1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by Hard Rot bet. We 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: are part of the Volume podcast network. This is the 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: betting show that makes the squares sharper and makes the 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: wise guys pay attention all year long. I am Chavnel. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: I am joined by my bff, my companion, my compadre, 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: my co host, professional better Simon Hunter l Osimn. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: Hello, Chad. It's uh, It's that time of year, buddy. 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 3: Olympics, Olympic time. 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: And that's why we're not just doing it you and 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: me today, We're having Matt Mitchell join us in his 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: Olympic jacket because we've been talking a lot about the 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: Olympics before our records, because Matt Mitchell was betting them 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: like a freaking maniac. And the truth is, if you 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: look at the numbers, there's nearly thirty million people a 15 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: day watching the Olympics across all of the various NBC platforms. 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: And I'm watching too in the coverages phenomenal between the 17 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: live during the day and then the recaps and sort 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: of more narrative focused shows going on on the main 19 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: networking night. It's truly awesome. I'm loving it. Matt Mitchell 20 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: just lost his mind because he's got a bet going 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: on right now on some Canadian hockey game as we 22 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: record this. 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 3: Matt, Matt Mitchell, welcome to the show. 24 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. It's really an honor, big first time, 25 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 4: long time big fan, right, big fan. Yeah, especially hopefully 26 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 4: there's some more indulgent Chad Noman focused Chad Norman stories 27 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 4: as told by Chad Norman in this episode. 28 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess we can address the elephant 29 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: in the room. Is that you know, I've had a 30 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: crazy eight weeks and in our first non real, non 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: football show, Simon asked what was going on and I 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: had just come back from the All Star Game and 33 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: I had some stories, so fucking sue me. 34 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Simon. It's so crazy that someone so handsome 35 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 4: and funny could also be so interesting and humble at 36 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 4: the same time. We are truly blest It's true. 37 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 3: Well now it's like em at the dinner table. 38 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: So listen today, guys, we are going to talk about 39 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: the Olympics, because there is a ton going on. And 40 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: I would say, even if you're not betting it, and look, 41 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: the truth is, you know, there's been a lot of 42 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: conversations around the prediction markets and the betting markets that 43 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: they're creating around the Olympics, as well as the betting 44 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: markets available for the Olympics on all of the online 45 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: spat betting operators that are legal. And the truth is 46 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: Olympics is not a big betting sport. It's never been 47 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: a big betting sport. Winter Olympics especially is not a 48 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: big betting sport. But I will say that these Olympics 49 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: have captured people's attention because there are so many freaking 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: narratives going on that to me have been amazing. And 51 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: so I want us to go through, like what are 52 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: since we all have very specific points of view. 53 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 3: What our favorite betting stories are so far. 54 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: But I know you guys are both very invested in 55 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: the hockey. So Matt Mitchell set us up for some 56 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: hockey betting conversation and what that's been like for you 57 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: during the Olympics. 58 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 4: Oh, I think Olympic hockey is such an absolute joy 59 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 4: to watch, the men's and the women's I mean really, 60 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 4: especially the women's. You're getting so much action. It's laid 61 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 4: out one after the other. You've got games. I mean 62 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 4: this morning, I woke up at six thirty in the 63 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 4: morning with two small children, and I'm great. I'm already 64 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 4: in the third period of an Olympic hockey game. I 65 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 4: wake up to a full lather because Slovakia and Germany 66 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 4: are neck and neck like. It's such a nice reprieve 67 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 4: as someone that doesn't really like college basketball at all, 68 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 4: to the dolgrums of mid and late February to have 69 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 4: high stakes, highly organized, elite NonStop hockey action every day 70 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 4: for basically two weeks. It has been such a joy. 71 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 4: And these American ladies are a collection of complete savages, 72 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 4: and I really look forward to watching them in the 73 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 4: gold medal match, which unfortunately will be I think, basically 74 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 4: being played as this episode releases on Thursday. 75 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: I love the idea of you getting up your two 76 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: small children who can be incredibly challenging. Not your son, 77 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: he's a dream, but your daughter. She can give you 78 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: some fits and needing to manage a full sweat while 79 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,679 Speaker 1: making them breakfast and getting them ready for school. 80 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, as usual as a lot of dad. Why are 81 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 4: you making that face? No, I was just thinking about 82 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,239 Speaker 4: the weather. Yeah, it's great, but doing Actually, my daughter 83 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 4: was born the week the sport shut down in twenty twenty, 84 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,840 Speaker 4: and then I can remember holding her, you know, then 85 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 4: extremely small body, and when KPO, when the Korean baseball 86 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 4: was coming back, and that would those games would end 87 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 4: at like six am, and just holding her, which is 88 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: I should be humiliated by this admission, but I'm not. 89 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 4: But like I can remember holding her looking out the 90 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: window and the sun's coming up a beautiful spring morning 91 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 4: and just being like, if one more goddamn Korean bullpen 92 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 4: blows a seven run lead, I'm not going to live 93 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 4: to see this girl's tenth birthday. We need real sports 94 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 4: to come back, and we need to come back right away. 95 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 4: And uh and at how these hockey games are a 96 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 4: little taste of that. 97 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I was gonna say. 98 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 5: The the funny thing about Winter Olympics is, especially because 99 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 5: I'm just going too football, I honestly have no idea 100 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 5: to come, and when all of a sudden it's just here, 101 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 5: like I'll see they're the opening game, ceremonies, whatever it is, Alston, 102 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 5: You're just like, wow, four years just went by. 103 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: That happens to me every time. 104 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 5: I always know the Summer Olympics is coming, because, like 105 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 5: you said, it's so much bigger. You know it's coming 106 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 5: with the winter Olympics. It to me, it's the best surprises. 107 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 5: Something that grew up on the X Games. Always loved 108 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 5: the Winter X Game, snowboarding, all that stuff. And as 109 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 5: I've gotten older, obviously just like anyone does, especially as 110 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 5: a gambler, you watch all the sports now as I've 111 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 5: gotten older, and you know, for me, my first love 112 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 5: always still be the snowboarding stuff like this year or 113 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 5: maybe they headed the last Olympics, but they do these 114 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 5: snowboarding races I've really gotten into and they basically wear 115 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 5: like red, yellow, blue, orange, whatever, and it's four teams 116 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 5: and they race against each other, you know, four different 117 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 5: county I've really loved that for betting aspect. But yeah, 118 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 5: for I said the mandmtro for betting wise, hockey has 119 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 5: been what I've been betting on, Chad and you know, 120 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 5: the USA women, we've kind of hit the peak. Like 121 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 5: I didn't want to fade them last week, but I 122 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 5: think they're like seven and a half or eight goal favorites. 123 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 5: I had to go against that. It was just way 124 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 5: too much. I think they won five to nothing against Sweden, 125 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 5: who's you know, Sweden very talented. The US women are 126 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 5: just that dominant right now and I think they beat 127 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 5: Italy six nothing, but the men's has been the really 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 5: big surprise here. Of it's always interesting chat where they 129 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 5: just throw these pros together and you don't know how 130 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 5: they're gonna gel and hockey guys, I mean, I don't know. 131 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 5: Everyone had a different opinion on different sports guys. To me, 132 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 5: when I think of my favorite personality types, I always 133 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 5: think of the hockey guys, the hockey bros. Like even 134 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 5: in high school, I love the hockey guys. In college, 135 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 5: I love the hockey guys. As I gotten older, I 136 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 5: meet hot guys who play, you know, weekend warriors, play 137 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 5: hockey and stuff. 138 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: They're always the best characters. They're either hilarious, they're drink 139 00:07:59,040 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 2: with or whatever. 140 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 5: They're always twenty guys and you can tell this USA 141 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 5: team gels like these guys hang out, they actually like 142 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 5: each other, and you're looking for that stuff as someone 143 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 5: that's betting and looking for angles, and it's shown up 144 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 5: like they should have blown out Denmark. They wont six 145 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 5: to three. If you go back and look at that 146 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: those three goals by Denmark, super stupid fluky goals where 147 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 5: it's like hockeycatchly. 148 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: Nets, very fluky. 149 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 5: Germany dominated Germany got like a fluke one goal at 150 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 5: the very end of the game. They beat them five 151 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 5: to one. So I don't know about man Mitchell. They 152 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 5: play today like we're doing some Wednesday they play three 153 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 5: to ten. The women play tomorrow. If anyone wants to 154 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 5: catch that game at one ten Eastern, I would definitely 155 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 5: check out the women's obviously, but yeah, the men's I'm 156 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 5: looking forward today they play against Sweden, so I'll see 157 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 5: people are here that's full on the result there. But 158 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 5: I honestly think this team is legit. They have a 159 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 5: real chance to win it all. 160 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: What's amazing about this Olympics. It's it's really taking hold 161 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: of the narrative and sort of for fandom, right the 162 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: condom story that running out of ten thousand condoms. 163 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 2: Is behind that why they disappeared. 164 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 3: Well, apparently people were taking them for souvenirs exactly. 165 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 5: They put the it has a condom with the Olympic 166 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 5: symbol on him. So like these guys who don't make 167 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: any money, why would you not grab a thousand? I 168 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 5: love it like a Middle America was like, oh my god, 169 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 5: the Olympics were having tons of sex and all these 170 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 5: condoms are going here's the thing. It's like, dude, they 171 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 5: are having sex, but they are grabbing that stuff to sell. 172 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 2: Let's be real. That's that's a money maker. 173 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: But still, I remember we did this story at ESP 174 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: in the magazine I think around the twenty twelve Olympics. 175 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 3: Sam Aliport, who's. 176 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: A great reporter, really fun writer, does a lot of 177 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: TV stuff now in La he wrote this story about 178 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: the Olympic Games basically being always being not this but 179 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: massive orgies. Just like you've got. 180 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: Good looking people in great shape together. 181 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: Young people in great shape who are like hyper competitive. 182 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 2: Most stressful environment of their lives. 183 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: Yes, and they stay in the village and they just 184 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: fucking let it go, right, And so there is a 185 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,239 Speaker 1: lot of sex going on in the Olympic village, regardless 186 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: of whether or not they're using all ten thousand condoms. 187 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: The good news is, according to the New York Post, 188 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: as of today, a new shipment of condoms has made 189 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: it to the Olympic village. So rest assured, people can 190 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: have safe sex in Milan, Courtina right now. 191 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 4: I'm not just saying this because I lost all my 192 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 4: money betting on Checchi Alive. Tend to one to be 193 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 4: Canada and just had to watch them lose the minute 194 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 4: over type started. But I am embarrassed. Another the one 195 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 4: million example of how I'm still poor that I didn't 196 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 4: think to just get on a plane go to the 197 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 4: Olympics to grab as many condoms as I could carry, 198 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 4: to fly immediately home and sell them on the black 199 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 4: market and make a killing. Like I'm sure so many 200 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 4: of the world's finest athletes and their hangers on thought 201 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 4: of what was I doing. I was just sitting here 202 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 4: listening to Chand's NBA All Star Game stories instead of 203 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 4: doing like it's a shame there's a bus there's no 204 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 4: bus line between Milwaukee and Milan. Otherwise I probably would 205 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 4: have thought of it. 206 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: Would you say that my All Star Game stories are better, worse, 207 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: or the same than say the story about Penis flapgate 208 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: at the Olympics over the past two weeks. 209 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 4: I mean that's really a question for like, I don't know, 210 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 4: like Jimmy Goldstein or Demmy Moore. I mean that's a 211 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 4: question you'd ask black alas celebrity. 212 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 3: Matt It's it's to me like you're showing your Milwaukee. 213 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 4: She's always been missus. Bruce Wallace to me as the 214 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 4: world's number one Bruce Wallis fan, and. 215 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 5: People are being too hard on Shdi. I said to 216 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 5: multip people that were making fun of you were picking you. Chad, 217 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 5: I said, at least he didn't tell us what his 218 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 5: son's college roommate thinks, because that, to me was peak 219 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 5: level Chad just missing the plot. I never want to 220 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 5: hear ever again, it's not Chad Sun's roommate in college. 221 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 5: What that kid thinks literally could care less. But Chad 222 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 5: he cares. And that's why we love Chad. 223 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: I don't even remember what that story. 224 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 2: Whatever it was, I just remember when you went there. 225 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 2: I was just like, my god, Indiana. 226 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 4: Football, yeahs who just lost his mind? He was in 227 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 4: like a state of psychosis. 228 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god. When hul Cogan. 229 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 4: Would say he was entering a state of whole comania, 230 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 4: like Chad's whole commania was Indiana football for like a 231 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 4: hundred days. That was quite a time to be alive. 232 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 2: Now, what are we gonna do? Boys? Are we gonna? 233 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 2: Are we gonna? 234 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 5: Are we gonna make fun of Canada for being cheaters 235 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 5: in the lamest game ever? 236 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: We got to talk about this. 237 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: The controversy, the curling the Canadian curling. 238 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: This is what This is what why the Olympics so 239 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: great this year is curling has a controversy and it 240 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: is turned the world against Canada for being foul mouthed 241 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: and poor sports. That's amazing to me. I still can't 242 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 1: tell if they're cheating, if they're doing the tuble touch. 243 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: But now all of a sudden there's got to be 244 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: intensivite reviews. 245 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 3: Of all of it. 246 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: They could be getting away with it. I don't think 247 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: Canadians cheat. I love Canadians, very kind people. Matt Mitchell, 248 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: where do we stand on the Canadians cheating? 249 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 4: I really appreciated that. My understanding of the controversy is 250 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 4: that there's no The culture of curling is one of 251 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 4: incredible sportsmanship, and like self regulation, the athletes call their 252 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 4: own fouls on one another. It's very sporting in that sense, 253 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 4: very old school. So as part of that, there's not 254 00:13:54,480 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 4: traditionally a down the line view of what's called thee, 255 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 4: which would result in a double touch if you're touching 256 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 4: the stone when it touches that line. The Swedes believed 257 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 4: that the Canadians were cheating and not calling it, so 258 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 4: they set up their own camera angle which their own 259 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 4: own a sting. They set up an Olympic sting, which 260 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 4: is why the Canadian Mark Kennedy was so apoplectic and 261 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 4: profane about defending himself because he thought, well, there's no way, 262 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 4: there's no footage of it. That's like, that's our whole 263 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 4: thing as former all of us, as former employees of 264 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: a of a Danish owned company, the whole Scandinavian region 265 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 4: is so unbelievably calm and refined and within themselves emotionally. 266 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 4: I'm none of those things. So seeing that Canadian lose 267 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 4: his mind to get really pissy and the Swedes look 268 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 4: at them with the same look many executives looked at 269 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 4: me when I would be explaining something of like how 270 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 4: curious your anger is very curious to me. I'm not 271 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 4: sure it calls for this histrionics. And they nailed them, 272 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 4: nailed them perfectly. It was a it was a perfect scandal. 273 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 4: It was there's a good guy, there's bad guys, there's 274 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 4: a sting. It's low stakes because it's curling, but it's 275 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 4: also high stakes because it's the Olympics ten out of 276 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 4: ten scandal, and. 277 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: It's my favorite part two. 278 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 5: It's like I don't watch him anymore because now it 279 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 5: messed with my head about driving. I used to always 280 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 5: watch those dash can videos of accidents and it's when 281 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 5: the people get like reversed into people and they get 282 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 5: out to blame on them, and then they see the 283 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 5: dash camera. That's what the Canadian guy felt like, where 284 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 5: he was so sure, so confident, and the Sweedish guy 285 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 5: like mauched. 286 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: That he's just so relaxed, letting him just air it out. 287 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 5: And then it could be being like we brought our 288 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 5: own camera and here I'm gonna show the footage to 289 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 5: the referees. 290 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,479 Speaker 2: That was just great comparison. 291 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 4: Great comparison. 292 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, very well done, Simon. It's also a little bit. 293 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: It's uh that they pre planned that, right, They must 294 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: have seen some kind of footage or in competition. 295 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 5: Some other team told on them apparently okay, and they 296 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 5: denied it again at that time and again the Swedes 297 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 5: I love it. They're like, we'll set up our own 298 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 5: camera and literally zoom in on this guy. 299 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: This is a juicy, soapy, dishy Olympics. 300 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 3: We had the dude who. 301 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: Want won a gold medal, I think, and while being interviewed, 302 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: admitted to cheating on his. 303 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: Girlfriend or might have been a bronze, but still even even. 304 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: It was bronze bronze in credible, Yeah, well that's just 305 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: that just shows how dumb you are. 306 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: You knew what he was doing, though. That was a 307 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: good move by him. 308 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 5: Like he had a little bit like he knew that 309 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 5: would be a big story, because I think it was 310 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 5: like day two and yeah, they ran they immediate ate 311 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 5: it up right away, They're like, oh did it was 312 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 5: like the next day they're like, did she take you back? 313 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: And it's like, no, I'm still blocked. 314 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 4: I think my favorite part of that, by the way, 315 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 4: was that the initial headlines were essentially athlete admits cheating 316 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 4: in acceptance speech, which was true and misleading and made 317 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 4: everybody click on it, and then I read it it 318 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 4: was like, oh, outstanding work, perfect execution. But because it 319 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 4: was even more hilarious and than admitting actual cheating at 320 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 4: the event, Wait, it's not even cheating on a girlfriend. 321 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 4: Oh perfect. 322 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: You think he did this to manipulate the story and 323 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: get more action, like this would put him on the 324 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: market and give him opportunities. 325 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 5: Well, he's already nursissist because he cheated on a girl. 326 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 5: After whatever, it was two three months, so that just 327 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 5: adds up. I honest, when I first saw the headline, 328 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 5: like you, I thought it was like that. I think 329 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 5: it was like a South American soccer player that basically 330 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 5: thinked his wife and then his girlfriend and his acceptance 331 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 5: speech like wasn't thinking clearly because he was so excited. 332 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 5: You say, I want to thank my wife and my girlfriend, 333 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 5: and then like I had to retract and be like, yeah, 334 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 5: I cheated on my wife. I thought he did that moment, 335 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 5: it was like no, this guy openly admitted to it. 336 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 5: He was like, yeah, I told my girlfriend before I 337 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 5: came here, and she dumped me, and she's the love 338 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 5: of my life even though we've only been together for 339 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 5: three months. And it's like, oh my god, this man 340 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 5: is a headkeaser six months whatever it was. But yeah, again, 341 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 5: like you said, I love these Olympic stories because you 342 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 5: get stuff like that where it's just these crazy Europeans. 343 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 5: As much as they think we're crazy Americans, there's nothing 344 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 5: better than a crazy European. 345 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: There's two more stories I want to talk about, but 346 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and hear from our sponsors 347 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: at hard Rock Bet. Today's show is brought to you 348 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: by our presenting sponsor, hard Rock Bet, Florida's sports book. 349 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: I know it's tough with no football, but like the 350 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: song says, I bet, I will survive. 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Mikayla 386 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: Schiffrin has done the same thing, and until her last 387 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: attempt she had not won a gold medal. She now 388 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: won a gold medal in the slalom. She's actually I 389 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: think the winningest skier for gold in American history now 390 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: with three. She's only the second person to win the 391 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: slalom in two different Olympics. No taking away from Mikayla Schiffrin, 392 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 1: who's obviously the greatest skier downhill skier in history man 393 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: or woman. But meanwhile, Norway talk about like Scandinavian, Nordic 394 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: countries that. 395 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 3: Just keep moving forward. 396 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: They're cross country skier who now has I think ten 397 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: overall gold medals, Johann host Flott Claybow who basically runs 398 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: uphill during cross country skiing and he's doing six minute 399 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: miles on skis in the snow. That is, to me, 400 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: bar Non, the best story of the Games. He has 401 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: created a new technique that makes him so dominant. People 402 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: can't see him when they are like in second place. 403 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: He's so far ahead the best I. 404 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 4: Read a fabulous piece and I can't find I can't 405 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 4: credit the person. But if the person was in Nordic 406 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 4: kind of games and said the most impressive part of 407 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 4: that isn't that they you know, he's acting like they 408 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 4: cut out secretariat's heart and put it inside his body. 409 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 4: It was that he was doing that in concert with 410 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 4: this incredible support team that these Scandinavian teams have for 411 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 4: these games because they're the best at it. That you 412 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 4: have to whax your skis and you have to use 413 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 4: two different kinds, one to help you slide in one 414 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 4: that helps you stick, and so it's it requires mastery 415 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 4: to apply. But if you screw it up, if you, 416 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 4: for example, if you try running up the hill like 417 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 4: that and you're using it wrong, you'll slide backwards. It'll 418 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 4: be so totally self defeating. So that the way to 419 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 4: do that, to execute it as he did, was to 420 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 4: stomp your feet straight down really hard. And that the 421 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 4: fact that he was running it like over eleven miles 422 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 4: an hour at one point and looked like he was 423 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 4: just it was cheering like a train, but he was 424 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 4: actually having to stomp each step straight down into the snow, 425 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 4: but doing so so quickly that it looks like he's jogging. 426 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 4: Was absolutely the most impressive part of it because he 427 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 4: had to do it in such a precise way, and 428 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 4: if you if you messed up uh that one because 429 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 4: you got tired or whatever, you would ruin your whole advantage. 430 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 3: Uh, remarkable. 431 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 4: This guy's an absolute like animal. It was unbelievable to watch. 432 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I had never heard of him, and I feel 433 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,919 Speaker 5: it was NBC or someone did a storyline on on 434 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 5: the first day and it was like, this is the 435 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 5: Michael Phillips of this cross country skiing. It's like, all right, 436 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 5: I got to check out this guy's event. The first 437 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 5: one I watch. I was joking with you, Chad there. 438 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 5: The announcers were like, and this is his worst event, 439 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,239 Speaker 5: so this should be a real challenge for him. And 440 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 5: then it cuts to you know, an hour later, he's 441 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 5: got to a ten second lead on another guy from Norway, 442 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 5: because Norway is just dominant at this cross country skiing 443 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 5: and stuff. And he blows him out. He wins, and 444 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 5: he's like laying down there with all these guys. They 445 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 5: collapse the end of it, right, They're just so exhausted 446 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 5: they lay there for a minute. This guy is such 447 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 5: a good dude. He doesn't get up and go do 448 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 5: like interviews and stuff like that. He waits for his 449 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 5: teammates to come and collapse and then takes off all 450 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 5: their skis for them. And it's like the humbleness of 451 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 5: this guy and the fact that he is just everyone 452 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 5: says he is a psycho. Like you said, his training 453 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 5: apparently is just insane, the same thing you said for 454 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 5: about Michael Filips. Michael Phelps did not miss a day 455 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 5: in the pool for ten years, every day, seven days 456 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 5: a week, and apparently this guy is the same thing. 457 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: It's middle of July. 458 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 5: He's going to the highest Nordic Pines Alps, you know, 459 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 5: of the top the Arctic circle of Norway, just to 460 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 5: go uphill on snow. Like this guy is just a 461 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 5: full on psycho. So yeah, he's what twenty four you said. 462 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 5: So we're gonna get another two, possibly three more Olympics 463 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 5: of this guy. We'll see how how he heads into 464 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 5: his thirties. But pretty incredible what he's accomplished at such 465 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 5: a young age. 466 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: I think you guys know from having worked with me 467 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: for so long and now our audience knows, I am 468 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: that kind of selfless, unselfish person you are. I would 469 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: I would not celebrate before helping you guys take off 470 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: your skis. 471 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 2: Oh thanks, ch I would have a beer before. I'd 472 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 2: have at least a beer while waiting. 473 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 3: I mean well, I would have won by so much 474 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 3: that I could I can do that. 475 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: Get your nuts. 476 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 4: You have some exotic oils and nuts from trees we 477 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 4: don't even have access to. 478 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 3: They're the ones at Jimmy Goldstein's house. 479 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, sharing a Macadamias. 480 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 3: You can't get those nuts on the flip side of this. 481 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 3: And this is the last story. 482 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to end it on a downer, but. 483 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 2: Is this gonna be the China stuff? 484 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 3: Yeah? 485 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: For all the glory of NBC's mastery of the Olympics 486 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: and how great the stories are. The number of times 487 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: I have heard announcers say Aileen Gou, who's from San Francisco, 488 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: is skiing for China to honor her mother. I have 489 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: heard it so many times that if I got a dollar, 490 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: I would be as rich as Aileen Gou for all 491 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: the money she has gotten from China, which was a 492 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: story this week that brought that she has been paid 493 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: millions of dollars to ski and compete for China. To 494 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: put it in context, she is the fourth highest paid 495 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: female athlete in the world, behind Coco Groth, Sable Anka and. 496 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 3: Sweet Tech. How do I say her name? The tennis player. 497 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: So apparently just competing for China was another money grab sign. 498 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw it was basically like her incentives are 499 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 5: wild too, Like no one knows how real the money 500 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 5: is because it is China. 501 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: But she I believe she did get sober. Apparently she 502 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 2: had gotten gold. 503 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 5: It was like insane, what they're going to give her 504 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 5: part of her contract? But uh yeah, I think the 505 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 5: story you saw the same when I did chat. I 506 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 5: was that China basically spend forty million on just American 507 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 5: athletes alone Wall Street Journal to compete in the Olympics, 508 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 5: which is you know, a lot of people might be 509 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 5: like stick their nose, app knows up at it. But 510 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 5: we talk all the time America's vantage, especially on the 511 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 5: women's side, from your youth to your adulthood of just 512 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 5: support in sports. It's not like these other countries. It's 513 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 5: just America is just so much more committed to sports 514 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 5: in these other countries. So to me, China, I feel 515 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 5: like this is a smart little cheek. Good for them 516 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 5: if they if they can keep getting away with this, 517 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 5: because you're using all the institutions that America has, all 518 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 5: the great coaching, everything like that, and you're just paying 519 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 5: the back end of it, and you can get reaped 520 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 5: the rewards of it. So because we know China's win 521 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 5: Winter Olympics is not good like that. You know there's 522 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 5: the ice, the fast skating and stuff like that is 523 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 5: stuff they've always been good at to synchronize skating. But yeah, 524 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 5: this was I was shocked through this because once again 525 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 5: I didn't know any of this was happening. 526 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 2: So yeah, good breakdown by you, Chin. 527 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 3: I mean, I. 528 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 4: Don't want to get overly serious or overly political, but 529 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 4: I do want to address right to camera, the people's 530 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 4: republic at China. Right now, it's just you and me, China. 531 00:27:54,720 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 4: Listen to me. Only you can help defeat the capitalist 532 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 4: dogs of the Indiana Hoosier football program. Together with your 533 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 4: tens of millions of dollars, you, me, and my University 534 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 4: of Missouri Tiger football program can overthrow them and begin 535 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 4: a new glorious revolution within the SEC. All on my 536 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 4: phone lines are open. I can help bridge this gap, 537 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 4: and it will only cost you several hundred million dollars. 538 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 4: We can do this. I support you. 539 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: I actually wonder I really thought you were going to 540 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: make a plea for them to sponsor your daughter as 541 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: a future Olympian or whatever sport. She chooses, this is 542 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: a serious question, which is how much would it take 543 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,479 Speaker 1: for you to decide to compete for another country in 544 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: the Olympics, Because to me, isn't part of the joy 545 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: of being in the Olympics is like competing for your country. 546 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 3: And I don't know, like you want to make money. 547 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm not blind to the idea that a lot of 548 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: these athletes are professionals. They make a lot of money. 549 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: You get bonuses for being the Olympics, et cetera, et cetera, 550 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: et cetera. But like, at the end of the day, 551 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: it's not just about being a mercenary competing for the 552 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: most money. It is about the joy and like draping 553 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: the flag and walking in the opening ceremonies and walking 554 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: in the closing ceremonies and being part of a team 555 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: of countrymen, that like is supposed to be inherent in 556 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: the experience. So what would I can't even think of 557 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: a number that it would take for me to want 558 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 1: to go compete for somebody else. 559 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 5: You've had a very good, comfortable life chat, so that 560 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 5: makes total sense. 561 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. 562 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 5: I could never I don't know what the dollar I 563 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 5: would have to be if I was great at a sport. 564 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. 565 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 5: I'd rather be great under the American flag than China's flag. 566 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 5: But these other people, I get it, like if you 567 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 5: have some sort of ties to it, especially if you're 568 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 5: a West Coaster, and the money is just that big 569 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 5: like that, that's an insane Like what they're reporting is 570 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 5: an insane amount of money that she's being paid. So 571 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 5: I get your perspective. I share it, but I can't 572 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 5: hold it against her. That's just so much money to 573 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 5: turn down. And like you said, I think they're trying 574 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 5: to use the loop of them and she's doing it 575 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 5: for her mom what whatever gets her to sleep in night. 576 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 2: But we all know, we all know, so you know, 577 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 2: you gotta live with that, right. 578 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: Simon is always the voice of like the cold, hard truth, 579 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: whereas I'd like to believe in sort of the best 580 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: of people. 581 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 3: Simon doesn't see that. 582 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 4: Matt Mitchell, Yeah, the idea of two countries, including America, 583 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 4: competing for my athletics services on the world stage is 584 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 4: as insane and hypothetical as if I had wings, would 585 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 4: I still be allowed to compete in the Olympics. I'm 586 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 4: not even really sure how to engage with this hypothetical. 587 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: I think we can all agree on one thing. This 588 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: Olympics has been a conversation starter, because I don't think 589 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: we've ever talked about the Olympics on this podcast, either 590 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,239 Speaker 1: in its previous iteration or obviously in this one, in 591 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,959 Speaker 1: our seven years together. 592 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: That's how big the Olympics have been. 593 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: Thirty million people a day watching these things, and now 594 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: we're talking about it. We are off next week. We're 595 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: back the week of March second. That's kind of when 596 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: football season kicks off. We have some football conversations lined 597 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: up for that week already a lot of conversations that 598 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: are going to impact player movement futures, how we're digesting, handicapping, 599 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: and thinking about the NFL season to come. This has 600 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: been Sharper Square, part of the Volume podcast network. 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