The Lore Surrounding the Olympic Games

**Discussion begins at 7:00**

The Olympic Games originated in 776 BC in Greece.  Back then, religious and athletic festivals were held every 4 years in Olympia at the sanctuary of Zeus.  It took place almost exclusively in late August/early September, because the midpoint always took place during the second full moon after the summer solstice (after the annual harvest but before the picking of the olives).  The first 13 games included only a foot race, and were only open to “legitimate sons of free-born Greek parents”.  After Rome took over Greece, the games evolved to feature any man who spoke Greek, and included events like foot races, wrestling, boxing, and chariot racing.  Still, participants trained for years, and the champions received a wreath made from the sacred olive tree in the precinct of Zeus.  That’s it… nothing else except personal pride.  The Games were held every four years for nearly 1,200 years, shaping Greek culture and politics and reaching the height of success around the 5th or 6th centuries BC.  The games were eventually banned  sometime between 393 AD when the Roman emperor Theodosius I banned Pagan rituals, and 426 AD when his successor Theodosius the II mandated the destruction of all Greek temples.  

The idea of the Olympics lay dormant until the 19th century, when interest in classical Greece and international sport revived the concept.  Several “Olympic-style” competitions appeared across Europe, but the true rebirth came through French educator Pierre de Coubertin, who believed sport could promote peace, education, and international cooperation.  His efforts led to the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894 and the staging of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Though small and imperfect, these Games established the core structure of the Olympics: international participation, multiple sports, and recurring competition.

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the Olympics grew into one of the world’s largest global events, reflecting both athletic excellence and international tension.  The Games expanded to include women, professional athletes, and a wide range of new sports, while also giving rise to the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games.  Since the first modern Olympics in 1896, the competition has gone from 241 male athletes from 14 countries, to over 10,000 male and female athletes from over 200 countries.  They have gone from 43 events in 9 sports, to over 300 events from 30+ sports.  Today we are discussing the interesting Olympic lore, including some bizarre and strange tales.    

Transcript

Hey guys, welcome back.

Howdy.

Hey, what's going on? I'll tell you what, it's a big week for my children to not go to school.

For like, going on a week and a half.

Oh my god, I don't think they're going back this week either.

No, they're definitely not.

No, well, number one, there's snow in the forecast, and number two, the whole reason why they can't get to school is because the sidewalks can't be cleared.

Are they virtually schooling at least?

Well, they brought back their iPads, so there's that.

But you know what you have to look forward to, Kait, is we are T minus one week from the Super Bowl.

The Superb Owl, if you will.

Woo, let's go, Pats.

That's annoying, Colleen.

Welcome to the red, white, and blue.

Colleen's such a Fairweather fan. The past two years, she's been like, go birds.

Yeah, but this is, I'm obsessed with Drake May.

Oh, because he's hot?

Oh, because I love his wife. I love his aesthetic.

Oh, his wife is very into the bargain shopping.

Yeah, bake may miss.

Yeah. You know what else? All these quarterbacks are marrying their high school sweethearts.

Drake May and his wife have been together since elementary school.

Right.

That's what I mean.

That's crazy. That's some real growing up you're doing together.

When did you meet your husband?

Middle school. But it's different because we went to different high schools, different colleges.

Because we waited until we were 22 to get married.

Yeah. We said, I'm feeling 22. Everything's going to be all right when we just say I do.

That was so cheesy.

Wow.

The other thing that's happening, less exciting maybe for Kait and I cannot believe the blast for me that came out of Colleen's mouth.

What?

But the other thing happening this week is the Winter Olympics.

Wait, it's this week?

Oh my gosh.

I love the Winter Olympics. I'm sorry. What was the blast for me that came out of Colleen's mouth?

Colleen said, I have probably in my life watched two Olympics and I can't remember a single opening ceremony.

What?

I think I've literally only watched the Beijing opening ceremony.

But I am surprised because I feel like this is the kind of thing that Colleen would get obsessed with.

Right. I agree.

I mean, I've seen Olympics clips. I've watched the figure skaters. I know Shawn White snowboards.

But I think I never stayed up late to watch the opening ceremonies.

Shawn White is in his 40s now, isn't he? 40?

He's also like enemy number one now.

We cheated on Nina.

Yeah, Nina. Nina Debrave.

I watched the gymnastics girls, that five.

So it seems like I can see you. I was like, give it a week. I bet Colleen's like, I got to go home and watch curling or something.

I do like curling.

I love curling.

It's my favorite.

You know what though? I don't have cable TV.

It's on like NBC.

I don't even have it.

Peacock?

They're on like NBC. It's on Peacock.

I got Peacock.

You use my Peacock. Yeah.

Oh, do I?

Megan, I have Peacock.

Well, then I also told her that I pay for paramount. Then I was like, but I just want to say I've logged into your paramount, but I am paying for paramount. Then I was on my parents HBO and I wasn't able to log in.

So Colleen said, here, I'll give you mine. Then today I was like, well, I am hijacking HBO and she was like, we're hijacking Kait's HBO.

It started as a split.

I said, Colleen, just let me pay for the HBO because you take care of my children.

I was like, I'll trade you babysitting for streaming services.

4:27

Drink Check

Okay. Well, before we talk, I'm excited to talk about the Olympics. Before we get into it though.

Is it time for our drink check?

Yeah, drink check.

What are you having over there, Kait?

I'm having some nice warm peppermint tea.

Good weather for that.

It is. It was a little too late for coffee for me, but I wanted something warm and I was like, maybe I'll look in my tea because tea is really hit or miss for me.

But then I saw the peppermint and I was like, oh, Megan made me the best cup of tea of my life. We came back from the Taylor Swift dance party and I had a sore throat because I was screaming and I had lost my voice.

I was like, Megan, I just want some tea. She found some chamomile tea, loose leaf and she brewed it in her little special glass teapot. We were up to two in the morning just drinking some tea.

Oh my gosh.

Getting wild.

That just reminds me, I have loose leaf tea and I've been thinking to myself, I have no idea how to drink this.

And then I remember, I have a loose leaf mushroom mug from you.

Well, we're over here. Our drink check is provided by Mermaid Girl.

Provided by Mermaid Girl. Get your scales on.

Ah, what a girl. What a girl, that Mermaid Girl.

It is not cold weather friendly. We are just pretending like we're on a beach somewhere.

Yeah, and it's sparkly.

We're drinking Glitter Sangria. So she got us this Woodstone Kitchen Glitter Sangria Mix. Look at the sparkles there, girlfriend.

Oh, my sparkles flooded to the bottom.

Oh, I do.

You know what? Megan did ask me, she said, if I make this, are you going to be like the microplastics? And I said, no, I will drink it and I'll be happy about it, Megan.

And she just decided to do it when I wasn't there.

So there's plenty left over.

I said, are you? Yeah, there is more. She said, I said, are you going to be anti-edible glitter?

And she went, Um, and then she said, no. And then Colleen said, will my poop be glittery? I hope so.

I personally hope so.

But what do you think?

Colleen is loving this. I offered her up either some white wine or some Prosecco and she asked for Prosecco. It's delicious.

Yeah, Colleen is a bubbly girl.

Dr.

Andrew and his wife gave me these frozen wine glasses for Christmas.

That's what I'm rocking with today.

So she's got an ice cold cup, but she was like, I don't know if it's icy enough for me, is what this girl just said.

Oh my gosh.

But speaking of ice, we're going to talk about some ice sports.

Oh my gosh, sports.

7:01

Olympic Origins

So this is sort of a Modge Podge episode today.

We're going to talk about kind of some, a little bit of the history of the Olympics, kind of some fun stories from throughout the years. I have a couple little conspiracies to talk about. And that's, we're just going to, we're just going to chat.

Are you going to talk about itonia?

Well, I'm going to touch on it.

That was in that movie.

Yeah.

I, Tanya?

Yes. Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. We all, this is like a childhood memory.

I don't know the movie, but I know who Tanya Harding is.

No, but the movie had to.

I, Tanya was a good movie.

Yeah, it had Sebastian Stan in it.

But also that was, that was really in like the, the trials leading up to the Olympics.

It wasn't in the actual Olympics, except her crying because her shoot getting to restart, that was an Olympic.

That's what I thought.

All right, so let me tell you, let me do a little introduction here, tell you a little about the history, okay? The Olympic Games originated in 776 BC in Greece.

Back then, religious and athletic festivals were held every four years in Olympia at the sanctuary of Zeus.

It took place almost exclusively in late August, early September, because the midpoint always took place during the second full moon after the summer solstice, which was after the annual harvest, but before the picking of the olives.

Colleen, this was all around olive harvesting.

I do love an olive.

That's crazy.

The first 13 games included only a foot race, and it was such an honor to win that the next Olympic games would be named for you.

Oh, wow. Well, I would never win a foot race, so.

I know.

Run? Ugh, I get about it. Yeah.

The games were only open to, quote, legitimate sons of freeborn Greek parents.

Right.

But after Rome took over Greece, the games evolved to feature any man who spoke Greek and included events like foot races, wrestling, boxing, and chariot racing.

Oh, and do it bring that back.

Still, participants trained for years and the champions received a wreath made from the sacred olive tree in the precinct of Zeus.

That's it. Nothing else except personal pride. But oftentimes, their hometowns or sponsors would provide them with some kind of financial assistance.

So you didn't get something, but mostly the motivation was just like this olive tree wreath and everyone knew your name.

Like there was no financial win.

Yeah. The games were held every four years for nearly 1200 years, shaping Greek culture and politics and reaching the height of success around the 5th or 6th centuries BC.

The games were eventually banned sometime between 393 AD, when the Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned pagan rituals, and 426 AD when his successor mandated the destruction of all Greek temples.

The idea of the Olympics laid dormant until the 19th century, when interest in classical Greece and international sport revived the concept.

Several Olympic-style competitions appeared across Europe, but the true rebirth came through Pierre de Coubertin, who believed the sport could promote peace, education, and international cooperation.

So his efforts led to the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894, and the staging of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Well, we're going to talk about kind of what a mess these games were, but they did establish the core structure of the Olympics, which was international participation, multiple sports, and recurring competition.

Okay. I love competition.

Was it summer or winter?

They were all summer at first. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the Olympics grew into one of the world's largest global events, reflecting both athletic excellence and international tension.

The Games expanded to include women, professional athletes, and a wide range of new sports, while also giving rise to the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Since the first modern Olympics in 1896, the competition has gone from 241 male athletes from 14 countries to over 10,000 male and female athletes from over 200 countries.

They've gone from 43 events in nine sports to over 300 events from over 30 sports. And today we're discussing interesting Olympic lore, including some strange tales. Whoa.

Then I wanted to start and just chat with you guys about what your favorite Olympic sport is. I guess we should really, we're talking all Olympics, but the Winter Olympics are coming.

Of the two, I find summer repetitive. Like it's just another swim event.

It does get a little weird to me that I'm like, all they're doing is swimming back and forth. No, but I just think you train your whole life to do like water polo and you have one chance to win it all, right?

You're a swimmer, you can be in like eight, seven different.

And I feel the same about the runners. I feel the same about the runners. Just another running event.

I like the ones with a little bit of theater. Like, I love the people who do the swim dance. I love the gymnastics, love the figure skating.

And then I do like a race. Like, I like the speed skating, okay? Because I think they look funny with their helmets.

And the triathlon is always kind of cool.

What do you like, Kait?

I am over here baffled because swimming is some of the best events to watch.

It's so boring.

They're always so competitive. The United States is always setting records. Oh my gosh, they're some of the most, I mean, I grew up swimming.

Like, I was a swimmer. So maybe that has something else to do with it. But it is so fun to watch the swimming.

We, I love watching the diving.

Oh, I do like the dives.

The synchronized diving, amazing.

I do love that.

I love, I do like watching the gymnastics. The gymnastic, mostly the female gymnastics. I don't really like watching the men's.

I think the men's are boring. But female is top tier.

Well, what about for the Winter Olympics? What are you guys most excited to watch?

Hockey and figure skating.

My favorite, Winter Olympic Games. I love watching curling. Tell me about, tell me it's not the most funniest thing you've ever seen.

Well, they've changed the rules a little bit too.

Have you been updated on that?

Well, but I don't know. I actually don't know. But the men yelling, the best part.

Also, it makes you feel like, I think it is incredibly, curling is one of my two favorites.

While it is incredibly challenging, and we would all just be wiping out and doing it. There's something about seeing chubby old people.

The Olympic heroes.

I've seen Olympic heroes. Oh, you don't have to be a swimmer, right? Who eats 8,000 calories a day and is 0% body fat.

You can be a 50-year-old man.

For the same reason, in the summer, I like the accurate shooting, like the rifle, riflery.

Well, that leads into my other favorite winter sport, which is the biathlon, which is when they combine speed skiing with shooting.

Oh, I don't think I knew that that was even...

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh, okay, it's my favorite. So they like race around and then they get there, and then sometimes they have to like stand and shoot. They have to do so many from like standing, so many from like sitting.

I like an event that incorporates multiple talents.

Yeah. Well, that keeps my attention.

There's also a pentathlon, which I was reading about that I have never watched before, but it's like they literally combined everything. It's like fencing, shooting, horseback riding, running and swimming, I think, you all five.

That's got to be summer.

Well, let me ask you this then, because to start off, I have a couple of stories to tell about some opening ceremonies. And I was asking these girls, well, I said, hey, guys, think about your favorite opening ceremonies.

And that's when Colleen told me I've never watched an opening ceremony.

I don't think I've ever, well, our, it was always half my bedtime.

And it's always at night now, and you can believe that it is now.

The past couple of, probably the past decade, I've probably been a little bit preoccupied with life, like COVID.

The last decade, I've been preoccupied with life. That's why we watched the Olympics, to not.

And then, like, I think I've missed the opening ceremony. Well, the last decade, haven't had public TV, like public cable, so I didn't have access to it.

We've got Kate's peacock now, so that won't be a problem this year.

But I remember watching the Beijing one, because I remember seeing all the little kids do synchronized marching.

Yeah, because the scandal there is that, do you remember they had the really cute little Chinese girl, or she was half the age she was supposed to be? No.

Anyways, 10%.

She was singing and everyone was like, look at this adorable girl and what a vocalist. Then it turns out that they just picked a cute girl to lip sync, because the real vocalist was old. Well, not as cute.

Well, that's not surprising, China.

I like the English.

London, I remember.

I remember the Spice Girls. I remember it was very bizarre. There's a lot of weird stuff, but the Spice Girls were united and that was cool.

Everybody was wearing white.

Atlanta was 96, and the torch came through in my hometown.

So that's probably my favorite just because it was like the most personal. And the 96th gymnastic team, the female gymnastic team, Carrie Stroggs.

Okay. I feel like we've definitely talked about this before, the dream team. Kait and I are like-

Where I'm kind of anti.

Yes.

And Colleen, who was not born, doesn't remember it, is like, I can't believe they would make Carrie Strogg go in there and do it again. I'm like, this is why your generation is soft.

Also, this is why you're not an athlete.

She was a national hero. Also, how do you think she'd feel if she'd now be like 30 years later and she's like, I wonder what would have happened if I had just made that last turn? She doesn't have to wonder.

She knows they won the gold. And I feel like we all pretended, we all did the pose, pose with our foot up.

Yes. With our foot up. Oh my gosh.

Dominique Monsignano, oh my gosh, what a team.

Yes.

16:42

Opening Ceremony Mishaps

Well, let's talk about some of the other opening ceremonies that may have stood out. In 1936, Berlin hosted, it was kind of very controversial. Like during the Nazi regime, as the Nazis were taking power.

Did America not go to that one?

No, I think it's a ceasefire.

Now, we're going to talk about how sometimes it looks a little bit political and there are people boycott for whatever reason.

So I don't know. I don't think that one they did, but I think they did like Russia or whatever. Yeah.

So the 1936 Summer Olympics took place in Berlin.

Yeah.

This was like the Nazis were coming to power. It was very weird. They said there was a lot of pro Hitler.

I believe that.

But what did stand out is that they released thousands of pigeons into the air.

Pigeons?

There's a lot of bird stories at the Olympics.

They released thousands of pigeons into the air and then they set off cannons.

To kill the pigeons?

Oh no, they killed them.

Well, it scared them. It was supposed to just be this big visual masterpiece, but the pigeons started shitting all over the place.

That is so funny.

All people who had gathered to watch the opening ceremonies got shitted on. Good luck.

That's so funny.

Colleen was just asking me about the journey that the torch makes, right? So since those 1936 Berlin Olympics, the torch has been lit in Athens and then it gets transported to the game.

It's like trains, planes, and automobiles to get this torch where it needs to go. So in 1956, there were some college students and they were like, why are we continuing this tradition that the Germans started, right?

So they were opposed to this practice.

So the mayor of Sydney stood in front of a crowd of 30,000 people that had gathered, and the plan was that a runner was supposed to bring him the torch, he was going to hold it, he was going to make a speech, he's going to pass it to another runner,

they're going to go on their way on their journey. Is this kind of like your childhood memory, Kait?

Yeah.

But a veterinary student named Barry Larkin passed off a wooden chair leg painted silver holding a paint can filled with burning kerosene soaked underwear.

So he just ran up and pretended like he was the runner with the torch, and he handed this fake torch to the mayor who went up and started to speak and then kind of figured out what was going on.

That's so funny.

That's embarrassing.

So that was like a scandalous, not really opening ceremony, but-

He's holding up burning underwear?

Well, it's embarrassing for the mayor, but hilarious for the pranker.

Yeah.

Well, I think Barry Larkin wasn't supposed to actually, he was part of the group that had been like, let's do this, but he wasn't supposed to be the runner, but then there was a little too much fun being had and people wouldn't have their head in the

game and the burning underwear was falling out and they were, so he just had to step up. Yeah, lock in, take his beta blocker, lock in, do it.

Yeah, took a flow state and ended off the burning underwear.

That is so funny.

Another bird story in 1988 in Seoul, as a sign of peace and prosperity, they released all of these doves during the opening ceremony, but they all flew to the Olympic cauldron and just perched there.

And then went up in flames.

And so then when the athletes, were they barbecued? Yep, came to light the torch, the doves were roasted on live TV.

Oh my, that's so funny. They were probably good.

Well, needless to say, I think that's when they were like, maybe we should get rid of the birds, take a break from the birds.

Yes.

Then in 2014 in Soki, there's a bunch of Russian army dudes saying, a rousing rendition of Daft Punk's Get Lucky. Oh yeah. Everyone was like, this is really fucking weird.

20:17

Early Olympic Games

I didn't realize there was a Russian Olympics.

I thought I would start here with just a couple of interesting game stories if you will.

Then like I said, wrap up with a couple of conspiracies. Let's start with the first modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896. Pierre de Coubertin.

Again, we said he wanted to provide the Olympics since he's really the one who's responsible for creating the IOC.

There had been previous competitions and festivals with the name Olympic, but this is considered the first modern Olympic game because it's the first time that it was an international competition.

When they left the Olympic game, they already were planning in four years, we're going to meet and do this again.

The 1900 Olympics were already in the planning phases when the 1886 Olympics took place, and so that's why everyone's like, this was really the first time it wasn't just someone being up, we're having a festival and we're going to play some games and

call it the Olympics. Fourteen countries participated, as I said, with 241 athletes competing in 43 events across nine sports.

The focus was on national identities, not religion as the ancient games had been, and at this time the game were all individual, there were no team sports.

I think what really I learned the shift was, the Olympics was really used to all be like for amateurs. So now we have like the NBA goes and plays, right? These professional athletes are Olympians.

But when it started, it was like they were all supposed to be amateurs, like doctors and farmers who liked to run or bike or whatever.

I like that better.

The Panathenaic Stadium, which was rebuilt for the games, held 60,000 people. So for the time that was massive, they could build this huge stadium for the Olympics. King George I opened the games.

As I mentioned, these games did not go off perfectly, but it established this multi-sport format that we now have, with opening ceremonies, medals, and rankings. Yes.

Was America there?

Yes. I'm going to tell you about it. Initially, it established the medals and rankings, but initially we only had first and second place winners, and no one cared about third place.

You know what? First loser, no one cared. So first place got an olive branch wreath.

Second place got a copper medal, and everyone else was SOL. There was no Olympic Village, so competitors had to figure out how they were going to get there, where they were going to stay on their own, and there was no schedule.

They said people would just be like, I think today we should run. Oh, wow. Then they were just like, do the run.

So it was not as... And it makes me anxious.

Just imagine. I feel like that's so up Colleen's alley. Should we run today?

Yeah, I think the run should happen maybe today.

I'm like, we all gathered here and no one has an itinerary.

Are you kidding me?

We're gathered here today. Yeah, the Virgo would just lose their mind.

And Kait would be like, wear the snacks. Did you bring enough snacks?

No, that would be my job. I would make sure, I'd be like, okay, I got the snacks for everybody. Like, I'll man the snack tables.

The Olympic Village was going crazy on TikTok on the last one, because everybody was like hooking up.

Well, it's famous now for-

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you know how many condoms they get? It's a bunch of amped up young athletes-

I feel crazy.

Living in a confined space.

I would have so much fun.

Athletes in their prime. Oh my gosh, I totally forgot. Another sport I like to watch a lot at the Olympics is the rugby.

Oh, yes, the men's rugby.

So again, the other thing that was different about these Olympics is that athletes would, now we have this whole process where they go through trials and they have to compete to even get to compete.

These people would be like, I'm a runner, but I also like to bike. Since I'm here, do you think I could just pop in on the bike race? They'd be like, sure, go ahead.

People were just like joining these events on whims. There were really no rules or structure. It was all about fun.

That was the first Olympics. Some of the things that went wrong though.

In the first one.

In the first one. The swimming events were not done in a pool, but in the 55 degree Bay of Zea. These open waters were cold with rough waves reaching 12 feet.

Oh my God.

The swimmers would go out in a boat, they'd have to jump off a boat, start their swim.

It ended up really just being like, if you can survive, if you can finish without freezing or getting swept away, then you're probably the winner. That's crazy. It just wasn't even really about how good a swimmer you are.

It's like, do you have survival instincts?

That's crazy. That reminds me of that. Did you guys, you guys probably didn't see, but the CrossFit Games in 2025?

No.

The guy that died in the CrossFit Games because they were swimming in open water and he just drowned.

In the same Olympics, the 1500 meter swim, the winner was a 15-year-old Hungarian, Alfred Hejos, who had felt compelled to learn to swim two years prior after he watched his dad drown.

And he said that he was so scared for his life, his will to live just completely overcame any desire to win. He's like, I forgot it was a race.

I was just like, which goes back to the point of like, you just got to survive and you're going to get that wreath. You know?

Yeah. It's like Titanic, you know?

And then the marathon. There's a series of marathon issues over the first several Olympics.

So the marathon was inspired by Phidippides was a runner who famously ran from the town of marathon to Athens and then he like dropped dead and that was about 25 miles.

So they were like, let's take that heritage of ours and use it to create this sporting event and we're going to call it a marathon. But the original marathons were closer to like 25 miles than what is it now? 26 point something, right?

26.2. So, the first and second place runners from France and Australia dropped out three quarters the way through and Spiridon Lewis ended up winning it all.

He was a Greek water carrier and so it was kind of big like they were like the marathon is the biggest event of the Olympics. It's our first ever Olympics, modern Olympics, this Greek water carrier won and so it was really exciting.

And I love his story because he talks about like people are dropping out because it's so miserable and he just like stopped and sat down and had a glass of wine partway through the race and then he was like chatting with the people.

I'm like, I could get behind that, run, run, run, cocktail, you know.

That kind of sport.

And then the third place, the third place winner actually turned out to have ridden a carriage from part of the race and so we had to be disqualified after the fact.

And there was another athlete who had traveled nearly a thousand miles from Italy to Athens on foot. But when he got there, they were like, you're not amateur, you're a professional athlete. So you can't do this.

Oh my gosh.

Could you imagine?

So there we go. Also watching the run sounds so miserable this time because it was like the run would end at the stadium. So all of the people, we didn't have TVs or anything, right?

So everyone's just sitting in the stadium and people would just run ahead and be like, Colleen's in the lead and be like, okay.

Like no one can see anything and you're just waiting for like the two minutes in which someone finally runs into the stadium.

That's what I think the Star Wars races are like when they're racing the cars and nobody has no idea where they are.

Infant to Menace. She's talking about number one.

Yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah.

Yeah, I know when they're like all being little menaces to each other.

Then four years later, we had the 1900 Paris Olympics. Still a bit of a mess. This one was not so much like the Olympics we think of now, but it is again still considered like these are the modern Olympics, 1896, 1900.

But it actually lasted from May to October and it was part of the World's Fair. There were nearly 1,000 athletes from 24 nations competing in 95 events. But some of the people who won didn't even realize they were Olympians.

They were like, I just thought I came to play a game at the World's Fair.

Oh my gosh.

There was insufficient room for throwing events. The Hungarian discus throwing gold medalist was actually throwing into the crowd. There were swimming events in the riverside.

I was saying it wrong. I found out at the last Olympics, which I feel like didn't like last year. That was the drama too.

They're like, today it's not clean enough, remember?

Yeah, because people were pooping in the river.

People were pooping in the river.

That made me laugh.

Was it like in protest of something?

No, because it's flow.

Well, I think it's just dirty water. So even back then, they're like, this is just like where all of our sewage flows.

Their poop actually does flow.

And then they're like, the Olympians now are going to swim in this body of water. So they were doing that in the 1900s, fast forward to 2024, and they're doing it again.

That's so funny.

Also in the 1900 Paris Olympics, underwater swimming was a game. Competitors had to swim as far as they could underwater.

I'm not good at that.

In the River Seine, and they earned points for distance and time spent submerged. Each swimmer received a point for every second they stayed underwater and two points for every meter they covered.

How long do you think the gold medalist stayed underwater?

10 minutes. The Guinness World Record is like 10 minutes.

They can't come up to hold water at all?

No, it's just like, how long can you stay under water and hold your breath?

And what year was that?

1900.

Three and a half minutes.

You guys, the gold medalist held his breath for one minute and six seconds, I think.

A week. Wow.

One minute and eight seconds.

I bet he could go longer, but he was waiting everybody else out.

And he swam 60 meters. Well, just like now, you've got these people who deep dive. Yeah, Kate Winslet just held her breath for seven and a half minutes while filming some movie underwater.

A minute is like my time. That's like what I could do.

I would go under with my eyes open and wait for everybody else to go up. And then would immediately go up.

Kate Winslet also survived the Titanic, so period.

Well, she's a problem too. I mean, not Kate Winslet, just the character she played. Rose was a problem.

Rose was the problem.

Oh, Rose. Zero survival skills somehow survived.

Yeah, one of six to survive. Anyway, needless to say, this was not a fun game to watch. Someone just goes underwater and holds their breath.

So they didn't do that again after 1900. Yeah, that's true. No, I bet.

Then the marathon was a mess again. They had a poorly marked course that went straight through the streets of Paris.

Many runners took wrong turns and in some places, the course overlapped with the commutes of cars, animals, bikes, pedestrians, and runners. The race was run at 2.30 in the afternoon in the July heat that reached 102 degrees.

We had another one, the local favorite, ducked into a cafe, had a couple beers, and then he was like, you know what, I don't think I need to do this today.

Love that.

That's what I'd be doing.

Love that. That's so funny.

Okay.

See, we just take it too serious now.

It is, it's too serious now.

Bring back stopping for a beer. Yeah.

Some other kind of fun games that took place in 1900 that do not come back. There was Hot Air Balloon demonstration.

Bring that back.

61 men and three women competed in 18 events. They were judged based on distance, duration, elevation. They also had kite flying.

Bring that back.

And they had, guys, live pigeon shooting.

Oh, instead of clay pigeons?

Yes.

Yeah, lots of birds being harmed.

I don't know how I feel about that.

Yes, but I mean, are they just harming spies?

You know what I mean? Maybe these are just spies from other countries.

Yeah, exactly.

Birds aren't real.

As a result of this live pigeon shooting, 300 birds were killed, leaving the field just littered with feathers and carcasses.

My God.

The winner, Belgian Leon de Lundin, killed 21 pigeons.

What was the goal? Just kill?

Well, it was just like shooting.

I mean, it's just like clay shooting.

It's like what they usually do, but instead of using clay pigeons, they were like, let's use real pigeons. Then everyone was like, this is too much, so they never did that again.

So there's a story in there who said that main birds were writhing on the ground, blood and feathers were swirling in the air, and women with parasols were weeping in the chair set up nearby. From 1900 to 1920, we also had tug of war.

I love that.

Love that. Oh my god, why did they get rid of these?

Well, that was kind of scandal. There was a lot of scandal with tug of war. It was five to eight man teams.

They were barefoot, and you just had five minutes to pull a team over or whoever got close to the line. And they said the Scandinavians and the Brits were really good at this. And the Brits, that's surprising.

But you could have multiple teams from the same country. And so in 1904 in the St. Louis Olympics, the US took first, second, third, and fourth place.

I believe that.

1904 Olympics.

1904.

I said, honestly, how did the marathon remain a contest?

So now we're on our third consecutive marathon. Again, poorly planned. Again, we're running at 2:30 p.m.

in 90-degree heat. Traffic wasn't stopped. There were automobiles driving alongside.

Runners were having to wait at intersections. There was only one usable water station at mile marker 12. That's like Kate's worst nightmare.

The winner was American Frederick Lors, except it turns out that he had dropped out at a mile nine and hitched a ride back to the stadium in a car. But then the car broke down at mile 19. He's like, you know what?

I'll just get out and finish. So he gets out, he wins. They're like, you won.

Alice Roosevelt is giving him an award and he's just kidding. I cheated.

That's crazy.

Thomas Hicks, another American one instead, but should he have because he had handlers who provided a lot of assistance. When he wanted to give up, they actually drugged him with strychnine, a common rat poison that was used as a stimulant.

So again, they're at mile 19, he's like, I'm out team and they're like, no, you're fine, drink this. Then he won.

Did he die afterwards?

He did not. He's the first of the doping that we're going to talk about also. We talk about our scandals.

We're going to talk the balls.

If we get to it, no, we're not going to talk the balls.

I have nothing on the balls that guy.

Lance? I would never think of him in the Olympics. I would only think of him as the Tour de France.

Yeah.

Oh, I thought he was.

I mean, he was in the Olympics. But I don't. From 1906 to 1908, they had pistol dueling.

Oh, that's fun.

But it wasn't another live person.

They just dressed up a doll as a human and then shot at the stall. Then after two years, people were like, this is weird.

How do you even?

I thought it was like, who could pull the pistol fast enough? Like in the Wild, Wild West?

No, they had. That would be fun.

Yeah, wait. How did they do it then?

They dressed up these stuffed thing as people, and they put bullseyes on them. So you were just getting the bullseye, but it was just a little too graphic to be the shame of a person.

Of a human child.

Feels fair. In 1912, in Stockholm, Sweden was, you know, they used to do these indoor bike races in this velodrome, and they didn't build one. They were like, I think we should cancel cycling altogether.

But then the Brits were like, not cool. We want to compete. We want to cycle.

So the Brits protested the cancellation. And Sweden was like, okay, we'll do this road race. But we have this road course that goes around this lake.

We can use that, but it's really not ideal. And they're like, it's fine. Let's do that.

So this course featured over 2,200 meters of elevation gain on unpaved roads. It was open to civilian traffic. Again, they've not learned their lesson.

Every single year, it's like they don't shut down the streets. Yeah, they don't prepare. And so it was really chaotic.

They had 123 starters from 16 countries. 29 of them did not finish. Wow.

Riders departed at intervals of two to three minutes. The 10-hour race began at 2 a.m. So it's like pitch black.

They had to ride nearly 200 miles, which was over six times the length of like previous Olympic races.

That is too long of a break ride.

The winner was from South Africa, Rudolph Lewis. He won with the time of 10 hours, 42 minutes and 39 seconds. That is such a long bike ride.

But we had a Swede hit by a car and he got dragged along the road. And then we had a Russian who was found unconscious in a ditch.

My God.

So Olympics were dangerous, you know?

They were rolling their bodies.

In 1924 in Paris, there was a cross-country run. The last time they ever did a cross-country run. And it was 86 to 103 degree heat.

And they were running near a power plant. So everyone, all of the runners were inhaling dangerous fumes. Only 15 out of 38 of the runners were able to finish the race.

The rest were collapsing, disoriented, vomiting. They were running in the wrong direction. And the Red Cross had to spend hours trying to locate all of the runners.

My god.

Oh my gosh.

You guys love swimming.

Kait loves a swim, right?

But she does.

I do.

I do love swimming. That's what she says.

So this is the only time the person who won the gold finished with a slower time than the person who won the silver. So at this time, we didn't have these electronic timers like we do have now. They were just coming out, but it wasn't standard.

So the way that the winner was picked was based on these judges who were sitting there watching. And so you have a panel of judges who are like human error. Yeah.

Looking for first place and second place. There was a close finish between Australian swimmer John Devitt and American Lance Larson. And so the three judge panel that was designed to that was assigned to determine who came in first.

Two out of three of them said, oh yeah, we think the Australian, Devitt came in first. But then they were like, okay, well, that will look like our three judges who were supposed to figure out who's coming in second.

And two out of three of them voted Devitt in second. So two of the three first place judges said Devitt had gotten to the wall first. However, two of the three second place judges also said Devitt got to the wall second.

So they went back to the hand timers, and the results were all over the place. They had 55, 55.1, 55.1 for Larson, and then all three timers said 55.2 for Devitt. Okay, 1972, we had the Impostor Marathoner.

So a German student entered the stadium during the Munich Marathon. Again, I'm like, marathons? The marathon never goes well.

So again, people are like just sitting waiting for whoever runs into the stadium. That's the winner, right? Yeah, this guy comes running in, everyone starts cheering for him.

And then it turns out it was like just this random German student who just like ran in and pretended to be winning.

That's so funny that they're calling you.

Then American Frank Short, he comes in and he's like, it was such a weird vibe. I knew that no one had passed me. I was like well ahead of anyone else.

And it's like silent and no one seems excited. Like it was a weird vibe. But he's like, I just finished.

And then it turns out he was the true gold winner. But in 1980, there were a lot of whining from the springboard divers.

The Alexander Portnov of the USSR complained that there was noise from the men's butterfly competition that was happening in another area. And it distracted him from his dive and caused him to belly flop.

And he wanted to redo, which really gives the, my shoelace is untied, I need to redo. And they're like, okay, fine, you can redo it. But then he won.

And the fourth place finisher, Paul Kaufman, was like, wait a minute. A photographer took my picture and the flash went off and it distracted me and it messed up my dive. So everyone's just like, why do you need to complain?

And they were like, nope. They deliberated like, we're not going to like keep redoing this, we're done. There were a whole bunch of protests.

It was drama.

That'd be there.

Also though, I'm just like, why don't you just be like, I fucked up and my belly flopped.

Yeah.

That'd be so embarrassing.

Also, I can't believe they were redoing things. Imagine belly flapping at the Olympics. That would be so embarrassing.

Oh, I'm gonna talk about doping.

But before I get into doping, we'll talk about how this is sort of like a less scandalous but still doping, if you will. In 1984, at the LA Olympics, there had been this crackdown on performance enhancers.

But the Americans were like, maybe we can get around these rules. So for 72 years, the Americans have never won an Olympic cycling medal. All of a sudden, the Americans destroy the cycling.

They win nine medals. But how do you think they doped?

Butt chugging.

How would that be helpful?

The anal method.

How would that be helpful?

I don't know. You asked me how they were doing it. I bet they were butt chugging.

Well, the point is that it's not as scandalous as you think.

At least a third of the team had received blood transfusions before the competition.

It wasn't even drugs?

No. I think they were just improving their oxygen carrying capacity and whatever. That sense become illegal, but that was like the LA Scandal in 1984.

Everyone was like, how are the American such good cyclists? Then it's like, we gave ourselves transfusions before we.

That's crazy.

40:30

Olympic Controversies

Those are some of the weird stories.

Then we're getting away from the conspiracy theories, but this was a letdown for me because I think the Olympics are always so exciting. It's a nice way to check out of what's happening in the world, even though it's all about the world.

But it's actually very political when you think about it. It's very scandal-riddled.

The first conspiracy theory I wanted to talk about was just in general that, that the Olympics are really just, it's really political and it's not just about which athlete is the best athlete.

Kait, did you ever watch, what is it, Stick It or something?

Oh, I love that show.

That gymnastics.

Yeah.

Is that a Disney Channel original?

Is that the one where they show their bra strap to win because they're so mad about the scoring?

Yeah. They all got knocked to point for showing their bra strap.

Yeah. So that really encompasses what's happening in the Olympics, is that figure skating and gymnastics, particularly also boxing, the scores aren't just about performance.

It's like people are making alliances, judges are trading favors, and we know this because this has come out, there are instances in which people have been arrested, prosecuted for trading scores.

Oh my gosh.

In 2002, we had skate gate, we think of skate gate as Tanya Harding, yeah, as Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. There's another skate gate though.

In 2002, there was a pairs competition in Salt Lake City, and the Russian pair were awarded gold even though they had messed up, had a flawed routine. Second place went to Canada, the Canadians nailed it.

So everyone was like, this is weird, how did they come in second? They killed it. The first place winners were full of mistakes.

So it turns out that a French judge admitted that she was pressured to vote for the Russians in exchange for the Russians voting for the French in the ice dancing event. So the point is that it was like all...

It's not like which ice skater was the best. It was all just a, you know, I'll vote for you here, you vote for me later. Like I'll pad your score, you pad mine.

That's so messy. And it also happened four years prior in Japan when a Canadian judge secretly taped a conversation with another judge about picking winners before the competition. And everyone kind of blew him off.

And so kind of blew this Canadian judge off. So they ended up doing this like secret taping instead. And it again said that like Falkov, who was a Ukrainian judge, said he would vote for the Canadians if Senf voted for the Ukrainian pair.

So that's, I guess, just kind of sad to think that there's all this scandal. There's like a boxing one as well. Boxing almost got removed entirely because in 2016, it was like a boxing thing.

There was a boxing match that was voted on. I didn't realize that. I thought you'd just knock someone out and you're done.

I didn't realize.

I don't even know how boxing. I was going to say, I don't even know how boxing is scored. Yeah, I thought it was just like KO.

Isn't there like a certain types of hits cost more or something?

Yeah, I don't know.

I know that like when I was in high school, I took this class called Advanced PE.

Of course, she did.

This was in high school?

I haven't taken a film class since.

Okay. This was separate from college-level billiards.

Yeah.

You did college-level billiards.

She failed college-level billiards because it was an 8 a.m. class with her crush.

You know this, Colleen.

No, maybe I didn't know what billiards was at the time. That's so funny.

You failed it.

I can't.

Yeah, because I didn't go. I just failed it because you were only allowed one excused absence and I failed.

Did your parents make you pay for that credit?

No, now it's just a joke.

Captain Fred would have 100 percent been like, you're paying. You owe me a check.

Anyway, what was I saying? In advanced PE, the wrestling coach taught it, and so he taught us wrestling and scoring of wrestling, and apparently there's lots of different things that are scored on.

Well, wrestling and boxing are two different things, but yeah.

I know, but similar.

Did you get cauliflower ear?

No. Honestly, it was helpful because I did this in my senior year and my boyfriend at the time was a wrestler, knew he was going to turn into like, help me with the guy.

So I did understand a little bit more about wrestling, but I will say, wrestling is a huge ache.

Why did they have to wear those outfits?

Then on the mat, it was itchy to me. It was the itchiest sport for me.

Well, if we go back to boxing, I guess there is a lot of voting and there has been a history of bribery.

I believe the bribery.

In 1988, the famous one I was referencing in Seoul was Roy Jones. So Roy Jones landed 86 punches and his competitor landed 32, but Jones lost a three to two decision.

All three judges who voted against him were suspended and the investigation found they were wined and dined by South Korean officials.

And then there was a similar situation in Rio in 2016, where they picked a Russian over an Irish guy who was clearly the better boxer. I guess I need to learn more.

Maybe for the Summer Olympics, I'm going to learn more about boxing, but I probably won't.

Yeah, I don't feel like it's something I care to know about.

And then I thought we could talk about the doping scandals. Yeah, this really came to light.

2016, it was like the hot conversation, because that's when the Russians, because the deals, we know people probably do, like athletes are probably doping, right? There's probably individuals out there.

But as far as like, are these countries behind it? And in 2016, investigations revealed that Russia was behind the state-sponsored doping program, and they-

Like purposefully doping people.

Yep, and then helping them get away from it, get away with it. So they were like, do we fake urine samples, secret lab swaps? Again, this was like, the government was really the one who was like, helping the athletes to do this.

But this is not the first time this has happened. Let's go back again, historically. So from the 1960s and 1980s, East Germany had a secret steroid program.

What side was the East?

East Germany is the bad Germany.

Yeah, which side is the bad one?

East Germany, not the bad Germany.

East Germany...

Gosh, I wish Drew was here.

I thought West Germany was free market. East Germany was the Communist Germany. The Communists would be doping.

East Germany was occupied by the Soviets.

Yeah, so Communist Germany would be doping because, I mean, they want the money.

So State Plan 14.25, it was a covert government designed doping system, and they were giving anabolic steroids to their athletes who were mostly minors without informed consent.

So they didn't even know this was happening. They were like, take your vitamins, and the 15-year-old kids were doing it, and it was all courted by medical staff, coaches, and the government.

And then after reunification of Germany, this all came out and was publicized. And I think a lot of these kids grew up to have medical issues, and that's when they discovered the way they had been doped by their government.

Oh, my God.

In 2011 to 2016, we talked about the Russian scandal. So at Soki in 2014, samples were secretly swabbed through a hole in the lab wall. The head of Russia's anti-doping lab actually became a whistleblower, and this led to banned strip medals.

Remember, the athletes couldn't compete as Russians, right? They had to like compete under a neutral.

Oh, I remember. I know what you're talking about.

In the 1990s, Chinese swimmers were shattering records, and then afterwards, they all had mass positive tests. The reports are that this was like systemic administration.

So again, not individuals cheating, but like China providing the resources to their athletes and then helping to cover it up.

Again, we're not surprised about China. We're never surprised about China.

I don't understand how easily they were covering up, because have you heard like the, well, maybe it's the new doping protocol.

Like an athlete gets informed that they have to have a sample and they have to respond within like 90 minutes or something like that.

It seems like the other, what's making the scandal is not just these people who are doing it, but like how easy it is to get around it. So now they have-

Now it's wicked strict.

Therapeut, no, like they have like therapeutic use exemptions. So pretty much you just have to have a doctor who's like, this person does need to take steroids, right?

We're like, this person does need amphetamines, this person does need inhalers, this person does need- and then all of this stuff is like, well, it's physician prescribed, it is a therapeutic use exemption.

And then they could take away.

And they can take them even though they're banned substances for everyone else, they can get away with it because it's medical reasons.

It says like, what if you have ADHD?

Yeah, but what if you don't? You know what I mean?

Crazy. I'll never be an Olympian.

You're not on meds.

I think the thing too is that sample like- so these athletes apparently give samples and they just get stored for like years or decades. And so sometimes-

Frozen pee.

Well, sometimes he's probably like, you know, it's like when we-

it's like in the military, they took blood and they told us it was so that they could ever go back and see if we had malaria or something.

So you're in a study.

But I-

How much blood did they take?

I feel-

I have too many questions.

Hold on. I feel like-

Let's go back to that. Megan, you're part of a government study.

So I think that's also part of it is like people are like, they can just come after you a decade later and be like, you know what, you didn't earn that gold medal because we found out you were on steroids.

You know, if we know about a handful of countries that have done this, then who's to say like, how much do we not know about? Right? Like we've only, we know about people who got caught, not all these ones who don't.

And again, since like the whole Olympic system kind of relies on like countries monitoring their athletes and self-reporting, but like if the country is the one behind the doping.

Yeah.

Like reading this makes me sadder because it makes me, again, we picture like we can all get along for, you know, two and a half weeks and we're just rooting for people and it's friendly competition.

And then to find out that it's like, oh no, you know, the Russians and the Chinese, like there's such a sense of like the Olympics are a metaphor for like our success as a country, right?

We're trying to prove that like our way of life is the best way of life. And so we need to do whatever we can to get our athletes winning gold medals.

My question is like, do you make money winning?

You get like sponsorships.

Yeah.

And I think some people do. Some of these countries do get paid from there. Also, I think there are situations where maybe you go back and you get like murdered if you don't win, you know?

China, Russia, all the communist countries.

I'm not trying to say anything against communism, but here I am.

But like, why are they so stressed out about the Olympics?

I don't think Colleen just doesn't understand athletes.

It's like it's a world stage.

It is one of the largest stages to win, and it's one of the biggest honors as an athlete you could have, to be like, I won a gold medal at the Olympics. Like that is, that's a huge thing.

But like, why is their country forcing them to do drugs if like they don't make money off of it?

Because it's literally shame to their countries.

Just the bragging, right?

Yeah, personal pride. Well, they talk to you.

Well, I don't think it's personal if your country...

No, country national pride.

Haven't you heard of like the Chinese gymnastic, like the team members getting like literally beaten by their coaches if they don't win?

Yeah, do they even get to watch the Olympics?

I'm sure North Korea doesn't get to watch the Olympics.

What are you Googling?

I'm trying to get, are there countries where they can't watch the Olympics?

Yes, and is every single country in the whole world represented?

Well, there's like 200, and I looked this up before. I think there's like 211 countries and there's been over 200 competitors.

But you have to qualify to even come?

Yes.

So not every country will qualify?

Yes, correct.

The other thing though is just like the politics also behind getting like putting in your bid and getting selected to host the Olympics is like a whole other conspiracy because they talk about, like even now we're talking about LA., right?

How they're like, is it a ruin the city? No, but they're like, we got to, we got to, we're going to pack up all the homeless people and all the drug, drug addicts of the street. We're going to ship them out.

We're going to clean these streets.

The Olympics happens and then what? Exactly.

Well, it's all about like getting how you're trying to like portray yourself to the world. And so that's like a whole other kind of conspiracy political scandal. In 2002, there was a scandal alleging bribery for Salt Lake City to win it.

No, I just love the Olympics.

Where is it this year?

Milano.

Is that Italy?

Northern Italy.

The other thing I don't like is when they do these like, this sport is going to take place up here. And then this... Anyway, I'm like, I don't want to be there with like the...

Like, what if you get there?

The mountains for certain sports.

What if I get there? You're like, I'm here. I am ready for the party that is Olympic Village.

And they're like, you and your four competitors are going to be hundreds of miles away from all the fun.

Well, is LA summer or winter? Summer.

Yeah, you definitely wouldn't have winter in LA, Colleen.

Well, I think that was a valid question. Because I'm like, what are they going to do? Ship them up to Northern California?

Where are the mountains?

Oh, like, look at this. AIS LA.

Mountains to ski in LA.

I'm sorry. The Summer Olympic Games will help be held in LA with additional events in Oklahoma City. Case in point.

You think everyone is coming to the LA Olympics, and then they're going to be like, except you guys, go to, yeah, go to Oklahoma City by yourself. That's not fun.

That's really stupid. Of all places, Oklahoma City, what sports going to happen in Oklahoma?

Softball and canoeing.

They couldn't have done that anywhere else.

Also, like, there are lakes in California.

Right.

They couldn't have used the baseball field at the LA Dodgers. It just feels random to me. I'm sure there's a reason.

I'm just thinking, there are so many lakes, and I don't understand why they can't canoe in them.

Well, if anybody wants to tune in for the Olympic opening ceremony, you know, maybe Colleen, who claims to have never really seen one.

Yeah, because it's like, you got to be up at their time.

Next time, she's going to be like, I saw the highlights on TikTok, so I feel like I did it.

Even the LA one's going to piss me off because they're three hours ahead.

Well, LA's going to be annoying, because it's going to be so LA.

LA is going to be so annoying. I already know it.

What was the last one, the last summer one? Was that England?

No, Rio.

Rio?

I don't remember it at all. I didn't watch that one.

Hold on. That triggered me. I brought my laptop to work and set it up in the corner and just livestreamed the Olympics all day.

All day.

Well, I just remember wanting to watch a bunch of stuff. I wanted to watch the Women's Rugby, but it was like, be up at 3 a.m. I'm like, I'm not doing that.

Rugby was not on a good time.

That's it.

We're all excited. We're all going to tune on Friday for the opening ceremonies, right? We'll be ready at 6.

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Hey.

What should the people do after this?

Yeah, the people, they should take out their phone and text everyone they know that loves the Olympics, which should be everybody that they know. And then they should text them the direct links to this podcast.

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Back to you, Megan. I feel like I'm a reporter right now.

I like that, actually.

Do you have anything to add, Colleen?

Go sports.

Sports are my favorite episodes, I think. All right.

Well, guys, enjoy. And we'll see you next Tuesday. And we'll be able to check in on the status of Team USA at that point, huh?

Yeah.

All right, guys, we'll see you next Thursday.

Next Tuesday.

You said Thursday.

Oh, is that when our show comes out? I'll see you guys next Tuesday.