From Misinformation to Medals: Olympics, Imane, and Simone Biles

Sibling HH 08/06/24
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[00:00:34] Sibling Happy Hour: Olympics Talk
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[00:00:34] Bruce Anthony: It's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly daddling a little bit, and then we're going to be talking a lot about the Olympics, some of its controversies and some of its great stories, but that's enough of the intro.

[00:00:48] Bruce Anthony: Let's get to the show.

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[00:00:56] Bruce Anthony: What up sis? This is

[00:00:58] J. Aundrea: up, brother? U S A, [00:01:00] U S A,

[00:01:02] Bruce Anthony: the only time that we're like super patriotic

[00:01:05] J. Aundrea: uh, beyond patriotic.

[00:01:07] Bruce Anthony: beyond patriotic.

[00:01:08] J. Aundrea: I am one of those. Uh, viewers who watches every single thing. I don't care what it is. If the US is competing, I'm watching it. If it's equestrian, dressage, them horses, crip walk and, and good luck to the USA and archery. has been [00:01:30] amazing this year.

[00:01:32] Bruce Anthony: That's because of the Turkish guy. The Turkish guy.

[00:01:35] J. Aundrea: and then just how cool, uh, some people have just been looking with the shooting and the gear on

[00:01:41] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:01:42] J. Aundrea: what, I can't remember. I want to say Korea, but anyway, she looked so cool. With all the gear on. So shooting has been big all the way through to archery. I've been watching archery. We've been dominating. We're doing things in archery. I don't [00:02:00] care what it is.

[00:02:01] Bruce Anthony: You just watch it.

[00:02:02] J. Aundrea: I'm watching it. It's on 24 7 in my household. The Olympics is my favorite time every four years.

[00:02:11] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Hey, look, I can't, I can't say too much cause I try to have it on, but it's a little, that's a lot to follow. It's a lot for me to follow.

[00:02:20] J. Aundrea: your little score sheets. I got my,

[00:02:22] Bruce Anthony: I don't got no score sheets. I'm like,

[00:02:24] J. Aundrea: keeping track of the medal count.

[00:02:26] Bruce Anthony: okay.

[00:02:27] J. Aundrea: are behind in golds. This year, this, [00:02:30] this Olympics is looking real silver and bronze for the U. S. We have gotten 15 golds, but it's been real silver and bronze. 

[00:02:37] Olympic Highlights and Memes
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[00:02:37] J. Aundrea: Of course, we're leading in overall medals, but China is leading in gold medals.

[00:02:41] J. Aundrea: But you know, hopefully that'll turn around now that track and field has started.

[00:02:47] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Um, I was watching, I don't know what this was. I popped up on my social media and I didn't have time to do research. We'll talk about social media research later. But did the Dutch win a track and [00:03:00] field race? Yes. coming from way behind. I saw a video where they were trailing and then this tall Dutch woman just started bursting down the stretch and won the race.

[00:03:11] Bruce Anthony: I don't know if that was recent or if it was this Olympics, it just popped up on my social media.

[00:03:17] J. Aundrea: It was the four by 400 meter mixed relay prelims, the United States. the show because they won, they got the world record in the [00:03:30] prelims, but in the final, the Dutch grabbed the gold and yeah, you are correct. The it was the, uh, so it's you, it's, two men, two women that run, um, in the, in the four by 400 meter mixed. And yeah, they, they won. We took the silver

[00:03:51] Bruce Anthony: Notice I noticed something about the Dutch team. Um, a lot of, uh, a lot of melon and some of their skin[00:04:00] 

[00:04:00] J. Aundrea: melanin. Yeah. Yeah. There, there's a large black Dutch population.

[00:04:05] Bruce Anthony: did not notice. I mean, I knew that there were certain, I think there's a few Dutch basketball players that are, that are mixed. But I did not know that, you know, that they just, you know, they out here, we out here like that. Well, I

[00:04:25] J. Aundrea: stunning race because the Netherlands, honestly, they didn't even qualify for the event [00:04:30] for the 2020 Olympics.

[00:04:35] Bruce Anthony: wonder if the team dynamics changed a little bit.

[00:04:38] J. Aundrea: I, I don't know,

[00:04:40] Bruce Anthony: I don't know, but, uh, Hey, maybe. So what else is going on with the Olympics? Cause you know, I only want to talk about the stories. I don't really care about the lens. I mean, I haven't even watched the men's basketball. I did watch a little bit of the three on three.

[00:04:55] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, I watched a little bit of the three on three. And then Jennifer Dett, [00:05:00] who was a famous college basketball player, then really did not pan out in the NBA three on three now, but was getting a rub down and that social media and the internet. Sometimes I can't stand the social media in there, but it's all fun and games.

[00:05:16] J. Aundrea: It's just, it was just growing and listen, it can be painful

[00:05:24] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:05:25] J. Aundrea: to, I mean, you and I, we both play sports. You play for much longer than I did, [00:05:30] but in soccer, I have pulled my groin muscle before,

[00:05:33] Bruce Anthony: Yeah,

[00:05:34] J. Aundrea: it, it can be painful. So you know, Hey, listen, that's. That's athletics.

[00:05:43] Bruce Anthony: it is. I have letters. It was just

[00:05:44] J. Aundrea: a little strange to non athletes. But,

[00:05:50] Bruce Anthony: It was just the memes and everything is going on. There's been a lot of memes for the Olympics.

[00:05:55] J. Aundrea: lot

[00:05:55] Bruce Anthony: Um, so that's how I'm keeping up with it. But you, you are a fan [00:06:00] fan. So I give you credit USA, USA.

[00:06:03] J. Aundrea: USA and, and shout out. I want to give a shout out to Katie Ledecky who with a nine Olympic gold medals, 14 in total has become the most decorated us fem, female Olympian.

[00:06:16] Bruce Anthony: That's amazing.

[00:06:19] J. Aundrea: amazing. I mean, she's not. Two, I mean, I mean, she's behind uh, Michael Phelps, who I think, oh God, I think he's got like 28 medals or [00:06:30] something like that.

[00:06:30] J. Aundrea: So that's, he, he, he's, he's on another level, but most U. S. female Olympian. And then of course, Biles, most decorated female gymnast, I think of all time.

[00:06:48] Bruce Anthony: We going to get into Simone. That's the whole third segment. Cause I, you know, I, I'm not, I like the stories, you know, I like the stories that she had a lot of stories going around behind that. So.

[00:06:58] J. Aundrea: yes,

[00:06:59] Snoop Dogg and Comedy in the Olympics
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[00:06:59] Bruce Anthony: thing I'm [00:07:00] seeing on social media is like Snoop Dogg is the official U. S. mascot

[00:07:04] J. Aundrea: yes,

[00:07:05] Bruce Anthony: the Olympics. Like he is all over the place.

[00:07:08] J. Aundrea: I don't know if you saw him and Martha Stewart attending the equestrian events in a full equestrian garb, but they looked fantastic.

[00:07:16] Bruce Anthony: He was the first one that said that the horses was doing the crip walking. And when him and Kevin Hart the last time had that little show. He is a fool.

[00:07:24] J. Aundrea: is Olympic Highlights. It's on Peacock. It's now being hosted by Kevin Hart and Kenan [00:07:30] Thompson. And it is hilarious.

[00:07:32] J. Aundrea: So,

[00:07:32] Bruce Anthony: Is it

[00:07:33] J. Aundrea: would

[00:07:33] Bruce Anthony: as hilarious? As it was with Snoop

[00:07:36] J. Aundrea: Snoop is a different kind of comedian in that he's not a comedian.

[00:07:42] Bruce Anthony: He's not

[00:07:43] J. Aundrea: comedian. Uh, funny individual. So you're going to get a different, you're going to get something different between Snoop Dogg and Kenan Thompson.

[00:07:51] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:07:52] J. Aundrea: but it's still very funny.

[00:07:54] Bruce Anthony: To Detour for a quick second. Talk about Snoop and comedy. Snoop could be a [00:08:00] comedian because in the movie the watch, he was funny.

[00:08:03] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:08:04] Bruce Anthony: Snoop is just, Snoop is one of those people that are funny. There are people that try to be comedians that are not funny, that can learn the art of telling a joke. And create jokes and be kind of funny.

[00:08:15] Bruce Anthony: Then they're just people who are just naturally hilarious. So it was one of those people that was just naturally hilarious. I think he could get around comedians. Drewski is another one. Drewski is just naturally hilarious.

[00:08:27] J. Aundrea: I don't know who that

[00:08:28] Bruce Anthony: Social media. Yes, you do. Social [00:08:30] media person bigger guy, black. He's got this little show on YouTube.

[00:08:35] Bruce Anthony: He and Kevin Hart and the little dude did a whole 24 hour Twitch. We talked about it.

[00:08:42] J. Aundrea: Ah, yes. No, I do know who that

[00:08:44] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, hilarious, like Trusky is just hilarious. But anyway, so back to the Olympics. Yeah, the Olympics have been cool I've been keeping up with it through social media.

[00:08:53] J. Aundrea: another, an unintentional, but very welcomed mascot, Flavor [00:09:00] Flav, who when finding out that the women of the U. S. water polo team had to work two and three jobs to pay competition fees and for training. He has decided to sponsor them

[00:09:14] Bruce Anthony: Oh, wow.

[00:09:15] J. Aundrea: and he sponsored the team who of course took gold who have taken gold in the last three Olympics.

[00:09:21] Bruce Anthony: Mm

[00:09:22] J. Aundrea: so they're an extraordinary team but had in trouble with funding. So he, um, [00:09:30] he not only sponsored them, but also, she is US Olympian for shot put. She put. Also tweeted that, um, she's about to head to the Olympics and doesn't know if she can even pay her rent.

[00:09:47] Bruce Anthony: hmm.

[00:09:48] J. Aundrea: her name is Veronica Fraley.

[00:09:50] J. Aundrea: She's the discus thrower, discus thrower for team USA. So he Flavor Flav and, uh, Reddit founder and, uh, [00:10:00] husband of Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian paid her rent, not just for the month, but for the rest of 2024.

[00:10:09] Bruce Anthony: Oh, wow.

[00:10:10] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:10:11] Bruce Anthony: Look at that

[00:10:12] J. Aundrea: we got some angels out there. It, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense, know, when you think about these people bringing home, accolades for their country and they can't even afford their training and competition fees.

[00:10:25] Bruce Anthony: No, it makes perfect sense. We don't pay attention to these people [00:10:30] Except for every four years, and then they will disappear from our psyche until the Olympics come back around. The only one that stays in our public eye was Caitlyn Jenner. Uh, but that's, you know,

[00:10:44] J. Aundrea: Yeah,

[00:10:45] Bruce Anthony: know, that's for several reasons outside of the Olympic accomplishments that people quite honestly probably don't remember or forgotten.

[00:10:52] Bruce Anthony: And you just have to remind them like he was a major, she was a major Olympian. But yeah, the [00:11:00] mascots, you know, Hey, look, black folks be supporting this country.

[00:11:04] J. Aundrea: yeah, we will, we will what our dollars and what our time, we will get out there and support the country because a lot of the time we're supporting people who look like us.

[00:11:14] Bruce Anthony: Say it again for the people in the back. And

[00:11:16] J. Aundrea: of the time we're supporting people who look like us, but that does not mean okay, that we don't need everybody. America literally becomes a coalition of everybody [00:11:30] when it comes to the Olympics and everybody's got that. Listen, beach volleyball. White people, we need you and we love you.

[00:11:37] Bruce Anthony: look, I love beach volleyball. Now that's one event I have been watching a lot of.

[00:11:42] J. Aundrea: yes.

[00:11:43] J. Aundrea: Okay.

[00:11:43] Bruce Anthony: I think I texted you like I really love beach volleyball. I love beach volleyball. I can't help but say it enough. The women's, the women's, nah, I love all beach volleyball, but more specifically, the women's. All [00:12:00] right. We didn't laughed and joked.

[00:12:05] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:12:05] Bruce Anthony: Enough about the Olympics. We'll get to more laughing and joking, but I want to get to serious discussion about misinformation and the Olympics. And we're going to get into that next.

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[00:12:23] Bruce Anthony: So Jay, I told you, I was like, there's something that I really want to talk about. I think I texted you, uh, after we [00:12:30] filmed the last sibling happy hour. And I was like, we have to talk about this because I have so many different, um, thoughts on this. So Amani. I looked it up. That's not the proper way to pronounce it.

[00:12:47] Bruce Anthony: I'd memorized it and still screwed it up. And I'm going to screw up a lot of these names.

[00:12:50] J. Aundrea: I think it's Iman Kali. Mm-Hmm.

[00:12:52] Bruce Anthony: Yes, but I'm just going throughout the rest of this. I'm just going to call her Imane. 

[00:12:58] The Controversy of Imane: Gender Eligibility in Boxing
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[00:12:58] Bruce Anthony: So Imane is an Algerian [00:13:00] professional boxer born on May 2nd, 1999 in Algeria. She, she competes in light heavyweight and Walter weight divisions and had represented Algeria in various international competitions, including the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo.

[00:13:13] Bruce Anthony: And of course, this summer Olympics here in Paris, Imane has achieved significant success in her boxing career while winning medals at world championships, African championships, Mediterranean games, and Arab games. She recently made headlines by reaching the semifinals in the 66 kilogram [00:13:30] category at the 2024 Olympics, guaranteeing herself at least.

[00:13:34] Bruce Anthony: A bronze medal. However, Imane has faced controversy regarding her gender eligibility. She was disqualified by the IBA more on that later from the 2023 women's world boxing championships after failing unspecified gender eligibility tests. The international Olympic committee from here on out, we're going to just call it the IOC.

[00:13:55] Bruce Anthony: And it's Paris boxing unit confirmed her eligibility to compete in the Olympics. [00:14:00] Imane has had to overcome various challenges to get here. Just like we were talking about in the previous segment, Olympians go through that struggle. This include in commuting long distances for training and even selling scrap metal to afford best bus fare.

[00:14:17] Bruce Anthony: Now, the last time I seen somebody sell scrap metal, Was only on the wire. Like that's, that's, that's, you really got to be in real poverty to have to get to, to, to that level to [00:14:30] sell scrap metal. Now I mentioned the IBA earlier, who disqualified her from competing in the 2023, uh, women's world boxing championships.

[00:14:41] Bruce Anthony: Who is the IBA? The IBA is the international boxing association previously known as the association, internationally, ILA, they box in a mature. Uh, Or the A IBA. It's an international sports organiza organization that sanctions amateur Olympic style boxing matches. [00:15:00] The A IBA consists of five continental confederations, the A FBC, the A MBC, the A SBC, the.

[00:15:08] Bruce Anthony: E. U. B. C. And O. C. B. C. I'm not gonna go through all those bodies, but it consists of a lot of different organizations that's rolled into one. The I. V. A. Is responsible for organizing and overseeing various boxing competition, including the World Championships, Continental Championships and other international tournament.

[00:15:24] Bruce Anthony: It plays a crucial role in developing the sport of boxing at all levels from grassroots to [00:15:30] elite levels and works to create new opportunities for athletes. However, the IBA has faced its share of controversies and challenges over the years, including issues related to governance, judging, and financial management.

[00:15:43] Bruce Anthony: However, it continues to be a significant governing body in the world of boxing, corruption, and boxing. We've never seen that before. Russia. Has significant ties with international, with the IBA, the current president of the IBA, Umar Kremlin, I screwed up that name as well, but just [00:16:00] look it up is Russian.

[00:16:01] Bruce Anthony: Not saying all Russians are bad. Just saying Russia is a part of this under his leadership. The IBA has faced various controversies and governance issues leading to suspension by the IOC, the International Council. Olympic committee in 2019, the IOC stripped the idea of his status as a sports world governing body in 2023 due to failure to meet required reforms.

[00:16:27] Social Media Misinformation and Bigotry
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[00:16:27] Bruce Anthony: So it [00:16:30] popped up in social media that Amani was a transgender fighter. That was the buzz and news organizations ran it. Boston globe had to write a retraction. Saying that they were wrong. When I originally saw this, it popped up on my social media feed. And I was like, wait a minute, the transgender Olympic fighter is in the women's division.[00:17:00] 

[00:17:00] Bruce Anthony: It's like this, let me do a little bit more research. So I immediately went into research mode, just like I do come to find out that Amani born female, male on a birth certificate, male on a passport. And Oh yeah, Algeria is one of those places.

[00:17:16] J. Aundrea: I'm saying male.

[00:17:16] Bruce Anthony: Um, excuse me, excuse me. Let me repeat. Amani was born female,

[00:17:22] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:17:22] Bruce Anthony: on her passport.

[00:17:24] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:17:25] Bruce Anthony: Also Algeria outlaws, any translation and the [00:17:30] transitioning doesn't recognize transgender or anything. Amani is a female.

[00:17:34] J. Aundrea: Muslim country.

[00:17:36] Bruce Anthony: And let me tell you something about Muslims. As compared to Christians, not saying one religion is better than other Muslims are less likely to, skirt their beliefs than say Christians who say they're Christians, but don't follow the teachings of Jesus.

[00:17:55] Bruce Anthony: I'm not going to go here, here, nor there. I'm just saying that when they say Wayne [00:18:00] about this, they not about it under any circumstances.

[00:18:03] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:18:04] Bruce Anthony: from a country that. This doesn't exist. And you had so many people on social media and we'll get into more of that later, but I want to get your thoughts.

[00:18:13] Bruce Anthony: So many people on social media that was just spreading misinformation. And I was like, it literally took me 15 minutes to do a Google search to be like, Oh, this isn't true. And people don't do that. So I sent this to you, said, I wanted to [00:18:30] talk about it and we'll get more of my thoughts, but I'm curious to get some of your thoughts about this whole situation.

[00:18:36] J. Aundrea: Well, the situation started when she was fighting Italy's, um, Angela Carini. Am I getting that name right?

[00:18:45] Bruce Anthony: You got the last name, right? You got the last name, right? Um, uh,

[00:18:52] J. Aundrea: it's, oh Lord,

[00:18:53] Bruce Anthony: is the last name. I have it in a rundown for some strange reason. I can't. Yeah,

[00:18:58] J. Aundrea: Angela

[00:18:59] Bruce Anthony: yeah. Angela [00:19:00] Carini. Yeah. I had it in a rundown for some reason. I just cut it all off and just put Carini, but yes, Angela Carini.

[00:19:07] J. Aundrea: So Imane and Carini were facing off. Imane hit her with a strong blow to the face. And after 46 seconds, Karini pulls out of the fight,

[00:19:22] Bruce Anthony: Mm hmm.

[00:19:23] J. Aundrea: bursts into tears. um, she says, [00:19:30] this isn't fair. What she was talking about was it was the end of her Olympic hopes. That's what

[00:19:37] Bruce Anthony: Yes.

[00:19:37] J. Aundrea: about.

[00:19:38] J. Aundrea: Okay. She says in a statement, I put it into the match because after the second blow, I felt a strong pain in my nose. So that's why she put the end to them. She never says she never had an issue with fighting Imane. To begin with, she never says anything about Imane's gender. [00:20:00] Um, upset, angry, frustrated because her Olympic are over.

[00:20:07] Bruce Anthony: And there's more detail to that particular story, but But yeah, continue on.

[00:20:12] J. Aundrea: But of course the internet, the. The garbage pale place that it is took that and you have, you know, anti trans folks like J. K. Rowling I believe even J. [00:20:30] D. Vance weighed in the vice presidential nominee, um, causing, uh, releasing all, I think Elon Musk, who again, that's not surprising to me because he's a garbage human being. Running with this fully inaccurate story, and like you said, of her being trans, but like you said this is based on her, [00:21:00] uh, initial disqual her disqualification in 2023

[00:21:04] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:21:04] J. Aundrea: IBA. So, um, to Vox in 2023, Imane and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu Ting to compete in the Boxing World Championships held by the IBA. In New Delhi, India, but they were disqualified and what they were disqualified for was extremely vague. And according to the IOC arbitrary, [00:21:30] the IBA president reportedly told in a Russian outlet the time that both Imane and Lynn had X, Y chromosomes, which is a. the chromosomal composition most likely, most commonly seen in people assigned male at birth. They are both cis women.

[00:21:53] Bruce Anthony: Please explain because you got some idiots that are going to see this and listen to it and don't even [00:22:00] understand what CIS means.

[00:22:02] J. Aundrea: Cis means you identify with the sex you were born as. So they were born as women. Flat, I mean, I, I don't, I don't know how else to say that. They were born biologically female. have lived their lives. As biologically female and identifying as women, they have competed as women, they are women, period. [00:22:30] So, exactly what led to those statements?

[00:22:32] J. Aundrea: by the IBA president? Unclear. They did not disclose any documentation or reveal what tests were conducted. They just let people's imaginations run wild. Now, in a statement, in 2023, they, the IBA did say that Uh, Imane and Lynn both did not quote, undergo a testosterone examination, but we're subject to separate [00:23:00] and recognized tests whereby the specifics remain confidential. that the tests quote conclusively indicate both athletes have competitive advantages over other female competitors. That is so vague about what that could possibly mean. Do they have, more muscle? Okay. That might put them at an advantage over the, okay. I don't know. I, I, I, [00:23:30] that no, that gives no explanation to why they were disqualified. Especially since they competed the year before in the world championships.

[00:23:46] Bruce Anthony: Exactly.

[00:23:47] J. Aundrea: Um, that's where all of this is coming from. Listen, is nothing, we're not saying there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just saying this. This, this young [00:24:00] woman is not it. Like, that's just, and to not, to, to make it seem like, to make it a mark, I guess, against the way that she has been performing the Olympics thus far, already guaranteed a bronze medal. That's already a guarantee to try to besmirch that. And it's, and this is not the first time that [00:24:30] this has happened.

[00:24:32] Bruce Anthony: This isn't the first time it happened in the Olympics. There's another case that wasn't as prominent as this because news organizations didn't really jump out on it. This was more of a social media thing, but IANA or IANA, uh, Mayor, a rugby player for the U S was accused of being transgender and had to go on social media crying.

[00:24:53] Bruce Anthony: Like when? No, I'm not. This is how I was. This is who I am as a person. This [00:25:00] is just my biology. I'm just a big woman. Sometimes we're, we're big. And sometimes we have quote unquote, masculine features like a strong jaw or things like that. Yes, this happens.

[00:25:15] J. Aundrea: it's my natural face.

[00:25:16] Bruce Anthony: It's natural face.

[00:25:18] J. Aundrea: these, these are the muscles in the body that I worked for and that I was born with. Like asked each country to send their best, and when they do, you [00:25:30] question it

[00:25:31] Bruce Anthony: Well, it's, it's because of this anti trans sentiment that is spreading throughout the world. And I really hate it. Somebody sent me something the other day. A friend of mine sent me something that, uh, a video the other day and in the video that they sent me it was a guy talking about how planet fitness had lost 400 million dollars because there was a trans [00:26:00] guy in the women's bathroom and a 12 year old girl was sitting in the corner with a towel shaking and they had a picture of this guy And that planet fitness lost all this money and the person sent me the video and I, and I said to them, you know, me, this video doesn't seem right.

[00:26:19] Bruce Anthony: I'm going to do some research. Sure enough. I did some research because that's just, I guess I'm a researcher, I guess, because I'm a historian, I'm a researcher. Sure enough. I did some research. Planet [00:26:30] fitness did lose 400 million. There was a situation where a man had inappropriately touched a woman. That wasn't this case.

[00:26:37] Bruce Anthony: This was just the normal perv. It had nothing to do with trans people at all. So what right wing and they started with Tick Tock libs try to do Is take a situation where a trans person was in a bathroom at Planet Fitness and say that the 400 million lawsuit or loss to Planet Fitness was related to that when it wasn't.

[00:26:58] Bruce Anthony: It was related to something else. [00:27:00] So they tried to combine these whole things for a whole right wing. Push that, that did not exist. And the picture come to find out has been debunked that this picture that was a man in a,

[00:27:13] J. Aundrea: Mm-Hmm.

[00:27:14] Bruce Anthony: locker room has been debunked and saying that this was not the case. So there's so much misinformation on social media and people will run with it because they have this bigotry and they're looking for anything to back up their bigotry.

[00:27:29] Bruce Anthony: People [00:27:30] want to know that. To hate in a group. They don't want to be hate. They don't want to hate by themselves. So they, when they find any information that backs up their hate, whether it's true or false, they're going to run with it and not trying to find anything to dispel their hate because people want to hate.

[00:27:47] Bruce Anthony: Think about it. People love hate more than they love love. You know how I know this people have more criticism. And people will complain way more than they will ever give praise. You don't believe me. Ask yourself, [00:28:00] how often have you gone to a restaurant or had to deal with customer service and you immediately get, and you get a bad experience and you immediately complain and you'll complain to anybody that's listening.

[00:28:10] Bruce Anthony: But how often do you go to a restaurant or deal with the customer service? And it's a really pleasurable experience and you praise it or you fill out the little, Application or survey at the end of the customer service rep. It was like, Hey, have you enjoyed to fill out the survey? And it was like, this was pleasant.

[00:28:28] Bruce Anthony: And most of the time you either [00:28:30] exit out the window, hang up the phone and you don't fill it out. But if there was a bad situation, you immediately go to the complaint. People love to hate more than love. And they want to claim that that's not the case, but it absolutely is the case for the majority of people out there.

[00:28:48] Bruce Anthony: I know that people are going to be like, Bruce, what the hell are you saying? I'm being real here. You don't want to acknowledge it in yourself, but you know, for a fact, you'll complain more than you praise. So. Those people that are [00:29:00] on the social media that are, that have these bigoted hatred thoughts in their head are going to look for people that are like minded and look for information that backs up their claim.

[00:29:11] Bruce Anthony: And no, don't want to be proven wrong. Despite the fact that there have been news organizations like the Boston Globe who have retracted their statements saying that, that yes, Amani was not transgender. And we made a mistake. Amani is biologically female and has been biologically female her entire life.[00:29:30] 

[00:29:30] Bruce Anthony: Despite the fact that news organizations are retracting the statement, there's still going to be a certain segment of the population. They're either not going to get that information, not going to see the retraction or don't care about the retraction.

[00:29:42] J. Aundrea: Yeah. It's, it's gonna be the latter. They don't care.

[00:29:46] Bruce Anthony: And I, Mm hmm.

[00:29:49] J. Aundrea: gotten it in their heads that this is an issue. It's not, not an issue. But they've already gotten in their heads that this is an issue. And. [00:30:00] And, uh, it, it goes without saying that this is typically something that you see, a charge against black and brown women in sports. Um, Serena Williams

[00:30:15] Bruce Anthony: Mm-Hmm. . Mm-Hmm.

[00:30:18] J. Aundrea: Brittany Griner. so it's, it, I, just don't understand what people are looking for. You're looking for the best, we're sending you the [00:30:30] best. 

[00:30:32] Bruce Anthony: It's always a problem. Mm-Hmm?

[00:30:34] J. Aundrea: a problem. It's always a problem. And, uh, when the best come and show up and show what women are capable of and what women can do, and the, the, the way that we can push our bodies just like men, and we can achieve amazing things and world records and Olympic records and. Just like everybody else, just like men we're capable of these things [00:31:00] as well. It's, it's, I don't understand. You call yourself a feminist and you believe that women are capable of doing anything. And then when they do anything, then you immediately charge them with being men.

[00:31:12] Bruce Anthony: Mm mm

[00:31:14] J. Aundrea: So do you like women at all?

[00:31:16] Bruce Anthony: No, I mean, we've answered

[00:31:18] J. Aundrea: a lot of ladies need to ask themselves that question.

[00:31:20] Bruce Anthony: right? Like the world, the, um, we've, we've, me and you have had these conversations on this podcast and in private, the world has demonstrated throughout its history. [00:31:30] Don't like women, not just men. Women don't like some women don't like women. Like it's, it's, it's, it's not a, it's not an issue of just men hating on women, but they do it's women hating on women as well.

[00:31:43] Bruce Anthony: It's like, why I love women and not just. Well, yeah,

[00:31:50] J. Aundrea: The patriarchy, they believe it.

[00:31:52] Bruce Anthony: let's get into some of these official statements and corrections that IOC, the International Olympic Committee and other organizations [00:32:00] have clarified that Imane is eligible to compete in the Olympics. The IOC confirmed that Imane was assigned female at birth.

[00:32:08] Bruce Anthony: And her passport reflects this. Additionally, there's no evidence to support claims that Amani is transgender or has differences in sex development, DSD. Now we're not going to get into specifically DSD, but what I learned from all of this is Sex development and also why certain people that [00:32:30] are biologically female may still have an X, Y chromosome because that's another thing that a lot of people are harping on.

[00:32:36] Bruce Anthony: We've got an X, Y chromosome, you're a male. No, and I'm going, there are, there are situations in people's lives where they have X, Y, X, X, X. X, Y, Y, like there are different

[00:32:48] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:32:49] Bruce Anthony: things and I'm going to get into that later, but I found it interesting. I feel so bad for Armani.

[00:32:57] J. Aundrea: Yeah.[00:33:00] 

[00:33:00] Bruce Anthony: I sent you a text. I think we were talking yesterday and you were talking about Angela Carnali.

[00:33:07] Bruce Anthony: And I said, there's more to that story than what

[00:33:09] J. Aundrea: hmm.

[00:33:11] Bruce Anthony: you think.

[00:33:12] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:33:12] Bruce Anthony: And I feel bad for her as well, because she became a, for a brief minute before she had to come out and make a statement. And by the way, she shouldn't have had to come out and make a statement, but she had to, right. She became a poster child for transgender hate, kind of like.

[00:33:29] Bruce Anthony: Caitlin Clark [00:33:30] became a poster child for racism in America and Caitlin Clark didn't have anything to do with it. Angela didn't have anything to do with this. So why did Angela drop down to her knees? 

[00:33:40] Angela Carini's Story and the Impact of Loss
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[00:33:40] Bruce Anthony: It wasn't just the fact that she didn't reach her dream in the Olympics. Her father wasn't just her father.

[00:33:49] Bruce Anthony: He was also a boxing coach and he passed away shortly after she competed in the 2022 Olympics. She dedicated. All of the last four [00:34:00] years to compete in his memory. So when she took that shot and she said the re she took a shot, people were like the barely phase there. People also said that Muhammad Ali didn't knock out a Sonny Liston with that phantom punch.

[00:34:12] Bruce Anthony: But if you slow it down, you see he connected, right? So Amani connects or hits her in the face. And Angela is like, she hit me really hard. She hit me really hard in the nose and I couldn't breathe. And at that point it became a situation where. I'm not going to risk [00:34:30] my life. Some people will say, well, you would, you fought so hard to get to the Olympics.

[00:34:35] Bruce Anthony: You either leave it all out on the floor or you don't, if you die, you die. This ain't Rocky. First of all, this ain't like it. And she just lost her father a couple of years ago. She had a multitude of emotions. So this was the reason why she dropped down to her knees and she was crying. It had nothing to do with Armani.

[00:34:52] Bruce Anthony: And I know there was the big deal by her not shaking Armani's hand. This woman. Had dedicated her [00:35:00] entire last four years and dedication to her father and fell short because she legitimately felt like her life was in danger in this ring. She couldn't breathe. She took this shot from the nose and she couldn't breathe.

[00:35:14] Bruce Anthony: I don't know about you guys, but when you got a mouthpiece in and you can't breathe through your nose, Uh, good luck.

[00:35:21] J. Aundrea: Yeah. I

[00:35:21] Bruce Anthony: luck.

[00:35:22] J. Aundrea: have, I have stopped the fight. I was in because I got hit in my nose.

[00:35:26] Bruce Anthony: Well, yeah, you had a lot of issues with your nose growing up later to find out that

[00:35:29] J. Aundrea: [00:35:30] broken.

[00:35:30] Bruce Anthony: was broken all your life.

[00:35:31] J. Aundrea: know that, but let me tell you something. When you get hit in your nose and it breaks, people are probably going to be like, Jonah, what fights did you stop? I was, I took karate when I was

[00:35:41] Bruce Anthony: Yes. Yes.

[00:35:43] J. Aundrea: and I will stop a fight. Uh, but let me tell you something. When you get hit square in the nose,

[00:35:52] Bruce Anthony: All bets is off.

[00:35:54] J. Aundrea: it's like electricity shoots through your face. Like, I can't describe to you [00:36:00] the fe and I, I will shake them gloves right off be like, I'm done.

[00:36:05] Bruce Anthony: I'm done. And that's what, and that's what Angela did. But at the very same time that she's dealing with the realization that she's not going to fare the way she wanted to in the Olympics. I don't know. I can't, I can't imagine what she was going through in the process of grief for her father, but there that connection with [00:36:30] boxing and her father is there and to have to come out after this devastating loss.

[00:36:38] Bruce Anthony: And, and the shock of your father's gone. This was a thing that you have in the box. Her boxing career might be over maybe, and they have to come out and make a statement saying that I didn't, this didn't have anything to do. She, she apologized to Imane and everyone else affected by the emphasis about the incident and emphasize that she had no personal [00:37:00] animosity towards Imane.

[00:37:01] Bruce Anthony: And she expressed a desire to meet Imane again and embrace her and show willingness to move past the controversy. And the fact that she had to come out and make the statement. When she's dealing with all this other stuff, not, not, not comparing the, the Amani, the issues that Amani is dealing with and the issues that Angela is dealing with.

[00:37:20] Bruce Anthony: We don't have to do a trauma comparison. Just that both of these women are going through some BS because some people want to make a political statement on bigotry and hatred. [00:37:30] Now, I talked about the X, Y chromosome and a woman can have an X, Y chromosome due to genetic conditions. One such condition is Sawyer syndrome.

[00:37:39] Bruce Anthony: Individuals with Sawyer syndrome have an X, Y chromosome makeup, typically associated with males, but develop as females. They have normal female reproductive organs, such as a uterus, fallopian tubes, and vagina, but their ovaries do not develop properly. Another condition is androgyny. Andron insensitivity syndrome or [00:38:00] AIS people with AIS have an X, Y chromosome, but their bodies are unable to respond to male sex hormones.

[00:38:06] Bruce Anthony: As a result, they develop female physical traits, despite having male chromosomes turn a syndrome. 

[00:38:12] Turner Syndrome and More
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[00:38:12] Bruce Anthony: This condition affects females who typically have one X chromosome. Did you know that ladies and gentlemen, You don't necessarily have to have two X's. You can have one X. It can lead to a short, short stature, webbed neck and incomplete development of secondary sex characteristics. [00:38:30] Klinefelter syndrome. This condition affects males who have an extra X chromosome. That would be an XXY. It can result in reduced muscle mass, facial hair, and body hair, as well as enlarged breast tissue. Triple X syndrome, also known as trisomy,

[00:38:49] J. Aundrea: Tries of me

[00:38:50] Bruce Anthony: trisomy X or triple X. And that's, we're not talking about porn.

[00:38:53] Bruce Anthony: We're talking about, you know, you know.

[00:38:55] J. Aundrea: or

[00:38:56] Bruce Anthony: chromosome.

[00:38:57] J. Aundrea: cartoon alcohol jugs.

[00:38:58] Bruce Anthony: Oh, right. [00:39:00] Because they have the triple X to this syndrome. This condition affects females who have an extra X chromosome. Many individuals with this condition have no or mild system symptoms, but some may experience developmental delays. and learning disabilities, the X, Y, Y syndrome.

[00:39:17] Bruce Anthony: This condition affects males who have an extra Y chromosome. It can lead to taller than average height and may be associated with learning difficulties and behavior problems. And then the fragile X syndrome, this is a genetic [00:39:30] disorder caused by a mutation of the X chromosome. It can lead to Intellectual disabilities, behavior and learning challenges and various physical characteristics. There are so many different syndromes that affect the chromosomes in our body. Guess what, ladies and gentlemen, it's not simply XX and XY.

[00:39:48] J. Aundrea: Right.

[00:39:49] Bruce Anthony: It's a multitude of different things.

[00:39:51] J. Aundrea: we're not saying that Imane, um, has, has DSD, um, because there's [00:40:00] no evidence that she has DSD either.

[00:40:02] Bruce Anthony: No, I'm, this is to combat those people because there was some rumor going around social media that, that she had an X, Y chromosome. This is specifically to combat those people who are claiming unsubstantiated that she has an X, Y chromosome. Guess what? Even if she did, There's an explanation for that.

[00:40:24] Bruce Anthony: She's still female. So it, uh, and you know what, this all took [00:40:30] 15 to 20 minutes and I learned something new because I knew none of this.

[00:40:34] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:40:35] Bruce Anthony: knew none of this. So in a way, I'm

[00:40:37] J. Aundrea: not all geneticists.

[00:40:40] Bruce Anthony: right. And

[00:40:44] Support from IOC President
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[00:40:44] J. Aundrea: Keep your mouth closed because like if you're not a geneticist and not willing to learn that there are a myriad of ways that chromosomes can present in people like be quiet, [00:41:00] but I do want to give a shout out to the IOC president Thomas Bach, has been definitive and very clear and very against all of the hate and, um, um, basically abuse that, you know, and players, uh, athletes like her have received online.

[00:41:23] J. Aundrea: He, he has been very clear about this is a woman she is eligible to [00:41:30] compete. She's been eligible to compete. She's going to continue to be eligible to compete where he's like, we will not take part in a politically motivated culture war, and he has called this entire, the abuse and the aggression and the hate speech, totally unacceptable.

[00:41:47] J. Aundrea: So shout out to him for being. clear and very definitive and standing up for his athletes.

[00:41:54] Bruce Anthony: I shout out to him. 

[00:41:56] Hope and Social Media Advocacy
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[00:41:56] Bruce Anthony: And I will also say this as much bigotry and [00:42:00] hatred. I saw on social media. I saw a lot of people. A lot of people coming with facts and defending the money. And that gives me hope that that really good, you know, I'm all about hope. You know, that's what Superman stands for. That's what the Kryptonian symbol stands for.

[00:42:17] Bruce Anthony: It stands for hope. Uh, so I'm all about hope. That gives me hope that, uh, and I'm seeing it a lot on in this presidential cycle, I've seen a lot of people use social media to [00:42:30] check misinformation. I would like. For news organizations, not to be first, but to be right.

[00:42:38] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:42:39] Bruce Anthony: And a lot of people were running from running on that.

[00:42:43] Bruce Anthony: And some people, Logan Paul made a comment. Uh, if you don't know who Logan Paul is, he's a YouTube star. He was also the United States champion for the WWE, but he lost last night to L a night as I was watching summer slam. Cause that's what I was watching. [00:43:00] Instead of the Olympics, I was watching WWE summer slam.

[00:43:02] Bruce Anthony: And he made a comment that about Amani and it was like, this is disgraced men, you know, shouldn't be fighting women. And then they like a oopsie. When he found out that he was wrong, but not a real apology. And then he doubled down on anybody that believes that a man should fight a woman. Like, nobody believes that.

[00:43:21] Bruce Anthony: Like, nobody, nobody, nobody believes that. So, like, just apologize, admit that you were wrong and move [00:43:30] on. I

[00:43:31] J. Aundrea: weight classes should fight. That's why, that's why if you look in boxes, there are different weight classes. Like we don't.

[00:43:39] Bruce Anthony: don't believe that he should have fought Floyd Mayweather. Because he's in a different weight class. What is he talking about? Hypocrite.

[00:43:47] J. Aundrea: I, don't understand, I don't

[00:43:50] Bruce Anthony: people. Just people, man. Just people. You know what? I say it over and over and over and over again. And I'm going to keep stressing it. People, quit being dumb. I [00:44:00] mean,

[00:44:00] J. Aundrea: Like, just try.

[00:44:01] Bruce Anthony: just try. 

[00:44:02] The Importance of Research
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[00:44:02] Bruce Anthony: If you get some information, don't take it for face value. Go and do your own research. And do real research. Do real research

[00:44:13] J. Aundrea: I

[00:44:14] Bruce Anthony: and don't just read headlines.

[00:44:15] Bruce Anthony: Read the article,

[00:44:16] J. Aundrea: and I love that for my friends, I am the research.

[00:44:21] Bruce Anthony: right?

[00:44:22] J. Aundrea: whenever a story comes out or they hear something, I immediately get texts or calls, I heard about this, is this true? Like, [00:44:30] the, because I'm gonna do, My due diligence and let them know, Hey, I haven't seen this on any reputable news organizations.

[00:44:38] J. Aundrea: I would take that with a grain of salt or yes, that is true. Caveat here's what's actually going on. You know, like, even if you just want to hit up that one friend that, you know, is gone, look it up for you. has no problem with doing that.

[00:44:54] Bruce Anthony: You know what though?

[00:44:54] J. Aundrea: ahead.

[00:44:55] Bruce Anthony: People do that to me as well.

[00:44:58] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:44:58] Bruce Anthony: like, I'm not your [00:45:00] Google you can do the work yourself, but because they send me something so interesting, I ended up doing it anyway,

[00:45:08] J. Aundrea: But also like we have backgrounds in research. Not everybody does. So when people, when people trust. us what is the truth and what is false, right? I, I, I'm okay with that because I know that I spent my [00:45:30] collegiate career becoming a researcher. And so, and then I'm about to continue on

[00:45:36] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:45:37] J. Aundrea: postgraduate and continue on as a researcher.

[00:45:40] J. Aundrea: So if people are looking to me, like you will research something and find out what's the truth. Okay. I will. Not everybody has got that. People just, sometimes people just don't know where to look or where to go or the things to look for.

[00:45:52] Bruce Anthony: That's true.

[00:45:53] J. Aundrea: don't, I don't, it does not bother me at all when y'all text me and ask, is this true? Should I believe this?[00:46:00] 

[00:46:01] Bruce Anthony: I guess you're right. That's another way to look at it. I never, I'm like, why can't you just do what I do? But also you're very right. We were trained collegiately, to research. So, okay. All right.

[00:46:16] J. Aundrea: kind of, it kind of is, you know, a lot of people, you don't know where to find the information because you heard something. What's that? How is that different from hearing something else? know, hearing the opposite, like,

[00:46:27] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You're right.

[00:46:28] J. Aundrea: to trust? How do you know, [00:46:30] you know, a lot of people don't know nothing about peer reviewed studies.

[00:46:33] J. Aundrea: No,

[00:46:37] Bruce Anthony: being messy because, you know, I haven't been watching the Olympics. I told you, it's been about the stories for me and I'm going to continue. We're going to continue to be messy as we talk more about the Olympics and Simone Biles next.

[00:46:50] 

[00:46:57] Simone Biles: The GOAT of Gymnastics
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[00:46:57] Bruce Anthony: All right, sis, you brought her up [00:47:00] earlier.

[00:47:00] J. Aundrea: Mm

[00:47:01] Bruce Anthony: We don't get more into detail about her, but you know I also want to get into the messiness. So Simone Biles, what you got on Simone.

[00:47:09] J. Aundrea: Simone Biles. First of all, I have no words for the level of just extraordinary once in a lifetime talent. That is Simone Biles. I just had to say that that's, that's just me, Simone Biles has been making [00:47:30] headlines at the 2024 Paris Olympics with her incredible performances. She won the gold medal in women's vault finals. She, she showcased her signature, your Chanko double pike, which is also known as the Biles too. That's right. She has moves named after her because they are, because she just can't be seen. Stop. Like, I, I, I,

[00:47:55] Bruce Anthony: Can't stop. Won't stop.

[00:47:57] J. Aundrea: like, I'm literally, I have goosebumps right now [00:48:00] talking about her because how incredible she is. This victory adds to her impressive collection of Olympic medals, making her the most decorated American gymnast of all time. Additionally, she claimed her second Olympic all around title, further solidifying her status as the GOAT. She is the greatest of all time. 

[00:48:23] Simone Biles vs. Makayla Skinner
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[00:48:23] J. Aundrea: However, there has been some controversy

[00:48:26] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, it is.

[00:48:28] J. Aundrea: involving Simone Biles and [00:48:30] her former Olympic teammate, if you could call her that, Makayla Skinner. This is not to be confused with Makayla Maroney. Please y'all do not confuse her with Makayla Maroney,

[00:48:40] Bruce Anthony: Cause I did that.

[00:48:42] J. Aundrea: yes, who is also an amazing gymnast. Part of that, uh, Uh, that 2016 team. So please don't not, this is not Makayla Moroney. Makayla Skinner. Skinner criticized the work ethic and talent of the current [00:49:00] U.

[00:49:00] J. Aundrea: S. women's Olympic gymnastics team, which led to a public exchange between the two gymnasts. Now it has to be said, Makayla Skinner was an alternate. Okay. Like, like let's. Let's put it into perspective here and nowhere near goat status. So

[00:49:19] Bruce Anthony: Well, nobody's near ghost status. That's on with Simone

[00:49:22] J. Aundrea: right. So the fact that she even call herself commenting on this, I find very funny, but whatever. [00:49:30] Biles responded with a cryptic Instagram. When when they won the medal she posted the caption said lack of talent, lazy Olympic champions and the post seemed to address Skinner's comments and the situation escalated when Skinner blocked Biles on social media, Biles tweeted about the occasion. And Olympic teammate, Jordan Childs, who I also just adore [00:50:00] posted on her Instagram story as well. This goes way back, an interview with Skinner when she appeared in a now deleted YouTube video that has gone viral she criticized the team and the coaches of Team USA. went on to say, quote, besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn't what it used to be.

[00:50:27] J. Aundrea: I mean, obviously a lot of girls don't [00:50:30] work as hard. The girls don't have the work ethic. I would also like, To point out uh, uh, Sunni Lee is also an Olympic medalist. She earned bronze on the uneven bars apparatus just today. So, uh, the work ethic is there.

[00:50:58] Bruce Anthony: and who cares [00:51:00] if, if, if she was right. And she was like, they don't work hard and they don't have work ethic. You know what they got talent

[00:51:06] J. Aundrea: Talent.

[00:51:08] Bruce Anthony: and Michaela man had to work ethic and, and, and, and, and be determined, but she was an alternate.

[00:51:14] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:51:15] Bruce Anthony: So

[00:51:16] J. Aundrea: she

[00:51:16] Bruce Anthony: sounds,

[00:51:17] J. Aundrea: talent.

[00:51:17] Bruce Anthony: it's, it's giving off bitter to me.

[00:51:21] J. Aundrea: It's given real, real bitter.

[00:51:24] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. You know,

[00:51:25] J. Aundrea: it's given real bitter. It's given, I didn't make it [00:51:30] and I'm not ever going to make it. And so, and this is something I worked my life for and I don't have any moves named after me. I mean, it reminds me of, and I'm, I'm going to paraphrase because I don't know the exact quote, but I believe it was Venus Williams who said, we do what we do and y'all write the articles about it. Okay. That's a complete paraphrase because that's not what she said,

[00:51:59] Bruce Anthony: right.[00:52:00] 

[00:52:00] J. Aundrea: the, in essence, what she

[00:52:02] Bruce Anthony: that's right.

[00:52:03] J. Aundrea: I'm an athlete. You're a reporter. Okay. So it's given that it's given very much that Simone also when they won the team all around, they won gold, put on her diamond goat necklace.

[00:52:22] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:52:23] J. Aundrea: Jordan Childs had her grills in

[00:52:26] Bruce Anthony: I love it. I love it.

[00:52:28] J. Aundrea: I just love [00:52:30] the, this team. 

[00:52:32] Celebrating Team USA Gymnasts
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[00:52:32] J. Aundrea: And of course, Suni Lee, Sunisa Lee, who, is instrumental for this team, especially on Uneven Bars, who fought back who three years ago, Was diagnosed with two kidney diseases that almost ended her career. And the fact that in three years, she was able to fight her way back to the Olympics, not only there, not only to fight [00:53:00] her way back, but to medal. Um, amazing. And then also shout out to Jay Carey, who won bronze in the vault. Shout out to her as well. No, the talent is there. The work ethic is there. As Simone was dead on with the, Oh yeah, who were the lazy world here. Here we are as world champions 

[00:53:22] Bruce Anthony: and

[00:53:22] Bruce Anthony: shout out to Simone Biles for coming back from the twisties. Now I'm not a gymnast, never been a gymnast. Don't want to try and be a gymnast. [00:53:30] Never

[00:53:30] J. Aundrea: was a

[00:53:30] Bruce Anthony: participated.

[00:53:31] J. Aundrea: for about six months.

[00:53:33] Bruce Anthony: I remember that. I do remember that. Yes.

[00:53:36] J. Aundrea: gymnast

[00:53:36] Bruce Anthony: You could tumble. I remember you tumbling

[00:53:38] J. Aundrea: And then I quit once they put me on the high balance beam when I told them I did not want to be on that balance beam. I

[00:53:45] Bruce Anthony: where,

[00:53:45] J. Aundrea: on the little one

[00:53:46] Bruce Anthony: right.

[00:53:47] J. Aundrea: little girls my age were on, but because I was bigger than them, I had to go.

[00:53:51] J. Aundrea: And the second I fell off, I, I got up, I dusted myself off. I walked over to mom and I says, time to go. And she just got [00:54:00] up. And walked out with me and that was it. And I never went back to gymnastics because again, I will end a fight and I will walk away. This is why I'm not an Olympian today. This is why I'm a spectator.

[00:54:17] Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why. Okay. Yeah, no, to come back and then, and I don't know what I'm watching. Like, I don't know what I'm watching, but I do know what I'm watching is [00:54:30] awe inspiring.

[00:54:32] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:54:32] Bruce Anthony: Um, so yeah,

[00:54:36] J. Aundrea: gets on her flips on, on her passes, like she gets seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 feet in the air. And this is, this is a four, eight woman. And the height that she gets it's, it's incredible. And she does things that other gymnasts cannot do. I have seen men do [00:55:00] the the Uchenko double pike or whatever, and, and not stick the

[00:55:04] Bruce Anthony: You mean the Biles too?

[00:55:06] J. Aundrea: The biles too.

[00:55:07] J. Aundrea: I have seen men do the biles too and not stick the land in the way she sticks it. So like, amazing, amazing. And truly the go. And she had to clear somebody that I follow on Tik TOK. So we have been given her husband, whose name I still escapes me a hard time. We have

[00:55:28] Bruce Anthony: Uh huh.

[00:55:29] J. Aundrea: a hard time [00:55:30] since he appeared on that podcast and tried to make it seem like he didn't know who she was.

[00:55:34] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[00:55:35] J. Aundrea: this world champion and we we have been on him since then because to us you are Simone Biles husband Okay,

[00:55:44] Bruce Anthony: And ain't nothing wrong with that.

[00:55:46] J. Aundrea: ain't nothing wrong with that because Alexis Ohanian Founder of reddit but the good Jill Gilbert jibber jibber in there.

[00:55:55] Bruce Anthony: Right.

[00:55:57] J. Aundrea: is firmly of the [00:56:00] belief that he is solely and only Serena Williams husband and father of Olympia.

[00:56:05] J. Aundrea: That is who he is. Like,

[00:56:08] Bruce Anthony: name, their daughter's name is Olympia.

[00:56:09] J. Aundrea: you know it.

[00:56:13] Bruce Anthony: I just,

[00:56:14] J. Aundrea: it.

[00:56:14] Bruce Anthony: I just found that out. Okay. All right. Olympia.

[00:56:18] J. Aundrea: because her mom's the GOAT.

[00:56:20] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:56:21] J. Aundrea: Okay?

[00:56:22] Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

[00:56:22] J. Aundrea: So Now, then we see him, 2024 Olympics, he's in the audience, he's with her parents [00:56:30] and is adorable. He has his score sheet out and he is taking score and really paying attention. And we're like, we love it. We love it. Okay. Then later takes a photo after she wins her first gold and he's wearing the gold, medal. Cool. Cool. So one of the a creator that I follow called him out. She's take that off. You didn't do any of those flips and dips and nothing. Take that off. [00:57:00] You ain't got no business wearing her gold medal.

[00:57:01] J. Aundrea: That's hers. She earned that. 

[00:57:04] Simone Biles' Social Media Clapbacks
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[00:57:04] J. Aundrea: Simone gets in the chat.

[00:57:06] Bruce Anthony: Mm

[00:57:07] J. Aundrea: comments and says, funny thing is I put my metal on my entire family and they all took pictures with it.

[00:57:14] Bruce Anthony: hmm.

[00:57:15] J. Aundrea: Do not make assumptions. Y'all are so miserable. And this creator makes another video and says, You are right, ma'am. And I apologize. And that's all you can do.

[00:57:24] Bruce Anthony: That's that. Yeah.

[00:57:25] J. Aundrea: when, when Simone clears you,

[00:57:28] Bruce Anthony: Right, right,[00:57:30] 

[00:57:30] J. Aundrea: you take it, and you just be thankful that she even saw your video.

[00:57:34] Bruce Anthony: right.

[00:57:35] J. Aundrea: like, you're right, ma'am. That is your husband and your medal, and you could do whatever, and I am sorry. And you are right. And that's all you can do.

[00:57:44] Bruce Anthony: Yeah, because the creator was wrong in the first place. Not, even if that was the case, even if he just put the medals on and took a picture of it. He's already demonstrated the fact that he supports his woman. Why are you some, [00:58:00] uh,

[00:58:01] J. Aundrea: I might be bitter. You know what? I might be bitter. You are right, Simone. Cause Simone said y'all are bitter and miserable. And she was like, yeah, that might be true. You, you might have told me something about my life that I didn't know. I

[00:58:15] Bruce Anthony: you know what, you know, what, sometimes, sometimes people can tell you about yourself and things that you didn't even know

[00:58:22] J. Aundrea: You might have some blind spots and you don't realize it,

[00:58:24] Bruce Anthony: we all got them.

[00:58:26] J. Aundrea: will get you together

[00:58:28] Bruce Anthony: Simone Biles is going to tell you who you are.[00:58:30] 

[00:58:30] J. Aundrea: in a, in a New York minute.

[00:58:32] Bruce Anthony: Not in New York, but

[00:58:34] J. Aundrea: devil punk.

[00:58:36] Bruce Anthony: quicker, quicker than she does the Biles too.

[00:58:39] J. Aundrea: Quicker than she does that run down the runway to do that, Biles too.

[00:58:43] Bruce Anthony: That's another thing. She could have ran track. She fast.

[00:58:46] J. Aundrea: Fast. Fast.

[00:58:49] Bruce Anthony: Well, I mean, all short people are fast. Look, Simone Biles, brilliant Olympian. I'm about to get messy. Simone Biles, brilliant Olympian, [00:59:00] beautiful woman.

[00:59:01] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[00:59:01] Bruce Anthony: I'm 6'4 probably around 230 right now, 235. I'm a big, bigger guy. I can't, and I've dated short women. My ex wife was short. I dated a firefighter one time.

[00:59:15] Bruce Anthony: She was 4'11 and a half. She's 4'11 and a half.

[00:59:18] J. Aundrea: Because

[00:59:18] Bruce Anthony: Uh,

[00:59:19] J. Aundrea: a short woman would love her a tall man. I don't understand it.

[00:59:22] Bruce Anthony: and I mean, I don't know. I've, I've dated a lot of short women for some strange reason.

[00:59:28] J. Aundrea: Yeah.

[00:59:29] Bruce Anthony: I [00:59:30] think I know what the reason is, but we're not gonna get into that. 4'8 is a little person. I can't date 4'8. So that just looks weird that yeah, she's 48. That just looks weird to me. It's because our husband is an NFL player, but he's not exceptionally tall.

[00:59:47] Bruce Anthony: He's more on the average height. I think he's five

[00:59:50] J. Aundrea: Owens. Let me not, let me not,

[00:59:52] Bruce Anthony: Jonathan Owens. I think he's like 5 11. Yeah. So 5 11 to 48. I guess [01:00:00] doesn't look really ridiculous because if you but

[01:00:04] J. Aundrea: up to below his shoulder when they're standing next to each other. I'm looking at photos of them. She's,

[01:00:09] Bruce Anthony: for me who's five inches taller than him That's like somebody being 5'1 and I have pictures of women that I dated that are 5'1 standing next to me and they look Miniature. So I couldn't imagine dating somebody five inches shorter than that. It just looks weird to me. I would, that just looks weird to me.

[01:00:29] Bruce Anthony: I know she's a [01:00:30] grown woman.

[01:00:30] J. Aundrea: Yes.

[01:00:32] Bruce Anthony: However, it's given little girl and that just is weird to me.

[01:00:39] J. Aundrea: No, she's a

[01:00:41] Bruce Anthony: I know she, I know she's a grown woman. I know she's a grown woman, but if she walked up to me, hi, I'm Simone Biles. I'm leaving my husband. Would you like to go on a date? I'd be like, Simone Biles. You're beautiful. I know you're a grown woman.

[01:00:54] Bruce Anthony: Uh, no, I can't. You're just too short for me. I'm sorry. It's my [01:01:00] own bias. You're just too short.

[01:01:02] J. Aundrea: absolutely ridiculous. girl is solid, and she could literally jump over you.

[01:01:08] Bruce Anthony: Uh, well, if she got a running start, she could jump over me. She can't

[01:01:11] J. Aundrea: a run and start,

[01:01:12] Bruce Anthony: Yeah. Running start. She can't just jump over me now.

[01:01:15] J. Aundrea: side, if she's doing floor exercises, and you on the other side of the floor, she is going to get that run and start, and she is going to do a full, Flip, half turn, flip, pike, I don't know the things, but she going to do it right over the top of [01:01:30] your head with feet clearance because she's gotten up to 12 feet, nine inches before.

[01:01:36] J. Aundrea: So she will clear you.

[01:01:39] Bruce Anthony: She going to do that. Can Mitchie, uh, 2000

[01:01:43] J. Aundrea: She going to do the Simone,

[01:01:45] Bruce Anthony: miles to no, but I'm really happy for her. I'm really happy. I'm really happy that, you know, she checking people on social media. Cause that's what you somehow you just got to check people on social media. I'm real glad she [01:02:00] checked McKayla. I was really happy that it wasn't the McKayla that I thought it was because I was like, not that McKayla.

[01:02:06] Bruce Anthony: I can't believe it. Cause this McKayla Skinner got a little history. Some racist comments, so we didn't really get into that and that I think it's given a lot of I'm jealous. I'm not good enough. And how's this black person going to be better than me? I don't like it. That's what it's given, but we didn't really get into that.

[01:02:23] Bruce Anthony: And we don't really need to get into that. We just going to celebrate Simone Biles being the greatest gymnast. [01:02:30] That has ever existed. I'm going to say male or female gymnast, period. That's what I'm going to say.

[01:02:37] J. Aundrea: she's just truly amazing.

[01:02:41] Bruce Anthony: The Olympics ladies and gentlemen, how many more days is left in the Olympics? Cause the Olympics is only 16 days.

[01:02:47] J. Aundrea: It's 16 days and I think today is day nine.

[01:02:50] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Well, you're going to have a couple of more days to watch before your trip.

[01:02:53] J. Aundrea: Yes, yes,

[01:02:54] Bruce Anthony: So I know you're excited about that, but you probably, it was gone.

[01:02:57] J. Aundrea: definitely excited to track and field, but I [01:03:00] do have a tiny, Rant.

[01:03:04] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[01:03:04] J. Aundrea: a rant.

[01:03:05] Bruce Anthony: Okay. Go.

[01:03:07] Paris Olympics Committee Criticism
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[01:03:07] J. Aundrea: Paris Olympics Committee get it together. Because the fact that I did not get a chance to see Shellyann Frazier Price in the women's 100 meter final. Because y'all would not let her and Sha'Carri Richardson in the gate. is insane.

[01:03:27] Bruce Anthony: Wait a minute. What?

[01:03:28] J. Aundrea: Yes. So there was a [01:03:30] last minute change the night before that in order to get onto the track and to where the athletes warm up, you have to be on the team bus from the Olympic Village. Sha'Carri Richardson and Shellyann Frazier Price are not staying in the Olympic Village.

[01:03:48] Bruce Anthony: Okay.

[01:03:49] J. Aundrea: So they took private transportation.

[01:03:51] J. Aundrea: They were not informed that they had to be on the team bus from the Olympic village in order to get in. So they get there and they're not being let into the gate. They didn't [01:04:00] get to warm up. So Sha'Carri Richardson gets silver in that race. Even though no hate to the St. Lucian runner who did get the gold, it's the first Olympic medal for St.

[01:04:15] J. Aundrea: Lucia, and it's a gold. She ran an amazing race, but Shaka didn't get to warm up Shelly Ann, because she didn't get to warm up, said, I'm not even, I, I can't do it. I can't run. And I didn't even get a chance to warm [01:04:30] up. Shellyann Frazier Price has been on an Olympic track for 20 years, meddling. She is women's, like, She is, like, the way you know Usain Bolt, Frazier Price is that. Okay, like, so her face, her being Shellyann Fraser Price, should have let her in the gate. And the fact that Sha'Carri Richardson's [01:05:00] face is literally everywhere, as for her Olympic debut being the fastest woman in the world right now. Their face should have been what let them in the gate. The fact that Sha'Carri Richardson is sitting on a curb, Outside of the gates, outside the track, not being able to warm up because they would not let her in is insanity to me. Somebody getting fired if they not already. [01:05:30] Because I can understand maybe if it's a lesser known runner, you don't, maybe, I don't know. No, no, we are talking about Shellyann Fraser Price is an institution in women's track. She is that girl. And Sha'Carri Richardson's face is everywhere. It's everywhere! That's their ticket in. Are you kidding me? [01:06:00] All you had to do was call me. And I'd have been like, let me see. That's Shelly and Price and Sha'Carri Richardson. Let them in the gate. The hell? All they had to

[01:06:12] Bruce Anthony: Not call you.

[01:06:12] J. Aundrea: me. And I could have told you, let them in the gate. So Paris Olympic committee, this is not the first issue that we've had in Paris.

[01:06:24] J. Aundrea: The Seine was deemed not safe for the swimmers of the [01:06:30] triathlon. So they had to clean the river out and all that. Get it together, Paris Olympic committee, get it together. That's all I have to say about that. Cause are you kidding me? This is probably Shellyann Fraser Price's final Olympics. And we got cheated out of an opportunity to see her run. Ridiculous.

[01:06:50] Closing Remarks and Thank You
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[01:06:50] Bruce Anthony: And ladies and gentlemen, on that note, thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holla 

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