February 10, 2026 • 35 mins
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!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ring ring, ring, ring ring. That was a different melody
that we did that time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, it was an Italian sort of inflection because here
we are. You feel the energy on NBCA YouTube. Yes,
thank gad to me the NBC YouTube.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let me translate what I think that was. Thank you
to nbskin YouTube for bringing us here to the Milan
Courtina Olympics.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Give it up, Give it up, give it up, and
we're here with the whole studio. Follow people, yes, interact.
Only in Milan does legacy media and new media come together.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Absolutely, if you if you are not enjoying us visually
right now, and podcasts are now a visual media across
all formats. We are in a recreated uh Courtina esque
log cabin studio.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're in Courtina. Oh gosh, it's so fun. Everyone at
this Olympics is like, I'm going to live a vineo tomorrow.
I'll see you later. How long are your Milan for?
Well you have to go to the duomo? And that's
really all there is.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The sheikha sentences you've ever said, Well you have to
go to the duomo.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
How long are you in Milan?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's like I never dreamed as a boy that I
would ever ask these questions.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
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 ib C. Do you hear that
this is all jargon?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
This is all jargon.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
International Broadcasting Center, That's what I'm guessing it is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Did I nail it?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I knew, you know, Matt, let's talk through our arrival
in Milan, because we really are here.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is not a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
They actually did send us all those threats that we did, like, oh,
they better send us. It actually paid off.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think we're doing I think we're representing our lovely
collaborator as well, certainly our country better than others.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, we'll get into it. We'll get into it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
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 Laurence swag.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes and thank you Ralph, Thanks Ralph. And we had
a lovely flight. We got to go to the Team
USA Welcome experience at airport.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We basically walked through exactly. They were kind enough enough
to like simulate the experience of an Olympia, a US
Olympia's arrival for US. Might we say it's a very
very very emotional, exciting, personalized experience.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I was going to say, because it's at the airport,
is the airport share rautn get into it, 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 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
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walk up these escalators. There's like a gorgeous processional sort
of bombast playing around you. Everyone is clap 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 personalized
(03:39):
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 LEDC screen. Yeah, there's my mom,
(04:01):
all big, there's telling me she loves me and is proud.
There's Mom next to the skims Oakley station, and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know, we went in there, We went in there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You haven't lived until you've seen the Olympics themed skim panties,
the Olympics theme skims panties, the Olympics themed skims, thigh
high sock. Or I would assume the bedroom in the
Olympic village.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
This is the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Tell them they're sicking these giant gift bags that are
chic onto these world class athletes who are staying in
a little shoe box of.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A room in the Olympic village. You know what a right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
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, in incredible experience,
we got to try on the uh the opening ceremony
coats and sweaters that the US team.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We took videos and don't worry.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It was stolen valor because these people were treating us
like we were Olympians and we were like, oh, we're podcasters.
It's like the polar opposite.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Opposite of Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But we are going to have the great Adam Rapond,
who is both an Olympian and a podcaster, proving you
can do both.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You can do both.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm literally motivated to start curling after this trip.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You've been talking a lot about it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, we met the incredible Cleo Abram, Yes, who it's
her favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She did a whole eighteen minute explain every video that
I watched, just with precision and in total sort of thrall.
That would be the sport for you, curling. It's your
your lungeon. You're you're sweeping, you get into a deep lunch,
you're shaking hands, you're getting beers after you get years after,
(06:01):
really beers of the winning the winning team has to buy.
They're both teams. Yeah, a beer? 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's sport.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Was this created in Canada?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Where did curling begin? Is barbier? Barb?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Barb didn't make the trip. Yeah, not surprised, Barb, you slacker.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No, no one's here to check facts.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This is okay.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, we're kidding. We're kidding Barb. By the way, we
just got to let people know Barbe is lovely. Barb
deserves to run this entire com So, Barb is lovely.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She doesn't deserve any of this flack.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay, And we can figure someone else can figure out
where curling started.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It just sounds like a very Canadian thing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
To compliment someone prior to doing like any meddling or
whatever and say hey, have a beer feels very Canadian feels.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think I'm going to say it started in the
UK Scotlandland because the stones are made from a granite,
specifically from an island in Scotland, from specific rare earth metals.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Was this in the She's great, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We're having a great time with her. We're taking pictures
with her like she's the third guy, five ring.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
She's the third guy five ring if the third guy
looked like Julia Roberts.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Literally Julia Roberts, And it's like you know when you
see someone and you're like you, I know, you look
like someone, and then all you're like, oh, surely it
can't be the most famous, most gorgeous woman in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's what she looks like.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
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 in 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 about something, we should know.
(08:00):
Here we are, they flow us out.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
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 Courtina Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You believe this. We were there.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We were there, and one of the wonderful gentlemen who
was in this from earlier. His first name is Mike
you don't need to know his last name, Well you don't.
You don't need to know his last name, but you
even look this up because he almost traps me. He goes,
we hait the opening ceremony last night. I was like, yes,
he goes, what'd you think? I was like, it was spectacular,
it goes well, I directed it stop and I was like, you, sir,
(08:40):
you tried to that's Entrapmant. He was the Liz Patrick
of the ceremony because he was trying to get me
to say it was all right. Oh, it was Entrapmant.
It's a very serious crime, Mike. Mike, you better watch it.
I'll sell your last name.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Inner poll is gonna come for your ies. You docked.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just kidding anyway, Congratulate an amazing job, Mike. Meanwhile, he's
out here working on a Saturday. It's Saturday here in Milan.
That's that's huge. The see on the Olympics. You could
be working on a Saturday like us. Yeah, like us.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
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 Era's tour, and then I realized
how dumb I was, and I quickly corrected myself to
be like, wow, this is this is the most epic
production I had ever seen. Yeah, you're not wrong, though
it was very Aristaurus. Did she perform there, barb Aristour
(09:35):
Milan stop then you yeah, see if she played at
the Span Spiro or whatever, then.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We're not We're not talking to barbar We're talking.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Zero zero, not Sanspiro. Earlier we were listening to the song.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We were listening to the soundtrack to Spiro the video game. Yeah, yeah,
we're listening to her name is Siana Spiro Lasly you
know that new song. It's kind of like a Dell.
But I don't think so she did.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
She makes all the sense in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
If it's fit for the Opak ceremony, it's fit for
the air store.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I hope people at the arastour in Milan had the
same interesting hot dog that I had. Say 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. I was missing the
extra you know. It was too it was too like
(10:33):
one thing. It was too they're making.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Six million of these. You know what I'm saying. Huh.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Anyway, we're happy we got to We're going to talk
about the hot dogs at San Sierra for the rest
of the episode. Mariah Carey, I bet you thought, Oh,
let's listen to the Matt and Bowen, two guys, five
rings episode of the Opak Ceremony.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's going to be a lot of Mariah Carey. Haven't
undered her name until now.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's not because it wasn't deserved, because let me tell
you what was extremely amazing her performance in Italian Lare
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 at All,
which we were there for it all.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it being the opening ceremonies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, she was great. She looked amazing. Probably the coolest
part of being their bts was watching them slowly walk
her out, yes, and then like place her leave three
men both times takes three men to get maryau and then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Afterwards they all come out. She didn't move at all. Okay,
that's how she was, truly the doll I was. I
was expecting a pale quin anyway, quin, and then I
can think, like the thing that you hoist on four guys' shoulders. Yeah,
I was expected for her to sit, for her to
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sit in a little room.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was gonna say palanquin. Now that I think about it, yeah,
oh well, let's go back first.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It starts off with this gorgeous angelic. I want to say,
like neo classical interpreted. Well, the theme of the opening
ceremony was interpretive dance. Yes, every every two years, maybe
as I say, every four years, maybe two, the world
(12:34):
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 but the the anemonia, the adamonia.
Try speaking Italian without having a full seizure. If you're
(12:55):
me anemonia, it takes over you. But the theme was
harmon and there was harmony in the interpretive dance. Absolutely well.
I think I thought the theme was very well sort
of executed throughout the entire show, because good job, Mike.
The sort of the thing was harmony. It was about
two things uniting. It was it was like the like
(13:17):
later on we saw two acrobats suspended on rings joining
That was cou I think I was supposed to represent
city and mountain, mil Milan and quarantine. Is that true?
I think that was the poetic read on it or
harmony an interpretive dance. The world in Italy, the world
in Italy, uh, anything else? Red and green, red and green,
(13:43):
yea red, white and green.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So then let me just get this right, okay? Was that?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And then it was Matilda to Angeli angelis waving around
a huge stick. I saw myself and her, You were her.
Matt Rodgers to Angelus. Matt Rogers de Angelius liked her.
I thought her lines were beautiful for the stars judge.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Beautiful lines, beautiful lines. She was well.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
First she was assailed by the paparazzi. Yes, an Italian invention.
Oh my gosh, I guess, yeah no, but it's they
made it look very she lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Then she walks over, and then she starts waving around
this baton three huge paper mache heads of ver Di,
Puccini and the third opera.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh sure, I'm gonna I'm gonna Pavaratti. No no, sorry, no,
no hold on, let me look at my paper.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
See this is what this is what it is to
know too many things, because then you get caught in
a trap. I knew zero of the three guys. He
knew two of the Now he's in a world of pain.
Go ahead, of course.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They're running around and then they remain. Yeah, I think
I think that those three guys were just watching Charlie's
there and give her speech about peace later on.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, that was also a whole moment.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That was a moment. Well, so then they do that,
Then it's the paint came out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The paint came out of the sky.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Then okay, so this is this is where I 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 paint. Little pieces of paint are a little
like little little crayons running out.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Turns out all those guys were supposed to be espresso makers.
This was where I got a little Italian.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, this is where.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We go, oh wow, I don't think about espresso at
all at all unless Sabrina gar There is involved.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
She put it on the map in America. We didn't
know what it was.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well, espresso martinis. Sure we knew them from Salt Lake
City house wise, that's right, that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Then we arrived at what I thought was a tribute
to Capras salad. Turns out it was red, white and
green Italian flag colors.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Common mistake. Common mistake.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But I went, oh, Italy really really figured that out
with their flag Basil Basil. Basille sounds basil more like
we're here, right, I was like, they they invented tomato,
(16:37):
cheese and basil.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
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 that again,
they don't have chicken palm here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's an American Italian, it's an Italian American.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I got over it, and I didn't bring it
up at lunch.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I didn't want to make a scene, and I ordered
my amateurs and I was very happy, as were you.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We have the same thing with a gorgeous with a
TONI Where do we go?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ratana That was the name of the Restaurantana was another
restaurant to the night before Michelin starred Risotto and Honey.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Our waiter, Alex I will remember you oh, this was
at the other place. Yes, what's that called? That was
called taverna.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Else, taverna something I will remember. Alex he knew something.
And then he made us this he.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Made table side like a custard. Basically it starts with
the z in Italian. I'm blanking on. And then he
comes over to us and he makes he makes us
this dessert right at the table. He comes over to
us and he whispers, and Boone and I 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.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
To lou this is this is Italian said, you better
get out of here. You think it was flirtin I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
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. 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. But he isn't matter. You feel like you
(18:24):
know that all the guys in Italy are gay because
they all say mad this is what this happened.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Mateo Lane told me this was like you're Matteo. You're
so hot. Look at the ass sets so high and round.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Matteo has a very different experience coming to Italy than
we would. He speaks in the language his ass sets
high and round.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What more could you ask? What more could you ask? Mad?
I mean he's getting my asses. Don't do this.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's been looking in problem. I don't know what to say.
My ass is the Tower of Territs straight shot down.
It's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
They've the Tower of Terror now has all sorts of
different dimensions. Okay, so don't so just know things know,
things are moving and shaken. What's my ass?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You've got you've got, you got my best triple lots? No, no,
I'm so I celebrate your ass.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You've got a.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Triple lots, you got, you've got, you've gotta you've got
a curling ass. Now, Oh, ceremony, Yeah right, I was
gonna say ceremony. So then the rings then then the
rings come together. That was That was insane.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That took my breath away.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That was breathtaking because they were not super secure on
those things.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You couldn't see the wires.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Because it made me go when Rihanna did this at
the Super Bowl, when Anti did this at the at
the Christmas show, the Cowboys show. That was so good, amazing,
But they were making sure that those precious icons we're stable.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, these people.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I mean, I guess they're professional acrobats, right, they were
kind of.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Doing it, doing it raw.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
They were doing it and just goes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, I guess they were sure. But you know that,
so that that that happened. They all.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
By the way, this was after the bop. Who knew
the Italian national anthem back to the drawing board, Back
to the drawing board America.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
There's chop.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There's like a whole movement shift in the Italian national anthem.
It sounds like a Celine Dion song from the eighties,
early nineties or nineties.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It just sounds like it sounds like a song that
would win Eurovision and it's their national anthem.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, Italy's got to bring it with the arts in
every aspect, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I didn't realize Italy was the club in this way.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, there was a whole disco sem me because they
gave us discoo is some of the best.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, anyway, the the music throughout the evening was incredible,
and I can't get over the national anthem. I'm going
to be streaming Laura Passini. Did you know of her?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I was very excited to watch her really slay in
front of sixty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
She definitely did that.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
She definitely did that. Then we have our our ring moment.
That was cool. Then we had the Creative 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.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, we did get a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We did take a break, we got we got at
we got up and during you know, we were told
this is the time to get a drink and a snack.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So we said okay. So we said okay, But then.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
We did we made sure we were we were seeing them.
We didn't see did the athletes come in. This was
a widespread opening sear which that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Might be my I don't thing, 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 let's think about
the ways in which that word is used. Sure, lately
(22:25):
it hasn't been great widespread, widespread, widespread sort of transmission widespread.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, are you throwing it back to COVID unrest?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'm thrown it back to all Italy.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This is you're gonna give everyone PTSD.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen this no, this is this is what being in
Milana is like right now. It is fired up, ladies
and gentlemen. It is it is, it is victoria. It
is triumphantly saying we overcame so many things.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, period, we overcame those hot dogs barely.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
H Did I just say san zero? Those bathrooms talk?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Oh that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was like prison stop now me stop.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I wasn't even the one that brought it up. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Can I say we had an amazing time in the stadium,
an amazing time in the state.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Would go there, go there again? Good enough for tailor
good enough for us? What was I gonna say?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Andrea Bocelli, Andrea Well, first Paradi Nations, so many cute outfits,
very much so. It was so lovely to see Italian
Italian Italian athletes coming in.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So the a widespread.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So we were cutting from uh down in Milan, where
you would have these gorgeous, metallic puffered women a la
Angie Caatsanavus and their giant sunglasses walking with a giant
horizontal slab of ice.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
We were not the only ones to say that it
was Anngikats and Naevus coated you. And that is the
second Salt Lake City Housewives reference on the episode.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So far. There has to be a third analogy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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 was we definitely catch a cortina.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, a bit so, and then we I think we
might have cut to the vino. Yes.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I think there was a whole lot of cutting between
and the white hence the widespread aspect. But it was
it was It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It was beautiful because the athletes got so much.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Applause and it felt incredible and we joined in and
we are very excited to be here, like celebrating these
American athletes.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I was watching going like, oh god, it's something. 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 gone. Charlie's Starn comes
out looking like when he rose, quoting compliments to everyone,
compliments to everyone, quoting her countrymen, her fellow countrymen, to
(25:31):
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's. She's played violent women.
She was some movie Mighty Joe Young and people don't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But this lady who has seen violence up close, has
enacted violence the cameras, Yes for a woman to you,
no violence and say from Atomic Bond, cut it out
the war for Sea's sake, mad me go.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This is impactful.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
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 beat of nesson Dorma sung
by literally Pavarotti, who's still able to.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Uhh when you say literally in the tron.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I meant, okay, leave it all in. I don't care.
You think I care? Do you think he cares? We
find out he's a huge podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I was listening to my favorite podcast and then you
can't go in.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Pavarotti knows that anywhere near what he might sound like.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But Shelly Horn now is the time lorn Now is
the perfect opportunity put me on.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But Shelley perfectly synchronized with the lighting of it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It is the most beautiful song from Step Brothers. Yeah,
that's where the world knows it. That's where the world
knows it first.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Step Brothers Now. Secondarily the opening ceremony, and that capped
it all off.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It was gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I take issue with it being called a cauldron.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
It's like because they're gonna like wi cauldron, it's too witchy,
and like, let's let's leave witches.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
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 Olympus. Olympus came
first the Mountain. Okay, because did witches start in Salem? No,
(28:00):
certainly They've been since the beginning of time. Honey, We've
been trying to get women since the dawn of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Get women. We've been trying to get them. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Now, you could use one on this podcast. I was
gonna say, I don't. 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 got Joe Calderone, persona Joe Calderone.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So that's probably why Joe cauldron. But it makes me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Go, well now I'm now now I'm off in another
sort of thought starter. I'm not thinking about the Olympics
no more.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You're thinking about Gaga.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Just call it the Olympic also bowl.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I can't believe you called them Pavaratti.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's time to give out our bronze, silver and gold medal.
Okay for this episode of Two Guys, Five Rinks. What
are the best episodes we've ever done of this show?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think we absolutely tore. I think we ate everything.
We ate at the Olympics, just us sitting right here.
What's the bronze medal of the Olympic opening ceremony Milan
Courtina twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For you, I'm gonna give bronze to oh, what's her
name again?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Matilda?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Matilda, No, no, no, Laura, Laura Passini is singing the
Italian national anthem.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was so rousing.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
What we didn't even talk about Sabrina and Patatore 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.
(29:50):
She is 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 and in her in her sort
of lounge wear. Then those two dastardly weasels Stoats Tina
(30:10):
and Milo Milo pop up and start haranguing her, harassing
her even and she said hey, no.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
She literally is hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
She goes and then it became something else. She goes, hey, hey,
what are you doing? My favorite Italian word guee?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Was we here? Or quah? Which is there? Gue? No?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No? Glee, glee, glee, glee, glee, queek hi que. I
can't stand this whenever I say something exactly the way
and wuee queen queen, there you go, guee queeee quee
here here here here. So she gets up, she gets,
(31:02):
she gets sort of manhandled from queta qua by Tina
and Milo, and then she.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Gets I gets. She gets hurtled through like this.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
AI animated AI, you know whatever. She gets hurtled through
all of the Olympics, the Winter Olympics past, over the
last hundred because it's been a hundred years.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Of the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, the Winter Games, and you do see the cool
emblems of the past. And then she lands in this
metallic jumpsuit bodysuit body con suit, and she gets She
starts dancing to this contemporary Aalian the first Italian rap
(31:50):
song called.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Checks notes.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Printankio song, which is meant to be dribber I believe
improvised text is an invented language that phonetically mimics English,
written by the iconic Italian singer Andrianoano. So then there's
an amazing again interpretive dance, energized but interpretive dance where
(32:17):
she's dancing. I guess about Olympic history, and then she
slays and cells just like she didn't white loados, just
like she didn't white loatus and the paper, oh yeah,
which don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
On the paper. She's very good in the paper. He's
very good in the paper.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He's very good in everything.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
She's kind of the Michael Scott of the paper.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I would say, we're allowed to talk.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
About this as NBC.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
This is all why she's earned the silver medal today,
silver metal to Sabrina, and I think we have to
give the gold medal too. And I'm gonna say this,
Andrea Bocelli, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
That's clapter for him and I were getting right, because
come on, I mean, that was truly epic and just
gold medal, honorary gold platinum metal as it were. To Mike,
to Mike who directed this stuff, Yes, that.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Was amazing, amazing. Then we get to meet him today.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You already have, no I said, we got today. I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, unforgettable.
But don't just like the opening ceremony of Milan Quurteena
twenty twenty six. Absolutely but careful around Mike because he
might ask he 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 this potatoes?
I'll be like, they're good. That's my recipe.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I made them.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I made them.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That was my grandmother's recipe for potatoes. So it's good.
You like it, Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Great job, every check, and great job to everyone here.
We've had such a lovely time and the Courtina cabin
and you'll have to wait a couple of days. But
right now for us.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
We're gonna be welcoming an olympian and a podcaster proving
it can be done, Adam, So look out for that
very soon.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Look out for that very soon.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But until then, follow the show on the iHeartRadio app
or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the NBC
Sports YouTube channel and watch and listen to every moment
of the Winter Olympics and now through February twenty second
on NBC and Peacock and on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
We end every one of these episodes with the very
same song, boom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We're here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I no, I just
I love it. So why don't you do the bums?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And I'll do the Players, Bums and the Blairs US
Tonight boom.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom. It's we searched it. Harmony everyone, I'm on
(34:58):
the bye bye Yeah,
Ring ring, ring, ring ring. That was a different melody
that we did that time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, it was an Italian sort of inflection because here
we are. You feel the energy on NBCA YouTube. Yes,
thank gad to me the NBC YouTube.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let me translate what I think that was. Thank you
to nbskin YouTube for bringing us here to the Milan
Courtina Olympics.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Give it up, Give it up, give it up, and
we're here with the whole studio. Follow people, yes, interact.
Only in Milan does legacy media and new media come together.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Absolutely, if you if you are not enjoying us visually
right now, and podcasts are now a visual media across
all formats. We are in a recreated uh Courtina esque
log cabin studio.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're in Courtina. Oh gosh, it's so fun. Everyone at
this Olympics is like, I'm going to live a vineo tomorrow.
I'll see you later. How long are your Milan for?
Well you have to go to the duomo? And that's
really all there is.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The sheikha sentences you've ever said, Well you have to
go to the duomo.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
How long are you in Milan?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's like I never dreamed as a boy that I
would ever ask these questions.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
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 ib C. Do you hear that
this is all jargon?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
This is all jargon.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
International Broadcasting Center, That's what I'm guessing it is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Did I nail it?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I knew, you know, Matt, let's talk through our arrival
in Milan, because we really are here.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is not a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
They actually did send us all those threats that we did, like, oh,
they better send us. It actually paid off.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think we're doing I think we're representing our lovely
collaborator as well, certainly our country better than others.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, we'll get into it. We'll get into it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
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 Laurence swag.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes and thank you Ralph, Thanks Ralph. And we had
a lovely flight. We got to go to the Team
USA Welcome experience at airport.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We basically walked through exactly. They were kind enough enough
to like simulate the experience of an Olympia, a US
Olympia's arrival for US. Might we say it's a very
very very emotional, exciting, personalized experience.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I was going to say, because it's at the airport,
is the airport share rautn get into it, 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 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
(03:19):
walk up these escalators. There's like a gorgeous processional sort
of bombast playing around you. Everyone is clap 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 personalized
(03:39):
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 LEDC screen. Yeah, there's my mom,
(04:01):
all big, there's telling me she loves me and is proud.
There's Mom next to the skims Oakley station, and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know, we went in there, We went in there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You haven't lived until you've seen the Olympics themed skim panties,
the Olympics theme skims panties, the Olympics themed skims, thigh
high sock. Or I would assume the bedroom in the
Olympic village.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
This is the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Tell them they're sicking these giant gift bags that are
chic onto these world class athletes who are staying in
a little shoe box of.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A room in the Olympic village. You know what a right.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
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, in incredible experience,
we got to try on the uh the opening ceremony
coats and sweaters that the US team.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We took videos and don't worry.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It was stolen valor because these people were treating us
like we were Olympians and we were like, oh, we're podcasters.
It's like the polar opposite.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Opposite of Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But we are going to have the great Adam Rapond,
who is both an Olympian and a podcaster, proving you
can do both.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You can do both.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm literally motivated to start curling after this trip.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You've been talking a lot about it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, we met the incredible Cleo Abram, Yes, who it's
her favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She did a whole eighteen minute explain every video that
I watched, just with precision and in total sort of thrall.
That would be the sport for you, curling. It's your
your lungeon. You're you're sweeping, you get into a deep lunch,
you're shaking hands, you're getting beers after you get years after,
(06:01):
really beers of the winning the winning team has to buy.
They're both teams. Yeah, a beer? 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's sport.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Was this created in Canada?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Where did curling begin? Is barbier? Barb?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Barb didn't make the trip. Yeah, not surprised, Barb, you slacker.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No, no one's here to check facts.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This is okay.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, we're kidding. We're kidding Barb. By the way, we
just got to let people know Barbe is lovely. Barb
deserves to run this entire com So, Barb is lovely.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She doesn't deserve any of this flack.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay, And we can figure someone else can figure out
where curling started.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It just sounds like a very Canadian thing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
To compliment someone prior to doing like any meddling or
whatever and say hey, have a beer feels very Canadian feels.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think I'm going to say it started in the
UK Scotlandland because the stones are made from a granite,
specifically from an island in Scotland, from specific rare earth metals.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Was this in the She's great, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We're having a great time with her. We're taking pictures
with her like she's the third guy, five ring.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
She's the third guy five ring if the third guy
looked like Julia Roberts.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Literally Julia Roberts, And it's like you know when you
see someone and you're like you, I know, you look
like someone, and then all you're like, oh, surely it
can't be the most famous, most gorgeous woman in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's what she looks like.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
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 in 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 about something, we should know.
(08:00):
Here we are, they flow us out.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
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 Courtina Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You believe this. We were there.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We were there, and one of the wonderful gentlemen who
was in this from earlier. His first name is Mike
you don't need to know his last name, Well you don't.
You don't need to know his last name, but you
even look this up because he almost traps me. He goes,
we hait the opening ceremony last night. I was like, yes,
he goes, what'd you think? I was like, it was spectacular,
it goes well, I directed it stop and I was like, you, sir,
(08:40):
you tried to that's Entrapmant. He was the Liz Patrick
of the ceremony because he was trying to get me
to say it was all right. Oh, it was Entrapmant.
It's a very serious crime, Mike. Mike, you better watch it.
I'll sell your last name.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Inner poll is gonna come for your ies. You docked.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just kidding anyway, Congratulate an amazing job, Mike. Meanwhile, he's
out here working on a Saturday. It's Saturday here in Milan.
That's that's huge. The see on the Olympics. You could
be working on a Saturday like us. Yeah, like us.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
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 Era's tour, and then I realized
how dumb I was, and I quickly corrected myself to
be like, wow, this is this is the most epic
production I had ever seen. Yeah, you're not wrong, though
it was very Aristaurus. Did she perform there, barb Aristour
(09:35):
Milan stop then you yeah, see if she played at
the Span Spiro or whatever, then.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We're not We're not talking to barbar We're talking.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Zero zero, not Sanspiro. Earlier we were listening to the song.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We were listening to the soundtrack to Spiro the video game. Yeah, yeah,
we're listening to her name is Siana Spiro Lasly you
know that new song. It's kind of like a Dell.
But I don't think so she did.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
She makes all the sense in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
If it's fit for the Opak ceremony, it's fit for
the air store.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I hope people at the arastour in Milan had the
same interesting hot dog that I had. Say 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. I was missing the
extra you know. It was too it was too like
(10:33):
one thing. It was too they're making.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Six million of these. You know what I'm saying. Huh.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Anyway, we're happy we got to We're going to talk
about the hot dogs at San Sierra for the rest
of the episode. Mariah Carey, I bet you thought, Oh,
let's listen to the Matt and Bowen, two guys, five
rings episode of the Opak Ceremony.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's going to be a lot of Mariah Carey. Haven't
undered her name until now.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's not because it wasn't deserved, because let me tell
you what was extremely amazing her performance in Italian Lare
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 at All,
which we were there for it all.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it being the opening ceremonies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, she was great. She looked amazing. Probably the coolest
part of being their bts was watching them slowly walk
her out, yes, and then like place her leave three
men both times takes three men to get maryau and then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Afterwards they all come out. She didn't move at all. Okay,
that's how she was, truly the doll I was. I
was expecting a pale quin anyway, quin, and then I
can think, like the thing that you hoist on four guys' shoulders. Yeah,
I was expected for her to sit, for her to
(11:55):
sit in a little room.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was gonna say palanquin. Now that I think about it, yeah,
oh well, let's go back first.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It starts off with this gorgeous angelic. I want to say,
like neo classical interpreted. Well, the theme of the opening
ceremony was interpretive dance. Yes, every every two years, maybe
as I say, every four years, maybe two, the world
(12:34):
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 but the the anemonia, the adamonia.
Try speaking Italian without having a full seizure. If you're
(12:55):
me anemonia, it takes over you. But the theme was
harmon and there was harmony in the interpretive dance. Absolutely well.
I think I thought the theme was very well sort
of executed throughout the entire show, because good job, Mike.
The sort of the thing was harmony. It was about
two things uniting. It was it was like the like
(13:17):
later on we saw two acrobats suspended on rings joining
That was cou I think I was supposed to represent
city and mountain, mil Milan and quarantine. Is that true?
I think that was the poetic read on it or
harmony an interpretive dance. The world in Italy, the world
in Italy, uh, anything else? Red and green, red and green,
(13:43):
yea red, white and green.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So then let me just get this right, okay? Was that?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And then it was Matilda to Angeli angelis waving around
a huge stick. I saw myself and her, You were her.
Matt Rodgers to Angelus. Matt Rogers de Angelius liked her.
I thought her lines were beautiful for the stars judge.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Beautiful lines, beautiful lines. She was well.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
First she was assailed by the paparazzi. Yes, an Italian invention.
Oh my gosh, I guess, yeah no, but it's they
made it look very she lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Then she walks over, and then she starts waving around
this baton three huge paper mache heads of ver Di,
Puccini and the third opera.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh sure, I'm gonna I'm gonna Pavaratti. No no, sorry, no,
no hold on, let me look at my paper.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
See this is what this is what it is to
know too many things, because then you get caught in
a trap. I knew zero of the three guys. He
knew two of the Now he's in a world of pain.
Go ahead, of course.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They're running around and then they remain. Yeah, I think
I think that those three guys were just watching Charlie's
there and give her speech about peace later on.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, that was also a whole moment.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That was a moment. Well, so then they do that,
Then it's the paint came out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The paint came out of the sky.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Then okay, so this is this is where I 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 paint. Little pieces of paint are a little
like little little crayons running out.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Turns out all those guys were supposed to be espresso makers.
This was where I got a little Italian.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, this is where.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We go, oh wow, I don't think about espresso at
all at all unless Sabrina gar There is involved.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
She put it on the map in America. We didn't
know what it was.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well, espresso martinis. Sure we knew them from Salt Lake
City house wise, that's right, that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Then we arrived at what I thought was a tribute
to Capras salad. Turns out it was red, white and
green Italian flag colors.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Common mistake. Common mistake.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But I went, oh, Italy really really figured that out
with their flag Basil Basil. Basille sounds basil more like
we're here, right, I was like, they they invented tomato,
(16:37):
cheese and basil.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
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 that again,
they don't have chicken palm here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's an American Italian, it's an Italian American.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I got over it, and I didn't bring it
up at lunch.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I didn't want to make a scene, and I ordered
my amateurs and I was very happy, as were you.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We have the same thing with a gorgeous with a
TONI Where do we go?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ratana That was the name of the Restaurantana was another
restaurant to the night before Michelin starred Risotto and Honey.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Our waiter, Alex I will remember you oh, this was
at the other place. Yes, what's that called? That was
called taverna.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Else, taverna something I will remember. Alex he knew something.
And then he made us this he.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Made table side like a custard. Basically it starts with
the z in Italian. I'm blanking on. And then he
comes over to us and he makes he makes us
this dessert right at the table. He comes over to
us and he whispers, and Boone and I 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.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
To lou this is this is Italian said, you better
get out of here. You think it was flirtin I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
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. 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. But he isn't matter. You feel like you
(18:24):
know that all the guys in Italy are gay because
they all say mad this is what this happened.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Mateo Lane told me this was like you're Matteo. You're
so hot. Look at the ass sets so high and round.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Matteo has a very different experience coming to Italy than
we would. He speaks in the language his ass sets
high and round.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What more could you ask? What more could you ask? Mad?
I mean he's getting my asses. Don't do this.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's been looking in problem. I don't know what to say.
My ass is the Tower of Territs straight shot down.
It's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
They've the Tower of Terror now has all sorts of
different dimensions. Okay, so don't so just know things know,
things are moving and shaken. What's my ass?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You've got you've got, you got my best triple lots? No, no,
I'm so I celebrate your ass.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You've got a.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Triple lots, you got, you've got, you've gotta you've got
a curling ass. Now, Oh, ceremony, Yeah right, I was
gonna say ceremony. So then the rings then then the
rings come together. That was That was insane.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That took my breath away.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That was breathtaking because they were not super secure on
those things.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You couldn't see the wires.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Because it made me go when Rihanna did this at
the Super Bowl, when Anti did this at the at
the Christmas show, the Cowboys show. That was so good, amazing,
But they were making sure that those precious icons we're stable.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, these people.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I mean, I guess they're professional acrobats, right, they were
kind of.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Doing it, doing it raw.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
They were doing it and just goes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, I guess they were sure. But you know that,
so that that that happened. They all.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
By the way, this was after the bop. Who knew
the Italian national anthem back to the drawing board, Back
to the drawing board America.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
There's chop.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There's like a whole movement shift in the Italian national anthem.
It sounds like a Celine Dion song from the eighties,
early nineties or nineties.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It just sounds like it sounds like a song that
would win Eurovision and it's their national anthem.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, Italy's got to bring it with the arts in
every aspect, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I didn't realize Italy was the club in this way.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, there was a whole disco sem me because they
gave us discoo is some of the best.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, anyway, the the music throughout the evening was incredible,
and I can't get over the national anthem. I'm going
to be streaming Laura Passini. Did you know of her?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I was very excited to watch her really slay in
front of sixty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
She definitely did that.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
She definitely did that. Then we have our our ring moment.
That was cool. Then we had the Creative 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.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, we did get a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We did take a break, we got we got at
we got up and during you know, we were told
this is the time to get a drink and a snack.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So we said okay. So we said okay, But then.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
We did we made sure we were we were seeing them.
We didn't see did the athletes come in. This was
a widespread opening sear which that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Might be my I don't thing, 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 let's think about
the ways in which that word is used. Sure, lately
(22:25):
it hasn't been great widespread, widespread, widespread sort of transmission widespread.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, are you throwing it back to COVID unrest?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'm thrown it back to all Italy.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This is you're gonna give everyone PTSD.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen this no, this is this is what being in
Milana is like right now. It is fired up, ladies
and gentlemen. It is it is, it is victoria. It
is triumphantly saying we overcame so many things.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, period, we overcame those hot dogs barely.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
H Did I just say san zero? Those bathrooms talk?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Oh that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was like prison stop now me stop.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I wasn't even the one that brought it up. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Can I say we had an amazing time in the stadium,
an amazing time in the state.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Would go there, go there again? Good enough for tailor
good enough for us? What was I gonna say?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Andrea Bocelli, Andrea Well, first Paradi Nations, so many cute outfits,
very much so. It was so lovely to see Italian
Italian Italian athletes coming in.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So the a widespread.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So we were cutting from uh down in Milan, where
you would have these gorgeous, metallic puffered women a la
Angie Caatsanavus and their giant sunglasses walking with a giant
horizontal slab of ice.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
We were not the only ones to say that it
was Anngikats and Naevus coated you. And that is the
second Salt Lake City Housewives reference on the episode.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So far. There has to be a third analogy.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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 was we definitely catch a cortina.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, a bit so, and then we I think we
might have cut to the vino. Yes.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I think there was a whole lot of cutting between
and the white hence the widespread aspect. But it was
it was It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It was beautiful because the athletes got so much.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Applause and it felt incredible and we joined in and
we are very excited to be here, like celebrating these
American athletes.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I was watching going like, oh god, it's something. 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 gone. Charlie's Starn comes
out looking like when he rose, quoting compliments to everyone,
compliments to everyone, quoting her countrymen, her fellow countrymen, to
(25:31):
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's. She's played violent women.
She was some movie Mighty Joe Young and people don't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But this lady who has seen violence up close, has
enacted violence the cameras, Yes for a woman to you,
no violence and say from Atomic Bond, cut it out
the war for Sea's sake, mad me go.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This is impactful.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
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 beat of nesson Dorma sung
by literally Pavarotti, who's still able to.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Uhh when you say literally in the tron.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I meant, okay, leave it all in. I don't care.
You think I care? Do you think he cares? We
find out he's a huge podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I was listening to my favorite podcast and then you
can't go in.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Pavarotti knows that anywhere near what he might sound like.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But Shelly Horn now is the time lorn Now is
the perfect opportunity put me on.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But Shelley perfectly synchronized with the lighting of it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It is the most beautiful song from Step Brothers. Yeah,
that's where the world knows it. That's where the world
knows it first.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Step Brothers Now. Secondarily the opening ceremony, and that capped
it all off.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It was gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I take issue with it being called a cauldron.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
It's like because they're gonna like wi cauldron, it's too witchy,
and like, let's let's leave witches.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
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 Olympus. Olympus came
first the Mountain. Okay, because did witches start in Salem? No,
(28:00):
certainly They've been since the beginning of time. Honey, We've
been trying to get women since the dawn of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Get women. We've been trying to get them. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Now, you could use one on this podcast. I was
gonna say, I don't. 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 got Joe Calderone, persona Joe Calderone.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So that's probably why Joe cauldron. But it makes me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Go, well now I'm now now I'm off in another
sort of thought starter. I'm not thinking about the Olympics
no more.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You're thinking about Gaga.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Just call it the Olympic also bowl.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I can't believe you called them Pavaratti.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's time to give out our bronze, silver and gold medal.
Okay for this episode of Two Guys, Five Rinks. What
are the best episodes we've ever done of this show?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think we absolutely tore. I think we ate everything.
We ate at the Olympics, just us sitting right here.
What's the bronze medal of the Olympic opening ceremony Milan
Courtina twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For you, I'm gonna give bronze to oh, what's her
name again?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Matilda?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Matilda, No, no, no, Laura, Laura Passini is singing the
Italian national anthem.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was so rousing.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
What we didn't even talk about Sabrina and Patatore 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.
(29:50):
She is 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 and in her in her sort
of lounge wear. Then those two dastardly weasels Stoats Tina
(30:10):
and Milo Milo pop up and start haranguing her, harassing
her even and she said hey, no.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
She literally is hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
She goes and then it became something else. She goes, hey, hey,
what are you doing? My favorite Italian word guee?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Was we here? Or quah? Which is there? Gue? No?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No? Glee, glee, glee, glee, glee, queek hi que. I
can't stand this whenever I say something exactly the way
and wuee queen queen, there you go, guee queeee quee
here here here here. So she gets up, she gets,
(31:02):
she gets sort of manhandled from queta qua by Tina
and Milo, and then she.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Gets I gets. She gets hurtled through like this.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
AI animated AI, you know whatever. She gets hurtled through
all of the Olympics, the Winter Olympics past, over the
last hundred because it's been a hundred years.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Of the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, the Winter Games, and you do see the cool
emblems of the past. And then she lands in this
metallic jumpsuit bodysuit body con suit, and she gets She
starts dancing to this contemporary Aalian the first Italian rap
(31:50):
song called.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Checks notes.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Printankio song, which is meant to be dribber I believe
improvised text is an invented language that phonetically mimics English,
written by the iconic Italian singer Andrianoano. So then there's
an amazing again interpretive dance, energized but interpretive dance where
(32:17):
she's dancing. I guess about Olympic history, and then she
slays and cells just like she didn't white loados, just
like she didn't white loatus and the paper, oh yeah,
which don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
On the paper. She's very good in the paper. He's
very good in the paper.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He's very good in everything.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
She's kind of the Michael Scott of the paper.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I would say, we're allowed to talk.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
About this as NBC.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
This is all why she's earned the silver medal today,
silver metal to Sabrina, and I think we have to
give the gold medal too. And I'm gonna say this,
Andrea Bocelli, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
That's clapter for him and I were getting right, because
come on, I mean, that was truly epic and just
gold medal, honorary gold platinum metal as it were. To Mike,
to Mike who directed this stuff, Yes, that.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Was amazing, amazing. Then we get to meet him today.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You already have, no I said, we got today. I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, unforgettable.
But don't just like the opening ceremony of Milan Quurteena
twenty twenty six. Absolutely but careful around Mike because he
might ask he 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 this potatoes?
I'll be like, they're good. That's my recipe.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I made them.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I made them.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That was my grandmother's recipe for potatoes. So it's good.
You like it, Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Great job, every check, and great job to everyone here.
We've had such a lovely time and the Courtina cabin
and you'll have to wait a couple of days. But
right now for us.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
We're gonna be welcoming an olympian and a podcaster proving
it can be done, Adam, So look out for that
very soon.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Look out for that very soon.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But until then, follow the show on the iHeartRadio app
or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the NBC
Sports YouTube channel and watch and listen to every moment
of the Winter Olympics and now through February twenty second
on NBC and Peacock and on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
We end every one of these episodes with the very
same song, boom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We're here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I no, I just
I love it. So why don't you do the bums?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
And I'll do the Players, Bums and the Blairs US
Tonight boom.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom. It's we searched it. Harmony everyone, I'm on
(34:58):
the bye bye Yeah,
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