Speaker 1: Ring ring ring, or should we say Gito at Gito
Speaker 1: at Gito?
Speaker 2: Why you went there? I went there.
Speaker 1: It's the Paralympics. We're still here, y'all.
Speaker 2: You thought it was over, but it's really only just begune.
Speaker 2: Paris is still lit up with some of the world's
Speaker 2: finest and I don't mean little steaks, finest little steaks.
Speaker 1: I love a steak free.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's friends, right, yes, of course, steak free. It's babe.
Speaker 2: I mean, can we just get into it. I love
Speaker 2: a steak what's your favorite type of steak free? You
Speaker 2: know it is really free free, free free that feels
Speaker 2: like a very like humor of the time, like like irreverent,
Speaker 2: like there's very lonely island. Instead say steak free, free, free,
Speaker 2: freed free that feels like a very lonely island ctir
Speaker 2: a two thousand and nine sketch.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a very Matt Rogers, Bow and Yang circa
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four podcast conversation one hundred percent. I think
Speaker 1: steak free. You don't get any more chic when it
Speaker 1: comes to meat and potatoes. And if this were our
Speaker 1: other podcasts, that would be a role of culture. But
Speaker 1: it's not we can't, but it's not so we can't.
Speaker 1: It's literally meat and potatoes. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: It is amazing. It's what our ancestors ate. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's a staple and don't question it. I feel like
Speaker 2: steak Fretz. It's not when you go to the restaurant
Speaker 2: be I'm like, oh, I'm gonna have steak freetz, right,
Speaker 2: But it's always there and you're like, okay, you know what,
Speaker 2: that could actually be that girl, and if you order it,
Speaker 2: it will be that girl.
Speaker 1: Oh see, it's funny that you're gendering it as that
Speaker 1: girl because I kind of think of state Freed as
Speaker 1: like an old flame, an old an older man.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 1: It's like that guy that you forgot that you had
Speaker 1: a flaning with and you see him on the menu.
Speaker 1: Like you go to the restaurant and you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to order a nice you know, chicken breast, but
Speaker 1: then you go to the menu and then the steak
Speaker 1: free comes your way and goes, hey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's me old faithful.
Speaker 1: It's old faithful.
Speaker 2: I feel like steak freed is security. Steak freed is
Speaker 2: it's knowing that you're gonna be taken care of, but
Speaker 2: you always think you want like seafood fraud diavlo, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, get into it. You want to
Speaker 2: get into it, like you really want. You want to
Speaker 2: go to the restaurant and you want You're like, tonight,
Speaker 2: I'm spicy. It's like when you go to brunch and
Speaker 2: you're like, I'm getting shuck shuka.
Speaker 1: I'm getting shuck shuka.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But then steak freight shows up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's just steak freits is It's literally a
Speaker 2: good metaphor because it's like, wow, I really should order
Speaker 2: the steak frets. I know that I'll be taken care of,
Speaker 2: but cut to me eating rassy food.
Speaker 1: I think this segues so perfectly into our conversation today
Speaker 1: about the Paralympics.
Speaker 2: Do you think so?
Speaker 1: I think the Paralympics end up being the steak freights
Speaker 1: that you still get that you're still like, I'm not
Speaker 1: full yet on the Olympics, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I think this is a very especially
Speaker 1: this year, especially with how wonderful these Olympics have been.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, what am I gonna do with that? The
Speaker 1: Olympics honey. The Paralympics start next Wednesday. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2: The agdos are in the sky.
Speaker 1: The agidas are in the sky. Now what are the agidos?
Speaker 2: Those are?
Speaker 1: It's not the five rings anymore. It's the three agdos,
Speaker 1: the flags, and you know what. Depending on my mood,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think the agito is a shaker logo.
Speaker 2: The three agitos ye are colored red, blue, and green.
Speaker 2: These are the three colors that are most widely represented
Speaker 2: in national flags around the world, so this is bringing
Speaker 2: everyone together. The symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed
Speaker 2: of three crescents colored red, blue, and green, encircling a
Speaker 2: single point on a white field.
Speaker 1: The ageto, which translates to I move in Latin agito agito,
Speaker 1: is a symbol of movement in the shape of an
Speaker 1: asymmetrical crescent. The three agitos in circle a center point
Speaker 1: to emphasize the role that the IPC has of bringing
Speaker 1: athletes from all corners of the world together and enabling
Speaker 1: them to compete. The shape also symbolizes the Paralympic vision
Speaker 1: to enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire
Speaker 1: and excite the world. I mean, this is so beautiful.
Speaker 1: I move Agito.
Speaker 2: It's so chic.
Speaker 1: Anytime I think Agit, I think Agita, and that's not
Speaker 1: a great thing, you know. I Oh, I have Agita
Speaker 1: that we're taking Agito? Is you move?
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. When I'm at the club Agito,
Speaker 2: when you see me out, very likely I'm going to
Speaker 2: be representing Agito culture. I move. It's very Julia Robertson's
Speaker 2: best friend's wedding. I got moves. You never seen Agito
Speaker 2: like you've never seen.
Speaker 1: It's very ludicrous. And that it's not when I move,
Speaker 1: you move just like that. It's when a gito u gedo,
Speaker 1: just like that, when Agito ug gedo just like that.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hey, ded j a gito that back? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we're really throwing it back to high school. Do
Speaker 2: you remember being a high school a middle schooler? Rather,
Speaker 2: this is really more middle school and going to your
Speaker 2: middle school social and agdoing.
Speaker 1: I would a gido in ways that were so like
Speaker 1: not burdened by what has been shall we say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but not even burdened by like, oh, like am I
Speaker 1: dancing good? You didn't it didn't care Okay, just something.
Speaker 2: I just it was an empty coffee cup that fell
Speaker 2: on the ground. Leave that in. I want them to
Speaker 2: know it was me. That's my new line. Whenever anything happens,
Speaker 2: I leave it in and I want them to know
Speaker 2: it's me, Like I'm very I want to know. I
Speaker 2: want us to know me.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, middle school dancing a gido. How fast did you,
Speaker 1: as you know, your mile in high school?
Speaker 2: Six? Wow? I'm so happy that you said that, because
Speaker 2: I only have a couple more opportunities to let everyone
Speaker 2: know that I ran a four to thirty six mile
Speaker 2: in high school at the age of seventeen, as you
Speaker 2: knowed fast.
Speaker 1: As you do very fast.
Speaker 2: This is so wow. I didn't even know it was
Speaker 2: gonna unlock so much. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean I think Paralympics coverage is this perfectly.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say untapped thing like I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: like anyone who's like, oh what am I gonna do? Now?
Speaker 1: Like the Paralympics are right there, They're going to get
Speaker 1: the same kind of human spirit, the peak of human
Speaker 1: experience and spirit are all still there and it all
Speaker 1: kicks off. Yes at the Plas deluc Concord eleven days
Speaker 1: of competition, forty four hundred athletes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the twenty eighth of August, you can see
Speaker 2: the opening ceremony and they'll be plenty to look forward to.
Speaker 2: With that and that the Games in general, I mean
Speaker 2: athletes from all around the world will compete in five
Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine medal events across twenty two Paralympic sports.
Speaker 2: The City of a Light at gay Paris will provide
Speaker 2: a perfect backdrop for these athletes. And it's been roughly
Speaker 2: three weeks since the Olympic Games, so we've had enough
Speaker 2: time to sort of cool down, re energize and then
Speaker 2: open back up and agdo all the way through these
Speaker 2: Paralympic Games.
Speaker 1: And hey, Paralympians use up whatever condoms the Olympians didn't.
Speaker 2: Get through the village, and we could have helped with that.
Speaker 2: And I will say, we are not over not being invited.
Speaker 1: We're not over not being invited Milan twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: We better be there, We better be there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I just thought about traveling to Italy
Speaker 2: again and I had a no Terror flashback.
Speaker 1: You know, traveling to Italy you need to let go
Speaker 1: of control and of things going your way. Because even
Speaker 1: if they don't, these people are going to look you
Speaker 1: in the eye. If you go to a baggage claim
Speaker 1: a tenant and go, hey, I lost my luggage, they
Speaker 1: are going to look you in the eye and say,
Speaker 1: we survive fascism, and they won't care. They've earned their
Speaker 1: shall we say.
Speaker 2: Relax, they are unbothered, unbothered and they've earned that. But
Speaker 2: good luck to everyone who's had it over there. For
Speaker 2: the Winter Olympics. We hope to do two guys five
Speaker 2: rings again in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Wink wink, nudge, nudge wink quink.
Speaker 2: Nudge nudge to anyone in power that sort of wants
Speaker 2: us to continue this podcast. For example, this episode has
Speaker 2: been amazing. It's about the Paralympic Games, and I think
Speaker 2: we've said a few things about it. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: some of the sports that will be happening to get this.
Speaker 2: Blind football is happening at the Eiffel Tower Stadium. What
Speaker 2: better location for watching blind football history unfold than at
Speaker 2: this iconic symbol of a public park located at the
Speaker 2: foot of the Eiffel Tower will host a temporary arena
Speaker 2: that can welcome up to twelve eight hundred and sixty spectators.
Speaker 2: I'm sure those bleachers will be full blind football.
Speaker 1: Can I just say that venue is my favorite venue
Speaker 1: of this Olympics year. It's so cool that arena in
Speaker 1: front of the Eiffel Tower. I think it was where
Speaker 1: they had a lot of the volleyball events. You can't
Speaker 1: beat that backdrop.
Speaker 2: No, it's glamour and you did you know it was
Speaker 2: once the tallest building in the world for a time.
Speaker 2: It was for a spell, for a spell, for a spell.
Speaker 1: We do have to point out the arena in the
Speaker 1: non Ter is transformed into a pool for the first
Speaker 1: time for the Olympic and Paralympic Game, So we're back
Speaker 1: the Nonter But we just need to say it was
Speaker 1: a concert venue where the Stones and Paul McCartney have played.
Speaker 1: But Taylor took the aerostour to Paris Lat Defonse at
Speaker 1: Nanterre less than four months before the paras ommers take
Speaker 1: the stage in style who wrote.
Speaker 2: That they know that these tailors delusions are catnipped to us.
Speaker 2: You know though, there's tons of great storylines outside of
Speaker 2: all this that are going to be playing out at
Speaker 2: the Paralympic Games. For example, USA Men's wheelchair basketball and
Speaker 2: women sitting volleyball going for three peats here at the Games.
Speaker 2: Both teams won in Rio and Tokyo, and our favorite
Speaker 2: for gold in Paris. Can we say, whether it's the
Speaker 2: Paralympic Games or the Olympic Games, US, we got it,
Speaker 2: We got it, We got this.
Speaker 1: Three peats.
Speaker 2: That's there's no mistake. When you've win three, one, three times,
Speaker 2: no one can say anything to you. Lightning doesn't strike twice,
Speaker 2: it's sure as heck. Don't strike thrice. No, and if
Speaker 2: it does, you are crazy, unlucky. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry for you. Can you imagine being struck by
Speaker 2: lightning once, let alone twice, let alone three times? You're
Speaker 2: not meant to be out.
Speaker 1: In the world, No, but you are meant for gold it.
Speaker 1: Maybe this will be an everlasting love.
Speaker 2: Have a blessed love. Headliners in the pool, Jessica Long,
Speaker 2: an SM mate, is going for her fifth consecutive gold,
Speaker 2: and Mallory Wegman is swimming to defend her gold in
Speaker 2: the SM seven classification. Now is a mother and fresh
Speaker 2: off hosting a studio show during the Olympic Games. Primed
Speaker 2: and ready to get in the water swim her way
Speaker 2: to Golds. Come on.
Speaker 1: Now, there are different levels of mothering happening with Mallory Wegman.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you say you're a TV show host during the
Speaker 1: Olympic Games, you are a new mother in the literal sense.
Speaker 1: You are defending your goal title in SM seven. This
Speaker 1: is of course a classification in the event. Now, I
Speaker 1: think this is what you watch for. This is the
Speaker 1: whole reason why we love sports, and so we will
Speaker 1: be tuning into for Jessica and Mallory and we applaud
Speaker 1: it and root for them. Sarah Adam is the first
Speaker 1: ever woman to make USA Wheelchair rugby. As the team
Speaker 1: faces tough competition to stay in the podium. The Americans
Speaker 1: have never finished off the podium at the Paralympic Game.
Speaker 1: This could be their year. I hope that Sarah is
Speaker 1: she leading the squad. No, but she's just making the squad.
Speaker 1: And I think she's competing mixed gender with the rest
Speaker 1: of the rugby team. So this is already so forward
Speaker 1: thinking in so many ways. But for Sarah to compete
Speaker 1: with the men for the rugby event is pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Moving over to the track, Ezra Freck is the world
Speaker 2: record holder in the men's high jump T. Sixty three
Speaker 2: and competes for a spot in his first Paralympic podium.
Speaker 2: The defending champus American Sam Grew, who was balancing med
Speaker 2: school as he returns to competition in Paris. Jaden Blackwell
Speaker 2: headlines the men's sprinters in the one hundred meters two
Speaker 2: thirty eight. Blackwell is expected to be the breakout star
Speaker 2: on the track in his first Paralympics and holds the
Speaker 2: world record in that event. And there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a story about Ezra Freck. There's more going on here.
Speaker 2: So Ezrafrek's origin story began at the twenty twenty Paralympic
Speaker 2: Games in Tokyo, when, as he remembers not winning a medal,
Speaker 2: ignited in already burning internal flame. Ooh.
Speaker 1: Missing the podium in Tokyo is definitely one of the
Speaker 1: more difficult moments of my life. Frek says, I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, I'm gonna use this moment as fuel to
Speaker 1: drive me to become the greatest Paralympian of all time.
Speaker 1: H Frek, a West Los Angeles native and Paralympian ambassador,
Speaker 1: was born with congenital limbed differences, missing his left knee
Speaker 1: left fibula and several fingers on his left hand.
Speaker 2: Now nineteen, Frek continues his dreams representing Team USA in
Speaker 2: the Paris Paralympic Games twenty twenty four in the high jump,
Speaker 2: long jump and one hundred meters. This time he aims
Speaker 2: for a better finish than Tokyo, as the next chapter
Speaker 2: in his story remains unwritten, like Natasha Bettingfield wanted it.
Speaker 1: With the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics, hosted by La Frek,
Speaker 1: who hails from the city, aims to achieve what he
Speaker 1: calls the triple crown. Golden in the high jump, long
Speaker 1: jump and one hundred meters feet has never been accomplished
Speaker 1: in the history of the Paralympic Games, the Olympic Games,
Speaker 1: or even track and field history in general. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Ali Truett. Ali Truett, This, this's crazy. She's headed
Speaker 1: to the Olympics after a shark attack. Roughly a year
Speaker 1: after losing part of her leg to a shark attack,
Speaker 1: Connecticut native Ali Truett is set to compete for Team
Speaker 1: USA in the Paralympic Games in Paris starting August twenty eighth, saying,
Speaker 1: I am so excited and just really can't wait to
Speaker 1: wear the American flag on my cap and races. Wearing
Speaker 1: the American flag to me stands as a thank you
Speaker 1: to the everyday American heroes all around me who have
Speaker 1: worked so hard this year to save me and are
Speaker 1: helping me rebuild my life. Y'all, if you go to
Speaker 1: Turks and Caicos like Ali did, be careful of the sharks.
Speaker 1: She since graduated from Yale University, where she competed as
Speaker 1: a Division one swimmer and was snorkling with a friend
Speaker 1: when she was attacked. The pair swam from roughly seventy
Speaker 1: five yards in the open ocean, with her saying me
Speaker 1: bleeding profusely still and both of us knowing a shark
Speaker 1: was still circling to get back to the boat to
Speaker 1: save ourselves. They did get back to the boat. A
Speaker 1: friend apply to tourniquet, which helped save Truett's life before
Speaker 1: she was airlifted to at Miami Hospital. There, on her
Speaker 1: twenty third birthday, doctors amputated her leg below the knee.
Speaker 2: Truittz Prostetus connected her with another of his clients, swimmer
Speaker 2: Jessica Long, who's on her way to competing at her
Speaker 2: sixth Paralympics this summer and hoping to add to her
Speaker 2: twenty nine medals. Through it, and Long struck up a
Speaker 2: friendship and recently appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show together.
Speaker 2: Can I say, I think that if I saw a
Speaker 2: shark in the water just anywhere around me, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: even need to attack me. It would be over right there.
Speaker 1: You would black out and then yeah, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a miracle.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 1: It a miracle. It's just like you have stared death
Speaker 1: in the face and God for you to take that
Speaker 1: all the way to the Paralympics, incredible, incredible, Ali, we salute.
Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine like from going from shark
Speaker 2: attackt to gold medal that? I mean, it probably has
Speaker 2: been a movie. Wasn't it a movie? Wasn't there called
Speaker 2: Soul Surfer?
Speaker 1: But that was Blake Lively?
Speaker 2: I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't Soulsurfer was Ana Sophia rob Wow. Blake
Speaker 2: Lively was the Shallows. So Blake Lively was in a
Speaker 2: film where a shark absolutely terrorized her. But Soul Surfer
Speaker 2: I believe is about Ms.
Speaker 1: Bethany, Right, But Ali's not a surfer. Who's Ali Ali Truett?
Speaker 1: This is a mess? Oh soulsurfer? Was Anna Sipia Rod? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay? What about the Woodhulls though they are an
Speaker 2: Olympic Paralympic power couple, we all were wiping tears from
Speaker 2: our eyes when Tara Davis Woodhall won the woman's long
Speaker 2: jump event at the Paris twenty twenty four Olympic Games
Speaker 2: just a couple weeks ago, who immediately ran to her
Speaker 2: husband and paralympian Hunter wood Hall to celebrate the special
Speaker 2: moment together. I've never seen love like this.
Speaker 1: You know that the life rights are being optioned?
Speaker 2: Oh babe. Period. So now, less than a month after
Speaker 2: his wife Tara won Olympic gold in the women's lung jump,
Speaker 2: Hunter would we'll be aiming at bringing new items to
Speaker 2: their home collection at the Paralympic Games. Woodhall has three
Speaker 2: medals to his name already and will be competing in
Speaker 2: the men's one hundred meter T sixty four and four
Speaker 2: hundred meter T sixty two in the French Capitol.
Speaker 1: They first met at the Simplot Games Indoor Athletics meet
Speaker 1: in Idaho in twenty seventeen. Hunter says he was leaving
Speaker 1: the track after running the four hundred meter when Tara
Speaker 1: walked onto the track and said, I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like I need to give you
Speaker 1: a hug.
Speaker 2: It rights itself. Oh my god. After that, the two
Speaker 2: started to exchange messages on social media. They got on
Speaker 2: the DMS and months later they met again at the
Speaker 2: Arcadia Invitational Meet. That's when we started talking no stop,
Speaker 2: Tara Davis Woodhall said in a YouTube video. They posted
Speaker 2: about how they met and they continued a long distance
Speaker 2: relationship while both were competing for different universities. Hunter and
Speaker 2: Tara got married in twenty twenty two, and today you
Speaker 2: will hardly find an event where one of them is
Speaker 2: competing and the other ones not there.
Speaker 1: Watching new development as we head into the Paralympic Games,
Speaker 1: Hunter has recently revealed that he he has contracted COVID
Speaker 1: amid training. He posted on threads I tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 1: Unfortunate timing, but I knew it was a risk. Being
Speaker 1: around so much celebrating and traveling won't be an excuse.
Speaker 1: Gonna kick this thing and I'll be ready for the Paralympics.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's gonna come back stronger than ever.
Speaker 2: I really do. I mean like I would hate for
Speaker 2: COVID to sneak back in.
Speaker 1: No COVID relax. You canceled twenty twenty games, You cancel Tokyo.
Speaker 1: It happened again in twenty twenty one, and it still
Speaker 1: was there. It was kind of there for Paris for
Speaker 1: the Olympics. But just leave the Paralympics alone, please enough.
Speaker 2: Let these two have their gold medal ending. I'm serious,
Speaker 2: so so much to look forward to a bow at
Speaker 2: the Paralympic Games. I mean like it's gonna be an
Speaker 2: event like no other, like no other.
Speaker 1: Let's give out our medals.
Speaker 2: Gold medal, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter would all? I mean like
Speaker 2: that to me? I know this is gonna end in
Speaker 2: a positive way because the power of love will compel.
Speaker 1: The power of love will compel. I guess we're going
Speaker 1: descending order.
Speaker 2: Oh I suppose No, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give silver to Ali. I mean shark
Speaker 1: attack to swimming.
Speaker 2: That is god.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a swimmer, if that's your life
Speaker 1: and it almost kills you, ever you can still excel
Speaker 1: at it and to still want to tackle it head
Speaker 1: on and compete in it with the best of the world.
Speaker 1: That is incredible, and the bronze medal goes to the Eiffel.
Speaker 2: Tower, so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Ezra.
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Speaker 2: eighth to September eighth on NBC and Peacock And you
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