Gill is very secretive about where she is off to this week but we coax it out of her and it turns out it's Paris! To celebrate, Pete and Gill look into the very long and varied history of the Olympic Games and a few of the forgotten events that once were part of the sporting festival... some of which they want back, but some are probably best consigned to history.

Gill also reports from Paris and sends us her take on how the Games are shaping up.

Pete gets tangled up a bit with telling Holland and The Netherlands apart and there is some (only a bit) talk of naked wrestling.

No Pigeons were harmed in the making of this podcast... The same cannot be said of the 1900 Paris Olympics.

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References in this episode:

https://olympics.com/en/news/top-reasons-why-the-athens-1896-olympics-were-important-for-modern-sport

http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/olympics/revival/intro.html

https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/g46994101/weird-olympics-facts-history/

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/olympic-humour-a-history-of-all-that-was-funny-hilarious-and-absurd-at-the-games-2939400.html/amp

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Gill & Pete Blast off into space - figuratively speaking - and look into the Apollo Missions and the Moon Landings. They also find out the huge cultural role The Muppets played in the Space Race. Gill has star-gazing dating tips but then also gets Bruce Willis mixed up with Jim Lovell. Pete attempts impersonations of not one but two US Presidents to varying degrees of success.

Also you heard it here first. The New Game Show: Shooting down Space Junk with Lazers... It's going to happen.

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We, again thoroughly recommend:

The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks

at Lightroom, London.

https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/

References used in this episode:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-congress-may-25-1961

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interactive-map-shows-all-21-successful-moon-landings-180972687/

https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-timeline

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-amazing-facts-about-the-apollo-11-moon-landing.html

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Gill and Pete look into the roaring post-republic years of Charles II's reign. Samuel Pepys starts getting stuck into his diary while Charles just simply gets stuck in. They also find that romance still exists down on the London Underground and they find out what a missed opportunity a Liberty Moo was.. or could have been.

It also seems that Donald Duck is suffering from a bit of hey fever.

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References in this episode:

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/mind-gap-story-embankment-stations-announcement

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