1936 Summer Olympics
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Nov 4, 2026
Jon RitchieHOST
How about in sticking with the theme? Jesse Owens? Yeah.
Jon RitchieHOST
1936 Olympics.
Jon RitchieHOST
I love watching track and field.
Jon RitchieHOST
You get to watch four gold medals and, you know, truly, true excellence from Jesse Owens in the face of Adolph
Jon RitchieHOST
Yeah.
Jon RitchieHOST
1936 Olympics.
Jon RitchieHOST
I love watching track and field.
Jon RitchieHOST
You get to watch four gold medals and, you know, truly, true excellence from Jesse Owens in the face of Adolph Hitler.
Karl DahlGUEST
And They're basically going to execute an American volunteer who ended up on the line because he went to Barcelona for the People's Olympiad, which was scheduled to start the day of the military uprising.
Karl DahlGUEST
There's this whole thing where the 1936 Olympics, that was when...
Karl DahlGUEST
Jesse Owens defeated Hitler according to television, which is silly because Hitler didn't disrespect him or anything like that it's all this this post post-war cope but anyway um there was an alternative because the ussr boycotted the the olympics and they they hosted a uh a communist international uh you know alternative in barcelona that and there was instantly like a whole bunch of international fighters that were anarchists and socialists and communists in Barcelona because of this event.
Karl DahlGUEST
And a whole bunch of them ended up on the line, um, you know, cause after capturing, uh, Barcelona and Catalonia around it, um, they started pushing North, uh, to Aragon because, um, They wanted to fight the Carlists out in the countryside as well as to just terrorize all the locals wherever they could.
Greg WarrenHOST
The model was GEDA.
Greg WarrenHOST
He wore those shoes in the 1936 Olympics.
Greg WarrenHOST
Wow.
Greg WarrenHOST
Of course, during that Olympics, he got, I think, he had four gold medals.
Dave WhiteHOST
Flying sex.
Brian WhiteHOST
Yeah, before the war, Ghirilami was best known throughout Italy for being one of the best boxers in the country, eventually capturing and defending the featherweight title until he was selected to represent Italy in the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Brian WhiteHOST
Yikes.
Brian WhiteHOST
Yeah.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
this.
Titus O’ReilyHOST
And Jesse Owen had warned them at the 1936 Olympics, and they were going very well.
Titus O’ReilyHOST
In 1933, Rudy signed up to be a member of the Nazi Party.
Titus O’ReilyHOST
Now, if you know your history, that's pretty early in the rise of the – that's pretty much when they first got into power.
James L. FreedmanGUEST
I look for someone who the public knows and was very successful in their careers, but has a whole nother side to them that they don't really know about.
James L. FreedmanGUEST
So for instance, in my first film, Glickman, people knew him as this great sportscaster, but they didn't really know his Olympic story, that he was one of two Jewish runners not allowed to run in the 1936 Olympics because Nazi-sympathizing American officials didn't want to upset Adolf Hitler.
James L. FreedmanGUEST
And when Carl Laemmle, who founded Universal Studios, but then he also saved over 300 refugees from Nazi Germany.
James L. FreedmanGUEST
So I look for subjects that have both of those sides to them, and Charles Grodin absolutely fit that.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Even an S-Bahn line has been back in service since the beginning of July.
speaker_1NARRATOR
George Stevens has gone to the Reichssportfeld, where Nazi Germany was allowed to host the 1936 Summer Olympics.
speaker_1NARRATOR
At first, the USA wanted to boycott the event.
speaker_1NARRATOR
But when the regime agreed to allow Jewish athletes to compete, American officials relented.
Dave MyersHOST
Adolf, whose nickname was Addy, was the shoe designer, and Rudolf, nicknamed Rudy, was the business mind.
Dave MyersHOST
Their athletic shoes gained international notoriety due to their use by track star Jesse Owens, who ran in their spiked shoes during the 1936 Olympics in Germany and winning four gold medals.
Dave MyersHOST
Sales skyrocketed because everyone seemed to want the shoes that Jesse Owens ran in.
Dave MyersHOST
Unfortunately, during World War II, tensions between the brothers grew over business decisions, family conflicts, suspicions about each other's motives, etc.
Nathan BeauvaisHOST
Okay.
Nathan BeauvaisHOST
The two brothers, that was in their parents' home in 1924, one of the brothers persuaded U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens to use his handmade spikes at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
speaker_8UNKNOWN
Wow, it goes back that far.
Nathan BeauvaisHOST
In 1949, following a breakdown in the relationship between the two brothers, Adolph created this company, and then Rudolph established Puma, which became the company's rival.
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