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Play along as Sara quizzes Kristina on past Olympic games. You guess: Is it a real game or sh*t Sara made up. While Kristina brings us the history of the ancient Olympics.
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Introduction to Laughing with Gingers
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Hello, thanks everyone for tuning into Laughing with Ginger's. The podcast were two feisty redheads with loud laughs, shared crazy stories, play games and spread Salinas and joy. That little delightful voice over there who just happens to be a pink spot of sun today is my partner in crime on Laughing with Ginger's podcast, Christina Curry.
00:01:25
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And that is Sarah Alopin, a new truck owner, AKA owner of trucks, my co-host of Laughing with Ginger.
Sarah's F-150 Hybrid Experience
00:01:33
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She's a trucker. Oh, God. Yes. I bought a truck. You're a truck owner. Yes. We are now truck people. And it's a hybrid. Did I tell you this? Yeah. Well, you sent some decals.
00:01:55
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And I was like, is she putting decals on a hybrid that's already hybrid or is it not a hybrid and she wants people to think it's a hybrid? So it is a Ford F-150 hybrid and it doesn't have hybrid on it anywhere. And I'm certain it's by design that because
00:02:16
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Ford people, Ford F-150 drivers must not want people to know they're driving a hybrid. It does say power boost, but I would never know what that means. Also, it just makes it sound like it goes faster or tows harder or something. Yeah. And so I'm buying a hybrid Deke.
00:02:35
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Because it's the only way to show
Felipe's Truck Adventures
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in the area where I live that we are not out of town Trump people coming in. You're like, look, I'm hybrid. Don't shoot. I'm down with your pitchforks and torches. I belong.
00:02:57
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Yeah, and actually Felipe agreed with me who is like a minimalist at heart and everything. I was like, it's either that or we have to get a sticker that says we're not Trump supporters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a rainbow flag or something. Yeah, or like the coexist sticker or something like that. But like he doesn't want a sticker on there and it actually is hybrid.
00:03:24
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Let's just speak our truth here. That was exactly the thought. It's really funny watching Felipe adjust to this because he did not grow up in the country. He never lived that country life. He's never towed anything. It's very funny to watch him adjust to this.
Truck Challenges in Photography
00:03:44
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Oh my God. You need to get him a bumper sticker that says like, will break for baby bunnies.
00:03:51
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Oh God. He drove it to Home Depot and he was like, yeah, it's not so easy to park a truck. And I was like, the trick is it's easier to back it in than to pull in forward. You can get a better angle, but this actually is a good turning radius and everything. And it's a hybrid. And yeah. Yeah. Bigger vehicles are hard to find parking.
00:04:23
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Yeah, it's not going to be something I want to parallel park and it's not going to be something that I want to drive if I'm photographing a wedding and then need to let the couple get into my car because they will have to hoist them so soon. And I don't always know what they're wearing in advance.
Met Gala vs Hunger Games
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Yeah, no accidents. It'll be like when they carried that person in the sand dress up the stairs at the Met Gala. Oh my God, I saw that. I was like, is this what we've become? Yes. I guess it is the charity and things are going to charity, but this feels very Hunger Games-ish.
00:05:08
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Like, let's just eat all the food, throw up so we can eat more. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly how it felt. Yeah.
Olympic Games and Simpsons
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Well, this week we are talking about a different type of celebration. We're talking about the celebration of athletes at the Olympics. I knew the Olympics theme song. I would sing it right now, but I don't.
Olympic Sports: Real or Fake?
00:05:44
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I was trying to sing it in my head and I couldn't get past the two notes. I'm like, shit, I don't think I know it. You know why I know it? Why do you know it? Because there's a Simpsons episode where it's being hosted in Canada and
00:06:03
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And they release the beavers, the bird of Canada. I'm sure Canada has actual birds. Oh, God. Oh, God. Okay, so I brought real or fake Olympic sports
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And you're going to guess whether they are real or fake. Oh, God. OK. OK. I brought a little history lesson on the original ancient Greek Olympic games. Oh, OK. Yeah, like we're talking dating back to and this is what they think. So around 776 B.C. Wow.
00:07:01
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Mm hmm. Ancient, ancient. Interesting. All right. Well, do you want to go first or you want me to? I have seven. OK, I basically have like just a few facts. All right. Then do you want me to go first? Yeah, OK. All right. So to clarify, it is either real or fake. So either an obscure Olympic sport that is no longer used at the Olympics.
00:07:30
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to be clear. These are not going to be ones that you might know the names of or that they ever were an Olympic sport. Wait, but they were Olympic sport in the past? Yes. This year they're getting rid of softball, baseball, and something else because they added surfing, skateboarding, and something else. Oh, really? Yes. They rotate things out periodically.
00:07:59
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especially when they don't do well in the one year that they were here. So most of these only had one year. Oh. So it's not like you're going to know. Is thumb wrestling one of them?
00:08:20
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I wish. I wish. OK, so either shits are made up or a real obscure former Olympic sport. OK. So this is obstacle swimming. Ooh. That sounds fun. Right. I would totally do. I want it to be real. I'm going to say real.
00:08:47
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Ding, ding, ding. Oh, my God, I would totally want to do that. That sounds like so much fun. OK, so I have the description for both the real and the fake ones. OK, cool. This is a 200 meter swim. And this event was a combination of an obstacle course and swimming in the Seine River. And it was only presented during the games in Paris in 1900.
00:09:14
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So to today's casual observer, tumbles and turns and diving from blocks are the only two challenges Olympic swimmers face beyond, of course, motoring through the water as fast as their limbs and lungs can propel them.
00:09:34
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But swimmers at the 1900 Paris Olympics, things were a little bit more challenging for them, and certainly for the competitors in the 200 meters obstacle race. It never lasted beyond this edition of the games, and its rules were more than a little complex. The race featured, and I have a diagram for this that you can put on Instagram.
00:09:58
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The race featured competitors climbing a pole which hovered just above the water and both scrambling over and under rowboats before reaching the finished line. Oh my God, I would totally want to do this. I'm not sure I'd want to get in the sun. No, that I wouldn't, but maybe it wasn't as like gross back, you know,
00:10:24
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In olden days. I suspect it was worse because they probably were dumping sewage. Oh, God. Yeah. I would want to do in a swimming pool. I would do it in a quarry or like a lake. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like I prepared for this my whole kid life because I would have tea parties at the bottom of the swimming pool.
00:10:50
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I did that, too. Yeah, so fun. And like I feel like that prepared me for obstacle courses in the water. I also used to when we played sharks and minnows, I would dive straight down the wall in the 12 foot section and just swim all along the bottom because nobody else could get there and then just come straight up. Yeah, yeah. I remember doing that, too, like how far can you get holding your breath? And of course, I played mermaids constantly.
00:11:20
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Oh, yeah. Constantly.
Ancient Olympic Games Insights
00:11:22
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I mean, what redhead among us didn't play mermaids? Oh, my God. I know. When Ariel came along and she was a redheaded princess, it was like, be still my heart. I know. Representation matters. It does. All right. So you're 1 and 0. You get a beaver this week. The bird of Canada.
00:11:59
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Oh, God. Okay. You want another one? I do. Then I'll turn the mic over to you. Plunge for distance. Plunge for distance. Do you have a description?
00:12:19
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It was described as a head first stand up dive from a firm springless takeoff. That is seriously zero help. That's all I can do. A head dive? Oh, I guess maybe, I don't know. I'm going to say
00:12:43
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It feels like it's probably real because that's like something that seems weird to make up. So I'm going to say real. Ding, ding, ding. You have two beavers. So variations like this entering with the feet were also practiced under warnings of the danger they represented. So in 1904,
00:13:13
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This was the first Olympics to feature diving, and the program was certainly more experimental than it is today. One event axed after just the one games was the plunge for distance. The gold went to the diver who could dive into the pool from a standing position and travel underwater the furthest without moving her body for as long as possible. What?
00:13:44
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That sounds just bizarre. It would remain motionless while traveling underwater. Once their face was above the water, the judge stopped the distance measurement. Oh, my God. It's so weird. It's so weird. They had to remain motionless until their face came out above the water. Oh, my God. That sounds really weird, but okay.
00:14:14
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I feel like if I had read you the whole description, you might have thought. I would have said that's fake. Like a hundred percent. I've been like, nope, shit, Sarah made up.
00:14:29
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Oh, God. All right. Lay some history on me. All right. So the ancient games featured many competitions that still take place in today's modern Olympics, such as foot racing, jumping, just throwing, javelin throwing, wrestling, boxing, although I don't know. I was wrestling and boxing is still part of it. I think so. Yeah, OK, maybe.
00:14:56
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Uh, the race like they would, you know, run, um, was about 180 meters sprint. The original track was pretty small. Like, uh, were they in Olympia, which by the way, I've been to, which is the very original place that they say it all happened. It all went down.
00:15:18
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which it was right by the water. This is like mind blowing. I might've even said this on the podcast before. So Olympia was right near the water because a lot of people would travel by water to get there. So when we get off the cruise ship, it's like 45 minute bus ride to get to Olympia.
00:15:36
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and all the roads and things of the town all ends into this one field. And it's like, why is everything just all ending right here? Why does everything stop? Because that's where the sea water ended and the docks and things and ships would sail up to. And we're like 45 minutes away from the sea. It was shocking. That's crazy.
00:16:02
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I know, right? Like, whoa, it like blew our minds when they said that. Okay, so the sprint began when the trumpet would blow and there were officials that were at the start of it to make sure there's no false starts and officials at the end to decide who the winner was and make sure no one cheated.
00:16:22
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If the officials decided there was a tie, the race would be rerun. Runners started the race from a standing position, which is not how we do it now. And they're guessing that they probably had their arms stretched out in front of them, which makes me think they're like a zombie.
00:16:44
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Like they're doing a mummy walk. Yeah, so weird. So, you know, nowadays everyone's like crouched down and like with their foot hoisted up for leverage. They definitely ran naked and it was on the packed earth track. And in the fifth century, the track was beginning to be marked by stone starting line. And then advancement in the stone starting block led to it having a set of double grooves.
00:17:14
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And then this is what led initially to the runners digging their toes in to get that leverage at starting was when they moved from the stone starting block to the grooves in the ground.
00:17:26
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My only thing that just boggles my mind is how fast they're running and they're naked. The balls and penis are just flying and smacking. I can't imagine how that is even doable or comfortable. Not to make another adult cartoon joke, but wean or sloppy wean.
00:17:55
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That one's from South Park. But that's what I'm envisioning and I don't know how at all that was okay with the runners. I'd be like, excuse me, I cannot. They probably practiced like that, which then makes me just think of sunburn.
00:18:17
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Yeah, being naked in sunburn, oof, and no sunscreen. Ugh. I feel like that would be really painful. Yeah. All right. Well, I have another paragraph that we can read later. Okay. You want to throw it back over to me? I do. All right. Is it real or fake? It's for a third beaver.
00:18:47
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synchronized swimming with dolphins. Oh my god, I want to do that too. Oh my god. Oh my god, I want it to be real. But I feel like, are animals a part of the Olympics ever?
00:19:06
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I feel like I can't think of any game that has animals and it's a moment of like strength for humans, the essence of it, human strength. Have you forgotten about horseback riding? Oh, yeah. Just wondering. I did. I did. Oh, damn it. Okay. I was throwing a wrench in my logic. I want it to be real. Let's just say real.
00:19:36
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Damn it. Oh, I want to swim with the dolphins in a synchronized swimming routine. I guess I get a dolphin. Here's our fake description. This would be from the games in 1988 in Korea. Peak dolphin era. Lisa Frank.
00:20:03
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I'm adjusting beasts on my folders at school. That is exactly right. Imagine the grace and precision of synchronized swimming, but with an added layer of aquatic or acrobatics. Athletes would perform choreographed routines alongside trained dolphins, leaping through hoops, weaving between them and even balancing on their snouts for points.
00:20:31
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Judges would evaluate technical difficulty, artistic merit, and the dolphin's synchronicity with the swimmers. This would be a crowd pleaser in Korea, but concerns about animal welfare likely kept it out of the official games. So I think it was proposed. I would want to do that.
00:20:56
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I would I would train hard. I didn't play that in the pool. No. You had another one. A lot of these are swimming related. I love it. I love swimming. Me too. All right. You want another one? Yeah. Underwater swim. OK. That's it. Underwater swim.
00:21:26
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All right. All right. Not a lot to go on. Not a lot to go. OK, let's see underwater. Kind of like my sharks and minnows swim. Yeah. Yeah. For visual. I'm going to say. I'm going to say it's true. Ding, ding, ding. Congratulations on your your third fever. I don't know how I got to that.
00:21:50
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I just was like, maybe. It's just super weird, and it would have been like a weird thing for me to make up. How did they view them? OK, so underwater swimming was featured in the 1900 Olympics in Paris, but was dropped for later editions due to the lack of spectator appeal. Yeah, I was going to say it's like an aquarium.
00:22:17
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The event took place in the sun again and had a limit of 60 meters for swimmers who would receive one point for every second they stayed underwater and two points for every meter they swam underwater. So the winner, the gold medalist, his time was one minute and eight seconds.
00:22:43
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reaching the maximum distance of 60 meters and the second place person came in three seconds later. Interesting. The silver winner person. Silver medalist. I can see how that did not last. I was like, okay, I could see that if it was a glass-sided pool. But even that, they'd have to be like,
00:23:10
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one by one or like two by two because you wouldn't be able to see the people in the middle. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. It is an interesting choice. Yeah. Interesting choice. All right. You want to give me some facts? I have four left.
00:23:35
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Okay, this is my last fact. Here we go. So the ancient Greeks competed in a brutal full-contact combat sport similar to mixed martial arts called pancreation. I don't know. It's like you had no time to look up how to say that.
00:24:02
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Here's the thing. I could look it up. I could ask Google, how do I say this word? But am I going to remember? No. I won't. OK, it's like hand creation.
00:24:23
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Oh God, it's like you don't know that you're terrible at pronouncing. I do. I just like bulldoze right through it. There's so many words that I mispronounce and she's just like, that's not how you say that.
00:24:37
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And then she'll say it right. And then I'll try and say it right. But I say it the same way. And then I start getting her to be like, Wait, am I saying it wrong? Okay, tell me about pain creation.
00:24:53
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Pain creation. Okay, so it's a combination of wrestling, boxing and kicking, but there are virtually no rules. The only rules are one is no biting and two is no eye gouging.
00:25:12
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That's it. Everything else is like on the table. So some fighters boasted nicknames reflecting their signature combat technique, like one person. Sustratos was a fighter from a city that that word I'm definitely not going to attempt to try. So he was known as fingertips because he would break his opponent's fingers at the start of every match.
00:25:40
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On purpose. I mean, wouldn't you just like. Do this, like make fists to like protect your fingers? Yeah, but like, I mean, you can grab, you can pull, you can push. So I'm sure at some point they release their fingers and he goes after them because he's fingertips. Oh, we need our own pain creation name.
00:26:10
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Someone pick up the formula for how you get to that. I know. Is it the part of the body you target? Right. Yeah. What is that? Or the name of your first street when you're growing up? The last thing you ate.
Modern Olympic Sports Ideas
00:26:31
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I don't know, but I feel like fingertips doesn't in this day and age sound very intimidating, but, you know, what do I know?
00:26:40
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Be like teeth. No, there's no biting. Yeah, but you could rip somebody's teeth out. Oh, God. Yeah, I guess that's on the table. There's nothing about attacking their mouth. God, so gross. God. OK, are you ready to see if you can win another beaver?
00:27:10
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Culinary triathlon. I'm guessing that's like cooking and how fast you can cook, how good you can cook. I feel like someone would push for this to be in the, I'm gonna say it's true.
00:27:33
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I'll take a cafe au lait over here. You're winning beavers, I'm winning coffee. So this in made up land in Sarah land would be in the 2024 Paris Olympics because of course. And this fast paced three part competition would be a dream for food enthusiasts. Athletes would compete
00:28:00
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in three culinary disciplines, a timed mystery basket challenge, a technical skills showcase, and a creative presentation round. Judges would evaluate on taste, technique, creativity, and time management, crowning the ultimate culinary champion.
00:28:25
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With the growing popularity of food culture, this would be the perfect addition to the modern Olympics. I mean, you just described the show Chopped. A lot of it, yes. Because Chopped would chase it. Which is a really good show. We've watched that here in the elephant house. Yeah, I've watched it and I've started it over from season one. Oh, wow.
00:28:55
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Yeah, I went way back. That's funny. You know, we watch worst cooks in America, and when they get to the higher up levels, it's often it becomes, that's something you would do, Sarah. Once they've gotten far enough in that they're not still the worst cooks, I'm like, maybe this is called the worst cooks in America. Please stop.
00:29:21
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Oh, my God. All right, you another one? Mm hmm. OK, a crest. Oh, equestrian. I shouldn't have made fun of your pronunciation. Cross country archery. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to say that's true. Er, damn it.
00:29:46
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Three cafe au lait and tied with three beavers. Wait, I thought you had a dolphin. You have a dolphin and two cafe au lait. I mean, after you swim with the dolphin, you can go enjoy your cafe au lait. Maybe give them one. I don't know. Oh my God.
00:30:16
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drinking with their little fins. Oh my god, so cute. Who doesn't love a dolphin?
00:30:25
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I forgot I had a dolphin. OK, in made up Sarah Land, this would have happened in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Do you like how I went enough far enough to look up which Olympics? Yeah, I know. I'm like, are those years right? Yes, they probably are. Yeah. This equestrian event would have tested both rider and horse skills and precision.
00:30:54
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and precision. I should not have made fun of you for pronunciation. Dang it. Riders would navigate a challenging cross country course while firing arrows at targets strategically placed throughout. Points would be awarded for accuracy and time with penalties for missed shots and course faults. This unique sport might have been a bit too dangerous for the 1912 Olympics.
00:31:23
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but would be a fascinating display of horsemanship and archery combined. They should make this. Yeah, I would like to see it. Yeah, they should make this a thing. They should. They really should. I think it would be really cool. All right, we're tied. Oh my God. So you've got two to beat me. Okay. And then you can cuddle beavers.
00:31:53
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I mean, they are pretty cute and soft. Yeah, I would totally be OK with that. And they make this little like cute squeaky noise. It's like, oh, my God, they're so they're cute. They're cute. Long jump and high jump. I feel like both of those are. Thing, do you mean like, oh, wait, sorry, equestrian, sorry, equestrian, long jump and high jump.
00:32:22
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Oh my God, so you're making a horse do that shit? No, that cannot be real. That added a whole layer to this. I will take another dolphin. That's real? Oh my God, did it break any horse's legs? How did you make a horse go over a pole?
00:32:50
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I'm just picturing the horse and the person side angling slo-mo over the pole. It's not pole-poting. Oh, I thought that's what it was.
00:33:06
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I was like, how is that possible? You have to have seen horses doing jumping competitions before. No, I have definitely, I mean, maybe, I don't know. I definitely haven't gone to one. I mean, I used to jump. I definitely, I've ridden a horse once in my life.
00:33:33
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I didn't kick into my head that part of jumping. I just went straight to pole vaulting. And I was like, impossible. Horses do not pole vault. You have to hold the horse with your legs. I know. Extreme. Hey, this is the Olympics, right?
00:34:03
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You got to hold them with the legs. Really. You got to have good thigh muscles and stamina. And like control that horse to go sideways as you pull over the pole. All right. So I guess that's not what's happening. OK, so this was in 1900. So equine jumping made its first appearance
00:34:29
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at the Olympics when horses were still a must-have mode of transportation in the 1900s. Horse jumping gained popularity in the West around the 18th century when English aristocrats erected fences on their lands. The highest jump ever recorded took place in February 1949. And during the 1900... Oh, wait. It's of 2.47 meters.
Tug-of-War and Cultural Significance
00:34:59
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was the height. During the 1900 games, France's rider won the gold with a jump of 1.85 meters. In the long jump, the initial distance was set at 4.5 meters, which this is a lot of metering, which the 17 competitors easily achieved.
00:35:25
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However, most failed when the distance was increased by 40 centimeters. Very weird horse name. The wheat separated from the chaff eventually took the first bite. Wait, that's his name? I think so. Okay. It was an eight-year-old horse who jumped 6.1 meters.
00:35:55
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Hmm, I don't know in meters as the measurement very well. Yeah, I kind of wish I looked that up. But here we are. Seems impressive, but I don't really know. I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. I'm sure you're impressive, Mr. Something separates from the shaft. I don't know. Wait. OK.
00:36:26
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God, OK. And here's the final one. This is either for a tie or for my victory. Your victory. All right. Tug of war. Oh, my God. I want it to be real. I want to say, yeah. Ding, ding, ding.
00:36:54
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Sat it up. Congratulations. You now have four beavers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Christina is bowing. Just so everyone knows, do I get the silver medal? I mean, or we split gold or we split silver? What happens in a tie? A rematch, at least in the ancient Greek times. OK, so next time.
00:37:24
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Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's for all the money. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right. All right. Well. The Greeks could have it that way.
00:37:33
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tug of war was in several Olympics, the 1900 games, the 1920 games, the 1904 games, the 1908 games, why I did these out of order, I cannot tell you, then the 1912 games. So the Oxford dictionary published in one of its
00:37:59
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volumes that tug-of-war originally meant the decisive contest, the real struggle or tussle, or a severe contest for supremacy. Whoa, those are very epic names for tug-of-war. I know, right?
Listener Engagement and Teasers
00:38:22
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Really coming in hot on the definitions of tug-of-war there.
00:38:28
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Originally classified by the International Olympic Committee as part of athletics, tug-of-war was later moved to its own category away from any other sports. Tug-of-war pulling the rope or rope war, the discipline is known almost everywhere in the world with slight name changes.
00:38:51
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There are records in rock carvings in the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which I did not see when I was there, but I now kind of wish I had known before I went, so I would look. The ancient Greeks practiced it, which is, I remember learning that somewhere along the way, as well as the ancient Chinese dynasties among many other.
00:39:18
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In all, tug-of-war appeared five times as an official sport in the Olympic Games, with tweaked rules ranging from five to eight team members. During the 1900 games, the winning team was a Danish-Swedish mix, and mind you, they only had one bout to win.
00:39:40
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They only had one one game. It wasn't like multiples. Get one shot. Yeah, one shot. And they did. And by the way, my source for the real games was Reuters. All right. Shout out. I felt like I should cite my sources. I forgot to do it earlier. Oh, yeah, I'm definitely my sources are Wikipedia.
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