ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Fortnight!) - The Games!

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Fortnite, Vaughn limbers up for two weeks of facts about the games. It's time for... Fact of the Day is the Olympics. Why? With the Olympics going on.

Oh, okay. About happening. Makes sense. About happening. And I just thought maybe even for the full length of the Olympics, there's a lot of facts about the Olympics. Yeah. They've been around for a while, haven't they?

They've been around for a long time. And that's kind of what today's fact of the day kind of touches on. Okay. Because I noticed Greece were like first out the blocks for the opening ceremony. Because it's their thing. Bingo. Yeah. They're the home of the Olympics.

They come out really high up the order. Do you remember we went to Athens, didn't we? Dusty Athens. Dusty old Athens. Was that the original? Yeah. You can go to the original track. The home of the Olympics from 1894.

Was that the first modern Olympics? I don't know. Yeah, they've got the stadium set up there, and it all kind of happened in this one area. But despite them being the home of the Olympics, they've never won a Winter Olympics medal. Oh. Greece? Not one. I've never been to the northern

parts of Greece, but surely there's some mountains with some snow on them. Some cold spots? Yeah. Or they would have just, I don't know, like New Zealand, like you just have ice skaters and... Yeah, well New Zealand, we've got snowy mountains, we've got skiers and snowboarders and stuff. And the last time that Greece placed in the top

10 at the Summer Olympics, 1904. Goodness. Since then, they've never got... It's been all downhill. It's all been downhill, but not downhill skiing because they've never won a Winter Olympics medal. Wow. Yeah. So,

yeah, Greece, they just, and they've not cracked the top 10 since 1904. They've not even come close. They mostly sit in the 20s or did not rank. It's quite embarrassing. DNR is on the Wikipedia.

Quite embarrassing for them. I thought a little bit embarrassing. It's like I'm wanting something and they're not being great at it. Yeah. It's like, you know, not even when they had

the Athens Olympics, they didn't have like a bumper year. No, they had a good year but not a bumper year. Right. Didn't get them in the top 10 because that was 2004. That's why there's a great metro into Athens.

Yeah, from the airport. I mean, they'll bankrupt a country. Absolutely. But you get a great metro out of it. You get a great metro. The utilities. Yeah, that the city has left with afterwards that they've got to maintain,

that they couldn't even afford to build in the first place. That's why we need a few more America's Cumps and World Cumps. Well, we were just saying that, weren't we? Yeah. You get nice new things. Because I saw a picture of like downtown Auckland before the America's Cup and it was very different. And then again before the Rugby World Cup. Yeah.

The Rugby World Cup, of course, gave us Winyard Quarter. Yeah. If your city is struggling, why not have a large-scale international event that could very well bankrupt the city, but could leave it with a couple of nice restaurants. Yeah, and some nice plazas. Yes, a couple of plazas, a lovely outdoor area, some cobblestones and some planter boxes.

Lovely. Some planter boxes with some hedges. Who's responsible for these hedges? Yeah. These grizzly linear are just dying left, right and centre. So today's fact of the day, and the first for the Olympics-themed week, is despite Greece being the home of the Olympics,

never won a Winter Olympics medal and haven't placed in the top 10 since the Summer Olympics of 1904. Today's Olympic fact of the day is, where does the name Olympics come from? Greece. Greece, correct. Any further? Olim.

Any further guesses? Oli. Doing sick olis on the skateboard. Yeah, perfect. And they were the best picks. They were the best picks. Yeah. Olympics.

In ancient Greece. Yeah. Oli picks. It is in reference to Mount Olympus. Oh, yeah. Of course it is. It's, yeah, of course it is. Of course it is. It's a mountain in Thessaly, so I've looked up that.

That's got a, I've pulled a map up. Sounded like you're saying Thessaly with a lift. Is that the one in Athens? No. No, no, no, no, no. Not with the Pantheon up the top. No, that's the Acropolis. No, this is in like northern Greece.

Pantheon's in Italy. On the border of Macedonia. In Greece. Okay. You need to travel more. What the Pantheon? Sweaty, you need to travel more. The Pantheon's in Italy. On the border of Macedonia in Greece. Okay. You need to travel more. Sweaty, you need to travel more. The Pantheon's in Athens. No, that's the Acropolis.

No, the Pantheon is one of the buildings on the top of the mountain. Isn't it in Rome? It's in Rome. The Pantheon? Yeah. Yeah. No. Historical landmark in Rome.

I've been there. Sweaty, I've been there. And I've never been to Greece. I've been there. I was literally there three weeks ago. What was the Basilica of Santa Maria? The Acropolis. The Acropolis. Sweaty, you've been there. And I've never been to Greece. I've been there. I was literally there three weeks ago. What was the Basilica of St. Moran? The Acropolis. The Acropolis.

Beside the Acropolis. You've been to the Acropolis. I've never been there beside the Acropolis. I don't know. I thought it was the Pantheon. Greece. Can we get a map of the... You know what happened?

He spent way too much time on Roman orgies in history. Oh, no. And not the buildings. We primarily studied Greek orgies. That's why I thought... Right. A temple of all gods. The word pantheon derives from the Greek pantheon,

literally a temple of all gods. There is a pantheon at the top of that thing, but it's just what they call a... It's not what the world would know as the pantheon, as in the one in Rome. Apologise to everybody. I won't. I'm sorry.

I meant our pantheon, not the pantheon. You know, one of the many. One of pantheons. I just meant our warehouse, not the warehouse. I meant an industrial warehouse. Yeah, that's right. Why are you putting me in this red polo? I simply said our warehouse.

No, not where everyone gets a bargain That's not what I said I said there are bargains to be had So the Mount Olympus is in like northern Greece by Macedonia Do you mean the Parthenon? People are texting him being like there's a Parthenon in Greece

Oh was he just on a path? He was eh? Someone else said Mum what's an orgy? It's like a lot of oranges. It's where you have a lot of oranges. Everyone brings an orange. You have an orange. You juice them. Slice them.

Orange parties, baby! Parthenon. Parthenon is in Greece. No, the Parthenon is in Rome. Oh my god, this is painful. The Parthenon is in Greece. The Pantheon. This is painful. The Parthenon is in Greece. The Pantheon there. Everyone knows it's in Rome.

It's in Rome. I'll Google it. So Mount Olympus is so massive and high. It's the highest mountain peak in Greece. Yep. They believe that was the home of the gods. Yep. They believe there was a mountain so high it was the closest to the heavens,

such a triumphant spot to watch humans. The Zeus and et cetera, they all live up on Mount Olympus. So the Olympics were kind of like two things. To honour the gods, they would be like, look at how great we have become. Your creations of humans are faster than ever and can jump higher than before. Look at our break dancing.

Look at our sick flips. Observe our horses doing a trot. Watch a woman with what looks like a crazy rifle hold perfectly still and take one breath in and then on a slow exhale pull the trigger and nail the bullseye. That's right.

Watch us climb this wall vertically in six seconds. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Watch our bottoms as we play beach volleyball. Oh, Vaughn. I'm watching the ball. Me too. Go over the net.

Me too. From the Pantheon in Greece. So they did it. And also the thought was that if you were like on par, the gods might be like, you can come up here. Well, you could ascend. You could ascend. Oh, wow.

To live on Mount Olympus. So it was the Olympics, Mount Olympus. But then Olympiad, because they say it's the 75th Olympiad. Olympiad is a period of four years. Yeah. Because they do it every four years. Right from the get-go. I thought it was like a budget thing.

No, no, no. Man, that was expensive. We should just wait four years. Oh, my God. Because you'd already be building in the next city, you know? Yeah. Well, you need some downtime. It'll be like all these music festivals that are like,

we just need a couple of years break, guys. Yeah, guys, we're exhausted. They're not coming back. We're not coming back. They're not coming back. They're not coming back. If they've gone for that long. It's not the Olympics, mate.

They're not coming back in four years. They're just not going to happen again. No, God, they're not. Yeah, so today's Olympic fact of the day is the Olympics are named for Mount Olympus, which is believed to be

the home of the gods in Greece. And the pantheon is in Rome. Well, our pantheon is in Greece also. A partheon. A pantheon.

A temple of all gods. You say pathantheon and I say partheon. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Well, we love it's Olympics

themed fact of the day. And I've been sent a few. Oh, really? I'm thinking maybe there's enough facts about the Olympics to do facts about

the Olympics with the entire length of the Olympics. How many days does the Olympics go for? We might get a bit tired of that. How many days

does the Olympics last? Two weeks. Two weeks. It's 26th of July to the 11th of August, so you're two weeks. That's easy. That's great. You just said that like twice.

Just said that like twice. I don't think. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. We'll vibe check on Friday. Okay. Today's fact of the day is there are 60 countries that have never won a single

summer Olympic medal. And we just won one this morning. Yeah. And a further 40 countries that have never won a single gold medal. That was good. We've got lots of Olympians who have won more medals individually than entire countries have. Have you ever held one? An Olympic gold?

Has someone brought, we had them in the studio. I feel like, yes. I feel like I've touched one. Heavy. Eric Murray's? Yeah. They're heavy.

They're real heavy, real nice. I want one. These ones look, look, look booty. And this year's, this one's look,

and they get a little box of sparklers or something, or incense. What are they getting in that box? Huh? Incense, a little stick bundle.lers or something or incense. What are they getting in that box? Huh? Incense. A little stick bundle. That's not very French. Shannon,

social media desk, what is in that box? What's in the box that they're giving the Olympics? They're a really cute poster but they can also A poster?

But they can also go buy the same poster. It's shorter than Taylor Thomas. It's out of the middle of TV hits. And you unfold it and you put it on your wall and you look at it

and you're like, oh my God. Here's a camera. And then 30 years the middle of TV hits. And you unfold it and you put it on your wall and you look at it and you're like, oh my God, I'm going to hit you again. Yeah, and then 30 years later he'd be problematic. Yeah, exactly. The Olympians can also, though, go to the Olympic Village and buy the poster. So it's kind of not super special. Like any Olympian can have it. But it's way better than those stupid stuffed toys that they give away.

Oh yeah, it's so cute. But you see the Olympians when they get handed it, they all look quite confused. Like they don't know what this is. Just give me a bouquet and a medal. Yeah, but's so cute. But you see the Olympians when they get handed it, they all look quite confused. Like they don't know what this is. Just give me a bouquet and a medal. Yeah, but they're real cute. Okay.

Yeah, it's showing a cartoon version of Paris with a picture of the big red Eiffel Tower and the CN surrounded by sports taking places. Did you say that the river,

did you see that the river is already like super polluted and like events have been cancelled because they're like, it is gross. It is gross. We were wrong.

It's actually pretty mucky. French poos. There's po pretty mucky. French poos. There's poos. There's French poos. Ooh la la. So the country with the largest population that has never won an Olympic medal is? Give us a clue. Give us a clue.

Country with the largest population. Hasn't always been called this. Used to have a different name. Is that right? African? No, Asian. Myanmar. The thing is, they'd have to win so many medals to even be on the per capita.

Right. I'll just put you out of your misery, shall we? No. We're going to play this game until the end of the show. Bangladesh. Really? 171 million people And never won an Olympic medal

They had never had an athlete Who qualified for the Olympics via merit They just qualified because they were entitled to They had to submit someone The Rio flag bearer And the first person from Bangladesh To ever qualify for the Olympics on merit Played golf He represented them at the Rio Olympics And he came 55 out of 60 and the first person from Bangladesh to ever qualify for the Olympics on merit played golf.

Yeah. He represented them at the Rio Olympics and he came 55 out of 60. Okay. I didn't realise they were so bad at sport. But their cricket team's getting better, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Always winning some games now. Yeah, but there's tons, like, and there's heaps of countries you've heard of.

Albania never won a medal. What is it about Bangladesh? You know, because some countries you go, oh, they're not good at it because, they're not good at swimming because there's no water around or there's not that. Yeah. Or they never won a Winter Olympics medal because snow is something they would never have seen.

Yeah. It's just like an accessibility thing. Yeah. But no, I believe it's, Bangladesh is a very poor nation. And so it doesn't have, you know, most nations that do well have a little discretionary income. They'll smash out a load of track pants, though. Oh, they won't.

That's the thing, sadly. Probably most of the Olympic countries' uniforms have been made in Bangladesh. Yeah. God, everything's made in Bangladesh. Congo, Rwanda, Bosnia, Herzegovina, those are some other countries that have never won medals. But Bangladesh has got the largest population for a country that's never won an Olympic medal.

We always go on about being on the per capita table in New Zealand. We're punching regardless, aren't we? Oh, because we're so widdle. We're just so widdle. We're so widdle. We're so widdle. And got us some sports. Maybe we should chuck a couple of handball teams or something.

There's a whole lot of sports that I don't even think we've even offered. What could we do? Offer it up. I want one of these medals. But I don't want to work that hard. So what's a skill that we've already got going? Are they still doing clay bird? I don't know.

Skate shooting, I think they call it. Are you Olympic good? God, no. Or are you just a couple of wines on our hands do good? When I say I've done it once in my life and I didn't suck, is what I mean by quite good. That's good enough. That is the first step on the road to Olympic glory.

Maybe that's what we need, hens do's. We'd be good at those. Now, Britain would beat us at those. Hell yeah, they travel. They travel to like weird Eastern European countries and we just like catch a ferry to Waiheke and come back blottoed. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is there are 60 countries

that have never won a single Olympic medal and the one with the highest population to have never won one, Bangladesh. Bangladesh. Today's, and we continue our fact of the day, Olympics. Yeah. Fact of the day about the Olympics. Now, I was sent this one in from Jess Cunliffe.

Thank you, Jess. She says, born, do you know, American swimmer Michael Phelps is the Olympics goat with 23 gold medals. If he was a country, he would be 40th in the all-time rankings for gold medals. Well, yeah, because he got just... We were speaking yesterday. Some countries don't even have a single medal.

And then that's what spurred Jess to say if he was a country, Michael Phelps would be the 40th highest-ranking country of all time, including all the modern Olympics. Isn't that insane? What? Yeah. He is pretty amazing. 23 gold.

And that's just in the gold medal So he's also got 3 silver and 2 bronze One across 5 games He's got how many medals? And only 3 of them are silver Yeah And only 2 of them are bronze 26

That's insane 28 medals And 23 of those medals are gold medals Wow Do you remember when it was a trend To try to eat Michael Phelps diet? Yes I was just thinking that

They'd always say Here's what he eats in a day, and it was like 800,000 calories. 8,000 calories, was it? Between 8,000 and 10,000 calories a day. And it wasn't even like healthily distributed calories. Wasn't he smashing like whole pizzas at one stage? Oh, he was just hooning it.

8,000 to 10,000 calories a day. To put it in perspective, like most people would eat, adults would be like. 2,000 is what the healthy adults. Yeah, 2,000. Eat, right. I don't know where it would go. I'd just be like constantly. He'd get up early so he'd have a longer day. Yeah.

He'd be training a lot so you'd be burning a lot of energy. Burning, yeah. He'd still be pooping. Oh yeah. Oh my god, the poops on Phelps. Like cow-sized poops. Yeah, I reckon he'd be pooping. Just shove him in the paddock. I reckon. The toilet can't handle it.

No, because there's a lot of meat in it. You know what I mean? Floating around. He's amazing. Who's come close to him? No one. Where's Simone at? Oh no, because I was including she's got world records, sorry.

Yeah, but Simone's, there's not as many gymnasts. He was doing 100 metres, 50 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, medleys. There's so many swimming events. So many things he could win at. That he just dominated in. And that's why people will... I've looked up Usain Bolt. He was the fastest man alive.

Everybody knew who he was. Yeah. But he would only run the 100 metres. There's not as many running events as there were... There's the 100 metre sprints, but he couldn't turn that into hurdles. He'd do part of the 4x100 relay which he'd won medals

for as well so that was also dependent on three other people Feltz was just this unit second place for career medals

is a Soviet gymnast Larissa Latania the winner of 18 medals she was back in the day right in the 50s and 60s won it all

like four disciplines yeah Yeah. And then there's a Norwegian that's won 15 medals in various cross-country skiing events. Winter Olympics. With 15 medals. But isn't that insane? He's just miles ahead. Leagues ahead of everybody. He's literally a walking upside down

triangle. The shoulders on that guy. I haven't seen him lately. I mean, he's probably at these Olympics, right? Oh, he's blown out. How do you tone down from a 10,000 calorie diet back to a 2,000? Your stomach will be all like stretched and flabby like, fill me up.

A fifth. Yeah. Surely you'd still swim, right? Like for fun. I reckon you'd be sick of it. Yeah. I don't want to see you, pool. I've got to get another hobby. So today's fact of the day is that thanks to Jess who submitted it. Shannon just said his son won his first swim in a primary school. Oh, that's cute. Oh my god, that's

ridiculous. Nepo. Yeah, imagine there was swimming sports and they're like in lane three, little Joey Phelps. And you're like, oh, why did they even bother coming? This is why I was thinking about it, because Michael Phelps gave Snoop Dogg a swimming lesson in France just the other day. Snoop Dogg is so skinny. So skinny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They jumped into a pool and did like a fun social media

thing. Snoop Dogg's really like a high... He is the face of this Olympics. Yeah, why is he the full-blown face of the Olympics? Because he's the man. He's got a pin, and it's him smoking a joint and blowing the Olympic rings. Yeah. Snoop D-O-double-G. And it's an official Olympics pin.

Is he even French? Bonjour. For shizzle. Yeah, dude, of course he's French. What are you talking about? Yeah, oh, of course, how did I forget? Wait, can we just Google... Famous French rapper from the LBC, Snoop Dogg.

For shizzle. For shizzle. Should we just, for shizzle. Where, where, where? Where shizzle? So today's fact of the day, thanks to Jess, is that if Michael Phelps was his own country, he'd be the 40th most successful country for a gold medal haul in history. Today's fact of the day. Tell us. Comes off the back of yesterday's fact of the Day Tell us

Comes off the back of yesterday's Fact of the Day When Cooper text messaged in Saying What did Coops say? Coops wanted the scoops Can you please investigate for Fact of the Day If someone has ever gone to the same Olympics For two or more different sports

Like swimming and running please Good question Oh my god, overachiever I did a little bit of Google And one thing about the Olympics for two or more different sports, like swimming and running, please? Good question. Oh, my God. Overachiever. I did a little bit of Google, and one thing about the Olympics is that it is meticulously recorded. Yes, it is.

All the details. All the records. There is a Wikipedia page called List of Athletes Who Competed in Multiple Sports at the Summer Olympic Games. So you're not including I did the 100 metre and the 250. So I did some investigation into who had won medals for it. But to be honest, and this might be a controversial take.

Uh-oh. I believe if you go for road cycling but also participate in track cycling, that's just cycling. Yeah. You're fast on a bike. It's the same thing. We want different sports, right? Different sports.

However, I would put diving, swimming, and water polo as three different sports. Yeah, 100%. Completely different skills. Completely different. The pool's the only consistent thing. Yeah, because the most common one was road cyclists that also did some track cycling at the earlier Olympics

because they were two different disciplines. Different bikes too? They weren't super specialised like they are now. You know, it probably was on an old penny farthing, for example. And they had a moustache and they smoked a pipe as they were doing it and they had to tip their peaky blinder to everybody. And they just said, hello, every time they went past someone. Good day.

Coming past. Good day. Good day. And there were people who won in different swimming, but I'm kind of like swimming Same same same Butterfly and freestyle Yeah but still same same But there are some ones who went

And there's actually such a massive List of them I was thinking I might just tell you About New Zealanders And people who have done extremely well And won medals in multiple different events. Now, there's like a thousand people that have been for more than one, but as I say, most of them road cycling or some form of swimming.

New Zealanders. Again, skip that. The most, all cycling, cycling, cycling, cycling. And I'm not taking anything away from you. You can cycle significantly better than me. Well done. Two disciplines, but cycling, cycling. I'm good on an e- you. You can cycle significantly better than me. Well done. Two disciplines, but cycling. Cycling. I'm good on an e-bike.

Remember Steve Ferguson? Yeah. From Ferg's Kayaks. Yes. Yeah. He went to, I knew he went for canoeing. Yeah. Steve Ferguson and Ian, who were they?

Were the duos. Fleming. And they did the front ways canoeing. Yeah. And they were unbeatable. They won gold medals. And I remember as a child, it was very, very exciting.

But Steve Ferguson also went to the Olympics for swimming. Huh. How about that? Okay, well, does that tick your box? That ticks my box. Okay. Both water involved, but two very different sports. But all the other ones that have been have been cyclists that have done road cycling and track cycling and mountain biking and road cycling as well.

But then there's a list of athletes that did multiple events. Viggo Jensen is from Denmark. He did weightlifting, sports shooting, gymnastics. Oh, my God. And track and field. Holy. So he did a lot. But I will say the Olympics he went to were in the early 1900s,

where if you went, it was hard to get there. You kind of did as much as you could when you got there. Yeah, right. Also the case with Carl Schumann, who was a German athlete and competed at the German Games. He did gymnastics and wrestling and weightlifting. Well, he just loved the lycra, didn't he? Feats of strength.

Yeah. And he had a moustache like an old school strongman too. There's a guy called Lauchiston Elliott, who was British, and he competed in weightlifting. And he was also a bit of a bodybuilder, a bit of a hunky-spunky, but of course bodybuilding is an Olympic sport. So he went to the Olympics for a few different sports as well, mostly feats of strength,

but weightlifting and track and field. And two females have competed at multiple sports. Sheila was a swimmer. Sheila. Sheila, great name for an athlete yeah great name she also did the triathlon and the 4x200m running

wow and Truce Klapdwyk is the final from the Netherlands she went to the early games as well she did the 4x100m swimming freestyle and she also did diving at the 3m and 10m platforms

we've had a couple of texts in about the Paralympics. Dylan Alcott went to the Olympics at the Paralympics for wheelchair basketball and tennis, medals in both. Oh wow. And look up Eve Rimmer, she's a Paralympian. Eve Rimmer.

I can't remember what sports she did. Right. I just said she's sports she did. Right. I just said she's a parallelist. Multiple parallelists. Yeah, multiple sports. Yeah. Clever chookies, eh? Yeah.

Very, very clever. Always makes you feel lazy. It's like Mae just so good at so many different things, you know? So many different. Multifaceted. Multifaceted. Multifaceted. She sings, she acts.

So, Coop, I hope that answers your question. Yeah, I mean, feel free to also, you can Google stuff. Yeah. No, it's great. So, me having a think of something to do your question. Yeah, I mean, feel free to also, you can Google stuff. Yeah. No, it's great. Saved me having to think of something to do on Friday. Yeah. You just sent me in the right direction. Good stuff.

So next week, we're staying with the Olympics. We're staying with the Olympics. It's two weeks long, I reckon. Not Top Six. Another week of Fact of the Days about the Olympics. I like it a lot. Quite fascinating. So today's Fact of the Day is heaps of people have been in the Olympics for more than one sport.

Clay, Zed Enns, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's fact of the day is heaps of people have been in the Olympics for more than one sport. Today's fact of the day, my daughter told me this. So I was like, that's a good one. So this is a Nepo fact of the day, is it? We should do Nepo week. Other kids suggest fact of the days and I'm like, pfft. Yeah, my kids though. No, my kids. Geniuses.

They've got a real future in this fact business. Apparently having a sick day today. I've just been told and I told Shade that she's been plagued. I was never allowed a sick day. I think once I had a limb hanging off my... Just by a tendon. Just by a tendon. And mum's like, go to school.

I'm like, okay. I had the zombie virus. Yeah. And mum made me go to school. But that was great because, gosh, there were some children and I ate their brains. Yeah, yum, delicious. The Olympic rings.

The Olympic rings, right? The Olympic rings. Yeah, we know. There's five of them. Oh, my God, really? There's five of them and they represent the five continents that participate in the Olympics. Oh, I don't think I knew that.

Did you not know that? No. Because does Antarctica compete? We've got a couple of idiots in the studio. I don't think I knew that. Did you not know that? No. Because does Antarctica compete? We've got a couple of idiots in the studio. Yeah, does Antarctica compete? No, it doesn't. What are you looking in a mirror? What?

You said there's a couple of idiots in the studio. I said, what are you looking in a mirror? Okay, so the five continents that compete. Africa. The Americas. Now that's where they'll get you because technically if you're counting continents, you count North America and South America

as two different continents. Yeah. But they counted them as one, the Americas. Because then that, along with Antarctica, you got seven. Yeah. He's cutting his kiwi fruit and rings again. Yeah, Olympic rings for each of the continents.

It's pretty cute. They better be five. They better be the same. So Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Why are they the colours they are? Blue, yellow, black, green, red. Is it a pride thing? It's not a pride thing.

It's not a pride thing. He's made Olympic rings out of his kiwi fruit discs. Now, that's the right way up to me, because if you've done that, from your perspective, you'd put three on the bottom and two on the top. Yeah, I know. I know my tops and bottoms. Okay, good.

You can pick them. If anyone does. So the colours, apparently, they needed, they had five rings. Yeah. They picked the five most popular flag colours. Oh, so that makes sense. Your reds and your blues.

Yeah, and be like, our flag is represented there. What is it? Is he red, blue, yellow, green, black? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. The reason they interlocked,

they never used to be the first ever ones they weren't interlocked. They were just beside each other. But then the interlock represents the unity. They keep blowing away. When they were just all floating single. Oh, shit, we lost another ring. They used to be 20 rings. It was like a regular game. Who line is it anyway up there. We should

connect them. So we connected them because that represented the unity in the meeting of athletes from around the world at the Olympic Games and we all know what goes on in the village. Unity. Bitter bloody unity. And they should always be displayed on a white background. Okay. And that's what I was told

about the Olympic rings. Okay. So that's what I was told about the Olympic rings. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So today's fact of the day is there's five Olympic rings, each ring representing a continent that takes part in the Olympics, and the colours were chosen because they were the most popular colours of flags at the time of establishment. Today's fact of the day is about American swimmer Katie Ledecky.

Have you heard of her? Yes. Ledecky just won by like a country mile. And is she 800 metre freestyle? 800 metre freestyle, yes. You know how usually with the swimming it's like there's that line and it goes like boop, boop, boop, boop, and you're like, which country came first? Hers was like boop. Yeah. Hers was yes, yes, yes. You know how usually with the swimming, it's like there's that line and it goes like, boop, boop, boop, boop, and you're like, which country came first?

And the person was like, boop. Yeah. And you're almost like, wait, wait. So she is at her fourth Olympic Games. Wow. She has just won her ninth gold medal and her 14th medal overall, meaning that she is tied

for the most successful female athlete going by medals. Yeah. With Larissa Lataniena, the Soviet gymnast who won nine golds in the 50s and 60s. It was amazing. When all you had was a forward roll and a... Yeah, yeah, a bit of a prance around.

Have you seen the comparison of gymnastics, like the black and white coverage of gymnastics in like the 60s versus what it is now? Some like spins on the floor and whatnot. And then Simone Biles was like... And then it's also like my parents buying a house in 1978 and me trying to buy a house in 2024. Good stuff.

The memes have been good. The memes have been pretty good. Top tier. Top memes. Well, here's the fact about Katie Ledecky. She actually holds the top 18 times in the 800 metre freestyle swimming for women. Oh, why would you bother?

The best 18 times in history belong to one woman. Wow. So that's why no one's coming even close to her. Yeah. Wow. So this year in February, she was beaten for the first time in the 800 since 2010. She was beaten by a Canadian swimmer

who for some reason didn't swim the 800 at the Summer McIntosh. Didn't swim the 800. Maybe her arms fell off. Or maybe. That would be a real shame. So she's got the 18th fastest time in history. But of the top 25 times,

Ledecky has 24 of them. Wow. So she's got the top 10 times. 19 of the top 20 times, as McIntosh comes in at 18th, and 24 of the top 25 times when it comes to the 800 metres. Do you reckon that's why she lost that one race? She was like, I don't want to even bother.

I'm going to win this. And then she's like, oh, my God, that Canadian. Yeah. Okay, I'll try next time, I guess. Why is she so fast? She's just found that Canadian. Yeah. Okay, I'll try next time, I guess. Why is she so fast? She's just found her event. Yeah. And she just nails it.

800 metres is the perfect distance for her. It's like that time, do you remember when we had that arcade machine at work? Yeah. And I just really concentrated on Donkey Kong. Really nailed it, my Donkey Kong. Yeah, honed it all in. And I had all top 10 scores on Donkey Kong. That's pretty sick, man. If only Donkey Kong was at the Olympics,

you may have found your sport. So what's her record time for doing 800 metres? Eight minutes, four seconds, and 79th of a second. Yeah, wow, okay. So that's quite, yeah, that's a long swim. So she seems to have peaked in 2016. Her two top times are in 2016. Wow, this guy that can, did you hear that? Yeah. She's peaked. No, I'm just going by the times, baby. She's over in 2016. Her two top times are in 2016. Wow, this guy that can, did you hear that?

Yeah. She's pegged. No, I'm just going by the times, baby. She's over the hill. She's old. But then last year she got her third best time. 2018 was her fourth best. 2015 was her fifth best.

When I swim like a kilometre, it will take me like 17 and a bit minutes, or 16 maybe if I'm going real fast 16, 45. Yeah, she's basically half. She's like a machine. And to keep going, that's a long swim. Not like the little sprinty swims where it's like do-doof.

She's just going and going and going. Yeah, 800 metres worth of absolutely punishing. Stroking forward. Is she done? Or is she going to do another one? I think, well, four more years. Hold on, I did see how old she was? Is she going to Or is she going to do another one? I think Well Four more years

Hold on I did see how old she was here And she's definitely like I'm slowing down Yeah She's sort of like Women No no no

She's Washed up Did you say washed up? Yeah I did I didn't say washed up I wouldn't Has she got kids? Is that what you're worried about?

I wouldn't When's she going to have kids? Oh she is hoping to compete in 2028 Oh wow She's seeing if her body allows her to. Are they in LA the next game? Yes, Los Angeles in 1928. That's correct.

Wow, 1928. No, 2028. 1928. Don't worry, you're only 100 years old. We're only six months away from inventing time travel. The next Olympic Games will be in Los Angeles in 1928. No, 2028 and I are the next. Even just saying 2028, it's wild.

Like next year's 2025. Yuck. Yuck. Yeah. Yuck. That's not good. Man, what a machine, eh? Yeah.

So today's fact of the day is American swimmer Katie Ledecky holds the top 17 times in the women's 800 swim. Play. ZM's Flet Day is about the first ever athlete. I must also thank... So no work herself. Anthony for sending this in. Lazy. Anthony will send in some great facts.

Thank you, Anthony. Regular Fact of the Day contributor. Anthony or Antony? Or Antony. Anthony, I've got. Okay. But I might have written that wrong. Sometimes the H, you don't hit it.

Yeah. Antony. You did right. Sir Antony Hopkins. Well, Wikipedia's not working, so the game's up. Well, now you're going to have to come up with your own facts. Look, this forced your hand to have to do your own money. I've researched it.

Why is my not working? Let me give this a refresh. I'm going to have to go to your hotspot, hon. The page before that was working, like Google was working. Right. Let's see if the Guinness World Records is working because this is a current standing Guinness World Record. I love watching the Olympics when they break a world record.

Hot spot on your phone, Han. You reckon I should hot spot on my phone? Yeah, hot spot on your phone. Wait, Guinness World Record's opening. Let me try a refreshing Wikipedia. I mean, you did have quite a bit of time to get this already. I did. It's been put in the group chat. I did.

What, that it's not working? No, it's obviously working to the producers. It's about Hans-Gunnar Lillgenwald. Yeah! He was the first person to ever get disqualified at the Olympics for testing positive to a banned substance. Oh, what drug? Okay, that was where I was leading with today's fact of the day.

Okay, I'm closing it because I opened that. What was the sport? Shooting. Oh, yeah. Oh. What drugs do you need for shooting? Maybe something that... Force sedative that makes your arm like...

Exactly like our Turkish dude. I love him. Who said, by the way, he was just joking about his dog. Oh, yeah. Did you read that thing on the post? He's like, Sharon, I want my dog back. And everyone's like, give him what he wants. We're going to have a John Wick scenario on our hands.

He said, I've had the dog a little while. He put a photo up of his dog, yeah. I'm going to say some kind of... What year was this? 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics. Marijuana. I'm going to say some kind of amphetamine to keep him awake. I'm going to say marijuana to keep calmer's nerves because it was 1968.

It was beer. He drank beer prior to pistol shooting and it is a banned substance because it relaxes your nerves. Alcohol, ethanol technically is the banned substance. Right. Because it lowerses your nerves. Alcohol, ethanol, technically is the banned substance. Right. Because it lowers your heart rate. So then you can be calmer with the hand. Still a hand for the pistol shooting. Oh, wow.

Also, like, not great to have a beer and then hold a gun. No. Regardless of what you're shooting at. Yeah. That's a sort of a generally agreed upon. Generally we agree. Generally agreed upon. I don't have the exact words of the thing because I don't know if you guys caught it just before I said

Wikipedia crashed. Wikipedia won't load. All right. But I went through the history of doping at the Olympic Games. He was the first and only at that first one. But then it's kind of like that was the landslide. I don't know if testing got better, but from there on out. Tell you what decade do you reckon was the biggest?

90s. Yeah. 90s was massive for doping. Everyone was getting jacked up, wanted to be faster, bigger, stronger. Yeah. Yeah. And they started busting different sorts of,

because obviously after the 90s, when they're like, these are the ones we can catch. Then everyone started getting a bit sneakier. And they started catching a lot of different ones in the 2000s. Yeah. But the first one ever, and today's fact of the day, is the first person ever disqualified at the Olympics for testing positive for a banned substance was a shooter at the 1968

Olympics who had a couple of beers. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's fact of the day is that an engraver was almost primarily responsible for the reboot of the modern Olympics. What? An engraver. Because they took a break, eh, from Olympia. Well, they finished in like ancient Greece. Yeah. Full stop.

Revitalized in 1896. The first modern Olympics, as it is called the modern Olympics. Did he just need some business? Could he get some trophies on the go? Yeah. This guy, Joseph Strutt's his name at an early age. Great name. Yeah, quite a strong name.

Joseph Strutt. Unless he's a dawdler. Oh, my God, if he's not a strutter. If he's a wanderer. He's just, yeah, one of the people you have to kind of move around. Like, my God, if he's not a strutter. If he's a wanderer. He's just, yeah, one of the people you have to kind of move around. Like, I'd never call you Vaughn Strut. No, I'd call you Vaughn Meander. Yeah.

Like people that drive Suzuki Swifts, but they're so slow. Like, come on. He's actually quite swift. Yeah. It's the Jimny that's the slow poke of the Suzuki Workhorse. That's why you're in the slow lane. Yeah. Well, Strut was born to his parents. Elizabeth was his mother. Funnily enough, he was born to his parents.

That's wild. And his father, Thomas. The effect of the day, because that's crap. No, no, no. This is just warming up. We're just warming up here. He was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School, and that is where he kind of developed a little bit of a taste for engraving,

which at the time engraving wasn't just like on pieces of metal or signs. It was also how they printed a lot of books. So they'd engrave them in mirror and then use a printing press to press them. There were the ones where you could set them out. But, of course, when it came to illustrations, you couldn't use pre-cut letters. And so he became a little bit of an illustrator with the tool of engraving.

Which when you think about it, you want the black lines to stick out. You've got to engrave everything around it. You've almost got to carve it. Yes. Negative space. So he wanted to write himself a book. So he undertook a massive task of the book called

The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the earliest period to the present time, illustrated with 140 engravings. And they were his engravings, which I have here on my screen. Show us. Of all the various recreational tasks.

There's hunting. Here's a man hunting a piggy. Oh, yeah, cool old school illustrations. They're digging a fox out of a fox hole. You probably wouldn't do that nowadays. It's a bit rough. There they are hunting a deer. A bit rough.

And this is when it's done. She's showing him her foo-foo. No, she's showing him her hunting. It's an Olympic sport, is it? She's holding, flashing your badge. Your badge. it's done. She's showing him her foo-foo. No, she's showing him her hunting. It's an Olympic sport, is it? Flashing your vag. Your vag. It's not. It's not my sport.

They're out hunting and it's muddy ground and she's holding her dress up so it doesn't get mud on it. Oh, I thought she was flashing him. I was going to say, Los Angeles 2020, right? Here I come. The foo-flash from New Zealand, representing New Zealand in the foo-flash. It's Haaley Sproul. Wait, how would you win the Foo Flash? Just the fastest?

I don't know, you're fastest to flash. Okay. So then it talks about... Most Foo seen in the quickest amount of time? I don't know. Sports developed from hunting, because, of course, archery was primarily for hunting and warfare,

but then, you know, outside of warfare. So he basically does all these engravings, and a man called Dr. William Brooks founded the Wenlock Olympic Games. And there was these Olympic Games in the 1850, which was just in the working class in the middle of summer to make everybody be like, hey, let's have some fun.

Let's have some competitions. Let's give out some prizes. They were like sports day at school. Yeah, but what sports are we going to play? And he had a copy of this book. Right. And he was like archery in. And he went through this book, ticking a lash, your foo.

Foo flashing. The foo flash. And then he had an argument with the people he was involved with and split off and formed the Wenlock Olympic Society who then got in touch with Greece at a later time and said, you guys are kind of running a little bit of an Olympics thing, but you were only allowed to enter if you spoke Greek.

Oh. And we'd quite like to get involved. And so through them, they developed it. And it's all put down to the fact that this guy did a book of engravings of all of England's pastimes. That got the Olympics back on track. That got the Olympics back on track. Oh, gosh.

Incredible. I cannot wait to proudly wear the silver fern on my skirt. For LA, for LA 2028. For LA 2028. Yeah. You could be flag bearer. You could walk in. Because they always have a few facts about the flag bearer.

Bearing the flag for New Zealand in this opening ceremony is four years ago. Didn't even know this was a sport, but the foo flash has become her passion. Yep, never thought she'd make it to the Olympics. And now here she is. Here she is. One of the world's best.

Oh, she's given us a little taste of things to come. Absolutely incredible. A little bit of a breeze off the Pacific. She's caught up under the skirt. If you win, I'll buy you a duck. Hey, that's motivation. Get that duck. Ducks are cute.

So today's fact of the day is the rebirth of the modern Olympics can kind of be pinned down to an engraver. It's the last Olympics fact of the day. And I thought we might discuss medals. Okay. Because you, I don't know if you ever thought about this, but the ancient Greek games, the original Olympics back in ancient Greece, they never gave out medals.

Really? There was no medals. Well, think about how hard it would have been to make medals. Yeah. Especially of valuable material. The victor received a crown made from olive leaves. Lame. And was entitled to have a statue of himself set up at Olympia.

But had to sort that out themselves if they wanted it. Commission someone to make your statue. Yeah. So at these athletic festivals, olive leaves at Olympia, wreath of laurel at Delphi, and Pine Trees at Yfmthiv. And if you won at Nemea, you won Parsley. Oh.

That's why laurels, you know, like on posters and stuff. Don't rest on your laurels. Yeah, you've got the laurels around your palm door or like Cannes Film Festival. Yeah, yeah, it was the one. Because it was the same as a medal. And exactly, we've talked about that, the origins of the saying, don't rest on your laurels, is that you would get the laurel and you'd be like, well, done, done. Yeah, it was the winner. Because it was like the same as like a medal. And exactly, we've talked about that, the origins of the saying, don't rest on your laurels.

You would get the laurel and you'd be like, well, done, done. Yeah. I'm trying to put this on my head and rest. Yeah. But don't rest on your laurels. And at the first modern games held in Athens in 1896, there was no gold medals. Lame. Silver for first place

with an olive wreath. Because it was too expensive. And second place runner-ups got a copper-based bronze-coloured medallion. Right. Lame-o, lame-o, lame-o. So there was just no gold. Because it wasn't... Right. Before the modern Olympics, you know, in your mind, gold was first place.

Did they get a free cheeseburger for player of the day? They got a cheeseburger for player of the day, which is nice. Which is nice. So then it was in Paris in 1900 that they were like, silver's good, but you know, gold's more valuable, so let's have a gold medal.

So then it was St. Louis Games in 1904 and London in 1908. Those were the only times that an actual fully gold medal were given to the Olympic winners. Oh wow, okay. It was straight after that that they started making them predominantly out of silver with a gilded layer of gold. Right.

Over the top, the thinnest layer of gold, because gold was A, very, very heavy, and B, very expensive. Are those original gold medals anywhere, like in museums? That has to be a museum. Yeah, they would be A. And they would be worth so much money. Oh, it's not a moolah. The Paris 1900 medals, where the first time the gold popped its head up,

were rectangular medals. Because, of course, now we just figure they're going to be circular, but different designs. These were rectangular. And Stockholm in 1912, they were oval medals. So it hasn't always been, you know, all of the medals. So it hasn't always been all of the medals. And if you added together all of the gold, silver and bronze

medals won by the United States, which is the country with the most medals won in the history of the Olympics, it'd be worth a million pounds. If you melted down all those medals. Somebody said at the Paris Olympics, the medals have 529 grams of gold in them.

But if it was pure gold, each medal would be $45,000. Yeah. And a bit of the Eiffel Tower. A kg and a bit. Yeah. Is that how much they'd weigh? If you imagine that, they put it around your neck and you're like. Goes down.

So, and the current gold medals are 95.5% silver, 3.4% wrought iron, which was the part of the Eiffel Tower. Yep. And 1.1% gold. Huh. Okay. And cost about 1,100 pounds to make from the medals at the wholesale medal price as of now.

Wow. Or just go get those gold coins. Chalky gold coins for Christmas. Chalky gold coins. Chalky gold coins. Chalky gold coins for Christmas. Chalky gold coins. Chalky gold coins. Chalky gold coins. Chalky gold coins.

Chalky gold coins. Put somebody in the chocolate industry. Make the chocolate better? Yeah. Yeah, I know. Whitaker, step up and make a chocolate coin. You'd kill it. If Whitaker's made a sack of chalky gold coins, I would lose my mind.

I get one every Christmas. Yeah. Always that Australian, oily, paraby, chocolate yucky. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Someone with Chalky Gold coins. Whitaker's Chalky Gold coins. Yeah, do it. Whitaker's Chalky Gold coins.

Whitaker's Chalky Gold coins. Make it. Make it happen. We'll tell everybody about it. Today's fact of the day is that at the first modern Olympics, there was no gold medal. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

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