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We're going to talk about the Olympics.
- What did you think of the Olympics opening ceremony?
- Boats, really?
- You didn't like it?
- No, it was probably one of the worst that I've ever seen.
- Yeah, I think it's funny how it's getting a big rapport
about everything.
I guess the reason they did the boats,
if they want everything to revolve around the same is,
it's okay, so I pronounce it better.
- I think that's the word,
the French word for a river.
- Yeah, and so they wanted to revolve around that,
and I guess they're actually holding events in it,
but they said if they tried to hold the events the day
they were doing that, the E. coli level was too high.
But apparently the French government spent millions
or billions of dollars trying to clean it,
'cause they wanted to do this for the Olympics.
But during it, with the boats going,
I remember I would look and said,
"Look at the size of those waves."
I don't know if it was just the wake from the boats.
- Not from all the boats, probably.
- Okay, 'cause I mean, you wouldn't be able to do,
you wouldn't be able to row
when you wouldn't be able to swim competitively
in that kind of condition.
So I don't know, it was artistic, I didn't know.
- I watched that twice.
- Really the only view you got of the athletes,
and particularly the flag Baehrs,
was like from a drone, like 50 feet near.
- Yeah.
- And it didn't feel very personal at all,
it felt like you were watching it from a satellite or something.
- Yeah, one thing that's positive about it,
I mean, it's looked like if you were anybody,
you could go and watch it.
So you had to buy a ticket to go.
You know what I mean?
- Didn't that weigh every Olympics?
- You can go, you know, they could cross.
- Did they close the whole city
and you have to pay to get in?
- Oh, it cost money, yeah.
They go see those events, they cost money.
- I don't mean in the stadium.
I mean, when the athletes are coming in.
- The opening ceremony?
That's what I'm saying, normally it's an stadium,
the opening ceremony.
And it's all, and so you have to pay for that ticket.
See it, so this time you didn't have to.
I mean, you could stand along.
Well, I don't know, but I would imagine you really,
you couldn't shut down that large of an area, I'd imagine.
- Oh.
- To make money, I guess you could.
- And probably all the landlords throughout all their tenants
months ago, so they could rent them out is.
- You'd be here being these and stuff like that, yeah, yeah.
Well, they said that the Olympic Village
you're actually turning it to apartments afterwards,
which is smart, but it is a shame
'cause most of the time these cities are,
people think they make millions off of it.
And I think most of the time the cities
of our broker after it goes around,
which money they spend to put the new arenas
and the new stadiums and stuff like that, the new events.
And they have no revenue stream to keep those facilities up.
- No.
- So.
- But.
- Speaking of stadium, the empty stadium
where the torch guy comes into the state,
was that pre-recorded or was it actually empty
when they did that ceremony?
- I think it was empty.
Yeah, I think that was pre-recorded.
I think it was pre-recorded.
Like I wanna show that I think he was a French comedian
he handed it to the Sardiners and when he handed it
to the soccer player, the same soccer player,
I think that was pre-recorded.
- So the stadium wasn't really empty to the ceremony?
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I thought that was just stupid.
- Yeah, it was him, I don't know.
I think it was just kind of showing,
I don't speak French, that they were moved out
of the stadium when we were doing it elsewhere.
And I think that's what he was kind of showing
and then gave it to the French soccer player
to run with the torch.
- I guess every opening ceremony is like that,
you can't really tell what's live and what was pre-recorded.
- Yeah, I mean, like I said, I've watched it twice
'cause I came home from work and I turned it on
and I kind of dosed off.
And then when I woke up after having my long nap,
I kind of watched it again, but even then,
I kind of dosed off.
It's causing quite the stir.
People...
- What does that happen every time?
- But these people are getting overboard with this.
They're trying to say that they imitated the last supper.
- Oh, and I like it.
- Thank you.
- No, it was amazing.
- There's been lots of imitations of that thing.
- But it wasn't supposed to be that way.
It was supposed to be a greaked dinner
with two different gods and one of them was God of the Olympics.
And then the other one was like a God of wine.
And it's something called vacuous or something like that,
but there was a reason behind it.
But it just says how egocentric...
- We're talking about the scene at the table
with all the drag queens.
- Yeah.
- That was different.
- Okay.
- But that was supposed to be...
- And it was sort of a...
- It was a meant to be.
- I sat higher on the Da Vinci painting.
- And that's not what I've read about it though.
- Well, it depends on who you're talking to.
- Yeah, it's true.
- Who's complaining?
- It's true.
- There has been so many different...
- South Park made of me.
- Yeah, Bell Circle Actica did.
- Yeah.
- I think it's just ridiculous.
First of all, nobody was there during the last supper,
so you don't know what a frickin' look like.
I can't imagine it was as fecesly as it's a painting portrays.
Tell me, can't you imagine that?
- And those days people didn't sit at the table.
- No.
- They loungeed.
- Mm-hmm.
- And...
- I mean, they literally ate while they were laying down.
- Yeah.
- So you couldn't have been that way?
- Yeah.
- But for Christians to be that bad out of shape about it,
it's like, no, the world doesn't revolve around your religion.
There's other religions out there.
It's like kind of my point.
It's like, come on.
I mean, there's people pulling up Facebook about it
and TikTok and it's all silly.
- It just needs something to talk about, kind of like us.
- Yeah, and it's like people got upset
about the non-binary threesome that people are talking about.
I don't know if you saw that.
- In the Olympics.
- Yeah, you didn't see that part?
- No.
- It was some dancing around and then they went into a bedroom
and they were all kissing on each other
and then they closed it to work for anything happened.
But they were pretty much non-binary.
You couldn't tell if they were men or women.
It's not.
And people were referring to it as the nine-binary,
the nine non-binary Menachatwa.
And it's like, it's 2024.
Oh, it's not, it's not.
It's not appropriate for children.
- Very appropriate for the Greeks.
- Yeah, very appropriate for the Greeks.
And they weren't doing anything.
- Just kissing.
- Not even that.
And it's like they'd go and they'd say in a kiss
or something like that.
So it was like, and it was very artistic, I thought.
You know, I thought a gear on "Prayed You Probably Don't Know"
who that is was very good.
That was the metal group that played.
They came down well.
That's when they went to torch.
- Nobody can see your hands.
- No, sorry.
They came down and they let the torch.
And then, or they came up and they let the torch.
And all of the fireworks went over the bridge.
And then they spread out over this church.
It looked like it was a castle.
And a geary was in there playing.
And a geary means Godzilla in French.
And it's a huge, huge, huge metal band in France.
And they were, they rocked it out.
I mean, but then they were like, oh, the red fireworks.
Well, there was red, white, and blue fireworks on it.
From what I understand, from what I saw.
But they're like, they made the red fireworks look
like the church was burning.
Or it's burning up, it's bleeding.
The church was bleeding.
So it's, yeah, I don't know.
- Well, I think the emphasis on art was appropriate
for the French because the loop is there.
- Yeah, exactly.
- And the scenes where the torch Baehrer
is going through a museum and seeing all the
these art pieces brought to life.
- Yeah.
- It's a good way to represent France, I think.
- I thought that was really neat too.
How the paintings were empty because the characters
and the paintings got out and watched the opening ceremony.
I thought that was pretty neat.
But the idea, like you said,
or there's going to be ups and downs
about every little picture of money, so.
- And art, in general, is supposed
to be controversial to make you think.
You know, like I said, I fell asleep because it was tired.
The one thing that did make me laugh there,
this French pianist playing.
And you couldn't tell that.
You could tell that it was raining.
You couldn't tell how heavy it was raining,
but he was playing here like a solo thing
and he zoomed in on a, he looked miserable.
He clearly playing it and his eyes are rolling
in the back of his head.
And like this pianist is like one of the world's best
that he's playing.
It was beautiful.
- And probably run to perfectly good piano too.
- And you get well, this, and you,
when you could really see how heavy it was raining
on the top of the piano, there's a piano closed.
And the water was just beat it up
and it was just splashing and falling down.
And he's literally playing, rolling his eyes.
I mean, you can't do it any more.
- 'Cause they have somebody hold a umbrella
over and there's something.
- Yeah, and like a lot of people said,
there's like, come on, France is like,
it rains there quite a bit apparently.
I've never been to Paris.
I don't know.
So like you couldn't have come up with something
where, you know, where, you know,
the healthy people out in the rain, you know what I mean, so.
But.
- They should have consulted Disneyland Tokyo
because in Tokyo, it rains constantly.
- Oh yeah.
- And they have a, you know, their own version
of Disney World, Disney Land.
And the main street parts are all covered
with onings and stuff.
So you can still enjoy your visit while it's raining.
- Oh, okay, well that makes sense.
- The Olympics could have easily done that.
- Yeah, they'll just, yeah.
But to put on that multi, like,
most of a million dollar of bed.
And then, old man weather shows up and says,
not so far.
- Maybe it was God telling him something.
- Yeah, he didn't like the whole skip-to-fun Christianity either.
So he's pissed.
I'm gonna read it on your parade, literally.
- Well, the funniest thing that I saw was Tom Daly.
He's gay.
- I think he was, he's been in several Olympics.
- It's just like his fifth Olympics, he's a British diver.
- And he's kind of cute for a twink.
But he was the flag Baehr this year.
- Okay.
- And he took a selfie and titled it flag Baehr.
Only he left the L out, so it's a fake Baehr.
- Back Baehr.
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- That's cute, that's really cute.
See, I'm surprised I've never heard about that.
People were probably upset about that, too.
But that's cute, that is cute.
He was, he calls it big up for last year or the last Olympics
when he was a, he was knitting a sweater.
Apparently he likes to knit when he's stressed out
and they showed him something that yesterday.
- I wasn't, during the competitions,
he just sits in the stands and just knits.
And people were like, how can he not be focused?
It's like, he's probably the most focused he can get.
He's not, every athlete warms up differently.
I mean, they keep their mind off the race
or whatever competition you're in.
And that, that's one thing.
Like, when I rode that comparing to what I did
with these super mega athletes, too.
You, there's a long time in between your competitions.
Like, Rowling, we would get up there and the later,
like, the higher your senior already was,
the bigger the main event was.
They were later on in the day.
So if you were in Varsity, there's time
to get there next to the lake or the reservoir,
wherever the ricotta was being held at seven o'clock
in the morning, you get there.
I've done loads of boats and so like that's what he's gonna do.
But then you race when the pizza
three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
So there you would put in a downtime to sit around.
But, you know, you get in there to race
and you're trying to do yourself in the mind frame.
So you always find something to do.
And it was always funny seeing how people,
what they did to learn how to relax.
And, no masturbation allowed.
No, no masturbation allowed.
So, but yeah, it's just some,
but definitely there were different ways of doing it.
So, but...
Well, I think the Olympic ceremony,
that ceremony is that opening thing is really
the only part of the Olympics I ever watched.
No, you watch some of it begrudgingly.
Because you have it on and I don't have a choice.
Yeah, I know.
I wouldn't even pick up the remote to turn on the Olympics.
I know.
But, I think the gayest moments were the saving grace.
And that was Lady Gaga and Celine Dion.
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
I didn't see the Lady Gaga part.
What did she want to do it?
It was supposed to be a big huge secret.
I mean, she was supposed to be a surprise
when they revealed here, but I think everybody already knew.
Oh, okay.
I saw the Celine Dion part.
So, it's considering her condition.
Yeah.
I mean, that's probably the last public performance she'll ever have.
Yeah. Yeah.
Because she has, like, some sort of disease
that's ruining your body disease or something like that.
Yeah, it's ruining your vocal cords or something like that.
She can't move.
Oh, wow, that's got to suck.
Yeah.
Hmm, man.
I think you never realized how bad some people really have it.
So, but no, I didn't see the Lady Gaga part.
I guess that's one of the part that is up there.
So, how many algae athletes will compete at the Olympics this are?
The summer 2024 Olympics has 152 out athletes.
Well, 131 female in 19 men.
And two non-barring men.
That's about half the number that there was in 2020.
Wow.
And I think it's sort of a sign of the times the athletes in the 2020 Olympics
did not get the out athletes did not get the endorsements
and whatever that the other athletes got.
And I think the athletes this year are being a lot more cautious about coming out.
Yeah, I would be if times have changed.
Yeah, it's a shame that they are, but you could make a lot of money by being an athlete.
Would you do the top, top, top people of the professions?
Yeah, I think most people probably don't make much money at it.
Yeah, especially Olympics because you can't be a professional, right?
It's only amateur.
No, they changed it a long time ago.
That's why you have the NBA players playing basketball and stuff like that.
I mean, there's some sports that just aren't, even if it's professional, it's not.
They don't get paid very well.
That's why a lot of them, they get paid checks because they get the endorsements.
Because of the Olympics, you'll see them pop up like a year before the Olympics.
During car commercials or just random commercials and stuff like that.
It's because they get sponsorships from these people who endorse them.
But yeah, I mean, I guess, would you keep your mouth shut about if you were gay or not?
If you're depending on you get a multi-million dollar for a million dollars.
Yeah, I yeah, but I mean, it's come a long way.
I mean, you look at the first one, 2004.
There was 47 females, 13 males, no non-binary.
That's the first year, 2004 was the first year they started to come in.
Yeah, then I mean, that was 60 athletes.
So we're at 152 now.
And I imagine there was probably, I imagine it's probably got the same total every year.
And then it's just people aren't opening up, telling people they're being quiet.
I mean, but that's a huge difference.
I mean, that's the most 100 persons difference between 2020 and 2024.
Oh, it's double.
Yeah, no, it's, it's about 100.
Yeah, one, two, one, two, one, two, two, two, two, four, eight, nine, that's about double.
Yeah, that's a shame that it's that way.
But, you know, what can you do?
Let's see, Gus, Ken, were these kids seen around the world?
I didn't see that.
It wasn't a summer Olympics, it was a Winter Olympics.
I think 2014, in Sochi, was that in Sochi?
Could have been.
He, I don't think he even placed for a second or third,
but after his, after he got down the, the, the skis, or, yeah, got down the mountain,
he came up to his boyfriend, then, and, it was a big kiss.
And the cameras were rolling, and it was too late for them to, that's funny.
To turn away, I guess.
Caught the big star.
And his boyfriend, at the time, was a famous actor.
I don't remember his name, but if you saw him, you'd recognize him.
I really?
They'd broken up since.
Oh, well, you know, you're much about, 'cause Ken, were they much anymore?
I don't, he, I do, but that's because I specifically follow the name of my feet.
Okay, what's he been up to?
Being gay.
Just being gay and happy.
Oh, yeah.
Remember coming out Colton.
He was Colton's advisor in the show.
Yeah, I knew that.
Yeah.
So he just advised his people, so he's coming out of the closet?
Yes, yeah.
Yeah.
He's not hard to look at either.
No, he's very good.
He's very easy to look at.
He had a little cub, is he?
Yeah.
So I thought, you're exactly your type.
Mm-hmm.
All righty.
Well, this is a pretty quick one.
The Special Olympics in the 1982 Gay Games.
Do you know about that?
I didn't know about the 1982 Gay Games.
There is another Olympics called the Special Olympics.
Yeah.
It's held every four years.
I think it's, I think it's the same year as the regular Olympics.
Yeah.
But it's called the Special Olympics and it's for disabled people.
You're talking about the Paralympics?
No.
No, the Paralympics, that's part of the regular Olympics.
Uh-huh.
It's held at the same time.
Okay.
Special Olympics is for, um, mentally handicapped, yeah, and it's always been called the Special
Olympics since it started.
Well, in 1982, Tom Wadell, who was an Olympic athlete, was it Mexico City?
He thought the out gay athletes at that time were just treated atrociously, and he wanted
to give them an alternative.
Okay.
So they came out with the gay Olympics.
Okay.
And it was a pretty broad organization and, um, something like one month before they were
going to have their games, the Olympics committee sued them and said you cannot use the word
"Olympics."
That's crazy.
Never mind that the Special Olympics gets a pass on that every four years or whatever.
But they said you cannot call it the "gay Olympics," and they won, they won, uh, the court
says you can't call yourself the "gay Olympics," and by then they had already printed all
of their merchandise, all of their hats and shirts, and teach, even the medals that they
gave the athletes all had to be destroyed.
And part of the court order was it had to be destroyed, they couldn't sell second-hander,
wow.
And they'd lost something like $30,000 in lost merchandise.
Wow.
That's a shame.
And I remember I was watching TV, the news that day, and, um, the woman who was the lawyer
for the, now they call it the Federation of Gay Games, she was the one who defended them
in the court.
She says, "Well, the court says we can't say "gay Olympics," but I'm here to say "gay Olympics,"
"gay Olympics."
"Gay Olympics."
Good for her.
That's funny.
Good for her.
I wonder how much trouble she got into that.
She was a lawyer.
Yeah.
So.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
That's very strange.
I never knew that.
The, the game games has, I'd say a lot going for it, uh, they, for instance, um, the athletes
are not, they don't represent their countries.
Okay.
They represent the cities that they're from.
Okay.
So it's not as worldwide political as, as they are.
Yeah.
Okay.
And, um, they have a lot of good rules.
You, they don't even ask what your sexual orientation is when, hmm, apply, uh, anybody can.
And, uh, I think that in their attempts to be inclusive have caused a lot of, um, I don't
want to say problems, but, um, the gay games has never been successful.
Okay.
It does go on.
I think it's in the, the two-year period between the Olympics.
Okay.
But, um, they've never made any money at it.
They've always lost money.
Hmm.
That's the same.
I think Ontario wanted to host it last year, but, um, dropped out.
Yeah.
Yeah, big.
Basically said, we don't want to do this anymore.
Hmm.
Um, so it, there's a lot of controversy, I guess, still.
Wow.
And anytime you get three people, three gay people together, they're not going to be
conflicts.
Yeah, they can't decide on, yeah, the sun rises or so, so, yeah, imagine a whole committee
trying to put on an event that might look like a worldwide event, yeah, that's just not
going to work out.
Well, is that it for then?
That's it for this week.
Okay.
So, what's your favorite joke this week?
Do you know which country refused to allow their athletes to get on the boat?
Being on?
That's what a politically incorrect, I can't believe I just said that.
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