So... Alright - It's Olympics Time!

Episode Date: July 30, 2024

Geoff does his best to drum up excitement for the summer olympics, by looking at weird and obscure facts about the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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but when I was growing up in the 80s, I felt like the Olympics were a huge thing. And maybe they were just huge to me because I was a kid. Maybe like, because I was 10, the Olympics were a big deal. And for every 10 year old in America right now, or in the world right now, the Olympics are as big to them as they were to me back then. But I just don't get the sense that that's the case. Not the least of which is that just variety, you know, back when I was a kid, it was hard to miss the Olympics because there were only a handful of channels. And now there are people are so spoiled for options and distractions that something like the Olympics is has a lot of competition, you know,

between TikTok and YouTube and all of social media and then a million different streaming services and channels. The Olympics probably doesn't get as much attention share as it did then. But I could also be way off track on that. I just maybe it's a difference between being an adult and a child. But every four years, actually every two years, because I like the Winter Olympics as well, I get excited that the Olympics are coming. They always catch me by surprise,

and I'm always like, oh fuck, it's the Olympics. And you know, like that little inner kid who loved Greg Luganis and Mary Lou Retton and Flo Joe and Carl Lewis, and all these like, in my mind, Tim Daggett, all these like, and all these like, in my mind, Tim Daggett, all these like Titanic Olympian figures of my childhood come back and I wanna feel that way again. I wanna connect with it in the way that I did as a kid.

And I feel that way every time the Olympics come up and I always endeavor to get into it and to watch it and make a big fucking deal out of it. And I always don't for whatever reason, even with content. I saw that the Olympics were coming. I pitched the guys a bunch of, you know, not fully baked ideas that needed some work on things we could do with the Olympics

and got some lukewarm response and we kind of kicked some stuff around, but nothing came out of it. And so I don't think even regulation will be doing any kind of official Olympic content. It would be cool if we did and I hope we do, but there's nothing on the books, you know, and unless somebody else has the enthusiasm that I do for it, I probably just won't happen. And honestly, do I have enough enthusiasm for it? Because I'm not

making it happen. So, you know, if that's the case, then maybe I'm not that fucking excited about it. Regardless, I want the Olympics to be a bigger deal. And I wish they were a bigger deal to me, like they were when I was a child. I suspect they are not as big a deal globally as they were in the 70s and the 80s, but I wouldn't even know how to determine if that's the case or not.

So I'm just gonna believe my instinct there. So in an effort to get excited about this summer Olympics, I've decided to do a little research to tickle my brain and to look back on previous Olympics and find some interesting and weird things about them and try to immerse myself in Olympic ephemera so that we can all get a little more excited because we should be.

This is a big fucking deal. It really is. And it should be a big deal. And it. This is a big fucking deal. It really is. And it should be a big deal. And it deserves to be a big deal. So let's look at some weird Olympic shit that may excite us a little bit. I've pulled up a bunch of lists of like weird Olympic facts, shocking Olympic facts, like for one, this is off a BuzzFeed article. There was a French skater named Surya Bonnelly, and this didn't happen that long.

This was in 1998. And I have no memory of this, but she fell during her short program. It was at the Nagano Olympics. And so she knew she couldn't make a medal after that. Like, if you fall, you're kind of fucked. And so she decided to have an like an unforgettable performance anyway. So she she did an illegal move. They banned this move in 1976 and she decided to do it anyway,

because what are they going to do? Penalize her. She already lost. She did a fucking back flip and landed on one skate. I want I went and watched the video easily. One of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I definitely recommend you look up Surya Banali's back flip in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Who knows if we'll get something like that again this time? There's some other interesting facts. I read a thing a while back about how Paul McCartney got paid one pound

to perform at the opening games, the opening ceremony in 2012 because they had to pay them something. But that isn't the funniest thing to me. I think that's actually pretty common. It's just like how musicians don't really get paid shit to do the halftime show at the Super Bowl or Oscars hosts really don't get anything for that as well. But one funny side story of that is that the organizers who had Paul McCartney do that at the to

perform at the opening ceremonies, they they also asked Bill Kurbishly, who's the manager of the Who, if Keith Moon would be interested in performing as well, not realizing that Keith Moon had been dead for over 30 years. So not big Who fans, I guess, not big enough Who fans. Oh, here's another interesting one. Did you know that, listen, it should be expected, I guess, caught me off surprise when I read this, should

be expected that if you're going to put the world's best athletes all between the ages of probably 18 and 24 together in one campus, in the shape of their lives, everybody just a gorgeous specimen of a human being, they're gonna fuck like crazy. And that is exactly what happens at every Olympics. At the 2000 Olympic Games, Australia pre-ordered 70,000 condoms just to be ready for this. And halfway through, they ran out.

And they had to get 20,000 more at the last second. When they did the Summer Games in Athens, DurEx donated over 100,000 more at the last second. When they did the summer games in Athens, Durex donated over 100,000 condoms to smooth the performance of the world's elite sports people in the arena and under the covers, they said. And not to be outdone, when the Olympics was in Rio de Janeiro, which would have been, I don't know, mid 2014, somewhere

around there, they supplied Olympic Village, organizers supplied the Olympic Village with 450,000 condoms, which averaged out to 42 condoms per athlete. No word on if they ran out, but good Lord. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on on the court and off at the Olympics. It sounds like. Let's see. I read a lot about the 1904 Olympic marathon and how it was one of the more bizarre races that's ever happened in the Olympics. 32 men started off, but only 14 crossed the finish line. This is before, you were allowed to do,

people showed up in dress clothes, there was no paving on the road, they were having to run in the dirt, so there was dust everywhere, so 16 people, I guess, dropped out. No, 18 people dropped out. And the guy who actually won, apparently got an 11- mile ride in a car.

And one dude had to be carried over the finish line. Just sounded like an absolute... Oh yeah. It was the gold medal ultimately went to Thomas Hicks who was carried over the finish line after he started hallucinating that he still had another 20 miles to go. Man, those people were not prepared to run a marathon. Did you know that, well first off, the original Olympics was celebrated in 776 BC,

and it used to take six months to complete. So they've really whittled it down. And you know what, we should actually get into the history of the Olympics in a second, but first I wanna continue going through this, some of these interesting facts and weird facts. Did you know that from the early 1900, I think up until like 19, I wanna say 1954,

they used to award medals at the Olympics for art. Like you could have, well, they had painting, architecture, literature, music, sculpture. And it just, whatever you were submitting, it just had to be inspired by sport or like the concept of sport. And they eventually did away with it because it was difficult to determine

who was a professional and an amateur, if you think about it. So wild to think that arts used, well, and not in the original Olympics, right? But just from like the early 19th, for about 50 years, I think they did that. Before we get too deeply into the history of it, I will say, did you know that the Olympics were banned?

You don't hear about it for a long time. From 396 AD, the Romans banned it, and it was considered a pagan ritual that was in direct conflict with Christianity. So like the discus throw in the pentathlon were anti-Christian, I guess, good Lord. So that was another 1,500 years until the modern Olympic games re-emerged in 1896.

But we'll get into that in the future. Another weird fucking fact though. Here's a winter Olympic fact that's kind of interesting. Did you know that the United States is the only country to have earned a medal at every Olympic Winter Games? Now you do. How about another little piece of trivia? There are five countries that have competed in every Olympic summer game. Can you guess off the top of your head who they are? Go ahead and pause it

I'll wait one Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi four Mississippi five Mississippi if you didn't pause it I'm just gonna blurt it out now. It's your fault not mine Greece Switzerland Great Britain. Congratulations Gavin Australia and France so Greece Switzerland Great Britain Australia and France are the only five countries to have competed in every Olympic summer game. Here's another weird fact. I remember this when this happened. In 92, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the Summer Olympics because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. So the Grateful Dead donated cash, but also gave them permission to sell Grateful Dead licensed Olympic merchandise. And it raised enough money to allow Lithuania to compete. And then they won the bronze fucking medal.

So that's a what an awesome story. There's probably a documentary about that. And we should all look for it and watch it because what a wild turn of events that the Grateful Dead helped fund Lithuania's bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics Did you know that? Competitors in well actually the top eight competitors in each sport at the Olympics receive an Olympic diploma Believe it or not it used to just be awarded, I think, to the people who won the gold medal, and then it was expanded to people who won gold, silver and bronze.

But now since the I don't know, since like the 80s, I want to say they've been awarding diplomas to the top eight finishers in every Olympic sport. I don't know what the diploma means. But they fucking have one. So I don't have every Olympic sport. I don't know what the diploma means, but they fucking have one. So I don't have an Olympic diploma. Do you have an Olympic diploma? I graduated from Olympia University. That's probably a real university actually.

From Olympic University. You know, with thinking back to all that Olympic sex, I wonder if anyone has ever, well, it would be, how would you know if somebody, well, I mean, I guess you could put the dates together to figure out if a child was conceived at, an Olympian conceived a child at the Olympics. But I wonder if anybody has competed

in the Olympics pregnant. Let's see about that. Oh, wow. Looks like there are at least 25 Olympians have competed while pregnant. I wonder if anybody's won a medal while pregnant. Anki van Grunsven of the Netherlands in 1988 won a gold medal, no, I'm sorry,

in 2004 won a gold medal in EDR. What is EDR? EDR, I feel like I should be able to figure that out. Equestrian dressage, oh that seems dangerous to do while you're pregnant, okay. Well that's very impressive for her, dang. I wonder if she's the only one who's won a medal though. Let's see, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Cornelia Foll in Germany. Looks like she won a bronze medal in 2007, month, oh, no, seven months pregnant in 2004. She won a bronze medal. In archery, maybe, and her kid was born 57 days after her last Olympic event. That's amazing. Oh, here's an American, Juno Stover-Irwin, won a bronze medal in diving, It looks like in 1952, while three and a half months pregnant.

I wonder if there's anything more like what's the most. Oh, here we go. Two months pregnant. He won a silver medal in 2010 for skiing, I would believe. Kirsten Zimakowiak, who's German. Dang, that's really neat. I wonder if those kids appreciate that they were present in the most unique way for an Olympic medal to be, like they were there, they were in their parent while they won an Olympic medal.

And apparently only about four or five, at least in modern history, kids can claim that. They had a front row seat to the Olympics in a way that very, well, they are in an exclusive fucking group. It sounds like that's crazy. Okay, let's talk a little bit about Olympic history. When was the very first Olympics?

Let's see. Aristotle reckons the date of the first Olympics to be 776 BC, a date largely accepted by most, this is from Wikipedia, but most, but not all historians. It's still the traditionally given date in archeology, archeologic, fuck me. It is still the traditionally given date and archeological facts confirm approximately Fuck me. It is still the traditionally given date and archaeological facts

confirm Approximately that Olympics starting at or soon after this time The the third century saw a decline in the popularity of the games the victory list of Africanus ends at the 249th Olympiad Moses of Choreen's history of Armenia lists a boxing winner from as late as 369. That would be the 287th Olympiad. And then excavated inscriptions also show the games continued past 217 until recently the last securely dateable winner was Publius Assepiatus of Corinth.

Publius who Publi Publius should be a, that name needs to come back around. That's like the modern day pubert. Corinth, who won the pentathlon in 241, which would have been the 255th Olympiad. And then in 1994, a bronze plaque was found inscribed with the victors of combative events hailing from mainland and Asia Minor, proof that an international Olympic games continued until at least 385.

That would be the 291st Olympiad. Interesting. Interesting. So if the first Olympics was 776 BC and then the final one, well, I mean, would have at least been 385. Although it says, oh yeah, here you go. The games continued past 385, by which time flooding and earthquakes

had damaged the buildings and invasions by barbarians had reached Olympia. The last recorded games were held under Theodiceus I at 393, which would have been the 293rd Olympiad, but archeological evidence indicates that some games were still held. And then it was, I guess, made illegal, like we were saying earlier. But what were the original or the original sports? Like in the very.

All right. Hold on. Let me see if I can figure that out. The ancient Olympian games were initially a one day event. Yeah. And then they're extended to three days. I thought they were fucking six months. Man, history needs to get its shit together. What were the, all right, the ancient games included? Pentathlon, okay. Then running, so there was a variety of races.

Jumping. Athletes use stone or lead weights called halteris to increase the distance of a jump. They held onto the weights until the end of their flight and then jettisoned them backwards. That's fucking funny. I wonder how well that works. We should try that now. Discus throw.

All right. That's always been around. Wrestling. Gotta have wrestling. Boxing. Pankration. Pankration? Pankration? wrestling, boxing, pancration, pancration, pancration.

This was a primitive form of martial arts combining wrestling and boxing and was considered to be one of the toughest sports. Ah, Greeks believe that it was founded by Theseus when he defeated the fierce Minotaur in the labyrinth. Oh, it looks just like, yeah, just like Naked Dudes are wrestling. Equestrian events.

Oh, okay, so equestrian events paint great wrestling boxing boxing Wrestling discus throw jumping running pentathlon. Those were your original Olympic Games So we brought the Olympic Games back in Athens in 1896 what were the sports we played then it looks like there were 43 events from track and field, cycling, swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting, and tennis. So not that different from where we are right now.

I wonder what are some of the Olympic sports that didn't quite make it, you know? That didn't stick around. Let's see if we can determine that. Okay, Olympic sports that we no longer, that didn't quite take. Let's see what we have, uh, or forgotten Olympic sports. Croquet. Croquet? Huh. Croquet was the first Olympic sport that women could play. Also, it was only in, from what I can tell, it was only in one Olympic game in

1900s. Interesting. Plunge for distance. It was in just one Olympics, 1904 games in St. Louis, Missouri. Competitors in the plunge for distance event dove into a pool and remained motionless for one minute. The athlete who glided the farthest won. Five men participated in the event. All Americans. William Dickey took home the gold for a distance of almost 63 feet. That's fucking funny. Live pigeon shooting. Once again, only happened in one Olympics, 1900 in Paris.

Animal rights activists protested, and so they decided to use clay pigeons instead of real pigeons. Good call. Oh, in 1908 in London, they had a motorboat race with speeds topping out at 19 miles an hour. I wonder how many times an engine has appeared in the Olympics.

I wonder if that was the only time. Pistol dueling, also in the early 1900s, I think in 1908, they would have dudes face each other with loaded wax bullets, and then they wore protective equipment. But I also read that they didn't actually shoot face each other with loaded wax bullets and then they wore protective equipment But I also read that they didn't actually shoot at each other I also read that there was dueling where they shot at mannequins and then I guess based it on how well how you know how good your shot was

I wonder if they did it both ways tug-of-war was a big one. I remember that lasted around 20 years that was not early 1900s and it was one I remember that lasted around 20 years that was not early 1900s and it was it was what you would think it would be just I think I want to say the UK was the best tug-of-war team let's see if I can find that out oh yeah here's a little bit more information it was from 1900 to 1920 nations were allowed to enter more than one team huh which is how the United States swept the board in st. Louis in 1904 Great Britain repeated the feat in 1908 When a team is from a website called techopedia by the way when a team from the city of London police top the podium

Ahead of two other sides supplied by police forces the British won again in Antwerp You know in Belgium in 1920 and are still the reigning champions even though the sport has never been featured again interesting town planning Still the reigning champions, even though the sport has never been featured again. Interesting. Town planning. One of the, I mentioned artistic categories earlier, and one of those was architecture with a subcategory, town planning. Medals were awarded four times between 1928 and 1948. The 1932 winner was British architect John Hughes

with his design for a sports stadium and recreation center in Liverpool. Recreation. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha What is wrong with me? Let me try that again. The 1932 winner was British architect John Hughes with his design for a sports stadium and recreation center in Liverpool. Oh my God. Four years later, Germany carried off the top award with a plan for a rike sports field while the final gold was won in 1948 in Finland. Damn, my stupidity aside, that was a little interesting. So how many countries compete in the Olympics?

Let's see. We have the twenty twenty four. Let's have a how many countries are competing in this Olympics? Looks like two hundred and six national Olympic committees along with the IOC Refugee Olympic team. OK, cool. So about two6 and then the refugee team. Ah, that's a lot of countries. I wonder how many countries have never won a medal.

Is that, can I find that out? That should be easy to find out, right? Let's see. I wonder who's won the most medals. No, I'd rather know who's won the least first. Let's see. There are more than 60 countries that have participated, but never won an Olympic medal. Bangladesh is the most populated country that has yet to win a medal.

They've competed in 10 summer games and failed to reach the podium each time. Congo has appeared in 13 summer games. It's the second highest populated country to not win a medal. It's the second highest populated country to not win a medal. Monaco, however, has 21 summer and 10 winter appearances for 32 total Olympics without a single medal. They're the most for any country, Jesus. Next longest streak is Andorra with 25 Olympic games. So who's won the most medals total?

Okay, well let's just look at summer, right? Cuz we're just doing summer right now. The United States has 2,629 total Summer Olympic medals So the Union is in second place with a thousand and ten Gonna be hard for them to add to that for a while Great Britain is at nine sixteen France is in fourth place at 751 in and Germany is in fifth at 655. Damn. So number two, Soviet Union and number three,

Great Britain combined wouldn't equal, would still be 700 medals short of America. That would be a France short of America. So you could put two, three, and four together to equal the amount of medals, to get to the amount of medals the United States has. That's how far ahead they are. That's nuts.

How about total medals? Combined total, winter and summer. United States number one, Soviet Union with the 1200 is number two, Great Britain 950, number four is Germany for total combined at 922. They over index in winter, obviously obviously and then France at 889 interesting Wonder who's so who's won the most Olympic medals in a single game? United States claimed

239 total medals at the Olympic Games held in 1904 in st. Louis. I guess that was the record USSR has the second highest total of medals won in a single Olympic game, with 195 at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Man, they killed it in Moscow in 80. And then UK has 145 medals in third place at the 1908 London games. Interesting, countries seem to do really well

when they're the host country, big surprise. Okay, so if there's 206 countries and then the the refugee team how many athletes are competing in 24? I get excited about this Olympics Paris Olympics will feature 10,500 athletes According to the Associated Press Wow, that's interesting summer Olympia I mean, I guess so but summer Olympics is so much bigger than the Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics only averages around 2,900 athletes Summer Olympics has over 10,000 So what are we gonna watch or what are the good? storylines in 2024 that I can look for Like Simone Biles is back right so we'll have her return to the Olympics I know she she left for health reasons in the previous Olympics. So it'll be cool to watch her. Oh, Sha'Carri Richardson is gonna be in this Olympics.

You know, she got in, well, listen, she failed a drug test for weed before the last Olympics and got booted, which while she was dealing with the death of a family member, I believe, is what it was. I think it might've, you know what, let me look that up because I don't wanna get that wrong. Yeah, I believe, is what it was. I think it might have. You know what? Let me look that up, because I don't want to get that wrong. Yeah, in 2021, Richardson emerges

a top contender in the women's 100 meters at the Olympics after blazing through the US Olympic trials with an insane time of 10.86 seconds. However, her victory was overshadowed when a post-race drug test revealed THC in her system, which was also right around the time I think she found out her mother died. And also's fucking weed weed never made anybody faster Jesus fucking anyway So excited to see Shaqari Richardson finally get to be in the Olympics about fucking time

Who else can we be excited about? Oh? The US men's basketball team and the women's basketball team. Dude, this is the first time I think LeBron James and Steph Curry have appeared on the court together in the Olympics. And I don't know if you guys have been watching, I've been watching some of the Olympic games thus far. I gotta say, LeBron James looks like he's about 25 years old and is carrying that team and Steph Curry looks cooked.

And I hate to say it, but he does. Also, another thing I hate to say, Anthony Edwards and Jason Tatum look exhausted and tuned out. And I say this as the world's biggest Celtics fan. Those dudes have, I don't blame them. They went deep in the playoffs. I mean, Anthony Edwards did.

Jason Tatum went as deep as you can fucking go and emerged as a champion. But you know, they've had no fucking summer and no break. And while all the rest of the NBA players were banana boat and out in Cancun, the Celtics were still going strong, winning a title. And then he Derek White, Drew Holiday and Jason Tatum immediately switch gears and then go play for the Olympic team. They must be so fucking tired.

All all that going to say that I don't blame them for not playing particularly well in these games. And just continue to be impressed at a fucking, essentially a 40 year old LeBron James outplaying everybody on the field. He won that game the other night. Insane. So those are some things to be excited about. I'm going to watch Shaqari Richardson. I'm going to watch Simone Biles. I'm going to watch the Olympic men's team. And then I'm just going gonna try to watch as much,

I'm gonna just try to get in to the Olympics and immerse myself in it as I did when I was a kid. I really want to feel that way about the Olympics again. I really wanna be like that. I wanna feel that American pride, watching our sons and daughters go off to compete against the rest of the world. And I want everybody who's listening to this

to feel the same way, not about my country, unless you're American, but about your country. The Olympics are here for us, the Summer Olympics are here for us every four years to celebrate and enjoy the spirit of competition and global competition. And I just wanna enjoy it again, like I did when I was 12 years old.

And so I'm going to do everything in my power to do that this year. And I encourage everybody else to as well or not. I really don't give a fuck. You just do what's good for you. Right. If you want to enjoy the Olympics, enjoy the Olympics. If you don't want to enjoy the Olympics, ignore me. However, before I peel off, I do owe you a song. I realize I missed my song last week in the episode. But I'm going to make sure I don't today.

Today's song is by a band called Lost Sounds. It is a kind of a, I guess it's been described as sort of a garage band mixed with synth and dark wave. Kind of, it is a late 90s, early 2000s band, one of the Jay Retard projects, and it's just, it's fucking awesome. Really dark, like dark material, dark lyrics, real buzzy, aggressive, droning, dancy kind of sound.

I really love the keyboards in it. The song I'm gonna pick, I had a hard time picking between songs. The two songs I've been listening to every day right now, and you dance, and I get nervous. But I think I'm gonna pick I get nervous today. I think that's my song. That's the song of the episode.

I get nervous by Lost Sounds. Rest in peace, Jay Retard. And that'll be it for us today. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for spending a little bit of time with me. Thanks for listening to me try to get excited about the Olympics. Maybe I sparked a little bit of interest in you as well.

It would be, I think the whole world would be served by getting into this stuff and enjoying the spirit of pride in your country and just enjoy the healthy spirit of competition on a global scale. I'll talk to you guys next week. All right. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

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