The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 545 - The 1984 Olympic Games

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

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Christ it's good 1923 a good time from what I remember roaring twins Los Angeles won the bid to host the 1932 Olympics okay now this was very easy because no other cities in the world wanted the Olympics only it had like if only no one had wanted maybe it would stop why do we still do them you're gonna learn we don't know why we still do them in 1929 the depression arrived did not slow down the cabal of rich guys industrialists oil men tours and promoters showbiz guys from holding their Olympics in Los Angeles right they were called the Garland group after the guy who led them who was developer William

May Garland okay so many countries were like what are you doing why would you do why would you do that because we do everything's fine for us why why don't is they're gonna hold the Olympics it's a depression why would you have I feel great people are too depressed to race come on people gonna run if they're hungry they can jump hurdles we put bread at the end of the hurdles yeah right yeah at the end of the 3,000 meter there will be a pile of meat the gold medalists get to have a house so I mean there's bread lines there's encampments all over Los Angeles still Garland goes to Europe to meet with the

Pope and leaders like Mussolini to coordinate the Olympics so the big two yeah people protested in the state capital of Sacramento with signs that read groceries not games and the Olympics are outrageous that's a tough sign though the outrageous one yep can be taken two ways can be like they're fun it can be valid yeah you see look they wanted the Olympics are outrageous they sure are look at that guy one tooth only a half a pair of pants on that's not what I mean your support of the Olympics means a lot to us no no you know there's some big kooks out there who think that we shouldn't hold them

that's me because people like you don't want us to but then we're driving down here and we see a sign that tells us exactly how you feel no the Olympics are outrageous no the negative happening again negative outrageous listen we need more like you know thank you come here I'm gonna give you I'm gonna get covered in plastic and then give you a hug what are you talking about I don't want to catch poor the governor said the Olympics were frivolous quote what do they want riots but he didn't want to upset the Garland group so he didn't cancel the Olympics so so he's like what am I out of my mind let's do them you're the

governor what am I gonna do what's right for the people there's 14 rich guys that want this it's absurd to do this people are really hurting okay I'll green light it so there's a stadium the Coliseum already existed so they didn't have to build one that's nice because that is one of the things about any of these where it's just like we built five stadiums people like yeah no we are dying yeah we don't need that we need those foods yeah they do be they built like cycling tracks and scoreboard other stuff right they did build stuff but not not like giant buildings so people were still angry an angry group in Santa

Monica attacked shops that had Olympic pennants in their windows they burned some of the shops the games needed financial backing but Congress was like yeah no we're not gonna do that can you imagine and now I can't Hoover passed on presiding over the opening ceremony telling friends quote it's a crazy thing and it takes some gall to expect me to be part of it so he's the president he's the president yeah the president always goes to the opening yeah so the president's like this is really crazy this is the first one a president didn't go to or or like a leader so the governor's like this is stupid yeah the

president is like I'm not going this is ridiculous like I'm not giving money and the only people who supported other people on the streets who think it's outrageous and they're just kind of like the push behind it because they're so excited they think it's an outrageous people in the streets don't want it no they do that a sign that no no no yes that's I picked the worst word it's I look I'm telling you believe it or not we were gonna cancel these until we saw I should I was gonna put people who are gonna say let's take that money and pipe it into the helping the poor I was gonna put the Olympics our shithouse well

that would be completely contradictory to what you've what you thought yes the Olympics are outrageous get the hugging plastic got the hugging plastic so five months before not one nation had committed to the Olympics the United States again winning the gold medal in the 500 the United States medal count now 904 other country zero the United States is just cleaning up this year you can see there's a lot of rioting going on around the games but the United States is not letting that get in their way as they are on another gold medal they have won it for that the United States has gotten

another gold it's great and silver look at that I'll tell you what we agree with the people of the streets these games are outrageous that's exactly what the signs said and that's what it meant you know a lot of people said the games are gonna get canceled without that one fellow who made a sign that just was the wind beneath the wings of these beautiful games so no other countries they can't even like the Americas America's holding it but the other countries can't justify paying to send their people Jesus so ticket sales are terrible because there's no nation's sponsored now one out right the backers and sponsors hold a

meeting and they just screened at each other the whole time nice but they keep planning the Olympics they then offered up just a charge of two dollars per athlete for lodging with travel discounts on top wow and so then countries start getting on board okay people's are buying tickets okay 35,000 sold in 72 hours wow okay that's when you had to go physically by the right yeah right a hundred and five thousand show up on opening day wow the biggest crowd in Olympic history wow just because it's so cheap it must be yeah poor countries try to save money Brazil's athletes and it's and it's also like people are so

bored yeah there's nothing to do at all there's nothing yeah literally nothing yes poor countries try to save money Brazil's athletes had they came with bags of coffee to sell okay so we're thinking that when you guys get there you will sell the coffee is that I understand no you will walk there first of all there will be no flights no planes you walk from Brazil to the United States and to Los Angeles and you will when you're there you will sell coffee okay no no part-time job you're also gonna make sandwiches all right now get out there I'm a runner yeah all right then run there good work these

games are outrageous get going Cubans had sugar to sell but when they got to Texas they discovered a combined job they had you know a water guy they discovered prices were too low so the ship turned around and went back they discovered prices were too low to sell the sugar oh well they got to Texas sugar was so cheap they were like this we're not gonna make any money and so they went back without so they were they were out of the game they did not go to the limit so Cuba pulled out of the Olympic games because they couldn't sell their sugar that's correct why are you guys back sugar is like so cheap there right

now like a ridiculous okay all right we're just we're not gonna do these Olympics only 1500 athletes came from 37 countries some events like soccer had to be canceled wow the goldmatter the gold medal winner in club swinging club excuse you gotta beat the guy like this it's literally a guy just swinging clubs around I looked it up what it's just a guy swinging clubs for who's in charge we mean who's in charge who's judging there are judges other club swingers other club swingers the people who used to swing clubs now judge I like the attitude you have with me right now where you're like buddy how are you not

familiar with the process of the club swinging part of the game that's not an event anymore it should be why isn't it you say that like you're like oh it's not an event it's dumb but it's clearly fucking awesome there's a guy swinging clubs octopus man no I think it's arm going up and down they're taking pictures here's a team there's a team of club swingers so they it's just literally synchronized clubbing I mean that must be here's the club team this is a this is a god I went away that's a team of club swing so it's just guys with clubs this guy's a clubber you can see he's got his clubs it's not making any more

it's just clubs they just stand around with clubs and swing them it's making sense now isn't it Gareth does it make sense okay so the oh my god so it's a guy and they literally have arrows of which way he swings the club so it's a club swinging he literally a guy with two clubs and they swing some dance it's a club dance no it's a swinging club it's a dance with clubs it's not a dance it's just upper-body club dance no it's a you're swinging we're going to the club we're going to use our clubs right now some guys like why didn't you do a joke about swingers and clubs yeah because we're better than that yeah those of my

thing and by the way can I take a moment to everybody who tweets at me the jokes I missed thank you it's good thank you very much we appreciate it so the goldmatter gold medal winner in club swinging American George Roth had no job he took food from the Olympic Village every day home to his wife and daughter in Hollywood so they could eat after winning the gold he had to hitch hike home because it didn't have a car couldn't pay for a bus hey I went then I just watch you in the gold medal yeah yeah I swung the clubs are unbelievable the way you swung yeah yeah I know I'm a big time I've been

swinging clubs for since I was a baby you can't you just want to go then you can't drive home I don't have any money mostly I joined the Olympics just to get at the buffet so wow look at me giving a gold medalist the ride home yeah how about that for free well I was just about to say for free seems like this probably all I have is this roast beef from the buffet okay no I'm not I don't that's to feed my daughter she's hungry hmm I have other reasons to swing the club sometimes maybe you know this is a bear okay so the Olympics held huge success everyone's like these were so successful boy we've really diluted

ourselves this year the garland group said the Olympics had put Los Angeles on the map and turned a profit now most of that money went to paying off the bond but there was some leftover they did turn a profit okay five years later on September 2nd 1937 Peter 1937 yep okay Peter you Roth was born in Evanston Illinois okay his mother died when he was four sure his father was a salesman for Sears but then he broke his leg one day while teaching his daughter to skate and he had to miss work so Sears fired him nice nice Sears we care a series of jobs followed the family moved from state to state now Peter was an

athlete at 16 he left home to work and live in an orphanage okay his parents had no idea why he did that sure time magazine quote he liked the independence and affection he got there wow when he got his diploma all the orphan boys stood up and yelled quote daddy Pete and I felt weird inside daddy Pete okay so he his mother died when he's four yep and so he's probably missing some sort of affection from his father I guess well his dad remarried so I had a stepmom and a dad but then he just was like I'm leaving like I'm king of the orphans I'm coming to be king of the orphans yeah daddy Pete okay when he graduated high

school no he left okay well you know he I guess it sounds like he went to work at I mean he also got an education at the orphanage okay I'm I'm not trying to I mean sure go ahead it's abnormal to be like it's who we are to be like yeah I dropped out of high school I'm gonna go learn with the orphans okay and I'm graduating okay I mean maybe I got it wrong and he did go to school but okay well living and working at the orphanage yeah he became a teenage orphan he went to San Jose State University where he played water polo broke his nose five times never got it fixed it's a brutal sport later no club dancing for

the rest of his life he only allowed cameras to shoot him from one side that's all the side to hide the multiple broken nose right he worked 40 hours a week during college well he tried out for the 1956 water polo team but did not make the cut okay and after graduation he got a job as an operations manager with a very small airline trans international airlines okay a year later he was promoted to running the company with a 3% ownership state what yeah what happened in that year it was a time when there was no one else around so they were like hey you want to be the CEO yes I mean that's basically what happened that's

basically what happened wow okay well they offered him the job and he said no only if you give me 3% ownership and okay okay we have nobody else here right soon after he started running a reservation business so for hotels and planes and stuff okay he was like super early on that right he's Travago yeah it took off by 40 his company had 300 million in gross revenues largest travel company after American Express wow okay so he wanted things done his way he wanted his employees to promote family unity sure if someone spoke with their hand in front of their mouth he would brush it away he would brush their hand

away yeah if there were no no no no he would no no no you're not allowed to do that also you have to I assume you have to if the person's like a couple feet away you have to step close and then no no it's just weird it's like come down I mean but it's also weird to be like well I'm gonna tell you Pete I try to shoot straight no no no so Pete I really like he's like I just can't handle I know Pete let me tell you a couple things that I thought about for you quickly okay so Pete is here Pete! God I really want to slap that away when he gave up bonuses they sometimes came with instructions to buy better clothes this

is for clothes here's $200 for the great job you've done this year also you dress like fucking shit alright here's your bonus it's to go towards pants you look like an animal that found socks get a better suit that's all you put on you don't look good you're a terrible ugly human here's a bonus stop being shit in 1978 Olympic bids came down to two cities Los Angeles and Tehran for the 1984 summer games similar places very well actually at the time way before this is before the the Islamic Revolution okay so it's very full of corruption and oil man and it's pretty much like us yeah they so the Olympics at this point

are always losing money basically before the 1976 Montreal Olympics the mayor said quote the Olympics can no more have a financial deficit than a man can have a baby nice yeah nice yeah all right and then okay but I mean yeah it seems it is it's always like it's it's almost like the Olympics are just like hiring a PR company for your town yeah I'm just gonna lose money but hopefully more people talk about yeah you're talking about helps us in tourism and all that yeah well the Montreal games ended up three billion in debt which wasn't paid off until 2006 oh my god oh and it's like 30 weeks 30 years two weeks two weeks

30 years Jesus and the Olympics before that there was a terrorist attack the kill are the like student loans the game yeah right okay oh totally yeah so the limits for that there's a terrorist attack the killed 12 so the games are just not popular in the US especially because the economy is in the shitter it's a huge recession right there's big problems the LA economy there's a housing shortage rents are shooting up unemployment is at 10% Reagan is slashing social safety net services homelessness has exploded the estimate was I wonder if there's any connection between those last I can't

think that there would be yeah the estimate was between 36 and 59,000 homeless today's numbers are actually similar based on a percentage of population we just haven't done anything about it yeah that's a good plan though too yeah yeah I mean it's probably gone up quite a bit since COVID but you know by the way we're not done we're not done we're just gonna start it we're just getting started so the Shah of Iran is overthrown and Tehran drops out of the bidding process okay so I had a bad time yeah we got other stuff going on we got to keep these people hostage unless you're doing like

a is there a hostage keeping event I mean if you do you have clubs we have clubs we have swords and clubs and guns I like what I'm hearing but unfortunately I don't think it matches we take a hostage we hold them for the whole Olympics we something more than the other now I thought we had something but no no you sit it out you're right so I have a beard yeah no I'm it's a pass but thank you for thank you wait there's something there though we'll come back it could have clubs it just we love that we have clubs yeah but I feel like you're taking it and we just want people dancing with the clubs I mean I guess

you could be no no no no we could workshop it come back workshop it and maybe the next games we can get into it hostage kidnapping murder we're not there yet we're so fiction oh gosh now that is yeah that is interesting that I like hi could you crucify and ski yeah that's easy we just we knock the crossover that I'm liking the direction yeah I'm on acid but I'm liking the direction we're all on acid I'm liking the direction yeah this is an acid party now I'm talking to a box of Kleenex I know I'm not even from not a person or anything you're just a box you're a box of Kleenex yeah and I'm dating this dog

hi hello bow well all right so so the LA gets the it's default they get the Olympics by what year is this this is 80s I think we get it in the 1980 or boy you really after that but you're making me excited for the future what's coming up yeah yeah yeah so much like the 1932 Olympics the backers said the games would put LA quote on the map that's by the way LA's on the map right second time on the map Randy Newman's writing we love LA we're on the map we're on the map haven't been on the map we're not find one map LA is on yeah it's true 1980 find one goddamn map nobody knows it so they now need someone to run the

games okay obviously a lot of names are being thrown around sure in the end Peter Ubroth has chosen to run the 1984 games boy he sold this company for 10.4 million to focus everything on the Olympics he declined a salary in favor of a bonus he sold his company for the two weeks to focus on the Olympics well I'm sorry he's gonna be focusing on it for okay a long time yeah for years he's putting all his time into it so he declines his salary right I guess in my head I'm like yeah you just thought he was like a runner hey nothing's built Peter this is like huge operation was all this stuff so Peter's big believer in

Reaganomics nice and he would use the private sector and free enterprise to fund the game god Dave there's no as to the air spartans and Athenians always is an Athenian free enterprise and private sector just my nipples hardened when I hear those terms fucking hot right now because it's just like you know good things are gonna happen best things happen the terms again private sector yeah sorry look at me so bullshit corrupt assholes no no no private sector never ever this is coming off of the 1980 Olympics which we boycotted it so it's like it's almost like communism had their shot at the Olympics and now

capitalism gonna show communism with capitalism gonna do right it's like a right yeah so he called it quote the magic of the marketplace hmm he viewed the games as quote a powerful instrument to demonstrate the validity of the American free enterprise system exactly what the Olympics are not at all supposed to be it's a sporty competition what the fuck are you doing right there they're like let's shove our crazy ideology if you like capitalism is an ideology yes it is down the fucking throats of everybody and be like this is how it should be you see we could do this capitalism did this the

international Olympic Committee the IOC was reluctant to green light this privatization plan LA voters made it clear they would not pay for the Olympics City Councilman Bob Ronca thought the games would financially destroy the city and forced to vote that guaranteed public money would not pay for the games and it passed okay so the mayor was Tom Bradley he's the city's first black mayor only black mayor he's an ex cop he's very pro Olympics he loves sports he believes sports can fix problems in society oh god have you never seen that no I'm not no yeah it's most of the world's problems it is so

I'm the first thing that popped into my head was Katrina and after Katrina was oh the when the Saints played the Falcons and they were like is that like people were living in the Superdome yeah like because of the complete governmental failure and what heck of a job brownie blah blah blah but I remember watching that game and they were just like this town needs this victory and you're just like now they need like help they need to like get help and what's going on I just realized you're looking the same way I am you need to be there so I'll be there okay but um he'll be happy that I did that okay but but it

was just it was it was just like everyone was just like they need and they like because the Falcons were better than the Saints and you were just like no no they need help no they yeah they acted like they they acted like a a victory of a sporting team of millionaires had somehow helped a city but they do do that it is what makes you feel better momentarily yeah it does but it does nothing for me no material fucking no it's just like the same yeah it's I mean it's crazy we'll do it yeah it's absolutely they need this yeah they need no no they need a way fucking stadium they need a way they need the

stadium that you built that they lived in sell that and give them that money they need a win okay so there is no more floodwater after Katrina the sites have upset the Falcons so Bradley also thought L.A.'s place in the world would be helped trading tourism wise and whatever it's just fucking dumb they gave them the international terminal at LAX that's right they did because yeah you're right so the US Olympic Committee known as Team USA is a non-profit corporation and it joined the organizing committee a private for-profit corporation to share financial responsibility for the games so it's a non-profit joining with a

for-profit to co-finance the games do you love capitalism it it feels like the non-profit is the one that is gonna give up their ideology maybe we'll see the IOC grudgingly agrees to the privatization plan okay for the first time ever a private group rather than the host city would organize the Olympics and for a first-ever would try to create profit from the Olympics so their idea is the Olympics haven't been about profit so we will fix them by making capitalism yeah let's turn everything into something you make profit out of instead of just like how can we make them good like would stock 94 don't need

to profit but if everyone's taken care of right LA had a huge homeless population as I said LA City Councilman Gilbert Lindsay a labor-supporting Democrat said LA should reopen its drunk tank farm from the 60s 35 miles north of the city the drunk tank farm drunks and vagrants in the 60s were taken there and forced to grow vegetables and live there what what the fuck Lindsay quote will do this as a permanent thing but I want to go all out during the Olympics so we give a good impression to visitors so basically I mean we still do it but it's honestly like honestly that version sounds like

the nice version of what we do now well I it's such a it's such a okay like that's right now we do what's called cleaning yeah and we make them move from place to place to place and take all their belongings this way is more like a concentration camp so it's a it's a prison concentration camp versus so they are I mean they are they are prisoners they're prisoners okay what was the one that was recent oh the Super Bowl remember when they cleaned they they cleaned for the Super Bowl yeah and they just like you know heartlessly like got all those people out of there just for that long shot coming in of the stadium where

they were like beautiful angle what California God you can't see a tent in the town yeah asshole we know what it looks like but it's so amazing that we are still like trying to just aesthetically please people and ignore reality yeah I mean we are lifting the rug and putting everything we can under it for company yeah the LAPD spokesman said of Gil's plan and quote we like the way Gil's thinking that's pretty good we got a slave labor and we love that the LACLU chimed in and said well that's incredibly illegal oh well I think that might be what we're in love with a little bit to be honest I think

we're kind of saying the same thing we love it because you're taking people who are problems and then we get them to work for us for free yeah it's it's a everybody wins everybody wins except for the people who don't have souls or they learn a trade vegetable picking yeah they learn a trade being a prisoner yeah so that's cool okay you want some a salad yeah these guys made it oh yeah yeah yeah they had though yeah yeah so Peter's plan was to raise money with sponsorships and TV rights deals at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics companies just donated stuff to athletes and that's how they became a sponsor okay so

that's all you do donate some shit and right Peter's plan was for a minimum of four million they could use the Olympic logo wow this is so what the NFL does yeah well it's I love that people think this is groundbreaking it's so simple and stupid yeah it's not ground there's no like many people like these guys are genius he's not he just was like hey you want to use this symbol it's the fucking simplest shit okay so he had no office he met CEOs at a hotel coffee shop he asked for sealed bids coke beat up Pepsi with a 12 million dollar bid Kodak thought it was ridiculous and only offered two million so Peter got seven

million from Fujifilm so all together 35 corporations became sponsors in American Express and as their Bush AT&T Atari General Motors Coca-Cola Converse Levi's McDonald's Motorola on and on Peter got the Atlantic Ritual Company McDonald's and 7-eleven's parent company to build the swimming pool the velodrome and the overhaul the Coliseum it's high time that McDonald's was no longer allowed to sponsor anything athletic how is that coke and McDonald's they're the top athletes in the world was brought to you by McDonald's McDonald's they can't eat this also by Coca-Cola it isn't okay to have that much a 225

million dollar TV deal was made with ABC hotel so I mean so but the thing is that it's working well I think there's a combination of things I think that number one he's he's doing a different plan but number two all of these all of these companies also want the same bullshit they want to show that the free enterprise so it's just back slapping bullshit at the same time like they're like yeah let's show them that we're better in the commies create a terrible precedent so hotel and the Olympic tippin ticket taxes kicked 19 million point 19.3 million to the city although 15 million of that covered security most of that

went to the LAPD Sports Illustrated called Peter quote the prince of the private sector and a miser with the Midas touch even with all this money coming in 27,700 absolute rubes volunteered to work for free for the Olympics after that can we go to the vagrant farm camp please ah can you imagine no no I mean I you just hear she like that you're just like guys you're really fucking everything not your friends they're not your friends there's no there's nothing happening here that's that's awesome enough for you to give away your labor yeah it's just not a thing no no you know the guy at this

trip club is like I think she likes me yeah they said that I cleaned up the street real good today really proud of me they said tomorrow maybe I get to clean a fire truck so that's pretty good no they don't they don't like they want they hate you they hate you no they don't they take the side they're real good and if I give them five dollars then I get an official lemonade at lunch so that's pretty excited for me I'll tell you I have a feeling not too long from now I might be able to clean this guy's shoes for free cuz you're my friend yeah yeah no I see my pals yeah no you're doing great Jimmy yeah they're

my really good friends I really know we think you're great they're great friends and they they were out to eat the other day and they didn't have any napkins and I said they can use my beard to wipe their mouths very kind because they're my friends they can use my shirt when they ran out of toilet paper I let them use my shirt and I told them if I don't have a shirt on they gotta use my tongue they are my buddies so so after the USA had boycott in the 1980 Olympics there was concern the Soviet block countries would boycott these Olympics in 1984 it's like so Peter starts making trips to Russia to discuss to calm

their fears to get them on board it'll just be 200 million now but while he's doing that they're also turning the games into this incredible hypercapitalistic thing right which turns off the communists right you could imagine what what's the problem there what did they not like about it I don't know so if the USSR is out the Olympics are gonna be less valuable to all those sponsors right what an inch what a fun little pickle so we need to sell the commies on capitalism in order to keep capitalism going he also wanted to keep the games politics free he said he said no to a red white and blue color scheme

saying it was too nationalistic wait I can't I mean imagine a time when people are like no no the flag is we don't want to use the flag now instead now they're just like can we paint your red white and blue and sitting with pastel colors hot pink and turquoise yeah all right a little nauseous actually hey Miami Vice Olympics I can't watch these games I get a little nauseous when someone's running that fast in those colors they neon Tron they asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service to lend a bald eagle that they would train to soar across the stadium during the opening ceremony sure full on America the Pawtuxent Wildlife

Research Center in Maryland denied the request one official from the center was concerned and said quote it might be unpredictable what the bird would do yeah it's a wild bird it's an eagle yeah organizers it's amazing also to be like the bald eagle the symbol of freedom can we keep it just in a circle the symbol of freedom yeah can you just try to come back to the guy's glove as easily as possible please thank you so organizers pushed back and they said they told the Wildlife Research Center that the eagle plan had the full support of the White House probably a lie either way it worked sure a bald

eagle named bomber was sent to play the role of Sam the eagle at the Olympics okay I mean just what's the problem well there's a couple problems one it's named bomber yeah and two we want to change it to Sam yeah and it's an eagle it's not gonna know the difference I don't know if it'll call I don't know if it'll respond to Sam has it responded to bomber no it's an eagle so people magazine said he was quote a food-loving aggressive bird who seldom flew and who tipped the scales at a pudgy 11 pounds he's what we'd call a bald eagle and yeah we're gonna fetch him but would it be the symbol of America if the eagle

wasn't a bit overweight now bald eagles are the also like smoking cigarettes and arguing throw my ham if this eagle loves burgers bald eagles are on the version of distinction they're in danger to this point okay for PR the Olympic torch is run across the country in a weeks long relay yeah and one of the dumbest things we do ever ever it began on May 8th by the way we're gonna I mean we are like a country of Tinder so we're gonna need to stop that yeah enough with that shit unfortunately Judith light is tripped and the the torch is actually it's it's hit oh my god it's actually we have a trail it looks like

it's just hit a gas line oh my god Lord the red ones are going up Judith lights down and that is California gang goodbye California that's it for PR this is gonna put LA on the map so it began May the block from the United Nations three hours after it started the USSR announced a communist boycott of the Olympic Games nice ABC stock plunged oh nice Peter's team is bomber okay the interest team now spend weeks flying all over the world meeting with world leaders trying to convince them to go to the Olympics the games the games have not started no no they just just started the running of the thing for months

like it's gonna okay he convinced Yugoslavia and Romanian descent athletes China agreed to send its first full athletic delegation to a summer Olympics okay people in the US lined up and applauded as the torch runners passed by yeah because and and Dave for anyone in another country who's wondering why are we like that we are idiots we are a country of morons who don't really bother to ever pause and think instead we'll just be like look at that flame we're number one we're the best one in four Americans saw it how was it it was amazing god he ran right by me it was really on fire he ran by it's just such

a beautiful time I've never seen anything like it I did honest to God I didn't want to cry there because I didn't want to put it out it is a fabulous place there were so many fellow idiots we don't even know what we loved about it but god I'll tell you I never had more people with empty your heads around one one area before God it's just really stupid we're so dumb we're so stupid it was an 82-day journey criss-crossing at 9,300 miles oh my god time magazine we should make one person do it yes one person an old guy like 75 yeah like a 75 what you're going motherfucker going where for

America I have bad legs well then it's gonna be even better hippity hop all right whoa whoa falling down time magazine said the torch relay was the US moving away from quote recession Carter's malaise gas shortages and the hostage crisis because it cuz a fucking because a torch because a torch is being run I mean it's so dumb we still do it all the time it's not changed we needed this yeah McDonald's offered a promotional game a scratch-off card would reveal a sport if the US won gold in the sport you got a free Big Mac a silver french fries do you understand a soft drink do you understand how like dumb

we I mean we are so dumb so we're gonna give you free dog food well here's the problem with that plan with the communist boycott the US would win tons of medals above what McDonald's predicted boy now bomber the eagle had spent 22 years in captivity they got him here they built them a $5,000 birdhouse put him on a lean meat diet here's your theater and he had 45 minute training sessions he had to be taught how to fly again there were quote a few crash landings poor thing he didn't know how to fly it's not a good thing that they're doing but he got into shape and after six weeks he was down to seven and

three-quarters pounds wow on the first day he made a successful flight completely around the stadium the next morning they found him disoriented and unable to stand on his perch no veterinarians in LA would see him because he was an endangered species the nearest guy wait understand that because they didn't want to be at fault right killing the Olympic eagle right nearest guy was 50 miles away I check him out so they drove him there but bomber was DOA oh man good lord he died from extreme weight loss rigorous exercise they did a they did an autopsy right and smog oh good Lord he had smog induced lung disease

oh my god that I mean the air quality here you know what time magazine though is like this passing is just the proof that America is moving on from the recession and the hostage crisis chief Gates chief Darrell Gates was close to being fired before the Olympic games in 1982 he had said that African Americans died from a cop chokehold because quote the veins are already arteries do not open up as fast as they do on normal people so what was in trouble for in preparation for the games the LAPD fast-tracked recruits through training wow the LAPD the sheriff's department and FBI combined to form the Olympics

major crime task force and conducted Olympic gang sweeps large parts of LA especially South Central and East LA were under military occupation conditions boy it's it it's remarkable the resources we will devote to pretending we don't have a problem rather than trying to solve that you know what I mean it's like we we never like with the amount of money you're spending getting the cleaning homeless encampments and that's an air quote of cleaning it costs more to do the cleaning than it could just be putting this towards housing yeah it costs more yeah so the cost for all those those three law enforcement agencies

was 20 million for the games the politicians and judges revived old anti-cynicalist laws to jail masses of black youth damn tons were arrested but never charged Gates said quote I think that people believe the only policing strategy is to harass people and make arrests for inconsequential types of things are you fired well that's part of our strategy no doubt about it wow wow what you know a lot of people think that we're being evil awful and that this is completely unfair and it does no good and they're right yeah and that is what we're doing that's exactly what we do any question oh you know thanks for

coming in thank you everybody the INS began conducting sweeps of undocumented cab drivers and LAX workers some of whom they deported oh my god for the homeless the LAP to LAPD deployed 30 cops on horseback downtown oh god police captain Billy Wedge worth quote we're trying to sanitize the area those are I don't know if anybody is familiar with the word sanitizing human beings but it's not actually something you want to use about a human yeah but the UPI reported there were just too many homeless people a reverend who fed the people at his mission said cops were citing homeless for quote just about

anything yeah so that I mean they they're just trying to put as many people they're trying to get them with as many non-infraction and then put them in jail once you get in whatever five or whatever you can throw in jail for yeah LAPD said the mounted units job was to wake people sleeping on sidewalks and keep as many off the street as possible so just I just picture the it's beautiful in your mind of just men on horses chasing poor people around yeah it's a good place the militarization of Los Angeles was extreme it's always just the whatever okay the the feds gave $50 million for security to the games I mean

what like 50 million houses alms yeah yeah yeah yeah 50 million dollars yeah what are we gonna do with this money get them out of here get them out of here where they're gonna go away from the games a coordination center synchronized 50 you know we entered the club competition too but it's a little different what's that and we beat people with them oh put the gold a coordination center synchronized 50 law enforcement agencies a senior officer complained they were running out of understandable acronyms for all the command centers I'm sorry sir but where I'm getting confused with all the acronyms it's like

it's like a weird alphabet it's very difficult we're the we're the major crime coordinated force of tasking the MC E C E T yeah damn it not the minor command center force for tasks MC T T yeah we're forcefully tasking the multitude of F cops T yeah yeah it's a lot they got a list you're gonna be okay kid so the LAPD bought a huge number of automatic weapons with the money nice infrared night vision equipment and a robot for handling explosives fuck yeah Olympics are coming yeah these are the good time games go away we have guns and on what came online was the ECCS emergency command control communication

systems being built for seven years it was the most powerful state-of-the-art police communication system in the world with elements of space technology and mission control communications how about some houses the central hardware is in security comparable to a Montana missile silo it's on the fourth and fifth sub levels of City Hall East why I don't understand why why can we not get our fucking dick hard over helping people only controlling because they love their fucking toys yeah they just it is toys they love their fucking toys yeah we our best minds work in evil directions yeah so chief gates used the threat of

terrorism to justify expanding information gathering boy that's new growing databases on suspect citizens was established and still happens today in Los Angeles Peter now said demonstrations were a concern because leftist groups had formed a coalition to hold protests and raise awareness of social justice I just like it I just I just it just keeps happening and they were protesting but they were protesting that funds raise should go to low income residents no no no they'll go to robot dogs get out of here if you want to look go why don't you go out of your copy friends and Russia so Peter so

because of this group Peter brought in and the ex-FBI head of Los Angeles named Ed Best who in turn brought the CIA in a detailed dossier on leftist coalition the leftist coalition was created and the leftist groups were continuously surveyed man it's just the it's just crazy it's like it like it would be like if you're unemployed spending all your time making sure other people don't get jobs try to go get no no no no like solve the problem no no no no I'll make the problem bigger yeah that's rather than solve it so those groups held no violent protests they just held protests right Gates said the Soviets would use

Jewish immigrants to disrupt the games which was an insane conspiracy theory he put in an official LAPD security pamphlet well I can't imagine like hearing that it's fucking it's will be using Jews to stop again okay any more questions or I'm gonna see a lot of hands up the only real scare was when police officer Jimmy Wade Pearson found a pipe bomb in the wheel well of a Turkish Olympic team bus okay he ran it out to the airport tarmac where he ripped out a wire disarming it the Armenian secret army why did he run out to the airport tarmac you'll see the Armenian secret army for the liberation

of Armenia called and took responsibility for planting the bomb Gates called officer Pearson a hero but it turned out officer Pearson had placed the bomb himself hoping to get noticed by his superiors okay so that's why I went to the tarmac what a weird oh my god a bomb let me go to the planes land wait what we need to save these people where are they most of them so he made a fucking bomb and then diffused it yeah right yeah yeah honestly like in today's version of that there would be great debate over whether it was real or fake yeah but in truth so far we have one violent act and it's a cop it's a

cop who did it yeah inside the Olympic villages there were dozens of burglaries okay thousands of dollars were stolen as well as stereos cameras and gear the cops had put barbed wire fences around the villages and now called the burglaries an inside job you feeling good yet America how you feel about your games that just sums up everything that's just so perfect just all the security that is just needless yep someone in here's doing it now the US had not won an Olympic medal in cycling since 1912 okay Polish coach Edward borosiewicz known as Eddie B because no one that's my kid tick-tock now it's

fine Eddie B they call him Eddie B because probably no one could pronounce his last name sure he defected from Poland and he became the US cycling coach okay it's time he made sure they had cutting-edge bikes and personally put helium in the tires before races are you allowed to do that yeah we put too much and one of the cyclists tires he's now biking in heaven but we learn from lesson and now we move forward you know you want to see something funny hold on I got the bike there he also got American cyclists to do blood transfusions all right so it's real simple we're going to yeah so we train gym morning we

have big healthy breakfast you know you know the vampire blood and then shortly thereafter we will take your blood out and put in new blood vampire blood you'll be ready to go so the whole thing here is we're working on core they work on lower body and then we drain you of your blood and put in different blood before the games they drew blood or had a relative give blood and then they'd store it and then their body would replace their blood and then days before the race the blood was re-injected into the cyclist the their blood that was taken so they have blood taken out their body replenishes their

blood then they put more blood into them so they're overblooding they're overblooded right they had rooms in the Olympic Village but they just messed up the beds to make it look like they were using them and stayed nearby at a Ramada Inn where they had a room dedicated to administering blood transfusions sure sure or you come back you forgot to put the do not disturb you come back excuse me where's the blood I didn't know so I took all of the bottles of that and it just kind of got but did you need that stuff or was that I thought a bunch

of wadded up tissues I got rid of those there were a bunch of red vials I got rid of those so yeah okay so that basically the donated blood boosted the red cell count which got more oxygen to tiring muscles which increases endurance and performance right okay so it's unethical it's unsafe and it's America's tact and totally allowed the US Olympic Committee had not condoned or condemned it the International Committee had never outlawed it since it was just blood and not a foreign substance they outlawed foreign substances but it's blood right your blood at least 18 USA cyclists did it some had to use a

relatives blood because they waited too long to draw their own blood okay so enough time to replenish yep Mark Whitehead a top USA metal hope used his brothers and came down with 103 degree fever that lasted for 50 hours he lost 10 pounds and failed to qualify for the finals so it's going pretty well well the team succeeded they won nine medals including four golds okay which they hadn't done since 1912 okay so Americans and we're gonna they're winning a ton of medals okay McDonald's is giving out a ton of big man okay midway through the game at some McDonald's franchises they were running out of hamburger buns

because of scratch off winners oh my god this country is country is just out of its mind so dumb hey did you work for free the Olympics because of our athletes blood-junking our McDonald's are running out of buns because people are winning their scratch offs so often that they're claiming they're claiming their prize burger too much like just imagine imagine if you just imagine if you didn't live in this world and I was able to kind of explain to you that so here's so we have big dumb games okay and we basically we and people compete and because one of the countries didn't compete because we just tried to make

money which is this stupid paper that we just say has value this one team of people who ride bikes we're using each other's blood a lot and they won so much that we ate so many burgers we ran out of buns oh and the eagle died because it couldn't fly this is a good place you and you guys you guys actually were able to make a rocket to get on the moon no we Stanley Kubrick directed also Joe Rogan's gonna have 9 million listeners no knock on Rogan he's great so prizes for these scratch offs were valid through the fall so you could well families started collecting the scratch offs and eating free for free for weeks

man McDonald's refused to reveal their losses but execs would later say the games cost them twice what they anticipated well huge Ronald Reagan supporter Mary Lou Retton became a star yeah I didn't know she I I don't remember these games but I do remember she was a gymnast I did not know she was a huge she was the biggest star to come out of the Olympics right right only 23% of athletes were women Zola but accidentally tripped us track star Mary Decker during the 3,000 meter race the US boxing team won 11 medals Mike Tyson was an alternate college player Michael Jordan dominated China won 32 medals the

US won 174 McDonald's 83 gold well with the commonest countries there four years before the US had won 94 medals well so it's a big jump 34 gold at the closing ceremonies Peter was given a standing ovation by 93,000 people 93,000 total moron idiots at the Coliseum Mary the red and became the first woman on a Wheaties box ticket sales I'm sorry I'm done with this cereal you know there was a guy who's like yeah yeah I'm sorry I'm not eating girl flakes waities for men box excuse me I'm not eating a box of sweeties okay that's what I call them now we these used to be for men oh cool you guys you guys see we these is woke oh man

I can't I can't even eat this shit anymore but well off lost poison poison flakes ladies ticket sales were at an all-time record TV ratings were huge 180 people 180 million Americans watched it the most viewed event in TV history so sponsors are over the moon right the games made profits of 232 million dollars still the most financial successful games ever but that doesn't include taxpayer-funded subsidies like the communication network or the infrastructure that was used a defense security cause so it just like it just like they always do they they ignore all the public use of highway it's just

everything that the use security highways bobby blah and they act like they made a giant profit whereas if you paid back well and they did make a giant profit right because it was kind of like privately funded yeah well the private company the private company makes all the profit on the back of the regular people exactly yeah and then we the citizens give them a standing ovation that's right yeah and now cities line up now to bid for the next Olympics everyone's like let's go Peter you're off had saved the concept of the Olympics he was named time magazines man of the year for 1984 fuck you time his second

in command said quote what we are talking about from 80 to 84 was entrepreneurship what are the shows on television dynasty the rich you want to focus on the rich and you want to focus on the high life and you want to focus on profit-making and money-making these are the heroes man it is so it's it's it is actually a goddamn pleasure to have been around for that time and it's a nightmare of our own making but at least you get to be like see I told you see yeah you see it's all about the rich that's all any of us need remember show lifestyles of the rich and fake I mean it's just like that show the damage

that show did yeah can you believe the way they're living it was like oh yeah everyone's just like I want a hot tub with champagne one doctor on the US cycling team came forward and revealed that the blood doping had happened so he went whistleblower okay the IOC announced there would be no punishment for the American cyclists they technically broken no rules yeah right it's his blood McDonald's was like please please please please please but the US suspended adb for 30 days and then blood transfusions were banned after that okay almost half of the local small businesses in that were in the Olympics

licensing program so a bunch of small businesses got in on it too right like you ran a little shop when you you paid for the you paid for the logo a bunch of wood broke a bankrupt about a half on bankrupt only a handful made a profit businesses owned by people of color really took a hit several filed a lawsuit for contract violations and reached a settlement but we don't know what it was Mayor Bradley who had previously advocated for welfare and helping people with government was now a damn excited about private enterprise man damn it his office touted 70,000 jobs created by the games but there were non-union

temporary and soon gone masses of working people in Union Dense LA at turn a corner toward a more precarious future meanwhile papers celebrated the success of the capital's free market games historian Mike Davis quote South Central LA has been betrayed by virtually every level of government in particular the deafening public silence about youth unemployment and the juvenation of poverty has left many thousands of young street people with little alternative but to enlist in the crypto kinsian youth employment program operated by the cocaine cartels man man oh man I mean it sounds like the Russian

Jews 40% of the 215 million surplus went to the US Olympic Committee 20% to governing bodies for US sports and 40% went to the Atlanta the amateur athletic foundation which later renamed itself the LA 84 foundation so 93 million for them to fund youth sports and public education in Southern California okay some of those helped road scholar Kailin Moore Russell Westbrook and Venus and Serena Williams LA 84 assets in 2017 165 million dollars okay I would where I'm sitting if you get about a hundred million dollars and 40 years later you have more money yeah seems like you're probably not doing a lot of charity work

right their annual contributions are two to three million which is way less what that is legally required to donate annually is a nonprofit they are legally required to give about six million dollars they have our invest they have however invested 22 million in companies like Blackstone which lends to predatory home speculators who buy up distressed homes jack-up rent and evict those who can't pay so that's what I'm gonna do the Olympics created a private company that now takes homes from people in the neighborhood where the Olympics happened so it's all fine we get like there's no good ever there's just never

there's like so rarely like and it helped and they lied and it's run by the devil yeah I mean Peter you both has been a director of the Coca-Cola company he in 1999 he bought the Pebble Beach golf course with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Clint Eastwood he became commissioner of Major League Baseball and then he was head of the USOC the LAPD had been given a military armored vehicle during the Olympic which they turned into a 14-foot battering ram on February 6th 1985 LAPD SWAT smashed down the wall of a rock house in Pacoima inside the rock house were two women and three children eating ice cream no cocaine did they forget

about knocking they didn't need to they had a thing that could knock down a wall so they just were like I mean it is like we were saying it's toys it's toys it is just like they know there's no repercussions yeah why would there's not there's never the worst that can happen is they get sued there's a settlement which doesn't come from them it comes from the city so taxpayers pay for them to be idiots yeah and they never I mean I mean it's so rare that they actually get fired and it's even more rare that they ever faced any prosecution chief Gates councilman David Cunningham and other residents praised

the wall smashing of the house it's pretty good they were eating rocky road which is kind of like crack rocks saying that it would cause rock houses to shut down because they were scared by what they'd seen nice good all right good job right awesome work we're gonna shut down the rock house why because they they knocked down the house of a lady and her kids yeah and by the way that has been proven true because there's no illegal drugmaker yeah there's no there were no more rock houses after that that's how you stop drugs that's it chief Gates emerged from the Olympic Games as a hero the LAPD now had

incentive to stay in Olympic mode my god they have treated the city as an occupied occupied territory from then until now man three years later the LAPD had a man had massive anti-gang sweeps known as operation hammer arresting 24,684 mostly black youths usually with no cause and detained for 24 hours in a specially construction holy in a specially constructed holding facility at the LA Coliseum a third one-third of black men age 20 to 29 in LA County were arrested at least once in 1991 from 1984 to 1989 there was a 33% spike in police brutality complaints between 1986 and 1990 1400 officers were

investigated for excessive force less than 1% were prosecuted my god that is absolutely unbelievable in 1989 LA paid 9.1 million to settle abuse lawsuits in 1990 it was 11.3 million in March 1991 Rodney King was beaten by several police officers as had happened often but this time it was caught on videotape which led to riots after the riots mayor Tom Bradley turned to a gentleman named Peter Huberoth to lead the privatized rebuild LA effort and attract corporate investment to war-torn neighborhoods which was if you can believe this a failure I mean the idea that you're gonna put your capitalism fire out with

capitalism that's really something you have capitalism so for capitalism to exist you have to have a police force to protect property and you have to criminalize a group of people to keep them low down on the ranks so you can exploit them and then you act like the best thing for them is to create more property and by the way it's expensive they have to protect from I that's to be expected what is not to be expected are the people who are like leave the property alone that's really crazy like the level of like people who are like look stop yeah stop hurting stop with the proper don't don't riot get mad at home in 2017

after many young athletes were sexually abused for decades by many members of USA gymnastics Congress introduced the protecting young victims from sexual abuse and safe sports authorization act Mary Lou Retton met with senator Diane Feinstein to try to convince Feinstein to kill the bill oh my god Mary Lou Retton's a fucking piece of shit it was past the previous six American women women gymnast before Mary Lou Retton to win a gold medal did not work against the bill every single Olympic Games has run over budget the average overrun is a hundred and fifty six percent host cities are filled with what are called

white elephants the softball field beach volleyball stadium aquatic center and canoe slalom course are abandoned in Athens in Pyeongchang they may raise four venues built for 2018 rather than pay for maintenance a hundred million disposable stadium was built used four times and then demolished unreal Casey Wasserman I mentioned him right did I bring him up I don't know I think I left him out so Casey Wasserman was the son of Lou Wasserman big Hollywood not getting muck okay and he ran the Olympic torch as a ten-year-old okay here in Los Angeles okay mayor Erica Garcetti attended the Olympics and said

it was wonderful and Wasserman and Garcetti got the Olympics back in LA in 2028 due to their shared nostalgia for the 84 games they are often referred to as the 84 boys the games are expected to cost seven billion dollars not this will be paid for by LA 28 but cost overruns will be paid for by the city of Los Angeles it's just crazy it can still be stopped can it yes the Olympics can always be stopped they've been stopped in other cities it really yes after they've won the bid yes you just need to you just need to make it clear that you're going to ruin it number one join no Olympics LA that is no Olympics LA

calm number two call your councilman call your state rep call the mayor's office call everybody because look this isn't we we are we are in such a precarious financial situation it's not going to get better for a long time if ever because of climate change coming we're heading towards a very bad place where we have to keep paying for things that we can't afford and the rich are going to use this to just fucking suck money out of our system and the draconian shit that they will put in place that we can't even envision we couldn't envision the data gathering the the fucking communication center in a

in a goddamn silo in downtown we couldn't even envision the the military occupation of our city the military occupation around USC the military occupation stuff like we couldn't envision how dark this would all get it is continued that the cops are still like this they're going to get it's going to get worse it's it cannot happen and it's also that like I just imagine how bad things are going to be in 2028 yeah I mean it is going to be so bad yeah there's no one fixing anything there's no one no it's I mean you know you know this climate bill just passed and I was reading a scientist and he's like yes so

this this would get us to 2.5 degrees warming which is catastrophic so so and everyone's celebrating but and they're like this is the biggest bill you've ever passed well that's problematic because the reason it's a biggest bill ever passed is because we haven't done fuck all and the science is very clear we have to do far far far more so at people like I you can celebrate this you shouldn't because it's not enough it's like the ACA do the ACA fix healthcare no that's the same thing this bill is it's just for the climate it needs to be much more they can't expand drilling which they're doing there's a

reason Exxon is celebrating it like it's yeah it's bad news but you know maybe they can do the things I just think I just think that this is just a good example of you know that sort of no it is the bar is so low the bar the bar is just so low and you know there are there are there are certainly people who are like are happy about it but again I mean yeah it's all but to the to the 28 Olympics it's like the Pentagon budget yeah the military budget we there is no money for the things that we need yeah but there's always a trillion dollars for the military well the COVID money in Los Angeles was given to cops

environment yeah right yeah like but the COVID money was given to cops but there's they already have all the money yeah but there's seven billion dollars that is being raised for the olympic they realize what you could do to the city in seven billion dollars in night in the night you do that in the 1932 Olympics they passed a law saying that the city would not pay for overruns mmm in 1984 they passed a law saying the city would not pay for overruns and now they did not right so it's just gonna be fucking I mean as you know it's like where they can make money they will make money it's gonna be catastrophic yeah I mean if it

took if it took Montreal that long yeah to pay back to pay like what 30 40 years to pay back 40 years to pay back the imagine what this is gonna cost just walk around LA and tell me that we could afford stuff it's so but but just from a human perspective what do you think they're gonna do the fucking home oh and think of how many more homeless I'm saying about like 20 like think of what it's going to look like in 2028 it's yeah it we like we we are that's one thing like when I I see the right wing talking shit about our West Coast cities yeah and I drive into them and I feel the same way that I hear the right wing

talking about them now look there's not fucking shit all the ground they talk about but what there are is human beings living on the street and it makes me nauseous and it upsets me and most people Los Angeles appalling wise are like we want this fixed but the politicians aren't fixing it so then people get mad and want to go away it has to be fixed we just need to give people houses because that's actually the cheapest fucking thing you can do and we need social safety nets everything Reagan did needs to be fucking reversed and we need to dig them up and shoot them in a fucking space yeah like I'm not

kidding absolute like we need to figure out a way to reanimate him to kill him I mean if we could dig him up and shoot him in a space and go so that's what happens to you guys we kick up but instead you have people in both parties being like he was such a good he was such a game changer again it's like you could only cast Reagan as an act like you needed an actor to play that part yeah it doesn't take like if you go back up like he's just like these cigarettes are as good as cigarettes get you know yeah I mean he would do anything like monkeypox it's really good for your anus you know whatever like he would

anything yeah I mean he just any was just a fucking asshole reading lines and that's what the president's job is at this point but I think yeah I don't know there is whenever you see the World Cup or the Olympics you're just like this was billions of dollars like this is the first World Cup coming up this year that I'm not gonna watch because they have killed so many fucking people they bring people over from countries like Bangladesh they take away their passports they force them to work they put them in these fucking hellish living conditions and then a bunch of them like thousands of fucking died

building their fucking stadiums no they literally are like you're gonna get X amount of dollars an hour and people like oh my god that's great they go there your passport is gone gone yeah then you live in like a squalor yeah you live in you live in squalor yeah and your slave yeah your slave and that's just how we that's build the World Cup stadiums yes and that is how we are just like look up us beautiful wow are you fucking kidding me yeah we can't we are just we I mean look at this is if you're in LA or even if you're not in LA if you're in wherever just call Congress and say I don't want to dime

spent on security for the Olympics we also need to stop like that makes a difference at some point at some point we just need to stop this shit yeah the stuff is this this shit that is like distracting the temporary distract like we everything we're doing now is we are ignoring our biggest problems because we don't want our day-to-day lives to be disrupted and so we won't fight for things because we don't want our day-to-day lives to be disrupted that's right and what it's going to result in yep our day-to-day life being so catastrophically disrupted a hundred percent and that's just where it's

going I think about it's all I think about when I'm driving around just like yeah we're just fucked I mean I was driving to my brothers today and it was a hundred and six degree like it's going was it really is a hundred and I mean I don't remember where I was but I was in like a hotter zone or whatever it was a hundred six degree like we we're not we can't handle it fine it's just not handle it's fine so Sarah Sarah June did a lot of the great research for this books sources glory days by L John worth I'm no Olympians by Jules Boykoff total Olympics by Jeremy Fuchs policing Los Angeles by Max Filcher Cantor that's

when you should read City of Quartz by Mike Davis that's actually like that should be mandatory reading why the Olympics aren't good for us and how they can be by Mark Perryman ESPN.com knock LA also sign up knock LA follow knock LA on Twitter following on Olympics LA on Twitter the Daily Beast the New Republic no limits to LA common will magazine common wealth magazine it must be at the LA the L.A. and magazine the New Left Review Sports Illustrated New York Times LA Times UPI AP the Nation David Zirin yep yep yep it's no Olympics on Twitter oh I just looked up oh on Twitter it's probably something

different no underscore LA Olympics is that it that's probably it yeah so no underscore LA Olympics and they need followers yeah and you can get him we just go to the website also and you know click on get involved and all that and just how to look it doesn't take much to make a phone call or to you know send an email we all know to be doing it because it's a fucking disaster in the making as I'm on here I just see Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home what have you reduced your life to fucking Jesus Christ I love that I love that people are like what do you think the percentage of people who don't want to

work you know when when we when human beings came about and started in creative societies many of them didn't involve working all day many of them involved like okay we got the food and this is what we need for the day or you know okay we did the plan and they checked the crops out now let's go play yeah and there's a lot of fucking play and and we obliterated those societies because they were working with nature and and not Protestant fucking crazy worth ethic bullshit we've created this fucking world in which some asshole can say like you should want to go out and work now you shouldn't want to work at

all nobody should want that's cool you want to work but why the fuck would you in nature why would you want to go to you know you should want to do instead of going to an office and go to the fucking beach and hang out look at the fucking waves go climb a fucking mountain like this this world we've created is a fucking monster for some guy to say it's crazy lost all connections yeah with what matters and and and people are like I mean I see it in my family like where it's just like you don't have time to worry about how horrible your life is because you have to get money to pay your fucking bills

that's right and that's the idea and whoever created it is working out yep it's all I mean anyway no I don't know crazy yeah all right good thing I've been drinking a little many but I suck down to the couch more and more as this episode went on yeah I know it is like I think I lost some bones