Speaker 1: The coolest opening ceremony ever period in this special edition
Speaker 1: of Amy and t J.
Speaker 2: That's right. French style and flare and history and of
Speaker 2: course the unbelievable production prowess. We just saw. Wow, it
Speaker 2: was on full display, all happening at the opening ceremonies
Speaker 2: of the twoenty twenty four Paris Olympics. They are underway
Speaker 2: and it was a ceremony where for the first time
Speaker 2: we saw just the athletes entering away. They never have
Speaker 2: in the opening ceremonies. They were floating down the Seine
Speaker 2: instead of walking into a stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but before we saw all that history, we had chaos,
Speaker 1: a coordinated transit attack just before the ceremony caused fits
Speaker 1: at the time, travel fits, but it's going to cause
Speaker 1: travel fits for some days.
Speaker 2: To come, that's right. And also in this very special episode,
Speaker 2: sex is back at the Olympics. It was gone for
Speaker 2: a while in case you didn't know. And COVID unfortunately
Speaker 2: is also back at the Olympics. A gold medal coach
Speaker 2: has already been kicked out of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Also, the trend spin makes its debut at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: We will be break dancing at the Olympics and what's
Speaker 1: with the commercials for the Olympics.
Speaker 2: That's right, Well, yeah, we're going to talk about all
Speaker 2: of that and more. Welcome to our first Olympics edition
Speaker 2: of Amy and TJ. You can check in here. We're
Speaker 2: going to be on every single day during the Olympics
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Speaker 2: we're calling in and it's everything you want to know
Speaker 2: about the game.
Speaker 1: I'm still not married to that title, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as I don't have to say it while am
Speaker 1: I complaining? But first impression, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: just I don't think there's much of a debate about
Speaker 1: it being the best opening ceremony we have ever seen,
Speaker 1: but this was actually one of the best television productions
Speaker 1: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I was blown away the entire time, from start to finish.
Speaker 2: I know that you and I have covered these we've
Speaker 2: actually been in the stadiums, and as exciting and as
Speaker 2: amazing as that is, they get a little boring sometimes.
Speaker 2: I mean that's just it just goes on and on
Speaker 2: and on. To put on a three plus hour sensation
Speaker 2: is tough to do. It drags a little such it
Speaker 2: was for though four right, and it was. I mean
Speaker 2: I was riveted from start to finish. I thought it
Speaker 2: was jaw dropping Lincoln.
Speaker 1: We slowed down a little bit now, as as great
Speaker 1: as it was, Yes, you are right, I get what
Speaker 1: you're saying, but there was a little point. We'll get
Speaker 1: into a little bit here for a second.
Speaker 3: But you can't help.
Speaker 1: But in a four hour broadcast somewhere it has to
Speaker 1: slow down. But from start, when they started rolling down
Speaker 1: the river, if you will, the sin the river sin,
Speaker 1: I should say, it goes right through Paris. That's when
Speaker 1: the show really really began. We heard about this being
Speaker 1: something ropes that they had never tried before. We're always
Speaker 1: used to seeing athletes walk into a stadium Olympic stadium.
Speaker 1: This year they literally put these folks on a river.
Speaker 1: I can't commend whoever came up with that idea, and
Speaker 1: then to pull it off, to.
Speaker 2: Pull it off in blinding rain too, I mean, to
Speaker 2: see the weather, it did not cooperate. And yet we
Speaker 2: saw not just the unbelievable pomp and circumstance, but we
Speaker 2: saw acrobatic acts that you'd think would be very dangerous
Speaker 2: in blinding rain. And yet they pulled it off. I mean,
Speaker 2: the unbelievable shows that were going on over the bridges
Speaker 2: along the banks of the Sein. It was all coordinated,
Speaker 2: perfectly timed, just the production value from the cameras. And
Speaker 2: to think that they hadn't had rehearsals. They couldn't have rehearsals.
Speaker 2: This wasn't in a stadium where they could do things
Speaker 2: and nobody was watching. This was along the sind and
Speaker 2: along bridges that couldn't be shut down for practice.
Speaker 1: I guess a couple of seasts were did I guess
Speaker 1: the rumors were true?
Speaker 3: Right? Lady Gaga showed up.
Speaker 1: She was very kind of kicked off the show in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and I love it, even when
Speaker 1: I guess she'd been rumored for so long, and even
Speaker 1: when we saw the production start is raining and she's
Speaker 1: coming down these steps, they kept those whatever.
Speaker 2: You call them, the feather fans, the feather.
Speaker 1: Fans in front of her, and it kept the mystery
Speaker 1: still going, even though we had a good idea of
Speaker 1: who was going to be. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: great reveal in a great moment, and she's always a
Speaker 1: great performer.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe what it would be like to be her.
Speaker 2: You know, you're walking down the steps into this sine.
Speaker 2: All of Paris in the world is watching you. By
Speaker 2: the way, I think they were estimating over one billion
Speaker 2: people watched opening ceremonies, So to perform on that kind
Speaker 2: of a stage in the middle of Paris, I just thought, Wow,
Speaker 2: this has to be one of like the pinch me moments,
Speaker 2: even for someone like Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: And as they're rolling down you you comment, I wish
Speaker 1: we would have had a separate camera on that would
Speaker 1: have just been like a fashion can on you. Because
Speaker 1: listening to your commentary as the athletes were rolling down
Speaker 1: the river, that's gonna be my thing now down the river,
Speaker 1: your commentary about each of the delegations and how they
Speaker 1: were dressed was just fantastic.
Speaker 3: I said that leading up to see the.
Speaker 1: Excitement and how cool it was to see the athletes
Speaker 1: on all of those boats having I mean parties as
Speaker 1: they were coming by. Of course, the US delegation the
Speaker 1: largest one there five hundred and ninety plus athletes. That
Speaker 1: boat was packed and it was a party the whole time.
Speaker 1: But then some of the smung with that delegations that
Speaker 1: have three athletes or seven athletes having.
Speaker 3: To share a boat with other delegations. It was cool.
Speaker 3: It was cute. That was the biggest moment they're probably
Speaker 3: going to have.
Speaker 2: It was awesome, What a great idea it was. Watching
Speaker 2: it was like watching a parade, but in the coolest
Speaker 2: of ways. And I loved it. And some boats were
Speaker 2: more fun than others. Let's just be honest, but it
Speaker 2: and even in the raid, I mean they soaking wet.
Speaker 2: If you all watched and saw these athletes had big
Speaker 2: smiles on the face, but they were soaked to the bone.
Speaker 1: The broadcast, I don't understand how the timing of it
Speaker 1: went the way it did. As far as watching it
Speaker 1: at home, everything seemed perfect. This went off without There
Speaker 1: wasn't a single hitch, and I was watching very closely,
Speaker 1: even the simplest of things when you think about the
Speaker 1: rain being added into it. Nobody even slipped down a
Speaker 1: flight of steps, which you would assume was a possibility.
Speaker 1: But to see how they were able to weave in
Speaker 1: so much of French history, so much of French sometimes
Speaker 1: even what is stereotypical French, they seemed to have even
Speaker 1: fun with.
Speaker 2: At times they depicted a menagatoire and that I started laughing.
Speaker 2: It was all of the different things that France has
Speaker 2: produced and that stick with us, that we forget we
Speaker 2: could attribute to France. I wasn't thinking Manajatoa, but they
Speaker 2: went there.
Speaker 3: They it was kind of like they they were winking
Speaker 3: at us when they did it. They just got it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well we know what you're thinking.
Speaker 2: I appreciated it. I thought that was very clever. And
Speaker 2: of course one of my favorite moments was when they
Speaker 2: brought in Lema's rob I just thought it was so
Speaker 2: well done and beautiful, and then it turned into this
Speaker 2: heavy metal band and Marie Antoine. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: like watching an unbelievable Broadway musical. Paris is your stage,
Speaker 2: and they just pulled it off unbelievably well.
Speaker 1: And obviously we were waiting. We got the Lady gagat surprise,
Speaker 1: and then the Celine Dion. It was I don't know
Speaker 1: how you would do this ceremony without her, but I mean,
Speaker 1: given what we know she's been going through health wives
Speaker 1: for the past several years, to see her step out
Speaker 1: on this stage like this felt like a comeback of
Speaker 1: sorts in the biggest of ways, in the most iconic
Speaker 1: of places. It was the most perfect way to wrap
Speaker 1: up the ceremony.
Speaker 2: I mean I have honestly, so you look, I have
Speaker 2: chills right now reliving the moment when she sang under
Speaker 2: the Eiffel Tower, or right there on the Eiffel Tower,
Speaker 2: and that white beaded gown and her voice, as always,
Speaker 2: despite everything she's been through, was flawless, pitch perfect, and
Speaker 2: just what a what a comeback? What a comeback?
Speaker 3: A lot of people are.
Speaker 1: Going to say that, how can you not say that
Speaker 1: was their favorite moment of the ceremony. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: that one of the most beautiful moments I saw. I
Speaker 1: don't know the young lady's name, I'm sorry I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but it was the black woman who was standing on
Speaker 1: top of the building singing. It wasn't the national anthem,
Speaker 1: but she was singing in French. But the way she
Speaker 1: was dressed and the color scheme of her dress, and
Speaker 1: she was holding a French flag, it looked like she
Speaker 1: was li like organically a part of the flag, and
Speaker 1: just with the rain and what she was singing, and
Speaker 1: how that imagery was beautiful, beautiful, and it was the
Speaker 1: I think maybe my favorite moment of the night.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I have never seen a country,
Speaker 2: a host nation pull off an event like we saw
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to watch more. I mean it.
Speaker 2: And this is a long time coming. You know, the
Speaker 2: last two Olympics there haven't been fans, there hasn't been fanfair.
Speaker 2: It's it's been a little sad. And so what a
Speaker 2: way to come back from COVID and from these Olympics
Speaker 2: where it just didn't really feel like the Olympics. It
Speaker 2: the Olympics is on, I mean in a big way.
Speaker 3: All right, Los Angeles. I bet they're ripping up their plans.
Speaker 2: Cannot imagine how you you better start over because you
Speaker 2: all got to do something.
Speaker 1: France has now set the absolute bar. Yep, that was
Speaker 1: incredible what they were able.
Speaker 3: To pull off. Now they pull this off.
Speaker 1: But just would you believe you wouldn't know this from
Speaker 1: watching the ceremony. But just hours before the game started
Speaker 1: there was a scare was a reminder of the intense
Speaker 1: security situation around France as they coordinated attack on French
Speaker 1: rail lines. French officials saying arson attack targeted high speed
Speaker 1: rail lines caused all kinds of chaos across France. There
Speaker 1: were fires that were set to destroy cables that control
Speaker 1: the train signals. Of course, if you don't have a
Speaker 1: train signal, you got a problem. You gotta get that fixed.
Speaker 1: They say, this is now quote meticulous work to try
Speaker 1: to repair it. So this has had and will continue
Speaker 1: to have an impact on hundreds of thousands of fans
Speaker 1: and travelers because these train lines were ones that were
Speaker 1: coming to and from France.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Paris, Paris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were even two German athletes who were
Speaker 2: on one of the trains to Paris wanted to take
Speaker 2: part in the opening ceremonies and they had to turn
Speaker 2: back in Belgium because of the closures, So they actually
Speaker 2: missed the opening ceremonies because of this. So yeah, that's
Speaker 2: such a like, this is your opportunity, this is your moment,
Speaker 2: and because of that they had to turn around, which
Speaker 2: was incredibly sad, but thank god it wasn't worse than
Speaker 2: it was. Yes, the opening ceremony was the best opening
Speaker 2: ceremony I have ever seen in my life. And so
Speaker 2: the games are officially on. Yes, we mentioned the stands
Speaker 2: are full of fans, so that's cool. But guess what's
Speaker 2: also back not just the fans in the stands. We've
Speaker 2: got intimacy back in the village.
Speaker 1: This is and you know this, and I know this
Speaker 1: from covering Olympics in the past, but it's the Olympic
Speaker 1: Village can be notorious if you will. For you no,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got some of the most beautiful people
Speaker 1: in the world physically speaking, and youth and young and yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a lot of downtown sometimes Olympic village. So
Speaker 1: this has been talked about a lot. But in the
Speaker 1: previous game, Summer Games COVID, we were in the midst
Speaker 1: of a pandemic, so social distancing rules were in place
Speaker 1: then and they no longer applay at the Olympic Village
Speaker 1: the way they did in Tokyo. So yes, the intimacy
Speaker 1: ban has been lifted at Olympic Village and athletes are
Speaker 1: free to get as close to each other as they like.
Speaker 2: They even passed out condoms.
Speaker 1: And I think hundreds of thousands, there's an exact numbers.
Speaker 2: I saw that. It was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so we've gotten passed of course, the worst
Speaker 1: of COVID. But there have been at least now five
Speaker 1: cases of COVID reported among members specifically Worlds of the
Speaker 1: Australian Olympic team.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sure we'll keep our tabs on that
Speaker 2: as well. And wow, this was stunning. Even before the
Speaker 2: opening ceremony, already we've got an Olympic controversy. The head
Speaker 2: coach of the Canadian women's soccer team has been suspended,
Speaker 2: kicked out of the Olympics over a cheating scandal. Bev
Speaker 2: Priestman is her name. She was sent home. She stepped
Speaker 2: away first and they said, yeah, no, we're sending you
Speaker 2: home after a member of her staff was caught using
Speaker 2: a drone they were spying on Canada's opening round opponent. Priestman,
Speaker 2: we should mention deny that she knew about it, but
Speaker 2: they sent her home anyway.
Speaker 1: Of course, we know never fails. It's always a controversy
Speaker 1: of comment at the Olympics. Came a little early this year.
Speaker 3: Perhaps he won't be the last, maybe it will. Maybe
Speaker 3: this will be the big one. Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3: That would be We don't look confident.
Speaker 1: Yes, we just saw the opening ceremony that marks the
Speaker 1: official start of the games, but the games have actually
Speaker 1: been going on for several days now. We got sports
Speaker 1: like rugby soccer, they've started the early stages of their tournaments,
Speaker 1: and the US men and women, two soccer teams have
Speaker 1: already been in action this week.
Speaker 3: It went really well for one of them.
Speaker 1: That one is the US women. Well no surprise probably
Speaker 1: to you there, but they won three nil over a
Speaker 1: Zambia in their first match they played on Thursday. The
Speaker 1: first goal for the US women in the Olympics was scored.
Speaker 3: By Trinity Rodman.
Speaker 1: Now Trinity Rodman, A lot of people will know now
Speaker 1: that her dad is Dennis Rodman, the NBA Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: But Trinity Rodman scored on If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: I mean google it'll look it up on social media.
Speaker 1: A fantastic but ridiculous spin move. And of course Robes,
Speaker 1: you and I were watching this live when it's happened.
Speaker 1: We watched every second of this game. But she proudly
Speaker 1: calls this.
Speaker 2: The trend spin and it was effective.
Speaker 1: You will be hearing a lot more about Trinity Rodman
Speaker 1: and the trin spin. And the women are going to
Speaker 1: continue their group play on Sunday again. This is a
Speaker 1: must see game against Germany.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be find one.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. It was amazing. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: I don't remember anything, you know that once I see it,
Speaker 2: it's like out of my head. But I remember Trinity
Speaker 2: Rodman scored at minute seventeen, and then it is it
Speaker 2: Malory Swanson she scored two in a row a minute
Speaker 2: twenty four and minute twenty five, and I just it was,
Speaker 2: it was unreal. By twenty five minutes into the game,
Speaker 2: USA already up three to Oho and that ended up
Speaker 2: being the score. So it was I thoroughly enjoyed watching that.
Speaker 2: Now on the flip side, you and I also we
Speaker 2: went out. We went to a sports for us. So
Speaker 2: let's watch the men's play. The men's play. I can't talk.
Speaker 2: Let's watch the men play. Men is already plural amy.
Speaker 2: Let's watch the men's play. They did so good. They
Speaker 2: did not so the score was also three nil. Except
Speaker 2: for that we were the ones with the goose egg. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they lost to France. They gave up the three goals.
Speaker 2: But they get a chance to redeem themselves on Saturday,
Speaker 2: that's today against New Zealand and they need to get
Speaker 2: a result. So this is kind of a sink or
Speaker 2: swim moment for them, and we will be watching and
Speaker 2: we will let you know what happens. But we've got
Speaker 2: thirty two sports total in the Olympics, which is pretty remarkable,
Speaker 2: but it used to be thirty one. See there is
Speaker 2: one that is making its Olympic debut and it's called
Speaker 2: breaking uh aka breakdancing. So they have thirty two competitors,
Speaker 2: sixteen bee boys, sixteen be girls. They're gonna go head
Speaker 2: to head one on one, and I for one, am
Speaker 2: very much looking forward to this. This is this is
Speaker 2: this comes from the streets of the Bronx. Got a
Speaker 2: lot of history that's remarkable in the nineteen seventies, the Olympics.
Speaker 3: I think that just to think about pop culture, hip
Speaker 3: hop culture, I should say specifically here that something that
Speaker 3: kids were doing in New York City all those years
Speaker 3: ago is now an Olympic sport. Is really really really cool.
Speaker 1: To see that doesn't get going. I think we got
Speaker 1: a week to wait until they do start breakdancing, so
Speaker 1: we have to wait on that for a little while.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't seen it before, this is gonna be.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be like the thing like curling. You
Speaker 1: remember that when curling became a thing in the Winter Games,
Speaker 1: and it became a fad and we all had to
Speaker 1: watch it because we were curious about it.
Speaker 3: This might be the new star.
Speaker 2: I'm still curious about curling. It's fascinating. It's like I'm
Speaker 2: watching people sweep really fast. I don't understand, but.
Speaker 3: It became kind of all all the rage. But I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to break down.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I wish there were more than sixteen competitors.
Speaker 2: But they go head to head, right, and.
Speaker 3: They've got these one on one yeah yah, and.
Speaker 2: They've got these set rules and judges. And some people
Speaker 2: argue this is such a subjective art form and athletic
Speaker 2: form of art basically that it's tough to judge.
Speaker 3: But will figure skating that's yeah, you know what, that's
Speaker 3: a good point.
Speaker 2: That's a really good point. Anyway, that's exciting, and there
Speaker 2: are like, do you have any anything you're really looking
Speaker 2: forward to?
Speaker 1: Oh, my good gracious, of course I am. I think
Speaker 1: the big ones are always everybody agrees, swimming, track and field.
Speaker 1: We look look forward to basketball, of course, Gymnastics gymnax
Speaker 1: is probably number one. Gymnastics and swimming when you're gree
Speaker 1: the two biggest sports.
Speaker 2: Yes, and oh diving. Diving is so fun to watch too.
Speaker 2: I say that, and you know what, was unexpectedly really
Speaker 2: fun to watch. And so I encourage people because a
Speaker 2: lot of times when the commercials come up, you get up,
Speaker 2: you leave, you say, I'm going to go get some
Speaker 2: food or a snack. Watch the commercials during the opening ceremonies.
Speaker 2: We actually found ourselves weeping. I was weeping. I don't
Speaker 2: do that Uber commercial. And you had a tear. You
Speaker 2: had a tear. I saw the tear. I tried to
Speaker 2: take a picture and you wiped it away.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a tear, mind you over a commercial.
Speaker 2: You had a tear over a commercial. What commercial was that?
Speaker 3: It was sporting bog?
Speaker 2: It was a Dick's Sporting goods and you know what
Speaker 2: it was powerful?
Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, let's not. I mean were joking about crying?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: No, No, everybody needs to understand what we're saying here.
Speaker 1: The commercials were impressive, right, we're laughing at but what
Speaker 1: we're saying we're actually giving compliments. Yes to Uber, to
Speaker 1: Nike and to dick Sporting Goods. I know, the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl is the super Bowl of commercials. These were such
Speaker 1: good quality, moving inspiration. They nailed it on the head.
Speaker 3: Powerful commercials and they're from full. I couldn't even wait.
Speaker 3: I got to the end of a Dick Sporting Wait,
Speaker 3: Dick's sporting goods.
Speaker 2: You were kind of embarrassed that you were so moved.
Speaker 3: You should really stop saying that.
Speaker 1: I know I am complimenting the commercial for what it
Speaker 1: was able to do with Nike William Dafoe.
Speaker 3: I don't need to look up who that was voicing that.
Speaker 3: We all know that was Williem Dafoe. Uber. I don't
Speaker 3: even know why.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even make the connection between what the message
Speaker 1: was and then Uber they brought it home some kind
Speaker 1: of way.
Speaker 3: I can't remember how they did it.
Speaker 2: Whoever were whoever was responsible for those commercials brilliant because
Speaker 2: what it was it captured your attention, it brought in
Speaker 2: your emotion, and then it brought it home back to
Speaker 2: what the branding was. And I just I was blown away.
Speaker 2: So I can't wait. If that's what we saw, I
Speaker 2: actually will be excited about watching commercials more so than
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Like you said, those were better than
Speaker 2: anything I saw in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I am really trying to remember the Uber message. My
Speaker 1: good I could probably try to google it.
Speaker 2: It's something about it it was like.
Speaker 3: You know, showing up. Showing up matters, yep.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna, we're gonna come, we're gonna get, we're
Speaker 2: gonna come to you so you can get where you
Speaker 2: need to go. Something like that. But it was about
Speaker 2: showing up. It really was uber.
Speaker 3: Well done on that commercial.
Speaker 1: Whoever put these together, Nike, you'all nail it all the
Speaker 1: time with those commercials.
Speaker 3: But that's off.
Speaker 1: Another part you're going to be hearing a lot about
Speaker 1: if you haven't already, and you might have an opinion
Speaker 1: about it all already already.
Speaker 3: We talked about the broadcast and we applaud.
Speaker 1: Can't imagine the work that went into from the NBC
Speaker 1: folks to the NBC staffs and NBC all those technical
Speaker 1: folks that put that together.
Speaker 3: We know what that's like.
Speaker 1: But of course the production, the French folks who actually
Speaker 1: produced the show and put all the elements together, we applaud.
Speaker 1: But so much of the broadcast is in the hands
Speaker 1: of the broadcasters. The main anchors in this time, it
Speaker 1: was Mike Turico, it was Kelly Clarkson, it was Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning and one of the three of them, I suppose
Speaker 1: robes At this point is being talked about more than another,
Speaker 1: and no, this is part of it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes.
Speaker 2: Look, Kelly Clarkson, she was being herself. She was not
Speaker 2: trying to be someone who was a sports fan or
Speaker 2: someone who had sports vaccine figures. She just was reacting
Speaker 2: like a human. And so she made a lot of
Speaker 2: comments throughout the broadcast, and then there were a lot
Speaker 2: of comments on social media about how she was reacting
Speaker 2: to the opening ceremony. And so there've already been some
Speaker 2: articles written, and I'm sure by the time you're hearing
Speaker 2: this you may have read some of them, but they
Speaker 2: have said headlines like Kelly Clarkson is facing backlash that
Speaker 2: she interfered with fans' ability to enjoy the show because
Speaker 2: of her comments. You know, some people had said things
Speaker 2: that she was basically being disruptive without a lot of substance.
Speaker 2: And I will say there were some people who did
Speaker 2: come to her defense and they said, look, she was
Speaker 2: like the fun aunt and someone else said she was
Speaker 2: like a golden retriever. And another one points out, Kelly
Speaker 2: Clarkson is an incredible entertainer, an incredible vocalist. She had
Speaker 2: a lot of passion. Let her live. I will say
Speaker 2: that we enjoyed. We know how hard it is to
Speaker 2: broadcast over and narrate live events, many which they didn't know.
Speaker 2: These were surprises to us watching, but surprises to some
Speaker 2: of them who were commenting. So they were giving genuine
Speaker 2: reactions in real time, and that's not always easy to do.
Speaker 1: It just isn't, especially if you have to do it
Speaker 1: for four hours, four hours straight. And from what our understanding,
Speaker 1: they carried a heavier load than anticipated because the weather
Speaker 1: cost issues to it. They couldn't toss to a lot
Speaker 1: of other talent that they thought might be able to
Speaker 1: help them out. So, yep, I need to point that out,
Speaker 1: but it's part of it. You're on this kind of
Speaker 1: a stage and if people are going to say what
Speaker 1: they want to.
Speaker 3: Say, I give her credit for.
Speaker 1: Not trying to be something else. We're used to broadcasters
Speaker 1: and they broadcast there's almost sort of wordying we're and
Speaker 1: maybe we're just accustomed to doing that. And if somebody
Speaker 1: sees that that, you know what, we're used to broadcasters
Speaker 1: probably in a lot of ways, robes not even noticing them.
Speaker 1: Sometimes right right, you're supposed to be You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to feel a certain way about the broadcaster.
Speaker 3: They're just supposed to do a.
Speaker 1: Thing, and maybe you reacted to her, and people don't
Speaker 1: like reacting.
Speaker 2: You know, And look, she is not she's not necessary.
Speaker 2: She's the host of her own show, but she's not
Speaker 2: somebody who's been trained professionally as a journalist to do
Speaker 2: any of this. And look, you know, anytime we went
Speaker 2: out to go cover the Olympics over the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: and we have that huge binder that you would take
Speaker 2: with you on the plane, that would sleep next to
Speaker 2: you in your bed each day because you had to
Speaker 2: know so much about all of these athletes. We have
Speaker 2: nearly six hundred US athletes and they would all be
Speaker 2: in that binder, in addition to some of the big
Speaker 2: athletes in other countries, and so there was so much
Speaker 2: information to digest, to remember, to memorize, to try and
Speaker 2: have facts and figures when you're commenting or looking at
Speaker 2: events and being able to explain them to the audience.
Speaker 2: Who isn't there, you know, that wasn't her role. And
Speaker 2: so I think people have that expectation that she's got.
Speaker 2: She had her bind her and she was studying and
Speaker 2: she knew this and that you know, that's what Mike
Speaker 2: Tarico was there for I'm sure, and she and Peyton
Speaker 2: were there for color and that's what she did. So
Speaker 2: I think there might have been an expectation that she
Speaker 2: should act and react the way a lot of professional
Speaker 2: broadcasters would have.
Speaker 1: And you know what, to each their all. I respect
Speaker 1: anybody who has an opinion about it. Don't respect any
Speaker 1: boy was being mean about it when it comes to her,
Speaker 1: But not respect anybody who has an opinion. But I
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching I always appreciate obviously Mike Turcos, that's fantastic,
Speaker 1: but he's amazing.
Speaker 3: Appreciated a breath of fresh air. And Paton is a
Speaker 3: wonderful broadcaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was great. He was great. I thought he
Speaker 2: had a nice just it was a warmth about it,
Speaker 2: and they were having fun. I think that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Kelly Clarkson was enjoying the heck out of herself, as
Speaker 2: were we sitting on the couch watching it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Snoop he speaking of enjoying his time. Yes, he seemed
Speaker 2: to be having a blast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unlike those other times.
Speaker 2: He isn't right, he was. He was just classic Snoop dog.
Speaker 1: That might be one of those dudes if you could
Speaker 1: switch to my add you could switch lives with anybody.
Speaker 1: Just give me one weekend as Snoop DOGG a Tuesday
Speaker 1: as Snoop dog It.
Speaker 3: Just give me a day.
Speaker 1: But at this point, hats off to NBC, Hats off
Speaker 1: to that team that's off to a just a resounding start.
Speaker 1: I cannot applaud them enough for the show they pulled
Speaker 1: off today at the Olympics.
Speaker 3: It was so thrilling.
Speaker 1: It did slow down, That's what I'm okay. That was
Speaker 1: the point where once you get through, once the it
Speaker 1: was a very very very cool shot. The mechanic horse,
Speaker 1: mechanical horse that was going.
Speaker 2: Said the horse wasn't going quickly enough when it first started.
Speaker 3: You remember, I was like, wow, that is awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay, the horse needs to speed up.
Speaker 3: Now, wow, that horse is still running.
Speaker 1: And it seemed like it took forever because it took
Speaker 1: the same three point seven mile trek. As the athletes
Speaker 1: in their boats comes off it, it stops and then
Speaker 1: we see a real horse right with the same person riding,
Speaker 1: if you will, like kind of a seamless transition.
Speaker 3: But then the horse was walking really slowly.
Speaker 2: I think that's when I went and got the French
Speaker 2: bread and the bree cheese out beat that our iHeart
Speaker 2: team sent us.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, while you were gone, I kept my eyes
Speaker 1: on this horse. Then the person got off the horse
Speaker 1: and walked very slowly, very well.
Speaker 2: It was wet and rainy, so that was to make
Speaker 2: it pretty smart.
Speaker 1: I applaud them with the boots walking up the steps.
Speaker 1: But it was just, yes, it just I got dragged out.
Speaker 1: And then there were speeches that made it feel like, oh, that.
Speaker 2: Was that was the low point. I'm sorry that sounds bad,
Speaker 2: but that was a low point for me. Listening to
Speaker 2: you know, McCrone speak and uh and Peter Box.
Speaker 1: I think they would admit that it was the low
Speaker 1: point of the show too long. They weren't trying to
Speaker 1: top that stuff. But you then you have I didn't
Speaker 1: even know Serena Williams into up playing a role and
Speaker 1: carrying the torch, and they finally light the cauldron, which
Speaker 1: they didn't even we didn't even know where the cauldron.
Speaker 3: Was, right, and the thing floats up in the air
Speaker 3: with the hot air.
Speaker 2: But this was so it was so cool and I
Speaker 2: looked it up because I had to know. I was like,
Speaker 2: is this going to be like this, like floating suspended.
Speaker 2: I think they said it was sixty meters up in
Speaker 2: the air, but it's pretty cool. Basically after sunset until
Speaker 2: two am every night that is going to float up
Speaker 2: and when it's on the ground. I think they set
Speaker 2: up to ten thousand people a day can come visit
Speaker 2: it and take a look at it. And it's cool
Speaker 2: because it's all green, it's not using any fuel. There's
Speaker 2: some technology that I didn't quite understand that involved water
Speaker 2: and air and I don't know, but it's an electric light,
Speaker 2: so it's really really cool. I loved what they did
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: They are also a good start things to look forward
Speaker 1: to on this day as you're hearing this Saturday now
Speaker 1: in Paris and around France. Yes, the US men will
Speaker 1: start up again as they are in group stage right
Speaker 1: now of in soccer.
Speaker 3: They really really need a result or they could be
Speaker 3: at risk.
Speaker 1: Of going home really early from these olymp But this
Speaker 1: is going to be the most helpful tip and the
Speaker 1: most useful tool we give you in this episode. Hear
Speaker 1: this now Nbcolympics dot com. You need to know this
Speaker 1: website Nbcolympics dot com.
Speaker 3: This is so weird. I mean, I couldn't imagine, right,
Speaker 3: not too long ago promoting another.
Speaker 1: Nav'm promoting NBC. But I'm telling you this because when
Speaker 1: you go to that website at the top left corner,
Speaker 1: plain as Day, you will see a tab that says schedule.
Speaker 3: Click on that.
Speaker 1: They have the entire schedule of events laid out in
Speaker 1: a way that you can understand and read it. You
Speaker 1: can pick a day that you want to choose today, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: the next day, the next day, and it will have
Speaker 1: the schedule, and it will also give you a tab
Speaker 1: that tells you which events are TV only and which
Speaker 1: ones are on digital and TV, which is very helpful
Speaker 1: right now because you need to have Peacock the app
Speaker 1: if you want to watch a lot of stuff. The
Speaker 1: rest of it you have to wait for Primetime or
Speaker 1: on USA Today. So the schedules all over the place
Speaker 1: Nbcolympics dot Com and click on schedule very very helpful.
Speaker 2: Indeed. All right, and we talked about the big events
Speaker 2: that we're looking forward to. But you know, when you
Speaker 2: start really diving in to see all the different thirty
Speaker 2: two different sports, is there a little known one or
Speaker 2: a smaller one that you're curious about that you want
Speaker 2: to check.
Speaker 3: Out table tennis.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. Ping pong aka ping pong, Yes,
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: Love table tennis because it's unreal what they do, so
Speaker 1: it's just you don't get a chance to watch it
Speaker 1: like this often.
Speaker 3: Absolutely I want to watch that.
Speaker 2: And the other thing I'd like to see is the
Speaker 2: surfing because they're doing it in Tahiti, and I think
Speaker 2: I just want to watch just for like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: vacation candy, just to see what it like. I've never been.
Speaker 2: I want to and that is such a stunning sport,
Speaker 2: so I would like to check that out too, But
Speaker 2: table tennis right on my list.
Speaker 1: The other one is fencing because that's something you don't
Speaker 1: get to watch a lot, so you take the opportunity.
Speaker 1: But just it takes so much discipline to do that,
Speaker 1: it's all I'm always impressed.
Speaker 2: And beach volleyball is fun to check out.
Speaker 3: What are they saying they're doing that in the backdrop
Speaker 3: of the tower. That's unreal, so cool, it's unreal.
Speaker 1: So congratulations NBC, Congratulations Frankly Paris for what you all
Speaker 1: pulled off on an international on the biggest stage.
Speaker 2: With the opening ceremony all right, well, keep checking us out.
Speaker 2: We're going to be coming to you every single day
Speaker 2: at nine am with all the latest Olympic news, all
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