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Speaker 1: It's a new one. Today we're talking about US Olympic moments,
Speaker 1: iconic US Olympic moments. Okay, wait, hold on our yours,
Speaker 1: not all us.
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Speaker 2: Like I know when you.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate. I appreciate the extra effort and bringing props
Speaker 1: into the podcast.
Speaker 2: Like you you know.
Speaker 1: If you spend as much time like preparing like that
Speaker 1: as we should setting.
Speaker 2: Up the cameras right right, that was an episode in
Speaker 2: it in itself. The camera says time us next week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we gotta be.
Speaker 1: We gotta be a way I think we can beat
Speaker 1: I think so. Uh anyway, Yeah, we're talking Olympic, iconic
Speaker 1: Olympic I did you were doing us right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Mine? Are you u? S?
Speaker 1: So we're just going to give three iconic US Olympic
Speaker 1: moments from the nineties and two thousands, the the the
Speaker 1: the outs, the oats how do you call it?
Speaker 2: Not the oats?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: How what is your relationship with the Olympics.
Speaker 1: It's hit or miss for me. Really, it depends. It
Speaker 1: depends on like the build right and the excitement and
Speaker 1: and obviously the US athletes that are that are like
Speaker 1: the Michael Phillips like, of course somebody watching you there
Speaker 1: you go. Uh, but you know what I mean, It
Speaker 1: just depends. I think, Uh, there's been some years where
Speaker 1: maybe I watched like a little bit, and then there's
Speaker 1: like this past Winter Olympics, I was like obsessed yeap
Speaker 1: like waifey and I watched like every night. So I
Speaker 1: guess it depends. I'm guessing you seem like the type
Speaker 1: of guy that's always been front center.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty up for her. Yeah, to the point that,
Speaker 2: like I feel like in the lead up to every Olympics,
Speaker 2: well really every two years. You know, when we were
Speaker 2: kids back in the nineties, it was every four and
Speaker 2: winter and summer were the same year, and then they
Speaker 2: split it off, so now it's every two. I used like,
Speaker 2: I used to get excited and anxious because I'd be like,
Speaker 2: I have all the like, how am I going to
Speaker 2: find the time to watch all of this? And then
Speaker 2: once it actually starts, I'm like, oh, yeah, I actually
Speaker 2: really love this, But no, I've been die hard pretty
Speaker 2: much like since teenagey around the time I got into SNL,
Speaker 2: I got equally into the Olympics and never stopped with either.
Speaker 1: You know what I used to love though back in
Speaker 1: the nineties watching the Olympics. It was different because everything
Speaker 1: was preempted right right, so you didn't you didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: You'd have to wake up at three am to watch something.
Speaker 2: And there were no spoilers. To I am an insufferable
Speaker 2: human being to be around for two weeks every two
Speaker 2: years because I turn off all my like new, breaking new,
Speaker 2: every kind of alert. I tell all my friends, like,
Speaker 2: check with me before you bring up any Olympic stuff
Speaker 2: because I'm chronically like two three days behind. But I
Speaker 2: hate spoilers, like it's so much more powerful to see,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever happened, success or failure when you don't
Speaker 2: already know what's going to happen. But we didn't have that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was all probably you know, everything, all the big
Speaker 2: stuff was saved for prime time, whether it was live
Speaker 2: because it was in our time near our time zone,
Speaker 2: or recorded because it was in Japan or Europe. You
Speaker 2: were seeing it for the first time along with all
Speaker 2: of your friends and family when it was airing on NBC.
Speaker 1: But there is something cool about waking up at the headphones,
Speaker 1: something cool about waking up at like five am and
Speaker 1: just catching like the biathlon or something so iconic moments.
Speaker 1: These can be on the court or off the court,
Speaker 1: on the field, are off the field, right, Okay, they
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2: Just right.
Speaker 1: My first one we're going with is I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: The most famous basketball team ever assembled is the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two Dreaming Team that was.
Speaker 2: On my list. First one that was third on my list.
Speaker 1: Barcelona, I believe, yes, this team right, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Karl Alone,
Speaker 1: Chris Mullen, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, John Stockton, Clyde Drexler,
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, college representative, Christian Lightner.
Speaker 2: There you go. I mean, whose shot was just outdone?
Speaker 2: Last week?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 2: But we digressed, no, just And that was the first, uh,
Speaker 2: the first US team after the Foebe rule change in
Speaker 2: eighty nine that was allowed to have professional NBA players, right.
Speaker 1: So they were called the dream Team for rightfully. So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the biggest. I mean they've done this
Speaker 1: every year since. But for whatever reason, that group of
Speaker 1: superstars were like just mega mega stars.
Speaker 2: I think the combination of it being the first one
Speaker 2: and also just where basketball was in that era. I
Speaker 2: mean we did a whole We talked plenty about Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan on this show, but yeah, I mean just the
Speaker 2: talent around.
Speaker 1: Him and Chuck Daily coaching, Chuck Daily coaching, and now
Speaker 1: that I think about it, what probably made this team
Speaker 1: so successful and so huge and larger than life is
Speaker 1: the NBA wasn't really international at that point, right right,
Speaker 1: So like the best players were from the US. Now
Speaker 1: the US has some competition yep, around the world. So
Speaker 1: that made it, uh do you know? I mean they
Speaker 1: didn't they beat everyone. I don't think they had a
Speaker 1: close game. I think they won every game by like
Speaker 1: the third closest game was a win by thirty two
Speaker 1: points against Croatia.
Speaker 2: That was the closest game. They were like Michigan and
Speaker 2: the NCAAM this year. We'll see if that lasts tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they went undefeated. Who do you think was the
Speaker 1: leading scorer of that team?
Speaker 2: Well, Jordan seems like the obvious answer. So if it's not.
Speaker 1: Him, this surprise me because he's known for scoring but
Speaker 1: not known for Karl Malone. No Charles Barkley, Oh wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 2: Have been like, not one of my next guests. I
Speaker 2: love me some Chuck good SNL Chuck impersonation.
Speaker 1: I watched NBA live in the pregame show just because
Speaker 1: of Charles Barkley.
Speaker 2: Can I Can I say something? Can I say something?
Speaker 2: I'm just no, no, no, no. That's a reference of the SNL. Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's my first one. I'm going to the
Speaker 1: Dream Team nineteen ninety two. That's a great chronic US
Speaker 1: Olympic moments.
Speaker 2: That is a great pick. My first pick is it's
Speaker 2: gotta be the clip that you heard in the intro.
Speaker 2: Oh We're going there, Yeah, We're going there. Nancy Kerrigan
Speaker 2: skate remains to this day. I think one of the
Speaker 2: five or ten most watched moments in the history of television,
Speaker 2: if you take away the Super Bowl, I think it's
Speaker 2: number it might be number two, behind the Mash fin No,
Speaker 2: I think it's like a bunch of Super Bowls, Mash
Speaker 2: Finale and the night of the the Women's individual free
Speaker 2: skate in the ninety four Oh my god, I didn't
Speaker 2: know that big well, because the Olympics are already big,
Speaker 2: and again, as you said earlier, back then, when we
Speaker 2: didn't have the number of channels to choose from, and
Speaker 2: there weren't, you couldn't be spoiled. You know, everybody was
Speaker 2: watching for the results. And it was such I mean
Speaker 2: it was two stories in one because you had Tanya Harding,
Speaker 2: uh basically hiring someone, are being involved in someone who
Speaker 2: attacked tried to take out CA again. You had all
Speaker 2: these First off, there's all the legal questions of what's
Speaker 2: going to happen to Tanya Harding and the person who
Speaker 2: committed this attack. Then is Nancy Kerrigan still going to
Speaker 2: be able to skate? She was this like us media darling,
Speaker 2: you know, potential gold medalist. She ends up, she's injured,
Speaker 2: but she ends up, you know, practicing. I think we
Speaker 2: didn't know until like within a couple of days that
Speaker 2: she was even going to be able to skate. And
Speaker 2: she gives this flawless, beautiful, emotional skate. Everyone watching is
Speaker 2: in tears. And then you have a whole separate story
Speaker 2: that remained a story for a long time after that,
Speaker 2: which was the judging, because she did not win the gold,
Speaker 2: so we won the silver by the slimmest margin possible
Speaker 2: by It was one tenth of a point with one judge.
Speaker 2: And back then you know, now there's all these different
Speaker 2: numbers for different elements in the back then, it was
Speaker 2: a judge giving a number, I think, giving two numbers,
Speaker 2: giving like an artistic number and a technical number. But
Speaker 2: it was just like their judgment. There weren't any specific
Speaker 2: criteria and they averaged the judge's score and there were
Speaker 2: allegations of bias against I want to say the Russian
Speaker 2: judge because it was Aksana Bayul who won the gold
Speaker 2: by the tiniest margin possible. And then there was huge
Speaker 2: controversy and a whole reform in how figure skating was judged.
Speaker 2: It didn't eliminate the controversy. We had controversy this year,
Speaker 2: but that so, I mean, there were basically three stories
Speaker 2: in one. There was the attack leading up to it,
Speaker 2: there was the skate itself, and then there was the
Speaker 2: judging controversy and people were outraged. People wanted investigations on
Speaker 2: the judging. People wanted Carrigan to retroactively be awarded the
Speaker 2: Gold there was just it captivated. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: up there with O. J. Simpson as like the most
Speaker 2: Yeah talked about captivating, memorable news story, take it takes
Speaker 2: sports away, just news story in general. Of that decade,
Speaker 2: I mean of our childhood was.
Speaker 1: Was Tanya Harding Did she go on to do porn?
Speaker 2: Took a direction?
Speaker 1: She didn't? She No, she didn't.
Speaker 2: She fight, She fought someone, she boxed someone a little
Speaker 2: different than porn. She also did. So there was the movie.
Speaker 2: There was the movie made about that situation for TV.
Speaker 2: But then there was the ESPN thirty on thirty, which,
Speaker 2: if you are listening and you're curious to learn more
Speaker 2: about this story, I thought the thirty on thirty was
Speaker 2: better than the movie because you watch the thirty on
Speaker 2: thirty and they interview Tanya for the ESPN special, right,
Speaker 2: and you're kind of like, I found myself very empathetic
Speaker 2: to her through like the first half of the documentary
Speaker 2: because she's telling her story of not being involved in
Speaker 2: this and how her heart was breaking for Nancy. And
Speaker 2: then they're presenting, you know, the documentary like they do,
Speaker 2: they're presenting facts, and then like without outright calling her out,
Speaker 2: they're just presenting facts, but like you start to realize
Speaker 2: that the actual facts of the case and the investigation
Speaker 2: do not line up with what Tanya's saying. But it
Speaker 2: takes you have to get pretty deep into the documentary
Speaker 2: before you realize, Wow, holy crap, this girl's just like
Speaker 2: a very skilled, very deep in her lies as wild
Speaker 2: and this was what I'm what fifteen twenty years later
Speaker 2: that this.
Speaker 1: Was all films crazy. This this brings up a future
Speaker 1: topic idea because that was such an absurd story that
Speaker 1: was literally that was built for a movie. Right, Uh,
Speaker 1: we should do a lorraina Bobbitt, just a whole lot.
Speaker 2: But can we talk for twenty minutes about that without Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrified, we're not We're not. Well, we'll be horrified,
Speaker 1: but we're not on like the radio. We could say
Speaker 1: whatever we want.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that might be the mountain mount Rushmore of
Speaker 2: just like bizarre nineties news story. It's got to be
Speaker 2: up there, up there. Oh boy, that Rushmore.
Speaker 1: Never mind. Oh wait, one more thing about the Nancy
Speaker 1: Kerrigan thing. I was because I was doing research about
Speaker 1: her too. Yeah, did you know that she was caught
Speaker 1: on microphone after the Olympics They you know, she went
Speaker 1: to Disney World to do like a whole parade thing.
Speaker 1: She was caught on the microphone talking to Mickey saying, quote,
Speaker 1: this is so dumb. I hate it. This is the
Speaker 1: most corny thing I've ever done.
Speaker 2: This ring is like a very vague bell. That's great.
Speaker 1: So man, just all over that is all place. There's
Speaker 1: no good guy or bad guy, just kind of all
Speaker 1: I mean very much.
Speaker 2: In the moment there was a good guy and a
Speaker 2: bad guy. But you're right, you know, it's a reminder
Speaker 2: that we're all human and we all have flazza. The
Speaker 2: most of us aren't hiring hit my number two, take
Speaker 2: out our our rival.
Speaker 1: My number two is gonna be a guy who had
Speaker 1: the best nickname ever, the Flying Tomato.
Speaker 2: Okay, going Sean White, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Five time Olympian YEP, three time gold medalist, one gold
Speaker 1: in the half pipe, which is just a fun, fun
Speaker 1: little thing to say. Yes, ten awards. I didn't that's incredible.
Speaker 1: I didn't know his story either. Probably, I would say
Speaker 1: you probably the Michael Jordan of snowboarders.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely right, one was. I mean I might even
Speaker 2: take it further and say the Michael Jordan of the
Speaker 2: Winter Olympics or the X Games period, and I didn't.
Speaker 2: He got gold, gold, and then I think he missed
Speaker 2: the podium or missed gold, and then came back and
Speaker 2: got the third gold. I believe that what it was.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: I didn't know his story. He had two open heart
Speaker 1: surgeries as an infant, and since that, that story or
Speaker 1: that upbringing inspired him so much. He's he's granted seventeen
Speaker 1: makeup wishes for kids, which is wow, that's awesome. A
Speaker 1: long he got a long, long way to catch up
Speaker 1: to John Cena, who's the leader.
Speaker 2: Didn't know there was a leaderboard. That seems like a
Speaker 2: weird thing to have a leaderboard for it, but.
Speaker 1: Well we know, we know all about it. We're reminded
Speaker 1: about it. But no, he was everywhere. I mean endorse
Speaker 1: video games. Yep, I mean he really because prior to
Speaker 1: I guess snowboarding was big, but it wasn't that it
Speaker 1: wasn't as big as mainstream. For sure, you go skiing,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. Now it's a you go snowboarding
Speaker 1: and some people go skiing too.
Speaker 2: You you do both.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think he was. He was kind of
Speaker 1: innovator in that regards and just the flying tomato, big
Speaker 1: red hair. Yeah, a big personality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could picture his reactions when he came off
Speaker 2: a good run and going nuts. Awesome dude too. I
Speaker 2: mean he's still involved in the NBC Olympic coverage. He
Speaker 2: saw there this year, getting in, you know, visiting Olympics
Speaker 2: a mentor.
Speaker 1: Too, to a lot of to a lot of snowboarders
Speaker 1: like around the world. Yeah, so I thought I put
Speaker 1: Sean White on my list as number two. Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: of tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore Tomatoes, I go go vine ripened.
Speaker 1: Cherry Cherry's my George Washington Cherry's Bloody Mary Mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's out. Wow, it's a great unheralded pick over there,
Speaker 2: Fried Green, if I've ever had them, maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 1: In your travels. I'm sure I'm covering all the basis today.
Speaker 2: Number This is a clear next pick for me. Uh.
Speaker 2: Another one that's just singed into my brain from Atlanta
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six, Carrie Strug's Vault Iconic. Yeah. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: was the original before they they came back and became
Speaker 2: world dominating again with Simone Biles and crew. The original
Speaker 2: world dominating US team Gymnasts. They were had a huge lead.
Speaker 2: They were in first place. One vault left. Carrie Strug
Speaker 2: just needs to land a vault. She messes up her ankle,
Speaker 2: she's limping around. I don't remember. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: claim to remember all the gymnastics rules from ninety six.
Speaker 2: But there was no option. I feel like if you
Speaker 2: did know no offense, there was no option for like
Speaker 2: an alternate or anything. It was. They had a huge lead,
Speaker 2: so the score didn't really matter as long as it
Speaker 2: was clean and landed. And here is this poor girl,
Speaker 2: but she couldn't have been much older than fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 2: limping around and knowing that she needs to just land
Speaker 2: a vault on a busted ankle and the US is
Speaker 2: going to win gold. And she does it. And then
Speaker 2: I think the most iconic moment probably isn't her landing
Speaker 2: of the vault vault. It's Bella. Her coach comes, picks
Speaker 2: her up, carries her off, And mind you, this is
Speaker 2: the US team in Atlanta, so the crowd is just
Speaker 2: going absolutely insane. I mean, if you want to talk
Speaker 2: like patriotic moments that you know the country in the nineties,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's got to be right there at the top.
Speaker 2: I think It's also an interesting discussion of I don't
Speaker 2: know would that happen that way today.
Speaker 1: As far as they allow them to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there would be a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: to not allow an injured athlete to although then again
Speaker 2: and again look at lindsay so.
Speaker 1: I think when you, I think it's so hard to
Speaker 1: make it to that moment, it's like, I don't care,
Speaker 1: Like with a broken leg, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to try because that's it. It's once every four years.
Speaker 2: I mean for someone like Vaughn, it was that was it.
Speaker 2: You know, she knew that was going to be her
Speaker 2: last Olympics and she trained four years for it. I
Speaker 2: don't I was awful watching that. But how you can't
Speaker 2: How you can you blame her for trying? Uh? Well
Speaker 2: that was ninety six. That was ninety six Atlanta.
Speaker 1: That brings me to my next one guy one same
Speaker 1: same Olympics, YEP amateur wrestling gold medalist Kurt Angle.
Speaker 2: Oh interesting angles.
Speaker 1: Story obviously went on, not obviously but for me became
Speaker 1: a w W Hall of Famer. But during his amateur
Speaker 1: wrestling days he's training, he suffers a neck injury let's see,
Speaker 1: fracturing two of his cervical vertebrae crdiating two discs and
Speaker 1: pulling four muscles five months before the Olympics. Figures out
Speaker 1: a way, figures out five. So he goes and he wrestles.
Speaker 1: He makes it to the finals, and everybody's like, this
Speaker 1: mother effort is going to win a gold medal with
Speaker 1: a broken neck and he did kurd angle.
Speaker 2: That's insane. I forgot all about that kurd.
Speaker 1: Angle and inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Just an all time, amazing, all around athlete and probably
Speaker 1: the goat when it comes to amateur wrestling, just because
Speaker 1: of that that moment, especially especially for America.
Speaker 2: Was he known prior to the Olympics in the wrestling
Speaker 2: world or was that.
Speaker 1: Where he took off after the after this whole ordeal.
Speaker 1: I heard an interview. I heard him in an interview once.
Speaker 1: There was so much dry not drama, there's so much
Speaker 1: going on that he wanted nothing to do with amateur
Speaker 1: wrestling anymore. So we moved to professional wrestling.
Speaker 3: Which is which is nothing like it a little different,
Speaker 3: but it's also the exact opposite of amateur wrestling, because
Speaker 3: in amateur wrestling you're taught to, you know, pick up
Speaker 3: your opponent and flip them.
Speaker 1: In professional wrestling, you're taught to take take that bump, right,
Speaker 1: and you're trying everything not to do it in amateur wrestling,
Speaker 1: but you have to let your opponent in professional wrestling
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, So we literally had to learn the
Speaker 1: exact opposite, and he picked it up quicker than anybody
Speaker 1: else in history. Like I say, he became a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. But side story, same Olympics. We got to
Speaker 1: mention in ninety six. Is that is that one of
Speaker 1: your honorable mentions?
Speaker 2: A little bit wonder what if my honorable mentions comes
Speaker 2: from ninety six? Michael Johnson, I've got from ninety six his.
Speaker 1: Golden Well, there you go. I I was going to
Speaker 1: say the bombing.
Speaker 2: Oh right, yeah, I forgot. We're going right right.
Speaker 1: International News in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Right, that was right before the lead up, right. I
Speaker 2: believe it's a or maybe maybe the first couple of days,
Speaker 2: early early on. Yeah, I remember watching that reference all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember watching live They're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who there you see the footage. Now it's like the
Speaker 1: mid to late nineties, so now we're like really like
Speaker 1: we're using technology more to figure this stuff out, and
Speaker 1: uh that changed. That changed the way that Olympic security
Speaker 1: would be forever. So that happened, Yes, yes, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: massive impact on how the Olympics were handled. That's a
Speaker 1: great point. And last, but not least, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: are you gonna do it? I have, it's my last one.
Speaker 2: You cannot, we cannot do an all time nineties two
Speaker 2: thousands Olympic episode and not mentioned Michael Phelps eight gold
Speaker 2: medals in a single Olympics. Of those eight gold medals,
Speaker 2: seven of them were world records. One of them was
Speaker 2: decided by point oh one seconds, a hundredth of a second.
Speaker 2: I want to say it was maybe the butterfly. I
Speaker 2: could be wrong about that, but I can vividly remember,
Speaker 2: you know, you see them come to the line and
Speaker 2: it looks simultaneous and you're waiting for the scores to
Speaker 2: pop up. I mean, most decorated Olympian in history. Twenty
Speaker 2: eight total medals that he won, twenty three gold medals.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine this, This very cool but obviously very
Speaker 2: fake medal that was around my neck. That was annoying. Total. Yeah,
Speaker 2: twenty eight of them, eight gold and one Olympics sixteen
Speaker 2: of those were individual medals, most gold medals in a
Speaker 2: single games. He still holds that record. He's and you know,
Speaker 2: he's a he's remembered probably most four for the eight
Speaker 2: beij Beijing eight was when he won the eight golds.
Speaker 2: But you forget he he swam and won medals in
Speaker 2: five Olympics. That's a lot. Yeah, that's more than two.
Speaker 2: And he swam in five Olympics, won medals in four
Speaker 2: of them. But I mean, you know that's sixteen years.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Heard, It's it's very rare. There was the guy I
Speaker 2: the Denmark dude who I think did it in cross
Speaker 2: country skiing. But that's a sport that you can still
Speaker 2: compete in and you're just getting warmed up when you're
Speaker 2: our age wee. You can still cross country ski at
Speaker 2: a competitive level, you're not generally swimming at an untouching
Speaker 2: at that untouchable level level. And I mean, he was
Speaker 2: just such a phenomenon. Every time he was swimming, even
Speaker 2: if it was just a qualifier, the stadium was packed,
Speaker 2: you know, a legend to that. I mean, he's probably
Speaker 2: the Michael Jordan of the Olympics in general.
Speaker 1: I don't know, nobody has more, right, nobody has more.
Speaker 1: And I remember that time period being you know, going out.
Speaker 1: We would be at a bar. Everybody'd stop what they're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we watched Michael Phelps well, and.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's so cool about swimming to it's
Speaker 2: so fast, so fast. It's definitely that it's like kind
Speaker 2: of like horse racing, which I don't give a crap
Speaker 2: about except for ninety seconds every year when the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby's run and everybody's staring at the screen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I also I remember about Michael Phelps is even
Speaker 1: if he was behind, there was never any.
Speaker 2: Doubt he had this extra gear for that last le.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm so scared he's you know, he's behind,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he just yeah, crushes
Speaker 1: it at the end.
Speaker 2: And the celebrations that like slamming the water when he
Speaker 2: got to the end and looked up at the scoreboard,
Speaker 2: pulled his goggles off, saw he won maybe some big shoulders.
Speaker 2: Yeah he had a swimmer's body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll give you a couple of honorable men.
Speaker 1: Already gave you my already gave you mind. So let's
Speaker 1: hear yours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think Usain Bolt deserves a mention.
Speaker 1: There was there drug allegations with him or no, No,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't think so, I'm thinking of somebody else.
Speaker 2: No, there was, you know, there were. He was one
Speaker 2: of those love him or hate him. He was very
Speaker 2: cocky and deservingly so he used to celebrate and sometimes
Speaker 2: he was so far ahead he'd slow down before he
Speaker 2: got to the finish line and start celebrating. Tara Lipinski
Speaker 2: winning gold. She was so young, she was like fifteen,
Speaker 2: maybe even fourteen. That was Nagano in ninety eight and
Speaker 2: she lives on. You know, she's She and Johnny Weir
Speaker 2: famously still call you know, are on the figure skating call.
Speaker 2: Derek Redmond finishing the race in Barcelona ninety two. I
Speaker 2: had this vague memory. I had to do the research.
Speaker 2: He tore his hamstring in the middle of the four
Speaker 2: hundred meters semifinal, insisted on finishing. His dad broke through security,
Speaker 2: came onto the course to just help him get to
Speaker 2: the finish line. It was no no metal, no podium, obviously,
Speaker 2: it was just this very very sun Yeah. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: we didn't touch on that a ton. But that's a
Speaker 2: big part of right, the Olympic, the fairly culture is
Speaker 2: just yeah, the family. Those moments that yeah, there was
Speaker 2: I remember there was, Yeah, there was a there was
Speaker 2: another famous one with uh it was some woman trips
Speaker 2: and falls and another is like maybe in contention but
Speaker 2: like stops to help her up. That some of those moments.
Speaker 2: Michelle Kwan never won gold, but you know, one of
Speaker 2: the most memorable US figure skaters of all time yep
Speaker 2: and then Apollo Ono short track shout out to him,
Speaker 2: just because those were so fun to watch. He was
Speaker 2: he was the whole aughts Is it Aughts? O two
Speaker 2: o two in Salt Lake City six twenty ten, which
Speaker 2: was back in North American Vancouver. He was kind of
Speaker 2: loved and hated too. He like embraced the chaos and
Speaker 2: he won some races because people collided in front of him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's there's a handful of are.
Speaker 1: You gonna go? Are you going through with drawls now?
Speaker 1: Because you had you got to wait two years? It
Speaker 1: just they just ended the next one. It's so funny.
Speaker 2: I mean you know this, yeah, that which is gonna
Speaker 2: be it's gonna be fun insane, but you know, it's
Speaker 2: so funny, and I'm sure you experienced this because you're
Speaker 2: a big sports fan like me, Like you get so
Speaker 2: into something that it feels like so life or death
Speaker 2: for you when it's like the end of playoffs, and
Speaker 2: then like two weeks later, you like it's not even
Speaker 2: on your brain and you're like, it's like I'm feeling
Speaker 2: that now that March madness is coming on. And you know,
Speaker 2: anybody who knows me knows I'm like a huge college
Speaker 2: basketball guy, a huge Badger fan. It was pretty devastated.
Speaker 2: We had a team with potential this year and crazy
Speaker 2: some crazy shots at the end. We low first round
Speaker 2: two to high Point, And for a few days that
Speaker 2: was sort of eating up my soul a little bit.
Speaker 2: And now it's like, I mean, I'm excited for tonight,
Speaker 2: but then that we're done with basketball for a while,
Speaker 2: and it's.
Speaker 1: Sort of like it's crazy the day after the super
Speaker 1: Bowl exactly. Yeah, it's like, oh, I got to wait
Speaker 1: all this time, I meet h I'm a big sports
Speaker 1: fan in general, but there's just something about that Sunday. Everywhere,
Speaker 1: every Sunday, it is right there for you all day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then what I love is the ones we're
Speaker 2: really invested in are when the weather's crap in Chicago
Speaker 2: and then the summer you got baseball. But that's a
Speaker 2: more casual. There's eight kajillion games every season, so like
Speaker 2: you get to enjoy the summer, play some sports, do
Speaker 2: some crap outside, uh, and then you know when the
Speaker 2: weather gets cold, you got football. All look forward to it.
Speaker 1: Good stuff, man, So just to recap here, give us yours.
Speaker 1: My three are the Dream Team from ninety two, Sean White,
Speaker 1: the Flying Tomato and Kurt Angle amateur wrestler.
Speaker 2: And yours and my three picks Nancy Kerrigan, Tanya Harding
Speaker 2: and Lila Hummer nine four yeah, Carrie Strugs famous injured
Speaker 2: vault to win it for the women's gymnastics team Atlanta
Speaker 2: ninety six and the goat of swimming Michael Phelps Beijing.
Speaker 1: Owait greate lists who did we miss?
Speaker 2: Do we miss?
Speaker 1: Any whose list is better? Let us know in the
Speaker 1: comments on Instagram on everything.
Speaker 2: Disagram, Facebook, TikTok TikTok. YouTube shorts. YouTube shorts are apparently
Speaker 2: a thing that people love, and so we love it too.
Speaker 1: Now should we be YouTube shorts? Should I wear YouTube
Speaker 1: shorts for Halloween?
Speaker 2: I'll be us. Actually, I don't know if you know
Speaker 2: this YouTube shorts. It's not referring to actual shorts. It
Speaker 2: means like a short.
Speaker 1: I thought you could watch YouTube on a pair of shorts.
Speaker 2: You could. You could watch YouTube shorts while wearing shorts.
Speaker 2: I have at Brady one more time on a spell
Speaker 2: out on.
Speaker 1: All the all the things, on all the things, and
Speaker 1: next week we will do the mount rushmore of Peanuts stories.
Speaker 1: On that note, Wait, should I let Jerry Springer close
Speaker 1: this out? I think I should after all that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: please do till next time.
Speaker 2: Take care of yourself, like.
Speaker 1: Because bought it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got it. I