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Fore Play
"jesse owens" Discussed on Fore Play
"They said, if Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt on their records would have run together. The difference would have been minimal. Minimal. Interesting. And that was 1940, 1940. 1940 something like that? Sure. 1936, no, 1936, when Jesse on the in Germany. So compared to user in bolt doing it in 2009. I mean, just think about football players.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"jesse owens" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And with us right now, is someone who I think has been so courageous more so than any other member of Congress and definitely in the Senate, someone who is actually a medical doctor and has been exposing the independent regulatory agencies of the deep medical state, doctor Rand Paul or senator ram Paul senator, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk show. Hey, Charlie. Thanks for having me. So senator walk us through kind of your latest kind of bout with Fauci, if you will. You went back and forth in the committee or one of the only ones willing to do so. Seems as if he's getting a little bit uneasy that you might be on his case. You know, I think it's in a appalling abuse of power. He makes over $420,000 a year, but he then uses his salary and his office and his minions to take down an enemy's list. So his enemies list includes other doctors and other scientists and three of them are imminent epidemiologists that work for Stanford Oxford and Harvard, but he and doctor Collins conspired by email that we know of because we have a record of this. And they said in the email, let's do a published takedown of these people. And immediately Fauci responded to Collins and said, I'm on it and sent him two or three things that got up in the lay press at the nation a left wing progressive outlet and then also at spike. So the thing is they're putting these nodes at wired. So they're putting these things out. But I think it's an abuse of office to go after other scientists and use your government position to try to take down people who disagree with you. And what these scientists were putting forward was the great Barrington declaration that simply acknowledged that we learned very early on that COVID affects different age groups wildly differently to 80 year old has a thousand times greater chance of dying than a ten year old. And if we don't account for that, I think it's basically
The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"jesse owens" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"Substance out. There there are a lot of items out there. A lot of artifacts out there. There's a museum world. We call it material culture. There's a lot of stuff out there related to baseball and And baseball has been going on for a really a long long time so Things that we can do At the hall of fame and we've been collecting since nineteen thirty seven two years before we opened up. Because of course you're gonna open up a museum. You gotta have something to show So we've been collecting for a long long time and It's just a we've had the privilege of being able to pull all of this together And have had some advantages in that way that our brethren over the football hall of fame basketball hall of fame just have not had and you know with golf You know it's like there's there's Drivers and balls and that's about it but with You know with baseball. You got all sorts of of cool things that That reflect both the player and the team and And the fan was there. Is there a piece of memorabilia. Either that you came across when you first started working at the hall of famer perhaps that you that you came across when making the video series. Is there one that sort of stopped you in your tracks and you kind of like holy crap. I can't believe i'm holding this. Or i can't believe this is the bat that that jackie robinson used or this is the hat that mariano rivera war is there any piece that stands out to you. You know there was one that really made me feel like holy cow. I'm so glad that People have been collecting this for a long time. And it's because it's the olympics year and We're going through and trying to find a connection to a fellow who had A major league baseball player who had helped create the The baseball team that went to the nineteen thirty six berlin olympics and it turned out that he had been teammates of one of the greatest athletes in american history. Jim thorpe who won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon Back in nineteen nineteen twelve. Stockholm games and We had the baseball. The jim thorpe heads signed when he went on a tour of england with the new york giants and is like back in nineteen fourteen. So this was just like you know the kind of things that we go. Holy cow have just like to have An artifact that you know that an olympian has signed and you know An olympian not from baseball. but from Well you know the greatest athlete in the world in nineteen twelve to to have A baseball signed by him and his teammates of which then links up with the fellow who put together the Baseball olympics In nineteen thirty six which was the one where of course Jackie robinson's big brother mac. ran Second to jesse owens When jesse owens stunned the The the german nation with full go medals. So that's the kind of linkages that we started finding Over and over again and it's just just so much fun. Yeah that's the thing that amazes me. Like i was watching the video series and the one of the episodes that i know you wanna talk about dirt in the skirt to san man. Yeah it's it starts with the all american girls professional baseball league which started during world war two when obviously many still does a hunger to watch baseball but a lot of the players were fighting in world war two and the girls professional leagues started and it ends with mariano rivera. It's like how the heck is this going to get there but just some of the some of the cool cool like you said linkages between playing baseball in cuba. Obviously before that cuba shut its borders. And jackie robinson to mickey mantle since they were crosstown rival ser for so many years so it just it just sort of amazing when you peel back the layers what you can connect throughout baseball history. I think that's i asked you the question. What what is it about baseball that that makes it sort of possible to do all that. And i think it's because i it's just the the stories that you can connect to player to player an era to era. You can always find a story or or a player that may have played with someone. Or like you said. Jackie robinson's older brother ran in the same olympic games. Like who would have thought that but it happens right. That's it that's exactly right and you know a couple of things that come to mind as we're talking about this Baseball players baseball players have longer careers so they have the opportunity to touch more other players. You know you football. Just beat the tar out of you and you get to the end of your career and you'll it's been five years and you're done And in in baseball There are guys who i would imagine. I have to go back and check this. But i will bet that we could find somebody who had five years before they even played out the rest all of their rookie Eligibility right right. Yeah exactly. yeah the yeah. The years that it spans i think are are truly the amazing part and you can always find a match up or something like he hit his three thousand. Hit off of this player or this place amazon base when he got when this when this happened or this strikeout came against that where you can always sort of find. Find those sort of weird quirky things in baseball and it's always fun when those sorts of things come up throughout season because the season season is so long as is some of some of the more down moments. It's fun to sort of pick apart those those sorts of quirks in coincidences. That's right and of course the the ground of the foundation of it all is the recordkeeping the keeping that's been done since i since really since day one and the fact that you can go back and You know and see through box scores and through Play by plays all of these things that that happened and you can document Who who wasn't who through this and you know who did he hit it off above and and.
DSC On Demand
"jesse owens" Discussed on DSC On Demand
"Moaning and thank you and hello again. Everybody in sports worlds. Padres back in action tonight in oakland first-pitch six our time. What time it'll be up there. Whatever likes snell is on the hill. Fernie teeth not make the trip healing his dislocated shoulder this week. At the summer. Olympic games in tokyo. Japan simone biles took the bronze their one and finals of any of these games. The balance beam so. How much is an olympic medal worth a silver medal from the nineteen hundred olympic games. Recently sold for one thousand two hundred eighty three dollars and seems low. Doesn't the first place silver medal from the first modern olympics. In athens in eighteen ninety six there were goals back then so silver was the first prize recently. Sold for one hundred eighty thousand dollars okay. We're getting there all right. We're talking the record. Price for an olympic medal is one point. Five million dollars for one of the gold. Medals won by jesse owens at the nineteen thirty six summer games in berlin where owens also gave the very first high five in recorded history. Germany's fuhrer at the time greeted. Jesse owens with his trademark right hand raised in the air and jesse assumed he wanted to slap hands and history was made dudek sports fans when a person buys into the hype that he or. She is the greatest of all time. There are expectations after all. You're raising your own bar right. Simone biles with her own line of goat clothing. Didn't help her legacy especially in the way. She opted out this summer as legitimate as her mental health concerns were in our as they relate to the danger of her sport. But you set yourself up when you buy into that stuff which brings us to birthday boy. Tom brady who turns forty four to the he's writing a very high wave. The nfl's highest ever seven super bowl rings including this past seasons. I hope it ends well for tom. Tom because all it takes is one played and a career and alter life. But for now tom brady is leaning into it recently comparing himself to a couple of other goats as he expresses his outright disdain dane for the teams passed on him when they had a chance during last. Summer's free agency. I think what you realize is that there's not as many smart people as you think. It'd be a no brainer. If you said hey you got a chance to get Wayne gretzky on your team or you get a chance of mike jordan not mile. We them you thanks. We're good i'm on. I'm kind of saying okay. Well let me go. Show those teams what they're missing and at the same time. Let me go through to the team that did bet on the team that really showed that they really wanna be committed to me. That i'm not gonna let them down. It's nothing special about you'd get over yourself. Actually there is something very special about and like it or not. We need to get over it. And tommy's buccaneers host the dallas cowboys on the nfl's opening night. Thursday september ninth. Just thirty seven days away. Meanwhile in ashes all that kind of a slight man crush on Tom brady not gay. I wouldn't kiss him on the lips. But if tom asked me to slow dance or something i'll give him a song here i mean why would i pass that up. Tom would ask me. I you'd have to make a lot of mistakes between now and then to get to the point sur. You want to answer. It's happening right here in target.
The Glenn Beck Program
"jesse owens" Discussed on The Glenn Beck Program
"But you know as i was. I was doing these These tours about the painting one of the paintings that i did was Jesse owens and i painted him so you're his eyes would follow you in the room and i have him at the the Starting line at the nineteen thirty six berlin olympics. And don't talk to me about birth. Oh i've got so many things i'm oppressed. He was oppressed. he was oppressed. He was living in america at a time where he had to use a separate water fountain if he wanted to drink. So half of the population in the united states loved him. The other half didn't love him. When when hitler a invited him and the us to come over for the berlin olympics half of the black community said. You can't do it you can't you can't go because you can't support the hitler government and you can't support the united states government the other half said you have to go. You have to go because you have to show. The black man is humid human over in germany. Because he says you're subhuman so you have to go. Fdr didn't wanna meet with. Jesse owens didn't want to support jesse owens hitler. He's in the stadium with hitler staring at him. You wanna talk about pressure. shut up. Talk to jesse owens. And what did he do. He won the gold and then he stood there proudly as the national anthem played any came back. That's why he's a hero. He torqued afterward though. He did torah wars. There was there alone. Let me tell you. Let me tell you the same. The same story with jesse owens. Do you know why he won the gold because he was fast. Trask time Cross the finish on before the others. Yeah yeah so. That's what happens when you turn your headphones on. You're not allowed to listen anymore. Let me just share this with you. Okay here's the reason. Why one in the long jump is because the guy who he was competing against notice. That jesse owens was jumping too soon and he kind of sneaks over to jesse side knee standing there and he says Hey listen You're jumping too soon. And jesse would what are you talking about. He's like don't look at me. It lawyers looking at me. Don't look at me You're jumping too soon. So i'm gonna. I'm gonna saunter over to the to the pet and i'm just gonna i'm just Drop my towel where you should jump. And so he does and this is a german competitor. I believe for the isn't it. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Yeah and he puts his towel down. Right where jesse. Owens should jump jesse owens jumps and wins the gold. It didn't take long for that guy to be sent to the russian front. That guy was sent to the russian front. Because he lost. Jesse owens any help jesse owens jesse owens and he became friends. He was sent to the russian front and the last thing he said to. Jesse owens was. Please one thing i ask. Please tell my children when this madness is all over. I was not one of them sir. Don't tell me about your oppression. hulk raven. Don't tell me about your oppression. Mother that tend to thing they had to deal with well. Yeah told not to pierce. I'm sure that there's a lot of people who are oppressed that. We're really sad. To hear that that kind of oppression was going on on her people. Don't look at this anymore. But the nazis were very anti piercing. That was one of the things that people don't really talk to power based on the non. Oh we're such crybabies. thank you. Pat pat gray unleashed. Wherever you get your podcast. All right let me tell you about carshield..
Dressed: The History of Fashion
"jesse owens" Discussed on Dressed: The History of Fashion
"Hundred and forty teams converged on los angeles california in the summer of eighty four the legacy of the past olympics an olympic athletes. We've discussed route. This series was on full view at the opening ceremony. As recounted by our goto source for this series. The us olympic. Book nineteen eighty-four quote. Soon i figure emerges clearly a woman but not immediately recognizable. She was however quickly identified as gina. Compels twenty six years old granddaughter. Of jesse owens the american star of the nineteen thirty six olympics. The man who had upstaged hitler by winning four gold medals in track and field and berlin gina. Hempel had been one of the first. Two runners in the torch relay after the flame arrived in new york from olympia sharing the first lap with jim. Thorpe's grandson bills so a couple of names we recognize there and the flagbearer actually was eileen reagan. The now seventy eight year old olympic-medalist diver who took home golden nineteen twenty at the age of fourteen. So lots of familiar names at this point and there were many achievements and i to celebrate at these olympics included the debut of synchronized swimming the women's marathon and the first paraplegic athlete. To take part in a metal event archer neurology. Fair hall of new zealand competed in a wheelchair but these groundbreaking athletic feats are not in fact. The reason why these games are called the most successful history know that actually had to do with the fact that these olympics garnered a monumental two hundred and twenty three million dollars in profit and this was something that was unheard of in past olympics because pass olympics had really been these historic money pits countries. Were losing money when they were hosting the olympics. Not making money. So how did la eighty four games do this well. The budget of the nineteen eighty-four olympics was made up entirely of private funds. It was the first fully commercialized olympics in history. Yes so elliott. Organizing committee really set a precedent for all future games by ushering in the modern era of corporate sponsorship at the olympics from which they have never return. We are very much there today. And this was something that the international olympic committee had been trying to avoid since the games inception and the eighteen ninety s it was completely antithetical to their guiding quote unquote amateur principles of the game which we have of course discussed the issues with that but the ioc president. Avery brundage really discusses why they do not want commercialism at the olympics and at this speech in nineteen fifty five..
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"Things listening to history this week for moments throughout history that are also worth watching check your local tv listings to.
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"Ralph metcalfe served four terms in congress and helps found the congressional black caucus tidy picket becomes teacher and then principal. There's a school named after her in her hometown of chicago but these athletes are not really able to build on their olympic fame. Many of them leave sports and forged pods and other worlds always in the face of bias and discrimination mark. Ireson says when he's teaching his students about the history of sports in american society he often thinks about the life of mac robinson jackie's older brother. Here's a guy. But for a few tenths of a second would have been a goal battles. He continues to be one of the best sprinters in the united states guesses. Degree comes back. And can only find custodial jobs that's the nor even for the supremely talented Matthew back robinson was you went on an olympic battle. Your american hero showed hitler. Now go sweep the streets in pasadena. California america wouldn't recognize black athletes. Like mac robinson and cornelius johnson and louis stokes unless it could take something from them even jesse owens when he returns to the us he discovers that a lot of these promises in terms of making money are pretty hall and he's got a family you know he's got a wife he's got kids do need some weight. Olympians had gotten big time. Hollywood or promotional deals but not owns. He tries to make some money through speaking aches. He opens a chain of dry cleaners. He owns and operates a black baseball team. Sometimes to drum up publicity for the team. He entertains the stadium crowd by racing against a horse. It's dehumanizing after all the world's best sprinter but he feels that he doesn't have a choice addresses this later in a nineteen seventy-one interview people said it was degrading for an olympic champion to run against a horse. But what was i supposed to do. I had four gold medals. But you can't eat four gold medals.
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"The american press is certainly guilty of this and on the whole they try to use owens's victories in particular to tell a story about american exceptionalism end the american dream. Mark dyson has studied how this happens. L. ones tended to be initially framed. The mainstream white press touting. America's the land of social mobility for every want america's here today riley draper. Put it this way. America wants to demonstrate that it is a world power and they want to show that they're better than germany of course in. So what better. Way to dim the light of the nazis than to say a negro. Beat your best in you. See in the headlines. Owens takes down hitler owens bests the nazi blog american accolade smashers the theory but uconn accua rates and yet when they returned to america they returned to america in america in nineteen. Thirty six is largely segregated. This is in america that does not necessarily accept african americans as equal even the great jesse owens when he returned for zone ticker tape parade in new york. He had to go into the party through the back door. Through the kitchen. Owens and other athletes had dreamed of using their olympic medals to show that black americans deserve equal treatment..
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"Six olympic games watching the track competition and having photo ops with the winners we heard about it from sports historian. Mark diocesan because he wants to use. These games is propaganda. Moment to show off the third reich very conspicuously and publicly with the world press snapping pictures and flashbulbs popping congratulates the winners in the morning and afternoon sessions the track and field all of whom were white northern or western european athletes. But that evening is the high jump. When black american star cornelius. Johnson is set to compete. Check johnson wins the gold and hitler. He's nowhere to be found. He doesn't congratulate cornelius johnson. He doesn't go down to the metal cermony afterwards. German officials later insists that the chancellor had to leave just to beat the post on traffic out of the stadium but the president of the international olympic committee tells hitler from here on out..
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
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HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"Us floor as one of the preeminent athletes coming all of one of the most significant sports events. The lot of people were looking to see. What jesse owens do in the end owens and several other prominent black athletes say we want to compete and at a meeting of the amateur athletic union. Which will make the ultimate decision. The boycott measure fails by two and a half votes with that. Owens will be able to go to berlin and so will seventeen other black american athletes. Deborah riley draper has researched their stories. I'd never heard another athletes. Other than jesse owens in that spurred my interest in the story. And then when i discovered the two black women attest Airmen a future congressman than one of the first black chemists at kodak. I'm like what jesse owens had all this black excellence around him. There was ralph. Metcalfe ralph metcalfe had been deemed the fastest human on earth cornelius johnson. Skinny high jumper. That seven foot from compton california jesse. Owens's roommate from ohio. State dave albritton qualified. So did jackie robinson's older brother. Mac and two black american women tidy picket. She was incredibly smart athletic shoes. Like five feet and she's fast as they come. She's very feisty and she was fearless and louise stokes. Louise was very shy. But at the same time she understood her own power in july nineteen thirty six eighteen black athletes board the s manhattan for a nine day journey across the atlantic along with hundreds of other members of the us olympic team. So they're on a ship bound for nazi germany and there are no other black americans in their know. Black coaches chaperones just eighteen young people and the two women tidy picket and louis stokes were even further marginalized because they were the only two black women on that ship of four hundred people absolutely..
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"The olympics are about rooting for your team. But they're also about unity. Diplomacy bringing all the countries of the world into one arena and in the early nineteen thirty s. The world needed a little unity. It was just emerging from the great depression before that had been the great war. That's how world war one was known because people never thought the world would see such destruction as it saw world war one damian. Thomas is the curator of sports smithsonian's national museum of african american history. He says diplomacy was top of mind when the olympic committee i agreed back in nineteen thirty one to hold the thirty six olympics in berlin. Germany was awarded the olympic games after being ostracized after world war one and a way of welcoming them back into the good graces of the world but in the five years between that decision and the olympics themselves. The political situation in germany changes drastically hitler and the nazi party. Come to power their openly anti-semitic many world leaders. Don't believe at this early point that. The nazis are serious about exterminating the jewish population. Even though hitler has been clear about his vision of a racially pure third reich and when it comes to the olympics hitler sees the games as a way to make a claim for aliens supplants..
HISTORY This Week
"jesse owens" Discussed on HISTORY This Week
"The history channel original podcast history. This week august first nineteen thirty six berlin germany. The opening ceremony of the olympic games at the new massive olympic stadium. Everything has been made to look beautiful. There's a red cinder track bright green grass around the edges of the arena. Thousands of pigeons sit trapped in covered. Cage is awaiting the climactic moment of the ceremony when they'll be released the sky is gray and somber all day. It's been threatening rain looking back on these opening ceremonies. It's like that ominous sky is a symbol. In fact from our modern vantage. You can see symbols.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"jesse owens" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"The rest of the world and america more was the going to finland for the fifty two games the first time your mother had been out of the country. Well she her first time. She went down to argentina for the pan. Am games okay. Fifty one then. She went there and fifty two so those are her time then. Of course when. I started competing They traveled quite a bit to our competitions. All around but it it's just. It was rare for a lot of people to get out of the country in those days and she saw the value of that. And i'm really happy she did. You know you. And i have had some some enlightening conversations over the years and i was wondering what it was about your background that made you so aware and so i guess forward thinking and as i was reading through some information on it i saw that your parents were involved with the civil rights movement starting as drivers and then later on marching with dr martin luther king junior what type of an affected that have. What did they pass onto you and carol and the rest of the family. The other kids about that experience that today is even paying dividends for you. There's no question that when we were raised to do what you think is right. Stand up for what you believe in education because because of course the when they had the voter registration they were involved in that because they were and so they were able to teach people how to vote and teach people how to pass voters tests so all of these things. I mean the biggest thing was stand up for what you believe in. And that's something that they always told us to do. If you think you're right you think it's the right thing you really believe in his stand up for but at the same time. It isn't boy. They came down on us like a ton of bricks. I mean if you did the wrong thing. They came down on it so I always felt like my parents Supporter that's hundred percent. They were always there for competition. They were always there and everything that we did and we used to actually go to school because they were both teachers. We used to go to the same school one of them. Every year i went to school and every day after dinner we ate dinner together. We would sit down and do our homework care on. I together with my parents at the same table and they did lesson plans. So we spend a lot of time together and We got a lot of support because of that and and and that that part of it was important as well because education extremely important one of the other things that i think is both ironic heather u reflected on this carl or not. But you know that your parents obviously taught you those lessons. So therefore they practice them in their life at that time and at that time it was not a very tolerant country that they lived in and yet as you went through your career as an olympian as an athlete. Speaking your mind and speaking about what you thought was right and wrong. You took a lot of criticism for it as well so really not too much had changed when it came to people that spoke out and probably people of color that spoke out as well. You find some irony and and some sadness in that well of course but but i. I look at the way that everyone doesn't have that opportunity. And so i i would. Every single day. I go every day. Someone walks up and says remember your career. I admire what you did. But oftentimes they say. I really admire the fact. He stood for what you believe in a lot of. I took a lot of criticism but it seems like the things that i stood up for two things that i talked about the things that i tried to help. Change or what people remember And the competition of course. They knew all win the medals but they really bring that out quite a bit. And now i'm starting to feel the benefits of that and and I just think that every person has to do what they think is right in and try to stick to the right principles and try to push hard and try to make the world around them a little bit better because in the long run you benefit. And that's the thing. When i when i tried to change things and track and field the benefits for everybody and i knew that i would benefit as well. There was no way. I could change things just benefit myself without anyone else. I think this is probably going to embarrass you a little bit but one one of the stops in my career was up in seattle on television. Sportscaster up there. And i had the honour an opportunity to sit down and talk to the great jesse owens about his career and it was one of the most captivating moments because the man is you know having met in sure Had the opportunity of talking with such great passion not only about sport but about life as well and i see a lot of similarities between the way you approach things the way you talk about things and the way he did as well. Did he have an impact on you. Dramatic impact i. I went up through. Jesse program like a lot of kids and i listened to him talk and he had such an amazing presence and his voice and he was so articulate and for me to meet him at such a young age and then to listen to him talk and to inspire. All of us was amazing. And for me it wasn't just athletically because because of him I gained a tremendous interest in in history and politics. So once i'm jesse owens. And i heard about hitler and all of those stores. I started reading in china. Look at things to figure out what history was like and what politics ally and that affected me now. Because i'm very interested in all of the political issues going on and and also my history. And what's going on behind me what's going on what's happened in our world and how it affects what we do now and and and that allowed me to stand up and speak out on a lot of issues that i've spoken out on because i know how things have been affected over the years when you think of jesse owens was the essence of his success. He obviously was gifted from an athletic standpoint but there was something more to him that made him so so outstanding. Well i think that he had a tremendous amount focus. I mean here's a guy who did so many different events in the same day. I mean we think all broke five world records in a day. That's not the issue. The issue is that there were all different events and people tend to think the hundred meters and the two hundred meters of the same. They're very different events. It's rare to see someone in that. And then he also did the long jump and he also did hurdles so someone. That is so focused that they can go out and do something and then put it out of your mind and do something entirely different thirty minutes later as though that's the first thing they started that day that that to me is where the essence of it's competitiveness was. He was so focused and to block. Everything else out. Did he also have an anger and burning desire in the german olympics. That really fostered him and really pushed him to excel the way he did. Yeah when when you go into that environment Obviously we were not there in that at that time but you did know and have an idea of what was going on With hitler and what they were trying to do Back the thirty six games. And i know it must have felt great to go over there and win those racists and those days international athletes did not compete against one another at nearly as much because of the traveling so therefore a lot of times. They saw people only one time and that was at the game. So this is my time. This show out and i'm gonna go over there and and and and you know everybody knows they say and then come on back home so it was it. There's no question that There must have been some sort of anger and also being an african american man in america to go out and dominate the world. That's been a tremendous thing because you can't stop talent and you can't stop that focus and he proved that he was just as good and better than anybody else in the world. One of the things that i find Rather interesting and ironic as well. Is that if you think about the war that we fought to try to you know world war two. It was good against evil. We fought a war for what was bad and yet this man in a solitary solo effort at the olympics went over and fought a war and one that war i. It's mind boggling to me carl. I can't even imagine All of that and then there's so many things that went on behind the scenes that that that even we don't even know so But the thing about it. He did it with dignity and then came back and had tough times for a while but stayed strong and ended his career and life admired more than ever. And and that's the greatest thing when when he finally passed away. His jesse owens program made him a legend forever and After sports career where many of its contemporaries that had tremendous careers went on in went into business or whatever they did but.
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"jesse owens" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"The rest of the world and america more was the going to finland for the fifty two games the first time your mother had been out of the country. Well she her first time. She went down to argentina for the pan. Am games okay. Fifty one then. She went there and fifty two so those are her time then. Of course when. I started competing They traveled quite a bit to our competitions. All around but it it's just. It was rare for a lot of people to get out of the country in those days and she saw the value of that. And i'm really happy she did. You know you. And i have had some some enlightening conversations over the years and i was wondering what it was about your background that made you so aware and so i guess forward thinking and as i was reading through some information on it i saw that your parents were involved with the civil rights movement starting as drivers and then later on marching with dr martin luther king junior what type of an affected that have. What did they pass onto you and carol and the rest of the family. The other kids about that experience that today is even paying dividends for you. There's no question that when we were raised to do what you think is right. Stand up for what you believe in education because because of course the when they had the voter registration they were involved in that because they were and so they were able to teach people how to vote and teach people how to pass voters tests so all of these things. I mean the biggest thing was stand up for what you believe in. And that's something that they always told us to do. If you think you're right you think it's the right thing you really believe in his stand up for but at the same time. It isn't boy. They came down on us like a ton of bricks. I mean if you did the wrong thing. They came down on it so I always felt like my parents Supporter that's hundred percent. They were always there for competition. They were always there and everything that we did and we used to actually go to school because they were both teachers. We used to go to the same school one of them. Every year i went to school and every day after dinner we ate dinner together. We would sit down and do our homework care on. I together with my parents at the same table and they did lesson plans. So we spend a lot of time together and We got a lot of support because of that and and and that that part of it was important as well because education extremely important one of the other things that i think is both ironic heather u reflected on this carl or not. But you know that your parents obviously taught you those lessons. So therefore they practice them in their life at that time and at that time it was not a very tolerant country that they lived in and yet as you went through your career as an olympian as an athlete. Speaking your mind and speaking about what you thought was right and wrong. You took a lot of criticism for it as well so really not too much had changed when it came to people that spoke out and probably people of color that spoke out as well. You find some irony and and some sadness in that well of course but but i. I look at the way that everyone doesn't have that opportunity. And so i i would. Every single day. I go every day. Someone walks up and says remember your career. I admire what you did. But oftentimes they say. I really admire the fact. He stood for what you believe in a lot of. I took a lot of criticism but it seems like the things that i stood up for two things that i talked about the things that i tried to help. Change or what people remember And the competition of course. They knew all win the medals but they really bring that out quite a bit. And now i'm starting to feel the benefits of that and and I just think that every person has to do what they think is right in and try to stick to the right principles and try to push hard and try to make the world around them a little bit better because in the long run you benefit. And that's the thing. When i when i tried to change things and track and field the benefits for everybody and i knew that i would benefit as well. There was no way. I could change things just benefit myself without anyone else. I think this is probably going to embarrass you a little bit but one one of the stops in my career was up in seattle on television. Sportscaster up there. And i had the honour an opportunity to sit down and talk to the great jesse owens about his career and it was one of the most captivating moments because the man is you know having met in sure Had the opportunity of talking with such great passion not only about sport but about life as well and i see a lot of similarities between the way you approach things the way you talk about things and the way he did as well. Did he have an impact on you. Dramatic impact i. I went up through. Jesse program like a lot of kids and i listened to him talk and he had such an amazing presence and his voice and he was so articulate and for me to meet him at such a young age and then to listen to him talk and to inspire. All of us was amazing. And for me it wasn't just athletically because because of him I gained a tremendous interest in in history and politics. So once i'm jesse owens. And i heard about hitler and all of those stores. I started reading in china. Look at things to figure out what history was like and what politics ally and that affected me now. Because i'm very interested in all of the political issues going on and and also my history. And what's going on behind me what's going on what's happened in our world and how it affects what we do now and and and that allowed me to stand up and speak out on a lot of issues that i've spoken out on because i know how things have been affected over the years when you think of jesse owens was the essence of his success. He obviously was gifted from an athletic standpoint but there was something more to him that made him so so outstanding. Well i think that he had a tremendous amount focus. I mean here's a guy who did so many different events in the same day. I mean we think all broke five world records in a day. That's not the issue. The issue is that there were all different events and people tend to think the hundred meters and the two hundred meters of the same. They're very different events. It's rare to see someone in that. And then he also did the long jump and he also did hurdles so someone. That is so focused that they can go out and do something and then put it out of your mind and do something entirely different thirty minutes later as though that's the first thing they started that day that that to me is where the essence of it's competitiveness was. He was so focused and to block. Everything else out. Did he also have an anger and burning desire in the german olympics. That really fostered him and really pushed him to excel the way he did. Yeah when when you go into that environment Obviously we were not there in that at that time but you did know and have an idea of what was going on With hitler and what they were trying to do Back the thirty six games. And i know it must have felt great to go over there and win those racists and those days international athletes did not compete against one another at nearly as much because of the traveling so therefore a lot of times. They saw people only one time and that was at the game. So this is my time. This show out and i'm gonna go over there and and and and you know everybody knows they say and then come on back home so it was it. There's no question that There must have been some sort of anger and also being an african american man in america to go out and dominate the world. That's been a tremendous thing because you can't stop talent and you can't stop that focus and he proved that he was just as good and better than anybody else in the world. One of the things that i find Rather interesting and ironic as well. Is that if you think about the war that we fought to try to you know world war two. It was good against evil. We fought a war for what was bad and yet this man in a solitary solo effort at the olympics went over and fought a war and one that war i. It's mind boggling to me carl. I can't even imagine All of that and then there's so many things that went on behind the scenes that that that even we don't even know so But the thing about it. He did it with dignity and then came back and had tough times for a while but stayed strong and ended his career and life admired more than ever. And and that's the greatest thing when when he finally passed away. His jesse owens program made him a legend forever and After sports career where many of its contemporaries that had tremendous careers went on in went into business or whatever they did but.
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"jesse owens" Discussed on KTRH
"To my life for much of my life. Playing sports growing up. Watching sports as an adult. I Considered sports Wonderful diversion. From the worries and stress of real life obligations, failures, disappointments. As many of you probably did. I love the competition. I love watching people. Strive to win. Not just do well, but when the spirit of the guy who wants To win. You know, um Somewhere along the way. Sports were hijacked. Even the Olympics. Had moments. Where the competition was thrilling. Think about Kerri Strug and a busted ankle. Her bringing home gold. Houston story for our local listeners. What you think about Carl Lewis. Winning all those goals. Goes back to Jesse Owens. I mean, there was there was Adolf Hitler having to watch a black American man. Dominate the Munich Olympics. It's a great story. You think about Jim Thorpe? Shoes come up missing. I don't think that was an accident. Wearing borrowed shoes, breaking every record. You think about competitive sports professional sports college sports. Not just the team that you rooted for but players, individuals. And performances. Michael Jordan, playing with the flu. I mean, those are great moments. The Olympics. Coming up in China. They're already starting to try to hype you up on that. And with China's influence in this country. They're going to use that influence. China is very, very Strategic This is going to be an opportunity for China to repaint its image to the world as kinder and gentler. They don't want you to think about Tiananmen Square and the man who had enough and walked out with his lunch bag in front of that tank, And as the tank moved to go around him, he moved in front of it. They don't want you to think about the wigger is that they are putting in prison. Oh, no. They're going to use the American media to tell the American marketplace. It's a wonderful place to lift. And the American media is also going to use the opportunity to push their social agenda. Their radical alternative culture, war social agenda. It's real. You're going to see it. And what you're not going to see Is anything normal? Anything that looks like the world? You know, you're going to believe that every woman who's competing and in those sports was born a man and that that's normal. You're going to hear about who's gay and who's transgender and and who's recycling. What? You're not going to hear. Is anything that resembles the life that you lead back home. Welcome back to ESPN. It's been a very exciting week for the sports industry has a brave and honorable individual.
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Storytellers: Lorraine Hansberry
"Today's storyteller was a playwright and activist. Who stories centered. African american working class families despite tragically short career. She became the first black woman to have a play produced on broadway half a century later her work remains one of the most celebrated snapshots of black struggles and black joy. Here's the story of lorraine hands berry lorraine hands berry was born on may nineteenth nineteen thirty on the south side of chicago. Her father carl. Augustus was a prominent figure. Within the city's black community having founded one of the first african american banks growing up lorraine and her three older siblings played host to a number of famous people including langston hughes. Wabc boys duke ellington and olympic gold. Medalist jesse owens. Despite their middle class status and cultural connections the hands berries were still subject to chicago's deeply ingrained. Housing segregation agreements known as restrictive covenants were widespread throughout the city. White property owners could collectively agree not to sell to african americans. This practice created a ghetto known as the black belt which ran through the south side when lorraine was eight years old. Her father secretly bought a home. In one of the so-called restricted heads in nineteen thirty seven when the family moved in a white mob attacked a brick was thrown through the window narrowly missing lorraine the local homeowners association filed an injunction for the hands berries to vacate lorraine her siblings were chased spat and beaten during their walks to and from school the supreme court of illinois doubled down on the legality of the restrictive covenant. And the hands. Berries were forced out of their home eventually the. Us supreme court overruled this ruling on a technicality. Thirty blocks subsequently opened up to black families across the south side while this ruling and the hands fight did not outlaw restrictive covenants. It did signal. The beginning of the end for the practice lorraine attended. Chicago's englewood high school where she became interested in theatre. She initially attended the university of wisconsin. Where she cut her teeth with the communist party but left after two years in one thousand nine hundred fifty lorraine moved to new york to be a writer by nineteen fifty one lorraine had found a home in harlem and began socializing with many of the great thinkers who had once visited her family back in chicago. She started writing for paul robeson freedom a progressive newspaper at a protest against racial discrimination at new york university lorraine met robert number off a jewish writer. They married at her family home in chicago. In nineteen fifty three in nineteen. Six robert co wrote the hit song. Cindy oh cindy it's prophets allowed lorraine to stop working to focus on writing. She began developing a play that she initially called. The crystal stair langston hughes poem mother to son she would later changed the name to a raisin in the sun. This too was from a langston hughes poem called harlem. What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or faster like a sore and then run a raisin in the sun centers on a black working class family in chicago south side as they try to improve their financial situation. The patriarch of the family has died and a ten thousand dollar insurance payout is imminent they the money to buy a house in the cheaper all white neighborhood nearby to they use it to invest in a liquor store and education lorraine based many of the characters on the families who rented from her father and with whom she attended high school the cast safer one character was entirely black lorraine was in her twenties and the play itself dealt with racism life in chicago's black belt and the pain of assimilation into white culture topics that were considered risky for the predominantly white theater. Going crowd it took over a year to raise enough money to put the play up. When it debuted in nineteen fifty-nine a raisin in the sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on broadway and the first to be led by an african american director lorraine was twenty nine years old. The play was an almost instant. Hit the new york drama critics circle named it. The best play of the year just five months after its broadway debut arisen in the son of in london's west end in nineteen sixty one. A film starring much of the original cast was released and several of the actors received golden globe. Nominations perhaps the most important element of the play success was that entailing box stories. Lorraine also make theater accessible and previously unimaginable ways as the writer. James baldwin noted. I had never in my life seen so many black people in the theater and the reason was that never before in the entire history of the american theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives and seen on the stage. Black people had ignored the theatre because the theatre had always ignored them lorraine would go on to finish in stage. Just one other. Play the sign in sidney bruce. Deans window about a jewish intellectual the play which explored themes of homosexuality and the bohemian lifestyle. Debuted to mixed reviews in nineteen sixty four. It ran for just over one hundred performances closing on january twelfth. Nineteen sixty five. That's same day. Lorraine hanbury died of pancreatic cancer. She was thirty four years old. After lorraine's death. Her ex husband robert had several of her plays produced posthumously to be young gifted and black became an autobiographical work. Drawing on lorraine's letters interviews and journal entries the title came from a nineteen sixty four speech of lorraine's when she spoke to the winners of a united negro fund writing competition. She said speech though. It be thrilling marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times it is doubly so w dynamic to be young gifted and black
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How Did a Family Feud Spawn Adidas and Puma?
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And I'm here today to talk about how family feuds can change the world. For example, if only two brothers named and Rudy dos. Ler had learned to get along Germany's kgab route or dos. Ler might have bested Nike is the world's top sports footwear company today. Instead, the brothers bitter feuding resulted in the brood Ostler brand that's German for dos. Ler brothers being split in half and reborn as a Dita's and Puma which today are the world's second and third top sports shoe businesses eight off or Audie dos. Ler began making shoes and his mother's laundry room shortly after returning home to the Bavarian village of heads Coon oka- following World War One his business did well and his older brother Rudolph or Rudy dos. Ler joined him a few years later to help shy. Audie was the creative force and brains behind the business while extroverted Rudy was these salesmen, the brothers Dassler soon gained a claim for rolling out the first track spikes, but the company really took off after the break. Others persuaded American Olympic athlete Jesse Owens to wear their shoes in the nineteen thirty six Berlin Olympics. He did and he won four gold medals while doing so yet it wasn't quite the triumph. It should have been for the brothers. As things were beginning to sour between the two the bad blooded started a few years earlier in nineteen thirty three when Addy's sixteen year old wife tried to interfere in the business Rudy was not pleased. It didn't help that audience and Rudy's families live together in the same town, home and their wives didn't really get along. But the breaking point came during a World War Two air raid Rudy and his family were tucked into a bomb shelter and as audience family entered Audi said, the dirty bastards are back again. He was purportedly commenting on the Royal airforce planes roaring overhead but Rudy was positive. Audie was referring to his family from there things quickly unraveled when Rudy was called up to serve in the Nazi military in nineteen forty three. He was sure that Audie had arranged it to have him sent away from the factory. Anxious to get back Rudy deserted his post in nineteen Forty-five later when arrested for desertion. He again, blamed ATI who it appears did snitch on him after a few more scuffles. The to split up the company in nineteen forty eight moving assets and employees into one of two competing operations located on opposite sides of the off river that flowed through the town ATI renamed his business. Adidas combining his first and last names Rudy did the same dubbing his Rueda though. He later changed it to Puma soon. Most of the town's citizens were employed by either Adidas or Puma in these siblings, intense rivalry spread throughout the town. If you worked for one company, you did not socialize with employees of the other marrying across enemy lines was strictly forbidden. You only shopped in the stores on the same side as the river as the factory in which you were employed overtime. Adidas far surpassed Puma in sales, thanks to audience creativity and technical acumen, though Puma also did quite well. But while the two were hard at work competing against one another they. Paid no attention to another shoe company Nike that was quietly gaining market. Share today Nike is king of the sports shoe business with thousand seventeen sales of twenty one billion dollars compared to Adidas as ten billion dollars and 'Pumas two billion the brothers did speak to one another a few times later in life. But they never reconciled. Both died in the nineteen seventies and were buried at opposite ends of the local cemetery their feud finally ended in two thousand nine when employees of both companies played together in a friendly soccer match. Nonetheless, the dos liberal epic fight was named by time magazine as one of history's top ten family feuds alongside such notables as Cain and Abel and the hatfields and mccoys. Today's episode was written by Melanie, red Zeki McManus and produced by Tyler plan for more on this topic. Check out our sibling podcast ridiculous history. They have a whole episode audit. Call Adidas versus Puma a tale of two brothers. And of course for lots of other contentious, topics. Visit our home planet has stuff works dot com. Hello. It's me Academy Award winning film, actor Christopher Walken of stopped by today to tell you about a friend of mine who is a new comedy podcast coming to this network. His name is Kevin Pollack. You know, you may even claim to you POWs. He's your favorite never mind. Favored what the point is. You like them. He makes you laugh while his new comedy podcast is called alchemy vis each episode. He's like a puppet master he sets the scene and then five of his favorite funny, friends, and he improvised, all of it. Wow. The sound effects and music is crazy. Do yourself a solid sample. Kevin Pollack's new comedy podcasts. Alchemy. This starting October eighteen exclusively from how stuff works celebrity voices impersonated by Kevin Pollack that guy who's talking right now.