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The Olympics are almost here! Did

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you know? Did you ever? Does

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anyone actually know when the Olympics are coming? Or do

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we all just sort of turn on the TV and

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get surprised by them? Like the ring goes running a

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mean 100-meter dash. I'm

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just kidding. I'm just razzing you. We're really

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into razzing here on the show, Dee. I

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razzed like four times

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this morning. The Olympics are obviously a very

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major and very popular worldwide event, and that's

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no razz. Alright, you've

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entered the no-razz zone. That

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razz? No! Countries

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agreeing to set aside their political differences to

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have one big field day together is honestly

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kind of a miracle. And it speaks to

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something good and decent within us all. To

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me, one of the biggest thrills

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is being in that stadium and

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hearing the athlete oath, hearing

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them announce the games being open, and

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seeing the flame come in. Because to

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me, it reaffirms what the Olympic games are

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about and why I'm doing what I'm doing.

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That sounds inspiring, because the Olympics, as

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an ideal, are inspiring. They give us

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a tiny, fleeting glimpse of what world

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peace could be like. They're also a

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bone fest, which personally inspires me to

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bone. And fester.

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But the Olympics, as a real-life organization,

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are, as you may have guessed by

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the video title, far less noble. In

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fact, the event is closer to a

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traveling blight crawling across the planet in

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such a... up resources like those

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awesome Predator cities in that Mortal Engines

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movie, a common reference that all of

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us understand and appreciate. And while I

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could sit here and talk about Mortal

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Engines like a commoner all night, tragically,

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the Olympics need my attention. And they

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are far less awesome. Most

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of the time. The

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Olympics are terrible for everyone, except Michael Jordan and

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the 92 Dream Team. The

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Olympics were pretty great for those guys, but

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for everyone else, the Olympics are butts. And

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they've been butts since the start of the

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modern era. The first modern Olympics were the

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1896 Summer Games, which were held in Athens

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and brought together 241 athletes from 14 nations.

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That's shortly after they formed the International

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Olympics Committee, aka the IOC, aka

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the governing body of the Olympics. No word

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if that one was corrupt. It was 1896

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though, so that probably

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sucked in general. But the iconic Olympic

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torch relay, which opens the games with

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the relay of torchbearers running from Athens

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to the host city to light the

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Olympic flame, only started in 1936, specifically

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for the Nazi-hosted Berlin games. So one

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of the most lasting images of the

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Olympics was created as a group project

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with the Third Reich while the games

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were all hugged up with the Nazis.

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That's cool. We keep putting

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that on stamps, I guess. The first

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Olympic torch relay was essentially a

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Nazi propaganda film orchestrated by Joseph

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Goebbels, who had convinced the Fuhrer

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that the games weren't, as he'd

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originally suggested, an invention of Jews

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and Freemasons. Hitler didn't even want

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the Olympics because he thought they

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were a Jewish conspiracy. And the

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International Olympic Committee said, let's give

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them the games, give them the

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games. This decision will age spectacularly.

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Nazi propagandist Lenny Riefenstahl even restaged

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some segments of the relay for her

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air quotes. Quebec

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incurred so much debt from hosting the

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1976 Summer Games that the city didn't

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finish paying it off until 2006, and

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only ended up getting it done by

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passing a tobacco tax, which is a

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deliciously ironic way to pay for an

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athletic event. So yeah, not

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the Olympics are bad for cities, they're corrupt

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brutal governments, but there's no denying. Oh,

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I wanna watch that show. Anyway, the

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point is the climate is changing,

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not without help from the Olympics,

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mind you. And there simply isn't

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winter in enough places anymore to

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consistently host the winter games. One

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continue on their current trajectory, all

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but one of the 21 cities that

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have hosted winter games will be too

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warm to host it again. Ultimately,

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the IOC might be forced to permanently

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settle the winter games in a handful

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of cities that get enough snow or

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have the kind of large indoor venues

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that could make it work. Seems

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bad. We should probably look into

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that. If there's time. Even

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if the Olympics remains at its

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current gargantuan carbon belching scale and

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continues terrorizing our greatest world cities

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like a fit inspirational kaiju, the

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IOC could still make a huge difference

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simply through more accountability and better enforcement.

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And as of last year, that's what

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they're claiming to be doing. Mounting a

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push towards sustainability, the IOC announced some

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new guidelines in 2023 that

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it claims will be implemented in every

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Olympic games going forward. For

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instance, Paris will be selling sustainable

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food during the summer's games, using

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primarily local ingredients to reduce the

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environmental cost of importing ingredients, hopefully

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cutting the carbon footprint of food

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by 50% and

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reducing the use of plastic. In 2020,

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Tokyo's Olympic village was heated and powered

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by hydrogen, which doesn't produce any emissions,

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but will occasionally explode if stuffed inside

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a Nazi blimp. Cities are

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also required to use existing structures to

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host the games and only build new

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they pledged to plant 590,000 trees in

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Senegal and Mali. And that's nice. That's

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a good start if they actually stick

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