The podcast episodes focus on Avery Brundage's actions as the head of the American Olympic Committee, which led to the United States participating in the 1936 Berlin Olympics despite widespread calls for a boycott due to Nazi Germany's antisemitic policies and human rights abuses.

In Part One, the hosts discuss how Brundage, a wealthy American athlete turned Olympic official, actively worked to stop the proposed boycott and ensure the U.S. team would compete in Berlin, even as other countries withdrew. Part Two further explores Brundage's role in thwarting the boycott movement and handing a major propaganda victory to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Brundage's actions highlighted the tensions between political concerns, the Olympic ideals of neutrality, and his own personal ambition and desire to maintain the status quo within the Olympic movement.