Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Z mccoming to you from the
Speaker 1: home office in Austin, Texas as summer wraps up and
Speaker 1: kids are heading back to school. It's happening. I hear, babe.
Speaker 2: What you need to hear is that we are going
Speaker 2: from Brat's Summer to demrr fall.
Speaker 1: Explain. I know the Brat reference.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Charlie XCX album. It's been a Brat summer.
Speaker 1: I do get that.
Speaker 2: So I'll be honest. I've been very off TikTok for
Speaker 2: god well over a year, maybe even almost two years.
Speaker 2: I just found TikTok to be too addicting, and if
Speaker 2: you look into it, there's literally science behind how it
Speaker 2: auto scrolls. It was the first social media app to
Speaker 2: auto scroll, and it's all video and lights and whatever.
Speaker 2: So I'm just off TikTok. I'm just ricially in my
Speaker 2: well so I'm a little a little late. But on
Speaker 2: the other hand, I think it's kind of just popping off.
Speaker 2: Apparently demurre is the new buzzword, and it comes from
Speaker 2: someone on TikTok, a TikTok personality named Jules lebron if
Speaker 2: I'm saying that name right, explaining demure and how to
Speaker 2: be demure. So this is kind of blowing my mind
Speaker 2: because at least with Bratt, it was sort of like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're doing a new spin on the word brat and
Speaker 2: it has this new meaning.
Speaker 1: It's like fat what fat used to mean? And then
Speaker 1: fat differently pH pht. And then Bratt was like, you're
Speaker 1: a brat, like you're kind of a crappy person. No
Speaker 1: one wants to staying around with you.
Speaker 2: And now now bratt has a meaning. Yeah, but this
Speaker 2: is just people using the word demure, which is it's
Speaker 2: intended the actual definition. I think we're just discovered. People
Speaker 2: are rediscovering that demure is a word, and maybe some
Speaker 2: people are learning demere's a word for thet.
Speaker 1: Anything been more TikTok than inventing a new word that
Speaker 1: already exists and using the original definition.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not trying to invent it. Look part
Speaker 2: of me. At first, I'll be honest, I had this
Speaker 2: millennial reaction of like, okay, do we not know the
Speaker 2: word demure? And that scared me a little. But then
Speaker 2: I thought this can't really be a new thing. There's
Speaker 2: got to be an element, maybe less so now than
Speaker 2: ever before because the Internet exists and people can look
Speaker 2: things up and learn about things so quickly, But there
Speaker 2: has to be like there are words that used to
Speaker 2: be common that have fallen out of use, like sometimes
Speaker 2: what is that thing? There's that like old Scottish Oh,
Speaker 2: this was a big thing for a while, a hirkle durkle.
Speaker 2: A hirkle durkle is apparently a Scottish term for when
Speaker 2: you get up in the morning but you kind of
Speaker 2: just hang in bed for a while, like I'm having
Speaker 2: a hirkle dierkle, which I personally love. But people discovered
Speaker 2: it again, start using it again this year, And I
Speaker 2: bet if you went back to some Scots, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know one hundred years ago, they'd say, wait,
Speaker 2: people don't know the word hirkle dierkle anymore.
Speaker 1: Look at the gams on that one.
Speaker 2: Gams legs. I know that we should try to out
Speaker 2: phrase each other, except nothing's coming to mind for me.
Speaker 2: We're pretty but yeah, demure, so demure fall. I think
Speaker 2: the word demure is inherently a fall type word. Well,
Speaker 2: it's easier to be demure when you're wearing sweaters and
Speaker 2: like buttoned up things versus bikinis in the summer.
Speaker 1: And sweat rolling down your back. That's not demure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, demure is giving the vibe of like a Rory Gilmore.
Speaker 2: We're in the fall, We're demure Gilmore. Oh, babe demures
Speaker 2: right there. For the Gilmore girls, especially our grandmother, Emily
Speaker 2: Gilmore basically invented demure.
Speaker 1: I think I think we're all happy that we're out
Speaker 1: of a brat summer, and I'm glad that that didn't
Speaker 1: last long and it really didn't take off and land.
Speaker 2: Babe, Brat summer took off and landed, just because you're
Speaker 2: not on TikTok Man.
Speaker 1: Okay, so bratt didn't really work. I'm hoping demure brat
Speaker 1: all does.
Speaker 2: You're You're not being bratt right now. Brat worked. I'm
Speaker 2: heading to experience camps next week and I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get up. I need to be right because I'm about
Speaker 2: to go and be a camp counselor for a bunch
Speaker 2: of kids who I just love. But they're incoming. They're
Speaker 2: going to be in ninth grade this fall, so I
Speaker 2: actually I probably should get back on TikTok for a
Speaker 2: minute and be aware.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I was listening to some of
Speaker 1: your videos from this time last year, and the first
Speaker 1: the first video from one of the campers said like,
Speaker 1: hey Barbie, and I immediately took me back to this
Speaker 1: time a year ago. Barbie was all the rage. Obviously
Speaker 1: Barbenheimer and Oppen, but really for you at camp, it
Speaker 1: was all about Barbie and camps.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's funny how twelve months can change such a
Speaker 1: cultural shift.
Speaker 2: Last year felt so obvious Barbie, Barbenheimer. That was the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm my guess is the summer is going to be
Speaker 2: Chapel Roone. It's going to be brat summer. I don't
Speaker 2: know about Dead Poll and Wolf. It's rated R. I
Speaker 2: don't know how many of the kids have seen that, and.
Speaker 1: It's kind of dudish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. But there wasn't like a really
Speaker 2: big girls movie this summer the way Barbie was last.
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, has that been happening too much to continue?
Speaker 2: Oh no, No, we're still on the airs because she's
Speaker 2: worldwide with it right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's still going I just meant like,
Speaker 1: is that still a thing that will lead in like,
Speaker 1: is everyone still get when you think about.
Speaker 2: It, how impressive is that Taylor Swift in the Airs
Speaker 2: Tour have dominated the zeitgeist for basically one full year
Speaker 2: because I think the Airs Tour launched last summer.
Speaker 1: That's true when you think of this day and age
Speaker 1: of the quick, just.
Speaker 2: Did it launch even before then? I got to look
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 1: You know, ten seconds in the news cycle. And we
Speaker 1: move on to the next thing. The fact that she
Speaker 1: has been so good about creating story, drawing out story,
Speaker 1: and keeping it.
Speaker 2: Going March twenty twenty three, so well over a year
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: How much too in the you know, the Travis Kelcey
Speaker 1: of it all helps because that lasts for sure last
Speaker 1: all football season, right, and so that goes so every
Speaker 1: every weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, And where'd you say something scary the other day,
Speaker 2: which was that you were watching a Cowboys game as
Speaker 2: football already started.
Speaker 1: It has well essentially, so football preseason is going on
Speaker 1: right now. The regular season starts coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: You know what I don't want to hear from another person,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to put you into this. The other day,
Speaker 2: I said to you I took my first Home Goods
Speaker 2: fall trip. Now here's what I like to do to
Speaker 2: start to get into the mood the festivities of fall.
Speaker 2: The first place I go as Home Goods because they
Speaker 2: have the fall decorations. You're getting in the vibe. I
Speaker 2: start my re listen, my annual re listen of the
Speaker 2: Harry Potter audiobooks as narrated by Jim Dale himself. And
Speaker 2: I came home and said to you, do we put
Speaker 2: up the Halloween decorations today? And you said, no, it's
Speaker 2: too soon. So why is it too soon to put
Speaker 2: up the fall decks? But it's not too soon to
Speaker 2: start football?
Speaker 1: I see your point, thank you, And I would say
Speaker 1: we're both wrong. Football should not be starting yet. Although
Speaker 1: the first real game September fifth is Taylor Swift Chiefs
Speaker 1: versus Edgar Allan Poe's Ravens.
Speaker 2: Actually, okay, you know what. I actually like that we
Speaker 2: can be on the same page for this then, because
Speaker 2: you had said let's put the decorations up after labor maybe,
Speaker 2: and September fifth is right after Labor Day, So right
Speaker 2: after Labor Day we'll put up the Halloween decoration.
Speaker 1: Your white shoes away, and then.
Speaker 2: We will also, well, you will watch a football game.
Speaker 1: Yeah we have football, so September fifth, but yeah, the kid.
Speaker 1: And it's really weird for us because usually this is
Speaker 1: back to school week. Our friends are moving their kids
Speaker 1: into colleges and kids are starting to go back to
Speaker 1: high school. I think Westlake in the Greater Austin area
Speaker 1: just started this week or if not, starts tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: we don't have a child to take back to school
Speaker 1: because our daughter, Tay, they're already moving into her house
Speaker 1: for the school year, and so there's no moment for us.
Speaker 1: There's no I realize we're missing the goodbye this this year.
Speaker 1: I talked to her on the phone today and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm back at school, and it's just it's just happening.
Speaker 1: She's she's already there.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, without us thinking about it, because Taylor
Speaker 2: will be in this house next year as well. Probably wait,
Speaker 2: without us thinking about it, we have no more moving
Speaker 2: kids back to.
Speaker 1: Say, I serve this. The next thing we're doing is
Speaker 1: moving her out senior year of college.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the only thing I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: Because I'm usually a bright side half glassful person, I
Speaker 2: understand the emotion of it. But oh yeah, no, thank god,
Speaker 2: we don't have to move a kid back in one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten degree Texas weather, especially in college, when
Speaker 2: it's we're like hauling stuff from the car. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not like just we're dropping you off.
Speaker 1: It's you're making five runs to target.
Speaker 2: Oh lordy.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, it's just weird. And so good luck
Speaker 1: to everybody who's taking their kids to school or going
Speaker 1: to school for the first time. We have a friend
Speaker 1: who has a kindergartener who's heading to school for the
Speaker 1: first time. So big moves, big moments. It's a big
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. It is again talk about early. It
Speaker 1: is way too early to be doing this in early
Speaker 1: August as everyone's heading back to school. But that is
Speaker 1: how it's going to be.
Speaker 2: I want to ask everybody out there, are you a planner?
Speaker 2: Are you the planner in your relationship? And do you
Speaker 2: think that in each relationship there's one partner who's the
Speaker 2: planner and one partner who's the not. Now, babe, which
Speaker 2: one are you?
Speaker 1: I'm the not?
Speaker 2: You're the not? Absolutely, you're not.
Speaker 1: I'll go stuff further. Does anybody as soon as you
Speaker 1: make plans does that person immediately stop everything and that
Speaker 1: takes over their life until that is over. Like most
Speaker 1: people that are on the other side of this coin myself,
Speaker 1: you'd like, oh, let's go to Dallas that weekend. Okay, cool?
Speaker 1: Or how about we take a trip to wherever and
Speaker 1: you can just kind of talk about it, maybe just
Speaker 1: kind of marinate on it, you know, think about it,
Speaker 1: talk about it. Then eventually you get to the planning
Speaker 1: stage of actually doing it. No, this the planning person,
Speaker 1: which is you and our relationship. As soon as we
Speaker 1: say it, I'm doing it. Everybody's lives are now about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, stop what you're doing. I've pulled up
Speaker 2: six flight options. Let's review them. I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is a good thing or a bad thing about me.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's case dependent. Sometimes it's great that I went
Speaker 2: and got it done. Sometimes it's oh, maybe I should
Speaker 2: have waited a minute, kind of thought about that more
Speaker 2: before I dove right in. I tend to fire off
Speaker 2: text messages really quickly. I don't think that that immediate
Speaker 2: communication being available is a good thing for someone with
Speaker 2: this trait, meaning myself, because I can fire off a
Speaker 2: text and I'm stressing other people out in their lives.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm the planner, and I tend to get
Speaker 2: stuff done right away when I want it done. But
Speaker 2: I think, you know, the good thing is, like I
Speaker 2: thought about the is talking about fall and all that,
Speaker 2: we kind of tend to have what we call these
Speaker 2: calendar meetings where we're going to sit down and go
Speaker 2: over our schedule for the next couple months, which I
Speaker 2: highly recommend in any relationship. It's probably something you more
Speaker 2: so do at work, like let's look at the quarter ahead,
Speaker 2: but I think it's great to do it in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Let's sit down, go over our calendar, see what we
Speaker 2: have coming up, especially.
Speaker 1: If you have kids. Yes, great thing. Go over all
Speaker 1: the soccer games, football games. It can.
Speaker 2: It helps you get out of the chaos of life.
Speaker 2: And I remember reading more importantly reading this study that
Speaker 2: shows that we are all happier when we have something
Speaker 2: to look forward to. That that kind of helps you
Speaker 2: get through the mundane daily stuff. If you think I've
Speaker 2: got a trip ahead, I'm going to Europe. I've got
Speaker 2: Disneyland ahead. So when we have these calendar meetings, I
Speaker 2: like to look at it and go, hey, we got
Speaker 2: a couple free days over here? Do we want to
Speaker 2: go on a trip somewhere? And I also, as I
Speaker 2: always say, you know know that myself. You got to
Speaker 2: know how much do I like to be booked or not?
Speaker 2: I tend to like to be overbooked versus underbooked. I
Speaker 2: like to be busier versus like a relaxing.
Speaker 1: Person having something to do, something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: I think in life, whether it's a trip, a moment,
Speaker 1: a thing is great. It's a it's a very mentally
Speaker 1: healthy thing to do. It's a wonderful thing to have.
Speaker 2: So we were doing our meeting and looking forward and
Speaker 2: I said, hey, we got a free weekend here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to go to Portugal.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Portugal. I also think it's healthy to
Speaker 2: have a running sort of bucket list of places you
Speaker 2: and your spouse want to go to, because then that
Speaker 2: we do and when you find then it's ready to go.
Speaker 2: When you find, oh we have some free time, you're
Speaker 2: not like, well where should we go? In my head,
Speaker 2: I go to our bucket list, and and then I
Speaker 2: look at is this place? Which places on the bucket
Speaker 2: list are good weather wise at this free time that
Speaker 2: we had, And what's.
Speaker 1: Maybe geographically desirable to where you are, and it all
Speaker 1: worked out.
Speaker 2: So we are going to Portugal in the fall, and
Speaker 2: I'm super excited checking out the Duro wine region there.
Speaker 2: I've heard amazing things. Some members of my family have
Speaker 2: gone and loved it, and it's been on your list
Speaker 2: for a while. Yes, because would you ever go to
Speaker 2: Portugal with the show?
Speaker 1: We did. Yeah. We shot Ali Fedotowski season of Bachelorette
Speaker 1: there in Lisbon, and then we went to the botanical
Speaker 1: garden island of Madera, which is known for two things.
Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo, actually three things. Christiano Ronaldo his airport, which
Speaker 1: they put the ugliest bust ever created of somebody in
Speaker 1: front of the airport of Christiana Ronaldo. You can look
Speaker 1: this up, look at statue. Yes, look up the Rinaldo
Speaker 1: bust at the airport. And Madera the other thing it's
Speaker 1: known for. There not only just beautiful botanical island that
Speaker 1: you can walk and it's it's wonderful, but it is
Speaker 1: one of, if not the scariest, most dangerous airports to
Speaker 1: land in in the world because you land on a
Speaker 1: suspension bridge because there's not enough flat land to get
Speaker 1: jets in. They built an extension that is a bridge.
Speaker 1: You're just think of the runway, which normally you're not
Speaker 1: going to fall off of, but if you do at
Speaker 1: this airport, you will fall hundreds of feet into the ocean.
Speaker 1: And that's ballgame.
Speaker 2: So does that happen? Oh my gosh, I just looked
Speaker 2: up the bust.
Speaker 1: Soon didn't look anything like him.
Speaker 2: It looks sort of deformed.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think they fixed they replaced it.
Speaker 2: It was so statue, it was so appalling.
Speaker 1: So Christian Ronaldo arguably the greatest, you know, soccer player
Speaker 1: of our generation. And look, yeah, I mean stunningly handsome.
Speaker 1: I would say it's Leonel Messi, but Rinaldo's up there
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Wait, best player, better looking, the best player.
Speaker 1: He is not a good looking man.
Speaker 2: He is, but Christian is more handsome.
Speaker 1: He's small.
Speaker 2: Soccer players send to be good looking. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: married to.
Speaker 1: Rinaldo is a very good looking man. The nineteen pack
Speaker 1: abs doesn't hurt. But yeah, so they gave him the bus.
Speaker 1: They have. They've since changed it and the new one's better.
Speaker 1: But look up, go google the Christian Ronaldo bust and
Speaker 1: you'll see.
Speaker 2: The old West looks like a cartoon character. Who you
Speaker 2: know when a cartoon character gets like smashed in the
Speaker 2: face with a skillet and they kind of got long
Speaker 2: and then come back. That's what this looks like. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh.
Speaker 1: And then your next google google the Madeira landing strip.
Speaker 1: You know that might be sexual and dangerous on Google
Speaker 1: Madeira Airport. Just google Madeira Airport, pull up videos. Don't
Speaker 1: google landing strip and pull up videos. God knows what
Speaker 1: you'll get.
Speaker 2: How was Lisbon?
Speaker 1: Lisbon was a very you know what I love. I
Speaker 1: think most people go to Italy, then they go to Spain,
Speaker 1: and I think the forgotten step child of Europe is Portugal.
Speaker 1: It's a great country, wonderful people where you kind of
Speaker 1: get the best of Spain, the best of it all
Speaker 1: the best things of Europe, all on the ocean in
Speaker 1: Portugal's It really is a wonderful country. But I am
Speaker 1: a huge fan of their wine region up there in Duro,
Speaker 1: and I've never been. And so another thing we like
Speaker 1: to do is do things together for the first time.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go up to the north of Portugal and.
Speaker 2: I recommend to have your calendar meeting. Let your planner
Speaker 2: spouse do their plant or plant or partner do their thing,
Speaker 2: and put a trip on your calendar to look forward
Speaker 2: to if you're able, even if it's just a couple
Speaker 2: of days.
Speaker 1: You know, that season. I was just thinking, Alie, she
Speaker 1: really won. She won. Like we went to Iceland.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean in terms of location.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were in Portugal. We ended up in Bora, Bora.
Speaker 2: Who do you think overall lost? Which lead had the worst?
Speaker 1: Oh? There were some bad ones. I mean early on
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't count. I mean no, I mean ones you
Speaker 1: really started tripping? Yeah, because I was like, I mean
Speaker 1: you think of like Trista, poor Trista, Like did she
Speaker 1: get thirty million plus viewers? And I think our big
Speaker 1: trip was well, we went to Vegas, San Francisco and
Speaker 1: then I think the huge, huge trip and it was
Speaker 1: like a two night trip. They went to Hawaiian back
Speaker 1: and that was it. We didn't travel overseas. Then we
Speaker 1: would take real quick day trips because everything was shot
Speaker 1: at the manchest, you know what.
Speaker 2: It probably just it still seemed really cool.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: People travel so much more now, I mean the Internet
Speaker 2: and social media has given everybody access to see so
Speaker 2: much more of the world. In the palm of their hands.
Speaker 2: So people travel more last year there I think there
Speaker 2: was more air travel in the world than ever before
Speaker 2: because now everybody's like, oh, I can access the infot
Speaker 2: all these places I want to go.
Speaker 1: But that was one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 1: because we were all over Europe and then we ended
Speaker 1: up in Bora Bora and that was just insane. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: but that the volcano erupted in Iceland, which was wild,
Speaker 1: which we escaped, but then it actually caused our delay
Speaker 1: in Bora Bora halfway around the world because the plane
Speaker 1: that came to get us went through Europe and got
Speaker 1: so much ash they had to take the entire plane
Speaker 1: apart clean it before we could fly out of Bora Bora.
Speaker 1: So Bizar is that.
Speaker 2: Uh didn't even know they could do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so there you go. But yeah, so Portugal
Speaker 1: in speaking of Europe and speaking of Paris, the Olympics
Speaker 1: came to a close. So now we have to all
Speaker 1: find things to do during the day. We all have
Speaker 1: nothing to do, okay.
Speaker 2: I also think there was probably one partner in each
Speaker 2: relationship who was watching the Olympics more than the other.
Speaker 2: And you were definitely more dialed in than I was.
Speaker 1: You look by the way you were right. Do you
Speaker 1: remember on our last podcast you said it feels like
Speaker 1: the women dominated. Yes, you're right. Sixty five percent of
Speaker 1: the United States medals came from the ladies. Let's go,
Speaker 1: and most of those I think came from our gymnastics team.
Speaker 1: But we might lose one.
Speaker 2: I know, the Jordan Child's Pardner French.
Speaker 1: But this bullsh, really it is bullsh Tell me why?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Jordan Chiles and Simone Biles. Biles got the gold in
Speaker 1: the floor Exercise Supple and Jordan Childs got the bronze.
Speaker 1: Then later there was a controversy on how high you know,
Speaker 1: how you set your technical score as to how what
Speaker 1: you're going to do, how difficult is your routine? The
Speaker 1: difficulty sets the stage. So like Simone Biles starts at
Speaker 1: like a nine thousand, the rest of us started at ten.
Speaker 1: And so even if Simone Biles makes a mistakes sometimes
Speaker 1: you see her step out of bounds and all that,
Speaker 1: she's still so much better than everybody because her technical
Speaker 1: difficulty is through the roof, as was Simone Biles most
Speaker 1: times when she jumped to the roof. But anyway, Jordan Chiles.
Speaker 1: They didn't start her high enough. The American coaches quickly
Speaker 1: protested this and everybody corrected it. But now they're saying
Speaker 1: that the other gymnasts complain and it's going back and forth.
Speaker 1: This has gone to the Supreme Court of Switzerland. We
Speaker 1: are arguing this in court in Europe right now, which
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy. And I don't know where it's going
Speaker 1: to land, but here's where I think I think it
Speaker 1: should land. Give them both a bronze medal. We've made
Speaker 1: and I'm not a big proponent of this. You will
Speaker 1: not hear me say this because I'm not from the
Speaker 1: world of everybody wins, everybody gets a medal. But in
Speaker 1: this scenario, the Olympic Games, the pageantry, it's over. What's
Speaker 1: the harm in just saying in the history books we
Speaker 1: couldn't figure this out. You both get a bronze medal.
Speaker 1: That can happen in sports all the time where they
Speaker 1: legitimately tie, you know what, Give them both a medal.
Speaker 2: We're okay with this, really, but doesn't that listen I'm
Speaker 2: asking this as a non sports aware person, but doesn't
Speaker 2: that open up like a lot of potential in the
Speaker 2: future for these back and forth arguments. So from my understanding,
Speaker 2: and I didn't even know this was a thing, but
Speaker 2: I'm kind of pulling up some stuff now and I'd
Speaker 2: read a little bit the other day.
Speaker 1: The Romanian gymnast was the other woman.
Speaker 2: So the concern from Team USA was that Jordan had
Speaker 2: not been at quickly scored on her difficulty level right,
Speaker 2: And it says that Team USA, I guess you have
Speaker 2: only one minute to submit an inquiry after a scoring
Speaker 2: like kind of an argument or to question a scoring
Speaker 2: at least one minute afterwards, which feels wild, one minute
Speaker 2: to turn in a document or anyway. Team USA is
Speaker 2: arguing that they did submit it within that one minute,
Speaker 2: and if they had submitted it within that one minute,
Speaker 2: apparently the bronze is Jordan's.
Speaker 1: Right, and we found video evidence of that protest taking
Speaker 1: place within their correct time.
Speaker 2: But Romania is arguing that we were one minute and
Speaker 2: four seconds, that we were four seconds over the allotted
Speaker 2: time to our court.
Speaker 1: We show we have video because they shoot the entire
Speaker 1: floor and so you see the coach with more than
Speaker 1: enough time going over there to protest.
Speaker 2: So what bothers me again is a nonsports aware but
Speaker 2: ultimately it seems like they do feel that Jordan had
Speaker 2: the better score. Yes, so this is all about whether
Speaker 2: we were within one minute of submit. Why did we
Speaker 2: even have to submit the question mark?
Speaker 1: If like right, the judges are the ones that screwed up.
Speaker 2: That's why it feels like Jordan should have the medal, and.
Speaker 1: She should and it's rightfully so. And the you know
Speaker 1: the Romanians, you know, they one of the their leader
Speaker 1: boycotted the closing ceremonies and all that. It was a
Speaker 1: big to do. And I get it because this is
Speaker 1: a big deal, especially to these countries, and in Romania,
Speaker 1: very prestigious to be uh meddling in gymnastics. But Jordan
Speaker 1: Childs is the rightful well.
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah. Like for me, if I'm Romania, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want the medal in that case. I mean, I'd
Speaker 2: be like she had the better score.
Speaker 1: Certainly a lot of these countries they get a lot
Speaker 1: of dough for winning. Oh really well, and it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. So I hope they strain it out. But honestly,
Speaker 1: I hope Jordan keeps the keeps the medal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know the only thing I'd say to
Speaker 2: Jordan is I don't know I've had I can't imagine
Speaker 2: what it's like to train and be an Olympian, honest obviously,
Speaker 2: but I've had moments where in my life where I
Speaker 2: was supposed to get something and then like it didn't
Speaker 2: happen because of a technicality or another person being driven
Speaker 2: by you know, I don't know, things were underhanded. And ultimately,
Speaker 2: when you have some time and space between it and
Speaker 2: you look back, you think, I'm glad I took the
Speaker 2: high road there. I'm glad I like and I'm not
Speaker 2: saying like Jordan isn't taking the highroad, but you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's just ultimately you kind of think
Speaker 2: if if that person's going to be that shady about it.
Speaker 1: Like I don't, Yeah, she's getting hammered on social media.
Speaker 1: She's had to step off of social media, so it's Ordan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why is she getting hammered because the just fighting back
Speaker 1: and forth, and I'm sure internationally she's I'm sure she's
Speaker 1: not getting hammered by Ewan in America, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: internationally she is. And so it's it is unfortunate because
Speaker 1: like you said, they lay their heart and soul on
Speaker 1: the line for all this, and this is what it
Speaker 1: turns out to. And now you're you. You went to
Speaker 1: something that's glorious and beautiful and it's all about sport,
Speaker 1: and now you're in a Swiss courtroom fighting for a
Speaker 1: bronze medal.
Speaker 2: The we're all gonna remember, Jordan, how incredible you were
Speaker 2: with Team Usay, like, I don't even know if I
Speaker 2: would have known the bronze. I just know while you
Speaker 2: were on tmosaying you guys killed it.
Speaker 1: The closing ceremonies. Yes, I thought it was a good ceremony.
Speaker 1: I will admit it is uh lengthy, It is lethargic,
Speaker 1: It is a little borings. God bless us. So this
Speaker 1: is funny because God bless Mike Tico, who has to
Speaker 1: host this. He was hosting with Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 1: funny Guy, does his late night show and all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. Jimmy Fallon not probably well versed at hosting
Speaker 1: a big, lengthy event like this. Turco was really doing
Speaker 1: some heavy lifting. Jimmy Fallon would pipe in with sometimes
Speaker 1: of like this is neat.
Speaker 2: Jimmy not giving a lot. Yeah, I could hear him
Speaker 2: and he'd say, literally, you'd hear Jimmy go wow, wow,
Speaker 2: or that's cool. It's like, Jimmy, we got to add more, man,
Speaker 2: we can't. I mean the people at home are adding more.
Speaker 1: Is I think what happens in these moments is as
Speaker 1: an executive, you're like, let's get you know, like in
Speaker 1: the in the opening.
Speaker 2: Ceremonies energy personality, they had Clark Clarkson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was like, Okay, good idea, but we
Speaker 1: really need some people that can fill time about sports
Speaker 1: and these athletes in these countries and uh, that was
Speaker 1: not Jimmy Fallon and so as as bad as Mike Jerico,
Speaker 1: and they had it in the opening ceremonies. It was
Speaker 1: twice as bad, poor guy, but it still came off.
Speaker 1: And have Fallon as a funny sidekick as the you know,
Speaker 1: have your sportscasters, have the people that are legitimately good
Speaker 1: at this, and then have Fallon give some comedic relief.
Speaker 1: Don't have them actually try to cope.
Speaker 2: Like it's like he's like calling the event that was
Speaker 2: not I'll be honest. I again, we know I don't
Speaker 2: love sports, but in these situations, I want the experts.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of like when Ellen DeGeneres was
Speaker 2: a judge on American Idol, What we what do we?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? I mean, she's Allen and
Speaker 2: she can be funny, but I want to hear somebody
Speaker 2: address whether that person has a good voice.
Speaker 1: And I get where executives are thinking, oh, this would
Speaker 1: be great and the synergy and the funny and because
Speaker 1: you're trying to it's not exactly there's no sports going on,
Speaker 1: but you realize in those moments when Trico was Mike
Speaker 1: Rico was so professional and so good and he's pretty funny,
Speaker 1: you know, and can and the noise and the gnat
Speaker 1: sound the pictures kind of explain a lot of what
Speaker 1: we want to see anyway.
Speaker 2: And here, well, I actually think you needed someone with
Speaker 2: sports knowledge more than any other time in that moment
Speaker 2: because there wasn't a lot going on. Jimmy Fallon probably
Speaker 2: would have been funnier and better at like watching a
Speaker 2: synchronized swimming event and going, how are they doing that underwater?
Speaker 2: He could have been the voice of the people in
Speaker 2: this case. You needed someone to be applying some information
Speaker 2: because everybody was just walking around and I was watching, going, oh,
Speaker 2: I wish someone was telling me who each of these
Speaker 2: athletes are and what they accomplished, which Mike Trica was
Speaker 2: definitely trying to do, and Jimmy did not have all
Speaker 2: the people memorized, which I don't blame him for.
Speaker 1: They had a great idea in theory with the Katie Ledecki,
Speaker 1: the greatest swimmer US swimmer, female swimmer.
Speaker 2: I think she's the most awarded female athlete ever now,
Speaker 2: just unbelievable America. They miked her up, which was awesome
Speaker 2: because she was our flag bearer along with one of
Speaker 2: the rowing guys. That meant they got the Olympic gold
Speaker 2: medal for rowing. But they they didn't think about the
Speaker 2: music and everything on the floor, so you just couldn't
Speaker 2: hear anything. I know. Poor Katie. She kept going, sorry, guys,
Speaker 2: I can't hear you, and I can't hear you.
Speaker 1: So we were all excited about the stunt. They had
Speaker 1: talked about Tom Cruise because there was the big handoff
Speaker 1: of the Olympics are obviously leaving Paris next up LA
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, so the handoff to Hollywood, and a
Speaker 1: part of this was the big stunt with Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: that had been teased and teased. When you saw what
Speaker 1: he did, what did you think was it worth all
Speaker 1: the hype?
Speaker 2: Incredibly disappointing, incredibly On the one hand, I think he
Speaker 2: jumped off like the roof and into the crowd, which
Speaker 2: seems probably pretty dangerous, Like you have to be pretty
Speaker 2: skilled and unafraid. So good job, Tom, But sometimes things
Speaker 2: that are very difficult still don't film well and still
Speaker 2: don't come across well on camera good Like it just
Speaker 2: looked like he was slowly floating down on a string,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It didn't have the visual
Speaker 2: pal pow, like we needed some fireworks or some drones.
Speaker 2: It just visually wasn't giving that much. And I hate
Speaker 2: to say it because I have all the respect, look
Speaker 2: however you feel about like scientology or whatever, when you're
Speaker 2: just talking about Tom Cruise's career. I have all the
Speaker 2: respect for the career he's built, for the love he
Speaker 2: has for cinema, for the talent that he has. But
Speaker 2: I don't think it was the best light and the
Speaker 2: best camera to film Tom in. I think it was harsh.
Speaker 2: I think we saw very different Tom and Top Gun
Speaker 2: two through the filters and the lenses being used and CG.
Speaker 2: It's still very look, very cool that he can do it,
Speaker 2: but I just thought, this isn't reading that cool on camera.
Speaker 2: It got cooler when he jumped on the motorcycle and
Speaker 2: then they drove it to LA. What did you think.
Speaker 1: If you're a sports fan, I've seen mascots, so people
Speaker 1: in a dog or cat outfit. You know what those
Speaker 1: mascot is a cat. Every everybody's everything's a cat wildcat,
Speaker 1: but he's a dog. So I've seen mascots do the
Speaker 1: same trick in a full mascot and then dunk of basketball.
Speaker 2: So oh, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: But I agree. When you watch Mission Impossible, a lot
Speaker 1: of effects, a lot of green screen, a lot of
Speaker 1: things are added to make it look like he's flying
Speaker 1: off this mountain and how he actually did do that stunt,
Speaker 1: but how spectacular it all looks. So when you do
Speaker 1: it in real life, a lot of things don't translate.
Speaker 1: As you said, Tom Cruise is sixty two years old. Wow,
Speaker 1: so ball or move by the way that he looks
Speaker 1: as good as he does at sixty two.
Speaker 2: And that he's as athletically fa and athletics.
Speaker 1: The dude looks great for sixty two, but he's starting
Speaker 1: to you know, Tommy's aging. He's sixty two.
Speaker 2: Fine, is great, it's normal. I also think I couldn't help.
Speaker 2: But remember that not that long ago, Lady Gaga did
Speaker 2: a very similar stunt at the Super Bowl. Remember she
Speaker 2: kind of they had actually filmed it in advance. I
Speaker 2: guess with Tommy did it live, which is cooler, but
Speaker 2: she like jumped off the top and then landed and sang.
Speaker 1: Pink does an entire concert You're right, You're so right.
Speaker 2: Pink is just flipping through the air. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: thought we needed a little more to it, like could
Speaker 2: we have involved the Olympic torch and fire in some way?
Speaker 2: It needed to be feel bigger, especially to be honest,
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but it's because tom has
Speaker 2: set the threshold so high for himself. In the Last
Speaker 2: Mission Impossible movie, as you just mentioned, he'd be himself
Speaker 2: jumped roady motorcycle off a cliff into the air. So
Speaker 2: when you're jumping down and we all see the line
Speaker 2: you're on, it just didn't feels cool.
Speaker 1: I think here's what I would have pitched. Number one,
Speaker 1: Let's not promote the stunt. Let's make it a surprise.
Speaker 2: Surprise surprise, he sings.
Speaker 1: The national anthem because we officially kick off the throw
Speaker 1: to Hollywood in the United States hosting the Olympics. So
Speaker 1: her h comes out and sings the national anthem, and
Speaker 1: then she kind of gave a couple of riffs on
Speaker 1: the guitar of Mission Impossible. I wish they had leaned
Speaker 1: into that a little bit more, yes, and then boom,
Speaker 1: reveal Tom Cruise is on the roof. We are giving
Speaker 1: the and he comes down, and it's just a big surprise.
Speaker 1: I think if we had been caught off guard and
Speaker 1: not promoted the stunt. And when you hear stunt and
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, you're thinking, we're gonna blow the stadium up
Speaker 1: and he's going to jump over the Eiffel Tower and
Speaker 1: save the world. We're used to this, so I think
Speaker 1: if it had been a bit of a surprise, But
Speaker 1: I agree the whole hand off to the United States
Speaker 1: was pretty awesome. They did a very good job of
Speaker 1: generating excitement and then creating the California feel. Tom Cruise,
Speaker 1: you know, took it, gone on the plane, you know,
Speaker 1: jumped into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and took the Olympic flag, got on a motorcycle,
Speaker 2: then rode on a plane. Obviously they'd pre filmed this.
Speaker 2: Then lands in the Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Hills skydiving into the Hollywood I thought.
Speaker 2: It was very cool that they took the Hollywood sign
Speaker 2: and made it into the Olympic symbol with the Olympic
Speaker 2: rings and the rings that was that was cute. And
Speaker 2: then taking it to the beach where they had the
Speaker 2: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg performing.
Speaker 2: I loved the performances. I love the feeling. It felt
Speaker 2: very like MTV Beach House to me, like very nineties
Speaker 2: MTV in a way.
Speaker 1: It was very well produced, like very California. Very It
Speaker 1: was kind of what they tried to do at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl at Sofi Stadium when La hosted of doing
Speaker 1: all the iconic hip hop artists from California and it
Speaker 1: just the way it was shod just didn't kind of
Speaker 1: translate very well. This did. This was very Californian. But
Speaker 1: can we just burst the bubble of those that may
Speaker 1: be traveling to California for the Olympics and are looking
Speaker 1: for that beach. That beach does not exist.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was not I think they were trying
Speaker 2: to make it seem like it was Santa Monica and
Speaker 2: Prisoner're watching it going this is I don't know where
Speaker 2: they're filming this. They might have filmed it in Long Beach.
Speaker 1: It was in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: I can see the tankers in the background. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They also added some things called palm trees.
Speaker 2: For sure, Like beaches in California don't just have palm
Speaker 2: trees sprouting up in the middle of the sand. They're
Speaker 2: all kind of way back, So they added palm trees.
Speaker 2: They definitely an actor seated around the palm trees because
Speaker 2: for some reason they were looking at the ocean instead
Speaker 2: of looking behind you where Billie Eilish was performing.
Speaker 1: Also call it corrected the water. If you're expecting if
Speaker 1: you're to see blue water when you come here.
Speaker 2: Don't They had like cute little boats anchored off the shore.
Speaker 2: That's never the case.
Speaker 1: The art department did a great job because so all
Speaker 1: that stuff is the art department. They give him the set,
Speaker 1: and they really did a brilliant job. We used to
Speaker 1: do this on the show because water is very just
Speaker 1: without It's kind of like the sky. If you don't
Speaker 1: have clouds, there's no depth perception. So they did a
Speaker 1: good job with the boats and the tree.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to add items in so that
Speaker 2: it kind of it has scope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gives you the depth.
Speaker 2: I love watching this stuff with you because you always
Speaker 2: have your big I mean the thing is The Bachelor
Speaker 2: is big production, and so you are. You always have
Speaker 2: that insight of And look, I give it up to
Speaker 2: them because here's another thing we can sit here and critique.
Speaker 2: They're making all this stuff look way easier than it is.
Speaker 2: It is not easy to have Tom Cruise dive off
Speaker 2: this top of this stadium and then have the camera
Speaker 2: be ready and right there to get him and make
Speaker 2: it all feel cool and natural. And how about the
Speaker 2: lady who grabbed Tom Cruise and kissed him by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't know what country that was from,
Speaker 1: but yes, she really makes this. She really took her moments.
Speaker 2: And good for Tom, he just took it.
Speaker 1: But his look was like yeah, for two steps his
Speaker 1: eyes were like oh, but good.
Speaker 2: Good for Tom. He took it on. I mean, granted
Speaker 2: the camera was on him, but it wasn't like I
Speaker 2: saw that moment of it's a little of salty. Well,
Speaker 2: I saw it right, And if it had been a
Speaker 2: man doing that to a woman, it would not have
Speaker 2: come off well. But I saw that moment of Lebron
Speaker 2: James like shooting the kid away.
Speaker 1: Lebron was not very well known as a people person likes, yeah,
Speaker 1: not very liked by people, and so yeah, he was
Speaker 1: very rude to a kid who was just trying to
Speaker 1: get a picture. But and by the way, then you
Speaker 1: the juxtaposition, you see Steph Curry come out, cigar dancing,
Speaker 1: runs across the street, starts taking pictures. The Dream Team
Speaker 1: was an awesome moment. Steph Curry one of the best
Speaker 1: shooting performances of all time. The only i mean not
Speaker 1: controversy other than Lebron being rude to the kid, but
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, who is one of our stars, but he's
Speaker 1: also a French star. He's actually also an African star.
Speaker 1: So born in Africa, got a citizenship in France, and
Speaker 1: everybody was thinking he's one of the best basketball players
Speaker 1: in the world. And everyone's thinking, oh, in two years
Speaker 1: he's going to play for France. He also lives in
Speaker 1: America and plays NBA basketball in America. So essentially what
Speaker 1: happens is when you're watching the Olympics and these people
Speaker 1: are from these countries, they're not actually living or even
Speaker 1: technically from these countries. They just have to have citizenship
Speaker 1: at a certain time to partake. For example, the pole
Speaker 1: vault kid from Sweden who won the gold medal, he
Speaker 1: lives and goes to school at LSU. His parents are
Speaker 1: coaches at LSU. He's very American. If you hear him,
Speaker 1: he speaks kind of like a Cajun redneck. So anyway,
Speaker 1: a lot of French people were excited that Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: was going to play for France and help them win
Speaker 1: a medal. He played for America and won the gold
Speaker 1: medal with US.
Speaker 2: Oh, so you don't have to be like a born
Speaker 2: here citizen to be on our Olympic team. You just
Speaker 2: I didn't know that so, or even a citizen. You
Speaker 2: just have to have a passport.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're if you're a past if
Speaker 1: you get a passport, you are not. No, you have
Speaker 1: to be a citizen of a country. Well, sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't mean that. I just mean like, you have to
Speaker 1: be a citizen of that country play in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And so what happens a lot of times is kids
Speaker 1: will come to the United States and it's very competitive
Speaker 1: and very difficult to make our Olympic team. So what
Speaker 1: you'll see sometimes.
Speaker 2: A lot of Texans, by the way, shout out to Texans.
Speaker 1: We were like midway through the list of the.
Speaker 2: Most all right, so it's very difficult.
Speaker 1: It's very difficult to make our Olympic team. So sometimes
Speaker 1: what you'll do is you'll go represent your other country
Speaker 1: because it's easier to make the track team in Italy
Speaker 1: or Serbia or something like that, and so you can
Speaker 1: then go to the Olympics.
Speaker 2: One thing that just interviewing people for a long time
Speaker 2: and seeing people who had career longevity or not. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: if you're incredibly talented and if you kiss the rings
Speaker 2: of the right people, you'll maintain a career. But I
Speaker 2: would always recommend to be like, be good to the fans,
Speaker 2: be good to the fans, and don't turn your back
Speaker 2: on the thing that made you. Like I always give
Speaker 2: a shout out to the kids who were in Harry
Speaker 2: Potter because they never they lean into the Harry Potter fandom.
Speaker 2: There were some people like in the Twilight World who
Speaker 2: didn't lean into the Twilight fandom that didn't do well
Speaker 2: for them. But anyway, real quick, I want to add
Speaker 2: on with the la the passing of the torch. I
Speaker 2: also thought great selections on the musicians, all from California
Speaker 2: representing different genres. We had I would I guess I
Speaker 2: had called Billie Eilish pop rock with the Chili Peppers,
Speaker 2: hip hop and rap with Snoop and Dre, and it
Speaker 2: was so cool and Drake and so and I always
Speaker 2: learned this lesson in performing, good things come in threes.
Speaker 2: So it was it was like Chili Peppers, then Billy,
Speaker 2: then Snoop and Dre and that's literally, it's literally a
Speaker 2: recommendation for how to put on a good show is
Speaker 2: things in threes.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're not sporty sports, let me run some
Speaker 1: things by you. Oh god, there are sports leaving us.
Speaker 1: Will not be back in the Olympics. I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: for those that follow me on social media. Break dancing
Speaker 1: not coming back one and done.
Speaker 2: Really one and done. It's not going to be for everyone.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's smart on their part because it
Speaker 2: was such a viral moment.
Speaker 1: You should lean into the weird, Okay, but let me
Speaker 1: give me a thumbs up thumbs down on these are.
Speaker 2: These why did they mixt break dancing?
Speaker 1: Well? So they are? There are sports and they I
Speaker 1: forget what they call them. It's like trial sports or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they bring them in to see if they were I.
Speaker 2: Get it, But why did they next break dancing?
Speaker 1: They felt like it just didn't work very much.
Speaker 2: It was one of the most viral moments if you
Speaker 2: missed it with ray Gun Okay, whether she was faking
Speaker 2: that or if she just was that mediocre, it's unclear.
Speaker 1: These are sports that are coming to LA and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. These are real.
Speaker 2: So these were trial sports that are coming back. Some
Speaker 2: of them are the very first.
Speaker 1: These are coming for the very first time. Flag football
Speaker 1: is making its debut. No, I agree.
Speaker 2: Now, that is a game you play in recess and
Speaker 2: a camp and a gym and school.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, and I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to be poopoo on America, but no one will. We'll
Speaker 1: beat us in American flag football. That's just that's it's
Speaker 1: our sport, and no one's going to If we allow
Speaker 1: NFL guys or even good college players, We're going it's
Speaker 1: like the Dream Team back in the early nineties. We're
Speaker 1: just going to dominate. Maybe Canada is close, but other
Speaker 1: than that, nobody plays American football like we do. That's
Speaker 1: kind of silly. It's it's not it's not international.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Break dancing I was more okay with
Speaker 2: because it's almost like I could liken it to gymnastics
Speaker 2: in terms of I think there's some athletic ability and like,
Speaker 2: you know, I get that there.
Speaker 1: It's international too, like it was the world was football.
Speaker 2: You're right, it's so American, and it just also seems like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's my instinct. I'm okay sing.
Speaker 1: It must be nineteen seventy four again, because squash is
Speaker 1: going to be making a racket.
Speaker 2: I can't picture what squashes.
Speaker 1: Squashes like racketball, but you're using a badminton racket and
Speaker 1: you're hitting it against there.
Speaker 2: There are just too many sports with a tiny ball
Speaker 2: and a racket and then in like a different crisis.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a football and no on squash. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say I'm.
Speaker 2: Not saying no to squash. Maybe there are some people
Speaker 2: who are really into squash. I'm just exhausted by the number.
Speaker 2: It's like ping pong, table tennis, pickleball, handball, racketball, so
Speaker 2: there's a sports tennis. I'm just exacted.
Speaker 1: It has been gone for one hundred and twenty eight years.
Speaker 1: That is coming back and I am a fan of
Speaker 1: bringing this back. Cricket huge, huge internationally, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's not massive in America, but internationally, and
Speaker 1: it's getting bigger in America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, okay, to Australia, you name it.
Speaker 1: Cricket's big. Okay. Baseball and softball are coming back. The
Speaker 1: two sports had a kind of turbulent on again, off
Speaker 1: again relationship with the Olympics. Most recently it was in
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Games. I think, yes, I agree, Baseball, the
Speaker 1: World Championship of Baseball has got and really big. Softball
Speaker 1: has gotten very big around the world. I think it's
Speaker 1: finally time that baseball comes back.
Speaker 2: You know, here's why I think I'm saying no to
Speaker 2: flag football because it's like the amateur version of football.
Speaker 2: So why would we have an Olympics for the amateur
Speaker 2: version of something? Or is it would be having flag
Speaker 2: football and the Olympics be like just having football period?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just what's It's just I don't know, it's just.
Speaker 2: Why why isn't it just football?
Speaker 1: Well that's a good, good call, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's I think it's a bad call.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad sport. It's not. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: It's not a big professional sport period anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: Flag football is not a big deal. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1: So you are you're making a playground sport.
Speaker 2: Like we're not having flag baseball. We're just having baseball.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing I think that should come and go.
Speaker 1: The three on three basketball that they did here at
Speaker 1: the Paris Games not even up for debate, but three
Speaker 1: and three basketball. We have real basketball. We don't need
Speaker 1: three back. Okay, last, but certainly not least. This is
Speaker 1: near and dear to our hearts making a return in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. Lacrosse, Oh coming to the Olympics, which
Speaker 1: I love, big, big international sport. Everyone's starting to gain
Speaker 1: interest in this around the world. Obviously Josh played it weird.
Speaker 1: Big lacrosse family, So relax, life coming to la in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. And if I were to go to
Speaker 1: the Olympic Games, I would go see a lacrosse game.
Speaker 1: That would be awesome. Yeah, breaking done. Oh and by
Speaker 1: the way, boxing the most controversial sport this year unfortunately
Speaker 1: not coming back. Well why which I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know why boxing is not, because that is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge Olympics.
Speaker 2: It feels like they're nixing the sports that had controversy
Speaker 2: around them, break dancing and boxing.
Speaker 1: Right, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're just so after that opening ceremony debacle, they're
Speaker 2: just like, no controversy. We're gonna call this the no
Speaker 2: controversy Olympics twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, we left LA while construction was already underway. As
Speaker 1: they get ready for twenty twenty eight, I wish them well.
Speaker 1: They announced there will be no parking, no transportation in LA.
Speaker 1: It's all gonna be mass transit. All mass transit in LA.
Speaker 1: I wish them luck. Pass as LA is not really
Speaker 1: conducive to mass transit. It's gonna be messy. Oh we
Speaker 1: should say one more thing about the paras Olympics, because
Speaker 1: the Olympic village got a lot of press. It always does.
Speaker 1: By the way. The food's not great, the beds, the this,
Speaker 1: You're never gonna please everybody. One thing I found very
Speaker 1: interesting is I found this person on social media that
Speaker 1: was talking about dating in Paris and that tender and
Speaker 1: some of these dating apps were off the hook. People
Speaker 1: went to Paris just to date this good.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, do you mean the Olympians or people?
Speaker 1: Well, this was just a regular, oh citizen. She went
Speaker 1: to Paris and she's like, oh my god, I'm getting
Speaker 1: picked up on dates with these gorgeous Olympians. And she
Speaker 1: put in her profiles very cheeky, like, I am not
Speaker 1: an athlete. I'm not an Olympia, but I'm here for
Speaker 1: the gold medal or something.
Speaker 2: Do the Olympians have time to be maybe once there
Speaker 2: are sport's.
Speaker 1: Over, well before your sport, you know. And some just
Speaker 1: aren't that crazy where they have weeks to prepare and
Speaker 1: because it's a two week deal. But also when you're done,
Speaker 1: you can hang out for.
Speaker 2: When you're done. I get it beforehand, I would think
Speaker 2: you don't have time to just go on a date
Speaker 2: with somebody.
Speaker 1: Some of these athletes take it more serious than others,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. You know, for those that are like,
Speaker 1: we are going to win, then there's those that are
Speaker 1: just you know, like the breakdancer. I'm just happy to
Speaker 1: be there. But that kind of interesting. She put out
Speaker 1: this kind of post and she showed the receipts of
Speaker 1: like the swipe she was getting and some of the guys,
Speaker 1: and she's like, there were these gorgeous Olympians. And so
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, think ahead of time. If you're single
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight, head to La, get on the
Speaker 1: dating apps and see if you can't pick up some
Speaker 1: Olympic goald.
Speaker 2: Listen, you're definitely heightening the pool of people. You know,
Speaker 2: You're it's like you're you're not having to expand your
Speaker 2: region or anything. You're just going where some good looking
Speaker 2: fit people are.
Speaker 1: Okay, shoot your shot. As they would say in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to all our beautiful Olympians who came back with
Speaker 1: medals and those that just represented our country so well.
Speaker 1: I thought, overall, I give it an a. It was
Speaker 1: a good, very good Olympics. Not a lot of political controversy.
Speaker 1: You know, nothing really got that messy overall. It was
Speaker 1: in this day and age, I think when we can
Speaker 1: get through something that lasts two weeks and it's actually
Speaker 1: pretty positive and everybody's excited about their you know, their
Speaker 1: national anthem and their flag and just being rallying around
Speaker 1: their country, that is a good thing. And I think
Speaker 1: it was a nice subtle reminder, maybe even a not
Speaker 1: so subtle reminder of something very good and how we
Speaker 1: can all come together. And one thing that is wonderful
Speaker 1: about the closing sermon is they all come out, you know,
Speaker 1: in your own delegation, all the Americans, all the you know,
Speaker 1: the Mexicans and Serbians and you name it, all the
Speaker 1: countries come out. But then they just kind of start
Speaker 1: mixing and mingling. And that is the beautiful thing is
Speaker 1: all these athletes have so much love and respect for
Speaker 1: each other. They just went through something so extraordinary and
Speaker 1: now they're just sharing it with each other and trading
Speaker 1: jerseys and trading pens and taking selfies and it was
Speaker 1: just this kind of beautiful melting pot. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: just a good reminder of what sport is good for
Speaker 1: and what the Olympics is good for.
Speaker 2: And I liked seeing so many of the athletes, you know,
Speaker 2: I liked the display of pride in our country. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm getting older, if things are getting different,
Speaker 2: but I've said this many times in this podcast. I
Speaker 2: am very proud to be from America. I am very
Speaker 2: grateful to be from America. I think a lot's happening
Speaker 2: in the world right now where people we just shouldn't
Speaker 2: take for granted. How blessed we are to be living
Speaker 2: in this country where we I have freedom of speech
Speaker 2: and are generally safer than a lot of other places,
Speaker 2: and we have a lot of rights that a lot
Speaker 2: of other people don't have. So I love America. I
Speaker 2: love what America's founded on, and I'm so thankful. And
Speaker 2: to see on a world stage athletes you know where
Speaker 2: our colors and hoist the flag and be proud. I
Speaker 2: think we need to be reminded of that, especially as
Speaker 2: we head into an election pretty soon here. So thank
Speaker 2: you to the athletes, yeah for doing America proud. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 1: It was good to have get those goosebumps for a
Speaker 1: good reason for a change. Thank you guys so much,
Speaker 1: all our Olympians the most importantly, all our listeners. We
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