Speaker 1: Ring ring.
Speaker 2: Pick up, pick up, pick up.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, it's us.
Speaker 2: It's us two guys, five rings, Matt Rodgers and Bawn Yang.
Speaker 2: This is our Olympics podcast. It's off to the races.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's quickly claimed. At this point, we're four
Speaker 2: episodes in. We can only assume anyway.
Speaker 1: We can only assume that we've already won some awards
Speaker 1: for this. Now, Matt, when I say the word newness,
Speaker 1: m what is the free song? What's the sensation inside
Speaker 1: you that you feel?
Speaker 2: Can I be honest? Yes, When you say newness, I
Speaker 2: think efficiency, cleanliness, I think low stress. Really yeah, newness.
Speaker 2: Remember I'm a city planner, so when I think newness,
Speaker 2: I think practicality. I'm always thinking like how do we
Speaker 2: get from place to place? You know what I mean? Like?
Speaker 2: How do we make things clearer? How do we make
Speaker 2: things easier?
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Here's what I think about where we're at in society.
Speaker 2: We need to call we need to make things more streamlined.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I'm with you. What about well, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm thinking more in terms of like there's a new
Speaker 1: blank in town. As Vanessa Williams once said famously in
Speaker 1: the trailer for her Desperate House Life season is in your.
Speaker 2: House in town. See, I'm I guess I'm just I'm
Speaker 2: so stuck on like how we make things work that
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking about like new stuff. But maybe I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about a lot of repackaging. That's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how do we move? I have very Tomorrowland
Speaker 2: sense of newness, but you're thinking of frontier.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of frontier Land and not tomorrow Land. But
Speaker 1: I guess they're both kind of the same concept, right,
Speaker 1: it's thinking about the future. Can I say what I
Speaker 1: think of when I think of newness? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: of We call it a burst in graphic design. It's
Speaker 1: like on a bag of chips. Let's say, when it
Speaker 1: says new flavor, Like there's like it's like it's like
Speaker 1: that little circle with a bunch of rays poking out
Speaker 1: like bursts. It's a burst like new flavor. Yeah, new
Speaker 1: phone model, new car model, Yeah, yeah, I love new carsmell.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I just got a new air freshener.
Speaker 2: So excited?
Speaker 1: Is it new car? Smell?
Speaker 2: No, you know what it is?
Speaker 1: Well, then I don't know why you brought it up.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about factory settings. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 2: You know what, I completely understand that, and I think
Speaker 2: for the purposes of this episode, we should go with
Speaker 2: more what you're thinking, because there's there's a lot of new,
Speaker 2: really exciting stuff happening at the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics,
Speaker 2: and there's even some new events.
Speaker 1: There's one new event specific.
Speaker 2: There's even one new event.
Speaker 1: There's one new event, and there's one event that has
Speaker 1: a new.
Speaker 2: Name, yeah, and a sort of a new edge and
Speaker 2: a new edge. There's a new bombshell at the Villa.
Speaker 1: There's a new bombshell at the Villa, as Venizza Williams
Speaker 1: once said, it's a new attitude, as Patti LaBelle said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. And one some of these events have new rules,
Speaker 1: as du Alipa said, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she did say that, and I would
Speaker 2: agree that it applies here. Just before we get into
Speaker 2: the five rings section of the show, I want to
Speaker 2: stay in the two guys section and it does relate
Speaker 2: to one of these new events. So just spoiler alert
Speaker 2: for the five rings section. The new event is breaking, yes,
Speaker 2: literally breakdancing, and I want to ask you Bowen in
Speaker 2: any point in your life. Were you someone who break danced? No?
Speaker 2: And were you? Were you ever? Because I just I
Speaker 2: don't know why I have this image of Young Boon
Speaker 2: Yang in my head, like young you like talking about
Speaker 2: like seven or eight years old, like absolutely popping, locking, dropping,
Speaker 2: like doing breakdancing. I just in my minds, I see
Speaker 2: you as a very excited, spry child. Was a new
Speaker 2: dance around a plenty.
Speaker 1: You thought I was. You thought I was biting. I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at some of these breaking terms biting. You
Speaker 1: thought it a powerhead. I was a cipher cat. A
Speaker 1: powerhead is someone who loves to practice, to mostly practice
Speaker 1: and perform power moves in their breaking. A cipher is
Speaker 1: like a circle that breaks form and dance in. If
Speaker 1: you're at a breaking event, you'll just see multiple ciphers
Speaker 1: around the room happening while the DJ spins music in
Speaker 1: between breaks and the competition wow breakers going to cipher
Speaker 1: when at a time to dance. Okay, we need to
Speaker 1: save this for the actual five rings portion, because there
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun stuff happening and breaking that
Speaker 1: I would love to talk about.
Speaker 2: To just get into one hundred percent. But I do
Speaker 2: have to say, like, just because you. Bowen Yang is
Speaker 2: famously like famously a Dance Dance Revolution icon. Like when
Speaker 2: he was younger, he would go play GDR and that's
Speaker 2: why I learned, like really throw it in the face
Speaker 2: of everyone that worked there, and like really shut down
Speaker 2: any competition that stepped towards him. Yeah, and I just
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just think of this. I think
Speaker 2: of Dance Dance Revolution as breaking adjacent and so I
Speaker 2: guess that's why I brought it up. That's why I
Speaker 2: associated a potential with you.
Speaker 1: That's very nice. Look, maybe if this is the matrix
Speaker 1: we're living in, and it is, you know, Morpheus can
Speaker 1: give me the little can download that into me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I will learn it and I will know it.
Speaker 1: But not here, not in this matrix.
Speaker 2: Can everything just fall away from one second? And let
Speaker 2: me ask you a question. Red pill or blue pill?
Speaker 1: Neither? Oh my god, I'm staying.
Speaker 2: They're gonna kill you. They're gonna kill you if you
Speaker 2: don't choose, They're gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Here's where I'm pilled Olympics pilled.
Speaker 2: Is that I is that where pilled came from?
Speaker 1: I think like you're red pilled, you're blue pilled, Like
Speaker 1: it's oh.
Speaker 2: Wow, So being something pilled actually dates to the matrix.
Speaker 1: That's where I draw the connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where you stop asking questions.
Speaker 1: And so I guess I'm blue pilled.
Speaker 2: And thank you for answering my question. And see, that's
Speaker 2: why you have to always think like a lawyer in
Speaker 2: the way that I just did like a lawyer, because
Speaker 2: you have to get people to admit something in a
Speaker 2: roundabout way when they refuse the first time I asked
Speaker 2: you a direct question or you read pilled or blue pilled,
Speaker 2: and then I had to ask follow up questions based
Speaker 2: on your psyche, and I eventually got to the fact
Speaker 2: that you are blue pilled. You don't want to know
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 1: You would be a trial lawyer when you like the performance.
Speaker 2: I did tell you that. Like when I was younger,
Speaker 2: that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be
Speaker 2: a lawyer. I love to get up and sort of
Speaker 2: twirl in front of people and say and isn't it true?
Speaker 2: But actually, if you know that, you can't really say
Speaker 2: and isn't it true, because that's leading the way leading.
Speaker 2: So all these movies and television shows you've seen where
Speaker 2: a lawyer said and isn't it true, mister Belafonte, that
Speaker 2: you did this objection constructing the jury? Is that one
Speaker 2: of them there's leading the witness, badgering the witness hearsay
Speaker 2: asked An answered, which is my favorite. I love when
Speaker 2: someone is talking to me in real life and they
Speaker 2: have said this a million times and say this and
Speaker 2: I go objection, asked An answered.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you mine what objection? Why is this relevant?
Speaker 2: Relevant? Objection? Relevant, irrelevant?
Speaker 1: Blonde and legally blonde. That the prosecution literally was just.
Speaker 2: Like, WHOA, I have a point, I promise, then they
Speaker 2: make it.
Speaker 1: But I think that lawyer goes, why is this relevant?
Speaker 2: Yep? So good, yep, objection? Why is this relevant? That
Speaker 2: lawyer turned it? That lawyer as another iconic line, when
Speaker 2: I reached with this, Phene comes into the jury and
Speaker 2: she's gonna represent Ellie Larder, and the other lawyer goes,
Speaker 2: I have no problem with this.
Speaker 1: And when Shutney confesses like they cut to her and
Speaker 1: she goes her jaw drops.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to shoot him the door. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: oh my.
Speaker 1: God, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Levond is, without a doubt, the greatest film of all time,
Speaker 2: of all of our generations. It would win a gold
Speaker 2: medal to match her blonde hair if they gave medals
Speaker 2: for film, but they don't. They give oscars for film,
Speaker 2: and the movie was what snubbed.
Speaker 1: When we come back from our break, we will go
Speaker 1: into by rings and talk about the new sports and evats.
Speaker 2: See after the ranking on the bend.
Speaker 1: We're back.
Speaker 2: We're back to talk about I mean at number one
Speaker 2: on what's happening. What's new is the fact that breaking
Speaker 2: is the loan sport making its Olympic debut. Now, we
Speaker 2: talked a little bit before this break about what breaking is,
Speaker 2: but by definition, the official definition from the Olympics of
Speaker 2: breaking is the dance battle sport characterized by acrobatic movements,
Speaker 2: stylized footwork, and the key role by the DJ and
Speaker 2: the MC during battles. This is really fascinating.
Speaker 1: There is going to be an Olympics DJ on the
Speaker 1: floor and an MC depending on the matchups for this event.
Speaker 1: I am so excited. I'm true. When I found out
Speaker 1: about this last year, I was so thrilled, gooped gagged.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't wait to watch this popcorn
Speaker 1: in the bowl on my lefe.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be really really, really cool.
Speaker 2: So the NBC. Our friends at NBC have said the
Speaker 2: sports techniques include top rock, which is standing footwork, and
Speaker 2: down rock, which is moves on the floor. So top
Speaker 2: rock when you're vertical, downrock when your horizont Then there's
Speaker 2: power moves, which are twists and spins, and the freeze
Speaker 2: when breakers freeze and poses while using their heads or
Speaker 2: hands for support. So that's that thing of like where
Speaker 2: they're sort of using you know, their body weight and
Speaker 2: like defying gravity as it were if Alphabet were a judge.
Speaker 1: Can you perform a for me right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Ready?
Speaker 1: Yes, that wasn't so good?
Speaker 2: That was good. Can I tell you something. I could
Speaker 2: never be a breaker. Never. I'm more of a someone
Speaker 2: who rolls his body than my hit.
Speaker 1: You have to move, you can't praise, You can't.
Speaker 2: See this when I'm doing a very sexy movement with
Speaker 2: my shoulders and this is more my thing.
Speaker 1: Your more perpetual motion. And this is about stopping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is about control and I have almost none.
Speaker 1: What I'm excited about is it seems like they're really
Speaker 1: honoring the history of breaking as it relates to hip
Speaker 1: hop history. Our NBC friends are saying sport originated in
Speaker 1: a rec room in the Bronx where legendary DJ named
Speaker 1: cool Herk debuted a new technique that's centered around percussive
Speaker 1: breaks in songs. So this is when in the breaks
Speaker 1: people would start dancing, and so that created the term
Speaker 1: break dancing. So breaks are central to the form to
Speaker 1: this event.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a gold medal favorite bee Boy Victor and
Speaker 2: then Sonny Choi or B Girl Sonny is also competing.
Speaker 2: Do you know B Girl Sonny?
Speaker 1: I met Sonny in Can last summer. We were hanging
Speaker 1: out for promotional things for NBC stuff. She is the
Speaker 1: coolest girl. I met her beautiful partner. They are so
Speaker 1: lovely together. She's got the partner. He's so cool. But
Speaker 1: hello again. From the podcast Airwaves, she was working at
Speaker 1: Esday latter.
Speaker 2: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: This is what you forget is these Olympians have the
Speaker 1: day jobs and they are oftentimes so fascinating, especially in
Speaker 1: relation to the events that our Olympians perform in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this says she was director of Global Creative Operations
Speaker 2: at Esday Lauder and she quit that job to focus
Speaker 2: on breaking full time. That's insane, like people are leaving
Speaker 2: really great jobs to fulfill their passion and it's taken
Speaker 2: them all the way to the Olympics. But we should
Speaker 2: do an episode about all these athletes day jobs. Someone
Speaker 2: write that down.
Speaker 1: Someone write that down. I think we could go in
Speaker 1: the Olympic Village, as we said last episode and kind
Speaker 1: of do a Man on the Street TikTok style or
Speaker 1: you know, wide video. It doesn't have to be vertical.
Speaker 2: Bring back Man on the Street.
Speaker 1: They're trying to but some of these TikTok people don't
Speaker 1: have it. They don't have no to borrow return from
Speaker 1: gen Z there is. Back in my day, man on
Speaker 1: the Street was you had to have something, You had
Speaker 1: to have the X factor. Ross Matthews in turn Ross
Speaker 1: at the Tonight Show. Billy Eichner one of the best
Speaker 1: to ever do it, one of the best people to
Speaker 1: be on the street. I would love to be on
Speaker 1: the Olympic Village square with my sister Matt Rogers and
Speaker 1: ask these people what their day jobs are slash worse
Speaker 1: slash will be.
Speaker 2: We would do great work there because can I say,
Speaker 2: back in the day when Bowen and I were coming up,
Speaker 2: you had to do everything you had to be an
Speaker 2: actor a writer. You have to be able to, you know,
Speaker 2: sing your music. You had to write your music that
Speaker 2: you sang, otherwise you'd never get a deal. You would
Speaker 2: have to be able to dance or at least move
Speaker 2: and do a choreography. And you'd have to be able
Speaker 2: to do Man on the street and.
Speaker 1: Make your own posters for your shows. But more importantly
Speaker 1: man on the street.
Speaker 2: I have a question about breaking. Is it binary or no?
Speaker 2: Is it everyone's competing altogether? I is binary.
Speaker 1: I think there is a man in women's breaking event. Hold,
Speaker 1: let's look this up. Breaking confirmed binary? Confirmed binary? Who
Speaker 1: confirmed it?
Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying in a world where we can
Speaker 2: confirm it, it is a confirmed binary sport. I am interested
Speaker 2: to hear, because.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, there's b boying and be girling events. All right,
Speaker 1: sixteen b boys and be girls competing for two metal events.
Speaker 1: What if your men went from women? IOC president Thomas
Speaker 1: Box stated that they added break dancing as part of
Speaker 1: an effort to draw more interest from young people in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Well, if I count as young, which I don't,
Speaker 1: and it's working.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I think I'm excited about this. First and foremost, now,
Speaker 2: but also this next event we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: in terms of newness. You know, this is more my
Speaker 2: definition of newness, like, how do we make it more
Speaker 2: streamline inclusive, how do we make it streamline? How do
Speaker 2: we really say what this is? So it's no longer
Speaker 2: synchronized swimming, and guess what it kind of never really was.
Speaker 2: It's artistic swimming. Artistic swimming is what we are calling
Speaker 2: the sport in which we see people in the water
Speaker 2: give art pop. This is the most art pop event
Speaker 2: we have seen thus far. There's breaking which is up
Speaker 2: there in terms of art pop, and then artistic swimming. Now,
Speaker 2: whenever I get in the water, consider it artistic swimming.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm giving art pop whenever I swim.
Speaker 2: But there's been major changes to this event to really
Speaker 2: take it to the next level. For example, men are
Speaker 2: now allowed on teams. Congrats to men.
Speaker 1: We have to be more inclusive to men. Let them
Speaker 1: swim dance, Let them swim dance, let them do a
Speaker 1: Buzzby Berkeley routine in the water. For God's sake, For
Speaker 1: the first time in the history of the Olympics, male
Speaker 1: artistic summers will be allowed to compete in Paris. Up
Speaker 1: to two men per country may compete in the team competition,
Speaker 1: so not more than two. I guess baby steps, baby steps,
Speaker 1: But I really want to see a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: in a circle kicking their legs up doing the same move,
Speaker 1: and then a champagne, a big champagne coup rises out
Speaker 1: of the water, and then there's more guys on that
Speaker 1: I'm I want. There should be a Buzzby Berkeley metal
Speaker 1: event for artistic swimming in the future, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: This can evolve, and it has evolved, and it can
Speaker 2: evolve to be what you want it to be.
Speaker 1: It can for LA twenty twenty eight, we're thicking ahead,
Speaker 1: could be something that we consider.
Speaker 2: Could be something. Wow. To think that in four years
Speaker 2: the Olympics are going to be here in La in
Speaker 2: my backyard.
Speaker 1: So cool.
Speaker 2: This is so freaking cool for the so but yeah,
Speaker 2: so if you go out there and you call it
Speaker 2: like synchronized swimming, you're going to sound like a rube
Speaker 2: a rub and you'll be shamed for it.
Speaker 1: In the village.
Speaker 2: A lot of people asking how do artistic swimmers hear
Speaker 2: the music? Because famously Bowen, I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: tried this, but when you swim underwater, it can become
Speaker 2: difficult to.
Speaker 1: Hear sound waves travels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sound it's so, but it is different. I mean
Speaker 2: everything's just a little bit more different underwater. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like going to Vire Island. How time works differently there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like sound works differently underwater. NBC has this to say,
Speaker 2: a set of underwater and pool side loudspeakers allows swimmers
Speaker 2: to hear their music and stay in sync, whether submerged
Speaker 2: or performing with their heads above the surface. So they're
Speaker 2: playing the music underwater basically. So it's like a hard
Speaker 2: rock hotel. You ever been to a hard rock hotel
Speaker 2: and gone under the water in the pool.
Speaker 1: I can't say that I have, but now I want to.
Speaker 2: I'll take you. I'll take you. We'll go to hard
Speaker 2: rock hotel. Oh, you create at the NBC Universal Resort.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just want a pool like this anywhere. I
Speaker 1: don't think hard about hotel should have a monopoly on
Speaker 1: pools with speaker systems underwater. Like I would love for
Speaker 1: this to be a feature in a fire Island house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a house on the beach in Miami. Not on
Speaker 1: the beach but you know, like a house, a house
Speaker 1: in Miami, I should say listen.
Speaker 2: I think if you want a home with a pool
Speaker 2: that has an underwater speaker, I think you can do that.
Speaker 2: You just got to keep working. You've got to keep working,
Speaker 2: just keep keep the money coming in, and then you
Speaker 2: can put all that money invested into a pool with
Speaker 2: an underwater speaker, and then you can get what you want. Bowen,
Speaker 2: But you have to you have to make these things happen.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I know my worth internally, and
Speaker 1: it is definitely worth a pool with an underwater speaker system.
Speaker 1: I am worth at least that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Well let's see.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the five rules of artistic swimming.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's really important to know the rules, yes, Purtacey,
Speaker 2: if swimming dot org, these are rules for life as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I've went out there looking to become an artistic swimmer.
Speaker 2: Just know that these are the basic tenants.
Speaker 1: Never touch the bottom except me, You can't touch the
Speaker 1: bottom of the pool at any time. Just keep treading
Speaker 1: water and things will work out for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But if it's bow when you may touch the
Speaker 2: bottom next. You don't need bling, no jewelry, no theatrical makeup,
Speaker 2: no inappropriate costumes. If you look at photos of artistic swimmers,
Speaker 2: they all still look fabulous. So we're keeping it very minimalist.
Speaker 2: It should be about the swim dancing, not the extra coutrement. Okay,
Speaker 2: this isn't a drag show. This isn't Rue Paul's artistic
Speaker 2: swimming Olympics event. Keep it simple, keep it classy, keep
Speaker 2: it together.
Speaker 1: Keep it unembellished and unadorned.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next, the more people, the better. Teams normally contain eight swimmers,
Speaker 1: but the minimum number for a team is four. You
Speaker 1: lose points when you have fewer swimmers because it's easier
Speaker 1: to synchronize with you. We're swimmers, although I guess we
Speaker 1: are up to two men per country they can be
Speaker 1: in the team competition. So maybe there's a certain composition
Speaker 1: that is specific to the Olympics, but that seems to
Speaker 1: be the general rule of thumb for artistic swimming events outside.
Speaker 2: So the more people, the better, like you could probably
Speaker 2: you would look more impressive if it was sixteen people
Speaker 2: all swimming instead of just two. But I will say
Speaker 2: if it is just two, you can probably because you
Speaker 2: only have two people to look at. You can probably
Speaker 2: see the mistakes. Oh then again, it is the Olympics,
Speaker 2: so they're not going to really make mistakes exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's like, gosh, somebody, the commentators and the judges
Speaker 1: for the synchronized diving, those eyes are trained because they
Speaker 1: are picking up on things that I'm like, how did
Speaker 1: you possibly see that? Yeah, but these are experts, y'all.
Speaker 2: Next rule, stick to the schedule of people. Routines can
Speaker 2: be anything from two and a half minutes to five minutes,
Speaker 2: but you'll be penalized if your routine is off by
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds. Oh wow, so you really it's like there
Speaker 2: is a program. Your song is your song, hit your
Speaker 2: beats and do not overstay.
Speaker 1: This is I don't know, this is very I take
Speaker 1: an issue with this because what if someone wants to
Speaker 1: do a routine to a mordem a Vie by Billie Eilish.
Speaker 1: That's a seven minute song I think.
Speaker 2: You couldn't do but Daddy I Love Him by Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Certainly an All Too Well ten minute version.
Speaker 2: No, you couldn't even do the regular version of All
Speaker 2: Too Well. And honestly, I want to see that swam
Speaker 2: dance too. I want to see someone artistically swim to
Speaker 2: All too Well more than I want most things. And
Speaker 2: I want so much, bo I want so much in life.
Speaker 1: But how badly do you want this?
Speaker 2: Not bad enough that I'm willing to make an issue
Speaker 2: with the Olympic Committee. But I'm not happy about this
Speaker 2: rule at all. And I have integrity, and I know
Speaker 2: so do you, and so we're speaking up on this
Speaker 2: podcast to say this rule is book and they need
Speaker 2: to be able to extend it a little bit, to adjust,
Speaker 2: include the length of Taylor Swift All too Well, because
Speaker 2: we have as a culture have not heard that song enough,
Speaker 2: and we haven't talked about that song.
Speaker 1: Enough now, and we certainly haven't swam to it artistically enough.
Speaker 2: Until we do. This conversation is ongoing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, no goggles is the last rule. This rule may
Speaker 1: not be a great rule for life. If you want
Speaker 1: to wear goggles in real life for any reason, you
Speaker 1: can wear goggles as long as if.
Speaker 2: You want to wear goggles, wear goggles.
Speaker 1: As long as you're not obstructing your own view for
Speaker 1: something that requires your attention, if you're not operating haaving
Speaker 1: machinery in quitting.
Speaker 2: A car, or if you want to compete in this
Speaker 2: Olympic event because no goggles, that's the rule. Honestly, chlorine
Speaker 2: is such a problem when you dive into these waters
Speaker 2: and you open up your eyes down there, like chlorine
Speaker 2: is going to be a major issue. So I my
Speaker 2: heart goes out to these artistic swimmers.
Speaker 1: They're bloodshot, they're blood shot. Finally, let's talk about a
Speaker 1: new ish event, which is surfing. But the news here
Speaker 1: is that it is not going to be in parissed
Speaker 1: because you're thinking it's a landlocked city. They're certainly not
Speaker 1: going to surf on the river, sin are they? Where
Speaker 1: are they surfing?
Speaker 2: Now? Well, it will take place in Tahiti. We're gonna
Speaker 2: cut to Tahiti. We're gonna be leaving the Parisian streets
Speaker 2: like Eiffel Tower. We'll check back in with you in
Speaker 2: a second, because the Paris surfing competition will take place
Speaker 2: in Tahiti, which is ten thousand miles away. The setting
Speaker 2: has been called breath takingly beautiful and punishingly tricky. Wow.
Speaker 2: This sport made its Olympic debut in the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: Tokyo Games. It's new ish. There are two surfing events,
Speaker 2: Men's short board and women's shortboard. And by the way,
Speaker 2: a short board is a smaller surfboard, generally in the
Speaker 2: five to seven foot range, designed for maximum speed through turns.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna be seeing your twists, your turns, your dips,
Speaker 2: your dives on these shorter boards than usual.
Speaker 1: I can't even wrap my head around surfing. If you're
Speaker 1: telling me you're supposed to do it faster.
Speaker 2: I know, listen, it's one of those things you're not
Speaker 2: gonna see me try. I'm not gonna try surfing now.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna try skiing now.
Speaker 1: I just I think feel like frustrating. I think you
Speaker 1: would You think I would like skiing.
Speaker 2: You always say this, but it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I'd like a ski atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Don't you want to feel like Gwyneth? Don't you want
Speaker 1: to feel.
Speaker 2: Like what crashing into men? Give me a break. If
Speaker 2: I want to feel like Gwyneth, I'll go to Goop kitchen. Okay,
Speaker 2: she did really good work with that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: Now, do you know what goofy footed means? Do you
Speaker 2: know what it means to be goofy footed? When you
Speaker 2: serve means you go, that was really good. Lorn bone
Speaker 2: as a goofy bone, as a goofy bone as a
Speaker 2: goofy could be interesting. Olympics are coming up. Goofy footed.
Speaker 1: No, of course I know what goofy footed means. It
Speaker 1: means a surfer who serves with their right foot forward.
Speaker 1: I think I would be goofy footed. No, no, I
Speaker 1: think I'm regular footed, which is the left foot.
Speaker 2: We should start calling gay guys goofy footed. Well, you
Speaker 2: know he's goofy footed.
Speaker 1: He's goofy footed. Hmm, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: He serves with the right foot forward. If you catch
Speaker 2: my meaning, if you gather my meaning, I don't. A
Speaker 2: regular footed describes a server who serves with their left
Speaker 2: foot forward, also called natural footed in Australia.
Speaker 1: Now maybe that's why I'm leaning towards that. I'm a
Speaker 1: very natural person. So that's why I'm thinking maybe I'm
Speaker 1: regular footed. It's the way God wanted me to surf,
Speaker 1: which is not to surf.
Speaker 2: Body made right, body made right, God created.
Speaker 1: Now I want to say this name to you, and
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me picture her in your
Speaker 1: mind's eye. Carissa Moore.
Speaker 2: First of all, I play her in a movie. Carissa
Speaker 2: Moore is definitely my name in the film.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, guess what this is what the movie's about.
Speaker 1: It's about coming back for more after you took home
Speaker 1: the gold for surfing in Tokyo. But guess what those
Speaker 1: were some depressing Olympics, weren't they. Now she's back for
Speaker 1: the I'm sorry, the real thing, the real thing in Paris,
Speaker 1: and she's coming back to the gold for women's shortboard.
Speaker 2: I support her. I feel very connected to her without
Speaker 2: really knowing at all anything about her besides what you
Speaker 2: just said or what she looks like. Carisa Moore, When
Speaker 2: you strap that little strap onto your ankle, I don't
Speaker 2: care if you're goofy footed or regular footed. You have
Speaker 2: both of these goofs in your corner. Two goofy footed
Speaker 2: podcast hosts want you to take home the gold more
Speaker 2: than anything, sister, and we're gonna be watching and willing
Speaker 2: your victory.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: There are several other new events that come out. We'll
Speaker 2: just run through them quickly before we give our medals out.
Speaker 2: There's women's bantamweight added in boxing to get closer to
Speaker 2: parody among genders, and men's light heavyweight has been dropped.
Speaker 1: Men's and women's extreme k one for the canoe slalom.
Speaker 1: Am I saying that right, slalom slalom, mixed team skeet
Speaker 1: for shooting skeet skt sket skeet skeet, thank you. Sport
Speaker 1: climbing wereorganized into speed events men and women, and combined
Speaker 1: bouldering and lead events rather than a single event comprising
Speaker 1: all three disciplines.
Speaker 2: I am so excited about this next one. There's mixed
Speaker 2: team thirty five kilometer racewalk. Do you know the racewalk
Speaker 2: is a very competitive thing?
Speaker 1: Yes, but is it interesting to watch to you as
Speaker 1: a track as a former truck star.
Speaker 2: As a former track star. Let me tell you something. Yes,
Speaker 2: my best friend was a racewalker and her name was Sam,
Speaker 2: and she was one of the best racewalkers. And it's
Speaker 2: there's so much more to it than you think, and
Speaker 2: there's so much more to it that makes it difficult.
Speaker 2: Like one foot has to be on the ground at
Speaker 2: all times, and they're watching you the entire time to
Speaker 2: make sure that's the case. And like it's a very
Speaker 2: technical thing.
Speaker 1: I mean thirty five kilometers long, so these people, the
Speaker 1: judges are focused up watching the ground making sure one
Speaker 1: foot is on it at all times for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's actually really hard to not
Speaker 2: pick up your both feet when you're competitively moving, like
Speaker 2: as someone who ran a four thirty six mile. Wow,
Speaker 2: I know that both my feet were off the ground
Speaker 2: during much of that. I could not have moved very
Speaker 2: quickly had I had my one foot on the ground
Speaker 2: at all times. Like all respect to these people, I
Speaker 2: wonder at an Olympic racewalker what their mile time is
Speaker 2: racewalking I've been. It's shockingly low.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course it is. Can I say something? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see myself as a bee boy, and that's
Speaker 1: your fantasy about me. But my fantasy about myself is
Speaker 1: that I would compete in the racewalk. I'm a fast walker.
Speaker 2: You would be amazing. I'm telling you, bowhen Yang, walking
Speaker 2: with a purpose is Olympic racewalk material. And I very
Speaker 2: confident saying that I put you up against any of
Speaker 2: these people. I think if you learned form, we would
Speaker 2: see the first ever Saturday Night Live cast member Olympic racewalker.
Speaker 2: And that is your legacy. I think.
Speaker 1: You would be.
Speaker 2: You're already like such an apple of NBC Universal's eye.
Speaker 2: If you went and competed in the racewalk, I don't know, Bowen,
Speaker 2: I think you could take over the world.
Speaker 1: Could be very cool.
Speaker 2: I would be so emotional on the sidewalk, on the sidewalk,
Speaker 2: on the sidelines, watching your racewalk.
Speaker 1: You'll be on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: I'd be like wiping away to yours, like my sister
Speaker 2: is out there.
Speaker 1: Walking thirty five kilometers. Well overall, Matt, wouldn't you say
Speaker 1: that the Olympics are very open to new.
Speaker 2: Sports queer Olympics this year. The openness, the inclusivity, I'm
Speaker 2: loving it. Should we give it our medals?
Speaker 1: Let's give it our medals. I would say Bronze goes
Speaker 1: to surfing. Surfing in Tahiti, even.
Speaker 2: If it's not as new. I mean, it's a little
Speaker 2: bit new, and I love that we're like, we're so
Speaker 2: committed that we're actually going to cut all the way
Speaker 2: to Tahiti. But it gets bronze because to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, like we are really focused on how to
Speaker 2: make Paris a good experience. So that's cute for y'all.
Speaker 2: I do kind of feel like, oh, it's a bummer
Speaker 2: they don't get to experience like the opening ceremony, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But it's like all the best to them, it's just
Speaker 2: really giving bronze.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think they're gonna be at the opening
Speaker 1: ceremony and then I think the surfing event's gonna be
Speaker 1: later on, Like they're gonna they're gonna fly them out
Speaker 1: in the days afterwards.
Speaker 2: Really is that like tenable though? I mean, like, are
Speaker 2: you gonna want to jel Yeah? I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: interesting to hear more about this, and there's many more
Speaker 2: episodes of the podcast, so we'll figure out.
Speaker 1: I think Carisa Moore deserves to be at the opening
Speaker 1: ceremony on a boat.
Speaker 2: No doubt that charism Moore deserves that. But is it practical?
Speaker 2: It's my only question. I guess Carissa would be the
Speaker 2: one to ask.
Speaker 1: I think Chrisa is gonna push for that. Where's her
Speaker 1: Olympic village?
Speaker 2: I agree? I agree. I hope they build a tiny
Speaker 2: one into EATI yeah, like an installation. Yes, silver Metal
Speaker 2: I think is going to go to artistic swimming. I
Speaker 2: think that we've taken such positive steps forward. I think
Speaker 2: now we know the rules, we really know what to watch.
Speaker 2: I do think they could have really gotten the gold
Speaker 2: medal here had they loud a length of competition that
Speaker 2: would include Taylor Swift's all too well, it's just it's
Speaker 2: stopping me from really being excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's still a lot of limitations that need to
Speaker 1: be undone for the full potential of artistics swimming to
Speaker 1: be unlocked.
Speaker 2: For such an open Queer Olympics. It feels sad, sad.
Speaker 1: And finally I think we're gonna get gold to breaking
Speaker 1: as the lone new sport. This is huge, This is historic,
Speaker 1: and I think it'll really make a huge splash in Paris,
Speaker 1: and then it has the potential to make an even
Speaker 1: bigger impact in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So La Breaking is gonna go really wild. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be very exciting. And can I say I've not met
Speaker 2: Bee Girl Sonny. I know Bowen has. I am rooting
Speaker 2: for be Girls Sonny as I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1: You guys would get along same as I'm excited. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, she is one to root for and watch.
Speaker 1: We have one question. We have one final question, ask
Speaker 1: each other after the break and we're back. Matt. This
Speaker 1: is what I was trying to get at earlier. The
Speaker 1: Olympics are very open to new sports. As we've seen,
Speaker 1: they are an evolving body and evolving events evolving. I mean,
Speaker 1: this resembles nothing like the Greek Games of antiquity.
Speaker 2: We've come a long way since ah increase absolutely.
Speaker 1: What sports do we want to see in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight Summer Olympics in la We are an official
Speaker 1: NBC Olympics podcast. I think we get to say, are
Speaker 1: there any activities we're really good at that we law before?
Speaker 2: I'm not good at this, but I would like to
Speaker 2: see hopscotch out of to the Games. I think that
Speaker 2: hopscotch is international. I think it would remind people of
Speaker 2: what it was like to be a child. And I
Speaker 2: think that what we're not seeing enough of is embracing
Speaker 2: of the inner child. Yes, I think that artistic swimming
Speaker 2: takes us closer, because who among us can't remember splash splash,
Speaker 2: taking a bath as a young kid and having fun
Speaker 2: in the water and sort of, you know, learning to
Speaker 2: express yourself under the water like artistically like and thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: I wish there was music underneath the surface, and now
Speaker 2: there is. I just I feel like we're moving in
Speaker 2: a really positive direction there in terms of reconnecting the
Speaker 2: inner child and like allowing the fantasy. We need Hopscotch
Speaker 2: to be an Olympic sport. Bowen, what would you add
Speaker 2: to the Summer.
Speaker 1: Olympics Something laser based. It could be laser tag, could
Speaker 1: be dodging lasers to steal a piece of.
Speaker 2: Art, both both Olympic lasers.
Speaker 1: I think lasers should be an event.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, wait, that's really good. So like it's almost
Speaker 2: like a triathlon where it's like the first room is
Speaker 2: a room where you have to make it through sort
Speaker 2: of Catherine Zaanda Jones and entrapment, like sort of get
Speaker 2: through like the lasers. Then you get to a laser tag,
Speaker 2: a moment where they give you a gun and you
Speaker 2: have to like make your way through a room. And
Speaker 2: then the last.
Speaker 1: One is chasing a laser dot like a cat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or you there's a hairy man on a table
Speaker 2: in front of you and you have to do a
Speaker 2: laser procedure on him.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Every time we're thinking about it, every way we can
Speaker 2: make this man hairless, and we're checking every fold. A
Speaker 2: lot of hairy guys in France too, we could have
Speaker 2: done this.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God, not.
Speaker 2: Enough Harry guys in La. All these gay guys.
Speaker 1: Getting theirself waxed, getting their peaches defudged.
Speaker 2: This has been yet another episode of Two Guys, five Rings.
Speaker 2: We are off to the races. This podcast was critically acclaimed.
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