Barack Obama Explains ‘Key & Peele’ Olympics Moment

1. It’s been 10 years since Wrench and peeler gave us that famous sketch that falsifies the difference in the way President Barack Obama greets whites and blacks.

Then, last summer, President Obama brought this theatrics to life when he visited Team USA in Las Vegas before the Summer Olympics. There, his salute to LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Anthony Davis was quite different from his greeting. to Gonzaga coach Mark Few.

Appearing in the premiere episode of The Young Man and the Three (the reimagined Old Man and the Three podcast now that JJ Redick is coaching the Lakers), Obama couldn’t help but laugh at the Wrench and peeler sketch coming to real life.

Host and Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton told listeners that when Obama greeted the team in Las Vegas, he received a “big slap” from President Obama, unlike Few, who “got the Wrench and peeler handshake.”

“I have to say it was funny,” said Obama, who then explained what happened.

“I’m going down the row. A lot of these guys I knew. And then just before I get to Coach Few, it’s Steph, it’s LeBron. I’ve known these guys forever. I had dinner with them, their families.

“So, then Coach Few, I had never met. And he stretched out his hand. I don’t know. So I just shook his hand.

“Kerr was right afterwards and Steve I knew. But the way it happened, I’ll say it was exactly like that Wrench and peeler skit.”

Like so many people who end up going viral, even Obama couldn’t deny what happened after seeing the video.

“It wasn’t conscious,” Obama said, “but when they looked at it side by side, I had to say, ‘OK, you guys got me on that.’”

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