Speaker 1: Hey, folks, NASCAR pit crew crashes the Olympics closing ceremony,
Speaker 1: also in a stadium full of stars. Only Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: could steal the show. Plus winning goal pays, so does
Speaker 1: silver and Bronze. Will tell you what countries reward their
Speaker 1: athletes most who are bringing home medals.
Speaker 2: And TJ and I will give you our picks for
Speaker 2: the best and well some of the worst moments of
Speaker 2: the Olympics, but we're mostly focusing on our favorite heartwarming
Speaker 2: and some heartbreaking moments that we'll share with you. But
Speaker 2: welcome to this final Tea from Perry edition of Amy
Speaker 2: and TJ. I'm laughing here because we have a kind
Speaker 2: of a basic structure of how we are going through
Speaker 2: this podcast. And I see ad Lib got up at
Speaker 2: a normal time. Yes, you did not get up at
Speaker 2: a normal three I got a bid three point fifty seven.
Speaker 2: I would not call that normal for me. I'm just
Speaker 2: you got up an hour and a half later than
Speaker 2: you did yesterday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's back to normal then, Oh yeah, because
Speaker 1: we're so used to This is the first time, folks,
Speaker 1: that we have recorded a podcast in two plus weeks
Speaker 1: that there was not a in Olympic sporting event live
Speaker 1: on the television as we were doing it. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't know what to do with ourselves.
Speaker 2: I never thought that I would be so excited for
Speaker 2: you to go back to waking up at four thirty,
Speaker 2: because now I have some perspective, so hopefully we can.
Speaker 2: You fell asleep at six.
Speaker 1: Thirty last night, By the way, that felt good.
Speaker 2: I'm glad. Are you rested?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I was up for sure at
Speaker 1: eleven pm.
Speaker 2: Oh see, that's what happens when you fall asleep at
Speaker 2: six thirty.
Speaker 1: So I tried again, and tried until midnight, and then
Speaker 1: I ended up at three oh eight. Is when I
Speaker 1: got no alarm was set. This was the day we
Speaker 1: were supposed to sleep in. I said we could sleep
Speaker 1: until five or six.
Speaker 2: I know. And then I woke up and there was
Speaker 2: no one next to me. I was sad.
Speaker 1: You said no one, shouldn't you say? And I wasn't
Speaker 1: next to you? We said no one like anything would
Speaker 1: have than fine.
Speaker 2: Oh the love of my life wasn't next to me.
Speaker 1: That's better, okay, So yeah, said the Olympic is over.
Speaker 1: I guess it'll take us a minute to get over that.
Speaker 1: But we saw the closing ceremony yesterday. Of course we
Speaker 1: should and we have given here. But the official final
Speaker 1: medal count right now is one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: overall medals with the US, China has ninety one and
Speaker 1: Great Britain sixty five. But we've seen something robes that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen ever in the Olympics. A tie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. US and China tied in the gold
Speaker 2: medal count at forty and that is a first in
Speaker 2: Olympic history. I love France finished in the top five
Speaker 2: in medaling. This is the first time it's done so
Speaker 2: since nineteen forty eight. So that you know. They said
Speaker 2: if you were the home country, usually get a bump,
Speaker 2: like a thirty percent bump in medals, and it looks
Speaker 2: like that was exactly the case. If you ever didn't
Speaker 2: believe in home court or home field advantage, this is
Speaker 2: proof otherwise.
Speaker 1: And that advantage was clear. Anytime you watch France in anything,
Speaker 1: any of their athletes, they were great and supporting them.
Speaker 1: That was really cool and fun to see that the
Speaker 1: home team like that. So the US that total, and
Speaker 1: again I think you probably know the US ends up
Speaker 1: with the most medals every single Olympics, and usually by far.
Speaker 1: We just said we're a big country, got more athletes
Speaker 1: and more disciplines. That makes sense, fine, but we have
Speaker 1: gotten more medals this a couple of times before, but
Speaker 1: those other times were when we were the home team.
Speaker 2: Ah, so twenty twenty eight's looking golden.
Speaker 1: You can bank on it right now. The US will
Speaker 1: have more than one hundred and twenty six medals in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I will put money on it right now.
Speaker 1: Now we got one hundred and twenty six. I guess
Speaker 1: is that the right? Does that include Jordan Giles Browns
Speaker 1: or not? Oh?
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's such a good question. Damn wow. We should
Speaker 2: find out because maybe it's one twenty five.
Speaker 1: It might be, or have they or yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh we'll We'll have to do some research and we
Speaker 2: can report back. We can report back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But the final we this is another thing. We were
Speaker 1: ready for the closing ceremony and it didn't take long
Speaker 1: ropes before everybody's attention went to what the American athletes
Speaker 1: were wearing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you pointed it out immediately. I I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure what they were wearing. And then you nailed it.
Speaker 2: You went online you're like, yep, everyone agrees. It was
Speaker 2: the first time a lot of us have seen them.
Speaker 2: I know they unveiled Ralph Lauren unveiled the opening and
Speaker 2: closing ceremony uniforms like two months ago, but I wasn't
Speaker 2: paying attention. I don't think a lot of people were
Speaker 2: paying attention. But we were paying attention last night. Ralph
Speaker 2: Lauren describes what we saw last night as this a
Speaker 2: sporty moto style jacket paired with white denim and a
Speaker 2: polo shirt. TJ. You saw them what.
Speaker 1: Way NASCAR pick crew period, And as soon as.
Speaker 2: You said it, I was like, oh my god, that's exactly.
Speaker 1: What that is. And I'm sitting here, you and I
Speaker 1: just going back and forth. I'm saying, why do this
Speaker 1: look like a NASCAR team?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I'd seen the uniforms previously, but in images where there
Speaker 1: might be just be two athletes standing there or a
Speaker 1: few athletes in that. And that was a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago. Nobody really paid attention. But when Katie Ledecci
Speaker 1: came out with the roar tell me with his name
Speaker 1: right now, it's sticking in my mind.
Speaker 2: Nick.
Speaker 1: When they came out, that was our first look. But
Speaker 1: then when the whole team, when you saw them together,
Speaker 1: it looked like a pit crew in fire suits getting
Speaker 1: ready to change tires.
Speaker 2: And you know what I mean to your point, they
Speaker 2: were down on a field with you know, an audience
Speaker 2: looking down on them. So I don't know that they
Speaker 2: considered collectively what they would look like. Even with the
Speaker 2: drone shots. I mean there were so many shots that
Speaker 2: made them look even more like a pit crew. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know that that was what the goal was.
Speaker 1: That last night it was hot.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everyone was fanning themselves. So I saw I
Speaker 2: think Paris was eighty nine degrees that day, you know,
Speaker 2: at five pm it's the hottest. So they started. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody was sweltering. We saw other athletes other countries in
Speaker 2: tank tops, and our poor folks were in sweatsuits.
Speaker 1: It looked so that was the thing. I when I
Speaker 1: first saw them, I did think it was a full
Speaker 1: fire suit like the NASCAR drive.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a ski like a skiing outfit,
Speaker 2: like if you were going to go on the slopes,
Speaker 2: you would be maybe wanting to look like that.
Speaker 1: But it's jean. It was a separate pair of jeans
Speaker 1: that said USA on it and the jacket, and people
Speaker 1: absolutely dragged Ralph Lauren about these uniforms, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people made funny little cracks. A lot of it
Speaker 1: had to do with NASCAR and pick Crew. Some people
Speaker 1: were a little you can imagine.
Speaker 2: You were laughing. You were the memes.
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff people write, it was just funny.
Speaker 1: But you cannot deny no matter what, even you don't
Speaker 1: want to criticize it. You can't help the resemblance. It's there.
Speaker 1: And the other thing, they did it on purpose. They
Speaker 1: put those patches on, and would you believe The New
Speaker 1: York Times actually did an article on it and they
Speaker 1: interviewed someone who designs fire suits. They interviewed somebody that
Speaker 1: designs these things. But they said the patches. They said, hey,
Speaker 1: that's an in a trending thing. And the athletes had
Speaker 1: a specific patch for their discipline, whatever their sport was.
Speaker 1: That all sounds cool, but the execution and how it
Speaker 1: ends up coming off. I think we talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot of the track and field and a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of the uniforms we saw throughout the Olympics.
Speaker 1: You said, you know what, that probably looked really good
Speaker 1: on paper or good in person. But it doesn't translate
Speaker 1: necessarily on television.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. It's so true. And by the way,
Speaker 2: those jackets they retail for what thousand dollars, so they
Speaker 2: aren't cheap.
Speaker 1: And they're currently sold out. So I know you were
Speaker 1: jumping on the grab you one, but they're currently sold out.
Speaker 1: But this is what Ralph Lauren has criticism of the design.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to have something to say. That's fine, certainly
Speaker 1: on this big of stage, but it always is a
Speaker 1: you know, it's usually a very preppy look that Ralph
Speaker 1: Lauren gives with the jackets and the tides, and they
Speaker 1: have the hats. One year, what was that the There's
Speaker 1: been so many things that stand out. What was it?
Speaker 1: I remember Kobe Bryant wearing was he wearing the hat?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 1: I just remember over the years, these books that they've had,
Speaker 1: they're often preppy.
Speaker 2: This was this was nascari and that hat added to
Speaker 2: it too. It was like a trucker hat kind of
Speaker 2: a look, and it led that totally added to the
Speaker 2: NASCAR look.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna nail this for you because somebody else nailed
Speaker 1: and I read like, oh, yeah, they look like the
Speaker 1: hats that cyclists wear like on the Twitter fronts or something.
Speaker 1: They have a specific kind of hat with patches in
Speaker 1: a different color. Oh. I said, wow, that is that's
Speaker 1: the inspiration was there from Ralph Lauren. It was memorable
Speaker 1: and the athletes are required. They are required, they have
Speaker 1: to wear that. They can't just miss it up come
Speaker 1: out somehow.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you were an athlete, you would
Speaker 2: have found a way to style it differently, turned the
Speaker 2: hat backwards something like. I feel like you would have
Speaker 2: done something to it.
Speaker 1: We'd have to figure something out. But congrats to them.
Speaker 1: But they were having fun down there to the Actually,
Speaker 1: did you like the.
Speaker 2: The athlete karaoke? I thought you were gonna ask me that. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know what I liked about it. I liked that
Speaker 2: you got to see the athletes having fun. And I
Speaker 2: heard the commentators say, look, they're just like us. They
Speaker 2: liked to sing along with songs that we all know.
Speaker 2: You know, I it did it. You know you could
Speaker 2: look at it where it was a humanizing moment. It
Speaker 2: was a relatable moment. I thought it was kind of
Speaker 2: a brilliant marketing thing because yes, you got to see
Speaker 2: the athletes smiling and singing, but they were all also
Speaker 2: doing it on their social media. So if you wanted
Speaker 2: this to trend, if you wanted the closing ceremonies to trend,
Speaker 2: and people who are on social media and maybe not
Speaker 2: watching it on TV might see their favorite athlete and
Speaker 2: tune in. So I thought it was actually maybe pretty
Speaker 2: smart to bring in perhaps younger viewers.
Speaker 1: Was the Were there actually words up there? I didn't.
Speaker 1: It was just a sing along karaoke.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, just I think they just used karaoke because
Speaker 2: that is something that it would bring people to it, like,
Speaker 2: ooh karaoke. The athletes are singing we are the champ
Speaker 2: We are the champions.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can remember the other I think they did
Speaker 1: two or three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did a couple.
Speaker 1: To see them out there just cutting up, having a
Speaker 1: good time, and it's something I love about the opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: You see the difference between the opening and the closing.
Speaker 1: You don't just stick with your You're not introduced one
Speaker 1: at a time, coming in with your delegation. They have
Speaker 1: all the athletes just flood in and that's the point.
Speaker 1: You all come in together and you mingle and you
Speaker 1: mix and you're all friends. Now after going through the experience.
Speaker 2: Like that that was really cool. What did you think
Speaker 2: about so our flag bearers, Katie Ledecki and the aforementioned rower,
Speaker 2: Nick Mead, came in and they were miked, and at
Speaker 2: first I think we were like, oh, wow, this is cool.
Speaker 2: You know, we heard the commentator, including Jimmy Fallon, try
Speaker 2: and interview them. But it was it was a it
Speaker 2: was a great idea, but it was tough. We know
Speaker 2: as broadcasters what can happen, and it was so loud
Speaker 2: in that stadium.
Speaker 1: It's their earpiece and if they don't do it every
Speaker 1: day and are used to doing that, it's hard. And
Speaker 1: they had no floor director or tech guy down there
Speaker 1: adjusting anything. They put the micshone. Once they walked out,
Speaker 1: they were on their own and they couldn't hear that well.
Speaker 1: And it's I don't know what they were focusing on.
Speaker 1: It just didn't come off that well. But the idea
Speaker 1: of having access to somebody who's on that stadium floor,
Speaker 1: I thought was it was a nice idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the worst when you're when you're back in
Speaker 2: the studio and you're trying to talk to someone and
Speaker 2: they say, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Can you
Speaker 2: repeat that question. Uh, that's always like, yikes, it's a
Speaker 2: it's it's unfortunate, and it's there's nothing you can do
Speaker 2: about it. And we kind of we kind of chuckled
Speaker 2: as broadcasters.
Speaker 1: We just know what that feels like it will especially
Speaker 1: when Okay, Katie Ladecki or Nick medi we were in
Speaker 1: those two positions and it's that loud down there and
Speaker 1: somebody back in the studio wants to ask a question.
Speaker 1: Ask a question. You would appreciate saying, what's it like
Speaker 1: down there? That kind of question?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: They and Jimmy in particularly he said something made a
Speaker 1: joke and it was a long kind of I was
Speaker 1: trying to follow it, and I'm sitting on the couch
Speaker 1: and I know they couldn't make And you knew.
Speaker 2: That Katie Lidecki had no idea what he was saying
Speaker 2: and no idea how to answer it. So you're cringing
Speaker 2: before because you almost anticipated her not being able to
Speaker 2: answer it.
Speaker 1: But a good idea. And again, let me see, we
Speaker 1: continue to applaud everything that we saw you all pull
Speaker 1: off in these Olympics. The other highlight we watched yesterday,
Speaker 1: it was a highlight watching the women's marathon at two
Speaker 1: am yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was so good that was worth getting up for us.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was worth, but then we saw the payoff
Speaker 1: at this ceremony. It isn't that nice that they got
Speaker 1: their medals there?
Speaker 2: Coolest medal ceremony ever. I mean to get your gold
Speaker 2: medal for winning the marathon, the women's Marathonson Hassan of
Speaker 2: the Netherlands. To be able to do that in that
Speaker 2: stadium on a world stage with I don't know eighty
Speaker 2: thousand people in the stadium, I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: But what a.
Speaker 2: Moment in her smile was so genuine I just said,
Speaker 2: what an. She was just such an authentic you could.
Speaker 2: I don't know her, but there was like a humility
Speaker 2: to her and a humbleness despite all she accomplished during
Speaker 2: these Olympics. I was in awe of her.
Speaker 1: And what she accomplished is something the woman has ever accomplished.
Speaker 1: She got medals in the three most difficult track and field.
Speaker 1: I say grew, I should say grueling. Yes, with the
Speaker 1: five thousand, the ten thousand, and the marathon. Wow, she
Speaker 1: got two bronze and then she won the marathon. That's
Speaker 1: just never been done and what the ten thousand were
Speaker 1: and the marathon were a day and a half apart.
Speaker 2: It was, yes, I think it was. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a day and a half apart. Which apart, I mean,
Speaker 2: I cannot imagine, And so she deserved that moment last night.
Speaker 2: It was really cool.
Speaker 1: The other cool moment and the performance at least was
Speaker 1: we had it on kind of in the background and
Speaker 1: we're working, but we lean into the TV and said,
Speaker 1: is that piano hanging in the air. There was a
Speaker 1: moment that everybody saw was just cool. This guy was
Speaker 1: playing performing on the piano while it was vertically vertically elevated,
Speaker 1: not just hovering kind of above the ground. This thing
Speaker 1: was turned yeah, oh and vertically hanging, and so was
Speaker 1: the performer on the piano. I thought that was incredible
Speaker 1: to see that.
Speaker 2: It was very cool. You pointed it out, and it was.
Speaker 2: It was one of the last things we saw until
Speaker 2: we have to be a little honest here. We definitely
Speaker 2: planned our day around the events as we have been
Speaker 2: throughout this entire Olympics. Volleyball at seven am, basketball final,
Speaker 2: at nine thirty, we went to lunch. At one we
Speaker 2: were back in front of the TV by three for
Speaker 2: the closing ceremonies. We got an hour and a half
Speaker 2: in and then we turned it off. I think one
Speaker 2: of the last things we take notes when we're watching.
Speaker 2: One of the last things I wrote about the closing
Speaker 2: ceremonies aliens, aliens and dry ice and haunting music. I'm done.
Speaker 1: That was my look are these are dramatic, cinematic, They
Speaker 1: have themes, and you have to kind of follow the story.
Speaker 1: They lost us and they lost us, yes after April's
Speaker 1: sprits type of a brunch in New York. You need to.
Speaker 1: It's difficult for us to follow a long kind of
Speaker 1: a long drawn out thing. But it was the eye.
Speaker 1: What was the golden traveler who had found the Olympic Green.
Speaker 2: That's what you're telling.
Speaker 1: And then they were excavated from the stadium and brought that.
Speaker 1: I believe you, Okay, that was I didn't get that
Speaker 1: in the moment. I did not either.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is, so when we came back this morning,
Speaker 2: we got up again very early to rewatch what we missed.
Speaker 2: I'm laughing because if we had just stayed watching five
Speaker 2: minutes longer, we would have seen what we had been
Speaker 2: waiting for.
Speaker 1: But I was confused. We thought, you know what, we
Speaker 1: stopped it. This is why we stopped it because we
Speaker 1: thought the ceremony was going to go three hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did the replay shows it only as two hours
Speaker 1: and some change. So did they shorten it here or
Speaker 1: was it longer in the live coverage on the network.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe we thought we had another hour and a
Speaker 2: half to go and we said we can't do it.
Speaker 1: Not because we had something else to do or somewhere
Speaker 1: else to be. We just didn't want it. It was
Speaker 1: kind of okay, it just wasn't our.
Speaker 2: Thing horror movie genre.
Speaker 1: Things really turned when her stepped on stage. Anytime I
Speaker 1: see her step on stage with a guitar around her
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, so she did the national anthem.
Speaker 1: But you always talk about getting chills. This is when
Speaker 1: I got chilled. She finishes the national anthem, does that
Speaker 1: in the beautiful only her way? Can only her can
Speaker 1: do it? But then she did. There was no announcement,
Speaker 1: there was no nothing. She finished and then she did
Speaker 1: a little riff on the guitar that was unmistakable, and
Speaker 1: it was just a little you know what it is.
Speaker 1: He knew the mission impossible and like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: what they've been talking about. Here he comes.
Speaker 2: It was very cool. Yes, Tom Cruise cut to Live
Speaker 2: on top of the stadium. I mean that was impressive
Speaker 2: and you could see his view before he jumped. Of
Speaker 2: course he was tethered, but wow, what an entrance and
Speaker 2: that takes guts, but this is somebody who obviously knows
Speaker 2: how to do stunts and he did it so well.
Speaker 2: Live Landing cut to her so he could untether himself
Speaker 2: where she was doing this cool more guitar riffs. And
Speaker 2: then his walk down the aisle in the middle of
Speaker 2: that stadium. It got a little uncomfy in one moment.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that was before we get to that
Speaker 1: one moment. Sorry, I think it was great. I think
Speaker 1: that was one of the cool to see their excitement
Speaker 1: at him walking. Then he got to walk through and
Speaker 1: they got it, kind of got to see him and
Speaker 1: all their cameras were out and ready, and that stadium
Speaker 1: full of superstars and incredible athletes who have been the
Speaker 1: focus for two and a half weeks to see them
Speaker 1: get excited about something and somebody else who else. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been seeing Snoop Dogg all and just the Snoop Olympics.
Speaker 1: If he didn't really is, but he added something that
Speaker 1: it was a touch that only he could do, and
Speaker 1: only he is such a movie star we should really
Speaker 1: relish because I don't know if we're gonna get something
Speaker 1: like this again. He is an absolute movie star and
Speaker 1: world renowned, just in the stunts he does and how
Speaker 1: easy he did just standing up there. I know he's
Speaker 1: done stunts in plenty before, but the nerve what it
Speaker 1: takes to do that is and he did it just
Speaker 1: easy live too.
Speaker 2: There were no do overs, that wasn't pretaped. He did
Speaker 2: it live. It was remarkable. Yeah, it was very cool.
Speaker 2: And there was a woman who really loved Tom cruise
Speaker 2: too that I had to go back and watch it twice.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she just she got a little too friendly,
Speaker 2: she got a little too excited, and she she kissed
Speaker 2: him like she grabbed him and kissed him aggressively while
Speaker 2: taking a picture of video of it. So I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's on social media from her vantage point at some
Speaker 2: at some point, but a lot of people making some
Speaker 2: reference to that online saying, hey, if it were reversed,
Speaker 2: you were saying right that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I looked at him when I first saw it
Speaker 1: I honestly just looked and go, geez lady. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: kind of that reaction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was rude. It was rude.
Speaker 1: I think so. But when you stopped for a moment ago, wow,
Speaker 1: reverse the roles for a second. And if that, I said, Well,
Speaker 1: if Emily Blunt was walking through there with whatever woman
Speaker 1: was walking through there and some six or five athlete
Speaker 1: from whatever country grabbed and kissed her aggressively.
Speaker 2: And he would have been pounded on, he would have
Speaker 2: been jumped on by security.
Speaker 1: What do we do? I don't know. It was a moment.
Speaker 1: She was excited, and we're It's just funny how we're
Speaker 1: we can be kind of accepting and dismissive of it
Speaker 1: because ah lady got excited, Tom Cruise, she's so excited.
Speaker 1: Is that okay? Maybe it is okay, Maybe we do it.
Speaker 2: I don't think you should touch people who you don't
Speaker 2: know without asking first. That's just that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 2: And I don't think you should ever kiss somebody who
Speaker 2: isn't at least you know, willing to accept it or
Speaker 2: knows it's coming. I don't think that's right at all.
Speaker 2: I think there's no gray area here. She should not
Speaker 2: have done that. It was rude and it was inappropriate.
Speaker 1: Oh got what was the guy the soccer thing that
Speaker 1: came up from? Uh? He kissed after the World Cup.
Speaker 1: He grabbed one of the players and kissed her and
Speaker 1: it became a huge I think he was fired. I
Speaker 1: think I'm saying it was. It seemed to be an
Speaker 1: unwelcome kiss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, it was definitely an unwelcome kiss. You can
Speaker 2: see his face. He was shocked. I mean, look, he's
Speaker 2: trying to he's performing in front of the world right now.
Speaker 2: He just did something unthinkable to most of us. And
Speaker 2: you've got you've got to deal with some woman. I mean,
Speaker 2: I felt for him in that moment. That's not a
Speaker 2: comfortable place to be in.
Speaker 1: Pretty sure, it's probably the first time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if anyone is used to that, it's him.
Speaker 2: But it's still we should be pointed out that is
Speaker 2: in appropriate. But it was just a blip. The rest
Speaker 2: of it was, oh, just flawless. And I love that
Speaker 2: they did pretape him riding the motorcycle through Paris getting
Speaker 2: on a It looked like a C seventeen cargo plane.
Speaker 1: Now, if you had just picked up watching at the
Speaker 1: moment he got the bike onto the streets of Paris.
Speaker 1: The motorcycle you're watching the Mission Impossible movie, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. You would not even know. It looked exactly
Speaker 1: like we have seen him time and time again.
Speaker 2: What do you think of his motorcycle?
Speaker 1: I was trying to want to go back and figure
Speaker 1: out which what it was. I wanted to see what
Speaker 1: type it was. He rides a lot of BMW's in
Speaker 1: his movies, I think. Anyway, Sorry I didn't. I actually
Speaker 1: meant to go do that just for me, not for
Speaker 1: the story.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we see him, and this is part of tradition.
Speaker 2: The host city hands over the Olympic flag to the
Speaker 2: next host city. So the flag ends up on the
Speaker 2: beach in La there in Santa Monica, and that's when
Speaker 2: we got to see the red Hot Chili Pepper's snoop
Speaker 2: made it back to California. This was all pre taped
Speaker 2: Doctor Dre, Billy Eilish, they all performed. It was really
Speaker 2: fun and wow, I was California dreaming there at that
Speaker 2: beach looked amazing.
Speaker 1: Is flee ever gonna calm down from there? At how
Speaker 1: Chili Peppers He's been the same dude jumping around crazy
Speaker 1: on the stage his entire career. He's like sixty two,
Speaker 1: now sixty one.
Speaker 2: He looked, and really, yeah he looked amazing.
Speaker 1: Shut off, still a California dude doing his thing. So
Speaker 1: much props to him. I was, I couldn't wait. These
Speaker 1: two songs that Snoop did, did drop it like it said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was great. I was the one he did with
Speaker 1: Dre Doctor Dre. I can't remember, but I was listening
Speaker 1: to the songs and like, how was he going to
Speaker 1: make this Olympics friendly? Right?
Speaker 2: Because you know what the real lyrics are.
Speaker 1: Some of the lyrics are, but they obviously pulled it
Speaker 1: off just fine. And as much as we talk about
Speaker 1: the uniforms, the closing ceremony uniforms for the athletes, whoever
Speaker 1: the hell was dressing Snoop for the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Amazing, needs to be dressing the Olympic team. His suit
Speaker 2: yesterday on the beach amazing. We didn't talk about this,
Speaker 2: but I thought the same thing. I was, like, Damn,
Speaker 2: he looks good.
Speaker 1: They all have just the right amount of USA or
Speaker 1: Team USA red white and blue detail. That dude was.
Speaker 1: I loved everything was so call that person up. If
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: Uniform snoops, stylist. Oh and then you you pointed out,
Speaker 2: you said you have to watch this because you had
Speaker 2: already seen it by the time I came out. But
Speaker 2: the French singer who performed My Way by Frank Sinatra, WHOA.
Speaker 2: That was spectacular and in a really cool nod to America.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was so well done, and she was.
Speaker 2: She performed it so beautifully. It was remarkable. It's one
Speaker 2: of the high points for me. Last lot of the
Speaker 2: opening closing ceremony.
Speaker 1: We get those, you have those stirring moments sometimes this
Speaker 1: was one of them. This is an artist I don't
Speaker 1: think you were familiar with that. That wasn't either. Result
Speaker 1: is ourn But she's standing there by herself on the
Speaker 1: stage and all black, and it looks almost like you're
Speaker 1: in an opera in some way the way she's presenting herself.
Speaker 1: But she sounds just amazing. But the song, to see
Speaker 1: a French artist performing an American classic that actually comes
Speaker 1: from a French song, I didn't know that, and I
Speaker 1: think most folks don't and I didn't realize that either.
Speaker 1: But Calm Labitude is the name of the song and
Speaker 1: it has the same melody, and they took it from
Speaker 1: that French song and made in Frank Sinatra made my Way.
Speaker 1: But the French song is about a couple falling out
Speaker 1: of love. Oh wow, and calm latitude is sentially attitude
Speaker 1: means like as usual, and he's going through the sin
Speaker 1: this whole story talking about, yeah, try to get you
Speaker 1: out of bed, you didn't want to hang out? Same
Speaker 1: as usual that it goes through, It repeats all these
Speaker 1: little monotonous things. Er usual, very usual. That's what the
Speaker 1: song is.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm wondering how that turned into I did it
Speaker 2: My Way.
Speaker 1: Once you hear the song and the melody done.
Speaker 2: So it's the same melody, just completely different lyrics and
Speaker 2: a very different sentiment. It's not like there you go
Speaker 2: again versus I'm gonna take a lead.
Speaker 1: That's really funny.
Speaker 2: So okay, thank you for sharing that fun fact. I
Speaker 2: did not know any of that.
Speaker 1: But she crushed it yesterday and it makes me really
Speaker 1: interested in her. She was pretty spectaculous, she really was.
Speaker 1: You're a ceremony and it's and it's done.
Speaker 2: We'll see you l Yeah. So the athletes, by the way,
Speaker 2: who are bringing home medals to their home countries some athletes.
Speaker 2: Of those athletes are getting more than their metal, they're
Speaker 2: actually getting paid for their medals. I don't know that
Speaker 2: I even realize this, but the US we are on
Speaker 2: the lower end of how much we pay our athletes.
Speaker 2: But in case you were wondering, if you win a
Speaker 2: gold and you're US and you're a US athlete, thirty
Speaker 2: seven thousand, five hundred dollars is waiting for you. Twenty
Speaker 2: two five hundred and silver, sorry, and bronze it's a
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand. But we're the sixth least generous country when
Speaker 2: it comes to monetary rewards for our metal winning athletes.
Speaker 2: But you want to know who tops the list who
Speaker 2: financially incentivizes their athletes doing medals the most?
Speaker 1: Dam Hong Kong.
Speaker 2: They offer their athletes seven hundred and fifty thousand US
Speaker 2: dollars the equivalent, and.
Speaker 1: They had is that gold.
Speaker 2: That's gold, and then like it's still pretty high for
Speaker 2: silver and bronze, but that's where they start at. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that's an incentive incentivizing number. There.
Speaker 1: You can make that a career decision. Move to Hong Kong,
Speaker 1: get citizenship, find something you can be good at in
Speaker 1: the Olympics the best at go as a representative Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: That sounds so easy. That's I mean, that's dah do
Speaker 1: you have? That's a pretty that's not the worst idea.
Speaker 2: What would you do?
Speaker 1: And why could I?
Speaker 2: It was what could you win golden?
Speaker 1: It would have to be It wouldn't be anything athletic.
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm forty six yeers. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to outdo some twenty one year old park skateboarding. No,
Speaker 1: those dudes of fourteen, I'm certainly not going to do.
Speaker 1: It would have to be like air pistol or archery,
Speaker 1: something like.
Speaker 2: That, something that required simply, like I guess, like hand
Speaker 2: eye coordination.
Speaker 1: Yes, and not to out jump or have more strengthen
Speaker 1: that's fair.
Speaker 2: Singapore right behind Hong Kong at seven hundred thousand for
Speaker 2: gold medals. Taiwan gives six hundred thousand for a gold
Speaker 2: and a distant next from what I could find with
Speaker 2: Serbia at two hundred and fourteen thousand, nine hundred for
Speaker 2: gold Bottom three. Canada only gives fourteen thousand, six hundred
Speaker 2: and eight dollars. Denmark only gives fourteen thousand, four hundred
Speaker 2: and the least monetarily awarded athletes. Australia, they only give
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand, three hundred and forty for a gold. However,
Speaker 2: it could be worse.
Speaker 1: It could you could get nothing. That's the option. But
Speaker 1: do you think that's the case it? Do you think
Speaker 1: we should? I think they have upped it. I know
Speaker 1: you've done enough. I think it was twenty five, fifteen
Speaker 1: and ten for a while. Yeah, for the AA, they
Speaker 1: have uped it. They have uped it, so that's something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they go with inflation. But if you're an athlete
Speaker 2: in the UK, Norway, Sweden, you your medal is reward enough,
Speaker 2: and that's what they believe. Also, you have to think
Speaker 2: about how many athletes each of these countries are assuming
Speaker 2: are going to medal. So the United States has a
Speaker 2: lot of medals to pay out. Hong Kong only had three.
Speaker 2: I say only, but you know, it does weigh into
Speaker 2: how much a country is willing to give based on
Speaker 2: how many athletes actually medal, So it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: Hong Kong had three gold medals.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, no, not three gold medals. I think
Speaker 2: they had a gold and two bronze is what I
Speaker 2: look so, but still they're paying out, you know, pretty
Speaker 2: hefty sums. But they only had to make three payouts.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I just did the math quickly while we
Speaker 1: were talking. Forty gold medals for the US at thirty
Speaker 1: seven one hundred piece, that's one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow, did you just do that matter the poculator?
Speaker 1: Okay, I do, no, but that's all That's.
Speaker 2: A lot, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: So that's that. That makes sense.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, all right. So we had some fun
Speaker 2: going through because we have again, I have never watched
Speaker 2: so many Olympic events in my life, and so we
Speaker 2: wanted to kind of go through a superlative list, the best,
Speaker 2: the favorite, YadA, YadA, YadA. So we're gonna kind of
Speaker 2: rattle off what some of our moments are and maybe
Speaker 2: worthy to even look back and watch. But what was
Speaker 2: your favorite Olympic moment?
Speaker 1: Uh, Shakerrie stare at the four while one hundred relay finish.
Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna say that, so I didn't
Speaker 2: take it for me. Stephen Netterosik delivering on the pommel
Speaker 2: horse when all like it was all on him he
Speaker 2: had to get a score for his team to win
Speaker 2: a bronze medal. And he did it, and that was remarkable.
Speaker 1: It's the Olympic moment you'd like to forget the.
Speaker 2: Hate surrounding Amani Khalif I. I really that was for
Speaker 2: me the worst just to see that and to read
Speaker 2: about it. It for me, that just was so icky.
Speaker 2: How about you.
Speaker 1: Olympic moment I'd like to forget is Frederick Richard falling
Speaker 1: on the pommel horse in the all around. It was
Speaker 1: his first event. He was our great hope and we
Speaker 1: were very excited and in seconds his day was done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that we were staying, We were planning a whole
Speaker 1: day and we all were just gutted.
Speaker 2: It was gutting.
Speaker 1: It sucked so that one hurt. Favorite sport to watch, uh,
Speaker 1: drack and field. Just there's just so many options that
Speaker 1: we even got into the hammer throw him sue. So
Speaker 1: everything there was always fun yours.
Speaker 2: It's just there's no competition. It's women's gymnastics. It's my favorite.
Speaker 1: You don't want problem is with that? I thought about that.
Speaker 1: I don't like watching gymnastics.
Speaker 2: You're stressful, you give the beam, you hate the beam.
Speaker 2: That's your least favorite sports or event to watch.
Speaker 1: I hate it. And so that's why we watched it
Speaker 1: more than anything, and I was into it more than anything.
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable watch.
Speaker 2: I can get I get that favorite American athlete.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe this was the case, but Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: And it was Steph because he had a slow start
Speaker 1: to the Olympics. People were questioning him and then he
Speaker 1: completely bailed out the US team in those last two
Speaker 1: games and was the Steph I have seen live for
Speaker 1: years and covering all those NBA finals. Let him finally
Speaker 1: have his first Olympics and it have the moment. I
Speaker 1: was very, very happy to see Steph do his thing.
Speaker 1: Yours your favorite American at.
Speaker 2: Simone Biles and obviously she's you know, the goat. But
Speaker 2: for me, what I was able to actually be in
Speaker 2: the arena in Tokyo and I saw her mental distress,
Speaker 2: the twisties and not being able to compete, and to me,
Speaker 2: to be at that level and to be that low
Speaker 2: where you have to drop out of events because you
Speaker 2: can't you can't mentally be there. To see what she
Speaker 2: came back and did at the age she's at, I
Speaker 2: was blown away because I think we all take for
Speaker 2: granted like, oh, look, she can do it. She's the best.
Speaker 2: It's no sweat. What she went through in Tokyo proves
Speaker 2: that it is so much more than that, and for
Speaker 2: her to come back from that was remarkable to me.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite non USA athlete that you want?
Speaker 2: It switched. It was going to be Brazil's Rebecca Andraje
Speaker 2: because I just think she just brought such a spirit
Speaker 2: and a life and a beauty to the sport. I
Speaker 2: just loved it to gymnastics. But I switched because I
Speaker 2: got to see yesterday the Netherlands Savantasan the winner of
Speaker 2: the women's marathon, and seeing that smile in the closing
Speaker 2: ceremonies and just seeing what she went through with the
Speaker 2: five thousands to the ten thousand and the marathon. For me,
Speaker 2: she is she was my favorite non USA athlete.
Speaker 1: And you know what my favorite non USA athlete is
Speaker 1: going to be in Kwang Hoong Shong of China. That diver,
Speaker 1: the platform diver just dominant in a way. And you
Speaker 1: know I didn't miss her when she was performing seventeen
Speaker 1: years old and has a back to back gold medals
Speaker 1: in the ten mil a ten meter platform is was
Speaker 1: just incredible to watch. So yeah, I love that and
Speaker 1: congrats to China for what they pulled off. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we got to talk about eight for eight,
Speaker 1: first time ever that anyone has swept all goals in
Speaker 1: all eight diving events.
Speaker 2: I was excited for you because I knew you really
Speaker 2: wanted that to.
Speaker 1: Happen, something that impressive. That was really impressive. So what
Speaker 1: was your favorite single event you watched?
Speaker 2: I think it was the men's hundred meter the photo
Speaker 2: finished Noah Lyle's winning after all the hype and I
Speaker 2: that was my favorite. Also. It is just fun because
Speaker 2: it's over in ten seconds and there's so much drama
Speaker 2: leading up to it, and there was so much drama afterwards.
Speaker 2: I loved it. How about you?
Speaker 1: Favorite single event I watched was USA women versus Brazil
Speaker 1: and the Semis and volleyball. This was eight one. I
Speaker 1: didn't It was just intense, you know, I'm excited. I
Speaker 1: was about that match. They ended up falling in the
Speaker 1: gold medal match, but just the back and forth with
Speaker 1: them and the other powerhouse of Brazil was in the
Speaker 1: atmosphere in the arena. All of it came together for
Speaker 1: wonderful watching.
Speaker 2: And to your point, Babe, I watched the volleyball finals,
Speaker 2: and even though they lost and they were swept in
Speaker 2: straight sets, they still never stop smiling and I appreciated that.
Speaker 2: That was awesome.
Speaker 1: You know they have you ever heard of a culture coach?
Speaker 1: They have someone on their team. I'm sorry, I can't
Speaker 1: find her. I won't be able to remember her name
Speaker 1: right now, something called a culture coach that they credit
Speaker 1: with being on their staff and helping them not worry
Speaker 1: about we're two sets down, or this is match point
Speaker 1: for the other team. We got one point right now,
Speaker 1: go out there and have a good time and that
Speaker 1: one point and it's helped them, they say, tremendously. But
Speaker 1: they call it a culture coach.
Speaker 2: I love that. And if you look up the team
Speaker 2: with their silver medal, it looks like they wont I
Speaker 2: was so. I saw that picture and I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, you were onto something to j because
Speaker 2: you kept talking about their joy and I agree and
Speaker 2: it was awesome and infectious and I'm going to be
Speaker 2: more joyful today thinking of them. Okay, most heartbreaking moment I.
Speaker 1: Have one and a runner up. The most heartbreaking moment
Speaker 1: was probably uh Carolina Moren of Spain and table tennis.
Speaker 1: No excuse me, it's badminton. What was it? Table tennis?
Speaker 1: Was badman badminton. She was the former gold mellist. She
Speaker 1: won the gold medal in Tokyo. But then she's in
Speaker 1: the semis and she's ahead in her match and clearly
Speaker 1: about she's on her way to winning this thing, and
Speaker 1: she goes down with an injury in the semis and
Speaker 1: she knows she's not going to be able to continue,
Speaker 1: and she is down in a fetal position, almost on
Speaker 1: the floor, screaming and crying and trying to be comforted.
Speaker 1: And I mean it is hard to watch, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it is awful to watch. And if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: but this is what it is, right the Carolina Moren
Speaker 1: of Spain. Look her up bad midten and how she
Speaker 1: had to go down. It was tough my backup to that.
Speaker 1: And remember this name Uda Abbe Uta ab Abe from Japan.
Speaker 1: She lost in the second round in wrestling. Now she
Speaker 1: was the gold medalist and she was the favorite, but
Speaker 1: after she lost, she was inconsolable. Look up that video
Speaker 1: you'll see what the Olympics means to people. It was awful, awful, awful, heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: I encourage you to look it up. Tears not running
Speaker 1: down your face. Then you ain't you your heart ain't beaten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it shows you how much it matters, and the
Speaker 2: passion and all of the work. For me the most
Speaker 2: heartbreaking moment. I mean, there were several, unfortunately, to pick from,
Speaker 2: but I went with one of the early ones, Brody
Speaker 2: Malone and the high bar. In qualifying, he felt twice,
Speaker 2: not once, but twice, and that basically ensured that he
Speaker 2: was not going to get to compete in the all
Speaker 2: around finals, which everyone thought he was the favorite. He'd
Speaker 2: come back from a major leg injury to win his
Speaker 2: three US championship just a month earlier, so all the
Speaker 2: expectations and hopes for the men's gymnastics team were on
Speaker 2: Brody Malone's shoulders, so to speak. And when he fell twice,
Speaker 2: it was done. And I just you just to see
Speaker 2: them fall from that high bar, and I mean we
Speaker 2: saw a lot of just unbelievable and devastating falls from
Speaker 2: that apparatus. The beam and the high bar were just
Speaker 2: cruel in gymnastics.
Speaker 1: The bar high bar should be retired like that. One
Speaker 1: should be awful, It should be destroyed.
Speaker 2: I can't believe people weren't permanently injured the way they
Speaker 2: fell off of that. But Brodie Malone, it broke my
Speaker 2: heart for him.
Speaker 1: Well, so it was the most heartwarming moment of the Olympics.
Speaker 2: For you, this is easy for me. Tara Davis Whitehall
Speaker 2: and her paralympian Hubby Hunter Whitehall when she won gold
Speaker 2: and the embrace they had and he just happened to
Speaker 2: be miked, which I loved, and he called He's like,
Speaker 2: you're the Olympic champion, and just to see their love
Speaker 2: and their support for one another. He's going to be
Speaker 2: competing in two weeks as a paralympian in track and field.
Speaker 2: But just I fell in love with their love and
Speaker 2: just their support for one another. And so for me,
Speaker 2: that is when I absolutely had tears in my eyes.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 1: My favorite heartwarming, heartwarming moment, I am being told by
Speaker 1: a court it did not happen. My favorite moment was
Speaker 1: seeing Jordan Chiles and Simone Biles bow to Rebecca andraje
Speaker 1: on that podium. And there was more to it. So
Speaker 1: I guess the nuance there really is that it's first
Speaker 1: time ever that three black gymnasts occupied a podium at
Speaker 1: the Olympics. But the other part of that and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been as sweet if it wasn't Simone Biles.
Speaker 1: As much respect as we all have for Simone Biles.
Speaker 1: To see her giving that type of respect, not just
Speaker 1: the high five and the congratulations, but that type like
Speaker 1: I am honoring you and bowing to you. It put
Speaker 1: Rebecca Andrage on a higher plane for all of us.
Speaker 1: But it told you something about Simone. I told you
Speaker 1: something about friendship, competitor, sportsmanship. It was a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: moment that I'm told for now didn't happened because or
Speaker 1: shouldn't have happened. Yes, right, it's what they're telling us.
Speaker 1: But that was a highlight for me.
Speaker 2: Oh all right. Favorite country uniform. We had a lot
Speaker 2: of conversations about this.
Speaker 1: My favorite country uniform, very specific US women's soccer uniforms
Speaker 1: in the gold medal match. Not I don't think anything
Speaker 1: they were before that would have qualified as my favorite
Speaker 1: of the Olympics. But what they wore in the gold
Speaker 1: medal match loved perfect, all right.
Speaker 2: And my favorite country uniform was the French gymnasts. It
Speaker 2: was a white leotard with a red and blue ribbons
Speaker 2: and some just sparkles all around. It was It was
Speaker 2: classic it was clean and it was just gorgeous. And
Speaker 2: that was in the prelim all rounds when they were
Speaker 2: so because they were eliminated from the finals. So I
Speaker 2: was sad I didn't get to see more of their leotards.
Speaker 2: But I do believe we both agree overall, if you
Speaker 2: had to pick a country that just from all the
Speaker 2: different sporting events had the best uniforms, and you and
Speaker 2: I both agree three to one. Italy loved that turquoise
Speaker 2: and then just a little touch of their flat here
Speaker 2: and there, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: Would you have a well, there was Italian too, but
Speaker 1: an honorable mention the Italian diving uniforms. You remember the women's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were really nice. And you know I love
Speaker 2: their hoodies. I love their hoodies.
Speaker 1: You know what my answer is going to be on
Speaker 1: this next one. But what is yours? Your favorite commentator
Speaker 1: during the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Oh so I went to try to find her name
Speaker 2: and I couldn't. But the woman you might know who
Speaker 2: it is who commented or who was commentating on the
Speaker 2: women's marathon. I for selfish reasons. I just was learning
Speaker 2: so much from her about what it takes and what
Speaker 2: makes things better or worse. And just what was happening.
Speaker 2: And I just felt like I learned a lot, even
Speaker 2: as a marathon runner from her about what these women
Speaker 2: were facing and what they do to just I was
Speaker 2: blown away by her. I thought, she just handled that
Speaker 2: so well.
Speaker 1: And so are we going to give her credit? I
Speaker 1: kind of remember who the name was, sir.
Speaker 2: I tried to look, and there's so many commentators I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to give credit to the wrong person.
Speaker 2: But I know she's a two time Olympian and she
Speaker 2: won I think Boston and New York, so she knows
Speaker 2: what she's talking about. I just thought she you know,
Speaker 2: it could be boring, you know, two and a half
Speaker 2: hours people just doing the same thing, and somehow she
Speaker 2: made it so interesting and so I learned so much.
Speaker 1: You know, mine was justin spring and he did men's gymnastics.
Speaker 1: He of course was a bronze Mellows two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight with the US men's team. It's current lye Agymnasis
Speaker 1: coach at the University of Alabama.
Speaker 2: Role Tide only say that once now, but I.
Speaker 1: Spoke about him from the very jump. It's listening to
Speaker 1: broad you have to know when to talk when not
Speaker 1: to talk, and when you do talk, you got to
Speaker 1: know what to say, and this guy was He nailed
Speaker 1: it every single time, explaining things that needed to be explained,
Speaker 1: pointing out things that we might have missed. I just
Speaker 1: thought there were several throughout the diving, in swimming.
Speaker 2: There's so many.
Speaker 1: They were good.
Speaker 2: We relied on them to understand and to enjoy a
Speaker 2: sport that maybe we wouldn't have otherwise. And speaking of
Speaker 2: that favorite sport you watch that you don't normally watch,
Speaker 2: that was a tough one.
Speaker 1: I think sport climbing, the speed sport climbing in particular,
Speaker 1: what was yours?
Speaker 2: Uh, the exact same thing, speed climbing is what I
Speaker 2: wrote because I just thought that was so fun and
Speaker 2: so incredible. All right, most impressive athlete.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going back to my favorite non US athlete,
Speaker 1: Quang Hong Chong. I'm trying to think of somebody that
Speaker 1: was more impressive. I guess because Katie Ledecki, we their
Speaker 1: greatness sometimes and simoan bios their greatness sometimes we take
Speaker 1: for granted because we just assumed, yeah, you're gonna blow
Speaker 1: them out. No no, no, no no. But I guess the dominance
Speaker 1: of Kwang Hong Chong and the age she was in
Speaker 1: a little pressure being put on, seeing how she handled everything.
Speaker 1: She didn't become a kid. Do you remember until she won,
Speaker 1: where she finally smiled and she broke down crying a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I watched her for days and there
Speaker 1: was nothing about her that seemed even slightly emotional or human.
Speaker 2: She was a fierce, determined, focused seventeen so athlete. You
Speaker 2: know what. I again, there were so many to pick from,
Speaker 2: but I chose in kind of a similar vein an
Speaker 2: unexpected impressive athlete, and it was Cole Howker for me,
Speaker 2: shocking everyone in the fifteen hundred meter. He beat Josh Curve,
Speaker 2: great bitten Britain. Sorry, and it's I was going to
Speaker 2: say Jacob ing Brigston, but I heard it was yakub
Speaker 2: Is how they were pronouncing it of Norway. But they
Speaker 2: were by far the only two runners that anybody was
Speaker 2: talking about in the fifteen hundred meter. And I told
Speaker 2: you how much I love the fifteen hundred meter because
Speaker 2: it's the fastest long competition in track and field. But
Speaker 2: he set a new Olympic record. Everybody was blown away,
Speaker 2: and I just thought he was so sweet and so
Speaker 2: calm and collected, and I just was rooting anyway. I
Speaker 2: just thought it was so impressive that he did what
Speaker 2: he did when he needed to do it.
Speaker 1: And now here we are. What sport did you watch
Speaker 1: that you think you'll take up? Now?
Speaker 2: After the we talked about this, I want to go
Speaker 2: to a climbing gym here in New York. And you know,
Speaker 2: I've done a little tiny bit of climbing, but after
Speaker 2: watching them, I just felt like it's something I would
Speaker 2: like to try to do more of. I think it's
Speaker 2: a cool sport that I'd like to get more into.
Speaker 2: How about you.
Speaker 1: Breakdancing clearly is what I'm taking up. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get out there. I'm gonna do my training in Australia.
Speaker 1: They have a good uh. I think they have a
Speaker 1: good program there.
Speaker 2: What would your break name be?
Speaker 1: I have? You know, I'm gonna find something for you.
Speaker 1: I did a story with a group of break dancers
Speaker 1: years and years ago, and at the end of it
Speaker 1: they gave me a big bee boy name. Okay, they
Speaker 1: got together in a little huddle and came up with
Speaker 1: something that came out and it was all on camera
Speaker 1: and we put it. I think we put it in
Speaker 1: the piece. I can't remember it being that impressive though,
Speaker 1: I don't remember liking it that much.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it could be. I mean, t Junior
Speaker 2: would be the obvious one. But bee boy, uh Lou,
Speaker 2: I don't Ava has Ava has been teasing Hive and
Speaker 2: calling you Tilly.
Speaker 1: That's not good at all. It's not going to catch on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't. I'm going to look out
Speaker 1: what they Okay, but no, and as I have my
Speaker 1: climbing shoes in there, okay, it's made me now want
Speaker 1: to get back into climb. Not to speed climb obviously,
Speaker 1: but the climbing and climb. Yeah, so I used to
Speaker 1: do it a decent amount, but yeah, it does make me.
Speaker 2: Want let's do it together.
Speaker 1: So, folks, we have had a blast and we can't
Speaker 1: say it enough. Congrats to NBC for what you did.
Speaker 1: This was the best Olympic watching experience I have ever had.
Speaker 1: Been great. So I hate to see it go, but
Speaker 1: let's get back into And it was a nice break
Speaker 1: from politics. It was a nice break from I guess
Speaker 1: fighting about a lot of things and being on the
Speaker 1: same team by rooting for all of our athletes at
Speaker 1: least we were together for that. I dread we're having
Speaker 1: to go back.
Speaker 2: To I know, I was just thinking about that. We've
Speaker 2: had so much fun. I mean, the only time I
Speaker 2: haven't enjoyed the Olympics is when politics have gotten involved
Speaker 2: in terms of just you know, the amon Ka Lief
Speaker 2: and the Jordan Gilds. Those are my least favorite moments
Speaker 2: because politics got involved, because you know, when it's just
Speaker 2: about the sports and about competition. Yeah, and rooting for
Speaker 2: not even just your home country, but for athletes from
Speaker 2: all countries. It's just been a unifying experience and a
Speaker 2: fun moment. And I'm going to miss it. I am.
Speaker 1: I am already miss it with you. So what DNZ
Speaker 1: is kicking off with?
Speaker 2: I believe that happens today? Correct, August twelfth. That's the
Speaker 2: beginning of the DNC. Or is it? No? You're shaking
Speaker 2: your head at me.
Speaker 1: Is it next week? Oh?
Speaker 2: Does it start on your birthday?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, it doesn't sturme on my birth It's not right,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: Well? Your birthdays a week from today?
Speaker 1: It is the nineteenth. They start the DNC.
Speaker 2: On my birth on your birthday? Wow, I think that's fitting.
Speaker 2: Why I'm joking completely yes, So back to politics and
Speaker 2: other news, but yeah, we've had a black We really
Speaker 2: want to thank you for listening and being with us
Speaker 2: here and we hopefully have taken you all along with
Speaker 2: us with all the tea from Perry, and we hope
Speaker 2: you keep listening and we'll keep bringing you news and
Speaker 2: you know what, I think we're going to be having
Speaker 2: some more Olympic news to keep reporting on with this
Speaker 2: Jordan Chiles thing, so stay tuned for that. But in
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Speaker 2: have a great day, everybody,