Jamie Laing
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Yeah.
And because obviously my mom has been when she was younger with obviously my father.
Yeah.
And she was like, she was like, yeah, you're not going to find any more happier people than people in Nigeria.
And I was like, mom, it felt weird because I went out and I felt like,
I was at home and she was like, well, that is your home.
That's where your dad's from.
And I was just like, I'm a bit annoyed that obviously I know so much about my Slovak background, but I didn't know so much about obviously my Nigerian background because we haven't been there for so long.
I said, why is there such a difference in how I'm trapped in Nigeria than Slovakia?
She was like, Rico, obviously a family name, Rico, you can't compare 200 million to 5 million.
I said, mom, that's not what I'm talking about.
I said, Nigeria are the king of boxing or king of athletics.
If you look back at people's heritage-
king of like king of music the king of sports I haven't thought of it like that is isn't it exactly because there's a lot of boxers that for example you got Anthony Joshua Daniel Dubois Joe Joyce me Okoli React Paul Deontay Wilder
These are all of Nigerian descent.
Obviously they say they're British, they say they're American, but these are all of Nigerian descent.
And it's like, if you look back in people's history, like they would have some sort of, um, some sort, exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So, um, and I was like, when I went to Nigeria.