Well...Basically
Well...Basically
181: Olympic Aspirations and Minty Transformations
Thinking about quitting vaping? Learn the proper way to use tictacs for maximum impact, and navigate the world of nicotine gum flavors with us. We'll clear up any confusion between mint and menthol, revealing how menthol—extracted from the mint plant—is the magic behind that cooling sensation in medicines and beauty products.
Dive into the Summer 2024 Olympics with us as we chat about the best (and worst) sports on the roster. Which sport coule we do with the proper preparation, and what even is the Modern Pentathalon?
All this an more in this week's episode!
Tenatious D makes a bad joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLqoKGHugNE
this is well, basically, with your host, mike de silva and sam weeks are you feeling olympic?
Speaker 2:we were feeling olympic, so we sat down and we talked about guess what olympic, close the olympics. What sports do we like? What sports would we like to compete in? What sports we do not like and do not think should be there? We also did a deep dive on the history of our favorite sport which you can hear in this episode. Okay, we're doing that All right. We hope you enjoyed today's episode. This is.
Speaker 1:Well, basically, well, basically.
Speaker 2:I don't remember Tic Tacs ever being that large. Maybe we've shrunk. No way that box is huge.
Speaker 3:They make these specifically to be omnipurpose, so you get Tic Tacs out of them but you also get a sweet musical instrument. That's pretty good. It's pretty good, you got good rhythm Andrew. Thank you so much. They called me Andrew Rhythm McRose in high school.
Speaker 4:They also called me the hole that wouldn't quit.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:They could pick about. You can call me one of those now, if you want.
Speaker 5:I'm going to opt for the musical. Who's not to?
Speaker 2:say, you can call me one of those now, if you want, I'm going to opt for the musical one.
Speaker 4:Who's not?
Speaker 5:to say the latter was musical.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:It's a good slopping noise. Oh my God, Stop. Like a fleshy triangle.
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely that's actually what they used to call me in high school the fleshy triangle.
Speaker 3:That's the what they used to call me in high school the Fleshy Triangle.
Speaker 2:That's the episode title. I love that we joke about these episode titles that just won't ever be the actual episode Fleshy Triangle can go in. I think it's no, it can't be Fleshy.
Speaker 3:What about Fleshy Rings? That's kind of on brand, I guess. So we're not going to get there.
Speaker 2:We're not going to get there yet We'll get there eventually. How's your week been, sammy? Yeah, good, very good, not vaping anymore. Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 5:I thought we could talk about that. Everyone's not vaping. Wow, this is good.
Speaker 2:It's not allowed.
Speaker 5:Oh, it's illegal, it was imposed. Yeah, we have week two.
Speaker 2:And I would like to say that I hadn't been vaping that much as a fitness professional. But let's be real, I've been vaping a lot. You didn't suck on that. Vaping is so good. I just got sucked into sucking.
Speaker 3:Um, I particularly find it hard me and connor were both in the studio last night and we both kept just like like headlight, ghost faves. Oh my god. I was telling connor about these ghost faves and he looked at me like I was crazy.
Speaker 2:Nah, I swear he did it too I like reached for something and I was like, oh, it's not there, because when I'm making music, obviously I'm very focused on doing it and I need something to keep me going and, honestly, I'd just be absolutely humming through so ghost vaping is kind of like when an amputee loses part like a limb they'll feel the limb and it goes form on them you feel that there's a vape.
Speaker 3:I have it because I used to like, if I'd watch TikToks on my bed, I'd lie on my back and I'd have the vape sitting in like the crevice on my chest, like the little in between my titties, and so then I would be able to grab it from their puff and put it back. And so now, when I'm now watching TikToks. You just play with that beautiful chest here, andrew, I do, I do. It's luscious.
Speaker 5:Amputees everywhere are empathising hard, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, yeah, we're like them. Now what am I saying?
Speaker 3:I found the occasional cigarette has really helped me quit vaping. Just a nice analogue cigarette, 10 out of 10. And also I've been downing Tic Tacs like there's no tomorrow. And do you know what everyone's told me? When I've told them I'm having a pack of tic-tacs a day, they go. Tic-tacs are a diuretic. You're gonna shit yourself to death are they a diuretic? Apparently not to me. I don't think they are. The only thing I get from tic-tacs is a weird fuzz in my mouth multi-dextrin fructose flavors.
Speaker 2:It's usually yeah, I mean maybe I'm not sure what the diuretic thing would be. I think people just hate Tic Tacs. It's basically just like if you're diabetic, probably a pack of Tic Tacs depending on your sugar levels could be quite good for you.
Speaker 5:Were you a smoker prior to the vaping? I was, yeah. You went, though, were you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was sometimes, and then I went full-time vape.
Speaker 5:I'm always confused about how people even get into cigarettes, because I suckled one. Yeah, they taste like butt, oh yeah they're terrible how do you go from that to like, oh, I could really go for some of that.
Speaker 2:Um, I guess I was the circle of friends that I was rolling with in high school and it was kind of like a habit that I never fully like. It wasn't like crazy, but like I'd have the odd one now and again, like if you're out a bit I would have multiple a day.
Speaker 3:And you know what got me into it Cigarettes. Look cool. You're cooler with a cigarette in your hand.
Speaker 5:I think some people look cooler with cigarettes. I do not.
Speaker 3:What's wrong with you with a cigarette? I just look weird.
Speaker 2:I've seen you smoke a cigarette before I know what he's talking about.
Speaker 3:He holds it like a bugle, like a full fist around it.
Speaker 5:Never caught on, couldn't do it.
Speaker 3:No, that's fair. That's a good thing.
Speaker 5:Absolutely not.
Speaker 3:Uh, what are you using to supplement your vaping?
Speaker 2:Uh, currently I've got nicotine gum and it's quite good.
Speaker 3:You were saying that you're not supposed to chew nicotine gum.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you treat it a bit like uh, uh, you chew it for a bit and then it sits.
Speaker 3:Up in your gum, because that's how nicotine works absorbed through the.
Speaker 2:I'd miss stuff to do with my hands, but I'm feeling fine, haven't haven't reverted, but it's also now illegal, so it's very hard. I'm assuming I was going. I was thinking like the nicotine, like gum, would all be sold out from the pharmacy.
Speaker 3:but I don't.
Speaker 2:You can get a prescription to continue vaping, can't you?
Speaker 3:But they only sell three flavors, which is mint, menthol and tobacco, and we know.
Speaker 2:Okay, sorry, they're the worst. What's the difference between mint and menthol?
Speaker 3:It's the difference between peppermint Tic Tac and sucking on a menthol cigarette.
Speaker 2:Oh, so it's got like a bit of tobacco in it as well.
Speaker 3:I guess. So I actually have no idea what the difference is. I never knew this was coming. I thought it's like, more chemically, mint flavor, maybe I don't know, don't quote me oh my god, uh, I'm drawing a blank because I I will put in right here what the difference is menthol is an extract of the mint plant.
Speaker 1:However, it behaves differently and isn't often found in food. Instead, it's used in medicines and beauty products. Menthol is what gives mint its coolness.
Speaker 3:You've just heard the difference. I think it's amazing hearing that, and now we know Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, I got nothing else for this week. The vaping stuff's good, it feels good. What about you, mikey?
Speaker 5:How was your week? I've had a good week. I have been successful in getting a job Congratulations, yay. So I am now a group fitness manager at King's Cross. Wow, fitness first. That's amazing, manager. Yeah, mr Manager.
Speaker 3:Mr Manager, do we have to call you Mr De Silva now? Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's been a long time coming. I'm actually excited for it. Normally, I'm like terribly anxious about everything, but for some reason with this, I'm like, yeah, I feel good.
Speaker 3:You know what you're doing. This is well in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2:It's really good.
Speaker 5:Yeah, in the wheelhouse, which is nice, um, and I haven't really had that before. Everything else has been kind of like, okay, how am I going to jam myself into this odd shaped box when I'm you know? So this, I'm just like, yeah, cool.
Speaker 3:And also is it more money.
Speaker 5:Um, I don't know, I don't care what. I think it is slightly more money.
Speaker 2:We've talked about how you live. It's very differently, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, money, money is the answer, yeah.
Speaker 2:My dad sent me a really cute Instagram the other day and he was like it's you.
Speaker 3:And I was like, oh, that's a really nice way of saying that I don't live up to your expectations.
Speaker 2:What was the reel? Oh no, let me find it. It was very inspiring that he send it to me on instagram. I'll play it. The audio is important. That's the. Are you here?
Speaker 4:to his desk and I found this poem and I read the poem over and I went man, that's how my dad lived his life. The poem goes like this the master in the art of living draws no distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion.
Speaker 2:He hardly knows which is which.
Speaker 4:He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves it up to others to decide whether he is working or playing To himself. He's always doing both.
Speaker 3:That's very sweet. That's so rude of you to say that your dad said you don't live up to his expectations.
Speaker 2:No, I was half joking. It's nice that people think I'm like that.
Speaker 3:That's a really beautiful way to describe it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I like the?
Speaker 3:I'll leave it up to others to decide. Yeah, that's not even a question that would enter my mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly, it answers my mind all the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my life is divided to boxes and each box is happy.
Speaker 2:I thought you were talking about underwear, for a second there, oh, happy you were talking about underwear. For a second there, oh, you had a secret dirty underwear collection that you weren't telling us about. It can be both could be. Oh my god. We have a topic today and also I've picked a song that I think could be relevant is it national anthem by lana. Mikey likes it. This is good. Oh my god, he's throwing up. He hates it. What is this, guys? Guess what starts this weekend? Daylight savings True.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Don't scare me, it's Father's Day on Sunday. Oh shit, just kidding.
Speaker 5:Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2:Episode. Is this 180? 181,? I think 181,. Oh my gosh, we should just have a party in this room with the rabbits and a whole bunch of other people. We should do a podcast in public for episode 200.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that'd be fun. Let's go to a gym floor. Can we do it on the new work gym floor? Probably not.
Speaker 5:Can I manage that gym now? Not when they fire me. No, not the new job, they're not going to fire me.
Speaker 2:I'm here, andrew is here, mikey is here and we're going to talk about some Olympics, ooh oh.
Speaker 5:Just makes you want to run the song, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're walking and listening to this podcast because the song is playing. You now have to run as fast as you can until the song is over.
Speaker 3:Upstairs as well. Yeah, and please film it and send it to us, yeah.
Speaker 2:And when you get to the top of those stairs you get a shadow box for at least three minutes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll call the world basically challenge humiliate yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're talking about olympics, let's talk about it. Okay, they're coming up. Do you guys watch the olympics?
Speaker 3:you know I haven't um. There's some sports like some fun silly ones volleyball, great to watch, um but I I don't. I'm not big into sport and I think the olympic sports as well are not like classic spectator sports, because it's so quick, what do you? Mean, it's the fucking olympics I mean like people watch football because there's like almost a storyline in the football that goes ahead, but there's no storyline in like 15 people running 100 meters. No, still.
Speaker 2:I mean, this sounds to be like someone who does watch the.
Speaker 3:Olympics yeah, absolutely, I'm a fresh face at the.
Speaker 5:Olympics. Um, I'm kind of into it, whether I'll watch it or not. There's another question, because there's so much I don't know where to watch it oh, you can stream.
Speaker 1:can stream it, I think it's.
Speaker 2:I think it's like free to view. I don't think you need like a, you can probably just stream it on the internet quite easily on the tubes yeah, I am into it, I get into it, I get into it as well, but it really depends Like I do remember having like benders and watching the cycling.
Speaker 3:Like oh my god, that sounds fun, let's do that. You can do that. That's the beauty of the Olympics. My housemate Belle is going to set up a little fort downstairs so that in the middle of the night she can get up and watch, because it's going to be a weird time zone for us. So she's going to watch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's all. Me and Chloe went through it and we're trying to figure out whether we want to watch the surfing and weird.
Speaker 2:but that's okay, just get up weird yeah, I'm into it because I'm inherently uh, competitive and I love people's people winning yeah, it's good yeah what kind of sports do you guys get watching you cycling, but I quite I quite like cycling, but that's only um, yeah, that's only once, and I was quite cooked, so I mean, maybe, maybe I'll tv yeah, um, but uh yeah um. Gymnastics is definitely my favorite to watch, by far the hottest. Yeah, it is. It is the hottest, the sexiest sport yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 5:Uh, athletics is also probably yeah, athletics is fun.
Speaker 2:I'm freaking into that.
Speaker 5:I don't can't do long distance, though it has to be I mean I can check in and out of the long distance, yeah, while someone's doing a quick sprint. But the 800 and the 1500, I'm super into.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 1500, that's a hard, yeah, a lot of running.
Speaker 3:How many laps is that on a standard course, field track? I can't even remember. I did track and field once a kid, but I haven't.
Speaker 2:But if you think about it, you have to run that so fast and that's 1.5 kilometers, like that's 1.5 kilometers, like that's.
Speaker 5:That's what I like distance, hell yeah, what I like about those kind of middle distances is like it's super impressive when someone with the sprinters and then like amazing that the long distance guys can just freaking go for that long, sweet jesus, but those the guys in the middle is like a little bit of tactics. Yeah, I suppose long distance as well. But you, but you can see it play out in front of you. Yeah, all of those little tactics, yeah, which I love, and then I love a little come from behind, finish.
Speaker 2:Who doesn't love a come from behind finish Climb over there the classic backshot.
Speaker 3:finish for 1500. A classic running track is 400 meters.
Speaker 2:So that's a lot of times around that track. Yeah, three and a half. I get so bored after the first one.
Speaker 3:Can they have music? Surely not. They can't have like.
Speaker 2:Oh, actually I think some do wear headphones, like sports headphones, but I also feel like that would be a distraction if you're. If like one fell out. They could really like fuck your ass up. I mentioned someone stepping on that and doing that, yeah, when you're at that level, like anything, anything can um affect anything, like I remember when they came up with those uh, suits, yeah for the, for the swimming oh yeah, and then just shaving off like a quarter of a second.
Speaker 2:The french got really upset and they're like they have no nuts, that drag. I'm not sad, drag. That's exactly what they said. Yeah, that is what they said. I also wanted to touch on something because people really admire and appreciate these athletes and I think people forget that these people who are doing these competitions are not the epitome of health. Epitome oh, epitome is a different word, isn't it? What does epitome mean? Hold on? It'sitome is a different word, isn't it? What does epitome mean? Hold on?
Speaker 3:it's the same word, it's just phonetically. That's how it's spelled. Okay, we can go with epitome oh really, ah I'm.
Speaker 2:I can't say that word. You can say they are not the epitome of health, or maybe they are, I would say not long living health, but they're the epitome of um they so, like, basically, I would say that, like, for example, talking with people who I know who have competed at really high levels, like particularly in gymnastics and the Commonwealth Games, their whole life is the sport. There is nothing else right. Your life is the sport, the diet, the everything also the olympics orgy.
Speaker 3:I love that oh, that does happen. Yeah, that also that they. It's all about training, all about diet and also that huge they also.
Speaker 2:They always have a mcdonald's in the village, which is, I think, oh, that's funny yeah it's amazing there was that guy.
Speaker 5:There was an australian long jumper who was like on the beers. He was the exception to the rule, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You'd want, like your race or whatever to be very early in the Olympics and then you get to spend like two weeks in this palace of hot people doing whatever you want. It's not like you're training there for your next event. The Olympics is the event. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah it. Yeah. It's a real interesting one. Not just any person can train so hard. They become an Olympian, like they're top of the top, because it's like it's not just the fact that they train really hard, it's also their genetic freaks, most of them.
Speaker 3:Well, there is this year I can't remember, I'm scant on the details for this, but you know, most Olympians are very young. There's like a 30 year age cap, basically because they're going to be in their peak fitness for health. There's this one lady who is going on behalf of maybe brazil, peru, at some south american country. She was born and raised in china, originally, uh, and she was very good at ping pong and then, when she was meant to go over for the olympics, something happened that caused her to not be able to go over when she was very young and she was very good. She then moved over to this other country and is now on their Olympic ping pong team. How old is she?
Speaker 4:She's like 56 or something or 60 years old and she's like a national hero.
Speaker 3:They're all like, yeah, she's getting her second chance, she's going to take gold.
Speaker 5:I didn't know ping pong, oh, hence the name. I know that I was going to say. They're going back to the health thing. Yeah, uh, just to round out like, athletes are sometimes twice as likely to have eating disorders, so there's lots of things that can go on. Just because they are at the pinnacle of that sport doesn't mean all the ducks are in a row.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah oh my god. I was having a conversation with someone I'm not gonna say who and um this woman in a larger body walked into the restaurant and he goes. Do you reckon she's so big because she's an ex-olympic?
Speaker 5:swimmer. Where did that come?
Speaker 3:from what the hell that is out of left field I was like I was so confused I was like I don't know man, that's so funny, but did they explain why they thought that?
Speaker 2:He thought her face looked like an Olympic swimmer's face, or something or her shoulders. I was like okay, how about we stop talking about her body? Thank you.
Speaker 5:But yeah, back to the age thing. Like Simone Biles for a gymnast is quite old as well. How old simone biles? Something ridiculous like 27 oh, my god aged yeah, she's probably one of the oldest, uh to be logan's run. There is. There is another one, I think, maybe from south america somewhere yeah, that was someone south america.
Speaker 3:Well, maybe a different one for south america no gymnast, though.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, yeah, and she's been doing it. She's done like five olympics or something. That's crazy. I think she meddled the first one she went to, but she's kept going.
Speaker 2:Do you reckon you stop after you get a gold? Do you just go oh yeah, I've got one? No, because people go back and get multiple golds. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5:Well, that might be your peak, especially depending on your age, you might not be able to come back.
Speaker 2:What about, like this would be interesting, olympian um, to get them on and talk about career paths like post, like, because obviously there's a point where you you can't compete anymore. The next step is you just go become a coach, right that, yeah you just tour schools and go.
Speaker 3:I want a gold medal. Yeah, you can too.
Speaker 2:Who's the aussie guy? Oh my god, I'm gonna blank on this. There's an aussie at the no at the winter, at the at the winter olympics. He was in speed skating and everyone else on the track fell over, so he got gold.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was last for the entire, so he gets always toted out as being like what a lucky lad. He was never going to win. That's a legitimate tactic in speed skating, because that last lap or two people go crazy and feral, and then one person at the front trips and then everyone behind them because they're so closely packed trips as well. So what he did was he deliberately waited back, or now he claims he did. I believe him. I stand with steven um. He waited back for all of them to drop off so that he could skate around them and take the goal, but there was.
Speaker 2:He did like a whole lap with no one there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 2:They actually there's a band that Chloe toured with who are like sort of it's like a covers band but they also do like a real big funny show Like they drop sex dolls and people and stuff. But they got, they played we Are the Champions. And they got Stephen Bradbury out on a pedestal and he got to crowd surf.
Speaker 3:What a king.
Speaker 2:It looked like his happiest moment. What a king. It looked like his happiest moment. He was so stoked Australia's most famous Olympian?
Speaker 3:Yeah, he actually is. Do you know? There's two new sports this year. They've added two extra sports onto the roster. Can I guess?
Speaker 5:Yeah, of course, is it the Pentathlon.
Speaker 3:No, the modern Pentathlon. I am going to talk about that because I love that sport. I'm obsessed with that sport. I think it's bizarre. Yeah, talk about in a second. But that isn't one of them. That was actually in the uh original run sheet of the modern olympics. It was it was invented and put in by the guy who invented the modern olympics was it?
Speaker 5:is it break dancing?
Speaker 3:uh, no, that was last um once.
Speaker 2:That's very very out of date with my break dancing, they call it breaking um, but it is break.
Speaker 3:Dancing was put in in the 20 uh sorry, the 2020 olympics.
Speaker 2:Hey, I back that. Yeah, yeah, I'm into that. But how come only that one specific type of dance?
Speaker 3:There's other dances like rhythmic gymnastics and artistic gymnastics. There's other kinds of dance.
Speaker 2:I guess that sort of dance.
Speaker 3:They have equestrian, which is like dancing on a horse On a horse.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they have water polo. Those horses are athletes, which is like riding a horse.
Speaker 3:but only in water. So it is not either of those, but very close. Do you want to take any guesses? You know them, don't you?
Speaker 2:You told me that I am obviously I forgot them as well.
Speaker 3:One of them was speed climbing like sport.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Cool, that's great I love the other one.
Speaker 5:You named it. I'm fascinated to see that Cause.
Speaker 2:yeah, it wasn't skateboarding, because skateboarding?
Speaker 5:was skateboarding.
Speaker 3:Well, it was skateboarding isn't this year. Yeah, yeah, skateboarding has been added in. So skateboarding and speed and sport.
Speaker 2:I think those are both valid sports. So there are any sports we think uh.
Speaker 3:I can't say invalid. Uh, rugby sevens, why is that there? That's got its whole league to itself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's it. It's a great sport. It's rugby with less people, more running. You have to be very fit to play that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm kind of into the rugby sevens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's really good. We're from New Zealand. You'll be fighting a losing battle.
Speaker 3:What about lacrosse? It's a gay sport, I think Is it. Yeah, let the gays have something Get your little net, your little ball sack net and just prance around the.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go, yes, on the cross, especially if that's how it's played. I would watch that. That should be there. Uh, I kind of.
Speaker 3:There's also a canoe slalom. We get in a canoe and just go. Oh yeah, that's that's. I think that's funny.
Speaker 2:I think all the sports are cool Cause they're all good to watch.
Speaker 3:There's nothing that I'm like, uh if darts went to the olympics I might be a bit like, or whatever, because like that's just. You know, I wasn't big on the pentathlon. It seems a little bit random. So the modern pentathlon why don't I talk about it? Because I it, it is. It seems random, but there's, there's a method behind it. So the original pentathlon was in the, uh, ancient olympic games. There was a classic pentathlon is what it's called, and the five sports in that were running, jumping, ja, javelin, discus and wrestling, and they were supposed to be the epitome of a well-rounded man's skills at the time. That's how you would like. If you fought well, you'd be able to use a javelin, you'd be able to run well, you'd be able to wrestle well, you would be like a peak soldier, is the idea when the Baron Pierre de Coubertin I don't know, that's his name, the dude who set up the modern Olympics.
Speaker 3:It was like we need to bring this back. Those Greeks, they knew what they were doing when he was setting up the Olympics. He was like and we need something that's going to test out the skills of a modern soldier, a modern man. And so it ended up with five sports, obviously a pentathlon. What they are is, it's riding, and specifically riding on a horse you are not familiar with. So you get given some random horse and you have to go ride this course. Whoa, that's cool.
Speaker 3:It's supposed to be a survival skill that you would be like across enemy lines. You would have to be able to just grab a horse.
Speaker 2:Just wrangle a horse, yeah right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's important. Sword fighting makes sense, big gay. But whatever Swimming, it's a 200 meter freestyle event, so you're gonna be able to just swim a distance quite quickly, running and shooting. And the shooting is done with a laser run where athletes alternate between running and shooting at five targets. So they run and then shoot run and then shoot.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, cool. That's where the gun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's not with a gun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's not with a laser like a rifle. It's called a laser run, but it's um. Yeah, it's like wow, they give them laser guns. This is for the future.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like the 1800s, the horse is actually a robot yeah, so the five and you swim in petroleum jelly? Yeah, they should have done them all at once. You should have had to shoot off the back of the horse that you're riding while it's swimming. Yes, uh, and there's someone trying to fence you to death.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Interesting, I would watch that.
Speaker 3:So the modern pentathlon is divided into two sections as well. First, the athletes. They score points according on how they rank in fencing, riding and swimming events. So those three are kind of blocked together, which decides their standing and position for the laser run event. And then, during the laser run, athletes start with a delay corresponding with the number of points between them. So you get your benefit in the first three events. And then the big one is this laser run where you run, shoot, run, shoot.
Speaker 2:I think that's my one to watch this year. I've never watched that.
Speaker 5:It seems kind of convoluted, I think.
Speaker 2:I've only ever caught the shooting part of it. I've only ever caught that, but that would be the big one.
Speaker 3:That's the one that everyone would watch. It's like you've done all of the three kinds of boring.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And due to the diverse nature of events involved, modern pentathlon is an extremely demanding sport. So it's like not, you're not going to have the best runner is going to be in this. It's going to be some freak that's trained just for this sport.
Speaker 2:Very weird. They should do a medieval pentathlon. It doesn't even have to be pentathlon I actually just want jousting.
Speaker 3:That's all I want. I just want jousting, yeah, jousting and also being a jester.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're bringing you a jester performance, yeah.
Speaker 3:You have to have little bells on your hat.
Speaker 2:You can do the best dance and tell the best jokes.
Speaker 5:Oh my God, I'm gonna Also throw in Another thing that I hate the tennis. Oh yeah, I just don't. They've got enough. They've got.
Speaker 3:Wimbledon Table tennis is fine, they've got the.
Speaker 4:Australian Open yeah.
Speaker 5:I agree this is too much. Too much tennis.
Speaker 3:You're being greedy.
Speaker 5:They are being greedy. They don't need gold medals as well. Same with golf. I've got a list. It's golf, Golf's in the Olympics, isn't it?
Speaker 3:I think so yeah, yeah, it is indeed in the Olympics. It's the only G starting event.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's crazy. If you were going to compete in one of these sports and win or just for fun, just like if you wanted to be good at a sport, what would it be? That's in the Olympics.
Speaker 3:I mean the canoe slalom. Surely Wouldn't that be so fun.
Speaker 2:Shook, shook, shook. I'd a hundred percent be a gymnast A hundred percent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're quite good at it. You can do handstands.
Speaker 5:I don't think I have the build for gymnastics, but I was very good at hockey so. I would have just kept playing that Okay, yeah, okay, and you're definitely you're. Didn't I already talk about that Getting money, the gayest one that's been selected? You're out, you're done.
Speaker 3:You're already disqualified. Oh no, you've pinned me. I'm trapped. Am I choosing this for what? I think I could succeed in the Olympics.
Speaker 2:No, just one that you'd want to be good at. And actually, if you were to be an Olympic athlete, which one would you be?
Speaker 3:I mean swimming. If I could win a gold medal at swimming, I would be a national hero in Australia.
Speaker 2:We love our swimmers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's true, Except if they get overweight after oh yeah, or if they come out as gay and then go back into the closet. No, no, no, I didn't know that happened. That's crazy. Then he came out again, I think I don't know.
Speaker 5:Just do it once mate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can't restitch this thing, we can do we could we could.
Speaker 2:What we should do is we'll figure out when the pentathlon is and we'll do a watch party.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Okay cool.
Speaker 2:Cause we can watch it on the TV in here and we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll watch it and record it. So fun.
Speaker 3:I think it's such a cool sport. Which do you think you could if given barrier to entry? Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 1:Um, uh, can it be, uh, winter olympics, oh I mean, yeah, you can tell us. But that sweeping job, oh yeah, you can be a sweeper yeah, in the.
Speaker 3:What's that called? I don't know the name of that curling, I think all of our listeners who are professional curlers uh hate you that is so much skill you have.
Speaker 5:No, there is nuance to how you brush that. I've seen mom. It probably is. I've seen a bit of mom. Yeah, they're very good. Yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you seen that Marmots can do that.
Speaker 3:I don't know what a marmot is. You can put a link to that underneath in the description In the description.
Speaker 2:You chuck it in.
Speaker 3:It is an animal, it's like a groundhog. What would you do if you had? A year ago they came to you and they said you have to go in the Olympics, pick your sport, and then you have a year to train. What would you?
Speaker 5:do Scrap in the barrel.
Speaker 2:I reckon I'd do like some form of indoor cycling, because it's something I do quite consistently. Oh yeah, actually.
Speaker 3:You would million cycling things. They have got cycling bmx, freestyle cycling bmx racing, cycling, mountain bike, cycling, road and cycling track. I do track so many cycling.
Speaker 2:I'm used to biking inside. I wouldn't have to adapt that much. The only thing is that things really slanted and it would scare the hell out of me, yeah, if I was at the top but you have a year to practice. You probably could just get onto one of those and try no, but like that, like our stationary bikes very different to that but you start leaning to the side.
Speaker 5:When you start out on the flat bit, you start leaning to the side.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you start out on the flat bit when it's getting fast. Go up a little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 3:Or just stay on the flat bits the whole time. Just have a leisurely ride through while everyone's like zipping around you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'd do. Do you have to be good?
Speaker 3:Is that the the idea At the end point? I think cycling is good for you. My pick would be archery, because like, how, how hard could that be? He's point and shoot.
Speaker 2:What if I get really?
Speaker 3:lucky on my first shot and I just bullseye it.
Speaker 2:Who's the guy who shot the apple off the head? What's his name? That's something you would know, Andrew.
Speaker 3:It sounds like a French name, I feel. Yeah, no, I don't know, I feel like that's just like an old trick. Robin Hood Robin.
Speaker 2:Hood? It's definitely Robin Hood.
Speaker 3:It was Newton.
Speaker 2:Oh, do you reckon we're done with Olympics? I think we could do another episode. Let's do another episode, we'll be doing?
Speaker 3:Are we talking about Olympics for the next four weeks? Yeah, we can oh my gosh, did you hear the story about the Seine and how there's all all of these events that occur in the sand, like the river that runs through Paris?
Speaker 3:And like all rivers that run through major cities, it's filthy, but they've been doing all this work to like clean it up. And Macron came out like a month ago and was like I'm not going to do an accent. He came out a month ago and he said it's clean, it's good. And everyone was like that's bullshit, it looks disgusting, I'm not going to swim in that. And then he said, okay, I'm calling you on this. I think it's clean enough that I'm going to swim in it. And then something happened. On the day he was supposed to swim in it, some big political something happened that meant that he couldn't. Trump got shot. It was earlier than that, but it's a good guess. The Minister for Health did it. I think it was earlier this week. She got in and swam in it, but the plan was on the day that whoever was going to swim in it swims in it. All the people in Paris were going to shit in the Seine.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that's so good.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, the Seine still looks filthy, but there's a video of the, I think, minister for Health or Minister for like Water is like getting into the water and swimming around and diving into it and she's like screaming the whole time.
Speaker 2:Did you, now that we're doing random bits of news, did you see that tenacious D on the weekend performed in Sydney?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Jack Black came out and said that he wished the shooter had been tenacious.
Speaker 3:D came out and said that yeah, jack Black's in tenacious D. It's a rock group.
Speaker 2:I thought it was a man, yeah, he is a man.
Speaker 3:Tenacious, d was one person, yeah.
Speaker 2:Jack Black and Carl Gass. It's a duo. Yeah, it's a duo.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, what I thought. Tenacious D was one single person.
Speaker 5:I think this is bigger news that you don't know who Tenacious D is. Oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, they've had to cancel the whole Australian tour, and more than that.
Speaker 3:Jack Black came out and he was like I'm cancelling all of my creative endeavours and pending further, like thought on what's just happened. It was like the nuclear option.
Speaker 2:But why?
Speaker 3:Because he's the face of a tonne of very popular children's franchises, and so a lot of his media is driven by, like Disney.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but also God have you seen? Yeah, but like have you watched the Pick of.
Speaker 2:Destiny. That's just the whole thing's dick jokes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I think it's a little different from like assassinating president jokes.
Speaker 2:I mean we can tell if you're on here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think we're going to get cancelled. No, you have to have a real big following to get cancelled.
Speaker 5:And our 60,000 listeners is just not enough. I am pro that comment Good on him. There's several other world leaders that could do with getting the X as well.
Speaker 2:I just want to wear that. You can't like. I mean like yeah, I guess, like saying that's a little bit, but whatever, but he's a comedian Like. He's been in comedy movies his whole career and the the point of the show is that it's funny. The whole thing's like a farce.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think what we're in now is a very heightened period of emotion for everyone involved. I think a lot of Americans are saying, either their glorious leader has risked their life, or they're saying, oh, we've got another four years of a slide into despotism, and so comments like that strike a very negative chord with everyone around unfortunately, and maybe five years down the track when America is a full police state and everyone's in their gulags that joke will be funny.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it will be funny, it'll be funny from here.
Speaker 3:From here, yeah, Unless they invade. But two days after Trump nearly getting shot by some weird wacko. I don't know it. Just I can see why people went absolutely wild over it.
Speaker 2:Did they go crazy at the concert when it happened? I didn't. I've only just been told this today. I thought it was.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I've not watched the video. I'll put the video in the description.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, that was well basically current events to round off our Olympics episode. Thank you so much for listening to well episode. Thank you so much for listening to Well Basically. If you want to find Andrew, you can find him at the Beardback Investor. If you want to find Mikey, you can find him at Well Basically Mikey. If you want to find me, you can find me at Well Basically Sam. The podcast is at Well Basically Pod. The website is wwwwellbaspodcom. There's a secret link on there where you can watch the….
Speaker 3:Tenacious D insulting Trump. That's it, but from the background, yeah.
Speaker 2:As if you were there. Yeah, pov, we talked about too many things today. Well, basically, basically that's it.