Speaker 1: R ring ring ring Ring. I still laugh when we
Speaker 1: do it. I love ring ring ring ring ring.
Speaker 2: And you know what, there's nothing specific to Paris about them, Like,
Speaker 2: we're going to do this for Milan for twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: assuming they'll have us back. We're going to do this
Speaker 2: for Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight. We're going to
Speaker 2: do this in Salt Lake City in twenty thirty. The
Speaker 2: list goes on. Can I say not me having La
Speaker 2: Pride right now? Okay? So are we are we chaining
Speaker 2: our two now? On the LA Olympics of it all
Speaker 2: A little.
Speaker 1: Bit like I don't know, like the the so I've
Speaker 1: been kind of on the fence about the Olympics in
Speaker 1: LA and twenty twenty eight of it all because I
Speaker 1: live here and I'm telling you it's not necessarily infrastructure
Speaker 1: wise tenable to have more people here. But I will
Speaker 1: say the cultural you know moment that was the handoff.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it is fun to have the Olympics in LA.
Speaker 1: I mean like in terms of the way that they
Speaker 1: little did our words. Maybe I just like Words of
Speaker 1: a Feather by Billie Eilish that much.
Speaker 2: Maybe you just that I got emotional seeing Doctor Dre
Speaker 2: up there tbh.
Speaker 1: It was cool. It was cool.
Speaker 2: That was cool. Yeah, you know, we're getting so ahead
Speaker 2: of ourselves. Let's get to the two guys stuff first.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe this all kind of this.
Speaker 1: Feels like two guys. I mean, essentially making it about
Speaker 1: a pop girlly immediately, and even even Doctor Drey and
Speaker 1: I haven't even started on Anthony Keatis And how how
Speaker 1: do he is? So that we're in two guysland.
Speaker 2: I knew you were going to talk about Anthony. I
Speaker 2: mean to say nothing of the long Beach of it all.
Speaker 2: That was a long beach show and the y was
Speaker 2: very spring break can kun. But we're in La. Oh right,
Speaker 2: we're in La. But yeah, oh my gosh, Matt, how
Speaker 2: do you feel now that we've closed out the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four Olympic Games? And I just want to correct myself.
Speaker 2: Twenty thirty is going to be in the French Alps.
Speaker 2: We're going to be back in France in twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: Twenty thirty four is maybe Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: So I was like kind of surprised that there were
Speaker 1: turning to Salt Lake City so soon, because I feel
Speaker 1: like we were just there because we were.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and two. It was thirty two years ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean it is twenty two years ago
Speaker 2: from today, but it will be thirty two years from
Speaker 2: the last Salt Lake City Games in twenty thirty four.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow, old, we're gonna be old.
Speaker 2: Or we're going to be old.
Speaker 1: But I feel great. I think this was an amazing Olympics.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, holistically, not only were they largely
Speaker 1: and roundly triumphant for the people that we were rooting for,
Speaker 1: with notable exceptions which we'll get into, but I have
Speaker 1: to command the presentation of the Olympics themselves by NBC Peacock,
Speaker 1: I mean the multiview and I Heeart Radio and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. I mean, just like overall, like this was
Speaker 1: easy to watch. You never felt like you were really
Speaker 1: missing anything, and I thought everything was executed really well.
Speaker 1: And in terms of Paris as the host, I thought
Speaker 1: they did an amazing job. And it feel it felt
Speaker 1: really seamless. It felt like a real celebration of their culture.
Speaker 1: Like at moments it felt like very specific in niche
Speaker 1: but also global in that weird French way. The humor
Speaker 1: was there, the vibes were there, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the like uh it just it felt like a real
Speaker 1: success to me.
Speaker 2: And they did it.
Speaker 1: What about that song? Is so New York coded to me?
Speaker 1: That to close it out.
Speaker 2: With my asi o funny? So she's she's amazing, incredible, incredible,
Speaker 2: airy good. So okay, I must agree with you. I
Speaker 2: could not have put better myself. I won't even attempt to.
Speaker 1: Shot.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to make another retraction right now.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I remember saying after the opening ceremony, I wish it
Speaker 2: was in a stadium. I like that there was a balance,
Speaker 2: because otherwise it would have felt redundant if both closing
Speaker 2: and opening were going to be Instead de France, I
Speaker 2: like either. I like one stadium, either in the opening
Speaker 2: and I like the closing. I think one. It should
Speaker 2: be one of each, one in a stadium, one incorporating
Speaker 2: some processional aspect or some spatially distinct thing of the
Speaker 2: host city Paris. I think reinvigorated the Olympics for the
Speaker 2: World Tokyo. It was never going to really pop off,
Speaker 2: of course with COVID. I don't even I don't remember
Speaker 2: getting into Rio that much as much as I did
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 1: You know, I would agree. I think this was the
Speaker 1: most successful. You felt like there was like some international
Speaker 1: pride to be had whatever that means. Like it felt
Speaker 1: like positive, you know what I'm saying. It felt largely positive.
Speaker 1: And I look back on that opening ceremony finally as well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Me too, So I take that back. But I will say,
Speaker 2: let's send up another Voyager spaceship and let's put in
Speaker 2: the Simone Biles Jordan Childs bowing to Rebecca Androgy moment. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm still not over this. That is that I maintain
Speaker 2: that is the best of what humanity has to offer
Speaker 2: in that moment, sportsmanship, triumph, support, international relations, peace, and
Speaker 2: we'll get into Jordan Chiles later, but overall, an incredible,
Speaker 2: incredible two weeks. I'm very sad that it's over, and
Speaker 2: I cannot say that about an Olympics since Beijing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was great. I mean I will also say,
Speaker 1: just and they did it. Like I said, we touched
Speaker 1: on it briefly, but why not touch on it more
Speaker 1: because this is technically like we're supposed to be recapping
Speaker 1: the closing ceremony here, but like I was really surprised.
Speaker 1: I had heard about the Tom Cruise of it all,
Speaker 1: and then I was surprised to really enjoy it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like I was like, hey, when
Speaker 1: they showed him on top of that stadium and he
Speaker 1: looked back over his shoulder and then jumped off of it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I mean, this is the sort of
Speaker 1: maximalist La Hollywood Olympics that if we're going to go
Speaker 1: for it, if we're gonna have the Olympics in La,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise should be jumping off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like he should be we should have see his LA
Speaker 1: plastic surgery. This should be that we should be unapologetic
Speaker 1: about it. Pulled tight, but literally watching Tom, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is warped in several different ways. But he is
Speaker 1: definitely good at holding that frame, babe. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is the movie star he is. He's looking good, he's
Speaker 1: wearing the hell out of those pants. Loved that he
Speaker 1: was running up the ramp and didn't want to run
Speaker 1: like the five steps more to clear the ramp. He
Speaker 1: hopped up off the ramp. Hello to Karen Bass and
Speaker 1: Karen Bass, I mean that's my mayor right there. And
Speaker 1: to know that she was on the global stage. Loved that,
Speaker 1: loved that they had Simone doing the handoff. I mean,
Speaker 1: Simone is the superstar of the Olympics. I think there's
Speaker 1: no dispute there. And then when he sped off and
Speaker 1: made it to Hollywood so fast on that little bike,
Speaker 1: and you know, the rings were up on the Hollywood sign,
Speaker 1: and I said, this could be fun. This could be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And then I loved everything that
Speaker 1: happened in Long Beach, including the beach volleyball players that
Speaker 1: were just their chillin' while Billy was performing. I love it,
Speaker 1: just continued their game.
Speaker 2: I love that, and Billy was. Billy was really into it.
Speaker 2: I think one of the amazing live performances of Birds
Speaker 2: of a Feather. Yeah, I mean there was a lipsyng
Speaker 2: track definitely, Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she's that's just a
Speaker 2: production thing.
Speaker 1: Her live vocal is so good. And of course, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, what is this lost cult. I was
Speaker 1: at Coachella when she came out for Lana del Rey
Speaker 1: and Billy's voice live. It's very special, very special girl.
Speaker 1: And you know it from SNL.
Speaker 2: Of course, we all know it from Oscars twice over Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying being in the room is cool. So
Speaker 2: to have been on that beach, I mean, shame on
Speaker 2: those beach volleyball players for continuing to bump and set
Speaker 2: because a legend was singing. A legend was singing. But
Speaker 2: that's okay. Volleyball stops for no one. We will see
Speaker 2: that in four years. I want them to do fencing
Speaker 2: in front of pot.
Speaker 1: Oh that would be amazing. Wow, that would be hard.
Speaker 1: It's very hilly over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know we open the flight, how about that?
Speaker 1: Like, you know, we need to first of all. This
Speaker 1: is why I say, like New York came back after
Speaker 1: the pandemic in LA never did because as long as
Speaker 1: the arc light in Las closed, LA is not working.
Speaker 1: We don't have a working city until that arc light
Speaker 1: is open again, and we need to do it.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on speaking of Karen Bass? Ambitious, ambitious.
Speaker 2: I think this is impossible, but I love to be
Speaker 2: proven wrong. No Car Olympics in twenty twenty eight. She
Speaker 2: wants this is the Los Angeles. Wants everyone the influx
Speaker 2: of hundreds of thousands of tourists coming in. She wants
Speaker 2: everyone to be able to access every Olympic venue through
Speaker 2: public transit. Right now, public transit and Los Angeles not
Speaker 2: in a good place. I think we can all agree.
Speaker 2: Unhouse population, terrible place. It's going to be tough. But look,
Speaker 2: I really I pray we at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: we love Los Angeles onto you guys five rings.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's going to have to happen is they're
Speaker 1: going to have to change almost every and I think
Speaker 1: that they are. I think I think that that public
Speaker 1: transit is about to like they're really going to make
Speaker 1: a go for it here in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: In terms of how.
Speaker 2: Tod it's four years is not a long time for this,
Speaker 2: for this kind of infrastructure stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, it's they're going to have to change
Speaker 1: a lot because I'm like, you can't even drive on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Love la love what it can be.
Speaker 1: And yes, I have lots to say about this, as
Speaker 1: you can tell as I'm sure you do as well.
Speaker 1: So everyone, including Karen Bass can just wait. We have
Speaker 1: lots of ideas and feelings. I sousing ceremonies were great.
Speaker 1: I loved watching all the athletes vibe. It's a party
Speaker 1: that's like like the shoulders are dropped.
Speaker 2: It's done. The count is over. By the way, congratulations
Speaker 2: to the United States of America for most golds or
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for most metals and tied with golds with China.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the thing I'll miss most about
Speaker 2: the Olympics, the only moment of acceptable nationalism that we
Speaker 2: as Americans can experience.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope not.
Speaker 2: For now. This is I do feel refreshed. I miss
Speaker 2: this feeling of loving country and I have not had
Speaker 2: this feeling in a while, and I certainly felt that
Speaker 2: way the entire time during these Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: Speaking of national privates, so let's talk about these medals.
Speaker 1: So forty Olympic gold medals for the United States of
Speaker 1: America forty four silver, forty two bronze, one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: six total, followed by China with ninety one total medals
Speaker 1: and forty gold medals. Then we have Great Britain with
Speaker 1: sixty five total medals, and you know France at sixty four.
Speaker 1: They hung in there. But really it was about the US.
Speaker 1: It was about us. I mean, listen, hey, this because
Speaker 1: they ain't US.
Speaker 2: Main character syndrome has never been more apparent, has.
Speaker 1: The main character syndrome in such a way.
Speaker 2: And if this was our other podcast, this would be
Speaker 2: a rule of culture. But we can't. We just can't.
Speaker 2: Let's see, uh, I was just I really quickly, just
Speaker 2: want to go back to the closing ceremonies though a
Speaker 2: lot of gags besides the La handoff Phoenix. Loved seeing
Speaker 2: Phoenix sing their hits from nineteen ninety nine or from
Speaker 2: two thousand, it's their first album. That hanging piano, that
Speaker 2: vertical piano. Did you clock that?
Speaker 1: I sure did.
Speaker 2: Miss Mama playing the piano while being dragged up, and
Speaker 2: the Golden Voyager running around and his little circu to
Speaker 2: Soley Ass. I know, I know that's French Canada. But
Speaker 2: in his circ to Soley Ass, get up with all
Speaker 2: those hot little statuesque dancers. I think some of those
Speaker 2: were some of the breakers from from I think I
Speaker 2: think ray Gun in there somewhere.
Speaker 1: Wait can talk about the breaking.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the breaking. We're just jumping all around.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about breaking.
Speaker 1: Come on, that was flopped to me.
Speaker 2: Oh brother, and now he said it. I don't need breaking.
Speaker 2: I get that be the only time we see it.
Speaker 2: But I'm happy. I'm Look, this is the thing about
Speaker 2: the Olympics. They try new things. Okay, everyone thinks it's
Speaker 2: a stead institutional thing, which it is in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways. But this was the first Olympics to have
Speaker 2: full gender parody. It was a younger, more inclusive, more
Speaker 2: sustainable Olympics. It is forward thinking in this way and
Speaker 2: it has room for something like breaking even though mixed results,
Speaker 2: but a viral, Internet worthy sticky you know, in the
Speaker 2: Internet sense, sticky stories. Out of that, Reygun will forever
Speaker 2: be a legend. And she has I think a beautiful
Speaker 2: attitude about this.
Speaker 1: I mean, she couldn't help that it was an event
Speaker 1: and that she qualified for it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like, here's the thing. If you never try, sure
Speaker 1: you'll never fail, but you'll never succeed. And she is
Speaker 1: an Olympian. That is something that she had and I
Speaker 1: just want to say, let's just get into it. So
Speaker 1: for those of you who may be on living under
Speaker 1: a rock in terms of the breaking of it all,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Australian breakdancer Rachel Gunn aka ray Gun Iconic,
Speaker 1: has caused quite a stir on social media after her
Speaker 1: performance at the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics, Breaking, more
Speaker 1: commonly noticed breakdancing made its debut as we all know,
Speaker 1: and Gun went viral online after her performance on Friday
Speaker 1: in the round robin stage of the women's breaking competition,
Speaker 1: she was swept out without earning a single point. Gun
Speaker 1: defended her dance moves she is she tried to wow
Speaker 1: the audience with a kangaroo dance, among other moves, but
Speaker 1: she has no qualms about the performance, being quoted as saying,
Speaker 1: I was never gonna beat these girls on what they
Speaker 1: do best, their power moves. What I bring is creativity.
Speaker 2: We all have a kangaroo dance in our hearts period.
Speaker 1: It goes like this, Oh my god, that's wait. The
Speaker 1: Apple dance sort.
Speaker 2: Of is giving kangaroo I think she was inspired by
Speaker 2: the Apple Dance.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was. Had she come out there and done
Speaker 1: the Apple Dance, maybe she would have gotten a point.
Speaker 2: What if the Apple dance When Charlie XCX says, I
Speaker 2: think the Apple's rotten right to the core. What if
Speaker 2: the Apple is an Internet culture?
Speaker 1: I think she was talking about the judges, the gymnastics judges.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what a perfect segue.
Speaker 1: That sucks and can I say, like Jordan Chiles, they
Speaker 1: could never make you not my bronze medalist.
Speaker 2: These Romanian girls, bless them, would not have bowed to Rebecca.
Speaker 2: And that is still the thing that I think is
Speaker 2: the most important thing to come out of these games,
Speaker 2: the medals, lebron Steph Curry, we love Shack. Here, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about all these things. That is the moment for
Speaker 2: me of this entire olymp Jordan Chiles was a huge
Speaker 2: part of that. This is we're talking about a four
Speaker 2: second window. Let's let's just summarize what's happening for people
Speaker 2: who don't know. Yes, so the US is appealing a
Speaker 2: ruling that has forced Jordan Childs to return her bronze medal. Basically,
Speaker 2: a US coach to Seal Landy sent in an appeal.
Speaker 2: What people are saying, four seconds after the one minute
Speaker 2: time limit for scoring inquiry, She's sent in an inquiry
Speaker 2: a minute and four seconds after Jordan left the floor.
Speaker 2: Cis Court of Arbitration for Sport, which handles these inquiries
Speaker 2: and these appeals, has now got ahead and said that
Speaker 2: Jordan has to return her medal. I think I think
Speaker 2: they have the last word on it. Jordan is taking
Speaker 2: a big break from social media. It's so devastating and
Speaker 2: this process is maybe months years long. We really hope
Speaker 2: this does not demoralize Jordan to say a level that
Speaker 2: would discourage her from competing again. She has such a
Speaker 2: bright feud, she has such a well that just to
Speaker 2: her you know, but you know what, and not to
Speaker 2: like produce have produced her brain too much on this.
Speaker 2: But this is a this is an amazing story going
Speaker 2: into LA twenty twenty eight. Not an amazing story. We
Speaker 2: wish it didn't happen, but this is something that is
Speaker 2: another opportunity for triumph. Even though it is devastating right now,
Speaker 2: we are all feeling for Jordan. There are frankly some
Speaker 2: racist attacks going on on the internet against her from
Speaker 2: let's just say, like the corners of the internet internationally speaking.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's really unfortunate. The International Gymnastics Federation FIG
Speaker 2: said on Saturday that would respect the court's decision and
Speaker 2: elevate Anna Barboso of Romania to third IOC confirmed the
Speaker 2: ruling on Sunday before the closing ceremony. It is reallocating
Speaker 2: the medal, so.
Speaker 1: It feels like this is one of those moments where
Speaker 1: you give them both the bronze medal and like this
Speaker 1: just feels ugly and just to I don't know.
Speaker 2: Everyone's Steve Harvey in this situation. And then and these
Speaker 2: are you know, all of these girls are the miss Universes.
Speaker 2: It's like, you can't do this.
Speaker 1: And Jordan age Wise will definitely be back, right absolutely,
Speaker 1: because I guess I mean, we'll get into the athletes
Speaker 1: who are announcing retirements in a second. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's there's precedent for her to come back and slay
Speaker 1: it off again. You know, I would have I would
Speaker 1: love for her to come around, like work her mass
Speaker 1: off and come around and slay the all around Like
Speaker 1: I think this You're right, there is like a ready
Speaker 1: made narrative here for an amazing Olympic story. But wow,
Speaker 1: the pressure of that and the disappointment of this moment
Speaker 1: is probably a lot. I hope she does take care
Speaker 1: of herself, clearly she is, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: This is that thing.
Speaker 1: Remember we said in the very first episode of this,
Speaker 1: like the pressure of this is so intense, and you know,
Speaker 1: I recently watched Simone Biles on the Call Her Daddy
Speaker 1: podcast with fellow Olympic podcaster Alex Cooper and She was
Speaker 1: going on at length about how when she had her
Speaker 1: sort of moment in Tokyo where she had to pull
Speaker 1: herself out, one of the first things she was thinking
Speaker 1: about in the midst of her sort of like downturn
Speaker 1: was what is Twitter saying? Like that is something that
Speaker 1: is really on the minds of these athletes now, Like
Speaker 1: these people are not only on the world stage, but
Speaker 1: they're on the world stage in the Year of Our
Speaker 1: Lord twenty twenty four, and they're young, and they're online.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see these girls after they get off,
Speaker 1: like when they stop finished their medals, they immediately flocked
Speaker 1: each to each other and talk about what tiktoks they're
Speaker 1: gonna do, you know, like they are not immune to
Speaker 1: the intense pressure of course that comes with any competition,
Speaker 1: especially on a global stage, but also the mind that
Speaker 1: is being talked about and dissected and you know, disrespected
Speaker 1: on social media regularly. So my thing with Jordan is
Speaker 1: she's got to go to great lengths to make sure
Speaker 1: that she has mental clarity because everyone's obviously got something
Speaker 1: to say about this, and they would anyway. So just
Speaker 1: hoping the best for her because she deserves it. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times did we jump out of our chair
Speaker 1: watching her compete like she's a true superstar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we love you, Jordan. If you're listening, we
Speaker 2: know you are. Other wonderful things that have happened since
Speaker 2: our last episode.
Speaker 1: Sha, Carrie, I can take this should. Carrie Richardson secured
Speaker 1: her first Olympic Old Metal after a thundering anchor leg
Speaker 1: in the women's four by one relay on Friday. Oh,
Speaker 1: the anchor leg of a relay?
Speaker 2: Bow?
Speaker 1: You ever watched one live?
Speaker 2: Never?
Speaker 1: One day, I'll take you to a track meet. Oh.
Speaker 1: By the way, I have to update everyone I know.
Speaker 1: I said in the last episode of Two Guys Five
Speaker 1: Rings that I was going to find a track in
Speaker 1: LA and I was going to see what my mile
Speaker 1: time is now, because as we when it was in
Speaker 1: high school, it was blistering four minutes and thirty six seconds. Wow.
Speaker 1: It is incredibly hard to find a public four hundred
Speaker 1: meter track here in LA. I've even asked noted runner
Speaker 1: Pat Reagan about it and he said, it's like almost impossible.
Speaker 1: So this may have to be a storyline that gets
Speaker 1: followed over into Lost Culture. Is thus, So, if you
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Speaker 2: Vics Lost culturists, the lost culture.
Speaker 1: We would love to have your listenership, your readership even
Speaker 1: and it is there that I will close the loop,
Speaker 1: so to speak, on my mild time as of today.
Speaker 2: Are you Tom Cruise because that handoff was excellent.
Speaker 1: I mean call me Shakerry because she carried us to
Speaker 1: a gold medal in the four by one. So the
Speaker 1: Americans which are Shakar Richardson, Gabby Thomas, who by the
Speaker 1: way took the gold to the two hundred and amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing Melissa Jefferson and twenty Sha Teri braved a wet
Speaker 1: track and rainy conditions to win the team twelfth Olympic
Speaker 1: medal in the event. They did it in a time
Speaker 1: of forty one point seven eight seconds, a season best.
Speaker 1: Thomas ran the third leg and got her second gold
Speaker 1: medal in the Games. Like I said, her first go
Speaker 1: to wast gold medal was in the two hundred meters,
Speaker 1: which was amazing to watch. And when Thomas handed off
Speaker 1: to Richardson, the US was in third place. Richardson had
Speaker 1: to reel in Britain's Darryl Nita and Germany's Rebeccah Has
Speaker 1: and when she did, she flashed a look to her
Speaker 1: right and backward that said you ain't catching me. It
Speaker 1: marked a sweet clothes to the Olympics for Richardson, who
Speaker 1: came into the Olympics as a favorite but surprisingly felt
Speaker 1: to Julian Alfred of Saint Lucia in the one hundred
Speaker 1: meter race. So Shakrrie Richardson gets her well deserved gold
Speaker 1: medal and an iconic moment of looking over her shoulder
Speaker 1: at her competitor and saying, hmmm, so we love Shakari.
Speaker 1: You did it. Wish fulfillment, fulfilled, go off.
Speaker 2: We hope you are getting the manicure of your life
Speaker 2: right now now. Women's basketball and men's basketball both winning
Speaker 2: both golds, going to the US beating France for both
Speaker 2: now really amazing stuff. I was kind of into the
Speaker 2: basketball this time in the Olympics, and uh love basketball.
Speaker 2: It's Steph Curry and Lebron James screaming an tweet into
Speaker 2: each other's faces. I said, kiss but y, that's just
Speaker 2: my fan fit.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that'll be amazing if they kissed? But wait,
Speaker 1: just together?
Speaker 2: I mean I think that is Lebron's second most amorable
Speaker 2: moment in his life. The first will always be I
Speaker 2: can't believe this is my life, just smiling through it all.
Speaker 2: Can't believe this is my life, my life, just smiling
Speaker 2: through it all. Can we just flash that just on
Speaker 2: the on the instareel right now?
Speaker 1: You know, I want to sound bored so bad I've
Speaker 1: wanted to son forever. Anyway, That's also a narrative that
Speaker 1: will carry over, so we mentioned it earlier. But several
Speaker 1: Olympians will retire after Paris, including the legendary Simon and Biles,
Speaker 1: who at twenty seven was the oldest woman to make
Speaker 1: an Olympics gymnastics team since the nineteen fifties, will be retiring. However,
Speaker 1: Biles did speak to Hodah, the legend Hoda, about her
Speaker 1: future in the sport and if she's considered in competing
Speaker 1: at the next Summer Games in la in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: to which she said, you know, never say never. The
Speaker 1: next Olympics is on home turf, so you just never know.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to relax and see where life takes me.
Speaker 1: And she really should just relax, I mean, like she's dying.
Speaker 2: So she's earned Dutch.
Speaker 1: She's earned it. I would love to see her commentate.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I love watching her top I said, I love that
Speaker 1: interview they call her daddy interview. That was great, like
Speaker 1: very telegenic. Oh incredibly so gosh, I'm really emotional.
Speaker 2: But you know, there are some fun things to carry
Speaker 2: us over into the Paralympics. There are some fun things
Speaker 2: to carry over into Winter Olympics in Milan and also
Speaker 2: the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: all right, Matt, let's quickly give out our medals and
Speaker 2: close out this wonderful episode. As we cover the closing ceremonies,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give bronze to I'm gonna give bronze to
Speaker 2: Sha Carry. What a moment, and.
Speaker 1: That's a great moment. They're looking over the shoulder, the
Speaker 1: unbotheredness of it, the personality in there. We love it,
Speaker 1: we love it.
Speaker 2: There's there's there's so much going on. That is a
Speaker 2: that is a sort of almost lab grown Olympic moment
Speaker 2: that I just love. And it's Sha Carry, who is
Speaker 2: such a perfect icon for this twenty twenty four Olympic
Speaker 2: games of like, you know, perfectly reflecting of the time
Speaker 2: that we're in.
Speaker 1: What's your silver My silver metal goes to Anthony Ketis,
Speaker 1: who was performing in a boot. Something happened to his
Speaker 1: left foot, which doesn't surprise me at all. If Anthony
Speaker 1: Ketis of the Red hot Chelli Pepper strikes me as
Speaker 1: someone who often does something that hurts his left foot.
Speaker 1: And I have to say that, by the way, his
Speaker 1: autobiography Scar Tissue, one of the greats, one of the
Speaker 1: great Uh.
Speaker 2: I love the Anthony Kiatis, you love Anthony Kilos.
Speaker 1: I love anyone who's that hot, that's stupid, that talented,
Speaker 1: and that able to still get up there and do
Speaker 1: his thing in a boot. And if you don't think
Speaker 1: he took his mesh tank and put it over his
Speaker 1: head so he couldn't see, and showed his belly and
Speaker 1: torso and walked around that stage in a boot, putting
Speaker 1: himself at high risk to hurt his right foot, you'd
Speaker 1: be mistaken legend. And he wins my silver medal.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a benevolent sort of masculinity there that's
Speaker 2: like reminiscent of like Jackass. Like it's like like I
Speaker 2: like I think there's that sort of world that I'm like,
Speaker 2: really really hopeful about. I'm like, no, no, he's these
Speaker 2: should be the men who lead us forward. And our
Speaker 2: gold is gonna I think we're going to break this
Speaker 2: tie between the US and China for most golds, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna give the gold to the United States of America.
Speaker 1: The gold medal is won by the US.
Speaker 2: And when her sang the Star straangled banner, I said
Speaker 2: acceptable nationalism. I said, I am proud to be an American,
Speaker 2: where at least I think I'm free.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Well I changed the word no to think because sometimes
Speaker 2: the illusion of freedom is better than nothing.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, her really shreds on that guitar.
Speaker 2: Too good for her because gosh, still very early in
Speaker 2: her career. Oscar Winner, Grammy Winner, got to perform with
Speaker 2: the Olympics at Dell, introduced her at SNL and.
Speaker 1: She was bell in the live action Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 1: So that's part of that you got. I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I think if you arrange the letters of that, you
Speaker 2: get you good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 2: T any other thought.
Speaker 1: I hope it's not. I hope it's not the last
Speaker 1: time we see breaking. I want I want everyone still
Speaker 1: just you took it back. No, I'm taking it back.
Speaker 1: I want everyone to see what happened in the breaking competition,
Speaker 1: and I think that people should feel inspired. And I
Speaker 1: do still think we should add singing, which brings me
Speaker 1: to Selene, and I think Selene should be an Olympic
Speaker 1: Gold Medalist for singing. And That's where I'll keep it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely Now, I just want to say the thing we're
Speaker 2: not putting out about Reagan is that this entire situation
Speaker 2: is like a two thousand and seven comedy movie starring
Speaker 2: Chris Lily. Yeah, like someone who qualifies to be the
Speaker 2: Australian breaking representative and it's someone doing Chris Lily moves. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a mister g in Summer Heights High. This would
Speaker 2: have been like a Vince Vaughn film in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four, you know, like it's amazing, Like let's just
Speaker 2: let's just appreciate this moment, like it's really it's kind
Speaker 2: of fun and like God, thank goodness that she has
Speaker 2: the right attitude about it. I'm sure she's like I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's a level of embarrassment, but like internationally, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is the other thing about the Olympics this year.
Speaker 2: This is our first genuine monoculture in a long time,
Speaker 2: and I think this is a very good moment for monoculture.
Speaker 2: And this makes a case that sports is culture and
Speaker 2: we should probably talk about sports more on LA's culture.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think the Olympics had I think the Olympics
Speaker 1: had a brat summer. Let's just let's just say that.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that it's so funny that you mentioned
Speaker 1: Vince Vaughn because I was just walking back from Barry's
Speaker 1: and Vince Vaughn is getting a Hollywood star in the
Speaker 1: walk off ame today and it was they were set up,
Speaker 1: and so it's like that was such an LA thing,
Speaker 1: and that is so LA twenty twenty Olympics coded, like
Speaker 1: the hollywoodness of it.
Speaker 2: All, like Barry's boot campus. So I hope Barry's has
Speaker 2: a huge moment at the opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I want Kyle k to light the torch.
Speaker 1: Kyle Kay is my favorite Bears and start fish shout out.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want me mc andrew, who's my favorite Berris?
Speaker 1: And sorry, no, that's that's that's too New York.
Speaker 2: We love you and though.
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Speaker 1: Paralympic Games August twenty eighth to September eighth on NBC
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Speaker 2: And Let's close out with the song