The Olympics gets it's name from Mount Olympus in Greece

The Olympics gets it's name from Mount Olympus in Greece

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Facts of the day, day day.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Day day. Today's Olympic factor the day is, where does
the name Olympics come from?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Greece?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Grease correct any further limb doing on the Yeah, perfect,
they were the best, were the best. Pecks Oli pecks.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It is in reference to Mount Olympus. It's a mountain
in Thessaly. So I've looked up that that's got a good.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
One.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Is that the one in Athens? No? No, no, no, no, no,
not with the pantheon at the top.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's on the border of Macedonia.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
In Greece, you need to travel with the pantheons and Athens.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
No, that's the Acropolis, the pane.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
In the buildings on the top of them, isn't it?
Isn't it in Rome? The Pantheon.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, I've been ready, and I've never been to Greece.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I've been there beside beside the Acropolis. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I thought it was the Pantheon Greece. Can you can
we get a map of the you know what happened?
He's spent way too much time on Roman orgies in history.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Greek orgies.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's why I thought, right, a temple of all gods?
The word pantheon derives from the Greek pantheon, literally a
temple of all gods. There is a pantheon at the
top of that thing, but it's just what they call.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
A it's not what the world would know as the pantheon.
As in the one.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Apologized to everybody, I won't I'm surrounding pantheon, you know,
one of the many one of pantheons.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I just mean, I just mean our warehouse, not dumpy, I.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Mean an industrial warehouse. Why are you putting me in
this red polo?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I simply said half warehouse, no, no where ever and
gets a bargain. And what I said, I said, there
are bargains to be had everything. So the Mountainlympus is
in like northern Greece, by Macedonia.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
And then the path and on. People are texting him
being like, there's a Parthenon in Greece.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Was he just on a path?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
He was?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Someone else said, mum, what's an orgy? A lot of oranges?
You have a lot of oranges. Everyone brings an orange,
You have an orange.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The Roman days orange parties, Booboo part and on, parting
On is in Greece.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
The panth One is in Greece. The pantheon there everyone knows. Ah.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So Mount Olympus is so massive and high, it's the
highest mountain peakon Greece. Yep, they believe that was the
home of the gods. Yeah, they believe it was a
mountain so high it was a constance of the heavens.
Such a traund spart to watch humans as the Zeus
and et cetera.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
They all live up on Mount Olympus.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
So the Olympics were kind of like two things to
honor the gods they were before, and be like, look
at our great and we have become your creations faster
than ever and can jump higher than before.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Look at our break dancing, Look at our sex flips horses, Yeah,
doing a trot.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Watch a woman with what looks like a crazy rifle,
hold perfectly still and take one breath in and then
on a slower eas house pull the trigger and.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Now the bulls away. That's right, I was watching a
bit of God's so good. Watch us climb this wall
vertically in six seconds?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, why our bottoms as we
played beach volleyball.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm watching this. I'm watching the ball, me too, go
over the net?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Me too, from the pantheon in Greece, so they did
they did it.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And also the thought was that if you were like on.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Par the gods might be like, you can come up
over here, you can come up here. Well, you could
have sinned, you could have seen wow, to live on
Mount Olympus.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So it was the Olympics Mount Olympus.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But then Olympiad because you know they say it's the
seventy fifth Olympic.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, Olympiad is a period of four years. Yeah, does
that do it every four years? Right from the get
go it was like a budget thing and that was expensive,
which you just wait four years because you'd already be
building in the next city, you know. Yeah, well you
need some downtime.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But like the music festivals that are like we just
need a couple of years break, guys, they're not coming back.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
We're not coming back, and they're not coming back. I'm
not coming back. If they're gone for that long, it's
not the Olympics, man, They're not coming back in four years.
They're just not.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah. So today's Olympic factor of the day is the
Olympics are named for Mount Olympus, which is believed to
be the home of the Golds in the Greece, the
pantheon is in Rome.