Good evening, sweet world, and welcome to the summer of champions.

It's Tuesday night, July 30th, 2004.

I'm Jay Eskietz here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, she's already making travel plans to go watch rugby sevens in person. It's my beautiful wife, Nora. Where are we going? We're going to go to Dubai. We're going to go to Vancouver. We're going to L.A. I thought you said we were going to Hong Kong. We could also go to Hong Kong. There's so many options.

I love it. Over Yonder, Making the Magic Happen, Super Producer, J.D. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Shout out to everyone joining us live. Right now on YouTube, hit the like button if you haven't. Subscribe if you haven't. Share the show podcast listeners. Five star ratings and reviews. we love to see that.

There will be spoilers.

Of course.

From Day 4 Action in Paris. We're going to get into a lot of it. But tonight's drink of choice. Ooh. We got a black Russian. The murky. Black Russian. Goodness. So we got a simple twoient cocktail, Nora, vodka and coffee liqueur.

That's right.

We're using Kalua today.

Okay.

This is from Belgium.

Did you know that?

Because I didn't. I did not know that.

I was surprised to learn that.

So they toast by saying saunte.

Sante.

Sante.

Which is the same as friends.

JD's got one.

Santee. He's got one. Sonté. Cheers, Sontes. Cheers, cheers. Oh, yeah. It's pure alcohol. That's pure booze. That's fun. Oh, it's smooth, though. But it's nice. The dude abides? If we had cream, the dude would abide. The dude almost abides. He drinks white Russians. I went through a white Russian phase when I watched that movie. Don't recommend it. You love the Big Lobowski.

I do love the Big Lebowski. But anyway, the drink is from 1949 from Hotel Metropole in Brussels. Okay. I did not know that. I feel like that could come up at trivia at some point. JD, put that somewhere in the back of our brains. It's there. All right. Well, we got our Black Russians here. We got a lot to talk about, like I said.

Before we get into the gold, silver, and bronze, stories of the day, our metal moments, few notes from you guys that are correcting us or helping us out left and right. We asked. We definitely asked. We said you can do this. So this is what people are doing what we asked. We had a few notes from Summer of Champions fan, Alistair, who, I should know, was a former member of Team Canada.

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