Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - Two Guys, Five Rings: Matt + Bowen at the Olympics in Milan

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers have made their Olympic debut in Milan! After a warm welcome at the airport, they found their way to the Opening Ceremony at San Siro stadium. Join Bowen and Matt as they talk about all the things they've been up to so far at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics!  Listen to Two Guys, Five Rings wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Gratimira NBC YouTube. Let me translate what I think that was. Thank you to NBC and YouTube for bringing us here to the Milan Cortina Olympics. Give it up. Give it up. Give it up. And we're here with the whole studio full of people. Yes, interact.

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Everyone at this Olympics is like, I'm going to live in a venue tomorrow. I'll see you later. How long are you in Milan for? Oh, well, you have to go to the Duomo, and that's really all there is. The chicest sentence you've ever said. Will you have to go to the Duomo?

How long are you in Milan? It's like, I never dreamed as a boy that I would ever ask these questions. I grew up next to a water tower in Colorado in the suburbs. Well, I guess that's kind of Olympics adjacent. My dad used to hang out with his friends at Chili's. And now I'm at the Milan Olympics. Now I'm in Studio B at the IBC. You hear that?

This is all jargon. This is all jargon. International Broadcasting Center. That's what I'm guessing it is. Did I nail it? I knew it. You know, Matt, let's talk through our arrival in Milan. Because we really are here.

This is not a bit. They actually did send us all those threats that we did. Like, oh, they better send us. It actually paid off. We're here. I think we're doing good. I think we're representing our lovely collaborators as well. Certainly our country better than others.

Oh, we'll get into it. We'll get into it. But yeah, so we get here. And a lot of people are going to be asking the question, was this a better Italian arrival experience than the last time we came here, wherein all of our bags were missing for days, and we were bagless in Sicily. We can reveal at this time, all our bags made it.

All our bags made it. And we're absolutely dripping in Ralph Lauren swag. Yes. And thank you, Ralph. Thanks, Ralph. And we had a lovely flight. We got to go to the Team USA Wilkins. experience at the airport. We basically walked through exactly. They were kind enough to, enough

to simulate the experience of an Olympian, a U.S. Olympians arrival for us. And might we say, it's a very, very, very emotional, exciting, personalized experience. I was going to say because it's at the airport. It is at the airport Cheratun. Get into it. And we're pulling up going, gosh, if I'm off a nine-hour flight and I'm about to have the most high-hour flight, and I'm about to have the most high stakes period of my life. Last thing I want to do is walk into a suite, into a gifting suite. When I'm jet-lagged, no, no, no.

Then you walk up these escalators. There's like a gorgeous, processional sort of bombast playing around you. Everyone is clapping. Everyone there at all the installations comes out and claps. And then the coolest part is you stand in front of a screen and they play a video that is personally, to the teams that are arriving and there are videos

from home that surprise the athletes and that has to be an incredibly emotional experience not just because they're incredibly tired. Of course. But it's great to see your family too. It's great to see your family, especially when you're tired on a giant sort of LED screen.

Yeah, there's my mom all big. Telling me she loves me and is proud. There's my mom next to the Skims Oakley station. And you know we went in there. We went in there. You haven't lived until you've seen the Olympics-themed skim panties. The Olympics themed skim's panties.

The Olympics-themed skim's thigh-high sock for, I would assume the bedroom in the Olympic village. This is the thing. Tell them. They're sicking these giant gift bags that are chic onto these

world-class athletes who are staying in a little shoebox of a room in the Olympic Village. You know what? That ain't right. It gets them out enjoying the city. It gets them out practicing. I almost said rehearsing.

I do almost say rehearsing a lot. But, you know, again, an incredible experience. We got to try on the opening ceremony coats and sweaters that the U.S. team, we took videos and photos. Don't worry. Don't worry. It was stolen valor because these people were treating us like we were Olympians. we're like, oh, we're podcasters.

It's like the polar opposite. The opposite of Olympic. But we are going to have the great Adam Rupon, who is both an Olympian and a podcaster. Proving you can do both. You can do both. I'm literally motivated to start curling after this trip. You've been talking a lot about it. Well, we met the incredible Cleo Abram.

Yes. It's her favorite sport. Yeah. She did a whole 18 minute. explainer video that I watched just with precision and in total sort of

thrall. That would be the sport for you curling. You're lunging. You're sweeping. You get into a deep lunge. You're shaking hands. You're getting beers after. You get beers after. Really? Beer is a part of curling?

The winning team has to buy both teams. Yeah. A beer. What? What? You shake hands before the game, the game starts, and you compliment each other on your plays. Oh my gosh. It's called the Gentleman Sport.

Was this created in Canada? I don't think so. Where did a curling begin? Is Barb here? Where is Barb? Oh, Barb didn't make the trip? Yeah. Not surprised, Barb, you slacker.

No. No one's here to check facts? This is... Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We're kidding. Barb, by the way, we just got to let people know. Barb is lovely. Barb deserves to run this entire company.

No, Barb is lovely. She doesn't deserve any of this flack. Okay? And we can figure, someone else can figure out where curling started. It just sounds like a very Canadian thing. To compliment someone prior to doing like any meddling or whatever and say, hey, have a beer.

Feels very Canadian. It feels very Canadian. But I think I'm going to say it started in the UK. Scotland. Scotland. Because the stones are made from granite, specifically from an island in Scotland from specific rare earth metals.

Was this in the Cleo Abram Explaner? She's great. She's amazing. We're having a great time with her. We're taking pictures with her. Like, she's the third guy five ring. She's the third guy five ring. If the third guy looked like Julia Roberts.

She looks like Julia Roberts. Yeah. And it's like, you know when you see someone and you're like, I know you look like someone and then you're like, oh, surely it can't be the most famous, most gorgeous woman in the world. That's what she looks like. But then she like knows things about like protein structure.

Yeah, she's like, oh, she was talking in the car very casually about protein structure. We're like... And shapes of proteins and how learning the shape is everything. When it comes to creating new medicine, I was like, you look like Julia Roberts. You don't have to know any of this. No! Just like we should know something. Something.

We should know something. Here we are. They flew us out. You know what we're full of knowledge about because we saw it just last night, which means we haven't forgotten it yet, like the fish we are, the opening ceremony of the, I'll say it again,

Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Can you believe this? We were there. We were there. And one of the wonderful gentlemen who was in this room earlier, his first name is Mike. You don't need to know his last name.

Well, you don't need to know his last name, but you can look this up because he almost traps me. He goes, we at the opening ceremony last night? It was like, yes. He goes, what did you think? I was like, It was spectacular.

It goes, well, I directed it. Stop it now. And I was like, you, sir, you tried to, that's entrapment. He was the Liz Patrick of the opening ceremony. Because he was trying to get me to say, yeah, it was all right. Oh, it was entrapment. That's a very serious crime, Mike. Mike.

You better watch it or we'll say your last name. Interpol is going to come for your ass. Guess you doxed. Just kidding. Anyway, congrats on an amazing job, Mike. Mike, meanwhile, he's out here on a Saturday. It's Saturday here in Milan. That's huge.

See, on the Olympics, you could be working on a Saturday. Like us? Yeah, like us. Damn it. Now, let's talk the opening ceremony. Let's, because so much happened, Bo. When we walked in, I had one thought, wow, this is like the Eros Tour.

And then I realized how dumb I was. And I quickly corrected myself to be like, wow, this is the most epic production I had ever seen. Yeah. You're not wrong, though. It was very Erestor-Tor-ass. Did she perform there? Look it up.

Barb Aris Tour Milan stop venue Yeah See if she played at the Span Spiro Or whatever the hell We're not talking about What's it called San Ciro? San Ciro

Not San Spiro Earlier we were listening To this song We were listening to the soundtrack To Spiro the video game Yeah yeah we were No we're listening to Her name is Siena Spiro

It's like she goes Say it's my words Say is for you You know that new song It's kind of like Adele but not I don't think so Yes She did

Well, it makes all the sense in the world. If it's fit for the opening ceremony, it's fit for the Eros Tour. I hope people at the Eres Tour in Milan had the same interesting hot dog that I had at the stadium. You said it. It's interesting. It was an interesting hot dog. It made me go, maybe it's a good thing that this is, like, pig brains in the States. Because I was missing the extra, you know.

It was too, like, one. One thing. It was two. They're making six million of these. You know what I'm saying? Uh-huh. Anyway, we're happy we got to eat. We're going to talk about the hot dogs at Sincerea for the rest of the episode.

Yeah, maybe we'll get to Mariah Carey. I bet you thought, oh, let's listen to the Matt and Bowen, Two Guys, Five Rings episode of the opening ceremony. It's going to be a lot of Mariah Carey. Have another name until now. Have another name until now. That's not because it wasn't deserved because let me tell you what was extremely amazing, her performance in Italian. Volare.

Volare. And then she sang her song, Nothing is impossible. And we actually agreed in our seats that nothing was. And it's off of her latest album Here For It All, which we were there for it all. Yeah. It being the opening ceremonies. Yeah.

She was great. She looked amazing. Probably the coolest part of being there, BTS was watching them slowly walk her out. Yes. And then like place her, leave three men both times. Takes three men to get Mariah out. And then afterwards they all come out. She didn't move at all.

Okay? That's how I want. She was truly the doll. I was expecting a palanquin. To find palanquin and then I can keep going on. Like the thing that you hoist on four guys's shoulders. Yeah, I was expecting that too. For her to sit in a little room.

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Well, let's go back. First, it starts off with this gorgeous, angelic, I'm going to say, like, neoclassical interpreter. Well, the theme of the opening ceremony was interpretive dance. Yes. Every two years, maybe, I was going to say, every four years, maybe two. The world gets sat down and forced to watch interpretive dance.

And thank goodness. We should say the theme literally was harmony, but... No, no, no. But there was... Armonia. The... Armonia. The...

Aromania. Try speaking Italian without having a full seizure if you're me. Aramonia. It takes over you. But the theme was harmony, and there was harmony in the interpretive dance. Absolutely. Well, I thought the theme was very well sort of executed throughout the... the entire show because

good job, Mike. The sort of, the thing was harmony. It was about two things uniting. It was like the, like later on, we saw two acrobat suspended on rings. Oh, that was cool.

I think that was supposed to represent city and mountain. Milan and Cortina. Is that true? I think that was the, the poetic read on it. Okay. Or harmony and interpretive dance.

The world and Italy. The world in Italy. Anything else? Red and green Red and green Red and green It's in Arminia Yeah red white and green

So then let me just get this right Okay was that Then it was Matilda de Angelis Moseilda de Angelis waving around a huge stick I saw myself in her You were her Matt Rogers de Angelis

Matt Rogers de Angeles I really liked her I thought her lines were beautiful Formed very beautiful lines Dancing with the Stars Judge Beautiful lines Beautiful lines Beautiful lines

She was, well, first she was assailed by the paparazzi. Yes. An Italian invention. Oh my gosh, I guess, yeah. No, but they made it look very chic. Lady Gaga, thanks, so do we. Then she walks over, then she starts waving around this baton. Three huge paper mache heads of Verdi Puccini and, oh, the third opera guy.

Oh, sure. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Not Pavarotti. No. Sorry. No. No, no, hold on. Let me look at my paper.

See, this is what it is to know too many things, because then you get caught in a trap. You get caught in a trap. Because I knew zero of the three guys. He knew two of the three. And now he's in a world of pain. Go ahead. Rossini.

Of course. They're running around. And then they remain. Yeah. I think that those three guys were just watching Charlize there and give her speech about peace later on. Yeah, that was also a whole moment. That was a moment.

Well, so then they do that. Then it's... The paint came out of the sky. The paint came out of the sky. Then, okay, so this is where it got a little confusing for me. So the three paint tubes came out of the sky, and they sort of filled the world with primary color. Then I thought it was all little pieces of paint

or little paint brushes, little crayons running out. Turns out all those guys were supposed to be espresso makers. This was where it got a little Italian from it. Well, this is where we go, oh, wow. I don't think about espresso at all. At all? Now, unless Sabrina Carpenter is involved. She put her on the map in America.

We didn't know what it was. Well, espresso martinis. Sure. We knew them from Salt Lake City Housewives. That's right. That happens. Yeah. Then we arrive at what I thought was a tribute

to Capraise salad. Turns out it was red, white, and green Italian flag colors. Common mistake. Common mistake. But I went, oh, Italy really,

really figured that out with their flag. Bufela. Bufela. Moffala. Basel. Basel sounds. Basil?

More like we're here. Pomodori. Right. I was like, they invented tomato cheese and basil. Just to pause, the conversation for a second and talk a little bit more about food. We did have lunch yesterday,

and I was upset when I realized again, they don't have chicken palm here. It's an American, Italian-American adventure. And I got over it, and I didn't bring it up at lunch. I didn't want to make a scene. Uh-huh. And I ordered my amatriciana, and I was very happy. As were you, we had the same thing. We had a gorgeous, regattoni-a-a-machisiana. Where do we go, Ratana? That was the name of the restaurant. was another restaurant to be able to the night before

Michelin-starred risotto. And honey, our waiter, Alex, I will remember you. Oh, this was at the other place, yes. What's that called? That was called

Taverna. Something else. Taverna something. I will remember Alex. He knew something. And then he made us this dessert. He made table side, like a custard, basically.

It starts with a Z in Italian. I'm blanking on this. He comes over to us and he makes us this dessert, right, at the table. He comes over to us and he whispers and bowen and I's ear and he goes, now that we're friends, I can tell you, this is what they used to give the men to invigorize them. To, this is, this is Italian Viagra. Viagra. I said, you better get out of here. You think he was flirting?

I don't know. I couldn't tell. And then our friend was like, did you leave your number? And I was like, I don't think he was gay. Gay. Gay. Tutti gay. We learned that from White Lotus.

I feel like here in Italy, you kind of know the guys are gay. Because they're like, marry me. They are. That's how they are. Now, please marry me. You feel like you know that all the guys in Italy are gay because they all say, Marry me. This is what I'm told.

Has this happened to you? Mateo Lane told me this. And then I was like, you're, Mateo, you're so hot. Look at the ass sits so high and round. Mateo has a very different experience coming to Italy than, We would. He speaks the language. His ass sits high and round.

What more could you ask for? What more could you ask for? Maddie me. Maddie me. He's getting my asses. Don't do this. It's been looking incredible. I don't know what to say.

My ass is the Tower of Terror. It's a straight shot down. It's not going to, I'm not getting any proposals. You know, they've changed the Tower of Terror. It now has all sorts of different dimensions. Okay. So don't, so just know things, I don't know. Things are moving and shaken.

What's my ass? You've got, you've got, you've got, you've got a, you've got a, triple lutz. No, no, I'm so, I celebrate your ass. Thank you so much. You've got a triple lutz. Mad of me. You've got, you've got a curling ass.

Now, opening ceremony. Yeah, right. I was going to say, opening ceremony. So then the rings, then the rings come together. That was, that took my breath away. That was breathtaking. Because they were not super secure on those things. You couldn't see the wires.

Because it made me go, when Rihanna did this at the Super Bowl, when Beyonce did this at the Christmas show, the Cowboys show. Yes. That was so good. Amazing. But they were making sure that those precious icons

were stable. Yeah. These people, I guess they're professional acrobats. Right. They were kind of. of doing it raw. They were doing it raw.

Someone's face just goes I guess they were sure but you know that so that that happened they all that by the way this was after the Bop who knew the Italian

National Anthem back to the drawing board. to the drawing board America. There's two... There's like a whole movement shift in the Italian national anthem. It sounds like a Celine Dion song from the 80s.

Early 90s? Or 90s. It just sounds like a song that would win Eurovision. And it's their national anthem. It's amazing. Well, Italy's got to bring it with the arts in every aspect.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I didn't realize Italy was the club in this way. Well, there was a whole disco semi because they, They gave us disco. Italo disco is some of the best. Yeah.

Well, anyway, the music throughout the evening was incredible, and I can't get over the national anthem. I'm going to be streaming. Laura Pascini is who. Laura Pascini. Did you know of her? I didn't. I was very excited to watch her really slay in front of 60,000 people.

She definitely did that. She definitely did that. Then we have our ring moment. That was cool. Then we have the Pirae of Nations. That's where I went. Canada Canada really brought it

I thought you were going to say and that's where I went I'm getting a hot dog I'm getting a hot dog we did take a break then we got we got a hot dog we got up and during you know we were told this is the time

to get a drink and a snack so we said okay so we said okay but then we did we made sure we were we were seeing them we didn't see a lot of the athletes come in

this was a widespread opening ceremony which that might be my I don't think so honey later that we're doing this sort of for a different segment. Widespread kept being said. Widespread was said many times.

They're very interested in us knowing all about how the spread is wide. And it makes me go, let's think about the ways in which that word is used. Sure. Lately it hasn't been great. Widespread. Widespread.

Like, widespread sort of transmission. Widespread. Are you throwing it back to COVID? unrest. I'm throwing it back to all of my life. You're going to give everyone PTSD. Listen, this, no, this is what being in Milan is like right now. He's fired up, ladies and gentlemen. It is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is triumphantly saying we overcame so many things.

Yeah. Period. We overcame those hot dogs. Barely. Can I just say, Sancero, this bathroom's tough. Oh, that was crazy. It was like prison. Stop.

Now, me stop. I wasn't even the one that brought it up. I'm sorry. I didn't need to silence. Can I say we had an amazing time in the stadium? An amazing time in the stadium. Would go there. Go there again.

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your state forester and the ad council. What was he going to say? Andrea Bocchelli. Andrea Bocchell. Well, first, Parade of Nations, so many cute outfits. Very much so. It's so lovely to see Italy, Italian, Italian athletes coming in.

So, a widespread. So we were cutting from down in Milan where you would have these gorgeous metallic puffered women a la Angie Katzenavis and their giant sunglasses walking with a giant horizontal slab of ice. We were not the only ones to say that it was. Angie Katzenavis Coded either. And that is the second Salt Lake City Housewise reference on the episode so far. There has to be a third now. Oh, I have a third.

Great. I have a third. Coming soon. And then that happens. And then you would cut to what I want to say. We definitely cut to Cortina. Yeah. And then we, I think we might have cut to Lavinio. Yes, I think there was a whole lot of cutting between.

Hence the widespread aspect. But it was, it was, it was, beautiful. It was beautiful because the athletes got so much applause and it felt incredible. And we joined him. And we are very excited to be here like

celebrating these American athletes. I was watching going like, oh God, there's something really profound about everybody from around the world being here at the same time for the same occasion. Here's the third Salt Lake City reference. Go on. Charlie Steyeran comes out

looking like Whitney Rose. Comptoms to everyone. Compliments to everyone. Quoting her countrymen, her fellow countrymen. South Africa. Nelson Mandela. Talking about peace.

And I go, there's something really powerful about the woman who played Eileen Warnos, Furiosa, and Miss Atomic Blonde. And Old Guard. She's played violent women.

She was in the movie Mighty Joe Young. And people don't, remember that. People don't remember that. But this lady who has seen violence up close has enacted violence for the cameras. Yes. For a woman to know violence and say, Guys, From Atomic Blonde.

Cut it out. Cut it out. With the war. For seas sake. Maybe go, this is impactful. I'll tell you what else was impactful in this sort of cap of the night. The perfect synchronizing of the Olympic torch flame to the beach. to the beat of Nessendorma

sung by literally Pavarotti who's still able to whip... Picheli. Uh-oh. When you say literally and it's wrong. I meant

Bocelli. Okay. Leave it all in. I don't care. You think I care? You think he cares? Oh, God. We find out he's a huge fan of this podcast.

I was listening to my favorite podcast. and then you're getting gone by Pavarote. Is that anywhere near? What he might sound like? Lauren. Mascata Bocelli slash. Now is the time, Lauren.

Now is the perfect opportunity. Put me on. Bocelli perfectly synchronized with the lighting of the 11thold. And Nessendorma, it is the most beautiful song. From Stepbrothers. Yeah. That's where the world knows it. That's where the world knows it.

First, Stepbrothers, now secondary. the opening ceremony, and that capped it all off. It was gorgeous. I take issue with it being called a cauldron. I don't like that. It's like... Because they're going to like the cauldron. It's too witchy and like, let's leave witches out of it.

Like... Well, I celebrate witches. I celebrate witches, too. I don't think... It's stolen valor from witches. You know what I mean? What came first? The witches are the Olympics.

Probably the... Well, I think... I think the Olympus came first. The mountain. Okay. Because did witches start in Salem? No. Certainly they've been since the beginning of time.

Honey, we've been trying to get women since the dawn of humanity. Get women. We've been trying to get them. That's what I'm saying. Now, we could use one on this podcast. I was going to say, I take issue with it being called cauldrons, because guess what the word cauldron is in Italian?

Go ahead. Calderone. and that is the last name of Lady Gaga's drag persona Joe Calderon. So that's probably why. Joe Caldron. But it makes me go, well, now I'm off in another sort of thought starter. I'm not thinking about the Olympics no more. You're thinking about Gaga.

Just call it the Olympic. Also, Bull. PR nightmare, as we mentioned, lots of tragic things have happened. happened around the Olympic cauldron. Remember when those doves got singed? Oh, yeah, I didn't remember until now. I had to remind everybody.

You know what, though? They got the... Think about this if you're the birds. It's not getting bigger and better than that. You're going to die at some point. You might as well go out and a blaze of glory, babe. It's the Olympics. It's the Olympics.

Sorry to these doves. Sorry to these doves. And then, you know, maybe years later, I don't know. You get misremembered. I can't believe you call them Pavarotti. It's time to give out our bronze, silver, and gold medal. Okay.

For this episode of Two Guys Five Rinks. One of the best episodes we've ever done of this show. You think so? Yeah, I think we absolutely tore. I love that. Everything we ate at the Olympics. Just us sitting right here. What's the bronze medal of the Olympic opening ceremony?

Milan Cortina 2020. Six for you. I'm going to give bronze to, um, oh, what's her name again? Matilda. Matilda.

No, no, no. Laura Puccini singing the Italian national anthem. That was so rousing. What? We didn't even talk about Sabrina and Pachatore. Valentina. From the White Lotus. She, so just to recap,

this means she deserves the silver. This does mean she deserves the silver. Yeah. She, go ahead and explain exactly. How hard she went. Okay, so here's what happened in the storytelling. She's at home in her sweats, watching the opening ceremony, I think, like, you know, like what the rest of the world is doing. For the people who are not lucky enough to be in the stadium like we were.

She's watching at home in her sort of loungeware. Then those two dastardly weasels stotes. Tina and Milo. Milo. Pop up and start her. wringing her. Harassing her even. And she said, hey!

No, she literally is. Hey! Yeah, yeah, yeah. She goes... And then it became something else. She goes, hey! Hey! What are you doing? My favorite Italian word?

Gwee. What's Gwee? Here. Or qua, which is there. Gui! No, no. Qua. Gwee.

Cui. Gwee. Gwee. Gwee. Cue. Cue. I can't stand this. Whenever I say something exactly the way.

No. Cui. Cui. Cui. There you go. Cui, Cui, Cui! Here, here. Here, here.

So she gets... Qua, qua, qua. She gets sort of manhandled. From Cui to Cua. From Cue to Cua by Tina and Milo. Ugh. And then she gets, I guess, she gets hurtled through like this... AI animated

AI you know Whatever She gets hurtled through All of the Olympics The Winter Olympics passed Over the last 100 years It's been 100 years

Of the Winter Olympics Wow The Winter Games And you do see the cool Emblems of the past Yeah And then she lands In this metallic

Jump suit Body suit Bodycon suit And she gets She starts dancing to this contemporary Italian, the first Italian rap song

called Checks notes. Presenkolinen instancousal, which is meant to be gibberish, I believe. Huh? Improvised text

is an invented language that phonetically mimics English written by the iconic Italian singer Adriano Chenentano. So then there's an amazing, again, interpretive dance, energized but interpretive dance, where she's dancing, I guess, about Olympic history.

And then she slays and sells. Just like she did in White Lotus. Just like she did in White Lotus and the paper. Oh, yeah. Which don't sleep on the paper. She's very good in the paper. She's very good in the paper. She's very good in everything.

She's kind of the Michael Scott of the paper. I would say. We're allowed to talk about this. It's NBC. This is all why she's earned the silver medal today. Silver medal to Cybringham. And I think we have to give the gold medal to, and I'm going to say this, Andrea Bocell. Thank you.

That's Clappter for him and I for getting it right. Because, come on. I mean, that was truly epic. And just gold medal, honorary gold, platinum medal, as it were, to Mike. To Mike. Who directed the stuff. Yes. That was amazing.

That was amazing. And now we get to meet him today. We already have. No, I said we got to meet him today. I remember. Unforgettable. Just like the opening ceremony of Milan Quirte de 26.

Absolutely. But be careful around Mike because he might ask, he'll, you know. He might try to entrap you. Well, I'll be eating, I'll be eating something from the commissary. Be like, what do you think of those potatoes?

They're like, they're good. That's my recipe. I made them. I made them. That was my grandmother's recipe for potatoes. So it's good you like it. Mike, great job. Great job.

And great job to everyone here. We've had such a lovely time in the Cortina cabin. And you'll have to wait a couple days, but right now for us, we're going to be welcoming an Olympian and a podcaster, proving it can be done. Adam Rippon, so look out for that very soon. Look out for that very soon. But until then, follow the show on the IHeart Radio app or your favorite podcast platform and watch on the NBC Sports YouTube channel.

And watch and listen to every moment of the winter. Winter Olympics and now through February 22nd on NBC and Peacock and on the IHart Radio app. We end every one of these episodes with the very same song. Boom, boom, bum, bum. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No, I just, I love it. So why don't you do the bums and I'll do the blairs? Bums and the blairs, us tonight.

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Hum, Hum, Hum, Hum, Homom Bum Bumum

Bum Bum Bum Bum Berm Berm We switched it. Harmony, everyone. Armonia. Bye. Bye.

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