Swedish Curling Cheating Allegations, Dutch Speed Skating Pride
A discussion regarding alleged cheating by Swedish curling teams involves claims that sweepers are nudging stones with their fingers or using airflow behind the stone to manipulate its path. The conversation contrasts this with the performance of Dutch speed skaters. The hosts note a lack of recent donations, attributing it to a holiday weekend and severe winter weather affecting podcast accessibility.
sweden· curling· cheating· speed skating· netherlands· winter sports
00:00 I love this open source community, John. You should join. there's cheating and curling and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6, In the Morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where is there a holiday on Monday? I'm not sure. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the Morning. Now why do you say this? Isn't it President's Day or something on Monday? Yes, well it's, which traditionally in America means cheap mattresses.
00:43 Prisoners day? Cheap mattresses! This is your yearly joke. Cheap mattresses everybody! Every year. Every year, cheap mattresses on sale. That's right. That's what we do in America. Wasn't that, didn't they combine them all? Wasn't it Washington's birthday? Washington, Lincoln, two or three other guys, Kid McKinney I think. So, uh, tell us about the curling. I did not hear this. Oh, the Swedes are cheating bastards! They're che- the Swedes? The Swedes, yeah. So so they have this shot, you know, we don't have that many Swedish donors if you notice that we have we have no we John John We have no donors today. What are you talking about? Well, yeah, it was a holiday holiday weekend. Everyone took off And we have a coal-built blast to air there to one third of the country can't even get the podcast Oh, that's what it is. What they can't even get the pot has has the has the pod been frozen halfway across the country It's a frozen frozen pod. We need an emergency pod for the frozen pod
01:47 So the Swedes, you can see this shot, you know, they got the curling stone, it's called a stone. You got this curling stone and the guy who's doing the brushing. Sweeping. Is it sweeping? I thought it was a brush. I think he calls it sweeping. So the guy that's sweeping, you see him with his finger just nudge the stone a little bit. How does he do that? He's got his hand on the broom. No, no, at a certain point he gets behind it and he's got the broom on the... he's gotta see it. Why is he sweeping behind it? What good does that do? He wasn't sweeping behind it. He was there to push it. He was cheating. That's my whole point. Well, that's no good. And that's easy to spot. And you're wrong because they often sweep behind it because just the airflow alone sometimes helps. They're sweeping behind it all the time.
02:42 Oh, this is bullcrap. I can't believe they were cheating. It's just so disappointing. Cheating. The Dutch are doing pretty good though. Dutch, we can skate, man. Well, they can't. I'm not really Dutch, but I still have some pride. Yeah, you might as well be. You can be artificial Dutch. The world has lost their ever-loving mind. Everybody's lost their mind. Well, there's one good piece of news. I do have this clip. This is the, what is this clip called?
