WEBVTT - Ep. 49 — Mouse in the House 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:22.119 We're back and we're black. Well, whoa. I don't know 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:23.960 where that came from. It just came. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:26.680 I was trying to think of something fun to say, 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.000 and I was like, back black heart attack. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.080 I don't know, let me do the snap. Well, we 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.559 are black, We've been black, You're being black. Welcome to 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.720 the show. Welcome to the middle of August. The halfway slog, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.519 Oh my god, it's September. Ever gonna get here? I'm dying. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.400 Did you see somebody posted that the Farmers are Almanac 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.920 that's that we're going to have a crazy winter, And 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.480 I'm like, well, welcome to Jersey. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.840 I have a wedding to go to in Montana, and 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.480 I'm like ninety five percent sure I'm not gonna make them. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.200 I just feel like the flight's not going to take off. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.320 There's gonna be like a flock of moose are going 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.520 to get loose on the runway and just slip and slide. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.120 And Montana like, I don't know what happens there. I 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:10.440 feel like it's not gonna happen. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.480 But I honestly I want to go. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.720 One of my friends moved to Montana and I have 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.960 plans to sleep on her couch like I want to 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.240 see big sky country, Like that's on my agenda. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:23.280 Girl, dig up your fanciest flannel and your warmest woolen 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.600 socks and get thee think either. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.319 I will. So, what did you do this weekend? 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.200 This weekend, well, I told you, I told you off 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.920 air my new life's ambition. I don't even care about 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.080 the money. I don't care about retirement. I just want 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.480 to get to a point in my career where I 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.400 can just like peace out for the month of August 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.280 because even though it's my birth month and I love it, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.759 I'm sorry Leo's but like August is like the armpit 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.920 of the calendar, especially if you're in New York. I 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.320 don't know about the rest of the country, but like 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.240 New York, it's just a festering cesspool of stank and 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.200 uh So this weekend, even though I was sick, I 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.960 was like feverish I had, I was an antibiotics, I 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.360 was sniffling. I got my sick butt on the bus 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.320 and went down to Asbury Park, New Jersey, just to 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.640 get to the beach. Like just that's how bad it is, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.320 just to get out of this neighborhood. That's what the 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.160 links I went. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.880 To how long was that bus ride? 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.600 Well, so it was supposed to be. So I wasn't 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.919 even taking the bus to Asbury Park. I was taking 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.840 the bus to my friend's house and she was gonna 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.760 drive us the rest the way to Asbury Park. So 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.240 of course I dragged fiancee boo. But I'm not really 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.720 telling him like how far exactly we're gonna be going, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.880 because one I don't really know, and two bus schedules 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.920 are weird, and three I didn't I wanted him to 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.520 like be okay with it. You know, we're on a budget. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.320 So I was like, we're really close to the George 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.280 Washington Bridge. The bus stop is right there. Port Authority 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.680 has like a satellite bus stop. We'll just take the 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.520 train down two stops, hop on a bus and call 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.200 it to day. But of course, like the train schedule 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.720 was wrong on Google Maps and it was totally different. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.440 When we got there, we missed our train, so the 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.240 next train wasn't for an hour I mean sorry bus 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.840 And we got on the bus finally, and we were 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.600 on it for half an hour, having a good time, 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.120 Like we had a little dunkin Donuts. Next thing I know, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.800 we're like going the wrong direction. I don't know where 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.320 we are, and we're supposed to transfer apparently, and then 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.960 we get off and we're like in the middle of 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.360 I don't know, something called West New York. I never 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.600 knew there was a West New York. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.560 Yeah, I knew there's a East New York, but I 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:14.000 didn't know this. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.000 Is that a Jersey thing like the West New York. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.440 Oh, I don't know. I just know like East New York. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.120 There was like a lot of candies and a Mandy's 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.120 and a children's place and a dunkin Donuts. That's all 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.400 I know. So we had to put up like a 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.359 flare gun and get rescued by my friend. So she 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.079 drove out and that was That was our bus adventure. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.160 Oh that's nine. I don't know the bus. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.000 It's hard, it's very I could do a train, I 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:36.800 could do a plane. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.640 I can. The bus is just not my cup of tag. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.200 When it's right and it's good, it's good, you know, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:44.840 like when you do when you get the schedule and 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.880 you get there on time, you get a seat, it's good. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.960 But it's bad and it's bad. I mean it was, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.840 it was not good. But anyway, we finally made it 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.160 to the beach and it was really nice. Nature's netty 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.720 pot is what I called it, because I was like, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.840 all sniffily, but uh clear, mery was that gross? 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.040 No? 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.280 Cleared me right on up and I'm on the men 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.640 feel much better. It was nice. It was just I'd 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.560 rather be hot on the beach than you know, hot 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.960 and inwood. Sorry inwood. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:15.600 Yeah, no, I could see that. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.280 But you are funky. Oh we have an exciting announcement. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.520 Oh that's why we do. I was like, we do, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:22.880 we do? 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.520 We talked about it before we had sold one plane. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:26.280 I know. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.200 Now I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.400 You guys come to us for the order and the 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.840 organization skills that we provide. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.800 You see us. No, yeah, I'm super excited. So we're 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:38.960 officially one year. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.839 Oh shoulder shity, whoa whoa eleven months Okay. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.760 I mean, well we're about to We're coming up on one. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.760 Year, coming up on one year in September. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:49.640 This baby we call Brown Ambition. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.479 I can't believe it's been a year. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.320 I know, it does not feel like it. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.240 This will be episode four, dy no, this will be 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:56.000 episode fifty. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 Oh my gosh, Like, how where has the time gone? 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.440 Just what it feels like to be a parent. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.240 Who you're asking you're the one. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.039 Baby baby? No? 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.520 I mean, yeah, I don't know, but it just feels 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.120 you know, it just feels like part of my life now, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.200 like it just feels natural. It's you know, it's so crazy. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.600 I can't fully remember before we started doing this because 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.560 it's just like, oh, something that we do every week, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.400 and at the same time, it doesn't feel like it's 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:27.120 been that long. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.800 It's like, well, this is just something that we do. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.800 So yeah, well, thank you for coming on this adventure 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:33.080 with me. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:33.680 Yeah. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.720 No, thank you for like slow, lovely romantic? 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.680 Are you gonna ask me? Are you gonna propose? 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.800 Finally I did when I said, Tiffany, will you do 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.320 this podcast with me? I don't know what I'm doing, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.000 but I'll figure it out, and you're. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.200 Like, that's literally that's what I said. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:55.120 I was like, okay, I'll see you with my star power. Sure. No. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.239 I just was like, because you know what, I wanted 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.640 to do a podcast, but I was like, I don't 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.080 have I'm not technically inclined at all. So it was 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.480 just like kind of in my mind like, oh, that 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.400 would be nice, but not you know, I can't possibly 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.120 do like the stuff behind the scenes, and then here 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.039 you came in, and I'm like, oh, even better, because 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:13.880 who wants to hear you talking to yourself? 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.320 I know, right, you know that happens, But I just 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.400 it feels a good paid off. Like we look, I 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.559 just checked our reviews and I haven't checked it in a while. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.680 Five star rating on iTunes. You guys, you guys, you 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.320 disittle best five stars, Like there's a lot of great, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.839 good podcasts out there that don't have five stars. And 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.279 I just feel like the love is genuine, and our 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.440 audience is so like it's so loyal and just like 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.440 loves the show and gets what we're trying to do here. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.279 So we wanted to find a way on our to 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.719 celebrate our coming up one year anniversary slash birthday, to 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.040 say thank you and to give back a little something 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.880 something to our fans. So we're gonna host a Brown 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.360 Ambition dinner. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.440 Yeah, I'm super, super super excited. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.760 An intimate dinner with some of our our listeners, and 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.320 we're gonna have a little contest and if you win. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.600 We haven't figured out all the details yet, because like 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.320 I said, we're queens of planning. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.520 I was thinking out like, we don't know how many. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.560 We don't know. We just know that it's going to 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.240 be in New York correct manny New York City? Yes, yes, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.080 so you have to be in the surrounding area and 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:18.880 be able to get here. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:24.040 We're willing to you know, get here somehow. Yeah, but 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.400 we'd love to have a small group. We're thinking in 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.800 the five to ten people range. But it's just going 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.560 to depend on what kind of responses we get to 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.840 this contest. TIF, do you want to tell people a 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.360 little bit about it what we're asking them to do? 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:37.120 It's very simple. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.720 Yeah, we just want you to share with us what 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.600 does Brown Ambition kind of mean to you? How does 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.280 it show up in your life? We just love to 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.720 get to know you better. And this is kind of 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.320 like our sneaky little way of getting to know how 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.120 awesome you are. So yeah, so if you can email 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.040 us at you already know, I don't know. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.160 Lord of Mercy. Maybe by the time we get to 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.600 be a year, she'll have our email address ready, said, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.360 go email us please at Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:12.040 dot com. The deadline is September first, September first, that 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.160 is in how many days. What is today? I don't 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.920 know what you have, like two weeks, two weeks, Please 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.440 send an email with your name and yeah, tell us 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.560 what brown ambition means to you and or tell us 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.440 you know, what was the time in your life when 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.480 you feel like you've really just personified brown ambition. We're 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.240 just looking for really genuine, like personal stories because we 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.200 know what brown ambition means to us. But we really 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.120 are doing this for you and like as a way 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.360 to acknowledge the power of literally brown ambition. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.480 Yeah, and we just want to get to know y'all 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:47.959 eat some delicious food. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.920 The force of brown ambition. Yeah, what are we going 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:50.920 to eat? I'm so excited. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.079 I think I was thinking, like, remember that restaurant I 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.000 was telling you about, right, Peruvian? Oh so it's a 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.560 Peruvian Okay, Yeah, so good. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.240 I feel like good food. So the food will be popping, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.120 the conversation will be amazing. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.760 It will I'll be exactly So. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.600 Yeah, so we're super excited, So don't forget send us 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.960 what brown ambition means to you. We're gonna pick anywhere 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.680 from five to ten guests, and we're gonna have Dindan 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.840 in the City, New. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.280 York and yes we're buying. I know you're thinking, like, I'm. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.880 My budget, you know, just make your way here, we'll buy. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.840 So exciting I can't wait. Okay again Brown Ambition Podcast 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.720 at gmail dot com. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.480 Yes, yes, And I love, honestly, I love when you 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.000 guys tweet us because like I'll totally forget that I've 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.160 said something like on like on the BA podcast, right, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.760 and then somebody will tweet us or you know, they'll 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.000 tag me at the Budget Easter or Mandy. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.559 You're not Mandy Money on Twitter, You're Mandy Woodruff. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.320 I'm Mandy Woodroff on the Twitter US. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.280 Yes, Mandy with the I Woodruf two fs. And so 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.080 when you tag us and stuff and they're like and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.200 you give us suggestions or you say like I'm listening 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.440 and I love you guys, or you just sometimes you 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.760 just like you'll just be like I just listened to 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.199 something you said and it made me laugh. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.800 I love when you do that. So just I'm just 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:05.360 letting you know. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.760 If you want to tweet us the BA podcast on 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.200 Twitter and also us personally Mandy with an I Woodruff 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.800 and the Budget Nista. I just love that just to say, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.840 you know, congratulations, happy anniversary. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.440 I don't know. Something we said that was funny. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.160 I don't know, And I know you guys are out 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.720 there and you're not leaving reviews. So this is your chance. Okay, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:31.000 it's been a year. We're working really hard. Go to iTunes, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.240 go to SoundCloud, go to Google Play, wherever you listen, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.480 and leave us a kind review wherever you listen. It 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.640 just means where people can find us. And I just 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.240 want to say, we've already had five thousand downloads for 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.040 the month of August and we're only halfway there. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.280 Look at us. We is fancy. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.120 On fire. Five thousand downloads, you guys, So who are you? 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.199 Who are the people? Oh yes, get to the interwebs 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.400 and find the reviews and review review review. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.679 So let's talk about these Olympics, can't. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.240 Doesn't it feel like the world has changed in the 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.600 last week between the Olympics, like before the Olympics after, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.760 because my whole life has been watching these clips and 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.920 these like live events more than First. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.120 Of all, mister Bolt, I just want to say the 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.760 level of disrespect now, I'm just saying this in a 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:26.520 facetious way. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.400 He is hilariously awesome. Did you see the memes? 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.800 Like when he mid mid run, he turns his head 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.520 and smiles cheekily at the camera. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.160 No, I haven't watched his race yet. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.120 Oh my gosh, many you have to watch it. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.480 First of all, is here the first thing that popped 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.200 up when I googled his name, like this picture. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.560 Look at his feet blurry and his face is like 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.079 you see me? 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.800 He honestly, he's amazing. So first of all, so it's 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.120 one hundred meters, so it's a very quick race. And 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.000 so like you see them at the block and you 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.840 see this guy has this huge lead. This man is like, yeah, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.920 that's cute. Clearly overtakes and then just blows past him 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.240 to win the race. And I just was like, he's 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.560 he's honestly just amazing. And what I was reading like, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.120 you know, more of this, Like I guess more of 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.280 like the what makes him different is that most while 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.920 most athletes or most runners are kind of de instead 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.520 of accelerating, they're just you know, they're they reach a 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.480 point where they accelerate very quickly and they start to 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.920 slow down. When they're starting to slow down, it's really 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.760 when he starts to really kick up, and that it 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.560 takes him longer to decelerate. I don't even know if 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:38.559 that's a word, but you know what I mean. It 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.280 takes him longer for him to slow down. And I 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.600 just thought, wow, just to watch him run he is 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.160 And I know Jamaica was going crazy. I saw this 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.880 funny meme of this guy like wearing like all Jamaican 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.439 paraphernalia and like flag stuff all over his body, and 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.120 they're like, how Jamaicans are gonna go to work today? 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.720 The wait, wait, I'm still not over the gymnastics, which 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.720 I know it's old news. Now, can we talk about 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:01.600 the Simone Biles. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.720 Oh my gosh, she's just amazing. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.720 She's just like a little I don't I'd heard so 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.040 much about her. I was almost like, let me just whatever. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.360 I don't feel like looking her up, like oh, she's 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.000 the next next coming of gymnast god or whatever. But 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.760 then I tuned in and then I actually watched her. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.240 I don't she's like an alien. She's like a four 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:26.880 foot eight yes, like teeny tiny, nineteen year old alien 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:27.960 human being. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.360 And then do you see, Like I remember her coach 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.040 was like you could just tell her clothes, it's just 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.720 like living. She was like, yeah, what Simone does on 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.040 the balance beam. People can't do on the floor, like 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.640 on four inches, she can't. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.959 It's like indescribable. I don't know all the terms and stuff. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.320 But it wasn't just her, you know what, when it 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.440 was it was the entire women's gymnastics team. Like when 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.480 they see all five of them together, they call themselves 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.040 a final five. I don't know all their names. There's 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.080 a really cute little Lori Hernandez. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.040 Yeah, it's from New Jersey. I'm like, oheay, she's from Jersey. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.800 And then Gabby Douglas of course, who was like the 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.560 Simone Biles before Simone was Siman Biles at the last Olympics. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.320 She was there and it's just like such a diverse 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.120 group of like young women and they all just loved 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.760 each other and then they kicked ass. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:13.040 Yeah. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.240 I feel like, you know the Olympics. What people don't 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.400 realize is you think, you know, these people are where 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.200 like all the American athletes have like Nike shoes on. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.520 They look very polished and like very like people think 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.240 these people are rich, but they're not like most like 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.600 I think just a small fraction them actually are making 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.160 money off the sport, like Gabby Douglas's mom just filed bankruptcy. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.800 She she won the Olympic goal. Yeah, she won the 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.960 Olympic gold in London. Her mom has filed bankruptcy because 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.000 that's they They literally give their entire life, their finances, everything, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.080 everything to this sport. I mean, there's just not like 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.600 a huge because people don't tune in to these sports 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.800 until the Olympics comes around. Like who's watching shot put 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.240 competitions like in you know, off season, you know, and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.880 giving these people the kind of ratings they need to 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.440 actually bring in those huge advertising dollars and sponsorships and stuff. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.200 So these people and the ones who lose, Like it's 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.800 not just the ones who lose either, Like I mentioned 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.160 Gabby Douglass, Like these families are broke, so the Olympics 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.920 for them is like everything. And there's this whole conversation about, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.760 you know, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a whole thing about whether 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.200 the Olympics and this has He's not the first person 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.600 to say this, but like how much money NBC is 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.000 making off this broadcast and like these athletes, I think, like, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.960 if you don't win, you're not making hardly anything. I 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.560 don't know, that's that's been in the back of my 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.560 mind the whole time when these people when you see 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.920 them crying and you see their parents crying, and you think, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.240 like they literally are giving they gave their lives for 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.760 this moment and they don't win. You know, it's it's yeah, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.520 it's humbling and not to you know, now I'm the 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.720 Debbie Downer, but it just brings a whole other element 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.000 of like feels to watching them, you know. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.360 Yeah, because like you said, like you you give your 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.680 whole life to this, Like it was I mean, this 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.680 is kind of funny, but like somebody wrote, I think 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.680 it was on BuzzFeed, it was hilarious. They were like 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.560 they were talking about the Lussain Bolt meme and people 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.880 were like, oh, I feel like he's you know, he's 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.040 too arrogant or whatever. And he like this person wrote 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.080 just some funny comment where basically he was like, it's crazy. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.280 You see the guy to the left and to the 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.960 right giving his life, his soul. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.680 He's dying out here in Nusain Bolt is like, yeah, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.000 just trampling all over your little dreams, like you know, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.240 you know, like you worked here and you work eighteen 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.880 years to get here, and he's smiling at the camera. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.200 Like you see me. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:28.360 That's the Olympics. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.360 So yeah, and some people are just. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.840 I just read only okay, just for to interrupt you, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.080 but okay, I just read that gold medal. As an 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.920 Olympic gymnast, they only make twenty five thousand dollars for gold. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:40.760 Wow. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.760 And it's not just a year of like that's twenty 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.920 five thousand dollars over and let's just say I started, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.040 you know, really training four years before that is like 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.240 less than seven thousand dollars a year in annual salary. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:53.960 So if you don't get like the weedies, if you 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.640 don't get the endorsements and all the other kind of stuff, yes, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.280 then you know, and even then like yeah, you get 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.360 the endorsements, it's just say, you get one hundred thousand 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.880 dollarsand addorsements, but it costs that much for your coach. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.639 And then what if you get injured, there's no insurance, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.719 Like you don't get covered. So go support your athletes. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.720 Stop rolling your eyes. Go to NBC dot com. You 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.880 can watch if you have a cable subscription, you can 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:26.520 watch the live and post live videos on NBC dot com. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.520 Well, I mean my weekd was it was definitely some 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.640 high points and some low points. A friend of mine 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.840 actually passed away. Yeah, it was so crazy, because you 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.119 know how you just feel like when someone passed you 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.000 like I just saw them. But it was kind of coming. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.680 She had diabetes that she'd been struggling with, but it 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.879 was some people's diabetes. I feel like it's really aggressive. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:49.119 You know. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.159 I know people who have diabetes and you'd never know, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.160 And then I know people who have diabetes and it's 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.919 like breaking them down. And hers was really I guess, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.280 I don't know, it was breaking her down. And she 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.520 had livered trouble. At one point she was getting dialysis 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:10.359 and then then she had developed congestive heart failure. Meanwhile, 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.679 she's twenty nine, so not like some old woman, you know. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:13.679 Wow. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.200 Yeah, and it was crazy because like she so she 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.720 she was a poet and also too she did lock 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.879