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The Olympics Are Bad, Billionaires Are In Space, and Even More News About Grandmas - New Episode of Even More News with no ads! (Patreon)

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2021-07-23 15:20:40
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Hi. On today's episode, Cody, Katy, and producer Jonathan Harris talk about why the Olympics shouldn't be happening this week (or maybe ever), why it's probably not going to save the world to manufacture cars in space, and how a mental health pilot program that replaces cops with social workers is working!

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Veteran of the Mushroom Wars

The olympics are a theoretically great idea, but as with many things, a burning need to turn them in to a massive profit center has ruined them.

Pilar Farfan

For the briefest second, I thought Katy had a tattoo, but it was just the logo

Robert Mischief

Soon the adjectives for Producer Harris will become so glowing and numerous that the entire hour and ten minutes of podcast will be describing him

Forever Bulking

I am 100% in favour of the New Olympia. Create a new pilgrimage site for sports atop a mountain somewhere. Sports teams for all sports can pay to train at the most prestigious holy site in all of sports for 3 years. Then for 1 there can be the great journey from across the world to gather at the same place, and renounce war and violence against your enemies for 2 short weeks. Maybe go all in and even get an Oracle there to call terrible curses on anyone who commits violence on the holy site. Hey, now that I think about it, is the Vatican Hill doing anything important right now?

NickyT

I also never heard Bezos speak before. Sounds like a freaking Bro thanking his frat brothers.

April Hughes

Hey Katie, sorry about all the horribleness you're going through. Also, can we just lift the embargo on Cuba? Why do a relatively small number of Cuban ex-pats get to decide US foreign policy?

Hazel Hedrick

I think the Olympics could be a sort of ongoing thing, kind of like the speedrunning community! Athletes would work to better themselves on their own, and then times/scores with verifiable proof (such as video recording or official certification) would be uploaded to a sort of global online scoreboard! It would work something like speedrun.com. Athletes would also have the ability to stream or otherwise monetize their efforts, and could more easily communicate with each other and fans! Also, the speedrun community has wonderful charity events that donate thousands upon thousands of dollars every year, and maybe the larger world of sports could do that as well!

Christian Bikle

To answer the questions at the end regarding Bezos' Blue Origin rocket-glans: "The rounded top appears more bulbous than that of many other rockets, but it’s not unique. 'There’s a long history of what we call hammerhead rockets,' on which the capsule’s diameter is wider than the booster, said McDowell. 'If you’re careful, it actually has perfectly fine aerodynamics.' ... "'They went through a lot of iterations coming up with the perfect shape to give them the most volume, the best windows, and [a design that] wouldn’t kill anyone onboard,' said the astrophysicist Scott Manley in a private video shared with the Guardian. 'And this is the shape they came up with, this dome shape.'" (source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/20/jeff-bezos-rocket-design-an-inquiry) Also, as a bald white guy myself, I think wearing a broad-brimmed hat on a sunny day in the gosh-darn DESERT makes a ton of sense. But he is certainly a sartorial fool for choosing that style of hat.

Mia

Domes are also really good structural reinforcements which could allow for lighter materials to be used with just as much integrity. Realistically at this point being as efficient as possible to get something into space falls behind being comfortable and extra safe if you have the money to go into space. Its also good to note that the Space Shuttles had a rounded nose and much less of a pointy-ness in their design but got to space just fine and the issue was.... other parts of the design. The most common type of rocket is also unmanned, which means you don't have to care about the package shape, volume, etc during design but more often design the sat for the rocket since rockets cost a lot more to make or update. While I hate privatization of space, the design likely has no real downsides outside of cost.

Susannah Schaff

I’m sorry Katy, I had a really nasty one last year (fellow during -Covid break up’er here 😓😓😓) but you are so so so right, brighter days ahead!!!

Calliope

once again y'all slandering Cuba! i implore the team to research Cuba without towing the US state department line. Cuba is not a "regime", they're literally more democratic than the US

Sam Bishop

The Olympics have been such a shitshow, and I think it's only BECAUSE the OIC is only interested in fucking over the host country before they move on from the last husk they've drained of money and they have every reason to just ditch what's happened and pretend like the new country is the important one. The thing is, I honestly cannot think of a more perfect city to host this stuff than Tokyo. They have DEEP infrastructure for mass transit, built out facilities in a place where street traffic would have had minimal impact, upgraded literally everything down to like Osaka to make it multi-lingual as an excuse to make everything more tourist-friendly. They invested heavily in bulking up their municipal workforce, staffed up airports and immigration departments, were well-built for shipping and large hauling of all the people and equipment that would be coming in. This wasn't Sochi or Rio or any of the last few places that had to basically build a micro-city to prepare; this dovetailed with what Tokyo has already been doing for decades now, and it was a wonderful fit. I'm not saying everything would have gone perfectly if there hadn't been a pandemic, but if you're looking for a city that could have handled the massive infrastructure strain the Olympics also impose, you probably couldn't find a better fit. Tokyo was ready. In an alternate timeline, there would be effusive praise about how much attention to detail every new facility was and how even the hotels TV network staff were staying at were pristine. Were it not for the pandemic, all of it would have been a massive source of pride and a representation of how strongly Japan built back after the tragedies they've had. Instead, it's just a doleful, empty reminder everywhere of just how much the pandemic has taken from us over the last year and a half. It's heartbreaking not, for once, because of the cost to the host city, but because that city was uniquely qualified to actually handle it when so many over the past couple decades genuinely weren't.

Amber Davidson

Olympic village would be a great base for smaller nations that can't afford to build all the infrastructure and training facilities themselves to use all year round. Your cynicism around the Olympics is probably because your country is always on the podiums - one thing you may not get coming from a "big, powerful sports nation" is the feeling of when your country wins a medal for the very first time ever! In 2016, Fiji won their first medal in 64 years of competing. They did this with sweet F all money behind them. The Olympics is exciting for those of us who live in smaller nations who seldom get to see their athletes compete at world level. Ecuador won its THIRD medal ever just the other day. It's not about it being sport that I like, sometimes its about watching small nations kicking the arse of nations with a shit tonne of money and it is about showing that can still be done.

Caleb Kinkaid

I listened to this on my drive to work at an Amazon fulfillment center.