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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
Yeah.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
So, so it's never about, it's never about like exactly how fast someone was.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
Right.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
Because sure there's records involved, but.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
Sure.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
The difference, you can't noticeably see whether somebody lifted 220 kilograms or 220.1.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
It's not visible to the eye, right?
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
And so what became really obvious to me instantly was the appeal of the Olympics is you have these very niche activities where athletes dedicate their entire life to this pursuit.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
every four years, there's like a five minute period where they're getting like the entire world's attention and they're representing their country and they're going for glory.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
And they either, they either do it or they don't, they get the gold medal or they don't, you know, whether even getting a silver medal is like agony, right?
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
Cause like you just dedicated your whole life to this thing and you're in second place.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
And so it really is about, um,
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
It really just stuck out to me immediately that it's about national pride, representing your country, true excellence.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
And in watching this, there was none of that.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
They were trying to basically build up the brands of the athletes ahead of time.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
but there was just like, no, I didn't feel like bought into any of the storylines.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
These are a bunch of athletes that were formerly Olympic athletes.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
And some of them had done quite well that are now basically opting into
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
like just a for profit, like the Olympics are not about making money.
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Ferrari EV, Enhanced Games, Alcohol & Podcasting | Christopher Hale, Sean Henry, Eric Ries, Alex Atallah
The enhanced games were about, sure it was about the athleticism, but a lot of it was just like a payday, right?