August 16, 2024 • 44 mins
August 16th is a day to celebrate many remarkable achievements! Do you like stories about triumph and glory? Todays tales have that and more - especially if you love sports:
- Sports Illustrated was born today - and turned 70 this year. Did the magazine grow because of America’s love of sports? Or was it the other way around?
- The “Fastest Man Alive” set a speed record on this day that may never be broken. Do you believe that?
- The “Greatest Swimmer of All Time” won an amazing come-from-behind race on this day in the past. Can you imagine 0.01 seconds?
If it's a special day for you or for someone you care about, why not learn a little more about today by listening to some fun, engaging tales of the past. You’ll find yourself a little smarter and have some great stories you can tell at the next summer bar-b-q! If you need some great gift ideas, we have those too (along with links to where you can find them on Amazon).
Watch today’s events using these YouTube video links (these links worked in mid-2024 - not sure how long the links will be available):
- Link to Usain Bolt’s world record in the 100m dash
- Link to Micheal Phelps’s 0.01 second win in the 100m butterfly
- Link to Joe’s Elite Podcasts website
Gift ideas for folks who celebrate August 16th:
- Sports Illustrated not only sells magazines, they sell books. Even better? An autographed cover!
- Usain Bolt is an amazing athlete! Celebrate his world record set today, or just celebrate his Jamaican heritage.
- Michael Phelps is equally amazing as a swimmer! Celebrate his many achievements with apparel or decor for your loved one.
- There’s lots of cool stuff to celebrate famous birthdays from today featuring Madonna, James Cameron and August 16th in general.
- Similarly, there are fun gift options to celebrate today’s holidays: Kool Aid Day, Roller Coaster Day and
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Episode Transcript
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Truman (00:01):
Welcome, Seeker.
Your portal is all warmed upand ready to stride through
history with me.
Together, we'll discover whyAugust 16th is special when it
comes to the world of sports.
There's a handful of amazingachievements that occurred on
this particular day.
The popularity of sports tookoff in the mid-1900s, right
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around the time SportsIllustrated was born.
Our journey will take usthrough that time period.
and we'll try to discover ifthe magazine was just following
along with the culture change,or if it was at the wheel
actually driving the popularityof sports to new heights.
After that, we're going lookingfor gold, as in the Olympic
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variety.
The first stop will be inBerlin as we check in on the
fastest man alive, and thenwe'll head to Beijing to relive
the most exciting swim raceever.
You'll have your hands full aswe return you to your normal
self with over two dozen goldmedals and all.
Oh yeah, you'll want to stickaround for today's holidays.
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It's tell a joke day and I'vegot some goodies for you.
After striding through August16th, you'll have a new
appreciation for sports ingeneral and for speed in
particular.
Get ready to keep up as we takeour fastest journey ever
through the past.
Time's a-tickin', so let's getto it.
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Welcome, seekers, to theenchanting world of Daystrider,
the podcast where we embark on adaily journey through history.
I'm your travel guide, TrumanPastworthy, and together we'll
explore some fascinating storiesthat happened on this exact
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day, but from some time in thepast.
From groundbreaking inventionsto remarkable birthdays and
extraordinary events to quirkynational holidays, we've got it
all.
So kick back, relax, and openyour mind for some lighthearted
stories that'll leave yousaying, huh, I never knew that
happened on this day.
Alrighty then, let's get to it.
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When I was growing up, one ofmy buddies, Scott, had the
coolest bedroom in theneighborhood.
Now, his dad was an avid sportsfan, and he collected Sports
Illustrated magazines.
And he kept every one of them,I guess saving them for
something special.
Well, his mom had a spark ofgenius, and she tore off the
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covers of almost 200 of thosemagazines and then wallpapered
Scott's room with them.
Now, to young boys growing upidolizing superstar athletes,
this was the most awesomebedroom ever.
Maybe to others, it might havefelt a little creepy that the
walls had a couple hundred facesof these various athletes
watching you sleep at night,right?
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Well, today marks the 70thbirthday for the famous
magazine.
Now, 70 seems pretty old,right?
But Time Magazine has beenaround for over 100 years.
National Geographic, close to140 years.
And the oldest, ScientificAmerican, it's been around for
almost 180 years.
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Sheesh.
But Sports Illustrated was thefirst magazine dedicated to
sports.
Now, sports were definitelybecoming popular in the mid-50s
when Sports Illustrated camealong.
Actually, like everything else,sports started becoming popular
in the late 40s after World WarII ended and life was returning
to normal.
So Henry Luce, who had startedTime Magazine in the 20s,
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Fortune Magazine in the 30s, andthen Life Magazine later that
decade, he wanted to diversify.
He wanted something differentin the portfolio, but his
friends and business associateswarned him that sports was not a
good idea.
In fact, the words they usedwere misguided and inherently
trivial folly.
Yeah, folly.
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Well, they were wrong.
Sports Illustrated went on tobecome a huge success.
Now, in the beginning, thenaysayers were right.
It was a little bumpy.
because Luce focused ondiversity and featured sports
that were both popularmainstream as well as rugby and
other outdoorsy activity typesports, which were less popular.
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But around the five-year mark,they pivoted and began to focus
almost entirely on premiersporting events, and that's when
subscribers began flocking andthe money started rolling in.
Now, if you're like me, whenyou think of Sports Illustrated,
you think of their awesomecover photos.
Over the years, their shotshave been amazing.
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They've captured triumphs likeno one else.
People frame these covers andtry to get them autographed, and
there are traders out there whobuy and sell the magazine
issues because of theseremarkable cover photos.
Images like Muhammad Aliknocking out Sonny Liston, or
Tiger Woods celebrating a hugewin at the Masters, or Brandi
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Chastain taking her shirt offand celebrating the World Cup
championship win.
And the 1980 miracle on icemoment when the U.S.
beat Russia in hockey.
All amazing photos.
And I could probably go on andon listing photo images across
all the decades.
But we'll leave you with thevery first one.
What was on the cover of thefirst Sports Illustrated
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magazine?
Milwaukee Braves third basemanEddie Matthews at the plate in
his home stadium.
Now if you're listeningcarefully, you heard me say
Milwaukee Braves, not Brewers.
Surprisingly, Milwaukee had twobaseball teams in the 1950s.
How about that?
Anyway, Sports Illustratedchanged the way sports was
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reported.
Back in the day, thenewspapers, all they would do is
share the stats of the game,and they'd run through the facts
of who did what and what thescore was and so forth.
Kind of bland, boring stuff.
Sports Illustrated did muchmore than that.
Essentially, the concept ofsports journalism was formed.
And these writers would spendtime digging into the
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backstories of the athletes andthe events and opened up all the
behind the scenes to all ofAmerica.
And we got to know the peopleplaying the games that we love
so dearly.
James Missner went so far as tosay, Sports Illustrated has
become the Bible of theindustry.
It eventually became the desireof athletes to make the cover
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of the magazine.
Well, it did for most.
There's this thing called theSports Illustrated Jinx that
many athletes were concernedabout.
Have you heard about this one?
I guess we could call it anurban legend or a superstition.
Anyway, the worry was that ifan athlete or a team makes the
cover, then something bad wouldhappen to them soon after.
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Yeah, it was a thing.
There's even a Wikipedia pagethat lists 52 examples of the
Jinx, going all the way back to1955 when it all started.
Yeah, and the start wasactually a bad one.
Alpine skier Jill Kinmont wasfeatured on the cover of a late
January issue.
And then the very next slalomevent she was in, she lost
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control, hit a tree, andunfortunately became paralyzed
for the rest of her life.
Yeah, well...
Sorry for her, but you can maketime to read about all the
jinxes.
There's boxers that werefeatured who soon lost their
championship titles.
There are examples ofundefeated football and
basketball teams who, after theymade the cover, lost the next
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game.
And there's teams who aremaking great runs into the
playoffs, make the cover of themagazine, bam, knocked out.
Yeah, so of course, I thinkthis is all silly, right?
People only remember the badexamples.
There are plenty of stars outthere who have made dozens of
covers and went on to be thegreatest ever.
Michael Jordan, he's made thecover 50 times.
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Goat.
Tom Brady, 21 coverappearances.
Goat.
Serena Williams, a more modest8 cover appearances.
Still, goat.
So, I don't buy the jinx.
Instead, I buy the statistics,right?
Meaning, if you have a stellarrun and then have this huge
stellar performance, you'regoing to make the cover of
Sports Illustrated magazine.
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But statistics say that whenyour performance is above your
normal average, you are due toreturn to normal levels.
It's bound to happen.
And when it does, athletes aregoing to need something to
blame, right?
So they'll just blame the jinx.
All right.
Now, we can't talk about SportsIllustrated without mentioning
its most controversial feature,the annual swimsuit issue.
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So this concept came about inthe mid-1960s when they were
trying to think of ways tobridge the gap between the
college bowl games in earlyJanuary and the start of
baseball spring training inMarch.
Now, side note, the NFLplayoffs and Super Bowl Sunday,
that wasn't really a big dealuntil the 70s.
And side note too, MarchMadness wasn't a thing really
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until the 80s.
So anyway, they were thinkingabout this sunshine issue, and
they decided to go with prettyladies modeling bathing suits.
And many subscribers loved thisissue, but at the same time,
others were outraged.
Now, of course, we all knowthat even bad publicity sells
subscriptions.
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So they released the swimsuitissue again the next year, and
again the year after that, andthe love-hate relationship took
off.
Yep, and they've been doing theswimsuit issue ever since.
The founder, Jewel Campbell,continued to press on, battling
the accusations that she wascontributing to the
objectification of women.
And her work was heavilyscrutinized.
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But, regardless of all that,she stuck to her moral compass
and created the issue for 32years.
And hey, she was partiallyresponsible for the successful
modeling careers of CherylTeagues, Christy Brinkley, and
Tyra Banks, to name a few.
Many of those models speak veryhighly of Campbell and the
institution of that annualissue.
Of course, why wouldn't they,since it helped them make
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millions of dollars during theircareers?
All right, so we're going tomove on here.
I'm just striding throughhistory, folks.
I'm not here for editorialcommentary.
But what I will leave you withis that this iconic magazine has
been much more than justchronicle sporting events.
It has been a cultural driver.
shaping the way we viewathletes, sports, and even
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societal issues.
Sports Illustrated has not onlydocumented history, but it's
also influenced it.
Roses are red and sports arefun.
Writing a review would be ahome run.
Not sure what to say?
Don't worry or fear.
Type, this pod's a winner.
It's top tier.
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Wouldn't it be cool if yourname somehow invoked the very
thing that makes you special?
So let's say you were given thename Sunny Day at birth, and
then you had a genuinely brightand cheery personality that made
others feel great.
That would be cool, wouldn'tit?
Or if your parents named youMax Whitson, and then you loved
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to tell jokes and always keptyour family and friends in
stitches, they'd ask you, isthat really your given name?
Guest (11:17):
Yeah.
Truman (11:18):
Well, this actually happened this way for the
fastest man to ever live.
His name evokes insane speed.
And of course, I'm talkingabout Usain Bolt.
Insanely fast, Usain Bolt.
It's like those names I justmade up a minute ago, but this
one's actually true.
It's the name he was given atbirth by Wellesley and Jennifer
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Bolt.
Yeah.
Now, I said the fastest man toever live like I'm hyping him up
for this segment and clickbaitand all that.
No, no.
As many of you know, this isnot hype at all.
And today, I'm sharing Bolt'sstory.
So like many superstars,Usain's life started off humble.
As a child, his parentsenforced discipline and required
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that he focus on his schooling.
He played basketball andsoccer, they called it football
in Jamaica, in the streets.
And then in high school, whileplaying these sports, the
coaches could just tell that hewas wicked fast.
So of course, they convincedhim to run track.
I'd love to use the cliche, therest is history from there, but
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sometimes luck does play arole.
So, locally in Jamaica, Usainwas a standout in every race he
participated in.
Now, where luck played its rolewas when he was 16, because
that year, the World JuniorAthletic Championships were held
in Jamaica, and so it wasconvenient for him to
participate.
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And of course, he pretty muchwon everything he competed in.
And, oh by the way, he becamethe youngest ever world champion
in the 200 meter.
So now, everyone in thesprinting world got the chance
to see this rising star.
So that was 2002, andnaturally, he began training for
the Olympics in 2004.
And this is where his storyhits a speed bump, also like
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many superstars.
So Bolt had health issues.
He was diagnosed withscoliosis, which is a curvature
of the spine.
And he had issues with histhighs in that Olympics that
caused him to not run as fast ashe could.
And then he had issues with hishamstrings in the 2005 World
Championships.
So apparently, these thingsstemmed from his poor training
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habits.
Now, like many gifted andtalented individuals, he had
risen to where he was because ofraw ability.
Now, to get to the elite leveland status, he would be required
to work hard.
I'm talking really hard.
And so at that point in hislife, he needed to decide what
he wanted to do.
Would he really put in the hardwork necessary?
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Well, we'll find out more aboutthat in a minute.
But what I want to share isUsain's strong proponent for
work-life balance, which meanthe liked to spend some of his
time having fun.
Now, if you haven't gotten tosee any of his races, you can go
back and watch videos now.
And some of them show him doinglittle dances, little jigs on
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the track before a race, andthen big, huge dances after the
race.
In fact, he even made up thiscool lightning bolt pose that he
did for the fans after races hewon once the official results
were posted.
I love it.
It's awesome.
It makes everybody cheer.
It's pretty cool.
I'm actually doing the poseright now as I say this.
Anyway, there's also images ofhim literally dancing.
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In a race, running along,looking to the side directly at
the camera and smiling duringthe race.
It's so funny.
Yep.
And apparently, Bolt lovesplaying Jamaican Dominoes, which
from what I've researched is alively four-player game where
there are two teams and you talktrash and you block your
opponent's moves on the board.
But most of his friends outsideof his home country weren't
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used to that style of play, sohe also played French dominoes
with them, which is a calmertwo-player game, and you're just
competing to build lines andget scores.
So, pretty cool.
Yeah.
And you'd think that Balt wouldalso have a strict diet, right?
Well, apparently, when he wasat the 2008 Olympics, which were
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in Beijing, China, the localfood didn't work out so well for
him.
So what did he do?
He went to my favorite fastfood joint, McDonald's, and he
pounded down chicken nuggets.
Well, excuse me, McNuggets.
And he claims to have eaten athousand nugs during his 10-day
stay in China.
Bolt sounds like a great personto me, and he would fit right
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in with my family and friends.
Okay, but we're here to talkabout August 16th, and we'll get
to that.
But let me zip you throughBolt's accomplishments.
Essentially, Bolt spent acareer setting and then breaking
world records in the 100-meter,200-meter, and 400-meter
relays.
In fact, he's the only personto win a double-double in
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consecutive Olympics, whichmeans he won both the 100-meter
and 200-meter gold medals in2008 and 2012.
Actually, he topped that with adouble-triple because in both
of those Olympics, he also wonthe gold in the 400-meter relay.
Pretty impressive.
So he was an eight-time worldchampion in sprinting, and he
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also has eight Olympic goldmedals in all.
He used to have nine, but sadlyone was taken away because one
of his teammates in the400-meter relay tested positive
for using illegal substances.
So that stinks.
But anyway, we got to get backto August 16, 2009, when he was
racing in the World AthleticsChampionship in Berlin, Germany.
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And he was amped up that night.
because he wanted to break intoa new barrier for the 100
meter.
Now, the barrier of 10 secondswas broken way back in 1968 by
Jim Hines, and he held thatrecord for almost 15 years.
And then after that, someonekept breaking the record every
couple of a few years, justbreaking it and knocking it down
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lower and lower.
And on the night of August16th, Bolt himself was holding
the current record of 9.68seconds, that he set a year
earlier at the 2008 Olympics.
Remember those chicken nuggets?
9-6-8, fueled by McDonald's.
Anyway, he was gunning to breakthat 9-6 barrier.
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He wanted to get to9-5-something.
He figured 9-5-anything wouldbe the record, the one that
would never be broken.
Well, 15 years today andcounting, he still has it.
The 2024 Olympics, they justwrapped up, and the fastest
100-meter time there was 9.79seconds.
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Okay, so Bolt was in lane four,which is reserved for the
fastest runner.
And at the gun, he exploded outof the blocks.
But at the 10-meter mark, hewas about dead even with the
other runners.
So everybody had a great start.
But his acceleration to maxspeed was so impressive that by
the 20-meter mark, he wasclearly in the lead already.
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And he kept expanding that leadwith each 10-meter segment.
And I think he could actuallytell that he was zooming.
At the end of the straightaway,there's a clock.
And you can see him.
Right after he crosses thefinish line, he turns his head
and looks down at the results.
So he knew.
He knew he had done it.
He had broken the barrier.
9.58.
He and everyone else had beenchasing that 5, and he got it.
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Awesome.
Top speed that night, 27.8miles an hour.
Usain is insane.
The fastest man alive.
Yep, chick.
So the question is, do we thinkthis record will ever get
broken?
Well, let's turn to science.
Peter Wayne at the LocomotorPerformance Lab in Texas studies
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the human body and its abilityto run fast.
And I'm talking really fast.
He studies world-class athleteson some very high-tech
equipment.
And he says the key tosprinting is the force the body
can apply to the track.
Apparently, Bolt can apply overfive times his body weight in
force, which is insane.
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Normal people can apply closerto three times their body
weight.
Then, once they get to theirmax speed by the 12th step in
the race, it's how long they canmaintain that max speed.
And again, Bolt hit 27.8 milesper hour that night, which is
remarkable.
So the short story is PeterWayne says that a perfectly
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built human running in perfectconditions and runs a perfect
race from start to finish, ifall those things happen, then a
time of, his words, low 940scould be possible.
So I guess we're going to haveto wait and see.
Will someone from the future beable to do that?
Who knows?
But here's what I do know.
Bolt has done what is right atthe limit of impossible.
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which is pretty daggumimpressive.
So records, they're made to bebroken, right?
But at some point, isn't arecord going to be the final
record?
Who knows?
I guess time will tell.
Pun intended, time will tell.
A time traveler's delight, wesprint through the past.
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Perhaps those triumphs willforever last.
If these tales of champions lita spark in your eye, please
share with your friends so theycan learn why.
I want to tell you about myfriend who's an Olympian that
had an amazing experience onthis day.
Okay, well, he's not actuallymy friend.
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He's not even an acquaintance.
More like a local celebritythat I have a few teeny tiny
connections to and I follow onInstagram, right?
That counts as a friend, right?
Yeah, I have a teeny connectionbecause my mom taught school
with his mom A long, long timeago.
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And my kids swam in the samepool that he grew up swimming
in.
In fact, as we've traveledaround Central Maryland for Swim
Meets, we've seen his name onthe pool records boards.
These are the boards that showthe records in that pool for the
different events.
His times are impressive.
And there have been sightingsof him in the Towson area, and
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he's made celebrity appearancesat both the Orioles and Ravens
games.
So kind of a friend, right?
By now you've probably figuredout that I'm talking about
Michael Phelps.
Yep, and I want to take youback to August 16, 2008 and tell
the story of the most intenseswimming race I have ever seen.
But as a preview before thisamazing race, Phelps was already
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a hero of young swimmers.
Eight years earlier, he madethe Olympics at the age of 15.
Impressive.
Of course, his best finish thatyear was a fifth-place finish,
but hey, he was only 15.
And then four years later, whenhe was 19, still a teenager, he
brought home five gold medalsand two bronze, which is the
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second-best Olympic haul inswimming history.
So he's already had animpressive career leading up to
tonight.
All right, so the SummerOlympics were in Beijing, China
that year.
And a quick aside, something Ilearned as part of researching
this segment was that theChinese government wanted
perfect weather for theseOlympic Games.
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And so they employed weathermodification strategies to do so
on a massive scale.
Yes, yes, they used cloudseeding techniques where they
launched or spread silver iodideamongst the clouds in the air
west of Beijing, and then thesedroplets would cause the
moisture in the clouds to becomeheavier, which caused the rain
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to fall before the clouds got tothe capital, leaving sunny
skies for the Olympians andtheir millions of fans.
How about that?
Anyway, these Olympics tookplace in Beijing, and so the
16th was on a Saturday thatyear.
Or was it?
Consider there's this huge timezone issue.
So Beijing is 12 hours ahead ofEast Coast time.
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And so events taking place onthe morning over there would be
late the night before over here.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
So for example, the 100-meterbutterfly swimming event that
was scheduled for 10.10 a.m.
Beijing time on Saturday the16th, which thankfully was aired
live for us at 10.10 our time,But what time was that?
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Our slidey keyboard mobilephones.
Remember those where you slidthe screen up to get to the
typing keys?
Anyway, told us it was August15th here in the U.S.
Friday night.
Yeah, Friday night's partytime, right?
No, no, no.
Not until after this swimmingevent.
This one is going to be huge.
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Yes, leading up to Fridaynight's event, Phelps had been
on an incredible tear.
If you don't remember thispersonally, what I'm about to
tell you is going to soundpretty much impossible.
It's hard to believe, but hehad swum in six events already.
Is swum right or is it swimmed?
He had swimmed?
He had swam in six eventsalready?
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I don't know.
And in each event, he not onlywon the gold, he set world
records in all six events.
So already he had won the mostgold medals of everyone ever in
the Olympics.
A goat status already.
And here we are, Friday night.
Again, Saturday morning overthere.
And tonight's huge becauseSerbian swimmer Milorad Cavic
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had been talking trash.
Yeah, he had the fastestqualifying time leading into
this final event.
And he said that it would begood for swimming if Phelps
loses.
Yeah.
He said it would be nice ifhistorians talk about Michael
Phelps losing to some guy.
I'd like to be that guy.
Whoa, what?
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Yeah.
All right, game on.
Let's go.
Phelps is fired up.
I was fired up.
Everyone.
We fired up.
And I've got the link in theshow notes so that you can watch
this video of this race.
It's over two minutes longbecause it has a bunch of
replays and stuff, but the raceitself was only 51 seconds.
And man, what an intense 51seconds that was.
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Because right from the start,Cavage, who was in lane four,
like I said, the fastestqualifying time, got off to a
better jump off the block andcame out of the water ahead of
Phelps, who was in lane five,right next to him.
Well, no, we're already behind,but there's 80 meters left.
When they got to the turn andheading back, Kavich had held
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his lead and Phelps was actuallyin seventh place at that point.
The announcers are saying maybehe was tired, maybe too much
race.
Oh, no, no.
Come on, Michael.
Dig deep.
Dig deep, buddy.
And then with every stroke, hegained a smidge.
Another stroke, another smidge.
Now let's pause right there.
The butterfly to me is one ofthe hardest strokes to swim.
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You have to keep your feettogether while kicking, kind of
like a mermaid would do.
So your feet are togetherkicking through the water.
Much harder than the freestyleflutter kick.
And the arms are souncomfortable because you have
to pull them up out of the watertogether and scoop them back
into the pool.
It's just hard to do.
You need strong shoulders.
But I'll tell you what.
Great swimmers like Phelps andCavish, they make it look like a
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beautiful thing in the water.
Anyway.
So we're heading down thehomestretch, a few meters left,
and Phelps keeps gaining by asmidge with each stroke.
And then at the very end,Kavich is gliding into the wall
to touch the pad, but Phelpstakes one more arm stroke and
gains one more smidge and hitsthe pad.
Guest (26:54):
Bam.
Truman (26:54):
Race over.
Who won?
Oh my gosh, too close to call.
On the screen, we could see thetimes.
It said Phelps had won, but theofficials needed to look at the
results.
And they're looking, andthey're looking, and yes...
Michael Phelps announced thewinner by one one hundredth of a
second.
That's point zero one of amargin.
You can't get a smaller margin,at least not back then.
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This year's Olympics, youcould.
They flashed it up on theboards and the American fans are
going nuts.
The people I'm with were goingnuts, jumping around the room.
Everyone except Cavage is goingnuts.
All right.
So Cavage and his camp, right?
It's time for a protest.
That's what we do when we loseby a smidge.
We need to protest.
(27:36):
So luckily, the cameras theyused to film the ending of these
races filmed 10,000 frames persecond.
That's a lot of frames.
So anyway, in the protest, theywent and watched the film frame
by frame by frame.
And they were able to confirmthat Phelps did actually touch
the wall before Cavage.
(27:57):
Amazing.
Another gold for Phelps.
Sadly, this was only an Olympicrecord, not another world
record.
Now, I'm kidding.
An amazing run.
And then the next day, he wonanother gold medal, along with
another world record.
So he pushed his event total toeight gold medals and seven
world records, and his all-timetotal to 13 gold medals.
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And he wasn't even done.
Four years later, in the nextOlympics, he won four more golds
and two silvers to finish hiscareer as the undisputed GOAT in
swimming.
Yes.
Now, you want to know whatCavage said after the protest
was all done?
It's actually prettyimpressive.
I wish I could do his accent,but I can't, so I'm just going
(28:41):
to say it my way.
People, this is the greatestmoment of my life.
I've accepted defeat, andthere's nothing wrong with
losing to the greatest swimmerthere has ever been.
Music And there you have it.
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Some great stories to sharewith your someone special to
celebrate August 16th.
Once again, those were the veryfirst Sports Illustrated
magazine was published today,kicking off an amazing franchise
and driving the culture ofAmerican sports.
Usain Bolt set a world recordthat some scientists feel may
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never be broken.
And a fun story about one ofMichael Phelps' most amazing
finishes in his storied career.
Now this episode was loadedwith lots of sports stuff.
So for all you non-sportsenthusiasts out there, thanks
for following along.
I hope the stories broughtenough fun to make it worth your
time.
That said, if you are a sportsenthusiast, there are more
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sports stories you can find allacross time.
For example, there's a footballstory in the very first
Daystrider episode September28th.
And you can find a figureskating story that had an
Olympics impact in the January8th episode.
If you like basketball, theinvention of the sport was
covered on the December 21stepisode, and a famous
(30:09):
chair-throwing coach wasfeatured on February 23rd.
So many stories and so muchfun.
We'll keep striding until we'redone.
So for today's reflectionmoment, it's going to be a bit
of a twist.
We covered some elite athletestoday, and part of their journey
(30:30):
includes a struggle, a lot ofstruggle.
They need to constantly eathealthy, and they must be ever
vigilant about their exerciseprogram, and even make sure they
get plenty of sleep and rest.
This means that they must makesacrifices in their lives, all
for the sake of being elite.
And it's not easy.
(30:51):
Now, I'm not comparing mypodcast journey to their
sacrifices, but I am going tosuggest that there are times
when I ask myself, is this worthit?
Are folks really enjoying thisenough?
Should I keep going or not?
And I think about these eliteathletes.
They keep going and so can I.
(31:11):
But guess what?
They have help.
They have coaches and mentorswho push them and pull them and
lift them up when they need aboost.
Well, recently I received aboost.
Joe from Elite Podcasts.
You can check out his site inthe show notes.
He made some time to listen tothe show and he really gave me a
(31:32):
boost.
I probably won't end up as agoat like Bolt or Phelps.
And I definitely won't have asmany episodes as Sports
Illustrated has issues.
But thanks to Joe and hisencouraging words, I'm going to
keep pressing on.
In fact, he even tested out mySpeakPipe link that is normally
reserved for shout-outs, and heleft me this message.
Joe (31:55):
Hi, Truman from Daystrider Podcast.
This is Joe fromElitePodcast.net, and I have to
say we're really enjoying yourshow and have already consumed
several of the back episodes andfound much satisfaction there
as well.
Keep up the great work.
It sounds great, and we'll belistening.
Truman (32:12):
Thanks, Joe.
Let's do this, people.
Let's keep on keeping on.
Alright, so after you sharethese special stories, you can
also mention the famous folkswho celebrate their birthdays
today.
Madonna, the self-proclaimedrebel, was born on this day in
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1958.
Not only the queen of pop forselling the most records of all
female artists...
Even Taylor Swift.
Yes, true.
Madonna has a Golden GlobeAward to go along with her seven
Grammys.
She's also started a number ofsuccessful businesses and
charitable organizations like APrayer, Like A Virgin, Material
(32:57):
Girl, Vogue, all on the list ofgreat songs that she's created.
I'd sing them for you, but youdon't want to hear that.
All right, James Cameron isexactly four years older than
Madonna, and he is one of themost famous movie directors
ever.
Terminator, Alien, Avatar, andTitanic are just a few of his
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mega successes.
He was the first person todirect a film that grossed over
$1 billion.
And in 2010, Time Magazinenamed him one of the most 100
influential people in the world.
That's pretty neat.
So August 16th is loaded withfamous people born this day, but
since we had a sports theme inthe episode, here's a handful of
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famous athletes who find todayspecial.
Christian Akoye, a footballplayer known as the Nigerian
Nightmare.
Janik Sinner, a young tennisplayer who's making waves today.
Caleb Dressel, a swimmer who'sgot lots of goals and broke
Phelps' 100-meter butterflyworld record.
And Jonathan Johansson, aFinnish footballer who has
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played striker and scored lotsand lots of goals.
And as you've come to learn, Ilove to feature the 50th most
famous person showing up onfamousbirthdays.com.
Well, I'm glad I did todaybecause that person is crazy.
He has a YouTube channeldedicated to making his body a
human punching bag, goingagainst paintballs, hot sauce,
(34:29):
sandpaper, and doing things likefirewalking and more.
He's got over 4 millionsubscribers and he's made almost
900 videos.
Happy birthday, Houston Jones.
Okay.
Yep.
And when I looked at Wikipediacentenarians list, there was no
one they had on there who wasover 100 years old and born on
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this day.
There was someone whocelebrated being over 100
yesterday and someone who wasborn tomorrow, but no one from
today.
Oh, well, maybe next year.
Alright, today is also Kool-AidDay.
Yep, grab a pitcher and getready to sugar up with some
vibrant colors and flavors.
(35:11):
So actually, Kool-Aid Dayfloats around a little.
Because it always takes placeon the first day of the Kool-Aid
Days Festival, held every yearin Hastings, Nebraska during the
second week of August.
Yes, so Kool-Aid was inventedin Nebraska, and so they take
their Kool-Aid seriously andthey have a festival for it.
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It has a grand parade.
You can find the world'slargest Kool-Aid stand.
There's a 5K run, even a beautypageant.
Crazy.
Today is also Roller CoasterDay, commemorating the issuance
of a patent on this day in 1898for the Loop the Loop roller
coaster.
So this upside-down ride wasbuilt in 1901 on Surf Avenue in
(35:55):
Coney Island.
It's no longer there today.
In its place is the Cycloneroller coaster built in 1927.
But apparently, EdwinPrescott's invention wasn't so
popular because it was anuncomfortable ride.
No one built another loopingcoaster until 1976 when the new
Revolution was opened at SixFlags Magic Mountain and the
(36:18):
Super Duper Looper opened inHershey Park the following year.
And that ride, it's stillrunning if you want to check it
out.
Today is also...
Tell a joke day.
Now we can't let you go withouttelling a good joke, right?
Oh yeah, here we go.
What did the grape say when itgot stepped on?
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Nothing.
It just let out a little whine.
Why did the scarecrow win anaward?
Because he was outstanding inhis field.
One day I told my wife sheshould embrace her mistakes.
So she gave me a hug.
Actually, our wedding was sotouching.
(37:02):
Even the cake was in tears.
You want to hear my pizza joke?
Nah, well, it was prettycheesy.
Oh yeah, tell a joke day.
So much fun.
You know what?
I was going to tell a timetravel joke, but you all didn't
like that one the last time.
(37:22):
So then I thought about aconstruction joke.
But I'm still working on it.
And then I got to thinkingabout a new joke I could tell
about my spine.
It was about a week back.
And then finally, I picked up athesaurus to help with these
jokes, but it was terrible.
Not only that, it was terrible.
(37:44):
Okay, two more, two more, andthen I'll move on, too.
All right, ready?
This one's a good one.
A fire hydrant has H2O on theinside and K9P on the outside.
And what did Yoda say when hesaw himself in the newest 4K
(38:07):
format?
HDMI! Tell a joke day.
Okay, need a gift idea for yourloved one?
Well, after you share theseawesome stories, you can have
them open up a gift that iscustomized to their birthday.
And I have several gift ideasfor you.
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And as always, you can findlinks to these in the gift ideas
section of the show notes.
Now, often I mention you canget a unique gift for the person
who has everything.
And today is no exception.
Obviously, we were chock fullof sports, and so most of these
gifts will be sports related.
Whatever sport your loved oneenjoyed, there was a Sports
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Illustrated magazine thatfeatured that on the cover.
Football, basketball, baseballare easy, but there's ultimate
frisbee, water polo, lacrosse.
There's outdoors events thatinvolve retrievers and fishing
and all kinds of things.
So you can get them a SportsIllustrated magazine and say,
hey, today Sports Illustratedcelebrates its birthday, and so
(39:11):
do you.
If your loved one enjoys trackand running, you can get them
something that invokes racingand tie to Usain Bolt's world
record time in the 100-meterdash.
Similarly, if your loved one'sinto swimming, then you can tie
the gift to Michael Phelps'0.01-second win in the 100-meter
butterfly.
There are links to some ideasfor both Bolt and Phelps gift
(39:34):
options.
Today's special holidays arealso ripe with gift ideas.
When's the last time your lovedone enjoyed some Kool-Aid?
And if they're a thrill seeker,roller coaster gifts have many
options.
There are tickets to localtheme parks, pictures of amazing
roller coasters, roller coastercoffee table books.
And while we're talking books,there are some great joke books
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out there for people of all agesand all tastes of jokes.
There's one joke out there thatI can't tell on this podcast
that is my favorite joke of alltime.
So there are actually lots ofcustomized gifts for folks who
circled August 16th on thecalendar.
And those ideas are unique toonly this day of the year.
(40:16):
Now, if those ideas aren't coolenough, you can give them a
personalized shout-out righthere on the pod.
I can do the shout-out for youif you just email me their name
and something you want to share.
Or...
You can do your own shout-outby using the SpeakPipe link
that's available in the shownotes.
Today, we're going to do aspecial shout-out about my
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grandma, who was born on thisday a long, long time ago, and
who blessed the lives of mybrothers and cousins so very
much.
I rounded them all up, and wespent an hour laughing and
telling stories about her.
It was fun.
Now, when you finally recallyour grandma...
you probably remember her bestfor how she made you feel.
(40:59):
Our grandma was exceptional atthat.
Cousin Missy (41:02):
I mean, she taught us what unconditional love was.
And she was, I don't know, likewhen you just sat next to her,
it radiated off of her.
I've never felt so safe in myentire life than I was sitting
next to that woman.
She was the best.
Truman (41:16):
Maybe you also finally remember her cooking or her
baking.
We had that too.
Oh, Terry was the chocolatepie?
Did you actually like it,Terry?
Cousin Terry (41:25):
I loved it, but I have not been able to properly
remake it.
Mom got me the recipe, and I'vetried it.
I've given it to real bakers,and we tried to get them to do
it.
It's good, but it just doesn'tseem to come out like I
remember.
So, who knows?
Truman (41:43):
When you were a kid growing up, you probably got
into trouble like we did.
But did you ever consider thatyour grandma was also a kid and
may have also caused mischief?
Well, I learned this.
Cousin Kevin (41:57):
Yes, because grandma told me that she and RT
used to tip over all the younggirls when they would go to the
bathroom in there.
They would push it over.
The outhouse?
Yes.
No way.
Yes.
That's what she said.
Grandma was Henri?
Yes.
Yeah.
Truman (42:15):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to connect with family and
reflect on the old days,especially when you're old
enough now to really appreciatea grandmother's love.
Cousin Tricia (42:24):
She showed sacrificial love.
She walked that out in herdaily life.
She just loved to serve.
And so that was just sobeautiful.
And as an adult, I canappreciate it so much more
how...
Incredible.
That really is like thepatience and selflessness that
is required to show that kind oflove to you.
Truman (42:49):
Wow.
That's awesome.
Well, happy heavenly birthday,grandma.
We all love you so much.
And as always, if you have astory that just needs to be
shared about any day in thepast, send me an email at
daystriderstories at gmail.comand let's connect.
All right.
So guess what, my fellowDaystriders?
(43:10):
I'm working on updating mypodcast artwork.
And when I do, we're actuallygoing to have to make some
Daystrider merch.
That's right.
Stickers, buttons, andt-shirts, and maybe even hats.
Because who wouldn't want tohave some fun time travel merch,
right?
So stay tuned for that.
Why?
Because you'll be able to earnfree goodies just by listening
(43:32):
to the show and sharing it withothers.
Yep.
Free and easy.
Yeah, for egg-sample.
I know many of you were soegg-cited for Egg Day, and that
very first segment was clearlyegg-ceptional.
Well, you could win aDaystrider sticker by going back
to that episode and telling mehow many times I used the word
(43:54):
egg in the egg-zaggeratedmanner.
See?
That's easy, right?
Easy.
That's how we're going to runthese things.
Alrighty then.
I hope you had as much funlistening as I did creating this
episode.
Sharing it with a friend orfamily member would be
incredible and sincerelyappreciate it.
(44:17):
Thanks so much for listening.
Until next time, this is TrumanPastworthy, reminding you that
every day has a great story.
And we'll be striding throughthem all to find some more
goodies for you.
Now get out there and make yourown great story today.
Welcome, Seeker.
Your portal is all warmed upand ready to stride through
history with me.
Together, we'll discover whyAugust 16th is special when it
comes to the world of sports.
There's a handful of amazingachievements that occurred on
this particular day.
The popularity of sports tookoff in the mid-1900s, right
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around the time SportsIllustrated was born.
Our journey will take usthrough that time period.
and we'll try to discover ifthe magazine was just following
along with the culture change,or if it was at the wheel
actually driving the popularityof sports to new heights.
After that, we're going lookingfor gold, as in the Olympic
(00:43):
variety.
The first stop will be inBerlin as we check in on the
fastest man alive, and thenwe'll head to Beijing to relive
the most exciting swim raceever.
You'll have your hands full aswe return you to your normal
self with over two dozen goldmedals and all.
Oh yeah, you'll want to stickaround for today's holidays.
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It's tell a joke day and I'vegot some goodies for you.
After striding through August16th, you'll have a new
appreciation for sports ingeneral and for speed in
particular.
Get ready to keep up as we takeour fastest journey ever
through the past.
Time's a-tickin', so let's getto it.
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Welcome, seekers, to theenchanting world of Daystrider,
the podcast where we embark on adaily journey through history.
I'm your travel guide, TrumanPastworthy, and together we'll
explore some fascinating storiesthat happened on this exact
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day, but from some time in thepast.
From groundbreaking inventionsto remarkable birthdays and
extraordinary events to quirkynational holidays, we've got it
all.
So kick back, relax, and openyour mind for some lighthearted
stories that'll leave yousaying, huh, I never knew that
happened on this day.
Alrighty then, let's get to it.
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When I was growing up, one ofmy buddies, Scott, had the
coolest bedroom in theneighborhood.
Now, his dad was an avid sportsfan, and he collected Sports
Illustrated magazines.
And he kept every one of them,I guess saving them for
something special.
Well, his mom had a spark ofgenius, and she tore off the
(02:30):
covers of almost 200 of thosemagazines and then wallpapered
Scott's room with them.
Now, to young boys growing upidolizing superstar athletes,
this was the most awesomebedroom ever.
Maybe to others, it might havefelt a little creepy that the
walls had a couple hundred facesof these various athletes
watching you sleep at night,right?
(02:51):
Well, today marks the 70thbirthday for the famous
magazine.
Now, 70 seems pretty old,right?
But Time Magazine has beenaround for over 100 years.
National Geographic, close to140 years.
And the oldest, ScientificAmerican, it's been around for
almost 180 years.
(03:12):
Sheesh.
But Sports Illustrated was thefirst magazine dedicated to
sports.
Now, sports were definitelybecoming popular in the mid-50s
when Sports Illustrated camealong.
Actually, like everything else,sports started becoming popular
in the late 40s after World WarII ended and life was returning
to normal.
So Henry Luce, who had startedTime Magazine in the 20s,
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Fortune Magazine in the 30s, andthen Life Magazine later that
decade, he wanted to diversify.
He wanted something differentin the portfolio, but his
friends and business associateswarned him that sports was not a
good idea.
In fact, the words they usedwere misguided and inherently
trivial folly.
Yeah, folly.
(03:58):
Well, they were wrong.
Sports Illustrated went on tobecome a huge success.
Now, in the beginning, thenaysayers were right.
It was a little bumpy.
because Luce focused ondiversity and featured sports
that were both popularmainstream as well as rugby and
other outdoorsy activity typesports, which were less popular.
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But around the five-year mark,they pivoted and began to focus
almost entirely on premiersporting events, and that's when
subscribers began flocking andthe money started rolling in.
Now, if you're like me, whenyou think of Sports Illustrated,
you think of their awesomecover photos.
Over the years, their shotshave been amazing.
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They've captured triumphs likeno one else.
People frame these covers andtry to get them autographed, and
there are traders out there whobuy and sell the magazine
issues because of theseremarkable cover photos.
Images like Muhammad Aliknocking out Sonny Liston, or
Tiger Woods celebrating a hugewin at the Masters, or Brandi
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Chastain taking her shirt offand celebrating the World Cup
championship win.
And the 1980 miracle on icemoment when the U.S.
beat Russia in hockey.
All amazing photos.
And I could probably go on andon listing photo images across
all the decades.
But we'll leave you with thevery first one.
What was on the cover of thefirst Sports Illustrated
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magazine?
Milwaukee Braves third basemanEddie Matthews at the plate in
his home stadium.
Now if you're listeningcarefully, you heard me say
Milwaukee Braves, not Brewers.
Surprisingly, Milwaukee had twobaseball teams in the 1950s.
How about that?
Anyway, Sports Illustratedchanged the way sports was
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reported.
Back in the day, thenewspapers, all they would do is
share the stats of the game,and they'd run through the facts
of who did what and what thescore was and so forth.
Kind of bland, boring stuff.
Sports Illustrated did muchmore than that.
Essentially, the concept ofsports journalism was formed.
And these writers would spendtime digging into the
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backstories of the athletes andthe events and opened up all the
behind the scenes to all ofAmerica.
And we got to know the peopleplaying the games that we love
so dearly.
James Missner went so far as tosay, Sports Illustrated has
become the Bible of theindustry.
It eventually became the desireof athletes to make the cover
(06:24):
of the magazine.
Well, it did for most.
There's this thing called theSports Illustrated Jinx that
many athletes were concernedabout.
Have you heard about this one?
I guess we could call it anurban legend or a superstition.
Anyway, the worry was that ifan athlete or a team makes the
cover, then something bad wouldhappen to them soon after.
(06:44):
Yeah, it was a thing.
There's even a Wikipedia pagethat lists 52 examples of the
Jinx, going all the way back to1955 when it all started.
Yeah, and the start wasactually a bad one.
Alpine skier Jill Kinmont wasfeatured on the cover of a late
January issue.
And then the very next slalomevent she was in, she lost
(07:07):
control, hit a tree, andunfortunately became paralyzed
for the rest of her life.
Yeah, well...
Sorry for her, but you can maketime to read about all the
jinxes.
There's boxers that werefeatured who soon lost their
championship titles.
There are examples ofundefeated football and
basketball teams who, after theymade the cover, lost the next
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game.
And there's teams who aremaking great runs into the
playoffs, make the cover of themagazine, bam, knocked out.
Yeah, so of course, I thinkthis is all silly, right?
People only remember the badexamples.
There are plenty of stars outthere who have made dozens of
covers and went on to be thegreatest ever.
Michael Jordan, he's made thecover 50 times.
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Goat.
Tom Brady, 21 coverappearances.
Goat.
Serena Williams, a more modest8 cover appearances.
Still, goat.
So, I don't buy the jinx.
Instead, I buy the statistics,right?
Meaning, if you have a stellarrun and then have this huge
stellar performance, you'regoing to make the cover of
Sports Illustrated magazine.
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But statistics say that whenyour performance is above your
normal average, you are due toreturn to normal levels.
It's bound to happen.
And when it does, athletes aregoing to need something to
blame, right?
So they'll just blame the jinx.
All right.
Now, we can't talk about SportsIllustrated without mentioning
its most controversial feature,the annual swimsuit issue.
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So this concept came about inthe mid-1960s when they were
trying to think of ways tobridge the gap between the
college bowl games in earlyJanuary and the start of
baseball spring training inMarch.
Now, side note, the NFLplayoffs and Super Bowl Sunday,
that wasn't really a big dealuntil the 70s.
And side note too, MarchMadness wasn't a thing really
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until the 80s.
So anyway, they were thinkingabout this sunshine issue, and
they decided to go with prettyladies modeling bathing suits.
And many subscribers loved thisissue, but at the same time,
others were outraged.
Now, of course, we all knowthat even bad publicity sells
subscriptions.
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So they released the swimsuitissue again the next year, and
again the year after that, andthe love-hate relationship took
off.
Yep, and they've been doing theswimsuit issue ever since.
The founder, Jewel Campbell,continued to press on, battling
the accusations that she wascontributing to the
objectification of women.
And her work was heavilyscrutinized.
(09:42):
But, regardless of all that,she stuck to her moral compass
and created the issue for 32years.
And hey, she was partiallyresponsible for the successful
modeling careers of CherylTeagues, Christy Brinkley, and
Tyra Banks, to name a few.
Many of those models speak veryhighly of Campbell and the
institution of that annualissue.
Of course, why wouldn't they,since it helped them make
(10:05):
millions of dollars during theircareers?
All right, so we're going tomove on here.
I'm just striding throughhistory, folks.
I'm not here for editorialcommentary.
But what I will leave you withis that this iconic magazine has
been much more than justchronicle sporting events.
It has been a cultural driver.
shaping the way we viewathletes, sports, and even
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societal issues.
Sports Illustrated has not onlydocumented history, but it's
also influenced it.
Roses are red and sports arefun.
Writing a review would be ahome run.
Not sure what to say?
Don't worry or fear.
Type, this pod's a winner.
It's top tier.
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Wouldn't it be cool if yourname somehow invoked the very
thing that makes you special?
So let's say you were given thename Sunny Day at birth, and
then you had a genuinely brightand cheery personality that made
others feel great.
That would be cool, wouldn'tit?
Or if your parents named youMax Whitson, and then you loved
(11:11):
to tell jokes and always keptyour family and friends in
stitches, they'd ask you, isthat really your given name?
Guest (11:17):
Yeah.
Truman (11:18):
Well, this actually happened this way for the
fastest man to ever live.
His name evokes insane speed.
And of course, I'm talkingabout Usain Bolt.
Insanely fast, Usain Bolt.
It's like those names I justmade up a minute ago, but this
one's actually true.
It's the name he was given atbirth by Wellesley and Jennifer
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Bolt.
Yeah.
Now, I said the fastest man toever live like I'm hyping him up
for this segment and clickbaitand all that.
No, no.
As many of you know, this isnot hype at all.
And today, I'm sharing Bolt'sstory.
So like many superstars,Usain's life started off humble.
As a child, his parentsenforced discipline and required
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that he focus on his schooling.
He played basketball andsoccer, they called it football
in Jamaica, in the streets.
And then in high school, whileplaying these sports, the
coaches could just tell that hewas wicked fast.
So of course, they convincedhim to run track.
I'd love to use the cliche, therest is history from there, but
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sometimes luck does play arole.
So, locally in Jamaica, Usainwas a standout in every race he
participated in.
Now, where luck played its rolewas when he was 16, because
that year, the World JuniorAthletic Championships were held
in Jamaica, and so it wasconvenient for him to
participate.
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And of course, he pretty muchwon everything he competed in.
And, oh by the way, he becamethe youngest ever world champion
in the 200 meter.
So now, everyone in thesprinting world got the chance
to see this rising star.
So that was 2002, andnaturally, he began training for
the Olympics in 2004.
And this is where his storyhits a speed bump, also like
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many superstars.
So Bolt had health issues.
He was diagnosed withscoliosis, which is a curvature
of the spine.
And he had issues with histhighs in that Olympics that
caused him to not run as fast ashe could.
And then he had issues with hishamstrings in the 2005 World
Championships.
So apparently, these thingsstemmed from his poor training
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habits.
Now, like many gifted andtalented individuals, he had
risen to where he was because ofraw ability.
Now, to get to the elite leveland status, he would be required
to work hard.
I'm talking really hard.
And so at that point in hislife, he needed to decide what
he wanted to do.
Would he really put in the hardwork necessary?
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Well, we'll find out more aboutthat in a minute.
But what I want to share isUsain's strong proponent for
work-life balance, which meanthe liked to spend some of his
time having fun.
Now, if you haven't gotten tosee any of his races, you can go
back and watch videos now.
And some of them show him doinglittle dances, little jigs on
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the track before a race, andthen big, huge dances after the
race.
In fact, he even made up thiscool lightning bolt pose that he
did for the fans after races hewon once the official results
were posted.
I love it.
It's awesome.
It makes everybody cheer.
It's pretty cool.
I'm actually doing the poseright now as I say this.
Anyway, there's also images ofhim literally dancing.
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In a race, running along,looking to the side directly at
the camera and smiling duringthe race.
It's so funny.
Yep.
And apparently, Bolt lovesplaying Jamaican Dominoes, which
from what I've researched is alively four-player game where
there are two teams and you talktrash and you block your
opponent's moves on the board.
But most of his friends outsideof his home country weren't
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used to that style of play, sohe also played French dominoes
with them, which is a calmertwo-player game, and you're just
competing to build lines andget scores.
So, pretty cool.
Yeah.
And you'd think that Balt wouldalso have a strict diet, right?
Well, apparently, when he wasat the 2008 Olympics, which were
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in Beijing, China, the localfood didn't work out so well for
him.
So what did he do?
He went to my favorite fastfood joint, McDonald's, and he
pounded down chicken nuggets.
Well, excuse me, McNuggets.
And he claims to have eaten athousand nugs during his 10-day
stay in China.
Bolt sounds like a great personto me, and he would fit right
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in with my family and friends.
Okay, but we're here to talkabout August 16th, and we'll get
to that.
But let me zip you throughBolt's accomplishments.
Essentially, Bolt spent acareer setting and then breaking
world records in the 100-meter,200-meter, and 400-meter
relays.
In fact, he's the only personto win a double-double in
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consecutive Olympics, whichmeans he won both the 100-meter
and 200-meter gold medals in2008 and 2012.
Actually, he topped that with adouble-triple because in both
of those Olympics, he also wonthe gold in the 400-meter relay.
Pretty impressive.
So he was an eight-time worldchampion in sprinting, and he
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also has eight Olympic goldmedals in all.
He used to have nine, but sadlyone was taken away because one
of his teammates in the400-meter relay tested positive
for using illegal substances.
So that stinks.
But anyway, we got to get backto August 16, 2009, when he was
racing in the World AthleticsChampionship in Berlin, Germany.
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And he was amped up that night.
because he wanted to break intoa new barrier for the 100
meter.
Now, the barrier of 10 secondswas broken way back in 1968 by
Jim Hines, and he held thatrecord for almost 15 years.
And then after that, someonekept breaking the record every
couple of a few years, justbreaking it and knocking it down
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lower and lower.
And on the night of August16th, Bolt himself was holding
the current record of 9.68seconds, that he set a year
earlier at the 2008 Olympics.
Remember those chicken nuggets?
9-6-8, fueled by McDonald's.
Anyway, he was gunning to breakthat 9-6 barrier.
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He wanted to get to9-5-something.
He figured 9-5-anything wouldbe the record, the one that
would never be broken.
Well, 15 years today andcounting, he still has it.
The 2024 Olympics, they justwrapped up, and the fastest
100-meter time there was 9.79seconds.
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Okay, so Bolt was in lane four,which is reserved for the
fastest runner.
And at the gun, he exploded outof the blocks.
But at the 10-meter mark, hewas about dead even with the
other runners.
So everybody had a great start.
But his acceleration to maxspeed was so impressive that by
the 20-meter mark, he wasclearly in the lead already.
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And he kept expanding that leadwith each 10-meter segment.
And I think he could actuallytell that he was zooming.
At the end of the straightaway,there's a clock.
And you can see him.
Right after he crosses thefinish line, he turns his head
and looks down at the results.
So he knew.
He knew he had done it.
He had broken the barrier.
9.58.
He and everyone else had beenchasing that 5, and he got it.
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Awesome.
Top speed that night, 27.8miles an hour.
Usain is insane.
The fastest man alive.
Yep, chick.
So the question is, do we thinkthis record will ever get
broken?
Well, let's turn to science.
Peter Wayne at the LocomotorPerformance Lab in Texas studies
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the human body and its abilityto run fast.
And I'm talking really fast.
He studies world-class athleteson some very high-tech
equipment.
And he says the key tosprinting is the force the body
can apply to the track.
Apparently, Bolt can apply overfive times his body weight in
force, which is insane.
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Normal people can apply closerto three times their body
weight.
Then, once they get to theirmax speed by the 12th step in
the race, it's how long they canmaintain that max speed.
And again, Bolt hit 27.8 milesper hour that night, which is
remarkable.
So the short story is PeterWayne says that a perfectly
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built human running in perfectconditions and runs a perfect
race from start to finish, ifall those things happen, then a
time of, his words, low 940scould be possible.
So I guess we're going to haveto wait and see.
Will someone from the future beable to do that?
Who knows?
But here's what I do know.
Bolt has done what is right atthe limit of impossible.
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which is pretty daggumimpressive.
So records, they're made to bebroken, right?
But at some point, isn't arecord going to be the final
record?
Who knows?
I guess time will tell.
Pun intended, time will tell.
A time traveler's delight, wesprint through the past.
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Perhaps those triumphs willforever last.
If these tales of champions lita spark in your eye, please
share with your friends so theycan learn why.
I want to tell you about myfriend who's an Olympian that
had an amazing experience onthis day.
Okay, well, he's not actuallymy friend.
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He's not even an acquaintance.
More like a local celebritythat I have a few teeny tiny
connections to and I follow onInstagram, right?
That counts as a friend, right?
Yeah, I have a teeny connectionbecause my mom taught school
with his mom A long, long timeago.
(21:07):
And my kids swam in the samepool that he grew up swimming
in.
In fact, as we've traveledaround Central Maryland for Swim
Meets, we've seen his name onthe pool records boards.
These are the boards that showthe records in that pool for the
different events.
His times are impressive.
And there have been sightingsof him in the Towson area, and
(21:30):
he's made celebrity appearancesat both the Orioles and Ravens
games.
So kind of a friend, right?
By now you've probably figuredout that I'm talking about
Michael Phelps.
Yep, and I want to take youback to August 16, 2008 and tell
the story of the most intenseswimming race I have ever seen.
But as a preview before thisamazing race, Phelps was already
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a hero of young swimmers.
Eight years earlier, he madethe Olympics at the age of 15.
Impressive.
Of course, his best finish thatyear was a fifth-place finish,
but hey, he was only 15.
And then four years later, whenhe was 19, still a teenager, he
brought home five gold medalsand two bronze, which is the
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second-best Olympic haul inswimming history.
So he's already had animpressive career leading up to
tonight.
All right, so the SummerOlympics were in Beijing, China
that year.
And a quick aside, something Ilearned as part of researching
this segment was that theChinese government wanted
perfect weather for theseOlympic Games.
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And so they employed weathermodification strategies to do so
on a massive scale.
Yes, yes, they used cloudseeding techniques where they
launched or spread silver iodideamongst the clouds in the air
west of Beijing, and then thesedroplets would cause the
moisture in the clouds to becomeheavier, which caused the rain
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to fall before the clouds got tothe capital, leaving sunny
skies for the Olympians andtheir millions of fans.
How about that?
Anyway, these Olympics tookplace in Beijing, and so the
16th was on a Saturday thatyear.
Or was it?
Consider there's this huge timezone issue.
So Beijing is 12 hours ahead ofEast Coast time.
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And so events taking place onthe morning over there would be
late the night before over here.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
So for example, the 100-meterbutterfly swimming event that
was scheduled for 10.10 a.m.
Beijing time on Saturday the16th, which thankfully was aired
live for us at 10.10 our time,But what time was that?
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Our slidey keyboard mobilephones.
Remember those where you slidthe screen up to get to the
typing keys?
Anyway, told us it was August15th here in the U.S.
Friday night.
Yeah, Friday night's partytime, right?
No, no, no.
Not until after this swimmingevent.
This one is going to be huge.
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Yes, leading up to Fridaynight's event, Phelps had been
on an incredible tear.
If you don't remember thispersonally, what I'm about to
tell you is going to soundpretty much impossible.
It's hard to believe, but hehad swum in six events already.
Is swum right or is it swimmed?
He had swimmed?
He had swam in six eventsalready?
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I don't know.
And in each event, he not onlywon the gold, he set world
records in all six events.
So already he had won the mostgold medals of everyone ever in
the Olympics.
A goat status already.
And here we are, Friday night.
Again, Saturday morning overthere.
And tonight's huge becauseSerbian swimmer Milorad Cavic
(24:45):
had been talking trash.
Yeah, he had the fastestqualifying time leading into
this final event.
And he said that it would begood for swimming if Phelps
loses.
Yeah.
He said it would be nice ifhistorians talk about Michael
Phelps losing to some guy.
I'd like to be that guy.
Whoa, what?
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Yeah.
All right, game on.
Let's go.
Phelps is fired up.
I was fired up.
Everyone.
We fired up.
And I've got the link in theshow notes so that you can watch
this video of this race.
It's over two minutes longbecause it has a bunch of
replays and stuff, but the raceitself was only 51 seconds.
And man, what an intense 51seconds that was.
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Because right from the start,Cavage, who was in lane four,
like I said, the fastestqualifying time, got off to a
better jump off the block andcame out of the water ahead of
Phelps, who was in lane five,right next to him.
Well, no, we're already behind,but there's 80 meters left.
When they got to the turn andheading back, Kavich had held
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his lead and Phelps was actuallyin seventh place at that point.
The announcers are saying maybehe was tired, maybe too much
race.
Oh, no, no.
Come on, Michael.
Dig deep.
Dig deep, buddy.
And then with every stroke, hegained a smidge.
Another stroke, another smidge.
Now let's pause right there.
The butterfly to me is one ofthe hardest strokes to swim.
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You have to keep your feettogether while kicking, kind of
like a mermaid would do.
So your feet are togetherkicking through the water.
Much harder than the freestyleflutter kick.
And the arms are souncomfortable because you have
to pull them up out of the watertogether and scoop them back
into the pool.
It's just hard to do.
You need strong shoulders.
But I'll tell you what.
Great swimmers like Phelps andCavish, they make it look like a
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beautiful thing in the water.
Anyway.
So we're heading down thehomestretch, a few meters left,
and Phelps keeps gaining by asmidge with each stroke.
And then at the very end,Kavich is gliding into the wall
to touch the pad, but Phelpstakes one more arm stroke and
gains one more smidge and hitsthe pad.
Guest (26:54):
Bam.
Truman (26:54):
Race over.
Who won?
Oh my gosh, too close to call.
On the screen, we could see thetimes.
It said Phelps had won, but theofficials needed to look at the
results.
And they're looking, andthey're looking, and yes...
Michael Phelps announced thewinner by one one hundredth of a
second.
That's point zero one of amargin.
You can't get a smaller margin,at least not back then.
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This year's Olympics, youcould.
They flashed it up on theboards and the American fans are
going nuts.
The people I'm with were goingnuts, jumping around the room.
Everyone except Cavage is goingnuts.
All right.
So Cavage and his camp, right?
It's time for a protest.
That's what we do when we loseby a smidge.
We need to protest.
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So luckily, the cameras theyused to film the ending of these
races filmed 10,000 frames persecond.
That's a lot of frames.
So anyway, in the protest, theywent and watched the film frame
by frame by frame.
And they were able to confirmthat Phelps did actually touch
the wall before Cavage.
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Amazing.
Another gold for Phelps.
Sadly, this was only an Olympicrecord, not another world
record.
Now, I'm kidding.
An amazing run.
And then the next day, he wonanother gold medal, along with
another world record.
So he pushed his event total toeight gold medals and seven
world records, and his all-timetotal to 13 gold medals.
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And he wasn't even done.
Four years later, in the nextOlympics, he won four more golds
and two silvers to finish hiscareer as the undisputed GOAT in
swimming.
Yes.
Now, you want to know whatCavage said after the protest
was all done?
It's actually prettyimpressive.
I wish I could do his accent,but I can't, so I'm just going
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to say it my way.
People, this is the greatestmoment of my life.
I've accepted defeat, andthere's nothing wrong with
losing to the greatest swimmerthere has ever been.
Music And there you have it.
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Some great stories to sharewith your someone special to
celebrate August 16th.
Once again, those were the veryfirst Sports Illustrated
magazine was published today,kicking off an amazing franchise
and driving the culture ofAmerican sports.
Usain Bolt set a world recordthat some scientists feel may
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never be broken.
And a fun story about one ofMichael Phelps' most amazing
finishes in his storied career.
Now this episode was loadedwith lots of sports stuff.
So for all you non-sportsenthusiasts out there, thanks
for following along.
I hope the stories broughtenough fun to make it worth your
time.
That said, if you are a sportsenthusiast, there are more
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sports stories you can find allacross time.
For example, there's a footballstory in the very first
Daystrider episode September28th.
And you can find a figureskating story that had an
Olympics impact in the January8th episode.
If you like basketball, theinvention of the sport was
covered on the December 21stepisode, and a famous
(30:09):
chair-throwing coach wasfeatured on February 23rd.
So many stories and so muchfun.
We'll keep striding until we'redone.
So for today's reflectionmoment, it's going to be a bit
of a twist.
We covered some elite athletestoday, and part of their journey
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includes a struggle, a lot ofstruggle.
They need to constantly eathealthy, and they must be ever
vigilant about their exerciseprogram, and even make sure they
get plenty of sleep and rest.
This means that they must makesacrifices in their lives, all
for the sake of being elite.
And it's not easy.
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Now, I'm not comparing mypodcast journey to their
sacrifices, but I am going tosuggest that there are times
when I ask myself, is this worthit?
Are folks really enjoying thisenough?
Should I keep going or not?
And I think about these eliteathletes.
They keep going and so can I.
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But guess what?
They have help.
They have coaches and mentorswho push them and pull them and
lift them up when they need aboost.
Well, recently I received aboost.
Joe from Elite Podcasts.
You can check out his site inthe show notes.
He made some time to listen tothe show and he really gave me a
(31:32):
boost.
I probably won't end up as agoat like Bolt or Phelps.
And I definitely won't have asmany episodes as Sports
Illustrated has issues.
But thanks to Joe and hisencouraging words, I'm going to
keep pressing on.
In fact, he even tested out mySpeakPipe link that is normally
reserved for shout-outs, and heleft me this message.
Joe (31:55):
Hi, Truman from Daystrider Podcast.
This is Joe fromElitePodcast.net, and I have to
say we're really enjoying yourshow and have already consumed
several of the back episodes andfound much satisfaction there
as well.
Keep up the great work.
It sounds great, and we'll belistening.
Truman (32:12):
Thanks, Joe.
Let's do this, people.
Let's keep on keeping on.
Alright, so after you sharethese special stories, you can
also mention the famous folkswho celebrate their birthdays
today.
Madonna, the self-proclaimedrebel, was born on this day in
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1958.
Not only the queen of pop forselling the most records of all
female artists...
Even Taylor Swift.
Yes, true.
Madonna has a Golden GlobeAward to go along with her seven
Grammys.
She's also started a number ofsuccessful businesses and
charitable organizations like APrayer, Like A Virgin, Material
(32:57):
Girl, Vogue, all on the list ofgreat songs that she's created.
I'd sing them for you, but youdon't want to hear that.
All right, James Cameron isexactly four years older than
Madonna, and he is one of themost famous movie directors
ever.
Terminator, Alien, Avatar, andTitanic are just a few of his
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mega successes.
He was the first person todirect a film that grossed over
$1 billion.
And in 2010, Time Magazinenamed him one of the most 100
influential people in the world.
That's pretty neat.
So August 16th is loaded withfamous people born this day, but
since we had a sports theme inthe episode, here's a handful of
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famous athletes who find todayspecial.
Christian Akoye, a footballplayer known as the Nigerian
Nightmare.
Janik Sinner, a young tennisplayer who's making waves today.
Caleb Dressel, a swimmer who'sgot lots of goals and broke
Phelps' 100-meter butterflyworld record.
And Jonathan Johansson, aFinnish footballer who has
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played striker and scored lotsand lots of goals.
And as you've come to learn, Ilove to feature the 50th most
famous person showing up onfamousbirthdays.com.
Well, I'm glad I did todaybecause that person is crazy.
He has a YouTube channeldedicated to making his body a
human punching bag, goingagainst paintballs, hot sauce,
(34:29):
sandpaper, and doing things likefirewalking and more.
He's got over 4 millionsubscribers and he's made almost
900 videos.
Happy birthday, Houston Jones.
Okay.
Yep.
And when I looked at Wikipediacentenarians list, there was no
one they had on there who wasover 100 years old and born on
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this day.
There was someone whocelebrated being over 100
yesterday and someone who wasborn tomorrow, but no one from
today.
Oh, well, maybe next year.
Alright, today is also Kool-AidDay.
Yep, grab a pitcher and getready to sugar up with some
vibrant colors and flavors.
(35:11):
So actually, Kool-Aid Dayfloats around a little.
Because it always takes placeon the first day of the Kool-Aid
Days Festival, held every yearin Hastings, Nebraska during the
second week of August.
Yes, so Kool-Aid was inventedin Nebraska, and so they take
their Kool-Aid seriously andthey have a festival for it.
(35:32):
It has a grand parade.
You can find the world'slargest Kool-Aid stand.
There's a 5K run, even a beautypageant.
Crazy.
Today is also Roller CoasterDay, commemorating the issuance
of a patent on this day in 1898for the Loop the Loop roller
coaster.
So this upside-down ride wasbuilt in 1901 on Surf Avenue in
(35:55):
Coney Island.
It's no longer there today.
In its place is the Cycloneroller coaster built in 1927.
But apparently, EdwinPrescott's invention wasn't so
popular because it was anuncomfortable ride.
No one built another loopingcoaster until 1976 when the new
Revolution was opened at SixFlags Magic Mountain and the
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Super Duper Looper opened inHershey Park the following year.
And that ride, it's stillrunning if you want to check it
out.
Today is also...
Tell a joke day.
Now we can't let you go withouttelling a good joke, right?
Oh yeah, here we go.
What did the grape say when itgot stepped on?
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Nothing.
It just let out a little whine.
Why did the scarecrow win anaward?
Because he was outstanding inhis field.
One day I told my wife sheshould embrace her mistakes.
So she gave me a hug.
Actually, our wedding was sotouching.
(37:02):
Even the cake was in tears.
You want to hear my pizza joke?
Nah, well, it was prettycheesy.
Oh yeah, tell a joke day.
So much fun.
You know what?
I was going to tell a timetravel joke, but you all didn't
like that one the last time.
(37:22):
So then I thought about aconstruction joke.
But I'm still working on it.
And then I got to thinkingabout a new joke I could tell
about my spine.
It was about a week back.
And then finally, I picked up athesaurus to help with these
jokes, but it was terrible.
Not only that, it was terrible.
(37:44):
Okay, two more, two more, andthen I'll move on, too.
All right, ready?
This one's a good one.
A fire hydrant has H2O on theinside and K9P on the outside.
And what did Yoda say when hesaw himself in the newest 4K
(38:07):
format?
HDMI! Tell a joke day.
Okay, need a gift idea for yourloved one?
Well, after you share theseawesome stories, you can have
them open up a gift that iscustomized to their birthday.
And I have several gift ideasfor you.
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And as always, you can findlinks to these in the gift ideas
section of the show notes.
Now, often I mention you canget a unique gift for the person
who has everything.
And today is no exception.
Obviously, we were chock fullof sports, and so most of these
gifts will be sports related.
Whatever sport your loved oneenjoyed, there was a Sports
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Illustrated magazine thatfeatured that on the cover.
Football, basketball, baseballare easy, but there's ultimate
frisbee, water polo, lacrosse.
There's outdoors events thatinvolve retrievers and fishing
and all kinds of things.
So you can get them a SportsIllustrated magazine and say,
hey, today Sports Illustratedcelebrates its birthday, and so
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do you.
If your loved one enjoys trackand running, you can get them
something that invokes racingand tie to Usain Bolt's world
record time in the 100-meterdash.
Similarly, if your loved one'sinto swimming, then you can tie
the gift to Michael Phelps'0.01-second win in the 100-meter
butterfly.
There are links to some ideasfor both Bolt and Phelps gift
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options.
Today's special holidays arealso ripe with gift ideas.
When's the last time your lovedone enjoyed some Kool-Aid?
And if they're a thrill seeker,roller coaster gifts have many
options.
There are tickets to localtheme parks, pictures of amazing
roller coasters, roller coastercoffee table books.
And while we're talking books,there are some great joke books
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out there for people of all agesand all tastes of jokes.
There's one joke out there thatI can't tell on this podcast
that is my favorite joke of alltime.
So there are actually lots ofcustomized gifts for folks who
circled August 16th on thecalendar.
And those ideas are unique toonly this day of the year.
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Now, if those ideas aren't coolenough, you can give them a
personalized shout-out righthere on the pod.
I can do the shout-out for youif you just email me their name
and something you want to share.
Or...
You can do your own shout-outby using the SpeakPipe link
that's available in the shownotes.
Today, we're going to do aspecial shout-out about my
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grandma, who was born on thisday a long, long time ago, and
who blessed the lives of mybrothers and cousins so very
much.
I rounded them all up, and wespent an hour laughing and
telling stories about her.
It was fun.
Now, when you finally recallyour grandma...
you probably remember her bestfor how she made you feel.
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Our grandma was exceptional atthat.
Cousin Missy (41:02):
I mean, she taught us what unconditional love was.
And she was, I don't know, likewhen you just sat next to her,
it radiated off of her.
I've never felt so safe in myentire life than I was sitting
next to that woman.
She was the best.
Truman (41:16):
Maybe you also finally remember her cooking or her
baking.
We had that too.
Oh, Terry was the chocolatepie?
Did you actually like it,Terry?
Cousin Terry (41:25):
I loved it, but I have not been able to properly
remake it.
Mom got me the recipe, and I'vetried it.
I've given it to real bakers,and we tried to get them to do
it.
It's good, but it just doesn'tseem to come out like I
remember.
So, who knows?
Truman (41:43):
When you were a kid growing up, you probably got
into trouble like we did.
But did you ever consider thatyour grandma was also a kid and
may have also caused mischief?
Well, I learned this.
Cousin Kevin (41:57):
Yes, because grandma told me that she and RT
used to tip over all the younggirls when they would go to the
bathroom in there.
They would push it over.
The outhouse?
Yes.
No way.
Yes.
That's what she said.
Grandma was Henri?
Yes.
Yeah.
Truman (42:15):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to connect with family and
reflect on the old days,especially when you're old
enough now to really appreciatea grandmother's love.
Cousin Tricia (42:24):
She showed sacrificial love.
She walked that out in herdaily life.
She just loved to serve.
And so that was just sobeautiful.
And as an adult, I canappreciate it so much more
how...
Incredible.
That really is like thepatience and selflessness that
is required to show that kind oflove to you.
Truman (42:49):
Wow.
That's awesome.
Well, happy heavenly birthday,grandma.
We all love you so much.
And as always, if you have astory that just needs to be
shared about any day in thepast, send me an email at
daystriderstories at gmail.comand let's connect.
All right.
So guess what, my fellowDaystriders?
(43:10):
I'm working on updating mypodcast artwork.
And when I do, we're actuallygoing to have to make some
Daystrider merch.
That's right.
Stickers, buttons, andt-shirts, and maybe even hats.
Because who wouldn't want tohave some fun time travel merch,
right?
So stay tuned for that.
Why?
Because you'll be able to earnfree goodies just by listening
(43:32):
to the show and sharing it withothers.
Yep.
Free and easy.
Yeah, for egg-sample.
I know many of you were soegg-cited for Egg Day, and that
very first segment was clearlyegg-ceptional.
Well, you could win aDaystrider sticker by going back
to that episode and telling mehow many times I used the word
(43:54):
egg in the egg-zaggeratedmanner.
See?
That's easy, right?
Easy.
That's how we're going to runthese things.
Alrighty then.
I hope you had as much funlistening as I did creating this
episode.
Sharing it with a friend orfamily member would be
incredible and sincerelyappreciate it.
(44:17):
Thanks so much for listening.
Until next time, this is TrumanPastworthy, reminding you that
every day has a great story.
And we'll be striding throughthem all to find some more
goodies for you.
Now get out there and make yourown great story today.
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