Leila: Welcome. We're a weekly show. We sometimes talk about
facts. We sometimes release on Friday.
David: They don't even know what the show is called. Oh, we're
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David: David luck. They didn't click on it, or they don't have
our up on the screen right now. Welcome to Fun back Friday. Like
she said, we talk about facts, and they're fun. We try not to
have depressing facts, but sometimes we do
Leila: sometimes. But it's Friday, it's Friday. I'm David,
I'm Leila. Yep.
Unknown: All right, this
David: week anyway, yep. So what are we talking about this week?
Leila? Oh,
Leila: the Olympics. We're not talking about Leila.
David: No, what's your favorite Olympics?
Leila: I don't know. I've never seen him. Never been in one,
David: never been in one. I was, I was gonna go this year, like I
was invited. They were like, hey, you need to come compete.
And I was like, no, no, I got, I got, like, I gotta, like, Moe
and stuff. Yeah,
Leila: that's what I would say, too. I mean, like, I like,
David: so, yeah, we were talking about Olympics. Talking about
the Olympics here in just a minute, but first we're going to
talk about what Leila did this week. What?
Leila: Oh, I went to go compete in my own little Olympics of
sewing,
David: cosplay, cosplay Olympics. Yeah, I did.
Leila: I make costumes based off of characters sometimes, and I
compete in contests against people for craftsmanship,
reasons, for fun. I didn't win. I didn't expect to win. She was
robbed. I was not robbed.
David: Okay, okay, and this is my opinion on it. Okay? There
was a lot. There's different categories for for those who
haven't been to a cosplay competition, there's novice,
journeyman and master, okay? And I think, um, I think people may
think that they're not good enough to be in the journeyman
OF the Master. Okay,
Leila: so here, okay, go ahead. When you're entering a costume
contest, you can enter either in novice, journeyman or master.
For certain contests, it'll be like, if you've only won like
one award, you have to enter novice or stuff like that. But
this costume contest that I enter in, you can pick at the
beginning and if you get promoted. So if you like win in
the novice category, you can enter in journeyman or master.
You cannot. You can no longer be a novice. And same for like, if
you win a journeyman award or a master's award, once you win a
master's award or Best in Show, you are stuck in the master's
category. You cannot enter ever novice or journeyman.
David: So there's a lot of people join the novice, because
that's just for this costume contest, right, right, right.
Um, I'm sure they're all you can do, uh,
Leila: down competing. I forgot what it was called, but you can
basically, like, go down and just tell them you're going down
a level if you want to in some classroom contest, yes, but
David: they don't let you in this one. Yeah. So they had like
100 novice and like 10 journey men and like four master and
looking at the quality of Leila outfit. And this isn't just me
being a dad. I'm very good at criticizing and being subjective
when it comes to things,
Leila: yeah, especially when I want him to
David: be Yeah. She's like, I need your honest opinion. She
should have joined journeyman. Her her costume was on the level
of the people in journeyman and maybe, maybe not master, but
yeah, definitely. And if she had joined journeyman, I'm I'm not
gonna say she would have won, but it was Yeah. So she was up
against a lot of people, but she should have joined journeyman.
But anyway, I'm very proud of her either way. Okay, I
Leila: just want to talk about the judges for a second. Okay,
so when we got there, you usually have to register at
like, the cosplay info desk. You have to say, Hey, I'm here. Make
sure you put my name on the list of people that are going out on
stage tonight. And when I got there, I checked in, and I
didn't expect my pre judging time to be until my pre judging
time. So we got to the table at what like 1010, right? And my
prejudging time was 1130 to 12. So I was just like, Okay, I'll
just wait around until 1130 once I get there, look at the art,
talk to some comic book people or whatever. Yeah, but no, they
were just like, Okay, we'll put you on the list. You're two
after the people on the wall over there. If you go stand on
the wall, you'll be in pre judging in a few minutes.
David: And I'm like, what? Yep, it was like, three minutes
later. They went three minutes
Leila: later. So I had to, like, scramble to get my build book
out and think about what I need to say. It's not like I wasn't
prepared. But
David: and she walked in, and they last laughed her out of the
room, yeah, why are you even here? I know,
Leila: right, but I walked in, there was a table right in front
of the door to walk in, and that was kind of all right. Forget
the number you were given for your contestant number. This is
your number now your number three. Me, I was number three in
line of the whole costume contest, which apparently was
four, because I think they miscounted, yeah, somehow, but,
or they started
David: with zero, like programmers might have, I don't
know.
Leila: I think the first one was supposed to be a group, but they
ended up splitting them up. Walked in, got my contestant
number, I took a picture with the photographer, photographer,
and then I went over to the judges table, and we had three
judges, and I handed them my build book before I got the
photo. Who were they? Give them a shout out. Oh heartless
Aquarius woe. Chris woe and Astro void cosplay,
David: bunch of prominent cosplayers like YouTube channels
and ticky talks and stuff like that.
Leila: Yeah. And when I was getting my photo taken, I had my
build book in my hand. So I was like, Oh crap, I need to put
some. Put this somewhere. So I gave it to the judges, and they
were like, Oh my gosh, a novice with a build book. They were
like, so surprised, and I was so happy,
David: yeah, Leila had to learn how to use Word.
Leila: I hate words so much, but it's so useful. It's so good to
use. It's so much better than anything else.
David: You move one thing and the entire thing's messed up,
yeah, just a bunch
Leila: of trial and error. And I do it like once a year, so I
always forget how to use it, right?
David: And they change stuff too, not, not a lot, but so
yeah, then then we, after that was over, we were free for the
rest of the day, so we just palled around Galaxy
Leila: heart heartless Aquarius wanted to know how I did my wig,
because I did like shading on this wig, and she thought I used
an airbrush and I used eyeshadow.
David: Ain't nobody got money for an airbrush. I'm a novice
time
Leila: and money for airbrush.
David: I would be I'd like having our airbrush. That'd be
awesome for our 3d prints and stuff. But yeah. And then we
just held around Galaxy con for a while and saw some
celebrities. We saw Danny Trejo, yeah, we just saw Danny Trejo
sitting there. Yeah. He's like, hey, talking to folks and stuff.
And then that's a real person I saw. We saw lots of celebrities.
Can pop on a Galaxy con and check out who the celebrities
were, and we just, you know, I
Leila: didn't see Matthew Leila. Didn't get to see Matthew
Lillard. One person I went for.
David: I didn't get to see Polly shore. He wasn't at his table. I
didn't know what his calendar, you know? They didn't have,
like, a schedule up. So I couldn't, like, wait around all
day, you know, we had, I
Leila: did go to the Q A with Christina and meloli, though,
right? Christina for miraculous,
David: miraculous, and she got up, I've
Leila: been a long time fan, she
David: asked the question I did Q A because I was debating doing
Leila: it, because I wanted to, like, let other people ask their
questions too. But I was like, No, I'm gonna go.
David: It was controversial, apparently.
Leila: So there's the miraculous show, and there's a couple of
movies and specials, but the the main movie, which is a full
different timeline, I think,
David: yeah, is it the full length feature movie? It doesn't
have the same continuity as the show, yeah,
Leila: the awakening movie. Now, in this movie, it's a musical,
which I don't really have that big of a problem with. But when
they started singing, it was not Christina, Christina V and
Bryson, cappen Brooke, very different voices, very different
voices. So I got up to the mic and was like, So Christina, we
know that you're a singer. You have a beautiful voice. Why
weren't you singing in the awakening movie? And Christina
was like, You need to keep asking those questions, because
I want to do what in the second
David: movie. She looked around. She looked around nervous, like
she didn't want to answer the question. So I'm guessing her
producers, or the the show producers, and yeah, she wanted
to do it. But there was
Leila: Rachel and Christina were both very like, happy that I
asked this question, yeah.
David: So she, you know, anyway, it was, it was fun. We had a
good time at galaxy. We do have some Christina.
Leila: We also complimented my costume. That was, that was a
highlight. Leila got
David: lots of compliments on her costume, which she deserved.
Her head, her head got a little big. It was kind of hard walking
around with her. Oh my gosh. Her hoop skirt was like, we'll put
some pictures in the chapters. If you are using a podcasting,
2.0 app that supports chapter images, we'll put some of the
costume pictures in the in the chapters. Yeah, I'll send those
over, and dread can get them loaded up for us. Thank you. Dr,
so yeah, we're gonna be we have some notes for Galaxy con, the
the people that run it, but well, we'll get those organized,
because there's some changes need to be made for that thing.
It was very there was some unpleasantness, but, but we had
a good time, all in all. And we got to eat some excellent Greek
food from a food truck, whatever
Leila: that food truck is, I want you well, they have
yourself a pat on back, yeah. They have a restaurant.
David: It's just a Greek place in Raleigh. Oh, really we need
Yeah. So we need to figure out where the actual restaurant is.
Go visit them, absolutely, but, yeah, we had a good time. But
now we're gonna talk about the Olympics, because the Olympics
is happening. This one's a little crazy so far, and
granted, only the crazy stuff makes it go viral. So you know,
I've enjoyed watching a few C. From the women's rugby teams.
There's some been some really cool plays. And then what was
the Oh, the shooting. The shooting has gone very viral
with the different styles of the of the pistol shooters. And I'm
Leila: not very in the loop, because I have not been
following along, right, right? Because I really don't care. So
David: I was like, What do you know about the Olympics? And
she's like,
Unknown: they got sports I know
David: Logan Paul is getting sued by the Olympics, and we
talked about that. I was like, well, let's talk about the
Olympics then, because
Leila: it's an interesting tradition. I don't even know
what the torch is, so you're gonna have to explain that to
me. Okay, so
David: the the torch,
Unknown: whoa, what?
David: What is happening? Oh, it was an Alexis ad just popped up
on this I'm gonna mute. Site scared me. Apparently I rolled
over. I rolled the mouse over an ad, and it started playing.
Anyway,
Leila: my heart skip a beat.
David: This is from Atlas Obscura. Is all the torch stuff.
I'm gonna be talking about the the torch. They light the torch
in a host city, okay? And somebody runs, it's just a city
that says, hey, we're gonna light the torch here. Oh, and
it's always really, really far away from where the Olympics are
going to be held. And they have somebody run holding the Olympic
torch, and they pass off the torch to the next person. Oh,
and they pass, it's called passing the torch. I'm sure
you've heard passing the torch before. And they pass the torch
and pass the torch and pass the torch until they reach the
actual opening ceremony of the Olympics, and then they light
the huge torch at the Olympics, which stays lit up the whole
time. And it's just an old, old tradition that they've always
done right well through the years, I'm going into some of my
I started digging into this a little bit. ASOS obscura site
has some really good stories. So the flame itself tradition, it
dates all the way back to ancient times, but the torch
didn't show up until the 1936 Berlin games, better known as
the Nazi Olympics. All right, the whole, this is from still
from Atlas Obscura. This is where I'm getting hot torch
stuff. From the whole shebang lighting ceremony to the
international relay, and the final lighting of the Cauldron
is carefully designed by the Nazis, oh, meant to drum up
publicity for the games, but also draw connection between
ancient Greece and the Third Reich, taking inspiration from
this is a quote from olympic.org taking inspiration from ancient
ways the organizing committee of the Berlin games had initially
planned to convey The Flame by means of bundle of smoke, slow
burning fennel stocks instead, the end quote. Instead, the
first torches were made by Krupp, a steel company that
would later outfit the German army with cannons and artillery
with a workforce that included Jewish slaves. As a new
tradition, played out even international commenters brought
into the implied message, he's a fair young man in white shorts,
said the BBC as one Aryan athlete ran the torch to the
stadium. He's beautifully made. So that was the beginning of the
passing of the torches. So since the Nazis started this
tradition, there were, there have been a lot of protesters.
Because, you know, why are we doing this? The Nazis came up
with it, right? Yeah, people, there's also, there's been
protesters trying to extinguish the flame. But the best torch
prank that I read was in Australia in 1956 Okay, en route
to the Olympic Stadium in Melbourne, the torch was run
through Sydney by a cross country champ who was meant to
pass it off to the city's mayor Pat hills. Just before the
appointed hour, an unusually sweaty man in unusually fancy
clothes came trotting up to the town hall steps with the torch
and passed it off to hills as the crowd applauded, the man
retreated. Hills noticed that his hand was surprisingly
sticky. Oh, the torch, it turns out, was not the torch. It was
plum pudding. Can nailed to a chair leg. Oh my god, spray
painted silver and fueled with a caroling a kerosene soaked pair
of underwear. Oh
Leila: my gosh.
David: So this mayor Hills guy, he's waiting for the torch, and
he's like, Oh, there he is. I see him because he sees this
dude running with the torch. And he's like, passing all. Of buddy
PAB, it's my turn. This is my moment, and he grabs a chair leg
with a pudding can nail to the top of it with burning
underwear.
Leila: Oh, my God. Oh, I thought that was hilarious. It sounds
hilarious.
David: His name was the guy's name was Barry Larkin. He was a
veterinary student at Sydney University. A different student,
dressed more appropriate, appropriately, had been meant to
deliver the torch, but he got too nervous and passed it off to
Larkin. Larkin yelling, run you. And then there's an expletive
there. Larkin and his friends escaped the scene just before
the real torch arrived, and pandemonium broke out. Most of
the students were a bit upset about the way the torch was
rearing guarded as a bit of a god. And yeah, it's a big deal
when the torch passes. And there's even a king of the hill
episode about it. Oh, really, yeah, I can't remember who was
running it, or whatever. Well, the torch ends up getting like
going through, going through Arland, Texas, you know, yeah,
and Dale lights a cigarette with the torch.
Leila: Oh my gosh.
David: As he's running past, he runs along and lights a
cigarette. Anyway, later on, the torch goes out, somehow gets
blown out by Hank hill while he's running it, and he he
relights it and then continues running. But he knows that
that's not the real flame. Yeah, right. He's like, and he's very
bothering. You know, Hank's a good man. He doesn't want to do
the wrong thing or deceive people, so he right before he's
passing off the flame to the next runner, he stops and puts
the torch out. Everybody's mad at him. Why did you do that? Why
did you do that? And he starts to explain what's wrong. Then he
realizes that Dale always lights his next cigarette with his
previous cigarette, so the flame is technically still alive in
Dale's current cigarette. So they relight the torch with Dale
cigarette. Anyway, I love that, that whole, that whole
situation, and then the other, one of the other cool ones that
I found with the torch. In 1976 they transferred the torch via
radio waves and lasers. What they they wanted to do something
new and, you know, high tech. So the flame was placed in a
special electric altar which would convey, convey it through
echo waves and via satellite to light up a torch in Ottawa
seconds later.
Leila: So, how did they, how do they start the the torch, oh,
they
David: light it with a match or a lighter. Seems legit. It's
about the running of the flame from it's always across multiple
countries, sometimes multiple continents, sometimes out into
space and back. Yeah. So like this one, they they, when the
they light this one cool device with the torch, and it
transferred the light and heat into a radio signal, sent the
radio signal through satellites from one part of the country to
the Other. Let's see organize it. First Olympic record broken.
It usually took, yeah, anyway, they they sent the flame via
radio signals up into space to the satellites. The satellites
bounced it back down to hit a device that would activate a
laser to light the next torch. So, yeah, I thought that was
neat. I was like, that's that's kind of neat. A lot of people
were upset about it. They said it doesn't convey the tradition.
The tradition is like, you know, technology is neat and all, but
the Olympics should be about human achievement, human
athleticism and all that. And they were upset because they
were like, Oh, you're using lasers to and radio signals,
instead of people running some, you know, people gonna get
upset, people gonna praise things. And, you know, be be
upset by things. Yeah, they've done underwater torches that
used special flares that burn at high pressures. And like I said,
2014 they sent the torch to the United or International Space
Station, and they passed it all around and then sent it back
down. Of course, it wasn't lit there, because, you know, space
station and fire not good. They actually even took the torch out
into space on a spacewalk and passed it in the vacuum of
space. And, you know, it wouldn't, it wouldn't combust
down there, but anywho, that's the torch made by the Nazis.
Leila: They also have like a backup flame
David: if it goes out. Oh, yeah. And that's like the whole, the
whole hand kill thing was, it was all for a gag, you know?
But, um, yeah, they, they. When they light the main torch, they,
you know, they keep it going different ways. Make sure it
doesn't go out because of the symbology, some symbology,
symbolism, symbology.
Leila: So the six colors of the Olympic flag were blue, yellow,
black, green, red, and the white background were chosen because
every nation's flag contains at least one of them.
David: All right. All
Leila: right, all right. I need to make a nation. A nation.
Yeah, I need to make a nation that has none of those. Yeah,
it's like purple, no, with some orange.
David: And what's the default color when you when you have a
PNG file like that, that pink, that like, bright pink, you know
I'm talking about when there's no color information it, it
displays that anyway. Oh, maybe it doesn't do it as much
anymore. Now, does that grid? No, we
Leila: need to make a cyan with, like, oh my gosh, Comic Sans on
it. The destination, Comic
David: Sans and Papyrus. Comic Sans and Papyrus alternating,
alternating with alternating capitalizations. And it's got to
have an emoji on it. Yes, magenta. All right, we gotta
make this flag. Maybe I'll get AI to try and create one.
Leila: What is our nation going to be called?
David: Oh, wow. Let's make it null, yeah. LL that way, like
some computer languages, it'll mess up when you're trying to
put that in as a Yeah, null information.
Leila: That's funny. That's a change how they code stuff.
David: So do you know when the Olympics started? Do you got
anything about that? I
Leila: had something about it. First Olympic Games took place
between the eighth century BC and Olympia, Greece. They were
held every four years for 12 centuries. Then in the fourth
century, ad all pagan festivals were banned by Emperor
theodosis, the first and the Olympics were no more. That's
what mine says.
David: Yep. However, however, the athletic tradition was
resurrected 1500 years later. Whoa, the first modern Olympics
in 1896
Leila: Wow. Now I think this is all false news. Which one?
Because we all know, oh, yeah, that it that the Olympics were
made in 1978 by Joseph Olympics. What? What?
David: How did he in them?
Leila: He invented them. He was like, he got his friends
together, right, right? They were just hanging out. Yeah. He
was just hanging out with his friends in his, uh, in his mom's
basement. And he was like, Hey guys, I can do some really good
underwater gymnastics. You can arch, really well. You can, you
can, you can. What do you call it? Yeah, archery
David: and arch, really. I was like, What are you
Leila: talking you can, my other buddy, he can, like, jump pretty
high. Let's make this a thing.
David: Yeah, you're right.
Leila: So he, he got all those friends together, and he went to
like a big old field, and his one friend did a couple of
flips, but he didn't know how to flip yet, because Joseph flip
hadn't created it yet.
David: That was a week later. That
Leila: was a week later. So he just kind of just stood in the
air.
David: Was totally a flip. So is that when the gold medals and
stuff were created, yeah,
Leila: by Joseph gold medal. Joseph gold medal was actually
with Joseph Olympic Oh, in the basement, yeah. Okay. He
couldn't do any sports because Joseph sports didn't teach him
yet,
David: but he was real good at inventing different metals out
of different metals. Yeah, he
Leila: kind of went into the ground. And he just kind
David: of like the longest Joseph, he
Leila: made all the rocks banging together, and he made,
he somehow made gold and his his brother, Joseph, silver, his
sister.
David: They have different last names.
Leila: Yes, his sister, Josefina, bronze. Oh, we've
David: got a Josephine, yeah, oh, things are getting crazy.
Now.
Leila: They figured out how to make medals because they their
mom. So,
David: okay, back to the real life. So in ancient Greece, they
played naked, yeah, that was their thing back then. And the
games lasted between five and six months. Six months, yeah,
Leila: five years, last year, a couple
David: weeks, yeah. So every four years, couple of weeks.
Let's see my I like the Summer Games better than the Winter
Games. There's more. I like the gymnastics. Like watch it
because it's just crazy. No,
Leila: but I kind of like the winter better because of all the
ice skating. Ice Skating is okay.
David: I prefer gymnastics curling. Curling is fun to watch
those guys with little brooms. Yeah. I.
Leila: I'm throwing so fun to watch. I used to not know what's
going on. I still don't know what's going on. It's just like
sweeping,
David: right? Well, you sweep to make the ice Nice. Well, you can
steer it by sweeping, because the ice having a different
surface, you can steer the what's it called the curl, the
curl, the stone thingy. You can I think we did a whole thing on
curling, like 130 episodes ago. But yeah, as they sweep, they're
changing the consistency of the surface of the ice so it will
steer left or right as it goes.
Leila: I'm asking AI, what the thing in Curling is called. It's
called the stone,
David: or rock is called the stone, yeah, the stone, yeah,
what? It's a, it's a big deal up in like Canada, and then stop a
big deal. Cool, though. So there is a, there's an actor in the
20s who was an Olympian, Johnny woo Weiss. He was an athlete
turned actor who played Tarzan in 12 different movies. Wow. He
won five gold medals. Yeah, excellent. I'll tell you
something really interesting. Leila, if you go look it up, um,
you can find video clips from like, the 50s or whatever, of
the Olympics. And, oh my gosh, athletes have come a long way,
have they? Yes, you watch the gymnastic stuff from like, the
the olden days, like the first time they had like video and
they recorded this stuff, and you're like, the person who won
the gold medal does, like one flip with a little twist off of
the, like, the vaulting thing. And now they do, like, a
quadruple back flip, four twists and, like, make a cup of coffee
while they're in the air, you know. And they get, they get
silver, like, oh my gosh, but yeah, it definitely we've, we've
gotten new techniques been learned, how to work muscles
better, all that since then, a lot of science and stuff has
gone into it. So they women weren't allowed to compete in
the first one, but the second one, they were like, yeah, let's
get some women in here. Let them. Let them do their thing.
Let's see. 24 to 92 Winter and Summer Olympics took place in
the same year. Now they separate the cycles. I remember when that
happened. I remember when they changed it back in, like, not in
the early 90s. They were like, You know what? Let's split it up
so that way, you know, we got, we got the summer every two
years, and then you have a summer, and then you wait two
years, and then there's winter, and way two years, and then
there's a summer, yeah, so they're still four years apart,
but technically staggered, and that's probably a money thing,
probably has to do. So this
Leila: year it's in France, right? Yes, it's in Paris.
David: They had, they had an issue in the current Olympics.
You can probably find the video. It's kind of going around. They
are did some swimming in the river there. I can't remember
the name of the river, but it was very polluted, and some of
the Olympians got very ill in the water. So it's pretty bad.
So what there's this tradition where the Olympians will bite
the medal, yeah. And this, this site, champions dash
speakers.co.uk, has a explanation of what's going on.
Says, ever seen an Olympian biting their medal during award
ceremony, and wonder what they're doing. Well, it harks
back to past ages where merchants would check a coin if
a coin was indeed precious metals that they required and
not a lead forgery. A lead coin would have teeth marks and a
gold coin would not. Olympic medals are not made of gold, but
only finished with gold. They're mostly made of silver in this
day and age, in this wow. I said that weird. In this day and age.
Last time they were entirely made of gold was the 1904,
Olympic Games. So, yeah, there's a bunch of old cartoons and
stuff where, like, somebody would toss somebody a coin, and
they'd bite it, you know? And that was, I learned about that a
long time ago. So they're doing the ion making sure it's real.
So there's
Leila: only, like, a couple places where the Olympics take
place. I didn't know this. What do you mean? Like, I looked it
up in the AI, so obviously it's true. And it's like, there's not
that many places that it's taken place. Well, Greece, Athens,
Greece, Paris, France has done like, three times. Uh huh.
London has done three times. Los Angeles, three so, like,
David: yeah, so repeats. The way it works is the city has to be
big enough, or the place has to be big enough to support the
Olympics happening. Yeah, they have. To have the money to build
an Olympic stadium with all of the different tracks and pools
and everything needed, and they have to have enough hotels, and,
you know, lodging for everybody. And what they do is they bid on
it, right? So they go to the Olympic Committee and they have,
like, Paris will be like, Yeah, well, we'll, we'll do this, you
know, this, put this much money into it, we'll do all this. And
then London's like, no, we'll do that. You know, they, they argue
over who's going to get to host the Games? Because hosting the
Games is a big deal. Because think of all of the athletes,
athletes, families, coaches, all of the workers that come in
from, from, you know, out of the country, tourists, people who
want to go watch the games. All of that money is coming into the
city. So it's a lot of money comes in. I did read recently
that the last couple Olympics have actually lost money for the
host cities. Wow, like after, even with all of the money that
came in from from everything, there's still the having to
build the specialized section of your city and set everything up
is costing more than it's bringing in. So, right? So in
the ancient Olympics, going back to the ancient Olympics, there
was just a gold medal,
Leila: so just a first place, Yep, that
David: was just like, you won. You're the only one who won.
Every single other person is is a loser. That's what they were
saying. But then, you know, the more modern games are like,
let's let's do like a first and second play. Because sometimes
it's like a millisecond, yeah, difference, like half a point
different. It's like, come on, I should get something, you know,
yeah. So yeah, that I kind of like that there's, there's
second, third prize. Speaking of prizes, this is one of the
things that got my goat about the cosplay competition.
Leila: Yeah, there was a couple of things, like 1000
David: people in that room watching this thing. Yeah, it
was a massive crowd. It's billed as the main event of galaxy. The
main event, right? They're like, This is it? This is the biggest
thing on Saturday night. It's live, prime time, eight o'clock,
yeah. And the prizes for winning are, like, 75 books, yeah.
Leila: Okay, so the judges let me look at the actual website,
because I don't want to get anything wrong here, because I
want to be mad and be
David: right at same time, but I want to be mad, I'll make sure
at least I'm spitting the right information exactly. But I was
just like, wow, $75 that. Like, there are people who come to
this specifically, just for the cosplay competition. That's
their main reason for going. It's the main draw. 1000s of
people attend this thing. There was not, like they had to not
let people in, yeah? Because there was not enough chairs,
yeah. Galaxy gone
Leila: costume competition. There was people lined up on the
walls. There was everything, um, Best in Show gets $1,000 cash
prize, custom metal and award trophy. And the award trophy is
like a belt. It's really cool. It's like a one of the wrestling
belts, right? But it's really neat. The con chair spot
spotlight is $400 cash prize and award trophy. This is the second
biggest award of the entire thing, right? It's not even
based on craftsmanship. Oh no, it's just this one. It's just
that runs the costume, or the whole con comes in and is like,
Oh, I liked your costume, yeah?
David: And that's fine. That's his convention. It is what he
wants to do.
Leila: All the other judges awards give like 75 bucks, and
they see how you make your house, yeah? And it's,
David: I mean, Leila doesn't do it for, I don't do it, yeah?
When she does it, she loves and
Leila: loves to meet other people that share the same love
of crafting as me, right? And there's
David: a lot of, a lot of stuff involved in doing this, but I
was just like, wow, 75 bucks for, like, they're, they're
maybe outputting maybe $2,000 in prizes, yeah, across everybody.
And I'm like, this is, like, I don't know. And you know, it's
not mike on, I'm not running it. But like, when you've got a big
event like that, and the news shows up for it, yeah, there was
a, there was a news guy backstage, yeah, there's a
newspaper from the Raleigh news and observer and actually, Leila
costume is in one of the pictures on Raleigh news and
observer site that was talking about it, she's on there. Didn't
get her face, but it's pretty cool. Anywho, yeah. Anyway, I
just had a bone to pick about that, because I feel like, when
it's the main event, the prizes should be bigger for these
people that are putting, I mean, Leila had had to have 120 hours
in this costume. Yeah, it's, it was a lot, and a lot of money
too. She's been spending her own money on it and and all that.
But anywho, that was just a little side tangent there.
Leila: Yeah,
David: what else do you have about the Olympics? Ooh, maybe
we should watch some a little Olympics. You should see some of
the games. I like the archery. Archery is a big I
Leila: love watching the archery. I love watching the
diving too, even though I don't know what's happening. I'm like,
Look, you just fell in the water. Yeah, you don't
David: you fell in the water gracefully. So the youngest
Olympian was 13 years old, and this is not talking about Greek
times, because who knows, yeah, um, actually, they said Greek
gymnasts compete at the tender age of 10. But then, you know,
that's all the really old things were way different back then,
more recent times, 13 year old mommy G won gold for
skateboarding at the Cocona. Oh and and kakona hakari haraki
became the youngest metal youngest to medal in 85
Leila: years. Wow, you there's a skateboarding in the Olympics.
Yeah, I
David: want to watch that. There's also ribbon dancing,
which is actually kind of neat to watch. I bet if you're seeing
ribbon dancing, not in the Olympics, oh, I mean, but you've
seen it, you're aware of what it is. Okay, I didn't know if you'd
ever seen what it is. Yeah, there's, there's actually a lot
of odd little, little Olympic sports. We could, we could look
them up real quick. Yeah, okay, let's see. So we've got
recording for a second. GQ. GQ magazine.co.uk, the weirdest
Olympic events. Here we go, solo, synchronized swimming,
Leila: artistic swimming. It's
David: called artistic swimming, officially known as artistic
swimming. Why? Why? Dan, why is dancing in water considered an
Olympic sport, but a ballroom dancing is not? But that's
neither there. The real point is the idea of synchronized
swimming is to have a whole team of participants performing in
perfect unison, synchronicity, if you will, sink.
The Olympic overlords decided that solo Synchronized Swimming
was worthy of inclusion for 1984 1988 and 1992 so I guess that
one's not around anymore. Some of these are not going to be
around. Equestrian sports seem unfair. The horse does all the
work and the writer gets the trinkets and the glory. Oh, I'm
sure that horse is taken care of
Leila: feed a horse and apple. Yeah, I'm
David: sure that horse gets lots of pets and ear scratches and
lots of tasty treats. Anyway, you'll you'll never see a show
jumping pony getting getting its wedding featured in okay
magazine. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I've seen plenty of
pictures of horses, even from this year. I
Leila: love horses. They're doing like, horse selfies with
all the horses. Yeah, they were doing the stuff with the horse.
There was one with his tongue sticking
David: out right, see, but we're prepared. Blah, blah blah. Horse
long jump and horse high jump was in the Paris Olympics in
1900 was let's see personal and we're ever so disappointed it
wasn't, at least introduced as a possibility 124 years later in
Paris. So I guess they're not doing that one anymore either.
Yeah, so let's see plunge for distance. What's this? What is
this? There's no denying it's quite a fun game I play with my
kids. Sometimes also play Scrabble, but it's not just tell
me what it is. Yeah, it was in the 1904 games. Competitors had
to dive in the pool and see how far they could drift underwater
until they surfaced. So it's swimming, so they dive in and go
as far as they can underwater before they have to come up for
air. That's swimming. That's a that's a pretty cool thing to
have dudes like a breath and speed swimming and all that.
Let's see William Dickey with a distance of 62.5 feet. That's
not bad. There you go.
Leila: That's actually a lot.
David: Yeah, 62 feet, that said, feel like it's not a little more
than I can, like, I don't know I can hold rather really long
time, though. So
Leila: this fact, sorry for cutting you off, not even, but
it says the five rings of the Olympic symbol, designed by
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co founder of the modern Olympic
Games, represent the five inhabited contents of the world.
David: Yeah, the five inhabited continents, North America, South
America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Australia. Australia is
not inhabited. Nobody lives in Australia. What
Leila: about our friend?
David: I don't know. Leila did. Maybe they counted it as
Leila: maybe they counted Europe and Asia as Eurasia. Maybe less
sounds like we need to do it. They just forgot about
Australia, like or maybe, yeah, maybe
David: it's Eurasia. I don't know. Let's ask, let's ask co
pilot. It, yeah, this is not an ad for copilot. It's actually
the opposite copilot is so bad. Okay, let's see. Oh, I can do it
through the microphone. Oh, do it okay. If the Olympic rings
are to represent the five inhabited continents, then why
are there only five there should be six. Then
Leila: why are there the I don't
David: know if it's gonna if the Olympic
Leila: rings are to represent the 500 contents, then why are
there?
David: It should really, like, tell it like, oh man, co pilot
is having trouble. Ah, the Olympic
Unknown: rings, a colorful, interlocking symbol that ignites
athletes from around the globe. Let's unravel the story behind
those iconic circles, the birth of the Rings. Picture this 1913
French historian.
David: Okay, stop the read out. Push my mic back up. Yeah, I
don't like the that's loud. Okay, all the Olympic rings.
Let's see the birth of the Rings. 1913 French historian,
okay, here we go. It's the union of the five inhabited
continents, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, the
Americas and Oceania, which is Australia. Why
Leila: don't they just call it Oceania? That's so cool.
David: Oceania, ocean Oceania OCEANA. Oceana. That's it. I was
like, This isn't right. I'm saying this all wrong. It's
ocean Oceania, ocean what? What did that say? If
Leila: I was Australian, I would not like to be called Australia.
So the south Oceanian,
David: so North and South America count as one continent
in the rings. Yeah, the Americas is as well. America's okay. It
says Wi Fi rings back then the world recognized six continents.
Leila: So I guess they considered the Americas, yeah,
David: it was all, it was all this cooperton guy, that guy
just unilaterally decided to combine the Americas. Maybe he
just made the six rings. The six rings didn't look right. Yeah,
the six rings didn't
Leila: look like so he was, like, deleted one.
David: I don't see why. He could take the six rings and interlink
them all, like, in a, like, a Venn diagram, you know, just
like all six of them and they all intercede in the middle,
yeah, yeah. So yeah. And then you talk about the colors. So
that's Yeah, but hey, I gotta say, listen, listen what let's
see. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay, here at the end. So next
time you see the Olympic rings, remember they're more than just
circles. They're a global handshake and a celebration of
the human spirit and a reminder that we're all part of this
magnificent sporting tapestry. And hey, if you ever invent a
sport where hippos play ring toss with tomatoes, count me in.
I'll be a cheerleader. Hippo emoji, tomato emoji, cheer
leader emoji.
Leila: So it took the thing from earlier. Also, Why is yours so
like,
David: there's happy. There's so many emojis.
Leila: There's so many emojis in yours. I have one emoji.
David: Oh, my goodness. Copilot is a mess. Mine's
Leila: straight to the point.
David: Oh man. All right, it is getting very hot in here. Let's
see. Oh, live pigeon shooting was an Olympic sporting event.
1900 back in Paris, they shot at live pigeons the modern
pentathlon. All right, so you ready? I'm ready. Here we go.
They the participants took place in swimming, fencing, Shadow
jumping, oh no, Shadow jumping, show jumping, long distance
running and pistol shooting. So they had to fencing, swim, jump
out of the water, still wet, sword fight. Somebody hop on a
horse, do some show jumping. Jump off the horse, run, pick up
a gun and shoot something.
Leila: You don't understand how bad I want to fence. Fencing is
like, fencing looks neat, so fun. Um,
David: yes, that's neat. And like
Leila: fencing teams anywhere, though,
David: let's see number four, pistol dueling. What? But
instead of shooting at each other, there were mannequins in
frock coats,
Leila: but they can't move around because dueling
David: is a sportive gentleman. They just had targets painted on
their chest.
Leila: Oh my god. Oh
David: my gosh. Okay, then there's a 200 meter swimming
with obstacles. Okay? Art, art, art, is it okay? Javelin,
hammer, discus, water colors from Stockholm, 1912 to London,
1948 medals were awarded for. Sport inspired artworks, from
architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture,
including art. Was the idea of Pierre de cuberton. That's a guy
who made the
Leila: rings. Yeah, we've already discussed that he didn't
know how to count.
David: He was the founder of the modern Olympics, who wanted to
see people trained in body and mind. So pick up your pen and
get riding. Olympian, the only reason juried competitors were
dropped in 1954 was because the artists were deemed to be
professionals, so the inclusion of art was seen to run contrary
to the spirit of the games. So that's why we don't have haiku
medals anymore and poodle clipping.
Leila: That's amazing. Paris, bring that back. 1900
David: this would was admittedly the only a test event, meaning
that it didn't have the full Olympic status. Mystifying, the
didn't make the cut. 128 competitors performing in a
crowd of in front of a crowd of 6000 in the Boo day Boulogne
Park, I guess I'm saying that right there they were. They had
to clip off the fur off of as many poodles as they could in
two hours.
Leila: That's amazing.
David: They just went and found random poodles around Paris, and
we're just like, hey, I need to borrow your dog. Hey,
Leila: I need to borrow your dog. I'll bring him back. I
David: promise. He's gonna look a little bit weird. He's gonna
look a little different. Well, there was, there was a winner
named Avril la foul ever Levine. Avril la foul won a total of 17
clipped clip No, when the gold medal with a total of 17 clipped
poodles. So
Leila: do they have to look like Pitch Perfect when they were
done clipping them? Or did they just have to clip something off?
They
David: probably had a certain look they were had they had to
do, right? Yeah, and they had to get make it look. I mean, they
probably didn't get in there with like, a measuring tape or
anything, oh yeah, just like, Oh yeah, that no, yeah, good job,
yeah. But that two hours, and it did 17 and two hours. So that's
a couple of minutes per poodle. Yeah, I'd have like, extra
scissors and shears, and I'd have really kind of everything
nice and sharp they probably did. But yeah. So anyway, I
think, I think that's going to be it for us for this week. Yep.
Uh,
Leila: if you had a good, oh,
David: wait, no, whoa.
Leila: What is happening?
David: What is happening?
Leila: I've got your phone something, yes. Why is your
phone? Apparently,
David: podcasting 2.0 just decided to start playing when I,
when I was trying to swipe away is a mess. I was trying to swipe
away this episode is a mess. We're professional podcasters.
We are so we
Leila: have support
David: value for value. I went on a little podcast called in
and around podcasting, and I believe I said something about
it last week, anywho and Danny Brown wasn't able to be on that
episode. He had an issue with his basement and some water
apparently. Oh, no, yeah, so he was dealing with that. Couldn't
do the episode. I kind of I was there, not in his stead, but I
was just there for that episode. Danny and I talked about a few
things we've I've been on his show. My other podcast is and I
helped him a little bit getting his value for value set up so he
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So check those out. And Danny sent us 10 SATs on the hippo
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How it's, you know, we put the show out for free, and we just
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it's worth mailing us something like a little trinket you find,
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anything like that. Yeah. And we've had people send us, you
know, computer hardware before, and we've had people send us a
Garfield calendar from the 80s, lots of really neat stuff. And
he was just really impressed by that, how our community that
we've built around this show, you know, like they think about
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know who'd like that? Leila and David. They'd like that. So we
had a good I had a good time on podcasting. Yeah? And we
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Leila: We appreciate magnets, yeah, because we have a fridge
out here, I
David: knew we need to go hit the I haven't been to the post
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