Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - our honest reactions to the 2026 winter olympics

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things. With Sean and Andrew. Olympic edition, because this might be maybe my favorite series we will ever do. We don't know how long it'll be. It might be two episodes, three episodes. We might just do a recount of like every individual sport. I like where you're going. You're excited. But welcome to the Olympics. Cortina Milan. Milan Cortina.

Doesn't matter. Tomato tomato. The Winter Olympics. We have had them on since the second thing. started. Our kids are now bought in. It's so much fun, this phase with the kids. We used to turn the TV on and they would be like, and I'm saying we used to, like, literally six days ago, we would turn the TV on and they'd be like, I won't blip here, I want this. Now they're like, they've just committed to it.

Jet was locked in on skiing and they all know what the different events going on are. Bob sled. It's so fun. They're watching figure skating, ice dancing, downhill, half, half, pipe, all of it. So this is the point we're at with the kids. And if you have kids, maybe you can sympathize with this. We watch so much blippy, bluey, Miss Rachel, all that stuff, which is great. You know, we're big on Minow, which is the kids app. Like, you want to be really intentional with the kids programming. But at some point, you're also like, if we're going to watch a movie, which maybe we watch a third of a movie a night, I want it to be a good movie. And I want,

And I also feel like the kids are developing into a new phase. So I've put together this list of classics that I want them to go through. One of them was cool running. And we just watched that. And they loved it. We got through half of a movie and one night with them. And they were like itching the next day. Can we finish the movie?

Can we finish the movie? Jet with his lucky egg. Oh my gosh. So there's, if you haven't seen the movie, you need to go watch it. But it's the Jamaican bobsled team. one of the team members carries around a lucky egg. And now, you know what Jet does? C carries around a lucky egg.

You know it's dropped on our floors many times? Some lucky eggs. So then we were like, we'll be smarter than this. We'll hard boil them. You know what I keep finding? Peeled, hard-boiled eggs around the house. Yeah. Disgusting.

Anyway, it's so much fun because I remember watching these movies with my family and my dad. Cool Runnings is one of my all-time favorite. We laughed and we cried the whole thing. But we're also watching Feel the Dreams, Sandlot. Obviously. I want to get to Miracle, but I do think I have tried that with Drew one of the days she was sick. It's more complex. It has more emotion, frustration, anger, pressure than I think a six, four, and two-year-old can comprehend.

Cool runnings was perfect. They loved it. But Miracle is a little deeper. Yeah, it is pretty deep. I actually watched that the night before, or like my whole team watched it the night before we competed. this is where I'm at with my media consumption like for the last six years yeah I've been hammering reading audiobooks optimizing things learning from the best they're like what a time to be alive that you have experts talking on whatever subject you want them to it's unbelievable and in the last since I finished

the doctorate program I've really like felt slightly over that phase I love it and now Now you're in your farming phase. Well, yeah, that's the other thing. Having a farm, you're like, there's always something to do. I love that. You're not sitting down, like, relaxing a lot. You're always like, I got to take care of that. I got to check it on this.

But also, the sports. I'm like, I don't know whether it's the timelessness of the Olympics or just to see all of the different countries or just to, like, be bought in on little things like curling. It's just like a little less intense of a type of media. that I'm really enjoying. And now the kids can be welcome into it as well. I will say this.

I obviously am obsessed with the Olympics. It is my favorite thing ever. But I also love football and I love watching football. And I'm not going to lie. I didn't even know who was in the Super Bowl a couple days ago. Because I was like, the Olympics are on. Why would people watch Super Bowl? Now, I don't mean that in like an offensive way to the athletes

because like respect, massive respect to those who make it to the Super Bowl. It is the games for football players every year. But I was just brought into the Olympics. I was like, we got to watch the Olympics. There's something magical about it. It has been interesting to now, as a family, be watching the Olympics. I do think it's the first time Drew has comprehended that I was in the Olympics. Because we were, Jet, I think, asked what the Olympics were.

and we were talking about its competition where the best in the world come to compete. We were like talking about how it works and Drew's like, you competed in that. I was like, yeah. And she's like, you were best in the world? And I was like, I don't know how to answer this. Yeah, at one point.

You very gracefully said at one point I was, yeah. And to go down that rabbit hole, no, we don't hide our achievements and accolades from our kids. However, we do believe that our household is a celebratory place and stage for our children. We don't need to be celebrating ourselves in front of our kids and putting excess pressure on them to achieve what we did because they have their own journeys and routes.

So we think it's more important to celebrate our children than say, did you know, mommy did this? Well, yeah, that would kind of just be like living in the past. Yeah. The golden days were back then, and I don't think that's how we feel about life at all. to me, this phase we're in is the greatest phase I've ever been in. I've also never won an Olympic gold medal, so I could be wrong.

No, but you have played in the NFL, Andrew, which is a really big deal. I would just say it like this, because we're not trying to hide. We are, I think we try to share with our kids, what work we do, what our, you know, what our background is when it's applicable. We view it very much as a family team. Yeah. And so sometimes when, you know, Sean has to go do an interview and the kids are around, it's like, hey, it's because mom is very well spoken. She impacts a lot of people. And we're not trying to hide that.

It's not like, let's turn our back on mom while she's doing this interview. It's more of like just everything has a time and place. This phase, the time and place is very kid intensive. We're trying to support them. And we all remember being a kid. the greatest feelings and memories that you have or when you were being like acknowledged by your parents and your family and people around you.

And so if I am giving up or causing our children to not have as many of those moments because of who I am or if I brag about what I did or whatever, then that's just not worth it to me. It's like my time is done. It's time for me to like prop up our kids. But we're open perspective on this. Obviously, we want to care for our kids and our marriage the best we can.

So if you have thoughts or insight, please share. In regards to the next couple of weeks on this show, we're big on series these days. We've done a couple different series so far. And the next couple of weeks will be the Olympic series. I think it'll be three weeks long. We might do a live stream. But this is all about the 26 winter games in Milan, Cortina, Italy. We had a chance to be there.

We decided that because of the impromptu ice storm that happened in Nashville, it'd be better to just like keep the kids, because we're also one month into living in our new home. There were so many things. We were about to go to Milan and take the kids and do the whole thing. Would have been epic. Dive back into the work. But then the ice storm did hit.

That's when we would have been leaving. We said we still might go thinking like let's get our house back together. but what we thought was two days ended up being like a couple weeks. Now we're three weeks into it and we're still in the cleanup phase. It's just been kind of crazy. So we have been loving being back in our house in the cleanup phase, watching the Olympics and having some quality time. And we couldn't be more excited.

This year is a big year. There's a lot of the same events, a couple new events. Yep. And a lot of just epic athletes. In regards to the Olympics. Yes. Yes. Epic athletes that were excited to celebrate.

There's also been an increase in viewership And compared to other years, yes I love that I know, it's very exciting But for the first time In Olympic history The Olympics are being held across Different cities

So there's three different cities Milan and Cortina are two of them But there's also a third one where The downhill is being held Where so not completely abnormal but it's abnormal that they like intentionally spread it out. Had two names like Milan Cortina. Yeah.

Because I remember I have attended quite a few games since I competed winter and summer. And there would be times where you would go to a track cycling event or whatever. And you'd have to like take a train two hours out or like one particular event would be in a different city. But this intentionally is like a spread across the country, countries and cities. games. It is interesting. They're doing that in L.A. L.A. 2028, it will be spread actually across the country. If you guys haven't paid really close attention, you'd have to be paying really close attention to notice this. But like, Olympic baseball will be hosted in Oklahoma. There's actually a sport going to be in Nashville.

Soccer? Is that right? I can't remember what, what, but it will be spread. out, which is kind of interesting. So rather than having everything in one city and one place, it will be spread out more. I have noticed watching the Olympics on TV, they are doing a phenomenal job. I agree. I think this is the best job they've done. They've like figured it out. Yeah. The way you can get on, I mean, Peacock and BC, whatever it is, and just like scroll one channel after another after another of like the live events and how they're like archiving them all. You can go through pre-qualifier to qualifier. It's like really, really well done.

It was never this easy to watch on TV. But what I also think they've done better is the communication of each of the events and what makes it so crazy cool. What were we watching? The downhill alpine skiing. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Because I feel like it's hard if I've never skied before to have any understanding of how

insane what these skiers are doing. Or same with speed skating. You know, they'll put the miles an hour up there. but you're like, it's hard to really gauge what that is. So I feel like for the alpine scheme that we saw, they did this whole breakdown of the slope of, you know, what each section was, how far you were flying. Their speed, which was crazy.

Yeah, they would show different wipeouts as a result of that. It was just all very exciting and helpful in understanding, wow, this really is incredible. So I appreciate that. I think because you're talking about alpine skiing, we should start with Lindsay Vaughn. Lindsay Vaughn, you were really upset. I wanted to throw up and literally just ball my eyes out. Dude.

Tough. Lindsay Vaughn is the goat. She is an icon of the alpine skiing world, of the Winter Olympic world, of the Olympic world. She's also a friend of ours. And I will never forget watching. and hearing her come out, what was that, a year ago, two years ago, and say, like, I'm going for the Olympics. And I was like, you are out of your mind. What? Like, why come back? And just to see, like, her passion, her drive to try it again because she, like, felt like she needed to. I was like,

go good for you. She makes it back. She, like, wins a world championship. She's dominating. She gets to the Olympics. If you guys haven't followed this or seen this. Um, She was crushing it coming into the games. Or, sorry, back up. Right before the Olympics starts. She does what her last competition. And she tears her ACL. Devastating.

Devastating injury for a downhill skier. If you have followed Lindsay's career closely, she has had many, many injuries, knee injuries, thumb, I think, shoulder, wrist, a bunch of things. And she's gone through a lot of knee surgeries. This gutted me when I saw it. because I was like another knee. But what does she do?

Like the goat and boss she is. She puts a brace on it and she's like, I'm good. Can you imagine doing an alpine run at 80-some miles an hour without an ACL? That's just some goat-level stuff right there. It's goat level. Now, I don't care what you say. Everybody had their opinions. As an athlete who has been at that level,

it's not tooting my own horn I respected that decision so much I have competed on fractured shins I have had torn rotator cuffs like when you're at that level and you are that close to that dream nothing's gonna stop you so then she goes to the Olympics

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Metal run comes around. Lindsay crashes. A couple seconds into her run. Airlifted off the mountainside. and it was just gut-runching to see. Got-runching to see, to hear about, to see people's reactions. Snoop Dog down at the bottom

with his big Lindsey-Bond suit on. Literally, he had his face all over the front of his body. Hit her face on his jacket? Oh, literally covered the whole front. That's amazing. It was just devastating to see. She left it all out there, which was amazing. But we are now hearing through the media,

that that will be at the end of her Olympics and she has a long road to recovery but I just have to stand by my opinion of like she's the freaking go I can't believe she did that I'm so heartrogan that she got hurt more than anything like that's the worst as an athlete but like she is truly a legend an icon yeah praying for you Lindsay hope the recovery goes well and Yeah, great job. Really impressive. So cool. I was inspired by her story of just stepping up to the plate and doing it.

But on the skiing topic, Breezy Johnson. I know. Won the women's alpine downhill skiing event. USA. And won the first medal for Team USA for this year. Dude. Shout out Breezy. Let's go.

Congratulations. Pretty awesome. I just love, dude, when they put the little flag up there, And you don't really know these athletes before watching this moment. But then all of a sudden there's this overwhelming support that you're like, let's go team. It's so much fun. Yeah.

And she had like this sweet clip talking about how her dad couldn't make it to the Olympics because of an injury and just like the humanness that you see in that. Because there's such machines going 87 miles an hour down a ski slip. 80 miles an hour. Could you imagine? Yeah. There's also the clip of that once here who was talking about his family and the sacrifices they've made to unlock this dream of theirs.

And you do realize people commit their whole life to this sport to be the best in the world at it. You're just like tweaking and finessing the tiniest little thing. And that takes a lot of time. And as you, you know, mature and get older and you. get married and have kids, the amount of time that takes has a great cost to it. And so I just love hearing all the little backstories, the personal stories, hearing stories about people's families. That to me is one of my favorite parts about the Olympics beyond just like the performance of what they're doing because you're like, wow, there's something so emotional about sports.

You know, like you're pushing to the very edge of what a human can do. pushing the limits and just to see what that looks like and what impact that has in a life makes me emotional so I love it. I want to take it back

to two headlines that are not on our sheet right now guys but I want to talk about it. First, opening ceremonies. We got to talk to fashion. Okay. There's a bunch of controversy going around here.

Okay. But let's talk about the USA Say, Ralph Lauren, I don't think has ever done as good of a job as they did with the outfits this year. I believe it's pronounced Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren. Hello, Ralph Lauren.

So if you guys didn't know this, when you make it to the Olympics as a team, you say athlete, on your way to wherever you're going. Say it's Milan. You will stop in a city, whatever city it is. for us it was Houston, Texas. Every Olympic athlete, unless for some reason you can't make it, they'll ship everything to you, you will stop at this place called processing.

During processing, you go through all of these different things. You go through media training. That's where you get a lot of the interviews, the pre-interviews that you hear about the athletes' commercials when you see their faces. What do they call it processing? I don't know. That sounds like you're trading horses or something.

Processing. Going through processing and going to the factory. That's where you get fitted or sized for your Olympic race. ring that's where you'll go through kind of like a course or a class where they teach you about the country you're going into the culture, things to respect and do. Yes, it's like this huge intensive that you do for a day or two. Is it like a convention center and everyone's there?

Yeah, for us it was a college campus and so we were going in between like buildings and classrooms and but then at one point you go into the like gear room. So there's usually like a Nike set up and then there's a Ralph Lauren set up. And you're just like are going room to room and getting all your stuff. But when you go in, they will have people there on behalf of the brand. They'll be fitting you, sizing you, altering your pants, your shirts, your jackets. And this is where you pick up all your gear before you fly out to the Olympics. The stuff they wore during the opening ceremonies, the long jacket, the sweater. I was like, this is a run. This is a run

my fashion show. It is the best our team has ever looked. But beyond just opening ceremony outfit, like the speed skating outfits is so hype. I love it. Which I think that was Nike? I don't know, but it's like this magnificent blue with this like the perfect amount of white.

The like waffled sleeves with the star and the stripes. It doesn't get better. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Do you think every country feels hyped about their outfits like we do about our? I know a very particular country who was not hyped about their outfits right now. Really?

Have you not seen this? No. Andrew. You have not seen this? No, I'm nervous. Should I not ask about this? You have to Google this. Okay, what is it?

Opening ceremony outfit for... Okay. Just look it up. Tell me if you think this is swaggy. Okay. I can't throw them under the bus. Because, like, we're going for an avant-garde, like... Yeah, we're just here to support people.

Yeah. Is that right? No No, they were probably swaggy Sorry, please hold on we Figure this out Hold on You gotta put the year in there

You have not seen this It's so bad What is that? Oh wow And do you see who it is The sponsor? No Anyways, let's just say There is a lot of very beautiful outfits on the opening ceremonies

Runway And USA Ralph Lauren You You You You Like

It was perfection It was perfection I am envious, I'm jealous I want to buy it It is stunning What is your favorite part about the Olympics? Is it the fashion? Is it the sport of it?

Is it the backstories? Is it what is it? I think for me, let me try to remove any edginess to this. My favorite part that I could feel that I like, you can actually feel it as an athlete in the games is you spend however long sacrificing and dedicating obsessive amounts. of time to your craft, right? So much so that your life becomes

unrelatable to so many people. You alienate yourself and you take yourself out of normal life to go for this obsessive hobby. And at the Olympics, every ounce of politics and differing opinions and race and just controversies,

everything is wiped away because you are walking side by side with people like yourself. And you are representing every sport in every country. And I remember walking through the Olympic Village and seeing every country under the sun, every different type of body and human and person and hobby and craft and being like respect.

And it was reciprocated. Well, by the way, you're using the word hobby, which I feel like people could get fired up about. But to your point, these are not the big four sports that we see in the U.S. where people are signing a hundred million dollar contracts. A lot of people are doing this at great cost. Yes, that's why I intentionally used the word hobby is like,

people can look at this and be like, how could you do this and sacrifice a paycheck for your family? And it's like because it is a craft. It is like a. Yeah, maybe the word passion or interests. But I would say profession is not the majority of what these people are doing with like these are not

you know it's it's not like a professional football contract they are a lot of times paying so much money for event entries themselves travel yeah and it's like yeah and that's why I have such a hard time sometimes watching the Olympics when

people try to inject politics and say you know booing other people's anthems or the fact that you're presenting a country or it's like it's not about that this is truly like a unifying event that has nothing to do with that well yeah but a lot of people a lot of people use it as a way to but coming from the side of like the competing athlete the one of the most beautiful parts about

it is you get to go and for a split second feel like that's been removed and that you are all on equal playing fields again. Yeah. I feel like every new year, there's this pressure that you're supposed to become a completely different person overnight. And honestly, that's just not realistic. Yeah, sometimes it's not about becoming someone new. It's just about letting go of the stuff that's weighing you down. For me, that's been learning to release some of that pressure to always have everything figured out.

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Okay. Second headline. That's not on our sheet. Yes. Did you see? And I'm going to need you to pull up Google for a second so you can explain it. Okay. The billionaire who came out and announced he is gifting $200,000.

to every competing USA Olympian and Paralympian. I did. The reason why this is such a big deal, you guys, is because kind of like Andrew is saying, it's not a top four sport, majority of the sports that you're going to be watching on the Olympics. Majority of these athletes are in massive debt and are paying their way to be there.

And I mean, we announced and shared just the little tidbit of like, there are a lot of families like wives, mothers, fathers who are competing at the Olympics who can't afford to fly their families to watch them. It's such an expensive

passion. So to see that this man has come forward to do this is so cool. So Ross Stevens, who is a CEO and founder of Stone Ridge Holdings, donate $100 million to the US OPC.

US Olympic and Paralympic committee. It's a largest gift in organization's history, and he's going to give, through that program, $200,000 to every U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athlete, regardless of if they win, and it's in an effort to help them gain financial security. It's awesome. Amazing.

It's awesome. It's amazing. Yeah. I saw that, and I was like, that is as it should be. So into the fine... I also think it increases the competition level. Like if you're discouraged because, oh, well, there's, I can't make a living by doing this sport. But now someone like this comes along and like creates an incentive that allows you to spend more time on it.

I think there'll just be like really positive effects from a performance outcome as well. You've been seeing the monetary incentivized movements going on with like NIL and college and everything. To see this now come about to be part of the Olympic world, I think is huge. I think this will bring more. higher level athletes even to have an interest in going to the Olympics because a lot of like basketball players have this option of staying in the pros and not partaking in the Olympics and there's just a lot of like complexities to it and I just think this is a beautiful way to celebrate it. Also there is a fine detail here of every individual country governs their own monetary payout and incentivized payout

for the Olympic Games. So the Olympics as an overhead has purses for every sport and every medal, but they are relatively very small, and some are larger based off of sports than others. And then on top of that, each governing body of a country can choose a purse size as well. So if you win a medal, you're saying you get paid by who? Where do different checks come from?

the International Olympic Committee, then your country's governing body. I'm trying to remember. This is getting sticky. You might have to Google this. I remember when I competed, our purse was paid out, I think, by our personal governing body.

U.S. USA gymnastics. So the IOC doesn't cut checks. They just work with the country to get in the house. Can you ask? Can you ask? the chat? No, the International Olympic Committee does not pay prize money.

So it's just governing bodies then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which would make sense, because incentivizing that on a political stage would be interesting. I remember there are two different operating organizations in sports. There's the IOC, the International Olympic Committee,

who under the IOC, there's all these competitions. And then there's the world competition. committee, like the world organization of gymnastics. And under them, you could get purses. So the IOC you can't. I forgot about that. And then for the U.S., if you want to go metal, you get $37,500. Yeah.

But this guy... If you get a gold medal. Yeah. If you get a silver medal, you get $22,500. Bronze medal is $15,000. and then Paralympians receive the same

cash compensation as other Olympics which is great. A big way that athletes can monetize their Olympic games if you guys are watching.

Leading up to the Olympics you'll see all these endorsement deals. You'll see people on the face of Coca-Cola and doing commercials and you see the Wheaties box and like all these things. Majority of the time

those are incentivized contracts based off of metal winnings. Meaning They sign deals and they do all these commercials, but they don't actually get paid unless they win. Or if they get a medal. Or in your contract, it'll say if you place above 10th or if you place above fifth or if you get a bronze or a silver or gold.

But even crazier to the Olympic Games themselves and the pressure that comes with it to fulfilling your dream, a lot of these athletes have the pressure behind them of like getting paid. Yeah. They've been paying their way for their craft for so long. And now they're like, I need to do well so I can get a check, not just fulfill my dream. Should we get back to the headlines? Okay.

So another headline is Team USA defended its Olympic figure skating team event cold with a ton of awesome performances. That's right. Malinian. Quad guy? Backflip guy. Yeah, and quad guy. The guy's like doing stuff no one's ever seen before. You know what's funny is I always thought the quad guy came from his.

quads, not his quad spins. It also probably fits, though. Those skaters, if you're been over in that skating position. We heard Ashley Wagner, a former U.S. figure skating Olympians, speak about Elia, similar to the way I would speak about Simone Biles, like a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, doing things that they never even thought they would ever see in their sport, which is so, so cool to witness. I feel like we've been hearing a lot of these stories lately, which is pretty cool for like human potential.

Yeah. Ely is expected to be one of the centerpieces of the Olympics. It feels like he's living up to it. But so far in figure skating, USA has won gold in the team event by one point. There's a pretty nail-biting competition that came down to Japan's athlete, Yuma, and the one and only quad god. Eulia. I call him the quad god.

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It's unmatched. He's one of those athletes like a Simone, though, where you get the gist in the sense that he's so good. But I don't know why that makes me so nervous to watch. when you have athletes that are just expected, it's a no-brainer pretty much of like he's going to win. That just like gives me that like that dry mouth. You know it got me hyped.

There's a figure skating duo Madison Chalk and Evan Bates. I think they're married. Shout out. We love to have them on the show. It is art. It is actual art. I watch them and I'm like, this is incredible.

What got me hyped was to see the expression, both their faces. So they're married. Which is so cool. They were just like this, they had this smile on that to me read extreme confidence, extreme excitement. They've been working for this their whole life, which is such a rare thing. Like you're saying, there's all this pressure.

There's all these nerves. Obviously you want to do well. And a lot of times people would be kind of like, at least the way I kind of dealt with it, was stoic, you know, deal with the excitement and the energy after. But they're like enjoying it in the moment. Could you? again the fact that they are married their teammates it's awesome on that stage together

this is what their fourth olympics is it I think it's their fourth wow it's crazy and even sweeter is their moms are really close friends they sit in the audience together the whole time and you just see them doing like the alley raisman parents they're just like it's so cute um I also like I also like love. So with Elya and with them, I am so excited to watch the final. Like I said, it's just like, you can just feel it. It's like right there, the golds. Not to add pressure, but I'm like, I'm going to be like not able to breathe watching. That's why you got to watch it, baby. Oh my gosh. Okay. Next up. U.S. Mixed doubles curling squad,

now guaranteed at least a silver and has actually only one win away from a historic gold medal match. The curling squad. Andrew and I tried curling. It's freaking hard. There's a lot going on. You know, like, I think curling gets a bad rap sometimes. Some people are like, I can't believe that's an Olympic sport. But you go out and try it.

The amount of coordination, so you have to push off this blocks, then you have to move the stone, and your body's moving, and the stone's moving, and then you have to rotate it the right way, and there's other stones in play. It's kind of like a sweep. I would say it's way more complex. It's like a Imagine a dynamic version of darts

You know Where it's like There's just so many moving pieces And so many things that could go wrong You have to account for It's almost like I would say It's like shooting a rocket I would say it's like rocket science

That's how I felt Because you have to account for many different factors Would you equate curling to Summer's Table tennis? Yeah, maybe. Yeah trying to figure out like figure skating is kind of like summer's gymnastics I feel like what why are you trying to equate I don't know I just just a thought okay I heard someone

break down the difference between summer and winter Olympics and it's like all right we're going to start there we're going to end there and then yeah let's see who crossed the line first that's summer that's summer yeah and then all right let's get them on this huge mountain with seven massive jumps and they have to do 18 flips on their feet It is pretty funny. We actually watched, what's the official term for it? Were they're like, a skeleton? What?

Skeleton's head first. Luge is feet first. Oh, so is Luge. Luge. We were watching Luge. Dude. Flying. Also, are they steering with their feet?

I think it's a weight distribution thing from what I could tell. I thought they were like taking their toes and like literally moving the, they were like. Dang, could you imagine? Also, the shoes, this is what I wish they would do a better job explaining. I think the shoes that they wear are like blocks. One, so that if they hit the wall, you don't shatter your feet because you're going 80 miles an hour. But two, for like some different type of grip on the ice. I don't know.

And their hands. Do they little ice picks on their fingers at the beginning? Yeah, that's crazy. The gloves. It's like Black Panther. Sweet. My gosh. Okay.

Next up. Two-time X Games champ, Alex Hall, who's a skier, continues to deliver highlight-worthy runs. These are some of my favorite sports to watch in the Olympics because I also just love X-Games. But seeing like slope style

and the freestyle downhill ski and the half pipe and what's the one on the snowboard where they're like racing? Yeah. It's crazy. I don't know what's called. Yeah.

That was a newer one. I remember in like 2010 they added that. That was sweet. And what's the one where they're like freestyle skiing? And at the very end they do some big freaking flip off a huge, they just send it. They're like doing like moguls and all this stuff. And then all of a sudden it's like flip.

That'd be so much to mentally take it in where you're like bounce, bounce, bounce, boss, blah, float. And you're like, there we are. So what happens if you miss? Don't say that, Sean. These people are trained professionals. I'm a gymnast who lands on a mat. They land on ice.

I fly at 12 feet high They fly at 36 or something Crazy, wait, you got the 12 feet Yeah Off the floor? The bars, bro They're not 12 feet high When you do a little

Tap flip Wow Who know? I did not know Look it up No, it's fine Here's something The U.S. sent a record high

232 athletes to the games Amazing The largest winter Olympic delegation ever. I would really love myself to learn how they choose how many athletes every year. I think it's who qualifies.

Then why does the Olympic gymnastics team size change? We could take close to eight. The newest team could only take five. Interesting. Why is that? I think it has to do with like the distribution of like new sports, taking out sports. There might be a cap of the

overall. I don't know. But I'm really curious. Well, here's the thing. Wait. To answer your question. The number of athletes at Olympics is primarily determined by strict quotas set by the IOC. Approximately 10.5,000 for Summer Olympics and only 2,900 for winter. And then individual sports governing bodies set qualifying standards.

And then nations gain spots based on performance with caps of about 1 to 3 per event. And that allows for international diversity as well. so interesting. It's a crazy math equation that you would have to run every couple years. Yeah, and then each National Olympic Committee manages their allotted spots, and sometimes they hold national trials to choose between different athletes. That's a lot, dude. There's so much that goes into organizing it.

You would talk about the hockey? Sorry. No, I got distracted. American hockey. They're playing on Wednesday today. USA and Canada, they're both undefeated, and the winner of this game will determine who's the top seed in the knockout round.

Women's? Women's hockey. Go ahead. Okay, another huge name for the U.S. is Eileen Gu, who just won silver in the women's slope-style competition, but she's also like a beast. She's currently a student at Stanford. She's also a model, has like an entire career

outside of being an Olympian. I think she's starting a league. for awarding or skiing. Have you heard about this? No, it's amazing. Yeah, she's got a lot going on. Also, did you see, there's a figure skater, U.S. figure skater.

It's going viral on social media right now, but she had like a college, I don't know if it was a final essay or something to do, and she confused the due dates, and the due date was actually while she was competing. So her letter to her professor was like, I'm really sorry, but I would like to know if I can get an extension.

I'm currently competing at the election. Olympics and she attaches an article for proof. She's like for proof of my like involvement. Here's an article and she's like winning, which is crazy. That's awesome. It was really cool. She did get the extension by the way. She did. Thank goodness. I wasn't worried about that. She did post that, which was kind of epic. Yeah. Here's another one. Alpine skier Sarah Sheppler. This is crazy. She's 46 years old. And her son Lace, got Gaxiola, who's 18, are the first mother-son duo to compete in the same Winter Olympic Games, which is obviously at the Milan-2020s Olympics and also the first in Mexican Olympic history.

This marks Schleppler's seventh Olympic appearance, while Gaxola makes his Olympic debut, and they're both in Alpine skiing for Team Mexico. And they're two of Mexico's five athletes. two, there are two of Mexico's five athletes for this winter games. That is crazy. Again, you have married couples competing with each other. You have married couples competing at the same Olympics. I also saw one where...

The luge people. It was a USA and an Italian athlete. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was a female U.S. luge competitor and a male Italian luge competitor. We're competing in the same thing. But seeing all of these, like, relationships is so cool. but a mother's son competing in the same event. That's crazy.

That's amazing. It's crazy. Also, in speed skating, the Dutch star Jutta Leardom, aka married to Jake Paul. Engaged to Jake Paul. Dude, she's a beast. That's right.

She stunned the world and won gold in the woman's 1,000-meter speed skating event, set a new Olympic record and created one of the most emotional highlights from the Olympics so far. It was incredible. Okay, there was some controversy around her leading into the Olympic Games. She, on behalf of a sponsor, was flown on a private jet. The sponsor paid for it to the Olympic Games so she didn't fly with her team, which,

honestly, I don't really have any strong opinions of. Like you're going to the Olympic Games. She probably had it cleared by her team. Who knows? But to see her then dominate. I was like, there's no, there's no way you can be a critic of this. Like, she dominated. She set a world record and won.

Olympic record. Isn't that better? I would say it goes world record, Olympic record, national record. Fine. Still, it's an Olympic record, Andrew. She is a beast. That's right. Also, Italy's Francesca Lalobrigdia brought home the host nation's first gold medal and won

the 3,000 meter speed skating event on her 35th birthday and also set an Olympic record. What is happening with these headlines right now? What? It just happened to be her birthday and she won a gold medal line. You're into this, huh? I am. Yeah, I love it. Mother's son, husband, wife, Jutta.

Private Jets. Private Jettas. Private Jettas. And then one of the last ones right now is Japan's Kokomo, Kokomo Marasi, made headlines by taking gold in the women's snowboarding big air further solidifying her position as a rising star

in the winter sports. Big air, I will never understand. That pitch doesn't make sense to me. What the? The drop-in? Yeah. It's like negative. It doesn't make sense.

Have you ever been to a bigger in person? No, but in Park City they have one, don't they? Yes. Andro. I... Why, yeah? You met in my... at the big dog there, right?

Christian and Baron. Oh, I know. Yeah. That's where I got to watch Sean White. Yeah, that's sick. Dude, big air. That's sick. And I will never forget.

He was in, like, this zebra outfit. And they actually brought out, like, measuring sticks to show how much higher he went than, like, other people. Wait, I don't think, no, big air is not half pipe. What? I think big air is the big air. ski slope thing. Oh gosh.

Keep telling them with summer athletes. Oh, man. Anyways, half-five is crazy. Bigger is crazy. It's bigger is crazy. It's bigger where they're like, oh, where they're like sending it. I think so.

They're doing all the flips. But the metal count right now, also worth noting. Norway has six gold medals. Switzerland has three. The U.S. right now has two. We are currently six in the metal count. subject to change

we'll keep an eye on that and update it next week obviously y'all can find it on Google as well but that's the current standings as they are today Sean what is your favorite event to watch I mean I obviously don't know the names of them the skiing it does get

where you're like gymnastics it's yeah you got gymnastics or track like 100 meter sprint this is alpine downhill women skiing yeah I think I think one of my favorites to watch is the The out one

What is that one? The flying one? Yeah, the flying squirrel one Where they're like Yeah, it's crazy to see it. What is that called? I don't know, but it just makes me think

Eddie the Eagle movie. Such a good movie. You know that? Yeah, it's great. I love that one because it's such a tangible like you see the line and you watch it and it's just like a

Yeah, the little lie there. The little lie. And then they also have the brush at the bottom that all confusing me. I'm like, it's such dirty snow, but it's intentional. But then they're flying, dude. And you're also like, you get stressed about the timing of when they do the. Uh-huh, when they jump.

So I love watching that. I do love all of like the X games sports that are also in the Olympics because I just think they're so probably I appreciate the flipping side of it. It's like when you see the guys and girls on the skis doing all the flips, which is like half pipe and I just love that. That is so crazy to me. Yeah. Figure skating, ice dancing.

I love watching. What's your favorite? I honestly, I honestly would be happy as a clam watching any event. I know. Because I love them all. Oh, even the cross country where they're shooting things. Yeah.

That's just a whole new thing. Also, I was watching cross country sprint track today in the morning. And these guys are hot. If you've never cross country ski, dude, it is. So hard. And you're not cross country skied once and we could not walk the next day. We were mad at each other

because we thought we were going to go on like a walk through the park on skis. We were dying. It's one of the hardest things that I was like. Oh, we were shed layers. So counterintuitive to like any movement you've ever done.

At one point we thought we had the uphill technique and then we just you lose it. But any uphill slope you're battling. You're battling. are like struggling not to slide back. And for some reason, I don't know if you're doing it wrong. Even when there's a downhill, you're not like going fat. And also your skis aren't tied to your

boots. So you're slipping around. It's not like normal skiing. It was a cluster. It's a cluster. I was glad we just made it. We made it back without getting hurt. But anyway, these guys are literally hauling up this mountain. I don't get it. Like sprint high kneeing almost. It was so hype to watch. That was cool. But I would say something about speed skating. Yeah. With how they're so, like, gracefully just, they got their arms behind their back. And it looks cool. They got the little head thing.

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I just love it. Love that. And also my brother, Guy used to do that. Do you know that? What? Dude, Guy had like two or three years where we would drive to Minnesota. We'd get Arby's eight for eight. So epic. Shout out curly fries. On the way there. Like eight hour drive and he was trying to make it as a speed skater. So maybe this soft spot. Interesting. I would also say Bob sled. Bob's epic. Yeah, it is. But strictly the part where just the push and go calling because you're like, dang, these guys are. And you see him like, a lot of football guys going to bobsled.

Well, it's all people who squat like over 500 pounds. Yeah. They're big boy athletes. I remember I trained with one. What's his name? Johnny. Quinn? Johnny Quinn.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. You love the opening ceremony. I was going to ask you about that. It was very well done. It was just crisp. Artistic, but just like very Olympic patriotic.

Olympic patriotism. Olympic celebration. Yeah, that's patriotism the wrong one. Well, I don't think. I think so. Can you be patriotic for the world? Is that how you feel? Yeah.

You're pumped about the world. It's such a unifying event, I think. you know what I get sick and tired of watching the news and just seeing everybody going at it and I just felt like watching the opening ceremonies felt like this unifying moment kick off your shoes and stay a while babe what is happening you're pumped up you're on one right now I love it yeah I felt like I was traveling to another city I feel like they did a really good job but like, it got me excited about cultures. Did you see close to the end where they were marching in the Italian colors?

No. Was it cool? And they had the like soldier. Really? No, that's cool. Andrew. She presented the Italian flag and it was like. Wouldn't you watch this without me?

We're together all the time. I've been watching. Is what you're doing on your phone? It's so, it was great. Dude just freaking show me every once in a while. I try. And you get to. annoyed. Oh my gosh. All right.

You have any predictions or should we close it out? I predict Elia and our married duo. We're going to clench those goals. You know what I love about sports? This is my closing statement. Here we

are in this age of AI. Everyone's saying this is going to take my job. What's the meaning of life when you have artificial intelligence that can do anything for you? AI can't do sports. I tell you what, a robot's probably going to be pretty freaking good at whatever we're talking about now that I say it. They're probably going to be pretty good at some point.

A robot will win. But they don't got the backstory. They don't have the emotion. They don't have the nuance like in cool runnings to pick up the sled at the end when they crash. They get you going as a human. There's something about sports, dude, and I freaking love it. I know. I love it.

So take that AI. And also, sorry, and I'll say thank you every time you reply to one of my messages. I was going to say, we should stay friends with the robots, okay? Anyway, that got weird there for a second. Is it weird? Every time I use chat, I'm always like, thank you so much for helping me. Oh, man. Anyway, all right, we'll see next week for episode two of the Olympic series.

That's all we got. Maybe we should order the rent. I'm down. I got to see him first. Dude, do your research. Until next time. Bye.