Speaker 1: The official Olympic medal counts as we start this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: July thirtieth. The United States is on top of twenty
Speaker 1: total medals once so far, followed by home country France
Speaker 1: with sixteen total medals. Both Japan and China have twelve each.
Speaker 2: Welcome to this edition of the Tea from Perry. While
Speaker 2: Team USA is ahead in the overall medal count, day
Speaker 2: lag behind in the gold medal category. The US has
Speaker 2: won three gold medals so far, but you see Japan
Speaker 2: has six, France, China, South Korea Australia each have five
Speaker 2: gold medals, so we're behind in that department.
Speaker 1: Well, my understanding is that bronze is not as good
Speaker 1: as gold, but you could a fool me. After watching
Speaker 1: the US men's gymnastics team end their Olympics medal drought,
Speaker 1: and they did it in the most story book of ways.
Speaker 2: It was so incredible, all right. Also in this episode,
Speaker 2: after an injury scare, Simone Biles says she is good
Speaker 2: to go for gold with her team today. And then
Speaker 2: an American swimmer wins a medal and his wife immediately
Speaker 2: turns his win into a gender reveal party in the
Speaker 2: aquatic center, and we might have seen Nadal versus Djokovic
Speaker 2: for the last time ever.
Speaker 1: Plus dirty river water has caused the postponement of an
Speaker 1: Olympic event. Coco golf has been left home alone at
Speaker 1: Olympic Village. US women's basketball team had a close first game.
Speaker 1: It is close for about five minutes and what social
Speaker 1: media user thought it was a good idea to take
Speaker 1: on American rugby star Elona mar Good luck with that,
Speaker 1: and yes, everybody, but we all robes. We learned a
Speaker 1: lesson yesterday in life from the US men's gymnastics team.
Speaker 1: I think everybody maybe has gotten the word by now
Speaker 1: that they picked up that medal, But if you had
Speaker 1: to watch them for two days to understand why a
Speaker 1: bronze victory meant as much as it did.
Speaker 2: It was from remarkable to see the redemption. And it
Speaker 2: truly was an incredible redemption because in the qualifying round
Speaker 2: we saw all five men do not their best and
Speaker 2: it was it was devastating. None of them qualified for
Speaker 2: a finals event specifically, and the big, big devastating moment
Speaker 2: was Brody. You know, everyone expected him to go on
Speaker 2: to compete in the all around and he fell off
Speaker 2: the high bar and from that point on. He just
Speaker 2: as you mentioned in a previous podcast, there was a
Speaker 2: downward spiral and he just couldn't get it together. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what, he got it together along with his teammates yesterday,
Speaker 2: and it was emotional. It was amazing. We were watching
Speaker 2: with your daughter, Savine, and it was remarkable to see
Speaker 2: them come back and score higher than they had ever
Speaker 2: scored before, certainly a way of the qualifying round, and
Speaker 2: they delivered, and it was remarkable to watch.
Speaker 1: Well, we were rooting for them in a different type
Speaker 1: of way. I've been reading afterwards and folks don't know,
Speaker 1: the US men's gynastics team has not won a gold medal,
Speaker 1: excuse me, a medal at all in the Olympics in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, so that's a sixteen year drought there.
Speaker 1: Coming into this Olympics, there were certainly high hopes for
Speaker 1: this team, maybe more so on an individual level, but
Speaker 1: certainly they can compete. To see them break down the
Speaker 1: way they did on Monday and then to come back
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, some argue robes that, yeah, they have only
Speaker 1: one person on the team has any previous Olympic experience.
Speaker 1: I believe that's Brody Malone. So you got a bunch
Speaker 1: of young guys first day at the Olympics. Maybe they
Speaker 1: were a little jitterary, maybe they were a little off
Speaker 1: where there were some nerves, but they got it together
Speaker 1: whatever they did and talked about and they came out
Speaker 1: and performed. You're gonna see a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: the dude with the glasses on the Palmer horse. And yes,
Speaker 1: it was a wonderful Olympic moment. Ropes, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about that Olympic moment. But to get to that
Speaker 1: Olympic moment, and you and I watched every single flip, turn, twist, vault,
Speaker 1: everything that team did, and they nailed it and nailed
Speaker 1: it and nailed it, and you could feel the momentum like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, why aren't we talking about these guys
Speaker 1: winning gold instead of possibly fighting for a bronze. That
Speaker 1: team did everything possible to make that huge Olympic moment possible.
Speaker 2: That's right. And when you ask why they weren't even
Speaker 2: up for gold or silver were all you had to
Speaker 2: do was watch Japan and China because they were powerhouses
Speaker 2: and what was a really incredible moment to me, we
Speaker 2: were all watching together to see when China realized they
Speaker 2: weren't getting the gold, and they were the darlings, they
Speaker 2: were the favorites, but they had some mistakes in the end. Again,
Speaker 2: that high bar was getting everybody in men's gymnastics, and
Speaker 2: so they underperformed, they didn't deliver it, and Japan won gold.
Speaker 2: So obviously the Japanese team which deserved it. They were
Speaker 2: phenomenal and almost flawless. They were celebrating the United States
Speaker 2: team to get the bronze because they were competing against Australia,
Speaker 2: Great Britain. I mean, there were so many people vying
Speaker 2: for that third place bronze medal, and so they were
Speaker 2: a static and then you saw China and they were defeated.
Speaker 2: They were almost crying and they were clearly upset. And
Speaker 2: Sabine said, why is China so upset at winning the silver?
Speaker 2: And why are we so excited at winning the bronze?
Speaker 2: And that was such an amazing example of perspective. You know,
Speaker 2: we fought for it, we didn't think we were going
Speaker 2: to get it. We had such a low moment as
Speaker 2: a team in the preliminaries that it was so sweet.
Speaker 2: The victory was so incredible to win bronze and then
Speaker 2: to see the Chinese not being able to celebrate silver
Speaker 2: was kind of remarkable.
Speaker 1: And you said, perspective there it was. They kept cutting
Speaker 1: back and forth between those two images, and it's just
Speaker 1: such another example of an Olympic moment and the things
Speaker 1: you don't see. To see a team that finished ahead
Speaker 1: of the US almost in tears, yep, that there's second,
Speaker 1: and to see the United States just the elation and
Speaker 1: you say his name, I don't want to mess up
Speaker 1: his name, ned.
Speaker 2: It's it's Stephenazak, all right, Stephen Netarozak.
Speaker 1: You've seen him, and I'm happy for him in this
Speaker 1: moment for a lot of reasons. One of them is
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't think he should be on
Speaker 1: this team in the first place, because the dude does
Speaker 1: one thing. He has one skill. He helps this team
Speaker 1: in no other way at all. If you blow it
Speaker 1: on the place, it's like a kicker in football.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 1: You sit on the bench all game and then Tom
Speaker 1: Brady drives you down and says, hey, you need to
Speaker 1: make this fifty yarder to win this Super Bowl for me.
Speaker 1: That's your job. His job was this, and it came
Speaker 1: down it was silly to me, Robes. It was silly. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I say silly, and that me being wrong. Initially, when
Speaker 1: the meat started and the US team walked out, they
Speaker 1: had a countdown clock on Netarozak, well like three hours.
Speaker 1: They say a countdown from three hours. We're not going
Speaker 1: to see him for three hours, Like why why are
Speaker 1: they building this up like this?
Speaker 2: It was brilliant, It was amazing. The Wall Street Journal's
Speaker 2: headline is the pommel horse geek who broke the US
Speaker 2: men's gymnastics medal drought. I mean that he is. He
Speaker 2: has become the star, and you're right, that's such a
Speaker 2: good analogy. I also was thinking of being a goalkeeper.
Speaker 2: It's like you weren't needed until you're needed, but when
Speaker 2: you're needed, it is the most unbelievable pressure. I was
Speaker 2: sweating it for this guy. I couldn't believe that somebody
Speaker 2: could take on that much pressure because it was up
Speaker 2: to him to seal the metal and he delivered.
Speaker 1: And it's not fair in a lot of ways. Yet
Speaker 1: he should get the accolades he's getting now because not okay,
Speaker 1: he never would have been put in that position if
Speaker 1: his team wasn't sticking landing after landing, after landing, all right,
Speaker 1: So you in this team event, there are six events, right,
Speaker 1: in the six events, six events, and three go yep
Speaker 1: from each, So that's essentially eighteen routines. Seventeen routines went
Speaker 1: damn well for him to do the eighteenth. That is
Speaker 1: precise icly what happened. Now, granted, seventeen other things had
Speaker 1: to go right, but still the pressure on him to
Speaker 1: get the last one right was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It was. It was so fun to watch. I definitely
Speaker 2: had tears in my eyes just because we saw from
Speaker 2: where they came and what they ended up accomplishing, and
Speaker 2: it was remarkable. So that was by far my favorite
Speaker 2: Olympic moment of the day, but there were so many,
Speaker 2: so many that we enjoyed. It's just been a blast
Speaker 2: watching these athletes perform.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna give you a random one. This
Speaker 1: wasn't even on the list, but this morning I saw
Speaker 1: I was up. Of course at three thirty, of course
Speaker 1: you were watching. I watched the mixed doubles ten meter
Speaker 1: air pistol final. Oh my god, okay, wow, I watched it.
Speaker 1: This was between Serbia and Turkey. A okay, okay. It
Speaker 1: was the most boring thing I have seen in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: That is how I start, because if you all aren't
Speaker 1: familiar with this air pistol, you don't see them. Actually,
Speaker 1: you don't see anything come out of the door.
Speaker 2: Don't think most people are familiar.
Speaker 1: You're right, so you don't see it. You see her here,
Speaker 1: I see a pistol. They fire it. But if you're
Speaker 1: not looking really closely, you see missed a little puff
Speaker 1: of air. It's like nothing. And then the targets on
Speaker 1: the screen, but nothing explodes or a hole goes through something.
Speaker 1: You just see a little electronic dot show up. That's
Speaker 1: watching TV.
Speaker 2: And this kept you awake at three point thirty in
Speaker 2: the morning. It came down to the last match, the
Speaker 2: last round.
Speaker 1: It was so thrilling.
Speaker 2: It came out on the edge.
Speaker 1: Of my set.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I missed it while sleeping wat to
Speaker 2: see what I.
Speaker 1: Thought was this boring thing that I was on the
Speaker 1: edge of my seat. And then when Serbia Wan, these
Speaker 1: were friends who had been doing this for twenty years,
Speaker 1: never got the Olympic gold. They win. She tackles him
Speaker 1: and they're rolling around on the ground. That's Olympics. And
Speaker 1: that's what I saw this morning, and you should be
Speaker 1: sorry that you missed it.
Speaker 2: You know what, Sleep, This is the perfect, perfect two
Speaker 2: weeks for you. You because you get up at three
Speaker 2: every day regardless, and now you don't have to miss
Speaker 2: any of the Olympic action. I mean, that's just amazing
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: But you missed. Those are the little moments that you're
Speaker 1: never going to see in primetime on NBC that if
Speaker 1: you mess around in peacock a.
Speaker 3: Little while al somni acts everywhere are celebrating.
Speaker 2: I am so excited about today. Just we have to
Speaker 2: talk about the US women's gymnastics team, because wow, they
Speaker 2: had the opposite of what the men had in the preliminaries.
Speaker 2: They were incredible and they're going to go for gold today.
Speaker 2: They finished first in qualifying and Simone Biles is scheduled
Speaker 2: to compete with her team. Despite that calf issue that
Speaker 2: had her limping around during the qualifying. She says she's
Speaker 2: as good as she can be and she is going
Speaker 2: to compete in all four events at the team finals.
Speaker 2: And you know, we had to even kind of brush
Speaker 2: up the scoring works. So the teams enter three athletes
Speaker 2: on each event. There are four events in women's gymnastics,
Speaker 2: so all of those scores will count toward the final
Speaker 2: team score. They don't get to drop a score. And
Speaker 2: Simone's going to go last on the floor exercise, on
Speaker 2: the vault, and on the balance beam for the US,
Speaker 2: and she'll go second for the US on uneven bars.
Speaker 1: I can't be the only one that didn't understand as
Speaker 1: the scoring was going on. I was because we watched qualifying,
Speaker 1: so in there and qualifying someone that you can drop
Speaker 1: one score and who gets to everybody goes and then
Speaker 1: only three you get to. It was very confusing trying
Speaker 1: to keep up with this, and I kept asking you questions.
Speaker 1: You know, you're the gymnast in the house.
Speaker 2: Rules have changed, but yes, and I never was in
Speaker 2: the Olympics or anywhere close to that.
Speaker 1: But h Simone today is going to have a particular
Speaker 1: fan in the stands that she hasn't had yet at
Speaker 1: these Olympics. Her husband is going to make his way
Speaker 1: over Jonathan Owens. He's think I think he got Lee
Speaker 1: from the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's taking your break from training camp, Yeah.
Speaker 1: To come to port her. And good for them to
Speaker 1: allow it or whatever. Maybe it was a no brainer,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to see he's going to be there.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Owens is his name, So that continues looking forward
Speaker 1: to that today. Also more swimming today, but a heck
Speaker 1: of a scene from the pool yesterday, not just because
Speaker 1: of medal being won, but Ryan Murphy, a highly decorated
Speaker 1: American athlete. He got a bronze medal and he got
Speaker 1: a baby update within moments of each other. He had
Speaker 1: just done the one hundred meter backstroke, got a bronze medal.
Speaker 1: But not long after they put that metal around his neck,
Speaker 1: he looked in the stands and his wife was holding
Speaker 1: a sign. What did that sign say?
Speaker 2: Ropes, Ryan, It's a girl and I love it. He said, well,
Speaker 2: that was a great way to find out. That really
Speaker 2: lit me up and brought the night to a whole
Speaker 2: other level. It's really exciting to learn that I'm going
Speaker 2: to be a girl, dad, and to learn it when
Speaker 2: you're coming off the podium with a bronze medal around
Speaker 2: your neck is pretty remarkable. Although that heat, I have
Speaker 2: to say that final it was unreal. Like he we
Speaker 2: thought he was gonna win. I mean, you couldn't. It
Speaker 2: was just unreal how closely those three on the podium
Speaker 2: were to one another. By the naked eye, you could
Speaker 2: never see who won. I could not tell.
Speaker 1: I said, if I'd have lost that race by that margin,
Speaker 1: I would have issued an official protest. Yeah, like, no,
Speaker 1: I need you all to go back and check. That's
Speaker 1: too close.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 1: I cann't be that close. But congrats to him. We've
Speaker 1: seen some cool scenes like that every once in a while.
Speaker 1: Once in a while at the Olympics, they turned these
Speaker 1: into life moments. I think there was an engagement that's
Speaker 1: taken place already. You have this baby news, the guy
Speaker 1: lost his ring in the river. Yea. So life and
Speaker 1: relationships are going many directions.
Speaker 2: You know what, though, you in these moments, when it
Speaker 2: all comes to a head and you're out there, you
Speaker 2: realize what's important. And I think that's pretty is the
Speaker 2: human side of these athletes. They're all living their lives
Speaker 2: as well at the same time. So it's it's awesome
Speaker 2: when they share a little bit of that with us.
Speaker 1: And we need to certainlyppreciate what they've shared with us.
Speaker 1: But we need to appreciate these two guys, Rafa, Nadal
Speaker 1: and Novak Djokovic and no Nadal versus Djokovic. We have
Speaker 1: seen this match up sixty times and we might never
Speaker 1: see it again. These two robes ended up in an
Speaker 1: early round playing each other at the Olympics. One of
Speaker 1: them had to go. But the biggest issue really is
Speaker 1: this might be the last time we get to see
Speaker 1: these two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Nadal's retirement rumors have swirled for quite some time,
Speaker 2: but he did not appreciate them after this match. I
Speaker 2: want to quote him here because he you know, look,
Speaker 2: it's got to be tough. It was a tough loss
Speaker 2: for him with a very big rival, obviously, but he said,
Speaker 2: I cannot live every single day with the feeling that
Speaker 2: it's going to be or not going to be my
Speaker 2: last match. I come here, I try my best, I play,
Speaker 2: and when I decide to stop playing, or when I
Speaker 2: decide to keep going, I will let you know. I
Speaker 2: don't know that's fair.
Speaker 1: He just lost. No matter what, you mad, every time
Speaker 1: you lose a match, correct, And so I gotta hear
Speaker 1: this again and hear this again, and hear this again.
Speaker 1: But these guys are what forty six Grand Slams between them.
Speaker 1: Novak all time with twenty four and of course the
Speaker 1: doll has twenty two. But the funny thing is so
Speaker 1: often we think about the all time greats and who
Speaker 1: we love in tennis. Recently we talk about Federer. Federer
Speaker 1: has twenty. These guys were the youngins, kind of chasing
Speaker 1: him or competing with him, and now they've surpassed him.
Speaker 1: These are the guys. And to think that these two have,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many decades now we've been watching these guys.
Speaker 1: We might never see it again. We should stop and
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We should, and it was a moment to watch. Well.
Speaker 2: I know that the Parisian officials are watching something very closely.
Speaker 2: The river Senn Right now it remains too dirty to
Speaker 2: swim in. In fact, they've had to postpone once again
Speaker 2: the men's triathlon. It was supposed to start today. Now
Speaker 2: it's at least until tomorrow. The women are supposed to
Speaker 2: swim tomorrow. So they say that if the river sen
Speaker 2: is clean enough, they'll swim after the women. But this
Speaker 2: this is a tough story. It's not surprising with all
Speaker 2: of the rain they've had. And they I keep crossing
Speaker 2: their fingers. I think they said, it's like late at
Speaker 2: night when Paris is sleeping. Officials go out and test
Speaker 2: the water, and so far it's not been so good.
Speaker 2: But I have I have found it very interesting about
Speaker 2: what some of these athletes, these triathletes who have been
Speaker 2: waiting to swim, they haven't even been able to train,
Speaker 2: by the way, the last two days they haven't been
Speaker 2: able to train. That's got to be really tough. But
Speaker 2: I was reading up on what they have to do
Speaker 2: when they swim and open bodies of water. These aren't
Speaker 2: chlorinated pools, obviously, but it's kind of gross. They literally
Speaker 2: talk about eating yogurt, taking probiotics, having to disinfect their
Speaker 2: wet suits when they get backed so that they prevent illness.
Speaker 2: Because we're talking about levels of not to be totally
Speaker 2: gross here, but E coli. And that is pretty disgusting
Speaker 2: if you think about it. But they're used to this,
Speaker 2: and they've said, hey, we'll swim in anything to get
Speaker 2: a medal. They're ready to go, and I was just
Speaker 2: I guess, this isn't that big of a deal for them, but.
Speaker 1: It has to be a big deal for the people
Speaker 1: responsible for the safety of the athletes, I guess. And yes,
Speaker 1: every single swimmer you tell them we're going today, they
Speaker 1: will go out there and they will swim, but they've
Speaker 1: been working. I guess it's really nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: You can't exactly just drop a few chlorine tablets into
Speaker 1: the river sind and think it's going to be good
Speaker 1: to go. So the options were to start postponing and
Speaker 1: if they have to, they would take the triathlon athlon
Speaker 1: down and not do the swimming portion, just do the running.
Speaker 2: What do you do, right?
Speaker 1: But if swimming is your strongest.
Speaker 2: Right, they have a plan to postpone it to August first,
Speaker 2: at least for now, and then I guess they'll just
Speaker 2: keep kicking the can down the road.
Speaker 1: That sucks. That's us, shall see. You've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about Olympic Village really over the years, and you hear
Speaker 1: a lot of athletes talk so well, so how wonderful
Speaker 1: of an experience it is to be able to be
Speaker 1: in there. And this is exclusive and you remember this,
Speaker 1: This was I don't know if you've ever been in
Speaker 1: it Olympic Village, but they were very very strict about
Speaker 1: letting anybody in there. They want to keep it. This
Speaker 1: is strictly for the athletes. And that is where the
Speaker 1: American tennis team has been staying along with American tennis
Speaker 1: star co col Golf. Well co Co Golf has now
Speaker 1: been left home alone at Olympic Village by her teammates Robes, no,
Speaker 1: not several of them. All her teammates apparently have bounced
Speaker 1: left Olympic Village. That of course the living area and
Speaker 1: the eating area, this is just the spot. But they
Speaker 1: are out of there.
Speaker 2: Yes, they said that the beds were too tough, they
Speaker 2: couldn't sleep and they needed their sleep in order to win.
Speaker 2: So they have all gone to some posher hotels. But
Speaker 2: Cocoa Goff is staying in because she said she's just
Speaker 2: drinking in the Olympic experience and being able to, you know,
Speaker 2: bounce into Simone Biles or she had a lovely meal
Speaker 2: with American sprinter Noah Lyles. She was apparently by herself
Speaker 2: because again she's all alone. Her teammates have gone to hotels,
Speaker 2: and she said she got to have a meal with Lyles,
Speaker 2: who told her you got this and at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you've just got to be you. And
Speaker 2: Goff said that just having that conversation with him flipped
Speaker 2: a switch for her. So just being able to have
Speaker 2: these exciting conversations with the greats of all of these
Speaker 2: different sports has given her, she said, just an extra
Speaker 2: ophen in her excitement and confidence going forward in her competition.
Speaker 1: You heard people they've been lost up on social media
Speaker 1: and reporting about these The living conditions. Now, I remember
Speaker 1: the Olympics in Athens at least, where Athens had to
Speaker 1: essentially construct all these new places. Some cities have infrastruction place,
Speaker 1: but a place like Athens had to build like just
Speaker 1: these makeshift quarters, these dormitories and whatnot. And I remember
Speaker 1: mine was it's tiny. The water doesn't the hot water
Speaker 1: you're gonna get it this morning, don't know how much
Speaker 1: is it gonna flow, don't know that toilet is not flushing.
Speaker 1: Good luck. Tiny, it's just a brand Imagine a tiny, tiny,
Speaker 1: brand new walk in closet. Is what it looks like
Speaker 1: that somebody just slid a mattress into it and slid
Speaker 1: a chair into that is what the best athletes in
Speaker 1: the world. Those aren't good living conditions and the beds
Speaker 1: are really short, so they are legitimate complaints quote unquote
Speaker 1: if you will about it, especially when world class athletes
Speaker 1: are used to having world class facilities, including world class
Speaker 1: sleeping quarters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously getting the right kind of sleep is important,
Speaker 2: to say the least to perform at the highest level.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny we were saying that I
Speaker 2: was remembering Sochi. I was in the Sochi Olympics. They
Speaker 2: were so not ready, and I mean it became such
Speaker 2: a viral sensation with athletes posting what their living conditions
Speaker 2: were like. When we even came to certain hotels, we
Speaker 2: had to sign a like an affidavit saying we would
Speaker 2: not post what our hotel rooms looked like on social media.
Speaker 2: In order to get a key to the room, we
Speaker 2: had to legally say we would not put anything on
Speaker 2: social media. That's how seriously they took all of the
Speaker 2: negative attention. We have not seen that in this Olympics
Speaker 2: the way we have in others, not even like I'm
Speaker 2: telling like Sochi Rio, I remember that was also an issue.
Speaker 2: I feel like, actually I haven't heard the only complaint
Speaker 2: I've heard about Olympic village or the beds, which is
Speaker 2: pretty standard. And then the British team was complaining about
Speaker 2: the food that there wasn't enough eggs. But you know what,
Speaker 2: the all in all, I feel like this has been
Speaker 2: a pretty good, pretty good showing for Olympic village.
Speaker 1: I mean this is not new. I think who else
Speaker 1: is less? Some South Korean swimmers, maybe some other Olympians
Speaker 1: have left, but the US men's basketball team has never
Speaker 1: stayed in the Olympic.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense that the four seasons
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: Would you can't be six ft ten in a five
Speaker 1: foot six bed?
Speaker 2: Very fair.
Speaker 1: They've stayed on luxury yachts before on the water.
Speaker 2: So this is not good for them.
Speaker 1: But they like the expir always here. They love, love,
Speaker 1: love athletes, being an Olympic village, just being able.
Speaker 2: To when are you ever around you know, basically your
Speaker 2: equals in every other sport. It's just a cool thing
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine. And it might be worth a
Speaker 2: little less sleep, but not when a medal's on the line.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like that's that's the distinction.
Speaker 1: Right, Olympics once in a lifetimes is there.
Speaker 2: But then again, she's really tiny.
Speaker 1: But Cocoa is there in the world class.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing you talk about, the sochi,
Speaker 1: the the other thing I remember about Athens. They had
Speaker 1: little signs in the bathroom they said whatever you do
Speaker 1: do not if you are sitting on this toilet, if
Speaker 1: you wipe your butt, do not take that toilet paper
Speaker 1: and put it in the toilet. They gave us special
Speaker 1: little tens where that's supposed to go. Now that's not
Speaker 1: a surprise to some people who maybe live in other parties.
Speaker 2: Plumbing issues in other countries.
Speaker 1: Other parts of the world are But they had to
Speaker 1: tell the Westerners, Hey, you nuts before you got it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was enough. But it's just it was
Speaker 1: so new and different of an experience. When you're a
Speaker 1: world class athlete, that's go metal on your mind. You
Speaker 1: need a get night dressed.
Speaker 2: I completely I think that is so fair. I think
Speaker 2: that is so fair.
Speaker 1: The other do you know your BMI robes, your body mask?
Speaker 2: I used to know it at one point what it was.
Speaker 2: In fact, I actually have a I have a scale
Speaker 2: that tells me that it's yeah, I've got it scale.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, I don't know it to be.
Speaker 2: I don't know how accurate it is, but yeah, the
Speaker 2: Apple scales, when you stand on it, they will actually
Speaker 2: tell you what your BMI is.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why, but the body mass index
Speaker 1: of an American athlete, a superstar on the rugby team
Speaker 1: is now come up and become an issue. Alona mar
Speaker 1: is her name, and you're gonna know her if you
Speaker 1: don't know already. But she is certainly a social media
Speaker 1: star and she does do a lot of stuff on
Speaker 1: body positivity. But she's listed at five ten, five eleven,
Speaker 1: and you see her she is a physical, athletic, strong specimen.
Speaker 2: If she just is ever watched rugby, you can understand
Speaker 2: why that might come in handy.
Speaker 1: Yes, she is a star and has been. She started
Speaker 1: in college. She's now been a star on the US
Speaker 1: US team. Well, someone on social media decides that they
Speaker 1: want to challenge her on this for reasons I don't understand,
Speaker 1: and essentially robes they They sent a comment to her
Speaker 1: on her one of her pages saying, I bet that
Speaker 1: you have a BMI a body mass index of thirty
Speaker 1: and that was be an insult.
Speaker 2: Right, and you know what, she took that and said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I actually do have a BMI of thirty. Well,
Speaker 2: it's twenty nine point three to be exact, and that's
Speaker 2: how she began her video. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: video has been viewed more than over four million times,
Speaker 2: liked by well over half a million people, but you
Speaker 2: know what, she kind of just took it on. She's like,
Speaker 2: I have been considered overweight my entire life. And she
Speaker 2: talked about in high school where there was a time
Speaker 2: where she had to turn a physical into the office
Speaker 2: and at the bottom of the page it said overweight,
Speaker 2: and she said, her whole life, she's been this way.
Speaker 2: But she just wanted to talk about how she is
Speaker 2: proud of who she is. And she also said that
Speaker 2: this BMI thing, and we've heard this from scientists, from
Speaker 2: doctors who say it's not helpful, and it's certainly not
Speaker 2: helpful for athletes because it basically, if you don't know what,
Speaker 2: a BMI is, a formula where a person's weight is
Speaker 2: divided by the square of their height, and so it's
Speaker 2: just a way for doctors to measure what they consider
Speaker 2: to be healthy. But obviously she is a world class
Speaker 2: athlete and I love that she took this on and
Speaker 2: certainly sort of the people who follow her and cheer
Speaker 2: her on, and we will be sharing her on along
Speaker 2: with her teammates today because they have a big, big, big,
Speaker 2: huge historic game today.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know why we look at athletes,
Speaker 1: oh you know, looking up at a commercial. Right, we see
Speaker 1: an American sprinter on the commercial, but we look at
Speaker 1: them and we're in awe of them physically. We have
Speaker 1: an expectation of what they're supposed to look like physically,
Speaker 1: and we also have an expectation of what a man
Speaker 1: is supposed to look like a woman is supposed to
Speaker 1: look like. So this is a woman I suppose that
Speaker 1: doesn't look like what the women this social media user
Speaker 1: knows or looks at, or thinks or who knows what
Speaker 1: that person was doing. But it's okay for us now
Speaker 1: to her response. Gives us a chance to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a conversation, especially about BEMI. How long
Speaker 1: have we, for years been told by doctors on TV
Speaker 1: they'll say one thing us on during the interview and
Speaker 1: then behind sees, Yeah, I don't even know why we
Speaker 1: use BMI anymore.
Speaker 2: It's true, It's true. So I am very excited to
Speaker 2: cheer on the women's rugby team as we talk about
Speaker 2: what we're going to be watching today, and that is
Speaker 2: going to be first and foremost, because that starts this
Speaker 2: morning for anyone who is streaming it on Peacock at
Speaker 2: nine to thirty. But This is so cool. This is
Speaker 2: the first medal we could possibly win since rugby became
Speaker 2: an Olympic sport, so that's pretty awesome. And it's the
Speaker 2: first time that either the men's or the women's American
Speaker 2: rugby team has ever reached the semi final round at
Speaker 2: the Olympics. So the problem is we're playing New Zealand,
Speaker 2: and New Zealand is the defending champion, so this match
Speaker 2: is not going to be an easy one. But we've
Speaker 2: looked really, really good and a lot of the experts
Speaker 2: they don't count Team USA out. We have a shot.
Speaker 1: And the reason we have a shot is because of
Speaker 1: this woman that this guy decides he wants to or
Speaker 1: he or she decides they want to insult on social media.
Speaker 1: She is a star and you know what, she is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars personality wise in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Does she puts together. She's doing a whole Love Island
Speaker 1: thing on TikTok about Olympic village like she's there, actually
Speaker 1: too fine and hook up with somebody. It's hilarious. She's
Speaker 1: a great, great personality and great for the sport and
Speaker 1: great for women and great for body positivity. So by
Speaker 1: allow me support if you get a chance.
Speaker 2: That is exciting. Okay, Well, Jimmy's obviously women's gymnastics finals, duh.
Speaker 2: That starts it just after noon today, But obviously that
Speaker 2: will be the primetime event this evening at NBC for
Speaker 2: people who are at work and want to watch it,
Speaker 2: that will be obviously the highlight of the evening. And
Speaker 2: as we mentioned, Simone's calf seems to be okay, so
Speaker 2: this is going to be exciting to watch. But you
Speaker 2: know what, it's one of those things where when we
Speaker 2: watch the men's it's almost as if because they had
Speaker 2: done so poorly, the expectations were lower, and so watching
Speaker 2: them do well was just exciting and awesome. Now, when
Speaker 2: you have basically the expectation of winning gold, I feel like,
Speaker 2: in a weird way, the pressure is even I don't.
Speaker 2: For me as a viewer, I'm more on the edge
Speaker 2: of my seat because we have so much to lose.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I see, you know what, when I watch
Speaker 1: US women play basketball, when I watch US women play soccer,
Speaker 1: and when I watch US women compete in gymnastics, I'm.
Speaker 2: So chill because we're pretty dang good. Of course they're
Speaker 2: gonna win that it's amazing. Well, let's hope that what happens, Well.
Speaker 1: Only nerves were hope Simons. We just wanted Simone to
Speaker 1: get that first event out of the way, and then
Speaker 1: Brody Malone, we wanted him to have a decent comeback
Speaker 1: and be okay, but they kept nailing it. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: us men, you all deserve everything that's coming your way.
Speaker 1: You all came back and put on a show and
Speaker 1: showed all of us a lesson in resilience and how
Speaker 1: to bounce literally bounce back from fallowing the damn man.
Speaker 2: And we know what you can see once you see
Speaker 2: the first event, you see where they are mentally, and
Speaker 2: then the momentum just carries good or bad. It just
Speaker 2: you see how that all evolves. So, yes, that's going
Speaker 2: to be the highlight of the day. But also men's soccer.
Speaker 2: We are playing against Guinea at one pm, so we
Speaker 2: will know later today whether or not the US is
Speaker 2: going to the knockout round. I mean that is and
Speaker 2: it's confusing what will happen if we don't win, because
Speaker 2: we still have a shot areas And I was laughing
Speaker 2: at them and my head kind of like it's like
Speaker 2: a mathematic equation that I couldn't possibly follow or understand.
Speaker 2: But if we tie, we could still go. And if
Speaker 2: we lose, there's the scenario in which we could still go.
Speaker 1: Right, we could win, lose or draw and move ahead
Speaker 1: depending on what the other match the other teams if
Speaker 1: they win, lose or draw and buy how many So
Speaker 1: it gets complicated. Just know this soccer has a chance.
Speaker 1: The US men have a.
Speaker 2: Chance, and definitely if you can catch it, you should
Speaker 2: watch it. Also, swimming has been really fun. This is cool.
Speaker 2: The women's one hundred meter backstrop final is this afternoon
Speaker 2: and I'm assuming they'll put that in prime time as well.
Speaker 2: But the four fastest women in history are going to
Speaker 2: be competing against one another, so and two of them
Speaker 2: are from the US, so Reagan Smith from US, Catherine
Speaker 2: Berkoff from the United States, and then we've got Australia
Speaker 2: and Canada. So this is going to be a really
Speaker 2: fun one to watch it. Again, I love swimming because
Speaker 2: it happens like that. You get results immediately, and.
Speaker 1: They better be glad they are inside because we were
Speaker 1: complaining about I say we were complaining, but people were
Speaker 1: complaining about the rain. They got so much rain the
Speaker 1: first Oh yeah, you saw the opening ceremony was a
Speaker 1: drenched from start to finish. The rain continued the next day.
Speaker 1: Now they're about to get hit with a heat wave
Speaker 1: in France, the likes of ninety ninety five degrees over
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. So throw that in the mix. Now,
Speaker 1: which one do you want? Can we have an in between?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, oh, I would rather have the rain.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh my goodness. We were in Rome when
Speaker 2: it was about that heat two weeks ago or so,
Speaker 2: and you loved it and I was melting. And as
Speaker 2: an athlete, I guess maybe you would take it either way.
Speaker 2: But I think about like the marathon ers when it's
Speaker 2: that hot, Oh my gosh, I mean that in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: They actually it's so hot in Tokyo, and I was
Speaker 2: training for my marathon while they were running it. I
Speaker 2: had to get up at four am to run because
Speaker 2: they got so hot. And even still I got heat stroke.
Speaker 2: I cannot imagine what those folks are going to go
Speaker 2: through track and field. Think about that when they're going
Speaker 2: through this heat wave. I think that starts in a
Speaker 2: couple days. Yeah, but still, if you know how if
Speaker 2: they've got that kind of weather, that is game changing
Speaker 2: in every way, so there's still a lot to be
Speaker 2: seen on that, but also just quickly, I think we've
Speaker 2: got women's fencing, men's water polo Us versus Romania that's
Speaker 2: later today, so there's so much to watch. This has
Speaker 2: been so much fun. I don't think I've ever sat
Speaker 2: in the couch so much in my life, but I've
Speaker 2: enjoyed every second of it.
Speaker 1: Well, I've appreciated sitting next to you on the couch
Speaker 1: a little one, and folks keep checking in with her.
Speaker 2: Us here for the t from Perry
Speaker 1: Again, we're not married to that name.