WEBVTT - Going for Gold with Kerri Strug 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.520 From the King of sports Books comes the key sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:20.400 podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Olivia Harlan Decker. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.840 Welcome back to Unleashed. Boy. This is a big week, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.280 you guys. This is a week we've been waiting for. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.360 I've been waiting for. I'm so excited. We have a 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.400 new co host, my partner and crime. We're gonna be 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.840 doing this every week. You're gonna be listening every week 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.000 and you're gonna have a good time with us because 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.440 we brought in funny man Janice Papas. You heard him 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.760 a couple of weeks ago on the John Stamos episode. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.599 By the way, I hate to say it, that's been 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.760 my favorite episode yet for obvious reasons. If no one 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.440 has listened yet, make sure you go back and listen 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.280 and help me. Welcome in my new co host, Jana's Poppas. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.280 Thank you, Olivia. I'm excited about this. Yeah, yeah, goes wild. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.040 I'm sorry you guys couldn't get the real John Stamos, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.280 so I'll just have to do. You know, I'm the 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.039 lesser of the two Greeks, and I'm a huge sports fan. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.240 I had a sports show back in the day that 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.040 I loved. I love speaking athletes, and I'm a big 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.960 fan of you, big fan of your pops. He's my 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.600 favorite announcer. He makes it exciting. And I'm a big 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.600 fan of your husband. So I was rooting for them 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.640 in the National championship game. Unfortunately it didn't go it 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.840 didn't go their way, and also I lost a lot 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.160 of money on that. Well, that's the perfect convergence for 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.160 now our show, because you've got a decker, you've got 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.360 sports betting, and we've got you. Tell us more about 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.520 your comedy history because I'm always curious. Everyone thinks they're funny. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.320 I think, when do you know you can be professionally funny? 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.440 You know, there's not much of a difference. I would 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.640 like to make him mysterious and be like, hey look, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.680 but it's like anyone could be funny. It takes a while, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.120 like you said, to be professionally funny. But I you 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.280 I was funny from when I was very little, because 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.320 that's the only thing I was ever good at. Usually 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.360 those two things go hand in hand, where it's like 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.400 you're not good at anything except that, and that's the 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.960 only thing I like to do is make people laugh. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.320 You know, you start doing comedy, just like with sports, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.640 you go and train our our training is the comedy clubs, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.680 and then you fail in front of people, which is 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.080 what makes comedy unique. Like in sports, you go to 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.760 the gym, you're shooting alone, you're doing drills alone. If 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.919 you're a basketball player, I imagine if you're a gymnast, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.200 you're on on pulse. You know. I don't know what 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.440 they do at home. But comedy you go in front 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.840 of people and people tell you right there you're no good. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.799 So it's like right there, You're like, I'm just practicing. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.320 They're like, no, this is a show for me. I 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.320 paid for it, and you are no good. So you 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.360 have to build up a thick skin, you know, go 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.919 to therapy. You know. I think the same is true 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.280 of sideline importers, because you messed up in front of 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.760 a national audience as well. I will tell you if 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.480 I have ever messed up on national TV, my Twitter 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.960 will let me know very quickly. No, you're right, and 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.679 you know what, I what I of the show. I 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.400 had a show and I was with two journalists who 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.200 were used to like doing that type of thing. You 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.720 if you're talking about like a serious story or you're 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.200 interviewing someone. When you're on TV, it magnifies everything. Like 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.120 like if you scratch your face on television, people like, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:16.640 you know if I did that with you. Now on 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.120 a podcast, it's much more relaxed environment. You're like, oh, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.120 you probably had a niche. But if we're on TV 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.200 and like millions of people watching you like, is he 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.840 a crackhead? Is he doing drugs? Like what? It just 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.920 makes everything so even when you stutter or and I 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.399 always admired that about reporters, that they just don't even 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.480 stutter or like drop a word or an article because 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.000 otherwise people like she's terrible at her job, that she 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.200 forgot and before a word? Yeah right, right. Well, now 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 you are married to a beautiful woman. I saw her 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.720 on Instagram. I hope we can all get together, maybe 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.960 go on a double date soon when we can all 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.280 travel a bit. But you're married to a beautiful woman 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.080 and you have a beautiful daughter. Tell us about your 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.000 home life. Yeah, well, first of all, if we do 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.600 a double day, I will remember to bring high chairs 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.080 for me and my wife so we can all see 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.760 each other. My wife is about five four. I mean, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.840 you guys are tall drinks waters right. It's great. She's um, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.760 she's supportive, she's great. At the beginning, she enjoyed my comedy. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.960 Now she's just sick of it, like she's heard it all. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.240 And I just help. Yeah, I just help her with 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.039 the baby. I'm just I come off the bench. She's 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.599 the starting point guard. She calls all the shots, and 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.159 if I'm lucky enough to be running a wing, maybe 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.760 she'll dish the ball to me for a dunk. But 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.040 other than that, like she just I hear Jannie and 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.960 I know it's like I need to come do something. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.159 And enjoying raising his baby during COVID it was you know. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.840 That's kind of the silver lining is that we were 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.400 home with her, So that's cool. Yeah, I'm just getting 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.000 ready to be told what to do. I have a 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.440 female dog. I obviously have a female wife, and I 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.480 have a female daughter. So it's like I am outnumbered 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.640 and now I got a female co host. Hey, get 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.400 any men to talk to me anymore? Must be unless 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.920 it's John stay us lessons Johnston was I can get 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.799 him to text me. Yeah, we text all the time. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.680 I love it. And we do have an incredible guest 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.440 coming on in a bit. It is Olympics, so we 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.400 are going to be talking with Carrie Strugs. She won 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.360 the gold medal for US A gymnastics. Her story is incredible. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.320 I cannot wait to talk to her. But you're honest. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 Since you are Mr funny man, I want to try 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.359 to tickle your funny bone a bit with some Olympic 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.919 headlines that made me laugh. Okay, there are a couple 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.920 and I think everyone can agree already the years off 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.760 of this year's Olympics, we're still calling in. You know, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.400 There's been a couple of weird things go on. So 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.680 I wanted to see if you had heard about this 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.920 one the Argentinean night Simone Biles. It's just the trials, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.280 right though. They're just like she didn't have to bring it, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.920 you know, because I was watching and I was like, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.400 she wasn't very Simone Biles, like, so I bet she's 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.680 gonna really bring it when it's time. Absolutely, that's such 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.960 a good storyline too. And again Carrie will probably have 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.880 some good insight for us because watching it is kind 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.520 of tricky to watch and say, well that doesn't look 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.760 like an Olympic you know, performance or game face or whatever. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.800 But yeah, she'll break it down for us. She's like, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.920 the Willis Reed of gymnastics. Now, I like that, Are 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:17.080 you going to tell her that? Yeah? If I remember to. Yeah. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.400 So did you hear about the Argentinean fencer. I didn't 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.200 hear what happened? Oh this is good. This is so good. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:30.400 Maria bellin Perez Maurice. She lost. So following the loss, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.359 she was doing her media postgame interviews. When her coach 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.919 proposes to her, she said, yes, I probably should have 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.360 said that a little quicker. Yes. This was her quote 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.560 after and this is kind of where I chuckled. She said, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.400 I forgot everything. I was like, oh my god. We 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.039 are very happy. We are very good partners. Of course 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.560 we have fights, but we enjoy each other's time. First 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.200 of all, I wouldn't get in a fight with my 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.280 fencing wife. Yeah, she says. We love each other so 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.480 much and we want to spend our lives together. We're 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:09.039 going to celebrate in Buenos Areas with a big barbecue. Ah. Yeah, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.000 because they are Argentineans. So like they that they're vegetables 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.800 are just meat. Next to meet, Yeah, you drained a 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.840 beef stew. Yeah yeah. Wow. So he proposed to her. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.680 We won fencing right America one. I think we won 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.560 the gold. Yes, we won the gold. So it's like, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.040 here's an Argentinian trying to upstage the gold getting proposed to. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:35.600 That was probably his movie. He was like, if we 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.320 don't win gold, we gotta get on that wheaties box. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.960 Maybe I don't know what the Argentinian wheaties equivalent is, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.080 maybe it's a or whatever. It's like, look, if we 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.960 don't win the gold, I'm proposed in to her, and 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.280 that way we could make headlines and try to steal 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.760 it from the USA. But make no mistake the USA, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:58.400 we are number one at fake fighting scene. Well, when 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.720 I first read the story, I was like, oh my gosh. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.000 As a woman, I would not have liked to have 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.280 been proposed to on a day with my athletic dreams 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 kind of crumbled in front of me. But I later 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.960 saw that he said she was so sad and he 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.720 wanted to make this bad day a good day, and 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.760 if she had one, he would have waited. So that 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.320 made it a little bit more romantic. I thought, right, yeah, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.360 a little bit. Um, How did how did you get 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.760 proposed to? Well? I seeing my husband and I kind 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.680 of go back and forth on this because I am 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.880 very extra like I wanted like the band, the fireworks, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.480 the photographer that blah blah. It could not have been 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.640 more low key. And my husband said, I just didn't 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:42.080 think you wanted all that. Do you know me? You 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.840 know I would have done very sweet. If I was him, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.600 I would have been like this, what's that over there? 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.200 And then you would have turned back and I would 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:53.280 have went right between the eyes. I'm sorry. It's one 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.080 of my favorites from you, pops. I apologize that was good. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.120 I would have just handed you the ring like that. Yeah. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.920 I proposed a Christmas proposals like mine. I nailed it. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.040 I gotta be honest. I nailed it. Okay, she wanted 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.920 it like in front of her whole family. She like 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.280 alluded to it and like it's weird because comedians we 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.000 were off stage, like I'm not I'm like kind of quiet, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.600 and I just kind of like a boring dude. And 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.880 so I was sitting there on on Christmas Eve. It 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.760 was on Christmas Eve, her whole family was there, and 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.520 I started getting resentful. I was like, I'm not doing 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.800 this in front of her whole family. It's embarrassing, So 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.480 I waitedful. I was resentful. I was. I almost had 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:29.920 the felm in Louise moment where I was like, I'm 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.560 just gonna get in the car and drive off the 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.559 side of the earth. I don't believe the earth is flat. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.959 I'm just kidding. It's around. Sorry, Kyrie Irving. But after 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.480 all her family left, I was like, I'm not gonna 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.079 do it that way. After her family left, I was like, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.400 I got this present. Few of course I had the 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.040 fake present. It was like a little purse and I 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.280 started opening it and she kind of knew I might 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:48.760 propose that. She was kind of looking for it. And 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.960 while she was like looking for in the purse, I 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.000 pulled it out. She was on the floor. I was 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.120 in a chair. Soon as she turned around, boom it 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.000 was eye level and bang it was perfect. Wait wait 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.880 wait wait you got it back up? Yeah, you know 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.199 the guy is supposed to kneel. You're telling me she 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.720 was like perched uncomfortably on the floor and you're sitting 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.240 in like a lazy boy. Right, Yeah, well I gotta 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.160 be comfortable too, you know what I mean, Like, I'm 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.760 I was comfortable. Yeah, you're right, she was Actually she 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.000 was on the floor and I was sitting a Barbara. Yeah, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.160 because I'm the king of the castle. And that's how 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.800 I was like, it's this a Greek thing? What is 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.520 you know what? I messed it up. Actually I handed 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.840 her the card. She read the card and it said 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.480 will you marry me? And then when she looked up 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.320 from the card, I had the ring right there. So 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.959 it was perfect, Just like I'd to forget exactly how 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.640 he proposed, man, I married her making an important moment 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.800 though it is an important moment. So yeah, fencing competition, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.480 she loses, she gets a ring out of it, not 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.800 a medal. She might have wanted a metal more harder 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.680 to get. Yeah, that's kind that's kind of funny in 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.800 the when you get the ring, you're really hoping, You're like, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.360 it's kind of tough when your engagement ring is a 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.160 consolation prize, right right. Well, here's another one that has 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.800 to do with couples as well. So this is very 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.120 on brand. So there's a US softball player, Jane Reid. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.679 She's the starting left fielder. She's playing for Gold on 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.120 Tuesday night. This comes out on Thursday, so we'll know 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.680 if the US Softball team won gold by then, but 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:18.280 her husband is an MLB picture and he switched teams 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.240 while she was in Tokyo. He made his major league 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.120 debut earlier this month, but was claimed off waivers this 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.040 week by the Tampa Bay Rays from the Dodgers. And 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.160 I can't imagine getting that call. Also times O wise, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.080 probably middle of the night for her, she's getting ready 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.040 for the Olympics, trying to win gold for USA. It's like, hey, honey, sorry, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:41.280 we're moving. Yeah, honey, look, don't want to bother you. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.480 I know you're doing you know, I know it's like 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.240 once every four years or whatever. But guess what I 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.920 got College hunks that move stuff. What's that? You ever 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.240 see that truck? It's like, I think it's college Hunks 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.120 that Move stuff is the name of the company. And 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.199 it's like, I guess college dudes that move you. And 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.640 it's like, yeah, we're you know, yeah, we got we 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.080 got a new house, got new people probably above that. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.959 Are you sure you're not thinking of like two guys 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.600 in a truck? Probably? Yeah. Yeah. If you're a picture, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.520 you're probably going a little higher level than college on 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.680 your stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I've gotten I know 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.360 how she feels. I've gotten the call a couple of 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.000 times for my husband. He was traded and then b 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.120 a four times. And I got that call um once 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:20.840 when I was about to board a plane, and you know, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.520 you've got your digital boarding pass on your phone, and 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.600 my husband's trying to call me to tell me he 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.400 was traded from the Clippers to the Calves. And I'm 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.080 boarding a flight in New York to go home to 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:31.800 l A. So I got a long flight ahead of me, right, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.319 And I'm about to show the boarding pass to the 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.959 fight attendant, scan it and get on my flight, and 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.920 I get the alert like ESPN alert Sam Decker traded 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.720 to the Cavaliers. And I'm like, oh yeah, hang on, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.760 I'm gonna go back with the people in row four 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.720 hundred fifty and make sure that this news is accurate. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.040 And I call my husband. I'm like, what the heck? 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.320 Why did I just find out on a an alert? 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.400 And he said I was trying to call you, and 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:57.880 I said, I was trying to board a plane. I 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.000 couldn't answer at my digital boarding house house. This is 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.600 actually like the perfect show for you, because you can 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.360 do it from Turkey. You can do it from Wisconsin. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.640 You can do it from anywhere. So you got it perfect. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.280 That is something that you have experienced with it. I 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.320 don't that's a crazy call probably to get your getting 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.360 on it. It's like, by the way, I know, you 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.600 just made a lot of friends. But yeah, yeah, we're 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.760 headed to Uzbekistan. Don't bother like joining a book club 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.679 or anything. Yeah yeah, hey, look you're gonna have to 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.319 uh learn a new language and uh maybe change religions. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.600 But you know, I got a nice look condo, we 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.640 have fun and and Dakistan. Okay, I got one more 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.320 for you. So there's a new sport this year at 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.800 the Olympics. Actually there are six new sports. Is it's 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.839 women trying to destroy each other with fake compliments? Because 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.480 that's my favorite sport. Is that like gold medal activity 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.520 in New York or what's that like? I would love 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.520 to watch that, just like, oh my god, I love 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.000 those shoes. And then judges South would clear out if 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.280 we made that just a domestic competition. I went to 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.480 school at University of Georgia. I think the Georgians could 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.080 do a good job. They can, They're good at it. Right, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.000 Oh my god, I love that draft. Oh god, bless 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.760 her heart. Yeah, okay, no, but so of the new 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:21.040 six sports, which is crazy that here we are adding sports, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:26.680 but one of them is women's street skateboarding. I saw this. Yeah, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.040 so guess who swept this year Japan? Guess how old? 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.880 The star was nine, not far thirteen years old, and 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.800 the silver went to a thirteen year old Brazilian. Bronze 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.720 went to a much much older gal wise beyond her years, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.000 really seasoned, wrinkles around the eyes. She was sixteen. She 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.480 was from Japan. Now, guests, we've finished fourth. I'm hoping 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.720 it's the USA. It is a thirty four year old 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.600 American who's a three time X Games gold medalist. And look, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.840 she's got a master's degree from m I t think 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:06.240 about that field of competition. She could be their mother. Yeah, 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.600 I mean that's you know what, It's kind of you know, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.080 we invented skateboarding. It's kind of like what's going on 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.640 with basketball right now with the yeah, with the men 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.160 and uh, you can if we don't meddle in skateboarding, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.960 I feel like we just Tony Hawk has to put 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.560 on a wig and go out there. I mean, we can't. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:29.480 Skateboarding is like that's like Americans losing losing a Nathan's 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.680 Hotdog contest, like we lost, Yeah, you know when then 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.000 we had chess not come back and bring it home. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.080 I mean that's us, That's what we do. Or losing 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:43.400 an American football game. Yea. Yeah. Now, I don't know 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.480 what you were doing at thirteen. And again when we 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.200 talked with Kerry Will know what she was doing at thirteens. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.920 I guarantee we both look like major late bloomers and 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.200 maybe losers next to that. But when I was thirteen, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.360 I was getting my braces off, navigating politics of middle 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.960 school hallways. Right. No, when I was there teen, I 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.520 was smoking cigarettes, hiding it. Yeah I was. You are 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.680 not a labor bloomer, you were advanced. No, yeah, back 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.520 then you go in and I'd be like, hey, yeah, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.720 you know, hey, my dad's in the car outside. What's 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.640 pack of Marlboros? And uh so I just pretended like 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.160 I was getting from my dad. But yeah, man, so 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.160 they're really we need to train like a generation. We 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.600 gotta get women into skateboarding so we can compete. I 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.080 hope America. We got to motivate them somehow, like make 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.440 a like give him like a TikTok deal. I don't 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.600 know what you know, when the young American girls and 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:42.000 it's like, look, if you win gold in skateboarding, we 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.000 will instantly. You'll get to meet Addison Ray. You know. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.840 Whatever it is that motivate you'll get to meet Justin Bieber. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.680 Is something to get these girls cooking. Okay, I would 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.240 start skateboarding if I could meet Justin Bieber, I would 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.760 start right now. Years old, I would be I would 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.600 be an old gal. They'd be wheeling me on my 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.640 skatebo word wheelchair. But yeah, there's gonna be some poaching 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:09.000 going on in kindergarten classrooms coming up. Ready. You're right though, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.040 When you watch Olympics and you hear how some how 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.080 young some of these athletes are, it really does make 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.760 me feel like a loser. You're like, jeez, what was 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.840 I doing at Like I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.200 practicing anything. Well, that's a perfect transition to get into 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.640 our conversation with Kerry, because I want to hear about 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.800 how her career started, because I read that she started 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.679 competing at a high level at four years old, So 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.520 I'm not sure if that's true or not. We gotta 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.960 ask her, right, I guess she was climbing in her 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.240 crib and stuff like that, like in her parents maybe 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.359 noticed it and kind on the edge of the crib. Yeah. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:46.199 And being tiny is I guess a talent in gymnastics, right, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.120 because usually it's like being born tall for basketball and volleyball. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.399 I mean, I think she's like four ft seven. I 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.080 don't know what that is in the metric system. I'm 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.720 not smart, but she's small, So I mean it's either 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.920 that or she's going to ride a horse if you're 0:17:59.920 --> 0:18:03.760 an athlete, right right right at that level, yeah, jockey 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.640 or gymnast. But either way, she's coming on. Can't wait 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:17.280 to stalk they We welcome in Carrie Strug. Now, she 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.280 was a member of the Magnificent Seven, won the nine 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.479 gold for USA Gymnastics for the first time ever in 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.000 very dramatic fashion. I know you've seen the video. People 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.919 still talk about it today, twenty five years later. She 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.399 reflects on the experience with us, now a true legend 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.879 in the sport. Welcome, Carrie Strug, thanks so much for 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.000 joining us. Thanks for having me Olivia. It's great to 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.200 be with you. You know, your Olympics story really started 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.359 one month before the nine Barcelona Games. You were the youngest, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.520 I believe fourteen or fifteen years old. I can't imagine 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.600 what that was like mentally. Can any fourteen year old 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.400 be ready for that? Well? I think as a young 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.320 athlete you're used to being mentally tough. You learn how 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.760 to focus on the test at hand, and you're constantly, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.120 you know, pushing yourself past your comfort zone. And so 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.719 you're taught from a young age too just focus on 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.080 the routines and the actual skills versus everything around you. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.919 But obviously it's much easier said than done. And in 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.080 the sport it's such a youthful sport that we've seen 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.560 in the Olympics, especially when there's such a spotlight on it, 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.439 it seems like that mental toughness is just ingrained at 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.840 you all. When did you start competing really competitively in 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.440 my day and age? You know, way back then, um, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.560 three decades ago. You couldn't start competing until you were eight, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.800 and so that's when I started competing, and then by 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.760 ten I was already beyond that national level, trying to 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.320 buy for a spot on the national team. But everybody 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.440 progresses differently. There's been some Olympians that didn't start until 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.560 they were seven, and you know, by the time they're twelve, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.920 they're amazing. You know, today it seems like the longevity 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.320 is a lot different than a was back in the nineties. 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.160 A lot of these women that we're gonna be watching 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.199 over the next few days are in their twenties. You know, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.320 Oxana Chusavitna, she was forty six years old competing in 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:16.320 her eighth Olympic Games. So I think with diet technology, 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.520 learn how to train. We're not over training, but you 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.720 have these peaks and valleys. It's really assisting young women, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:25.840 you know, to stay in the sport that they love 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.720 because you put so much time and energy into it. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.560