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weren't alone. Apparently, Alongs tweets weren't going viral enough, so he pressured his engineers to design a special algorithm just for his tweets so that everyone would see them first, because it behooves all of us to be privy to the fresh and original insights of the richest man in the world. Really, though, this is just the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. I don't understand how someone can have fifteen kids and still be an in cell. I

feel bad for him, I really do. This man paid forty four billion dollars to get the same insecurities that I have for free. That's one to Turkey. It's been ten days since the country was struck by a devastating earthquake, but in a small bit of good news, rescue workers are still miraculously finding people alive in the rubble just yesterday where just yesterday they saved two brothers who survived more than two hundred hours by eating protein powder and

drinking their own urine. Look protein powder, But how amazing is that protein powder and urine? That definitely sounds like something you could buy from say a Joe Rogan. Thank god they had that protein powder down there. That's why experts are now saying, in case of an earthquake, try to stand in the doorway of a g n C. Let's move on. Are you guys familiar with the TV network News Max? Oh? You are. It's basically it's basically an even more far right Fox News, like if you're

crazy uncle had a crazy uncle. Anyway, A reporter from news Max was at the White House yesterday and he asked a very news is MAXI question. One of the most prominent themes that we hear from both elected Republicans and candidates have to do with, uh, what is called wokeism? And so we hear so much talk about woke capitalism, a woke military, and so on, And by way of trying to clarify this from American people, I wonder if we couldn't begin with a threshold question to win, is

President Biden woke? First of all? To wit? Okay, Fraser, I love how these guys are always like the left coastal elites now prithee tail, dost thou be workest. A person who says to wit is usually a too wat. This guy really thinks, is Joe Biden woke? Was like a hard hitting question. The real hard hitting question would be,

is Joe Biden awake? I don't know. I think we're just communicating wrong because like what I know woke to mean is like learning new things about people or the world and then acting accordingly, like basic kindness, maybe a gesture of care that people who are more well level than you, you know, you know what, Actually you wouldn't like it. It's Jesus stuff. But they're like, yeah, but I want to push it on me. Nobody's pushing shit

on you. You're acting like a beta cook. Like woke for the right is really just an umbrella term so that they don't have to say specifically that they're pieces of ship. Like it feels cooler to say I'm not woke than the truth, which is I'm terrified of what I don't understand, and I only know how to process that as anger because I can't look inward to it. Someone who's wokenus nobody is wondering about is Kanye West.

His His decision to go full Nazi hasn't just destroyed his own career, but it also really burned Adidas, and now the company is looking for a uh, well, let's say, a final solution. After cutting ties with Yea better known as Kanye West back in October over anti Semitic comments, Adidas is now looking into options to salvage its merchandise and avoid major losses. So the company says it does expect to lose more than one billion dollars by ending

that yea Zy merchandise line. Adidas could possibly repurpose the products now in order to keep their losses at a minimum. Some of the options that they are looking at include removing the Yeasy label on all of the merchandise or selling possibly the smaller markets outside of the United States. Says what we've got to stop giving shoe deals to celebrities who are cool and start giving them to celebrities who are just fine. Why can't Adidas start a Randy

Newman Line. For Laura on what Adidas can do with these sneakers, we turned to dul Say Sloan live at Adida's headquarters. Adenis is school, right, anyway to salvage this maybe, I mean maybe not. You know that's not my problem, that's adidas Is problem. Uh it's called losing money. You know, you roll the dives and came up mine comp that's all you what the capitalism bitches. Yeah, but well Adidas have to throw out all these shoes, like that's so

waste full. Maybe they just take the labels off. We're still gonna know it's those shoes. You can't take the label off. You ain't trigger. Nobody is in the Clark Kent's Superman situation. But I just don't want to sell them. You need to find a different use for these shoes, Like, look at these You don't have to throw them away. You can just drain pasta in them. And you got these boots, Okay, they look like weird blankets. You cut them up and using as blankets for small hostages, right,

and it's like they can't hurt you. You're safe. Now, squeeze the yeasies around you and then look at this one. That's a little fun. Easy. Come on, you squeeze your body wash on it like God attended, and get the scrubbing. Oh and this one would be a good manua. What else? Just like God intended? Now here's enough idea. Just keeps selling them ugly air shoes. The only people buy them anymore are Nazis. So then we'll know who the Nazis are.

You identify the mother for footwear. You see what I'm saying. You could be able to spot them anywhere, even in the bathroom stall, because I know I've been in a man's room. Wait, why are you in a man's room? Because that's what the men are. It literally says it on the door men's rooms. Just what it means is that, I mean, I like your plan, But wouldn't it be wrong for Adidas to take Nazi money? Oh that's the

best part. The more money they spent on the shoes, the less money they got to spend on Nazi ship right, Okay, And then when it's time to fight, they can't buy weapons because they spent all our money on size nine pasta strainers. Welcome to capitalism and Nazi bitches, What do you say? Sign? I don't want we can back and taking. Okay, how you can cancel the fight? Put them ba. That's Sometimes there are stories that need a little more than one take, and for that we go to Roywood Jr.

And Daisy LD for double take. Hey, I'm Roywood Jr. And cheese Daisy L. How are you doing? Oh that's enough small talk. Let's get into it, DESI. Today we're talking about air travel in America. I don't know about you days, but I love flying because, honestly, there's nothing better than being trapped in a metal tube with three strangers doing the pandemic and all of us praying that the pilot ain't too drunk to land. This bitch who don't love that, well, I'll be honest, I don't actually

love that. I gotta tell you I had the worst flight last weekend. This can next to me cried the entire time, just screaming in my ear. I was like, I don't care your my son, Mommy is trying to watch. It's right. You got to force steel, blue steel. Yeah. I have to do very little for that. I have like resting blue steel face. And it's not just me. Roy Air travel has gotten so bad recently that Congress

has been forced to get involved. Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal introduced an Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights aimed at requiring airlines to fairly compensate flyers during airline cause delays and cancelations. The senators also want to limit fees for bags seating, as well as for changes or cancelations. If passengers could receive fifty bucks whenever their flight is delayed by four hours, I am guaranteeing you there'd be a lot fewer delays. Yeah. Yeah, we could soon be

getting an airline Passengers Bill of Rights. And if it's anything like the original Bill of Rights, we just have to wait another hundred years for it to apply to women in black people, you know. But that's great to hear, you know. And I gotta say, is a lot of money. It's a lot of money, especially if if you can buy two hundred dollar flight for a chance to win the grand people are gonna be gambling at the airport

even bout check and wait for the delay. The sky lounge're gonna look like the alf track bed, Like, come on, bill to give it up the chemical fill you. I for one am glad that they're finally doing something about the fees they've been nickel and diming us for years. Fees for baggage, feast to print a boarding pass. Now there's even fees for picking a seat. Like, what are

you gonna do if I don't pick a seat? How about I just stand the entire like I'll treat your damn airplane like it's a subway and stand there brain dancing and jerking off. That's true, that's true. Oh oh, speaking of jerking off on the airplane, go on, there's been a lot of reports lately a passengers stuck on the runway for hours, and as the laws of physics state, when there's too much time to kill white people, busts

out the acoustic guitars. No no, no, no, no, no, Look, no one has ever been like, you know, who would make us delay it? Ass flight? Better? Let's break out in a single? Laws also didn't didn't didn't the dude who wrote that song didn't he die in a plane crash? How How was plane crash? Dude in charge of the anthem for air travel? How is he in charge of that? And I'm asking you because you white? How how was that post? Oh? I don't know, but I'll bring it

up at the next White people meeting. But yeah, seeing John Denver Denver on a flight is like tempting fate. Like I wouldn't watch Titanic on a cruise. I mean, yeah, I'll check out the titty painting scene. But that's it. And one of the big reasons air travel in this country is struggling is the f a A or more commonly known as fall. That's right, FAW is in a lot of trouble right now because we're finding out how outdated some of these airports are. I mean, they're tracking

flights with paper strips. They're not using computers. They're writing your flight on a paper strip and putting it up on the board. Arts and crafts. O god, how are these planes not crashing all the time? Well, they're getting close. The f a A is forming it team of experts to examine flight safety after several recent close calls involving

commercial planes of FedEx. Boeing seven sixty seven was about to land at Austin's International Airport as a Southwest Airlines seven thirty seven was told to take off from the same runway. The two planes came within a hundred feet of colliding in thick fog. It comes three weeks after another near collision at JFK, where a Delta Airlines flight abruptly stopped its takeoff as an American Airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of it. A mid air

scare in December just recently came to light. A United Airlines plane departing MAUI took a nose dive, plummeting more than four hundred feet in about twenty seconds, coming within seven hundred and seventy five ft of the Pacific Ocean. Flames shooting out from under the wing of a Delta plane traveling from Scotland to New York forced to make an emergency landing. Delta blames a mechanical issue. Yeah, no, ship,

I'm not an engineer. There's I'm not an engineer. But if the wing is on fire, that looks like a mechanical issue. Yeah. And also, oh my god, can you imagine dying in a plane crash on the runway, Like, if I'm dying in a plane, I better be in the air otherwise I'm just going all the way through t s A just to die in a car crash. Insult to injury. Now you did, and you don't have your full sigh shampoo. You know what, Roy, These incidents make me think that we need a new passenger Bill

of rights. Article one. Airlines should not kill you, Article two, Article two. If they do kill you, you get dollars. Article three. Get rid of the paper strips, or at least laminate them. It's the twentieth century. It's the century. Article four. If someone on the flight has to die, it should be the person with the acoustic good time fancy. And also, let me just slip in Article five. No more children on flights. Why what about your kids, especially

my kids? No more children on flights? Get him off works for me. Thanks for chatting desert back to you said, thank him, because let me come back. The legendents of Karema bil Jabar will be joining me on this show. My guest tonight is an NBA legend who will be honored by Adidas with a limited edition sneaker collection called Evolution of Excellence that celebrates his career across sports and

social justice. Please welcome, Oh my gosh, Kareema buil Jabbar. Well, well, well, well you know when um I when they said I could guest host this show. Then they said, who's your dream guest? Don't don't say like it does have to be realistic, just say one dream gets and then make a realistic list. And I said, Kareem abdul Jabbar, And let's let's pretend this is like a therapy session. I'm

your therapist now. Uh. Of course, as everyone knows, Lebron James just broke one of your records and you were so gracious and there and everything. But how did it make you feel? I have to say, I'm pretty glad that my role in it was finished, you know, but Lebron worked real hard for it. He deserves it. He has spent his adult life as a premier athlete and done an exceptional job at it, and his heart is

in the right place. I don't know you probably you may or may not know how he sent a whole school district to college kids, a whole lot he could be doing with that tuition money. You know, Yeah, he could be on his own island, but you know that that's where his heart is. And so I got a lot of respect for him. I wish him will Yeah, you you were so gracious and it's such a very's

an absence of ego. And I heard you sand Jimmy Fallon like you were like, oh, it's like a burden has been lifted, you know, like it's done with that. I'm done with that, you know. And it was just I thought that was very interesting and and so cool and and you know, it's interesting how great the greats.

You know, you're real tall, you're gifted at basketball. But what people don't realize is the the the work that's put into it, that that you were the kid who had the keys to the gym after everyone went home home and worked on that sky hook and you know, and it really is about getting that ten thousand hours and being dedicated. And I think that's something that kids don't necessarily put together when they see just a star or someone who's the goat. You know, it's pretty I

know that's not a question. I also want to point out, by the way, I'm very happy for Lebron, but I will say that your points were scored two at a time, mostly at home. A lot of people don't put that together. But yeah, thank you. Okay, let me ask you this. I don't even know how to ask it, but my best friend, tall John he's it's an un ironic nickname. He's tall and he's six ten, and I remember he's

very shy, he's not a performer. And I remember he told me, I know what it's like to be famous, because when I walk into a own, people are like, look at the guy. You know, look what all the

guy is. You know, as a eighth grader who is seven ft tall, I bet you can relate to what it is to be famous in the way of it being very self conscious, you know, very kind of and you know, I remember seeing that like you were fourteen, you're you were an eighth grader playing with the seniors because you were so tall and you it was one time you cried and that was what made you put on this game face that's kind of stoicism and in

a way that's kind of a survival skill. Do you think that's part of being this kid that was so tall at such a young age. I think at that time that's how I coped, you know, because I didn't know how to cope, you know. And I remember I was that age fourteen and I went to Madison Square Garden and to see a game and the guy asked me for my autograph. Let's you don't know who I am. Oh, I know you are. No, you don't know who I am. And we went back and forth for I said, well,

I'll get rid of this guy. And I signed my my name and he said, this is some stupid name you thought and evolved it up and he threw it away. And you know, talk about crust egos, but you know that that's, uh, that's how you learn the ropes. You know,

you gotta have to take your licks. You know, it's not it's not fun, but you know, being uh, the person that I am and what I wanted to do in my life, I've been able to do it since I've retired, you know, I mean, I'm you know, I was always a fan of your basketball, but I became moved to super fandom when just reading your writing and your your pieces and your sub stack and your you know you. I mean, I think of myself as someone who does odd jobs. You I feel very much kindred

spirit with you. You know, you write for Time Magazine and then you've got your sub stack and then like you wrote for Veronica Mars and then you know, like so cool. You know, you watch The Bachelor and you write on pieces on it for you would write for the Hollywood Reporter, and they were so thoughtful and and um, they weren't just fluff, even the Bachelor stuff, because it is so fascinating to watch these people and to think

about what's going on in their minds. And well, you know, my my manager and friend, uh Demor Morales enabled me to figure out a way to express all of this and make it work. Uh as as a living, you know, getting paid for doing something that you love is like almost as good as playing basketball and getting Yeah, you know,

there are people there. It's such a rare gem of a thing when you know, like singer songwriters, Like when someone can write beautiful songs and they happen to be great singers, like that's just such a wonderful, happy accident. And with you with writing, you have all this experience, all these ideas, all this these you know, progressive thoughts. You're so introspective, and then on top of it, you're this like beautiful writer. You know, like the way you

put words together, I find, you know, thrilling. You know, Cole Porter was that talented in that he could write songs and write the lyrics for them and they go together like hand and glove. Very few people like that. Yeah, well I did all. I did a lot of this, But hold on, I'm not going to do that one yet. Hold on, listen. I've got little notes for myself. Of course,

there's this one I got to know, Robin Williams. Yeah, and he you and him have U You share the same you can You share the same talent in that you can get people to laugh when they're hurting. And uh, Robin was exceptional at that and uh, I'm so sorry he's going. He was. He was a beautiful man and uh I missed him. But you've resived this spirit. You are much like how Robin with what being Billy Crystal started. Um, I can't remember what's called comic release. Um. You you've

been very active in activist. You've been an activist for a long time. What what was that inciting incident? What got you? Well? For me, it was the murder of Emmett Till that that bothered me and I couldn't understand it. I asked my parents to explain it. They didn't have the words. So I've spent my life since then trying to figure out how to get us all to tamp down on the hatred and learn to know and respect and love each other. That that's where we gotta go

and we gotta get you. Yeah. Yeah, I think we all. I think we're so different and we're the same, you know. I was like, like, we're just that. We're the same as this mug, this table, We're just molecules, were not different. When people in one planet, we've got to take care of it and take care of each other. I mean, yeah, I I I think like when everything's get too heavy, I'm just like, come on, we're out of space, like nothing matters and we're going to blow the place up.

Wait a minute, who you know? Um, you know, I know you've been in a million things and you've been uh doing You're you're so vital to me. You're in your most vital, most exciting years. But it's going back to because I watched the documentary Minority of One, which I really loved. I hope you're happy with it. I thought it was spectacular. Um, well thank you. On why I said thank you, thank you? They were clipping for

me just because I asked a question. So well, um, but when you did airplane, it was kind of it was transformational for you, because you had always been this kind of game face, stoic dude, maybe protecting yourself in some way. The airplane enabled me to make fun of my image and laugh about it and got people they stopped thinking about that is who I was. And it was right around the time we won a world championship.

That helped. But it feels like it unlocked something in you where you were able to not be how other people define you. Right, And I had like a certain fear of its posing myself at times, you know, just my inner thoughts and emotional feelings. Really was worried about sharing tho us and I've gotten over that. So we tend to have shame around our own feelings and we forget that's all we are, right, We're just people like

everyone else. You know, That's how it works. I'm going to put my face in your hand, but I know that's me and I was just gonna end this, but I just want to keep going, but I'll end it. But I just want to keep going, but I'll end it. How do you know what I really want to ask you about? Is um also your friendship with with Bruce Lee?

You know, I just you know it should because When I met Bruce, Um I wasn't really uh you know, hot shot professional athlete and he was working as uh Cato in the Green Hornet and um, I just wanted to study Chinese martial arts. And the guy sent me over to him who knew him, and said, hey, try and work this with Bruce. And the way he he really showed me how powerful his his art was. When you know, he had me punch and kick a bag. He get behind, put his weight behind it and said

punching kick it and I did. He said that was interesting, and then he had his wife come out and he told me, all right, you put your weight behind the bag, and I did, and she kicked the bag and my my body flew off of it. And I I gotta learn that about it has just learning how to control your inner forces in a way that uh enable you to deal with someone who might be trying something wrong.

You know, you if you learn how to move and uh no I do, but I do know it's it's it's harder to talk about it than it is to do it, you know. So if you if you have the time and inclination, do you know what's really good uh that you can do? On your own. Taichi. Great exercise, here you go. I don't know, I'm just making it up from what I see what we'll do in the Keep doing that for a couple of months and you'll notice an increase in strength and balance and endurance and stuff. Yeah.

I love Bruce Lee. You know what he reminds me of you with him is just the idea of be like water to the name of his movie. Yeah, to adjust to any circumstance, to sprout or your planted to. You know, when water is in a teacup. It's the shape of a teacup when water. All that stuff and Boost was all about. He was all about brotherhood, you know. And for a long time Chinese people didn't like him

teaching people who weren't Chinese. But Bruce said, hey, you know, I've learned things from people who weren't Chinese that maybe they might have wanted to keep quiet, but they shared it. And that was his attitude about it, and it made it possible for the exchange to happen. I know. That's how it was with me and him. You know, our friendship was was based on that and it meant something. And those are mitzvahs they're generous. There's a wonderful way

to learn. And that's how I think of you. You know, it's Mr Rodgers and you you're my Tab two. I agree Alation the actual collection. Go to the website below and sign up for Club Guy Hooks. All right, we're gonna take a break. Well that's er tonight. But before we go, please consider supporting The Block Chicago, a nonprofit that cultivates the love of boxing and young people while connecting them with mentors and academic services. It's an amazing program.

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