March 11, 2026 • 22 mins
The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are over and it's time for Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang to wrap up the festivities. Two Guys, Five Rings gives thoughts on the Closing Ceremonies and the performances from Team USA. Hockey brought Gold from both the men and women's team while we highlight other Olympic memories. Matt was amazed by Alysa Liu and explains how it's his lasting memory of these Games
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ring Ring Ring, Ring Ring Ring. Join us thousands of
years after the Milan Courtina Olympics as we look back
on what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
A millennium ago. Okay, let's get transparent up in here. Finally,
for once, for once, we were supposed to do our
big wrap up episode of the Winter Olympics, the Milan
Courtina game wrap up closer to the actual closing ceremony date.
(00:40):
Lots of life happened. Matt Rogers had a birthday. I
was in Antarctica sort of scouting the place for potentially
another Olympics venue.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And then you worked to the Olympics of Winter coded
places Antarctica, So in a way you did contribute to
this culture.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Winter is so in right now. Talk about that, don't
you agree? I think winter is all around us? And
I say that, Yes, I'm gonna admit centering the northest
northern hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I center the Northern Hemisphere. Okay, I'm sorry, I center
my own experience. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm not going to apologize and for that anymore. I
don't want to apologize for summer in the Northern Hemisphere experience.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But crazy that you were in Antarctica when it was summer,
so you were sort of cheating on the season.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But it was still giving winter vibes. So don't ever
tell me that I'm cheating on winter. I have always
been faithful to winter. Basically, like, if.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You're walking around New York City right now, and you're
like looking through your left, looking to your right, and
you're just seeing piles and piles of snow, that people's owner's,
people's owners, the dog's owners are not picking.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Up and I want and I don't think you should
have corrected yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
People's owners.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, we're owned by something money Daddy Warbucks.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I believe they call him, whoever it is that makes
all the decisions, big brother Daddy Warbucks up there in
the sky.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't bring Annie into this, alright, fine, I will
not have you defiling Annie.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I would never one of the great scores of our
time cool. And that's why people tune into Two Guys
five Rings to hear about what scores we love. And
I'm not talking about the women's hockey US versus Canada
at doll Whoo, a game I went to, and after
(02:35):
a little while, I was like, okay, okay, go off.
Hockey is not really for me. Go off Puck, I
can say that looking back.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, but Ice stanzas.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The highlight of our entire time, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I would say so. Absolutely Well, for seventeen days, the
mountains and cities of northern Italy watched skaters, skiers and
snowboarders chase fractions of seconds and lifelong dreams. Now the
flame has been extinguished, the medals awarded, and the athletes
begin their journeys home. Well, this was clearly written last week. Yeah,
and I'm so sorry. This is my fault that we
(03:12):
are recording this so much later after the fact. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
People are doing the best that they can out there,
and I'm of course including every athlete that competed. Can
we give a little fingers half applause and maybe even
a real applause? However your generation applause do it at
home for all of the athletes who gave everything.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
A low commotion for the athletic prowess, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think we can all agree that we saw incredible
things and there was lots of triumph. There really was triumph.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In a place that culminated meaningfully at the Verona Arena,
where the twenty twenty six Milon Cortina Winter Olympics closing
ceremony took place, and boy did they, and boy did
The arena was built in thirty a d. It's older
than the Roman Coliseum and once played host to gladiator games.
Let's not bring that back.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, keep that, hey, you can keep that. In addition
to hosting the Olympic closing ceremony, the Verona Arena is
also hosting the opening ceremony of the twenty twenty six
Paralympic Winter Games.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But for now we can describe the closing ceremonies as
a tribute to the beauty of Italy of Verona and
of the Milano Cortina twenty twenty six territories during the
first ever widespread Olympic Winter Games. Now, I've already taken
issue with that word wide spread Olympic Games. I'm thinking
all things that have no place at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And we're more conservative. Some people are more conservative, and
we're more conservative. And I don't think that that means
that we can't have friends that think a little differently
than us, you know what I mean, just because we
are conservative and we think of things a little bit differently.
More family values, more minded towards you know, just not
(05:05):
in front of my children. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're begging to be clipped.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You're begging to be taken out of concept, even though
that's generally the tone we prefer to take, is a
more conservative tone. But enough of all that, you know,
deeply rooted in Italian culture, Bough and the show featured
a groundbreaking scenetic approach that seamlessly blended opera, music, dance, cinema, design,
(05:32):
and technology into a singular visual narrative, thus bookending with
the opening ceremony. It's actually real culture number four. The
opening ceremony and the closing ceremonies book end.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The opening ceremonies and the closing ceremonies book end.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
They really do well.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I love a bookend because you you definitely need both.
Otherwise it's just a random block you have other way,
and then it's a paper weight, and who needs that, honey,
I'm not sitting outside.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You need bookends because if you don't have bookends, you
open the book, the pages go everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But you need bookends. But you don't need paper weights
because I'm not putting my papers on my patio. And
that's what you need a paper weight for it is
so I think papers don't blow away, Well how about
I keep the papers indoors. Paper weights there are total
waste of time. How am I supposed to check this
in my bag? It's a weapon now centered on dynamism.
(06:34):
The creative director explained that the closing ceremony was created
to tell the story of an extraordinary adventure.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That will remain in everyone's heart. A spectacle where Italy
became the stage because in Italy, beauty is always in
motion and has been for thousands of years. Can I
say we can confirm that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Let's look back at the games, starting with Team USA. USA.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, but USA, you know to her friends who mostly
you know, that's France, Switzerland, those are America's allies. Team USA.
Team USA won more gold medals than ever before twelve
and the most medals at Olympics outside of US and Canada.
(07:33):
So that's thirty three. Team USA won medals in eleven
of sixteen sports. USA wins men's hockey gold for the
first time in forty six years, So you know that's
and that's just speaking about the men. We haven't even
mentioned the women who are better.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The women. USA Women's hockey goes undefeated for the first
time since nineteen ninety eight in a post Charlie's Angels
Full Throttle world, not since the movie Charlie's Angels Full Throttle,
which did not come out nineteen ninety eight. But I'm saying,
since before that movie came out, USA women's hockey has
(08:15):
has has not gone undefeated. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It might make sense to the people, It makes perfect sense.
And also I just wanted to add that if you
actually think about it, Charlie's Angels came out so much
longer than you think. It feels like one of those
movies that's like, you know, I think, because it was
ahead of its time tonally, stylistically, Yes, performances are great.
You if you check the date of when that was released,
(08:40):
you're gonna be very surprised. It's a lot longer ago
than you think. And time does go faster as you
get older. I think we're all noticing that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We're all noticing that, and I think it's also maybe
a comment on how culture hasn't changed that much since then,
wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think it's a big comment on that. Definitely, definitely
that the hockey teams have gone on a little bit
of a victory tour, a little bit of a press
tour since returning to the States, with several Team USI stars,
including Jack and Quinn Hughes and Hillary Night, making appearance
after the Olympics on a little show called Saturday Night Live,
(09:20):
as well as the Tonight show If you had to
pick huge, loaded gun to your head.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Ok, it's big and it's loaded, Yeah, okay, s an
or that Tonight's show. Yeah, Well, one of them really
began the sort of I don't know where I was
going with this. I had a thought and it just
it just it just left the room.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think it's because the answer is so obvious that
you short circuited, because you were like, I can't even
do comedy about this, you know what I'm saying. It's
like some things you can't even really joke about. And
I think you truly too. You're so grateful for us,
and now I am so I didn't even think you
liked the joke.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't respect the frame. I don't respect the question.
How dare you made you be emotional? In the words
of Adele, maybe maybe bit emotion. You know, it made
me a bit emotional.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's our impression of Adele everyone maybe a bit emotional.
It's like, not based on anything emotional.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's never said that us Bob's letter, Alana Myers and
just I just want to point out that the people,
the lovely, wonderful people who put together are briefing documents
really want to set us up for success.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, a lot of pronunciations.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It is especially evident in this in this instance where
they thought we needed help on pronouncing the name Alana
spelled spelled kind of normal. I would say E l
A n A, but we got a pronunciation parenthetical pronounced Elana.
Thank you. Elana. Myers Taylor won her sixth career medal
in the women's mono Bob and first goal tying speed
(11:14):
skater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated US women in
Olympic Games Winter Games history. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yes. At forty one years old, Myers Taylor became the
oldest US woman to win a gold medal at the
Winter Olympic Games. So congrats to Myers Taylor. Meyer's bragg
is more like Myers Taylor. Yeah, rename it better. Myers
has come along. I've got a joke for you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Go on, man, what do you call it when you
regret the ice cream you bought? Briar's remorse, Oh that
it was really good. Did you have that in your
back pocket or was that one you've had since childhood?
Well that was a That was a Facebook status I
wrote in the year twenty fifteen that did numbers. It
(11:59):
got a least forty like huge.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, So just to go back to twenty fifteen, this
was you were twenty five, you know, I was twenty five.
You were still working as a graphic designer. So when
you go on something like Facebook or Twitter, yeah, that
is really where you feel like you can exercise some
comedic you know, some insight, some comedic muscle. So doing
(12:25):
numbers on a Facebook post like that, that's really memorable stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just miss when you can do comedy without being
a being, being too aware of the audience. I really
miss that. I mourned that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We're gonna take a quick break here to mourn, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Thank you for mourning the state of comedy as it
was in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We just had to mourn that. So you know who's
not mourning Mikhayla Schiffrin because she she won the women's slalom,
and she earned a third a lim b gold medal,
fourth of her career. Go Mikayla, Go do Mikaela. Not
that you need us to cheer for you, because A
it's over and B you go quite quickly on your own.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You go quite quickly on your own. We have to
congratulate Jordan Stoles for speed skating two golds, one silver medal,
is the seventh US athlete to win three or more
metals at one Winter Games. And congratulations on on on
succeeding in a sport where people always are reminded of
(13:32):
the amazing figures and silhouettes that we see on the ice.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
One hundred. Let me pick my sandwich and cigarette up again.
Let me take a byte, take a bite and a drag.
(13:58):
I love by sandwich when I'm just kicking back in
Hollywood thinking about how I can make more money. You know,
speaking of money, you know who I think is someone
we really should you know, get out there for big endorsement.
Just kidding, I'll stop using my real voice. Alyssa Lou,
(14:19):
Alyssa Lou. She was incredible. She became the eighth th
This really, in a real way, was the best part
of the Olympics I think was watching Alyssa lou skate.
Anytime she took to the ice. She became the eighth
US woman I'm sure you know this already at home
to win singles gold and the first US women's single
(14:39):
skater to stand on the Olympic podium since two thousand
and six. Sasha Cohen invoked capping an incredible comeback story.
I mean watching her skate was truly cool to see
because she didn't care at all what anyone thought. You
could tell she was so on b she was truly
(15:01):
doing it on her terms. It was one of the
most casual yet precise performances I've ever seen. She just
threw it away in a way that was so impressive,
so embodied. I know you were just as equally blown away.
I genuinely was inspiring.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It made it made me. It reminded me what Adam
Ripon was saying to us was like when he meddled. Finally,
it was when he didn't really hair quote unquote as
much as he had in the past historically right, he
was like, it was fine. I felt like free, and
I felt like technically, I guess on top of my game.
(15:41):
And as good as I could have stated, was when
I stopped really wanting it or gunning for this idea
that I had to meddle, Like I think, I think
like this is another perfect example of what happens in
sports when link you let the pressure go. I don't
mean to bring this up, but like the perfect corollary
counterpoint to that is our king Ilia Malanin, who maybe
(16:06):
felt the pressure a little too mentioned this was his
first instance of maybe, and I think he's learning so
much about himself right like there was a there's a
gorgeous sort of wide open spaces narrative for him to
realize that, like this is what maybe hampers this thing
that you love doing, which is like putting this feeling
the pressure that everybody's putting on you. And so Alyssa
(16:28):
and Ili are are great examples of this kind of
thing that happens with sports and with the Olympics and
the Winter Olympics specifically, where it's like you just gotta
let it go.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, I mean, and it's truly with time that this
can even begin to develop in a person. And I think,
you know, just a little background on Alyssa Lou from
people who may be on the uninformed side of the fence.
About a month after the twenty twenty two Beijing Winter Olympics,
Alyssa earned a bronze medal at the twenty twenty two
(16:59):
World champion and then she retired, very shockingly and suddenly,
stating that she was sick of a life that revolved
around skating. She wasn't doing it to enjoy it, she
wasn't doing it for the art. She was doing it
because it just was her life. It was an accepted fact.
And then I guess she had some sort of you know,
come to Mama, come to Jesus. This moment took a
(17:21):
little bit of a break, and then by December twenty
twenty three slash January twenty twenty four, she was on
a skiing trip along skiing trip and she was inspired
to return just because she was like, you know what,
I've you know, picked up my skates again. I just
to see how I feel. I do still love this. So,
after roughly two and a half years away from international competition,
she returned to competitive ice and you know, less than
(17:45):
six months later she won the twenty twenty five World Championships,
and now she is the Olympical medalist, undisputed and a
little bit of an icon. I would say, I mean,
I like, truly feel little represents her generation. No, a
full fledged icon.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Full fledged icon. She does represent her generation because someone
asked her what was the most gen z thing about her?
And this girl says that I was born in two
thousand and five. Next question, enough, let her live, let
her be a normal girl.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ageing nothing but a number who said that? Eliyah?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, next we have Breezy Johnson, who won the first
Olympic medal for the US in gold. Why did I
say that that way US medal? The first US medal
(18:41):
in gold? Leave it and I believe it in, I
demand it. Leave it in. Breezy Johnson won the first
gold and the first US medal for alpine skiing after
winning the women's downhill. Interestingly, Johnson, who has never won
a World Cup race, is now the ring Olympic gold
medalist and world champion in downhill.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's interesting how that ended up happening.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's so interesting. What do you think is most interesting?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, her first name, To be honest with you, that's
what I think is most interesting. I'm like, no, what
about that? If you're genuinely asking me which I think
you were.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It would only be more interesting if her name was Downhill. Yeah,
if her name is Downhill Johnson and she won the
first gold US medal. My gosh, I'm really struggling with this.
You try it, you try it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't think. Okay, I'll try. I don't think this
makes sense. Breezy Johnson won the first US medal and
first gold of the twenty twenty six Milan Courtina Olympics
after winning the women's downhill. Interestingly, Johnson was won World
Cup raise is now the raigning Olympic gold medalist, world
champion in downhill.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well now, I well, now I know I flopped.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Try the next, Just try the next factoid.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
The US men's cross country team wins two silver medals.
Prior to these twenty twenty six games, the US men
had won just a single Olympic medal, a silver in
nineteen seventy six, fifty years ago. See that was great,
but I felt like I wasn't really communicating the idea
of what I was reading. I don't even I couldn't
even tell you where I had just dried. I'm not
(20:23):
even looking at it. That's how I need to connect
with the tuxt again. I can't wait to do that eventually.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, I'll tell you who connected the most with medals
at the Winter Olympics. Norway. They won the most total
medals with forty one, and they are actually, get this,
the winningest nation in Winter Olympic history. And you know
they've also got the record for most golds, which was
eighteen at a single games. I mean, just resetting their
(20:50):
own records over there in Norway, again and again and again,
constantly raising the bar for us.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
All well, I think, and doing it foolishly. I'd be
Norway too if I had mostly sunlight in the summer,
if I you know what else, if America.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Was better, we would have done better. Oh here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
MUSA doesn't get specifically funded through a body in the
actual national sort of government.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know what, You're so right, and might I just
realize I'm done. We talked about the closing ceremonies, we
did the metal count. I'm done. We don't think it
was fair that Norway got sunlight more. They basically live
in the winter. It's not feeling very fair. Basically, basically no,
(21:52):
So we're done. To wrap up a total of twenty
nine nations earned metal. Congrats to them the most all time,
including two first time metal winners and Denmark, which earns
just its second ever in the Winter Games. They want
medals and speed skating.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Thank you, and on that note, follow two guys five
rings on the iHeartRadio app or your favorite podcast platform,
and watch on the NBC Sports YouTube channel. And watch
and listen to every moment quell upcoming moment of the
Milan Courtina Winter Paralympics now through March fifteenth on NBC
and Peacock. We thank you so much for waiting with
(22:31):
bated breath for our wrap up episode about the Olympic Games.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We and everyone to sing you know We're done.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, We're no, we don't We're not singing the song.
Ring Ring Ring, Ring Ring Ring. Join us thousands of
years after the Milan Courtina Olympics as we look back
on what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
A millennium ago. Okay, let's get transparent up in here. Finally,
for once, for once, we were supposed to do our
big wrap up episode of the Winter Olympics, the Milan
Courtina game wrap up closer to the actual closing ceremony date.
(00:40):
Lots of life happened. Matt Rogers had a birthday. I
was in Antarctica sort of scouting the place for potentially
another Olympics venue.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And then you worked to the Olympics of Winter coded
places Antarctica, So in a way you did contribute to
this culture.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Winter is so in right now. Talk about that, don't
you agree? I think winter is all around us? And
I say that, Yes, I'm gonna admit centering the northest
northern hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I center the Northern Hemisphere. Okay, I'm sorry, I center
my own experience. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm not going to apologize and for that anymore. I
don't want to apologize for summer in the Northern Hemisphere experience.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But crazy that you were in Antarctica when it was summer,
so you were sort of cheating on the season.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But it was still giving winter vibes. So don't ever
tell me that I'm cheating on winter. I have always
been faithful to winter. Basically, like, if.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You're walking around New York City right now, and you're
like looking through your left, looking to your right, and
you're just seeing piles and piles of snow, that people's owner's,
people's owners, the dog's owners are not picking.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Up and I want and I don't think you should
have corrected yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
People's owners.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, we're owned by something money Daddy Warbucks.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I believe they call him, whoever it is that makes
all the decisions, big brother Daddy Warbucks up there in
the sky.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't bring Annie into this, alright, fine, I will
not have you defiling Annie.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I would never one of the great scores of our
time cool. And that's why people tune into Two Guys
five Rings to hear about what scores we love. And
I'm not talking about the women's hockey US versus Canada
at doll Whoo, a game I went to, and after
(02:35):
a little while, I was like, okay, okay, go off.
Hockey is not really for me. Go off Puck, I
can say that looking back.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, but Ice stanzas.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The highlight of our entire time, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I would say so. Absolutely Well, for seventeen days, the
mountains and cities of northern Italy watched skaters, skiers and
snowboarders chase fractions of seconds and lifelong dreams. Now the
flame has been extinguished, the medals awarded, and the athletes
begin their journeys home. Well, this was clearly written last week. Yeah,
and I'm so sorry. This is my fault that we
(03:12):
are recording this so much later after the fact. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
People are doing the best that they can out there,
and I'm of course including every athlete that competed. Can
we give a little fingers half applause and maybe even
a real applause? However your generation applause do it at
home for all of the athletes who gave everything.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
A low commotion for the athletic prowess, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think we can all agree that we saw incredible
things and there was lots of triumph. There really was triumph.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In a place that culminated meaningfully at the Verona Arena,
where the twenty twenty six Milon Cortina Winter Olympics closing
ceremony took place, and boy did they, and boy did
The arena was built in thirty a d. It's older
than the Roman Coliseum and once played host to gladiator games.
Let's not bring that back.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, keep that, hey, you can keep that. In addition
to hosting the Olympic closing ceremony, the Verona Arena is
also hosting the opening ceremony of the twenty twenty six
Paralympic Winter Games.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But for now we can describe the closing ceremonies as
a tribute to the beauty of Italy of Verona and
of the Milano Cortina twenty twenty six territories during the
first ever widespread Olympic Winter Games. Now, I've already taken
issue with that word wide spread Olympic Games. I'm thinking
all things that have no place at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And we're more conservative. Some people are more conservative, and
we're more conservative. And I don't think that that means
that we can't have friends that think a little differently
than us, you know what I mean, just because we
are conservative and we think of things a little bit differently.
More family values, more minded towards you know, just not
(05:05):
in front of my children. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're begging to be clipped.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You're begging to be taken out of concept, even though
that's generally the tone we prefer to take, is a
more conservative tone. But enough of all that, you know,
deeply rooted in Italian culture, Bough and the show featured
a groundbreaking scenetic approach that seamlessly blended opera, music, dance, cinema, design,
(05:32):
and technology into a singular visual narrative, thus bookending with
the opening ceremony. It's actually real culture number four. The
opening ceremony and the closing ceremonies book end.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The opening ceremonies and the closing ceremonies book end.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
They really do well.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I love a bookend because you you definitely need both.
Otherwise it's just a random block you have other way,
and then it's a paper weight, and who needs that, honey,
I'm not sitting outside.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You need bookends because if you don't have bookends, you
open the book, the pages go everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But you need bookends. But you don't need paper weights
because I'm not putting my papers on my patio. And
that's what you need a paper weight for it is
so I think papers don't blow away, Well how about
I keep the papers indoors. Paper weights there are total
waste of time. How am I supposed to check this
in my bag? It's a weapon now centered on dynamism.
(06:34):
The creative director explained that the closing ceremony was created
to tell the story of an extraordinary adventure.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That will remain in everyone's heart. A spectacle where Italy
became the stage because in Italy, beauty is always in
motion and has been for thousands of years. Can I
say we can confirm that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Let's look back at the games, starting with Team USA. USA.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, but USA, you know to her friends who mostly
you know, that's France, Switzerland, those are America's allies. Team USA.
Team USA won more gold medals than ever before twelve
and the most medals at Olympics outside of US and Canada.
(07:33):
So that's thirty three. Team USA won medals in eleven
of sixteen sports. USA wins men's hockey gold for the
first time in forty six years, So you know that's
and that's just speaking about the men. We haven't even
mentioned the women who are better.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The women. USA Women's hockey goes undefeated for the first
time since nineteen ninety eight in a post Charlie's Angels
Full Throttle world, not since the movie Charlie's Angels Full Throttle,
which did not come out nineteen ninety eight. But I'm saying,
since before that movie came out, USA women's hockey has
(08:15):
has has not gone undefeated. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It might make sense to the people, It makes perfect sense.
And also I just wanted to add that if you
actually think about it, Charlie's Angels came out so much
longer than you think. It feels like one of those
movies that's like, you know, I think, because it was
ahead of its time tonally, stylistically, Yes, performances are great.
You if you check the date of when that was released,
(08:40):
you're gonna be very surprised. It's a lot longer ago
than you think. And time does go faster as you
get older. I think we're all noticing that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We're all noticing that, and I think it's also maybe
a comment on how culture hasn't changed that much since then,
wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think it's a big comment on that. Definitely, definitely
that the hockey teams have gone on a little bit
of a victory tour, a little bit of a press
tour since returning to the States, with several Team USI stars,
including Jack and Quinn Hughes and Hillary Night, making appearance
after the Olympics on a little show called Saturday Night Live,
(09:20):
as well as the Tonight show If you had to
pick huge, loaded gun to your head.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Ok, it's big and it's loaded, Yeah, okay, s an
or that Tonight's show. Yeah, Well, one of them really
began the sort of I don't know where I was
going with this. I had a thought and it just
it just it just left the room.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think it's because the answer is so obvious that
you short circuited, because you were like, I can't even
do comedy about this, you know what I'm saying. It's
like some things you can't even really joke about. And
I think you truly too. You're so grateful for us,
and now I am so I didn't even think you
liked the joke.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't respect the frame. I don't respect the question.
How dare you made you be emotional? In the words
of Adele, maybe maybe bit emotion. You know, it made
me a bit emotional.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's our impression of Adele everyone maybe a bit emotional.
It's like, not based on anything emotional.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's never said that us Bob's letter, Alana Myers and
just I just want to point out that the people,
the lovely, wonderful people who put together are briefing documents
really want to set us up for success.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, a lot of pronunciations.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It is especially evident in this in this instance where
they thought we needed help on pronouncing the name Alana
spelled spelled kind of normal. I would say E l
A n A, but we got a pronunciation parenthetical pronounced Elana.
Thank you. Elana. Myers Taylor won her sixth career medal
in the women's mono Bob and first goal tying speed
(11:14):
skater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated US women in
Olympic Games Winter Games history. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yes. At forty one years old, Myers Taylor became the
oldest US woman to win a gold medal at the
Winter Olympic Games. So congrats to Myers Taylor. Meyer's bragg
is more like Myers Taylor. Yeah, rename it better. Myers
has come along. I've got a joke for you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Go on, man, what do you call it when you
regret the ice cream you bought? Briar's remorse, Oh that
it was really good. Did you have that in your
back pocket or was that one you've had since childhood?
Well that was a That was a Facebook status I
wrote in the year twenty fifteen that did numbers. It
(11:59):
got a least forty like huge.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, So just to go back to twenty fifteen, this
was you were twenty five, you know, I was twenty five.
You were still working as a graphic designer. So when
you go on something like Facebook or Twitter, yeah, that
is really where you feel like you can exercise some
comedic you know, some insight, some comedic muscle. So doing
(12:25):
numbers on a Facebook post like that, that's really memorable stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just miss when you can do comedy without being
a being, being too aware of the audience. I really
miss that. I mourned that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We're gonna take a quick break here to mourn, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Thank you for mourning the state of comedy as it
was in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We just had to mourn that. So you know who's
not mourning Mikhayla Schiffrin because she she won the women's slalom,
and she earned a third a lim b gold medal,
fourth of her career. Go Mikayla, Go do Mikaela. Not
that you need us to cheer for you, because A
it's over and B you go quite quickly on your own.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You go quite quickly on your own. We have to
congratulate Jordan Stoles for speed skating two golds, one silver medal,
is the seventh US athlete to win three or more
metals at one Winter Games. And congratulations on on on
succeeding in a sport where people always are reminded of
(13:32):
the amazing figures and silhouettes that we see on the ice.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
One hundred. Let me pick my sandwich and cigarette up again.
Let me take a byte, take a bite and a drag.
(13:58):
I love by sandwich when I'm just kicking back in
Hollywood thinking about how I can make more money. You know,
speaking of money, you know who I think is someone
we really should you know, get out there for big endorsement.
Just kidding, I'll stop using my real voice. Alyssa Lou,
(14:19):
Alyssa Lou. She was incredible. She became the eighth th
This really, in a real way, was the best part
of the Olympics I think was watching Alyssa lou skate.
Anytime she took to the ice. She became the eighth
US woman I'm sure you know this already at home
to win singles gold and the first US women's single
(14:39):
skater to stand on the Olympic podium since two thousand
and six. Sasha Cohen invoked capping an incredible comeback story.
I mean watching her skate was truly cool to see
because she didn't care at all what anyone thought. You
could tell she was so on b she was truly
(15:01):
doing it on her terms. It was one of the
most casual yet precise performances I've ever seen. She just
threw it away in a way that was so impressive,
so embodied. I know you were just as equally blown away.
I genuinely was inspiring.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It made it made me. It reminded me what Adam
Ripon was saying to us was like when he meddled. Finally,
it was when he didn't really hair quote unquote as
much as he had in the past historically right, he
was like, it was fine. I felt like free, and
I felt like technically, I guess on top of my game.
(15:41):
And as good as I could have stated, was when
I stopped really wanting it or gunning for this idea
that I had to meddle, Like I think, I think
like this is another perfect example of what happens in
sports when link you let the pressure go. I don't
mean to bring this up, but like the perfect corollary
counterpoint to that is our king Ilia Malanin, who maybe
(16:06):
felt the pressure a little too mentioned this was his
first instance of maybe, and I think he's learning so
much about himself right like there was a there's a
gorgeous sort of wide open spaces narrative for him to
realize that, like this is what maybe hampers this thing
that you love doing, which is like putting this feeling
the pressure that everybody's putting on you. And so Alyssa
(16:28):
and Ili are are great examples of this kind of
thing that happens with sports and with the Olympics and
the Winter Olympics specifically, where it's like you just gotta
let it go.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, I mean, and it's truly with time that this
can even begin to develop in a person. And I think,
you know, just a little background on Alyssa Lou from
people who may be on the uninformed side of the fence.
About a month after the twenty twenty two Beijing Winter Olympics,
Alyssa earned a bronze medal at the twenty twenty two
(16:59):
World champion and then she retired, very shockingly and suddenly,
stating that she was sick of a life that revolved
around skating. She wasn't doing it to enjoy it, she
wasn't doing it for the art. She was doing it
because it just was her life. It was an accepted fact.
And then I guess she had some sort of you know,
come to Mama, come to Jesus. This moment took a
(17:21):
little bit of a break, and then by December twenty
twenty three slash January twenty twenty four, she was on
a skiing trip along skiing trip and she was inspired
to return just because she was like, you know what,
I've you know, picked up my skates again. I just
to see how I feel. I do still love this. So,
after roughly two and a half years away from international competition,
she returned to competitive ice and you know, less than
(17:45):
six months later she won the twenty twenty five World Championships,
and now she is the Olympical medalist, undisputed and a
little bit of an icon. I would say, I mean,
I like, truly feel little represents her generation. No, a
full fledged icon.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Full fledged icon. She does represent her generation because someone
asked her what was the most gen z thing about her?
And this girl says that I was born in two
thousand and five. Next question, enough, let her live, let
her be a normal girl.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ageing nothing but a number who said that? Eliyah?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, next we have Breezy Johnson, who won the first
Olympic medal for the US in gold. Why did I
say that that way US medal? The first US medal
(18:41):
in gold? Leave it and I believe it in, I
demand it. Leave it in. Breezy Johnson won the first
gold and the first US medal for alpine skiing after
winning the women's downhill. Interestingly, Johnson, who has never won
a World Cup race, is now the ring Olympic gold
medalist and world champion in downhill.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's interesting how that ended up happening.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's so interesting. What do you think is most interesting?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, her first name, To be honest with you, that's
what I think is most interesting. I'm like, no, what
about that? If you're genuinely asking me which I think
you were.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It would only be more interesting if her name was Downhill. Yeah,
if her name is Downhill Johnson and she won the
first gold US medal. My gosh, I'm really struggling with this.
You try it, you try it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't think. Okay, I'll try. I don't think this
makes sense. Breezy Johnson won the first US medal and
first gold of the twenty twenty six Milan Courtina Olympics
after winning the women's downhill. Interestingly, Johnson was won World
Cup raise is now the raigning Olympic gold medalist, world
champion in downhill.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well now, I well, now I know I flopped.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Try the next, Just try the next factoid.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
The US men's cross country team wins two silver medals.
Prior to these twenty twenty six games, the US men
had won just a single Olympic medal, a silver in
nineteen seventy six, fifty years ago. See that was great,
but I felt like I wasn't really communicating the idea
of what I was reading. I don't even I couldn't
even tell you where I had just dried. I'm not
(20:23):
even looking at it. That's how I need to connect
with the tuxt again. I can't wait to do that eventually.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, I'll tell you who connected the most with medals
at the Winter Olympics. Norway. They won the most total
medals with forty one, and they are actually, get this,
the winningest nation in Winter Olympic history. And you know
they've also got the record for most golds, which was
eighteen at a single games. I mean, just resetting their
(20:50):
own records over there in Norway, again and again and again,
constantly raising the bar for us.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
All well, I think, and doing it foolishly. I'd be
Norway too if I had mostly sunlight in the summer,
if I you know what else, if America.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Was better, we would have done better. Oh here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
MUSA doesn't get specifically funded through a body in the
actual national sort of government.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know what, You're so right, and might I just
realize I'm done. We talked about the closing ceremonies, we
did the metal count. I'm done. We don't think it
was fair that Norway got sunlight more. They basically live
in the winter. It's not feeling very fair. Basically, basically no,
(21:52):
So we're done. To wrap up a total of twenty
nine nations earned metal. Congrats to them the most all time,
including two first time metal winners and Denmark, which earns
just its second ever in the Winter Games. They want
medals and speed skating.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Thank you, and on that note, follow two guys five
rings on the iHeartRadio app or your favorite podcast platform,
and watch on the NBC Sports YouTube channel. And watch
and listen to every moment quell upcoming moment of the
Milan Courtina Winter Paralympics now through March fifteenth on NBC
and Peacock. We thank you so much for waiting with
(22:31):
bated breath for our wrap up episode about the Olympic Games.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We and everyone to sing you know We're done.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, We're no, we don't We're not singing the song.
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