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Here's one in a different vein. This was the song I used to use to pump me up when I played the sports ball things, but it still feels pretty uplifting to me now.

...and now I am giggling like mad imagining a couple Hell's Angels types randomly riding in and stealing all the toppers...

Honestly, Michael Franti is probably my go-to feel-good guy these days, for either the happy-peppy stuff like "Say Hey" (which became annoyingly ubiquitous a few years back) or the burn-it-all-down stuff like a lot of his early albums. Here's a lesser-known one of his:

Just another reason why orange is my favorite color.

Women's 3000M steeplechase gold medalist Winfred Yavi of Bahrain.

From a sport that deserves way more attention, I give you Dutch handball player Angela Malestein.

I usually enjoy badminton, but so much of it has only been available in three-way split screen that it's been impossible to watch.

This is my favorite of Disney's live-action movies of the era. Disney had so many great character actors under contract at the time, several of whom were used here to great effect -- Mills, Jones, Lanchester, Demarest, Roddy McDowall, Richard Deacon -- add in Frank Gorshin and Neville Brand as the villains, Bobby Darin to sing the theme song, and, of course, DC himself and you have what I consider a brilliant film. Good call. A sad waste of Christina Ricci, who looked too bored to even bother to rise above the material. Should've been a DCOM.

Yes, that's correct. As far as how to describe (team) handball...well, I think of it a lot like water polo, but not in the water :) . One of the announcers described it as a combination of basketball, (non-American) football, and netball...which may or may not help, as I don't know what netball is, either. What I do know is that it's fast-paced and fun to watch, and my favorite team sport to watch at the Olympics, with (non-beach) volleyball a close second.

Sadly, I think Shota beat himself by not showcasing the randomizer items enough. I often have trouble predicting who's going to win, but I called this as soon as I saw how little he used the chard and especially the sauerkraut. It's too bad, because Carlos was working my last nerve. I don't remember much about him from past seasons -- has he always been so abrasive? Anyway, here's hoping Jet goes three-for-three against him.

And her name is a palindrome!

Food Network has given me more than my fill over the years of the Best Story Championship on many, many other shows, so I would gladly take the Holiday Nice Person Championship, please.

Don't forget having the parents in a room watching on the Kids Baking Championship for a season (or was it two?) -- sometimes it's like they're actively trying to ruin the franchise.

Yes, that's rather how I feel about it too 🤣

Same for me! And that is a LOT of thyme. Plus, I don't even know where one gets four terabytes of thyme... 😜