Speaker 1: Okay, girl, hey girl, let's go down the shoet, which
Speaker 1: let should be established a little greeting.
Speaker 2: I think we have to find it. What do we do? Like,
Speaker 2: do we just say two guys five rings? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or we say or we say ring the word ring
Speaker 1: five times?
Speaker 2: Oh that's good, that's good. I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, here we go, ring ring, ring, ring ring?
Speaker 2: Wow? And would you believe we just created that gold?
Speaker 2: Like Bowen, I have to give I have to really
Speaker 2: give you the credit because we sort of canonically and
Speaker 2: iconically come onto our podcast Last Culturistas with Ding Dong
Speaker 2: and then who you are saying? Ring ring, ring, ring ring?
Speaker 2: This is a natural.
Speaker 1: Progress sort of analog. Well, after all, this is our
Speaker 1: new podcast, two Guys, five Rings, where we talk all
Speaker 1: things Olympic.
Speaker 2: Yes, for those of you who sort of arrived here
Speaker 2: because you want to hear about sports and didn't even
Speaker 2: know who we are, I'm Matt Rogers, I co host
Speaker 2: the Lost Cultura's podcast.
Speaker 1: And I'm Bowen Yang. I also co host The Lost
Speaker 1: Cultursa's podcast. Now, would you say that we typically cover
Speaker 1: anything athletic on our let's say, day job show.
Speaker 2: I actually don't remember the last time we spoke about
Speaker 2: sports or athletics at all, which is and a lot
Speaker 2: of people might be surprised to hear us hosting this podcast,
Speaker 2: and what we would say to those people is we're
Speaker 2: surprised too. But really, I guess this makes us like
Speaker 2: sort of a podcast for the Olympics for the every day.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think we are the surrogates for people who
Speaker 1: have seen challengers and think that is enough sports for me.
Speaker 1: But that's not true. There is no ceiling on sports.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you say.
Speaker 2: There is no ceiling on sports, especially this Olympics because
Speaker 2: it's the summer Olympics. Buton and this is really going
Speaker 2: to happen outside, and it's gonna happen in Paris, and
Speaker 2: Paris I heard has beautiful outside. Now I know you've
Speaker 2: been to Paris, so don't pretend that you've not been
Speaker 2: to Paris. Now, I know you've seen the outside of Paris.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was not putting up any pretense that I
Speaker 1: have not been to Paris. I was just starting up
Speaker 1: a conversation for you and the listener to discuss Paris,
Speaker 1: the beauty of Paris.
Speaker 2: Have you been to Paris in the summer?
Speaker 1: I happened to Paris in the summer. I've been very
Speaker 1: lucky to be in Paris in the summer hot but
Speaker 1: and the people are hotter, oh honey.
Speaker 2: And it's about to get even hotter because these athletes
Speaker 2: are coming now. I would say if we ever talked
Speaker 2: about the Olympics on our podcast, it probably would have
Speaker 2: to do with, you know, just how hot some of
Speaker 2: the athletes really are. Actually, just the other day, we
Speaker 2: had a conversation about winter olympian Apollo anton Ono being
Speaker 2: sexually formative for you specific But but you're saying that
Speaker 2: he wasn't for you.
Speaker 1: We know, I Paula's friend. No, I'm just kidding. I yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely Listen.
Speaker 2: I feel like an awakening.
Speaker 1: For me is more. I'm going to speak more collectively,
Speaker 1: like any men's gymnastics event. I oh yeah, I kind
Speaker 1: of real I re realize what I'm put on this
Speaker 1: earth to do, which is to watch people with bodies
Speaker 1: do amazing things with those bodies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of that this summer.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of that this summer, I guess.
Speaker 2: Today on today's episode, we're here to talk about the
Speaker 2: top storylines. Two guys, five rings. There's some storylines happening
Speaker 2: that are there's really narratives and really there's Every Olympics
Speaker 2: is a dramatic story, you know what I mean? Like that,
Speaker 2: that's what's so great about it.
Speaker 1: The Olympics are soap operas writ large, wouldn't you say
Speaker 1: on the world stage?
Speaker 2: You know? On our other podcast, what we do right
Speaker 2: now is say that's a rural of culture, but not
Speaker 2: what we can't but.
Speaker 1: We can't right here now, just to give everybody a
Speaker 1: general lay of the land for what we'll do in
Speaker 1: this podcast. Every episode we will discuss a different angle
Speaker 1: of the Olympics. Today, as Matt has said, we were
Speaker 1: discussing the top storylines going into Paris twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and then in future episodes we will talk about specific athletes,
Speaker 1: specific events. Gosh, what else, I mean, what else is
Speaker 1: there to the Olympics besides those things? The village?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think we we definitely. That's actually one
Speaker 2: of the things I'm most interested in is to be
Speaker 2: totally honest with you and with you in transparent Like
Speaker 2: for me, I want to hear about the horniness of
Speaker 2: the Olympic village, like if if at any point we
Speaker 2: can have someone from the ground like sort of report in,
Speaker 2: like I would love to hear even if and this
Speaker 2: is just any athlete that hears this and wants to
Speaker 2: come in and we can do that that creepy voice thing. Yes,
Speaker 2: if no, I think he wants to go on the
Speaker 2: record and someone's just come spill all the tea about
Speaker 2: how Hornett gets in the Olympic village, I'd be interested
Speaker 2: in that.
Speaker 1: I would be very interested in that. If you are
Speaker 1: listening and you work for the IOC, and you were
Speaker 1: the person who designed the single bunk bed cot situation
Speaker 1: that is supposed to discourage athletes from engaging in sexual encounters,
Speaker 1: please come on this podcast. We will distort your voice
Speaker 1: to protect your identity.
Speaker 2: Also, first of all, you can't. You can't sort of
Speaker 2: stop athletes. I'm sorry, you can't. I'm sure that they
Speaker 2: run their heats, they swim their heats, they perform their heats.
Speaker 2: In the case of I guess the synchronized swimming, which
Speaker 2: I guess is now has a different name. It's now
Speaker 2: and it's now.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, we were just briefed on this by our
Speaker 1: lovely producers. Give it up for our producers, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're going to be doing a lot of work well
Speaker 1: right now in the Zoom. We have Vents, we have Jason,
Speaker 1: we have Sean. We have a whole star lineup of
Speaker 1: producers with us, and we're grateful to them. Mostly what's
Speaker 1: going to happen on this show is we're going to
Speaker 1: be fed some wonderful information by these people who actually
Speaker 1: do care about sports. They that we don't care, but
Speaker 1: these are people who live in breed sports and know
Speaker 1: how to communicate those facts to us. And we are
Speaker 1: the lens through which those things get refracted onto you,
Speaker 1: the audience. And we were great.
Speaker 2: We are but a vessel.
Speaker 1: We are but a vessel.
Speaker 2: And here's something I know about sports. You, me and
Speaker 2: our three producers. We could be a basketball team, a squad.
Speaker 2: There are five of us, a squad. We could be
Speaker 2: a basketball squad. I know this from chiefly from watching
Speaker 2: Space Jam.
Speaker 1: I was just going to be a Space Jam.
Speaker 2: I did play basketball as a kid. This is this
Speaker 2: is actually a topic I wanted to bring up with
Speaker 2: you before we get into the actual information. When is
Speaker 2: the moment you have peaked athletically, What is the fastest
Speaker 2: you've ever run? What can you look back on in
Speaker 2: your life and say that was a moment where I
Speaker 2: was physical the house down.
Speaker 1: That's really tough. Can the answer be there is no moment.
Speaker 2: Well, lately you've been working it in the gym, but
Speaker 2: that's not the same as sports. Okay, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: Well, can I say there was a two week period
Speaker 1: where I was a member of the YMCA on Atlantic
Speaker 1: Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, and I was getting into
Speaker 1: that pool with all of the toddlers and our lovely
Speaker 1: elders in the community, and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm healthy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1: And then two weeks in, I thought, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be in this skin soup as it were, like.
Speaker 2: It's very much skin soup at a public pool. And
Speaker 2: I will say this, this is an athletic thing. I
Speaker 2: got athletes foot at my gym, and I don't want
Speaker 2: to gross anyone out, but these are the kinds of
Speaker 2: things that athletes go through. This is injury. I've been
Speaker 2: doing an injury which is by my own hand. I
Speaker 2: got athletes foot from what showering with no shower shoes.
Speaker 1: You gotta get the shower shoes.
Speaker 2: I thought I could trust my community.
Speaker 1: No no, no, and make sure when the shower shoes
Speaker 1: go home. First of all, you take a bag from
Speaker 1: the swim trunk dryer above the swim trunk dryer in
Speaker 1: the locker room, put your shower shoes and.
Speaker 2: That go home.
Speaker 1: The first thing you better be doing is wiping those
Speaker 1: down with lyesol.
Speaker 2: Guys say, I hope that all the athletes are listening
Speaker 2: right now. This is good stuff. They need to be
Speaker 2: writing this down lifesol. Seriously, go the extra mile, as
Speaker 2: it were. And I'm not just talking about my long
Speaker 2: distance runners. I'm talking about everyone. Go the extra mile
Speaker 2: in terms of protecting your feet and body this summer Olympics.
Speaker 2: One thing about Bowen Yang is he really doesn't even
Speaker 2: have to run because his legs are so strong that
Speaker 2: he actually at a walking speed is faster than any runner.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Thank you, my sweet honey, my sweet dear.
Speaker 2: You should see him when he needs to go somewhere.
Speaker 2: And can I say something that my friend Matt Rogers
Speaker 2: is it depends fare to say classic lie swimmers built. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, had they had swimming in my high school,
Speaker 2: I would have done that instead of track and field,
Speaker 2: which I did do you know? Just to answer the
Speaker 2: question for myself, I was a little track and.
Speaker 1: Field you were a track and curly guy. Oh and
Speaker 1: it really it all kind of fits into the biography
Speaker 1: really well. I think, what is this.
Speaker 2: We've been doing this now for ten minutes and forty seconds.
Speaker 2: This is I literally said to myself, how long am
Speaker 2: I going to be able to go without saying my
Speaker 2: mile time?
Speaker 1: Come on, give it to us.
Speaker 2: It's happening now at a minute eleven, four minutes and
Speaker 2: thirty six seconds. Oh wow. See bons jaw dropped and
Speaker 2: he knew the information. Well, anytime I'm reminded, it's like
Speaker 2: who cares about me? Like scoring well on the SATs
Speaker 2: like every either no, no, no, but what I care about?
Speaker 2: And this is like this is like a prince in
Speaker 2: the Popper situation, like I would rather have a for
Speaker 2: an under five minute month mile then know anything about math.
Speaker 2: This is the classic thing with you and I, the
Speaker 2: alphabet and Glinda of it all, like it is the
Speaker 2: two sides of the same coin. It is had you
Speaker 2: can't and this actually is true. And again we would
Speaker 2: say it was a real culture if this is our podcast,
Speaker 2: but we cannot. We can you cannot have a By
Speaker 2: the way, it's not just scoring well on those tests.
Speaker 2: You hate a perfect score on the ACT. Okay, a
Speaker 2: thirty six Okay, let's talk about that. You cannot have
Speaker 2: a thirty six on the ACT and a four to
Speaker 2: thirty six mile. You can't. You'd be assassinated by jealous people.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, but they're out there, Matt.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm so scared.
Speaker 1: I know, let's get back on topic. We're here to
Speaker 1: talk about the Olympics.
Speaker 2: We're here to chat about the Olympics. And but now
Speaker 2: I just think you sort of get a sense of
Speaker 2: our lens. I think what we really did there. But
Speaker 2: is we set this podcast up. Now everyone has the
Speaker 2: love expectations that they need for us and our Olympic
Speaker 2: know how, it's really just gonna be a little bit.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're we're we're what is it. We're Waldorf
Speaker 2: and statlering.
Speaker 1: This Statler and Waldorf absolutely Muppet reference, Muppet reference. And
Speaker 1: we've mentioned on this Olympics podcast Elsaba and Glinda and
Speaker 1: Sis Datler and Waldorf, and.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be so much more, well just kidding, we're
Speaker 2: gonna get into the actual Olympics. But we're going to
Speaker 2: take a quick break and we're gonna come back with
Speaker 2: real Olympic commentary.
Speaker 1: We're bad, sure are now, Matt. Before we before we
Speaker 1: talk about our top stories going into the Paris Games
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, let's just do a general exchange of
Speaker 1: what are your What do the Olympics mean to you?
Speaker 2: Great music? Can I say I love hearing the music?
Speaker 2: I love hearing the Olympic theme. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I could sing it for you right now? Could you? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: yes you can sing it.
Speaker 1: If I can sing it, you can sing it.
Speaker 2: I kind of gave flute, you kind of gave trombone,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of what we give.
Speaker 1: And that's what we give, flute and trombone.
Speaker 2: What about you? What jumps out when you think Olympics?
Speaker 1: I think I truly do get emotional at the idea.
Speaker 1: And this is what the five rings concept is. It
Speaker 1: is the continents of the world coming together to all five.
Speaker 2: All five.
Speaker 1: No, well, look it's America's Asia, Africa, Europe. People forget Oceania.
Speaker 2: Oceania, enisod is that sort of what Australia is.
Speaker 1: It's like Australia And then you know your your your
Speaker 1: islands above those Pacific islands, and then Antarctica we count
Speaker 1: out unfortunately, because the penguins are competing.
Speaker 2: No, they're certainly not, and I wouldn't want them to
Speaker 2: because can I tell you something, They cheat nasty, they're cheekers,
Speaker 2: and they dope, they're cheating dopers. And let me tell
Speaker 2: you something, if you expect to win against the penguin
Speaker 2: in the ice luge.
Speaker 1: Oh, the Summer Olympics at the same.
Speaker 2: You're in denial. Hunt, You're in denial. So well, let's
Speaker 2: get into it. These are the top storylines of the
Speaker 2: Olympics this year. First of all, we said it, will
Speaker 2: say it again. Paris. Paris landmarks are going to be
Speaker 2: a backdrop to these games, including like the opening ceremony.
Speaker 2: This is for the first time ever at the Summer Olympics,
Speaker 2: the ceremony will not be held in a stadium. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a parade of boats are going to
Speaker 2: start the ceremony sailing down the River sin allowing about
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand spectators to attend the celebration. So this
Speaker 2: is clearly. They watched Lady Gaga at the Venice Film
Speaker 2: Festival and I think that That's where they got the
Speaker 2: idea for this.
Speaker 1: I think the IOC and the planning committees are always
Speaker 1: studying Lady Gaga in which she does. Who's to say
Speaker 1: there will be you know, like a bloody sort of
Speaker 1: costume change transition that then leads to a piano valid
Speaker 1: version of Born this way.
Speaker 2: I would love that, honestly. Don't don't count out that
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga will perform at these opening ceremonial Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: Actually, but can I say something you can from what
Speaker 1: I'm hearing, it seems that this opening ceremony, beyond the
Speaker 1: sort of newness of it being outside out of a
Speaker 1: stadium on the River Send, it is celebrating literally and
Speaker 1: this is actually why we're qualified to talk about this culture.
Speaker 1: It is because Paris is the center of that, as
Speaker 1: we know, and I think they're really they are really
Speaker 1: actually leading into that aspect of it. It's going to
Speaker 1: be like a cultural celebration of like fashion, music, film,
Speaker 1: all of it. Okay, in addition to the athletics obviously,
Speaker 1: but like you're going to be seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: different things that you didn't expect, and I think we can.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's out there in the
Speaker 1: press releases, like there will be like an SNL fifty boat,
Speaker 1: Like there will be like a boat at the opening
Speaker 1: ceremonies with SNL cast It's so crazy.
Speaker 2: Do they invite you? They did not invite me.
Speaker 1: But that's okay.
Speaker 2: Who is going to be there if not you?
Speaker 1: Some of my wonderful fellow cast mates, and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy for them. And I wasn't given the ask.
Speaker 2: But that's okay. That's not what it's about. We can
Speaker 2: I say if you're not upset, I'm upset on your behalf.
Speaker 2: This feels ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's not ridiculous. I get to host two guys five
Speaker 1: rings with my best friend. You're right, I am involved
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. This is going to be I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be required supplemental listening, not even supplemental.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the event for people to
Speaker 1: consume the Olympics.
Speaker 2: For It made sense to me. Everyone the world is
Speaker 2: watching this podcast. The world is watching this podcast, which
Speaker 2: is a visual medium. What do you think about how
Speaker 2: the equestrian activities are going to look at Chateau de Versailles.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna be thinking, yeah, sure, horses but that
Speaker 1: was where Kirsten duns filmed scenes from Maria An Twinette.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, that's all true. That's you know. I
Speaker 2: went to Versailles one time. Can I say the people
Speaker 2: there were not kind to me because I am one
Speaker 2: of the most American people out there, So I'm it
Speaker 2: probably was because I was running through the streets being like,
Speaker 2: do you guys have ketchup? But anyway, they weren't. They
Speaker 2: weren't crazy nice to me and Versailles. But it like
Speaker 2: it could have had to do with the fact that I,
Speaker 2: like you, was more interested in like, so where did
Speaker 2: Kirsten Dunce, Like where was her trailer?
Speaker 1: Do you know they shut it down every Monday really
Speaker 1: during filming? Wow, So they said like, look, which is crazy,
Speaker 1: like only for Sophia do you do that? Do you
Speaker 1: shut down Versailles truly? Or the Olympics as it were
Speaker 1: the Olympics. It's like, you know, we're we're racing horses,
Speaker 1: there's animal there's animals rooming about. But Versailles. Now that
Speaker 1: it's no surprise that they were route to you, because
Speaker 1: I think that's part of the experience, right. They want
Speaker 1: it to total like it's you know, pre Revolution France.
Speaker 2: I've always felt I've always felt that Paris was like
Speaker 2: New York City and Versailles was like Long Island or Jersey,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Absolutely so, just everyone who's
Speaker 2: watching the equestrian stuff, just know that you're getting the
Speaker 2: Jersey people.
Speaker 1: You got to take a train out there. The people
Speaker 1: are rude and there's horse racing. Yeah, that's all Jersey
Speaker 1: to me. That's all Long Island. To me, that's Long Island.
Speaker 2: As there's gonna be beach volleyball at the Champe de Mar.
Speaker 2: That's going to be an interesting thing about this podcast
Speaker 2: is hearing me pronounce French stuff.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to get your hit rate's going
Speaker 1: to be seven out of ten.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, what are you gonna give me?
Speaker 2: Seven out of ten? That's pretty good. So, but you're
Speaker 2: an expert in this talk about how you're French not French.
Speaker 1: I have no association with the Nation of France with
Speaker 1: French culture.
Speaker 2: But you did live in Montreal and during your formative years.
Speaker 1: And in my formative times as a child, I grew
Speaker 1: up in Montreal, Quebec or the license plate stage Suvillan,
Speaker 1: which is a reference to I remember when we were
Speaker 1: part of France. Isn't that dark? Yeah, even after they
Speaker 1: were let's say, annexed by Canada, they still went it's
Speaker 1: it's it's like a step child going, you're not.
Speaker 2: My real dad. Yeah, it is very that petulant, petulant teenage.
Speaker 1: Everything comes out.
Speaker 2: To teenage petulant when you're Montreal. Well, French is Bowen's
Speaker 2: first language, so that's why I'm saying pronunciation wise, we
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 3: We got it online.
Speaker 1: Now, talk about watching beach volleyball in what is very
Speaker 1: much an urban park. Is is that going to take
Speaker 1: you out of the experience.
Speaker 2: No, because I'm going to be looking at the players.
Speaker 2: Beach volleyball is one of the honest things you can do.
Speaker 2: It's one of the hottest and most fun things you
Speaker 2: can do. And I would also say that the excitement
Speaker 2: factor is through the room. This is why I think
Speaker 2: one of the most exciting things to watch, because it's
Speaker 2: truly challengers coded. Yes, in that it is head to head,
Speaker 2: head to.
Speaker 1: Head as it were, or heads to heads.
Speaker 2: Heads to heads. I'm a huge beach volleyball fan.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, because you know what's great about beach volleyball,
Speaker 1: What fast. Yes, it's a fast game. There's never a
Speaker 1: dull moment.
Speaker 2: It moves.
Speaker 1: You're never like, all right, should I get more pop port? No,
Speaker 1: you are glued to the screen. You're watching these people
Speaker 1: dive into the sand to spike a ball that they
Speaker 1: have no chance of getting.
Speaker 2: Can I say, like, as someone who is a huge
Speaker 2: like I love sand?
Speaker 1: Why what well everyone hates sand?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something, I've really come around on
Speaker 2: sand because I used to. I used to actually, because
Speaker 2: my my biggest problem was when I whenever I went
Speaker 2: to the beach, I didn't brush my singing good enough.
Speaker 2: And I would bring it into the car and I'd
Speaker 2: bring it into the house and I would often find
Speaker 2: that sand would get in the bed. And you have
Speaker 2: shared a room with me in Fire Island, and what's
Speaker 2: in the bed grains and grains a lot of sand
Speaker 2: of sand. But that's okay. I feel like I feel
Speaker 2: like that's even if you come.
Speaker 1: Around on it. Why why have you come around on it?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like I'm embracing who I am now,
Speaker 2: Like I'm a sandy person and so watching these people
Speaker 2: get all sandy, that's my culture.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, let's talk about Simone.
Speaker 2: She's back, babe.
Speaker 1: I mean she has the wind that her back. In
Speaker 1: terms of the story, don't we thinged? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's I think she will amaze us, but she
Speaker 1: doesn't have to clear too much in terms of her
Speaker 1: accomplishment for this to be has a history making Olympics
Speaker 1: go for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so for the uninitiated here, Simone Biles withdrew
Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty Tokyo Games. She suffered a case
Speaker 2: of the twisties where she had disorientation in the air.
Speaker 2: I guess she just had a little bit of like
Speaker 2: I guess when you're a gymnast to say you have
Speaker 2: the twisties as a gymnast, they must be really bad
Speaker 2: because you're constantly twisting in the air. A yeah, for
Speaker 2: it to deter you, she must have really needed a break.
Speaker 2: If she can win at least one medal at these Games,
Speaker 2: she will become the single most decorated US Olympic gymnast.
Speaker 2: She's currently tied with Shannon Miller, who also has seven medals,
Speaker 2: So this could be a major major moment for US
Speaker 2: Olympic gymnasts.
Speaker 1: Now, what would happen? Well, how would you react if
Speaker 1: Simone was about to take the floor, but then I.
Speaker 2: Would become swollen with pride. I would become swollen with pride.
Speaker 1: Hold on, okay, so no one is about to take
Speaker 1: it floor. A hush falls over the stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm already like really anxious.
Speaker 1: And then like it was this salut the double doors
Speaker 1: fling open.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And who walks in in her heels but Shinn and milk.
Speaker 2: She says. And she crossed her arms like this and
Speaker 2: fixed her neck and said, all right, come on, giry.
Speaker 2: She's standing on the other side of the vault, looking
Speaker 2: her dead in the eyes as she runs down, and
Speaker 2: she says, break my record. How dare you run? Leap
Speaker 2: and vault land with both your feet and get your
Speaker 2: score together. If you can, you'll knock me off my perch.
Speaker 2: Very intimidating girl.
Speaker 1: But then Shannon does it, does a tear away, and
Speaker 1: she's in her single.
Speaker 2: And she goes, oh my god, the bitch is back.
Speaker 2: I qualified at World, so I'm ill fed at World.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing this too. Oh my god, You're not
Speaker 2: breaking Anyway's record? No, And can I say oftentimes the
Speaker 2: Olympics gives incredible narratives, But just in case it doesn't,
Speaker 2: you can just listen to this and sort of play
Speaker 2: this back.
Speaker 1: Let's say it's August twenty twenty four, the Olympics are done,
Speaker 1: or like let's say September twenty twenty four, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I didn't really get good story this year. Just listen
Speaker 1: to that part of the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just go back and imagine a world.
Speaker 1: Now, can I just I really am so curious about
Speaker 1: what you think with this topic. I feel like the twisties,
Speaker 1: It's like the closest comparison I can draw is like
Speaker 1: the yips in baseball. Yeah, these things need better names
Speaker 1: because they're serious things and they're real things, but the
Speaker 1: names just sound too silly, Like these are like really
Speaker 1: big obstacles. And like if Simone Biles had come out
Speaker 1: and said I have aerial disorientation syndrome or whatever, if
Speaker 1: it sounded like medically legit or something, or even half
Speaker 1: pseudo legit, like people would have been like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: don't worry girl. But because she had to come out
Speaker 1: and say I'm having the twisties, people were like, you freak.
Speaker 1: Like I think there was like this weird blowback on
Speaker 1: her where like she could have if it was called
Speaker 1: anything but the Twisties, it would have been twenty percent
Speaker 1: less stressful on her. In terms of the media blowback.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's like something that's happened in
Speaker 2: the last few years as people. I guess, like because
Speaker 2: there's so much more talk about like mental health and
Speaker 2: like doing what you need to do and self care
Speaker 2: that when an Olympian like engages with that, everyone's like, no,
Speaker 2: it just feels like they can't be humans. But Simone
Speaker 2: Biles is a human. She couldn't necessarily find a better
Speaker 2: thing to call the Twisties and the Twisties. But she's
Speaker 2: a human.
Speaker 1: Let her cook, Let her cook, And she's a human
Speaker 1: who happens to speak English, and in the English language
Speaker 1: the Twisties are called the Twisties.
Speaker 2: I don't hate the Twisties. It feels like you're coming
Speaker 2: down hard on the Twisties. For her to put the
Speaker 2: word twisties in a press release like she had to
Speaker 2: at some point, and yeah, in twenty twenty couldn't have
Speaker 2: been easy. That's why, really, why we're here just to
Speaker 2: kind of tell the pr when they have aerial flop syndrome.
Speaker 1: Right, So a lot of pr people do have aerial
Speaker 1: flop syndrome, as we know looking at you Jlo's people.
Speaker 2: Okay, truly update the way you do things. You know.
Speaker 2: Speaking of women, Bo, there's a big question this year,
Speaker 2: and it's will US women earn more metals than US
Speaker 2: men For the fourth straight games. Women have been dominating.
Speaker 2: I believe it was Beyonce who said girls run the world,
Speaker 2: and I believe it was the Spice Girls who said
Speaker 2: girl power. In the nineties. Gloria Steinem was huge in
Speaker 2: the feminist moment and it's really.
Speaker 1: Carried over definitely. The Beastie Boys said.
Speaker 2: Girls, Fisher did, and.
Speaker 1: Lena Dunham had a show called Girls.
Speaker 2: Wrote a whole show called Girls. And I feel like
Speaker 2: they've all been very inspired to greatness here at the Games,
Speaker 2: and I think we're going to see even more women
Speaker 2: sort of tear you know. In Tokyo, the US women
Speaker 2: won sixty six medals. That was fifty eight percent of
Speaker 2: US medals, which exceeded the total number of medals won
Speaker 2: by all other delegations except China and the Russian Olympic Committee. So,
Speaker 2: you know, two big.
Speaker 1: Ones, two big ones. But the big question, as we
Speaker 1: go into this Olympic Games as it pertains to women
Speaker 1: and their medal count will be with the soccer teane.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on here. They've got a new coach,
Speaker 1: a lot of new players, coming off their worst ever
Speaker 1: performance in the FIFA Women's World Cup. Now I remember this.
Speaker 1: I don't get much sports news, but this is something
Speaker 1: I caught wind of, and I think these girls, I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for them. It's an uphill battle. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If they can get in
Speaker 1: there and bend it like Beckham, I think huge things
Speaker 1: are going to happen. Remember that movie? Can I tell
Speaker 1: you something you never saw it?
Speaker 2: Don't ever talk about Kira Knightley again? And I know
Speaker 2: it's one of your favorite things to do, and I
Speaker 2: don't often do you know? You lie to be writing history.
Speaker 2: You always want to weigh in on Kira. You haven't
Speaker 2: even seen her breakout role. You don't even know what
Speaker 2: bended like Beckham is. Ye I bet you wouldn't even
Speaker 2: know the half of it. If you were a soccer
Speaker 2: ball gun put in front of you, you could never
Speaker 2: bend it like Beckham.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's not a hot phrase. Bend it like Beckham and
Speaker 2: it feels incredible.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he Like, Oh, they had a body double of
Speaker 1: him in the movie like they're waiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that wasn't really him, right, Why.
Speaker 1: Don't you think he she should have done it? That
Speaker 1: would have been amazing for his career.
Speaker 2: I mean, the man loves to be on camera, so
Speaker 2: I'm shocked that it wasn't really him.
Speaker 1: Well, I've seen clips of it. I've seen it. I
Speaker 1: will say it's played multiple times.
Speaker 2: It has.
Speaker 1: It did play multiple times in the background of my
Speaker 1: childhood living room because my sister would watch it with
Speaker 1: her friends.
Speaker 2: I want you to watch it.
Speaker 1: Do you think it still holds up just stylot, I
Speaker 1: think it probably does.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I haven't seen it in many years, but
Speaker 2: I did see it like when it came out, really
Speaker 2: because we were like, who's this new girly Kiera Knightly? Right,
Speaker 2: maybe that wasn't her first movie? I feel like that,
Speaker 2: And no, definitely wasn't first. She was like so young,
Speaker 2: she was very young. So young.
Speaker 1: We can't discuss Kiera Knightley's career on this Olympics podcast,
Speaker 1: can we?
Speaker 2: Well, I think we've just proven that we can. And
Speaker 2: so basically, if you've been listening to this podcast and
Speaker 2: you think this isn't sports, you're not necessarily right, but
Speaker 2: you're not necessarily wrong. But what it was was two guys,
Speaker 2: five rings, and the two guys are me and Bowen Yang.
Speaker 2: And there's going to be endless episodes of this podcast
Speaker 2: going forward until, of course, the Olympics ends, and then
Speaker 2: the podcast ends endless.
Speaker 1: But Matt, shall we give out our medals for our stories? Gold?
Speaker 2: Silver, Yes? Okay, great, Yes, I think bronze medal goes
Speaker 2: to will US women earn more metals than US men
Speaker 2: for the fourth straight games. Yeah, that's something that we're
Speaker 2: really following to want the gender wars to keep going.
Speaker 2: I don't want to fan the flames.
Speaker 1: No, everyone is on the same team.
Speaker 2: Okay, Bronze medal goes to women versus men. Silver medal
Speaker 2: I'm going to give to Simone Biles just because I
Speaker 2: don't want to put gold medal pressure on her. No,
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of pressure on her. And I
Speaker 2: just want to say, in terms of Simone Biles, I
Speaker 2: just want people to be like, yes, she's competing, it's
Speaker 2: not a big deal. Yeah, Yes, there's a lot of stakes.
Speaker 2: It's not a big deal. You're gonna give her the
Speaker 2: twisties if you act like it's a big deal. So
Speaker 2: just shush, let her compete. Shannon Miller standing over there
Speaker 2: with their arms folded, being very cross but you know,
Speaker 2: just silver metal like, lower the stakes.
Speaker 1: Lower the stakes, and finally that means gold goes to
Speaker 1: Paris landmarks as backdropped to the Games.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am so excited to see Paris. I mean
Speaker 2: not actually in person, because they were rude to me
Speaker 2: and I never did get my ketchup, but so excited
Speaker 2: that there We're going to see many shots of the
Speaker 2: Eiffel Tower. I'm sure it's gonna be, you know, just
Speaker 2: so little.
Speaker 1: Forget the love. Don't forget the love. I want them
Speaker 1: to do fencing at the patisserie. I want them to
Speaker 1: be doing break dancing, breaking at the Marae, which is
Speaker 1: the gay neighborhood in Paris.
Speaker 2: I want them, Oh, that would be good. I want
Speaker 2: them to use the entire rich urban history of Paris
Speaker 2: to the fullest advantage, because this is once in a
Speaker 2: lifetime we are not going to see. I don't one
Speaker 2: the Games in Paris for decades.
Speaker 1: I would wager, and we were.
Speaker 2: Not saying you don't have to do it for a while.
Speaker 2: It's a cheap place to have the Olympics. When you
Speaker 2: say man, I would say, and let me tell you
Speaker 2: this podcast is up to a roll acting start. We
Speaker 2: are galvanized, We are ready. If we had a boat,
Speaker 2: we would be tearing up the sin right now on
Speaker 2: the way. Bowen could have been on a boat but
Speaker 2: wasn't invited. Uh, you know it's okay. We're gonna watch
Speaker 2: them the comfort of our own homes and host this podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. This has been Two Guys
Speaker 2: five Rings and next week we're talking athletes. We're talking
Speaker 2: people are the people we need to really focus on, Okay,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna let you know who the girls are
Speaker 2: the girls and this includes men, and this includes men.
Speaker 1: And because we're all playing for the same team, which
Speaker 1: is the girls, feel d lingo. You can watch every
Speaker 1: moment of the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics because in
Speaker 1: July twenty sixth on NBC and Peacock and listen to
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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: And for the first time. You can stream the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four Paris games on the iHeart Radio app. See
Speaker 2: you soon, Bye,