Nightcap - Nightcap - Hour 1: WATCH PARTY of the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson react to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic games in Paris, France.  They get their first taste to each of the 206 countries competing in the Olympic Game...s, highlighted by LeBron James carrying the flag for Team USA.#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:59 Thank you for joining us for a very, very special episode of the Olympic Watch Party. I am your favorite unk, Shannon Sharp. I am your favorite uncle, Shannon Sharp. He's your favorite number 85, the route runner extraordinaire, the Cincinnati Bengal legend, the Pro Bowl of the All-Pro, Liberty City's own, yes, Chad Ochocinco Johnson. As you can see, they've started the opening ceremony. Now we're at South Africa. I just saw the refugees.
Starting point is 00:03:22 They have 37 athletes of more than 100 countries of athletes that's been displaced and they're being allowed to compete because of what's going on in their respective countries. So I thought that was a very, very great thing by the IOC to allow these displaced athletes an opportunity to compete and live out their dream. Now you see Albania coming. This is very, very good. There is no walking. They're coming down on boats. I think that's the River. If I'm not mistaken, is that what that is? I think so. This is unbelievable. You see Albania here.
Starting point is 00:03:55 I'm not sure how many athletes they have, but that's a great experience to be the ring bearer, the flag bearer, 46 athletes for your respective country. We figured it. We know now that LeBron James is the male flag bearer and Coco Gauff is the female flag bearer,
Starting point is 00:04:14 the woman's flag bearer for the U.S. team. So this is an unbelievable honor. Here you see Dennis Schroeder representing Germany, the male flag bearer. They have 463 athletes. I thought that Anna Marie Wagner is the judo. She's the woman's flag bearer.
Starting point is 00:04:37 This is pretty cool, Locho. Yeah, this is very nice. I like the entrance. I like what they're doing. Coming down on the boat. Yeah, I like that. That's really dope. Would these the entrance. I like what they're doing. Coming back on the boat. Yeah, I like that. That's really dope. Would these be considered, I mean, Chad, y'all help us out here. Would these be considered tugboats? I mean,
Starting point is 00:04:53 what are they called? Duckboats? Are these what these are called? Duckboat? What kind of boat? It's not a pontoon. Somebody got to... This has to be such a pontoon. Somebody got to go ahead. This has to be such a surreal experience to be able to represent your country for one and obviously to be the flag bearer for your country, man. Just being able to be in the spotlight and represent an entire country has to be one
Starting point is 00:05:22 of the greatest feelings in the world. I mean, a lot of nerves. I can imagine. Think about playing a Sunday game. Think about the nerves and the butterflies you have simply for a football game. So imagine having to represent your country and do well and wanting to do well and the type of pressure that's on you.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Oh. They say they just call riverboats. Oh, riverboats. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Tuiwa and Barbuda. They have five athletes. Probably, if I had to say, I'm saying they're probably track and field athletes. I don't think Antigua, even though it's surrounded by water.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Yeah, I don't know if they're going to have a whole lot of swimmers and fencers in that category. You have Saudi Arabia, you see up now, Ocho. They have 10 athletes. Yeah. They're normally, Saudi Arabia, they normally bring weightlifters, wrestlers. They're normally good at that.
Starting point is 00:06:16 Those Middle Eastern countries, they put a lot of money behind that. Here's Argentina. The 2004 gold medal basketball winner, Manu Ginobili's Argentina. The 2004 gold medal basketball winner. Manu Ginobili's team. Luciano Di Greco.
Starting point is 00:06:33 There go them boys. Yeah. Armenia. 15 athletes. Not a very large hey Ocho I'm sure we're going to see some countries only have one to two
Starting point is 00:06:52 athletes and that's the flag bearer he or she is going to be the only one competing the only one representing I mean listen that's dope that's dope and it speaks volumes to the work that athlete has put in in their respective craft to be able to represent their country, obviously, in Paris. Yes. I think your TV might be behind a little bit because I got I got USA on one side and I got a group of Austria as well.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Yes. Well, I'm definitely behind you there because I just I see Aruba. I got no allows up now. And I just had auba. They just flash Austria. Now, Austria, Winter Olympics, look out for Austria. In the Winter Olympics, yeah. Austria, Norway, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:39 But, uh... Oh, I got Bahamas going across right now. The Bahamas, that's the Bah the bahamas that's the bahamas had bahama had bahama had 20 athletes yeah well they have the rain they have the reigning olympic 400 meter champion steven gardner uh little stevie what he calls himself uh he's the reigning 400 meter champ uh he hadn't had a whole lot of races this year ocho but it's gonna be seen we've seen two guys the guy from uh great britain he ran 43 74 just a couple of days ago hall from the usa ran 43 80 um we're gonna anxious to see how does stevie have enough racing in his
Starting point is 00:08:18 legs to uh replicate what michael johnson has been able to do only michael johnson has been able to repeat as a 400-meter champ in consecutive Olympics. Oh, yeah. If he's going to do it, he got some competition this year. But Ron. Well, we got somebody coming down the stairs in black. I'm going to wait until your TV catches up. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:42 It's like a performance of some sort. Oh, she got good footwork, too. Oh's you coming out oh okay she got to be friends you must go ahead girl you better lady gaga is that gaga right is that gaga or am i tripping uh let's see. She's still covered up. Oh, that's the tattoo. Look like Gaga. That is. That's Gaga. I'm sorry that I know by that tattoo but oh i know a little bit too much hey i was gonna ask if y'all used to date but i just
Starting point is 00:09:34 let that one go i let that one go on about i let that one go on back nah but uh you know you know you look at the costumes and the makeup that some shoes wear sometimes she can really really sing oh joe yeah oh well she could blow that way yeah get singing but don't she is a performer have you ever seen her perform yes she puts on a performance there are certain people that are singers and entertainers, they have this wonderful thing called stage presence. She has stage presence and commands the eye every time she's up there. Don't, don't, you know, sometimes, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:13 you get lost up, oh, she got all that makeup and she's dancing and that. The costumes, the accessories. Don't let, hey, if you take all of that away and tell her to come out here and she pulls up a stool and sit up there, she can go. You'll let you have it with the bet. We listen now with the best of now.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Absolutely. This is a great opening ceremony, but I've been very, very fortunate, though, Joe, that I've seen a lot of them. I go back to 1984 when it was in when it was in L.A. The last time it was in L.A. and you come to and 96 when Muhammad Ali lit the cauldron. Nothing. Barcelona when the guy, the archer, if I'm not mistaken, he fired the arrow and it lit
Starting point is 00:10:59 the cauldron. Yeah, that was dope. 2008 Beijing is the greatest opening ceremony i had ever seen 2008 2008 in beijing why why you say that the the way they the the pageantry those drums what they they and if i'm not mistaken they said they've been rehearsing this for over a year and it was how many people that they had to have to get this thing coordinated. And everybody was beating on rhythm. Everybody was moving on rhythm.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Chad, it'd be interesting to see what you guys think. What do you think was the greatest opening ceremony? For me, it was 2008 Beijing. Now, I don't go back past 84. Obviously, you know, in 80, it was boycotted because it was held in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 76, it was in Montreal. 72, it was boycotted because it was held in moscow because of the soviet invasion of afghanistan 76 it was in montreal 72 it was in munich so i don't go i was born in 68 when it was the mexico city so i don't go back that far i go back to 84 so that's about 30 years
Starting point is 00:11:57 for my in my 30 years beijing was the greatest opening ceremony. And if they look at Ocho Nashi on the piano, stop playing with them, Gaga. You ain't got to go out like this. Gaga is a very, very, very extremely talented artist. They can do a multitude of things. Hey, Ocho, Gaga said Gaga said hey this to entertain Olympics too I'm letting y'all know I'm a decathlete
Starting point is 00:12:31 I can sing I can dance I can play instruments hey they picked the right one they picked the right one to do it now I'm always depressed I know I mean I'm always impressed like I said I'm impressed when I look at a Beyonce and I see her move the way she moved
Starting point is 00:12:54 for hours with them heels on and stay on key never tired man it's a few of them man that are special at what they do Gaga is one of them Beyonce is another one
Starting point is 00:13:10 anytime you can do more than one thing you can do more than one thing you sing and dance you sing, dance and play the piano play an instrument, play the guitar, drum whatever the case may be anytime you can do
Starting point is 00:13:25 because you understand you have the breathing have to be on point to be seen. Now what about your breathing go to another level when you got to dance? Now it has to be on another level when you're singing and you're playing an instrument. So you tip your hat. Look, greatness comes in many shapes, forms
Starting point is 00:13:41 and sizes and many different things. Just because athletes, sometimes we just get it confused. Like, only athletes can be great. No. Oh, no. Doctors can be great. Lawyers can be great. Obviously, it's greatness in a different form, but greatness is greatness.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Oh, yeah. I got Bangladesh right now on my TV. Bangladesh, yeah. Oh, this is really dope i wonder how many people i'm gonna i think there's 205 nations ocho i wonder how many people have gone to all these nations how many people you think in the world have visited every nation in the country every every nation every nation because you know there are a lot of people that's gone to like all 50 states right right i've been to 100 countries i wonder how many people have been to like let's just say 100 countries or 150 countries or 200 countries there are people that pride themselves on their hobby being just
Starting point is 00:14:36 traveling and visiting as many places as they can yes now i don't i don't know there's anybody that's ever been to every single one but i'm sure there are people that have been close. Normally, people that like to travel and love to travel, they continue to regurgitate and recycle the same places everyone else has been instead of exploring out there to see what else is there. And I think the thing, Ocho, the problem that I'm saying why nobody has because of some of these have just become countries in the last couple of years because they've gained their independence. So they weren't even a country at the time. So now you see like Sudan, South Sudan, Belize, if we look at Belize, come across
Starting point is 00:15:14 your screen right now. A lot of these were under... If you think about Ochoa and people like Russia, do you understand how big Russia was when they had Georgia and they had Coddick's and they had all these nations under one? So now all these countries are independent. You see, like, wow.
Starting point is 00:15:33 Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. I just saw a country I don't even know. And you can probably educate me on this. Benin. Well, I mean, you got to help me out here. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:44 Okay. Okay. That lets me know I need to go back. But they gained independence. You see, they're also flying the British flag. Mm-hmm. No, they're not Bermuda. They might have been on the same boat. Ocho, you might have like,
Starting point is 00:15:58 hold on, there ain't been like seven of y'all. Y'all can ride the same boat together. You see? You see, You see? Yeah. That's a lot of boats. I don't know if they got 205 riverboats. There's one. Bhutan. That's a new one. That looks
Starting point is 00:16:17 like the boats that they have in Italy that they're on. But look at the wood grain finish on that. Pink. but look at the wood green finish on that pink these are this is part of the ceremony as well that's like a Chris the Bhutan yeah I see Bhutan that look like a Chris craft
Starting point is 00:16:39 you know a boat oh sure you know that's a Chris craft you know boat is an acronym you know what's a crisscross you know boat as an acronym you know what that stands for don't you what bust out another thousand because that's that's about that's a bottomless pit you own a boat yeah that's what both stand for oh yeah bust out another thousand because something's always yes oh definitely listen you never you never want to own a boat from what i hear you always want a friend that is. Listen, you never want to own a boat, from what I hear. You always want a friend that is the owner. And you just want to rent.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Bolivia. Oh. Okay. I mean, I forgot you a little behind. Botswana. Botswana is up there. They have 14 athletes. I thought, clearly, they're not coming out in order.
Starting point is 00:17:31 No, I thought that was going to be coming out in order, but clearly that's not the case. So Joe, and you're right. You see, they got three countries on one boat, right?
Starting point is 00:17:41 Depending on, depending on their size. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Leslie Tobago. It's Mr. Bargo. It's going to be interesting. He might cause Noah Live some problems.
Starting point is 00:17:53 I think he's run 1960-something, 1970-something this year. Although Noah Live is laid down a blistering time in the trial of sub-1906, which was an Olympic trials record. It's going to be very, very interesting. I'm anxious to see this 100 meters. Women, women, women, women, women's and men. Brazil got
Starting point is 00:18:17 Brazil got a whole boat to themselves. You know, they have a few, but they normally like the judo stuff oh joe they normally good with the karate the judo things of that nature they've had a couple of marathoners who we got who we got here who we got bruni this is another place i have no idea about. It'll come up on your TV in a minute. Bruni, they have three athletes. I'm not sure what that is.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Chat, do y'all know B-U-R-N-E-I? That's a new one for me. Oh, man. Hey, Bulgaria. Oh, yeah. Look at Snoop. Obviously, you see the headscarf. That lets you know.
Starting point is 00:19:17 So let me go on to the Middle East over here. Let me find the Middle East. Okay. Who is that? Bulgaria. I'm trying to find. I know that's a Middle Eastern country. I was not good in geography.
Starting point is 00:19:41 You can't find it, huh? Hell no. Hold on. let me see. I should have had my glue. I would have found it for you. You know, geography was one of my specialties, like spelling. I'm looking at, okay, I'm in Libya, Egypt, Iran, Oman, Qatar,
Starting point is 00:20:01 Emirates, Mecca. Oh, Cape Verde Oh that's dope That's a blue jive man You can't find it huh Hell nah I can't find it If y'all laughing in the chat y'all can't find it either I'm close though Cho I know I'm close
Starting point is 00:20:24 It's somewhere around there yeah it is the question is did I find it oh the Cayman Islands Cayman Islands is up they have they have about six athletes
Starting point is 00:20:33 six five athletes Cape Verde the only thing I know really know about Cape Verde I've seen met a couple of young ladies from Cape Verde Cape Verdean
Starting point is 00:20:42 don't leave it at that Ocho I'm just gonna leave it at that yeah I got try, but you're going to leave it at that. Yeah, I got you, I got you. Matter of fact, when I was in Boston, when I was in Boston, obviously some of the people that I met during my tenure there,
Starting point is 00:20:53 everyone seemed to be Cape Verdean in that area. Yeah, very, very, very nice people. Very, very nice people. Man, listen, we learned Cambodia, Cambodia has,
Starting point is 00:21:03 they got about four athletes. Oh, they have three athletes. Who, Cambodia? Yeah, I know what Cambodia is. I should have had my globe, but we're going to let you learn geography on the run. We're going to learn it on the run. Hey, they better not bring up Papua New Guinea
Starting point is 00:21:20 because I got that one right here. Oh. Papua New Guinea because I got that one right here. I'm trying to think. What do you think those athletes are, Ocho? I would say probably weightlifting. Where? From where? Cambodia. Cambodia? Yeah. Weightlifting? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Yeah. Probably weightlifting. I'm... Maybe... Maybe some of the field events? And track? Maybe? Oh, Canada.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Cameroon. I got Cameroon right here. Cameroon. Yeah. That's... Cameroon right there. You're cheating. That's an easy one. I got Cameroon right here. Cameroon. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's easy. Cameroon right there. You cheating. That's an easy one.
Starting point is 00:22:08 I got Cameroon. Francis Ngannou's home. That's where Francis Ngannou's from. Oh yeah. I know where Canada is. Canada has 331 athletes. Yeah. Well,
Starting point is 00:22:19 obviously Canada, US, China, will send some of the biggest contingents. Yeah. Central African Republic. Andre de Grasse, he's the reigning Olympic champion of 200 meters. Right.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Central Africa. Is that Chile? Chile. Chile. Chile has 48 athletes. Chilean. Okay. Oh, Chile is sharing the same boat with Canada. And Africa, the Republic, or some people.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Central African Republic? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. China has 400 athletes. But here's the thing, Ocho. A lot of the athletes, they're going to be competing tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:23:12 So that's why it's not full. That's why you don't see. You're like, man, that ain't 300 people. Some people got to compete. And it's like, especially when you had to walk. So I'm trying to save my legs, Ocho. My legs. Right, right, right. So if I'm a swimmer or if I'm somebody
Starting point is 00:23:25 that gotta compete, and I need to do something. You need to be resting right now. The people of the Republic of China, Ma Long and Ting Yu. I hope the weather holds up. Gymnastics, table tennis, up. Hey, gymnastics, table tennis, badminton, shooting,
Starting point is 00:23:50 archery. Karate or some sort? Jiu-Jitsu or something? They good at a lot of different things. I hope the rain... It looks a little gloomy out there. I hope the rain, I mean, I hope the weather holds up. Holds up, yeah. Come on, give me Sudan right quick.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Hey. Eritrea, give me that right quick. Let me get at that. The dancers that the dancers the dancers right now I'm not saying they're the Rockettes but it remind me
Starting point is 00:24:29 of the Rockettes Thanksgiving Day Parade the Rockettes used to be my grandma's favorite are you sure they got the hot land kick Ocho?
Starting point is 00:24:35 nah they can't they can't do it they can't do it like the Rockettes now I was reading that said the French is cutting down on prostitution, Ocho. Let them people make their money. They cut down on who? Prostitution in France. Well, how are they going to do that?
Starting point is 00:25:01 I don't know, but they're talking about they're cutting down on it. Let them people make their money. Let them jack the prices up. When the Super Bowl come to a city, what they do, Ocho, they jack the prices up. Yeah, they mark it up. Mark everything up. Get your money. Y'all be doing too much, government.
Starting point is 00:25:20 How about slashing down on, man, listen, I need the French government to find a way to read my bio on Twitter and they get better understanding. The only thing that changes things, changes the narrative, is the words you use. What is it? It's all the same. Oh. Because ain't nobody, listen, ain't nobody doing nothing for nothing. Ain't nothing but life free. No.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Ain't nothing free but salvation. And ministering televangelism found a way to charge for that. Hey. Ain't nothing free but salvation. And ministering and televangelism found a way to charge for that. They preach prosperity. Well, you gotta give. The Lord will bless you if you'll give. Yeah, okay. So I guess he don't bless broke people, huh?
Starting point is 00:25:58 Because you got me giving you all my money. What are they showing here? They're showing building the sites. Somebody in the chat said, no, we are not supporting prostitution.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Man, that's funny. Y'all be, y'all do it too much. Hey, but y'all funny, too much hey boy y'all funny boy Chad is funny somebody said Chad did you know the French invented French fries they did not though
Starting point is 00:26:42 hell nah oh yeah I ain't I ain't be playing around like that now you do that Ocho do what what they doing right now what in the water no yeah no they on the scaffolding. That's where they at?
Starting point is 00:27:09 They were. Oh, I do that right, I mean, I do that right there. This is my buddy right here. Oh, he tripping. Oh, he tripping. What is he running with? Oh, he got the torch. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Oh, no, I don't play like that. You know you have you know you know you have people that do this for a living i forgot what they call it there's a name for it you know where they where they scale scale high buildings and jump and so yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they tripping i've seen a few cases where you know unfortunately some of some have failed to their death but they have people that actually do that for a living. Well, he's more like a parkour. But I know what you're saying. They free scale, you know, where they climb the sides of buildings and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Yeah, man. Wow, the LV shop You know more tourists visit Visit France Than any other country in the world France in general France Paris
Starting point is 00:28:17 They have more visitors France Right Than any other country Followed by Italy If I'm not mistaken The U.S. is third. Are we third?
Starting point is 00:28:28 Yeah. I would think we would be the number one country visited by tourists. We got romantic. Huh? Well, we got romantic. They got the Eiffel Tower. You know, if you go to Italy, you got Milan, you got Florence, you got Rome, you got
Starting point is 00:28:43 Tuscany, you got the Malfi Coast. Yeah, I can see Italy being first. But when I think about Paris, they have the love bridge where you lock the gate. But I think that's gone now because it got too heavy, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong. Man, I need one of them trunks, Ocho. You see them pushing them trunks, them little LV trunks? Yeah, that's a little too expensive, huh?
Starting point is 00:29:05 Nah, we need somebody right there to go in, you know, get that discount on them. Listen, I can get you a trunk from Walmart and have it wrapped in Louis Vuitton. Say, I would just be ready. Ocho, France is one. Spain is two.
Starting point is 00:29:20 U.S. is three. Italy is four. Italy is four. Spain? Mm-hmm. Now, listen, I done three, Italy is four. Spain? Spain? Now listen, I've been to Spain multiple times. Multiple times to go watch El Clasico, watch Barcelona, watch Real Madrid.
Starting point is 00:29:33 At what point is Spain and why if it's not for the architecture? Somebody talking about Compton is romantic. Romantic. The trunks are 64 grand. The trunks cost $64,000, Ocho. Now you see what I'm talking about? You see the markup?
Starting point is 00:29:58 You see the markup? Now, I tell you, I got a homeboy named Bobo out in the city can get you a trunk right now from Walmart, and we can wrap it in Louis Vuitton and it look exactly the same. You see what they call them trunks? What we used to call them? Foot lockers. Foot lockers. What you know about that? Foot lockers. I know about that. In the military,
Starting point is 00:30:15 that's where you put your stuff at. You put up on the foot lockers, you put your shoes, you put your stuff, and you slide it under your bunk. Mm-hmm. Wait, you sure that's Louis Vuitton? Yeah, I'm sure that was Louis Vuitton. They were rolling down that street. No, but that wasn't Louis Vuitton that my brother took
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Starting point is 00:33:12 Look at that big old Oh, Ocho, we gotta get one of those Ocho, we need to get one, Ocho The one that's going down the stairs? Yeah, man What are we gonna put in it? Hey, Ocho, I just put that See, you put that in the front.
Starting point is 00:33:25 As soon as somebody walk in, they see that. They say, oh, yeah, he got paper. Oh, yeah, he got paper. It's just for show. It's just for show, Ocho. I get you, but I want people to think I don't got no money. Or at least I want them to think I don't spend it. Who you fooling?
Starting point is 00:33:41 I want people to think I don't spend it. This man played 11, 12 years in the NFL. He ain't got no money. I mean, they ain't seen you in the paper talking about where are they now. So they know you got money. Chat, chat. How y'all enjoying the ceremony so far? Scale of
Starting point is 00:34:02 one to 10. What you give it? What you give it so far? One to 10. Oh, Joe, they say the most expensive truck that you've seen so far? Scale of one to ten. What you give it? What you give it so far? One to ten. They say the most expensive trunk that you've seen so far was $185,000. That's alright. They got one thing right. $85,000. That's about it. That's the one part they got right. How you gonna pay $185,000
Starting point is 00:34:18 to put shoes, to put underwear? Come on, man. Listen. Well, you definitely got your own jet if you buy one of those Ocho you fly private and I'm not talking about the regular you got a bombardier
Starting point is 00:34:36 you got a business Boeing jet you got a Gulfstream 600 or 800 you got something like that to put that up on the internet. That's a different kind of money. The funny thing about it, if you think about
Starting point is 00:34:51 in the 70s and 80s when they used to travel, you know they used to travel with trunks. Yes. You don't see that no more. The wealthy or the rich used to travel with trunks. Yeah, because they see the way the baggage handlers be throwing that ish. They treat
Starting point is 00:35:07 Louis Vuitton just like Samsonite, just like Toomey, just like American Tourister or anything else. You don't get no special treatment. Whatever you got is getting tossed. Hey, Ocho, but you know what I put in my trunk if I had one more LV?
Starting point is 00:35:25 What? You know what I put in there trunk if I had one more LB? What? You know what I put in there? A couple more diamonds. Mm-hmm. Can you not bet I can put up with that thing, Ocho? Why did they fill that thing up for me, Ocho? That'll last me a lifetime. Yeah, that's the problem.
Starting point is 00:35:37 We don't want it to last you a lifetime because at some point it's going to affect you in the long run. That's all right. I ain't here for a long time. I'm here for a good time. That's what you tell me. Man, I had a trunk full of those diamonds
Starting point is 00:35:54 on y'all. I'm going to meet some lady. I said, baby, how you like your eggs? Scramble the first line because I can do both. Now we're talking. I got to use that. Hold on. I got to write that down. How's it going right now? Hey, I'm here.
Starting point is 00:36:08 I'm here. Hey, Ray. How do you like your egg? You like them scrambled or fertilized? Because I can do both. Listen, we're beefing right now. So, as soon as we stop beefing, I'm going to use that one. How do you like your eggs?
Starting point is 00:36:20 How do you like your eggs? Scrambled or fertilized? Because I can do both. Yes, sir. Boy, she gonna get it worked. Boy, I'm gonna put her goddamn head through the head, boy, when I get her head got in the celibacy. Oh, he finna light the cauldron? Oh, this looks...
Starting point is 00:36:44 I'm not sure what's going on, but this is to me, it's reminiscent of Gangs of New York. I'm sure that it has nothing to do with what I'm watching right now. I'm just saying what it reminds me of. This reminds me of burlesque. If anyone has seen the movie Chicago, anyone seen the movie Moulin Rouge? Yeah. Mamma Mia. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:09 What you know about Mamma Mia now? Just from what I've been seeing on commercials. Okay, now we switched up. We got a rock and roll band. So I'm assuming all these performances are going on. Do you think they didn't have that many boats and the boats go around and then pick up the next group of countries?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Man, you know they have, like we said, we saw like, the most we've seen is that the boat had three countries on it. But to have two, I yeah obviously so but i think and oh joe when you do like the opening ceremony you like it's an homage to your country right kind of like what you're known for the history of it. So you play to that. Okay. You see a lot of the costumes.
Starting point is 00:38:09 You see a lot of the makeup. Now, I don't know where the guitar at the window. I don't know where that is, but okay. You got the castles. Listen, I know you don't know much about, but the individual with the torch that's been hopping, for some reason, it reminds me of, it's a video game called Assassin's Creed. You probably won't know about it.
Starting point is 00:38:26 No. But it's very reminiscent of Assassin's Creed in live form. That's what it reminds me of. And I'm curious as he continues to hop from structure to structure, where is he going? I don't know. I guess he got to make his way
Starting point is 00:38:44 all the way across. It's starting to rain now Ocho oh it is? yeah I don't care they can't dampen me if I'm an Olympic athlete they can't dampen my spirit I don't give a damn about no rain it can snow for all I care
Starting point is 00:38:59 I'm in the Olympics I'm living out of life think about it Ocho you had the Super Bowl what was that in Miami? It started to rain. Chicago and Indy. It did rain. That was 2006? What was that?
Starting point is 00:39:15 I forgot what year that was. It might have been 08. It might have been 08, huh? 06? Wasn't it 06? No, I don't even think I was still playing. 06. huh? Oh, it was six? Yeah. Wasn't it six? Nah, I don't even think I was, I wasn't still playing. Oh, six.
Starting point is 00:39:30 It was? Because that was Peyton and then Eli was... Well, Devin has to run the ball back. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. I'm tripping. Because my first year was in Houston. The Super Bowl was in Houston when I was at Fox. And then I think,
Starting point is 00:39:45 excuse me, CBS. And then the next year, what year was that, Ash? Because that's when Prince started Purple Rain and it started to rain. Ah, that was a classic. Classic. Classic.
Starting point is 00:40:01 For me, that's the great 07. They say 07. 07. Man, speaking of Purple Rain, that's the great 07. They say 07. 07. Man, speaking of Purple Rain, you just jog my memory. The last three days, I've been listening to HBCU bands. I have this mood where I get into just listening to the HBCU bands. And goddamn, listen, you know I'm fam, you ride or die, seven to the highest of the seven hills, rattlet to death.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Right. But Southern, Southern, Alcorn, Jackson State, Southern, Alcorn, Jackson State. Yeah. They have this thing called the fifth quarter. Obviously, you battle back and forth with the team's band. Listen, Southern, let me tell you something, man. I don't know who man I don't know who
Starting point is 00:40:46 I don't know who the band director is at Southern but man listen I salute you whoever the band director is at Jackson State and Alcorn man I salute you cause them fifth quarters I've been locked in and you said Purple Rain
Starting point is 00:41:01 I heard Southern play Purple Rain this might have been 2014 they were battling Alcorn I sit there and watch these then and you said purple rain i heard southern play purple rain this might have been 2014 they were battling alcorn you know after the game yeah i sit there and watch these about these battle of the bands man for like five six hours real she mad can you turn that shit off please and i heard him sing man play purple rain i mean you know you know like when the team has the ball you're not supposed to play. But HBCU, we don't care.
Starting point is 00:41:27 We don't care who got the ball. We playing, they playing. Hey, people keep that thing crumb. They going to let it go. They going to let it go. Yeah. I think everybody that hasn't been or doesn't know a whole lot about HBCU, I think you ought to spend one semester.
Starting point is 00:41:41 I think everybody just for – and like if you go to a PWI, you can go to an HBCU and still get credit if you went to the PWI because you need to experience that ambiance. It needs to be homecoming. You need to go to the student center. You need to be on the yard when it's coming up and everybody starts to come back
Starting point is 00:42:00 and they stepping and the in the yard doing their thing. You need to feel that. Ain't nothing like it. Ain't nothing like it. I wouldn't... Go ahead, Ocho. You see how me watching my daughter cross over as AK had me coming back in tears.
Starting point is 00:42:16 Yeah. Because the experience, I've never felt that kind of energy from an HBCU. So being in that environment, watching everybody, it's like one big family. The energy and the aura at Prairie View A&M during that, what is it called?
Starting point is 00:42:31 I know it's cross-node, but there's a word for it. Spring Rush. It's Rush. Okay, yes. Listen, I don't know much about the Greeks and what they have going on, but I have much respect for it. I don't try to do the moves or any,
Starting point is 00:42:45 you know, I don't, I don't mimic it, but man, that atmosphere at Prairie A&M, when my baby crosses the AK, I've never experienced nothing like that ever. It's a,
Starting point is 00:42:54 it's a, it's a, you gotta, I mean, you gotta, you gotta be a part of it too, to understand it, the pageantry,
Starting point is 00:43:00 uh, the history that, I mean, when God, when everybody comes back and excited, it's buzzing the electricity you can feel it man
Starting point is 00:43:09 different I think what they call the sonic boom who is that is that southern the sonic boom I think southern band is called
Starting point is 00:43:15 the sonic boom which one is the human jukebox one is the human jukebox and one is the sonic boom I don't know cause you know Flam got the
Starting point is 00:43:22 marching 100 oh they be the marching 100 baby all day every day and you know you know what you know. Flam got the Marching 100. Oh, they were the Marching 100, baby. All day, every day. And you know, hey, you know it's always a dance-off between the germ majors. You know, they got to put their, they got to come out and say, ah! Hey, they be cutting. Hey, you know, hit that split, ah!
Starting point is 00:43:36 Pop up, spin around, put the staff in the ground like Moses. Uh-huh. Okay. Now, what y'all going to do? They start, ah, ah! That's what I'm talking about, don't you? Yeah. Hopefully they don't see none of that, but I figured that's what was going on.
Starting point is 00:43:52 Man. Oh, Southern is a human jukebox. Southern is the human jukebox? Jackson State is a sonic boom? Jackson State is a sonic boom, yeah. Okay. Boy, they know they song selection. You know the song, Your Tears?
Starting point is 00:44:09 Yeah. Your Tears, the gospel song. Man, look here. If they're a song, if they're a hot, you know what's going to get played. Every HBCU game you go to, everybody going to be playing Not Like Us. Like Us, yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:24 So you go ahead. Hey, they going to be playing Not Like Us. Like Us, yeah. Go ahead. Hey, they're going to be killing it. From the kickoff classic all the way to the Heritage Classic at the end. Homecoming. Homecoming, Bayou Classic, it does not matter. You're going to get that. Yeah, the song selection
Starting point is 00:44:40 is very important. What's up, baby? Look who just walked in. What up, Ray? What's going on? He over here lying again. What happened? Talking about something.
Starting point is 00:44:54 I told you to turn that shit off. What? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He just be lying. It's about the band music. You did tell me to turn it down. Turn it off. How you doing? I'm good,
Starting point is 00:45:06 Ray. Where you coming from? You already off work? I don't go in. I'm my own boss, Unc. Oh, shit. See, that's why Ocho B want you around because you at home all the time
Starting point is 00:45:22 and then he don't have anything to do. He wants you to occupy his time. And this is the problem. I told all the kids to go get manicures and pedicures. Ask her where she going tomorrow with all the kids. Where y'all going, Real? Turks and Caicos. See what I mean?
Starting point is 00:45:37 See what I mean? Anytime she get a chance, she up and going with the kids. But here I go. I'm home again by myself. No outlet. Nobody to talk to. Nobody to vent go. I'm home again by myself. No outlet. Nobody to talk to. Nobody to vent to. We'll go to Turks and Caicos. Oh, no, I'm good.
Starting point is 00:45:50 I can't. Remember? Oh, you already know. Yeah. I mean, we got to have that. But I can't. Shit, I'm on. I'm on.
Starting point is 00:45:57 I'm on. If not, he gonna get left behind. That's all right. I'm on. You will not be able to go to your own wedding. You have to do your wedding on Zoom. Oh, shoot. I'm going to get it.
Starting point is 00:46:14 I'm going to get it together. I'm going to get it together. I'm going to get it together. I'm hungry. Man, I'm talking. Hold on. What happened to all the. What happened to.
Starting point is 00:46:23 There's a van. The procession? Yeah! The riverboat? Yeah! I'm assuming they have something else in between. I see a band. There's a band marching. Oh, there's a guy. The Assassin's Creed guy.
Starting point is 00:46:40 You not hungry? Yeah. Oh, he lightened something. Oh, this is dope. Oh, he lightened the car. Oh, that's dope. Oh, my bad, my bad. Your TV's a little behind.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Yeah, I'm watching him beat the drums. Oh, here he comes. He's running. I think you call this what? Pyrotechnics? I might be wrong. I'm not really good. Hey.
Starting point is 00:47:09 There's another artist that just came out. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's Pyro. Is this a singer? No? And y'all have to forgive me. I know y'all are probably watching. I just don't know who this is.
Starting point is 00:47:28 I'm bad with artists. Jack, can you help me out on who this is? Well, damn, Ocho, let's get a little closer. She might be French, Ocho. I know, but you know, chat know everybody, man. Especially when it comes to, you know, the chat.
Starting point is 00:47:49 Or let them tell it. They think they know everybody. And everything. I have no idea who this is, Ocho. So I ain't finna. They say she was born in, in what? Africa and her parents are. Oh, someone said her name is...
Starting point is 00:48:05 Aya Nakamura. Nakamura. Okay, okay, okay. See, I knew the chat would know chat, but chat know everything. Yeah, I knew once they put her name up on the screen. Like who? No, she don't know they made a stallion?
Starting point is 00:48:29 What? Yeah. Yeah. Cause I, I ain't married. No, one thing, no friends gonna have their hair laid though, ain't they?
Starting point is 00:48:35 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Boy, they got that thing. Hey, you see, hey, she got,
Starting point is 00:48:40 uh, that's, she wears, she got 613. That's 613. You know, I know about that blonde now. You know,
Starting point is 00:48:44 I do, I do hair now. She got that 613. That's 613. You know, I know about that blonde now. You know, I do hair now. She got that 613 with... Yeah, that is 613. I know 613 when I see it. And whoever did her makeup did it perfect because most of the time, you know, women have a problem with, you know,
Starting point is 00:49:03 when you do your makeup, sometimes they don't blend it all the way through. But hers is blended all the way through Most of the time, you know, women have a problem when you do your makeup. Sometimes they don't blend it all the way through, but hers is blended all the way through, so everything looked really good, especially with the gold. Yeah. They didn't do too much with accessories, so she on point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:18 I mean, if she'd put a necklace on, I wouldn't have been mad about it, but hey, that's her thing. She's doing what she do. Hey. Okay. Are we not going... Are we not going... Somebody tell me she look like NeNe Leakes. Man, are y'all not going to show us
Starting point is 00:49:40 no more? I thought... You think maybe because of the rain, they probably landed there a little bit? Nah. They probably got two hours, Ocho, and then this thing got to wrap. Bro, what you doing?
Starting point is 00:49:59 What is Buddy doing, Ocho? I thought he already lit the pyrotechnics. No, I am talking about the one that was dancing behind her. He's still... Oh, I missed it. I missed it. You look like me. My TV's ahead of yours.
Starting point is 00:50:11 They back to the Assassin's Creed guy. I would really love to know the backstory of this individual I have no idea oh that was dope I know he tired and hot. So he's really moved. This isn't pre-recorded like his part, his part.
Starting point is 00:50:55 You don't think it's live pre-recorded? Well, I'm assuming it's live. It might be pre-recorded. His part is pre-recorded. I would think his is pre-recorded because all this running, that's impossible. I just... I don't know. Maybe that's all I thought Ocho
Starting point is 00:51:25 for thinking there we go we back we back the first river vote first country we got Columbia we got three countries on one boat we see Columbia, Cyprus and
Starting point is 00:51:42 oh yeah it must be raining for real. Columbia has 88. 88 athletes. Cyprus got 15. Wait, Cyprus? Where's Cyprus? Cyprus is in the front of Columbia. Cyprus, Columbia.
Starting point is 00:51:59 And there's one more. I couldn't see who that was. Look at Curry Aja Wilson oh that was Comoros Comoros is that I'm assuming that's somewhere in Africa yes man
Starting point is 00:52:20 you see an all black and tender you sweaty from Africa I mean I just I mean and then the name C-O-M-O-R Man, you see an all-black and you sweaty from Africa. I mean, I just, I mean, and then the name C-O-M-O-R Comoros, no? Congo, there we go. Man, Aja Wilson always gonna have her drip. Boy, she got that t-shirt tied up. Got it busted up.
Starting point is 00:52:44 Man, Aja gonna be on her thing all the time. She be stepping. gonna have her drip. Boy, she got a t-shirt tied up. Got it. Tied it up. Man. Go back. Hey, hey. Hey, she gonna be on her thing all the time. She be stepping. Yeah. You know what? All the W, all the WME.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Oh, you see that? Hey. What? You think they all have personal stylists? I'm sure a lot of them do. They be cutting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Yeah. They be cutting. Oh, they step. They step. They like, okay. Well, they step. They like, okay. What are you coming? Oh yeah. They,
Starting point is 00:53:10 they, they, they be on, they be on it. They be on their thing for real though. Cook islands. Okay. Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Starting point is 00:53:20 Cook islands, China, or is that Japan? No, that's China. No, that's South Korea. I'm tripping. Oh, Republic... Yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:53:30 Republic of Korea. Oh, I know they ain't got but one athlete. Who? Cook Islands. Now, it looks like they said... I thought I saw three. The Cook Islands, that's got to be near Australia, I think, Ocho. You think so?
Starting point is 00:53:49 I think so. Look that up, man. Oh, Costa Rica? Costa Rica got about, what, three, four athletes? Okay. They didn't name it after Cook? So. Oh, it's in the South Pacific
Starting point is 00:54:06 Ocean Ocho it's by Polynesia let me go on over here to the front let me go here to South Pacific Polynesia the Polynesian that sounds speaking of oh man
Starting point is 00:54:22 Marshall Island Philippi hey there's a Polynesian you say a Polynesian there's a Polynesian restaurant that's coming back they closed I think due to COVID but I don't know I have never heard of this
Starting point is 00:54:42 Ivory Coast is that what that is the Ivory Coast Now, I know this is Africa, but I don't know. I have never heard of this. Ivory Coast? Is that what that is, the Ivory Coast? I mean, yeah. Would it sound like you're trying to say? With the orange, white, and green flag? Yeah, that's Ivory Coast. Okay. The dear Droba.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Yeah, absolutely. The dear Droba. Oh, Cuba! Cuba. Croatia. Cuba. Cuba's right after that. Everybody got their umbrellas out. It's definitely raining.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Is that Switzerland or Sweden? Sweden is like yellow and blue. Switzerland is red and white. Denmark. I'm tripping. That's Denmark. So it's neither one. Cuba. Denmark and Cuba that's Denmark I'm tripping that's Denmark that's Denmark so it's neither one Cuba
Starting point is 00:55:25 yeah Denmark and Cuba are sharing the same river Cuba used to they used to put some boxes out boxes and wait Cuba? yeah
Starting point is 00:55:34 listen Cuba Cuba and Puerto Rico yeah absolutely they used to be woo oh I bet you don't know what this is.
Starting point is 00:55:45 DG booty. DG booty. I know I need spell check on that. My goodness. Chad, does anybody know what that is? DG booty. Man. I know oh DR
Starting point is 00:56:09 somebody say you got the world globe out but can't find shit I found Djibouti Oh you found it? You found it for real? Where is it? No I said I found Djibouti I didn't find what you said Djibouti is up under Yemen
Starting point is 00:56:40 Off the coast of Somalia and Ethiopia Okay okay okay That's new for me I've never heard of that to Yemen off the coast of Somalia and Ethiopia. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. That's new for me. I've never heard of that before. I apologize for anybody if I butchered the saying.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Who is this? Dominicano? Yeah, DR? Nah, there ain't no DR. That's Dominicano. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah DR Nah there ain't no DR That's Dominicano Oh I must be back Oh El Salvador okay Egypt I know where that is
Starting point is 00:57:13 Oh yeah I know where that is Baby Just so y'all don't think I'm saying a lie Egypt right there Hey I wonder if my globe is here. You think it's going to come while we're filming? I don't know. It was supposed to be there two days ago.
Starting point is 00:57:30 What? Yeah. I got, you know, I had, I went to the store, I forget where it was, but it was going out of business and I got a globe that stands. Yeah. Big one. I didn't get the big one because they had to be. I was like, man, that's too big. But it's a little bigger
Starting point is 00:57:45 than this. Right. Yeah, she just said it never came. Yeah. Because now I'm excited. I want me a globe so I can find... Damn. That was the objective. You and I were going to see who could find the country first.
Starting point is 00:58:01 I definitely was going to win that. You got to understand because I took geography when I was at Yale. Yeah, I know. Just lie. Why would I lie? I was one semester at Yale and one semester at Harvard. You didn't even know me back then.
Starting point is 00:58:19 She already know you lying though. Man, she didn't even know me back then. Oh, Central African Republic. When they come back with the African countries, I'm coming. I'm going to get them. Here's another one. Who? Eritrea. I can't even pronounce that.
Starting point is 00:58:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that one. Yeah, yeah. How do you know that one? Because I just saw it. I told you. I found it earlier. There it is right there. Okay, okay. Remember I told you
Starting point is 00:58:55 I was looking for, I found Djibouti in the region. And I found it, yeah. It was right above Djibouti. Off the coast of Yemen this is between Saudi Arabia Yemen Sudan that's a long flight
Starting point is 00:59:10 that's Spain okay Estonia I know where Estonia is Rafael Nadal and Al-Taraz wait are they the flag bearers or no Estonia yeah the elder doll and Althoraz. Wait, are they, they're the flag bearers or no? Estonia.
Starting point is 00:59:26 Yeah. Eswatini. They have three athletes. Eswatini. I wonder what, I wonder where that is. Man, they ain't even got Glenville on this map. They don't have who? Glenville.
Starting point is 00:59:51 Hey, they're going to turn the cake on us, Ocho. I found out where you not going to be going. That's fine. That's fine. Listen, I got to work. I got to fly to Cleveland tomorrow anyway. I got to work. You got to fly where? I got to fly to Cleveland.
Starting point is 01:00:02 I have a signing to do with Fanatics. Okay. Oh, South Africa. S.Y.T. is in South Africa. Okay. Okay. See, the chat know every goddamn thing. Yeah, Google.
Starting point is 01:00:19 You don't think they know? Stop. How you got to think? They go to Fiji. I think we can get Fiji. to think? They call Fiji. I think we can get Fiji. I know we know where Fiji is, Ocho. Fiji? They got some good water. I don't think that's the same
Starting point is 01:00:34 as Fiji we talk about, Ocho. That's where the water come from. What you talking about? Hey, that water came from a plant right in the corner. I brought you that water to go. It ain't come from there. the corner. I'll probably come from there. Oh, it's raining hard, dude. Dude on the
Starting point is 01:00:56 Gabon. Gabon. Gabon. Gabon. They have five athletes. Gabon. That's in Africa. Okay. Gabon. Gabon. You know they have the athletes. That's in Africa. Okay. Kaboom. Kaboom. Because, you know, they had the Kaboom Viper. You know, that's one of the most, he got the longest fangs.
Starting point is 01:01:14 It's a viper. Probably about three feet, four feet, maybe. Yeah. Thick. So I guess that's where the Gaboom Viper comes from. French country in Central Africa. Okay. Nigeria.
Starting point is 01:01:33 Somebody say, damn, Unks, so you don't think we're not smart enough to know where these countries at? Yeah. Oh, yeah. With Google. So I guess. Yeah. Oh, yeah, with Google. So I guess. Damn, chat. Man, I'm trying to find something.
Starting point is 01:01:57 Yeah, buddy playing the piano. I wish I could hear what he's playing. And it's raining. It's raining on the piano. I'm Michael Kasson, founder and CEO of 3C Ventures and your guide on Good Company, the podcast where I sit down with the boldest innovators shaping what's next. In this episode, I'm joined by Anjali Sood, CEO of Tubi, for a conversation that's anything but ordinary. We dive into the competitive world of streaming, how she's turning so-called niche into mainstream gold, connecting audiences with stories that truly make them feel seen. What others dismiss as niche, we embrace as core. It's this idea that there are so many stories out
Starting point is 01:02:38 there, and if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content. The term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Get a front row seat to where media, marketing, technology, entertainment, and sports collide and hear how leaders like Anjali are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Starting point is 01:04:23 Where's Madagascar? Y'all need to come over to Madagascar. You know what Madagascar? Y'all need to come on with Madagascar. You know what Madagascar is. It's in Africa. You see the movie? Is that Africa? Is that the bottom of Africa? You remember the E-S-W-A-T-I-N-A?
Starting point is 01:04:40 Yeah, somebody just said it. Somebody said... Yes. It's off... It's below Pastoria. It looks like it's to the east of Joburg. Well, Madagascar should be there
Starting point is 01:04:53 somewhere, too. Yeah, Madagascar is... It's like an ocean. It is. It's Madagascar. I told you there's a lot of water in between yeah I saw the movie with my kids
Starting point is 01:05:09 I never forget that oh the Seychelles that's when you say you want to go huh yeah that's a long flight there boy that's alright you can have that with a pack of
Starting point is 01:05:23 I probably need about a 12 couple of them with a pack of them like I probably need to buy a 12 pack of what a 12 pack wait for the flight yeah a 12 pack of them things you gotta go at least you gotta go at least for two weeks it's gonna take you a day just to get there
Starting point is 01:05:39 yeah Ocho it's gonna take you 24 hours to get there. Yeah. That's why I won't be gone. Huh? That's why I won't be. Listen, I had to take this one here to the Maldives.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Not the Maldives. Yeah, the Maldives for her birthday. It took us a whole day to get there. We had to stop in Dubai. Oh, George, look at Lasha. That's Lasha Telaskazi. I know him. Super heavyweight weightlifter. World record holder.
Starting point is 01:06:09 I missed it. Lasha Telaskazi. Lasha Telaskazi. Australia. Y'all talking about we or how? Keep them coming. See, what they needed to do was keep the African nations all of them right behind one another.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I could have got them. There's Lasha right them. That's cheating. I mean, listen, Ghana is universal being able to find on the globe. That don't count. Damn, Ocho. Some of the smaller countries that we're struggling to find, there are a few I haven't even heard of before. But that's the thing, though, Ocho.
Starting point is 01:06:42 Some of these countries just got independence, say, the last 5, 10, 15 years. And a lot of times when the maps came out, they were part of another country. So they were traveling. I see you saying Kits and Nevis, Anguilla,
Starting point is 01:07:00 St. Lucia, Barbados, Renata, Trinidad and Tobago. Great. Those places are beautiful, man. Wait, is that USA? There we go. Where we at? Tom Dale and Heaven Glover.
Starting point is 01:07:15 Tom Dale is a diver. I thought they said no commercials. Man, they got to pay for this somehow. There's the U.S. right there. It's an NFL commercial. That's going to cut short. Yeah, there we go. There's Tamara Davis, the long jumper.
Starting point is 01:07:33 Ooh, good hit. Ah, man, how y'all going to cut right to a before? Oh, they talking about the Raven-Chief game on Peacock. Yeah. September 5th. Ooh, that's going to be a good game. Rich Guyana, Sarah Nam, Guyana. I know what Guyana is.
Starting point is 01:08:01 That's where James Jones, you know, they committed that mass suicide. I'm going to see if I can find the U.S. on the globe. Jim Jones. What's that, James? Jim Jones? Yeah, Jim. What was that? 79?
Starting point is 01:08:29 The only Jim Jones I know is Dipset. So you teaching me something new. 78. Come on, man. Damn commercial. come on now damn commercial oh syrian am uh syrian am they want to go metal anthony nesky who happens to be the swimming and diving coach at the university of florida in 84 he won the gold he won the gold medal and i think it's the only time that they've won a medal and i think he might be the first uh i don't know how to black or whatever i don't think he obviously he's not american but the winner of the lip well he was the first i think uh simone manual has won one since and we know we've had part of a team but an individual goal anthony i never forget that
Starting point is 01:09:22 1980 in 1984 jordanesty from Suriname what do you want? I think you want the freestyle the 100 freestyle I like it I like it I like it who is this in the middle of Great Britain?
Starting point is 01:09:48 There we go. Haiti. Sac-Pas-Ce, baby. Mabouleh. Okay. Okay. Got my zoos out there, baby. Let's go.
Starting point is 01:10:12 How many athletes they got? Look like one three four five i missed it seven they got seven is that tanzan no that's not tanzania oh that's honduras okay honduras honduras has four, four athletes. Okay. Now, what country is that? Oh, Hong Kong, China. Why is the flag different? Hong Kong and China are two different things. It said Hong Kong, China. I mean, you'll see. Well, Hong Kong took it over. I mean, China took it over. That's a whole different
Starting point is 01:10:41 that's a whole different. We're talking about it at a later date in China. Right. But you see the flag why is the flag like that? It's different. Because remember when what's the guy the former general manager
Starting point is 01:10:53 of the Rockets when he got in trouble? Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. I'm getting history lessons and all. Who is that?
Starting point is 01:11:08 Oh, Hungary. India. India. They got a great swimmer. She's the, I think she's the 100, she might be the 200 IM champ. See? And Indonesia. They hype.
Starting point is 01:11:33 Indonesia. Indonesia. India. They are a good shooter. They got a good shooter. A javelin thrower
Starting point is 01:11:47 yeah hey is archery part of the Olympics this year? oh no you want to spell Indonesia? me? yeah that's easy
Starting point is 01:12:02 oh yeah I-N-D-O N-E-S-I-A Indonesia What you doing Hey one thing You should never do or never doubt It's hard to get an education Iran have great
Starting point is 01:12:19 They have weightlifters Weightlifters normally are very very good In Iran Wrestlers are normally, very good in Iran. Wrestlers are normally very, very good in Iran. Ireland. They had the world record holder and the super heavyweight
Starting point is 01:12:36 Hussein Arazadeh. Iraq. Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor from Ireland, right? Correct. Yeah. Iceland. Hey, you watch an Iceland soccer game the the fans and the crowd have this
Starting point is 01:13:08 thunderclap that they do right it's really dope really really dope i wonder if anybody in the chat knows about iceland and a thunderclap no i always want to see uh the uh the nightlights in iceland the nightlights what's? It's the northern lights. Oh, okay. That's the place I wanted to visit that you didn't want to go to. So. Here's somebody in the chat
Starting point is 01:13:41 said, damn, Unc just gave up on the globe. Israel. I globe. Israel. I can find Israel. I got that right quick. Let me spin the globe right quick. Israel. I think that's in the Middle East, right?
Starting point is 01:14:01 Oh, my goodness. Italy. Italy lit. Oh, yeah. He's the flag bearer he's the reigning actually here martus barshim tied for the high jump gianmarco tambiri ariana erigo uh he was at the celebrity basketball game oh joe okay jump yeah yeah hell yeah wait how tall is he though he probably like he probably like 6'3 Jamaica
Starting point is 01:14:30 I bet I can find Jamaica I'm surprised they didn't have Sharika Jackson carrying the flag or no Shelly Ann Shelly Ann Frazier I thought they would have had Shelly Ann Shelly Ann Shelly Ann Frazier okay this is her last Olympics I thought they would have had
Starting point is 01:14:45 Shelly Ann carrying the flag this is dope Paris Roubaix Ojo you ever been to the Eiffel Tower of course a bunch of times. Bunch of times. I'm going to go get me a selfie.
Starting point is 01:15:10 I got to get me a selfie with somebody's daughter at the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, you just left Paris, didn't you? I was in Cairns. I was in Cairns and B in Cairns and in Bordeaux Paris is nice Paris is nice Eiffel Tower is nice you'll enjoy it, are you going to go in and take the tour
Starting point is 01:15:34 or no I probably had already done been in by the time we get over there and take that selfie of course oh man we gotta get us some oh 28 gonna be lit you know the limp is coming to LA in 28 oh yeah it's gonna be nice
Starting point is 01:16:06 the who the traffic traffic already horrible they might just put the four five they might as well start extending the lanes on the four or five right now find a way yeah so let's see what else I can find right here before we go. Oman, Saudi, Somalia. The Dominions. Ethiopia, you know, they got runners. Oh, yeah. All day, every day.
Starting point is 01:16:36 Kenya, Faith Kip Yegon. South Sudan is between Ethiopia and the Central uh african republic congo uganda kenya you know kenya got you know kenya got them runners man ever since 68 when the legendary kip kano because you know they're in the rift valley which is an east they're above their altitude yeah so when they come down that's when you see people go to Arizona Flagstaff or they go to Colorado Springs that's where the Olympic training facility is or they go to Big Bear
Starting point is 01:17:13 something that's you know 6-7,000 feet above sea level Kenya already has that in the Rift Valley so that's why those guys are able to run because they're already training at sea level. I mean, at altitude, excuse me.
Starting point is 01:17:31 My favorite cartoon. Russell Westbrook just signed with the Nuggets after his second buyout from the Utah Jazz, right? Yeah. That's dope. That's my guy. Yeah. That's dope. That's my guy. Just might be to push the Nuggets' need next year. Extra body, extra legs, great energy. Compliment Jokic.
Starting point is 01:18:04 I mean, talk about Jokic. Compliment. How do you. I mean, talk about Jokic. Compliment. How do you say his name? Yeah, Jokic. Nicola Jokic. Is it Murray? Murray, right? Yeah, Jamal Murray.
Starting point is 01:18:14 Michael Porter Jr. Yeah. Aaron Gordon. Oh, yeah. That's a night, you know, coming off the bench. Mm-hmm. Come on, give us some names. Let me find somebody right quick. Let me spin the globe.
Starting point is 01:18:31 Oh, is she singing? I can't hear. Y'all pretend like y'all didn't know. I told y'all that there was a Gabon right there. It took you 40 minutes to find her. Now that you can see, you ever been lost? You ever showed up somewhere late I'm sorry I'm late I got lost
Starting point is 01:18:47 exactly exactly you can see the rain clear well that's a French flag so clearly she's French chat anyone know who this is singing oh it's the French anthem okay okay
Starting point is 01:19:16 that's Macaron Prime Minister prime minister. I know Beijing got this greatest opening ceremony. Who went back? They went back to commercial. Oh, it's an Olympic commercial though. Well, since then, commercial break, let me find out all the places that i uh i won't be going
Starting point is 01:20:08 nah ocho i'm going i'm going i'm going i'm going next year you know i'm gonna take my time hey ocho yo cook islands you found it i did it right there. Ain't nothing over there but water. It's in the middle. Hey, bro. It's a little past America, Samoa and in between the French Polynesia. That's too much water to be surrounded by. Did the explorer James Cook,
Starting point is 01:20:44 did he name that? I bet he did. Who's Cook I was named after? You see you laughing, Ocho. Named after James Cook. Serious? Yeah. you see you laughing oh joe named after james cook serious yeah that's what they did they discovered say oh yeah i'm gonna name this i come hey ain't nobody else been here oh this is what we're gonna call this james cook cook i like it i like it i like it i i've named a few things my oh you know what i'm saying oh sure that between me and it. I've named a few things. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:21:25 That between me and you, I've named a few things myself. Yeah. And then, listen, if you can't name, you leave something behind. Yeah. I'll name something myself. You know what I'm saying? Hey, let me stop before I get in trouble in here.
Starting point is 01:21:46 Yeah, we know what happened to him. I think he was the native. I think they ended up killing him. Oh, they killed Mr. Cook? If I'm not mistaken, I think they did. Damn! It's been a while since, you know...
Starting point is 01:22:02 Most of my history uh was focused on uh black history and uh who we got so I'm going to the Seychelles Ocho and that's too far man and you talk about spending two weeks and that's too long what about 10 days 10 days is two weeks huh 14 days is two weeks
Starting point is 01:22:40 nah you don't count the weekends when you talk about the week the week is Monday through Friday. Okay. Okay. I told you what I'm going to do, Ocho. You know what I'm going to do, Ocho? I'm going to tell, I'm going to spin the globe
Starting point is 01:23:02 and where are my finger laying? That's where I'm going. All right. And wherever it is, I'm going to spell'ma spin the globe and where are my finger land that's where I'm going alright and wherever you wherever it is I'ma spell it first too you ain't spin the globe yet okay it is
Starting point is 01:23:13 alright I'm spinning spinning the globe but that shit needs some WD-40 oh man I ain't gonna be able to go there it stopped no it stopped no Korea Oh, man. I ain't gonna be able to go there. It stopped no Korea. There you go.
Starting point is 01:23:32 Hell no. Let me give it another spin. Hey, just like the wheel of fortune. You know when you spin the wheel and it'll go all the way around. I gotta spin it again. Spin it again. There it is right there. We didn't stop no one. No. is right there. We didn't stop. No one knows. Okay.
Starting point is 01:23:49 Damn. Can't go there. Land in Iran. Damn. I don't think the globe want me to travel. I don't think the globe want me to travel, don't you? I quit
Starting point is 01:24:05 it'll start on Korea it'll start in Korea then start in Iran I'm good I think I better stay my black ass right here in the US hold on one more time three times in charm try one more
Starting point is 01:24:20 that joke got me going to china i'm good i'm good i'm three for three man i'm going i ain't going nowhere man of all the places man think about the world all the places i could have went man i'm glad in k Iran and China I'm done hey boy you got me crying hold on I'ma stay right here I ain't going nowhere I tried y'all I tried to take a vacation but I ain't like damn it
Starting point is 01:24:59 some tell me I ain't supposed to go nowhere damn she still singing? Hold on Hold on I know I got a little delay, Ocho But she's still singing the anthem And she must be singing a different song now Yo, man
Starting point is 01:25:21 Chat, hey Is she Is she singing a different song. Man got much to learn. Yeah. Nah, back when my aunt cheated. Elk ain't no cheating. The globe cheated. Oh, shit. Oh, hell nah.
Starting point is 01:25:58 Hold on. I need paper towel for my face. Hold on. Oh. Oh, shit. Yeah, nah. Hold on. Okay, we back, we back, we back.
Starting point is 01:26:25 Oh, that's China right there. That's China right there. That's Japan, excuse me. I've been to Japan a couple times. 435 athletes. Well, you know they good at a lot of stuff. But hey, when it comes, hey. There you go, Tariqo. Look at Peyton.
Starting point is 01:26:45 Hey, I need to, what you call them? I need producers in my ear telling me the correct pronunciation of these countries and these people's names, Ocho. Yeah. And I need to have repairs like Tariqo did for like Jordan. Yeah, I know what Jordan is. How do you pronounce that with a K?
Starting point is 01:27:01 Kazakhstan? How you say it? Kazakhstan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kenya. They go Kenya. Okay. Alexander Vinokurov. He won the Tour de France.
Starting point is 01:27:18 He's from Kazakhstan. Peyton Manning got the playbook yeah he got the name he got the correct name phonetic name oh this Kenja right here Ocho yeah my TV's a little
Starting point is 01:27:35 ahead of you a little bit man I love Tariqo man Tariqo make anything sound interesting mmhmm you see yeah that's what I need
Starting point is 01:27:54 that's what I need Peyton there's another one I ain't heard of before Karabati Karabati hold Kiribati. Hold on. I don't know who that is. I ain't never heard of that place right there. That's got to be a new...
Starting point is 01:28:13 Hold on, what just... Kiribati. Yeah. Kosovo. Well, I know what Kosovo is. Where is that? They were fighting. Hold on. Let me see. Let me get over here
Starting point is 01:28:27 in Europe. Let me get to Europe. Kosovo. Chat, where's Kosovo? Hold on. Oh, okay. I'm up here in Ukraine. Turkey.
Starting point is 01:28:45 Georgia. Armenia, Syria. Kosovo, Kosovo over here. Uzbekistan. Oh, here's that place that just came by. Oh, y'all say heard of it? With the red. Kuwait. What's that?
Starting point is 01:29:03 That's the one that just came by with the red. Okay. Yeah. K Y R G Y Z T A N. Czechoslovakia. Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan. Georgia.
Starting point is 01:29:20 I mean, where's Kosovo? Romania. Slovakia? Lesotho. That's a new one for me as well. Lesotho. That?
Starting point is 01:29:36 Laotian. Is that Laos? Not like African. Laotian. Latvia. Latvia? Yeah. Latvia. Latvia. Latvia? Yeah, Latvia.
Starting point is 01:29:48 They have 29 athletes. This is nice. I'm assuming those Lebanon, I'm assuming those those ramps are wet so the guys on the bikes really can't do what they're supposed to be doing so nobody gets hurt Liberia
Starting point is 01:30:19 oh man I like what they're wearing let's see the Liberia that was the thing Ocho you know you wanted to see the, I like what they're wearing. Let's see the Liberian. Because that was the thing, Ocho. You wanted to see the outfit. Yeah, I like that. That's nice. They got four, Ocho. They got four countries on that boat.
Starting point is 01:30:40 Mm-hmm. Liberia. Liberian girl. But I, I, I, I, I, I, I ain't my world. Velma Davies and Emmanuel Matadi. Libya, Libya. Somebody said, Latvia has good food.
Starting point is 01:31:11 West Africa. Man, Africa's so big, man. Oh, my goodness. I can't pronounce this. I can't even get that one out. See if you can pronounce the next one coming up. It starts with L. Get the line. Lichtenstein?
Starting point is 01:31:41 Is that what you're talking about? That's the word? Lichtenstein? Yeah, right before Lithuania. That's Lichtenstein. Nah. I That's the word? Lichtenstein? Yeah, right before Lithuania. That's Lichtenstein. Nah. I don't think that's right. Lithuania. That's where Sharuna's Marshalonis is from.
Starting point is 01:31:55 That's where, what's the guy from the Kings? Sabonis. That's where he's from. His dad, Arbita Sabonis. Luxembourg. I know where that is.
Starting point is 01:32:09 Yeah. Libya. Libya. Here's Libya right here. Somebody say, where is Libya? Right there. Mm-hmm. Yes.
Starting point is 01:32:25 Whoever just asked in the chat, Jamaica did go past already. Yes, Jamaica's gone past. I think they were on the same boat with China. North of Macedonia. If I'm not mistaken. Madagascar, there we go. Yeah. Madagascar.
Starting point is 01:32:41 And the fact that they have break dancing. As an Olympic sport. As an Olympic sport. As an Olympic sport. And they decide to have it when I'm old. It's not fair. You say you can play football. You should be able to spin. Handstand.
Starting point is 01:32:58 You crump it. Yeah, it's more to it than just that. I know. It's just like more to playing football than just running. Yeah. I mean, You just like more to playing football than just running. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:12 And you won't even get broke up breaking. Madagascar. You want to do it, do it. Do it, do it. I forgot what that animal... I think that animal was a lemur. What? You saw Madagascar?
Starting point is 01:33:31 Yeah. That's a funny movie, man. Oh, you're talking about when... Who was that? Was that Chris Rock and Jada Pink? Yeah, they were the voices. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Escape to Madagascar.
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