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Speaker 1: Ring, ring, ring, rang, rang to another one.
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Speaker 2: It's another one, and I feel a flame burning under me.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, what's that heat? I can feel it all the way from Portina Formulan, where I guess the opening ceremony.
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Speaker 2: We know this is the beauty of this ceremony, right, it's many different cities throughout northern Italy, throughout the Dolomite.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm just I really am excited. You before we started, you were like, it's really a gag that we're going to be at this.
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Speaker 2: It's a gag that we're gonna be at this. Well, this is specifically the opening ceremony. Yes, Yes, Yes, which is the topic of today's episode of Two Guys, Five Rings, Welcome Back.
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Speaker 1: This is Bowen Yang and I'm Matt Rodgers. Two Guys Five Rings, three episodes so far, and this one. I feel like it's really right that we finally get into the opening ceremony because we are going to be attending.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think by the time this comes out, we will be maybe you know, two drama means in on the flight over. Oh yeah, maybe on the way to Italia. Oh my god, I don't know, I don't I don't quite know.
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Speaker 1: What's your plain situation with with sort of you know, over the counter the responsible.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, what do you do? I like a drama. Mean sure, If that doesn't do it, there's gonna be maybe a magnesium situation. And hold on before before the Unison brand reps send me yet another box of Unison gels.
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Speaker 1: I'm okay, we're covered, We're covered.
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Speaker 2: I don't want this to be I don't want this to be a tricky situation.
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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I mean, because you could just down them all at once. Don't do that. I won't do that, don't. I won't get dark on the episode.
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Speaker 2: That's okay, because in darkness there is always a call for a flame.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's so much darker in the winter than the summer. Yes, well, and depending on what hemisphere you're in, just makes the lights brighter. You ever think about that?
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Speaker 2: I think so, it's why Christmas lights are just the brightest. And if this were our.
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Speaker 1: Other podcasts, that would be a rule of culture. But it's not. But it's not. Well, new element just dropped.
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Speaker 2: If you're watching the video elements of this piece of this, we have clipboards and I think this is this is very sort of coach, like would you say as.
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Speaker 1: The son of a coach. He was the clipboarded. He always was rocking this thing. And you know what he would do a lot of the time, and this is now visual medium, I'm going to do it all right. He would hit the back of it like, all right, it's time to huddle up. That's another thing they would do in sports is huddle up. When's the last time you huddled up? Oh?
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Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know what I desperately want.
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Speaker 1: I want.
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Speaker 2: I want a huddling experience. I would just to answer your question. It's been longer than I can remember since I've huddled.
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Speaker 1: I want to do maybe improv team. No, we're not really just get in the huddle.
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Speaker 2: We don't huddle to me, means heads are down, Yeah, heads are down, arms are around each other, creating a sort of a that like creating at a barrel a sphere. Oh I see a cylinder, yeah, a cylinder, cylinder, yes.
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Speaker 1: Creating a cylinder for secrets and gameplay.
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Speaker 2: I want to be able to say Matt's calling the play, you know what I mean? I want I want to be able to say, call the play, Matt's taking point.
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Speaker 1: I really just got upset. You want to know why I call the play? Now? Do you see why? And we can call the longer ever cite Nicki Minaj lyrics again. This is the last time we will be quoting it. It's the last time that we will ever be quoting Nicki Minaj on this Olympics podcast. If you want to hear more of our thoughts, you probably should go to Lost Cultures US now because you know we're spouting off now. I can only imagine we're going to spout off.
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Speaker 2: I can imagine that and more and other things.
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Speaker 1: Now. The clipboard is powerful. This.
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Speaker 2: When I did this earlier, I kind of hurt myself.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be careful whenever you smack your hand on anything hard. It could hurt. It could hurt.
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Speaker 2: I mean, hurt is the hand that's that taps the clipboard.
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Speaker 1: Hurt is the hand that smacks the board, that smacks the board. Yeah. But the thing is, like, in terms of what is on the boards, we have a ton of information and this is basically what we can expect from the opening ceremony. And I know that we talked about how it was rumored, like because I think there were some rumors floating around the Mariah would perform. I think we can now confirm it.
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Speaker 2: We can now confirm that umteenth Grammy Award winning icon five times five times.
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Speaker 1: To me, it's umpteemed. Honestly, it should be emp teeth. Mariah Carey's Grammy Winds should register in the teenths. Yes, of the very experience. It's only five. By the way, she better be singing at the open opening. If she's not singing at the opening ceremony, like the world is not doing her service because the Grammys have done her so dirty. Five Grammy, that's from Mariah Carey. You gotta be kidding me. And what is a thirty five year career it's giving Michelle Kwan?
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm so happy you said that deserves to be decorated better.
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Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see Michelle on site?
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Speaker 2: I hope so, I hope so. I hope we get to have a nice little hot chocolate with her.
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Speaker 1: You know how I want to avoid Johnny we Are and Tara Lipinsky. Why, I'm afraid that they'll spoil the traders. Just know that this whole time we're talking about the Olympics, and really the sport that I'm most interested in. I can't speak for my sister is Bowen, but it's Traders, the Scottish sport pretty much. Now.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Johnny and Tara will spoil Traders because they respect the NDA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they respect the NDA and also the gameplay of it.
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Speaker 2: All absolute because their athlete. They're athletes and entertainers, let's not forget. So they know what they know what this is. They know not to spoil us. I was just with them with a dear friend. Also Trader season four contestant Eric Noam wouldn't say a thing to me.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's I feel like and and we had a list Renna on our podcast. She did say anything.
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Speaker 2: These people know so.
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Speaker 1: Far, they're keeping it pretty tight.
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Speaker 2: Lift before we talk about the opening ceremony that and I do wanted to get to Mariah. Let's I want to talk about the torches. I want to talk about the torches they are.
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is something that would interest you, like torch shape, torch function.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think it's something that would interest you. I actually have a fun little game go ahead, not a game. I just want to I just want you to. I want to give you the opportunity to remind everybody what your mild time was in high school.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you so much. So a lot of people have been wondering how I'm going to figure in my mile time, this being the Winter Olympics. Oh. I would respond to that question by being like, I'm just gonna say it, please, four thirty six.
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Speaker 2: That's four minutes and thirty six seconds correct per mile. So I want I'm gonna shout some numbers out about the Olympic torch and then we're gonna to the Paralympic one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, great, total ten thousand and one.
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Speaker 2: Torch bearers, chic very love that a palindrome of a number.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I guess you're right, zero zero zero one.
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Speaker 2: I had to think what would be the New York zip code as it were now. Total distance is twelve thousand kilometers traveled approximately seventy five hundred miles.
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Speaker 1: You always forget how much more kilometers is You always spend miles. Kilometers is so much more than miles, which means that it is this, which means that it's less than miles in a way. Correct, and don't get confused. Don't get confused. Please, the kilometer numbers is going to be higher for the distance that the miles is okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay, For sixty three days the Olympic flame, this torch will travel over seventy five hundred miles. I want to let's just let's let's get the mile time on this Olympic torch. I bet you're beating this torch because but I don't want to say that sixty three days times twenty four hours per day. I don't think that is the hour minute breakdown that we want. No, how like, let's assume that this torch is traveling. Do you want to say eight hours each day or four hours each day? How much work do we think this this this torch is doing.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I would never know. Let's say eight. I just want to make it easy for you, because are you gonna do quick math math? Oh? Oh, don't don't worry about don't worry about this. Were you always good at the SAT math stuff? I was?
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Speaker 2: I don't think I was just good at math in general?
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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, you thrived in this area. I did. I enjoyed it. I needed a tutor specifically for math, that's sweet.
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Speaker 2: I My math journey is you know, a little on the nose. I get it, but it is tied closely to my comedy journey really because my math teacher, my calculus teacher was also my I was the assistant director of the improv coach downtown in Denver. She never had you huddle though, he he sorry, he never had a huddle. Math teacher, he him him. He was also the epistemology teacher.
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Speaker 1: Oh, what's that?
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Speaker 2: Adrian Holgian theory of knowledge?
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Speaker 1: Epistemology? How do you know? What? You know?
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Speaker 2: That was a whole class and the IB in the International Backalory Program There you go, which is a very sort of very sort of Olympic coded because it was like all over the world people were studying these things.
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Speaker 1: Epistemology, theory of knowledge.
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Speaker 2: It was t ok It's like, oh I got took you know at five.
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Speaker 1: Oh, because you were in an IV course load.
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Speaker 2: I was in the IV program at Smokey Hill High School.
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Speaker 1: Is this your mile time? No? Being in the IVY program Smokey Hill, this is my I'll tell you what's his mild time, his act score.
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Speaker 2: My mile time? No, no, no, we're not talking about my mild time. Is my mild time? Is I got a five on the ap CALC exam because of Adrian Holgian's work, who also introduced me to just comedy as an art form.
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Speaker 1: You get a five on ap cal CALC. That's hard.
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Speaker 2: I was one of I was one of I was. I just felt like I was his guy.
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Speaker 1: I got a five on all the easy ones lit comp side.
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Speaker 2: Those are not well. I guess I'm just very what if left rough brand? I think your right brand, right brand? I got a four on comp So you did.
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised at you.
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Speaker 2: You're more your more words than me.
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Speaker 1: What do you think it was?
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Speaker 2: I think I freeze when I when I have to compose.
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Speaker 1: I wrote a persuasive essay about the berries and cream Starburst commercial. Remember that, what were you persuading? I had to persuade everyone. It was a great commercial.
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Speaker 2: I suppose sounds.
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Speaker 1: And then I wrote a comparative work. Yeah for a p. Litt And you know this story, I get to use two characters. Well, this is the essay. It was use two characters from a novel you've read this year, yes, and one as a foil for the other. You did it? You did? Elizabeth Bennett. Elizabeth Bennett and Lydia who is the character that I played in Fire Island and.
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Speaker 2: You played I played Jane, You played Jane Bennett. You were, but Elizabeth Bennett was duel Kin Booster.
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Speaker 1: Yes, would you say that you playing Jane Jane Bennett started your feud with Rosamond Pike. Yes, Yeah, which is just a light feud. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: If I were to ever see her.
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Speaker 1: It would be a huge hug.
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Speaker 2: Well, she could, she could slap me, she could strike me, she could be very cold towards me.
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Speaker 1: I would would not mind. Yeah, but it might be kind of cool for a Rosamond Pike to slap you, I think so.
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Speaker 2: Now, just back on the topic of the torch, of course, let's let's say it's eight You think this torch is traveling eight hours a day.
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Speaker 1: I think like in order for it to get as far as it needs to go, it would need to be a full day thing, right, Yeah, tell.
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Speaker 2: Me, sixty three times eight is five hundred and four hours. Okay, times sixty is thirty thousand minutes. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, It's been a long time since ap calc. Hold on, hold on, saying all of us sixty three times eight times.
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Speaker 1: Sixty yeah, divided by mine. No, this is not going to be This is not gonna be good. You don't think it's right what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: I don't think this is traveling eight minutes or eight hours?
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 2: Can we just put to the group we've dug how many hours.
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Speaker 1: In a day? Do you think the torch is traveling a lot? No? No, no, that's not a numerical number. How many lot is not a numerica. Here, here's what I want.
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Speaker 2: Here's what I want to put out there, like it is being held by the well.
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Speaker 1: The first torch bearer was Petros. Get this so this is now? Now is where I throw my hands up in the air because you got names like this and I'm Greek and I'm still having a whole try. Petros, guy that cease, Petro's guy that cease. This is a Greek Olympic row where he was the first torch bearer. He was the first to begin.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and there are many notable torch bearers on this relay. And the relay officially started earlier in December.
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Speaker 1: I think it says the flame was lit and Olympia, Greece in November twenty six, twenty twenty five, and they started.
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Speaker 2: They started in December in Rome.
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Speaker 1: December fourth, twenty twenty five in Rome. Beautiful place to start, beautiful place to start. Now I want to say, oh, start of the relay with December sixth. Great.
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Speaker 2: So the torch is being held, is stationary at certain points, and then the torch bearers along the relay are only traveling.
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Speaker 1: The Olympic torch travels for roughly ten to twelve hours a day during its relay, starting around seven thirty am and concluding with the lighting of the cauldron in the evening around seven thirty pm in the host city for that day, but the actual time depends on the specific relays route, the number of torch bearers, and the local events. So between ten and twelve, three times more than your guests, I'm going to say.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say it's eight.
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Speaker 1: It says ten to twelve hours a day, and I knew it. This is the Olympics. I don't think you remember that all the time.
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Speaker 2: I remember that this is the Olympics. Don't don't tell me I don't remember the Olympics. I remember the.
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Speaker 1: Olympics podcast that I remember that this is the I.
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Speaker 2: Remember that this is the Olympics, trust me.
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Speaker 1: On my Olympic podcast, on my Olympics podcast that I that I co host with you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so here's based on that math, based on the math of eight hours a day.
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Speaker 1: Uh, this is what I want to say. Okay.
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Speaker 2: The mile time, yeah, or the Olympic torch is four point zero three minutes smoked me. I don't like that neither. But I don't like that that it that it you are. But but think of it this way. You were almost as fast as the Olympic torch during this relay.
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Speaker 1: I'm into it. You know what. I would love to do one of the torch bearers. Do you think that could work that out for LA or does it have to be all athletes? That can't be true for La. You can do it, girl, please, they have they other people get in there.
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Speaker 2: You've been at the Vanity.
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Speaker 1: Fair Oscars party.
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Speaker 2: You are you are in the running, honey.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I was once barely invited to the Vanity Fair oscar you were inviting. Hand me that torch, Hand me that torch and give me it correctly. I don't want to be grabbing the fire.
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Speaker 2: You I think you'll I think you'll be just fine.
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Speaker 1: I think that you would send a great chance at holding the Olympic torch.
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Speaker 2: I have no interest.
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Speaker 1: I think you would bring joy to the world. You have no interest. I have no interest. I have no interest. Wait what did I recently say to you? Oh, and then you said I have no interest. I was like, ooh, let's try to go to the met gala. He said, I have no interest. I have no interest. He has no interest in going to the metcala.
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Speaker 2: No sounds like a stressful name.
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna wear of the opening ceremony? Have we even thought da product? Well, yes, we're wearing product. Okay, should we try to Oh my god, there's so many should we Should we reach out to them? Right now? We're looking for outfits for the opening ceremony. We'd love product.
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Speaker 2: We'd love to turn a look. We'd love to reference Mariah Carey's or reference either way. We would love to reference Mariah Carey or Italian pop icon. Laura Patsuni, now Laura Patsuni.
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Speaker 1: It's her deal.
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Speaker 2: She is one of the headline performers and she will be performing to a global broadcast audience of two to two point five billion people.
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Speaker 1: Italian pop icon Laura Passuni. Look at her. She's gorgeous and so there she is. She's sort of giving a Dina Menzel if you could picture what a Dina Menzel looks like in your head, or like Rachel Berry, Rachel Berry, orka a Lia Michelle or a Lana Glazer with the middle part. Oh my god, yes, or Ali a shotcat in a wig.
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Speaker 2: We're naming just gorgeous Mediterranean looking icons.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Laura Passini, babe, you know you think you think that, like anyone will think I'm Italian there. Maybe I sometimes get it.
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Speaker 2: I thought when I first when I first met you, I thought, oh, he's Italian.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot. It's a common misconception because it's Long Island. People are gonna think that about Mariah. Well, they're racist, that mixed race.
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Speaker 2: That's the Long Island thing too, you and Maria being from Long Island and people thinking people defaulting to Italian.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting American like me and Mariah Carey have Long Island in common, and me and Jennifer Lopez have track running in common, and what they have in common is dislike of one another. But Jayla will not be at the opening ceremony, No, Mariah, Well, what song would you like to hear Mariah Carey sing? Oh, that's so good.
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Speaker 2: I want her to sing something something, it's something.
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Speaker 1: Wintery or Italian.
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Speaker 2: You think she's gonna sing something pertinent to the ceremony.
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Speaker 1: I think. Do you think it'll be an Italian song? I almost. I hope it's like I hope that. Well, Lady Gaga did like a whole French number.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Lady Gaga did Diffrench numbers. Selene did a French number. I think, I think, I think Mariah wants to keep it, keep it Italian.
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Speaker 1: What is Mariah's connection to Italy?
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Speaker 2: What is Gaga's connection to France? What is Selene's connection to France?
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Speaker 1: Be because the very nature of her being very oo la la, I would say, is Gaga's connection She sang l'vion rose in Starsborn.
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Speaker 2: Mariah is a diva. That's and that is an Italian inventure.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. You do realize that's what it is. Yes, Yes, the diva is in it. I can't believe you are. I can't believe you're having to ask no. Actually it took me a second to get there. But do you think It's like, well, if we're going to have someone perform at the at the Italian Milan Cortina opening Ceremony, it should be Mariah because she is the annational I'm now I did think the choice was a little odd, not that I ever like am not wanted to see Mariya, But now it makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 2: Yes, bravisima, bravisimaaza should we should hang Mariah if you're if you want to, if you need a hang, if you if you want a fun little you know, if you if you want to have a nice Billini together.
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Speaker 1: I actually would love the BILLIONI note the Billini, note Mariya the diva, the diva. We'll get this. Let's talk about the stage of the opening ceremony, and the stage will feature a spiral shaped led structure at the center of the pitch, symbolizing unity and connection. The narrative will explore Italy's heritage past and present, including tributes to icons like Leonardo da Vinci and a retrospective on Italian excellence and innovation, design and culture. What's your favorite invention of Leonardo da Vinci's the penis? Because I think he was very gay.
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Speaker 2: You think Leonardo DaVinci was gay, I'm this is this is widely known?
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Speaker 1: Is it is that?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 1: Boys?
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Speaker 2: Someone google it? Boys, someone google it. I just did the math on we really should quickly mention. Okay, the Paralympic torch, which is traveling two thousand kilometers in eleven days February twenty fourth to March six.
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Speaker 1: Great, that is. Oh here's more quick math.
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Speaker 2: Four point two five miles per minute?
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Speaker 1: Got me again?
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Speaker 2: Or four for two minutes per mile? But you, you are as comparably fast as the Olympic torch.
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Speaker 1: A long time ago. Sometimes I sometimes I do. I mean, y'all know this. I was gonna run a mile again, but it never happened. It never materialized. This is a nice project for you. I went to berries today. It was hard. I know hard. I know everything's hard, like every athletic pursuit is hard after when your bone density goes well, Yes, of course, but I'm I'm saying between the days of December twenty six, yes, and January fourth. That's why I'm not even bothering. You're gonna wait till we You're gonna wait till we get to Milan to work out. Yes, are you going to go singing while we're there.
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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think the trails are open. That would be a really I you know what we'll see.
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Speaker 1: I'm just I think it could be fun. It could be fun.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna app pray. I will at pray with a billion billion. Note you're gonna avant?
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Speaker 1: Which is before? Does that eat? No? Avant?
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Speaker 2: It just means before, so play means after, so avant means before.
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Speaker 1: How much Italian are you bringing to the game? That is?
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Speaker 2: That was French?
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Speaker 1: It's first language, French very much bone Yang's no mile second language. You constantly are saying this because my.
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Speaker 2: First language is Mandarin. Like in the house it was Mandarin.
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Speaker 1: But your I guess your first fluent language was you think Mandarin? Yeah? Sure, fluency? And how much Mandarin do you know?
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Speaker 2: Not?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? How would you say that in Mandarinien? Oh? Yes, very good. I know. I'm good. I think I could rock commander him. Remember when we went to Italy we had Granita Grenita. Was that the name of the waitress? No, oh my god, No, Grenita is you know what Grenita is. It's that gorgeous lidine. No Grenita, right, it's it's the gorgeous breakfast oh, hold on, what we have news about whether Leonardo da Vinci was kay. While Leonardo da Vinci never explicitly defined his sexuality, strong historical evidence and scholarly consensus and I suggest he was likely or bisexual, with his lifelong intimate relationships with men, particularly his longtime companion Salai Salai pointing towards this, though some historians debate the extent of his romantic involvement versus deep friendships. Well, that's just also being gay.
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Speaker 2: Now, and let's not forget the Olympics were for people to sit around and watch oiled up muscly guys throw a disc Now, what is your favorite invention from Leonardo da Vinci?
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Speaker 1: Oh, paintings. I loved the paintings.
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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the opening ceremony. Yes, okay, so oh we already have sorry, I think, well, no, here's the things we've come to expect from the opening ceremony. Passini, Laura Passini and more Leonardo Vinci. A spiral led stage representing peace. Well, I'm sure Ilia and Shane are going to be the iliot and Shane will be there. I'm sure that they will honor Leonardo da Vinci live on television cottage will be at the center of the of the of the stage.
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Speaker 1: I think the cottage is gonna be I think Mariah Carey is going to come out like it's at the tailor Swift aerostour and sit on top of the cottage sing, you know whatever Italian ario she's going to sing, and Shane and Eliot are going to be on the inside. And if no one's gonna it's not gonna bother anyone. It just is what it is. People wanted, They crave it all over the world.
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Speaker 2: It's mainstream, it's internationals, it's international. The Olympics were gay leader was rumored to be gay. Must some scholars, you know, dispute it.
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Speaker 1: So that's all only what's probably happening. Outside of that. Here's what we can expect. The dramatic lighting of the Olympic cauldron using unexpected final torch bearers tradition.
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Speaker 2: It's always a surprise. It is gaggy. They always try to gag you. In every city.
00:24:54
Speaker 1: It would be kind of who do you think who would gag you? I mean it would be gaggy if you were like, no, I have no interest in that. It was you and they would.
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Speaker 2: Say Lemo and Yang Lemo and Lomo Chao, chomen eh Leboen le.
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Speaker 1: Bowen as your diva name is really good. My parents flap with.
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Speaker 2: That NAMEY I love man name. Oh no, I love mateo. Oh mateo your mateo eat it mateo.
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Speaker 1: Lane. Athletes march together under shared or unified flags. Well yes, well yes. Large scale human mosaics formed by thousands of volunteers, use of ice, snow and projection mapping to transform stadiums. I'm excited about that. Mm hmm. Performances by children symbolizing hope in the future, ceremonies emphasizing peace during times of global tension.
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Speaker 2: The only hope we have as an international community is the Olympic Games.
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Speaker 1: I would say that the world is in the words of Linda Richmond from SNL Verklempt, the world is for Klemps right now, artistic tribut It's the host nations, landscapes, folklore, buzzword buzz and history and emotional first appearances of athletes stepping into the Olympic arena. That really is.
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Speaker 2: It's so inspiring, It's so inspiring. I want there's one person missing, who someone who is very Who's who put Italy.
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Speaker 1: Back on the map, Lady got again.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I was thinking of someone else on Valentina from My Lotus season two, not Snooky and Snooky and Nicole polite Ci.
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Speaker 1: So I think that there is obviously so much more we could possibly discuss about the opening ceremony, but we are running up on time here, so I think let's talk about the three things we are most excited to see with our silver golden bronze. I don't know why that was that. I like. I like that. I like that sort of clearing, clearing the order, the order.
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Speaker 2: I my bronze medal of the things that are that we hope to see at the opening ceremony. Yes, my bronze medal is us dressed in Prada. Yes, dressed in thermals for Prada. Yeah, at the opening ceremony.
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what we look like. It's gonna be really something that's gonna be very fun. Okay, can I say silver? Yes? I want to see what Laura Passini is giving. Yes, I think she's gonna gag. I think that, like, listen, if you're they've only announced really a couple people, and it's Laura Passini and Mariah carry, which means Laura Passini is giving something probably at least two and a half octaves of Mariah's five two and a half. I would be so thrilled with how many octaves do you have in your floor? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Not a non discreete two like been Barren, know that for a fact.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't. What about you tell us sexually? Four? Three? Ah? Do you believe me that I say that? Doug? I feel like I feel like I've heard more about well I haven't done, Doug. Doug came to my Christmas and I love that you felt four.
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Speaker 2: As a professional sound engineer.
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Speaker 1: You know who has four? Christina Aguilera, Mariah has five. I wonder if Arianna has five? I think ARISI, Yeah, she's such a brilliant vocalist.
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Speaker 2: She's a brilliant vocalist and another Italian legend.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is she? Do you know?
00:28:27
Speaker 2: I know nothing? Oh please, don't don't do this. I don't know anything.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Now it's going to be that thing of like when I say on them like like oh yeah, I bet Ariana will be there, and then it's like all the orientators are going to break the news. Like when I like when I broke the news of her deluxe album.
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Speaker 2: Pop Crave is going to run with this. Bob Grave says Ari to Grane to play Leonaro da Vinci, Muse.
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Speaker 1: She'd be great. I would love to see Ariana come out.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say my goal was gonna be what's gonna be? Connor Story and Hudson Williamses. I want to see them as Leo and Salai Ooh. I love that, But I think the gold has to go to Mariah duh. Gold has to go to Mariah.
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Speaker 1: The Italian diva singing at the one and only big event.
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Speaker 2: If she were to sing from the movie Moonstruck, when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moore at the at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. That's diva and diva lives to be changed, lives to be changed.
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Speaker 1: It's a pondat Homore Hey, beautiful sort of that was That's two octaves right there. Three is very impressive. I'm amazed by you. Thank you for that. I don't even know what to say. I guess I'm a diva, a diva, you know what.
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Speaker 2: We've got a list of Gray Winter Olympics opening ceremonyment sm past, We've got Lily Hammer, the guys skiing off with the torch, Salt Lake.
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Speaker 1: City, Torino.
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Speaker 2: Who could forget Pavaradi's last public performance.
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Speaker 1: These are just a few other things you might see. Twenty ten and Vancouver, a snowboarder flew through the Olympic rings at the start of the opening stetmony like are you kidding? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: That's hot in Canadian like heated rivalry. Your move, Laura Passine, your move, Pissine. And of course you could forget in peng Chang when North end South Korea did the predo nations out of the same flag. That's the world that we hope for and seldom get, But at the Olympics it is the proper occasion.
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Speaker 1: Will we get it? Stay tuned to see that and what we're wearing at the opening ceremony. Follow the show on the iHeartRadio app or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the NBC Sports YouTube channel.
00:30:52
Speaker 2: And watch and listen to every moment of the Winter Olympics every sixth to the twenty second on NBC in Peacock and the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: We end every episode with the same jingle oh
Speaker 1: Ring, ring, ring, rang, rang to another one.
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Speaker 2: It's another one, and I feel a flame burning under me.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, what's that heat? I can feel it all the way from Portina Formulan, where I guess the opening ceremony.
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Speaker 2: We know this is the beauty of this ceremony, right, it's many different cities throughout northern Italy, throughout the Dolomite.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm just I really am excited. You before we started, you were like, it's really a gag that we're going to be at this.
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Speaker 2: It's a gag that we're gonna be at this. Well, this is specifically the opening ceremony. Yes, Yes, Yes, which is the topic of today's episode of Two Guys, Five Rings, Welcome Back.
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Speaker 1: This is Bowen Yang and I'm Matt Rodgers. Two Guys Five Rings, three episodes so far, and this one. I feel like it's really right that we finally get into the opening ceremony because we are going to be attending.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think by the time this comes out, we will be maybe you know, two drama means in on the flight over. Oh yeah, maybe on the way to Italia. Oh my god, I don't know, I don't I don't quite know.
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Speaker 1: What's your plain situation with with sort of you know, over the counter the responsible.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, what do you do? I like a drama. Mean sure, If that doesn't do it, there's gonna be maybe a magnesium situation. And hold on before before the Unison brand reps send me yet another box of Unison gels.
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Speaker 1: I'm okay, we're covered, We're covered.
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Speaker 2: I don't want this to be I don't want this to be a tricky situation.
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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I mean, because you could just down them all at once. Don't do that. I won't do that, don't. I won't get dark on the episode.
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Speaker 2: That's okay, because in darkness there is always a call for a flame.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's so much darker in the winter than the summer. Yes, well, and depending on what hemisphere you're in, just makes the lights brighter. You ever think about that?
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Speaker 2: I think so, it's why Christmas lights are just the brightest. And if this were our.
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Speaker 1: Other podcasts, that would be a rule of culture. But it's not. But it's not. Well, new element just dropped.
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Speaker 2: If you're watching the video elements of this piece of this, we have clipboards and I think this is this is very sort of coach, like would you say as.
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Speaker 1: The son of a coach. He was the clipboarded. He always was rocking this thing. And you know what he would do a lot of the time, and this is now visual medium, I'm going to do it all right. He would hit the back of it like, all right, it's time to huddle up. That's another thing they would do in sports is huddle up. When's the last time you huddled up? Oh?
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Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know what I desperately want.
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Speaker 1: I want.
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Speaker 2: I want a huddling experience. I would just to answer your question. It's been longer than I can remember since I've huddled.
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Speaker 1: I want to do maybe improv team. No, we're not really just get in the huddle.
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Speaker 2: We don't huddle to me, means heads are down, Yeah, heads are down, arms are around each other, creating a sort of a that like creating at a barrel a sphere. Oh I see a cylinder, yeah, a cylinder, cylinder, yes.
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Speaker 1: Creating a cylinder for secrets and gameplay.
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Speaker 2: I want to be able to say Matt's calling the play, you know what I mean? I want I want to be able to say, call the play, Matt's taking point.
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Speaker 1: I really just got upset. You want to know why I call the play? Now? Do you see why? And we can call the longer ever cite Nicki Minaj lyrics again. This is the last time we will be quoting it. It's the last time that we will ever be quoting Nicki Minaj on this Olympics podcast. If you want to hear more of our thoughts, you probably should go to Lost Cultures US now because you know we're spouting off now. I can only imagine we're going to spout off.
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Speaker 2: I can imagine that and more and other things.
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Speaker 1: Now. The clipboard is powerful. This.
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Speaker 2: When I did this earlier, I kind of hurt myself.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be careful whenever you smack your hand on anything hard. It could hurt. It could hurt.
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Speaker 2: I mean, hurt is the hand that's that taps the clipboard.
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Speaker 1: Hurt is the hand that smacks the board, that smacks the board. Yeah. But the thing is, like, in terms of what is on the boards, we have a ton of information and this is basically what we can expect from the opening ceremony. And I know that we talked about how it was rumored, like because I think there were some rumors floating around the Mariah would perform. I think we can now confirm it.
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Speaker 2: We can now confirm that umteenth Grammy Award winning icon five times five times.
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Speaker 1: To me, it's umpteemed. Honestly, it should be emp teeth. Mariah Carey's Grammy Winds should register in the teenths. Yes, of the very experience. It's only five. By the way, she better be singing at the open opening. If she's not singing at the opening ceremony, like the world is not doing her service because the Grammys have done her so dirty. Five Grammy, that's from Mariah Carey. You gotta be kidding me. And what is a thirty five year career it's giving Michelle Kwan?
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm so happy you said that deserves to be decorated better.
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Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see Michelle on site?
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Speaker 2: I hope so, I hope so. I hope we get to have a nice little hot chocolate with her.
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Speaker 1: You know how I want to avoid Johnny we Are and Tara Lipinsky. Why, I'm afraid that they'll spoil the traders. Just know that this whole time we're talking about the Olympics, and really the sport that I'm most interested in. I can't speak for my sister is Bowen, but it's Traders, the Scottish sport pretty much. Now.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Johnny and Tara will spoil Traders because they respect the NDA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they respect the NDA and also the gameplay of it.
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Speaker 2: All absolute because their athlete. They're athletes and entertainers, let's not forget. So they know what they know what this is. They know not to spoil us. I was just with them with a dear friend. Also Trader season four contestant Eric Noam wouldn't say a thing to me.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's I feel like and and we had a list Renna on our podcast. She did say anything.
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Speaker 2: These people know so.
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Speaker 1: Far, they're keeping it pretty tight.
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Speaker 2: Lift before we talk about the opening ceremony that and I do wanted to get to Mariah. Let's I want to talk about the torches. I want to talk about the torches they are.
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is something that would interest you, like torch shape, torch function.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think it's something that would interest you. I actually have a fun little game go ahead, not a game. I just want to I just want you to. I want to give you the opportunity to remind everybody what your mild time was in high school.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you so much. So a lot of people have been wondering how I'm going to figure in my mile time, this being the Winter Olympics. Oh. I would respond to that question by being like, I'm just gonna say it, please, four thirty six.
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Speaker 2: That's four minutes and thirty six seconds correct per mile. So I want I'm gonna shout some numbers out about the Olympic torch and then we're gonna to the Paralympic one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, great, total ten thousand and one.
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Speaker 2: Torch bearers, chic very love that a palindrome of a number.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I guess you're right, zero zero zero one.
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Speaker 2: I had to think what would be the New York zip code as it were now. Total distance is twelve thousand kilometers traveled approximately seventy five hundred miles.
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Speaker 1: You always forget how much more kilometers is You always spend miles. Kilometers is so much more than miles, which means that it is this, which means that it's less than miles in a way. Correct, and don't get confused. Don't get confused. Please, the kilometer numbers is going to be higher for the distance that the miles is okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay, For sixty three days the Olympic flame, this torch will travel over seventy five hundred miles. I want to let's just let's let's get the mile time on this Olympic torch. I bet you're beating this torch because but I don't want to say that sixty three days times twenty four hours per day. I don't think that is the hour minute breakdown that we want. No, how like, let's assume that this torch is traveling. Do you want to say eight hours each day or four hours each day? How much work do we think this this this torch is doing.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I would never know. Let's say eight. I just want to make it easy for you, because are you gonna do quick math math? Oh? Oh, don't don't worry about don't worry about this. Were you always good at the SAT math stuff? I was?
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Speaker 2: I don't think I was just good at math in general?
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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, you thrived in this area. I did. I enjoyed it. I needed a tutor specifically for math, that's sweet.
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Speaker 2: I My math journey is you know, a little on the nose. I get it, but it is tied closely to my comedy journey really because my math teacher, my calculus teacher was also my I was the assistant director of the improv coach downtown in Denver. She never had you huddle though, he he sorry, he never had a huddle. Math teacher, he him him. He was also the epistemology teacher.
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Speaker 1: Oh, what's that?
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Speaker 2: Adrian Holgian theory of knowledge?
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Speaker 1: Epistemology? How do you know? What? You know?
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Speaker 2: That was a whole class and the IB in the International Backalory Program There you go, which is a very sort of very sort of Olympic coded because it was like all over the world people were studying these things.
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Speaker 1: Epistemology, theory of knowledge.
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Speaker 2: It was t ok It's like, oh I got took you know at five.
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Speaker 1: Oh, because you were in an IV course load.
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Speaker 2: I was in the IV program at Smokey Hill High School.
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Speaker 1: Is this your mile time? No? Being in the IVY program Smokey Hill, this is my I'll tell you what's his mild time, his act score.
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Speaker 2: My mile time? No, no, no, we're not talking about my mild time. Is my mild time? Is I got a five on the ap CALC exam because of Adrian Holgian's work, who also introduced me to just comedy as an art form.
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Speaker 1: You get a five on ap cal CALC. That's hard.
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Speaker 2: I was one of I was one of I was. I just felt like I was his guy.
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Speaker 1: I got a five on all the easy ones lit comp side.
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Speaker 2: Those are not well. I guess I'm just very what if left rough brand? I think your right brand, right brand? I got a four on comp So you did.
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised at you.
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Speaker 2: You're more your more words than me.
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Speaker 1: What do you think it was?
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Speaker 2: I think I freeze when I when I have to compose.
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Speaker 1: I wrote a persuasive essay about the berries and cream Starburst commercial. Remember that, what were you persuading? I had to persuade everyone. It was a great commercial.
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Speaker 2: I suppose sounds.
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Speaker 1: And then I wrote a comparative work. Yeah for a p. Litt And you know this story, I get to use two characters. Well, this is the essay. It was use two characters from a novel you've read this year, yes, and one as a foil for the other. You did it? You did? Elizabeth Bennett. Elizabeth Bennett and Lydia who is the character that I played in Fire Island and.
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Speaker 2: You played I played Jane, You played Jane Bennett. You were, but Elizabeth Bennett was duel Kin Booster.
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Speaker 1: Yes, would you say that you playing Jane Jane Bennett started your feud with Rosamond Pike. Yes, Yeah, which is just a light feud. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: If I were to ever see her.
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Speaker 1: It would be a huge hug.
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Speaker 2: Well, she could, she could slap me, she could strike me, she could be very cold towards me.
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Speaker 1: I would would not mind. Yeah, but it might be kind of cool for a Rosamond Pike to slap you, I think so.
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Speaker 2: Now, just back on the topic of the torch, of course, let's let's say it's eight You think this torch is traveling eight hours a day.
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Speaker 1: I think like in order for it to get as far as it needs to go, it would need to be a full day thing, right, Yeah, tell.
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Speaker 2: Me, sixty three times eight is five hundred and four hours. Okay, times sixty is thirty thousand minutes. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, It's been a long time since ap calc. Hold on, hold on, saying all of us sixty three times eight times.
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Speaker 1: Sixty yeah, divided by mine. No, this is not going to be This is not gonna be good. You don't think it's right what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: I don't think this is traveling eight minutes or eight hours?
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 2: Can we just put to the group we've dug how many hours.
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Speaker 1: In a day? Do you think the torch is traveling a lot? No? No, no, that's not a numerical number. How many lot is not a numerica. Here, here's what I want.
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Speaker 2: Here's what I want to put out there, like it is being held by the well.
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Speaker 1: The first torch bearer was Petros. Get this so this is now? Now is where I throw my hands up in the air because you got names like this and I'm Greek and I'm still having a whole try. Petros, guy that cease, Petro's guy that cease. This is a Greek Olympic row where he was the first torch bearer. He was the first to begin.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and there are many notable torch bearers on this relay. And the relay officially started earlier in December.
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Speaker 1: I think it says the flame was lit and Olympia, Greece in November twenty six, twenty twenty five, and they started.
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Speaker 2: They started in December in Rome.
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Speaker 1: December fourth, twenty twenty five in Rome. Beautiful place to start, beautiful place to start. Now I want to say, oh, start of the relay with December sixth. Great.
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Speaker 2: So the torch is being held, is stationary at certain points, and then the torch bearers along the relay are only traveling.
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Speaker 1: The Olympic torch travels for roughly ten to twelve hours a day during its relay, starting around seven thirty am and concluding with the lighting of the cauldron in the evening around seven thirty pm in the host city for that day, but the actual time depends on the specific relays route, the number of torch bearers, and the local events. So between ten and twelve, three times more than your guests, I'm going to say.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say it's eight.
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Speaker 1: It says ten to twelve hours a day, and I knew it. This is the Olympics. I don't think you remember that all the time.
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Speaker 2: I remember that this is the Olympics. Don't don't tell me I don't remember the Olympics. I remember the.
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Speaker 1: Olympics podcast that I remember that this is the I.
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Speaker 2: Remember that this is the Olympics, trust me.
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Speaker 1: On my Olympic podcast, on my Olympics podcast that I that I co host with you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so here's based on that math, based on the math of eight hours a day.
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Speaker 1: Uh, this is what I want to say. Okay.
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Speaker 2: The mile time, yeah, or the Olympic torch is four point zero three minutes smoked me. I don't like that neither. But I don't like that that it that it you are. But but think of it this way. You were almost as fast as the Olympic torch during this relay.
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Speaker 1: I'm into it. You know what. I would love to do one of the torch bearers. Do you think that could work that out for LA or does it have to be all athletes? That can't be true for La. You can do it, girl, please, they have they other people get in there.
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Speaker 2: You've been at the Vanity.
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Speaker 1: Fair Oscars party.
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Speaker 2: You are you are in the running, honey.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I was once barely invited to the Vanity Fair oscar you were inviting. Hand me that torch, Hand me that torch and give me it correctly. I don't want to be grabbing the fire.
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Speaker 2: You I think you'll I think you'll be just fine.
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Speaker 1: I think that you would send a great chance at holding the Olympic torch.
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Speaker 2: I have no interest.
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Speaker 1: I think you would bring joy to the world. You have no interest. I have no interest. I have no interest. Wait what did I recently say to you? Oh, and then you said I have no interest. I was like, ooh, let's try to go to the met gala. He said, I have no interest. I have no interest. He has no interest in going to the metcala.
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Speaker 2: No sounds like a stressful name.
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna wear of the opening ceremony? Have we even thought da product? Well, yes, we're wearing product. Okay, should we try to Oh my god, there's so many should we Should we reach out to them? Right now? We're looking for outfits for the opening ceremony. We'd love product.
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Speaker 2: We'd love to turn a look. We'd love to reference Mariah Carey's or reference either way. We would love to reference Mariah Carey or Italian pop icon. Laura Patsuni, now Laura Patsuni.
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Speaker 1: It's her deal.
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Speaker 2: She is one of the headline performers and she will be performing to a global broadcast audience of two to two point five billion people.
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Speaker 1: Italian pop icon Laura Passuni. Look at her. She's gorgeous and so there she is. She's sort of giving a Dina Menzel if you could picture what a Dina Menzel looks like in your head, or like Rachel Berry, Rachel Berry, orka a Lia Michelle or a Lana Glazer with the middle part. Oh my god, yes, or Ali a shotcat in a wig.
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Speaker 2: We're naming just gorgeous Mediterranean looking icons.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Laura Passini, babe, you know you think you think that, like anyone will think I'm Italian there. Maybe I sometimes get it.
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Speaker 2: I thought when I first when I first met you, I thought, oh, he's Italian.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot. It's a common misconception because it's Long Island. People are gonna think that about Mariah. Well, they're racist, that mixed race.
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Speaker 2: That's the Long Island thing too, you and Maria being from Long Island and people thinking people defaulting to Italian.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting American like me and Mariah Carey have Long Island in common, and me and Jennifer Lopez have track running in common, and what they have in common is dislike of one another. But Jayla will not be at the opening ceremony, No, Mariah, Well, what song would you like to hear Mariah Carey sing? Oh, that's so good.
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Speaker 2: I want her to sing something something, it's something.
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Speaker 1: Wintery or Italian.
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Speaker 2: You think she's gonna sing something pertinent to the ceremony.
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Speaker 1: I think. Do you think it'll be an Italian song? I almost. I hope it's like I hope that. Well, Lady Gaga did like a whole French number.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Lady Gaga did Diffrench numbers. Selene did a French number. I think, I think, I think Mariah wants to keep it, keep it Italian.
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Speaker 1: What is Mariah's connection to Italy?
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Speaker 2: What is Gaga's connection to France? What is Selene's connection to France?
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Speaker 1: Be because the very nature of her being very oo la la, I would say, is Gaga's connection She sang l'vion rose in Starsborn.
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Speaker 2: Mariah is a diva. That's and that is an Italian inventure.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. You do realize that's what it is. Yes, Yes, the diva is in it. I can't believe you are. I can't believe you're having to ask no. Actually it took me a second to get there. But do you think It's like, well, if we're going to have someone perform at the at the Italian Milan Cortina opening Ceremony, it should be Mariah because she is the annational I'm now I did think the choice was a little odd, not that I ever like am not wanted to see Mariya, But now it makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 2: Yes, bravisima, bravisimaaza should we should hang Mariah if you're if you want to, if you need a hang, if you if you want a fun little you know, if you if you want to have a nice Billini together.
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Speaker 1: I actually would love the BILLIONI note the Billini, note Mariya the diva, the diva. We'll get this. Let's talk about the stage of the opening ceremony, and the stage will feature a spiral shaped led structure at the center of the pitch, symbolizing unity and connection. The narrative will explore Italy's heritage past and present, including tributes to icons like Leonardo da Vinci and a retrospective on Italian excellence and innovation, design and culture. What's your favorite invention of Leonardo da Vinci's the penis? Because I think he was very gay.
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Speaker 2: You think Leonardo DaVinci was gay, I'm this is this is widely known?
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Speaker 1: Is it is that?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 1: Boys?
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Speaker 2: Someone google it? Boys, someone google it. I just did the math on we really should quickly mention. Okay, the Paralympic torch, which is traveling two thousand kilometers in eleven days February twenty fourth to March six.
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Speaker 1: Great, that is. Oh here's more quick math.
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Speaker 2: Four point two five miles per minute?
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Speaker 1: Got me again?
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Speaker 2: Or four for two minutes per mile? But you, you are as comparably fast as the Olympic torch.
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Speaker 1: A long time ago. Sometimes I sometimes I do. I mean, y'all know this. I was gonna run a mile again, but it never happened. It never materialized. This is a nice project for you. I went to berries today. It was hard. I know hard. I know everything's hard, like every athletic pursuit is hard after when your bone density goes well, Yes, of course, but I'm I'm saying between the days of December twenty six, yes, and January fourth. That's why I'm not even bothering. You're gonna wait till we You're gonna wait till we get to Milan to work out. Yes, are you going to go singing while we're there.
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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think the trails are open. That would be a really I you know what we'll see.
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Speaker 1: I'm just I think it could be fun. It could be fun.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna app pray. I will at pray with a billion billion. Note you're gonna avant?
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Speaker 1: Which is before? Does that eat? No? Avant?
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Speaker 2: It just means before, so play means after, so avant means before.
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Speaker 1: How much Italian are you bringing to the game? That is?
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Speaker 2: That was French?
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Speaker 1: It's first language, French very much bone Yang's no mile second language. You constantly are saying this because my.
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Speaker 2: First language is Mandarin. Like in the house it was Mandarin.
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Speaker 1: But your I guess your first fluent language was you think Mandarin? Yeah? Sure, fluency? And how much Mandarin do you know?
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Speaker 2: Not?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? How would you say that in Mandarinien? Oh? Yes, very good. I know. I'm good. I think I could rock commander him. Remember when we went to Italy we had Granita Grenita. Was that the name of the waitress? No, oh my god, No, Grenita is you know what Grenita is. It's that gorgeous lidine. No Grenita, right, it's it's the gorgeous breakfast oh, hold on, what we have news about whether Leonardo da Vinci was kay. While Leonardo da Vinci never explicitly defined his sexuality, strong historical evidence and scholarly consensus and I suggest he was likely or bisexual, with his lifelong intimate relationships with men, particularly his longtime companion Salai Salai pointing towards this, though some historians debate the extent of his romantic involvement versus deep friendships. Well, that's just also being gay.
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Speaker 2: Now, and let's not forget the Olympics were for people to sit around and watch oiled up muscly guys throw a disc Now, what is your favorite invention from Leonardo da Vinci?
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Speaker 1: Oh, paintings. I loved the paintings.
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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the opening ceremony. Yes, okay, so oh we already have sorry, I think, well, no, here's the things we've come to expect from the opening ceremony. Passini, Laura Passini and more Leonardo Vinci. A spiral led stage representing peace. Well, I'm sure Ilia and Shane are going to be the iliot and Shane will be there. I'm sure that they will honor Leonardo da Vinci live on television cottage will be at the center of the of the of the stage.
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Speaker 1: I think the cottage is gonna be I think Mariah Carey is going to come out like it's at the tailor Swift aerostour and sit on top of the cottage sing, you know whatever Italian ario she's going to sing, and Shane and Eliot are going to be on the inside. And if no one's gonna it's not gonna bother anyone. It just is what it is. People wanted, They crave it all over the world.
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Speaker 2: It's mainstream, it's internationals, it's international. The Olympics were gay leader was rumored to be gay. Must some scholars, you know, dispute it.
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Speaker 1: So that's all only what's probably happening. Outside of that. Here's what we can expect. The dramatic lighting of the Olympic cauldron using unexpected final torch bearers tradition.
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Speaker 2: It's always a surprise. It is gaggy. They always try to gag you. In every city.
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Speaker 1: It would be kind of who do you think who would gag you? I mean it would be gaggy if you were like, no, I have no interest in that. It was you and they would.
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Speaker 2: Say Lemo and Yang Lemo and Lomo Chao, chomen eh Leboen le.
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Speaker 1: Bowen as your diva name is really good. My parents flap with.
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Speaker 2: That NAMEY I love man name. Oh no, I love mateo. Oh mateo your mateo eat it mateo.
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Speaker 1: Lane. Athletes march together under shared or unified flags. Well yes, well yes. Large scale human mosaics formed by thousands of volunteers, use of ice, snow and projection mapping to transform stadiums. I'm excited about that. Mm hmm. Performances by children symbolizing hope in the future, ceremonies emphasizing peace during times of global tension.
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Speaker 2: The only hope we have as an international community is the Olympic Games.
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Speaker 1: I would say that the world is in the words of Linda Richmond from SNL Verklempt, the world is for Klemps right now, artistic tribut It's the host nations, landscapes, folklore, buzzword buzz and history and emotional first appearances of athletes stepping into the Olympic arena. That really is.
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Speaker 2: It's so inspiring, It's so inspiring. I want there's one person missing, who someone who is very Who's who put Italy.
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Speaker 1: Back on the map, Lady got again.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I was thinking of someone else on Valentina from My Lotus season two, not Snooky and Snooky and Nicole polite Ci.
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Speaker 1: So I think that there is obviously so much more we could possibly discuss about the opening ceremony, but we are running up on time here, so I think let's talk about the three things we are most excited to see with our silver golden bronze. I don't know why that was that. I like. I like that. I like that sort of clearing, clearing the order, the order.
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Speaker 2: I my bronze medal of the things that are that we hope to see at the opening ceremony. Yes, my bronze medal is us dressed in Prada. Yes, dressed in thermals for Prada. Yeah, at the opening ceremony.
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what we look like. It's gonna be really something that's gonna be very fun. Okay, can I say silver? Yes? I want to see what Laura Passini is giving. Yes, I think she's gonna gag. I think that, like, listen, if you're they've only announced really a couple people, and it's Laura Passini and Mariah carry, which means Laura Passini is giving something probably at least two and a half octaves of Mariah's five two and a half. I would be so thrilled with how many octaves do you have in your floor? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Not a non discreete two like been Barren, know that for a fact.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't. What about you tell us sexually? Four? Three? Ah? Do you believe me that I say that? Doug? I feel like I feel like I've heard more about well I haven't done, Doug. Doug came to my Christmas and I love that you felt four.
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Speaker 2: As a professional sound engineer.
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Speaker 1: You know who has four? Christina Aguilera, Mariah has five. I wonder if Arianna has five? I think ARISI, Yeah, she's such a brilliant vocalist.
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Speaker 2: She's a brilliant vocalist and another Italian legend.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is she? Do you know?
00:28:27
Speaker 2: I know nothing? Oh please, don't don't do this. I don't know anything.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Now it's going to be that thing of like when I say on them like like oh yeah, I bet Ariana will be there, and then it's like all the orientators are going to break the news. Like when I like when I broke the news of her deluxe album.
00:28:42
Speaker 2: Pop Crave is going to run with this. Bob Grave says Ari to Grane to play Leonaro da Vinci, Muse.
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Speaker 1: She'd be great. I would love to see Ariana come out.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say my goal was gonna be what's gonna be? Connor Story and Hudson Williamses. I want to see them as Leo and Salai Ooh. I love that, But I think the gold has to go to Mariah duh. Gold has to go to Mariah.
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Speaker 1: The Italian diva singing at the one and only big event.
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Speaker 2: If she were to sing from the movie Moonstruck, when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moore at the at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. That's diva and diva lives to be changed, lives to be changed.
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Speaker 1: It's a pondat Homore Hey, beautiful sort of that was That's two octaves right there. Three is very impressive. I'm amazed by you. Thank you for that. I don't even know what to say. I guess I'm a diva, a diva, you know what.
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Speaker 2: We've got a list of Gray Winter Olympics opening ceremonyment sm past, We've got Lily Hammer, the guys skiing off with the torch, Salt Lake.
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Speaker 1: City, Torino.
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Speaker 2: Who could forget Pavaradi's last public performance.
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Speaker 1: These are just a few other things you might see. Twenty ten and Vancouver, a snowboarder flew through the Olympic rings at the start of the opening stetmony like are you kidding? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: That's hot in Canadian like heated rivalry. Your move, Laura Passine, your move, Pissine. And of course you could forget in peng Chang when North end South Korea did the predo nations out of the same flag. That's the world that we hope for and seldom get, But at the Olympics it is the proper occasion.
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Speaker 1: Will we get it? Stay tuned to see that and what we're wearing at the opening ceremony. Follow the show on the iHeartRadio app or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the NBC Sports YouTube channel.
00:30:52
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