John Amaechi
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He is named Clemente.
Really?
Really?
There you go. We got to get them together.
There you go. We got to get them together.
Thanks so much. It was a pleasure being here.
Thanks so much. It was a pleasure being here.
That was great. Big time pleasure.
That was great. Big time pleasure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What college did you go to again? Clark University. If I called their athletic department right now and said, can you tell us how to contact one of your more successful graduates, John Wiener? Yeah. Oh, yes. You mean the guy's jersey that's hanging in the rafters up there?
What college did you go to again? Clark University. If I called their athletic department right now and said, can you tell us how to contact one of your more successful graduates, John Wiener? Yeah. Oh, yes. You mean the guy's jersey that's hanging in the rafters up there?
I tell you, the interesting part was a colleague of mine, an academic at another university, recently found themselves stopped, held for 36 hours, and then gently ushered back to France. So since that point... It has made me breathe deeply about coming into the country. And again, it's not anything about the people of the country. It's just about the process of going through the border.
I tell you, the interesting part was a colleague of mine, an academic at another university, recently found themselves stopped, held for 36 hours, and then gently ushered back to France. So since that point... It has made me breathe deeply about coming into the country. And again, it's not anything about the people of the country. It's just about the process of going through the border.
And it's notable to me, I suppose, that I travel to the Middle East for work and places that others might imagine to be more hostile from a governmental point of view. And I feel less stressed than I felt coming in. I've got global entry, right? So I've been double checked. The home office has checked me to make sure I'm not a bad person. And so is the US government.
And it's notable to me, I suppose, that I travel to the Middle East for work and places that others might imagine to be more hostile from a governmental point of view. And I feel less stressed than I felt coming in. I've got global entry, right? So I've been double checked. The home office has checked me to make sure I'm not a bad person. And so is the US government.
And they were all really very pleasant. And so it turns out to be a bit of a nothing. But the idea that that stress exists in America is really strange for me.
And they were all really very pleasant. And so it turns out to be a bit of a nothing. But the idea that that stress exists in America is really strange for me.
So I'd say two things. One, Hold on, hold on. So this is what I'd say about that. Sorry, I'm just, I'm totally distracted by- That was Matt Coogler. The juxtaposition.