The Nikki Glaser Podcast - #457 The 2024 Olympics vs The Dodo, Deadpool & Wolverine Review, Nikki The Quarterback

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

Nikki once tried a serum and walked away with a blue neck. Brian who is now munching on three nuts a day thanks to a bestie is fuming over Deadpool & Wolverine's multiverse mess. What's all the hype over the 2024 Olympics? Nikki just doesn't get it, she'd rather watch a tutorial on the Heimlich for dogs or The Dodo. Brian was shocked when he saw someone he knew acting couhl. Nikki can be compassionate towards people who think they know it all. In the Final Thought, Nikki talks about a football documentary she and Chris are watching and Brian explains why she would make a great quarterback someday.  Subscribe to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts to get this episode ad-free, and get exclusive bonus content: https://apple.co/nikkiglaserpodcast  . Watch this episode on our Youtube Channel: The Nikki Glaser Podcast Follow the pod on Instagram for bonus content: @NikkiGlaserPod Leave us your voicemail: Click Here To Record Nikki's Tour Dates: nikkiglaser.com/tour Brian’s Animations: youtube.com/@BrianFrange More Nikki: IG More Brian: IG More producer Noa: IGSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the Nikki Glaser Podcast. New week of shows. It's a special bonus episode. I don't even know if you guys know that it's a bonus episode, but it's nikki glazer podcast new week of shows it's a special bonus episode i don't even know if you guys know that it's a bonus episode but it's an extra episode you get that we weren't supposed to do but we're doing it brian frangie's here what's up brian oh um nothing much i'm just uh i do want to share this thing top line top it off top line so i said um in the last episode or something that my micronutrient test came back and was low in selenium uh-huh and we were all like who gives a shit i get a message on instagram from a bestie named brit who said i have a condition that gives me low selenium and the

solution is i eat three brazil nuts a day that sounds like tom brady's diet um okay that's all it takes is that's all it takes great i know isn't that crazy though yeah i mean did you thank you brit but three brazil nuts so i've been eating three brazil nuts a day and i'm going to test my selenium again and we'll see if it works what are the side effects of low selenium like um who cares i think selenium uh regulates your hemoglobin okay god damn it i almost made a call today to get some blood work done um but i didn't get to that part of my to-do list so it's not gonna happen at all maybe ever yeah probably not i mean it's good not to get to stuff like that

because it just makes you go crazy i don't think it would make me go crazy i think this is the thing i get blood work done and then i get put on a bunch of supplements and then i start taking them and then they run out and then i don't get them again and then that's it wow that's the month i gave it a go and then i've i've gotten i've spent thousands of dollars at this homeopathic place and yes she did get my period back at one point and yes she did seem to balance them but i don't there's always like some new thing she's given me at one point it was a vegas nerve stimulator that i spent 700 on that you're like rub on your neck and it pulls your whole face down because it sends a vibration oh my god it's um yeah it's like you put it on your neck and then it goes and it pulls your whole face down because it hits this nerve that makes it all pulled down so it looks like you have a stroke

and that was supposed to like make you less depressed but um what was depressing me was i had to rub this gel all over my neck to make it work you know to conduct it yes and i would forget to wipe the gel off and so i would have this like just just flaky blue stuff coming off my neck and people would notice it all the time and say you have something on your neck and it was just turning into a thing so i just stopped doing it and then i can't even sell the thing or give it to goodwill because it's just gonna end up in the trash because you have to get a card to like re-up it you have to like pay for a subscription to it what i just i blow so much money on just quick fix things that just don't seem to ever work and i just like when i stick to something like i like my face serum i just like the stuff i use just want to use, I get new products sent to me all the time.

I'm supposed to be using this retinol. I'm supposed to be using a vitamin C. I just want to have a way to do it. And then I want to do it the rest of my life that way. And I just don't, I can't, that's why I got to get off Instagram. I literally,

my brain is being poisoned. It's affecting my mental health. It is at an impasse. I think that's what they say, where it's like, it brain is being poisoned. It's affecting my mental health. It is at an impasse. I think that's what they say, where it's like, it's do or die. I got to get off it. I can't. It's trying to kill me. Doesn't Instagram want me alive so I keep buying shit?

Don't they need me to live? Because it's really breaking my soul. Because I'm tired of seeing women's torsos getting longer and longer. And just women are getting they just know what i want to look like i think and they just keep stretching women out and showing me the the most stretchy women i sent a picture i was in a video of a girl to tanya yesterday looked like slender man she was so long she must have had mar fans or something but in like all the right places you know and um it was just like and and then i read the and then the

comments depress me because there's always even the ones that are body positive the instagram posts that are body positive you go in the comments and there's mean people in them saying exactly the opposite and so it just takes away anything it just gave you and i just don't know how people continue like comments they're like i like a woman with short stubby arms when it's a long yeah and a long torso isn't that a song yeah and then yeah i think so but there was like one yesterday there was like a girl that was like beauty can come in both sizes and it's like a fat girl with her thin friend and they're both wearing kind of the same outfit and they're doing the same dance And it's like both both can be beautiful and then all the comments were like I'll take the left, please And it was obviously the thin girl and it was just like all just reiterating exactly what I already think people want and like

It was just a bummer I think the comments might say wow the girl on the right is super sexy and like maybe it would like re validate the things that i want to be true and it just was just and then it's just people being mean to those people and being like and then the people that are mean to the guys that are commenting i don't even like like i don't like any of it it just makes it's all negative i mean regardless of how beautiful the girl on the right is right she must beautiful. Right, but she must have known. She must have known that this was going to be the result. It's the internet.

How could you expect the internet to do anything else? Because I think there's a lot of positivity out there when it comes to this body image stuff. There are good comments. Maybe there's some people out there that really can focus on the good and not see the bad. And then, you know, I got, there was another video that I sent to Anya of a girl that was bald and had a cleft palate. And she was doing this like video about where she's like naked on a stool. People have probably seen, girls have probably seen these where a girl gets like naked and she's on a stool and she's just talking about how beautiful her body is.

And it's either like a beautiful girl or a girl that's like not conventionally beautiful and talking about the struggles of it. And this person said like, have you ever thought about what it would be like if you didn't look like this or something like this? And the girl was like, I think I'd be real. I sometimes imagine if I didn't have a cleft lip and if I did,

if I had hair and I think I'd be really boring and I thought that was really cute. And she also, oh my God, it's going to make me cry thinking about it. She was also saying, I don't, I,

I'm glad that this is me that has this because I don't think anyone else could handle having this and deal with what I deal with. And I thought that was really sad and sweet. I mean, that's nice that she's falling on the sword there is is it possible to get the cleft palate repaired at her age or is it only something you can do as a kid repaired as much as it could be is what it's already been slightly repaired yeah but you know it's just it wasn't um it didn't look the the way other but like of i don't want to say normal

because that's not the word you're supposed to use i don't know it's it's getting tricky me talking about this stuff i know you're walking in minefield right now i know but i just wonder about it i i want to push back on this personality comment honestly i think that you shouldn't be defined by your lack of hair and your cleft palate you should have you know your personality make you not boring. I think that's what did, well, I think that's why she has a personality. Because she's bald

and has a cleft palate? Yeah. She developed one. Yeah, she's had to be, her life is interesting. a boring dumb blonde to be walking around

talking about gels. Yeah, exactly. She wouldn't have to work on a lot of things. She would just be talking about what green smoothie she's eating that day

and how to do the right split squat or whatever. But that's my favorite type of girl. I love a split squat girl. I can't stand. And then there's just, oh, man. Is anyone else's feed? I'm just talking to besties out there. Just constantly girls teaching you how to put your hair in a ponytail

that'll make it fuller i mean they are just targeting me so much and it's all being targeted these girls are none no one's my age either it's an older woman that's like elder not elderly but like let's talk about like in 60s 70s who's telling me that um old is beautiful or it's a girl in her 20s that's talking about skincare or um and then I always just see hot girls with their boobs bouncing around doing things and then my male friends liking their videos

and I just go, that's all. I don't want to say who, but it's always one guy that I'm like, alright, he watched this, I guess he was up. I mean, if you're a guy and you like a video of the boobs, you think that that girl is

going to see that you're liking the videos and something's going to happen. Yeah. Especially if you have a blue checkmark, which this person does. Okay, yeah. And that can really help. And sometimes, I mean, I will say this person does get girls like that. All right. Good on them.

I tell you this, I don't get a lot of videos targeting me of how to make your ponytail fuller, but every time I do see a girl talking to camera She is always doing her ponytail She's like messing with it in some way No one's ever doing They're always like So I went to the coffee shop the other day and she's always making a ponytail Or I guess sometimes they're doing like the skincare routine while talking

Which has kind of become a trope now Yeah It gives them something to do You've talked about how girls constantly are adjusting their like bikini straps like they don't have anything now i'm seeing it with just like ponytail um yeah ponytail mostly they're looking it's like they're looking in the mirror and they're talking to you like oh i just had a quick minute where i could tell you this thing when it's like we know that you did 17 takes of this video you have to undo your ponytail and put it together 17 times.

And I'm just not, I'm just tired of these like, you know, dumps that girls will do where it's like them looking hot and then it's like a half-eaten baguette and then it's like a picture of a bed and then it's like a picture of their toe on a cool looking brick road. Just show us the tits and show us your outfit and show us what we want. Stop giving us scenery and this kind of abstract photography that you're trying to seem like you're artistic. And they just seem to be sitting around in silence all the time, looking to the side and trying on different sunglasses. I don't know what these girls talk about or do. I'm really confounded at what their lives are like.

It's a mystery. They spend quite a lot of time eating ornate meals in farmhouses, I think. Yes. Where there's a launch of something happening. There's always a launch. I'm launching my. Oh, there's so many tequila launches every day. Yeah.

There's more tequilas being launched than satellites. Well, that's true. In the Florida area. Yeah. It's there's more tequilas being launched than satellites. Well, that's true. In Miami, in the Florida area. Yeah. And there's a lot going on with NASA, but they're not as much as different tequila brands. Oh, it's crazy. I can't wait for Gen Z to emerge with the counterculture. Like everything.

This happens. There's always phases. It's going to go the other way. And there's going to be a time when everything that's happening now is considered passe cliche uncool i cannot wait i i hate this era of the internet i would rather go back to 2006 era of the internet where we were doing like youtube web series or whatever i this this era to me is like one of the worst eras where it's just like everything you know what it is you know what this era is it is like one of the worst eras where it's just like everything. You know what it is?

You know what this era is? It's the era of pure capitalism where every post is an ad or a promotion or a spawn con. Well, what's spawn con? Oh, sponsor content. It's and I find myself having to do it. I mean, my social media girl just wrote me today being like hey you were off the road this weekend if you want to like do a carousel post which is like the when you have 10 pictures that's called a carousel post i'm learning these things of like

what your life was like this weekend and i was like i have to promote what my life was like in st louis this weekend just to keep it going just to keep engaged because I'm a brand that needs to give content I need I need to keep doing it yeah and I just I don't I need to start taking but this is the good thing about just being able to photograph anything when you do a carousel you really can just like have a picture of an Amazon box and people like ooh art like you don't have to like you can put the edge of your couch yeah couch with some trash in the background or a grouping of cords. Oh man, I love a grouping of cords. A good grouping. Oh yeah, what is it called?

A murder of cords. It really can just be anything. I'm trying to remind myself to take more pictures of bullshit so that I can put it in these carousels. Photo dump highlights from October and then it's just cords and a carpet. myself to take more pictures of that bullshit so that i can put it in these photo dumps highlights from october and then it's just chords and then you have to come up with like a cool caption that yeah it's there's there's too much to do and that's okay prediction yeah here's where it's

going okay this phase is the next phase is going to be ai where all the posts are ai generated by ai for ai and then the next phase after that is going to be the best phase which is the response to the bullshit that's flooded the internet and it's going to be authenticity where people talk to each other in person they get off their phones entirely because it's going to get to the point with ai that you can't you can't trust anything it's already happened with google it's like i can't even use google anymore but between the ads and the ai responses i can't use it i'm gonna have to call people on the phone and ask them how to change the oil in my car or whatever right i have to call my dad and be like dad do you know how to change a muffler because youtube is giving me a bunch of spawn con ai horse shit this weekend i my dog was kind of having a choking incident not really she

was just like trying to hack something up and i was like man i just realized i don't know how to give the heimlich to a small dog like i think i've watched videos in the past maybe years ago but let me like look that up and i'm looking it up and there's a woman that's like, it's an 11 minute video. And then there's another one that's a four minute video. If my dog's choke, no one's looking up how to do the Heimlich on a dog when their dog is not

choking, where they just are trying to learn it. They need the information right away. Yep. So let's just make a video 15 seconds long that just starts with the person doing it but then you can't have an ad break this woman's like well you're gonna put your dog on the side assuming that your dog is not um in unconscious yet if your dog is unconscious you should call it's just like bitch talk faster you don't i don't want to toggle and have to do the two times the

speed when my dog is fucking dying and then i accidentally click on the ad and then it goes to another video. And then it's like, I can only imagine. Luckily, she coughed it up and it was great. But I do now know how to give the Heimlich to a small dog, I think. I would probably break the dog. The dog would probably die of something else in the autopsy report. Heimlich? Yeah.

So what do you got to do that should be her name um you find the part of their you know it's kind of like the human heimlich and but then you eventually just like grab their lower legs and start like lifting them up and like shaking everyone should watch it don't take my advice i think i know what to do but i think i um wasn't really paying that close of attention like i do of every video i watch i was probably watching 13 things at the same time um are you watching the olympics oh yeah of course i am what is of course i am i just i don't get this well i i like america's got talent nikki you don't think i want to watch the olympics oh that's a good point okay i'm watching america's got talent too and it's a it's the season is pretty

rough i have to say yeah i said this already on the show they're leaning too much into the stories and not enough into the talent portion and we're getting a lot of kids as a result a lot of little kids which i don't think they're thinking this through we're gonna get to the next round of america's got talent and it's gonna be like eight-year-old versus eight-year-old it's gonna be eight-year-old with cancer versus a one-armed eight-year-old. They're going to have to say no to one of those kids. That's tough.

We cry a lot when the kids get said no to. That's okay. No one gets mad at the show. It's just the way it is. The Olympics started. Did you know this? This might be alor swift fact that you weren't aware of try me so uh they did this was a couple of weeks ago they did the qualifiers for the women's gymnastics team uh to get the five uh players who were going

to be on the team and simone biles uh who's probably most well known for her floor routines did ready for it okay you already knew huh she used taylor swift song i watched it yesterday with chris um yeah it was like the first part of it but then there's no singing in floor routines and so i was like next no it was it was amazing she's amazing taylor was tweeted out tweeted to yeah yeah yeah blah blah i liked it the best best recognizes best i watched simone biles documentary so i'm slightly invested in her story um what is it about is about the twisties it's about like what happened in tokyo it's about what's happened since it's about um that is it about like the the doctor the doctor yeah which is probably why she got the twist about our friendships it's about

her family it's about just how hard gymnastics is on the body on the mind on the spirit um it's really well done it's a netflix thing and um because i want to be invested in olympics and i'm not i just i even said to chris we're watching Simone Biles documentary and, um, oh, she won her six nationals in a row. And I go, what's the, what's the world nationals? He's like, it's, you know, it's the world competition where everyone competes to see who's the best in the world. And I go, what are we doing the Olympics for them? Truly. I need an answer.

If we have a competition every year, but then that, then, then they don't watch it. Then, then work on marketing that better i just don't get why the olympics exists if there is already a world competition in every single sport yeah no that's a really good point um i really don't get it i'm not trying to i for me i think it's just so that the usa can say we're the best because we seem to i saw a medal count and we seem to just win everything. So I would not even be really that interested if I was other countries. I just don't get it.

I don't get what it is if there's already a best in every sport. What you're saying is true and I don't think there's any way to argue against it. However, there's two reasons. I think one is so that the International Olympic Committee makes all that money. That's what I'm saying. I think one is so that the International Olympic Committee makes all that money.

That's what I'm saying. I think it's a cash grab. But also, the Olympics has this prestige to it that the other things don't have. Getting a gold medal in the Olympics, it's just more exposure. But isn't it the same as the other thing? It's not because people don't watch the other

things and that's for better or worse. So then let's get rid of the other thing. Well, I'll get rid of the other thing? It's not because people don't watch the other things and that's for better or worse. So then let's get rid of the other thing. Well, I'll get rid of the other thing. That's true. Why do we need both? And why is there not... Is there baseball at the Olympics? That's controversial.

Not this year. Okay. There's no F1 racing at the Olympics. No. I just don't think... i just don't believe that and i just don't understand why people are already suddenly like fans of women's badminton pairs doubles or whatever like it's just it seems insincere that all of a sudden we're so into this thing that no one gave a fuck about for four years it seems insincere i can't argue with you it seems

fake and i just don't like i just suddenly every four years we get super patriotic and we act like we care about all these sports we didn't care about a month ago yes i just i'm calling bullshit on it i can't describe it but it's just how i feel i do i like i'm really, right now, I'm super into the women's U.S. rugby team because they're dominating. I didn't even know that women's U.S. rugby was a thing until yesterday.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, we're back. The Olympics, women's rugby that why did you choose that did you just pick whatever was on or did you actually seek that out well i started to see highlights of the team and they're just like dominant they're they're just dominating and they're like you understand right and also jason kelsey i saw a clip of jason kelsey he's now a huge women's U.S. rugby team fan, super fan. And it's because it's a lot like football. And these women are just running people over from other countries. It's crazy.

And there's similarities to football, and I love football. And I just love seeing, I don't know like when i see simone biles dominate i go i'm so glad she's from america because i'm so proud that our that the american athlete is i mean i know that she really has nothing but i i like america i do too but i'm i'm get, I know I'm the only one who feels this way, but I just, I think, how do I say this? I think pride in your country and your city is dumb. And like when it comes to sports, because a lot of sports are just like, who pushed people the hardest or who or it's just luck it's like simone was just born here well when it comes to but if she was from china would we be into her as much no i'd be booing her like crazy i'd say boo you suck simone i'd say you're

terrible you communist i'd throw eggs i like her no matter where she's from how about i don't like her if she's from any other country except the usa if she got the twisties and she was from china i'd be like good no i think there i just i think national pride is kind of lame well that's how we get wars you know we wouldn't get wars without that unless you felt like you were better than other places that's true so i guess it is really helpful we need the wars i just i think it's also nice it's just it's just i think he it's it's partially like america's got talent i'm being a jerk and i don't i don't want to be this way i want to i want to just be able to enjoy it and be invested in yesterday anya sent us on the girls chat of

a video of a she goes this made me cry i'm like in full-blown tears right now and i was just waiting and waiting for when like i don't know um i don't know what would have made me cry about this this woman just pole vaulted and i guess she broke a 37 year record i mean this is exactly america's got talent this is why i cry for that so america's got the olympics is the pinnacle of human achievement and when it's and so that that is just you you're in awe of what the human body body is capable of yes you're in awe of the work they put in to achieve these things no matter what country they're from if you see someone break a world record or if you see someone overcome some adversity

to achieve something great, that is inspiring. And that's one reason why, which is why the power- But no, it's not. No one's doing anything with this. They're watching it and they're like, that's inspiring.

And then they're not going out and doing it. You feel it's entertainment though. You're not going to go run faster because you watch someone run. Like maybe, entertainment though you're not gonna go run faster because you watch someone run like maybe maybe no i won't run faster that's for sure but i'll feel something for five seconds okay that's and that's good and i and i'm i'm let me just try to be like enthusiastic about this okay i'm not being i'm not so stupid and obtuse that I can't understand why it's emotional for someone to break a 37 year old record. But I don't understand why my friend Anya was crying about it.

Like I don't understand why I'm I don't do track and field. I don't understand what that record means. I don't to me. It just looked like every other pole vault I've ever seen. I was crying because I'll never have the body that this girl had i thought that maybe made me tear up this means something that i can't get emotional about this i don't know i don't know what it means but i feel really left out i'm i'm not trying to be like everyone should know what i am because this is not fun to be but i just don't get it i just don't feel you searching

for it and it's i am searching for it. I understand. I'm getting into football now. I'm watching the quarterback show. I'm understanding. You know, if they just talk to me through how hard these people work and what it means and how insane it is to do that pole vault. And like,

you know, even on the Simone Biles documentary, they're talking about all these. First of all, they said they renamed a move that she created but they called it now they go if she does the ingzenbazen double twist with the triple deuce they're renaming it biles too and i go didn't you just have a name for it didn't you just say what it was like whose is ingzenbazen and are you just throwing her under

the bus like there were fuck engs and boson she's from germany or something we don't need that i was very confused at how they're renamed i understand making up new moves but this move seemed to already have a name but also i wanna i wanna see it slowed down and i wanna see how incredible because obviously it all looks incredible yeah it's so fast you can't understand it you know there's that tweet that gets recirculated every time where it's like one girl says said she wants one normal person to be competing in the olympics so we can just see how fast these people actually are good yeah because they're all so amazing but i really just don't understand i want to see i want to see what the twist is and how they go.

I want to see how someone learns how to do that over time. Well, you have to watch the full coverage and not just highlights, because then you will get the whole backstory. You will get analysis, and you'll get slow motion replays and everything. All right. One of the tropes with the Olympics is that they show you some sappy backstory, and then you see them compete and and they try to leverage your emotional connection to the athlete in order to make you cry and that's

exactly what america's got talent won't have anything to do in four years like for another four years i'm crying because they won't have a career in 10 years. I'm crying because of, yeah, like all, like the fact that I don't think they're being paid to do any of this stuff. You have to kind of put blinders on. I'm crying because of the twin bed I see they have to sleep on in the Olympic Village. I just, I'm just like, I kind of just call bullshit on everyone getting excited about this thing that we don't talk about at all in between. And it's the only time anyone gives a fuck about sports besides football. And it just is kind of like, where were you guys the other times? Oh, now you care.

If I was like these athletes, I'd be like, do you really care? I would just kind of feel like it was just all put on. So in order to care about it. Instead of appreciating it, but I guess I should just appreciate it. I think that's it. You gotta let go of the cynicism and you gotta just allow yourself to enjoy this every four years.

It's historic. I mean, it's been around since BC and then it was brought back in 1897 or something. It is also a representation of all countries besides Russia is not allowed in the olympics this year putting aside their differences because of the war yeah it well so they've been banned from the olympics many times and like in the last olympics what's your dog doing

sorry my dog is like on the table taking like just this table has just been depleted of things that are on it the little knickknacks and she just found the hedgehog that we bought at one point that was stuffed hedgehog and she found it and now she is on the table showing the other dogs what she's found and just taunting them with it and just just getting into mischief has no idea that there is a podcast no respect for the podcast she's treating this podcast like we treat sports for four years like we treat bad but most of the time yes on the off years um i'll try to get into there's too many things to be into i just don't know how people have all this time to watch all this stuff well you know that that is time is an issue you know it's it's only two weeks every four years

that you gotta and you don't have to watch all of it. But no, with the Russia thing, Russia's been banned from the Olympics many times. The last time they were banned was because of the doping scandals. They can't seem to follow the rules given their athletes drugs. And they weren't able to regulate it. And the IOC said,

well, this time, this was the last Olympics, you're not going to be allowed to wear your country's colors. And you're not going to be allowed to wear your country's colors and you're not going to be able to play your russian national anthem if your players win and you're going to have to call yourself like i forgot what it was called like the roc or something like some alternate name but everybody knew that it was still russia that's so weird that they were like they just take away all the things that would celebrate you but you can still compete you can still compete so but but it was still russia and so when you had the medal count

the medal count is generally a race between the three like major superpowers in the world russian athletes yeah so it's russia china and the u.s are always the top three and usually it's it's like who's gonna win russia or u.s or china or the u.s never really russia or china unless it's like who's going to win, Russia or the U.S. or China or the U.S. Never really Russia or China unless it's in Russia or in China. Then it's usually home field advantage. But this year at the Olympics, because of the Ukraine war, Russia is not even allowed to compete as a team. If you are a Russian athlete in certain events and only certain events, you're allowed to compete as an individual just for yourself. It doesn't count towards Russia's medal count. If you look at the medal count, Russia is not going to be on it this year so gymnasts if you're

russian gymnasts you can still compete but you didn't get a medal but your russia won't get it i don't know which i don't know which uh which sports it applies to but in certain sports you can and in certain sports you're just not even allowed to play okay and then will you tell me this why my driver in vegas last weekend told me like oh did you see the women's basketball game last night the olympic team played the all-star team and the all-star team won and i go what why don't we switch teams then and send that one i'm serious what's going's going on here? Yeah, I mean... And why is Caitlin Clark not on the Olympic team? That's controversy.

Because when they made the team, Caitlin Clark wasn't performing as well as she is now. I think probably her not making the Olympic team inspired her to become great in the WNBA. It was that adversity

because the coach of the Olympic team came out and said, if we were to make the team today Caitlin Clark would be on it but when we did make the team she wasn't the best she was mid mid Caitlin Clark

alright I still don't get it I don't get any of it like I don't get why certain you know what okay basketball team how how do they decide who makes it who makes the basketball yeah like who decides who picks it's like the coaches and yeah it's kind of just like a there's a committee who just selects the players and then

why would they ever have the women's olympic team play another team? Just like, why would they ever show us that they're sending a lesser group of girls? Not lesser, but like whatever that night they were lesser. And then someone told me, Oh no, they let them win because they didn't, because I don't,

they weren't playing that hard. Cause they were saving it up for the Olympics or something. I don't know. Does that make sense? It does because the team that's not going to the Olympics has nothing else to play for except to beat the Olympic team to prove that they should have gone to the Olympics,

whereas the other team is like... Why would they even have that game to sell tickets, I guess? Is it just money? It's all about capitalism, Nikki. All of these things wouldn't exist right now, anyway, if it wasn't for capitalism. There is a group of international men called the IOC who is solely responsible for torturing these teenagers so that they can make billions of dollars. Would you let your kid do gymnastics?

Yeah, I would force my kid to do gymnastics. i think that's the only way i would do it i would put her into the gulag at age four and say if you don't come out with a gold medal i'm gonna pretend you don't have a father it would be really hard to be because every athlete wants to be the best to ever do it i would think right you got to be tortured a little bit wouldn't it suck to just be on the like in gymnastics right now with Simone Biles? Because she is just so above and beyond everyone else. It just would be like, what am I even doing? It does suck.

I feel that way often in my life in every aspect. Well, I think you'd really relate to Jordan Childs, who is the third best member of the Olympic team. And she only qualified for one individual event and the one individual event she qualified for is the one that Simone Biles is best at. So she knows she has no chance of getting a gold medal.

Unless Simone Biles like explodes, she has no chance. In fact, Suni Lee got a gold medal last year or four years ago for her individual event only because Simone Biles got the twisties. Yeah. Can you imagine being the third best at something the third best at something it's like diversity goodwill hunting yeah so you know like the the scars guard uh professor yeah um who like tries to groom uh will hunting and then not sexually not sexually sorry. Like tries to make him a genius. Yes. Yeah. And Skarsgård is like there's only a handful of people in the entire world who can even tell the difference between you and me.

And yet Will Hunting is like when he solves a proof for Skarsgård and then sets it on fire. Skarsgård like runs to the ground and starts and he's panicked because he needs to see that proof because he knows that he can never imagine the things that Will Huntington can imagine, except he already won the most prestigious medal in his field, and he's probably the second smartest person, but this other guy is so much better than him.

Can you imagine how maddening that must be to be Jordan Childs right now and be like, you're the third best? No, it's worse to be just someone who right now and be like, you're the third best. No. No, you can't. No, it's worse to be just someone who has no talent at all. Imagine you were beaten and molested

and you suck. Wait. Imagine. I mean, it would, there is a part of me that keeps watching this documentary and they just keep saying

Simone Biles is the greatest to ever do it. They're once in a lifetime athlete. No one will ever touch her for the rest of our lifetimes. Like it's just, it's insane what she's capable of. And, um,

it just is like, why even try that? Because sports is about being the best. I guess we need a bunch of other people doing it to even know what the best is, but it seems pretty, uh, that would,

that would, she's so humble though. I really like how she handles it all. She doesn't seem to be like someone who carries herself as the best she seems so normal i really recommend watching the documentary and um and yeah and they don't really i just i want to understand what twisties is they just it's a mental block that has nothing to do with gymnastics usually but yeah it's like the yips and it's like they your body doesn't do what your mind wants it to do. And I go, yeah, we all got like a normal person. Like my body doesn't do what it wanted to do when I'm doing a simple Pilates class.

So I think I understand it in that respect. But well, it would be like if you started to get stage fright, which is what happened to Steve Martin. If you remember in his book. Oh, yeah. He got stage fright and it was like, I can't even go on stage anymore to do stand-up but it would be like if you got stage fright and the end result of stage fright was that you'd fall off the stage and break your neck okay that makes you like well i probably shouldn't try because i might break my neck if i do this well i know nate bargazzi said he got late stage um what uh claustrophobia yeah i i'm kind of wanting to get something i want something that'll

make it so things have to change in my life and i got to change things up you want to sabotage yourself a little bit i want some kind of like am i uh-oh this is the self-sabotage you're you're tall poppy right now well no because then i have an excuse that's the other thing simone biles was talking about was like when a when an athlete breaks their leg everyone's like okay yeah you can't compete but once you break your mind it's invisible and no one can tell and i feel like sometimes i want something that i can like point to is like why i can't do the things i can do and then everyone goes oh poor girl instead of like you just suck you want to be a horse you know like if i just got stage fright suddenly then it would it'd be something even though that's not

really tangible um no i do not wish for that but the other day i was in an elevator and i was like oh this is kind of boxed in and i was like kind of letting in claustrophobia and i was like let me try to get it right now and i couldn't get it no you can't force something interesting you have to not want it in order to get it instead my quirk is that i'm not interested in olympics and it's not really working for me it's not that interesting no it's definitely not gonna you know gain you uh sympathy if you mess up yeah and if you have a terrible set it's like oh don't feel don't worry about that. She hates the Olympics. Don't blame her.

She doesn't like sports. She's joyless. But there is something deficient in me that I can't enjoy a simple Olympics. Yeah. And I don't get it. No, that's sad. That's sad. I mean, I feel bad for you. I wish you could enjoy this stuff.

And everyone's like freaking out about Beyonce being USA. And she's in a swimsuit with the USA. And then the teammates are going beyonce and i'm just like i'm i'm waiting for to feel something and i don't feel anything god what the fuck why are you not are you on antidepressants no oh my god it's not because i'm and i'm not even smoking weed there's nothing that's like suppressing how like if anything my feelings should be raging out of me i just i i saw like three million likes on this beyonce video and i'm like yes let me feel it and then it it just like honestly numb

i didn't feel i didn't feel it and um so i don't know what's what's going on what's the last thing you watched or saw that did make you feel something um i cried yesterday or maybe yeah last night oh god it was so sweet it was like you know that dodo account that has like stories about animals and it was it was oh my god it was like a woman that was talking about how she was like my husband didn't want me to get one but i got another duck because obviously this woman just rescues ducks and chickens and she was like and so we someone found an abandoned duck so we took it in was this baby duck and it was it was getting along with the baby chicken we had and these they became best friends and they're just like and they're running around the house together and they're so cute this little chick she had in this little duck and

then the duck grew up and he started learning to fly but he would always come back and hang out with the chicken because they were so bonded but then one day the duck flew up and he started learning to fly, but he would always come back and hang out with the chicken because they were so bonded. But then one day the duck flew off and it never came back. God only knows what happened to it. And the chicken was so sad that it was sitting next to, they had a dog too. And the dog has a soccer ball that was like deflated and kind of looked like the duck when it was deflated. And it just was sitting next to this deflated soccer ball and i started crying because it just wanted to be friends with this thing that's like not giving it anything back you know like it's just so sad when animals i'm gonna cry

now thinking about it like animals like want to be friends with something and it's like dead next to it it was just so sad and And so then, but then it was a happy ending because then the dog stepped in and was friends with the chicken. And it was friends. So, I mean, if there was, like,

an animal Friends Olympics, I would be so touched by it. This weekend, I was actually, like, so overwhelmed with emotion and distracted

because I'm taking care of my parents dogs and i realized the number one thing in my life that like makes me more upset than anything is when a dog has an itch like that it can't get oh my god i just can't fucking handle it yeah like if i ever see my dog scratching at anything i instantly start getting the scratch for them so they can just relax like there's nothing worse than a dog like you know when you like have to do to doing a back bend, just so you can scratch your ankle. Can you imagine like the pain in your spine? Cause this thing is like gnawing at you.

So Marian, my parents' dog has allergies and she like back by her tail is just plagued. You can just see her get like jolts of like, ah, itches. And she starts going after it. And so I was getting it this weekend and your thing i'm just my fingers

have so much marion asshole dna in them right now my finger underneath my fingernails because i was just scratching her tail all weekend it was the only way she was happy and then she would just be like she would fall asleep because she was so exhausted from itching that she can't sleep and so whenever she would get some relief she would pass out right away and so i'm itching that she can't sleep and so whenever she would get some relief she would pass out right away and so i'm itching and then the second i would just be like okay let's be i've been doing this for a half hour i'm just gonna let it go she would just freak out again and then she'd start getting under my hand and being like please and it was like i couldn't sleep i was getting up to like put this lotion on her i was trying all of these things. I'm giving her allergy meds. Nothing was working. And I was like,

I can't function. If a dog, if an animal is uncomfortable or in pain, I cannot, I can't function. I don't know what to do. And, um, and so I was really struggling this weekend with that. And I just, I didn't like, you have a dog that has sometimes feels uncomfortable. Like, isn't it the worst? No. Yeah. It's the worst. I can't sleep. There's nothing you can do you just gotta sit there there's nothing you can do yeah and you don't even really know what's wrong they can't explain to you like what they're feeling no yeah it's horrible so i just i'm getting her more we ran out of allergy meds that's why it was so bad last night but i was up late last night just like she was in our bed and you would just feel it you would just feel the bed shaking and chris is sleeping through it like it's it's a fucking earthquake going on in our bed

because she's just and so i would get up and i would go to the couch and i would just talk her down and then she would finally calm down and seize up again it was just it was exhausting and i'm i like was texting my parents feverishly like this is not okay you handed me a like you're not taking care of this dog why is this dog scratching all the time what's going on do you just let her do this is she just i was just like and i'm lashing out at them they woke up to this barrage of texts from me being like i texted them both together and then i individually was like you're torturing this dog this dog i'm taking her back and like the truth of the matter is she's fine it's not that big of a deal i just took it on as like because i just don't want to deal with my own

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ears edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What have you been watching besides the Olympics, Brian? Anything good? When I started watching, I've been going to the movies.

Oh, really? Did you see Deadpool? I just saw Deadpool. With everyone else? Yeah, I saw been going to the movies. Oh, really? Yeah. Did you see Deadpool? I just saw Deadpool. With everyone else? Yeah, I saw Deadpool this weekend. How was it? I'm disappointed in the entire direction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And Deadpool was supposed to be MCU Jesus. And I thought that that was going to mean something. And I don't think it does. I think it was some tongue-in-cheek uh self-awareness and um i don't think it's going to amount to much but are you kidding me didn't it make a bill isn't it the number six grossing film of all time yeah i think individually the film is fine um but i am upset for the entire marvel cinematic universe and the dis Disney level cash grab that has oversaturated the market and created this

deluge of shitty movies one after the other and I honestly blame it all on one thing and that is the multiverse which I fucking hate. I hate the concept of the multiverse. I hate what it's done to the Marvel Universe. I hate every because the multiverse

says that basically nothing matters that what it's done to the Marvel Universe. I hate every... Because the multiverse says that basically nothing matters. That if someone dies or if something happens here, that you can always replace that person or that character or you can go back in time or go to a different universe

and something completely different is happening. And that, to me, is anathema to storytelling. The whole point of a story is to have an arc where things change and if nothing matters and there's no stakes and to me there's no story there's no point to having the movie in the first place and so when did the multiverse come in when did they come up with this like in an mcu or just in general i don't know and when did it when did it show up and when did

you go well this is bullshit well so the theory it's a theory in physics that's been around for decades um based on like some experiments where uh like you there was like something could be a wave and a particle at the same time i don't have to get into that but like oh so meaning like there could be a million infinite an infinite amount of different things happening at once yeah. The idea is that everything that can happen is concurrently happening all at once. Time is a construct and

every time you make a decision or anything changes, then that is a new universe is breaking off and all these things are happening. So every little minute change, it could just be like in one universe you have green eyes, in one universe you you have green eyes and one universe, you have blue eyes and one universe,

you have eyes that are one millimeter shorter, but then in another universe, I scratched my dog's left ear and one universe, I scratched his right ear. And then that's a, they tear off into different. And then it goes on and spirals out until in one universe, you're an octopus and,

or in one universe, you're just shapes. Okay. So, and I just think that that's just a theory everyone's treating that like that's a scientific fact and it's not it's a theory based on experiments that the interpretation of that theory does not mean that just because something could be a particle in a wave at the same time does not mean that everything is happening simultaneously and in

one universe you're an octopus god damn it okay so what does this have to do with deadpool and how what could the deadpool have done differently like why did do you i thought that deadpool so in deadpool so mini spoiler alert here it's not isn't anything to do with the story but mini spoiler alert if you're going to watch deadpool versus wolverine in the movie deadpool flat out says that the movies that mcu has been putting out since endgame have not been very good and he says that yes i mean a lot of the deadpool jokes are are um making fun of the franchise are meta yeah just meta it's a whole meta franchise and he said that one of the reasons why they're so bad is because the multiverse is a bad idea and it's ruined everything.

And I thought what that meant was they're going to fix this. And they're going to start making movies that they're going to collapse the metaverse or the multiverse. And they're going to have one thing that matters. And I think that was just lip service. But the most frustrating thing about watching deadpool versus wolverine was not the movie itself it was the audience just loud well there's two types of audience members that i think really enjoy deadpool versus wolverine well there's three there's normal people like i'm hope me that are just watching it and enjoying it or whatever

and then there are super nerds who are there to enjoy like all of the references and then there are super nerds who are there to enjoy all of the references. And then there are industry nerds who are there to enjoy all the meta Hollywood jokes. And both of these groups of people are so annoying to sit next to because they do this thing. Exactly. Yep. I know exactly what you're talking about. They're performatively enjoying. They have to laugh louder at parts that they get that speak to their little niche knowledge.

Yep. So that they can make you feel like, wow, that guy behind me is really smart. Oh, he must be an agent because he got that Hollywood joke. Exactly. He must make a lot of money. So there was one person in particular who was doing this and this person got up and they were going to the bathroom so they walked on the aisle going past everything yeah and they walked particularly slowly so that everyone could like see yeah who they were yeah

and this while they're walking past they were looking at the screen, nodding and smiling. And it's like, dude, just go to the fucking bathroom. He came back and then he did it a second time. And I'm like, dude, you have to go to the bathroom twice. I'm dying to know who this person is and like what their job is in Hollywood. Well, I got this is a big ending. Oh, so the second time this guy walks by, he turns to the screen and he, this is insane. He's in the aisle. He already should feel like he's a distraction.

He looks at the screen, middle of the aisle and laughs out loud. So everyone's already distracted by this guy. And then he does the fucking, I'm smarter than everybody laugh. It's so gross. Yeah. And then I look at this guy, I'm looking at his face and I'm smarter than everybody laugh. It's so gross. Yeah. And then I look at this guy. I'm looking at his face and I'm like, I recognize this guy. Oh, I know who this guy is.

He's an actor. He's a comedian. Oh, God. And I can tell you who he is, but I don't think I don't want to. I'll tell you who he is off or in. Yeah. Yeah. Diamond Players Club.

But I'm like, I know who this guy is. He is a well-known comedian, or not well-known enough to be like a big deal. Listen, we all need things in life that make us feel a little special because we're not all Simone Biles, right? We need these things that make us feel different than the group, smarter than, better than, and it's okay

and that's why they're there, little nods that make us feel like, oh, I got that and not everyone else gets it. sometimes I'll throw out things in my set that even I know like I'll say and I know that most people aren't besties in the crowd and don't know what is but it's not enough to like alienate people and I would hate if besties were like

like really laughed loud at that to make other people feel bad that they didn't get it I just do it so that there's a little nod for them and of course you can laugh or whatever happens it's Taylor Swift shows too where like, I never, I know probably,

I'm probably, you know, top 1% of Swifties in a crowd in terms of like what I know. Maybe top 2% of like my knowledge and stuff. But I don't care

if someone doesn't know. And in fact, I want, when Taylor says like a joke or there's some kind of reference to something i instantly tell the people i'm around so that they are then filled in on it which is not exactly what you should do in this movie or whatever but it is so good when people are desperate to like seem smarter than or i mean i've done it sometimes if i'm at a comedy show

where like there's like a joke that only comics get and I'll laugh extra loud. But I'm kind of doing it to let that comic feel like they got to laugh. I'm not so much doing it for myself. But we can't all be perfect. And we all are definitely seeking some validation and feeling special. And that gives it to us sometimes. But just tone it down a little bit. Yeah.

We know that you're smart it's also one thing if you're genuinely responding in that way and you're just laughing and you can't help it like that is okay but sometimes you can just tell that this isn't genuine laughter this is the laughter of a narcissist who wants you to know like this one of the guys who was doing it was like he also cheered a couple of times and he was literally the only one who cheered and i was like i think i'm okay with the cheering like he cheered when like wolverine popped up or whatever yeah and i was like yeah there was a couple of moments like that there were a little like comic nerd inside baseball and he cheered i'm like that's okay i don't mind that

because that doesn't feel as narcissistic for some reason i guess is like a thing to get people together and sometimes it can be annoying and i'm like a guy will cheer or someone will do something obnoxious in a crowd and i go if he does it again then i'm pissed but the one time was kind of fun for us all to like laugh at that guy who just shouted out something final thought i was talking to chris about this actually yesterday about how people act or they act like they're just phony in some way to get people to like them and we've all done it we're all capable of it and i was like i think i'm rather vigilant that i don't i really don't ever want to be someone who does that but it happens to me too sometimes like if i'm at a taylor swift show sometimes i will want someone to film me so that i have some footage of

myself there at the show and when the camera's on me when i know someone's filming me so that i have some footage of myself there at the show and when the camera's on me when i know someone's filming me maybe i'll play it up a little bit more how i'm singing or dancing but not really like i'm still kind of i still in my head go nikki just try to do what you would do normally like and i always try to keep it not so performative that's hard though that's hard you're like a professional at that and like i think anybody who's put on camera starts acting strange yes they do it's extreme that's like the most difficult thing to do to act natural when someone's filming you yeah that is true but i i just it it is a tough thing to do and and to not be like on when there's a camera on you and it's it yeah you're right it is like a skill to let go of that but it's um sometimes i wish i could be a little

bit more on when the camera's on me sometimes i'm a little bit too comfortable a little too slouched over a little too just like meandering like i am right now um but i um yeah we it was just talking about that of just how like people can be phony but i do want to start going to see movies in crowds more because it just feels like a social thing to do and i get lost in my phone when i'm when i'm at home and um i want to go see inside out too yeah i this weekend we watched what did we watch we watched i finished presumed innocent and i can't have opinions about you i'm it's like the tina fey thing that she said to bowen yang like you're too famous to have opinions about art anymore did you ever see that clip or she was like you can't do this you're

gonna run into these people right you don't get to you reach a certain level of fame you don't have to get to have real opinions about things you consume. Yeah. Because you're going to, you're going to work with these people potentially. So I can't share my opinion of it. I actually really did enjoy it. I did predict the ending.

It's Chris and I do this really fun thing where we just constantly pause the thing and go, what do you think is going to happen? And we always try to predict what's going to happen. And it just gives it some stakes. It's very much enjoyable yeah that the ending was insane i wish i could share my thoughts about it um i have really nothing negative to say except that like i don't know why everyone was in love with this girl so much if you watch presume

innocent like they're just not showing me how the twist like again with the simone by i was like i want to understand how cool you tell me this move is cool and of course any she does a back handspring i'm like that's cool show me why this one is particularly cool if you saw someone just do a back handspring and like walking around you'd be like oh my god that was the most amazing thing ever blow your mind and then so when she does this i'm like yes it's cool but i don't understand why that's so much cooler than what the other gymnasts can do because it all looks the same what you need is every olympian to have a little backstory with an animal that you get to watch before they do their event that would be sweet a little yes a little backstory where well or just like i want to hear about friendships

which i really liked ali reisman i think her name is and simone biles their friendship is adorable i want to see relationships i love the quarterback show because it shows like they're how they meet everyone these guys all these quarterbacks are the same they are so similar they all meet their girlfriends in college early college or late high school and they're with them throughout the whole thing and they are all i love quarterbacks i'm obsessed with them i think it's my favorite position i don't really know the other positions yet um but i gotta watch that receivers thing but i'm obsessed with quarterbacks and the other night chris gave me the best compliment ever

he like paused that we were watching the quarterback show and he paused the show and he goes i'm not just saying this i i think you'd be a really good quarterback wow i was like oh my god i think it's the best compliment i've ever gotten in my life i think so ice water in your veins you prefer when when the when the whistle blows you perform and that's the most you're not going to get rattled you're not going to if you throw one interception you're not going to throw five interceptions you're going to move on and and and you are able to consume a lot of information at once yep and make sense of it and choose and pick and choose really quickly what you want to do the route you want to take. The decision-making is the most important.

It's so cool. It was the nicest compliment, and I didn't disagree with him. I do think that the show I'm watching, it shows Mariotta. What's his name? Marcus Mariotta. Marcus Mariotta, Patrick Mahomes, and Kirk Cousins.

Okay. And they're all just like simple guys. They're not really showboaty at all. I think the receivers are more like coming up with the dances and wanting to kind of be in the spotlight more. The quarterbacks seem to be pretty understated and kind of dorky. Is that a correct assumption? Depends on the guy.

One of the most popular quarterbacks the last 20 years brett farve i guess you could say in a way he was a little understated but not dorky i mean really not dorky i feel like he was like a cowboy well that's all i know about him whereas it was like a yellow his penis was literally like yellow colored yeah well i guess if you're gonna judge them based on the colors of their dicks and they're all dorky i don't know it just seems like really dorky to send a dick pic i just think that's kind of like no no to someone who doesn't want it like not only is that like assault brother but it's also like it's just a dork thing to do yeah no there are not really reading the room you're right there's all there is just also you know what though there's just also a lot of gen z who gen z is like kind of dorky like and popular people are dorky

like okay they've they they've gone beyond nerd culture and they're just like yeah i love anime or they're like some of the coolest people in the nfl are like anime fans and they're just like whatever so cool i'm obsessed i'm obsessed with patrick holmes i'm obsessed with car cousins right the the mariotta guy they're not spending as much time on but um they're so cute they're so dedicated they work so hard their bodies go through so fucking much i just can't believe there is a sport where these guys get essentially like in a car accident every single day and it's illegal. I just can't believe it. And they work like it's just so this show quarterback is so fascinating to see the training they go through and their diets and just the the how they have to memorize all the plays.

I don't understand plays at all i don't understand how they can say all these things really quickly and everyone understands it because there's got to be what you got to assume there's one guy out on the field who didn't do his homework and doesn't know what that play is and it's just like whoops and is too scared to ask right that's gotta happen sometimes or gets confused yeah yeah i mean that happened a couple times to our boy rodney thomas last season and that's why he lost his starting position because he just got confused with the coverage oh is that what it's called when you get the coverage well for him it was like the play you pick he's a defensive player

so he the defensive play is usually called the coverage and he's a safety and he mixed he mixed up his coverage with the who was a pro bowl veteran guy and so it's clearly his fault did it twice and it was a really important moments in the games and that's i can't imagine it wouldn't happen all the time that these guys are not like these guys are famous they're making millions they're suddenly like have a lot more responsibility things to do they have families and then they have to study this playbook and i know and chris keeps going nikki it's their job it's all they've done their whole lives it's their job that's how they do it and i'm like but it still seems rather complicated and even there's one scene where um patrick mahomes had to ask the ref is it cool if um can quarterbacks be in motion during the um what's it called pre-snap when they're throwing when they're throwing the ball back between the legs the hike

yeah like you know how like right before the hike they start like running around like there's the defense will start going like the like run and then run back yeah they can be in motion well offensive players can be in motion too he didn't know back yeah they can be in motion well offensive players can be in motion too he didn't know if quarterbacks could be in motion he literally had to ask the ref who did patrick mahomes really yes and i go chris why didn't he know that he's like because it's like the rules are sometimes unclear well because yeah that is because normally quarterbacks never go in motion they'll either they can go from they can go from under center to shotgun which is just like a Well, because normally quarterbacks never go in motion. Right, that's what Chris said. They can go from under center to shotgun,

which is just a few steps behind the center. And then it was probably some wacky Andy replay, because he always does wacky plays that no one's ever done before. And he wasn't sure if that's even legal. So I guess that makes sense in that situation. It made me feel seen, because I didn't know either. There's new things coming up that I don't understand all the time in football it's really fascinating i'm slowly chugging along trying to understand it but i'm getting way

better at it way better but it's still so confusing all right we have to go thank you uh for joining us for this bonus episode these dogs lasted the whole time i'm so proud of them um she got the hedgehog off the table. We talked about the Olympics. I still... Besties, send me clips. Try to give me the cry about the Olympics. I want to be on board. I don't want to be left out. I'm not trying to get you on my side. I want to be a part of this national

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