*Sample* | Jesse Owens: Track and Field Legend & Spoiler of Hitler’s Plans (Bonus Episode #18)
Calm History - Bedtime Sleep Stories for Education & Relaxation (By A Real Person; Not AI)
Harris | ASMR & Insomnia Network
4.4 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another bonus episode of Calm History, an extra treat for my Soak Plus members. |
| 0:09.6 | If you enjoyed archive episode number eight about the baseball legend Jackie Robinson, |
| 0:18.3 | then you're also going to enjoy this bonus episode about the track and field legend |
| 0:23.8 | Jesse Owens. |
| 0:26.7 | Here are some curious questions I'll address today. |
| 0:31.6 | The father of Jesse Owens was a sharecropper. |
| 0:36.2 | But what is a sharecropper? |
| 0:39.5 | I wasn't sure. |
| 0:41.2 | I had to go and look it up. |
| 0:44.8 | Jesse was not the real first name of Jesse Owens. |
| 0:50.4 | So what specific incident resulted in him being called Jesse for the rest of his life? |
| 0:58.2 | How did racial segregation affect Jesse Owens as a college athlete? |
| 1:05.9 | On May 25, 1935, as a college athlete, |
| 1:13.0 | Jesse Owens did something so amazing |
| 1:15.3 | that it is still referred to as |
| 1:18.4 | the greatest 45 minutes in sports history. |
| 1:24.3 | What exactly did he do? |
| 1:27.3 | Did Adolf Hitler snubb Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics that were held in Berlin, Germany? |
| 1:38.4 | The answer to this one is actually pretty complicated, but I'm going to try my best to go through it in detail, |
| 1:46.9 | so you do get a clear understanding. |
| 1:50.7 | How well did Jesse Owens do at these 1936 Olympics? |
| 1:57.4 | If you guess, pretty dang good, then yeah, I think you're correct. |
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