A Bit Dramatic ..

Join Locks, Shawn, and AuntieCat as they discuss their favorite Olympic moments and athletes. Shawn stirs the pot with a hot take about Simone Biles, leading to a "spirited" debate with SamCat. Plus, they dish on the absolute worst social media trends. Tune in for all the fun!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are back in the booth.
I'm Sean Booth, and thank youguys for tuning in.
Wherever you're listening from,maybe you are in Winchester,
missouri, springfield,massachusetts, or maybe you are
in East Lansing, michigan.
That's the home of the MichiganState.
What's her name?
Sam Cat.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Spartans, spartans.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, there you go.
Good job, we are back and we'vegot a jam-packed house to my
left, my direct left.
You probably can't see him.
Maybe you can see his feetright now, but he is eating.
We got Lox Booth in thebuilding.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Loxy B.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And to his left, we got auntie cat in the building
and we got our man, easton,behind the ones and twos and
we're back in nashville,tennessee, experiencing a heat
wave.
My goodness, it's gonna be, uh,a spicy hot podcast here.
I think we turn the AC off whenwe do these, correct, easton,
no AC, yeah for the sound.

(01:09):
And so at my gym we wererecording stuff the last couple
days and I forgot to turn the ACback on and so people can't
even they are like slipping onthe rubber because it's so wet,
and it's pretty hilarious.
It's like people are coming outout of locker rooms after they
shower and it looks like theydidn't use a towel because
they're just drenching wetthrough all their clothes.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, I used to practice with no AC in the
summer and I have absolutely noidea how I survived that.
I'm pretty sure that's illegalnow, but it was the nineties, so
it was a weird time, but I'm abig AC girl these days.
I'm ready for fall.
I'm ready for fall.
I know that it's August 1st but, baby, I'm ready for fall.
I need a crisp, 62 degree,sunny, windy.

(01:50):
Yeah, like I need it.
I need the NFL music playing inthe back and just the smell of
fall.
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm ready too.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't want to wish time away, but Officially ready
Whenever?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah.
Officially ready whatever?
Yeah, but the thing is is thatyou know we're going to be
sweating until october aroundhere, oh, and then it's still
going to be fall, and then it'llbe really nice, like the crispy
62 and then one random thursdayit'll be like 94 again, correct
, but we're uh, looking forwardto that.
I just went on a run and I wasactually thinking the same thing
, because it's hard to controlyour heart rate when you're
training and when you're runningand practicing different zones
and aerobic and anaerobic andyou want to try and maintain a
zone to a blue zone, sam cat,and you're going all the way up

(02:29):
to the orange and the red, butyour orange is your threshold,
but you don't want to pass thatbecause you want to work with
that lactic acid yeah yeah, soI'm ready for the fall for
running purposes same,definitely running purposes,
only I'm a big runner umolympics.
I haven't watched a singlesecond on my tv of the olympics.

(02:51):
I've seen some clips, I've seensome highlights, but I haven't
watched at all.
And I saw one of the funniestvideos I think I've ever seen of
uh steven pommel horse guy oh,the pommel horse guy, the rep,
the representative of all nerdsacross the country like clark
kent style love, love it.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I mean good for him.
I love the memes, first of all.
I say this I feel like everypodcast, but the internet
remains undefeated.
There are so many creativepeople out there that are
quicker and funnier than you andI will ever be, and I love that
for them because I enjoy it.
But the memes for steven havebeen off the charts.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I sent you that video right, yeah, yeah, those girls
in the background.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, and it's not like I don't know.
Listen, no one ever cares aboutgymnastics.
The Olympics is pretty much theonly time that, collectively,
as a whole, people are curiousand really into it and watching
and trying to learn about thesport, so this is like my
favorite time of year.
I am the first to admit that Idon't know nearly as much about

(03:52):
men's gymnastics as I do women's, but I mean, how cool is it to
be?
Steven won the first medal forthe us men's team since 2008.
On his instagram story was ascreenshota picture of him
solving a rubik's cube in under10 seconds yeah so you know, out

(04:14):
here people are, they're doingtheir endorsements, they're
talking about their sport,they're all this.
This kid's talking about arubik's cube and I love that
incredible.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I love it, and so his specialty.
Like that's the only thing hedoes right.
And the men only won the goldmedal because of his performance
.
That is correct, so they hadhim like sitting on the
sidelines.
They just had like a clock, acountdown to when he was going
right I do have to say that thebroadcast definitely leaned into
his career.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So it is very rare to make a team as a specialist
because obviously there's somany gymnasts in the world and
there's not a lot of opportunityto make an Olympic team.
And he is just so, so, so goodat pommel horse, and I have to
preface this with that.
Pommel horse is notoriouslylike make or break for people's
careers.
You can be a successful malegymnast, but if you don't have
pommel horse it has mentally andphysically broken many of men.

(05:06):
So this kid obviously very muchexcels.
It is so much so that he waschosen as a specialist, which is
just like unheard of to comeand only compete the palmer
horse for his team, like yousaid, it was really coming down
to the wire.
They had not won a medal in,you know, since 2008.
So no pressure, steven um.
But the reason you're here isfor this exact moment.
The kid sat there with his eyesclosed, trying to stay in the

(05:29):
zone, eventually woke up, tookhis glasses off, came up,
dominated and they walked awaywith the bronze medal.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And so, oh, bronze, they didn't get gold.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
No no, no, bronze, bronze.
So it was the first time theyhad medaled since 2008, which is
great, but yeah, I mean abronze.
A medal is a medal in my eyes.
I'm not there, but right so itwas the first time, but it was
so close that they were notgoing to be on the podium unless
he hit exactly exactly what hedid, and the pommel horse is so
hard yeah, explain the pommelhorse.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's like the big bean that looks kind of like a
horse.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
You're riding a horse without sure, sure I mean it's
like I have no idea what thedimensions are.
Like I said, I don't know muchabout men's gymnastics, but it's
got like the two.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
They don't do that in women's hell.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
No, they just do the beam here's the thing men's
gymnastics and women'sgymnastics are completely
different sports, like they justreally are, it's not.
It would be like comparingbasketball to baseball.
I know that that sounds insane,yeah, but locks agrees with me.
So obviously I'm correct.
Um, but it's.
You know, we share two eventswith the men, but even those two
events are just drasticallydifferent.

(06:28):
I'd say the closest is vault,because it's obviously the same
skill, but like, we also sharefloor, floor I was gonna say
it's pretty similar no, I meanyes and no.
Yeah, you're tumbling, but likemen don't have music, women do.
Men are doing back-to-backskills, a lot of strength based
wait, why don't men have musicfor the floor?
Because who?
Whoever invented the sport,decided that that was not a

(06:51):
qualification.
They've never had music.
The gymnasts that are women aremore like artistic, so it's
more dance, leaps, turns.
Dancing to music a lot moregrace.
Men carry the strength in theirupper body, women carry it in
their lower body and there'smore focus on flexibility and
artistry for women.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And there's more focus on like stillness,
strength and just masculinity inthe men's Right.
So they're very, very differentsports.
We just have a little bit incommon.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Okay With the men?
Is it always because I know thewomen?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
isn't it?
Russia is always like the bigteam, and US I mean.
If you read the history books,yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
What about the men?
You don't know much.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I don't know much about the men.
I do have to say.
I mean, I know that China andJapan have been very dominant
for them in the past couple ofyears, and Japan actually, I
think, won the all-around.
I think China was second placeand then United States was third
.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
So okay, so shout out to Steven that dude's going to
be getting endorsement dealsright now, I'd imagine.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I really hope so, because I just love someone who
is unapologetically themselves.
I love that he obviously isfantastic at gymnastics and he
didn't crack under the pressureand now he's, you know, a
country mascot that we have.
Now Everybody knows, the ClarkKent guy, the pommel horse guy.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
He's probably back in the science lab right now as we
speak.
He's done with the Olympics andhe's back to work and whatever
he does, well, he still hasevent finals.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's not done.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, he's still got the pommel horse to compete
later.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Singles.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah.
So basically how gymnasticsworks this is both men and women
is that there's a teamcompetition, there's an
all-around competition, and thenindividually you can qualify
for each event as well.
So the week continues Liketoday is the women's all-around
competition, but then afterwe'll still have vault, bars,
beam and floor individual eventsas well.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, all right.
So big Steven guys here.
He's also got a girlfriend ofeight or 10 years, I believe he
was talking about.
Good for him.
Yeah, yeah, gotta love it.
There's always a couple ofpeople that emerge from the
Olympics and become nationalheroes.
Steven is one, and I'd say thesecond one is the cap catcher.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
You don't know who the cap catcher is.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
No, I thought you were going to say the women's
rugby.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
That girl too correct .
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she yep, allright.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Iona, I'm going to butcher it.
She literally just put out avideo of how to say her name
because everybody was butcheringit, and here I am doing it
again to her.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
When she became popular because of TikTok,
because that one video, whenshe's talking about a guy,
talked to me and he told me tokeep moving.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, Also, she's hysterical on the internet, but
also she's great at her craft.
The women's rugby team also wongold, and she was an enormous
part of that.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
I saw one play.
I was like holy shit, this girljumped as high as she could,
was falling back like OdellBeckham style caught the ball.
The other girl hangs on to herankles and pulls her over her
shoulder.
I mean it was crazy.
She's definitely one girlthat's blown up.
I keep seeing her.
But the cap catcher.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, I don't know who this is.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
This guy literally sits on the sidelines during all
the swim races and if anybodyloses their cap in the water, he
comes out and he like takes hisclothes off and he's wearing
like a rainbow Speedo and he'slike this out of shape, looks
like 40, 50 year old guy and hisjob is to jump in the water and
to retrieve the cap.
And then he comes out.

(10:07):
So you got, all the people inthe stands are like cheering him
on and he just dives in withhis little speedo, grabs a cap
at the bottom of the pool andgets out and everybody goes
crazy every time he goes in.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh, my God.
Okay, I'm going to have to lookout.
I do have to admit that Ihaven't watched much swimming.
I've watched it in theprimetime coverage, but not
necessarily live.
So I'm going to be on thelookout for that tonight when I
watch.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, and he won't tell his name because he doesn't
want to take away the attentionfrom the swimmers.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
I mean, I get that, because I also just feel like
but also, I'm like dude, you'rewearing a rainbow speedo and you
don't want to take theattention away from the swimmers
like that at events.
It's just now.
You know he's at the Olympics.
He's got a lot more eyes on him.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but I haven't seen
any of it.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I saw the women gymnastics they got gold.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
They did get gold.
Yeah, good for them.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
It was.
It's so good.
I mean, listen, I could talkabout gymnastics every day, all
day, for the rest of my life.
I feel like I love the sport.
I love that everybody's payingattention to it.
I love obviously winning.
Gold is my favorite, but thatwin for the US women's team I

(11:14):
feel like has so many layersthat even the media hasn't
covered that it's just a reallygood thing for the girls, for
the sport, for our country.
If you've paid attention togymnastics over the last five to
ten years.
Obviously there's beenhorrendous scandal that has
surrounded the sports and thegirls have referred to it as the
redemption tour and they'velisted a bunch of things in the
media, like obviously Simone hada horrendous mental block in

(11:39):
the Tokyo Olympics, sunni hasbeen battling a kidney disease,
Like there's just been a lot ofthings they've talked about, but
what they haven't talked about,I think, is a lot of like the
unspoken that this win did forthe sport of gymnastics and the
fact that it has proven that ina healthy, safe environment you
can also fucking dominate yeahand it's something that

(12:02):
everybody needed to see here inwitness.
I think that there's so muchmore importance that will, after
the Olympics, become moreapparent to the public for those
of us that never once had anopportunity to compete in the
Olympics I'm not putting myselfin the same category as them but

(12:34):
for those of us that dedicatedour lives to this sport, for
then it to get very much blownup in the public eye and now to
kind of have it almost healedover feels really good.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, cause I mean, it's a good point.
I didn't even think about allof the horrendous things that
they went through.
Like I completely forgot aboutit actually, and it's like, oh
yeah, the U S one again.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And it's like they overcame that and people thought
that the U S Olympics was goingto go down basically forever.
Right After that scandal andafter everything like how can
you come back from that?
Are you going to be able tocompete at a healthy level?
And they overcame the demons.
They completely had to cleanhouse from everybody on the US
Olympics business side of thingsand it's not just the Olympics

(13:19):
USAG all the way down to juniorOlympics.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
So I guess that's what I mean is.
The importance of it is thatthey cleaned house in obvious.
It was an appropriate action,it was the only action that
could be done.
And to come out on top on theother side of it and the leader
of it is simone.
Simone has been on both sidesof it.
She is the only one that waspresent at the olympic games in

(13:42):
2016 before everything implodedand has now built herself back
up to be in the 2024 Olympics bythe way, the oldest gymnast, at
27 years old, to do it, andshe's the leader of it.
She's the face of it.
She's obviously faced immensepressure and I don't know, it's
just I feel so good about thefuture of gymnastics because of

(14:04):
where we're at right now, andit's just it feel so good about
the future of gymnastics becauseof where we're at right now and
it's just, it's exciting to seeand it's I don't know.
It makes me emotional, it makesme feel all the feels.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, I sent you a message.
I said what did I say?
Hey, is Simone Biles a littledramatic, or what Was that what
I said?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Something like that.
Yeah, and then you didn'trespond.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
So said something like that yeah, yeah.
And then you didn't respond.
So I'm still waiting for that.
I'd love for you to state yourcase.
I'm listening.
First of all, big big simoneguy.
I think she's obviously thebest sport has ever had.
I think her and sean johnsontop two.
Big sean johnson guy right hereum, I just feel like every time
I I read or see a headline withSimone, it's always something
dramatic, like always, like youknow, going off on somebody.
Her Instagram caption.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay, that's one, all right, any others?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, let's talk about that one.
I think, uh, obviously I am aguy who loves to shit talk.
I am always a guy who likes agood chirp.
To give you a little backgroundUm, I had to do research after
I saw the instagram post.
Right that you did research.
Thank you for that.
Yeah, I had.
I had to do some research.
So explain, there's a girl whowas and I watched another video

(15:17):
um, who was on the gymnasticsteam?
Michaela, not michaela marooneyno all right, we all like
Michaela Maroney she's awesome.
Yes, maroney, yeah um, thisMichaela girl, I guess, was a
alternate for Simone and thenbecame on the team because
Simone had, uh, dropped out,right that is correct okay okay,

(15:38):
and she also got a silver medalgive you a little background on
this Michaela girl.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Michaela Skinner was, in all, an alternate in
previous Olympics, so she wasSimone's teammate, okay, uh, I
think it's important to mentionthat Michaela was also part of
the USA G program when thingsweren't so great.
So you know she's been at thehands of all of the bad things

(16:03):
that you know about gymnastics,but also some of all of the good
ones as well.
After the olympic trials ofthis year, she went on youtube
and decided to.
You know, she didn't really saygreat things about the girls
that were that made the team.
She even went as far as to sayI wish I would have made a
comeback, because I feel like Icould have, like, helped the
united states, which I don'tthink not.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Don't think is not a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
However, the way in which she said it was super
condescending, because she'slike these girls fell two times
and still made the team Again.
Not a bad thing to say it'smore so the way she was saying
it, and I think a lot of thedisappointment came from the
fact that she like they shouldbe on the same team.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well now, when she went on YouTube, did she just
like have a YouTube channel?
Yeah, she has a big followingshe's an Olympic gymnast.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
She talks about the sport.
She's an athlete.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
So she gave her side saying that she could be on this
year's team.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Essentially, but she went as far as to say there's no
depth of difficulty, they'relazy In reality, the there's no
depth of difficulty, they'relazy.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
In reality, the girls just don't work hard anymore,
right?
Okay, so I heard that.
Yep, she said everybody butsimone, correct, so she wasn't
talking crap about simone, shenever did, right I mean but I
understand.
So she said they don't workhard, which is a crazy
assumption to make about agymnast.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Obviously they're working hard well, and
especially like she's, sheshould be on their team.
I don't mean physically theactual team, I'm just saying
that, like she represents thesport, she represents Olympic
gymnastics.
Like you should be supporting.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Kind of came across as a jealous I'm not there
anymore Like came off bad.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
And again, I don't think necessarily everything she
said was bad, but the way inwhich she said it.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
OK, it was so pretty bad, but not terrible.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Not terrible okay so then flash forward, simone was
there anything between like?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
so did these girls.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Um, there were some tweets that went out.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, simone said some people shouldn't have
access yes, yes, okay, but isthat bad?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
is that bad, though, because Michaela could say her
opinion, but Simone can't no, no, I'm not, I'm saying, this is
what I'm saying.
You can all say your okay, okay, yeah, yeah so, but I think it
was just like a tweet and thenit was done okay because, guess
what, someone had bigger fish tofry.
She has to get ready for theOlympics, exactly which she does
bigger fish to fry.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Keep that in mind they.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
no, that's what I'm saying I like that you said that
because I'm going to use thatsame phrase in like 30 seconds.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
So then Simone gets her life together.
They qualify for the teamqualifications.
They win gold.
Yeah, they win gold.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
And what's the first thing that Simone does?
Oh, she posted a picture.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yes, and it's a clap back Sean because she let her
actions speak, don't?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
she got bigger fish to fry, simone she fucking fried
them, sean.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
She won the goddamn gold.
What do you mean?
She has bigger fish to fry,exactly then bigger things
you're giving this girlattention.
She already did it and it wasthe period at the end of the
statement.
Do not cut me off the goldmedal speaks for itself.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Exactly, I feel like you just gave this girl
attention she shouldn't deserve.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh, I absolutely couldn't agree less what she
doesn't.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
It has nothing to do with attention to her.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
It has nothing to do with attention.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
You gave her attention.
I was looking her up, everybodyelse was Good.
I'm glad you did, trying tofigure out what the deal with
this girl is, because you wantto know something Good.
Simone is the greatest of alltime Right and she can do
whatever she wants.
I'm like.
I did not say she can dowhatever she wants but I feel
like I'm like that seemed kindof a little cringy to me.

(19:30):
I'm afraid to say that, cause Ithink Simone might come after
me if I say that Okay, cause Ifeel like LOL, that she would
give you the time of I was justabout to say on social media.
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Who is everybody?

Speaker 1 (19:44):
People talk about her husband and she goes off.
I feel like there's always alittle drama around Simone,
that's all I ask.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Can I ask you a real question?
I think she's a fantasticathlete.
Can I ask you a real question?
Yeah, seriously, and I don'tknow that you can even answer
this unbiasedly, and I'm nottrying to be able to see you
next Tuesday Would you feel thisway if it was Michael Phelps?
Would you feel this way if itwas a male athlete?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Be honest, yeah, the very first.
I'm not saying don't clap backat her at all, like love that,
but I'm saying the first thingyou post on Instagram it's like,
oh, you really don't like thisgirl because you don't gotta say
anything to her at this point.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I hear you.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Right, like clap back maybe a day or two later.
I'm just saying the timingmaybe is wrong.
I don't mind her doing what shedid, but I'm saying the very
first post.
Obviously it worked.
It landed.
Everybody loved it.
I mean, that post has millionsof comments and likes.
Like it landed.
The girl shut down her youtube,yeah, and I'm like, oh, I think

(20:46):
that girl should have been liketaking advantage of that and be
like shit, all right, congratsgirls.
That's my bad, like.
I think she should have ownedup to it and use that to
continue on with her discussionabout the olympics instead of
shying away like it looks badthat you just like shut your
page down and you like went andhid in the closet.
I feel like Michaela shouldhave just been like shit, all

(21:07):
right, I was wrong.
Yeah, hand up, there is depth.
You girls do work hard.
Congrats, love you guys.
Team USA.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
But I was like oh, I don't know if you need to do
that right away, but guess what.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm not the one who won a gold medal, so I can't say
anything.
That's just my opinion.
Listen, I don't think Simonecan do anything she wants, but I
do think that she very subtlyand very I mean, yeah, was it
petty, of course, but all shedid was make an Instagram
caption.
She did not tag her.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
She did not refer to the situation, but who cares?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
She's not allowed to make her Instagram caption.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean it's great if she was using that for emotion,
I mean for motivation.
Damn, like you are reallybothered by that, simone.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Would you not be bothered by that?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's great.
I'm just saying, like everyathlete goes to something for
motivation, sure, and that wasvery high on her list.
Like she had that Instagramcaption planned for months
probably.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Here's the thing that I I'm speaking for Simone on
her behalf.
Do I know this for a fact?
Obviously not, but I think thatafter the Tokyo Olympics,
simone had like a huge mentalblock where then she felt like
the world, the United States,everybody hated her.
If you haven't watched thedocumentary on Netflix, I like

(22:27):
the world, the united states,everybody hated her.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
if you haven't watched the documentary on
netflix, I highly startedwatching it yeah, so imagine
feeling like the entire worldhates you because you quote,
unquote, quit, quit.
Excuse me, this is a pg podcast.
We got locks right here quit.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
I was trying to merge words quit yeah, sorry, locks
quit, quote, unquote, eventhough it was a mental block.
Yeah, so the word block andquit is what I was trying to say
together was okay okay, okay,okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Let me finish the sentence.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Let me finish the sentence.
So she's in the dark place andshe only has a handful of people
that know her personally, knowher as a gymnast, know her as a
friend, and michaela was one ofthem.
And then they come out on theother side of all this bullshit
covid, the mental block, theeverything, the scandal with the

(23:10):
doctors, yeah, and they aregoing to put this team together
like, finally, as a sport, we'rehealing, and then someone from
your own side, kayla didn't sayanything bad about simone though
it doesn't matter, simone isthe captain in the goat of this
sport it doesn't matter if shepersonally pointed out simone.
Simone takes that personallybecause she represents why she's
a great captain.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Heck, yeah, I would take that personally too for my
team.
But obviously, but don't, but,don't know.
I'm saying that you can't belike everybody was against her.
All this was like, well, that'swhat you get when you're the
best in the world and whenyou're getting millions of
dollars and getting all thesesponsorship deals and you're
going to have the rest of yourlife set up.
There's going to be things likesome pressure and criticism the

(23:53):
entire time.
Look at Michael Jordan, look atLeBron James the best athletes
in the world.
I'm not you're trying to saythis is a girl or guy thing,
like michael phelps, I don'tthink michael phelps would do
that.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I was just asking if you think that you would think
michael phelps was dramatic ifhe just called out his haters,
like when he calls out ryanlochte who talks shit about him.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's not dramatic no, uh, there's a video going
around of phelps.
Did you see it when?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
yes, I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
The australian was talking about the cowbell and
everything like that.
He said I would watch thisevery day before I got in the
pool that pumped me up so much.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Like you like see him , so say that michael phelps got
out of the water won a goldmedal when it go to his
instagram and put up, but do youknow that for a fact like yes,
I do comparing elephants toapples right now you're the one
who asked the comparison but II'm asking you if you think that
you would have the same mindsetlooking at someone like Michael
Phelps versus looking atsomeone like Simone Biles.

(24:47):
I was asking if you think you'dhave the same reaction.
You said yes, that's all I waswondering.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah.
I don't believe you, but I hearyou, no, no, you don't think
I'd be like dude, of course.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I think maybe eventually you would, but Of
course.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I think maybe eventually you would, but I
think that you would be quickerto jump on.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Simone, you started this with saying that you
haven't watched an ounce ofOlympics.
So you haven't watched any ofthe coverage, you don't know the
backstory, you don't know thelayers that went behind this.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm just saying you don't know her personally.
I see a lot of dramasurrounding Simone and I just
ask is Simone a little dramatic?
Is she a little, would you say,is she a diva?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know her personally.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
But from the outside looking in.
That's all I want to know.
That's why I asked you.
You're a gymnast, I'm notwatching, so I want to know why
all the headlines are alwaysdealing with Simone.
That was it.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, they're dealing with Simone, because she's the
greatest of all time.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
And, yeah, I think that it's not always going to be
good news when you're the bestin your sport.
I think it comes with theterritory, but I also think
there's nothing wrong withstanding up for yourself.
Simone didn't personally attackthis girl.
Now do I think that the falloutnow that because there's a
bunch of internet bullies likeyes, Simone, what you say
carries so much more weight thananything I will ever say in my

(25:58):
entire lifetime, is a billion?
Exactly, I'm not disagreeingwith you in that, but what I'm
saying is that she is allowed tomake an Instagram caption.
You want to know something?
If Michaela didn't wantsomething like that coming her
way, then she shouldn't havesaid the shit she said.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm not saying-.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
See Lox says yes, thank you, lox.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm not saying nobody's not allowed to do
anything.
Everybody to do anything,everybody's allowed to write and
say whatever they want.
I'm saying I personally thoughteh, I don't know if that was
the best caption for right nowin the moment, seems a little
petty and seems like it is petty.
All you got to do is just sit inthat picture, hold your damn
gold medal up and you don't haveto write anything yeah you know

(26:36):
, I, yeah, I hear you but I'm anold man, so you know kids these
days kids these days well, andI do think that that also plays
into it, or just right like suckit.
You know that's better.
Better than what she saidbecause she personally directed
it right at that one girl.
I'm like damn, you weretriggered, simone, you got real

(26:56):
triggered by that one girllisten, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I don't agree with you, but I respect that.
That's your opinion and I thinkthat, yeah, it is petty, but
yeah, she's the greatest of alltime.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Let's get a third party in here, easton.
What do you think on thissubject matter?
Simone Biles Instagram postcaption.
Do you like it?
You don't like it.
Honestly, I'm not too aware ofthe situation All right.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Thank you for your contribution, Anyways.
What's coming up today, though,is the all-around, and I'm very
excited to see it because,unfortunately, it could be
Simone's last all-aroundcompetition of her career.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And okay.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
She's the greatest ever.
She's got more in the tank.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Okay, anything else you want to talk about?
I didn't realize that I washere on a professional Olympic
panel.
I would have prepared better,so sorry, no, is it her last?
I don't know.
I mean, it could be.
I don't see what else she hasto prove.
She is 27.
The oldest gymnast feels likeforever.
I know that that sounds insane,but before this year they

(28:02):
literally nicknamed their teamthe golden girls because of how
old this team average is what'sthe average?
Like 22.5 years old that'scrazy.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's old, the youngest one is 16.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying is that
gymnastics is an insane sport.
I started when I was lox's size.
Like it is a very young sportand has traditionally been
teenagers.
In the olympic games, alian was22, and she was referred to as
the grandma.
Oh, I remember that, and so nowSimone's 27, and I don't know
that physically it's feasible.
I mean, yeah, obviously she'sdoing great, but it's like your

(28:33):
body is breaking down the numberof hours that you have to train
to maintain how competitive sheis.
But what do I know she couldcome back.
She's the goat.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
But it's sad to think that this could be the last one
that we'll see her do anall-around competition in yeah,
that's why I wonder if she willcome back, because she's so much
better than everybody else andshe's obviously not normal and
has taken that average up wayhigher, so it's like she would
be the one to come back at 31years old.
Is it every four years?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is it four?
Yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Olympics.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's alwayspossible.
I would never count her downand out, especially after
everything we've seen from her.
It just I mean, I don't knowLike why.
What does she have to prove?
She is now has four skillsnamed after her and this
afternoon she has thepossibility to be able to name a
fifth skill after her, which isunheard of.
Naming one skill after yourselfis unheard of.

(29:28):
So you have to basicallycompete that skill in an
international competition andmake it.
You can throw the skill but notland.
It Doesn't count, it will notbe called the Sean Booth.
But if you throw the skill ininternational competition and
you make it, that now goes inthe code of points for all of
gymnastics to see that you canlearn the Sean Booth on whatever
event.
This is the skill it is andit's named after you for the

(29:49):
rest of eternity.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
What would my move be ?

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Talking shit with absolutely no information to
back it up.
That would be the Sean Booth.
There's an outside perspectiveAre you chewing into a
microphone right now.
I'm about to leave this podcastpeanut butter balls do you
understand how triggering thisis?
You want to talk abouttriggered.
I'm about to say some hurtfulthings.
If you smack your mouth intothe microphone thank god we're
not wearing headphones I wouldtake the baby and run tell your

(30:16):
dad to figure it out.
Okay, so now.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Tell your dad to figure it out.
Okay, so now is it Simone Bilesmove one, Simone Biles move two
, Simone Biles move three.
Is that what they call them?
I can't even look at you.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yes, biles one, biles two.
Biles three, biles four no,potentially Biles five.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
So she has two, she has four, and the only event
she's missing is uneven bars,and today is her last time to be
able to do that, because shedidn't qualify for individual
uneven bar event finals.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
So she's got to throw it today.
Make it successfully in orderfor it to go in the code of
points.
How close could you be tonailing biles?
One, two, three, four?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
or five, probably as close as you, so very far, yeah,
locks agrees.
Um, no, no, these are insaneskills that I could never.
I could never.
There is one other woman whocompetes one of the biles on
floor, um, and so out of thefour, almost five skills that
she has, only one of them hasbeen done by another human being
.
That's how difficult they are.

(31:15):
Wow, yeah, so you've beenwatching?
Uh, she's dramatic, so whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, thanks for agreeing with me.
Moving on to the track, haveyou seen the show on Netflix?
It's pretty sweet.
Follows the best runners in theworld.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Track has not started up yet.
We're still in swimming.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Right, oh well, I don't know, you haven't watched,
nevermind, Okay, okay, yes.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Moving watch, never mind, okay, okay, yes, moving on
, sorry.
So it's uh cool series onnetflix and it follows the best
runners, the sprinters who arelike the well-known ones, the,
you know, like usain boltz.
I asked dre the other day I wastalking about usain bolt.
She doesn't.
She never heard of usain bolt.
She didn't know who usain boltis.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
That I said you gotta be illegal, you gotta be
kidding me, right?
I'm like that is yeah, youdon't know that you've never
seen that maybe she was activelytrying to avoid that.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, I don't know the, the best pose of all time
yeah the greatest sprinter ofall time world record yeah, no I
mean jamaica I think everybodyknows him.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, apparently not dre, yeah, that's interesting
but also very unsurprising fromher.
I gotta be honest yeah, sothese sprinters.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Noah lyles is the best guy in the U S.
Now Um other countries.
I got a really good guy fromFrance and the girl from the U S
remember Shaqari Richardson.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
I don't know much about her except for that she's
very colorful and can run likehell and, quite honestly, I love
it yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
And she is very sassy , like she's got attitude.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Is she dramatic too?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, I'd say she's dramatic.
Okay, definitely.
But yeah, she didn't qualify orshe got kicked off the last
Olympics for testing positivefor marijuana.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Which sucked because she was our best runner.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I have heard that that has since been taken off
the banned list which it shouldI mean yeah it's not a
performance if you can runfaster than everyone in the
world.
High, you deserve to be high butalso athletes just use thc to
recover yeah you know they'rewell, I think that as we as a
society have grown, and gottensmarter and evolved, have
realized the benefits of THC asopposed to it being like this

(33:23):
slippery slope gateway drug thatit was painted to be in the
past.
But I mean, when you knowbetter, you do better, and I
think that we are on our way tobe doing better.
Obviously, I'm excited foranyone that has made it to the
Olympics.
And I just feel like THC is asilly thing to take someone out
of a competition for.
But what do I know?
I'm not a governing body, so Iunderstand that there's rules,

(33:46):
but I just feel like that's nota performance enhancing drug
that we should be concernedabout.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
And they do such a good jobwith this show.
Um, kind of just like buildingup little rivalries, right,
great story.
Come back failed drug test.
Four years later she's back.
What does she have?
Can she beat the world record?
Can she get a gold medal?
And then you have a girl fromjamaica who is usa's rival it's

(34:12):
always usa and jamaica forsprints and there's this girl
from jamaica who's like superlike quiet and just like all
business.
And then you got your car.
He just like super flashy.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
And it's just like the two polar opposites.
But then they, you know, haveraces, you know, between the
Olympics, so they're lining upnext to next to one another and
you got the coaches on thesidelines, they're talking and
it's just a cool series goingback and forth with the men and
the women.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I gotta be honest, I haven't graduated from the
chapter of gymnastics, yeah, um,and I've been watching swimming
only during the prime time, soI have not wrapped my head
around the fact that track iscoming up yet I, I'll get there
it's 10 days baby, I gottaspread myself.
I can't spread myself too thinis the entire olympics 10 days.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, it's just 10 days two weeks, yeah damn weeks,
yeah, damn.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I know, and it feels like forever Feels like it's
already been a couple weeks.
Yeah, but imagine training yourentire life In gymnastics.
I can only speak, but it'sliterally your entire life for
all in all the time that you'reactually competing less than
five minutes.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
You put every event, every skill together.
When you're actually doinggymnastics competitively, it's
like less than five minutes, soyour entire life for that.
And same with running, likeobviously they're trying to be
the fastest so you want theshortest amount of time of you
actually competing, unlessyou're katie ledecky and you're
just like out there laps aheadof everybody else, swimming for
miles.

(35:36):
It felt like I don't know ifyou've watched that, but I saw
this meme that I laughed about.
It's like my favorite part ofthe olympics is when they do the
overhead view of the pool andit looks like katie ledecky is
in the pool by herself becausethat's how far ahead she is than
everybody else behind her.
Yeah, happened again last nightcrazy good for her.
She, I think, is someone thatwill come back again yeah she
has like vocalized that I thinkshe's the quote-unquote like the

(35:59):
comparable to Simone inswimming again if I'm speaking
out of turn.
I am not a swimmer.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I apologize, but she has the best of all time.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
She said that she would come back again.
She said I will keep comingback until my body gives out,
which good for her.
Yeah, I don't know if Simonehas that, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
We'll find out.
I heard Michael Phel.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I mean, he's not a little friend.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
He's a large man.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
But Michael Phelps gave him the medal, gave him the
hug or whatever, and it waslike he broke his record.
Then he came to the Olympicsand broke it again or something
like that.
An incredible story, but I loveto watch the evolution of
sports.
You think that Michael Phelpsjust set these records, or I

(36:47):
felt like that.
I'm not going to put words inyour mouth, but I feel like, oh
my God, michael Phelps was juston top of his game, he was just
here, but when you think aboutit, it's been a couple Olympics
now.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
I know he said that he had the record for 21 years
before the French Well also, andthe impressive thing, like all
of the events, yeah so he wasthe best in all the events where
now everybody kind ofspecializes and stays in the
lane and they train all year,all their life for one event all

(37:16):
right, so michael phelps was sogood at everything.
That's why he was kind of nowhe's the all-arounder.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, the simone biles.
Yeah, exactly I just want topost a cringy instagram caption,
though right right right, we'llhave to, uh, take that up with
him.
Maybe we should call MichaelPhelps and see what he thinks.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, let's get him on the horn.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
You know, from one goat to another meaning.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Simone, not you by the way I'll call him.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Oh, okay, just FaceTime him up right now.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
His phone says he's busy.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Interesting.
I wonder why.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, do not disturb, do not disturb.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I love being competitive.
I feel like you love beingcompetitive.
I feel like that's what theOlympics is.
I'm impressed, slash surprised,slash disappointed that you
haven't watched any Olympics.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
I know I guess I'll take it no time.
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Okay, but for two weeks you can't support your
country.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, now I'm not supporting our country, you're
not I'm supporting our country.
I'm supporting our country.
I'm the biggest American thereis.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
That's a little dramatic, if you ask me this is
a little dramatic.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'm pretty American now.
I love our country.
I just don't have time to watchthe Olympics.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
And I put it on, and every time I've turned on like
YouTube TV and you got the splitscreen of all four.
Yeah, nothing interests me.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
It's exciting to see people's dreams come true.
I think that that's the partthat gets me the most.
It doesn't matter the sport.
I get emotional whenever yousee someone accomplish something
that you know.
Not only has it been theirdedication, their coaches, their
teammates, their parents, thehours, the money, the sacrifice,
all of that to come together.

(38:46):
And in money, the sacrifice,all of that to come together.
And in america I can't speakfor other countries, but in
sports like swimming andgymnastics, men's, women, it
doesn't matter.
Nobody cares about these sportsother than right now.
So for them to also get alittle bit of fame and glory and
become the pommel horse guyhell yeah, I love that for them.
yeah, like good for them thatmakes me feel so warm inside,
because you put in the work, youmade the effort, you performed,

(39:10):
and now you're reaping all thebenefits, and as you should.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, I agree, the sad thing is is like how life is
after that.
So you post-Olympics depression?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Oh, so much I've heard it often and it's so sad
because truly, think about itrealistically.
In three months from now,stephen will be able to go to
Publix, just fine.
No one's going to know he's thepommel horse guy unless he's in
an environment that, like youknow, lets you know.
You know he's signingautographs behind a table with a
name tag or something Otherthan that.

(39:40):
I mean Simone's a littledifferent.
I think people would recognizeher.
She's as tall as locks and she'sall over the place in the media
for years but for these otherolympians who maybe are on a
team sport as well and itdoesn't have that individualized
attention.
Yeah, yeah, that's got to be aweird mental adjustment talk
about 15 minutes of fame it'sjust like up and down.
Well, you work so slowly, yourentire life, to get there for to

(40:03):
just like firework into the air.
And then it just well what?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
about to earth.
But what about the people whodidn't make the Olympic roster
or they didn't place and theydidn't get a medal?
So you worked your entire life,this was your last Olympics and
then boom.
Now what do you do with yourlife and mid-20s?

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
It's crazy.
You spent since you were, likeyou said, locks of size.
Your entire life was focused onOlympic metal.
You didn't get one.
Now what?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, I think I think in some ways that might be
easier.
I know that's a loadedstatement, but I think I'm not
saying easier.
How do I want to say this?
I think in some ways therecovery from that is just
different.

(40:49):
I wouldn't say easier, it'sjust different.
Because you got to not make theteam within your own cocoon.
You don't know the.
Can you name a swimmer thatdidn't make the team?
Can you name a gymnast thatdidn't make the team?
No, but you can name the onesthat did and it's like they
don't get the taste of the fameand like the rush.

(41:11):
So that's obviously unfortunate, but I do kind of feel like
that's easier to recover from.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Well, yeah, because you're not recovering from
anything.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Well, you're recovering from an immense
disappointment.
It's just not in the public eyeand everything you should know
of anyone that recovering in thecomfort of your own home is
much different than recoveringat the scrutiny of the public.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, but I just feel like the Olympic Olympians who
made the team, who got themedals, they're able to utilize
that for years.
Oh, yes, you know they can,they can you know?
Know they'll like the next yearthey're gonna be doing events,
they're gonna get paid, theywill get sponsorships.

(41:53):
It's gonna be like, hey, we gotolympic silver medalists.
Yep, the other people is justlike well, now I gotta work
full-time job yeah, it's kind ofsimilar to nashville or anybody
.
Artists, you come here, what'sthe expiration date?
Like at what?
point like an actress or anactor.

(42:15):
You're working your entire life.
You get to 28, 29, 30, midthirties.
You still haven't made it.
You're still struggling to payrent.
At what time do you throw thattowel in?

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Right, well, I feel like it applies to both music
and sports, I guess.
But something that I heararound town here is just like
you know, make sure you're niceto people on the way up,
especially when it's real quickbecause, guess who you're gonna
see on the way down?
yeah, those same people, and Ican name specific artists,

(42:45):
specific managers, people thathad a real quick rise that may
not last or have already startednot to last, and they're on the
back nine and they're on theway down.
And let me tell you, everybodyremembers how you treated them
on the way up Exactly, and so Ithink that's a stupid game, the
whole thing.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
It is a stupid game, but at the same time, it's a
lesson in humility.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
You cannot be the goat for forever.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
But it's like oh no, exactly.
And then to those same artistswho made it up quick, it's like
oh well, where was everybodybefore you made it?
And then there's a quote that Isaw a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know where I saw it,but it was something like you
are one success away from havingeverybody say I knew you could

(43:28):
do it, and one, one majoraccomplishment away from
everybody saying, oh yeah, likeI like you, you know it's like,
but until then nobody gives ashit nope, no, I don't know it's
.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I obviously don't know what it's like to be an
artist.
I've worked with a lot of them.
I feel like I relate more tothe athlete mindset, but I think
that there's a lot ofsimilarities because essentially
, you're both just trying to bethe best at your craft yeah
again, another mental, emotional, human experiment.
Yeah, I would love to just be afly on the wall at the olympics

(44:06):
though, to just really absorb itand see, because I think
something that I wish I couldfeel, that you can't feel
through the television screen isthe energy of the arena.
I would love the Olympics arein LA in 2028 and it is on my
bucket list.
I would love to make it to atleast one gymnastics event in LA
in 2028.
I have already started scouting.

(44:27):
If you have any hookups, pleaselet me know.
I would like to go.
I don't know that I would.
I think I would be sooverwhelmed, I would just I'd be
so emotional to be able towitness that in real life.
It's just the best of the bestof the sport that I love, the
sport that shaped me into who Iam.
I know that sounds so cliche,but everything goes back to that
.
The good, the bad, the ugly andeverything in between is just

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like.
I can't imagine witnessing thatin real life.
And you know what?
You see how important the crowdis because of the difference
the Tokyo Olympics to thisOlympics are.
There was nobody in the crowdin Tokyo and guess what?
It showed the energy, none, nocrowd.
Can you imagine making it tothe Olympics and nobody can come
and watch?

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
That's an aspect that helps you so so much.
And they were robbed of that.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah, I would love for it to be on home turf in the
USA as an Olympian.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
You know the crowd.
It's going to be crazy, oh mygosh.
And you know what?
Maybe that's the kick thatSimone needs to come back is
that she doesn't have to travelfar.
She's right there in la babe,come on back yeah, let's watch
it one more time.
I think she'll be back you do,you really think so?
I do okay I don't think so Ithink she'll be back.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I'm rooting for her yeah, as long as she's not too
dramatic though as long as I'msure we'll get a bunch of
headlines in the next four years, though, of simone biles and I
hope so.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
I really do hope so.
Yeah, I mean, I hope she's notcringe and dramatic for you, but
I think that she has completelychanged the sport, so much that
it would be such a shame if shedidn't stay in the spotlight of
the sport for years to come,which I think at this point is
physically impossible.
Like Michael Phelps is nowcommentating, other retired
gymnasts are now commentating.
I think Simone will step into aspace where she will still be a

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prominent figure for years andyears and years to come, for the
rest of her life.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Yeah, absolutely.
She'll be a big part of USgymnastics till the day she dies
, Loxie B we put him to sleep,finally, finally.
That was a tough little gothere.
That's where it gets a littlebit tougher now, because he
needs to move, wants to beentertained, which the first few

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months.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
He can just sleep and he's still pretty chill, though
he's still very chill, he'sgood he likes to uh stand up.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Now, though, like he doesn't like to lay down, he
wants to be up and move in.
He's also been saying his firstword what is it?
Got it on on camera.
He's been saying it the lastfew nights actually.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
What is?

Speaker 1 (46:47):
it and Dre sent me this this morning.
We'll let everybody hear Lox'svery first word let's go, let's
go.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
That's really cute.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Did you hear yourself Loxie?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Did you say dad there ?

Speaker 1 (47:14):
You keep saying it the last couple of days, let's
go.
We were sitting there eatingdinner and then he said, dad,
dad.
And then we both like stoppedand we're like did he just?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Was that English Was that?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
real.
Yeah, hi, buddy, so he's been.
I want to believe that he'ssaying dada.
It's cause he say it so much.
I hear it's easier to say dadathan mama, but I'm going to just
say that he.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Listen, ride that wave baby.
Yeah, I, you know what I think,mama, mama and dada dada are
very, very similar.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
So yeah, very similar .

Speaker 2 (47:45):
So yeah, one for dad.
I'm sure you know in a couple.
I don't even know how long ittakes, but from what I've heard
is that they're just real bigmama's boys when they're little,
but then all of a sudden, it'sgoing to be I want to go have
fun with dad, but I want to benurtured by mom, so he's going
to go to you for a good time andgo to mom for the hug and you
know whatever cliche traditionalyeah things that we've learned

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about human behavior over time.
I'm sure those will take place,but you always have the dub in
the dad, dad, dad, dad, dadcategory.
So good for you, buddy, yourfirst gold medal of fatherhood.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
He's a mama's boy.
He's obsessed with his mom.
Um but I heard that theirfavorite, their like first best
friend favorite person is theirdad, because they are so
attached to their mom thatthey're basically one together.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, he's so like he looks atthe dad as like somebody

(48:41):
separate yeah.
But he's just so attached tohis mom that that's what I heard
.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
I don't know how true it is, but I can see that he
was living rent-free for 10months in there.
Like obviously they're going toshare a bond.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
But I think that dads also just like traditionally
represent fun, yeah, and theroughhousing, and this and that,
and then mom is nurturing.
You follow, you get a boo-boo,you go to mama.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Oh, mama will come here and hug you Just a little
more like nurturing and cuddly,but yeah, I know that you will
be also both.
What are you doing right now,are you?

Speaker 1 (49:15):
hosting.
I was recording Lux holding myhands Mid-podcast.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
I'm trying to talk to you, I'm listening to you, I'm
taking a video.
I don't even know what I wassaying.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
I'm the rough house fun guy, but also like I'm way
more crazy than Dre when itcomes to like safety and like
pretends to be shocked.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
I mean, I was over at your house when you weren't
there hanging out with Dre andlocks last week and she was
telling me that the littleteething that are made, Sean,
I'm telling you someone waysmarter than you invented this
specifically for babies that arehis exact age and exactly how

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far along they are.
I promise you he's good.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
They apparently dissolve.
Yes, but what if one of theseyou snap off three or four
inches and it goes right downyour throat?
Is this going to dissolve inthe back of your throat?

Speaker 2 (50:07):
How the fark is your child going to fit three and
four inches of a snack down histhroat?

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I'm saying there's these little sticks and they're
not sticks, they're fat.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
It's like a flattened banana.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
No, we got these sticks too.
I don't know which one you'retalking about.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
I'm talking about the one that was a flattened banana
.
I was like locks is not goingto choke you can.
It dissolves before you couldeven physically choke, like that
is the science behind it.
Yeah, you are good, my guy.
I promise you you are good yeah, the eating scares the crap out
of me I understand thatobviously you're just protective
because he's your son and youdon't want him to choke, but
like you gotta chill, you'regonna choke yourself out

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stressing about him eating.
And he's eating.
You got, you're doing it right.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
It's not like he's eating a steak burger I mean dre
will just toss anything on his.
I'm like you gotta cut that upa little smaller.
No, she's like oh my god, seanstop.
She thinks I'd feed him bottlesuntil he's like five years old
you would breastfeed him if youcould let's be honest I'm
honestly probably not shocked ifyou've tried, but look at his

(51:06):
hair right now.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, a little mohawk .

Speaker 1 (51:08):
He's got gel in there .
Dre put gel in his hair thismorning and it's a little mohawk
, I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, you look so handsome.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Loxie B First time.
I was also thinking yesterday.
I'm like this dude hasn't wornany shoes in like eight months.
How good of a life is thatthat's barefoot.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
I dream of living that life.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
You're so cute, Loxie B.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
All right, so let's finish this off with the
absolute worst.
And since we're on the topic ofInstagram captions today, why
don't we do the absolute worstInstagram trend or something
that you see on Instagram whenyou're scrolling you're like oh.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
I don't want to see any more of that.
You lead us off.
Okay, I need a second to thinkabout mine.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Don't want to judge First of all, especially mothers
or fathers.
Now I've become I've become anInstagram dad where, like, all I
want to do is post.
I have so many photos and videosof him that's like my entire
camera roll and I like have torefrain from posting everything,
but I just want them for thememories.
Sure, and I'm like you'llunderstand once you're a dad or
mom, but I remember like beforeI had a kid, I'm like I don't

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care about your kids.
Like stop posting about yourkids.
I've become that.
But one thing I see, or I'veseen, are people setting up
their cameras and they show thenight routine of them getting up
and feeding.
I'm like, so you're telling meyou have a camera in your

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bedroom the entire night thatyou sleep and then your baby
cries and they get up out of bedlike yawn, and then they grab
the baby and they're sitting onthe side of the bed and they're
feeding the baby and then tryingto look all cute and they put
the baby back down and they goback to bed and the camera still

(52:59):
rolls and they show how manytimes during the night they do
that.
Mike, you record your entirenight of sleep for an Instagram
post.
Have you seen that?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I have seen that, but I just think it's awfully
cheeky.
I don't even know what the wordis coming from you, someone who
is an influencer, who alsomakes money off recording your
life.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
These are a lot of them are like mommy, influencers
.
I know, but again, I wouldnever set up a camera the entire
night yeah like, how much damnbattery and how much storage do
you have first of all?

Speaker 2 (53:33):
and it's like I mean, I do think that we have really
crossed a line of like nothingis private anymore but it's like
, and then you know like what ifyour baby didn't cry at all
that night?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
are you like waking up your baby, are you like?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
you know, it just seems, it seems very staged.
Yeah, it's not genuine.
I mean, I don't feel, I feellike any, like, oh, this is my
day they're like turn to thecamera, be like yeah, when they,
when they wake up and someone'salready recording them, like,
yeah, that's obviously staged,that's not when you woke up.
Yeah, like I could do withoutthe dramatics.
I agree with you, it's a littleokay, we see what you're doing

(54:10):
here.
It just feels invasive to me.
When it comes to the kids,though, and I don't know I don't
have kids, so like I can't talk, but it just feels like some
things like, but then again,okay, so let's play devil's
advocate, right, if you aresitting?

(54:33):
At home and you're nursing yourkid through the night and you
see an influencer that you likealso doing it.
Okay, you, for a half a second,don't feel as alone.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
I feel like there's good to it, but I do understand
the cringy aspect of it.
And listen, if I was gettingpaid by a brand to be my, I'd
record all night it's exactlywhat I just said to you and you
said now, did I not?

Speaker 2 (54:44):
am I hallucinating?
Today, I feel like this podcasthas been a lot of oh, did you
want to hold my handHallucinating?
Listen, I don't havenecessarily a cringey trend, but
I just have something that Ifeel like is the absolute worst,
and again it's like revolvingaround intimate moments and
everything, but I just when yougo to a wedding, there is a

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professional photographer andvideographer on site put your
phone down grandma june is notgoing to have like any sort of
footage that is so captivatingthat she needs to have her
iphone 4 out to capture it.
It bums me out when I go toweddings and it's just like I'm
thinking of the professionalphoto of the bride walking to
the love of her life and someonejust right in the aisle puts

(55:30):
their cell phone.
Like put your phone away, youguys it's like, first of all,
respect the bride and groom.
Second, just like also respectthe photographer that they paid
thousands of dollars to show upand shoot this for, right.
And also, when you get thephotos back, you don't want a
million iphones in the photo,you want the people that you
love, right?
I don't know if that's a trend,I don't know if that fits the

(55:52):
absolute worst category thatyou're asking for, but I do feel
like it's such a bummer thatwe've just lost all secrecy or
all privacy and like, yes, Icould play devil's advocate all
day and think of the other side.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I know it's important here, but I just like just
there should be some thingswhere you put your phone down.
Yeah, now there's the lastcouple of ways I've been to.
The priest will walk down theaisle or somebody be like um,
please, everybody, turn yourphones off.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
The bride and the groom have asked that nobody
takes photos or videos and Ithink that that is a very easy
request for your guests tofollow, and if they cannot, you
shouldn't be allowed toparticipate that's what we're
doing, yeah telling everyone tostop.
Yeah, it's, it's you guys, wegot it.
We got it.
This person does this for aliving.
We're gonna have the mostbeautiful photos.

(56:38):
I will send them to you thesecond I have them.
Please put your phone down.
And the other thing that goeswith that is that you know,
grandma june has absolutely noboundaries and she's posting a
picture of you at the aislewhile you're still in the aisle,
like you know that that'sreal-time Facebook updating for
her and all her girls to see,and it's just like, bro, let me
have five minutes of a wedding.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
It's the highlight of Grandma June's month.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Listen, I know I'm not shitting on Grandma June,
but it's just like come on, giveus a sec, let us have this
moment, and I and I also justfeel like that contributes to me
not wanting to have a wedding Iknow that sounds, as you would
say, dramatic, but I'm okay withbeing dramatic.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
So does that happen every time?
Like every wedding, someone'slike got a phone out?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
yes, yeah oh yeah, and I feel like it's only uptick
over.
You know, obviously everybodyhas a phone.
Now we're for sure it's just abummer, because I feel like the
wedding industry in general haschanged so much that now we're
adding like oh so now we haveour semi-professional
photographers.
It's like no, you know, that'sa bad photo.
Just let us do it, let us live.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Let us be in love what do you got easton, anything
on instagram that you seeyou're like I could do without
that uh the day in the lifevideos?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
don't give a shit yeah, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
You don't care what their day is like from morning
to sun, up to sundown.
I don't care, all All right.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Especially when you can tell it's reenacted and you
actually just stage the entirething and just say, okay, yeah,
I don't think anyone cares Noted.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
That's a good one.
That's a good one, Lox.
What about you, buddy?

Speaker 2 (57:58):
I just wanted Lox to stand up and say goodbye to
everybody, because it's the endof Are you the smiliest,
happiest boy out there.
Smiliest, happiest boy.
And look at those little legrolls.
I want to eat them.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
All right, lox, let's do it.
Team on three.
One, two, three, team Face fun.