The Bizarre World of the Olympics

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I'm Alicia, your Hostess for

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today's episode.
And as always, we ask that we

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you keep an open mind, keep a
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listening to those facts as we
take you on our newest journey,

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the bizarre world of the
Olympics.

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Well, bonjour, Kevin, how are
you?

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Bonjour.
Bonjour.

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Actually, you know what I forgot
I have in my backpack?

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A little Eiffel Tower.
Cute.

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Yeah, I mean, where?
Can we put it?

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I don't know.
I mean, right now it really, it

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really matters, doesn't it?
Like 'cause this is a podcast,

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but we love a theme.
You can be standing by the

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Eiffel Tower is to come there.
Are.

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You guys watching?
Yeah, I mean, if you are, then

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you can see I'm right next to
the Eiffel Tower today.

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Let's see if we do it that way.
Wait, wait.

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There there.
Yay.

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Team USA, right?
Hey, so how are you, Boo?

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Have you been tuning into the
Olympics?

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I have.
You don't actually spent a

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little money on our, you know,
the subscriptions.

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I mean, it's just a month.
I'm like, forget it.

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I'm just gonna have another
subscription.

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A subscription service to watch
all the games.

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Yeah, exactly.
And yeah, So I've been doing

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that and it's been great.
You get to watch whatever you

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want, when you want.
I love it.

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So what?
What is like your favorite?

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So I've just been watching the
archery.

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OK?
Super fun.

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Yeah.
A downhill mountain bike.

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Great bout.
It's like the going down, like

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all those crazy rocks and like
they built this course.

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It's just like unbelievable the
things that they have done.

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Super insane.
These events, spaces that

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they've created for these games
is just spectacular.

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And then I've watched, of
course, men's water polo, which

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is.
Always fun to watch any water

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polo just in general is so fun.
Actually, you know who Flavor

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Flav is.
Yeah, yeah.

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Flavour Flav.
Yeah.

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So he is a huge proponent and
supporter of the women's water

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polo.
Really.

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Yeah.
He like he even was in the pool

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with with the the players, which
was kind of cool.

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Oh my God.
Yeah, yeah, that's great.

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Cool.
So yeah, Flavour Flav, it's

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insane.
You never, you would never

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think.
And then we've got non Olympians

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carrying the torch like the
Snoop.

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The Snoop Doggity Dog.
Oh my God.

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I.
Know, I know.

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I was like, I mean, what kind of
world do we live in?

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I love it, I love it.
I love Snoop, love flavour Flav.

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Like, I mean, it would be even
better if Ice Cube could be

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involved.
But, you know, he's too like,

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kind of punk rock, honestly for
that kind of shit.

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Anyway, yeah.
So the Olympics are here.

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I'm super excited.
I love, I love how it just seems

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like all of us, as, you know,
the world, we all come together

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and celebrate athleticism and
have like a pride, a different

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kind of pride, right?
And in, you know, a patriotism

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that you, I guess, maybe
normally not, not normally.

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I mean, not that I'm not
patriotic, but it's like this.

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I will drink the Kool-aid for
like, like for the Olympics, I

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will drink the Kool-aid.
Well, like I said, I've decided

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to spend $15 just, you know, I
would to watch it.

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Yeah, you know, it's.
Cool.

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You want to participate.
It makes you want to

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participate.
Yeah, and it gives you some,

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like, American pride.
Like currently I'm wearing a

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Team USA soccer shirt that I
actually got down South at

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Colorado Springs.
They have an Olympia Olympic

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Center.
Have you been there?

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I've never been there.
It's so awesome.

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I would suggest anyone who has
come to Colorado or is like in

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Colorado Springs or near that
area go and check it out.

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They have like entire, so I went
went there before like or right

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after the Brazil Games.
Like there were games in Brazil,

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the Olympic Games in Brazil.
I think that was like one of the

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last Summer Olympics anyway.
They had entire rooms that

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created like it was humidity,
like the humidity and like the

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elevation, like the technology
that they have.

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Is.
So cool.

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And Michael Phelps actually
trained in that Olympic centre,

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Yeah.
And a lot of them have.

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Yeah, yeah.
So really cool.

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Anyway, getting back to the
Olympics themselves.

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So the ancient Olympic Games,
like, you know, we think of

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first Athens, Greece, right?
Yeah.

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We think of Athens.
We think of, you know, the

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festivals that they had held and
the torch, the flame.

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Those are like kind of the first
things that come into my mind.

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I don't know if that's.
Exactly.

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Well, yeah, yeah, I agree.
Yeah, yeah.

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So these festivals, they were
festivals that happened in in

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Greece and it's, it was every
four years at the Sanctuary of

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Zeus in Olympia.
So Olympics Olympia, go figure.

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So it was actually, the date was
actually determined.

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It was a very complicated
formula.

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So they had the midpoint of the
festival would occur during the

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second full moon after the
summer solstice, you know, so

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it's normally like late August
or early September.

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So they would have people
announce it and then, you know,

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everyone would come in and and
the competition at first when

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they had these games were
legitimate sons of freeborn

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Greek parents, AKA slaves.
No, you guys are slaves.

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You cannot do it.
Women, no go figure.

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Always, always the case, you
know, then after, excuse me,

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after Macedonia and then Rome
conquered Greece, 10 Olympic

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judges had actually loosened
those standards and allowed

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anyone who spoke Greece or Greek
Greece, who spoke Greek to

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participate.
And so 10s of thousands of

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Greeks would make the a journey
to the festival.

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And it's, you know, ultimately
who would participate was like

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the different city states within
Greece.

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And let me just like say there
were festivals like this in all

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over that area.
It wasn't just Greece that did

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like these athletic festivals,
athletic slash religious

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festivals.
It was everywhere else was doing

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it.
We just kind of really liked the

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Greeks and really like the
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I had, you know, posted this on
TikTok, but the Romans had a

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huge obsession with Greek
culture.

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Just like we kind of have an
obsession with like that like

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Western civilization, like the
Romans, how all of their roads

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and like all the cool things
that they built.

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We have idolized them.
They idolized the Greeks in that

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same way.
So the Romans really took on the

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whole idea of like the Grecian,
anything Grecian, you know,

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philosophy, etcetera.
But on top of that they took on

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the Olympic Games.
So, you know, this the whole

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idea of of the Olympic Games,
you know, we have the flame, we

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have they have like a loose
story about Zeus coming into

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with Hercules and them them
creating the games and like

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who's the best, you know,
sportsman?

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And at that time, one of the big
things in Grecian culture was,

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you know, having like a really
pure sound mind clean, like

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being very thoughtful, like
philosophical intelligence was

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really highly valued.
And they thought this and, and

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also, you know, art, sport that,
that kind of thing.

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So that was super, super valued.
What's a direct reflection of

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that?
Your body.

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Your body is a reflection of
your mind.

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So sorry if you are handicapped,
sorry if you're not.

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If you have two left feet, you
know, figuratively, you know,

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you're just not the height of,
you know, of a Greek, you know,

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body, you know, they're image,
they're.

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Oh yeah.
Image, self-image.

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That was one thing that I
thought was kind of interesting

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is I think the Greeks were like
the one of our, you know, one of

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the first people to kind of body
shame.

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They're like, oh, look, you
don't have a six pack.

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Well, you must have a fucked up
head and you must be a fucked up

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person.
Well, let's be.

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Real.
Like when you think of a Greek

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man?
Yes.

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What is the image that pops into
your brain?

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What is the first image?
I mean, it's certainly not some

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handicap overweight person.
I mean, it's like a Adonis.

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It's an Adonis, yeah.
With like a like washboard ABS

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and yeah, like incredibly like
muscular and fit.

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Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.

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Which might today, you know, be
more of like a farmer's, like a

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farm hands like body.
Yeah, right.

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Then you know a normal person's,
but we had talked a little bit

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about the Olympic flame.
So can you tell us a little bit

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more about like the origins of
that?

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Yeah, it's really, it's really
quite fascinating.

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And it all turned out to be the
doing of Hitler.

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I mean, it's a very simplistic
sentence, but it it's ultimately

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true.
It was a big propaganda machine

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in the Olympics in the late 30s
that happened and Hitler and his

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publish, the guy that was kind
of publishing and I think his

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name was Diaz Diaz or something
of that nature.

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He was brilliant.
And he said, you know what,

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we're going to use this flame
and the symbolics of this flame

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to kind of get this, get things
promoted.

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And we're going to carry it from
here to here.

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And it's going to be us
connecting the Austrians and the

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Germans and the look again.
Britch's brilliant marketing.

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But knowing that this awful
dictator is what built the

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history and the symbolicness
around this flame is really

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quite upsetting.
I know, I know.

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Well, he took something and that
was something that that Hitler

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was so good at, right?
He would take like these old

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traditions.
So the idea of the flame was

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like, we're going to past the
torch quite literally from the

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ancient times to the modern
times, because what they didn't

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have electricity, they didn't
have like gas powered, you know,

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lamps like, you know, people
did.

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Now it's like we're going to
bring this ancient torch and

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that's how everything was lit.
And like, it's like this

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romanticism that I'll be honest,
I can get into.

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I can totally get into that.
It's it is brilliant where

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you're and it's like, OK, we're
all together.

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We have this like pride in our
nation.

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Exactly.
Yeah, the the National

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Socialist, you know, party, the
Nazi Party, you know, that's,

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that was their whole, you know,
scheme, which is incredibly

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enticing.
And the fact that good old boy

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Adolf Hitler was one of the
first folks, I mean, you know,

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to bring it back.
I mean you, I guess you can

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still be an awful person and
have great ideas.

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Yes, I that that's, that's The
thing is you can most certainly

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have great ideas and you know,
it's funny when you think of

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like that ancient time and then
and you would think, I would

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think, and this is what I
thought before I even, you know,

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started doing some research for
this episode was Oh, we've been

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having the Olympic Games for jet
like eons, like forever, you

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know, in in the the terms of
humanity, but like, you know,

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we've been doing it for maybe
thousands of years.

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Well, our the original Olympics
actually started in 776 BC and

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that date is kind of debated.
So it's somewhere around the

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seven 70s BC and they ended like
the ancient, that Greek form of

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it that we know of ended in
around 393 AD.

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So you know, it wasn't going on
for nearly as long.

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Like it's it wasn't going on for
an incredibly long time.

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But there are also dates.
They also say maybe, you know,

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426 AD, So less than 1000 years.
When I think of the Olympics,

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I'm like, OK, it has to be like
this is this has to be for, you

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know, forever.
It's definitely not the case.

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The modern games, though.
So that kind of ended.

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Were there competitions,
athletic competitions?

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Sure.
It was not on this huge, you

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know, scale like the Olympic
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Games from Olympus, which is
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century, and that was the
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Olympic Games.
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different sports.
And just this lawyer dude was

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like, hey, let's try to get
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athletes of Britain.
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of it.
So the French did it 1796 to

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1798, which kind of makes sense
because they had just had a

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revolution bring people
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Let's see, you know, so they're
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like classic Olympic Games that
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it like in the Crystal Palace,
which if you're a soccer fan,

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then you know, Crystal Palace
like they that was one of the

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games.
But really like the, the

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interest that had started to
happen was because of the Greek

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War of Independence from the
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So people were like, oh, let's
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Like these people, you know,
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The Greeks were trying to fight
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What makes us Greek?
What, who are we?

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And so they're like, well, let's
bring back some of these amazing

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things that we have, right?
Like, you know, these, these

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ancient wonders that were that,
that was who we were.

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So, so they tried like bringing
back a stadium to host some

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games, and that stadium actually
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1875 and 30,000 people had
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So it was kind of all over the
place, but they really couldn't

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get it to stick.
There was another one that they

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did in the Olympics Stadium in
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Then there was the Paris
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Try doing it.
So they start like they're

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trying to test different games.
Like, you know, having there's

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the idea of the summer and then
the winter.

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Like, hey, look, we have all
these winter sports that we now

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do like ice hockey.
Like that was one of the first

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games they brought back in the
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and then the Paralympics around
1948.

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But they really brought it back
in like 9 in the early 1900s on

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a regular basis.
They had one in Saint Louis.

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You know, it was mainly
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because it's fucking St.
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you know, so, so like that
wasn't well attended.

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But but as there's this fervor
of more national pride, more,

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you know, it's easier to
communicate ideas, yet we have

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like the telegram, we have
moving pictures, things like

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that.
That's when the Olympics really

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start gaining popularity.
So as far as as like the

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agreement with who's going to
attend, who's not going to

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attend, they do have an an
actual Olympic Committee who

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decides, OK, what country can
actually attend?

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Like, how many Olympic Olympians
can you have like who you know

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what, what determines like the
qualifying factors?

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And by and large, that's how we
have today's events.

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So the original Olympics, you
know, they did have these

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standards.
Like they boxing was one of the

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original games.
You know, like we had all of

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these a lot of like track and
field games and measuring how to

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measure fairly who wins was a
huge deal.

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So it went from a very political
thing and pride in your own like

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city into something that I would
argue is probably pretty

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political today, but maybe in a
different way.

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And there's still a lot of
national pride rather than just

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city pride.
I mean, could you imagine having

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like a Colorado Olympics?
Like that would be fucking

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ridiculous.
But with that, there have been a

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lot of testing.
There's a lot of testing of like

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new sports you.
Know well, that's just it too,

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because when you back, you don't
know 10, 20 years ago, you think

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of Summer Olympics, you think of
things like track and field.

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Right.
To now, Oh my God, the, some of

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the sports that they are doing
now are you would never think, I

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mean, they're like new, you
know, 'cause as, as cultures

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change, as sports change, as new
things come about, you know,

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break dancing, I'll just give
you, that's an example, right?

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So things like that that you
would never once think about for

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Summer Games.
The the the number of games and

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the the variety is amazing.
It's insane.

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Yeah.
And, And yeah, it's like, as

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these, like hockey certainly did
not, you know, was not a thing

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back in the ancient times.
But yeah, like snowboarding,

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snowboarding's a new sport.
It was an experimental sport

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that they tested out and they're
like, OK, yeah, we're gonna do

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you know, snowboarding or like,
what?

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What is that like?
The jumping skiing?

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Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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No, that's nuts.
That's crazy personal stuff.

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Yes, it is.
And Steamboat, Steamboat, I

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don't know if it still is, but
Steamboat Colorado has like the

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biggest concentration of
athletes of Olympians.

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Because their slope is freaking
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They have OK, so they they have
their there's a city which FYI,

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like if you go and you want to
try to like ski in Colorado for

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relatively inexpensive, which is
almost you know, you can't

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really do anything right, right.
But there is a place in

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Steamboat SH don't I told you
this little you know, trick.

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It's called House and Hill and
it's owned by the city and is.

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That the one on the other side
of the river.

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I don't maybe maybe OK.
I mean, it's like it's old.

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It used to be owned by the YMCA.
I might still.

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Just a little mini slope.
It's not, it's not like huge,

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but they also have like that's
where their high school team,

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their high school ski team
trains.

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So they do like the, you know,
obstacle, like, I don't know,

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with those little slalom,
slalom.

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And then there's the jumping
thing.

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And these are like, I saw I was
there and I'm not, I'm I

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snowboard and I'm not very good
at snowboarding, but I was like

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O35, you know, 25 bucks for a, a
date ticket, like that's unheard

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of.
That's yeah.

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Impossible.
You can't.

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I mean, in Colorado it's yeah,
at least 100.

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Oh yeah, at least.
Yeah.

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And that's really be actually on
the cheaper end on more.

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So, yeah, went there and all
these, there were a ton of kids.

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It was a ton of kids because
there were junior high and high

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school teams.
Anyway, they were flying down

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and sorry, but like Athens does
not have a mountain like that or

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like a hill like that.
Even it's house and hill like

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there's no way.
But yeah, it's wild.

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So you know, the original, we
were talking about the original

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games we had, you know, track
and field events.

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Think of like shot put, think of
discus throwing, think of like

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40 meter dashes, hurdle, like,
you know, things like that.

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Those were OG sports.
Boxing too.

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Oh yeah.
By the way, in the old days, of

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course women could not compete
they but they could compete with

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their horses.
So it's like their horses were

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more about considered athletes
than they were.

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But they did allow boys to
compete eventually, and that

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makes complete sense if you
know, the Greeks and like those

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philosophers and all the shit
they got up to.

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Makes sense.
Makes sense.

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OK, so anyway, you know women
are now allowed to do the

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Olympic Games.
But we have gotten a lot of

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weird sports that have come into
it, right?

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One thing every host country can
choose an experimental sport.

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Oh, I didn't know that.
Yes, yes.

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That's fascinating.
Yeah, so, so each one, they get

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to have their choice.
And so Paris, what they chose

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was break dancing.
So that's the experimental sport

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for this year.
Yeah.

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I mean, you think about things
like fencing, like that most

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certainly was not an ancient
one.

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And like, you know, I they still
keep it in, you know, which is

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kind of crazy.
So some of the weird ones.

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Solo synchronized swimming.
Oh my God.

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Yes, yes, yes.
Who you synchronized with, man?

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It's water dancing.
Sorry, it's water dancing.

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So synchronized like it's water
dancing.

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So it was only women that they
and they did this.

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Let me see, it was 1980, four,
1988 and 1992.

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So it lasted the three Olympics,
the.

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Three, yeah, the three years
because.

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We were like, dumb, yeah.
Solo what the fuck?

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Could you imagine being The
Olympian who's like, oh, like

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I've actually met an Olympian.
She was a shot put thrower and

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she lives here and she was part
of like the LA, the Los Angeles

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Olympics.
But I saw she had like a gold

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ring and it had the Olympics
like The Olympian like symbol,

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you know, with the circles or
whatever.

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And I was like, Oh my God.
And she was like this beautiful,

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like tall, like Amazonian woman.
And I was like, oh, my God.

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I said, where did this come
from?

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And she's like, I, I played in
the Olympics and like, I was a

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fucking idiot.
I'm like, yeah, no, you're

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right.
I have a total fucking kid here.

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You're a goddess.
Like I was like, oh, my God,

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that's so great.
But what if she like, what if I

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asked her her sport?
And she was like, Oh, yeah, solo

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synchronized swimming.
Like, you can't.

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You'd have to lie about it.
You have to lie.

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You have to say like, oh, yeah,
synchronized swimming.

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Like, no one's gonna fucking
look it up.

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You could say I was on a team.
Synchronized swimming.

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Yeah, that's not a lie.
It's.

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Not a lie.
Yeah, just omit the whole solo

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bit.
So there was one called the

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horse long jump and horse high
jump.

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So you know how humans do the
long jump?

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Yeah.
It was like an so it was an

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equestrian thing.
It was an equestrian.

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How far the horse could jump.
Yes, how far it could jump, jump

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and how high it could jump.
So they would measure that.

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So there was like a sand pit for
the horses to measure their back

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legs when they jumped.
Like that's dumb too.

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It's super dumb.
That's dumb.

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Like how high is like measuring,
like how high the horse can jump

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like over to it's like the high
jump for humans.

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Well.
First of all, yes, we're not

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having an animal Olympics.
No this.

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Is about human abilities.
You know, you're saying some

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things that people are going to
be very upset about.

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But a quest like the equestrian,
totally legit.

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You've got your rider who's, you
know, controlling the horse and

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they train together and they do
this little.

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Yeah.
Thing I mean that makes sense

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but how fucking high the horse
can jump?

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So stupid, so dumb.
It's.

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So dumb.
OK, so that actually happened in

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1900.
There's another one and it's

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called.
It's called plunge for distance.

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Oh.
God.

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In 19 O four at Saint Louis, you
know, the mainly American

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Olympic Games competitors
actually had to dive into a pool

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and see how far they could drift
underwater until they surfaced.

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And it had to be up to like a
maximum of one minute.

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So they had to like do a big
old, I'd assume pencil dive,

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dive cannonball down and see how
long they could drift underwater

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until they came up.
All 5 contestants were from the

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US and the event was actually
won by William Dickey with a a

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distance of 62.5 feet.
Doesn't sound like there's a lot

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of athleticism there.
Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to wrap

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my brain around that one too.
A dud also sounds dumb.

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It sounds so dumb.
It sounds so boring to watch.

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So boring.
Yeah, like, like, OK, would

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marathon running be boring to
watch?

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Fuck yeah, I'm not watching that
shit.

452
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,000
There's still.
Right, exactly.

453
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,880
I'm watching the dashes, I'm
watching the real relight races,

454
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,840
I'm watching the hurdles, I'm
not watching that shit.

455
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,280
Agreed, but this Oh my God, it's
so fucking boring.

456
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,960
So it was only only happened
once in 19 O four at the US for

457
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,880
obvious reasons right right.
And all once again, all 5

458
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:07,640
competitors were from Saint
Louis.

459
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,640
They're all from Americans.
So there's another one because

460
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,840
I'm like.
I am an idea, yeah.

461
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,280
Yeah.
I want to compete in the

462
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,360
Olympics, so I'm just going to
see how far I can swim

463
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:23,320
underwater.
What do you think?

464
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,200
I think you should do it.
I think you should do it.

465
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,520
But you're not even swimming,
right?

466
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:36,160
You're jumping in and you're
drifting to see how far you can

467
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,280
drift.
So you're not brilliant.

468
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,440
It's brilliant.
It's like the laziest fucking

469
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080
sport.
It takes no skill.

470
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,800
It only takes like the the
capacity to hold.

471
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,960
Buoyancy or lack?
Of lack of buoyancy, being able

472
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,320
to sink and like, hold that for
as long as momentum.

473
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,960
It takes momentum.
OK, so there's another one.

474
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,640
This was the steeplechase, but
it was the 3000 meter

475
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,880
steeplechase.
So it had hurdles, water jump.

476
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,240
It's like an it's like a parkour
assault course.

477
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,160
And it was just like all over
the place.

478
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:28,360
And this was originally done
during Rio de Janeiro, so I

479
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,840
don't think it's going on
anymore.

480
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,320
But it's kind of weird.
Like it's like an athletic

481
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,000
event, you know?
Doesn't sound.

482
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,320
Familiar.
Yeah.

483
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,960
I mean, why would you need to
jump over hurdles into water

484
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,200
through like it's just like
fucking stupid.

485
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,920
It like it seems like.
What is that?

486
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,000
The Spartan Race?
Yeah, yeah.

487
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,440
Yeah, yeah.
It's like the Spartan Race for

488
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,000
Olympians, Like right.
It's fun to do.

489
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,960
That's why we pay $75.00 to do
it.

490
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,240
You don't want to watch someone
else do it.

491
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,640
That almost sounds like an
Olympics.

492
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,160
Like the Spartan thing seems
that seems legit.

493
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,720
Have you done it?
No, but I mean, I feel like that

494
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,520
could be an Olympic.
Couldn't that be an Olympic

495
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,720
thing?
It's like I've done it and it's

496
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,480
really.
That's where you just like crawl

497
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,560
through the mud and you go up
the wall and you like all that

498
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,960
hard that stuff, right?
Well, it's yeah, you're.

499
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,640
Testing your endurance and your.
And your and strength and, you

500
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,040
know, I mean, it's like there's
also barbed wire that you have

501
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,720
to go under.
Like I got scratched on my head

502
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,160
and my arms like while I was
trying to go underneath it.

503
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,080
Better than floating in fucking
water.

504
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,280
I'll, I'll tell you what.
I think I'm water skill.

505
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Wait, like I think I'd rather do
the floating underwater.

506
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,200
Yeah.
Then like during the the Spartan

507
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,000
Race, I, my friend was like
running up this hill and we had

508
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,640
these packs on and I'm like, why
is this bitch running so fucking

509
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,000
fast?
And I'm like, God, I said this

510
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,600
is so hard for me.
She's like, oh, it's really not

511
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,760
that hard.
I'm like, Oh my God is this is

512
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:58,920
so hard.
I hate running.

513
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,520
I'm not a huge fan of running.
I hate running.

514
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,520
And I realized I picked up the
men's pack, so I was holding

515
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,000
like it was double the weight
that I was going uphill.

516
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,200
And I'm like, oh, OK, yes, that
makes sense.

517
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,480
Oh.
My God this sounds so fun.

518
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,560
Yeah, so much fun.
So fun.

519
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,040
And I paid for it.
What an idiot.

520
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,320
I'm such an idiot.
I paid like $75.00 to do that

521
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,920
dumb bullshit.
Would I do it again?

522
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,280
I probably would.
Were I Pagan?

523
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,200
Yes.
Were I Pagan?

524
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,440
Yeah.
Am I stupid?

525
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,880
Yeah.
Would I do the long swim?

526
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,320
Yes.
Or like float?

527
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,280
Yeah, Absolutely.
OK.

528
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,200
Another one was live pigeon
shooting.

529
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,840
I know.
And this was at Paris, which you

530
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,880
know, we're doing today in 2024.
Here's my Eiffel Tower.

531
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,200
But it was also, you know, the
Olympics were held there in the

532
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:54,160
19 in 1900.
So you would try the the

533
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:59,800
contestants were trying to kill
as many pigeons as possible, and

534
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,520
they were eliminated.
Parisians were like, please.

535
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,040
Yeah, they're like, do you see
how many fucking pigeons we have

536
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,160
here?
They're all over the place and

537
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,600
they're aggressive and like, I
don't know, have you seen like a

538
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,320
fucked up looking pigeon?
I they're kind of my favorite.

539
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,920
No, like I, I loved when I was
downtown, working downtown a

540
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,360
while, like in Denver, I would
walk around and I would just

541
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,560
like have some coffee or, or tea
or whatever.

542
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,920
And.
I'd watch that effed up.

543
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Pigeon on my lunches.
Yeah, I would like watch like

544
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,960
the nubby, like they have like
like peg legs.

545
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,240
Oh.
Yeah, sure.

546
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,400
No, no toes or whatever.
Like the fucked up looking ones,

547
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,240
like, you know, one eye, like
the really fat ones, you know,

548
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,320
rough life.
Yeah, it's a totally rough life.

549
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:50,200
Anyway, super shameful.
You know if if the contestants

550
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,080
who were killing pigeons missed
2 pigeons in a row they were

551
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,840
eliminated.
So there were 21.

552
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:05,600
The winner, the one who won the
gold was 21 pigeons and he there

553
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,280
were by the end of the event
there was over 300 that were

554
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,360
killed.
So kind of shitty but makes

555
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,040
sense.
Both in place and in time,

556
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,840
right?
Like skeet shooting was a

557
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,960
fucking thing, right?
Like or still is a thing.

558
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Dude, that's still a.
Sport.

559
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,640
It's still a sport, but I'm sure
clay pigeons, yes, not real

560
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,080
pigeons.
OK, so the other, another, like

561
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:34,840
kind of weird one is the
pentathlon.

562
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,840
Do you know what that is?
No, it's like super old school

563
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,920
and it was actually based on
their military requirements for

564
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,480
a good cavalry men.
So like and this was back in the

565
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,960
day.
These were the requirements that

566
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,200
they had.
So they, the participants were,

567
00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:01,160
would take part in swimming and
fencing, show jumping on a

568
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,240
horse, long distance running,
and then pistol shooting.

569
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,840
And we're not talking like a
normal pistol.

570
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,840
We're talking an old school
looking fucking pistol.

571
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,760
Yeah, right.
Like, like they should be like,

572
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,400
like dueling pistols, OK.
Like, like we're talking

573
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,280
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron
Burr fucking style pistols that

574
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,719
they're shooting.
OK.

575
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,239
Which I mean is ridiculous.
So it's just random.

576
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,159
Like it's a really random event
that they still do today.

577
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,480
Pistol dueling.
Speaking of pistol.

578
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,000
Oh.
The God.

579
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,600
They did have pistol dueling in
1912.

580
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,159
The Olympics in OR 12.
Did you do it?

581
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,719
I mean it sounds way more
exciting than it actually is.

582
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,400
So they weren't actually firing
rounds at each other the

583
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,800
participants.
Cause the idea of of a duel is

584
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,480
you stand back-to-back.
Come on Hamilton fans, we all

585
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,880
know this.
Stand back-to-back, walk like 10

586
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:09,480
paces forward in the in opposite
directions and turn around and

587
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,640
shoot.
And you can either shoot in the

588
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,640
air or you can shoot at the
person.

589
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,680
You can intentionally shoot
them.

590
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,520
But like this was supposed to
the idea of if a duel was like

591
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,080
this will end all of your
problems.

592
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,800
Like go have it out with some
with some some pistols and he'll

593
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,160
be fine.
How did they measure success?

594
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:32,840
So that they had to actually
fire at mannequins that were

595
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,760
dressed in like coats.
Like, remember those like old

596
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,240
schools?
Oh, so they would just walk away

597
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,280
from a mannequin and shoot the
mannequin?

598
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,960
Yes, and they had targets
painted at their chest.

599
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,760
So this one, these were not
gentlemen who were just trying

600
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,040
to prove a point.
These were killer men.

601
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,160
Got it.
So that's basically what they

602
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,200
had done.
And there's there's also like AI

603
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,920
could.
Get into that one.

604
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,080
That one you could.
You're a good shot though.

605
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,120
I love to shoot.
Yeah, I could do that one.

606
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,520
Yeah, and you have a good, you
have a good aim.

607
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:02,960
I still haven't gone shooting
with you.

608
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,840
I need to go.
We do we need to do it?

609
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,360
Yep.
Anyway, they had a swimming

610
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:14,600
race, an obstacle swimming race,
200 meters, and this was 19

611
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,960
Paris 1900.
You know, they're trying a lot

612
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080
of shit.
They're throwing everything at

613
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,800
see what sticks, see what's
easy.

614
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:27,880
So do you remember, like, did
you ever watch like MX or not

615
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,760
MX?
Oh, oh gosh, you know, those

616
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:36,000
competition shows that are like
Japanese and they like go like

617
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,720
they're like falling into water
and stuff like that.

618
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:39,920
It's kind of.
Love it.

619
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,400
It's almost like Wipeout.
Yes, like Wipeout, yes, totally

620
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,440
yes.
So that's kind of what they were

621
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,160
doing there.
And the event actually took

622
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,200
place in the Seine, which this
year they're doing Olympic like

623
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,680
swimming events in the Seine,
the river that goes through

624
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,400
Paris, which I love.
It's one of my favorite places

625
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,960
in Paris.
Just grab like some wine and

626
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,880
just like sit around and watch
motherfuckers walking around and

627
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,200
peeing on the wall.
It's great.

628
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,200
Oh.
My God, and we wonder why the

629
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,400
river has E coli.
Oh yeah, I was like, I would

630
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,440
never swim in that shed.
Gross.

631
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,920
Yes, it's so disgusting.
It's so and it's been disgusting

632
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,680
forever.
It like it's so gross but.

633
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,440
Oh, and by the way, to digress
for a second, they were spraying

634
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,800
that E coli water in the air as
boats were going down the river.

635
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,200
The athlete and I told Roy, Oh
my God, they're spraying that

636
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,960
piss water.
Yes, right into the air with all

637
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,600
the pee molecules.
Oh yeah, yeah, you're basically

638
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,680
pee at that point.
So disgusting.

639
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,400
It's so disgusting.
Like I would never swim in it,

640
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,960
would I?
I've never, like, taken a boat

641
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,320
on it.
Like that's future like me.

642
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,200
I'd love to do that, but no, no,
I've never done that and I would

643
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,760
not do it.
So yeah, it was basically done

644
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,640
in the sun.
They had obstacles, they ran

645
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,760
around and got it.
Not been done again.

646
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,080
There is walking like race
walking.

647
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,800
Walking.
Walking.

648
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,320
Right, but doesn't that isn't
called like walking?

649
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,360
No, Oh, like the jogging walking
thing.

650
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,720
Is that what it is?
Well, it's let me see.

651
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:24,320
It's called a race walk.
So like one of them is like the

652
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,040
men's 50 kilometre race walk and
they have very it's still going.

653
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,680
Yes, they do they do.
I actually had a friend in

654
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,720
college.
She was a really good race

655
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:37,960
Walker and I'm like, what the
fuck is that?

656
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,440
And she's like, Oh, well, you
like they have like these very

657
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:46,360
specific rules, like how your
arm should move in conjunction

658
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,920
with your opposite leg and your
toe and your I'm like doing it

659
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,720
right now.
You look so stupid, but it's

660
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:58,720
really hard to time and to do
it, you know, continuously.

661
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:05,640
So like as your heel is coming
off the your walk, your toe

662
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,440
needs to be right behind it and
needs to be a certain like

663
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,640
distance behind.
So that's why they have that,

664
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:12,960
like, stupid.
Wow.

665
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,840
Yeah.
They look like ducks, like

666
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,000
walking.
It's so weird.

667
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,600
But.
Oh, let me see.

668
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,640
So there's also.
Yeah.

669
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,800
So you have to maintain contact
with the ground and straighten

670
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,320
your front knee when the foot
makes contact with the ground,

671
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,240
keeping it straightened until
the knee passes underneath the

672
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:28,760
body.
Yeah.

673
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,840
OK.
So like, your leg has to be

674
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,800
straight until it goes
underneath the body.

675
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,880
Then you can bend your knee,
which sounds like shit.

676
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,520
And also, yeah, their butts are
like wiggling and stuff.

677
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:42,480
It is kind of funny.
Like I would like to see some,

678
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,560
you know, slow MO fast.
You have to.

679
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,680
Have the rules, otherwise people
will go, you know, you have to

680
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,440
have, you have to define it
because otherwise you could jog

681
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,720
or you could, you know what I
mean?

682
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,560
You have to like, say, you have
to do it like this.

683
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,320
It has to be specifically like
this.

684
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,200
Yeah.
OK, so the final like weird one

685
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:05,120
that I'm going to talk about is.
Poodle clipping?

686
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:09,040
No.
Yeah.

687
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:13,280
So once again, test events.
Wait, guess where it was?

688
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,200
French the France.
Which where?

689
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,200
Perry.
Kale Perry.

690
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,240
Yes, of course.
What do you think of Eiffel

691
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:22,480
Towers?
Poodles.

692
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,480
You need women with their lung
cigarettes walking their.

693
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,280
Grooms looking fabulous like
just walking with like, you

694
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,800
know, wearing like Chanel, even
though fuck Chanel.

695
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,120
I'm saying that like Coco Chanel
was a Nazi sympathizer.

696
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:38,760
We do not like her.
I will definitely be doing an

697
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,680
episode on her.
I'm not a fan.

698
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,040
Yeah.
So I will not buy well, yeah, I

699
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,480
won't buy anything Chanel.
Fuck that.

700
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,840
But anyway, that's what you're
thinking of the glory like the

701
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,840
fabulousness.
So Paris in 1900s we're talking.

702
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,760
No, it was a test event, like I
said.

703
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,440
So it didn't really have a full
Olympic status.

704
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,720
It was like one of those, you
know, test ones.

705
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,920
They're just trying out to see
if it would work in future great

706
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,400
games.
And Oh my God, it did not make

707
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,600
the.
Shut up.

708
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:15,120
Yeah, No way.
I know I will say though, it

709
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,640
would be hard to do having all
those dogs in front of there was

710
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:23,720
6000 people watching and there
were 128 competitors, which

711
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:27,440
means that there are also 100.
And 28 people, yes, they're

712
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,040
gonna get the butt carved.
All these, like all these people

713
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:41,440
are in a stadium watching what,
2400 or what?

714
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:47,760
Like 300 people?
Wait, no, no, 1200 one, 260

715
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:53,600
people, basically 260 things on
the stage, half of them being

716
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,440
poodles and half of them being
people and just being cut.

717
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,520
I mean, it's pretty ridiculous
if you think about it.

718
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,120
It is.
Anyways, there was.

719
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,920
Now, now, maybe do that at the
National Dog Show.

720
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,200
Oh my God I love the national
dog show.

721
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,480
That'll that's a good idea for
sure.

722
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,480
That's like, that's something we
can all get behind.

723
00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:20,160
Yeah, I, I will watch that shit.
Like like, no, nobody's

724
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,000
business.
So one thing I did want to talk

725
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:28,400
about with this episode was, you
know, the the Paris Olympics and

726
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,960
also some of the athletes and
what they had kind of what they

727
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,640
deal with.
So the Paris opening Olympic,

728
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,760
like the games, we had actually
watched the opening ceremonies.

729
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:45,280
And one thing we can say it was
insanity.

730
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,440
It was like nothing else.
Yes.

731
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,560
What was your favorite?
Part so unique.

732
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,400
It was so unique.
Yes.

733
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,840
Well, yeah, I mean, it was
nothing.

734
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,960
There was nothing traditional
about it, which I thought was

735
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:02,400
fascinating.
They had, they still did the

736
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,840
shows and the bits.
They just had it spread all over

737
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:11,080
the river and, and it was
fascinating.

738
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,640
It was and it was so diverse.
Yes, yeah.

739
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,720
I mean they had like.
They mix the old with the new

740
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,720
and modern with the classical.
And I mean.

741
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,440
And it's really bringing, like
we're talking about bringing the

742
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,560
ancient games to the 21st
century.

743
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,360
That's most certainly what they
did.

744
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:34,840
Like we had there was like the
update of Leonardo da Vinci's

745
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:40,200
Last Supper.
And it was the DJ and producer

746
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:45,280
Barbara Butch, who's an LGBTQ
plus icon who calls herself a

747
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,400
love activist, wore a silver
headdress that looked like a

748
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,560
Halo as she got into or got a
party going on a footbridge

749
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:58,080
across the Sen Did you see that?
Okay, so and these these people

750
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,600
who were on in the party were
from countries that criminalize

751
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,120
LGBTQ.
So there are drag artists,

752
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,480
dancers and others like on both
sides.

753
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,200
I mean, so you have like these
very political, this political

754
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,680
commentary that's being made.
We were talking about the heavy

755
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:21,000
metal band like mixed.
With the opera.

756
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,840
Yes, the opera.
And like you had nuts more

757
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,720
Antoinette.
Yeah, with heads, like head.

758
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,600
So it's like all of this stuff.
Oh, and then you had Céline

759
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,720
Dion, which Oh my God.
So impressed with her like I

760
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,760
thought for did you see?
Did you sorry digress.

761
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,960
Did you see the Celine thing?
The the.

762
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,200
Show.
I've seen a lot of excerpts.

763
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,360
I've not seen it.
It's heartbreaking, yeah.

764
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,560
I thought for sure her voice was
gone.

765
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,040
She did an amazing job, bless
her heart.

766
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,720
Yeah, she great.
And she is like, I'm a Stan.

767
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:55,680
I am absolutely behind Céline
Dion.

768
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,920
Like I've seen like a lot of
footage after her performance

769
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,400
where she's like, meeting with
people.

770
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,440
And one guy had like a single
like pink rose.

771
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,760
And it was a beautiful rose,
like a very beautiful.

772
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,200
But he hands it to her and she
looks at him in the eye and she

773
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,840
says thank you.
Like it was so thoughtful.

774
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:16,000
I'm like, you are a goddess
among us mortals.

775
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,920
Like, you are amazing.
She's wonderful.

776
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,840
Anyway, that was very powerful.
There was also.

777
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:28,560
Gaga, yes, And then hers was
very French, very French.

778
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,560
Yes, yes I had, and we loved
every second of it.

779
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:39,800
And then you also have you had
that like the horse galloping on

780
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,840
the Sen.
Did you see that?

781
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,720
Oh my God, it was so hauntingly
beautiful.

782
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,960
But I mean, if there is anyone
who can do it, it's the French.

783
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,400
The French do not fuck around.
They want to make political

784
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,680
statements.
They're not going to mess with,

785
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,560
you know, any like, they're not
going to do like a pretty fairy

786
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,240
tale showing.
Another thing that I couldn't

787
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:08,320
believe is like, how did they
get all of this past censorship

788
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,880
like and be able to televise it?
Because I think that a lot of it

789
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,800
was really pretty.
Well, you remember the European

790
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,800
culture is very different than
the American culture.

791
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:22,120
So they do a lot of stuff that
us uptight butthole Americans

792
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,280
would go no, right, yes.
So we have, but we had no choice

793
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:27,760
but to air it.
Yes.

794
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,960
I mean, that's true.
Yeah, that's true.

795
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,560
You just make them do it.
That's what you're supposed to

796
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,920
do.
So I don't know if you know, but

797
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,480
like the Paris 2024 Olympics are
being held.

798
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,320
They're all in Paris, but
they're also having surfing as a

799
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,920
part of competition, and they
have a floating Olympic village.

800
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,160
Yeah, in Fiji.
So there are two different

801
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,480
Olympic villages, one there and
then also one.

802
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,240
So the surfing's happening in
Fiji?

803
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,200
I didn't know that.
Yeah.

804
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,440
Interesting.
The surfing competition for the

805
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,800
Paris Olympics is happening in
Fiji.

806
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:05,960
Yeah.
Fascinating.

807
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,080
Yeah, I guess it makes sense.
You want to have the best

808
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,520
environment.
Yeah.

809
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,160
So they're in places that the
way they are, they do it.

810
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,840
Yeah.
And we've heard like a lot of

811
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,640
stories about like these Olympic
villages and how wild they are.

812
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,160
They have, you know, I've.
Heard some stories.

813
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:30,520
Yeah, cardboard box beds like in
the Villages, because I don't

814
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:31,680
know.
Have you heard any?

815
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:35,400
What have you.
Heard Yes, some nasty stuff like

816
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:40,440
nastiness.
So it's really like as the.

817
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,520
It's like a really, I think I
feel like it's like a big party,

818
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,480
like they go, especially after
they're done with their

819
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,120
business, right?
They go do their business and

820
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:54,280
then they're like, I'm balls to
the walls.

821
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,760
Like, literally.
My life has been, has been.

822
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:05,480
A rigid focus, narrow thing that
I could do nothing other than

823
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,000
this thing, and now I'm going to
go do other stuff.

824
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,760
Yes.
And I'm going to do some crazy

825
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,560
stuff.
Yeah, I'm gonna do some insane

826
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,000
things, like my competition.
I've been training for this

827
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,280
forever.
I've been eating like so clean

828
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,320
and like regimented.
I've been having to sleep all

829
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:23,560
this time.
I've not been able to have a

830
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,960
life bucket.
My competition's over.

831
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,120
I maybe won, lost, whatever the
case may be, but I don't have to

832
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,240
do anything, right?
And I'm surrounded by all these,

833
00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:34,480
really.
Fit, fit people.

834
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,040
Yeah, in their fucking prime.
What do we think is gonna happen

835
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,680
exactly?
That's why we need cardboard

836
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,520
beds, because they try, they're
trying to, to stop a lot of

837
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,800
that.
So I guess this year the Olympic

838
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:55,600
Village is going to be stocked
with 3000 condoms, which is the

839
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,520
highest ever to be ordered.
So it's like, they know it's

840
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,200
gonna happen.
They try to stop it from

841
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,560
happening as much.
I'm just like imagining like

842
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,120
huge rooms full of like
Olympians like.

843
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:13,600
Shop.
Putting shop putting, yeah.

844
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,800
There's a competition for.
You.

845
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,280
Yeah, exactly.
So 3000 condoms this year?

846
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,200
How many?
But how many competitors are

847
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,400
there?
Oh, that's a good question.

848
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:24,760
That doesn't seem like enough.
I need to see.

849
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:25,600
I need to look.
Yeah.

850
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:31,000
So I guess that in 2020, in the
Tokyo Games, organizers had to

851
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:36,640
order an extra 20,000 condoms
because they ran out of the

852
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,120
70,000 that they already had.
So they had to like.

853
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,640
See, that makes sense to me.
Not 3000.

854
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:48,000
Yeah, yeah.
I mean like like like as much as

855
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,680
possible.
Just just have all of them.

856
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,840
Yeah.
Can we just have the whole

857
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,560
supply?
Yeah, every the world supply

858
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:59,320
needs to go to these Olympians.
So there's actually a formal

859
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:05,360
Olympian that was interviewed
and and I'll have the the

860
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:10,720
article LinkedIn our show notes,
but it was Susan Tadecki.

861
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,040
And so she had spoken back in
July 21st saying that the sex at

862
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,920
the Olympics is inevitable no
matter what.

863
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,440
And she was actually a long
jumper who had competed in the

864
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:29,440
games in 1992 and 2000 and met
her ex, now ex-husband Ben Green

865
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,520
during the Barcelona game.
So like, you know, they probably

866
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:38,280
were partakers in those, right?
But ultimately she was saying

867
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:42,120
that like a lot of these
athletes, they're told and they

868
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,160
know that having sex beforehand
is not a good idea.

869
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,200
It can hurt like your
competition like it can hurt

870
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,040
that, that edge, that.
I believe it.

871
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,400
Competitive edge, I believe
that.

872
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,280
So they want to like they have
to save all of their energy for

873
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:02,480
the Games and once their
competition's released, they or

874
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,720
or they they really release.
Yeah.

875
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:11,560
So she said roommates when when
she was there, she said

876
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,240
roommates were considerate if
you needed the room to yourself,

877
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,560
you know, so you always heard
the party of others and

878
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,360
sometimes you could hardly sleep
because of that.

879
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,280
So there's just like one party
after another and then alcohol

880
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,600
comes in because like.
Oh yeah, they weren't drinking.

881
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,800
They're not drinking, they're
not doing anything, and then

882
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,080
they get.
Obliterated.

883
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,960
Well, and like, like let's say
they had, they've been training

884
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,800
for like, let's say strictly
right, like eight months to, you

885
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,920
know, maybe a year or something.
So now one cocktail.

886
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,840
Oh my God, you would be high as
kite.

887
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,600
Yes, you're done, but.
They're not stopping at one

888
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:49,240
girl.
Oh.

889
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,600
Fuck, these are Olympians.
They're extreme.

890
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,440
You have to have this like, kind
of craziness to you to compete

891
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,360
like that.
So she was saying it happens

892
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,600
that that people have sex and
there are enough people who

893
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,240
strive for that.
It's like people just are having

894
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:06,800
it back and forth.
So another guy was like, yeah,

895
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,680
Barcelona.
The Barcelona Games were in 1992

896
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,800
were a lot of us were Olympic
virgins.

897
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:18,800
So it was as much about sex as
it was about sport, about the

898
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,400
sport.
And he said that this guy said

899
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,640
that he had spent so much time
in a state of less that he could

900
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,640
have passed out.
And he said, I am often asked if

901
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,200
the Olympic Village, the vast
restaurant and housing

902
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,040
conglomeration that hopes host
the world's top athletes for the

903
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,960
duration of the Games, is the
sex fest it's cracked up to be.

904
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,720
And my answer is always the
same, too right?

905
00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:45,120
It is, he said.
I played my first games in

906
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,280
Barcelona in 1992 and got laid
more often in those 2 1/2 weeks

907
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,560
than the rest of my life up to
that point.

908
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,400
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, it's a wild.

909
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,920
So while you guys are watching
the Olympics, like just know

910
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,600
these Olympians are getting
crazy, getting that freaking

911
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,480
inky, you know, in the in the
cardboard beds that they're

912
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,440
going to.
But I will say the floating

913
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,120
village does not have cardboard
beds because they're just in a

914
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,560
cruise ship basically.
That's what they're living in.

915
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,440
But so they're probably having
an even more fun.

916
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,200
Yeah, I've known surfers, I've
surfed before.

917
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:21,320
I know how they are.
So their village is floating.

918
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,840
Yeah, it's the, well, the
floating.

919
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,560
No, no, they have an actual
compound for the Olympic Village

920
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,840
that they've taken over.
So that's where all the athletes

921
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,760
are housed, that's where all the
food's at, things like that.

922
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:35,600
Yeah.
OK.

923
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:41,240
So anyway, that's kind of the
Olympics, the Paris Olympics.

924
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,480
Great job, fun stuff.
That was very.

925
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,560
Super fun.
Yeah, Thank you.

926
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,680
And you know, we're actually
going to be having more little

927
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:56,920
known tidbits and facts about
the Olympics on our TikTok, our

928
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,600
Instagram as the Olympics are
going on.

929
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,920
So we'll be posting pretty
regularly on there as well.

930
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,680
Exactly when you go, great.
Well, thanks so much for a good

931
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:07,480
episode.
Thank you.

932
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,080
Thanks guys.
OK, see you later.

933
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:10,040
Yeah, bye.