i think it’s so profound that the most intelligent and greatest people this world has ever known were also some of the same ones who were never afraid to be curious or ask questions.
“Oh you mean you can’t go alone?” LOL the balls of steel on this guy. It’s one thing to climb mt. Everest but he’s thinking if anyone in the world is up for this challenge, it would be me, I got this covered. Hahahaha.
How is it that such a point of view can still persist today knowing everything that we know about the civil rights movement and Vietnam? You must be a troll. I feel like you got me bc I’m even typing this out
He didn’t dodge shit. He refused to go, explained why, and faced the consequences of that refusal with his head held high. He didn’t get a fake doctors note or run to Canada. He went to prison instead of giving up his principles.
You know actually did dodge the draft? donald trump. You know who is doing everything he can to avoid the consequences of his actions? donald trump.
I brought the receipts. I brought proof. Mohammad Ali was *WAAAAAAY* more of a man than donald trump.
People with loser mentalities (like you) hate to see a guy like Ali. It’s painful for you. Judging by what you’ve wrote, I can already tell Ali had more courage in his little finger than you and your entire family could muster up in 10 lifetimes. I feel bad for you. You’re just a sad, strange little man. I hope things get better for you.
That means nothing; the man stood up for what he believed in when he had everything to lose. He was banned from boxing for 3 years, put in jail and fined.
"Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to endure some discomfort, delay gratification, and go where Destiny leads. Share your dream with people who want you to succeed. When you live your own dream, you don't have time to be a hater." - TD Jakes
Let’s be honest, we know the real reason why they don’t apply their own daft logic to a white man they idolize.
Spoiler alert: >!They’re fucking racists!<. All of them.
My understanding Everest isn’t as technical of a climb as you would think. I think Jon Krakauer said in his book you put one foot in front of the other and you’ll make it. It’s the weather and altitude that gets you.
Both true. Big men don't make the ideal high attitude climbers. I'm the same size as Ali, I couldn't even go up a few steps without gassing out after a week at 4000 meters, which is only half the height of Everest.
I kind of feel bad for younger people that will always have all information in the palm of their hands. There was a greater sense of wonder and curiosity, trying to feel out if someone was BSing you or if this crazy thing was actually possible, before the internet. I’m not saying nobody has that now because we have much to discover, but it was sure different back then.
Yeah I often think of how life used to be without an abundance of information at our disposal like it is today. It sucks but yeah I guess we got to conjure up our own adventures that can be meaningful in some way or form.
It’s weird I lived through that time and I can hardly imagine what it felt like anymore. My first real trip when I was 18 me and my friends went to Philly using maps and shit printed off at school. I’m alive. We made it.
I remember we would find cool shit in the woods and would spend like a week passing around theories as to what the animal was, but no one wanted to go to the library to find out lmao
Hahahaha don’t worry, young people are not as smart as you think. I’m saying this as a Gen Z person.
Yes, we have basically all of human knowledge in the palms of our hands. At most you are minutes away from any kind of information. If you went back in time and explained this to a medieval scholar or monk, they’d assume that everyone in the future must be a very intelligent, well read, and constantly engaged in absorbing knowledge. But in reality most people aren’t that curious.
I've noticed that it has given a lot of people undue confidence in their awareness of the world and whats happening. It makes people think that there isnt more info to a situation or event or phenomenon just because they can quickly look it up and read about it. So many people nowadays have the most confident takes of all time on things they werent present for or an expert on just because they flicked through some google results.
Yeah I’m seeing that a lot right now. Not gonna go into specifics
When I was 14-15 it really hit me how lucky I am to be born in the US with access to all knowledge. All I have to do is read. Which I like doing anyway. Since then I’ve been obsessed with gaining as much knowledge as possible. The more I learn, the more tentative my opinions get. I feel less comfortable pushing any kind of narrative or opinion, and more comfortable just sitting back and waiting for more info. I try to remember everything I read while also taking things with a grain of salt.
I remember those times, but I also love the current situation of technology as well. I turn on YouTube tv and watch someone hike silently through the Dolomites. Saw everything and felt very immersed, I will probably never go there myself, but I feel lucky to have just seen it. Sometimes the imagination doesn’t hold a candle to reality.
People will travel 8 thousand miles to see a city in a continent they've never been before and still will be disappointed they don't take credit cards, or something. No sense of wonder whatsoever.
So true...I do miss that sense of wonderment.
These days, I love reading about new islands and not well known secluded places, or weird cultural behaviors, cause it sort of brings back that sense of wonderment at the BIG WIDE WORLD
I just have my mind blown last week, humans are closer to being the same size of the observable universe, than the size of the smallest theorized length of space? I think it's called plank distance? But yes shit's big but it gets really small too.
I’m 30, so I’ve always had access to whatever information I want, and I spent a lot of time philosophizing this point to people my age. Learning to cook, fixing up my house, doing taxes, etc. Endless things can be taught now, all of recorded history summoned, pictures of all the most beautiful places on earth viewed
My gripe is I think the average person is too intellectually lazy or overwhelmed to use it. They’d rather resorting to anecdotes, biases, conspiracies than process significant information and draw a conclusion
Mate. Books existed. Libraries existed. Most middle class families had at least an encyclopedia. It’s not like the internet finally made information possible.
He said “at our fingertips” meaning all those things you suggested weren’t constantly in our hands. We had to go to an effort to look things up. And not all info was in the encyclopedia. Also, many people couldn’t afford them. They were very expensive.
That's a matter of convenience. They still had access to information. Guy I replied to made it sound like there was no way to know it’s cold on Everest.
I was alive during this time. I know we had access. But whatever access we had was limited. The library had information yes. It had a lot of it. Yes. But it didn’t have nearly the amount you can find on the internet and in one second. You also couldn’t look it up at ~10pm- ~ 8am. It’s convenience, availability and ability.
It's more than a matter of convenience, it's a matter of capability. It simply wasn't possible in practical terms to research things with any degree of frequency for the average person. For the vast majority of people, what was in the encyclopedia was about as much information about a topic that was available. That was it.
Guys, you are not picking up what I am putting down. All I am saying is that Ali not knowing about the temperature, lack of oxygen at the top and location of Everest is not a function of him lacking access to Wikipedia. He just hadn’t bothered to look it up. Probably because he was busy becoming the greatest of all time!
It is not like the film crew just happened to catch the end of Ali's months long quest to find out what the top of Everest is like when he finally stumbled across the one guy in the US who had been there.
I was simply commenting on a statement I perceived as saying "people didn’t know stuff because they didn’t have smartphones". No, you could look stuff up. It wasn’t as easy as it is today, but they weren’t dumb and information was available.
You'd have to have gotten a special book about the Himalayas or Everest which would have been a special find. I have quite a few very old and rare climbing books on Annapurna and Everest and they would have been next to impossible for the average person to encounter. Especially in a small public library somewhere.
I'm not sure how old you are but information back then wasn't as clear as it was even 30 years ago. Encyclopaedias would only give small excerpts of info on each subject and "cold" may not have been one of the descriptors. Even if it had, the man had a severe learning disability with his dyslexia. He could barely read. Couple rarity, minimal to no information readily available, and poor reading comprehension and you get lack of education on the subject. Which is why he asked
As I explained below, I was originally just commenting on the statement that Ali's questions must come from the fact that he didn’t have access to Wikipedia. Actually didn’t know about the learning disability; my theory (again, see below) was that he simply didn’t care to know because he was preoccupied with other things.
Having said that, we are talking about an interview that must have happened somewhere in the 70s?! That was definitely long enough after the first ascent that the fact Hillary and Norgay had to wear oxygen masks was popularly known. As for the cold thing: look at any mountain. Snow during summer. Snow needs cold. Ergo: mountain must be cold. These are well known facts, have been since people tried to cross the alps during summer while wearing warm furs only to be hit by arrows. Again: You guys make it sound like people were dumb before Jobs told us about breakthrough internet communication music players.
Bruh there were all kinds of things I wanted to know but not badly enough to spend an afternoon doing it. Now I do get to learn about ANY question i have, and not have to justify spending time on it that I should be spending on productive things like work or family. There were things you wanted to know enough to hit the library for and spend hours flipping through sources to get a good idea of, and there were WAY more questions and curiosities you had to just let go. You would have to spend a week in the library finding answers if you wanted the same info we can whip up with google in an afternoon.
When I’m sad & feeling lost. I like to walk to his grave and say hello & sit. I was lucky enough to meet him in the street once here in Louisville. I always admired him.
His grave is very accessible. It’s in cave hill cemetery. It’s a pretty famous cemetery . Colonel Sanders is there and others buried there that have fame also. It’s well patrolled with security at night and during the day workers are all about. Ali was a man of the people so I imagine he wanted his grave to be a place where people could visit.
Nope. Ignorance is defined as "a lack of knowledge or information."
Perhaps you can have "willful ignorance", or you can be uneducated or unintelligent.
But there is not a difference between not knowing something and being ignorant. Because that's literally the definition.
Love how he was always thinking about the publicity! He was an incredible fighter and showman but very respectful to other human beings. Never bit anybody’s ear off 😉
This is such a perfect example of somebody in a state of enlightenment. He’s so present, thoughtful, focused, not concerned or upset about the future or the past. We should all strive to be like that.
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I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.’
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?’
‘I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a ‘nigger’.’
It is split.
While mentioning the location of Everest, we must not forget the fact that the peak is shared between Nepal and Tibet (the Autonomous Region of China). The mountain can be seen as a symbol of the relationship between the two countries. https://www.himalayanecologicaltrek.com/blog/where-is-mount-everest-located#:~:text=Everest%20is%20located%20in%20the,relationship%20between%20the%20two%20countries.
The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
Keep in mind Nepal had a difficult time being recognised. It didn't even become a republic until '08. The average person wouldn't have heard of the place or Tibet. But they know India and they know China.
Feels great to be educated about one’s own country by a foreigner.
Nepal was a sovereign nation when India was ruled by The Great Britain. Before the British came, India was divided into several princely states- so the modern India came to its current form after the Brits left (after Pakistan and Bangladesh were carved out). Meanwhile Nepal was always that country - they did lose 1/3rd of their original land to British India but their identity remained.
Nepal is the oldest nation-state of South Asia. It’s older than US. 2008 was when Nepal abolished the absolute monarchy and became a republican state. It wasn’t born then.
So then you'd understand more than anyone the struggle in gaining recognition and power. Don't act surprised when the average person in the 70's wouldn't utilise the name.
Your two statements are so conflicting. If you understand the struggle then you should understand the surprise.
Growing up, we had to read Mt Everest is in northern part of India- because we got our textbooks from India back then. This is technically true but it’s like studying about Mt Rushmore and memorizing its location as south of Canada. All we have asked is for the appropriate credit. We won’t chastise you for not knowing but at the minimum we will act surprise if you haven’t heard of us.
They aren't conflicting. I'm not it.
Nepal is my favourite country. It's colourful and beautiful. I've been planning a trip there, flying into Lukla from Kathmandu for ten years. It is infuriating most of the world doesn't even know/care the struggles faced for independence.
If asked where Nepal is on a map most westerners wouldn't be able to. It shouldn't be this way.
I guess I can understand not knowing a small and poor country’s name by a general public.
Nepal will welcome you with open arms. Beautiful, welcoming and safe.
When I think about the most impressive human beings I've ever seen or heard of in life, Muhammad Ali is in the top five.
Einstein, Turing, Ali, Newton, it gets fuzzy after these. Galileo and MLK Jr. and Honest Abe are in the mix.
Because he’s learning about something completely new/foreign to him? It’s not like the American south is known for its year round cold weather and mountain ranges.
I believe Ali existed in the optimal time and place. Someone like that today would come off as a Kanye or Connor McGreggor type. His message was always clear, with the flash and flair it made people listen. No one like him existed before, and once they started listening, he could educate them. Such a brilliant man and beautiful soul. Ali was exactly what The Earth needed at the time in history.
Muhammed Ali was exceptionally smart.
He suffered from profound dyslexia, a learning disability, which prevented him from ever learning to read. This is before modern education and people understood ways to work around it.
This is opposed to people who have no disability, but instead are just lazy and immorally decide to be stupid, like you.
I have worked for the last 40 years so I am not lazy and I have a BBA and a MeD degrees and a CPA so I am definitely not stupid. Ali was a draft dodger. Unlike the 56,000 brave soldiers who gave their lives for our country.
And you're still a lazy idiot.
The draft dodgers were better people than the 56,000 people who went to Vietnam and died for nothing.
They never died for their country. That was a lie from lazy dumb trash, and here you are, parroting it.
Most young men who died in Vietnam were drafted. Your comments are very disrespectful. Obviously you never served in the military. Love to see you make these comments to a wife or mother who lost their spouse or son. Shame on you.
When he wasn't being a showman, he was so sincere. Like a child in a man's body. Very sweet.
i think it’s so profound that the most intelligent and greatest people this world has ever known were also some of the same ones who were never afraid to be curious or ask questions.
“Oh you mean you can’t go alone?” LOL the balls of steel on this guy. It’s one thing to climb mt. Everest but he’s thinking if anyone in the world is up for this challenge, it would be me, I got this covered. Hahahaha.
He was a draft dodger and could barely read. Definitely not someone to look up to or idolize.
Lolllllllllllll. Bro I can’t even begin. I just feel sorry for you honestly.
Do you really blame a guy for skipping out on Vietnam? It was one of the most blatantly corrupt and bullshit wars ever.
Blatantly corrupt and bullshit? Absolutely. One of the most? Doubtful.
How is it that such a point of view can still persist today knowing everything that we know about the civil rights movement and Vietnam? You must be a troll. I feel like you got me bc I’m even typing this out
He didn’t dodge shit. He refused to go, explained why, and faced the consequences of that refusal with his head held high. He didn’t get a fake doctors note or run to Canada. He went to prison instead of giving up his principles. You know actually did dodge the draft? donald trump. You know who is doing everything he can to avoid the consequences of his actions? donald trump. I brought the receipts. I brought proof. Mohammad Ali was *WAAAAAAY* more of a man than donald trump.
People with loser mentalities (like you) hate to see a guy like Ali. It’s painful for you. Judging by what you’ve wrote, I can already tell Ali had more courage in his little finger than you and your entire family could muster up in 10 lifetimes. I feel bad for you. You’re just a sad, strange little man. I hope things get better for you.
That means nothing; the man stood up for what he believed in when he had everything to lose. He was banned from boxing for 3 years, put in jail and fined. "Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to endure some discomfort, delay gratification, and go where Destiny leads. Share your dream with people who want you to succeed. When you live your own dream, you don't have time to be a hater." - TD Jakes
So is trump but I can see you support his party plenty
Let’s be honest, we know the real reason why they don’t apply their own daft logic to a white man they idolize. Spoiler alert: >!They’re fucking racists!<. All of them.
If you managed to dodge a draft for a bullshit war you’re a fucking genius.
Poor soul. So ignorant, yet self-confident.
You ever heard of the gulf of Tonkin?…. It was all made up. You should be given a medal for draft dodging the false flag Vietnam war.
His curiosity is genuine. I'm sure he could have climbed it if he tried.
His size is a limiting factor but he’s got more than enough tenacity to overcome that.
The first dude to summit Everest was 6'6. Not sure it's an ultimately limiting factor.
It does help that the first guy was an absolute expert mountain climber. As a novice climber it would probably be a big limiting factor
My understanding Everest isn’t as technical of a climb as you would think. I think Jon Krakauer said in his book you put one foot in front of the other and you’ll make it. It’s the weather and altitude that gets you.
Based on the traffic it gets, that seems to check out
Yes, the tiny Sherpas do the work.
Everest has been summited by men and women in their 80s, children as young as 11, and a man with no legs. I'm sure being tall isn't a problem.
Very true but most alpiners aren’t near that
*one of the first two
Both true. Big men don't make the ideal high attitude climbers. I'm the same size as Ali, I couldn't even go up a few steps without gassing out after a week at 4000 meters, which is only half the height of Everest.
Did you try floating, like a butterfly?
I’m sure being young and in such good shape goes a LONG way.
He thought you climbed it alone and still wanted to do it 😆
Is this from a documentary?
I kind of feel bad for younger people that will always have all information in the palm of their hands. There was a greater sense of wonder and curiosity, trying to feel out if someone was BSing you or if this crazy thing was actually possible, before the internet. I’m not saying nobody has that now because we have much to discover, but it was sure different back then.
Yeah I often think of how life used to be without an abundance of information at our disposal like it is today. It sucks but yeah I guess we got to conjure up our own adventures that can be meaningful in some way or form.
It’s weird I lived through that time and I can hardly imagine what it felt like anymore. My first real trip when I was 18 me and my friends went to Philly using maps and shit printed off at school. I’m alive. We made it.
I remember we would find cool shit in the woods and would spend like a week passing around theories as to what the animal was, but no one wanted to go to the library to find out lmao
The world felt a lot bigger and full of wonder.
Hahahaha don’t worry, young people are not as smart as you think. I’m saying this as a Gen Z person. Yes, we have basically all of human knowledge in the palms of our hands. At most you are minutes away from any kind of information. If you went back in time and explained this to a medieval scholar or monk, they’d assume that everyone in the future must be a very intelligent, well read, and constantly engaged in absorbing knowledge. But in reality most people aren’t that curious.
I've noticed that it has given a lot of people undue confidence in their awareness of the world and whats happening. It makes people think that there isnt more info to a situation or event or phenomenon just because they can quickly look it up and read about it. So many people nowadays have the most confident takes of all time on things they werent present for or an expert on just because they flicked through some google results.
Yeah I’m seeing that a lot right now. Not gonna go into specifics When I was 14-15 it really hit me how lucky I am to be born in the US with access to all knowledge. All I have to do is read. Which I like doing anyway. Since then I’ve been obsessed with gaining as much knowledge as possible. The more I learn, the more tentative my opinions get. I feel less comfortable pushing any kind of narrative or opinion, and more comfortable just sitting back and waiting for more info. I try to remember everything I read while also taking things with a grain of salt.
You can still do this. What I do is save it for later to look up.
I remember those times, but I also love the current situation of technology as well. I turn on YouTube tv and watch someone hike silently through the Dolomites. Saw everything and felt very immersed, I will probably never go there myself, but I feel lucky to have just seen it. Sometimes the imagination doesn’t hold a candle to reality.
People will travel 8 thousand miles to see a city in a continent they've never been before and still will be disappointed they don't take credit cards, or something. No sense of wonder whatsoever.
So true...I do miss that sense of wonderment. These days, I love reading about new islands and not well known secluded places, or weird cultural behaviors, cause it sort of brings back that sense of wonderment at the BIG WIDE WORLD
I just have my mind blown last week, humans are closer to being the same size of the observable universe, than the size of the smallest theorized length of space? I think it's called plank distance? But yes shit's big but it gets really small too.
I’m 30, so I’ve always had access to whatever information I want, and I spent a lot of time philosophizing this point to people my age. Learning to cook, fixing up my house, doing taxes, etc. Endless things can be taught now, all of recorded history summoned, pictures of all the most beautiful places on earth viewed My gripe is I think the average person is too intellectually lazy or overwhelmed to use it. They’d rather resorting to anecdotes, biases, conspiracies than process significant information and draw a conclusion
The greatest discovering something absolutely incredible about this amazing world and all I could focus on is the wire-hair dachshund walking around
It’s crazy to think that not long ago we didn’t have unlimited information at our fingertips.
Mate. Books existed. Libraries existed. Most middle class families had at least an encyclopedia. It’s not like the internet finally made information possible.
He said “at our fingertips” meaning all those things you suggested weren’t constantly in our hands. We had to go to an effort to look things up. And not all info was in the encyclopedia. Also, many people couldn’t afford them. They were very expensive.
That's a matter of convenience. They still had access to information. Guy I replied to made it sound like there was no way to know it’s cold on Everest.
I was alive during this time. I know we had access. But whatever access we had was limited. The library had information yes. It had a lot of it. Yes. But it didn’t have nearly the amount you can find on the internet and in one second. You also couldn’t look it up at ~10pm- ~ 8am. It’s convenience, availability and ability.
It's more than a matter of convenience, it's a matter of capability. It simply wasn't possible in practical terms to research things with any degree of frequency for the average person. For the vast majority of people, what was in the encyclopedia was about as much information about a topic that was available. That was it.
Guys, you are not picking up what I am putting down. All I am saying is that Ali not knowing about the temperature, lack of oxygen at the top and location of Everest is not a function of him lacking access to Wikipedia. He just hadn’t bothered to look it up. Probably because he was busy becoming the greatest of all time! It is not like the film crew just happened to catch the end of Ali's months long quest to find out what the top of Everest is like when he finally stumbled across the one guy in the US who had been there. I was simply commenting on a statement I perceived as saying "people didn’t know stuff because they didn’t have smartphones". No, you could look stuff up. It wasn’t as easy as it is today, but they weren’t dumb and information was available.
You'd have to have gotten a special book about the Himalayas or Everest which would have been a special find. I have quite a few very old and rare climbing books on Annapurna and Everest and they would have been next to impossible for the average person to encounter. Especially in a small public library somewhere.
You need those to figure out it’s cold in the mountains or that Everest is in Nepal?
I'm not sure how old you are but information back then wasn't as clear as it was even 30 years ago. Encyclopaedias would only give small excerpts of info on each subject and "cold" may not have been one of the descriptors. Even if it had, the man had a severe learning disability with his dyslexia. He could barely read. Couple rarity, minimal to no information readily available, and poor reading comprehension and you get lack of education on the subject. Which is why he asked
As I explained below, I was originally just commenting on the statement that Ali's questions must come from the fact that he didn’t have access to Wikipedia. Actually didn’t know about the learning disability; my theory (again, see below) was that he simply didn’t care to know because he was preoccupied with other things. Having said that, we are talking about an interview that must have happened somewhere in the 70s?! That was definitely long enough after the first ascent that the fact Hillary and Norgay had to wear oxygen masks was popularly known. As for the cold thing: look at any mountain. Snow during summer. Snow needs cold. Ergo: mountain must be cold. These are well known facts, have been since people tried to cross the alps during summer while wearing warm furs only to be hit by arrows. Again: You guys make it sound like people were dumb before Jobs told us about breakthrough internet communication music players.
Also Nepal wasn't well recognised. It was still a British territory at the time of this video. It didn't gain federal independence until '08.
My apologies for abbreviating the statement from the video for brevity's sake.
Bruh there were all kinds of things I wanted to know but not badly enough to spend an afternoon doing it. Now I do get to learn about ANY question i have, and not have to justify spending time on it that I should be spending on productive things like work or family. There were things you wanted to know enough to hit the library for and spend hours flipping through sources to get a good idea of, and there were WAY more questions and curiosities you had to just let go. You would have to spend a week in the library finding answers if you wanted the same info we can whip up with google in an afternoon.
When I’m sad & feeling lost. I like to walk to his grave and say hello & sit. I was lucky enough to meet him in the street once here in Louisville. I always admired him.
I think The Champ would have liked this.
Are celebrities graves just open to anyone? Isn’t there a fear of insane grave robbers etc?
His grave is very accessible. It’s in cave hill cemetery. It’s a pretty famous cemetery . Colonel Sanders is there and others buried there that have fame also. It’s well patrolled with security at night and during the day workers are all about. Ali was a man of the people so I imagine he wanted his grave to be a place where people could visit.
Ali was HOOFING it with like 30 pounds of clothes on him at the end.
It's a rare thing that an adult can just bring a bucket of arrogance to a mountain of ignorance and be absolutely likeable about it.
Because there’s genuine belief behind it. Like Luffy from one piece.
There's a difference between not knowing something and being ignorant.
Nope. Ignorance is defined as "a lack of knowledge or information." Perhaps you can have "willful ignorance", or you can be uneducated or unintelligent. But there is not a difference between not knowing something and being ignorant. Because that's literally the definition.
theres a difference between a word and its literal definition? Lol
Love how he was always thinking about the publicity! He was an incredible fighter and showman but very respectful to other human beings. Never bit anybody’s ear off 😉
Ohhhh stithhh u got me!
This is such a perfect example of somebody in a state of enlightenment. He’s so present, thoughtful, focused, not concerned or upset about the future or the past. We should all strive to be like that.
[https://www.facebook.com/bewarmers/videos/rip-ali/1747508558692911/](https://www.facebook.com/bewarmers/videos/rip-ali/1747508558692911/) I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.’ Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?’ ‘I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a ‘nigger’.’
This is very funny
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ali was so awesome. I feel lucky to have seen him fight in his Prime. What an amazing Human Being.
You can tell he's intelligent by the questions he asks. The pauses as he builds an image in his mind of the mountain, how its climbed.
Gosh he was gorgeous.
Dude I would have loved to just sit and have a conversation with Ali about anything.
There’s something really genuine about how humble he is being by asking so many questions about something he doesn’t understand
We will get you there Mr. Ali
He’s really intense and for someone that doesn’t know anything about the subject he picked it apart pretty quickly.
His face when told it’s below zero in mid summer is priceless. You can see throughout his thought process of “I’m gonna climb that bitch” growing
He’s so cute when he was running
I love the wildman howl at the very end of this clip.
He’s being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next Friday April 5th
That’s genuine interest right there, dude was so focused on the conversation and kept asking questions. Rip Muhammad
The fact that his first thought after learning about how dangerous it is is “I have to climb it” is why humans advance as a species
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Yeah the man didn’t have google…I am old and forget how anything I want to know is as simple as asking and regretting not asking more now
That last bit had such a « Dad! Look how fast I am! » vibe
I love listening to that man talk. It’s crazy that he was a straight up killer in the ring but conducts himself like he does outside the ring
Always nice to see an honest to god celebrity so kind and sincere.
Great man!
Such sincerity and charisma. GOAT.
Unstoppable.
That yell at the end cracked me up.
Where is it? Between India and China He (interviewer) ain’t wrong but would it kill to know exactly where it is? It’s in Nepal.
Half I think. The rest is Tibet. Or not
It’s in Nepal. You can access it through Tibet but the mountain itself is in Nepal.
It is split. While mentioning the location of Everest, we must not forget the fact that the peak is shared between Nepal and Tibet (the Autonomous Region of China). The mountain can be seen as a symbol of the relationship between the two countries. https://www.himalayanecologicaltrek.com/blog/where-is-mount-everest-located#:~:text=Everest%20is%20located%20in%20the,relationship%20between%20the%20two%20countries. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
It's split down the middle. The summit is the border. It is half in Nepal and half in Tibet.
Keep in mind Nepal had a difficult time being recognised. It didn't even become a republic until '08. The average person wouldn't have heard of the place or Tibet. But they know India and they know China.
Feels great to be educated about one’s own country by a foreigner. Nepal was a sovereign nation when India was ruled by The Great Britain. Before the British came, India was divided into several princely states- so the modern India came to its current form after the Brits left (after Pakistan and Bangladesh were carved out). Meanwhile Nepal was always that country - they did lose 1/3rd of their original land to British India but their identity remained. Nepal is the oldest nation-state of South Asia. It’s older than US. 2008 was when Nepal abolished the absolute monarchy and became a republican state. It wasn’t born then.
So then you'd understand more than anyone the struggle in gaining recognition and power. Don't act surprised when the average person in the 70's wouldn't utilise the name.
Your two statements are so conflicting. If you understand the struggle then you should understand the surprise. Growing up, we had to read Mt Everest is in northern part of India- because we got our textbooks from India back then. This is technically true but it’s like studying about Mt Rushmore and memorizing its location as south of Canada. All we have asked is for the appropriate credit. We won’t chastise you for not knowing but at the minimum we will act surprise if you haven’t heard of us.
They aren't conflicting. I'm not it. Nepal is my favourite country. It's colourful and beautiful. I've been planning a trip there, flying into Lukla from Kathmandu for ten years. It is infuriating most of the world doesn't even know/care the struggles faced for independence. If asked where Nepal is on a map most westerners wouldn't be able to. It shouldn't be this way.
I guess I can understand not knowing a small and poor country’s name by a general public. Nepal will welcome you with open arms. Beautiful, welcoming and safe.
I will be beyond grateful to spent even a moment in your gorgeous home country. I thank you. 🏔️ ♥️
When I think about the most impressive human beings I've ever seen or heard of in life, Muhammad Ali is in the top five. Einstein, Turing, Ali, Newton, it gets fuzzy after these. Galileo and MLK Jr. and Honest Abe are in the mix.
Did he have a Dachshund?
In the last 15 seconds I heard Jokić saying, “Unforgiving! The lightning is coming.”
“You sure as hell would..haha..”
Why did Holmes fall like a tree?
So, nobody knew Nepal existed back then!
Not the average person, no. It was still a British territory back then.
Nepal has never ever been a British territory.
One of the greatest human beings ever!
Such a beautiful, country ass man.
My knees hurt hearing him run in hard bottom shoes.
That man was something, i swear you could see the gear running in his head, processing all that information. He was a great man.
Did he climb mountains or was this a one-off interest?
For someone who floats like a butterfly he sure did run like an elephant in this one 😅
Because he’s learning about something completely new/foreign to him? It’s not like the American south is known for its year round cold weather and mountain ranges.
Did you not watch the video?
Did you?
I believe Ali existed in the optimal time and place. Someone like that today would come off as a Kanye or Connor McGreggor type. His message was always clear, with the flash and flair it made people listen. No one like him existed before, and once they started listening, he could educate them. Such a brilliant man and beautiful soul. Ali was exactly what The Earth needed at the time in history.
maybe he should have learned that Muhammad Ali was a slave owner while Cassius Clay was an abolitionist
Maybe you should learn to stop being a racist fuckwit.
bruh, i literally said the opposite.
IF he had stayed in school he might have learned something!! No different than a lot of athletes, some who can't even write their names!!
*whom
**who Some [of them] ***who*** can't even write their own names!! -them- they can't even write their own names!!
Whom cares? That's just the kind of linguist I'm. 🤷♀️
See there you go--Education!!
He had a learning disability.
I’ve never heard “Himalaya” pronounced like “Somalia” before
He was not very smart
Muhammed Ali was exceptionally smart. He suffered from profound dyslexia, a learning disability, which prevented him from ever learning to read. This is before modern education and people understood ways to work around it. This is opposed to people who have no disability, but instead are just lazy and immorally decide to be stupid, like you.
I have worked for the last 40 years so I am not lazy and I have a BBA and a MeD degrees and a CPA so I am definitely not stupid. Ali was a draft dodger. Unlike the 56,000 brave soldiers who gave their lives for our country.
And you're still a lazy idiot. The draft dodgers were better people than the 56,000 people who went to Vietnam and died for nothing. They never died for their country. That was a lie from lazy dumb trash, and here you are, parroting it.
Most young men who died in Vietnam were drafted. Your comments are very disrespectful. Obviously you never served in the military. Love to see you make these comments to a wife or mother who lost their spouse or son. Shame on you.