Three Friends Debate The Big Game, Halftime Spectacles, And Winter Olympic Thrills

If a championship game leaves you cold, lean into the ice. We open with a blunt verdict on the so-called biggest game of the year—defense-heavy, oddly lifeless—and trace how a flawed path can still land a team on the sport’s highest stage. From there, we pull apart the halftime spectacle: dazzling production, loud reactions, and the deeper question of what happens when a proudly American league chases a global audience. Language myths, culture wars, and “made-for-TV” staging all show up, along with the unexpected stars of the night: the on-field “grass people” and a rival halftime show that pushed symbolism and nostalgia.

Then the conversation flies downhill into the Winter Olympics, where stakes meet speed. We swap notes on an opening ceremony that mixed beauty with eyebrow-raising fashion, then pick favorites across curling, short track speed skating, and the high-speed chaos of downhill. We make the case for timed sports over judged ones, debate skeleton versus luge, and geek out on bobsled engineering—from pop-out handles to racing-line craft. Ski jumping gets its due, too, as we trace how technique and aerodynamics transformed a dare into a discipline, and why perfect timing at the lip can feel like stealing from gravity.

Hockey brings the plot twists: real upsets, heroic goaltending, betting lines that suddenly look fragile, and the thorny reality of national eligibility through heritage. We even crunch the numbers on taxes and game checks to show how playing under certain state rules can cost more than the winner’s bonus, a reminder that money and marketing lurk behind every anthem. It’s fast, opinionated, and full of those small, human details—like icy slopes, viral wipeouts, and the pure joy of a clean run—that make winter sports addicting.

If you’re into sharp takes, big laughs, and the kind of sports talk that actually goes somewhere, hit play now. Subscribe, share with a friend, and drop your hottest Olympic or halftime take in a review—we’ll read the best ones on the show.

Transcript

Welcome Back And Global Shoutouts

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Three guys around the table. And by three guys, we're talking about three friends: a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent.

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And just like our personalities, our opinions vary, and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around.

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It's been a minute since our last episode. We've had a lot going on. Yeah, and we we have missed a lot. Uh we so uh we haven't done this by the way in a while. So uh let's just start by saying welcome to the show. Three guys around the table. I'm Mark, I'm Chris, I'm Greg. And uh tickled that you could join us. And I wanted to give a shout out to our listeners all around the world. Around the world for sure. We truly have listeners all around the world. Djibouti. Yeah, we've got uh we're in 32 countries and territories, uh, 375 cities just recently. Um our new locations, uh shout out to, and please correct me if I'm wrong on the pronunciation. I'm gonna quit and go on a limb and say you're wrong already. Yes, you're correct. That's right. Duche Lemon. And uh Rochester Hills in the state up north. Uh Zytomir, Zytomir in uh the Ukraine, in Ukraine, yeah. And uh yeah, so shout out and uh tell all your friends about the show. We're um we're um what we're bad, what was it? And we're nationwide. What is that? I'm bad and I'm neige and what exactly, yeah. Greg's going, uh what are you talking about?

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I have no idea what you're doing.

Setting The Agenda: Big Game And Olympics

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That just happened that we can't call what it's it, what it is. That's true. Uh so we gotta uh mention the big game a little bit, and then we gotta get into some Olympics. The winter Olympics are here. Love the winter Olympics. What's your favorite winter Olympic sport? Oh, it's for me, obviously, it's easy. It's ice hockey.

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Um anything with snow skiing, especially the downhill.

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But there, yeah, what about you?

SPEAKER_04 2:18

Uh I like all the racing things. I mean, I'm I'm more of a I'm more of a luge skeleton, you know. The stuff that I would love to try one time. Oh, well, I'd get in one of those bobsleds in a heartbeat and go down to there.

Super Bowl Recap And Why It Dragged

SPEAKER_02 2:31

We will hold this conversation for later. Let's let's recap this the the the super say all bay uh first.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

So extraordinarily boring game, horrendously boring. I mean, the first three quarters as boring as it gets.

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Total defensive game.

SPEAKER_04 2:48

Yep, yep. Uh not not not fun to watch at all after you've been traveling for a week and you get home and you're tired already. Terrible game to watch.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Yeah, I concur. Now, so Seattle, obviously. Best team. Best team won. Very clearly. Uh super well coached, lots of talent. Perfect balance. Best team won, no question. Now, let me ask a question. Going back to the last several of these games, you know, going back several years, New England. Could that be the worst Super Bowl team? Oops, Oper Bay, Oprah. Could that be the worst big game team in in history? I'm serious. I I really want to. Of the Patriots? Or of all of them? Now find me one that was worse than that team. It was the 86 Patriots worse. They were really bad. Yeah. They had a guy from Chillicothe, Ohio, uh, by the way, on their team, Garen Varis. Where's where's Chillicothe? Uh South of Lima.

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North away, really. Close to uh close to Washington Courthouse. Yeah, baby.

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I like that place too.

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That's the home of the big flea market. I like that. Yeah, they get you a good flea market there. So I mean, seriously, they were not. I mean, defense, and I love Mike Vrabel. He's done a fantastic job with that team.

SPEAKER_05 4:07

He is a good coach, I'll give you that. I mean, defensively, he's awkward.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Yeah. Defensively, they just did a fantastic job all season long, but my God, that offense. And Seattle's defense is legit. I mean, their quarterback's not great. How did they get to the Super Bowl? Think about it. Buffalo, they they lose, they win a game in uh in Buffalo where the refs completely screw them. Right.

SPEAKER_05 4:32

Wasn't it the game that was really cold and snowy?

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Yeah. Much like this room right now.

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And then and then they beat Denver, who had their quarterback out. And in the second half, the snow from Mageddon goes on.

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Yeah.

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Just like this room right now. It's cold in here. Seriously, I mean, I think meat's hanging in the corner.

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I can see your nose and it's frozen. The drips are frozen. I can cut glass. It's a studio.

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Let me help with that.

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It's a studio. A studio is supposed to be cool.

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Is that the reason why your balloons are still inflated? Yes.

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After like six weeks. It's not that quite that long, but we're, you know. But yes. Yes.

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So mess team one. I agreed. Uh controversial topic. Yep. Controversy. Half-time show. Yep. Halftime show.

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I don't think it's controversial.

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Controversial on online. Yes.

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Well, in in print. I watched it.

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I watched it as well.

How Did They Even Get There

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I wouldn't understand any of it. Nope. Except when he said, God bless America or whatever. Lady Gaga come out and saying, and I did know it was Ricky Martin.

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And I see, I just so my wife, my wife, she looks, she looks over, she goes, Is that Rico Suave?

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That is phenomenal. Yeah.

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I didn't know who it was. Fun fact.

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Yeah, fun fact.

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Oh, wait. I can have a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of the button. Fun fact button. There we go.

SPEAKER_05 5:55

Rico Suave was the name of the song. Who was the artist? Taco Grande?

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No.

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Um.

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Uh I don't have any idea.

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Yeah, I don't know. For the record, I had the cassette single.

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Of course, because look, he he also had the first edition of Un45. I need this for my date, love. He had the actual gold record.

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The gold record. The artist's name was Gerardo. Ah, okay. I liked Weirdo Yankovic's version much better. What was it? Taco. Oh my god. Grande.

SPEAKER_05 6:34

So all right, back to the show.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Uh so yeah, I thought it was a spectacle. Uh, I didn't that that particular music, not my cup of tea, but uh, but the the show itself, I thought the production was amazing. Uh I I didn't really see anything to be that offended about, but you know, uh I he talked about love and you know that look, people for whatever reason, you gotta judge everything in this world now. Correct. If you don't like the show because you can be behind the screen and do it and not do it in somebody's face. If you don't want to watch it, go watch the puppy bowl. And 12 million people watch the puppy bowl. The puppy bowl's legit.

SPEAKER_05 7:13

I've never ever even turned that on.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

Yeah, do you remember the Bud Bud Bowl?

SPEAKER_05 7:17

Bud Bowl was where it was air bottles and stuff would play each other. Great awesome. So so uh as far as Bad Bunny goes, I'd never heard of who Bad Bunny was until Happy Gilmore 2 came out, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:27

I haven't even watched that.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

It's good. And I didn't know who Bad Bunny was.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

I'm like, I knew I knew him from wrestling. He's uh he was the uh the little WWE cross.

Halftime Show Reactions And Outrage

SPEAKER_05 7:35

He told me that I had no idea. Yeah, and I'm like, okay, Bad Bunny's from Puerto Rico, okay. I like Puerto Rico, yeah. Well, here's what I was thinking awesome. That music right there, what you and I were in Puerto Rico, I'd have listened to it all day every day. 100% did when we were at eating pizza, drinking medallion. Anyhow. Um eating empanadas. Yes. But anyhow. Oh, I kill an empanada. These were the best empanadas. We'd order them like two dozen at a time. Yeah, they were really good. But I would list that music down there, but you know, I think the the only controversy is is um, well, first of all, I think there's a lot of uneducated people that don't realize that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Yeah. Details. But number two, you know, the official language of the United States is English. Actually, it's not.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

It was named that in 2016, I think, was it? No, there is no official language in the United States. That's and the only reason I know that is I just saw a TikTok that Piers Morgan was arguing with Meghan Kelly, both conservative people. And Piers goes, What's the what's the official language of the United States? And she's like, Well, I know you're gonna get me on this point. He's like, You don't have one, there is not one. Um, but we all know that English is uh the predominant American, American.

SPEAKER_04 8:51

So it's hard to be country in this country.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Yeah, but having said that, you know, it's there's a lot of there's a lot of fake outrage that just has to happen that people can't just why can't we all just get along?

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I didn't care.

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Actually I didn't either.

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Actually, hold on.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

Uh oh. Chris Stread chick tell you Piers Morgan.

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Executive Order 14224 titled Designating English as the official language of the United States is an executive order that was signed by Donald J. Trump on March 1, 2025, declaring English the official language of the United States.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

An executive order doesn't carry the force of law. But doesn't the executive order kind of have some kind of weight or something? No. The United States still does not have an official language. You can write you can you can you can call a chicken a duck all you want. You know. I'd eat them both. So that's true. So anyway.

SPEAKER_05 9:43

But anyhow, back to that, is I think the biggest thing for like my like like my mother. If my mother had been alive and watched that show, she'd have been like, What's this garbage? But she was also you know, older and and that's just not her cup of tea. And honestly, that music, you I don't think you'll see me driving around in my Jeep or something this summer and listening to that.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

That's just not gonna happen. Yeah, I uh yeah, like I would while we were at a saving out as a correct.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

While I'm in the islands, I would.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Yeah, it's like you know, what is the purpose behind the the the Super Bowl halftime show? It's to entertain. And and it also we have to understand as part of that, is this isn't just the American Super Bowl anymore. Uh the the NFL is worldwide.

SPEAKER_04 10:27

We've got games they want to be worldwide.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Okay, we've got games in every continent. We've we've got, you know.

SPEAKER_05 10:32

But see, I have here's where I have a problem with that statement alone is that it is the Super Bowl. It is the National. I can't say Super Bowl. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's the big game. It's the big game. The National Football League, the American Football League. There are no foreign teams in the league. It's it's America's game, right? Yeah. Hold on, hold on. They're they're coming. Well, and that's going to change the. The London monarchs are coming, baby. I know it. But but here's here's the thing with that is that to me just screams that it is all about marketing and money like everything else. They're marketing to the world. Of course it is.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

There's no debate about that. Yeah, 100%. But um but back to the show itself. Yep. It's pretty cool. The grass was people. I thought that's what I'm saying. I thought that was interesting. I did not know that either.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Uh until afterwards I saw they show showed them walking in. Um, like children of the corn. So if you were one of those grass people, I mean, do you would they had to go through security and stuff?

SPEAKER_05 11:27

Yeah, and they got paid. They they they uh they um practiced for seven days too.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Wow.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:34

But I thought the TikTok you said was interesting that the quarterback's losing money by playing in the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Wild, that shocked.

SPEAKER_04 11:43

That shows you how California is out of control.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

Out of control with the taxes, unbelievable. Out of control. Yeah, so if for those of you that obviously, you know, that's a little inside reps of your TikTok. Uh the Sam Darnold, the the quarterback for Seattle, uh, when I guess when you Boomer Syason explained it on his show.

SPEAKER_04 12:04

Because he he worked for seven days in California. Yep. So so seven three hundred and sixty-fifths of his salary gets taxed in California, yep, which is more than what he made for playing in the Super Bowl. Exactly.

Language, Culture, And The NFL Going Global

SPEAKER_02 12:20

I think he's ridiculous. The winning team on the Super Bowl made 178,000 or whatever. And his tax was 260,000. Ridiculous. Yeah. Ridiculous. Cost him almost six figures to to play in the game. Yeah, it's ridiculous. So yeah. Now, uh the next thing about the Super Bowl. Can we say that?

SPEAKER_05 12:42

Can we go back to the halftime shows? We haven't we haven't finished up the halftime shows. You jumped ahead of me there. I was still talking about grass people. Grass people, yeah. Did you notice the only problem I saw with that is and back to the marketing and things, it's the show this year was obviously geared toward the television crowd more so than it was the um in stadium crowd. It always is. Normally, like when Prince did it, he was up on the stage in the middle, and there was not this time there was all the different mazes of grass people and stuff, and if you saw from the stands, you couldn't see it at all hardly. So it was made for television more so this year. But let's talk to the turning point show. I watched that one as well.

SPEAKER_04 13:19

I didn't watch any of that. No. I mean, I just didn't.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

I mean, I was just I sent a I sent a John Stewart uh video to you all about that.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

We we it's pretty funny. It's hard to be cuddry in this cudry. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

I watched uh I watched it on my computer while I watched uh the big game halftime show on the TV and um you know the the quote unquote alternative halftime show was was great. I mean it was certainly a different uh dynamic. Um I think what uh what Kid Rock did was fantastic.

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Lip sank. Actually he didn't and filmed two weeks beforehand. There's a bunch of dispute about that. And yeah.

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But when he came out and sang, you know, the way he did with there was a lot of symbolism there throughout the whole thing. And and uh then he did the song uh he did the the additional song uh lyric to Till You Can't. If anybody's heard that, it's fantastic and you need to listen to that. And it was um loaded up on all your uh YouTube and all that, not YouTube, uh what's what I'm looking for, iTunes and stuff about midnight after Super Bowl. It's fantastic. Um how he did the you know, he came out as Kid Rock and did uh uh traditional kid rock and then comes out later as uh Robert Ritchie his real name and saying to you can. It was pretty neat with a lot of symbolism in there um for Charlie Kirk and that kind of thing. I thought it was very well done as well. Very different dynamic, very different um uh bass watching it. You know, you had 125 million people watching Bad Bunny, and you had um uh what, five million or whatever watching the four million of them were bots, according to uh Pierce Morgan. By the way. I was one million I was one of the one million. Um I thought it was great too. I thought it was just it kind of gave you an alternative. Now I look back as a as a realist going you know, I don't know why we need divisional stuff.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

And twelve million watch the puppy ball. Yeah. So I don't know why we need the divisional, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

I don't I don't I don't I guess we don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

We don't. If you don't want to watch the one, just go, you know, do whatever. Go go get you some chip dip.

SPEAKER_05 15:24

I was kinda I was kind of disappointed on the on on the correct side on this time. So anyhow.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

So what about the commercials?

Made-For-TV Spectacle And “Grass People”

SPEAKER_04 15:33

Not great. The Duncan one was good. The Duncan one was the best one, uh in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah. Um there were some weird ones this year. Like the the AI ones were just bizarre. Um where they showed the uh you know the the people that you know they go for for assistance and then it's running and then the guy's talking in that some ad or whatever. Uh the ring camera one, did you see those? I've heard there's a lot of controversy on it. I didn't see it. So yeah, there's a lot of people that don't want to buy ring cameras now because it was just so like I don't know, uh invasive.

SPEAKER_05 16:13

Right, which okay, I'm inside my house. Who cares if it's invasive? Yeah. I mean, you don't think that that box I talk to and say set my alarm and lay the radio is not invasive?

SPEAKER_02 16:23

Yeah. Your phone? But the Duncan one for nostalgia, really good.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

I like the State Farm one with Kenny Powers. That was pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Yeah. Half state. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

I'm trying to remember what is Oh, oh, the the the eagle and the horse with the Budweiser was awesome. To Free Bird.

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Yeah. Um tugging at the heartstrings, you know.

SPEAKER_05 16:46

But they were overall down as well.

Alternative Halftime Show And Symbolism

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Yeah, I mean think about the uh the past Super Bowl commercials, how good they, you know. The the Doritos commercials every year were always good. I didn't even see one of those this year. Not that I remember. Um I thought that the the there was a clever one from an advertising perspective. Pepsi commercial using the polar bears.

SPEAKER_04 17:10

Yeah, I I remember that one. That was pretty clever. Yeah, yeah. But I heard about that one. I must have been out. Pepsi is just not as good as Coke. You know, I don't know about that. It's not.

SPEAKER_05 17:21

It's just not. It's not even if I'm having to drink it out of like a 20-ounce bottle if it's cold, I'd rather have Pepsi. But if it's on ice in a glass, I'd rather have Coke. And if I'm going diet, definitely coke. And if I'm going zero, definitely coke. Cherry Coke Zero is the best.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Coke Zero is awesome. Um but we didn't even mention the the best soda out there. Uh oh, Tab. Right. Fanta. Dr. Peppa. Oh. Let me have a Diablo sandwich. Dr. Peppa. Uh got 11 herbs and so enough about the big game because we got the games going on right now. This is my favorite, the winter Olympics. I I concur. Yeah. Always concur.

SPEAKER_04 18:09

So um You watched the opening ceremonies. What did you think?

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Um it grew on me a little bit.

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Like a seast. A wart. Like a ward, like a wart. Like a wart, basically.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

All the war. Yeah, all of them. Um it uh I I thought first of all, uh Andrea Bocelli, uh Amazing. I listened to the book. What about Verona Carey? Yeah, uh, yeah, no, that didn't the same boat. That didn't do it for me. Uh when they when they did before they had the athletes come out came out and they had the um they had all these different little symbols, uh, and then they had the like the paint things hanging from the air and uh squirting the primary colors out, and then there were there were little mocha pots, little Italian mocha pots. I can't describe it, you just gotta see it. That was a little bizarre, right?

SPEAKER_04 19:01

Um, but what did you think about the outfits of the people who were leading the the athletes out? I mean they looked like silver, almost like Christmas trees.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

It was strange. Strange, yes, I agree. Um I thought that the not not that I am the least fashion noteworthy person or whatever, you know, I'd have no no idea about fashion. Right. However, um I thought that the United States Ralph Lauren themed, I thought looked really good. Uh I thought Canada, they went with Lululemon, and the Canadian folks were wearing these things that look like they look like uh almost like tents that they were wearing. It looked stupid. Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 19:46

I gotta tell you, I um I'm a roots homer. Oh, I love roots. Yeah, I was I was in as you all may know, I was in Roots several roots actually, just last week. Uh Roots is the Ralph Love Canada.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

That doesn't surprise me. And uh look when you go to these exclusive uh uh I mean uh you've done that your whole life.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

So I would have been Armani Versace Roots.

SPEAKER_05 20:14

Yeah, Roots is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Yep, yep. But um so anyway, after the opening ceremony, you know, the games have been fantastic. So you had started to say, what is your favorite event? Yep. So let's talk about our favorite episode. I thought I thought of another one that I like.

SPEAKER_05 20:29

Squirrel catching in an attic.

Commercials: Nostalgia, AI Weirdness, And Soda Wars

SPEAKER_04 20:31

Uh there's there's actually two more that I really like. I really like watching curling because I think it's amazing how they can get the game. Did you watch them win? Did you watch them with gold? I do too. It's awesome. I think it's amazing how they can move the rock east to west as more than north to south. I mean, how they can just curve it in and speed it up and slow it down.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

And shout out to Colonel John Smirski, uh, who is a curler.

SPEAKER_04 20:56

So yeah. But the other sport that I really like, you know, I like all the racing ones. I like the short track speed skating. Oh, that's fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Isn't that the one Apollo Ono did? Yeah, oh yeah. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Yeah, I love that. So um I I don't have there's only one sport in the Winter Olympics that I don't care for, and it's the figure skating. I'm just not just not my cup of tea. Uh, you know, Janie and Halle love it. Uh I can pass. Even Kerry doesn't like it anymore. Um really, I kind of gear more towards Greg's side of things. I I enjoy watching some of the things that get judged, but if there's judging involved, I I I'm more about it's too subjective. Did you go down the hill fastest? Did you score more goals? That's right. That kind of a thing.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

So, in that regard, is an ACL required?

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Uh apparently it is.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

We didn't think it was.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

It had nothing to do with her ACL that she was five inches too far inside of that gate and clipped it. I mean, five inches is a lot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:57

That's like two feet.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Yeah. I mean absolutely. And it's about five inches. Yeah, right. That's what she said. That's what she said. That's what she said, and that's what she said. You know. But she did, no time. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:13

The thing is with that. This is devolved very rapidly. You know, you know that she did come in third though, um, even with that damaged ACL.

SPEAKER_04 22:21

Because she was five inches on the right side. Because she was five inches downhill.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

But I tell you, that that fall she had was nasty. Oh, it's terrible.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:29

Nasty. And she said that it broke her tibia in several places. I think she'll be done. Yeah, she's 41 anyway.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Yeah. Um, but I the every single one of the sports is I I I love them all. Did you see the dude today who was doing down when he got hit between the legs on the gate with Dave Coding? So let's talk about some specific ones. Yesterday, and they showed it again last night. The uh cross-country skiing, that's a it's kind of a like a short track race where they have to uh go uphill. You got running a booty. Going 11 miles an hour uphill. Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. So I couldn't go 11 miles an hour running downhill in a car.

SPEAKER_05 23:15

I could roll downhill. So the last time I was um at a ski resort.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Which one?

SPEAKER_05 23:23

Whistler or no, that it was actually uh was it was called Bumf? Uh Lake Lake Louise in May. Anyway, uh I think it was either Lake Louise or Sunshine.

SPEAKER_04 23:36

So a private resort. No surprise. Maybe in Sunshine where where normal people can't go. Anyhow, I've never been.

SPEAKER_05 23:42

Anyhow, hitting the uh the last run uh coming down into the village at the bottom.

SPEAKER_04 23:47

How many diamonds was it? And and is and is the village at the bottom where your servants stayed while you were there?

SPEAKER_05 23:54

There was two people coming uphill.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

No.

SPEAKER_05 23:57

Because I'm going downhill, there's two people coming uphill doing that, skiing, and I'm like, I don't get this cross-country skiing.

SPEAKER_04 24:04

Yeah, I think the guy's wearing a short sleeved shirt. I know how you could do cross-country skiing uphill. You could have the servants push you from behind.

Pivot To Winter Olympics: Opening Ceremony

SPEAKER_02 24:13

So what about uh what about luge versus skeleton? Skeleton. Skeleton heads. I would be more of a skeleton person, and then the luge laying back. Yeah, and I like to see where I'm going. You know, if you got a little bit of a belly, it's gonna be hard to see because you're like, oh, what's going on up there?

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Yeah, no, I'm a skeleton guy.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

Their ankles, they must have broken their ankle several times because if you notice on Luge, when they put their feet down and they tilt them in, it's almost like their feet and ankles are straight.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, and skill, I mean, good gosh, man. Some some of the people who are in the like the luge and stuff, they don't look as athletic like the body shape wise.

SPEAKER_05 24:55

But look at their thighs.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

Was it Herschel Walker who did that? Bobsled. Right, right. I mean, I knew it was what I'm like there.

SPEAKER_05 25:04

He did Bobsled, yeah. He was the last guy, right? I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't remember. You know, I think it's what's so cool is bobsleds. I don't know if you guys have ever seen them. They have handles that pop out. Yes. Right. Fold back in. And the guy in the front steers just.

SPEAKER_04 25:18

They used to have a guy named Jeff Bodine who was in NASCAR who helped build the bobsleds to make them more aerodynamic. So that's Bobby. It was Jeff Bodine.

SPEAKER_05 25:28

And it's Bobby's brother.

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Could be. And Jethro's brother, isn't it? Correct. Bodine. Jenny's sister. So um and the one event I would never ever consider doing, but I like watching it, is the big long jump off the slope where they jumped. Ski jumping. Yes. So the last time I was in Calgary, Canada, the last time I was with the Canadian national team.

SPEAKER_05 25:53

I believe it was coming out of Calgary headed toward Mount.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

Uh, you can see one of my eight vacations since 2026 has come round.

SPEAKER_05 26:04

On the side of the hill, you can see where they have those, they have two of those huge jumps there. And it's so cool. I was watching that last night too. They have the two tracks. They you know, they get there on that bar and they sit down, their skis are in tracks until they get to the end of it. Yeah. And it's amazing. Their timing is so perfect to spring to push off, and then the palms are flat, you know, skis are up. Yep. And they just you're basically falling face first down a hill. Well, and so I and when they landed, it's with style.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Yeah, I was watching the other uh night when they were doing it, and they they went back and they showed the Olympics like from 1926 on through, and the ski jumping. And when they used to do ski jumping, they didn't used to go forward. They used to like sit, it was like they would just sit back and they didn't have any of the rails and all that other you know, hoot and anything, and their and their legs used to be out like this, and so they've completely changed everything with the aerodynamics and what what cracks me up is all those skis.

Favorite Events And Judged vs Timed Sports

SPEAKER_05 27:06

I may be wrong. They look like they're made by Fisher. They're you know, the real long, really long skis. I don't know people who make skis.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

Yeah, I don't know ski manufacturers, I don't own my own skis.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

How much do skis cost? By the way, no idea. Uh of course you don't. Right.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

You got nor do you worry about serpents? Go get them.

SPEAKER_05 27:23

Here's the emerald cards. It's funny, I've got a I've got a set I'll show you right now for 350 bucks, 400 bucks.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

Good. I don't I don't need them. Adjustable bindings or something. What about I'm gonna mention another? What about the biathlon? I figured you guys would be all about the biathlon. I enjoy the biathlon.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

I like watched them shoot. I don't like skiing port. Yeah, I think skiing port's boring.

SPEAKER_05 27:43

Yeah, I think it's incredible how they can do that and then stand there and get their breathing down. Yeah, just the precision. And those rifles, yeah, unbelievable. They used to shoot and shoots. I don't know what they shoot now, but they're unbelievable.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Well, I I gotta one another sport that every time I watch it, I swear to god, I think of you, Chris. It's the moguls. I think about you, I think about your knees. Whoa, because those, you know, when they hit those moguls, and I see how can they have functioning knees?

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Is it because he has his servants act as the mogul when he's practicing and he just runs over over with his skis? Let me tell you. You need more bumps in the road, mommy.

SPEAKER_05 28:23

Send up more servants. The only time I find myself in any bumps, I'm not gonna call him a mogul feel, but any bumps like that on a run. And my buddy Schneider's pulled me into them several times accidentally because we'd go down a wrong turn or something.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

And do you call him Mummy the alert?

SPEAKER_05 28:40

He'll now he can now Schneider can get through them. Now it's not like those guys with the tuck knees, the bounce on him.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

He's smooth through them. Me. I just think about you from the fact of you know, those people's knees gotta be like your knees. In other words, doubly replaced.

SPEAKER_05 28:55

Well, when I get in them, even when I had my real knees when I would get in them, I'd I'd slide in and get to a stop. And when you get stuck between two of them, it's like a springboard. I mean, your skis are, and I'm like, I'm just not good enough to do that.

SPEAKER_04 29:08

So speaking of skiing, Saturday night was college night at Perfect North. Oh, okay. So my boy swept. And one uh Western Hills High School graduate girl was also with him.

SPEAKER_05 29:22

I know who it was.

SPEAKER_04 29:27

Same name as your son. Yes. Yes, she was with him and she fell going down the hill. Oh no. On her butt. Oh no. And what does my Reagan do? Rub it. No. Goes and gets a video of her doing it. So it's so icy where it's been so cold. She's just flying down the hill on her butt. Oh man. And and Reagan catches up to her, gets his phone out, starts videotaping her, laughing at her. But they stop her when she gets to the bottom of the hill because she can't stop or get up. But it's funny. Wow. Wow.

Downhill Drama, Wipeouts, And Moguls

SPEAKER_02 30:02

So it's a good time. I, you know, winter Olympics. Look, I want to talk just for a second about hockey. Um, because the women's team's really good. Oh, the win U.S. women's team's great. Um beat the tar out of uh Canada. Uh in a pre-limb game, of course. But the actual game started on the men's side today, and we had one huge upset. We almost had another was it huge or huge? It was huge. Okay. Uh so Jamaica beat Canada. Slovakia beat Finland today. Oh, wow. That was a big one. And through uh pretty much, you know, almost all of the second period, middle of the second period, Sweden and Italy were tied two to two. And Italy at that point had four shots on goal and two of them were goals. Sweden had 39 shots on goal uh and two goals. Wow. So the Italian goalie was just standing on his head. Eventually they did lose. They lost Sweden and ended up winning, I think, five-two.

SPEAKER_04 31:04

But uh do you know you can bet Olympic hockey?

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:10

So like there's games tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

So here's the thing. Um I think the Canadian, if if you were asking me, yeah, the Canadian men's team loaded the Czech Republic tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 31:24

Yeah, I loaded. Canada is favored by two and a half goals.

SPEAKER_02 31:28

Yeah, and by the way, when did the Czech Republic become Chechia? Because now that's what they are now. They're the Chechia.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

And yeah, and the United States plays Latvia tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Yeah. And they're favored by three and a half goals. Yeah. So um the Tampa Bay Lightning have many of their uh like I think eleven members of the Tampa Bay Lightning are playing on different uh teams, including Latvia, by the way.

SPEAKER_05 31:50

I have a question for Zemgus Jurgensen. Oh, like he's next to Jules Jurgensen. I have a question. What do y'all think about a citizen of a country who decides to be on the Olympic team of another country that their parents is from?

SPEAKER_02 32:07

Yeah, I I think that um you just have to show heritage or whatever. And uh yeah, it happens a lot. Um you it's happened a lot in every one of those sports, even the summer uh Olympic, you know, gymnastics and all that other stuff. Um so I I d not to uh change the uh the tenor of the question, but when Sweden played Italy today, the reason why it was so it would have been a humongous upset. They showed the the number of Swedish players, uh all the the uh members of Team Sweden had sixteen thousand six hundred and eight combined NHL games amongst them. Okay, Italy. Guess how many games? Zero. Wow, no NHL experience whatsoever. And they were tied. So I mean it was a really, really good it was a good game. Um but yeah, so I'm just I'm I'm in heaven with the Olympics. I I I love it so much. I get up at you know I don't like the skating. Uh I I'm not a big fan of the figure skating subject.

SPEAKER_04 33:12

Speed skating different different I like speed skating. Yeah, especially that short track speed skating too. I can watch either one of them.

SPEAKER_05 33:20

Wonder what happened to Ono. He got old. Yeah, but he won a bunch of uh uh medals. Did you see the medals are falling apart?

Luge, Skeleton, And Bobsled Geekery

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Oh yeah, yeah. Cheap. And by the way, how about the the uh the woman from I think it's the Netherlands that her boyfriend is Jake Paul. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she won gold. Yeah. And uh yeah. Yep. I love it. I love the winter limb. I wish they had squirrel removal though. Well, you you only what you have to do for that from everything that I've heard is you have to call three different companies and get estimates.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

And then pay a bunch of money. I was told that you gotta put a cage out on your front porch.

SPEAKER_05 33:59

What about putting in a metal over all your openings in your house that don't exist? Well, I think we've about run this topic dry, boys.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

We didn't talk about Dr. Mellon. Um Dr. Doctor Pro Professor Mellon, by the way, Dr. Doctor was uh he was at a uh University of South Florida introductory like meet and greet with Brian Hartline, the new coach today.

SPEAKER_05 34:23

Oh, very cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Did he get to talk to him? I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_04 34:26

Did Brian Hartline cover his tattoos up? Uh he very well meant. Oh, hold on. I have one more thing I want to talk about. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 34:33

Should I send him the picture of Brian Hartline standing with me under the Kentucky tent giving the thumbs up?

SPEAKER_04 34:38

Yeah, and and see Chris, Chris, did you see this today? Because this affects you.

SPEAKER_05 34:44

I've been tied up fighting squirrels most of the day.

SPEAKER_04 34:47

The the um press for UK football. Oh, I saw they came out.

SPEAKER_05 34:53

Yep. I did see that. I just saw they came out. I've not checked and seen how my tickets have changed.

SPEAKER_04 34:59

Well, they like to say they've not went up in price.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

Do we have seven home games this year? Yeah. I'm just I'm just worried about selling Cincinnati Cyclones tickets at this point.

SPEAKER_04 35:12

I don't know why. But anyway. We can't do something with two-thirds of the case. It's it's that's true. Your tickets are$903 a ticket. Per game? Per ticket. Oh, per ticket.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

For all the games.

SPEAKER_04 35:30

Yes.$903. How many tickets you you got? I'm doing the math in my head.

SPEAKER_05 35:36

It's gonna be a lot. And then Mommy!

SPEAKER_04 35:40

That doesn't count your RV parking pass or your other parking passes or anything like that.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

What about my K fund?

SPEAKER_04 35:45

That includes the K fund. Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_05 35:47

Somebody doesn't include my RV K fund or my orange K fund.

SPEAKER_04 35:51

It's just the ticket. It's it's it's so you're over a thousand dollars a game just for tickets.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

I may need to tap into the uh the trust.

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Does this qualify under maintenance and support under the trust terms?

SPEAKER_05 36:09

Hey, to get this paid for, do you think I can like plant a cat or something in somebody's attic? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

Start using your head. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

And then I can say I'm part of the exterminating cut. Yes. Let's go. It's all reasonable.

SPEAKER_05 36:24

And you can do the work.

SPEAKER_04 36:26

What we would do is we would we could have somebody go over there and say they're from Lima, and then you know, that way we're all good on that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

By the way, QP hamburgers. I'm in. I've seen like six TikToks about coopy hamburgers ever since the.

SPEAKER_05 36:44

Oh, I was given Cupie uh mustard. Or not mustard, Cupie mayonnaise.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

That is a threat.

SPEAKER_05 36:49

Delicious.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

It's it's fancy.