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welcome to the cocky ride home for friday February 4th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

The Olympic Games have officially begun how to reconcile excitement for the sports and the spectacle with the reality of the situation.

Plus, controversy is brewing over the remains of Captain Cook's ship, the HMS endeavor.

And choose your fighter, 3D-printed vegan meatballs,

or Buildabair's sultry, after-dark line of stuffed animals for adults.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

The Olympic opening ceremonies were this morning in Beijing, the spectacle, which will be

replayed on local networks during prime time tonight, was themed around unity and new beginnings.

But quoting the Washington Post,

China's motto of coming together for a shared future during the hardships of pandemic, an echo of President Xi Jinping's political philosophy of building a community with a shared future for mankind,

has been countered by U.S.-led diplomatic boycotts that seek to hold the Chinese

Communist Party accountable for human rights abuses, military aggression, and ascendant nationalism

during Xi's rule." End quote. So, yeah, the Olympics are complicated this year.

Over at Slate today, Justin Peters described this year's Olympics as

back and worse than ever and a complete horror show. Peters dug into why it is that we

continue to watch and report on the Olympics given the game's long history of behavior that is

quote imminently boycottable.

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