Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.

And I'm Mark Gagliardi.

Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.

With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.

Best triathlon leg.

That's right.

Don't worry, everyone.

We got this.

Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcasts should not have a theme song.

Yes, they should. No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to skip past it.

Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this.

Did they add a triathlon to the Winter Olympics? I think it's just the biathlon, which is not this at all. The triathlon is not a biathlon with one other thing. You know that, right? Yeah, it's bicycling and shooting and skiing. That's a triathlon, isn't it? It's cross-country skiing. It's cross-country bikingcountry biking. And you shoot it a target and then you get on a bicycle.

Why do all of these Winter Olympic sports seem like Nordic survival methods? Because they are. A lot of them start out as either biathlon in particular is traveling, hunting. But also other things, like cross-country skiing was just how you got places. Like a lot of these are just ways you got places. Yeah. And then they added like, what if we were jumping? What if we did it in a circle really fast? I mean, it's also going downhill. So if that's how you get places, it's how you get places once. It's not how you get home from places. It depends on which side of the mountain you live on.

If you live up the mountain or down the mountain, that'll dictate.

Yeah.

Or if you're my dad, you lived uphill through the snow both ways.

Yeah.

So many parents.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, that whole generation, the baby boomers.

Always so snowy for them.

It was a different time.

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