Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their unique takes to Olympic stories. This special episode includes excerpts from a few: a Cautionary Tale about underestimating female marathoners, a Jesse Owens story from Revisionist History’s series on Hitler’s Olympics, and—from What’s Your Problem—the new technology that’s helping Olympic athletes get stronger.

Check out other show feeds as well, the Happiness Lab and A Slight Change of Plans are also going to the Games.

Sylvia Blemker of Springbok Analytics on What’s Your Problem

The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo on Cautionary Tales

Hitler’s Olympics from Revisionist History

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0:00.0	The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.
0:05.0	Since it was established in 1861, there have been 3,517 people awarded with the Medal. I'm Malcolm Gladwell and our new podcast from
0:15.1	Pushkin Industries and I Heart Media is about those heroes. What they did, what it
0:20.6	meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and
0:25.1	sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor stories of courage on the I Heart
0:30.1	Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:36.0	The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.
0:41.0	Since it was established in 1861, there have been 3,517 people awarded with the medal.
0:48.0	I'm Malcolm Gladwell, and our new podcast from Pushkin Industries and I- Heart Media is about those heroes. What they did,
0:56.0	what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor stories of courage wherever you get your podcast. Bushkin.
1:17.0	Hello, Malcolm Glabo here.
1:25.0	Here at Pushkin, we love the Olympics.
1:29.0	One of my strongest childhood memories was the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, my
1:38.4	homeland's first Olympic Games. I was a kid. My family didn't have a television, but we rented one just for the occasion.
1:47.2	Two rabbit ears on top of a grainy black and white set. We put the TV in the fireplace,
1:56.4	because there was no other place for it and I watched everything The Romanian Nariya Kominich bewitching the world in gymnastics
2:02.0	My running hero John Walker powering away around the final
2:06.0	curve to win the men's 1500 meters. I still get nervous thinking about that race.
2:12.1	Lassie Varen's improbable double in the 5,000 meters and the 10,000 meters.
2:18.0	Alberto Wantarina, Cornelia Ender, Don Quarry, and the Women's 4 by 100 Freestyle Relay, maybe the greatest swimming race ever.
2:28.0	I was a little kid and I fell in love with the Olympics and I've been in love ever since.
2:40.0	There are just so many good Olympic stories to tell.
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