Mike Danforth

That like literally they're going a hundred miles an hour and saying like,

This is like learning that when a fire truck passes you by, inside, the firefighters are in there themselves saying, wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo.

I learned that the Olympic torch, you know, you see it on TV and one runner hands it to the next runner.

They light the next runner's torch and they move on.

And it feels like this continuous thing from Athens all the way to the host city.

I learned that they take a lunch break.

That is kind of burst the bubble a little bit, doesn't it?

I like that they keep the flame going during the lunch break.

If there's ever a performance-enhancing s'more, it's the Olympic s'more.

Yeah.

It's weird to say the singular of s'more, I realize.

It's, of all the foods I've ever had, it's the food that you only, that you least want more of.

How to Do Everything is produced by Skylar Swenson with technical direction from Lorna White.

Our intern this week is the U.S.

Olympic team.

Some of the music you heard in this show was from Moby Gratis.

We'll be back next week with more Olympics coverage and more of the non-Olympics stuff we do.

Hey, it's Mike Danforth, executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

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