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BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie

Episode 126 - Corona and Lyme

BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie

Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie

London, Pod, Stand-up, Philwang, Bud, Budpod, Pierrenovellie, Edinburgh Fringe, South Africa, Malaysia, Comedy, Pierre Novellie, Phil Wang, Philly Philly Wang Wang, Funny, Improv, Stand Up

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Phil and Pierre chat painting, Olympics, being bitten by insects, Lyme disease, zombie film naivety, shoplifting, springboks and lions, nuclear power, milquetoast lil bitch, sticks vs staffs, underwater cities and Pierre goes to the hospital. Get bonus BudPod on Patreon!

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0:00.0

It's Bud Pod 126.

0:04.0

1 to 6, doing tricks.

0:07.0

Doing some sick tricks on my Bien Iks.

0:10.0

Which is part of the Olympics Olympics Olympics Olympics

0:16.2

Olympics have you watched any Olympics hmm hmm hmm I have you watched any Olympics?

0:23.0

I haven't watched a single specific piece of Olympics.

0:27.0

Have you?

0:28.0

I've not sat down and watched... I don't think I've ever in my life sat down and watched an entire event through. Maybe one badminton match

0:35.3

that was a final between the Malaysian guy and the Chinese guy because badminton is the

0:39.6

only sport that Malaysia does well in. Yes that's fair okay and how was that? He lost but he put up a hell of a fight.

0:51.2

Well that's well this is the thing is that people talk about how inspiring it all is, but what I always struggle

0:57.4

with is the fact that you only see like the top 10 you know mhm what I would like is some way of

1:06.3

understanding that like these 10 people I'm looking at have like you know 10 million excellent competitors just behind them.

1:17.0

Yeah, it's hard to put that's that's the problem with the Olympics.

1:21.0

It's very hard to put the abilities of these athletes in context.

1:27.8

And I think that's what was so amazing about Usain Bolt because even among the top in the world he was like 50 meters

1:39.4

ahead of them by the end of the race and you could go that guy is fast but it's very it's very hard for the

1:47.2

other categories where people are quite close and to the untrained die to someone

1:52.3

who doesn't know these events well you just go that's

1:55.1

someone firing a bow I I also have absolutely zero faith in the events where it's scored by judges.

2:05.4

Yes, yeah. It's like should this be an Olympics like subjectivity? I don't think there should be subjectivity in the Olympics.

2:13.0

If it's ever scored by judges, I just think...

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