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Somali Sprinter Broke World Record at the World University Games in China

#nepotism#somali#somalia#runner#networking
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0:00 you guys you guys ever seen that clip of Obama saying like yeah I mean if I could just not be president and have somebody just and I could pull the strings sounds like Biden to me [Music] all right I want you guys to watch this uh race there's a Somali athlete that broke a record at the world University games in China it's gonna be this person right there I bet he's gonna run faster than ever she's um I'm not seeing this yeah Somali right here the light blue just keep your eyes try to follow this Runner wait what [Music] what okay the record for the slowest time so she wasn't training at all huh oh man I

0:52 thought it was gonna be like a really fast Somali me too Runner with a bunch of Chinese people and then they're like like getting that's right smoked that looks like she's jogging at the end run oh she didn't even look like she was prepared for yeah no not a runner at all dude it looks like she never sprinted ever she never has so I guess what happens in charge of choosing who goes to the games just picked like a relative and they told her oh ████ you got to be there tomorrow yeah that's what happened now there's a accusation of nepotism from that like official literally uh yeah that girl's not even a runner at all that's the worst way to

1:43 get caught for nothing just put her on they're like hey uh Bernice you want a free trip to China yeah hey pretty you just one run National Television Uncle I'm having a hard time getting my Visa okay you gotta do something for me you want to study in uh Beijing University that'll be like the first time that's ever happened right because I can't think of I mean it could be the first time that nepotism picked somebody as unqualified as that right that's what I'm saying yeah because usually it's like uh they'll pick someone that can at least blend in she wasn't ready at all or there was one time that like uh in a cool way there was like one country who um their hurdler like got injured or something like that so I had to pull out but if you don't purchase if your country doesn't participate then as a team um you don't get like the points for it so one of the like uh shot put thrower

2:35 ladies she was like I'll just come in to get that one point for the team so she obviously had the slowest time but that was like a commendable honorable way to participate but at least it's an athlete still imagine what that feels like to be a Somali Runner that's really good oh dude oh you couldn't get the job you didn't qualify right I gotta be pissed and then you watched the actual like games and you're like wait her but guess what now you got leverage dude now you got leverage because you go hey you want her to compete in the games next year you're gonna put me in a game you want to be embarrassed the bars like this yeah yeah baptism is a hell of a thing right it is people get put into positions but don't you want to hook up all your friends but not if you know not if they're gonna make me lose my job yeah because that that's harmful for you you know like if you're the person who gave them that job that's a bad look that is true but I

3:26 feel like some places it's just so corrupt and done that way that that's normal so they don't even think about like or maybe I should put the right person in you know what I mean like because it's so normal like if you go if you live in a country where it's so normal where you get pulled over and you're like oh you got a 20 all right give that to the cop see ya then following the rules is like you're being weird it would be funny if like that relative was like I didn't know he was gonna run that slow I'm all right like losing is losing sure but like man you like the camera left you yeah yeah what if she did yeah yeah she was out of frame the other way what if she ran track and this is like 10 years later oh oh that could be yeah she's like a Beyond the Glory Days kind of person it's like I could do it no she doesn't

4:16 like that it's like when you call one of those cars in Vegas that they're handing out and the ending the ending skip where she's like the arm for me yeah she's like I'm ████ so tired and she grows she's like oh my God I'm so tired yeah dude like Somalia has like tons of like great Runners it's like a I just known for their Pirates really dude I don't really think of it I think those are two different oh is it two different I think so one Somalia I gotta look at Maps dude and I think because I think there's two countries oh the somalis is different than Somalia check it though I might be wrong Czech Republic or is that what they just kind that I've check it though do they call them somalis Somali the people of Africa occupying all of Somalia

5:06 oh so that's what they thought they split into two countries but I don't know maybe some mommy Arab Somali Africa and what's a sommelier [Laughter] ████ Nick is so funny so funny God put in the comments that Nick is so funny you're on point today buddy he's on point every day stop talking I don't like nepotism unless it's one of my friends isn't that the whole point of nothing yeah I don't like nepotism unless one of my friends hooked me up when did nepotism help you in your life never I think that's how I got this that's why I don't like nepotism are you kidding ah bar asked me I was like hey do you want to do this oh yeah then you just go on to prove to be the funniest dude here okay nepotism yeah

5:56 what's the difference between nepotism and networking the way it's spelled because like let's say like the networking there's you get the job because you network well and people like you and then they think there might be someone else more qualified but I like you I'm going to ask you you know what the difference might be what it almost seems like nepotism is the idea of the boss and networking is the idea of the person trying to get the position she may not even wanted to do this but maybe that person was like no you're gonna do this it'll be good for you kind of deal she looks like she doesn't you know like nepotism sometimes yeah because like nepotism would be like let's say you're the mayor and then the vice mayor is your aunt and then the of the the the the County Treasurer is your

6:48 uncle and then like chief of police is your cousin because you hooked them all up with jobs yeah but it feels like similar to what happened in uh what's that one country where the uh were the dudes there was like a coup and then the powers shifted and then the guy's in charge jacked all the money and pieced out Mexico oh yes yeah yeah Sri Lanka Sri Lanka exactly yeah that to me is that's nepotism because it's this Grand Masters idea but he uses his family members to keep the gains within the family yeah because what's the difference between nepotism and royal family I mean that's just like autonomics well no that's different because with the royal family the blood was ordained by God oh yeah oh it's chosen by God yeah so you can't

7:39 fight that you know what I mean when you say something's chosen by God you can't change it yeah you can't change no matter who says it because he's like he you know you're gonna you're gonna go back on his word no nope no I'm not gonna be the one I'm not even that religious I'm not going to test it because it's like it feels like nepotism is done for the benefit of the person like at the top it's like it benefits that person ultimately like barbell brigade's nepotism right because like Geo's not supposed to be CEO no Am I Wrong oh man am I gonna get canceled Biden Falls in that category then kind of what if the allegations are true he uses his son to do all the businesses because the politician can't I would say what's her name um Pelosi oh

8:29 well it's insider trading but what Pelosi does is she's already in the committee with all the business and all the policy making she gets the News tells her husband her husband makes the stock trades he he balls out but she's not doing anything illegal that's his stock exactly yeah that's just teamwork I think yeah which I you know what the more I think about it that's just teamwork that's not nepotism that's just insider trading if I was Pelosi I'd do the same ████ I think I think nepotism is like hook hooking up your friends and family with jobs that They Don't Really Deserve especially if you're in a place to influence like that one um Chinese like producer film producer who's Rich As ████ so he puts like his daughter or whatever and like all these random Blockbuster films and just has like one line or just like next to these like A-list Stars if she need any

9:20 American movies I think so is she in the Meg is it that movie sounds like somebody who would be an adjacent State basketball I know because I saw it recently and I was like oh wait make one or make two I think oh I saw the first one okay make one was good make two I don't know no it wasn't good I don't know well I haven't even seen make but it's from Beneath The Depths and I thought the trailer was just like I heard it still did a better box office opening The Flash oh damn the flashlight tank that hard huh yeah the flash tanked I thought it'd be good they had a whole TV series like I thought it was pretty good I actually finished it but people were just actively don't like the guy right maybe Ezra Miller yeah choking choking that that fan that video is kind of that'll make a big difference you know what it is too I feel like real nepotism is when you hire your friends and family so that when they're in those positions they have to do what you say so it's just an extension of your own power it's like oh I got you this job

10:12 you gotta like listen to me but then if somebody was networking and got that job you don't have as much control because they're probably actually like so if you want more control nepotism is the way honestly yeah that's why like isn't that why like big businesses Corporation they put like their own sons in charge of this and that so that way it's just the decision kind of comes from up here yeah that makes sense so it's just efficient yeah you guys you guys ever seen that clip of Obama saying like yeah I mean if I could just not be president and have somebody just and I could pull the strings you ever seen that clip that's kind of tight sounds like Biden to me [Music]

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