances. Highlights include Noah Lyles’ controversial participation despite having COVID-19, the impressive feats of athletes like Gabby Thomas and Sydney McLaughlin, and the unexpected challenges faced by the Jamaican track team. The hosts also share their thoughts on the lackluster performance in the men's 4x1 relay and the need for better preparation and strategy.
Beyond the Olympics, the episode explores significant community initiatives led by NBA star Jalyen Brown and Jason Kidd. Their Black Wall Street initiative in Oakland aims to create generational wealth and support Black entrepreneurship, setting a positive example for economic empowerment in communities of color. The hosts discuss the importance of such initiatives and the need for a broader focus on essential services and infrastructure to sustain and uplift the Black community.
Finally, the episode touches on the political landscape, examining the impact of Tim Walz joining Kamala Harris's ticket. The hosts express optimism about the potential positive changes for the middle class and the importance of having leaders who are willing to stand up and fight for their communities.
Tune in for a mix of sports, social issues, and community empowerment on this insightful episode of the Parkers' Couch.
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Music.
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Is the parker's couch with cameron carlin
and carl the parker brothers some material
is for a mature audience sit back
and enjoy how does this work in track do they practice they changed the order
when noah got hurt they changed the order all around so everybody was out of
place when they were normally practicing which made no sense instead of just
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replacing noah at the anchor they decided to rearrange the order with the new
person they brought in it's still just a hand though.
Music.
You can't stop me now.
What's up my brothers? What's going on? What's going on brothers?
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Yep, yep Doing good, doing good, doing good I think we are all on the same page
With what we need to start off with today I can't even, we can't even talk about
anything else Before we offer what?
Well, first First, I've got to apologize.
Yes, we do. I've got to offer some apologies. Well, let me first give my introduction.
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The most handsome, the most debonair. You know it's me.
I got to give that introduction. But I must apologize to one Steph Wardell Curry.
Government name. Yeah, I'm going to give him his whole government.
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Because he showed out, especially these past two games.
And I spoke out of turn.
Hey, I'm a man. I can say what I'm wrong. And I was all the way wrong about Mr.
Curry. He carried us those last two games. And if it wasn't for him,
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we'd be sitting there with silver.
We'll be with the bronze probably. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, we would have lost without a medal.
We're going to be in France and playing today. Yeah, exactly.
And and I do need to give another apology to my beautiful black woman.
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I was about to say you survived. I did survive.
But I must say that the comments that I made last week were meant for a contingent of black women,
not all black. Thank you. Yeah.
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E, Stacey Dash, Omarosa, those.
Only ones we definitely don't count. Okay. Well, Stacey Dash tried to come back into the family, y'all.
Did y'all see that? No, she ain't welcome back. She tried to get welcome back.
No, she ain't welcome back. She tried with the poor Harris. She showed her hands.
She showed us who she really was.
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They over there with the Candace Owens crowd. Yeah.
Not all of them. Thank you. Our women are that way, as I alluded to last week.
But we do have a contingent that are.
And they need to be called out on what they're doing.
So my apologies to those beautiful ones that do hold their men down and hold
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our people down. Amen. Amen.
We had a well-downloaded episode last week, but no hate on that.
Now, you know where the hate came. We know where that's coming from.
On our Blats Against Harris segment.
Lord knows. The trolls was out, and I'm ready to troll y'all back.
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I stopped doing some of the trolling because, you know, I got busy doing other stuff.
But don't worry. Tonight I'll probably be back on my troll game,
so don't worry. Y'all are going to get responded to. That's just what I like to do. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Brother, you, Carl and Parker, you got an apology,
too? What are you saying?
Yes, I absolutely bow down to the greatness of Steph Curry.
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Yes, because I do remember someone actually bringing up the conversation and
leading us down that road.
Apologize for starting this conversation,
for questioning his 5-for-20 performance the first two games.
Then he went on a 17-26 tear the next two games from downtown.
And the last two minutes.
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It's quite possibly the best, most ferocious, impressive display of shooting
I have ever seen from one human being in a clutch, intense performance.
When you're taking on not just a team, but an entire nation on their nation's home turf.
And that last three was the most incredible shot I think I've ever seen in the
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history of basketball. That was ridiculous.
I was like, I know he's not shooting this shot. I've seen Steph take shots before,
but to me that's one of the most impressive shots I've ever seen him make.
You know, we talk about the bad shots.
And he makes a lot of bad shots.
Yes, he does. He's the best bad shot taker in the history of basketball.
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Maybe they're not bad at this point.
Yeah. But him, oh, yeah, let's talk about this 98-87 victory here.
This was a hard-fought gold medal win by the U.S. We're talking about Steph Curry.
He finished with 24 points. He had eight three-pointers.
And as you pointed out, Carl, in those four, in those last little over two minutes,
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that final one, oh, my gosh, incredible, incredible display.
Yes. yeah can i just say though this game though
like it i think you said
carla you was like oh i'm ready for the nba now this thing
got me so high it was like one of
the best games that i've i've watched it quite some times just the intensity
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the way both teams were giving it to each other the way they shot out with that
game and playing so hard i don't know like i i miss it made me realize how I
miss this kind of hard nose playing this kind of style.
Why are you waiting for the NBA? We're not going to see it in the NBA.
Don't burn my book. They don't write it in the NBA.
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Let's be real guys we got load management we got people playing you know 40 games a season,
what i mean it's just not there that that competitive fire that,
um was there in the 80s and 90s it's
not there anymore you know those guys
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used to hate each other you know yeah
like legit played against each other when boston
and philadelphia played against each other and cats
was going to blows in the regular season very true that's very true well i guess
i'm hoping that some of this rubs off in the league you know because they're
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coming back to their respective teams and now maybe like yoke at this got a
little bit of fire under him,
Team Canada, to me, disappointed themselves.
Maybe they have a little bit more urgency to show that, hey, we're here.
We're the big boys. I'm just hoping for the best, but I think you're right, Carl Parker.
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Well, you know, LeBron is 85, so he can only be a big moment.
No, we don't need that. We want to spend this for him.
But I know. I guess I'm just wishing. I'm thinking about that video you sent
us, Carl, with Dennis Schroeder talking about the European League versus the NBA.
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European basketball, I think, is more—I got to be careful here.
I think it's—European basketball is no entertainment.
It's straight IQ basketball, straight coaching, and really, really high IQ guys
who know how to play the game.
And I mean Serbia, Greece, Spain, France,
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Germany, I mean there's so many teams out there who knows how to play,
who is athletic and I think it's a lot of people and from Europe in the NBA who make some noise.
Slovenia with Luka Danč is one of the best players in the world.
Of course I mean the USA is one of
the the best leagues in the world or it's the
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best league in the world but european they
they come in for sure and i thought that was
a very that's very good point
just about how that's about skill and about coaching you know all that it's
not the entertainment factor we've had this conversation before guys i've had
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this conversation actually on one of the podcasts the european game is a It's a game of IQ.
Yep. It's a game of skill. It's a game of, it's like chess when you play them out there.
When we come over here, they play in checkers. I agree.
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You know, we we don't have enough substance to our game over here anymore.
Yeah, I think the coaches definitely match up or, you know, specific based on an opponent.
It determines who's going to play and who's going to play when.
And I think it's more of structure.
I guess the way to say in the NBA, they depend on stars way too much.
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It's just like, oh, just give such and such the ball and let them have their
way instead of being more structured. So you're absolutely correct.
The NBA is entertainment.
So think about this. Back in the day, you know, our guys played in college a lot longer, too.
So they came out with more fundamental being more fundamentally sound.
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Now, you know, we talk about his athleticism, but his fundamentals were, you know, superb.
Yeah. The top notch. And, you know, fundamentally, he was just sound all the
way around. He played defense.
You know, he could pass the ball. He could dribble, pass and shoot. I mean, yeah.
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And it is different now. You know, guys can't really think the game.
They have no structure. True. They come from – I mean, AAU culture,
there's no structure in that.
I was about to say, we know the road that all this starts at and how it goes. Yeah.
And I think, too, even like whenever you think about even the rules and the
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way the game has changed, and I think that's one of the things that allows this
to be entertaining with a European style because they play more.
Like, they let you rough them up.
You know, it's not really just catered towards, you know, the NBA definitely
wanted to open up scoring. They wanted a lot of points.
Yeah. And wanted this and that. So they tried to make the game more fluid in that way.
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And, you know, it's a beauty. It's an art to that. But it takes away some stuff,
too. Yeah. I enjoy a good rock fight.
Like, I don't need 140 to 130. Yeah.
Yeah. That's crazy. crazy but we got to talk about the elephant in the room
what everybody is talking about surrounding the u.s team and it's the play of
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jason tatum i don't know why it comes down to this,
and it definitely escalated more during the serbia game whenever he didn't get
in at all you had literal people like people starting to root against the u.s
it was plenty of people People saying, I'm rooting for France today.
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I'm a Jason Tatum supporter more than I'm a U.S. basketball supporter.
You know, self-explanatory.
So what do y'all feel like? Was Steve Kerr doing the right things here?
Well, let's look at the first part of the game.
He certainly did do the right thing.
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The game was entirely too tight when he acquiesced and allowed Tatum to get on the floor.
Tatum didn't deserve to play. He played 11 minutes, had two points.
Anthony Elrich played nine minutes, had eight points, and was more impactful in less minutes.
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Like his nine minutes, you can remember his nine minutes on the floor.
Now, they'll talk about, oh, he didn't get enough time to get a rhythm or he's been out.
No, this his play has has not been great since he's been out there.
And it's because of he doesn't fit that team concept.
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He he can't he doesn't he didn't fit that roster well.
And he fits the Boston Celtics roster well.
Yeah. And what they need them to do.
But, you know, they even talked about why is Derek White and Drew Holiday playing?
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Well, Derek White and Drew Holiday stay in their lane, and they play defense,
and they play a team concept.
Drew Holiday probably is more valuable as a player. Yeah.
That the U.S. has had the past couple of Olympics.
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If it hadn't been for him and his defense, his timely shooting,
because he knocked down some big shots.
He knocked down some big shots. And he was being a post player.
Oh, yeah. Ain't going to be no other guard that's doing that.
Him and Derrick White are the only two that could do that. Exactly.
Those are, I mean, perfect points.
And, you know, a lot of people went back to, oh, in 2021, Jason Tatum averaged
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15 points during the Olympics.
I i want you to look up the roster for 2021 and ain't nobody want to play then
to see who was on that roster thank you it on that roster they had,
so the the big names was tatum durant i think durant was on that squad yeah.
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They also had Damian Lillard, who can't – I mean, he can't guard me.
Then they had – let's see. Well, Bradley Beal was supposed to be on that squad,
but I think he got injured.
So they brought in Kelden Johnson for that team.
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They had Jeremy Grant. Who's Jeremy Grant?
You're talking about the 2020 Olympics. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bunch of ragamuffins,
minus KD and Drew Holiday.
I mean, you had Drew Holiday. You had people.
Yeah. People like that.
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Yeah, it was not. I mean, KD and Drew, the reasons they won that gold medal, it wasn't for them.
The U.S. probably brought a silver home that year.
Yeah. I mean, he was playing on a team that had nobody. Very true.
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Who else was going to score besides, you know, KD and the rest of them?
And in that gold medal game, I think KD had 30, right? Yeah, he had 30.
And we won by five. It was a close game. Yeah.
Yeah.
And they lost the game that are Malimpic's two, if I'm not mistaken.
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You know, and I've been going back and forth with this in my head.
But I always come back to, like, well, who am I putting him in over?
Exactly. And that's where I get stuck.
Because I'm like, I don't know who, like, I can easily say, like,
oh, you should be in over KD. Hell no.
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You know, kind of thing. Like, it's not. But he better be glad Kawhi wasn't on the team.
If Kawhi was on the team, he probably would have been in one game.
You took the words right out of my mouth because I was going to say the exact same thing.
Kawhi, if it was old Kawhi. Yeah.
Yeah. You got to think about old Kawhi was.
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No, he's not a player. He was the best player in the league.
Yes. Because he was taking the big shots and he was locking up your best player.
I hate that it's like come down to this and that's kind of been a bit talk versus,
you know, they're just coaching and playing the matchups and we're winning.
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Did they win the gold medal? Okay. The U.S. soccer team had the same problem
with the women. and they were getting on them saying she's not playing enough players.
Right. They want to go metal, didn't they?
I heard her interview. She's like, I know what I'm doing.
I know this team. I know these players. I know what I'm doing.
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And I know what makes this team tick. Yeah.
And, you know, it's a lot of posture, and that goes in, Mike,
even in that 2021 Olympic.
You got to think there was some remnant of Coach K in that, too.
Yeah, of course. Yeah, absolutely.
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You know, Coach K was going to set that up. Coach K ain't nowhere around in
this. So you ain't going to get a favoritism here.
I didn't think about that. That's true. I had Coach K and stuff there.
Yeah, but impressive. Pop was the coach, but Coach K was still over U.S. basketball.
Yeah, Pop was the coach, but Coach K was still over U.S. basketball during that time.
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Yep. Yep. But impressive win, fellas.
That gave us 38 goals. We are one behind Chyna going into the final day on Sunday.
Dang, we still didn't catch them?
Chyna had a day today. They had like dive in, table tennis. Oh, dive in, yeah.
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I'm telling y'all, they swept all eight categories in Diamond.
Diamond don't care about that other stuff.
We can always be talking about, yeah, we won all these silvers and bronze.
We're ahead in the medal count. Well, how many goals we got versus them?
That's the joke. We're like, well, if you don't win that goal,
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you know you can't come back home. So you might as well go ahead and take it.
Now, I'm confident our women, they're going to bring home a goal.
So they're like the last event on Sunday.
So we know we at least get a tie.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what other events there are.
I haven't looked to see, but it's going to be interesting.
We can't be. Hey, y'all going to recognize my I wasn't way out there in that
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field when I was talking about mediocrity.
No, I mean, you were not all the way in left field, but you, yeah.
You was out there. But let's get into that with some track and field fellas.
Mediocrity. Let's see. Did we have some? Did we have some below?
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And did we have some? We won 11 out of the 25 gold medals in track and field.
I think we had a pretty darn great track and field.
Okay. Hey, well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about Mr. Noah Lyles first.
We had an okay track and field.
Yes, 11 out of 24. We've had the most medals since the 84.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did really great in the track.
That was just because of some guys really gutting it out for us.
Hawker and those people that should not have won medals the way they did.
They did not have won. They're competing just like anyone else.
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Hawker's win was incredible. That was incredible. We ain't taking away that
$1,500, bro. We're keeping that.
We're keeping that. I'm just saying they went above and beyond,
but we have a guy like Noah Lyles jumping up and down acting a fool and then
come in third place. Did he not win 100?
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Did he win the two? That was his race. Yeah, that's his race.
He's supposed to win the 200.
Yeah, he was supposed to win the 200, but he apparently was...
I mean, I knew he was sick when he was running in the trials.
I was like, why is he wearing a mask first?
I mean, in the qualifying. And then he didn't win the heat. I knew something
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was up. me personally because I've watched him over the last two years and he's
winning even the heat for the 200 but he didn't win so.
He didn't win up and now acting a fool he's supposed to win if you do all that
and you don't win you gotta take the spoils and Tobogo busted that behind,
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Tobogo was great in the entire Olympics he was great in the 100 he was on top
of his game but Tobogo had an interesting story wasn't him that he lost his
mother didn't he yeah prior to the Olympics yep so yeah.
You know, he was running with a heavy heart. So, I mean, that was – he had an
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awesome performance, in my opinion.
But, man, Noah Lowes, he got his butt whipped.
He got to take his punishment. Yeah, I mean, like you said, when you're jumping
up and down at the fool, you got to back it up.
Yeah, when you get out there and, you know, talk the junk that he talk.
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He talk but what if that is somebody's
way of personally hyping themselves up to
do it like do you have to win every time but that's your way to try to make
yourself feel normal and get yourself involved into the you know the race the
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event like do we not like pompous attitudes only Only whenever you don't win.
But if he won, it would be okay.
All I'm saying is just like Tobogo
said. I don't think he was trying to read, but he read. Oh, he read.
Tobogo being asked about being the face of track and field.
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For me, I can't be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah.
So I believe Noah is the face of athletics. And look at Kenny right beside him,
looking at him, wanting to say, yep, I agree.
I'm glad you said it. He was right there looking at him. Hey, it's the truth.
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And all Noah could do is just sit there and take it because he told him exactly
what he was. He's arrogant. He's loud.
And he got his butt spanked.
Now and i know now everything is out there a lot of people are on different
sides some people don't think he even ever had covet like he's just using this as an excuse.
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I'm not on that side. People are taking it. Y'all take it. I don't know how
y'all feel. You might have some feelings about the COVID thing.
He recently had posted a picture of him being COVID free and showing the results.
And now he's getting read down for that, too. I don't know why he posted that at all.
But as people going in more, I don't understand why he ran.
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Like, I'm kind of like it is unsettling to me that he would know, knowingly have COVID.
When he found out on Tuesday and still be out there participating and race on
Thursday and still be hugging people and doing all this stuff.
And not anybody knows he has COVID until afterwards, all this is going on.
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Like something about that is just unsettling to me. I don't,
I don't know. I guess I go, I understand it's the Olympics.
You ain't going to have many shots at this. You want to go through,
but I started thinking about Simone Biles and whenever, You know,
people was getting hurt on with her with backing out,
but she was talking about how athletes put themselves through stuff,
you know, and it's really no good reason why they're doing it,
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like for the sake of competing. But does that really make sense?
I don't know. How do y'all feel about him even competing and having COVID?
I don't have a problem with him competing. The only thing I would have,
I don't know if he did, but I would
have liked for him to at least let everyone know that he did have it.
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So, you know, people wasn't hugged up all over him.
He says he isolated. You know, they talk about they saw him.
They was wondering why he was kind of by himself and having this mask. Nobody really knew.
But and you know it wasn't like a lot of interaction with people but you saw afterwards,
nobody working around him had a mask on and they knew he had cold i was so confused
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that part was confusing even whenever they were coming out there to help him
and doing all that stuff and he was around he was around a long time without
a mask that just freshly have covid yeah exactly yeah Yeah, that was crazy.
Like, I'm with you, brother. Like, I think he should have informed people and
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told them that he had COVID.
I know the only reason he ran the race that I'm thinking is because,
you know, in Budapest, he won with 100 and 200.
So that was the goal to do that at this Olympics.
And he know he had no chance in four years to win the 100.
So this was his only chance. That's the only reason I think he did it.
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Tobogo is 20 years old. and he acted more mature than Noah did.
You know, I'm not a big fan of that young man.
Now, I am a big fan of McLaughlin.
She's phenomenal.
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She goes about her business the right way, and she just wins goals. Thank you.
You know, when I talk about excellence, she is excellent. Gabby Thomas.
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Excellent. I think she had three or four goals.
Yeah, she's going to leave with three gold medals. Sidney broke that.
She had that world record, 50.39 and that. That's crazy.
And you saw when they did the tracker with how she's in line with people running
without hurdles. Without hurdles. Exactly.
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That's so crazy. I need her to run the 400. Go back to Olympus,
please. How many did she win? Didn't she win four gold medals?
But she was only in the 400 hurdles and the relay race.
I think she was only in two. Yeah, she was only in two.
Four by four and the 400 meter hurdles. Yeah. But what about Sha'Carri?
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So how do we think her Olympic debut overall is? went.
Second in the 100, which there was a little funny business going on with that,
with her and Shelly Ann Frazier not being let in to be able to warm up and that whole situation.
But Julian Alford dusted in that and won the first gold for first medal for St. Lucia.
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Period. That was ugly. That was ugly. But Shikari in that 4x1?
Oh, she's smoking. she smoked them and then looked at them and frowned yes that
look yes yeah she ran that angry i was happy for her to at least get a gold
medal you know after just the embarrassment,
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that it was in tokyo you know it was good to see her come back and and you know
get a little bit bit of redemption.
I wish she could have got the gold in the 100 meter, but it wasn't her day that day.
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Yeah. I don't think even if that didn't happen, she would have been.
A powerhouse that day. That was just meant to be.
At least the car had it was fine what she did because i
i wish she would have made the 200 so she
she and gabby could have had a good race for for that gold medal but the way
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that for about 100 she made she made up for not winning that gold medal in the
first round like that was amazing how she quenched that in the anchor leg so
i thought she had a nice olympics i'm happy that She won two medals.
Yeah. Yeah. The women dusted. The women, they blew it out.
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That 4x4, the great, they won that one. They smoked.
The men, they pulled out the 4x4, but the 4x1 was an embarrassment. Can we talk about that?
What was that? Before we do that, let me give some flowers to some people who
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did well. that we haven't mentioned yet.
Rod Benjamin, I think in the X
Olympics, winning those two gold medals and anchoring that leg in the 400.
And... Huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
That was definitely amazing. Him and Grant Holloway, too. The 110 meter hurdle. Now he came back.
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Fantastic. fantastic so he and i don't know what silver in that or golden bronze
or something like that in there yeah he made up for his silver that he won in
in tokyo and so they rock they both won silvers and close match you know close
run races they came back to women and dominating those.
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No, absolutely. That Quincy Hall comeback, I ain't never seen nothing like that.
That was the most amazing race of the tournament.
Oh, Hawker, he had a good one too. Yeah, good one too, dig and dig.
Yeah, that was two amazing races.
Yeah, that 1500, that was exciting.
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I'm going to tell y'all something on that 1500. I cried a little. Oh, I did.
I wept like a baby that's what they said like the way the the way those two americans,
did that with um hawker and gosh
what's the the other guy's name it's the african what's
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the name i forgot his name i know you're talking about
those long legs yeah it starts with a y y i
remember it starts with a y i can't remember how to say
it but the way they came back to pull off
gold and bronze and stuff and that and then
whenever they said it's the first time two americans have meddled in
112 years yeah in that
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event i was like wow yeah that was that was a moment and the other americans
finished like fifth i think so it was like he was close to yeah he was right
off yep and boy they showed his his father his father his father was like what the?
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He caught a gear. He was like, what the?
He hit that inside. He stuck in there.
That Norway guy gave up that little bit of room and it was...
I thought he was going to get a silver.
He had a little bit more room. A little more track.
He said, all I need is a little room.
Just a little room. A little room right there.
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Man, you talking about a kick. That boy had a kick. He definitely did.
Had some heart man that was that was a beautiful race well and and quince like
i ain't taking nothing from him man he gutted that out he was like in fourth
or fifth place like oh he was way out oh he was way out of the race and i'm
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he the nonsense wasn't even talking about him oh like oh Oh,
my goodness. Quickie Hall has been moved.
I have never seen anything like that quick.
That changed like that. That was crazy. It was running wild.
All you could see was legs and arms. He was flailing.
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Oh, that would be a great commercial.
I hope they caught it from the
other end. That's a great commercial for us for the next Olympics. Yes.
Legs, arms, and teeth. that's all you saw go front.
That's funny that was good there was a lot to celebrate with the track and a
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lot of exciting stuff let's talk about the 4x1 so Carl Lewis had a lot of thoughts,
Carl Lewis was not happy,
Carl Lewis has apparently been pissed off for quite some time too with this
I mean, for 16 years, he's been pissed off about how poorly we performed in the relays.
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He said it's time to blow up the system.
Yeah. This continues to be completely unacceptable.
And it is clear that everyone at USA Track and Field is more concerned with
relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another
relay until this program is changed from the top to the bottom.
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Carl came out with that one.
My thing is, how do you ruin the best first leg that's ever been run in the
history of the Olympics?
I don't know. I don't know. That may be the reason why. It was a little too painful.
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But I don't know what happened.
But that could be it because, what's it called? It took off.
I mean, he was way down the track before Coleman even got there.
Yeah. Kenny, I don't know what he was thinking.
Rockhead. That was just stupid. But Coleman ran 9.86 in a curve. That's crazy.
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Oh, he would have won 100. 9.86 in a curve.
That's crazy. The best that's ever been run in history.
Well ain't nothing you can do with that now no that's so terrible like i don't
i'm tired of seeing them like dropping batons or just messing up exchanges just
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not doing well and i don't understand what's going on with the relay how does
this work in track do they practice well,
they changed the order when noah got hurt they changed the order all around
so everybody was out of place from what they would normally practice and which made no sense.
Instead of just replacing Noah at the anchor, they decided to rearrange the
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order with the new person they brought in as a replacement.
So everybody was running out of position. And still there's a handoff.
Like, what is going on? You would think. What kind of rocket got to have not
to be able to hold on to that baton? Not to run out of zone.
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Exactly. I don't know. All it is is kick, hand back, boom.
I mean, everybody else is doing it, so I'm confused.
Look at China. China was killing it. Perfect handoffs. Perfect.
Perfect. Nobody's dropping a baton there. They got them out there for them. If they drop a baton...
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, Christ. I don't know. But they got to get out. That's four by one.
I don't know what's going on.
And we're not going to just say, like, something was going on with the U.S. What?
Jamaica this track and field. We're not to show up to Paris this year.
We're taking a break. But what went on with Jamaican track and field this year? I don't know.
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None of them are. are i mean you didn't
see none of the women that usually are there like
ellianne frazier price or
rare when she she bet out now i
did see like i didn't know before but then i did see like she had aggravated
a hamstring okay and that's why she started pulling out but they look long but
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they look lost they didn't even make the four by four for the men they wouldn't even do it
They didn't qualify for the finals. I don't know what's happening.
But wasn't that only gold, like, in the field? Like, their first field medals
were the only gold medals they had?
Because I don't remember them winning anything on track.
Did they win any medals on track?
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I can't remember. I can't remember. I don't think so. For men or the women?
No, no, no, no. The 100. Right in your back screen.
That Noah Lyles barely beat out. Oh, yeah, he did get a silver medal.
That's right he's the only standout for them oh yeah yeah that's right i forgot
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about him the big grown man as a big yeah yeah he's huge but what what what
happened to sharika jackson though,
i don't know that one was puzzling we still don't and her her thing she posted
her message that she didn't really give any insight.
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She was just saying something very surfacy about like, oh, you know,
thanks for supporting me and da-da-da-da, all this stuff, but she never really
clearly said why she pulled out.
There's something going on with the Track and Field Federation.
Remember I sent y'all that post about the girl talking about the federation or whatever?
Not really supplying them with the coaching that they need and supplies and stuff.
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So I think there's something going on at the top.
Athletes are like, well, I'm not going to compete for you because you are doing
something that's not right.
As good as they have always been and you're not getting any support. It's crazy.
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Yeah, I don't understand. I'm pretty sure something's going to come out after
the Olympics. I'm waiting to hear.
It's got to be such a disappointing experience for Jamaica and generally for this Olympics.
Yeah i'm gonna just say my one of my new favorite races now is the steeplechase oh god,
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who is good at the steeplechase i need to know who and why would you do this to humans,
wow especially with cutting them last couple of laps boy
they be turning turn it on i don't know if you saw the man when that
dude totally face planted it on that yes oh that
was so sad it was like oh my god oh he
kissed he kissed that ass off but we
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pulled out silver in that one too yeah tell
us what this is running i just was running several medals this time like we
never competed this is running yeah we we're never there but i don't know i
think there was a conspiracy against those a lot of those ethiopians and the African nations.
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They got tired of their winners. They were beefing too with each other, all the nations.
Yeah. I mean, and we, I guess we're, we are getting a lot of those that are playing on the beach.
Well, we got a point. But they still winning though.
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Old girl still won, what, three straight gold medals in 10,000 or something,
10K or whatever. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. I mean, hey.
I mean, them cats, they're tough, man. They are tough.
They're tough. Yes, that is true.
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I want to talk about something positive. Yes, please.
Let's talk about something positive that's going on in the community.
And Carl Parker, you brought this up to us in our chats with what's going on with Mr.
Jalen Brown and Jason Kidd.
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And play. What I noticed through like the inequalities in Boston,
there's inequalities that are glaring all over the U.S., which led me here to Oakland.
And Oakland, which I would consider like a second home to me going to school
at UC Berkeley. My roommate, I arrived.
I got a lot of ties, a lot of people in this room that I've known for a long time.
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But Oakland is rich and its history and its tradition, entrepreneurship and
business and togetherness and organization.
So what an honor it is to be up here announcing the initiative here in Oakland.
When I talk about my women's program that we have here of the basketball,
I thought it was time for the Bay Area to be represented.
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We have nine scholarship offers from Cal by just understanding what we are trying. Yes, go Bears.
And we're trying to give a light on things that need to be highlighted.
Everyone sees Instagram and sees all the negative.
But what Jalen Brown is doing here, not just in Boston, but across the country, is incredible.
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So that is the initiative here that's being casted as the Black Wall Street
initiative going on in Oakland, California that Jalen Brown and...
Jason Kidd have teamed up for to do.
And it's really cool reading up about this and how they are trying to bring
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wealth and to build that generational wealth back into the Black community.
And they chose Oakland right here to start it off.
And you heard some of the reasons there with Jalen Brown talking about it there.
But he said a little bit into it, You know, Jason Kidd is talking about how
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Oakland is the perfect place for this, already has the talent and mentors to make it a success.
But, you know, the argument is Black businesses are too often over-mentored, yet underfunded.
So they're trying to change that underfunded part.
And they believe that this injection of working capital is the missing piece.
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And so they anticipate an initial investment of millions of dollars that will
fund a series of projects aimed at creating generational wealth,
such as business incubators, programs to launch local artists and musicians,
and to purchase property in places like downtown Oakland.
And this is, they're seeing this as a huge win for the district down there.
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People are excited about this going on. This is all relatively new.
I know, Carl, you like this is one of your favorite subjects,
too, is talking about economics, the black dollar doing things to build us up.
Does this look like a step in the right direction?
I like where they're going. I still think there's there's still avenues that
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we we we've got to attack first.
Infrastructure has got to be attacked first i mean we got to build up banks we got to build up,
hospitals you know schools all those grocery stores you know just all the things that,
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you know our our people actually need now of course we we get into the arts
and entertainment and stuff like that,
and we make a lot of money in those fields,
but the things that are going to sustain us and actually build our economy and
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our infrastructure are the small businesses, which he's talking about.
That's a great step in the right direction where we can employ other people
of color and, you know, keep that dollar rotating in our community.
But I'm just glad that we're starting something there, but it needs to be a
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national thing that is not only in Oakland, but, you know, in D.C.
And Chicago and Atlanta, you know, right? Right.
And not just the large cities. It's got to go to cities like Wilmington here,
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you know, Durham, you know, Charlotte.
There are some southern cities, definitely.
There are plenty of cities with an African-American contingent that we can,
you know, we can do so much more in. But I like the fact that Jalen is doing this.
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I just want to give shout outs to Jalen The y'all know how smart this this young
man is He he was offered a NASA internship.
Yes hearing about that and he He became a MIT fellow. Mm-hmm.
So I mean it this this kid is He's he's not a slow leap.
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You know, he's he's He's a very intelligent young man.
And he cares about his community. Yeah. And that's one of the reasons why he's
ostracized a little bit more than some of your other guys.
He's going to be in that same...
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Elm is Kyrie Irving, who, you know, Kyrie, you know, is a little bit more quirky than what Jalen is.
You know, it's all the same, you know, intentions was to take it out the way it's supposed to be.
Yeah. Both of them are intelligent young men.
But, you know, I think Jalen is he he's very socially conscious.
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That's one of the things that they said about him when he came out and they
were wondering if he would even thrive in the NBA because he he was so super
intelligent that he didn't really need the NBA to be successful.
That's interesting. And I should back up, too, because I did.
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There was an earlier he did do. He started before this, what he calls the Boston Exchange.
And so that's the original and that this is the kind of continuation of that.
So they are looking to branch it out in other places. And they chose Oakland
and the Boston Exchange. Exchange, you know, that's a nonprofit initiative.
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And its aim with that one is to generate $5 billion in generational wealth and communities of color.
And just as you talked about MIT, he's tapped local partners from MIT to the
city of Boston to kind of help shape the vision and support entrepreneurship and creativity.
Creativity and they just kicked off that
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this program in Boston this month earlier this month and It's being assaulted
by Boston creator incubator plus accelerator and they're collaborating with
the Celtics and all these other different different parts and we talk about
media entertainment fashion culinary arts.
He's the whole Gambit of things So yeah, I love to hear about.
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Ever people who you always hear about these big contracts
and we know all the money that jalen brown got he's putting
this stuff to use you know yes and he's using
that influence or not he's not just it's not
like he's just tape breaking in all this money and not doing
anything with it i love to see like whenever stuff is
generated back this kind of way right and
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i'm glad they're buying up properties too i think that's really smart especially
especially you know these these These cities like Oakland have been decimated
with gentrification and the raising prices of rent and mortgages that they actually
buy property to on top of that.
And that's the easiest way to generate that generational wealth that they're trying to get.
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I definitely agree with that. And like to your point also, brother,
I think I wish somebody would go into the space of like, like you said,
the banking industry and have it where more black people are making decisions
about where money is allocated.
So we can hand out money to our own community, instead of having to go to other
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banks that we're going to get outrageous rates or deny us.
And it's, you know, make it incredibly hard for especially small businesses
and personal banking to to to actually like when you try to sell a home or anything
that they'll find different ways to to have us lose that wealth,
give us, you know, bad, bad deals or whatnot.
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Not. So we're missing out on the opportunity for generational wealth.
So I wish we had more people who look like us, who have the intentions of a
Jalen Brown or a Jason Kidd to be those decision makers in the credit and lending industry.
I definitely agree with that.
I don't think we can actually move forward unless we do have that.
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We've got to be able to sustain ourselves.
Like you said, we got to be able to have our own decision makers and they're
just, but they're just fundamental things that we've got to have.
You got to have your own method of policing. You got to have,
way to eat yeah and and you got to have people that's going to take care of
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your health care and stuff you know those are like fundamental things that we
we've got to have you know.
Like doctors and delivering babies the mortality rate of black women do childbirth is crazy,
yes but you you know you think about all the inventors and all the you know,
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things that we have done in the past that we no longer have a hand in,
that's true we have so many inventions so many things that we brought to this culture to this
nation and we don't, we don't have one grocery store or one grocer, one hospital.
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We don't have an automaker. We don't have, I mean, you know,
if it came down to it and we were alienated in this nation, we would,
we would be in a bind. That is so true.
Facts. And that particularly can happen. at the way they're trying to have things go. Yeah.
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And, you know, I don't want to seem like a separatist or, you know,
anything like that, but I also am a realist and a survivalist.
So I know in order for us to be able to survive,
we've got to have some certain things in our community, And we've got to start
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thinking about those types of things to sustain not only current generation,
but those that are going to be following after us, man.
Our last podcast, I was saying we may be extinct in 25 years.
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I mean, that was kind of cheeky, but realistically, you can see more of an expiration
on our toes than anybody else.
Yeah, especially if things continue going the way they are now economically.
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The way things are going economically and the way we're being phased out right
now and the things with our health, for instance,
our health is, you know, our health is not the way it should be.
And it's because we're not getting the health care that we deserve, you know. Yeah.
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And if we were if we had our own hospitals and stuff where we could actually
get really good health care from people that look like us and cared about us,
then, you know, we could we could learn a little bit more.
I think we talked about this before.
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I know a lot of Black people don't understand that dementia and stuff like that
is more prevalent in our community than dementia and Alzheimer's is more prevalent
in our community than any other community. Yeah.
We don't, we don't have any seminars, any, no, anybody really speaking to our
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communities about that and about preventative measures for it. Mm hmm.
So what Jalen and Jason are doing is super commendable and I could see how it could branch off into,
you know, things where we can educate our community on those those things.
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But I again, I would really like to see us get into just the fundamentals,
the fundamental building blocks of a community.
Yeah. Well, I'm telling you, we had a meeting at work with, I think it was Medicaid and Medicare,
that at least for those insurances,
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it's going to be a big change coming in the very near future to health and how
doctors and stuff are paid and getting their money through Medicaid and Medicare.
They're going to start basing it on insurance.
Parent, is your patient improving or is their health declining?
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I'm like, you're going to start getting paid based on performance instead of visit.
You know, typically how it works is whether the patient comes,
it gets better or not, you get paid. You don't get paid. You get paid for the visit.
Now they're going to start breaking the debt where they're going to look at the records.
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Does this patient get it better? under your under your
supervision so i can see and
this is for you know where i work is we see
a part more about 99.9 percent black people
the black community so if
these doctors are not incentivizing our
community to get healthier they're not going to.
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Make as much money so i can see our health
care possibly improving i'm hoping
for the positive side of this that it
means that doctors are going to try their best to
improve the patient instead of just getting paid because they can't
see me no matter what gotcha that's interesting
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so that's something that's coming down the line well see
i mean here again black we
as african-americans we got
to get off the tit and we we
got to we really got
the we got to get out there man and
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we got to claw and fight and and
do our things for ourselves man it
if we don't start doing something if you see how african-american women are
are treated in in these hospitals when when they go together when they go give
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birth they supposed to be able to tolerate pain yes it's it's absurd.
They still going off uh old stuff they're experimenting on our women when they
go going to the hospital i mean it's not a pleasant experience at all,
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A lot of times, a lot of times, man, we experienced this just recently with
with Elise and dealing with things like menstruation and stuff in the hospital.
And, you know, I was certain women, you know, they have certain struggles and
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stuff with that, like, you know, different.
Different and it was just like a simple
dr ashley karen because it's been like really
it's been a difficult like thing at least
and like saw in the records all these all this stuff all this time and she was
just like nope she offered something she's like oh this is simple this kid fits
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this just like no one has ever told you that before you know and the the doctor's
looking like really shocked.
I see how many times this has been discussed and taught up, but no one has ever offered this.
It's just crazy. It's just little things. It's mad.
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All this time, they could have been fixed.
That's terrible. It's just crazy. Yeah, you're right.
It's like a continual thing Dang right there with that.
Well, well, nonetheless steps in the right direction, but I agree.
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I'm agree with what you're saying. Like we, we got, you say,
get off the tit. I like that.
Quick thoughts, any quick thoughts to wrap up on the new VP pick for Kamala?
How's this first week been for y'all with Mr.
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Tim Walls and the Harris ticket?
I think it's actually been a positive, man.
And you can see there's a lot of excitement.
The rallies are crazy right now. Yeah.
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The excitement is there. The excitement is there.
Again, you know, I'm just going to be interested to see what their policies are.
And then, you know, how is that going to impact?
You know middle class low to middle class and are we going to see more money
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at the end of the month right hello period.
I would say the more I looked into him too because you know I didn't know that
much about him but looking into the stuff he's done in Minnesota does give me
more hope for or a middle-class kind of focus,
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kind of like this administration could be working on with a lot of stuff that he's done there.
I was like, oh, this is, you know, some liberal thinking and actually putting
some stuff into practice and doing something as a governor, like just a lot of things.
Yeah, it's a small town, you know, Midwestern.
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So you would think he'd be kind of...
A little bit moderate although he
you know he he's pretty liberal in his thought
process but i think from
what i've heard he economically he's done a good job in in the state that he
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uh represents so i again i'm just going to be interested in what the policies
are and And really, vice president,
he don't really mean a whole lot to me.
I think one of, in history, they has like Adams, John Adams.
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And like he said, well, I'm going to take the summer off.
And this was when he was vice president. And they was like, well,
yeah, because you really don't have a job. Wow.
But, you know, but that's just kind of...
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The vice president you know what what is
he going to do he's going
to support the president that's what i appreciate and i
and i well and that's what she needs more than anything if somebody that she
can talk to i'm just going to stand up for her and i like the fact that i think
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he is making her steer more to the middle class talk ever since he came on board
i hear her talking about middle class a lot.
So I'm hoping that bringing him on board and some of the stuff he does,
he did, I don't think it's necessarily liberal. To me, it's just like common sense stuff.
If the kids need food, give them, hey, you need to eat at lunch before you come to school.
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You need freaking maxi pads? Here are free maxi pads for you.
You know, it's just tampons, whatever.
Whatever somebody needs when they go to school. I think he can bring that kind
of common sense stuff to the White House that we need to show that we're not the coastal elites.
We're middle class America too. Before his state of Minnesota,
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I see why they're one of the happiest states.
He has one of the nation's largest child tax credits and stuff.
He's done some things in what you're talking about there, there,
you know, what he did for abortion, or as soon as that Roe versus Wade got overturned,
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how he, you know, he... I hate that. That has to be liberal.
Like, common sense equals liberalism. It makes no sense to me.
It does. It does. It is. It does what it equals today.
Unfortunately. I said he's a Prince fan. I like that. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
He's a Prince fan. Yeah, and I love what you said, Carlin, and it made me think
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that I love that he knows how to hit back too.
I'm tired of people being pussies. Thank you.
Just letting people walk all over them and do that. No, it is not that type of party.
And he knows how to give it right back to them.
And when he threw that couch joke out at events, I was like,
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all right. I was like, this is my guy.
This is my guy. Yes.
This is my guy now like he he is
there he's with the shits he's there he wants to give it right back so uh you
need some of that too listen this is a spicy ticket between him and vice president
harris you see what harris did what you know what if you want donald trump to win then it's.
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Music.
Yowzers Unless you want to get Donald Trump Elected If you want to get Donald
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Trump elected Say that Otherwise I'm speaking,
Did that sound Yeah,
And that look Yeah she gave a little flick too I thought that look We done seen that before for.
That low part, it kept getting more intense as the pick went by.
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They shot up too, didn't they? They better.
But they're batting 1,000 right now. They're coming out swinging.
Coming out swinging, and we're going to have some stuff to talk about down that road.
Oh, it's going to be a lot to talk about down that road. I'm going to do a little
Steph Curry, go out on a little shimmy.
And I'm going to say USA for for like the last time until four years.
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USC. USC.
Oh, I can't leave without giving a shout out to my girl, Iman Khalif.
I'm about to say the boxer. Uh-huh.
You know. Your girl. He's a female.
Why? You know, and I will say Lin Yong Ting, too, because the other one,
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which is interesting. never gets brought up.
The other one who was considered a man, they bring her up very rarely.
Yeah, I haven't heard about her. Intense hatred for the Algerian.
Oh, I wonder why. We hear about the Taiwanese one that was in this midst of stuff too. Oh, yeah.
But, you know. You know what? That goes without saying. Yeah, exactly.
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The intense hatred for her. But I love the way Algeria, crowd,
the way they moved down for the medal ceremony and was oh, they've been riding hard for her.
Hardcore. Good. It's so heartwarming the way that they are doing it for her.
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She went out with a win. I didn't express all my thoughts.
We didn't let you have that segment. We did not want to air that for the public. Happy for her.
That's my closing thought. man they they
were killing her and at least
you got vindicated gold medal baby this has been a rosie b production you can
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Is the parker's couch with cameron carlin
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and enjoy how does this work in track do they practice they changed the order
when noah got hurt they changed the order all around so everybody was out of
place when they were normally practicing which made no sense instead of just
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replacing noah at the anchor they decided to rearrange the order with the new
person they brought in it's still just a hand though.
Music.
You can't stop me now.
What's up my brothers? What's going on? What's going on brothers?
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Yep, yep Doing good, doing good, doing good I think we are all on the same page
With what we need to start off with today I can't even, we can't even talk about
anything else Before we offer what?
Well, first First, I've got to apologize.
Yes, we do. I've got to offer some apologies. Well, let me first give my introduction.
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The most handsome, the most debonair. You know it's me.
I got to give that introduction. But I must apologize to one Steph Wardell Curry.
Government name. Yeah, I'm going to give him his whole government.
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Because he showed out, especially these past two games.
And I spoke out of turn.
Hey, I'm a man. I can say what I'm wrong. And I was all the way wrong about Mr.
Curry. He carried us those last two games. And if it wasn't for him,
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we'd be sitting there with silver.
We'll be with the bronze probably. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, we would have lost without a medal.
We're going to be in France and playing today. Yeah, exactly.
And and I do need to give another apology to my beautiful black woman.
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I was about to say you survived. I did survive.
But I must say that the comments that I made last week were meant for a contingent of black women,
not all black. Thank you. Yeah.
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E, Stacey Dash, Omarosa, those.
Only ones we definitely don't count. Okay. Well, Stacey Dash tried to come back into the family, y'all.
Did y'all see that? No, she ain't welcome back. She tried to get welcome back.
No, she ain't welcome back. She tried with the poor Harris. She showed her hands.
She showed us who she really was.
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They over there with the Candace Owens crowd. Yeah.
Not all of them. Thank you. Our women are that way, as I alluded to last week.
But we do have a contingent that are.
And they need to be called out on what they're doing.
So my apologies to those beautiful ones that do hold their men down and hold
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our people down. Amen. Amen.
We had a well-downloaded episode last week, but no hate on that.
Now, you know where the hate came. We know where that's coming from.
On our Blats Against Harris segment.
Lord knows. The trolls was out, and I'm ready to troll y'all back.
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I stopped doing some of the trolling because, you know, I got busy doing other stuff.
But don't worry. Tonight I'll probably be back on my troll game,
so don't worry. Y'all are going to get responded to. That's just what I like to do. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Brother, you, Carl and Parker, you got an apology,
too? What are you saying?
Yes, I absolutely bow down to the greatness of Steph Curry.
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Yes, because I do remember someone actually bringing up the conversation and
leading us down that road.
Apologize for starting this conversation,
for questioning his 5-for-20 performance the first two games.
Then he went on a 17-26 tear the next two games from downtown.
And the last two minutes.
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It's quite possibly the best, most ferocious, impressive display of shooting
I have ever seen from one human being in a clutch, intense performance.
When you're taking on not just a team, but an entire nation on their nation's home turf.
And that last three was the most incredible shot I think I've ever seen in the
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history of basketball. That was ridiculous.
I was like, I know he's not shooting this shot. I've seen Steph take shots before,
but to me that's one of the most impressive shots I've ever seen him make.
You know, we talk about the bad shots.
And he makes a lot of bad shots.
Yes, he does. He's the best bad shot taker in the history of basketball.
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Maybe they're not bad at this point.
Yeah. But him, oh, yeah, let's talk about this 98-87 victory here.
This was a hard-fought gold medal win by the U.S. We're talking about Steph Curry.
He finished with 24 points. He had eight three-pointers.
And as you pointed out, Carl, in those four, in those last little over two minutes,
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that final one, oh, my gosh, incredible, incredible display.
Yes. yeah can i just say though this game though
like it i think you said
carla you was like oh i'm ready for the nba now this thing
got me so high it was like one of
the best games that i've i've watched it quite some times just the intensity
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the way both teams were giving it to each other the way they shot out with that
game and playing so hard i don't know like i i miss it made me realize how I
miss this kind of hard nose playing this kind of style.
Why are you waiting for the NBA? We're not going to see it in the NBA.
Don't burn my book. They don't write it in the NBA.
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Let's be real guys we got load management we got people playing you know 40 games a season,
what i mean it's just not there that that competitive fire that,
um was there in the 80s and 90s it's
not there anymore you know those guys
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used to hate each other you know yeah
like legit played against each other when boston
and philadelphia played against each other and cats
was going to blows in the regular season very true that's very true well i guess
i'm hoping that some of this rubs off in the league you know because they're
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coming back to their respective teams and now maybe like yoke at this got a
little bit of fire under him,
Team Canada, to me, disappointed themselves.
Maybe they have a little bit more urgency to show that, hey, we're here.
We're the big boys. I'm just hoping for the best, but I think you're right, Carl Parker.
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Well, you know, LeBron is 85, so he can only be a big moment.
No, we don't need that. We want to spend this for him.
But I know. I guess I'm just wishing. I'm thinking about that video you sent
us, Carl, with Dennis Schroeder talking about the European League versus the NBA.
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European basketball, I think, is more—I got to be careful here.
I think it's—European basketball is no entertainment.
It's straight IQ basketball, straight coaching, and really, really high IQ guys
who know how to play the game.
And I mean Serbia, Greece, Spain, France,
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Germany, I mean there's so many teams out there who knows how to play,
who is athletic and I think it's a lot of people and from Europe in the NBA who make some noise.
Slovenia with Luka Danč is one of the best players in the world.
Of course I mean the USA is one of
the the best leagues in the world or it's the
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best league in the world but european they
they come in for sure and i thought that was
a very that's very good point
just about how that's about skill and about coaching you know all that it's
not the entertainment factor we've had this conversation before guys i've had
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this conversation actually on one of the podcasts the european game is a It's a game of IQ.
Yep. It's a game of skill. It's a game of, it's like chess when you play them out there.
When we come over here, they play in checkers. I agree.
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You know, we we don't have enough substance to our game over here anymore.
Yeah, I think the coaches definitely match up or, you know, specific based on an opponent.
It determines who's going to play and who's going to play when.
And I think it's more of structure.
I guess the way to say in the NBA, they depend on stars way too much.
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It's just like, oh, just give such and such the ball and let them have their
way instead of being more structured. So you're absolutely correct.
The NBA is entertainment.
So think about this. Back in the day, you know, our guys played in college a lot longer, too.
So they came out with more fundamental being more fundamentally sound.
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Now, you know, we talk about his athleticism, but his fundamentals were, you know, superb.
Yeah. The top notch. And, you know, fundamentally, he was just sound all the
way around. He played defense.
You know, he could pass the ball. He could dribble, pass and shoot. I mean, yeah.
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And it is different now. You know, guys can't really think the game.
They have no structure. True. They come from – I mean, AAU culture,
there's no structure in that.
I was about to say, we know the road that all this starts at and how it goes. Yeah.
And I think, too, even like whenever you think about even the rules and the
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way the game has changed, and I think that's one of the things that allows this
to be entertaining with a European style because they play more.
Like, they let you rough them up.
You know, it's not really just catered towards, you know, the NBA definitely
wanted to open up scoring. They wanted a lot of points.
Yeah. And wanted this and that. So they tried to make the game more fluid in that way.
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And, you know, it's a beauty. It's an art to that. But it takes away some stuff,
too. Yeah. I enjoy a good rock fight.
Like, I don't need 140 to 130. Yeah.
Yeah. That's crazy. crazy but we got to talk about the elephant in the room
what everybody is talking about surrounding the u.s team and it's the play of
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jason tatum i don't know why it comes down to this,
and it definitely escalated more during the serbia game whenever he didn't get
in at all you had literal people like people starting to root against the u.s
it was plenty of people People saying, I'm rooting for France today.
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I'm a Jason Tatum supporter more than I'm a U.S. basketball supporter.
You know, self-explanatory.
So what do y'all feel like? Was Steve Kerr doing the right things here?
Well, let's look at the first part of the game.
He certainly did do the right thing.
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The game was entirely too tight when he acquiesced and allowed Tatum to get on the floor.
Tatum didn't deserve to play. He played 11 minutes, had two points.
Anthony Elrich played nine minutes, had eight points, and was more impactful in less minutes.
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Like his nine minutes, you can remember his nine minutes on the floor.
Now, they'll talk about, oh, he didn't get enough time to get a rhythm or he's been out.
No, this his play has has not been great since he's been out there.
And it's because of he doesn't fit that team concept.
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He he can't he doesn't he didn't fit that roster well.
And he fits the Boston Celtics roster well.
Yeah. And what they need them to do.
But, you know, they even talked about why is Derek White and Drew Holiday playing?
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Well, Derek White and Drew Holiday stay in their lane, and they play defense,
and they play a team concept.
Drew Holiday probably is more valuable as a player. Yeah.
That the U.S. has had the past couple of Olympics.
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If it hadn't been for him and his defense, his timely shooting,
because he knocked down some big shots.
He knocked down some big shots. And he was being a post player.
Oh, yeah. Ain't going to be no other guard that's doing that.
Him and Derrick White are the only two that could do that. Exactly.
Those are, I mean, perfect points.
And, you know, a lot of people went back to, oh, in 2021, Jason Tatum averaged
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15 points during the Olympics.
I i want you to look up the roster for 2021 and ain't nobody want to play then
to see who was on that roster thank you it on that roster they had,
so the the big names was tatum durant i think durant was on that squad yeah.
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They also had Damian Lillard, who can't – I mean, he can't guard me.
Then they had – let's see. Well, Bradley Beal was supposed to be on that squad,
but I think he got injured.
So they brought in Kelden Johnson for that team.
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They had Jeremy Grant. Who's Jeremy Grant?
You're talking about the 2020 Olympics. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bunch of ragamuffins,
minus KD and Drew Holiday.
I mean, you had Drew Holiday. You had people.
Yeah. People like that.
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Yeah, it was not. I mean, KD and Drew, the reasons they won that gold medal, it wasn't for them.
The U.S. probably brought a silver home that year.
Yeah. I mean, he was playing on a team that had nobody. Very true.
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Who else was going to score besides, you know, KD and the rest of them?
And in that gold medal game, I think KD had 30, right? Yeah, he had 30.
And we won by five. It was a close game. Yeah.
Yeah.
And they lost the game that are Malimpic's two, if I'm not mistaken.
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You know, and I've been going back and forth with this in my head.
But I always come back to, like, well, who am I putting him in over?
Exactly. And that's where I get stuck.
Because I'm like, I don't know who, like, I can easily say, like,
oh, you should be in over KD. Hell no.
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You know, kind of thing. Like, it's not. But he better be glad Kawhi wasn't on the team.
If Kawhi was on the team, he probably would have been in one game.
You took the words right out of my mouth because I was going to say the exact same thing.
Kawhi, if it was old Kawhi. Yeah.
Yeah. You got to think about old Kawhi was.
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No, he's not a player. He was the best player in the league.
Yes. Because he was taking the big shots and he was locking up your best player.
I hate that it's like come down to this and that's kind of been a bit talk versus,
you know, they're just coaching and playing the matchups and we're winning.
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Did they win the gold medal? Okay. The U.S. soccer team had the same problem
with the women. and they were getting on them saying she's not playing enough players.
Right. They want to go metal, didn't they?
I heard her interview. She's like, I know what I'm doing.
I know this team. I know these players. I know what I'm doing.
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And I know what makes this team tick. Yeah.
And, you know, it's a lot of posture, and that goes in, Mike,
even in that 2021 Olympic.
You got to think there was some remnant of Coach K in that, too.
Yeah, of course. Yeah, absolutely.
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You know, Coach K was going to set that up. Coach K ain't nowhere around in
this. So you ain't going to get a favoritism here.
I didn't think about that. That's true. I had Coach K and stuff there.
Yeah, but impressive. Pop was the coach, but Coach K was still over U.S. basketball.
Yeah, Pop was the coach, but Coach K was still over U.S. basketball during that time.
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Yep. Yep. But impressive win, fellas.
That gave us 38 goals. We are one behind Chyna going into the final day on Sunday.
Dang, we still didn't catch them?
Chyna had a day today. They had like dive in, table tennis. Oh, dive in, yeah.
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I'm telling y'all, they swept all eight categories in Diamond.
Diamond don't care about that other stuff.
We can always be talking about, yeah, we won all these silvers and bronze.
We're ahead in the medal count. Well, how many goals we got versus them?
That's the joke. We're like, well, if you don't win that goal,
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you know you can't come back home. So you might as well go ahead and take it.
Now, I'm confident our women, they're going to bring home a goal.
So they're like the last event on Sunday.
So we know we at least get a tie.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what other events there are.
I haven't looked to see, but it's going to be interesting.
We can't be. Hey, y'all going to recognize my I wasn't way out there in that
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field when I was talking about mediocrity.
No, I mean, you were not all the way in left field, but you, yeah.
You was out there. But let's get into that with some track and field fellas.
Mediocrity. Let's see. Did we have some? Did we have some below?
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And did we have some? We won 11 out of the 25 gold medals in track and field.
I think we had a pretty darn great track and field.
Okay. Hey, well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about Mr. Noah Lyles first.
We had an okay track and field.
Yes, 11 out of 24. We've had the most medals since the 84.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did really great in the track.
That was just because of some guys really gutting it out for us.
Hawker and those people that should not have won medals the way they did.
They did not have won. They're competing just like anyone else.
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Hawker's win was incredible. That was incredible. We ain't taking away that
$1,500, bro. We're keeping that.
We're keeping that. I'm just saying they went above and beyond,
but we have a guy like Noah Lyles jumping up and down acting a fool and then
come in third place. Did he not win 100?
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Did he win the two? That was his race. Yeah, that's his race.
He's supposed to win the 200.
Yeah, he was supposed to win the 200, but he apparently was...
I mean, I knew he was sick when he was running in the trials.
I was like, why is he wearing a mask first?
I mean, in the qualifying. And then he didn't win the heat. I knew something
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was up. me personally because I've watched him over the last two years and he's
winning even the heat for the 200 but he didn't win so.
He didn't win up and now acting a fool he's supposed to win if you do all that
and you don't win you gotta take the spoils and Tobogo busted that behind,
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Tobogo was great in the entire Olympics he was great in the 100 he was on top
of his game but Tobogo had an interesting story wasn't him that he lost his
mother didn't he yeah prior to the Olympics yep so yeah.
You know, he was running with a heavy heart. So, I mean, that was – he had an
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awesome performance, in my opinion.
But, man, Noah Lowes, he got his butt whipped.
He got to take his punishment. Yeah, I mean, like you said, when you're jumping
up and down at the fool, you got to back it up.
Yeah, when you get out there and, you know, talk the junk that he talk.
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He talk but what if that is somebody's
way of personally hyping themselves up to
do it like do you have to win every time but that's your way to try to make
yourself feel normal and get yourself involved into the you know the race the
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event like do we not like pompous attitudes only Only whenever you don't win.
But if he won, it would be okay.
All I'm saying is just like Tobogo
said. I don't think he was trying to read, but he read. Oh, he read.
Tobogo being asked about being the face of track and field.
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For me, I can't be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah.
So I believe Noah is the face of athletics. And look at Kenny right beside him,
looking at him, wanting to say, yep, I agree.
I'm glad you said it. He was right there looking at him. Hey, it's the truth.
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And all Noah could do is just sit there and take it because he told him exactly
what he was. He's arrogant. He's loud.
And he got his butt spanked.
Now and i know now everything is out there a lot of people are on different
sides some people don't think he even ever had covet like he's just using this as an excuse.
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I'm not on that side. People are taking it. Y'all take it. I don't know how
y'all feel. You might have some feelings about the COVID thing.
He recently had posted a picture of him being COVID free and showing the results.
And now he's getting read down for that, too. I don't know why he posted that at all.
But as people going in more, I don't understand why he ran.
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Like, I'm kind of like it is unsettling to me that he would know, knowingly have COVID.
When he found out on Tuesday and still be out there participating and race on
Thursday and still be hugging people and doing all this stuff.
And not anybody knows he has COVID until afterwards, all this is going on.
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Like something about that is just unsettling to me. I don't,
I don't know. I guess I go, I understand it's the Olympics.
You ain't going to have many shots at this. You want to go through,
but I started thinking about Simone Biles and whenever, You know,
people was getting hurt on with her with backing out,
but she was talking about how athletes put themselves through stuff,
you know, and it's really no good reason why they're doing it,
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like for the sake of competing. But does that really make sense?
I don't know. How do y'all feel about him even competing and having COVID?
I don't have a problem with him competing. The only thing I would have,
I don't know if he did, but I would
have liked for him to at least let everyone know that he did have it.
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So, you know, people wasn't hugged up all over him.
He says he isolated. You know, they talk about they saw him.
They was wondering why he was kind of by himself and having this mask. Nobody really knew.
But and you know it wasn't like a lot of interaction with people but you saw afterwards,
nobody working around him had a mask on and they knew he had cold i was so confused
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that part was confusing even whenever they were coming out there to help him
and doing all that stuff and he was around he was around a long time without
a mask that just freshly have covid yeah exactly yeah Yeah, that was crazy.
Like, I'm with you, brother. Like, I think he should have informed people and
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told them that he had COVID.
I know the only reason he ran the race that I'm thinking is because,
you know, in Budapest, he won with 100 and 200.
So that was the goal to do that at this Olympics.
And he know he had no chance in four years to win the 100.
So this was his only chance. That's the only reason I think he did it.
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Tobogo is 20 years old. and he acted more mature than Noah did.
You know, I'm not a big fan of that young man.
Now, I am a big fan of McLaughlin.
She's phenomenal.
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She goes about her business the right way, and she just wins goals. Thank you.
You know, when I talk about excellence, she is excellent. Gabby Thomas.
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Excellent. I think she had three or four goals.
Yeah, she's going to leave with three gold medals. Sidney broke that.
She had that world record, 50.39 and that. That's crazy.
And you saw when they did the tracker with how she's in line with people running
without hurdles. Without hurdles. Exactly.
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That's so crazy. I need her to run the 400. Go back to Olympus,
please. How many did she win? Didn't she win four gold medals?
But she was only in the 400 hurdles and the relay race.
I think she was only in two. Yeah, she was only in two.
Four by four and the 400 meter hurdles. Yeah. But what about Sha'Carri?
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So how do we think her Olympic debut overall is? went.
Second in the 100, which there was a little funny business going on with that,
with her and Shelly Ann Frazier not being let in to be able to warm up and that whole situation.
But Julian Alford dusted in that and won the first gold for first medal for St. Lucia.
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Period. That was ugly. That was ugly. But Shikari in that 4x1?
Oh, she's smoking. she smoked them and then looked at them and frowned yes that
look yes yeah she ran that angry i was happy for her to at least get a gold
medal you know after just the embarrassment,
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that it was in tokyo you know it was good to see her come back and and you know
get a little bit bit of redemption.
I wish she could have got the gold in the 100 meter, but it wasn't her day that day.
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Yeah. I don't think even if that didn't happen, she would have been.
A powerhouse that day. That was just meant to be.
At least the car had it was fine what she did because i
i wish she would have made the 200 so she
she and gabby could have had a good race for for that gold medal but the way
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that for about 100 she made she made up for not winning that gold medal in the
first round like that was amazing how she quenched that in the anchor leg so
i thought she had a nice olympics i'm happy that She won two medals.
Yeah. Yeah. The women dusted. The women, they blew it out.
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That 4x4, the great, they won that one. They smoked.
The men, they pulled out the 4x4, but the 4x1 was an embarrassment. Can we talk about that?
What was that? Before we do that, let me give some flowers to some people who
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did well. that we haven't mentioned yet.
Rod Benjamin, I think in the X
Olympics, winning those two gold medals and anchoring that leg in the 400.
And... Huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
That was definitely amazing. Him and Grant Holloway, too. The 110 meter hurdle. Now he came back.
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Fantastic. fantastic so he and i don't know what silver in that or golden bronze
or something like that in there yeah he made up for his silver that he won in
in tokyo and so they rock they both won silvers and close match you know close
run races they came back to women and dominating those.
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No, absolutely. That Quincy Hall comeback, I ain't never seen nothing like that.
That was the most amazing race of the tournament.
Oh, Hawker, he had a good one too. Yeah, good one too, dig and dig.
Yeah, that was two amazing races.
Yeah, that 1500, that was exciting.
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I'm going to tell y'all something on that 1500. I cried a little. Oh, I did.
I wept like a baby that's what they said like the way the the way those two americans,
did that with um hawker and gosh
what's the the other guy's name it's the african what's
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the name i forgot his name i know you're talking about
those long legs yeah it starts with a y y i
remember it starts with a y i can't remember how to say
it but the way they came back to pull off
gold and bronze and stuff and that and then
whenever they said it's the first time two americans have meddled in
112 years yeah in that
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event i was like wow yeah that was that was a moment and the other americans
finished like fifth i think so it was like he was close to yeah he was right
off yep and boy they showed his his father his father his father was like what the?
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He caught a gear. He was like, what the?
He hit that inside. He stuck in there.
That Norway guy gave up that little bit of room and it was...
I thought he was going to get a silver.
He had a little bit more room. A little more track.
He said, all I need is a little room.
Just a little room. A little room right there.
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Man, you talking about a kick. That boy had a kick. He definitely did.
Had some heart man that was that was a beautiful race well and and quince like
i ain't taking nothing from him man he gutted that out he was like in fourth
or fifth place like oh he was way out oh he was way out of the race and i'm
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he the nonsense wasn't even talking about him oh like oh Oh,
my goodness. Quickie Hall has been moved.
I have never seen anything like that quick.
That changed like that. That was crazy. It was running wild.
All you could see was legs and arms. He was flailing.
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Oh, that would be a great commercial.
I hope they caught it from the
other end. That's a great commercial for us for the next Olympics. Yes.
Legs, arms, and teeth. that's all you saw go front.
That's funny that was good there was a lot to celebrate with the track and a
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lot of exciting stuff let's talk about the 4x1 so Carl Lewis had a lot of thoughts,
Carl Lewis was not happy,
Carl Lewis has apparently been pissed off for quite some time too with this
I mean, for 16 years, he's been pissed off about how poorly we performed in the relays.
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He said it's time to blow up the system.
Yeah. This continues to be completely unacceptable.
And it is clear that everyone at USA Track and Field is more concerned with
relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another
relay until this program is changed from the top to the bottom.
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Carl came out with that one.
My thing is, how do you ruin the best first leg that's ever been run in the
history of the Olympics?
I don't know. I don't know. That may be the reason why. It was a little too painful.
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But I don't know what happened.
But that could be it because, what's it called? It took off.
I mean, he was way down the track before Coleman even got there.
Yeah. Kenny, I don't know what he was thinking.
Rockhead. That was just stupid. But Coleman ran 9.86 in a curve. That's crazy.
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Oh, he would have won 100. 9.86 in a curve.
That's crazy. The best that's ever been run in history.
Well ain't nothing you can do with that now no that's so terrible like i don't
i'm tired of seeing them like dropping batons or just messing up exchanges just
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not doing well and i don't understand what's going on with the relay how does
this work in track do they practice well,
they changed the order when noah got hurt they changed the order all around
so everybody was out of place from what they would normally practice and which made no sense.
Instead of just replacing Noah at the anchor, they decided to rearrange the
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order with the new person they brought in as a replacement.
So everybody was running out of position. And still there's a handoff.
Like, what is going on? You would think. What kind of rocket got to have not
to be able to hold on to that baton? Not to run out of zone.
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Exactly. I don't know. All it is is kick, hand back, boom.
I mean, everybody else is doing it, so I'm confused.
Look at China. China was killing it. Perfect handoffs. Perfect.
Perfect. Nobody's dropping a baton there. They got them out there for them. If they drop a baton...
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, Christ. I don't know. But they got to get out. That's four by one.
I don't know what's going on.
And we're not going to just say, like, something was going on with the U.S. What?
Jamaica this track and field. We're not to show up to Paris this year.
We're taking a break. But what went on with Jamaican track and field this year? I don't know.
(37:57):
None of them are. are i mean you didn't
see none of the women that usually are there like
ellianne frazier price or
rare when she she bet out now i
did see like i didn't know before but then i did see like she had aggravated
a hamstring okay and that's why she started pulling out but they look long but
(38:23):
they look lost they didn't even make the four by four for the men they wouldn't even do it
They didn't qualify for the finals. I don't know what's happening.
But wasn't that only gold, like, in the field? Like, their first field medals
were the only gold medals they had?
Because I don't remember them winning anything on track.
Did they win any medals on track?
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I can't remember. I can't remember. I don't think so. For men or the women?
No, no, no, no. The 100. Right in your back screen.
That Noah Lyles barely beat out. Oh, yeah, he did get a silver medal.
That's right he's the only standout for them oh yeah yeah that's right i forgot
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about him the big grown man as a big yeah yeah he's huge but what what what
happened to sharika jackson though,
i don't know that one was puzzling we still don't and her her thing she posted
her message that she didn't really give any insight.
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She was just saying something very surfacy about like, oh, you know,
thanks for supporting me and da-da-da-da, all this stuff, but she never really
clearly said why she pulled out.
There's something going on with the Track and Field Federation.
Remember I sent y'all that post about the girl talking about the federation or whatever?
Not really supplying them with the coaching that they need and supplies and stuff.
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So I think there's something going on at the top.
Athletes are like, well, I'm not going to compete for you because you are doing
something that's not right.
As good as they have always been and you're not getting any support. It's crazy.
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Yeah, I don't understand. I'm pretty sure something's going to come out after
the Olympics. I'm waiting to hear.
It's got to be such a disappointing experience for Jamaica and generally for this Olympics.
Yeah i'm gonna just say my one of my new favorite races now is the steeplechase oh god,
(40:32):
who is good at the steeplechase i need to know who and why would you do this to humans,
wow especially with cutting them last couple of laps boy
they be turning turn it on i don't know if you saw the man when that
dude totally face planted it on that yes oh that
was so sad it was like oh my god oh he
kissed he kissed that ass off but we
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pulled out silver in that one too yeah tell
us what this is running i just was running several medals this time like we
never competed this is running yeah we we're never there but i don't know i
think there was a conspiracy against those a lot of those ethiopians and the African nations.
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They got tired of their winners. They were beefing too with each other, all the nations.
Yeah. I mean, and we, I guess we're, we are getting a lot of those that are playing on the beach.
Well, we got a point. But they still winning though.
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Old girl still won, what, three straight gold medals in 10,000 or something,
10K or whatever. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. I mean, hey.
I mean, them cats, they're tough, man. They are tough.
They're tough. Yes, that is true.
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I want to talk about something positive. Yes, please.
Let's talk about something positive that's going on in the community.
And Carl Parker, you brought this up to us in our chats with what's going on with Mr.
Jalen Brown and Jason Kidd.
(42:17):
And play. What I noticed through like the inequalities in Boston,
there's inequalities that are glaring all over the U.S., which led me here to Oakland.
And Oakland, which I would consider like a second home to me going to school
at UC Berkeley. My roommate, I arrived.
I got a lot of ties, a lot of people in this room that I've known for a long time.
(42:40):
But Oakland is rich and its history and its tradition, entrepreneurship and
business and togetherness and organization.
So what an honor it is to be up here announcing the initiative here in Oakland.
When I talk about my women's program that we have here of the basketball,
I thought it was time for the Bay Area to be represented.
(43:01):
We have nine scholarship offers from Cal by just understanding what we are trying. Yes, go Bears.
And we're trying to give a light on things that need to be highlighted.
Everyone sees Instagram and sees all the negative.
But what Jalen Brown is doing here, not just in Boston, but across the country, is incredible.
(43:27):
So that is the initiative here that's being casted as the Black Wall Street
initiative going on in Oakland, California that Jalen Brown and...
Jason Kidd have teamed up for to do.
And it's really cool reading up about this and how they are trying to bring
(43:49):
wealth and to build that generational wealth back into the Black community.
And they chose Oakland right here to start it off.
And you heard some of the reasons there with Jalen Brown talking about it there.
But he said a little bit into it, You know, Jason Kidd is talking about how
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Oakland is the perfect place for this, already has the talent and mentors to make it a success.
But, you know, the argument is Black businesses are too often over-mentored, yet underfunded.
So they're trying to change that underfunded part.
And they believe that this injection of working capital is the missing piece.
(44:32):
And so they anticipate an initial investment of millions of dollars that will
fund a series of projects aimed at creating generational wealth,
such as business incubators, programs to launch local artists and musicians,
and to purchase property in places like downtown Oakland.
And this is, they're seeing this as a huge win for the district down there.
(44:55):
People are excited about this going on. This is all relatively new.
I know, Carl, you like this is one of your favorite subjects,
too, is talking about economics, the black dollar doing things to build us up.
Does this look like a step in the right direction?
I like where they're going. I still think there's there's still avenues that
(45:18):
we we we've got to attack first.
Infrastructure has got to be attacked first i mean we got to build up banks we got to build up,
hospitals you know schools all those grocery stores you know just all the things that,
(45:41):
you know our our people actually need now of course we we get into the arts
and entertainment and stuff like that,
and we make a lot of money in those fields,
but the things that are going to sustain us and actually build our economy and
(46:03):
our infrastructure are the small businesses, which he's talking about.
That's a great step in the right direction where we can employ other people
of color and, you know, keep that dollar rotating in our community.
But I'm just glad that we're starting something there, but it needs to be a
(46:28):
national thing that is not only in Oakland, but, you know, in D.C.
And Chicago and Atlanta, you know, right? Right.
And not just the large cities. It's got to go to cities like Wilmington here,
(46:49):
you know, Durham, you know, Charlotte.
There are some southern cities, definitely.
There are plenty of cities with an African-American contingent that we can,
you know, we can do so much more in. But I like the fact that Jalen is doing this.
(47:13):
I just want to give shout outs to Jalen The y'all know how smart this this young
man is He he was offered a NASA internship.
Yes hearing about that and he He became a MIT fellow. Mm-hmm.
So I mean it this this kid is He's he's not a slow leap.
(47:38):
You know, he's he's He's a very intelligent young man.
And he cares about his community. Yeah. And that's one of the reasons why he's
ostracized a little bit more than some of your other guys.
He's going to be in that same...
(48:00):
Elm is Kyrie Irving, who, you know, Kyrie, you know, is a little bit more quirky than what Jalen is.
You know, it's all the same, you know, intentions was to take it out the way it's supposed to be.
Yeah. Both of them are intelligent young men.
But, you know, I think Jalen is he he's very socially conscious.
(48:26):
That's one of the things that they said about him when he came out and they
were wondering if he would even thrive in the NBA because he he was so super
intelligent that he didn't really need the NBA to be successful.
That's interesting. And I should back up, too, because I did.
(48:50):
There was an earlier he did do. He started before this, what he calls the Boston Exchange.
And so that's the original and that this is the kind of continuation of that.
So they are looking to branch it out in other places. And they chose Oakland
and the Boston Exchange. Exchange, you know, that's a nonprofit initiative.
(49:10):
And its aim with that one is to generate $5 billion in generational wealth and communities of color.
And just as you talked about MIT, he's tapped local partners from MIT to the
city of Boston to kind of help shape the vision and support entrepreneurship and creativity.
Creativity and they just kicked off that
(49:32):
this program in Boston this month earlier this month and It's being assaulted
by Boston creator incubator plus accelerator and they're collaborating with
the Celtics and all these other different different parts and we talk about
media entertainment fashion culinary arts.
He's the whole Gambit of things So yeah, I love to hear about.
(49:59):
Ever people who you always hear about these big contracts
and we know all the money that jalen brown got he's putting
this stuff to use you know yes and he's using
that influence or not he's not just it's not
like he's just tape breaking in all this money and not doing
anything with it i love to see like whenever stuff is
generated back this kind of way right and
(50:22):
i'm glad they're buying up properties too i think that's really smart especially
especially you know these these These cities like Oakland have been decimated
with gentrification and the raising prices of rent and mortgages that they actually
buy property to on top of that.
And that's the easiest way to generate that generational wealth that they're trying to get.
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I definitely agree with that. And like to your point also, brother,
I think I wish somebody would go into the space of like, like you said,
the banking industry and have it where more black people are making decisions
about where money is allocated.
So we can hand out money to our own community, instead of having to go to other
(51:04):
banks that we're going to get outrageous rates or deny us.
And it's, you know, make it incredibly hard for especially small businesses
and personal banking to to to actually like when you try to sell a home or anything
that they'll find different ways to to have us lose that wealth,
give us, you know, bad, bad deals or whatnot.
(51:25):
Not. So we're missing out on the opportunity for generational wealth.
So I wish we had more people who look like us, who have the intentions of a
Jalen Brown or a Jason Kidd to be those decision makers in the credit and lending industry.
I definitely agree with that.
I don't think we can actually move forward unless we do have that.
(51:53):
We've got to be able to sustain ourselves.
Like you said, we got to be able to have our own decision makers and they're
just, but they're just fundamental things that we've got to have.
You got to have your own method of policing. You got to have,
way to eat yeah and and you got to have people that's going to take care of
(52:20):
your health care and stuff you know those are like fundamental things that we
we've got to have you know.
Like doctors and delivering babies the mortality rate of black women do childbirth is crazy,
yes but you you know you think about all the inventors and all the you know,
(52:45):
things that we have done in the past that we no longer have a hand in,
that's true we have so many inventions so many things that we brought to this culture to this
nation and we don't, we don't have one grocery store or one grocer, one hospital.
(53:08):
We don't have an automaker. We don't have, I mean, you know,
if it came down to it and we were alienated in this nation, we would,
we would be in a bind. That is so true.
Facts. And that particularly can happen. at the way they're trying to have things go. Yeah.
(53:31):
And, you know, I don't want to seem like a separatist or, you know,
anything like that, but I also am a realist and a survivalist.
So I know in order for us to be able to survive,
we've got to have some certain things in our community, And we've got to start
(53:57):
thinking about those types of things to sustain not only current generation,
but those that are going to be following after us, man.
Our last podcast, I was saying we may be extinct in 25 years.
(54:18):
I mean, that was kind of cheeky, but realistically, you can see more of an expiration
on our toes than anybody else.
Yeah, especially if things continue going the way they are now economically.
(54:38):
The way things are going economically and the way we're being phased out right
now and the things with our health, for instance,
our health is, you know, our health is not the way it should be.
And it's because we're not getting the health care that we deserve, you know. Yeah.
(55:01):
And if we were if we had our own hospitals and stuff where we could actually
get really good health care from people that look like us and cared about us,
then, you know, we could we could learn a little bit more.
I think we talked about this before.
(55:23):
I know a lot of Black people don't understand that dementia and stuff like that
is more prevalent in our community than dementia and Alzheimer's is more prevalent
in our community than any other community. Yeah.
We don't, we don't have any seminars, any, no, anybody really speaking to our
(55:48):
communities about that and about preventative measures for it. Mm hmm.
So what Jalen and Jason are doing is super commendable and I could see how it could branch off into,
you know, things where we can educate our community on those those things.
(56:11):
But I again, I would really like to see us get into just the fundamentals,
the fundamental building blocks of a community.
Yeah. Well, I'm telling you, we had a meeting at work with, I think it was Medicaid and Medicare,
that at least for those insurances,
(56:35):
it's going to be a big change coming in the very near future to health and how
doctors and stuff are paid and getting their money through Medicaid and Medicare.
They're going to start basing it on insurance.
Parent, is your patient improving or is their health declining?
(56:56):
I'm like, you're going to start getting paid based on performance instead of visit.
You know, typically how it works is whether the patient comes,
it gets better or not, you get paid. You don't get paid. You get paid for the visit.
Now they're going to start breaking the debt where they're going to look at the records.
(57:19):
Does this patient get it better? under your under your
supervision so i can see and
this is for you know where i work is we see
a part more about 99.9 percent black people
the black community so if
these doctors are not incentivizing our
community to get healthier they're not going to.
(57:42):
Make as much money so i can see our health
care possibly improving i'm hoping
for the positive side of this that it
means that doctors are going to try their best to
improve the patient instead of just getting paid because they can't
see me no matter what gotcha that's interesting
(58:02):
so that's something that's coming down the line well see
i mean here again black we
as african-americans we got
to get off the tit and we we
got to we really got
the we got to get out there man and
(58:23):
we got to claw and fight and and
do our things for ourselves man it
if we don't start doing something if you see how african-american women are
are treated in in these hospitals when when they go together when they go give
(58:44):
birth they supposed to be able to tolerate pain yes it's it's absurd.
They still going off uh old stuff they're experimenting on our women when they
go going to the hospital i mean it's not a pleasant experience at all,
(59:04):
A lot of times, a lot of times, man, we experienced this just recently with
with Elise and dealing with things like menstruation and stuff in the hospital.
And, you know, I was certain women, you know, they have certain struggles and
(59:25):
stuff with that, like, you know, different.
Different and it was just like a simple
dr ashley karen because it's been like really
it's been a difficult like thing at least
and like saw in the records all these all this stuff all this time and she was
just like nope she offered something she's like oh this is simple this kid fits
(59:47):
this just like no one has ever told you that before you know and the the doctor's
looking like really shocked.
I see how many times this has been discussed and taught up, but no one has ever offered this.
It's just crazy. It's just little things. It's mad.
(01:00:08):
All this time, they could have been fixed.
That's terrible. It's just crazy. Yeah, you're right.
It's like a continual thing Dang right there with that.
Well, well, nonetheless steps in the right direction, but I agree.
(01:00:30):
I'm agree with what you're saying. Like we, we got, you say,
get off the tit. I like that.
Quick thoughts, any quick thoughts to wrap up on the new VP pick for Kamala?
How's this first week been for y'all with Mr.
(01:00:51):
Tim Walls and the Harris ticket?
I think it's actually been a positive, man.
And you can see there's a lot of excitement.
The rallies are crazy right now. Yeah.
(01:01:11):
The excitement is there. The excitement is there.
Again, you know, I'm just going to be interested to see what their policies are.
And then, you know, how is that going to impact?
You know middle class low to middle class and are we going to see more money
(01:01:38):
at the end of the month right hello period.
I would say the more I looked into him too because you know I didn't know that
much about him but looking into the stuff he's done in Minnesota does give me
more hope for or a middle-class kind of focus,
(01:01:59):
kind of like this administration could be working on with a lot of stuff that he's done there.
I was like, oh, this is, you know, some liberal thinking and actually putting
some stuff into practice and doing something as a governor, like just a lot of things.
Yeah, it's a small town, you know, Midwestern.
(01:02:23):
So you would think he'd be kind of...
A little bit moderate although he
you know he he's pretty liberal in his thought
process but i think from
what i've heard he economically he's done a good job in in the state that he
(01:02:45):
uh represents so i again i'm just going to be interested in what the policies
are and And really, vice president,
he don't really mean a whole lot to me.
I think one of, in history, they has like Adams, John Adams.
(01:03:13):
And like he said, well, I'm going to take the summer off.
And this was when he was vice president. And they was like, well,
yeah, because you really don't have a job. Wow.
But, you know, but that's just kind of...
(01:03:34):
The vice president you know what what is
he going to do he's going
to support the president that's what i appreciate and i
and i well and that's what she needs more than anything if somebody that she
can talk to i'm just going to stand up for her and i like the fact that i think
(01:03:54):
he is making her steer more to the middle class talk ever since he came on board
i hear her talking about middle class a lot.
So I'm hoping that bringing him on board and some of the stuff he does,
he did, I don't think it's necessarily liberal. To me, it's just like common sense stuff.
If the kids need food, give them, hey, you need to eat at lunch before you come to school.
(01:04:17):
You need freaking maxi pads? Here are free maxi pads for you.
You know, it's just tampons, whatever.
Whatever somebody needs when they go to school. I think he can bring that kind
of common sense stuff to the White House that we need to show that we're not the coastal elites.
We're middle class America too. Before his state of Minnesota,
(01:04:40):
I see why they're one of the happiest states.
He has one of the nation's largest child tax credits and stuff.
He's done some things in what you're talking about there, there,
you know, what he did for abortion, or as soon as that Roe versus Wade got overturned,
(01:05:01):
how he, you know, he... I hate that. That has to be liberal.
Like, common sense equals liberalism. It makes no sense to me.
It does. It does. It is. It does what it equals today.
Unfortunately. I said he's a Prince fan. I like that. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
He's a Prince fan. Yeah, and I love what you said, Carlin, and it made me think
(01:05:26):
that I love that he knows how to hit back too.
I'm tired of people being pussies. Thank you.
Just letting people walk all over them and do that. No, it is not that type of party.
And he knows how to give it right back to them.
And when he threw that couch joke out at events, I was like,
(01:05:49):
all right. I was like, this is my guy.
This is my guy. Yes.
This is my guy now like he he is
there he's with the shits he's there he wants to give it right back so uh you
need some of that too listen this is a spicy ticket between him and vice president
harris you see what harris did what you know what if you want donald trump to win then it's.
(01:06:15):
Music.
Yowzers Unless you want to get Donald Trump Elected If you want to get Donald
(01:06:36):
Trump elected Say that Otherwise I'm speaking,
Did that sound Yeah,
And that look Yeah she gave a little flick too I thought that look We done seen that before for.
That low part, it kept getting more intense as the pick went by.
(01:06:57):
They shot up too, didn't they? They better.
But they're batting 1,000 right now. They're coming out swinging.
Coming out swinging, and we're going to have some stuff to talk about down that road.
Oh, it's going to be a lot to talk about down that road. I'm going to do a little
Steph Curry, go out on a little shimmy.
And I'm going to say USA for for like the last time until four years.
(01:07:22):
USC. USC.
Oh, I can't leave without giving a shout out to my girl, Iman Khalif.
I'm about to say the boxer. Uh-huh.
You know. Your girl. He's a female.
Why? You know, and I will say Lin Yong Ting, too, because the other one,
(01:07:47):
which is interesting. never gets brought up.
The other one who was considered a man, they bring her up very rarely.
Yeah, I haven't heard about her. Intense hatred for the Algerian.
Oh, I wonder why. We hear about the Taiwanese one that was in this midst of stuff too. Oh, yeah.
But, you know. You know what? That goes without saying. Yeah, exactly.
(01:08:12):
The intense hatred for her. But I love the way Algeria, crowd,
the way they moved down for the medal ceremony and was oh, they've been riding hard for her.
Hardcore. Good. It's so heartwarming the way that they are doing it for her.
(01:08:32):
She went out with a win. I didn't express all my thoughts.
We didn't let you have that segment. We did not want to air that for the public. Happy for her.
That's my closing thought. man they they
were killing her and at least
you got vindicated gold medal baby this has been a rosie b production you can
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follow the parker's couch on youtube and tiktok you can follow cameron on instagram
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