The Paralympic medals are a little bit different than the Olympic medals

The Paralympic medals are a little bit different than the Olympic medals

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, Day day, day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Did do do do.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Do doo doo doo doo doo doo dooo doo.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Today's fact of the day is that the parallem it's
the Paralympics themed fast to day week. Uh. The Paralympics
medals are a little bit different to the Olympics medals today. Yes,
how well, I'll go back to twenty twelve, okay, and
I'll work my way up to current day. In fact,
I'm going to go twenty twelve. We've wrought back to

(00:37):
twenty sixteen because I think twenty sixteen is the best. Okay,
different wayward, it's a wayward trial. I'll say, it's all
over the show London.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm going to call it a shit storm.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sure, okay, you could call it that.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
London's Paralympics medals were more or less the same, except
it had braille writing on it.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yes, The reverse featured the the rim around it read
London twenty twelve Paralympic Games, and then that was written
in English, and then the dots afterwards that make that braille.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
It said Heart of Victory and that was the difference.
It had braille on it. These standard Olympic medals didn't
have braille on it?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Can I ask a stupid question?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Is braille in?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Is braille one language? No?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
There's Spanish braille and Spanish braille.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, That's what I was like, Is there English braille?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's just braille.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Braille was developed by and named after Louis Braille. Yes,
Brailer is not a universal language, and some people assume
although many languages do you run alphabet.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
There are many standard standard systems.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
For braille, like sign language for different languages and different
purposes such as encoding, musical math.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Is American sign Language, New Zealand simon.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
There is different brailles. Interesting, So twenty twelve they had brail.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
She accepted.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Fletch twenty didn't apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, it's accepted anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I am not let it take my apology.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I have received it.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
He wasn't wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
He was because you said, no, it's not in all
different languages, and it is.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I thought, he said, it is all different languages. What
was your What did you say? There's a Spanish brail,
there's German brails.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I laughed because he was making a joke. But the
joke except his apologies. It's fine with jo.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So twenty twenty in Tokyo, the they again had Braill
on them, the Paralympics medals and on the side. The
gold medal had one indentation, the silver medal had two indentations.
The bronze medal had three Indians. Oh, okay, so that
was what did that signify? No, I'm kidding, I got it.
I got it on the first guy. I'm not as
dumb as who thought that brail was just a global language.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
He was a bit dama.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Now the Paralympic medals this year.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
For twenty twenty four, much like the Olympics Medals, contained
an original piece of iron from the Eiffel Tower. Yeah,
and had a graphic representation of the Eiffel Tower viewed
from below.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's my favorite view of the Eiffel Tower. Get up
underneath and looks of the pervert.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
It looks bigger from a lower A is why Vaughn
has a restraining order of one hundred meters around the
Eiffel upskirting any big Yeah buildings, Ye skytower with a
large base.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I walk under the sky chair and was like, so
there is brail on this one and different engravings on
the different medals, Yeah, to indicate what they are and
that honor is by the way, Louis Brail, who was
the inventor of Brail, who was French, and different versions.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
To Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I think the coolest Paralympic medals were those of the
twenty sixteen Olympics Rio an real dish. They're all my
favorite Olympics, my favorite form of Brail as well, and
it was your favorite Olympics.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Actually it probably was. I loved Rio. I've loved this
year though.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
This year has been really good.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, but real Degenera had Brail, but each medal also rattled.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
The rattle of the gold.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Medal sounded different to the rattle of the silver metal,
which sounded different to the rattle of the bronze medal.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
What's inside it?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Different things rice, rice or whatever they put in the racas.
I found a video here of a don't just go
to work? Yeah, no, nothing else is playing, so you're
on something.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Chicking sound small.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
You don't have YouTube premium.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
It's a new story.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
It's a news story, so come with their own sound.
Rattle inside gives off a metallic sound when they're shaken.
Silver medal visually impaired athletes tell the difference between each
award the goldmoe.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, that's another ad.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's a news story.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a new story.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Where they shook the ones.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
But that's the coolest because it had braille on it
and it had a rattle, so you can to shake
it and hear the difference between what metal you were holding.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
So if you went to and you did, you did multiple.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Of medals and you had them all on one, you
could be like, ah, which ones the bronze, which runs
the silver? And you could do it by shaking it
if you didn't speak German braille, for example.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Is this the end of Paralympics week. It is the
end of Paralympics Week. I've enjoyed it thoroughly.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, after the.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Day, simply made up for calendar week.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh why do we keep bringing a cult classic.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
It wasn't a huge perfore at the office, but it's really.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Since it was released on DVD and Blu ray, no,
no huge colt and enjoyed calendar week.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
So today's back to today is the

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Paralympic medals are just a little bit different.