35 Burst results for "Muhammed Ali"
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Martin Dugard: Writing Multiple Books at the Same Time
"A question born out of my fondness for books, my interests in how authors do things, having written books myself. I have a hard time, shall we say splitting, where my mind is at. In other words, I really need a focus. Maybe I'm not a good walk and chew gum at the same time kind of person, but you have been writing these books with mister O'Reilly, you're writing these additional books, it seems to me that you may be writing one book while you're doing research for another. I mean, it's not as linear, is it, as some may expect? It's not linear. And it's not even, for instance, the other most recent killing book is taking the legends and that came out. I think it's September. And taking Berlin came out in November. And they both had very similar deadlines. So I literally wrote both of them at the same time. So I spent the morning with my own book and I would take a break. I go to a workout, I'd just go walk around just something like that and I come back in the morning and I would go jubilantly stuff so I go in the morning and be focused on Georgia's Patton, general George zukov, Stalin, Churchill, and take that little break and come back and focus on Elvis Presley Muhammad Ali. So it's pretty intense, it's just a kind of hyper focus. That's where there are no windows in my office. Shut myself in. Close out the world. And my butt in the seat and start doing the research.
AP News Radio
Aaron Judge is AP male athlete of year after setting HR mark
"Aaron judge has always stood out with his imposing size and muscular frame, and in 2022 he became notorious for his home run hitting streak, judge belted out 62 homers, breaking an American League record on October 5th of this year against the Texas Rangers. I had a good feeling off the bat. You know, I just didn't know where it was going to land or what it was going to hit. You know, there's a good sense of relief once it I saw it landing that fans glove. Upon learning, it got the most votes among 40 sports writers and editors, judge says, wow, that's incredible. And he tipped his hat to those awarded before him. Judge joins an esteemed fraternity of honorees, including Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Jordan. I'm Jackie Quinn
Mark Levin
Bill O'Reilly: The Unknown Dangers of Fame
"Well I do want to start with this because there's been so much going on and actually this book kind of is very relatable to events going on killing the legends the lethal danger of celebrity See that happening with Kanye West among others Incredible that when people become famous their whole lives obviously change And they become targets But in ways that many don't understand So killing the legends about Elvis Presley John Lennon and Muhammad Ali all of whom changed American culture We live today in a way that is defined by these three men in part And it's an amazing historical story People said look this is your 12 killing book all the others killing Lincoln killing your rising sun Big events Now you're going into cultural history But the history is so intense and people don't understand how celebrity can destroy you if you don't understand what's going on And let me make this personal to you Mark Levin You're famous Okay Everyone knows you Everybody knows me And because of that there are benefits but there are deficits And I think you following your career over the years understood quite readily that you could not make yourself available in a casual way And so people don't know about what you do where you are you do some book signings and that kind of thing But in you correct me if I'm wrong you understand there is a danger And looking at this is true Look at Nancy Pelosi okay And you can just every you can just stare step it There are legions of famous people
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bill O'Reilly Calls in to Discuss His New Book 'Killing the Legends'
"With us right now is the legendary Bill O'Reilly who has a new book called killing the legends, Bill, welcome back to the program. Thanks, Emily and Charlie, what's up? Doing great. Congratulations on the new book. I feel like you have won every 6 months. It's pretty amazing. Tell us about this new one killing the legends. Yes, the subtitle is most important. The lethal danger of celebrity. And now that you are a celebrity, you need to read this book, Charlie. So every famous person in this country has a target on him or her. And the more famous you get, the bigger the target becomes. Now I wrote about Elvis Presley John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, they are the cover boys for killing the legends. Because each of those men change American culture. So American cultural history is not widely written about because most historians are snobs. But if you look at what Presley Lennon and Ali actually did, their contributions to our history are enormous, yet under reported. However, in the process of doing what they did, they all destroyed themselves.
77WABC Radio
"muhammad ali" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Love end. On 77 W ABC. Bill O'Reilly here and here comes the 12th killing book, killing the legends, the lethal danger of celebrity, Elvis, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, all had one thing in common. They lost control of their lives, and that led to their deaths. Killing the legends, the latest in the most successful nonfiction book series of all time. Available wherever books are sold. Paid for by Saint Martin's press. We tried dynamite for gut health and immune support, and after a couple of weeks, our little gizmo was acting like a puppy again. His coat was shinier, he had a lot less scratching and shedding and he seemed like his happy old self. My dog smelled and scratched constantly. He bathed and sprayed her, took her to the vet, but no results. Now, a little dynamite in her food helps violet keep her beautiful coat with no scratching, or smell. Get 10% off your next order of dynamite nutritional supplements for dogs and dino bit dot com. Happier, healthier with every bite over a million pets helped with dyno bites. If you want to gather and impress all those friends that you haven't seen since prom follow these instructions, open a can of Goya tomato sauce, appreciate its thickness. Start cooking some authentic tinga tacos and enjoy the unmatched flavor. Goya's Spanish style tomato sauce seasoned with a secret blend of Latin spices, so delicious that you might even feel as good as you did in high school. These tinker tacos are amazing. Wow, I feel like I'm in Mexico. Find it in the Goya section of your local grocery store. If it's Goya, it has to be good. Hi everybody, it's your customers. First, open the can of going into tomato sauce. Then I want you to take a moment to appreciate its thickness next. Start cookies almost Antigua tacos and enjoy the unmatched flavor. Going to Spanish style for me to suspect seasoned with a secret blend of Latin spices that you might even feel as good as you did. Find it in the Goya section and look for this and other amazing recipes at Goya dot com. Cousins, if it's Goya, it has to
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle Keep Ganging up on Will Smith
"Everybody seems to be lauding Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle for going on what seems like this revenge tour they seem to have right now. They're turning up together in concerts and doing shows together. I don't know. Chris Rock came out the other night. I think it was sadly finally addressing the Will Smith slap. Hasn't done it yet, really. He said, you know, he said I'm fuck you and you're a hostage video referring to the video Will Smith put on YouTube a few weeks back up saying I reached out to because I humbly apologize. Chris Rock the one, none of it. And then his big joke was, you know, yeah, that's smack hurt. He played Muhammad Ali. I couldn't even play Floyd Mayweather. And you know, he just went on and on for a while and Chappelle applauded it too, and he called Chris Rock brave. No brave would have been hitting him back. I mean, it would have been stupid, but brave. Brave is to wait months before you say something that's not brave a bad word. You know, the slap was bad. I'm not for the slap. I mean, but come on, stop this. Okay, look, you got slapped. We get it. But how about what happened to Rihanna in the car with Chris Brown? She got the crap knocked out of her. Remember her face? You didn't see her mentioning what happened to her every time she stepped on a stage somewhere, when did a concert?
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Stallone Created Rocky Balboa
"Way back in the early 70s. Stallone was an unknown actor trying to make it in New York, he had some minor success, even though soft porn movie, but he answered minus his actions in a movie called the lords of flatbush, fun movie, right? He was still broke. It didn't make big money. He wasn't paid a lot of money for that. And after the launch of flatbush, he figured it was time to maybe give it a shot in California. So he moves out there, and things were not going well for him out there at all, either. I mean, things got so bleak that he actually had to go out and sell his dog because it was either that or the poor thing wasn't going to eat. So one night he goes to see Muhammad Ali fight chuck wet. Chuck Webb got big old white fighter who was known as the Bayonne bleeder. Bayonne is a city in New Jersey, tuft city, the Bayonne bleeder on account of how a lot of fighters opened his face up and he bleed through a lot of his flights. He was that kind of guy with there's some fun in boxing. You hit him and they bleed. You know, a lot of scar tissue, what have you, but so he's watching shop raptor Muhammad Ali go at it? And he really saw something very extraordinary. He sees the Bayonne bleeder. He sees chuck wepner fight the greatest fighter who ever lived. And for one brief moment, this supposed stiff turned out to be extraordinary. Not only did he last the 15 rounds with Ali, but he not the champ down. I was a kid, you didn't see Muhammad go down much. I mean, there was a couple of the bigger fights or Frasier and stuff like that. But he didn't go down mom, especially not to an old stumble bump like chuck Webber. Stallone sees this and he thinks, you know what? This is a metaphor for life. And you can see where this is going and where the character rocky came from as a matter of fact. Years later, Trump wepner who went on to be a liquor and beer salesman sued Sylvester Sloan because he said, look, he took my life and made it into the smash movie. I want to be compensated. And they fought their lawyers for it. And finally, they would finally there was a settlement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk Details Being Banned From Twitter
"So I'm banned from Twitter, everybody. If you haven't heard. So we're going to walk through that. I actually haven't spoken very much about it publicly to podcasts or two on it. And it's on a very interesting thing. So the way Twitter works, if you don't know, if you violate one of their guidelines, they give you an opportunity to delete the tweet. Basically, okay, engaged in hate speech, you can get your Twitter account back. And so we logged onto our Twitter account, we're like, wait, why don't we have access to our Twitter account anymore? So I tweeted this out and I want to just anyone to tell me if there's anything inaccurate about this tweet. Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man. He had a wife and a family, he transitioned to being a woman in 2011, Joe Biden then appointed Levine to be a four star admiral and is now USA Today has named Rachel Levine as woman of the year true where the feminists, right? Perfectly factual, but now I engaged in something called dead naming. Are you familiar with this phenomenon? No, I had to learn it alongside. Everyone else, including our millions of followers. So dead naming is when you use the name that used to exist of someone who's trans. And super politically incorrect, I guess. You're like not even allowed to mention the birth name anymore. It's now called dead naming. So I guess you can't call like Muhammad Ali cassius clay anymore. Or anyone who's ever changed their name ever. And so because of this Twitter basically says, okay, you're no longer allowed to have access to your account. You have to acknowledge and bend the knee and tell the rest of the world that you engaged in hate speech. And there's just like big red button that says, you can press delete. And look, it's very tempting. You know, we used to do a lot on Twitter. And I thought to myself, you know what, every single semester, I'm traveling, I'm talking to college kids telling them to hold the line that it's worth the cost that you might lose Friends. I'm like, what a hypocrite, I would be. If I just press that red button and told Twitter, like, you know, I did something wrong. Meanwhile, keep fighting on campus, everybody, and see you later. You know what? No, actually
WABE 90.1 FM
"muhammad ali" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"6 At 5 41 you're listening to all things considered coming up in about 40 minutes We're going to hear from marketplace of all the days business news That's marketplace weeknights at 6 30 here on W ABE Well I listened to W ABE Ayesha you listen to W ABE and there is a reason It's because of the quality programming like all things considered like Marketplace every afternoon you know this is where you come for information of the day be it about Atlanta in the region the state the nation the world and the economic news that right now especially is so important with inflation the way it is with the pandemic kind of not really coming to a close but affecting so much of the supply chain and the global economy as a whole In the ports savanna for example And so everything that happens is essential And you get that here at WBE When you listen afternoons you know one of my favorite quotes I think it was Muhammad Ali who said this that service is the rent that you pay for living on the planet And in order for me to know where to be of service or how to be of service I've got to stay tuned into lets me know what's going on in Atlanta what's going on in the country and in the world where support is needed where aid is needed where I can celebrate where I can find really cool enriching enriching inspiring things to do in Atlanta's arts and cultural scene This is how I stay tuned in right Where I know I am where I need to be And if you're feeling like that because you're feeling that way about keeps you plugged into the things that you want to stay aware of That's the reason to support it right now especially as we're wrapping up 2021 I mean my goodness Jim This has been a year and it's almost over and we know this next year is going to be eventful too The way things look And so we want to stay aware of what's going on right Around us 6 7 8 5 5 three 90 90 is the way is the number to call so that you can be a part of making sure that we can continue to bring.
The Charlie Kirk Show
COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI
"COINTELPRO was a series of FBI projects that were covert and honestly illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. Aimed at surveilling infiltrating discrediting and disrupting domestic American political organizations. COINTELPRO went from 1956 to 1971. And some of their targets were the Nation of Islam was Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization, the southern pastor leadership conference or whatever the name was. And the only reason we ever learned about COINTELPRO. The only reason we were able ever able to get to the bottom of pros, operations. Was not because of some cross examination from Congress, was not because of a lawsuit. It was about something that I don't support, which was breaking and entering into a federal building. So during the famous Muhammad Ali Frazier fight, which was one of the most watched sporting events to date, on March 8th, 1971, a group of activists broke into the small two man office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in media, Pennsylvania. They stole more than 1000 FBI documents that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent. The citizens commissioned to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the group called itself, forced its way in at night with a crowbar while much of the country was watching the Muhammad Ali Frazier fight. When agents arrived for work the next morning, they found the cabinets virtually empty virtually emptied, within a few weeks the documents began to show up, mailed anonymously in Manila envelopes with no return address newsrooms of major American newspapers. From that point forward after 1971, COINTELPRO was sunsetted and the government, the federal government's effort to wiretap an infiltrate American political organizations seemingly
Bloomberg Radio New York
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"On the eastern seaboard of the United States I'm Rashad Salaam And I've got prisoner at the Bloomberg interactive broker studio in New York new trading week in the apac region Action underway in New Zealand right now with the incident X 50 higher by just about a tenth of 1% New Zealand's inflation rate 4.9% That's the fastest pace in about ten years will take a closer look at that Momentarily trading in Australia will begin at the top of the hour We'll look at market action for you right after we update the top business stories Rashad All right well we got the chief economic adviser Italian saying investors should prepare for increased market volatility if the fed pulls back on stimulus Here is Muhammad Ali and speaking earlier on Fox News Sunday If I were an investor I would recognize that I'm riding a huge liquidity wave thanks for the fed but I would remember that waves tend to break at some point So I would be very attentive The larian chief economic adviser Ariane said here on Bloomberg galleria and also say that inflation will remain at elevated levels for at least another year He is expecting the rate will remain in the four to 5% level Well Netflix is estimating its mega hit squid game will create nearly $900 million in value for the company This is according to numbers seen by Bloomberg Now Netflix usually shares data on viewership for just the first two minutes of a program And by that measure squid game had about a 132 million viewers during the show's first 23 days That obviously would smash the Netflix record set by Bridgerton But beyond that viewership data is closely protected However figures seen by Bloomberg show how many viewers stuck around to watch more and how many people finished the series entirely Now in this case or in the case of squid game Netflix is estimating 89% of those who started watched at least 75 minutes and then on top of that 66% have finished the series in the first 23 days Lawyers for Netflix are saying the company does not discuss these metrics outside the company and the company does take significant steps to protect them from disclosure or shut Yep let's just take a look at what else is going on there We've got a situation taking place currently with the consumers and how they're socking away money during the how they did soccer way money in the pandemic And they are seemingly not ready to part with that money at least just not yet Let's get more from Bloomberg susannah Palmer Consumers in Europe and the U.S. aren't rushing to spend more than $2.7 trillion in savings They put away during the pandemic That's dashing hopes for a boost to economic growth fueled by consumption on both sides of the Atlantic Calculations by Bloomberg economics show excess savings in Euro area bank balances declined only marginally in August and Italy still recorded an increase In the U.S. figures show there has also been no drawdown out of savings Susanna Palmer Bloomberg daybreak Asia All right we're at 34 past the hours we get you caught up on market action Crude oil now above 83 a barrel This is WTI with a gain here in the electronic session of about 1% Obviously that carries with it inflationary implications and while we're on the topic New Zealand's inflation rate jumped to 4.9% that's the fastest pace in ten years right now trading in New Zealand has the nzxt 50 up about a tenth of 1% We do have a much weaker Japanese yen now one 1436 Chicago nikkei futures higher by about 200 points the cash market will be up and running in Tokyo in about an hour and 25 minutes We'll get trading underway in Sydney at the top of the hour futures now for the ASX 200 higher by about four tenths of 1% Facebook will create 10,000 new high skilled positions in Europe within the next 5 years This is part of the company's push to develop a metaverse however the UK will apparently miss out target markets for hiring include the Republic of Ireland along with Germany France Italy Spain Poland and the Netherlands and the ecommerce business of the luxury retailer sax Fifth Avenue is reportedly aiming to go public soon The Wall Street Journal says the valuation would be roughly triple of what it was pegged at earlier this year and we were talking earlier in the sour of daybreak Asia about the first U.S. Bitcoin futures ETF possibly debuting on Monday hearing the states will be talking more about that coming up here on day break Asian when we check in with our ETF expert Eric belcher and later today in Asia we're going to get China's report on third quarter growth GDP is forecast to have slowed to around 5% year on year Rashad All right time what just got 25 minutes to the top of the hour Good Australia's health benefit is to say the country is making some good vaccination progress at Baxter has that story and more All right thank you Rishi.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"Only era and when he leaves they bake and and say he's he's like a nice jewish boy and of course like a nice jewish boy. He's like a nice everything you know. I mean he's he is just great so for all the calm and i think just as you say the intricacies of the court aspects intricacies of the personal dynamic and this isn't a man who's unfaithful to his first three wives and you can see the two wives that we have two and three. How much pain that much. And then we have two daughter or victims of upheavals in the dislocations in the pain all of stuff of divorce who just worship the ground that he walks on you and it's just so interesting to see in friends and hangers on and scholars and other boxers and poet. I mean this is how you essentially box him in not to know him but to at least show him in all as many facets as you can yeah i think that's you're absolutely right. It's one of the more emotional parts of it. All especially afghanistan the first part to see him as that flawed man. You know with the women and all that stuff and dealing with all that in that whole section. I mean it's great to see that portrait of you. Really say okay. He's a human being. He's not just this mythic figure this guy's human which makes it even more emotional. You know when you see What happens to him in everything. If you put somebody up on the paddock there. The thing is that they're better than you. If you look down on somebody you're better than them. There's only communication among equals. And so i took something that was safely and perfectly embedded midway through the third of four episodes and moved it to the opening of the film in which she stealing breaks.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"I. If it's any indication we premiered it. Tyrod and i stayed with my youngest unvaccinated daughter and my of the grandkids and seren day went there and people were just in tears. It was just hard hitting an impact. The program note said there were all these different elise and they had but maybe the silence on the was the most powerful. That's when you know it's funny. Michael j. fox who has parkinson's as well said something womb. I find at the end of the ninety. She said i couldn't be still until i couldn't be still ask just This like a zen master. Speaking and then. In a way ali this muslim voluble and funny and wise cracking and smart and poetry spewing and and provocative speaker suddenly can't talk and speaking volumes when world stops he visits pakistan or indonesia or saudi arabia. Entire country comes to a stop He's a hero around the world for anybody who has felt in any way oppressed. And that's just i mean we. Any of us would be lucky if we died the most popular person plant. Yeah it's only. I got a chance to meet. Ali twice very fortunate once was in the eighties and once in the early nineties in there about the kind of event things in when i i'm show. I'm a magician. I do I'm an amateur magician. It's kind of a hobby. But i'm also remember the magic castle that type of thing and so i'll show chicken. I know it's going under the but it was so it was so much fun but the second time i was writing for the show. Cup the Jim pro sports awards. And i got to write this piece for james earl jones. Where had james jones recite one of ali's poems dramatically and ali really really enjoyed it and it was. It was such an honor. The fact i got to do that. Ali actually came up to me and say you pretty me so i actually had the champ. You've really to me you know. He actually said that. I'll never forget that it's it's still the of my life that i got to interact with him twice. You know yeah. I one brief meeting. We didn't even speak out loud but he spoke to me. I heard his words inside my head and year. My worse inside. We're a thirty feet away. An empty diner in la. And i was getting a cup of tea to go and he'd settled into a booth and we just had this cop which i can hear the words but it didn't happen and.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"There's something like over the past forty year. Then i wondered and sixty five people dying to you guys have here. Sunny listen came. Learn boxing infrared exemplary. So just too good and then the supreme court you know it's fully expecting and the vote is overwhelming that they're going to uphold the lower court and all he's going to go to jail and then somebody goes yes but over here. So they're thinking about it still he's gonna win and then somebody says but we second you the original decision And if we don't say anything uphold it don't publish decision about a prominent figure but the problem is they don't want to start. Granting black people the right to their own believes so you can set a president. But here's the thing the kentucky draft board doesn't give any reason for the four why they say he can't fight. I mean why he's got. He's got to go in the army. I won't accept his while he can't sanchez objector. So so they so they. So they throw it out on that. It's unanimous that goes from being almost unanimous the other direction to being unanimous the other way and then of course he's got his moment in the sun and when he could take victory dance and does he just he carries that he takes that victory and sort of shrugs it off and say yes but until all my people are free. That was a great moment about him at that convenience store so the last couple of episodes deal with you know that part of ali's career. Were you know he was embrace more. But what's interesting about too. Is you really touch a lot on his personal life and what was going on there in in at the same time we hannah visually see decline. There's man some of that some of it's you know. I wonder how it's gonna hit people that don't know that much about ali during that period too you know. It's kind of well.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"A political ali that isn't just an adjunct or an outgrowth of wear the corner that other people painted him into and an misinterpretation of his fame. Yes and it's complicated at the same time. Because the nation of islam and that period was also divisive within the black community because A snake and martin luther king and all that those are like christian lead groups kind of. There's a it was almost christians versus muslims martin versus malcolm in that sort of thing and you know malcolm x. Have famously said some negative statements about Martin luther king and that sort of thing and so like i. It's funny like here's what a lot of people don't know too which is interesting. I li wasn't wildly popular yet in the black community. During this time he had some popularity but there were people weren't sure about this guy you know when he when he declared himself as a muslim. And there's so many periods of ali that are interesting and you know one thing. I wanted to touch them before this too can is that it's it's interesting to me. I love. I love this because you see so many facets of him you see him progressing in alisa early days but made ali interesting. Is that so. Few people believed in him because his boxing technique they found flawed. Didn't it was his talent that he was kinda getting overrun but a lot of people in the vox who were like. I don't know this guy. He s kind of lucky to be. He'd better watch it. He's gonna get caught. You know there's all these opinions about him that now. In retrospect we could see how they were wrong but in a his contemporaries he was not hell. No one gave ali any kind of shot. And in fact. In the henry cooper fake and the doug jones fight the doug jones fight which arguably one of his toughest fates you know after those two fates at least career could have been done before he even fought sunny. Listen when he was still cassius clay. Yeah know it's absolutely true. And this is the thing. I mean he puts on boxing gloves accidentally. Yes neatly. he's going to be the greatest right. He's got all of these wrong styles. It'd be like if a guy is hitting home runs at the major league. And he's got a weird stance. You're not gonna break the sandwich every opportunity break him of these quote bad habits unquote thank god. He got you know The trainer that he got because he linked to say let's let him do it. He could see there was a kind of energy discipline and a genius behind it. So yeah he he went back. When you're not where you're supposed to duck but so far it seems to be working for him and he's gonna have a rude awakening when somebody catches up to him by the time they caught up to that he was already champion. Already coming trying to come back from his exile. Just it's you know. Angela and dundee just understood that he had this diamond in the rough and wasn't gonna break him of all this stuff that was just gonna psychologically bring him along and.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"Do the dance to recite the poetry to egg to say i beat kayode in the eighth round the supreme. Whatever you wanted it sticks the microphone in his face and says what do you think of the system and he says very so spoken. Well i don't know who's going to be assassinated tonight. I don't know who's going to be in a. I don't know who's going to be denied. Just just sort of quality. And so he's looking back across the three hundred and fifty years of mistreatment of black people on this continent. He's going past emmett till whose open coffin. His brave mother had the will the show jet magazine photographed. It and that kid was not that much older than the young cashes clay at that time weekly affected him but he's also ranging ahead knowing that this stuff is going to be repeating. There's going to be a rodney king. He doesn't know the name. We don't know the name at the time. There's going to be a trayvon martin. There's going to be an eleven year. Old mir right. There's going to be brianna. Taylor louisville kentucky. There's gonna be george boyd and oceans of other names that we don't have the time to recite and the fact that he could be taking a victory lap at that moment and doesn't he is representing in the best sense of the word with a ferocity and a columnist and a wisdom that belie me still like twenty eight twenty nine years old. You just kind of look and shake your head. Where did that come from. Who is this person. Yes you know. Mike take an early is i. Think it's a little different from some people in this period Because i think a lot of the olli did. I feel get from nation of islam in in doing that dive into were. They were coming from in that time. You know because what makes all the fascinating is that he. And i wanna i wanna come back to this part of the we could just jump in now and but a during that period of time i lee was very political. He was in a fight for his life and all that type of stuff in the nation of islam seemed to give him that public conscience that we all know ali four. You know yeah. I agree in. Because what's interesting is during after his. He didn't really split with them so much. As and some of this. I didn't know the details of he was kind of put on the side by lij muhammad. He's done many people. Ali was not political in his post In the latter part of his career he was really not a political. Being in that part. You know It's interesting that the the political part of ali is not is a very short period of time. It's about five years you know and the rest of ali is almost as a goodwill ambassador to the world in some ways the love part of that exactly onen which you know love doesn't have a binary aspect to it. Yeah you know. It doesn't yes or no red state. Blue gator straight young or old black. It just doesn't happen and that's mostly him. I would argue that the nation of islam gave. I mean it's always a given a take. It's always good and bad. Nothing's mall one thing. They're contradict is already been labeled a hate group. You know they talk about my devils. There's all of this stuff going. They're giving a kid. A foundation of community foundation right schism a foundation of discipline. It seems to be everything that will allow him to escape the disappointment and the rage of his father at his failure as be treated seriously and he's forced to be assigned painter but it also gives him a kind of.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"Processes and it's not additon to me. It's subtract hundreds of hours of him in fifteen thousand photographs. Were taken stuff away. But we're finding gems than people haven't used or haven't seen before the families called up and said wow. Where did you get picture of of daddy talking to me and experts advisor said. Wow it didn't know that or Where did you get that ever seen that so that that you know this is pbs. They just permit us. Yes do the deep over a long period of time. which is you know. Just a blessing. They got one foot handed emily in the marketplace but the other proudly out. Yes so we get to eat a director's cut every time out. Yes yes where do you. I always wanted to know. Where do you start for research on a project like this. You try to find people. I you dive into materials. You look at other source material of things that have been done like so you. I'm sure you don't worry about like Maybe overlapping other people. But where do you start for research. Because there's so much in the early days that i've never seen before and i consider myself. You know ali aficionado. Like i know so much about ali. Well you know it's interesting. It's a little bit of all of it at the same time you know. Most people have research period followed by writing period. Out of his grip. Comes you know that informs the shooting in the editing done. We never stop researching and we never stopped writing Recently it's not that long ago we were able to find It was..
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"Borough idea affects voting vaccine passports and those kind of things or having a show. The vaccine affects going to the store or go into a restaurant on the football game. Everything so if you say that. That's racist than i will say that you are consistent because then you're saying any kind of identification is races for black people which is ridiculous. It's absurd absurd so stop saying. I know i'm yelling about the food. It just pisses me off. I see when i see the just conviction that white people have that for black people to get identification something racist. About what the fuck do you get there from. Honestly it's got nothing to do with being black nothing. Nothing nothing nothing. Sorry nothing absolutely nothing. Are you saying that many times. Republicans have passed laws to try to make it harder for black people to vote absolutely thousand percent with you. I'm in la and by the way democrats did it to democrats say for a lot longer than republicans. We're going to be honest about it racist way people did it. Let's put it like that. Are they still doing those things. Perhaps in some areas. But stop trying to tell me that something about my blackness prevents me from getting an id because it's just not true using to stop. The i hate when people fight fights that may be worth fighting but they used the wrong language to fight it so all. I'm asking you. It is to be honest with the words which is be effective with the words that you're choosing to have better fights don't use words that you think are images that you think just gonna stir people up emotionally and so the just get behind you vestige races. Everybody gets mad. People gonna follow me. If i say that it's racist because something's truly racist and they really need our attention but this is not one of them anyhow. I don't wanna get on a high horse just really pisses me off to stop it saying.
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
"Ken burns is back to talk about his latest documentary for p. b. s. muhammad ali which airs sunday september nineteenth on pbs in this streaming on the pbs platform I think starting then as well so you can eat the cat streaming on pbs for the next few weeks or so months or so in guys. It's really really good Man i'm huge mohammed ali fan. I thought i've seen everything on ali in. Whoa there's such a deep dive especially into ali's early career that this documentary goes into so much footage that you haven't seen any really get a great portrait of the man because he's such a mythic figure naso even if you're not a sports fan i think you will enjoy that documentary and i think you enjoy my conversation with ken burns. I do apologize ahead of time We had some audio issues We usually have zoom blink on these Podcast cadman i used to do these. Persons stupid pandemic. I've been doing them and zoom ever since and sometimes we just get somebody kind of calling in. I'm not sure what was. I just had an audio connection acadian. It wasn't the best you know. So i hope you're able to enjoy it. There may be some dropouts here and there. I apologize for that time. I'll do better you guys. I'll do better do better with technology. i'm trying. I'm trying to get people back person i want to but this stupid pandemic. It's so stupid. I'm so tired of this fucking pandemic graham really really tired of it. you know. i've had it with all of it with the people who are resisting. Ed the people who you know. Keep giving his confusing messages out there soon. So much of it where mass take off your mask vaccines where oops now. They don't work. Are we protecting protecting yourself. No you're not you're protecting other people. I mean so much of it just drives me up the fucking wall you guys and sometimes it. It just gets so absurd and let me just put out there i am. I'm vaccinated pro vaccine. I wish everybody would get it right. Some people don't get it for a lot of different reasons. You know and i. I disagreed some of those reasons. Some of the reasons i go. Okay you know. I get it I don't necessarily think the government mandated which was what joe biden said last december. I think they should strongly suggest it. You know i feel differently about companies and that type of thing you know but I don't know why people are resisting it either. You know. feel both of those things. They just doesn't make sense. But then also i don't wanna be overly scared for no reason to you know like i think. There's overreaction like there's overreaction on the side that's resisting for sure like people who think there's some voodoo in this vaccine but somehow trusts ivermectin these other things to get them well that was manufacture but for some of the same people these things. That's what i don't understand. Some of the same companies are manufacturing. This stuff that you think is great are manufacturing the vaccines because there's so many different types of seems to it's crazy and have you know places like san francisco which they're having a marathon and they're making the marathon workers put in the marathon runners putting their masks for like a certain portion of the run. Because it's more crowded in there fucking running outside san francisco. What the fuck. They gotta put on a mask in a marathon. He stuff like that drives me crazy. It doesn't make since. I have never ever thought that if i was going to run a marathon. There's a chance. I might get sick from somebody because somebody in that crowd may have flu. And i'm running through there. Who knows or that. I'm gonna give it to somebody as i'm running through. What did they think is gonna happen. I have no idea that just doesn't make sense to me. But i'm just i am just just pointing out. I'm more pointing out my frustration. With this thing. I wanted to end. I just wanted to end up tired of it. I'm tired of all of those motorbikers. Like bernie magazine ton of all of them tired of album every single one of them titled especially you covert most tired. You get the fuck outta here. Got him since this. But anyhow hopefully hopefully there's some hope in the future you know. Let's hope so. You guys in the near future certainly in the future but in the near future but like i've always said we have to be able to live with this. You don't deliver our lives with this especially if it feels like he's going to stick around for a while and be reasonable about not be just ridiculous about it to have some fucking common sense you know. That's that's i asked for some common sense. We go down that absurd. it's rabbit hole too but it just makes me mad. I really think something else that makes it as watching tv last night. I'm not gonna say it is. Because i like the person but i just didn't like what they said. I am tired of two. And i know some. You're gonna have a big disagreement with me on this and and that's okay. I don't mind as you guys know. I really don't mind. Disagreements disagreements. don't threaten me not at all as a person you disagree with me. That's fine in fact it probably means we'll have a great discussion about it. So i'm finally disagreements. Main people are threatened by disagreements. Here's a disagreement. I have many people on the left when they say especially in the white people say this really pisses me off that Voter id laws are races that making people have identification to vote is races. No it's not motherfucker. Stop saying i'm tired of people saying it. Just stop it. It is not racist and to see like somebody intelligence. And if you're saying that yes it affects some white people to will. I don't care about that. it's racist motherfucker. No it's not if you're saying it's classes that it. It hurts. Poor people fine. You know if you're saying some people can't afford identification difficult fine but there is nothing in my fucking black genes that make it difficult for me to get a fucking identification. Stop saying that. It's racist that there's something about being black that prevents me of the person from getting identification. In for god's sakes we should be encouraging people to get an identification then trying to cover for them and saying black people are so fucking two week. The anything that requires identification is gonna crush them. What are you guys doing. These black people the fuck. Are you going to cash a check. You can't even get around in the identification which are being urging people to get identification. Have trouble getting them but there's nothing about blackness that makes it difficult for you to get identification. Stop saying that shit. It really pisses me off because if you really believe that shit then you wouldn't be pushing these vaccine passports that people pushing in saying that you know you have to show identification vaccines because i'll tell you one thing. A lot of black people have more problems about the vaccine that has to do with their blackness and the government pushing vaccines on them then getting identification has to do with their blackness. But you have no problem requiring people to have that kind of identification just to do anything.
San Diego's Morning News with Ted and LaDona
This Week in Sports History
"Take you on a journey back to this week in sports history, we'll start off way back in 19 Oh one, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues now known as minor League Baseball, was formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago. Jumping ahead this week in 1960 cashes clay later known as Muhammad Ali wins the Olympic light heavyweight gold medal in Rome this week in 1984 in his first NFL start, Atlanta's Gerald Riggs rushes for 202 yards. He scores two touchdowns as the Falcons beat the Saints 36 to 28 this week in 1994, San Francisco 40. Niners wide receiver Jerry Rice catches two touchdown passes and runs for another score in the Niners 44 to 14 route of the race. Years. He surpasses Jim Brown as the NFL's career touchdown leader with 127 label Today in 2000 and five Florida's Jeremy Hermida becomes the first player and more than a century and the second to hit a grand slam in his first major league get that connecting in the seventh inning of ST Louis Cardinals Al Reyes and this week in 2013 Peyton Manning
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Because i will rate and everyone's sins was seemed like it was coming at me. You know about this deal. How about this was always sufficient to I mean you'll quest by a great friends. I have great french. But i guess people around or always looking to something says something up for create something and everything and i'll just i'll just say i just wasn't what i wanted to do. Which was you to compete to box. I mean most people santana me just this crazy man. You know all that if you have money to have fame saw you need no. It gets to a point based we're still human gets to appoint whereas that if you're not if you don't feel good about yourself and at that time i wasn't feeling good about myself i don't i don't know what it was. You know it's again. It's hard to define what ticu late. Because i was so sad and i would add is incredible. Why juanita and we talk now. We know were french But all taking place and you know and my life was militias almost like going all the way down. And if it wasn't a mild by present might bernadette. I wouldn't be here she. She told me say she told me the true. She told me what she saw. She told me what should believed was going gonna happen eventually. And i am where i am because i had good people have had a good business people too. I'm going to try to bring this full circle here. So there is no connection than you know. All all edited out. But you know you become friends. Muhammad ali and he's he's watching you fight ten years after hagler. He's watching some of the decisions that you're making and at that point you know we're starting to learn medically about where he's heading. Was there ever a conversation. You guys ever talk about it. Because i always imagined that fighters you guys can talk to each other in a way that no one else can ever talk to you. Oh we don't talk we don't we don't let it out. It's it's an amazing thing. And i wish i could put it in. Some order was something inside much that because again there's nothing greater than having has raised beating the odds That that moment in time in history is just amazing until we all k- with ourselves until we liked out sales a lot better It's gonna be it's gonna be. A challenge is going to be challenged and you know thinking about. There's no one is no one statement. There's no one sentence that's going to clarify what we tried to grab. I want to end it there. That was awesome. I don't want to take it more. Your time i really. She opened it up and talk. And so Thank you are you know that was. That was terrific hope. You enjoyed gino. I used i kept it inside. in sodomy was happy. This you know is. It wasn't until i went to a and i start talk about my wife in sexual abuse here. Drink in this beam being alcoholic. All these things i. I'm sugary lennon. Song on perfect until i became humble. My life wasn't so much better today never perfect. Nothing's perfect but so was gonna today and i. I enjoy talk about this. Because i talked to you. So what else is being held. And i hope you know that in one of the things that it's cool about your life even though you've mentioned before you know struggling to to like yourself to love yourself That you should have moments where you appreciate how much you meant to so many people you know you should allow yourself to feel good about that and said are rejecting it which i think you probably at that place. Now because it's it can be a nice cool feeling when you're like you know what i mean a lot to a lot of people in and i was inspiring and you should let yourself know that you know what i hear that that sentence words it makes even strong. Thank you okay bye. Hey thanks a lot man. Honestly that was terrific. Thank you rick when simplisafe home security's founders chad and eleanor. Lawrence designed their first security system in their kitchen. They did it for a very personal reason. The france had just had their home broken into. They were struggling to find security system. That was simple as setup. It would make them feel safe again. Making people feel safe is what simply safe has been.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Stretch it out. Yeah you ended up the olympics. One gold montreal And in a looking at the and fights in seventy four so that's two two years before seventy six you're starting to. I think i amateur fights like seventy two or something like that. So what was it like. How are you following the story because he refuses induction in sixty six your what like eleven years old ten eleven years old. Were you paying attention to that kind of stuff. Because it's amazing to think just you know ten years later now. This guy's your friend everyone's talking i. I didn't really know what was going on. What was taking place how significant it was but it was talking about. Mohammed will catch muhammad ali. And i just i you don't worry scrooge. Will something happen something trespassing something. Something came to get us in a strange way. But it was us came together because i'll Absolute shot but i was extremely shy computational so to talk me one which i spoke very little Ali met ali while around mohammed lake. Again i didn't say much but i listened to every word he said and it was. It was like like learning you know on the streets by the time he's fighting. Foreman i mean are you completely in the the ali camper you worried for him. I imagine you weren't rooting for foreman. I what i heard. i heard. He's fighting george foreman. I cry because i saw how george will such a mammoth A big guy and when he fought. Joe frazier and the way the the destruction of joy foley such a big guy. Strong guy our so free. I cry i remembered so deputy i cry but when i saw the files like yes. Yes yes okay. So do you remember watching a fight. Like i mean. Obviously you said you watch. Did you watch it real time or were you able to see it somewhere. I know that like a lot of closed circuit stuff and how it worked was kinda complicated. I did i did watch and why and i was just a stray. My heart out me. He just he did possible death. It did impossible really. It really is to be able to talk about somebody that i mean. Everybody was doubting him. I mean and i can only go back and read about it and talked my father about it. Who was like you. Don't understand because after what form did to frazier people. Were just telling ali. You're not sick. you can't do this. You can't do this in an all the circumstances all these things jay. Did you ever think of well. I guess at that point you you know once you become what your first professional fights seventy seven correct said yes. So what's the transition like olympic gold medalist. Now this kind of america's sweetheart you know people people like man here. Come sugar ray. What was that time like for you. I you know. I didn't wanna fight. I didn't mortgage session. I had no intentions of being professional fighter. So once i have a gold medal week Around my neck hitting home I was going crazy man because all of a sudden once i got home. My dad went to calm. Dad has fineman spinal meningitis smuggler stuff. He didn't think he will live a week or so. And we had no nationally. We had no money. How can i help. Fam- asked more mementos james ward. I suggest how do i make bassman. He said turn pro. I said okay. I'll do that. Without any second considerations. I say i'll trump broke out. In fact i was not going to i will. I wanna go to university of maryland. Further my education get a good job but because of my father's condition health conditions tire pro found a good to me. And which. I did you not term crow. And i did my father. The lubbock did family. I did for myself. Did you ever talk with you because at that stage as you're turning pro that's when muhammad should've been done fighting. Yeah and then he takes those late fights We've been over it. You know people around him but ultimately like fighters like fight and he certainly wanted to keep trying to find a way to get paid. What was that like as you were getting started. Watching him an end that should have been ended previously. I was shop. I wasn't at my. I was like this. This one mentioned And what have you whatever he said back. I said that's that's what. I should do He said rape you turned pro. Get angelo dundee. Guess right complexion and the right connection and naturally angelo dundee and had james morton day jacobs a career milder trainers and You know i just felt heaven. Angelo dundee homilies. Training in my corner guy was Priceless to micro was happening now is model model. Make i haven't team. I had a corner ryan. I had a corner. Add up at a gu-guy team bet helped me. And i didn't say raid. Do you want to fight joe small. Joel whatever i just guys. Whoever you say. I'll do it so my my career was one of an independent one in a sense and i remember also My guy my attorney my partner. Mike schreiner putting together thirty people in each one of them gave me a thousand dollars and I pay. I fight an independent contractor. And i did Myself yeah that's an amazing story because you know you had this this group that had funded mohammed ali. That still had a piece of them for for going on forever then switched over kinda herbert mohammed and then they were doing but you paid everyone back right the loan. The first low. How are you able to do that. I i fight Citron will get forty thousand dollars. Which is what at. that's well still somewhat unprecedented Your first fight maryland. You made.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Explaining it. Mr mohammed ali has just refused to be inducted and the united states armed forces. How scared was he were those around him as they were trying to go through that three almost four-year stretch where he's not fighting. He doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't have any money. And i still felt like that's where the nation islam. I mean that the relationship is so complicated throughout his entire life. Where i think they were. Paying for some of it her mohammed. The son of elijah muhammad had started become involved Who obviously plays a big role in the management part of him. At that time you still have this louisville group. That is trying to figure out what to do the boxing side of it. Like how is he. How is he figuring out where any of that is going to go and then ultimately towards the comeback. Which kind of happens the way you write about it. I was like oh this was sort of like. Hey can we get licensed anywhere. And it's like. Oh yeah i guess we could do it here and it's like second. What the hell was the holdup ole time. Which i thought was a part that i don't know that i'd ever picked up on before. It's messy in. it's crazy I spent a lot of time with ali's wife at the time Colella who was sixteen when she married him and his second wife for a second wife right and she was with him when when he was banned from boxing and when he was home with nothing to do all day and when she had to go out and make money to feed the family and and she would drive her to to to work every day and then he would just basically sit around the house or many go out on some college tours and give lectures and i got the impression that you know. He was frustrated that he you know. He missed boxing but he still loved being muhammad ali. he loved Just getting attention. Anyway he could. So the the the college tours the broadway show. He acted in anything like that that he could do just to have eyeballs on him Made up for it and and and but there was never any doubt that like That he would make a deal As you mentioned earlier you know you had an offer. From the government to do some exhibitions and the way. Joe louis and a lot of other athletes did you. Don't have to fight in never gonna see a battlefield. They just have to put on a little show for the for the troops. But he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't compromise.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"muhammad ali" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Ali and i think it goes to understanding american history. You know when. I interviewed dick gregory for this book. He said to me e books not going to be worth a damn. If you can't explain. What made a kid from the jim crow south same age as emmett till think that he could talk back to white people and get away with it that he can call himself the greatest when everybody around him was telling him he was a second class citizen. You got to be able to understand what made ali capable of that. And it's a really difficult question. I mean it's really complicated. Part of it is that he grows up in. Not the deep south louisville thinks of itself as more progressive. There are some opportunities That wouldn't be available to him anywhere else For example to to walk into a boxing gym at age twelve and have a white cop offer to help him and to be to get in the ring and mix it up with white kids. That didn't happen in alabama or mississippi. But it did happen in louisville and so all of these things And the fact that his father was really a you know a fighter Not in the boxing sense. Which is somebody who didn't think that we should have to take the the conditions that we were born into because of this racist country that that That we live in. So ali has all of these influences swirling around him and in any finds out about the nation of islam at when he's when he's thirteen fourteen years old and that really has a huge impact too so you can't put it on any one thing but it's it's so complicated. That beautiful really. I have always thought in in going back and no starting whatever readings going all the way back to high school That no matter who you were even if you're having a hard time the white person today in the country being like all right. Are we talking about race every single day. All right and you know. Maybe there's a point but if your mohammad-ali that time cassius clay and you go to rome win the gold medal you're treated like a hero and you come back home and you're like wait like i'm gonna get treated like shit again and then the first time you pick up any literature on the nation islam and you start hearing for the first time in your life black people talking about other black people in a positive way and asking questions. How impressionable ali must have been at that time. Like anybody that would go. I can't believe he went nation. Islamic can't believe he has these beliefs. I can't believe he went down that road. I don't know why anybody could be dismissive. At least of the idea of a young person at that time looking surroundings asking a lot of questions in wondering why things were the way they were no. I totally agree with you and remember what it felt like to be eighteen and want a challenge authority. Every you got and to go over there win. The gold medal is presented the coveted gold medal for his tremendous victory in the light heavyweight division of the olympic boxing championships a magnificent conclusion through the one thousand nine hundred sixteen roll. We'll come back between like a second class citizen and here elijah muhammad and here malcolm x. Saying we don't have to do it the way they want us to. We don't even have to do it. The way martin. Luther king wants us to we can fight on our own terms. And that really appeals. I think also to the the same Since that makes ali la boxing. You know we can do it on our own. We don't have to be a part of a team. We don't have to play by anybody's rules. We can make our own rules. I think that's really attractive to an eighteen year. Old championship boxer. Who's african american at a time when You know jim crow. Laws are still in effect all over the south. So let's get deeper into it then. So he's got this group of businessmen that invest in him from louisville and. It sounds like they've fast tracked him what i love in this book too is every time angelo dundee is.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
Author Jonathan Eig Discusses His New Book 'Ali: A Life'
"Book is ali a life biography. And it's incredible and the author of jonathan joins us on the podcast. We're going to kind of do an ollie specific pot here so let's start at the beginning just like the book does his family's two generations removed slavery. We know there are some history that none of us really knew about. Even he didn't know about about his own grandparents. He has a father whose abusive but talented. They weren't a destitute family by any means In their neighborhood louisville it was. It was a family that was probably doing better than some others. But i think the the foundation of who ali became as a person. How did he develop this kind of unpolished. Personality is non compromising personality at such a young age. That's really one of the central questions to understanding. Ali and i think it goes to understanding american history. You know when. I interviewed dick gregory for this book. He said to me e books not going to be worth a damn. If you can't explain. What made a kid from the jim crow south same age as emmett till think that he could talk back to white people and get away with it that he can call himself the greatest when everybody around him was telling him he was a second class citizen. You got to be able to understand what made ali capable of that. And it's a really difficult question. I mean it's really complicated. Part of it is that he grows up in. Not the deep south louisville thinks of itself as more progressive. There are some opportunities That wouldn't be available to him anywhere else For example to to walk into a boxing gym at age twelve and have a white cop offer to help him and to be to get in the ring and mix it up with white kids. That didn't happen in alabama or mississippi. But it did happen in louisville and so all of these things And the fact that his father was really a you know a fighter Not in the boxing sense. Which is somebody who didn't think that we should have to take the the conditions that we were born into because of this racist country that that That we live in.
The Lead
Ted Lasso: Lessons on Leadership From a Fictional Character
"I for anyone who has the unfortunate fate of not having watched head lasso yet. What are you even doing people. How would you describe the character of ted lasso. So i think ted so is it shouldn't be a serious character right. This is a college football coach from kansas. Who is going over to coach. Manage in the english premier league. The whole setup feels absurd. Which i think is why the character seems to work so well because this guy is a. He's folksy. he has these things he will say. I mean come on. Sam was more open than the jar peanut butter on my kitchen counter. That's right y'all don't know. I like to keep the peanut butter open. That way whenever i walk back and just stick my finger and yet he has this inner goodness that i think when when he comes across people that they seem to react to you coaching football make. You are a legend for doing something. So i mean it's meno murdy well you know. I've heard that tune before. But here i am still dancing. Ted last. So is the quintessential mid western kindness guy. You know a guy who wants to do well in the world treat other people the right way and just kind of live life with optimism and kindness and all those like grape characteristics that we'd all like to have. Yeah i think it really is his relentless optimism. That wins you over in the show. Is there a particular scene in the series that you think really captures that element of his personality. You know i was thinking about this. In the first episode. He's gone over to england. He's been introduced to the media. He talks to the team. And everybody's obviously it's not going well and then him and coach beard kind of redecorate the office. They put up the john wooden pyramid of success. They put up. All these american touchstones like muhammad ali poster in the miracle on ice poster all in the office. And then roy kent the kind of the you know. The quintessential english footballer. He comes in the office and he calls him ronald mcdonald and i think he uses an expletive and then he leaves the office and ten lasso goes he thinks may now wait. We win them over if he thinks he's mad. Now wait until we win them over.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"muhammad ali" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Got him most up. I would say that in his fights. Were joe frazier. He loved joe frazier. I mean i can't speak for his early early years. But i know from what i've seen in his later years he loved loved loved joe frazier and they were like you know best friends in their in their older age which is awesome so anytime joe frazier would show up. His eyes would light up to. Did you talk to him. I mean i'm sure you did. But like what were your conversations like about your boxing career with him and and what you should do. As far as getting into the sport you know i would just ask them for tips here and there and he would just tell me to like eat right and stuff and You know simple stuff but stuff that makes the difference. He you know he was huge on roadwork and he always said you gotta do road work. You gotta do road work. So i really always kept that in the back of my head and that's what i do now so i do follow everything that he told me to do still to this day. Was he in favor of you. Getting into boxing because as much as boxing gave him obviously sticking around a little bit too long kind of took took it away from him as well. How did he feel about you getting into boxing. I was hoping he wouldn't want me to get into boxing. Because at one point i was a not not ready to venture out down this long long road that everyone kept telling me. The pressures are scary. You know so. I wanted him to tell me. Don't box but every time. I tried to coerce them to do that. He wouldn't he would keep telling me to box so. I knew that i had to stick the boxing. Why do you think he wanted that for you. I wish i got a chance to ask him. Why i never. I never asked him why When when he would tell me keep boxing. I i wish i could have i. I don't know why Maybe it has something to do with the legacy I have no idea. I know because he didn't wanna lay litterbox a but of course that's his daughter. You know so i. I don't know. I don't know why he wanted me to box. Though did your brother was into boxing for a little while right no. He was a football player. Okay but i read somewhere that he dabbled in thought about it at the very least you. Were you the only one the family that that got into it. Yeah i mean my whole family has been has had boxing gloves on at some point. Just because of you know us being around my grandfather. Everything's boxing related in my family But yet no. I'm the only one in the family. That's taken it a to a level of competition whether it be at an amateur level or even going into a gym to seek a trainer when you're at these amateur tournaments and people realize who you are. I mean what kind of reactions are you getting are you. Do you feel like you're getting in the ring that as much as they want to win for themselves. They want to beat. Muhammad ali grandson. Yeah no you know. Some people would think that it would be an intimidating factor. You know saying. I'm going up against muhammad ali grandson. It's not because you know they have everything to gain from being able to say. I knocked out mahalia grandson. So i always got everyone's a game in the amateurs and it was very very annoying. A constantly being announced in recognized as just you know. Muhammed ali's grandson. And i should have picked a different sport if i didn't want that to happen but you know i feel like it would have happened regardless i mean it's tough like i've written in studied the you know the sons of michael jordan. You know like it's just. It's tough to kind of carry that weight around where everyone's probably expecting you to show flashes of what your grandfather showed like. They're expecting you to shuffle in the ring to say something bra ostentatious on the mic like. They're they're probably looking for it from you. Yeah no my first time ever stepping in the ring for the it was for saint ball drinks which is a children's cancer foundation and it was a charity of it was an exhibition but while i was in the ring the last round someone in the crowd. I think it was my uncle. My dad said do do. The ali shuffle. And i was ten years old and i did. The shuffle in my shoes fell off. I i mean that that's an example of how people they want to make me into. You know my grandfather. Well what do you do need go. I mean do you pattern your your boxing style at i mean there. They're worst people the pattern your boxing. After that we're talking about the greatest of all time i mean. How do you approach your your own style. How much have you taken from your grandfather and tried to incorporate into yourself. It was my choice. I would say i. I would love to emulate his styles. Same way he did because he had so much success with it but nobody can emulate his style to the t you know. It was his style. And i can't do that so i'm not trying to do that. But what. I am trying to emulate from his boxing. Is you know his foot work. He had excellent footwork. I won't even be able to emulate that To a t. but i'll be able to you know. Take some parts in you know Put in some of my own Flares and That's that's what i'm looking forward to is emulating his footwork more than anything. So you're in the amateur ranks for the last few years. When does it start to. When did start to come to you. Then you start to think. I want to turn pro. You know it all happened so fast. I knew that one day. I be turning pro Because when i got into boxing. I said i have to go in one hundred percent or don't get in at all but i went up to big bear with abel sanchez and i was training up there for a few months and that was really when it got serious and i said okay. We'll i talked with my team and then Than i turned pro and then signed with top rank and all this great stuff happened all at once. Really what what is your amateur background like. I don't even know. I have somewhere around thirty amateur fights but i lost count because my first amateur fight. I lost that. I remember my first ever Officials identified loss and it was in arizona so right afterwards i went straight to my grandfather's house and he was talking to me about how losses do not matter in the amateurs and i had a black eye and like a big nose and we just spoke on that. But that conversation made me realize that it's the quality not quantity of the fights. So i i remember the great performances. I remember the losses of and i learned from him. But it's it's hard to count how many i've had because i've had so many exhibitions and charity events before i even got into the amateurs i think your grandfather's proved that losses don't necessarily matter the pros either. It's all about quality of the fighters you up against five losses when you're arguing about who. The greatest of all time is whether it's muhammad ali or sugar ray robinson i mean that's five losses for ali nineteen for sugar free at a lot robinson. I mean it really is about the quality competition. I'm curious i've been. I've been to that that big bear. Jim where abel sanchez trains out of tough environment to train in. What was it about that experience that made you believe that the pros.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"muhammad ali" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"This is boxing with chris man who somebody punched him in the face. Joshua is composed and ferocious spanish. Watch this the happy hosted by s. Is chris mannix. That was my moments now interviews analysis and everything going on in the world of foxy. When you have talent you are given another chance. Here's chris mannix. The debuts of pro prospects are often pretty interesting but Few get more interesting than this one on saturday. Nico ollie. walsh will officially turn pro as a middleweight on top ranks card from tulsa oklahoma. Walsh is the grandson of the late muhammad ali to be fighting for the same promoter. Bob arum whose father or grandfather should say had many of his greatest moments with nico joins me here on the show nico is i mean i guess i what does this you. What does this moment feel like do you. I mean it's a dream come true to say the least. Yeah we're to talk to me about kind of your boxing journey here. I mean you grew up in chicago originally and how how did boxing kind of crystallized for you. Well you know. I've been around boxing my whole life just through my grandfather but i really started my first time. Stepping in the ring was for a cancer foundation it was the charity event and it was an exhibition. So it had no wins or losses and before that point i hadn't trained in the gym or anything and i just went in. I had fun. I was doing it for a good cause and I just. I feel like that's when i started slowly loving boxing. So have you. Was there any pressure on you. Growing up to get into the sport. No i you know. I didn't feel any pressure at all. growing up getting into the sport but i did always feel the pressure of being. You know the grandson of you know muhammad ali. I've always felt that pressure outside a sports in school. everywhere was i thought that pressure. It's almost like i mean. I remember watching what the rocky belbow movie rocky son saying like. You know what. I saw that i saw that movie and i was dying laughing because it sounded so similar to meaning the movie. Cre- yeah. I mean so people always asking you like you're gonna get into boxing or are you going to do it. I don't remember anybody asking me. But i was always getting compared to him no matter what so. You know if i if. I didn't pick boxing if i picked up a tennis racket and i was a tennis player or a golfer or even if i was something not sports related i would still be getting compared to my grandfather. Because that's the way it's been my whole life. Mamadali passed away in two thousand sixteen. What was your relationship like with him. You're young guy. Twenty one years old. What was what are your memories of that relationship. We were very close. We were very very close He lived in scottsdale arizona. And we live in las vegas so we were constantly making the drive Two quick drive down to arizona to see him. Whether it'd be for thanksgiving or you know just to go out and watch movies with them but Yeah no we were very close I when i was born all my other grandfathers were had passed away. Unfortunately already so. He was the only living grandfather that i had which made us even more close. What was communication like within because as many people know historian how parkinson's affected him late in his life it affected his speech. Yeah i mean you know some days. A lot of people don't know about parkinson's disease but you know some days are better than others and it really is a flip of a coin. One day you can get them talking and he could be vibrant and and you know talking would seems to be like the way he used to and then others other days most days He doesn't talk as much but that never took away from you know. His sense of humor is wit and his smile. It never took away from that. And that's how we communicated we communicated a you know through his actions to tell me about how how that sense of humor was around you most people that know. Muhammad ali know all about the trash-talk and the brashness and all that that came with it. How was he with you. Yeah i mean he. He says he says some stuff that You know people aren't supposed to say he gets away with saying you know basically whatever he wants but it's it's because everyone knows he's coming from a place of kindness and he's always joking so his sense of humor is was was great. I mean you could see it in you know. The videos interviews. He had that same sense of humor. Which i hadn't gotten to see because i wasn't alive during his Prime but he had that same sense of humor of in his in his older years. Gebre watch old fights with him. Yeah we would constantly watch All we would do is watch his fight highlights and then my sparring tapes but we watched on the rumble in the jungle. A million times over. I would just pull up a chair next to him and we would watch it on my phone but yet no i've seen i've seen probably all of his fights with him so it's like you know we. We spent so much time together in you know. He was interested in watching those fights. It really put a spark in his eyes so we always did that. Man people will pay a lot of money back then to do that to do exactly what you were doing every single every single time. I'll watch what was it like watching the rumble in the jungle which is of course his iconic fight against george foreman and what was that. What was that like to watch it with him. What kind of reactions were you getting from him. As you're watching that he would like start. Reliving it you know. He'd be there with his mouth open. Kind of of flinching fainting and and you know punching like any boxer knows that like sometimes when they sleep they'll start shadowboxing. They'll start moving while they're sleeping and that's that's what he would do. When he was watching it he would start getting back in the zone and But i i wouldn't. I wouldn't ask them questions about boxing. I would really ask him questions about like. Hey what did they say in your corner or you know. What did you say to this guy. After the fight. I would ask him questions. That weren't fighting related. yeah. I'm always curious about the relationship. He had with angelo dundee longtime trainer. I mean what. What did you learn about that. Why no he loved him and angelo dundee was has been a fan of earth. He's been a friend of the family for you know so many years. Unfortunately i never met him But yeah up until his last year you know. He was still extremely kind to my family. Do you ever see that. The pizza hut commercial with angelo and mohammed. You've seen that. I'm sure right. That super bowl commercial reminded of it. I need to be super bowl commercial. Yeah it's like angelo. He's training a young fighter and the kids giving them mouth that he takes him to pizza. Introduce you to somebody. And they're sitting at the table right there as a great commercial. I watched it on youtube all the time. I didn't know that was pizza. Hut pizza see exactly all things. It was pizza pizza hut for paying the money. You need to get those two guys on camera to do that did you. Get the sense from from all the fights you watch with him. Was that rumble in the jungle. The one that.
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Solvable
Introducing Ronald Young Jr., Solvables Newest Host [TEST]
"Listeners. I want to introduce you to ronald young junior. You might be familiar with his name from other work. In podcasting leading shows like time well spent and leaving the theater. He's sometime guess contributed around. Npr's pop culture happy hour. We are really excited to make it. Official that ronald is going to be the newest host of solvable. Thank you thank you for having me. I'm so so excited to be here so publicly on the team. Believe it or not hosting solvable is not my main job. My main job is being. Ceo pushing in and pushkin over the last year in lockdown has like doubled in size. We have almost fifty people now. And it's exciting. There's a lot going on But it's sort of crowded out the time that i like to spend preparing and figuring out gas that also i'm not really a host. I don't know if you noticed that. I think i am trade. I'm an Host i have certain hosts qualities that i'm really interested in talking to the guests on the show And i have a lot of drive to learn. But i don't have that quality of hosting which i hear your voice and i really wanna know how that is done. Well first of all. I don't know if that's that's the message like we got hosted coaster said coming on all star show. I've always found it easy to talk to people. I've always founded easy to connect with folks and ask questions. And i'm curious about and mostly because as a child i was always encouraged to ask whether it was two friends. The families the teachers. And i think that's what helps with being a good host and with conducting good interviews. Which you do a great job of thank you ronald but yeah no. I think that just that basic quality of curiosity. If if you don't wanna know you can't read someone else's questions the producers on the show do suggest a lot great questions for us but ultimately you ask the ones that are your questions that have been you want. no yes. It's funny because like you know working with the solvable team. It's certainly is a team effort. But i think what makes a good host that what makes a good interviewer is the ability to read the conversation and to know when it when it needs to take a turn when it's about the pivot or when you're curiosity might push the interviewee a little deeper into the subject matter and even more comfortable and ready to answer more questions as they go so and i really enjoy doing that so this is a very exciting role for me. You do something i mean. Since were on this this topic. I do think being a really good host goes beyond just the flow of the conversation. Asking the right questions that something about creating this this environment this kind of comfort even this sense of place. And here's what. I don't feel that. I really know how to do but i hear in your voice you know in a lot of the people who are just really good shows terry gross. You know you just feel like you're at her place like you're in her world and you know in the guest is coming into her world and you feel as a listener. You're made to feel welcome and comfortable. How do you do that route. You know wish. I could say there was a trick. I wish i could tell you. Hey do this thing. And this'll this'll work but for me. It's just it's hospitality. It's really being genuinely interested in what they have to say. It's paying attention to them. Not necessarily thinking so far ahead that you can't be president in the conversation creating that warm sensitive environment it really comes from like a genuine place inside people and i think most people talk to you. We'll tell you that this is who. I am all the time. So it makes it easier for me to just bring this be to a hosting role Whereas some people. I think are very good at being a host and then you know in the rest of their lives are not nearly as hospitable or friendly and i can't say anything about ten gross but i i know that good host is being able to create that sense of hospitality in the conversation that they're having that moment. Yeah i think of the great host of my childhood dick caveat who was on. Tv obviously long before your time but back in the days before cable there only a few channels every night cabinet was having these interesting people on his show and he's charming. He's charmed by the gas and a lot of what he's trying to do. Is of course just inject wisecracks. I've got clip here. That's a good example of that it's cabot talking to the comedian don rickles. It's hard for you to be serious but it is. I think people don't admit that deep down inside. If i may be serious for a moment that you do something on stage that all of us would like to do if we had no class the other host i think about all the time as i grew up listening on the radio growing up in chicago. Two studs terkel here just as one example is studs terkel interviewing muhammad ali at one thousand nine hundred seventy five. Why do you think it is always in this particular theater. So many different people are. Why would they rooting for you. The outsider we'll i think the masses root for me because this scuffling they've been persecuted they figure by the tat taxes and whatever they've underdogs people are basically the underdogs hole and the things that i say from my people in the free involve people and the way i speak out in the title of the have and the and now let this. Stop me from recognizing every day man that thing. This is what they whether it'd be black or white. The massive people hardworking people the amazing thing about studs terkel circle. He was so good at talking to anybody today. He would have like a janitor and then he would. Have you know an opera singer. And then he would. Have you know a former vice president or politician and he just part of what was great about him with. He would talk to everybody the same way. Yeah i mean there's a sense of empathy that comes with no matter. Who's in the room. It should be able to be extended to anyone who's sitting opposite from you whether they'd be the janitor or the president of the united states. The other thing is not being afraid to ask even a question that may not sound as smart as you think it does. I think larry king wants said He was he was on. He was talking to jesse thorn. My friend hobie. Khan who wrote you negotiate anything. We grew up together. He says to me larry. The secret of your success is your dumb dumb. Is the great road to success. Because you not afraid to. I don't know tell me help me. That's a lot of interviews help. help me that. You're you're a brain search. You got brain surgery tomorrow morning. Think about it tonight when you go in the check your hands. If they're steady. And then all of a sudden you have this. Very poignant moment because larry king asked a question that is wow. I would have even sit there. I was like ronald do you. Do i do that. Also i wanna make sure that. I i do that but having that empathy allows you to be embassy to cross from you like i said whether it's the janitor or the president of the united states. Yeah so for this show. We do interviews with a particular kind of focused. How is problem solving. And how are people who have ideas about solving problems. Making the world veteran capable of making the world better. And that's the thing that can be big range of stuff. Yeah if you look out there let's say your your houses near the water and you look out there and you're just like the water seems to be creeping closer and closer. You're only thinking about what's going to happen when the water reaches your house and all the horrible things that can happen as the water continues to rise and the flooding when you when you start to think about all that it kind of changes your posture versus if you think how do we stop the water. How do we get the people out. How do we keep my house. Dry and think in terms of This podcast i'd like that it's pivoting from us talking so much about what the issue is because in most cases we know what the issue is what we really need to know is. What's the best way forward. How can we like either neutralize whatever. This problem is or at least adjust our lives so that the problem isn't what it is. Do we need to build a bridge. Maybe we need to build our houses higher whatever that means in order to To get out of the water. I think it gives a bit of optimism to the world
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Experts Weigh In On How U.S. Should Respond To Massive Computer Hack
"Should the us government respond to a computer hack that breached both government networks and private companies mo- cybersecurity experts think. Russia is responsible for the hack and npr's national security correspondent. Greg myra has been talking to some of them. Good morning greg. good morning noel. Perhaps most importantly is the over absolutely not it's still ongoing and we're continuing to learn details. We've heard now that the treasury department hack occurred in july and like other government departments. This was just uncovered in recent days. The email of top officials was hacked. Apparently not the account of treasury secretary. Steve mnuchin Also no evidence that classified systems were breached This information has come from democratic. Senator ron wyden who was briefed on the matter and we can expect this kind of information to sort of dribble out in the weeks and months ahead as government agencies and private companies go through their computer networks But clearly much of this is going to fall on the biden administration to make sure the hack Inside government computer networks is over that there's clear attribution on who did it and then to decide how to respond these major breaches have happened. Before does the government have a strategy to deal with them. No absolutely not again. There are no rules or red lines or clear consequences for adversaries who get caught now today. What we ended up seeing is lots of hand-wringing and ultimately some sort of limited responses right now with this current hack. We're seeing wrestling over. The definition some members of congress. Call this an act of war now. Cyber experts in the intelligence community. Do see it as a big deal but more along the lines of traditional espionage albeit on a massive scale i spoke about this with p w singer cyber expert at the new america think tank. This was not an act of war. This is more cold war style back and forth espionage stealing secrets. That's why you've seen the reaction from the intelligence community to be a mix of. Oh my god what just happened and gosh. We got a tip the hat to them. What a coup for them so. There is no clear way to respond greg. What are the range of options here. Traditional spying might generate public criticism Kicking out suspected spies perhaps some sanctions. But when this happened it really hasn't changed the behavior of russia any other adversaries they still seek hacking is a low cost high return proposition singer says the us can and needs to do much more and should create deterrence in in two ways gave a boxing analogy saying the us needs to punch back harder and also develop more resiliency to absorb the growing number of cyber blows. I make the parallel to my tyson. You don't hit him. He'll punch you back in the face versus muhammad ali rope a dope through resilience where you don't hit me because it just won't work out for you. What else do we know. So we know that the government and private companies were both hacked. What do we know about the private companies. We haven't heard that much from them. Have we know that's right. But we are hearing more of the hackers clearly targeted many tech companies in. This makes a lot of sense. They that hackers want these cutting edge cyber tools. These companies have so presumably. The hackers can use them themselves in the first organization to detect. This hack. two weeks ago was fire. I of prominent cyber security farm fire. Icao kevin mantius spoke with all things considered yesterday and he said these hackers were extremely sophisticated and once they got into the system. They cured out. An operation was specifically designed to attack fireeye. He realized very early on as they launched their own investigation that this was a level of tradecraft he'd never seen before and he said the scale of this hack really drives home the need for a strong national cyber policy. It's time this nation comes up with some doctrine on what we expect. Nations rules of engagement to be. And what will our policy or proportional response speed of folks. Violate the doctrine. Because right now there's absolutely esscalation in cyberspace it. It just seems astonishing that we don't yet have the doctrine in the year. Twenty twenty the. Us however does have a lot of cybersecurity might what is preventing us from using it more effectively. While you're still seeing a lot of things that are in the works Security cyber agency was just launched in twenty eighteen at focused on the elections this year and by all accounts did a did a did a good job right now. There's the military authorization bill on the president's desk waiting to be signed it has money for additional cyber upgrades in by all accounts. You're seeing a lot more cooperation between the government and private tech companies. But this country is losing huge sums of money Do to these cyber attacks and Couple of years ago the nsa director paul nakasone was at his confirmation hearing and he was asked if adversaries. Fear the us in cyberspace. He said the answers absolutely not. Npr's greg mary. Thanks so much. Greg my pleasure.
Toure Show
Interview with Calvin Baker
"Talk A lot about Colin. Kaepernick who of course has become far more than an athlete and more than any athlete of his generation has become super politicizing talk about how sports is a narrative of nationhood and definitely think that you could write eight the story of modern America on his last Assi What What do you? What do you? What are you? What are you thinking about? Colin Kaepernick. I think he's great. I think the truth almost didn't come to light. They. They suppress it for so long and so long and so long I think that it is. Emblematic of what's going on the country as a whole where you have this man and expressing is. Liberal belief. and. Becomes a lightly We tell ourselves we're in the twenty th century were everything is so diverse, and then you see what a lightning rod that becomes for. White. Anger. Someone expressing pride who is but also like. You can't kill black. That's radical athlete baboots how that's That's where we really are that. You can't say. Retaliates tally is wrong. Those are the hard enforces of racism, which I which I can chew colonialism in larger forces and patterns. How advanced how might and can the society be if you if it's if it's controversial as it was in that moment? Thankfully it's I think. As this moves forward. He's becoming raise established himself as one of a line of. Athletic spokespersons yet if you go back on tradition begins. Muhammad Ali's or the world and the Jim Brown's the world who's as like Oh as black versus one of the few people who is allowed any sort of visible Jackie Robinson in different. S. And that's end. And then he became corporate. Right. But the happiest people's right night. I talked about Jim Brown on the NFL who made the decision to leave NFL. After A manhood battle with art modell whose the owner Cleveland browns and direct line and one of the things on everything. We think we're saying there's historical precedent for it and the function and the horses ourselves. Insane. And so right. You look at that the and you look at what's happening feeling I'm not the first person. Say This I long chop wanted to contextualized story. And also like yeah. Camp is doing civil rights work. In the resistance that he faces shows you how much of this country is still against the most basic expression of civil rights what do you? What do you make of? The NFL along with the NBA? WNBA. Others. The institutions of sport have seemed to have come around to say you know we're going to embrace black lives matter. We're going to plastered all over the field or the court wear whatever you want. Neil. However, you want like you know we're fully supportive of the movement and yet gaps still doesn't have a job. So he still sacrificed his dream. Surely, it was his childhood dream that he achieved And then had that taken away chose to go after something bigger, and now that the the sports world, the NFL in particular has come around to his side of things. He is still left out which for so many of us for you to. ADDS a hypocritical sheen to all of it. I mean, I don't know I can't fully embrace what the NFL is doing until he is welcome back into the fold in a serious way. I mean, one of the. made the final cut I. Don't remember off the top of my head but wasn't Michael Vick can chilidog and still have A. Job in Colin Kaepernick, can't say. Shoot people. And not have a job. That's what I think. First of all the NFL. Lost me just I mean. There are a lot like their lot of sports. I. Love. I. Love Sports is you know and but there's always another sport and league baseball loss during steroids. Haven't been back. Haven't really looked back. I might watch catch on the corner of my eye, the barbershop every once in a while. The NFL. Because they are so far on what you say what you think the man like Avenue you know Muhammad, Ali's spent. Eighteen months in jail for Kosovo Vietnam War. I don't remember how much. Much of the baby actually did. Athletic careers. sports and they end when you're still a young individual with a lot of life ahead and as you read it as Jim Brown realize can't stop. By many miles at. And right the dream of NFL would it looks like it might be over I hope that it's eventually someone will give him a shot maybe but. And will air. We'll find the next stream. Nets like life purpose. That's always the challenge of being an athlete. It happened to him in a prematurely it's not fair but he's shown himself to be larger than that lead
AP News Radio
Regina King introduces 'One Night in Miami' to Oscars race
"Actor Regina king puts on her director's hat and introduces her film one night in Miami about a young Muhammad Ali to the Oscar race it was quite the film takes place after the twenty two year old the heavyweight champion Sonny Liston it's a fictional account of a conversation between the boxer who later became Mohammed Ali and Malcolm X. Jim Brown and Sam Cooke who discussed inequality look at racism against them and how to use their celebrity is changing Regina king says it also speaks to what's happening today with the
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Regina King introduces 'One Night in Miami' to Oscars race
"Actor Regina king puts on her director's hat and introduces her film one night in Miami about a young Muhammad Ali to the Oscar race it was quite the film takes place after the twenty two year old the heavyweight champion Sonny Liston it's a fictional account of a conversation between the boxer who later became Mohammed Ali and Malcolm X. Jim Brown and Sam Cooke who discussed inequality look at racism against them and how to use their celebrity is changing Regina king says it also speaks to what's happening today with the police killings of black people we have this opportunity or chit to use our art and in in a powerful way the film stars out as hostile as the autumn junior Kingsley Ben Adir and he like all right as Cassius clay I'm Julie Walker
Get Up!
Why Tom Seaver Is The Greatest Met Ever
"People perhaps too young to have seen it and to have lived through it. How would you put into words what Tom Seaver meant to baseball and particularly in New York in the late sixties and the seventies? Well. He's the greatest met ever and there is not a close second. He's for me one of the ten greatest pitchers of all time when you look at his wins, his era and his strikeouts, the only pitcher in history that can match those numbers is Walter Johnson whose regularly considered the greatest. Of all time top seaver struck out ten batters in a row that is still a major league record and they were the last ten hitters of the game showing how strong he was at the end Greenie I was twelve years old when he pitched the mets to the world championship in nineteen, sixty nine it was absolutely breathtaking to watch a pitcher who threw that hard with that kind of precision and the way he threw that back news to drag against the ground. He was so big and he was so strong. He was Tom Terrific in every way he was he was like a superhero in my youth. I grew up in New York and I wasn't met Fan, but you couldn't not not only admire him but you're almost all of him. He became almost mythical figure you can. We talk about that a little bit not not just how great pitcher he was the numbers tell you that story but just what he meant in an even larger sense than that, how would you put that into words? Well he was so much a celebrity in New York because he was so smart he was. So worldly, he did the New York Times Crossword puzzle every day and apparently nobody did it better than he did and he never took himself too seriously Dick Schaap told this great story one night that Dick arranged a party out with a bunch of people, a bunch of writers and a bunch of celebrities. And among the celebrities were Muhammad, Ali and Tom Seaver and through the night went along alley. Brilliant Mad. But not a great baseball fan whispered to Tom seaver which newspaper do you work for Anti seaver like burst out in laughter that's how great he was at understanding his place and everything he said that what he retired, he wanted to become an artist, but he wasn't good enough to be an artist. But boy was he a great great baseball player who captured a town at the perfect
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Artist Bruce Sulzberg on painting Rafael Nadal
"Welcome to the tennis dot. Com Pot guest. I'm one of your host. Nina Pantic joined in this episode by my co host. Irena Falconi! Hey, guys! How's it going? And we have a very interesting episode of everyone today we are with the owner artists of cells media. Fine Arts Bruce Cells Bruce Welcome thank you, thank you so much for having me. Bruce? Do you have a very interesting story? I don't think a lot of people know it has to do with Ross doll. You don't usually have artists on our show, so that's why this is very unique and special you wanNA. Tell everyone story when it comes to tennis. Even if you're not a player or coach or tournament organizer, so let's start with you know where you are in the world during this quarantine and how your life is going these days, it's been very interesting. Interesting just like I would say probably ninety nine point. Nine percent of the world is trying to figure out what the hell you're. GonNa do during his time. you know the one fortunate part about it as being an artist, I've been locked in the studio painting new paintings and working with different ideas and working with RAF and his team Carlos Costa to figure out new and inventive ways to drive in bill business and do things that we are currently not used to doing. So it's been. It's been a wild interesting two months of figuring that out. What's your interest level tenants? Do you play? How did you get into this? US Fascinating I'm actually one of those weird concoctions of I'm an artist athletes so I was a big time athlete. As a kid played eight years of Baseball's all-star in baseball play basketball. I was all star in basketball. Basketball led me. Tennis I was a basketball player. Freshmen in highschool and kind of got into. An argument with my coach basically just decided to leave basketball. And I picked up a tennis racket and I had just. It was a natural thing for me to do. And before I knew I, had a professional coach, and my coach was played played on the tour and played John McEnroe. He saw me play and before I knew I was training with some of the best players in northern, California. And so I played high school career. played college and I still train. I still training a tribe while afford the pandemic I was out there every week. just started getting back out there about a week ago when they released the courts, but tennis is definitely in. My jeans had so much, so that my son plays college tennis. I'm actually had a scholarship to Chapman University as I used to play and made teams freshman, and he's also coach now, too, so and even though he still in college, but yes, definitely in my blood and strange enough. Raw Molly the owner of art encounter. That is my distributor. It turns out the way that we got this deal with him. Was He was tennis player in his whole family's sex players, and when he saw the original painting that I did have all sprouted in hadn't seen them in years we. She just freaked out. Saying Oh my God. This is unbelievable what I told him. I have five hundred signed by the dog himself. Personally and myself and we did a whole thing back in the day. When we have this painting, he's like. Nope, that's it. We're going to do something, so it's been a very unique tennis story all the way around. I can honestly say I think it's been a while that I've actually heard someone say that. They're both an athlete an artist. When was When was the moment where you're figured out like? Wow, I actually have a knack for this whole painting thing. That was easier. I I was asking rg by the time. I was five six seven years old. My parents had me in special school. Special Art schools and You know it was something that they noticed when I was one years old that I can draw and I'd actually kept first painting I drawing than I ever did when I was one and They just knew my dad was artist. He never followed that trade. Actually went into corporate business, but my dad is very artistic used to do paintings. So I kind of had that gene in me. And I just knew at a very early age. That was what I was going to do my life. We hear so much about young athletes figuring out their skill set at a young young age at like three, four five, and to see that art is very similar as interesting for those who don't know the story Bruce is the owner of Salzburg Media Fine Arts, a broad range of professional sports team three. Of National. International athletes he got three D work of Rafa. Nadal for those are not watching this on video. It's behind him, but it's also going to be a link in our episode information. He's also got artwork of Muhammad. Ali Michael Jordan Prince. Fielder Dirk Nowitzki. Irk Nowitzki I'm not a basketball person. I'm sorry. Most importantly. It's the tennis painting that we're really here to talk about, and it's Three D. art, so I want to start with what is three art. What's the process for making an artwork like this before we get into the Roth story? This was very unique idea. That I came up with lean back in nineteen, ninety five, I was doing my very first art show at the New York our next on back in those days that was the largest art show in the world. Everything was painter of any place anywhere was there exhibiting in was at the Jacob Javits in New York City, so as massive and I back then you the jury to get in so jury to get an shared a booth with another artist, and when I was there, all brought was abstract paintings on canvas, because that's what I was painting at the Time Big Love Klee Miro. Picasso, that was kind of backroom basically, and we've been in the show for five days and insult. Damn painting and I told. My My. Fiance at the time in my mom was there with me. I gotTa Take I. Just need to go walk the show and I said. You know if I'm going to do anything in my life I've got to figure out how to do something that no one has ever done and for some reason and it's time. My Dad owned art gallery. Very very successful one back in San Francisco. East Bay and I just something popped in my head. work on glass. Just a glass on the second I got home I started Phil around layers of plexiglas and low and behold. That's how it was born I. Just we just figured out how to frame it how to do the whole thing in. One, doing where usually as an artist you paying on one level is a canvas most most of the time. You're just doing everything on that level of what I wanted to do with cigarette how to take a look at an image of a painting in break it up and put different parts of each of painting on glass, and then use spicer's to separate them, so there's space in between each layer. You get that natural three d look with no gimmicks, no anything no lighting. It's all based on different layers and different perspectives, so that's how it was born and. The risk on history.