On the road to the Olympics with Joe Vardon & Team USA
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jared Weiss caught up with Joe Vardon fresh off the train to Lille to check in on his travels, LeBron's leadership, the logistics of the Olympics, and potential threats to the gold medal.
Host: Jared Weiss
With: Joe Vardon
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Producer: Jeshua Kidd & Dave DuFour
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| 0:30.0 | dot org welcome to the athletic NBA show Olympics edition. |
| 0:43.7 | I am Jared Weiss hosting today, and we are joined from Lil France by Joe Varden. |
| 0:50.0 | Le Joe Varden. |
| 0:51.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:51.5 | How do I say your name properly in French? |
| 0:53.8 | How is life on the other side of the pond? |
| 0:56.4 | Well, my last name, I mean, I'm Italian, but the last name is English because the people in |
| 1:05.2 | the Akron Rubber Mills couldn't pronounce my grandfather's last name of Verduny, so they went |
| 1:09.7 | with Varden. |
| 1:11.0 | So there's no relation to the greatest British golfer of all time, Harry Barden. |
| 1:17.3 | But before we came to Lille, we were in London for the last week, and there was some golf played, |
| 1:23.5 | including at some of the golf courses that are very famous for England, Wentworth being one of them. |
| 1:30.0 | And my last name had a ton of cliche, like a ton of cachet. |
| 1:34.4 | Like, oh my God, you're a Varden? Is there a relation? |
| 1:37.5 | No, there's no relation. |
| 1:40.1 | And then you see my game and you wonder why you'd even ask that question. |
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