February 19, 2026 • 33 mins
The Games are underway, medals are being handed out, and it's time for Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang to check the headlines. Ilia Malinin's performance has to be one of the biggest stories of the entire Olympics. Bowen explains how Malinin's Olympic story is far from over. Matt touts his mile-time while it seems overshadowed by a skier going sub-6 on skis and uphill. Hear ALL of the moments that caught the eyes of the Two Guys, Five Rings podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
And extra, extra, extra, extra extra read all about it headlines, Headlines.
I think this is the headlines episode we.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Got to check in about what's gone down. We talked
a little bit in reference a little bit on the
last episode, but we're well underway and I think some
some landmark moments have definitely gone down. I'm just gonna
cut to the trace here. I don't think there's been
(00:44):
Oh God, and after what we said on the last
episode about the way people can internalize these things, like
I don't want to categorize it as a disappointment, but
I think the only thing you can call what happened
with Ilia Malinen is a disappointment.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Like that's okay, so rough, it's okay for it to
be a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, that is okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My heart only broke because I was outside today and
above the fold on the literal news stand what is
it nineteen forty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Seven on the newstand headlines, But.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It was above the fold. It was our guy. It
was Ilia on the ice, just on his knees, just
getting back up post fall, and I went, God, I
hope he is not on the street the same street
as I am in Brooklyn, and he wasn't yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Don't think he but he was on a street with
with some newspaper. Stand.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
This is what I'll say. No matter what we say today,
this is still someone who has acomplished impossible things and
is twenty one years old and will and will appear
again at the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
There is no question. And now we got a good
old fashioned narrative. And you know who benefited from a
narrative last time, Simone Biles. And so this can be done.
We even said on I was listening back to our
Adam upon episode a delightful one, by the way, and
at one point Adam goes he could even make several
(02:31):
major mistakes and still when gold, Like the narrative was
like he could completely flop and still get gold. And
then you're watching it and it was so it was
such a collapse that not only was he not gold,
(02:52):
he didn't metal and took eighth eighth.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I I want to maybe take some connotation, negative connotation
out of coming in eighth place. There are people who
have come in eighth place who have gone on to
do great things.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think Jennifer Hudson came in eighth place. Actually, seventh.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Season two of American season three.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh see, see you tell here, this is how you
know Jennifer Hudson successful. You type in Jennifer Hudson's season
three now and they talk about her daytime talk show.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All right, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Hang in there.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I high she came in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Seventh place, even she did better than Ilia.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We had to be able to have fun.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was, I was going to pull up who came
in eighth on American Idol season two, which is our
sort of Venn diagram overlap of American Idol season Okay,
who was trying? It was someone named Ricky Smith, who
I enough, who I'm not remembering, but who came in
seventh was Kimberly Caldwell, who I do remember.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I of course remember Kimberly Callwell. She was known as
blonde White Kimberly on that season.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And she sang superstitious, Yes she did in her audition.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
She also there was also this is where my encyclopedia
comes in. She's saying come to my window, yes, during
the semi final round, and I remember thinking, maybe it's
gonna be okay for me as a queer person.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh that's really sweet. Okay, So for those of you
who do not know Elia was off the podium and
a stunning result that no one expected. He led by
five points after the short program, which is a lot,
(04:52):
which is a lot. I think he even said in
his post interview off the ice that I watched that
he was maybe a little too confident going in. But
for that too, I mean, will talk about this, but like,
for that to break is so it's so devastating and
so interesting and so baked into this specific sport of
figure skating. Batched him at his squad axle right at
(05:13):
the beginning, two falls, problems throughout. He was in fifth
place overall. Mikail Scheiderov of Kazakhstan wung gold for the
career best score of two hundred ninety one point five
to eight. This is the first time Ilia has lost
competition since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So I do want to also say that Mikail Scheiderov incredible,
ye like, and it's a very come from behind gold
medal win. But that was a very special skate, and
we saw a lot of very special skates while.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We were there.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We didn't see this one person obviously because this was
in the finals, but that was a you can tell
that was a moment in the room.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, I think this is what I think. I was
quoting Tara Lepinsky, Traders contestant Tarry Lepinski or no, someone
else on the other commentators. This just goes to show
that nothing is inevitable in sports. It is a judge
this is a judged event, but that even on that
(06:11):
point of view, it's like there were just there was
undeniable mistakes that happened, right, And like we said, he
has a bright future ahead. This aw this, as you said,
gives him an amazing redemption arc in four years.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Possibly Truly, we can only hope. He was quoted afterwards
as saying, Honestly, before getting into my starting post, I
just felt all of those experienced memories thoughts really just
rush in. It just felt so overwhelming. Honestly, I didn't
really know how to handle it at that moment. I
blew it. That's honestly the first thing that came to
my mind. There's no way that just happened. I was
(06:50):
preparing the whole season. I felt so confident with my
program to go out and have that happen. There's no words, honestly,
I mean, we all know what it's like to get
in a high pressure moment and you really do decide
how that's gonna go right before it starts, And it
(07:12):
sounds like he just got flooded with doubt.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No matter how much you put into the preparation. It's
just that like thin veil right before it begins, that
like is the most influential, perhaps, I think, and I'm
sure people have pointed this out already, but it's like
hopefully there comes a point in which she's able to
(07:37):
like look back on this and see that it is
paired with his own words in the skate where he
says the past is not a chain but a thread.
Pull it and it mainly you home. I'm paraphrasing, but
like only in like the darkest darkness can you come
out and like find yourself in a sense, Like there's
(07:59):
something instructive that like this is obviously like a dark
Knight of the soul, but like he's already aware of that,
Like he already can like put that to a moment
or an experience. He's had triumphant moments to that track.
He's had as of recently a very devastating moment with
that track. Like that's the balance. I'm just saying is
(08:23):
it's thank goodness. He already has the awareness and the
affirmations in place. I think some of these people have
never said an affirmation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Let alone in the voiceover booths.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let alone with the head, with the cans on and
a sound proof setting.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's hard to know when the worst thing in your
life that's happening to you is actually the best thing
in your life. But collapsing over and over and over
again on the world stage to your own voiceover was
the best thing that ever happened to him. Because he's
coming back in twenty thirty, it's gonna be Illiad time.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And he's going to be twenty five years old, and
it better be to a song from the Girls soundtrack. Yeah,
he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Represent twenty five year olds the way that we do
in America by talking incecly about girls. Years after it's done.
We've touched on this last time. But in the team
skating event, the US became the first country we went
back to back Golds and team figure skating since the
event made its debut in twenty fourteen. It was a
close competition between the US and Japan with Yes, the Quad,
god Iliamalin and clinching the victory for Team USA and
(09:37):
the men's free skate the final component of the event
because it wasn't actually guaranteed. It did feel like after
Amber Glenn's skate that she could have done it better,
and we were in the vicinity of people who were
like a little iffy about her performance. She could have
put the team in a better position going into Ilia's skate.
(10:00):
But he crushed that one.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Mm hmm. That was the famed backflip that that also.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Happened right in front of us, by the way, right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
In front of us, Yes, the first one, and he
tried the back He did the backflip again in his
free skate, but there was obviously a different sort of
tone to it. It was triumphant. It was a victory lap,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That one was like a sad backflip, like, well, at
least there's this.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Hate when a backflip is sad? A backflip?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Can it?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Can? It is only on a binary you're not doing
a backflip like ambivalently or neutrally. Either you're doing a
backflip because you're feeling like quad god, or you are
doing a backflip because you're like I biffed it.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Or it's like, but I can do a backflip, you
know what I mean. It's like a little thirsty. It's
either like triumphant or thirsty a backflip. There are no
casual backlips. If this were the last culture, we'd say
that's a rural of culture.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But we can't.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So get this as another item on the on the
agenda here in terms of victory, but also there's there's
some there's some ups and downs in Breezy Johnson's narrative
as well. She won the first US medal of these
Olympics with gold in the women's downhill. Johnson missed the
twenty twenty two Big Jing Olympics after crashing on a
training run with the same Cortina slope weeks before those games.
(11:34):
She's now the reigning Olympic and World champion. After winning gold, though,
Breezy crashed out in Thursday morning Super G event and
then just turning her day around again. An hour later,
her boyfriend Connor Watkins proposed at the base of the
Cortina dan Pezzo, with an emotional Johnson accepting. So she
(11:54):
went from Olympic gold medal to crashing out on the
slopes literally too engaged.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And what happened before she got her gold was Lindsay
vonn Wright being choppered out like they're like the theme
of this game is whiplash. And I think, and I
think there's a comedian, Sam Ruddy. I think, who U
joked that you see Winter Olympians crying more because they
(12:27):
probably could have died doing what they just did.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes, yes, and that is a market because even figure skating,
like I was watching, those blades are flying.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's the flying lotus from Blades of Glory.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It really is bo Like, that's not a joke. I
know a lot of people laugh at Blades of Glory.
That movie wasn't a joke.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's a very serious movie.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Ben Ogden won silver and the men's individual sprint, the
first cross country skiing medal for an American man since
nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Ben Ogden celebrated with a backflip off the podium.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is a backflip.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That triumph and backflip. There are no casual backflips, no ever.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Winner of the cross country ski event is in Norway's
Johannes's House floped Clabo. His performance was so impressive that
it became a meme. He skied sub six minutes, a
sub six minute mile uphill. Now this is a great
opportunity for you to remind everybody, what was your mouth time?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Four thirty six on a flat surface with.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
My feet, with your feet, no ski.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He did a sub six on skis uphill?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
What me found this? You found it? I think thighs
of god, what do you think? It's what he's working
from the thighs, from the core, from the femur.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I mean, there's there's like a photo of him right here.
I'm I'm imagining this that this person is an absolute
core maniac, Like I bet we would absolutely freaking by
the way, just to say, just to speak on thighs
for a second, we also saw speed skating that those
were some quad gods. Okay, the thighs were yeah, speaking
(14:16):
to me and I didn't even tell you this. Who
was sitting behind me at the women's hockey match US
versus Canada? Who was sitting behind me? Apollo anton Oo.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And I was like, oh my god. I was literally
like I can't believe he's here. I can't believe that's
him sitting right there looking so handsome by the way,
like looking good, and I'm just thinking, like, wow, this
person does not know the space they occupy in my life,
which was Let's just say he was popular during my puberty.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He was popular during your puberty. He was popular. He's
been popular Lives.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Stars Winner, not on life.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Adam ra Pond not like Adam Rapont. Did he did
he still have the soul patch goatee.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, I didn't see a soul patch the gold
tee thing. But I will say his skin looked amazing,
his hair looks healthy, he looked like he smelt good.
He was dressed well. He was like an Olympic event,
but still like in a handsome, like black buttoned down shirt,
like very giving. I'm a handsome guy first and foremost,
like I'm unbothered, like I'm very casual around these Olympic events.
(15:33):
This is my turf. It was an impressive showing by
him in the stands at that hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Game, A lot of gay energy from you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, no, I did, and but the producers are asking
if I shot my shot. I did not shoot my shot.
I don't think that that would have made anyone feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
We're not We're not a bunch of dogs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, just because I come on this podcast and act
like a dog does not me and I actually am
one in real life. I'm really shy. If you welco
up to me, it's just incredibly hard to get me
to engage. Everyone knows that about me, very very very much.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So Las bash Falist does. We do have the first
ever metal in US mixed doubles curling and Corey TC
and Corey drop in. We are the early fans as
we know, the Coreys wan silver. We're so happy for them.
And then we have Ashley Farquarson put together two strong
(16:36):
runs to move up the leader board and win bronze
and women's luge second women's louge Metal for the US.
And then I'll have a note here that the condoms
distributed inside the Olympic village We're gone in three days
were made available. But you know there's there's a lot
(16:57):
of because we talked about the condoms in the summer
edition of Two Guys fibringth Yeah, our new legend friend
Adam Rippon has said that the condoms are kind of
there just to like people kind of grab the condoms
by the fistfully, not for practical use, but more for souveneers.
(17:19):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh, okay, well that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's interesting to talk.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
About condoms from our vantage point. But let's pull it
back to say that. Yeah, I mean, I guess that's
the thing, and it is you get to the Olympics
and you do realize it is a commemorative merch opportunity
of the highest order. And so if you're there and
(17:47):
you're an athlete and you see them, it's like, you're
gonna take them because that's your only opportunity. So I
guess I do understand that, and Adam would know. So
it was funny, like a bunch of my friends I.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Got that because they're they're on cots.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You find a way. I mean, like, have you ever
seen Summer House. It's just people will just do it
with cameras. I mean, my thing is like this, someone said.
When we got back, They're like, oh, did you guys
hook up with the athletes? I'm like, no, I think
they pretty much hook up with each other. If you're
(18:23):
going to the Olympics as an Olympia, you're not like
where are the comedians and podcast where are the content creators?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Exactly? We're kind of on the bottom tier in terms
of selection, Like it's the athletes, then it's like an
Italian bodybuilder who you know works at a pizza shop.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, then it's like the journalists that they that have
been covering them the whole time, and there's obviously a
little tension there.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm sure they're sticking recording devices in your face. Then
you you kind of start getting ideas it's so valic.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And then come the podcasters and.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There is a story I think that we can discuss
as we wind down this season of a lot of
the hookup apps. Apparently we're sort of blacking out the
Olympic village from like, uh, people who could like roam
and travel the map via Oha. So to protect the
(19:24):
the the athletes' identities because people could you couldn't theory
anyone couldn't theory locate them through the through the apps
and then potentially like out them. Yep, if especially if
they're from a country where this is just a bit
sort of legally precarious. Technology has ruined everything. No, no, no,
(19:52):
And this is this is a case where I think
technology has protected people in a way they.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Wouldn't need to be protected if they couldn't have been invade.
We need to go back to sticks and mud. I'm
telling you, I watched Wuthering Heights last night. We need
to go back to sticks and mud. They had it
figured out.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I think they had a little bit more than sticks
and mud. But this is also whiplashie. This also is
(20:37):
just there's just a lot going on here, and I
think I would love to discuss it with you and
discuss it with the listeners. We have this Norwegian guy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, he's a by athlete.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We have Sterla Holme Ligrid who won bronze and the
individual by athlete. Ha ha ha did all your bisexual
jokes out? Okay? Great? Ready, he was the one who
confessed to having an affair. Didn't confess to it. He
(21:14):
just put it out there that he was trying to
win back his ex girlfriend because he had admitted to
the affair and.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Would let everybody know, let everybody told his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And at the time it seemed like this grand romantic gesture,
right would you say?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I mean, I can understand again, the pressure cooker is
so hot. So what he actually said was I told
her a week ago I cheated on her and it's
been the worst week of my life. I had a
gold medal in my life, and there's probably a lot
of people out there who look at me differently now,
but I only have eyes for her. Sports has taken
(21:57):
a bit of a backseat these past couple of days. Yeah,
I wish I could share this with her.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Honestly, it sounds like Act three of romantic comedy.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He is putting it all out there. Yes, you can't
say that. Well, it's either one or two things. Either
it's like, wow, this guy is putting it all out
there in like a rom com way. I'd be crazy
to not go with this person. Or you say, wow,
this person is all out there, putting it all out
there in like a rom comway. I have to run
as far away as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Also, things shut it on me, and that's what happened.
So the ex girlfriend has come out and said, I
no longer wish to be in the words of Taylor Swift,
I want to be a little narrative.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like I would like to be excused from this narrative,
one in which I never asked to be a part.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Right, So she did basically come out and say that.
He then, of course apologizes and says, I acted rashly,
I acted emotional. It was this ground swell of feeling
that made me say that, and I dragged her into
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this sort of media mess that she was not she
did not ask to be a part of. And he
then also apologized to the gold medalist of the event,
who was also Team Norway, and he was like, I
can't believe I took I took. I took the spotlight
away from my teammate, the gold medalist from my country.
(23:28):
I apologized to him, like there was there. There was
a lot of after care clean up that poor Sterla
had to do. And I feel for him, like I
I think he's just I think he I think he's freshly,
he's fresh from the fight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, I think he did to do Forla. You know,
it's just it's time for Sla to think about descent
during himself.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Of course hard though, because he just medaled at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That is a thing. It's like you're at the Olympics,
this cameras in your face, You're being asked questions, and
then you have one brain and one mouth and it
is all one system that comes out. And then it's
like kind of too late. It's like you did make
it about yourself now, so now it is about you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Sterlow oh sterling s sterls Sterlob. I'm up.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All the best to him, and all the best to
his ex girlfriend, who, by the way, we will now
remove from this narrative, one in which she never asked
to be a part. Speed skating phenom. Jordan Stoles began
his much anticipated second Olympic Games with gold in the
men's one thousand meters, setting an Olympic record to win
his first Olympic medal. He also won gold on Saturday
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in the five hundred meters.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That is chaos. We went to five thousand meters and
that is one on one, six minutes per sort of round.
It's it's intense, it's it's cool. Five hundred meters. The
short track is nuts. It feels like it's fifty people
running around a tight circle skating even.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, we saw we saw the five thousand, which was
you know, it was exciting, and we did see an
Olympic record.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yes, but I.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Do I yearned to see all that chaos, all that cake.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And skiing. Ryan Cochran Siegel wants silver and the men's
super g I know a couple of circuit parties. He
can go to a feat he also accomplished in twenty
twenty two. We have a picture of what is that sausage?
The Fronyo worst, the Fronyo versed because it's named after
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Switzerland's Franjo von Allman, who won Gold and super g.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He's got a sausage named after him and his home.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The local butcher in his town named the sausage after him. Well,
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
We're looking at a pallid some pallid sausage links in
this dock. I think our producers thought it would be
very important for us to see that.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They wanted us to talk sausage, and I keep telling
them it would be careful what you wish for, because careful,
this will be a sausage podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Can we just if there's if there's video of this,
can we just can we just overlay the sausage. I
think everyone should see.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
This, Yeah, we should. We should just make sure for
when this episode comes out, we should have the sausage
readily available for everyone to see, view and peruse.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Since y'all producers love shoving sausage pictures in everyone's face
barber raised her hand.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yes, raising her hand. What's up, Barb?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
So funny story longer on the air?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Live Hi, Barb?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
When when this was happening? And I knew that the
sausage had been named after Ferano after he won silver
medals at the World Junior Championships four years ago. And
I asked our research room, could they contacted the butcher
and find out if it was being renamed because he
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won gold and now he's won three golds at these Olympics.
And the quote from the butcher was that it had
already been renamed the Franjo Verse and it was good then,
it was good now, just like Franio and it didn't
need to be.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Renamed because what are you gonna do? I mean, it
doesn't make a difference, like he can't it can't be
called the gold Frnio. No, it's he still has the
same name. It would only make sense if Fronyo changed
his name to something else every time he won, if
he had won a gold medal. So I think I
think this is a huge failure in journalism of journalism
(27:42):
for people to call up the butcher and ask if
they would rename the Franio vers because what is there
to rename?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And it's sad, It's really sad. Just just take things
for what they are. This is a good thing. It's
a good sausage. So snowboard superstar chlobe Camp recorded the
highest score in qualifying of the women's halfpipe. She was
aiming to become the first snowboarder to win three consecutive
golds in an Olympic event, but it wasn't meant to be.
Chloe took home to silver after seventeen year old Gowan
(28:12):
Choi of South Korea rebounded from a dramatic crash to
overtake her in the final run. Choi's victory makes her
the first female Korean athlete to win a medal in snowsports,
which is huge. This is also South Korea's first snowboard gold.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And it's pretty incredible. I think Chloe is very happy
for Gowan because Chloe and her dad helped bring Choi
to the US to train all major at Mammoth and
maintained a very supportive relationship. Kin spoke highly of Choi
at an earlier press conference, calling it a full circle
moment and saying she's a mirror reflection of myself and
(28:49):
my family. You love to see it. You love the
Korean am experience to be reflected in the Korean experience.
I think that's beautiful. I think that's it's so beautiful.
It's actually it's actually a gorgeous film.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If you really think about the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Film Silver Girls.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, let's cinematically award a bronze, silver and gold in
terms of headlines, and let's use as a rubric impact
of headline.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, impact of headline or if it's sorry, if it's
cinematic metals, is it?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Which of them would make the best movie. I was
just gonna say, let's cinematically do it. I wasn't putting
cinema in the rubric. The rubric was impact of headline.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I think I'm interpreting this as I so the three
things that I'm I have, the three stories I have
of are would all make incredible films. And I think
this is just asking them less do that. I think
because the film is not yet finished, but the setup
is already there. I'm gonna give bronze to Ilia's Fall
(29:59):
from Grace.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You're right, I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That's bronze.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Okay, that's bronze silver. It really is Ilia and I
hope you can hear that silver I'm gonna go with
because because I think it's not the gold. I think
we know what the gold is. Silver. I'm gonna go
with Breezy Johnson's Big Day, which I'm gonna I'm gonna
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call it, and it's that's not just the children's book idea,
Breezy Johnson's Big Day, but from gold to crashing out
to engage you soldiering on, I think this is silver,
metal stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And gold. So I'm kind of a little bit torn.
I think you and I should agree on what gold
is because it's either Sterla or Chloe Kim and Guillanchoy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I have a strong instinct that it's I.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Have a strong instinct that it's you, Oh, that it's stir.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Sterla has to meddle here in terms of headlines. I
cheated on my girlfriend and I want her back on
the world stage. It's kind of a.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Film and and for it to totally flop and everyone
being unhappy and upset.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So yorgos.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's so yorgos, I think. And this is not to
like demote the Chloe Kim Gallon choice story that to me,
this is the highest compliment that gives me like vintage
Disney channel vibes. Disney, You're right, so that which is
which is which? Which is not a gold which is
what I'm not saying, like which I think maybe could
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be bronze or silver. But you're right, Let's give gold
to Sterla because that is there is something very modernist
about that story, sort of blowing up in it, like
that moment blowing up in his face.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It's giving the beginning of her own coom. When someone
does something insane and now there's fallout that causes another
relationship to arise, probably his ex girlfriend's new one.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
His ex girlfriend's new Oh, so the protect his ex
girlfriend now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Is like I'm humiliated in the world stage by my
crazy Norwegian boyfriend. And then she meets like a bookshop owner,
like very nodding Hill vibes. This is like not notting Hill.
It's sort of like a reverse nodding Hill. It's like
it's a reverse boyfriend, you know what I.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Mean, famous, famous, toxic boyfriend who is now no longer
in the picture, and she she is now famous because
of his mishap and she just wants to get.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Away exactly what we famously call it a reverse notting.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Hill a reverse nodding Hill.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, this has been yet another episode of Two Guys,
Five Rings, and you can follow the show on the
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want to say thank you so much to NBC and
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have done it without you. Literally we could not have.
It's like Fort Knox getting into any one one environment.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
There you have a Nona screaming at you and guarding
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Speaker 2 (33:06):
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
And we end every episode with a song.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That song
And extra, extra, extra, extra extra read all about it headlines, Headlines.
I think this is the headlines episode we.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Got to check in about what's gone down. We talked
a little bit in reference a little bit on the
last episode, but we're well underway and I think some
some landmark moments have definitely gone down. I'm just gonna
cut to the trace here. I don't think there's been
(00:44):
Oh God, and after what we said on the last
episode about the way people can internalize these things, like
I don't want to categorize it as a disappointment, but
I think the only thing you can call what happened
with Ilia Malinen is a disappointment.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Like that's okay, so rough, it's okay for it to
be a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, that is okay.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My heart only broke because I was outside today and
above the fold on the literal news stand what is
it nineteen forty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Seven on the newstand headlines, But.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It was above the fold. It was our guy. It
was Ilia on the ice, just on his knees, just
getting back up post fall, and I went, God, I
hope he is not on the street the same street
as I am in Brooklyn, and he wasn't yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Don't think he but he was on a street with
with some newspaper. Stand.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
This is what I'll say. No matter what we say today,
this is still someone who has acomplished impossible things and
is twenty one years old and will and will appear
again at the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
There is no question. And now we got a good
old fashioned narrative. And you know who benefited from a
narrative last time, Simone Biles. And so this can be done.
We even said on I was listening back to our
Adam upon episode a delightful one, by the way, and
at one point Adam goes he could even make several
(02:31):
major mistakes and still when gold, Like the narrative was
like he could completely flop and still get gold. And
then you're watching it and it was so it was
such a collapse that not only was he not gold,
(02:52):
he didn't metal and took eighth eighth.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I I want to maybe take some connotation, negative connotation
out of coming in eighth place. There are people who
have come in eighth place who have gone on to
do great things.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think Jennifer Hudson came in eighth place. Actually, seventh.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Season two of American season three.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh see, see you tell here, this is how you
know Jennifer Hudson successful. You type in Jennifer Hudson's season
three now and they talk about her daytime talk show.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All right, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Hang in there.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I high she came in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Seventh place, even she did better than Ilia.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We had to be able to have fun.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was, I was going to pull up who came
in eighth on American Idol season two, which is our
sort of Venn diagram overlap of American Idol season Okay,
who was trying? It was someone named Ricky Smith, who
I enough, who I'm not remembering, but who came in
seventh was Kimberly Caldwell, who I do remember.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I of course remember Kimberly Callwell. She was known as
blonde White Kimberly on that season.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And she sang superstitious, Yes she did in her audition.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
She also there was also this is where my encyclopedia
comes in. She's saying come to my window, yes, during
the semi final round, and I remember thinking, maybe it's
gonna be okay for me as a queer person.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh that's really sweet. Okay, So for those of you
who do not know Elia was off the podium and
a stunning result that no one expected. He led by
five points after the short program, which is a lot,
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which is a lot. I think he even said in
his post interview off the ice that I watched that
he was maybe a little too confident going in. But
for that too, I mean, will talk about this, but like,
for that to break is so it's so devastating and
so interesting and so baked into this specific sport of
figure skating. Batched him at his squad axle right at
(05:13):
the beginning, two falls, problems throughout. He was in fifth
place overall. Mikail Scheiderov of Kazakhstan wung gold for the
career best score of two hundred ninety one point five
to eight. This is the first time Ilia has lost
competition since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So I do want to also say that Mikail Scheiderov incredible,
ye like, and it's a very come from behind gold
medal win. But that was a very special skate, and
we saw a lot of very special skates while.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We were there.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We didn't see this one person obviously because this was
in the finals, but that was a you can tell
that was a moment in the room.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, I think this is what I think. I was
quoting Tara Lepinsky, Traders contestant Tarry Lepinski or no, someone
else on the other commentators. This just goes to show
that nothing is inevitable in sports. It is a judge
this is a judged event, but that even on that
(06:11):
point of view, it's like there were just there was
undeniable mistakes that happened, right, And like we said, he
has a bright future ahead. This aw this, as you said,
gives him an amazing redemption arc in four years.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Possibly Truly, we can only hope. He was quoted afterwards
as saying, Honestly, before getting into my starting post, I
just felt all of those experienced memories thoughts really just
rush in. It just felt so overwhelming. Honestly, I didn't
really know how to handle it at that moment. I
blew it. That's honestly the first thing that came to
my mind. There's no way that just happened. I was
(06:50):
preparing the whole season. I felt so confident with my
program to go out and have that happen. There's no words, honestly,
I mean, we all know what it's like to get
in a high pressure moment and you really do decide
how that's gonna go right before it starts, And it
(07:12):
sounds like he just got flooded with doubt.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No matter how much you put into the preparation. It's
just that like thin veil right before it begins, that
like is the most influential, perhaps, I think, and I'm
sure people have pointed this out already, but it's like
hopefully there comes a point in which she's able to
(07:37):
like look back on this and see that it is
paired with his own words in the skate where he
says the past is not a chain but a thread.
Pull it and it mainly you home. I'm paraphrasing, but
like only in like the darkest darkness can you come
out and like find yourself in a sense, Like there's
(07:59):
something instructive that like this is obviously like a dark
Knight of the soul, but like he's already aware of that,
Like he already can like put that to a moment
or an experience. He's had triumphant moments to that track.
He's had as of recently a very devastating moment with
that track. Like that's the balance. I'm just saying is
(08:23):
it's thank goodness. He already has the awareness and the
affirmations in place. I think some of these people have
never said an affirmation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Let alone in the voiceover booths.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let alone with the head, with the cans on and
a sound proof setting.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's hard to know when the worst thing in your
life that's happening to you is actually the best thing
in your life. But collapsing over and over and over
again on the world stage to your own voiceover was
the best thing that ever happened to him. Because he's
coming back in twenty thirty, it's gonna be Illiad time.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And he's going to be twenty five years old, and
it better be to a song from the Girls soundtrack. Yeah,
he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Represent twenty five year olds the way that we do
in America by talking incecly about girls. Years after it's done.
We've touched on this last time. But in the team
skating event, the US became the first country we went
back to back Golds and team figure skating since the
event made its debut in twenty fourteen. It was a
close competition between the US and Japan with Yes, the Quad,
god Iliamalin and clinching the victory for Team USA and
(09:37):
the men's free skate the final component of the event
because it wasn't actually guaranteed. It did feel like after
Amber Glenn's skate that she could have done it better,
and we were in the vicinity of people who were
like a little iffy about her performance. She could have
put the team in a better position going into Ilia's skate.
(10:00):
But he crushed that one.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Mm hmm. That was the famed backflip that that also.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Happened right in front of us, by the way, right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
In front of us, Yes, the first one, and he
tried the back He did the backflip again in his
free skate, but there was obviously a different sort of
tone to it. It was triumphant. It was a victory lap,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That one was like a sad backflip, like, well, at
least there's this.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Hate when a backflip is sad? A backflip?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Can it?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Can? It is only on a binary you're not doing
a backflip like ambivalently or neutrally. Either you're doing a
backflip because you're feeling like quad god, or you are
doing a backflip because you're like I biffed it.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Or it's like, but I can do a backflip, you
know what I mean. It's like a little thirsty. It's
either like triumphant or thirsty a backflip. There are no
casual backlips. If this were the last culture, we'd say
that's a rural of culture.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But we can't.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So get this as another item on the on the
agenda here in terms of victory, but also there's there's
some there's some ups and downs in Breezy Johnson's narrative
as well. She won the first US medal of these
Olympics with gold in the women's downhill. Johnson missed the
twenty twenty two Big Jing Olympics after crashing on a
training run with the same Cortina slope weeks before those games.
(11:34):
She's now the reigning Olympic and World champion. After winning gold, though,
Breezy crashed out in Thursday morning Super G event and
then just turning her day around again. An hour later,
her boyfriend Connor Watkins proposed at the base of the
Cortina dan Pezzo, with an emotional Johnson accepting. So she
(11:54):
went from Olympic gold medal to crashing out on the
slopes literally too engaged.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And what happened before she got her gold was Lindsay
vonn Wright being choppered out like they're like the theme
of this game is whiplash. And I think, and I
think there's a comedian, Sam Ruddy. I think, who U
joked that you see Winter Olympians crying more because they
(12:27):
probably could have died doing what they just did.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes, yes, and that is a market because even figure skating,
like I was watching, those blades are flying.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's the flying lotus from Blades of Glory.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It really is bo Like, that's not a joke. I
know a lot of people laugh at Blades of Glory.
That movie wasn't a joke.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's a very serious movie.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Ben Ogden won silver and the men's individual sprint, the
first cross country skiing medal for an American man since
nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Ben Ogden celebrated with a backflip off the podium.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is a backflip.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That triumph and backflip. There are no casual backflips, no ever.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Winner of the cross country ski event is in Norway's
Johannes's House floped Clabo. His performance was so impressive that
it became a meme. He skied sub six minutes, a
sub six minute mile uphill. Now this is a great
opportunity for you to remind everybody, what was your mouth time?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Four thirty six on a flat surface with.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
My feet, with your feet, no ski.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
He did a sub six on skis uphill?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
What me found this? You found it? I think thighs
of god, what do you think? It's what he's working
from the thighs, from the core, from the femur.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I mean, there's there's like a photo of him right here.
I'm I'm imagining this that this person is an absolute
core maniac, Like I bet we would absolutely freaking by
the way, just to say, just to speak on thighs
for a second, we also saw speed skating that those
were some quad gods. Okay, the thighs were yeah, speaking
(14:16):
to me and I didn't even tell you this. Who
was sitting behind me at the women's hockey match US
versus Canada? Who was sitting behind me? Apollo anton Oo.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And I was like, oh my god. I was literally
like I can't believe he's here. I can't believe that's
him sitting right there looking so handsome by the way,
like looking good, and I'm just thinking, like, wow, this
person does not know the space they occupy in my life,
which was Let's just say he was popular during my puberty.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He was popular during your puberty. He was popular. He's
been popular Lives.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Stars Winner, not on life.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Adam ra Pond not like Adam Rapont. Did he did
he still have the soul patch goatee.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, I didn't see a soul patch the gold
tee thing. But I will say his skin looked amazing,
his hair looks healthy, he looked like he smelt good.
He was dressed well. He was like an Olympic event,
but still like in a handsome, like black buttoned down shirt,
like very giving. I'm a handsome guy first and foremost,
like I'm unbothered, like I'm very casual around these Olympic events.
(15:33):
This is my turf. It was an impressive showing by
him in the stands at that hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Game, A lot of gay energy from you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, no, I did, and but the producers are asking
if I shot my shot. I did not shoot my shot.
I don't think that that would have made anyone feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
We're not We're not a bunch of dogs.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, just because I come on this podcast and act
like a dog does not me and I actually am
one in real life. I'm really shy. If you welco
up to me, it's just incredibly hard to get me
to engage. Everyone knows that about me, very very very much.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So Las bash Falist does. We do have the first
ever metal in US mixed doubles curling and Corey TC
and Corey drop in. We are the early fans as
we know, the Coreys wan silver. We're so happy for them.
And then we have Ashley Farquarson put together two strong
(16:36):
runs to move up the leader board and win bronze
and women's luge second women's louge Metal for the US.
And then I'll have a note here that the condoms
distributed inside the Olympic village We're gone in three days
were made available. But you know there's there's a lot
(16:57):
of because we talked about the condoms in the summer
edition of Two Guys fibringth Yeah, our new legend friend
Adam Rippon has said that the condoms are kind of
there just to like people kind of grab the condoms
by the fistfully, not for practical use, but more for souveneers.
(17:19):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh, okay, well that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's interesting to talk.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
About condoms from our vantage point. But let's pull it
back to say that. Yeah, I mean, I guess that's
the thing, and it is you get to the Olympics
and you do realize it is a commemorative merch opportunity
of the highest order. And so if you're there and
(17:47):
you're an athlete and you see them, it's like, you're
gonna take them because that's your only opportunity. So I
guess I do understand that, and Adam would know. So
it was funny, like a bunch of my friends I.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Got that because they're they're on cots.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You find a way. I mean, like, have you ever
seen Summer House. It's just people will just do it
with cameras. I mean, my thing is like this, someone said.
When we got back, They're like, oh, did you guys
hook up with the athletes? I'm like, no, I think
they pretty much hook up with each other. If you're
(18:23):
going to the Olympics as an Olympia, you're not like
where are the comedians and podcast where are the content creators?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Exactly? We're kind of on the bottom tier in terms
of selection, Like it's the athletes, then it's like an
Italian bodybuilder who you know works at a pizza shop.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, then it's like the journalists that they that have
been covering them the whole time, and there's obviously a
little tension there.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm sure they're sticking recording devices in your face. Then
you you kind of start getting ideas it's so valic.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And then come the podcasters and.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
There is a story I think that we can discuss
as we wind down this season of a lot of
the hookup apps. Apparently we're sort of blacking out the
Olympic village from like, uh, people who could like roam
and travel the map via Oha. So to protect the
(19:24):
the the athletes' identities because people could you couldn't theory
anyone couldn't theory locate them through the through the apps
and then potentially like out them. Yep, if especially if
they're from a country where this is just a bit
sort of legally precarious. Technology has ruined everything. No, no, no,
(19:52):
And this is this is a case where I think
technology has protected people in a way they.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Wouldn't need to be protected if they couldn't have been invade.
We need to go back to sticks and mud. I'm
telling you, I watched Wuthering Heights last night. We need
to go back to sticks and mud. They had it
figured out.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I think they had a little bit more than sticks
and mud. But this is also whiplashie. This also is
(20:37):
just there's just a lot going on here, and I
think I would love to discuss it with you and
discuss it with the listeners. We have this Norwegian guy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, he's a by athlete.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We have Sterla Holme Ligrid who won bronze and the
individual by athlete. Ha ha ha did all your bisexual
jokes out? Okay? Great? Ready, he was the one who
confessed to having an affair. Didn't confess to it. He
(21:14):
just put it out there that he was trying to
win back his ex girlfriend because he had admitted to
the affair and.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Would let everybody know, let everybody told his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And at the time it seemed like this grand romantic gesture,
right would you say?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I mean, I can understand again, the pressure cooker is
so hot. So what he actually said was I told
her a week ago I cheated on her and it's
been the worst week of my life. I had a
gold medal in my life, and there's probably a lot
of people out there who look at me differently now,
but I only have eyes for her. Sports has taken
(21:57):
a bit of a backseat these past couple of days. Yeah,
I wish I could share this with her.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Honestly, it sounds like Act three of romantic comedy.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He is putting it all out there. Yes, you can't
say that. Well, it's either one or two things. Either
it's like, wow, this guy is putting it all out
there in like a rom com way. I'd be crazy
to not go with this person. Or you say, wow,
this person is all out there, putting it all out
there in like a rom comway. I have to run
as far away as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Also, things shut it on me, and that's what happened.
So the ex girlfriend has come out and said, I
no longer wish to be in the words of Taylor Swift,
I want to be a little narrative.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like I would like to be excused from this narrative,
one in which I never asked to be a part.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Right, So she did basically come out and say that.
He then, of course apologizes and says, I acted rashly,
I acted emotional. It was this ground swell of feeling
that made me say that, and I dragged her into
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this sort of media mess that she was not she
did not ask to be a part of. And he
then also apologized to the gold medalist of the event,
who was also Team Norway, and he was like, I
can't believe I took I took. I took the spotlight
away from my teammate, the gold medalist from my country.
(23:28):
I apologized to him, like there was there. There was
a lot of after care clean up that poor Sterla
had to do. And I feel for him, like I
I think he's just I think he I think he's freshly,
he's fresh from the fight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, I think he did to do Forla. You know,
it's just it's time for Sla to think about descent
during himself.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Of course hard though, because he just medaled at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That is a thing. It's like you're at the Olympics,
this cameras in your face, You're being asked questions, and
then you have one brain and one mouth and it
is all one system that comes out. And then it's
like kind of too late. It's like you did make
it about yourself now, so now it is about you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Sterlow oh sterling s sterls Sterlob. I'm up.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All the best to him, and all the best to
his ex girlfriend, who, by the way, we will now
remove from this narrative, one in which she never asked
to be a part. Speed skating phenom. Jordan Stoles began
his much anticipated second Olympic Games with gold in the
men's one thousand meters, setting an Olympic record to win
his first Olympic medal. He also won gold on Saturday
(24:44):
in the five hundred meters.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That is chaos. We went to five thousand meters and
that is one on one, six minutes per sort of round.
It's it's intense, it's it's cool. Five hundred meters. The
short track is nuts. It feels like it's fifty people
running around a tight circle skating even.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, we saw we saw the five thousand, which was
you know, it was exciting, and we did see an
Olympic record.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yes, but I.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Do I yearned to see all that chaos, all that cake.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And skiing. Ryan Cochran Siegel wants silver and the men's
super g I know a couple of circuit parties. He
can go to a feat he also accomplished in twenty
twenty two. We have a picture of what is that sausage?
The Fronyo worst, the Fronyo versed because it's named after
(25:45):
Switzerland's Franjo von Allman, who won Gold and super g.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He's got a sausage named after him and his home.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The local butcher in his town named the sausage after him. Well,
that's nice.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
We're looking at a pallid some pallid sausage links in
this dock. I think our producers thought it would be
very important for us to see that.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They wanted us to talk sausage, and I keep telling
them it would be careful what you wish for, because careful,
this will be a sausage podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Can we just if there's if there's video of this,
can we just can we just overlay the sausage. I
think everyone should see.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
This, Yeah, we should. We should just make sure for
when this episode comes out, we should have the sausage
readily available for everyone to see, view and peruse.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Since y'all producers love shoving sausage pictures in everyone's face
barber raised her hand.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yes, raising her hand. What's up, Barb?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
So funny story longer on the air?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Live Hi, Barb?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
When when this was happening? And I knew that the
sausage had been named after Ferano after he won silver
medals at the World Junior Championships four years ago. And
I asked our research room, could they contacted the butcher
and find out if it was being renamed because he
(27:04):
won gold and now he's won three golds at these Olympics.
And the quote from the butcher was that it had
already been renamed the Franjo Verse and it was good then,
it was good now, just like Franio and it didn't
need to be.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Renamed because what are you gonna do? I mean, it
doesn't make a difference, like he can't it can't be
called the gold Frnio. No, it's he still has the
same name. It would only make sense if Fronyo changed
his name to something else every time he won, if
he had won a gold medal. So I think I
think this is a huge failure in journalism of journalism
(27:42):
for people to call up the butcher and ask if
they would rename the Franio vers because what is there
to rename?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And it's sad, It's really sad. Just just take things
for what they are. This is a good thing. It's
a good sausage. So snowboard superstar chlobe Camp recorded the
highest score in qualifying of the women's halfpipe. She was
aiming to become the first snowboarder to win three consecutive
golds in an Olympic event, but it wasn't meant to be.
Chloe took home to silver after seventeen year old Gowan
(28:12):
Choi of South Korea rebounded from a dramatic crash to
overtake her in the final run. Choi's victory makes her
the first female Korean athlete to win a medal in snowsports,
which is huge. This is also South Korea's first snowboard gold.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And it's pretty incredible. I think Chloe is very happy
for Gowan because Chloe and her dad helped bring Choi
to the US to train all major at Mammoth and
maintained a very supportive relationship. Kin spoke highly of Choi
at an earlier press conference, calling it a full circle
moment and saying she's a mirror reflection of myself and
(28:49):
my family. You love to see it. You love the
Korean am experience to be reflected in the Korean experience.
I think that's beautiful. I think that's it's so beautiful.
It's actually it's actually a gorgeous film.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
If you really think about the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Film Silver Girls.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, let's cinematically award a bronze, silver and gold in
terms of headlines, and let's use as a rubric impact
of headline.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, impact of headline or if it's sorry, if it's
cinematic metals, is it?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Which of them would make the best movie. I was
just gonna say, let's cinematically do it. I wasn't putting
cinema in the rubric. The rubric was impact of headline.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I think I'm interpreting this as I so the three
things that I'm I have, the three stories I have
of are would all make incredible films. And I think
this is just asking them less do that. I think
because the film is not yet finished, but the setup
is already there. I'm gonna give bronze to Ilia's Fall
(29:59):
from Grace.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You're right, I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That's bronze.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Okay, that's bronze silver. It really is Ilia and I
hope you can hear that silver I'm gonna go with
because because I think it's not the gold. I think
we know what the gold is. Silver. I'm gonna go
with Breezy Johnson's Big Day, which I'm gonna I'm gonna
(30:26):
call it, and it's that's not just the children's book idea,
Breezy Johnson's Big Day, but from gold to crashing out
to engage you soldiering on, I think this is silver,
metal stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And gold. So I'm kind of a little bit torn.
I think you and I should agree on what gold
is because it's either Sterla or Chloe Kim and Guillanchoy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I have a strong instinct that it's I.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Have a strong instinct that it's you, Oh, that it's stir.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Sterla has to meddle here in terms of headlines. I
cheated on my girlfriend and I want her back on
the world stage. It's kind of a.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Film and and for it to totally flop and everyone
being unhappy and upset.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So yorgos.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's so yorgos, I think. And this is not to
like demote the Chloe Kim Gallon choice story that to me,
this is the highest compliment that gives me like vintage
Disney channel vibes. Disney, You're right, so that which is
which is which? Which is not a gold which is
what I'm not saying, like which I think maybe could
(31:38):
be bronze or silver. But you're right, Let's give gold
to Sterla because that is there is something very modernist
about that story, sort of blowing up in it, like
that moment blowing up in his face.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It's giving the beginning of her own coom. When someone
does something insane and now there's fallout that causes another
relationship to arise, probably his ex girlfriend's new one.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
His ex girlfriend's new Oh, so the protect his ex
girlfriend now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Is like I'm humiliated in the world stage by my
crazy Norwegian boyfriend. And then she meets like a bookshop owner,
like very nodding Hill vibes. This is like not notting Hill.
It's sort of like a reverse nodding Hill. It's like
it's a reverse boyfriend, you know what I.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Mean, famous, famous, toxic boyfriend who is now no longer
in the picture, and she she is now famous because
of his mishap and she just wants to get.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Away exactly what we famously call it a reverse notting.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Hill a reverse nodding Hill.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, this has been yet another episode of Two Guys,
Five Rings, and you can follow the show on the
iHeartRadio app or your favorite podcast platform and watch on
the NBC Sports YouTube channel. By the way, we just
want to say thank you so much to NBC and
YouTube for sending us to the Olympics. We could not
have done it without you. Literally we could not have.
It's like Fort Knox getting into any one one environment.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
There you have a Nona screaming at you and guarding
every door.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yes, and with all that said, watch and listen to
every moment of the Winter Olympics now through February twenty second,
which is coming up on nbcn Peacock and on the
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
And we end every episode with a song.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
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