Front Burner - Weekend Listen: Summer and Simone hit the gold mine

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

Olympic FOMO is your daily Olympics recap, in 20 minutes or less hosted by longtime radio duo and media best friends Mark Strong and Jemeni. Together they provide a fresh perspective to the Olympic conversation as they chat with athletes, entertainers and celebrities to get their take on the Games. In this episode, Mark and Jem chat about how Simone Biles battles haters left and right and still manages to score gold, and how a Turkish sharp shooter went viral for his hitman vibes. Mark and Jem also talk with Soca queen and legend Alison Hinds about her favourite Olympic sport. And it continues to be ‘Summer time’ — with McIntosh taking home another gold on August 1st, her third medal of the Games. More episodes of Olympic FOMO are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/j5kfQhRc

This is a CBC Podcast. radio duo and media besties Mark and Jim, they'll be providing a fresh perspective on the Olympic conversation. They'll chat with athletes, entertainers, and celebs to get their take on the games, bringing audiences all the tea from Paris with daily episodes throughout the games. Now here is an episode from Olympic FOMO. On this episode of Olympic FOMO, we get a chance to find out how Salon Biles is slapping up the internet. We've got the Caribbean queen of Soka, the one and only Alison Hines. And how about the Turkish hitman getting silver?

All that and more right here on Olympic FOMO. Let's go. Let's go. And welcome back once again to Olympic FOMO. So you never have a fear of missing Olympic coverage as long as you're here with Mark and Jem. And speaking of Olympic coverage, today, Summer McIntosh took home the gold. Oui, oui. Letez-le possible en samedi, Jem. Okay. Possibly what you're trying to say in your former French is the summer of gold.

And she has another chance to medal again on Saturday. Yes, girl. Oui, c'est ça. Guess who else is on the show? Hey, this is your girl, the Caribbean soaker queen, Alison Hines, hailing all the way from Barbados. And you are locked on Olympic FOMO with Mark and Jem. You know why?

Roll, roll it, gal. Roll it, gal. Roll, control it, gal. Roll it, gal. And you know what time it is now. It's time for Trending. Simone Biles' social media battles are going off the hook right now.

Battle royale right now. Fellow U.S. gymnast Michaela Skinner had a whole lot to say online about the current U.S. women's gymnastics team. Skinner filled in for Biles back in the Tokyo Olympics when Simone was taking her mental health issue time out. And Skinner then won for Biles back in the Tokyo Olympics when Simone was taking her mental health issue time out. And Skinner then won the silver medal at that point.

Yeah, you're talking a lot for a silver, okay? You're getting real hot and heavy for silver. Now, this year at the U.S. Olympic Trials, she posted a video that said the depth of the gymnastic team wasn't what it used to be, and a lot of the girls don't work as hard. So when Biles won gold,

not silver, she won that gold. She posted on Instagram, lack of talent, lazy Olympic champions. Then it escalated to a blocking war with Biles and Skinner

blocking each other. And our girl Simone is just battling the haters left and right. Biles has also clapped back at the online criticism of her hair, saying next time you want

to comment on a black girl's hair, just don't. That's the best comment. But here's the tea. She's also talking to BIPOC fans. Absolutely. Because a lot of times

it's people who look like her, have the same hair as her, that have been getting at her since she was young. I'm over it. Sometimes it be your own. Sometimes it be your own people. Show me your own hair when you get gold. I'm over it. She's been taking this since she was young. Sometimes it be your own people. Show me your own hair when you get gold.

Then we'll talk. Next up on Trending. All right now, Yusuf Dikesh. He's the Turkish sharpshooter who showed up at the Air Pistol Team event looking like a... Look at him. He looks like a hitman. Oh boy. Yusuf is just out there in a

t-shirt and pants shooting. Looking like a replacement killer. Oh, boy. Yusuf is just out there in a T-shirt and pants shooting, looking like a replacement killer. Just casual. I do this every Thursday. All of his competitors were in full protective gear, wearing special lenses, big earmuffs, clogs on. They're wearing special glasses that cover one eye, and they put a special lens over the other. Look at my man. That's Mr. Bean in print.

But this guy's on some. Listen, I don't need anything but a gun and a target. This is a... He does have earplugs. But this is Hitman style. He's got a hand in his pocket, you know? He's got one hand in his pocket. I got one... Listen, I got one hand in my pocket, and the other one is

shooting at... Silver silver metal. Big up to Yusuf, because I'm afraid to not big you up. I don't want to be on your bad side. Oh my gosh. Next up, our good friend, the one and only, the doctor herself, Alison Hines. Alison Hines is the Caribbean soca queen.

Soca music was invented in the late 1970s. In its first decade, it was overwhelmingly a male-dominated genre. However, her success has carved a path for many up-and-coming female Soca artists. She's churned out hits that transformed the genre, among them Roll It Gal and Born With It. She lives in Barbados and is a cultural ambassador for her country.

As the Caribbean, she's just like these two, as the Caribbean queen of Soka, we know this is your busiest time. It is carnival season. And of course it's crop over where you are right now in Barbados. I happen to know though, as busy as you are, that you are sneaking time to watch your favorite Olympic sport.

Definitely. I love gymnastics. And of course, we all love Simone Biles. Like, come on now. And what I love is Simone Biles has now come back and is the most decorated Olympic gymnast with eight medals. And a lot of people don't know this, but you came back from that

by giving them your biggest song, Roll It Gal. Absolutely. So when it came down to, you know, all of that, I just, you know, you block out the noise after a while and Roll It Gal came into being. And from the time that was released, it was crazy. It was absolutely crazy. And I was off and running once again, you know, a mom and all of that, and still continuing to be the queen of soccer. Now, athletes work really, really hard on their performance, Alison. But when it comes to their talent, they're actually born with it, so to speak. OK, if you don't mind, Dr. Hines, can we talk about your Olympic BAMC that you were born with? It has a credibility that lays no boundaries.

On CBC. Did that just happen? This is what she was born with. Ali, can you believe that just happen? This is what she was born with. Ali, can you believe that just happened? You were born with it and I want to applaud you for what you were born with. Because apparently you're a great grandmother so you were born with it. Okay, you know what? I'm going to move on.

Hold me in, you know. I really thought, you know, Mark is really going to ask me this really deep, important question, right? That's on me, though. That's on me. That's on me.

You know him too well. That is on me. So, okay, I'm going to ask. I'm taking the question away from him. I know that you've taken some time. You just were doing some filming for your hit, Born With It, which is now a viral sensation. Talk to us about how that song went viral all over the world. Listen, it's crazy because I had absolutely nothing to do with it.

And I found out probably, I want to say maybe a couple of weeks into it going viral, my social media manager, she said, Alison, you seem to have a song that is kind of going viral on tiktok i was like what what do you mean like what are you talking about she's like you know this new song what i love about this and i think what people love is it's a song about what is passed down to you and passed on and we talk about legacy and passing things down in the legacy also at the Olympics. So can we just have you give us a piece of that song so we understand what's the song that's going viral? Of course. No problem. My great-great-grandmother passed it down.

My great-great-grandmother passed it down. My mother get it from my granny. Mommy give it to me because we was born with it. Born with it. West Indian girls born with it. Born with it. West Indian girls born with it. Born to walk up the big bam bam. Stick it, drop it and tremble. So I wasn't wrong.

I blame you. You said bam bam. I blame you. Thank you very much for your viral bam bam and everything that you've done for Soca Music and the Olympics. We love you. Thank you so very much. Thank you for having me. Thank you, darling.

Let's get to the books. Books, what's going on? Today, we're going to point to one of the oddities of life at the Olympics, when it's sometimes hard to determine who won what medal. Our example is from fencing. Women's team EPE. Let's take you to the bronze medal match where the Polish team and commentator are ecstatic about winning bronze. You would have really thought they got the gold.

They're actually more excited than the person who won gold. Can I run something down for you real quick? For sure. Okay. Gold medals, the actual medals themselves, are made 90% silver, plated with, let's say, 6 grams of gold, right? Right. Silver is pure silver. Bronze is made out of copper, tin, and zinc.

This is what they're screaming for. Copper, tin, and zinc. But another perspective is, I guess they're screaming because as opposed to getting silver, you were so close to winning. So you feel like you've lost the gold. But if you get bronze, what you've done is you've actually meddled. You were this close to not so you feel like you've lost the gold but if you're but if you get bronze what you've done is you've actually meddled you were this close to not meddling I guess so idea that you know you actually try to win gold right but you earn silver and you earn bronze unless you're fighting for bronze so so you don't win. That's interesting. You don't win silver.

You actually earn silver because nobody goes, I'm going in for that silver. You want the gold. Right. But when you're going for the bronze, you try to win the bronze. Again, you try to win the copper,

tin and zinc and go. It is time for our shout out. We are shouting out superstar American swimmer, Katie Ledecky. Absolutely. Yes, she won her eighth career gold medal in the 1500 meter freestyle. Which meant that when she hit the wall, no one was even, look, no one is in the picture. Ten seconds later, I turned on the TV at this point one day.

I was like, is she in the pool by herself this morning? Where are you guys? Did you guys come to the right pool? Oh, here they are. It's actual competition. She also is the first female swimmer to win medals across four different Olympics. You know how everybody talks this big talk of Michael Phelps' incredible accomplishments? She needs her props, too.

Speaking of which, Jem. Especially for this. We're shouting her out for this video, which we uncovered, of Ledecky swimming the length of the pool with a glass of chocolate milk on her head she's not dropping not one drop that's wild that's i now has she had she used that uh snorkel to actually drink the milk while she was swimming you know but it looks like velcro stuck to her i can't believe there's so much the cup The cup is not moving. Oh, man. She's got crazy head skills and powers. And that's amazing, bro.

It's skills. Is that not skills? I would have said it a different way, but she's definitely got great skills in the pool. She's got this on her head, so she's got skills, you know. All right. That's it. Olympic FOMO. We'll see you guys tomorrow.

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