Snoop Dogg, Flavor Flav, pins: The Paris Games are a bounty of cultural weirdness. And for people attending the Games in person, you can add to the list “hospitality houses” – party houses where people can pay a fee to watch sporting events with their countrymen.

The Washington Post’s Ava Wallace talks with Post features writer Dan Zak about his experience of covering the Olympics as a cultural event.

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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Joe Tone.

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