Good evening, sweet world, and welcome to the summer of champions, your go-to daily Paris Olympics recap podcast.

It's Thursday night, August 1st, 2024. I'm Jay

Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, she writes a mean trivia question. It's my

wife, Nora Artinian. Hello, tonight's question is particularly tricky. It's more tricky

than it's been? It took me three whole days. Nerd alert. Oh my goodness. All right. You are the quiz master. And 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. Click, like, subscribe, thrive. Tell a friend, share the show, podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. I saw a couple recently came in just about Summer of Champions. Oh, that's so nice. It warms our heart, so thank you. I will say, as I always say off the top of the show, there will be spoilers. Yeah. Talking about the Olympics in Paris, day six. So if you don't want anything spoiled, turn us off and come back a little bit later. Tonight's drink a choice. Yes. As we make our way around the globe, it's a Japanese beer, Nora. Yes, Orion, the Okinawa beer. All right. And how do we toast in Japan? We say, Kampai.

Kampai.

Kampai.

J.D., Kampai.

This is a dry, crisp lager, and it's made from spring water from a local Okinawan mountain.

Oh, I can taste it.

I was going to go Sapporo.

And I said, you know what?

Get out of here.

Mix it up. You know, mix it up.

I think I've had this before.

I definitely have, but not as common as like maybe a Soporo you see. Japanese beer. Lovely. It's really light. It's really tasty. Very refreshing. Crisp. Yeah, that's what they say. A dry crisp locker. Love it. Do you know what Kumpai translates to? Cheers. empty cup oh so like come on baby. Let's do it. Yeah. And let's get chugging. Oh, isn't that in like their business culture too, like with a boss when you cheers at like a dinner? Possibly. I mean. It's something like you, like if the boss is drinking. Yes. You got a drink. It's probably what you're thinking of is if somebody offers you something.

It's not like you can say no, especially if they're a superior. Yeah, I think it's that. Because it's all about respect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like I got to respect this alcoholic, holy crap. Yeah, next thing you know, 10 shots deep. Right, right. All right, well, it's very tasty. I'm glad we're having this. this. I had to do a supply run today. Did you ever?

Making a list of weird things. I don't think I've ever asked that many questions to the poor person that works at the liquor store. Nobody comes in there and asks you. Do you have this Brazilian rum? Where's the Uzo? I need Japanese beer. I need super box. They always't like, what is wrong with this guy?

So anyway, we got some more, so don't you worry, as we continue to do a daily Olympics podcast all the way through to the closing ceremonies. But if you're tired of us talking about the Olympics,

we had another podcast in the no-dunks feed today, and it was all about hoops. It was Tass. It was Trey.

They went live to talk basketball. Now, they broke down where we stand right now in the men's

basketball group stage. Canada doing well. Team USA doing well. They also discussed why the Americans

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