Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.

And I'm Mark Gagliardi.

Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.

With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.

Trophy versus Metal.

That's right. Don't worry, everyone.

We got this.

Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcasts should not have a theme song.

Yes, they should. No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to skip past it.

Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this.

Hal, it's both Olympic season and award season.

Yeah.

One gives out trophies.

One gives out medals.

Oh, man.

So what better time of year to talk about medals versus trophies?

What kind of medals and trophies did you get grown up?

Uh, I got a ribbon for participating in a horse thing at the Willow Grove Day Camp.

And I maintain, I could have made the horse go faster, but I had short legs and they had too

many blankets under the saddle, so I couldn't, you know, I was trying to,

you know, you don't dig in your own run or not where it spurs or anything, but that's how you

tell the horse like, hey, speed it up a little bit.

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