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The Price Of The Olympic Medals · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The Factory Boys, who have never headlined a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: halftime show, and they had the opportunity in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, they turned it down and they took the
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  Speaker 1: national anthem instead.
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  Speaker 2: Back in two thousand and one, one of.
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  Speaker 1: Six point seven Light FM Cubby Christine, producer Kristen, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking the super Bowl, we're talking Olympics. Yes, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a sports fan, it's a big weekend. Oh yeah, Olympics
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  Speaker 1: kick off. I heard you during the news at two pm.
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  Speaker 1: That's our time, so it'll be night time in Italy.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be doing all the opening ceremonies.
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  Speaker 3: Can we wait to see it? Yeah, it's gonna be nice, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I love it when Olympics is way ahead of time wise.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they do time delay things at night,
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  Speaker 1: it still will get some results.
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  Speaker 3: They real time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And also, you know how we've talked about the price
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  Speaker 3: of gold and silver, how it's like kind of gone crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Gold is worth more than ever And you told me three.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago to go to Costco and I didn't do it, and.
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  Speaker 3: We could have bought those little golds. Okay, there's that,
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  Speaker 3: but the Olympians. Their medals are now worth a lot,
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  Speaker 3: not just because of what they symbolize, but because of
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  Speaker 3: the precious metals that they're made with, Like.
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  Speaker 2: Are they you have to melt them down or anything?
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  Speaker 3: Or if you melted it down, which of course you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't want to do.
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  Speaker 2: But just if you did, tough.
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  Speaker 3: The gold medals are now worth twenty three hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: and the silvers are worth fourteen hundred dollars. You melted
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  Speaker 3: them down.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it'd be more. It's not bad.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's not pure gold. Do you know, there's it's
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  Speaker 3: a coating.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know that either. Well you really helped
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  Speaker 2: me here. The whole thing that the whole heaviness is
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  Speaker 2: not all gold.
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  Speaker 3: No, is just a coating of that, because I think
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  Speaker 3: then it would be like a million dollars, do you know? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't quite do that. The bronzes are made mostly
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  Speaker 3: of copper, so if you melt those guys down, you
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  Speaker 3: just get like five bucks.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why the penny went away.
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  Speaker 3: That's why no one cares about coppery. Get I always
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  Speaker 3: feel bad about pennies, and everybody thinks I'm nuts for
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  Speaker 3: missing pennies, but them you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we could still use them, right, you're
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  Speaker 2: just not being made.
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  Speaker 3: You can use them, but sometimes you know, you can't
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  Speaker 3: get them back stores. They don't have them for change.
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  Speaker 3: The Olympian athletes, American ones are getting two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars bonuses for participating in the Games. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: They don't get the money up front. The athletes aren't
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  Speaker 3: receiving like a check for two hundred thousand, and they
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  Speaker 3: get that money for every everything they compete in. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so the first one hundred thousand will be granted to
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  Speaker 3: them either twenty years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance
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  Speaker 3: or when they turn forty five, whichever comes first.
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  Speaker 2: I did not know this.
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  Speaker 3: So we're looking out for their future, right, and the
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  Speaker 3: other one hundred thousand will be granted as a guaranteed
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  Speaker 3: benefit for their families after they pass away.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So here you are, this incredible athlete, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know your body of course can't do the things
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  Speaker 1: that used to be able to do. Yes, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: a little older. You might even forgot you were in
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: And then a check comes, Right, what's this one? Hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand bucks. Oh, I was an Olympian. Yeah, let's hope
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't come to that.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but you get more money than you do
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  Speaker 2: the value of a gold medal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You don't want to melt down your metal.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to melt that down.
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  Speaker 3: That's I can imagine the pride in having one of those,
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  Speaker 3: you know, yeah
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  Speaker 2: All right Olympics, Like we said, kick it off later
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  Speaker 2: today LIGHTFM