1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to a Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: filled with the Olympic spirit, or that might be just pasta. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: On today's bonus show, we're taking you behind the scenes 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: at the Olympic opening ceremony. Alex and I are live 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: at the stadium where they're breaking everything down, and we'll 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: tell you all of our reactions, good, bad, and jd 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: vance to everything we saw tonight. It's coming up after this. 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Yeah, we know it is not a Monday 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: through Friday, and yet here we are giving you an 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 1: extra bonus episode of Good Game with Sarah Spain. Would 11 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: we call this extra time? Would we call this overtime? 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: Would we call this pregame? Because it's going to run 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: on a weekend before a Monday episode. 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: I think this is like a day zero pod, which 15 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 2: is the official Olympic lingo for the day that the 16 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: opening ceremony happens. 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: You keep saying that, and I couldn't hate it anymore 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: because here's the thing. We've already done two full days 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: of work, and by work, I mean enjoying amazing things 20 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: and being at extremely cool star that is somehow our job. 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: And so when I'm like and it's only day two, 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: and you keep saying it's technically day zero. That not 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: only eliminates all the work we've done, but also it 24 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: removes any excuse I might have for being tired, because 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: we stayed up real late last night and woke up early. 26 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: We did all that. Said, whatever day you want to 27 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: call it, we are here giving you a very short 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: and succinct reaction podcast to the opening ceremony that we 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: just watched. And I believe Alex has read up a 30 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: little bit on some of what was going on in 31 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: front of our eyes. I did not, So my reactions 32 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: will be me trying to figure out who the guys 33 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: were that looked like they were about to do the 34 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: president's race at a Washington Nationals baseball game, and also 35 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: any number of other random, very symbolic, looking beautiful certainly 36 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: moments throughout that I didn't understand a. 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 2: Bit of Yeah, and I think maybe before we get started, Sarah, 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: let's set the scene. We are currently still in sans 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: here Ro Stadium, a stadium that holds eighty ish thousand people. 40 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 2: I think there were fewer than that tonight, but a 41 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 2: lot of people, and in part the reason that we 42 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: are here recording. This is because the trains were absolutely 43 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: jam packed, and we're doing the thing where you just 44 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 2: you wait around a little bit afterwards, you hope that 45 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: the people go home today. 46 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: I was both shoved on and shoved further in, and 47 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: then attempted to be shoved out, but got my way 48 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: back in, And at one point I used all of 49 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: my rebounding skills and just back that ass up to 50 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: give myself two to three inches so that no one 51 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: else would think that they could get on the train 52 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: at the stop we were at, because it was zero 53 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: breathing room, and I feel bad because my face is 54 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: above almost everyone else's. Were you just like chest deep 55 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: into somebody. 56 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: Well, what Sarah's not telling people is that I ended 57 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 2: up taking the next train because I just didn't want 58 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 2: to shove into that space. And so I got a 59 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: nice little spot by a family. I like kind of 60 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: carved up and held my own with my giants back. 61 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a full back for you. You were 62 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: the star running back. I cleared a hole and you 63 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: didn't take it. You just let yourself get pushed back, 64 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: and you go, I think I'm gonna take the next one, 65 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: and I'm like, there's a spot right here, which then 66 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: another person got into that I had made for you, 67 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: and then it was fine. 68 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 2: I saw you later, Sarah with the football analogy, and 69 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: I'm just like, can you explain that and biathlon to me? 70 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: Please? Anyway again, we're here now. 71 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 2: Which also means one more thing. My producer brain just 72 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: has to say. If you hear background noise, that is 73 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: because we are in an empty stadium. I'm kind of 74 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: hoping that we get one more reminder over the loudspeaker 75 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 2: of the ceremony has ended, which continued for quite a 76 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: long time. I think people knew the ceremony had. 77 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: Ended in multiple languages. Madame and missus, ladies, a gentleman, 78 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: gtfo Okay. I took a couple of notes throughout this ceremony. 79 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: What I will start with is just to say I've 80 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: never been to an Olympic opening ceremony in person. It 81 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: was beautiful and cool and at times moving, but I 82 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: feel like had I been to one anytime before the 83 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: Paris opening ceremony, I would have been far more impressed. 84 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: But I don't know how you compete with a moving 85 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: opening ceremony that spans the length of the sin. I mean, 86 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: that was just one of the most beautiful, creative, ingenious, thoughtful, impressive. 87 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: Can you give awards for opening? Is there an award 88 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: show for opening ceremonies, because that would have won. 89 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: I think Beijing in two thousand and eight probably still 90 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: has that award, but. 91 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: More so than Paris. Yeah. 92 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: But I think here's the thing is that I don't 93 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: know how good Paris was in person. I think Paris 94 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: was a really good TV ceremony. 95 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: Sure, and that's what I'm judging it based on. Yeah, 96 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: I think it should be both. Yeah. 97 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: No, I think that's fair. And I think I'm curious 98 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: to hear what Yanka feels about the ceremony and what 99 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 2: all of our slices feel about the ceremony too, once 100 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: we hear from them, because yeah, I mean, it's a 101 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 2: little hard when things are far away and you're looking 102 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 2: at the screen yourself. But I enjoyed it. 103 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: I did enjoy it. Again, I don't know who the 104 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: composers that looked like the President's race were. I knew 105 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: they were composers. There was really beautif artistry with the people. 106 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: The dancers dressed up as music notes, and we loved 107 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: the giant containers of paint dripping down and creating the 108 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: beautiful colors. I thought the people dressed in many colors 109 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: when I spotted them in the cast hangout room before 110 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: the opening ceremony started, We're going to be sort of 111 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: like the big hat people in Venice. I don't know 112 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: if they have any religious background or what the deal 113 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: with those people in Venice are, but I thought that's 114 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: what they were going to be. And it turned out 115 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: that they were actually coffee related, as a nod to 116 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: the caffeination here in Italy. But yeah, I had no 117 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: idea who the composers were, but I liked them and 118 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: I appreciated their dancing with their giant heads. 119 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: Okay, so, in looking at the official guide to the 120 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 2: opening ceremony, they were three Italian opera maestros. Giuseppe Verdi 121 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: Verdi with four seasons, Jacobo Puccini. 122 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: Yes, Puccini famous opera who and. 123 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 2: Oh boy, Giaccino rose. 124 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: Rossini another famous. Yes. Okay, so I know all of them. 125 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to pick them out of 126 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: a lineup, yeah, especially not with those giant heads. I 127 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: don't think they were to scale, do you think? I 128 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: do not think? So? Okay, Okay, moving on more music 129 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: Mariah Carey. I think those high notes were piped in, 130 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: and I don't want to besmirch the good name of 131 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: our great American diva, and that, frankly is the only 132 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: connection I can make to Mariah Carey being here in 133 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: Italy is that she's a diva and that's originally an 134 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: Italian thing. She sounded beautiful. It just there seemed to 135 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: be absolutely no effort or change of body posture between 136 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: the rest of the song and the insanely high notes 137 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: that I know Mariah is known for her range and 138 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: her octaves, and I know she doesn't have to work 139 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: that hard and that's part of her magic. It just 140 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: felt like maybe that part was piped in. 141 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 2: I wish I had something to say, Sarah, but I 142 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 2: feel like this entire opening ceremony was you with like 143 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 2: all these pop culture references and meaning being like, can 144 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 2: I tell you a fun fact about a country that 145 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 2: you've never heard of before? 146 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: That's because that's what it was. I had zero audience 147 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: for my jokes. I just want to shout out my husband, 148 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: because whenever I'm somewhere around people who don't know pop culture, 149 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm just bummed at every turn that I've got such 150 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: good material in my head. Sometimes it escapes my mouth 151 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: and it's just dead silence. And often after listening to 152 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: the podcast, my husband will tell me, that's a real 153 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: bummer that they didn't get that joke or that was hilarious, 154 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: and it just sat there because your producers didn't know 155 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: what you were talking about. I'm so sorry, but I 156 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: did learn a lot from you about various countries. You 157 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: learned nothing from me because my references went completely over 158 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: your head. 159 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 2: I have a lot of TV shows to catch up on, 160 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 2: is kind of what I walked away. 161 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: You sure do. One interesting thing was the beautiful model 162 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: that was a part of the fashion show that became 163 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: the Italian flag section. According to the gentleman in front 164 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: of us, is only famous in America and because she's 165 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: dating Leonardo DiCaprio, not because she's famous in Italy. She 166 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: is Italian, but they don't really know her here. And 167 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: same goes for the gal from White Lotus. Yeah, we'll 168 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: get to her later, but it was interesting to figure 169 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: out who they selected to represent their country and maybe 170 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: who they thought would be interesting globally. 171 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I was not aware of her, despite 172 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: the fact that I'm American because I don't know anything 173 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: about fashion, but. 174 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: Well, and there was an era at a time that 175 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: we all knew the models. This was before your time, Alex, 176 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: but back when we had more of a monoculture and 177 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: before it was not cool to put like TV and 178 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: movie stars on the cover of magazines. Those spaces were 179 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: held for the quote unquote supermodels, the Christy Turlington, the 180 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Cape Moss, the Cindy Crawfords. I could go on and on, 181 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: and everyone knew them and everyone loved them. 182 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 2: I would just say, if their lifespan did not exist 183 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: during those six months that I had a seventeen magazine subscription, 184 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 2: then I probably have never heard of them. 185 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I hope for your sake that you were 186 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: raised with a more broad idea of what might be 187 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: considered attractive, because I wasn't. Mine was like, are you 188 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: six feet and a bucko five? No? Okay, get out 189 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: of here, okay, So other things I noticed was okay. 190 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: So the setup of the stage looked like many things 191 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: at many times. At one point it looked like a 192 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: bit of like the Milky Way in the universe, and 193 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: there was an astronaut and a globe and it was 194 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, this is how small the Earth is in 195 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: the middle of this giant galaxy. But most of the 196 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: time I believe it was meant to represent the four 197 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: clusters of this Olympics. And they continued to say that 198 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: this was the first widespread Olympics, and having already called 199 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: the center of the clusters the taint a reference, I 200 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: think you got one of the few. Once they kept 201 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: calling it widespread over and over, I was like, Yeah, 202 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: it's real widespread, and that's why everyone keeps gathering in 203 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: the Taint, which I think doubled as the Olympic spirit. 204 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 2: I love that, Sarah, I love that. I mean, I like, 205 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: I just want to know how they came to the 206 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 2: conclusion of widespread, because like you have Paris, which also 207 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 2: had Tahiti, So like, it's not the furthest way things 208 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: have ever been. 209 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: You know, We've heard several different ways of explaining this. 210 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: Certainly the first co hosted Winter Games, meaning two cities 211 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: in the name and considered equal parts the most geographically widespread, 212 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: which I think is what they mean when they kept 213 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: just saying the first widespread, not the most widespread, not 214 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: the most geographically just the first widespread. And we appreciate 215 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: this Olympics for being sexually open. It's all yeah, yeah, 216 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: I think that's what they mean by that. Good Lord, 217 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: I can't believe we're still yapping. We got to take 218 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: a quick break. More on the Olympic ceremony right after this. 219 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: We also got the unique experience of these baked potato 220 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: dressed ladies coming out with the cards representing different countries, 221 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: some of whom had zero representatives here. So at first 222 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: when they started coming out, I didn't realize that they 223 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: weren't the first person for that country, and then I realized, okay, 224 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: these are like the placeholders. And then you could see 225 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: on the screens a couple athletes, and you started looking 226 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: to which corner of the arena they had come out of. 227 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: But they were in a different city, yes, because they 228 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: were showing us live views of Cortina Dempezzo and of Lavigno, 229 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: and the opening ceremonies taking place in those two cities, 230 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: which looked delightful and quaint but still very cool. Yes, 231 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: And so what happened is the delegations were split up, 232 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: and you would see athletes both here in Milan and 233 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: in the other two cities, and you'd sort of recognize 234 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: that if there were no cheers in the stadium, then 235 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: it was because there were no athletes here representing those countries. 236 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: To clue people in, like attending something without commentary can 237 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: be weird because you're like, I have no idea what's 238 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 2: going on, which is kind of exactly how I felt 239 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 2: for the first four or five countries that didn't have representatives. 240 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: They did introduce the countries in three different languages, which 241 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: is always fun to hear the ones that are pretty 242 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: much the same in French, Italian and English, and the 243 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: ones that are quite different. But that was about it. 244 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: It was just Algeria, Algerie, and then whatever the other 245 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: one is, and then the person would walk out and 246 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: then you would wait for the next one. Interesting fun 247 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: fact and shout out to Sikos Committee if you follow 248 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: them on Blue Sky. They invested in Aurora FC are 249 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: show side and they're involved in a number of different 250 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: sports things. But they posted the rankings of population per athlete, 251 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: how many athletes they have, so not just who's sending 252 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 1: the most, but per the number of people in that country, 253 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: and Liechtenstein has eight athletes and only a forty thousand 254 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: person population, so one in every five thousand people in 255 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: Liechtenstein is an Olympian, which is amazing. Just Winter Olympics too, 256 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: that's not counting any Summer Olympics. An interesting one that 257 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: they also pointed out was Norway is tenth on this list, 258 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: not because they have a small population it's over five 259 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: and a half million, but because they have so many 260 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: damn winter Olympians. They have eighty eighty athletes, So one 261 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 1: in every sixty nine thousand nice people in Norway is 262 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: a Winter Olympian at this games. 263 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 2: Oh I'm so sorry, but as soon as you started 264 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 2: talking about this, my brain went into the mode of like, 265 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 2: can I guess number two? Can I guess number two? 266 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: Can I guess? Le's see? Can you guess it? 267 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 2: I'm looking at a list. 268 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: No, no, no, there's. 269 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 2: No no, I'm not looking at there's no computer alone. 270 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: That's not a guess. That's research. I'm nope, that's not 271 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: a guess. That's research. No matter what you say now, 272 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: I won't believe that you guessed it. I just want 273 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: you to know that because I have no idea what 274 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: you've just looked at on your computer, So I won't 275 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: believe it for as second. If you get it wrong, 276 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: I'll be like wrong. If you get it right, I'll 277 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: be like wrong, you cheated. 278 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 2: So I'm in the lose lose situation. The answer to 279 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 2: remember the speech at the end that we find strength 280 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: regardless if we have victories or not. 281 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: Sarah, We'll get to that speech, because I thought it 282 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: was wild that they added something about hyaluronic acid and 283 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: your penis to the Olympic oath It's clearly a last 284 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: minute edition. We're gonna get to the penis as everyone. 285 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: The second country as andor Orleans. Andorra has a population 286 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: of eighty five thousand. They have seven athletes. That one 287 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: in twelve thousand people in Andorra is a winter Olympian. 288 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: You can check out at Siko's committee on Blue Sky 289 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: for the rest of that list. But I was thinking 290 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: about that as the countries were coming out, and thinking 291 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: about how cool it would be if you were like 292 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: the only Olympian and you're like, I'm holding it down 293 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: for my whole country. Also a little lonely though, because 294 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: some of them that came out with big delegations were 295 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: having a lot of fun. There were a couple different 296 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: countries that had some acrobatics going on various people on 297 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: other Olympian shoulders. I mean, it was really impressive. We 298 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: had a lot of questions about the flag bearers, certain 299 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: rules that we would like to get answers to. How 300 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: do you choose the flag bears for countries with very 301 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: few attendees. Let's say you have three people and then 302 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: they all vote for themselves. Who's the die breaker? Do 303 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: they even vote or is it something that like the 304 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: Olympic committee from that country decides in the case of 305 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: very few numbers of people. I know for USA that 306 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: there is a vote that takes place and then a 307 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: delegation that represents the athletes is the one with the 308 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: final something like that, right. 309 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 2: Right, It's still a democratic process for the Olympic flag 310 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: bear at this point. 311 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: Well, at least something still is in our country. Also, 312 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: the flag bearer rule which was put into place here 313 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: was still the same, which is you've got a man 314 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: and a woman. You mentioned that not too long ago. 315 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: They still didn't have regulations around that, and it was 316 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: found that when it was just one flag bearer, too 317 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: often countries ended up selecting a man. 318 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, this was an initiative that was brought in a 319 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: few years ago and the idea was gender equal games, 320 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 2: man and woman flag bearer together. But one thing that 321 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 2: I did notice is that when it comes to countries 322 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 2: at these Games, there are twenty countries here that have 323 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: at least one male athlete and no female athletes boom, 324 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: and then three countries that have a woman but no man. 325 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: So I'd like to know those three countries. 326 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: Well, Sarah, do you have them might research at this 327 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: point or. 328 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, because now you're not going to pretend to be guessing. 329 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: Now you're going to be admitting that you need to 330 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: go to your research. Which I've had no problem with research. 331 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: I respect it. I just don't want you to be 332 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: lying while we're still in the same sacred building in 333 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: which people took the Olympic oath. 334 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: The three countries are Malaysia, Malta, and Puerto Rico. 335 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: Malaysia, Malta, and Puerto Rico quickly talk to us about 336 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico appearing as its own delegation and with its 337 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: own sign even though it is a part of the 338 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: United States. Yeah, so. 339 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: At the Olympic Games, Well, they may be referred to 340 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 2: as countries or nations, what they actually are are national 341 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 2: organizing committees, and those are groups that usually represent a country, 342 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 2: but sometimes don't, and they don't always align with what 343 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: the UN defines as a country or what the US 344 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 2: defines as a country. And so you have a situation 345 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,719 Speaker 2: like Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States 346 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 2: but has been competing at the Olympics since the nineteen 347 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 2: forties and still is its own separate thing. Meantime, you 348 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 2: have Greenland, which competes as part of Denmark for now. 349 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: Until it competes as part of the US. First of all, 350 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: good for Puerto Rico. Like if the US was ever like, no, 351 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: you have to compete for us, they should be like, okay, 352 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: then we get to vote, and then the US would 353 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: be like, okay, never mind, go ahead and keep competing 354 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: for yourselves. But some other interesting ones are things like 355 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: Hong Kong. 356 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 2: Right, which technically marches under Hong Kong Comma China, something 357 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: that has done for years and years. Same with Taiwan, 358 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 2: as we would know the country in the United States 359 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 2: marches as Chinese Taipei. 360 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: Another fascinating fact that Alex dropped on me while we 361 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: were discussing all sorts of things like which names countries 362 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: use when they walk, is that the order of the 363 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: country's being introduced is in the native language of the 364 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: country hosting the Olympics, So even though they were announcing 365 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: the names of the country's French first, then English, then Italian, 366 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: the order was decided alphabetically by the Italian language. I 367 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: was kind of thinking, oh, well, where will the United 368 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: States be, because the French is Italsani, which is an E, 369 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: so that would be very early. United States is very 370 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: late because it's a U. And I was like, I 371 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: actually don't know what it is in Italian and you 372 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: inform me. Doesn't matter because of a rule that the 373 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: United States of course invented for themselves a couple of 374 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: years ago that really helped them out this year. Go ahead. 375 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, well so it actually helped them out in Tokyo 376 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty one, and it is that the 377 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 2: countries that are next hosting the Olympics get to go 378 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: second to last and third to last. So the United 379 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 2: States here was third to last because they're hosting the 380 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: Winter Olympics in twenty thirty four. 381 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: Well, so basically they helped themselves because at that Tokyo 382 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: Games in the native language, they would have been like fifth, 383 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: and a lot of people might have tuned out of 384 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: the broadcast and been like, okay, we saw the Americans go. 385 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: And instead this new rule was proposed whereby countries that 386 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: have been assigned the upcoming Olympic Games get to be 387 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: last announced. It would go the country two away, the 388 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: country one away, and then the host countries. So tonight 389 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: it was the United States because they're hosting the Winter 390 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: Games two games from now. Then it was France because 391 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: they're hosting the next Winter Games, and Italy of course 392 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: came out last. 393 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 2: And can we talk about the cheers that the Italians got, 394 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 2: because it was interesting to hear the cheers and some 395 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 2: booze as other countries were entering, and I think until 396 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: the Italians, Ukraine got the loudest cheers. 397 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: Canada was huge, Ukraine was massive. It was moving. It 398 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: was extremely moving. Not a big delegation that walked, but 399 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: not just to recognize what those athletes have gone through 400 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: trying to continue pursuing their dreams in the midst of war, 401 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: but also a very clear state and from everyone in attendance, 402 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: regardless of country, about their feelings about the way that 403 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: country is under siege. Some boozs for Israel and booze 404 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: for Teddy Foxman himself jd Vance. We were very curious 405 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: how this would go. We had talked about previously whether 406 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: or not they would show all the different representatives for countries, 407 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: if they brought presidential or vice presidential delegations, whether the 408 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: in arena camera operators would believe that that was someone 409 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: worth showing and that anyone would recognize or care about. 410 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: That's a wholly different decision than NBC Sports is making 411 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: back home about where and who they focused their cameras on. 412 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: So our in arena experience was a curiosity about what 413 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: Team America would receive walking out, and it was a 414 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: massive cheer. Also, feels like there are a ton of 415 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: Americans at these estests everywhere we've been so far, as 416 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: a lot of Team USA folks, and so it was 417 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: great to see when the athletes came out, massive cheers 418 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: and then as soon as there was a quick cutaway 419 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: to JD Vance, these like guttural booze. 420 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, very it was. It was a quick cut 421 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 2: because we missed it. 422 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: We missed it, and we had to get confirmation that 423 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: the booze we heard were because they had just showed 424 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: Jade Vance. We were all watching the athletes down below, 425 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: not the screen above, and then it was confirmed for 426 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: us that it was indeed a quick shot of JD 427 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: vance immediate booze and then quickly cut away and frankly 428 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: Viva Italia for that, like, good for you, good on 429 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: all the Italians, good on all the Americans, good on 430 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 1: anyone else from any other country in here. That was like, 431 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,120 Speaker 1: let's cheer the athletes and that guy. Definitely an audible 432 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: response to JD getting shown. Okay, let's move on to 433 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: the last couple of notes. I took the Italian actress. 434 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: Her name is Sabrina Impacia Torre. She's on white lotus. 435 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: The gentleman in front of us once again was our 436 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: lifeline two Italians and basically said, she's an Italian actress, 437 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: but you know, kind of more known in America again 438 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 1: because of the white lotus thing. But all I got 439 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: from her performance, which was very adorable and cute and 440 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: had its moments, was it reminded me of a little 441 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: bit of Lexis from Shit's Creek. She had this vibe 442 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: where first they turned her into an AI version of 443 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: herself and like zoomed her through every Winter Olympics of history. 444 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: At one point pegging her in the face with a 445 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: virtual snowball, which was weird and left her sort of 446 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: off kilter zooming through the next few games before she 447 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: plopped down into the middle of the arena and seemed 448 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: confused and was being passed around by different dancers. Looked 449 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: like she was wearing assless chaps because the bottoms were 450 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: silver and the butt part was flesh material or flesh colored, 451 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: and so it felt like a little bit of Lexis 452 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: turned into a sequel to La La Land eventually turned 453 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: into something and this is just for my people that 454 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: are old enough to get the reference. Jem, She's tru 455 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: layout way. He just it was all the neon colored 456 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: outfits and they were all dancing, and I was just 457 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: looking if the misfits were going to show up. 458 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: I want to call Brad right now and be like, Brad, 459 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: what should I say to Sarah for this reference? 460 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 1: He would get it, not get he would get it. 461 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: Shadows shot out to Jem and anyone who remembers Jem, 462 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: you at least got a little bit of lexis. I 463 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: got that reference. Moving on, we were very confused about 464 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: the woman who stepped behind a mic that didn't work. 465 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: We instantly realized it was a bit and not in 466 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: fact a technical fail. But it took us a little 467 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: bit to realize that they were making a bit of 468 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: fun of the amount that Italians speak with their hands. 469 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: And then I enjoyed it. I liked the idea that 470 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: they were sort of poking fun at themselves in all 471 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: their many hand gestures. And I don't think it would 472 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: be a truly Italian ceremony without that fingers to thumb, 473 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: like get the fuck out here kind of motion. Charlie's 474 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: arron came out. That was a surprise. She had not 475 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: been announced. Speaking words of Nelson Mandela from her home 476 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: country of South Africa, Charlie's looked immaculate, as always, absolute perfection. 477 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,959 Speaker 1: And what was very interesting for me during that part 478 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: and the what did you call the dove part? Dove 479 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: of peace? I believe it's what you called. 480 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: It, yes, which used to be a real dove until 481 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 2: the dove flew into the cauldron in nineteen eighty eight, 482 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: and they're like, mmm. 483 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: Not a great look. I presume it perished. It did perish, 484 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: So they literally released a dove to represent peace, and 485 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 1: it flew directly into a fire and died. Yes, And 486 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: what year was this nineteen eighty eight? That checks out. 487 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 1: I'm not saying there was peace before that. I'm just 488 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: saying it explains a lot. So anyway, there's always right, 489 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: there's always a dove of peace segment that's devoted toward 490 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: bringing peace and imagining the piece that could be achieved 491 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: if we all embodied the Olympic spirit, which was repeated 492 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: oh so many times tonight in a variety of different 493 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: words but all saying the same, which is basically like, hey, 494 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: can everyone just stop being at war and embody the 495 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: beauty that we all see here tonight bringing the globe together. 496 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: But the dove of peace part to me was actually 497 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: a little bit I wouldn't say emotional. I wasn't gonna 498 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: tear up or anything, but it made me very pensive. 499 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: There's a negative kind of connotation depensive, because that's how 500 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: I felt. It was like a thoughtfulness that made my 501 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: face screw up a little bit, thinking about what do 502 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: you think if jd Vance is still here and unlike 503 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: a hockey game, he didn't leave early. If he's still 504 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: here watching this, like what is the cognitive dissonance happening 505 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: or the logic pretzel, He's tying himself into to imagine 506 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: that he is not one of the people that is 507 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: at odds with the message of peace. What is like 508 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: if Donald Trump's at home eating eight in Big Max 509 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: and watching on TV and thinking to himself, Wow, they 510 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 1: keep talking about no war in peace this whole time. 511 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: What a bunch of rubbish. Let me go in. 512 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 2: Vain a Nobel Peace Prize, so no one knows more 513 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: about peace than him, Sarah. 514 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,479 Speaker 1: He does have a sloppy seconds. Did you say Nobel 515 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,719 Speaker 1: Peace Prize? It's a ripoff version of the Nobel Peace Prize. 516 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: Back to the piece. Do it just hit me a 517 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: little differ this year because usually I'm thinking about like 518 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: Russia or another country and how they must feel like 519 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: complete assholes watching the ceremony and realizing that they are 520 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: the worst. And then it was us this year that 521 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: I was thinking about instead. 522 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was curious how I was going to feel 523 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 2: at the opening ceremony because I think in a lot 524 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 2: of ways, right children of the world gather together, play sports, 525 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 2: have peace, all of that coke, And I didn't really 526 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 2: feel that this year because I think the message has 527 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 2: always been aspirational and it feels so far away, right, now. 528 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 2: It feels so far away right now, and I hate 529 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 2: to say it, and I think you know, some of 530 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 2: the athletes that we've spoken to and that have posted 531 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 2: on social media talk about how representing the US, they 532 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 2: want to represent the best of us, They want to 533 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: represent the diversity of this country, and I want them 534 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 2: to put that on display on the world stage while 535 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 2: also one hundred percent understanding that the rest of the 536 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 2: world can be pink pissed with us and for good reason. 537 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's selfish of me, but I keep saying 538 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: it on the show, like we are way past the 539 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: time where I think people get to decide if they're 540 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: going to speak up, and so I would love for 541 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: the athletes not just to represent that, but to speak it. 542 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: And we've seen a few and we'll talk about them 543 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: next week as we continue to cover the games and events, 544 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: and we'll share some of the words of athletes who 545 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: have been explicit in saying what they want to represent 546 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: and which parts of America they are bringing to the 547 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: games and standing for. But I want that to be 548 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: and feel explicit in the moments of joy, in the 549 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: moments of celebration. If you are going to represent a 550 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: place that is as cooked as America is right now 551 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: to not soften the blows by just waving a flag 552 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: and smiling, but instead saying, you don't get to use 553 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: me as a prop for a freedom that is not 554 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: a reality for too many. 555 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: Yep, yep, all right, I don't agree more. 556 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: Last thing, of course, we've been teeing up penises all show, 557 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: and for those who haven't seen, this is a moment 558 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: in time when we will leave our stated goal of 559 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: covering women's sports in order to touch on one of 560 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: the most important stories coming out of these games, and 561 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: it relates back to an episode we did months ago 562 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: with Page Jones, where she explained to us how ski 563 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: jumpers might try to manipulate the crotches of their suits 564 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: in order to get a little more sort of hang 565 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: time in squirrel suits, and the crotch of the suit 566 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: is where you can create a little bit of bagginess 567 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 1: to catch a little air and keep you in the 568 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: air longer. We talked about the crotch machine, which is 569 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: a highly scientific machine that actually can register whether or 570 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: not someone has manipulated their suit and if it has 571 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: different dimensions than when they originally both their body and 572 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: their suit had originally been approved. Well, change in your suit, 573 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: just change your actual body is what some of the 574 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: athletes in these games are being accused of doing, specifically 575 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to make them bigger 576 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: in order to create that extra hangtime. Now, Alex, the 577 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: only thing I know about hyaluronic acid is that I 578 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: put it on my face and it's supposed to be 579 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: good for my skin, which I assume is because it 580 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: makes it plumper and fuller. Right as my skin is 581 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: aging and wrinkling, the haluronic acid fills it up and 582 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: makes it plumper. And that's what we're doing with these 583 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: PENI just plumping them up. 584 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: And I want to bring people back to the reason 585 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 2: why Page Jones contacted us, which was these body inspections 586 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 2: that have become like strip searches. And I remember when 587 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: we were talking to her, thinking to myself, what are 588 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 2: athletes doing that their governing body is like, we need 589 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 2: to have a real close look down there. And for 590 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 2: folks that don't remember, we reached out to FIS for 591 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: comment on this whole process, and they wrote back that 592 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: there have been quote a few occasions in which athletes 593 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 2: attempted to defraud three D measurement process, for example, by 594 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 2: adding prosthetic like parts to that area of the body 595 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: end quote. 596 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: And byod bring around dildo. 597 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 2: And I think we now have a little bit more 598 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: insight onto this is not technically prosthetic but falls under 599 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 2: that category. And I think wata's agenda just got a 600 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 2: lot bigger the World Anti Doping Agency ut intended. 601 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what happens is for X number of months 602 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: they can inject this hyaluronic acid. It can add one 603 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: to two centimeters to penile girth, and they can register 604 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: larger crotch measurements during the mandated three D body scans. 605 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: But then by the time the competition arrives, their penis 606 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: has returned back to normal and their suit is that 607 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: extra one to two centimeters larger than their actual girth. 608 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like that would mean anything, but even 609 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,239 Speaker 1: tiny little changes in a ski dumping suit can make 610 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: you fly farther, and apparently these men are willing to 611 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: sacrifice the safety, the functionality, potentially the esthetic beauty of 612 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: their penises in pursuit of gold. 613 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 2: I just want to know if somebody ever showed up 614 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 2: having taken biagra like Hey, I'm here. 615 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: It's just always hard. I'm so sorry. You'll have to 616 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: measure it this way. No, I don't think that's allowed, Alex. 617 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: I think they would require someone to sit there for 618 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: longer than three hours, which I think is when you're 619 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: supposed to see a doctor. Anyway, there has not been, 620 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: as far as I've seen Alex, any leak, either of 621 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: the hyaluronic acid from someone's penis or of the specific 622 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: athletes that are alleged to have done this. That what 623 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: is looking into, right, I haven't seen a specific country 624 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: or athlete named, simply that they are looking into allegations 625 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: of injected hyaluronic acid. And what was wild to me 626 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: was the very end of this Olympic opening ceremony, to 627 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: bring it all to a close, somewhere right around the taint, 628 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: to slash the symbolic Olympic spirit, they were reading off 629 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: the Olympic Oath, and they just added in a whole 630 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: line about I will not inject hyaluronic acid into my penis. 631 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 2: Got that from the broadcast. 632 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's never been part of the Olympic Oath before, 633 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: but I think probably a good idea. 634 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean desperate times desperate measures. 635 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: Times change, and so does the Olympic oath once penises 636 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: get involved. But Alex and Biank and I all agreed 637 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: that new rule for our show. We don't talk about 638 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: men's sports on the pod unless we're talking about penis doping. Alex, 639 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: any final words on this opening ceremony before we get 640 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: the hell out of here? 641 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 2: Well to set the stage right now, there's no stage left. 642 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 2: It's wild to think that. I don't know. An hour 643 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 2: ago they had just had fireworks coming out of the 644 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 2: Olympic rings, and now there are construction workers wheeling things away. 645 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: Now those rings are lying on their sides and they 646 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: just look like giant things of masking tape. There's yellow tape. 647 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: Real sight that one ring has been disassembled. Oh my god, Alex, 648 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: the Olympic Spirit, it's been broken. The Games. Isn't a 649 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: sign of a ring meant to is meant to symbolize 650 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: infinity never ending. Oh, that ring is already broken, much 651 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: like my spirit. 652 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 2: Just kidding that was actually depressing it, honestly, opening ceremony. 653 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: Ceremony, because we're Team USA and we have to be 654 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: carrying two things at once, which is holy shit. I'm 655 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: getting paid my job is to be in Italy covering 656 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: the Olympics and going to the Olympic ceremony. I can't 657 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: wait to talk to you all about going to figure skating. 658 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: Holy shit, was that magical. And we will get to 659 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: that and the magic of the figure skating and all 660 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: the other fun stuff and continue to be so grateful 661 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: and thankful that we're here. But we just had to 662 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: be honest with you about some of the stuff we 663 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: were thinking about as we were watching the music note 664 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: people Andrea Bocelli, who inexplicably did not saying time to 665 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: say goodbye when it was time to say goodbye, Like 666 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: that was a layup, right, I'm like. 667 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 2: Think I don't know enough of Andrea Butcelli's music, Sarah, 668 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 2: I'm so sorry and I don't either, but. 669 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: To sick oh, And it was at the end of 670 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: the ceremony, like hello to get out again. Also, I 671 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: didn't even mention Lawer Palusini my reunion with the woman 672 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 1: who's music video I started. If you consider twenty seconds 673 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: at most of time starring, it doesn't matter. I was 674 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: in a lower Pousini music video. We willing to it 675 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: in the show notes and we were reunited from miles away. Really, yeah, 676 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: she didn't know I was here, but I knew I 677 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: was here. Yes, you did, you did? All right? Oh, 678 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,839 Speaker 1: are you ready for day one? 679 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 2: It's day one tomorrow. You can't hate me anymore. We're 680 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 2: counting up from here. 681 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: I reserve the right to hate you every time you 682 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,479 Speaker 1: say what day it is, if it's not day three 683 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: tomorrow and day four after that and whatever day of 684 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: our trip. It is also like I'm insulted on behalf 685 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 1: of the athletes that already competed and were considered not 686 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: to have competed in the Olympics, so that hadn't officially 687 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: started and it was day negative one, that. 688 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 2: They would still count as Olympians under the official definition 689 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 2: despite competing on a negative day. 690 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: And now you've all experienced what it's like to watch 691 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: something with Alex just gonna just drop some rules on 692 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: you that you didn't ask for. Some facts that are 693 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 1: fun facts, fato figo, but perhaps not what you were 694 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: looking for in that moment. I was looking for, perhaps 695 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: some sympathy or empathy for those athletes who have been 696 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: deleted minus removed from the record by participating before day 697 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: zero slash one. But know all I got was more 698 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: rules and regulations. All right, Alex, this Olympic taint is 699 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 1: starting to look like a cinnamon roll. Let's go find 700 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: some food. By Good Game with Sarah Spain is an 701 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports 702 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, 703 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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