Noel King

And so in some ways it's just like the appeal was they got a job, they had healthcare, both of like the futuristic and like the pedestrian, like everyone deserves to like have healthcare variety.

And, you know, they were just able to not worry about housing or any of the other like inconveniences that like plague being a regular person.

And so I kind of see the appeal of that.

And also like for a couple of the events, if they broke the world record, they were dangling a million dollars in front of them.

So, you know, that's nothing to sneeze at.

You know, what was really funny, the whole night, we were just watching all these events, weightlifters in the hot sun.

It looks a little bit slow is all.

Not coming close to the world record.

Yeah.

Sprinters misfiring, not coming close.

And then the very last event, which was the men's 50 meter freestyle, like that very last race, that last thing in the night.

They broke the world record and you could see the sigh of relief, like overcome all the executives who were invested in this thing.

Yeah, it was kind of hotly contested online whether the record like mattered or not.

But I think they were just like excited that someone broke it.

It's actually a pretty recent invention that performance-enhancing drugs are seen as cheating.

There's kind of this line that I was interested in investigating between what is an enhancement and what isn't.

And in my research, I learned that the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is WADA, they actually came to fruition after this debacle at the 1998 Tour de France.

Basically what happened is French officials found a car full of PEDs from someone associated with the French racing team.

And in doing so, the cops were in this weird position.

It was like, do we enforce this?