Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Monday Mini: A Quick Olympic Update
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to stuff. I
- 0:07Speaker 1: never told you a production of iHeartRadio and today is
- 0:21Speaker 1: either August fifteenth or sixteenth. You just said fifteenth. I
- 0:24Speaker 1: could have sworn it was the sixteenth.
- 0:25Speaker 2: It's said on my computer the fifteenth, So on my computer.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Traveling, I will accept your your computer it's near there.
- 0:36Speaker 1: But we did want to. I wanted to. This is
- 0:38Speaker 1: a very me heavy episode. I wanted to do a
- 0:41Speaker 1: kind of quick update on the Olympics because we are
- 0:45Speaker 1: going to do an Olympic wrap up episode and then
- 0:48Speaker 1: that one will do a much more like the good,
- 0:50Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly, the controversy. This is just like
- 0:55Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Olympics, all of you, I've
- 0:57Speaker 1: watched a lot, and so this is gonna be some
- 0:59Speaker 1: of the things I liked that.
- 1:00Speaker 2: I was stressed out, y'all.
- 1:02Speaker 1: I was stressed. I was stressed, and I'm not someone
- 1:06Speaker 1: who normally watches sports because they stressed me out. But
- 1:14Speaker 1: I was thinking about this. I think one of the
- 1:16Speaker 1: interesting things. One not a sponsor. As I mentioned, I
- 1:20Speaker 1: had a free Peacock subscription because of our trip to Universal,
- 1:26Speaker 1: and so I was able to watch it live and
- 1:28Speaker 1: Paris is not It's like six hours ahead of the US.
- 1:31Speaker 1: So I was like, normally, if it's in Tokyo, I'm
- 1:34Speaker 1: not going to stay up and be watching it, you know,
- 1:37Speaker 1: all hours of the night. But this was kind of
- 1:40Speaker 1: live when I'm out and about, and so I'd be
- 1:43Speaker 1: researching one of our episodes and I'd have it on
- 1:45Speaker 1: in the background. So I watched a lot more than
- 1:47Speaker 1: I normally watch. You can see our a recent episode,
- 1:53Speaker 1: part one of our twenty twenty four Olympic coverage. Again,
- 1:56Speaker 1: we'll have a second part, and again listeners if you
- 1:59Speaker 1: have any thoughts, but that we have some people who
- 2:01Speaker 1: are big into oh yes, yes, some of these sports,
- 2:05Speaker 1: some people who are big into the Olympics. Let us know.
- 2:08Speaker 1: But I did, I did want to start with this. So, yes,
- 2:12Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics have wrapped up, and
- 2:16Speaker 1: there was a lot of controversy. We'll talk about that.
- 2:21Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about something else though, because, as
- 2:23Speaker 1: I said, I was watching a lot of it and
- 2:25Speaker 1: I just noticed that I was way more interested in
- 2:29Speaker 1: the women's competitions, and not just for obvious reasons. I
- 2:32Speaker 1: was also way more impressed when I was watching them.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I knew more of their names, and it turns out
- 2:41Speaker 1: I may have been onto something you have. Yes, not
- 2:45Speaker 1: only did the US send more women than men three
- 2:48Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen women to two hundred and seventy eight men,
- 2:52Speaker 1: the US women brought home more than half of the
- 2:54Speaker 1: country's medals. They won so many medals that by themselves
- 2:59Speaker 1: they would have I'm in third in the medal count,
- 3:02Speaker 1: behind the US and China. Twenty six of America's forty
- 3:07Speaker 1: gold medals are due to women. There were so many. First,
- 3:11Speaker 1: they were the breaking of droughts of like never have
- 3:14Speaker 1: won and they finally won. They were continued streaks, they
- 3:18Speaker 1: were records broken. As I said, I was so into it.
- 3:21Speaker 1: But here here are some of the ones that really
- 3:23Speaker 1: stood out to me. Okay, soccer, Yes, Oh my gosh,
- 3:29Speaker 1: this is what I was texting you about. Stressed. I
- 3:32Speaker 1: was so stressed because if anybody watched, I'm sure plenty
- 3:37Speaker 1: of you did, the soccer matches, the football matches they
- 3:41Speaker 1: were when the US was playing, it was like you
- 3:44Speaker 1: would get to the very end and no one has scored,
- 3:49Speaker 1: and so then it goes in overtime, and it just
- 3:52Speaker 1: feels so stressful and there were so many like close calls,
- 3:57Speaker 1: people almost making it and then not make it, and
- 4:00Speaker 1: I'm on the edge of my seat, my heart is pounding,
- 4:03Speaker 1: and I'm more involved than I thought I would be.
- 4:11Speaker 1: But the US women's team did win, and it was
- 4:17Speaker 1: really really cool to see. It was so impressive the
- 4:22Speaker 1: amount of ability with all of the athletes and all
- 4:26Speaker 1: of the kind of tricks they were doing. And the goalie,
- 4:30Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the amazing catches she made. That was
- 4:35Speaker 1: so good. I also want to shout out the announcer
- 4:37Speaker 1: for this, because she went on an impassioned rant about
- 4:44Speaker 1: the health of the athletes and how that should be
- 4:47Speaker 1: the foremost thing everybody's thinking about. She was angry because
- 4:52Speaker 1: she felt like the scheduling was not taking them into account.
- 4:56Speaker 1: But also the fact that, and this is a problem
- 5:01Speaker 1: with the Olympics in general, they were kind of trucking
- 5:05Speaker 1: them out to a further away stadium that was prettier
- 5:08Speaker 1: when they were closer stadiums that they could have played
- 5:10Speaker 1: in and wouldn't have had this kind of travel time.
- 5:14Speaker 1: But I really really appreciated that. Yeah. Yes, and as
- 5:19Speaker 1: I mentioned in our first Olympic episode that we did
- 5:24Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics. I was just
- 5:27Speaker 1: sending random quotes to some of my friends about the Olympics.
- 5:32Speaker 1: I think my favorite one was a random Snoop Dogg
- 5:36Speaker 1: quote about women's soccer where he said, this name is
- 5:42Speaker 1: Dennis the Menace and I was like, but I love it.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I love it.
- 5:53Speaker 2: I mean Snoop Dogg and Flavor Flav being the representations
- 5:58Speaker 2: for the US, I feel like we're pretty perfect.
- 6:01Speaker 1: It was very fun.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg coming out to anoint the ground of the
- 6:06Speaker 2: breaking was actually on par with like, Okay, at the
- 6:10Speaker 2: very least, we have a US rapper who was a
- 6:13Speaker 2: part of the beginning of some of the big rap names.
- 6:16Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, there's that last.
- 6:18Speaker 1: I guess yeah. He has oh so many excellent quotes.
- 6:24Speaker 1: It was really fun to hear him be so into it.
- 6:26Speaker 1: He was so into it. There was another quote about soccer.
- 6:40Speaker 1: It wasn't Snoop Dogg, but it was a male announcer said,
- 6:45Speaker 1: spared by the Trident out of context, that's fantastic. But
- 6:51Speaker 1: it's the three main offensive players. They work together and
- 6:56Speaker 1: they usually are the ones that get the goal. And
- 6:58Speaker 1: I think it was one of each of them got
- 7:01Speaker 1: for the three games.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Nice.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was cool, but they were all just
- 7:05Speaker 1: one goal games. They were tight, tense. I loved it.
- 7:13Speaker 1: I wonder if y'all remember we brought on my good
- 7:16Speaker 1: friend Whitney to talk about soccer year ago, two years ago. Yeah,
- 7:23Speaker 1: the World Cup, and I wanted to reach out to her.
- 7:27Speaker 1: But if I was stressed, I could only imagine how
- 7:29Speaker 1: stressed she was, and I.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Wanted to appreciated that.
- 7:33Speaker 1: I wanted to wait until I knew the outcome.
- 7:35Speaker 2: And yeah, I did that thing world like, Oh the
- 7:38Speaker 2: women's Oh we messed it. They won, Like I went
- 7:42Speaker 2: from me. I was like, I did not realize they
- 7:44Speaker 2: already played.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Okay, what I mean? It was nice if like sometimes,
- 7:48Speaker 1: like I said, I was watching most of this live,
- 7:50Speaker 1: but some things I would like if I missed it live,
- 7:55Speaker 1: you could cheat and look up spoilers almost, yes, because
- 7:58Speaker 1: it already happens.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Yes things, I have been watching these things. I'm like
- 8:04Speaker 2: the Sunny Lee. I believe she had a mishappen. I'm
- 8:07Speaker 2: see this is why, this is why I don't want
- 8:09Speaker 2: to watch these because it makes it She had a
- 8:11Speaker 2: great sense of humor about it. But I'm like this
- 8:12Speaker 2: freaks me out.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Yeah, the gymnastics are so intense they make they stressed
- 8:18Speaker 1: me out too, because somebody could fall at any minute.
- 8:22Speaker 1: And I believe what you're talking about is the balance beam. Yes,
- 8:25Speaker 1: well I think four people fell off and then some
- 8:31Speaker 1: moan biles later, I was asked about it and said
- 8:35Speaker 1: it was basically a weird atmosphere because nobody was Everybody
- 8:42Speaker 1: was being urged to be quiet, and there was no
- 8:44Speaker 1: music and they even asked for music and they were like, no,
- 8:47Speaker 1: this is this is actually worse because when we practiced,
- 8:50Speaker 1: its usually sound or something. Yeah. So she said that
- 8:56Speaker 1: everybody fell off their game because it it was so silent,
- 9:00Speaker 1: not like a practice.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Some of these things make me believe the conspiracies that
- 9:03Speaker 2: have happened with the French hosting this, like parents hosting this.
- 9:08Speaker 2: French listeners won't be mad, but there are some things
- 9:10Speaker 2: that are like why are they doing that? That seems
- 9:12Speaker 2: like a purposeful setup, Like what is happening? Yeah, and
- 9:17Speaker 2: I'm like people were really upset about like the men's
- 9:20Speaker 2: basketball and you can talk about it that a second,
- 9:22Speaker 2: but like the men's basketball team winning and like really
- 9:26Speaker 2: angry and boollying. They were booing the US when they
- 9:30Speaker 2: were getting their gold medals. I was like, damn, and
- 9:32Speaker 2: I know one player I think, is it a French
- 9:34Speaker 2: player who decided to play for the US like he
- 9:37Speaker 2: could play for either one? Is that the several of
- 9:40Speaker 2: these incidents have happened, but I believe it. And he
- 9:42Speaker 2: got real booed like people were not happy. So I'm like,
- 9:46Speaker 2: y'all are not nice, Like you can't be acting like
- 9:51Speaker 2: this if this is gonna be hosted in your country.
- 9:52Speaker 2: I get, I get being like upset, but Dale.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Yes, well that does bring us to basketball, women's basketball.
- 10:00Speaker 1: But my conspiracy theories this was I this was the
- 10:05Speaker 1: second to last event that they broadcast. I think it
- 10:11Speaker 1: might have been the last event they broadcast, but the
- 10:13Speaker 1: marathon was the last medal awarded the women's marathon, which
- 10:16Speaker 1: they did purposefully because they've been all about gender parody
- 10:20Speaker 1: and they want to switch. It's usually the male and
- 10:23Speaker 1: men's marathon men's sports, so they switched it. I, to
- 10:29Speaker 1: my shame, have not watched a lot of women's basketball.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I am very excited about a super producer. Christina, let
- 10:36Speaker 1: us know we're getting a women's sports bar. Yeah, no,
- 10:41Speaker 1: supero because I was having like I was stressed, but
- 10:45Speaker 1: I was having a great.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Time watching it. Something that everybody's excited about, like that
- 10:50Speaker 2: when you're watching the World Cup, when you're watching like
- 10:52Speaker 2: any of those things. I'm not even like a Braves fan.
- 10:55Speaker 2: And when like they were in the World Series, I'm like, Okay,
- 10:58Speaker 2: cool the hype.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Yeah, yes. And I was thinking about this because there
- 11:04Speaker 1: is a certain part where it's like, I don't know
- 11:07Speaker 1: how I would feel if they had lost, you know.
- 11:09Speaker 2: What I mean.
- 11:10Speaker 1: But I had a great time. I like to think
- 11:12Speaker 1: I would have thought that that was a good game.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I think as long as it wasn't an absolute crush
- 11:18Speaker 1: like got humiliated, I like to think I might be hurt,
- 11:22Speaker 1: but that was a good game. But they did win there.
- 11:29Speaker 1: It was their eighth gold medal, their like Olympic dynasty.
- 11:34Speaker 1: They had so many women from the past that they
- 11:36Speaker 1: interviewed about it and it was amazing. But it it
- 11:40Speaker 1: was against France, just like the men, and it was
- 11:44Speaker 1: a tight game. There were plenty of times where I
- 11:47Speaker 1: was thinking this is over, this is over, and I
- 11:52Speaker 1: had watched their previous games and they were just doing
- 11:56Speaker 1: things that were so amazing. I was in shock. Like,
- 12:00Speaker 1: I don't even know how you can coordinate that with
- 12:02Speaker 1: other people without talking. It was I mean, years of
- 12:05Speaker 1: practice obviously, but whoa. And they weren't doing amazing things
- 12:10Speaker 1: in this one too, but it was just like a
- 12:12Speaker 1: brutal physical game. Yeah, and the announcers were kind of
- 12:20Speaker 1: suddenly not so subtly saying like, this is the whistle
- 12:23Speaker 1: is going way more positively in France's direction in the
- 12:28Speaker 1: US dis direction, And I have to say, like, maybe
- 12:31Speaker 1: I got swept up, but I was like, I think
- 12:34Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you're right.
- 12:47Speaker 2: I mean, there was several conversations with Cocoa cough, I mean,
- 12:51Speaker 2: and even with like again the gymnastics situation and far
- 12:55Speaker 2: with Jordan Childs and then what happened and who is
- 12:57Speaker 2: the like there's so many things that it doesn't make
- 13:00Speaker 2: sense to me that I'm like, this is not very
- 13:03Speaker 2: sportsman like and I feel like it just killed the spirit.
- 13:06Speaker 2: But not that because obviously the US pulled through and
- 13:09Speaker 2: we were wonderful, but like, there are moments that are
- 13:12Speaker 2: like this. There needs to be a level of like
- 13:14Speaker 2: if there's going to be cammaderie, which is the whole
- 13:16Speaker 2: point of like world peace and friendly competition, then we
- 13:22Speaker 2: should allow for like fairness and all the way through
- 13:26Speaker 2: there seems to be a lot of pulling of tricks.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, And I'm sure that's not a new
- 13:34Speaker 1: I'm sure that exists in every Olympics, but it was.
- 13:38Speaker 1: It was just funny to me because even I at
- 13:41Speaker 1: the end was like, ooh, I don't think. I don't
- 13:46Speaker 1: know about that one. I will say it was pretty
- 13:52Speaker 1: the loss, Oh my gosh, it was stunning. There was
- 13:57Speaker 1: like if France could score three points, it would tie
- 14:01Speaker 1: it and would go into overtime, and there was two
- 14:03Speaker 1: seconds left or something, and I think it was Gabby Williams,
- 14:08Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, but she was a like
- 14:10Speaker 1: really good player from France's side. She made the shot,
- 14:15Speaker 1: but she made it from the three point line, but
- 14:18Speaker 1: she stepped on the line so it was two points
- 14:21Speaker 1: so they didn't make it. But that, I mean, in
- 14:23Speaker 1: my heart goes out, So that's that is brutal. And
- 14:27Speaker 1: it was down to the wire, Oh my gosh. But
- 14:32Speaker 1: it was also cool to see because again I watched
- 14:36Speaker 1: all their games. It was cool to see that that
- 14:39Speaker 1: some games some people would be specializing in something and
- 14:43Speaker 1: then it was clear their strategy wasn't working against another country,
- 14:47Speaker 1: so they would switch out. Yeah, Like it wasn't like
- 14:49Speaker 1: the spotlight went there. There were definitely some standout names,
- 14:53Speaker 1: but it was very much like who's the best in
- 14:55Speaker 1: this situation? And I really liked that, which also I'm
- 14:59Speaker 1: not going to talk about it in here, but I
- 15:02Speaker 1: was thinking about that, and when I was watching Track
- 15:06Speaker 1: and I was listening to the differences between women baton
- 15:11Speaker 1: the women's relay and men's relay, and because they're usually
- 15:15Speaker 1: competitors right on the team, but they were saying like,
- 15:17Speaker 1: the women's relay has just had such a history of
- 15:21Speaker 1: being very successful and the men's really does it. And
- 15:25Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's what it is. I'm not saying
- 15:27Speaker 1: that at all, but I just couldn't help being like, huh,
- 15:29Speaker 1: that's interesting.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the men's when I saw that, like the
- 15:35Speaker 2: fumble there was a fumble baton and it was like
- 15:38Speaker 2: what really? And then the women's were so damn smooth,
- 15:41Speaker 2: like to the point that the woman just it looked
- 15:45Speaker 2: like that she hadn't even grabbed it. You didn't even
- 15:47Speaker 2: notice until she's like, oh, it's in our hand. But
- 15:50Speaker 2: it was so smooth, and they like ran half the
- 15:52Speaker 2: track together. That's the other part. I was like, getting
- 15:56Speaker 2: what's happening? She has to RaSE our own people to
- 15:58Speaker 2: get to her.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I will say in fairness, I believe Noah
- 16:07Speaker 1: Lyle was supposed to be on the men's team team
- 16:10Speaker 1: but he had COVID. But this has been the case
- 16:14Speaker 1: for for a long time. They were talking about, like
- 16:19Speaker 1: can the US men's relay team finally break this because
- 16:23Speaker 1: they haven't won. Just something to think about. Yeah. I
- 16:30Speaker 1: also there was a lot of discussion around mental health
- 16:33Speaker 1: and gender parity from the announcers, from past athletes. That
- 16:37Speaker 1: was a huge theme throughout social media, the harms it
- 16:43Speaker 1: could have sometimes that was a big conversation. As I said,
- 16:51Speaker 1: the ending of events on women's events, and the women
- 16:56Speaker 1: who won the medals in marathon were given their medals
- 17:00Speaker 1: during the closing ceremony. And there's just like legends like
- 17:03Speaker 1: some own Biles and Katie Ladecci, Tori Husk, like so many,
- 17:06Speaker 1: so many, so many. That was really really cool and
- 17:13Speaker 1: I really liked seeing because they had some people who
- 17:18Speaker 1: were you know, younger and had seen these athletes perform
- 17:22Speaker 1: and were now able to compete alongside them, and it
- 17:25Speaker 1: was really cool to hear about that and how inspired
- 17:29Speaker 1: they were by that. But we're still competing against them
- 17:32Speaker 1: and competitive against them. I really liked that and the
- 17:36Speaker 1: support of that as well. That was cool. I did
- 17:41Speaker 1: love the memes. I must admit this was a meme
- 17:43Speaker 1: heavy Olympics, so many and then final note the closing ceremony.
- 17:52Speaker 1: There was a character called the Golden Voyager that I
- 17:56Speaker 1: have to say, from a distance, ooks like Disco Luke
- 18:01Speaker 1: to the point I almost posted on social media for
- 18:04Speaker 1: the first time and who knows how long a side
- 18:08Speaker 1: by side she.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Sent me a picture of y'all id a picture.
- 18:12Speaker 1: I was in shock. Like once you saw him close up,
- 18:14Speaker 1: I was like, okay, okay, But from that like distance
- 18:19Speaker 1: from her hopes, I was like, Discolo, you're here? What
- 18:26Speaker 1: are you doing here? For anybody who somehow has missed that,
- 18:30Speaker 1: Disco Luke is like my dragon car It's my cosplay
- 18:33Speaker 1: idea a lot. It's a very bizarre seventies Luke Skywalker.
- 18:37Speaker 1: It looks a lot like this fella, the Golden Voyager
- 18:41Speaker 1: at the Olympic closing ceremony. So that was a nice
- 18:46Speaker 1: way for me to end it. I do have to
- 18:49Speaker 1: admit there was something very comical about stoop Dog singing
- 18:53Speaker 1: drop it like It's hot with a woman in like
- 18:55Speaker 1: a US bikini behind him, dropping it like It's hot
- 19:00Speaker 1: for the send off to the LA twenty twenty.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Eight U, which was hilarious, by the way, because everybody
- 19:07Speaker 2: was so angry except for the Tom Cruise drop in.
- 19:10Speaker 2: They're like. The rest of it was over teleprompter, and
- 19:13Speaker 2: everybody thought they would be in France. Some people had
- 19:15Speaker 2: bought tickets to beat in France for the closing ceremony,
- 19:18Speaker 2: and everybody, including Slipdog, who had previously been in France,
- 19:22Speaker 2: are all back in LA And I was like, what.
- 19:24Speaker 1: The what the hell? Yeah, I guess you can't do
- 19:29Speaker 1: stunts like jumping from a jet onto a motorcycle.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Through zoom, but no, yeah, I forget. I'm guessing this
- 19:38Speaker 2: was like an introduction to Welcome to LA since that's
- 19:41Speaker 2: the next games. But it's still kind of funny that
- 19:43Speaker 2: people were like, wait, we were expecting this to be
- 19:46Speaker 2: a live show. What's happening?
- 19:48Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, that is completely fair. Well, so those
- 19:55Speaker 1: are just some of my highlights. There were so many.
- 19:58Speaker 1: There were so many things. There were so many I
- 20:00Speaker 1: wasn't expecting of sports. I don't even know that much
- 20:03Speaker 1: about which is really cool, which is why we would
- 20:06Speaker 1: love to hear from you listeners. If you have any
- 20:10Speaker 1: thoughts or people we should shout out because we are
- 20:13Speaker 1: doing We're planning a wrap up that's going to be
- 20:16Speaker 1: more less of my oh this is stuff I really like,
- 20:20Speaker 1: more of the.
- 20:21Speaker 2: What went down, the happenings.
- 20:23Speaker 1: Of Yes, yes, so that's gonna be. That's coming soon,
- 20:26Speaker 1: So please send those in if you have them, as
- 20:29Speaker 1: soon as possible. Also, the Paralympics are coming up, don't forget,
- 20:34Speaker 1: and we will be talking about that as well. Okay,
- 20:37Speaker 1: so yes, you can email us at Steffan your mom
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- 20:53Speaker 1: your super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our
- 20:56Speaker 1: contributor Joey. Thank you and thanks to you for listening.
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