Get Woke, Go Broke: Olympic Edition
26 Jul 2021
Buck joshed, โThe French Olympic male basketball win brings to mind that when France beats us at anything thatโs not involving fatty pastries or stinky cheese, weโre in trouble.โ
However, Clay and Buck and their feisty callers agreed that why weโre really in trouble with the Olympics and all other sports is no joking matter โ or even about which team is better. Rather, it is the even deeper descent into โGo Woke, Go Broke,โ which is simply a major turnoff that has people turning off their viewing devices in record numbers.
โThe Olympics are tanking. Are you watching? Or do you think theyโre un-American?โ Clay queried. Callers, as youโll hear below gave touching (regarding their childhood memories) and angry replies (being fed up) with way-out wokeness in all sports.
During the show, Clay noted Olympic champ Michael Phelps was TV network commentating at that moment and Clay had the impromptu reaction he said sums up his stance on wokeness in sports, โI didnโt care what Michael Phelps thought about abortion in America, I just wanted him to be the worldโs best swimmer.โ
Clay may have been years ahead of the curve on damage from wokeness in sports but now thinks many Americans are so repelled that โthey there are a lot of red-blooded, waving-the-flag Americans that either donโt care about the Olympics this year, or are even rooting against some of the woke athletes out there, even though theyโre fellow Americans.โ
For those not yet woke to the true dynamics behind the get woke-go broke connection, Clay rang the alarm clock.
โIโve been saying you go woke you get broke in the world of athletics for a long time,โ he reminded. โThatโs the natural reaction. And let me just explain this thesis for people out there who may not have worked through it. Sports, the idea is to appeal to every single person out there, regardless of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their sexuality. Thatโs what Michael Jordan represented. Thatโs what Tiger Woods represented. And really it is the phrase โRepublicans Buy Sneakers Too,โ which Jordan has admitted he said, represented the desire to appeal to everyone in becoming a global icon. And I believe that LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, athletes of that ilk, have destroyed that universal appeal.โ
Clay was so ahead of that curve that he used Jordanโs phrase as his bestselling book title, along with the apropos subtitle, โHow the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics.โ
Buck gave as a current disturbing example the ruckus over the German womenโs gymnastics teamโs, instead of bikini-style bottoms, wearing unitards at the Olympics to take a political stand rather than just the physical stances athletics fans expect from their sport.
Buck wanted to know if anyone โ the woke or unwoke โ was even staying awake during the Olympics.
C&Bโs charged-up callers were โ but mainly just long enough to become disgusted by ruinations by radicalized athletes. Listen here:
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