Welcome to Part 1 of the Olympics! We will talk about the very nude ancient games, tell some probable myths about huge men who carried cows on their backs into a fighting ring, and once again marvel that Nero was able to pull off winning every event! Then, we talk the modern games. In 1894 French rich-dude Pierre de Coubertin decided that what the French were missing was sportsmanship and physical fitness. One thing led to another and now we're here getting ready for #paris2024! In the next few weeks, we'll explore the Berlin 1936 Olympics, The Munich massacre, and the Atlanta Bombing. We promise to also add fun things like The Jamaican Bobsled Team & the time Kerri Strug did a vault with one broken foot. #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin #iykyk What's your favorite Olympics story??? Let us know!
Welcome to Part 1 of the Olympics! We will talk about the very nude ancient games, tell some probable myths about huge men who carried cows on their backs into a fighting ring, and once again marvel that Nero was able to pull off winning every event!
Then, we talk the modern games. In 1894 French rich-dude Pierre de Coubertin decided that what the French were missing was sportsmanship and physical fitness. One thing led to another and now we're here getting ready for #paris2024!
In the next few weeks, we'll explore the Berlin 1936 Olympics, The Munich massacre, and the Atlanta Bombing. We promise to also add fun things like The Jamaican Bobsled Team & the time Kerri Strug did a vault with one broken foot.
#JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin #iykyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoBdRC2fzE
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-olympics-seine-protest-b2560483.html
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that was a great intro I got feedback from my husband that was very like your intro sucks do better was that a better
Fe intro that was for sure should I ask Juan to rate it yeah maybe Rus SW or
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I'm derailing okay anyways um so happy Sunday um Sunday Happy Father's Day all
father out there in dog fathers count so happy Father's Day to me um and Juan who
I just uh railed against um happy father to my Victim um okay anyways so
we are off to another topic and I think Taylor I go first this time I thought I did but you can I don't care um because
we did last week I went you went first you did usero the I Jackson so I go first you go okay
um okay well now I feel like I'm not ready now I feel thrown into this um cool you were gonna go first anyways I
know I'm just kidding okay um I I as I told you last week I'm going to do a
four-part series starting today um
and this should be an entire podcast but on its own I'm sure that it is cuz there's like a thousand different
stories to tell about this thing but I'm going to do I'm going to tell you some stories about an event that is about to
happen in Paris you know what I'm talking about oh uh Olympics Olympics the
Olympics indeed so today let's talk about the ancient Olympics what they
looked like who was there and then their Revival in the late 1800s early 1900s
how you get in the Olympics and then what's going on in Paris right now as they're getting ready to host the Olympics starting in July then
part two will be Olympics but now Hitler is here which will be pre-1950 Olympics
so I'm going to tell the story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and some other anecdotes that happened between then and
then part three will be they're even more political there's going to be civil
rights involved there's going to be the uh massacre at Munich involved and that will get us from 1950 to 1980 and then
part four will be about Los Angeles and the police the Atlanta bombing and
honestly I can't remember what that was about so I'm excited to try to remember that I don't remember at all who did
that uh Richard Jewel was that his name yeah was was that him or was that the guy who we thought did it that's the guy
that we thought did it but really it was a white supremacist who is now at the
supermax adx in Florence Colorado nice I know that because I was like go I started like looking up weird
prison stories and I found out what adx forence was I was like this sounds like hell on Earth who would possibly be here
and I was like okay yeah that makes sense that makes sense that makes sense all the talk about that in part four
there's also going to be some fun stories you know like we'll talk about the Jamaican bob sled team because
that's a delight and like all the things so we'll talk about little things but then some big mean stories but today it
start us off with what the Olympics were where they were and then how they were done cool sweet do you enjoy the
Olympics first you're going to be shocked to hear that I do not oh my God I love them um and I
know it's stupid and I don't care I cry every time I'm going to talk more about that later so in ancient Greece the
Olympic Games took place every four years four year time span is called an
Olympiad if you ever want to put your life into those quadrants you can say I went to high school for an Olympiad I
think you can say that because it's four years you are you are a total nerd don't you sound cooler to that anyway um they
took place every four years from 776 BC to 339 ad so long time um they were
mostly a religious event like yes there were sports but it was had a religious context and it was to celebrate Zeus
there's a few myths on like why they do this for Zeus and like why this came up
but essentially like the Greek and Roman gods they're always like wrestling each other and fighting and trying to figure
out who's the strongest so sport were you know the same the same thing for for humans um and all free Greek males could
compete so um it was all all dudes they had to be
free so they couldn't be a slave but anyone from like a poor person working in a shop to a king or an emperor could
compete and eventually they would become the panh helenic games which means like more of Grace but this is basically
thinking o Olympics in Olympia um women had their own games they were called the
Hera Herrera games and they would have one race every time the Olympics was
done and they would it was a 190 meter race and it was divided into groups
based on age so like you would win based on your age group just like the 5K that
I was in that did I win but that you did participate in and the newspaper did not recognize indeed
got it thank you for remembering um so the one thing that women could do is
they could own a chariot and when a chariot won a race the owner was the one who got the prize and so in 396 BC and
392 BC Kisa the daughter of a a Spartan King did win the victory wreath which is
like an olive wreath uh those two years so she's the only woman who won in in the ancient Olympics it's because she
owned a chariot and that was something that she was allowed to do so there were games like all over
Greece these people were sporty like I said the most common one was Olympia so now they they have like excavated
stadiums it could hold 40,000 people like the big stadium that they had there it's also also where the great statue of
Zeus which is which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was as well so it sounds like it was pretty fun
pretty awesome there they had a lot of stuff huge stadiums they probably had a ton of infrastructure um it was like a
big party for Zeus obviously they're like slaughtering all these animals to to Zeus but really that means it's a
barbecue what good meat yeah everyone's eating there's like vendors outside
selling stuff like dumb t-shirts you know like you get it at a concert probably sculping tickets yeah so all
this stuff is happening they're probably tailgating in some way as well um the stadium in Olympia was would be rebuilt
a few times during like the Thousand Years of the ancient Olympics and when it wasn't a stadium it was a wheat field
because Olympia wasn't really populated except during that time so they would grow wheat in the field and then Harvest
it and then have the Olympics again every Olympiad which is how long four years perfect so and we're basically
talking the Summer Olympic so there was a book that I did not read that I was trying to find a book to read about this and I found one on Amazon but I couldn't
find it at the library and like all the things so I read some articles instead but one of the reviews was like this
book on the ancient Olympics doesn't talk about the Winter Olympics at all like do you think they were [ __ ]
skiing in Greece a thousand years ago 2,000 years ago 3,00 no what are you
talking about I mean yeah guess if it's invented in Greece and it doesn't make sense there's no like Bob's SL there's
no Lou in ancient Greece you know it's just like obviously that I I'll talk about when the Winter Games came but
we're talking Summer Olympics we're not talking winter and all honestly it's really the Summer Olympics that we're
excited about like the winter is like whatever but winter has figure
skating and that's always fun and fun also fun um but but yeah no we're just
talking somewhere Olympics everyone who participated in the Olympics was naked which seems hard
like I don't have I have girl parts but like if I'm not running with like seven sports bras
on it's really really hard to run so I it feels like it'd be hard to run a race
naked I don't know I mean I could I could you okay with it I think I'd be okay with I think I'd probably do better
naked all right because I want to like be out of eyesight as quickly as possible so
F that's fair everyone's looking at you and you're like terrified running as as possible I like that that Mak sense some
of the things that started off in the ancient Olympics some of the um games that were played there was wrestling
obviously and boxing there was something called the pancre
pancreat panan I didn't not look how to say it p a n k r a t i o n which is both
wrestling and boxing and there are no rules it's kind of like MMA I feel like but like really there are no rules so
some of the people who are like famous for being ancient people who were in this um in this event one guy his name
was archon he was in the middle of this like wrestle Punch Battle and he was being
strangled I'm acting this up for you he was being strangled with like one U one arm from the guy that the guy that was
strangling him then Aron took his hand and Crush used the guy's foot and the
guy screaming out in pain and he gave up like raised the finger to like be like I give up and as soon as he did that the
guy died anyway so he won postmortem the guy who crushed the foot
is the one who died weird like he took his last bit of strength to crush the foot and then he
died but he won because the guy had surrendered or like Tapped Out tapped
out um one guy named Milan of croaton he was huge he was like famously huge
guy he would bring in his own cow when the Olympics started like on his back like he would hold it like Paul bunan
this all sounds like [ __ ] this all sounds like weird myth building he would hold the cow on his back and then he
would eat the whole cow in one day just to prove how big and strong he was then he would drink nine bottles of wine and
then he'd go out and and do this event and then eventually he when he was like
40 he couldn't do it anymore which is fair and um he lost his last his last
fight in the Olympics but even though he lost they like held him up and they were like he's a champion like we really like
you know he's a legend and then later he died because he was trying to pull up a
tree stump by himself with his bare hands and he got tangled up in the tree and he got eaten by
Wolves I don't know this all lies probably not true but this all lies okay I know but what a fun story yeah but you
could anybody anybody could be anybody back then because whoever makes the most audacious stupid lie is like
only I don't know whatever we can move on I know that's what makes it fun yeah
even if ancient history isn't true you have to believe it yeah I think that's the Dan Carin
thing um another guy named sois of Psy Sion his signature move is he would
break fingers so I feel like he'd be like oh man I don't want to go in there with that guy going to break my hand you
know um so there was that there was a long jump where you would hold weights
that were like kind of like a like a curv like half a half circle with like a
handle and the weight would help you jump further you know so you would like throw yourself forward with the weight
that's how they would long jump does that make sense weird um I did watch a recreation of it and it like kind of
worked I feel like you're weighted down so you can't even get enough inertia but you're like throwing yourself with the
weights I feel like that would totally work yeah do we know why they stopped doing it um well they stopped doing the
whole thing so I'll tell you why they stopped doing the whole thing yeah so there were uh Javelin and discus which
we still have today chariot races um the very first Olympic game was probably the
stadon which is that 190 meter race and um that's where the word Stadium comes
from so that 190 meter race was called the stadon that's where we get the word Stadium
from there's also a pentathlon um and I think there's a modern pentathlon that is a little bit different because the
ancient one was running long jump discus throw javelin throw and wrestling I think we took out wrestling and added
something else in the panon um but there's that people actually I mean actually obviously died in these Olympic
Games whether it was from you know exhaustion or being beat up or being murdered or whatever um and technically
the Greeks invented sports medicine because they had a lot of people to take care of after these you know yeah of
course imagine all the Shins um other countries weren't there obviously but it was just like different Greek city
states like against each other so there's a lot of like nationalism like there's now like you're excited to for your country um another thing is like
when you were running races it wasn't to break records it was just to win it's probably because you
couldn't like accurately time something you know I mean yeah there's no photo
finish you're not going to like break it down to the seconds or milliseconds really yeah um sometimes Emperors would
do it so a little bit toward the end of of the ancient Olympic Games Emperor Augustus held a Revival and King Herod
from the Bible he helped pay for it so it's happening on then um you you'll
remember that um Nero wanted to win everything and he would win a bunch he
won a chariot race even though he fell off his chariot I mean he's a hero good for him um so obviously like they he did
a bunch of it um but the ancient game stopped in 393 um because theodosis the first or
maybe his son they're not 100% sure just say cut it out was probably because like um polytheism was going out of fashion
and it was a thing for Zeus also the temple burned down so they just like stopped doing it around then um and
there were still like games around the area but nothing like the Olympics like you know it you know hundreds of
thousands of people would come to these games they to to watch them to sell their things it was like a huge deal and
they stopped doing it around 393 ad0
um so let's talk about the modern Olympics for a little bit so like I said
I love the Olympics I think they're super fun they're almost impossible to watch because like cable stations will
have them they like some of them will have commentary and some of them won't and they'll be at weird times and so like they make it as hard humanely
possible to watch them on TV let me ask you jaylor what do you love about them um I like a sporting event I like
stories of people who work really really hard all their lives for like their one thing and then they get it and I like
the part where all of the countries come out and they're all dressed differently and they're all really excited and happy to be there really proud and I like
when I like watching the metal I do I do the whole thing I like watching the metal count that's really exciting just
happy for people who have like something to do make sense I don't know just like I
think it's fun that people get together and do a thing and then like as we're going to talk about in the next
month we can't just get together and have a good time because people are terrible but if
we could how fun would that be I mostly like the things that are fun and cool to
watch like I think you know like that figure is incredible I think that the
gymnastics it is always incredible to watch that
but I also think about like the people who've spent like 15 20 years becoming
the best at something kind of useless I mean like the curling people
or like the archery people where I'm like you're never going to be on a Serial box you're never going
to how were you going to turn this in like you could have literally just
learned a skill in that time well no I get it but like then what they'd be like the best accountant at their accounting
firm who cares well no I just look ATEC like like it sucks that somebody could
become the best at something that is kind of useless and leaves them high dry
sort of you know I know but I but I I'm laughing because I'm like yeah but like
I'm not the best at anything well I mean you know I'm going
agree with you I'm the best at like one R random ass sport like that's
really cool but I so the other thing Taylor is like I look at basketball in the in the Olympics and I just do not
understand that because it's supposed to be amateur it's supposed to be amateur sports that's the whole point of the Olympics and then the US takes LeBron
James Steph Curry like the greatest by Leaps and Bounds in the sport and puts
them on a team and calls a te Team USA and it's like what is how was this swich for
sports like these are the well I think that they changed that in 1994
right let's talk about it later because we'll talk about the Dream Team and I
had that really great CD that had a bunch of songs on it including I think possibly songs a lot of songs by Will Smith on it but um they changed that but
it's amateurs on purpose and I'm going to tell you who decided it should be amateurs um and then we
can let's keep learning yeah yeah yeah because I I agree it that that is weird
and also we like didn't win last time I don't remember I I I I definitely don't watch the
basketball stuff I watched the ice sking in the um anyways go ahead yeah um so
okay ancient Olympics done things are Romans Greeks Empires blah blah blah
they're not doing it anymore so modern Olympics I did go to a Special Olympics
opening ceremony in LA and I cried the entire time it was lovely was so fun everyone was so excited Stevie Wonder
sang a song Michelle Obama was there it was and the kened when was that that it was in Florence was a baby so it must
have been in 2015 wait the Olympics were in La when we were there the Special Olympics oh
the Special Olympics okay the Olympics are going to be in LA in 2028 so the next Su Olympics will be in
LA and we're cool definitely going to something weird like something weird that you can't get tickets to you know like that you can get tickets to yeah
yeah okay that was the other thing I was going to say that like I am turned off about the Olympics it feels like a luxury thing to attend it feels like you
have to be like in the upper upper upper class to even consider attending I mean
especially if you travel you know if I'm like oh I'm going to travel to Paris to go watch the Olympics it's going to cost
me so much more than it normally would to travel to Paris cuz of the Olympics you know and then I have to like buy the
tickets and stay in an expensive hotel and like blah blah blah blah right I'm sure that like you can't get an Airbnb
in Paris in July at the moment so yes it's a very privileged thing to be able to go to for sure and it's a privileged
I think there are some you know obviously like we've seen in films I'm thinking of The
Cutting Edge but like you know if if your child wants to be an Olympian and something and they're look good if keep
doing it it is such a time and money commitment it's like crazy for a family you know yeah like I
mean yeah like like if you wanted your kid to be a master figure skater like that's like
yeah we've all seen the Nancy carrian and Tanya Harding movie yeah yeah exactly oh gosh I didn't think about
that I'm put my list of things to talk about so now it is
1894 and we are in France and there is a dude his name is Pierre day certin we'll
call him Pierre he's an aristocrat he's a rich guy he goes to boarding school most people at the boarding school go
home you know sometimes he stays there the whole time becomes pretty religious
and after he's done he's like okay what do I do now with my life he could pretty much do anything he has a lot of money
and he goes to England like on vacation and he sees all he's like oh the people
here are in much better physical shape than the French and they work well together and he attributes it to
physical education so he sees like people in England uh you know playing
sports and doing things as a team and he's like this will be helpful when there's a war that they already know how
to work together and we're not doing that in France and we're like not prepared to work together in this way so he goes back to France and tries to
start like a physical education um Revival thing in France but it doesn't really work out
but um it does give him an idea to start the modern Olympics so he's like let's
give people an opportunity to like work in a team to train like be physically active cuz it really wasn't that in
France this is what why he did it so there's a lot of back and forth but he creates the international Olympic
Committee which is still around wait T are you basically saying that from 300 whatever ad until the 1800s there was no
Olympics yes that's wild okay yeah I mean a Frenchman that did it yeah weird
cuz he's like these French guys need to up their antee sort of working out yeah yeah like stop just having wine
and cigarettes and bats and run with your cigarettes run with your cigarettes there we go get naked and run because
you're embarrassed until you're not embarrassed anymore um so um the first Olympic first
modern Olympics were in 1896 in Athens the second were in Paris in 1900 some
sometimes they were coordinated around the World's Fair so it be like the same time that the World's Fair was um but finally in 1906 it kind of like gets
going and rolls into what more of what we know today somehow Pierre the man who brought the Olympics back won a gold
medal in poetry which feels like that is not currently an event that is the
opposite of a sport but whatever um and so there's some criticism about about
him like he was definitely like a ro romantic and idealized ancient Greece
and was like this is going to bring World Peace this is going to bring people together the people are going to love this and um it does not obviously
but humans don't want World PE humans don't want peace like it's just not in our DNA no but he but I mean you know
bless his heart he I can see how you would think that it could you know um
but it didn't so little friendly competition between all the people so that's going the Winter Olympic start
in 1924 um and those include the things like Bob seding curling ice hockey
Nordic skiing which is like the one where you cross country ski and then shoot a gun have you seen that one no
you like cross country yes you cross country ski and then you shoot like a Target okay that's what I'm talking
about like if you had just worked at Burger King the the The Griddle at Burger King for like those 25 years you
could have owned a Burger King but instead all you learned how to do was a Leisure sport like ski and shoot a gun
which points to the fact that like why I'm kind of against the Olympics in this context because it's like only the Uber
Uber Uber Uber Rich can possibly have that is their only thing they do for like 20 years uh thousand per.
so I agree and I I yes I totally agree with that it's definitely a rich person support a lot of these things are like
princess Zara who has Prince William's cousin she was like in the Olympics for
like horses you're like well of course you were [ __ ] princess you could have a horse and be it all the time and learn
how to ride it really well you know whatever um but the um sorry dogs
were barking yes understood well you know what I mean and then like but also
like you only have one life [ __ ] you like something go do it we'll talk about
more inspirational stories we'll talk about inspir stories of poor people doing this I mean the vast majority of
my resentment towards everything has to do with the fact that it's rich people can do it so I can't and therefore my resentment built no that's totally fair
totally fair um so yeah there's there's a the whatever whatever
it's called like the cross country skiing and shooting I'm G to look it up it's called something oh it's called the
B the bathon it's just skiing and shooting anyway
bias okay cut that out no no we don't we do you really want me to cut that out no
it's fine 20 minutes or I was Googling you you got out if I told
you that my hobby is to fish and then when I catch a bass
detonate a bomb it's like you know what I mean it's like what you talk about like well it comes from okay so it comes
from the Norwegian military because they that's how they would have to learn how to fight is they would cross country ski and then shoot because cold as [ __ ] up
there it is so Charming I wish I was in a war as like a Nordic Soldier you've
come around um no and then there's also like I remember one time oh gosh I'll
talk about this maybe later but there were used to be like ski dancing people would like dance on their skis in like
the 80s so there's like some sports come and go some are more popular than others but um two things I wanted to note about
the winter versus the Summer Olympics one is both come from my child childhood so one I did a report on speed skating
in fourth grade and I had to write a letter to the like the American speed skating Association and they sent me back like a bunch of pamphlets and a
poster and it was very cute that's very that's how you that's how you researched in in the 80s and then oh my God I
remember so the last winter Olympics they used to be the same year as Summer Olympics do you remember this so they
were always held the same year the last one was in 1992 where the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics were held in the same year then they'd wait
four years and then they would um you know do it together again they changed it so that then the next one wasn't 1996
so it kind of like pushed it out a little bit and now they're every two years it's one or the other but it changed in the 90s and I remember I had
this [ __ ] [ __ ] of a English teacher in sixth grade and this is when people
were this was like a thing that was in the news and she was like let's talk about something that is in the news
right now that is like we could have like a debate about or whatever and I like raised my hand and I was like what about the Olympics and she was like they
already decided that that's dumb and she told me I was dumb she was such a [ __ ] and so I always think about her when I
think about the Winter Olympics and I wish I didn't and then last night I was like I hope she's dead and looked it up she's dead she died in 2021 I read her
obituary and I smiled like three times I was like I'm so GL that [ __ ] Taylor when I was in like second grade it was
like a weekend and my mom took me my brother to like the local park and it was like springtime and so blue bonnets
were everywhere and I picked a blue bonnet so I could take it to my teacher on Monday and I my teacher and she took
me outside of the classroom she grabbed my arm and took me outside the classroom was like picking up blue bonnet which is
a state state flower of Texas is illegal and this is a crime and she basically
made me seem like I was a criminal for trying to give her a flower and I don't remember her name I cried for like
[ __ ] weeks after that and I now as an adult I'm like I hope you're dead I hope
she's dead too I'm so sorry piece of [ __ ] yeah no kidding yeah what a [ __ ]
um anyways anyway if you're a teacher if you're a teacher be better yeah and you know that we remember you yeah we will
remember you and we will site you and we will wish Bad Karma upon you I know being a teacher is hard but she's
terrible um so that's when they separated so now the
question you're asking is how do I get my city to host an Olympics Taylor that's because I would love to do this
yes I would love to have all of this I'd love to spend billions of dollars really I'm like itching to do it doesn't
hosting the Olympics almost always inevitably bankrupt the host City yeah it's horrible got it yep so the ioc will
have a bid the international Olympic Committee has a bid for the games so you have to kind of like fight for the game even to bid it's tens of millions of
dollars so you have to like put together infrastructure plans you know you have to like do marketing put up your case
all the things um it's settled about seven years in advance so Paris
announced intention to bid for this year in 2015 and um it ended up going down to
Paris and Los Angeles for this year and they made a deal that Paris got this year and La gets 2028 um so once you get
it now you're in trouble because you have to build Olympic Villages you have to build more Transportation you have to
build like the Atlanta airport was new in the 90s because of the Olympics like the you have to like rebuild everything
some of the Olympics had that have like absolutely insane price points the Beijing the Beijing Olympics in 2008
reportedly cost around $45 billion and the Sochi Olympics ex exceeded 50
billion in 2014 because that was in Russia also had no they probably had nothing infrastructure wise to begin but
I will say if you're the mayor of a city a really incredible way to completely
[ __ ] over your successor is to win the Olympic bid because the time yeah you're
going to look like a superhero like oh my God he believe Paris the guy at Paris did this and like [ __ ] the guy in seven
years who has has execute on all this oh my God let me tell you about the Paris mayor in a little bit which what her
deal is so so yes and of course also like there
to build these things if there like aren't things already you have to build like all sorts of stadiums so the you
have to move people around so in both Rio and Beijing and everywhere they're
doing in Paris right now they're displacing unhoused people and people who like um live in the areas that they
need in Beijing they displaced 1.5 million people and they were doing things like just putting up walls
between the Olympic stadiums and like really poor neighborhoods so you couldn't see them of course um so how
else would you do it no I know but there's also then like the rich people I
know but like but so that's what I'll tell you that's what people in France are protesting right now is they're like
couldn't we use this money to help the poor people rather than like box them up behind a wall like like you're the first
one kicked out of this behind the wall yes whoever ra topic exactly so they're
building this huge buildings in record time so they're cutting corners and what do you do with them afterwards like do you need 17 stadiums in your city you
probably don't so a lot of the ones like in Beijing are like in Ruins already like they're like falling apart no one needed them no one uses them so now it's
202 for for everyone listening to this in the future and Paris France had
Olympics in 1900 and a 1924 so it's been 100 years since they've had their last
Olympics this year they're hosting the Summer Olympics it starts on July 26th and the par Olympics start right after
so the par Olympics is for people with like physical disabilities that'll be right after also in Paris they're going
to be games in 16 other cities around Paris like in the Paris metropolitan area and one in Tahiti which
brance technically still owns part of some of the stadiums um already existed
and were renovated some fun things is um beach volleyball it's going to be held
in the in a park in front of the Eiffel Tower yeah that'll be delightful um the
equestrian events and the modern pentathlon will be held at Versailles super cool very cool
um the oh guess what the first guess what do you want to know what the new sport is this
year I could not even venture to guess break
dancing I guess that's as much of a sport as seeing down hill and [ __ ] shooting a gun
is yes um so break Dan be the first time which will be super fun and um the
mascot John Oliver talked about this the other day the mascot is this like cap called the aan it's like a French cap
it's like a red cap that kind of like flops over so it looks like two weird droplets of blood but it's like a cap it's very strange but there's like
people dressed like it and like waving that's their mascot this year um there's already some problems happening already
there are some security concerns um France obviously they are they're they
love protesting they're big protesters so there's going to be a lot of protests um the qari Amir is coming so there's
got to be extra um security for that Japan Jaan and the United States are
modernizing their command structure that's supposed to be able to like help with security do you know who the US ambassador to Japan is right now no clue
it's Rah Emanuel I just like I didn't know that weird weird right man that guy did
good for himself huh what a [ __ ] job he's been he's been crushing it since like 2008 like good for him I know
um they are worried about the opening ceremonies um that there might be some sort of like attack or violent protest
or something so it's been cut down you used to initially you could just show up and now you have to have like a special
ticket like they're going to be really careful and hopefully everything is is okay um but the fun thing that involves
the mayor of Paris and mcon the French uh president is that they want the
swimming events to be held in the sen which is the river that goes to Paris did you just watch Under Paris no what's
that oh my God it is a Netflix movie the the all of the
dead bodies no it is a shark movie and it's based on people doing a competition
in the sun which is incredible yeah you got to watch it it's very very stupid it is
dumber than [ __ ] open like three bottles of wine for you and Juan and then have the kids asleep and then just like after
your first bottle's done when you're a little bit tipsy then start playing it it's fun um this looks really fun no I
like I love remember that one with like the the crocodiles are like or the alligators were all over Florida like
eating people in a hurricane it was great um no this exciting um but yeah it's in the end so that you have not
been able you have not been allowed to s in the end since 1923 and that was before the last time
that Paris hosted the Olympics 100 years ago that's how dirty it is it's like parts parts of it have like no life it
has no life in it like it's so fish there's no like it's it's full of eoli it's like really really gross and it's
not ready so it's today's June 16th it's going to start in a month or so the
river is not ready they're going to spend $1.2 billion do to clean it up and the mayor of Paris has said that she
will summon it and so did mcone but they're both keep pushing their dates back because it's just like still disgusting and then people are
protesting and there's a hashtag that's INF French that I do not I'm not going
to venture to say out loud but the hashtag is I [ __ ] in the sun on June 2 3rd which is a whole bunch of people are
planning to [ __ ] in the sun prior to the mayor swimming in it and there's like a website that you can
go to to show where you are in the sun like up River and what time you should poop so that your poop gets there at the
C at the right time people are nuts this is why can of nice things yes
this is why I can of nice things so that's that's what's happening in Paris right now we will see what happens and of course other things are happening like underpaid illegal immigrants are
building the buildings A lot of unhoused people have been displaced um they're definitely not prepared for the influx
of people and events so we'll see how they do but we'll learn all about it as
we move up to it and I think then I should be we should be pretty much done with
this series by the time it starts so we'll know a lot about it by the time we get to those Olympics and we can talk as
a group about our favorite events and what's happening if we can figure out how to watch it without like getting our parents cable password and trying to
figure out how to get it on TV and then watching it without commentary in some ways and that's always so annoying but I'm super excited for gymnastics I'm
excited for the running um I'm excited for a lot of it wait the
mayor of Paris is a Hispanic socialist woman
yeah when did this I I do not keep up with other countri politics an
Hado Spanish born French politician she's been she's been mayor of Paris for 10 years so we're way behind we're way
she's from the Socialist Party
oh yeah she's literally wait she was born in
Spain that is like weird like I'm shocked that French people are
that open about things they seem like an up people right
yeah looks like she moved
to France there were refugees in France after the Spanish Civil War man they
must be super liberal in France or in Paris I think they
are that's part of all the all the protests and such she gets to live oh my God she gets
to live in this huge Palace
really yeah the hotel DeVille super fun anyway I'm excited
that's how it started that's what's going on right now and then next week I will talk about the 1936 Berlin Olympics
which was hosted by Hitler and also I learned in this research that Berlin tried to host again and they've been on
the thing a couple times and people are like no you lost your privileg you can maybe do it in hurg but like cannot do
it in Berlin again so Berlin's dope though I love Berlin I know Berlin's awesome but like you know we'll see if
they ever let them do it again um this Palace the mayor lives in is insane I
know like what on Earth is this thing oh my God looks it
does um hey I just want like higher ceilings you should um you should watch
that movie it's really fun the whole thing is about swimming in the S and how they find this shark and the shark
tracks itself into the sin and yeah it's a whole it's a whole thing that sounds amazing I love that I love
um the I mean I love well I Love Thinking talking about Paris and how like the
catacombs of Paris is like built on top of a bunch of dead people anyway terrifying yeah it's that was
super fun and then um yeah I love the idea of being chased by a shark I had a
friend who was going to swim from satin Island to um Ellis Island one time and she asked me and Juan to be her Partners
or we would be in a canoe and she would be swimming but then she have getting sick and not being able to do it but I
was like 100% yes I will be your canoe person and we would like canoe next to her and like give her
snacks that's that's a lot of responsibility I think I know but I was like this seems awesome I'm bummed if we
never did it because I think that would have been really fun well was always next time um sweet well this is exciting
uh our topics are actually going to overlap this week kind of like sort of almost but they're like
sweet little bit little bit there's something there so awes please um yeah
please friends if you have something about the lipics that you love or like a little story that you want to want to hear more about let me know because I'm
going to do like the big ones but also some other fun little stories in there too so um let us know what you think
we're at Doom toel pod gmail.com um we had a couple people write in Kiara sent us a
BN bunch of ideas that I'll forward over to you far so you can um you can have that and then naen um my friend nen is
in London right now and she was just telling me that she was in London which is super fun so I asked her to report
back if she sees that weird ass painting of the king so creepy did you hear got vandalized yes it's so stupid has a
walls and grommet on it about cheese or something um yeah it is what it is um
but yeah find us on all the socials at Doom to fail pod I swear to God I'm going to get our website working I'm going to potentially murder someone but
now I have stopped even trying to do SC names and text records and I'm now moving the URL over to Squarespace all
right there there you have it we will have a website soon assumingly the [ __ ] NOS we'll try our best the [ __ ] NOS um
well thank you thank you Taylor thank you for sharing excited always love your multi-part series and this one's
especially topical given the Olympics um and yeah there's a there's so much
richness to like the topic you got like uh what happened in Munich you got like the Nancy situation I just mentioned you
got the Atlantic B there's a lot that's wrapped up in it so I know I might have to add like just like fun scandals as
like a last one or something we talk about cuz there's like all of the drugs the doping project atris all that stuff
like yeah there's a lot to it yeah we see um sweet anything else you want to
uh say before we wrap nope all righty write to us again at doel Pond gmail.com
and we will join you again in a few days thanks Taylor thanks [Music]