The Big Suey: The Pickle Brine and The Tiny Dice
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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

Greg, your old dice is disgusting. It's like yellow. It looks like it's covered in bacteria and E. coli. And it made me think of Dan's question earlier about the scent, which is apparently also riddled with E. coli. And actually, a Belgian triathlete had to pull out of the Olympics and her team is claiming that she's been hospitalized with E. coli after swimming in the scent. And so even after this like billion dollar cleanup effort and like constant testing, apparently there are still some nasty triathletes

in that water and athletes are swimming in it every day. It's up for debate. It's either the Tempest or even though the internet acknowledges it's unlikely, it came from a Dutch saying in which someone was sitting in pickle brine.

Okay. Yep. People back in the day really had it so much easier. They could be the first one to say anything, do anything, and then we just assume that they're so profound. Like, oh, Billy Shakespeare, look at all these things that he wrote. It's like, yeah, well, he's the first one to string together six words because no one had the opportunity to. But they also didn't have antibiotics. Yeah, there's that, right? Dentistry was a bitch back then. Pickled brine, by the way, used to be a very popular drink. My dad used to drink pickled brine.

Like water. That is appalling. Wild Bill did? No, he didn't. Eight glasses a day? He would save the jar, and when the pickles were done, he would have a glass jar this size full of pickle juice. That's smart. And he would drink it like water. I had plenty of sips of pickle juice. It's great. You know what you have to pay nowadays to get pickle juice, pickle-flavored juice? It has to be astronomical. Wild Bill knew. I bet it would. Very salty, a little vinegary.

Very flavorful. You can use as a marinade for a lot of stuff. Anyway, that's a tangent. Yeah. I'm sorry. Really? The first one. Let me explain to you one of the joys of doing this, okay? This is wonderful. And where do I get to see a glimpse of my friend quite this clearly after all of these years as he descends into fossilized age?

Him talking about Pickle Brine, he just nostalgically wandered off toward that time and forgot he was on a radio show, just thinking to himself old thoughts about his dad. And he forgot.

forgot he was with us. He got lost in the memories. Look, we talked about him so much. His podcast. I told you we'd lose him. We talked about his podcast. We got to talk about his dumbass die. We got to talk about his talon feet. We got to talk about things he cares about. We got to talk about me maximum. Yeah.

And then the moment that he started thinking about drinking pickle brine, which is appalling. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is the thought of drinking pickle brine like it's water appalling to you? My dad also drank clam juice like it was going out of style. I just found, Greg, I just found online you can buy classic kosher dill juice. One package is 19.5 ounces. A three pack costs $46.

It's pricey. You get what you pay for. It's good stuff. Makes me want to go home and drink from a pickle jar, to be honest. Really? We can make that happen before you leave today. That would be a punishment. I'm going to videotape myself. By the way, this picture of me holding a yellow dye, it looks to me like I'm about to swallow it. It looks edible. It's the color of a Cheez-It. And to Roy's point, I never should have used it. I disrespected the dye. Hmm.

Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard you utter regret on our show. Yeah, I should not have used that. I could have picked any die, although I don't think I have another die in the house. Odd topic to show regrets, I mean. But why need to buy another die? You have one good die. Why buy another one? Waste of money. It's a hall of famer. Use that money to buy some pickles. You could have gone to the Dollar Tree and got some dice. Is that right? Yeah. I don't know where to buy a dice. Dollar Tree. Where do you buy dice? On the internet. Well...

Internet. Now, that's a good question. I mean, if you're in your car driving around and you need dice, where do you go? Right. It's a fair question. Yeah. It is. No. Hobby Lobby? The dollar store, I'm sure, has dice. I don't know. That's one of those things that you're like, what is my solution? I need dice. I need them fast. A toy store? Yeah, but what do you do? Do you go to buy Yahtzee and take the dice out of the Yahtzee game? What do you do? They definitely sell them at the store with the playing cards. I'd have to get... Isolated dice? Roy...

Like a six pack? Greg, was the game whoever throws it the farthest wins or do you have to roll the highest with your feet? No. It's a totally different sport. You launch the die with your foot and you can, you know, there's a strategy. You can hit it like a two iron and go for the roll. But it doesn't matter what you roll? No.

Maybe it should be weighted like what you roll versus distance. No, it has nothing to do with landing on one or six. Then why does it have to be a dice? It doesn't. I wanted something that was the size that would challenge the dexterity of the toe, you

You know, I'm known for toe dexterity. Not everyone is. But, you know, the roll counts. If it goes off the road into the grass, it's going to stop right away. So the key is to keep it straight. And I will tell you that the winning distance was... Don't give it away. The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody where you can find all of your results. Right. I'm not going to say who won. I will say the winning...

Distance was 29 yards. Wow. Or 87 feet. So much higher than Mondo jumped. You could have used a rock. A rock? No, you can't. Well, if it's the right size. You know, it has to be... We want it big enough...

where the toe can pick it up. You don't want to have it too big or too small. No matter how much toe dexterity you have, you can't pick up a kernel of popcorn. You can't pick up a little corn kernel. Likewise, a golf ball would be very challenging. I think I could pick up a golf ball with my toe, but I have more toe dexterity.

than most people. - Greg, I have great news for you. I'm on the Dollar Tree website and you can buy dye at the Dollar Tree. You can buy a 10 pack for $1.25. There's also, and this might interest you for next year's Cody Olympics, there's also a set of do it yourself wood dye. So these are not numbered. They just are three different dye. They're squared with the rounded edges.

And maybe you want to toss that in there. You could throw a Greg Cody Show logo on it. You could do something not necessarily numerical. That's a great idea, Billy. I'm going to make a mental note of that. All right, you're taking a lot of notes today. I'm going to write that one down. I've got a laptop in front of you. You are writing a great deal down. But what's rare is the tiny die, right?

Okay, when everybody thinks of dice they think of the size everyone's yeah standard size. Yeah, the tiny die is Is the key I bet you can't buy tiny dice online hmm I bet you can the question that I wanted to ask based on what you guys are saying is degree of difficulty on modernizing your shopping habits when you're as old as Greg Cody and

Some of you in this room are declaring that it is hard to leave your home and know where to go if you needed to immediately get dye.

Jessica said you just find it in the playing card section. What else is in this section? What other toys are things that you need to get someplace? Where do you go to get it? Because when Roy says dollar store, you're going to get it, but you better not hope for anything good because nothing costs a dollar anymore.

That's a good point. You better not hope that you want dye that will last for two or three weeks. They have some good stuff in there, I gotta tell you. They do. Agreed. I've been there recently to get some tattoos for a Prince Fielder nude shoot that I owe you guys. I went in there to get an assortment of... The Dollar Tree had the Prince Fielder tattoos? Yes, they did. What? Yes, they did. They had what I needed. What are the odds? That's right. You walked into a dollar store? I did walk into a dollar store. That's a sight. Did you bring Frankie? No.

Yeah, I had security with me. That's right. I pulled up in a limo. I was wearing a top hat. Got a change of 100? Oh, yeah. I looked at them with my monocle. Yeah. Did you buy the store? I asked them how much for everything. I did. Surely this store can't cost a dollar. This is a bit of a stunner. I am guessing that I have been in a dollar store more recently than any of you. Does five below count?

Don't get me started on them. I mean the I now want to get you started on it what?

There's not an object in there below $5 anymore. They have a whole VIP section with a velvet robe back there that's $10 below. That's not the spirit of this store, friends. $5 below. You can't find anything for $1 or $2. Everything's $5 now. The below is absent in $5 below. Don't get me started. I mean, that's kind of where we are with everything in America. What is less than $1? You can't get anything good for less than $1 anymore. Can you buy a pack of gum for less than $1? Limes?

One single lime. No, you can't get a single lemon. Can you get a single lime? Maybe a potato. What can you get for less than a dollar? Well, food. Food, yeah. I get that. Like the other day I'm in Publix. I'm buying fresh ginger.

Who uses ginger, right? And if you do use it, you're shaving off a little bit. So basically, I buy the small, I snapped it in half. I buy a knuckle of ginger that was smaller than a golf ball. It ends up costing like, you know, 19 cents or something because it's like X a pound. And when you buy a small piece, it's like buying, technically you can buy one grape in a store, but who would do that?

Just chuck it in your mouth and eat it and move on. Yeah, I saw somebody doing that the other day. I saw a woman stealing right in front of me, stealing from the store.

And this is where I feel like, you know, ratting her out to the manager or something. Because on principle, I hate that when people eat, you know, she's eating grapes right out of the bag she just bought. And they weigh it. You pay by the weight. So she's stealing money with every grape. And she's munching it, just walking down carefree. You are so wrong. Why are you snapping ginger in half? In the store. You did it in the store? Yeah, of course.

Wow. You take as much ginger as you need. No, but you're not supposed to snap the ginger and then your dirty hands that have been throwing dice with your feet. I didn't snap it with my feet. What are you doing snapping? You've got your dirty hands on somebody else's ginger. Somebody else's. You know, first of all, okay, I'm touching the outside of the ginger. You don't eat the outside of the ginger. You cut the outside off and then grate it.

I've never heard of somebody snapping ginger in half because they don't want to pay the 49 cents. It's common. Who do we know that works in produce at a supermarket? Call them. Ask them. You think it's common? Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is it common to snap your ginger in half at the grocery store? Yes. Can we get someone in a produce department? I'm begging you. Can we just find anybody? A guest? Yes. Just ask etiquette questions? Yes. It's perfectly normal.

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Don Levitard. It's been a lovely cruise. Oh man, that's my outro. That's, you know, as my casket is being lowered. Jesus. You know, I'll have been cremated a week before, but we'll do the casket thing just for show. And as my casket is being lowered... Wait a minute. Empty casket? Yeah, it'll be empty. Just for show, we're gonna do that. Well, what's the redundancy there? You know, I mean...

We're going to put it on a public display. Yeah, naturally. Stugatz! What do you do with the ashes? You're going on a lovely cruise. Exactly. Maybe we'll throw them over. My wife will throw them overboard. I would assume... She's nicking with her new husband. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz! Stugatz!

A Giddy Stugatz just walked into the room saying I've got a top five list for you on athletes who connote dice. Greg Cody has, if you're just joining us, ruined a family heirloom in order to get you to support The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody, his wildly popular podcast. With, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with.

Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. Well, you guys missed two of them before. We should be up to $20 in fines if I was willing to respect you. But I will always call it The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. And it is the only place that I will not budge. Why is that? Weird. Disrespectful.

I will not pay any more of the fines that come with this misrepresentation of you insisting that I promote your podcast and then you immediately check out on the remainder of the show as soon as that has been done. Liar. You only use this show as a vehicle to promote your things. You have a book coming out now. You are finally doing Back in My Days, but...

but you're doing fresh back in my days that we're not even getting here. Mango Publishing is getting them here. That book is now available for pre-order. That book is finished. So now, Greg Cody, what's happened around here, you may have noticed, this is a very big show. It has had a lot of success nationally and internationally and is growing because we've got some big announcements coming later this month.

what has happened around here is that mango publishing a local publishers realize there is a in books a publishing oil well around this show that everyone has noticed so ron mcgill has written a book and greg cody has written two books while i fought and wrestled with stu gots's editor this weekend because stu gots's book

that we're telling him is worth a lot of money and is a good idea, he has not done enough work on, and he has not been prepared enough in the selling of this book. Greg Cody has somehow, Stugatz, he's going to have two books out before you have your book out that's being written for you.

This is not a competition with me and Greg Cody. We are friends. We root for each other. Greg wrote a chapter in my book. I am not rooting against Greg Cody. I only want good things for the Cody family. And likewise. But Greg Cody, who is being paid by this show to do Back in My Day, is only doing them as a side hustle.

as part of a project. He's done three fresh Back in My Days for his book so that you buy it. Correct. How do people buy it? Pre-order? They go to their local Dice store? The dollar store? Yeah, you can just, you know, Google Amazon Greg Cody Books. It comes right up. It's doing very well based on pre-sales. It's Amazon's

number one ranked new release in a category called History Humor. Wow. Nice. My philosophy is that Amazon has so many minuscule categories that it allows them to promote a book as being number one new release in History and Humor. It's also top ten in Humor Essays. So I think it's going to be pretty well received. It's a handsome looking book. I'm seeing here you can also pre-order it at Target. It says it comes out September 24th. Is that so? Yes, that is so.

Look at you. Two books in the time, Stugatz. Is your book going to come out, Stugatz? Yeah, it's coming out late November. I mean, I wrote a book. Have you?

I did. Marlon's Top of the First in 1993. Dan, you're on the cover of this book. Were you aware of that? Of which book? Of Back in My Day. Witty satire debunking the hype of new and improved by Greg Cody. Here you are, right at the top. You have a big quote on it. He's on the cover of my book as well. I mean, forward by Dan Lebitard. How about that? Did you write this quote or did Greg just attribute a quote to you? No, Dan was kind enough to write the foreword. Very long foreword.

About a third of the book is Dan's forward, but we appreciated every word of it. Can you possibly tell us the topics of the new Back in My Days? Not necessarily tell us, but maybe kind of wet our whistle with what it is that you've written these about? I can't remember what they are, to be honest with you. No.

I think that I should reward the audience. There should be some sort of prize where we bribe Greg Cody based on how high they get him on one of these lists with he has to read one of the fresh ones from his book if our listeners buy a certain number of books from him. I think one of the three new ones is Space Travel, if I remember correctly. That's one of those things that's gotten worse, right?

What, space travel? Yeah. Well, you have to buy the book to find out. That a boy. That is so distinctly male, what Greg Cody just did. He was palpably moved by my foreword in a way that he expressed to me. He's a bit repressed with how it is he expresses his emotion. He was choked up in expressing to me how he felt about the foreword. And all he does is describe it as publicly long. Right. I said it was generous. You were very generous in what you wrote.

about me and about the book mostly about me which is what I really liked about it but it was long a bit wordy huh criminy yeah same with mine yeah I wasn't choked up I wanted to choke Dan I don't think you read it I've got

I could get through it.

It's got a lot of good word of mouth because he is pouring himself unreasonably into every episode that goes out. It is a rare space in this space where it's not just people talking, but it's clearly got a lot of effort and work behind it. Pablo Torre finds out has gotten a lot of good reviews everywhere. So I wanted to bring Pablo in to talk about some of the news of the day. So Tim Walls.

is now Kamala's vice presidential candidate. Your thoughts there? Is that who you were rooting for? Were you rooting for the astronaut? I was rooting for whoever was going to win the election, but this is the most fun guy to root for. And so the choice was Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, the electoral map, Nate Silver. They're all saying, go with that guy. You just want to win Kamala.

the big blue states. And so I was like, okay, Josh Shapiro. Cool. But Tim Waltz, Dan, if you have been falling asleep, sort of like paying attention to the VP race, he's the guy who has kicked off all of the new messaging, which I find to be profoundly effective about how the other side of this entire political argument now is just full of freaks. And so he uses the term weird. They're weird. And so Tim Waltz is the guy who was most telling America, um,

You get to make a choice here. It could be Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and this Suicide Squad-style band of weirdos who are trying to do all sorts of things, which you don't need to even belabor right now. Or you can pick the dude who is the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, who is a high school football coach who looks like the guy you run into at the grocery store. And so it's just this remarkable leaning into, hey, this is what America kind of could still be, a normal, average dad who...

who may or may not be, you know, grilling on the weekends, potentially barefoot like Greg Cody. Who uses those feet to roll dice on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody and what he describes as the greatest of the family Olympic athletes.

Yes, towing. Excuse me. To Pablo's point, I did see Tim Waltz in a grocery store and he was breaking apart ginger. So if the vice president of the United States can do that, that seals it for me. How do you feel, Pablo, when I tell you that Greg Cody walks into a store and instead of just taking a piece of ginger there that would cost 69 cents, he breaks it in half so that he can have his 19 cent version?

I have Greg as a guy who gets his hands on all sorts of produce because there are deals to be found there. Greg, am I right that you are you are handsy? You are almost I wouldn't say cancelably handsy with the produce, but I think you get the drift, the drift of what I'm trying to say. And the best example of that is when the lemons are not sold by the pound, but it says two for a dollar, for example.

You've got to find the lemon that's almost the size of your fish. You want to get your money's worth. Fisting lemons. How are you doing avocados? How are you doing those? I used to have an avocado tree, and it dropped so many avocados I had to uproot it. So avocados I don't buy much of. Other than guacamole, I have no use for avocados. But I'm not handsy. No, I respect produce. I look with my eyes. I'm scouting out the big lemon.

Generally speaking, once I pick up a lemon, I buy it. Now if I pick up it, turn it around, and it's got a defect on the other side, I gently put it back. What am I going to do?

No, the ginger, as I was explaining to Dan, he didn't know. He thought you popped a piece of ginger in your mouth like it was popcorn. You don't eat the outside of ginger. That's what he said. Word for word. That's not what I said. I said that I use ginger, and I'm offended, as was Roy, by what

you did with that ginger, but now we've moved on to other subject matter. So you got rid of and killed your avocado tree for overproducing for you. Yeah. Well, what happened, you know, avocado trees are seasonal. And when it was bearing fruit, it would drop so many

that squirrels love avocado. So it drops on the ground. Everyone knows that. Yeah, and I couldn't pick it up fast enough. Like, I just want to take, you know, how much does it take to make guacamole? I want to take three or four avocados in my house, let them ripen, make my avocado. Nobody makes avocado like me. It's really, really good, and I don't often brag about stuff like that. You don't make avocado. The tree does. But the squirrels are mauling my avocados, and...

And once you can't use an avocado, it rots in the ground. You know, you can't mow over it because the pit is big and hard. So it just became a real nightmare. Yeah, it became a nightmare.

Greg Cody, you are 0-2 in cooking competitions around here. You say no one can make a guacamole like you. Does anyone want to challenge him? Valerie makes, I'm sure, a better guacamole than you. Does anyone here else make guacamole? Or is Greg Cody going to stand untested here? I would take that challenge. When he says I make a better—you're 0-2 in your cooking challenges. I know Roy beat me in turkey.

And a well-earned victory by Roy. His citrus turkey was fantastic. What was the other competition? You lost to me in popcorn. Oh, yeah, that was a little bit of a dicey verdict.

You lost unanimously. No one voted for you. I mean, you know... No one voted for you. You're the Jordan Childs of, you know, one minute you're in fifth place, the next minute somehow you're winning a ribbon. I thought my popcorn was better. Okay, so you're going to just overturn the vote that was unanimous? What are you, Trump? Well, your popcorn, if I'm being honest...

It was so over-seasoned with Tajin that it was almost inedible. I've never heard Tajin uttered like a slur before. Hard J. Almost inedible. Again, beat you 4-0. You know.

The judges were on the take. You're the guy going in a dollar store to save money so that you can flash a little money to the judges over here. I have a question for Greg because I'm imagining how Tim Waltz is going to instruct America about how he is the most normal man in politics. But Greg Cody's Guide to Grocery Store Etiquette. What else is on the list of stuff that Greg does that a veteran dad...

who's been around the block a couple of times, always does if he knows what he's doing. Wow. I like the idea that you had Tim Walz grilling in bare feet because I do that. You know, I challenge myself to be safe in areas that don't seem safe. You know, when I'm lighting a propane tank, for example, I have no problem using bare feet for that.

You know, and the idea that the vice president also grills in bare feet makes me like the guy. Well, I don't know if... Was that literal or were you just saying... Were you just being metaphorical there, Pablo? Is that a literal thing? Does he grill in bare feet? Do you know this? I believe that I was being reckless and speculating that...

potential vice president Tim Walz has prehensile toes that he is using to grill and operate on the poll. Please, Juju, at Levitard show, do you grill in bare feet? Because I don't think that's uniquely or distinctly American. I think it's dumb and dangerous and dirty. When you said Nate Silver earlier, are we trusting this information? Because I have found hard to trust anything that resembles polling information. And Nate Silver was wrong.

simply the authority in these matters and then he wasn't yeah I don't have anybody better than him of

Of course, all of this is a complicated thing when you have to say probability is what we're going for here. So Nate Silver has been wrong, but the probabilities in which he estimated his wrongness to be were actually more impressive than other people who were wrong. And so this is like the last thing Stugatz wants to hear is people making excuses about how I'm wrong, but...

My math says that I'm more right than you. So I understand why he's a deeply unsympathetic character. I get all of that. But I believe, Dan, I just don't know what else to turn to other than the math of polling. And Nate Silver is the best at it. So, yeah, I go by him. What kind of offense did he run in high school? I mean, those are the questions we should be asking. Tells a lot about a man. Yeah. This is an episode for Pablo Torre finds out. I'm not kidding. This has already been assigned this morning. Wow.

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I like that we're doing the whole like, hey, those guys are weird thing. But also from what I've read, Tim Walz has had a really good track record in Minnesota for things like a child tax credit and he's free lunches, things like that. He's a former teacher, so he has a lot of like family geared policy. So is that also something that you think adds a boost to the Harris campaign that they're able to attach themselves to some of these policies?

I think so. I mean, thank you, Jess, for reminding us that there's substance here somewhere. Yes.

I just think when it comes to when it comes to how he's going to debate J.D. Vance, I don't think they're going to lean on that so much as they're going to lean on. Hey, look at me. Look at him. Look at me again. Which one of you know, which one of us, which one of us potentially not wearing eyeliner and also having a history of flip flopping and calling my ass?

preferred presidential nominee, Adolf Hitler. Which one of us do you trust? I think they're going to simplify it so far down to the lowest common denominator in ways that make me hopeful because I've tried substance before, Jess, and it doesn't really work so well. I think they're just going to go for the casting call. And I kind of get it.

Pablo Torre finds out Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. You've now mentioned Hitler a couple of times in your last few appearances. You are obsessed these these days. What wouldn't say that? Although today's episode does involve Hitler.

And here's a spoiler alert. It also involved, this is not the only tree-based conversation you'll hear on the Dan Levitard and Friends Network today. Greg Cody's avocado trees, the trees that Adolf Hitler gave to gold medalists in the 1936 Berlin Games, the Nazi Olympics, led us to a story about Jesse Owens taking those trees home and planting them. Unlike Greg Cody, he saved those trees. And, uh,

It's a story about why and how and what it says about America. And that is a tease that I believe

successfully threads the needle of trying to sell you about listening to more Adolf Hitler. I think that that tease makes sure that no one here will listen to that. I'm pretty sure. Trees? I'm pretty sure. You guys are anti-trees. I'm pretty sure you lost everyone in this room with all of that. You think you nailed the dismount and Jessica is saying she'll listen. Thank you, Jess. Substance. Although, Dan, you should be careful when you say someone is obsessed with Adolf Hitler. Yeah.

That's especially someone that you employ. Yeah, that's... You know what you're doing, right? Well, I thought I knew what I was doing. I was hoping that it... Journalistically obsessed. Journalistically obsessed. Because I'm a journalist. Hard J. That is... Big J. That is correct. Journalist.

Before you get out of here, I've got some updates for you from some of the reporting that our experts have been doing on the Olympics. Billy has been covering trampoline. Greg Cody has been covering equestrian. So go ahead and, Greg, give us whatever you've got here on equestrian. We've given out assignments to everyone. I've got break dancing. I think that, Roy, what did you have?

Boxing and field hockey. Do you have any reports? Any updates? Not yet. I won't have it on Friday. Okay. Jessica, what do you have? Did you wrestle beach volleyball? Beach volleyball. I believe I wrestled it away from Chris. Unfortunately, our...

One of our women's beach volleyball teams lost yesterday, but there is more today. Greg Cody, you are our equestrian correspondent. What do you have for us? I don't love equestrian just because I own a racehorse, okay? I love equestrian because it's the sport of old people. The competitors are older on average than any other sport at the Paris Olympics.

The average age of the U.S. equestrian team, 44 and a half. Even the horses are old. We think of horses as three or four year olds that we actually see in big races. These equestrian horses tend to be 14, 15, 16 years old. Equestrian in France wrapped up just this morning

in Versailles with Germany taking four of six gold medals and Great Britain the other two. US rider Laura Kraut aboard her horse Ballentineau had a chance this morning to win the first gold medal in Team USA Equestrian since 2008 but fell short in the individual jumping final. However Kraut from Palm Beach along with teammates Carl Cook and McLean Ward took silver earlier in Paris in team jumping.

Kraut, at age 58, became the oldest U.S. Olympic medalist in 72 years. The previous oldest was Everard Ducky Ent, who was 59 in Helsinki in 1952 when he won gold in the 100-meter dash. I'm just kidding. It was in sailing. Not reporting from Paris, I'm Greg Cody.

All right, it felt a bit book report-y, but I hope that Billy... I mean, he's written something. I learned a lot. He's written something that's not for his book. He wrote something fresh for us. Thank you. Billy, do you have a trampoline update for us? Women's trampoline, yes. I had visuals prepared, but we can go here. We don't need to get to the visuals. So, Dan, Olympic trampolining commenced and ended the other day. It is one of the most vicious Olympic sports because...

Just like that, four years of training can go away. Hold on a second. I'm sorry. I think Patty Mills just did something. Yeah, Serbia battled all the way back from down 20 to go up two with nine and a half seconds left. They go to Patty Mills to tie this ballgame. Patty Mills rattles it in. It's a tie ballgame. 1.4 seconds left.

a desperate heave from serbia goes wide we are headed to overtime we allow basketball quarterfinal allowed to do olympics play-by-play like that was after the fact this actually happened four minutes earlier yeah you're not allowed to do that anyways olympic trampoline the event takes place in one day dan and the field starts at 16 and then is trimmed down to eight all in one day so you have the 16 compete then you get the eight now how do they trim them down great question this is the way that it goes

Each athlete has two potential opportunities if they don't like their score on the first one and think they can improve the second one. And then they take the best of the two scores as their final score. So in Olympic trampolining, you have 10 jumps. So you jump and then you have 10 different tricks that you can do. You then judge based on those tricks. Okay?

Now, how did qualifying go? Great question. This is how qualifying finished. We're not going to do all the qualifying because 16 people is too many. So I'm just going to give you who advanced from qualifying. Well, you're much more prepared than Greg Cody was for this. Greg had a lot of stuff. He had a lot of info. Not a competition, man. Was that Eberhard Ducky Kent? Was that a name Greg said at one point? Yeah, Ent. E-N-D-T. E-N-D-T. Ducky Ent. Sounds fake.

Oh, not to him. I wasn't. I'm I'm I was remiss in not pointing out to you, Pablo. I wanted to throw to you the idea that Greg Cody and Stugatz think they should be able to decide who's American. Whoa. In the Olympics. Whoa. Greg Cody, who said that I was just explaining what it is. Misrepresentation, falsehoods. Greg thinks everyone should compete for America. Well, there's all this. His takes on Tajin now all add up. But really proceed. Sorry. All right.

Yeah, sorry, Billy. All right, so in qualifying, first place went to Violeta Bardzilauskaya. And she is one of the 35 athletes that is competing from Belarus and from Russia who are not allowed to compete under their own country. So she is competing under AIN. And she finished first place in qualifying with a score of 56.340. It looks fun. Trampoline looks fun and dangerous and amazing. Speaking of popcorn, yeah.

I'm just going to tell you how they did in the final round because if I go through all the names and the qualifying and I give you the scores, you're going to get tired of this. Why would you do that? Well, because I need you guys. I'm trying to paint a picture here. Did you know there's two trampolines and they can choose which apparatus to jump on? So they have their warm-ups and they can choose which of the two trampolines they want to compete on. Wow.

From my observation, it seemed like they all competed on the exact same trampoline. So I don't know why they needed a second trampoline. Like a baseball glove. They want it worn in. They want the worn in trampoline. I suppose. I was wondering maybe if the springs are tighter on one trampoline than the other. You get more bounce. But I think it's just a preference.

thing. Probably I should have the answers for you. Shouldn't you know this? Yeah, I'm the one reporting on it. You're the expert. I would think that would be good information to have. Anyway, so in second place in qualifying with a score of 56.20, we had Yu Yicheng.

The Qi got a score of 56.270. In third place, we had Zhu Zhuying from China with a score of 55.950. In fourth place, again competing for AIN, we had Anzela Bladlekva.

with a score of 55.640. Then in fifth place, we had what appeared to be the sentimental favorite, Brownie Page, from Great Britain, with a score of 54.970. Now, as you all know, as fans of trampolining, Brownie Page...

previously has a bronze and a silver medal, but she does not have the gold medal yet. So we're trying to see if she can get the old triple crown and medals, as they call it in trampolining. In sixth place, we had Mori Hikaru from Japan with a score of 54.740. Well, I'm just giving you a recap of the qualifying version. Yeah, this is a short. I didn't want to give you the 16. Oh, there you go. There you go. Look, look, right there. Pablo, thank you for being on with us. Pablo may be interested in this. We appreciate it. Pablo wants to find out.

Who won trampolining? Triple crown. Pablo, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate it. Belarus, huh? I really regret doing this. In seventh place, Maddie Davidson from New Zealand. Now, remember, Pablo, Pablo, if you're still here, remember, their scores in qualifying don't carry over to the final. It gets wiped clean, so they just make it into the championship. In eighth place, we had Sophie-Ann Methot from Canada with a score of 52.

Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. Stugatz, guess what? What? You know what you can do with Peloton? What? Get the app, go outside, ride a bike. Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside. Well, you do, you can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloudy or you just don't want to get outside, maybe it's too hot.

summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

I sense that with you. We're beyond starting. Okay. Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus. It's not just a bike, a treadmill too. I'm going to go outside. I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to do it with Billy Gill. I want to be in your class. I want you to be my instructor. You know what? I won't be your instructor. You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together. I won't be the instructor of the class. We can have Camila could be our instructor. I like the Grateful Dead class. My daughter, she uses the Peloton. Mm-hmm.

She was on it once, and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes. Let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run? Outside. Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you. Go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right. A musician with technical knowledge can play all the right notes, but one who cares enough to play from the heart gives music soul.

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