ROLL ON: Enhanced Games

Hey, everybody. Today, we're gonna talk about the enhanced games, the event that transpired in Las Vegas the other weekend. Adam and I are gonna share our thoughts on what it was, what happened, what we make of it, our perspective, the implications, both financial, cultural, ethical, etcetera, and dig into our personal opinions on it. Does that sound good, Adam? Sounds good. We're doing. Love it. Are these UV safe lights? I don't know. Did you you didn't bring your umbrella? Your umbrella? Okay. We're gonna talk about that. But first, before we get into it, for those that don't know what the enhanced games are, this somehow eclipsed your radar. The Enhanced Games is a, obviously controversial, privately funded international multi sport event that lacks any kind of governmental body oversight from, like, WADA or the International Olympic Committee. And in this event, they don't just permit athletes to use performance enhancing drugs, they actually encourage it, with the caveat that the use of these, substances must be under medical supervision and taken through an FDA approved regimen. They also, at the enhanced games, offered significant prize money, especially if you broke a world record. We're gonna talk about that. And this all took place the other weekend in Las Vegas. It was 42 athletes across three sports, swimming, track and field, and weightlifting. And it was only a few events here and there. I think they had aspirations that it was gonna be, like, all sports and there were gonna be hundreds of athletes, but this was the inaugural event. So humble beginnings, but my perspective is this is only the first year of an event that is going to grow over time. And we talked a little bit about it before the event. Do you remember? Yes. We were on the phone. Yes. Yes. And you were asked Like, a couple days before. You were asked by some publication to write an article about this? No. No. I was I Canadian broadcasting company. So I was asked by, Canadian radio to be on the show called Commotion, which is a pop culture and sport show. And I've been on there before for different articles I've written or something I've covered, like the Olympic surfing was the first time I think I was on there. And so they asked me to be on there and comment on the enhanced games, but the caveat was I had to watch the enhanced games. So we hadn't talked about it, and then I called you. I'm like, I have to watch that, and you were like, couldn't wait to watch it. And I was like, I have to watch it, and so I watched it. You know? I was I was like I think the the early prelim events, I was kind of, like, just keeping tabs on. But then once it was, like, on, like, from, like, 03:00 Pacific time on, I was basically watching the whole thing throughout …