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Olympics Popularity and the Filthy Seine River

from Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404 · #404

2 min

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Tim expresses surprise that people are actually watching the Olympics despite his negativity, then discusses athletes getting sick swimming in the contaminated Seine River and jokes about a future LA Olympics engulfed in wildfire smoke.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tim expresses depression about the Olympics' popularity despite his negativity about the games being pointless and past their prime.
  • Athletes got sick after swimming in the Seine River in Paris, with some hospitalized.
  • Tim predicts the LA Olympics in four years will be chaotic with fires and black smoke obscuring events like pole vault.
  • The Seine River's bacterial levels have been in flux, forcing test swims to be cancelled and the men's triathlon delayed.
  • Water quality tests revealed dangerous levels of fecal bacteria and E. coli in the river.
  • The solution, according to Tim, is to move the Olympics completely indoors and probably online.
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