Episode 79 - Larry Ganson

Larry Ganson, event expert and COVID-19 Compliance Officer at Carpathia Event Production, joins the Salt Lake 2002 Retrospective podcast and remembers rapelling from the side of the Wells-Fargo building to unfurl the flag after 9/11 (recorded 8 December 2020). A breakdown of the episode is below.

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WARM UP
00:26 - Welcome Larry!

PRELIMS
06:14 - Life before SLOC
10:12 - The story behind the rings on the mountain

QUARTERFINALS
13:33 - "The obscenely oversized American flag"
16:20 - "I need bodies!"

SEMIFINALS
18:38 - Stolen fireworks and an FBI interrogation
23:19 - Fireworks procurement

FINALS
25:20 - The 500 day countdown / blue sky ides
28:55 - Pyro mishaps / ADITL during Games-time

MIXED ZONE
31:47 - Sport production
34:28 - The Paralympic Games / Apollo falls down

COOL DOWN
38:08 - Post-Games journey / lessons learned
42:12 - Three questions