Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, we discussed the story that
Speaker 1: was gonna happen in California in the sperm Race. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there weren't a lot of details, so it was
Speaker 1: kind of a h It was a story that she
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of clarity to it. Well, I've
Speaker 1: now unclogged the pipes and have figured out what happened
Speaker 1: at the actual sperm race, okay, where it was gonna
Speaker 1: be USC versus UCLA classic. The guy that put this together,
Speaker 1: This was conceived by seventeen year old tech entrepreneur Eric Ju.
Speaker 2: Did you say it was conceived?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Got so many jokes here, seventeen year old Eric Ju. Okay,
Speaker 2: you should know this about him. He was kicked out
Speaker 2: of high school.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, He moved to San Francisco, he got in
Speaker 1: the tech world. Is kind of having a banteeing about
Speaker 1: with some tech companies. Then he met with the tech
Speaker 1: guy Peter Thiel. Oh yeah, okay, and Phil flew him
Speaker 1: to New York and said, what's your craziest idea? And
Speaker 1: he's like, as a joke, He's like, the sperm race.
Speaker 1: It feels like genius. Here's some money, let's do it,
Speaker 1: and he's like what, So he raises one point five
Speaker 1: million dollars the seventeen year old kid who was kicked
Speaker 1: out of high school, and they're gonna hold it at
Speaker 1: this event and men's health Senate journalists there to cover
Speaker 1: all this. They thought it would draw about five thousand people.
Speaker 1: The venue that they had booked holds four thousand people,
Speaker 1: so there's already a big red flag. So the day
Speaker 1: before the show, the venue cancels the event and they
Speaker 1: have to move it somewhere else because they thought too
Speaker 1: many people were going to be there. They spent all
Speaker 1: the money they had. They raised one point five million out.
Speaker 1: They spent all the money they had on this one event,
Speaker 1: which he casually said.
Speaker 2: In the interview might be stupid, but we did it anyways.
Speaker 1: The main event was a best of three race between
Speaker 1: a guy named Asher, a freshman at UCLA, a guy
Speaker 1: named Tristan, a sophomore at USC.
Speaker 2: Both have been given one thousand dollars to train.
Speaker 1: There's like prep period and then make some tongue in cheek,
Speaker 1: you know, promo videos and stuff like that, Drink some
Speaker 1: pineapple juice like all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of stuff. All right, what does that do I
Speaker 2: don't really know.
Speaker 1: Yep, the guy with the fastest swimmers would get ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: But again, how do you do that? Well, that's the
Speaker 2: whole thing is.
Speaker 1: They had some technology that's very hard to describe, but basically,
Speaker 1: they would put their sample into a container and then
Speaker 1: once some scientists took a look at it and determined
Speaker 1: which the fastest swimmers might be, and then it was
Speaker 1: on a microscopic It's hard. It's really hard to describe
Speaker 1: a microscopic model that represented a female's reproductive system, and
Speaker 1: then that was put on a JumboTron. Now they made
Speaker 1: a fight poster and everything, okay to make it like funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they go at the end of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah they did.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, So they gave a sperm sample at the
Speaker 1: venue an hour before showtime, and then the doctors are
Speaker 1: the scientists on hand would filter it. The guy who
Speaker 1: did the circle said, when arrived now before the race,
Speaker 1: the arena bus with the kind of energy that screams,
Speaker 1: we're absolutely not gonna pull it off. This guy was
Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes he was wearing the day before,
Speaker 1: the guy that put on the event, and they were
Speaker 1: having chaos when the doors open. It was not four
Speaker 1: thousand people. It was more like four hundred people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He asked one girl who was there how she heard
Speaker 1: about the event. She said, I saw a meme as
Speaker 1: she just went to it. He also met a nurse there.
Speaker 1: The nurse said that she was there representing an at
Speaker 1: home sperm testing startup and she was a loose sponsor.
Speaker 2: Of the event.
Speaker 1: But she was like, yeah, I don't really want my
Speaker 1: name in this article focus and I'm just understing what
Speaker 1: this is. So then here comes the guys and they
Speaker 1: bring him out with her entage like it's a boxing match.
Speaker 1: Them they're all wearing white like they little sperms. And
Speaker 1: then this guy was wearing a plastic paintball vest on it.
Speaker 1: The term nut King was striped and sharpie on his vest.
Speaker 2: God, so they got they have a big race. There
Speaker 2: was av glitches everywhere.
Speaker 1: Ty Dolla sign The rapper was booked to perform, but
Speaker 1: after five minutes, he said, he told the DJ to
Speaker 1: turn off the music and he stormed off stage.
Speaker 2: Wow like Firefast, it does it kind of was. It
Speaker 2: does feel very Silicon Valley Man. So there it was.
Speaker 2: If you've ever seen that show, on HBO.
Speaker 1: You kind of get the vibe there didn't work, but
Speaker 1: also they're gonna do another one.
Speaker 2: Let's go right.
Speaker 3: Fantastic reporting by Kevin Turner in the Suck Zone. Coming
Speaker 3: up next in the big finish, Let's get back into
Speaker 3: the Cooper flag stuff. Don't go anywhere. That's in just
Speaker 3: over four minutes. That's coming up momentarily. Don't go anywhere.