Winning The Gold In Our Race To The American Dream | Titan Impact Group

My fellow compassionate capitalists, Steve and Seth here, Titan Impact Group. Hey, you know, if you watched the first video before this, you know, it's better for me to not even bust some chops, to just turn the time back over to the master and explain to you what I'm doing being the professional prop master here. It is an honor and a pleasure and a privilege. And so, Seth, take it away and explain to our audience here what, what work, the amazing acquisition you have here.

Sure. Thank you. So I just think back, time out. Okay.

Our audience has gotten younger, but we appreciate that.

Yeah. So this is the certificate for Jesse Owens, the 1936 Berlin Olympics. And this one is for the 200 meter. And Steve is holding one of Jesse Owens four Olympic gold medals from the 1936 Olympics.

Yes. Bucket list item right here. Hopefully they're taking pictures of this as well as the video.

And here is another. That's what it looks like on both sides. So why do I care? Why should you care about the 1936 Olympics? Well, again, it's a moment in time that we could learn so much from. Hitler had spent years preparing to use those Olympics to showcase this idea of a united Germany. He did that actually just by hiding everybody who didn't follow his theories. But he built this big stadium and he was able to use it to showcase the resurgent Germany. But his other main goal was to use it to showcase this idea of the Aryan race. And anthropologically, there actually is no Aryan race. He made that up. But this idea that these blue eyed, blond haired, tall Germans were the master race, that everybody else was inferior and everybody particularly inferior, but most inferior would be Jews or would be African Americans or actually black people anyway. And Jesse Owens, who just wanted to run fast, was luckily chosen to be part of the American team. And before that, in high school, he'd started already in middle school, high school to become a track star. And then in college, he, he actually performed a feat in 1935 that is considered by many to be the greatest feat of sports of all time. In 45 minutes, he won three. He set three world records and won four gold medals, four races. So he was on his way and then he shows up in Germany. And Hitler had invested a lot of time and effort and money to develop the best athletes and really thought that they would win everything. And Jesse Owens comes and wins his first gold medal.

And then, I mean, it's something too. And I don't mean to interrupt you here, but it's just, it's mind blowing as we're Hearing this, you gotta remember Jesse Owens grandparents were slaves. His father was a sharecropper. He had battles with chronic pneumonia all of his childhood. This is somebody who could not be more disadvantaged or have a better excuse to not succeed in life and to go up against someone who was sponsoring an event who actually believed that there was an Aryan race. Forget the fact that he was a brown haired, black eyed, or excuse me, brown eyed, black haired, Austrian. But hey, you know, the facts don't matter if the propaganda is big enough, you know, to have heroes like Jesse Owens and basically tell Hitler here, hold my beer.

And by the way, and not just once and twice or three times, but four. The fourth is controversial. Controversial not because of anything Owens did. He was scheduled to run the three, he won all three. And the only thing, the only kind of people that the head of the American Olympic team disliked than blacks were Jews. And so he pulled the two Jewish members off the team and put Jesse Owens on. And Jesse hadn't run the relay, but he opened up that race and they set a world record that held for a couple decades. And by the way, from that 1935, the record he set in the long jump held for more than 25 years also.

Those who say that it's impossible should not stand in the way of those who are doing it. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah. And he then comes home to America as this hero. There's a ticker tape parade, he's welcomed by the mayor of New York, gets off the boat. Actually that's when he gave his first medal away to a guy named Bill BoJack Robinson, no relation to Jackie, but a famous entertainer who had made all sorts of promises about helping Jesse capitalize on his fame and make a living off. Jesse had been basically kicked out of the sport afterwards because he was being used by the American Olympic Committee headed by a really horrible racist, anti semitic, just horrible person who was totally aligned with Germans and they'd send him across. They did some races in Europe before the came home and it was their responsibility. They weren't being fed, they weren't being, you know, boarded and treated well, but they were told, show up here and run. And so finally after doing that several times, he said no and got kicked off of the Olympics. And when he came home was never able to get a job in sports, like to be an athletic instructor. But the day you think about the triumph and the day that there's ticker take parade and then there's a dinner in his honor at the Waldorf Astoria, hotel and he's not let in the front door and they tell him he has to go around to the freight elevator. And Franklin Roosevelt, who, you know, did a lot of wonderful things, did some horrible things, was not a racist. But Franklin Roosevelt did not welcome him or the other eight African Americans who won medals at the Olympics, did not congratulate him, did not use this opportunity to create sort of a binding moment. And there are good reasons for that, you could say political good reasons. He was worried about keeping the country together. He was worried about not doing anything to create more strife in the south as America was trying to keep his head buried in the sand and pretend that what's happening in Europe isn't going to affect us. And Roosevelt, for all his flaws and for all the things that he didn't do for blacks or to say, for Jews, he. Without him, we probably wouldn't have gotten into the war in time to save Europe or to save America. And, you know, just the repercussions, like, why do I care about history? And I started to think that, you know, 36 was too long ago. People don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore. And then a month ago, with the invasion of Ukraine, here it is again. Because we had this before, just like Hitler started with Austria, which was sort of by mutual consent election, but then, oh, he just needed the Sudetenland, the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia, nothing more. And so in Munich conference, the appeasers say, yes, make him happy. We don't want to go to war. And the lesson that we should always learn is you don't make a dictator happy by giving him what he wants. You make him want more. And so then Sudetenland and then all of Czechoslovakia and then Czechoslovakia and then Poland, and we had this Crimea, 2014, and the west didn't want to fight and didn't want to give up its oil. And so let them get away with it. And Donetsk, let them get away with it. And now Ukraine. And finally the world is showing spine and. One minute. I'm so sorry. You can cut this out, I hope. Yeah, we'll edit it. I'll be back like 15. Oh, that's fine. Great. Sorry.

Seth's a popular guy and I'm honored that he's spending the time that he is with us. This is truly amazing. So please.

Yeah, so I was just talking current events, but this is the kind of history that we need to learn. And you know, we always think about the short term cost and we'd rather not give up this trade or not give up these profits or not, you know, have to spend on defense. But it's often not up to us. You know, we can put things off for as long as we can, but the costs are going to come. And so from this moment in time, I love to think about Owens and everything as a person that he had to struggle to overcome and not to say anything against Owens, but he's not the kind of figure that Jackie Robinson is, because we weren't ready. The world wasn't ready. There was too much going on. And then World War II. So he gave us hope at a moment. He was a hero at a moment. But then it was Jackie Robinson who stood on his shoulders and was able to create change, but not even the full change that we needed. Then it was Martin Luther King, and then it was. There was an interview with Martin Luther King when he was introduced. Not, you know, one would think, not unusually, as the founder of the Civil Rights movement, although there's really no single thing. But King reportedly said, no, I'm not the founder of the Civil Rights movement. Jackie Robinson was. And I think just we started. We've been talking off camera about personal things. I mean, you know, I'm just a guy who sells used paper or, you know, used metal. But I really want to be able to leverage that, my little knowledge, to get people excited about. Learn about history and about turning points and how individuals and movements. I'm not saying only individuals and I'm not saying only movements and economies and politics. It all works together. But one little change can have a butterfly effect. And this gets back to conversations we've had about the Declaration of Independence that we could say for another time. But, you know, one of the ways I view American history.

You heard it. I'm taking it that I get to have another interview in the future. I'm excited about that. I just wanted to point that out. I'm going to hold you on. I'm going to hold you to that. But go ahead.

By the way, we have conversations where I learned from Steve, and he talks. So this is, you know, but the Declaration of Independence, American history. One way to view all of American history is through that one line, all men are created equal. And this one question, what does that mean? Or who does that apply to? And America is great when we're moving in the direction of making that apply to all people. And America is costing itself and holding itself back when we create limits to that all people. So Nashville sports and the Declaration of Independence and not at all ignoring the history and the fact that everybody wasn't originally included in that, but it was a vision that. I mean, the founders weren't crazy. They knew that it wasn't actually true, but they set up a system that allowed it to be more true than it was anywhere else. And that when we were moving in the right direction, that's what we did.

You know, there you go. And hey, I'm gonna. I'm gonna see if I can't talk Seth into a quick little five minute, one more question. Interview at this. But as it's to summarize everything that has been said so far. What is history but the study of human nature? And what is your human nature when it comes to never awaken from the American dream?