Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 1: you did enough thunderstruck, you would get arthritis.
Speaker 2: Not in all, but all, can you post a picture
Speaker 2: for me of Trump riding a bicycle? Good point.
Speaker 3: I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're.
Speaker 1: That guy should be signed up by the Biden campaign.
Speaker 1: He defends everything that's lovely.
Speaker 4: We're talking also about that fin whale that showed up
Speaker 4: off the beach or on the beach.
Speaker 2: I should say torce dude.
Speaker 4: First of all, yesterday when I saw the whale, I
Speaker 4: scream it's.
Speaker 5: And everybody looked.
Speaker 2: At me like I was crazy.
Speaker 5: But that's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm good with that.
Speaker 1: But right now I'm at work and thank god none
Speaker 1: of my clients are home because y'all ask what day
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 2: What do we do? And what did I yell? We
Speaker 2: blow it? That's a good girl.
Speaker 4: That's what we do here, of course, that's what we do.
Speaker 2: It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: The swamp is horrible.
Speaker 2: The government doesn't work. Man, make it like a reality
Speaker 2: TV show, A bad noos always a pleasure to be
Speaker 2: anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joe, A town.
Speaker 4: Hall too clearly built on a swamp in so many ways,
Speaker 4: still a swamp.
Speaker 2: I have to watching my work. Nobody said, drained the swamp.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's so, you know, can I get
Speaker 1: some major alert sounds?
Speaker 4: Not what your dad booty?
Speaker 5: Showing me the booty?
Speaker 4: Give me the booty?
Speaker 2: Will these you could keep the booty music by show
Speaker 2: me the booty.
Speaker 1: We are taking our moodies and we are going to
Speaker 1: the d n C and we will be in Chicago.
Speaker 2: We missed the first one and we felt dumb stupid.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we missed the RNC, but we did,
Speaker 1: and we.
Speaker 2: Are not going to miss this circus.
Speaker 1: So we will be there in Chicago in what a
Speaker 1: week we're going next week?
Speaker 4: I don't ask me. I have been so discombobulated about
Speaker 4: what day is.
Speaker 2: I know, I know there's a lot going on. Well,
Speaker 2: the next Monday is the nineties, So yes, next Monday
Speaker 2: will be I.
Speaker 1: Mean, you're moving your daughter out of state, and then
Speaker 1: you're going to the convention, and then I'm going to Dallas.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot going on. Yeah, are you Okay, I'm.
Speaker 1: Are you living your emotional cycle already?
Speaker 4: No, here's the thing is, I've started packing already because
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to need,
Speaker 4: and there's some like some equipment stuff that we're going
Speaker 4: to underwear.
Speaker 1: Make sure to bring enough underwear for a two week vacation.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to Bryce Canyon or something like that.
Speaker 4: There are places that if I don't bring underpant I
Speaker 4: can buy underwhee.
Speaker 2: But what's the deal with us packing underwear? We always
Speaker 2: packed too much underwear, don't we? Who do you?
Speaker 1: Me and everybody else in the world. We overpack underwear
Speaker 1: when we go places.
Speaker 4: I'm a one, I'm a plus one. Count your days
Speaker 4: plus one.
Speaker 1: Shocking to me because I do remember a trip where
Speaker 1: you ran out and you had to turn him inside out.
Speaker 2: You always need extra Yeah, yes, Jacob and I.
Speaker 4: You're referring to a time I went to go to
Speaker 4: my parents' house.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where you were you ran out. No,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't take any you didn't take I mean it
Speaker 4: was whatever I was wearing at the time was what
Speaker 4: I was So it was it was a hot weekend anyway, nobody,
Speaker 4: what is that about? Speaking of the convention, We do
Speaker 4: now know that Kamala Harris is set to formally accept
Speaker 4: the nomination on the two on the twenty second, that's
Speaker 4: Thursday night, traditional set up usually, But we do have
Speaker 4: some more prominent figures that are set to speak at
Speaker 4: the convention. President Joe Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama and
Speaker 4: Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They have
Speaker 4: all been confirmed as speakers at the convention. Obama and
Speaker 4: the Clintons, they delivered speeches during the twenty twenty DNC. Obviously,
Speaker 4: it was held virtually in front of the part that
Speaker 4: looked like a drive in theater. There is a there
Speaker 4: is rumor that former President Jimmy Carter's grandson Jason, could
Speaker 4: be a speaker as a representative for his father. Will
Speaker 4: take place with just there's not confusion now, but when
Speaker 4: Biden stepped down from the ticket, there was confusion about
Speaker 4: what that what that convention was going to look like.
Speaker 4: So of course you will get Tim Walls. His big
Speaker 4: night is probably going to be Wednesday. Kamala Harris big
Speaker 4: night will be Thursday, and all of the speakers, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Once we get a.
Speaker 4: Little bit closer to it, we'll know more about what
Speaker 4: each night is going to.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has backed the elimination of taxes on tips
Speaker 1: for hospitality and service workers. This was a policy first
Speaker 1: suggested my former President Trump. It's an interesting position to take,
Speaker 1: considering we are so overtipping everywhere we go because of
Speaker 1: these stupid tablets. They spin them around often more often
Speaker 1: than not, they start at fifteen percent, eighteen percent, twenty percent,
Speaker 1: what have you? Sure you can alter it and go
Speaker 1: down to ten percent or what have you. I'm an
Speaker 1: overtipper anyway, so it's when you suggest to me to overtip,
Speaker 1: I'm going to probably do it. And I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are the same way, especially when
Speaker 1: you've got that dude looking back at you who just
Speaker 1: made your bagel, you know, and he sees you he's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I will tip the bagel people. You don't
Speaker 1: tip the bagel people.
Speaker 2: No, And I don't know if that's a bad thing
Speaker 2: for me, No, it's probably good. A whole lot of
Speaker 2: effort into it, you know.
Speaker 1: There's there's also the rule of if I'm not sitting
Speaker 1: down at a table and you're serving me I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tip you if I'm walking up to the
Speaker 1: counter ordering a bagel. That's your job. You're not going
Speaker 1: above and beyond. Yet I'm a dumbass, and I fall
Speaker 1: for it every time. I mean, did well, yes the tweet.
Speaker 2: Yes you are a dumbass. No it's not.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, yes, there's got to be
Speaker 4: a calculus in your own head about what exactly did
Speaker 4: that person do for me.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a sore subject right now for
Speaker 1: a lot of people that they feel like they're being
Speaker 1: taken advantage of with those tablets in the tipping, so
Speaker 1: to highlight it, I guess as part of one of
Speaker 1: the first things we're hearing about what your policies are
Speaker 1: going to look like.
Speaker 2: Is odd.
Speaker 4: I will say, if if any even in the stem
Speaker 4: situation circumstance where somebody is I'm standing there standing and
Speaker 4: they do something that's particularly good or nice, or their.
Speaker 2: Customer service tells me you have a right ass.
Speaker 4: Or something anything, your eyes are delightful, something like that,
Speaker 4: they'll get a tip, because I want to encourage that
Speaker 4: kind of customer service.
Speaker 2: But if you're just like I mean, you could barely
Speaker 2: be bothered to.
Speaker 4: Make eye contact or to finish your conversation with your
Speaker 4: coworkers before you pay attention to the customer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get a big middle finger.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I went and got a
Speaker 1: sandwich the other day, and I just have a problem
Speaker 1: when people are not efficient. It's like you're making a
Speaker 1: How long could this possibly take? I used to do this.
Speaker 1: I know it's seconds. It can be seconds. Do they
Speaker 1: feel like they're Sam and they're shooting the A s
Speaker 1: with their friends? And oh and this and one pickle here,
Speaker 1: and I'll pick a piece of lettuce here and put
Speaker 1: that on. Just lack a daisical and not customer focused.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, it's feeding time and they don't know it.
Speaker 4: Yes, I wanted to read just the present former president's
Speaker 4: tweet about Kamala Harris and the tips thing. He wrote,
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris, whose honeymoon period is ending and is starting
Speaker 4: to get hammered in the polls, just copied my no
Speaker 4: taxes on tips policy. The difference is she won't do it,
Speaker 4: she just wants it for political purposes. This was a
Speaker 4: Trump idea. She has no ideas. She can only steal
Speaker 4: from me. Remember, Kamala has proposed the largest tax increase
Speaker 4: in history. It won't happen. Make America great again. I
Speaker 4: assume this is going to come up tonight. Former President
Speaker 4: Trump is sitting down with Elon Musk for an interview
Speaker 4: on Twitter. And according to Elon Musk, there are no
Speaker 4: holds barred. There is nothing that is off limits. I
Speaker 4: don't think he would have agreed to do the interview
Speaker 4: if there was, but that the Trump campaign has said
Speaker 4: you can ask anything and listen. They've done this before.
Speaker 4: You remember, it wasn't that long ago when Ron de
Speaker 4: Santis sat down with Elon Musk to try to announce
Speaker 4: that he was going to run for president, and it
Speaker 4: was a technological nightmare and really was kind of hamstrung
Speaker 4: that DeSantis campaign early on. But we'll see if it
Speaker 4: happens today. It's supposed to be on former President Trump's
Speaker 4: Twitter account.
Speaker 1: Garian Shannon will continue with all of the rest, including
Speaker 1: JD Vance and drag.
Speaker 2: How about that? Well something nice for you Cary This Monday.
Speaker 4: Gary and Shannon will continue. Also, Connor wrote us a
Speaker 4: swamp Watch song. Really yeah, Okay. One of the big
Speaker 4: stories that we have followed internationally is that The Jerusalem
Speaker 4: Post is reporting, and so is Fox, that Iran could
Speaker 4: carry out an attack on Israel in the coming days.
Speaker 4: There is a summit on the hostage deal negotiations that's
Speaker 4: supposed to take place on Thursday. It would be very
Speaker 4: fitting if, in fact, they did some sort of an
Speaker 4: attack before then. Also, this is a big time Jewish holiday.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say it incorrectly. Tisha Bov marks the
Speaker 4: destruction of Temple and is a big deal. And they
Speaker 4: make a big deal out of anniversaries and commemorations like that,
Speaker 4: So that could potentially be something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did order a guided missile submarine
Speaker 4: to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham
Speaker 4: Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to steam forth quickly and
Speaker 4: get over there as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump set to sue the Justice Department for
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars in damages over the government's unprecedented
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two raid on mar A Lago lawyers, arguing
Speaker 1: it was done with clear intent to engage in political persecution. He,
Speaker 1: by the way, will sit down for an interview with
Speaker 1: Elon Musk on X tonight interview will be hosted live
Speaker 1: on Trump's official account at five pm hour time. Former
Speaker 1: president was given access to the account after it was
Speaker 1: suspended by the previous owners of Twitter over the January
Speaker 1: sixth Capitol Riot. Musca endorsed him following last month's assassination attempt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he has not been shy about his political activities,
Speaker 4: I suppose lately. I mean, he's been very vocal about
Speaker 4: politics and why he thinks it's important. I mean, he
Speaker 4: was upset with Gavin Newsom in California. That's why he
Speaker 4: moved or will be moving SpaceX out of town, why
Speaker 4: he moved to Tesla headquarters back to Texas. There is
Speaker 4: a lot going on in Elon Musk's head, and I'll
Speaker 4: be curious to see how he handles this interview. Is
Speaker 4: it just going to be a slobber fest where he's
Speaker 4: just all over everything that Donald Trump does, or is
Speaker 4: this an actual attempt to bring some sort of clarification
Speaker 4: to some of the things.
Speaker 2: Because I don't know.
Speaker 4: For some reason, it appears that reporters and anchors that
Speaker 4: interview Donald Trump can't pin him down on things now,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if it's if it would be
Speaker 4: different for somebody who's that's not in the business of it.
Speaker 1: You can't sit there and just correct him over and
Speaker 1: over again. Well that's not necessarily true. Well no, they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to do that or whatever. You you'd
Speaker 1: spend the entire interview doing that doing that, And that's
Speaker 1: why he's hard to pin down because there's just so
Speaker 1: much misinformation or just a stream of consciousness.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's also an article ap the Associated Press went
Speaker 4: out and looked at previous debates that Kamala Harris has
Speaker 4: been involved with and predicted basically what that would look
Speaker 4: like with her and him on stage.
Speaker 2: At the same time, Hey.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. For people who think that we
Speaker 1: are unfairly going after Kamala Harris for her lack of
Speaker 1: doing an interview. Yet, we could play her off the
Speaker 1: cuff remarks from interviews she has done. But we're not
Speaker 1: doing that out of fairness. We could be playing clips
Speaker 1: of her sounding like a word salad when she's off
Speaker 1: the cuff, because the teleprompter thing is one thing that's
Speaker 1: all scripted.
Speaker 2: When she's off the cuff.
Speaker 1: She hasn't made a toll hell of a lot of
Speaker 1: sense in outings we have seen. We could go back
Speaker 1: and play that and try and parse out what exactly
Speaker 1: her policies would be based on her off the cuff remarks.
Speaker 1: But that would be unfair, wouldn't it. So I think
Speaker 1: we should get at least some points for that. We're
Speaker 1: not doing that.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's there's no Listen to me, there's no winner
Speaker 4: in either one of these, in either're one of these candidates.
Speaker 4: It just this is not the right we as an
Speaker 4: American public, are not given the right choices going forward.
Speaker 1: No, it's because the RNC, the DNC they are they
Speaker 1: are their own industry, and they make it They work
Speaker 1: together to make it very impossible for any other party.
Speaker 2: To break through.
Speaker 1: They make it very impossible by putting in rules that
Speaker 1: are our forefathers were terrified of seeing come to light.
Speaker 1: Our forefathers, our forefathers talked about John Adams and his
Speaker 1: ultimate political evil would be partisanship. Two parties that are
Speaker 1: too big to ever be brought down.
Speaker 2: And it's just the machine.
Speaker 4: You like you said, you're never going to take it
Speaker 4: down because it's the machine. And then all they do
Speaker 4: is churn through your money to the tune of hundreds
Speaker 4: of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: And that's not America? Is it? Is it America? It's
Speaker 2: not my America? Or is it America?
Speaker 1: Copyright twenty twenty four, Your Jeopardy Question Sure name calling
Speaker 1: for two hundred dollars. This man adapted Charles Brabier's Night
Speaker 1: Write writing code into a writing system for the blind.
Speaker 2: What is Braille? What's his first name? Dorothy Lewis? Lewis
Speaker 2: I stay? Get credit for it? More Olympic stuff? Who
Speaker 2: was ray Gun?
Speaker 4: What was the what's the whole fiasco with this Australian
Speaker 4: breaker that made it all the way to the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got a funny message about that from an Australian.
Speaker 4: Oh great, that's what we need is Australians to Chicago.
Speaker 3: Yes, do you have any idea what's going to happen
Speaker 3: in Chicago next week?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Hey, were you?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go to Chicago.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a worone.
Speaker 1: We run from the news. Now, these colors don't run.
Speaker 1: Can I get that America stuff back?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sorry, if there's news happening, this show is going to
Speaker 1: go and cover that news.
Speaker 4: Are we going to stand on the outside and look
Speaker 4: through the windows and go, oh, I think that thing is.
Speaker 1: Standing outside the fire. Nay, Garth Brooks. We are going in.
Speaker 2: We're going to stay on the sidelines. Do we stay
Speaker 2: on the sidelines. We stay on the side. Why we're
Speaker 2: going to stand on the pool deck?
Speaker 1: We dive into the deep end. Yes, we for America.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes you got to go to that penalty box,
Speaker 4: but that means that you were in the arena in
Speaker 4: the first place.
Speaker 1: Yes, you fought the valiant fight for this country.
Speaker 2: Am I gonna let that horse ride itself?
Speaker 4: Hell?
Speaker 6: No, love the show listen every day. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 6: I'm an eighty year old woman. This is probably likely
Speaker 6: the last election I'll ever vote in.
Speaker 2: Say that.
Speaker 5: And when it comes down to it, whether it's Kamala
Speaker 5: or Trump, neither is qualified. Both are inept. Yes, and
Speaker 5: it's just a matter of choosing the lesser of two
Speaker 5: evils in your own mind and going from there.
Speaker 2: Don't we deserve better?
Speaker 1: We do deserve No, we don't. If you really want
Speaker 1: to get down to it, look at us. We walk
Speaker 1: around with these stupid computers in our hand.
Speaker 2: We don't talk to each other anymore. We play candy crush.
Speaker 1: We only talk to AI we are a dumb society
Speaker 1: that is distracted thousands of times a day by the
Speaker 1: smallest of distractions. The tension span is equal to that
Speaker 1: of a nat So yes, this is what we get.
Speaker 1: We're not paying enough attention to what matters.
Speaker 2: I was looking for something. No, I'm sorry, more positive
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 3: Hey, John from the riverside of John. Hey, I don't
Speaker 3: mean to complain, because complaining irritates me. But do you
Speaker 3: know those people that you try and avoid because they
Speaker 3: just drain all the good energy out of you because
Speaker 3: they're always negative. And what I feel like when I
Speaker 3: listen to you too anymore, all negativity. It's like those
Speaker 3: people you avoid because it's.
Speaker 2: Negative all the time. Wow, And sadly that's what's happening
Speaker 2: is I'm starting to avoid you too. No, trying to
Speaker 2: be positive.
Speaker 3: Not everything has to be political and negative.
Speaker 2: Yes, play them some music, Yes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, body body, boot booty, booty, possi booty, booty, booty,
Speaker 6: booty boy boody.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do that. Every time you're saying.
Speaker 4: He's saying, I know you like it, my booty. That's
Speaker 4: a positive thing. I know you like it, sure, and
Speaker 4: over and over and over again, he's re reiterating the point, right.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: I felt that guy's vibe when I read the story
Speaker 1: about the boy's ice cream stand in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Have you heard this? No, so a boy was ready.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a good story, though, it sounds like it is.
Speaker 1: It's got a boy, and it's got ice cream, and
Speaker 1: he's twelve. He started the ice cream stand and make
Speaker 1: some money this summer. I saw some girls with a
Speaker 1: lemonade stand around the corner from my house yesterday.
Speaker 2: I love that kind of I love it. Yeah, capitalism
Speaker 2: in the summertime, the.
Speaker 1: Boys family decided that some of the proceeds would go
Speaker 1: towards the boy's brother's hockey club, the Boston Bear Clubs.
Speaker 1: In fact, well, that ice cream stand has now been
Speaker 1: shut down because someone reported it the Norwood Health Department.
Speaker 2: That's not happy. Isn't that awful?
Speaker 1: A little boy trying to make some money for his
Speaker 1: brother's hockey club in the summer when people are dying
Speaker 1: to have some ice cream on a hot day.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds nice, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Ice cream sounds very sure, that's what we should be
Speaker 4: paying attention to.
Speaker 2: Well, the Olympics are over. The Paralympics start in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Americans Jordan childs, of course, in the controversy over her
Speaker 4: bronze medal, Steph Curried is amazing performance in the basketball game,
Speaker 4: the women's another gold in basketball, the final gold medal
Speaker 4: that was awarded. I mean, there's some great, great stories
Speaker 4: that came out of it. And then my favorite.
Speaker 1: Story, yeah, was the Australian breakdancer Reagan. Forget all the
Speaker 1: gold medals we won, tying China, the whole bit, running
Speaker 1: away with one hundred and forty or what have you
Speaker 1: when it comes to metals across the board. But the
Speaker 1: breakdancer Reygun goes viral. She failed to score a single point.
Speaker 1: And as one poster wrote, and this is brilliant, possessed
Speaker 1: by the spirit of Julia Stiles, because if there's one
Speaker 1: horrible dance performance in a movie, it is saved. The
Speaker 1: last dance at Juilliard that was atrocious, that should never
Speaker 1: have been presented. And the fact that the fictitional judgers
Speaker 1: and the movie thought that was great is belooney. It
Speaker 1: is great, a blooney And so was that breakdance routine.
Speaker 1: One of our friends says, my Australian girlfriend referred to
Speaker 1: it as Australia's darkest hour. She said that in a
Speaker 1: country of twenty five million people, many of whom are
Speaker 1: actually Indian and Chinese immigrants, the world was officially introduced
Speaker 1: to the typical native Australian woman, which she described as overconfident, underqualified, delusional.
Speaker 4: Well, I suppose the good news is she'll never do
Speaker 4: it again, at least not on a national international stage,
Speaker 4: because there is no plan to bring breaking back for
Speaker 4: the la Olympics in twenty eight She's a thirty six
Speaker 4: year old lecturer at Maccarie University, said that she has
Speaker 4: faced one of the most brutal social media backlashes of
Speaker 4: the entire games. This was a listen first. I was
Speaker 4: reading through this article from Fox Sports about the genesis
Speaker 4: of how she came to be the representative for Australia
Speaker 4: in this sport. There is so much and I mean,
Speaker 4: this is an I shouldn't say nothing because I'm sure
Speaker 4: that there are some people who are listening who are
Speaker 4: deeply involved in breaking. This is a sport that has
Speaker 4: such a small footprint in the world, but had a massive,
Speaker 4: massive ripple effect when it was announced in twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: that it was going to be part of the Paris Olympics,
Speaker 4: to the point whar that in Australia it was completely disorganized.
Speaker 4: When in twenty nineteen it was announced that it was
Speaker 4: going to be there, there was no this is going
Speaker 4: to blow you away. Australia had no recognized national federation
Speaker 4: of break dancing in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: So she said, why don't we put it together? And
Speaker 2: that's the best she got. You would have done a
Speaker 2: better job. They did.
Speaker 4: Hold October of last year, they did a breaking championship
Speaker 4: at Sydney Town Hall, fifty two competitors, thirty seven be
Speaker 4: boys and fifteen be girls, and that she took gold
Speaker 4: in the be girls category.
Speaker 2: I don't know how, I don't know. She did look
Speaker 2: oddly confident.
Speaker 1: Yes, like if I put together that performance, I would
Speaker 1: not have that.
Speaker 4: Bravado she You would have been smiling out of I
Speaker 4: would be crying embarrassment.
Speaker 2: Yes, not smile out of confidence. I would like be
Speaker 2: hitting myself like this.
Speaker 4: Obviously, the Olympics coming to la in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4: The eighty four Olympics here in la is widely considered
Speaker 4: one of the most financially successful Summer Games programs that
Speaker 4: we've ever had. Part of the reason why is we
Speaker 4: didn't have to build a bunch of new stuff for
Speaker 4: the eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 2: We had it in place.
Speaker 4: The question is whether we're going to be able to
Speaker 4: replicate that for twenty twenty eight. Former Mayor Eric Garcetti
Speaker 4: said he expects the city would turn about a billion
Speaker 4: dollars in profit in the twenty twenty eight Olympics. There
Speaker 4: was a question posed on the Internet of which sports
Speaker 4: that are currently in the Olympics would you want to
Speaker 4: get rid of? And it was an interesting look at
Speaker 4: kind of the way people from different countries look at
Speaker 4: some of the sports that we watch on a regular basis.
Speaker 4: They said race walking was the number one thing they
Speaker 4: wanted to get rid of in the Olympics because it
Speaker 4: looks really weird. It's this, yeah, because you have to
Speaker 4: have one foot on the ground at all times, so
Speaker 4: you do that as fast as you can.
Speaker 1: I come from a long line of women who do this,
Speaker 1: especially like when they're shopping, just like fast walkers.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of arm swinging fast walkers.
Speaker 4: Another thought was the modern steeple chase needed to be
Speaker 4: replaced with its original version. The steeple chase is the
Speaker 4: one where they're running around the track. I don't know
Speaker 4: how long, it's five thousand meters or whatever it is,
Speaker 4: and then they jump over different they jump over different
Speaker 4: height hurdles basically, and then one of them is a
Speaker 4: water jump where they landed the original steeplechase.
Speaker 2: Tigers.
Speaker 4: Well, the original steeplechase you did out in the woods,
Speaker 4: I mean naked. Well, there's that, I mean, but that
Speaker 4: would have been very early on. But you would do
Speaker 4: it in rivers, creeks, hedges that you'd have to jump over.
Speaker 4: I don't think you want to jump over a hedge
Speaker 4: with your doodlely bits hanging. You don't want to catch
Speaker 4: those on a branch.
Speaker 2: Well, they clear the hurdles while they clear the hedge.
Speaker 4: Men's football, the soccer competition, they said that should be
Speaker 4: done with, done away with because of the rules about
Speaker 4: who can play. FIFA apparently has very strict rules about
Speaker 4: professionals playing in in the Olympic Games, dressage, anything involving
Speaker 4: horses or equestrian events because of the potential to injure
Speaker 4: the horses.
Speaker 1: The equestrian events, remember we learned last week were the
Speaker 1: only ones where you weren't nude Originally, if there was
Speaker 1: a horse, you had pants on.
Speaker 2: That's how good.
Speaker 4: Actually, that's probably a pretty good rule for all of life. Sure,
Speaker 4: if there is a horse, keep your pants on. Others
Speaker 4: called out boxing because of the scoring system that's involved.
Speaker 2: Golf is boring.
Speaker 4: Surfing has no place because there's too much natural variance
Speaker 4: in the waves.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: And I had a conversation with a friend who said,
Speaker 4: if you can't measure it objectively, then how could you
Speaker 4: possibly ever have an actual competition between two people.
Speaker 2: So I looked up old sports that have been.
Speaker 4: X made from the old Olympics, and there's a bunch
Speaker 4: of variations on the things that we see anyway, Like
Speaker 4: the sixty meter dash was part of the Olympics for
Speaker 4: a couple of years. What about eighty meter hurdles? What
Speaker 4: about the tug of war? Tug of War was a
Speaker 4: good one. They did walking events for women, especially stone throws.
Speaker 2: What about motor boating that was in there.
Speaker 4: I saw that and that's what I was laughing at
Speaker 4: during the break. I'm twelve, but I don't know what
Speaker 4: it actually involved. Was it racing a motor boat?
Speaker 2: You don't know what motor boating is.
Speaker 4: Well, I just I just want to make sure I'm
Speaker 4: thinking of the right thing. They used to do the
Speaker 4: rope climb. You did rope climb in junior high They
Speaker 4: used to do that as part of the gymnastics events
Speaker 4: in the Olympics. They also did something called plunge for distance. Now,
Speaker 4: this is what I was talking about the other day.
Speaker 4: I was trying to describe this. Stand on the side
Speaker 4: of the pool. By the way, every nine year old
Speaker 4: boy has done this. Stand by the side of the pool,
Speaker 4: dive in, and you either your head breaks the top
Speaker 4: of the water or you're underwater for a minute, whichever happens. First,
Speaker 4: they measure how far you've traveled. So you dive in,
Speaker 4: you get one sweep with your arms, and then you
Speaker 4: have to be motionless for a minute or until your
Speaker 4: head breaks the surface of the water, and they measure
Speaker 4: that for distance. That's plunge for distance.
Speaker 2: That's what they do. That's what they had.
Speaker 4: Underwater swimming was part of it. They've had a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different shooting teams. They did at one time
Speaker 4: a team race, which was everybody on your team, like
Speaker 4: a four person relay for example, you're all running a race,
Speaker 4: you do it at the same time, and then you
Speaker 4: get a combined score based on how everybody in your
Speaker 4: team finishes.
Speaker 2: You get points.
Speaker 4: Basically basque polota, baseball, croquet, field, handball. They used to
Speaker 4: do figure skating in the Summer Olympics. Golf, of course,
Speaker 4: has come back, karate, lacrosse. I'm kind of surprised that
Speaker 4: lacrosse and cricket aren't involved in current modern summer elne.
Speaker 2: And ask polota? Is that just handball?
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly, known as the fastest sport in
Speaker 4: the world. Only two teams compete. Only one match was
Speaker 4: played on that in that Olympics back at nineteen hundred.
Speaker 4: I think it's like handball against a wall kind of handball,
Speaker 4: isn't that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like as.
Speaker 4: Opposed to Olympic handball, which is like soccer, but you're
Speaker 4: using your hands the whole time. What happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's too many variations of ballgames.
Speaker 4: And then motor boating was in nineteen oh eight. Technically
Speaker 4: it was called powerboating. Not as much fun as I
Speaker 4: was saying motor boating. What do you think would happen?
Speaker 4: Never mind, I'm not gonna answer whatever was about to
Speaker 4: come out of your mouth. Trending stories, a check in
Speaker 4: on World War III, A check in on Jason Nathanson
Speaker 4: had a big pickleball tournament over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Did he really?
Speaker 4: Oh he didn't, but there was one on TV and
Speaker 4: then a quick mixtape Monday before we round off the show.
Speaker 2: My God, it's noon.
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