4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Here are my final thoughts on the Paris Olympic Games. In this episode, it's just me, your host Oliver Gee, sharing a few pros and cons of the Olympics.
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, Oliver G here of the Earful Tower podcast. This episode is a season finale. Rather |
0:08.1 | fittingly, it will come out the day after the closing ceremony of these magnificent Olympic |
0:14.2 | games and I've kind of struggled a little bit to decide how I should personally be sharing |
0:20.7 | these games both on the podcast on |
0:22.4 | social media, even whether I should be doing it so much really, given there's so many |
0:28.5 | millions of people sharing things about the Olympics. But I figured this episode could be my |
0:35.8 | sort of closing thoughts, my personal closing thoughts, the pros, the cons and the highlights |
0:41.0 | of these Olympic Games, so that you can have, I guess, a local resident who's in the media |
0:49.4 | telling their honest opinion of the whole thing, you know, a very honest look at the whole thing. |
0:55.1 | And yeah, that's what we're going to do. |
0:57.2 | I'm going to go through what I considered to be the pros, the cons, and I'm going to finish |
1:00.7 | on the highlights of the whole thing. |
1:03.5 | But spoiler alert, I thought the whole thing was great. |
1:06.0 | Let's get into it. |
1:07.2 | The closing remarks after the closing ceremony for a season finale of the Eiffel Tower |
1:14.1 | podcast. Here we go. |
1:37.4 | Music Now in terms of the pros, and I think with everything I say here, there's a lot more I could say. |
1:43.3 | For example, I've written, one of the pros was the opening ceremony, which was magnificent. |
1:45.8 | It was just, I really thought it was brilliant. |
1:51.3 | I could also say I think it was probably best suited for TV. |
1:59.6 | And I think there were certainly people who were upset sitting along the River Sam in the rain and not really understanding what was going on maybe |
2:03.4 | couldn't see a TV personally i've got a whole different perspective on it because i was i was sitting |
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